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LITERATURE. ra, Nary: Br Pate and P•ewat State. By Raw-Admire S.r CHAILLSP NATIER, K C B. E 'red by Yojor.o CCCCC I fia Narmr, K.O B. DS !lir g The reader meet not imagine ' though the above gentlemen muster four histories between them, duly appended to the title-page. that the ()cement perform ance is a biarery. It consists pimply of a series of the admiral's letters on steal matters, written at various intervals since Inuttiry 1, 1818, to all sorts of individuals, from duke, and premiers to provincial journalists and anonymous correspondents. It is one long Caimsndra wail from beginning to end • one long prophet', of doom from first to' last. The Limi ral's apprehensions of our rain by naval powers thicken like the plot of a tragedy. In the Bret letter (1818, to Lord Melville) we are warned to dread the Amencans ; thirty years afterwards, beck comes Sir Cherie*, like a kind of sybil, with blue-books, to tell as that he has Beta fwty. sit rare in the serviw, and during all that Hoe the wily issorovement Iwo le in the Giza of our skips !" (I'. 13 ,, .) the concluding remarks, which are supposed to famish his final conclusion. after his experience of servie.: and egitatioe, we find the following : "The gisesti ot is—ma the French sni: Russians wad a fleet to ars her r. , Grew Britain ? As to Bums. there can not be • doubt of I e k-.ps tap • large 8 •et of from forty to fifty ihe list is the B,ltie sad Black Sea ; en is reedy t. set ar.st Turkey, sat the other against Great Britain ; and the ileitis Is epee, she eau brie. / that 11-et me our sent when she pleases. W. have no de. m e ... env *seers even whatever, sod the coeitoi of Sent/fwd with o clear we. is ~surely essusest. sad ow, es laid under cwa...ortiow at wry twos, wed be IQ Sowed be the sac t,no i.ktspw. Los ills is batter do/want by the chfc4lti of tit sisrigritiwt, bail by huthing eta." Of the long Its: of prepaid reforms which he has for the list Pliny-live years urged, " a few " only have been cunt d out. We are not surprised, aeoord ingly, to fled that other members of the profession, not setiee accirding to Sir Charles's notion., come in for considi•reule repreheneion. With every t ffurt he seems to have lit:1: succors—but in notoriety; a kind of ite.c:ts much resembling, to our stride the noisy reports of a non won tight. Captain Slade, having entered to reply to him crincern;ng the naval re sources of nutlet., is sneered at (p. 163) as having aced from interested motives. After the mention of a review in Fouler, we are informed, in a fine strain of delioste weave, that— .. Sad we had a review at Sehlieset, est Minister of Merin would caw be. n gepiag vita Aas moutA wide open, scarcely k ne eing 013 sus tit:we.o a minket and a .rut gun." One charge of ineeebody's is too contemptible to reply to." In feet, as regards the tone of these letters, we certainly ca. n advice the cultivated classes of this esuntry to read them, nor recommend them to any future edam of " eleeant extracts." There is a sort ut . "loud 80-en, Llueteriog railer" air about I them which sugg et the nation of a "skipper" re priniandieg a " tar.' We have been freqaently 1 reminded is reading them of Cobbett--minsis his wit and illustration ; and have still more frequently re fleeted painteliy on the different way in which that ' greet fisi naval writer, Admiral Csllingwood, would have deal: with the moot questions. It ie certainly very kind of Sir Curios to inform the Res-ian, French, and Americans how, by culii- ' wing their navies, they may Loy , hi -and-bye to seek oar ci t es, Seising Cargos by first pouncing ' on Elintrorgh, has doubtless ere this been discussed is St. Peterehergli • thi ugh we would advise the ' Cat: to stay a lir le longer is the Baltic for further retkcies on : Then, Freon hem pouted out to her the " three c.eiriere" by which, at the ume of the Syrian wee, is 1810, she might have brought on us "dinhosuur and disgrace" (244,5). We aru ones or twice retuirrerl that Mr. Pritchard's indemnity for the Tahitian &flair Ins not be -u pr...d. There is from the first a e. rteio quaralo.. &their—somewhat tri usiptiatit, too, es it were—which is eeither pleasant to pople of hate, nor estimative of lofty motives. Vie partien'm I) desire to point out how dir Charles speaks of hie brother ufßeera the ivittoe. Tam ex tract is tress a kites. to Sir Jatal a Graham, written from It U.s. lialatee, 1831.' 'Lie writer having given hots. series he has a eubequeit charge to an nounce —but Oren soma pert—clearly intends it us patsait of our day : IM res. reury ratters, lowewl of Intim, a plea are I• eurpop us tee deny with amarthess and alt.rity, and erweveging tee mss to emol.enosider it vibe a task to keep their rowel.; 4.1 Wee *oak,. u-al nor energy, sad. major a emsawhip, Itisy Law NoShiag east it. 8 ,out.t a ship he bask is a pima, stater the septsto she firr-lieutecanteleep wits their sy io.n, she mast istrel•aSlT he rit.moted ;oU they Mush oboed udeneiee Wooed on • Awe al nitwit as they eon, sal p mule the lentainrora, noes the e.plats son an. wow...at:a rocas are turn. d." What do the gentlemen ahe took Aare sad blew op,ll Chins say to th;n ? We hilt it to be splenetic exaggeration. Tue nes, passgrapli is even stronger : " At motet, sir, then 4 • I,xity .1 disci:dile, and a brims et pawky, mimosa tr the ekvirie.., pervading all Mawr. of Gotha ra. A IS. Mt. n►.,t formerly war br..d up to treat tie rep an arLh more rr.r.3 than ea" now be ulrainipl keen a mr...arymu, Pal • reproof true bin, now•adaya NW* eared ror, 44s owe of enure avail. It 4 impneible to kW: odiiLrs to a wort mortal ror Ltautenee, or general gnat ■sal. .bey are ant • a•iole of «ithor 'toe one or lb. oth.v. Th.p tarot at 'M it it called the obi Janet, wed kW* (A. Mll. /MI quire fit t i ba eopfai•:a, when they are hard', .a 11.• Maga." (P . W.) - - There is a touch of pathos itbout the last italicised acute .ee, which at once reminded us of Fallen, as • grumbling g 'Annan. Does the admiral really b here that increamel culture and rams attention to the graces of life are inoompstible with gallantry, discipline, or war; or that any man would fight better now-a-days by turning out like Huditeu: If the shovels! an accurate description of the Galatea, wash Sir Charles comeranded at est time, we are sorry for it. Bat we are willing to believe quite otherwise, and, having hsd the curiosity to examine the table of rourts-manial, is Mr. Hickman's recent treatise on I them, do not Rad any down as hiving been held on the ottit...:rs of that ship, who most surely have been open to such from a "lesions officef—if the said de sci ileion were fairly applicable to thorn. %%c really wonder taut Sir Diso Ica Nspier con sented to command such unfortunate ships; vet he afterwards, as we all k .ow, passed triumphantly throng% the Syrian war with his Sloe bargee flying, soaked by these degenerate gentlemen, and has since that time commanded the Channel equsdron. Nevertheless, it mast not be imsgined that we are insensible (nial . :l4 what we have said of the defects and blemish's of this hick) to its real merit in the points where it has merit. It's pages furnish many —and excellently put—matters for the consideration of reformers. The refried of proper measures for gemming tam navy—which leave impressment (now dimly begun by everybody to be held impossible) ap parently in , v tably to be attempted in war; the abuses of dockyards; the creation of architectural! abortions, or sea-monsters, unfit fora'purposes of use: favouritism in promotion and restoration of high command to men of great ago—are well "shown up" here—though often you sympathise with the object without sympathising much with the min. We ex• traet a few passages here and there illustrative of these matters. Our liberal readers will ere by theme how they lose their money, while government boards' keep their places. The admiral, too, It will be seen, hasan occasional pungent expreuioo, sending the idiot home with a ring from the gun, as it were, brass Carr on, by the way, being just the ordnance for that! W. class the following as 1•IIACTIU 07 THII ADNIMAILTT. ---•---•-• The Allairaity.instar of hotter =min reships (for the small addition they gar was nothing) and 'sorra( their &worrier sad regret at their being taken without taf "T wrier io ism on the *arny. and their dronainatioa to aloha the armor eztosplo of aro wham ships wm lo to? ran is , stad a *wet order Not to avail* t 4. largo Ammer frinErs, Mu* f/trowiog all rho Wiwi% oa tk captai ns . and briar/in. thou into rattrap% with their dB. tors and ship's companr." (P. 2$ ) Each Board of Admiralty, for the lart rutty years, luir had their frilling art., mad their orderless have boon so have that they have ba:n lb. laughing mock of t very dam , of naval 01130.11. la the We Lord Melville's administration! tart. was half a dem dr frimitto ban., sad they asitlior solid nor stood op seder never ; they were delieored by e sot of 22 gas frig mos, are the We, sad tor what pima tA , S , were bail, God .04 Jkr !Airy mother ma, fiht a.r rim away, as air nue -A by two Wait fibs by f h.Coostirouon." (P. de.) (e. D. Ti.)a " The principal antis, if the Pint lord en politico sad P at "uffe, the tenor et whisb is ad eereeeed by tbo &Art leielet.ro red 'km friends, that little dr Waft is kr' " the service." (P. 7 8 .) It !a a teadowatal rah at 9orernt.hoar to nut, rhodft Plan tar the as improveont of the awry , be ft good or T 7 or mass hem • nut of *tarot or a Mookboad, roan. Adore ramonoso the no plus .vibes of perdiegasa. sad W ie heel's that Om whole arm went cd the aassay mared :taz vas body. ( toluenes, iu4N, it ba ff le. ' lair the lapse of • quartet of • eintury, *es moron* by other STO brought torrent so their ow• ; and &Amid -megfAiisit so striainolo good that they are afraid teat to adopt it, tow , etre Wormed that yow ideas hate been anticipated Litely, • committee of outset officers have been forced down their throsts, to review the rigging -warrant, which they might Ears done themselves had thry attended to the serious repre sentations that were na.de to them; but their bigotry and t Wieser would not allow them to listen to any rop es! tinidlng to change au isitablihment that had subsisted for • century, or more, for aught I know." (P. SS ) "A war mey surprise us, and, if any untoward accident should happen at the Ant Mush, the indignation of this country would be so rowed. that IA. Board if Adagio oily k OW& probobty lose Mt, Aegis!'" (TO* last probability Sir Charles once or twice awn touches on—not without a certain dry look of gusto!) " The 50 gun ship' sad 44's on two decks, tvrentrais la somber, are all gone. We persists:l in building these ships many years after the youngest boy in the navy knew they were nub me. The last, I think, was the I.ie, sad she wee converted into a frigate. I blame those who coniinued to bui:d them at • great expense, sad I think those who got rid of them would have 'holm more judgment, had they con 'trivet them into receiving ships, coal depots, Ike., Instead of many tolerable two-des ked skips The greatest slaughter of ell was the frigate* from 30 guns and upwards. At the end of the war we had 162, Welds, store and receiving shine. The lime frigates were thought perfection till the Mantras war proved they were totally incapable of eoniendiog with the large American frigates; bat, notwithstanding that, and the number we had on hand, I'6 id, by a parliameniary niters, dated the 24th of April, 1846, since the year 1815 we have built no lees than forty the tem 42 to 46 guns, only thie f Won of which have b en to sea." (Pp. 192, 3.) Facts like these must attract attertioc, brought forward how or by whomever they may. The deli cate question whether Sir Charles Napier be a man of " discretion," he and Lord John Russell (whose let ters state that he is not so) will undoubtedly be left to settle between themselves. Sir Charles, as we know from his book on the Syrian war, attacked the " western be , tery " of Acre instead of the " northern angle," and likewise concluded a peace with Mehemet All, "all oat of his own head," which was repudiated by the edmirsl and Lord Forsonhy. Yet both them movements proved right and successful ; and so, likely enough, may more of hie " agitating " assaults than some would think. This book has a great deal of industry, aed energy, and shrewdness about it, though other qualities be not equally welcome. But in every fight we stippos? the smell of emoke must' Dr tolerated for the ask'. of the effect! Irorks of Horace. Illustrated With a Life. By the Rev. H. H. MTIAII4. Moray. The Odes and Boodes of Horace. Tran.loted Liteally and Ibtiormically. By W. ItsweiL, B , Fellow and fab-Ilee‘or of Exrtrr Collefe, Oxford. Bohn. liorace; Odes, lepaits, andCarasess,rrulare. Trans- int. d Into EnylisA Ve;sy. Be WHTTS MILVILLI, E q tato (Lir:terms Guards. Simpk,n, arsbali,4no Co Mr. Murray's Horace is one of those sumptuous and imperial editions of a clatsic, which, like Gilb.rt Wakefield's "Lucretius," and Ulivet's "Cicero," are filed (in the words of Gibbon) "fir the tables of the rich and the shelves of the learned." Here we have fine paper and printing, borders gay with colour, and illustrations (rem antique sources, to each separate song, satire, and epistle. Mr. Nlilmsn, in his capacity of editor, has availed himself of all the resources of modern scholarship; he is well backed by the pro found industry of Germany ; be gives constant references to the latest discoveries and speculations, and we have even a letter by G. Dennis, E‘q., concern ing li”race's country-house, which is at once lesrued and lively. Mr. Manua, as biographer, however, is not so ex emplary ap. Ilion. There are two or three ways of *riting a " Life." 'foe lE.st are those vivid and hearty ones which recall the lost hero, and bring him before the eye; a hich are written from love and loyalty ; and where there is some real deep resemblance in character between writer and subject. Su.l is cos "Agricola"; such is that delirntful little book "Roper's Life of Sit Thomas More;" and such are the "Lives of Ina, Walton." But Mr. Milman is one of these biegrapt.ers who chronicle a a man as they would chronic:ld a 1).d,, with much correct external mutt. no diabr, and in good polished scholastic English. But where is the humanity—whene is the poetic iusight ? Mr. :Ullman ought to have had (like the ancient mouirc`i) some one at his elbow to remind him that he wsa a man—ant only an ediur, bat a flesh and blood brother of Ho ace's and Horace's' reader.. There is a tone of timidity in Mr. Milman's ex preseioes of opinion which agrees only too well with occasional vapidity of style. We are told that " pro bably the must extensively opers'ive cause of the rapid decay of the Roman popular poetry was the dissolution of the Roman people." We should say very " probably," indeed, did we admit the latter fact, as Mr. Shims° seems to do. But airily there is much exaggera ion in the talk about this diesolutloo. The troops who conquered under the emperors, long after liorsee's time, sun ly gave proof of their old lt man lineage; and the num ber of private soldiers who destroyed themselves (as Tacque tells us), after the suicide of Otho, shows the mainten ince of . b at old Roman spirit abich Will propagated throin,:h the rice. The fact was, th it the old Roman poetry became history for the Roman people--history welch they believed, whatever criti cism says to it now. Tory did not disci.se it as " Saturnian," nor argue Aix''t it as liter iture. It was' part and parcel of their life—it was hall their religion, and all their inspiration. This consideration has an important bearing on what Mr. Ntilman says of the want of a national poetry amang the Romans—when speskirg of what is certainly the fed, viz., that all the Roman writers fo•med therinelvis on the Greeks. Their history was their poetry. They did poems issued of writing them. They were stet. omen and law3ers and warriors—a kingly people, who had the rot of the world to sing to them, as they had daves to dance before them. 'Toil; primary fret recognised, it becomes superfluous to attribute th, it west of original lyric poetry to want of "scenic representation," &c. These are secondary coneideriviots :—to d• al with them as causes is as great a mistake as it would be to argue on the west of windmills among a people thus They have cot materials for sails; woed is dear, Oee. • the troth all the time being that the said people di d not think of employing wind-agency in that way, and ground their corn by other methods, from the nature of their country. For our part, we have no doubt that the best spoken retry of Rome less in the speeches of its orators—practical poetry, as great oratory pro paly is. On two imintis we heartily a g re e with Mr. ?stamen, and Naomi him highly toiurithg them. let. That Horaoe's Wages, Glycers., and poetical mistresses generally, had never any exicenee but in the seraglio of Lis imagination. 20d. That the didactio poetry of 1(30111 is the best in the world. To suppose tnat a philosopher. as Honor essentially ware temperate, worldly, speculative inan—S MOM what coarse old gen ' tleman (we have:he her ad Brundisium in cur eye),was perpetually assoc!ating with romantic Gre.k singers and datcers—each lyric being addreecd to a new real one—appears to us quite monstrous. He would be prevented doing so, both by his virtues and failings —the sense that would make it preposterous—the homeliness that would make it dictums!. Horace's writings alone would settle the second question. Its "Odes" we cannot (with Shelby in our head) call _poeery. But when we reed his " Satires" and "Epistles," then we recognise him, u the man of whom Coleridge says that he was " the i darling of the court of Augusta•, whose works have always been the pocket-oompantoa of those who pride them/elves on uniting the gentleman and the scholar." Of old Home's personal character, it ought to be mid that no man ever better enstaiaed his personal dignity. One thinks of him, as an easy good natured men, of high culture, leading the life of a philosophic man of the world, with guslities better suited toe higher species of charaoter. The old reli gion he does not seem to have believed in—longer than each ode in which he celebrated its deities men pied his pen. He appears to have given his intellec teal assent to the stoics ; to have thought the epica- MSS reasonable and worthy of attention—acid to have led a life on good terms with both arste me as an jade pendent literary mirtkmen. Tremslatiocs of Hones are usually only illustra tions of the maxims laid down by Lamartane, in his "Discuses de Reception," at the French Academy. — Oa we &adult person's.. Let the reader who *cloys his Tennyson try and luxuriate in the Latin versions of his favourite, and he will then emnrathise with a Horatian who has to reed hie master in English. Herein Returns, like Ulysses, in the garb of a beggar. It moires, indeed, a faithful "Argue" to recognise him at all. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1851. I It Horses bad been more essentially, deeply, pas sionately poetical, he would have been tranelated l I better. Poetry, like fire, will find its way through everything. Thee, no English translation of an ode in Horace ia equal to the translation of the " Atya" of Catullus, by a scholar, some years ago, in Tars Magazine. But where so much depend', as in Horace, on delicate and concise finish—on pointed and pregnant gram; where the metre is foreign to our language, and the allusions alien from our though', what can we expect? Hence, we know ' no translations worthy of the Roman, except a few isolated ones by eminent men, such as Milton's of the "Ode to Pyrrha ;' Bishop Atterbury's, of the " Queen in Melpomene ; Warren Haginge, of the " Otium Dive* rand, let us add, as less known, o the delighifal imitation of the "Donee grates eram Tibi," by Moliere, in the pastorale of his " Amants Magnifiques." I Mr. Sewell's is a very peculiar attempt. He dis claims attempting to render the poetic grace ; he aims r at once at literality and rhythmic flow. We certainly I congratulate him on having most successfully avoided the poetry—without great industry, nobody could r have done it so well. As for hie book as a clues-book, P we are ai a loss to perceive its value. It it be literal o cocstruc'ion that his pupils are in want of, it would be better they should be indulged in the familiar " crib ''—or at least that Mr. Sewell bad written a " crib" for them, if it did not meet his approbation I for we certainly see no chance of their learning any " rythm" from him or knowing more about Ilmaer's music, than they might learn of that of his . Sepphics from Canning's Knifegrintler—which, by the way, Donaldson some years ago censured (with all the severity of a Martino, Seriblerna) as a des , picahle jingle. Any youth who learns Horace from Sewe l's performance will find the curse which Byron bewailed fallen upon him for ever. We never saw anything less like Pegasus than this ambling of a pedant's mule. Mr. Melville is evidently the "gentleman and the scholar" of our last century comedies. Hs is a work of love, and the love which he has felt himself , he inspires in his readers. We see the influence of our poets of to-day, both in his epithets and his metre. Of course he cannot achieve impossihiliies— but here, at all events, we have something of Horace— The aides of the India:nen werehigit. emal everything which might aid a man in mounting had Direfully been hauled en board; besides she was terribly wslteided, which rendered eke YURI more difficult. The boatmen, as they attempted to hoard, wars thrust back by those long pikes with which Indiana, n arc supplied, one of which was hurled with greet force into the boat I was in, and asi ed • poor fellow's foot to the bottom of the boat. Once more the li.utenant cm tionid our stout opponents saw lhi come tosses of oonouct so illegal, ordering the marines, at the same time, to load. At length, finding every argument wilier, and grail species of miasik, including cold shot. thrown into the boats, his patience became exhausted, sad he ordered half a d , z.n muskets to be fired. 'Lis fire, though fatal to two men, had I only the eff.et of exaeperating the Indisman's crew mote and more. The captain now appeared for the first time, end, hailing the boats, informed the lieutenant of the fatal affect of his fire, throwing the whole responsibility upon hie shoulders, and when questioned as to the state of his ship, and whether the crew were not all in open mutiny, he re plied that be did not consider them so, for the men were ready to obey every order of his, save that of cuff Ting • king's officer on board. and they were resolved, ore and all, not to permit that. The lieutenant now panned, and ordered the boats to lie off on their oars, and also sent to Captain Owen for further instructions The boats continued to row round the two Indiasen,but I fear not very waichtully, towards midnight, when they were bailed and told that they were then at liberty to search the ships, we found only a few men on board the Woodford, and thorn of a very sorry descrip.i-n." A eorone , 's jury at Gravesend afterwards returned • verdict cf wilful murder against the Immortalite's lieutenant. He was tried at the Maidstone amine, and, with some difficulty obtained an acquittal. The crew completed, the Immortalite proceeded to the Downs, and soon commenced cruising in the Channel. In the coarse of June the crew bore a share in the capture of L'lnabordable and Le Commode, two Teasels intended to form part of the Boulogne flotilla. During the summer the French were strengthening the sea-line from Havre to Calais, and it was the btuiness of our ships to give them all possible interruptions. The Immortalite was en gaged in throwing bombs and otherwise humping the workmen at the torte. Capt. Crawford relates an anecdote which makes B3naparte a spectator of his crew's gallantry on one of these occasions, and attributes to him a torrent cf sacr,4 on observing the effect of the British shots. The persuasion is so pit clonal:tie that without i.l-nature one cannot but believe it true. Adventures were now plentiful as blackberries. Two boats were sent out one night to attempt the destruction of the piles and machinery for building Fort Imperial on the enemy's coast. They carried ex.'s sod a barrel of powder, primed and fused, ready to be slung on the machinery. The night we. pitchy dark and the captain in command, after some pulling, found himself unexpectedly at the pier head, a dis tance much too short to be pleasant ; he therefore gave directions to pull immediately off shore. The oars were scarcely dipped in the water, when a fire-ball gleamed from the mole, an I lit up the water for a quarter of a mile. Before the men could bend twice to their oars, grape sod musketry whistled over their beads, and instently ell the batteries wi'hin the buy opened a fire. Fmta uat,ly the boat's crew escaped, and, baton. returning, m inaged to destroy three of the four piles which they had come out to seek. Shortly alter this adventure tho Immortalite cap-1 tured a lugger, achnyt and dogger, with which Mr. Midshipman Crawford was sent to the Downs, and was blown to sea. The company was for some time engaged in trying to blow up the French flotilla with I the newly-invented " coffers", a sort of long range, which blew op old colliers and the like with terrific expedititon, but never seemed to thin the shipping of the enemy. C ,pt. Crawford seems uncertain whether to conelude that the ships were not damaged thcrebv, or whether damaged ships were replaced during the night with new 0 - . CM. After alloy skirmishes with the Boulogne flotilla. ' the Immortalite was ordered, in January, 180.5, to I join the Melpomene off Havre, anti cruise westward, war having broken out with Spain. Here they cap turd a Spanish brig, and were afterwards provok ingly occupied with a day's hard chase of a vessel which, when ciught, proved to be nothing but an I EugliA privateer, afraid of losing her men if rho en countered a king's ship. Towards the end of June, the old Boulogne station was resumed, and in the next month the ship had a warm brush with a division of the flotilla. After the defeat cf Mack, and the fell of Ulm. it was expected that Lord Cathcart would be compell.d to re-embark, and the Immortalite was ordered, it. January, 1806, to proceed to the Elbe, to take charge of transport... Wellington, then Sir Arthur Wehee. ley, recently returned from India, and junior major general in Cathcart's army, was, it is said, the only officer who, in the council of war, opposed the retro grade movement of the British. His opinions were regarded by the veterans let thore of a hot-headed young man, unacquainted with European warfare, and fresh from India, where he hail been accustomed to see a host of Asiatics routed by a handful of Euro pean soldiers.. By the 15th of February, the last transport had left the Elbe, and on the 17th the Im mortalite received Generals Don and Finch on board, and sailed to. England. Tee Immo:it/lite was now thoroughly worn out with weather and bard knocks, and Commodore 0 sen and his crew were transferred to the Clyde, a fir-built frigate, of 38 guns. Crawford now became lieutenant, did not long remain with tbenew ship, 'lnt joined the Royal George, and railed witith a con voy to the Mediterranean, with Sir Hugh Dalrymple and General Edward Page. and his staff on beard. At the end of October he met Lord Collingwood at Cadre, and gives a description of the admiral as he stood in his glory. The Royal Gorge now joined Sydsey Smith's fleet, which enter, d the Dardnneilee, and, remaining before C..natantinople for some days, eame away bootless. Our author now returned to Cadiz and thence to England. While off Ushant he received his commission as lieutenant of the Sultan. Hie new vessel was ordered to join the Cadiz fleet, then under Admiral Purvis, just before intrigle had transferred Spain to the power of France, by the treaty of Bayonne. The junta at Seville had con cluded a peace with England, and British vessels' were now welcomed in Spanish ports. The Sultan was for six weeps at Port Mahon, in Minorca, where nine of the crew were struck dead by a flash of li 4 httirg, and twice that number were seriously injured. From Mahon the Sultan proceeded to the Gulf of Genoa, to interrupt the coasting trade, the only commerce the enemy ventured to carry on, and to keep the French on the qui rine. A settee, loaded with charcoal, was the only prize gained in this set , vice, at the cost of a man killed, after which the ship sailed fur Toulon, to assist in the blockaile of that harbour. The remainder of the period embraced by Captain Crawford's reminiscences includes a number of gallant services in the Mediterranean and on the Spanish coast, in the Malta and Tigre, until the year 1815, which brought him the reward of a commander's commission. The incidents he commemorates exhibit him as a brave and meritorious officer, such as have always I distinguished our naval service; but they so closely resemble the common experience of seamen that it is not clear on what grounds they have bet n selected as the theme of two volumes. The 'ketches and anecdotes of distinguished commanders which are promised In the title-page, we have looked for in vain. I unless the few sentences abovequoted concerning Corn wallis, as many more relating to Colllngwood, atd the occasional allusions to his various captains, sre to be accepted as such. Neither is poverty of matter compensated by vigour or elegance of style. Capt Crawfora's sentences are more than ordinarily slo veoly, and occasionally so inaccurate as to be unin telligible. It is impossible that fourteen years' naval service on a European coast, in time of war, should not afforded abundant material for two readable volumes. Selection and comprer;;;;hOW;ver, would be necessary, instead of which the work under revoew reads very much like one long quotation from the "Nary List." At the same time there is every internal evidence that Captain Crawford's book presents a faithful picture of the state of our naval service in the late war, end the arduous f zer dons by which the position of our maritime itfluence is maintained. Bertha; a Roasanee of the Dart; Agee. By W. B. MAc Cu.e 3 vote. Newby. Mr. Mao Cabs, k .own in London for his uscciation with the labours of the daily press, and more eaten sivel, as the author of a catholic history of England, has in these volume' sought to recommend a few of Mt objects of his relietous preferenoe, by inrroumliog time with the interest of pictoreegue deveriEdion sad glowi^g iticident. Ilia middle•sge biehops are not the mailed horsemen of the chroniclers, but cars worn pastors, sorely perplexed by the goats which mingle with their A An, and dying, upon occasion, rather than connive at error. Beatrice, whose adventures introduce us to the principalnovel, • personages of this is an interesting girl, of course in her seventeenth year, who, with her attendant, Agates, site one fine evening by the banks of the Aschaff, and wooden who or what she can be. She is surrounded with state and riches becoming a l duke's daughter, and with as many guards as the child of the emperor. And yet she feels that she is I neither of these. Her father comes to the castle un- I expectedly, and leaves without farewell ; he neither wears the garb of a knight, nor carries the shield of a freeman. Nis look, manners, and bearing show that he is illustrious, and yet he bars no mark of au' ho rity. She remembers two other scenes, the climate of Italy and the borders of the Lego Maggiore. More,she remember, a boy, with light blue eyes and flaxen hair, whose form will appear unbidden among the scenes of childhood. His name was Magnal. Agatha re peats the word with astonishment, and startles a young man—Magus's himself, nowlluke of Saxony— who happens to be rowing by, jumps out of the boat and protests his business is to seek her out and de clare his love. Agatha is prudent, and the lovers reasonable. Magnus being, f r some unknown cause, a forbidden word at the castle, it was agreed unanimously that this meeting do adjourn for one week. Magnus re-enters the boat, and Beatrice re turns to the castle to find Bianca, her all but deserted mother, in a dark room, according to her wont, pros trate before a large crucifix, praying and weeping. Beatrice, too, has row a SOTIOW, for she has heard from Agatha that she can never b. Magnufa bride. Sympathy increases confidence, and the mother can now entrust to the daughter, henceforth a woman, the story of her own misfortune. In her youth re.e bad seen and loved the young Eberhard, with whom the mysterious wisdom of her father had forbidden her all commuLi calico. Robber hordes, assisted by troops of the emperor, had defeated the papal troops commanded by her father; a special body of these approached the old man's castle, and soon Eberhard appeared and offered her safety upon her con ent to become hie wit.. She was now carried off t) the Lego Maggiore, where Eberhard was oily known by the designation of Manfred. He had been a kind husband, but the reason of these long painful years of mystery she could not divine. The fair Bt a'rice, in no wise consoled by a story which rather increased then explained her original mystery, was next day seized by armed panderers of Henry, King of Germany, who had been enamnured of her beauty, rescued by the retainers of a good abbot, recaptured and carried to Frankfort. I' this impe rial city Henry is discovered closeted wilt the Arch bishop of Mayenee, and seeking to p: r-uade him to assist in obtaining his divorce from his wife Bertha. Confined in the castle at Frankfurt, Beatrice is visited by a diegused confidential messenger from .Msgi.ua, who assures her that at a signal her lover, who watches her chamber from the opposite church tower, will hasten to Ler protection. She is shortly visited by the king, Harry of Germany, and repulses the wretch by faith and prayer. The Empress Agnes and Queen Bertha, mother and consort of her tempter, visit her shortly after, who know the inten tions of the king and the relent:in of his victim to Magnus. From Beatrice, Bertha learns the intention of Henry to apply for a divorce. Mother and wife resolved to oppose this intention by an appeal to Rome. At a parliament summoned to Frankfort the papal legate appears, and delivers the judgment of Rome, declaring the marriage of Bertha and the king valid and indissoluble. Henry, upon hearing the message, makes an ostentation of eubmisaiveness to the church, and becomes outwardly re c melted to his wife, but inwardly vowed vengeance on wife, Imother, and Rome. While this is going on in Frank fort, Beatrice has been removed to the fortress of Erzegebinge. From this prison Magnus now deter ' mined to attempt her rescue by assault, and applies to Otho of Bavaria, his uncle, for an armed I force ; but fleet relative nas been declared a traitor by the monarch, who envies Lis estates and power. A vivory gained by the uncle enables the nephew to deliver the Ranter, which fails, and Magnus is taken prisoner. Brought before the king, the young duke is required to nuounee his coronet, and refusieg. is escorted to the fortress of F.berhara, the father of Beatrice. Henry, to promote h e plans, makes war upon the Saxons and B..varians, whom he i defeate, and makes a poor prior bishop, in order afterwards to set him up as a pope. The description of this prelate's death, superaat ural and eulplurous, re minds one of that of Dr. Paust, descrikd in the Rilks books of Germany. The father of Illative, the grand father of Beatrice, now suddenly turns up, rescues his 'grandchild from the fortress. A courtier knight, But en-, was despatched be the king to attempt the corrup tion of the queen, and so promote his divorce. Ruetzer, repulsed with contempt, returns to Frankfort, where some solemn ceremony was to be performed after high mese. Here, in the pretence of lords, bishops, and counts, William, B.ehop of Utrecht, reads the sentence of excommitnacatitm against Pope Gregory VII., which is to remove the spiritual obetacle to Henry's plans. At the moment of (Ling this a cur tain rises and discloses three figures to the glee of the officiating bishop. They are Rims, Bea' rice, and the Pdgrim, the father of the first. Terse words, " Eberhard ! Manfred ! ltutbert !" gave l the biography of the priest, for William of Utrecht had borne a'l these names, and th is is the matt; of mystery, the husband, f‘ther, and son-in-law to the three who confronted him. The guilty man had broken his priestly vows, entered into un• lawful engagements, and led a life of hypocrisy for years. Terror-stricken by the apparition, aLci tilled with horror, as his life of crime ruched through his brain, ho felt that the vengeance of heaven had overtaken him, and died with fearful pogo, unabsolved. At the same time the excarn munication of Henry arrives from It eine, and he is deposed from his throne. Magnus, of course, regains his liberty, and rejoins Beatrice, who, to reward so , much devotedness—enters a convent. Mr. Mao Cabe's book will doubtless entertain those into whose hands it may fall, while only the least informed can be in danger of accepting his work as a true picture of the " du k ages." The Petrov, Baroisetage. and .I(,4htage of Great Britain and Ireland By C. R. DOD. 1851. Whittaker. This is the eleventh yearly publication of a work of reference, in which it wss for the list time attempted to give an account of all the titled clews of tile state. Its predecessors had been content to notice those who possessed hereditary distinctions, omitting any ref...r enoe to the thousand officers who, u judges, privy 1 councillors, and knights of different classes, are en waged in the various services of the state. Mr. Dad judged rightly, as the event has proved, that the , public find at least gaits as much pleasure in the per sonal history of living objects of their esteem as in perusing dry genealogies, which ascend beyond the' Conquest. Tae preparation, year by year, of such a volume is an arduous duty. In the intervals of publication a large number of individuals are added to the several ranks. Bishops are translated, judges resign and are replaced, while births, deaths, and marriages, oc curring among seven or eight thousand individuals, render great changes neoemary in every edit on. One addition just made to this " Peerage" calls for especial notice. It is an index of the inlerior titles of living peers, whether borne by eldest acts or not. This important list, consisting of 720 ti les, is pre ceded by aa article on some et the difficulties arisi , g out of the use of these inferior titles. The article has' interest enough to ju.tify lengthened quotation. TUN 12111111101 TITLIII OF LIVING Pain. Behr* this laden was produced is Iwil, it we. intros. ible is any work relating to the p.ersge, to ascertain why end how some hundreds of well-known titles bad di•app‘ &red. A law r. adore might int:gine that they wens extinct; °then sight confecture that they had nietged in higher honours. Bat by what superior titles they had beta eclipsed, or where t►y were now to be found, no bank could tell. Reads,* would ask themselves what has biome of Lord Hammier No such seine a to be found in toe latest peerage broke. Where is Lord Moire, a h-te L Ord Meryb)rougb, Lord Olenlynn, Lord Arden, L , rd Barbaro, Lord Bed, rd, Lord King, Lard Oriel, Lord Farad, Loed Prudhoe, Lord Bd• disbary, and other well-rt numb , red persons ?" .* , onsetune the courtesy titles bone by eldest sons might be a:owed to waist the ruder is these difilculties. But they would •telp hie in soma the Instances above.mentioned,nor in• multitude of analogous eases, for peers of high degree often enjoy lutes or setenteen inferior titles, while only sae toooses knows through the medium of an eldest ; the, the hake to Atha ties 17; the Debts of Argyll and Hamilton have cane 15 ; lbe Marquis el Bata he 16; the Duke of Bouleuel 15 • the Marquis of Hastings 12 .; the Doke or Norg motherland, with the Marquises of Abereces, BedelimeN /louder. Landsdowne, and Lothian, each 11 ; the Duke of Metres cad the Earl of Weyesee, each 10; the Dukes of Beaufort end Buckingham, each 9 ; while smaller numbers octet is profusion throughout the pimp. Nor cos it be forgotten, that ie the come of all viscounts sod barons. the inferior or additional honours vested in them are never borne me courtesy titles by their ions. And even acnon.est the see end title actually used by eldest sons no certainty *elite; thee the heir apperert of the Lansdowne f.mily in alternate gent ration is eryled Earl of Kerry; and Men the well known title of Shelburne diaappean from view ; the eldest son of the late Marquis of Lotitisn was called Lord Jedhurgh instead of Earl of Aocruns, the heir to the De La Warr title is cow celled Lord West, not Viscount Centalepe : and there are upwards of 20 peers whose hire apparent or grandsons one tithe which have no existence gel:never amongst the family honours, or are only el.rived from these by indirect coarse Of some modification of the real title, such as occurs in the cases of Lord Moepeth, Lord Matson, Lord Inverter* Lord Trafalgar, Lord Castle- \Veneto. Lard Courtensy. L ,rd Haw tinge, Lord Cory, Lord Cecil. Ltrd Bingham, Lord Bernie, Lord Phipps, Lord Forbes, Lord North, Lord Talbot, Lord Crichton. de. Furthermore, many peers heppen to have no male is•ite to enjoy these courtesy distinct:ons; there is no Lord Howie k, DO Lord Dune •nnen. no L erd Clive, &c. At present 101 peers are in this state without sons, a number which it fully one-third of the whole body possessed of the privilege; for it does not extend below the rank of earl. In three and a multiplicity of other fast., therefore, the reader was left in total ignorance respecting the rate of some of the most famous names in history. They were to be found neither amongst extinct nor existing titles. In the creation of new peers, also, it was frequently im portant to ascertain with facility whether or not the title selected was already in the p cannon of another as a sub ordinate designation ; but such a search was scarcely possible to any but proteesienal genealogists, and, even to them, only aft. .r great trouble end a lengthened investigation. Thus, in all probability, it was not extengirelv known in 1838, when Lord blotting's was raised to the p. erste, that there was already a Baron lidethnim in the mite m of the Duke of Richmond ; nor were the public very generally in 1839, when Lord Montragle received his title, that there was already a Barony of Monteagle in the piessesioa of the Marquis or 8140. The curious reader may observe, in CPS'iri his aye over this list, that the following are the only English counties at present unappropriated as titles :—Dorset, Middlesex. Mon mouth, Sures:. aad York, which last two have usually had royal possessor,. The following important rifteff are also unappropriated : Birmingham, Brighton, Cheltenham, Greenwich, Lambeth, London, hlarylebone. Southwark, Norwich, Plymouth, Wolverhampton, the leis of Thanet, and the Isle of Wight. The Wowing Scotch counties are in the gems state Avr, Banff, Clockmannon, Crom;:rty, Dumbarton, F.rfar, Kinross. Kirkcudbright, Linlithgow, Perth, Andrew, and Wigton. . . . fent W.W . I' counties are vacant—Flint ant M. rioneth ; and finally, the Irish counties of Fermanagh, King's County, Monaghan, Queen's County, and Weefori, are likewise un ccupied as titular designations. To this ettutneraios it any be added that there are many instances of the same title being held by different rennin at once; them there are 3 L.r.fs Boyle, 3 lords Bruce, 4 lords Douglas, 3 Lords Orey, 4 Lords Hasailv.n, 3 Lordell stinn, 3 Lo•ds Hay, 3 Lords Herbert, 2 Lords Ilill,3Lords Holland, 4 Lords Howard, o Lords Stewart or Stuart,to gether with du plicate' in abundance, snd many reeemblarces mesh s c an Earl of Bandon and a Boron of Bandon Bridge, • Dalian and a Delamtre, a Baron J.dbargla and a Baron of Jedburgh- Fora., a Bowmont sad a Stisament, a Queensberry and a Queensbury, a Margu4 of Dumnies and en Earl of Dam frtesehire, Duke of Devnnobire and an Karl of Devoe, a Ferran, a Fernrz, and a Formed, a Gitord and a Guilford, an Invenirie and an Inverary,• !Helmut' and a Melon's I,&e. Tone instances prove the impertaece of literal accuracy is the use of tiles; but the following lbt, showing the grease , vation of ancient orthography among mode ra peerages. will save the reader from some mistakes to wbkh persons in I general even very liable. Amongst noble farni!ies the pro per spelling is Anglesey, not Angkor', Cavit.lld, not Caul , field • ' Cloning% not Cluomel; Feildieg, not Fielding ; Done -11 gall, act annaitsl; loges re not Iragesttie ; Kingsale, not Kinsale; Littleton, not Littleton; Midirton Viert.), not Middleton (Baron); Milltown (E.rl). sat Milton (Vint.); Fi not Ft :graham; Mount-C."ONQ, net Manza nillo! ; Nsvili. not Neville; filuntagu, not AI /stage.; Knoteri, not Boseberry ; Winchilsets, nit Winchels,a, &c. Th. Gentleman's Magazine. January, 111.51 . b .- One hundred and treaty years utter its rota nab ment by Cave, this magazine, the especial organ of Listorical and antiquarini literature, confines the moving tendencies of the present age, and seeks to renew its vigour by shying itself with the riling literary spiri:e. New contributor, pour fresh life into its columns, the records of the past are used as well as contemplated, and a connection is established between antiquarian research and the living interests of oar own day. Mr. Peter Cunningham exemphGes in this number that the cake and charm of popular writing are not . inimical to accurate investigrion, by giving an article on Nell Gwynne, in which we dud facts ns laborio'y collected, yet tiaently told. A inuage illustrative of the theatre ander Chad. s IL, will give an idea of the earlier portion of this new memoir of a royal favourite. TIIE KINU'B THEATRE. The eonthaty of actors at the King*, Theatre included, at the first openirg of the hose., Trenphilus Died, Charles Hart, Michael Idol un, John LICY. tchola. Butt, William Cartwright, William Winterenall, Walter Clue, Robert Shatterell, and Edward Kynaelon, among the chief male performer; and Mn. Corey, Mrs. Ann Slushed!, Mrs. Ho ler ea Marshall , Mn. E suited, Mrs. W , Mrs. Uphill, Mrs. Keep, end Mrs. Hughes ?thong the female pertonners. Joe Haines, the low comedian, and Carden Goodman, the lover of the Duchene of Cleveland, were sub leguent accessions to the stock of wore, as Mr.. Boa tell sad Mrs. Ellen Gwyn were to the company of actresmx Bird belonged to the former race of snots, and did not long survive the Recoratios. Hart and Chan had been bred up se boys at the Blechman to act women's pins Hart, who had served as captain in the King's troops, rose to the summit of his profeesion, but Clue wee unfortunately killed while his reputation was still on the incream. Molina had pl.yed at ti.e Cockpit Theatre before the Civil Wan, and Lad served as a captain under the King, and afterwards in the same capacity an Flanders, where he received the pay of a major; he was famous in lago and Cassius. Lacy, a native of Yorkshire, was the Irish Johnstone and Tyrone Power of his time. Burt had been a biy lint under Shank at the Blackfriars, and then under B. eaton at the Cockpit; and w.• famous beton the Civil Wars for playing Clarieue, in Shirley's flay of 'Love's Cruel v ;" and after the Restora tion squatty famous as Othello. Cartwright and Wintenhall bad belonged t the private house in Salisbury.conet. Cart wright was celebrated as Falstaff, and as one of the tire kings of Brent ord, in the faros ot "The Rehearsal." Wia urseall played Master! eader, he which D.nnie, the critic, commended him highly; and was celebrated for his Cokes, in Ben Joanne's .11,nnolossew Fair." gnat:mil had been ' quartermaster in Sir Robert Dsliison's regiment of horse, is which Hut had been a lieutenant, and Bart a throat. Byrue.tou was f.mous in female parts, lot which, indeed, he continued celebrated long titer the introduction of women en the stage. Such were tee actors at the King's House when Nell Gwyn came among them. Mrs. Corey (the name Miss hal then an improper mean ing, and the women, though single, were called Mistresses) played Abigail), in the "Scornful Ltd," of Beaumont and Fletcher ; S mprmis, in J °neon's " Catiline ;" and was the original Widow 'Necklace., in Wycherley " Plain Dealer :" Pepys calls her Doll Common. The two Ma:shall+, Ann and Rebecca (to whom I have already had occasion to refer), were the younger daughters of the well.known Stephen Marshall, the primbyterien divine, who preached the sermon at the !unseal of John Fyne. Mrs. Uphill was first the mice- tress and than the wife of Sir Robert Howard, the poet. Mrs. Knipp was the wile of a Smithfield horse-dealer, and the mis tress of Pepr Mrs Burin, better known as Pre, was the mistress of since Rupert, by whom she Lad a daughter. and Me. &Mall was famous to , playing Statira to Mrs. Birry's Roxara, in L. 6'4 'mgr.-salve tragedy of " Alexander the Great." Bach were the actresses wheel Nell came among them. The deems were magnificent and early, but little or no attention was paid to esteem,. Ti.. King, the Queen, the Duke, and several of the richer nobility, pica their cormati .0 suits to the actor.; and on extraordinary occasions a play we quipped at the tepees, of the King. Old court draws were csntributed by the gentry, and birth day suits continued to be presented as late as the reign of George 11. • Au echo of him in the north wind sang. Reminiscences of a Naval Officer during the lots If or, with Skachesof Distinguished Commanders. By Cept. A. CIIAWFORD, ft N. 2 rob CJimera. Toren volumes are fillei for the most part with the professional recollections of a sailor, who served his eouotry during the period when England was rneoec d by Bonaparte with invasion, and when the I.lJulogne flotilla engaged the active attentio❑ of our fleet. Captain Crawford was the youngest son of a vicar of Lismore. in the south of Ireland. His elder, brother, upon whose college education the resource.! of the family had been lavished, had died alter disap pointing every hope of his parents; two others were already in the king's service, and Abraham's father tharkful for the friendly offer which erab!ed him to send his remaining son, at the age of thirteen, to sea. His first acquaintance with the sea was made in 1801, on board the Itevolutiennaire, a frigate, which, u her name betrayed, bad been taken from the enemy, and which, in the hands of her new mas'ers, had captured two other French ships, the Ito:del:Lis and the Determinee. Tne first service after young Crawford's junction was to see a West India convoy past Madeira ; after which the vessel went on a six eeks' cruise,an d chased and boarded several "neutrals." The Revolutionnaire next went to Pqmoutb, where her men were drafted, according to the practice under Lord S - .Vineent's admiralty administration. The loss of I.is fine ship's company preyed ea much upon the mind of Capt. Twisdee, her commander, that, though he soon got a new company, and retained his favourite ship, the very morning he sail. d from l'1) mouth Sourd something went wrong, he grew enraged, re tired to cabin, and was half an hour after disco leered by the first lieutenant speechless on a sofa, where he died in a few minute,. The young middy text joined the Diamond, then under repair in Plymouth, and spent the time in leashing each knot and splice, how to raise sheers, get in the lower mast and bow-sprit, cut out and serve lower rigging, and reeve girt lines. The first winter was spent in ignominiously watching, on the mist of Cornwall, for smugglers, who declined to show themselves; and the bad weather so shook the Diamond ab +at tke bows that she had again to visit the dockyard. While here the vessel was set on fire, through the carelessness of a man who wu warming pitch in the galley, but saved, with little injury, by tie promptitude of the first lieutenant. She after wards sailed to Torbay, to join Cornwallis's fleet, and shortly had the honour ti convey the admiral to the nearest point to Lymington, his couutry seat. 01 him the author says: .' ADMIKAL CORNWALLIS. "Then was nettling iu the °assegai appearance of Admiral Canoeing to lead on. to suppose that he ens the man who, with such adm table mune, skill, and un shaken resolution, effmted the memorable retreat in 1795, braviag sad bedsit, with five mil of the line, the French flee of fi teen. Daring this *mice he is reported to have addresses this snort an energetic exhnrtstion to the crew et his flea-ship:—' Remember, men, the stwereign's fisg and ensign are never to be struck to en enemy—the yowl goes down wish them flying!' It was his judgment and perse verance which erablisbed those long sad Glom hincitadis %hien, for so 'arse a pert of the late war, so e ff ectually clip ;M the French maritime comm rce an d cog.ll4ed their navy t their own harboure He was quiet end d in his deportment—elderly, and rather mat aid stoat in person; and, if habited in a suit of brown aid round hat, liaised of blue, With a three-cornered one, would have looked more like a sever dila -.0, or simple country gentleWar,tianorTeol Unglard's naval heroes. lie was particularly abstemious, botn in meat and drink, ac rcely touchier wine, and living for the most part on pulse and vegetables." In 1802 Midshipman Crawford left the D:amond to join the Immortaltte, another French capture, corn. mended by Captain, since Admiral, Sir Edward Owen. England was at peace, ant the beat employment that cold be found for the Immortalira was watching smugglers in the Downs. The elder middies, who, it fee m•, had little bet•er to do, organised cockpit courts-martial, for the purpose of amusing thempelves at the expense of the youngsters, whom they tried by a kir.d of unwritten law for all sorts of imaginary offinces. The president is thus described by tie author: THE SUITOR VIDSIIIPNIAN OP THI lIIMOIITALITIL " TLis {Anon was a thin, spare, little man. Barnard by name, is height abut firs f et four inches, with a head out of all kis ping with the rest of his body. To this was appended a chin t f more than common extens*.on, which, instead of prejeming ortwude (ram MO person, prolonged itae wards to his chest. Hie mouth, wide and etroseioue, was in shape molly like tha• of a dog-fish, and, when he laughed, showed two rows of yellow, fo-midable•lookieg teeth. His .ye., smell mud twinkling, were hard, and expressive more of shrewdness then tU nature. The colour of his hair sad wr Sher', which he wore enormously large, was reddish, cud tie clmplezion, at all times sanguine. assumed after suppers ruddier slot, glowing like the setting sun as it sinks into the bosom of the ocean." 1803 brought war, and with it impressment of seamen of the mercantile navy. The author's opinion of the propriety of impressment as a means of recruit ing the navy is summed up in a very characteristic sentence: " All things coosideted, if seamen of the merchant service will not voluntarily enter into that without the aid and pro section of which the privilege of quietly pursuing their profession wooly speedily be destroyed, there seems no re medy—they must be compelled to do so." The Immortslite proceeded, in February, 1803, to Sheerness, to complete her crew to the war establish ment. In Long-reach the operation of impressment was checked by the fullowirg incident : " TYt PIUS OAXO MIATIII OFF. " Some time beton we were complete, the ship still west. for some forty or iffy good hands,the captainl d that two' Indigent, which had just dropped down to Gravesend had ressived their news that mining. • • • • Ile directed the boatr, MAW and armed, of the Immortalite. Amethyst, and Lynx, to proceed at sunset to Gravesand•reach, to board the two Indian's, and select fr m their crews such mss as should be It for the Hiss's service. • • • The boats : bad now nearly reached the Indian's, sad were as the point of separation into two divisions, thces of the Amethyst to board one, and those of the Inusertalil to bond die other. At this moment one of then was heard to ball her Comrade, end immediately after the boatewain's mill piped all hands to quarter on board both The lieutenant of the !man mkt", deeming tales piece of mere bravado, pushed alongside the Woodf ed,"ine of the lodiamen, with his detactment of beets, whilst the others pealed for the snood, the Gasses. Here we found the whole new et quarters, armed with pikes and estimate and every descriptin of askesile that the "hip scald 'apply. They wanted us off, and seined determined to resin every aurae at bearding. In vain did. the lieutesant ressmistrens, and hens nein Of the consequence' of a blind sad vs& raistanos. The Mr* stood demoted oat, answered will lead threats of defiaoce. Mr. 8. now ordered hie ass ea board, bat this order was more easily given than ezetented. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. The Port l y /ice By L Mho,. John Marrry. History co Greece. By Miss Caner Dean and Bon. Politica qpinimu on the Roman Catholic Question, ex• pressed sn Parliament and its Public by the Right Hon. Lo, d John Russell, M.P. By a Banister. Richardson and B .n. The title of this pamphlet sulfa eicntly indicates its c mtente. Whether the opinions which Lard John ie held to have a:premed at different periods and at • nous places are assailable as incon• tenant, is a querion we shall net enter into in these our li• army columns. . . _ . . What's 'What in 1851. Whittaker and Co.—The desire which the public betrayed lut year to know Who wu Who, hu suggested to the compiler of the cheap London guide now before us the ti•le which It bears. To recom mend a guide-hook to publics ammo, it is only atedfal to record that the dir. ctions, hats, dm, which it ontains are brought down to the latest dote, and are courts* givrta. This Is the we in'• What's What." A Poet's Gift S:lect.d from tee weal of the Rev. Robert hlontgomory, by E. F.L he. A small colleetioa of poems, solvated, with the ewher's porn:Onion, and re-printed by the Secretary el the Royal A:ylutu of et. Ana's Society, for the benefit of that i-stittation. The Art Circular, booed monthly, by Caudell and Addey. Noel en 111 A new illustrated sheet, the object of whiok is to milieu and dialeuslaste intelligearte reletivr 10 hull works of art. The present aniaben plata° reviews of illustrated books, statuette; aed several of the objesta known as artmanufociures now becoming so popular. The Art Circula► will be welomied wherever the cultivation of the beautiful k eesaidered a matter of importance. APOZHECAtritIe-11A1.1. -- XeMem of ientlemea who passed the to " the science and practice of medicine, and rametvetreertillestei 10 prictise, on ?handy, Jaw 16 * 1861 .—Georg• Bacon Somatic'', Dorset; Jobs Deanna Blaek.ord, Brogan /rove ; Alfred Kitaiting, HO; Edward George Wake, Ilya _ i