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• ^ ~ ‘lonritirrs of AWL, • ift i, :ime of our' headers way ibmibly •diseoier the originals of the undermentioned portraits of ?bets, without going to Persia for them. They are extrat ted from a Work, n et published, entitled-o“ ▪ PRINCESS 01 PRRSIA." to The operation of.an increasing attachment to the wildness and luxuriance of the native lehunk of fancy, on the Persian poets who flourished dutlij the youth of Gulzara, was sometimes beneficial, but, very frequently ludicrous. It indisputably assisted to get rid of much backnied mediocrity, which was neither poetry nor prose but, in return, the fail ures under the new system were generally thepurest nonsense. Such is the miserable consequence of system and exclusion ; by limiting the range of poetry, and confining praise and approbation to the moat Rhstract exercise of the imagination, TAW, dignified themes, which had hitherto been thought capable of poetical embellishment, and of being ailed by the force of numbers and ;he 'majesty ut verse, were altogether abandoned. , To lend graces to philosophy and morals, audio clothe undressed truth with harmonious expression, in' the course of the poetic experience of Persia, had been productive of many very noble intellectual exertions. All this Was now neglected, and nothing but the fantastic and the visionary encouraged. .Universal mature WAS pervaded by the Persian bard for whimsical combi nations, and his metaphysics were as capricious And as wild as his matter. In his compositions, the fabled sphinx was revived, both in its form and its riddle ;- - and, as in a course which partoo& more of the win. wowing of the butterfly than of the flight so the eagle,. it was difficalt even for genius to keep itself steady ; the fate of its humble imitators- may be readily apprehended. The whole land was deluged with die most sickly ,affectation, and poetry seemed to have exchanged the Muse for the night-mare.— This revolt from the shackles of long oppressive pe dantry was, in its progress, not exceedingly dissimi. hr to the Tartirian revolution : it began nobly, pro ceeded deviously, and threatened to terminate ab surdly. Its leaders alsi, very much like their bro ther rebels of Tartary, were scarcely sufficient mas ters of the higher elements of their profession to effect the good they intended. The primary Persian poets of the tenth Hejira were skilful, but not mighty masters ; they were radiant, but not precisely suns ; and, though some of them bade fair to shine to dis tant ages, it seemed very - doubtful if they would carry a world around them. The most fruitful of them, Said, was famous for his love of a particular period of Persian history, from which he drew all his themes, with a facility that began to be fatiguing to his Readers. The elder times of our own country are frequently interesting, and in description exceed ingly picturesque ; but the modes, manners, and names ; horses ; armour, and accoutrements; houses, castles, and dungeons ; satraps, slaves, damsels, and ladies, o' the age of the Darusses, are, after all, ex. haustible, and, when exhausted, should be allowed to nat. The mule was a good mule, but it is dead. The great forte of Sad was description, particularly of natural beauties, and the peculi nizies cif .s specified locality. He had also the art of p tinting motion so exactly, that his works formed a kind of easera eh ; nava of battles, crowds, and assemblages. This vi vacity of delineation, with occasion it bland and beau tiful touches of pathos and reflection, made up tl.e merit of Said ; his gre test clifec! was repetition and mannerism—he was.always promising another, but eternally giving the same. 66 The next poet, in point of bulk, if not from el dership, his superior in that ominous diatoms was Caled, who visite:l every region for its fiction, and always selected we most unnatural and extrava gant. The excellence of Caled consisted in h's hold of the heart, in the portraiture of the natural affec ticots, in the midst of the wildest vagaries of fancy, and the most whimsical forms of expression. What might have been spared, in addition to the said ex travagance, was no small portion of unmusical phra seology, and a man..ilin tone of tenderness. which bore the same relation to pathos as blubbering to grief. Another pecu l iarity of this bard was his ex treme petulance against those who did not happen to think with him at a given time. Travelling himself, with great satistaction,from one pole of opinion to the other, nothing could exceed his anger at the tar diness of the poor idealists who chose to settle on the road, whom, 'ith great piety and amenity, he would ternvrascals and robbers, and devote to eter nal disgrace. o Atter the dignified add consistent Caled, may follow the pleasing Amru, whose tender yet exalted Inspiration gave a deep tone of pathos to even the common place of war ; whilst, on more congenial tomes, it spoke irresistably to the heart. le Pleasant, though mournful," were the productions of Aniru, the poet of sympathy and of tears. ▪ Nor must Waled be omitted, who, at once gay,. sportive, and amatory, delighted in theme* springing out of the sunshine of social intercourse, and who worshipped too ardently the Mee eyes of earth and the black eyes of,paradise. . He had, however, shewn that lie could sound the lyre to notes of manly free dom ; and the world waited with impatience to .see him give up rosy wreath and myrtle bowers for lof tier associations. , g The accomplished Mirza Osmin comes next, who, as certain poets and painters are fond of depic- Wring the uproar of external nature, lexuriated in the devastation of mind—in the delineation of great qua lities, ruinous from their excess—of - love operating • like a volcano--and of revenge, wide and indiscri minate as a pestilence. A tone—deed, reflective, •nd solemn, lightened at tithes by a flash Of satire, which seemed to mock its own levity, was the great characteristic of the noble bard ; whose principal de fects were a tendency to dwell too much upon a few 'favourite tassociatioos—a, darkness of allusion, ap proaching to the obscure—and the spread of an ar. Uticial mystery over moral causes, which sometimes looked like an inability to conceive the anatomy of his own creations.- . ig Lastly, the mystic poet Adhim, who. as seen in his productions, might be compared- to the statue dreamed of by. the Babylonian Nebuchadnezzar, with head of gold and feet of clay—so noble and so _base was their composition. The pretensions .of this bad were very lofty, as he considered himself the Loalidcr of a new sera in poetry ; and be had only to , &wee buitAlion, an4- . aa =claim) to. WO Want s so • - • `z, _~ ,- mewed,- The endeniable beat? of Adhitn cones. ted is a deep And eloquent spec* of reverie, which bestowed soul and language on inanimate or simple nature; and Isivoluetarily suggested a contempla tion of the mysterious connerion between mind and matter, and of both with their eternal cause. The great source of his defects wax a desire to carry this kind of contemplation farther than it wonjd go, and to make the evsry day transactions of common life a subject for soliloquy and muOng. That two and three make five, may be wortderfitl to the initiated ; but truly the wonder is wonderfully barren and un- Interesting to every body else. But the insipid pue rility that was mercilessly held out for admiration, and the ludicrous attempts to exalt nothing into something,'which formed so large a part of the men tal fabric of Adhim, were certainly original; and, as he WAS gaining converts, even from the ranks of his enemies, the school of ruminating pulishoess appeared likely to be established." LADY broncia's O'Dossad—Atiother edition of this delightful tale is already called for, aad we are pleas ed to observe by the Foreign Journals, it has also josrlr obtained, with the Novice and Wild Irish Gill, a distinguished place among the mast classical novels of the age. The Editor of the forrsted It: Debate, in reviewing the French Translation which has just ap peared, observes that k the interest of this new work of La.ly Morgan's, eariehed as it is with a number of incidents; is still not interrupted by a single epi sode that so often distract a the attention, which is here confined to the hero O'llonnel, who unites the virtue and valour of heroic times to all the inf:•xible pride of misfoitunes: even hi* servant occupies and amuses by his naivete and fidelity ; and liis very d /days a part which in some instances excites emotion even to tears." The folbuing are further particulars respecting the onfortunate affair between Mr. Thompson and Mr. Brookes :—On Saturday morning; the regular evidence of the uilertunate sufferer being deemed highly requisite to clear up the transaction, Sir Wu.- LIAM Courts attended the hospital to take the exami nation. But it was now too late. The patient was found not only delirious, but his extremities were al ready cold. He spoke a little, but it was in such an incoherent and contradictory manner, that his state. :cent could not be considerrd good evidence; and the surgeons were of opinion that he could not linger out the day. The young woman, the cause of the ca tastrophe, whose friends deemed it expedient to con fine her to her room, contrived to defeat their vigi. lance, and found rwr way to the hospital ; but was soon conveyed back to her friends in a state of the wildest delirium.. Mr.. Thompson expired at three o'clock yesterday morning at Si. Thomas's Hospital. Mr. Tbomrson was a native of Manchester, and. a principal clerk in the house of Meuis. Swain and Co. ahem ;, in Frederia's.place, Old Jewry. He was vrry much attached to the young woman who was the cause of his misfortune. SUDDlDlArns.—Friday two awful instances of sudden death occurred in the neighbourhood of Man chester•spare. Mr Evans, the landlord of the Co.k public-house, in BI indford.street, whila serving his cu%toontrs behind his bar in apparent end health and ,puits, fell down and expired without w groan. Mrs. Branscomb, who kept a school on the first fluor in the house of a butcher in E bt.Ftr ret whilst teach log the girls their lessons, dropped down and expired immtnediAtely. • SUFFERERS IN THE HEATON COAL PIT.-It will be remembered that about 12 months ago, between 70 and &Poen and boys lost their lives in t h e Heat" n Coal Pit, near Newcastle . upon . Tyne, by what is call:d a blabt of the pit, and its filling in consequence, with water. It was not until Monday last, the 19th in stant, that the bodies of the greater part of the suf ferers were come at, when 55 of them were found, in what is called the far workings of the pit. It is a melancholy circumstance to relate, but it has been clearly ascertained, that those unfortunate men a..d boys all perished by starvation. They had got into a part of the pit where the water did not reach them, and had been many weeks employed in endeavour. in to work their way into an old pit, by which they might have escaped. They are supposed to have failed in their attempt by the want of food to support them, as every horse in the pit was eaten to the bone. The unfortunate men had a water-mark fixed up, that they might observe if it fell. One man, who is supposed to have been set to watch it, was found dead on his post. Bow-yawn—On Saturday morning the following case was heard before R. Btnxsa and It Surcnczy, Esqrs. Mr. Tavver.a,the gentleman who has opened' an Institution in Soho-square, entitled the Bazaar, which will give bread to at least from four to five hundred people, stated to the Magistrates, that that morning a man came into the Bazaar, and seized a quantity of silk handkerchiefs, the property of a poor widow, without :hewing his authority ; that he fol lowed him, and requested him to return, as he wail himself a Magistrate, and wished to know under what authority he acted.' lie observed, that be was a Custom-house Officer, and that he would not re turn, but would go either to Bow-street, or Marlbo-' rough-street, when Mr. Trotter accompanied him to' the former Offiee. Mr. BIANIZ wished to know under, what authority be had acted, or by what Act of Par-' liament He stated, that from private ioformation! he had received, be went to the Bazaar, where be, found a quantity of Bandana handkerchiefs, which are prohibited goods, and that he seized them under the 55th Act of his present Majesty, which makes the penalty of 0200 if the Commissioners choose to proceed in the Court of Exchequer. The poor wo man to whom the property belonged, stated that she bad bought them uf a man who had called on her, but did not know where he lived, and was totally ignorant that they were prohibited goods. Mr. Bra me.told the Officer, that if he had acted.improperly, of course he would be punished, as Mr. Trotter was a gentleman who was determined to protect all those who had any thing to do with the Bazaar, which was established more for the sake of giving employment to the industrious, than for the sake-of emolument. He at the same time did not dispute the oath of a Custom-house Officer, but he thought the goods ought to be well identified before they left th e Of fice, to be deposited i n th e King's warehouse ; and the best way would be for the owner to accompany the Officer. Mr. Trotter very humanely attended for the poor woman, who could hot go, as she was obli ged to look alter her children. • -wee , AdtPr - # • COURT OP KING'S RENCI4, FEBRUNLT. , LORD COCHRANit.V. smetnuttsr. (Our limits on Friday did not permit, as to give this impoftant ease at such length as its mints dpseeired.) against This Mr. Smethurst, a sm ticti etia .a ins o t n , ti bto le ug htby 'Lord Cochrane respectable and ingenious i L ni a r m in p Manufacturer geme ntofa of Patent B rin obl et, A -s ine tre dby for an aged hisjwr li d e ship for Improved Lamps, but which alleged infringe ment, '4S appeared in, the course of the trial, was merely the followiog up, on . the part of Mr. Smethurst, of a series of most valuable scientific improvements on the construction of Lamps, which he hiinself has been giving to the public for many years. Mr. MAItItYAT, for the defendant, before the plain tiff's witnesses were called, took sonic formal obiec lions to the right to recover, founded on a compa rison of the specification of il,e patent with the patent itself, which purported merely to be “ for a method or methods of more completely lighting cities, towns, and villages." 'Mr. GAZELEE, on the same side, submitted that the patent was void, because the specification claimed much more than the pitent granted, by stating the methods of lighting houses, theatres, convoy* &e. Mr. Justice LE BLANC (e ho tried the cause for Lord Ellenborough) asked, if there were any autho rity to chew that the patent was void, because the specification claimed more than the grant itself con ceded t Mr. GAMMAS answered, that the point was left in doubt by the case of Hornmanv. Bolton. Mr. Justice Ls BLANC saved the point, but observed that the principle seemed the same as in the Argand lamps, with the addition of a mode of expelling the consumed air, which had been deprived of its oxygen by a tube which augmented the draught, and conse quently brightened the flame. In his opinion, the plaintiff must claim for the combination of these ad vantages, and for the application of them to street lamps. Colonel the Hon. Basil Cochrane, the brother of the Plaintiff, was then called, mad stated the conifer-. sations at various interviews by Lord Cochrane with the Defendant. He admitted that Mr. Smethurst had suggested the propriety of a Rd wick, and of a double stream of air to feed the fi me. Mr. John Farey, Mr. Isaac Hawkins, Mr. B. Mes sier (a Frenchman, late partner with M. Arvind), and several other _scientific manufacturers of lamps, deposed to the excellence of the plan, as well as to its originality, more especiahy that part which related to the metallic pipe, called an eduction-pipe, to in crease the consumption of air, and the non-absorbing cover to prevent its return. Their cross.examination was directed chiefly to skew that the whole principle of the invention was old, as the defendant and others, before the date of the patent, had employed the most material parts of it, particularly the introduction of air immediately contiguous to the flame. The plaintiff's case, which occupied more than six hours, having been clnsed ; Mr. MARKYATT, for the defendant, submitted that the plaintiff ought to be itonsuited on the evidence he had produced, on two grounds-Ist, That the whole merit of the invention was proved to be the consbinati , at of old principirs, whereas the specifica tion claimed each part distinctly as a new invention; 2Jly, That in the specification no sufficient expiate*. tion was given of a pars of the supposed invention called the line of exclusion, on which much stress had been laid by the evidence. As to the first ground, he quoted King v. Ark wright. The ATIOItNEY-GENERAL and Mr. RICHARDSON, argued on the contrary side, by reference to the spe. cification and the dressing annexed. Mr. Justice Le BLANC.— In reality it appeals that the Patent should have been for an Improvement upon Street-Lamps; instead of that, it is , g for a Method or _Methods of more completely Lighting Cities, Towns, and Villages." I do.not well see how such a Patent can be supported on the evidence. The Plaintiff claims for an entirely new invention, new in all its parts, wherees this at the utmost is for a mare application or combination of old principles, in which certainly great ingenuity is displayed, but the Patent itself appears to be in a wrong form ; it ought to have been for an hnprovement only, instead of generally for an absolutely new invention.—Plaintiffnonsuited. 713. 23.....ANDERAnN 9. HAMILTON. This was an action to recover damages for an assault and false imprisonment, at Heligoland, In November, telt). The Plaintiff was a British merchant, and the Defendant, at the period In question, was Governor of tbat Island. The trans. action, as stated by the Plaintiffs brother, and other respectable witnesses, at that titre resident merchants on that settlement, was as follows :—During the period hi question, ft is well known that Heligoland was a station from which the Brittish merchants got British manufactures and colonial produce Introduced Into the Continent, notwithstanding the vigilance of Napoleon's Go veottnent, and the utmost efforts of his downier. At the end of the year laid, the Plaintiff was a British merchant, resident hi Heligoland, and the Defendant was an Officer in the Invalided Battalion appointedlo the command of that station, exercising the powers of Governor. In the administration of his office be thought proper,• of his owu authority, to impose a duty of one hell per item on certain tnerchendiats, which the Plaintiff re fused to pay, in consequence of which the Defendant by force took possession of his house; so that the Plaintiff, after an ab. ience one day, on his return home, found his house locked op, and an Officer of the Government with the key in his possession. He took the key from the man, but without any force, and re entered his house. This the Governor considered as highly mu tinous, and immediately took him into custody, and sent him to the common prison of the place ; and not content with that, par titioned off a cell, about 11.1 Vet) feet square in which he confined him for about three w or t s , unt il hi s healt h was considerably im paired. He also brought him to trial before a sort of Court, cons sting of the seven senior Bailiffs or Officers of the place, and Jur the first time, sat as' a Judge amongst them. But instead of .conducting himself as a Judge, he brought with him the seat ace, ready written, before the man was convicted, He was, pow ever, convicted, as a matter of course, of ,being disobedient to the Govetnor, and was pronounced a pavan dangerous to the Island, and was sent to .prison. He was afterwards allowed to return to his house, but because he presumed to go out of doors, the Governor again took him up s and made him find bail that he would nut leave the island. The whole of this outrageous conduct, as appeared, was founded on no other cause bur because he resisted the Govetior's assumed atithority of lazing the mer chants at his own pleasure. Mr. ATTORNRY•ORNRRAL, for the Defendant, stated, that in defending him by the authority of Government, they did not mean to unction,pny Illegal act he might have committed, but only that the fact should be fairly inquired into. He then stated that the Defendant was a mere roldier of fortune, and he hoped the Jury would cot give damages which might operate as per petual imprisonment. Lord ELLINDORouoa, In summing up, moll the Jury there. was no pretence for the conduct of the Defendant, nor any apology to be found for I. He characterised it as a case of most gross oppression, and not to be tokrated. At the same dme; be advised the Jury to temper the severity of justice with a merciful con►ideration, add &wad such damages may as It Was -- . .. •. . • . t o i ts ul t ie ite Der:w • het tould pay, N o h i lt... a V olt i uner d (heir • ' ~'ndi-c-t.Genten.e nt, il/4"v %raid tie i liiidaime ea43o. i , , , :a l Lord . , I z erpoibl and Stdmoutn tr•ri ~,hpitti minx, a u s i.. tura i gg i fi i ‘ preien.t.ii to tilt k .iuj... bui (tar ardencillidifo bearn e 9 /1 tt, , I: 4si . - ..................—___ envivEßSlTr INTELLIGz) CAMBRIDGE, FEBRITAItY 2 Saturday last, Mr. Petwington, one of s es fi Stis o t Thomas Gape, LL.B. ut Trinity Hall, i s cite Cn e li; i g te e, ‘ w v as m. el aa ce t t i e t kl e, i m nto r th . e that Society. • . Walker, of Christ College, is altr!ted Mater 8.0. of Lis r i l OXFORD, FF'2RUAIty 2 4. His Royal Highness thr Prircz R• 1%4 Lis Lordship to t ta gr i a u n eu t uttshteotHhoeußerevo.l.lricnotelsiZTenb::ii,d pretegii.ati place and digtrry of a Pri));:y.la, y of the• ugi :Jr. Peter, We,ttuitister, toad by the resio at i on Rey. Robert (4115th, 13..-1. S,h,i;ar of %au mestle Chai)hin 'to the Karin 4 of Bath, and it The R ev . S. I"AL, D.D. a.:l a Magi,tra te e b W hi i p l:l4 of h w i. ar b: l n m a t p er po :.: i e n , e , tt ot hi presented to the very V...!L: 3 hie iteatity eu m ita Rev. Ralph Tath to, 1.1. D. to the Rectos / , ,S:lbbatd, in Norfolk. Lire Princi,ial and Professor, or Ma r k e w verity of Aberdeen, have conferred the drive Rev. Mr. George Gl'nie, Profe.,or of Mural College, and arc of the Ministers of Abtrieen. Friday lilt, at As:iford, Kew, a z , d 91, Gui:sley Ayers% Rector of Sp e l !h uts , in Ken one o f bts 41.kiesty'c Justicev of the Peace far LI Miss M. F. Sropford, Eldest tiatii;!,: eru f Sir R. Stop!ord,K.C.l.t. of Buckia:ol.liaoei, Thursday last, a Gentleman who r i ns i t y to pass an Lour in t!.e :.lethrtd in the City road, W 45 r ,, b - nt hit which contained upw.trds of £lOO iu having his pocket cut through with strummt. Early on Friday sc'nniel a fire br, _premises of Mr. Bennett Hawes, of Essex, which entirely consumed a do t i stack of wheat which had recently into it for the purpose of thra,hin g . We are informed, that Messrs. C the celebrated Surgeons of Charlotte friar's road, have patronised e n Est& accommodation of Females, whose sip a temporary retirement. The Asylua where a'Nfidwife, of twenty )ears' exp This benevolent act will cause the have the good wishes of the most beau creation ; for, by such ar. Estabiithl grief wail bc avoided, reputation preset - babes protected ; and we are of °pink) ment may also be the meatus ‘f press luable lives. • mit ills. TueAday, in Pall malt, Vi•coun:e» heap Sam diy, at Linton :pricy, iieJs Natherb Hun. Wary Butler, of a scu. MARRIED. At Enfield, the Rev. J. 11. Mules, to Miss of John Joßy,,Esq. Saturday bennight, at Bit mlngliat, Major goon Guards, to iar , h, AtTood ,:au t ister tit Of Lately, Alfred Fur, Esq. of l'ctubroke H Mils Clerk, eldest daJghter of SAntuel Cloak, 7nured-Iy. at Brainti..to, Mr. 1 bonsai Bus t h e A re . Rob e rt Por:oa., Vicar of Branham of IScoton, Linculnibirt. l'hurtdv, at Mary Ia boon* March, Ott Esq. of the Ueuersl Put office, to late, third Lang, Esq. of Portlantl-Vace. Thursday seinnie"., by spacial licence at I Tyrone, Vi:caunt Cionmore, to Lady France t er of the Marqius oi Aberc DIED. Friday sennight, at Dunster Cattle, in the John kewnes Luttrell, Esq. one of thu kepi e mein for the borough of Mlnehead. Tuesday Charles Francs, eldest son of th. Moysey, Rector of Martyr SVorthy, ueB V. uesday, at Rochester, at the advinee , l Mrs. Baker, proptietortif the Canterluiry, it' 'Tunbridge Wells, and Faversham '1 of which sh e und,ertook about the year 17: period left a widow, with three children. Friday sennight, Mr. Mitchell, bp:easy/An' Donegal, went from idseerness to t ! who had recently arrived there in a coal shi way, he tell over one of the wharfs into the could not extricate himself, and perished. At Sinnraer, on the 16th inst. At:in:rat h At ihunbar; on the'Sth instant, the Rev. Joi of the Associate Congregation there, in the Wednesday, the 1 ists inst. in the 87th Hon. Mrs. Townshend; widow of the HI sheod, Dean of Norwich. TueAlay, in the ittth year of his age, du veutry, of North Cray, Kent. HAVING dedicated ourselves u been gratified by the most considers branch which we thought proper to select, vi not more misemployed our time, than tbo sive field of the profession, are occasionally tainty, and cannot always attain that chew by concentrating the intellectual power to n The diseases of Debility are •peculiarly bring with them a train of coucomnant synti pression of all vital energy, exigence ir.df Whether (lily arise front the pr. valet ce or structive habits of school.!loys, or the k" e of masurit)\ they require the most as i:!uot and well may it be observed, that by the is ted men; the symptoms are aggravated, am; destroyed. As Members of the Royal College of Seri Surgeons !n his Majesty's service, we grout' regularity of Education, and possessing eve tiee, we feel ourselves entitled to that oonfid have hitherto been *o liberally honoured. In the first Sensations of It;cal weakness, prevent the ta:arnity of a debilitated frame fever, from a consciousness of the tinma rime caused his m'sfortune, is fearful of the emit his family physician, and broods over his it concealment, it must be satisfactory for his only of capability of 'treatment, but also of secrecy. Sadly. The Venereal Disease contaminate , the seeds of existence are poisoned by it, a"' by the indiscretion of ao unguarded mantel , ' We offer the advantage of this aperient sex who are efflicted with any kind of MAI Of Venereal infect:on, and in all casts the ter are stated on the first irate: view. In recent Venereal complaints, it Is pncsi danger, or distress; and in the most coniplt acquirement of exclusive exp.:tit-tice in this certain, and speedy r::-estahitslitu-ns. Patients in the country are ripected to s and are requested to specify their ag.• and well as the existing symptoms of the compls • t Members of the Royal College of Surge , Edinburgh, 107, fiat .sia-Gard• n.— LONDON: Punted by Lava'. 'sew Published tbase,and at the Star Onirr