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r ~.4„..-.4•NWN ,1 1 / 4, (C';',' . 'T .' .1 ti/ 49CC)); * 41 414 . ; ''s ri , ! . :zt 1 , , , ...,...) , , , i4..., i ,idi i, ~ • , , i ~. ... , I . 7. 11114. c 4, • ~::. ~,,,' f • ; if " \ r rsit lc. cs• T. i , 4;..... „wi t . ...,:... ~ '. ..;et:::.1, ..0 iii • i L 1111rP. ...-...., .- "%/--.-- % - .4 I:: l a• 0 t _ _____ i : ',..., TencerrO K ... . Nstt' 41 • • # . LESS, AND NOTHING MORE. THE CONSTITUTION—NOTHING I - ' AMINIImmim TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1829. NUMBER 13,315.] PRICE SEVENPENCr. • CITY of LONDON.—GAME DUTY.—LIST LIST or Psalmss who have obtained GINXIIAL Cumin- CAM (D.) at the rate of Three Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Six pence each, for the year Itilh. Attwood, M. W. Gracechurcb-street. Fletcher, Richard, Doctors' Commons. Navine, Geo. Broad-stieet. Proctor, Joseph, Gould-square. Prescott, Geo. F. Threadneedle-street. Sheppard Thos. Basiughall-street. - CITY OF WESTMINSTER. GAME DUTY.—LIST L—LIST or Palmas who have ob tained GZNUAL Czararicoitts (D.) at the Bate of Three Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Slipenee each, for the year 18 4 29. Odell, Joseph, Story-street. Scott, Hon. W. Graftoo-street Weston Joseph, Condatootreet. COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. - GAME DUTY—LIST L—Less of ?SIMONS who love obtained 111111Arlaila *mkt. teen Shillings and faspenie, for the year 1829. Bicknell, George, Bloomsbury-square. Dick. W. D. 1, Park-crescent. Ellis, Lieut.-Col. 73, Baker-street. Ewart, •John, Barton-crescent. Dillard Tito'. Warren-street. Hanson, John, Upper Norton-street. HaMfg:, Thee. Wimpole-street. Hans.s7ge, Woburn-place: Jenni Portland-place. Fras. New MiUnsan-street. Kennedy, Sir R. H. Henrietta-street. Lovell, John, Ratcliffe. Reynolds, `Thomas, Whitechapel. Reynolds, Abm. 8 Shadwell. Swirls, Alfred, Chad's Row. Sanders, F. W. Lincoln's Inn. Waring, Dr. Manehester-square. Wild, Thos. Guildford-greet. (Made up to the Bth Nov.) 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THE CHACE; OR, REFUGE IN A CHINA SHOP. A N over drove bullock from Smithfield roth'd ou Full speed to Fleet-market, the stalls overturning, Midst dissonant noise, fish and. fruit-women mourning Their acatter'd commodities —putting to rout A host of opponents.4ursuing his way Up Fleet:street, where turning at facing at hay The mob, his retreat was cot off,.and be stood .Berplez'd, in appareot.conteptpladve mood Which way to estepe-,wben z.Chine ,t hopdoor 'lnvitingly open, straight in deem he ran, And shortly the work of destructien began ; For heedless of earthenware spread o'er the floor he fragments, the fragile, yet valuable ware He crush'd, and its owner immers'd despair ! No prospect appear'd to avert instant ruin, When Elope came at last, In`rhe shapb of a 'Boot, Of brilliance that will every purpose might suit Of high polish'd image then viewing, The bullock in Waxeseesr ch Jet, in amaze, lie patis'd on the shelf •with,'lbqui.itite Whete stood the. Riteetor..-Ms fury aestsag'd, • .Assrl'striudy and paesiva,attention eupg'd! The shuptuan, with fortunate preFenee of mind, Cross'd uu to the n dout 4 wila the Bout—rigid about . .The bullock now 'facing, be thence drew litis out; Right happy the China-shop owner to And • That thus be a magi/tit Teee'd of high power, His merchandize sae:ty perilous hour From' arther•d e druCti on aPil still as a lure, And laity in siniiilior iN insure, • The Boot is tibpdy'd-.-the niaoge.ineldeot backlog With pre-eminence Wasteres,lse BrActuto! Ibis Rasy Sh t ining and firdliant BLA,CIkI/#4 'Fij* by '/ .~ ,e1,044 . ...4/440/4 4. • - • .3Q, STRAYEI f ,AARo . ,iten;. . • I • I'l And Ntild in eir6ry T ivn igisiviloca !ALM in Btitiler; PA ate each. ia aittrlPJliB3l3 , lILACIOI4I G, iti Pots,. II& fifth • anfibillith eatitib iii t/niitakt t. i4gr 111 t s~ W 4% It, N1ii•4,,4 O 51trelV•• • - 4 A- YIN ARE croximarwm: - 4 SALE POSTPONED. H A LESTONE PARK, NORTHAMPTONSHIR E. MR. JOHN ROBINS, of Warwick House, Regent- ' Street, informs the PUBLIC, that The SALE of the HARLESTONE PARK ESTATE, Manor, Mansion, and Advowson, situate near NORTHAMPTON, Advertised to be Sold by Auction at Garraway's Coffee House, 'Change Alley, Cornhlll, on TUURSDAT next, YS POSTPO'ED. • Regent-street, 10th November, 1629. FRENCH PAPERS. From the Messinger des Chautbres—Second Edition. PARIS, Nov. 7. •••irisliubbeehaetbm GatemMont and the Diphailitic Body hem received, by a courier who arrived at the hotel of the Austrian Le. gado°, the news that the Emperor of Russia had consented to grant to Turkey less rigorous conditions, both relative to the amount of the indemnity and to the periods of payment. FRONTIERS OF SERVIA, Mx. 20. It is said that great fermentation prevails among the Tusks since the publication of the peace, and that several Paehas have resolved . . . to renounce their obedience to the Sultan. This, at least,la aimed in mercantile letters from Sophia, which add, that the - v=oom . . . .. of the existence of the Sultan is extremely precarious. whatever turn events may take. Halli Bache, appointed. Ambassador Ex traordinary to St. Petenburgb, is said to have. already received his pamports, and will probably set out in a few slays. Ii is be lieved that the evacuation of Adrianople will begin in the middle of next month. Trade begins to be very brisk ; but kis very odd that gold, especially ducats, is falling in, price instead of rising, which it might have been expected to do, Considering the payments in gold which the Porte has to make.-4osiorg Gawks. • ARGOS, Om.* An officer attached to the Topogrspcal Brigade, charged by the Minister of War to make a map of the Mores. has written a letter, of which the following are extracts :—" In order the better to promote the classification of the labours of the Commission, the Mom is to be divided into five sections. Ia our progress, instead of finding towns, we have discovered ashes—ruiss, beneath which were bones, dead bodies, and shreds of wearing apparel ; instead of inhabitants, nothing but chaessis, and a few miserable wretches de. voured by hunger. For a long period nothing has been seen in Greece but lonian merchants, muleteers, Messed= shepherds, Mahone flatcars, and a few regular soldiers. These are the me landieli remains of aviation formerly so great, and which will be so agiin,.thitiSts to its heroic courage and to its liberators, against whooi somany calumnies have been circulated. 0 paste are here all the elements of a great nation, but we are not Ina situation to contemplate philosophically the prospect of the ... regeneration of this beautiful country. " In the month of July the temperature here was at 40 degrees in the shade, and the excessive heat caused much illness among us. 4 Thegiadtude of the Hell ;ism towards times who hors sec- coined them has just been manifested by the creation of the order of the Saviour, which is reserved for the PhilheUenisu. Among the Greeks, the President alone will be decorated with it. This institution was voted by the National Assembly, at Argos, the birth-place of Agamemnon. From all that I have observed here, I am of opinion that the President of Greece will be able alone to conduct the affairs of the country." A young girl born at Granville, in the department of Manche, engaged herself as a man on board of one of the vessels trading to Newfoundland, about three years ago. Since that time she has been always employed as a sailor, and was always remarked for her activity and seal. She has made three voyages to Newfoundland, and the Captains were always satisfied with her. Her sex was discovered in consequence of an injury she received from a fall, and now, by a singular vicissitude, in changing her dress she loses her meths of existence. On the 31st of October, a young woman, residing at the village of the Beeville, (Fore et Loir), was attacked by her husband, while he was in a state of intoxication, arid cruelly beaten by him. She escaped by leaping out of the window, and was so alarmed at his threats that she threw herself into the river, where her body was found the next morning. The Juge de Pais (91. Devallenil) having been informed of the way in which the unfortunate woman came by her death, refused to allow any funeral honours to be ren dered to her, on the ground that she was unworthy of them, she not being a good Catholic. The Memorial Borskiois of the 4th of September, says—" A frightful accident has just happened to the steam-boat the Union, belonging to the Garonne Boat Company. One of the boilers ex ploded, in consequence of which three men have perished, and some of the passengers were more hr less injured. The accident took place near Canderot." From the Constitutionnel. Count de la.Ferrousys, appointed Ambassador to the Holy See left Paris to-day for Rome. The soldier of the Royal Guard condemned to death for ha v ing assassinated his serjeant, and whose appeal was rejected by the Council of Revision, was shot to-day in the plain of Grenelle, in presence of the detac hments of the Garde Royale. The following melancholy information has been received ftom the arrondissement of Belay, in the department of Ain. In conse quence of the late inundations, a strong current of the Rhone was diverted from Its bed, and submerged the land in the commune of Layouts, It omit a , direction as to threaten to pass over a rock which had hitherto opposed it, and it passed over almost the whole of the communes of Layouts and Rochefort. In the space of five days it destroyed upon a space of abdut 450 feet, a road 40 feet broad, and surmounted all. the obstacles opposed to it. ,It now continues its ravages with such force that it, is feared it will destroy a part of the village of !Avail's. A letter front Perpignan states, that in consequence of the late''rain, all mails' on the •rosid to Narbonne failed it the , same these. •The 'dotage, which will be . very abundant, and the wine of excellent, Reality, has • been , suspended.; . the, water from the aqueducts flowed into the streets .of the town, as far as the 'gat. Notre Datis • the faubourg of the Tanneries was inuildifid tothe height of fife feet•ahove the ground floor, and thelnhabitasts were .obligesk , to seek eafety in the upper stogies. A commercial traveller r .velso. was on horseback, was forced by . th i e current into the river,. and it was with difficulty that his life ivaiiaded. — Thittivellers in the diligenee from Toulouse to Per pignan' were int*itiketi by tlle•waters at thepassage. of the' river Maury, and were obliged to leave it, and pursue their journey on ,horseback. One of the passengers, a Lady, narrowly drowning. "he diligence was carded away by the waters, * : an the valeabletit . coritilnetwere lost, with the exception of some i ieweNefy .. . . , ... , : . . Three forage markets have just been established at Paris; the *St in the. faubourg St. Anionic, the .second on the. fo afd 4' Safer, and the third in the fanbourgSt...Martin. An . • . ' ;of 'Of the Stith Of October last;; diieitil - that all • lid& intoPatirahall be thioveltidirecdr to one et thoseasShoisi 'stud exesthe prier .lothe.cliergedfor stands-attheas. , - :t... /: Vienna, 0cx.19.-rAletalliques,.lo4; Bank Shares, 1,940. . Fel!sitll Fllntlt.—.Paets, Pl.uv. 7. . Five per comp, 109 f. Sc. 109 f. 109 L 10c. Sc. 109 f. 1 0 c. - .. a. Itle." - " . • ' • ' '`Thiee•per Cehts, , 119 f. 95e. it4f.llsf. 9k. 84f. 114 f. Sc. 10c.-. •.'.. , wlfee.}oc.t. ..-1. 4 i:' .'' Z - •;'• • :;: t- • • ' Bank Stock, 1,9051. Rentes de Ni • Ilis:fdr. fee. ikte. /tontf i ir floparni.7l . • • • lr.dyil lath Loan:. 801 M. • , Vence; vette* trEstdane. , • Neittion aboloherifinsOn.... in; 0 d - A O,l )g• , 4 2 :FIWia l a o r. Pirrro4.:L One month, 2f. 70e.—Throe woe& ....w.ltiumvt l o7ll l . l :" .—Ccomrs "hake:Ulric PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN EUROPE. The following statement has been recently made to the Society of Belles Lettres at Paris,giving an account of the Num• her of Volumes the libraries of the various countries possess : Ausuia.4 Prussia German Estates .. 3.624,500 Do. The whole of Germany.... 6,751,500 Do. Franco . England .... ... ~ 1,533,000 Do. Russia .. 690,000 Do. Italy Total 17,730000 The six most considerable Libraries of Europe, and the most se lect aro— The Royal Library of Paris, 450,000 yok. 77,000 Manuscripts. She wi lZ2eley of Orforol«, 4114000 Ditto 30,000 Ditto. The Ueftenity 480,000 Ditto 9,000 aim. • • The Vatican at Rome. lOO,OOO Ditto 40,000 Ditto. The University of Gottingen 560,000 Ditto 5,000 Dino. The British Museum, London 500.000 Dktu The Libraries of Spain and Portupi contain but very few vo lumes ; the most noted are those of Mold& Salamanca, Cordova, Lisbon, and Coimbra. S. Do LOUISIANA. (corr.) EDWARD LIVINGSTON. LLD. OF NEW ORLEANS, TO JEREMY BENTHAM , LONDON. New York. August 10, 1829. Sts,—l had intended to delay the request that you would do me the favour to accept and peruse the Codes of Criminal Law which I am preparing for the State of Louisiana until I could offer the whole system for your examination; buts delay bas taken place, of which you are the cause, in preparing the Code of Evidence, and my impatience to have a direct communication with you has induced me, perhaps indiscreetly, to send you the parts of the system which have been presented for consideration, together with the preliminary Reports explanatory of their provisions. The Code of Evidence, which is wanting to complete the system, was ready about two years since to be put to the press, when I heird of the publication of your" Rationale of Judicial Proof," and I could not think of taking another step until I had received all the lights I was sure this work would throw on the course I was pursuing. Notwithstanding all my endeavours to procure a copy from England, I have, by some unaccountable fatality, been constantly disappointed, but have lately been fortu nate enough to procure the only let, I believe, in the United States. lam tow studying it closely, and already find more than enough 41 mate me rejoice that I was not more precipitate in my publics don, while, at the same time, I feel a pride in discovering that many of the provisions I had inserted have received the sanction of your judgment. • It is more than 80 years ago that, then representing this city In the House of Representatives of the United States, I made an isudrectual attempt to mitigate the severity of our Penal LAW•r• The perusal of your works, edited by Dumont, fortified nee in to proasaue she maim wirsouw a it easookettlmul& offer. It occurred about twenty years after, by my election to the Legislature of Louisiana, whither I had removed ; and I used the confidence of that State by offering them the system you will find in the accompanying package. It is now under the con sideration of a joint Committee of both Houses, and its fate will be decided in the course of the winter Session. The favourable notice taken of the first Report in England, and elsewhere in Europe, has had a considerable effect in predisposing the public mind to receive it. In laying before you this work, I offer you little that you have not a legitimate title to—for hereafter no one can, in criminal juris prudence, propose any favourable change that you have not recom mended, or make any wise improvement that your superior sagacity has not suggested. With the greatest veneration for your character, and the highest admiration of your useful labours, I am, Sir, your most obedient arzant, (Signed) EDWARD LIVINGSTON. The following papers were received with the above letters : Pages. Introductory Report to the System of Penal Law, prepared for the State of Louisiana System of Penal Law, prepared for the State of Louisiana ; comprising codes of offences and punishments, of procedure, of prison discipline, and of evidence applicable as well a civil as to criminal cases ; and a book containing definitions of all the technical words used in this system .. 176 Introductory Report to the Code of Procedure Code of Procedure for giving effect to the Penal Code of the State of London. 263 Introductory Report to the Code of Reform and Prison Discipline .. • 51 Code of Reform and l'rison Discipline, being the third part of the System of Penal Law prepared for the. State of Louisiana .... . Total They are printed with large margins, to receive observations, in the manner of some copies of Mr. Broughams famous speech. Dr. Livingston was on his way to Washington, to take his seat in the Senate for the State to which he does so much honour by his beneficent and intelligent labour., and by the example he has ►et of executing that necessary work, the execution of which is, in other countries, in the hope of preventing it, so positively declared to be impossible. _ _ FRENCH FASHIONS. At the review of the 26th, ladies of the first rank and fashion left their seats in the coaches, and placed themselves on the coachman's box, who, with the auistance of the footman, held the hones. A carriage, which was distinguished by the elegance of the co lours and its high finish, had• the body painted "bless de rsi," and the wheels. &c. slightly striped with white. It was drawn by light bay English horses of the greatest bright. There were very elegant phaetons ; one particularly distinguished was maroon brown, with a reddish reflection; wheels with black rays. Horses dapple gray. sky blue liveries. with *ilk epaulets. Tilburies were more scarce ; a groom on horseback followed them. ne of the handsomest dresses seen was a robe of black velvet, bordered with feathers of the same colour. twisted, and forming fringes. The same kind of borders are also adopted for hats. There are some, the extremity of which is made of knots of rib bands, terminating in this species of feather (ring's. They are of an extreme lightness. Hats are also sported, the success of which is still doubtful, un less the season should prove very severe. There are also velvet great coats lined with furs. They are very becoming Black velvet hats have been observed trimmed with dahlia coloured ribands, surmounted by a single straight feather of the same Colour as the ribands. . Under the morning capotes the hair is worn in the English fa. shluti-i—vis. in lengthimed ringlets falling down. In toll &els, or sander herits.ruchisis are still much in favour, and varied in all . sores a tanas-"the heir is worn more in front. . Cloaks are of the Scotch plaid alined. Satniday, an elegantly. dresied Lady wore one with fine cidisured and black stripes tisene,'La•eateenniore. .Tbe moot elegant handkerchiefs have embroidered corners; name fitrm .5 )toed by means of a small groove hair tissue, of gold and blue silk. ' I Some young persons wear broad velvet bands 'booked at the ;tuck, in the shape of a cravat. The hook is. covered by..a Ana, fastened with a cameo. The great coat for • men (l'Habit liedingote) is the newest and ' Wait tastefal costume. This dots b admitted at all inuenitig visits. SHAKSPEARE IN FRANCE. The absurd prejudices of a certain portion of the Pa; . is press against every thing English. were never more strongly mani fested than in the expression of its sentiment. in respect to an attempt to.play Translations of Shakspeare's Tragedies at the The atre Francais. It is regarded as a dereliction of the national dig nity, and has called forth all the violence of this party, which, no doubt, sees in it further proofs of the designs of the Duke of Wellington, whom they charge with having saddled them with the present Ministry, in order to lead to the overthrow of their liberties and independence. The tragedy selected to begin with is Othello ; it has been translated into verse by M. Alfred de Vigor, and has been performed for several nights at the Theatre Francais with great success. The Liberal Journals are now going to write down poor Shakspeare, both at Paris and its London, where, it appears, by what they say, he is not respected, nor are his plays ever represented on the stage. The following is the mild and amiable critique of the Constitutionnel :—. " The excluder partisans of the new school, passing tondemna doe on Comsaillevnto+remediating Racine $ nd Voltalteolleolkifflf, • log out lustily—We must have something new ! We must have • new creations! There must be inventions! They have bad their own way, except the censure, which presses equally on all literary parties ; they have had full liberty. and this liberty they have pushed even to licentiousness. What has it done for the dramatic art 7 Nothing, at least, Un less we reckon absurdities as something. We have used Walter Scott's works ; we have used our own modern annals ; we have esplored our ancient chronicles ; and here we are now, in order to satisfy this want of innovation and creations, going to search old Shakspeare, and re-produce on the French stage his brutal genius,his gigantic and narrow conceptions, his sublime and paltry inspirations. Othello opens the march, and Macbeth, Hamlet, and Romeo, dispute the honour of enteritis the breach which the Moar of Venice has attempted to render practicable. " Sitakspeare, who created•the Enghih Theatre in the reign of Elizabeth, had for spectatorwand jaidges only the British people, then still plunged, In regard to the Fine Arts, ha the chaos of incivilization. The Queen's Court, familiarised with the crimes of the Palace, like the Courts which preceded that of Louis the 14th, or like the Court of St. Pntersburgh, even at the beginning of the existing century, disdained the pleasures of the mind ; and less fortunate than Corneille and Moliere, Shakapeare found only after his death worthy appreciators of his genius • hie splendid re nown was for him only a renown posthumous. Reduced to please an ignorant and superstitious populace, be was constrained to submit to the superstition and Magnum of his times • superior himself to his age, he was compelled to submit to its rudeness and barbarity. "Thus Shakspeare has grown a hundred times older in England, than in France the great writers of the age of Louis the 14th. When he wrote, the English language was yet in its infancy, while Racine and Boileau carried to the highest pitch the charm, the ele gance. And the vigour of French poetry. At. London, nobody goes to see Shakspeare, not even when he is played by the ablest performers; and it was not without great difficulty that Garrick succeeded in reviving his national glory. " And it is this old author, celebrated in a country which is not ours—in an idiom which is unknown to us—in a nation whose manners and tastes have no resemblance to ours, that our pretend ing innovators would impose on us at this day ! Duds had taken from Shakspeare all that the French taste would allow hint to be robbed of : he slid not translate him at all, he imitated him ; he converted the poet of Great Britain to the French taste, instead of wishing to pervert the French taste to the brutalities of the vint ners of the Oty. in the 16th and 17th ages. Duels did not confine himself to imitate the British Corneille. he created, and at the side of Shakespeare's creations and the representation of the Moor of Venice, reproduced in all its nakedness, does the greatest honour eadkeimaimi al Useis. o It is that we may arrive at a natural style, descend or rise to truth, that the innovators of our days are endeavouring to antrench themselves behind the great Shakspeare, as they call him them selves. without any body ever dreaming of contesting the legiti macy of so beautiful a title. Now here is this natural style and this truth. " Othello, as every one knows, has inspired the handsome Des demona with a passion so violent that this young and innocent girl has eloped from her father's house to throw herself into the arms of the African General. whose brilliant exploits have conquered her. The Moor of Duds is young, impetuous, raging with pas sion, and covered with a glory of yesterday ; we conceive easily that with this circle of glory round his head, he might have been able to seduce the Senator's daughter. The Moor of Shakspeare, on the contrary, is very nearly a sexagenarian ; his finest exploits belong to an epoch when Desdensona•was yet in the cradle ; is it probable, is it true, that a young person, well educated, belonging to one o f first families in Venice, would abandon her maiden bed to throw herself into the arms of this old negro? If this is natural, we should shun and forget it, instead of holding it up to all the world on the stage. There is at the bottom of this idea something repulsive, disgusting, and capable of wearying the most depraved imaginations. " The old negro, however, becomes the husband of Desdemona, and on the day after the wedding the Senate orders him to make his way through the Ottoman Sect, in order that he may take the superior command of the Isle of Cyprus. He parts from his wife and instals himself in his Government. Hardly arrived there, in the middle of the night, be leaves his young spouse, who soon fel- lows him to appease in the street a public-house squabble. In his place. a .Governor of a town would have sent four soldiers and a corporal to put an end to the affray. But for the honour of the natural and of truth, he must run there himself, escorted by his wife, to take into custody and send to the guard-house some quar relsome and drunken men. " The Moor,' feeling old age approaching, thinks of becoming jealous; he is persuaded that his wife is deceitful and false ; there is nothing in it, but he believes it; and why does he be lieve it? Because leademona asks him, through the goodness of her soul, for the pardon of a young officer, and more espe cially because she cannot, on the instant, refold a pocket-hand kerchief which was given hei by Othello. It should be observed that this handkerchief had been lent by Desdemona to the Moor himself to wipe his face, and that it was he and not she ' who had lost it. This pledge of love and tenderness was ptckt up its a public square by a waiting woman, who gave it to her husband.— She is very much devoted to her mistress ; she hears the threats of the Moor when be calls for the handkerchief back, and the Idea of telling him what she has done with it does not enter her mind ; this is what is called the truth. On her part, Desdemona, threatened with death, merely because she no longer has the handkerchief in her possession, takes care not to remind her husband that she had lent it to him, and that he had not returned it ; this is what is called the natural. After this, let them complain again of the unlikelihood of the billet from Ne• mull to Zara! And it is this pocket-handkerchief which makes ready' and brings on the catastrophe ! The husband of the waiting-woman, logo, who has carried it of, makes use of it to serve the accomplishment of his frightful plant. This lago is a Don „Juan of a lower rank, another Mephistopheles. whom the genius of evil inflames ; iris be who makes the terrible poison of jealousy pe netrate into the soul of the fierce Othello ; it is he who got up the public-house scene; it is be who persuades the Moor that his wife betrays him for the yams officer whose pardon she has been soliciting; it is he who causes this officer to be assassinated by a young Lord whom he ruins, whom he robe, and whom he makes commit a murder almost wholly from gaiety of heart ; for this ,yoting Lord, who falls in his turn, is entirely without passion, and as cold as marble; and lago makes hint an assassin by assuring him 'that be shall that night sleep with Desdemona. 0 Finally, it is fart who recovers the famous handkerchief from the pocket of the young officer, whom he had assassinated, and that decides Othello to stifle his wife with a pillow, and la gn 's wife attends when her mistress has breathed her last ash, and re counts the history of the famous handkerchief, and when be knows the troth; the Moor hills himself in his turn. Here again is the natural anti the truth. ' Oh! if it be thus, give us again, as quickly as possible. the supernatutal of Voltaire, and the falsehoods of Corneille ! " Let us remark, in passing, that whets the Moor hag stifled hi. !w ife, after having, for ten minutes. endured in all her members !the ;saisineNs of death, Desdemona utters some words. A person ,will stirvive, for some instants, a mortal wound, resulting (runs 'steel or fire ; but a person is either stifled or he is not. We know loot whither this peculiarity belongs to the domain of truth or of the pattrialt it belongs only t - 4 the Academy of Medicine to ap - ;preciate'its merits. 1 1 . tir ha . u cte A o n r U th se th i t iy i n not , h ob o in w ee e itagia • rv e a r t , i t on h e a d s t mtahrea7aandr:teroeisidysorbetol:stFlavreas.sckliPeuriEsetviersiebtezy na uus