The National Register. — London, England, 1813-02-14 00:00:00

FEW 11. quent spots of healthy verdure in a field, otherwise withered, ' whose speckled appearance gives to the distant beholder distinct notion of barrenness or of fertility, they leave the mind undecided whether to approve or to blame. They do not form a landscape of their own, and are not considerable enough to yield striking beauty to that to which they be long. A bush may be well drawn in a picture, but when its object is to represent a castle, the excellence of an inconst derable feature will not counterbalance the faulty delineation of the principal. So it happens in many descriptions in Rokeby. To say in all, would be unjust. There are some which remind us that Mr. SCOTT is a great master; but there arc many which make us regret, that in his unceasing industry he should neglect to replenish his pallet, as no vi gour of outline can competisate for feebleness of colouring. —ln f) mer works his descriptions were striking, and much admired, because he drew from nature herself, the lines with which he depicted her. In his present poem, as though he had exhausted his fund of images, he frequently attempts to illustrate material and visible scenes and ac- cidents, by comparisons with intellectual or invisible affec tions; thus reversing the usual and more reasonable practice: for immateriality may be rendered plain, by comparing it with objects that fall under our senses, whilst it is next to impossible to add clearness and effect to what we see by referring it to an invisible standard. It is, perhaps, to this adoption of a new source of images that we are to attribute the occasional weakness of Mr. SCOTT'S descriptions in Rekebu. When, at the opening of this poem, he compares the different hues which the moon assumes through the accidents of nOsts and clouds by which it is affected, to the changes of the mind, through the influ ence of the passions, he certainly does not give a satisfactory illustration, and only produces a passage remarkable for con ceit and stiffness, It may be said also, that the soul of feel ing which animates all his other poems, and glows in almost every line, bas shrunk, in Rokeby, within particular limits, and only sheds an occasional beam. This is evident in most of his songs. Allan a Dale is a spiritless imitation of his own Young Lochinvar, and no better than many of our street ballads. (To be continued.) LA JV INTELLIGENCE. S.\TURDAY, Fl.ll. 13. MAYOI: V. JOHNSON AND ANOTHVR. 71113 was an action brought to rec.iver 51. on a promissory note of hand, drawn by the defendants, Country "'ankers at Stannord, payable 00 demand by themselves, or by Rzunsbottom and Cu. of London. This action was interesting, inasmuch as it went to try the y cf Bankurs to pay half notes, in the event o f the dexte r halves b e ing lost. It appeared that one half of the note in questi.m had been lost, it being contained in a letter which had been in the mail-bag recently stolen ffom the Leeds noiil.coach. The letter also contained the halves N* other bank notes which were of course also lost, but the halves that bad afterwards come to hand had been paid by the several Bankers, as was usual in such cases to do, on their being indemt:itied against any denuind that might he made on them. The present defendants, how ever, resisted the payment 4 the one half•note without the other being produced, although indemnity was offered t., them. Lord ELLEN BOROUG ti interrupted the course of evidence, by ob serving, that there could be no legal demand on the di:fendants, what ever they might be hound to do in honour, to pay the note, except it was entire as they had sent it forth to the world. If they wen to pay this half of the note, they might be hereafter called upon to pay 51. for the other halt' to some bona:fide holder of it. The plaintiff must be sionsuited. A nonsuit was accordingly enterer. Sir W. GARROW, the plaintiffs result would only have the effect country bank nutes ; and he did no) squriutil to the general interests, t,,„.... , ,, , - , , - .. li I'HE NATIONAL REGISTER. 111 BIRTHS. On Sunday Morning, at Bath, the Lady of Ferdinand Fullerton Weston, Esq. of a daughter. DIED. On Wednesday night, at his seat, Stowe, in Buckinghamshire. the Most Noble George Grenville Nugent Temple, Marquis of Bucking !lam, K. G. Earl Temple, &c. See. At the extraordinary age of 104, j.Stif£, labourer, of Norton, Suffolk. At Staines, in his 80th year, T. Ashby , sen. one of t he people called Quakers ; he has left a widow, seven children, b 1 grand children.. Aid five great grand children. Lately, atiStith;ans, aged 101, Mr.H. Martin : he had been confined to his bed upwards of 20 years, but retained his laculti sto the last. His children, gland children, and great grand children, are nearly -pill to his number of years. At the Rectory-house, Cullyweston, near Stamford, aged 100 years and 14thls, Mrs. F.. Columbine, aunt to the last incumbent to that living, the Rev. W. Shield. She was cheerful to the day of her death, and stood godmother to an infant on her last birth-day. HORNSBY and CO. Stock Brokers, acquaint the Public, that the State Lottery begins Drawing next Wednesday, and finishes on ills following day. Tickets and Shams are Selling by Holt Nsa Y and Co at the lowest prices, at their old established State Lottery Office, 2G, Cornhill. Nl. Chances are on Sale at Eighteen Guineas, entitling the Pur chaser to all the Capital Prizes from 301. to 20,0001. SEVENTEENTH OF THIS MONTH. P I DDI NG and Co. No. 1, Cornhill, and No. 3, Charing Cross, recommend the Small Lottery or 7,000 Tickets to be drawn 17th and 18th of THIS MONTH, as it contains a variety of Capitals of 20,0001. 10,0001. 5,0001. 2,0001. 1,0001. 500 L &c. &c. equal to former Lotteries of nearly double the number of Tickets.— Pidding and Co. also remind the Public, that in the last February Lottery, they sold a Prize of 20,0001, a repetition of which success in this corresponding Lottery, and the corresponding day of the Month, they would con sider the most gratifying motnento of the Anniversary. Various other capitals of 20,0001. 40001. 5001. 4031: and No. 11,5.99, a Prizeot 3001. in the Last Lottery, have also been sold in Shares by PIDDiNG. and Co. No. 1, CoRNHILL. Ito. 3, CHARING CROSS. MINERVA OFFICE, LECDF.NHALL.STREET. Just Published, in 3 V, Is. 12mo, price Ms. Gd. LADY DU R N EVOR ; or, My Father's Wife, a Novel.. By A. F. Holstein, Author of Miseries of an Heiress ; Bouvene ; Modern Kate; Love, Mystery, and Misery ; lsidora of Milan, &c. Printed for A. li. Newnan, and Co. ; and sold by John. Dutlin ; and Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. The following will appear this Spring Anselmo ; or, the Day of Trial, by Miss Hill, 4 vols. Read, an , .l give it a Name ! by Mrs. Llewellyn, 4 vols. It was Me. By Me, 2 vols. R •saura di Viva! vi ; or, the Homicide, 2d edit. 2 vols. My Native Land ; or, the Test of Heroism. By 0. G. Wad, 2 vols. Patience, by the Author of Says She to her Neighbour, 4 vols. Age aud Youth; or the Pami.ies of Abenst,nt, by La Fontaine, 4 vols. LICIIT AV ATER-PM/OF BE %VEIL tivrs. FRANCIS and SA111111.:14 h;VE1.14:11;11, No. 46. 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