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.MOORFIELD4. THE NNW :CATHOLIC Clad Pat, be .r l;4ll ' I chapel, which has attracted so moth of the politic attention fog some time, being now entirely finished, will be °piped for : public service to morrow lOC the first time, on which day the ceremony of its consecration and dedicatioa will take place, wilt all the sokmuity of the Catholic Church; high mast will, be celebrated, and a ser mon, suitable to the occasion, preiChed. The music will be performed by the first-rase vocal and instrutliastril per {amen in the kiogdoin j the miasmic is composed expressly fill the occasio ,and no pawns but those professing the Catholic religion will take a part. The application for acketsfor some time has been very great. Yesterday smut• persons of rank and distinction were disappointed, every ticket being diapowil of. 'hooch the nave of the Chapel is calculated to hold 2,000 persons, without galleries. The French, Spanish, Porta guest, and Bavarian Amber-Adore will be present, besides the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl and C.uantemi of Shrewebory, Lord sod Laity Pare, Lard and Lady Clifford, and Many other persons of distinction or the Catholic persuasion, as well as many of the Establialted Church. All the Catholic Bishops and Clergy in asd within mainl miles of the me tropolis will he present. The ceremony is expected to be Very grand and imposing, from the appearance of the solemn aid impressive cart monies used in the Catholic church, and the appearance of the chapel, which will remain a lasting monument to the refined taste and judgment of Mr. Newman. the architect, 3lr. A. Aglio, the painter, and Mr. Corneille. the stulptur. The Altarpiece is a panoramic reprasention of the Cru cifixion, and is 55 feet lung by 33 high, anti contains 230 figures as largess life. The ceiling is 'rousted with the Assumption of the Bless ed Virgin, and in several compartments all round with u verel subjects taken from the life of Christ. The Altar is of the fisiest statuary marble, and also the Talterasele, sculptured iu the richest manger. The Pulpit deserves also particular notice ; it would All our paper to describe the beauties of this place of worship, but,. from judges who have seen than, we are given to au stasd.the paintings exceed those of any Chapel in Rome, or any oilier part of Italy, BOXING. The fight between Nat. Greet. a navigator. from Benson, imsou, and Crowther, who lately fought with tart, took place o• Medley Moors, on the borders of Burke, the men having oiolt flight thither from she neighbourhood of Dorchester to 1$ Old au enemy, a distance of more than 19 miles. Youth, gaiety, and courage *ere the p►ominent qualifications of the •oen, and they made /walnut light. Crowther was seconded b. young Bellharse, the wrestler, said Green by Thomas Ahhutt. It was for 80 guineas, and the company was im mense. The first round lasted twelve Minutes. The koMbatattle tuurned in rather too much in, and threw away twelvel round but heavy blow*, until Green knapped a notssfer 011 the temple, which dropped him on his knees; he, howeVer, %hewed that his mettle was sprung, and be jumped up and uenrnuil fighting; some heavy hits were exchanged, and the bir , out flew in all direction*. Cruwther received a heavy fall, übiu.li closed the rotund, but be was backed at 5 to 4. '2. Crowther was hit down by a blow on the left aide, which nutted his rub* and milted a groan out of him. A terrible round. is which a doses heavy awkward tul,ivu were exchanged. Greets haul never ceased to bleed rnpitutody from the lacerated temple, and he paid his anta guitiOt in this round by a heavy hit on the ear, which drew claret frium it inwardly. They fought stray until both drop pelt with distress, anti 'either could appear to time. A consultation here took place, and the empire recom mended the battle to be drawn, a* they were both much Twat in the twenty-two minutes they had then fought, bet the hackers, confident in the pluck of their men, were for lighting on, and after fi►e minutes breathing they turn , a•to again. 4. A manly round, and a good rally, when each kept the chat Hying. lu s close Crowther shelved moat strength by I. (linen was beat by a fall ► after having the best of • Taus, round. He fell spun the side of his head. Alitionrh three me• •re rather heavier than the das Lia&l man, neither could bare successfully encountered with him, eniwithiaanding ibis excellent fight. They wanted nothing tuit improvement in science. On Friday and Saturday Cabinet Councils were held at the Foreign Office in Downiug-street. The M.-milers ameembled at two o'clock, and continued ►n deliberation till near five on each day. The Duke of Yonit arrived in town from Brighton on Monday night. Yesterday his Royal Ilighotss held a Levee at his Office to the Horse Guards, us Commander-in-Chief, which was at tended by between 30 and 40 Gentlemen. No►ice is put up at the Bank that Monday nest will be kept a Holiday instead di the 14th of August. We understand the communication through the Batik from the front of that building to Throg tnotoit-street, passing the Bullion Office, lies been dosed during the State Trials by a general order Burn the Directors. SLTTON, the Black, of pugilistic celebrity, with ''.omen und REYNOLDS, of gymnastic fame, have Dublin. TRI A lA.—The Observer of Sunday next pahhsh an extra sheet. A Prediction oddly fuffilled.—ln NIXON'. Che ki.ire Prophecies there sre the following line. :— " When the Mortunirei shall be brought to the rower; "'Then shall fall Rebellion's power. " The following is en extract of a letter from laisgiow, dated the 14th instant. It is written by a n►nrt itspectsble Magistrate of that city, and cowl taws Information which may he relied upon : " GLASGOW. APRIL IL " I have been so whelp engaged about Radical■ and other public matters, as not to have had t► n ►e to think hardly of any thing else. I send you paper, which will ~hew you what is going on here. The plans of those people were most extensively laid for ten miles round this, and nothing but their want of confidence i►► ?acl► other, and the terror that tested the better •kind of them, when they came to the immediate prospect of butchering their neigh.: hours wad friends, prevented ss-iiisus miselsn-f. Missy thor►sands of them, however, were oat is arms on the erasing of Wednesday, 5111 April, but not more than four or five hundred ever gut to one point ; and in every quarter the disappointment es to numbers was so great as to dispirit them en tirely; they counted on the people in England rising at the same time ; also on 16 pieces of cop ilot' from the Carron works, in both of which they were disappointed. I can assure you, from what I know confidentially of the matter, I look upon the situation of the manufacturing districts to be stith as to give serious cause of alarm. Unless some rising occur in Lancashire, I think ►he storm will ht over here, at least for a time. Awful examples will 110011 be made here. How far that may break the spirit, remains to be tried. Our official and confidential accounts from Manchester to-day are not so pleasing as we Could wish. I hopes hOwevers that all may continue quiets" ZAP IN rsiacENCR. VICE-CHANELLOR'S COURT, Lnees,iesisir, TUESDAY. AIMILIL - IN THE MATTER OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE RE LIEF OF POOR DEBTORS IMPRISONED TOR SMALL DEBTS. Mr. RAE stated this was the Petition of the Pre sideut and Vice-Prisidenks of ithe above Society, praying that Musa. Hemet?, bankers. in Fleet street, might he ordered to pay into Court in the name of the AccoOntant-Generaf, , a ruffi tielit sum to secure to the Society an annuity of Soh per atinom, under the following circsinistanter. The late Francis Thomas, Earl of Kerry, bequeathed by his will a considerable sum standing in his name in the Navy Five per Cents. to pay annuities, some of them of a charitable nature, amongst otherf, 501. per annum to the Society for the relief of Odor debtors imprisoned for small debts t with the re sidue and remainder of the sum so vested to the society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, and he appointed Messrs. Homes trustees. for the purpose of carrying his will into effect s and for pitying the annuities, several of which, since the de cease of the testator, had fallen in. Messrs. Hoares admitted they had a sufficient sum to set apart for securing the annuity to the Charity. but insisted on remaining as the trustees. The object of the peti tion was, that the principal should be paid.iuto Court in the name of the Accountant-Geueral, so as to enable the Court afterwards to appoint the petitioners the trustees or the charity fund. It was brought before his Honour in this summary way by petition, us directed by the Act of Parliament of the Sed of Clem 111. which salved the expense of tiling an information. The Learned Counsel there fore said, he had no doubt but his Honour would grant the payer of the petition. Mr. WETHERELL, Counsel for Messrs. Homes. stated that his Clients had no interest in this case, further than to perfordt the trust reposed in them by the Noble Testator. By his will. they weremade a Corporation to carry the trusts into effect. The Petitioners had formed themselves into a society fur one of the most humane purposes, and they were entitled to the thanks of the community at large for having so formed themseltes. He, for one. honoured and respected them for it, bust they had never been incorporated as a society, and they might cease to be such whenever they pleased, and when ever that happened, which he trusted might never be the case, they would not be entitled to the bounty of the Noble Testator i as it would then be long to the Society for Promoting Christian Know‘ ledge, they being entitled to the remainder as the annuities fell in, and they were* corporate body, and had actually filed an information in that Court for the purpose of carrying the intentions of the Testator into effect. He was instructed by his Clients to declare, that they did not wish to throw any impediment in the way of the Petitioners to secure the annuity in which way they thought pro per, but they were advised by Counsel that they would not be performing the trust reposed in them by the Testator s if they were not joined as Trusteed with the Petitioners. His Honour, however. Could not have jurisdiction in the way it was brought be fore him, by petition, for which reason lie trusted I, would it with costs: Vfr. STEPHEN said he was Counsel for the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge. and they were ready to submit to any order that hi. Honour might he pleased to make, at the same time he was instructed to ask fur the costs of their being brought there. Mr. Hie replied. The VICE-CHANCELLOR observed, that Fe Was of opinion that he lied not jurisdiction in this case on petition which called on him to carry into effect the will of a testator ; to give him the necessary jurisdiction it ought to hate come before him by in formation. He was, therefore, obliged to dismiss the petition, but not with costs. According to the strict rules of the Court it ought to be die. missed with costs, but looking to the relative situation of the parties, he tf ght it was a ease where that Strict tole might be lirokesi into without the danger of its being made a precedent. Petition dismissed without costs. The puke of SAN CA R LOS has given notice to all his household domestics and tradespeople, that he shall dispense with their services the latter end of this month. Ilia Excellency is making every preparation for his departure. In the marriage in high life, in the matter of Sir Roan CaLstst, Bart, a minor and a ward in Chancery, and the lion. Lady SOPHIA COT E/ Tar. and Lady GitEsLEY and the Earl and Cot/earls of Covestay, and the [lon. JOHN COVENTRY, we have authority to state that the pa ragraph that appeared in our number of Saturday Isar, the 13th instant, under this tale, is totally devoid of truth, so far as relates to the Petitioner. The intercsted motives of the parties who inserted the paragraph ■re best known to themselves, hut are riot at all calettleted to promote the end in tended. The Court of Common Pleas concluded its sittings on Monday last." TIM Appeal in the case of the Marquis of LANS. POWS, v. the Commirsioners of Claim. On France, was heard before the Privy Council ou Pridny last, when the award of the Commissioners was affirmed. IVe understand that Mr. STSWART I the Emeri tus Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Univer sity of Edinburgh. has recosnmeuded the appoint.: mew of Mr. MU:VET NAPIER as his assistant and suece:sor, in consequence of the death of Doctor Ituows. It is reported also that the following Centlessen are Candidates'—JOHN Wii.sou, Erai. author of s' The hie of 'WM ;" Sir t.VILLiAM HAMILTON, Hart.; Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, Kist.; Rev. Drs. LEE, St. Andrew's ; APKNIGHT, and BRUNTON. Edinburgh. The County dud City Cork Assizes ended on Monday sennight 45 were sentenced to he hanged ; 50 to be transported, including 14 vagrants; and 46 to be whipped mud confined. _ _ _ On Monday. as Mr. MMus. of Southfield. near Malistesbury, was walking by the vide of the river with • favourite Newfoundland dog ; the animal suddenly jumped lido the water and caught a fine jack, weighing three pounds: which he brought to his mister. CITY RUSINISS. A Coart of Aldermea was yesterday held at ,Guildball, when wrirrral pirates were allowed, sod others sworn brokers. Thanks were namaitsiowsly voted to the Bishop of Gloa t eater and the Rey. A. R. Chauvrl, for their excellent ger. muss preached at Christ Church, Neagate-street, on Easter Monde, and Tuesday last. CO2I Curler-takers were licensed. The Cularnis.ioners of the COurt of Request. for the mouth of May were appoiated. Vatioas bills were ordered for payment. POLICE. • IrARLinitOVGR4l'RXt7f. Yesterday Colonel John Powers charged Win/eras Defesfey s , driver of the hackney•cooch, No. 1,108, witb baying exacted sixpence most thus his legal fare, and likewise with grass abase. Colonel . Powers stated, that he took the coach opposite the Amide, in Bond -street, and ordered the Defendant to set him down at the end of Orchard.street, Oxford-street ; sus duiag which be (the Colonel) offered a shilling, but be lleinanded eighteen-pence. The distance being no more than a mik, be gave him his demand, tlrratening to summons him for the exaction, when the Defendant poured a volley of abuse spots him, and said the C.olodel trailed to rob blot, nod would hang hies for Ave shillings, nod he supposed lit was one of Lord Castlereagh's men. The Prisoner confessed the abuse, and rapeseed peat clintrition. The cites demand, he said, arose front a mi.- taken Idea of tie length of ground. lie apologised to the Colonel', who slid, that he pursued the present steps for the protection of the paler& ; he thought hies a proper person for example, but left It entirely to tbedecision of the Ma gistrate. Maionotilig ilist the allike and exaction of hickory-coachmen, !above all nthers,deserved punishatetit, and although the Colonel had • desire to be len!ent, he could not pasait over without a conviction. Ile was convicted in the mitigated prosily of lOs. and costs, instead of IQ. which it the highest penalty attached to a case as above. Major-Gen. Bolton, of ttelbeck strevti Charged goat- Melnik, a mean looking fellow, on suspicion of being con cerned with a notorious gang of villains in calling the straps which fastened a portmanteau and a trunk behind his travel. ling carriage, containing silver plate and other valuable property. The General attended with his savants. It ap peared the thieves were seen to cut the straps which bound the property, and being pursued, on arriving at • coatis stand is Otcfurd-street, they threw the trunk. itc. into a hackney-coach, whirl, instantly drove off. The Prisoner *as statesman on the stand, but persisted that he neither knew the coachman, the number of his roach, or that he knew any thing of the robbery. General Bolton was swore, and charged the Prisoner, who was remanded. FORGED NOTES. William Estes, the pugilist, charged a young man, named Thorpe, with being a common utterer of forged notes, per porting to be of the Bank of England. It appeared in evidence, that the Prisoner called at Eales's house, the Mecklenburg!), James-street, Manchester-square, where, after drinking slime spirits, he tendered a note which afterwardli proved to be a forged one, and the Prisoner was apprehended, lie made a confession, saying, he was urged to it bg another was committed for trial. It was yesterday reported in the City, that Car thagena and Santa IVlarilia had declared their inde. 'modeller, and to this it was added, that Caraccas had been taken. On inquiry, we found the report was brought by a vessel from Jamaica, which place, it is said, she left on the 3d March, consequently we are unable to state what credit is due to it. The two first circimistinces may hate happened, though we deem them extremely improbable, from the state of things when the accou ots previously received came away; but as to the capture of Caraccas it could not take place without long and herd fighting, Mo ettAn'S lines were so formidable. LOW* from Barbadoes, bated time bib March, were received yesterday, but on this subject they are perfectly silent: We understand there are numbers of vett eels in the Mouth of the Channel, unable to make a port, in consequence of the sudden prevalence of the LE. winds ; we may, therefore, expect soon to know with certainty what has occurred on the Spa. nish main, either by arrivals from the West India Islands or the Unittd States.—(iirening Paper.) EYTON, Stock-Broker, 2, Cornhill begs leave to remind his friends the Public, the Drawing of the . Lottery commences the 27th instant, when Two Prises o f 20,0001. Consols will be deCided io the first eve Missies; there Breslin) 100 other Capitals, including Four of 30,0001. Consols, which Eyton hopes be shall have the plea f distributing among his friedds. All Business is the Mlle Foods transacted with fidelity cud dispatch. RICHARDSON, COODLUCR, bind CO. respectfully acquaint the public, that on the 27th ofthis Month th e first-drawn Prize in each Class will Se entitled td 20,0001. Consols in ailditiod. The Scheme contains FOUR Prizes of TWO TWO 3 per Cent. Consols. - - Tickets and Shares are on Sale in great variety of nonsberic at their Office., Bank.bailtlinp, Corabilload Clastriag.eross. —RICHARDION, GOODIAIck, and Co. sold, in the last Lot tery, No. 7,807, a Prise of 20,0001. iii Shatci. The oldest man living in the monied msrlat never recollects so much unemployed Capital as at present in the City; and should the Minister adopt either of the plans submitted to him, for ranking money withoiti having recourse to a Loan until 1823, it is impossible to sat how high the united operation of investment of Capital, and the fear of being the last to !purchase, may carry the funds, Probably the Contractors for the Lottery, HAZARD and CO. were aware of this when they Sited 4 Prizes of p.oobt. 2 of 40,000/. Console, &c. (which must be drawn 27th title Month) im their Scheme, as it%gives .to Adventurers ill the rise of Stock above 6St. It was stated yesterday that an alarming fire hail braked out at Mansell Cottage, the residence of Captain Bigot, neat Ragshot, on Monday arternoun,suil we have received the par. titulars. It MAO an ancient worideu builliug, reduced to a heap of ruins in less thin one hour. The coach_house and stabling, and two hay-licks, were also destroyed. Two cot. terra were partially burnt. The the was first discovered iii a drying room over the kitchen, and the conjecture is, that it arose from a beam in the kitchen-chimney. Ihe loss is heavy, but providentially no lives were lost. The premises dere Monday morning, about one o'clock, an alarm df fire was raised hi conseritiente of the flumes is suing from the second floor of the house of Mr. Jditasos. Ogle-court, near Fitzroy-square. Short= ly afterwards, several engines arrived on the sputi and through the activity of the firemen the flamed were soon extinguished, but not before the upper part of the house, together with the furniture, were completely destroyed. During the interval of the fare, a report was its circulation that an elderly wo. nuns noised MATHE*e bid perished its the namely and on starching she was found in the second floor apartment, dreadfully burned, but symptoms of life bring still reinumirig, shd wet conveyed td Middlesex Hospital, where she 'died on Monday morning. 'flue above ulifortithatt woman was •d. dieted to drinking, arid on Sunday evening returning home in a state of inebriationi het Clothes cattght while sitting at the fire., which was the rause df the house welting Wei and of bet oltu death. REWARK4 bN DIVERSITY by GENIUS. [From Blackwood*? Affogoshia for March.) --- M Different whole Intline to different objects: one parolees The vow Wore, tint wonderful, the wild ; Another sighs for horraoay, sod grace, Aod grittiest beauty." Alums:oz. Nothing is more remarkable in nature than its variety. The flowers of the field, and the leaves of the :''rest have, each and all, their general likeness', snit iloir particular dissimilarity. It easy fui a botanist to determine the the special of a p out from its specific and invirieble outlibee, when examined by itself ; yet no 'elves on the same stem, or indeed on any other stein, will be inland exactly correspond ent. It would be endless to speed) and partied (arise. The Same holds true.with respect to all the other works of the Creator; pod constitutes the eternal distinctiou between Madre and art. The one is bounded and irtiitative, the other infinite. The human face,is another remarkable and raids. ing illustration, It is scarcely tomprehensihle by our limited faculties, how, within sbch a narrow compass. there could possibly exist, stich a variety of moditiations-L.sisch a diversity Of line, and holes tisents—such a general resemblance—and such an individualitY. Nevertheless; Inich holds true With respect to .it the families, sod kindredi, and cities. and kingdoms; and regions of the earth. froth Zembla to the Tropics. Nth the swarthy Moor to the blue-eyed Rues. Though an inhabitant of an ettensive metropolis is in the daily habit of string a thousand different fates; we are bold to affirm; that no one; even allowing high to Inure lived to the age of Thomas Parr, ever beheld two hums,' be ings exactly the reflected thickly, of each other. We may turn from the physical to the intellec tual world. Mankind differ not snore in external features than in mental physiognomy. That all men of sound minds posse's a range of faculties in common, may be laid down as an axiom: yet in no two individuals will be decerned those minute pe:. culiarities, those Undefinable tendencies; which, however trifling in thernselVes; gti for, when taken in the aggregate, in forming the conduct, and stamping upon the character that complexion whith it is destined to beer in the eyes of the wotld. • When the principles are different; to met nel cessarily be the produces We never gather goose. berries from an apple-tree, nor figs from a thorn bush. Circumstances and situations. no doubt, have their peculiar effects, both in regard to the direction and improvement of the intellectual fa culties ; but there are inherent varieties of disposi tion, and inherent tendencies of mind; which nei ther time nor art are soffit-lent to toiniterbelsnce or eradicate. Children, at the must tender age, fre quently exhibit the dawning. of that disposition which is to characterise them through life ; while, iu other cases, the utmost excellencies of Mind have fain dormant and unmarked for a very long period, even the greater portion of life, and have, perhaps, been only at length called into exhi bition by a fortuitous circumstance. It has been a matter of dispute for half a century among critics, to whom the palm of superiority should be allotted, Dryden or Pope. The powerful minds of these two men modelled the literature of the age iss which they flourished ; and when we speak of a certain cost of thought, and a certain manner of expressing that thought, we designate it as an imi tation of the school of Pope or Dryden. Yet such *as the diversity In the detelopeinent df the facul. ties of these two men. that the one literally "lisped in numbers." while the other exhibited few tokens of excellente till an advanced period of life. When we are told that, in the falling of apples froth a tree, the theory of gravitation, firm which such stupendous discoveries arose; suggested itself to the comprehensive tool of Newton ; or dud; to the tonsil of a Welsh hiirp, posterity are indebted for the hard of Gray, we are not fot a moment to 'oppose; that the like results would have followed from the same ciscumstances, iii any other conceivable situations. They are not links in the chain of in variable sequences; they du not virtud in the rela lation of cause and effect ; for every one does not look on nature with the eyes of a philosopher, or draw from the melody of sweet sounds the inspire= Lion of poetry. Allowing even the groundwork to be the same; the objects of thought, whether relating to the Ohylical or intellectual world, are tinctured by the very mood of mind in which they are dwelt upon ; the scene is colottied by the eye that views it. A foreigner does not look on the landscape around with that keen relish and partiality displayed by the native. The Islisoctiy vales of Languedoc do not appear, in the eyes mild estimation of the Swiss emigrant, equal to his own Alpine scenery ; not because bare rocks. and cold lakes : and mud Cabins. are preferable to rich pasture', and gardens, and palaces, but because with the former are asso ciated a thodsand endearing recollections. " first,- best country, ever id at home." A European luuks with pity on the helplessness, and with contempt tai the acquirements, of an Afri can negro. The negro, on the other hand. looki upon us as the serpents of mankind, as the very embodied retraces of cunning and cruelty. They paint their devils white. Some Ramscatdalerfwere brought td thk capitil of Russia, that they might be educated, and carry back to their tribes some notion of the accomplish:: menu of civilised life. But the purpose was de: feasted, for they pined in spirit, and died or ennui: The American-Scotsrdati kindlts to risme at the recital of the martial ;achievements of his ancestors; and while his hand is guiding the plough on the hanks of the Mississippi! his heart is far away. *gong the hills of Admit or Argyle —= while he sets, in thought. The lone sepulchral cairn sliei the moor . ' And diltaat !sirs that hear the load Corbrecbtan roar." Even the smallest thing In a foreign land that beers tergrence to the laud of nativity is treasured up; the filtrate of g feee-=of a tree." of a Stream—of a mountain: In the journal of Park's second Travels M the Patriot of Africa. we are told that the heart of that illuilttiose matt was, in the extreme. affected by the loss of a sol dier, who was wont to *twin their evening loneli ness by singing the ballads and soils of his nutitE land. fhe inniiierserYot burns; birth is fondly commemorated by his countrymen is India. Lord Byron, in his Travels through the illorateinoot ,Tracer of Albania, peveri °vet many a awe im portant topic, to remark. that the deers of these Greeks resembled that or the Secutills Highlanders. Nothing is more delightrul than to hes. the decent.' of our uative clitbe beneath far torrign aim This has always hero; and well it may, i favourite tlire for poetb. Scott compares the tone Or a mournful stelody to a die lamest of men, Wbu languish fur their native ere." The author of Chi/de Harold; in his splendid et.; scriptiOn of the Dying Gladiator, transports lino. self heck to the barbarous 04. Rome, and pourtrays the slave. as he rinks into the embrace of death, in the Mid st or the circus. forgetful of the gaging throngs around, beholding, in thought, his young barbarians at play, their Daciln mother, and the batiks of the Danube. Campbell has given scope to the same train of seeititnew, in the breuti- Gil lyries of 710 Harper, and Th Exile of Erin. its his Bird! of &Wand, her. in I.:1 own person, given veto, in the shim raistursisso said pasoicinate !novae; to the Same pritriotic frit lugs ; and Wilson, in his fine sketch of The French Erik, has represented the blind noon liking Ilia his hoary head in ecstasy; at hearing the 'mends of his native tongue i— " He seemed es if restored to si'dtsi Visuddenly his eyes mei, iwight, that stalk touched his ear; The lilted Gelds of France ' I west', Before hi. swan in softened light, And the ,rest *stem of the Seine They all were woursouriog near;" Let us turn from limey to feet-Art Us traverse the regions of history and science, end we shall be convinced that ft is the same aft all. Scotia:A claims Onion ; end Ird/rid elitism him. England has no shadow of eland to hill; and therefore does not hesitate to declare, that he 'lever ekisted. Let Us take, for ample, the annuls or our native. Country. l!o* felonious in their continent-mem ! how coutradictoty in their progress ! And to what is this owing, but to the sympathies or antipathies the narrators P Look to the legend. a Blind Harry and Barbout, to the histbries of Botthius end Bu:. Chemin; how seemingly plausible they ere, and yet how deplorably chimerical and groundless. Lord Hailer puts the whole unconencted mast into hii crucible, and, behold, there are nine parts of barer metal, fur our of gold. Like the enchanted 'castled of romance, the whole pageant vanisher, and d desert wilderness remains. Rinaldo blows the horn of Truth, Mid the manic itructisrei ul Fancy disappear: it was oiving to this circumstance ilia Voltaire remarked, that a historian ought to have no coon; try. That is to say, lie most divest himself or every prejudice, consider himself as a citileu of the world, and look on the laud that gMoe him birth; not with the fondness and feelings of a patriot, but as a branch of the general family of insiikind. But where shall such a character be found a We may as well set to the task, Windt it is said the enemy of man prescribed to Michael Scott, mid Coininetice our operations in twining Cables from the tea sands`. There seem to be two great Moieties of Mind, lit which eteellency is equally inherent, but in which! the detelopemeut of genius is extremely differei.t, The former is remarkable for strength, and energy ; mid precision ; the latter for softness, harmony, and grace. The one delights in the tempriti and torus does of passion ; in the roaring Or theocrat.; and the bursting of the volcano : the other,in the gentler eonw tions of the soul y in tenderness, iu pity, and in tears ; in the smiling of the pastoral land.cape, and the smoothness of the Mit:Mier sea. Nor is this variety in the temperament of genius discernible only toI the authors who appeal chiefly to imagination ; it pervades the whole commonwealth of intellect,. Demoithesies, for example; takes the heart by storm ; he overrules our tonsictiohs, and t~l retinues over the judgment tvith a despotic sway ; he oterpoweri tit by the strength of his appeals„ and, after haviiig sifeliced the toiee bf reason self; rouses us from a trance, and incites our pee, shoos to take a share in the Contest. Cicero, on the other hand, endeavours to gain the feelings to het side; he appeals to our bosoms by every effort of persuasive elotiumice. He convinces the miller standing; he elevates as into the regions Of fancy. He enlists reason in his cause, and shews us. that the arguments he adduces are accordant with its dictates. In the seine oppositiOn of extellei:cr; stand Horner and Virgil ; Dante and Spencer ; Johnson and Addison; Chalmere and Alison. Not; perhaps, opposed id the exact attribute, which we have pointed out in the Grecian end Roman O•a -tors, but, iu the general tone sod contexture o( theit Compolitiono. Its painting, likewise, as an it. !nitration of our position; we may adduce the ex= ample. of Salvator Ruda, and tlimile Lorraine, the drama, of Kean and Kimble. *b . There seem to he an order of Minds, indeed, ik which the whole • faculties have exhibited extraor4 dinaty developement, mid which are not more tinguished fur infentifettesi of irnsemation, than far strength of judgment. Proudly pre•eminent stands Silakeperire, the prince of poets, and su preme sovereign of the bunions heart, in him, it is utterly impossible to say, where ley him strength; or where lay his weakliest. We hear of the manner of Chatictr, of the Manlier of Spencer, of the manner of Pope, of the easoner of Cowper, but we never hear of the manner of Shsksperroa Hid excellencies are of every conceivable kind f he is * giant in all his faculties. Lay hi. forte to strbngth, he was more delicate than Fletcher; lay it in tenderuess. he was more masculine than Bed Joiner): He draws bd to him "with the cords of a min ;" he routes us low hor ror, Or melts us into tears ; he confined the ender.' standing. or, if it suits hii Purpose, ovetthrows reason, and seizes upon the pfissiourn His Setae is on earth or in air. His perionages embrace the sum of human society; and ire of off dget Snit nations: es He exhausts werldsi and ianegind new: After having explored defy creek in the spaciesk oeeau of the human sold, 44 the hese ind the Wain region of his song," he ttirus to the iptritstal sod superhuman world. intontrarsrbie . Slialdpeare "Take bum for all Will," the 'World hos aferer mew „ like; : and; most ptobably# theft *reef tee hie like nolo. Them We others of the same thum ? baf Clot in the MIN Ma of endeneatie, WOW *et* I , •,: