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CONTRACT TO DELIVER COALS AT BARBADOES. Commissariat Department, Treasury Chambers, sth January, 1822. SUCH Persons as are desirous of Contracting •with "the Agent for Commissariat'Supplies, to deliver GOO Chaidrons of COALS at BARBADOES, may re ceive particulars of the Contracts at this Office between the Hours of Ten and Four, and deliver their Tenders sealed up and directed to the Agent for CommiSsariat Sup their, marking thereon—" Tender for Coals ;" on or before Thursday the 17th Instant; but none will he received after Twelve o'Clock on that Day; r;or will any Proposal be no ticed unless made on or antiexrd to a printed Particular, and th e Prices inserted in Arords at length ; nor unless a Letter be subjoined ‘to such Proposal, signed by two Persons of known . property, engaging to become bound with the Party t endering, in the Sum expressed in the Particulars for the due performance of the Contract. WANTED, in a Select Establishment in the Country, a YOUNG LADY, as an APPRENTICE for, HREE YEARS. She will have the advantage of being Instructed in English and French g: aromatically, Writing and Arithmetic, History, Geography, with the Use of the Globes, and be initiated in all the duties of a Private Governess, fur Premium of Seventy Guineas. The young Lady would he treated with the same kindness and attention as the other I ' l 'ols.—Address, post paid, to N. C., Mr. BARKLEY's, No. t; l3 , High Holborn. HUDSON'S TOOTH POWDER AND TINCTURE. THE above Discoveries, if attended to, will effectually supercede the necessity Of a Dentist ; they ar e sure remedies for all Disordersof the mouth ; they nut Merely cleanse and beautify the Teeth, but preserve them from decay to the latest period of life ; they arc an antidote fcr Gum-boils, swelled face, and the tooth-ach ; they remove the scurvy from the gums, leaving them firm anti of a healthy l'tdness ; they infallibly attest the progress of Caries in the teeth, refresh the mouth and sweeten the Breath; they both assess the same virtues; and maybe. used alone, or together, ut,the Tincture acts more speedily in fastening loose Teeth, removing the Scurvy, &c ; and it is an infallible remedy for the Tooth. ach, a n d p revents a relapse ; they are so perfectly in !locent, that a Child may take the contents of a Box of the rowder ; and the Tincture is an excellent Stomachic; price 2 s. 9d. each. A ku, HUDSON"S TOOTH BRUSHES in sets of 'three, tuaile on Scientific principles, price 3s. and in Ivory, 7s. Gd. Pie following Agents 4tre appointed Atkinson ':',?olVsale Agent) 44, Gerrard• st met, Soho-square .; Sanger, ; Ch andler, 76, Oxford-street ; Gattie, 57 ; Rigge, 35, 41, ielo-srtr,ee!,• How e ll and James, 9, Iten,,e, Fleet-market; ; Taite, A ; Wont, 229, Strand; Barclays, a" most Medicine Venders and Perfumers. 41)_,/;,:,ll,:rAtiisitensi. the e es have arisen to the Public respecting the Public are respectfully informed, that M. i. 71 dson, C- '"! 1 ", Haymarket, has no concern with them; !toe i s a ny genuine without the Proprieto'rs name and Address i s printed on the label. SMIRKE'S SHAKESPEARE. In the course of Publication, ILLUSTRATIONS of SHAKESPEARE, ftorn Pictures . Painted expressly , tor this WORK, by , 4 0 a Eta SMIRKE, Esq. R.A. and Engraved in the finest 'lle by the most eminent Historical Engravers. si A celelhrated G e rman critic has said, that the fame of u akspeare, " for centuries to come, will continue to gather 'lrength; like an Alpine avalanche, at every period of its de leent." C erta i n i t. is, t h at any work connected with Sliak- V?eare's name, and which has for its object the illustr a ti on o f i , iiinitahle productions, may confidently rely on finding 4 vom with the world. His fame is the cause of fame Others. Commentators innumerable have been permit t"'l to. inscribe their otherwise perishable names on the !ternaVrock of his genius ; and even Players have for I ,2; a rsactoireci opulence and popularity by happy portraitures . living characters. In announcing, 'therefore, a series °L e ngravings, intended as embellishments fr any edition of . Sb akspeare's Plays, it is unnecessary tO e offer an argument to ` lll dicate or an apology to excuse, the undertaking. The spirit of poetry, which haunts every scene of the Plays Sbakspeare, beckons to her sister art to wander with her, n d thus " make society the sweeter welcome t" and it will he it is. hoped, be seen that she does not call in va i n . In • `fle whole range of the drama, there are no wos ks in which ch aracters so striking and various, or situations so romantic 4l 'd delightful, present themselves, to invite the illustration, 4,10 inspire the emulation, of painting. • The editions•of our Poet's plays base for the most part been published without embellishments, or encumbered-with en gravings s • di ff erent, as to make their possessors consider 0 M th em -"' when unadotned, adorned the most." It is chiefly i':,supply such editions that the Proprietors of the present f or have undertaken it. Each Play will furnish subjects " five elegant Engravings, in addition to a Vignette ; the Irgregate number, therefore, of the plates will be Two Hun red and Twenty-two. iThe name of the Artist from whose hand the Paintings f ur des Work are to proceed, may fully justify, and will doubt snot deceive, the must sanguine expectations. The Ge• Smirke has successfully dislayed itower in his ll ttstrations to Gil Blas, the Arabia p n Nights' s En power aid the late Edition of Don Quixote; and the varied scenes of PaSsion and humour, in the Plays of Shakspeare, Will afford a still 'more ample scope for time extraordinary skill and eauty of his pencil. The Proprietors, refraining from the usual promises and 4tteries of a prospectus, content themselves with referring • e Public to th e N um b ers a l rea dy pu bli s h e d o f thi s NV or k, as "Jair specimen of the care and ability with which the whole "ill regularly be produced. MODE OF PUBLICATION: L The Work will be comprised in Thirty•serem Numb ers ; I.eh Number containing Five Illustrative Engravings, and a Ignette. I L A Number be published every Two Months, till ` o lllpleted. ,C. s d. India paper, proofs, 4to 1 10 0 French paper, proofs, Co 1 5 0 Imperial Sro 0 18 0 Royal Bvo 0 14 0 ik a For the accommodation of those who may be de p sirous i t lossessing a beautiful aud collect Edition of Shaksea re, ti , 4 intended to publish one in Octavo, (without Notes,) front i t le last corrected text of Johnson and Steevens ; and the Play ilitistrated will be published at the same time with the Em .lllishments, price Three Shillings each Number. A limit " .lautuber of copies will be printed on Imperial Octavo, l et Six Shillings each Number. The Numbers already published are as follow :- 1. The Tempest. 11. Taming of the Shrew. 111. Merry Wives of Windsor. IV. Twelfth Night, (in February 1822.) V. Measure for Measure, (in April.) VI. Romeo and Juliet, (in June.) VII. Henry the Fourth, Part I, (in August.) VIII. Midsummer Night's Dream, (in October.) IX. Two Gentlemen of Verona, (in December.) . • 10 L 0 ndon • Printed' for Rodwell and Martin, Bond - street ; by Cohrighi and Co. Cockspnr-street, and the principal %ksellers in the United Kingdom. )41. Id )d iit PRIVATE PUPIL A . VACANCY is NOW OPEN iri the FA MILY of a Married and Beneficed CLERGYMAN, re sident Eleven Miles from London, who undertakes the charre of a FEW PRIVATE PUPILS, and can offer the must sa tisfactory References to Noblemen and Gentlemen whose Sons he has educated.—Terms are•l 62 Guineas per annum. Letters left for the Reverend T. N., Mr. TriphoWs,.Book seller, 23, Old Bond -street, will he duly forwarded. CIVIL ENGINEERING. I TAYLOR, at the Architettural Library, a, • No. 59, High Holborn, having purchased the remain ing Copies of the Reports of the late JOHN SMEATON, Civil Engineer, proposes to Sell them, for the present, at the following very reduced prices, viz.— REPORTS, ESTIMATES, and TREATISES, on Canals, Rivers, Harbours, Piers, gridges, Draining, Embanking, Light-houses, Machinery, Fire-Engines, Mills, &c. &c. ; With 'other Papers, drawn up in the course-of his 'employment. Three vols. quarto, with 74 Plates,Eugraved by Lowry, boards, 41. 14s. 6d published at 71. 7s. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, comprising his Communica tions to the Royal Society. Twelve Plates, quarto, boards, 11. I s, published at 11. I Is. 6d. *,„*. The RA-ports and Miscellaneous Papers together, 4 col,. boards, 51. 10s., published at 81. 18s. Gd. THE COLONIES. UPPER CANADA. Yong, Nov. 24.—At three o'clock this day His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir P, MAITLAND, being stated on the Throne, His Ex. cellency was pleased to open the present Session of Parliament with the following speech : " HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE CouNclL.—l regret to be under the necessity of informing you, that our Commissioners for adjusting our financial interests with Lower Canada have found it impracticable to establish a new agreement on terms which they could regard as compatible with our just claims. A suspension of receipt has thus, una voidably occurred in that very material branch of our revenue which accrues frpm our proportion of the duties collected at the Port of Quebec. Deeply as I felt the importance of this em barrassing result, I would not overlook the public convenience by having recourse to your counsel, at a period when your absence from your several districts might have materially in terfered with the administratien of justice ; but measures were resorted to for obviating, as much as possible, the difficulties which, in this juncture, unavoidably occurred. I have now di rected that the papers relative to the proceedings of the Com missioners shall be immediately submitted to you, and I recom mend the consideration of this important subject to your earliest attention. " Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, " The public accounts, with the estimates for the ensuing year, shall be laid before you without delay. It is satisfactory to _observe, that our internal revenue, small as it is, and altogether unequal to our exigencies, has not decreased during the last year, notwithstanding the general depression of trade and agri culture. " Henceforward, the annual expenditure will be considerably lessened by the reductions which have been made in the Mi litia Pension List, under your late Act ; and in availing myself of the provsion enabling me to borrow on debenture the sum re quired to discharge the arrearages due on that head, I was gra tified in finding that the negociation of the loan was immedi ately effected within the Province. " Honourable Gentlemen, " The important matter already alluded to as inducing me to call you thus early together, will demand your first and chief consideration; for until we are relieved from the interruption in the receipt of our principal revenue, the means of advancing public improvement must necessarily be inch circumscribed. There are doubtless other matters, however, on which your de liberation may be occupied with advantage to your fellow sub jects. Looking to the situation of our agricultural interests, I cannot but feel desirous it might be found possible to afford me some effectual encouragement to the experiment of cultivating hemp, and such other productions, as would find a more con stant and profitable demand in the parent state. " You may be assured that lam always inclined to co operate heartily with you in every measure in which my duty and your judgment will allow me _to concur; and desire-to impress upon you, that a continuance of unanimity between the different branches of the Legislature is necessary to create confidence in our measures, and give weight to our representa tions."—(Upper Canada azette Extraordinary.) EARL TALBOT. The following Address was presented to hi% Excellency the Earl. TALBOT, on Monday se'n night, by a Deputation from the Farming Society of Ireland : To his Excellency Charles Chetwynde, Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, General and General Governor Of Ireland. May it please your Excellency, iVe, the Farming Society of Ireland, cannot suffer your Ex cellency to depart from this Country, without expre ss in g our thankful acknowledgment of the anxiety at all times evinced by your Excellency, in promoting the important objects for which the Society has been incorporated. Had your Excellency, :as Chief Governor, been placed at the head of this Institution, when Parliamentary aid was not to be fettered by general retrenchment, its usefulness would have been considerably increased by your Excellency's wise and practical suggestions. Even under the privation of half its usual grant, and in times of the greatest agricultural depression and despondency, your Excellency's prudent regu lations, implicitly adopted by the Directors, have, it is to he hoped, established the Society on a permanent basis, by which even its present funds will be 'available to the advancement of improved . agriculture, till prosperous circumstances, and increased assistance:, may again render its utility more ex tensive. The Talbot Premiums from your Excellency's private purse., the seasonable offer of a most liberal subscription your Excel lency's personal attendance at our Shows of Cattle, and above all, that condescension and kindness with which yotir Excel lency permitted the communications of the Society, and entered into its minutest interests, have endeartd your Excellency to us as our Patron, and have established claims upon. our grate ful recollection, which can never be forgotten. (Signed) LISMORE, Chairman. To which his Excellency was graciously pleas ed to make the following Answer : Permit me to express to you my warmest thanks for the sen timents of regard and esteem which I have repeatedly received from you, and particularly for this distinguished mark of your favourable recollection at the moment of my departure from Ireland. The progressive 'improvement which Agriculture is making in the country under your auspices, testifies more forcibly than any language of mine could do, the enlightened policy which has directed the judicious and practic,al encouragement which you have afforded to national industry. Such efforts, if persevered in, cannot but be ultimately suc cessful. Flattered as I have been by your permission to be associated in you- valuable labours, I assure you I shall quit the country with an ardent and grateful affection for Ireland, and with an 'undiminished zeal for its agricultural prosperity. GIBRALTAR PAPERS. A file of Gibraltar Pap e rs t o th e 18th u lt. h ave been received, from which we make the follow ing. extracts : (From the Gibraltar Chronicle of Dec. 15.) " NOTICE. " Head-quarters, Gibraltar, 15th Dec. 1821. " The provisions of the Proclamation of the 29th September last, ; with reference to the communication with Spain, will be reverted to on Monday next, the 17th inst., and will remain in force until further orders. " By his Excellency's the Governor's command, " S. R. CHAPMAN, Civil Sec." The Town Council of Cadiz has received from the same au thority in Reus, and from the Militia and several inhabitants of that town, three communications, expressive of the heartfelt satisfaction with which they have heard of the Representatic-a addressed to his Majesty . lay : the A.Vhorities of Cadiz, on the 29th October last. The national militia of Bilboa, on the contrary, has sent an address to his Majesty, which one of the Cadii Papers terms a most servile and indecent one. The same Paper (Diario Gadi. tano de la Libertado, &c.) states that Don Joaquin Virues hav ing been appointed Governor - of Malaga, the inhabitants as sembled the moment they heard of the appointment, and pre vailed upon the War Council to signify to Government that the new Governor wo u ld no t be admitted until the Cortes had come to a determination respecting the message now under con sideration. On the other hand, the Regiments of Asturias, Estremadura, Gerona, Villaviciosa, and the corps of Royal Engineers and Artillery at Sarragossa, have renewed to the Cortes the most ear nest assurances of their love of order, and adherence to the Constitution. The Corunna Diary confirms the account of Mina's having been reinstated in the military command of Gallicia, in opposi tion to the orders of Government ; but a private letter from that province, publish e d i n th e Redactor General, informs us, that the example of Corunna had found no imitators in the other districts. The Civil Governor had taken upon himself the duties of Military Commander, and removed to Leigo— the inhabitants of the province being unwilling to acknowledge the Authorities established in Corunna until their appointment had been sanctioned by Government. The Redactor also brings a letter from Ceuta stating, that the. Bishop and three Canons had been sent on board a ship in that bay in the night of the 7th instant, being suspected of a want of partiality to the Constitutional system. And, lastly, a Cordova article, in the Espectador, under date the 2d instant, relates that General Moreno, Military Corn inandant of Andalusia, M. Albistu, the Civil Governor, Baron de Andilla, and Captain Pintado had entered that city the day before ; that the General got himself acknowledged by the Re giment of Santiago, but could not prevail upon that of El En fante Don Antonio to do the same. That in the evening seve ral individuals complained to the Board of Health of the viola tion of the Health Regulations by these personages, all of whom had communication with Baron de Andella, who was conic from an infected district, and requested that they might be conducted to the Lazaretto, and brought to trial ; and lastly, that at midnight they were marched out; escorted by a detach ment of Volunteers. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. [From The Times.) PARIS, Jan. 5. Five o'clock, p. m. There are strong reports in circulation to-day, that the Porte has accepted the Russian Ultima tum. I encloSe an extract of a letter from Frank fort, which, in addition to what is contained in the journals of this morning, will put you in pos session of the only grounds of the report. Tie adroit manner in which the peace with Persia is made to tally with the acceptance of the Ultima tum would seem to point it out as a stockjobbing invention. The French Ministers are continuing to recruit their ranks. M. de Chateaubriand has accepted the situation of Ambassador to London, vacant by_ the resignation of M. de Cazes. In the Monitcur you will find an account of a conspiracy in the garrison of Belfort. 'Though much talked of, it has produced no unfavourable effect on the funds, the quotation of which at the close of the market stood as follows : Five per cents., 85f. 20c. ; Bank Stock, 1520 f., being a considerable rise above yesterday. 'Fliepetition of Mr. Loveday* to the Chamber of Deputies is now sold - here in the shape of a pamphlet, and is the subject of conversation in all companies. The Journals have of course been prohibited from mentioning it. The Prince of the church to whom he alludes is the Arch bishop of Paris. Sober-minded people of all par ties regret the foolish zeal of the missionaries, as it tends te.injUre the cause of religion, and to throw obstacleS in the way. of a more liberal treatment of the Catholics of Ireland. FRANKFORT, J AN. 1 .-(Extract of a Letter.) —The Papers of Vienna of the 26th of Decem ber do not yet speak of the acceptance of the Russian ultimatum ; but this silence has nothing in it astonishing, since the ❑ews arrived at Vienna only on the night between the 25th and 26th.— By the estafette which brought it here, we have likewise learned that Prince Metternich had re ceived from Constantinople a letter which an nounced that the Persians had made peace with the Porte. The Austrian Observer of the 26th is silent about these events. • Tlv.! English Gentleman who was mentioned in our yes terday's extracts from . the French Papers, as having had his eldest daughter seduced from him by the proselyting arts of some Catholic zealots. Letters have been received from the Island of Dominica, dated the 9th of November. They contain the melancholy tidings of a dreadful fever, that in a few days cut off three officers, one serjeant, two corporals, 56 privates, and four women, of his Majesty's sth regiment of foot, out of 137 who landed there the month previous. Only Col. Emts, Captain Kysn, Ensign WYATT, and eleven privates were free from the attack, all the rest being either dead, or in the hospital. The names of the Officers who died are, Major BISHOP, Lieutenant ARMSTRONG, and Lieutenant EQUINO.—The companies at the station are, Majors BISHOP, SIMCOCKES, and KYSII. Colonel Sir C. PRATT, and the detachments of the sth at Antigua and St. Luck, were in good health on the 11th of November. It was reported in the West Indies, that the 4th, sth, and 9th, are to be replaced by the 7th, 23d, and 43d regiments. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. [FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.] CLASSICAL LITERATURE.—M. Maio, the inde fatigable philologist, whose labours and researches after the lost writings of the ancients we have occasionally noticed, has made some farther dis coveries. Among these are several of the mu• tilated and lost books of Polybius, Diodorus, Dion Cassius, some fragments of Aristotle, Epho rus, the historian, Titmus, Hyperides, Deme trius Phalerius, &c. Besides these, he has also rescued some parts of the unknown writings of Eunapius, Menander of Byzantium, Priscus, and Peter the Protector. Of these valuable literary acquisitions, the most copious and important are the fragments of Diodorus Siculus, and Dion, which contain a succinct recital of many of the wars of Rome, and a narrative of the Punic, Social, and Macedonian Wars ; likewise of those of Epirus, Syria, Gaul, Spain, Portugal, and Persia. lie has also discovered several writings of the Greek and Latin Fathers prior to St. Je rome, and other interesting fragments, all which it is his intention to publish. BARDIC SOCIETY.—The gentlemen of Brecon shire are warmly disposed to aid in the forma tion of a Bardic Literary Society for that dis trict of the Principality, preparatory to the hold ing of an Eisteddfod, or Congress of the Bards, next autumn, at that place. Steps will soon be taken towards fixing the day for a general meet ing. tYMMRODORION.—MedaIs have been offered by the Cymmrodorion in London for the two best Essays in Welsh, from the principal Grammar Schools of North and South Wales, one medal for each division, on Patriotism.—" Groladgartoch." ORNITHOLOGY.---The grey phalarope was lately shot in Lancashire Tringa Lobata," Linnaeus.) This curious and beautiful bird is a native of Europe, Asia, and America, but has been seldom met with in the British Isles. Be wick mentions four only having been seen by naturalists in the last century. IlisToay.— Some very extraordinary 'docu ments respecting the latter days of King Charles have, it is said, been lately found among the records in the Herald's College. SCULPTURE.—The Imhoffs (father and son) of Cologne, have recently finished a piece of sculp ture of extraordinary magnitude. It is a colossal figure, representing the Angel of Death, and is intended to decorate the burial vault of a family of distinction in that city. The same artists exe cuted the well.:known bust of M. Stein, the mini ster, and are now employed upon a bas-relief, intended as a monument to his lady. Caraova's NEW Won4.—This is a. group re- presenting Pity. The subject having been so often treated already, and particularly by the celebrated Buonaroti, seemed not to have left aught of novelty ; but Canova has discovered the secret of making his group admired by disposi tions altogether new. It is composed of three grand figures, the Virgin mourning, Jesus Christ dead, and Saint Mary Magdalene. The profes sors of sculpture have agreed that there prevails among them the most perfect harmony in the po sition of all their members. The figures are com pletely interlaced, the draperies cover them with a grace and a natural adaptation, and the view of the whole group is so entirely harmonious, that it strikes with astonishment from all the points where it is contemplated. PORTRAIT OF L tue.a.—The Gazette of Bo logna announces that the original portrait of Laura, by Simone Memini, has been discovered. "Tile most authentic documents prove that the portrait engraved and published by Morghen, is ideal, or at least that of another Laura, who lived in 1500, that is to say, nearly two centuries after the death of her whom the love and the verses of Petrarch have rendered so celebrated." BURNS.--To such a length has the mania for the relics of Burns been carried in the neigh bourhood - of Ayr, that, since the venerable raf ters of Alloway Kirk have been metamorphosed into chairs and snuff-boxes, some sacrilegious en thusiasts have actually laid violent hands on the tombstone of the poet's father, which is disap pearing by piece -meal. ORIGIN QF MUSIC AND THE LYRE.—The Hermes, or Mercury of the Egyptians, surnamed Trismogistus, or Thrice Illustrious, who w as, ac -cording to Newton, the secretary to Osiris, is reported to have been the inventor of Music, ac cording to Apollodorus, under the following cir cumstances :—The Nile having overflowed its banks,and-inundated the whole country of Egypt, on its return to its customary bounds, left on the shores various dead animals, and among the rest a tortoise, the flesh of which being dried and roasted by the sun, nothing remained within th e shells but nerves and cartilages, and these being tightened and contracted by the drying heat, became sonorous. Mercury, walking along the banks of the river, happened to strike his foot against this shell, and was so pleased with the sound produced, that the idea of the Lyre sug gested itself to hisimaghation. The first instru ment he constructed was in the form of the tor toise, and was strung with the dried sinews of dead animals. There is something beautiful in this allegory, which leads us into a concep tion of the energetic powers of the human mind in the early ages of the world, thus directed to a discovery of the capabilities of Nature' by the fingers of Omnipotence in the form of ac cidents. ON THE PHOSPHORESCENCE OF THE LAMPYRIS NOCTILUCA AND SPLENDIDULA.—In a curious paper on the phosphorescence of the lampyris noctiluca and splenddula, published in the 44 Bibliiitheque Unii‘erselle,,".for May IS2I, p. 5A2, M. MaCaire has drawn the following conclusions from numerous observations ;-1: A certain de gree of hea l t-is necessary to the voluntary phos phorestiencebf these anintql og ---/. Their phos phorescepce is excited by..a.degree of heat stipe rior to the first, and is irrecoverably destroyed by a higher temperature.-3. All bodies capable of coagulating albumen, take away from phosphoris ing matter its power of phosphorescence. -4. The phosphorescence cannot take place but in a gas which contains oxygen.-5. It is excited by the• • galvanic pile; but no effect is produced on it by electricity.-6. The phosphorescent matter is composed principally of albumen. LOCKE.—A workmen erriployed in removing the foundation .of an old house- near Montpelier, found a glass bottle hermetically sealed ; it was found to contain, in an s excellent state of preset- - vation, the following Latin inscription on vel-: lum :—Mortalis! In thesanros incidista in Christ() FIDES, .rebus in humanis MoDus patent.' Ampulla nec vacua, nec vilis, our animo hilari tatern, corpori salutem, alfert. Ex hac im bibe, et haustnm, vino vel Falerno vel Chio, gratiorem hauries. Scripsit - Johannes Locke, Anglus ; A.D. 1675. The following is a translation:--Mortal! thou hast found a treasure! Here are placed before you, FAITII in Christ and MODERATION in things terrestrial. The bottle is neither empty, nor of little worth, which affords cheerfulness to the mind, and health to the body. Quaff of this, and thou shalt imbibe what is more precious than the juice of Falernum or Chios. So wrote John Locke, Englishman, in the year of our Lord 1675. NATURAL lIISTORY.—The Jardin du Roi has recently received some very important additions, consisting principally of living plants collected in Asia, Africa, and America,. by M. Perrottet, in 1819, 1820, and 1821, with the expedition commanded by Captain Philibert. M. Perrot tet left Cayenne in June 1821, and arrived s at Havre in July. The collection is the most con siderable ever introduced into France by any single expedition. It consists of 81 cases, con taining 600 living plants in,the very best order, many of them very rare, and some hitherto un known ; two cases containing stratified seeds in earth, and in a state of germination ; 300 bags of seeds of various kinds ; seven cases of dry plants for the herbal ; 26 glasses of fruits preserved in liquor ; and finally, numerous cases of animals, birds and minerals. M. Perrottet has proved that plants may be kept in a state of vegetation on board ship for a year. AFRICA.—A remarkable animal has been dis covered in South Africa, by the Rev. JOEN CAMPBELL, of the London Missionary Society. The Hottentots who shot the creature never having seen or heard of an animal with a horn of so great a length, they cut off its head, and brought it bleeding on the back of an ox to Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. C. would gladly have trans ported the whole of it with him to Europe ; but. its great weight, and the distance of the spot (the city of Mashow) from Cape Town (about 1`?00 miles,) determined him to reduce it by cutting off the tinder-jaw. The head Mei— sured from the ears to the nose three feet ; the length of the horn, which is nearly black, is also three feet, projecting cram 'the forehead about 'ten inches above the nose.— There is a small horny projection of a conical shape, measuring about eight inches, immediately behind the great horn, apparently designed for keeping fast or steady whatever is penetrated by - . the great horn. This projectiort•is scarcely ob served at a little distance. The animal is not carnivorous, but chiefly feeds on grass and bustles. It is well known in the kingdom of Mashow, the natives of which make from the great horn handles for their battle axes. The animal appears to be a species of rhinoceros ; but judging from the size of its head, it must have been much larger than the rhinoceros of South Africa, which has'a larger crooked horo, nearly resembling the shape of a cock's spur, pointing backward, and a short one .of the same form immediately behind it. Mr. CAMPBELL was very desirous to obtain as adequate an idea as possible of the bulk of the animal killed near Mashow, and with this view questioned his Hottentots, who described it as being much larger than the rhinoceros, and equal in size to three oxen, or four horses. STATE OF RELIGION- IN lONA DURING THE SIXTH .CEivrußY.—Of the schools or seminaries, no one existed more famous fin. the study of the Holy Scriptures than lona, - or lcolmkill, in the Hebrides, founded by Columba, who was born at (iartan in Tyrconnel, Ireland, A. D. 521. Ab ou t th e year 550, he founded the great monastery of Dair-Magh, now Durrogh, in King's County ; and afterwards went as a Mis sionary to the Highlands, landed from his hide and wicker boat at lona, and most successfully propagated the Gospel among the Picts and Scots. His followers were called Culdees or Keldees, the etymology of which is very doubtful, but which is supposed to imply servants or worshippers of God. Columba himself was not only eminent as a religious man, but distin guished for his knowledge of physic, and general science and literature. Ile died at the foot of the altar, Arno 597, in the 77th year of his age, and was unquestionably one of the great est and best men of his era. Baithen ' his cousin and successor as Abbot of lona, was also c e l e b ra t e d for his learning; and his monastery continued to be. famous, as a seat of instruction, till' the ninth century, when the Danes disledged the Monks. It is lamentable to think that most of the inestimable MSS. pre served there, were probably de s t r oy e d a t th e R e f orm ation ; though others are supposed to have been carried to the Scotch College, at Douay. The ruins are still very fine, and many a Scottish Monarch sleeps below. Lottlt CLARENDO,N—Giving this eminent his torian every merit. due to great wisdom and saga city, yet we cannot suppose that all his finely drawn characters can be exact likenesses. lit painting the outward form of,a man, great exact ness may be obtained, as taking a likeness is not the most difficult part of painting ; but drawing the internr.l part of a man, his sentiments, position, motives of action, &C. 'Must .be in a great measure fancy an d conjecture',. eveu in the hands of a Clarendon or a Tacitus.