The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-11-14 00:00:00

NUMBER 5911.
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711 RATRE-IIOYA L, DRURY-LA WIC
XHIS EVENING, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 14,
• his Majesty's Servants will perform Shakspeare's Tra.
giJ, of
• OTHELLO.
D the of Venice, Mr. Foote ; Brahantio, Mr. Powell ;-
:)t•leflo, Mr. Kea.; Call•ell, Mr. Pesky; R.nlerigMt•Mr.
; logo. Mr. Cuuprr. fliesdemona, Miss Smithison;
is art~a, Mrs. Egerton.
After which (Sth thee) a sew Musical Comedy, in two sets,
called
MAID OR WIFE?
Or, THE DECEIVER DECEIVED.
principal Characters by Mr. Elkton, Mr. Harley,
o Sinithsoa, and Miss Copeland.
The Doors to he opened at Six &Cluck, arid the Per-
foreswore to begin at Seve".
Phicis to be takes of Mr. Rodwell, iw the Raised& of the
Salton. of Ike Theatre.
Private Boxes earl only be olitalaed for the Evesiog of
likelwell, at the Box-OMee.
To-yeerow, Last Life—with The Coroaitiaa—and Maid
Wift4 Of, The Deceiver Deceived
al Friday, the Tragedy of Kis' Richard Ilse Third.

EAST INDIA HOUSE. Ocroutu 31, 1821.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the
UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG-
LAND, trading to the EAST INDIES, du hereby gine
Notice,
That a QUARTERLY GENERAL. COURT of the
uid COMPANY will he i.eld at their Huitit in Leadenkall-
street, on IYEDNEBDAY, the 12111 December neat, at
Eleven Wasik its the Forenoon,, for the ourpo+e of declar-
ing a Dividend from Midsummer lam tu Chrism.' next.
JOSEPH DART, Secretary.

MA UK El's.
[From the " tondmt Mercantile Prier ('omen(," of
Tneedayt, ffoosnneirr 13, 1821.]
WEST INDIA AND SPANISH MAIN PRODUCE.
CornßC—The demand since nor laat has nut been hriak,
bat AS the quantity brought to auction tree at the Plate
time rather swill, baring been only emu. 430 twilit, the
prices hive been fully •upported fur All o.4.eriplienv, and nu
Friday, Jamaica and Mich obtained no advance full 2s.
per cwt.; by 'private, the Imaineas ba• been very limited,
and for Foreign there hat been little demand, 101 a. to
1016.6 d. are offered far St:Domingo; a paseel of ...dietary
Mavannah Wig taken in no Friday at V7e. per cwt.
The clerk of Weal India Collie is now 3,161 tone, being
Iwo more than at this time last year; ;mount prices 45a. pre
Cm l. lower.
D. I'. SUGAR baa heels will's/it alteration since our last,
no sales of how brown have ben made und.r 50a. per cu t.
sod Sue is still difnewit lb bolVatained.
Fur Fortriou Sboana theetlia very little demand, Brazil
has be. • partially inquired tient Isar pries.
The aback 01 H. P. Sum it stow 4,128 milts lea. than
at this period last year; prereut prices 61. 6d. per rot.
lower, per Gazette avenger.
The Roar market hat been dull, and in Jamaica there
has been but little blows"' done, but hidden are frm at the
late reduction. Leeward Wand bat been staid at our last
quotations.

GYMNASTICS 0? 7Hh STUDIOUS.

[ From " rho New• Monthly Magazine." .1

"A mere bookish lemming," says a witty old
friend of ours, who lived about three centuries ago,
"tr boob truuldetionse and ungraceful. I could
wish," continues lie, " that Palate! or Pumper,
the two famous data:mg-masters of my time, could
have taught us to cut capers, by only seeing them
do it, without stirring from our places."—We com-
mence our catalogue of the gymnasiic amusements
of achnlars with this art, because it is certainly one
of the moat ancient extent, and becsii-e it is. so
our apprehension, au peculiarly suitable to the
literary character—a truth which, we have no
doubt, we shall succeed in establishing, both by
arguiinait and authority. The are saltandi, now
most undeservedly degraded far beneath its len!.
aro, in more ancient mid noble times, a necessary
acquisition to. the accomplished scholar. Shall that
shame: us which Epaminiandas accounted hounur-
able ? Did nut the illustrious Seeliger perform
the sokariu pyrrhics before the Emperor Maximi-
lian, to the great admiration of all Germany—
" /Von sine stupors. totius Germania. ?" and shall
we hesitate alter such an authority as this?—There
are few species of exercise which have ally thing
intellectual about them; but dancing is one of
those few. There is something mathematical in
quadrille. But it is the more sober kinds of dances
which are particularly suited to the studious mind,
such as the solemn and graceful movements of those
measures which the 'indents at law of other drys
were accustomed to perform before the criticsl eyes
of the great dignitaries of the prOfearion. Was
not this • more rational mode of teaching their
legalideas how to shoot, than the present practice
of merely requiring the student to eat his wry to
distinction ?—was it nor, we ask, infinitely more
noble and more intellectual ? and may out the
decrease of deep and sound lawyers in our cloy he
mainly attributable to this source ? There can be
no doubt that Lord Coke was an excellent dancer.
The Lord Chancellor Hatton, it is well known,
war much celebrated for his saltutory abilities;
and, indeed. may be said to have stepped to the
woolsack per saftunt,—" He was first taken notice
of by the Queen, for the comeliness of' his person,
and for his graceful dancing in a masque at court;
but more afterwards, for his great abilities." We
always find envy accompanying ability and sue-
, eves; and accordingly, the aerjeants of that day,
vainly emulous of the fame which has graceful
dancing had acquired, refused to plead before the
" grave Lord-Keeper." In if the lons of
Court presented the King and Queen with a
masque, with which their Majesties were highly
satisfied ; and no doubt, on that octasiosa, the gel,-
tlemen of the long robe displayed much skill and
dexterity in the exercise of their saltatory functions,
Sir William Jones, one of the most scientific of
our lawyers, seems to have been the last who paid
that attention to this noble science which it so
justly deserves. During his residelice in London
he was accustomed to receive instructions fioni a
celebrated professor of this art ; and who shall say
that the beautiful specimen of legal mid logical
ressouing, which the work on Bailments presents,
may tot be in a great measure attributed to Sir
William's proficiency in the art saltatory ?
Riding on horseback hos been a favourite muse.
meat with many literary men, and deservedly so.
On horseback you can take die best exercise in the
shortest time; and besides, the atteution is snore
• earnestly engaged in the exercise itself, thou in the
mere act of walkiug, and consequently it is highly
useful to those whose minds are too apt to dwell
upon one train of thought. It is is sort of new ex-
istence to mount r high-spirited generous horse.
We become endowed with all the corporeal advert-
tages which Nature has bestowed upon him : we
are swift as he is: we hound forward with equal
velocity; and us lie caracole* and shakes his mane,
we feel animated with some of the same spirit.
Moreover this exercise is peculiarly fitted to coun-
teract the evil effects of a sedentary life—a fact for
which we will vouch high authorities, since Plato
recommends it as larneficial to, the health, and
Pliny says it is good for the stomach and the joints.
(In the absence of authorities from Galen or Dr.
Baillie, we hope the dicta of these two philosorr
pliers will be thought sufficient.) Many erudite
and accomplished scholars have been much attached
to this exercise.*

EAST INDIA HOUSE. OCTOMEII 31, UM.
THE COURT qt• DIRECTORS of the
UNITED COMPANY-0f XIERCHANTS of ENG.
LAND, trading to the EAST INDIES, do hereby glee
Nbliee,
That the TRANSFER ROOKS of the amid EO3l.
PAM-a STOCK -vial be SHUT on TUESDAY, the 4th
December next, at Three &Clock, and OPENED again
on THURSDAY, the 17th January, 11114;
And that the DIVIDEND WARRANTS on the said
STOCK, Jue on the3ith January, ISA wi!l he ready to be
delivered or MONDAY, the 7th of the same Month.
JOSEPH DART, Secretary.

THRATRR-ROTA L, COVRNItGARDRN.
THIS EVENING, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 14,
*HI be acted the Opera of
, THE EXILE.
Chest Ulrick (the Exile), Mr. Egerton; Governor of Si-
tio a, Ir.W. Ferree ; Barna A IlinstiolE Mr. Meadows ; Count
t'Ainer, Mr. Dartmet ; Davao, Mr. Young; Welsiew Mr.
Semite, Mr. Fawcett. The Empress Elisabeth,
%1.4 'sack; Katharine, Krt. T Alexina, Miss
kante.
't he Grand Public Entry of the Empress Elisabeth, and
ihr Interior of the Calliriiral of Moscow, is which the
CORONATION of ELIZABETH is performed by the
tii .aJ Patriarch, sad his assisting Dignitaries.
After which a Piece, in one act, celled
A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING.
Colonel Freelime, Mr. Jones; Lord Rivers, Mr. Clare-
Lady Eiszabeth Frerlove, Mrs. Cbatterley.

The present stock of Rum is 35,85? puns. and price of
proof,' Is. 3d. per gallon.
Stock last year, same date 0313 puns. and price of
proofs to. Id. per gallon.
PI zZaTo is rather heavy of sale.
LIVERPOOL REPORT, NoTaNOIR 10.
The COTTON market has been extremely flat during the
whole of the week, owing to the •nmerooe public sales ad-
vertised for yesterday, which brought a number of the trade,
and mule than two-tairda of Mom offered were taken readily
at a deeline of II per Win the Orleans and better descrip-
tions of Boweds, but at fair prices for the ordinary Bowed",
whirls formed a large proportient of the sales. There were
offered 10,765 bags, coirsisting of 6,900 Rowed*, of .whiell
5.400 sold at 7p. a NV. fur ordinary to middling, 9.1. a 101 d.
fur fair to good, dirtily at 8.1. • 9d.; 1,600 Oelears., of
which 1,100 mold at 84. a Sid. for ordinary to middling, 1011.
• 10111. fur fair, to Ild, a lljd. fur (ONO ; 1,300 Alabama'', of
which 900 sold at 6,1 d. a Sid. for ordinary to fair; 500 Sea
Islands, 440 sold at Md. a 15td. fir ordisary to good fair;
15 Stained, sold at 10J. a Hid. fur ordiusry to good ; 400
Derneraras,2so sold at Old. a 190. fur ordinary to middling,
1114. • ltd. fur good fair to good; 50 Carthagenas, sold at
7.1.1. fur fair. The sales by private are 1,850, sad consist of
1100 Rowed" at 7jd. a 101..1.; 90 Orleans, at 9,1. a 1114.;
510 Sea Wands, at 140. a 19J.; and a few at Ss.; 40 Ala.
barna', at 70. • 81.1.; 370 Perusing, at a 124.1.; 320
Babies, at 101 d. a 1114.; 40 Maranhao's, at 1114.; 20
Mini Genies, at 10d.; 50 Suriname, at 1 ltd. ; 50 West In-
lMs, at 9d.; 80 Surat*, at 7.1 a 81. d.; 50 Beagala, at 64. a
6jd. per lb.; making the total sales 10,01110 bogs. Tire im-
port this week is 6,111 bags, viz. Jatoisiel 314 bags, Csitott.
States 4,747 balm Brazil L 1152 bags.
We bass had a better demand from the grocers this week
for brown and middling qualities of Plantation Sugar, which
have said at full pricer, and the better descriptions have
Wenerally supported our former quotations: the quantity
sold is 900 casks, and our stuck is now 9,700; this time
last year it was 8,9011 rusks ; iit Forma sad East India
fliager, as well as 31•141.444„ there is nothing doing. The
stack ..f Coffee is au much reduced, that the few parcels
taken for borne use have been at an advance of to. • 3a. sad
one lot of good middling Jamaica has brought ; • few
lots of good Berbice advertised for auction were withdrawn
in be held fur higher prices. Fur Rice there is very little
inquiry, and only a small parcel of good Carolina has Leen
mold at 18s. Brazil Curve is in very limited demand, and
nothing done in Ginger or Pinieutor. Rums continue without
alteration. A few Boston Pot Ashes have brought 394. 3d.
and Pearls 425. bet there is not much inquiry fur either aorta.
There have beer very few sales of Hide. this week, and only
• few B. A. have been sold at and a parcel of salted
Brazil at 814. per lb.
The demand fur Tobacco has revived and the trade have
purchased freely of the better kinds of Virginia, principally
Stemmed, which in most instances have brought an advance
of jd. per lb.: the total sales are about 600 bids. For
Wheat, the demand has been more steady this week, and
prices both of old and new have been supported. New
Oats have sold freely at an improvement of Id. per bushel.-
The sales in bonded Flour fur export have been very limited.
The sales in I.luereitron Bark are confined to small lots at
17s. 6d. a 18.1, for good Philadelphia. The market fur all
descriptions of Dyewoods has been dull. Maniac is selling
in small lots at I9s, for Sicily: the arrivals this week are
9,000 bags. 3110 Bales Madder Ituols offered by auction yet.
terday (middling quality of Toile)) were takes. it. for want
of bidders at 555. per cwt.

With the Burtertpie Tragic Opera of
so m BASTES RIMS°.

Alt taxamiuous, Mr. Blanchard; Fasinrs, Mr. Taylor; Gr.
ueral Boothastes, Mr. Liston. thatatitta, Mrs. Liston.
Places for the Boxes to be taker of Mr. Standee, at the
B..x.eace, Hart-street, from Tea till Four.
A Private Box way be had fur the 'lesson, or nightly, of
31r. Brandon, at the Box-Office.
To-snorruw, The Stranger : Mrs. Haller, Miss Bakewell
'her Gast appearance on this stage)—with The Barber of
•wb,tle.

OLYMPIC' THEATRE
NEWCASTLESTREET, STRAND.
THIS EVENING, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 14,
2 and following Evenings, will be presented a mew En.
limos= of Fee, called
LIFE IN LONDON.
Ton. Mr. Raker ; Jerry Hawthorn, Mr. Oxberry ; Old
Hawthorn. Mr. Fillers; Nickens, Mr. Hammond; Shuffle,
Ali. Power; Floss, Mr. Elliott; Snags, Mr. Tayleure;
GuldAncb, Mr. Strickland ; Paddy Rinse, Mr. G. Smith.
Sue, Miss Walpok; Mrs. Nab, Mrs. Perste; batty, Mrs.
Mestrati.
To eirsclisale with
TEREZA TOMKINS ; OR, THE FRUITS OF GENEVA.
.E9-reurtes will be predated a new Tragedy, in one Act,
the principal characters by Mr. Chiberry, Mr. Tayleurr,
Mt. G.Swrib, Mr. H. Baker, Mice Healy, and Cs. Pearce.
Oil Saturday Mr. 11.J0Iiiistou and Miss S. Booth will be
. .

itadadated is a sew Barletta, called Zurayda; Of, &YOH
io Faalissaisle Life.
Arx~ It -Pit le.—Gallery 11.—Half Price at Half Past
•

FRENCH WINES of the first qual:/y, and
"no per Cent. below Prime Cost.
F. FLOWER, Nu. 1, PaWoman, has a Cousiessment of
tic folbswiag Wises, whirls will be us isle November 12th,
i2th, asd following D. till all sold:— per des.
Petit Botirdeaus 42s.
auterse, particularly fine 63s.
&MAC
Froutieniac ..
Creaming Champagae
sparkling ditto
Si'trey ditto, very fine.
Gest Laitte
Are a small parcel of Old Hoek of the Vintage
of 1790
Applications fur Sample Bottles are requested in be Wade
is the early part of the day.
tt 0..--Please to observe that F. FLOWER'S Counting-
h...ise is down the Steps ander the first House is the Royal
Arcade, but the Entrauce is the first in Pall-mall.

Otte —Greenland Oil has been tether more in demand
by the trade, ■nd au high as 21/. 104. paid fur small lota.
South Sea Oil is rather on the decline. In Need Oils there
is •ery little doing. In Whale Fins a small sale bas beets
made at SS/.

seid J. SIVEWRIGHT ore ',riling opndrawn
• • TICKETS end SHARES at their Otßeeis, 37, Cum.
Litt, 31111, Haymarket ; and 11, Holborn; where they sold
ati Aseed is the last Lottery,
4,421
_ .

RE/lINILD SUGAR —TM Market has been very dull, and
the prices of nearly all 'Reset looms are rather lower; a par.
eel of ordinary lumps 'bas !tern sold at 74.. Id. per cwt ;
there have been iuquiries to rontraet for delivery in the next
spring, bat the Rofitiers spew very little disposition to con-
tract at the present rates.
FRUIT —A pablie male of lldastatel and Lesia &titling
and Jordan Almonds wa■ brunght forward on Wednesday
last, and went uff heavily. Currants continue iu brisk de-
mand.

TWO Priers of .t 4,000 Sm. &c.
Rich Wheel. All Musty.
TWO of f 30,000!
THREE
TWO of
V. 4 two Blanks to a Prize.
!MO Ticitcla already drawn.
ribAtt Stoney! fur the brat drawn Prize SECOND DAY,
4-4,IESDAY NEXT, 20th This Month, Novrinber.
treirste and Shares are also selling by their Agents.

BALTIC PRODUCE.
TALLOW--Tae price* are rather lower than last week,
considerable business has, however, Iwo door.
TAIL has advanced about 2.. per bar►el.
EAST INDIA PRODUCE.
. .

We are told by Monstrelet, that a grave doctor of
divinity, by name Maitre Pierre Pol, was very
food of riding, but always preferred a side-raddle,
en which he used regularly to make his appearance
in the streets of Paris. Montaigne must have been
a great equestrian : " I do not willingly alight,"
says he, " when 1 am once on horseback, for it is
the place where, whether sick or well, I find myself
most at sue." We know that Erasmus was loud
of riding, from an anecdote which Boger Aschum
has left us of him. So was Sir Philip Sidney;
but all the wits and scholars of that day had stilt a
large portion of the chivalrous character of anti-
quity in their coinpositson. But of all the men
that ever beetrid a horse, there is no one that can
match Alfieri as au equestrian. Never was there in
the world such a decided case of hippomaisia. The
affectiou of an Arab fur his family courser was
sca►cely superior to the esteem and love which the
Italian poet appears to huve felt for his four-footed
companions. He bought about u dozen horses in
England, and with the assistance of his grooms
conducted them himself over the Alias, guiding
their footsteps with all the care and attention which
an anxious traveller would display for his friend's
safety. He was indeed a bold and adventurous
rider. In taking a high five-barred gale, his horse
fell with him, and Alfieri broke his arm. Nothing
deterred by his accident, he mounted again, and
making u second attempt succeeded in clearing the
gate. Most assuredly, whether mounted on his

TU ESDA Y NEXT.

2
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2,040
2
4

CoreoP.—The market has been very dull Rinse our last,
and some of the holders of PAM India have shears& a disposi-
tion to accept ratlirr luPer rates, but ibis is not general. The
sake of the Ai erk amount to only 300 bags, viz. in bond,
100 Surat, fair 8;d. to 6,1&11. good ed.; PIO Bengal, fair to
good fair s;il. to St J., (duty eau') 40 bags Para, middling
101i1.; 80 Smyrna. gurol sp. per lb.
TEA —The placket roiltisiurs steady, an advance of IJ. to
2J. per lb. has been n10311'1.'31 fOr Twankay.
INDIGO is in steady demand, and as advance of 4J. to sd.
per lb. ou the prices of the last sale has been paid.

ma TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE.
.IQA,V IFT sod Co. et their Old ;rod Fortiinote
:1, 'Officio. No. 11, P.peltry ; It, ataring-Crass; and 31,
41egate High Flrra, are Selling Uutlrawa'r kiwis and Shares
rf•,rlMe Sermid I) ly of Drawing, bring the Cnth of THE
Off MiNT MONTH, when the Fii .4-drawn Prize gill ov-
ertire Jo,ooo/.
riNUTIIER

30,64/10 'N EXT TUESDAY!
krAZA RD avid CO. (7notrisetors for the pre.
-aeut Popular Lottery, remind the Public that •n-
-utl•r Pri;:e of X 30.000 Mosley will be derailed at NINE
~;;;to 1/4 Nett Tuesday Mu. going. Though ev,oo Tickets
thaws) the First ILy, the following Rich %Vhecl re.
ref the Secunill D 4), NEXT TUESDAY. TM.

Putt irript, Teesday, Noreabor 13,1621, Four o'Cloch.
Ike B. P. Sue* market on the whole was flat today,
though some rather Liege parcels were disposed of, the total
quantity sold was Mutat 800 lilids.; the public side of Bar-
helloes went off well, and about Is. higher for a few lets.
Corrr.r.—The public sale brought forward today con.
sited of 777 bags of Ceylon, chiefly damaged : the sound
brought 975. 6d. to 685., being a few shillings less than was
generally expected; the damned was all sold. There is
some Inquiry fur culoury Coffee, but very little business has
bent dune. Fur Foreign there is scarcely auy demand; for
a entail parcel of St. Domingo of good quality 102 s. per
cwt. has beets offered.

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2 of f 30,000
3 S 000

2,au►

Mk)
4
Al I. MoNEY.
A fall proporimu 4,r smaller Priam me►iel
NOT TWO 111..thES TO A PRIZE!

'rarer. aid !Chaves warrante.l swarm's, are gelling by
4?.A,110) sad Cs. the Csutratiori, al these obi easabli.bro
a" fa rislatsbe Offices, 113, !toys! Exchange ; 20, Curshol;
gOthforol street ; where tbrr Suld, is the 1.150 Ist-
V't "s, 12,702, a £21,t100 !-6,0:14 a 215,000 !—aucl ALL
ibe £ZOIO2O Prism is a fanner I.untry.

We understand that the Navy Pay Office cashier,
announced Ly us is fees days ago as having de-
camped with 40,0001. htis been traced to a ship
bnusul for America, tune dabs after she. had sailed,
and that a fast paslivbc cutter was immediately
dispatched in chase of the

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English hunter. or his holism Pegaru.. Alfieri was
a wan who would not easily yield to obraeles.

Pope seems to have considered the exercise of
riding as peculiarly favourable to literary contem-
plations. liithatmost scholastic ride in company
with old Lintott, which the poet describes with 'men
opirit in his letter to Lord Burlington, the two
equestrians, author and bookie-Per, alighted to re-
fresh themselves under the shade of some spreading
tier*. Liiitutt pulled out a pocket Horace, and re-
rpirotert Pope to amuse himself in 4' turning au
ude" till they mounted again. " Lord !"
Lititott, " Wpm pleased, what • clever miscellany
you might mike at leisure houro."--ii Perhaps f
may," said Pope, " if we tide on ; the motion is
iu aid to my fancy, • mound trot very much
awakens my spirits ; shen jog on apace and lit
think as hard as I can." This very much rerniuds
ens. of Swift's mug, " Pagurus loves a Jutting
pace." The recipe, however, does not seem In
hive been very efficacious; for when, after the lapse
of a full hour, Liutott broke out, 44 Well, S!r
how far have you goner Pope's answer wss
"Seven miles."

The motion of a carriage, ton, is very useful in
rousing the thoughts; of which Sir Iticharti 11lacl-
snore is an example, ".who, in that old rumbling
chariot of his, between Fleet-41k+ and SR, Giles's-
pound, .hall make you half a Job."

But, after all, the 'intuitive exercise is walking,
an exercise, however, in which (ex yr termini) se-
dentary people can scarcely he supposed to indulge,
and yet walking is certainly favourable to thought.
Perhaps it acts on the mind some any in the same
ruanuer as it doe, upon the body, mild cauPes at the
same time a circulation of blood and ideas. Cer-
tainly " a walk is the Orden" (we hope we are not
trespassing) is as pleasant an amusement for Ike
body and soul of luau, be he scholar or not, al
any in the world. It is so easy in pot down your
book and take up your hat, sod seek your garden,
and there walk, stand, saunter. or ail, just as the
humour mores you. We should like to know,
aillutilet all the quiet unpretending pleasurc, the
world can luransh. what is bett2r than to sit reading
au entertaining book opt u sunny day iu the shade
We should like to know what

The court, tamp, chnech, the vessel and the mart,
Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange
for such hours of tranquil enjoyaseut ? Is it flat
Cowley that wisely tell. Evelyn--a
4. •
" to books and gardens thou bow rispid irigh I
Thy 'whit innocent delight."
In fact, a garden just accommodates. sielf to the
iterantbulatiosis of a cellular, who is riot offer-axiairsaw
about the extent of his lwaite, and who ;kostid
ttrr-
haps rather wish his walks abridged that extended.
There is a good characteristic account of the muds
in which the literati take exercise. gireu to Pope's
Leiters.

it I, like a poor squirrel, am continually in mo-
tion, indeed, but it is about • cage of three foot ;
my little excursion. are like those of a shopkeeper.
who walk. every day a mile or two before his ottu
door, but minds his business all the while."

There is one mode of exercise which we venture
to recommend to our sedentary friends, which it a
sort of compromise between riding and walking.
Although this may be deemed a childish amuse-
ment, yet we have the authority of two celebrated
men in its favour, Agesilaut and Martians Scri blerus.
We allude to the salutary exercise of riding on a
stick, or, us the learned Scriblerus bath it, ••
egui-
fare is arsimdist• lomga." This exercise Perms to
us to unite in itself many of the advantages of
both the ether modes. Perhaps, however, it may
now be said to be superseded by the `►elocipedes.

The more violent and animal-like amusements of
the field have never, we think. 'been greatly in
vogue amongst the literati. They have but little
relish for the .'hounds and echoing horn." Hunt-
ing is, par excellence. the recreation of country
squires. Who can fan.; Spenser. after finishing a
canto of the Faery Queen, pulling on his boots for
a bunt, or Sir Isaac Newton asking for his whip and
spurs? Squire Western, the least intellectual of
all created beings, was hunting personified. A.
scholar cannot get rid of his thoughts all at once.
The younger Pliny, when he used to go to bunt
wild.borrs, generally carried his tablets with him.
This was a sort of compromise between soul and
wain of Foul. Shakspeare, to be sure, is said to
have been fond of following the deer in his neigh-
bours' parks; but the daring hatard of the chase
probably was to him its chief charm. There is.
however, one species of these Sylvan sports which
hos something of a scholastic nature about it, and
which indeed, has become a sort of literary pin-
petty ever since tt was sanctified by old Walton's
pen. Perhaps it may be that. there is something
contemplative and scholar-like in the art itself. An
angle is by uo means incompatible with the poetical
character, and even a mathematician may find
ample time for reflection in the pauses of a nibble.
Many learned men have accordingly been much at-
tached to this diversion. 'The illustrious Sir N.
Wotton, according to Walton, " did nut forgtc ;,,,
innate pleasure of angling, which he would usually
call his idle time not idly spent ; saying often he
would rather live five May months than forty Di.-
4:embers." So Dr. Paley would have his g,icture
taken with a rod nod line in his hand. Gilbert
Wakefield, in his early life. was a.great angler—a
diversion winch he afterwards relinquished, from a
conviction of its cruelty. Those who wish to see
a scholar's arguments against field-sports. may find
theiu iu Wakefield's Letters to Far. They seem,
however, to have taken very little effect on the
deeply-rooted habit. of the statesman.

After all, a literary life but seldom display, any
extraordinary instauces of corpo►eal activity. The
generality of authors, like the Laxxaroni of Nuples,
ure very much attached to the " beaedetto far
Waste ; and the author of the " Castle of Intl.-
knee," eating peaches from the wall, with Ina
hands behind Inni, is no unapt type of their per-
sonal activity. K.