The National Register.
London, England, 1816-05-13 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN.

On Monday, in the Tragedy of Julius Cesar, the
audience est eHenced a severe disappointment in the
hoarseness of Mr. KEMBLE, Arho performed the part of
Brutus. In many passages, indeed, he was almost in..
audible. This circumstance drew forth cries of "Speak
up P' from the galleries, at the beginning of the second
scene of the second act; when Mr. KEMBLE apologised
to the house ; saying, that his hoarseness had come upcn
him too late fir a change in the piece or the characters ;
but that he would proceed, in reliance on its indulgence
if the part were not spoken so plainly as it ought to be.
This address w,is warmly applauded, and the piece pro.
ccedcd without interruption.
It was followed by a new musical entertainment, in
honour of the marriage of the Princess CuAnt.orm
entitled Tice Royal Nuptials : or, the Masque of Hymen.
As a piece produced on the spur of the occasion, it would
be unfair to view it with the rigid eye of criticism. Suf-
fice it therefore to say, that it is a showy production, en-
' titled to every indulgence front the consideration of the
purpose tier which it is intended. The scene commences

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with a view of the sea-mast in the back ground, and a
double line of female characters in front. Various em.s.
blematic allusions to the high Saxon origin of the Prince
were exhibited ; and in the progress of the Masque an
abundance of magnificent scenery and appropriate deco-
ration was displayed. Mrs. RENAUD was the majestic re-
presentative of Britannia, Miss S. BOOTH personified
gymen,, and Mass STEPHENS and Miss MATHEWS were
Attendant Nyntyhs. Miss HuGnes is also introduced,
but in a manner which reflects no credit on the taste of
those .by whom the piece has been produced. She was
exhibited to the public in a part altogether unworthy so
accomplished a person, and in which she was offered no
opportunity whatever for the display of her talents. In
many parts of the piece, a considerable portion of spirit
was evinced ; and on the whole, it went off successfully.
.The house was well filled in all parts.
• On Saturday sc'nnight, Miss O'Neill took her be-
nefit, and appeared as the representative of Mrs.
Oakley, in the Comedy of The Jerdoits Wife. She was
.very successful; and, though her comedy does not excite
thole extacies of mirth, which her tragedy awakes of sot..
row, her performance gave unmixed pleasure throughout,
and would have been sufficient to rive her fame us this
votary of The/in, had she not previously so greatly
distinguished herself in the service of Melpomene. In
other hands, we have seen the character of Mrs. Oakky
provoke more laughter; but this has generally been nt
the expense of that dignity and interest which, with all
her failing, ought still to attach to The Jealons
to account fin the hold which she retains to the last on
the affections of her husband. These Miss O'Neill
appeared careful not to compromise; and in her
must boisterous scenes there were still some fascinating
touches, which might well be supposed to captivate
hint who had most reasont to complain of her ground-
less suspicion. In the scene where she visits Lady
Freeloce, her anxiety to conceal the real object of solid.
code ; her embarrassment at filling. she lets ineautionsly
revealed the secret, and the air with which she endea-
voured to correct this mistake, where she says---" Not
my husband, of course," were admirable; and her subse-
quent ineffectual effltrts to conceal her distri.,ss were not less
entitled to 'intik% The strong aver4on with w h ich she a void-
ed Harriet in the last scene, was finely contrasted with the
tenderness and penitence which marked her deportment
when she was finally convineed of hererror; awl thunders of
applause when the curtain descended, announced the
high interest the audience had taken in the business of
the play, and the exquisite gratification which they had
derived front the eflints of the heroine. The play was,
generally, well cast. 'roux° seas very good in some
parts of Mr. ()ally, but occasionally wits a little finvical.
Mr. C. KEMBLE playa Char/es withgrcat spirit, humour,
and propriety. Tenn v gave a fine cool, natural pertreit of
the Major ; FAWCETT was irresistibly laughable in
.Sir Marcel. Tokm.v's Captain O'Cutter was touch tso
coarse. Mrs. Glans was admirable in the part of Lady
Fret-lave; and Miss Foirre obtained and merited consi-
derable applause as //orrice. The House was well as.
tended, but not crowded.

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SAM'S POTC7.I rutmA nor Lrx.

2'U rquidens drrare ail' are imagine rAern
Cr; (Sidi riht (iv. MET.

IT has often been thrown out as a reproach to the
rofersers of Medicine, that theirs is •a "-conjectural
sue," destitute of all settled principles .whereby to direct
their practice, and incapable of being advanced to that
state of perfection to which even the sciences auxiliary
to it, have in modern times attained. If there be troth
in this statement, it must nuturally follow, that long
experience and much discernment are necessary to ena-
ble a person so to arrange and compare the scattered
facts which fill under his observation, as to enable him
to apply them with advantage to the circumstances of
any particular disease, and forms a strong argument.
against: that intliscriniinate interference in disorders by
those who have had no opportunity of framing any de-
ductions, either f_aan reason or analogy, which can bear
on the case befbre them ; but who, nevertheless, with.all
the boldness of empiricism, prescribe remedies, with the
properties of which they arc totally unacquainted, and
the effects of which upon ihe animal economy they can
neither appreciate -nor understand. Of the unsettled
and fluctuating state of medical opinions, we have suf-
ficientecaidence in the, evanescent hypotheses which so
rapidly succeed each other, and which, being first pro-
mulgated-by some medical sage, become at length the
universal doctrine of the public at large ; so that it
would 'be little less than heresy in any practitioner to
differ in opinion from the prevailing and fashionalle
hypothesis of the day. Within the short period of a
single generation, how many of these popular delusions
have we witnessed ! A few years ago, all those.complafnts
which are the consequences of exc. ss and irregularity in
eating and drinking, and of deviations from that salutary
mode of life pointed out by Nature, were held to be ner-
sula.. Nothing was heard among invalids, hut of the
nerves being relaxed, unstrung, shettered. Those who
before were not aware they e .-er had nerves, and who
certainly could not have distinguished one from any
.4.ther part of the structure in the human body, and who
were totally unacquainted with the healthy office of
those organs, could talk as fluently of nervous diseases,
unit fancied. they understood theta equally as well, as
Hippocrates himself. After a time, the train of morbid
symptoms remaining the same, the real causes which
produced .hem anahated, the poor nerves were
absolved from having any share in the misehief, and
;file became the 'scape-gout which was to bear the blame.
Every bdy- on a sodden became Bilious, .acid it was
almost fotgetten that Nerves formed a part of the animal
structure... The fluid which Nature ;rad appointed a
shigle organ (the liver) to secrete,. and had destined to
be conveyed for use to one single spot-only in the body
(the thiedenum), was now a vagrant in vvery the re-
motest.phik t..of the system. Had any one, by excess in
eating, so overloaded his stomach as us weaken the (liger
five powers, and thus, instead of the flied being ronvext-
ed into .a .bland and wholesome chyle, it was changed
into a (awl-mite() and acid mass ; it was instantly alledged
that tho-atomach loaded with Bile, although the
ceder of Nature must have been reamed, and, thca pro-
perties of „the fluid changed, before this could tr.ve bees
t 1,2 saso. • It is well known to anatomists and physic's*
gists, that Bile. is poureelainto the intestines considerably
below the.atomach, and can never get into that organ
unless the a. !ion of the intestine should be•inverted, which
is # vent rare te..earsenee indeed, except the stomeeit is
under tleaasperation of an emetic, when the inverted
motion, of the stamach is extendal to the ieteetine below
It, and thus Bile may- pass upward, and be immalialeln
diechargad,e The acidity arising from imperfect diges-
tion was equally attributed to an .excess of Bile ; the
etqrnacbs was said to be loaded with roue hilt,.. Now
Bile can never be sour, it is one of the antst.bitter fluids
with which 'so are asiqualuted; and so fur feomlecoming
snur, it N. in a strong degree the property of checking
acid it a I) din he:al-ads arise Lam sympathy with the
oppressed and die ordered stomach, theeaugue Bile was
instantly accused, and charged with taking possession of
a citadel htenexer aissaulted. When some fair lady had,
sedentary eccupations or midnight revels, dept.:lied>.
her complexion. of those roses ancklilies, which pure air:
aad wholesome exercise would 'have secured tha scon-
Owes-400f, and Lai ainseqvitntly rubbed the skin of its
beautiful, j.re.rsirrigh..yvso that the .ttatural colour of the
sabeteemeglauda and rete otacosaia lying under the skin
was exposed to victor the yellow hue was attributed to
Bile ; a.slj while this laid was performing its appro-
priate. ofFee; lu its deseinstleaa, it was unjustly :charged
wits mml;l* to the extrenie surface of the kx'iy.j
Whether ,tsee sons of Ylisculapiatt,led t4e rv.an oalidlowed,
the tra.i.tad ,tbea: rpular delusiona, is immaterial ; they
have at all „tiaata been a soerce of abundant emolument
to hiediud Zeseee• lame se who have found it more to their
interest r. laintotir t:ie "...veiling errors, than to direct
the pithily to reason and to mob., Ilia' Lakightt mutt
have a rapid sletetesiun of new objects ; in that :T
aaelli-
ewe. Bile is ace 4.40 point of buing repereetled by De6ioe4
tar.: nevet.epi.u;aajaitaveverealateal% 4 surf to find vota—i
riesausong those Ysho. vuiuly hype
.to seem); or to regain-,

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Lealth, -rather by MS'allowin4 drugs than L living ra-
tionally; who fenitlessly Lade/your to reconcile wha-
Nature has wkely and unaltenady disjoined, excess, in-
temperance, and dissipation, with sound health, cheerful
spirits, undlong life. G.

ROYAL MARRIAGE.
—..lisi...—

The following further particulars will not be deemed
unimportant, with respect to an event in which the coun-
try has so deep an interest :
The Altar fur the celebration of the ceremony was
fixed near one of the fire-places in the crimson state-
room. When every thing was ready', the Lord Cham-
berlain gave notice to Prince Leopold, who took his sta-
tion in front of the Altar. The Lord Chamberlaitithen
gave notice to the Princess Charlotte, whowas led to the
Altar by the Duke of Clarence. The-Prince -Regent
took his place by the side of the Illustrious Pair. Be-
hind the Royal Dukes, stood the Lord Chancellor, Lords
Castlereagh, Sidmouth, and NIelvill,"; the Earls of
Westmoreland, Harrowby, Mulgrave, and Bathurst; Mr.
Vunsittart, Mr. Bathurst, and Mr. Pole, the Cabinet
Ministers. On the other side of the Altar was the
Queen, fir whom a Chair of State was placed. On her
right hand were the Princesses Augusta, Sophia, Elisa-
beth, and Mary ; the Duchess of York, and her High-
ness Princess Sophia of-Cloucesten Behind her Majes-
ty were, her Lord and Vice Chmaberlains, and the La-
dies of the Household. On the kik of the Altar stood
the Royal Dukes of York, Clarence, -and Kent (the
Dukes of Cumberland and Sussex, and his Highness
the Duke of Gloucester, were not present).! The Arch-
bishop of Canterbury was close to the Altar, and behind
him the Archbishop of Yorke. The Bishop of London
ties on the right of thO Altar, the Bishop of Exeter as
Clerk of the Closet, and the Bishop of Salisbury, the
Preceptor of the Princess Charlotte.
The Dukes of Orleans and Bourbon, the Foreign Am-
bassadors, and the great Officers of the Household, stood
in front of the Altar at some distance.

'l4 Illustrious Personages had all taken their stations
by a .ittic after nine o'clock, when the service .began.
The eeremo.ny was performed by the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, assisted by the Bishop of London. It concluded
at half-past nine.
. _ _

Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold changed
their dresses previous to leaving Carlton -house. The
Princess did not take leave of the company, and avoid-
ed all compliments and congratulations, by slipping
down the private stairs from. the state apartments to
the ground floor. She then -.entered • her carriage,
which was waiting for her and Prince -Leopold in
the garden. The Royal . pair were, however, recog-
nized by the populace in the dirk, from Jte quick gallop
of the horses.

On Senday the Princess Charlotte and Prince Cobourg
attended Divine service at Weybridge Church ; on quit-
ting which, they Feecived the hearty acclamations of an
immense numlr_r.nf pcople,collecred by the novelty of the
sight. Tl,a.august Pair walked to aid from the church,
through the church-yard, which is a considerable distanc
from the road where they left their carriage.. Ha
Serene Highness wissavithout his hat, and his Royal
Bride curtseyed, in The most affable manner, in return
to the congratulations of the people. They afterwards
rode by Chertsey and over Walton-bridge, and on•their
return to f•Yatlands received a communication .frnts the
Queen in I.,Ondon.
The Prince of Saxe-Coburg is of a House to which
England owes her Laws, her customs,. .and .her early
tongue : our Lord's Prayer is almost every word
Saxon, as are likewise the Creed *la Afte'tionimand-
ments.

It is said, that the Prince of Saxe4o.biatrgbas declined
a Peerage.
The Prince of Coburg yotng, afc-he is, was in -the
battle of Austerlitz, in that of 7,14au, in the great victory
at Leipsic, and aev.eral. of the sabsequent actions,
which brought, tho,.lhiasian. Army into Paris, in 1814.
After tbis,...t. swELbe read with pleasure, that. the only
request his itighness has made, since his comtretion with
England, was, that he might have rank in our army.
The Princess Chailotte had her wedding-ring made,
according to her own special directions, stronger and
larger than arc usually worn.

Yesterday her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte
and his Serene Highness Prince Leopold ca'Saxe-Coburg
attended Divine Service again at Weybridge Church,
which attracted a very .crowded congregation. They sat
in the Duchess of York'skpew.. The (;hump-yard, through
which they alkali to the church, wascrowd'al with spec-
tators, who received them with marked attention mad re-
joicings, which the Prince and Princess very condescend-
ingly aclamwhigTtl. At dm conclusion of the attenmon
service 'icy set out Gm L:ruisni in their new travelling
carriuge. They were preemie,' by another Royal carria:;e,
in-which were their attendants. They arrived at t...n
minutes bethre, six o'clock at Camelfard Houser A crowd
was assembled at the f.,,ites in Oxfi)rd-street, who received
them with loud Ituzzas.. Herefontstrect, which is open
to Camelfonl }Muse, wss also crowded at the iron-railing
which seperates, the enart-pted from, the street, to ;ea the
Prince and Princess get en toftheir carriage. They were
rg:cf..,yry3 n the ball by Bqroti Hartlerbnivkr

MAT 13:,

Gardiner, the Pliges in Wnitiny, and Other attendants.
Soon after their arrival dinner was served up. Their re-
turn to London yesterday being known in the higher
circles, Hyde Park was more crowded nlke afternoon
than it has been any Sunday. this season; with carriage..;
horsemen and pedestrians ; butthe coldness of the wind,
and the frequent blowers which fell after four o'clock diss
persed most of •than: great lumbers of well dressed per-
sons, however, loitered about the neighlwurluxxlof Camcl.
ford House, which wab also crowded in'the interior.wii!s
all ranks, leaving their respectfull congratulatimis. A
nut numerous and distinguished assemblag,e having
attended to pay their respects at Carrielfiird House jointly
to the Princes Charlotte and Prince Leopold, it is utter-
ly impossible for us to find room for the humnse list of
mantes with which we have been furnished.

The Addresses of Compliments of Congratulation firer
the Corporation of London. to her Royal I tighncss the
Princess Charlotte, and to his Serene Highness Leopold
George Frederick Prince of Saxe Coburg, will be pre-
sented at Cautelgird-House this day, immediately idler •
presenting the Addresses to the Prince Regent at Carlton-
House, and to her Majesty ntthe Queens Palace.
Her Majesty and the itincesses •intend residing at
Buckingham House during the remainder of this month;
and nearly, if not quite, the whole of the next. Her
Majesty's apartments at Windjor are undergoing a repair.
The Prince Regent will bold a Levee on Tuesday at
Carleton House. The Queen will 'hold s
room on Thursday, at her Palace; on which.. day the
Court will go out of mourning ibr thatKlay.
The Prince Regent honoured Count and Countess
Munster with his company to dinner on Monday; after
which the christening of their infant- took Place ; when
his Royal highness did then the honour to stand sponsor;
Tuesday being the Ducia.l/21 of York's Birth-day the
same was celebrated at the Queen's. Palace, by her Ma-
jesty having a party to dinner, and a numerous party in
the evening. The Prince Regent dined with his Royal
Mother.

An order has been received from the Lord Chambei-
lair.:a 011icc, for the Court going into mourning v on
Sunday neat for the Empress of Austria ; to change the
mourning on Sunday the 26th ; and to go oat on Sunday
the 9.d of June.

The Brussels Papers speak of the I)uke.of Wellington
by his Flemish title—Field Marshal Ilrlnce of Waterloo.
It is stated in an article from. .&hsscls, that many
English families had arrived thete for the purpose of
spending the summer. Othevfamilies, and some of them
of high consideration, were txpected. Every thing
showed that Brussels would be very brilliant during the
summer.

The Duke .f Clarence, the Duke and Duchess of
Cumberland, several of the Foreign Ambassadors and
Ministers, .with a select party, dined with the Prim'a
Regent,. on at Carleton House.
Kaan, by his recent-trip to the north, cleared 11001.
after paying all_ his travelling expences; those of his
friend Wallack, and dresser. His next excursion is said
to be to Norwich on an engagement tbr six nights, at
one hundred guineas per night.—lf we recollect rightly,
Norwich is among the most fonvand to-complain of the
weight of taxes, awl the dearth of trade ! !
Every Man in hill Humour is the next in the list of
Drury-hate revivals. Kean will; of course, be the Bile/y,
and Harl.y.,Captain Bobadil.

POETR

The•follniiing small Poem bas been anonymously and
sparingly circulated in the first ranks of fasition. It is
ascribed to Lady Byron. L B. P.
OH ! FADE THEE WELL!
o!+:•,flre..thee well!—and most the sigh,
Embodying the words that ses er,
Meet those as heartfelt that reply,
Oh ! fare thee well—farewell for ever?
Then be it so— but still the heart,
'flint swore to love thee,—swore so true
Shah never front its faith depart,
No--nor for mer banish you.
Fon a' ER !—Oh! concealed, there lies,
Obtittrate, in that ,w0r,11..,- the source
That-leads to ill cur destinies,
And plants within thy breast—remorse.
FOR EVF.R ! No—shall sullen Inide
Thy bosom seal—excluding there,
Of feeling—the returning tide,
And cherish still thy throb—despair?
Oh ! yield not- father of ntrebild!—
Once tender--ever dearest still—
Ohl yield nor re those fancies wild,
That agitate thy fevered will—
To that capricions, restless train,
Not born of Ikasou's kind, •
That havoc in thy fertile brain,
And canker in thy nobler mind!
Yield not to these—oh! by this kiss
Which on thy ittlit-ra lips I press, .
And by that one—a) pure--of
Tliat promised years aim ppines.
Ah! how illusive!—thee are tied ;
.
And ojnee unwolace of toy care
sn yield ow e;:tsslitothers to thy. bed,
Otokouthe-ainw hours of angitiAl Ilieke-••• •
•
Tben fare lltrr er,
Think ror lye.. ~are
If :ion :ill fii.l.l .t!,
!it win •:".1( 110,11

RIM

• 'MAY 3.

LITERARY 4 STIEATIFIC INTEELIGEACL.
LORD ELCIN'S MARBLES.

Our rttiders Gill ranll.et, that emotion war made torn^ time tee in
the Ito 4e of (.0mo:ohs reap( (MN.; the purchase of the 1.:1,in
ae eaty ate and that the moyosal wa.s referred to a title,' Com-
mittee of the Ilona:. Ater ex:twining r.onv: of the Totnt celtheated
waist. cud 11101 of tame in the kingdom, the Committee have lately
iren s ts.port•on this sublets. which &serves the intrtiettlar atten-
'lion of those font! of the arts. These marbles were procured IA a con-
_ _ .

-lid:ruble espy= by Lord Elgin, during the time he resided as Ain-
tassador at Constantinople; and mu: of the chief objetts of enquiry was,
r to a-certain their merit as remains of ancient sculpture, and the utility
likAy to arise front their becoming the property of the public. On this
. point, the Committee (Ufa the following reruarits:-6. 'The testimony
of's:vend of the most eminent artists in the kingdom, who have been
examined, rates these marbles in the very' first class I.f ancient art,
POW placing ilani-a little above and others a little belie Vie Alollo
.11.21videre, the Laocoun, and die Torso oldie Belvidere. Thy speak
of dates with admiration and enthusiasm ; and, notwithstanding the
ntanifold injuries of time and weather, and those mutilations which
.they have sustained from the fortuitous ,rr desihned injuries of negket
•r mischief, they consider them as among the finest niodth,• snd the
most exquisite Monuments of antiquity. The general current of this
portion of the evidence makes no doubt of referring the date of these
works to the ori::inal building of the Parthenon, and to the designs of
Phidias, the dawn of every thing which adorned and ennobled Greece.
'With this estimation of the excellence of these wanks, it is mound to
Ismeluele that they are recommended by the same authorities, as highly
'fit, and admirably adapted, to form a school of study to improve our
notional taste for the tine arts, and to di:fuse a more perfect knowledge
of theist throughout this kingdom. Murh indeed easy be rewonably
hoped and expected from the I,,eneral observati•m and admiration of
such distinguished etampks. The (Ica of the fifteenth and the begin-
ning of the sixteenth centaries, enlightened by the discovery of several
of the noblest -remains of Lotiquity, produced in Italy an abundant
' harvest of the Most eminent m_st, who made gigantic advances in the
path of art, as painters, sctilptors, anti inehitects. Caught by tk. no-
velty, attneet.d by the beauty, and enamoured by the ;affection of those
newly-disclosed treasures, they imbibed the genuine spirit of the ancient
est:. ::ence, and transfused it into their own compositions."
The last object of the report is the value of these marbly;, the acqui-
-sition of which wa; attenmsl with an expenee to Lord Elgin of more
than 74.m01. The Committee, however, fixes the pries to be given
for them at 35,05)1. The value of them, as stated by Mr. Ilaiiiiitun,
'Lend k:lgin's priest" s_vretary, is as follows :
TM:sem, or Hercules - - £4OOO
!Mous . - - 4000
Female group - . - 4(0)
• ....--. auto - - - - 4000 f.,
Iris • - . - . Iti POO
Three Horses Iltode •.• - .. V..ifei
Torso of Neptune • 500
• ltemainder of the l'edimeat . . 41101)
Metopes - 10,15)0
Fifty-three pieces at 4001. each . • - took)!
Bacchus 1000
Caryatis - - - . 700
Casts from the Parthenon - - 1000
Doric Columns and Architrave - • . 4001 %
lonic dittoand ditto - -. AOO j i
inscriptions .
- - 1000
Etruscan Ilas-iteliefs - . - 200
Vases ftolll Athens , • • - - 40)
Bronze Vass . - - - • 2004
Medals -... . ~ 800
-Drawings - r• 500

Xtar,a4oo
'the valuation of Mr. Payne Knight, the author of a work on Taste,
-Re. is only :13,0001. including several articles not above particuLsrisell ;
• but this difference arises chiefly from the difference of opinion in regard
to the antiquity of these ancient monuments. Instead of being the.
work of !Indies, in the time of Pericles, an generally admitted, Mr.
Knight considers thou only as produdions of the age of Hadrian, the
restorer of Atheos.
We shall conclude this article with the following testimony ;Oven in
• their favour by Mr. Ithaxman, an ingenious and learned:with:ter, whma:
work, are well known to the public Tice Elgin-marbles arenrortly
basio-relievo, and the finest works of the lit i have seen. Those in
the Pope's Museum. and the other Galleries of Italy were the I.autvwu
and the Apollo Belvidere; and the other molt celebrated works of an-
tiquity were groups and statues. (lifter in the respect that they
arc chiefly basso-relievos and fragments of statuary. Vs ith respixt to
their excellence. they are the most excellent of their kind that I have
• seen; and I have every reason to belieVe they were executed by
llndias and them. employed under hint, or the general design of them
given by him at the time the temple was built : as we are informed, he
was the artist principally employed by Pericles, and his principal scholars
wientioned by Pliny. Aleamenes, and about four others. immediately
under him ; to which he adds a catalogue of seven or eight others who
followial in order, and he mentions their succeeding Phidias in the
tourse of twenty years. I believe they arc the works of those artists ;
and in this resiwet they are superior almost to any of the works of an-
- tiquity.except the l.aoeoon and Torso Earnest:, because they arc known
to have been executed by the artists whose names axe recorded by the
oacient authors. With respect to the balmy of the basso-rehevon,
they are as perfect nature as it is possible to put into the compass rf the
marble in which they are executed, and that of the news olegaM•kind.
There is one statue also which is called a Hercules, or Theseus, of the
test order of merit. The fragments of groups of women are finely ex-
ecuted; but I do not, in my own estimation, think their merit is so
rest." The testimony of the other artists examined was nsarly to the
same purpose.
DISCOVRRIES.

We learn from New South Wales, that otir knowledge of that coun-
try is likely to be extend.xl, in consequence of a tow made last year by
the Governor over the Western or Blue Mountains. for the purpose of
being able, personally, to appreciate the value and importance of the
-trwl of country lying beyond them, which had been explored in the
tral of the year ISIS and the beginning of 11(14, by Mr. Evans, de-
puty surveyor of lands.
The favourable account given of the cotmtry by Mr. Evans, in.
dueed the Governer to cause a road to be constructed for the paasage
and conveyance of cattle and provisions to the interior; and men of
Rood character selected trout a number of convicts who hail volunteered
their services, were empl4ed to perform this arduous task. on the
condition of being fed and clothed. during the continuance of their
labour. and bong granted emancipation on the completion of the work.
The chief dbe.tion of this work was entrusted to isgentleman named
Cox, under whose superintendanee it was completed, notwithstanding
the difficulties encountered. in the space of six months, without the
loss of a man, or any serious accident. In one place the road is cut out
in the face of a perpendicular precipice 676 feet in height, According to
actual measurement, and this part, in all its windings, is no less than
three fourths of is mile in length. In order to perpetuate the memory
of Mr. Cox's services, the goventor devoted it a tribute justly due to
him, to give his name to this annul rid extraordinaiy pass, and he
accordingly called it, Cox's Pas:.
The road being completed on the 21st of January, the Governor,
accompanied by Mr. Macquarrie and Mr. (ox. iximmeneed his tour
on the tsth of April. They were afterwards jeined by the Goveitor's
secretary, aid-de-camp, and otter.;; and on the 4th of May, arrived
at a champagne vountry several miles in length. bounded both sides
by gently rising hills, used intersected by the Macquairie river. Hay..