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its Weight is tl.:0 ton Mote. it it cOmposea, not
like the fOttner of a brecria,. but of black gr.mite,
and was brought from Cairo ; and like the larger
one, IS covered with the hieroglyhic
writing.
Close adjoining is" the broken figure of a woman*,
seated on her hams, and probably-representing Isis
-.the position, as Porphyry asserts, is a type of 'the-
beity's peing retired within itself. Nigh this mu.
tilated fi'gure,lies a e.y.Thieleiref pillar of retl granite,
and close to it part of a large edge oaf bitiek
very neatly. and plentifully adOrnedwith Inetagly-
andperhaps,useil•frir the proServariomof sorri&
bithe sacred ve3tillnts.ot .utensilh. Jr is rounded
at the end, and, With one side of the smaller
eophagw, already Mentioned, haslieen:cnsraved by
Niebuhr.' it followed by another statue of
03itis ; beside which there is a small hyoken figure;
kneeling, with hieroglyphics;' is 'of black• granite.,
and like the: greater part of its neighbours, cattle
from Upper. Egypt.
To this enumeration "Wc-roust add a small chest
of Oriental -Manuscripts, gathered by the French
Institute at Cairo ; they
.are .in number sixiy-two,
'and are chiefly Coptic, Arabic and Turkish. •.
There are also two pkces•of aniient Sculpture,
which have not yet' arrived 'at the Museum ; • being
'at present deposited, .for the investigation of the
curious, in the Library -at Somerset-house, belongs.
iog to the Society of Aniicittaries. One has a triple.
I'l6op:ion, in theiacred, the vulgar, and the Greek
tongues.; the lattet of which is already engraved;
and a translation of it presented to the society by
'Mr. 6TErttEt4' VVEstON,, whence it appears e
hicnv
to relate t6ftolemy Philometer. The other is cf.e
statute of a woman, sittinn on, the ground, in
granite ; bttiVetti her feet the mot of sine of ih•-
capitals belonging to a 'colitirm in the Temple-I f
Isis, at Dendera.

Having said thus much of the Egyptian M(1111,1.
ments, i.t nuty not be irreley:olt to add a few words
upon the Hieroglyphics, which, appear ut. ,n so many
of them. Though in the4e Egypt shadowed out
both the spiritual and physical world; yet it is tot
probable that a system compot6al with such con-
sunurvire skill, confined entirely to the acquainiance
of tiv.: eriestl, and even by them delivered orally,
eau 4t- this day he' laid open to the world. The
ravages of CambYses must 'At least have deranged
the knowledge' of it; and lierndorus asserts, that
in his,.time the Priests we: but mere pretenders to
it. - We 'are assured by Plutarch,' that the hiddeli
philosophy of Egypt exhibited, even to those Who
were initiated among
.the Priest, hut dark hints arid
obscure resemblance's of the truth. And thus Much
the Priests themselves insinuated,' since they plxced.'
figures of the Sphinx at till entrance of their temples,
as types, of the,,enigmatical nature of their theo.
logy. •

CIIIMNEY SWEEPERS.

THE humane solicitUde of a Society rederitly
established to dirninish the'cruel sufferings 'to •vichieli
Chimney Sweepers' Apprentices are cons►tmned,
will, it is hoped, have the elf dl .which is proposed.
There seams, however, great reason to be appre-
hensive, that an attempt, which has so alien been
made, will not be L:attended with more success now,
than, it *been on former occasions. This obSer_
vation is not trade with a view to prevent eXertiOtis
of so meritorious a nature as those which the So.
'ciety pri`poses to themselves ; but arises merely
from a melancholy view of the small prr,gress that
haS been made in the amelioration
,of ithe fate of
Children aKrenticed to this trade, since the period
When they first becarpe the stibjeet of Public Anxiety.
• The benevitlent Jorvns HAN wAt, who first avow.
eti hinisell their prOteaor, -gives the following ac..
.cklunt of them These diitressed boys," he says,
. are often bought nt worthless parents, or picked
~up, a fotloro and, sold by cine'Cliittney
SWeeper to another, IN ten or twenty shillings.
SoMe IVlnsters take A &.,zeO, some twenty Appren.
flees. One of them had the modesty to take as
far as thitty; many of whose faces he really did
not knOw. In those ca!'!'*, it -is common to • let
them, Or at 6d a day : the boy to get food .Ixihesz-,
ittlifild it ;,--the Charity which they g4t 'the
streets, 'Alt exceeds a penny, they are again plan,
• dered of by- the Masters."

The remedy wt.ielt he proposed for this, was to
limit the number of Apprentices to five, lie adds,
that if this were carried into execution, the trade
would he a gainer, as there would be smaller num.
ber oi• Sweepers for Soot oilly.
Some of the legislative restrietions which he pro-
posed have, since been carried into execution ; but
the complete destration of the present system, and
the substitution of machinery in the place of the
labour of boys, is perhaps reserved for the present
age. A more honourable exertion of Humanity is
hot within its reach. •

• Amongst the number of name: one meets. in the
Nleiroenlis, that are professionally appropriate to
the avocations of their owners, not Ole least striking
are the following Sinithfield, a multifarious
Professor sports- the inscription of" CATCH-I'OlA,
bait-dresser, peruke-ntaker, and undertaker." . in
Clerkcn*ell.green, we meet the, sign=board of
3. Gravunar's. Academy." , iii Dyott.street,
St. Gilees, a,professor of the sable robe, announces
his avocation by "Chimnies swept, andnight-work
perfornted berf, by Timothy Bra4h,". A' window
nea; Clare-market exhibits a label, inscribed
1 h.21/14,1. SIL) ;fig portpring and messages per-
rotund. here;" and an Hibernian Lady, whoi;eeps
an o,6ariteM in fligh-street, St. Gilefi's, writes up,
" Fresh'eggs every.day, by me, Catherine Chick."
And in High-street, in the Borough,
..an atfive
Agent:of' the .taw, designates his residence by the
tvprils—f.44 Grip, Officer to the Sheriff Of
oine time risr, as a.lock. up tvaggon bel6nging
to Mr. Wright, of Asplcy, Academy, Beillorchiltire,
was coming fo..Lontion, with the, boxes belonging
to the young gentlemen Of the school, it was stop-
ped about midnight by -t,..v0 too.tpadl,; but .the
driver, with gehr presence of mind, saying, that if
they attempted' to dpetiiti, he wc.luitl lose 'll 'the wild •
beasts (pre trnding that it wa.s a show. earl); the rob_.
bers,.-not clunking it. prudent .to risk ,the attempt,
made off..