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REVIEW. IN II ynE Patty.--The Ist and 2d
regiments of Bucks Yeomanry, Colonels the Mar-
quis of BUCICINGIIAM and Lord TEMPLE, were
reviewed on Saturday morning by his Royal
Highness the Duke of- YORK, who arrived on
the ground about nine o'clock. The Marquis of
BUCKINGIIAM..beaded his regiment in a scarlet
uniform. His Royal Highness passed through
the ranks, and having inspected the men and
their accoutrements, took post, with his Staff
about him, on the east side of the ground. The
troops then passed in review before him in lines,
companies, and finally in close column, perform-
ing various evolutions.. Afterwards his Royal
lighness moved forwards, and having expressed
to the Noble Marquis his satisfaction at the re-
spectable state of force and discipline in which
the regiments had presented themselves, left the
field,.and arrived with his military retinue at the
Horse Guards before ten o'clock.

The Ist regiment of Horse Guards, which left
their barrack; at Windsor to attend the Corona-
tion, returned on Saturday morning.—The se-
cond battalion of the Grenadier Guards marched
on Friday into 'Windsor barracks, to relieve the
second battalion of the Coldstream Guards.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND'S Sharpshooters
have been long since disembodied ; and the only
rifles on duty on the occasion of the Coronation
were the yagers of the Honourable Artillery
Company.

The Gazette of Saturday notifies that on the
17th instant, Prince EsTEanaz xr, Ambassador
Extraordinary from the Emperor of AUSTRIA,
the Duke de GRAMMONT, Ambassador Extraordi-
nary from the King of FRANCE, and several other
personages, appointed by the other Continental
Sovereigns, on special missions, to compliment. his
Britannic MAJESTY o'l his Coronation, had au-
diences to deliver their credentials.
MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.--[We are fa-
voured with the following communication from a
a Lady of high rank, who was an eye u itnesslo
the event described singular incident took
Place on Thursday, in Westminster-hall, in one
of the Peeresses' boxes, near to the left of his
Majesty's table. At the first entry of the Chain.
pion, when every eye was directed towards him,
an Irish Peeress (the countess of A y), who
had lately arrived from Paris to attend. the Co-
ronation, happening to turn round. her head, saw
near her a gentleman in a Highland dress, lean-
in.-° against one of the small pillars, with a pistol
in his hand, and looking towards his Majesty's
table, seemingly as if going to present it. She
instantly, starting, exclaimed " What do you
mean ? What are you about, Sir ?" lie replied,
cc Don't be alarmed, Madam, the pistol is not
loaded." But this not satisfying her Ladyship,
she, with the true characteristic spirit of her
country, turned to one of the gentlemen ap-
pointed by Lord C wydyr to attend upon the
Peeresses with refreshment, and said, " Sir, I
desire you will instantly arrest and secure this
gentleman with the pistol in his hand, and re-
move him from the gallery ;" upon which he 'vas
instantly surrounded by some of the attendants
till a proper officertook him into custody. Many
of the,Ladies were alarmed almost to fainting.--
After a short interval, one of the attendants was
sent to the box to quiet the fears of the Ladies,
by informing them that the pistols were not
loaded.—( The Times.)

!lieu TREASON. Yesterday the LORD A two-
CATE received a warrant from his MAJESTY, dc-
daring his Royal pleasure to extend his grace
and mercy to 51 persons, against whom true
bills for High Treason were found before the
Courts of Oyer and Terminer, held in Scotland
last year, but who were not brought. to trial,
owing to their having absconded. Immediato
orders were in consequence given, that such of
these persons as have been taken into cpstody
should be liberated in the course of this day,
being that fixed for his MAJESTY'S Coronation,
and all proceedings against the others have been
ordered to be discharged.---(Edinburgh. Courant,
July 19.)
FATAL ACCIDENTS IN HYDE PARK.--OD Sa-
turday night an Inquest was held at the Turf
tap, at the back of St. George's Hospital, before
.111 r. lIInGs, Coroner, on the body of Mary Anu
Harriet Sawdy, who was killed in Hyde Park
on Thursday • night. It appeared in evidence
that the deceased was only seven years of age;
her parents, on Thursday night, went to see the
fire-works in the Patk, taking the deceased and
a younger child with them. They found an im-
mense mob endeavouring to drive away a caravan
which was full of people, and was obstructing.
the view of others. After some scuffling, there
being no horses to the caravan, it was drove
down the declivi.ty, and it taking a winding di-
rection, threw down Mrs., Sawdy, who held the
deceased in her arms, and passed over them both.
Mrs. Sawdy was very much bruised, and the de-
ceased was carried to the Hospital, where she
expired in about an hour after the accident.—
The Surgeon, on opening the body, found the
liver ruptured, which was the cause of death.
Verdict—" Accidental Death."—There was an-
other Inquest held before the same Coroner, on
the body of Jane Davis, killed in the Park. The
deceased was bar-maid at an hotel. in Conduit-
street, and on Thursday night went with the
head-waiter to see the fire-works. When they
got into the crowd they were separated by the
mob, the deceased was thrown down on the car-
riage road, when a Gentleman, in a chaise, drove
up at a rapid pace, and the wheels passed over
her. She was carried home, where she lingered
till Saturday. Verdict—." Accidental Death."

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NEW ANNALS of VOYAGES and TRAVELS, of GEO-
FtA P I' and II 'STOP. Y ; or, a Collection of Original
uopublis)ed Narratives, communicatA by French end Fo-
reign Travcliers, of new Voyages and Travel:;, translated
;'roln every European tongue, ail Historic Memoirs on the
Irigin, Language, Manners, and Arts of Nations, as well as
the Productions and Commerce of Countries, hitherto little
or badly known ; accompanied with a Bulletin, aunouneing
~11 the Discoveries, Researches, and Undertakings which
tend to accel::.rate the progress of Historical Sciences, and es-
pecially of Geography ; with Maps, Plans, and Engravings.
edited by M. M. J. h. EYntEs and MALTE-Bn.ux'.—V6ls.
V., VI., VII., and Vlll.—Paris.
'The French have lately got up so many works
with scissars, so many of their Authors have put
their names to the title-pages of books which
they have not even read, so many re-prints have
appeared as novelties, which have nothing new
but the title and preface, so many typographi-
cal traps have been set to catch good-natured cu-
riosity and liberal ignorance, that we may well
be permitted to distrust the speculations of a
Prospectus, and even compilations on vellum, and
plagiarisms with vignettes. We must, therefore,
examine the real spirit and merit of the New Annals
of Voyages and Travels, and, above all, distin-
guish well what they possess in common with the
Journals dedicated to the Sciences, from the
essential and original part of the composition,
which makes this work worthy a place in our
libraries, and will render it as useful and import-
ant thirty years hence as it is curious and amus-
ing in the present day.
If you will take the trouble to read the long
title which I have put at the head of this article,
and which I have purposely copied at full length,
you will be able to form an idea of the import-
ance of the Annals, of the object which the
authors have in view, and of the utility of their
undertaking. They are composed of two distinct
parts : one of them, more pleasing, perhaps, to
the generality of readers, because it is more con-
cise and varied, is confined to notices of all that
is interesting and new in the sciences of history
and geography. In truth, these notices, derived
from the private correspondence of literary and
scientific men, and travellers in different coun-
tries, possess the high merit of authenticity and
selection ; but, however great the care and ta-
lent bestowed on their compilation, the interest
attached to them can only be ephemeral, and at
the expiration of a few months this part of the
Annals, coming within the domain of things
known, ceases to attract curiosity and attention.
In this respect, the Annals of Voyages and Tra-
vels do not differ from other scientific journals ;
and they would be still less valuable if the daily
press, almost wholly devoted to politics, did
not, with few exceptions, entirely abandon the
inexhaustible field of the sciences and that of
-literature.
The real merit of these Annals is not, there-
:fore, comprised in the bulletin, in the historical
said geographical miscellanies, in the epheme-
rides, and in the literary and scientific notices ;
but it is to be found in the collection of original
voyages and travels, here first published, from
which all that was previously known has been
struck out, and in memoirs on historical ques-
tions, or on points of geography still obscure;
these narratives of Voyages and travels, contain-
ing nothing but what is new and important, al-
ways add some new ideas to our stock of know-
ledge, and do not tire the reader by repetitions,
or bydescriptions of objects already a hundred
times described. The plan which the editors
have laid down, and the method by which they
execute it, present another advantage which has
not, perhaps, been sufficiently appreciated,
though it may not have entirely escaped notice.
Travellers have a natural propensity to follow
the same routes, and to perform again in some
measure the journey of their predecessors. Let
us, for instance, take accounts of travels into
Egypt : it is always the flat region of Alexandria,
Cleopatra's Needle, Pompey's Pillar, then the
Bogaz or the Bar of Rosetta, then the hundreth-
told description of Cairo, then the Isle of Rodah
and the Mokias, then the dimensions of the Great
Pyramid and of the head of the Great Sphinx,
then the navigation of the Nile, in the course of
which they make you pass in review Benisouef,
Minich and the ruins of Antinoe, Manfelout,
Siont, and Girge, the fine Temple of Denderah,
Karnac, and Louxor, then Esne, then Ellethyra,
then Assoun, Elephantina, and Philx. There
is not, perhaps, one of my readers who has not
met with these names a hundred times in books
of travels, the contents of each of which have
been announced as quite novel. But it is just
at necessary that the lateral parts of Egypt
should be equally well known to us as the eter-
tial of the Nile ; the ridge which borders
upoa the deserts of Lybia, the river without
water, the faioum itself, and the immense tract
which extends front the Isthmus of Suez to the
coast of Habesch, have by no means been ex-
plored like the ruins of Thebes or the vaults of
Gournab. As much may be said of all the re-
gions of the globe ; the most valuable narratives,
the most .circumstantial journies, have often
traced only the outlines, leaving us in complete
ignorance respecting the principal characters of
the country and inhabitants of the intervening
spaces. Hence it is that the Niger, attacked
from the west, the south-west, the north-west,
and the north, still hides from us its mysterious
course; and will continue to keep it secret, most
probably, until our travellers, departing from
Upper Nubia, shall advance in the same direc-
tion as Mungo Park.
The compilers of these Annals are now parti-
cularly employed in filling up these intervals.
By consulting the relations of the ancients, insti-
tuting a comparison between the works of dif-
ferent travellers, reconciling apparent contradic-
tions, discussing philologically the synonym or
olynym of numerous terms, characteristic or ap-
. pellative, of so many various idioms ; and lastly,
by bringing together ancient and modern travels
undertaken in the same country, they separate
those parts of the globe known to us from those
of which We are still ignorant, and thus contri-
bute to the progress of geography, much more
astficaciously than the greater number of travellers.
Distant countries are not the only parts of the
world deserving of our attention and interest;
we have at home many secluded spots and dis-
tricts which are almost quite unknawn, and the

much pains and talent as the Prussian traveller
has bestowed in representing the steppes of New
Andalusia, the wayward course of the Oroonoko,
and the desert shores of its numerous tributaries.
These annals furnish valuable information re-

specting some retired spots in France and the

ieighbouring countries.
It is in these unpublished voyages and travels,
ii► their critical examination and their comparison
with analogous undertakings, in bringing toge-
ther different narratives and the discussion of ob-.

scure points ; and lastly in the importance and
variety of the political and historical memoirs,
that we must seek for the true spirit of the
Annals, and that we discover their real merit.—
In this part they cease to be a Journal, and be-
come a hook, the utility of which will ever be
felt, because Are shall always refer to these
criticisms and discussions i❑ order to form a just
%nine of books of voyages and travels, and to
know what additions have been made by them
to science. The success of the New Annals is
not doubtful, it equals that of the old, but it
seemed to me that their periodical appearance
has caused their real character to be mistaken ;

and if I have been a little diffuse in the explana-
tion which I have just given, I intreat the
reader to consider that it is always very difficult.

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If from the plan and spirit of the Annals
we pass to their execution, we shall find that their
success is owing to the itnpottance of the (pies-
Lions treated in them, the interest and charm of
the narratives published, and the astonishing va-
riety of the objects brought before us. This last
quality is almost alone sufficient to ensure suc-
cess. We are eager for information, but long
works alarm us, and the way to please is to ex-
hibit a great number of facts in a small number
of pages. L► this respect, the form of the Annals
and the taste of the Editors flatter and gratify
at the same time the desires and indolence of our
minds. On one hand, voluminous books of
Travels and Voyages are reduced to such facts
as are new, curious, and material ; and on the
other, the diversity of the narratives, and the
contrast of the representations, enable us to go
over the surface of the globe in 300 pages of

SOLEM QUIS DIOEIZE FALSUM AUDEAT?

LONDON,
moND JULYt 23, 1821.

The French Journals of Thursday and Fri-
day, which reached us this morning, furnish im-
portant intelligence respecting the differences
between the Porte and Russia. It is stated that
war has been declared by the latter Power, that

the Russians have entered Moldavia and Wal-
lachia, and that some affairs of outposts have
already taken place between them and the Turks,

reading. In the perusal of these volumes, what
voyages and travels have I not been obliged to
perform in a few days! After having explored
with M. de Beaufort the shores of that Cara-

in which tl►e latter have been beaten. An article
from Frnkfort of tl►e 14th of July renders this re-
port still more probable. Intelligence is said to
have been received there that the Russian Minister
Baron Ps: SraoGoNorr had been sent to the
Seven Towers, where he is closely confined.—

The GRAND SEIGNort would not listen to the
remonstrances of the other Christian Ambassadors,
who demanded the Baron's release, and that he
should be sent to Odessa. The Turks seem to
be convinced of war being unavoidable, and the
imminence of the danger to which they are now
exposed, has united all classes of Mussulmen in
the most unprecedented efforts to meet the im-
pending storm. The military preparations of the
B ussians are of the most formidable description :
their armies have long been concentrating near
the. Turkish frontiers and are quite ready for ac-

tion ; one of their divisions has entered Galatz
with orders to continue its march on Constanti-
nople, and the Turks have made a precipitate re-
treat from Bucharest, in consequence of the
rumoured approach of a Russian force. The
naval preparations on the part of Russia are
equally powerful ; a fleet, under the command
of Admiral GREIG,iS immediately to be dispatched
into the Bosphorus, and we expect soon to hear
of a combined attack on Constantinople by land
and sea. Another Russian fleet is bound to the
Mediterranean, and remittances have already
been transmitted to Leghorn to provide it with

mania, to which so many recollections attach us,
I was compelled to follow M. Burckhardt, too
soon snatched away from the sciences, into the
deserts of Nubia and to the confines of the an-
cient empire of Meroe. Scarcely had I de-
scended from Mount Olympus, from which M.
de hammer spewed me the dominions of the an-
cient King Prusias, and maintained that Pliny
never formed the design of opening a canal of
communication between Lake Ascanius and the
Gulf of Nicomedia, when it was necessary to set
out for Egypt, where M. Letronne, with the
assistance of Herodotus, Diodorus-Siculus, and
Strabo, has restored and laid before me the plan
of the famous labyrinth. Presently I was obliged
to traverse I,ybia and the Sahara to accompany
Chabiny in his journey to Ton►buctoo ; and great
was my distress, when from the banks of the
Niger 1 found myself transported in the midst of
the fair of Makarieti, on the banks of the Volga!
My thermometer had fallen considerably, and I
eagerly embraced the opportunity of a voyage
to the Maldivia Islands to warm myself
again. Here I was shipwrecked, but meeting
with hard treatment, I soon regained sufficient
strength to go from the Cyrendic to the banks
of the Columbia, and from the Polar Sea
to the Asiatic side of New Holland. The Annals
very fortunately furnished me with the means of
beguiling the fatigue of my long peregrinations :
now it was a very curious memoir respecting the
different nations inhabiting Turkey in Europe,
presently a frightful picture of the terrible Ali
Pacha, the tyrant o► Epirus ; then another me-
moir on the policy of the Byzantine Emperors,
afterwards a paper on the ruins of Pompeii, and
lastly, a political view of Europe, a work which
our politicians ought to peruse carefully, were it
only for the conjectures it hazards and the rather
more probable events it predicts.
All these narratives, all these historical, geo-
graphical, and archeological discussions, impor-
taut memoirs, and terrible portraits, imposing or
pleasing, fill the last four volumes of the annals,
but the articles I have enumerated do not form
the tenth part of the catalogue. In doing justice,
however, to this immense collection as respects
variety, science, utility, and interest, we cannot
help reflecting on the greater degree of perfection
these Annals would have reached, if then-end] go-
vernment had been liberal enough to open to the
editors its ponderous and precious archives, where
so many bold conceptions, just ideas, excellent
information and reports, lie buried, to the great
loss of mankind, or are only published when they
become old, and are no longer useful. The
Spaniards and Portuguese have always made a
mystery of their discoveries, and concealed from
other nations the knowledge they acquired : are
their colonies in consequence more flourishing,
or is their commerce more extensive? England
has published every thing: her numerous ex-
peditions, her discoveries have been communi-
cated without reserve to all nations, and have
increased the general mass of knowledge. Is she
on that account less the first power as regards
navigation, manufactures, and commerce? It is
to be hoped that the French archives will soon be
opened to scientific men, capable of working this
fruitful mine; it is a treasure the riches of which
can only be known by a generous and liberal
circulation

supplies.
The Correspondence between the Courts of
Vienna and Petersburg is more active than ever,
and the military movements on the part of Aus-
tria, and also of Prussia, indicate their belief
that war is inevitable between Russia and the
Porte. It is said that very important communi-
cations are at this moment carried on between
the great powers of the North, and those powers
and England and France. They are said to relate
to a Note which the Ottoman Porte has addressed
to several Sovereigns on the subject of its disputes
with Russia; but little hopes are entertained of
the amicable adjustment of these differences.—
Lord and Lady STRANGFORD have quitted Con-
stantinople, and are safely arrived at Corfu. The
cruelties committed at Constantinople, on the
Greeks and Franks, continue, and assume a more
alarming character. The frigate, on board of
which Lord STRANGFORD took his passage, as
soon as it passed the Dardanelles, was sa-
luted by the Greek fleet, lying off Tenedos,
and his Lordship was received with every ho-
nour and respect by the Greek commander.—
There is no longer any doubt of the defeat of
Prince YPSILANTI by the Turks, and the total
dispersion of his forces. YPSILANTI succeeded
in escaping, with about three or four hundred
Iletaerists, to Transylvania. On the other hand,
the successes of the Greeks in Greece Proper
have been equally great, as the defeat of their
countrymen in Moldavia and Wallachia is deci-
sive. Acarnania is in complete insurrection, and
the Turks have been driven ont of several towns
and districts of Epirus ; the formidable position
of Agia is in the possession of the Suliotes ;
the post of Panormo has been captured by
the Chimdriots, and the rest of Albana enjoys
perfect tranquillity. The Turkish troops have
been forced to raise the siege of loannina, after
losing two thirds of their forces, besides a great
number who deserted to ALI P;%c11.1. Prevesa is
ca LonßEr in, the hands of the Turks ; the Mon-