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London, England, 1828-03-27 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1828.

[n the Press, and will be published in a few days, in 2 vols.

Bvo. with a Map, &e.
TRAVELSAND RESEARCHES IN
SOUTH AFRICA;
By the Rev. 'JOHN PHILIPP.D. ;
Superintendent of the Missions of the Undon,Alissionary

Society in South Africa, Pc.
This Work will contain an Account of the past and pre-
sent condition of the Native Tribes within or adjoining the
limits of the Cape Colony, comprising authentic details of
the various attempts made to enslave or exterminate them ;
the success of the Missionaries in recaiming them from
barbarous and immoral habits, to a state of civilization ;
the opposition they have had to contend , with, and the
intolerable oppressions to which both the Missionaries and
the Natives are still subjected. The Personal Observations
of the Author during his various journeys and travels into
the interior of the Country, will also, it is hoped, add
to the interest of a Work, of which one of the Lading ob-
jects will be to demonstrate the inseparable connection be-
tween Christianity and Civilization.
Printed for James Duncan, 37, Paternoster-now

This day was published, in I vol. 3vo. price 91. bdt.
M AE.LY ; or, a PLANTER'S . LIFE in
JAMAICA.
" There are a number of dissertations on almost every
Colonial topic of interest in this volume; they are marked
by good sense and plain treatment, and practical, if not
very enlarged views. We should consider them entitled to
the attention of parties concerned, and of the public gene-
rally."—Literary Gazette.
"The book presents in a faithful and minute picture, in
the Dutch style, a state of society so extraordinary, and
though of early occurrence in the history of the world, to
all appearance so utterly inconsistent with human nature,
that we believe the very fact of its existence will become
matter of dispute to a future and more civilized age.
The picture is the more rare and valuable that it seems to
be absolutely impartial."—London Weekly Review.
" This is really what its title indicates—a minute and
faithful picture of the life of a Planter in Jamaica. We
are not deluded by general descriptions and highly-coloured
sketches; we are truly and justly set down in a Planter's
settlement; and enabled to view the Jamaica life in all its
forms."—Atlas.
Printed for Griffin and Co. Glasgow; and Hunt and
Clarke, York-street, Covent-garden, London.

BRUCE'S HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
ATLAS.
This day was published, in small folio, beautifully engraved
printed on fine drawing paper, and handsomely bound
and lettered, price 16e.

AN HISTORICAL and BIOGRAPIII-
CAL ATLAS, for the Use of Schools and Students
in History, front the Creation to the Birth of Christ.
By JOHN BRUCE.

Author of " An Introduction to Geography and Astro.

nomy,"

"„" The object of this " Historical and Biographical
Atlas" is, to supply the student in History with tl. e same
advantages that the student in Geography possesses in Geo-
graphical Maps. The difficulty of giving a connected
view of the history of different nations is well known ; but
by a combination of Historical and Biographical Charts, this
is now attempted to be done in a simple and efficacious
manner. The Chronology of Archbishop Usher is adopted
as the basis of the work.

As a Companion to the above, Mr. Bruce has prepared
in SVo. price 3s. 6d. canvas boards,
A SUMMARY of ANCIENT HISTORY and BIO-
GRAPHY, with Questions for Examination in each Por-
tion of History. This work is sold separate from the At-
las, if desired.
Printed for Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster-row.
Whore may be had, by the same Author, the '7th Edi-
tion in 12mo. price is. 6d. neatly bound,
An INTRODUCTION to GEOGRAPHY and AS-
TRONOMY, by the Use of the Globes and Maps, and a
Table of Latitudes and Longitudes.

THIRD SERIES OF THE LONDON MAGAZINE.
THE LONDON MAGAZINE having
passed into new hands, it becomes necessary to state
as briefly as possible, the principles which are intended in
future to gover❑ the Publication.
The LONDON MAGAZINE was amongst the foremost
to seize upon the novel idea which has been successful in
changing the character of our Periodical Literature—that
of engaging the assistance of the best Miscellaneous Writers
of the age, instead of being dependent for contributions upon
the reveries of provincial antiquaries, or the inspirations of
occasional rhymers. That system the present Conductors
will maintain and extend ; and they have gloat satisfaction
in stating, that they have secured the zealous assistance of
some of the most eminent persons of the present time, not
for a season only, to establish a fleeting popularity, but to
be gradually developed and permanently employed.

The Conductors of the London Magazine feel assured
that any attempt to carry on a Literary Miscellany, with-
out an admixture of politics, can only lead to feebleness
and hypocrisy. Without obtruding opinions on public
matters into subjects with which they have no essential
connection, the conductors of the London Magazine will •
not hesitate to avow such opinions where they are naturally
called for. The affected fairness which blinks all great
questions is of more evil consequence than the party spirit
which distorts them. Our habitual and settled notions
are in complete accordance with every measure of policy
which has a tendency to advance the civil and religious
freedom of mankind and our own country in particular ;
and as we know that freedom is best secured by intelli-
gence, we are devoted to every undertaking which has for
its object to spread the blessings of elementary education,
and to cultivate sound knowledge and elevattA principles
amongst all ranks of the community.
From these avowals, it necessarily follows, that a lead-
ing purpose of the London Magazine will be Utility. It
will be our duty to treat of ail those questions (though cer-
tainly in the most attractive form) pertaining to Science,
• Statistics, and jurisprudence, which have a decided in-
fluence upon the character of the age. Our Monthly
Rivals neglect this duty somewhat too much, and thus
leave a rich harvest to our Quarterly Contemporaries. In

the department of Amusement, which, though the lighter,
is, necessarily, the most ,prominent, of a Magazine, we
must be judged by what we produce, and not by what we
profess.
To trace the progress of the Arts with a liberal and im
partial spirit appears to be a field of periodical writing, not
hitherto suif;:iently occupied ; and which must hive its
attractions for all, if not rendered too technical, too exclu-
sive, or too pretending. With regard to Literature, we
have only one word to say—we are unconnected with any
bookseller. The London Magazine is the property of in-
dividuals forming no part of the publishing trade. As a
matter of prudence, we are disposed to believe that the
public are growing much too intelligent longer to bear that
the dust of miscalled Criticism should be thrown into their
eyes, by those whose vocation is anything but critical.
We may be dull critics, but we shall not be impudent
Quacks. Our notices of Foreign Literature will be' full,
and derived from original sources.
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London Magazine, 13, Pall-mall East. where all commu-
nications for the Editors are requested to be addressed.
The Booksellers and Newsmen in Town and Country will
supply the Work regularly on the Ist of every Month.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW,
No. LXXIV.

Was published on TUESDAY.

In a few days will be published, in 3 vols. post Bvo.
GOMEZ ARIAS, or the MOORS of the
ALPUJARRAS ; a Spanish Historical Romance.
By DON TELESFORO DE TRUEBA Y COSIO.
Dedicated, by Permission, to the Right Honourable
Lord Holland.
London : llurst, Chance, and Co., 65, St. Paul's
Church-yard.

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LITERATURE.

TOM RAW THE GRIFFIN, A BURLESQUE POEM.

LONDON, 1828.

The local peculiarities and domestic habits of Anglo•

Ind►ans, more especially of those engaged in the Com-
pany's military department, are characteristically hit
off in the present volume. This praise, however,
refers to the illustrations rather than to the poem,
which (notwithstanding its general truth and viva-
city) is really of so questionable a nature as to re-
quire the aid of capitals at the head of each line, in
order to assure us that it is verse. We might other-
wise mistake it for lively and familiar prose.

The subject is one that affords plenty of matter
for incident and reflection : it professes to describe the
career of a young Cadet (a member of the extensive
and flourishing family of the Raws), from the first
moment of his arrival in India to the period when
he receives a staff-appointment, and is settled for life
in the East. The intervening space is filled up by
a succession of varied and amusing incidents, illus-
trative of Oriental habits—such as the Cadet's
voyage down the Ganges in a nautical curiosity, not
unlike a floating wash-house—his introduction to a►►
old Bengal merchant—his journey over-land in a pa-
lanquin, which gives way and lodges him safely in the
high road—his pitiable condition at a Calcutta Ball,
where a crowded party are dancing quadrilles in an
atmosphere some two degrees above blood-heat, and
where, by way of improving his felicity, he is
required to look graceful and interesting at that
awful period of the quadrille, when the gen-
tleman exhibits alone in full front view of three

ladies, who have just then abundant leisure for
comment—his first ascent of an elephant, and sub-
sequent introduction to a wild boar at a Hindtio
tiger hunt,—his fatal dismemberment of a fair
waltzer's full-dress flounce (far worse than the dis-
memberment of Poland), during a ceremonious ball
at the Governor-General's;--his visit to the Nabob of
Bengal, his flirtation, marriage, campaigning heroism,
and subsequent remuneration—all these events are, we
repeat, characteristically illustrated in a series of en-
gravings, which, leaving us nothing to wish for in
point of finish, are deficient only in a cer-
tain breadth of humour, without which bur-
lesque itself is insipid. Our artist's illustrations
—to quote the dictum of Swift as applied to Young's
Satires—" should either have been more serious or
more merry :" at present they are neither one thing
nor the other ; nevertheless they possess indications
enough of merit to warrant us in expecting much
from the future works of the same hand.

His MAJESTY has been graciously pleased
to transmit to the Loan MAYox, through Mr. Secretary
Parr., a donation of one hundred guineas in aid of the
grand concert to be held at Guildhall on Saturday morn-
ing next, for the benefit of the National, Ward, and Pa-
rochial Schools, in the city of London, accompanied by
his MAJESTY'S best wishes for its success.

BATH THEATRE.--The performances on
Tuesday se'nnight commenced with " The Hypocrite,"
exhibiting LISTON as Maw-worn-t, and a truly ludicrous
portrait he drew of the poor, drivelling, fanatic. Mr.
LIsTON's comic address at the end of the play was received
with thunders of applause, and at this moment one of his
extraordinary glances of the eye being levelled at some
lady in the stage-box, it wrought so potently upon her risi-
bility, that a hearty or rather loud laugh was the con,e-
quence, which was acknowledged by LISTON with that lu-
dicrous air of overpowered modesty and total subjugation,
fat which, we apprehend, he has the exclusive patent.--
Bath Paper.
THE THEATRE.—There was a very fashion-
able attendance at the Theatre on Saturday evening. The
performances were patronized by the Ladies I'AGET, who
were greeted on their entrance with the most enthusiastic
applause. A private box was occupied by the Vice Regal
party, which consisted of his Excellency the Loan LIEU-
TENANT, the Earl of UXBRIDGE, and the Ladies PAGET ;
the Earl and Countess of Eimer., Lord GEORGE HILL,
and Baron TuvrA. His Excellency sat in a retired part of
the box, and the auditory were quite unaware of his pre-
seam—The performances selected for the occasion were
the Duenna, the Lancers, and Raising the
Dublin Freeman's Journal.
It is with sincere regret we have to state, that
every hope has vanished of the safety of Captain UNTHANE
and . his son, with the crew of the ship George. The sup-
posed wreck of that vessel, noticed in our last as having
been observed on the-Dutch coast, has broken up, and stir'
in deep water. No tidings whatever have been gained m
the individuals belonging to her. Mr. UNTIIANK was well
known and much respected by the captains in the fishery
trade, having been for many years master of the ship
Zephyr, from this port. His son, who was only 16 years
of age, was a very promising youth. The health of Mrs.
U. remains in a very precarious state, from the dreadful
state of affliction in which she has been plunged by this
sad event.—Hull Packet.
The farmers, gardeners, and others, in the
neighbourhood of Tewkesbury, having severely suffered
from the depredations of sparrows for several years past,
lately agreed among themselves to kill each at least a dozen
of these feathered marauders by the first of March ; on
which day upwards of 1,100 were sent by the party to the
Royal Oak Inn, Bredon ; and the same individuals -then
agreed to destroy each a like number of these birds by the
first of April.— Cheltenham Chronicle.

PRICE 7D.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

MARCH 25.—High water forty-nine minutes pa.st six
o'clock.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Etna, Emerso❑
(steamer), from Dublin, with the mail.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.—Frederick, Bunninr, for Lis-
bon ; Margaret Ritchie, Miller, for Halifax ; Union, Cox,
for Jersey ; Chili, Brogden, for Madeira and Vera Cruz;
British Tar, Clark, for Halifax, Nova Scotia ; Melantho,
Williams, for Boston ; Rachel, Potter, for Batavia and
Sincapore; James Holmes, Keale, for Douglas ; Eliza,
Delaney, for ditto ; Joshua, Prowse, for Naples and Si-
cily ; Minton, Martin, for Rio Janeiro.
Telegraph Office, March 25.
POINT LyNAs.—Nos. 1,3, and 7 pilot-boats off: no-
thing more to report.
GREAT ORM'S HEAD.—Four ships and five brigs off
Orm's Head, outward—all well ; have not shown their
numbers at 10 a. m. The vessels that sailed this day are
to the northward of Point Air Telegraph Station, all well.

—Wind at Holyhead E.N.E., lresli breeze. Nothing off
homeward.

Soiled from 'Holyhead yesterday, the brig eolumlx), fur
Rio Janeiro ; schooner Charlotte, for Dublin.—Wind at
Holyhead at forty•five min. past three, p.m.,. E. N. E.,
light breeze.' Three ships outward-bound, off Point Lyuas
at fifteen min. past four.