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tad E.rplanatery Mites. Two Vols. Biro.
As might be expected from the title, the contents of
these volumes are of very unequal character. Some of '
them are, however, very amusing, and the interest of
the collection is much increased by the notes with which
it is accompaniedEand for which, if report may be cre-
dited, we Art indebted to Mr. Croker, to whose superin-
tendance Lady LOndonderry committed the publication
ref These family piper s. The correspondence, however, it
may easily be imagined, will be found something more
than amusing when we recollect the period in which it
was written ; the spirit of the contending political par-
ties of • the time ; and, 'when we look at the names—
well known to the literary history °low country—which
fignre as correspondents in these pages—among which'
are Chesterfield, Bolingbroke, Swift, Pope, and Gay.
The oddest—the most outre—letters in the collec-
tion, are certainly. those which passed betwten the re-
!owned Earl of Peterborough and Mrs. Howard, and it
may be considered a singular trait of the taste of thel
times to witness such a person as the poet Gay assisting
the Lady in composing such epistolary. flirtations. Tor
the letters we must refer our Readers to the Work itself,
where they will find other matter well worthy of their
perusal. But, as offering snore rational amusement'
than his Lordship's love letters, we select the following
from Gay, With Mrs. Howard's answer. It is dated from
Tunbridge, in July, 1723.
" We have a young Lady • here that is very particu-1
Int in her desires. I have known some Ladies who, if
ever they prayed, and were sure their prayers would
prevail, would ask an equipage, a title, a husband, or'
matadores; but this Lady, who L but seventeen, and
has but thirty thousand pounds, places all her wishes in
a pot of good ale. When her friends, for the sake ofl
her shape and complexion, would dissuade her from it,
she answers, with the truest sincerity, that by the loss of
shape and complexion she can only lose a husband, but
that ale is het passion. I have not as yet drank with
her—though, I must own, I cannot help being fond of
a Lady who has so little disguise of her practice, either
in.ber words or appearance. if to slew you love her,
you must di ink with her. She his cluisen an ill place for
followers, for she is forbid with the waters. Her shape is
not very unlike a barrel; and I would desci ibe her eyes,
if 1 could look over the agreeable swellings of her
cl:eks, in which the rose predominates: nor can I per,
ceive the least of the lily in her whole countenance.—
Too see what thirty thousand pounds can do, for with-
out that I could never have discovered all these agiee-
able particularities: in short, she is the ortolan, or rather
tiArat ear, of the place, for she is-entirely a lump of fat,
and the form of the universe itself is scarce more beauti-
ful, for her figure is almost circurar. After I have said
all this, I believe it will be in vain for me to declare I
am not in love; and I am afraid that I have strewed
some imprudence in talking upon this subject, since you
have declared that you like a friend that has a heart in
his disposal. I astute you, I am not met cena: y ; and
that thirty thousand pounds have nut half so much
power with me as the woman 1.10ve."
Mrs. Howard's answer will chew the manner of her
writing : " Richmond Lodge, July 22 (1724
e' I have taken some days to consider of your wheel-
ear, but I Lindl can no mole approve of your having a
passion for that, than I did of your turning parson.
But if ever you will take the one,. I insist upon your'
taking the other : they ought not to be parted; they
were made horn the beginning for each other. but I
do not forbid you to get the best intelligence of the
ways, manners, and customs, of this wonderful pltetgo-
mine : how it supports the disappointment of bad ale,
and what-are the consequences to the full enjoyment of
her luxury. I have some thoughts of taking a bin(
from the Ladies of your acquaintance who pray for
matadores, and turn devotees for luck at ombre; for 1
have already lost above a bandied pounds since I came
to Richmond.

48 I do not like to have you too passionately fond of
everything that has no disguise. I, that am grown old
in Courts, can assure you, sincerity is so very anthriving
that I can never give consent that you should practise
it, excepting to three or four people that I think
deserve it, of which number I atn lam reiolvcd you
shall open a new scene of behaviour next winter, and I
begin to pay in coin your debts of fair .promises. I have
st:ltte thoughts of giving you a few loose hints for a sa-
tire; and if you manage it tight, and not indulge that
foolish good nature of yours, I do not question but I
shall see you in good employment before Christmas."
Trtrocis in Brazil, in the Years 1817, 18,19, and 1820,
undertaken by command of his ;Majesty the king of
varia. By Dr. John VonlSpix, and Dr. Marks Von
Marti**. Vols. 1. and 11. Bvct.

This work is amazingly minute and particular; and
to to the Brazils, we are obliged to accompany the
authors to Trieste, the Adriatic, Gibraltar, &c. This
however is no new feature with German authors, oho,
should agriculture be their subject, are sure to carry
yoti to the garden of Eden,—or, if naval architecture,
will give you a birth in Noah's ark. But notwithstand,
ing this drawback, these volumes will repay the trouble
of a perusal, as they descriLe very fully the state and
piodncts of the different parts of Brazil, the peculiari-
ties in the physical lot mation of the different tribes and
mixed breeds of the inhabitants, their dres4es, manners,
food, &c. &c. besides giving a particular, and, we doubt
nor an accurate description of the cipital.
" The library, said to contain seventy thousand vo-
lumes, which the King brought froni Portugal, lOr the
capital of-Brazil, is arranged in.the wiiiLee belonging to
the Terceira da Ordem do Carmo. The branches of.
history and jurisprudence ate said zo be the richest. %%'e
were particularly interested by a manuscript of a Flora
h'luminensis—that is, of the .Itio de Janeiro—which con-
tains descriptions and beautiful drawings of many rare
orunktriwn-plants glowing in the vicinity, and written
by arse VeVoso. The Public have free admission during
the greater part of the day; but the want of literary
occupation is so little felt, here, that the library is not
much frevented. To the same cause, and to the little
inclination hitherto felt hereto advanCe with the spirit
of the sciences, it may, be attributed that the only lite-
• vary Journal, The Patriot, which was_ published after
the arrival of the Court in Brazil, continued only a few
year's, though, by the variety of its contents, it was cal-
. og !laid* am probably a Miss Mary Jennings, who died in Nov.
mu% at the age of thirty, remarkable for her riches, corpulence,
mast Of There can hardly have been two pelicans of the
sanw age, eenasitilop the same remark:ll)k peculiarities." •
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culated for extensive circulation., Rut a literarypubli-
cation -which deserves honourahlcusantion is Father
CasaEs Corogreja printed at'itio, in two Vb.'
lumen--a work which, it is true, has many imptrfectiOns
with respect to order, precision, and correctness. esp.-
chilli in treating of subjects of natural history ; but, as •
the first compendium of a general geography of Brasil,
is of great use, and has been almost literally translated
into English. At present, only two newspapers are pub-
lished in the whole kingdom : lit the capital the Gazeta
do Rio de Jdneiro ; and, in Bahia, a paper under the title
of Idade de Ono do Brazil. But even these few journals
are not read with general interest. The inhabitant of
the interior, in particular, enjoying the lavish bounties
of nature, confined to the intercourse with a few distant
neighbours, concerns himself very little with-the events
of the political worlds and is satisfied with hearing the
principal circumstandeS. qice a year, from theconductors
of the caravans, who -retain horn the coast. In general,
in the inter for as well as in the seaport towns, it is ra-
ther commercial relations, than any regard to-the inte-
rests of the world in' general, tenet, termine their parti-
Pc ipati on in great political events. -11lere is, however,
110 want of quick. and accurate iiitelagence from Ea-
,rope; the Lisbon newspapers being-icitciilated by the
Portuguese emigrants, and the London journals by the
English.—The education of youth is provided for in the
capital, by many licensed academies. Persons of for-
tune have their children prepared by private tutors, to
visit the university of Coimbra, which, from the scarcity
of good teachers, is very expensiie
" Natural,history, particularly botany, is taught the
pupils by Eta Leandro do Sacramento, a learned Car-
melite, from Pernambuco, and a disciple of the venerable
Brotero. In his lectures he makes use of a small nor-
eery of remarkable plants in the public promenade, le-
cause the botanic garden is too far from the city. The
mineralogical cabinet, which is under the care of our
countryman, Lieutenant-Colonel Von Eschwege, is not
in a good condition, because lie is generally absent lion'
'Po de Janeiro. It consists of Baron Ohain's colleCtlon,
described by Werner, to which no vet y great addithins-
have been made, except a beautiful suite or 'cilaiiitinds
sent by Da Camara, and some a ther mineralogical* t
riosities of In .the building which aMtain‘S. this
collection, there ii a most insignificant beginning of a
zoological cabinet, Consisting of a fest' bluffed birds,
and some cases with handsorne butterflies"
As a specimen ofthedescriptiOus'given of the natives
we present the following
" We paised the night in Tarnma, a solitary rancho
a plain !monde.; by forests, because we were too late
to reach the village of MOO &is Ci uces. In this pars
we met with several families of die.. people called Ca-
fusos, who are a mixture of blacks and Indians. Their
extet nal appearance is one of the strangest that a Eu-
ropean can meet with. They are slender.and muscurar;
in particUlar, the muscles of the breast and arras are
very strong; the feet, on the emitrary, in proportiOn,
weaker. Their colour is a dark copper, or coffee brown.
Their features, on the whole, have more of the Ethiopic
than of the American race. The countenance is oval,'
the cheek-bones high, but not so broad as in the Indians:,
the nose broad and flattened, but neither turned up nor'
much bent ; the mouth broad, with 'thick but equal lips,
which, as well as the lower jaw, project but little; the
black eyes have a more open and freer look than in the.
Indians, yet are sydr a little oblique, if not standing so
Much inward as fn them, on the other hand, not; turned
outwards as in *Ole Ethiopians. But what gives these.
mestirles a peculiarly striking appearance is the ereeso
sively long hair of the head, which, especially it the
end, is half curled, and rice: almost perpendicularly
from the forehead, to the height of e foot or n. foot and
half, thus forming a prodigious andeery ugly kind
.peruke. This strange head.Of hair, which at fir; sight
seems more artificial than natural, and alirsost puts or
in mind of the Plies polonica, is not a disease, but merely
a consequence of.their mixed descent, and the mean be.,
tween the wool of the negro and the long stiff 'lrak of
the American. This natural peruke is often so high that
the wearers most stoop low to go in and out of the
usual doors of their huts; the thick hair is, besides, so
entangled.' that all' idea of combing it is out of the ques-
tion. This conformation of the hair gives the Cafusos
a resemblance with the,Paptuts in New Guinea."
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ROYAL. APPROBATION.. ..
A recent munificent act'-of his Majesty lotunot but
prove grateful to the lovers: of 'the 'Arts, His Majesty
has commissioned the President of. the Itoyal Aeackmy'
to execute a duplicate of his magnificent wholelength
of our Soveieign, which has been graciously promised'
to Sir John Fleming Leicester, to place'in the gallery.
of that English rwlacznas, amidst the works. of the. Bri;...
tish School. The nature of thegift thus spontaneously,
bestowed, the generous fervour that prompted it. and
the princely feeling that thirs, conveys so eleganta corn'
pliment to the professors of our native schOial by this
gracious mat k of personal esteem for its moat respected
patron, would form a most splendid feature in 'the vo-
lume of "British IVorihies."
It is now several years since Sit John Fleming Lei;.
tester first commenced his 'patriotic determination to
patronize the genius and talent of the rising school of
painting in his native country ; a determination which
originated in a just and liberal feeling of whit was dae
to contemporary merit, and which has been continued;
with that undeviating constancy which upholds all great
actions founded upon the lasting basis of public virtue.
—Somerset House Gazette.

TRADE OF Loiwou.—Prom a return just printed,isy_
order of the House of Commons, appears that the
Imports into London in 1822, were £18,054x437;18414
and the Exports £21,909,606 ar. sd. or, which sum
t. 8,414,414 *. 11d. was Foreign and Colonial tnerehani,
dise. The number of vessels that entered. tb4 F9r1.4.1
1822, was 3,618 British and 865 Fore,igi,.: The 'cnOtl.
number of vessels .that bad- Moored! between Litnehepse
and London Bridge, was, in 1822, 13,112, exclusive or
ships or vessels which had enteve4, docks: and caniai.
In the year 1823, the arrivals. g Atom .see,
944, and the departures 915. The, lineal < fre4n4ageisd.
Wharfs and Quays extends to 6,451 feet. txnddia
and forty-one vessels, of 100 tons.and..sspwardst may
chargetheir cargoes at the same ticoe.en chi:lucent iii4ces.
Art accident of A dreadful nature occurred onlailur-;
day night last, near the Bridge in the Kent-road. A
ferule wishing to cross the road, availed herseg of the
torch which a lamplighter curled in his hand. Thela4ligilte
having completed his round, was mottling homes and'hilibt.tf
further occasion for his torch, and' not Own*
mg behind, suddenly extinguished.tbe
woman could reach the opposite side, she
an errand cart, the wheel of which passed'
conveyed to the nearest public
,house,
goon, of Grenada-place, being sent for,
promptitude to her assistance, but she sr
the unfortunate woman being
vestige remaining by which thedeattlinP

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PROM SATURDAY Add ors
OA ZS7I.TE.
Ttie Greetse sosolisoop AN the Kivii has been pleased to
Whip piens. to be pad wok: the Great Seal, appointing
theßight on. Robert Lead Gifford,. Master of the Rolls, in the I
min of Sir Thomas Pinter, deettuedi. -
BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
Thoinas Clover, John Oakden, Ralph Lomas, John Dethick, and
John Green,late of Derby, Sax-manufacturers, from April 13
to Idly te, at eleven, at the King's Arms Tavern, Derby.
BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Punting,' Bedminster, Somerset, leather-dresser, to sur-
render April 15, 16, and blay.ls, at one, at the Bush Tavern,
Bristol. Attornies, Messrs. Bourdillon and Hewitt, Bread-street;
or Augers. Bevan and Brittan' Bristol.
Thomas Dowell and William I'lavey Brown,lronmonger-lane, wool-
merchants, April 10; 17, and May 15, at eleven, at the Court'
of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. Attorney,
Mr.,}Tabir, Bucklersbury. -
Charles Hastings Bich and Elizabeth Adams, St. Ann's-lane, sil-
versmiths, April 10, yr, and May 15, at twelve, at the Court
of Conimissioners of Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. Attorney,
Mr. Williams, Bond-court, Walbmok:
Jonathan Catena, Shoretlitch, draper, April 10, 13, and May 15,
at twelve, at the Court of Conunislioners of Bankrupts, Basing-
hall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Gates and Parrey, Cateaton-street.
Lewis Starner, late of Brunswick Terrace, Islington, oil and co-
, lourman, April 10, £4, and May 15, at ten, at -the Court of
Commissioners of Bankrupts, liasinghall-street. Attorney, Mr.
Ruasen, Crown-court, Aidersgate-street.
Joseph Litn,ard, late of Manchester, merchant, April 10, 17, and
May 1.5, at twklve, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts,
Basinghall-street. Attorney, Mr. Leigh, Charlotte-row, Man-
sion-hoax.
George Gillingham, Link' l'ancras-etreet, near Tottenham Court-
road, stcine-mason, April IS, 17, and May 15, at twerve, at the
. Court of Conunfszintier; of Bankrupts, Attor-
nies, Meant s. Watson and Son ilouverie-street.
William Mills, Bath, oilman, April 12, 13, and May 15, it twelve,
at the Christopher Inn, Bath.' Attornies,• Messrs. Knight and
Fyson, Basinghall-street ; or Mr. Cruckshank, Laura-place, Bath.
Beeston, late of _Kilburn, scrivener, April 10,17, and May
15, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Ba-
sin,:hall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Goren and Price, Orchard,
street, Portntan:mplare.
licrj4min ItAnnester, Southend, Essex, druggist, April 10, 24, and
May 15, at ten, 'at the Court of COmmissioners of Bankrupts,
Attorniei, Messrs. Tate and CO. Coptball-
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buildings.
gloom: l'estt on, Daly well, Ilintshire, paper-manufacturer, April
14, 1.5, and May 15, at ten, at the Star Inn, Manchester. At-
tornies, Kay, BroWn-street, Manchester; or Messrs. Ap-
pleby and It rgeant, Gray's Inn-square.
Edwird Brice, Parish of St. Cuthbert, Wells, Somerset, miser,
• April 14, 13, and May Is, at twelv.., at the Commercial Rooms,
Bristol Attornies, Messrs. Clarke and Co. Chancery-lane; or
Messrs. Cooke and 1/....ngough, Shannon-Court, lkistol.
Joseph Metcalfe, 'flank, Yorkshire,. linen-draper, April 10, 514,
and may 15, at ten, at the Court or Commissioners of Bankrupts,
Basingisall-atteet. Amor:des, Messrs. Walker and Cu. .Basing-
hall-street.
DIVIDICI DS to be made in RAS I NG 11.% p.-4Trumn
Aril 24, W. Sherwood, late of Liverpool, soap-manufacturer.
at twelve. Apt it 24, It. Norton, jun. lace of Charles Street, Fitz-
roy.square, stationer, at twelve. April 24, E. Blackley, Wood-
street, Cheapside, warehouseman, at twelve. April 24, T..ltam-
say, Mark-lane, wine-merchaat, at twelve. April' 4, A.Gonspertz,
Great Winchester-street, merchant, at twelve. April 24, •J. and
T• It. Maidstone, grocers, at. tufelve. April 10, J. Dou-
glas, and D. and W. Russel, Fleet-street, linen-irapers, at twelve.
April 10, A. Reid, Pimlico, carpenter, at twelve. May 1, D.
Stalker Ind A. 1). Welch, Leadenhall-street, slopsellers, at twelve.
May 8, J. Williants,'Cornhill, stationer, at- twelve. .flay 8, T.
Weller, Croydon, watch-maker, at one.

DIV' I)RN DS to he made in the COUNTRY.

April 20, J. Middleharst, Liverpool, corn-dealers at one, at the
George Inn, Dale-strect, Liverpool. April 24, D. [Jennell, Ket-
tering, Northamptonshire, draper, at eleven, at the White Ilan
Inn, Ketiering. May t, J. Adams, Stamford, coro.merchant, at
three, at •the Crown fitn, Stamford. April SY, J. Taylor, Leo-
iniagtero. skiner, at s•kven, at the Red Lion Inn, Lecaninstrr.—
April 24, J. Cook, Rochdale,
_Lancashire, ironmonger, at twelye,
at the eopusere '` 44. star-" Sheff
rile-makes?`

banjgcr. W. nrrer, Pride:rob uf, 'Booth,
wark-qm-Trent, tallow. chandler:" •
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• DISSOLUTIONS OF' PARTNER PS.
kr. an 4 6. gaik, Gnat Si. Thomas •Apostk, wine-coopers
'W: 'MSc Wfilians,St. Mildred's-court, Poohry, merchants.
io r Illancheeter h we-workers. Hough and Co, of
lite Sun' Pickup Bank, Lanni/lake, calico-printers, as to 11. Hough.
'Mop .atsd Wood. -.Bristol, timben.dealers. Taylor and Comm'.
Cross-strw, Hatton-garden, leather-sellers. H. and W. Smith,
Rampitead; linenarapers.• Swinborne 'and Drover, Lyintniton
Ilidistsgsnen-drapere. Kwington, sen. and jun. Peekhani, smiths:

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Letters to and /row Hearietta,•Countess of Stfiblk, aryl
her second Husband the Honourable George tkrkeley ;
.ft" 1714 to 1767. With Historical, Bioaraphical,

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ese at the. Cossinserci4.4sani SbrlNele, Arprit 84, H. if
Shefilehl,
es. file-ntakee; It tilihse‘at the eurntriercial Inn, Sheffield: '
he • Ie.FIiTIFICATES.—Aroui.
rly • *e ii Ai•
r6f, *ol6.ol4lvit, Glaznosiat~sbira, hanker. Nit=
.11TerTaOte- upon-Tyne, dsapeir. ' Yin Whirtbn, stitteriptatieSiitth;
„c4tiatri tY..l.yde; 1141ten-te-Miterf, thnber-tiserchino: J. Aiklbeetit
hiiiiike,Veettstargand,emeafeeterer; J. Sayers -Little Yarniouth,
P;ht itiopaigrekinri. W. w. arid .1. Saederton, Nicholas-lane,
qte.lteerchants. T. rarker, Kent-road, stationer. T. .Bucking-