Star.
London, England, 1821-11-27 00:00:00

NUREMBURG, NOVEMBER 17.

His Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg
Saaltield art ived here the day before yesterday, and
continued his journey on the following morning
for Italy.
News has just been received here that the Greeks
in the Peninsula of Cassandra have obtained a corn•
plete victory over the Pacha of Salonichi's troops.—
We must soon learn what foundation there is for this
intelligence.
Accounts written from Frankfort say, " We are
now certain here that peace will be preserved, and
that the differences between Russia and the Porteiwill
be arranged by negociation. Mr. Rothschild has
made this known on 'Change. But a short time
before a rich Jew banker, from the South of Ger-
many, had contracted (on the supposition of an ap.
proaching breach between Russia and Turkey) to
deliver 2,000 nietalligites (two millions of imperial
florins nominal worth). All the Austrian paper
currency has since that time been constantly rising
on our Exchange."
BERLIN, NOVEMBER 13,

The State Gazette has an article from Korono (in
the Russian Government of Wilna), dated November
1, which says—" The march of the troops to the
South continues without interruption."
STOCKHOLM, NOVEMBER 2.

The following accouht has been in circulation hew
since yesterday A very loud noise was lately
heard during the night, in the Castle at Upsal. In
-
consequence some persons went to the place whence
the noise came from, and discovered that a stone
having become loose, had fallen down, by which an
opening was disclosed that led to a vault under the
Castle, the existence of which was entirely unknown.
After going down into it, they found, it is said, beside
other things, two large iron chests, with considerable
treasures. Near these chests was found the skeleton
of a person who had'bTen hanged, with some old
articles of clothing; the skeleton, as well as the clothes,
crumbled into dust, Wheat they were touched."
Another account says--P Two iron chests have
been sent to the Government, which were dug up out
of a hill near Upsal, and which are to be opened herp.
There were found with them the skeleton of a person
hanged, ana some clothes, which fell into duiht op
touching them."

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LADY 11f0iM4N'S ITALY.

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TO vir. F,DTtOR OF TITF. STAR.
SIR —Being on the Continent at the time of the pub-
lication of the last Numher of the Quarterly Review,
1 had not, until lately, an opportunity of perusing the
article purporting to be a review of Lady Morgan's
Italy ; and had the Reviewer confined himself to the
usual routine of criticism in his remarks on this pub.
lication, I should not have presumed to interfere;
since nothing can be farther from my wish than to
enter into any political or literary discussion : but
fir,ding the article in question, a mere tissue of asser-
tions and insinuations equally false and malicious, re-
lating exclusively to the management of this publica-
tion, I feel it, incumbent on sue to notice this novel
mode of attacking a work through the Publisher, in-
stead of pointing out the error. of the Author, r
giving even a single extract from the Work reviewed;
and I think I shall prove that the dignity of criti-
, cism," of which the Editor of the Quarterly pretends
to be so sensible, has been lamentably forgotten on

this occasion.
With respect to his first charge, I think it necessary
to declare, lest any person should temain in doubton
the subject, that the criticisms, which, in justice to the
Author, I thought it my duty to disseminate in va-
Timis Journals, were the unbiassed and spontaneous
opinions of the several writers, and that I have never
paid a single shilling for their inei tion in the Chro
nicle, or any other Paper in which they originally
appeared*. So much for the charge of puffing. which
comes with an ill grace from this Reviewer. who,
whenever it suits his purpose (as in the case of review-
ing his employers' publications) adopts the system in
the most flagrant manner. !tut let this Quarterly
puffer-speak for himself:
al We understand that the sum an liberally given for T.ord %Val.
degrave's Memoirs, has awakened out of the family ..erutoirs,
Memoirs of his own Time, by Horace Walpole! that Mr.Mur.
ray has purchased them AT A MAIIINIVSCILST PRICIL, and that they
are in the press, and will shortly be given to the world. We con-
fess we eapeet Memoirs Irons Horace Walpole with much impa-
tience."—Qyartenty Review. Octave, p. 414.
This, it moist be confessed. is an admirable specimen
of the puff preliminary, and heats It, !low my "dig-
nified and emphatic ailivertiseinem" of the 17th Janu-
ary, as quoted by the Quarterly Rev-ewer :
Preparing for the Press,
Ivatx. By Lane MORGAN.'
It is now nearly twelve months since these Memoirs,
respecting which we have just read the puff-prelimi-
nary, were also formally announced in a " dignified
• and emphatic advertisement;" yet, because ITALY was
announced on the 17th of January, as preparing for
the Press, and again at the end of August,as having
been lately published, the ltea,iewer brings forward
these facts as a root-that the work would not sell!
Independently of advertising Lady Morgati'sWork
before and after it came out, and owing to a !wort that
an octavo edition was printed, circulated with a view
of stopping the sale of the quarto,ljudgedit necessary
to state that, in consequence of the large sum paid for
the copyright. no cheaper edition was then in contem-
plation. I also mentioned that the work contained
nearly 90() closely printed pages, to spew that there
was no foundation for the outcry that had likewise
been raised against the price of the work, which was
extremely moderate, compared with many other
Books of Travel t.
This simple and necessary statement, however, is
miraculously converted by the Quarterly Critic, into
another proof of the dullness of the sale; and though
in the affair of Lady Morgan, this Reviewer thinks
a great price paid to an author a great evil—quality
everything, and quantity nothing, yet the case is
quite altered when he takes up the pen to puff his
employer: sl caking of Waldegrave's Memoirs in the
same number, page 413, he says—
'. This leads us to make an observation or two on the price*,
this book. It is a thin oto. of 176 pages, and contains not more
letter-F.3s than might till 50 pages of our Review; and there-
fore, although the paper and type are very splendid, the price of
twenty-five ebillirgs charged for it may appear enormous, and so
we confess it seemed to us, till we heard of the esweinous slits
glens fur the eqwrightt."
And again, p. 414:
" We are afraid that, after all, large prices will be found the
surest stimulant to valuable publications."
So much for the consistency of this Quarterly Critic!
His intemperate zeal roust, however, defeat its own
object. When he has the effronteryto assert that theTra-
weis were announced before the jonrtey was commenced ;
that the price of the work paid the expenses of the tour;
that hr has mot heard of any voluntary reader, who has
been able to get through if:first volume;—that the work
dropt still •born from Me press ; —that Me Public do not
cure °boot the book; and. that the Public will not buy
--1%. ho believes him? And what opinion must the
thousands of buyers and readers of the work form of
this Editor and his Review?

But to strew, in the most satisfactory manner, the '
inefficacy of such ,!tempts to crush a most interest-
ing writer, I am ready to prove, that five hundred
copies of this work were sold on the first day of pub-
lication ; that more copies have been disposed of
during the last month, and since the appearance of
the Quai terly Review, than in any preceding one since
the da: of publication ; that a new edition is in pre-
paration ; that two editions, amounting to 4000 copies,
have been printed at Paris, and another in Belgium:
and, as a further testimony to the value of Lady Mor-
gan's writings, I seize the present opportunity of pub-
licly declaring my entire satisfaction at the result of
the undertaking; and that I shall be most happy to
receive from the author another work of equal inte-
rest, on the same terms.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Candtlit-street, Nov. 24, 1821. HENRY CO LBU RN.
• The pwagraph alluded to by 44 John Bull," is an extract
from the " Dublin Weekly Register "ajownal which the Quar-
terly Reviewers pretend not to recollect. These Gentlemen were,
however, always aware of the convenience of a short memory.
y Among sfty other examples of Books of Travels, more ex-
pensive, may be mentioned Eustacea Italy,two vols. 4to. £5 ss.
-Hughes's Travels. two vols. 4to. £5 Ss. Sm. &c.
This enormous sum was about one-fifth of the price given
tor Italy.

We copy the following explanation of some of the
statements in the Quarterly Review, on the subject of
Lady MORGAN'S Italy, from a contemporary Print
consequence of some observations on the pries given for
Lord Waramoaavit's Memoirs, which appeared in the Quarterly
arsine of October, and have been lately quoted in a letter from
Dir. Coati:air, printed in this Paper, we are requested to state,
that the passage in the Review is founded entirely on a mistake.
The Memoirs of Waldegrave; so far from awaltetatti oat if
Me/easily scraggly Memoirs ebb own Tiste, by H.►ace
had slept with them some years in that scrutoir, accompanied
them as a sort of adjunct or appendage out of it, end were sold
together woh them, or, tv um the auction phrase, in the same lot,
v the Lama wort at kloaaen Wausau, which is now in the

Press. As they,were thus purchased together in a lump, it is'
not perhaps easylo distirgulsh the precise sum given for each.
The whole, we ooderstand, wai sold for X 2,500. The b
thatulk of
of
Lord WALDISGRAVeII work is not equal to one-fifth of
Moues WaLrozr, and the character of the author was COM.
paratively little known before the publication. Nothing, then--
fore, beyond one-fifth of the purchase-money can be computed to
form any part of the price given for a book which bears in size
so small a proportion to the whole. If the book is considered by
the best judges to be • an acquisition to the history and literature
of the country,' the sum of £5OO for the copyright may be al-
lowed to be liberal, but will hardly deserve the epithet of titer-
MOW bestowed•uponit so haailybyterterly Ravine