Star.
London, England, 1819-03-12 00:00:00

ZITERATURE.

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We have to congtamtate the public on the appear-
ante of the first part of the 116. v edition of the Dflphin
and retrionon Clauits ; a work which has excited
so struch expectation of uxcelknce, both with respect
to the literary and typographical part of it, that it
would have been no way surprising if that expecta-
don had not been fully equalled by the result. The
very reverse of this, however, is the race, and we do
not recollect ever hearing more general 'and unqua-
lified approbation than has been lavished on this first •
specimen of a work which, it is gratifying to think,
has been plannei by an individual who has been
Added to bring it forward in so short a time, by .the
encouragement of the learned and the libesel in his
own country alone; a country to whose wealth and
munificence,^ it will be a new and most honourable
testimony. Our continental neighbours will, we
dOubt not, as far as it may come within their mean;,
be glad to avail themselves of the stores of learning,
and the exquisite specimen of mechanical eecellence;
which these volumes will present, at a price too,
which must be considered a very mo.lerate me, when
it is recollected that a set of the former edition sold
at the Duke of Roxburgh's sale for fiv4 hundred
pounds ; whereas this, with all its improvements in
the text, and the profusion of embellishments be-
eeneed on it by ;he liberality and spirit of the editor,
will rot amount to more than ore-fourth part of that
sun% Tie magnificence of the large paper copy of
this work cannot be sulßciently admired, and reflects
the highest credit on the present state of the type-
graphic art in this country. The list of subscribers,
we tied, already amounts to nearly eight hundred
persons, among whom we perceive nearly all the
!nest distinguished names in the kingdom, which is
a decijed proof, at 'once, bow greatly the present
publication was considered a desideratum, and how
ready a support is afforded by the British nation to
works of a magnitude that could not, at a period like
that, be conceived or encouraged in any other count
try in Europe. We understand that ray few copies
of this valuable work will. be printed beyond the
number which is actually subscribed for, and the
price of those leer will, of course, be raised in pro-
portion : we believe most of our Readers will agree
with us in slinking that the original subscribers ere
well entitled to the advantage hich ehey will thus
gain by their promptness in heving come forward in '
the early stages of this great undertaking to ensure
its conductor of the support, without the certainty of
which it could not over have been commenced.
Taft FRANK nix ilia NUSCRIPTS.—We have hitherto

*mined to notice the completion of these valuable
papers, by tin publication of the third or concluding
Volume in Quarto, comprising the posthumous writ-
ings. The estitor very properly observe—
. It is a common complaint that the reputation of men of
eminence in the world of letters, suffers by their postliunfoo,
works; nothing, however, of that kind is to be apprehended +:a
regard 1.0 the present collection, fur many of the fugitise Essays
here assembled, and the original pieces now for the first time
brought to public view, arc directly referred to in the preceding
' Memoirs •and Correspondence, as anti...buoy of particular
transactions, or at document, of natharity for the confirmatiou
of the truth of what is there asserted. nut independently of a
eontideration which is sufkrient to free this supplementary
Volume front the charge of being supererogatory, the several
traetates Nr;tich make up its cements have all a paramount
claim t preservation In their present form, on accow.t of their
intrinsic merits and relative importance, as connected with the
persamai history, &Jamie", asid-purimiss7of a maa, who never
adnfted any th.ury, but with a view to practical experience,and
who in the Itoe spirit of philosophy, applied di his speculations'
to objects of general utility. It woilcl, therefore, have been an
act of culpable ncgiigence to have left ever: the lightest produc-
dons of such a mind, to float down the. clream of time, subject
to all its fluctuations, and liable to bit lost or perverted, amidst-
the perpetual chang.a; which rake place in human too:teen:a."

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Nothing Is talked of .at Madrid but the marriage
of the inconso/oLk FERDINAND; his choice, it seems,
wavers between a Princess of SARDINIA and one of
SA xogiY.
Taxarracss Tesit::.7. to Deutts.—The new Opera of afn.,,,silo
and Connso, which was to have b :en repeated on Saturday night,
was received on tit^ drawing up of curtain with such ‘iolcut
and determined hostility, that after el trifling effort to try its
fate, aid though it had its frier.ds iu Cu: house strongly support-
ing it, the necessity for its baiag ithdi awn was illlper.ltlYe.
As soon as the first psrformer wade his appearance, be W. 1.%
sailed with'hvery spreies of disapprobation that could be exprsss-
es!, and efforts at parlay or explanation were in vain resort, d :o.
The Stage Manager, :Mr. bloxaooxtar.v, and Nlr.Wri.thiats, the
former of whom had been loudly called tor, appeared, separately,
and tegetber, to address the house; hut. it wus wi:li difficulty
the former was heard to lay, that the Proprietors bowed to the
pleasure of the audience, and would withdraw thu piece, substi-'
tilting for it I op: is a Vaage. This was heard as the coniirnu-
tion of the victory of the opponents If the Opera, with loud
shouts of tritirr.p. The substitution of Lone in n Village, how..
ever, was no: observed cuieseeitt/y by the friends of the New
Opera. Thu entire was a sort of 0. I'. commotion, which did I
not fall much slu.rt of the scenes exhibited during that rosmor
ruble perisd. Various missiles, not of heavier metal than oranges
and orange-pals, .were flung upon the suer while the perfor-
mers attempted any part pt the substituted piece, and even
during the /treatise of Miss Ithresm. The orly mischief done
was the breaking of a Limp, which Gil iota the pit, but fortibil
surety se person was injured. The Farce of Ella ,llossitherg was
suffered to be performed without interruption.
Satin day morning, abOut one o clock, a fire broke
out in the stable and hay-lofts of Mr. Michael Danne,
mart *nd dray-owner, of Purdon-street, Dublin, and,
notwithstanding every assistance, his three horse,,
stable, and the implements of his industry, &c. &c.
were totally consumed, and the poor reran dprived
of the only means by which he supported a wiif aod
seven children. •
'On the morning of the 20th, ult. at one of the coal
pits at tairlev, near Ayi, two colliers, viz. James
Dunlop and William Rae, stepped into 4 creel to go
down to their work, when they were unfortmiatsily
precipitated to the bottom, a depth of 21 fathoissi.,
They were brought aboveground with- all possible
diyatch, both alive; but Dunlop expired' soon after.l
lea; s back was broken, and hg was otherwise shock-.
ingly cut and braised.. Resarvived about three hours'.
Coars..F.xcuANGfi 'MA It 451.41.1:4, NlAnco
though the 'tpaotity of English Wheat at Market
euproiug was very small, yet what appeared met
Y s tlt at iNtOllday'r priCes,. And-only that of the
quaut,y coukt, -itt—thstaifid of. Fine Barley
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beft, pr:tir.,log.ller,. but there was,
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oo- 4.ln:inil for Oil (.4sol4tleT VP6on.,
pep qp. lower 'thais-un•f4modoo *ring Urge arrivals
' but Yeni- -01tle