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London, England, 1820-03-04 00:00:00

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THE FORAY.

Iv 4 TER SCOTT, £IQ.

The la of the steers on our ooard has been spread,
And the last flask of in our gobfet is red ;
3.;p lup my biasic kiiismea! swards 4u,i be gone!
There :are oangeis to dart, and there's to be :YOU!
he eyes that so lately mix"il glances with our's,
FOE a V.:C.: must be dim, as they .tro grin eh,: towers,
And strive to nii,inguish, throngh temrest and gloom,
The pianci oi the S:1:0, a:al toe toskof tae plague!
Thu rain is descending ; the wind rise hseel ;
And ih,t.moliu liar rest oil con WU:11 a cloud;
'Tis ::,e better, my tact .s ; for the Wardn.'s dull eye
Stuii to cotihde..ce sidiaber, dream Nt c arc nigh !
U:r steads are iinpatiela! I hear my blythe Grey'.
There is life in his hoof-clang, and hope ia his neigh :
Like tLe Bash of a meteor, the glance of Lis mane
Shill! marshal your march th'rough the darkness aal rain!
Toe dr..wbridge has drop 'd, and the bu;;L: has blown ;
pledge is to quaff- et—theo mount and be
To thtit 1:4.101.11* and ih!ace, that 5'.121! rest with tlio
io their health and un.ir that sec Tev:nt ;gal.:.
WAY TO It VT. AT COURT.
tITILACT or .t LEVItil L+,11.0 LANSDCW:Nr. TO TU.% Len:. Or SAVI,

1U yEau 1711•
" The• King (James 11.) observed one day, that he
maver ku..r.v a modest man make his way in a Court !
David Fl :y .1, whom you know, being then in wait-
ing, at ois :blaj:->ty's elbow, ie?lied bluntly, " Pray,
Ste, whose fault's that ?" The King stood corrected,
aad was silent.

HARD DRINKING.
The love Gf punch Wa, one of the German faults
oF George the ; and was strikingly contrasted
with the extreme abstemiousness which distinguished
Lis successor, Ci.ofge the Titird, who xidoin induiged
in rno. e than ► glass of weak wine at a time. When
Cie,-haan fault, we must at the same time
tin the t ie, man dim:tete'. the justice ofpbserving, that
is is a faun of oli date, and on from which at more
recnt- ti :Les it has almost wholly zedeewed
itself.—
The Queel used to tell on this head a pleasant anec-
dote, which the King took great pleasure in repeating.
llake of Mccklenburgh, father of the Queen,
'being once is tatuiliar co;:versation with the late
Piye, he was asked by hi, Holiness, 66 whether his
countrymen, the Lie:lA:els, continued to diink as
hard as they used to do ?"--66 Oh no," replied the
Duke ; 6' that sottish .-Astom is quite given over,
except in the Eccic,in,:tical Electorates!"

lIIS LATE MAJESTY'S LITERARY PURSUITS.
The King vas not a great reader, - but what he
read he remembered tenaciously. In his historic
recolleztioas he sheaved himself always pal ticulaily
prompt and accurate. A curious proof of this is
estalq in the fine copy of the second folio edition of
:i!lakspeare's ‘Vorks, which is in the Royal library.
and \\nch originally belonged to Charles the First,
The book was purchased by Dr. Askew at Dr. Mead's
sale, for two !,tuineas and a half, and at the death of
Dr. Mca-3, Mr. Stevens became the purchaser of
f. 1:5 10s. In a leaf of this book Charles the First
had written with his own hand, " Dux sputo SPERO,
C. It." And Sir Henry Herbert, to whom the King
presented it the night before his execution, has also
w.f.ten, "Ex cloaca Serenissiato Regis Car. Servo suo
kuh:iliss. T. Ilerbert."—Mr. S:evens has added,l
" Sir .phcmas Her crt was Master of the Revels to
King Charles the First." The book being subse-
quently purchased far the King's library at eighteen
guineas, hi Majesty on .inspecting it immediately
observed, that there was an error in this last note of
Mr. Stevens, and taking a pen, he ‘`rote beneath it
these words—" This is a mistake, he (Sir Thomas
Herbert) having been Groom of the Bed Chamber
to King Chalks I. but Sir Henry Herbert wits
Master of the 11;:ve6."
COZIPAtuTivr. STRENGTH OF EUROPEANS AND
SAVAGES.

(From IL:lain No. 155 of the Society of Encouragement in
France).
M. Peron, the Naturalist, has had occasion to ob-
seeve, that men, in a savage state, are inferior in
strength to men civilized; and he Lis demonstrated,
in a vci v evident manner, that the improvement of
weial older does not, as some have pretended, de-
:Aro:, our physical powers. The following is the re-
sult of e.nperiii‘ents which he has made on this subject
Nvith the Dynamometer of M. Itegnier, (described in
Phil. Mag. vol. 1.) PORCH.
WITH MAIMS. WITH THACZS.
Of D:eman's Land - I;0.6 0.0
Griazcs.... New - - 51.2 14.2
Timor
Fzet.ch
L'4")Peans' slish - - - - 71.1 23-0
EFI:MPTION OF LONDON FROM EARTHQUAKES.
Mr. Gavin Inglis, in curious Paper on the Geo-.
ligy of Lodi Leven (Phil. Mag. for February), has
the following gratifying passage—" On viewing
Si:nail's Geological Map of British strata, London
:•:ems to occupy the only spot in Britain, perhaps in
the world, that may be deemed secure against the
par:lat wot kinzs of these principles, (Galvanic, to the
:-übterraneous operation of which Mr. Inglis awl-
lattes the production of Earthquakes); and although
not founded on a rock, is destined, I hope, to flourish
till Time shall be no zr,ore-.--
that great :lad awful day
" That Ishall the world in a,ihcs luy,
" .1.):60. ai)tl ti.: Syl).js sat r
SOLAR ECLIPSE NEXT SEPTEMBER.

The `.polar Eclipse, which will happen or Thurs-
day, Sept. 7, Ino, Will be the greatest of all those
1,..te happened in this pint of Europe ever
slice the year 1761, and, indeed, of all those which
N; ill again happen here 'before the year 1817. Like
the tau Eclipses just alluded to, it will be annular;
t;lat is, the disc of the moon will not• wholly cover
the disc of the sun, but, in certain parts of the earth,
the sun will thew the appearance of aft annulus, or
eng, round the body of the mo.in ; the position and
magnitude of which will depend on the situation of
the spectu:or. In no part of England• will'this an-
nular appearance he ob.xrved ; it will be seen, how-
ever, in the Shetland islands. , On the Continent, in
anv part of that track of country which extends
riearly
in a strai.,4lit line tient the north of Westpha-
-114 to the south of Italy, the inhabitants will have an
opporztniity of beholding this gular phenomenon.
--!Mcmuir 1.,u Mr. i'rancid
INVLNTION OF lI:PROVED STEAM-11NGINE.
M. vA... 1!:.).1y has bee,. actuled, in a recent Memoir
Mr. of having .o►n 1 flagrant act of
injustice, iu i.i I.li,?ory y the letproved Steam Engitie,
by giving Li::: invcation of it to :lessrs. Perrier s 111.