imaginary forms will appear in a more pleasant garb, and excite pleasure rather than disgust. The malady proceeds from an insane affection of the nerves, caused by fevers and other diseases; whereby that system, in the construction of the brain, producing or governing the imagination,is irregularly affected: a course of medicine, promoting the purity of the blood, and strengthening the nerves, seems to be the most rational mode of treatment.

Phantasmania. This class of insanity much resembles the fast; except, as the other affeced principally the visual organs of sensation, this affects principally the tactic. The patient imagines himself a different being from what he is, and in a station which does not appertain to him; as a kg, a cobler, &c.-even a different species as a dog, a cat, a goose or a tree. This malady also proceeds from an irregular action of the nerves, and requires nourishment and care.

Philomania proceeds from a too ardent affection of love; which affects, in some degree, not only the organs of imagination, but the whole nervous system; producing nervous fevers, weakness of the stomach, and sometimes death. The best treatment, in this case, seems to be change of place, air, and circumstances, and keeping the mind engaged on pleasant and entertaining subjects.

Zoophamania proceeds from animal venom received into the blood; whereby the nerves become corroded, and the organs of sensation deranged. As these venoms are in their composition different, so their effects on the mind

are various. Some can be cured, others not.

Pyromania is such a derangement of the organs of sensation, that the patient imagines he sees every object on fire; and is in constant dread of being burnt to death. This class of insanity is caused from an irregular affection of the nerves, brought on by fevers, or other maladies; whereby the optic organs of sensation become so far affected as to be in the same state as when they receive the idea from the presence of fire. Strengthening aliments and medicines, applied to fevers, seem to be the proper treatment.

Melancholy proceeds from a low and weak state of the nerves, especially those forming the construction of the brain, the organs of which are incapable of performing their proper functions. This case of insanity frequently proceeds from fevers, from too intense thougnt, grief, and ill treatment. Gentle usage, pleasant objects, entertaining conversation, and nourishing aliments, are proper methods of

treatment.

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those of the brain incapable of performing their regular functions. Nourishing and strengthening dict, gentle exercise, full ewployment of the mind, medicines inimical to the cause, and preventives of the practice, appear to be the best methods of treatment.

Idiotism. This case principally proceeds from a malformation of the nervous system forming the construction of the brain from the birth: though, sometimes, idiotism proceeds from fevers and other diseases, which destroy the functions of mental construction. Wounds and contusions on the head, obstructions of the blood and fluids necessary to the nourishment of the brain, will frequently occasion idiotism. In old age, when the nerves become rigid, and the necessary caloric and galvanic principles are so far reduced that the necessary functions cannot be performed, idiotism frequently ensues. Few of these cases admit of cure; though they sometimes will yield to medicine and proper treatment.

From La Belle Assemblee, May, 1818. ANECDOTE OF A YOUNG CAVALRY OF

FICER IN INDIA.

There was in Sir Eyre Coote's body guard in India, a young cavalry officer distinguished for military address; on ordinary service always foreng to the verge of prudence, but never.ond it; of physical strength, seldo qualled; on foot, a figure for a sculptor when mounted

He grew into his seat,
And to such wonderous doings brought his horse
As he had been incorpsed and demi-natured
With the brave beast.”

to.

ac

In common with the rest of the army this officer had smiled at the recital of the Mysore officers' absurd challenges: but while reconnoitring on the flank of the column of march, one of them was personally addressed to himself by a horseman, who, from dress and appearance, seemed to be of some distinction. He a cepted the invitation, and the requise precautions were immediately acceded Hilarmania proceeds from a too great actiThey fought; and he slew his vity of the nerves, whereby the mind attais a antagonist. After this incident the greater energy than in a state of perfect health. chalenges were frequently addressed, It is sometimes irregular, but the imagination strong. In general, however, the mental opera- not as formerly to the whole army, but tions are perfectly regular, and the mind is of to Dallas, whose name became speedlig great energy. Nourishing aliments, and medi- known to them: and whenever his derg eines adapted to the disease, are the best treatment. This class generally accompanies con- admitted, and his favourite horse was valescence from a fit of illness. sufficiently fresh, the invitations were accepted, until the Mysoreans became weary of repetition. With a single exthat one occasion the combatants, alter ception, the result was uniform. Oa several rounds, feeling a respect for each other, made a significant pause, mutually saluted and retired.

Mentalmania is a frenzy arising from a fever, or some other disease, and generally terminates with the complaint which gave rise to it. It

is, however, sometimes continued. Gentle treatment, cooling and strengthening regimen, seem to be proper methods in this case.

Onanimania proceeds from onanism; whereby the nerves becom› deprived of their sufficient quantity of caloric, and of the solids of their construction; are rendered weak, and

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Varieties.-Bellamy's Bible.

A girl forced by her parents into a disagreeable match with an old man whom she detested, when the clergyman came to that part of the service where the bride is asked if she consents to take the bridegroom for her husband, said, with great simplicity," Oh dear no, Sir; but you are the first person who has asked my opinion about the matter."

NEW WORK.

From the Monthly Magazine, May 1818.

"The Holy Bible, newly translate from the original Hebrew, with notes, critical and explanatory; by JOHN BELLAMY; Part I." containing the book of Genesis, is, unquestionably, an extraordinary production. Mr. Bellamy has brought to his task considerable learning and industry, and has, in some instances thrown much light upon the meaning of passages hitherto obscure or unintelligible, which, in our present translation has at least some meaning although we are not prepared to say the true one; but it is incumbent upon a new translator to be more correct and luminous than the work which his new translation is designed to supersede; or his labor must be in a great degree, useless. To enable our readers to form some opinion of this very extraordinary production, we shall subjoin some of the passages which Mr.Bellamy has rendered differently from the authorised translation; in some instances happily, but in others less so.

GENESIS, CHAP. I.

Verse 6. Then God said; Be there an expanse, in the midst of the waters: and be there a division, be tween the waters, over the waters.

7. So God made the expanse; also he divided, between the waters, which were from beneath the expanse; and between the waters, which were above the expanse: and it was so.

CHAP. II.

17 But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; thou shalt not eat thereof: for on the day thou eatest thereof, dying, thou shalt die.

21 Now Jehovah God caused an inactive state to fall upon the man, and he slept: then he brought one to his side; whose flesh he had enclosed in her place.

22 Thus Jehovah God built the substance of the

other, which he took for the man, even a woman;

and he brought her to the man.

23 And the man said; Thus this time, bone after

my bone: also flesh, after my flesh: for this he will call woman; because she was received by the man.

25 Now they were both of them prudent; the man and his wife: for they had not shamed themselves. CHAP. III.

7 Nevertheless the eyes of them both had been opened; thus they understood; but they were subtil: for they had interwoven the foliage of the fig-tree;

and had made for themselves enclosures

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8 Moreover they heard the voice of Jehovah God, going forth in the garden, in the spirit that day: when ence of Jehovah God, in the midst of the trees of the

the man covered himseif, with his wife, from the pres garden.

10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden; and I feared, because I was imprudent: I therefore retired. 11 Then he said, Who declared to thee that thos

wast imprudent? because of the tree, of which I com manded thee not to eat of the same, thou hast eaten. 16 To the woman he said, I will exceedingly multiply thy sorrow with thy pregnancy; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children: yet thy desire shall be to thy husband; and he shall rule over thee.

17 But to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife; for thou hast eaten from the tree of which commanded thee saying; Thou shalt not eat of the same; cursed is the ground by thy transgression; in sorrow thou shalt est fit, all the days of thy life

24 So he expelled than: then he tabernacled at the east of the garden of Eden, with the cherubam, continue the way of the tree of life.

and with the burning flame, which turned itself to

CHAP. IV.

СНАР. ІХ.

21 Then he drank of the wine, and he was satisfied: for he himself opened the inmost part of the tabernacle.

22 Where Ham, the father of Canaan, exposed the symbols of his father; which he declared to his twe brethren without.

23 But Shem with Japhet had taken the vestment, which both of them set up for a portion: thus they afterwards went, and concealed the symbols of their father: with their faces backward; but the symbols of their father they saw not.

Altho' we cannot hold out the most distant hope that Mr. Bellamy's will supersede the present authorised translation, we are still of opinion that the critical labours of this gentleman are entitled to much attention, and that they will raise him to a high rank among the bibliopolists of the age.

VOL. 3.]

From the Literary Gazette.

Original Poetry.

POETRY.

THE HIGHLANDER'S RETURN.

And on its margin oft will rove,
Warbling her sweetest notes of love !---
The streamlet, constant to its source,

RISE, rise, thou fair star! from thy home Undeviating bends its course

wave,

And enlighten the path of the gentle and brave; From the mountain's wild summit, and heath cover'd fell,

Oh, rise! and each phantom, each danger expel I

2.

Oh, rise! the return of the Heroes to hail; For hark! the glad summons is borne on the gale;

The pibroch's loud triumph sounds sweet from

afar,

And the bugle's clear echo's return'd by the

scar.

3.

As soft o'er the mountain are pour'd thy pure

rays,

Gay waves the lov'd tartan, the light plumage plays.

Oh! await not their march, down the wild rocky dell,

Ere the eye of true love on its lov'd one may dwell.

Oh! Star of the North !--where thy bright beams are spread,

Thy Chieftains thy sons to the battle have led:
But ne'er did thy rays shew the field of their
shame,

For bright and anfading, like thee, glows their
fame.
MARY ROLLS.

Dunchurch, April 1.

It hated notoriety!
As if it wish'd that man should see

Ne'er did it try its bounds to pass,
Still faithful to thy native nook,
Ne'er wander'd o'er a foreign grass,
Thy stream hath ever flow'd, sweet brook.

From the European Magazine.

THE INVISIBLE CAP.

359

KATE.

[By the Author of Legends of Lampidosa, Lawyer's
Port-Folio, &c.]

D Unseen in cobweb chariots sail,
Or in the velvet rose-bud dwell,
Or feast beneath the cowslip's bell,
My prayer should be from gem to gem
To glide invisible like them:
Or wing'd like summer's painted fly,
To skim o'er vales and mountains high;
Then safe on cluster'd roses rest,
A brief, but gay and welcome guest !

ID fairies now on every gale,

The royal insect heard, and said,
Couch'd on a tulip's dappled bed,
"Vain suppliant!--asks thy feeble pride
These diamond eyes, this feathery crown,
These wings in gold and azure dyed,
This vesture fring'd with shining down?
Ah!--rather let thy fate be blest
For pomp and beauty unpossest!
Hadst thou this crest of downy gold,
This spangled wing's enamell'd fold,
Like mine, thy transient joy had been
To grace one brief and busy scene;
To rove from fading flow'r to flow'r,
The gaudy empress of an hour;
One winter-day's relentless storm
Had crush'd to dust thy tender form,
Or tyrant hands in wanton strife
Had wreck'd thy liberty and life.

Such is the FLUTTERER's doom !---art thou
Less blest, less free, than I am now ?
Thy doom is in a downy cell
Amidst thy honied store to dwell,
Or on the calm and healthful breeze
Of life's mild noon to float at ease:
Unenvied and unchain'd to stray
O'er ev'ry flow'r in Pleasure's way.
For thee her purest dew distills,
Her rosy hand thy banquet fills,
And Faucy's pinions, soft and bright,
May far as mine exalt thy flight:
But if a guardian sylphid's aid
Can raise to bliss a peevish maid,

Behold my power!"---then back he threw
His filmy wings of rainbow hue,
And stood reveal'd in form and grace,
The Monarch of the elfin race.

"Now ask what woman's whim requires,
Ere Ariel's transient pow'r expires!
Does purple pomp enchant your eyes?
A witless peer shall be your prize,
A chariot and three pair of bays,
A gold-fring'd chair for gala-days.
If rural joys your fancy charm,
Your lot shall be a lowland farm ;

A VOYAGE ROUND GREAT BRITAIN, UNDERTAKEN IN THE SUMMER OF THE YEAR 1813, AND COMMENCING FROM THE LAND's END, CORNWALL: BY RICHARD AYTON. WITH A SERIES

OF VIEWS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE CHARACTER AND PROMINENT FEATURES OF THE COAST, DRAWN AND ENGRAVED BY WILLIAM DANIELL, A.R.A. 55 COLOURED VIEWS, &c.

TH

HIS work warrants us to congratu- renewed vigour of the one element, and late the adventurers that the novelty the never-to-be-subdued firmness of the of their track was exceedingly far from other; this is a combination which, for being its only recommendation. The power of impression on a contemplative series of natural scenery through which mind, defies all rivalry of any inland it led them, presented incomparably a succession of natural scenery, in the greater number of striking aspects than island. There are to be added to the they could have beheld in the same picture the monuments and vestiges of length of course in any other direction on departed generations, in the ruins of British ground. They had a prodigious castles, frowning on the verge of the advantage in constantly beholding the cliffs, or the relics of ecclesiastical or watery element in its magnitude, and sepulchral structures in some of the now without their being, as in the case of solitary recesses; with a reinforcement, persons far out at sea, put by that magnitude out of sight of every thing else, but the sky. This element they contemplated in its tranquillity, and in its endless diversities of action in its assault on the land.. Indeed, the whole line of their journey might be regarded as the scene of interminable battle between the flood and the stable and defying element; the effects, however, on If we were to look back along the which element, in the warfare of so whole line of the amphibious expedition, many ages, are presented in a front of for the purpose of naming the one spot ruin, but sublime in that ruin. Fallen in the track, distinguished by the most masses of rocks, thrown in the wildest romantic wildness of nature, and the disorder, stupendous craggy precipices, one spot exhibiting the most forlorn view dark caverns, deep chasms cut into the land, at the less invulnerable points, a solemn air of desolation over the whole, and an aspect of fated, relentless, eternal persistence in the conflict, by the ever

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in some instances, of the impression of such spectacles, by tragical memorials, related, or even presented to the eye, of the fate of mariners cast away on the rocks of the shore. The travellers confess, too, that on some occasions, they had the benefit and luxury of an aggravation of such impressions, by a certain degree of the sense of personal danger.

of the condition of the people, we could not, perhaps, do better than refer to the descriptions of Boscastle harbour, and the village of Bossiney, two places within an hour's walk of each other. Of the