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This Journal is supplied Weekly, or Monthly, by the principal Booksellers and Newemen, throughout the Kingdom ; but to those who may destro its immediate transinission, by post, we recommend the LITERARY GAZETTE, printed on stamped paper, price Que Shilling, No. 535. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. mati sad Co. Jon the skill and cleanliness of the cook. This "Some of the Motigol sentinels sang ther Trowels of the Rusnan Munon through Mon, brick tea serves also instead of money in the national songs. I called two of them, and golva to € hana, and rendence in Peking, in dealings of these peopie, as well as in Daou, treated them with brandy, and, to piram us, the years 11820-21. By George Timkowski. Į ria." they continued to sing, the one in bigti tenar, With Corrections and Notes by J. Von Klap- Near the river Shara, the author relates-- the other in base. The nurs of all their songs Josh. Ava 2 vols. London, 1827. Long- ** We approached a Mongol temple, situated are nearly the same i tiary are in general plantin Inear the road, at the foot of mount Gountou live and harmutuonon. Tix homme, the friend WI need give no other introduction of these, Sambou. On the summit is a soubourgan, or and companion qfikje stalat it and of blue skeppirmą arion travels to our readers, than to remind buka, the white casour of which attracts the acts a predominant part in these songs. Ain them, that they are the same (translated) which notice of the traveller. A soubourgan is a kind this vast plain was bringhe spacream-coloured we have more than once notices, as accounts of chapel, erected by rich people for the expia. courser, swift as an arron, the ortament of the of their remarkable contents found their way tion of their sins, and in the hope of future herd and the glory of the Wij kan otalke to the Laterary and Scientific Journals of reward. It is bult of wood or stone, in the When the bogdo nummons to low qème, Ioana Esis and Germany. linatrated by plates form of a pyramid, and has only one smail hastens to the foresta of karateistų, anesthrows and maps, well rendered into Engl sh by Mr. opening on the south side. On the consecra- the gusts and the stags, the fezuygun maak kmoval, and assisted by the notes of Mr. Klap. tion of a soubourgan they throw into it some boars, and the terrible panthers; nil atu.re 1942, they cantat fail to furnish a fund of hundred little cotes of clay, called in Mongol the boldness of the ruler, and the rapidity of cable and an, ising matter respecting coun. tastad, which are cons dered as the symbol has curser. There is the vining Tøyren arı d træn nad people comparatively very little known, i 1ages of deified persons. These tataa ought Kuses has had a church at Peking for a properly to be composed of nine kinds of vaja. hundred years, with resident priests, assistanta, a'ie mater,als, gold, silver, jewels, praris, &c.; Au., and thus small onions is generally renewed but as few persons are able to sacrifice so many very thith your. The last mission left Peters, precious articies, they content themselves with burgh in 1819 to relieve its precursor, which had how at Peking since 180: it arrived at Irkututul in February 1820; and after meeting the Chizww functionaries, Mongol troops, pode, interpreters, & ordered to attend it, ced the frontier at Kiakhta on the Nat of Angust, and took the route for Peking. This route it is unnecessary for us to follow a kuffer it to say, that it ran from nearly ôl" to i dim latitude, in about a 8.8 h. direction; first LLEIMMIS TENTIon, next over sandy diwrta, and finally over a district diversified by water, and cultivation, towards the end of the Mere striking particulars will Hear from the selection of extracts which we kur munde of "le verwittig events which befeil on We nhau begin with an account of for the service of the kuan; he firm to the Kasuan frontier, to the post of Menur 14 he addresses his praver to the lunar klanti i dusty stan divinities); he takes leave of his father, his mother, and his wife ; with extreme grici, hə mighing a small quantity in little clay figures, saddies his coal-linck stera. With a tariane over which prayers, composed for the patjone, chiv and perseve air, the warrior lana'ana tə are recited; and to give the soubourgan chan. t'e north; silent in the slopje ar viral taim, z piete merit, no less than a hundrevi taatsa muust the wind of the desert succeir agitatem – 11-8 be thrown unto it. However, the number of feathered arrows; the last how strikes these gifts depends on the good will, the for- against his Solonian sadele. Tsyren traverses tune, and the devotion of the founders. The glomy and unknown forests; ke percwives in Mangods show great respect to these chapels; the distance blue mountains, with which he sạ whoever passes by must stop, and make three united Tue freaky behavina af too prostrations, go three times round the chapel, neighissining brave timaacka umetimes cring and throw something in as an offering; were; his meianetwdy, Imit his thongtits always fiy it only a lock of his hair or a chip of wood hack to his paternal mountain ®, The Vining The temple stated on the bank of the "bara Mongol, whose soul is upesas and ha mund is built of wood, painted white on the outside, oppressed by an unknown, pwer, hellouts in and has a red roof. In the interior some per», lå m, tly dreams, the shades of ) a warran futed tapers of Tibet, of a dark red colour, ancestors, Where in our drewed and interpol tale of bark of trees and mask, were burning Gengis Khan » The wings of has to glity de via before the ad is. Two lamas were reading the re-echo murdy an at the rows of the *T » Munguis, and most of the nomades of Khodjour, so almorbed in meditation that they Onon, and on the verdant banks of the Keren. Minde Ana, make use of this tea; it serves did not deign to look at us.** ilin. Who am that rid g of toe sãox tỷ, hank tes with fur drak and found. The Chinese Among other superstitions we find the ka-¦ of the Niara, Mig 2 in a low your bened mert m a great trade in it, but never drink it dack W: one is tat hy viber, Wland la thermal in time tea manufacturien, which "The kadack is a yellow and sometimes grav¦ Puts so sw-fly › What does ti a coverfial war. 'he that part in the Chinese govern. • Ik riband, ornamented with a pattern of the rior seek, who pansen by the white tenta ? him media en, the dry, dirty, and damaged same colour, generasy an arsheen in length, heart well known whọ 18 sa ti-at u stacks of the tea are thrown ande, and five reach a in breadth. The Monges, them - he was a win, cease to ham kont these Ge- are then to xed with a giətinimas substance, ke the Thetaus, hang theme kadarks before monilla.ne; lus ters onther Wil do chả promed ska merata, and dried in ovens. These their adoit, to adorn the offerings which they lotu a v le. In hay nurser, in, das vă are caused by the Russians, in cinnt ('ement, and to give weight to thest pravers 'withwrad, is ready for the cham. I • Cha shesr shape, brick to. The Mongois, the Coung people give it to their elders, as a testi. în cuvernd with spectators. He begie; ham Bala, the inhabitants of beria, beyed many of their respect and devotion; and per.cht tot stamps the boubled at en he k, and the hacks, take a piece of us of the same age give it to each oturt, as a hetes the gritand in hun atjust enon. Iles goal pad it in a mortar made on purkadak wrapped remind it a pined over the lentomp the racers, and Le hay courses, ade token of friends..p. A large arrow with a' a given, all dart to the geni... Carols a dunk p and how the powder into a cast..Pum fan of noring water, which they suffer grave of relatious and fr ends. I recxsired hav. ways 1, tor man, arrives fund, betaaling kola praktiko Lime upon the firm; add tự n og frequently seen in the churchyards of the ng riva for be "od, dr." alt and an ik, and worsetimes i xing four sacrs of Lette Kumia similar kadarka, ms. `sta, we of most of the M ngul unga.“ red in will. This tea, or both, is kiren by peaded to the crusses set up over graves, but The mi pad a vint to the vang đ Se same of bra. I have drunk brickly over those of married Comacks. Every governor of northern Mesa, ali aj prazingt d in stared to ware, and found is palatalde kafark must be liessed by a lama, by revit « Magi priser, atul a descenciant fra; Geas tough, aŭ must very nutrishing; all depends prescribed pravers ; and it in twist til after ties ga han be a gears to be a fast specimen of ceren any that the kaskach acquirenita superium. I'm An ti 1 latina, and writes verwa turni virtuen." chať vo 17verd Bayer. There is here a 1 am at At one of the evening balts the flowing, wement dietatkut in etle kin, mas v. characteristic tra ta are described watched. MR. PERKINS' NEW ENGINE. LITERARY AND LEARNED. FOREIGN GLEANINGS.* sowing annual crops, both for the kitchen and of the usual quantity for a given quantity of ornamental purposes; planting ought to be labour, that the weight of the new engines Russian Literature. Since the introduction finished as early as possible; and, what is prin- will not exceed one-third that of many low of printing presses into Russia, from 1553 to cipally worth insisting on here, the rise and pressure condensing engines,and the bulk 1823, there have been published in the Rusprogress of weeds and insects should be hourly will be also less than one-third. If these calcu-sian and the Slavonic languages-which is the lations be well founded, (which of course can mother of the former-13,249 original works only be determined by experience), we appre- and translations. hend the general introduction of this improved The blind poet J. J. Koslov has translated In a late Number of the Literary Gazette, we engine for steam-navigation will follow as a Lord Byron's Bride of Abydos into Russian; promised our readers an early account of the matter of course. The great expense and ton- and has received from the Emperor Nicolas improvements Mr. Perkins has recently made nage of fuel forming the chief obstacles to the 2000 rubles, and from the Empress a diamond in his high-pressure engine. Having, in com-employment of steam-vessels for long voyages. ring. pany with a few scientific gentlemen, had an opportunity of witnessing the operation of the engine a few days since, we shall now state what appears to us to be its leading advantages. The principle (for which Mr. Perkins formerly procured a patent) of keeping water under a high state of pressure, forms the basis of his new engine. But instead of a generator or boiler, a series of parallel pipes surround the fire, each pipe being capable of being detached or replaced without destroying the arrangement of the others. The pipes are about one inch and a half internal diameter, and four inches externally, with the view of preserving a certain degree of uniformity in the action of the fire. CAMBRIDGE, April 6.At a congregation on Masters of Arts.-W. Collett, Cath. Hall; C. H. Puls J. F. F. S. Tennant, F. Mal Bachelor of Arts.-R. H. Kinchant, St. John's College. On the same day, the Rev. J. W. Niblock, D.D. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, was admitted ad eundem of this university. ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. A still more munificent encouragement to genius was lately given by the same prince to the poet Nicolaus Iwanowitsch Gneditch, for the translation of Homer's Iliad into Russian hexameters, by settling upon him a pension for life of 3000 rubles. German Literature. In Germany, among the uncountable number of non-political jour nals, there appear at this time-a morni inga mid-day--an evening and a midnight Gazette. The latter, so far from being sleepy, is the most lively and spirited of them all being edited by the celebrated poet Müllner. There is also announced as nearly ready for Narrenzeitung), to appear three times a week, publication, at Berlin, the Fool's Gazette (die The cylinder is about eight inches diameter, for the benefit of every description of fools. with a twenty inch stroke; but the piston, Professor Beck states, from an authentic acinstead of working in oil and packing, is furnished with an expanding double metal ring, count lately published, that from 1814 to 1826 highly polished on the edges, so as to reduce SIR,I have often been pleased with the there have been printed in France 33,774 the amount of friction on the face of the obliging manner in which you listen to the books; and in Germany, within the same cylinder (according to Mr. Perkins) to a mere observations of your readers, on articles which period, 50,303. Dr. K. G. Bretschneider, Chief Counsellor fraction of what takes place in the ordinary you have given to the public, and now enter- of the Consistory at Gotho, &c. &c., and mode of packing. tain a hope you will for once favour me. Your last Number contains a report of the trans-in Germany, has published, An Apology for The next improvement (and which we conknown as one of the greatest theological writers sider by far the most important) is that of actions of the Royal Society of Literature, and effecting nearly a perfect vacuum at the termi-shortly mentions a paper communicated by Mr. the Present State of Protestant Religion in Germany, in answer to Mr. Hugh James nation of the stroke. It is not in our power, G. Penn, proposing to reconcile the accounts Rose's Four Speeches at Cambridge upon the by words, to give a very accurate idea of the given by St. Matthew and St. Peter of the arrangement for this purpose without a drawing death of Judas, by considering the word same subject. If we are to believe Professor for reference; but it is pretty nearly as fol. anos, used by the latter, as a Latinism. Beck of Leipzig, who has written a review of Since such terms occur in the New Testament, mends it for translation into English, Brets Bretschneider's work, and who strongly recom Attached to the bottom of the working cylin. I should not on that ground hesitate to concur chneider has fairly proved Mr. Rose to be der is an enlarged chamber which receives the with Mr. Penn, especially when a discrepancy foot of the piston, and communicates with a calls for explanation from other than ordinary his charges; 3dly, of want of judgment, confu guilty, 1st, of partiality; 2dly, of exaggeration in large reservoir or eduction pipe leading through sources; but I am not able to discover how it sion of ideas, contradictions; and, above all, valves into the chimney-flue. The steam was proved, as your journal states it having driven the piston down into this cham- the word used by St. Matthew and the peri- 4thly, of ignorance as to historical facts. Dr. ber about seven-eighths of its elastic force, phrasis of St. Peter express identically the B. moreover maintains, that Mr. Rose has not escapes into the atmosphere, while the remain same act. According to my construction of derived his facts from his own experience, but ing seven-eighths (or probably one-tenth) is the periphrasis, when I adopt the suggestion of from persons who are known to be the declared condensed in the ordinary way by a jet of the learned anthor of the paper, the idea conwater. By this arrangement Mr. Perkins conveyed by the word Maros, and the circumstances siders that he obtains as perfect a degree of of falling headlong and of the gushing out of vacuum as in Bolton and Watt's condensing the unhappy man's bowels, seem by no means engine, with the advantage of saving the great expressed by the word anyaro. I am not consumption of water, and the friction of the prepared to say what methods of strangulation air-pump, in the latter engines. In order to have been practised in the East. Surely that economise the steam, it is also cut off at a which St. Peter is thus made to describe was quarter stroke, and allowed to operate on the very unusual. The verb laqueo appears proprinciple of expansion. perly to signify to halter or take in a snare; and I apprehend was rarely, if ever, used in a sense corresponding with our word hang. lows: in is 28th March, 1827. was, that W. S. W. The Lite enemies of the Protestant religion. The University of Gottingen counts at present 1460 students, of whom 352 study the logy, 652 the law, 284 medicine, and 172 the philosophical sciences. The University of Munich had on the 23d of December last 1342 students. FINE ARTS. SUFFOLK STREET EXHIBITION. The engine when exhibited to us was work, and correspondent, of coals amounts to little more than one-third another Number. This little summary is made from above a doen of first of January.-Ed. La G. the 1 Nm. 143 and 237 (the Honorable Captam Duz-das ami H. R.-hards, Esq.) than is usually for nå in evens our best specimens of portraiture, The individual likenesses are perfect; and as getural works of art both are of high merit, true to nature; his execution skilful, and his burg; and his domestic history affords a striking colouring brilliant and clear. In this piece he example of the influence which even at that has given us an idea of Home, as it should be: period the opinion entertained of French civithe subject looks well in picture, and figures in lisation exercised on the manners of the rest of description; and he has done well to put the Europe. Madame de Canita, very rich and No 130. Jerusalem at the time of the Cruci- best face on the matter. volatile, became, at an early age, the widow of ST. C. Hofland—In the representation | No. 358. The Effects of C. aming, by the same, her first husband. She then married a Count of this awful scene the artist has brought is in periect contrast to the quiet of Home; de Goltz, with whom at the end of several bigether neveral of those effects of light and and the scene of violence is depicted with years she became disgusted, and was divorced glom seen in the elemental phenomena of truth both in expression and action': the moral from him. The French taste was her delight. mature; and the application of them to his com- 1 is good, and indicates in the boy the future. Paris furnishing her with her caps and gowns, it pomition appears to us to have a typical refer. misfortunes of the man. occurred to her that she might obtain a husband enre to the glorious light which sprang from the No. 330. Bathers, by the same, is, in most from the surne capital. Accordingly she gave crum on Minint Calvary, rather than to be an parts, a good example of colouring. her milliner orders to send her a French attempt to express that unimaginable darkness - No. 71. Suger-Hotis. W. Kidd.—A gro, cavalier, young, well-made, irvely, witty, and a which overspread the land at the time at the tesque group, in which a chimney.sweeper is gentleman whom she might marry. The em. cruciktog. Imagination makes such large de- the prominent sufferer from the pelting storm mission was speedily expented. It is true that mands on mul rets of this kind, that it is well of snow-balls, alike adverse to him in numbers the person who made his appearance did not if the artist can answer a few of them. and in colour. As an amusing game of binne fulfil all the coalitions stipulated by the Na, 109 Comporrison, Moonisght-the same et noir, this little composition may hang with baroness. He was fifty years of age 1 by no ~Is one of the mint striking and original in good effect over the warmest chimney-piece of means good-looking; and a little phlegmatic. charmeter and effect of any we remember to any snug cabinet in town or country, There were even doubts of the anthenticity of have seen from the pencil of Mr. Hofland. He No. 108. Portrait of a Lady —No. 271, Par. his titles of not chty ↑ although he called him. has introduced into it a very novel and besu- trit of Lord Combærmere. Mrs. Pearson self Pierre de Larrey, Baron de Brunbuse, Bưʻni divisum of the light, by a dark object These portraits reflect great honour un the But he had the incontestable merits, in the eve mtervening and running across the picture, skill and talents of a female professor. It is of Madame de Camia, of having arrived from Te efect in at once natural, pleasing, and very satisfactory to see in such proofs of ability, the capital of good taste, and of being a grand. We immediately recognise the truth that wherever there is merit it is hkely to Frenchiman. Without waiting for the result or such appearances ↑ a and we vield great praise meet with encouragement. Mrs. Pearwan is of the investigation, which afterwards proved to the artist for having so delightfully embodied an extremely clever artist; her copy from the that our lucky adventurer was only a younger a poemaare of memory, „fatina Embarkation Cande, in the national son of a respectable family in Normandy, Ma. No. 121. The Givaner. J. Holmes. —An' gallery, shewed her powers in one style, and dame de (an ta hastened to marry him, with all art vt, in a corn-feld among a set of rustics, these excesient portraits demonstrate them in the due ceremonies, notwithstanding the jokes em;arred in delineating the characters and another, which we trust she will find more which the society of Bertin showered upon the menery aburit him, is a curious and new profitable, and not less creditable, extraordinary exple: and the event shewed mas eet; it may be classed among the vagaries that she had not made a bad choice, for they dirt. There are some weil-painted indi. lived very happily together. viduals in taas pictorial drama, and we have baie damals has the situation of the painter was toon as De Las Deprmented ; but how, amidst ẫu ugh ter, munchief, and all other interruptions, he cumad purvue his study, should seem to reya re anud nerve, and no httle enthus, sem. No 03. The Young Card Players, W. Gill Aby a strunt occasm we spoke of this young krting må vine of great promise: our secund bevare in more apex.fically to acknowledge his pertarmanew, which would do credit to any painter whose works had been matured by Shot and whose execution was the result of Na (4). A Bocchante. J. Bonden....There In hartie mighs of the ideal to wvarate this fase tead from the clam of portrait. There K beamer, efeat of the enchanting to *retur attention, and raise our admiration of the talem's of the artist. The showilder and best, ievertheäret, appear to want something l be drawing, and to be too narrow, In 2001, Breaking up, by the same artist, be a very murential produs tom of h• pencil, and we doubt at that the hitse hot day urchins, 4 pom na prist werd be very popular. 12. Fred, b. Brodies. The talents 1° acting, as a painter of still afe, (and) What of hardware) are «., ent to Patraci a câa m to rank among the suvemful. în sala demtiment of art. Nu 116 A Venetian Bay, with a Parret T VII. — The artist has been very in perforsonen ®; giving his sch it, not only by its påa (1) charme. ORIGINAL POETRY. A Spirit sits with me by day A Sperit sits with me by night ; In the cold moon's unclouded light. If to the forest's depths I fy, It blackers in the blackest shade. With me beside the stream in Mata 2 If, where the wares are forinding dark, It totis upon the tumbling sea. I hear it in the breeze that wals That ever sigh d through marble balls Its land is often on my brow, BIOGRAPHY. GERMAN BIOGRAFILY 2009ANECDOTES V. bg by the harnumy and brisaney of its on. Tur third and fourth volume of 4 Bigs. Ambassador from the Elector of Branden. Marg at the court of London, on the acression of James 11., Besser acquired the renown of the greatest diplomatie abuhty, by an act which at the present day would be one of extraordi. narv impropriety. At that time, he who crded precedence to his rivals was omsidered a weak politicias. Precedence then orupted the attention of the court, as indeed it did that of nii classes of society. The Venetian ambass dor pretended to have precedence of the ambas sador of the Fector of Brardetilming: having been stimu ated to this assertion by the Envoy of Counge, who had vicided precedence to him. Besser detern..ned to ruk every thing rather than suit to sim.iar degradation. The folding doors of the throne.room being thrown open, the Venetian ambassador #id Besser advanced on the same lue, and each began his ¦ sprexin Middetaly, Henner, withemit taxing his even trums the ki“g, or for a moment interrupt. ing the serter ce he was uttering, seized the rear of the Venetiani, ambassador's breeches, and hauled him hark several steps. The in« ¦ molence threw the Italian Into the greatest com→ frain, and gave the advantage to Bemer, who feranzend his speech as if nothing had happened. His presence of rund and anlarity not only received the approbat un để James, and the aplause of the cur; dinkomatique, but erm. ted to) la nivancement. At a momequent teral, however, he experienced a whips.cal si ngrace to the career in which he had alwavy off sted with glory. Ment to receive and com. 10mant Peter the treat, who had followed the Kimaan endasse to Kreigsberg, Incognitat, Bewer was hodied in an mense Lous the Ferter than g While he was making him law, Peter mati ed off his wig; and, having examined it inade and out, threw it into overver. It was a dreadful thing for a grand master of the ceremonies to appear in pie fa ila characters are we varied, and the court of the Grand Lector of Branden-y with a lace coat and a tad head! But nothing |