are made the mere officials of a separate sive, obstinate. There is a letter also giv- | manifested a degree of perseverance and and supreme body. Whether this be, on en, written in the true Suffolk lingo, in fortitude which cannot be paralleled exthe whole, wise, or likely to give the which may also be detected many Ameri- cept perhaps in Parry's voyage. In fact, University a choice of officers among the can phrases and corrupt modes of pronun- the hardships encountered by the Russian first in intellect and literature in the coun- ciation. "What will the Yankees say," expedition were probably greater than try, or to secure the most zealous and effi- says the reviewer, "if this volume should those to which the British adventurers were cient exertion of what abilities they may find its way to America, at learning that exposed. The latter could always retreat possess in promoting the best interests of such English is still spoken in the mother to their well-built and warm ships, whilst the the College,—many seem to doubt. So country? We ought not to be very se- former, in their excursions on the icy sea, much must be trusted to these officers, vere on the subject of Americanisms. which sometimes lasted for several weeks and the reposing confidence in men is so Another thirty years, however, by means together, had, during the whole time, no apt to make them trust-worthy, we should of Sunday Schools, Bible Societies, and shelter whatever, and were able to take hardly think it worth while to fear that other innovations, will make sad havoc with them, for their sustenance, only so these gentlemen would rob the College among these remnants of the olden phra- much dried fish as could be stowed away treasury, and give themselves undue sala- seology. Our antiquarians must make the in narrow sledges, drawn by dogs, the chief ries; and the time has almost past for sup- most of their time." part of which was occupied by food for posing that scholars do or should or will these dogs; and they were in the same or live in such monkish seclusion as to know a worse situation with regard to fuel, of nothing of the world beyond their cells, which they had none but what could be and to be unfit to govern themselves. The transported on these sledges. In one of system of checks and balances may be carhis excursions the Baron went two hundred ried out, to the extinction of far better and thirty-five miles from the coast upon motives than it can supply-and it must the ice of the Polar Sea, to the latitude of be a difficult task to provide for the College 72° 3', where he arrived at the open sea, a supreme power, out of the College, and and afterwards travelled many days to the other than that body of Overseers who rewestward, along the ice. All his provisions present the public, against which some being exhausted, he returned, after spendweighty objections shall not lie. ing forty-six days upon the surface of this ocean, without any shelter, the thermometer never arising above - 15°, and frequently sinking to-24° R. (— 5 and — 28° F.) ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. ANTIQUITIES OF POMPEII. There has lately issued from the royal press at Naples, a folio volume, with 107 plates, under the title of Decorations of the Walls and Pavements of the Chambers in the ancient Pompeii. Here are representations of the Arabesques, Mosaics, and other ornaments found in the houses of that city. Among other groups and compositions, interesting to the artist and antiquarian, are six designs of the arenas of the amphitheatre, preserving their memory, as the originals have been destroyed. The royal press has also made much use of the unpublished monuments of Winckelman, and printed a new edition of them. ANCIENT COINS. A Royal Society of Literature has been instituted in Great Britain within the last In another excursion the Baron attempted to examine the sea to the east of Cape year. Its organization is similar to that of the Royal Philosophical Society. Schalagskoi. He was informed by the naThe Bishop of St David's is its President, and tives that they could see land, in clear among its other office-bearers are many in- There has been found within a short time weather, to the N. E. and estimated its disdividuals distinguished for birth and rank, at Gordon in Berwickshire, (G. B.) a small tance at eighty versts (fifty-four miles.) The Baron immediately set out himself, and some for their literary eminence. horn, containing fourteen silver coins of There is a provision for the election, by the about the diameter of the modern shilling, but and sent one of the officers of his expediCouncil, of ten Royal Associates, who re-not quite so thick. On one side is the head of tion in another direction with the same ceive from the king an annual allowance the prince, with the legend Henriu di Gra.view. But he had hardly got thirty-three of a hundred guineas. Among those who Rex. Ang. & Franc. On the obverse is the miles from the coast, when a violent storm, have received this distinction are Mr Cole- cross, with a border inscribed Posui deum, which continued several days, broke up the ridge the poet, Mr Malthus, and Sir W. Adjutorem Meum; and on an inner circle ice, and not only rendered it impossible for Ousely. At the late annual meeting of the Villa Calisie. These are taken to be a him to proceed further towards the north, Society, Mr Mitford, the venerable histo- coinage of Henry V. (from the u in the but even made his return to land very rian of Greece, was presented by the Pres- name Henriu) and stamped by that great and after passing several days on a piece of problematical. It was with great difficulty ident with one of the beautiful gold medals and victorious king at Calais. which the king had enabled the Society to floating ice, among the masses piled up around him, in the utmost danger, and expresent annually. posed to total want of provisions, that he at length succeeded in reaching the land, where the other party had also arrived after incurring a similar risk. By the breaking up of the ice the possibility of reaching the land pointed out by the Tschukutskoi was destroyed, not only for that year, but probably for several years to come. SUFFOLK WORDS AND PHRASES. RUSSIAN EXPEDITION TOWARDS THE NORTH POLE. An expedition was sent out by the RusA book with this title has been publish- sian government in March, 1820, under the ed in England, containing two thousand direction of Baron Wrangel, towards the five hundred leading words (as they are north pole, for the following purposes. To called) peculiar to the county of Suffolk. determine, by astronomical observations on It was compiled by Mr Moor, author of the coasts of the Frozen ocean, the extent a treatise on Hindu Infanticide, to whom of Eastern Siberia, and the true geographthe plan was first suggested, on return- ical position of Cape Schalagskoj, the northing to his native county, after twenty ern point of Asia; to decide the still disyears' absence, by hearing these long for-puted question, whether Behring's Strait gotten provincialisms, "which produced, be a real channel between Asia and Amerias they fell upon his ear, a sensation simi- ca, or only a deep bay, as Burney asserts; lar to the welcome sight of an old friend." Among the few of these Suffolk words, which are noticed in a review of this work in the Eclectic Review, we recognise several which are in common use in America. Such as Jingo, used as a familiar oath-Gumshun, or Gumption, signifying cleverness or talent-Gumshus, or Rumgumshus (rather, perhaps, Gumptious), quarrelsome, offen PNEUMATIC LAMP. Among the ingenious novelties of the present day, is a machine invented by Mr Garden, a chemist in London, for the purand lastly, to examine more accurately pose of producing instantaneous light. This than has hitherto been done, the islands invention is founded upon a very remarkathat may exist to the north of the Jana, the ble property of platinum, discovered very Kolyma, and the country of the Tschukuts- lately by Professor Dæbereiner. When a koi. The return of the party was expect-jet of hydrogen is thrown upon a preparaed in the month of April, 1824, after hav- tion of this metal called platinum sponge, ing passed four years in the most desolate and the metal immediately becomes red hot, and inhospitable tracts of North-eastern Sibe- the hydrogen inflames. 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Of no country in the world, with the exception of the oldest States of Europe, are better accounts in existence. The single work of Humboldt-the “Essay on New Spain" | -the first fruits of his memorable voyage; the first overflowings of a genius so fertile, and of an observation so comprehensive; is of itself sufficient to make us thoroughly acquainted with Mexico. A book more valuable than the "Essay on New Spain," has never appeared in the same department of inquiry; and it is with regret that we understand the republication of the translation of it in this country must still remain incomplete, from the cold reception of the two first volumes. In general, we are sorry to say that the curiosity which the works of M. de Humboldt have excited in this country, is in no degree proportioned to their merit and importance. Few give themselves the trouble even to know what they are; and an advertisement has appeared in the Philadelphia papers, on behalf of the library of some public Institution in that city, in which inquiry is made for a complete copy of M. de Humboldt's Relation Historique, a book of which two only of the four volumes, of which it is to consist, have as yet been published. BOSTON, AUGUST 1, 1824. thing susceptible of change. The progress No. 8. strangers, even those from the Havana and the West India islands, are liable to this infection. No precautions can secure strangers from this fatal disorder, and many have died at Jalapa, who only passed through Vera Cruz. Humboldt mentions instances of persons, who left the ship immediately on their arrival, stepped out of the boat that conveyed them on shore into a litter, and were carried rapidly to Jalapa, having been attacked with yellow fever, and having died of black vomit. The Spanish physicians regard this as the place where the disorder had its origin, and pretend to trace the yellow fever of the Havana, of the West India Islands, the United States, and Spain, to Vera Cruz. Mr Poinsett proceeded on his journey, without delay, and travelled by night under the protection of six dragoons. The description, which he gives of the vehicles, roads, and places of reception for the traveller, is sufficiently alarming. The various insects armed with stings, constitute alone, in this region, a formidable annoyance. It is impossible, says Mr Poinsett, without experience, to form an idea of the torments of the crawling, skipping, and flying insects of this country:-bugs and worse than bugs, fleas, sancudos, and musquetoes at night, and gnats and xixens in the day. The latter (pronounced hi-hen) is a very small winged insect, that draws blood from the face or hands the instant it alights on them. This it does so dexterously, that the first notice you have of the puncture is a small pustule of blood, which remains visible for some days, while the part becomes inflamed and painful. Mr Poinsett (for we are sure he has no reason to wish that his name should not be associated with his work) sailed from Charleston in August 1822, in the Corvette, John Adams. This vessel was bound in the first instance to Puerto Rico, of which important island some interesting information is given in the first chapter of this work. On the 30th of September, they sailed from Puerto Rico for Vera Cruz, where, on the 18th of October, they came to anchor. They found that place in the extraordinary position, which it still maintains, the town in the hands of the independents, and the castle which commands it, in that of the Royalists. The chief interruption to trade which resulted from this state of affairs, was the duty of 8 per cent. levied by the commandant of the castle, on the merchant vessels entered. At the Customhouse in the city, another, and a Mr Poinsett arrived on the 21st at Jahigh duty is exacted by the Independents, lapa, a city, which gives its name to the according to a tariff drawn up in haste, well known medicinal plant, that grows in The name of Mexico must be our apolo- and without discrimination between coarse its neighbourhood. This city is a place of gy for this digression. It was impossible and fine goods of the same description. If general resort in the Summer for the innot to think first of M. de Humboldt in con- the goods are to be transported to the cap-habitants of Vera Cruz, who come here to nexion with it. Our respectable country-ital, in conformity of that most extraordi- escape the heat, the insects, and the disman, the author of the work to which we nary monument of Spanish financial folly, eases of the low country. When Mr Poinnow ask the attention of our readers, has they are subject to the alcavala, a further sett passed through this country, almost all drawn liberally from him, and acknowl-duty of twelve and a half per cent. the females of Vera Cruz were at Jalapa, edges the obligation in terms that do honor Mr Poinsett describes the town of Vera to escape the dangers which might attend to his candor. Many things, however, in the siege of the Castle. Mr Poinsett here which they coincide, he has doubtless given received the attentions of General Echafrom his own personal observation, since, varri and his suite. though his passage through the country was quite rapid, his perfect command of the Spanish language, and his access to the political leaders in power, gave him great opportunities of inquiry. It is to be borne in mind, moreover, that it is now more than twenty years since M. de Humboldt visited Mexico, and that these twenty years have been nearly all in the highest degree eventful, and productive of change in every Cruz as compact and very well built, and The next day the journey was continued in a litter, a case six feet long and three wide, with three upright poles fixed on each side to support a top, and curtains of cotton cloth. This case is carried by means of long poles passing though leather straps, which are suspended from the saddle of the mules, and in the same manner as a sedan chair is borne by porters. A mattress is spread at the bottom of the case, on |