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would soon become indispensably necessary. But these men could scarcely carry themselves, much less the comparatively heavy canoes. When the faithful Hepburn begs Richardson to let him shoot the merciless Michel; when he is shot, and the dreadful uncertainty recurs to us as to the final disposal of the body; the strange assumption of function by one individual, witness, judge, and executioner, never startles us. It seems dreadful to us that a society so small, reduced to three only, should be made smaller by a violent death. There was a slow coming of death to all, foreboded by famine and cold; and it almost seems to us, that murder might here have been kind. But if life be made dear by our care for it, and by suffering, in its ordinary forms and degrees, how inestimably precious was it to these wretched men. It was all that remained to them. They were now exhausted, and hardly able to totter a few steps to get moss for their food, or fuel to cook it. Michel remained strong; was active, and oppressive by his mere physical strength. He had lost his respect for one of them, who in the common ranks of life was far his superior. He had, above all, lost his relationship to them. He had shot a sick, and most beloved friend; one whom we could not help loving in every page of the narrative. We said we were not startled by the act which killed him. The morality of it was unquestioned. We felt for an instant something as we did in one of Scott's novels, where the mad enthusiast in the hovel, starts up and puts the hour hand of the clock forward, that the time for a murder might be anticipated. Death seemed surely too near to all to be hurried on to any. But the horror is a momentary one, and we rejoiced that one of the means of destruction was removed.

These were religious men. It deserves to be noticed that men of this character have commanded some of the most important expeditions of a similar kind which have been recently fitted out by the government of England, and which have excited so strong an interest every where. Is it claiming too much for our religion to say, that it was this, which gave to these men's minds a tone and spirit which nothing could wholly depress or destroy? We know of nothing which could have sustained these men, under these circumstances, but their strong and abiding piety.

It will be perceived, from what has been said in this article, that our interest in these works is not so much found in their histories of new regions and new manners, as in the conduct of the men who give them. It is the operation of the new and the terrible upon beings like ourselves, and the whole manner in which this operation displays itself, the high moral bearing, the intellectual resource the severe patience, the fine disinterestedness, it is all this which attracts us so irresistibly in these works, and makes the fate of their authors so deeply interesting. There is much that is salutary in them, if we will be taught by them, as well as entertained. The lesser

And thou dost see them rise,
Star of the Pole! and thou dost see them set.
Thou keep'st thy old unmoving station yet,
Alone, in thy cold skies,
Nor join'st the dances of that glittering train,
Nor dip'st thy virgin orb in the blue western main.

There, at morn's rosy birth,
Thou lookest meekly through the kindling air,

And eve, that round the earth
Chases the day, beholds thee watching there;
There noontide finds thee, and the hour that calls
The shapes of polar flame to scale heaven's azure
walls.

Alike, beneath thine eye,
The deeds of darkness and of light are done;
High towards the star-lit sky
Towns blaze-the smoke of battle blots the sun-

The night-storm on a thousand hills is loud—
And the strong wind of day doth mingle sea and

cloud.

The half-wrecked mariner, his compass lost,
On thy unaltering blaze

Fixes his steady gaze,
And steers, undoubting, to the friendly coast;
And they who stray in perilous wastes, by night,
Are glad when thou dost shine to guide their foot-
steps right.

And, therefore, bards of old,
Sages, and hermits of the solemn wood

Did in thy beams behold

That bright eternal beacon, by whose ray
The voyager of time should shape his heedful way.

A beauteous type of that unchanging good,

THE GLADIATOR.

They led a lion from his den,

The lord of Afric's sun-scorched plain;
And there he stood, stern foe of men,
And shook his flowing mane.
There's not of all Rome's heroes, ten
That dare abide this game.
His bright eye nought of lightning lacked;
His voice was like the cataract.

They brought a dark-haired man along,
Whose limbs with gyves of brass were bound;
Youthful he seemed, and bold, and strong,
And yet unscathed of wound.
Blithely he stepped among the throng,
And careless threw around

A dark eye, such as courts the path
Of him, who braves a Dacian's wrath.

Then shouted long the plebeian crowd-
Rung the glad galleries with the sound;
And from the throne there spake aloud
A voice, "Be the bold man unbound!
And, by Rome's sceptre yet unbowed,
By Rome, earth's monarch crowned,
Who dares the bold-the unequal strife,
Though doomed to death, shall save his life."

Joy was upon that dark man's face,
And thus, with laughing eye, spake he:
"Loose ye the lord of Zaara's waste,
And let my arms be free;

He has a martial heart,' thou sayest,
But oh, who will not be

A hero, when he fights for life,

And home, and country,-babes, and wife,

And thus I for the strife prepare ;
The Thracian falchion to me bring;
But ask th' imperial leave to spare
The shield--a useless thing.
Were I a Samnite's rage to dare,
Then o'er me should I fling
The broad orb; but to lion's wrath
The shield were but a sword of lath."

And he has bared his shining blade,
And springs he on the shaggy foe;
Dreadful the strife, but briefly played-
The desert-king lies low,

His long and loud death-howl is made,
And there must end the show.

And when the multitude were calm,
The favourite freedman took the palm.

"Kneel down, Rome's emperor beside :"
He knelt, that dark man;-o'er his brow
Was thrown a wreath in crimson died,
And fair words gild it now:

Thou'rt the bravest youth that ever tried
To lay a lion low;

And from our presence forth thou go'st
To lead the Dacians of our host."

Then flushed his cheek, but not with pride,
And grieved and gloomily spoke he:
"My cabin stands where blithely glide
Proud Danube's waters to the sea;

I have a young and blooming bride,
And I have children three;
No Roman wealth nor rank can give
Such joy, as in their arms to live.

My wife sits at the cabin door,
With throbbing heart and swollen eyes;
While tears her cheek are coursing o'er,
She speaks of sundered ties.
She bids my tender babes deplore
The death their father dies;
She tells these jewels of my home,
I bleed to please the rout of Rome.
I cannot let those cherubs stray
Without their sire's protecting care;
And I would chase the griefs away
Which cloud my wedded fair."
The monarch spoke, the guards obey,
And gates unclosed are;

He is gone-no golden bribes divide
The Dacian from his babes and bride.

THE VENETIAN GONDOLIER. Here rest the weary oar!- soft airs

Breathe out in the o'erarching sky;
And Night!-sweet Night-serenely wears
A smile of peace ;-her noon is nigh.

Where the tall fir in quiet stands,
And waves, embracing the chaste shores,
Move o'er sea-shells and bright sands,—
Is heard the sound of dipping oars.

Swift o'er the wave the light bark springs,
Love's midnight hour draws lingering near
And list!-his tuneful viol strings

The young Venetian Gondolier.

You may mark the Lover, with sigh sincere,
Wipe from his sleeping eve a tear,
And tenderly tell his tale of feeling

To the form of love o'er his fancy stealing:-
You mark the Mourner, his friend embrace,
And dwell with delight on that well known face,
Which is now perchance but a form of clay,
Entombed in a sepulchre far away-

Or reposing deep in the coral grove,
Where the herds of the ocean delight to rove :-
You may mark the Murderer wipe the stain
From the hand that is dyed in the blood of the slain;
While his ghastly grin-and his sudden start-
And his quivering lip-and his beating heart-
Betray the truth his lips would not tell,
That a guilty soul-is a cruel hell!
You may mark the Mother assay to bless
The child of her love with a dear caress;
Then waking-weep, that her tender care
Was bestowed on an object that was not there :
For its form is cold-and its grave is green,
And her smiling babe-was a pleasing dream!
HENRY.
(To be continued.)

INTELLIGENCE.

RETURN OF CAPT. LYON'S EXPEDITION.
THE Circumstances which have led to the

That the hour of his triumph must come ere long-failure of this branch of the North-West
The hour when beauty and youth shall fade,
And both in their couch of repose be laid,
Enwrapped in that sleep which shall know no waking
'Till the hoary pillars of earth are shaking.

The stormy feelings of man are at rest,
Like a fathomless sea with a peaceful breast;
With not a heave of their boisterous motion,
Save the sluggish swelling of past commotion,
Breaking perchance in a groaning dream,
Or a stifled sigh, or a frightful scream-
Then sinking again in that mystic deep,
Where human passion is stilled in sleep.

My heart would stamp on this page some thought,
That is worthy of Him, who such wonders wrought-
Of Him, whose wisdom and might divine
Taught order to worlds, and bade them shine ;-
Whose word went forth- and the universe stood,
Whose power commanded-and all was good!
Ye twinkling fires, that seem to lie

gems on the skirt of a spangled sky;
Ye glorious systems of upper air,
Which seem to whisper that God is there;
Ye worlds of beings, whose souls perchance
Are pure as the light of the sun's bright glance,
As he lifts his head from the murky cloud,
Which but for a moment appeared to shroud
The glories which God, in his power, hath shed,
To illumine forever his dazzling head:-
Ye heavenly host! may your beams inspire,
And lift the soul of a mortal higher,
And teach his heart what it ought to feel,
When horrors like this o'er his bosom steal.

It is sweet to think, on a lonely night,
When all are sleeping, and stars are bright-
When the Kate-a-did cries from the vale and hill,
And the murmur is heard of the cooling rill-
When the Cricket chirps in his lonely cell,
And the Whipperwill whistles his last farewell;-
It is sweet to think, what a happy number,
Now lost in the silence of peaceful slumber,
Rest sweetly on in their downy bed,
Like the silent forms of a world of dead.

Yet oft doth the spirit of those who rest
Awake from its sleep in the placid breast,
And breaking the shackles of Earth's control,
Roam freely and safely from pole to pole!-
For this is the hour when Fancy roves
Over friends departed, and youthful loves→
And deeds of darkness and scenes of guilt,
Where sin was committed or blood was spilt.

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but brought up again with three anchors ahead, in quarter less four fathom water. When the tide fell, the sea was so heavy that the rudder continually struck the ground, and was lifted almost out of the gudgeons. This was on the 1st of September. On the weather moderating, the Griper proceeded up the Welcome, but a northerly gale of wind springing up, the ship was driven into Hudson's Bay.

However, by perseverance, and taking advantage of every favourable breeze of wind, she reached Cape Fullarton, the larboard entrance of Wager River, and within about sixty miles of the spot (Repulse Bay) where she was intended to winter. The coast on the American mainland was found so rocky and extremely dangerous, that she was obliged to stretch off for Southampton Island, whence she endeavoured to make for Repulse Bay, but was driven by the tide directly to the southward and westward, against what was supposed to be Wager River. Here strong breezes and a heavy snow-storm set in, which made it necessary that the ship should be broughtto with three anchors a-head and made snug. The sea rose rapidly, and broke expedition, are attributed to stormy and over the ship with tremendous force, formsevere weather, which prevailed in a ing thick coats of ice in an instant, so as intense degree than the oldest to connect the shrouds together half way northern navigator remembers, and to the up the rigging. The snow also fell so fast extraordinary bad qualities of the ship for that the men had much difficulty in keepthe purpose required. It appears that the ing the decks clear. The ship all this Griper left Stromness on the first of July, time pitched so dreadfully, that the cables and made Cape Chudleigh, on the Labrador came over the bumpkins, one of which was Coast, on the second of August, having thereby broken. During the night, a large fallen in with the icebergs three days pre-stream of ice was discovered coming down viously, and from which time she was beset found to make so little progress, that the with drift ice. In this passage she was Snap, her provision tender, was frequently obliged to take her in tow. From Cape Chudleigh, the Griper was obliged to stretch to the northward, to Resolution Island, the field ice prevented progress up Hudson's Straits; they were, however, enabled to make slow advances to the Westward, close to the Savage Islands, until they made Salisbury or Nottingham Island, but which place could not be ascertained, from the impossibility of making observations off the Upper Savage Islands. Some canoes of natives came off to them, who appeared to be of the same description of Esquimaux with which our navigators were before acquainted. They were dismissed with liberal presents, and appeared much gratified. From Salisbury Island, the Griper proceeded to the south point of the Southampton Island, in which they were assisted by a strong current setting down Fox's Channel; but on their sounding Southampton Island this current, which then came down Sir Thomas Rowe's Welcome, (up which they wished to proceed,) was directly against them, and nearly caused their shipwreck. Southampton Island was found to be laid down with tolerable accuracy. Off the southwest end of the island, the Griper was obliged to anchor, in consequence of sudden shoaling her water: in a gale of wind she parted one anchor,

upon the ship, but, most happily, it parted tion of it struck against the bows, which before it reached her, and some small pordid no damage. The wind continued to increase, as well as the snow; at five o'clock in the morning the starboard cable parted, and, on the ship swinging to the other three anchors, she was struck by a sea and parted from them all! Her situation at this time was the most perilous that can be imagined: every individual momentarily expecting that she would drive on shore. Means of preservation, however, were not neglected; the trysails were got on her, though it was so dark that no object could be discerned, and they did not know so much as which way the ship's head lay, from the compasses having ceased to act, the ship being, as it is supposed, directly over or near the Magnetic Pole.

Whilst presuming, in this distressing dilemma, that the wind had shifted off the land, as the water deepened, a sight of the sun, and subsequently of the other celestial bodies, was obtained (of which they had no view for some days), and the ship was found to have been drifted out of the Welcome, after having attained lat. 65° 30'. There was at this moment no anchor left in the ship. Notwithstanding, it was determined, if possible, to winter about Chesterfield Inlet, or even to the southward of that spot. The persevering efforts of all on board were accordingly directed to gain the American shore, but finding that the ship

in the hope of communicating with the
Griper.

got into the shallows of Hudson's Bay, they
were reluctantly compelled to edge away
for Salisbury Island, still hoping that a few The Griper communicated with the Es-
fine and favourable days would restore to quimaux, natives of the Upper Savage Isl-
them their lost ground. The bad weather, ands, all of whom had frequently seen Eu-
however, still continued, and there was ropeans. They were less savage in their
much difficulty in watering the ship at habits and manners than their more north-
these places, from a stream of ice. A num- ern brethren, but they showed a strong
ber of natives came off to them in their ca- thievish disposition; they endeavoured to
noes, and trafficked their clothes for iron steal the oars and iron-works from the
and spears.
At length, the hopeless con- boats. The Griper also communicated with
tinuance of bad weather, the wretched the natives of various parts of Southamp-
condition of the ship (from her incapaci- ton Island, who had never seen a ship be-
ties), the officers and crew having suffered fore. They, however, expressed but very
more hardships than on any previous voy- little surprise; they evinced more gentle-
age, the advanced stage of the season, withness in their manners, than any other of
numerous other concomitant miseries, com- the Esquimaux tribes, and were much better
pelled Captain Lyon to consent that the looking and cleaner in their persons-the
ship should be got out of Hudson's Straits women were rather pretty. All those
(an extent of eight hundred miles of dan- people reside in the Walrus-hide huts,
gerous navigation), which place they had which are described in Captain Lyon's last
scarcely cleared, when a southerly gale voyage.
drove them up to Davis' Straits, one hun-
dred and fifty miles to the southward of
Resolution Island. Providentially a change
of wind enabled them soon after to proceed
on a southern passage homeward, and the
Griper arrived here in six weeks, in the
state we have described.

The Griper is ordered to be paid off, and sold out of the navy. A vessel better adapted to the peculiarities of the service, will, no doubt, be provided for Captain Lyon and his meritorious officers and crew on the opening of the season, for further investigation. Captain Franklin, we understand, is to leave England, on his land expedition, in February next.

LORD BYRON.

The European press is teeming with publications, occasioned by the death of this distinguished character, in the form of elegies, monodies, biographies, recollections, &c. &c., and he has even been already made the subject of fiction. Somebody has published a "Narrative of Lord Byron's Voyage to Corsica and Sardinia in the summer of 1821," full of events as remarkable and as well authenticated as those of Sinbad the Sailor, Baron Munchausen, or Lemuel Gulli

ver.

own accord, one thousand pounds a canto for Don Juan, and afterwards reduced it to five hundred pounds, on the plea of piracy, and complained of my dividing one canto into two, because I happened to say something at the end of the third canto of having done so."

Lord Byron's Letter.

Ravenna, February 7, 1820. "DEAR MURRAY,-I have copied the third canto of Don Juan into two, because it was too long, and I tell you this beforetween you and me, these two are only to go hand, because in case of any reckoning befor one, as this was the original form, and in fact the two together are not longer than one of the first; so remember that I have not made this division to double on you, but merely to suppress some tediousness in the aspect of the thing. I should have served you a pretty trick, if I had sent you, for example, cantos of fifty stanzas each.

Captain Medwin, p. 169.

but it seems inevitable. I had no reason to "I don't wish to quarrel with Murray, be pleased with him the other day. Galignani wrote to me, offering to purchase the

copy-right of my works, in order to obtain an exclusive privilege of printing them in France. I might have made my own terms, and put the money in my own pocket; instead of which I enclosed Galignani's letter to Murray, in order that he might conclude the matter as he pleased. He did so, very advantageously for his own interest; but never had the complaisance, the common politeness, to thank me or acknowledge my letter.”

Lord Byron's Letter.

Though little has been effected towards solving the geographical problem of a northwest passage by this voyage, yet some most interesting elucidations of the deviation of the compass have been brought to light. The compasses began to waver and contradict each other when abreast of the Savage islands; and, as the ship got to the westward, the compasses got unsteady and useless. Whilst the ship was in Sir Thomas Rowe's Welcome, they frequently would not traverse at all, but stood in whatever position the card was Ravenna, 9bre 4, 1820. placed. Should a passage be discovered by "I have received from Mr Galignani the Captain Parry through the Prince Regent's enclosed letters, duplicates, and receipts, Inlet, it is considered more than probable, which will explain themselves. As the poems from the irregular movements of the ice, None of these publications appears are your property, by purchase, right, and that it may never be entered again. The to have excited more attention than Med-justice, all matters of publications &c. &c. are Griper spoke several whalers, all of which win's Conversations of Byron; and it would for you to decide upon. I know not how far had been unsuccessful in the fishery; no seem that they have been proved to contain my compliance with Mr Galignani's request ship had more than two fish, and many none a good deal of either accidental or wilful might be legal, and I doubt that it would not whatever. From the Captain Phenix whal- misrepresentation. In this work, Lord Byron be honest. In case you choose to arrange er, Captain Lyon heard that Captain Par- is reported to have stated certain facts not with him, I enclose the permits to you, and ry's Expedition had been seen, in the middle of August, in latitude 71°, beset with very honourable to his publisher, Mr Mur- in so doing, I wash my hands of the business and to have made some complaints of altogether; I sign them merely to enable ice. On the whole, the season has been the manner in which he had been treated you to exert the power you justly possess more boisterous, and, consequently, the sea by him. Mr Murray has thought proper to more properly; I will have nothing to do less clear, than it has been known for thirty circulate a small pamphlet relative to these with it further, except in my answer to Mr years. It was very questionable if Captain statements, in which he shows the utter Galignani, to state, that the letters, &c. &c. Parry would be able to reach Lancaster groundlessness of every syllable imputed to are sent to you, and the causes thereof. If Sound. Had the Griper effected a winter-Lord Byron, and refutes most completely you can check those foreign pirates, do; if ing at Repulse Bay or Wager River, or every particular item of these injurious not, put the permissive papers in the fire. I Chesterfield Inlet, Captain Lyon with a and scandalous insinuations. Mr Murray's can have no view nor object whatever but strong party, would have made a land jour- pamphlet is very honourable to him. It to secure to you your property. ney to Point Turnagain, near the Copper- labours at no reasoning, but simply states mine River, a distance of seven hundred facts, and produces Lord Byron's own letmiles; for which expedition they were fully ters to confound Lord Byron's Conversaequipped. Captain Parry, if he succeed in tions with Captain Medwin. As these are passing the Lancaster Sound and getting of very considerable interest, and illustrate to the southward down Prince Regent's his lordship's character and life, we think Inlet (by which Captain Lyon was next it worth while to insert them entire. year to communicate with him), he will send a land expedition, if possible, in the same direction, as well as to Repulse Bay,

ray,

Note by Mr Murray.-Mr Murray derived ne

advantage from the proposed agreement, which was by no means of the importance here ascribed to it, and therefore was never attempted to be carried into effect: the documents alluded to are still in his possession.

Captain Medwin, pp. 169, 171. "Murray has long prevented the Quar terly from abusing me. Some of their bullies "Murray offered me [Lord Byron,] of his have had their fingers itching to be at me;

Captain Medwin, p. 167, (Eng. Ed.)

set-to.

but they would get the worst of it in a “Murray and I have dissolved all connexion: he had the choice of giving up me or the navy list. There was no hesitation which way he should decide: the admiralty carried the day. Now for the Quarterly: their batteries will be opened; but I can fire broadsides too. They have been letting off lots of squibs and crackers against me, but they only make a noise and ***

"Werner was the last book Murray published for me, and three months after came out the Quarterly's article on my plays, when Marino Faliero was noticed for the

first time."

Lord Byron's Letter.

Genoa, 10bre 25, 1822. "I had sent you back the Quarterly without perusal, having resolved to read no more reviews, good, bad, or indifferent; but who can control his fate? Galignani, to whom my English studies are confined, has forwarded a copy of at least one half of it, in his indefatigable weekly compilation, and as, like honour it came unlooked for,' I have looked through it. I must say, that upon the whole,—that is, the whole of the half which I have read, (for the other half is to be the segment of Gal's next week's circular), it is certainly handsome, and any thing but unkind or unfair."

Note. The passage about the admiralty is unfounded in fact, and no otherwise deserving of notice, than to mark its absurdity; and with regard to the Quarterly Review, his lordship well knew that it was established and constantly conducted on principles which absolutely excluded Mr Murray from all such interference and influence as is implied in the Conversations.

Captain Medwin, 168.

“Because I gave Mr Murray one of my poems, he wanted to make me believe that I had made him a present of two others, and hinted at some lines in English Bards,' that were certainly to the point. But I have altered my mind considerably upon that subject: as I once hinted to him, I see no reason why a man should not profit by the sweat of his brain as well as by the sweat of his brow, &c.; besides I was poor at that time, and have no idea of aggrandizing booksellers.

Lord Byron's Letter.

“January 2, 1816.

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two poems, the Siege of Corinth and Parisina, heard that Lord Byron was in pecuniary
which his lordship had previously, at a short inter- difficulties, he immediately forwarded fifteen
val, presented to Mr Murray as donations. Lord hundred pounds to him, with an assurance
earnest persuasion, to accept the one thousand that another such sum should be at his ser-
Byron was afterwards induced, by Mr Murray's
guineas, and Mr. Murray has his lordship's assign-vice in a few months; and that if such assis-
ment of the copy right accordingly.
tance should not be sufficient, Mr Murray
would be ready to sell the copy right of all
his lordship's works, for his use.

Captain Medwin, p. 166.

"Murray pretends to have lost money by is poor, which is somewhat problematical to my writings, and pleads poverty; but if he me, pray who is to blame.

The following is Lord Byron's acknowledgement of this offer:

"November 14, 1815. kind in him! He is afraid of my writing too cepted, but certainly not unhonoured. Your "Mr Murray is tender of my fame. How "DEAR SIR,-I return you your bills, unacfast. Why? because he has a tender regard present offer is a favour which I would acfor his own pocket, and does not like the cept from you, if I accepted such from any look of any new acquaintance in the shape man. Had such been my intention, I can of a book of mine, till he has seen his old assure you, I would have asked you, fairly friends in a variety of new faces; ID EST, and as freely as you would give; and I candisposed of a vast many editions of the for-not say more of my confidence, or your conmer works. I don't know what would be- duct. The circumstances which induce me come of me without Douglas Kinnaird, who to part with my books, though sufficiently, has always been my best and kindest friend. are not immediately pressing. I have made It is not easy to deal with Mr Murray." up my mind to them, and there is an end. Murray yearly from Lord Byron, (who was not kindness in this way, it would have been Note. In the numerous letters received by Mr Had I been disposed to trespass on your accustomed to restrain the expression of his feel- before now; but I am not sorry to have an ings in writing them) not one has any tendency to-opportunity of declining it, as it sets my wards the imputations here thrown out; the incon- opinion of you, and indeed of human nature, gruity of which will be evident, from the fact of Mr in a different light from that in which I have right of his lordship's poems, sums amounting to been accustomed to consider it. Murray having paid, at various times, for the copy upwards of fifteen thousand pounds, viz.—

Childe Harold, I., II.

1575

2100

525

700

525

315

525

1525

Lament of Tasso
Manfred
Beppo

Don Juan, I., II.

Doge of Venice

Mazeppa
Chillon
Sundries

over.

"I have heard from Mr Douglas Kinnaird, that you state a report of a satire on Mr Gifford having arrived from Italy, said to be written by me, but that you do not believe it; I dare say you do not, nor any body else Captain Medwin, p. 170. I should think. Whoever asserts that I am "My differences with Murray are not the author or abetter of any thing of the When he purchased Cain,' The kind on Gifford, lies in his throat; I always Two Foscari,' and Sardanapalus,' he sent regarded him as my literary father, and myme a deed, which you may remember wit-self as his prodigal son. If any such composition exists, it is none of mine. know, as well as any body, upon whom I have or have not written, and you also know, whether they did or did not deserve the same. So much for such matters. some news from this part of Greece, (which "You will perhaps be anxious to hear is most liable to invasion); but you will hear enough through public and private channels on that head. I will, however, give you the peculiar with the public, for we are here events of a week, mingling my own private jumbled a little together for the present.

it was discovered that * * *

"Dear SIR,-Your offer is liberal in the nessing. Well; after its return to England extreme, and much more than the two poems can possibly be worth; but I cannot accept it, nor will not. You are most welcome to them as additions to the collected volumes, without any demand or expectation on my part whatever."

“P. S. I have enclosed your draft torn, for fear of accidents by the way. I wish you would not throw temptation in mine; it is not from a disdain of the universal idol-nor from the present superfluity of his treasures-I can assure you, that I refuse to worship him;-but what is right is right, and must not yield to circumstances."

Note.--The above letter relates to a draft for one thousand guineas, offered by Mr Murray for

This is afterwards filled up as follows:
"It contained a clause which had been
introduced without my knowledge, a clause
by which I bound myself to offer Mr Mur-
take no notice of it."
ray all my future compositions. But I shall

Upon this it is remarked by Mr Murray:
Note.-On referring to the deed in question, no

such clause is to be found; but that this instrument
naird, as Lord Byron's procurator, and witnessed
was signed in London, by the Hon. Douglas Kin-
by Richard Williams, Esq., one of the partners in sudden and strong convulsive attack, which
"On Sunday, the 15th I believe, I had a
Mr Kinnaird's banking house; and that the signa-left me speechless, though not motionless,
ture of Captain Medwin is not affixed.

for some strong men could not hold me; but Mr Murray adds, that having accidentally whether it was epilepsy, catalepsy, cachexy,

apoplexy, or what other epsy or exy, the doctors have not decided, or whether it was spasmodic, or nervous, &c.; but it was very unpleasant, and nearly carried me off, and all that. On Monday, they put leeches on my temples, no difficult matter, but the blood could not be stopped till eleven at night, (they had gone too near the temporal artery for my temporal safety) and neither styptic nor caustic would cauterise the orifice, till after an hundred attempts.

"On Tuesday, a Turkish brig of war ran on shore.

By Wells & Lilly-Boston.

The Book of the Church. By Robert
Southey, Esq. L. L. D. From the Second London
Edition. 2 vols. 8vo.

By Munroe & Francis-Boston.
Theodore; or, The Crusaders. A Tale
for Youth. By Mrs Hoffland.

The Adventures of Congo in Search of his Master. An American Tale. Containing a true Account of a Shipwreck; and interspersed with Anecdotes, founded on facts.

By Stone and Fowle-Boston.

A Musical Biography; or, Sketches of the
Lives and Writings of eminent Musical Characters.
Interspersed with an Epitome of interesting matter.
Collected and compiled by John R. Parker.

By James Loring-Boston.

taken principally from the Arithmetic of S. F. Lacroix, and translated into English with such Alterations and Additions as were found necessary in order to adapt it to the use of the American Student.

Third Edition. 1 vol. 8vo.

Elements of Geometry, by A. M. Legendre, Member of the Institute and the Legion of Honour, of the Royal Society of London, &c. Translated from the French for the use of the Students of the University at Cambridge, New England.

A Family Prayer-Book: containing forms of Morning and Evening Prayers, for a Fortnight. With those for Schools, Religious Societies, and Individuals. By Charles Brooks, Minister of the Third Church in Hingham. Third edition, newly arranged, revised, and enlarged.

Adam's Latin Grammar, with some Improvements and the following Additions: Rules for the Pronunciation of Latin; A concise Introduction to the Making of Latin Verses; A metrical Key to

the Odes of Horace; A Table showing the value of Roman Coins, Weights, and Measures. By Benjamin A. Gould, Master of the Free Latin School of Boston.

[N. B. In this edition, that portion of the oriRainsford Villa; or, the Language of the ginal grammar which belongs exclusively to EngHeart. A Tale. By a Lady.

The Claims of Classical Learning ExamOn Wednesday, great prepara-ined and Refuted by Argument and by the Confess tions being made to attack her, though pro-ion of Scholars. By "Rumford." tected by her consorts, the Turks burned her, and retired to Patras. On Thursday, a quarrel ensued between the Suliotes and the Frank guard at the arsenal; a Swedish officer was killed, and a Suliote severely wounded, and a general fight expected, and with some difficulty prevented. On Friday, the officer was buried, and Captain Parry's English artificers mutinied, under pretence that their lives were in danger, and are for quitting the country,-they may. On Saturday, we had the smartest shock of an earthquake which I remember, (and I have felt thirty, slight or smart, at different periods; they are common in the Mediterranean), and the whole army discharged their arms, upon the same principle that savages beat drums, or howl, during an eclipse of the moon it was a rare scene altogether. If you had but seen the English Johnnies, who had never been out of a cockney workshop before, nor will again, if they can help it! And on Sunday, we heard that the vizier is come down to Larissa, with one hundred and odd thousand men.

By W. Bellamy-Boston.

The Mysteries of Trade, or the Great
Source of Wealth; containing Receipts and Patents
in Chemistry and Manufactoring. With Practical
Observations on the Useful Arts. Original and
Compiled. By David Beman.

By T. Bedlington & Charles Ewer-Boston.

The Four Gospels, translated from the
Greek. With Preliminary Dissertions, and Notes
Critical and Explanatory. By George Campbell,
D. D. F. R. S. Edinburgh, Principal of the Marischal
College, Aberdeen.
With the

In four Volumes.

Author's last Corrections.

By Charles Whipple-Newburyport.
The Coquette; or, the History of Eliza
Wharton. A Novel; Founded on Fact. By a Lady
of Massachusetts. Fourth Edition.

By Collins & Hannay-New York.

lish grammar, is omitted, as an encumbrance entirely useless. This will give room for the additions contemplated without increasing the size of the volume.]

the Localities of all which are known to exist in A Catalogue of American Minerals, with every State, &c., having the Towns, Counties, &c., in each State, arranged alphabetically. By Samuel Robinson, M. D., Member of the American Geolog. ical Society. 1 vol. 8vo.

A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law, with Occasional Notes and Comments. By Nathan Dane, LL. D. In Eight vol. umes.

Vol. VIII.

Collectanea Græca Minora. Sixth Cambridge edition; in which the Latin of the Notes and Vocabulary is translated into English.

Dalzel's Collectanea Græca Majora. Stereotype edition.

Publius Virgilius Maro;-Bucolica, Geor gica, et neis. With English Notes, for the use

of Schools.

A Greek and English Lexicon.

The Four Gospels of the New Testament in Greek, from the Text of Griesbach, with a Lexicon in English of all the words contained in them;

Closing Note of Mr Murray.-Other letters
from Lord Byron, of the same tenor and force with
those now produced, might have been added. But
it is presumed that these are sufficient to demon-
strate in the present case, what has been demon-
strated in many others, that desultory, ex parte nal of Observations in England, Scotland, Ireland,
A Year in England; comprising a Jour-designed for the use of Schools.
conversations, even if accurately reported, will France, Switzerland, the North of Italy, and Hol-ren Colburn.
often convey imperfect and erroneous notions of land. By John Griscomb. Second Edition.
the speaker's real sentiments.

JOHN MURRAY.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS
FOR DECEMBER.

A Discourse on the Proper Character of Religious Institutions; Delivered at the opening of the Independent Congregation Church in Barton Square, Salem, Tuesday, 7th December, 1824. By Henry Colman.

By Cummings, Hilliard, & Co.-Boston. Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. In 4 vols. 12mo.

The Lawyer's Common-Place Book, with an Alphabetical Index of most of the Heads which occur in General Reading and Practice.

Elements of Astronomy, illustrated with Plates, for the use of Schools and Academies; with Questions. By John H. Wilkins, A. M.

Third edition.

Report of a Committee of the Overseers of Harvard College, January 6, 1325.

By Wilder & Campbell-New York. Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron; noted during a Residence of his Lordship at Pisa, in the years 1821 and 1823. By Thomas Medwin, Esq., of the 24th Light Dragoons, Author of Ahasuerus the Wanderer.

LIST OF WORKS IN PRESS

FOR DECEMBER.

At the University Press-Cambridge.
[Several of which are shortly to be published by

CUMMINGS, HILLIARD, & Co. Boston.] An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics, By A. Phelps-Greenfield, Mass. comprehending the Doctrine of Equilibrium and Antiquarian Researches; comprising Motion, as applied to Solids and Fluids, chiefly History of the Indian Wars in the Country bordercompiled from the most approved writers, and de-ing Connecticut River and parts adjacent, and signed for the use of the Students of the University other Interesting Events, from the first landing of of Cambridge, N. E. By John Farrar, Professor of the Pilgrims to the conquest of Canada, by the Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. English, in 1760. With notices of Indian Depre An Elementary Treatise on Arithmetic, dations in the Neighbouring Country; and of the

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