quets dropped down dead in the open air. | parts, and ultimately almost disappeared. time ago in exile. A book has since apIn Africa, where Dr Winterbottom resided When cut thin, or when extended, this sub-peared under the title of "Memoirs," by four years, he once observed the thermome-stance forms excellent washers, or collars him, which contains many interesting anecter at 103° in the shade, and, placed upon the for stop-cocks, very little pressure being ground, (speaking from memory) at 138°. sufficient to render them perfectly tight. In the Soosoo country, to the north of Leather has also been coated on one surface Sierra Leone, at a considerable distance with the caoutchouc; and without being at inland, he walked one day about twenty all adhesive, or having any particular odour, miles, when the thermometer, observed by is perfectly water-tight. Before caoutchouc Dr Afzelius, at present professor of botany was thus worked, it was often observed how at Upsal, stood at 9940 in the shade; which many uses it might in such a case be applied degree of heat was by no means disagree- to: now that it is so worked, how few the able, nor even suspected to be so great by cases are in which persons are induced to at least 10°, owing to a pleasant breeze use it. which met him. We judge very inaccurately of heat by our feelings, and are more affected by a sudden diminution of 10° of heat than by a much greater increase. The lowest degree of heat Dr Winterbottom ever experienced in Africa, was about half an hour before sunrise, when the mercury stood at 68°, and, to the feelings, the cold resembled that of a sharp frosty morning in England. PREPARATION OF CAOUTCHOUC. CHINESE College aT NAPLES. dotes of the revolution. It was eagerly read in France: the first edition was soon sold, and a second was printing, when the sons of Fouché instituted the present suit to have the work suppressed. There has been one' hearing of the cause, but only the plaintiff's counsel has yet argued. He rests chiefly on the following dilemma: Either the work is genuine, or it is not: if it be genuine, the copyright belongs to the heirs of the author, who do not choose to publish it; if it be not genuine, the publication ought to be suppressed as spurious and fraudulent. In point of fact, however, he asserts, that the work is not genuine. The truth is, that some memoirs, said to be his, got into the hands of the ultras, who suppressed and altered passages to suit their political views, and have thus given them to the world, as wish to have credited, and to cast an odium a confirmation in many points of what they upon the fallen party. STATISTICS OF BRAZIL. The THERE is a college for the Chinese at Naples, of which M. Viesseaux gives the following account. It is the only institution of the kind in Europe. Its founder was Matteo Ripa, a Neapolitan missionseveral years at the missionary house at ary. Ripa went to China, and resided Pekin, where his skill in painting recommended him to the Emperor and his court. While living in that remote land he conceived the plan which he afterwards exeThe following statistical accounts, if corcuted, of establishing a college in Europe for the education of young Chinese as rect, evince the wealth, the power, and the Christian missionaries to their countrymen. resources of the Brazilian empire. The Several trials were made, and at last Na- population of the nineteen provinces which ples was fixed upon for this institution, as compose it, amounts to upwards of four the climate appeared to be the most favour-millions. In this census, it is to be lamented able and congenial to them. The youths that there are more than two millions of destined for this place are smuggled out of slaves. The regular army of Brazil amounts their country at the age of thirteen or to between twenty-five and thirty thousand fourteen, by means of the Roman Catholic men; its militia to fifty thousand. missionaries, who send them first to Macao, revenue of the empire is estimated at nearly whence they are conveyed to Europe, gen- 3,000,000l. sterling; in the year 1824, it is erally in Portuguese vessels bound to Lis- estimated at 95,000,000 francs, or nearly bon, from which place they proceed to 4,000,000l. sterling. The vast extent of Italy. The expenses are defrayed partly land belonging to the nation, permits Braby this institution, and partly by the Col-zil, by their sale, to redeem its debt, withlege de Propagandâ Fide at Rome. "The out imposing burthens on the people. From college," says M. Viesseaux, "is situated on the king's arrival in 1808, to his departure the slope of the hill of Capo di Monte, in a in 1820, the revenue was in a regularly quiet, retired spot, which commands a fine progressive state, and during that period, prospect of the bay. The house and the from fourteen millions to sixty-one millions adjoining church are simply but neatly con- of francs annually. structed, and the apartments are comfortable and airy; and the whole place is kept remarkably clean and in the best order, so as to form an agreeable contrast with the generality of Neapolitan establishments. The rector, a Neapolitan missionary, and a sensible, well-informed man, politely showed us every thing deserving attention. We entered first the hall, which is hung round with portraits of the Chinese who have resided in this house since its establishment; they are about forty; and among them is that of Ripa, the founder. Those who have suffered martyrdom are represented with the instruments of their death; others have chains around their necks, as a sign of their having suffered imprisonment. There were six Chinese in the college when I visited it; one of them was insane, and another blind." Mr T. Hancock has succeeded, by some process, the result of a long investigation, but which he has not published,-in working caoutchouc with great facility and readiness. It is cast, as we understand, into large ingots or cakes, and being cut with a wet knife into leaves or sheets, about an eighth or a tenth of an inch in thickness, can then be applied to almost any purpose for which the properties of the material render it fit. The caoutchouc thus prepared, is more flexible and adhesive than that which is gener. ally found in the shops, and is worked with singular facility. Recent sections made with a sharp knife or scissors, when brought together and pressed, adhere so firmly as to resist rupture as strongly as any other part; so that, if two sheets be laid together and cut round, the mere act of cutting joins the edges, and a little pressure on them makes a perfect bag of one piece of substance. The adhesion of the substance in those parts where it is not required, is entirely prevented by rubbing them with a little flour, or other substance in fine powder. In this way flexible tube catheters, &c. are prepared. The tubes intended for experiments on gases, and where occasion might require they should sustain considerable internal pressure, are made double, and have a piece of twine twisted spirally round between the two. This, therefore, is imbedded in the caoutchouc, and, at the same time that it allows of any extension in length of the tube, prevents its expanding laterally. The caoutchouc is, in this state, exceedingly elastic. Bags made of it, in the way just described, have been expanded, by having air forced into them, until the caoutchouc was quite transparent; and, when expanded by hydrogen, they were so light as to form balloons, with considerable ascending power; the hydrogen, however, gradually escapes, perhaps through the pores of this thin film of caoutchouc. On expanding the bags in A curious trial has occupied the attention this way, the junctions yielded like the other of the Parisian public. Fouché died some MEMOIRS OF FOUCHE. SOUTHEY'S LETTER ON LORD BYRON. Southey has published a letter respecting Lord Byron. We shall, says a London editor, give no further opinion on the controversy, than to express regret, that even the object of self-defence should reduce a living author to the alternative of so violently assaulting the dead. DAUGHTER OF LORD BYRON. The Greek government has sent over two letters, addressed to the daughter of Lord Byron, giving an account of her father's death, and of the services he had rendered Greece, and declaring that Greece will consider her as its own child. ROMAN AMPHORE. Among the curiosities lately deposited in the British Museum, are some Roman wine jars of the year before Christ 105. Their antiquity and precise date are placed be yond a doubt by the following circumstances. With those for Schools, Religious Societies, and A number of earthen-ware vessels of various Individuals. By Charles Brooks, Minister of the By E. Bliss & E. White-New York. kinds, were dug up among the ruins of Car-/ Third Church in Hingham. Third edition, newly French of J. N. Bouilly. 12mo. thage, and sent to this government as a present, by the Bey, who knew nothing of their age or value, except that the English liked such curiosities. On arriving at the colonial office, they were forwarded to the British Museum; and a learned antiquarian of that establishment, examining them with care, discovered on one of the amphora, the names of the consuls of the abovementioned year. MEDICAL REMAINS AT POMPEII. M. Choulaut has published at Leipsic a pamphlet entitled "De Locis Pompeianis ad Rem Medicam facientibus," containing an account of different objects relating to the medical art, discovered at Pompeii. He describes the temple of Esculapius, the amulets, surgical instruments, pharmaceutical apparatus, &c. found in the midst of the ruins. Amongst the surgical instruments were found some nearly resembling those made use of at the present day; as, for instance, elevators for the operation of trepanning, lancets, spatulæ, instruments for the application of the actual cautery, &c. There has not been found one single building which could be regarded as a school of surgery or anatomical museum. 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BOSTON, MARCH 1, 1825. els, the reader, on the first introduction of The natural or artificial objects, amid No. 22. bled of green fields, upon the strength of an experience which was limited to an area of an hundred feet, railed in with iron and surrounded by flag-stones. But a series of novels now implies a series of journeys. The descriptions of an hundred pages may cost the author a trip of as many miles. In short, in these critical days, whether the novelists deal with persons or things, they are compelled to paint from nature, instead of making new copies of bad pictures. The faculty of giving to a story that dramatic interest, which arises from variety of character, forcible delineation, and picturesque grouping, or, in other words, the powers of observation, discrimination, and description are possessed by Mr Cooper in a very high degree; and it is with national pride and pleasure that we see these powers employed upon supjects so worthy of them. Brief as is the period since history first saw our infant nation cradled in a howling wilderness, she has found much to tell of deeds of high emprize. She offers to the novelist abundance of materials,-the harvest is rich enough, and we rejoice to welcome labourers so worthy to gather it. We are glad to be able to greet an American author, in terms of good hearty commendation, instead of that cautious and somewhat dubious praise, which we are too often called on to bestow upon works, which, as honest Andrew Fairservice observes, "are ower bad for blessing, and ower gude for banning," without a good deal of neutralizing qualification. The following is an outline of the story of the work before us. Lionel Lincoln, a native of Boston, becoming entitled, on the failure of male heirs in a direct line, to a baronetcy and large estate in England, sails for that country, for the purpose of taking possession. He leaves behind him his wife and infant, in the care of his aunt and godmother, Mrs Lechmere. In the same house is a young woman, whom he had seduced, previous to his marriage, and by whom he had also a son. On his return, he finds his wife dead, and, what is worse, he is informed by his aunt, that she had been unfaithful, and this information is confirmed by the oath of the young woman abovementioned, Abigail Pray. The motive of the former in fabricating this story, for it proves to be unfounded, was, by diminishing his sorrow for the loss of his wife, to render him more susceptible of the charms of her daughter, whom she was ambitious of beholding as the lady of a baronet, and the ture of the instinct of their framers. With head of the house of Lincoln. The latter, just so much knowledge of sunshine, as they on her part, hoped to regain her former could obtain through the medium of the hold on his affections, and become Lady smoke of a metropolis, they dwelt for pages Lincoln herself. Both seem to have forupon the glories of an Italian sky, and bab-gotten the proverbial thanklessness of the The taste of the novel-readers of this age requires something very different from the delicate distresses and complicated stories, with their machinery of trap-doors and dark-lanterns, which puzzled the brains and harrowed up the souls of more romantic generations. We are not disappointed, if the plot is something less than inscrutable to any but the reader of the five last pages, nor dissatified, if the incidents are neither very crowded nor very improbable. The character of the novels of the present day is more closely allied to that of the drama, in the course of which characters, imaginary indeed in that situation, make their entrances and exits, and play their parts in accordance with motives and passions, which have a real existence in the human heart. The author has only to invent, or, if he pleases, to borrow the outlines of a story, which the bird's nest, evinced the unerring nashall place his actors in circumstances favourable to the powerful development of their particular ruling passions, and to make them speak and act, in such situations, consistently and naturally. In the older nov This requisition imposes upon modern authors the necessity of actually seeing the places, which they intend to describe. Their predecessors could travel in their garrets, as the impudent fabricator of the adventures of Damberger did through the centre of Africa, describing successive hordes of Boshmen, as identical as so many troops of buffaloes, and successive kraals of Hottentots, which, like the bee-hive and |