suspect the most fatal reverse of what is good must follow this marriage of the chapel and the ball-room. It is not possible to conceive that any mind can retain that passionless quiet which is the soul of devotion, when the disordered spirit of the dance passes with new allurements over it. We have been led to make these few observations, by the strange publication now before us:-The beauties of Handel, Mozart, Pleyel, Haydn, Beethoven, and others, adapted to the words of popular psalms and hymns. We cannot but regard this work as more outrageous in its intentions, and more dangerous in its effects, than that sprightly introduction of pleasure into the Dissenter's organ loft of which we have been complaining. The book is evidently planned for a Sunday piano. The serious family need no longer start up in horror at the twinkle of a harpsichord key, for those tunes which, on the Saturday, clothed words of gay passion and laughing pleasure, are "other guess sort of creatures" on the Sunday, and become infused with a holy rapture. We really look upon this work as the opera of the devout, the play for the insincerely pious. Will the reader believe, that all, or nearly all, the joyous airs of Don Giovanni are thus converted, We have somewhere read, that poor Ned Shuter, the comedian, who was the soul of humour during the week, moaned and pined in tabernacles on the Sunday, and lived "with a difference."Music seems now becoming a Ned Shuter!But it is not alone to this singular adaptation of music that we so much object; we must also protest against the artful arrange ment of some of the words, to suit What young lady, after a day's preparation in such a chapel as we have hinted at, and with her heart over-brimmed with Haste to the Wedding, or the Emperor Alexander,could sit down to her evening piano, and play and sing such hymns as these with sincere devotion? The very certainty that she was swindling the day, that she was passing flash notes,-that the music she was playing had an alias, and that too of a very suspicious description, would go some way to the despoiling of her sincerity. She is told that Don Giovanni must not be thought of,-with the Italian errors which associate with it during the week,-but with a slight clipping it is made fit for use on the Sunday, We shall now proceed to point out a few of the airs, and to give our readers some notion of the words accompanying them. Fly not yet! that beautiful invo cation to late hours, and love, is not forgotten in this selection. And the lines are provided after the following fashion: Since life in sorrow must be spent, Would any given boarding-school girl, with this tune running in her head, consider this growth of love as any other than that love which grows at Mr. Newman's nursery, in Leauncle Noll says, "what a proflidenhall-street?" Mercy on us!" as cate!" Almost the next air to the one we have just mentioned, comes The pretty Maid of Derby, O! (a sufficiently serious title of itself!) be sprightly though Sternhold and and this sprightly piece, which would Hopkins, and Whitefield and Wesley held it down, is comfortably fitted with the following words: O tell me no more Of this world's vain store, Is this a Hymn ?— In the words to John Anderson my Jo! we might almost suspect that the principle (if principle it can be called) upon which this singular work is wrought, is intended to be quaintly promulgated: Come ye that love the Lord, and let your joys be known, Join in a song with sweet accord, while ye The sorrows of the mind be banish'd from We give the following verse, quite sure that our readers will read in it the air, and all the original language; so closely, in fact, is it a parody of Moore. Go where mercy waits thee, Oh still submissive be! Oh humbly bend thy knee! What he has done for thee. The very Oh! in the third line is retained, that the sigh may not be lost to which the music gives so ten der an echo. Let the reader try these words to the tune of Away with Melancholy! and see how they go. Time my moments steals away, Thus another year is flown, We have the Mermaid's song filled with trumpets, and joy, and grace, which become it as properly as Barry's introduction of Dr. Burney floating down the Thames among the water gods, in his wig. The Hungarian Waltz, and the Miss Dennetts' Waltz, are also given. But enough of this wretched and irreverent work. We cannot conclude without seriously and earnestly protesting against the attempt which many writers of late have made, to introduce voluptuous songs under the garb of religion. Moore and Lord Byron have alike been guilty of this; and it is, perhaps, owing to them, that we have the professed hymn-book now be fore us. The Sabbath has ever been a LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, &c. New Game of Chess. Giuseppe Cicco, lini of Rome has published a description of a new game of chess, under the title of Tentativo di un nuovo Giuoco di Scacchi. The board is so much enlarged that instead of 64 squares, it contains 100, and in order still farther to increase the variety of moves, and the complexity of the game, a new piece is added, which the author denominates The Elephant.' He has also considerably extended the power of the Bishop, to which he allows the same movements as the Rook, with the exception of their being confined to its own colour. Nor has the Knight been less favoured, since his progress through the board is now almost unlimited. Natural History-Professor Lapostolle of Amiens has discovered that straw possesses the quality of serving as a conductor to lightning and hail. Repeated experiments have convinced him that straws united together serve equally well as the iron rods now fixed upon buildings for the former purpose; at the same time that they are not attended with similar inconveniences. In consequence of this disco-> very, the commonest buildings may be secured from the effects of lightning in the most economical manner, and even crops on the land may be protected from the ravages which they sometimes suffer from hail. The Professor treats of the important advantages that may be expected to result from the practical application of his discovery, in a publication entitled Traité des Parafoudres et des Paragrêles en cordes de paille. Bust of Bonaparte.-A fine marble bust of the late Ex-emperor of France, executed from the life by Canova, has been placed in the Library of the Devon and Exeter Institution at Exeter. It is a very highly finished piece of sculpture. Education in Italy The Lancasterian system has been introduced into many of the principal cities and towns of the Italian Peninsula, such as Naples, Milan, Brescia, Valenza on the Po, Rivoli, &c. and schools on this plan are now actually establishing at both Genoa and Rome. The Abbé Cesola and M. Caupin have employed themselves in forming similar ones in the city and environs of Nice. Nor has this method of instruction met with less encourage ment at Florence, in which city is the "Florentine Institution," a very remarkable establishment, being, in fact, a combination of several schools. It is under the immediate patronage of the Government, and is superintended by Zuccagni Orlandini, the first projector of the plan He is assisted by Boreini, Pierrotini, and Giuliani, young men who zealously co operate with him in a design so patriotic, and tending so greatly to ameliorate the condition of their fellow citizens. This Institution does not confine its instructions to the mere elements of reading and writing; for in addition to the preparatory school, there are teachers for elegant penmanship, arithmetic, drawing, geography, and profane and literary history. The pupils are likewise taught universal grammar, and its application to their own idiom. They learn French, and are initiated into the higher departments of literature, and into physics and natural history. For the accommodation of pupils from a distance, a boarding school has lately been opened in the vicinity of the Institute. Cicero. The Abbé Peyron, Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Turin, has found in a MS. belonging to the convent of St. Columbano at Bobbio, a town of Sardinia, several fragments of the great Roman orator. They are partly portions of works already known, such as the Oratio pro Scauro, that pro M.M. Tullio,' &c. Some of these have been previously brought to light by the labours of Angelo Mai, but this manuscript is much more perfect and correct, so that the deficiencies and errors of the other can be supplied and altered from this. There is a considerable difference in the writing of the two MSS. and also in their form, the one being in two columns, the other in three. Visconti. Various honours have been paid to the memory of this distinguished Archaeologist. Gherardo de Rossi has delivered an elôge upon him in the Academy of Antiquities at Rome. The Academi cians of St. Luke's have also testified their respect by holding a solemn meeting for the purpose of commemorating him. At the Academy of Bologna, Stroechi recited a very elegantly-written memoir of him, and similar marks of attachment and regard have been paid to him in other cities; but among all the various memoirs which have been composed on this erudite scholar and antiquary, none is so elegant and satisfactory as the biography drawn up by Labey, which was written prior to most of the others, and has been freely made use of in them. It has lately been translated into Italian. 2 ABSTRACT OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. OUR foreign report for this month is almost a blank. The accounts from the Greek and Turkish belligerents are so vague and contradictory, that it is utterly impossible to know to which to attach credit. In proof of this we may instance not only the actual life, but exceeding good health, of the renowned Ali Pacha, who has been so often unanimously put to death by all the papers in Europe. It seems certain, however, that Prince Ypsilanti has left his army in disgust, as he has published a manifesto in which he denies to them even the name of soldiers, and denounces their cowardice and their treachery to all posterity. Affairs will probably remain in statu quo until some decisive step is taken by the Russian Cabinet, a circumstance of which there is now every thing to induce the immediate expectation. The Emperor Alexander, whose personal disinclination is understood to have formed the principal obstacle to a declaration of war, aroused by the increasing cruelties of the Porte, has yielded, it is said, to the unanimous decision of his Senate on the subject. A manifesto, however, on the part of Russia, is spoken of, in which she formally renounces all territorial acquisition in consequence of the war, and expresses her wish to act solely in co-operation with the other European powers. The Divan, we are told, alarmed by these indications, has accepted the proffered mediation of England. The interchange of couriers between the Courts of St. Petersburg and Vienna has certainly become very frequent, and even France is again assuming some military appearances. We shall, probably, in our next, be enabled to communicate something decisive on the subject, but it is impossible not to remark, in the vacillation and uncertainty of the different potentates, the striking contrast between their policy and that adopted by Napoleon: while a legitimate Cabinet is sitting in council on the phraseology of a declaration, he would have been at the head of his armies on the hostile frontier, announcing from some drumhead for his desk, the extinction of a dynasty! Let us hope, however, that an economy of human blood may be the result of these continued de-, liberations. The Portuguese Cortes and their King have been exchanging great civilities, they complimenting him upon his constitutional principles, and he, with equal sincerity, no doubt, assuring them in return, that the association of such patriotic characters for the preservation of his kingdom has alone induced him again to dignify his European metropolis by his royal residence! Credat Judæus Apella. His brother of Spain has had a proof, more loud than deep, of the encreasing affection of his subjects, by the explosion of an infernal machine in the streets of Madrid as he was passing through them. If our foreign report is meagre, our chronicle of domestic occurrences presents a different character; though we confess we never were more puz zled than to know under what head, whether of the Allegro or the Penseroso, to classify its events. Death, Festivity, and Inquest should form the titles of our three domestic chapters. But our readers shall have the dry details, unaccompanied, as is our custom, by an unnecessary comment. Indeed commentaries are sometimes dangerous. In the first place, then, the Queen of England is no more her final earthly trial is past, and she is at last in peace in the tomb of her ancestors. Most devoutly do we say, in pace requiescat. In the beginning of the month, her Majesty had complained of some slight indisposition at Drury Lane theatre; she was, however, able to sit out the play, but on her return home she was much worse, and the next day her disorder, which turned out to be an inflammation in the bowels, assumed an alarming appearance. The best medical aid which London could afford, was immediately procured, but, we regret to say, without effect; after a week's sufferings, during one period of which some slight hopes were entertained, nature yielded to the obstinate severity of the complaint, and a supplement to the Gazette of August the 8th, announced in the following terms, the fatal event, which there was but too much reason to anticipate. Yesterday evening, at twenty-five minutes after ten o'clock, the Queen departed this life, after a short, but painful illness, at Brandenburgh-house, Hammersmith. The mournful intelligence was re-, ceived in London with very general sympathy, and the events to which it has given rise have surrounded it it with a still more melancholy inte rest. Whatever may have been, at one time, the hopes of the Faculty, it appears that from the very commencement of the attack, the Queen was herself impressed with the conviction that its termination would prove fatal. This presentiment, however, in no degree depressed a spirit. which, in the many trying events of her various life, so often proved its singular strength and elasticity. She evinced throughout the most dignified fortitude, and the writer of this heard one of her physicians declare, that often as he had attended dying persons, he never yet saw a death bed exhibit so many striking and noble qualities." This is a testimony, which, authentic as it is, is worth a thousand of the manufactured rumours of the daily press. There were some very affecting incidents connected with her illness. When she found herself becoming alarmingly enfeebled she sent for Mariette Brun, the sister of Demont, who had proved so hostile to her before the House of Lords, and thus addressed her"Mariette, I am dying-your sister has wronged me-grievously wronged me-but tell her I forgive her;" and then after a pause of a moment, clasping her hands together, she repeated emphatically" Yes, I do forgive her." It will be seen by her Majesty's will, that she bequeathed to Mariette a very considerable legacy. It is said that in a long con versation on the subject of her trial, and its consequences, she expressed herself with much feeling upon the empty nature of the triumph it had obtained for her-"What?" said she, "what has popular opinion done for me?-I have indeed the vain title of Queen, but none of its privileges-I am, in reality, a private person." There was, however, undoubtedly a great portion of public sympathy, both expressed and felt for her, and much of it continued even to the last. In proof of this an occurrence happened on the very day of her decease, which has singularly enough escaped the vigilance of the daily press. In the morning, the Richmond steamboat stopped near the embankment of the lawn at Brandenburgh House, and the passengers all kneeling down upon the deck, sang two psalms-the Queen heard the sounds, and raising herself up, enquired from whence they proceeded-she was told it was from the people praying for her, and a smile of pleasure for a moment displaced the expression of pain upon her countenance. In the evening, when the same boat was returning, the same ceremony took place-but the Queen was then insensible, and the sounds fell upon the ears of her household as they surrounded her death-bed. It is not, however, to be denied, that by the advice which she received, and followed during the last months of her life, the Queen experienced much change in the popular sentiment towards her, and she is said to have felt its force with bitter mortification on the day of her repulse from the door of Westminster Abbey. If we were to express any opinion upon what led chiefly to this change, we would say it was her message to the house of Commons, declaring her fixed determination not to receive any pecuniary grant, unaccompanied by her complete recognition as Queen, and her subsequent acceptance of the money, the moment the bill passed through without any such recognition. It is remarkable enough, and in corroboration of the poignancy with which she felt this change, that she has not even mentioned the name of Alderman Wood, in her Will, the person by whose instigation she is said to have returned to England. We subjoin this interesting document with its Codicils. HER MAJESTY'S WILL. me, Caroline, Queen-Consort of the United I constitute and appoint Stephen Lushington, Doctor of laws, and Thomas Wilde, Esq. Barrister at law, trustees and executors of this my Will. In execution of all powers given me by the Will of my late mother, Augusta, Duchess of Brunswick-Lunenburgh, I appoint, limit, give, devise, and bequeath to my said trustees, all my right, title, and interest under the said Will, and also, all the rest of my property, real and personal, debts and effects, of whatsoever nature or kind soever, and wheresoever situate, upon trust to receive and collect the same; and, when collected, convert into money, and invest it at their discretion in the funds of the United Kingdom, or otherwise; and, the whole of the said trust property to upon further trust, to pay the principal of William Austin, who has been long under my protection, on his attaining the age of 21 years; and, in the mean time, to pay the interest and proceeds of the same, or so much thereof as to them may seem meet, towards the maintenance and education of the said Wm. Austin. And I do declare that my said trustees and executors shall not be chargeable in respect of the default of each other, or of any agent employed by them or either of them, but only for their defaults. I also give and bequeath to my own respective receipts, acts, and wilful said executors, to be disposed of according to their will and pleasure, all and every my documents, manuscripts, papers, writings and memoranda, wheresoever being at the time of my death. CAROLINE, R. (Seal.) Signed, sealed, and published, this 3rd day of August, in the year 1821, at Brandenburgh-house, in the presence, of H. BROUGHAM, This is a Codicil to my Will, dated this 3rd day of August: I give all my clothes, here and in Italy, to Marietta Brun. I direct that a particular box, by me described, be sealed with my seal, and delivered to Mr. Obicini, of Coleman-street, merchant; and I acknowledge that I owe him 4,300. I wish that Government would pay the 15,000, the price of my house in South Audley-street. I desire to be buried in Brunswick. I leave ecutor; my landaulet to John Hieronymus. my coach to Stephen Lushington, my exCAROLINE, R. Witnesses, Hood, |