1815.] Original Poetry. 435 Still urg'd him on, till cold consumption's And Byron of late has brought Greek into hand (Ere that the world well had his genius scann'd) Froze the warm blood that flow'd around a heart As free from guilt, and as devoid of art Oh that the humble youth who feels and sings His great deservings, and their just reward, Could tread fame's path with him, and win regard As high; then should his fingers' latest touch Bid the harp speak his worth, in breathings such As heav'nly minstrels draw from Eol's lyre; But ah! to him the Muse denies her fire. Let him be laid beneath the cypress gloom! The Nine, with sobbing breast, shall haunt his tomb. Her lyre unstrung, Erato most shall mourn; Down-looking, melancholy, inward-worn, Her face shall yellow shew as autumn leaf. There Friendship oft shall bend, and wetey'd Grief; And Genius' self, whose furrow'd face and brow, Now sadness wearing-admiration now, A mother's pride conqu'ring a mother's woe. fashion, There's some in his Fair Maid of Athens -let's see. No, this vile modern Greek Ha! yonder's a handsome young sprig whom I pluck'd once, I fear he'll make love to thee out of mere spite. Aye, aye, touch thy cap, and be proud of thy luck, dunce, But Greek will go farther than grins, if By Dis the infernal god, Ω μια δυσηχω- Ω Παλας εγω O should my faithless flame Love this young Malcolm Græme, Όττατα τοττατα φευ ποποι ω!! Thank Heaven there's one man I don't see about her, 'Tis her townsman, the tutor of Oriel, Fitzjames; For though of the two I am somewhat the stouter, His legs are far neater, much older his claims : Yet every Christ Church blade There Learning's sons, through ev'ning's Ev'y one Dean and Don swears that 'tis so: sombre hours, Honest Lloyd, blunt and buff, All clap my back and cry, Rhoderick's her beau! Come, then, your influence propitious be shedding, Gnomes of Greek metre, since crown'd Waltz in trochaic time, waltz at my wedding, Let's all in chorus sing, Joy to Hephaestion, black Rhoderick & Cof SONG. THE COSSACKS ARE COMING, HURRA! HURRA! By J. LEE LEWES. AIR-The Campbells are coming, oho, oho? The Cossacks are coming, hurra, hurra! The Cossacks are coming, hurra, hurra! Dismaying all France, in clouds they advance, To Paris they're scouring awa, awa! Brave Platoff has rallied his hosts, his hosts! Brave Platoff has rallied his hosts, his hosts! Ambitious at heart, to face Buonaparte, Despising his taunts and his boasts, his boasts! All Austria's alert for the fray, the fray! The Monarch of Russia stands forth, stands [June 1, While others bend the supple knee The Monarch of Russia stands forth, stands To him thou dost a store supply, forth! The World doth commend Humanity's friend Fam'd Blucher has summon'd his bands, his The gauntlet he throws, defying his foes, 1 For Freedom and Laws, his sword again draws, Of endless beauty, fire, and grace. Oh might I woo thee with my simple reed, Spread o'er the distant hill; Should busy haunts, and tiresome bon- To list the murmurs of the dashing stream And 'mong the woods in dusky brown array'd, Which ne'er to a Tyrant he'll yield, he'll To pace with pensive steps the lawn, yield ! The Netherland Prince, at his post, his post! The flame is wide spreading through Spain, Arous'd from her trance, she turns upon And pants for the combat again, again! And Sweden has marshal'd her might, her Well skill'd to command, the Prince of the land, Arrays his hold hosts for the fight, the fight! High rear'd" for the right!" lo, the fleurde-lys! High rear'd "for the right!" lo, the fleur- Its blossom is pale, but it waves in the gale, From his throne shall the Tyrant be hurl'd, Leagued millions at hand, shall rush on his land, His downfall shall rescue the world, the The Corsican Spoiler no more, no more, HYMN TO NATURE. Or gaze with rapture on the rippling tide Those mental powers in bondage lie, Thy charms assume a sombrous dye; That dress in fancy forms the west; Or o'er yon mountain waste I stray, I mark the vivid hues of early day, And tread the turf where only herds have press'd. The distant hills, in ether clad, retire, The lake's pure surface widely spread, Reflects the clear blue summer sky: Along the bold indented shore, 'Mong bowery groves, my pilgrim feet are led, Each hidden beauty to explore; And from each scene that meets the eye," EPIGRAM. On the table before me Cook's voyage how lies, His head grav'd by Py, is prefix'd to the book; It is common enough to see Cooks making Pies, But here, strange to tell, has a Pye made a 2 1815.] [ 437 ] INTELLIGENCE IN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. PROCEEDINGS OF UNIVERSITIES. OXFORD, April 20.-The following gentlemen were admitted to degrees:B. D.-The Rev. P. C. Chambres, of Jesus Coll. M. 4.-The Rev. W. Poynder, of Trinity Coll.; the Rev. J. Davies, of Worcester Coll.; the Rev. W. Jackson, of Queen's Coil. B. A.-Mr. E. Halhed, of New Coll.; Viscount Belgrave, of Christ Church; Messrs. C. Carr, of University Coll.; II. Bosanquet, of Corpus Christi Coll.; T. Amory, of Wadham Coll.; J. Beckett, of Trinity Coll.; H. B. Batchelor, and W. H. J. Beauchamp, of Worcester Coll.; R. Anderson, and C. Blencowe, of Lincoln Coll.; F. Gregg, of Brasennose Coll. April 22.-Mr. R. D. Thomson was admitted scholar of New College. April 26.-The following gentlemen were admitted to degrees: M. B.—J. C. Fyler, esq. of Trinity Coll. B. A.-Mr.W. Dickins, of Exeter Coll.; April 27.-Mr. P. C. Chambres was elected fellow, and Mr. J. Jones scholar, of Jesus College. May 3.-The Rev. R. L. Townsend, M.A. of Worcester College, and rector of Alderton, in the diocese of Gloucester, was admitted B. and D. D. grand compounder. The same day the following gentlemen were admitted to degrees: M. A.—Mr. T. Boyse, of Christ Church; B. A.-Messrs. T. Hunt, of St. Alban May 8.-The Rev. Wm. Davies, M. A. and Mr. Henry Biss, B. A. were elected fellows, and Messrs. R. L. Cotton, W. L. Pope, and Edw. Rich. Gardener, scholars of Worcester College, on Dr. Clark's foundation. The names of those candidates who, Blaauw, W. H. Christ Churco; Burton, First Class of Discip. Mathemat. et Litera Humaniores.-Amory, T. Wad- May 11.-The Rev. Wm. Wilson, and the Rev. Wm. Nicholson, were elected fellows of Queen's Coll. VOL. III. зм 438 Proceedings of Universities, &c. Same day, Mr. F. Vane was elected `taberdar of Queen's Coll. CAMBRIDGE, April 22.-Mr. C. Thirlwall, of Trinity College, was elected a fellow on Lord Craven's foundation. May 1.-The Rev. Thos. Jackson, B. D. fellow and tutor of St. John's College, was unanimously elected Norrisian professor of divinity. May 3.-A grace to the following effect passed the Senate at a congregation, but not without opposition: "Since an opinion exists in some parts of the country, that the students of the university cannot with safety return immediately to their colleges, on account of a fever being prevalent in this place: May it please you that (although there is great reason to hope such opinion is groundless, yet in order to prevent the anxiety of friends) their term be allowed to all under-graduates who, having kept the last Lent Term, are absent during the present Easter Term." The same day, John Cottingham, esq. B.A. of Trinity Hall, was admitted M.A. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL.-On the 3d of May the dignitaries of the two universities assembled in the Jerusalem Chambe, to elect the King's scholars, when the following were the fortunate candidates:- To Christ Church, Oxford-Messrs. Randolph, Bull, Knyvett, Totton, and Fau cit. To Trinity College, Cambridge-Messrs. Dr. HAI LIDAY, physician in Birmingham, has ready for publication his translation of Dr. P. Frank's (Professor of Physic at Vilna, formerly at Vienna) Illustration of the Doctrine of Excitability; and of Dr. Roeschlaub's (Professor of Physic at Bamberg) Exposition of the Causes of Diseases. Both of these treatises have in view to establish the practical use of the doctrine analytically, corroborated from real experience, without hypothesis. They examine candidly the errors of Brown, and in other parts of Brown's doctrine, they elucidate and defend, or at least give him the merit which is due to him. Dr. H1IDAY also proposes to have ready some une this year, his Observations in a Tour through certain Provinces of Eastern Russia, namely, Nizhnei Novogoro, Cazan, Orenburg or Ufa, Zambirsky, &c. wherein will be given an account of the Bashkiers, Tschuvashes, Mordvas, Tipteru, and Mecherikee Tartars, forming the Biznurtnce Kozack re [June 1, giments, &c.; a description of the great yearly Market at Makarea, in the Go vernment of Nizhnei Novogorod, &c. Mr. DONOVAN is preparing for the press two distinct piodical works on the subject of British fossils: the one elucidatory of the English Antediluvian Zoology; the other of the vegetable re mains, under the title of the English Antediluvian Botany. Of each work there will be two editions: the smaller in 8vo., to correspond with his various publications on British Zoology, the other in super-royal. As Mr. Donovan is known to possess one the finest collection of fossils in Europe, either in public or in private hands, a series of publications of very unusual interest on this subject, may be conndently expected. Proposals are issued, for publishing by subscription, a Set of Twelve Views in the Islands of Mauritius and Bourbon, engraved in aquatinta, from original drawings, taken on the spot, by an Offcer in the Army. The forthcoming work of M. DE CHA TEAUBRIAND, entitled Recol >ctions, &c, will, we understand, com ise several essays on Morals and Literature; and, in particular, his opinions on the merits of Young, Shakspeare, and Beattie. H. SETCHEL and Sos have just published a Catalogue of Pamphlets alone, unconnected with Books. This is be lieved to be the only attempt of the kind in London since the times of T. Davis, author of the Life of Garrick, who thea lived in Russell-street, Covent-garden, where he published a similar one in 177! An Inquiry into the State of the Bri tish Navy, and the Constitution of the Admiralty Board, together with various Reflexions arising out of the late Cotest with America, will speedily appear. A new and highly embellished edition of Walton's Complete Angler, will be published in a few weeks by Mr. Ba STER, accompanied by fresh portraits of Walton and Cotton, from the original paintings; that of the latter from a drawing by Linnell. In this edition the plates of fish are portraits recently taken from living subjects. Among the nettes are, Walton's house, in Fleetstreet, Theobald's, two views of Beres ford-hail, &c. There is also a material accession of notes. A few copies of the portraits (proots) will be separately printed on a larger paper, for the accom modation of collectors. Nearly ready for publication, a and handsome Svo. edition of Burnets 1815.] Intelligence in Literature and the Arts and Sciences. 439 History of his own Times; in printing late Dr. Gibbons's Memoirs of eminentwhich the folio edition has been com- ly pious Women. A rew volume will be pared with the octavo by Dr. Flexman, added containing accounts of such as so as to combine the advantages of both have died within these few years, so editions; and the paging of the folio is that the whole will be comprised in 3 preserved in the margin. vols. 8vo., embellished with 18 portraits, engraved by Hopwood. The Hydrographer of that useful periodical work the Naval Chronicle, has nearly ready for publication an edition of the entertaining Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a work, which, next to the inspired volume, has perhaps afforded more delight and moral instruction than any book in the English language. The present edition will appear in such a form as to be atit.ed to a place in the most select libraries; it will be revised and corrected with a view to the particular advancement of nautical education, illus trated by technical and geographical annotations, and embellished with maps and wood-cuts. The British Institution having recent ly refused admission to a picture of extraordinary merit now exhibiting at Spring Gardens, some inquiry has taken place with regard to the pretensions of those which have been returned to their respective artists by the Royal Academy this year. The result is so remarkable, that it will be published on the 1st of June, under the title of "The Rejected Fictures," with some observations on their compositions, &c. Mr. ACKERMANN has nearly ready for publication a graphic work entitled Naples and be Campagna Felice. It consists of a series of humorous letters from a traveller on the spot, descriptive of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of that delightful city and its vicinity, as well as of the antiquities and of other objects of curiosity with which that classic soil abounds. Among those, the remains of Herculaneum and Pompeii,, the ruins at Pozzuoli, Bajæ, Misenum, and the island of Capri (of which latter a minute description is entered into), occupy a considerable portion of the work. A detailed account is given of the ancient Papyri, and of the manner of unrolling them, and also of the ancient Greek paintings discovered in Herculaneum, and deposited in the Royal Museum at Portici. The work is illustrated by numerous copper-plates and by several wood-cuts, consisting of maps, plans, views, copies of ancient Greek paintings, and by a set of humorous designs of Rowlandson's in the manner of his drawings for Dr. Syntax's Tour. The Rev. SAMUEL BURDER is preparing for the press a new edition of the The Rev. G. YOUNG and Mr. J. BrnD are completing the History of Whitby and the Abbey of Streonshalh, with a Statistical Survey of the adjacent country to the distance of 25 miles, undertaken by the late Mr. R. Winter, for the benefit of whose widow and family it will be published. Messrs. ROBINSONS and HOLDSWORTH, of Leeds, have issued proposals for publishing by subscription a new Map of the extensive county of York from an actual survey.. As no such survey has been taken since that by Jeffreys in the middle of the last century, the necessity of such a work will be evident from a view of the changes which have taken place since that period. The great triangles, with the latitudes and longitudes of the county, will be laid down from Colonel Mudge's Trigonometrical Survey, by Messrs. N. and F. Giles, of New Inn, London, as a grand basis to the general survey. The angular survey of the small triangles will be made upon that basis by Mr. C. Greenwood, of Wakefield, under the inspection of Messrs. Giles; and Mr. C. Greenwood will also superintend the admeasurement of the full survey of the county. The drawing of the original map for the engraver will be made by Mr. William Mounsey, of Otley, and the engraving executed by a first-rate artist, under the immediate inspection of Messrs. Giles and Greenwood. The whole will be on a scale of three-quarters of an inch to a mile, and consist of two parts of four sheets each. Dr. AIKIN is engaged upon an historical work to be entitled Annals of the Reign of George III. The Rev. LATHAM WAINWRIGHT, of Emanuel College, Cambridge, will specdily publish a brief description and vindication of the literary and scientific pursuits encouraged and enforced in that university. SAMUEL BROOKES, F. L. S. has nearly ready for publication in a quarto volume an Introduction to the Study of Conchology, illustrated by coloured plates. The flon. WM. HERBERT has in the press a new poem in seven cantos, under the title of Helga, The Rev. W. BELOE is superintending |