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Literary and Scientific Intelligence.

of Life at Home. By JOHN MALCOLM, Author of "Scenes of War," &c.

Biographical Sketches and authentic Anecdotes of Dogs. By Captain THOMAS BROWN, F.R.S.E. &c.

Mr. Britton's History and Antiquities of Gloucester Cathedral, containing Memoirs of the Bishops; an Essay by the Rev. J. Webb, on the customs, privileges, and manners of its Abbot and Monks, &c.

The Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities, No. III. containing two Views of Lincoln, one of Bath, and one of Worcester; with picturesque representations of the Fishmongers' Hall, London; Broad-street, Bristol; Edgar's Tower, in Friar-street, Worcester; &c. &c.

A Course of Lectures on Hieroglyphics, delivered at the Royal Institution, and at the University of Cambridge; with plates. By the Marquis of SPINETO.

Strictures on the Orders for the regula tion of the Practice and Proceedings in the Court of Chancery: professing to be issued in pursuance of the recommendations of His Majesty's Commissioners, by the Lord High Chancellor, 3d April, 1828. Addressed to the Gentlemen connected with the Court. By F. P. STRATORD, Esq.

The Garland; a Collection of Poems. By the Author of Field Flowers, &c. The Savings Bank Assistant. COMPTON.

By C.

A new and improved edition of An easy Introduction to Heraldry, by CLARK. With new and additional engravings of the English and Scottish Regalia, Orders of Knighthood, &c. with Historical Notices; also a Dictionary of Mottoes.

Preparing for Publication.

The Chronicle of Geoffrey de Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne and Romania, concerning the Conquest of Constantinople by the French and Venetians, in 1204. Trauslated from the French.

The History and Description of Ipswich, including the Villages and Country Seats in its vicinity; forming a complete History of the Town and Neighbourhood. With engravings.

A new edition of Anstey's New Bath Guide, with illustrations by Cruikshank, &c. a prefatory Essay on the Life and Writings of the Author, on the localities and peculiarities of Bath at the middle of the last century, and elucidatory Notes. By J. BRITTON.

Letters from Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, &c. By R. R. MADDEN, Esq. During his travels in the East, he visited the sites of Troy, Memphis, Thebes, and Jerusalem, and other interesting ruins.

A Life of Archbishop Cranmer, by the Rev. H. T. TODD, the Editor of Johnson's Dictionary.

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The Family Chaplain, or St. Mark's Gospel analyzed, and prepared for reading and expounding to a Family Circle. By the Rev. S. HINDS, M.A. Vice-principal of St. Alban's Hall, Oxford.

The Natural History of Enthusiasm. In Ten Sections.

The Willow-Bank Dairy History. By Mr. HARLEY.

Beatrice, a Tale, founded on facts. By Mrs. HOFLAND.

SKELTON'S Illustrations of Arms and Armour, from the collection at Goodrich Court. Part XVIII.

An Essay on the Coins of Scripture, as internal evidence of the truth of Christianity, and on the Tribute Money as affording no grounds for the Popish doctrine of divided allegiance. By the Rev. J. GRANT.

WINCHESTER COLLEGE CHAPEL.

Some admirable improvements have been effected in the Chapel of Winchester College, by the restoration of about 3000 feet of beautiful stained glass, which was commenced about eight years ago, and completed in August last, by Mr. David Evans, of Shrewsbury, whose successful imitation of the ancient art of glass-staining stands perhaps unrivalled in the kingdom. The centre of the East window in the Chagreat pel contains the genealogy of our Saviour, the highest compartment being filled with a representation of his sitting in judgment; beneath which are figures of the Virgin Mary, St. John, St. Peter, and St. Paul. At the bottom of the window is a representation of the Salutation, Edward the Third praying to the Trinity, Richard the Second adoring St. John and the Lamb, and William of Wykeham adoring the Virgin and Child. The eight windows on the north and south sides contain forty-six figures, standing on pedestals beneath beautiful canopies of tabernacle work; the tracery of the upper compartments with appropriate designs. Those on the south side comprise figures of the Prophets Isaiah, David, Jeremiah, Daniel, Hosea, and Amos; the Apostles Peter, Andrew, James the Great, John, Thomas, and James the Less; with the Romish Saints Martin, Edward, Ethelwold, Leonard, Oswald, Egidius, Stephen, Anne, and Mary Magdalen. Those on the north side are the Prophets Joel, Haggai, Sophonius, Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Abdias; the Apostles Philip, Bartholomew, Matthias, Matthew, Simon, and Jude; the Romish Saints Nicholas, Mary, Thomas, Swithin, Dunstan, Berinus, Christopher, Edmund, George, Augustine, Wolstanus, and Lawrence. The whole of this has been effected at the expense of the Warden and Fellows of the College; and the rich and mellow tints emanating from this splendid collection of glass is truly astonishing. H. P.

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ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.

SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. April 2. Fred. Madden, Esq. F.S.A.communicated to the Society the remainder of the old English poem on the Siege of Rouen, A. D. 1418, which was printed imperfect (in a communication of the late Rev. J. J. Conybeare) in the 21st volume of the Archæologia. It has been found entire introduced into certain MS. copies of the well-known prose Chronicle of the Brute, commonly but falsely attributed to Caxton, that father of typography having printed it in 1480. But none of the printed editions of the Chronicle contain the poem ; and out of the numerous manuscript copies which Mr. Madden has examined, only three have preserved it,-two in the Harleian Collection, and one in the library of Mr. Coke, of Holkham. From these Mr. Madden has prepared his transcript, which is now printed and published in the portion of the Archæologia which has been lately issued. It is remarked by Mr. Madden, that of the various contemporary narratives of the Siege of Rouen, there is no document which, in point of simplicity, clearness, and minuteness of detail, can compare with this poem. The difference it bears to other accounts is shown in the notes appended to the poem.

April 9. A communication was read from A. J. Kempe, Esq. F.S.A. as a specimen of the contents of the ancient MSS. from Loseley, mentioned under the head of Literary Intelligence in our last. Mr. Kempe, in the introductory part of his communication, gave a particular account of George Ferrers, who was appointed, for his literary and poetical qualifications, to the office of Lord of Misrule to the Court, in the Christmas of 1551-2; and Mr. Kempe produced, in illustration of his subject, transcripts of several curious original letters from the Lord of Misrule, George Ferrers, to Sir Thomas Cawarden, "Master of the King's Majesty's Revels," in which the Lord of Misrule has minutely detailed the different assistants and properties required by him in the performance of his office. Also some documents of the same period, illustrative of the rude beginnings of those splendid entertainments called masques, which became afterwards so prevalent a diversion of the English Court. These papers, after being read, were returned to Mr. Kempe, as they form a portion of his volume which we have already noticed as in readiness for press.

April 23. This being St. George's day, the annual election took place, agreeably to the charter, when the Earl of Aberdeen was re-elected President, T. Amyot, Esq. reelected Treasurer, John Gage, Esq. was

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elected Director (in the room of J. H. Markland, Esq. resigned), and N. Carlisle and H. Ellis, Esqs. were re-elected Secretaries. The following gentlemen of the old Council were re-elected on the Council for the year ensuing: F. Douce, H. Gurney, H. Hallam, W. R. Hamilton, J. H. Markland, Esqrs. and the Right Hon. C. W. Williams-Wynn. To which were added, M. Bland, Esq. J. Britton, Esq. Dr. Dibdin, Hon. G. Agar Ellis, Lord Farnborough, Bp. of Llandaff, E. Lodge, Esq. Rt. Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley, T. Phillips, Esq. R. A. and E. V. Utterson, Esq.-The Society afterwards dined at Freemasons' Hall, Hudson Gurney, Esq. V.P. in the chair.

CHAMPOLLION'S EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION.

In vol. xcvi. ii. p. 630, we detailed the progress of this interesting expedition to the 8th of October, when it had quitted Sakkara. We shall now continue the narrative of Champollion's journey, and give brief notices of the various discoveries made during his progress.

On the 20th Nov. M. Champollion and his party arrived at Thebes, and on 23d he went to the palace of Karnac, on the eastspeaks: "All that I had seen at Thebes, ern part of Thebes, of which he thus

all that I had admired with enthusiasm, on
the left bauk, appeared miserable in compari-
son with the gigantic conceptions with which
I was now surrounded. No people, either an-
cient or modern, ever conceived the art of
architecture on so sublime and so grand a
scale as the ancient Egyptians; their con-
ceptions were those of men a hundred feet
high; and the imagination which in Europe
rises far above our porticos, sinks abashed
at the foot of one hundred and forty co-
lumns of the Hypostyle Hall of Karnac.
In this marvellous place I viewed the por-
traits of most of the ancient Pharaohs,
known by their great actions and they are
real portrails, represented a hundred times
on the bas-reliefs of the outer and inner
walls. Each of them has his peculiar phy-
siognomy, different from that of his prede-
cessors and successors. Thus in colossal
representations, the sculpture of which is
lively, grand, and heroic, more perfect than
can be believed in Europe, we see Man-
douei combatting the nations hostile to
Egypt, and returning triumphant to his
country. Farther on, the campaigns of
Rhamses Sesostris; elsewhere, Sesonchis
(Shishak) dragging to the feet of the
Theban trinity Ammon Mouth and Khous,
the chiefs of thirty conquered nations,
among which I found, as was to be expected,
written in letters at full length, Jou-
dahamalek, the kingdom of the Jews, or
of Judah. This is a commentary on the

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14th chapter of the first book of Kings, which relates the arrival of Shishak at Jerusalem, and his success; thus the identity which we have established between the Egyptian Scheschonk, the Sesonchis of Manotho, and the Sesac or Schishak of the Bible, is confirmed in the most satisfactory

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On the 26th Nov. the Expedition left Thebes. The following day they arrived at Hermonthis, and on the 29th at Esne. The next morning they visited the temple of Elethya. When they left Elethya a violent wind arose, which carried them in a few hours to Silsilis, where are the quarries of free-stone which furnished the materials for the principal edifices of Thebes. These quarries are themselves monuments, on account of the inscriptions with which their sides are covered. There is also a temple excavated in the rock, like that at BeniHassan. Between Elethya and Silsilis is Edfou, with the great temple of Apollinopolis Magna. The temple at Edfou has a striking appearance, on account of its size; but the caprices of the most fantastic Gothic are mingled with the lines of a style of architecture which pleases only by its austerity; and the sculpture of the Ptolemies, which is, at the most, tolerable in subjects of small dimensions, is at once insipid and stiff in those colossal figures, in imitation of the monuments at Thebes, with which the outer walls are covered. However, it is the best preserved of all the Egyptian temples, and furnishes means to facilitate the understanding of the others. They set out again in haste, and in the evening were moored at the foot of the ruins of Ŏmbos, the capital of the last Nome of Egypt. They found there a great temple of the time of the Ptolemies, but in a better style than that of Apollinopolis. The place chosen for the site of this great edifice is at a bending of the Nile, on the summit of an insulated hill, now entirely covered with ruins. The Egyptians seem to have been in general less careful in this respect than the other nations of antiquity. The sands of the desert, which now cover all the neighbouring plain, have encroached upon the sacred enclosure, and hardly more than one third of the columns of the temple remain visible. On the rapid declivity towards the river are heaps of ruius, which appear ready every moment to roll into the abyss

below.

The Expedition remained two days at Assouan, to visit an indifferent little temple. On the evening of the second day they staid at Philöe. Its monuments, which are all of the Greek and Roman period, are precious, from a perfection of preservation of which there is no other example in Egypt.

In Champollion's last letter, dated Quadi Halfa, Second Cataract, Jan. 1, 1829, he details the progress of his labours. He says,

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he was then arrived at the farthest point of his voyage. The expedition left their mâasch and dehabié at Asauan (Syena), these two barks being too large to pass the cataracts. It was on the 16th of Dec. that the new squadron beyond the cataract was ready to receive them. They set sail from Philoe, (says Champollion) to begin their voyage to Nubia, with a tolerable wind, and passed Deboud without landing, wishing to gain as soon as possible the extreme point of the course. This small temple and the three propylons are, moreover, of the modern epoch. The 17th, at four o'clock p.m. they were opposite the small monuments of Quartas, where they found nothing to glean. The 18th they cleared Taffah and Kalabsche without landing. They afterwards passed under the Tropic; and from the moment they entered the Torrid Zone they shivered with cold, and were obliged to cover themselves with bernous and cloaks. At night they slept beyond Dandour, merely saluting its temple with a wave of the hand. They did the same on the following day, being the 19th, to the monuments of Ghirsche, which belong to the good times, as well as to the great temple of Dakkeh, of the period of the Lagides. They landed at night at Meharraka, an Egyptian temple of the low period, changed in former ages into a Coptic church. On the 20th they remained an hour at Oudi-Esseboura or the Valley of Lions, thus named from the Sphinxes which ornament the dromos of a monument constructed under the reign of Sesostris, but a mere provincial edifice, built of stone cemented with mortar. They were occupied the 21st and 22d, in turning the great angle of Amnada, whose temple is important from its antiquity. They cleared it on the 23d, and arrived at Derr or Derri at an early hour. There they found a pretty temple dug in the rock, and still retaining some basso relievos of the conquests of Ramses the Great. The 24th, at sunrise, they left Derri, passed under the ruined fort of Ibrim, and went to sleep on the eastern shore at Ghebel Mesmes, a charming and well-cultivated country. They proceded on their voyage the 25th, sometimes with the wind, sometimes by towage. On the 26th, they landed at Ibsamboul, where they remained also on the 27th. There are two temples entirely dug out of the rock, and covered with sculptures. The smallest of these excavations is a temple of Hathor, dedicated by the Queen Nofre-Ari, wife of Ramses the Great. It is outwardly decorated with a façade, against which are raised six colossal figures, each about 35 feet high, also cut from the solid rock, representing Pharoah and his wife, having at their feet, the one his sons and the other his daughters, with their names and titles. Those colossal figures are of excellent sculpture; their waists are slender, and their drapery very elegant. The great temple of Isamboul

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alone is worthy of having occasioned their voyage to Nubia. The façade is decorated with four colossal figures, seated, each being not less than 61 feet high, of superb execution, representing Ramses the Great. The countenances are all portraits, and perfectly resemble the face of this King at Memphis, Thebes, and every other place. On their arrival, the sands, aided by the efforts of the Nubians, who take care to assist its progress, had closed the entrance. They had it cleared; and Champollion, almost completely undressed, keeping on merely his Arabian shirt, and a pair of cloth drawers, crawled on all fours to the small opening at the top of a door, which, if cleared, would be at least 25 feet high. It appeared as if he were entering the mouth of an oven. Slipping into the temple, he found himself suddenly in an atmosphere 51 degrees of heat. They went over this astonishing excavation, Champollion, Rossellini, Ricci, and one of the Arabians, each carrying a wax candle. The first hall is supported by eight pillars, against each of which is a colossal statue 30 feet high, also representing Ramses the Great. On the walls of this enormous chamber runs a cornice of large historical basso relievos relative to the conquests of Pharoah in Africa. One of these in particular represents his triumphal car, accompanied by groups of Nubian prisoners, negroes, and forms a composition of exquisite beauty, and of the highest effect. The other halls, and there are 16 of them, abound in fine basso relievos, on religious subjects, exhibiting very curious particularities. The whole is terminated by a sanctuary, at the further end of which are four fine statues in a sitting position, much larger than nature, and of very beautiful work. This group represented Amon-Ra, Phré, Phta, and Ramses the Great sitting amongst them After two hours and a half spent in admiration, and

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On the tragic Catastrophe of some modern Tales, contrasted with the lively Delineations of Miss Milford.

BY MRS. CAREY,

Author of "Lasting Impressions," &c. SOME mortals, weary of their lives,

Seek Death, but cannot find him. How should they, when in modern books, 'Tis now the rage to bind him? There he lies hid, between the leavesLife's fairest blossoms blighting. Consumption kills the love-lorn maid; And heroes perish fighting. Too much of Death! too much, indeed! I grow quite nervous, as I read. But, Mitford! when my spirits sink,

Thy sprightly tales can raise 'em ; For scenes of humblest life can charm, When wit, like thine, portrays 'em.

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having notice: all the bas-reliefs, the heat and want of fresh air compelled them to retreat.

The Expedition quitted Ibsamboul on the 28th. Towards noon they stopped at Chebel-Addeh, where there is a small temple cut out of the rock. The major part of its bas-reliefs has been plastered over with mortar by the Christians, who have ornamented this new surface with paintings representing saints, and particularly St. George on horseback, but Champollion was able to ascertain, by removing the mortar, that this temple had been dedicated to Thoth, by King Horus, son of Amenophis Memnon. They went to Faras to sleep. The 29th, an almost dead calm, did not permit them to advance beyond Serre; and the 30th, at noon, they arrived at Ouadi-Halfa, within half an hour's sailing of the Second Cataract.

Champollion says, that he has discovered on the western coast the remains of three edifices, which bear only the endings of hieroglyphics. One of them was a temple dedicated to Horammon (Ammon Generator), and was erected under King Amenophis 11. son and successor of Thouthmosis III. (Moris). A second temple was of the reign of Thouthmosis Ill. (Maris), built of brick, with primitive pillar columns of the Doric order, with stone sides to the entrance, the door of which is of free-stone. It was the large temple of the Egyptian city of Beheni, which stood on this ground, and which, from the extent of broken pottery on the plain (now a desert), appears to have been of tolerable dimensions. This was, without doubt, the bulwark formed by the Egyptians to contain the nations residing between the first and the second cataracts. This great temple was dedicated to Amon-Ra and to Phré, as, indeed, were the greater part of the larger monuments of Nubia. This is all which remains at Ouadi Halfa.

POETRY.

Sketch'd by thy pen, what portraits rise,
In Truth's own colours glowing;
E'en Cynics own its magic pow'r-

On each a grace bestowing.

Then write, dear Mitford! write again;
And charm us with thy varied strain.
Those--who have gain'd life's upward path-
Must feel-ah sad conviction!
Where real miseries abound,

We need not woes of fiction.

Then why should those, who have the pow'r

To tune the soul to gladnessGive, to the dreary scenes of life,

A deeper shade of sadness? 'Tis cruel thus to dim the ray, Heav'n sent, to cheer us on our way.

West-square, Feb. 8.

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MIDST the turns of fate below,

Where all things human ebb and flow,
PITT still retains his state;
Through life he toil'd for Britain's weal,
And all who for their Country feel,

Must deem him good and great.
Like his fam'd Sire, he wealth despis'd,
His Country's glory all he priz'd,
And, with his parting breath,
He rais'd to Heav'n a patriot prayer,
She still might be its guardian care,
Then calmly sunk in death.

Our last pure Monarch, ere his mind
In all its nobler pow'rs declin'd,

rays,

Gave PITT supreme command; And HE who now the sceptre sways, And shines with such transcendant Chose PITT's sagacious band. And may there still on earth be found, 'Till Time shall close his mortal round,

Those who this day revere;

A day the Wise and Virtuous claim,
A day that History gives to Fame,
To PITT and ORDER dear.
And ye* who here again unite
To celebrate the natal rite,

Oh! to your race transmit
Those PRINCIPLES which firmly bind
In social safety human kind-
The PRINCIPLES of PITT.

THE GRATEFUL BARD.

A British Tale of the Sixth Century. [Elphin, Prince of Cardigan, having been treacherously imprisoned by his uncle Maelgon, King of North Wales, obtained his deliverance in the manner described. The poet was the celebrated Taliesin, whom the Prince had saved in infancy from a watery grave.]

THE thoughts that bade our spirits bound
In grief must fail to cheer;

And vain is music's sweetest sound
To charm the sickening ear.
Where Mona's turret eyes the main,
And spurns the rushing tide,
Thus, sever'd from his lov'd domain,
The captive Elphin sigh'd.
Below, in congregated state,

Sit warriors, dames, and kings;
While tones that ill beseem his fate

The pervious lattice brings.
The festive shout at length is dumb,
The lyre resumes its flow,
And plaintive sounds that faintly come,
He knows, or thinks to know.

The Pitt Club. GENT, MAG. April, 1829.

But, ah! farewell, delusion sweet,
Again for doubt prepare;
The song is hush'd, and hasty feet
Ascend the prison-stair.

"Come, menials of a tyrant's will,"
The Prince undaunted cries;
"But mark, life's torrent as ye spill, ..
If terrors cloud my eyes."
No executioner appears,

"

Joy mingles with alarms, A smiling youth reproves his fears, And frees his shackled arms.

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"And see'st thou not who comes to save,
Or know'st thou me no more
From Cardigan's impetuous wave
Those hands my cradle bore.

I heard thy wrongs, I felt thy pain,
I tun'd the suppliant lay:
See Maelgon, soften'd by my strain,
My gratitude repay!

"Then, if a subject vies with thee,
Forgive the generous strife;
"Tis just to proffer liberty,
In recompense for life.'

SONG.

L.

By the Author of "Field Flowers," &c. COME, quit the city for the grove, Join Beauty's fairy throng;

And bring the magic wand of love,
The melody of song.

Soft be the words, aud sweet the air;
For 'neath the calm moonlight,
What more than song delights the fair,
When skies are clear and bright?
Oh! few, indeed, have felt no word

Electric warm the breast;

And fewer still have woke no chord

To mar the bosom's rest;

A silver lute, a minstrel hand,
To youth and love belong;
For is not Love's own magic wand
The melody of Song?
Brighton, Feb. 7.

THE RAINBOW.

H.B.

THERE'S not a tempest clouds the skies, But loveliest rays its flight succeed; Expanding in an arch they rise,

And cast o'er mansion, hill, and mead, So sweet a glow, so bright a hue,

That gazers half begin to bless
The storm that desolation blew,

When fleeting in so fair a dress.
Thus anger's burst, resentment's thrill,
Assuag'd, new gentleness reveal,
To brighten o'er departing ill,

To dry the tear, the sorrow heal;
The troubled breast a calm assumes,
The ruffled cheeks their peace regain,
Till kindness more engaging blooms,

From passion's brief and stormy reign.

L.

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