MADEMOISELLE AUBRY.-The citizens of London smiled in derision at the bulletins daily published by the friends of Master Betty, during his illness, on his first season in London, occasioned, according to report, by a surfeit of sugar plums. We lately stated that Mademoiselle Aubry, the most beautiful and finest woman on the Paris stage, had received a severe fall from a cloud, in a pantomime, while performing the part of a goddess. The following is a copy of one of the bulletins published during her confinement, in consequence of the accident:

Paris, March 28,

Bulletin of the health of Mademoiselle Aubry, March 24. All the symptoms of the bilious fever are gradually disappearing. The fever has nearly left her, and she has slept three hours this afterHer arm is healed; in short, her condition is the most satis

noon.

factory.

(Signed) LA TOUR and DUDAUJON. A few days since, Mr. William Eaton, of Bardwell, Suffolk, had a shearling ewe yeaned six fine lambs. The above may be relied on, as the ewe has been kept by herself some weeks.

A most extraordinary instance of fecundity in sheep occurred in the vicinity of Cattesfield, in Hampshire: a gentleman, of the name of Eyles, has now living, from 120 ewes, 240 lambs; each ewe has two lambs.

The king has conferred the honour of knighthood upon Charles Brisbane, Esq. captain in the royal navy.

About two years and a

ANECDOTE OF GENERAL BENNIGSEN. half ago, the general dined at Wilna, with Dr. Frank, a celebrated physician residing in that city. The conversation having turned upon the abilities of Buonaparte, General Bennigsen observed, that he had attentively studied his different campaigns, that he had traced that general through the plans of all his battles, and that it appeared to him they were generally almost the same. "He copies himself too much," said Bennigsen, "and were I ever to command against him, I flatter myself, (without incurring the imputation of vanity), that I should be able to contend with him. It is a circumstance which can never take place," said he, "I shall never be in that situation; but I feel a conviction that I should be able to defeat this terrible antagonist." That this was not an ebullition of rashness or presumption, the events of the last three months have well proved.

We are sorry to announce the loss of the Pigmy brig, of 18 guns, Lieutenant Higginson. She was wrecked in one of the late tremendous gales on the rocks at the entrance of Rochefort. The officers and crew, we are happy to hear, were all saved. They are prisoners of war.

MARRIED,

The Hon. T. Parker, to Miss Eliz. Woltenholme. At Guernsey, Dr. Borland, Inspector of Army Hospitals, to Miss Walters. B. Child, to Miss Catherine Ford.

DIED,

At his seat, at Santon Downham, Suffolk, aged 79, Charles Sloane Earl Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea, and a trustee of the British Museum. Mr. Opie, the painter, aged 45. At St. Petersburgh, the Princess Bariatinski, formerly the Hon. Miss Dutton, daughter of Lord Sherborne., She left this country about eight months ago. At Chichester, aged 75, the Right Hon. Lady Viscountess Lifford. At Great Cumberland Place, aged 67, Admiral Sir Hyde Parker.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Walter Scott's splendid poetical work, now in the press, is dívideď into six epistles, each epistle descriptive of a particular event, combining, at the same time, one great whole, founded on real or fancied facts in the Highlands of Scotland. The copy-right has been sold to Constable and Co. of Edinburgh, and Miller, of Albemarle-Street, London, for one thousand guineas.

Turner's History of the Anglo-Saxons is nearly ready for publica tion, in two volumes, quarto. It will embrace more copious matter re lating to Saxon poetry, and the history of the ballad and narrative · poetry of that period, in particular, than has yet appeared.

Southey's new translation of Prince Palmerin, of England, is nearly ready for publication.

The Rev. T. Dibden is going to publish a new edition of Anes's Typographical Antiquities.

Park's splendid edition of Lord Orford's Royal and Noble Authers is now published. It is our intention critically to analyse the vast ad

ditions to this curious work.

A new edition, with additions, of Sonnets and other Poems by S. E. Bridges, Esq. will be published in May.

Numbers I. II. and III. of the Historic Gallery of Portraits and

The

Paintings exhibit most accurate specimens of the fine originals. Biographical Sketches are written with great spirit, and the criticism on the works of the various masters are exceedingly minute and inge.

nious.

Mr. Blore is employed on a History of Rutlandshire, and not Stam

ford, as erroneously stated in our last number.

A Satirical Parody on" Elijah's Mantle," with copious notes, will be

published in a few days.

Sir John Carr will shortly publish his Tour in Holland, accompanied

with various etchings.

MONTHLY MIRROR

FOR

MAY, 1807.

Embellished with

A PORTRAIT OF DAVID GARRICK, ESQ. ENGRAVED BY FREEMAN, FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.

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PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS,

By J. Wright, No. 38, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell,

And published by Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, in the Poultry ;

sold, also, by all the Booksellers in

the United Kingdom.

CORRESPONDENCE.

To gratify the print-collectors and the admirers of the early productions of the pride and boast of our country in art, Sir Joshua Reynolds, we have worked off a few proof impressions of the portrait of Mr. Garrick, which may be had at the publishers, price 2s. 6d. each.

We thank our elegant correspondent ** for his promised remarks on Tasso and Ariosto.

Motley's Address to the first of April, we are not such fools as to print.

The editor is much gratified by the compliment paid by A friend to the poor, on the conduct of the Monthly Mirror. His important observations appear in the present number.

We have received many just eulogiums on our correspondent's Account of the Swiss Revolution. The length of Garrick's excellent memoir necessarily defers the continuation till next month.

A paper here inserted on the Origin of Surnames, by our learned friend, The Rev. Mark Noble, F. A. S. will be found most curious and interesting.

No. I. of the Comments of Græculus on the Classics, in our next. T. Noble's lines on Mrs. Hanway, author of Ellinor, &c. shall, if possible, appear in the number for June.

We are obliged to J. C. for Dermody's Elegy on Burns.

To J. G. and to many others whom the gods have made so profusely poetical, we can only say, that as time serves so shall they be served.

"An old fashioned friend” at Bath, moves that Justus and Vindex be, in future, more gentlemanly in their language. We second the motion, with thanks to the mover.

From Knight, who writes farces, through Fawcett, who writes ballets, quite down to Cherry, who writes one thing as well as another, the actors are all great, authors, and from them, for the sake of Mr. Dangle, we entreat some consolatory defence of Benefits.

We cannot comply with T. C.'s request.

We agree with A. R. P. that the poetry of the " Bastard" is better than that of many of our legitimate sons, but we are with poetry as we are with ladies-there's no getting over the word old.

W. Manchester shall not be neglected.

MONTHLY MIRROR,

FOR

MAY, 1807.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF

DAVID GARRICK, ESQ.

[With a Portrait.]

THOUGH the great actor, who is the subject of our present notice, had made his exit from the stage of life long before the commencement of the MONTHLY MIRROR, yet, as that work has directed so much of its attention to the theatre, and as he has hitherto been considered as the brightest ornament of his profession, we should think that we did not pay due homage to GENIUS, if, when we submit a portrait of Mr. Garrick to our readers, we did not also give some account of the admirable original himself. Besides Mr. Garrick has always been held forth as the great father of the modern stage, or rather, as the actor who rescued the English stage from turgid pomp and lofty declamation, and rendered it, what it ought to be, the true mirror of life and nature.-Consequently he has a prominent claim to be found in a work of which the drama is an essential department. It is not, however, our intention to enter into a detailed history of Mr. Garrick, for though no adequate account of him has yet been written, so much has been said of him, and of his extraordinary talents, that we should only be repeating what has appeared in a thousand other publications; and, therefore, we shall content ourselves with giving little more than a mere outline of a life that is so well known to the world.

David Garrick was born on the 20th of Feb. in the year 1716, at Hereford. The register of his birth is to be found in the church of All Souls, in that city. His father, Peter Garrick, was a captain in the military service of this country. His grandfather was a Frenchman, and the family name, we have heard, was originally GARRIQUE. David Garrick's mother was the daugh