Eleanor shoots herself through the head. This Eleanor, who dies by her own hand, is the very lady that preached up to the little giddy Caroline open revolt against all first, plunged in the deepest anguish; but as grief, the most violent, is not eternal, this beautiful and tender-hearted lady bestows her hand on the sentimental Adolphus. The language of this romance is pure, and is not devoid of elegance: yet the work has its faults; Aglaure D'Almont is taken ill with the small pox; certainly that is very natural; but ever since the Julia of Rousseau, we have seen so many heroines attacked with this disorder, that we wish we could vaccinate all the ro mances together. one seldom sees; tender, submissive, and timid to excess, a turtle dove, with a sword by his side. Now circumstances happen which our limits will not allow us to detail; suffice it to say, that one even-husbands. Madame de Senneville is, at ing M. de Seuneville finds his wife at a ball, engaged in a very animated conversation with the handsome Adolphus; and at length, by another chance, he finds the portrait of the handsome Adolphus in his wife's pocket-handkerchief: and though, in reality, his wife is perfectly innocent, as she is found too much in contradiction with his system of appearances, he sends her into Switzerland, and sets off, himself, for London. Women are always willing to pardon the violence of jealousy, because jealousy is a proof of excess of love. But how can they pardon the wrongs inflicted by a faithless husband? Therefore, the despair of Aglaure may be easily conceived, at finding, in the writing-desk of her husband, a correspondence which had been some time carried on with a female, the result of which was, that while M. de Senneville sent his wife to Switzerland, to save outward appearances, he was indulg. ing publicly in an adulterous connexion which he had carried on for some time with a woman named Eleanor. The grief experienced by Madame de Senneville at this discovery, is so poignant, that it brings on a languid complaint: and when the physicians of Paris find their patients incurable, they pack them off for Switzerland; which exchange is carried on by the physicians of Helvetia, recommending the air of Paris to their sick patients: such is the polite system established between medical men. Madame de Senneville returns to Paris: she there finds the handsome Adolphus, who has been fortunate enough to save her life at the hazard of his own; and if we pay proper attention to a wife justly irri. tated against a faithless husband, and actuated by gratitude towards a handsome man who has saved her life, we may necessarily be in fear that, reality, as well as appearances, are no longer doubtful. For tunately, every thing turns out as it should do. The husband of the fair Eleanor, as strict about keeping up appearances as M. de Senneville can possibly be, finds this gentleman at the feet of his wife. He runs M. de Senneville through the body, and WORKS IN THE PRESS. Speedily will be published, An Itinerary of the Rhome, including part of the Southern Coast of France; by John Hughes, Esq. A. M. of Oriel College, Oxford. The first number of Mr. Haden's Monthly Journal of Popular Medicines. It is addressed to the public in general, as well as to the profession. It treats of the various means of preserving health, of the nature and causes of common diseases, the treatment of accidents, &c. &c. Preparing for publication, Practical Economy; or the Application of Modern Discoveries to the Purposes of Domestic Life. REVIEW OF NEW MUSIC. Sorrow has the Soothing Tear.-A Song. THE words to this pleasing music are written by Miss M. Leman Rede, a young lady eminent for her poetical abilities. The composer, Mr. Wilkins, has not only evinced much merit in the adaptation of the music to the very interesting and touching words, but he has also set the notes of the first verse one note lower than the original composition, in order to accommodate it to voices that are not able to attain that height which marks a great part of that verse in the first page. The andante movement, preceding the first verse, evinces much taste; nor can we pass over the expression given to the words "When Love's own tear starts wild and Those authors whose works are not approved of by their cotemporaries, expect to find admirers in posterity. A secret should never be told by halves. warm." Those words are well adapted to the vocal performer: and we are sorry that so sweet a harmonist as Miss Rede has been so bountiful of P and B in her song : labials cannot altogether be avoided, but they should be used as sparingly as pos-out being asked: after such an example, sible. We trust we shall be excused this hint; it is a rule laid down by our first composers whenever they require words to be written to their own music. The elegant words of this song will be found in our poetical department. THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. THE best books are not always the most useful: works replete with great exactness and erudition, are above the comprehension of too many readers. It is a much easier task to understand books than to form a right judgment of mankind. Most authors will struggle all their life through a sea of troubles and of fatigue to acquire that which is bestowed on them only when they are no more. wait not until you are requested to do all the good to your fellow creatures which is in your power. UNIVERSITY OF MOROCCO, &c. FEZ is celebrated as the Benares or Oxford of the African Mahommedans. To form an idea of their manner of instruction, Ali Bey tells us we must imagine a man sitting cross-legged on the ground, and singing in a lamentable tone, or uttering frightful cries, while fifteen or twenty youths sit in the circle round him, with their books or writing-tables in their hands, and, in complete discordance, repeat his cries and songs. All their studies are confined to the Koran and its commentators, and so much grammar and logic as are necessary to understand what is intelligible in them. They have Euclid in great folio volumes, which are neither read nor copied, except about a dozen pages. Their cosmography is taken from Ptolemy; they study no geography, and their astronomy is confined to calculating the time by the sun with clumsy astroHe who discovers every imperfection of labes. A few miserable adepts sometimes his friend, will not contiune long faithful deceive themselves and others by pursuing to him. alchymy. Anatomy is proscribed by their The art of pleasing must be innate; it is religious notions; medicine, as a science, not to be acquired. This world is full of men who are ashamed to learn, and yet do not blush at being ignorant. How unjust we are towards the fair sex! We blame those little imperfections as capital offences which render them so amiable in our eyes. is unknown—it is an empirical art, mixed Excessive politeness is more wearisome with superstition and cruelty. Their laws than blunt rusticity. Generosity, when unattended with prudence, is more prejudicial than useful. You seldom see a woman who is proud of her beauty to live upon terms of intimacy with one more beauteous than herself. Most people of the lower class are indebted for their wealth and aggrandizement only to the great, being neglectful of their own concerns. Whether we praise or censure others, it is always with an intent of praising ourselves; whenever we blame a man for being guilty of certain defects, it is that we may be thought free from the same. prohibit pictures. and graven images, and music is left entirely to women and to the lowest class of people. The language is in a state of extreme degradation, notwithstanding the advantages which the Koran has given it. They have no printing-office. The number of scholars at this "Athens of Africa," is generally about twe thousand. CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENT. FROM A HAMBURGH PAPER. THE lady who is the advertiser calls herself Wilhelmina Henrietta Antonia, of Altona. It has been so often repeated, that there can be little doubt of the sincerity of her wishes to find a proper companion. "As I have not yet found a man,” says Miss Antonia, "whom I can love, I have contracted a general desire to please, either by politeness, by following the fashions, or by a spirit of malice, which, however, never degenerates into genuine coquetishness. An invincible love for liberty, and a certain taste for idleness and ease, which renders every kind of authority insupportable to me, have prevented me hitherto from marrying. I have not yet found any man so superior as to command me-so amiable as to enslave me-so void of character as to be my slave-so discreet and so faithful as to be my friend. I have a mind too elevated, a heart too timid, and an imagination too ardent for me to be the subject of a long continued delusion. I neither wish to command nor to obey any man; I wish for a friend with whom I may pass my life, and divide my fortune, united by the purest, the truest, and the most virtuous sentiments-without constraint, and without reserve-without false delicacy, and without vanity; music, interest ing reading, the society of some wellinformed and highly-educated man, would fill up our lives. at her own disposal. My carriage and my servants shall be entirely at her command. She shall eat by herself when she pleases. We will make trial of each other's dispositions for three years. All I stipulate is, that she shall be neither a Frenchwoman, a Jewess, nor a lady of quality." SUPERSTITION OF THE PEOPLE OF THE badger is hunted here, not only for his flesh, and for the hams, which are considered very delicate, but for his fur, which is looked upon as a powerful charm against the bad effects of an evil eye. Young men often wear a bit of the skin in their hats as an ornament; women, especially when married, wear a piece under their bodice, to preserve themselves and their offspring from witchcraft, to which it is still believed that the people of the Marsian Hills, that is the district near the Lake of Fucino, are addicted. No horse would be considered safe if the badger fur did not ornament his bridle; and the very mules and asses are generally provided with the same powerful charm; which, however, does not supersede the necessity of receiving the annual blessing of St. Anthony. "If, therefore, there is to be found woman between the age of twenty-six and thirty-six, of a good constitution and moral character, well brought up, who, together with a pure and sensible heart, a reasonable and unaffected mind, and a correct taste, possesses politeness, feminine qualities, prudence, and that sincerity which the common intercourse of society requires, I should be happy to offer her my friendship and my house. I should wish that she should neither be ugly, nor absolutely poor. If the particulars which I have enumerated are found to answer, I hope she will, with a noble frankness, acquaint me, through the medium of the Affiches de l'Empire, with her good qualitics, and even with her failings, and that she will consent to partake with me the pleasures and the pains of life; she will find in my house an income of four thou-faced his tunes by repeating the songs sand marks annually, a commodious and Juliet had composed to them. He describextensive apartment, with a fine view over ed her as the wonder of her sex for beauty, a large garden towards the Elbe, entirely genius, wisdom, and goodness. DESCRIPTION OF A HARPER, THE following description of one of Miss Juliet M'Donald's harpers, was communicated by a gentleman who had it from his grandfather. He was clad in the tartans of Clanranold, his chief, and brother to his fair employer; a blue bonnet, in which several sprigs of heath were wreathed, and a broad belt, woven in stripes of various colours, to correspond with the dyes of his tartan vestments. He was a tall, dignified, and very courteous personage, and with the most graceful ease, seemed rather to confer than to accept a favour when he shared the refreshments offered to him. He had seen fourscore and three summers, and his harp had been a constant companion during seventy years. The harp was slung at his back by a band similar to his fimbriated girdle; and he frequently pre BIRTHS. At Westport-house, Ireland, the Marchioness of Sligo, of a son. At the house of her father, H. Bankes, Esq. the lady of the Hon. T. Stapleton, eldest son of Lord Le Despencer, of a son and heir. At Blithfield Rectory, in Staffordshire, the Right Hon. Lady H. Bagot, of a son. Mrs. Stephens, mother of Miss Stephens, of Covent-Garden Theatre. At Fareham, aged 89, J. Gilbert, Esq. who, in the year 1772, accompanied Captain Cook in his second voyage round the world, and was afterwards many years Master Attendant in Portsmouth and Deptford Dock-yards. At Hill-place, in the county of Hants, in the At Holme-wood, Huntingdonshire, the Right || 66th year of his age, Richard Goodlad, Esq. Hon. Lady E. Wells, of a daughter. At Bishop's-court, near Exeter, the Right Hon. Lady Graves, of a son. At the house of her father, Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, Lady Gardiner, of a daughter. At the White-lodge, Richmond Park, the lady of the Hon. and Rev. W. L. Addington, second son of Viscount Sidmouth, of a daughter. Mrs. Macdonald, Bedford square, of a daughter. MARRIED. By special license, by the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Wellesley, at the house of B. Gascoyne, Esq. in Great Stanhope-street, May Fair, Viscount Cranborne, eldest son of the Marquis of Salisbury, to Miss Gascoyne. W. P. Richards, second son of the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron, to Frances Eliza, youngest daughter of the late J. Dennett, Esq. T. Taylor, Esq. B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, to Miss Mansell, daughter of the late Bishop of Norwich. At St. Peter's Church, Leeds, G. F. Urling, of the Strand, to Mary, eldest daughter of the Rev. Richard Reece, of the former place. At Marlow, the Rev. M. Moore, nephew of Lord Brandon, to Mrs. Leader, of Cork. DIED. In Saville row, the Dowager Lady Hunloke. Our obituary has seldom recorded the death of a lady more distinguished by all that was calculated to excite esteem. Lady Hunloke was the sister of Mr. Coke, of Holkham, and the relict of Sir Henry Hunloke, an ancient Baronet, and connected by blood and alliance with many noble houses; but those adventitious circumstances were forgotten in the influence of her personal character. She was acquainted with the Latin classics, and had a facile possession of all the polite languages of Europe; and there were few subjects which her active intelligence did not embrace. At Claremont, the seat of his Royal Highness Prince Leopold, the Baron Hardenbrook. At Boulogne, Lady Ann Digby, sister to the Earl of Cassilis. She survived her husband only a few weeks. many years an active magistrate, and the late High Sheriff; and in a few days after, in consequence of this melancholy event on a previous indisposition, Frances Leonora, his widow. At Berbice, after an illness of a few days, G. Gordon, Esq. Mr. Gordon was a gentleman of the brightest talents and of the most polished wit. He had been appointed to the situation of President of the Court of Justice of Berbice, by the late Governor Bentinck, but it was vacated only a few weeks before his death, by the appointment of Mr. Beard. At Hamburgh, the widow of the celebrated Klopstock. Clara Maria, eldest daughter of Sir J. B. Burges, Bart. At Welwyn, Hertfordshire, H. Blake, Esq. He was the senior Proctor of Doctors' Cem mons. At Newent, Gloucestershire, Elizabeth, wife of J. C. C. A. Hartland, Esq. sole daughter and heiress of the late T. B. Richards, Esq. F. A. S. In Devonshire-street, Queen-square, aged 79, Mrs. Berdmore, relict of Samuel Berdmore, D. D. formerly head master of the Charterhouse School. In the 60th year of her age, Mrs. E. Ghrimes, wife of Mr. John Ghrimes, Ship Tavern, Woolwich. In the 91st year of his age, at West Cholderton, Wilts, Mr. J. Spring, formerly an eminent builder. He made his own coffin sixteen years since, which remained in good preservation till his death; and he is now buried in it. Suddenly, of the gout in his stomach, at his seat, Tovil, near Maidstone, in the 52d year of his age, J. Hulkes, Esq. late of Rochester, and formerly one of the representatives of that city. At Edinburgh, Baroness Abercromby, widow of Sir R. Abercromby. At her house, in Curzon-street, in her 88th year, Dowager Lady Rycroft. In Manchester-square, the widow of the late Admiral Dalrymple. At Richmond, aged 90, Mr. Adam Walker, the late celebrated Lecturer in Experimental Philosophy. London: Printed by JOHN BELL, Proprietor of this MAGAZINE, and of the WEEKLY MESSENGER, and Published at No.4, Brydges-street, Covent-Garden. BEING Bell's COURT AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE, FOR MARCH, 1821. A New and Improved Series. EMBELLISHMENTS. 1. A correct Likeness of MISS HALLANDE, of the Theatre Royal Covent-Garden. 2. A beautiful WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAIT FIGURE in an ENGLISH BALL DRESS. 3. A beautiful WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAIT FIGURE in a PARISIAN BALL DRESS. 4 View of HASTINGS. Ormond Cawdor. Method of preserving Grain ............................................. 103 Account of the Brigands near Guadnagola 104 Early recollections. Address to Lord Byron A Plan of Education. 106 ib. ib. |