Veil'd was the moon, and dark the night, Nine-and-thirty heroes true, Rode, Cottingham, o'er thy heath: Nine-and-thirty coursers fleet, The Baron saw the fair Abbaye, His knights and yeomen lined the shore; The broadest oak in Hessle wood Was rent and skaithed horribly; Where the thunder's bolt fell terribly. By every varying night breeze tost, And pardon'd all for charity. For Cottingham, for Harebells twain: Yet true was the Baron of Cottingham's vow, For long e'er the morning cock did crow, Cottingham is a small village, about five miles from Hull, and nearly the same distance from Hessle. The tradition of this story has not been very strictly adhered to, in the present poem. In the poem of Amor Patriæ, line 85, for Annan of deadly sway,-read-Ana Ann of deadly sway. EPILOGUE TO BEGONE DULL CARE. Spoken by Miss Smith. Once more I come-your smiles, or frowns to face And, like my lover,-talk of common-place- ones. Because in Noah's patriarchal days, Our good first people copy'd nature's ways— That soon, no doubt, some dashing Jehu Billy, For little-and for large, Red Riding-Hoods. St. James!-St. Giles !-St. Stephen!-and St. Bards too!-like tars, their hostile fire can't quench For plays, like ships, are taken from the French! One word then to ye all, before I goSince ours is" English Sirs!—from top to toe”Support your countryman-befriend his cause-Who now-like me --would borrow your applause, SONG IN WHO WINS. William and Jonathan came to town together, William brought learning, and Jonathan some leather; Said William to Jonathan, what d'ye mean to do? Said Jonathan to William, pray what's your in William talk'd of things far above his comprehension; He mean't to write poetry, pamphlets, songs and Epitaphs, epigrams, and puffs, the wind to raise. It chanc'd that they lodged in the same house Will stuck close to books, and Jonathan to leather; To wail a husband lost, not tears suffice Lo! her own hand the fatal torch shall rear But ah! from earth can she each feeling wrest Tho' transient frenzy cloud her harass'd sight, When they had liv'd in town for years nearlyYet back to turn, and ask a length of years; twenty, Will was very poor, but Jonathan had plenty ; together, And clearly prov'd that learning wasn't half so good as leather Sing leather, &c. THE TYGER AND THE DEER. (By Mr. Brandon, author of Kais.) When the fierce tyger prowls the path of death, The parent-deer the fondest tremors move! Quick from her young, she flies with panting breath! Her flight is fondness, as her death is love. To draw the tyrant from th' unshelter'd brood, STANZAS Supposed to be written, on beholding a Hindoo Widow sacrifice herself on the funeral Pile of her deceased Husband. What means yon fun'ral pomp, yon mournful crowd, Lo! Superstition's frown appals her mind ; Dull prejudice, with infamy appears And threatning shakes her scorpion lash behind. Pillow'd on fire, low sinks her desp'rate head!- Pale, startled stranger! didst thou faintly hear? High mounts the flame, the crumbling fragments No longer lie those scorch'd, sad forms expos'd; 'Tis o'er-and one more victim at thy shrine Children of Brama! ye, who shrink from blood, Those white-stol'd Priests in solemn guise that How long, with human sacrifice imbru'd, OBSERVANDA EXTERNÁ. AFRICA. Ashantees and Fantees.-Accounts have been received from Cape Coast Castle to the end of October. By these it appears, that the King of the Ashantees has completely extirpated the Fantees, but the most perfect friendship subsists between him and the British, on the African coast. AUSTRIAL Singular Duel.-On the 12th alt. a remarkable duel was fought near Brannau, with a publicity and solemnity, we believe, altogether unexampled in modern times, and which assimilates this combat to the legal and judicial duels of the feudal ages. The parties were Baron Von Duben, formerly Swedish Minister at Vienna, and Baron Von Wrede, a General in the Bavarian service; and the occasion of it, as far as we can collect in general, was this. Some dispatches, which had been sent from Vienna to Stockholm, by the Swedish minister, were intercepted by the French, and made public. In these, Baron Duben had reflected very severely upon the conduct of the Bavarian troops in the campaign of 1805, accusing them of surpassing even the French in acts of pillage and cruelty. This was resented as a calumny on the Bavarian military. General Wrede, as the principal officer, immediately challenged Baron Du ben, with an intimation that if he himself should fall, the Baron would be called out by the next in rank, and so on, till he was killed. The parties could not come together immediately; their respective sovereigns forbade their fighting; but the Swede ventured in a case of this kind to disobey, and travelled into the south of Germany to meet his enemy. But here he found that the Bavarian General had been more obedient to his master, and had, on command, neglected to attend his appointment. On this, the Minister posted the General as a coward in the public prints of Germany, about a year since; and the general opinion was of course in his favour. We find from the last French papers, that the duel was fought on the 12th ult. near Brannau, in the presence of a great , number of the inhabitants. Baron Duben came from Vienna on purpose, and had been already a week there; General Wrede arrived the day before. The parties met in the village on the Bavarian side of the Inu; and after the seconds (the English Colonel Burke, and Count Von Rechberg) had made the arrangements, they entered the lists, which were beset by Bavarian military, and placed themselves at a distance of fifteen paces. Baron Duben fired, and the ball passed the right ear of his adversary. General Wrede's VOL. IV. [Lit. Pan. April, 1808.] Casualties by Bombardment of Copenhagen. The list of deaths in Copenhagen, during the year 1807, includes 282 individuals, who were killed by shells, or died of their wounds, in the bombardment of that capital. Ships that passed the Sound.-During last year, 6,240 ships cleared the Sound duties. Of that number, 3,387 came from the North Sea, viz.-648 Danish, 664 Swedish, 142 Prus sian, 47 Papenbourg, 13 Hamburgh, 74 Ol denburgh, 21 Bremen, 21 Tostock, 9 Labeck, 65 Russian, 104 American, 22 Portuguese, and 1,559 English ships.-2,851 ships came from the Baltic, viz.-564 Danish,715 Swedish, 125 Prussian, 52 Papenbourg, 12 Hamburgh, 82 Oldenburgh, 25 Bremen, 21 Rostock, 4 Lubeck, 54 Russian, 102 American, 22 Portu guese, and 1,073 English ships.-In 1805, 11,537 ships cleared the Sound duties: in 1806, 7,140. FRANCE. Improved Manufacture of Soap.-Mr. Curaudan, Professor of Chymistry applied to the arts, has demonstrated in a memorial which he has read in the Institute of France, on the theory of saponification: that uaigène is one of the component parts of scap; that to this principle, the oxigenated oils, or those which oxigenate easily, owe their property of making the best soap: lastly, he has pointed out a very simple procedure, by which oils are instantly oxigenated, and by which the fabrication of soap may be quickened, and improved at the saine tiine. Dr. Gall's Course of Lectures on Physiology at Paris, consists of ten or twelve discourses of two hours each. The demonstration of the human brain is shewn separately to such persons as desire it. The On the 15th of January, 1808, at 2 o'clock, Dr. Gall opened his course of lectures, by vindicating his principles from the imputation of fatalism: he denied that the mind is sub jected to the influence of the bodily organs but affirmed, on the contrary, that the bodily organs are subservient to the mind. mind has not eyes to see with, ears to hear with, a palate to distinguish tastes, organs of smell to enjoy perfumes; or a general sense of touch, by which it is convinced of the presence of bodies: these are bodily senses, G yet neither sight, nor hearing, tasting nor smelling, nor the sense of touching, pretends to domineer over the rational powers of man. This sovereign sits, as it were, in a palace, and receives information by the imistry of the senses; yet is not subject to their controul. ceased immediately: when he withdrew his hand, the patient recovered his understanding. Dr. Gall, after infinite researches, is of opinion, that in proportion to the developement of the brain, is the power of intelligence. Stupid animals have very little brain : more sagacious animals have a greater proportion; no animal has so much as man; and among men, idiots are remarkable for the sinallness of the head, and paucity of brain. The Cretins of the Vallais, have the head very small. The brain of a young woman (about 20 years of age) suffering under imbecility, was not larger than that of a fœtus of a few months. The brain of an old woman, imbecile, also, did not exceed in size that of a child of three years old. M. Pinel has preserved a brain which confirms this observation. It is also certain, that every individual is born with his own proper dispositson; and this is true as well of animals as of men. The lion, the tiger, the panther, the eagle, the vulture, &c., are naturally ferocious. The ox, the goat, the sheep, the birds that live on grain, are naturally mild, and peaceable. The fox and the cat are cunning; the dog is intelligent; the ass and the turkey are dull Among men, some are born with a lively imagination, a penetrating wit, a sound judg ment, a mild disposition; others with slow and heavy senses, hard hearts, and savage souls. To what are these differences to be at But in comparing the different forms of the tributed? To the temperament of the consti- brain among animals, it is remarked, that tution, say some ;-but probably, says Dr. those which have such or such inclinations, Gall, to the conformation of the brain. have these parts invariably formed in a deL..The Dr. commences his scale of relationstermined and constant manner to this form on this subject, with the zoophite, or animal plant; this has no spinal marrow, nor brain, The worm has a spinal marrow, but no appear ance of brain. The caterpillar has a spinal mars row, terminated by a ganglion, which indis cates a motion of the brain; as organization gradually advances, this ganglion is increased, and approaches toward perfection, its parts are developed, and enlarged, step by step. A fish is better furnished than ar insect; a bird possesses more than a fish; a quadruped pos sesses more than a bird; and so on, from degree to degree, till man unites all that is possessed by animals, with a property peculiarly his own. : of the part, then, may be attached the idea of such, or such an inclination. In the human brain, for instance, whenever we find the organ in the same state, form, &c., we are at liberty to suspect that it imports the same inclination. But if it be asked, whether this conformation controuls the liberty of conduct No, says the Dr.,—because, con formations only indicate the natural disposition of the bodily organ, they do not produce volition. Now, education, religion, the laws, constrain the will; and volition yields 10 a cause more powerful than itself. It cannot be denied, that a cat has a natural disposition to eat a mouse; yet, by the influence of education, a cat may be made to live with a mouse, without eating it. Leave a dog to bis natural inclinations, he would dart on his game, the instant he saw it, yet, after repeated castigations, he is taught, that it is more to bis interest to attend on the sportsman, notwithstanding the powerful indications of his organ of hunting. What child has not a natural inclination to indulge his sweet tooth by eating of cakes, and comfits?. Yet a good mother, with a rod, or a sage grey-hearded preceptor, teaches him to let cakes and comfits lie quiet, without so much as exciting his appetite. So does education triumph over the propensities of nature. The brain, which had appeared to many anatomists to be a medullary substance, void of functions and organization, appears to Dr. G. to be the seat of all our operations, he describes it as a tissue folded on itself, and susceptible of a general developement. This opinion is the result of a great number of observations on disorders of the brain. In cases of hydrocephalus (in which disease the brain is swelled, being filled with water), he has found the brain entirely unfolded, yet in this condition the patients have performed all the functions of reason as well as usual. A preacher, who died of hydrocephalus, three days before his death preached to an auditory which did not perceive that his sermon was Such is the abstracted report of Dr. Gall's inferior to his former. M. Richerand, had a first lecture, as it has reached us, from Paris. patient, whose brain was exposed by a re- If in the continuance of the course other cumoval of part of the bone of the cranium.rious matter should arise, we shall readily pay This eminent practitioner, desirous of in-it attention. vestigating the use of the brain in the func- Conscripts.-Paris, Feb. 11. In virtue of tions of life, contrived to press with his hand a Decree issued from the Palace of the Thuilth surface of this membrane: and he found,leries, on the 7th inst. 60,000 Conscripts that on his pressure, the intellectual faculties will be taken from the 80,000 called into service by authority of the Senatus Consultum, considerable sums of money, and purchase. German manufactures, particularly Saxon goods: there being an absolute dearth of, English articles. Unluckily, our warehousemen, not expecting such a visit, had furnished no great quantities of their goods. Those whose manufactories were within distance, sent for whatever was ready for sale, which was sold as soon as brought. No other foreign= New Translation of New Testament.--Among the books lately sold at Leipsic during the last fair, was a translation of the New Testament, by the two brothers d'Ess, of the order of St. Benoit, of which 10,000 copies have been sold in three months. of the 21st of last January. The remaining French Army in Spain.-Return of the French troops which have entered, or were to enter Spain, through Irun, from the 19th of October, 1807, to the 18th of January, 1808: HOLLAND. ́› Particulars of the late Storm at Amster" dam.-Amsterdam, Jan. 19. The violent' gale from N. N. E. on Jan. 15, Havlig caused the North Sea to rise, off Katwyck, to the extraordinary height of 17 feet above the customary water-mark of Amsterdam; the sea, south of this city, was soon filled, by its mouths, with an immense quantity of water. The Ya, which off Amsterdam, was at midnight only 4 inches above the usual mark, rose at six o'clock in the morning, nearly to 54 inchos; while, near Spaarndam, it was 41 inches above the same mark. As the tempest' continued, the tide rose off Amsterdam, at 10 o'clock in the morning, to 69 inches, and near Spaarndam, to 54 inches: at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, it was off Amsterdam 86 inches; and near Spaarndam, 84 inches' above the usual mark. All the suburbs of Amsterdam were under water. The wind. increasing in violence, having shifted more northwards, the waves entered with great force the lower docks. In several places between Spaarndam and Amsterdam, the waters Destruction of British Property.-Cas-overflowed the dykes, and they were stopped sel, Feb. 14. The Westphalian Moniteur contains the following article: The introduction of any kind of English commodities, is now forbidden throughout the whole kingdom and all public officers are to make the utmost exertions to carry the order into complete effect. On the 1st instant, several bales of English merchandize were seized at Marbourg, which were immediately publicly burnt, according to the Royal Ordinance. Scarcity of Commodities in Russia and Poland. The French papers report from Leipsic, under date of Jan. 14, that the Michaelmas fair at that city proved to be generally good; especially toward the close, when a number of Russian and Polish dealers arrived, and made considerable purclfases. It was therefore expected, that the new year's fair would prove perfectly insignificant. But since the commencement of the year, dealers from Russia and Poland, who seldom visited Leipsic, arrived daily. They have brought up with faggots. The works which defended the town against the sea, are considerably damaged. At half past nine, the tide was off Amsterdam, 69 inches; and near Spaarn dam, 64 inches above the mark; had decreased 20 inches. On the Yssel, near Gou da, the water rose at six o'clock in the morn ing of the 15th, to 114 inches above the usual mark of Ainsterdam. ITALY. day Dec. 24, 1807, the City of Naples pre- We should be much obliged to any of our correspondents, who having wintered at Na |