THE TEMPEST is the very whirlwind of ignorance.

An ingenious and reverend friend will receive our acknowledgements for his recent contributions; we are proud to number him in the list of our correspondents.

ALMYRA shall certainly find an early attention to her request.

Dr. Charles Fothergill is now enga- | the general assembly of Massachusetts ged in preparing a work for the press, Its wit is double edged, and we insert which can scarcely fail to excite very it with pleasure. general interest. With a view of clearing up some doubtful point in the Zoology of Great Britain, he last spring made a voyage to all the northern isles, comprehending the Orcades, Shetland, Fair Isle, and Fulda, and remained amongst them during the greatest part of the year, employed in the investigation of their natural history, antiquities, state of their agriculture and fisheries, political importance, manners, customs, condition, past and present state, &c. &c.;-a general and particular account of which, wih shortly be given to the public, accompanied by maps and numerous engravings; containing the fullest and completest description of those remote and hitherto neglected regions.

We have omitted for some time to notice the letters of APPELLANT in expectation of a farther example of his plan. The subject is too scientific to be treated in a desultory manner. It requires extensive learning, precision, and judgment. We fear he has not pursued it sufficiently in detail, to · give information to our readers, or ac quire honour for himself. He is howThe ninth edition of Mr. Spurr's Win-ever a good writer and on other topics ter in London, and the fourth of Miss we shall be happy to hear from him. Owenson's Wild Irish Girl, are in the press!!

A Sketch of the Black Empire of Hayti, from communications with the seat of its present government, will soon appear in an octavo volume.

An algebraical proof of Sir Isaac Newton's Binomial Theorem, which has been hitherto a desideratum in mathematics, has been lately discovered by Francis Burke, A. B. a Student in the University of Dublin. The dis covery has been honored with a distinguished premium from the board of Trinity College.

TIMOLEON should not be so strenuous, Suis et ipsa Roma viribus ruit.

ALEXIS is more at home on Machu

sett than Parnassus.

Of the almost numberless specimens of amatory verses and little sonnets that are forwarded every day to our office we are enabled to select but few that can gratify the correct taste which it is our ambition to please We are urgent with gentlemen of education and literature to ornament our columns, but while we extend a general invitation to all, we mean by no means to surrender A Latin poem on the Battle of our own judgment, or consent to indisTrafalgar, with an English prose trans-criminate publication. lation, will be published early this month.

The celebrated Canover has just finished at Rome a marble statue of Hebé which surpasses all his other works. The upper part of the goddess is represented naked, the rest of her body is covered with a drapery of the most exquisite lightness. She is represented as performing the office of cup-bearer at the table of the gods. The Sculptor intends making a copy of the statue in bronze.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

It is the most disagreeable of our tasks to reject the communications of our friends, but the poetical department of the Emerald has been ornamented with the flowers of fancy and genius, by some of the first writers in the United States, and we cannot associate their elegant communications with the half formed rhymes of every unfledged poet that chooses to gratify the cacoethis scribendi. We prefer good selection to indifferent originality but we earnestly request the communications of the intelligent and informed, and promise in the exercise of our judgment to unite liberality and candor.

Mediocribus esse poëtis

COLON'S PETITION is drafted more in the style of an orator in a court of Non homines, non dii, non consessere co

Chancery, than a humble petitioner to

lumne.

Trot.

Its hills, Dales, lawns and groves, and streams for cotton-mills;

Walks through plough'd fields, to circulate your blood.

Cosey. Curse country dirt;

Trot... And damn the London mud! I'm for green banks, far from the deaf'ning cries

Of Dust-ho! Matches! Muffins!
Sweep! Hot Pies!

E'en Sunday, though it checks the
week-day yell,

Can't save your ears from Milk! and
Mackarel!

Cosey. I'm for St. Mary Axe, remote
from sounds
[Hounds.
Of Bullocks, Mastiffs, Asses, Hogs, and
E'en Ploughmen, like their brutes, mar
Sunday's calm,

Taught, by their snuffling clerk, to twang a Psalm. Lgrow, As to your banks, however green they The Bank of England is the best I know. Trot. Vying with us, can town the country beat?

What are the London crops to cro wheat?

Your stocks yield cash; curs purish and sloth;

And we're secur'd by Government in m Cosey. With much the country chim the town compares;

'Change alley boasts not only bul's = bears;

In lieu of fallow deer, we've city bom And frequently (I grant they're ke we've ducks ;

While the west end of London owa breed of

More Rooks and Pigeons than the tw has need of.

Trot. No more of Londes les,

fogs, and smokes ! [Caks: Place me, say I, beneath my County) Where, while their leaves a surre shade dispense,

I cry, Hail, England's beauty and b fence !

Whose branches decorate our Whose trunks declare us Masters of the Main :

Doom'd by the axe to relate 50 They form the Wooden Walls of B tain's shore.

Cosey. Away with rural life! Al
of voids!

Place me, say I, among the folks
Lloyd's ;

Where, though with noise of business
almost stunn'd

I cry, Hail England's Patriotic Fund!
Whose store a Nation's opulence in

parts,
[hearts
Whose aim denotes a Nation's glowing
Blest Wealth! that gives our wounded
Tars relief,

Or soothes their Widow's and their
Orphans' grief.

Trot. Come, since the bulk of Brit

ons shew such spirit, Let's own both Town and Country haw their merit.

Cosey. Strike hands! Agreed! Let Englishmen ne'er doubt on't, But stick together, in the Town, or ost

ORIGINAL PAPERS.

FOR THE EMERALD.

THE WANDERER,

No. 84.

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WHERE or how the following ter came into the Wanderer's ssession can only be an inquiry useless curiosity. It is one of ge number which purport to be ritten by a Carolinian of education, a journey through the United ates, to his friend in Charleston, mmunicating with the freedom of endship the sentiments and obrvations of a traveller.

Boston,

on the canvass, to be penciled out
at pleasure, by the imagination of
I ex-
the disappointed beholder.
ulted in the reflection that almost
every artist of eminence in England
was a native of my own country,
and was displaying to foreign aina-
teurs that talent and ability, which
it was once contended Americans
could not possess. I felicitated my-
self that an art most intimately con-
nected with civilization and human-
ity was professed in so eminent a
degree in any part of my country,
and that a taste for the exquisite
productions of the pencil was diffus-
ing itself among our affluent citi-
zens.. How unreasonably do those
consider and speak of our country
who have pretended to see and des-
pise in us a contempt for the fine
arts and an inattention to profes-
sional eminence. Are they igno-
rant that luxury is always in the
rear of necessity, and that wealth
must be acquired before it can be
dissipated? It is not to be expected

.... In the morning we visited the
oms of that great master of the
encil, GEORGE G, STUART. My
Imiration was fully excited by that
eative power which gives anima-
on to the canvass, and by that mys-by reasonable minds that the coun-
rious art which preserving the try which three centuries ago was
ost correct likeness of features a wilderness, and less than half the
d form, sometimes presented them common age of man was a depend-
charms of beauty and elegance, ant colony, can now point the con-
yond the most sanguine expecta-noisseur to the stately orders of its
on of individual vanity. I was im- costly architecture, or the expensive
ressed too with the wayward ca-ornaments of the chissel or the pen.
riciousness of genius, which would cil. We have no grand national
equently design without deigning paintings which perpetuate the e-
› finish, and leave the most inter-pochs of our political history or the
sting sketch of the "human coun-increasing liberality and opulence
nance divine" just beginning, like of our citizens. As yet it is suffi-
rose-bud, to unfold its perfections cient that we advance far enough tọ

delight in the correct and elegant |tion of European amateurs; but

from the reputation of the artist and the beauty of the painting, as it strikes my untravelled eye, I should not fear to hazard it in comparison before a competent judge. It would not do to make an Italian the umpire as, in his partial eye, the fine arts are natives of his own soil; nor would it be more judicious to let one of our northern brothers decide, for they have equal partiality for their own productions, and however much they might be willing to

display of professional talents, although they are sometimes exerted in painting a head that is destitute of understanding, and giving immortality to a character which has nothing but wealth to preserve its perishable name. But the portrait painter, though he may sometimes exert his talents in representing a character that derives all claim to remembrance from the labour of his art, yet frequently preserves the countenance of those noble beings, whom society considers as benefac-depreciate the general character of tors, and human nature as orna- their country, would always claim ments. It is so in the present case. an exception for the little peninsula From this gallery of portraits we of Boston. They see no fault in went to the examination of a pic-this painting, and I hope it is not ture, which will convey to posterity attributable to southern prejudice if the best specimen of the painter's I do. The head of the General, ability in the almost living repre- however, appears, as you enter the sentation of that great and illustri-hall, too small in proportion to the ous character, whom the remotest body; I was assured in reply to this inhabitant of our soil will delight objection that the head is strictly to reverence as the guardian of his correct; and some learned explanacountry. A respectable citizen* has tions were made to show its extreme done honour to his own taste, and accuracy. It may be so. I remember given a noble evidence of patriotism that the commentators of Shakesand munificence, by presenting to peare had been pleased with his the town of Boston as a splendid very faults, and discovered beauties ornament for "the hall of liberty" a even in a blemish. Perhaps Stuart picture of WASHINGTON from the is equally fortunate. If this seems pencil of STUART. to you, to be cavilling, what do you say when I object to the design? Washington is placed in a fine atti

This is a most admirable painting. The General is represented in military dress standing on Dorches-tude, but he appears perfectly withter heights, [You know the connexion which these have with the history of the town,] his hat is in his right hand, and in his left the reins of a beautiful grey charger who is starting at the report of cannon in the rear. I do not know how the execution of this piece might be considered when compar-let- -But it is not my business to ed with the great originals of Italy and the chief d'ouvres in the collec

Samuel Parkman, Esquire, a merchant of large property.

out occupation: he is standing as if to have his picture taken, and not as a General should be placed. Why is he not employed? Let him be mounting-That would spoil his figure.Let him be preparing then, by putting on his hat; drawing on his glove-or if this is too trifling,

say what he should be doing; that is the duty of the painter :--for heaven's sake give him some employment; never put the leader of

an army in the ridiculous character of a comedian studying attitudes or as this appears, waiting till the picture is finished before he mounts his horse.

What Lord Kenyon properly denominated the "nice points of entangled equity," which now fell to the province of Lord Erskine to unravel, but so novel was the task Being in a humor for picture that it was a long time before he hunting, I adjourned with the could find the end. However the Messrs. P and the ladies who office was a post of such exalted had accompanied us from this spa- honour, such deep responsibility cious and elegant hall, where assi-awaited its occupant, and predecesduity is at continued war with gen-sors of such eminence were to be ius, to the splendid panorama of the rivalled, that he applied all the vigBattle of Lodi, painted by that ad- our of his intellectual nerves to the mirable young artist Kerr Porter, object and fortunately succeeded. and which has lately been removed Before he was complete master of to the vicinity of this town-It is the case which he was about to desufficient to state to you that we saw cide, sleep is said to have been a it, to give you an idea, of the pleas- stranger to his eye-lids. A long ure it afforded us. You were with acquaintance with the niceties of me, my friend, when we first viewed law, though it did not assist him to it in Philadelphia-repetition does determine, enabled him to comprenot produce satiety; every view hend with facility the niceties of discovers some unexpected excel-equity. All his preparatory legal lence, and the mind by continued knowledge was now impetuously examination will only be able to ap-turned into another course. preciate its beauties.

***.

(Concluded from page 307.)

A NOBLER era of his life now

It was

only necessary to direct the stream; its own strength would wear the channel in its progress.-Such Lord Erskine is represented to have been, and such it delights us to consider that he was. The oldest practitioners in chancery are said to have been astonished to find a Chancellor who in so short a time knew so little about his duty, so far surpass them who by a life spent in such researches knew so much. His Lord. ship is stated to have reformed many abuses in that Court, and particularly the one that Hamlet deemed an argument in justification of suicide, "the law's delay."

The desire of excelling competicommences. On the death of Mr.tion, so laudable when properly diPitt, an union was formed between rected seems here to have taken its the respective parties of Fox and Grenville, the consequence of which was an elevation of Mr. Erskine to the high and important office of Lord Chancellor of England.

proper course for indulgence. Erskine was equal to the task assigned him, here his ambition found itself at home. Without aspiring to universality of genius, he rested his