similar manner, and therefore swim naturally. When a person falls intoTM deep water, he generally rises to the surface, and continues there if he does not elevate his lands; or should he move his hands under water in any manner he pleases, his head will rise so high as to allow him free liberty to breathe; and if he moves his legs as in the act of walking (or rather as if walking up stairs) his shoulders will rise above water, so that he may use less exertion with his hands, or apply them to other purposes. These few plain directions are recommended to the attention of those who have not learned to swim, as they may be the means in many instances of preserving life. CESAREAN OPERATION.-Friday week, this operation was performed at Blackburn, on Betty Willock, of that town, by Mr. Bailey, surgeon, in presence of Dr. Martland, and Mr. Hardy, of Whalley, when two fine girls were extracted, who are still alive and likely to do well. The mother bore the operation with great fortitude, and her symptoms appeared very favourable until Saturday evening, when inflammation came on and terminated her existence in twenty-four hours.-Pottery Gazette. ORIGIN OF THE TERMS ATTORNEY AND SOLICITOR-In the time of our Saxon ancestors, says a work entitled Heraldic Anomalies, the freemen in every shire met twice a year, under the presidency of the shire reeve, or sheriff, and this meeting was called the Sheriff's Torn. By degrees, the freemen declined giving their personal attendance, and a freeman who did attend carried with him the proxies of such of his friends as could not appear. He who actually went to the Sheriff's Torn, was said, according to the old Saxon, to go to the Torn, and hence came the word attorney, which signified one that went to the Torn for others, carrying with him a power to act or vote for those who employed him. I do not conceive, continues the writer, that the attorney has any right to call himself a solicitor, but where he has business in a Court of Equity. If he chose to act more upon the principles of equity than of law, let him be a solicitor by all means, but not otherwise; for law and equity are very different things; neither of them very good, as overwhelmed with forms and technicalities: but upon the whole, equity is the best, if it were but for the name of the thing. TRICKS UPON GAOLERS.-We had made our arrangements to dig a basin. The Emperor was dressed in a large pair of trousers and a jacket, with an enormous hat made of straw of Bengal upon his head, and a kind of sandal to his feet. I followed him as he proceeded to a party of Chinese, whom he had sent for to assist us in the completion of our Jabours. We saw them examining us, laughing, and becoming less noisy as we advanced nearer to them. What is the matter with thein? What amuses them? It is perhaps my dress,”—“ Probably, Sir, they are surprised to see you dressed as a workman, like themselves." We had joined them, and they set to work, and continued working for some time, until at last mirth prevailed, and became so general that it reached the Emperor himself. What is it? what do they say "-Not one of us understood the Chinese, so that we were unable to answer him." It must be my costume that causes their mirth, and it is indeed odd enough. But with all their laughing they must not be burnt up by the heat: every one of them shall also have a straw hat, as a present from me."-The Emperor left us, and bent his steps towards a clump of trees. We thought he had gone for the purpose of seeking a little fresh air, when we saw him upon horseback, followed by his piqueur. He rode up and down for a few minutes, and then starting suddenly, he galloped to Deadwood. Having reached the summit of the mountain, he stopped, pointed his glass, looked round him, and came back as quickly as he had gone. This simple excursion immediately became an affair of State. A horseman had been seen dressed like a Chinese: how had he made his appear ance?-whence did he come ?-what was his business? The Governor could not possibly make it out. The Emperor, who was highly amused by his fears, took it into his head to increase them. For that purpose, he made Vignoli put on a dress similar to his own, gave him his horse, his piqueur, and his glass, ordering him to ride fast and appear to be making observations. The missionary went, was seen and noticed, and the tranquillity of the whole island was immediately disturbed. Signals were made; Hudson, Gorrequer, Reade, all instantly turned out and proceeded to Longwood. This was conspiracy-an attempt to carry off somebody......it was......Vignoli in disguise! The Governor confused, withdrew. I met him as he was going away. He came up to me, gave vent to his anger, and ended by declaring that the individual who thus laughed at his expense was only an Usurper." No doubt!" was my reply.-Last Days of Napoleon. CITY, I O'CLOCK.-Conds for Account opened at 90; but have since been dope at 90. in the Foreign Market there is nothing of any montent to notice. Brazilian 34. There is an advance in Continental Bonds, THE LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE, Aug. 1. Our arrivals of Grain last week were moderate, and this morning the fresh supplies of Wheat are tolerably good, but of other Grain not much has come up. Prime parcels of Wheat have been sold at 1s. and 2s, deduction from last week's prices, but other qualities cannot find sale, though offered from 2s. to 3s. lower than on last Monday. Barley is without any trade, but Beans continue to advance, being full 2s. dearer. Oats go off well at 1s. and 2s. advance on last Monday's prices, Red Wheat.... Boilers 42s 45s. 46s. 50s. Scotch Flour 48s. 53s. 38s. 44s. 23s, 25s. 24s. 29s. 24s. 29s. 23s. 28s. 55s, 65s. Aggregate Average Prices of the Twelve Maritime Districts of England and Wales, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated in Great Britain. Wheat per Quarter, 68s, 3d.-Barley, 35s. 11d.-Oats, 24s. 6d.-Rye, 40s. 10d.-Beans, 40s. 2d.-Pease, 42s. 3d. SMITHFIELD, Aug. 1. The Market opened rather better this morning, and the finest Beasts are quoted for sale at 4s. 8d. to 5s per stone. The coarser Beasts are from 4s. 2d to 4s 6d. The Mutton Trade is from 4s. 8d. to 5s. 'and' coarser Sheep and Exes, from 4s. 4d to 4s. 6d. Lamb, 6s. to 6s. 2d. ;* Calves, 4s. 6d. to 4s. 10d. Beef Mutton Beasts Sheep Hay To sink the Offal-per Stone of 8lbs. 4s. 4d. to 5s. Od. | Veal........... 4s.. 4d, to 5s. Od. Pork... Lamb 5s. Od. to 6s. Od. HEAD OF CATTLE THIS DAY. 2,537 Pigs 21,360 Calves.... 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LABOUR DEFENDED against the CLAIMS of CAPITAL; or "In the Author of this Pamphlet the labourers have found a scientific advocate. He has been very successful in pointing out the incorrectness of the owing to the demands of the capitalist. It ought to be read by all men whe received notions as to capital, and in proving that the labourer's poverty is labour either with their heads or their hands, and who think man somewhat a nobler being than the clod he treads on, or the instruments he makes." London: printed for Knight and Lacey, Paternoster row. London: printed by JonN HUNT, in Broad street, Golden square, and published by him at the Examiner Office 38 Tavistock street, Covent garden.-Priced. No. 914. MONDAY, AUG. 8, 1825. VELLUTI TO HIS REVILERS. ADVERTISEMENT. THE following verses were occasioned by the ungenerous personalities which two or three writers in the public journals allowed themselves to vent against Signor Velluti, on his arrival in England. The author, who is on the Continent, heard such interesting accounts at Florence of that unfortunate and accomplished person, of his amiable manners, his disinterestedness, bis pensive turn of mind, and his possession nevertheless of that willingness to please and be pleased, which gives so generous a character to melancholy, and renders it so superior to the ordinary weakness of misfortune, that he felt his sympathy very forcibly excited. He cannot but agree with the writers in question, that it would be better to have no more singers of this kind There is but one opinion on that point throughout England; but circumstances have shown (at least if the reports that reach the author at this distance be true) that the new cruelty of treatment with which they are threatened, is not the best mode of preventing their re-appearance. This good end might have been consulted to greater advantage by a behaviour at once firm and kind; by meeting the new come with an equal display of hostility to his public performance, and justice to his character. The time for this mode of proceeding seems now to be past. To load him personally with abuse, was no less impolitic than unfeeling. Gibbon said, in a note to his history, that there never was a better time for the abolition of the office of Poet Laureat, than when the holder of it was a man of genius: alluding to Thomas Warton. Upon the same principle it might be said, that there never was a better time to put an end to the re-appearance of Farinellis and Senesinos, than when the singer deserves all the tenderness that can be shown to his condition, and is sensible to the mortifications of it. But then the delicacy with which the good is effected, ought to be in proportion. A proper remonstrance might have had all that weight, both with Signor Velluti and his patrons, which by a contrary behaviour is thrown into the scale of their endeavours in his behalf. The best way perhaps of proceeding now is to afford him every possible facility, and to resolve that he shall be the last singer of his kid that shall have it. For the next we shall be better prepared. What is said, in the poem, of Signor Velluti's having been twice on the brink of ruin in his fortunes, is true. Nor is the mode in which he is represented as speaking of his faithful servant, less so. This person has been with him many years. On the second occasion, he was the salvation of his master's property. An English gentleman, in a conversation with Signor Velluti, telling him that he understood he had an excellent servant, who had been of great use to his affairs, "He ought not to be called a servant," said Velluti: "he is my friend." When a man of this nature is at a disadvantage with the rest of the world, who that deserves the common title of human being does not yearn to make it up to him? The verses are just what they pretend to be,-an effusion of the feelings at a moment. They deprecate comparison, both on this and other accounts, with more leisurely works of art. The triplets and Alexandrines, introduced with an abundance not common now-a-days, (though highly deserving attention at all times) appear to the author emphatically to belong to productions of this nature, in which impulse is every thing; and he was at no pains to baulk them, when they came in his way. VELLUTI TO HIS REVILERS. VELLUTI, the lara heart, the sexless voice, See the curst blow, to which I was beguil'd? O fate! what was I then? A rosy boy, Trusting in all things, radiant at a toy. What am I now? A shadow with lorn eyes; A toy myself, to hear and to despise. I own I felt a reverential fear Of English thoughts, when I was venturing here. I felt my soul look grave, and said-Are these I know not :--but I whisper'd-Manly thought I said, I will not, in a land so kind, I will not hurt one humbler innocence; I'll stay where I am known, and bar offence, I did so. Manly were the men indeed, What have I done? Could not these men have shown Say (for you can say) how, with your high frown O woman, by thy nature kind and good; Whom I must thank, whate'er the world may say ; Let them not, pitying sweetness, unsex thee! Women are never ignorant as men, For more or less they surely taste of pain: If in their pity some ideas intrude That force a thought of joy, 'tis fair and good: Love put the knowledge there, and grief shall bless. A dim desire, a sweetness hard to bear, Hangs ever on me, like a charmed air. 'Tis beauteous; 'tis a woe. My languid eyes Yet what is on the other side, I know But faintly only a sweet voice, and low; A woman's form; a beating heart like mine; Sectam meam exsecuta. See the poem of Atys, in Catullus. If the word is objected to, I am willing to shelter myself under the etymology which Doering considers fanciful.-Editio Lips. 1788. + See the poem of Atys, above-mentioned. Gibbon says, it is enough to fill a man with pity, an eunuch with despair."-In what sex are we o place those who feel neither like the one nor the other? I join my woman's cry; it turns my brain; With clapping hands receiv'd, and shouts between, Through the round raptures of an easy voice, Of cordial subtilty and rare delight. While yearning eyes, and words cut short, below, Till, with the passion pierc'd as with a dart, I feel the headlong impulse at my heart, And struck at once, down sliding, more than dove, O music, solace made for the bereav'd; And wise above disdain, finds balm in thee; And all whose wretchedness would fain divide Their aching thought with some sweet thought beside. The dark'ning King sat on his throne, and felt At thy caress his fiery eyeballs melt. With thee the Bard in his blind orbs withdrew; † The winds of Paradise his organ blew, And rais'd him to the angelic choirs, to hear A shake of his grey head confess'd the anholy wound. To name with their's my very miseries: Nay, and there's dignity in desperate cares. Alas! 'tis slavery to excuse thee so: Arise, my heart, and claim no second place in woe! I talk of triumphs in the theatre: The rottenest part of all the core is there. Sampson, is well known. What follows, alludes to the treatment of This anecdote of Handel, during the performance of the oratorio of Galileo by the Inquisitors. It was understood, from his behaviour and to the torture; though he kept the oath of secrecy which is always appearance after he came out of their hands, that he had been subjected administered. This illustrious philosopher was a passionate lover of poetry and music, and a performer on the lute. How, when admir'd on the resounding stage, Alone! alone! no cheek of love for me, (For that is love) :-no helpmate; no defence Not on the stage, not amidst heaps of eyes- Lo! in the church the pomps of this world meet And seem'd in weltering tears to weep away my heart. Go forth, my thoughts. Breathe me a little ease, Ye blowing airs; and take me, noble trees, I am not To your old arms, out of the crowd, and let Of some angelic, intellectual eye, I sit sometimes within the woods, and feign A spirit comes to soothe me in my pain; Nymph more than spirit, and of mortal birth; Something of shapely warmth, 'twixt heav'n and earth. I clasp her band at meeting, and embrace; The day before us dances in her face; And we sit down, and read, and play on lutes Past thinking of, and feed on rosy fruits, For love so high, so graceful, and so good, Oh curst be (not my parents, for they knew The wheel undone that whirls the strenuous blood, In all a child, as in his beardless chin; In all but the warm heart, that grows within. But young in age, as he in youth was old, And 'twixt my grave and this, pardon, ye sounds Of peace and love, and in your wonted rounds Take me again, and be to me whate'er Love would have been, and peace, and honourable care. I lean my cheek against ye, though ye be But air; for 'tis supporting air to me, My world, my wings, my rest, my shore at even, From which launch my thoughts, and dream, and glide to heaven Oh! though denied my birthright, and shut up In my own heart and with this thirsting cup; So the sweet share of nature left in me THEATRICAL EXAMINER. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. We know not whether we ought to make a brief article, simply to advert to the launch of a new operetta, under the title of Who's at Home? In truth, it is a very cock-boat; but we cannot affect the monstrous solemn tone of reproof of some of our contemporaries; for mirth-exciting it certainly is, although we will by no means take upon ourselves to assert, that the laughter may not occasionally be of that order which is produced by unexpected absurdity. Still we laugh; and laughter is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the human race divine. The story is briefly told: two lovers, Captain Stupely and the Widow Soluce, quarrel at Swansea, and the lady runs up to town, and the gentleman in pursuit of her. Their servants, who are also lovers, are respectively employed to hire apartments for them; and making up a silly story to the landlady, they actually engage the same apartments for both, with a view to bring them together; and the joke consists in each deeming the other a visitor. A silly old uncle is thrown in to produce a discovery; and the piece concludes with the absolute necessity of a marriage, to keep up the respectability of the lodging house. WRENCH acted the swain with his usual whimsicality, and Miss KELLY, the maid-servant to the life. The widow was too meagre a part to afford much opportunity to Miss GRAY; and to poor BARTLEY was assigned the part of a prudish old |