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Foreign Intelligence.-Domestic Affairs.
Chronicle.

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

but was continued in his sacred functions as High Priest of the famous Hindoo Temple of Captain Hall, of the Lyra, is arrived from Jaggernaut, at no great distance from Cuttack, Madras, with dispatches from the governor, Mr on the same coast. Jugbundoo had been BuckElliot, announcing the breaking out of a new shee, which, in its literal meaning, is " paymaswar in India. Captain Hall had been sent from ter," but virtually Prime Minister, under the Calcutta with dispatches from the Marquis of dethroned Rajah. To march on Jaggernaut Hastings, but, on touching at Madras, was seems to have been the military object of Jug. stopped, for the purpose of bringing a commu- bundoo. To get possession of the Rajah, and nication to government of a general hostile con- to restore his sovereignty, were apparently the federacy among the Mahrattas. Mr Elphin- political motives of his enterprise. In the mean stone, the British Resident at Poonah, having time troops were sent against the insurgents from long suspected the intentions of the Peshwa, had Bengal. Two or three of our detachments met put our troops in the vicinity of that place on the them, and notwithstanding an immense disparialert; and only a few days elapsed from the ty of numbers, fought their way through in safe. commencement of hostilities, when they sur-ty. The importance attached to this occupation rounded Poonab, secured the person of the Pesh- of one of our provinces by a hostile force, may wa, and compelled him to accede to the terms be judged of from the fact, that the regiments offered to him, and to give up three of his forts. ordered to act against them were dispatched from This event is said to have taken place about the Midnapoor, within seventy miles of Calcutta ; 8th of May. The leader of the Mahrattas in and that a portion of the Governor-General's the Peshwa's dominions is Trimburjee, a man body guard was moved from Barrackpoor, only well known to all acquainted with our affairs in sixteen miles from that capital. Sir G. Martinthat part of the world. Hostilities had also been gale had arrived at Midnapoor to take the comcommenced in the province of Cuttack, and the mand of the troops, and sanguine hopes were communication by land between Madras and entertained that the insurrection would soon be Calcutta had been interrupted for three weeks put an end to. previous to Captain Hall's departure from Madras. Ceindia Meer Khan were expected to declare themselves against us forthwith, and the war was expected to be on the most extensive scale. No accounts had been received relative to Holkar. Sir J. Malcolm had been to Calcutta, and had returned to Madras to assume a very important command. The Marquis of Hast ings and Mr Elliot were both occupied in the most extensive military preparations for the prompt overthrow of this formidable confederacy. Captain Hall left Culcutta on the 19th of April; Madras on the 1st of June; and St Helena on the 14th of August.

Scarcely any light is thrown by the official narratives in the Madras paper, on the actual relations between the government of Lord Hastings and the Mahratta chiefs. There is a report that the troops of Holkar are in a state of insubordination from want of pay, and that Meer Khan was meditating a speedy invasion of Jyepoor. The name of the Peshwa is not mentioned in these papers; and the only allusion to the subsidiary forth at Poonah, is in an order of the day from Colonel Smith, its commanding officer, thanking a detachment of that corps for its services against a body of predatory horse which had appeared, to the amount of 4000 men, within a few days march of his head-quar. ters. Private letters, however, speak of the successful negociation of Mr Elphinstone with the Peshwa, after having seized his person. But the circumstance principally dwelt upon in the accounts is the disturbance on the eastern coast, in Cuttack, and the neighbouring districts. Early in March, intelligence was received at Cuttack, that a body of Mahrattas had entered the district of Khoorda, in the same province, through Goomsur, on the side of the Mahratta frontier. Many thousands of the inhabitants joined these invaders, who acknowledged for their general a person of the name of Jugbundoo. The district of Khoorda had been a conquest of the British about the year 1803. Its Mahratta Rajah was dispossessed of his dominion,

It is gratifying to be able to assure our readers, that every fresh account from America affords reason to believe that the desire to be on the most friendly footing with Great Britain animates more and more the councils of the American government. Prejudices are rapidly giv. ing way to wiser views of the true interests and policy of both countries; and we have every reason to believe, that all the discussions and negociations between the two governments will terminate to the satisfaction of both.

There has been an inundation of documents and rumours from South America, but they are chiefly of a doubtful and contradictory character. In Mexico it is said that a more extended rising has taken place--that the independents had been successful in two engagements in Venezuela that an expedition of citizens from the United States had been defeated with considerable loss

that Sir G. M'Gregor had left Amelia Island for the purpose of collecting fresh forces-and that the Spanish officer who had taken Barcelona, and put every one of its inhabitants to the sword, had been lately beaten by General Zaraza, who besides surprised a Spanish garrison of 250 men in the town of San Diego. This war spreads misery all around; there is no trade, nor even cultivation; famine, perhaps, will be the consequence. Both parties butcher their prisoners very frequently; even women and children are not exempt from the general destruction when in any manner connected with the contending parties. General Count Clausel and General Lefebvre Desnouettes, have sailed from Philadelphia with a ship-load of passengers bound to Mobile. Marshal Grouchy, the two Generals Lallemand, Generals Vandamme, Labanal, Penniers, Garnier le Saintes, Count Real, &c. are at the head of this enterprise. Supplies of all kinds are still going out from this country for the Spanish independents. Several hundred adventurers, some of them of good connections, are about to sail from the Thames. Three thousand stand of arms, with infantry and cavalry equipments, are among the recent exports; and seve

ral thousand pairs of boots and shoes have been
ordered. It has, in the mean time, been signi-
fied, from authority, that any British officer who
enters into the service, will be struck off the half-
pay list.
Advices have been received from the
Brazils of the 3d August, communicating the im-
portant intelligence, that the Brazilian Govern-
ment had sent off orders for the evacuation of
Monte Video.

A rumour of hostilities between Spain and Portugal has lately prevailed; and it is said that a Spanish army has approached the frontiers. It is added, however, that the five great powers will not suffer the general peace to be disturbed. The Emperor of Russia has sold some of his ships of war to Spain for certain territorial possessions. It is added, the differences between Russia and the Porte are declared to be satisfactorily adjusted, the affair of Czerni George explained, and a new line of frontier agreed upon.

The Dey of Algiers has been deposed and strangled by a mutinous body of 600 soldiers.

The King of Wirtemberg, unable to agree with the states of his kingdom, intends putting forth a budget of his own, rendered necessary by the lowness of his finances.

Much political discontent seems to be growing up at Berlin, and other parts of Prussia. Societies are forming in various cities, with a view of procuring a constitution founded on principles of liberty, as promised them when the country was effecting its deliverance from France.

The people of Sicily are likewise dissatisfied: from the same cause. The representative system established in that island by English influence, has since been abolished by the King, and arbitrary dominion restored. In Sicily, as in Spain, what was achieved by the British arms for the benefit of the sovereign, has proved durable-what was accomplished for the liberty of the people has vanished.

Young Napoleon Bonaparte, according to the foreign journals, is marked out for the church; and hereafter to be made Archbishop Primate of Ratisbon, and Archdeacon of the German empire, if political events should not alter his destiny.

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.

London, November 3. His Majesty's health continues good, his appetite remains unimpaired, and his sleep sound and uninterrupted. Seven years have elapsed since his Majesty last appeared in public.

Her Majesty sets off for Bath at eight o'clock on Monday morning.

We have again to announce an improvement in the excise revenue. The receipt for the last week was £.220,000 more than the corresponding week last year. The increase was chiefly upon malt and salt. Up to the 4th of July last, the sinking fund had redeemed of the debt of Great Britain, £.348,185,141.9.1. The Irish debt redeemed is £.9,249,840.

The Bank of England has announced its intention to pay cash, after the 1st of October, for all their notes dated prior to January 1st 1817. This is another advancement to general cash payments made before the time required by Parliament; but it will not bring much more

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than two millions of cash into circulation. The aggregate amount of the bank of England notes and post bills, on the 30th December 1816, amounted to £.24,654,150.

At the last Liecester county-sessions, the magistrates came to the resolution of establishing savings banks for the county. At the late quarterly meeting of the Hertfordshire savings bank, a statement of the flourishing state of the institution was presented, when it appeared that deposits to the amount of nearly £.9.600 have been received since the 30th March 1816.

The following are the progressive advances of the receipts of the last eight Birmingham Musical Festivals:

The expense of the proposed Hammersmithbridge over the river Thames, which will be 600 feet, is estimated at £.50,000, and that of the designed gigantic structure, the East Lon. don, or bridge of Trafalgar, at Rotherhithe, tho' its chord will be 3400 feet, and its altitude, to allow ships to sail beneath it, will probably be 110 feet above the tide at high water, is reckoned not to exceed the sum of £.360,000. The latter will consist of three arches, of 350 feet each, over the water, and eight others, of more than 300 feet each, on an average, over the land on each side.

A public meeting was latety held in Carlisle for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of cutting a canal between Carlisle and the west sea. A subscription was entered into to defray the expense of a survey.

An explosion of fire-damp lately took place in Shropshire, when nine men and three boys were severely burnt.

At a late special assembly of the corporation of Norwich, a piece of plate, value 25 guineas, was voted to Dr Rigby and his lady, as a memorial of the remarkable birth of their four children : the event is to be recorded in the city books, and inscribed with the names of the children on the plate.

A Mr Bartlett has left, by his will, the interest of the bulk of his fortune, amounting to about £.800 annually, to the Hants and Wilts❘ infirmaries.

It is stated in a London paper, that the followers of Joanna Southcot still believe in the truth of her pretended prophecies, and that on Tuesday week about 100 of them, including 18 women, assembled in a wood near Sydenham, in Kent, and burnt a black pig (which they had brought with them in a sack alive, and each struck a blow on the head) to ashes, as a type of the binding and burning of Satan.

The state trials held by special commission at Derby, terminated on the 25th October, when Jeremiah Brandreth, called the Nottingham captain, Welham Turner, Isaac Ludlam the elder, and George Wightman, were found guilty of high treason. Nine others having withdrawn their plea of Not Guilty, also received sentence of death; but on an understanding that their punishment is to be commuted. Fourteen were acquitted, in consequence of the Attorney General declining to prosecute further. These deluded men having assembled in arms, threatened death to every person who did not give up their

Chronicle:-Domestic Affairs.

guns, and join in an attack upon some manufac
tories and the town of Nottingham.-Brandreth
fired into a house, and shot a man. They talk-
ed everywhere of a general rising, and of the
resolution to overturn the government.

Thomas Armstrong, for setting fire to his fac-
tory, and Jenny Chatham, with three others, for
uttering forged notes, were lately executed at
Lancaster, making eleven persons who have suf-
fered the sentence of death at the late Assizes,
six of them for murder.

A melancholy case of the death of a little boy, in the act of sweeping a chimney, has just taken place at St. Pancras. The jury returned a verdict of" died from suffocation, thro' the culpable neglect of his master." Humanity appears to be totally extinguished in the breasts of most of the masters of these poor children. The attention of the legislature has been for some time directed to this horrid practice, and, it is hoped, that this fresh instance of barbarity will contri bute to put an end to it.

John Ashley, (left for execution at the last Somerset Assizes, for forging a Waterloo ticket), and 16 other capital convicts, have been removed to the Justitia hulk on the Thames, and are all to be transported for life. Ashley was in the engagement as a marine when Admiral Duncan captured the Dutch fleet; and was one of the chosen band who carried the trophies taken in that engagement to St. Paul's. He afterwards became a soldier in the 4th regiment, and was with the Duke of York in Holland, where he formed one of the 42 that were sent to relieve his Royal Highness, at the time his horse was unable to pass a certain dyke. He was in the whole of the campaign with Gen. Moore, and with him when he fell at Corunna. He was at Copenhagen and Walcheren; and again through the Peninsula with Wellington, being at the battles of Barossa and Salamanca ; at the sieges of Badajos, Bayonne, and many others. He was then drafted for America; was at the burning and sacking of Washington, with Gen. Ross. He came home, and on the 8th day embarked for service at Dover; he landed at Ostend, and arrived in the neighbourhood of Waterloo on the evening of the 16th, lay on his arms all night, formed in the morning early, and got on the plains of Waterloo; he fought on the 18th, until pierced with five musket shots, when he fell, and was removed, with others, to the Elizabeth Hospital at Brussels, where he remained three months.

It must have been too apparent of late, that scarcely a newspaper is published without some criminal offence to stain its pages, but especially the horrid crime of murder. From whatever cause this dark catalogue may proceed, it is undeniably a disgrace to the kingdom at large, which the utmost efforts, both public and private, should be employed to remove. France bears the nearest proportion of any country to Eng-❘ land in the point of general erimes; but even she, demoralized as she is, is comparatively free from such atrocious and deliberate murders as are continually occurring in this moral and Christian land.-Courier.

William Pattison, Esq. has been appointed baron bailie of Easter and Wester Portsburgh, and Alexander Berwick, and George Gordon, Esqrs. have been appointed bailies of Canongate ; and William Thorburn, William Waddell, and Robert Coldstream, Esqrs. bailies of Leith.

Thursday se'nnight the second new wet dock at Leith was opened for business. The dock

men.

[November 8, 1817.

was entered by the Tug steam-boat towing in the London smack Hawk, on board of which vessel were the Right Hon. the Lord Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh, and Magistrates of Leith, accompanied by the Right Hon. William Dundas, M. P. and several other gentleThe vessels entered in grand style, amidst the plaudits of a numerous assemblage. Meetings of several of the corporations of Edinburgh have been held to consider the present constitution of the city, and resolutions entered into, approving of the measures lately adopted by the northern burghs, and committees appointed to co-operate with the other public bodies, to obtain a more extended system of election.

The Magistrates and Council of Musselburgh called a meeting on Tuesday se'ennight, of the feuars and burgesses of that place, to consider of the propriety of applying to the Prince Re gent for a new set for that burgh. The magistrates observe, "That however applicable and beneficial the same might have been to the town' in ancient times, it does not now appear adapted for the present state of society, and the interest and advantage of the town; and considering the conduct of the burghs of Dundee and Montrose, the magistrates and council are desirous, in concurrence with the feuars and burgesses, to apply to the Prince Regent for such alterations in the mode of electing the bailies and council of the said burgh, as may remove all cause of complaint." The meeting was numerous and respectable. Bailie Young was called to the chair. A committee from the council, incorporations, and principal inhabitants, was chosen to draw up a new set for the burgh, and to lay the same before another general meeting of the burgesses for their approbation. The thanks of the meeting was unanimously voted to the magistrates for calling the burgesses together, and for the liberal and handsome manner with which they entered into the measure.

James Tytler of Woodhouselee, Esq. has granted a presentation to the Rev. Alexander Torrance, to be assistant and successor to his father, in the parish of Woodhouselee, and Glencarse.

The Provincial synod of Perth and Stirling met, on Tuesday seʼennight, in the west church of Perth. Dr Irvine of Little Dunkeld, moderator. The only business of importance before the synod was a protest, from Dr Wright, Mark. inch, and Mr Small of Stair, against the proceedings of the presbytery of Stirling, in the induction of Mr Archibald Bruce to be third minister in that town, in so far as the reverend presbytery refused to receive the protest of Dr Wright and Mr Small against said induction. The presbytery of Stirling having failed to appear at the bar, and having refused to the complainers extracts from their records, the synod found, that although there was no full legal document of the proceedings of said presbytery before them, yet, from the ex parte statement, as well as from all the circumstances of the case, the proceedings of the presbytery appeared to that synod to have been irregular; and therefore the synd enjoined the presbytery of Stirling to appear at the bar of next synod, to be held at Stirling in April ensuing, and to furnish extracts of all their proceedings in said case.

In a general meeting of the county of Fife on the 17th instant, it was unanimously resolved to repress the increase of vagrants and beggars in that county.

The counties of Ayr and Renfrew, and the

Commercial and Shipping Intelligence-Births-Marriages-Deaths.

works, and persons employed on the dock-wall,
to descend with their provisions daily, and con.
tinue their labours until a little before dusk.

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Deaths-Markets-High Water at Leith.

VI.; and, in consequence of a marriage with a ter, he engaged in a paper war relative to the
rich heiress, several large estates accrued to his slave trade-in the disputes concerning Warren
descendants,-who also attained considerable Hastings' conduct in India and in the political
wealth by alliances with the families of the squables between the two great parties in Par-
Earls of Derby, Powis, Shrewsbury, &c.liament. We wish it could be added, that he
Sir John Arundel, knight of the Bath, who had always taken the part prescribed by jus-
was beheaded in 1552, for conspiring the death tice, and a love of liberty; yet there was an
of John Dudley, duke of Northumberland, also apology perhaps, but certainly no excuse, in the
brought an ample estate to his family, by his wants of a young and increasing family, who
marriage with Margaret, daughter and co-heir had no other means of support than what pro-
of Lord Edward Howard, third son of Thomas ceeded from the labours of their father's pen.-
duke of Norfolk, and sister to Queen Catherine, He was seventy-one at the time of his decease.
fifth wife of Henry VIII., The family was en-
nobled in the person of Thomas first Lord Arun-
del, in 1605. James Everard Arundel was born
March 4, 1763; and succeeded his first cousin,
Henry, the late lord, Dec. 4, 1808. In 1783 he
married Mary Christiana, eldest daughter of
Henry Arundel, the late lord-by whom he has
left issue: he has also issue by a second wife.
Being of the Roman Catholic persuasion, he was
excluded both from Parliament and any employ.join the expedition, returned to Sierra Leone,
ment in the service of his country. His lordship,
a man of amiable manners, died at Bath, July
14, 1817, in his 54th year.

In Africa, Capt. Campbell, the able and zealous commander of the late unfortunate expedition to explore the interior of Africa. A letter from Sierra Leone states, that Captain Campbell was reported to have died of a broken heart, and that the expedition was in consequence expected to return. The second naval officer in command, who had been left at Sierra Leone on account of ill-health, but was recovered and on his way to

hearing of Captain Campbell's death, to consult
the governor, upon the future conduct of the ex-
pedition. We suspect these expeditions were
unprovided with air-balloons, with which to re-
connoitre fifty or sixty miles around.

At Madrid, after a short illness, the wife of
Bartholomew Frere, Esq. secretary of embassy
at the Ottoman Porte. Her marriage had been
solemnized by proxy, according to the usual
forms; but Mr Frere, having been detained at
Constantinople by the business of the embassy,
during Sir Robert Liston's absence, never saw
her since their union.

At Amsterdam, the Dowager Marchioness of Sligo: her ladyship was expecting in that city Sir William Scott from Switzerland, in order to return with him to England. She was the youngest daughter and co-heiress of the late Earl Howe. In 1787 she was married to the late

present marquis; and to her second husband,
Sir W. Scott, about five years since. Her lady-
ship was in the remainder of the Barony of
Howe, now possessed by her eldest sister, mar-
ried to the Hon. Pen. Asheton Curzon. This
lady possessed many literary accomplishments.

William Thomson, LL.D. This indefatigable Scottish author was a native of Perthshire, and received the first rudiments of his education at a little provincial school, whence he was removed to the chief town in the county. Soon after this he was sent to the University of St Andrews, and was the contemporary and class-fellow of Lord Erskine; he afterwards became the contemporary of Mr Dugald Stewart at Edinburgh. As his family was unable any longer to support the expense of his education, it was his good fortune, while at St Andrews, to obtain the patronage of the late Earl of Kinnoul, a nobleman who possessed a fine taste for literature, and was desirous to encourage men of merit. At the age of eighteen he was received into the family at Duplin, in quality of libra-Marquis of Sligo, by whom she had a son, the rian, and was destined by his patron for the church. Having been ordained, he was appointed assistant to an aged clergyman, with a tolerable salary, and soon after he became a member of the General Assembly. But Mr Thomson suddenly left Scotland, and repaired to Lon don; where he engaged in literary pursuits, and The celebrated General Kosciusko, at Soleure, to such an extent, and on such various subjects, on the 15th of October, closing, by a peaceable that he was uninterruptedly employed for many death, a life full of virtues and brilliant with years in the composition of treatises on law, di- glory. He had lived some time in a tranquil vinity, history, and metaphysics: novels, ro- retreat, where he had become an interesting obmances, voyages, and travels, were also occa-ject of respect and veneration, surrounded by sionally undertaken by him; and, with an exception to poetry alone, every other known mode of writing was practised by him in succession. He was also frequently employed in revising the labours of others; in harmonizing discordant materials; in arranging obscure ma. nuscripts; or in composing works for the press from loose and desultory materials-some of which were afterwards published under the names of those who wished to be deemed authors at a small expence of pains. The first work in which Mr Thomson engaged was a continuation of the history of Philip III., which obtained for him the degree of LL.D. from the University of Glasgow; and the success attendant on his labours, upon this occasion, tended not a little to produce both celebrity and literary employment during the greater part of his life. In addition to what has been already mentioped, it may not be unnecessary to state, that employed as a critic, as a and as a reporter of

Drvomeon
er for the newspapers,

some faithful friends, and the poor, of whom he
was a constant benefactor. He had recommend.
ed that the greatest simplicity should be observ.
ed at his funeral, and ordered that his remains
should be borne by the poor.

MARKETS,

Haddington, Oct. 31.

A good supply of wheat in market; which sold briskly; prices considerably higher than last day; best old 45s. current prices from 37s. to 43; best new ditto 50s, current prices from 338. to 47s. Barley 2s. higher than last day; best 36s. current prices from 27s. to 34s. Oats Is. lower than last day; best 29s. current prices from 21 to 28s. Fease and Beans from 259. to 29s.

Wheat. Barley.
First 50s Od 36s Od
Second 42s Od
Third 38s Od

Price of Butcher Meat, &c.-Nov. 4.
s. d. 8. d.
Beef, lb. 0 4 a 0
Mutton, 04 a 0 7
Veal,.. 10 a 0 12
Pork,.. 05 a 0 6
Lamb, qr. 2 0 a 2 6
Tallow,st.11 a 11 6
Hides, .60 a 7 0
Calf Sk.lb.0 7 a 0 8
Sheep sk. 3 0 a 40
Lamb sk. 26 a 0 0

peck of 281b.0 8 a 00

..

Weigh House. Butter, lb. 0 0 a 14 Salt, do. lb. 0 0 a 14 Do. st...... 0 0 a 21 0 Eggs,hund.0 0 a 12 2 Do. doz.... 0 0 a 10 November 5.

There were 942 sheep in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh, this morning; which sold at from 10s. to 27s. per head, (some left unsold.) There were also 168 black cattle in the market, which sold at from 6s. to 7s. 6d. per stone, sinking offals (fat sold brisk.)

Edinburgh Corn Market, Oct. 29. We had a short supply of all kinds of grain to-day, and sales in general quick, and on the advance. Top price of wheat Is. lower than last, but averages considerably dearer; best 51s. current 40s. to 50. Barley 26s. to 33s. Oats 25s. to 30s. Pease and Beans 24s. to 30s. Barley Oats. Pease.

Wheat.
First 51s Od
Secd. 45s Od
Third 40s Od

Beans

33s Od 30s 6d
29s Od | 27s 6d
26s Od

30s Od

30s Od

25s Od

M. 10

2 46

3 7

Days
Sa. 15
Su. 16
Mo. 17

Morn. Even. H. M. H. M. 7 27 37

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Tu. 18 10 28 10 54

Journal of an Excursion to Loch Katrine, by the Western Highlands of Perthshire.

(Concluded from page 100.)

THE shadows of night were beginning to thicken over us, as we entered Callander. Having passed through a neat, slated street, we came to the com'modious inn, erected for the better accommodation of the many travellers who visit the lakes, by Francis MacNab, Esq., where we had an excellent supper, and enjoyed a sound sleep, after the fatiguing march of the day.

Tuesday 25th. After inserting our names in the album of the inn, and purchasing copies of a small work on the scenery near Callander, we set out, at half past seven, to visit Bracklinn's thundering wave," which the pamphlet just mentioned gives an enticing and magnificent discription of: it was especially so to us-hunters in search of the picturesque. We accordingly passed across some grass parks, and after scaling some inclosures, and thrust

ing ourselves through a very thickly planted oak and fir wood, the whole up hill, we came to the valley, where this grand object was to be seen; the

bridge is obscured, until we are close upon it, by fine, old spreading trees, while many and immense spicule of rock present themselves to block up the pathway, and obstruct the approach of visitors. This, however, did not lower

Bracklinn in our estimation:-the Cer

berus of Acheron, and the Dragon of Hesperides no doubt occurred to mind, with the moral maxim, that nothing truly great is to be accomplished, without great labour; the period, we imagined, might be rendered at least more sonorous, by adding,-nor any thing truly magnificent in nature to be seen, without bodily exertion. N. B. Mr. Brydone sprained his ancle on Mount Etna. Our obstacles were luckily overcome, however, without such, or any similar occurrence; and we gained the bridge; but what reality could surpass

PRICE 1S.

the following description." The very time after, of a handsome range of of-
act of looking down when there is a fices appertaining to it, and in the Go-
flood in the water, must appal a stran- thic style; on the left, a fine range of
ger, unless his nerves be uncommonly stables, with a clock, overhung by a
strong, by reason of the altitude of his turret, in the form of a Turkish mina-
of the ravine on either hand, the wind- high state of cultivation, but there was
situation, the deepness and narrowness ret. The country around was in a
around him, the blackness of the pools Downe castle appeared. Arrived at
ings of the glen, the gloomy precipices nothing more to arrest attention, until
below, and the roaring of the different Downe about half past twelve. Schil-
and successive falls." Every one has ler, in his terrible tragedy of the Rob.
felt, that, when expectation is raised too bers, has depicted an old man, preying
high, we are so much the more liable for hunger on his own arm; and ac-
to be disappointed,-such were ours, cording to the opinion of some physio-
and such was the result: it was prov-logists, hunger is caused, by the opera-
ed, that there are strangers of stronger tion of the gastric juice, on the empty
nerves than the above writer is aware stomach; but, whatever its effects have
of. In our opinion, it is inferior to the been, or whatever its cause may be,
waterfall near Loch-Earne-head, which we, at this time, in no small degree,
several travelling tours have not even felt the cravings of nature, which we
condescended to mention.
Bracklinn, with the idea, that we had quant. suff. of toast, tea, and eggs.
We left at last satisfied, by rather more than a
paid too dear for our whistles, and, We were delayed till two o'clock by
the road to Downe, which lay about ning to clear, we again set forward, and
by a nearer way, we again entered on the rain, at which time, the sky begin-
six miles distant. The first object that when about a half mile from the town
riding hastily to Callander, of a charac- noble appearance declared it to have
presented itself to us was the postman, we approximated Downe castle, whose
ter, or, at least, in a condition very dif- been once put to nobler purposes than
ble Cowper. With his bag full of let- Lloyd's sonnet, on Craigmillar castle,
ferent from the delineation of the amia- its present-a cow-house!-Charles
ters, and his heart full of joy, he stop-arose to my recollection, for here
ped short to inform us, that Bonaparte
had surrendered himself to Captain
Maitland of the Bellerophon, or, as he
called it, the belle ruffian; to find the
derivation of which term, would puzzle
antiquaries a little more, than that of
the belle sauvage. We next had a
view, on our right, of the beautiful seat
of Sir John Murray; and, in a short

Scenery near Callander, p. 9.
Vide the Whistle, by Dr. Franklin.
A very beautiful woman, who was
found in a wilderness, and is called in, the
French, La Belle Sauvage." Spectator, No.
28. It has, however, been since asserted,

that the sign of the Bell Savage Inn was in-
tended as a rebus on the name of a lady,
whose property it was,-Lady Arabella Sa-
vage. Vide the curious article, Appellation,
in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia.

-the rent watchtow'r bowed its grassy head,

The dark damp caverns breath'd mysterious dread,

Haply still foul with tinct of ancient crime

Proud tow'r thy halls now stable the lean herd,

And musing Mercy smiles that such thou art!"

It is surrounded by fine trees, and verdant banks, resting on which, we took a sketch of it, from the south west. The road ascending a little, we enjoyed the beautiful prospect around us :-the blue mountains upheaved their gigantic

Poems by S. T. Coleridge, C. Lloyd, and · C. Lamb, 1798, Sec. Edit.