Mr Murray's Elements of Chemical Science will be published in London about the middle of June.

In the ensuing month will be published, a collection of Critical Tracts on English Poetry, by Gascoigne, Webbe, Harington, Campion, &c. &c. edited by Mr Haslewood.

An account is announced of the Literary and Scientific Pursuits which are encouraged and enforced in the University of Cambridge, with various Notes, by the Rev. Latham Wainewright, of Emmanuel College. A uniform edition is published of the Poetical works of the Right Hon. Lord Byron, in 4 vols. small 8vo.

Letters from a Medical Officer attached to the Army under the Duke of Wellington, during the Campaigns of 1812-13-14, addressed to a Friend in England, are printing in an 8vo. volume.

Capt. Algernon Langton's translation from the Spanish of the Life and Adventures of the Squire Marcon d'Obregon, is in forwardness.

Mr Black is translating from the German, and will shortly publish, Schlegel's Course of Dramatic Lectures, in 2 vols. 8vo.

The number of stamps for Newspapers issued in the three months ending the 1st of May, 1814, was 6,677,127, producing £.97,374" 15" 11; and in the three months ending the 1st of February, 1815, was 5,890,671, yielding £.85,905, 12, 4; making about 25 millions of papers per annum, or nearly half a million per week, among about 200 several publications in the week, or 1250 each on the average. But as the Morning Chronicle, Morning Advertiser, Times, and Courier, together, print 90,000 per week, and all the other London papers print as many more; the 100 Country papers divide but 70,000 among them, or average but 700 copies.

The following summary of the members of the University of Oxford in 1815, will serve to shew the pre

1. Trinity College......407......922 2. St John's College....306......683 3. Emmanuel College... 80......170 4. Jesus College... 51.162 5. Queen's College..... 56......143 6. Trinity Hall......... 24......131 7. Caius College. 59.126 8. Christ College....... 45......113 9. Pembroke Hall...... 30......102 10. Clare Hall............ 37...... 98 11. St Peter's College... 40...... 87 12. King's College...... 60...... 86. 13. Magdalen College... 35. 73 14. Sidney College 24...... 73

15. Bene't College....... 20...... 7) 16. Catherine Hall...... 16...... 56 17. Downing College... 7...... 8 18. Oppidants..... 4...... 0

Total.........1301 3104

Total members on the boards in the following years, at Cambridge :

1748..............1500

1804..............2122

1814..............2950

1815..............3104

At Mr Edwards' late sale, the Bedford Missal was bought by the Marquis of Blandford for £.687, 15, and the splendid copy, on vellum, of the first edition of Livy, Romæ 1469, was purchased by Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, bart. for £.903.

gor Stirling has in the press an historical and statistical work (illustrated by engravings, one of them the effigy of a red-cross knight) to be entitled, Priory of Inchmahome. The chartulary of this ancient religious house, of the order of St Augustine, situated in a romantic island in the lake which bears its name, on the south-western extremity of Perthshire, is supposed to have been destroyed; but Mr Stirling has been fortunate in procuring various documents, hitherto unpublished, which not only throw light on its history, but illustrate ancient manners.

Hebrew Melodies, &c.; by LonD BYRON. IT IS THE HOUR.

IT is the hour, when from the boughs

The Nightingale's high note is heard;
It is the hour, when lovers' vows
Seem sweet in every whisper'd word;
And gentle winds, and waters near,
Make music to the lonely ear:

Each flower the dew hath lightly wet,
And in the sky the stars are met;
And on the wave is deeper blue,
And on the leaf a browner hue;

And in the heaven, that clear obscure,
So softly dark, and darkly pure,
That follows the decline of day,
When twilight melts beneath the moon
away.

THE HARP. I.

The harp the minstrel monarch swept,
The king of men, the loved of heaven;
Which music hallowed while she wept,
O'er tones her heart of hearts had given,
Redoubled be her tears, its chords are riven;
It softened men of iron mould,
It gave them virtues not their own,
No ear so dull, no soul so cold,
That felt not, fired not to the tone,

Till David's lyre grew mightier than his

throne.

II.

It told the triumphs of our King
It wafted glory to our God,
It made our gladdened vallies ring,
The cedars bow, the mountains nod,
Its sound aspired to heaven, and there a-
bode!

Since then, though heard on earth no more,
Devotion, and her daughter, Love

Shall bid the bursting spirit soar,

To sounds that seem as from above,
In dreams that day's broad light cannot re-

move.

FAREWELL.

Farewell! if ever fondest prayer,
For others weal, availed on high,
Mine will not all be lost in air,
But waft thy name beyond the sky;
'Twere vain to speak, to weep, to sigh:
Oh! more than tears of blood can tell,
When wrung from guilt's expiring eye,
Are in that word, Farewell! Farewell!
These lips are mute, these eyes are dry;
But in my heart, and in my brain,
Awake the pangs that pass not by,
The thought that ne'er shall sleep again.
My soul nor deigns, nor dares complain;
Though grief and passion there rebel,
I only know we loved in vain,
I only feel, Farewell! Farewell!

PRO

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Monday, April 17th 1815.

THE Earl of Liverpool moved an address

to the Prince Regent, approving of the Treaty of Peace concluded with America. The Marquis of Lansdown approved of that part of the address which thanked the Prince Regent for his pacific intentions; but he objected to the management of the Treaty, because we had defined nothing; because we might have had the same peace before; because we had insisted on an Indian barrier, and then left that barrier to the will of Congress; and because, without additional objects in the war, we had plunged into additional expenditure of blood and treasure: the address was agreed to.

Thursday, April 20.

The Earl of Agremont, after some observations on the abuses and strange sentences of Courts Martial, moved for the production of the minutes of the Court Martial upon Capt. P. Browne, of the Hermes; Mr L. Roberts, of the Hamadryad; and Col. Quentin, of the 10th Hussars. The Duke of York and Lord Combermere spoke in support of that on Col. Quentin, whom they conceived to be honourably acquitted. Lord Carnarvon alluded to the case of Ensign Cowell, of the first Guards, who having a quarrel at the theatre at Bourdeaux, and being conscious that he was the aggressor, had refused to fight a duel; for which he was broken by a Court Martial for cowardice: yet this officer exhibited extraordinary bravery at the sortie from Bayonne, animating the men, seven of whom were killed at his side: the motion was negatived without a division.

Monday, May 8.

On the second reading of the Roseberry Divorce Bill, it was stated, that after the parties had been detected in a bed-room in a situation which left no doubt of their guilt, Lady Roseberry left her husband's house early the next morning, and proceeded to London, accompanied by Sir H. Mildmay; and it was proved they slept in the same bed at an inn on the read. On the 22d of October they arrived in Upper Brooke-street, at Sir H. Mildmay's house,

d on the 26th of November embarked at June 1812.

Newhaven for France. It was further stated, that every attempt was made to levy the damages, but that the only property that could be found of Sir H. Mildmay's, was the furniture of one of his country houses, which was taken and sold, and £.2000 levied. The house being satisfied with the evidence, the bill was read a second time.

Mr Parke stated, respecting Fowles' Divorce Bill, that Fowles was a merchant, and that he and his wife married when very young. They had a house near Vauxhall, and M. Le Mercier, a dancing-master, lived in the neighbourhood. The husband. being almost constantly absent on the morn. ing attending on his business, an intimacy commenced between the lady and the dam cing-master. Fowles took a house at Richmond, and the dancing-master removed to the same quarter. The lady soon after eloped with the dancing-master, and they lived together for six days at the Spring garden Coffee-house as man and wife. The husband, in an action against Le Mercier, recovered £1000 damages, which he took the proper steps to levy, but the dancingmaster went to France, and nothing could be recovered.

Wednseday, May 17.

Earl Stanhope objected to the second reading of the Property Tax Bill, as tending to " grind the faces of the poor." He did not object to the tax because he was a proprietor of land, but because it bore hard upon the tenantry, and ultimately on the consumers, or great mass of the people. It thus bore hard upon the poor, by raising the price of bread.

Lord Liverpool said, that this tax bore not upon the poor, but upon the rich. The poor were, in fact, exempted from its oper ation.

Earl Grey declared, that though convinced this tax was unequal, vexatious, and oppressive, he should not oppose it, because he was convinced that his opposition would be fruitless.

The Bill being read a second time, the Duke of Norfolke said, he agreed in the uecessity of making preparations for war; but hoped every means would be adopted, to procure peace by negociation. Instead of thinking the tax unequal and oppressive, he concluded it, of all other, the just equal

and fair that had ever been devised. He hoped that the wise practice of going into a Committee would not be dispensed with.Lord Liverpool considered the delay this would create as unnecessary; the tax would be renewed for one year only. The Marquis of Buckingham then moved for a Committee; but upon a division, the motion was rejected by 20 to 8.

Thursday, May 18.

In reply to questions put by Earl Grey, Lord Liverpool said, that the Treaty of Alliance against the Ruler of France had been ratified, in substance, as it lay on their Lordships' table, and that the Declaration, not pledging this country to continue the war solely for the restoration of the Bourbons, which had been added on the part of this country, had been unanimously approved of by the Sovereigns at Vienna. On Monday next, copies of these Treaties, as also, of another, for subsidizing the Allies, would be presented, and on the same day a Message would be brought from the Prince Regent, which he should move be taken into consideration on Tuesday. The pacific overture from France had been transmitted to Vienna, but it had never been answered; so that no negociations had ever taken place in consequence respecting it; he had no objection to its being produced.

Thursday, April 27.

Marquis Wellesley, wishing to move for discharge of the order of the house, for his motion relative to Saxony, observed, that his reason was, his opinion of the superior importance of the treaty now on the table. He accused ministers of unfairness, in gaining the address on the necessity of increas ing our force for defence, at a time that their decision for war was actually taken.He then commented on the contents of the treaty, and asked if the object of the war was to exclude Bonaparte or his partisans, or both? He earnestly trusted that some feeling of repentance existed, which might lead to a reconciliation of these important measures, and prevent the evils that would result from them.

The Earl of Liverpool contended, that the object of the address was distinctly sta ted, to be necessary preparation and due accord with our allies, and did not at all commit the house in any other manner; and whatever difference of opinion there might be on other points, that was a principle in which the noble Lords on the other side, along with the whole house, most fully and cordially agreed. As to the treaty of Vienna, it must be obvious to their Lordships that it could not, at any period, with propriety, be laid before the house. He had stated at

that time, that the cause was an European as well as a British cause, and nothing could be more essential than our preserving a right understanding with our allies. And as to the pledge supposed by the noble Lord to have been given for the restoration of the family of Bourbon, absolutely there was no such pledge existing. There were, indeed, some propositions which the allies had in view, and which it was their carnest object to effect. One was, to get rid of the evil of Bonaparte's government; another was, to assist in replacing the ancient royal family; but that was by no means a siue qua The allies were not pledged by the 1st article to restore the Bourbons, and what afterwards referred to the 8th, was merely to qualify what had been said relative to the consent of the Bourbons. The allies did not embark in the cause with a view to impose upon France any particular form of government, and no such interpretation could fairly be made of the documents on the table. He did not wish then to enter farther on the subject.

non.

After a few words from Earl Grey, the Marquis's motion was withdrawn.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Tuesday, April 18.

Mr Barham noticed, that British capital was employed in foreign countries to carry on the Slave Trade, the profits having risen from 250 to 300 per cent. He then obtained leave to bring in a Bill to prevent British subjects, or persons resident in this country, from lending capital, or doing any other act, to assist in the prosecution of the Slave Trade in foreign colonies. A Bill for the further regulation of Aliens was brought in by Mr Bathurst, and read a first time.

Wednesday, April 19.

Mr Grenfel, pursuant to notice, rose to submit some propositions to the house on the affairs of the Bank of England. With the private concerns of the bank he did not wish to interfere, but as far as its business related to the public, it was the duty of the house to see, that those who had such power in their hands acquitted their duties properly. His object was to prevent the vast accumulation of undischarged balances in the possession of the Bank of England, on which it gained the immense profit of 5 or L.600,000 annually. The whole gross sum then at their disposal, was not less than L.11,000,000, and in return for this enormous advantage the bank had twice consented to accommodate the public with loans to the amount of £3,000,000, but these loans were only nominal, as the transaction was nothing more than the public making

use

use of its own money, and paying for the appropriation of it more than £.90,000 per annum. The only service the bank did for such great advantages, was acting as bankers to the public. He admitted, that the business was well executed, and that considerable expence was incurred in clerks and buildings for the conduct of it, but for this convenience the bank was actually in the receipt, during the last year, of not less than £.267,000. The bank of America made no such charge for the care of the public business, but was satisfied with the ordinary emoluments. He thought that the prodigious profit obtained by the bank, in the issue of notes, was an ample compensation. Every principle of justice would render it manifest that the public ought to have some participation in such extravagant emoluments, and it was too little to expect that the business should be transacted at a cheaper rate. He concluded by moving for a great variety of papers, some of them in continuation of former documents already on the table, and others to give additional light on the subject.

Mr Vansittart opposed the motion, on the ground that it would be a breach of public faith to the bank of England, to make any change in its situation, nor could he think that the present time was proper for such a motion, as the accounts could not be produced until very late in the session.He should therefore move the previous question.

After some farther arguments, in which Mr Bankes, Mr Ponsonby, Mr Tierney, and Mr Marryatt, spoke in favour of the motion, the house divided-for the previous question 94-against it 75-majority for ministers 10.

On the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the house resolve itself into a committee of ways and means,

Mr Whitbread protested against the revival of the property-tax. The right honourable gentleman had before told the house, that it would be abandoned if peace should continue, and if the other taxes, which had been proposed to be substituted, were agreed to. Every one of those other taxes except one had been abandoned. By this manner of proceeding, the Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledged, that either he is a most unfit minister for devising taxes, or that no other tax could be devised equal to the necessities of the country.Now, every one of those other taxes, except one, was abandoned by the right honourable gentleman himself, while this tax, which he said would be abandoned if peace should continue, was to be renewed. therefore would wish to know in what state

He

we were to consider the country, whether in a state of peace or war, and if in a state of war, what was the object of the war, or whether it was to replace the Bourbons on the throne of France? Under circumstances when there was no probability of a speedy return of war, a peace establishment of 19 millions had been fixed on. .If then there should be a recurrence of war, the country had a very gloomy prospect before it. At all events, the consideration of a war tax should be postponed till it was known whether we were at war or not.

Lord Castlereagh replied, that no hostile steps had yet been taken by this country.

A desultory debate ensued, in which a great number of members declared their de`termination to oppose the revival of the property tax, unless it was produced with most material modifications. The whole of the evening's debate may be described as a general protest against the revival of the measure in its late shape; every person who so protested, using almost the very words of his predecessor. The speakers were Messrs. Ponsonby, Sir M. Ridley, Flood, Martin, Bankes, Burdett, Bennett, J. P. Grant, Alderman C. Smith, M. Smith, Atkins, Harvey, Western, Dickenson, Brand, Foley, Tierney, Freemantle, and Lord Milton.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer justified the revival of the tax, on the ground of the expence incurred by our extensive preparations for defence. In order to prevent any misconception, he declared it to be his intention to continue the tax without any alteration whatever; but that it would, in the first instance, only be proposed for one year, or till April 1816.

Mr Brand, with a view to have time to ascertain what was the state of our foreign relations, moved as an amendment, that all debate upon the measures should be postponed till this day fortnight. On this the house divided-for the amendment 58, against it 183-majority in favour of the ori ginal motion for going into the committee, 125.

Friday, April 21.

Mr Vansillart having moved that the House should, at its rising, adjourn to Monday,

Mr Whitbread wished, before agreeing to the motion, to know what further sum was to be proposed in the committee of supply that evening. Though Lord Nelson had agreed for an estate which was within the sum fixed by Parliament, it was resolved not to purchase it, but to have another, which would require £.9000 more than the Parliamentary grant. He hoped the House would not sanction such a proceeding. Before the question of supplies came on, he al