awed the factious. At this very period, an unexpected difafter made fresh demands upon the inexhauftible refources of Guftavus's mind, which encreafed with his emergencies. The Prince of Heffe, at the head of twelve thousand men, marched from Norway to Gottenborg, at the gates of which, at a late hour, the King, having furmounted great difficulties in his way through Wermlandia, prefented himfelf, and the next morning furprized the Danish herald, by informing him in perfon from the ramparts, that fooner than furrender the place, the garrifon fhould be buried under its ruins, and accordingly ordered the bridge over the river Gothael to be burnt. It is well known, that the wife and active mediation of Mr. Elliott, our then minifter at Copenhagen, prevailed upon the Prince of Heffe to retire. To return to the Delecarlians the dress of the men is always of a grey or black coarse cloth, and, on account of the many fervices which they have ren. dered to government, and their proved patriotifm, they enjoy the flattering and gracious privilege of taking the King's hand where. ever they meet him: the preffure muft ever be delightful to both parties. From the mountains of health and liberty, Guftavus III. felected the wet-nurfe of the prefent King, that, with her milk, he might imbibe vigour and the love of his country. This woman was the wife of a Delecarlian peafant, lineally defcended from the brave and honeft Andrew Prefton, who preferved Guftavus Vafa from the murderers who were fent in pursuit of him by Chrif. tian. The houfes of the Delecarlian peafants are as fimple as their owners are virtuous: they have but one hole in the roof, exposed to the fouth, which answers the double purpose of a window and a clock their meals are regulated by the fun's rays upon a cheft, placed beneath this hole on one fide; or upon the stove, with which all the Swedish houses are warmed, ftanding on the other." P. 137.

The account of the Swedish ladies, though very honourable to their modesty and delicacy, must be allowed to be fomewhat whimsical, and affords a very ftriking contrast even to the lovely females of this country. When they walk out, they are covered with a long gloomy black cloak; they do not even allow their feet to be feen; they never look behind them; nor are the most intimate friends permitted, on approaching or taking leave, to touch the cherry of their lips. Yet man kiffes man here, as in other parts of the continenta filthy and odious cuftom! Some honourable anecdotes are old of our countryman Sir Sidney Smith.

Our next excurfion is to Upfal, or Upfala, and the mines. of Danmora, which are well defcribed, and feveral pages are. confecrated to the fame and memory of Linnæus.

The following neat infcription to his memory is placed on a monument of Swedish porphyry :

Upfal and its curiofities will agreeably detain the reader, as will the account of the famous chancellor Oxenfliern, and the facetious anecdote of an Englishman and his bad French.

We next prepare to fail for Swedish Finland, and the voyage in the islands is remarkably picturefque and entertaining. We finally enter Ruffia, and immediately become acquainted with a new race of beings. A table of the value of Ruffian coins is again exhibited at this part of the work, the importance of which can only be estimated by travellers under fimilar circumstances.

Our acquaintance with the capital of Petersburg, which we next vifit, is now familiar, and the manners of the Ruffians are intimately known among us; nevertheless, the narrative is here fo agreeably diverlified, fo many pleasant anecdotes are introduced, that if we do not meet with an entirely new acquaintance, we find the whole of his drefs, manners, and acquaintance brightened and improved. The defcription of the imperial city, the public edifices, manners, language, wealth, &c. with the neighbourhood of the metropolis, occupy many fucceeding chapters. From thefe we could make various entertaining extracts, but we rather refer the reader generally to the work itself, premifing, that the whole is replete with amufement. Various anecdotes, entirely new to us, are communicated on the fubject of the death of the late Emperor, of Catharine, Potemkin, and others, the most diftinguished of the great characters of Ruffia.

At p. 416, after a moft delightful fojourn, we leave the vaft and mighty empire of Ruffia, and proceed to Narva, Mittau, and Memel. The writer's vivacity continues unexhausted, and a multitude of agreeable fubjects are introduced, illuftrative of the manners and inhabitants of the Pruffian monarchy, Dantzig and Berlin fucceed, and few would choose to travel this route unprovided with this publication, which will ferve to cheer the drearinefs of the road by its pleafantry, and fmooth every paffing difficulty by the information which it communicates. The following lively defcription of Berlin fhall conclude our extracts from this very entertaining work,

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"Having refreshed myfelf, I fallied into the Linden Walk, which is very broad, is formed of triple rows of the graceful and umbrageous tree from which it receives its name, and is fituated in the centre of the street, having carriage roads on each fide, from which it is protected by a handfome line of granite pofts connected by bars of iron, and illuminated at night by large reflecting lamps, fufpended over the centre by cords, ftretched from correfponding fupporters of wrought iron its length is about an English mile, and prefents at one end the rich portico of the marble opera-house, and the palace, and at the other the celebrated Brandenbourg gate, defigned by Monfieur Langhans from the Propylium of Athens, and raised in 1780. This fuperb monument of tafteful architecture is a ftone colonnade, of a light reddish-yellow colour, compofed of twelve grand fluted Corinthian columns, forty-four feet high, and five feet feven inches in diameter, fix on each fide, leaving a fpace for the gates to fold between, prefenting five coloffal portals, through which the park is feen in fine perfpective. The wings compofing the cuftom and guard-houses are adorned with eighteen leffer columns, twenty-nine feet high, and three feet in diameter: the whole is crowned by coloffal figures of the Angel of Peace driving four horfes abreaft in a triumphal car, below which are rich baffo relievos. This moft elegant ftructure, and the Walk of Lindens, are unique, and would abundantly repay any traveller for the fatigues of an eight day's journey to behold them. In the walk, although the weather was very cold, feveral ladies were promenading without caps or bonnets, and others were riding aftride on horfeback, according to the fashion of the country, in a long riding-habit, pantaloons, and half-boots In the ftreet fcarcely any other objects were to be seen, than

"the foldier and his fword."

Upon afcending the gallery of the superb dome of the inftitution of the poor, in the grand market-place, I commanded the wall of the city, the dimenfions of which are fmall, I fhould not think larger than thofe of Bath; but having been the refult of one de. fign, and in a great measure built in one reign, it has the advantage of being regular. The river Spree runs through it, and is adorned by fome handsome ftone bridges. The streets are fpacious, and, to the furprife of a ftranger, are well paved for carriages and pe deftrians, although nature has refufed to furnish the country with a fingle ftone this denial has been fupplied by the policy of Fre. derick the Great, who made all the veffels that came up the Elbe,. the Hawel, or the Spree, take on board at Magdeburg a certain quantity of freeftone, and difembark it at Berlin gratis. The houfes are generally built of brick ftuccoed, but fome are of ftone, in the Italian ftyle of architecture. the brother of Frederick the Great, lately deceased, is built of The palace of Prince Henry, ftone; but, for want of ornament, poffeffes but little attraction for

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the eye: the royal palace is an enormous fquare pile of the fame materials, whofe maffy and gloomy walls the reigning fovereign has wifely refigned to his courtiers, for a fmall plain mansion, oppofite the common foundery. Mon-bijou, the refidence of the Queen Dowager, is a palace, or rather a long gallery, nearly the whole being upon the ground floor, fituated on the fide of the river Sprec, embofomed in a wood and gardens. The Rotunda, or Catholic church, partly defigned by Cardinal Alberoni, is a noble edifice, the grand altar of which was made at Rome, and is celebrated for its beauty. Soon after Frederick the Great afcended the throne, he conceived the fublime idea of building a vast Pantheon, in which every defcription of devotion might, at an allotted time, find its altar. Policy, if not genuine charity, "induced that fagacious prince to think that tolerance was neceffary to the interefts as well as the dignity of a nation; and he was defirous of not only feeing his fubjects and followers worship their God in their way, but that, like brothers, they fhould proftrate themselves before him in the fame temple. On account of the ftate of the treasury, Frederick was fuccefsfully advifed to drop this benign plan, and it was never afterwards refumed. The generality of the Pruffians are Calvinifts.

"In the evening after my arrival I went to New Theatre, a fuperb building, on the entablature of which the following elegant infcription appeared in German, "Whilft we fmile we mend the manners." All the front of the infide was occupied by the royal box, formed into a faloon, from the centre of the cieling of which a rich luftre descended, and on each fide were alabafter vafes. The boxes were neat and well arranged. Over the curtain was a large tranfparent clock; the players were good; the orchestra very full and fine; and the fcenery, particularly the drop, or curtain scene, very beautiful.

"The ftatue of the celebrated general Ziethen, the favourite of Frederick the Great, and one of the greatest and bravest generals of Pruffia, is well worthy the notice of the traveller. It is raifed in Wilhelm's Platz, or William's Place, upon a pedestal, on three fides of which are baffo-relievos, reprefenting the hero on horseback, in fome of the most celebrated campaigns, furrounded by an ele. gant railing the figure of the general, in his huffar regimentals, is as large as life; his hand is raised to his chin, which was his ufual attitude of meditation: it is faid to be a strong resemblance, and is a fine piece of ftatuary. In this little fquare there are feveral other statues of Pruffian generals, who diftinguifhed themselves in the feven years' war, without any infcription. Upon my German friend enquiring of fome of the foldiers, who were standing near us, their names, they told us they knew nothing about them. It is well known, that no living creature is more ignorant than a Pruffian foldier.

"As we paffed to the Royal Opera-houfe, the cavalry were drilling: the wretchednefs of their horfes not a little furprised me the fame remark applied to thofe of every other regiment

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of cavalry which I faw. The opera-houfe, which is never open but during the carnival, is a fuperb and elegant building, raised by Frederick the Great. The audience are admitted gratis, by tickets iflued by the King's authority: the pit is allotted to the regiments in garrifon, each of which is permitted to fend fo many men. In the time of Frederick the Great, it was no unusual fpectacle to fee the wives of the foldiers fitting upon their huf bands' fhoulders: the internal decorations are, I was informed, very magnificent." P. 458.

The defcription of Potfdam fucceeds, and the traveller mounting the Hamburgh Diligence, went poft to Hufum, and thence to England.

Books of travels are of two kinds, profeffedly didactic, or written with the avowed purpose of amufement only. In the former we are called upon to exercife the most rigorous criticism, if the author wanders from his object into the paths of levity or defultory anecdote. In the latter we may well be fatisfied with a lively reprefentation of things and perfons, with the good-humoured endeavour to beguile the hour of leifure, where we are never offended by ignorance, never mifled by mifreprefentatior. Of this laft kind is "the Northern Summer," by Mr. Carr, a work which we have perused with extreme fatisfaction, and which our readers will certainly thank us for having placed thus confpicuoufly before them,

ART. II. Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Efq. with a Collection of his Genuine Bon-Mots, Anecdotes, Opinions, c. moftly Original. And Three of his Dramatic Pieces, not published in his Works. By William Cooke, Efq. 3 Vols. 12mo. pp. 684. 13s. 6d. Phillips. 1805.

THETHER a new life of Foote was really a defideratum may admit of fome difpute, if we refpect the only two purposes of biography, inftruction, and entertainment. Foote, like a much fuperior dramatist, had no eye to pofterity. Every thing he faid, and every thing he wrote, was fo closely connected with persons of whom little is known, and events which are now nearly forgotten, that the admiration which he excited, becomes every day more faint; and all that can be gathered by a younger generation, from the most minute defcription of his talents, gives but a confufed idea of a mimic and a wit, whofe humour is no longer to be conveyed

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