they suspect the disguises those deceptions assume. To what information M. Tronchet offers, he should, to please us, have added in almost every page caution upon caution: It would have entitled him to the gratitude of the United Kingdom.

As may be supposed, this tract contains an account of the mode of travelling in France-of the principal routes to Paris of the mode of living thereof the principal streets-churches-palaces-libraries-works of art, &c. &c. The whole is useful;-but incomplete: we say incomplete, for reasons already assigned; and we appeal to every man who has lately been there, whether on every page of the following picture, the wards Caution! Caution! Caution! ought not to have appeared in the running title, in capital letters.

The Palais Royal is one of the principal curiosities of Paris, and exhibits some of the most astonishing, Proteus-like scenes, that can be pictured to the imagination. Shops of millinery, jewellery, clothiery, hooksellers, clock-sellers, printsellers, china-houses, coffee-houses, baguios, money-changers, and gamesters, all unite in amiable rivalry, to ease the unwary idler of his money.

Let a man walk under these arcades, at any hour of the day, and he will never want food either for meditation or amusement:

but the Palais Royal exhibits a scene of peculiar interest in the evening. There is no want, either natural or artificial, no wish for the cultivation of the mind, or decoration of the body, which would not here find food and gratification, and perpetual variety.

did a mansion. The sensations produced by the lights, the moving crowd, and the merchandize exposed as already described, and instrumental, that strikes the ear with are not a little heightened by music, vocal peculiar force; it being both loud, and often, as it were, on the very spot, though the stranger cannot divine whence it proceeds. Presently that which was loud before be comes ten times louder, and his hearing leads his eye to the descent into a cellar, and should he descend, finds a strange mixture of the working people and the wealthier citizens; some clean, some dirty, sitting over their small beer, lemonade, bavaroise, or some other liquor, regaling themselves with feasting and music.

The gaming-tables are in a different quarter of the Palais Royal. After having as

cended a staircase, you are introduced into an anti-chamber, where several hundred hats, sticks, and great coats, carefully ticketed, are arranged under the charge of two or three old men, who receive either one or two sous from every owner. From the antichamber you enter into various large and well-lighted rooms, all equally well attended, and containing a vast crowd of persons, seated and engaged in gaming. The tables are licensed by government, pay to it a cousiderable sum of money, and are under its. immediate juspection; they are well regnlated; ready cash passes from the loser to the winner, and differences appear to be decided by appointed referees, who sit at the table, invested with the insignia of office; namely, short wooden instruments, shaped like a garden hoe, which collect the six livre pieces that are scattered over the table.

In divers subterraneous chambers are many scenes of unsanctioned dissipation, where the game of billiards is dexterously played, and too well attended.

The restaurateurs in the Palais Royal are by far the most famous and most frequented; their larders are the choices, their bill of fare the fongest, and their din ing-rooms the most elegant in all Paris. You have in them the choice of more than two hundred dishes, of above twenty sorts of deserts, upwards of twenty kinds of wine, and more than twenty species of liquors.

The shape of the building is that of a parallelogram, which incloses a large garden, ornamented with fine orange trees, and wellgravelled walks, which afford a fine view of the edifice. At its end, near Rue du Lycée, is a double piazza, with two rows of shops, reaching from one extremity to the other and these promenades are always crowded with ladies and loungers of every description. It is impossible not to be delighted with the peculiar elegance with The coffee-houses form another point of which the rival shop-keepers light up their lit-meeting for the multitude, who do not go tle cabinets of bijouterie, and with the splendour produced by the general illumination."

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merely to take a walk, or who choose to recreate themselves after walking. The Not being accustomed to view palaces commodities, as wel. as the prices of each, laid out into compartments for trade, the are alike in all the coffee-houses of the Paimagination is forcibly struck to behold such lais Royal. Coffee, lemonade, orgeat, lia pile of building, to contemplate the length-queurs, and ice, are to be had in all of them, ened arcades, and, to perceive that they all abound with the efforts of human industry, in almost countless divisions. Retail traders never before were seen in so splen

and of equal qualities. A cup of coffee costs ten sous; a glass of liqueur, a tumbler of lemonade, or orgeat, just the same, A glass of ice twelve sous.

dotes concerning Mr. Griffinhoof's principal characters, much more animated, piquant, and stinging, thau any he has gathered.

There are follies enough in the world to keep satire in exercise without intermission: but, to excite laughter for the purpose of correcting them—ridendo cas

The coffee-houses of the Palais Royal are most lively and gay, in the morning from mine to eleven, in the afternoon from three to six, and in the evening from eight till eleven. The contented Frenchman generally makes his supper at the coffee-house, which consists of nothing more than a tumbler of lemonade or orgeat, to which he adds half as much water, dipping into it a roll or two, for each of which he pays a sou.tigat mores-demands a force of wit, Having made the tour of the arcades, the stranger passes into the gardens. His eye is attracted by numerous lights from the upper part of the building; especially from the range of first floors, where they are numerous, and of which the apartments appear to be spacious and magnificent. Some of these are restaurateurs, and other coffeehouses, or rooms dedicated to scientific clubs and literary societies; but a still greater portion are devoted to the baneful practice of private and public gaming, and all above, even to the attic story, are inhabited by prostitutes and sharpers.

The concourse of people in the Palais Royal is never at at end; its public is the most numerous as well as the most brilliant, of any of the places of resort in this city. The gardens of the Tuilleries, the Luxembourg, the Boulevards, in short, none of the promenades are to be brought into comparison with the Palais Royal. As Paris devours the marrow of France, so the Palais Royal devours the marrow of Paris.

The Maskers of Moorfields: a vision. By
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that is not in every man's possession; with a talent at placing the subjects of it in a certain ludicrous point of view, at once natural and unnatural, whence they appear charged, yet not in carica. tura; under a peculiar light, yet not entirely artificial; in short, queer, or queerish, yet not absolutely anamorphosed. This talent the writer of a satirical vision, the scene of which is placed among the illustrious illuminati of Moorfields, should possess.-Verbum sat!

A Sermon preached at the Parish Church of St. Ann's, Soho, May 5, 1815, before the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews. By W. Dealtry, B.D. F.R.S. Gale and Co. London. 1815.

We have repeatedly introduced the subject of this Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews to our readers, with sincere commendation; while at the same time we have not refrained from expressing our regret that the Christian world, at large, has thought proper to indulge prejudices against that people, which are not warranted by the New Testament.

Public opinion demands that these Jewish converts become Gentile Christians, by forsaking the national customs and family distinctions of their forefathers: Why? That the Jews should continue a distinct people is clearly the intention of Providence; and this will be accomplished, if not as Christians, with the consent, of Christians— why, then, as Jews, Deo volente.

When a gentleman takes upon him to see visions, and to commit them to the press, for the amusement of the public, he should be well aware that more is expected from his second-sighted inspirations, than from the direct narrator, or the unpretending historian of facts. Satire demands a keenness of remark, an intensity of expression, which, to succeed, must greatly transcend ordinary observation and common-place discourse. The portraits of a satirist should be more forcibly drawn and coloured than common; they should be the sharp and masterly markings of a Gillray, not the obtuse and indistinct lines of a limner, who writes up--" Portraits painted in this manner, for five shillings." We believe, had he consulted the trade, they could have furnished a variety of auec-ner,

This discourse is an animated address to exertion by those true philanthropists who have the welfare of mankind at heart, and who desire to effect their most laudable purpose in the most direct manSome justice is done by the preach

er to the liberty enjoyed by the Jews in this kingdom: here, not one is exposed to greater persecution than that of wanton boys whose witticisms are venteding of the Bastile to the breaking up of the National Convention. The second part is in a state of forwardness, and will embrace the time from the Directory to the fall of Buonaparte.

Romantic Facts, or Which is his Wife?

to Forty-two of the First Series of the Bri-
tish Critic, will speedily be published, in | 4 vols.
one volume 8vo.

Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces, with Letters containing a comparative view of the mode of living, arts, commerce, literature, manners, &c. of Edinburgh, at different periods, by the late Mr. William Creech, will soon appear.

Baxteriana, a selection from the works of Baxter, by Arthur Young, Esq. is printing in a duodecimo volume.

The second volume of the new edition of Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses, in quarto, edited by Mr. Bliss, of St. John's College, Oxford, has just appeared. This volume continues the Athenæ, and includes the bishops and the fasti to the year 1640, containing the whole of the first volume of the folio edition, with very great additions both in text and notes.-The remainder of the work is in considerable forwardness, and will be committed to the press without delay.

Mr. Peter Herve is engaged in preparing for press, A Journey to Paris; with a Dictionary of celebrated French characters, and a chronological account of the history of France, in two pocket volumes. Price 10s.

NATURAL HISTORY.

The Rev. W. Kirby, B. A. F. L. S. and W. Spence, Esq. F. L. S. have just published the first volume, in octavo, of their Introduction to Entomology. This work is intended as a general and popular history of insects. The present volume contains an account of the injuries they occasion, the benefits derived from them, the metamorphoses they undergo, their affection for their young, their various kinds of food, and the means by which they procure it: and lastly, a description of their habitations. The two remaining volumes will be given with all convenient speed.

NOVELS.

Speedily will be published, Rhoda; a novel, in three volumes. By the author of Things by their Right Names, Plain Sense, &c.

The following novels will appear this sum

mer:

Elizabeth de Mowbray, or the Heir of Douglas, a historical romance. 4 vols.

Early Feuds, or Fortune's Frolics, by the author of But Which, Geraldwood, &c. 3 vols.

Donald Monteith, by S. Davenport. 5 vols.

Family Estate, or Lost and Won, by Mrs. Ross. 3 vols.

Lady Jane's Pocket, by the author of Silvanella. 4 vols.

The Days of Harold, a metrical tale, by John B. Rogers, 8vo.

PHILOLOGY.

Mr. Richardson will soon publish, in a quarto volume, Illustrations of English Phi- lology, in a critical examination of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary.

POETRY.

An Officer of the Medical Staff, who served in the late campaigns in Spain and Flanders, will soon publish a poem, of which the battles of Waterloo, Orthes, and Toulouse, will form the principal part.

The author of the Rejected Odes, and other pieces, has in the press, Waterloo, an heroic poem, commemorative of that most glorious victory.

Mr. Gompetz's new poem, Time; or, Light and Shade, in one volume 4to. will appear in a few days.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

Plans for Ameliorating the Condition of the Lower Orders of Society, by the author of the Battle of Nevill's Cross, will soon appear.

TOPOGRAPHY.

The Rev. W. M. Stirling is preparing a historical and statistical work of the Priory of Inchmahome, in Perthshire, to be illustrated by engravings.

Mr. J. Man has in the press, the Ancient and Modern History of Reading, illustrated by upward of twenty maps and prints.

edition of his Traveller's Complete Guide Mr. Campbell has in the press, a second through Belgium, Holland, and Germany.

A new edition of Tronchet's Picture of Paris will appear early in August.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

A Tour in Istria, Carniola, &c. in the spring of 1814, by an English Merchant, will soon appear.

Dr. Halliday, of Birmingham, is preparing for the press, Observations on a Tour through certain Provinces of Eastern Russia.

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BIOGRAPHY.

Memoirs of the Life of the late Rev. Richard Price, LL. D. F.R.S. By William Morgan, F. R. S. 8vo. 6s.

A Narrative of the late Mr. W. D. Sandys, of Trinity College, Cambridge. 8vo. 2s. sewed.

Memoirs of Mrs. H. Newell, wife of Rev. Samuel Newell, Missionary to India from America; with her funeral discourse. By Dr. Woods. 45.

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Chemical Essays on various Subjects, principally relating to the improvement of the arts and manufactures of the British A Compendium of Geography, for the dominions. By Samuel Parkes, F. L. S. use of Schools, private families, and those Member of the Geological Society, author who study this necessary science. By Rich of the Chemical Catechism. With twenty-mal Mangnall. 12mo. 9s. bound. three engravings. 5 vols. 18mo. 21, 2s.

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