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Weimar^St Januariu?^ 



[March 1, 



expected, it is because, siuce the mauj' 

 jwlitical changes in Germany, politics 

 are everywhere the order of the day ; 

 and among tliis number are several 

 distinguished names ; and the dignified 

 manner with whicli after the battle of 

 Jena, the present Grand Duchess re 



mention Mr. Wilson's tour witliouteicpressing 

 my regret that its bulk and its price should 

 have placed it beyond the reach of the 

 generality of reailers. Had his three dclavo 

 volumes been reduced to or printed in one, 

 there is no doubt but his book would have 

 acquired the popularity it deserves. With 

 the pen of .t pliilosopher, he points out the 



ceived the conf|ueror in her palace, beneficial results of the occupation of Italy 

 will be recorded in the annals of female by the French, exposes the mistaken policy 



heroism ; so that the three ladies would 

 be the iirst to smile at the iilea that 

 their ttdents alone, liowever superior, 

 continue to confer distinction on 

 Weimar. X- 



To the Editor of the Monthly M/iyazine. 



SIR, 



IN your interesting Cornucopia for the 

 present month, you inquire whether the 

 pretended liquefaction of tlie l)lood of San 

 Gennaro still eontiiuies. From certain pas- 

 sages iu "A Journal of Two .Successive 



of the Congress of Vienna, and with a pro- 

 phetic voice foretells the political changes 

 that liave since taken place in the kingdom 

 of Naples. S. P. P. 

 KcriKhxjt on Grntel Pits. 



a small opening?. He further added that they 

 were hollow, and that the lower cone was 

 moveable, in such a manner that its orifice 

 sometimes met with that of the upper cone, 

 and at other times did not. All this was 

 purely accidental, and Just as the moving of 

 the phial caused or not the axes of the two 

 cones to concur. As for the dust which 1 saw 



Tours on the Continent in 1816, 1817, 1818, in the phial, he told me that it was an amnl- 



by James Wilson, Ksq." it will be seen thai 

 it bus been played off within the last few 

 yenrs. It should be remembrred, that Mr. 

 Wilson's visit took |)lace at a lime when the 

 Neapolitan people were in a stale of moral 

 darkness: now that the light of philosophy 

 is diflused over the nation by the means of 



gama of mercury, tin, lead, and bismuth : 

 that the bismuth which mingles but very im- 

 perfectly with the other ingredients, prevented 

 the mixture from becoming an absolutely 

 fixed paste, and gave it the form of a powder 

 too thick to pass through the little opening, 

 which communicates with the two cones. 



a Free Press, we maj hope this scandalous Lastly, he added, that in a circular channel. 



fraud will be attemi)ted no more.* I cannot 



concealed in the mounting was contained 

 some running quicksilver: that by shaking 

 the phial irregularly, when \\w orifices of the 

 two cones met, this mercury insinuated itself 

 in a greater or less quantity, and liquified 

 the umalgama: that it came to pass some- 

 times, that by the variety of motions given to 



• Addison, with more haste, says Mr. M'. 

 than became him, pronounces this sham mira- 

 cle to be a very bungling juggle ; but yet the 

 juggle was too neatly planned and executed 

 for bim to detect if. We are indebted to 



M. de la Condamine for an explanation of the the machine, the mercury so introduced re- 

 mechanism and chemical jireparation by turned again by the same opening, and that 

 which the deception is etlecled : and cer- then the amalgama ceased to be fluid. I 

 tainly we cannot deny the credit of ingenuity relate with all possible exactness, what the 

 to the inventors of the trick. " I observed," possessor of this ingenious machine lold me, 

 .says he, " beneath the phial two small cones, and which I also set down in writing the same 

 I know not of v hat material, with their day ; all that I can certify for fact is, that it 

 points opposed to each other, which the performed its operations extremely well." 

 keeper informed me were perforated with (vol.3, llandl'^i.) 



ORIGINAL POETRY. 



The SPANISH EXILE'S FEFLECTION 



ON RETURNING TO HIS COUNTRY. 



LAND of my Fathers, hail again, 

 With joy t!iy shores I tread ; 

 For many a year I sighed in vain, 



And rears of anguish shed ; 

 But lo ! once more thy hills arise. 

 Thy beacons flash upon inj' eyes; 

 Oh, how my heart has bled 

 At nil thy Tyrant's hands have dealt. 

 He ne'er can kno\\-, who has not felt. 

 Landof ray Fathers, thou art free ! 



Thy chains are rent away, 

 Ko despot claims the vassal knee, 

 Before his idol sway ; 



No longer wrapt in dungeon gloom. 

 Thy patriot children weep ;hy doom, 



The victim of decay: 

 No, thou art free — thy bonds are riv'n 

 As by the tempest wrath of Heav'u. 



No more in foreign lands dispers'd 



Thy exiled statesmen roam, 

 To see the hopes they fondly nurs'd 



Dispell'd like ocean foam. 

 Those hopes so lov'd were all for thee. 

 Thy glory — thy prosperity, 



And centred in their home ; 

 But oh ! how long from thee estranged, 

 Undieer'd, through distant realms they 

 ranged. Po;liej 



