1821.] 



much matter, yet say notliing ; yet put 

 great matters iuto meu's mouths." 



The King having signified, that he 

 would 1)6 pleased (o see his remarks on 

 the professor's names versified, it was 

 accordingly done as follows : — 

 As Adam was the first man whence all be- 

 ginning tak ; 

 So Adam's son was president, and first man 



in this act. 

 The thesis Fairlie did defend, which though 



they lies contain, 

 Yet were fairliex, and he the same right 



fairlie did maintain : 

 The field first euter'd master Sands, and 



there he made me see, 

 That not all sands are barren lands, but 



that some fertile be ; 

 Then master Youmj, most subtilie the thesis 



did impugne. 

 And kythed old in Aristotle, although his 



name was Young. 

 To him succeeded master Reid, who, tho' 



Reid be his name, 

 Needs neither for his dispute blush, nor of 



his speech think shame. 

 Last entered master King the lists, and dis- 

 pute like a king. 

 How reason reigning like a Queen, should 



aug-er under bring. 

 To their deserved praise have I thus play'd 



upon their names. 

 And will their college hence be called, the 



colkffe of King James. 



ABYSSINIAN SACRAMENT. 



The Abyssinian priests have a sin- 

 gular way of administering the sacra- 

 ment, which is thus described in 

 Tearce's narrative. Any person who 

 wishes to receive the holy elements, has 

 only to go to the church and wait until 

 the proper time ; when they begin, the 

 people stand in ranks, the greater sort 

 first. The commimicants go in order 

 toward the two priests, who stand be- 

 fore the altar in the middle of the 

 church, diest in their sacred cloaths. 

 One holds a cross and a book, the other 

 a dish and a spoon. The communicant 



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first bows to the ground, tiien arises 

 and kisses tlie cross thrice, ,while the 

 priest who holds it reads aloud ; he 

 next ojiens his nioutli, and the other 

 priest puts in with a spoon two mouth- 



fuls of plum-pudding, after M-hich he 

 bows, runs out of the cluirch, holding 

 his hand to his mouth, and will neither 

 spit nor speak until sunset. The dried 

 grapes are understood to represent the 

 blood, and the paste the body of Christ. 



ENIGMA. 

 I derive my support from the burdens I 



bear ; 

 I bestow my support on the burden'd with 



care ; 

 Though stouter than most men, at times I 



contrive 

 Into a quart-bottle to enter alive. 

 MATHEMATICIANS. 



It is an error fatal to the progress of 

 philosophy to imagine that a mathema- 

 tician is necessarily a philosopher. It 

 may happen that a clear-headed rea- 

 soner and philosopher may also be an 

 able ivor/ciiig mathematician, or vice 

 versd ; but the chances are against the 

 union of the two powers, because the 

 faculties and practices which produce 

 either are separate and different. A 

 mathematician is in fact in relation to a 

 philosoplier — just what a working car- 

 penter is to an architect ; or a prac- 

 tising lawyer to a legislator. 



CHARLES fhe FIRST. 



The sheet which received the head 

 of Charles I. after his decapitation, is 

 carefully preserved along with the 

 communion plate in the church of Ash- 

 burnham, in Sussex ; the blood with 

 which it has been almost entirely co- 

 vered, now appears nearly black. The 

 watch of the unfortunate raonarcli is 

 also deposited with the linen, the move- 

 ments of which are still perfect. Tliese 

 relics came into the possession of Lord 

 Asliburnham, immediately after the 

 death of the king. 



NOVELTIES OF FOREIGN LITERATURE. 



VOYAGE of DISCOVERY and CIRCU.M- 



NAViGAfiON, performed in 181S, 

 1819, and 1820, by the FRENCH 

 V CORVETTE URANIA, CAPT, PREY- 

 CINET. 



M LOUIS de Freycinet, captain 

 • of a frigate, to whom the king 

 entrusted the command of the Urania, 

 to imike a voyage of di.scovery in tiie 

 South Seas, returned to Havre on the 

 13th of November last. 

 The principal object of this voyage 

 Monthly Mag. No ;1.'>2. 



was to make observations on the figure 

 of the earth, and the intensity of the 

 magnetic influence in the southern 

 hemispliere : but having to traverse a 

 great extent of .sea, M. de Freycinet 

 was also to take advantage of all occa- 

 sions which might ofl'er to him to aug- 

 ment the collections of natural history, 

 and add new documents in liydrography 

 to those whicli are already in tiie Uoyal 

 Marine «leprtt. 



The Urania was fitted out at Toti- 

 2 H Ion 



