1823.] Ko velties of For 



Or (loth He bid tlie surge subside 



Witbin tlie barriers of its sea, 

 Yet leave without a bound tlie tide 



And deluge of your tyranny? 

 Vain dreamers! He hatli fixed tlie hour 

 Of reckless force,— and bigot power. 

 Each £;reat or petty ill ye wreak 



With despot rage, or demon art. 

 Shall live, — for wrongs we dare not .speak 



Are graven deeper in the heart; 

 And there, beyond ye to efface, 

 The diaracters of vengeance trace ! 



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The curse of earth sliall not be cast 



Unheeded on the barren air, — 

 The year redeeming must at last 



Shine o'er a nation's dark despair ; 

 And once again our Europe free 

 From tyrant kings' conspiracy. 

 Land of my fathers ! it is o'er,— 



Blue ocean's veaves between us roll ! 

 The vulture revels in thy gore, 



The iron hath enter'd in thy soul ; 

 And there is set 'twixt thee and me 

 Fate's dread abyss! — Oh, Italy! 



S. D. 



NOVELTIES OF FOREIGN LITERATURE. 



IN the Literary Gazette of Jena, 

 for May last, there is an article on 

 the monetary system adopted in the 

 Prussian states. From this it appears 

 that the Prussian circulatini; coin is 

 the worst in Europe. The crowns 

 have one quarter of alloy; while Eng- 

 lish, Italian, and Portuguese, silver 

 pieces have but a twelfth, and French 

 pieces of five francs a tenth. We 

 learn from official documents, that 

 since 1764 the Prussian mint has 

 struck nearly 70 millions of crowns ; 

 and that the total of silver coin fabri- 

 cated, during that period, would 

 amount to 134 millions of crowns. 

 The author pleads for a general and 

 uniform system to be adopted through- 

 out the states of Germany. Calcula- 

 ting the circulating medium at 900 

 millions of florins, the whole mass 

 might be recast, in three years, at the 

 charge of about seven millions and a 

 half of florins. He further observes, 

 that by the presses of Ulihorn the 

 expenses of coining are considerably 

 diminished. At the mint of Dussel- 

 dorf, by the aid of one of these presses, 

 24,000 gros of silver are struck daily. 

 Ulihorn is a peasant of the country of 

 Oldenburg, who has made his name 

 known in Germany by several inge- 

 nious improvements in mechanics. He 

 invented his machine, not knowing 

 that it was in use at the time in Eng- 

 land. His invention has been adopted 

 in the Netherlands, and the King of 

 Prussia has granted him a patent. 



In a Dissertation on certain Tumuli 

 near Amberg, by M. D. Popp, of 

 Numberg, we find that in 1816 several 

 objects of antiquity were discovered, 

 in an adjoining forest, by workmen 

 who were in search of stones to repair 

 a road. These articles were pur- 

 chased by the Town Council, and by 

 I'rofcssor Graf; and tlic author gives 



a description of them. The tumuli, 

 which are oii the same spot, became 

 then the subject of particular atten- 

 tion. They appear to have been 

 formed by a number of dead bodies 

 laid on tlie ground, and covered with 

 earth and stones, with others thrown 

 over them. These eminences are not 

 all alike : some are small, and of a form 

 nearly circular; others rise, in the 

 shape of truncated cones. They con- 

 tain human skeletons, and those of 

 horses, with some of cats and birds ; 

 there are also arras, instruments, ulep.- 

 sils in copper, iron, and bronze. The 

 arms are hatchets, points of javelins, 

 spurs, besides fibula, clasps or braces, 

 rings to go round the arm, household 

 utensils, as dishes, plates, knives, and 

 vases. According to the author, these 

 tumuli belong to an era prior to the 

 first ages of Christianity; and he 

 attributes them to the people that 

 inhabited the country of Amberg, the 

 Narisei, called also Naristes and Va- 

 ristes, and in the seventh century 

 Warisher. There are no medals or 

 precious metals in the eminences, and 

 bronze is more common than iron. The 

 custom of burning the dead had not 

 been then introduced. 



Extracts from the Sixth and Seventk 

 Letters of M. CaiUiaud, to M. Jo- 

 mard, Member of the Naiimml Insti- 

 tute, on the Antiquities of Nubia. 

 I am just arrived from the Dosert, 

 where I visited two districts, in which 

 there are a number of antiquities. 

 My countryman, M. Linant, who has 

 not yet quitted the kingdom of Sennar, 

 had inspected them a little before. 

 Near the village of Wetbeyt Naga aro 

 the ruins of two little temples, in tho 

 Desert; eight leagues to the south- 

 east are the remains of seven other 

 little temples. The valley that leads 

 to these ruins, and the ruins them- 

 •clvcs. 



