1822.] 
glad to find that Dr. Zuocafini has 
exerted himself to investigate this 
matter; and it would be well to recom- 
mend his example to others. The 
doctor’s experiments, began in 1780, 
and since often repeated, (if not over- 
rated, which is very improbable, ) have 
decided this question in the affirma- 
tive. In 1795, out of six pounds of 
fresh indigo, fermented as in the West 
Indies, he obtained six ounces of fe- 
cule, differing in their degrees of co- 
lour and goodness. Here, then, is a 
result calculated to.excite an interest. 
The common opinion, that the diffe- 
rent kinds of indigo are produced by 
different degrees of fermentation, ap- 
pears to be ‘confirmed by the doctor’s 
account. 
FARINELLI. 
The old Duke of Northumberland 
was very fond of music, One evening 
he had assembled a great company on 
purpose to hear Farinelli sing ; but 
that capricious castrato sent a “verbal 
‘ message, that he was otherwise en- 
gaged, and could not attend. On this 
the Duke of Medina, who was in the 
company, dispatched his servant for 
the singer, who was his subject; and 
a chair haying been placed, all the 
company except his Highness stood 
up on his entrance. “Does your 
Grace permit a public singer to sit in 
your presence?” No,” says the Duke. 
“Mr. Farinelli, stand in yonder. cor- 
ner, and sing in your best manner.” 
He accordingly complied, and exerted 
all his powers. 
LORD DUNDONALD 
is a practical chemist. His specula- 
tions on coal-tar or varnishes, allum- 
works, &c. bear all the marks of a 
well digested theory. His book on 
the connexion of agriculture and che- 
mistry presents the: subject in its most 
attractive forms, The pecuniary dis- 
tresses of this ingenious and eccentric 
man haye long been matter of public 
notoriety and sympathy. 
_NAPOLEON. 
Tn 1805 Count Daru was at Bou- 
logne, as intendant-general of the 
army. One morning the Emperor 
summoned him into his cabinet. Daru 
immediately repaired thither, and found 
him transported with rage, traversing 
his apartment with hurried steps, and 
breaking a sullen silence only by hasty 
and short exclamations:—‘‘ What a 
navy !—What an admiral !—What sa- 
erifices lost!—My expectations are 
Stephensiana, No. X. 
AS 
deceived ! — This, Villeneuve! — In- 
stead of being in th Channel, he bas 
just entered Ferrol!—It is all oyer 
with him!—He will be blockaded 
there.——Darn, place yourself there, 
(pointing to a corner of the,,room,) 
and write while I dictate.” The Em- 
peror had received at a very early 
hour the news of the arrival of Ville- 
neuve in a Spanish port; he imme- 
diately saw his intended conquest of 
England baffled;. the immense ex- 
penses of the fleet and flotilla lost for 
a time, and perhaps for ever! Then, 
in a paroxysm of fury, which would 
permit no other man in similar circum- 
stances to preserve their judgment, he 
formed one of the boldest resolutions, 
and sketched one of the. most admi- 
rable plans of a campaign which any 
conqueror ever conceived in leisure 
and cold-blood. Without hesitating, 
without stopping for, a moment, he 
dictated the whole of the plan of the 
campaign of Austerlitz; the departure 
of all the corps of the army, from Ha- 
nover and Holland to the confines, of 
the west and the south of, France, 
The order of the marches, their dura- 
tion; the places for the converging and 
re-union of the columns; the cutting 
off by surprize, and the ‘attacks. with 
open force; the various.movements of 
the enemy,—all was foreseen! Vic- 
tory was ensured in all the hypo- 
theses. Such was the accuracy and 
the vast foresight of this plan, that, 
over a line of departure of six hun- 
dred miles, lines of operations of nine 
hundred miles in length were followed 
from primitive indications, day by 
day, and place by place, as far as 
Munich. Beyond that capital, the 
epochs alone experienced some alte- 
rations; but the places were reached, 
and the whole of the plan was crowned 
with complete success. 
PATRIOTS. 
Sir John Fineux appears to have 
been one of the earliest of the present 
race. In the reign of Henry VIT. he 
opposed the tax of the tenth-penny, 
(according to Lloyd, ) and stoutly ob- 
served on this occasion, ‘‘ Before we 
pay any thing, let us see whether we 
have any thing we can call our own 
to pay,’ Morton, both Cardinal and 
Chancellor, was against the prefer- 
ment..of this lion-hearted lawyer—he 
being, in the words of his biographer, 
“an encouragement to the facetious, 
(whose hydra heads grow the faster by 
being 
