1822.] 
jesty, for preventing Aliens from be- 
Sau Nuculived” or ies” modi or 
becoming Denizens, except’ im certain 
Cases. —March 21. 
Cap. XVI. Toamend an Act, made 
in the last Session of Parliament, for 
amending the several Acts for the Regu- 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 57 
lation of Attornies and Solicitors.— 
April 3. 
The Act not to extend to persons ta- 
king the degree of Bachelor of Law, un- 
less such persons shall have taken such 
degree within eight years after matri- 
colation. 
VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign. 
=> 
T must be in the recollection of 
the public, that, about five years 
ago, the Editor of this Miscellany vi- 
sited the indigent and neglected mem- 
bers of the SHAKESPEARE FAMILY, and 
reported their condition and claims in 
some articles in the Monthly Magazine 
(Nos. 305 and 307), and which he be- 
lieves excited much attention. He pro- 
posed a subscription for them; and, to 
give it eclat, suggested, as a collateral 
plan, that a national monument should 
be raised to Shakspeare. Several of 
his correspondents afterwards enlarged 
upon these views, and some prelimi- 
nary meetings were actually held; but 
the state of the country, the death of 
the Princess Charlotte, the Queen’s 
affair, and other circumstances suc- 
cessively absorbed public attention, 
insomuch, that the time did not appear 
to have arrived when the nation could 
be solicited with effect. Certain jobbers 
in such things have, however, seized 
on the idea, and a subscription is an- 
nounced, under royal sanction, it is 
true, but not under that sanction of 
men of paramount character in the 
republic of letters which was desira- 
ble; and, we are grieved to say, with 
AN UTTER DISREGARD TO THE WANTS 
AND uopeEs of those members of the 
Bard’s family, to serve whom was the 
chief object of the original plan. Some 
of the literary butterflies of the day 
have thrust themselves into the com- 
mittees, and Impudence may in some 
degree succeed; but, until the just 
claims of the Shakespeare family are 
admitted to participate in the sub- 
scription, we denounce it as a dis- 
graceful display of ostentation, at the 
expense of the national character for 
benevolence and justice. It must be 
felt, by every one capable of feeling 
with Shakespeare, that to display any 
pompous monument of brass and mar- 
ble, while his worthy heirs and the 
descendants of his blood are in penury, 
would reflect no honour on the sub- 
sseribers; but would, while such claim- 
ants are neglected, be a monument of 
Montury Maa, No. 371. 
disgrace to the age and people by 
whom it might be raised. We need 
not urge more on the subject, for we 
are persuaded that no man of consis- 
tent or honourable feelings will sub- 
scribe a shilling till the self-constituted 
committee have explained themselves 
on this essential point. 
The Odyssey of Homer, translated 
into English prose, as literally as the 
idioms of the Greek and the English 
languages allow, with explanatory 
notes, by a Member of the University 
of Oxford, will soon appear, in two 
volumes octavo. 
Capt. Mansy, author of “‘ the Means 
of saving Persons from Shipwreck,” 
has nearly ready for publication, a 
Journal of a Voyage to Greenland in 
the Year 1821, with graphic illustra- 
tions, in one volume, quarto. 
Military Memoirs of. the Civil War 
between the People of England and 
the Stuarts, are in the press; being the 
personal memoirs of John Gwynne, 
and an account of the Earl of Glen- 
cairn’s expedition, as general of his 
Majesty’s forces, in the Highlands of 
Scotland, in the years 1653 and 1654; 
by a person who was eye and ear- 
witness to every transaction; with an 
appendix of documents. 
A work is in preparation of Gems 
principally from the Antique, drawn 
and etched by R. Dagley, author of 
“Select Gems, Compendium of Art, 
&c.” with verse illustrations, by the 
Rev. G. Croty, A.M. author of ‘ Cati- 
line,” a tragedy, &c, 
A volume of English Melodies will 
speedily be published, selected from 
the original scores and early printed 
copies in the library of WiLLiAm Kir- 
CHENER, M.D. 
We some time since called the 
attention of our readers to an associa- 
tion of very questionable utility in a 
free country, called the Royal Society 
of Literature. It seems this Society, 
having ‘‘more money than wit,” 
offered some premiums for essays on 
certain subjects already worm thread- 
bare ; 
