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summation is alike beneficial to both 
parties; and that a mother state, well 
understanding her true welfare, will 
never attempt to impose the yoke of a 
master, when the fostering hand of the 
parent is no longer needed, but admit 
her full-grown offspring to the privi- 
leges of equal friendship, and draw 
those benefits from their gratitude and 
affection which can never be extracted 
from jealous interference on the one 
part, and foreed obedience on the 
other. Instead of shrinking from the 
contemplation of this result, we consi- 
der it as one to which the country 
should look boldly forward, not with 
apprehension, -but confidence and 
satisfaction. 
This number winds up with a short, 
but severe and contemptuous, notice 
of the Abbé de Pradt’s recent work, 
entitled, Hurope and America in 1821. 
Tt deals forth its unmixed censuresina 
very sweeping and peremptory style, 
and makes by no means a fair exposi- 
tion of the abbé’s merits. That there 
isa cood deal of speculation and a dis- 
position in the abbé “to go on re- 
fining,” is true enough; but the re- 
viewer would only have told the truth 
if he had added, that his pages abound 
with ingenious disquisitions and with 
eloquent displays of enlarged and 
liberal views.. Nor is it.handsome in 
the reviewer, at atime when de Pradt, 
notwithstanding he conceived he had 
reason to complain of Napoleon, was 
employed in defending his memory, to 
east in his teeth the sarcastic joculari- 
ties of which the emperor is known to 
have been by no means sparing, even 
towards persons whom he really es- 
teemed. 
Such are the contents of the present 
number, which, it will be seen, is of a 
yery miseellancous character, and 
which may be considered as of fair 
average merit. ‘The most valuable 
contribution, by far, is the tract on Irish 
The Neapolitan Patriots, 
[Nov. 1, 
affairs ; and, as an efficient and candid 
review, the last article is the most de- 
fective and unsatisfactory. 
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SUNDRY QUERIES. 
Sir,—The French burn linseed and 
other vegetable oils in their vivid lamps; 
but the same oils purchased in London ex- 
tinguish, instead of supporting, flame. Why 
is this? Can any-of your readers apprize 
the enquirer whether and where yegetable 
oils can be purchased in London in a state 
adapted to the Argand lamp ? Z. 
Oct. 3, ' ha 
Sir,—In the notice of the celebrated 
Orator Henley, in the English Eneyclope- 
dia, there is mention that, during his resi- 
dence at Melton Mowbray, in Leicester- 
shire, he “ began his Universal Grammar, 
and finished ten languages, with disserta- 
tions prefixed, as the most ready introduc- 
tion to any tongue whatever.” Can any 
of your correspondents inform me whether 
this work has been published; and, also, 
what ‘is the intrinsic merit thereof, if pub- 
lished? The motive for this enquiry origi- 
nates in want of sources of information on 
one hand, and in the remarkable eccentri- 
city of the person himself on the other ; as 
it would be great disappointment for a 
book to be purchased, supposing that it is 
published, and afterwards prove a repesi- 
tory of such facts as that of teaching the 
sons of Crispin to make shoes very speedily 
by cutting off the tops of ready-made 
boots. SCHOLASTICUS, 
Sir,—In the year 1817, Georges Petrow- 
ick, or Czerny Georges, (black George, 
who was a prototype of Timour the Tartar, 
was executed at Belgrade, being the leader 
of a band of conspirators who endeavoured 
to wrest Servia, (his native country,) frem 
the yoke of the ‘Turks. y 
If any of your numerous correspondents, 
or yourself, can give tie any account (or 
refer me to.any book oy paper where I 
might meet with it,) of his actions and ad- 
ventures, and the names of his family, mili- 
tary or political connections, they would 
extremely oblige me. ECW a 
Bath, Sept. 22,1822. 
BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT PERSONS. - 
— 
THE NEAPOLITAN PATRIOTS, 
Including Original Details of the late 
Revolutions at Naples. 
Wie PrsA was born of a re- 
spectable, though not affluent, 
family in Terra di Lavoro. His uncle, 
Marquess Vanni, was much renowned, 
in «n unfavourable sense, for being the 
basest and most cruel instrument of 
Acion, who was at that time prime- 
minister at Naples. Vanni, after hay- 
ing blindly served the fury of the court 
against the rising republican. party, 
shothimscelf onthe approach of General 
Championnet with a I'rench army to 
the frontiers of the kingdom, Decem- 
ber 1798. Vanni had carnestly so- 
licited Queen Caroline to be allowed 
to accompany her into Sicily, in order 
to eseape from public vengeance, but 
had been refused. Young Pisa was 
bred in one of the best colleges in the 
capital, 
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