1822.} 
particularly ‘Tunis, have been sent to 
the press by his widow. 
AMERICA. 
A journal, devoted to British news 
and British politics, has been started at 
New York. Itis called “ the Albion.” 
EAST INDIES. 
The following description of the 
cholera morbus, from a foreign journal, 
eendenses what has been written on 
the subject in different papers, the 
author occasionally adding an obser- 
vation or two of his own:—The cholera 
morbus continues its dreadful rayages 
in India. This terrible malady ap- 
peared in the Delta of the Ganges, in 
the month of August 1817; its first 
irruption took place at a town called 
Jessire, about thirty-three leagues 
- north-east of Calcutta. The countries 
ef Hindostan, between the extreme 
points visited by this pestilence, at the 
end of thirty-six months after its ap- 
pearance, would be found to contain 
an area of'a thousand square leagues. 
Since that period the theatre of its 
disasters has been enlarged: the num- 
ber of inhabitants in Madras has been 
diminished ; the villages in the district 
of Sanpore have lost nearly the whole 
of their population. Not limited or 
confined to the continent, this danger- 
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353 
ous disease has appeared in the-island 
of Java, producing similar effects; 
and, by maritime communications, 
has penetrated into the southern pro- 
vinces of China, and the Archipelago 
of the Philippines. In spreading to 
the west, it traversed the peninsula of 
India; and, by the month of August, 
1818, had reached Bombay. In the 
month of September, 1821, this 
contagion had invaded the province 
of Guzerat; and, spreading along 
both banks of the Indus, advanced as 
far as the Persian Gulph, frequently 
with fatal effects in its coasts and har- 
bours.. At Mascat, the Kent, an 
English ship, reported the destruction 
of the crews of almost all the Arab 
vessels. The disease at times was so 
active, as to carry off a person in ten 
minutes. In India the natives have 
been attacked by it rather than the 
Europeans ; but it has visited some of 
the English, and there is reason to 
think that they carried the infection 
to Port Louis, in the Isle of Mauri- 
tius. As that colony had suffered by 
some contagion of a very dangerous 
character in 1819, rigorous precau- 
tions were adopted to prevent any 
communication with the infected 
vessel, 
NEW MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. 
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Jenny’s Baubee, a favourite Scotch 
Melody, with Variations for the Piano 
Forte. Composed by J. Reinagle. 38s. 
R. ReNaG ie, who is a professor 
of the violoncello at Oxford, and 
with whose talents, both asa composer 
and a performer, the musical world 
has long been well acquainted, has 
converted this justly-favourite little air 
into a very pleasing practical lesson. 
This composition has the advantage of 
two accompaniments ; one for a flute, 
and the other for a violoncello; the 
latter of which is printed on a separate 
sheet. Looking at the publication asa 
score, we find the parts scientifically 
and ingeniously adjusted, while, re- 
garding it as a piano-lorte practice for 
those who have not-yet made any con- 
siderable progress in the province of 
execution, we deem it a beneficial pro- 
duction. With this praise, however, 
(well as if may be deserved as far as it 
goes,) we must in justice blend the ob- 
servation, that we do not think every 
possible ‘advantage has been taken 
which the subject offered; and that, in 
Montuty Mac. No, 374. 
some few instances, the combination 
might have been less common-place, 
and the effecthave been rendered more 
new and striking. > 
Three Airs from Hayden's Creation, 
arranged for the Piano-Forte, with a 
Flute Accompaniment ; by Joseph de 
Pinna. 4s. ; 
The airs here selected by Mr. de 
Pinna are these of “The marv/lous 
works,” ‘‘ With verdure clad,’ and 
“In native worth. In treating these 
as subjects for piano-forte pieces, he 
has exercised considerable freedom of 
faney, and proved their capability of 
serving a purpose similar to that to 
which they are here converted. Inthe 
conduct of his undertaking, the ar- 
ranger has had an eye to the limited 
powers of juvenile pianists; and, by 
that means, extended the utility of a 
publication which possesses too much 
merit not to be generally attractive. 
The three pieces occupy eleven folie 
pages, and presenta body of well-ima- 
gined and ably-regulated matter, qua- 
lified to augment the bulk of our 
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