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possess professors under twenty years of age; whereas, in the first line 
of cookery, pre-eminence never occurs under thirty !” 
Having thus thrown open the vestibule of this Temple of Taste, we 
leave it to the reader to enter, assured that, if he come out a more cor- 
pulent man, he will not have studied for nothing. The book is hand- 
somely furnished with plates, of different human proportions, dressed 
according to the most approved receipts of the Board of Aldermen. 
We leave our popish rebels to digest the following : 
Letter of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. 
“ To the Right Hon. the Earl of Enniskillen, Deputy Grand Master of 
the Royal Orange Institution of Ireland. 
“ My dear Lord: « Berlin, Nov. 1, 1828. 
«« Having had the gratification of accepting the office of Grand Master 
of the Loyal Orange Institution of Great Britain, as successor to my 
much-lamented brother, the Duke of York, and having presided at its 
anniversary in the month of June last, it cannot but afford me great 
gratification to accept the proposal made to me, through you, to fill a 
similar office in Ireland, where that loyal society originated, for the 
defence of the constitution in a time of peril, and where, still more even 
than in Great Britain, every energy is needed to defend the sacred caues 
of Protestantism. 
« My attachment to that cause, which I imbibed from the instructions 
and example of my late revered father, George III., has been increased 
and strengthened by experience and reflection ; convinced as I am that 
the British constitution, the most invaluable that ever existed, from its 
religious and free character, cannot continue, should Protestant ascen- 
dancy be destroyed. I shall ever be found to abide by those principles 
which guided the conduct of my honoured father and Sovereign, and of 
my beloved brother, the present King, and the late Duke of York ; 
and which I cannot but consider to be those for the defence of which 
the House of Brunswick was called to the throne. 
“ I rejoice that the time is arrived when the laws no longer forbid the 
revival of the society in Ireland, and that I have the pleasure of confiding 
its interests to you, my dear lord, as Deputy Grand Master.—Believe, 
my dear lord, your’s very sincerely, : « ERNEST.” 
The United Service Magazine, projected by one of the most active and 
ingenious publishers of the day, does credit to his invention. All the 
reading world have been long anxious to see something of the kind ; 
while our soldiers continued to remember the curious variety of adven- 
ture, and the powerfully interesting scenes of the late war. For the 
narratives that such reminiscencies might supply, a magazine is the true 
receptacle. Brief memoranda may be best treasured there ; striking 
traits of intelligence, bravery, and presence of mind ; facts which, appa- 
rently slight, may yet be of the highest use to history ; memoirs of gallant 
men, whose example may be yet a guide and a stimulant to British 
intrepidity ;—those, and a hundred similar features, find their natural 
place in a well-conducted Naval and Military Magazine. 
The writers who will sit down to the labour of a volume, cannot be 
numerous in the active profession of arms. But there are few who have 
not fragments and anecdotes, of the most peculiar interest, within thei 
recollections ; and to those a periodical work is the true dépét. Th 
