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the fables of the middle age. While in the 

 French capital, he also sent from the press 

 " Notices and Extracts relative to Joan of 

 Arc ;" and " Essays on the Language and 

 Philosophy of the Indians." In 1808, he 

 returned to Germany, and was enrolled by 

 the Emperor of Austria, who appointed him 

 to reside at the head-quarters of the Arch- 

 Duke Charles, as Aulic Secretary. 



After the conclusion of the war, he 

 resumed his literary labours, and delivered 

 two courses of lectures ; one " On IModern 

 History," the other " On the Literary His- 

 tory of aU Nations." These Lectures were 

 printed, and have since, we believe, been 

 translated into several modern languages. 

 It seems hardly necessary to say that they 

 added largely to his fame. He also trans- 

 lated into German the " Corinne " of 

 Madame de Stael ; and was afterwards 

 engaged in the management of " The 

 German JIuseum." By the production of 

 several diplomatic papers, he gained the 

 friendship of Prince Metternich ; in conse- 

 quence of which he was honoured with an 

 introduction to the diplomatic department ; 

 and, from that period, until his decease, 

 which took place at Vienna, at the close of 

 the year 1828, he held the office of Austrian 

 Councillor of Legation at the Germanic 

 Diet. 



Frederick Von Schlegel married a 

 daughter of 3Ioses Blendelsohn, the cele- 

 brated Jewish philosophical writer. 



MR. KOLLMANK. 



Augustus Frederick Charles KoUmann, 

 organist of His Blajesty's German Chapel, 

 at St. James's Palace, was born in the 

 year I75C, at Engelbostel, a village near 

 the city of Hanover, where his father was 



both organist and schoolmaster. He ac- 

 quired a knowledge ofi-. Latin from the son 

 of the pastor of his parish ; and, from the 

 age of fourteen to sixteen, he frequented 

 the Gymnasium at Hanover, in tlie second 

 class. The succeeding five years he passed 

 partly with his parents, and parly at Hano- 

 ver, where he learned music of J. C. Boett- 

 ner, an able organist in the style of J. S. 

 Bach. Mr. Kollmann was tlie first person 

 who published a Treatise on tlie Rhetovic 

 of Music. His chief production, however, 

 was his New System of Musical Harmony. 

 His works, indeed, may be regarded as an 

 encyclopedia of musical science. This much 

 respected individual died on tlie evening of 

 Easter Sunday. 



MR. GEORGE WOOD, 



For some years proprietor, editor, and 

 publisher of the Kent Herald newspaper, 

 died on Wednesday afternoon, August 5, 

 at Canterbury, aged 39, of an attack of 

 gout in the stomach. In private Ufe he 

 had many estimable quahties ; — his chari- 

 ties were extensive without ostentation — his 

 friendship was sincere — his hostility, open 

 and manly. In his death the poor man 

 has lost a friend. That he was not free 

 from faults must be admitted, but they were 

 errors that liis relatives may regret, yet not 

 feel ashamed of. " De morluis nil nisi 

 bonum." Be it not forgotten that Lis life 

 was eminently usefid to his native place, 

 and advantageous to the general cause of 

 mankind. There is reason to fear that his 

 decease was hastened by the embarrassed 

 state of his affairs, but he had long been a 

 mart)T: to the gout. Alas ! 



" He was but born to try 

 The lot of man— to suffer and to die '." 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



TrtE disappointments and embarrassments of our farmers, seem destined to know no 

 end, during the present most unpropitious season. The alternate deluges and drought of 

 the spring, being succeeded by a few flattering intervals of fine weather, and the breadth 

 of corn of every species, more especially wheat, being exceedingly ample, the grass super- 

 abundant, and almost every article of produce in equal measure, sanguine hopes were en- 

 tertained, that a settled state of the weather must necessarily supervene, accompanied by a 

 seasonable solar heat, which would bring to perfection a sufficiency of crops in general, to 

 constitute that portion which is generally styled an average, or nearly so. The disappoint- 

 ment has been grievoas. Instead of a settled, genial atmospheric warmth, after so long a 

 series of atmospheric vicissitudes, we have found the weather speedily returning to its 

 former train ; constant drizz.ling or sudden deluges of rain, with alternations of wind 

 between E. and W., N. and S., most inimicable to vegetable health, and progress to ma- 

 turity. Nor is tills the worst characteristic of the present season. Floods, thunder storms, 

 attended with dangcroas showers of hail, gales of wind, laying every thing level in their 

 irresistible course, have prevailed, partially, throughout the island, with the destruction of 

 animal, and even a considerable portion of human life. The damage done to the crops 

 and to the lands, buildings, and fences, is immense. Lincolnshire and tlie fen districts, 

 with Yorkshire and part of Scotland, seem to have had the greatest share of suftering. 

 Hay and corn harvests, instead of their regular sequence, have been most inconveniently 

 and expensively blended together, and the latter must be protracted -and late, jiarticularly 

 in the northern counties, both from the unsettled state of the weather and the condition 

 of the corn. Where the corn is laid, and the examples arc too numerous, it is extremely 



