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and customs of war, threw on board. The Comte de Provence was the 

 first that suffered : all her sails and mizenmast took fire, and the flames 

 spread to the quarter-deck, so that the whole ship would have been 

 consumed, had riot the captain of the Due de Bourgogne shot in 

 between the Comte de Provence and the English vessel, which conti- 

 nued firing broadsides, after expending all her combustibles. It was 

 with the utmost difficulty the captain of the Comte de Provence extin- 

 guished the fire on board his ship. The same thing happened to the 

 Zodiaque, with this difference, that the fire having gained the povrder- 

 room, she was on the point of blowing up, but was saved by the 

 diligence of the officers. The French fleet retired, arid anchored before 

 Pondicherry on the following day. We were not again attacked. The 

 number of French killed was 251; of wounded, 602. 



From a set of heroics contributed to the Oxford volume by the 

 Regius Professor of Greek himself, in the grand old tongue of which 

 he was the official guardian in the university, I made no extract, as no 

 use was made therein of the local names with which I was immediately 

 concerned. I rioted, however, that the professor did not accentuate his 

 G reek ; and that he bore a name which some years back was imagined 

 to have a sound somewhat unclassical, even in English; but which, by 

 association, now possesses a fine ring. The signature attached to the 

 exercise alluded to was *' S. Dickens," with the Academic suffixes of 

 ''S.T.P., ex MdiQ Christi, Ling. Graecse Professor Regius." 



Among the poetical offerings at the tomb of the deceased King, and 

 before the throne of his youthful successor, there Were several in 

 English also, duly preserved and splendidly printed in the volume 

 which has been engaging our attention. A few specimens of these are 

 now given, containing either the name of Canada or allusions to locali- 

 ties with which Canadians are familiar. 



The first will be from a set of very good Spenserian stanzas, by " the 

 Right Honorable the Earl of Donegal, M.A., of Trinity College." 

 The Genius of the Western World is represented as appearing to 

 Columbus during his first adventurous voyage. Among other coming 

 events, she reveals to him the conquest by the second George of the 

 region which she represents, his sudden decease, and the fact that a 

 young King would succeed him, and carry on triumphantly the work 

 begun. She broaches by anticipation the Monro doctrine, but in the 

 interest of Great Britain. She exhibits no prescience of the diminu- 

 tion which the Empire was destined speedily to suffer. The Genius 

 speaks : 



