for creating a new set of surreptitious voters, who are made for the joint lives of Mr. Ure, one of the trustees of the estate of Sir John Frederic Johnstone, and the nominal freeholder.

The reader may, perhaps, be surprised that so many persons can be found to answer such a time-serving corrupt purpose; but such is the state of political morality in this country, that we have seen numbers make interest amongst the attorneys emplo ed for the purpose, to get their names inserted in the deeds, that they may par

Not the least wonderful part of election matters, is the infatuation of the candidates. Who does not know instances of gentlemen, possessing very pretty estates, who, with Sir Francis Wronghead, have " run those estates out at elbows," by electioneering contests? Who does not know of "worthy knights" condemned to the purlieus of a jail, or, at best, to a state of perpetual sufferance, for the rest of their lives, insuring also the beggary of their families? If there be any person so fortunate as not to know such instances, let them peruse Mr. Oldfield's volumes carefully, So then the split freeholds of the and they will find many. Usually, too, Isleworth millers was not an original the embarrassments arising from these thought! instead of being the masterparty attempts run through several gepiece of invention, behold, it is in truth,nerations of borough meddlers; and pobut a clumsy imitation of Weymouth verty spreads her blasting wings over worthies, voting for the thirteen hun- the Mortimers, the Bryants, and the dredth part of a sixpenny freehold! Benfields, successor after successor. Were there no creditable freeholders in the County of Middlesex whose hearts were inflamed at this gross outrage on their privilege?

take of the drunkenness and entertainments that are going on upon these occasions.

After all, it often happens, in the most numerous towns, that parti-s are equally poised. Every reader can recollect instances of this; as striking an instance as any, is the

CITY OF GLOUCESTER,

This city has had but two remarkable contests for many years. The first was upon the death of Sir Charles Barrow, in 1789, when their present member, Hcury Howard Molineux, Esq. and the late John Pitt, of this city, Esq. were candidates. Voters were brought from all parts of the kingdom, and not a single freeman that could be found was left unpolled. After the contest had lasted fifteen days, and more than 3000 electors had polled, Mr. Pitt succeeded by a majority of one vote. Mr. Howard Molineux was chosen the other member in 1790.

The next contest was on the death of Mr. Pitt, when the Duke of Beaufort attempted to establish an interest in the city of Gloucester similar to that which prevails in the county. Lord Arthur Somerset was proposed by his Grace, and opposed by Robert Morris, Esq. a banker of this place, who succeeded by a very great majority.

The corporation are in the interest of the Duke of Norfolk, who is an alderman and high steward of Gloucester, and has nominated one member ever since the year 1790.

Travels in various Countries, by
E. D. Clarke, L.L.D.

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Dr. Clarke is well entitled to the character by which Homer distinguishes Ulysses, of having seen the manuers of many men and many places. To what a confined space was that famous traveller's voyages limited, compared with those of our adventurous countryman! Our countryman, too, had more numer ous objects of research than the king of Ithica, who, if he could but save himself from present danger, was contented to assume disguises, and to display dexterities, foreign from his royal character. Yet Ulysses is much more frequently commended by his bard for being Polymetis, wise in all purposes, and wary in all places, than for being Polytropos, skilful in many mens' manners and fashions. Whoever follows Dr. Clarke in his route through some of the same countries as Ulysses visited, will be convinced of the necessity for vigilance and presence of mind, at every moment: for sometimes displaying authority and power, and sometimes concealing them; for occasionally declining what he much wished to possess, or averting his steps from a place which he greatly desired to inspect.

Neither were the enquiries of the modera traveller directed exclusively to

the characters of the people whom he 1 yet, in point of taste, it is so exceeding met with in his journey; he wished to ly superior to the more ornamented and ascertain the scenes of events, long ago crowded capital which was afterwards deprived of importance in the world, of introduced, that both the rival connoscities, whose very names are unknown centi of Athens, Lusteri and Fauvel, to their present masters, of rivers, moun- have designed and modelled it; and tains, grottos, plains, marked by his-they have spoken of its discovery as tory, but not always intelligibly, and forming an epocha in the history of the distinctly, marked by nature. Antient art." The Dr. mentions this article in Geography is under great obligations three places; but has refused to grainy to Dr. Clarke; as it is also to several our curiosity with so much as an outGentlemen who travelled about the line of it; is it possible, that as men of same time. They have retraced by taste, we should pardon this negligence? their ruins, many towns once flourishing, and have thrown considerable light Antiquities he visited, is highly interDr. C.'s report on the state of the on many interesting subjects of an-esting. Among them we distinguish tiquity. the Cave of Trophonius, the entrance of which is rendered inuch more intelligi

This volume opens with an account of numerous discoveries of vases, com-ble by a plate than otherwise it would monly called Etruscan, in the tombs be;-the grove of the Muses, the birth of Greece; and these curious subjects, place of Hesiod, &c. on Mount Helicon; formerly attributed solely to Italy, are a Mountain that we are happy to find now found to have been common to has its fertile spaces, which "have both countries. Dr. Clarke also, distin-been cultivated from immemorial time." guishes in the convolutions of a certain Nor must we forget the number of tombs water plant, the origin of the Ionic of illustrious persons identified by our Volute. We have been rather accustom-traveller, but with different degrees of ed to accept the horn of a sacrificed credibility;-such as, the tomb of Oranimal, as that origin; and there are pheus, near Dium; the tomb of Hesiod, instances of the Volute winding like a near Orchomenus; the tombs of the goats' horn, yet remaining from the days Macedonian Kings, entered, and left of antiquity. We should be glad, never- undisturbed, by Mr. Fiott, at Edessa; the less, to see this plant ascertained; who being, as he confesses " and its properties submitted to modern in the Sexton trade," left the bodies, the cognizance. ornaments, the clothes, and the vases, just as he found them. This might be a very honest feeling; but the man who

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We are obliged to Dr. C. for many interesting Engravings, which highly illustrate his volumes; but, are rather sur-could indulge it, must never expect to prized that he did not favour the admirers obtain distinction as an Antiquary. No, of Eschylus, with such a plan of the city no; what reason can be given why of Thebes, as would have formed a very those who were buried two thousand acceptable companion to his play of years ago, and have enjoyed these nonthe Seven Chiefs against Thebes. An necessaries long enough, should not reomission of the same kind, vexed us sign their property to honest Antiquaheartily, on the subject of a Corinthian rian travellers, who want them for the capital, "without Volute for the corners, purpose of enriching their collections, and having a single wreath of the sim-and who, in fact, cannot do without plest Acanthus foliage to crown its base. There is not in Europe a single instance of this most elegant variety of the Corinthian in any modern structure. In fact, it is only known to those persons who have seen the very few examples of it that exist among the ruins of the Grecian cities. There is no trace of it among the ruins of Rome;

them, as all their learned brethren are ready to testify by athidavit before Minos, or Rhadamanthus himself, if necessary.

The numerous inscriptions of ancient origin, contained in this Volume afford much curious matter, with occasion for deep reflection. We find the people honouring with commemorative applause

domestic excellence: says one inscrip- | costly and magnificent monument, whattion: The Senate and the People ever opinion may prevail as to the taste (honor) the daughter of Theogiton, of its workmanship. There is no inthe wife of. on account of stance known of a triumphal arch that her virtue and her modesty." Another was more richly adorned with sculpinforms us, that "" Churopeina, daugh- ture The piers all around ter of Tiberius Claudius Didymus, a were adorned with three compartments of priestess of Diana, is honoured by the basso relievos, one above another, each Cheroneuns for her virtue, and reli- relief being four feet two inches deep, gious attendance on the Deity." These divided by others that were twelve inches erections by the voice of the commu- deep, covered with foliage and flowers." nity, to virtue, modesty, and devotion, Unfortunately, the plague raged in appear not a little singular, in a country this quarter of the city, which is prinwhere there is as much of either, and cipally inhabited by Jews; as was also of all, these excellent qualities, as in any the case in Stuart's time, and occasioncountry on the face of the earth. Yet ed his precipitate departure. had these very people their weak side; Thessalonica is a considerable city, for, on the other hand, we find them re- having a population of sixty thousand cording, that, on the fifteenth day of souls, of which about half the number the Month Alufcomenius (October) Phiare Turks; the Greeks are about sixloxenus being Archon, Alexon, the son teen thousand; and the Jews twelve of ishodon, dedicates his own slave Di-thousand; with a mixed population of onysia, as sacred to the God Serapis, she having remained blameless with him all her life." Was this a favour to the slave? Was the temple service more honourable, or lighter, than that of an ordinary master? Or was it a gift to the God, of a property no longer valu-cipally from England. West India cofable to himself, this slave having lived out her best days in his service? If it were a token of gratitude, would not liberty have been the preferable way of shewing that sensibility?

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Negroes and Gipsies, amounting to two thousand more. This city is enriched by the export trade; its principal commodities consist of cotton, wool, tobacco, bees-wax, and silk. It is the port for all Macedonia. The imports are prin

fee is often sold in the Levant, under the name of Mocha coffee, (particularly at myrna,) whence it is sometimes shipped, and brought back again to England, under that name.

We follow this learned traveller, with Here, owing to the plague, our tragreat attention, iu his Volume, from vellers could not purchase a proper Greece, to Macedonia, and admire with dress for the interpreter; but were comhim the snowy summits of Mount Olympelled to clothe him coarsely, to avoid pus; but our space here, forbids us from infection, with a rough shepherd's cloth, indulging ourselves. As he approaches which was fumigated, and passed through Thessalonica, the terror of the plague, then raging there, almost checks our

hopes of his visit to it; although we much wish that one traveller were permitted by prudence to examine this city, with

out reserve,

Stuart had brought us acquainted with that interesting Antiquity known by the name of the Incantada; but, we do not recollect, that he mentions the Rotunda, an edifice resembling the Pantheon, at Rome; or the triumphal arch erected in honour of Octavius and Anthony, after the battle of Philippi; and another to Constantine, which is almost entire. "It was certainly a most

water.

We cannot stay to wander with our Author, where Euripides wandered, on the banks of the lake Beshec, nor to visit the ruins of Amphipolis, nor to speculate on the dirt and unseemliness of Turkish Khans in some places. In his approach to Constantinople, he found the country in rebellion, and his situation at Fairy, was strikingly perilous.

The Metropolis of the Turkish Empire, and-if the Turks say true, the very centre and seat of Orthodox Islamism, is Constantinople; but it was more interesting to our traveller as a

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city once eminent for splendour, and still | night's lodging beneath their humbler. retaining unquestionable marks of anti-sheds. The Greeks are, for the most part, quity. The breach made by Mahomet indolent and profligate, vain, obsequions, 11. when the city was taken by the ostentatious, poor and dirty. The Albamons Turks, is still distinguishable; and are industrious, independent, honourable, clumps of old trees, wave in desolate leanly, and hospitable. They are a hardgrandeur over the spot where fell the sub dio, either in the fields or upon the ier and a healthier race; passing their lives, last of the Paleologi. mountains: their sons possess a manlier disposition than the offspring of the Greeks, who are always eleminate; and the

daughters of Albaniaus are not charac

But, we must now relinquish our attention to the memorials of antient days, and endeavour to communicate some notions, though very partial, of our travel-terized by those relaxed habits and that ler's opinion, on modern men, and manners. This is the more desirable, because, public expectation locks strongly towards the East for an approaching shi't of scenery; and the possession of the Ionian islands by the British power, is supposed to be connected with further possibilities in that part of the globe.

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early fading which may be observed in the Grecian damsels. A girl of Grecian parents scarcely attains her twentieth year before she begins to exhibit the marks of a premature old age; and all the Grecian women exhibit a matronly appearance long before they enter into the marriage state.. Some of them are, it is true, exceedingly beautiful; and Nature seems to have been more lavish in the distribution of female charms among the Grecian than among the Albanian women; because the Albanian women have almost all of them the complexion and the features of gipsies: but beauties which they possess; they make then, the former seldom display the natural their appearance disguised by cosmetics and paint, and by the artificial ornaments of false hair; tricked out, at the same time, by all sorts of finery, and smelling of essences and of musks. The Albanian women

Dr. Clarke has an amusing Artitle on the privacy of the Greek Gynuceum, concerning which he observes, that "unless a stranger be intimate enough with the master of a family to penetrate to the retirement set apart for its female relatives, he may come and go without meeting any one of them." This seclusion is not derived from the Turks, but is the ancient custom continued. Dr. C. was happy enough to obtain an in-are fond of finery,—and, indeed, where are terview, by "means of an invitation to a ball, with an assembly of the wealthiest matrons of the Greek families, seated in a row, with their daughters standing before them." They danced, too, but not delightfully, if we may believe our author;-they had expression enough of a certain kind, but neither grace, nor dignity; and the simplest English country dance, they found too fatiguing.

the women, except in highly civilized society, who are not fond of it--but the Albanion finery cousists, principally, m and their dress is remarkable for the scrua display of colours strongly contrasted; pulous attention to cleanliness by which it is distinguished.

hints, that the liberation of Greece, Our readers will gather from these whenever it takes place, will not be due to the energy, spirit, or unanimity of It is not from the Greeks, but, the Greeks; and perhaps, it may bear a it is from the Albanians, the Dr. ex-question, whether that race, as it is chapects service, whenever an opportunity racterized, at present, be much more shall present itself of vindicating the li-worthy of independence, than their preherty of Greece. These descendants o. sent masters are worthy of comman 1. the ancient Macedonians, have, it is true. the character of robbers; but, says our author,

Future travellers in Greece will do well to profit by our experience, with respect to the Albanian peasantry,- a race as distinct as possible from all the other inhabitants of the country. We never had reason to complain, when we consented to forego the accommodation offered in Greek houses for a

In whatever can be said on the ignorance of the Turks, Dr. C. joins unreservedly; but he does justice to other qualities, which it is not fair to undervalue. We insert an amusing instance of the first, and, to shew our impartiality, several instances in support of the latter, observation.

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At Kishan, advancing towards Con-

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