than a miracle can deliver them from their miserable thraldom? But we do not despair even of miracles. The times, by their general distresses, cannot but put the determination of these mendicants to a severe test, and when it is found that nothing is to be got by begging, the nunber of beggars will decrease in propor In the mean while, such publications acquaint the public with the extent of as the present, are useful, because they lations of ingenious men toward the best the evil; because they direct the specumethods of suppressing the evil; and, be, to acquaint posterity with the difficulties cause they will undoubtedly contribute experienced in accomplishing a most sacourage those who succeed us to attempt lutary work; and therefore may enthe reformation demanded in their affairs, encouraged by the example of their ancestors. Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Let Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Committee appointed by the House of Commons to Inquire into the State of *Mendicity and Vagrancy in the Metropolis and its Neighbourhood. 8vo. price 6. Sherwood and Co. London, 1815. There are subjects to which the attention to that discovery. tion of the House of Commons is called, exclusively there are others which concern the public at large, and on which that branch of the legislature is the medium of obtaining authentic evidence from the public, and of conveying authen tic evidence to the public. We lay a stress on the word authentic; because, we are sorry to say, that a volume containing a late report, (on the Education of the Lower Orders,) being reprinted from an incorrect copy of the original, is itself incorrect. Such are the injurious effects of hurry, to be the first in the mar ket! This Report could be no secret to the public, of which the newspapers had availed themselves, day after day, to fill their columns; but it seems that since its publication, the Begging trade, in its lower branches, has sadly fallen off; the daily gains of the profession are reduced in a scarcely credible proportion; and some even go so far as to say, the word work! has been heard to escape the lips of more than one member of the fraternity. To the higher branches of the noble art, times have been equally unfavourable; and many a sigh has been heaved-who would have thought it? in the region of ribbands, stars, and garters. We are not among those who refuse assistance by Public Benevolence to the laborious classes. Cold-blooded, indeed, are those mortals, who can take advantage of an impropriety to introduce confusion and animosity, into a company assembled to promote charity; where concord and good manners ought to reign.vered treasures, which every lamenting Most heartily do we wish that the indus-virtuoso pronounced lost for ever.. We trious might be relieved; and we are com anticipate, at no very distant period, an pletely of opinion with Poor Richard, that ample supply of Travels in Italy; we "God helps those who help themselves." shall be again told how beautiful the Most of all we pity the rising generation; Venus looks on her former pedestal ; brought up with the most hardened ef- and how divine the Apollo, who now frontery as their prevailing qualification; beams with regenerating graces, in his taught to extort by perseverance and former situation. For this we must pro din; taught perfection in their lesson by pare ourselves in the mean while, we daily and hourly practice; what less cry for quarter from those learned pens ters, during an Excursion in Italy, in the Years 1802 and 1803. By Joseph Forsyth, Esq. Second Edition, 8vo. pp. 479. Price 15s. Murray, London, 1816. Late events have raised up a series of ideas and wishes, so entirely new with regard to every thing that concerns Italy, that we scarcely know what importance to attribute to a work, the materials for which were collected ten or a dozen years ago. Of the persons described in it, some, more likely many, are dead in the interval; of the works of ancient art some have been greatly improved by the politic and judicious labours of the French; of the museums and collections, some have been robbed of what they then possessed; while others have reco here realized their juncture literally eludes the severest nail. How boldly do those restorers make An which will be satisfied with no less than discovering and discussing, the every thing of antiquity; fixing localities to a certainty, which others may incline up dismembered trunks and affix attributes! Having found at Præneste one feto accept with hesitation. On this sub-male body in a stooping posture, they ject, Mr. Forsyth shall read our country-stuck an ancient head with half-shot eyes on the shoulders, set a pail at the feet, men a lesson : and then called the whole a Danaid. other female being found dressed like a general in a double paludamentum, without any agis, the most essential attribute of all, has been transformed into a Minerva Pacifica, by fixing a head unarmed on ber shoulders, a bronze helmet in her right hand, and a sprig of olive in her left. Another headless trunk, having the left arma wrapt in a mantle, has been converted into a Perseus, with the addition of a winged, Thus we lose the freehead and a herpé. dom of judging on the original trunk, and the pleasurable torment of conjecture. Who ever would know what real y remains here of the ancients, must examine on the spot. Engravers have published the chief objects, rather as ornaments for a cabinet or port-fo tio, than as documents for study. Piranesi's fine prints give the statues entire and, when compared here before then, they even fail in resemblance. Besides, one good engravs "And On my first visit to the Campo Vaccino, I asked my valet de-place where the lake of Curtius was supposed to have been? "Be hold it!" cried he, striking with his cane an immense granite bason, called here a lago. "Was this then the middle of the Forum" "Certainly." "Does the Cloaca Maxima run underneath ?"-" Certainly." was this really the lago where the ancients threw their money?"" Certainly." Thus was the lacus of some ancient fountain (probably one of those which M. Agrippa bad distributed through the streets) transformed by a Cicerone's wand into the Curtian lake; and thus are thousands cheated by sounds. The devotion of Curtius may itself be a fable; but it is a fable dear to every patriot. and if retraced by some object inore probable than this, would be one sentiment more brought to the mind of a passenger. Such ignorance I am far from imputing to the professed Ciceroni of Rome. Many of these are profound in its an iquities; but theying is sufficient for any picture; but the de are generally too fuil of their own little dis coveries, which often exclude more importapt information from the stranger Now, this is too true; and as these discoveries are the trade of the place a stranger will do well to abate in his own mind a portion of that positrceness in which The a true Cicerone is never deficient the A natural horror of mutilation leads men to complete whatever they possess; and thus the statues of Belvedere have received so much modern work to restore ancient, that we can hardly distinguish what is original from what is added Either the old surface is scraped into the whiteness of what is new, or the new has received the yellow ivory gloss of the old while the cement which unites thein is so, mp erceptibly fine, that Persius' metaphor is tails of a single statue would require fifty, and, perhaps, the sublime of the original would escape thein alt. "We do not altogether coincide in this censure of engravings. Few works of reputation have lately been published without marking by occult lines the parts restored: and these afford valu able additions to our knowledge. As to what were communicated to the Publica century ago, or more, they are not proper subjects for modern criticism. We are under great obligation to Bartoli, and others, though in minor particulars they fail. In fact scarcely any representation can bring the excellences of certain statues completely before the eye: where is the artist whose drawing from the Venus ever sausfied him? Mr. Forsyth took the entire of Italy into his to r; from Nice to Naples: he visited all the principal cuies, including Venice; and has inter-persed his journal with a variety of remarks, containing much truth and some severity. We sympathize with his long captivity;" which has certainly been at the same time a cause of suffering to himself and of injury to the Public. The Restoration of the Works of Art to HISTORY. Historical Memoirs of Barbary and its Maritime Power, as connected with the Plunder of the Seas, including a sketch of Algiers, Tripoli, and Tpois, with the various attacks made upon them, and their original treaties with King Charles II. 162, will a coloured view of the city of Algiers. The Volume for 1808, will be published early in the winter, and the Volume for 1797, in continuation of the former Series, about the same time will soon appear, in one thick volume. The subject has drawn forth the powers of this lady's pen to great advan-speedily appear, in a neat pocket size, with tage. In an exalted style she sings of exalted subjects, and manifests a taste and feeling highly creditable to her judgment and sentiment. The subject, after - all, more properly belongs to the Italian masters of song. We know, that the popalace, almost every where, have welcomed their former property back again with rapture; but we have not yet received notice of any considerable work of the Poetic Muse having made its appearance in the country so highly complimented as the seat of Science, Taste and Feeling, in the poem before us. Italy is certainly fallen; but that she may again arise should not be despaired of: she is degraded; but, by causes whose operation may possibly be suspended, and then she may be herself once more-the land of Honour, of Morals, and of Religion, as well as of Art and Accomplishments. JURISPRUDENCE. of all the Public Acts of Parliament, passed At press, a Full and Complete Abstract in the last Session of Parliament, 56 Geo. III. with notes and comments, and also a copious index, by Thomas Walter Williams, of the Inner Temple, Esq. editor of the Quarto Digest of the Statutes, &c &c. This abstract, which it is intended to continue annually, contains a very full and accurate abridgment of all the various clauses and provisions, penalties and torfeitures, contained in the acts of the last session of parliament, and cannot be otherwise than eminently useful, not only to justices of the peace and parish officers, in the practical discharge of their duties, but also to the public in general, ho from a want of proper information in respect to the current. involve themselves most inadvertently in enactments of the legislature, very frequently consequences highly penal and prejudicial, MEDICINE. Mr. Sheldrake has in the press a fourth edition of Useful Hints to those who are Afflicted with Ruptures, on the Nature, Cure, and Consequences of the Disease, and on the Empirical Practices of the present day, with an appendix, containing an explanation of the principles. MEDICINE AND CHIRURGERY. To be published in a tew days, in 8vo. 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