ceeding the number before mentioned, and which is given by Pinkerton, making together 1037, which he divides into 178 families, and refers the reader to his work before mentioned," Familia Romana Exantiquis Numis matibus, &c. 1663," where he has given their devices and descriptions.

Pinkerton gives us a very coufined list of the families, but in the Pembrokian collection they will be found nearly to amount to Patin's computation; and ought in the cabinet to be arranged alphabetically, according to the families.

The following is a corrected list from Pinkerton; those marked in Italics being the additions, which make the number 152, or 26 less than Patin.

Numbers. 24 13 2 411 3 1 1:59

Since the last return, thirty-nine men have been shipped, or have been passed to their homes.

Next week we shall make a statement of the state of the funds for the support of this establishment, which, it is desirable to keep up until the latter end of this month, if possible.

Merchants and Captains of ships may be supplied with able-bodied seamen on application at the cellar; and we need not say, that by shipping these men, they wall render a great service to the town, and to the genewal interests of humanity. We wish we could prevail upon some of our townsmen to pay a visit to this receptacle of wretchedness. It would be an excellent practical

bermon.

To Correspondents.

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO INFERIOR ANI-
MALS. We have, more than once, stated that an
effort was made, several years ago, to establish a so-
ciety in this town, for the purpose of suppressing,
by every legal and practicable means, those disgrace-
ful and unmanly acts of wanton cruelty, too fre-
quently practised upon what is termed the brute crea-
ation. The promoters of the benevolent scheme were
not actuated by any Quixotic or Utopian motives;
neither did they aim at establishing a vexatious or
pragmatical system of espionage over the communi-
ty. They were aware of the prevalence and enormity
of the evil, which it was their object to diminish, if
it should prove too general or too formidable to be
wholly eradicated. The reasons why they did not
realise their humane scheme have been already ad-
verted to; and it may, for the present, be sufficient
to repeat, that its temporary abandonment is not, in
any degree, to be ascribed to the impracticability of
the measure itself. We confidently trust that the ex-
periment will yet be made; and the sympathy so re-
peatedly and so recently expressed in its behalf, leads
us to anticipate the most beneficial result. The
frequent allusion to this subject in the Kaleidoscope,
has attracted considerable attention; and we have
received letters on the subject from individuals residing
in other towns, where the Kaleidoscope circulates, en-
quiring into the state and progress of the "Liverpool
Society for the prevention of wanton cruelty to inferior
animals." Whilst the subject is before us, we take the
opportunity to state, that a most respectable clergyman,
of this town, a few days since, put into our hands, a let-
ter, which we conceive we may publish without any
breach of confidence. The following is a copy; and we
shall not fail to forward this day's Kaleidoscope to the
address of the reverend writer:

No, 1, Great Mile-end-road, near London.
SIR,-I understand that there is a society formed
at Liverpool for preventing cruelty to animals. I
should esteem myself infinitely obliged if you would
favour me with some particulars respecting it; or,
if any rules (as probably is the case) have been
drawn up, for the management of the institution,
I should be happy to have them forwarded to me,

either by letter or by the coach. I beg to apologise

for giving you this trouble; but, as I am not ac.
quainted with any individual at present at Liver-
pool, I am under the necessity of applying to a
brother clergyman, in this manner, for the infor-
mation which I want. I am, your's, &c.
A. BROOME.

To the Officiating Minister of St. Paul's or St. Peter's

Church, Liverpool.

LITERARY PILFERERS.-If CORNELIUS will favour
us with a glance at the work in question, and we find
the plagiarisms as barefaced as he represents them to
be, we shall not be restrained, by any false delicacy,
from exposing the piracy. When we restore the vo-
lume, we shall inclose a perfect copy of the Kaleido-
scope, in lieu of that which has been scored by COR-
NELIUS for our accommodation.

A CONSTANT READER, of Ormskirk, could never
have anticipated the insertion in the Kaleidoscope of
verses on such a subject as that he has selected.

We very highly approve of the plan of the work sent
for inspection by J. B.; and shall endeavour to pro-
cure a copy for ourselves. We have not yet had an
opportunity to peruse the particular parts recommen-
ded; but shall not omit to do so at our earliest leisure.

TIMOTHY TURTON.-Our Manks correspondent, is
infinitely too sublime for our limited faculties.

NOTES TO THE SIEGE OF LATHOM HOUSE-W remind the correspondent to whom we were indebted for the MS. of the Siege of Lathom-hall, that we were led to expect, and still await, his further orders. ORTHOGRAPHICAL INNOVATIONS.-The letter of GEORGE MEANWELL, which was mislaid until it was too late for insertion this week, shall, most ass. redly, be attended to in our next.

The selection on Time shall have an early place; and
Monsieur's Complaint is only postponed. The maru
script was not perfectly correct, and we hoped to meet
with a printed copy, which we should have preferred
following.

A SAXON'S note shall be attended to.
We shall be glad to hear further from A SCRAP

GATHERER.

The lines on the comparative longevity of animals are entitled to a place in our columns.

HORE OTIOSE.-NO. VII. has been received. The writer has evinced great propriety and good sense by the manner in which he has received the hint we found it necessary to give last week. LIVERPOOL.-T. J. C. will find his letter in the pre

sent number of the Kaleidoscope. We shall expect to hear further on the same subject from him or other correspondents; to whom we would suggest the pro priety of confining their communications to the practicable length, upon a subject purely local, and perhaps not so interesting even to our town reades is its importance merits.

If the articles to which an ASTRONOMER alludes short, perhaps they might not be unexceptionable, although we fancy that our corespondent has bec anticipated by the compilers of many of our elementary treatises.

The communication of J. P. reached us after our alrangements for the present publication had been finaly

made.

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a matter of much consequence, and that the object
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[Written for the Kaleidoscope.]

OF THE IMPERIAL COINS of rome.

TO THE EDITOR.

“UTILE DULCI.”

TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1821.

The veil, frequently worn by them is a mark of sacred dignity; and it is a curious circumstance, that Constantius Chlorus appears veiled on his consecration coins, which have the deified chariot, or his figure, for the reverse.

PRICE 32d.

circulated in manuscript amongst the friends of the writer, of whom we do not feel at liberty to say more at present, than that he is a well-known merchant, of great respectability and talent, now residing in Liverpool.

It is owing to the kind interference and solicitation of a friend, that we have at length the opportunity to lay before the readers of the Liverpool Mercury the particulars of an adventure, as affecting as any we ever recollect to have met with.

We have several Imperial Coins, not bearing a head, as on the large brass of Augustus, on one side of which the Emperor is seated on a chair, and the other represents a sacrifice. We likewise find, in the cabinets of the curious, those of Germanicus, on the obverse of There is scarcely on record a more awful and appalling which he appears, as conqueror, in his quadrigated car, situation, than that so well described in the latter part bolding an eagle in his left hand, and over bim his of this narrative, where the writer states that the velocity name: and on the reverse he stands in a military habit, with which he was hurried forwards convinced him of extending his right hand in a commanding attitude, the near approach of the dreadful rapids of La Chine; and supporting another eagle with his left, the legend that night was drawing on, and that his destruction informing us of the victory for which he triumphed.-appeared inevitable. Numerous others might be mentioned, but let the foregoing suffice, save just remarking the noted spintræ of Tiberius, who, not content, when living, to practice every species of deformity and vice, bas left us monuments of his heinous practices in these Coins; they generally bear a numeral on one side, from I. upwards but his head may he found on some, and the reverses but they are too shocking to be recounted. AN ANTIQUARY..

SIR. -Having treated principally, in my two last, of
Consular, and Coins preceding the time of Julius,
hall now proceed to the Imperial, the grandest series
the world, both for device and execution. I before
served the different metals and sizes, aud it was
this time the smaller brass began to be in more
quent use; though, speaking generally, the small
cass is scarce till the latter time of the empire, when
grows common, and what at first was accounted
rge brass, scarce; and so much so as to be ranked
ith medals, save those of Posthumus, which are com-
an. On the face, or obverse, we have most commonly
ahead of the Emperor, the reverses bearing various
vices, of which hereafter. Julius, as he was the first
ing Emperor who impressed his own head on the
, so he was the first who wore the laurel wreath,
upt as the honorary prize of a conqueror) which lia," read Aemilia, as in the subsequent list.

as permitted by the senate on account of his baldness;

id, from this time, it is the general ornament worn the sacceeding Roman Emperors; but we see, on coins of Posthumus and others at that period, the lated crown, worn by Augustus on his consecration

The following ornaments and head dresses in which Emperors and Empresses generally appear, are m Pinkerton; having made a few,alterations, and idging the remarks as much as possible, leaving a Scient explanaton for the youthful collector, for ose advantage these letters are written.

The rostal crown was a sign of naval victory or comad, being made in resemblance of prows of ships d together. Agrippa frequently appears with it, prize of first ascending the walls of an enemy's city. The oaken, or civic crown, not uncommon in the ins of Galba, was the badge of having saved the life

a citizen or many citizens.

The helmet we frequently meet with on the coins of obus, and the Constantines, expecially the first, be3 of different forms, and variously and curiously rought and ornamented.

Of the head-dresses of the Empresses little need be id, but of the two Faustina's a distinction is necesry; the first, or elder, wears her hair plaited in many ws, and brought to the top of her head, being there sed in a fanciful form, whilst the younger has her's ed in a plain knot behind.

Liverpool, March 5, 1821.

In letter III. 1st line of section 3d instead of " Omi

The Gleaner.

The horror of this scene, and the unlooked-for escape, at such a critical moment, have seldom been surpassed even in the fictions of romance.

Since the manuscript came into our hands, we have been told, by a particular friend, that a near relation of his, who has recently arrived from Canada, had frequently heard of this adventure from persons residing on the spot, where no doubt is entertained of its truth in all the particulars here related.-Edts.

"On the 22nd of April, 1810, our party set sail in a large schooner from FortGeorge,, or Niagara Town; and, in two days, crossed Lake Ontario to Kingston, at the head of the river St. Lawrence, distant from Niagara

"I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's about two hundred miles. Here we hired stuff."

WOTTON.

ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING
AND EXTRAORDINARY NARRA-
TIVES ON RECORD.

an American barge (a large flat-bottomed boat) to carry us to Montreal, a further distance of 200 miles: then set out from Kingston on the 28th of April, and arrived the same evening at Osdenburgh, a In giving a place to the following singular narra- distance of seventy-five miles. The followtive, we act in compliance with the earnest solicitations ing evening we arrived at Cornwall, and the of many of our best friends, who are very desirous that succeeding night at Pointe du Lac, on Lake the first volume of the Kaleidoscope should contain so interesting a document. As our two journals fall into St. Francis: here our bargemen obtained different hands, and as the Kaleidoscope has a class of our permission to return up the river; and readers peculiarly its own, in various parts of this king-we embarked in another barge, deeply laden dom and of Ireland, who have not the opportunity of seeing the Mercury, in which the original first appeared, we shall offer no apology for copying the article recommended from that journal.-Edit. Kal.

[From the Mercury of Feb. 5, 1819.]

The following most interesting detail, the truth of which may be confidently relied upon, has been privately

with potashes, passengers, and luggage, Above Montreal, for nearly 100 miles, the river St. Lawrence is interrupted in its course by rapids, which are occasioned by the river being confined within comparatively narrow, shallow, rocky channels: through these it rushes with great force and noise,

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and is agitated like the ocean in a storm, terrified with the vicinity of the cascades to the St. Lawrence before, but I knew there Many people prefer these rapids, for gran-which we were approaching, it put back, were more rapids a-head, perhaps another deur of appearance, to the falls of Niagara : notwithstanding my exhortations, in French set of the cascades; but, at all events, the they are from half a mile to nine miles long and English, to induce the two men on board La Chine rapids, whose situation I did not each, and require regular pilots. On the to advance. The bad hold which one man exactly know. I was hourly in expectation 30th of April, we arrived at the village of the had of the trunk, to which we were ad- of these putting an end to me, and often Cedars; immediately below which are three hering, subjected him to constant immersion; fancied some points of ice extending from sets of very dangerous rapids (the Cedars, and, in order to escape his seizing hold of the shore to be the head of foaming rapids the Split-rock, and the Cascades) distant me, I let go the trunk, and, in conjunction At one of the moments in which the from each other about one mile, On the with another man, got hold of the boom cession of waves permitted me look up l The with morning of the first of May, we set out (which, with the gaff, sails, &c. had been saw at a distance a canoe with four me from the Cedars; the barge very deep and detached from the mast, to make room for coming towards me, and waited in conf very leaky; the Captain, a daring, rash man the cargo) and floated off. I had just time dence to hear the sound of their paddles refused to take a pilot. After we passed the to grasp this boom, when we were hurried but in this I was disappointed: the men, Cedar rapid, not without danger, the Cap- into the cascades; in these I, was instantly I afterwards learnt, were Indians (genuine tain called for some rum, swearing at the buried, and nearly suffocated. On rising to descendants of the Tartars) who happening same time, that God Almighty could not the surface, I found one of my hands still on to fall in with one of the passenger's trunks, steer the barge better than he did. Soon the boom, and my companion also adhering picked it up and returned to the shore for after this we entered the Split-rock rapids to the gaff. Shortly after descending the the purpose of pillaging it; leaving, as they by a wrong channel, and found ourselves cascades, I perceived the barge, bottom up. since acknowledged, the man on the boat advancing rapidly towards a dreadful wa-wards, floating near me. I succeeded in to his fate. Indeed I am certain I should tery precipice, down which we went. The getting to it, and held by a crack in one end have had more to fear from their avarice barge slightly grazed her bottom against of it; the violence of the water, and the than to hope from their humanity; and it the rock, and the fall was so great as to falling out of the casks of ashes, had quite is more than probable, would have been, nearly take away the breath. We here wrecked it. For a long time, I contented taken, to secure them in the passession took in a great deal of water, which was myself with this hold, not daring to endea- my watch and several half-eagles, which l mostly bailed out again before we hurried vour to get upon the bottom, which I at had about me. The accident happened at on to what the Canadians call the "grand length effected; and from this, my new si-eight o'clock in the morning; in the course buillow," or great boiling. In approaching tuation, I called out to my companion, who of some hours, as the day advanced, the this place, the Captain let go the helm, saying still preserved his hold of the gaff; he shook sun grew warmer, the wind blew from the By God! here we fill." The barge was al- his head; and when the waves suffered me south, and the water became calmer. I most immediately overwhelmed in the midst to look up again, he was gone. He made got upon my knees, and found myself in of immense foaming breakers, which rushed no attempt to come near me, being unable the small lake St. Louis, about three to over the bows, carrying away planks, oars, five miles wide; with some difficulty, I &c. About half a minute elapsed between got upon my feet, but was soon convinced, he filling and going down of the barge; by cramps and spasms in all my sinews, during which, I had sufficient presence of The cascades are a kind of fall, or rapid that. I was quite incapable of swimming mind to strip off my three coats, and was descent, in the river, over a rocky channel any distance, and I was then two miles loosening my suspenders, when the barge below: going down is called, by the French, from the shore. I was now going, with sunk, and I found myself floating in the Sauter," to leap or shove the cascades. wind and current, to destruction; and cold, midst of people, and baggage, &c. Each For two miles below, the channel continues hungry, and fatigued, was obliged again to man caught hold of something; one of the in uproar, just like a storm at sea; and I to sit down in the water to rest; when an extracrew caught hold of me, and kept me down was frequently nearly washed off the barge ordinary circumstance greatly relieved me. under water; but, contrary to my expecta- by the waves which rolled over it. I now On examining the wreck, to see if it were pos tions, let me go again. On rising to the entertained no hope whatever of escaping; sible to detach any part of it to steer by, I surface, I got hold of a trunk, on which two and although I continued to exert myself perceived something loose, entangled in a other men were then holding. Just at this to hold on, such was the state to which I fork of the wreck, and so carried along; this spot, where the Split-rock rapids terminate, was reduced by cold, that I wished only found to be a small trunk, bottom upwards the bank of the river is well inhabited; and for speedy death, and frequently thought which, with some difficulty, I dragged of we could see women on shore, running about of giving up the contest, as useless. I felt upon the barge. After near an hour's much agitated. A canoe put off, and picked as if compressed into the size of a monkey; work, in which I broke my penknife try up three of our number, who had gained the my hands appeared diminished in size one ing to cut out the lock, I made a hole in bottom of the barge, which had upset and half; and I certainly should (after I be- the top; and to my great satisfaction, dre got rid of its cargo: these they landed on came very cold and much exhausted) have out a bottle of rum, a cold tongue, some an island. The canoe put off again, and fallen asleep, but for the waves that were cheese, and a bag full of bread, cakes, &c was approaching near to where I was, with passing over me, which obliged me to attend all wet. Of these I made a seasonable, two others, holding on the trunk; when, to my situation. I had never descended though very moderate use; and the trunk

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or unwilling to let go his hold and trust
himself to the waves which were then rol-
ling over his head.

lands which I had passed, I fancied I was driving into a bay, which, however, soon proved to be the termination of the lake, and the opening of the river, the current of which was carrying me rapidly along. I passed several small uninhabited islands; but the banks of the river appearing to be covered with houses, I again renewed my signals, with my waistcoat and shirt, which I took

answered the purpose of a chair to sit upon, | I should have arrived opposite the village of to a young man in Upper Canada, who was elevated above the surface of the water. La Chine after dark, and of course would one of those drowned; it contained clothes, After in vain endeavouring to steer the have been destroyed in the rapids below, and about £70 in gold, which was restored wreck, or direct its course to the shore, and to which I was rapidly advancing. The to his friends. My own trunk contained, having made every signal (with my waist- trunk which furnished me with provisions besides clothes, about £200 in gold and coat, &c.) in my power, to the several head- and a resting place above the water, I have Bank notes. On my arrival at La Chine, every reason to think, was necessary to save I offered a reward of 100 dollars, which my life; without it I must have passed the induced a Canadian to go in search of it. whole time in the water, and have been ex. He found it, some days after, on the shore hausted with cold and hunger. When the of an island on which it had been driven, people on shore saw our boat take the wrong and brought it to La Chine, where I hapchannel, they predicted our destruction: the pened to be at the time. I paid him his floating luggage, by supporting us for a time, reward, and understood that above one enabled them to make an exertion to save third of it was to be immediately applied us; but as it was not supposed possible to to the purchase of a certain number of ut of the trunk, hoping, as the river narsurvive the passage of the cascades, no fur- masses which he had vowed in the event of owed, they might be perceived: the dis-ther exertions were thought of, nor indeed success, previous to his setting out on the ance was too great. The velocity with could they well have been made. search. When a regular pilót is employed, thich I was going convinced me of my near It was at this very place that General accidents seldom or never happen in passpproach to the dreadful rapids of La Chine. Ambert's brigade of 300 men, coming to at- ing the rapids. For the purpose of making light was drawing on; my destruction ap-tack Canada, were lost. The French at Mont- inquiries about my trunk, which contained eared certain, but did not disturb me very real received the first intelligence of the in- so much money, I went by land to the uch; the idea of death had lost its novelty, vasion, by the dead bodies floating past the Cedar village, situated, as I before observed, nd had become quite familiar. I really felt town. The pilot who conducted their first on the St. Lawrence, 40 miles above Montnore provoked at having escaped so long to batteau, committing (it is said, intention- real, and the place from which our barge jefinally sacrificed, than alarmed at the pros-ally) the same error that we did, ran for the set out on the day of the accident. I pect. Finding signals in vain, I now set wrong channel, and the other batteaux fol- heard nothing of my trunk, and returned ipa cry or howl, such as I thought best lowing close, all were involved in the same by water, passing down the same rapida alculated to carry to a distance; and, being destruction. The whole party, with which under the charge of a pilot, in perfect oured by the wind, it did, although at I was, escaped; four left the barge at the safety. I was much entertained in going bove a mile distance, reach the ears of Cedar village, above the rapids, and went to to the Cedars, by the conversation at the ome people on shore. At last I perceived Montreal by land; two more were saved by different Canadian houses, which so unusual boat rowing towards me, which being very the canoe; the barges crew, all accustomed an accident had given rise to. At every mall and white-bottomed, I had for some to labour, were lost; of the eight men who house there was a different version of the ime taken for a fowl, with a white breast; passed down the cascades, none but myself story, and my own situation on arriving at nd I was taken off the barge by Capt. John- escaped, or were seen again ; nor indeed was place of safety was variously represented; one, after being ten hours on the water. I it possible for any one without my extra- at one I was informed of the man saved, and myself at the village of La Chine, 21 ordinary luck, and the aid of the barge, to that on his arrival at La Chine, "qu'il etoit iles below where the accident happened, which they must have been very close, in or- fou, fou, tout fou;" in other words, that I was aving been driven by the winding of the der to escape; the other men must have quite out of my senses, &c. To this was urrent a much greater distance. I re-been drowned immediately on entering the invariably added the Christian maxim, that ived no other injury than bruised knees cascades. The Trunks, &c. to which they it was "Le bon Dieu" who especially inid breast, with a slight cold: the accident adhered, and the heavy great coats which terfered to save him (me;) a conviction ok some hold of my imagination; and for they had on, very probably helped to over-which would be highly flattering, as I should ven or eight succeeding nights, in my whelm them; but they must have gone at live in expectation of some high destiny reams, I was engaged in the dangers of the all events; swimming in such a current of proportioned to the special miracle wrought iscades, and surrounded by drowning men, broken stormy waves was impossible; still in my favour."

c. My escape was owing to a concurrence I think my knowing how to swim kept me

f fortunate circumstances. I happened to more collected, and rendered me more wil

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PHILADELPHUS.

atch hold of various articles of support, ling to part with one article of support to ANECDOTE OF PHILETUS, PRECEPTOR TO PTOLEMY nd to exchange each article for another, gain a better: those who could not swim st at the right time. Nothing but the would naturally cling to whatever hold they oom could have carried me down the cas-first got, and of course many had very bad ades without injury; and nothing but the ones. The Captain passed me above the arge could have saved me below them. I cascades, on a sack of woollen cloths, which was also fortunate in having the whole day; were doubtless soon saturated and sunk. ad the accident happened one hour later, The' trunk which I pick up, belonged

It is reported of this poet, by Ælian, that he was naturally so slender in form, and had reduced himself so much by excessive study, that he was compelled, when he went out, to affix plates of lead to his sandals, and to put pieces of the same metal into his pocket, lest the wind should blow him away,