EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, OR AND LONDON REVIEW: ILLUSTRATIVE OP TIB LITERATURE, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, POLITICS, ARTS, MANNERS, AND Amusements of the Age. EMBELLISHED WITH PORTRAITS. VOLUME 83. (VOL. I .NEW SERIES.) FROM DECEMBER TO JULY, 1823. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETORS, BY LUPTON RELFE, 13, CORNHILL; SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, CONTENTS. PAE 80 Original Essays. ENGLISH BOOKS PAGB 3 Don Carlos: a Tragedy. By Lord John Lines to the Memory of Captain Burgess. 8 Sketeh of the Public Character of Mr. Sketch of a Plan for suppressing Men dicity 72 Werner; a Tragedy. By Lord Byron ...... 73 Lånes on the venerable Mr. De Luc..... 18 Epistles from MARY QUEEN or Scots to Science and Literature. Lines addressed to Clara. By Azar .... 23 Sketches of Society in London and Paris .. 24 Sketebes of Popular Preachers.--The Very Hayti — Greece -Sweden-Germany- Prussia — Russia-France - Portugal --- Res, the DEAN OF ROCAESTER, the Rev. G. MATAEW, A.M., the Rev. E. ENGLISA :- -Works preparing for Publica- tion-Works in the Press-New Publi- Life in London ; or, Raising the Wind.... 40 List of Patents 81 On the present State of Spain and Portugal 47 Cooke's Exhibition in Soho-Square. 55 Intelligence relative to the Fine Arts, Fo. The Struggle between the Greeks and Turks Society for Protection of Trade.. considered, relatively to Europe. By List of Bankrupts and Dividends Statistical Account of Prussia. Juliac Severa ; or the Year 492 ... ,1 EDITOR'S NOTICE. We are sorry to be obliged to inform our Readers, that, on account of the severity of the cold during the past month, our Engraver has been unable to finish the Engraving of the SLEEPING INFANTS, by F. CHANTRY, Esq. in a manner suitable to the delicacy and fine expression of the original. We hope, therefore, our Readers will have the goodness to excuse this tunavoidable omission of our Frontispiece, which shall certainly appear in our next Number. or THE THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. opu From the retirement of Miss Every art or science has its discreO'Neil the metropolitan stage was pant dogmas, and able advocates to destitute of every actress, who could defend them, however futile; and do honour to the tragic muge, until more knowledge at this premature the début of the sabject of our pre age is to be unlearned, than can sent memoir. As Miss Kelly's ex. be afterwards acquired in the short traordinary talents will not only space of human existence : for, beposure to her a splendid portion of fore the regions of philosophy can contemporaneous celebrity, but wil be entered, it is necessary to pass trademit her name to posterity the almost invincible barriers of among the brightest ornaments of prejudice and error. the stage, we have selected her, as a benign and guardian herald, to Hic labor, hoc opus est. proclaim the commencement of our periodical labours for the New Year. But the tragic muse is a far more The stage, apparently, presents a generous maid than her sisters; very short road to fame and she is less reserved, has neither lence, when it is considered that prudery nor coquetry; and, when an actress, only seventeen years of she bestows her smiles on her most age, can arrive at the highest pitch favoured worshippers, she requires of theatrical eminence. In all other professions a similar degree of ex- in sacrifice, than any of her pierian cellence cannot be attained without sisters; her the labour of many years; and a " Bounty is as boundles as the sea," permanent fame is searcely possible to be acquired until approaching her throne is the human beart; and old age has blunted the keeper feel in all the variety of sorrowful and ings of enjoyment, and prompts the tender emotion she delights most melancholy reflection, that all hu- to pour the current of her woes. man fame and consequence are set Her treasures are in the deepest dom worth the time and labour con. recesses of feeling; and she prosumed in acquiring them. At the duces them with the unerring hand early age of seventeep, the aspiring of nature. children of genius can in no other The best tragedian has little to profession obtain the universal do with art; for which reason exapplause of their contemporaries. traordinary proficiency may be at |