cally protest against this systematic mode of “ re-engage ment*after**re-engagement," and the trickery of last gs," and "positive one nights only. Such gugging is equally unworthy of the managers; and of Mr. Mathews, whose celebrity required no adventitious puffing to suppart it. His mimetic powers are of a most extraordinary description. His very name brings crowds to witness and admire him; and he can, of himself alone, so facinatingly berile as of our cares, that we invariably retire from his burys exhibitions prepossessed with an eager desire to renew our mirth the earliest opportunity. Of Mr. Mathews, as a comedian, our opinion is not so generally exalted: for while we land with unqualified praise his personation of Morbleu, we regret that he should ever ccasion a sigh for his fame by attempting such parts as Rover. Truth to say, our desire is to know him only as Charles Mathews, than whom, "A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, We never had an hour's talk withal.” The Traveller. WALK THROUGH SOUTHPORT. "CANTABIT VACUUS CORAM LATRONE VIATOR." Juven. investigation of remote objects, whilst we regard those 'Tis wonderful that we should feel such interest in the which are continually before us as unworthy of our notice, though possessing equal or superior beauty. It arises perhaps from that love of wandering so peculiar to our country (for we Britons possess in an eminent degree the organ of locomotion) and the vanity of that feeling which gives us manifest in the contempt with which travellers, of some an imaginary consequence in having seen them, which is little space, too often treat the untravelled. It is a general and perhaps wisely implanted principle in the human mind, that we should value that the most which we have had the greatest difficulty in acquiring: it gives an Thinking thus of him, and quite satisfied that he could aim and excitement to the intellectual energies, to fit them to do other than burlesque Othello, we resolved to hazard for the best and noblest purposes; yet it is not confined being accused of determined scepticism, rather than sacri- solely to the higher efforts of our nature, but extends to fice one tota of our respect for Mr. Mathews, or our vene- the lowest and merest trifles. Hence it is that we cast ration for Shakspeare, by being willing spectators of their not one inquiring or approving glance on those objects joint degradation: for this we must have been, had we which we may see every day: we allow the finest prospects gene to the theatre on Saturday evening. Our conviction to lie unheeded and unseen, and wander afar to discover that Mr. M. must for ever woo Melpomene in vain, arises meaner beauties, and leave to the alien and the stranger not from any doubt of his mental qualifications, but to tell us of those excellences which we possess at home. because he is confessedly physically defective; not because It is the best philosophy in this world of sorrows, to we imagine him incapable of conceiving sublimely, but snatch whatever pleasures we may innocently enjoy, if they from our firm persuasion that he cannot execute greatly, interfere not with higher duties; and it is folly palpable, his own conceptions of Shakspearean grandeur. as well as ingratitude, to disregard the blessings we possess, During the past week our theatrical hemisphere has and sigh for others which nature never meant us to attain. been illumined by the first (we might add faint) glimmer- We would not that we should be bigotted in favour of our ing of two metropolitan "stars," whose united effulgence, own, to the exclusion of just disunctions, but that we however, scarcely equals the palest possible sciutellation should know and appreciate them as they deserve. of ethereal light. When questioning the judgment of o hers, it behoves us to speak with becoming deference, their attention to objects hitherto unregarded, though so And doubtlessly they merit well of society who direct especially should we happen to join issue with those all-immediately within their reach, and point out to them, we, disinterested, and most honest gentlemen, the diur. even to a slight extent, the hidden beauties of their own nal literary quacks of London. But so thoroughly are we vicinity, which, like the prophets of old, have had but become disgusted with this venal host of wretches, who little honour in their own country." are always ready to write any thing, of any body, and for every body, when they receive their proper cue, that we are now accustomed to regard them only as the Swiss of the press; who, for two shillings and sixpence, would one day pean high the man or woman they would the next bepatter as foully as the donor of a crown might list. Tar representations would have induced one to expect i Miss Kelly another O'Neill,-one would have thought their hearts confessed a very Juliet there""Tis no such thing!" Though fast declining into the halcyon Tale of years, we are not without a spice of gallantry in or composition; and most sincerely concede to Miss Kly the homage due to her personal charms, though ath demands from us an explicit avowal of how much lanent her obvious lack of professional excellence. Nather as Juliet, Portia, Jane Shore, nor Belvidera, has the pleased as, except with herself; to do that, she need hot have resorted to the stage. Mr. Yates is one of those clever, useful gentlemen of all wk, of whom we seldom read much in the newspapers, by reason of his being above the despicable traffic of purcased el giums, and too insignificant a foil for the more y critics of the day. One who seldom soars pecuabigh (save as an imitator, of which he is the best of the best, and who never descends to mediocrity. His Saplock and Pierre, though neither of them by any means Comparable to what we have seen, even at home here, are, withstanding, performances very creditable to him, we cou'd witness again with undiminished Of his imitations, there certainly is nothing et ta those of Kean, Young, Macready, Blanchard, Farct, and Incledon. We rarely visit the theatre with so much anxiety as when the name of Vandenhoff appears among the dramapre, particularly when he comes in collision with owledged talent from the metropolis. We have seen Coriolanus, Lucius Junius, Virginius, and Damon, all pregnant with transcendant and varied beauties; but Bever, as observed by one of our cotemporaries," did he are approve himself to our taste and judgment" than in JB; the weak, fond, doting, vascilating, doubting, arg, irresolute fool, Jaffier. Every thing by turns, nothing long."-alternately traitor to his country, his Love, and his friend, he cannot but be the very reverse of itory favourite; and it is, therefore, not a little Batering to his représentative, when "the gay, bold-faced Pierre becomes an object of secondary consideraX. tio with them. Jaly 7, 1823. LYDIATE HALL AND ABBEY.* About a mile farther is Lydiate-hall, the old manorFrom considerations such as these, we have been in-house of the Lords of Lydiate, who have been successively duced to describe a few particulars of an excursion to the families of Lydiate, Ireland, Blackburne, Anderton, SOUTHPORT and some adjacent villages, and though nei- and Blundell, whose pedigree may be seen in the inte ther the attractions of the places themselves, nor our pow-resting publication entitled " Fragments for a History of ers of describing them, may be adequate to effect so flat the County of Lancaster," by Matthew Gregson, Ésn. tering a result; yet they are not so utterly devoid of F. S. A. The last-named family obtained the Lydiate charms, so barren of beauties, as not to merit a few casual property by intermarriage with a cecendant of the Antokens of cognition. And this brief sketch is not so much dertons, to whom it was restored, with other large estates, intended for a full and accurate detail, as to direct the at- by the Crown, after having been forfeited by the attainder tention of other and better observers. of Sir Francis Anderton, Bart. in the rebellion of 1745. He was the last possessor who resided at the hall; and it is now divided, and occupied by the Catholic priest and a farmer. The Catholic Chapel, also in the same building. is much too small for the congregation, above half of the inhabitants of the neighbouring townships being of the Catholic persuasion. The building was originally a Maghull is a pleasant village, near the banks of the quadrangle, with a large area in the centre, but one side was pulled down some years ago; it seems built after the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. It has a small chapel of fashion of the time of Henry VIII. when the addition of ease under Halsall, as is also that in the adjoining town-wooden beams externally was so prevalent. Being painted ship of Melling; the latter situate at the extremity of the black and white, it has an interesting appearance from the parish, which is seven miles in extent. The chapel ap-road, but on a nearer approach, its dilapidated state causes pears to have been built at different times, and the exterior is destitute of simplicity or architectural beauty. The only a feeling of surprise and regret. interior is neat, and crowded with seats, capable of con and diverging from it at Maghull-brook, proceeded on MAGHULL.+ Uctred held six manors, Roby, Knowsley, Crosby, Maghull, and Aughton; there were two hides of land, a wood two miles long, and as many broad, and two acries of herons. -Domesday Book. LYDIATE ABBEY. The venerable ruin called Lydiate "Abbey," is in so Sa: Ro: Ca: Sacer: ob. die 20 Rs. Ds. Johannes Blackburne. Uctred held Leiate (now Lydiate.) There were 6 bovates of land, a wood a mile long, and two quarantenes (or fur A hide was as much land as a man could plough in a year; longs) broad. It was worth sixty-four pence.-Domesday a carucate one quarter of a hide, Book. Here lieth the body of Joseph Draper, who departed this life on the 26 day of April, 1703, In the 33d year of his age. Here lye. the Body of John Mosson who d eparted thi.. 5th year. Aige Anno D... 172. From the tower steeple the view over the low meadows of Lydiate and Altcar which are frequently flooded after sudden and violent showers, by the overflowing of the river Alt, is very extensive, embracing the whole of Formby Channel, and part of the river Mersey, and bounded only by the chain of mountains terminating with the Ormeshead. There is scarcely any object in nature more capable of exciting feelings of such deep and solemn interest, or of teaching a more humiliating lesson to human_vanity, than the contemplation of a place like this, when generation after generation of those who possessed it have been swept away, and it alone remains to tell us of their existence! The unsparing hand of time, which has hur ried them to oblivion, has not yet availed to destroy it; it has but crumbled a few fragments from their bases, and bade the ivy entwine its green arms around it, to shelter and protect it from the rage of elenients and the decay of nature. How little can we calculate the destinies of mortal things! We raise up mansions and monuments of of our vanity, and we leave them to we know not whom. Yet still there is a kind of pride, that man, frail as he is, can rear up a structure so stable and so lasting, to endure so long when he and all his generations have likewise pe rished. The following persons are deposited near this place. died the 17 June 1798 aged 70 years Anne Thomas Stanley the wife of Edwin Thomas Stanley Esq. Son of the above Edward. She died the 4 of June 1789 after a long and severe illness in the 25 year of her age. This stone is erected by her Husband. Another seat has the following inscription, which, wanting a " little verb," has a ludicrous import: Miss Hesketh's seat underneath their family grave and burying The next place which affords any field for the investigation of antiquity is Halsall,+ a neat but small and straggling village, where the church of that extensive parish and valuable living is situate, and whose lofty spire is a conspicuous and beautiful object from the surrounding country. As it was undergoing repairs and considerable enlargement, we could only view a part of the interior, A set of pews, connected together, have the arms of the and were much struck with the elegant form of the arched Scarisbrick family placed against them, whose hall is adroof, which, alas! is, notwithstanding, covered with white-jacent. wash. The handsome organ was presented by the Rev. Thomas Blundell, M. A. the late Rector. The present incumbent is the Rev. R. Loxham, M.A. Though extensive, there is no screen, and the chancel is quite open. It contains a very ancient and curious stone statue of two figures in a recumbent posture, said to be Sir Edward Halsall and his wife. He is completely armed as a Knight, with a small spaniel (the emblem of fidelity) at his feet, and the tomb on which the figures lie is completely surrounded with stone shields, on which are depicted armorial bearings in paint. There is a beautiful marble monument, representing a female, with an inverted torch, leaning upon an urn, which is partly hid by the branches of a willow; be. low are the following elegant lines: In this chancel are deposited the remains of In religion zealous without enthusiasm ; In charity liberal without ostentation; In friendship warm and constant; His life exhibited the virtues Which adorn the Christian and dignify the man. He died after a short illness, July 31st, 1816, Aged 57; in the 8th year of his incumbency. Bridget and Alice Blundell his surviving sisters Have caused this monument to be erected to his Memory. ground. On the south wall, in a large wooden frame, is the following rude poetry (in black letter:) His praise in this church be Late of London Mer Henry Harker Wardnes extremely unpleasant. The evening was closing in, wher we arrived at Southport, shivering under the influence c a bleak and piercing wind, which blew rather strongly from the sea. SOUTHPORT. The place itself, at the first glance, does not afford an very pleasant sensation, destitute as it is of all natural ad vantages, for which art has made but little compensation It consists principally of one long straggling street, so wid that the intermediate space is occupied by garders, or ra ther, small fields. The general aspect possesses too muc regularity to be consistent with beauty; and yet th only beauties it can boast of is in its individual irreguis rity. When viewed from a distance, the sides of the stree present one long, equal, monotonous line, with scarcel one house projecting beyond another; but, when mer nearly approached, each cottage, or at least each set of co tages, exhibits its own peculiar feature and distinctive cha racter, and affords an agreeable variety, which, from i minuteness, is lost in the distance. It is surprising to learn how infinitely this place has in creased of late years. Upwards of 130 cottages have bee built in a short space of time; and we counted near thirty which are now being built. Some of those near th sea are exceedingly picturesque, placed in an isolated sit ation among the sand-hills, and surrounded by a garde abounding with shrubs and flowers, which creep arou the doors and windows of the cottages. They are, for ti most part, of only one story, whitewashed, and son covered with thatch. A church has lately been erecte which is a very great convenience to the visitors, who we formerly obliged to go to Churchtown. It is built of bric in a neat and unostentatious stile, with a small tow The pulpit is rather fancifully suspended over the comm nion, between the reading desk and clerk's pew. T service was in some measure interrupted by the continu unlocking of the seats. As for the music, "'twas villainous compound of bad sounds;" 'twas no music the spheres; no choir of cherubim; but the discords harmony (the concordia discors) of mortal melody: shrill tones of the flageolet, played by the not unpretendi hand of village minstrelsy, were overpowered by the m acute notes of female vocalism; and the loud bass of rus capability of lungs overwhelmed the dull monotony of hoarse bassoon: there was no sympathy of intonatio no combination of melodious sounds; but all was struggling of discordant rivalry: there was not even si plicity or feeling to reconcile it to our forgiving taste; so much of the ludicrous about it as to render necessary little effort to preserve a due gravity of decorum. Th are some residences, which, though denominated cottag are really large and substantial houses, amongst which those on the Wellington-terrace; the "Castle," belong to Mr. Holt; Mrs. Walmesley's; Mr. Lodge's; and N Wood's. The last is in a more ornamental and appropr stile than any other in the village. There are sev fancy shops, called repositories: Mrs. Brown's is the ol establishment; and that conducted by Miss Whiteley a news-room and billiard-room attached. Newspap may be purchased at Mr. Garside's. The just compla respecting irregularity in the post-office depôt are now moved, by the establishment of a regular Governm branch, under Ormskirk, by which letters are recei The adjoining grammar school is very ancient, as ap- about eleven in the morning, and may be answered pears by the following notices on a wooden tablet: Eccleston, Sutton, and Ditton. Jane Loe gave a silver Chalice for the Communion. 1727. Honl. Chas. Mordaunt, Esq. gave a Table-cloth for ditto, and, in 1757, Cushions for the Communicants. Three neat marble tablets, embellished with the family fungus, "all is barren." The soil consists chiefly of sand arms, are thus inscribed. Spe vitæ æternæ Juxta tabulam hanc marmoream Passing the handsome parsonage house, the road leads through part of Scarisbrick; and, in the immediate vicinity of Southport, we passed over a long, level line of barren moss, where, we may justly exclaim with Smelland turbary ground, and appears scarcely to repay the husbandman for the labour bestowed upon its cultivation; not a tree or shrub shelters it from the cold winds from the sea; or if there be one here and there, it seems stunted and leafless, and to pine away from the want of that nourishment which nature has denied it. After leaving the moss, it winds round the Sandhills, which are a set of numerous unequal accumulations of sand, retained in their situation by the star, or sea. weed (arundo arenaria) similar to those on the Dutch coast, to root up which subjects the Uctred held Acrer (now Altcar) There was half a caru-offender to a penalty. When the weather is dry, and the + Chetel held Heleshale. There were two carucates of wind boisterous, the innumerable particles of sand, which land, worth eight schillings.-Domesday Book. are continually flying along the road, render travelling Jacet Revdus. Glover Moore, M.A. Per annum fere integram, Capella de Melling cate of land, but it was waste.-Domesday Book. same day; the extra charge is 1d. each. Travelling ha much increased of late years, and the roads comparati so much better, that coaches go daily to, and return fr Liverpool and Manchester, the latter through Ormsl and Wigan. There is also a conveyance every day, circuitous rout, but moderate expense, to and from th places, and the intermediate towns, by the canal-pack from Scarisbrick-bridge, which are met by carriages f the several hotels. They leave Liverpool and Manch at six o'clock each morning. The oldest hotel is Mr. Clare's, which was built al 30 years ago by Mr. Sutton, father of Mrs. Barlow, of Union Hotel, previous to which time the bathers cam carts, from Churchtown ; it was then called South Ha The Union Hotel stands pleasantly about the middl the street, elevated on a green terrace. The other is c the Hesketh Arms, and was the last raised. As build they are all below niediocrity, and it is probable the favourable leases of 3 lives only, will prevent any talist investing a large sum in more extensive struct The joint lords of the manor are Robt. Hesketh, of Ros Esq. and her Highness the Princess Sapieha, heiress o late P. Patten Bold, Esq. Charity, omnipresent as she is amongst us, where m * The coach from Liverpool leaves the White Horse, street, at half-past three. Eden in a barren wilderness. The first objects are the sandhills, a grotesque assemblage of minic mountains; beyond them is streiched a vast expanse of level country, bounded in the horizon by the beautifully-undulated hills beyond Ormskirk. Further east are Rivington, Pyke, and Longridge Fell, in every variety of elevation: the summits of some covered with eternal verdure, while others are mere barren and precipitous rocks. On the cast also is seen the beautiful church of Halsall, and behind it is Clive's Hill, near the top of which is a plantation of fir, whose dark and solemn foliage is admirably contrasted with the lighter and livelier tints of green and yellow which surround it; and still further removed is the singular appearance of the tower and spire of Ormskirk church. dueleth, is not wanting even here. The fund for main. wing the sons of poverty" who freq eat it in the Bare hope of renovated health, is liberally and nobly supported by the fund of the "Stranger's Friend Society, and an excellent institution called the Dispensary, has ben erected to dispense medicine gratuitously to those who need it, and are objects worthy of relief. Under he same roof is a commodious and neat Assembly Room, was opened last year with a ball for the benefit of the astutan, so intimately do we associate our follies W our virtues; so blend our charity with our love of pleasure The Marine Fund" was instituted to encourage the efforts of meritorious courage in those fishernico, who risk their boats, their "little all" and frequently their lives also, in endeavouring to rescue from we acting or stranded vessels the ill-fated victims of 'Tis wonderfully conducive to health and happiness to those calamities, which, from the unusual shallowness of spend a few weeks in a place like this; to leave for a while the war, and utter want of any place of shelter, are, alas! the corroding cares of busy life and change the thick but to cannon on the inhospitable shore of the Meoles. foggy atmosphere of a bustling town for the clear saluHowever gratifying it might be to detail the names of brity of the sea breezes, and purify the lungs from their those who have been so active in this work of benefi-load of inhalations. As we strolled along, every one we rence, we would not hazard the wounding of individual met seemed gay and happy, save here and there a pale falings, not drag to the light of day, those deeds of invalid, already perhaps congratulating himself on his charity, the very spirit of whose excellence is in secresy prospect of amendment. There was an air of free and confident hilarity on every countenance which bespoke the The beach is the most fashionable, and indeed the only absence of worldly cares, and the throwing aside of the praevade about Southport which affords any agreeable trammels of worldly ceremony: the very air seemed to diversity of scenery, and the time for enjoying its attrac-breathe of independence, and to inspire carelessness, and les is a rather singular one, so much so, that we are gaiety, and elasticity of soul. Every better feeling seems warranted in sapposing that the attractions are not simply to resume its sway, and cordiality and familiar kindness cited to the beach itself, but extend to objects of a dif- abound exceedingly. The spirits seem to run riot in their forent and less sublime nature. At the height of the tide uncontrolled wildness, and rouse up intellectual and corevery machine is in mɔtion, carrying, indiscriminately, poreal energies. There is something in the vicinity of Decupants of either sex, at no unsociable distances from the sea which gives to the inhabitants, like those who live rach other, not provided even with screens, which are com- among the mountains, sentiments and feelings of a more mon at all continental bathing-places, but left to the un-independent and energetic character; whether it may be interrupted gaze of the passing crowd, which paces the the very air, which, purified by its passage over the sea ore for the edifying purpose of gaining sympathetic from its earthly particles, and loaded with the adventitious health, so that it appears, in the cold eye of philosophy, properties, may cause a more genial current of the blood, Use the fountain of Salamis, so famed of old for its powers and excite a higher elasticity of mental energy,-or it be ction. We would not contend for any hypocriti- the contemplation simply of the SEA-mare naufragum et Cardiousness of delicacy, but there are certain limits profundum; and the associated feelings of sublimity which fde run, beyond which modesty, sensitive as it is, it arouses when they see it tossing about in all its own to pass; and though there may be no real or wild uncontrolled waywardness, rolling its mighty mass restamination, 'tis well to observe them even for of waters in uninterrupted course, and the puny efforts take, for it is not enough to avoid actual of man cannot prevail against it; its own profundity, and 22ity, but the very semblance also. obscurity, and the wreck of mortality that attends its Alsaced from all these considerations, the beach is in progress. a beautiful and a noble object, extending in both s to the very extremes of the sphere of vision. to the north are the white cottages and lofty Lytham, on the opposite bank of the River generally distinguishable in ordinary weather, ning to diversify their distance and dimensions as lations of the atmospheric vapour dilates or conas the outline. The relative proportions of objects on bath, at po great distance, is also much influenced te phenomenon. Still further, the dark grey Westreland seam bol lly to over-hang the sea, Gely Blackcombe rears its bare forehead to the sky, Early the next morning we left Southport for North Meols, where the parish church is situated, which is a small, obscure village, about three miles distant, whose only object of interest is its church, which is a plain stone edifice of chaste and simple architecture, from the steeple of which is a commanding view of a prospect similar to what we have described at Southport. In the chancel, near the pulpit, is a handsome marble tablet, and the inscription thereon, displaying much energy and feeling, is worth recording: Siste Viator et audi! Hoc vocale tegit marmor ruinas tristes Unius stirpis, cunctos nemque mares; Et patrem, aliumque unicum. sty and beauty to the scene. Sometimes an #nber ken" than ordinary men, may discern red mountains of the Isle of Man; but this is consas inauspicious omen of a succession of boister-Utrumque Gulielmum Hesketh, Armigerum utrumque The prospect on the south is closed by Pt, a long line of sand which projects far into On the coast of Wales the Great Ormeshead mountains of Flintshire and Denbighshire sit in Magjisty, brooding o'er the waters; and beyond them. phere, appears the Isle of Anglesea, and unit of Penmanmawr towering above them all. Ad view is of a far different character: 'tis the are in her mildest and most sober mood; and, not of the wild energy and indefinite beauty akige combinations, gratifies us by the very and inspires feelings of calmer happiness, and La very essence of comfort, content, and opuYe, has she not acted with an impartial hand? e has lavished the exuberance of her bounty in a wayward humour, denied to her offspring ments of its nature, and left to Art, in the was of rival superiority; to supply her vacancies, Thosate for her neglect; for the immediate vicithport is mere worthless sand, but the wonderterance of human industry has brought from a that soil which has rendered vegetation so perfect Mitule, and, despite of Nature, has reared up an Tis no interruption to the ride from Liverpool Sere to Southport, except near Formby Point, Dresstry to pass a short distance up the country se over the River Alt, which disembogues it4to the wed at that place. Utquatior lustris compleret secula primus Ætatis spatium sie ampliat vir bonus, Aunis nam juvenis, grandevus moribus exit. Ingenium probitas, pietas ad ecclesiæ Anglicanæ normam, Fatum immaturum referebat. quartered in other parts of the church) a globe, quadrant, and several mathematical instruments, is thus inscribed: Within this sanctuary are deposited the remains of Roger Hesketh, Esq. of North Meols, and late of Tulketh, in this county. His understanding was improved by every useful science, his heart glowed with the most genuine piety. As an associate, a son, a husband, and a parent, he attracted esteem, ad:niration, love, and reverence. He lived an orna ment to his family, and a friend to his fellow-creatures. died on the 16 June 1791, at the age of 81, greatly lamented. His afflicted widow, Sarah Hesketh, the daughter of John Fazakerly, Esq. of Preston, erected this monument in coinmemoration of her affection and of his virtues. He On the other side of the altar is the following record of Mr. Fleetwood's attempt to drain Martin Meer; but time has not justified the high style it assumes. Thomas Fleetwood de Bank Armiger Staffordiensis (at Primaria) de Stirpe creatus. Vir vere Ingenuus, politus et facetus. Hic ossa sua condi voluit Publico magis bono, quam suo prospiciens, On a plain tablet is this brief notice of a worthy and amiable man: To the memory of the Rev. Edward Yorke on the 23rd March 1815 This tablet was erected by his widow It appears that a grammar school was founded 139 years ago, by the following list of donations, recorded on a tablet affixed to the church wall: 1684.-Rev. James Starkey, Rector 1690.-Tho, Blevin 1692.-Ri. Ball, but lost by Daniel Ambrose, made up by Lawrence Jump.. 1719. John Aughton 1720. Hannah Wood, in her life-time.. 1720.-Roger Hesketh, Esq. 1723.-Ro. Hesketh, Esq. 1727. Mary, relict of Roger Hesketh, Esq.. 1773.-Peter Rymer left..... 1800.-Sarah, relict of Roger Hesketh, Esq. left .......... £40 20 20 10 20 20 10 20 10 £180 The oldest register is the year 1594, in which there were 4 baptisms, and no marriages or burials. In 1702. 53 baptisms, 9 marriages, 34 burials. In 1822, 105 baptisms, 24 marriages, and 112 burials. Many of the gravestones evidence the longevity of the inhabitants, particularly one inscribed, Esther Sherlocker, died Sept. 1786, aged 99 years. Robert Sherlocker, died April 16, 1802, aged 101 years. There is also a chapel of the Calvinistic persuasion. The parish, extending about eight miles along the shore, and four and a half inland, is said to contain upwards of 4000 acres. It is valued in the King's books at £8 33. 44. The rector is the Rev. G. Ford, M. A., and the curate the Rev. W. Docker, who oficiates at the chapel of case, at Southport, and has a large and well-conducted school at the latter place, where there is also a seminary for females, Natus 4. Non: Mart. A. D. 1703. Obiit 109. Cal. Decem. 1700. under Mrs. Sherson. The parsonage-house is in so dispi dated a state as to be unfit for the residence of the minister. We returned from our excursion, gratified exccedingly with the variety of objects we had seen; and if we derived the epicurean advantage of an increase of appetite. no high degree of mental improvement, we at least gained We do not acknowledge ourselves to be of so selfish a nature as to wish to confine solely to ourselves whatever pleasure we enjoyed, but will count that enjoyment doubled by participation; and if we shall be enabled to impart some slight portion of it to others, we shall esteem it as augmented to ourselves. NATHANTIQUARII, Literary Trifting. "VIVE LA BAGATELLE." In our publication of the 21st ult. we inserted a query in four lines, to oblige a correspondent. As the solution was not ready in time for our third volume, which terminated with our last number, we shall here repeat the problem, that it and the solution may appear in the same volume. "If I can plant, with seventeen trees, SOLUTION. Correspondence. HORNED WOMEN. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,-The recent discussion in your paper, respecting "horned women," brings to my recollection a circumstance that happened in our society, but which has not yet, I believe, been noticed in your journal; and I am the more surprised at this, as it has obtained considerable celebrity in the philosophical world. The circumstance to which I allude was, that one of our members, in the course of his scientific pursuits, had discovered a "bed-ridden" lady, who had allowed her toe-nails to remain uncut for a great number of years; the consequence was, that they had sprouted out to an extraordinary length; and one of them, the big-toe nail of the left foot, had grown to the enornious length of fifteen inches. The member, with that praiseworthy zeal in the cause of science which entitles him to most honourable mention, prevailed upon the lady to allow him to amputate the nail, which he performed in a most masterly manner; and it was exhibited, with considerable effect, at one of our meetings. The member at SIR,-You will oblige me by inserting the following inquiry in a corner of your paper. Will any person, in possession of the wished-for information, have the goodness to state, through the medium of any of the Liverpool papers, the number of children, of both sexes, at present receiving their education in our charity schools; whether day or Sunday scholars; to what denomination of Christians the schools belong; and what proportion those receiving instruction bear to all the children in the town under fourteen years of age? A FRIEND TO THE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF YOUTH. June 26, 1823. The Housewife. PRESERVING EGGS. TO THE EDITOR. LEIGH WALDEGRAVE will please to accept our acknowledgmen for the very handsome terms in which he has thoug proper to mention the Kaleidoscope. We attach some val to the approbation of one, whose writings evince a corre and classical taste. Our esteemed correspondent will p ceive that we have only availed ourselves this week of o of his pieces. We wished to husband our resources, a when our arrangements for the week were finally co pleted, we were not aware of the valuable addition to of stock, with which we have subsequently been favour by the soi-disant Leigh Waldegrave.-In reply to his not we have only further to observe, that there are some our correspondents whose productions we can confident put into the hands of our compositors without the previo ordeal of an editorial scrutiny. We can so far depend up their genius, taste, and propriety, as to give them & ca blanche. Of this number, Leigh Waldegrave is one. INCE BLUNDELL COLLECTION OF THE WORKS OF ART.-The! ter of Zurro on this subject is reserved for our next. though the subject is of general import, owing to the fa lity with which Mr. Blundell affords access to his intere ing collection, yet, as the Walk to Southport is rather o local nature, and is also of considerable length-and some of our distant readers may conceive that the Vi to Ince Blundell is also rather of local than general intere we thought it better not to introduce both articles in t same publication. We hope to hear further from Zurre. THE WALK TO SOUTHPORT.-We hope our country read will excuse our having occupied so large a portion of th week's Kaleidoscope with the Walk to Southport, &c. whi may be regarded as too local to interest our distant reade In consideration for the indulgence of our country read in this instance we shall shortly present them with extra half-sheet supplement, gratis. MR. MATHEWS's OTHELLO. We decline the letter of C ticus on this subject. There is only one point upon wh our correspondent and we agree, and that is in the seq of his letter, wherein he grows somewhat less caustic, admits that Mr. Mathews is unrivalled in his own line In this decision we fully concur. Mr. M. is not a m mechanical or parrot-like imitator. There is a philosophi discrimination, and a never-tiring variety of characteri shades in his performance, which pre-eminently disting it from the efforts of every rival that we have seen. The extracts from Riley's Narrative are very acceptable, shall be appropriated. We have further to acknowledge Adolescens-Commerc and Corporal Trim's second Cousin, whose inquiry shall attended to next week. to his suggestions and Amateur. The latter we shall into consideration previously to the appearance of our Our present impression is, that enough has been said on subject. SIR,-About two years since I sent you a recipe for preserving eggs fresh, viz. by dipping them in sallad oil, and afterwards packing them among salt.-Being in the south of Europe, and intending to return home in May last, on the 20th of that month I had several dozens pre- We thank S. H. of Newcastle for his favour, and shall att pared in the manner I recommended. On the voyage home, some few proved bad; but it seems probable they were so when purchased, as I had no means of ascertaining whether they were fresh laid or not. I now send you four eggs, which remained on my arrival here, of those packed on the 20th of May last, and trust you will use them for your to-morrow's breakfast, and find them nearly, if not quite, as palatable as if they had merely been kept a few days.-Yours, &c. Liverpool, July 4, 1823. NAUTICUS. We have had these eggs served up to breakfast, as recommended, and have found them excellent.-Edit. Kal. To Correspondents. The Pro and Con, for and against Life, transmitted by gustus, shall appear next week. LOVE AND WAR, translated by Homo, is very acceptable. AILSA ROCK at our very first leisure. FOURTH VOLUME OF THE KALEIDOSCO The first number of the Fourth Volume of the Kaleido is published this day, the 8th of July, and it is expe that the Index to the Third Volume will be ready for livery on Wednesday next. The Index will be sold at price of the other numbers of the Kaleidoscope; and whole of Bombastes Furioso will be given with it, alth that work alone is commonly sold at sixpence. It has twice reprinted, and the demand for it is still such as t third reprint. the same time produced an essay, which indubitably proves IRISH LITERATURE. We have in our possession a very inte- duce the proprietors of the Kaleidoscope to venture u a sympathetic affection between the toe-nail and the olfac tory nerve. The nail and the essay were received with much applause, and ordered to be deposited in the archives of the society. It is gratifying to behold literature and commerce go hand in hand;-in no place in the world are they more so than in Liverpool. In one hour you may see the busy merchant on 'Change, anxious in the extension of commerce, and the pursuit of wealth; in the next he may be found at our society, as intently unravelling the thread of sume philosophical disquisition: the result, the glorious result must be, the melioration of the condition of man. If you have no objections, I intend to give you, from time to time, an account of our proceedings: and in my next I purpose giving you a synopsis of an essay that was read by a learned member, on Alexander's (the son of resting and well-written essay on the study of the learned languages, written by John Walker, Fellow of Dublin College; a gentleman distinguished as much by his learning as by his amiable character. This dissertation was writ. ten in consequence of a prize question, on the subject, whether, and how far, the cultivation of science, and that of polite literature, assist or obstruct each other. It is our intention to enrich the columns of the Kaleidoscope with this article, the length of which will oblige us to divide it into portions, the first of which we shall present to our readers next week. MICRO-COSMOGRAPHIE, or & PIECE OF THE WORLD DISCOVERED. We shall commence our series of this singular little volume next week, and continue them until we have appropriated the whole, with the exception of a few passages, which our taste may lead us to pass by. 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UTILE DULCI." Stockport-T. Claye This familiar Miscellany, from which religious and political matters are excluded, contains a variety of original and selected Articles; comprehending Literature, Criticism, Men and Manners ham; Bath-T S. Meyler; No. 159.-NEW SERIES. Doncaster-C. & J. White; Hull-J. Perkins; Nantwich-E. Jones; TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1823. Preston-P. Whittle; J. Brown; Wrexham-J. Painter; York-W.Alexander. VOL. IV.-PRICE 3d. removed by direct experiment. Mr. Perkins's engin eis actually at work. Its operations have been witnessed and minutely examined by engineers and philosophers of all kinds; and the most unreasonable sceptics have been compelled to acknowledge the justness of its principles, as well as the energy of its operations. The active and inventive mind of Mr. Perkins, however, did not remain satisfied with this experiment. He has discovered a method, which we consider equal in value to his new engine, by which he can convey the benefit of his original principle to steam-engines of the old construction; and this has been recently succeeded, we are told, by a most extraordinary discovery, that the same heat may be made to perform its part more than once, in the active operations of the engine. In order to convey to our readers some idea of these great inventions, we have obtained a drawing, made by M. Montgolfier, jun, which, though it does not respresent the actual machine, yet contains such a view of its parts as is necessary for understanding its principle. The generator, which supplies the place of the boiler in prebending Notices of new Discoveries or Improve- MR. PERKINS'S NEW STEAM-ENGINE. Let us now suppose, that, by means of the compressing pump L, whose handle M is wrought by the engine, water is forced into the generator; this opens the valve above n, loaded with 35 atmospheres, and instantly a portion of the heated and compressed water flashes out in the form of steam of high elasticity, and of a temperature of We have already communicated to our readers in the 420°; and communicating by the steam-pipe 2, 2, 2, with two last numbers of this journal, all the authentic infor- the valve-box V, it enters the cylinder PP, lying horizonmation which we could obtain respecting Mr. Perkins's tally, and gives motion to its piston PQ, which performs new steam-engine; and we have used the utmost diligence 200 strokes in a minute, and drives a crank R, which to obtain such farther information as may, in some mea- gives a rotatory motion to a fly-wheel, as seen in the have excited. There never has been in our day an inven- after having produced its stroke, is carried by the eductionsure, gratify that curiosity which these imperfect notices figure. When the eduction-valve is opened, the steam, tion which has created such a sensation in the scientific pipe 3, 3, 3, into the condenser STXV, where it is conand in the manufacturing world. The steam-engine of densed into water at a temperature of about 320°, and Mr. Watt had been so long considered as the greatest under a pressure of 5 atmospheres; from thence, by the triumph of art and science, that it was deemed a sort of pipe 6, 6, 6, it is drawn into the pump L, whence it is heresy to regard it as capable of improvement; and, not- forced along the pipe 4, 4, 4, to the generator, thus perother eminent engineers, the undoubted merit of their withstanding all that has been done by Mr. Woolff, and forming a complete circuit. engines has scarcely yet been admitted by the public. Under such circumstances, Mr. Perkins's claims were likely to meet with various kinds of opposition. Instead of hailing it as an invention which was to do honour to the age in which we live, and to add a new and powerful arm to British industry, imperfect experiments and confined views were urged against the principle of its construction, the jealousies of rival traders were arrayed against it, imaginary apprehensions of danger were excited, and power. invention would precipitate our country from its lofty pre-rect one used by Mr. Perkins. The piston-rod is connected short-sighted politicians sounded the alarm, that such an eminence among the manufacturing nations of the world. |