On a musical Box and China Jar, which fell together satin, the border trimmed with puckerings of pink

THE MUSAEID.

No. VII.-THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1822.

Non amo te.-MARTIAL.
Give me to drain the cocoa's milky bowl,
And from the palm to draw its freshening wine.-
THOMSON.

at the deep full richness of her voice. Tea was far
advanced, when Volatile was ushered into the room,
and it was only among the younger part that he could
attract the least notice, all the elderly ladies being
completely immersed in conversation. Pray, Mr.
Volatile,' said Miss Fairbrow, what has kept you so
long, we had almost ceased to expect you, and were
• But you
abandoning ourselves to disappointment.'

see I'm here to comfort you; I hope I didn't keep tea waiting, however.' 'Oh, no.' Mr. Volatile,' We drink chocolate.-Coffee is a liquor that we seen Miss relish not.-Tea is a beverage only fit for old maids, said a waxen puny girl, have you washing-women, and cockneys, the genera of humanity Shufflebotham, that the town speaks so much of, I'm sure she is not so handsome as some people say; which we utterly eschew, loathe, and abominate. Why then do we write on a subject so detestable? Mr. Printwell takes great airs about her, but I We answer-we have good reasons :-if any one ask don't think much of her, certainly she is quite the which be they?' We have only to repeat- we have belle of Ardwick, but that's not much, you know. reasons, that we could and would give if we chose, 'Oh fie,' interrupted Volatile, it's very cruel in but not upon compulsion.-We are led perhaps to you to say so you know every body thinks her so beautiful.'Oh,' said Miss Gilhulme, tossing up complain more grievously upon this subject than we her head with the greatest affectation, the foolish ought, because we have always an alternative of one of the two last-mentioned fluids forced down our little chatterbox-d'ye know Mr. Volatile, she has throats when we answer the numerous cards of had her likeness taken by the automaton, and she invitation which rest upon our chimney-piece.-It is makes such a fuss about it-there's no bearingmighty curious indeed to observe how Volatile avoids what d'ye think she says she made Mr. Allknown bringing his lips in contact with these obnoxious such a speech about that portrait-that-' 'For potions-how he seems to sip, and contrives to spill mercy's sake, my dear Miss Gilhulme, do spare Then,' said the unrelenting lady, into the saucer-anon rises-to relieve some lady the poor girl-' there's Miss Potier and her brother Harry, with from her finished cup-then mingling with the chat which prevails on such occasions, delays it to the her fair tresses à la mode de Charles, and her beaudo take tiful sleepy languishing look, and her—' For pity last minute-the servant comes.- now another cup Mr. Volatile' says the lady of the house if not for love, Miss Gilhulme, have a little mercy.' 'And oh-that affected Miss Rind, and her sweet - Volatile is inflexible, the untouched cup is carried away, and his spirits revive-like the drooping bud flirt the juvenile ****** with his odious glass, which after the April shower-and he seems more pleased he so continually bores one with-and his drawling by the departure of the cups rattling upon the tray--impertinences-and then-' here Miss Gilhulme's than the devotees of gunpowder are by the hissing of the entering tea-urn.-Nevertheless there is a something exceedingly inspiring in the mute eloquence of a jingling tea-cup, something which causes the heart even to respond to the insipid prattle which such weak draughts promote; but these delights have been carried to too great an extent and tea parties in general are now become meetings, where scandal and defamation are the principal objects of conversation, and, where the demerits and defects of a neighbour are entered upon with the most rigid and censorious asVolatile where are you going in such a conperity. founded hurry,' said Panacey, as the former was hastily passing him, 'I can't stop,' said Volatile, peevish-❘ Zounds you must, for I've a hundred things to ly, tell you, and yet I won't detain you if you really are so anxious to be gone,' said the Doctor, observing Volatile's impatience; but in the name of petulance | whither are you going,' 'To the, no, no,' said he laughing, 'I'm going to Mr. Ravenhair's, I will see you at ten, I shan't be later.' What, ha, how many quadrilles did you dance at Mr. Give's ball with one part-ner, eh, but;'"Oh you must excuse me now,' said Volatile, and off he went. Now Mrs. Ravenhair and her sister, are in our opinion, very handsome, and very pleasant, and very entertaining, and we do not know whether we love more their good qualities, or admire their beauty; we have also been enchanted by their exquisite singing, and wehave no hesitation in asserting that Miss Fairbrow is much the best singer, in a private room, that we have ever had the pleasure of hearing, indeed we have been absolutely astonished

scandal became so loud that Volatile ventured to
solicit her attention to Miss Fairbrow, who wished
to know whether she would take more tea. No
thank ye, my love.' Nay now do oblige me-
Upon my word I have quite finished. Mr. Volatile
you have taken nothing at all, I really wish you
would help yourself to the cake, or bread and butter,
Miss Gilhnlme has prevented you from eating.' 'Oh
no, I can assure you,' said Volatile, I have quite
finished.' John you may take away,' said Mrs.
Ravenhair, I believe we have all finished.'' Mr.
Volatile d'ye sing?' said Miss Fairbrow, as the man
removed the équipage au thé I think you have a
No indeed, Miss Fairbrow, you are
singing face.'

a bad physiognomist if you think so, upon my honour
I never sung except once, and that was to please an
old aunt of mine-but I have heard so much of your
talents, and have been so well pleased with what
little I myself have had the pleasure of witnessing,
that I hope you will favour us with a song.' What
must it be then,' said she, laughing, and rising she
Oh you best know,' said
took up her music book.
Volatile. We have before spoken of Miss Fairbrow's
singing, and had then no hesitation in giving it our
unqualified meed of approbation, but if the word of
a man may be trusted whom this last effort has dis-
tracted with the concord of sweet sounds, her singing
this evening was the ne plus ultra of harmony.

was preparing a set for the quadrille, and shall be
happy to accompany you in Les Lanciers,' or Les
Graces, Mademoiselle.' Her fairy steps were lighter
than her angel voice was sweet. Volatile was en-
but his ecstacies may
tranced, enraptured, en—
best be painted by the following delirious effusion of
his muse.

0. ⚫ daughter and image of May,

The zest of each joy, and the balm of each sorrow,
As bright as the radiance that beams in the day,
And as sweet as the hope that beguiles in to morrow.
A star of delight at whose beamy approaching
The signals of triumph are seen in the skies;
The wind's hoarsest murmurs the tempest's reproaching,
Are sunk into breezes, are fallen to sighs.
And while all around (hushed in quiet) reposes,
The voice of creation proclaims in the gales;
Bright queen of the fair, of the lilies and roses,
High priestess of beauty, and wisdom, all hail!
Such shall be for ever the rapturous greeting,

The joy and the harmony wak'd by your tread;
Where pleasure with pleasure, and joy with joy meeting,
Shall break the black bandage of sorrow and dread.
O mighty enchantress! say, where is that fairy
That grac'd every charm which attends in your train?
And which rare as exquisite, fleeting as airy,

Earth ne'er had before, and will ne'er see again.
Tis something compounded of all the lost graces,
Of all the bright beams that ere beauty has cast;
Which in its wide range of perfection embraces,
The blaze of the present, the future, the past.
A spirit, an essence, a radiance, breaking
Around like an halo, that waits on your call,
That fires in your eye-beam, that plays in your speaking,
That glows in each part and yet mingles in all.
The bright emanation diffused from a relic,
Too sacred for earthy or Cyprian shrine;
Diffusing around it that lustre angelic,

The wide circling glory that marks it divine.

A form at whose glance, at one sight of whose motion,
Your joys and your sorrows alike would be o'er;
Your thoughts would be lost like a drop in the ocean,
And leave but behind them the wish to adore.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

What can we say to our correspondents for our long neglect of them? Nothing. What must our correspondents say to us? Nothing, if they please. We know we have behaved very uncivilly, but it will not become them to abuse us. We have indeed had some of the fairest hands disfigured with the hurry of indignation, first, at our unmannerly replications and now at our contemptuous taciturnity; but had they known the gracefulness of silence, they would not have committed themselves in petulance and wrath. Young ladies who are unaccustomed to communications with editors, will no doubt take it grievously amiss that they do not meet the same implicit attention which they usually receive, and to which perhaps their merits may justly entitle them; yet if they could know how it afflicts us to wound them, they would not blame us for delaying the painful sentence of condemnation, or the damning with faint praise,' which we are too often compelled to bestow on their productions.

Clarinda would not have written to 'demand some notice of her verses from Mr. Volatile,' nor have expressed herself 'amazed, at his want of gentlemanly propriety,' had she been aware that it was his high sense of 'gentlemanly propriety,' which forbade him to tell a lady that her verses were very silly verses: nor would Fannia bave 'thought that the editors might long since have found space for her sonnet in some number of the Musaeid,' could she only have imagined that it was her measure, and her numbers which were in fault.

But briefly, dear Correspondents, Juliet, Aminta, Kate, Jane, and Olivia, your ratings are lost upon us; we wont even tell you what we think of your Communications, but not one of them shall be published.

F: is wrong. We were not ashamed of meeting her in the Square the other day, but we saw her point us out to her friend and we hate to be attacked about the Musaeid. Delia wants to know how she must spend her time? Prófitably.

Mrs. Matadore's account of Miss Spadille's tea party will be inserted, but we cannot promise when. We heard the secret of the wedding long before Matilda sent it to us: we know the day too, which, we dare say, she does not, and the Millineries, which are ordered, from Mrs. Bean, that's the name we believe.

When Miss Fairbrow had finished Miss Gilhulme attempted to renew her pertinacious babbling, but Volatile would not attend to her. Though I cannot sing I can dance,' said he to Miss Fairbrow, who Tax EDITORS of the MUSAEID at the IRIS OFFICE.

together, stalking halfe as high again as the rest of the world, for courtezans or the citizens may not weare choppines, but cover their bodies and faces with a vaile of a certaine glittering taffeta or lustreè, out of which they now and then dart a glaunce of their eye, the whole face being otherwise entirely hid with SUNDAY, 12.-Rogation Sunday. it; nor may the common misses take this habit, but go abroad barefac'd. To the corThis day takes its name from the Latin term ners of these virgin-vailes hang broad but flat rogare to ask; because, on the three subsequent tossels of curious Point de Venize; the mardays, supplications were appointed by Mam-ried women go in black vailes. The nobility ertus, Bishop of Vienna, in the year 469, to be weare the same colour, but of fine cloth lin❜d offered up with fasting to God, to avert some wth taffeta in summer, with fur from squirrels particular calamities that threatened his dio-in ye winter, which all put on at a certaine day girt with a girdle emboss'd with silver; the vest not much different from what our Bachelors of Arts weare in Oxford, and a hood of cloth made like a sack, cast over their left shoulder, and a round cloth black cap fringed with wool, which is not so comely; they also weare their collar open to shew the diamond button of the stock of their shirt. I have never seene pearle for colour and bignesse comparable to what the ladys weare, most of the noble families being very rich in jewells, especially pearles, which are always left to the son or brother who is destined to marry, which the eldest seldome do. The Doge's vest is of crimson velvet, the Procurator's, &c. of damasc, very stately. Nor was I lesse surprised with the strange variety of ye severall nations which were seen every day in the streetes and piazzas; Jews, Turks, Armenians, Persians, Moores, Greekes, Sclavonians, some their targets and boucklers, and all in their native fashions, negotiating in this famous emporium which is always crowded with stran

my dear Phil," I replied, "is far too creditably established in society to render their alliance disgraceful. I'm proud to belong to so prevailing a party." "Pshaw ! this is no time for joking. What's to be done?" " Why,

TO“ 0.”

CORRESPONDENCE.

Iris was your reply, and I can assure you it gave

DEAR SIR,-The first thing I perused in the last

'ill-humour" that I

who is resolved to think for himself, who has cou-
me great pleasure. Every one admires the man
rage to question the theories which he doubts. Upon
my honour it was not with real
answered your second letter, it was assumed, and I
thought you would understand it as such. Should
we ever appear again as antagonists in the pages of
the Iris, I hope it will be with that mutual good-
temper which ought to distinguish philosophical con-
troversies. After receiving this communication, you
pute. I will not provoke a reply if I can avoid it.
will doubtless see the propriety of dropping this dis-
Sufficient has been said to encourage the young phi-
losopher to study this branch, of those laws which
the Almighty has instituted, for the preservation,
and the pleasure, of animated beings.

You

Sir, how singular!"-" Singular! I wonder at perjury no longer, for my part. I would have gone into any court of justice, and have taken my oath it was you. I never saw such a likeness. Your father and the fellow's mother when does a man want a joke, Phil, but when were acquainted, or I'm mistaken. The air, he's in trouble! However, adieu to badinage, the height, the voice; all but the manner, and and hey for Cambridge instantly." "Cam-damine, that was not yours. No-no, you bridge?" "In the twinkling of an eye--never would have treated your old uncle so." not a moment to be lost. My uncle will post "How rejoiced I am, that- "Rejoiced! there with four horses instantly; and my only so am I. I would not but have been undechance of avoiding that romantic misfortune ceived for a thousand guineas. Nothing but of being cut off with a shilling, is to be there seeing you here so quiet, so studious, surrounbefore him." ded by problems, would have convinced me. Ecod! I can't tell you how I was startled. I had been told some queer stories, to be sure, about your Cambridge etiquette. I heard that two Cambridge men, one of St. John's, the other of Trinity, had met on the top of Vesuvius, and that though they knew each other by sight and reputation, yet never having been formally introduced, like two simpletons they looked at each other in silence, and left the mountain separately and without speaking;--and that cracked fellow-commoner, Meadows, had shewn me a caricature, taken from the life, representing a Cambridge man drowning, another gownsman standing on the brink, and exclaiming, Oh! that I had had the honour of being introduced to that man, that I might have taken the liberty of saving him! But,-it, thought I, he never would carry it so far with his own uncle never heard your father was a gay man," continued he, musing; "yet, as you sit in that light, the likeness is" I moved instantly You say that the wearied retina, throwing itself "But it's impossible, you know, it's impos-into opposite or spasmodic action, is to you a new sible. Come, my dear fellow, come! I must hypothesis: I can assure you it is a well known one. get some dinner. Who could he be? Never mortal work, The See the works above quoted, and Dr. Darwin's imZoonomia, or the Laws of Orwere two people so alike!" ganic Life."--In the latter you will find many experiments which prove, and numberless analogies which support that very hypothesis which you state to be "unauthorized by experiment, and unsupported by have never once referred to the ear. How many kinds, or degrees of motion, is the tympanum ca

Without settling our bill at the inn, or making a single arrangement, we dashed back to Cambridge. Never shall I forget the mental anxiety I endured on my way there. Every thing was against us. A heavy rain had fallen in the night, and the roads were wretched. The traces broke-turnpike gates were shut; droves of sheep and carts impeded our progress; but in spite of all these obstacles, we reached the college in less than six hours."Has Sir Thomas-been here?" said I to the porter with an agitation I could not conceal. "No, sir." Phil" thanked God, and took courage." "If he does, tell him so and so," said I, giving veracious Thomas his instructions, and putting a guinea into his hand to sharpen his memory. "Phil, my dear fellow, don't show your face out of the college for this fortnight. You twig! God bless you."--I had barely time to get to my own room, to have ny toga and trencher beside me, Newton and Aristotle before me, optics, mechanics, and hydrostatics, strewed around in learned confusion, when my uncle drove up to the gate. "Porter, I wish to see Mr- "said he; "is he in his rooms?" "Yes sir; I saw him take a heap of books there ten minutes ago." This was not the first bouncer the Essence of

I will now say a few words in reply--observe, I› do not intend to formally reply to your objections, though the materials for such crowd upon me. say that my term "spectrum" is unphilosophical; it is nevertheless appropriate, for doubtless nearly every spectre, that has been seen for ages past, has (not that they are infallible) have thus made use of been nothing more than a spectrum. The learned the word many years, and have not yet rejected it. This you will find by having recourse to the LXXVI vol. of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and to the 5th number of that very Philosophical Publication, the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. I must, therefore, continue to use the word in this sense, till you, or some other person, substitute a better.

Truth, as Thomas was known through college, had told for me; nor the last he got well paid fty," he generously gave me a draft for three analogy." What shall I say to you? You surely

for. "Ay! very likely. Reads very hard, I
dare
"No doubt of that, I believe,
say ?
Sir," said Thomas, as bold as brass. "You au-
dacious fellow! how dare you look in my face
and tell me such a deliberate falsehood? You
know he's not in college!" Not in college!
Sir, as I hope---” None of your hopes or
Shew me his rooms- -If two
hours ago I did not see--- See him,-yes,
I've seen him, and he's seen the last of me."

fears to me.

He had now reached my rooms; and never shall I forget his look of astonishment, of amazement bordering on incredulity, when I calmly came forward, took his hand and welcomed him to Cambridge. "My dear Sir, how are you? What lucky wind has blown you here?"--"What, George! who-what-whyI can't believe my eyes!"-" How happy I am to see you!" I continued; "How kind of you to come! How well you're looking!" How people may be deceived!My dear George, (speaking very rapidly,) I met a fellow, in a tandem, in the Haymarket, so like you, in every particular, that I hailed him at once. The puppy disowned me--affected to cut a joke--and drove off. Never was I more taken off my stilts! I came down directly with four post-horses, to tell your Tutor; to tell the Master; to tell all the College, that I would have nothing more to do with you; that I would be responsible for your debts no longer; to inclose you fifty pounds, and disown you for ever."-"My dear

We dined at the inn, and spent the evening
together; and instead of the fifty, the last
times the amount. He left Cambridge the
next morning, and his last words were, as he
entered his carriage, My brother was a
handsome man; and there was a Lady Some-

body, who, the world said, was partial to him.
God bless you! Read hard you young dog;
She may have a son. Most surprising likeness.
remember. Like as two brothers!" I never
saw him again.

His death which happened a few months
afterwards, in consequence of his being bit in
a bet, contracted when he was a "little eleva-
ted," left me the heir to his fine estate! I wish
I could add, to his many and noble virtues. I
do not attempt to palliate deception. It is
always criminal. But, I am sure, no severity,
no reprimand, no reproaches, would have had
half the effect which his kindness, his confi-
dence, and his generosity wrought on me. It
reformed me thoroughly, and at once. I did
not see London again till I had graduated;
and if my degree was unaccompanied by bril-
liant honours, it did not disgrace my Uncle's
liberality or his name. Many years have
elapsed since our last interview; but I never
reflect on it without pain and pleasure-pain,
that our last intercource on earth should have
been marked by the grossest deception; and
pleasure, that the serious reflections it awak-
ened cured me for ever of all wish to deceive,
and made the open and straightforward path
of life, that of

AN OLD STUDENT.

pable of?

Again, you say, that if, as I contend, the retina has the power of spontaneously falling into action, it must have the power of spontaneously refusing to act. This is certainly a very strange assumption. And then you say that," according to this hypothesis, each individual has entire command over his own optic nerves; can throw them into any kind of action he pleases," in other words, that falling into action "of its own accord," is the same as falling into action at the command of the will. Thus you sanction the following conclusion, that spontaneously falling into action, is the same thing as not spontaneously falling into action. Nothing else can be made of

your paragraph.

With regard to spectra being divided into direct and inverse, nothing is more easy of solution. To medical men, these are small difficulties.

The following quotations will convince you that I, have very great authorities for the opinions I have stated. From all these experiments it appears, that the spectra in the eye are not owing to the mechanical impulse of light impressed on the retiua, . nor to its chemical combination with that organ, nor to the absorption and emission of light."-" By the following observations it appears, that a similar cir

cumstance obtains in the organ of vision; after it neously falls into the opposite kind." Sect. III. has been fatigued by one kind of action, it spontaThe motions of the retina demonstrated by experiments."-See the works above quoted.

From the experiments which I myself have made, and from the researches of others, I have every. reason to believe what I have advanced to be cor

SIR,-Every lover of the drama must feel gratified that the town of Manchester has expressed, in so decided and dignified a manner, its determination to protect deserving performers from the caprice of those, who ought always to be governed by the will of the public.

It is hardly probable that the "gentlemen" managers at Liverpool, will disregard a marked expression of public feeling so much, as to insist on Mr. Salter's dismissal; but are they not likely to be a little embarrassed by their engagement with Mr. Vandenhoff? No one imagines that gentleman will condescend to perform second rate characters, where Mr. Salter occupies the first rank; and, whatever may be the feelings of Mr. S. on the subject, the inhabitants of this town will not suffer their favourite to be thrown into the shade. Under these circumstances, Mr. Salter may be forced to a temporary retirement from the Manchester boards, and, in that case, could any thing be more gratifying to his patrons, than some lasting memorial of his talents, and their approbation; especially, if that memorial could be made the means of profit to Mr. S. and a gentlemen managers," convincing proof to those, that, even without their assistance, the town of Manchester knows how to remunerate those who exert themselves for the public gratification.