Greekism of our title, at the same time to complain of sundry innovations in learning to which he finds himself unequal. It does not appear, from his epistle, that he ever received instruction at any of the colleges; though, he says, he once had an offer of being put on one of the foundations; but, the pleasure which his ears experienced in the sonorous expressions of some of the grave gentlemen, and the exquisite modulations of voice among other gentlemen who were not distinguished for gravity, has induced him ever since to watch with attention the progress of learned words, which he supposes to be synonimous with learning, among us. I was, says he, unspeakably edified in my youth with the pronunciation of the Greek language; and never failed when the university pulpit resounded with a dozen lines of Hesiod or Homer, to stand up, with every mark of admiration! Besides that, many a long pennyworth of erudition have I drawn in by studying what the showman called Arundelians; and was perfectly familiar with his kappathetas, or tombstones, which tell to a moment, at least so he said, how long the owner lived before he died; and this so many years after his death! I remember, when I came to settle in London, what they called Latin was the prevalent tongue, and many names of things were derived by John Bull from the dialect of his ancient tyrants the Romans: there was, however, a conflict between the language of those ancient tyrants, and that of our would be modern tyrants, the French: but I saw clearly that the Latin could never stand its ground alone; and happy was I, when the Greek was called in to support it: for the Greeks never conquered us, you know, Sir. We soon expelled French denominations, for how could that frivolous language, or the sing song Italian, cope with the truly majestic appellations of Lyceum, Atheneum, Naunachia, Eidophusicon, Eidouranion, Polygraphicon, Polyplasiasmos, Plocacosmos, Phantasmagoria, or Panorama? what melody! what descriptive signification! what Glossological enunciation! what Cardiphonian emphasis ! Well, Sir, the copious language of Greece promised an inexhaustible supply of sonorous nominatives, capable of infinite metamorphoses, and perfectly ductile to the any thing, and the every thing, of fashion itself. Greek, in short, became so national and familiar, that it composed part of those popular ephemeral essays, our play-bills. How I exulted, when I saw that salubrious stream, the New River, ennobled under the title of xtavina, the Ocean itself! in flaring Greek letters several inches in length, cut on purpose, and VOL. I. [Lit. Pan, Jan. 1807.] ornamenting every ivall, by order of the learned proprietors of Sadler's Wells! But here, Sir, begins my misery: for those profound erudites perceiving that Greek brought them crowded audiences during a whole season, thought proper on the 20th of March 1805, the day of the vernal equinox, to inform us that, that most famous dancer of dancers, Dhan would cut his first I had never seen such characters at Oxford; entrée" that very night! What could I do? nor did any body of my acquaintance know length in meditation, I at last discovered in a their meaning. After walking many a street's bill that was level to my eye sight, a note, which informed me, that they were the name of " Miguel Sanchez, the Sevilian Jew.". A plague on all Hebrew letters, and all Sevilian Jews, say I, and on all Judaizing Christians, at Sadler's Wells, or elsewhere, for so deep were my cogitations before I made the discovery, that I ran against a post and knocked out two of my teeth, which all the s'mouses in the world can never compensate or replace. But, Sir, I am doomed to still further vexation; for of late the elegant Greek stile, which once was every thing, is now abandoned for the EgypEgyptian lamps, Egyptian letters, Egyptian tian: we have Egyptian window-curtains, beds, Egyptian waiters, tea-tables, and teaboards; Egyptian door-plates, knockers, and knobs; aye, and Egyptian_stove grates, phagi, and a man cannot draw a cork with too: our wine coopers are Egyptian sarcohis friend without reminding him of the tomb-the Serapeum, or the Memnoniun, the last repository of the Pharaohs or the Ptolemies. I learn also to my inexpressible mortification, that after having suffered a defeat of play-bill, I am to be further pestered with my learning, by my inability to construe a Coptic Dictionary arrives from Grand Cairo. Hieroglyphics, directly as the Manager's Sir, I intreat your serious attention to this— for if this rage proceeds as it has begun, phrases employed by our public writers, I dread, lest we may hereafter meet with or perhaps our parliamentary speakers, which being unlike any thing English, may be passed upon us as elegant Copticisms, or figurative Hieroglyphicisms; we may be treated with the very language of Thoth, or Amenophis, of Pharmenoth, and Pharmuthi; dead languages surely! for no man living can pronounce or comprehend them and these shall be praised as beautics in the harangues of My Lord or-Sir John▬▬▬ ! ' Not even yourself, Mr. Panorama, can explain the deep import of Kneph, Bubastis, Hermempthe, of the Androsphynges, Arueris, Typhon, Osiris, Isis, and Nepthe: still less of the herb Femptemphtam, the ser2 E 1 pent Upheum, or the birds Baieth, Cucupham, Cicumam: and a million of others, equally dark and mysterious. As however, I was determined to possess learning enough to read the public papers, if possible, I thought, I would study Sanserit and Hindoo, and would take a few lessons in the Chinese of my worthy friend, Tqsxotlmzbqua, (now in London, to oblige the English) for I concluded, that these would be the characters next adopted to familiarize a novelty to the public. And I was right; for speedily I saw announced the wonderful virtues of Hetherington and Mackie's which no language but the Chinese had terms sufficiently energetic to express. I also understand, that besides a number of Hieroglyphic works expected in circulation for the amusement of the public this winter: that several new founts of Chinese great primier, paragon, cannon, and scrip, are in preparation at a celebrated foundry, not far from St. Luke's; and that there is, worse still! a talk of adopting some of the nailformed letters, the Persepolitan, or Babylonish characters, such as are shewn at the East India House, in those illustrations of the History of England, long promised by an eminent statesman: morcover, because these Persepolitan characters in their original run down the margins of windows, they are expected to look peculiarly beautiful in side notes. As your title, Sir, implies that, Argus-like, you look sharply all round about you, do pray, Sir, see into this: intreat the learned to give me a little time; not to be more obscure than Greek, this winter, and to spare me the mortification of being again invited in vain to peruse a play bill, though addressed to the public at large; or of being left in ignorance of the virtues of the Ceylon Soap," though the very comfort of my chin may depend on my adopting it without delay. I am, &c. BARNABY BANTER, Greek Street, Soho. Philelienos. LIGHT HOUSE AT FLAMBOROUGH HEAD. The establishment of light houses on our coast, for the advantage of navigation, is gratifying to humanity, while it promotes the security of our commerce. FLAMBOROUGH HEAD, is a considerable promontory in Yorkshire, whose snow-white cliff's have hithert been the only direction to navigators: but a light house is now erected on it. It is five nilles N. E. of Bridlington. The height of the building from the basis to the summit is eighty-five feet, and from the level of the sea two hundred and fifty feet. The lanthorn contains three frames, with seven large lamps and reflectors in each making in the whole twenty-one-the lights revolve, and the motion is horizontal-one of the lights is red, to distinguish Flamborough lights from all others, and in a clear night, they may be seen at the distance of thirty miles. On the 1st instant the following oration was delivered by Benjamin Milne, Esq. Collector of his Majesty's Customs at Bridlington, on the Exhibition of these Lights. Rome, in the plenitude of power, enriched with the plunder of conquered provinces, and elated with pride, erected stately pillars ornamented with exquisite sculpture, to commemorate the achievements of her illustrious citizens; but those splendid embellishments were the ostentatious monuments of an unbounded ambition which grasped at universal dominion, and in the career of victory, extended a wide scene of ruin and desolation. Under the influence of a better principle, and for purposes infinitely more useful, this superb edifice for the exhibition of lights is erected. It was raised with the benevolent intention of securing the property of individuals, and of preserving human life from the calamities of shipwreck. To the honour of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity-house, Deptford Strond, London, it must be observed, that with laudable zeal they have patronised the undertaking, and completed the building in a stile superior to every other of the same class in the United Kingdom-an eminent display of taste and judgment. The grandeur of its situation on this elevated promontory is unequalled the sublimity of the prospect must excite the admiration of every beholder-the vast sweep of the northern. ocean fills the eye with its immeasurable expanse, and exhibits a scene which inspires exalted ideas. Innumerable fleets laden with the produce of the coal-mines, and rich trading vessels from Scotland, daily pass in view-Ships freighted with naval stores and valuable merchandize, from Archangel, from Norway, the ports of the Baltic, and Hol land, and others from the Whale-Fisheries, direct their course to this distinguished promontory. Scenes of this kind are characte ristic of national grandeur.-The bold enter. prize and mercantile spirit of Britain astonish the world.The magnitude of her commerce covers the sea with her fleets-her flag waves triumphant in every quarter of the globethe unrivalled skill, industry, honorable conduct, and opulence of the country, are the solid basis of its stability. Surely, such important interests merit a sedulous attention to their security.While you view with complacency the multitude of ships floating on the extended ocean, should you at the same moment take into consideration the immense value of their cargoes, and the many thousands of seamen by which they are navigated, you would then be able to form some judgment of the extensive advantages which must result from the execution of a plan so highly useful and beneficent. If prompted by curiosity, you have ever surveyed the formidable rocks which line the adjacent shore, and have observed the foaming waves of the stormy ocean dashing with irresistible fury against the perpendicular cliffs, the sight alone must have filled you with astonishment and dread!— Figure then to yourselves the melancholy scene of some unfortunate vessel enveloped in midnight darkness, driven by the tempest, and suddenly stranded on the tremendous coastpaint to your imaginations the crew of helpless seamen sinking among the overwhelming billows, and raising their supplicating voices, in vain, for aid!—reflect on the inexpressible agony of their tender connections, deprived in one sad moment of all that is esteemed dear in life, and left perhaps desolate and forlorn, in a state of helpless indigence, to mourn the loss of a husband, a father, or a son!-these are not visionary ideas, they are scenes, alas, which have too frequently been realized. With such impressions on your ninds you must assuredly acknowledge the utility of a design calculated, under Providence, to prevent consequences so wounding to the tender sensibilities of human nature. Had this building been erected at a more early period, the loss of his Majesty's ship the Nautilus, Captain Gunter, from the Baltic, and several of the vessels under her convoy, with many valuable lives, might, in all human probability, have been prevented. From the exhibition of these brilliant lights, innumerable will be the advantages to navigation. I will detail the most prominent-the sight of them will dispel the gloom which frequently seizes the boldest and most skilful navigator, in a critical moment; and direct him, when surrounded by the obscurity of a winter's night, to avoid the dangers of this projecting coast. They will guide the tempest-beaten mariner to the Humber, or to a safe anchorage in Bridlington-bay, famed for its convenience and security-diffusing their friendly lustre afar, they will shine as leading stars to enable ships in a large ofling, to ascertain their situations with accuracy, and to take a new departure; and also warn others contending with eastern gales, to keep at a proper distance from the dangers of a leeshore to the fishermen, who are frequently exposed to great perils on the unstable ele ment, they will be eminently useful in the night they will guide them to the proper fuming grounds, and direct them on their return to the shore, to a place of safety. Numerous have been the disasters of this industrious race of men at Flamborough-I am persuaded that many of you who are now present, have witnessed the painful scene of the whole village in mourning !-the lamentations of the disconsolate widow and mother must have pierced your souls-with inexpressible anguish, I have seen the tears of the helpless orphan flow for an indulgent parent, who perished in the merciless wave: while I retain the faculty of inemory, the sad impression will never be erased; and at this moment it is difficult to restrain my emotions; but the consideration that my humble exertions have been instrumental in promoting a design to prevent those calamities in future, will be a source of satisfaction to me to the remotest period of life. This description of an undertaking so conducive to the security of navigation, will not, I trust, be deemed too highly coloured-the facts are incontrovertible, the utility is indisputable. So long as this noble edifice shall stand unshaken ou its firm foundation, and lift its aspiring summit to the view of the admiring spectator, it will remain a conspicuous monument of the humanity and munificence of the British nation, unparalleled by any other of the maritime states on the face of the globe. May the kind Providence of Almighty God favour this and every other effort of national utility with success, and crown with glory the ardent courage and determined resolution of our matchless seamen, in the defence of their native land! While afflicted Europe mourns her desolated provinces and subjugated states, may this United Kingdom, firm in loyalty, in patriotism, and every exalted virtue, oppose an insurmountable barrier to the impetuous torrent which threatens to overwhelar the earth. May Britain ever continue in the envied possession of the empire of the main, and lifting her unclouded head with distinguished lustre amid the gloom, which at this awful crisis, overshadows the world, exhibit to desponding nations a bright example of glory-invincible by every hostile shock, unshaken as the rocks which guard our sea-girt shore. PROPOSAL FOR EMPLOYING FUMIGATIONS AS A REMEDY FOR CONSUMPTION. To the Editor of the LITERARY PANORAMA. SIR--The following instance of medical heroisin cannot be too extensively known; I therefore beg you to insert it at length, and to this I have added, an extract from a French Journal, which is to the same purpose. An experiment tried at Carthagena, wtlong ago, of the efficacy of anti-contagious fumigations, has been liberally rewarded by the King of Spain, as stated in the following Roval Decree. "The King has read the different reports made by Don François de Bergo, Commandant General of Carthagena, relative to the important and distinguished services renduring dered by Don Michel Cabanellas, the contagion which made such havoc in that place. His Majesty was especially much pleased with the merits of the experiment tried by Don Michel Cabanellas, in the hospital of the Antegones of the same city, where he shut himself up with 50 other persons, to prove the efficacy of the fumigations of Mr. Guyton de Morveau, and slept with every one of those individuals, including two of his own children, in the very same beds in which many victims of the contagion had expired, who had left horrible marks of blood and vomiting without having used any other preservative than acid minerai fumigations. His Majesty has felt great satisfaction upon being informed that the result had been attended with such success, that the fifty-one individuals after having been strictly confined in the lazaretto, were in a perfect state of health when they left it. In consequence, His Majesty, as a testimony of his Royal munificence, has granted each of the galley. slaves, who have voluntarily submitted to the experiment, without having previously had. the yellow fever, to be released from his confinement a twelvemonth sooner than his sentence ordained; and moreover approves the gratification, granted to them by his Captain General With regard to Don Michel Cabanellas, His Majesty grants him the privileges attached to the situation of physician of the chamber, with an annual pension of 24,000 reals, to be paid monthly," out of the chest of the community of Carthagena; and entitles him to vote with the municipal corporation of that city, as if he were a member by birth. The munificence of the King will also reward the trial which his to two children, after their father's example, have exposed their lives, for the welfare of the state and of their fellow-creatures." of "This preventive discovered by M. Guyton, is now in universal use in France. M. Desgenettes has been very attentive in ascertaining its efficacy, in the military hospital of Val-de-Grace; and from the couparative returns which he has made, it is evident that these fumigations not only prevent the infection, but appear to be advantageous to the patient. "Mr. Pinel has met with the same success in the most infected wards of the hospital de la. Sa petrière." I would request any of your medical correspondents to inform me whether they have ever known fumigations employed as a remedy against consumptions? I am persuaded that if some composition, equally cheap and familiar as that of the muriatic acid, but supplying that kind of gas which is most beneficial to consumptive lungs could be devised, it might prove restorative. we I do not mean that it should be inhaled, in Perhaps experiment may lead to the ingredients of a mixture proper for such fumigation. The observation of what trades, &c. are least exposed to this disorder, might assist. The powers of fumigation, as having immediate access to the lungs, are very great: and we know that in the last plague of London, the disorder never penetrated into Bucklersbury, then filled with dealers in herbs, &c. called simplers: nor into Petticoat Lane, thenoccupied by those who burnt various offensive matiers, &e. called horners. If those trades were salutary by fumigation, and if fumiga tion be salutary to the extent announced in the Spanish communication, I see no reason why it may not be pushed one degree further, and become salutary by opposing, neutraliz ing, or correcting that state of the lungs, which appears to be one cause of consumption. Possibly, another kind of mixture might under similar management relieve the asthina. Yours, &e.. SPES. GREAT EFFECTS FROM LITTLE CAUSES: The whole group of the Thousand Islands, and indeed the greater part of all those whose surfaces are flat, in the neighbourhood of the equator, owe their origin to the labours of that order of marine worms which Linnæus has arranged under the name of Zoophyta. These little animals, in a most surprising manner, construct their calcareous habita tions, under an infinite variety of forms, yet with that order and regularity, each after its own manner, which, to the minute inquirer, is so discernible in every part of the creation. But, although the eye may be convinced of the fact, it is difficult for the human mind to conceive the possibility of insects so small being endued with the power, much less of being furnished in their own bodies with the materials of constructing the immense fabrics which, in almost every part of the Eastern and Pacific Oceans lying between the tropics, are met within the shape of detached rocks, or reefs of great extent, just even with the surface, or islands already clothed with plants, whose bases are fixed at the bottom of the sea, several hundred feet in depth, where light and heat, so very essential to animal life, if not excluded, are sparingly received and feebly felt. Thousands of such rocks, and reefs, and islands, are known to exist in the Eastern ocean, within, and even beyond, the limits of the tropics. The eastern coast of New Holland is almost wholly girt with geefs and islands of coral rock, rising perpendicularly from the bottom of the abyss. Captain Kent, of the Buffalo, speaking of a coral reef of many miles in extent, on the southwest coast of New Caledonia, observes, that "it is level with the water's edge, and towards the sea, as steep to as a wall of a house; that he sounded frequently within twice the ship's length of it with a line of one hundred and fifty fathoms, or nine hundred feet, without being able to reach the bottom." How wonderful, how inconceivable, that such stupendous fabrics should rise into existence from the silent but incessant, and almost imperceptible, labours of such insignificant worms! Barrow's Voyage to Cochin-China, p.p. 165. 166. PRO GENERAL VIEW OF THE QUESTIONS This Society held its fifty-fourth general assembly May 21; but their transactions were very unimportant, owing to the small number of Prize essays come in. Out of twelve standing questions, only one had found a competent answer; that on the Scotch Pine (Pinus Silvestris), and other trees for the cultivation of dry sandy aistricts. Of five answers, that of Mr. A.P.C. van der Borch, of Verwolde, near Zutphen, received the prize; and the accessit was decreed to an essay in the German language. Of the unanswered questions, some are annulled; some prolonged to November 1, 1807. Seven new questions are proposed against the same time; with others for an indefinite period. The questions announced as unanswered are the following: 1st. How much do we know, since the latest advances in the knowledge of the nature of plants, in what manner different kinds of manures, on different soils, encourage the growth of plants? And what instruction cau be educed from the knowledge acquired in manuring or fructifying the poor and uncultivated sand districts? 2. What have the latest observations taught, on the influence of the oxygen of the atmosphere, when united with light or not, on the change of colours? and what advantage can be drawn from such knowledge? 3. What do we at present know of the course or motion of the sap in plants and trees? and how can we attain to more perfect knowledge of what is obscure or doubtful therein? Can any useful information be educed for the cultivation of trees and plants, out of what has been proved on this subject by experiments? 4. As experience from time to time teaches us the more fully, that rain-water, which runs through feaden spouts, or stands in leaden cisterns, takes from them so much of the matter of lead as to be very inju rious to health (indeed it occasions mortal disorders); and as meats and drinks which by other means are charged with the matter of lead, are injurious to health in various degrees, the Society wishes to see this subject treated in a clear, concise, valid, and, at the same time, full and complete manner; that the means whereby the danger of poison from lead may be avoided, may be more generally known, and as much as possible improved. The Society requires especially, that it be shewn by experiments and observations, in what cases the lead communicates matter to the water? If lead in this or the other manner prepared is less subject to it? If any danger may be apprehended from the use of ceruse, or white lead, in leaden spouts? and further, what is the surest means of counteracting the poison of lead in the use of leaden spouts? That it be shewn, if sufficient proof has been alleged (as was insisted a few years ago) for the assertion, that the glazing of certain and dishes communicates lead to pots some kinds of food, and what means should be taken to obviate this evil? 5. What are the general and certain rules, agreeing with the laws of music, which, in language, accurately define harmony in the pronunciation, and how far does the beauty of language depend thereon? 6. An accurate spectation of the suckling animals, birds, and amphibia, which are natural (not introduced from other countries) inhabitants of these countries, with the ad |