victim to the malady. M. Halle, on opening his body, was particularly struck with the absence of blood in almost every part; and this he justly considers as one of the most remarkable circumstances of the disease. The mode of treat ment adopted with respect to the others, after this discovery, was more successful. The first indications of this favourable change appeared in the projection of the blood-vessels. At the period when M. Halle drew up the above statement, the three labourers had almost entirely recovered, and their skin had resumed nearly its natural colour.

The chevalier Canova, the celebrated sculptor, has gone from Rome to Vienna to erect the monument of the archduchess Christina, an immense composition of eight marble figures, larger than life, the models and the execution of which have long been objects of admiration at Rome. Before his departure M. Canova exhibited to the public the model of a colossal group, representing the combat of Theseus and a Centaur. This group is to be executed in marble for Milan.

The following details relative to the arts at Rome are given by one of the most distinguished scientific men of that city." We cannot boast of many literary productions; but, to make amends, great pains are taken for clearing, cleansing, and better preserving, the ancient monuments of architecture. His holiness has greatly promoted this part of the art, one of the most interesting of antiquity. The architect and the antiquary will acquire new subjects of erudition, and new works and new engravings will be rendered necessary. The work of Desgodetz, a new edition of which is about to be published by M. Carlo Fea, will derive an immense advantage from these labours and will become almost entirely new. How different from what we have been accustomed to behold it, will appear that celebrated Pantheon, hitherto almost unknown, though the most

beautiful of ancient edifices, and in the best preservation. The Flavian Amphitheatre, or Coliseum, will be cleansed, and the public will have access to it, as to a museum.—The temple of the Sybil at Tivoli has been repaired; and the two arches of Septimius Severus and of Constantine have been cleared of the earth which covered them. The column of Antoninus has been cleaned, and is no longer covered with dust. The supposed temple of Vesta at Rome, on the Tiber, as well as the neighbouring one of Fortuna Virilis, will be cleared of the rubbish in which they have been as it were buried; and the interior of them will be cleansed. Thus, by the exertions of his holiness, ancient Rome will be exposed to view, and modern Rome will be embellished. Nor has the holy father forgotten the most celebrated of the modern buildings, the small circular temple erected in 1502, after the designs of the illustrious Bramante Lazzeri, under the auspices of Ferdinand the catholic, king of Spain. It fell into ruins some years since, not from age, but in consequence of the late troubles. It was sold, in order that its precious materials might be removed: but his holiness has resolved to repair it in a style of great elegance. In a short time M. Carlo Fea will speak of all these new undertakings in the second volume of his Miscellanies, which he has particularly devoted to what relates to the researches now carrying on, exclusive of what will be said in his Illustrations of Desgodetz. M. Guattani will likewise treat of them in a new Journal which M. Carlo Fea is about to undertake. The former gentleman is at present engaged on the Sequel to the Unpublished Monuments, in which will be found many interesting particulars. The museum of the illustrious cardinal Borgia has passed into hands by which it will not be neglected. His nephew, the present possessor, is a man of information, and has a deep sense of the glory which the cardinal acquired for his family by this unique collec

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And when Kirkpatrick call'd for wine,
This page the drink would bear;
Nor did the knight or dame divine
Sic black deceit was near.

Then every lady sung a sang,

Some gay, some sad and sweet, Like tunefu' birds the woods amang,

Till a' began to greet.

E'en cruel Lindsay shed a tear,

Forletting malice deep; As mermaids, wi' their warbles clear, Can sing the waves to sleep.

And now to bed they all are dight;

Now steek they ilka door; There's nought but stillness o' the night Whare was sic din before.

Fell Lindsay puts his harness on, His steed doth ready stand, And up the staircase is he gone, Wi' poinard in his hand.

The sweat did on his forehead break,
He shook wi' guilty fear;
In air he heard a joyfu' shriek-

Red Cuming's ghaist was near.

Now to the chamber doth he creep;

A lamp of glimmering ray Show'd young Kirkpatrick fast asleep, In arms o' lady gay.

He lay with bare unguarded breast,
By sleepy juice beguil'd;

And sometimes sigh'd, by dreams opprest,

And sometimes sweetly smil'd.

Unclos'd her mouth o' rosy hue, Whence issu'd fragrant air, That gently, in soft motion, blew Stray ringlets o' her hair.

Şair, sair and mickle did he bleed! His lady slept till day,

Lang did he ride o'er hill and dale,
Nor mire nor flood he fear'd:
I trow his courage 'gan to fail

When morning light appear'd.

For, having hied the livelang night,
Thro' hail and heavy showers,
He faund himsel', at peep o' light,
Hard by Caerlaveroc's towers.
The castle bell was ringing out,
The ha' was all asteer,
And mony a screech and waefu' shout
Appall'd the murderer's ear.

Now they hae bound this traitor strang,
Wi' curses and wi' blows,

And high in air they did him hang,
To feed the carrion crows.

"To sweet Lincluden's† haly cells Fou dowie I'll repair;

There Peace wi' gentle Patience dwells, Nae deadly feuds are there.

"In tears I'll wither ilka charm,

Like draps o' balefu' yew ; And wail the beauty that could harm A knight sae brave and true."

For the Literary Magazine.

ELEGIAC TRIBUTE TO PARENTAL TENDERNESS.

CHILL winter's appearance was past, Its reign so unfeeling was done;

* Caerlaveroc stands on Solway firth. † Lincluden abbey, near Dumfries, on the banks of the river Cluden.