FRASER'S

MAGAZINE

FOR

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

VOL. XIII.

JANUARY TO JUNE, 1836.

LONDON:

JAMES FRASER, 215 REGENT STREET;

AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS AND NEWSMEN

IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.

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PARLIAMENTARY REFORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS INSTITUTED, AT THE

CLOSE OF LAST SESSION, TO INQUIRE INTO THE CONDUCT AND TO

REGULATE THE FUTURE MANAGEMENT OF FRASER'S MAGAZINE...

THE ROYAL ADDRESS THE DEBATE: PRESENT, ALL THE FRASERIANS-THE ILLUSTRIOUS

GHOSTS AND THE ILLUSTRIOUS MORTALS-SUBJECTS DESCANTED ON: THE ANNUALS,

THE NEWSPAPERS, THE POETS, THE METAPHYSICIANS, THE VERSE-SPINNERS, THE

PHILOSOPHERS, THE PAINTERS, THE RESURRECTION-MEN, THE SONNETTEER, THE

OPERA, A GENERAL TOUCH AT THINGS THEATRICAL QUESTIONS AS TO THE REPORT.

PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS-OLIVER YORKE, MR. S. C. HALL, MESSRS. SMITH

AND ELDER, MRS. NORTON, MR. T. MOORE, MR. E. L. BULWER, LADY

BLESSINGTON, MR. ALARIC ATTILA WATTS, THE GHOST of GOETHE,

THE REV. HOBART CAUNTER, THE EDITOR OF "THE TIMES," MR.

M'GILLIVRAY, DOCTOR SOUTHEY, DR. ANSTER, MR. HERAUD, MR. T.

CARLYLE, MR. LOCKHART, THE GHOST of COLERIDGE, SIR EGERTON

BRYDGES, MR. WORDSWORTH, LORD BROUGHAM, SIR WALTER SCOTT,

MESSRS. A. CUNNINGHAM, JAMES MONTGOMERY, AND W. GODWIN,

REV. MR. JUDKIN, MR. BURNET, OUR MAN OF GENIUS, ZUMALACARA-

GUY THE YOUNGER, MORGAN RATTLER, FELIX FANTOWZLEVITCH,

BOMBARDINIO, QUAFFYPUNCHOVICS, SIR MORGAN O'DOHERTY, ENSIGN

O'DONOGHUE, &c. &c. &c.

THE REPORT....

THE GRAND PROCESSION

THE GRAND FRASERIAN FESTIVAL...

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GALLERY OF LITERARY CHARACTERS. No. LXVIII. REGINA'S MAIDS OF

HONOUR. LIST THE FIRST (PORTRAITS)

A FEW WORDS MORE TO THE CONSERVATIVES

THE GREEK PASTORAL POETS-THEOCRITUS, BION, AND MOSCHUS.

MOSCHT'S.....

RECOLLECTIONS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.

"THE SERE AND YELLOW LEAF"

HEBREW IDYLS.

III. RUTH......

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IV. SHEEP-SHEARING AT CARMEL

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MR. ALARIC ALEXANDER WATTS...

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THE SPEECH OF WILLIAM ERLE, ESQ., K.C., IN THE CASE OF WATTS v. FRASER

AND MOYES, ON THE 5TH OF DECEMBER, 1835, IN THE KING'S BENCH,

WESTMINSTER, BEFORE LORD DENMAN AND A SPECIAL JURY

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LONDON:

JAMES FRASER, 215 REGENT STREET.

M.DCCC.