The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829

CORNWALL TERRACE REGENT'S PARK

THE COSMOPOLITE

THE TIMES NEWSPAPER

CAT AND FIDDLE

THE ROUE'S INTERPRETATION OF DEATH

TO JUDY

ANCIENT PLACES OF SANCTUARY IN LONDON AND WESTMINSTER

TRUE PHILOSOPHY

THE SELECTOR AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS

TIMBER TREES

KITCHINERIANA

SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY

EMIGRATION

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

THE AIR BALLOON

ALVISE SANUTO

THE ANECDOTE GALLERY

INDEPENDENCE

THE GATHERER

POTATOES

DINING LATE

MOORE'S LIFE OF BYRON

PISTRUCCI

WRITTEN EXTEMPORE IN A COPY OF COKE UPON LITTLETON, 1721

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Adjoining York Terrace, engraved and described in No. 358, of the MIRROR, is Cornwall Terrace, one of the earliest and most admired of all the buildings in the Park; although its good taste has not been so influential as might have been expected, on more recent structures. It is named after the ducal title of the present King, when Regent.

Cornwall Terrace is from the designs of Mr. Decimus Burton, and is characterized by its regularity and beauty, so as to reflect high credit on the taste and talent of the young architect. The ground story is rusticated, and the principal stories are of the Corinthian order, with fluted shafts, well proportioned capitals, and an entablature of equal merit. The other embellishments of Cornwall Terrace are in correspondent taste, and the whole presents a facade of great architectural beauty and elegance.

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Such are but a few of the pleasures and pains of a newspaper. Shenstone says the first part which an ill-natured man examines, is the list of bankrupts, and the bills of mortality; but, to prove that our object is any thing but ill-natured, we have glanced last at the Deaths. The paper over which we have been travelling, wants the Gazette and Parliamentary News, and a Literary feature. The Debates would have enabled us to illustrate the rapid marches of science and intellect in our times, as displayed in the present perfect system of parliamentary reporting. But enough has been said on other points to prove that the physiognomy of a newspaper is a subject of intense interest. In this slight sketch we have neither magnified the crimes, nor sported with the weaknesses; all our aim has been to search out points or pivots upon which the reflective reader may turn; the result will depend on his own frame of mind.

There is, however, one little paragraph, one pearl appended to the Police Report which we must detach, viz. the acknowledgment of £2. sent to the Bow Street office poor-box, the seventh contribution of the same amount of a benevolent individual (by the handwriting, a lady) signed "A friend to the unfortunate."

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