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TBE 

MONTHLY 

M i il R O R: 

REFLECTIVa 

MEN AND MANNERS. 

WITH V 

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STRICTUBES ON THEIR EPITOME, 

The Stage. 



To fiold as 'twere the MIRROR «p to Katnre. 




VOL XXII, 

EmheUished miih superb Engravings, 

PRINTED FOR THtTFJlOfftlitORJi,', 

J^ X Wright, No, 38, 8t,Johjf'fJ^iuMt ^JMceiu^, 

And pubUsbjwl by Veraor, Hotjcf,^ 4iiul'^rt)e,''iar(l|B'7o^lry ; 

sold, also, by all the Booksellers in 

the ITnited Kingdom. 

1806. 



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MONTHLY MIRROR. 



FOR 

JlTLYj 1806. 



Embellished with 

A PORTRAIT OF MRS^ COWLEY, ENGRAVED BY RIDLEY, FROM AN 
ORIGINAL IfAINTINO BY C08WAY* 



CONTENTS. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 

CorrespDiidence, .- »...^ 4 

Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Cowley 5 
Mr. Camberland*s Meoooin ....>.... 7 

Professor Richardson ...,.•... 9 

Jkdratni^bltioii of Justice .... 

Circamstantial Evidence 

The Athanaaian Creed 

Avarice ....> «M 

Talkers and Hearers 

Select 6enten«es « 



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REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 

OKNS&AL. 

Mr. Francis's Speech in the House 

ofCommoos ^ 25 

Mr. Jeflferys* Review of the Con- 
duct of His Royal Highness the 

Prince of Wales 30 

Hayley's supplemetitary Pages to 

the Life of Cowpcr 33 

Pr08t>ts Harper, and other Poems .. 35 
Reflectioos on Mr. Windham's 
Plan submitted to Parliament for 
the Improvement of the Army ib. 

The French Anas 36 

The Letters of Junius complete .... 37 

Nutfs Complete Confectioner 39 

Montague's Citizen ib. 

Uim and Trafalgar ib. 

Broug^iam's Inquiry into the Colo- 
nial Policy of the European 

Powers 40 

Clapham*s forty Sermons ^41^ 

Pinckard's Notes on the West In--. ^ 
dies ..........'. mV 



D&AMATIC. 

Malkin's Alniahide and Hamet. 



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BRITISH STAGE. 

Anecdotes of the French Stage 43 

Remarks on the present State of the 
f Drama ..»...» • 45 

ORIGINAE POETRY. 

To the Moon *. 51 

Lines on seeing some Pieces of Ar- 
mour at Shaw Place • 5ft 

Address to an Inmate 53 

An Address to the setting Sun 54 

The Rose-Bud 56 

A Debtor's Soliloquy, in Prison.... 51 



MEMORANDA DRAMATICA, 

Haymarket 5S 

Mrs. C. Young , 60 

King's Theatre ib, 

Argyle Rooms — Masquerade ....... ib. 

New Royal Circus «... 61 

Astley's Royal Amphitheatre ib. 

Sadler's WeUs ^^ ib. 

VauxbaU % 62 

PROVINCIAL DRAMA. 

Richmond .j.... 62 

Glasgow ib. 

Inverness 64 

Norwich 65 



IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 
Squsp o4Cqmipons..^.......y 66 



Dom^itic Events, itc: .»•.£.».... 



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THE 

MONTHLY MIRROU, 

FOR 

JULY, 1806. 

^ BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF 

MRS. HANNAH COWLEY. 

{fVith a PifTimit.) 

AIrs. Hannah Cowley's maiden naine was Parklioute ; her fatlief 
was a native of Tiverton, in Devonshire^ desceniled in tbt; femalQ 
line from the family of Mr. Gay. lie was originally designed for 
the dinrch; but, on the death of patrons, or some other dbappoint- 
ment» he commenced bookseller in ihe place ofhJs nativity. It was 
in this situation, probably, and from a father 9<i i^uattiedi itiat Miss 
Parkhouse had an opporttinity of receiving, like her great namesake, 
as recorded l>y Mr. Johnson, the kernel without tlie husk of learn- 
ing. About the year ITT 2, she married Mr, Cowky, in the service 
of the East India Company at Bengal, and brother to Mr. Cowley 
4>f Cateaton Street, by whom she has several children^ It was not 
until the year ir76, that Mrs. Cowley appeared as a dramatic 
writer. At the conclusion of Mr. Garrick's management, '*llie 
Hunaway" was performed, and was the last drama received be^fore 
bis relinquishing the stage both as a perfbrmer and manager Ta 
tius comedy, which was acted with great success, he contributed an 
epilogue; and the reception the piece met with, encouraged our 
dramatist to continue her exertions for the stage. She then pro- 
duced ** Who's the Dupe," a farce, acted at Drury-Lane, 1779 1 
-^ AlUna," a trage<^ 1779. In bringing forward this play, which 
was acted at the Hi^market, she met with considerable difficulties; 
and, in her preface, complains of the treatment she receiveci^i 

A paper war between Mrs. Cowley and Mrs. ELaunah More 
took place- on account of this tragedy. The latter was sia^pected 
of having been admitted, by the managers of Covent Garden, td a 
sight of the manuscript of Albina^ and she was accused in the pub- 
lic prints, of having borrowed apveral of the sentiments and situa<^ 
tions; aiid introduced them into her tragedy of the Fatal Falshood* 
Mrs. More published a letter in the St. Jamtit Chronicle, in refu- 
tation of this charge, and Mrs. Cowley replied to her with consi- 
derable spirit. The controversy, which, like most disputes of a. 
funilar nature, l«ft the question exactly as it found it, produced the 



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following lines, which were inserted in the GeAtWrnim^s Abglzine 

for the month of September, 1779* 

^ No piausive satire in mt^ 'oerse I bear^ 

That Pope might gite^ 6t AoDiioiit might fear .^^ 

AN0{r» 

** Are there twa nymphs that grace this favourite isle, 
t)n whom the tragic Muse has deigiiM to smile ; 
To whom fair Nature gave her chaste design, 
¥'ancy*s rich tints, and Jtidgment*s sober line ; 
Both bom alike to glo^v with Friendship's flame, 
Both boi^n alike to gain an honest fame ; 
Both born to iMea^ by turns, where Fancy ]eads> . 
Her silent grottoes^ and enamerd meads : 
To-catcii the strokes that Nature^s pencil wrou^ht^ , 
The wing'd kie% and extatic thought ! 
To tlicse should every lovely grace beigiven, 
That iavouv*d mortals etm obtain from Heaven : 
A tdste exace ! an elegance of soul I 
While (loveliest still) good nature crowns the whole* 
Vet in two suc^ should some small diierence find 
T6o easy ekitrance in th* uilwary mind ; 
Or o*er e»ch breast a gloomy empire keep, 
l^hidl not the Muses sigh, and Friendship weep ? 
Or say, shall Envy's glance the scene ex{Jore, 
Or g^iess the name — a Cowlev, or a* More?" J. W* 

Mrs. C. is also the author of ^* The Belters Stratagem,^ acmnedjr^ 
ncted at Covent Gai^en, 1180. This had a run of upwards of twenty 
nights* "The School for Eloquence," An interlude, acted at 'Drxaf 
ttoe, fat Mt. Brereton's benefit, 1780, not printed ; "The World adit 
Coes; or, A Trip to Montpelier,*' a comedy, acted at Co vent Oardeny 
1781. This piece waS unfavourably received, which occasioned its 
feeing altered, and agaiin brought forward under the title of" Seoond 
iThoUghts are best," 1781, and was again nnfavoarably received. Ner* 
ther d( these are ptibtished. " Whichis the Men," cotn?e<fy, mtei at 
Coveflt Garden, 1785 ; '* A Bold Stroke for a Husband," comedy, 
ticted at Covent Garden, 1783; " More Ways thanone," cotnedjv 
dcted at Covent Garden, 1783 ; " A School for Gr^y Bifewds," co- 
medy, acted At Drnry Lane, 1786; " The taie of Sparta," tragedj, 
acted sit Dfufy Lane, i781. The poetical correspondence of 
* Delia Crusca," and " Anna Matilda," engrossed so mndi of tbd 
ij^iiblic attentioh; that the utmdst ingeiimTty was exerted to i^es^love tk^ 



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Teil of mystery ftpm those tvi(o writers, ^t ^fis at longth discover* 
cd that ** Anna Matilda" y^s Mrs. Cowley, apd the " Delia Crusca,'* 
Mr. Merry. She is also the author of" A Day in T^r)s^ ;" «Tht 
Town before you;'* apd a po^m" Qn the Siege of Acre," 

MR. CUMBERLAND'S MEMOIRa 

Mb. Cumberland, in his most interesting and intelUg^t Memoir 
of himself, ohserres — *^ A^ Goldsmith in his Retaliation had served 
up the company, at the §t. James> Coffee-house, under the simili- 
tude of various sorts of meat, I had, in the mean time, figured them 
under that of liquors ; which little poem I rather think was printed, 
butofllBs I am not sure.**-*Happening to possess a printed copy 
of the poetical jeu d*esprit in question, I transcribe it for insertion 
in your agreeable melange. S, K. 



",T0 DOCTOR GOI^DSMITH, 

AS .A S1U?PI,]9^ENT TO H;S ** RBTALIATION." 

Doctor ! according to our wishes, 
YouVe ch^iractarM uaall in ditkn ; 
Served up a sentimental Etreat 
Of various emblematic meat: 
And now it's time, I trust,.you*ll thinlr 
Your company -should have some jirink : 
Else, take my word for it, at least, 
Your Irish <iriends won^t like your .feast. 
Ring then — and aee* that there is pkie*d 
To each aocordipg to his taste* 

To Douglas,* fraught withleamed fttoek^ 
Of critic loreygive anoient Jffock': 
Let it be genuine, bright, and fin^ 
Pure unadulterated wine; 
For if there*.s.fault in taste .or odour, 
He*ll search it, as he AearchMout Jjaoder.' 

To Johnson, philosophic sage^ 
The moral Mentor of ^ age, 
Religion's Friend, with soul sinoeve. 
With .melting hearty but look aus tore, 
Give liquor of an honest sort, 
Attd crown his cup with priesdy Por/« 



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Now fill the glass wUh gay Champagne^ 
And frisk it in a livelier strain ; 
Quick I quick ! the sparkling nectar c^aff, 
Drink it, dear Garrick ! drink, and laugh I 

Pour forth to Reynolds, ^thout stint^ 
Rich Burgundy, of ruby tint; 
If e*er his colours chance to fade. 
This brilliant hue shall come in aid> 
With ruddy lights refresh the faces, 
And warm the bosoms of the Graces. 

To BuR«:£ a pure libation bring, 
Fresh drawn from clear Castalian spring ; 
With civic oak the goblet bind. 
Fit emblem of his patriot mind ; 
Let Clio (as his taster) sip. 
And Hermes hand it to his lip. 

Fill out my friend, the Dean of Derry,* 
A bumper of conventual Sherry • 
, Give Ridge and Hickey, generous sools! 
Of Tohiskey-^nch convivial bowls; 
But let the kindred Burkes regale 
With potent draughts of WickkmhaU : 
To C— k next, in order turn you, 
And grace him with the vinea of Femey^ 

Now, Doctor,! thou^rt an honest stickttv 
So take your glass, and chose yoiur lif|uor<i 
Wilt bave it steepM in Alpine snows. 
Or damRskM at Silenus? nose? 
With Wakefield's Vicar sip your tea, 
Or to Thalia drink with me ? 
And, Doctor, I would have you know it,^ 
An honest I, though humble, poet. 
I scorn the sneaker like a toad, 
Who drives his cart the Dover road ; 
There, traitor to bis country*s trafde, 
Smuggles vile scraps of French brocade ; 
Hence with all such ! — for you and I 
By English wares will live and die. 
Come, draw your chair and stir the fire; — 
Here, boy ! — ^a pot of Thrale^t entire^ 
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PROFESSOR RICHARDSON, 



Mb, Editor, 

In your account of Professor Richardson, inserted in your Mir- 
ror for May, you have mistaken tlie name of the parish in which h« 
was bom. It was the parish of Aberfoil, or Aberfoyle, according to 
the orthography in the excellent description given of it in Sir John 
Sinclair's statistical account, and not Aberfail, of which his father 
was minister. You might likewise have added to the list of his 
works, that besides his well-known essays on Shakespeare, his anec- 
dotes o£ Russia, and other performances, all his poems and plays 
have been lately published in two elegant octavo volumes. From 
these I shall select, as peculiarly suited to the Subject of the slave* 
trade, now so interesting to the public, the following lines, . 

ON 8LAVEBT* 

Misery, worse than death. 
When free-bom men, endowed with godhke powers, 
With generous passions glowing, are compelPd 
To obey the wild desires, or mean caprice 
Of an imperious tyrant, when perchance 
The heart revolts, and virtue cries aloud 
Against the deed ! Chilled ^y onkindly blights. 
Their opening virtues languish and decay. 
Their features lose the liberal air of truth 
And open candour. Dark suspicion clouds 
Their loaring visage ; and deceit perverts 
Their faltering speech. When piide and avarice warp 
Th' oppressor's heart, bar his relentless ear 
Against the prayer of pity, and erase 
The sense of merit from bis darkened souf, 
What shield can weakness to his ravenous grasp 
Oppose, but dastard guile ? Can those who groan 
Beneath the inhuman task, whose rueful pangs, 
Unpitied, unrelieved, breed lasting bate. 
And thirst of vengeance in the soul, indolgt 
Tender emotions, and die glowing heart? 
O y£, who roll the eye of fierce disdain. 
Impute not to the trembling tortured slave, 
Condemned by partial f<»tBQe, to endure 
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Impute not guile, or an unfeeling breast 
Te teach him feelings ! your insatiate rage 
His hate exasperates, and enflames his heart 
"With rancour and unusual wrath. Twas thus 
Th* Iberian humanised the guiltless tribes 
Who roara'd Peruvian forests, and the banks 
Of Orellane, what time convulsed, and torn 
With agony, the tortur'd sires bequeath*d 
Resentment to their sons. Twas then their hearts 
Throbbed with new horror; with unwonted ire 
The wild eye redden'd, and the virtues fled ! 
The gentle virtues !— In their stead arose 
Dismay, the counsellor of dastard deeds; 
Revenge and ruthless hatred. Then were heard 
Wailings and weeping : howl'd the desert caves. 
And nature, from the roaring torrent sighed. 

I shall add, as an example of the author's composition in rhyme, 
the following passage from his poem, entitled — 

THE COMPAEAXJVE EFFECTS OF AMBITION ANB LUXURY,— 

Oft in the wilds, on Etna's swelting side, 
Too soon complying with presumptuous pride^ 
By fires unseen that underneath them glow. 
The blooms of summer prematurely blow ; 
Nor wait till spring, with showers and gentle gales. 
Restore soft verdure to the hills and dales. 
The wand'ring peasant, with amazement, views 
The gM« adornM with unexpected hues ; 
The genius of the gay retreat reveres ; 
With holy awe the grassy altar rears ; 
Pours out libations ; offers fruits and flowers; 
And seeks repose in the devoted bowers. 
Unwary stranger ! the foundations shake! 
The prisoo'd fires from bursting caverns break ! 
The mount^n bellows; pitchy columns rise; 
And light'nings flash ; and flames assail the Bldea. 
Sicania labqurs witjii convulsive throes ; 
The mountain yawns; ^ vfioitw torrent flows. 
Pours doy^^ ^ fi^ deluge and devours 
The blazing forj96t,«|i idnTOted bowers* 



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TRB MONTULT MXltR<MI. 11 

The bowefs of pleasure perish e'eb fike theie^ 
While ruin desolates the vole of ease. 
Gnashes his iron teeth, iings to the ground 
The goblet with the festal garland crown'd^ 
Scatters the screaming bevy, headlong guides 
The fiery progress of sulphureous tides, 
And with a giant arm, tears from the sky, 
Thegaody ensign of licentious joy. 
That ensign, streaming to the wanton air, 
AdomM with emblems, and devices rare 
Of promised rapttire, emblems of deceit ! 
Lur'd many a stranger to th' impure retveat, 
£*eft to the mazes of that impious glad^, 
Lur*d, and to Intteraess of soul betra/d. 

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ADMINiSTRAtlON OF JUSTICE. 



Okb of my friends u$ed to boa«t, tUat the most beautiful woman 
ID the woiid could m^r make him forget his duty as a judge* 
^ I believe you,^ I repi^d ; *^ but efiery magistrate is a man before 
he is a judge. The first emotion wjU be for the fair plaintifl^ thm 
second for justice ;** and then I related to him this tale« 

^ A countess, handsome enough to prejudice the most rigid 
Judge in favour of the worst ca\i6e, wi^ desired to take the part of fi 
colonel in the army agaii»st a tradesman* The t^desman wi» in 
conference with the judge, w1m» found his claim so clear, and sq 
just, that he assured him of success. At the moment, the cbamiog 
confess appeared in the aod-chamber. The judgfs ma to meet 
lier. Her address, her hair; her eyes, the tone of her voice, v^nfh aa 
accumulation of charms were so persuasive, thfit in a mom^t iba 
felt more as a man than a judge, and he promised the lovely advi^ 
cate that the colonel ahonld. gain his cause. Hetre the judge wa« 
engaged on- both at4es« When he returned to jhif itudK, be fouoA 
the tradesmait in despmr. ^ { bttvt seen ber,^ cried 4^ poor 9>iW^ 
out of his sens^, * I have seen the lady ^vho solicits against 1991 sb«i 
is as haadsome as an angel. O Sir I my cadte is lost.'— ^ Put your« 
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her ?* and saying this, he took an hundred pistoles from his purte, 
which was the amount of the tradesman's demand, and gave themi 
to him. The lady heard of this ; and as she was scropulously Tirtti- 
ous, she was fearful of lying under too great an obiigation to the 
judge, and immediately sent him the hundred pistoiles. The colo* 
nel, who was as gallant as the lady was scrupulous, repaid her the 
money, and so in th^ end every one did what was right. The 
judge feared to be unjust, the countess was cautious of lying under 
too great an obligation, the colonel paid his debt, and the trades* 
man received his due»^ 

The above anecdote is an instance of the old adage, summumjus 
summa injuria^ reversed ; for here, strict justice arises iirom a gross 
perversion of justice. Happily for this country, it is impossible that 
such a series of events could happen here. In an age of dissipatioo 
and extravagance like the present, it would be folly to say that the 
people of England are proof against influence and corm^ytion : but 
the stream of justice always, flows free, and unsullied even by the 
breath of calumny. A judge would consider a present, or even a 
visit, from a party in a cause coming- before him, as the grossest 
affiront, and would be as much dishonoured by the idea even of 
being actuated by any influence whatsoever, as an officer woold bj 
bmng kicked at the head of his regiment, bideed, there is s^ch a 
regular course of gradual appeal, from the lowest magistrate to thef 
highest, and the proceedings of every court are made so public 
over the whole island, by the circulation of newspapers, that aay 
bia^ towards corruption or partiality, must be followed by public 
disgrace, and exemplary punishment. 

Voltaire puts these words into the'mouth of. an Englishman, in 
one of his dialogues :-^^ Les plaiieurs ne sollicitent jamais leurs 
juges: ce seroit ^re, Je veux vous squire. Unjuge qui reoevroit 
uhe visite d'un plaideur seroit d^honoi^. lb ne recherchent point . 
e^t boitoeur ridicule, <{m flatte la vanit6 d'un bourgeois; on ne 
vtodent point Chez nous un place de magistrat comma uneme- 
ttdrie.'^ 

'The satirical wridngs of all the other nations of Europe, are full 
efittodets of the corrbpt administration of public justice.- In this 
l)ie Tttnch, While they had any laws at all, were eminently cwr^ 



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CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, 



Mr. £oiii>Ry . 

It is said that mtuij persons still maintainr that Patch was iano* 
cent of the murder of Mr. Blight, I am not of thi9 opinion ; but 
the following is a remarkaUe instance of the fallaciousness of or* 
cumstantial evidence, though of the strongest nature, and may ser?e 
to caution juries against depriving a fellow-ereature of his life, upon 
such testimony, where there is '^ a single loop to hai^ a doubt 
upon." 

• Yours, &c. X* 



Ettraordinaty Case of Jonathan Brac^ord, who was exetuted.at Ox- 
ford, for the Murder of Christopher Hayes^ Esq, in theye^r 

Jonathan Bradford kept aa inn in Oxfordshire, on the Lon- 
don road to Oitford ; he bore an une)Lceptionable character. Mr. 
Hayes, a gentleman of fortune, being on his way to Oxford, on a. 
visit to a relation, put up at Bradford's. He there joined company 
with two gentlemen, with whom he supped, and m conversation uo- 
guardedly mentioned that he had then about him a large sum of 
money. In due time they retired tcr their respectke chambers ; the 
gentlemen to a two-bedded room, leaving, as is customary with 
jnany, a candle burning in the chimney comer. Some hours after 
th^ w^ in bed, one of the gentlemen being awake, thought be 
heard a deep groan in the adjoining chamber ;i and this being re- 
peated, be softly awaked his friend. They listened together, and 
the groans increasing as of oile dying, they both instantly arose^ 
and proceeded silently to the door of the next chamber, fro^i 
whence they heard the groans, and the door being ajar, saw a light 
m the room ; they entered, but it is impossible to paint their con* 
sternation, on perceiving a person Weltering in his blood in the bed, 
and a man standing over him, with a dark lanthom in one hand and 
a knife in the other. The man seemed as petrified as tbefoselves, 
but his terror carried with it all the terror o^ guilt ! The g^emen 
soon discovered the person was the' stranger with whoai they bad 
that night supped, and that the man who was standing over him 
was their host. They seized Bradford directly, disarmed him of 
his knife, and dmrged. him. »jih being ihe oiurderer: he assumed 
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asserted that he came there with the same humane intentioas as 
themselves ; for that, hearing a nmst, which was succeeded by f» 
groaning, he got out of bed, struck alight, armed lumself widi » 
knife for his defence^ and was bat that minute entered the roodi 
before them. 

These assertions were of little avail, he was kept in close cus^ 
tody till the mornuig, and then taken before a neighbouring justice 
of the peace. Bradford still denied the murder, but nevertheless, 
with such an apparent indication of guUt, that the justice hesitated 
not to make use of this extraordinary expression, on writing out hi» 
mittimus ; '* Mr. Bradford, either you or myself committed this' 
murder." 

. This extraordinary afiPair was the conversation of the whole 
county. Bradford was tried and condemned over and over again, 
ii^ eyeiy company. In the midst of all this predeterqiination came 
on the assizes at Oxford : Bradfprd was brought to trial, he pleaded 
not guilty. Nodung could be more strong than the evidence of the 
two gentlemen : . they testified to the finding Mr. Hayes murdered 
kk his bed; Bradford at the side of the body with a light and a knife; 
that knife and the hand which held it bloody ; that on their en- 
tering the room he betrayed all the signs of a guilty man; and, 
that a few moment^ preceding, they had heard the groans of the 
deceased. 

Bradford's defence on his trial was the same as before the gen- 
tlemen : he had heard a noise ; he suspected some villany trans- 
acting; he struck a light ; he snatched a knife (the only weapoq 
near Mm) to defend himself; and the terrors he discovered were 
taerely the terrors of humanity, the natural effects of inaocence as 
well as guilt, on beholding such a horrid scene ! 

This defence, however, could be considered but as weak, con- 
trasted with the several powerful circumstances against him. Never 
was drcumstantial evidence more strong ! There was little need 
left of comment from the judge in summing up the evidence ! No 
room appeared for extenuation ! And the jury brought in the prK 
soner Guilty, even without going out of the box. 

Bradford was executed shortly after, still declaring he was not 
the murderer, nor privy to the murder of Mr. Hayes, but he died 
disbelieved by all. 

Yet were those assertions not untrue ! The murder was actually. 
<»mmitted by Mr. Hayeses footman ; who, immediafeiy on stabbing 
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k>x, and escaped, to his own room, tirhich coald have been, from 
the after circnmBtances, scarcely two seconds before Bradford's 
entering the nnfortonate gentleman's chamber. The world owes 
tins knowledge to a remorse ef conscience in the footman (eighteeo 
months after the execution of Bradford) on a bed of sickness : it 
was a death-bed repentance, and by that death the law lost its 
victim! 

It is much to be wi^ed that this account could close here ; but 
it cannot ! Bradford, though innocent, and not privy to the mor* 
der, was, nevertheless, the murderer in design. He had heard, as 
well as the footman, what Mr. Hayes had declared at supper, as to 
his having a large sum of money about him, and he went to the 
diamber with the same diabolical intentions as the servant. He 
was struck with amazement ! — He could not believe his senses !— » 
and in turning back the bed-dothes, to assure himself of the fao^ 
he, in his agitation, dropped his knife on the bleeding body, by 
which both his hand and the knife became bloody. These circun^ 
stances Bradford acknowledged to the clergyman who attended him 
after his sentence. 



THE ATHANA8IAN CREED, 



rBOM THE lounger's COMMON-PLACE BQOK. 



iHE Athanasian CuEEDis a form of words o;ccasionally read as 
part of the liturgy of the church of England. 

This collection of complicated definitions, which, at last, leaves 
the point in question unexplained, has proved a stumbling block to 
many conscientious men ; it excited the inquisitive scruples of Chil- 
lingworth, and the candid doubts of Waterland and Clarke ; Arch* 
bishop Tillotson, in a letter to Dr. Burnett, (Oct. 23d, 1694) wishes 
the church well rid of it ; and Bishop Taylor confesses, that it can- 
not be deduced from the language, or be supported by the autho- 
rity of holy writ. 

Yet a creed which has maintained its ground for almost nine 
hundred years, and which, exceptmg the damnatory clauses, is said, 
by its supporters, to derive its origin from an evangelist, the pre- 
cursor and herald of Jesus Christ ; a creed which has received the 
open assent or silent subscription of ten thousand sincere Christians 
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^ I acknowledge that it is a complication of subtleties,'' sajs one * 
of its learned and ^ able defenders, " but to guard Christiamty 
against the attacks of its adrersaries, the verbose rhetoricians of tite 
day, it was necessary to fight them with their own weapons, and 
fay opposing subtleties to subtleties, exhibit an acknowledged and 
' ^nerally received truth, in the technical phrases and verbal niceties 
of its enemies." 

Op a subject, which has, fof ages, alarmed the fears, or roused 
the zeal of many great and many good men, little of novelty can be 
produced; the question, indeed, can never be satisfactorily or 
inally settled, until we have determined whether reason is, or is not 
necessary in matters of revelation. 

I appeal to erery oonsiderate orthodox member of our establish- 
ment, I appeal to every rational Christian, to lay their hands on 
their heartSy and to say, whether it is possible to peruse this creed 
without suspense, or to assent to it without hesitation : how painful 
then must be the task, how keen the regrets of many a worthy cler- 
gyman of the church of England, who, at stated intervals, is com« 
pelled to declare, with its unknown compiler, that an absolute and 
yn(jualified agreement with its elaborate doctrines, is, before all 
THINGS, necessary to salvation ; that he, who in the struggle of rea- 
son tramples on its tenets, or in the timidity of mental reservation, 
evades its abstruse mysteries, shall, without doubt, perish ever- 
lastingly, 

I am convinced that the intrtcacies' of this ecclesiastic scale, in 
iwhich unity and polytheism tremble on the balance, or alternately 
kick the beam, joined with the inhumanity of the obnoxious clauses, 
«nd the unaccommodating zeal, with which, in some instances, they 
l)ave been insisted on; I am convinced that these untoward cir- 
cumstances have driven many individuals from the pale of our na- 
tional church, and ultimately into the disconsolate wilds of Deism ; 
for doubt or disgust once excited, seldom remains at rest, in a stu- 
dious contemplative mind. 

** The thir^-second verse of the thirteenth chapter of -St. 
Mark,** says a divine of the establishment, ^ clears all my doubts, 
and at once quiets my mind on the subject ; * of that day and hour 
knoweth no man, neither the angels which are in Heaven, nor the 
$on, but the Father :* Is nut this," continues the same wnter» ** is 
not this a regular climax, beginning with the lowest order of iirtel* 
ligeat beings, and ascending gradually to the highest ? Is not the 
knowledge of the day of judgmeiit^denied, first to men, then tQ an-, 
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In answer to this qnotetion, it hath been said, that by 'the law 
4f scriptare analogy, passages, which apparently contradict the 
Achanasian hypothesis, should be accommodated to those which 
cenftrm it; « canon of theological criticism, to which every man 
w^ agree, the moment he is convinced that the author of the creed 
ia question was divinely inspired and infallible ; and it cannot be 
denied, that texts occur in the holy scriptures, equally ftvonrable 
to a different explanation. . 

But waving the divine authority and scriptun^ correctness of . 
this part of our liturgy, is it consistent with tlie opinion we are 
taoght to entertain of Almighty God, whose wisdom, as well as 
mercy, appears in all his works ; is it possible to suppose that he 
would have insisted on the belief of a speculative opinion, as essen- 
^ly necessary to salvation, without a plain, clear, and open avowal ' 
of it? 

Would it not repeatedly and explicitly have been laid down, and 
alike by all the inspired writers of the New Testament, as a .funda* 
mental principle ef the Chrbtian revelation ; a tine qua non previ* 
ous to the admission of any person to share its benefits ? 

Would ^e Creator of the world, in whom omnipotence and 
intelligence are evidently united, would he have left the present 
peace and the future destiny of a considerable portion of mankind 
to depend on the heated imaginations, and the interested decisions 
of polemic rhetoricians, on a letter, a syllable, or a word, on Hvm 
aad wfia-etms, on ofAowalaf or ofLOtfri«v ; on the difference between 
a person and a being ; a difference which is not easy to imagine, 
and I think impossible to describe ? 

If,, as is the opinion of many, the soundness of whose faith, and 
the goodness of whose intention,- 1 have neither right nor inolimw* 
tion to call in question ; if the entire removal of the Athanasian 
Creed, from our national liturgy, is thought, at the present crisis, 
unsafe and inexpedient, long may it remain ; for I confess with 
shame and regret, that it is a subject, on which, after many a bitter - 
*^g^ I ^y^ not yet formed a decided opinion : indeed, of what 
avail is doctrinal investigation 'and speculative opinion, without that 
more essential orthodoxy, a pura heart, and an amended life ! ! 

But justice, humanity, and good policy require, that the read* 
i^it, or not reading it, should be left to the discretion of the mi* 
nitter, who i& too often obliged to submit to ^at most odious comi^. 
promise, religions hypocrisy, or to relinquish the support of iwi 
ftmily, « 

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" ' M I lamammmmmmmmm 

This salutary ahd reasoiJkable regabtieii wa^^o^roved ef and 
proposed by Archbishop Tillotson, by the Bishops Taylor^ Pearaon^ 
Beverley, and Clayton ; by the learned and pioua Doctors Cav«| 
HMe, Bennett, and lastly, by that eminent divine^ as well as great 
lawyer, Lord Chancellor King. 

^ On the other hand, it hath been observed by some of its de» 
fenders, that an implicit, orthodox, pure^ tmcontaminaled faith, is 
more manageable in a state, and more conducive to the peace ot 
the church, thaii rational conviction, or the hallowed warmth of 
sincere devotion. I once pronounced, and I again repeat my eaw 
phatic protest against such an odious, abominable, time-serving 
system, which strips from religion consolation and purity of hearty 
and in their place, wira^ round it a piarty-eolottred robe of worldly 
policy, and disgraces a countenance divine,'widi a mask of atheistic 
perfidy. 

If once an opinion should be impressed on the great body of the 
people, that, in matters of reli^on, profession and belief do not^ 
band in hand, the church oif any country, under such circumstsmces^ 
totters to its foundation, sooner or later- it must faU, and Chrisu* 
taity, however its flourishing may be insisted on by some, as wholly 
independent of worldly support, Christianity may be biuried in its 
ruins. This awful, this momentous truth, confirmed by past tsgft^ 
and evinced by present example^ I would wish to impress strongly 
on prelates and statesmen. 

" Whoever,'' says a late writer, " belieVes that Jesus Christ is> 
in a sense in which no other being ever was, the soo of God; that 
be came into the world to lay'do^n his life for sinful men; and that 
acceptance is only to be obttuned through his merits and interces* 
sion; whoever, in consequence of such Miet, conforms his life to 
the law of Christ, seems to do all of httportanu towards his salva- 
tion, fulfils the gospel conditions^ and thereby ^swers the end of 
the gospel covenant." 

The following is part of the speech of Dr, Clayton, a bishop in 
Ireland, on his making a motion in the house of peers for expunging 
the Nicene and -Athanasian Creeda; a motion, which tiie primate 
declared, ' made his eabs tinol^*' 

« The Athanasian Creed," said Dr. Clayton, " has not even the 
anthonty of a council to support it, but is now a known ibrgery, de^ 
tected by the critictsms of the learned Vossius ; it cannot be traced 
within two hundred years of Athanasius. 

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\ I I1i« answer is» that it agrees with the Atbaoasian doctriai^ 
aod had his name affixed to it, by the church of Rome, because ha 
w«a a person fnuch esteemed bjr. that churchy which has long la- 
homed to propagate his political and religious principles ; but at 
the true d^racter of Athanasius is not generally known, I beg leavo 
to inform your lordships who and what he was. 
' ^'Athanasius was a young, forward, petulant deacon, in tho 
ditarok of Alexandria, of an ambitious spirit, and with talents ad^ 
lairably suited for disputation. 

^ Having no probability of succeeding to the bishopric of Alex- 
aBdria» oniesB he coukl drii'e out Arius, who was the senior pres* 
byter hi tbat church; he fomented a dispute on the subject Of the 
Tdnily between ti» archbisbop and Arius, who being obstinate, 
uncomplying, or sincere^ was excommunicated and expelled from 
the city. 

'"Tba^^ prelate died not long after, when Athanasius, oalj 
tweaty-eight years of age, by 'a union of force and corruption, 
ascended the archiepiscopal throne, was illegally consecrated, in4 
ooairmed in his see by dio Emperor Constantine. 

• ** But the turbulent arrogance of his spirit was^ not to be con- 
trolled by gratitude, aor by policy ; he grossly insulted his bene- 
factor, the easpcfior, and treated Coustantius, his successor, with 
insolence and contempt ; for this, and many insularities, he was 
deposed by a numerous council of bishops, regulariy assembled; 
but, in d^ance of ecclesiastic discipline^ and the laws of decency 
and justice, b» forced his way into the see, over the murdered bo- 
dies oi his antagonists, and made a forcible and bloody entrance 
into the cathedral. 

^' All the enormhies I haire mentioned were committed with the 
concarrence of the Vatican ; for it ought to be observed, that wbftd 
AthanasiiiS. treated his royal master, and the rest of mankind, with 
ittsttk and defianoe^ he paid senile coort and implicit obedience i» 
the papal chair. 

^ This slanrisb sabmissieQ, paid by Athanasius to Julius, is the 
iitrpre e e dtait that can be produced, in the books of the canon law, 
iasuf^portof the supremacy of the pope,, who^^till that time, was 
eoasidevedas little more tlKin bisbop' of Borne. 

*^ Your lordships will be so good as to observe, that I do not 
like npoa loe to say that the doctrine contained in the Athanasiaa 
Creed is fake; I only say, that it is not plainly and clearly revealed; 
nor do I presume to condemn those who tlu^k they have evidence 

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suffideot to justify their being peremptory and positiTe in support 
. of it. 

^ I judge no man, I only say it contains a doctrine of too nice, 
difficulty and metaphysical a nature, to be made the subject of m 
creed, directed to be read by the minister, and repeated by the 
congregation. 

** But, my lords, let us suppose for argument's sake, that the 
doctrine contained in tliis Creed should he wrong, and unless tlie 
author was, what no human being even was, inti^ble, there is a 
possibility that it may be so ; in that case, let us only iniagine what 
would be the consequence — ^it would be no less than blasphemy ^ it 
is ibdeed the dread and tq^or of an erroneous determination, oa 
so delicate a point, that makes me solicitous to remove it firom the 
hturgy.** 

In answer rto the bishop, it was observed, that bis dUappramng 
the Athanasian Creed was by no means a sufficient ceasoafor re* 
jecting it; that he shoul4 have been direct, explicit,' and particular 
in pointing out how far it agreed or disagreed with the holy scrip* 
tures, which, after ail, are the only true standard by which such 
questions can be properly decided. 

It has often been lamented^ that the doors of admission into 
the church of England were not more liberally widened. On this 
subject it was said by a writer who has been justly accused of 
Creating serious subjects with too much levity ; on this occasion iie 
observed, ^ that there were many good things in the church, for 
which the candidates were numerous, in general nynre than the 
food mother can effectually provide for , that by adding bi^adth 
to the door, the number of those who enter would of course be 
proportionately increased, and the share of ecdesiastic loaves and 
fisb/es to be divided among the orthodox proportionately diminished.'^ 
• The following were the original words of Athanasius, in bis dis« 
fHite with Anus, at the council of Nice, in the year three hundred 
.and twenty-five. 

Tltcflivtj its if» dipy vatri^* vavron^xro^a, a^iatra Siov tsccltgai, 
%eu us T0» ^o» A^y, to» yuowayvm vtQv th 3««, t rt 9vwifa^yt$ r*r 
^» v»r^tf xxi • n «)c Tfts wrias h\os ^es x«i 'aar^os tav o ptos^ xcu 
• ri tffos vtos rn 'CJoii^os rvwani, os oli taolifMS io-tv o vtos «)o5,. ^Mm 
nai on avt rw nral^i crvlit 'aetfiai tsaiiokyH rn ^iMiy Mti olt vavl» 
t3t^ity(tt rn acta *v\u, %ctt oh « 'Cfi^tix^iai ,a^o ahvos o vtos ttks Stii 
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volfof urtf irritfr xm cvfoti^tn Tor vml^i xeu % vtv 1t>y%«fii % my ft 

Afttos t<t7f f 

Ut^rvM xaycif sts tv» ^foy aihow, xai ttg lof vt09 etvla, ot tjfolvw 
mimm »x%rd^. v9 9tos HMt viof ft7O«i»0Y. xmt «rAyr» 9^a 9X** • vior, 

/tf •%«», tX«Cl t7«^« TV ^f « Xai o)< IX I0l»f tO'it UlOf H^ifolffAM TAl 

' ^tt^owtfAstifs Kcti $4s TO mftvfAMr$ ayiw TO «cro tfltt v<« TiTOvor. 

Arius afterwards quoted Saint Paul, ^ nfMf tts ^tos t{ » !« 
^avU.** To this Athanasius replied KMt iir uvfm Ino-dr Xfi#W )i 

Aritts then obsenred, '^ A yds^ «? • «rad«f mm Wldt jc«i • mos 

A long passage was next quoted by Athanasius from the eleventh 
▼erse of the fourth chapter of the epistle to the Ephestans, to die 
end pf the sixteettth verse : after a pause, he pronounced with a 
loud voice, the following words, which have been so often produced 
by those who support the same hypothesis: ** £70 %oti n vakf 

To this Arius replied : " Iv o-aQiM.tot u,^ 

Subjoined is a Latin translation of the first Greek passage* 
Athanasius loquitur. 

" Credo in unum Deum, patrcm omnipotentem, Deum semper 
' ()atrem, et in Deum verbum unigenitum filium Dei ; eumque un» 
cum patre suo, cofexistere, et ex substantia patris esse, et asqualem 
suo pa^ri esse, et ejusdem dignitatis, et turn patre suo per deitatem 
ttbique' adesse, et omnia con tinere sua essentia, et anemine cotiti* 
neri quemadmodum ut deus pater ipsius. 

^ Credoque in spiritum sanctum, eum esse patris substantia, et 
ccxBBtemum cum patre et filio; verbum quoque dico, in carne fidsse.'' 
Anus loquitur. 

^ Credo et ego in unum Deum aBtemum, et filium ejus^ quern 
aftte »ecula creavit, ut Deus filiumque sibi fec^t; et qutecunqu* 
faabet fiiius, eaqaum non haberet, accepisee a Deo, atque ideo 
' dlum patrr non sequalem esse, neque ejusdem di^tatas, sed ut 
creatnram relinqui, et deficere a gloria Dei, eunderiaque minorem 
esse, quantiun attioet ad potentiam Dd ; credoque in spiritum 
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AVAmCE. 



THCftK are two sorts of vraiice. One consists in a.8(4icitude to 
Aoqmre wealth for die sake of those advanUges which wealth, be* 
•tows, and the <iread of poverty and its attendant evils; the o^ei^ 
in an anxiMy for weakh on its own account only, and which sacri^ 
ices to the attainsMiit ofit every advantage that wealdi can give. 
Thm first is the exag^eratioa of a quality which wlien not carried to 
ei(cess is praiseworthy^ and is called economy. The other, when 
Induigad ia the extreme, produces the effect of a species of prodi* 
gality. Where is the great difference between the man who reduces 
himsdf to the want of the common necessaries of life^ by com* 
piedng a collection of books, pictures, or medals, and the man 
who brings himself in effect to the same situation, for the sole end 
of leaving a precise smn of money to his executors ? What signifies 
whether I starve niygelf and my family, because I will possess a 
copper farthing of -Otho^ or will not part with, a golden guine» 
of king George? 

&t if there is more felly in one, the other is mpre likely to be 
productive of vice. A man who considers the real value of wealth 
as the object of bis passion, will hardly refrain from acts of dis* 
bo«esty when strongly tempted ; but I have known many of the 
jadidaw hoarders, who were men of the most inviolable integrity. 
Of these the late Mr. Elwes,* who carried this strange passion al- 
jnost to madness, was a striking example. 

Perhaps there is no character so seldom to be met with, as 
that of a man who is strictly reasonablie in the value he sets on 
l>roperty; who can be libera} without profusion, and economical 
without avarice. 

* The entcct^inuif luographer of this singular characier is mistalen, Vhen he 

tsys his election for Berkshire cost him nothing. Besides opening houses, gtvlhs 

' rilibons, and inciirriBg every expenee conmoa oa those oof|»ieni, ail; his first elee- 

' iiott be guvt away gviliioM and ka^ fuineas anting the popuUct of Abii«4oDi witl^ 

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TALKEBS AND HEARERS. 



« ...^ He flies the spot—alarm'd with tire«d. 
Lest Thirais should hefipn to re«d.*'— •^ 

So anwiltiAS are men to be Aesrtrt in society; «nd we tfind^invmri* 
«My, diroughout society, that it is precisely those who will not listea 
one moment to the narrations of another, who require the most 
profound attention, and unwearied nods of approbation^ for their 
Own. 

The perfect hearer should be eomposed by the same receipt tho 
Dne^ie Solly gives for making a great statesman. He should hav« 
httle feeling— and no passions* ' 

The hearer most- nei^er be drowsy ; ibr nothing perplexes • 
talker, or reader of his own works, like the acefdeot of sleep in the 
midst of his harangue : and I have known a French talker rue up 
and hold open the eyelids of a Dutch hearer with his finger and 
thomb. 

An hearer miift not squint. For no lover is. so zealous as a true 
talker, who wiir be perpetually watchin^^ the motion of the eyes, 
and always suspecting that the attention is directed to that side of 
the ro<Hn to which they point. 

An hearer must not be a seer of sights. He must let an hare 
pass by as quietly as an ox ; and never interrupt a narration by 
crying out at the sight of an highwayman, or a mad dog. An ac* 
qu^ntance of mine lost a good legacy by the ill-timed arrival of a 
eoach and six, which he discovered at the end of an avenue, and 
announced as an acceptable hearing to the pride of the family. But 
it happened to be at the very time the lady of the house was relating 
the critical m(Hnent of )\er life, when she was in the greatest dan<^ 
ger of breaking her vow of celibacy. 

An hearer must not have a weak, head ; for though the talker 
ifay like he should drink with him, he does not chuse that be should 
(aXL under the t{||{l^ till he himself is speechless* 

He moMtftoticn, netopmonger; because timer past have already 
famished the head of his patron with all the ideas he chooses it 
should be stored with. 

Lastly, and principally^ an hearer must not be a wit. I remem* 
ber one of this profession, being told by a gendeman, who, to do 
him justice, was a very good seaman, that he had rode from Ports- 
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clock.** It happened the person so interrogated had not read 
^akespere, which was the only reason I coald assign why the 
adventurous querist was not immediately sent ahoard the Stygian 
tender. 

SUtfuXy in the opinion of a talker, is not merely the toppres- 
noo of the action of the tongue : it is necessary that erery muscle 
of the face, and member of the body, should receive its modon 
from no other sensation .than that which the talker communicates 
through the ear. 

An hearer must not have the fidgets. He must not start if ho 
hears a door clap, a gun go off, or a cry of murder. He must not 
sniff with his nostrils if he smell fire ; because, though he should 
save the house by it^ he will be as ill rewarded as Cassandra for 
her endeavours to prevent the flames of Troy, or Gulliver for ex- 
tinguishing those of lilliput. 

Q.Z. 



SELECT SENTENCES. 

Though every man cannot arrive at the perfection of iMt, yet it 
may be necessary he should be sufl^iently instructed not to be dcr 
ceivcd in his judgment concerning the claim of it in others. To 
this end the following queries may be applied with singular advan- 
tage. Is the pretender to taste proud ? — Is he a coxcomb ? — Is he a 
$pendthrift ? — Is he a gamester f-r^Is he a slanderer ?— Is he a bad 
neighbour? — A sham patriot? — A false friend f —By this short 
catechism, every youth, even of the most slender capacity, may be 
capable of determining who is not a man of taste. 

It should be a rule to suspect persons who insinuate any thing 
agunst the reputation of others, of that vice or error with whi^jp 
they charge their neighbours ; for it is very unlikely that their insi^ 
nuations- should flow from a love of virtue. The resentment of the 
yirtuous, towards those who are &llen, -is that of pity— 'and pity is 
)ip8t discovered on such occasions by silence. 

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REVIEW OF LITEEATURE, 



Ctrd monet quasi ai^uocttm 



Mr. 'Frmncii^ Speech in the House t>fComm<ms, on the 9!9th cfh/Laif^ 

1806, against the Exemption of Foreign Property in the FunA 

from the Duty on Income, pp, 24. li« Ridgtoay. 1806. 

Tnis eloquent and argumentative discussion of a very important 

question, was so imperfectly reported ex nece$sitate rei in the daily 

prints, that it was equally a justice due to the subject, and to th« 

public, to give it to the world in its present more detailed aad sati»-, 

factory form. Of the principles and merits of Mr. Francis t»m 

pablic ^person, his long experience and 'uniform conduct in parliaf 

ment, it is unnecessary f(/r tfs to speak, or the poKtical world to be 

told. The rectitude of his conduct in India, has been acknowledged 

by all the principal persons in the present administration, by a 

letter under their hands, and very lately proclaimed by Mr. Fox, i^ 

the House of Commons. So .iong «^o aa the first of Deoember^ 

1TS3, Mr. Burke said of him : " This man, whose deep reach of ' 

thou^Tt, and whose grand plans of policy, biake the most shiniog 

parts of OUT reports, from whence we have all learned our lessons, 

!f we have learned any good ones ; this man, from whose materials 

those gentlemen, who have least acknowledged it, have yet spokea 

as from a brief; this man, driven from his employment, discemite*. 

nanoed by the directors, has had no other reward, and oo other difr* 

tinctioB, but that inward * tamshine of the soul,* whidi a good con* 

scieoce oao always bestow on itself. He has net yet had so much 

as a good word, but from a person too insignificant to make any . 

other retttm lor ihe means witli which he has been furnished, for 

performing his share of a duty, which is equally urgent on us alL*'* 

Nothing more, we f^preheud, need be stated to entitle any pubHs . 

act or writing of this gentleman to the attention of his country. ^ 

Tkd apeecb before us may be eonsidered as a speech iui generis s 

since, though prommnoed in opposition to ministers, it k endeotljr 

in every line .-so devoid of party spirit, and so manifestly .devoted to 

trath and good policy^ that the silent concurremce of both sides of 

the bouse, ^eould "not but have attended, tmd crowned Che deliveiTw 

Weintooeed to coAfirm our judgment, by kyiog befiwe the leadcgr 

« Barice>^^c3i oh UTr. Fox's Sut Jadu SiR. • * - 

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the substance of what-Mr. Francis sybmitte'd to the Commons on 
the 28th May, when Lord Henry Petti/ moved that the bill for 
granting further rates and duties on profits arising from property, 
&c. be read a third time. 

Tlie honourable member commences his address with these 
interesting and generoas observations :— 

'< It is jfKiinfuI to me at all vtimes to differ from my right honoarable 
frlthd* and still more to find myself compelled to maintain an opinion, which X 
know he will oppo^. In fact, however, I have not provoked, this question, nor 
was it possible for me to foresee that 1 should have to maintain it against my 
right honourable friend. Some time, I think, before the property bill was in 
print, and when I knew little or nothing of its contents, an honourable gentle- 
man (Mr. Rose), whose assiduous attendance in general on the business of the 
house, and particularly on subjects of this nature, is much to be commended, 
took some occasion, I forget what, to declare bis opinion that, if the foreign pr^ 
perty in our funds were not exempted from the income tax, the owners would 
sell out, and transfer their capital to some other country. This was the proposi- 
tiqn, which I resisted without reflection in the first, instance, and ikai was Uie 
quarter it came from. Until the debate in the committee of the 12th of thi* 
month, I did never know what opinion my right honourable itiend entertained 
•n the subject. Tlien indeed I found mytelf between the hammer and Ihejinvil ; 
but that maUeatioii has serft^ only to harden me in my opinion. I state th« 
facts ; but I make no apology. The part I Uke, and my resolution to adhere to 
it, I hope will entitle me to thU conclusion at least, that if I am in error, it is the 
serious error ofjud^ent, and that I think the object of considerable importance: 
I am not so thoughtless as to look for a dispute with such an opponent on doubifbl 
ground, or for a trivial object. All I desire of him, and I am sure he is too libe- 
ral io do otherwise, is to answer nte as he understands me, and not to avail him- 
self of any lapse of expression, in my hasty way of speaking, as long as he knows 
what 1 mean. He Wioits no advantage of that kiiKl over me or any maiu** 
>. 1— 2. 

He then goes on to review the question under the three follow^- 
ing heads. First, the policy of the jexemptioo ; secondfyf the in- 
coni;eniencies and abuses which are likely to attend it ; and^^fui^i 
the justice due to the parties concerned, and the good filith which 
ought to be preserved to them. Mr. Francis adds, ** I reserve that 
qbesuoo for the last, because I think it most mf^t^iial.'' P. 3. 

In discussing the policy of the ejpemption of foreign property in 
our funds, the honourable member states, that the return from the 
tax office, dated the 8tb bf May, exhibits a capital of aboat twelve 
niilUons, in different stocks^ held under foreign names, and the duty 
en thif, says he^ cannot be less than 50,0001. per annum : and he 

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continues, " we are told by tbe public officers, wbo make tbe return, 
hat these accounts are coming in daily to a great amount. Then, I 
ask, ' do we know what we are doing ? Is the ChanceUor of the 
Exchequer sure that, when the bill shall be once passed, the return , 
of foreign stock, real or pretendedy may not reach to double or 
treble its present amount ? The temptations to fraud are obvious 
and powerful ; and, as to the penalty, I shall only observe that ffh 
vernment will have to enforce it» not upon awkward, domsy delin* 
qucnts, but on many of the most dextrous and experienced practi- 
tioners in concealments of this kind. liow the real and bond fid* 
fi>reigQ property, supposing it right that such property should be 
exempted, can with ahy certainty be distinguished from the rest, 
will form, as I believe, a serious difficulty in the execution of the 
act^ and ought to be seriously considered." P. 4. 

" It is argued, or rather it is threatened, that if we tax this faicoine, fo- 
Kigners wiil sell oat and cany their capital into some other country, and that 
this will be attended with a material depreciation in the market price of our funds* 
I, for one, do not believe it. Nor is any man entitled to threaten iit with that 
consequence, until helias shewn, to what other fund these foreigners can trans- 
mit their property, and where else they "can now |>ltce it, I ^ill not say with se- 
curity, bat without manifest risk and the greatest danger. Is there a lace left 
on the continent, subject to the power of France, or within reach of it^ influence, 
where the income of funded property will not be taxed } at indeed where the 
capital itself is safe from confiscation.'' P. 5. 

Where is the answer to this reasoning? None can be devised 
by troth^ and sophistry vainly strives to make head against it Oh^ 
but the foreigner does nM spend his money here ! No, says Mr*. 
Francis,' most ingeniously, but abroad, to assist Buonapftrte, to in* 
ccease a bestile power already too formidable to this country. 

<< While 1k^ does so, you fKVtour him. But if he were to change his rcsidenct 
and ipead hit fortune in England, you would make him pay for doing that, fbr 
whicH^in ^oftinm wue you ought rather to reward him,'*' P. 7. 

^The 0hti$e$ to which this measure is liable next come to be con- 
sidered; and these Kre most ably and forcibly exposed. Our confined 
•paee, bo^eve^, obliges us reluctantly to go on inmiediately^ to the 
thsrd article of discussion — (he strict right of the clam, and the prin^ 
dples of jttsdce by which it U supported. ' This proposition is very 
jiidicic^valy and learnedly handled. Mr. Francis sliews that no on^ of 
all the statutes, by which annuities have been granted, furnished the 
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sound reason, or solid argument^'' says be, ** J httoe htard none,* 
y. 13. 

We are also in possession of what passed in the hoase on these 
debates ; and, Qotwithstanding the event, are, we confess, precisely 
in the same condition. With respect to the appeal* made to a 
fandamental principle in the constitution, which was supposed to 
furnish a final and triumphant answer to all his ol^ectioDS, Mr. 
Prancis meets it manfully, and skilfully combats and destroyt 
it. In the course of this profound argument, he takes an oppor- 
tunity of making some remarks, with eloquent simplicity, on a so-t 
cicty called The Friends of the People, instituted for the purpose 
of procuring, by the strength and weight of combination, a reform in 
the representation of the commonalty of this kingdom. 

** Many pewons,** sajrs he, *' now highly stationed in his rnaj€sty*s councils; 
and service, were th^ leaders of this association : my noble friend the lord high; 
chancellor, my noble friend thejirst lord qf ike admirally, my right honourable 
friends the present and preceding treasurer of the naxfy,^ all of th«m privy- 
counsellors; my learned friend his mnjesty^s attorney general,f and amonf 
xnany.others my noble fjjend the Earl qf Lauderdale, at whose house the oii^ 
ginal engagement was drawn, at whose table it was signed. It was my lot too^ 
. sir, to be one of the friends of the people j — at all times the least considerable, 
mid noWjf I believe, ike la^t of them. My right bon. friend was not a member 
of that society ; but, I think, his subsequent conduct has proved that he con* 
coned in our principles. The institution itself has gone inta oblivion, A 
feeble memory is one of those human i/\firmities which sometimes accompany the 
^Mft 03^tedfa€uliies. But I iuiTe no doul>t that tlie principles aiiU live m the 
hearts of my noble friends, though they are not aware of it, and thai, some tim$ 
er other, they will be resorted to again*" P. 17. 

From this apparently extraneous matter, he deduces support td 
the doctrine which he would inforce. The lines, with which he 
concludes this clear, honest, and unafiected oration, we are boand 
10 quote. 

" The only article," says he, " that remains to be considered, and with that 
3|'8faAll cotaclude, U \he prudence of making 1j)is exception in favour of ibreignen 
in the present timet and circumstances of the country. The chancellor of the 
•osdie^uer has }peen o^iged to abandon (he irst tax he has proposed on iron; 
and I suspect that the home brewery is very likely to share the same £atc.J The 
£u;t, I fear, is, that we are arrived at the final limit of taxation on consumption^ 

« Mr. Sherid«n. Mr. Tieniey. 

t Sir Artfwr J^iggot. 

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or vtrj mar it. 7^ muUiiMth c»n ftty no more, vitikout cnialui^ ud roft- 
foandiBg the gradations of society » when no di&tinctioa of nnk or fortune will be 
teft, but between the many and the few. I wish I could remember and repert 
the eloquent' language, with which this opinion, or the condosion I would 
draw from it, was urged and enforced a few days ago, by my honourable friend,* 
▼ho dosed the impeachment of Lord Melville. Speaking of the treasure of (he 
Hairy, he said, what /#a^ of all tbe public revenue^ * (hat U has iUfhrws root 
hi the meal of every peasant; in tJie ctoih of the coat he xcsars; in the impU'' 
mctttSf with which lie earns his daily bread; in every article he consumes.* The 
actual burthen of the taxes is enough to drive the mass of the people to despair. 
If you do not wish and intend to drive them to madness, you xjoiU-not 9g^avai9 
their sufferings by this unjust exemption of sirungert from contributing evem 
to the protection of their own property." P. 18. 

It would seera impossible not to feel the full conviction^ which 
the wisdom and good sense of these remarks are calculated to im* 
press upon the mind. But, on Mr. Francis's motion to omit the 
daosc providing an exemption in favour of foreigners^ they Ivied 
to obtain tbsir ol^ect, but only failed where nothing could succeed. 
The bill having been read a third time, the speaker submitted to 
the house that that was an improper stagey for such a proceeding, 
aod that the motion could not be entertained. Could the forms of 
parliament have admitted of a division, and Mr. Francis had, coih 
sidering the puny arguments held against him, been overcome, it 
would have been num^ro, non pondere. 

If, on any subject, wc critic^ may be supposed to be out of tht 
pale of suspicion with regard to prejudice, it undoubtedly is ui 
giving an opinion on any thing that relates to property/. Being then, 
as it were, hor$ de combaty and perfectly unbiassed, we own ourselves 
^mplStely convinced by the logical reasoning and deduction, sound 
sense and eloquence of Mr. Francis; and hold his judgment con- 
clusive on all the truth and merits of the case. The pamphlet will 
be read universally with pleasure and profit. 

An Jppendixy containing four extracts from letters received by 
Mr. Francis, pending the debates on the .subject of this publicar 
tion, afford many cogent reasops on the same side of the ques^ 
tioo. But these additional proofs are, on the present occasion, 
streams that merely serve to overflow the banks already filled 
from the rich source which preceded them. It was this conside- 
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A Revkm of the Cmdnei of his Royal Highnm iheFrineeqfWmIn, 
in Ms variout TraiiMctiont miih Mr, Jefferyty during a JPeriodcf 
ntore that^ twenty Years, containing a Detail of many CtrcKin- 
stances relative to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin^ 
tess of Wales, Mrs, YUzherbert, 4c. By Nathaniel J^erys, late 
M.P. for the City of Coventry, pp. 68. $s. Sold 20> Pall- 
Mall. 1806. 

Prince. Thou sayest true, hostess ; and he danders thee m6st 
iprossly., 

Host, So HE DOTH YOU, MY Lord; %nd said this other day^yoa 
ought him a thousand pound. 

Prince. Sirrah, do I owe you a thousand pound ? 

Pais. A thousand pound, Hal? a million: thy lore is vorth a 
million ; thou Qwest me thyiove, 

H» IV. aet iii, sc. 3. 

Such is at hest the debt whidi this " lean-witted '^ ex-member 
fot Coventry would seem to claim of his royal highness the Prince of 
Wales; but reducing the whole to love, valuable indeed if deserved, 
it will be found that Mr, Jeflferys has forfeited all title to it. That a 
man always actuated by selfish, and sometimes by baser motives,.^^ 
we shall shew in his parliamentary schemes, should pursue his 
meanly ambitious tricks and contrivances for a long series of time, 
and at last discover that he is (to use a gentle term} a fool, cannot 
be a matter of much surprise. Nor is it wonderful that the de- 
feated hopes of such a man shoal d produce this contemptible tiradt 
of abusCy falsehood, and malignity, in which nothing is proved biit 
these words of Shylock, " This is the fool that lent out money 
gratis;^ and together with this proof is cle^irly exhibited the ample 
justice that was done hini. 

Mr. J^fferys, without a spark of either, has, in Umine, the im- 
pudence to throw himself on the candour and liberality of the pub- 
lic, and to, look to them for the approbation of a conduct marked 
at every step with the grossest disingenuousness and illiberality; 
"With a vast deal of gratuitous cant shout feelings, painful duty, &c, 
he commences his ungrateful and groundless libel on the character, 
honour, and humai^ity of his royal highness ! Three and t\^enty 
years since, it is stated, that he began the business of a jeweller; 
the.Prince was graciously pleased to employ him, and in consequence 
of that truly noble affability which so distingiiishes his royal highness,' 
as scarcely to suffer an inferior to feel his inferiority, Mr. Jefferys 
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posaiyy be any tbuig more tkan grace andcondeeceniioiu Tbe pfttt* 
phieieer here diaappoiatedly qaotest 

•* There's no nrt, 
To find the mmd'bcoostructioD in the face— ** 
Nothing can be more true to the point, or he himself would 
ha?e perceived that the heir apparent merely treated him as the 
son of n king should treat a tradesman, and the Prince would, in all 
probability (judging from the event) have discovered enough to have 
induced him to dismiss Mr. Jeflferys for ever, from the moment of 
their first interview. The Prince, however, was no physiognomist, 
or Mr. Jefferys had an illegible face^ and on the proposed marriage 
of his Royal Highness with the Princess of Brunswick, Mr. J. 
through, the kind patronage of H. K. H. received orders to procure 
the jeweb necessary on the occasion. They amounted to^ 64,0001. 
and the- ruin which Mr. J. complains of, rests, it may be said, en* 
tirely^on this ttunsactton, and we proceed to shew where the blame 
idone attaches. We do not hesitate to affirm, and shall briefly 
prove, that it wes wholly owing to the presumption of Mr. J. who, 
without consulting his shoulders, undertook to bear a burthen which 
he was unable to support ; to perform an erigagement to which he 
was iQcofnpetent* It is well known that when a jeweller has a 
large- order for diamonds, he employs a broker, who goes into the 
market, and, on the credit of his principal, obtains, at a good or bad 
tate, what b required. Mr. J. at this period sent hb agent to make 
the necessary purchase. Tiie sellers were ready enough to vend 
their articles at an established estimation, but on learning the name 
of the buyer, ** No," said they, ** we cannot give Mr. Jefierys the 
. long credit whidi he must have." — ** Lay it on the goods,** replies 
the broker ; and at length so it is resolved, and Mr. J. pays at least 
40 per cent, more for the diamonds, than any other jeweller would 
have paid, going into the market, and buying at a reasonable credit. 
We defy Mn J. to deny these facts. Now it is as clear as the 
light of the sun, that what was deducted by the commissioners^* 
when die Prince's debts were paid, would have left, had the jewel- 
ler been every way equal to the orders he aflfected to execute, a 

* The twenty per cent, loss sustained by the debentures (admitting it to hue fiict) 
could never have been suffered, had he not been a man wholly unfit to meddle with 
large concerns. A tradesman in go6d credit and decent circumstaaces, would not 
have lost more than 3 per cent, by them at the utmost, and possibly noAing. It th« 
Frioce to be blamed for the inconveniencics which a lame man experiences, who 
c)i]i$es to engage to run an^ given dislance, iu a certain time, or to pay for tha caniage 
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f«ftciMit pioft ^ea on tuch a comtoissiM, ^r «ny hooest trades* 
mao. It would indeed have been a laoMntab^e thing, if Uie M 
amount of this demand bad been disebarged. Had the tradesman^ 
been sufficient, there wonki hare been no deficieacj ; as it was, all 
the d^ioknciesy in every sense of the word^ belong exclusively to Mr. 
Jefierys. 

With regard to the petty sums officiously lent to the Prince^ 
of 1600L and 420L —and the pitiful, and to Mr. J. the disgracefuV 
^taiis which accompany them, what do they lead to, or prove f 
Does not Mr, Jefierys himself acknowiecige that they were paid, 
and does he not «hew that, by his itapertinent importunities, all ob- 
ligations (if any cnn be supposed) were &lly cffiicelled. As to 
H. B^ U/s ** assurances,'' of which so much is said, we have o^y 
Mr. J.'s wovd for it, and in that his whole conduct, as related by 
himself affiirdsns but IktleToom to have much faitb» 

Now let us «ee ivow this upnght tradesoMn, who ooaiplaiaB so 
of Ins debtdrs, behaves to his own crediters. — Whh a certaiji pros- 
pect of ruiti before }Hm, as be confesees, {Msd bis creditors ckuno* 
rous^ he gets into ParliaiBent, Icee^s liis oarriage, continues to incur 
a large annual eKpeaditure, (aU tbings uRSukable to bim in his best 
days) and not till be is ousted at Coventry, surreaders the rem* 
nant* to satisfy bis duas. One word of bis aaaligoity and parliamea* 
tary virtues, and we send t\i& ''^ewel of anan'' io CoverAry fer ever* v 
It requires, morc temper than honesty can well oominandiy'te read 
what i^ uublushingly advanced at p. 19 of this pamphlet. A .shop- 
keeper if desired Do wait on the heir apparent, to take an order £f» 
jewels to be presented to his intended consort, and he hardily <^es 
to "speciriate on what the Prince " appeared to feel," en the ap- 
proaching nuptials, ^nd has the dastardly shamelessness to insinuano 
wihat he does not kuow, with ^* I will not repeat the expressions of 
his Boyal Highness upon tins 6ubject.". What is most indecently 
and irxelev>antly foisted in. p. 66, with respect to ilirs. Fit^fierbert, 
earries its own cure with it, and only serves to defeat and expose 
the spdeen, malice, and' malignitj of the writer^ Much xnight bo 
preferred to shew tAie good people of' Coventry how blessed (they 
were in their member when Mr. JefFerys represented them, but 
tSj«?y know liim now, and the exposure is unnecessary. For the 
county at large, a single quotation from his letter to 4(he Earl of 
Hoira witU^be silffici^M. 

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** I have," says he, and, can it be believed, prints it in this very 
pamphlet, addressed to the * candid and liberal puhUc^* " I havo 
cfnuttmtlp, my. lord, in ptijriiaraent, supported the present admini- 
stratiott, while in opposition, in their mott unpi^ular moments^ and 
I hope they will not, now that they wre in power, forsake me, be- 
cause I can he no longer of any use to them.^ P. 49. 

The same is repeated to Mr, Fox, from whom, says he, with a 
mark of exclamation forsooth, " I never received any answer V 
What answer would such a reptile in politics have had ? The Earl 
cf Moira did return him one, and what that nobleman observed at 
the interview which followed is most strikingly just and fit. His 
lordship said, on Mr.' J.'s talking of this ** Review^ that he should 
think it his duty to persuade his royal highness never more to notice 
Mr. J. ; that his conduct was a fit subject for the attention of the 
attorney-general; ''and,'' continues Mr. J. '' his lordship went so 
' far,'' (and then just reached the mark) '' as to compare my propo- 
sal to publish a review of the pnnee's conduct, to the threatening 
letter fjf a felon to extort money, "^^ Admirably said and righteously 
deserved. , 

In this book-making, and book-reading age, the scheme of 
hatching this scurvy lib^l may put a few miserable' pounds into the 
pockets of Mr. Jeflferys; but any other man would lose more honour 
than he would gain profit by such a publication. 

O Jeffirys ! Jeffrys ! * quaerenda pecunia primtim, 
Virtus post nummos. 

Supplementary "Pages to the life of Cowper^ containing the Additions 
made to that Work, on reprintivg it in Octavo. By W» Hayley^ 
Esq, 4to. pp. 122. Johnson. 1806. 

All who love genius in the garb of simplicity, or possess a cul- 
tivated, taste, are amongst the devoted admirers of the epis^lary 
writings of Cowper, and to such, these '' more last words," and as 
many other as can be added, will prove most acceptable. As to 
Mr. Hayley's share in the whole of this business, it is of very little 
. in»portance.. We should therefore dismiss this article with the ob- 
servation, that what is here printed from the octavo edition, is for 
the accommodation of the possessors of the quarto ; but that we are 
led to some further remarks, by what appears, very much out of its 
place, not to say indecently, at p. 5, ^concerning the editor, his opi- 
nions, and his rhymes^ 

• To be read with the quantity of the " Cites, civet," of Horace. 
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Cumberland, in his ^ Mtmoin^ qaarto, p. 333, hanring said some- 
tfring in perfect good hnmoiir about Mr. Hay ley % ** hanriiig twice aMft«> 
employed his pen, once by Aippant censure on bis critical ande^toc^ 
(Dr. Bentley) and once by unmerited praise k rhyme, addressed to 
himsclfj'' the latter is pleased *^ in bb mild and ciril mantier, temfdLe. 
this merciless and uncivil" excuse for bis wantonness. . ' .\ 

" And first," says he, ** for his Yimous progenitor. At his critical grandf- 
ather was the God of Mr. Cumberland's infantine idolatry, I can Easily fprgiv# 
what I cannot but consider as an injudicious display of aeal, in resenting dnoccm^ ' 
*wmUf and not a raaBcieus meiition of those defects in the celebrated critic, 
which had been abundantly, and sometimes very justly, censured and derided by 
the most eminent scholars and wits of his own time. I believe Bentley to haxe 
been a man of many virtues and much learning, but occasionally subject to fits of 
^gmatical petulance^ not perfectly consistent, in my opinion, with sitch habi- 
toal good manners, and such an indulgent christian spirit qf improved good 
nature, as true and sound learning ought to Inspire* Yet in allowing that** 
mrrogaiU critic,^ kc* 

Going on in this way, rubbing now with, and now i^inst the • 
grain, he wmds up this count with an implied promise of a future 
tickling for the memorable maternal grandfather of Mr. Cumber- 
land. Then ** brandishing the scalping knife of satirical maligmtyy^ 
he thus settles the rhyming part of* the story. 

*' I come now,*' he continues, '* to the second transgression imputed to mc, 
that of having praised the Doctor's tnore polished, yet diffident deseendaat^ abov-i 
his desert* To this cbai^ Mr. C. can hardly wish me to plead guiUy $ and my 
teply to It must have more (^ truth than politeness, if I should inform my ac* 
cQser that, since that eulogy was written, / have myself found reason to enter- 
tain some painful doubts concerning its perfect proprie^. !But this is a jMint* 
vhich, of all living, Mr. C* is himself the most competent to decide, because I 
praised him for a benevolent simplicity of heart. This inestimable endowmlent 
he has frequently represented as his peculiar characteristic. It is certainly pot* 
sible, as my personal interconrse with Mr. Cumberkind has been Tcry trifling io" . 
deed, it is possible that I may have greatly mistaken his real disporftiotty when X 
oonmendedit toMarmly." P. 7. 

Is tins a strain ** consistent with siteh kahiludl good manner s'^.jKnd 
such an indulgent christian spirit of' imprcrved good nature, as true aiKl 
sound leaniing ought to inspire ?** Shame, shame, Mr. Hayley,'to ; 
pretend to mistake Cumberland's laudable a£fectio6 for his iUiistrh- / 
6vi% grandsire, and friendly introduction of your verses, which c&uld 
gratify no vanity but your* own, for ** i^ vindictive reproof," and a 
breach of ** the comtnon rules of politeness." Perhaps Mr. Cum- 
berland's overweening regard, in both cases, may have carried him a 
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gMHeBan i ii ,, i i i iil jssassassmsBaBsassssamammm 

^ brotber, brother^ vtB «re both in the wrong/' and be as good 
friends as erer. Let not sach men hold themselves np to the ridi« 
cule of witlings. .Softis infer u canvemt Urm^ says Juvenal, and we 
•hall favour these learned gentlemen wkh our running translation : 

The gru^Rest bear can live with brother Bruin, 

Ay, quiet live, and never seek his ruin— ^ 

Copy this gentle kind^ your squabbles cease, 

And let us see twepoeti live in peace ! 
Had we seen this book last month, wheA reviewing Willkmsf 
specimen of a translation of Homer, we shonld have been glad, as it 
would have afforded us an opportunity of shewing that gentleman^ 
that all Weldimea are not of his opinioo with respect to Cowper. 
Having received several compliments, and amongst tbem^ one from 
a Welch attorney, the poet humorously observes, in a letter t» the 
Rev. W. Bagot — ^' If yon find me a little;, vain hereafter, my friend, 
you must excuse it, in consideration of these powerful incentives, 
especially th^ latter ; for surely the poet who can charm an attorney, 
especially a Welsh one, must be at least an Orpheus, if not some- 
diing greater.*' P. 57. His opinion of his own version of Homer, 
Letter II. , and XII. perfectly coincides with ours, and we should 
have willingly quoted it. IIow would this divine bard have smiled 
at the idea of a gentleman of WaleSy travelling all the way from 
Merionethshire, to lay him upon the shelf^ and to make wast% 
paper of Pope ! 

The Harper and other Poente. By Quintin Frosty Etq. 8w, j^. lOK 
5s. Longman and Co, 1806. 
The Harper has many reasons, he tells us, for not hazarding bis 
name, and he has therefore assumed for his nom de guerre, Quintin 
Frost, Esq. Frost does not, we confess, at the first blush, appear 
to be the best and most recommendatory name for a poet, and all 
that can be said in favour of it, in this insunce, is, that it is in gaiOr 
ral remarkably indicative of the prime quality of the verses* 

^flections on Mr. Windhmn\ Plan submitted to Parliament for the 
Improvement of the Army. By an Officer, 8w. li. W, Thi- 
seltqn, 1806, 
Wk cannot hear of the improvements of Mr. Windham's plan, 

and the numerous advantages to be derived from it by the soldiery, 

without exclaiming with Juvenal, or whoever wrote the sixteenth 

Satire, commonly ascribed to him,— 

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80 TBB VONTBLT IflRROS. ' 

' - Qiftt nttmerare queatfeUcis pnemia^ GaUe^. 

MUitiaf 

What vast prerogatives my Gallus, are 

Accruing to the mighty man of war ? 

Dryden, 
We recommend the whole of this satire of the Roman poet to» 
any one who can treat the matter to'Hh good humour, as an excel- 
lent ground for a pleasant poem, on Mr. Windham's plan. After 
the above quotation, the satirist proceeds iroiiically to enumerate the 
blessings they enjoy, which may be easily parodied with the hap- 
piest effect, and the gist of the work may tend to pr«ve that the old 
^[oode of conducting the regulars is the best, and that the militia and 
^e volunteers are all-sufficient for what they are ordained. These 
are our. sentiments, and as to the present pamphlet it is above its 
merits to have the honour of introducing them to the world. 

Jhe Trench Anas, In three Vols, timo, Phillips. 1805. 

This work will be found exceedii^gly entertaining and accept- 
able to all classes of readers, as well to the most persevering and 
laborious, as to the most tangent and frivolous. . After a quotation 
well introduced, from Wolfs Trefatio adCasauboniana, the compiler 
gives us this account of his undertaking. 

<* With respect to the plan on which the following selection has been con- 
ducted, the editor'wishes to stale, that choosing from the various Anas those pasr* 
ttget which seemed to him to possess the most general tendency to amuse or 
ii^truct ; adding notes, where the articles iou\(A be usefully expanded or ilkis^ 
trated ; compressing some passagett without weakei\ing their i sense ; bnd adding 
li^erar>* and biographical sketches of the authors, whose names are affixed seve- 
nlly tO' each Ana, are the only attempts in this work by vhich he has presumed 
to exceed the laborious and cautious province of a translator and compiler." 
P.vi.Pref. ^ 

A few extracts will amuse, and at the same time afford a taste 
of the feast, which Mr. Phillips, with his usual judgment, has been, 
the means of providing for the public. 

" A QUACK DOCTOR. 
•■ ** A foolish, idle fellow at Florence, hearing that a physician had obtainedi 
great credit and wealth by the sale of some pills, undertook to make pHls himself, 
zxi^ to sell them. He administered the same pills to all patients whatever ; and, 
as by chance, they sometimes succeeded, his name became famous. A country*) 
.snan called on him, and desired to know if his pills wou^d enable him to find ai^ 
ass he had lately lost The quack bid him sM-allow six pills. In his way home, 
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'■mi',"',,,' " i l . I' I'u I _ ^ ,'J.I lll.i; 1... i..'iL 'L.I I BT 

IM. The clowQ sf^d a reiiort, that he knew a doctor who told piUt which 
%ould recover strayed cattle." Poggtana, p. 9, vol. i. , 

This, anecdote, reminds us of a jest in a farce called the Doctor 
ond j^pathecaty: A pretended doctor there recommends his pilla^ 
in the case of a lost lap: dog. — ^The dog*s lost— £h ! take the piUS| 
says he, they are very searcAi'fi^v • - -'^ 

.' ^ THEODERIC, ARCDBISHOP OF COLOGNE. 

- " This prebte'wat illastrious in his time for hit talents, erudition, and morals. 
One day the Emperor Sigismond asked of him instructions to- obtain happinett. 
« We cannot. Sire, expect it in this yrorld."—" Which, then, is the way to hap- 
piness hereafter ?'W< You must act virtuoutly.**— " What do you mean by 
that expresaon >''—-« I mean," saytTheoderic, *' that you should alwajrt pttrtiM 
that plan of conduct, which you promise to. do wbiltt you are labouriag under a 
£t of ^e gravel, gout, or stone.'' Id. p. 16. 

Thi9 is good advice, but we cannot help recoUecting that 
^ When the devil was sick 

The devil a mank would be ; 
When the devil was well, 

The devil a monk was he." 

FROM THE PESRONIANA. 
** I obterved one day to the doke of Mantua, who taid the jester whom he as* 
lained in his service, was a fellow of no wit or humour— *< Your Grace mutt 
pardon me. I think he has a deal of wit, who can live by a trade he doet not 
understand." Vol.1, p. 43, 

We have a number of these wUt in the metropolis. Drawing 
masters, for instance, who, says Shee, and well, when they find they 
cannot learn the art, become teachers of it. 

FROM SEORAISIANA. 
■ '* An orator, at a meeting during the troubles of the League, began a speedh 
with premising;, that he should divide the subject he was about to treat of, int« 
thirteen heads. The audience were heard to murmur, and to interrupt this for* 
im()able beginning. ' But,' continued the orator, * to prevent my beii^g too prov 
fix, I sliall omit a dozen of them,' ** P. 184, vol. i. 

We intended to have added more, but we can take a hint« 

The Letters of Junius complete, interspersed with the Letters and 
Articles to which he replied^ and with Nates Biographical and 
Explanatory y also a prefatory Enquiry respecting thereat Author^ 

. By John Almond. 2 Vols. Phillips. 1806. 

The world is here presented with a very copious Junius. The 

k>vers of sarcasm and bold assertions, not always supported by s^ 

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——CI anaeggeggg— eatfg' 

wantooiog io aad dboMUg the libtrty of tb« prtst, hav^e ever beM 
loud in commendatioB of these cstraorifinary letters^ and stHl con* 
tiaue to ^tter them with tbek praise. Othen, of a more mild» 
fentle, and b^neifoleBt aaturoy admire the wk of the anther, but 
«aBbj«o nAeans commend the apirit that somettmes appears ti^ 
I anhnate him. We certainly are of the latter aunber ; howev^r^ 
siqce, to talk of the mildnesSj gexUletjteu, aad bdnevolence of re- 
viewers might occasion a smile, we shall ofier no opinion in Uiat 
character, but call in to our assistance a writer of eminence, wfaa 
ha» lately given judgment in the case. Ilis sentiments meet our 
Ideas in many respects, and a perusai of the passage will be parti- 
cnkuiy serviceable to many who, without being able to form a 
judgment of their own, wish to speak of Junius with sense anil 
taste. 

** I consider Tristram Shandy,** says Mr. Cumberland, ** as the 
most eccentric werk of my day, and Junius the most acrimonious ; 
we have heard mueh of his style ;.I have just been reading him over 
with attention, and I confess I can see but little to admire. Tlie 
thing to wonder at is, that a secret to which several must have been 
privy, has been so strictly kept; if (Sir W%Ui(mi Draper, who baffled 
him in seme of hb assertions, had kept bjs name out of sight, I am 
inclined to think be might have held up the eanse of eandonr witb 
success. The publisher of Junius I am told was deeply guaranteed ; 
of course, although he might not know his author, he must have 
Imown wherabouts to look for him. I never heard that my friend 
latd Oeorge Germain was amongst the suspected authors, till by 
way of jest he told me so not many days before his death : I did not 
w^ant him to disavow it, .for thero could be no occasion to disprove 
an absolute impossibility. The man, m^o wrote it, had a savage 
beart, ior some of his attacks are execrable; he was a hypocrite^ 
ior be disavows private motives, and makes p^tensions to a patri- 
otic spirit. I can perfectly call to mind the general effect of his 
letters, and am of opinion that his malice overshot its mark. !Lct 
the anonymous defamer be as successful as he may, it is but an 
unenviable triumph, a mean and cowardiy gratification, which hia 
dread of a discovery forbids him to avow.'^-^iiemoi/'i, p. 506* 
Lackington, 1806. 

We make no apokigy for this quotation .-«^^. AhMon ipight 
have made it, at Uiis hour of the day, without injustice to his au- 
thor. The work is well and correctly printed, aad the edition, to 
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tempt to proFe these ejHstles to be the production of Hugh Bb^ 
Esq, is not without ingenuity^ but, bA it respects ourselves, without 
effect. We presume to give no opinion on the subject with regard 
t» tMines, hat we gocu tliat tlie writer was a man like TiMocraon 
liliodiuSy easing tM tim go§d thingt of this vorU, smi sm/img ^U ih$ 
Ui me$ he could ^ks infmbitants. With a mmiato nmmme^ ba Cbia 
las epitaph t 

noAX« i^Myuif, Hat voXX« v/a>v, nat v'oXXa xax^ ttvwir 

The complete Cot^ectimHtp or the mhok Art of Confectionary made 

eaey, with Instrwetinsy engraved on Ten Copper-piateSf' to deco* 

rate a Tabk with Taste and Elegance, the Result of many Yean 

Experience with Messrs, Negri and Co, the most cekhrated Con* 

fectioners in the tforld, Zd Ed, with very considerable Addi* 

tions. By F. Nutt, Esq. p, Qs, 6d. Matthews and teigh. 

This book is iadaed full of smeet tlongs. It is tnia, however, 

that were we tempted to spend six shillings and sixpence on con^ 

fectionaryy it^ should certainly not be in this fbrro. On any other 

pkta yoa please, Squire Nutt, bat for' our money by no means 

^ on copper-plates.'^ Other people may have other tastes, and to 

such we may, we believe, (for we mast own we know but Kttle of 

whips and trijks m their present sense) recommend tfas pnblicatioa 

as one abounding in tkserts, Housdteepers, and more regular artists 

ia this way, will, to use Shakspeare's laaguage, find soiaa ^ kens^l 

in this light I^vtJ^ 

The Citizen ; a Hudibrastic Poem. In 5 Cantos ; to which is added 
Neison^s Ghost { a Poem, in 3 Parts. By Edward Montague. 
8w. 6s^ Hughes, laoe. 
SruPt^, dull, and ignorant, and as toHudibras, <^ as like as VuU 

can and hfis wife.'' If Mr% Montague be, as we suspect, ** a fat an(| 

greasy cHigen^ himself, we advise him to <^^a& in his horns, and 

attempt to bmt with tbem no motis* 

mm and Trafalgar. 4to. is. Batchard. 1B06. 
Tbis k the only copy of v^taes that has, in our judgment, don4 
«Bjr credit to the memory of Nelson. That gbrbus day, Mi of 
lonow and eaukation, 

When the vanquished triumphed, and the victors mourned; 

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Quern Mmper acerbuniy 
Semper hononitum (sic Dti voloistis) habebo ; . Virg* 
** for ever sad, for ever dear,*' is by our poet finely described in the 
true spiiit of poetry. ^* Yielded armies,'* in the first line, is an 
unhappy epithet, but it is probably the excellence of its companion» 
that makes us perceive its imperfection. This is indeed an anU 
mated strain : 

<' And sure, if e'er the spiriU of ihe bleaC 

Still fondly dierisl), in the realms of rest, 

Thrir homan passions ; thine are still the same ;— 

Thy seal for England's safety and her &mB ! 

And when in after times, with vain desire^ 

Her baffled foes in restless hate conspire 

From her fair brow th' unfading wreath to tear. 

Thy hand--and hands like thine — have planted there. 

Thou, sacred shade ! in battle havering near, 

Shalt win bright victory from her golden sphere. 

To float aloft, where England's ensign flies. 

With angel wings, and palms from Paradise !" P. 8. 

Perhaps ^ thy handsokd hands like thine,** seeing that Nelsoo 
bad but ope, is a nice. distinction, which may excite a smile where . 
the author intended to be serious. 

We are credibly informed that this b the production of Mr^ 
Canning. It reflects much honour on his muse. 

An Inquiry into the Colonial Policy of the European Powers, By 
H, Brougham^ Junr* Esq, FmR,S. 2 Vols» 18s. Longman 
and Co.. 

Colonial possessions, according to the actual state of European 
nations, are of so much moment, that the consideration of the best 
policy in these relations cannot be too seriously weighed and exa* 
mined. In a particular point of view the '' Mintinre^ and '' Eisai 
par le Citoyen Talleyrand^ which we reviewed last month, will h% 
read with great advantage ; and on pohtical economy, before ikan 
" Inquiry ** is taken up, it would be well that a Tyro in these mat- 
ters should consult Dr. Smith and Sir James Steuart. Mr. Broug« 
ham*s work offers many excellent reflections, but his arrangement 
is faulty, his manner crude, and his language frequently obscure, 
redundant, and inelegant. Much information may still be gathered 
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THE MONTHLY MIRROR. 41 

Forty Sermons on Doctrinal and Practical Subjects; sheeted from 
the Works of the Rev. Samuel Clarke, D. D. For the Use of 
Families, To mhich is prejfised a Sketch of his Life. By the Rev. 
Samuel Clapham, M, A. Chaplain to the Earl Camden, and £cft- 
tor of the Abridgement of the Lord Bishop of Lincoln's Elements 
' of Christian Theology. Vemor, Hood, and Sharpe, Price 9s^ - 
Mr. Clapham has, in this publication, done an essential ser^ce 
to the religious world. The writings of Dr. Clarke, invaluable in 
themselves, are not, from their high price, accessible to many re»> 
dcrs. Besides, to those who are possessed of them, they are, in a 
great measure, useless. They are, in their original dress, too scho* 
lastic : they are> as Mr. C. observes, " too learned and obscure to 
be useful :-~they contain too much of abstract reasoning : — the 
various senses in which some particular word in the text is shewa 
to be used, are too elaborately displayed : — the reader is wearied 
with the number of proofs where the mind does not require con- 
viction ; — and the same subject is often discussed from different 
texts, until it is entirely exhausted.'^ These are forcible objections, 
and the greatest admirers of Dr. Clarke roust allow them to be 
just : it is no wonder, therefore, " that those admirable sermons 
are so much neglected by many of the clergy, and that, by the 
laity, they are seldom read at dl." Much praise is due to Mr. 
Clapham for the publication of this volume, in which he has exer- 
cised his wonted judgment ; and he will not, we trust, be disap- 
pointed in his hopes of its becoming ** as acceptable to the family, 
Stt^useful in the closet." 

An account of the life of Dr. Clarke is prefixed; and it is such 
as will greatly prepossess the reader in his favour. In the Sermons 
we see the man. 

Notes on the West Indies : Written during the Expedition under the 
Command of the late tjeneral Sir Ralph Abercromhy : including 
Observations on the Island of Barbadoes, and the Settlements 
captured by (he British Troops upon the Coast of Guiana : Like* 
zeise Remarks relating to the Creoles and Slaves on the Western 
Colonies, and the Indians of South America, With occasional 
Hints, regarding the Seasoning or Yellow Fever of Hot Cli* 
mates. By George Finckard, M. D. of the Royal College of 
Physicians. 

It is amongst the chief and rare consolations of the critical in- 
spectors, when they can, unreserredly, and co c a Mst ently with their 

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■bomiilda datyvtothe puUic and their own, jOoiMcieiiec^ iSeosiQiiiend 
llie Ubmirs of the joind to thmr rentes. Ureter SMch j^mtl^efttions 
4re caa hooesdj give m oor .tastkBOD^r vi^ r«g^ to Abb furoduo- 
tioo, whioh U « very interestiDg coUeodoo o£ .r.Qifiahl9 £i€tSy and 
jodicioiw obeeivatioQS upea 4heiii, «et off ki langpuage pectdtarly 
correct, yet not refusing those ornaments of Atyie, which jr^der 
itfafim more engaging. 

fielectioaisjdifficult where «xc«Ueoce is general. T]^ Pootpr> 
Mstimei^ on die. military character will be i^ad with^pleasiUQ? a^ 
«pprpbation. 

The •* Fortsmottth Poil," is a picture drawn with great vivmi^ 
«f pencil, and, had we space for it, should be gi^en to our rea4^r8^ 
with the whole of what refers to Portsmouth, in particular Skshr 
Hospital. 

DRAMATIC. 

AtmoU^e and Hfimety a Tragedy. Bi/ Benjamin Heath Malkin, Esq, 
M».A. Large 8vo, pp. l^H. Longman and Rees* 18Q4. 

^cciDE^T has prevcint^d an earlier noti^ce of this tragedy ; and 
now we lean only 90<^d it a few^nes. The subject is the same, with 
.considerably T9ria(ioQs, |is :tbat onwhiphDryden built his Congv^ 
qfOrmadfi, to w)uch> l¥>wever, the author is 4]nder few obligations^ 
.either fqr ^he lai>guag^ (Cbacacters, or cooduct of his drama. It ip 
written with acciHiacy ^d elegance, and the sentiments ^re Piptly 
intro^uged, fifki forcibly applied. His ol^ct has bc^en ^' U> cppvej 
^ lesson on the miseries of faction, and to exhibit the j5pi»fliQt )bj&- 
tweem duty and pjasflioPy aod Ae con^equpiiqi^ of tbe latter jp vir- 
tuous mia#/' IfkSbk he hw b«eu s^ccessfiid; bnt ijcr. Malkin> 
forte is, as he himself suspects, not dramatic poetry ; bis bla9kvQr;5e^ 
though it does not ** hglt^ can only be^d to crei^ : it is iittl^ bet- 
ter than measured prose, and scarcely ever rises jto the strain of 
j>assion. 

We can speak in wl^^^D^cr terms of his introductory observations : 
they include a brief historical review (^f the dranjatic writers of 
.this country, accompanied by some excd(ent cri^dcisms, and con- 
clude with remarks on th$ present state of the drama, so ingeoioua 
and just, tllat we)iave tfeou^ we could not gratify our rea\iers 
better than by giving thiem at length in the stage department of the 
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inaatio vita , speculum consuetwtMSt imago veHtatis. Cirero. 

The Imkatiot of ].i|b^Tb* Min>er of Mttaaors^tb* fUpresenUtuHi of Trutti. 



ANECDOTES OF THE FRENCH STAGE. 

Atketjs and Thyest£s, a tragedy by Crebillon, it&t. 

A lawyer of Paris, of the name of Prieuf, wkh whom Crehillony 
-who was ihfeikled for the bar, was placed when young, although 
old, and in bad health, went to the first representation of this tra- 
gedy. The author, at the end of the play, being upon the point of 
leaving him, Frieur embraced him with great affection, and said, 
'^ I die content^ it was I that made you a poet ; I leave a man to 
the nifCioii.'^ 

T\h anecdote will be better nnderstood after a relation of the 
following circumstancesi It was in consequencie of the advice of 
Frtemr to Crebillon, that the latter was induced to dedicate his ta- 
lents to the tragic Muse. They were both fond of theatrical 
arousements, and, from thejudicious observations which the young, 
^p made upon them, Prteiir judged that Nature had formed htm 
for a-^writer, and proposed to him>to attempt a tragedy. Crebilkmf 
who had only written a few songs, and some other light pieces of 
poetry, for a long time declined the task, but Frieur at last per- 
suaded him, and the poet choee, as the subject of his first essay. 
The Death of the Children of Brututk He presented his play to the 
comedians, who refused it CrebiUont hurt at the rejection of his 
tragedy, immediately went to Frieur, complained to him bitterly, 
and called his judgment in question, for having urged him to the 
undertaking swearing that he would never make any more verses. 
Frieur adhering to his former opinion, reasoned with him upon the 
futility of his anger, and at length persuaded him to commence 
another tragedy. This piece was Idomeneut^ which was followed. 
hj Atreu^^ 

Crebillon oA«a told his friends, that at the first performance of 
tlus-trt^^y, the pit was undivided, and went away without either 
applauding or hissing. After the performance, he went to a coffee 
house, where he met with an Englishman, who paid him many 

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compliments upon his tragedy, and said it was more suited to the 
meridian of London than of Paris. " The poisoned cup of Atreus^ 
made me, notwithstanding, tremble, English as I am. 

Ah ! Monsieur, that cup that cup J 

Transeat d me calix iste," 

Attilius, a tragedy, by M. Gouvety 1752. 

This play was never acted, although it was highly praised in 
many circles of Paris^ to whom the author had read it. On several 
evenings, when the actor announced the representations of tli^ 
next evening, the pit frequently called out for Attilius^ but Atti- 
lius never appeared. On one of the evenings they were so very 
vociferou3, that the actor said to them, " Gentlemen, you ask for a 
play which is not known." At length the author pl:i^ted it,, the 
public read it, and never asked fo? it again^ 

BiBLis, a tragic opera, by Fteury, the music by La Coste, 1732, 

A famous Italian sung in this opera. A young lady was aaked if 
she did not think he sung very well : " Yes," she said, " lie has a 
charming voice, but he appears to me to want sometliing." 

The Wand of VtrtCAN, a comedy in one act, in prose and in 
verse, by Renard and Fresnyy 1693. . 

A man of the name oi James Aymat^ made at this time a great 
noise at Paris, with a divining rod or wand, witJi wliich be p«s- 
tcnded to find out many secrets of nature ; the subject gave »ise to 
several dissertations, and furaished the idea of this comedy. It 
had amazing success when first performed. The authors mafde 
additions to it, under the title of Augmentati&ns to the Wand of 
Vulcan* A bookseller upon this occasion published the story of 
an inn-keeper, who, in order to perpetuate an. hogshead of old 
wine which pleased his guests, constantly kept filling U np toith 
netp. 

Brioche, or the origin of Puppets, a parody of ^gmation, by 
M. Gaubier, 1713. 

This piece not meeting with any success, some one asked the 
author, why he had risked it upon the stage? who said, " For a 
long time the people of Paris have vexed me by retail, so I seized 
the opportunity of being even with them, and have taken my revenge 
by wholesale."—" Indeed you have taken it with usury ^* replied th^ 
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REMARKS 

ON 

THE PRESENT STATE OF THE DRAMA, 



BY BEKJAMIN HEATH MALKIK, ESQ. M. A. 

MoBERK genias, if it listen at all to the discordant judgments on 
its own character, must be not a little perplexed to ascertain tti 
rank in the public opinion. To the ear of levity, which sets criti- 
cism at defiance, or holds it in contempt, the comic writing of the 
present day has a grace beyond the reach of art : it supplies from 
the regions of eddity the exhausted stores of humour : it possesses 
ail the powers of caricature, in exciting a stronger titiilation t>f risi- 
bility than the most finished touches of painting : it promotes the 
end of simnsement, by ao fastidious selection of its means ; and why 
should we be merry by method ? It substitutes tlte eagerness and 
surprise of plot and incident for that antiquated dialogue, which 
listlessly held together a fable too probable to keep our attendon 
on the stretch : the writing is become a matter of inferior moment, 
and effect is only to be studied. The critic, on the contrary, de- 
nounces die anathemas of bis court against all doctrines and modes 
ef mirth, but those which are canonized by the inquisition of tiie 
acknowledged wits. He applies the altitudinal admeasurement of 
artificial rules to every flight of fancy ; and requires us to debate it 
gravely^ in our own minds, whether we ought to laugh, before we 
give way to the irritation. With him, nothing is a Joke, but what 
ought to be. On these principles, he tries the unhappy subjects of 
his jurisdiction by laws to the enactment of which they sent no re- 
presentative : he fines them for omissions^ before they had been 
told that performance was a duty; and condemns them for inno« 
Tation, without releasing them from their engagement to be original. 
To this severe and authoritative judgment is generally subjoined a 
weighty and solemn discussion, whetlier the authors have corrupted 
the public taste, or the public taste spoiled, the authors ; for, tili 
this point is settled> it would be fruitless to attempt reform. 

For my own part, though I cannot so far compromise my real 
opinion, as to say that I altogether approve the style of the reign- 
ing auUiors, I neither deplore so bitterly the present, nor despair so 
deeply of the future. Were I disposed to arrogate to myself an 
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•ooner induced to arraign their taste or their industry^ than their 
talents ; and where the vitals are untouched, the diseases of tlie 
extremities may be remedied. Nothing is incorrigible but dullness. 
The misforttltie is> that writing popularly leads td writing much^ 
and writing much ends in wri^ag earelessly. The demand for a 
liresh supply '» so incedsant, that the mftbtiAKtarer caa best6w little 
pains on the article he brings to market ; and he is very naturally 
twofHed to wcate it of a thinner quality, when he finds the pUr- 
•haatr more solidtoab to strike the bargain, than to handle and pry 
into the tejttiM^e^ Yet I consider myself as justified in remarking^ 
oo the acknowledged irt^gularities and incongruities of some very, 
popular productions^ that there are in every one of them detached 
•oenes^ and individoAl trmts of charaeter, #hioh prove that their 
autkors might, by applymg more thought mad more labour, have. 
compoCNMied a whole after the purest and nioat sterling models*. 
Jitrmer Ashfieldy Job Thofnberry, and Vapid^ are delineations of 
itature, sentiment^ and eecentricity, which any comic writer might 
l»e proud to claiili. i suspect^ however, that an idea has gone 
'abroad in the profession, which mast effectuidly tend to discourage 
tkjp ambitba of excellence. If there shookl exist so monstrous a 
nexim, as that it possible for a piece to be too well written, and. 
die of a plethDra, then indeed must the art of dramatic writing de- 
dine. But I have no conception that our audiences, though wiW. 
ling to be pleased at an easy rate, would frown on those laboura. 
ihat aimed at imparting the higher pleasures of legitimate comedy, 
and handing back burlesque to its proper station in the farce. There 
are many instances of their f^ceiving what they might have re- 
jected, but very few of their rejecting whal; they ought to have re- 
ceived. They are excessively good-natured^ but aot at all stupid. I 
have heard nt confidently asserted^ that such a comedy as The 
School for Scandal, if produced now, would not succeed : all I ask 
for is, that the experiment may be made. Dnt tlie art of acting is 
changed, as well as the art of writing. To this I answer, that the 
iteting will always accommodate itself to the writing. The per- 
former must play the buffoon, if the aiitlh)r draws a caricature: 
but he will converse like a gentleman, if he had pointed dialogue 
to deliver; he will appeal to the feelings of the spectator, if he has, 
natural chamcter to embody. Unsuccessful authors are dis^pointedj, 
and therefore querulous ; but no instance has ever come within my^ 
observation, in which a new piece had fkiled, for want of being ade^ 
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Bitf there ia a light, more {wovuMe to tbe pretent mee of av* 
t]iov8y in vliidi this anl^ject: omy be vki^d. Dramatic casajpoakhn 
dhrides ks^into du-ee parts; fable, 4iaraolery and dialogue : aad 
it requines sacb a combbadoQ of taloalKSy vr^vAk rum not often fboad 
'm eoinpany, to produce excelleoee ia all, diat it has tarely been 
atfained in tbe beat periods of onr atage. In Jonson, perhaps, dM 
ability to form « piot, to conduct it by eoitable personages, and to 
develepe it through the medium of probable eonyersations, was 
poise yearly balanced than in any other man. ^hakspeare was m." 
ii)^ inimitaUe in character and dialogue, but he saved himself the 
trouble of ioveutiug story, aod was not alwftya scrupulous in what he 
fdeotod. He seems rather to hsae &Ity what he well might, that any 
•toy would tell IP his hands. Coogrere inrei^ed his own plots; bid: 
IVGrhapshe would have done better, had he borrowed them. He oon* 
iSBiakd hnaself in genecal witli taking characters, tbfkt were the he&^ 
looms of the stage, and making them talk more gaily than they had 
jdoflye before, though they acted less naturally. On the overpowering 
. wit and unintermitted point of his dialogue, he rested the triumphs 
of his muse, it seems therefore more to be wished than e^cpected, 
-that perfeGti(^ of £»ble, character, ^nd dialogue, should ever be met 
arith in 4he same production. The icensures that are implied on the 
-ooodera stage, are fixed more xm the dialogue than the character, 
JtXid aaore on ithe character theo the fable. Tbaie are many recent 
^ikstaAces 10 mkwh a high d^egcee of aoAeiest is excited, ^ough per- 
bap0 not by the moit probt^le means : but many of the old fhbles 
^Iftte Of ery probabiiity, md yet excite no /epvHion of surprise.— 
{ guesuon tvhethor my drao»a^st of the presentnlay would be ai- 
lowed fSoffi me of Wh 6ir-&tobed ei^edients, as those by which 
CWogneye usualljr bf^ougbt about bis .oa^trophes. I very much 
•4oubt whether a aaideiiB writer could procure a heating for fiis £fib 
iiot, after be had finished 4he pJay in the lourth. Yet we l^ar ti^a 
^ik Ji<Qt of jbhe Merchant Af Venice, though ^^ hiear it with iiatless^ ^ 
.ness. By ^s instanoe k ia evident, th^t perfect^ jof fable, either 
jis -Co iaventioii or conduct, b nof: abaokitiely tiecessai^ to .the rafiooal 
|4eaaures of the dcama, jHhough doubtkss a high addition* Xber 
Uroat auppOKts^^jcause luure lavished their fasdoations upon 
futyoais which would ^ave Jbecsi hopeless io other hands, or fvhioh 
.prior ,Ckec^f^tion had Camiliadsed to *the memories of their bearers : 
^t :3h(t^s|>eftce could inimortalise the most obscure novel, or clothe 
^ icdla ioi pariiwnent in aU |he beauty ^od gr^indeur of poetry. 
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and been defective in character and point. Without determining 
the scale of importance to be assigned to these great requisites^ I 
think we may fairly assert, that a piece which possesses any two of 
them in a high degree, though not a iaultless drama, will satisfy the 
reasonable expectations of a candid critic : and though the third 
must neither be despised nor neglected, it may perhaps be desirable 
that a writer should bestow the best of his labour on the most pro- 
ductive soil, rather than distract his powers by too high and various 
attempts* If therefore we have rather improved in fable, though 
we have, in a great measure, lost the wit and satire of our prede- 
cessors, we may still hope, by endeavouring to bring oiA> dialogue up 
to the level of o)ir plots, to form no useless link in the chain of dra- 
matic literature. We have already, if you can pardon the abrupt 
fecausition of metaphor, weathered the storm of German taste, and 
I hope the escape may be hailed as an omen, that our vessel is sea- 
worthy, and will live. 

But the demand for spectacle must be allowed materially to in- 
terfere with the higher interests of the drama. And this leads me 
to the province of opera, as most intimately connected with spec- 
tacle* I do not object to English opera, though I prefer the Ita- 
lian. Ours is decidedly unnatural ; but it professes to delight at the 
ex pence of probability, and can be criticised only on its own princi- 
ples* 11)6 Duenna and Incle and Yarico have many charms, 
though the shade of Aristotle would probably determine that they 
ought to have none* It is only to be desired, that this species of 
composition should keep within its allotted range, and not thrust 
tragedy and comedy from their seats. At the same time, I would 
not exclude music as an attendant on either Muse, provided it does 
not share the throne. Opera, if allowed at all, should be confined 
to simple subjects, partaking somewhat of the pastoral* But in re^ 
•gular plays, it is an absurdity too gross to be endured, that the 
action should be partly in music, and partly in dialogue* Let it be 
entirely in music, if you please, for then you return to nature, 
though you come to the Italian opera. Much misplaced ridicule 
has been levelled at the heroes and heroines, who warble forth their 
own calamities : but the learned and witty authors of this banter 
only prove, that their definition of music is confined to ballad ; and 
they will meet with considerable difficulty in exempting their re- 
vered Sophocles and Euripides from the force of their satire; for 
the sublime (Edipus Tyrannns in representation bdre a closer affinity 
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tovMS vary littie netirer to comdion coRTersadon than musical reoH 
mthre: a&d without examining whether those commentators arv 
i»eW iboadedy who reduce an oration of Detnosthenes or Cicero to 
feet, with as much exactness as a book of the Iliad or iEneid, it it 
tondotthtedly true that all eloquent prose is music ; nor will aay 
BBian, who has not soiae taste and correctness of ear, write sucbt 
periods as will bear to be read aloud, trose i« to verse, what r«- 
4tati¥e is to air. Nothing motfe is required to he consistent, than 
Aat the charaicters should eithapilways spe«i in time and tune, or 
always in less laboured but still measured dialogue. Hiey may 
Converse in what language they please, but not in a patois. The 
QDly absurdity that hanp over the Italian opera in this country, is 
iMit of a large tiodience attending a representation, which scarcely 
one tenth of them understand. With respect to the literary mean- 
ness of the composition, that arises from tlie circumstance of infe- 
rior workmen being employed, who poetize by the day or by th« 
piece: bat any man who should assert, that an opera of Metastasio, 
weU composed and well performed, was seaseless or unnatural, 
would impress a liberal critic with no very high opiniori of his own 
■•Dsibility or understanding. But though I would exclude th6 mix- 
ture of dialogue and air from the action of a regular tragedy or co- 
medy, I would take every opportunity of introducing music on oc- 
casions, when it is to be met with in real life. A hymn may well 
become a temple, and a song of victory can, scarcely be dis^jensed 
^ith on the field of battle : " Go, gentle gales** may beguile the mo- 
ments previous to an assignation, or, ** Here's to the maiden*' in- 
spire the jollities of the festive board. 

There remains only tragedy, whether imperial or domestic, to be 
discussed. On this subject, as a candidate, I shall not presume to 
^ter largely. Its topics are more confined, than those of comedy. 
It is difficult to strike out any thing new; and if we tread in the 
steps of our predecessors, we run the double risk of disgusting by a 
twice told tale, and instituting a comparison to our own disadvan- 
tage. It is a common opinion, that much reading in an author 
leads to imitation^ and of course destroys originality. But in fact, 
at this late period of our literature, an author must read, to avoid 
those coincidences, which look like imitation. He must read, that 
he may discover what ground is occupied, and what is left open.— 
There is no danger indeed, that any modem writer should rob a 
groat genius of his best thoughts, without being conscious of the 
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theft ; but every book, however marked for iu autbor^s by inter- 
spersed felicities of nadve thiakiiigy is compacted and as it were 
held t(^tber by many common-place remarks, dothed in commoa 
place expression. There are lines in Pope, which any pen mi|^c 
have written; thooghts in Milton, which any brain might have en* 
gendered. Yet, if ,we chance to stamble upon any thing that baa 
been ^ before, whether better or worse, we are supposed to hav# 
taken more trouble in hunting it out, than an ordinary capacity 
need have bestowed upon the invention : and when once we stand 
accased of plagiarism, what cannot be traced is only suspected of 
baving been drawn from more recondite and secret sources. Tha 
desire of avoiding a rock, so destructive to fame, and of opening 
new channels of moral instructioa to the drama, has inspired on# 
of the boldest attempts at innovation, which these days have pro- 
duced. But, though I hesitate a difference of opinion with a dis- 
tingmshed genius very tremblingly, the system of writing on insu* 
lated passions seems to me to have very serious objections to cope 
with. The mode of treating moral subjects in a sermon and a play 
must be very different. The lessons of the stage are incidental, not 
direct ; we can only convey instruction, by seeming to be thinking 
of something else : and by this means we sometinies lay hold on 
hearts, that take a pride in rendering themselves callous to all au- 
thoritadve reproof. We must assassinate the enemy with an air- 
gun, not march againi^ him with a train of artillery. Another ob- 
jection to this principle is, that it necessarily involves a series : tha 
hatred of the hero in this piece b contrasted with the love of tha 
hero jn that. But it enters almost into the very definition of a 
play, that it should be complete within itself^ not looking to anj 
thing that has gone before, or that is to come after. It should re- 
<]uire no previous reading to illustrate it, and no deep thought to 
oomprehend it : it should rather inform the illiterate, and arrest 
the inattentive, than pursae abstract speculations with the philoso- 
pher, or learned deductions with the lecturer. But whatever may 
^ thought of the system, every tongue must join in magnifying the 
Bqwers of tbe execution : and I believe the public would rejoice to 
witness the exertion of such talents, unConstnuned by any system^ 
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ORIGINAL POETRY 



TO THE MOON. 

Mild eye of pensive Eve ! efiblgcnt moon f 
I hail thy placid beams, I bail the hour 

When Rest, with mystic speQ^ - 

All busy tumult stills* 

When, stealing from the Idling arms of sleep, 
I pace the dewy verdure of the lawn, 

An() view, wkh n^tored gase. 

The soft Elysian scene. 

Viaw woods, dark-cIoathiDg the retiriog vale, 
And sinuous rivers, glimm'ring thro* the mist. 

That o'er the dtedal earth 

A fleecy mantle throws. 

Etherial orb ! that gilds the humble thatch. 
Or tree embosom'd fane, or mountain grey. 
Or in the distance dim 
Gilds Ocean's heaving bwast; 

Beneath thy lingering beams I love to paose, 
And mark the mdting softness which pervades, 

Tlie landscape's features bkmd. 

With many a ma^ tint 

But more amid some hallowed pile to sit 
Where humbled grandeur proo^ts the feeling sigh. 
And dark mysterious lore 
. The mpt attention holds. . 

Where old b^ition consecrates thcf place 
To pallid Fear, and tells of murderous acts. 

Of spectres dimly seen, * 

Of JFaisieft* aiff»Ji$ hmaiu 
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, Where, rodcly cluttering on the tott'ring waU, 
The ivy twinkles to thy gU^mng rays; 
And o'er,th« crumbling n^ass 
The gracefal ash depends. 

Thy reign, chaste Moon ! no sounds profane infade. 
But wafting peace, the curfew>s simple toll. 

Of l^ight's melodious bird. 

A while thy sober disk (he rolling cloiid^ 
Oerspread with transient darkness, aod forbi4 
Thy cheerily face (o smile, 
. And bless the mournful scene. 

Bt|t now^ slow risiog ffom the sombre shadefi 
Thy silent lustre bursts with kiadled charms^ 

^nd on the joyous sight 

Afiood of radiance pours. 

E*eD so shidl Virtue, when iuTolving death 
Spreads his chill gloomy terrors o'er her fornix 

Triiimpha|U o er the grava 

Resume her holy sway. . 

A|p% vfith pof^^ glory crown'd, r^ce 
^ Amid th? f^U s^aphic choir of heay'n, 
A^ beain« like thee fair Moon, 
S^!ip qlildoess down on ^mth ! 
jph^numth, March 15, 1866. Ro^£Rt LkUf^v, 



AN ADDRESS TO THE SETTING SUN- 

Refvlgevt orb of day ! whose <^ eonliliands 
This oui; terrtsdal globe, with many a sphero 
Th^t in harmonioos concert wiieel tbefar course, 
Obedient to his biddbg, great sapirettie ! 
Who out of chaos form'd the wond'rous whole, 
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The world ia •ndleM solitude were loft^ 
Unhabited^ and durk, and cold : by tibeto 
Suhlim'd, exults frail sublunary maiu 
^ And in thy quiok'ning smile tUe various tribM 
Of animals, and fruits, and flowers rc^ioicc. 
Pfogenttor of being and of bliss ! 
Altho^ a creature thou, of all things mad* 
likest thy great Creator, take, O Sun, 
A grateful boom's tributaty strain. 
And tho* the paler moon's ben^ant reign 
Sooths jarring thoughts, and wakes seiner J0yi 
Thy potent fires superior homa^ daiov 
Whose right directs her through the ttact ofh^a^^m^ 

Beneath thy wide dominion, mighty Sun 1 
From the bri^t portals of die goWen tQ#^ 
On to the many-tinted oocident^ 
Where hoary Ocean waits thy df^<^|Hdg cari 
What revolutions has thine eye buheld ! 
What strange vipisatudes j Yet stili thy lighl 
No diminution knows, no succour needs : 
Bright emblem of heav'o*s architect divine I 
Greatest of o^ iBdwh Id Ehe keh of ^an. 
Who, in this mundane state^ with wonder views 
The countless worlds that gem the vault of heav'n; 
To Ihee tl^e fbai^Ar'd cAbrkters ilttuite 
The warbled descani Itom their leafy homes, 
And, with thy poet, bless* tby latest ray. 
Nor these alone ; for nature all c^mbiuaa 
In universal song. The lambkins bleat, 
The herds innumerous low ; from vale to vale 
Resounds the grateful hymn, and the blithe swaio^ 
From labour freed^ i«ijoicei. 

The cottager obscure^ who at Us dootr, 
Vkie IfuBgt and graced with mi^a indastry, 
Awaits, with brow composed, that placid hour^ 
Whedv ^ ^« gl^^^iig ^^^^ 6]^Mr« sublime 
THie sliding beaft (hat wfttitkd Mm bo i*epo^, 
Snu|^ warm^ afiid hbm^ Tshk irmM hut, 
And tby jllMit ray^ fli^ m his cbtlzig^ ea^^ft^^ 
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' ' ■ ■! I ■ I ,. J .1 .a 

That oft excites the trayeller's doa^tfal gaze. 
Steep'd in the Yivid glow, stream thel>rigfat clouds^ 
The flowVy lawns, the* tangled forests blosh^ 
In amber hues revolves the limpid wave. 
And the rich grape a richer tint assmnes, 
&t who of earthy with nice precisioR fraught. 
And keen sarvej, enough can speak thy praise, 
Can wdgh the vast importance of thy pow'r, 
Or trace the limits of thy mighty reign ! 

On yonder fir-crown'd hill, lingering, thou secm^sl^ 
A little while to pause, and look around 
On Nature's drooping family. Not a dower 
But wears upon its feeble lid a tear 
To weep thy setting. Discord herself is hnshM^ 
Their rudeness e'en the stubborn winds forget, 
And, sighing, gently pant along the vaie* 
But thou, majestic orb ! again shalt cheer 
Spring's mournful children-*K>h f that thou couldst br^ 
Some healing for the sorrows of mankind ! 

flymwthy March 15, 1806. J. NoRKiirGTOir* 



Oil iteing some Pieces of Armour at Shaw Tla$t, th§ Se€t <^Sv^ 
Joseph Andrews, Bart. 

Shades of departed tvorth ! whose martial firt 
Once BiTd these reMcs of the former age ; 

If hov'ring near, bid Britain's race aspire 
To shine in radiant triith^s immortal page. 

Teadi them ^tis far more- blissful to re^gn. 

In freedom^s sacred cause, their parting breathy 

Than to a foreign galling yoke incline, 
And wear a chain that's p&inf ul more than deaths 

This precept shall brave Fokn^s* sons,inspirey 

Whose warlike glories emii^ate the lay. 
When well-taught fingers touch the flamiug,lyrf,« 

^nd seraph zeal the burning notes coov^y. . 

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Yet happier fate awaits fair Albion's land,. 

If bold invaders press her peaceful shore ; 
Her native spirit roused, each hireling band 

Shall with full cause the raih attempt deplore. 

More bright wall bloom the laurels on her brow; 

The more opposed, the higher will she rise; 
Her foes shall see their towering hopes laid low. 

And fall beneath the li^tning of her ejei. 
Newbury^ 



ADDRESS TO AN INMATE, 

Poor Tittle fluttering heartl be still. 
Nor think that evVy mortal ill, 
Which doth the world with misery fill. 
Attends thy lot» 



Overflowing w^th maBgnant rage 
Against thy peace, if foes engage, 
And fierce, unequal combat wage. 
It matters not. 

Perchance thou hast been basely us^d. 
Betrayed, deep-wounded, and abus'd^ 
Who never yet a pang refiisM 
For human grief. 

Yet let the fools of fortune boast, 
By sensual, low pursuits engrost, 
A few more annual suns, at most, 
Will bring relief. 

Soon will thy pain*d vibrations cease, 
Soon death will sign the hop*d release, 
Safe pasiport to the realms of peace, 
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Ther^ W»A »W«l t^r^ 8««^Wc dipir, 
And h¥« diviti9 tli9 ^Mem^ iy«iqp»9» 
Jfewhury^ ' 



Hi.iifti£T plack'd an unblown rose, 
* And, amilUig, said to me, 
* E'er this young rose its sweets disdose^ 
•* I give it untQ tbee-'' ' . : * 

« Why bring n^e this,*^ I quick replied, . 

** It can no sweets impart f 
** Twill soon tjtpand," she blushing crie<il, 

•• If warm'd against thy heart.*' 

« This bud,** resuWd the lovely maid, 
« Would soon have been arose; - 

« And then its fragrant beauties fiide; 
« It withers v^hen it blow^" 

** Then e'er it opes its tender bea<^ 

** The captive rose to free ; 
** Before ks perfum'd sweets arc shed, . 

" Oh ! pluck it from the tree, 

« Then let it feel thy heart's warm power, 

" Oh nourish it with care, 
•' And Gratitude will teach the flower 

" To shed its sweetness there." 

She plac'd the rose-bud next my heart, 
I found her words were true ; 

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4 PEBTOR'S SOLILOQUY^ 
tir Fftisoir. 

I. 

Aa ! now secluded from the worlds roatioe. 
No more to sport b pleasure's fairy tram; 

While others itungle in the festire scene» 
Alaa ! I Uoger only to com|>Ub. 

n. 

Ko friend have I whose tympathetic tear 
Could cbMe the melaw^oly gloom •mtnf; 

^0 chatfiog ftooenti meet my ameious ear^ 
Bat flatt^dag hope wtmu out ths t0dio«* day. 

ra. 

Yet in thb dke abode of woe and care, 
nlneetaon oft wm yield my heart refief: 

That those— fii'en those who wealth.and pleasure share, 
liake fimded iUs the cause of keenest grief. 

IV, 

S'or why jwgret the joys that qiiickly die. 
Whose foma idiooe idhire the yow^; and gay ^ 

When Affl«ence lieart o^l Pea'r/^ hear^t s^h, 
ntia fiiends forget, and pleasure fades away. 

V. 

Bat pstymg Heair'n, to ease ay tortofi^d hreast, 
Hae giv'n me pow^* to thiidc of whatfs to come; 

That while depiiv'd of liberty and rest, 
! look for happiness beyond the tonli. 

vt 

There vktue dreads no sorrows uhreveaFd— 
There it finds peace— there ceases mortal care, 

Tin timers fulfilled; then death his powV must yield. 
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vn, 

Tremen36os' thought — by various feeling press'd. 
And anxious hearts the fixt decree await; 

By hope alternate rais*d, by fear depressed, 
To rise in bliss, or sipk in endless hate, 

viir. 

See' the vile sceptic, who a God disown'd, / 
Now first acknowledge an Almighty pow'rj 

Tlien see the humble culprit who aton*d 

His misspent life in death's last fleeting hoar. 

IX. * 

Oh ! happy we, could we but think it so ; 

Reinov*d afar from «v'ry tempting vice;— * 
Religion can disarm the shafts of woe, -^ 

And change a prison to a paradise*. 

Omega. 



MEMORANDA DRAMATICA. 



HATMAkKET. 

Since our last Mn Dibdin, who literally wri\ts currente calamo, Bas produced 
a merry little comedy called the Finger Post^ or Fhte Miler off', which has filled 
the theatre for more than tweiity flights, and has not yet finished half its course. 
It is one of his happiest efforts, and the laughing philosopher himself, could he 
have been present, would have been obliged to hold both his sides from the first 
scene to the last. 

We shall not put Mr. Dibdin on Ais trial for having outraged probability, 
and sinned agslhist tKe fuWs of cpiriedy* He would instantly plead ^Uty to the 
charge, ai^ it would be our duty, as grave censors, to condemn fijm to get Aris- 
totle by heart, and promise never to make us laugh again» We shaH pass a mil- 
der sentence on this 'dramatic culprit, and advise him to repeat his offence, by 
presenting us with a 'simitar specimen as soon as possible. 

The characters are most of them ^Id acquaintances, but they are placed in 
new aituations, and sketched with so much spirit, that they have nearly all the 
merit, and more, than the effect of perfect Jiovelty. Calendflr, a genuine disci- 
ple of Partridge and Moore, who speaks the language of the almanac, and studies 
the usc.of the globes, is "the leading comic personage. Fawcett, who performs it 
inimitably, maker etct^ pdfnt tell, and in on6 scene the effect he produces ia 
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sad an trith carpenter, who ma]ces a finger post that tarns round like m weather- 
cock. This blunder of Pal's occasions the principal business of the play, which 
is a chapter of accidents from l)eginmng to end. Any attempt to detail the 
incidents would be idle, and as useless as vain. The parts will not bear to t)e de*' 
tached, though the iou{ ensemble is excellent 3 like a salmagundi, of which the 
fngredients are insipid, till Ihey are well mixed tpgclher. 

The performers acquitted themselves ably. "In the first rank of praise " we 
ttust place Fawcett, whose performance decided the success of the piece. lis* 
too, in the quaker, was very ludicrous, and his song is constantly encored,-^ 
Mathews also brought his character very forward,' and Hatton's thief is m chef 
dksuvre. We never, saw a little part sustained with more characteristic minute* 
ness. In look, dress, and action, it was complete. De Camp played with great 
ipirit, and Grove, in the old miser, was very respectable. This actor is gaining 
fest upon the town ; his attention to the business of the scene, and the correct- 
ness with which he dresses and plays all his characters, do not pass without » 
Jiotice. They are merits which will ever render him a valuable acquisition to 
any theatre. Chapman is always judicious and forcible; he appeared to great 
advantage in this piece. The female characters are not very prominent. Mrs. ' 
Powell, however, plays the old woman admirably. 

The author was favoured both with prologue and epilogue by Mr. Colman,' 
The first is a spirited composition, btit it is not a just argument that a piece is 
necessarily good because it is attractive. We see every day that what has least 
merit brings the most money to the theatre. Nor are we bound to respect a play 
because it has received ihejiat of the licencer, who looks, we apprehend, more to 
its pcditical than its moral tendency, or it» literar}' ^crit The epilogue haa 
nuch point. 

Mm.. Rai, the gentleman who made his appearance in Oetavian, has since 
played a number of principal characters with tolerable success. He has a genteel 
perton and an expressive countenance, but his voice is neither pleasant nor ex- 
tensive: in level dialogue it is feeble, and when exerted the intonations are rather 
painful to the ear. Feeling he has, and good sense, but he does not act much from 
himself. He haseaught something from Kemble, and more from EUiston, but, 
like most borrowers, he has adopted most of thdr fisulty peculiarities, and not their 
exoenencies. It has lately becon^ a vice in tragic actins^ to express strong fteN 
ings of distress by hysterical guggles in the throat. EUiston carried them to' 
excess; he knew their efficacy in obtaining applause, and availed himself of 
fliem too liberally. Mr. Rae is a still greater adept in this throat'OCting. He • 
is always in convulsions. The trick really becomes disgusting, and should be 
dropped. In the agonies of expiring nature, or when grief so weighs upon the 
heart as to deny the tongue its utterance, the adoption of it is allowable and lla* 
tural, but beyond this ** 'tis gross — 'tis palpable." 

Mr. Rae, however, has capabilities, and we may one day tnd him a valuable 
actor. In comedy his action and manner are constrained ; but this is a fault 
which practice may remove. It must be considered that he has had many 
characters to study and perform in a short time, and a young man wlio can ' 
llear the wdght of so arduous a part as Sir Edward Mortimer, an^ make a ere- 

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ditable stand i* diancten of a lighter desoripticM^ (in vliidl Mr. £UislD«^ Ic* 
Jeots were so coD^icnous) such as Capt^m Bddare^ Brmkrithf^FtUst he* BHgr 
fairly be alio ved to possess a consideiable portioB oC merit. 

MRS. c. TOUWO. 

At Manchester^ oo the Uth of July, 1806, in the tweity-inl y«K ef tar 
ngfif departed this life, ^a, the. wife of Charles To«bc» one of the aMBagpm oC 
the theatre royal Manchester. Ber death was ofcuiotted by % bifieoa Icvii, m, 
&w days aAer she had safely beeene a mother. 

In JLondony Bath^^and Liverpool this lady was betkar hnoifn as Mh»^«i* 
ifBani. Her talents for the drama were acknowledftd to be of a cast, that, haA 
hit life been spared^ most have attained superior eacellence and the highest yam^ 
fetsioqal rank. Th«se who knew her will not here expect to And a pamgyricei^ 
Ikr virtues and her talents; they knew how much these were above all praise. 
With an elegance of form^a bewitclunf and most expvMi^vdy animated oo«nl»« 
9nnce» she po sses sed the fasdnatia^ manners of an accomplished gaoHewomaa^ 
and a mind endowed with omsI uncommon acq^icmettts. Tfaeae fitted her t^ 
captirate all who came within the sphese of her attraction ;, whilst More fM»- 
iiUes qftki ktart mid ditpotitkm^'mUc^k are hidden ftom the obserYaaee of or* 
binary acquaintance, but which constitnte the essence of matrimonial hapftass » 
nnd alone can form the \|elji^ of familiar iqleroourse ; whose pres ence 
strengthens every tie oTbloody and warms into enthusiastic firiendship the fovew- 
able impressioos li^ule by manners and acco mp iis b m f n ts ', theie made «p hcv. 
tfhole character— for these the bitter tears of her wretched hosband will never 
cease to flow— for these, as she was aiost bek>ved» so she will b% most regretted . 
by a numerous and illustrious acquaintance. 

KlNG^S THEATRE. 

7/ Fanaiieo per la Mnsiea gains on the public by lepetitioa. The melliffufoue 
notes of BiUington, and her fine execution on the piamt /art^s added to the icre^ 
aistible humour ol Naiii, form a treatment which richly gratifies, the fullest as- 
semblies of nobility and ^shion that we ever remember to have witnessed at this, 
bte period of the year. The subscribers . aic greatly indebted, to JTd^.andl 
JewtU for the tasteful and well ordered management of U^ elfgifnt annieaienti 
<)uriog the whole of the season. 

AR«TtE ROOMS— WaSQUERAUE. 
The luminous Gibbon, as he is often called by those who were never illu-. 
aunated by him, describing a masquerade at Boodle's, in a letter to a friend, says;|. 
what we may rqpeat with propriety on the present occasion—" It would be as, ! 
^fficutt to describe the elegance of the scene, as it would be to record the humour, 
of the night. The one was above, the other below, all relation." The beauty 
of the women, the brilliancy of the coup dPceuil, and the excellence of the \rinea. 
and refreshments, were indeed hetierjelt, seen, and tasted than they can possiblj^. 
be described. As to the humour, it was suited to the genius of the moment and 
the meridian of Argtfle Rooms, but, like most humour, it was of that delicate 
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kBff^^aad tenfk Ofvertfit letii|»<HU20*?# of liw flesh that avcomided Mm «l^ 
ynqine ky^ooriiy, Amongit the »«aereu» cfaamclMs pmem we ndtiicAi < 
i«eteht4 MmkurdmtMm " himwlf/* > femaas c i nfJ b i i i trhadtey Chioegh hit 
part nm ane m l y wdt^ a aKj^.wom Ottmian, who» if hebepthbceifUdbrniht, 
3»Mt ha»e ttoflehcd a nigh* of pieasare, a CtM flkiifMi, the tMt «<f«ritelar 
AMitiMi^" httlng irllk icAy^icitetiQOi^ lee. Ice. Jm. A nor* agfeeiMo anA 
Jo}roitt masquerade bat rardy taken place in this cotatry f tait tUt wiila r hB% 
narkaUy dirtiayiithed for ka saparionlg^ m thb flttly 
vhoi well ofdeiad^ at in tb» praseaft iattanaay ioMoaaC 

K£W ROYAL CIRCUS. 
To the nmoerouf exhUitioni of tin* theatre^ full of ingenoity and attraqlioii, 
has leeeotly beea added one of uncomiaoa spleadoai and xaagptfoeiioa-^TlU 
Cioud King, The acting in this piece is excellent, and the soaoner ia which it 
is got up does great credit to tiw taleau of itfr. Qots^ The othef perfennanoea 
wt hayt already noticed. The ioui truemiU is veiy mnch apprared oCby all 
lanks 0^ Tisitors^ both fashionable and ualashiooable* 

Mr, Attley,jmr, with his accustomed an«ie(y to amuse fAepiMe, whose 
patronage is so liberally bestowed on liim, has, in consequence of the loss o^ 
Mr. Richer^ substituted in his place some very surprising exertions on the sbdc 
lope and wire, by Mr, Link and Signora Rotsa, Mith vaulting, which exhibits 
great strength and agiHty. Mr, Jeflriet is considerably improved in his horse, 
manship, but the boy is far superior to him, and promises, with time, to excel itt 
tiie art. The remainder of the entertainments still continue as before, and that 
^change has tUcen place seems very sadifiuTtortly aoooomltd far, by the iiU- 
acM of the houses proving it entirely mmeccssafy, 

Sadler's wells. 
Mennf Oiogv, as wdl as states, have their rite aad £ill, ytcir protperitjp 
apAadverinty, and wlien they •xt at thair wofst, they, by a aatuml necessity, 
iaiprove ; gradually i& general, but, in the instance of this theatK, with most un- 
eMuapIed rapidity. SmO^^s WsUt^ in tho memory of as aU, took the lead, 
decidedly, aaMogstthc various exhibitions of this description, but through inat. 
lention to the concern (no matter where) it fitH into neglect; but, owing to the 
spirit witiHvhkh its management is new conducted, and the extraordinary genius 
«ad ability of Mr, C. Dibdin, in providing entertainments of this sort, it han 
md d anly risen into all its former £ivour, if not into more than i( ever possessed. 
The noveUy of introducing into a theatre such a vast body of water, and the 
akill wiUi which all the manoravres on it are man^;ied, continue to possess a, 
d>ffft of attractioo not likely to be diminished by repetition. The harlequinade 
nC the Waier Kdpe, and the very ingenioos and interesting roelo-drame, Tht 
baisibie i^Vt^ are of a superior description, and their merits are nightly attested 
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middi if irmistibly droll, and i^ qcttiHiaatk)^ to support t prfndpal part la v^ 
bsllet of actioa of a sort rafely coopled witk tba grotesque a&d cafkatQredjMttai|r>- 
d the mischieroDs hero of paaloMiaie. Tbe night on wtiicfa we amused omw- 
aaives with his exertioM, be suffisred 'a sevese acddent in the grand conAiat m^ 
The Immiiibie GiH, The gaard to his weapon, it appeared, was not suffieientiy 
tlide^ Mid his antagonist cot his hand in a manner that prevented hiscoodnding* 
the fwrformanee. This will for the future, of course, be carefully provided- 
agmst, since any notion of danger prevailing in the minds of the audience, rery 
noch impairs the pleasure oi the ejUiiUtion. 

' The last season was reported to have been very lucrative, but we prophecjr ' 
that the present harvest will be far mere profitable, and the proprietors will owe'- 
much of it to the ingenious labours and superintending taste and judgment of- 
Mr. C. Dibdin. 

. . VAVXHALL* 

' On Monday, JuTy 2Tst, the annnaT silver cup and cover, given by the pro- 
prietors of Vauxhall gardens, were sailed for by seven pleasure boats. The wea- 
ther was favourable, and the scene delightful. The gardens were consequently 
ctowded, the company excellent, and the hilarity and harmony that prevailed^ 
trerc enjoyed till broad day-light. We hear, with regret, that after tlie present ' 
season, these fascinating gardens will be shut againit the public for ever, the 
fround being to be let on a boilding l^se. 



PROVINCIAL DRAMA. 



' Thwtre Roffol Richmond.— This commodious little theatre is this yean 
taken by Mr. Cherry, who has collected a respectable company, and nsed every, 
exertion to give ecJat and variety to the performances. Miss Cherry, has dis- 
tinguished herself greatly in many diflScult and opposite characters. Mrs. Dib- 
d!n has perfbrnied a few nights, and at her benefit had the attraetron of 
Braham and Storaci. Notwithstanding the heavy torrents of rain, and m 
grand fete given by Mrs. Jordan, on her eldest daughter's coming of age, the 
theatre overflowed in every part. The receipt amounted to £. 100. Mr. Far- 
lev, who is engaged for a short period, is getting up the Forty Thieves, 
wnose operations cannot fail to be successful under so experienced a captain. 

7%ea/re i?oyff/ Glasgow.— Mr. Editor, — Since my last our theatrical 
corps has been dreadfully annoyed by the horrific and unexpected appearance of- 
sr Ghost I ** Touching this vision,'* the performers have exhibited symptoms of 
dpmay equally strong as did £neas when he beheld the grizzly apparition of the 
great Hector. Yet, afler all the hubbub and confusiun the Ghost has created, jt is 
only a pamphlet bearing that hideous name ! There is no doubt, however, bat* 
that it has furnished the world with many *' damning truths" respecting our* 
theatrical concerns. The animadversions '\\ contains are in general just, though^ 
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coloured ; the pasnge on Min Jotict it ib tte slune pvedlctmeot. In msfC 
other matters << It is an bonest ghott, that let zae tell you.'* An attack, bow* 
ewer, has been made on its criticmm in wrry poetry i of the author of which I 
.xnay ask ^-« 

« CoqM it be worth thy wondhxMn waste of painty 
« To publith to Uw world thy lack of brains ?» 

Mr. Cooke has played here ten nights. Miss Smith, of Covent-Garden 
theatre, succeeded him, and performed eight. This lady evinces a strong pen» 
chant for wearing breeches ! not contented with appearing in Edgar in male 
attire, she has attempted the part of Young Norval-- but has added nothing to 
ber &me by the transformation of sex. She has proved greatly inferior in at* 
tjraotioa to Cooke. For these ten days Mr. Byrne, Matter Byrne, uid Misa 
Searle, have been also exerting themselves for our amusement, but unfortunately 
the united talents of both their head and heels have not collected even one nume- 
rous aucfience. Mrs. and Miss Jones have absented themselves from the theatre 
in consequence of what they judged unjust and illiberal treatment, on the part of 
Managers. Mr. Jones (of the orchestra) is gone along with them, so that we 
have now only two Jiddlers ! That, however, signifies nothing under the present 
management ! ! 

In addition to the list of benefits detailed in my last, X now add the fial* 
lowing, via. 

Mr. Cooke, - - The Revepge, - - - - ^.170 

Tom'*,- - - The Stranger, - - - - 60 

Byrne, - - The Belles Stratagem^ ... 56 
Mist Searle, - - Cymbeline, ...... S4 

r. Smith, - .• - Edgar, or Caledonian Feuds, li22 

Last night the house closed for the season. The company goes to Edia* 
^orgh, from whence it is said they will return^ here about the middle of August, 
«nd be joined by Mr. Hill and Mrs. Atkins. Mr. Rock has fallen infinitely 
idiort of my expectation in the capacity of manager. His former energies seem 
benumbed since he came into contact with the leaden sceptre of our old chief,— 
in the selectlDli of a new company I hope he will at least be more successful thaa 
Jackton hat' been with this one. Independent of its intellectual incapacity, 
wohuaet ttdght be filled in pointing out the personal defects of individuals^ It it 
not more intpoient in intellect than corporeally lame. We have actors wifli 
arms too short ; though perhaps they may plead the same apology as did a poe^ 
wb«, when one of his lines was pdnted. out to him as being a syllable too short, 
to the reader, that he would soon find another a syllable too long. In 
i of bit affnuziHg scries, Mr. Toms display^ pair of arms ** immeasurably 
We have also a squinting eye— a pair of blubber Mps— three or four 
fierformert literally near-sighted, who, with ** spectacles on nose," cut a dash 
at rebeartal. Though th6se defects be much more hurtful to the possessors than 
to tilie public, yet they must ever prove^strong bars to professional excellence on 
ihe stages In short, our company stands alone ; '* none but itself can be its pa* 
caUei.'* With the exertion of dx^ the male department is characteristically 
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Our wtrditbe standi mhenbly in n««d of repair. At a bte r e p reie nUti oa 
^iVenke Preterudf the reverend senaiort, from thdr poverty cidttth cjBdted 
tfiemost wucUHb wmen ti hnttktk ^cmnkat^ wfckb I <»cr lieiid vithin the 
valltofatiieatre! And Inrfy itvuiMt «»l)e«ondef«4a(^ Ertry one oftli« 
•mttesoe miiftiiaire taktfn theml^r pmtpmrt, had the play-hiili not iofbmoed Ihem 
that these gentlemen represented Ven^ian .senators ! The old dirty rtddifhi^ 
nhured shattoon gowns in which they sat enveloped, were>-> 

<< Doublets, t^at bangmen wovid 
** Bury wfl<|i (hose that worv tiMa«* 
Cl&tgom, Wk Jufyt 18i6. Aeoos* 

T%eaire lNVE&NKss.^*Our season has oommenoed in our new theatre^ 
which is* respectably attended. Amongst other novelties brought out by out 
Attentive flaanager, Mr. Beauniont, the Shylock of Mr. Wrighten is not the least 
attndive. This young actor, who made his deb^ last season at Edinburgh^ 
possesses good requisites both natural and aoquiied. He has been also well re^ 
ceived in the Stranger, Hotspur, Macbeth, Duke of Aranza,.EoIla, Osmon^ 
Ice Wc have a 9Dod actress in Mrs. Beaumont, who has sqooeeded in many 
principal characters^ serious as well as comic. She is con^dered as the Jordan 
of the Highlands. To these I may add Mr. Beaiunont, the aanagt^t Mr. Leo* 
sard in th^Bufib or low comedy, and Mr, Wallace in the genteeler valks, who 
are all entilled to commendatory notice. 

Juhf 9M, 1806. . Candid. 

TheairgRo^^ GtAioow.-^Ptnmt me to ej^lain an exptession or two i|i 
mytettorofMayiaat. 

Mac Giisbon^s ^ndscompHln that his name b 4heie iai p toper l y l ^ rm d e ^ 
jt irith aQ aiittff which, it seems, conveys certain unpteasaat ideas aoatfi of the 
Twaed. The aetor^adtd to having eertatnly passed in other theatres by At 
naotf Gibbon* (atlVoIverhampton if I reneaa^ier tight) I waa oartaisly r^i^ 
Mk in ftpptying to him both appellations. From inlorfaation m which I eau 
depend* X believe him to be of a &n»ily of the name <tf Mac Oitii^QD* who posr 
iestfed, a oantury ago, eertain estates in Aigyleshire y I think, juoonf otfaen, tiMt 
lir Ottar* upon Lochfine* Kiel Mac Gibbon, well Juaown «n the amatntra a€ 
Scotish songi was» if I tecoUact right, of this family. 

The bnatneai in Gksgow has been bad^ notwithstanding ^ attraotiqiH aC 
Cbokt, and latterly Misa Smith. As if the dioehiag deficienoas of the paeat»t 
eompany weie not suAdenUy ^parent, the managers» in the p le n itud e of thear 
fiisdoBi, have detailed it of Mrs. and Maria Jones. Having very modeatlp 
fmfoAei this young lady for deelining to appear as a 4umb,;^fiiraftietii enp 
ef Byrae^a ^UtfU, the mother very proper)^ iemonfltrate4> vsA pratfered Jmt 
Md her daMghl^'affcMgnatioii,4)Qold the £Bcfe3t be exacted. Thifr lesigniMttoM 
aicrt aeoepted 0^ and thus an aooomptisfaed actress, with her £amify, are lest In 
l|ietl««lae!I llaater Wilaotthif now pa^fiom Mr. Uoa^,aiui renoaaon 
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Hough has acted most lictnoatably', moit geneitHtriy, and *iost uDtxccpUoo«bljr> 
in every respect, to this ettfant perdu, who certainly promised something, but 
who as certainly is most decidedly inferior, in theatrical merit, to Master Betty. 

Justus^ 

TkeaireRouallkiKvriQH.^'^.lMvi^daavMhi)^ 
two of his entertainments. As your London re^n have no of poriuaity of 
hearing this celebrated singer extcept on the stage, a ahort aicfloaat oC one oC 
bis performances in the country may^be amuting to lh«m« The £r>t «ataftaia* 
ment he performed here was called « HospiUUHy, or ike Hiurveet ifo««."— 
The idea of such a species of entertainment originated, I believe^ with Dibdiot 
and when we consider that he was not only Ibe author pjf his, redtatioiM and 
songs, but that he set the latter to music, and spolse^ sung, and accompanied tbm 
whole entertainment, we cannot help looking upon it as a most singular and 
astonishing effort of genius. Mr. Incledon's author 'u, fortunately for • hioueU'* 
nnknoM-n. Bartley, of Drury Lane, lias the fo^city of reciUnf^ tfasa ^ fm m* 
stuff. Mr. Incledon of course is the singer, and- Mr. Horn the accoapaoiat.-* 
Pour!een of the songs of this piece aret new, and one old. The best of them art 
Shield's, who has contributed two, one of which contains a description of a than* 
dcr storm strikingly characteristic. Tlie other, " Dear Mary/' is in hia sinpl* 
and truly elegant style. «« The Smuggler's Grave," by Davy, is aa impressiv* 
melody. All of them were sung by Incledon in his usual superior manner* Of. 
the other new songs the less is said the better. 

The second night he gave us «* Tj»e Country Club," which, though certainly 
a far better entertainment than tlie furmer one, was •* nothing to boast of." Thi 
he»t.«oog3 in this piece, as well as the other, are Shield's* " The Thorn" is so 
well known that nothing more need bf said in its praise. Of all, the singers by 
whom 1 have Ward it performed, Incledon alone has the true idea of thia 
elegant ballad ; the florid noii^ style of Braham sits very ill. on an air, whose 
characteristic is simplicity, and the slides and graces of the Italian schod accord 
but little with the true English ballad style, of which this is so good a specimen. 
Shield's trther songs are " Lovely Jane,'' and " Tell her I love her," both of 
which are calculated to add to bis deserved reputation. Mazzinghi has fur- 
nished two Mw in very different styles, " The Ship on l?ire,^ a simple yet im- 
pcemve bdfitfln € minor, and an Italian mock bravura, in whtch Incledon 
gives rather a highly coloured caricature of that school, for which, I suspect, he 
has no great relish. Sir John Stevenson's ** Charter song" is spirited and ani* 
mating, and Florio's " Far, far at Sea," an air of considerable sweetness and 
elegance. . To all of Ihese Incledon did ample justice ; indeed, a« a singer of 
English ballads, he certainly ii unrivalled ; he combines at once such treiien- 
dous power of voice and such sweetness of tone, Joined to an almost hnlimited 
compass, that, with the good taste and experience he possesses, he stidom faiU 
to delight^ if not to astonish his heanprs. The th^itre was welljittecMled beth 
nights, and the performance seemed much to delight <he Norwich audieneei-^ 
Mr. Horn is a neat player, and accompanied the songs in a.maateriy^style. 

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HOUSE OF COMMOirS. 

• Vaccikk Ifroe«LATt«ir.<»Lonl Hv Pctiy oUReA the attentfon of tfte 
hmom t» tlHt intertttlag vAieet It appoftred, firom bn ttetetaent, that the pro- 
gKM of tins mtfbl diieiMFeiy ind been atncMvterdeci in London, owing to cer« 
tikipn^iceff; uid^faatyincoiiteqoeBce.of ttiia^the number of annual deaths, 
▼faidi had been Rduetd from 1811 to €Sf, had again risen to 1^85. Under this 
ooinideratioo, Itbeeane tl» doty of the UtgUatitre to lend to useful truth ereiy 
aM in iCi power, and to give the fttUest lanction and weight to what it knew to 
fee right With this view, it was his intention to propose an humble address to 
fah Ai^esfyy praying him to direct hit college of phyaioians to enquire into tho 
siBite of vaccine inoculotioB, its eflknency, and the causes that have retarded its 
gni ^ ewal adopdon. The report would be made before the next session,and the- 
itnH of H would be generally acted npon* If the report should be corre-« 
s^ondent to his present conviction, and it should appear that any discredit - 
thrown on the vaccine inocutetion should be' nnfodnded and exaggerated, it 
wtnsld be a proper qnestion to aoggest tiM best means of preventing the cinrum- 
stsrnceff that night have given rise to it He moved aooovdingly, thta;^ an humble 
address sliottid be presented, pmying his mi^y to direst his o>1lege of physi- 
cians to enquire into the state of vaodne inoculation, and to repwt (he same, with 
the evidence, and their opinions and observations thereupon. 

Mr. Matthews bad at first doubted the efficacy of this wonderful discoyeryg 
but on the strictest and most particuhir investigation he was now satisfied. The 
name of Jennei; would be allowed by posterity to deserve well to be enrolled 
among those 

Inventas qui vitam excoluere per artes > 

Atque sui memores alias fecere merendo. 
Afle^ several observations from Mr. Wilberforqe, Mr. Windham, Mr«r 
Bankes, and Mr. W. Smith, all of whom concurred In the praise of this inefiil 
discovery, the motion was carried unanimously. 
r*C* ?!Tr?^7n^7r*?M^^?'^"^^ff^^^W^lt1trTrff??ffK Li. i .ti i i i»J »g 

DOMESTIC EVENTS. 

T8£ YOUNGER BRANCHES OF TBE ROTAL FAMILT. 
^ His nuyefty's message, recommending to pariiamcnt to increase the- provi- 
son made .Ame $he younger braachca of hia ntysi family, has been taken into 
•nuidefatiDa ; wd^ it has been agreed to in the committee of supply, tha^ 
Iho incomaa.of the Pukes of Okuonce, K«nt, Cumberland,^ Sussex, Cambridge, 
and GteoeestM, shoold be ai^mented fWrni 12,000/. to 18,060/. This fncrease, 
witii (hat of an additional lOQQL per annum to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, 
the ftv«>PrineeiBes,and the Princess Sophia of Gloucester, wiU.be ah annual ad« 
di tton of 43,000/r to the national expenditure. We do not object so much to ther 
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wtad; and with all tbe retpcct and loyalty which we ke\ for the tovcfeifB and 
for his family, we do not besiCate to my, that at a momcBt such as the ptcsta^ 
pregnant with danger and difficulty^ fraught vith taxation beyond aU p«eoedent, 
it would have been wise in the king's servants to have postponed the ptop08c4 
increase until the conchision of peace, or the Mrival of an hour more propitioat 
to itsadoptioo. It nust be the sioeare wish of the eountry that his m^eiCy^ 
ofibpring shonld possess the means of «pboldiag the high situaliem, In point flf 
apkndoor a»d comfort, which they natnraliy fiU in the state ; bol how comet i^ 
that the inadequacy of these means has been discovefed, ^y at the veiy tim* 
when the KberaJity of the public u most rmtricted, and whM eeenon^ and ovder 
ara become abstthitely necessary to Che prestrvatiottef oar dearest ioiuesltF At 
the pnncet and prknoasses have for the last four yeast contrived to e»rt upon th» 
establishmentt voted in 1779, would th^ not have more effectually accoMd lb* 
•sleem and attachment of the people, in still scrffertng the «0Mf^r prhaihmi and 
AcnUWpf th^end«edftom the smallness of the provisions made for ibem,tki« 
in thus having them btcmght forward by minislefs.? To forbear from ashing, «r 
from talung,^ dunng a contest in which diey themselves have to very tiuch at 
stake, would have been an ad of magnanimity that must have intpiied conragt 
and persevemoce among tfaeirfoHow subjects, and an act of sympathy that most 
have shewn they were no less ready than the landed praptic t or, the mff ch n nt » 
and the tradesman, to sntfier in the common cause. The crisis in which we Uva 
certainly daes*oot reoomtaiend the application, nor josttfy the MbenOity of th« 
goardiaiiaof the puUie purse. 

*' Non hoc hta temptis spectneola potdf.** 

We are, however, more inclined to attribute the measure to the new poHcy 
ef mint!»ters than to any sanction it may have received in anotjicr quarter, or trt 
toy intimation from higher authority. The man of the people and the men of 
the people are most strangely changed. The possession of power and place hai 
spdis and charms so dazzling and so p(Uent as 

" I to cheat the eye with blear illusion^ 
" And give it false presentments j— " 
They can no longer see any danger in the influence of the crown or the gratifi« 
cation erf" royalty ; and whether we are to have no peace witliout the restoration 
of HanovcV'"" to increase the revenues of the royal femily, they equally prove 
themselves «er\ants of all work. 

The reasons urged by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for this augraentatioa 
deserve notice. Lord Henry Petty observed, on Friday evening* (we quote bit 
language from The Tiines, a paper remarkable for the accurac>' of its parliament 
tary reiwrts):— \ 

*' The provision for the younger sons of the king was fixed at 12,000/. per 
annum in 1T78. This was judged at that time to be a proper sum, and adequate ; 
to the due support of their rank. But he would leave it to the house to deter- 
mine, when they looked at tlie increased expence attending every article of con- 
sumption, when they considered that most of them were doubled since that 
period, and some of them more than doubled, whether that sum could be regarded 
as any way adequate. From the advanced ages also of the ilhistrious ptrs^nages, 

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Ignore appetraoce and greater expeoditure were oaUe4 for, than in the yoiingek* 
part of their lives, vben this sum was origiDally fixed.'' 

If this argument be strong in favour of the prince^, is it not at ietut equaHy* 
•o in iavour of the great mass of the community, particukrly of tho^e elaasess 
•ubfeet to the operation of the income dnty, uho are now taxed dovbiy, having 
ml the same time to pay thabl^ for the nfioessary articles consumed by their ft^ 
•lilies ? Is it not, above all, a concliMtf^ and triumphant aigument in favour of 
|be middling ranics of sriciely for a totftl exemption from that unequal system f 
If, as liord H» Petty declares, most of tlie articles of consumption are doubled^ 
«nd in some cases more than doubled, with what ju^ce can persons with ]50/« 
fiOO/. or 300/. a year, be required to pay a tenth of the whole, while persons 
6f thirty, forty, and ^^ty thousand per annum, contribute merely in the same 
proportion ? 

The only prince who has declined coming forward wiih any claim on th^ 
l^ierality of the public is the Duke of York. The Prince of Wales is,, and will» 
we trust, be lon^ out of the question. It appears, according to tbe Chancellor 
«f the Ei^chequer, that the Duke of York conceives himself sufficiently provided 
for by parliament, and we are glad to find that his ro3ral highness knows when he 
Ijas enough. But surely the other princes have had other sources of emolnmenty 
Exclusively of (heir establishments. The Duke of Clarence has had the profitable 
situation of Ranger of Bushy Park^ with the peculiar advantage of an exeeUent 
and economical houstfrkeeper, who has acled her part both in public and private 
with deserved success. The Duke of Kent is Governor of Gibraltar, nod Golo* 
Bd of the First Regiment of Foot, consisting of fotir battalions. The Duke of 
CuQ^berland has a regiment of Dght Dragoons. The Duke of Cambridge, it 
Commander of the German Legion; and the Duke of Gloucester, Cc^onel of 
4he Third Regiment of Foot Guards. It will not, we think, be maintained that; 
these are situations of no profit j and when we state, ihat in the raonllis of Ocio- 
bcr and November last, the Dukes of Clarence, Kent, Cumberland, Sussex, and 
Cambridge, had each 20,000/. and the Duke of Gloucester 19»500/* out of the 
proceeds of the ciptured vessels before the issuing of letters of marqne, few will, 
we apprchcnci, think that their royal highnesses have been exposeiito any mate- 
rial embarrassments and inconveniences in their respective housholds. 



hpXT) Nelson. — The following codicil to, the will of this illustrious her» 
was-Dot proved till the 4th instant. It shews that public spirit and a strong sen- 
timent of justice and generosity mingled with his last feeltags, while it bears 
ample testimony to the eminent services which Lady Hamilton rendered to thia 
country' ; it will also account for the rancorous antipathy of Buonaparte towards 
the Queen of Naples, by whose active intervention these were so happily car- 
ried into effect :— , ' - 
CODICIL. 
*' October the iienty-jirst, one thousand tight hundred and Jive, then in 
sight qf the combined fleets of France and Spain, distant about tett 
miles. 
« Whereas the eminent senices of Emma Hamilton, widow of theHight. 
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and coontry, to my knowtedge, without her receiving any reward from eithe* 
oor king or coantry 5 (Irst, thtt she obtained the King of.Spain's letter in 1*796, 
to his brother, the King of Naples, acquainting him of his intention to declart 
-war against England ; from which letter the Ministry sent out orders to then 
Sir J. Jervis, to strike a steoke, if opportunity offered, against either tiie arsenals 
of Spun or her fleets ; that neither of these was not done is not the foult of Lady 
Hamilton ; the opportnnity might have been offered. Secondly, the Britisti 
fleet under my command could never have returned tite second time to Egypf 
iiadflot Lady Hamilton's Influence, with the Queen of Naples, caused letters to 
be wrote to the Governor of Syracuse, that he was to encourage the fleet being 
aapplied with every thing, should they put into any port in Sicily ; we put into 
Syracuse, and received every suf ply^-went to Egypt and destroyed the French 
£eet !— Could I have rewarded these services, I would not now call upon my 
country, but as that has not been In my power, I leave Emma Lady Hamilton, 
therefine, a legacy to my king and country, that they will give her an ample 
|)fTOVidon to maintain her rank in life. I also leave {o the beneficence of my 
country, my adopted daughter Horatio Nelson Thompson, and I desire* she will 
use in futuni the name of Nelson only ; these are the only favours I ask of my 
king and country at this moment, when I am going to fight their battle. Ma/ 
Ood bless iny king and country, and all those I hold dear— my relations it h 
seedless to mentfon 5 they will, of course, be amply provided f6r, 

*' NlLSON AND BUONTl.** 

Witness, Hin&y Blackwood. 
T. M. Hardy. 
" MAssACHt IN St. Dominoo.— Captain Dodge, of the schooner Mary 
Ann, who arrived at New York in sixteen days from Cape Francois, broiaglt 
intelligence, that on the 14th and 15th of May, a^general massacre of all the re- 
maining white inhabitants of Cape Francois took place, and it was said generally, 
throughout that part of this ill-fated island under the dominion of Dessalines.*-* 
The particulars of this tragical event are briefly tbe« : — Some time previous to 
the 14ih of May, the greater part of the white French inhabitants of CapeFran^ 
oofs were ordered, under some pretence, to a fort about three leagues from th« 
town, and there confined. On the night of the 14th, the residue of these unfor* 
tunate people, amounting to about one hundred and fifty, were strangled in their 
beds, by order of the eoiperor. The blood-thirsty villains, not content with 
this, plunged their bayonets in their bodies, mangling them in a horrid manner. 
They then plundered the houses of those unfortunate people who had thus fiilleo 
▼ictims to the avarice and cruelty of the black emperor. On the 15th it was 
reported at the Cape, tliat those of the inhabitants who had been sent to the fort 
had been j^ to death in the most cruel manner, and their dead bodies treated, 
with the greatest indignity . 

The following unpleasant informafion has been communicated to a mercan*. 
tile house in Leeds, by their correspondent at Naples, under date of the 16th ult. 
♦« I have now to acquaint you, that a number 6f merchants herie have been 
obliged, by order of our government, to present their books, which have been 
examined, and a great number of others have been notified to give m a note in 
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cAbds> ice. bdoagiog to th« prcatnA •Mmkt of the Fresoh coipif*, wlid i; 
powHy of an arbitrary punUhiaeait» ami tei| times tbe talue of tke eSecta no* 
l^ven up." 

The foUoviag U tbe qoaoti^ of stfoog beer brewed id London, by the first 
px porter breweries, from tbe 5tli of J«ly, laOi^ to the 5th Of Jalyy 1806 :— 





B^rreU. 




Barrels 


Barclay amd PerkiAs - 


- 335,034 


Gy«bid and C<K - 


- . 160,845 


Jdeux and Co. - - - 


- 3ai,j083 


Goodwin and Co. - 


. - 144,391 


Truman andHanbory - 


- 352^0^ 








WhitbRwt and Co. - 


• aofr,955 




l,494>Ua 



Stotenent of the quantity of beer denonttnateid pdrler and ttont, brewed ilk 
London, by the tweHre principal heasei, between the 5th of Juty, 1805, and 
the 5th of July, 1806.— 

Aarrek, Barreh^ 

Meax 187,349 F- Calvert 64,4t5 

Bwday 182,529 •Browa and Parry - - - 5'?,4(H 

Hanbury 125,890 Elfiott 45,943 

WhWwead - - - . - lCrt,3U J. CaJrart 36,444. 

Goodwin 73,335 Clowes 36,05ft 

0hai» 75,111 Biley 31,175 

It appears £nom oAktal returns btely received from India, that in the FjresI-* 
dency ^ Fort St. George alone, 429,821 peisoDs had been successfully vaccinated 
between September 1802, and May 31, 1805, being, on an average, 160,00Ci 
a jear. 

A practical horticulturist recommendt thfiit birdlime be rubbed on the young 
twigs of gooseberry and other fruit bu^s, on which, at thk season, the caterw 
pillar begina to commit its depredations on the shoots; and on which also, th^ 
ty that produces the caterpillar alight be caught, and thus prevented from layinfp 
Hs eggs OR the leaves, &c. 

The nnmher ofbankrupts s^nnounced in the London Gazette Jrom J^ecemb^ 
97, 1805, to June 27^ 1806, aaK>unt» to five hundred and ninety-one \ 

Lord Minto is certainly nominated for the govemakent general of Indfnsi 
Ho is sncceeded at the board of cefnufoul by Mr. Thomas Gret}vil!e, a gentle- 
man highly qualified for that, or indeed any other ministerial sitjiation. He 
has also a seat in tbe cabinet. Lord Landerdale is consoled foe his disappoinK 
ment, with the great seal of Scotland, vice the puke of Gordon, The salary x± 
9000/. per annum. 

The commissioners of naval enquiry have completed the investigation tA 
which they were delegated by parliament, an* their board is cotosequently 
dissolved. ^ 

- At present there are two hundred and three weekly proving iie\rspuperg- 
imUisbed in Great Britain.\md Ireland, of each of which one thousand copies 
are sold on the average. At sixpence each paper, the annual return. 16 the? pro-* 
prietoM is 263,900/. and at tbe duty of three-pence halfpenny eadk paper, they 

• Owing to repairs and improvements going on, and which are not ytt t6tt^ 
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yield lo the state 154^000/. per attn. £ach paper contains also an\ average of 
A>rty adyertisements, yielding to the proprietors^ at seven shillings each, the sum 
of 147,784/. per annum ; and the duty, at three shillings per advertisement, 
yields to the state 63,336/. per annum. Such are the wonders of one depart-^ 
Ssent only of oar periodical press. 

' FiNANCE.^-I'rom papers laid upon the table of the house of commons, H 
Uppears, that the gross amount of the permanent annual taxes for the year ending 
the 5th day of January, 1806, was 40,026,588/. 6*. lltrf. of which, after dc^ 

dncb'ng repayments of vtriottf iuiNit tml charges ^ inaaagement, there remain* 
«d applicable 

To national objects ----.*----- 35,314,158 10 4| 

I4»t the amotiDt of Hie remaining hereditary fevenue, 

after all deductions, was--------- 59^69 8 3( 

That the net produee of the property tax was - - <• - 4,337,583 18 9| 

'That the net produce of the war taxes In the department 

oftbtcttstons, was *'.- ....... ^,639,147 19 1(^ 

Ditto, the department of the excise, 6,360,229 13 9j 

That the net produce of all the faxes and soufces of re- / 

venue, both permanent and temporarj', was - - - 51,339,045 15 10{ 
tosLUi paid Into the exchequer, - - 25,130,404 19 6| 



Grand total * - 76,469,450 15 4| 



The late Lord Chedworth's will has been pTOnounced valid by the verdict «C 
*jury in the Court of King's Bench* 

The Britijw Navy.— There are at present in commission 730 ships oC 
<rar, exclusive of cjutters, 3cc. of which 122 are of the line, 15 from 50 to 44 
guns, 155 frig-rftes, 181 sloops, 247 brigsi &c. 

The following bankruptcy was lately announced in the Niewdes Gaeetfe :— 
" Frederick Bremer, gAo^ maker to several provincial theatres*'' 

It is extraordinary how tifaie adds tb the value of some things :— a breiss kaff" 
trown, of James 11. coined in Irelantf^, lately sold for ten guineas. 

At a sate of the efiects of the late Mr. Frahkknd, of Sussex, a load.<toAe sold 
lor jS, 150, an orrery for JS, 550, and a turning lathe one tboustmd andTtixijf 
paundf. 

The f rqjccted imprevencnts i« Westminslkr HaH will be proeeeded on 
during the pn^ient vacaiieo. The new Court of King's Bench is to be built on 
tine opposite side of the hall tathb comiaan plea^ next the Spe«Jter'a court^yaid. 
Thift hzs long b«en wanted, aa thft present cotirt is considerably too>Binall for tiitt 
■accenunodattds required. That which k now the Bxcfteqner BSi Oflke is to be 
flonvarted into a Kk>n fbr the accomimxiation of the grajhd jury, and several 
ad>oinnig apartments are to be buik for ttie convenience of the judges' afttendants^ 
nod the oAoifn of the court On tfie exterior part of the hall, next the Abbey, 
four cofTee-s-houses aie to be erected, for theaccodmodatifon of barristers, wit« 
besses, &c. and all the sheds which now disgrace that venerable pile are to be 
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An Americaa boolp el l c r bu published aa fdition «f Um Poqunoa Piayer 
Book, witb this notice, " that the matrimonii article ii printed « Uxrg* ktter* 
for the use of old ladies.** 

It is agun and again repeated, that if this country abolishes the slave trade, 
foreign nations will take it up. As well might our police officers say, " if we 
put a stop to picking of pockets in the metropolis, the people of Bristol or Ll^ 
'verpool, Dublin or Edinburgh, will continue the trade, and we shall lose the 
benefit of it.'' 



I BIATH. 

Countess of Chichester of a daughter. Counteu of Cowper of a sob and 
beir. AtHermandstoOfih Scotland, Lady Sinclair of a daughter. The Lady 
of the Hon. E. John Tumour, youngest son of the late Earl Winterton, of a 
daughter. The Lady of the Hon. Lieut. Col. Plunkett, of the Coldstream 
Regiment of Guards, of a ion. The Lady, of G. B. Malawariag, M. P. 
efasoo. 

MARRIED. 

Viscount Fitz Harris, eldest son of the Earl of Malmesbury, to Miss Dash* 
wood, neice to the Earl of Effingham. Colonel Arthur Vansittart, of Sboties- 
brook, Berkshire, M. P. for Windsor, to the Hon. Mis^C. Eden, fourth daugh- 
ter of Lord Auckland. At Edinburgh, Lord RoUb, to Miss Greig, daughter 

of Greig, Esq. of Gayfield Place. Mr. W. Sioane, to Lady Gertrude 

Howard, daughter of the Earl of Carlisle. G. Stibbert, Esq. son of General 
Stibbert, to Miss Jane Slatter, daughter of the late Rev. T. Slatter, Rector of 
Saltford, Somersetshire. R. Smith, Esq. of Aylesbury, to Miss M. & Watson, 
second daughter of Sir James Watson, Knt. The Right Hon. N. Vansittart, 
tQ the Hon. Miss Eden, daughter of Lord Auckland. The Right Hon. Vit!' 
count Milton, ofGresvenor-square, to the Hon. Miss Dundas, daughter of Lord 
Dundas. Sir William Abdy, to Miss Wellesley. The Hon. Col. William 
BUgb, to Lady S. Stewart. Mr. Charles Kemble to Miss De Camp. 

DIED. 
Lewis Thomas Lord Sondes, in the 53d year of his age. Sir W. Lawson, 
Bart, of Brayton-House and Hell-Hall, Cumberland. Charles Prancb Sheri- 
dan, Esq. elder brother of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan, many years a Memr 
ber of the Irish Parliament, and Secretary at War in that Kingdom, previous ttt ^ 
the question of the Regency, when he resigned his seat and oAce. He was a 
gentleman of the most distinguished talents at an author, both in history and 
*political controversy. At Hans House, Chelsea, H. Holland, Esq. tlie ar* 
chiteet. The Rev. A. R. Dillon, Archbishop and Duke of Narbonne. Sad* 
deniy, at Kensington Gore, the Hon. Mrs. Leigl^, sister to the late Lord Leigh« 
At Standlake, Oxon, the Rev. Arthur Homer, D. D. AfPorest House, Lay- 
tonstone aged 63, Samuel Bosanqoet, Esq. a Director of the Bank of England. 
Mrs. C. Young (late Miss Grimani), of the Manchester tbeatre. 



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i Graves, A. M 75 

The Eagtisbinaii's Creed 91 

Extracts from Milton, relating to 

Extracts from a Common-Place 

Book, No. III. :.„„ 86 

Advaatages of I4terature 89 

VhoMM^ftSeMoifi .a^.«.......w,.,. m 4 

j,ii j i i, y,, | ij ,, ! .,. , 1 . 1 ' .. i n.fJ n 
REVIEW OF LITERATUUE. 
GENERAL. 

Francis's Speeches in the House of 
Commons on the Wj^r ligMiisI 

the Mahrattas 97 

A Colkctiop of Epita^s and, Mo- 

' Bunieiftdl Inicnftfon^ ....: 1(H 

Ticken's Practical English Gram- 
mar, 106 

USi|Wff'«J^f^tC)a»iM>l9gf9t»M M, 
Foster's CWys, in a Series of Let- 
ters 107 

Ferdinand and Amelia 108 



' The history of Freemasonry 112 

the P4nce <rf W^es^^,,..,^ .^ JP 

An Antidote to Poison Il4 

The Life, «cc df J.*». Chinese ..'..^1*6 
Taylor's Works of Plato .,.. 118 



Fitzherbert ..,» ib. 

Diamond cut Diamond ., 109 

A Letter to Nathaniel Jfikiya^.^ 4br 
'John Bull's Soliloquies on the late 

Impeachment 110 

Frederick .„ .,.., Ill 

The Post Captain ib. 

Toogood's Sermon 112 

Nicol's Poems, chiefly in the Scot- 
tish Dialogue ,.,....m*<.m*» ib. 



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-On Drenwlficflftn^pWcity-of fleikti- 
Anecdotes of the French St|^^,^p.fl^ 

To a Lady y ^•.. «4.^127 

1 Stahras-otPtfieObie^rftie'lsWe-Yeaf 128 
idKUress^apotomHy.iifrvLBvis^. >lb. 

^nja^irkiw ',„ ;, h.,»u... H9 

King's Theatre ib. 



l^^rts^^s^^^z *^^ W!^iB?Si^I 



American Stage ib. 

PROVINCIAL DRAMA. 

Sunderland « .\ 134 

Glasgow 135 

Manchester , 136 



DonAestic Events, &c. «..., 136 



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CORRESPONDENCE. 

Ea^ury ihtU be «ade afltr t]w Panphnie from the Italian by O. C. T« 

Lior old's pepen ihall alsp again be looked into. 

Tbe bbiervatioDs of Vulitas, (Norwich) have been hitherto omitted for 
want of room ; and it if now too late to print them. We ad(nowIed|^ no inih>* 
once of the nature alluded to by Veritas. 

TJm prinlid ostract from an American publication bat been receiTed; a^d 
'^re thank a Constant Admihek for the communicatien. • 

Cajlolvs propoKi to tend us some obeervations on '' the VtobtioBB of 
sense* grsamw, and poetoy," in a modem opera. This sort of tpelling does not 
auHnnse.as to oxpect nmeh from the critic ; but he may transmit his remarks 2f 
Iscthinksfit 

Ebwa&d's letter is answered in the present nnn^r. 

P. R. is referred to our number for January last, for afull account of the pro* 
otedings wHh which be desires to be acquainted. 

Co«KK 0. Atkins. W.'s report of this trial is accompanied by remarks 
lihich prevent us from giving it a phoe. 

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BIOGRAPHICAL ^kETCH OF 

WE LATE REV. RICHAIlD GRAVES^ M. A. 

RECTOR OP CLAVERTOK, ttf SOMERSETSHIRE. 
{With a PpriraH.) 



Mr. Grares, of Clftverton, Was the younger son of a*fespectabl« 
g(entleman*s family in the north of Gloucestershire, His fkthe^ 
Richard Graves, Esq. of Mickleton, was a man of eminent endow- 
ments and literature particularly versed in the study of Roman and 
British Antiquities, and so excellent an historian and medallist, that 
Mr. Hearn, the celebrated Oxford Antiquary, distinguished him by 
the appellation of Gravetius Noster, He made vast collections 
from Dooms-day book, the MSS. and records in the Tower, and 
other authentic stores of information, towards the history of the 
Vale of Evesham, in which a pait of his estates was situated ; all 
which papers, after his death, came into the hands of his friend 
James West, Esq. late President of the Royal Society, and at Mr. 
West's decease were sold, in VTtit, to the Earl of Shelbume, His 
epitaph in Mickleton church is written with peculiar elegance by 
Mr. West. 

Richard Graves, the subject of this memoir, was bom at Mic- 
kleton, in the year 1715, and received his earliest tuition from the cu- 
rate of the parish, who, to gratify the literary taste of his father, 
taught him at the age of twelve years to study Hesiod and Homer. 
About a year afterwards he was sent to a public school at Abing- 
don,y in Berkshire, and when just turned of sixteen was chosen a 
scholar of Pembroke college, in Oxford. On his arrival at college, 
he wn% invited to join a party of young mtn of extraordinary sobrie« 

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tjf who aimised tbemaeiyes every ei^eoiiig with readtag Gredc and 
drinking water, whicb whoitfMiibfe Hbevetage Dr. Cheyney hiui 
braugbt considerably into Yo^ue. At the head ef this dngukr so- 
dety vhm D4 ^i^r|sq^«^ afteh^rdd cHef laili t|^'th4 Aidi^ M 
Petersburg, Mr. Graves was, to use his own wiMrds, a pretty 
good Orecumy when he first went to-Dxford, and during bis continii- 
ance in such company for six mooibsi m which time he had rea^l 
orer Bpictetos, TheophrastUBV dk,taeti6ny Phillaris's episUes, a&d 

to be' supposed that he considerably enlarged his stores of eniditkiii> 
and fixed his taste fof Htierary pleasures. 

He did nt]it, how^^cdnfiateihimseirto'tiiis temperate society. 
After mixing successively in the various parties into which colleges 
Kit usually divuied, he became particularly attached to Mr. Sh«»- 
^stone and Mr. Anthony WBi&tler, a youdg man of family and for- 
tmie in Oxfordshire, since lihe w i w d istinguished as the friend an4 
correspondent of Shenstone. These three met almost every even» 
ihg during, the summer, and, less abstemious, tbou^ not les$ de- 
voted to inteltectual acquirement than the former party, ^'sijipetf 
Florence wine, and read plays and poetry. Spectators and Tatlers^ 
^d ot^er writings of easy digestion.'' 

The conversation of men of such pleasing character was too 
congenial to Mr. Graves*s.mind to admit of any wish to change hi? 
present abode and situation, ,but as the revenues of a.scholai:e^ip o{ 
Pembroke were very inadequate to the expences of an university 
education, be availed himself of his acquaintance with, the late Mr. 
Wood, of littfeton,. then a Bellow of Ail Souls, and was, by Uis. in- 
terest, elected fellow of that college, in 173(S^ . 

It is to bis intimacy with Mr. Sbenstone that Mr. Graves 1ms 
been heard modestly to attribute the first notice he received from 
the ^ world on appearing as a candidate for literary honours; biit 
neither did hie talents require the reeominendation.of his ffii^d's 
celebiity, nor was Mr. Shenstone the onl^ person in whose- regfirit 
Ins merits ibund their just estimatioh and support* At AltSouls^, 
f^ith no less advantage to hi^ growing, fam^.he fbrmefl likei^ise an 
intimate friendship with Mr. Blackstone, afterw^s Sir WHliaoii 
Bhickstone; a man, whose extensive acquuntance witb thi^yarioua 
departments of science and art was only surpassed by his profound, 
-knowledge of the laws of his country.. \Vith this great man Mr« 
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Hqitikrittd' tSikdhtlhii^ted,' to the hitebt tM^r'uf Sir ^9Hhmi>ir Hf^ 
• ]K^ 0hii^ ited 6tfrfy ^e<oiV^td dfemehtettrff to t lie rt ^mi 
i(Ui|I^Y ^^ ^^ Vwicity 6f lii^ tetap6ty iXt fdttied tbibiictivci CdO* 
ilBtMt)l»i«iiy sodtffeiiriiim astfsy, «n(Mil#^tIiaiagflt9 turned to tbnneni 
^tirfifiy-dloremeritsof tbe medical pi'ofMsion. Tttfrn^m^i^efyiket^ 
fore to die ^tddy cff physk, he ciatne to London, and irentdiroiigll 
ti^ eoui'd^ of anatomy ti^ the^cdbbniti^ an^tomist'Dr. Nklxri% 
lirl^il' tW atCMsk of a nenrous f^r; ocoasioned probably Vf totrmt^ 
Amt a]>]^lieaiioii, eortipelted^ him to rehntiuidh his m^tiod pursidtij^ 
add 116 restimed the stad/of cfivhiity, lAid in lT4t entered Mi 
Holy Orders. He n^w^ceived ian ifr^itadon ft-om tJ^MtftcNi 
Ifr; fkAierh^tt, the^ i^tliier of the pred^t Lord St. HeleifH, iptIm 
#rtii JftBit gdin^ to iettle oh his estate ih Derbyshire, and, Iknrin^m - 
<bfi^i6i^ in hifl gift, wished to obtain th^dbmestic society of a ctei* 
{ymlm. IfK Graves accordin^y accompanied him to Uppnigtotti 
wb^f^ hii h6nse becamie the resort of the most promising charactera 
of rt» age, M^. f^att, afterwards Ldrd Camden, Sir Eanfly VW' 
mot, ISR-. N*. Harding, clerk of the house of tommo»s,&c.*&€. 
Mere MjP. Graces resided for nearly three years, until bcf waSerfiSfcd 
away by tbfe duiiie^ of his college, where he was coming by tuttk 
into* office. TIfis induced Wra to wish for a curacy nerirer to Ox*' 
ibrd,, and^ ba^ng obtained one by the unsolicited kindness of a d^ 
tent reladoh, he went to reside it it soon afterwards. 

Bbt' bis c^reei^ of learning was now interrupted by » pow«r 
which often inspires, and often triumphs over the Musesi In dl« 
fkinily^to Which, on account of the incommodious state of the par* 
sohage, he was admitted as a boarder, he became enamoured of 
Wi youngest daughter ofa gentleman farmer, possessed of no dth^ 
dower' ^an beauty and artless good humour,. and, his nlind beihg 
filled with ideas of the most romantic happiness, he instantly sofi^ 
cited ber father's consent, and married her, without detgniiig to cast 
a tbdo^bt on the mdiscretion of such a proceeding. 

His txjflege views, destroyed by the very means which be had 
taken to promote them, were nvwt^ tm end} .«n^f 1«« manage fit- 
ingoflbBO^ta bn e^ttivrei««(6tt9, be ^^s at ot»ce> thrown ^m the 
^frorld with tto other resource than the slender fbrturte of a ytwngei^ 
Wotbei^, and a cunu^ o§ fifty pounds a. year. 

A'smNeSf bowtireri of unespeeted events relieiFed him ffWtttiMatf 
flh^eat^krg embarrassrtifents. By fe Tellow of All Souls, ftr no vtfiet 
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• for hit interest to procure » Uri^g thea 'v«cwit mi d)e mgj^ 
)>ourboodi bpt as Mr. Gravea bad little or 06 claim on $ir Xi^rama'ii 
kiadiMHOTi 1)13 appUcmtioQ was Qo the poiut of be^fln^ip^ Mirelj 
icuiU^^ wlisii a casi^iai intermw with Mr. Skr^i;^\^y«ui|g^|^ 
^emaa of fortune,, whp was ia search of a pr^pei:, p^rspiv^ ^ a 
living in his gift, fortunately remind^ Sir Thomas pf J^n G^^y/es^ 
mt, ap4 he procurfKi ibr him the presentation to Clavertoi^. . 

,t The prospects of his life were thus dosei in .by a confioed^J^ul;. 
wres^ horizoo; and on this livingt to which becamejn..l7^> Mr« 
Graves resided till his death, without absenting, himself a. s^ig^^^ 
IBOQth at any one-time; exhibiting an ejiample worthy ,0/ ^^ ftj>r 
yf»Wion of a//, and the imitation of iftaf^y^ d^gymen. .< ^ . 

V 3i3-lif% subsequ^Btl^ to this period, was neitt^ inactive nctr u^e^ 
lefif to manlund. Besides his .various literary CQmpos^tion^.««jb^ 
found hiipself under the ne^ssity of educating his own children^ Jlv^ 
\fas induced to take likewise other young gentlemen uQd^r his care^ 
and his reputation as a classic schiplar, at once profound and. elcr 
gw^ soon added cdebrity, and numbers to his schQoK 

^ Tbe vicinity of Claverton to Prior Park,, the residence^ of ^tli^ 
hiMable and illustrious. AUeo, afforded frequent opportiinki^s of 
meeting and conversing with the visitors of that bouse, men ^ected 
for, and distinguished by, superior taints and virtue; ^fiK^.all. 
of whom Mr. Graves met with the most gratifying attenUQi), «n4 
particularly from the Bishop of Gloucester, among whose failings 
certainly was not that of wishing to sti^e merit^ or imp^ede the pro* 
gress of genius.f ; ; 

When Mr, Graves had been some time settled at. Claver^Oy 
a^iidst the respect and love of his parishoners,a methodist shoe^n^- 
ker from Bradford came into his parish, bringing with him a laiiig^. 
Congregation, which assembled in an old spacious dwelling for thft 
purposes of preaching and psalmody, and was soon reinforced by so>, 
-^any proselytes, that the rector thought it incumbent on him jto a^* 
tend the meeting in person, and to acquaint the preacher with the. 
penalty to which his proceedings rendered him liable. Crispin's be-^ 

• The futher of tbe aceomplbhed Lady Cteiget. 

i As Mr. Alien Iked in what was (hen thought a prinerly style, nany of the first cha- 
rafteirs in.Efi^nd, distinguished by their rank, their leamilig* or their skill in any art 
•r science, were tlie frequent guests of Prior Park. Mr. Fope, who was almost a^ 
inmate there, had now been dead some years, and Fielding was become a Middleset 
Jttstide ; bat Dr. Warbnrton, Br. Hnrd, Mr. Richardson, the ftnthor of Clarissa, Mr". 
Mason, ^Mr. Hoare of Bath, Dr. Balgn^, Prebendary of Windsor, an^^any other lite- 
rary and ren^arkable characterS| were hospitably and politely reeeivtd by Mr. Allen* 



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'hmA&nrcto die metamtt wat not jpyveraad by tke^tftft^Mmuwe whick 
becomes a reHgiotis agent. He replied with the nioM ottenCHtioili 
CD ttlitoi ce^n to own powers of etoqoence, proponmlmg questiant 
tif faidl^y and cfaadlengin^ Mr. O. to piWe, byfatrUtal of half* 
year^ prdM^kig, which of the two was ^le to convert the greater 
nombei^of^nerifirom destruction. ' '^ ' 

To this circumstance the world is indebted fbr the SriKiti7a& 
QunHmt ; cm ingenious nn& sea^nahle pnblicatidny whieh» while it 
Sreatad with respect' the sincerity aftd'aealous exertieits of the hA^ 
ftoctistSy exposed, #ith great pleasantry^aDdjoatnesiof good^haw 
jBOttred da^re, the absurd endeavours of an individaal «a achieve 
die snbcnary reformation of the world by his irregular proeeedhigi^ 
in a^ state of civihzation; when, as Mr. 6. hioite If expresses it^ ^the 
0iliibltshed regulations of society have rendered it not oaly •eofle^ 
Gtttoary, but unlawfiiL'^ ' ^ 

. In die year 1768, thraagh the interest of Mr. Allen, Mr.Gravei 
was presented to the living of Kilmendon, in ad«ytion to that of Cla* 
vertoo, and received, likewise at Mr. AHen's request, a'scarf from 
Lady Chathara. About the same time he learnt the news ef kht 
' death 6f Mr. Shenstone, by whom be was njipMnted joints execbtor 
ifidi Mn Rohert Dodiley. 

Having new discharged the duties of his School fM^ more than 
thirty years, widi the highest honour to himself and advantage ti 
lag pupils, of whom sevevalhave since made a respectable figure^ itt 
the world, he at length dismisied the painfnl and laborions office, 
and returned to literary ease and tranquillity. . i ' , > 

Mr. Graves, almosttiU his death, retained the health atid acti- 
vity of jtoi^. ' A diffieulty of hearing secluded bib, in some degree,- 
from the varied intsrcomw of conversation ; but his nhtOMl sprights 
liness served to remedy this defect, and rendered him, at all times, a 
lively and interesting companion. His other faculties, of body and 
understanding, were vigorous and unimpaired. He entertained a be- 
lief that repletion was the pnncfpal cause of most of the disorders in- 
cident to mankind, and his antidote was not merely temperance, but 
rigid abstinence, even to frequent occasionai fasting* ,, .B^t whatevea 
deference we may pay to bis opinions on this snbjec:, it is oeitain 
•that he possessed within himself a greater security for health and 
^good spiritrthan, we fear, any medical regimen can furnish— we 
\ an innocent, pious, and contented mind. 

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0i^i^§cumi mith «a .^isaif mi tet ^pews of «««ip«i^liQii. Ite 

challenged by a yoang jouraeymaa apothaearj^ mk^ wa^ 4ea«fHif(if 
mulpq^ Jiilmpy pratnauoas; mod a sikar JmcM, whkk ktt4t>een 
0amfmQ04 hy kliafMf»etais4»f« ftoMKoal i«<Mrk tfW tbt %aKr 
Jamplon Itat ^uk^eot^ ihib «^^«dfed lo^be ipiagiary. n»«Ml 
•v^iiK «paa<diaooiiiarod»'at we fihaU ^odyby alaier pidb^^ 

TbU {«r«Hi m»^ MXemeA, in a»l74; %y 4ifae SptniTnaL ^tof bmb^ 
ff «lbi^ ^meibaift .already tipohm* U iB4oo m^ knmm ao iba 
fobtic to iiaad aay fMMr conMnaat. T4e (praiH (ariivig ^nm tk» 
^ jaiaiaf it wflM aa caBiki c t»bhB,ilhwt^ akboogh Mr« iOff«v^<dcdand 
luoMelf wall satisfied with what he received ler ^ iObpf, Mr* 
PadtUyi « Mf»mte ]penad0ylaDg«Aer ila tetfUtiioatian, Mho^hfc 
fMTP^fr t9 ffM^fiiiialiioilafy addi^iaan to *he*oaigioai aadkj)' 

T% tlMSn^aoeeded ^ ^mishttion ^^MLirto, or • Treatise an 
CliUlfmwS fraas tba;II«liao«f Datta€aa^ «rdilMshop«f Bcftaveotak 

Ho ibo» |)»Uifdbad <>aiU7MELu^ or iba Bssmisato Axcb»» 
BBTy a colloquial ude; which has been said^ 'hut we htoStr jiiC wkb 
iahai)iiii»e%^roomaia imecdoMof Adslfi^^ 
It aiwds«a eao^leaftJesaonito uidi[>hHitaad«aacria« yoaiit in iSia 
lng )» or ^as^wettvas the widdio flt a Oion s "Of tsoeiety. * 

ilattteied hy ibe eacoura^emont he tuecaiwd fsoaa las hook* 
ieUer> Mr. Graces next pmimtut^ two vbhwies of poetical fiooas^ aai 
vhich ho Cflfvo ^* hoiim fof iEirf»Kiiosin7K» laAd ii^ydi went ^through 
ytw i fal odJtiQnfc, In fcUsiworkheaaBeftedhiaititle to.teigsBayoa 
lho.W«M9M<fif ithe i^nain^ wWch-was haro'rapanitied. 

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Xueia: coDju^ carisj»uiis 

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' ttiat there are booksellers of the present' day e&Aowed with equal UberaU^ of 

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THE ENGLISHMAN^ CR££I>. 



W^HOSOEVCR will be reckoned » true Engtishman, a&d a worthy 
subject,, must, before all thiugs, stand up for the constitutioa of 
England. 

Which constitution, except a man preserve whole and uticoi» 
rupted, without doubt his name will perish among his chlldreti. 

And the constitution is two-fold, that is, church and state. 

The church is the established hierarchical government of oor 
^cestors, such as was established in our land in the days of old. 

Howbeit we attribute not uoto our pastors the divine right and 
upostdkat succession, as our forefathers did in the days of error ; 
nor are they to set themselves up as lords over us. 

They are the ministers of the gospel of Christy and whilst they 
,preach it to us in holy meekness, and in the spirit of peace, we 
ought to respect them, and follow their instructions. 

But fkrtfaer their power reacheth not over us; for all their 
power Cometh from the constitution of the nation, of which they are 
a part. 

And they camiot compel any man, by force, to believe as they 
believe, or to say as they say. The guidance of our conscience is iti 
God alone. 

They may exhort to saltation, but no force or violence may they 
use. 

This is Christian liberty, and the right of EAglisltftieQ. 

Kow the state of this reahn cousbteth of king, lords, eiid com* 
mons. 

In the king residetb the efxeeodve power. He makes no laws ; 
but he has a fulness of power to cause all laws to be put into 
force. 

He is the natural judge of all differences arising between man 
and man, and the courts of justice are bis cdurts. 

He is also the natural defender a^ the kingdonfs committed ^ 
Isis chat^ ; therefoi-e of himself alone be may declare war, aii4 
ngaitf make peace, with the enemies of this land ; and the governed 
tticnt of the armies, by sea and land, are also vested in him. 

We are all bound to assist him in the execution of his high com- 
mands, tending to the benefit of the nation. He is our common 
father, our ruler, and our preserver. 

And the power he has is good and natural, as, without it, we 
should be striving for power among ourselves 
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But our obediefice uoto faim is to be a rational obedience* We 
must not disobey the conttitutioiML laws of the realm to execute 
bb commands, or the commands of bis officers under him. 

Our king is not a king of slaves^ but a king of freemen. 

Ail power is granted him for the preservation of his realms, aaii 
of his subjects ; but the dictates of his own will are not as the laws 
of the land. 

Among the nations there be who bow their necks to piinces as 
unto God ; but we acknowledge not a right in our king to dispose 
of the fortunes and lives of his subjects at his pleasure. 

Kings are but men, and their power cometh from men* Witli 
this power a good king is content, but wicked rulers can never be 
satisfied. 

The second part of the state is the body of princes . and nobles 
of the realm. 

These are the inheritors of the great and peculiar honours oF 
their ancestors ; and the constitution distinguisheth them from the 
common subjects. 

They constitute one of the parts of the legislative power, being 
the guardians of their own pre-eminent privileges, the defenders oF 
the royal prerogatives of the sovereign, and the arbiters between 
prince and people. 

They stand up for the dignity of the throne, from whence they 
derive their own lustre, and, nevertheless, are a barrier for the 
people from any oppressive power of ita representative. 
. . The. people th^n^elves are a third part of the state, as they are 
represented by the members of the house of commons. 

Without the consent of the commons, no monies whatsoever 
can be raised on the subject, whose property is sacred. 

They are the natural guardians of the liberty of the people ; they 
keep a watch on yie sovereign, and check every measure taken by 
him, or his ministers, wliich tends to the oppression of the subjects 

They furnish to the exigencies of the state, by ordering the levies 
of money on themselves, or the people, they represent ; and if they 
find their property misapplied, they , have a right to call upon the 
king's officers to acicount for it ; being, in that respect, a watch 
upon them, for their faithfully discharging their duty to their 
master. 

Thus do these three pai*ts form the state of the realm of England^, 
and are the firm support of each other. 

It is the interest of the king to preserve to the nobles their pri^ 
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The nobles must presenre the nKmarchy m^oot whom ail then- 
dignity were as nothing, loid they most join with the people in 
curbing any ambkieus attempts of the king or his officers. 

The people must preserve the king as their head, and as the 
centre of unity. They must cherish the nobles a» feUow-gnanliaiis 
of then* liberties. 

And this state, of king, lords, and commons, is the legislative 
power of the land. No laws can be established without the joint 
consent of these three parts. 

The power of the one part is limited by the power of the other 
two parts ; but their united power is without oontroL 
.. Howbeit, it behoveth every subject to be attentive to the good 
order of the constitution, as infallibility resideth not among men. > 

And for this reason, every Englishman ought to be, m ah espe- 
icial manner, prudent and wary in the choice of his representative, as 
the only sure means to avoid falling under the grievous burthen of 
arbitrary power. 

Such is the foraa of our most excellent government, or constitu- 
tion in church ana state. 

They who love and defend it, will be held in esteem and reve- 
rence whilst living; and when dead, their names will be remem- 
bered with honour. 

But they v^o hate it, and seek its overthrow, will be accounted 
as vile and reprobate, and their names will be mentioned with scorn 
^joiongst the latest generations. 



EXTRACTS FROM MILTON, 

RELATING TO MUSIC. 

1 HERE is no subject oix which many of our best writers more 
A'cquendy expose themselves than when they have to speak of mu- 
«c. Thus Addison, when criticising the Italian opera, discovered his 
ig^ta^ce of the subject ; Sir William Temple, in speaking of Mo- 
dem music, shewed how very little he knew about it;* Pope, whose 
car for versiScation was so remarkably correct, had no pleasure in 

• ** It is ^rreed by the learned, tliat die science of music is now lost to tlie world, 
and what we have now is made up out of certain no^cs that fell into the fancy or ob- 
servation of a poor friar ia chanting his matms." Sir W. Temple's Essays, vol. 1. 
p. 43 . This is the petulant observation of a eooceiked pftdaat) who aAwted to drspis* 
. trexx tloQg that did not bear the stamp of antiquity. 

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aad of Mis. Jkrbanld, us well tm 9oine4>^r of our living bards. 

The Tflfy Tmwrte it the eme with Miltoa : he «^ef4^ ^d wTite^ 
of nwncy not <mlj with ell the grece end feecgr of a f>Qet| hot with. 
tiM oerrectnow end predtionof e mngiciea Heimbibed^ mostpro* 
bebljy from hie father e love for^ and a knowledge. o( this most 
y l r at in g of sciences. His father was a composer of some note in 
his tine, and Milton himself was not only an excellent judge of 
music, but a skilful performer on the organ. Henry Lawes, who 
WAS one of the best composers (^ his time, was Milton's intimate 
and particular friend ; he composed the music for Comus^ in which 
he perfi>rmed the part of the attendant spirit. Milton never dis- 
continoed his friendship to Lawes, although he was sti\>ngly attached 
to the royal party. 

I have selected several of the passages wherein Blilton mention^ 
the subject of music, which will bear ample testimony to his com« 
plcte knowledge of this science and its effects. 

** And ever against eating cares 

Lap me in soft Lydian airs ^ 

Married to immortal verse. 

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, 

In notes, with many a winding bout 

Of linked sweetness long drawn out; 

With wanton heed and giddy cunning, 

The melting voice through mazes running, 

Untwtstixig ifH the chains that tie 

The hidden soul of harmony." 

L^AUegrOy D, 135, et seq^ 
Mihon here shews his acquaintance with the distinguishing cha- 
ifSjCteristic of one of the modes of ajjcient music. The Grecians had 
three modes ; the Doric, which was grave, solemn, and impressive ; 
the Phrygian, which was li^ht and lively, and the Lydian, which 
was mild and soothing. The Lydian mode therefore is used here 
with perfect propriety. Dryden, in his Alexander's Feast, has mis- 
taken the meaning of the word. 

^^ SofUy sweety in Lydiap measures. 

Soon he soothed the soul to pleasures/* 
Here the term f' Lydian'' is used as referring to the measure or 
metre, with which it has 90 sort of ioonnexion : it is equally impro- 
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MtkfM), TO the coDtmy, cMsects the word with Ibe w w mMj, 
yvhach is fintkely correct. The ideft in the eigh^lme #f this passi^ 
Mr. Maloae supposes to have been bonrowe4 O^m Miufvfcon^ con 
in«dy«Wh«ty<HiwiIJ.' 

^ Cannot your trembling wires throw a dbtii 
Of powerful rapture 'bout our mazed sense f* 
But Malone evidently did not understand the meaning of the pas- 
sage, for, as Warton very correctly observes^ •• Milton Is not de- 
scribing the effect of music on the senses^ but of a skilful musician 
on music. Milton's meaning is, not that the senses are encktUnedy 
or amazed, by music, bqt that, as the voice of the singer runs through 
the manifold mazet or intricacies of sound, all the chains are untwisted 
which imprison or entangle the hidden soul, the essence or perfec- 
tion of harmony J* 

Another instance of Milton^s correctness in appropriating the 
different n^odes of ancient music, is the following, where, speaking 
of the march of the infernal army, in the first book of Paradise 
JLost, he says— 

" Anon they move. 
In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian m^)de 
Of flutes and soft recorders : such as raised 
To height of noblest temper heroes old, 
Arming to battle y and, instead of rage, 
Deliberate valour breath'd, firm and unmov'd 
With dread of death to flight or foul retreat." 

Tar, Losty B, 1, V. 549, et seg^ 
In this, as in the former instance, the particular mood is applied 
with great correctness. The infernal legions wei;e 6rst summoned 
together and animated with *' the warlike sound of trumpets loud, 
and clarions uprear'd.*' The effect of this animating sound on thfi 
army is described with all Mikon's Are : 

^ At which the universal host up sent 
A shout that tore heirs concave, an(^ beyond. 
Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.** 

2b. B. 1, ». 541, «^ K^, 
Their ardour thus roused, they were to move on " in perfect pha- 
Hmi,'.' and, instead of trumpets and clarions, flutes and recorders 
were used, in order to inspire them with cool and steady eonra^ 
Millon elsewhere usee t^e -words Doric tOid grave h nearly synon^ 
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80 THE UOKTHtr MTRKOS. 

^ If we think to regulate priiiting, and thereby to rectify nan^ 
aers, we omst regukte all recrenttom and pastimes, aU that is de» 
lightftil to man. No raosie roust be heard, no song set or sung, but 
what is grave and Dork J' Speech for the Ukerttn of unlicentetL 
Frmting^ MiUoa^t Frou Works^ Amsterdam Edit. 16^, Vol 1^ 
|b 431. 

If yoa think these remarks interestin,g enougb. &r publication^, I 
dtall continue the subject in a. future let(en. 

Yours,, 

Normkh, Aug, », 1806. £. D^ 



EXTRACTS FROM A COMMON PLACE BOOK. 
No. IIL 



THE POEMS 0¥ OSSIAN, 

Of the many impudent attempts to impose upon the credulity of, 
a refined age, that of palming upon us the Poems of Ossian as a 
work of the fourth century, is the most andacioiis. Every paragraph, 
almost every sentence, attests the falsity of such pretensions. Fin- 
gal may have flourished, Oscar have conquered, and even Ossian 
sung, but his songs must have been like those of other savage tribes, 
merely celebrating the physical force of a savage, his inhuman co»- 
questf, or his barbarous enjoyments. Were the triumphs of a 
dfhenge sung; or the victories of a Timur celebrated, the strains of 
the Tartaric bard would not be dissinwlar to those of the nortfiern 
Scalds ; at alJ events, the pathetic strains, the magnanimity, the 
tender apostrophes of the pseudo-Celtic poet, vvould never be sub- 
stituted in place of the mighty ale, so exquisitely delightful wten- 
drunk out of the skulls of a murdered enemy. 

In truth, all mitions, m similar «ras of civilization, exhibit the 
same mopal' and physical character. They may be contemplated 
ro different points of view, or through- diflerent medda, and may, 
^course, be variously reported. 

, Tacitus has beea often appealed to, by the Celti, to prove the 
aacient Caledonians te have been considerably advanced beypnd 
tbe savage state ; and the speech of Galgacus, the Calc<;louian ge- 
iiend of a vast anay of his countrymen^ is constantly cited ini poa- 
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not be admitted without limitation. living at a period when the 
<fegeneracy of the Romans had ovetwhelmed in one ruin all moral 
tind constitutional establishments, die generous indignation of tkm 
patriot was displayed in the animated language of the historkn*-^ 
The political and moral virtues of the Germans ; the bravery and 
bercHsm of .the ancient Caledonians, their love of liberty, and hatred 
of a foreign yoke, only exist in the luminous pages of the philosophie 
hisCorian. His object, in emblazoning the virtues of rude and bai^ 
barous trihes, was, merely, by contrasting them with the maoiitn of 
degenerate Rome, to hold up to scorn and contempt the profligacy 
md immorality of his countrymen. Animated with the same viewt^ 
Rousseau, in all prohabilityj'attacked the vices of modern Fraaoe^ 
by his well -known eulogium up6n the savage state. That he was 
afterwards the dupe of his own sophisms, is immaterial to the argu- 
ments ; the transition from hypocrisy to enthusiasm is abundantly 
common. The testimony of numberless ancient historians is alto- 
gether inimical to the doctrine of Caledonian civilization* 

That the ancient Caledonians have, like other barbarous tribes, 
h^ their songs ; that the feats in war, probably too in love, of 
their great men, continue to be celebrated in the radest strains^ 
may be true : it may even be admitted that fragments of thes« 
rude ballads have been transmitted by tradition to the present 
times ; but the defenders of the authenticity of Macpherson's trans- 
lation, have been in vain fifty times challenged to produce even 
twenty lines of the original, corresponding with what are called the 
English translations of Ossisin's Poems. Their tacitly avowed inft- 
bility to do so, is altogether decisive of the controversy, were the 
modern Highlanders to produce a whole ^ sea and land fuU^ of ar- 
guments, and a thousand quires of Gadic names, attesting, generally^ 
the authenticity of the pseudo Ossian. Until such well-attested 
documents can be produced, it is insulting the common sense of th« 
natives of the British empire, to palm upon them irrelevant argu- 
ments, and foolish incoherent testimonies. As obstinacy, pertina- 
city in error, and impenetrability to conviction still characterise 
certain tribes, the controversy may still continue to be agitated 
Were even the most satisfactory evidence of Macphersoa's having 
forged these poems in the face of hundreds to be adduced, there are 
many Higldanders who would resist that testimony. Mr. Laing 
must therefore be satisfied with having totally overthrown the .pseudo^ 
Oseian in the opinion of every impartial man in England, and th* 
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Imj noAmg of tlMAbiardftyoif the ides tbst long Connected 
mtmdiftBj m vertey oetrtd be tmntttitted tbrdUgfa tht course of fiffy 
f«ii«f»tioM of 8t Icwt berbeittiiiB, pore and maklaheraudy anndet 
tA tlM cfcMngM of Mngtnige iiid pdttical revohitiOns. The mind 
tlwc en ^Mioeive an Hlitenitc lavage leader of equally savage 
hsfiimf ef die diird ceotory, mere Bkely to produce epic poeoM^ 
t ewB tmng diose of Wane d Mttione ie the plenitude of their Fiten^ 
ctirt, not eidj in )die omidact of l^ir fable, but even copying their 
dewri p ikj O B y Iheif sent^menti^ their imagery, and even their rwrf 
fipreifiotiSf IbftA a man of talents of the eighteenth, skllM ** in all 
^ lOTi^ of IhtieAtightefleda^, will not be startled at diiicultieaei' 
«iiy iiiagnicttd«k 

' The object of diese ^matks h very humble, being merely %6 
•warn Ike reaide» ef Otfr early Idstory to receive vrith caution tbe de* 
tails^ef chose tranMettofti illeged to have uken place betwiit the 
HeAM^ aiid the an ei e n t inhabitantd of Scotland, as narracied by 
certain modern historians, upon the authority of the pseodo^Osiiaiu 
Tbe war» of Oscar, Caracul, &e. upon the baak» of Canon, are 
detailed with tatkch cott^iacency by certm historiaAS. The soite 
of these bittded has been a favourite though froitlew object of re- 
iMareh with the aiHi^ry. That the Roman wall, and some of the 
{inttfi)^, erected by Agricola and others, are upon and nigh to the 
isouth bank of this river, is a fact eftablished by their remains^ icikl 
visible. The gteat presidium of Camelon was situated upon the 
rery bnnk of that river, which was then navigable as far as that 
atation, and surrounded on thr^e sides by its streams. The very 
name of the river, not " Kamn winding stream,** as Maopherson 
fttserts, but ** Caer Avm river upon the Camps,'* is decisive of the 
factv Here, too; ivhich is at the embouchure of the river, at kasi 
very nigh h, t^ waH runs parallel with the Carron for miles. Nigh 
to thiSy therefore, mast have been the scene of Oscar's achieve>> 
ment. The tumuhu of Dunipaee is a little to the tteit^altl, on the 
, ftorth bank of the river Carron. 

The Romans, we are told, were encamped on one inde of the 
river ; the warriors of Oscar on the opposite ; and, ef course, on the 
northern side, by the stream of CronOf (which, by the way, makes 
an important figure in the poems of Ossian), Oscar, at some dis« 
tance from his army, passed the night at a tomb on the banks of 
Carron. The Romans passing the river, (i. e. from tbe northern 
to the soutliern side,) Oscar ^nd liimsUlf in the midst of his foes, 
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Crona^ come in good tiiB« t« «h« suaoour •f their iMdtr ; llMy en- 
gaged, and of course ▼anqutshed llMit> •nemiM. The scmani ot 
Crona, which runs hito tba Canr9o dm \m floHik lmii4i) nrasi of 
course beferyneiurtathe toroVofENimpaGe; «t idi UMi^Uy k bmhiI 
be pretty near to> the embouchure o£ ^is river, and aJj^ to the "SLo^ 
maa staition, the wall bcaag poaiti««iy ttetttioned at in sigbc^ 
wMeh it only is nigh to Camelan and 1>«iB{Ml0«b Cnma^t stPMifD-iv 
a very promineiit dt^ect in* other poems attributed to Osmmw 

But this river is as difficult to be fouiul, aa tlK>se wMeri«g dM> 
gardbn of £deiu The rivor Carron risea ia tiM aKmutaiiM of SctP* 
Ibkgfibire, about the middle of the peainsttki (bekiiMi liinr Tbrfk and 
Clyde) and runs directly east, joining the Forth a littk hnkm^ l** 
«ian station, now caUed. C amelon^ The only sottamy falMng ioio il 
6*010 the north, are the Earls- bum and BuGkio>>lNuiiy and OM or t#« 
.streamlets or meadow rills, unworthy meniioB. 

Now this Earls^bum, an excelienc tmtting stma» but lotal^ 
destitutQ of striking scenery, joins the Caneimear its n m u m ^ wmB 
aigh ten miles abu^sc the tomb at Dunipace* Bocki»>b«n^ aootheir 
imaU trouting stream, where it joins thie Carsoa^ baaveqr MMMrltu 
able banlia^ finely wooded, steep and precipitous^ botis, naforto- 
nately, at least siif miles farther up the river thaa Dunipaca^ Nm 
'Stream therefore, that even bears a ninne^ is less ttoi faslf a dozea 
sulcs froi& this field of Oscar, a space m^pr extensive for Owat^ 
>oice teaching his friends, even admitting him^to pessew longs ecpMl 
lo those of the son of Laertes. Dunipace, too, is the high es t poe* 
^hle spot (up the river) for the scene of aqtion^ a* m gomg fkrtlMt 
tip, the Roman wall, prssidia, &c. dbappear from the view. SlMwdd 
it be eontended that it migibt ha^e been farther down the river^ the 
d^cul^ is stiil more and mors increased^ I have petlMpiy hoii» 
lever, ahready said too much upoa wiMit is now at very triiiDg s i it j etl 

Jvsnrs^ 



ADVANTAGES OF LITEIiATURE* 

FKOM THE LOtJireCR's COM MOK-PLACE BOOK. 



Most people have heard ^ef a boot professedly written on the 
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the pecAikr ad?«iitages they ei^oy, yet both are alike palpable,, 
and equally dcterviafl; of ooRMd^ratioa. 

• Previous to eutetiog o» • the sabjeGt^ it ought to be observed, 
tiiat the person 'whote felicities I meaa to <lescribe, is supposed to 
be placed by birtb or by fortune above the pressure of immediate 
yhOitf but not in a state ^f luxuriant superfluity ; for^ in a young man 
who has to tight his way through life, a propensity to books exclu- 
sively indulged, to the utter neglect of business and duty, i^ and^ 
ever has been, the road 'to ruin and disgrace. 

• To this, as to every general rule, an exception must be made in 
Kvouf of extMiordijiary genius, whidi is found to burst through all 
im^diments, but does not probably occur in the proportion of 
more than one in filty thousand individuals; the path of most of ur 
beiug inedioerity, and our chief merit, that we have washed our 
hands, and eat a hearty dinner. 

Making these allowances, and supf}osiQg the literary man to 
kave ia his possession a tolerable collection of books, opportunities 
of tometimes tmxing in polite and well-informed circles, and that 
fat has time to-read^ reflect, and converse, I am of opinion, that the 
beneSts he enjoysy are eannently superior to those of the majority 
of mankind. 

He posesses a eonstant and unfailing source of amusement and 
occupation, ttkoU^ independent of the will and caprice of others; a 
tnost important distinction, in which the pleasures derived from 
Itamtag, ^Ser ironi .almost every otlier enjoyment ; indeed a total 
absence of literary taste, in a wealthy man, I cannot but consider 
as the greatest of all possible misfortunes. 

A defect in this particular was remarked in an early and inti- 
mate school-feUow of the editor of the present page, and often 
lamented by^ his &ther with anxiety and tears; he called it the 
, curse of his son*s life. 

The young man, who inherited prodigious wealth from a fond, 
naternal aunt, being without any creditable resource for employ- 
ing the intervals of life, as prodigiously abused it, and after a few 
yeai-s alternately marked by criminal pleasure, listless inactivity, 
and that n^iserable sp^es of unavailing repentance, which doth 
not prevent our sinning again ; with what generally passes for i^ 
good heart, and an amiable disposition, came to an untimely end. 

I met the unhappy parent on his return from depositing the re« 
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Stopped in the street by an aocidentsl interrnptioo^ I caufbt the 
eye of the disconsolate old man, as I pasted slowiy sAoag; he wmil4 
stretch forth his arm from the coach, then pressing ray hand to hit 
bosom, smik back on the seat, in all the angaish of imiitterable 
woe. 

I could not help applying to them botbi what in efigaa wjm 
literally true : — ** their feet the stacfa kurt^ tmd the irom entered imt0 
their touts. ** . * 

I return to the advantages of a bookiah disposition ;it furaishet 
m. man with a fair and ostensible reason for not giving way to that 
most inexcuseable of all indulgences, the constaal habit of idl^ 
mornings, the bane of rising manhood ; and, what is still betteri ^ 
person habituated to regular literary application, omnwii excuse hit^ 
self for what I consider a most unwarraottibk pr)ictice« 

It may further be observed, that a man of genius is a ^gisUtor 
and a magistrate by birth ; that w^n the fame of S4ioh a penop is 
generally diffused and firmly established, his influence ja»akes i»#ar 
approaches to sovereign power, and (as liath b«en eMmplified in 
the present day) is found sufficiently foimidableto wrench the 
sceptre from the hand of the monardi, and tread the initre to dus^ 
Another consideration may probably excite- a smile in I9J( 
readers : vegetating in his dotet unnoticed^ perhaps unknown, to 
his countrymen and cotemporaries, an author may cheer his silei^t 
solitary hours with the prospective, but OBBub^aBtial luiuiy of be- 
Ueving, that his productions, at some future period, will be perused 
with pleasure, and his name mentioned widi respect in distant 
regions of the globe ; in countries now onknown, aad by genera* 
tions yet unborn. 

A circumstance flattering to the vanity of the writer of thii^ 
article, and whidi he considers as an ample rccMspence for his 
hamble labours, very lately took place. 

Having, in a former volume, reftected somewhat severely, he 
hopes not unfairly, on a certain eminent character, the strictures 
were mildly reproved by two correspondents; this temperate cor- 
rection was, at the same time, aecompanied with a certain some* 
thing he will not name, highly, gratifying to bis feelii^; but the 
triumphant circumstance remmns to be told; (thanks to ^ kind Pjno- 
vidence for multiplytng the sources of our plsasores) c^je of t]^e 
letters was dated from the forests of Canada^ and the other writtfa 
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IV •dvaDUf*6ft of a literwy ^NfMttitiQQ caiinotl>e n<Me tunm^ 

Mlves, jh one of tty pe^Mtiiaa «xciir«ioa&. 

Tlie<fif9t wta die onrattt of a little parkb, irliQic ^ccwm, jM«d^ 
iog his salary, surplice fees, and hereditary pittance, scarcely aver 
MiOuBCs to YHne^ pounds per annum; Siitt happiif inketifting from 
Ills father a well-chosen coUeolion -of books, as trail as a taste for 
joying them ; his Kfe is satisfactorily occupied by the dutieft of 
bis ofliee,%y fitenury purMiiits, and #odal iutetoourse. 

Trom the window of fha Iktle m^ite^ashed hovel he kihabi(% 
flaay be aeen the pteasar^ grounda of an individusl^ Jbom and bre4 
tb the mysrery of furaiahMg bis 'Oastomers with ]i^f but soddfenljr 
nricbed by the death of a relation n^om he had ne?er seen. 

Acquainted with no books but bis ledger and day book, a»d 
mMtet Of ftio o«ber art but that .of xlipptng ooHon in melted fat, he 
^as neiiiisr ^fepared for, aor qualified pnopdl^ to ispend so macb 
money. Rushing ac oniee fram the dub iwhefn bo bad smoaked his 
|npe and drank fait pot for the laat mtoby jpeart of his lifo; quitting 
Ilis shop akid the /snug Itttk paiioar liehind it, bo galloped into the 
country, pufchased a -noUemaMoo, ^st ^shed at an enonnoua 
a>f»ence by Orator Mam. and sold for a quarts of its prime co^t^ 
hecmae fUs hd^t fmt^urite^miknwn preffttrp^ ike dtiar delights rf 
tuttaetingpkee. 

Heee w>hoMy #ac of las element, 9$ to sogoty and {occupation, 
the new punebasor folds it eatMmely di&cvAt to get through tbo 
day, ind^d it would not be in bi# |H»w^r^ but for his table, biji 
hounds, bis port wine, and bis Unm^ hs^r. By virtue of these 
powerful attractions, and another of a very singular kiadp for he is 
minutcily attentive to <iU the i^ants, and 0U cbo giatificatioos of his 
gnosis, ba eetfoMs« number of bM n^igbiAaars of a^ cortain deacrip- 
tion, who kindly assist in thoiogiwumption of the two last aj«icleS| 
together wMi ao aaiaU quantity of tabaoco, to which, in every form, 
tfieir host is kiQfdinatolf attachoii. He^iofi^dors it 03 the test of 
good fe(lo^KsMp,and svoan tbfti»o soaii can be a hearty cock, who 
does not s«iioke> obeiw, anilaaoff i^» half a pound per day. In 
douds of tmtke, anid vociforoas polittaal disctisttoo, the table co^ 
▼ored iiv4th boi^liot, glasses, tobaeoa oad *m^ the night passes 
away, and the ^mfm^ and h» friends seldom reel feo bed till four in 
the foiotxKti^* 

In amusements like these be paipei bis limf , pitb sowetinMeis a^ 
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hdfB to tktow «ff the H Mci m rg e ttf f^ethbra; for he was Ihdkify . 
taoght hy1ii$ M mutter y that water groel witt cnre aU oomplaints; in * 
amaaeawacts iike these, A« rmhs through the year, 

Cmnfare the happiness persoaal Mid sactal, poiitiva and nega- 
ti^ of the' two'chafaders, my Aoraof friend ♦♦♦•, and iet me hear 
yiia no more damning hooks, and ntt thoBc Mrho arc luod of ihem. 



TOOMSON^S SEASONS. 

** He Mw her charmmg ; but he taw not AofT 
The charms her downcast modesty concosTit." 

Mr. Editor, 

Your correspondent Cantabriciensis* signatare [vide Mirror fbr 
March ladt] is very profoundly translated, by his date, '' Caaf> 
hfidgeJ' The English of his letter I take to be this r— 

" Observing in yottr last noraber a detection of an inaccaracy 
in the ** Autumn" ofthat ** more ancient poet^ Thomson, td which 
I bad never before adverted ; and being myself so enthn^astio 
an admirer of the said " more ancient poet," that I am of opinion 
he most needs be faultless; I will endeavoar, by the help 6f those 
pever-faUing auxiliaries, commas, semicolons, colons and dashes, to 
follow the example of that erudite and modest commentator Wat^ 
burton, in his important investigations of the works of that moit 
dncient poet Shakespeare ; and shaM, therefore, * choose to reacf 
the criticised passage thus: — [Here would ibUow Cantabrigiensis' 
var. lecti and its elucidation, with which the pages of the Mirror 
shaU not be again disgraced.] 

My reply, Sir, to your correspondent's * imagmed" punctuaticm, 
wUl be very short. The first and all editions of Thomson*s poems 
place, in the above passage, no point whatsoever after the word 
♦* half,** which has hitherto been universally read, as governing the 
word ** charms'* in the genitive case, the preposition " oP being un- 
derstood. Notwithstanding all this, we are told that an " error bf 
the press" has omitted, after the first of these words, a colon and a 
dash, which very modestly informs us that we have been seventy-tit 
years in the habit of misinterpreting two Kncs. Thanlti to Gantabri-p 
giensian criticism ; however, we arc now presented with the right 
punctuation, together with a vevbofte * efedrfsfiwi," possessing, in 
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hundred argomeBts of Duns Scotut were publidy extolled, by the 
university of Aberdeen; incomprekenMlity. I need not enlarge. 
Sir, upon this amended reading : it is nonsense. The jadidous will 
impute the poet's inaccuracy to that ** solicitudo rerum," which 
ought always to take precedence of the " cura ▼erborum;" and its 
escape from detection, to that ** exuberance" of his language, wbidi 
Dr. Jolinson charges with ** filling the ear more than the mind." 
Such critics only as Cantabrigiensis will endeavour, colon-armed, 
to defend inadvertencies, to which our best poets are sometimes 
liable. 

April Zd. 1806. B. F. 



BEAUTY. 

In the countenance there are but two requisites to perfect beauty, 
which are wholly produced by external causes, colour and pro- 
portion; and it will appear, that even in coramoo estimation these 
are not the chief; but, that though there may be beauty without 
them, there cannot be beauty without something more. 

The finest features, ranged in the most exact symmetry, and 
.heightened by the most blooming complexion, must be animated 
before they can strike; and when they are animated, will generally 
excite the same passions which they express. If they are fixed in 
the dead calm of insensibility, they will be examined without emo- 
tion; and if they do not express kindness, they will be beheld with- 
out love. Looks of contempt, disdain, or malevolence, will be 
reflected, nsfrom a mirror, by every countenance on which they are 
turned, and if a wanton aspect excites desire, it is but like that of 
^a savage for his prey, which cannot be gratified without the de- 
, &truction of its objecU 

Among particular graces the dimple has always been allowed the 
pre-eminence, and the reason is evident ; dimples are produced by 
a §mile, and a smile is an expression of complacency ; so the con- 
traction, of the brows into a frown, as an indication of a contrary 
tender, has always been deemed a capital defect. 

The lover is generally at a loss to define the beauty, by which his 
passion was suddenly and irresistibly determined to a particular 
object ; but this could never happen, if it depended upon any known 
rule of proportion, upon the shape or the disposition of features, or 
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cannot fully express, something not fixed in any feature, but diffused 
over all ; he calls it A sweetness, a softness, a placid sensibiiity, or 
gives it !?ome other appellation, which connects beauty with senti- 
ment, and expresses a charm which is not peculiar to any set of 
features, but is perhaps possible to all. 

This beauty, however, does not always consist in smiles, but 
varies, as expressions of meekness and kindness vary with their 
objects ; it is extremely forcible in the silent complaint of patient 
sufferance, the tender solicitude of friendship, and the glow of filial 
obedience; and in tears, whether of joy, of pity, or of grief, it it 
almost irresistible. 

This is the charm which captivates without the aid of nature, and 
without which her utmost beauty is ineffectual. But it cannot be 
assumed as a mark to conceal insensibility or malevolence ; it must 
be the genuine effect of corresponding sentiment?, or it will imprest 
upon the countenance a new aiid more disgusting deformity—' 
affectadou : it will produce the grin, the simper, the stare, the lan- 
guish, the pout, and innumerable other grimaces, that render folly 
ridiculous, and change pity to contempt. By some, indeed, this 
species of hypocrisy has been practised with such skill as to deceive 
saperficiai observers, though it can deceive even these but for a 
moment. Looks, which do not correspond with the heart, cannot 
be assumed without labour, nor continued without pain ; the motive 
to relinquish them, must, therefore, soon preponderate, and the 
aspect and apparel of the visit will be laid by together ; the smiles, 
and the languishments of art will vanish, and the fierceness of rage, 
or the gloom of discontent, will either obscure or destroy all the ele- 
gance of symmetry and complexion. 

The artificial aspect is, indeed, as wretched a substitute for the 
expression of sentiment, as the smear of paint for the blushes of 
health; it is not only equally transient, and equally liable to de«* 
tection ; but as paint leaves the countenance yet more withered and 
ghastly, the passions burst out with more violence afker restraint, the 
features become distorted, and excite more determined aversion. 

Beauty, therefore, depends principally upon the mind, atid con- 
sequently may be influenced by education. It has been reniarkcd, 
that the predominant passions may generally be discovered in the 
eountentiRCe ; because the muscles by which it is expressed, being 
almost perpetually contracted, lose their tone, and never totally re^ 
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thttff an angry, a> disdainful, asobdft, and a suepicious tcoaycr, is- dis^ 
plajad in charactttt that ar« alnott unis«EBallj understood* It is 
•%oallj tnM of ibe pk»6ia§ a»d the aafttr paaiions9 that they leave 
tboir sig&atuKft apoa th% counbeaanot, wken they caase to act: th« 
prevalence of these passiom, tkei^fiorc, p«>dttc«s a roecbanieal 
effect apQii the aspect, and fixm a tarn and cast to the featdres, 
which make a more £a?auraUe and forcthk impreisioa upon th« 
mind of others^ thaa any chann produced by mere external causes. 

Neither doea the beauty which depends upon temper and senti* 
vent, equally endanger the possessor. ** It le, (to use ml eastava 
metaphor) like the towers of a city, not only an, omamtn ty baft a 
defence :** If it excites desire^ it at once contcoU and reftaea k ; 
it represses with awe, it sofsea^ with delicacy, andiKinato<knit«ti9tib 
The lo?e of reason and of virtue is mingled with the love af bawi^ t 
because this beauty is little mora thaa the emaaaciofv of intettactURl 
excellence^ which is not aa object of corporeal appetite^ Aa it oh* 
cites a purer passion, it also more forcibly eag^^es to fidelity : everji 
Bian finds himself BKMre powerfully restrained from giving paia 19 
goodness, than to beauty; and every look of a cooateaaBiea' in 
whichthey are bkended, in which beauty is the eiqMressioa of good- 
ness is a silent reproach of the first irregular wish : and the purpose 
immediately appears to be disingcnuoua, and cruel^ by which the 
tender hope of iiieffiible aicction would be disappoieted^the plaoid 
coufidenceof onsuapecting simplicity abused,, and the peaee even 
of lirtue andaanesad by the mosi sordid infidelity, and the breach 
e£ thr stffoagatr obligatioas. 

But the hope of the hypocrite musft perish. When the facUtKHM 
beenty has laid by her smiles, when the htstre of her cjes andthtf Moom 
of her cheeks have losctbeir iufiuence with their noaekyi whaiieaiains 
but a tyrant divested of power, who will sever be seca withimt a mi*- 
ture oi JadigpetyMa and disdain ? The only desire which this ol^ect 
f;auld.g|B«itify, wili be traasfavred to aoather, not only without reiuc- 
tano^-btit witk-tridoiph. As rescatment will succeed to disappeiol^ 
mem,,* desire to mortify will succeed to a desire to pleaw^; jiad. the 
Koaband may be urged to solicit a miettass, meraly by e i 
branc^-of the beauty of his wife, which InafceA only ti tt shaa 

L^ it therefore be ramevJb^red,. that, aoae^een fcia .d i <ic i| <tcs o£ 
the Graces, but in the school of Vurtmi aynd ths;4 th<MQ w^.inah l» 
be lau^g must learn early to be go0d. 

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^i^ecA^s ffi the Haute ef Cemmtmt en the Wer egwut the Efahrattat[ 

By Phikp Ffaiua, Etq. 9m>, jfp, 94. S«. Cd, Kidgwey, 

' 1805. 

The Tidue of a general opinion depends on the authority of him 

ivho delivers it. We might from our labours daim, without vanity. 

tome little deference in this respect ; but, on the present subject^ 

fuid on the character of the honourable gentleman to whom we are 

indebted Ibr this publication, we prefer the opportunity of quotiiig 

the sentiments of men, who, if not more alive to genumo tiierit than 

ourselves, i^re more intimately informed, and better judges tlian we 

can fn«tend to be. We shall not repeat what ve transcribed last 

month* from Burke ; but we may remarl:, time suc^ ^n eulogjj 

from such a man, is fkme itself. If it wanted an^ Qid^ the foltowiog 

declaration of Lord Minto,t might be cited with propriety, 

** la delivering my op^nifop of ny honourable friend {Mr^ FratieUji I wa 
not to madly vain as to think it can add any things to his honooK* \^ )* iK>t fopr 
Aim, Sir, it it to do myself honour, that X say here wliat I bav^ often said clae- 
vboc; that, of all lite great and considerable men whom this country pos- 
tesMs, there it not one in the empire, who has a clafan m touch beyond all 
qocstion, who can shew a title to thoroogkly autbeniicatei it thit gentkmniy 
p the admitatioQ, the thanks, the reward* the love of kit cooacr>', and .of the 
world. If 1 ana asked for proof, I say, the book q( his li(e is efoo hefive yoa; 
khubeeo examined in every line by the diligent in^uiMjUoo, the searcbifif .fgffi 
of malice and envy. Hat a single blot keen found ? It there one page wl\ich 
lias not been traeed by vinue an4 by wisdom ? Virtue, Sir, not of the cold 
and neutral qualit}', which it coqtented to avoid reproach, by thrinldng fifom 
action, and is the best ally of viec ; but vtrtaefervesit, fiill of ardoor, of flnergy» 
•f effect t wisdom. Sir, not the mere flash of geaittt andoftaktiCiy tkoMfll^ 
thete are not wanting; but wisdom informed, dtlibciatty and paetaid. I 
know, Sir, the warmth imputed to, nay possetsed by» that charicifr| it Ua 
varmtk ti^hich does but bomit^ all hit other virtues^ ^is.hea|t it wara^ hit 
juilfEment is cool, and the latter of these features none will deny» except tb«st 
^ bftc not^raaminad, or wkk to disbelieve it. 

The honourable testimony of Mr. Fox has been recently given tp 
the sanu^ effect, and, if possible, in stronger terms, in the house of 

• See our review of Mr. Francis's speech. No. ICp. 

t In his speech on moving the first charge ag aiiut Sir Elijah UpV^St. Wh 1 
l»er, 1787. 

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commons. It is in the reo^lloctipn of us mil; and the ooly matter 
on which the least surprise can haiig^js^th^t while the greatest men 
in the state profess to lavj^re the geoius> and to acknowledge the 
services of Mr, Francis, -aad aaite 4a paying him the tribute duei;o 
his invalaahle experieiu^ey they not only pass him ovjer with n^l^ 
hat jat jthe very moment w^en they opapstj i^pfvpntje of hisenli^ten- 
ed principles, they anaccountaUy act in diametrical opp<Kitv{n to 
them.— What is continually in their professipps, is rarejy ornever 
in their practice. .Wbatevar Mr. Dundas, wjien ^o qalled, i^iu^ 
wisely, or promised judiciously, he pwed to the lights a£brded to 
him hy Mr. .Francis, to whom we may well apply the ^ Sic vo^ npn 
. vohis mellificatis apes ;*' for l^e has had all the labo^r, and oth^s* 
all the honey — " talit alter honores.'* II;s ac^s ^<J dQCUVQ^^ 
will be foond to present the purest coffe %o, direct the conduct ^f^ 
chieir in the proper government of India. jWe^ay zp*/^ wb^ we 
migl^t say t^at the^ have; but^ astonishing as ^ incon^i^t^cy 
tmist appear, while it has, on all hands, been over uud over ^g,?^- 
acknowledged, that .his noble system yras founded ip wisdota, ^ 
well as in justice and humanity, an opposite line of conduct has in 
^i been p\irikaed. The flood gates of blood and r&pacity have 
been throwli wider than before; and, if we may judge from the 
statenjent in JLord Mprpjpths ^cch, ^s,t July, on the India budget 
jarid jyin Franc^d*s se^jpos tr^iiiark^,9|i it, the " grttqt.gll, late all^ 
^j»r ^^ 4;he.«Ffi^ aT being verified in the India company. Wha^ 
jae iia^pe beM. thoagbt it oav chity to advance, is, we believe, 
jirtiiiwi] aod nothing further need be adduced, to stamp a high. 
Wkl histfhg valae on the opinions contained in the yages which we 
'iU^ how about tp consi4er. 

^ pfincipnl/o]iyec^ofrii^ ^peec^s, is to prove {>ve use ^e 
^jjrd^^J^r. liif^gisjui hi^ripgawt 4$idicaUo» to Lpcd Thanel^ 
^^thilt ji^suce^ ai)4 gCMMi faith ought to be observed even to the 
Malueattafii aiid,^that in the late war^ in India, they were not the 
•ggKSSors.'' 
• ' ^ in argaing these important point?, Mr. Francis has *^,exerted 

• S«di is precisely the sittifttkiii<ift -tHiidi ItetMod with Ve^M^'^tollb-^^iR^ 
dircctora.-^Prai8cd by them "to th* v^ry c^hp," an4 4ea?rvefily, for the f^|^en£ 
^ijlxi^ clone by him yfk their sendee iu the feast, he returns, and finds tiieir doors shut 
kigalittt l^n.— ^tOi twoe |-4^davit, laudato jstntia cWtxik est.-Hamlct would say^ 
there's roo^ in this than we dre^m of, if our philoso^jhy couU find it <tVt t OtbhM, 
writing from Lausanne to Lord Shelheld, in tlie year 1783, says, " The vices of the 
tH W jniii y, bitfate their persons and tibeir eonstitutioQ, wr^ nmdfold and m^ni&st.'* 
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tfte vHide strenrgth of hh dettf, otieloiidefd ilicuhies/' and iw mm' 
he pr^adiced beyond die light of troth to convince, or lire pos- 
sessed of all the obstinacy of confirmed ignorance, not to submit to 
the force of bis undoubted information, and able and acute rea-* 
MBinf. 

On the 14lh of M«y, 1804^ Mr. Fraoots BX>fed that the 3^. 
d«^ of the 24th of the khig, ikmM be read^Tii. ** WherM^ faa. 
{pursue schemes of conquest, and* eitension of dommkni, ere nea* 
sures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of ^s nation : 
be it enacted,'' &c. His purpose in doing so, was first to remind 
the* house of their own unanimous resolution, on which the subse- 
quent; act of parliament was foluided ; aad then to shew, that in the 
oiotioB which he intended to tiibaitt to tbeheMe^ he wwfoeamed 
}fy that resolution, and" aimed tit nothing kit te eafoccethe esem^ 
tion of that la^. P, 1. 

*' In this purpose,** says be, '* and on this gnrand» I hope fbr the toi^tt^ 
and concarrence of the house i because I do not believe U will be anerted hf 
any aian, that it is very right ts pau laws for the better goTfrnmept of a dis- 
tant domialoiif and very wroog to inquire whether such laws are obeyed or not; 
In. »ty opinion} it would be a wiser policy, and a safer practice, not to niake 
aay lav^ than to suflFer them to be tUghted with impunity. Habits of disobe- 
dience ace very catching ; and they are the more dangerous, in proportion to the 
^stance of the offending parties, and to the fKility which that Airtance givtt 
tbeiDf to conceal or disguise their transacdons.^ P. 2. 

Mr. Francis then proceeds to estpatiate on the desolation of 
tndiay and on the profusion of blood that has l>een shed, and the 
wealth that has been wasted in perpetual wars, ut^proroked by 
aggression on the part of the natives of India; and, on out side^ 
not to be justified by any motive of justice, necessity, or sound 
policy, War> we conceive, is never to be made but to obtmn 
peace. The principle is rooted in the very heart of justice and 
iMmauity. But let hs listen to the eloquent speaker, and learn 
with sierrow, how a few degrees of longitade can change the* na- 
ture of men. In their own country, the same persons would n0^ 
have heard, without shamie and indignation, of t)ie same principles 
and prediees) which m India are pr«le(»od apd pursued w^th 9St?n- 
tiktidli« 

<* The bas'uMSsaad daty of /Aiiday,*' he proceeds^ « 4o^ not ca^l upon 
aM«a accuse aay oMa^ oe te afiwia that any th^ig daenripg t,he censure of 
p atliwi M t has been done. My object is to eaijaire ; and then, according to 
the f««ilt of the enquiry, to ilesiit or to proceed. All I contend for, m the 

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fini lo8taice» it, t)i«€ it Biltiili govttwv, wIm coomcocet wir in ladia, It^ 
primS facie, 4oinf tlm whick (be U w f»ohibit« ; that his own act of itself p«t» 
him OQ hitdtfeAce ; that be it boaod to justify on the case ; and that, until 
he hat to juttififd hit Conduct, thi pretumptioos are against him. All the au* 
thoritietof thit coantry hate unfted with one voice to coodtitilt aad fbrind the 
carrying oo war In India for any purpoee bttt defence, or oa any gnMmd hut ne^ 
cetiily. I a(«d not ttll the home, that the priittioe in IndU ha» been alaott 
nalfonnly, or vith Tory thwttac ep iit M, cKreoUy Of^esed to the pi^hibiflioa. 
While ti»edireal9ri of the iodia Cootpony hid any power^ they oertainly laid 
down very wite principles) and gave very proper orders on this subject. When 
t^eirpo«rer over their Own goreroorv was found to l>e ins officient, tlie legis* 
latare interpoted ; but, as it appears by the facts, with no more tocces than the 
directors. SinC^the p^ibftory act passed in 1784, 1 tppeal to the house «he» 
ther ve have heard of any thing firoih India hot w«r and conquest ; ■ awnyiii" 
tories, 9ttd great acqUisifioat, with only mam and then a abort interval nf repast^ 
to Caice breath and bfgia Ofaio. There is another ground of pcesasBpticit 
against the necessity and justice of these wars, which secmt to me as struag ao^ 
conclusive as any presumption can be before the cootrary is proved. I mean^ 
Sir, Uiat almost all tliese wari are supposed to originate in acts of provocation 
and ag^reoion committed by the wealc against the strons;. The strength of any 
sioj^e XiKlian atate, at any time, and now, I believe, of all of them puttogethef* " 
ig not to be compared tu the military power and resources of the BngKsh. I do 
Dot say that these nations have no meaus of defence, or that (he Mahrattat, fof ' 
example, can do us no mischief ; but that, considering (he great disparity of 
foicc, U requires very clear evidence to make it credible* that, ifhereas thedla^ 
pmiiion of the British power in India is always, if possible, to preserve the peace* 
and to be satisfied with what «e possess, this excellent dispotition is never suf-^ 
frred to prevail, because the Indian princes are so restlesa and aurolf,.tbat we 
cannot, hi common juttlce to ourselves, refrun from invading them. The fable 
ta>-8 — The fierce tebelinus lamb would never sufier the mild, gentle, moderate 
v|olf to be quiet : if it was not you, it xcas your father. These propositions may 
ht troe, but they require sume proof; and when the proof is produced, I shaft' 
dfsire It always^ be observed and remembered, tliat the evidence «blch comes 
before us it ex parte. We hear little or nothing of what the oppotite, and.poa* 
fiibly the injured party, have 10 say for themselves. 

* ^< Ever since I have known any ^ing of Indian affairs^ I have found that Ihe. 
prevailing dliMM of our governments there has bacu.a jag a.f0r.n)9kiqg.w^r,**, 
V.9i3,A. '.' ' ■ . . . . . , ' . ,\ 

' Wars 'Ire^dehtfy carried on, it must have been ojbserved, neitber- 
with an heroic grand design, nor for anj public good, bat to enrich 
u number of unfeeling adventurers, who travel into the heart of 
Asia, to find out rtbelt^ tand traitors to. the British governn^^ot 
among the (Mrixibes atUi people of a forc^ laad; .Such was the l«Q^. 
guage and the prabticJe of tKfe Spiiinards to the re'bellious nadrea o^ 
Mexico and Peru, Tlie conclusion cannot be better stated, ^an ill" 
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** TbatifiditHdaal* miiy fiod tlMtr recount in thcoonductof such w*ft, I dp 
not mean to dispute; bat I denv tb«t (hey are» or caa be, for the benefit of the 
India company or the nation. In actual postetsion of half the penftautei yon^ 
engage in a new war with the Mahrattai, the auccets of which tan git* you m>* 
tbiDg but an addition of territory;- which you cannot Iceop 'without an iatolfrabl* 
Incfcaieof your ndlftaty eitalilisluiNntH and a (terprtunl diria of aU youf {•» 
aouroet^* of men a» well at noiMy, and w^ich ytni ou^ not to k«^ if yon 
could. Whether the )^«liiattaB haw united io defence of their country, or 
to carry the war into the iieart of our best pro? incea, as they have dcme 
in former timet, or witii what loca or expence our loceets afainat them may 
have been purehasH, are questions on which we are utterly in the dajrJc. By 
pub&c rep6it klone «t ar« inferred tJiat a war, of great extent At leasts and tiaUe 
to many itnpbrtabt cooseqnences, fsnow carrying on in Imliay aad that no4a» 
•f br x witfn of it Haa been commoaicated to parliament. Siff I can safely assure 
4faia home* that the Mafarattas, though not capable of meeting us ia the fieid, or 
at a)i Ufcely t« encounter ,us in a pitched battle, arc nevcribeless very well able 
to do as a fieat deal of mischief.'* P. 5. 

* TbeJ|Iabratt«i» we are told, * are the Tartars of India,*' p. 6, 
and instances arc alluded to of the desolation which their former 
ii^coj^^Qs have produced. 

"P b tfa«ga«ifc«nistaaata^, I sak^ is itpMper or not that parliament should 
■li K w '%1^ fiuf mr wai uAdcrtaj^co ? fo^r what purposes it has been pursued ? and 
with what auccesi it has been attended? ipd fituUy^faaa it the sahction and apo 
proUMfqn of the court of directors^ and of hit Maje8t>*s milliliters ? I cannot 
bcliere it poasible." P. 6. 

j^eferring to the first war with Tippoo Sultan, he observes, that 
Qo obj/ection was made in 1791, to an enquiry into its causes, on the 
score ofXord Corhwallis*s personal character ; and he hoped that 
Lord Castiereagh would follow that exaispie. The few words with 
which Mr. Francis closes this i>hort hut interesting speech, deserve 
tO'be eedied. 

*f He^'f'LmiCvtihreiigkJ prtfessestoiMrlteand eiscourage a ijte discussion 
<tf all Indian qnestipns. If not| and if tl>e motion with which I am now about to 
fMftimi^ should be resisted, I think the hou.^e will be reduced to one of these 
^i^jcqocloaipns; either that there is something in the pernonal merits of Lord 
Wellesley, which entitles him to greats confidence than wifs thought due to 
Lord Cornwallis ; or that t^eiie has-bten somtfthhig in his coadao», to wHlch ^ 
other defease '<*an be applied, but a favourable opinion of Ub chariicterv\' P. 9. 

IL> motion ^or the pap»^rs Mative to the hostilities against the 

• Vfe must tere quote an eatract from an intercapted letter of good authority 

f fiom India. ** How we shall be able to presenre thia vast ej^teht of Country, I cau- 

noc cbateive. I thhiV thai Lord Wellealey himself triU be soen alarmed At jUie great- 

ar«s o^ ids conquests ; noneofwhidi^aQcording to myoptnioD, will produce revo;:}u^ 

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Mahrattas, was withdrawn at that thne, in conseqtrenoe of Lord 
Castlerea^'s saying that ^ Government were not in posftessaoYi of 
the circumstances which preceded the rupture.*' We have dwelt 
longer on this speech, than we shall on those which §ttCQO«ded it; 
aiSd to this we have been led bj its ini|KNrtanee to the right under* 
standing of a discussion, in which Mr. Francis displayed such « 
fund of knowledge, and wasted On ungrateful ears ^ mudi salutary 
advice. 

On May 3, 1804, Lord Castlereagh movecf '' tfiattlie thanks of the 
house should be given to the Marquis of Wellesley, and to the oA- 
cers and soldiers concerned in achieving our late successes in India.'' 
On which Mr. iPrsncis spoke with his usual Animation an4 cwawtf 
ness, admitting the gallantry and skill with which the mSkttay of^ 
rations against the Mahratias appeared then to have been coA* 
ducted, p. 10, but contending most justly that the noble Lot<d^ 
motion, without necessity, force<l other questiodsillta diseuftiooy 
viz. . " ' 

(« Whether so many vdaable lives hU been ttdttfeHoiUy lo*t lof i qii^ire!, 
whkh ought oir ought nott^be v^imti by yeHiilf; or wktAittwaidi'^ftat 
exertions had , been ttodt with a sufiii tent coasidettfton of the poticy> t]»|«^ 
ticc, and the necessity cS the war.*' P. 1 1 . 

Notwithstanding Lord Castlereagh*s profession not to coftibuiM 
the questions, Mr. Francis truly remarks :— 

« yfhtn once this house has pronounced that the plan, the executkm, and 
the success of a great measure deserve your highest appit)fiatlon, you dhnot 
tread back your steps : you cannot say to thi sim€ tnah, iindh^SinoAier dMae- 
ter, as If he pTayed two parts in tb^ same performatice, tbk the ^riac^plnr 4a 
which be act^, deserve yoof Se^ei^st oondeSMtodoiK** P. 12. 

To thank a man first for his skill and activity in the execatiuti of 
a questionable act, and then to revert to, an enquiiy iiit» the prin- 
ciples or motives of his conduct, or to risserve the nerits d" ^bml 
fundamental question for a future exaniinatron, is an unusai^ p«>- 
ceediug- A transgression on the high way may b^ committed with 
great personal spirit. Many passengers may oe robbed, and soine 
lives may be lost, in strict csmformity to the laws of war. But it 
seldom happens that the judge begins the tri^l with complimenting 
the gentleman at the bar on the brilliant qualifications to which he 
owed his success on the fteath. 

«Oa a foraatr oecasipn," says Mr. F*X*llttdifgto tjiepreceiing spcecl^) 
« when this subject was first introduced, 1 flatter myself that the manner in 
which I urged an enquiry into the causes of tlie war ia India^ cilsting tfacBy 
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pnml jntiKftctiim. I said not cne word in dispfr^gemoit of Lord WelMigr^ 
nor shin 1 now. No other evideoce of the merit of his measures is within oi»r 
knowledge, h«t that liis m^isures have succeeded On that principle^ in liiir 
and honotirabfe argument, if hi« measures had been defeated, we most hiTC 
conlaniiiihfni on the pfinciple of his conduct.** P. 19. ' 

After observing, with the prudence and wisdom of a man con- 
versant in the policy of war and government, on the boast of wliat 
w^ done by General Lake, with a haiu^ul of men, when he sl^ould, 
perhaps^ have never taken the field with such a force, he comes to 
Xord Castlereagh's exulting remarks on our immense acquisitions 
of territory in the Guzzerat, and elsewhere. 

,^ He A^rgcts** says Mc Francis, " that the positive law of this counti;y, 
founded on the best-considered principles of policy and justice, and confirmed 
l>y th^*advice of every man in this country, whose authority deserves to be re- 
^irded^ forbids any farther aCfuisition of territory la India. /Vimfi/artV, a 
IMeiab governor, vho mak^ war for the ac^aisifiion of territory, filfaidt axaiavt 
the l«w»«i^ is bound to juitify hlinaelf en the case, bei<»e be can be a^iuitted**' 
P. 14. 

The honourable member then submitted his opinion to the bouse, 
^t the motion of thanks to Lord Weilesley ought to be deferred, 
adding, 

*< I have no personal object to obtain, or even ivish to gratify, in the part I 
have taken on this subject ; unless it is to preserve the consistency of my own 
character, and to adhere to the principles with which I set out m the government 
ef hidia, and from «-hich I never have departed. Thanks given without know- 
ledge or deliheratietn, do no honour to those who ^ive, or to those wlio receive 
dMop^ They havens root, and cannot live* Let the noble Lord's conduct be 
fZ^m)|aed»and then, if ic should appear that the wfr in which ludia Is involved, 
was not voluqtary on bis part, that it vas founded in jus^ce ai|d necessjty, I 
shall be as ready as any naan to join }n the thanks proposed by this motion.** 
F,14. 

To come more immediately to the last discussion, which is of the 
|;|reatest importance, as well as the longest, (Mr. Francis b^Jng a 
slaking exception to many speakers, who say least when they talk 
most) we must but briefly notice the ground of the two which pre* 
cede it. The first, delivered Jantiary 21st 1805, was ^ motioh fol^ 
copies or extracts of all correspondence received firom India, before- 
or since the close of the session in 17W^ relative to hostilities be-, 
tween the British government, add the Mahratta chief, namedi 
Jettwant Rao Hokar. P. 17. Here ffolcar is introduced to ou« 
notice^ and his hostility agmnst us considered ag a *'^ petty war,'* and 
so it might, Minerva Seeund^ have proved, afber the submission of 
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oond speech relates to Lord CastlereagVs motion " for leave" ta 
bring in a bill to enlarge and regulate the' powers given to the go-, 
veroor gi^nersd, And conunander in chief.'* This motion was jSii^p- 
ported by Mr. F. because 1^ ,ii'»s convinced that Iprd Corawallis's 
object would be to compose the disorders of India^ and to restore 
peace and tranquillity to the unfoi;tunate inhabitants of that coun« 
try. P. 19. 

To those, whose ju^t and natural impatience mny not irresist;ibly 
tempt them to anticipate us, by a reference to the original publica- 
tion, we promise, in our next, an abundance of very interesting and 
useful information, in i-espect to India, and its government. The 
speech of Mr. Francis, on the fifth of April, 18Q5, exhibits a. noble 
monument of practical Indian knowledge, erected on the basis of 
long experience and incontrovertible truth. 

A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, historical, bio^ 
graphical, literary, and miscellaneous. To which is prefixed, ai^ 
Essay on Epitaphs, by Dr. Johnson. 2 Vol, Small Svo. Lack* 
ington arid Co. 180d. 

This is the best collection of epitaphs that eveir came before us, 
whether we consider the agreeable, tasteful, and judicious variety 
in its selections, or the excelleiice of the numerous originals whicl^ 
enrich and distinguish it. Johpson's £ssay>, with great propriety^ 
lashers in this fund pf irresistible pleasantry, fireq^ently arising out 
of absurdity, and necessacily combined, from the nature of the suIh 
ject, with B, large portion of matter most awful and interestii^ to 
the contemplation of mankind. Meditations amongst 'the tombs 
^are, indeed, fraught with maiiy advantages, since they teach us to^ 
know ourselves ; they humble pride and vanity ; they comfort the 
afflicted, and the frivolous and wicked, who come to laugh, they 
have made to stay and pray. We are tempted to extract a few of 
the pieces; and here we shall exhibit the elegant compiler's taste 
for the humorous, which is not less than it is for the sublime anci 
pathetic. 

*^^ On an importunate Tailor. 
'*' Here lies W. W, ' ' 

*• Who never mt>re will trouble yoti, Itouble you.' 

* Vv 1. p, 1-06. 

** Upon a "Puritanical Locksmith. 
^ A aealous lock^snrith dy'd of late, 
<< Aad arrivM »t heaven's gate, 
** He stood, without, s^nd woijld ^pt knocks, 
" Because be meai^^t to picke the locke. 

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''OHa Wife, 

*' Her« lies my poor villt, witboat bed or bUnkct, 
*' But dead as a door nail, God be thanked.'* 

V. 1. p. 1«. 
*^ Ona Lazvyef^ 
'* Hie jacet Jacobus Straw, 
** Who forty years follovM the law, • 
" When he died, 
« The devil cried, 
*• James, giTC us your paw." 

V. I.p.l80. 

•*5f. Okvc% Southroarh^-On Mr. Munday, who hanged himttlji 
<< Hallowed be the Sabaoth, 
** And fiarewell all worldly pelf; 
** The weeice begins on Tuetdcof^ 
" For Munday hatlihaog'd himselfe*** 

V.l. p. 221. 
" On Dr. lulkr. 

«» Here Ues Rmtr't eartk.» 

V.l. p. 228. 
" Said t6 be in Twickenham Church-yard. 
"Here lie I. 
" KiUM by a sky- 
»* Rocket in my eye.*' 

v: 2. p. 91. 
We recollect «ii efMtaph on a postp-boy, who lost his life by fttlUng 
Under the wheel of his chaise, which would mltke a good compa- 
nioQ for die above :— 

Here I lays^ 
• Kiird by a chaise. 

" On the Parson of a Country Parish, 

" Come let us rejoice, merry boys, at his fall, 

«« For egad, had he liv'd, he'd have buried us alK** 

V.2. p. 254. 
We have seen one, by Old Nick, on another not very popular 
'character in. a country village, which may go With this. 
fyitaph on the Tomb-stone of a Country Apothecary ^ erected at the 
^ Expenceqf the Parish. 
Hdc Mib humo, per quern tot jacu^re, jacet. 

In EngUsk 
At length for him a quiet spot^s provided, 
. Where, all throu^ him, so many of us lie dead, 
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Sudk ^iuph» at tbes^ mfe iiiefe <lrolkritA» bat ihtj ummA- 
ciently 9en«ii» mod inifiort«iit fe the ol^c^t^ of ^eir comiBeiiuHm* 
tion; Glaucumquey MeStmtttqw^ ThernbdiumquefmaUi M it ia eW 
served in the Spectator, whose lives are finely described in Holy 
Writ, by ihepath of an arrotb, which passes and is gone, leaving no 
trace behind. In composing an epitaph fbr one who has distin- 
guished himself by his genius or benevolence, the gieatest modesty 
and simplicity ^oold be regarded, and in this the Gredc inscriptionft 
excel. Dr. Beattie's remarks on this subject, (Letter cxxii. of hts 
Life) are very correct. A little point, however, is not, on someoo 
casionsi vrithout grace, but, in genenJ, it b destructive of all rfh ct 
and propriety. The Circum^jfiee on Wren, in St* Paul's, is jde^idng, 
and the point at the condosioa of that on the Countess of Pen^ 
broke is, as Addison m^ ^ v<ery noble.^ 

*« Death, at thou hastUllM another, 
/ ** Pair, and leam'd, at good as she, 

*' Time shaH throw a dart at <hee." 

Every taste is provided for in these volumes ^—T^d0rf«y; 
Hackett, and other collectors have been glemed with judgment f and 
the hope expressed in the Advertisement^ ^ that this fiiai!aii{ge may' oc- 
casionally beguile the serious of a smile, and the volatile of a^Bw 
Qioment^ steady reflection,'* will, we can safely promise, in ^e wide 
drculatioQ which such « work as tins must have, be amplyiealoed^ 

A Fraetkal EngUtk Gfxammaryfor the Use of Students preparing for 
0te JRoytd Military College. By WUHam Ticken, of the said Ce^ 
lege, 9s. 6d, Lackington* 1806. 

The title of this useful little work seems calculated to mislead, 
for, being said to be for the use of certain studentSj, it might b^ 
thought to have something in it peculiar to the tendency of their 
studies, which is by no means the case. The mode proposed has 
this, the first merh of grammatical tracts ; it is very simple, and is 
recommended by successful experience. Mr. Ticken says, p. vi. 
that " the best probf of the approbation of the public is, that the 
second edition is now in the press^ atihe time of writing this preface to 
the firsts We neither admit, nor, in a good sense^ ri^tly compre- 
hend, what this lAlly of the day would give us to understand by his 
assertion. 

The Pocket Chronologist, or Authentic Register of recent EventSyboth 
foreign and domestic. By J. Luffman. 2s. LacJdngton* 1900<^ 
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^te. Ii wUi be found tcttioeAbleiA directing ibcattontioo and re- 
freshiog the memory • 

Eumfs^ in a Serlet cf Letters to a Friend, By John Foster, 2 Vol, 
J/mgfnon tmd Co* 1805. 

Trsb "Emapp were written ^ with the intention to print thenii 
i^wben tbeywere finished, the author could persuade Aimsf^ tha^ 
$k^ de$trv0d it." Advert. Mr. Foster candidlj confesses that his 
powanaof pertnasioo, in this qnartear, were crowned with the most 
rnapitu anooett. Conaequently, we have here his fbur Essays. 
K Chi a MwH writing Memoiti ofhinaey. d. On Decisum pfCkth 
ffoil^. d» Ojs tfte AppUeatum of the Epithet Rmaniief and, 4. On 
eeme of the Cmms hy which E v t mgeU ml EeUgitm hM been t en de red 
km sKeeptMe to Peremt ofeuUiveied Tmte. The second of these 
Asplays the greatest in g e a a ity» and the largest share of original 
thinking; hut they will all he read with coasideraMe pleasure, and, 
owmsiortally, with some mora serious advantage. 

lliw I^Mtac eifipemB to have ttodiad the human mind with great 
attemiop, and wdl ohserves, with a degree of satirieal truth, that 
^ men caity their nunds as they carr^ their^watches, perfectly ign^ 
rpnt of the PKchanism o( their movementi, and quite content with 
understanding the IktJe exterior prde of thinp to which the pas- 
ttons, like iodiexes, are pointi ng* V. 1, p. 9. Onr n pna jH i t is a 
greater dealer in paradoxes than he perhaps imj^nesi wh^ch a^hort 
time, to one of his reflecting habits, will very clearly discover. Some 
of bis postulate, too, are not laid down in a full and lucid manner, 
and being not rarely obliged to deny our concession to his principles, 
ef course, with us, bis conclusions then fiill to the ground. Facts 
and experience run constantly in opposition to what is advanced at 
p. 133, V. 1, in favour of the doctrine of mind and body, and the 
dependence of the former on the latter. In tlie strongest instance 
en his side of the question it is probably just the Reverse. Mr. F^ 
we conceive to be young in the art of composition : he is more figu- 
rative than becomes the modesty of a prose essayist, and his periods 
are sometimes confused, through being too verbose. Less fertility 
in leaves, and more in fruit, would be an improvement. Curatn 
i>erborumf rtrum voh esse soHcitudinem, says the Roman critic, and 
we repeat it to Mr. Foster, of whose judgment and good sense wo 
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JE^artUiumd ami Amdim. ANatttL . » Fwli. ^ 1«; (Wi 4>^i'Wm? 
• ' Dii. 'htktm Ulto of nove^BS a sort of books tliat require rto; 
iMtrodon (life, v. 3, p. 12% and, consequently/ the best of dl po!p 
sibie readmg for a sick man. Wc recommend Ferdinand and Amer 
lia aft a dose firepared tec, art. The Doctor, we suppose, would 
pnscribe a composing medicine. 

Sir Christopher HattpiCi Ghost , or a Whisper to the FWt • S^ Si^ 
mon Susurr, Esg, of the Middle Temple. Ato^pp, 2i^ Jl^furviOit, 
1806. , ' ^ 

£v£ w:a8 ^' naked and not ashamed,^' and ker.daugbten waald 
fain imitate her ; but Sir Christopher^ not seeing Cbii )>ure motiTtt 
in the best b^t, jdenies the fact, and with, apparently, a greattowe 
for the naked truUv but none ibr4iaked women, ascnliea their £)•«» 
r^disaiirfd innocence to. thameless impudence. . Hiis is a very 
ticklish subject, and we do not feel it decent to meddle auieb wi^ 
it. The advice is good, and seasoned with some wk. The whaia 
amounts simply to Be covered, The.mAi^ris^ thatif ladies will 
r«(e all their foi'tification% hemustsay they f^ mean not 40 d^ii4 
tbc town.'? 

A Letter addressed to Mrs. lUzherhert, in Anszcef to a Complaint 
that her Fe^Kngs have been hurt hv the Mention of her 'Name in 
the Review of the Conduct of the Prince of Wales, with Okerva-r 
time on the Injinence of Example^ ifc, By Nathaniel Jefreys, 
late M. P. for the C&y of Coventry . 20. Patt Man, pp. 15. 
Crispin again ! 

Ecoe itenbi Cfispinus !r -^ 

i pionstnun n^Ua viitute r^empti^m 
4i viti^- Ju9en. Sat, IV, 
If we were ablcj before, to doubt of th^ ba^ object of Mr* 
Jeffireys' scribbliiig, we poulc) no longer be blind to it-^ilie doveil 
foot manifest:! itself stil) ^ore and more. It is not that be has suf- 
fered ui^ustly through his dei^iog ^ith the Pfioce <a thing he never 
thought, as our statement last popth must have preyed) but l^iat he 
^s ruined by his own improvident prodigality and fqiiy, and now 
wishes to mend his fortunes through, the fear h^ vainiy expect^ tfi( 
expite by shewing his envenomed teeth. He feels that his atta^ on 
tlie prince h^s f^en to the ground, and his last reaouiice, to ketep 
his own disgraceful memory alive, is to slander an uBofit^ndinf^fe; 
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lamBi £9^'tkHigh.b6 daiMltbitig bnttvil.'' TtMnlie di^iio ^aiH 
iierer— no, fiuth, nor &ol neidMr ; tlMMfaee kt those who tm»g him 
for a fool bewflffe thftt they do sot &id something else in the haltef/. 

To give a pretence of necetaky Co these ei^^cetch'-peimy paftf 
(tfajere are no more, .though the namb^ng is fifteen), k is gratuitous- 
Vf preswned that Mrs. f^herbert has ettered ^. a oomplamt that 
her feelings have been hurt by his former mention of her name.'' We 
tibHyb^bve^tl^ to be wholly unfounded in truth, and that, how- 
eteridrntfaEdymi^ht fed, at least with every one else, indigpiantat 
tbeitnutorons' aspersions thrown oathe heir apparent by an ungrate- 
M^ftopkmut^ she experienced nothing but pity and contempt for 
the wnser ef all that was inwlevantly and inwliously foisted in about 
hemlf. Iheeon looks tranquilly down on '^ a puddle in a stDrm^** 
attd heedsnoc it> impotent attempts to reach it with its €hb. The 
paoipMeteer quotes Shakspeare upon tt»-«*-we can do the same upon 
hn^ .flKiM apposttdy : ^ Where your good word cannot advantage 
Air, TOUT slander n^n^r can endamage her P* 

This tract, like the fermer, is, considered as a literw^ cempoo- 
^en, Hr below mediocrity. How Mr. Jeffieys set jew^ or how 
much fUAoy be put in Ins gold, we know not, but heoertainly sets his 
phoses fiery lamely together, and most btuefy alloys his matter. If 
he persevere in this sort of authorship, we anticipate another bank* 
TPptcjr, witlt perhaps the pillory superadded to imprisoemcnt — a 
bankruptcy in the court of Apollo, and .a judgmeot ofpiUoryand 
^|HrisoBment 19 the court of King> Bench* 

/. Diamond cut Diamond^ or OUtroatum on m Tmnpkkt ttiHitkd 

*" A B4niew<^ihe Conduct of Bk B^^ Hii^s$ ike Frimee 0f 

Walcsy"* cmmprmng a free and imfmrfial ViattifMr, Jefres^, oi 

4 Tr^dfimaUy Folitician, andCowtkr^ during a Perifd qftmemiy 

. Yeax%, % Philo'Verittu. Svo. pp*6f. a«. Chi^^ .1806. 

/X A Letter tcf Nathaniel Jefreys^ on f Ae Subject of hii Famphtet 
eniiiled** A Meview, Sft^ with oti Examination into the Motives 
of his PubHcationj and its probahk C&nseguehces, 8vo. pp.96. 
Mamman. tSOd. 

TfiAT the *^ indoct} doptique^ should Income volunteers in thisj 
pause is not wonderful, but it would rather be a matter of surprise 
if, oA the occasion of a libelled prince and a slapdered lady, ** more 
dttn*'d against than sinning,** ten thousand pens did not leap 
from their stands, and wear themselves oht in a service so full of 
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tHrtiiig^'Ikcts, mod^'by detr «if(mtioe, shimidg the ifeikmmtmd 
widetdbaitof Mr. JtOrtyt* ftUegatkiin. The fofmfr»howev«K, » 
IIm tftie dSiMNNMl^ tlielfttter ^ oooiponlaoii df au fifi/«rttMl ms% 
mudf eoaip«nuiv«Iyy a dmrnood from m Bristol miiir. StiU^ in tq[)xte 
of ^ the jwdcc ofthem v«re/* p. 8, And other clippiDgs of ^ kiiiBfi 
Mm^^shf or fraotaretof PriMaiMi*f fkott, hedefe»del«»pmce with 
%itrotigtm. . . 

. FMio^mrjitiifgim mow iolo die whyect, »»d ighti the hi»^ 
tbraqgh with uncoawaoet^it end eieiDt, 4:to e ^ 
Iqim Neither ^theaeviilert has faUiipon^bepeiplwiUchwcpiA 
aoitren^ last oMNith, m otur rCTiew» of Mr. JtSicp^ ptiphlat, betr 
ninji otbart are aduaneed by Philo^ of a wiy ceenrinoiof nature.-^ 
To nahfra fbert extract would answer no good pcutposo; tbw^Of% 
we shall (fitmist these heroes in a jost cawse wiUi obserm^ thet^ 
aey jedgmeM formed an reading Mr« J/s p em ph ia l witt he ^iae 
•vagr bjr-a psrmil of these, and it is a fairness honestly d«e*t^elfr 
the parties to hear both sides. Let the aatidete and the bane aoi* 
cmnpany eadi other* 

The Aagnanimoos conduct which the prince will in all proha^ 
Wkj obaenvy on this occasion^ is chalked out in a good pla c o t ^ T^ 
this e£Eaol tkt fiaoA—^either did the Urn tear #Ae est ogf deTauf 
him. 

John Buttt 8<^loquies on the hte Impeachment. Bvo, pp, 52. 
Hatchard, 1806. '"' ' 

A BuewzR is not likely to fare very well in the soUlbqmes oP 
John Bull, for however mnch he may pretend, in bis parliamentary 
p >ee e e dh igs» to hifcoer for the good of th^ ewuHtutiOHf John ^Anot 
oMiy'lbvget how ahnndantly he works elsewheva to vn^ote i/; Bm; 
tin fiiet iS| that^ in the pnasent ins^nca, Mr. Whiri»read is not 
ihou|^ bettef of Ibr the storm which he has lately been brewing,. 
Una he is for bis other composition, made up of the toaa/mfrterials. 
It is well known that the tbaoder of his oppoueot'f eloquan^e so 
turned all his brewery, thnt the peers oould not swallow it. But, 
says John, " Did the party ever expect a verdict of victory? Did 
it aver seriously enter into the calculations of their arithmetic, that 
he (liOrd Melville j would be found guilty? The philosopher of Iia» 
puta endeavoured to extract sun-beams from cucumbers, and be 
f^ed. How tiie philosopher would have stared if his attempt had 
sucpeeded.^ 

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•UuMion to iba ^iif^idry.»£ TJ^r»>e» wwy bg <fy1iwi to Jlb^ mmage* 

meiKQfiWbitbt^; 

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Tkis oonvicdon cbb*( fail ta in^ire — 
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Tl»«« Miidqabs hanre certMiIy ibflny faotne traAsin tMto, 9tii 
fldoie jiftoBSHfttry. t^-^ SHcrufaM Trmrar^ of tlM Kavy F* 5dhn ek- 
dbumft-^ WcfH, tlie part^ wAl have wotktd a ndhK^iCj if diey hafS 
made'^iii a good TttSASiTK^ir; but tlMywItt work a inirad« still 
f^ter, if they tnake bin a good FATMAStfiR/^ 
' On bi9ff^!ftit« dhe rHier n ent at SomerseUHouse, he obienres, ^I 
^Me the biroad4>ottomed administration never tripped ou the fon- 
ti^c toe more gracefUHy than at that ti3gbt*8 carousal. SUmoutK's 
YHends won the palm ; they footed to the tune of ^ Over the w«^ 
terto €A0f%* admirably well. Indeed they have been lo accus- 
lOfiitd to dance, as the «ld proverb wfn, * to any man*s pipe,* that 
it IS not SBtprinng they should eacel; and to be sura they do * ttins 
i^ifromid;* and ' cAange futo' with great dexterity.'' 

This will be called trash, or wit, according to the Veei«i|g<>f the 
reader's political vane. 
Tredcrkk, Translated from tig £rmcb of M. Rhie. d^JT^ tU. 

WaUk, 
• TaiiHitoi^ » iaterestsng, and^ by those who are dettemiDeda^ 
nad sueh fr«iks> may becead wkh atliltle ham'asttiiy tfakigvf Ihe 
Ipod. Tbe translator has acquitted himself i imrvaiHe* The ofi- 
gipal author eonfbsses faults m his style, and tba translator \itA Iqt 
geoiously taken care to have at least as many. 
The Pott Captain y or the Wooden Walls well manned ; comprehend'^ 

ing a View of Nwoal Sodety and Manners^ pp, aoo. 74, t^gg* 

1806. 

To landrlvihers in general tlus view of the society and manners 
aboard a man of war will be rarely interesting, and frequently xm- ' 
intelligible, while to our tars itfwill be crambe repetita, as new as 
bard biscuit and salt poik. We admire the gallantry of our naval 
heroes, and love to hear of their conduct in battle, but as to their 
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im tJ^ P^tkhChMTck^ ^8i«pk9$^ BkkmhaU, ifi tkeCtmntf 
cfSemerm, by tkt Mep. C. ToogootL dvo. Is. Vidler.. 
W«nr we fint tMd Che Mm of tbU dieoMine, we tiiofiglit ^ eA^ 
/l0&Ntf*ifi|f 6c#f/e** another onlbrtiiiiate expression, like ^ the i^inkh 
muUitutkf^* intended to signify the lower orders of society ; but 
we were pleased to discover our mistake. The pious and humane 
design of Mr« Toogood is to-teacfa ua to abstain from the4ise of our 
cattle on the Lord's daji, on which ii is appointed that tbcy shall 
rest, and to treat them with kindness at ail seasons, and .upon all 
occasions* We do not pretend to beliere in a metempsychosis, or 
a transmigration of souls, but when we see the brute creation ill- 
tised, we cannot refrain from thinking that there would be a yast deal 
of justice in it. Let him who rides with so much ease in his chaise, 
till the poor post-horse drops with fatigue, take his turn, and, for 
his tender mercies, '^ die with harness on his back.'* Let him whe^ 
with wanton cruelty, bruises the patient ass, feel his lengthening ears,r 
and the ill treatment of as hard a master. Let this all be, and who 
will say it seems unjust? 

Poem^ dkiejfy in the S(fottish Dialogue, By the Reif. Jtmes Tlicoi. 

In^Vdb. MundeU and Son, Edinburgh. 1805. 
^ Fie, Mr. Nicol ! what, Reverend/ and pollute your imaglnatron, 
or the purer paper, with such filthy allusions? Let it be Scottish, 
Irish, or Cambro-British, obscenity is obscenity still, and the poet 
who invokes Cloacilia for his Muse must not expect to be much r^ 
Hshed on this side of the TSnreed. We entreat Mr. Nicol to abjure- 
poetry, and to compose semions, always observing a degree'of ro^^ 
#ffttDr, vrithout which no compoutioB deswvet to be lead, or will 
be read nnaecompanied by disgust. 

The Miitory (f freemoMonry^ drawn from authentic Sources of In- 
formation: with an Account of the Grand Lodge qf Scotland^ 
from it$ Institution in 1^36, io the present Time, compiled frofn 
thelUcords; and an Appendix qf Original Papers, bvo. 7s. 6d. 
Longman and Co. 

TudBt who look into this woit for what are called the secrets 
of Freonasoiiry, wiH be grievously disappointed; but sUch as visit 
this source of knowledge to be instructed in many curious particu- 
lars relating to the histofy of Freemasonry, viill be much gratified 
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nuidi p^rhftpB, to ask us to beltcf^e that a society in iBMAcJ^OHt Egypt* 
aaH'the Ifousiiuau iByst«ti«s, \ie9ei though not foinindly/tirtually 
a luBd of MMonic lodges. GiMiom va hks. observatioog en the Bleu* 
siobui myaieries^ wheve he uttM^ Bishop WaiiMiftOM^ never <b««vied 
of thiik The subject is, oo the whole, ezceediog^y well handled. 

An atbmmitory Letter to ff.JLB. the Printe qfWaks, on the Sub- 
ject of the fate deBcnte Inqntry ; containing Aneedottt never hO" 
forepuhHshed, which mayprohMy lead to the Detection of the rtai 
Authors of the late scandalous Attempt to sully the Purity of an 
i^mtrious Personage, Tipper and Richards, St. pp, «8, 1806. 
It would have been as well if the author of this Letter hatf 
known how to write his motto ; but it is still, by accident, very 
apt: 

Omnia si nescis loca sunt plenissima nugis, 
Quarum tota cohors est inimica tibi. 
That is. If you don't know it, permit me to inform you that every 
part of this epistle is replete with scandalous rihUdry^thf whole most 
grouiy inimical to decency and truth, " If," says this soi^isant friend 
and no parasite, ** if I had heard any book universallj condemned 
Ibr its stupidity, ^ould I believe the assertions of the author or 
his friends that the language wasgood, the wit abundant,*' &c. P. 11. 
The standard is fair; but how does Ae shew when tried by it ? Atp.4 
^ tells us^ ^ I am neither actuated by malevolence, interest, nor 
the rancoar of disappointment f and immediately proceeds witk a 
tissue of shameless calumny, fbuaded, ae we are assured, on )iear*, 
say report, but, as we firmly believe, sherely on the invention of 
his own m^evolent, interested, and fancorous mind. AVith tbe$e 
« damnin g proofs,'' may we not retort upon hin^^Can you expert, 
us to credit prefessions of probity and candour contradicte4 by 
your actions^ and made by no one but yourself? This publication, 
80 disgraceful to the writer, is said to " contain anecdotes never 
before puUished,** and it; is probably true, for we have no doubt 
that they were invented for the occasion, and to what end it would 
not he very difficult to discover, But how they are to ** lead to the 
detection of the real authors of the late scandalous attempt to sully 
the purity of an illustrious personage,^ we are at a loss to guess, un- 
less it be on the principle of " set a thief to catch a thief," and the 
writer of this letter undertake the job himself. Then, indeed, it 
seems likely, if the Princess of Wales has been unjustly aspersed, 
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that he who can so foully slander the Prince of WaleSy may give 
« very good clue to lead to the hannts of his abandoned clan. • The 
fiend has of late let slip these dogs of slander and detraction, and it 
is indeed a melancholy sight to s^e them howlmg in and defiling 
the chosen sanctuaries of truth aftd honour; 

These isalumnies have been called by this writer Nuga^ but let 
bim beware, perhaps ^ Ha nug» seria docent-^in mtUa,^ shouki 
the Attorney General consider the base and groundless insinuadons 
of bribery at p, 14 and IT, We are ashamed of having wasted so 
nocb time on t)us contemptible composition, but it is impossible 
«ot to feel indigpant when the illustrious and unoffending are treated 
by the malicious with wanton disrespect. These attempts at de-t 
fkmation must, we know, prove unavailing, but there may be some- 
thing to fear from professions of reqtect, fyc^ p« SI* for it is the 
slaver of the serpeot, and apt the l^ite, that kiUs^ — '' O libel me 
with all things but your praise !*' 

An AntUhte to Fcnon^or afttU Reply to Mr, Jefferyt^ Attack upon 

the Character and Conduct of his R, H, the Prince- qf Wales : 

containing several Particulars derived from Authentic Sources of 

Information, By Claudia, 8vo. pp. 94. 3s. Matthews and 

. Leigh. 180a. 

W£ were really tired of Mr. Jefferys, and would willingly have 
heard no mtwe of him, or his detestable conduct. Under this im- 
pression, we took up Clandio^s *^ Antidote" in no very good humour, 
but we had not proceeded far with him, before we felt greatly 
pleased that he had fallen in our way. Mr. Jefferys is said to have 
gained 6001. by his libel, and he probably has a mind capable of 
thinking his " estate the more gracious ;" but, we would not deserve 
and receive such a ♦' kick 6* the breech," as be has desei^ed and re- 
ceived from CtaudiOf for that sum multiplied without end. Query, 
for *^ Claudio" should we not read Ciaudo ? 

Raro antecedentem Scelestum 
Deseruit pcrfc Pcena Ciaudo. 

Hor.Od. II. 1.3, 
Th<^t is, Pc^nHf nqmine ClaudOf For this pun, as vile as tlie sub- 
j^t that occasioned k, w^ beg pardoii. The pajrnphlet is very cle-i 
V9cly drawn up, the strong points are well put, and the facts agree- 
i^ly interspersed with pleasant similies and anecdotes. At pages 3 
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the Prince^ with respect to Mr. Jefierys, who bas» notwithstanding, 
had ** the unexampled impudence to affix the advertisement of h\» 
Rnkv iu the windows ofoae of his own empty houses, immediatthf 
vpjHmUe to CarltoH Houte.'' P. 8» 

" Mr. Jeffcrys," says Claudio, « entcn upoD bit r«vkw with perfett tut 
and confidence, by dechring that * the task which necessity (arttiag from op- 
pression) has imposed upon him is not difficult/ he then endeavours to interest 
the feelings of the British public, by asserting that his case is of such peculiar 
hardship, ' us perhaps never engaged their attention:* This is precisely the 
hacknied language of every young barrister, when he opens a driminal prosecu- 
tion on the crown side, at the assbes ; be the offence great or diminutive, feloav 
or larceny, a maim with an intent to murder, or the pilfering of a couple of 
. . Welsh wigs, the ofFence which be it about to detail, is always the most flagiti- 
out (hat ever awakened the inquiry of justice.*' P. J 4—15. 

Continuing thus smiling and probing, he observes t 

'* Mr. Je^erys supposes himself the equal friend, or rather the protective 
patron of his Royal Highness, and charges him with an unmanly ao4disbooow<- 
aUe insensibility to the profuse favours which have been heaped Upon him hf 
the nabounded gcoerotity of hit jeweilei>— < O tkime \ where it thy blush ?* 
lo plain English, thu tilvertmith and money«leQder> says to his Royal enn 
ployer, < I lent you a sum of money , it is true that you repaid it with puoctua- 
lily, (though I have not been candid enough to say, uhcn the Interett it - added 
to the additional orders which I received firom you and your friends^ h^v much 
t gained by the accommodation) I want the same sum foi* my owntpeculatioot* 
I expect you to furnish it, and if you do not, I will denounce you at an ungrate^ 
ful and unprincipled man, as one who can only think and feel f«>r himtelf.* 

** Low and audacious calumniator ! thus to attempt to separate the ailectlons 
of the people firom their future sovereign !' * P. 35-6. 

On Mr^ J.*s importance as a member of parliament, he remarks : 

** The late Lord Camelford boasted, that if Mr. Home Tooke wat dU^- 
•essed of his seat in parliament by a vote of the house, he Would bring in hit 
black grooni in Ms stead ; and I remember that hisLordthip*t menace was not 
thought by many persona an cstravagaot one, on account of Mr. Jefierys having 
found his way into that atstmbly.** P. 53-4. 

Proving as be proceeds, and gathering strength as he^goes, he 
comes to this conclusion : 

** Mr. Jeflerys rhay have been baffled In recelvihg profits of lavish and extra- 
^gant nuignitude, but if the powerful and convincing testimony of three mott 
honourable, impartial, <lisiMerelted,1UKl ooropiCetft itien can have any walglitf 
instead of Mr. Jefferys Ittving been mined by the Prince, he has gaimmk in 
haid cash, the turn of 15,9971. from the Prince alone/' P. 64* 

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He then, amongst many threwd and conclusHre aaimadver^oofii, 
nakes tkm sensible and well, founded conoient: 

** The rook on wfakH bit foftQDct wcie sMpwtccke^, wm attbltioii-*i«nbi(^ 
tion doctured with phrensy !-*-a lordly eftablishnwaty 4 totm-hooie* a pnocely 
country-house, carriages, splendid dinners, routes, an av*kvjr»rd aasociatipa withy 
and a disastrous imitation of, his superiors, placed in the scale of order high 
above him, and finally, a contested election, a seat In parliament, and costly at> 
rentiont> which hungry corporations expect from their representatives ; these 
were the fatal and iafaUible causes which hurled this devot^ tradesman to th^ 
abyss of ignominy and perdition. Hi« Royal Highnness is no more rcyponsiblc 
for such consequences, having clearly proved that they did not flow Arom bin^ 
than'he Is for the man of slender income finding ruin by becoming the copyist o£ 
his dress and establishment.'* P. 66-7. 

This is indeed " a full reply to Mr. Jeflferys," and nothing further 

need be added^ to make his confusion complete. 

The Life, Pedestrian E:pcursionSf and singular Opiniom, of J. H* 

Prince, Bookseller, Old North Street, Red Lion Square, Holbom, 

, JjOfldon, Member of several Literary Societies ; late Public Oror' 

tor at the Westminster and London Forums; laifi Minister at jBc- 

tbgsda Chapel ; Author (^ the Annual Visiter^and ^the Ceaspr i 

mid Secretary to the Union Society, Aho^for iietr twfenty I«ar% 

Clerk to several Attomies in London ; and recentfy, Head Mono* 

ger of the Conveyancing Department, at Skinner's Hall; contait^ 

ing a Circumstantial, and Faithful Narrative of the first thirty 

six Years of the Existence, and an Account of the Literary Career 

if that most eccentric Character, Written by himsef, and sold by 

himself, pp, 2A0. Ss.6d. 1806. 

Jjij Ef^^eati and Gibbon be forgotten, and here let memoir 
writing cease — It has in Mr. Prince reached its acme, and <jan go 
no further. We atre npw presented with the^r*^ thirty-six yeiu« of 
tbe lift! of th^ gentleman of nuiltitudinous professioos^faew many 
iBOiie Sf y«ar& he oaeam to add, we are not toid, bat if he does not 
intend to go to press again until thirty-isix years have elapsed, ^¥^' 
G^ngratulnl^ ouiadives with thjB j>r(^pect of being com|>leiely out ot 
Ins way. 

^ Afnpngst the inducements which Mr* Prince felt to write his own 
life, we find this weighty reasons-lie not only knew more abont 
hmml^ than any other, umih hut he also knew more about another 
person than any other man, nameJy--^-fai8 wile. P. ^7. I hwe, 
^ays he, the knowledge^^the truth, and thus he proceeds Co i^Iate 
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remaHcBy ihtt the ootntdcratbti is trif!irg, ** €very tub should stand 
on its own bottom.*' F. t9. For J>rivate reasons he sinks his pa- 
temai grandfcfther, but hit maternal, he tells us, was one Dixon, a 
tioath»'4ctwererf and then adds the valuable information, that one 
of ys three daughters, Awi^ was pecoliarly fond of '* challenging 
men to inteUectml oombae.^ P. S3. We feel delighted at the pot- 
session of this fact, ibr it is. of the laMt importance ; bnt we mticfa la- 
ment to find oarseives left sadly in the dark, with respect to two 
v en e rab le personages of his fllastrious house-^'* Whether my grand" 
father and grandmother were sensible or ignorant, handsome or 
ordinary, moral or immoral, are questions which I cannot resolve.'^ 
P. 88, We go further, however, and fiire better. His father was 
«i ecctntfic Quaker, and, though by trade a weaver, he engaged 
himself^ when he came to London, to " a black diamond merchant^ 
and at Ms. a week carried out coals." P. 89. He saw Jlftu Duron, 
and marked her for his own. Her name was Dolly, and she was, 
si^ he, " a — - I don*t know what.*' P. 44. Amongst the fruits 
of their loves was Mr. Prthce — but to be more minute (the spirit of 
biograf^y) his mother Dolly, when lying-in with ham, had a sore 
leg, p« 47, and being unable to suckle her <ihild, put him out to a 
nurse, mkao, it seems, loved him dearly, and consequently gave him 
what she liked best herself—^ instead of sucking the breast, I suck- 
ed the gin bottle * P. TT. He never after saw this delicious liquor, 
ibis mother^iinUk, as it were, without crying for it — but he affirms, in 
a melancholy tone, that it sunted his growth— >and he is now very 
Uttle. P 77. Although he has ^ turned out," according to his own 
account, '' a mott txtntordinary man^ p. 76» nothing preternatural 
or porteiUous announced his birth<— his mother had her usual long- 
ings when '* enseint.'* P. 76. ** I was bom withoat teeth, and my 
mother drank cordair P. 17* At a proper period he ww named 
John, more Qmherommy and not George, affer his father, for this 
sensible reason — a former son had been named George, and, as ha 
died, the same might have happened to Mr. Prioce-^if he had been 
called George ! and behold the consequence—both be and we 
should have lost Ats Ufe, How he acquired his second name of 
Henry, was through his mother, who took him clandestinely to 
churcb> and though the Quaker suddenly made his appearanoe 
during the ceremony, and excUnmed, *^ What business hi»t thou to 
ffing water in my child's face f p. 83, they baptized him in spite' of 
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his thirteen atocations, six of whidi he followed ^ at one tiEQe."— 
** Alternately I have been a tallow dMiadler, tunier, hatter, boolbr 
binder, patten and shoe heel maker, button and trimming seUer, 
shopman at a ready-made and child-bed linen wardiouse, clerk to 
a lottery office keeper, fringe and fancy trimmiog maker, dyer and 
soowerer, an attorney's clerk, a cfaandier^s shop keeper, and last» 
but not least-— a bookteUer.** We can travel with him ao further, 
and shall merely remark, that he has it in contemplation to f' kill 
himself, and give an account of his own last dying words, deaths and 
funeral" P. 26. 

In the course of this inestimable memoir, we are occasionally, 
referred to another work, the CensoTj but only on very particulaf 
and dignified points — viz. *' I have deprecated this custom of put^ 
ting whole candles into the kitdien stujQ^ in the Censor, Vol. I. Now 
2.'' P. 56. Though he is modestly ulen^ on his studies in. the groves 
of Academus, it is due to him to observe, that he is a man of vast 
erudition — he quotes Latin, etio perpetua, p. 185 — qms seperibUf 
p. 336, ^d tells us, after, doubtless consulting some rare manu- 
script, that '' Longinut deems the Apostle Paul as excellent an au- 
thor as ever wrote." P. 22, 

As the duels* of box lobby loungers and apprentices have 
brought that custom into some discredit and contempt, we think 
this memoir of myself ^ may, perhaps, by its frequent indecency, and 
constant absurdity, tend to stop that inundation of insipidity and 
nonsense, in the shape of own life writings which has lately tbreat- 
«ied us. 

The Works of Pluto ; tnz, Ms fifty-five Dialogues and twelve Episr 
ties, translated from the Greek, Nine of the Dialogues by the 
late Fhyer Sydenham ; and the Remainder by Thomas Taylor. 
With occasional Annotations on the nine Dialogues by S. and 
copious Notes by the latter Translator, in tohich is given the 
Substance of nearly all the existing Greek MS, Commentaries on 
the Philosophy of Plato, and a Portion of such as are already 
published. 5 Vols. ^to. lOi. lO*. Evans. 1804. 

• On ^is sukgect we feel a little nervous after the late rencontre of Mr Moore 
tlie poet, and Mr. J^ffray, the Edinbui^h reviewer. The idea of being obliged to 
fight, even with paper bullets, every auUior that does not like to hear the truth, is 
terrible. Mr. Prince, as tiie sbn of a Quaker ^ is, we hope, a peaceable man. It i» 
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We are obliged to a frieod for the loan of this ponderous work, 
and have, therefore, mach more command of temper on the ooc»- 
sioD, dum if we had paid ten guineas for it. That we have fead it, 
espedally the c(q)um8 notes and commentaries, it would he danger- 
ous to assert, since Cicero affirms that '' legere et non intelligere, 
nee legere est,** to read^ and not to understand, is not to read. In 
Ins translation of Aristotle^s Metaphysics, all those who have ven- 
tured to dip into it, must know, if they have the least smattering of 
Greek, that the original is far more intelligible ; and, as to his meta- 
physical commentary, it defies all physical powers to comprehend it. 
Much the same treatment is met with here. — ^The elegant, and 
^ugh sublime, yet in general easy Greek of Plato, is made the 
most crabbed and confused English of the present or any other 
day, and the ohcurum per obscurius is religiously adhered to in the 
illustrations. It would be tedious as facile, and unsuited to our 
limits, to point out the innumerable passages which Mr. Taylor has 
misconstrued and misconceived. It is enough to say that the 
luyoi fitpXiof, (jLtya xaxof of Callimachus, is here most fully and 
lamentably verified. To the Duke of Norfolk the public is indebt- 
ed for this treat, but we apprehend that we should err in thus pan>- 
dying the words of Shakspeare on the occasion. 
Jockey of Norfolk be not too bold, 
For Taylor thy author's bought and sold. 

The Looking- Glass ; a true History of the early Years of an Artist. 
ByTheopkilusJMarcliffe. pp.108. Is, Hodgkins. 1805. 

This ** true history of the early years of an artist,*' is a very 
pretty little book, and well calculated to entertain and benefit our 
young friends, to whom we cordially recommend it. 

Fortunes Football l^mo, 3>. Tabart, 1866. 

To be the sport of Fortune, and to have almost every bone in 
one's skin broken for her amusement, is really a deplorable case. 
Such, however, has been the unhappy fate of the subject of this me- 
moir. Yet, after all these calamities, he is able to relieve both his 
mind and body by the exertions of his pencil, and will, we hope, as 
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THE BRITISH STAGE, 



Tim Imitatiom of Life—The Mirror of Manoert—The lUpresroutiMi of Tkwtll. 



ON DRAMATIC SOdPIiCITY OF SENTIMENT AND 
Die HON. 

ir THOMAS DEllMODT. 

From "Rmfmon^t UftcfThrmody^ 

1 HAVE long thought that an absurd imitation of Shakspeare^s antL 
quated phraseology has been, in some measure, the cause of our 
entire declension from simplicity in the later productions of the 
stage. 

Our modem drama is generally an heterogeneous contexture of 
quaint expression, insipid pun, and unnatural fustian ; communi- 
cated in that species of style which Dryden not unhappily denomi- 
nated *' prose run mad.'' Much as I admire the figurative boldness 
and lofty conceptions of our literary ancestors, I am not yet en- 
thusiast enough to allow them purity of language. Every person 
acquainted with the most famous authors of Elizabeth^s time, wiU 
acknowledge that a boastful display of pedantry was too often sub- 
stituted in place even of the common tongue as then current. The 
historian and the phik>sopher were no less guilty of this Calfie tast« 
than the poet, as b evident from the elaborate pages of the preac 
Raleigh and the greater Bacon ; who, with a cumbrous luxuriancj 
of learning, have rendered some of their choicest compositions either 
metaphorically turgid or metaphysically obscure. The wild scheme 
of Sydney (though the politest scholar of his age) to ingraft the Ro« 
man on the English idiom, is sufficiently rtdicalousin its ill success ; 
and few have followed an example sa preposterous and extravagant. 
it is iedeed rather wonderful, that the prose writers of this reiga 
are the most obsolete and afibcted; and that Spenser^ who from 
the nature of his subject nught have taken the greatest liberty, is 
in reality (antiquated as be may seem to some people) the diastest^ 
and of course the most classical, amoi^ them. 

In the sprightlier days of Charles, so much had the introduc-^ 
tion of French phrases prevailed, that it almost threatened final 
extermination to the old hereditary Saxon ; and the language be- 
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of Gbreek and Latin innovations. I have frequent] j, at the present morer 
advan<^ period of cultivated diction, considered it no small disgrace 
to <b« invention of our countrymen, that wo are forced (certainly 
through indolence or caprice) to co^y from, our neighbours almost^ 
every soieocifio term proper to the mechanic or military art ; aocL 
even the fine wits, ** the mob of gentlemen who write with ease,'', 
esteem it a vast accomplishment to interlace their productions with 
this pilfered tinsel. 

Though I confess Addison's style to be a perfect and delighti%4 
model, yet I cannot help thinking that the world has been extremely 
and delibeAitely u^jost to the primary extrtioos of Steele. I no^ 
only admire his periodical lucubrati(Mis for their fortunate 9xhibitioi|. 
of versatile fancy, for their easy and piolishe4 humou^ and for theic 
superior excellence of ethic admonition^: but I likewise applaud hin^ 
as the manly restorer of scenic decenty of plot^ interesting^ not 
intricate; and of dialogue sprightly though not spleqdid. The soa« 
timentsof Cato are confessedly elevated aud noble; but, alas ! too 
&r removed beyond the.sphere of common life: while even the.moi| 
<!ensorious must allow that there is that moderate emulation o^ 
virtue still remaimng sufficient to impress any spectator not totally 
callons, witii » respect and love for th0 beneficent, afifabie, and 
elegant chnractar-of Bevil. 

Swifl may be impartially placed in the highest rank for his cleai^ 
sententious ^avity, and the unembarrassed brilliancy of his con» 
eeption ; which could render the thorny path of disputation agreeaT 
ble^ and enliven the severity of politics, with captivating Emanations 
of genuine wit: but being in no degree connected with my design^ 
hk beauties can be only mentioned and admired. — I now return to 
my principal object, the drama and its children ; whose perfections 
I shall endeavour, in a cursory way, to discriminate, and point out 
^r imitation. 

The immortal Shakespeare, firom the narrow limits of his eduta« 
tion and original habits of life, must necessarily have adopted many 
VQ^arisms and low conceits, very improper for a modern to copy ; 
and as for his happier and sublimer flights, they are indeed inimitable. 
Jonson's comedies, with all their merit, are so laboriously stiff; and 
the jmnt compositions of Beaumont and Fletcher, with all their wit^ 
M iosufiferably licentious ; that I can select from the whole dramaf 
^ galaxy of these times, but one author who is not quite exception- 
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iacidenlsardgenerally well conducted; tbe unities regarded withmudk 
attention; hiscluuractertdelineatedin amasterly and forcible manner; 
and hit dialogue, considering the age in which he wrote, remarka- 
bly chaste and oenroos. I am surinised that more of his plays aro 
not revived and adapted for representation : which they might be 
with very little trouble, and less expence, as they are seldom loaded 
with pageantry and show. 

Theobald, whom. Pope, with more malice than justice, chose for 
the tmfoitunate butt of his satirical spleen, has written a play which 
I think could be still successAiUy introduced to the stage. It is in the 
style and manner of 8hakspeare, to whose pen Theobald himself 
attributed it ; alleging that he had merely altered a few passages ia 
tbe manuscript, and presumed on some trivial addition. The hero, 
who is frantic, has a very striking likeness to our modem Octavian ; 
but whether the ingenious author of the Mountaineers was aware of 
the fortuitotti resemblance, I cannot pretend to determine. 

There is another composition which I have formerly read with ^ 
much pleasure, a tragedy, ^titled the Fatal Extravagance ; but I 
do not know its author's name, nor did I see any affixed to it. It 
is full of simple pathos, deeply affectmg, and no inconsiderable paint« 
ing of domestic sorrow. Why are so many jewels sufiered to lie 
buried, when the town is so often deluded with empty glitter, and 
evanescent frivolity ? One would almost suppose that the nation 
consisted only of a race of laughing philosophers, iirom the pandtj 
of tragic productions; or were in fact so completely miserable ia 
their own gloomy situation, that they could afford no room for Ch^ 
admission of fictitious misfortune. 

Though I cannot reconcile myself to that strange jumble- of 
smiles and tears, levity and anguish, which constitutes a tragi-comedy, 
or what we more emphatically term a play, (first, because the intro- 
duction of the comic, roust always weaken the energy of the tragic 
part I and secondly, because the emotion of different passions at 
one moment, as in an hysteric, is not tit t/se^ pleasing;). yet I 
most give the palm to one whose two great productions are thus 
huddled together, as " the poet of the heart.^ This intellectual so- 
vereign is Soucheme ; whose Isabella and Oroonoko must charm as 
iong as the human breast can feel, or the human pasaons can ba 
interested. 

I kno# that those authors who countenance tragi-coaiedy tha 
most, aver that it is a true^aad fiuthfiil delineation of the checkered 
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who was himself an adept in the practice, lays the blame on the 
distempered and vitiated taste of the audience ; and even Sootheine, 
in a prologoe, has these lines : 

** You see we try all shapes, and shifts, and arts, 
To tempt your favours, and regain your hearts ; 
We weep and laugh, join grief and mirth together, 
like rain and sunshine mix'd in April weather.'' 
Capricions indeed were the good critics of their time who could 
prefer rhyme to reason, who extolled ^ the Spartan Dame^ and 
^ the Fate of Capua^ beyond *' Isabella,'^ and were better pleased 
with "Don Carlos'' than the "Venice Preserved" of the same author. 
After all, I confess, that the more vulgar scenes of Isabella are ne- 
cessary and natural, and that those of Oroonoko are conducted witk 
much ingenuity throughout; but what reader of sensibility .who can 
pity perverted genius, will not be concerned at the expiring quibble 
which the poet has so unluckily put into the miouth of the honest 
vnrepimpg Aboan ? 

" I had a living sense 
Of all your royal favours, but this last {meamtig the dagger) 
Strikes through my heart," 
In this piece I could, on a strict perusal, remark many more devi- 
ations of this kind, from Nature and her expresdon ; but the whole 
is so animated, so eloquent, so sublime, and yet so simple^ that it 
would be a sort of censorial stoicism to quarrel with triflea. 

What am I say of Otway; the plaintive, the tender, the soul- 
distracting, profligate Otway : who, by some secret magic, can Ind us 
at one moment pity and detest, scorn and admire, and shed the 
•ympathinng tear over the fall of vice itself ? To omit Venice Pre* 
served, of which die hero is a factious cut-throat, and the second 
character an uxorious, treacherous, whimpering coward,-r4et us turn 
to the Orphan, Not to say that Monimia is an exact semblance of 
a longing, irresolute, boarding-school girl ; Chamont an ungratefniy 
hot-headed bully, deserving to be cashiered from any regimei^; and 
Acasto a mere walking old gentleman ; how horrid, how absurd, is 
the firatemal compact ! and how blameable the professed hypocrisy 
and deceit of Castalio ; who will not own that he is justly punished, 
jfet does not deplore that punishment in the end ! This is the skill, 
the fancy, the irresistible witchery, of the poet: that elicits light 
fbm darkness; and averts the dazzled eye from deformity, by a soft 

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iBftinmithr^ encbMitroent of verbal delusion. Take away sentiment 
and dictioD, pathetic expostulation, and the i^oioe of Nature perso- 
nified, how will the splendid fabric xanish, and what shall we discover 
but liceotioubnest and disgust beneath this veil of roses ! Such are 
the charms of appropriate and energetic language. 

The author of Douglas, in our own dajs, has received great and 
deserved encemioai. He was oertaiolj initiated in the school of 
Suutberae, and is particularly happy in the choice of has materials ; 
yet, strange as it may appear, some of his incidents bear no slight 
resemblance to those in a very whimsical comedy. It li wonderfbl 
that tbistimikirity, though quite unimportant, has not been observed 
by those who have either seen or read the Rehearsal. Old Norval 
m the one and the Fisherman in the other, are the same ; there are 
a casket saved, and a prince discovered. It may be no unentertain* 
tag employ to compare both performances, to remark the asaoda* 
tion of ideas in dilferent minds, and to be convinced bow nearly our 
loftiest efibrts may be allied to the burlesque ; and I leave this task 
to the curiosity of the reader. Douglas is certainly the last boast of 
the buskiaed Muse that I have seen, or expect to see, daring the 
present democracy of pantomime. 

There are a few plays now entirely laid by, or perused only by 
die friends of true dramatic taste, which I shall beg leave to enume* 
rate ani recommend ; more for their purity of style and correctness 
of execution, than for those poetical beauties which they so enai- 
nently possess. Such are Fen ton's " Mariamne,** Hughes's " 8iege 
of Dikmascus,'' and Frowde's " Philotas** and " Fdl of Saguntuin.'' 
The last two are admbable examples of strong, patriotic sentiment^ 
and erance very extensive powers of declumation. WfaiteheadV 
** Boman Father," though not entirely discarded from the modern 
stage, is, in many places, tedious and tame : the catastrophe is 
too •shocking even for the galleries; the deaith of a sister by a bro- 
ther's hand is not caltukted to inspire admiration (the object 
<rf the poet,) and on the whole k is much inferior to Brooke's " Gus- 
tavus Vasa.*' 

As it would appiSar even somewhat ridiculous to class a poetical 
madiac among those sons of the legitimate drama whom I have 
jiroix>sdd as worthy of imitation, I liave reserved Lee for tbe la^t. 
He was certainly a man of an amazing fancy, whose very extrava* 
gcbces would set up a dozen of our peddling plajrwrights ; but it is- 
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odosiiis,'' to ^ talk big*' m his own manDer, is prodigal of -bectiti«t« 
tke character of Varanes, the lover, is fifiely conceived, and deli- 
cately finished; nor is the rou$;h, warlike blentness of old Mardan 
witfaont its pecaliar charm. It is to be observed, that the scene 
between Theodosius and this honest veteran has given rise to two 
more of the same complexion : one> between Antony (U)d Venti«- 
^us, in Dryden's *< All for Love f the other between Juba and 
Syphax, in Addison's ^* Cato.'' They are alt eqaally escelletit. 
His '^ Rival Queens,'* on account of a mad hero, well snited the 
abilities of a mad poet, and there are various beautifbl touches 
through the course of the piece ; yet (what is very wonderful, cew- 
sidering its showy decoration, triumphal entry, and magnificeiit ban^ 
quec) it is but rarely performed. In my opiniod also, amidst all 
its wikl horrors and bloody preparation, there is much good 
writing in a play of liis entitled, ^' Lucius Junius Bnatus :*' and I do 
not fear to support this judgment even at the present period; who* 
the playhouse is a complete sepulchre, filled with hobgoblins, mon- 
sters^ devils, and monkeys. 



ANECDOTES OF THE FUENCH STAQE. 



N. 



UiciR, a tragedy, by the Marquis of 1769# 

This piece was damned before the last act ; the performers ui^ 
Able to make themselves heard, determined to proceed no further. 
M»l^Kain, who was playing in a scene with MademoUelle Clairom^ 
caiue forward, at the beginning of the fourth act, and told the audi* 
^Dce, that the Entertainment should immediately commence; an as- 
suruiQe which was received with acclamations of the most tumul- 
^008 joy. 

This tragedy, which was never afterwards performed, and which 
"U not been printed, is remarkable for a dramatic singularity not 
^ be met with in any other piece. -A princess is announced at 
^ commencement, and through the three first acts, who does not 
n»ake her appearance till the fourth, and then it is only for the pur- 
pose of explaining the fable. 

Nanine, or Prejudice overcome, a comedy in three acts, \m 
Terse, by Voltaire. 1749. 

The subject of this piece is t2d[en from the novel of Pamela^ in 
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FrMcoiif, and M. de Boiffjf at the Italian ; both these authors 
printed their PamdOf and the publication of it confirmed the jud|^ 
ment of the critics. Naninef by Voltaire^ was honoured with great 
applause. The author, however, did not appear to be quite satis* 
fied with its reception, and, after the performance, asked Piron his 
opinion of the piece ; the latter, who saw throngh the artifice^ 
replied : " I fancy you wish it had been written by Ptron."— "Why, 
answered Voltaire^ *^ there was no hissing/' ^ True,'' replied Pvron^ 
^ you know it is not possible to hiss and yawn at the same tirae.** 

A person of high rank was so extremely affected by the per* 
formanoe of ^aaiae, that he returned home in great haste, and Or* 
dertd hb porter not to shut his gates against any person whatsoever. 
The porter, very much surprised at his master's language, who bad 
hot, until then, been of an accommodating temper, said to one of 
Ins fellow-servants, who stood near him, ^ if I had not seen Made* 

moiselle D in my Lord^s carriage, I should have thought he 

had come from confession.** 

The performers of the Italian theatre exhibited, in the month 
of June, 1771, under the title of Bttona Figliola^ a comic opera, ia 
three acts, the music by the celebratad Ptcrifii, the subject of which 
is also taken from the novel of Pamela, Previous to its representa* 
tion, Cartine, who had just finished his part of Harle^um, in an 
Italian piece, came forward to announce the new comic opera ; hot 
stopping suddenly, he looked about the theatre with an uneasy and 
mysterious air, and made a variety of gesticulatioos, which excited 
both the laughter and the curiosity of the audience. Afterwards, 
advancing close to the pit, he communicated with great confidence 
the secret he had to tell. ** Gentlemen, La Buona FigUolOf or the 
Good Girl, is going to be performed. My brother performers wish 
to persuade you that it is a new piece. Don't brieve a syllable of 
it. I am too honest a fellow to su£fer you to be deceived : it is ten 
years since the piece was writen, afid it has run through Italy, Ger- 
many, and England. You will perceive, without doubt, that the fea- 
tures resemble those of Nanine, 1 can tell you the reason — they 
are sisters ; not by the same father, but the same mother ; and thej 
descend in a right line from that Madame Pamela^ who has made 
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ORIGINAL POETRY. 

TO A LADY. 

Tts only they who feel not love 
Can prate with sprightly ease ; 
Whose wishes soar not much abov^ 
The present tiooe to please. 

The tongue and lips, so sages tell^ 

Too oft, alas ! deceive : 
And many a mftiden knows, too wefl^ 

How such deceit can grieve ! 

Bat mark the difference — ^heart and eye, 

In telegraphic trance:— 
Where each sweet, blushing, thriUing sigh, 

Is answered hf a glance ! 

The eye, the lover^ surest guide. 

Has never caused a smart; 
Nor ever has it, once, belied 

The feelings of the heart. 

Fond swains, when absent firom th^ir fair, 

Make resolutions strong, 
And vow, next timt, the/ll bold declare 

How true the/ve lov'd, and long. 

When next time comes, ah ! strange their lot* 

Who're on love's billows tost — 
Their speeches, dear resolves, forgot^ 

And senses sweetly lost ! 

The reason is, dear girl, that they 

Who love cannot disguise ; 
And feeling more than they can say. 

Look lUly through their eyes I 

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tfi ' TRS M019TBLT JOBftOE. 

STANZAS ON THE CLOSE OT THE LATE YEAR. 

Won from th' abode of ancient night 
Our system, fi^po'd by heavenly hand, 

' Obedient to divine command 

Time wing'd his silent, equal flight, 

Where'er day^s orb, all-cheeririg, bright, 
To planets gave the seasons bland; 

He fills the crescent's silvVy light,^ 

When frequent, from the darkling grove 

Pours the lone warbler's song of love. 

OblivioQi dou^ o'efspread the soul ! 
And ail five? ve said, andmU weVe d)one, 
Seem as the glass whose sand is van, 

TiU memory feebly wakes the whole ; 

Tears, from AISmuoq^. eye that stoW 
For inaQy a dear friend, past and^gone> 

As the fresh hours Sttocessire foU, 

No more to faded grie& reply. 

And leave their peady channels dry. 

Crumbling beneath the hand of powder. 
Behold time-honour'd fabrics whelm ! 
The skilful pilot at the helm 
Observes the adverse tempest lour. 
And fears for Britain*s social hour ; 

But may tb' Unseen, which ev'ry realm 
Or sinlis in ruin, or bids stately tow'r. 
With fconcord on the cherish'd Muses smile, 
And Commerce safeljf dwell within our wave-worn isle ! 

MAacius. 



ADDBESS 

(written by THOMAS DIBDIN, ESQ.) 

Spoken hf Ma, Lewis, on his taking a final leave of the Dublin 
Stage. 
From ten years old till now near fifty-sjx, 
Of all I've gain'd, the origin 1 fix 
Here on this fav'rite spot;' where first T came 
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fn numbers li^ng^ here thu&mne bepov 

Whkhy through your early aid, has tmoo^y ran ; 

Here too, returning froip your sisrer huid^ 

Oft have I met your smile, your liberal hand : 

Oft as I came Htbernia still has shown 

That hot(M$ieility ^o much her own. 

But Moip, the prompter^^Mitf, wiih warning bell, 

Reminds me that I come ta bid ^irewel ! 

With usual joy thit visit I should pay, 

But ftere adieu is very hard to say. 

Yet take my thanks, for thousand favours past-- 

My wishes that your welfare long may last — 

My promise that though time upon this face 

May vfiukfi his annual marks, no time can ciiase 

Tour memory hence, while memory here has place. 

My meaning is sincere, theugh plainly spoke— 

My heart, like yours, I hope, is heart of oak ; 

And that, althoogh the bark through yeartf may fwl ye, 

Hie trunk was, is, and will be xRufc suillaly. 



MEMORANDA DRAMATICA. 



^AYMARKET. 



Nothing new bag o/ieied itsrli' tincrcar Igsr ; bat the houstt bate been pfo> 
<ittc(ife, and thf audieaces pleased. Th€ Finger /W/ t^ clirfcted huadrf«ls fio 
cvcrjr duor Qt' the theatre, who have^etired htghlf gratiied with their enter- 
^lioffi^nt. A larce from die pen of Arthur GritiRnhoofe, £i^. hasbeco iisco* 
tioncd as in rchear&al ; but the season <)rawii)g near its clo*e, tt wilt meat likely 
appear at Covenc Garden. Fawcetc is annuunced tor Lotd Ugleby, a chwraflter 
which vre expect he w iU play admirably. 

EIX(l'«.TIiEA.TmS» 

The open terminated a most siiccesaful and satisfactory season, on Sa« 
torday, 2nd AogaM, with the fav burite performance, UFanatko per la Musks. 
A pro&ssor has recfmly bMO announced to the worid, who wovtd teach us 
that mak is tlie langaagc of Heaven, and that it win at la»t be the universal 
tobgue, as it was origlaaUy, when, unhappily, it became, by degrees, cor- 
tuptcd into tptakini. He mentions some great musical genius, who, sayshe, 
I ban no 4oobt witt riae by octava^ until he reaches the celestial chair, 
where he wiB fcsnain a welcome guest for ever. If he had not given us the 
Dame of the person aUndeil to, w« should certainly have filled up the vacan- 
cy vnitb the wor4 SUBi^tm. However, as we arc not one of the Womtn 
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of this profdM^aot^todenttndMg 4ili.d<«tEiae ('nbkb l»> hy the bye, dc^ 
rtaton aiiUH)SfP<Mo4«*nt for oot foUowiog ^ny thiag) wec^onot promise 
Mrs, BiUlngton this kiud of translation ; but if wc cannot »y that the witt 
herself, in coi^€<jiicncc of her nqtcj, ascend to heaven, we can safely affirm, 
that by them, she, as it were, transports all her hearcri thither. Her last 
cadences were eicellent as her first, and to use the words of Shakspemire, 
ihi made " a swan-Ukc end, Ading in music" Sigfior NaWi was also Tcry 
great, and the whole 'corj^s shone to the jfiiM^ with undlminitfaed brighcnesi. 
For the order preiQr«e<i jn the hoii»c» and the able conduct of the opera this 
•eason, the subscribefs fad the public owe ipuch to Messrs Kelly and 
Jewell, who have been unremitting in the exertion of Uieir skill and ability* 
Next season, lin the room of Grassini, Signora Caulani is expected, and 
from the liberality of the maiiagerii, and the genius of Mons. Rossi, the bal- 
let master, every thing hi*y be expected. 

NEW ROYAL CIRCUS. 

Since our last notice, Mr. Cartwright has here exhibited bis skill on the 
musical glasses, and is gone ; Mr. Richer on the eight rope succeeds hino:, 
and richly fill« the niche which he had left unoccupied. To the surprising 
.perfoimancci of Mr. ftle&er are n^w added, ar we ar^ pleated to observe,. 
seipt honemaasMp by "Mr* Makeco* He i» eeitoinly laxirhnlkd in this de- 
partment ; and we caqpot, without regret, see him do sollttle in that in 
which he is first, while he does so much on the stage, where be is at best 
^ secondary. The Cloud K'vg continues to receive Unbounded applause, 
' notwlthstandiog whioh« howevert the ) berality of the manager has induced 
him to give the publ c a new pantomime, called the FlyJng Island rf LapuU ; 
9r Harlequin GulBver, The story oit ^p hith it is founded is well know^, and 
the manner in wh cb it is barUqumized^ (U we may use the term) admirably 
calculated to produce effect. Under the correcting taste and experience of 
«f. CroM; fc h thvemcd by Mr. Roberts, and does^him credit. The 
'"tilckt are gr^^od, go off easily, and ttW weH. Some are new, the music fe 
fleailifg, and the scenery both. Mr?. Wfb/ow, who displays htr usual ex- 
cdlenee in the €htui JCmg, relieves herself in the pantomime, by rcsignlfig 
the part df <?olQmbine to Mi.«s Johnstone. It would be difficult to find a 
wbsHtutefor Mrs. Wybrow in this sort of character, in which there should 
be nothing to regret, but it is invidious to make comparisons. Miss John- 
stone has a great deal of pretty action, rdancM with much ease, and to go 
through such an arduous part, must haye more stirength, than sl^e ftffears 
to have. She is, indeed, a mere shadow,. and of aU women vn^ cVcr b^eld* 
^c best fitted to be an inhabitant of a "fy'u>g island," or oqe in whicb^ 
bting devoted to abstnvct speculations, tjt^ey niyjtj\jvish to be free^frofn the 
temptations of the JlfsL The rest of (h^ performtrs j^ccessfpUy persevere 
in their endeavours to deserve the praise which we have so often ^d jusUf 
bestowed on them. , 

ASTL£y's iUPITUEAi'RE^ WESTMINSTEK^ »trDCK« 

A NFw spectacle, intiprspersed with recitatton and song, has, 'y^perin* 
tended by Mis AiMeyr Junr. been produced at tUs poplar theitre. It is 
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Thousand. In th^best quaildis of spectacHi It lias farcly1»cen equalled. The 
H^oman of Ten Tboitmnd, as ^he \t Id every fcenst of the ^nlt, is of coone 
Mrs. Astley, who diiipUys all the elegant fascination of a graccftil attitudl- 
nariftn Ma ra^il^ut effect. The nriety of this pitee It unbrniAdedv and 
the acting of Messrs. Lati^dit atid La Tohc tnily erctUent. The didMiqg 
«^theOiroir^8 poiTsessett uncomnton merit; mtt Mist CtroUnc Qknmxiti 
drtSsJb\in the Polish tyrant, retei^cd great ap^huie, 8hfe h » v«ry devtr 
llttleglrt. ' . - , 

' For Mr. Bradwdl'4 benefit he prodnecd a sew haHo^viittde, entMoA 
i^Jr Baeo0, or jfo Br^vm Bmd, and the pnMk owe him maeli amiMBiem. 
ft Is full of vfalos' and iogeaiouB contrivance. The Kctk ** A|it||^odeaii 
cfoestriaor* tootiaaet to «ihibit his eitranrdiny fsati ; and Matter teuidcit, 
lAo it engaged to dance on the tight rope, it. to much improved, at <o lose 
nothing by a comparison with Mr. Richer^ which Is a thing we never ex- 
pected to have witnessed'. lUchor't iiiBfc Is the only poiat in which- be 
etcelt himi he it otherwise only nosdnally TiicAtr. Ihey are boih tn^ 
priilnf. 

yAl7](nALL* ^ 

This beautifbl aDdbrilUant retort of fetUo«,vrat at MMl crowded ott 
the night of the Pritire*t bhth-day. Ah eatta<lr|bary pr#fMloa of lampi 
Hxras exhibited on the occasion, and nocwithttaiMing the ^Rreatber, wMth 
was rather unfavooraMe for snch a display, the fire workt went off whlk 
exedlent eflfect, and produced the greatest admtratiota : the edmpany vrcve 
to delighted with the joys of the place, that until Aurora had unharMiMK 
gattt of light, and wat eclipsed by the effulgence of her successor, ^tbcf 
stayed <« with tipty dance and revelry," Celebrating the happy hewr. • The 
attractiont of thlt spot are so manifold and ttfong,- that even wet wtathetf 
leeml to throw no damp on them, and the concent hat turned out tt> «!«■«* 
dantly profitable, that we hear, and with pleasure, that the gardent are-tflll 
to Continue w|iat they are, an Edgny according to the simple iaterpretitliW 
of the word, horius delieiarum seu Vobtptaiit, 

THE AMERICAN STAGE. 

SKETCH OF THE LIFE OP" MR JOHN BERNARD, 

Frvin an American P^ioiical Work calUd the Tolyanthoi, 

For sprightly parts of higher life design'd, 
"tThere fashion's airy whims d<dude the mhvl^ 
' Where homely Reason yields to poliith'd Pride, 

AxA Nature's vulgar feelings are denied, 
Bernard, with lively tastp and easy mien, 
- ^ Gives gay precision to the comic scene. 

Anon. 
The book of man he irads with Aicest art. 
And ransacks all the secrets o^Rie heart ; 
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His oomie httmour keeps tiie trortdia awv^ 
And Lsughtar firighl«B» FoUy more than law. 

ChurdOl. 

Of the Tarioiii clwtes of nm that pretuit thcpiselvts to the pen of the Ul>» 
t tbctv are none wboie raeawMrs are/jre^d ¥ri(|i greyer avidity than those 
«b» faaie ariata (o eminrnce in the hiatrionic act. Such aa have attained thi* 
itttlbcti(a» hf pfofcMiooal tdcots, and virtiioua private character^ are juacly en- 
titled to ptiUic rctpcct ; and by frequently giving such cbaractera a place in per 
^iletfiaU pnblieationa, a aer^ keit r^sidercd to aocirty. ** For the teal end of both 
• tnyidi^Mid oenieiiy ,** says » late writer, ** ia W extend tiie hnowledge of hn^ 
*tMn 11^ ua iaprave thoie a^Vetiena of our natore by wbich we are dif* 
JlkiipakktA4 Trm^tdy, i&nctly speakingt excitea contpaaUoo by the exhibicioii 
■ tiihrnnammruMmf and eomedy ridicnlea the fraUtiea and iafirmitie^ of mettalH 
«fter «' flManer whioh may prove oondocive to the rectification of them. Te 
dhe»i^ pitv 'and correct veiAukeai aieat claim our regard.** It ia to be lamentcds 
h iwawar, thai thie nl^ haa not alwaya hccn kept b view ;, and the Ameriaui 
theatre, in many respecta, baa been highly ceoaurable. But wt: hope the ticpe 
S3 not very distant, when aome of ita excrescences will be lopped off, and the 
etage be respected* aa *' the imitatioD ot life-— thi- mirror of ns^Dnera— tlie re- 
yeasMiialipsof iMth* 

■ '• Joha Baaaardythe aubject of the present memoir, was bom at Portsmooth, 
jft £agl«ad« • Mialadicr waa a Ueutenant in the British oavy» and tbe son was 
4eiign«d Ibr |be aame coorse of life. It kcema, Itoureyer, that yoong Bernard 
<h(iae faiho^ fee foUow tbe bannerh of Thalia than BelUma; and an early and 
■ijjiamwwiiiii piepoasttsaioo in favour of the stage defeated the inicntions of hia 
fa^vti'JU 

We^ye not been informed at vhat particular tims or place Mr..B. bc;^ 
kiaibcatricai career. When a boy» he left hia parenia, and joined an itinemut 
coflapaoy of comedians. Ia thja siiuation, before he «4S eighteen years of a||f» 
iie wa« notU<^d by aume grntleoH»i of Kcir«ich, vho spread such a favoutaliie 
ftpoyt ot his taleuttr that the manager at that place scut him an invitation to 
ium hU & mpaoy, with the ofler of twenty- five shillings per week. As his sa- 
lary had never before exceeded nine or ten shillings, tbia invitation was accepted. 

After performing a ahon time at Norwich, he, with his wife, whom be hid 

jnst oiarried, was iiiviied tu Bath, where he soon acquired the *< gale of favour,*' 

. and for a considerable time was the principal favourite of the town. His feme 

sU length icachfd the metropolis, and Mr. Harria enga^^ed him at Covent 

Garden. 

Bis iifst appeatanceon that atage was in 1787, in the character of Arehier, 
He was received with universal applause^ snd for t^ometime had no competitor 
iatbe line of foppish characters uf the drama. When Mr, Monden vas en- 
gaged at thh theatre, Mr. Bernard retired from London, and performed at Ply- 
snnotb) Dover, and Guernsey. In a short time, however, he returned to Co* 
▼cot OardeRy « here he co^ttniifd till 1797, when he came to America^ 
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PBOVINCIAL DRAMA, 



7Va/re Su NDXKLAMD.^Viiidex once more solicits admission In tbe 
Monthly Mirror. Mr. Kemble has paid us his last visit as a manager, and 
our dramatic cntertainmenu at«, for ti^ future, to lie provided and dkodcd 
by Messrs. Anderson and Faulkner. The former of theM gendtmca, I 
hear» lias worthily filled the situation of treasurer since the time of Mr. 
GswdcU, and has at length taken to himself the management of the origlaal 
drcolt, which excludes Newcastle for a term of years. The latter, I nader 
stand, is admitted to a sort of nominal partnership, for the adnatyfo of 
overlooUng the theatrical department, with whidi Mr. Aaderton la to* 
tally unacquainted, afld Is to receive an equlvalettt for his ttoubk^ in so«« 
addition^ chances of public remuneration. Of Mr. Fauttuiar'a capacity aa 
amanager, I am not able to speak. It re^ulres^ I fancy, no viary rwa qna* 
lifications to conduct the internal economy of a country theaMC) asdt I 
dare say, he is fiiUy adequate to the task. I therefore slnotrcly wish him 
what he may easily deserve, the full reward of attentive industry I9 hli «uw 



Of his worth as an actor, I have alreadf given as fisir an estimate ai my 
judgment enabled me. In the level characters of common natarc, wbere 
pkUn and sensible speaking merely Is required, he Is natural and satlsfac^ 
tory^ — but let him henceforth never attempt those parts that are exalted 
above the experience of Ufe, by the daring speculation of poetle gsniusy Into 
the wild and visionary realms of romance. Virtuous sublimity, and occcn* 
t|ic manners, the nervous energy, and native nobleness of manly fiaeliagy or 
the famastic, delicate, and subtle shades of refined sensibility, are all btyiMMl 
bis power of representation. Now that the opportunities of maoagement 
may rqpay assiduity with competence, let him know liim«clf, and yidM the 
loftier labours of the stage to others, either mora endowed by nacunt, or 
prepared by education, to undertake them. In the choice and excensive 
range of performances^ to which he has had the liberty of calling our attcn- 
tioii, I could never discern that his mind evinced the least acuteness or ori* 
ginality of observation, any felicitous irrfguUrities of peculiar talent, or anf 
confident improvements of superior information. I think his feelings to be 
vu]gar» dun, and artificial ; his knowledge to be common* pUce, supeifioial, 
and limited ; since time^ with all the variety and repetition of prKtice, has 
produced no alteration ; his conceptions are still weak, and Ids execution 
ftlE deficient, ^s heroism still remains contemptible or burlesque ; his 
eccentricity mindless and uninteresting, and his pathos cold, rcpolsiva, and 
mawkish. Let hjm remember> too, how indifferently he is giftrd for the 
polished sprightUncM and alluring graces of fashionable elegance ; his per> 
son is ill-proportioned and shrivelled ; stiff, mean, and affected in its move* 
ments ; his countenance small, sombre, and inexpressive ; its muscle con- 
tracted and inflexible, and its eye motioolcM and vacant. The severity of 
personal rcnsura I should always carefully avoid, unlCM it be strongly dc- 
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only can feel, and ignbrance oulf Molat4 ^fft^tttj pmticolarly needfirf 
here, as neither the necessity of busineW| nor managerial authority, toaptlkd 
the disgusting exhibition, which, now the little grandeur of s^*importanee» 
and Ihfl&ted pomposity of consequential stupidity, W seated oti the clsttr of 
ower, threatens to Inyadeuswith the utmost aggravatfon, wfacn i^K-* 
•traint can be laid upon the temerity of sen'selessne;^, or the freqiicney of 
tinpertinence. 

Those of the former company who cohtinoe under the nfew akriiige- 
men(, are Messrs. Pritchard, Bdlamy, and' liindoc, Mrs. ftrt,ttetfMri. 
Mtthtrd, ' ' ' ■ ' ' .. 

Mr. "Bellamy siipports the old men and c«iuntry 1)oys ; his old men, the 
niorerfeebte 6nc8 fn paiticnljir, ai'e not altogether cRspleasing ; hi* country 
feoys of every descripdon, whether arch or simple, are reduced' by httn to 
Xhi sta^rd bf zanys. There sCems, indeed, a kind of cbnstittrtibnal fjt- 
tult^ at^Out hitn ; a dumsy; sldbheriiig, splayfoot efifemhiacy, whieh, tlold» 
lost' hi a consonant imbecilUv of the chiracter represented, is' prodiiCtitcibtf 
ni'iiWAus'irHtation. I w ould wish ihim to ^ve a rigid attention to Itt -tort* 
rect\on';liemay succeed, and has abilities worth the toil of cuhiTJitioo, btt 
the self-satisfied perfection of superficial success, is a most fatal rock ib thi^ 
atrlcal adventuVers In general. He was at one ti^c an incorrigiblii mimic 
of ^fundeH, but 1 am happy to state that he appears at length to 'haTe#or» 
falieli'thii' paltry propensity, and endeavours to rety> raOre upon hinlBellf! 
To set up a man of profes^onal eminence fol- a tnbtiei,4« not only siQow- 
kbfe,'bonif^d^ble in a young student^ bat his iiiiltation should he directed 
solely to intellectual principles, and barefuHy cohfined from external peculi- 
arities. The peculiar and personal manners of any one are pleasing but in 
proportion to the mental operations' and habits they are 8Ui;q;>o9ed to br^- 
natc fi^om, and manners in themselves displeas%, perhaps, at first, become 
not merely familiar, but grateful to him who Has established his right to our 
admiration, for the real and intrinsic supefibrity of hi? genius, but in hlih 
only are thty endurable ; in' another, (should he even be a man 'o^abllity) 
they are absurd and ridiculous*— hay, even when w«r consent to be afaxiisei 
byprt)fessed Imitation, we internally consider and tleiplse fhem, asmirakt 
and pitiful in their nature and requisitions ;^so true indeed is it, that imfta-i 
tors of all kinds are a ** servum pecus^* ^ . . • 

The rest who remain I shall not disgrace^ and-dcstrby my own tltnt, imd 
yoir room, by further noticing. That censure wiH' prdEohiinate in crfi^isM^ 
cannot be wondered at. Talent is rare; and pretcnderb to it a^ numerbuV^ 
but the harshness of my strictures is tortally Indepihdaftt of persotial' itu>* 
dyes ; the objects of such notice will never boast of acquaintance with Jn6,* 
and I have an higher end In view, than intRvidnalVbi^tttion. The'st^<r 
has now established a necessary connection with human existence in itit'fel- 
viiised state, and contains tf.e seeds of considerable pbiitlcal Artt^xeniki 
these have been progressively ripening, but mahy aris' latent, ahdmabV Im- 
mature. The advantages and deficiencies In its rta'^hre'lormeabi, abfiffrtft^V 
cdly and relativelyi 1 have attehtively considered, and* will' ^'Hd«ivoi]tf'\a 
state them in the course of iny future cdtnmu'ftl'cationi,' slibuld ^ T^tf&tf^ 
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Wnnt jiirtiil i|M 00 man fiondeoiB me uo basiUf f«r waitlos my 
VibfHift u b« may imigiftei i^pDn the petty And vDimportanc subject ^f^ro* 
tiMai il^^nifA^ » . if I 9trivc t^ p«rify« in their sources, the various and 
T) fk m t ikm streams w^k^ *uf>P^ the great xuetropolitan oc<an» I am not i<Ur 
w,m>e|cssiy em i Hy cd. . 

' Soace. .my last*' ft Af iss i.og.%11, has jtoioe^ the company » hut whetlver she 
so^aftejc the c^ptriitipa of Mr< KemUe -s management, I have hoc leamL, 
She U9.ymmfg ladyof extttovdhiary perleetion of fcarm, and ^onsHlerahle 
Te ts^mtiy tad merit te her prefi^ssion* Her mind, indeed, is evidently in^ 
capable ct the exalted walks of the art, but she has a large portion of ^rigbt^ 
ly vtsi»ur, aad attracthra animatfen in playful and natural characters, to 
'Which, iodcedy the beauty of her< person ii ne small assfstance. Yet 
let. mt, tenderly leoommend her not to make t^ admiring gaze of fit- 
shlnn the ebj^ct vf her professional exertions*. Avarke of gaiety betnya* 
tMahness that may be Intiked to folly, whieh temiSnates in misery^ W^ 
male nelsbrlt^hi her ptusnka, U completely eonpatible with the medes» 
^nit p , the tranquil pleasures, and the elegant enjoyments of private lifts 
tfaj* itis se^ and the eanses why they have so seklom been allied^ may here* 
aftntethe sobjeot of enquhy. 

mJMtw Bar^ it enj^M) at Btth. The polished refinement of h'*t i^meaikr 
mMMCH^ sod the moral elegaoee in which his tnio4 has been hrecl, will there 
fintf a -mqcecooganiat and ptopitroas soil foi^ preTessonal improyemetir. Mr. 
Bfosn .has ratumed to ^Liverpool. Such aaenas these are worthy «o become 
> Ibreard the exaltation of the atsge, and^ I doubt not, wiU be 



Teknep vithin sbch bounds a« shall justify my expectatlont ci ^dmhsion 
iem year irork, 1 leili now takt> my leave. I shall not be onintnclful «{ my pro* 
mne^ nm ra»e)«a«of the duties attached to it. The metal and pditical import-* 
ance of the stage, the rank and situation it can claim among the other libera) arts» 
fibmihe nature inl ««tent of the gifts arid accomplishments required to perfect 
that hnportafiee, I shall estimate with caodoar and correctness, to the fiillclt 
extent (Mf my capacities. 

SmJcrlaml, August 1806. Vindex. 

31nii>Mi?eyji^ASOoiR --The attention of (he theahfcal matet0fr^\x\ this 
«it.v, has been anracied, within these, iew days, by an anonymous pampHlet, 
cndiled, **> The Qveeir Street Gheat^ or the Thektrical Speb(rew*' 

Tke anthor ef this work has been so obtigini; as to fa-^out us \ritH hia opi- 
nieoy wsptciing the pfofier meaM for farffl|giog abotft a reformatioo, iu every 
department of our pbyhoolse ^ at\ at least, to pdnt out ^o defideneies 4n each 
departmmil, and, in some instances, to suggest the means of supplying thrm. As 
J am utterly destitute of the qukHfiCaflons which Constitute a critic, Twill, with 
>our permissiony by extraetnig a few sentences fpn^ bis pamphlet, make tliis 
gentlema*! crkidu timsiif, % hilc I simply premise, ihat the aclor*s bread depends 
upon his fame ; and that, though every public performance he open to ptublic 
remark, the observations made bhould, in my apprehension, be the rc^ultof can- 
dour, and l)^ acrdtripanied with goo4 manners. For myself, 1 1 ever, in my 
whcdelife, exchanged a word with one individual belonging to the Glasgow play- 
houscy nor, till this moment, did I ever offer a single syllable for insertion in the 
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No« 4lKn Tor a tew lyec kne rtt of ^vr «ldwi^< sfjrff^ Mi|^,nii twniirwf|r> 
Tak^ the Iblioviof spedmeni of his ityk :«-<< Two •rtkltt,*' sAfs be, •« both 
ioditp^m^y necestary to a theatr<', are not blonderrd, cbef uc ooriliod.'* P. 5« 
** It (the thcahre) is equally blandeted in point of utility at is appeannoe.*' 
« Of [not m or i^] his ( Nfr. Cooke's) comedv, I, hr the sane rtaoM, 
be very brief.'* I^. 15. So mach for hb ttj^. Wow for hb f ai^ ^'*-<< TIm 
aome part extendt-ri, lo gratify (he brutal passion of a beat^ly Loodoi aidkm e*** 
«< This,»» lays he, allutting to the character of Sir Perthia«, •• I newer have 
eeeoy nor will I ever witness, because I am in heart, in soidy a SooCaiM*.** W» IS* 
You a Scotsowo } Not you, itidecd, Mr. Pamphleteer. No mail it either a true 
Scotamao, or a true finglishman, who It not a true Briton, as the mmrtby mArtM 
of both countries well know. National prejudicea (as it may be necessary to 
inform yon, my good friend,) have long bren out of fashioa in England; and I 
am penaaded there are not ten, nor, I believf , two peraont, m Glasgow, wh^ 
would not heartily despise and pity you, for the phrases above qiMtad, oor oaa 
who would attempt to vindicate them. But to proceed :•— ** With a most Ch9« 
fDUgh contempt for nine-tenths of Che corps, as individuals or perfonmn, he- 
aoly deigns to notice chem in this manner, for his own gratUicatioB.? P. i$. 
** Impertinence may guest at names,** [i. e. bis own name, for he saves us tba 
trouble of KuSssing at other people's, by totting them down at fbli length, una 
itrmmitf while his own, it seems cannot even be guessed at without iiimfi - 
, neoce.] Ibid. So much for hit style and temper ; now for his eonrntenty x-^* If' 
they (the mantgers) do not reform, their nighta shall be rendered more h i d eaoa » 
at IcMt, if it be in my power to make them so. Indeed, this is dileflf flsesat aa 
ufin warning. FerhnmsapienH.^ P. 3. Again : ** Should the same fenrcrtc 
'Ignorance, or blind prejudice prevail, they may depend upon being made the 
subject of a particular letter." P. 12. Yet, page 15, be tells us, that after the 
publicatioB of his paaoplet, •< it is not likely, be thall be cursed with Che Tiew^* 
of such actors. 

With respect to his critidtms upon the performers, I uritl only say^ tiiat I 
have heard tbemtlientioned by persons here, (totally iftnconnetted with the the*- 
atre) as in many instances unresionably severe, nos to say wantonly cruel. 
Yours, &c. 

Gla^em^July 8, 18M: Air Enbmy or Calumpiatous. 

ThefUre Koytd Manchestih.— Macready has purchased a lease of thia 
theatre. Messrs. Ward and Young, the late Managers, in conjunction with 
Messrs. Lewb and Knight, offered 1300U per annum ; Raymond, of Dmry 
Lane, 1200 per annum ; but Macready proposing 16U0U psr annumy with a frae 
benefit aonually for any public charity, he obtained the pre fe reuco. 



DOMESTIC EVENTS. 

Madame Blancbard ascended in a ballooo on the 18th ult. from Bourdcauz, 
She psbsed and repaised three times over Dordagne, and descended an hour and 
a quarter after herdepaiture from Bourdeaux, in the commune of Pujots. 

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wn brmlvfr to the-ARMms CarftiDn^oo Sowlet, of priot-ahof rpemory, of Lod- 
gate Hill, Lomlbn. ' The major h^d lived to long among the Canadian tribci 
of Indians, mito.bcoome more than htlf savage himself. Long employed by 
the AmerfcanniimMett, and tlie American governorSk he bad perpetrated a num- 
ber of Hilwliiifi and crueltict on the peace Sul and defenceless frontier inhabi- 
tafrfs of the United Sfaites $ -went to England for a few yean ; after the revolu- 
tionary irar, waragain notked and employed ; but a few years back was landed 
out of a British sloop of war on the shore of the Bay of Mobile ; made his Way 
ix^wat^ tivamni^k^n frontier ; and after alternately committing many excesses 
on the subjects of the United States, uigiog the savages to the war, and com- 
Initrtog open hottiliiies agaiittt the Spaniards* he was betrayed, taken up by a 
party of his brother savages, and delivered to the Spanish commandant, who 
soon bad him confined in the Moro Castie. He was there shut out from light 
vaod ahr, fed upon bread and water only, wittl, being deprived of all hope of deli- 
ytrff he refused all kind of sustenance whatever^ and died April 1806. 

pRootEss OP Smoakino.— It appeal^ from accounts on the table of th^ 
house 4^ commons> Chat the quantity of tobacco retained in tltis country) for 
home conssmption, has been doubled within tuenty years. In 1786 the quan- 
tity letamed was 6,846,606 Ib.-.-In 1805, it was 12,656,4rTl lb. 

The following is the first report firom the committee on the amount of joint 
chafge OB the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, ordered to be 
' prhitedthe 1 1th of July : " Your committee are not enablt d to report the joint 
chaigeon Great Britain and Ireland, or to ascertain the relative situation of the 
tvo CMntries, as to their expenditure^ in consequence of an error in the forma- 
tiottpf the accounts transmitted to them on the part of Ireland, in which the 
somt eKpended for services prior to the Union are not distinguished with suffi- 
cjMt exactness. Your committee, therefore, thought themselves bound to call 
before diem Mck officers as they supposed were most capable of giving them 
it)ft>rmation, as to the mode of keeping and auditing the public accounts in 
Ireland', vrith a rltln to ascertain in what manner the intention of parliament 
coold batt be earried into effect ; and having discovered, by the evidence taken 
before them, to what o£Bces application must be made for these accounts, they 
have directed their chairman to move, that the said accounts be laid before the 
house of coramofts early 4n the next session of parliament. They have, there- 
fip««,the satisfaction of believing that their invcstiga'ion has led to put the busi- 
ness referred to (hem in such a train as to leave no doubt that, shotrkl the com- 
mittee be revived in the ensuing session, they will then be able to present a defi- 
nitive Rpprt on (he subject.*' 

A correct statement of (he quantity of ale brewed in the London district, by 
tlie six principal houses, between July 5, 1805, and July 5, 1806. 
' Stretton - - - . 1^1207 Sharp ... - 9i09 
Charrington - - - 17^926 Goding - - . - 9060 

Webb- ... - 10,019 Hale ^ - - - 7505 

It appears, from an account laTd bef^Sifkf*fMr'h00fe of commons of the qaanti- 
ty of coin; grain, tneal, and flour, impoWeifitito Enghmd and Wales firoml If^ 
Htnd,' for five y^rs, en'dfnglhe dth of JaOnary, 1806^ that the gross amon.it^ 
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BttAty . . . • • . S7,804 qoftrtcfi. 
Beam .*..-.- 6680dkc«u 

Oils 723^1 4iitte. 

Oatmeal '7fi«34^ bolla. 

Peate -...•.- 6399dittp. 
Rye ....... 1474 quarlcn. 

Wheat i2S7,26ft4ttto. 

Wheat flour - ^ - - 115,151 diltck 
Of boantiet and dnw^faocks paid onthe enportatiooof xotit, gtai%aB«al,-aiid^ 
fkmr, rxpbrtcd from £nglaod and Wales, to Ireland, the total gr«ta aaapvat £or 
tAretve years, endiog the 15th of February last, was 12,3981. Itii* 

Of fbe quantity of corn, grain, meal, and flMiry exfoitcd fivam England and 
Wales, to Ireland, ftor fire years, ending the 5th Jan. 1806, the total amonn^ 
for the whole of the said iBterral «as«- 

Cwt. Qrs. Buih. 

Barley 87,737 5 

Beam ...... 20 

Cats ^2ga 

Pease ./-...O 106 

Wheat . - ... 493 

Wheat flour- ... 2 189 2 

ThiC' last item was the amount exported in 1803, from the district of Livcr- 
p0Bl. There was no exportation of that article in the other fi>ur jears. 

SuMMan AscusEMENTS.'On one of the warmest afternoons which ha$ 
been experienced this season, twA.persoDS, in the nevghboudiood of Whitehaven^ 
agreed to run tibeir ponies for a guinea. One of them lost of course i and being 
(as it sometimes happens in such cases) dissatisfied with «l>at had passed, he 
praposed to wrestle with the winner for the same sum. This was consented to^ 
and he lost again. More dissatisfied than ever, he challenged his competitor to 
<fight him ! Tbia proposition was likeviie aficept^dj and« after a Wlerahle good 
beating, he declared himself per/i>c% saiisJietL 

A few days since, a fleld«preacber, who had been a printer, observed in hii 
nasal harangue, " that 3 outh might be compared to a comma, manhood toa 
imnieolon; old age to a colon : to which death puts a ^rioil.** 
1 Income Tax.— We have, for some w£ekshack, hoard of a considerable de- 
gree of dissatisfaciioA being expressed by persons who have received their divi- 
dends, now io the course of payment. The BauJc, it seems, dediipt the ten per 
cent, income tax on all sums paid, however small, and the poor mvi who receives 
tea, live, three, or even one pound dividend, is fiorced to leave the tenth pait be- 
hind him. Of couxae the Bank do no more than Jth^ are compelled to 6fi* 
But Ihcre is a great and manifest haidsh^ in the measure. The tax. takes place 
from the iitth of Aprjl, but ten per cent. i» stopped from the dividend due in 
June ; that i-*, the person who receives dividends in the three percent*, is made 
to pajF -half a ycar*s income tax wVian^y a quarter of the year is elapsed. He 
la made to psy half a year for a quarter. Omld not thi« have been prevented ? 
It m^ht have been |n the most simple way, by deducting only what was really 
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■tftOketioaFofknKywIftf di»t ht only tuilbv in gtMMl wHb til odier stock- 
lurfden. The man who receivet dividends in the reduced^ which are not pay<« 
able till October, will act pay kilf a year's tax ttll half a yaar is due. The tax, 
therefore, will operate justly with respect to bim; wherea* the three per cent, • 
stockholder, whea the Christmas divideads are paid, will haye paid a whole 
feat's tax, when only three quarters of a year will actually be due. The case of 
the bolder of impertiA annuities is «till harder ; they have not many years to run ; 
•re about dght and a half or nine year's purchase ; yet he is to pay ten per cent. 
as well at the holder of stock, -and thereceiTer of an annuity or divideed upon 
it, which if to-be perpetuat The knperial annuity holder is- subject also to ano- 
ther hardship ; his half year ii really due in April, but» from the observance of 
theceremeny of writing to* Vienna, and also of writing to ascertain whether the 
money ft jr |Myl Mg the annuities be ready there, be does not receive his annuity 
till July. Had he been psid in April, his annuity would have been paid with- 
out stoppage or deductkm ; but receiving it in July^ he has the ten per cent, de- 
ducted firom it. 

From the dividends alto ahich are payable to the tnistect of benefit fands^ 
the ten percent, income tut is deducted at the Bairk, in the same manner as 
iron the dividends payabk to all other persons. Upon making repreaentaioiM 
ttpom the subject, the 4rus!tees are inibrmed that they must go first to the com* 
misiioners at Somerset House^ get a biank certificate^ fill it up, and then bring 
it back to thecommisiibnerff, who will grant a ceitiftcate lo tkt ottceat the Stock 
Ixchange, when they wlH^ he repaid. But this is takifig tbo parties, who ore 
gcoerally working men, so much from their business, and occupying so much of 
their time, that fim W^f Mibmit to it. Benefit dobs telUom entrcst move than 
T09!. stock o# their foods to one set of^trottOia; if they have 1€00K stock, there 
are generally three trosfeet for eaeK^ 1001. or iMity for the thousand. This Cho 
dobs do, because tf j«i« it lest temptation Co 4o any thing wsoag when a ommI' 
hii the care of a small than a faifesara. These sets of trustees, cuosisting of 
three each, must go ftrtt to Somerset House, then fill op the certificate, and then 
1^ tb the-etock Exchange to get back three thiUings : thus tWrty men in all art - 
tiken from their work, and occupied a large part of the day, in getting back 
thirty shHiings. 

Mastzks Aim AvFKENTicis.— The following clause, in the new Mutioy 
Act, should be known : — «« And be it IVirther enacted, that If any person, duly ' 
bsond as an apprentice, shall enlist as a soldier in his Majesty's land service, aod 
shall rtatc to thejustice of the peace, or magistrate before whom he shall be car- 
Hetf, tliat be IS not an apprentice, e>ery such person, so offending, shall be 
skeined guihy of a misdemeanour ; and being thereof daly convicted, shall be^ 
and- is hereby drctarcd to be, subject and liable to be imprisoned in any jail or 
house of correction, and kept to hard labour for two years : and shall, after the ex- 
fltatfonof Ihs apprenticeship, be liable to serve fans majesty as a soldier io any 
regiment of his majesty *$ regular forces ; and if, on the expiration of his appren- 
ticeship, he shall nof driver himsdf to some officer authorised to receive rt* 
emits, may be taken as a deserter fipom fab majesty*! regular forces. The n>ep- 
terurest bring his cempkunt Vefbrea justice of the peaot witbio one mfodi-af* 
Ut the absconding of the apprentice.'' 

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The foUowiog It t stotement of the iocieaaed aUowanoM for Um ost | 
erf of Greenwich hospiul, viz. 

Under ten yearf teruce at tetg to 71* per aim. 
Ten years, and under fifteen, 101. 

Fifteen years, and under twenty, 141. 
Twenty and upwards, * IQU 

Natiokal Debt. — An account shewing what has been redeemed of thm- 
NdUonai Debt, the Land Tax, and Imperial i.oan^ to the l»t August, 1806 » 
Redeenicdby Annual Million, &c - * «£'.60,597,325 

Ditto by 11. per cent, per ann. on loans, •* 50,142,162 

Ditto by Land Tax, - - - . 22,628,569 

Ditto by 11. per cent, per anu. on Imperial k>an, 688,389 



Total 134,056,445 



The sum to be expended in the ensuing quarter it 1,956,490 
HomiD MuAotftd— (From a Calcutta paper of December 15.) The 
jtwo militia mcD, who were found guilty on Thurtday latt, of the murder of 
Captain James Johnton, were executed in the Loll Bazar, on Saturday* 
pursuant to their aentences, and their bodies now hang in cbaiot at, a place 
called Melaocbolv Point, below Gordon Reach. 

Of the particulars of the horrid murder of which thete wretched men 
were most clearly convicted, the following appeared in evidence on their 
trial:— 

The ship Perseverance sailed from Penaog for Pegu, in the month of 
April last. Nothing worthy of remark happened until the third night after 
they left Penacg ; when, between twehre and one o'clock of that night, the 
witnesses (who were an Armenian passenger, the butkr, captain's cook, and 
a Klashy) were alarmed with an unusual noise upon deck, where thef io->. 
stantly proceeded, and found that the chief mate had been killed, or aevere- 
ly wounded, and was then lying near the forecastle. They directly taw 
the captain coming out of the cuddy door, with a drawn sword, when he 
addressed the gunner, and said, " For God*s sake don't take my life, and 
ril deliver up the ship to you." He was then between the wheel and the 
cuddy door, when the Seacunny, who suffered on Saturday, inttantly 
plonged a crease, into his heart ; he was then heard to cxchdm ** O Lord !** 
and, it seems, instantly died. He had wounded one of the Seacunnies, but, 
being pent under the poop, he had not sufficient room to wield hit sword in 
his defence. Having accomplished their iniernal design so far, they ordered 
the captain's cook, who had hid himself in the long-boat, to take the whee^ 
under the pain of deatl), if be refused. The Armenian passenger wan then 
ealled ; the gunner told him they had killed the captain, and said, <* we will 
now kill you." He begged hard to spare his life, and they did so. They 
then ordered the Serang to lower down the pinnace, and put into her « 
cask of water, some biscuit, &c, and then ordered the butler to give them 
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«r piste they isovH find, and put them into a dirty clothes-bag, and tent 
them into a boat, with three SeacunAies, a woman, a boy, the Serang, and 
fonr Latoart, the Armenian, butler, and eoolc. The gunner and three Sea- 
cunnies remained on board lor some time ; during which they were employ- 
ed in driving tiie Lascari into the hold, and battering down the hatches ; 
which being accomplished, they set fire to the ship, by putting oakum, tar^ 
and gunpowder upon the tarpaulins upon the hatches, Thej continued oa 
board until the rigging was all on fire, and beginning to tumble down | 
they then went into the boat and pushed off, leaving no less than forty-two 
•r forty-three Lascars to perish in the flames. They now proceeded to- 
wards the land, and kept strict watch over the Serang and Lascars, who 
were obliged to pull the boat three days and nights, until they reached an 
uninhabited island, supposed to have been one of the Arrows, where they 
landed. The butler, cook, Serang, and two Lasoars, being permitted to go 
to a spring of water, to wash themselves, found means of making their es« 
cape into the jungles, where they continued wandering for some days, until 
they saw a Malay prow, which took them on board, and carried them to 
another island, the Chief of which sent them to Penang. We have not heard 
how the Armenian made his escs^e. It is supposed that they murdered 
the woman, and also the other four associates ; and vt are led to believe, 
that the witnesses, who so fortunately and provid^tially niade their escape, 
would have shared the same fate. A passenger, of the name of Palmer, it. 
said to have been also killed on board the ship. 

A snAill sow, of the BcrJcsbire breed, belonging to Mr, Haswell,of tlic Hop- 
pole inn, Chester, has produced the extraordinary number of 110 pigs at six far- 
roirs, viz. first, 15 ; second, 15; tliird, 21 ; fourth, 20 i fifth, 20 s ^^^ 6th, a 
abort time $ince, 19, 

DsLicATK Enquiry.— We understand the long expected report has beea 
alt length delivered to the illustrious lady, whose situation has excited the inte- 
rest, and engaged the sympathy, of every generous bosom in the British Err\- 
pifc. The report, we arc informed, bears date the 14th of July, though it was 
delivered to the illustrious lady only on the 1 1th of August. It contains a gene* 
ral and absolute acquittal from every thing criminal ; but it is said, at the same 
time, to notice some trifling levities. The whole of the proceedings have beea 
grounded npon ihe depositions of a certain gentleman (Sir J. D.) and his lady, 
and of some menial servants, who formerly belonged to Carlton House. The 
evidence, or at least the material part of it, is subjoined to the report, and the 
whole is expected to be given to the public* The first charge was nothing less 
than tliat the illustrious Lady had given birth to a spurious male child. The 
second alledged a general impropriety of conduct. Tl»e first has been proved 
aCbsolutely and totally false j and the second, upon the strictest investigation, 
dwindles into some trifling and harmless levities, fiom which no woman in the 
land is free. Without a husband to support, without a child to comfort, with- 
out a mother toad\iie, surrounded by the worst of sycophants, those who are 
prepared to S(ducc for the purpose of betraying, what bu» the most unexampled 
purity coiild have preserved a conduct, the uhole series of nhich, fur above ten 
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vbstsoerer of cennre) aitd noUficgto notice In the waf 'of sthnoiitfieD, \fki mr 
itwtnfUn^ levities} * - ■ 

HU Mkjesty^t rigbt has been soihewhct Itetter wMlifi the list mom^ 
than befbre; The-amendmetit is, perhaps, not coniMerable'lii itself, hut H? 
B Tidtiabley atbavhig^ ascertained that there is no probaMttty oftbe-disor^ 
der becoBdng 5«^rse. In other respects, the Kingr, at' mr period of his Hfir, 
was in better health than at present. HK malesty' rises ererf morning at* 
sir,brcahfastsat scTcn, and at eight attends divine senriccj in wlxat fy 
called theprhrate chapel, in Windsor castle, to whldi, Inmeter, crefy per* 
son has access. On returning he reads iRapatches, and <Hfctates ans'tters, or* 
tees persons upon business* He then rides out, usoally with' some part oF 
Itts fkmiljr> and, if there be time afterward!, pUiys a littleat chess, eap cctaHy 
ff Generid Fltzroy is in attendance. At one, the king*s dinner is- alway^ 
torrrd. In the summer, this sometimes consists merely, fbr seterat lAiya 
together, of fish, a cold sirioin of beef, or neck of mptton, whh a saUad and 
a pud^ng. In winter, a boiled leg of mutton, with rumips, is often the 
chief dish. The king eats very heartily, drinks one or two glasses of wine, 
but no malt Uquor. At three his majesty goes to the queen's dessert, and ft 
is here alone that he takes greater luxuries than bis subjects, the frnitbelng' 
always in great variety and perfection. After coffee with the queen, the 
king sometimes plays again at chess with General Fltzroy, but he usually^ 
passes the whole of the evening with his family, and between nine and te* 
retires to re^t. 

At Morgantown,in America, a man of the n^ime of Abel dements, was 
in May last sentenced to suffer death, fbr the murder of his wife and eight 
children. 

The celebrated doctor and professor Arneman, formerly of Got thigen, 
whose name is well known td every scientific man in Europe, lately ^ot 
himself in Wandsbeck-wood, about three English miles from Hamburgh. 
Pecuniary embarrassments are stated to have instigated him to the fatal act. 
His loss is universally regretted. He has left two female orphans totally 
unprovided for. 

In order to aroia tiie expcnces attending the employment of caHs, the 
East Tndia company, have built several carriages, of a peculiar constructtoir, for 
conveying thek teas aod other goods from the docks to tlieir respective ware- 
houses. 

Among the projected improvemenis of the city of Westminster, it is pro- 
posed to widen vety considerably Tothill and other streets, so as lo make a 
broad and handsome street from Plmlico to the wesiern entrance of Westmin- 
ster Abbey. Thi^, with tlie opening to be made in consequence of the pulling 
down of the lower of King-street, &c. will make an excellent avenue from 
Wcstftiinster-bridge to the Cficlsca road, Grosvenor-place, &c. 

The northern entrance of Wesrminstcr Hall will* be speedily sKu» up, for a 
Considerable lime, while the great repairs are carried on. A new entrance ts 
»ow making underneath the passage to the parliament Houses, from Lower Pa- 
lace Yard, which will enter the hall in the south-west corner, where there it 
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Baoo^yane latoly •rdexcd 4n Mifm^y ef .the fVimtipGa Fiandi J«Wi1« 
0ie empire, who ware summoned .accprdiofly bf If, M<de, one of tiicaff 
elders. He«tatcd tbftt his mf^tty bad typointed commiMioneM to treat 
with them respecting the bad conduct of many of their mtinben, with Ml* 
pect^to tlMir stUgioa.*-" The I^ws;* tays he, ^ which haific beso ino^ied 
upon peffsoiu of your reUgiuB« iMm: been di&rcnt i\\ joycrthe worid; tkt§ 
have been t«o ofttrn dicuted by the ^g«^cy of the mornMl. But, at liitr* 
iano t^ampiein the Christian aimal«,of amy assembly l&e thk,ao you, for 
the first time* Mre to be impanUly judgad, ^pd fyour fate decided by a 
CkruiianJ*rmc£, It is his majesty's wish that \ou diouldbocame-^nenchs 
It is ^onr duty .to accept this title, and to consider that yon, in iut, ra- 
naaoceit, whoMsrer you shew ymirselves unworthy ofit«* * i ■ aT hc ioNovr^ 
log tpiesiioin, pnqttsed by histnajeity, were then read by the aecrelary 4f 
the meeting* and a time appointed Sot receiving 4he ananaefs : — ** i. Jstthe 
Jewjpemdtted to^narry more than one wife ?— 2. IsYivoreeiicfaittcd by 
the Jewish religion ?— 3. Can a Jewese iBtennstry with a X^hrietisp, 4ir» 
Chribtian female with a Jew; or does the law prescribe that Jews alone 
should intermarry }^A. Are the French in the eyes of the Jews brothers ar 
aliens ?— 5. What in all cases are tiie connexions which their law permits 
them to maintain widi the French, who are not of their MKglan ?-^6. Da 
tbe }<wB-«afao were bom in France, ;md have been trsattdaa FMnth dtl- 
ens by tiK laws^ consider France as their nati*M country ? Are they 
bound to defend k? Are diay under «ny obligation to obey the lewa, 
and to follow all the regahuiom of the civil cede?-^. Who art 
they who ace odled RaU>tiis?«8. What civil jurifidiction do the RabMnt 
, exercise among the Jews ? What power df puiUsbment do they possess ?<— 
6. Are the nuMle of chusing the RabMns, and theaystem of punishment, 
ngolated by the Jewish law«, or are they only renderalaicred by coftom ? 
—10. Were the Jews fefbidden by the laws %6 take usury of their bretSie* 
fen? Are they permitted or •fot1>idden to 4I0 this of strangers^— 11. Are 
those things proclaimed, which are forbidden to the Jews by their law ?" 

At Akona, on the 30ch July, a new o^era and military spectacle ^ing 
J»'D^ght4]iut at the theatre»..sQDafecf ibe scenes cai^bt fire, in conseguence 
pf the frequent discharge x>f musketry. Tbis excited mucji alarm amoQg 
the audience, and so great :was the prtss«re to get out, that seven persona 
kK their lives, and fifteen others austained Jnuch injury. The fire was toon 
extJMpithcd. 

A abort .time since, a brewer's dray, laden with three butts of porter« 
while passing up Mount-street, tbe conmion sewer. gave fvay \ and*the dray^ 
with its contents, was in an instant buried. The shock was so great, that 
the dray dragged the three horses into the pit. After the gixatest exertiom 
of a number of j>ersons, they were extricated. It was three hours before the 
dtay and beer were got up. 

A singular accident occurred lately at Stretton*s ale-brewery : a painter, 
' angled in painting the upper part of the inside of the building, over- 
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wliidi was netriy full of cold wftter. He lote vnhuit, but immediatelx ran 
hotat in the greatest alarai at the recoOectioii of the danger. 

The crop of hops promises to h« so abundant this year, that the doty is es- 
timated at 155,0001. 

The foundation stone of (he monument to be erected in the Green of Olas* 
fow, to the memory of Lord Nelson, has been laid by Sir John Stuart, of Al* 
lanbank. Provincial Grand Master of the under ward of Laoarkshize. In the 
procession, which we cannot detail, were two naval officers, heading a detach* 
■lent of sailors who had ser\-ed under I^ord Nelson i they carried a modd of a 
ship, the union dag, and an ensign, with the following inscription : ** fVe fought 
mnd cojtquerfid under Howe, Jervis, Duncan, and Nelson^* Upwards off 
80,000' spectators witnessed the ceremony, but all was order and regularity y and 
•oc » single accident occorred. At the close of the ceremony, the speOatort 
vera strongly intefaated by a characteristic trait of the uilors, who rushed in» 
«nd kneeling, kissed the foundation stone, with every mark of affedienata re* 
|afd for their lamented illustrloqa comnrander. 



BIRTSS, 
TheCounteaa of Albemarle, of a daughter. Lady Eliiabeth Palk, tPn 
joo. At Boogie Hall, Suffolk, the lady of Lieut. CoU Cumaaingyof a daogbten 
At Maldon, the lady of Lieut. Col. Phillips, of a daughter. Of a soa and heir, 
the Hon, Mrs. Ferguson, sister of Lord Duncan. Of a son, the lady of Brig, 
Gen. G. Cuming, at Gotdon Lodge. The lady of Alderman Hunter, of a son. 
The lady of Captain Mason, of the royal navy, st St. John's, Newfoondlaod* 
of a aoo. The lady of Sir W. Beechey, lo Harle) street. The Countess of 
Belmore, in Dublin, of a daughter. The lady of Sir J. Kennaway, at £s(Dot» 
Devonshire, of a daughter. The lady of Sir J. B. RiddeU, at Edinburgh^ of a 
daughter. The lady of C. Hamilton, Esq. at the LeMOwea, of a daughter. La^ 
^1 M. I«ockhart, at Largie house, Qi* a daughter. 

MARRIED, 

The Hon. C. A. Pclham, son of Lord Yarborough, to the daughter of tb^ 
Hon. J. B. Simpson. D. Oliphant, Esq. 2nd in council at Prinpc of Wales*s 
Island, to the daughter of Sir. D. Wedderbume. R. B. Dean, E!«q. of Lin- 
coln's Inn, to Miss S. O. daughter of the late M. Owen, Esq. of Woodhousr, 
fialop. At Wootton Waven, Warwickshire, the Rev. Mr. T. Becher, htfc 
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Head Master of the Royal Graaomar 
school. Bury Sr. Edmonds, to Miss Scott. The Hon. W. H. Hare, to Mlsa 
fiaugh, of Upper Wimpole Street. 

DIED, 

The Right Honourable I .ady Mary Duncan. In Grosvenor-strcet, the Hon . 
Mrs. F. Irby. J. Addams, Esq. in consequence of his chaise overturning on 
^ewes race ground, and fracturing his leg. At Carlisle, Sir R. Hodgson. The 
relict of Sir F. Gosling. Baroness Pfeilitzer, niece of W. Mauduit, Esq. of 
XAaco\ n's-inn-fields. Mrs. Aspeme, wife of Mr. A. books^lcr, of CornkiU. 
Captain Ciesar Ha\7kUifi,of the Light Dragoons. 



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SEPTEMBER, 1806. 



Embellished mth 

PORTRAIT OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES JAMES FOX, 
^ ENGRAVED BY RIDLEY, FROM AN' ORIGINAL PAINTING. 



CX)NTENTS. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 

Correspondence, 146 

Biographical Sketch of the Right 

HonooraWe C.J. Fox UY 

A Scene near the Royal Palace at 

Naples W 

The History of Arts 13a 

Anecdote of a High^ayit^an 155 

Cowperiana—No. XIII. ; lt>2 

The • French Opinion of British 
. Courage .' 167 

REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 
GENERAL. 

Francis's Speeches in the House of 

Commons on the War against 

the Mahrattas 169 

l^ord Holland's Life of Lope Felix 

deVegaCarpio 1T7 

Rev. R. Graves's Triflers.. 180 

Torrio-Whiggo-Machia ib. 

A Sermon on the GrenenU Fast „'. 181 

The Last Man ib. 

Surr's Winter in London ib. 

Young's Memoirs of JVIrs. Crouch ib. 
Marcliffe's Life of Lady Jane 

Grey •.», 182 

Moore's Epistles, Odes, &c ib. 

A compendious Report of the Trial 

of Lord Melville 183 

Henrietta Harris's Poems ib. 

Dallas's Morlands ...; ib. 

The singular and interesting Trial 

ofHenrySlanton, Esq. ........ 184 

Worsley's Account of the State of 

France, kc ^ tb. 

Kcegan's Commercial Phraseology 185 

Architectural Hints ib. 

Heasores and not Men ib. 



. Miss Hamilton's Forest of St. Ber- 

* nardo 186 

^ firitton's Historical Account of 

i Corsham House ib. 

The Miseries of Human Life ....« ib* 

Cromer, a Descriptive Poem 187 

Poetical Woriis of W. J. Mickic .. 189 
: The Young Ladies' Assistant, ..... ib> 



BRITISH STAGE. 
Dermody's Remarks on the Drama 190 
, Anecdotes of the French Stage .... ib. 
I Anecdote of Garrick 193 

ORIGINAL POETRY. 
VerKS written upon reading the 

Wanderer of Switzerland 193 

Bon Soir la Compagnie 195 

On the Death of Mrs. Mary N 196 

Lines written on the Pier at Dover ib, 

A Parody, '. 197 

Sonnet, on leaving a Country Re- 
sidence 198 

. MEMORANDA DRAMATICA. 

Hajmarket 198 

Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden ib. 

New Royal Circus ib. 

Astiey's Royal Amphitheatre .^... 199 

New Olympic Paviliion ib. 

Vauxball 200 

American Stage , ib. 

PROVINCIAL DRAMA. 

Birmingham 202 

Sheffield ....: 203 

Glasgow ib. 

Domestic Events, ice 206 



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C0RRfi&{»6Nt>torCE. 
A portrait ^ Jllr. Melvin, ike Hceeu^ul n^ kct^fr^m fi^fe. 



I 11 ■ I r f I 



Jtf iTtr$ dli ftui ^pimh Maffidg^, lirrived too ktd Ibr iki l^umESr. & 
shall assiiHsdljr^ppQKr aext month. 

At tbe ame time the Sketch of a trip from 6h^ov to t%e talb o^ the 
Clyde. 

We beg lo aoknowledge the receipt Af 

dtsefvaiiohi oh t>ueltihg, ^ t i. 

Tte l)yi»^ CSltfti; by I. M. t. 

fntftsunip rfntWcuf d^ iIr fufie* 

lSoi*e ^ostfdil amcks df much n^Ht (MA M a««< v»v 

xBfee MNwetft by w^« Ba li*» 

An addrtional instance otfhh Longevity o^ Miisidan% hy O. C* T • 

the cdmimihicAddniOftti^aWthot of an Tmp^dmptUf fftttft Edrabiit^, Ve- 
tod very serviceable on certain occasioni. We heg thc^ may be conGoued al'tSi( 
irriter't leimre* 

The Epigram fcom G^rini, by O. C. T. ia^mr next. 



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I 

BIOORAPBIC4L SKETCH OF TH|: 

RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES JAMES POX. 

{WUh a Jhrtrgjf.) 

Chaiiles Jam^ Fox was tbe yoongtr toft of Hrary^ wbo wm 
faimstlf the youn^ son of Sir Ste{^«B Fox, cclobratcd kss for his 
own birth, than the drcumstanee of being i^ father a* the age of 
eighty, an event not incredible bowofiwry aq/ai rendert^i io4he present 
iftstance, unsuspicioas, by the ilecorons conduct, and ackaowiedged 
virtue of the partner of his bed. Hemy entered early into public 
lifey^ and such was his address in |»arlicaiienty daring t^ reign «f 
George 11. that he soon attained not only some of the most arduous 
and honourable, but also die most lucrative situations in the gift of 
th^ crown, for in the year IT 54, he was appointed secretary at war; 
then secretary of state for the southern department, and after tieiiig 
imsfed by the great Mr. Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham, we fin4 
hiin filling the immensely beneficial office of pay-4na8ter general of 
the forces, accumulating great wealth, and inoarring the animadver- 
sions of the first city of the empire. Sudi indeed was his const- 
quence,that at a time when patents of peerage were not rery com* 
mon he was ennobled by his present mi^est^, in If ^, by the titk 
of Baron Holland of Foxley. 

His son, Charles James, was bom January ISth, 1T49, and if, 
by hisfadier^s side, he classed among the natd homin4$, by his mo- 
ther's his descent must be allowed to be splendid, for Lady Georgi- 
ana Carolina Leooa was the dianghter of the iate Duke of Rich* 
mond ; and, as such, in addition tp tlaat of the King of Sardinia, she 
was allied to the two rival, but related ftmities, which had so long 
contested for tk^ dtf^n$ of Oreat Britain*— those of Bmnswick and 
Stuart. 

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length, became the darling of his old age. Perceiving in him the 
seeds of all the qualities that constitute greatne^, he was at infinite 
pains to give scope to his intellectual vigour, to expand the shoots, 
and disclose the blossoms of so promising a plant. From his earliest 
infismcy he intended him for parliamentary bu^nest^ and by con- 
versing always with him as if he had been a man, he actually made 
him one before the usual time. He is even said to have submitted 
his dispatches to his perusal, while in office, and to have complied 
with his corrections. 

This country, much about ihe same time, beheld, in the persons 
of two rival orators, two wonderful instances of statesmen retiring 
from the field of contention, and devoting the remainder of their 
lives to the education of their two younger sons, with whom they 
w^re accustomed to talk about public affairs, and sometimes to place 
them on a table in order to hear them declaim. Occupied the better 
part of their days in hostilities against each other, the enmity of the 
families seems to have become hereditary, for it was kept up by 
their children, who maintained a rivalship, even ^fter they had ab- 
jured the principles of their respective sires. 

In compliance with the future destination of his son, Lord Hol- 
land preferred a public to a private education, and accordingly sent 
Charles' to Westminster school. After distinguishing himself here, 
he removed to Eton, where Dr. Bernard^ the late provost, found him 
Bot only uncommonly eager after amusements, but eminently suc- 
cessful in classical attainments. His private tutor, while a member 
of this celebrated institution, was Dr. Newcombe, afterwards Bishop 
of Waterford, who, while he was frequently vexed at the dissipation 
of his pupil, had occasion at the same time to be highly gratified 
with his progress. Here he formed his early friendships with the 
Earl of ritzwilliam, Lord Carlisle, his own relation the Dqkeof 
Jicinster, and some of the first men of tlie age- It was here also, 
that one of them (Lord Carlisle,) anticipated his future reputation 
in the following lines: 

** How will my Fox, alone, by strength of parts, 
** Shake the loud senate, animate the hearts 
" Of fearful statesmen ! while, around you^tand 
** Both peers and commons listening your command; 
" While Tully's sense its weight to you affords, 
^ His nervous sweetness shall adorn your words. 
" Wh^t praise to Pitt to Townshend e'er was due, 
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His father- being, in the uncourtly language of those tlays, ** a 
rank Tory,** Charles was sent to finish his education at Oxford, 
where he is reported, rn imitation of Penelope, to have regained hj 
his daily toils, the labours lost by his nocturnal aberrations. 

At length he began to pant after a more unrestrained intercourto 
with society, and consequently to be disgusted with the restraiats^. 
and tired with the uniformity of a collegiate life. The most eaty 
as well as most likely way to rid himself of this, was to evince an 
ardent desire to see the world ; and as his studies were now com- 
pleted, his father, as usual, indulged the wishes of his darling son. 
Those who have been accustomed to see Mr. Fox of late years^ 
without being acquainted with the minute particulars of his early 
IHe, will scarcely believe, that at this period he was one of the 
greatest beaus in England ; that he indulged in all the fashionabla 
elegance of attire, and vied, in point of red huisy and P«rw-c«/- 
vtlvet,W\th the most shewy men of the times. These and similai 
qualifications were displayed in most of the courts of Europe, in 
the course of the graad tour ; and if he did not return like bis ma- 
ternal ancestor, (Charles II.) with all the vices of the continent, 
he at least brought a wardrobe replete with all its fashions. Nor 
will a strict regard to historical truth permit the omis^on of more 
culpable transgressions, for he is said, amidst the ardour and impe* 
taosity of youth, to have expended, or rather lavished, vast sums of 
money in play,* and to have contracted immense debts. Let it ba 
recollected, however, that he was at this very time between two 
and three years short of that period, when the law declared him to 
be no longer a minor. 

His enemies have carefully reminded us, that the first political 
act of his life was a violation of the constitution of his nativa 
coiratry; for at the general election in 1768, he took his seat for 
Midhurst, in Sussex, a borough under th^ influence of his family, 
when he was only nineteen years of age, and consequently ineligible. 
It is with pain too, here reluctantly recorded, that the first effort 
of his eloquence was hostile to liberty ;t but, besides his cxtrema 

• Dr. Bisset, in hb Life of Burke, asserts, thathis faUier, Lord Holland, whd 
accompanied him to Spa, first excited an itch for play in his youthful mind, by alloir. 
iag; him five guineas a night to be spent in gAmes of hazard. But as this rests on th« 
aere assertion of that gentleman, it will be difiScult to give credit to the report. 

t His first speech was in opposition to Mr. Wilkes, then confined io the King*s 
^eneh ; and -whatever the inctioes of that gentleman might be, dispassionate men 
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3K>atlH the bant of hk educftti^ii, i\m ^M4)0n of hit fwlyy ancl 
Ibt mtlieft of afoDd ifitbtr» oug^t «)1 (o U Ukw iiUo cofisi4fH«tiQi»; 
wulifaeonplcte viiM^oatkNi 4o^ ■ot^ooue, »n io|^ouou& muid 
will not b« at a loM for im upolocy. 

Daring the proceediiigft of th« houia relaiiva to tha Middlesex 
flectioQ, Mr. f. staod forward at t^ ohampion of tU ministry, ium} 
ailufaited DO comoioii addrost and «Gti?t^ on the ocoaiioa* Ftom 
titt fimtnomant of his entoriog tba 96n%te, ba, ipdeedy di^biy^ 
all the qaaHtiet of tho orator ; aod I/>rd North, thw ^UK^eUajr of 
tlia exohaqueri deemed his mtrits so coasid#rahle^ that m the h^ 
ginning of 1773, he oomtnated him to a seat nt the adupifal^ hoAPC^ 
and tn the latter part of the sam^ jrear made him, in some measure^ 
a partner with hias^ in the management of the eji^pire, by ap* 
pointing him a lord of the treasury. 

Amidst this seeming devotioo to the court, there wert not 
wanting opportunities when he shook off the tramn^lf of dapaar 
dcnce. Not the least memorable of these was during the debate on 
the bin breagbt into the house of compioni by Sir W, ftfarodith, l# , 
gire relief from subscription to the thirty-nine article! of the church 
«f England. 

But the time had now arriTcd when a new direetiojo was ta be 
ghren to his pursuits. The real cause of this event, which iDvolvi^d 
eo many important consequences, can only he guessed att The 
pons of Lords Guildford aad Holland, were both possessed of tak^ts^ 
the one, perhaps, aspired to, the otiier eojoyed, the supreme cona»> 
mand ; and like two great men of antiquity, the iirst, perhaps, could 
not brook a superior, nor tlie second a riyal. The ex>mity was firfft 
devdoped in the reiusal of a petty ^pointment ; it encreaised on 
the memorable examination of the Rev. Mr. Iloroe, now John H. 
Tooke, at the har of the house of commons ; and iiaally became 
public, in coijsequenoe of the following billet, covched witj^ all the 
energy of Spartan Iwevity. 

** His Majesty has thought proper to order a new coi^mis^op 
of the treasury to be made out, in which I 4ou*t perceive yoor 
aame. « 

** Hie Hon, Mr. Fox, »* North**' ' 

Considering this not merely as an injury, but an iosult, the hos- 
tility of Mr. Fox from that moment became public, and he at length 
raided such a constitutional opposition to tlie admtnistradoB of the 
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«ilnpt, tint ht, in th« m<}, »iiby«Hed hil ftm^, md tmggtd kh 
lAIH^tit to the Tiery fedg« of th« sdbflbM. 

Id tint ttrtaA time Lbhfl HdUluid diled, le«dtig: A hetUfi sum of 
ttoiiey, uml ^onticheMbld estates itx tk^ neighbonrboodl of Xingi- 
(aA«, v4th the bouse tbetie, built ih itikilacioii of TMy^ FotnwMi 
▼iltfeyoa th^s coast of Biiift, to his SOhChtarlfes. H6 was thi» ib |^o»- 
leltstofti ttf a {^ntifd fbitun^, and had ho r«tak«d it, wooM fa»P9 
ifood open a high ground in point of eoHsequeiiee : ibr ihaae hm^ 
4iiMky m ftddtdoii to the clerkship of the pelU ih Ik'elaiidi toob 
ftftet mM to Mr. JenkinsbM, now Lord litetpoo^, tAuH hstte pro- 
duced a nett annual iAc6diie of 40001« 

AfW tte diksipatton of this iMrge prdp^ty^ a eotlHioA ttilifl 
'^4\A hav^/pertiaps, beht undet the ealatmty $ his> on the oeamufjv 
leem^ tb hkft itibounded tintA the ftitt ; and instead of sihlaag ia» 
ikitptdt^ t6 huve iidiMdly soared into tdebrfty^ and even Mepen^ 
iflenoe* 

An event now filled op the bitter draught of popular odium ; and 
Ihe pMviouB oppressitfo, and ^ircateiied soljiigation of Aroerici^ 
araa»ed a geaefal spirit oi reaistaMce within the mother cottnlI9^ 
and poiatttd the finger of public Vengeahoe at the ^voted head of 
^ prMiAiefr. Forcuaately fer Mr. Fox's cdnsistenoj^ his conduct t«s» 
fmki^ ihe tiramatiantid oontest, was ever striotljr aniform ; nod oii 
^is^ as ott a saW^uent oceasioti, he caw afar q£^ anticipated tb% 
ite(»elidliig calhtsitieft, and predicted the aocumnktion of millers 
i^H, which afterwaids ov«rwhelnMMl the oadoik 

[Tob6eoatiti«d.] 
»nirnnii iii>i>M,iimi n. mu m i jn. mi bum >^iim#b 

A Seto4£ N£a& The ROVaL I^ALACfe At NAt^LfiS. 



At h time when the public attention is so much engrossed hf 
4he threats which have lately taken place in the south of Europe^ 
fad panicolarlj in the dl-fated kingdom of Naples, the following 
account «>f a most afiecdog, and» at the same time, deplorable scene^ 
which occurred daily near the royal palace at Naples, as related b/ 
a gentleman who resided in that my in 1804, will not, I trust, prove 
wfaottgr anaeocptable to the readers of your miscellany. 

^ Whenevel- any part of the 19^ fhmily quitted the palaqe, it 
was always accompanied by an event, which, though not of the most 
solemn description, could not fail to giw rise to very melancholy re* 
ileetions in the mind of every feeling spectator^ A crowd of peo- 
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gery diseftse, and nakedness, assembled before the gate of the io* 
ner •court, through which the royal inhabitants passed to their car- 
riage. Each of these miserable beings -carried, in his^ hand a paper, 
or rather a petition, which, as the royal personages passed through 
the gate, he thrust forth towards them, with every effort to obtain 
a hearing. The queen received them, smiling at the impatient 
earnestness of those by whom they were presented : the king, with a 
look of benevolence and sympathy, which is peculiar to him on. such 
x>ccasionS) and the prince with manifest anxiety. — Alas ! bow few 
of these m^ancholy ol^ects could be attended to ! I have frequent- 
ly been moved to tears by their piercing exclamations of, '* Pan^, 
Maesta, pan^.'' It may be easily conceived, after so great a revo- 
lution as that which took place in Naples, upon tlie irruptiqn of the 
sanguinary hordes of France, how many thousands, both of the no- 
bility and lower classes, have been reduced to the most deplorable 
misery, without the smallest prospect of even a temporary alleviation 
•of their sufferings.'' 

Permit me to add the following account of , a most affectia^ 
icene, which I have received firom the same respectable authority.; 

" The widow of an officer, who fell during the disturbances of 
1799, was left with six helpless children, totally unprovided for; she 
determined to acquaint the king with her distressing situation, and^ 
finding an opportunity of accosting him in the gardens of Casert^ 
implored his charity, but in vain. She however continued her sup^- 
plications, and s^d, among other things, that her husband had lost 
his life in his defence, during the last campaign.— '< In what cam- 
paign ? exclaimed the king; there has been no campaign ; my troops 
abandoned me on the very first outset.'' The wretched mother re- 
plied, that her husband remained faithful to his sovereign.—" It is 
false, quickly retorted the king; nissunc me stato fidele (no one re* 
mained faithful to me) — he alone, continued his majesty, pointing 
to a hound that was standing by his side, " he alone remained faith* 
fill to nie." Instead of being dismayed, she humbly entreated him 
to grant her merely as nmch as the dog's daily pittance, in order to 
save herself and her fatherless children from starvation. 

This supplication, which her spbs rendered scarcely intelligible, 
deeply affected the unfortunate and much-injured monarch, and he 
ordered his attendants to give her two unza. Alas ! this was but a 
momentary relief \^ I am, Sir, 

Your most obedient servant, 

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THE HISTORY OF ARTS. 

' "Rr is natural to man ; and the skill he acquires vSter many ages 
of practice, is only the improvement of a talent he possessed at 
tbc first. Vittuvius findst he mdiments of architecture in the form of 
a Scvthian cottage. The armourer may find the first productions of 
liis calling in the sling and the bow ; and the ship-wright of his in 
tbe canoe of the savage. Even the historian and the poet may find 
tlie original essays of their arts in tbe tale and the song which c6* 
kbrate the wars, the loves and the adventures of men in their 
rudest condition. 

Destined to cultivate his own nature, or to mend his situation, 
man finds a continual subject of attention, ingenuity, and labour. 
Even where he does not propose any personal improvement, bis fa- 
culties are si rengthened by those very exercises in which he seems 
to forget himself: his reason and his afiections are thus profitably 
engaged in the afiairs of society ; his invention an d bb skill are ex- 
ercised in procuring his accommodations and bis food ; his particu- 
lar pursuits are prescribed to him by circumstances of tbe age and 
of the country in which he lives. In one situation be is occupied 
with wars and political deliberations; in another, with the care of 
bis interest, of bis personal ease, or conveniency. He suits his 
means to the ends he has in view; and, by multiplying contrivances, 
proceeds by degrees to the perfection of his arts. Tn every step of 
bis progress, if his skill be increased, bis desire must likewise have 
dme to extend : and it would be as vain to suggest a contrivance of 
which he slighted the use, as it would be to tell him of blessings 
which he could not command. 

Ages are generally supposed to have borrowed from those who 
went before them, and nations to have received their portion of 
learning or of art from abroad. The Romans are thought to have learn* 
ed from the Greeks, and the moderns of Europe from both. Fronl a 
lew examples of this sort we learn to consider every science or art 
as derived, and admit of nothing original in the practice or man- 
ners of any people. The Greek was a copy of tbe Egyptian, and 
even the Egyptian was an imitator, though we have lost sight of tb« 
model on which he was formed. 

It is known, that men improve by example and intercourse; but 

in the case of nations, whose members exdte and direct each other, 

^hy seek from abroad the origin of arts, of which every society 

having the principles in itself, only requires a favourable occasioa t» 

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bring tbem to light ? Wbeu such occasion presents itself to any 
people, they generally s^ze it; nod while it continues, they im- 
prove the inventions to which it gave rise among tbemsolvesy or tb^ 

* willingly copy from others ; but th^ never employ their own inven- 

* tion, not look abroad for instruction on «ula^ts that do not lie in 
the way of their cocsmoD pursuits ; they never adoptat>efineniciit 
of which they have not discovered the use. 

Inventions, we frequently observe, are accidental ; but it is^pcio- 
bable, that an accident which ifscapes the artist in one age^ maybe 

.seized by one who succeeds him, and who is better apprised of its 
use. Where circumstances are favourable, and where a people is 
intent on the o^ects^ of any art, every invention is preserved, by 
being brought into general practice; every model is studied, and 
every accident is turned to account. If nations actually borrow 
from their neighbours, they probably borrow only what they are 
nearly in a condition to have invented themselves. 

Any singular practice of one country, therefore, is seldam trans* 
ferred to another, till the way be prepaped by the introduction of »- 
milar circumstances. Hence our frequent complaints of the duil^ 
ness or obstinacy of mankind, and of the dilatory conununication of 
arts, from one place to another. While the Romans adopted the 
arts of Greece, the Thracians and Illyrians continued to bdiold 
them with indifierence. Those arts were^ during one period, con- 
fined, to the Greek colonies, and during Another, to the Bomau. 
Even where they were spread by a visible intercourse, they were 
still received by independent nations, with the slowness of inventioQ. 
They made a progress not more rapid at Rome than they had done 
at Athens; and they passed to the extremities of the Roman 
empire^ only in company with new colonies, and joined to Italian 
policy. 

The modem race who came abroad to the possession of culti- 
vated provinces, retained the arts they had practised at home : t|ie 
new master hunted the boar, or pastured his berds, where he might 
have>aised a plentifal harvest : lie built a cottage in the view of a 
palace: hetmried, in one common ruin, the edifices, sculpture^ 
paintings, and liWaries of the former inhabitant :: he made a set- 
tlement upon a plan of his own, and opened a-new the source of 
inventions, without ^erceiving^ frojxi a distance to what leogtli their 
progress might lead his posterity. The cottage of the present race, 
like that of the former, by degrees enlarged its dimensions; public 

. buildings acquired a magnificence in a new taste.. Efen this tast* 
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i^pe recurred to the models which their fiithars de^^royed^ and 
^^pt oyer th« mins which they coald not restore. 

The literary reaiains of antiquity were studied and imitated, 
only after the original genius of modern nations had broke forth : 
the rude efforts of poetry iu Italy and Provence, resembled those of 
the Greeks and the ancient Romans. How far the merits of our 
works uMght, without the aid of their models^ hare risen by succes- 
sive improvements, or whether we have gained more of imitation, 
than we have lost by quitting our native system of thinking and 
our v^ein of fable, must be left to conjecture. We are certainly in-- 
dsbted to them for the materials, as well as the form of many of 
our compositions ; and without their example, the strain of our li* 
terature, together with that of our manners and policy, would haife 
been different from what they at present arc. 

This much however may be said with assurance, that although 
the Homan and the modern literature savour alUce of the Greek orie* 
ginal, yet mankind in either instance would not have drank of this 
fountain, ontess they h»d been hastening to open springs of their own. 

Sentiment and fancy, the use of the hand or the head» arc not 
iQventions of particular men ; and the flourishing of arts that de^ 
pend on them, are, in the case of any people, a proof rather of po- 
litical felicity at home, than of any instrucuou received from 
abroad, or of any natural superiority in poipt of industry or talents. 

When the attentions of men are turned towards particular Sjub- 
jtcts, when the acquisitions of one age are lej&. entire to ^he.oext, 
when every individual is protected in bis place, and {^^ to pursue 
the suggestion of his wants, inventions accunpyulate; and it is difficult 
to find the original of any art* Tlie steps which lea^ to perfection 
are many ; and we. are at a loss on whom to be«tow the greatest 
ehare of our praise ; en the first or on the Imt wbq may have borne 
a part in the prog|ress> 

' ' ' . > I I ■ I ■ ■ ,. II n . mil I f rftmr 

ANECDOTE OF A HIGHWAYMAN. ' 

FKOM TH& LOUNO£R*S COMMON-PLAJCB BOiUC 

A clergyman returning from London, to the paribli in which he 
resided, within twenty miles of the metropolis, as the evening was 
closing, overtook a traveller on horseback, and, as the pad had been 
notorious for robbery, and murder, begged leave to join company,^ 
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Tbe appearance of the strangery half-sappressed tigbs, aii4 a 
rooted melancholy stamped on his countenance, interested the old 
gentleman in his favour: they conversed on various subjeots, and 
that unsocial reserve, which has sometimes been considered as tbe 
characteristic mark of an Englishman, was gradually dissipated ; 
politics, weather, and the danger of travelling near London at 
night, were among the eitempornneous topics of new acquaint- 
ance. 

^ I am surprised,'' said the ecclesiastic, '^ that any reasonable 
being should expose himself to the infamy and destruction, which, 
soon or late, always follow the desperate adventures of a highway- 
man. My astonishment increases, when I recollect several in- 
stances, in which the ofienders were men of sound intellect, and, 
previous to this fatal obliquity, of sober life and con\'crsation. 

*^ They must have known that, in this our christian country, 
there were inexhaustible resources of pity and relief, in the hands 
and hearts of the charitable and humane, many of whom make it 
the business of their lives to seek for, and assbt, real distress, in 
every shape, and every rank." 

** I agree to the truth of your description of English benevo« 
lence and British hospitality,'* said the traveller, ** genereUfy upeak- 
ing; but, there ii a species of suffering, which, shrinking from pub- 
lic notice, often escapes the benignant but superficial glance of mo- 
dern charity. 

** There ^re spirits, sir,^ continued the stranger, in an elevated 
tone of Toice, his eyes flashing at the moment with a ferocious 
pride and tortured sensibility, ^ tliere are individuals who would 
rather perish than attempt to awaken the generosity, or expose 
themselves to the pity and contempt of mankind. 

** They wotrfd not hesitate a moment in flying for refuge to 
deaths to conclude their awn miseries; but of what materials, sir, 
msst his heart be formed, who could see a wife, a child, or a parent, 
deficient in the necessaries of life, without resolving, at any risk, to 
procure them* 

'* There k ai species of distress, which does not always strike 
the wealthy, and which prudent men, when they do see it, only 
laugh at and cevile; tliey tell the sufferer, that he is poor and mi-' 
scrablc, only because he deserves to be so ; that while he has legs 
to support him, and arms able to work, he has no right to relief; 
that it would be injustice and bad policy to bestow, on refined in- 
dolence, on morbid and culpable affectation, thnt help which 
ought only to be afforded to indig^enl infirmity, and irretrievable ctv* 
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THC ICONTHLT VXRftOE. 1S7 

** Your appearance, sir, from the moment yoa approached am, 
and your eoaversation since, have strongly prepossessed he in your 
fsfoor, and I am resolved, without fear or reserve, to inform you of 
a secret, which I never thought would have passed my lips ; it will 
aecount for that dark doud of anxiety and dejection which is al- 
ways hanging over me, and cannot have escaped your observation, 

''I am a wretched being, of that class, which, as I just now said» 
the gay overlook, the prudent censure, and the ignorant despise; I 
was reduced, by an union of folly and misfortune, from ease and af- 
fluence, to a total deprivation of the means of subsistence. 

** I cannot dig, I am ashamed to beg; but this is not the trying 
part of my position, as I would not only willingly, but eagerly hasfe 
procured c dunmsion from the evils I endure ; but, alas, I have at* 
sociates in affliction, a wife, a parent, and children. 

V ** So^situated, and thus stimulated, after a long struggle between 
pride and principle, instead of appealing to the humanity, I le- 
solved to work on the fears of mankind, and have, for several 
months, supported myself and family by force of arms ; I confess^ 
without scruple, that to procure a purse, is the object of my pre- 
sent joarney. 

** Be not alarmed, sir, at this avowal^** cried the stranger, ob- 
serving the clergyman somewhat terrified at his words, *' be not 
alarmed, I would cut off my right hand rather than abuse the con- 
fidence you have placed in me. 

^ It is on individuals of a very difiSBrent description that I 
mean to raise contributions ; on tlie luxurious, the wealthy, and 
the indolent, who, parting with a Httle loose cash, are deprived of 
oaly a minute portion of that superfluity, which they dissipate in 
folly and vice.** 

The divine, recovering a little from his embarrassment, now 
ventuied to speak : *^ I wholly disagree with you in the arguments 
yoQ use, and the unwarrantable deductions you draw: as a minis- 
ter of God*s word, I warn you against the labyrinth of destruction 
into which you have entered. 

^ You hinted at suicide, as a step you would have taken, had 
yoa not been a father and a husband. 

** On what principle of reli^on, reason, or policy, are you au^ 
, thoraed, rash and mistaken man, to desert the post in which Pr9* 
yidence has placed you, and at the first appearance of difficulty or 
disaster, insolently to rush into the presence of your Creator; in 
defiance of that first principle, self-preservation, which he has so 
wisdy and so -mercifully implanted in your breast, and with murder 
most foul, vile, and unnatural^ branded on your cheek* 

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• * Your want of confidtttce m the beoevolence of your ftfiow- 
cMttlures is as inexcQSAble, as your iiOD-reliaxice oil a stfpennteiid* < 
ids Provi^noe i» impious aad irrational : yoor theory is nosnpport* 
ed hy fact^ and contradicted by experience ; diere is no spedes of 
dbscren, however it may recede from public view, or bury it^f in 
obeeuri^y that can e«cape the sharp-sighted optics of English hti- 
nanity. 

** Withdoc waitidg to be asked^ it is one of the prominent fea- 
mtea ef ehe present day to form societies for the express ^urpoacr 
of expk>ring the darkest recesses of human misery; to entice^ and: 
•omeiimev to drag fbrth, youtbfcil delinquency from the oontami- 
natifig hausrtu of vice and hnpurity ; to provkle for the salvatioB of 
their souk, aiMl the eomfbrt of their bodies; to meliorate the concha 
tion and reform the manners of the jpoor. No real grievafocc^ pro- 
piriy evplaitted, and welt- authenticated, i» sufibred tago unredres- 
sed i semove^afl possibility of impositiou^ aad to know calamity^ in 
Bog^dy is to remove it/' 

The good man would have proceeded, but he was interrupted 
by his eompamon, who, hearing the noise of wheels, turned on his 
horse, and saw, as the moon shone through the parting clouds^ a 
fM-ehafee just begiiining to ascend the hill behind them* 

** To know of misfortune is to relieve it, if I rightly onder^ 
stand, sir, is one of the positions you maintMn." ** It is,** << An 
opportunity for putting to the test the truth of your assertion 
now presents itself; the carnage> slowly coming up the hill, is in 
flMl what I had for several hoars been expecting, before you over>* 
took me. 

** The owner of it 4S a rich man, and; if my inftH-mation be cor- 
rect, has a considerable suoi of money with him : I will, without 
exaggeration or reserve, explain my situation, and according to 
your honourable, but in my opinion unfounded doctrine, be will 
afford assistance ; my appeal shall be made to bis reason and his 
feelings, before I proceed too^iWr means; if yoa will have the good- 
ness to continue tliat confidence, which yoo have hitherto placed 
in me, proceed ktsurely oh, and you shall quickly be informed of 
the result." 

The trier of this dangerous and unlawful experiment immedi- 
ately turned his horse, and dcscendiog the hill, soon met the gen- 
tleman^ carriage : requesting the driver to stop, he advanced to the 
door, without any appearance of violence, and, in a gentle tone^ 
with head uncovered, thus addressed the person in it. 

^ Sir, die urgency of want must be my apology for thi» abrupt 
application : m^f, a wife, and an iniant fiuasilyy are in wast »f : 

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.mpfKMTt.; Qvr cDstoiftary rospurces i)»Te vmUied; you ;»i^ plemi- 
fiilly supplied wi^tb tbe q^^a«»3y l^ave yQu.th« ;iqcli9ft]tipn %Sftct»^y 
ItOA^rvemer 

The geotleman, consMeriog svb^t he stttd as the coipptpo-pl^^ 
cantof meodicftat imposture, by whidi the beam gf the fircq^ent^rt 
4>C.JU>Qdon ave 00 naturally, but too indiiscnimpately hardciQtd, hvt 
sot able ^wholly to res^t so inpprQssive an address, twisted all h^ 
loose silver in a paper^and giving it to the p^tioner, ordered tl|6 
post-boy to drive on. 

^ Xbis. trifle, I am sorry to say,^ obserred the highwayman, at 
he looked over the contents of the paper, ** tbis trifle is not at i^l 
jftdequj^te to the pressure I frel ; it will scarcely provide food fyr n|y 
family ten days. 

** A fifty pound bank note, Mrhich jwill not be missed, in your 
idmndance, would remove ail my diBScqlties, and give me time^o 
apply to a wealthy relation, in a neighbouring kingdom. 

** If you can prevail on yourself to afibrd me this assistance, you 
. shall have my name and address ; this will enable you to hove posi- 
tive ocular proof that you have not been imposed upon, and . I 
shall endeavour, by diligence and friends, to tepover my place in ^- 
ciety.*' 

'' You are troublesome, ungrateful ^d imper^n^t,^' said tha 
gentleman, somewhat irritated : *' can you suppose that I am to be 
duped by so shallow an artifice? Can you expect me to give so se- 
rious a sum> to a man whose fiice I never saw befoi;e, and probab^ 
shall never see again ? I will do no such ^ng ; yon are mistaken 
in your man ; post-boy, I insist on.it that you drisre on directly." 

** Let him do it at his peril,'' cried the robber, in a menacing 
voice, and drawing forth, from the long side pocket of his surtout,.a 
double-barrelled horse pistol, *', stir not an inch, driver, if you va- 
lue your safety. Before we pfut, sir,'' he added, turning to the gen- 
tleipan ^n the chaise, ** I must have your money or yonr life; nei- 
ther delay ^or trifling will be endured. 

*' There is in your portmanteau that which will relieve ^1 my 
wants; deliyer ofie ij;^stantly the key; your pocket book, which I see 
jou have dropped, u|ider your feet) nmst, with its contents, be also 
surrendered. 

" Post-boy alight this moment, throw aside your whip, stand 
.^t^dily at tbe head of your horses, with your back to the carriage, 
and, upless you vrish for a brace of slugs through yoij^ head» t%ke 
not the least notice of what is passing.'' 

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dirided by a knife, aod three hundred guineas, in two yellow canvit* 
Imgs, were conveyed to the pockets of the highwayman. 

Having thus amply supplied himself, he did not neglect the ne- 
cessary means for ensuring his own safety ; catddg pieces from the 
cord with which the baggage had been secured, he tied the hand» 
and feet of the gentleman and driver, placed them in the chaise, 
then taking the harness fit>m the horses, he let them loose on the 
heath, re-mounted his own gelding, and in less than twenty mnnutes 
was again in company with the clergyman, to whom he gave a cir- 
cumstantial account of the whole transaction ; declared himself 
confirmed in his marauding system, spurred his horse, and wishing 
bim a good night, galloped in a different direction, and by a less fre* 
quented path, across the heath. 

The old gentleman soon reached his house, reflecting with s 
heavy heart on what had passed. A young, and, in other respects, 
•n amiable man, pleasing in his person, apparently well educated, 
and of vigorous intellect, thus obstinately persisting in a practice 
as well as a iheory opposite to all laws, human and divine, and de-> 
fending plunder by argument, disordered his feelings, and kept him 
awake the greater part of the night. 

Rising early in the morning, disturbed and unrefireshed, he re- 
paired to the house of his brother, a magistrate, who resided in a 
neighbouring village, whom he informed of this singular adventure; 
having consulted together, they resolved, with the assistance of a 
gentleman who presided at one of the public o£Sces, to whom the 
clergyman immediately wrote, to watch the progress of the unhap- 
py man, whose destruction they saw was certain. 

What they dreaded and expected, soon came to pass ; in a few 
posts, a letter was received from London, informing them, that b/ 
means of one of the bank notes in the gentleman's pocket book, the 
robber had been traced and taken into custody. 

So vigorous indeed were the means pursued, and so rapid the 
march of justice, in consequence of the judges of assize being sitting 
at the moment of the offender's apprehension ; that an indictment 
was prepared, a bill found, and the culprit actually arraigned at 
the "bar, by the time that the ecclesiastic was able to reach the 
place where he was tried. 

He hurried into court, anxious to know, whether the prisoner 
at the bar was the same person who had been the companion of 
his nocturnal journey, and in whose fate he felt himself strongly 
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recognised him ; to add to the deep regret and sorrow he felt, a ver- 
dict of ouiLTT, on evidence which it was impossible to resist^ 
was pronounced against the coiprit, at the moment he viewed 
him. 

The worthy priest was not able to conceal the emotion he felt^ 
on contemplating one who might have been an omaii|ient to his 
country ; the delight and solace of his family, thus cut off in the 
prime of life; resting his head on his bosom, tears, such as angels 
shed, gushed from his eyes ; the criminal, after warm intercessions, 
suffered an ignominious death. 

But the feelings of the clergyman did not overpower his sense 
of duty; considering virtue as something more than a well turned 
period of harmonious words; and recollecting, that the deceased 
had left a mother, a widow, and children, he hasteped to them, and 
became a parent and a friend, promoting and largely contributing to 
a subscription for their support and education. 

In exercising the benevolent office he had undertaken^ further 
information was procured concerning the unhappy man. 

He was the son of an industrious and successful mechanic, who 
had realized a small fortune, by frugality and perseverance ; but in- 
stigated by the foolish vanity of his wife, and perhaps glad to nutke 
that an excuse for indulging his own, he had yielded in an unlucky 
moment to a common but ruinous infatuation ; ke educated hU eldest 
Mon genteelly and expensivelyy that pernicious weakness in large foam' 
Hes of small property. 

He thus taught his child to despise that humble but ttonest art 
which had raised him from indigence, the separate fabrication of 
some one part of the complex machinery of a watch ; in the forma* 
tion of which human industry is divided into so many distinct 
branches, while the putting the whole together, and superintending 
its movements, constitutes another reputable employment. 

Instead of treading in the footsteps of his father, which would 
have led him to health, peace, and competence, he became that 
most wretched of all human beings, an accomplished gentleman^ 
without fortune f and mthout possessing any one species of knowledge, 
professional, intellectual, or manual, which would enable him to pro- 
cure one. 

He had been taught to spend, and actually had spent, thousands, 
but had not been initiated in the more necessary art of earning a 
dinner. 

But this was not the whole of the evil ; in frivolous or vicious 
pursnitSi such was the fatal, the false, the infatuating fondness of 
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\m faiher, in frivolous or vietous purfluitSi he had dissipated a 1 
portion of chat property, which, at his parent's-death, ought to have 
bsm divided among tbe surviving family. 

Ttie miserable old man felt, when it was too late, the effects 
qF his injudicious partiality ; inr the decline of life^ be was de- 
IMrived of those little indulgencies, those sweet reliefs' of age- 
and pain, to wiiich honest industry is fairly entitled, and sunk 
into the grave uinier a compticated pressure of vexation, disease^ 
and ajpe« 

This error, by some^ but fiot by me, considered as venial ; in 
its' effests distressing and highly culpable, destroyed the happiness 
di a family, and entailed on the victim of it a disgraceful death • 
in tliis world, and everlasting perdition in that wiiich is to come.- 

COWPERIANA. 



No. XIII. 



HINTS TO SPORTSMEN. 

Detested sport. 
That owes its pleasures to another's pain ; 
That feeds upon the sobs and dying shrieks 
Of harmless nature, dumb, but yet endued 
With eloquence, that agonies inspire, 
Of silent tears and heart-distending sighs ! 
Vain tears, alas, and sighs, that never find 
A corresponding tone in jovial souls ! 
Well— one at least is safe. One sheltered hare 
Has never heard the sanguinary yell' 
Of cruel man, exulting in her woes. 
Innocent partner of ray peaceful home. 
Whom tien long years' experience of my care 
Has made at last familiar ; she has lost 
IVIuch of her vigilant instinctive dread, 
Not needful here, beneath a roof like mine. 
Yes — thou mayest eat thy bread, and lick the hand 
That feeds thee ; thou mayest frolic on the floor 
At evening, and at night retire secure 
To thy straw couch, and slumber unalarraed ; 
For I have gfuned thy confidence, have pledged 
All that is human in me to protect 
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If I SHTvive thee I will dig thy^raTe ; 
Andy wben I place thee in it, sighing say, 
I knevr at least one hare that had a friend. 

In the year 1774, being much indisposed both in mind and body, 
incapable of diverting myself either with company or books, and yet 
in a condition that made some diversion necessary, I was glad of 
any thing that would engage my attention without fatiguing it.— 
The children of a neighbour of mine had a leveret given them for a 
plaything ; it was at that time about three months old. Under- 
standing better how to tease the poor creature than to feed it, and 
soon becoming weary of their charge, they readily consented that 
their father, who saw it pining and growing leaner every day, should 
offer it to my acceptance. 1 was willing enough to take the pri- 
soner under my protection, perceiving that, in the management of 
such an animal, and in the attempt to tame it, I should find just 
that sort of employment which my case required. It was soon 
known among the neighboui^ that I was pleased with the present ; 
and the consequence was, that, in a short time, I had as many le- 
verets offered to me, as would have stocked a paddock. I under* 
took the care of three, which it is necessary that I should here dis- 
tinguish by the names I gave them— Puss, Tiney, and Bess. Not- 
withstanding the two feminine appellatives, I must inform you that 
tliey were all males. Immediately commencing carpenter, I built 
them booses to sleep in ; each had a separate apartment, so con- 
trived that their ordure would pass through the bottom of it ; an 
earthen pan placed under each received whatsoever fell, which, 
being duly emptied and washed, they were thus kept perfectly Sweet 
and clean. In the day-time they had the range of a hall, and at 
night retired each to his own bed, never intruding into that of ano- 
ther. 

Puss grew presently familiar, would leap into my lap, raise him- 
self upon his hinder feet, and bite the hair from my temples.' He 
would suffer me to take him up and to carry him about in my arms, 
and has more than once fallen fast asleep upon my knee. He was 
ill three days, during which time I nursed him, kept him apart froiii 
his fellows, that they might not molest him (for, like many other 
wild animals, they persecute one of their own species that is sick), 
and, by constant care, and trying him with a variety of herbs, re- 
stored him to perfect health. No creature could be more gratef\il 
than my patient after his recovery; a sentiment which he most sig- 
nificantly expressed by licking my hand, first the l)ack of it, then 

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the palm, then every finger separately, tkeo between all tbe fingers, 
as if 'anxious to leave no part of it unsaluted ; a oeremony which he 
never performed but once again upon a similar -oocasiou. Finding 
him extremely tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always 
after break&st into the garden, where he hid himi»elf generally un- 
der the leaves of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewJQg tbe cud till 
evening ; in the leaves also of that vine he found a favourite repast. 
I had not long habituated hina to this taste of liberty, before he be- 
gan to be impatient for the return of the time when he might enjoy 
it. He would invite me to the garden by drumming upon my 
knee, and by a look of such expression as it was not possible to mis* 
interpret. If this rhetoric did not immediately succeed, he would 
take the skirt of my coat between bis teeth, and pull at it with all 
his force. Thus Puss migbt be said to be perfectly tamed, the shy- 
ness of his nature was done away, and, on the whole, it was visible 
by many symptoms, which I have not room to enumerate, that he 
was happier in human society than when shut up with his natural 
con^)anions. 

Not so Tiney; upon him the kindest treatment had not the 
least effect* He too was sick, and in his sickness had an equal 
share of my attention ; but if, after his recovery, I took the liber^ 
to stroke him, he would grunt, strike with his fore feet, spring for- 
ward, and bite. He was, however, very entertaining in his way; 
even his surhness was matter of mirth, and, in his play, he pre- 
served such an air of gravity, and performed his feats with such 
a sdemnity of manner, that in him too I had an agreeable ooo^iar 
nion, 

Bess, who died soon after be was full grown, and whose death 
waa occasioned by bis being turned into his box, whidi had been 
washed, while it was yet damp, was a hare of great humour and 
drollery. Puss was tamed by gentle usage ; Ttuey was not to be 
tamed at all; and Bess hud a courage and confidence that made 
him tame from the begiuning. I always admitted them into the 
parlour after supper, when the carpet affording their feet a firm 
hold, they would frisk and bound, and play a thousand gambob, in 
which Bess, being remarkably strong and fearless, was always supe- 
rior to the rest, and proved himself the Vcstri^ of the party* One 
evening the cat being in the iroom, had the hardiness to pat Bess 
upon the cheek, an indignity which he resented by drumming upon 
her back with such violence, that the cat was happy to escape from 
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THIS IfOVTBtir MrftROR. 1$$ 

— gaessa ii ii iii i aggeaegaaeai i i i ' , i*— — *— ■s sssb 

I describe these animals as having each a character of his own. 
Sadi they were in fact, and their countenances were so eipressivi^ 
of that character, that, when I looked only on the face of either, I 
immediately knew which it was. It is said that a shepherd, how- 
ever nnmerous his flock, soon becomes so familiar with their fea- 
tores, that he can, by that indication only, distinguish each from all 
tiie rest ; and yet, to a common observer, the difference is hardly 
perceptible. I doubt not that the same discrimination in the can 
of countenances would be discoverable in hares, and am persoaded 
that among a thousand of them no two could be found exactly simi- 
lar ; a circumstance little suspected by those, who have not had op^ 
portnnity to ebserve it These creatures have a singular sagacity 
in discovering the minutest alteration that is made in the place to 
which they are accustomed, and instantly apply their nose to th6 
examination of a new object. A small hole being burnt in the car- 
pet, it was mended with a patch, and that patch in a moment un- 
(^rwent the strictest scrutiny. They seem toa to be very much 
directed by the smell in the choice of their favourites: to some 
persons, though they saw them daily, they could never be recon- 
ciled, and would even scream when they attempted to touch them; 
but a miller coming in engaged their affections at once ; hb pow- 
dered coat had charms that were irresistible. It is no wonder that 
my intimate acquaintance with these specimens of the khid has 
taught me to hold the sportsman*s amusement in abhorrence ; ht 
little knows what amiable creatures be persecutes, of what gratitude 
they are capable, how cheerful they are in their spirits, what enjoy> 
ment they have of life, and that, impressed as they seem with a pecu* 
liar dread of man, it is only because man gives them peculiar cause 
for it. > 

Ibat I may not be tedious, I will just give a short summary of 
those articles of diet tliat suit them best 

I take it to be a general opinion that they graze, bot it is an ei> 
Toneotts ono; at least grass is not their staple ; they seem rather to 
use it medicinally, soon quitting it for leaves of almost any kind. — 
8ow*thi9tle, den& de-lion, and lettuce, are their favourite vegetable^, 
especially the last. I discovered by accident that fine white sand 
is in great estimation with them ; 1 suppose as a digestive. It hap- 
pened that I was cleaning a bird-cage ivhile the hares were with 
me ; I placed a pot filled with such sand upon th» floor, which being 
al once <firected to by a strong instinct, they devoured voracioasly ; 
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j)UiBd with it. They account .^een oorn a dtUcac^, bo^ Uade and 
jtalk^ but the ear they seldom eat: straw of any kind, espedftUy 
frfaeat-atrawy is «nother of their dainties ; they will feed greedily 
jupoa oatS} but if furnished with clean straw never want them ; it 
senres them also for a bed, and, if shaken up daily, will be kept 
aweet and dry for a considerable time. They do not indeed require 
•romatic herbs, but wiU eat a small quantity of them with great re- 
iish, and are particularly fond of the plant called musk; they seem 
,to oresemble sheep in this, that, if their pasture be too succulent, 
ihey are very subject io the rot ; to prevent which, I always made 
Jbread their principal nourishment, and filling a pan with it cut into 
#maU sqiMureSp placed it every evening in their chambers, dor they 
^^ only At evening and in the night : during the winter, whea 
vegetables were net to be got, I mingled this mess of bread with 
shreds of cairot, adding to it tlie rind of apples cut euveraeAy thin ; 
ibr, though they are fond of the paring, the apple itself disgusts 
ithem. These, however, not being a suffioieat substiu^ for the 
juice of summer herbs, they must, at this time, be supplied widi 
ipater ; but so 4>laced that they cannot overset it into their beds. I 
^ttst not omit that, occasionally, diey are much pleased with twigs 
■ef bawthora, and of the common briar, eating even the very wood 
when k is of considerable thiokness. 

Bessi I have said, died youog ; Tiney lived to be nine jpears M, 
«nd died tit last, I havie reason ^ thmk, of some hurt in hialoins by 
• fall; Puss is still living, and has just completed his tenth year^ 
•discovertng no s^s of decay, nor ev^n of age, except that be is 
Iprown more disereet and less frolicsome than be was. I cannot 
condude withoot observing, that I have lately introduced a dog to his 
acquaintance ; a spaniel that had never seen a hare to a hare that 
fcad never seen a spaniel. I did it with great cantion^ but there 
was no real need of it. Puss discovered no to^ien of fear^ nor Ma^^ 
quis the least symptom of hosUlity. There is therefore, it should 
•eem, no natural antipathy between dog and hare, but the pnrsuit 
of the one occasions the flight of the other, and the dog pursues 
because he is trained to it : they eat bread at the same time out of 
the same hand, and are, in all respects, sociable and friendly. 

I should not do complete justice to my sol^ect did I not add, 
that they have no ill scent belonging to them, that they are ind&i 
fatigaUy nice in keeping themselves clean, for which purpose na» 
ture has fumisbed them with a brush under eadi foot ; and thai 
tJfey are never iniestod by any vermin. 

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Memorandum found among Mr, Cawper^ paptr», 

Tuesday, Mftrch 9, 17B(9. 
This day died poor Puss, aged eleven years eleven months.-^ 
STie died between twelve and one at noon, of mere old age, and ap« 
parently without pain. 



THE FRENCH OPINION OF BRITISH COURAGE, 

AUD 

The Courage of other Nations. 

The French, in their allowances of merit to' the English nation, 
raise it by a studied gradation above the level of all others, and' 
just to a single degree below their own : an instance of this, among 
many, is that of military courage, which, in their opinion, they pos- 
sess in the most eminent degree. 

They have defined and appreciated it with that peculiar nicety, 
which characterises the various judgments they form of their neigh* 
bours. In the Germans it is rather an absence of fear, or a heavy 
insensibility of danger. In the Spaniards, a perseverance and' 
steadiness of resolution in pursuing what they have begun. In 
the Italians, a fertility of genius in discovering the weak side of aa 
enemy, and concealing their own ; and in improving every opportu- 
nity by artifice and stratagem. In the English, an intrepidity of 
soul that sees and encounters all difficulties* But in themselves, a 
spirit of determined valour, acting by rule, and equally distant firora 
nishness and timidity. 

Their notions of our courage, as appears by some of their writers, 
are not, however, quite uniform. Sometimes it is a ferocity of na^ 
ture, like that of carnivorous animals who delight in scenes of 
bbod. Thus Flechier represents it, in his celebrated funeral ore* 
tion on Marshal Turenne. Speaking of the victory he obtained ^ 
over tlie Spanish army near Dunkirk, through the assistance of the 
£oglish, he says of these qu'uneferociti naturelk acharnoit $ur lei 
ixtiAcut ; we have no word in our language of adequate energy with 
whammtf which the orator has select^ to describe the savage eager- 
ness with which our native ferocity prompted as to deal destnictioa 
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168 THE UOVTHLY UlftfiOK. 

Voltaire, in his poem on the battle of Fontenoi, confers the 
tame epithet on English courage, in that well known line laferodtc 
k cede ^ la vertu, ** ferocity yields to virtue." But, as if he was 
conscioas of a misrepresentation, and yet averse totally to retract 
his words, he politely adds a note in the margin, excepting froni 
the imputation of ferocity the whole corps of English officers, who, 
says he, sont auisi genereux que le$ notres, ** are as generous (hu- 
mane is the meaning) as ours." The poor soldiers it seems were 
not so much worth his attention. 

Monsieur Duclos, an ingenious and able writer, is not less guilty 
of prejudice in his elegant history of Lewis the Eleventh of France. 
He begins it by saying the victory at Poitiers was won by English 
desperation over French valour, ou la valeur Fran^oise ceda aui dt" 
$espoir des AngloU : words that fully prove he had not sufficiently 
considered the behaviour of the English, and the conduct of their 
illustrious commander on that memorable day ; wherein the cooL 
generalship of the one, and the amazing resolution of the other, are 
obvious to all impartial readers. 

The only French author who seems to have truly understood and 
described that species of bravery belonizing to our countrymen is 
Father Orleans, the Jesuit* Treating of our civil wars in the reign 
of Charles the First, he has these remarkable words. La guerre aa- 
JU tivement Melon le genie de la nation^ brusque, impetueuse^ donnant 
peu dP art et decidant tout par de$ batailles, ou Von fait plus de cm 
du nomhre et de la vigueur des combattans que de la science des atpi- 
taines : " the war was waged with the vigorous spirit peculiar to 
that nation; whose bold, impetuous disposition pays but little re- 
gard to military artifice, and decides all by set battles, where the 
number and Courage of the men are more valued than the skill of 
their commanders." 

As war is a department wherein the French esteem themselves 
the instructors of all nations, it was thought necessary to expatiate 
on that quality which is the foundation of all military glory, per* 
sonal valour. In the science of exertintr it with propriety, they ima- 
gine no people are comparable to them : with how much justice 
they challenge this supremacy let others determine. Suffice it here, 
that their pretensions have been stated, together with the respec- 
tive ideas they entertain of the several European nations in this 
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THE MONTHLY MIRltOlt. 16^ 



REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 



Qui monet quasi adjuvat. 



Speeches in the House of Commons on the War against the Mahrattas., 

By Philip Francis, Esq. Hvo, pp, 94. %$. 6d, Bidgway, 180^ 

Concluded from Page 104. 

" The labour, that we delight in, physics pain f and if we did not 
delight in that labo^^, which recoron^ends to the poblic what is cal- 
culated to improve their knowledge, and beneficii^Uy to extend their 
?iew8, we should be unworthy of our otlice. We therefore return 
with great satisfaction to a further consideration of the invaluable 
materials that compose the speeches before us. 

We are at length on the speech made April 5> 1805, of the au* 
thor of which any one, conversant in the information possessed by 
Europeans of Indian affairs, would at once pronounce, out Francis, 
out J)iabolfi$ / No qiian living is master of the intelligence, or cap%- 
Vifi of the profound reflec^ons th^y contain, except Mr, Francis. 
What be proposes in this oration, is briefly expressed, and with a 
warning voice, in an admirable quota^op from Cicero — '< Magno- 
pei^ vos et borCor et moneo, ut his provinciis, serums vos quklGm 
quam decuk, aliqnaad^ tamen constilatis.*' 

^* The object is,*' as he elsewhere* observes, " a^iominion, with 
all its dependencies, more considerable than the whole Mogul eto- 
pire, as it was held by Aurengzebe." 

He opens this budget of mature wisdom and serious exhorta* 
tion with soliciting the indulgence of the house on a subj^t of in- 
finite moment, but treated by parliament with unaccountable in- 
difference. 

•• It looks," sayt he, " as if India and its govrrnmcnt bad swelled to a sice 
too big for the capacity, or too intricate and perplexed for the comprehension of 
the houpe of eommons. If that be so, it is a powerful argument^ among many, 
agaii)st Che policy, as it is called by some, bat, as I say, against the fotly of 
grasping at acquisitions too extensive to be governed wisely for the beneit of 
the people, uho are subject to your power, or even of being managed, profitably, 
to your own advantage.*' P. 21. 

He then complains of the ^ abuses of all sorts^ which are too 
likely to prevail in a dominion so remote from English justice, and 
of the evils inseparable from such a ruinous system of government. 
Prevention is never thought of till it is top late— 

«< You wait for events ti)l the l^st ij^oment. Vqu pretend to forbid wu, 
while, in fKt, your judgment of the policy and justice of the measures pursued 

* ?ref. to Observations on Lord Castlereajh's Speech. Budd, 189S. 
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afatoad if always teMadbf a hatUe. TM« jnodeof ralipg India may nik the - 
rolcr* tlwre, and the interest of indmdttalt ; but it is not the way to make India 
what it ougl^t to be, a retoorce jiod a beneat to .Ei^laod, or to pmrent ita be- 
coniac more and mor«*, what 1 Jukhv Jt «ijilcMy» a perpetual drain of men 
tad mopey , wb^h the wealth and population of England are not equal to ; an^ 
even if (hey weie cqoal to such a burden for a few years, what public purpoae 
momld k anewer la bold sneba dominion on tfucb terms i^ P. S2. 

Mr. Fnmcii here takes occasion to account to many of the then 
members, for the ** gratuitous share^ which he took in the afiiirs in 
India, and whioh to them might appear, on his pmrt, intrusive He 
iUtes the origio of his coooexion with India from the year 1773, 
when be was appointed to a place in the government of Bengal, the 
prindplei eo which he had acted, and the constant approbation of 
the Court of Directors. His acts ^ underwent a trial more severe 
than even a direct parliamentary enquiry.'' Through this ordeal be 
passed, not only unwounded and unblemished, but finally honoured 
^thii letter of thanks from a select committee of the house of com- 
ilOni, with flfr. Fox*s name at the head of it. The case was new, 
mA iimy nmde the precedent, l^ere is no ^Lample of sudi an 
mt of personal justice oo the jounKdsof theibouse of commons* 

M My other titles,** sayi be, with somt aatiie and much irotfe, <* my other 
I|iles4a|iba banaa «Ace,lo whi^ 1 aai stiil engaged, conslit in long posses^ 
fieo, without latermptioo or compeCitioo. Ibbould it^ver p ramiie to be adom 
pipiiit$^c, 1 9bo^ld not despair of se^ my^f 9iu<r()naded^y mvfy compe- 
titors, la the ^^ time, a^d u Ippg ^ tbeia is no ^^ to be AbMiaed, I 
aiay have the race to myself.** P. 24. 

We lament that it is not in our jy>wer to do tbat £all justice to 
tjbis qpeecb w^icb it dets^rvifi, m^d vfhkh nothing but ^ery copious 
extracts could effect. An well, boweier, as our limits, and th^ na** 
ture of our work, will allow, we shall proceed to unfold ihi$ to- 
linne of Indian knowledge. 

Mr. Franqs )begins with ^ « summaij review of the Briti^b pos- 
pmi^m m fodie, fioin .thieir origin to the state iu whkb i^ stood 
*fit iihe olose of the last can tn qr, and for a jear or two a&er.'' P. SS. 
^ The origin of our cooaexSon with India and the foondatioD of oar csta- 
MIshflient tbece was eonunerdal. Appearing In the character of merchants, 
and for many y«ars aisaming oo other, we were received by the native princes, 
not only w^hospHiKty and pratecdisnt bat F)th cjttfaofdlnafy ftvoiur and ea- 
coiirage^eot ; and eertainly, |^ i^r as tb^ wm^^f^ interNbs af tMr sdi)|icla 
or tbeir owa «<re concerned, tbf y ac^ vds^y* la the nat^iM opuraB of 
things, it is not posa bk to open a trpdf between India and Europe without 
making it a channel of pr 'fit and an influx of wealth to India. Comparatively 
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Uti Wyf viety licde. In this inth«ohrs6 #fcV Zurtpt^ the iMtitirpifetct «# 
aildimdeftHwdtfaelrinnnedlate atf^anttge. Ther^eoAttf^dilejr<^«asO|^S 
Wt their political eye was shut. Ttley saw that the tehnce of foitigii ttUt 
was luunenKly in thHt farour; but they M not foresee the fatai conM|aeflw 
«f granting to forei^ merchants a stationary establishmtat in tiicir eoBntr/i 
Tlic oooduct of another eastera nstiony in similar circumstances^ exhibits an 
cSddnipfe of sonoAet' policy. Thi' Ch^hevc wilt never sutflb- vis ^o ba^ a fbotiaf 
15 China. Oo^is'iiihjebt tKeft iWa iil«tieuttons are WM, ahd'thtf know' 
lAMn^iuye'actddin lixlia. FVom factoHes to tbrtitreatioos, fr6m ftrtifiea* 
tl6iis to fkrrisbos, fretn gatrisotu to ah6iM, and from arnflei to conquest ; the 
CrMatiOtfs fftte nttorat, and the result inevitable/* P.' 96. 

" Ttiti^nkt of the D^anny of Bmgal, Bihar, andOiHxa, obtained by Ler^' 
CliTe, «ave ai a polwf tfi\ e-ftabliibment, and, in effbe^ a idvercifnty in I^ia» 
under ^ name or shadow of a cojintry government, and it was iUs earnest ad* 
vice to confine oonelves <ithin that limit. Mr. Hastiogs prof'^sed tJie s«»0 
^nciples, and gave the same advice^ nites. 4o diparipvm iheakohie Htti qf 

The court of directors, in concert with his mi^esty's inlntsters^ 
Bcknowledged the justice of this system^ and ordered it te be ob- 
served. In 1782, the house of commons had reason to doubt 
that these principles were duly^ acted upon, and, after « soleimi 
detilierationy unaatmoody resolved, ^ Hiat to pursue schemes of 
co&qoest and extent of dominion in India, are measures repugpMOl 
to the wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation/^ 

*< Wheie Wtfl you look for a faadamental principle of g6¥emment if It is net 
to be found in tiiese aathorities ? or what ubediencc do yi u eicpdet to a^y laws 
, which yoa may make now or hereafter, if these are disobeyed or eluded witli 
impunity ? Was tlie declaration of your opinion obtained by surprise } was it 
disputed in debate, or carried by sm inconsiderable majodty f or has long expe- 
rience made us wiser than we were in 1793 f Has the resohxtion of this lioast 
hfeMirc^nded? Have the lawt been repe&led? Are the statutes obsolete? 
or hts-tlfeliipee of time l»eeti sudicicnt to make as forgit our principles^ and t» 
\finy oar institutions in oblivion ? I sa5 that ail these antboritiet united in one 
iundamuital proposition that the sesurity ot >our dominion, and Of all the na* 
docKl benteliis to be derived from it, depended on* its liMtatlc^.** P. 51* 

«The necessity of providing for the seeurltyof thcBtidiirenilpireiB IndSl^ 
by thee'Hi^vestof thepeninsvis, was never tiiought of until the French were 
extirpated and their power annihilated. We never pretended to be thoroughly 
afraid of oar safety, unt i, in efiect, we had no enemy left, and literaUy nothing 
to fbar. The house, t hope, will hear this ^observation in mind, until they see, 
as they will do hereafter, how I mean to apply it." P> 38. 

The legislature, however, in the teeth of its own acts and dt* 
daurations, is supposed to have provided an escape or a subterfuge 
for those who may act'agaiust the obvious principles, and the most 
vplmin as well as severe injunctions of the law^ '* We forbid you W 

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make war for tlie acquisition of territory; but, if fortunately yo» 
should find yourselves engaged in a just and necessary war, therfeV 
an end of all limitation, take every thing you can get.** P. 32. Now 
what is SLJutt and necessary war ? Why just what the governors of 
India choose to call so. 

<« Yuu have precisely the evidence and the materialt, with which eoi& of the 
contending parties thinks fit to supply vou. Now, besides the natural pre* . 
•umptioo that the weaker party, in any cootesty is not likely to be the aggrea- 
8or, the want of evidence on his side ou^ht, of itself, to deter you from pro- 
nouncing against him. In this last war, for example, with the Mahrattas, do 
you know what Scindia and Boosia liad to say for themselves ?** P. 33, 

Pad6c phraset make part of the weapons of ambition, and have 
been constantly used by the company's servants in India for the 
real purpose of interfering perpetually in the affairs of their neigh- 
bours, P. 36. But look to the history of India, and believe them 
if you can. Then follows a catalogue of the melancholy effects of 
our kind and friendly interference in the government of the states 
of the native powers of India. The facts are powerfully stated, but 
cannot be abridged. 

Through the medium of many just and necessary wars, we be- 
came possessed of two-thirds of the peninsula in 1802, when it was 
discovered that our independence and safety were not quite secure; 
we must have more. To this end it was necessary to conjure up 
an enemy. In 1801 " an imaginary French army of 14,000 men, 
and a French state^ in the heart of Indostan,* were discovered. 
This French host turned out to be nothing more formidable than a 
dozen French officers in the service of Scindia, who were to furnish 
tliem with an army from France. 

<* Now that these Mahrattas," says Mn F, « if they possess common sense, 
should wish to invite a foreign army, even of friends, into their countr>', or to 
malie it the seat of war between two foreign po«-ers, is a proposition, in no case, 
likely to be true. In this case, I shall prove it to be false. All that the Mah- 
rattas desire dther of the French or EngUfh, is to suffer them to be qaiec, or to 
settle tbeir internal quarrels auKing themselves.** P. 43. 

The pretended importance attached to these officers is most 
ably detected, and it is truly observed and exemplifiedy that " when 
a purpose is to be served, it is not very difficult to find a principle 
to answer it.'' P. 46. 

Much stress has been laid on the tactics and discipline taught 
by the French ta the Mahrattas. 

** I believe it will appear,*' says Mr. F. " that a more rainotis and unfortu- 
nate lesson could not have been given to the people, who endeavoured to learn 
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tribnted to thpclr iniper!ecc proficiency ia those lnstructioiis» and to their confi- 
itence in the ikill, which they thought they had acquired in thst sort of disci- 
pline. This false confidence has led them to aband^ n their old established 
mode of war^re, in which long use, and the nature of their military force> c«m- 
sitting chiefly of light cavalry, gave them m-dny advantages against amiies 
much better disciplined, and which they never thought of encountering in 
a pitched battle ; I mean, in former times. You know how the Roman ar« 
mies were harassed, distressed, and defeated by the Parthian horse, who 
seldom or ever could be brought directly to action. They carried on the 
war^ as the Mahrattas might and ought to have done against us, by 
the use of their cavalry only, by skirmishing, by perpetual alarms, 
by interrupting the line of march, by cutting; off the supplies of pro- 
visions, by plundering the baggage, and even by overwhelming the Roman 
camp with clouds of dnst. These are great advantages against an invadin,; 
enemy^ who have not only a hostile coimtry, but a burning dimatc to con* 
tend with» and who must carry their provisions with them, with an end- 
less train of draught and carriage cattle, or be supplied from a great distance. 
See «bat Holcar^ a mere adventurer and freebooter, as he is called, but cer- 
tainly, excepting his own personal q lalitications, an inconsiderable chief 
compared to the others— see what he has been able to do single-handed, by 
confining himself to the true Mahratta mode of war . Considering the cir- 
comstanc^, in which be came alone and at last into action, the resistance 
he has bfcn able to make, and the mischief he has done, against a superio- 
rity of British force, as well as skill, is wonderful. Then jud^e of what the 
consequences might have been, if the whole power of the Mahrattas had 
been united in defence of their country, and if they had conducted the war 
on the true Mahratu print iple, on which Holcar appear^ to have acted, as 
far as we are informed. They relied on the discipline of their in£antry, and 
00 the use of their heavy artiiltry ; that is, they confided, as we are told, in 
tlic instruaioos of the French, and they have been every where defeated. 
If that be so, we have no reason to regret the influence of the French over 
the military councils of the Mahrattas." P. 48. 

These pleas were strengthened by "another set of dangers,** to 
be ** logically derived, in the form of a dilemma, from the state of 
the Mahratta empire within itself.'' P. 56. Discussing this point, 
and exposing its weakness, be makes this shrewd remark : 

** The very pretencts set up are sufficient to shew that we have no solid 
ground of hostility^ these people, and that, though we cculJ not find a 
danger, we were determined to find a quarrel.'* P. 51 . 

From the documents on the table, Mr. F. proceeds to shew 
" the course that was taken to furnish a colour for our subsequent 
interference in the affairs of the Mahrattas.** We were in alliance 
with Scindia, and the Peshwa was our particular friend. P. 52. In 
180^ a treaty of alliance is proposed to Scindia, on the equitable 
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kk bit dominimis; fildly, To ctde in perpetual scf^f^reigjAj a kurg.e 
eitent of territory; Sdlj^ To admit our arbirratkm in all tbair de- 
putes; and, 4thlyy To dismiss frmn his service all snljeclB •f 
France. We are obliged to be brie^ and therefore Co nan|^ what;- 
Mr. F. has so weU said on this sobject ; but every page is so !bi of 
matter, that we cannot do otherwise. 

^ The house wUf now Judge" sijrt he, « #bieUier it requiied an ettnuir* 
dfautry decree of Jealoosy, supposed to belong to the Mahrttta character, to 
induccSdndia to faesttate about aecepflug the voluntary sMistance of a fo- 
reign fdree, on terms, wbieh it vras not difficult to roretee would ghre us aa 
ascendancy over hUn, and a power of oontrolling his deigns.** P. Si. 

A similar subsidiary treaty was proposed to the Peshwa, wbo^ 
though he was in need of assistance agpunst Holkar^ naturally he* 
sitated at stationing a body of British troope in hiB domiiiioiife. Bm 
all this was to be done by the British fdth ttimcMe and ISbtrtii 
ffkws ; it was a concession on our part to the Mahraxta princes, for 
thiir security, power, and prosperity. The Peshwa being defeated 
by Holkar on the 35th Oct 180^ he submitted to accept of our 
assistance, and " signed the fatal treaty of Bassein,'' Dec. U^WKU 

** Our army cseonedhloftt^Feonat and9epiacedMmtfiei«ittasanee# 
pcrfeet p-rional safety.under theguardantf proceetleb'Of aBiitMgattfsdir}^ 
^hat it, with the free agency of a state prisoner, and the seeufltf Ola pit- 
SMS. P. 59. 

^ Nothing can be more stmple than the prtedpler <iM' mort tXOteMlt 
than the operation, ef a subsidiary treaty. If once ^u eatt periua\fe the* 
Msam, the Peibwa, or any otbir aathris prinde, fcr whem you hi^ppeH tV 
have a partieubr friendsh^, that bis gevemmcntls ta daager, and tftit iM 
person it not fafe without your assistance, the businett ts^deOe. A MM 
army Is on the frontier ready to march the oioaiettt the treaty Is ^gMd^ dS* 
ters ills country, takes possession of his capital, and secures Urn In h\k 
palace. If he shotild happen to be a short-sighted, narrow minded persooi 
or not sufficiently quick in accepting these proofs of our friendship, there 
are various ways of convincing hhn. S word hi hand is the shortest." P. 6t 

Scindia and the Raja of Berar might have shared the good for- 
tune of the Nizam and Peshwa, but they declined it, and it seema 
^formed a confederacy to renst the execution and defeat the 
efiect of the innocent treaty of Bassdn P P. 61. Hiis, with other 
misrepresentations, aggravations, and pretences, most forcibly com* 
mented on, was the origin of the just and necessary war against the 
Mahratta states. Says Mr, F. with eloquent animation — 

** The map on your table is an answer to all these falsehoods. EiamJne 
It, and fStt on what ground these questions were contested, and so many 
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Sir; if you follow tke agents of hard Welletleyy and tkc armiet of Brfcaia, 
you will fiod them in the centre, or in the remotest quarters of the Peate* 
m^i carrying ti«ir«rf or desolation into countries, and exacting tribute fmm 
pc^i whote names are hardly known in England. And then we revflette 
j;0d&cesoflndia»i«lf Mrywesetbe aggressors, as if <4^ were the intiadef% 
^ind at if these could be no rq^ae or secuH y foi the fiikish establuhmcai^ 
«• long as anynatiTepoiiwr in that imoaeose continent was left in astateoC 
ind^eodenee. We go into their country to char,ce tfaem with lawicts ^m^ 
Irfdoo, and we rob them of their property, in order to convict them cf Ir* 
aatiable awtfice. The day of retributiaD, I believe, will come when yu« ars 
kaitircpandfiirU. it is not In the moral order, or in the natural oaurst 
«f human affdrs, that a handful of strangers, from this rfde of the globe, can 
hold sacb a dominion very long, on such terms, over so great a poitioo of 
the world, and over so many millions of people, exasperated by their suf- 
iHRings, and instructed by thdr experience.*' P. 69. 

He theUf with we fear a true spirit of prophecy, anticipates a 
tame when the battle we shall have to fight will be not for the ter* 
ikory or the property of others, but for our own existence. Many 
victories, dearly bought, can give ns nothing more than external 
•ecnrity, whidi we might have had without them. But beware of a 
defeat. P. 71. Pursuing his argument, he calls on the directors t# 
say what diey have gained by the wars with the Mahrattas, and 
proves that they have *' exchanged the sohd security of a very great 
gad profitable, though a limited possession, for the precarious t«« 
nure of an unbounded dominion, wliich does not pay them while 
they hold it.*' P. 72. 

** A trading company*' he observes, and his words cannot be too dceplf 
eoBfidered, '* that trades In war, is a contradiction, and, if it traded with 
success, would be a prodigy. But these, I suppose, will be called narrow 
commercial ideas, not commeni>urate to the dignity or suited to the policy 
of a great territorial power. My humble understanding, I confess, does 
JMt rise to the level of those exalted notions of govemn.ent, by which, as I 
ecDodve, hr higher Acuities than mine are apt to be misled. In the worka 
of fenhis or imagloatloa, iadulgence may be allowed to fancy and refiner 
meat. But the serious affairs of the world are to be governed by prudence $ 
the essential interests of mankind can ooly be provided for by sound and 
sober judgment animated by benevolence. This enlightened benevolence, 
I am sure, will be found, upon experiment, the only sure and solid self-wis- 
dom, when the visions and chimsras of cruel vanity have disappeared, and 
loft nothing behind them but sorrow, disappointment, and rtiin.** P. 74. 

/ One more extract, which exhibits^ in the most amiable light the 
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** In fact, ihere is nothing lo easy, or even that requires so little person^ 
resolution, as to disturb the peace of the world, and to unsetUe the order of 
human . fiairs. Power alone, without a particle of skill or a ray of genius, 
can do more misdiief in a day, than wisdom and industry can repair in a 
century. Whereas if we are to judge by the little good that is attempted 
and the still less that is done, we are bound to conclude that nothing it 
•o difficult as to do good to mankind. They, who look for any pursuit or ob- 
ject, of that quality, in the late transactions In India, I think win be disap- 
pointed. But p rliaps it may be expected that some magnanimity in the 
conception, or something frank and noble in the execution of these enter- 
prises, will furnish a consolation to those, who do not suHer by them, for the 
misery and ruin of India, and for the sacrifice of thousands of the best and 
bravest of our own people.** P. 75. 

Some pages are now employed in giving his opinion of the n&r 
cessary discipline and proper distribution of the British military force 
in India. His purpose is evidently prospective, in order to do 9 
public service ; not to criminate, but correct. P. 87. He disap- 
proves of Lord Wellesley's system, but is not unjust to his personal 
qualifications ; in particular' be commends his lordship for the relief 
afforded by him to the Mogul Sha Ailum, the last branch qf the 
illustrious house of Tamerlane, who " still suiTives the destruction 
of his empire, and the utter ruin of his family.^ This luminous 
speech, this omne scibile, with regard to India, concludes with paying 
a just tribute to the moderate principles and humane policy of I/)rd 
Cornwallis, and then moving the declaration — ** That this house 
adheres to the principles established by its unanimous resolution of 
the 28th May, 1782, adopted by the legislature, and made law by 
two- successive acts of his present majesty in 1784 and 1793 ; 
namely, that to pursue schemes of conquest and extent of dominion 
in India, are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the 
jpolicy of this nation." p. 88. 

Jf, by our imperfect draught, we have been fortunate enough to 
engage the attention of our readers to this momentous concern, and 
to this storehouse of eastern knowledge, it is all that we can hope, 
since we are fully convinced of the little justice we have done to 
its very extraordinary merits. The pure and honourable principlei^ 
that pervade this spieech, should possess the soul of every one, who 
presumes to aspire to the government of Indja, or of his fellowr 
creatures wherever placed. 

Of Mr. Francis's writing, we may with truth assert, that it haa, 
in it what Quintilian calls the prime virtue of style, perspiaiitfts^ 
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Tlie language is void of aflfectation: pure, elegant, and nervous, it 
has in itself a genius equal to the inestimable conceptions of the 
writer. Impression and expression, like action and reaction, are 
relative ideas : he, who feels deeply, will express strongly. The 
language of slight sensations is always feeble and superficial. 

Some Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Fetix de Vega Carpio, 

By Henry Bichurd Lord Holland, Bvo, pp, 294. Longman, 

1806. 

Lord Strancfohd's paraphrasis of the Rbytkmat of Camoens* 
probably conspired with Lord HoUand^s taste and genius to induce 
lum to follow his predecessor's good example, and present to the 
world this interesting and amusing life of Lope de Vega. While 
other noblemen and men of fortune visit foreign conntries, and tra- 
vel with little more advantage than the trunks affixed to their chaise, 
going over all the ground, and getting all the dust of the road, and 
nothing else, it is highly to the honour of Lord Holland to have 
employed some of his valuable time in the cultivation of the Cas- 
tilian language, which must have contributed so much to facilitate 
the ends of, without doubt, the numerous observations of his lord- 
ship's acute mind during his residence in Spain. This work is, with 
peculiar propriety and elegance, dedicated to Don Manuel Josef 
Qnintana, who assisted his studies and researches on this occasion. 

Lope Felix de Vega Carpio was born in 1562, and died in the year 
1635. His noble biographer commences his life with the trite re- 
mark, that the days of a man of letters are without incident, which 
observation he makes '^ for the sole purpose of refuting it,'* in his 
account of the Spanish poet. His life is, indeed, not barren of 
events, but ** the wonders'' of it fall, it must be confessed, far short 
of the miracles of his pen— we allude to its prodigious fertility.— ^ 
Babelais tells us of an author, who wrote more than the common 
coarse of two men's lives would suffice to read, and Lope De Vega 
appears to have been a writer of this class, and very high in it.-*-^ 
^ He seldom passed a year," says his lordship, ^ without giving some 
poem to the press, and scarcely a month, or even a week, without 
piodttciBg some play upon the stage. Rhymes, hymns, and poem^^ 
without number.^ P. 62. Again, ** Twenty-one tnilUon three hun^^ 
dred thousand of his lines are said to he actually printed; and no 
iMft than dghieen hundred play$ of his composition to have beea 

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acted on the stage. He nevertheless asserts^ m one of lus last 
poems, that 

Non es miniraa parte, aunque es exceso, 
De lo qac estli por impriDrur, lo icnpreso. 
The printed part, though far too large, is less 
Than that which yet un printed waits tlic press.*' P. T5-6. 
Montalvan asserts, that "if the works of his literary idol were 
placed in one scale, and those of all ancient and modern poets in 
the other, the weight of the former would decide the comparison in 
point of quantity, and be a fair emblem of the superiority in point 
of merit, of Lope's verses over those of all other poets together."* If 
we concede the quantity, we must deny the quality, and in this opi- 
nion his lordship agrees with us : for, throughout his able criticism, 
he exhibits a virtue not common to translators or memorialists, dis- 
playing constantly that good sen^e which directs him to esteem his 
author where he is estimable, and to despise him where he is despicable: 
to weigh his faults without asperity, and to value his merits without 
dotage. We shall give an instance of Lope's presumption, and 
his lordship's candour and pleasantry. " The word Vega, in Spa- 
nish, sigpifies garden. In the title-page of his book was engraved 
a beetle expiring over some flowers, which he is upon the point of 
attacking. That the emb)em might not be misunderstood, this dis- 
tich was also subjoined : 

Audax dum Vegae irrun^pit scarabaeus in hortos, 

Fragrantis periit victus odore rosae. 
At Vega's garden as the beetle flies, 
0'erpower*d with sweets the daring insect dies. 
The vanity of the above conceit is at least equal to the wit." P. 6 1. 
To the investigation of the genius of Lope de Vega, the noble 
lord has carried the most impartial and enhghtened judgment. 
The force, truth, and refinement of his strictures are admirable. 
Wc shall quote a short passage, which will be found a whole vo- 
lume, when compared with the loose commentaries of common 
critics. '* Whatever may have been the original number of Lope's 
luctioDS, enough yet remain to render an examination of them 
11 nearly infipossible. The merit, independent of those intended for 
representation, consists chiefly in smoothness of versification, and 
purity of language, and in facility rather than strengtii of imagina-» 
tion. He has much to say on every subject, and he expresses what 
)ie has to say in an easy style and flowing numbers; but he seldom 
^pterests the feelings, and never warms the imaj^nation of thq 
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reader, though he often pleases by the facility and beauty of his 
language, and occasionally surprises by the exuberance and inge- 
nuity of his illustrations.'' P. 86. 

Our ingenious author's criticism on ^e.Arc<idia,p, 13, will afford 
the most agreeable satisfaction. To mutilate it would l»e unjust j 
ahd we lament that our space denies us the pleasure of transcribing 
it. 

In the course of this fine piece of biography, which is inters 
spersed with exquisite translations of chosen passages from tho 
Spanish, we are informed that Lope de Vega was on board the fa* 
mous Armada, and there, in some measure like Luis de Camoens in 
the east, or Cervantes at the battle of Lepanto, according to what 
. is called an epigram on the former: 

** Dextera Camonii gladium tenet, ipsa Lyramque i 
£t Phoebo, et Marti militat una manus/' 

Vida de Luis de Cam. V. 1. P. 144* 

We say " in some measure," because though Lope wrote more 
than the lusitanian bard, he certainly fought less. His writings 
and his profits were both more abundant, and after Camoens had, 
at Lisbon, with the assistance of his slave Antonio, who nightly 
begged from door to door to support him, de noite de porta em porta 
para o svstentar, dragged through a miserable existence till 1579, 
and while Cervantes, who died on the same day as our Shakespeare, 
was actually starving, the Spanish poet was living in splendor and 
prosperity. After the dedication of his Corona TrogUa, a poem on 
the queen of Scots, to Pope Urban VIII. pilgrimages, says Lord 
Holland, were performed to see this monster of literature ; his pen* 
sions and presents wore innumerable, and the idea of excellence was 
so connected with his name, that " a Lope diamond, a Lope day, or 
a Lope woman, became fashionable and familiar modes of expres- 
sing their good qualities." P. 66, 

Even during his suffcriugs on board the Armada, his Muse could 
get no rest.* ** Good Queen Bess" became the object of her most 
virulent abuse — she was, as we learn at p. 88, " a V>loody Jezebel, a 
second Athaliah, an obdurate sphynx, and the incestuous progeny of 
a harpy." This is something like the compliment of Ritson, who 
calls her " the illegitimate spawn of a bloody and lustful tyraat.'' 
When in 1602 he published his attack upon the Queen, he did not 

• We are not so much obliged to him fur composing this poem at sea, as we are to 
Camoens for saving the Lusiad, when, being wrecked, returning to Goa, he swam tQ 
land with his works, like Cfcsar with his Commentaries. 

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Cb^get ber adminJ, but added to it the DragomteOf an epic poem on 
the death of Sir Francis prake, '' and the reader is informed, by ik 
note in the first page, that wherever the word Dragon occars, it is 
to be taken for the name of that commander. Tyrant, slave, 
butcher, and even coward, are supposed to be so ajpplicable to bis 
character, that they are frequently bestowed upon him in the coiAcse 
of the work, without the assistance of an explanatory note." P. 43. 
Monfialbaa praises him as being, amongst other excellent things, a 
pewon ^ of eitrcme good breeding,'' p. 72> but that was, of course^ 
at home eii^lusitrely. 

« liis temper,"' he adds, " was never ruffled but with these w]m> 
took snuflf before company ; with the grey who dyed their lod^; 
with men, who, bom of women, spoke ill of the sex ; witli priests 
who believed in gipsies ; and with persons who, without intentions 
of marriage, asked others their age. These antipathies, which a«t^ 
rather quaint sallies of wit, than traits of character, are the only 
peculiarities which his intimate friend has thought proper to com- 
municate. P. 72. 

We shall speedily resume our consideration of this delightful 
work. 

The Triflers. To which are added. The Rout, or a Sketch of Modem 
Maimers ; and tlte Farmer^s Son, a Morel Tale. Bjf the Rev> 
B, Graves. 3«. pp. 177. Lackiugton. 1806. 
Joachim du Bellat, on a work called ^ Nuga,^ or Trifles, 
wrote an epigram, which seems in a degree applicable to tbb publi- 
cation. *' In toto libro nil melius titulo.'' The deceased author, how- 
ever, fairly puts the question**^^ How can you amuse yourself with 
such trifles; what end does it answer T And replies, " Why, sir, if it 
does amtiie me, when fatigued with more serious study, or with the 
l)usiness of my profession, it answers an important endJ^ We think 
it may do this, with those who are so disposed, and triflers, for 
whom it is written, will probably laugh and like their namesake bet- 
ter than better books. 

Torrio-Whiggo-Machia ; or the Battle of the Whigs and Tories. A 
Political Satire. In 4 Cantos, ^io. Ebers. 1806. 
Altho' a satire, this is a very innocent work — what is unintel- 
ligible cannot do much harm. The author boasts of being in the 
shade, nine times bound round with Styx, and it is his wish to remain 
uy^ln this magic circle his labours are included. ** Dark shall bf 
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awaed that wltere, iftbia mole-like action^ he does blunder into ii^t, * 
he is not to be despised. 

ASermmontheGeMrttlFaa. 6t^. Hatdtard, 190$. 
Better were it indeed that the religious ears of a congregatioii 
shot:dd experience a general fast, then that they should be fed with 
such poor stuff. 

Tb€ Loii Man, or Omegarui' and Syderia, a Romknce in Ftttvrity, 2 
Vols, nmo. dr. Button, 1806. 
This is sonething worse than grossly absurd and ridiculoiH — ^it it 
prophase,, and tends to no one sane or good end whatever. It is 
easy to coiureive wild, fimtastical schemes, but it is wicked to lost 
ali reverence and respect to put them into execution* 

A Winter in London ; or Sketcltes of Fashion, a Novel in 3 Vols* 
By T. S. Surr. Fhillips, 1806. 
Mr. Surb has certainly, in this publication, by a plenteous 
sprinkle of scandal, hit the bull's eye of novel reading taste; but. 
that he has shewn the same degree of good sense as he has knowledge 
of what such readers like, is not so clear. The characters are very 
much overloaded ; the seasoning however was necessary, as the story 
is trite, and crawls. We are not surprised to hear that the work 
has passed through several editions, but it has mortality in its con- 
stitution, and must infallibly soon run to a stand stilL 

Memoirs of Mrs, Crouch, including a Retrospect of the Stage during 
the Years she performed. By M. J. Young, 2 Vols* 12mo, As" 
peme. 1806. 

The long and successful theatrical career of Mrs. Crouch natu- 
rally renders her memoirs and every event that appertains to them, 
considerably interesting. If we discover any fault in her life, 
which her biographer has with singular felicity attempted to pre- 
vent, it is in the brevity of the part more immediately relating to 
herself. With regard to other memorialists, let the eighth Harry 
be quoted: '* Men's evil manners live in brass^ their virtues v^e write 
if) water—'' The present merits no such imputation. We have here 
many entertaining anecdotes in the *^ Retrospect of the Stage/' and 
a constellation of virtues in the memoirs of Mrs. Crouch. We re- 
joice to hear of the uninterrupted excellence of her life, and recom- 
ipend the amiable draught to the imitation of heiTery tempting and 
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IJft of Ladff Jane Grey^ and of Lord Guilford Dudley, her Eut^ 
band. By Theophihti MarcUfe. pp.lU. Hodgkint, 1906. 
This attractive incident in our history is modelled in this little 
work in a manner very creditable to the author's abilities. It is pe- 
culiarly adapted to afford instruction and pleasure to young minds^ 
but it will be read by none without satisfaction* 

Epittles, Odes and other Poems, By Thomas Moore, Esq. 4to, pp, 
350. Carpenter, 1806. 

It is with some degree of trepidation and alarm that we ap- 
proach this poet and warrior, in both cases, in a bad cause. Though 
he may be considered, after his sufferings from the northern blasts, 
as virtually defunct, yet are we " afraid of this gunpowder Percy, 
though he be dead^'' and if we do venture to encounter him it must 
be in ti review, and certainly not in a pitched battle. Seriously; 
we are not blind to Mr. Moore's merit as a poet, of which, when 
contemplating his youth, we formerly spoke too well, and we are 
sorry to say afibrded him too much encouragement to proceed. As 
he advances in years, the charm fades, and what we praised and 
pardoned at the same time in the boy, we must condemn and re- 
probate in the man. Mr. Moore is a Syren, and like the fabled 
monster, sings to deceive, and fascinates to destroy. His Muse, 
where she most shines, is a pander to loose thoughts and foul actions, 
and the mischief which the heated descriptions of a lewd imagina- 
tion are calculated to produce to the beauty of our day, is lament* 
able and inconceivable. If such a work had been called Seduction 
fnade easy, it had been well named ; and this should have been its 
motto, " Let virtue be as wax, and melt.'' The character of this 
labour corresponds with that published under the name of Thomas 
Little : its great feature is obscenity, mingled with some blasphemy, 
and more insipidity. The cacoethes of writing, with a strong mix- ' 
ture of cantharides, seems to stimulate his Muse in her happiest mo- 
ments; but surely all good men must rise in judgment against such 
doings. Where this does not prevail, the flatness is often excessive. 
From this work we shall make no extract, as we are disinclined to 
revive flowers which, after the passing over of the late hyperborean 
winds, we look upon as fading into oblivion. 

Mr. Moore however is able to distinguish himself without the 
aid of a meretricious Muse, and we do earnestly entreat him se- 
riously to consider what he is about ! He may perhaps say^ Latcira 



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■ I ■ II' — 

€st nobis pagina, vitaproba tit. We hope the latter is the case, and 
that the former will hecome more pure. 

A Compendious Report of the Trial of Henry Viscount MekilU, 
upon the Impeachment of the Commons of the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, for High 
Crimes and Misdemeanors, Bvo. pp, 251. 3s, 6d* Asperne, 
1806. 

The memory of this trial is so fresh that we have merely to 
speak of the ability wi th which the present report is drawn up^Mr. 
Asperne has furnished the world with one which, though compen* 
dious, is so full and satisfactory, as well as cheap, that we cannot 
doubt, when the Lord Chancellor's injunction permits, of its enjoy- 
ing in general a decided preference over all others. What it 
professes it performs, and certainly contains every argument anc| 
fact necessary to afford a thorough knowledge of the whole case. 
Life is short, and we have no time to go into chancery, or we might 
impeach the propriety and decency of a short-hand writer, assisted 
by a barrister, endeavouring to monopolize the publication of a pub- 
lic trial. 

Poems on various Subjects : Dedicated by Permission to the Right 

Honourable Countess of Essex. By Henrietta Harris, 12mo, 

Walker. 1806. 

As this dedication is '' by permission,'' most likely the countess 
saw it before publication. If so, she has the best stomach for 
flattery of any lady in the land — if not, we tremble for poor Hen* 
rietta, who has so overloaded her ladyship as to give her praises a 
strong smack of irony. She begins witli ** Energies agitating her 
hosom,** and ends with ^feelings struggling for utterance in her 
breast." If the countess has any sense, shell forgive her, for we be- 
lieve her to be honest — If she has none, she will be pleased, and 
our intercession unnecessary. 

Of the verses we have little to say— they are full of defects, but 
the writer is not deficient in a mind that deserves cultivation. 

The Morlands. Tales illustrative of the Simple and Surprising, 
By R* C. Dallas, Esq, nmo. 4 Vols. U. U. Longman, and 
Co. 
We recommend this as a very ingenious production. The tales 

areaU well told ;< but we are decided partizans of the sin^le^the 

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T%e ringuhr and interesting Trial <jf Henry St<rnton, Efq. cfthc 
Sth or Kin^s Regiment : on Charges for imoffieet'^ike B«A«vt(mi*y 
as preferred against him fy Ueut, Col, Youngs Tried by C4>pirt 
Martidl at Doncastery AuguU 14, 1805. The Conduct of those 
Officers of the ^d Battalion of the above Regiment who toei^e com" 
bined against Mr. Stanton is exposed; and their Examinations^ 
as taken on Oath, together with the Defence set vp to contradict 
their Testimont/ by his Friends, are correctly exhibited. The whole 
tending clearly to evince the injurious Treatment which Mr . Stan- 
ton sustained, pp. 165. 3s. 6d. Egerton. 1806. 
Gentle reader, yoq are particularly requested not to laugh ; if 
you do, you will probably get u»into a very -awkward scrape; for 
though this trial is certainly not very serious to you of us, it may 
be so to the parties. The mottos in the title page are of a new 
sort, and very striking : 

" Oh ! damn you, are you there? I'll kick you yet ! — ^This sen* - 
tence was followed by blows. Assistant Surgeon Brown.*' 
'^ I then called him a fool and a blackguard. Eusign Loyd." 
Here Mr. Stanton feelingly exclaims, (all in the title pi^e) 
*^ Such conduct ! Such expressions ! ! do they become the officer 
or the gentleman?^ 

After deliberately weighing the four charges against Mr. Stan- 
ton, accusing him of misdemeanours highly to the prejudice of good 
order and military discipline, the sentene^ of the court maftial ^ ad- 
judged the prisoner to be cashiered.'^ The corporation of Dod-» 
caster deeming him an injured man, subscribed a memorial to hi9 
zniyesty, and Mr. Stanton, being perfectly of the same opinion, ad- 
dressee this account of the case to the public, who m^st, after the 
•entence, be left to form ih^r private opinion on the subject. 

Account of the State of France and its Government during the last 
three Years^ particularly as it has Relation to the Belgic Provinces, 
and the Treatment of the English, By J. Worsley^ detained as a 
Hostage. Ss. Johnson. 1806. 

We are here introduced to a new descriptioD of soldiers in the 
Frendi army, called Leapers, who leap up behind the cavalry witb 
graat" BgiUty, and being carried to the plaoe required, desoead and 
form into a line of battle behind the horse. This seems to possess 
spme iDg^ipty, whiph we may admire without isaripg^ since they 
must be able to leap over Neptnoe, tbe mythological creator of 
horses, before their leaping can intiioately afect 03. The ^ts ubi, 



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ti^ Work majy we should suppose, be depe|^ded oponi and that it 
will&ffi>fd amnfletoebt we can primiise. 

CUtmmercial Pkrmeokigyt in French and EnglUh, selected from " X« 
NegOcumt XhtverselJ* Designed not onli/ to simplify and ren- 
der fmtdUar the Technical Terms used in Commerce^ but alto to 
facilitate the Understandmg that Worky so peculiarly calculated 
to enable the more advanced Students intended for Counting- 
Houses, Clerks and private Learners, to write French Commercial 
Letters with Precision and Accuracy* By William Keegan, Au" 
thor of Le Negoeidnt UniverseL 12mo, pp. 216. 3«. 6</. 
Vemor and Hood. 

We might safely and justly repeat the pretensions of the title 
page of this work^^it is due to its merits. In a commercial coun- 
try like England, and when the French is as well the universal lan- 
guage of counting-houses, as it is oi courts, the value and utility of 
such a labour as the present are incalculable. The selection is ex- 
cellent, and perhaps it would not be too much to say, vaut bien 
toriginal. 

■A Word or two, or Architectural Hints; in lines, in two Parts; 
addressed to those Royal Academicians who art Painters; written 
prior, as well as subsequent to the Day cf Annual Flection for 
their President, iOth December, 1805. 'to which a few Notes are 
added ; a Dedication, a Preface, and P. S. to Reviewers. By Fa* 
hricia Nunez, Spinster, 4to, pp. 50. Stockdale, 1806. 
This spinster seems to object to the hanging gentlemen of the 
Royal Academy for having chosen an architect to be their president. 
The lady has sbme cleverness in her remarks, but, we confess, 
that to us she appears most unnecessarily fastidious on this point. 
Why not an architect President of the Royal Academy as well as 
any thing else ? Surely it cannot be required that, " he who drives 
fat asses,* should himself be fat !^ And as an architect is probably 
not unacquainted with plastering, who more proper P 
Measures and not Men ; or the Present and Future Interests of 
Great Britain ; with a Plan for rendering us a martial as well as 
a commercial People, and providing a military Force adequdte to 
the EMgencies of the Empire, and the Security of the United 
Kingdom. 8vo. pp. 217. 3«. 6d. Johnson, 1806. 
This tarn Metrtz quam Mercurio, or martial and commercial 

* A oustake: Oxtn, 
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writer, who wiibM that wa ahosld Dot Ojp^^ott tkt arow of Fmmce, 
but afltMt themin tbekr designs. If ibid maiiandbis friend Dr. Ed- 
wards aie Botoraobedy we are eorry for h, sbiea^ take away the ex- 
cute of omdoetiy or Mijf aad they aie 1^ ih a base ooadkioa in- 



The Forat of St. Bernardo. By Miss M. Hamilton. 4 vols, 18f» 
sewed. Hughes, 1806. 

Indeed Miss Hamilton this wont do. You must go to school 
and learn a little geography, and as much good En^sh as you caii 
pick lip— Return then, and with the fancy you possess, we will al-^ 
low you to venture on a novel in two volumes. We take shame ta 
ourselves for thus ofiending a female's ear, but really Miss it is too 
much for our gallantry paiientltf to pay eighteem shillings for sheets 
of this sort, however sewed, 

4n Historical Account ofCorsham House^ in Wilt^re, the Seat of 
Paul Cobb Methuen, Eiq. with^a Caiahgue of his celebrated Col- 
lection of Pictures, By John Britton, pp, |108. Longman 
and Co. 1806. 

This ingenious littte work is the production of Mr* Britton, the 
tasteful author of the Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain. 
It is neatly dedicated to the British Institution : After which wa 
have, A Concise Historical Essay on the Fine Arts ; the catalogue of 
Mr. Methuen's fine collection of pictures, with notes; biographical 
sketches of their painters, and a descriptive account^ of Corsliam- 
House. Mr. Britton talks of writers, who, " instead of endeavour- 
ing to inform the reader, are only solicitous to amuse him — ^^ Mr, 
B. does both, and the public, as well as Mr. Methuen, are indebted 
to him. A view and plan of the house are prefixed. 

The Miseries of Human Life; or the Groans of Timothy TeHy and 
Samuel Sensitive, With a few supplementary l^hs from 'birs. 
Testy. In 12 Dialogues. t2mo,] pp, S6tL 8i. A New and 
improved Edition. MUer. 1806. 

Tms is a tolerably adaptation of " Les misires du genre hu- 
main,** to the customs, habits, and feelings of Englishmen. Wit 
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nges. Tbe nmeries doC bfiag workod up in « tloiyt nor flowing 
aatuially fMoi kw i dt nt and cbaraotar, tit rendered often te- 
dious, and n«9tr vvff i^tiiMitMig.. Wc lamk nt «M^ ^roon at a M- 
condy ^Bpe at a cbird^ and are jcnt abdut'to fat down the book, 
when we perhaps c^iiain another laagb, and are tempted to pro- 
ceed. 

Many of tbe fni$erie9 are iudi as never happened to any body ; 
and we find others about which there ^n^ot be any ^rwt difference 
of opinion, whedier a aiaa be corporeally or mentally hip*d, or iiei- 
tber— for inaj^aoe, tbe drawing of a dcHible tooth by instalments ; 
a needle run up his xiail to the quick ; the deep gnsh' of a razor ; 
the breaking of a leg; the kick of a horse ! If tbamost reasonable 
nran, and the greatest hypochondriac, think not and feel not very 
nearly alike on these occasions, we are exceedingly mistaken. The 
introductory matter is generally dull, and the reading of it may in 
a future edition be made a very sensible groan. This omitted, and 
the garden of miseries well weeded^ would be an improvement. 

The work is, as we hear, the production of a lady, and tbe quan- 
tity of ** one solitary page,*^ for which she confesses herself indebt* 
ed to some one, it to be forracd in all probability of t^e quota- 
tions. Th^ good doctor who has lent his aid, is a " graeculus,'' and 
when he qaotes Orieek^ p. -45. 

^ The trees sigb to the wind, and loudly groans the oak," to lend 
. a twig for his posteriors. 

CromeTfti Descriptive Fotm, i^mo. pfi. 57. Ridgwa^, 180€. 

This poem is not unworthy of the epithet which has been given 
to it. It describes^ with considerable poetical force and beauty, the 
several rohian tic ol^ects which distinguish nhe village of Cromer, 
that 

gratrnn littus ameeni 
Secessns— — 



"which has lately become so attractive a scene of resort, to those who 
prefer ease and retirement on the sea coast, to the glat-e and bus- 
tle of Brighton^ or the vulgarity and noise of Maifgate. 

How competent the author of Cromer is to the task he has un* 
«lertaken| a few short quotations shall enable the reader to judge. 
Ho foot it beard ppon the Jetty's base ; 

I am alone«-and leaning o'er its side 

I gaze In silence^-^hiking on the deep, 

Its dangers, and its wonders, and its patlia, 

Park^ tiackless, and unsearchable by an 

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Save by Hit eye who tnt^t earth, sea, and libav'n. 
FUfd with these thonghta, 1 po der till my ndnd 
Si«i&ks btdi in mute a i to ni i hmc nt tfid mwe. 
* *Tia good to be alone-^it turns the view 

Into the i..ward man, and makes hii^ ttri^ 
To root the weeds of passion from his breast 
That choice the growth of virtue. Who can gaze 
Upon the green expanse of waters, though they seen^ 
Smooth as the mirror which to beauty's eye 
Reflects her graceful fonn, »n^ not be r^*d 
Above the low contentions of the world— ^ 
* Not feel the glow that mediutioo ^es, 
Whose sacred musings lift him to his God ? 
The ^encroachment of the waves on some parts of the coast givef 
rise to the following lines. The moral reflation at the close is yer^^ 
solemn and impressive. 

Yet does my eurlous eye in vain explore 
The spot where still the mould'ring ruins lie. 
Which (old tradition faint and doubtful tells) 
Are the l^t fragments of the sacred pile 
Which erst in Shipdon rear'd its lofty fane 
In Gothic grandeur, when the Conquejipr niTd 
With iron sceptre o'er bis. vassal realm, , 
Shipdon could boast its lordship's vast doma^ i 
But the initiate waters of the sea 
With slow yet sure encroachment roird their waves. 
Destructive as the silent maftb of time; 
And buried Shipdon's honours in the deep. 

And ^till the wave eacroaches-^stiU when storais 
Swell high the Wintry flood, and the rough tide 
With angry billows shakes the mouldVing cliff. 
Does he who&e cottage beetles o*er its edge, 
(An aerie on the mountain^ craggy point,) 
List the hoarse surge, and tremble at its voice. 

Pass but a few short years> and, Cromer, thou. 
Thy lovely vales, thy purple blooming heathfa . 
Thy Gothic temple built in limes remote. 
And from dec ^y more veDcrable, all may sink. 
Lost in the ocean's fathomless abyss ! 
Per all thirgs human perish; and the eye 
Weeps, as it dwells on History's faithful page. 
O'er cities once that proudly stood, now faU*n I 
O'er Babylon and Mempiiis, and o^^r thee. 
Still in thy ruins graceful, fair Palmyra, 
O'er Athens, lon^ for arts and arms rcnown'rf, 
■ O'er Thebes inmiortaliz'd by Pindar's verse, 
A nd Carthage; once tlie mistress of ^ seas, 
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■ "" imkmmmmmmmmi ■ r mmmmmmmm'mmmsasasmmi^ it., i}^^ * : i^ ^ 

More klod thy desttn'd course a^enid, and stffl 

As blest with freedoift, bright in hmt thou shio*st, 

May thy hand grasp the sceptre of dit main 1 

Ita. moral teadency i^ indeed one great recommendation of fehis 
little poem. We shall q^ote another short passage, and then tak« 
ourle^vepf it. 

Why bleats yon Umb, as, hurrying to aud£Fo» 
Anxious it seeks an outJet fro^n tbe lane ? 
poor hinoceiit ! the cjuse of tby distress 
Well I conjec!ttre ; fur as late I passed 
f saw tin fellows In the upland mead 
Graating the plenteous herb.ige,and I mar}e*d 
The gap thro' h hich with cartlete step thdh atniy*^« ' 
Be m^ afkaid-^I doom thee not to bleed, 
I am no botdier armM with murderous steel 
Against thy life ; nor come I like a thief 
In oight's deep gloom to snatch thee from thy home, 
^e coDfideot ; and I with friendly care 
Win drive thee back, and guide thcc to thy flock. 
' Oh ! that with equal ease T could recl:4i(n 
Tlie wanderer from virtue ; to his eye 
Stew the blest paradise his lolly stray;d from ; . • 
And o>r his mind, by true repentance soften*d» 
Conk) pour t!^ strong conviction that ** her ways 
Are Ways of pleasantness — her paths are peace !" 
The story of Mary the Maniac is an aflfecting episode, for which, 
«n account of its lengthy we are sorry we must refer the reader to 
% poem. If onr good word can a£ford any encouragement to the 
author, we trust tbe appearance of the second part ^ which depends 
on the reception of the J^rsf, will not long be withheld. 
I^ Poetical Works qf fT, J. Mickle ; including several original 
Pieces^ mitha new life of the Author, % the Reverend J. 
Sim^ A. B, 13ma, pp. 190. 5s. Symmsds. 1806. 
Tbe merits of Mickle a» a poet are too well known to need re- 
Goiamendation, and when we add that the life here given is well 
drawn up, and calculated to further tl^e interests of piety and viiv 
tue, we may reasonably hope that the work has its passport par 
tout. 

The.To^ng Ladies* As$istant in writing French Letters, or Manuel 

Epiitolaire ^ hisage des Demmselles. 8vo. Deconchj/, 1806. 

This manuel is fitted to produce the end required — to accustom 

jfoang ladies ta acquire a flueacy in converMtion, through the useiUi 

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XmUaiioHt^tapeculumconnt^udinis, inutgoverieatis. Cicero. 

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DERMODrS BfiMARKS ON THE DRAMA. 



Mft. Editoe, 

Mb. DermodY; in }nB remarks on Uie dmin^c writers^ inserted 
m jour last, notices tiM resemblance betw^ Oe^vian^ in the 
Moontakieeri^ mid the hero of Mr* Thbobald's tragedy of the 
Double Fakhopdj bnt cannot pretetMl to detenaine whether Mr- 
Colman was a#are of the similaritjr. Mr. Dermodj does not seem 
himself to have been Aware that Chrdenh, in Don Quixote^ is the 
original from which both JuUoy in the Double' Falshood, andCoL- 
Mak's Octanan are derived. Mr. Theobald's play, which Dermodj 
thought might still be soceejssfully introduced to the stage, was re- 
rived at Covent Garden about fifteen years ago, for the benefit of 
the late Mr. WiM, Uie prompter, and received very great applause. 
The Fatal Extravagance, of which Dermody also speaks in Wgh' 
terms, was published in the name of Mr. Mitdiell, an author in 
■ needy circumstances, but it is geuerally su^osed to have been 
written by Aarov Hill, ibr the purpose of relieving Mkchell^ ne- 
cessities. This piece has likewise been acted with much success 
within these few years, under the title of the ProdigaL Mr. Wa)- 
dron gave it that title, and, with some alterations, produced it at 
the little theatre in die ^aymarket. 

Yoorsi&c. 

Makcvsu 
mmmBBsamoBamtmmtssam 

ANECDOTES OF THE FRENCH STAGE. 

The Cafbicious Lover, a comedy in five acts, in prose, by Au-^ 
treau,tns. 

Auttrau thought highly of his play, and, to say the truth, it'pos* 
iesses considerable merit, ahhou^ it was so unfavotlrably riec^ived, 
on the first representation, that it required oonsiderable interest to 
pvocure its repetition. The author reduced it to^three acti, and 
sulded a prologne, in which LdIu) sat at a table, writbg. ' HsHe^ 
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tbat be was re?ising die Caprickm Lover, and if the aadience wdold 
permit it to be acted again, he had no doubt but that it Woold b# 
tucoessfol ; upon which he rose, and passed some compliments open 
l!he candour and justice of the pit, conjuring them to give it a Aiir. 
and an impartial hearing. 

** Too proud to beg, too modeat to demand, 
'' Bj merit only would he fall or stand : 
^ Nor enmity nor friendship interfering, 
" He only asks a fair and candid hearing. 
^ tf, after thi(, you should with acorn reject him^ 
. ^ Or ti^ake one honest scruple to el6ct him, 
** He^l lay his unadvised scheme aside, 
* And frtUlcly own himself not qualified. 

Tha prologue was i^plauded, and the piece was beard with at' 
lentioa, bat it ciid not please a it had, notwitstanding, *«QOthec 
trial, upon the Theatre dk Palais Rotfaly which was its last. 

Cartouche, a comedy in prose, hy Le Grand, 172 !• 

This piece is founded on a fact, which caused a great constema* 
tion in France. It was written before Cartouche was apprehended^ 
under the title of ^ The Robbers.'' It was not performed at 
thattime^ but afterwards altered and adapted to the circumstances 
of the case. On the first representation, the audience were so im» 
patient that they would not permit the actors to finish the first 
scene of a little comedy called *^ ^Isop at Court,** but insisted upoa 
Cartoudne being acted immediately. 

The Dbath of Cleopatrji, a tragedy, by La (^$^Ue, 

An actor of the name of D^ijiit^i/Zi^rs, jealous of the great repu* 
tation of Barom, played the part of Erot in this play, and had the 
baseness to give a sword, instead of a foil, to a performer who had 
to fight with Baroiu The consequence was, that excellent perfor* 
oier was near fiiUing a sacrifice ; but the sword luckily struck against^ 
ft buttaa of hb vest, and Baron onlf received a slight wound. 

Madame la Daupbine (of Bavaria) could never see D*AuviUiers 
act, after this affair, without expressing her disapprobation. The 
man went mad, and was sent to a receptacle for lunatics at Cha^ 
teoton, where he died. 

Cfio OF Utica, a tragedy by Deschampt, 1715. 

The first represectations of fAns play were attended by very fuU 
houaea, and promised a long run ; but all at once curiosity ceased^ , 
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** Sometime beibre Cato of Utka appeared upoD our stage,*' sajs 
a Frencb journalist, '* a play of the same name was performed 
uppn the London theatre. It was written by the celebrated Addi* 
son, and was praised by all parties. The whole nation w.as at that 
time indamed with faction : the Whigs applauded every line in which, 
liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the Tories, and the Tories 
echoed every clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt/' 

** This piece," said Voltaire, " is above all praise, in its diction 
and versification. The part of Cato has my full approbation, and is 
much superior to Corn^/ie, in the Fompey of Corneilley for Cato is 
great without bombast. The Cato of Addison appears to me to be 
the most perfect character upon any stage ; but the other parts do 
not correspond, and this work, so well written, is weakened by 
some insipid scenes of love.** 

Deschamps' play was translated into English , with a criticism upon 
the English play ; bat the translation and the critic are now .for- 
gotten. 



ANECDOTE OF GARRICK. 



DuftiNG the year 1778, their majesties, in reviewing the summer 
encampments, visited Winchester, and honoured the college with 
their presence. Dr. Warton's house, at this period, was filled with 
men of high and acknowledged talents, amongst whom were Lord 
Fahnerston, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Messrs. Stanley, T. Warton, and 
Garrick. To the last a very whimsical accident occurred. The 
horse that carried him to the review, on his casually alighting, by 
some means got loose and ran away. In this dilemma, assuming 
the attitude of Richard, he eiclaimed amidst the astonished sol- 
diers, " A hone ! a hdrte f my kingdom for a horse ^ which reach- 
ing the king^s ears, he immediately asserted, ^ these must be the 
tones of Garrick ; see if he is on the ground.* Mr. G. was conse- 
quently found, and presented to' his majesty, who, in addition to 
many other compliments, assured him, that his delivery of Shakesf- 
peare could never pass undiscovered. 



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ORIGINAL POETRY. 



VERSES, 
Written upon reading " The Wanderer of Switzerland!' 

High o*er Uoderwalden's • vale, 
Where lier shadowy rocks aspire, 

Hark ! what sounds affright the gale, 
—Sounds of vengeance, death and fire. 

Bright on yonder moiintain-cloud. 

See the ghost of Tell afar; 
Hark ! the thunders burst aioud^ 

As he hastens to the war. 

Heroes, who for freedom bled, 
In your country's cause, arise ! 

Vengeance calls you from the dead. 
Ere your bleeding country dies. 

See again fair Freedom stand. 
Where your mountains pierce the sky; 

Thunders lingering in her hand. 
Lightnings burning in her eye. 

Swiftly on th' affrighted foe. 
Be those awful thunders hurl'd ; 

—Lightnings, lay the tyrant low ! 
— Freedom shall avenge the world ! 

But in Freedom's cause,^ vain 

Rose the spirits of the bravp i 
For they rose to die agaia 

On their dying country's grave. 

Long upon the field of death, 
These their legjon'd foes ^e^^ 
' Till grim Horror gasp'd for breath. 

Till the soul of Vengeance died f 

♦ The scene of the battle and massacre from which the " Wanderer** escaped. 
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Wanderer !*-frora that bttttle-plain, 
"Where their bones in death repose, 

Then the spirits of the slain. 
To a Heaven of freedom rose. 

Then the glorious ghost of Tell, 

Thro* the skies, in bright array, 
Led their awful shades, who fell 

In their country*s dying day. 

Wanderer ! wipe that anxious tear ; 

— Cease thy many griefs to flow !-^ 
Tlio' ordainM to linger here, 

Wilder*d on a waste of woe: 

From the gulph of ruin dire, 

Tho* thy country rise no more^ 
H not thine the seraph lyre 

Which her guardian angel bore? 

Strike again that magic lyre ! 

—Hark, the startled mountains ring ! 
WakQ again that strain of fire ; 

Freedom breathes in every string 1 

— ^Now let Pity softly weep. 

As the Bounds of sorrow sw^l ; 
As she bathes their dust, who sleep 

Where they conquer'd — where they fell . 

— Calm, as evening's mildest ray. 

Sweetly fading in the west, 
Wanderer ! be thy setting day ; 

Weary wanderer, be thy rest ! 

On Columbia's • sheltering shore, 
When thy toil-worn limbs repose ; 

When thy voice shall sound no more, 
And thy fainting eye-lids close : 

• AUttdiof to the Waaderer*s purpose, after the example of mapj of his oountiy- 
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*w;r„^.. iij i i, I , 1 ''^'"f ,■! ,..f' 'II 'P j.^., i ,i i L iiiiiy.i .jiijw ii i iii ',', „ waK 

O'er thy venerable tomb, 

FreshenM by renewing years, 
Shall a sacred laurel bloom, 

Watered oft by Freedom's tears. 

Albert's offspring, on those plains, 
In their new-born country'^ tongue. 

Oft shall consecrate the strains. 
Which thine ardent genius sung. 

Pausing oft to view thy grave, 

Shall the youthful hero sigh ; — 
Learn to triumph witli the brave, 
With the valiant learn to die ! 

M S. 

Belfast, June 12th, 1806. 



BON SOIU LA COMPAGNIE. 

liAUaignant. 

My fiftieth winter drawing near 
Bids for approaching death -prepare ; 

How distant who can tell : 
But! shall calmly meet my fate. 
And close my term without regret — 

Farcwel, my friends, farcwel ! 

Pleasure, my former w'sys, no more 
Delights me as it did before, 

Not caTi it death repel ; 
Then why,- since bliss will not be bought. 
And '* man i» but* a thing of nought,''— 

Forbear tt) bid fareivei. 

Where* I shall waoder-^wiiat awAit 
Me, when I^^uit my present state,. 

But God alone caatell; 
Yet that great power, wise as just. 
Forbids his mercy to mistrust; 

Farewel, my friends, farewel ! 

O. G. 

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ON THE DEATH OF MRS. MARY N , 

AT THE AGE OF 24. 

I EKEW thee in thy day of love; 

Ruddy with health, of beauty rar^ } 
Long lost— I see thee slowly move 

By mourners borne v^on thy bier. 

Thy little day of life was sown 
With little joy, then why repine ? 

And I, that o*er thy sorrows mourn. 
The earth next broken may be ini]^« 

But bend me to his gracious w^l 
Who can above our. joys restore*?- 

Can bid the beating heart " be still,'' 
Th? grief-swoll'n bosom ** weep no more.'' 

O. G, 



LINES, 

Written on fhe Pier at Dover, efter a Visit to Denton-Court^tht 
Seat ofS. E, Brjfdges, Esq, 

Dentok I thy tranquil bowers have tun'd my hear^ 

To such pure love of sylvan quietude, 
That the gay tumult of this crowded mart 

Seems irksome, and for solace much too rude« 
Von armed mounds, where rush the sons of war 

To the trump's clangor, bode no calm delight; 
And rouad this peopled pier, a strlferlike jar 

Of voices, puts all soothing thought to flight. 
Thy wood-crown'd walks, dear Denton ! brought the co«i 

Of the mild dove on my unstartled ear; 
Thy airy uplands did my slow step woo, 

Thy verdant vallies could my dim sight cheer : 
And all thy charms were heightened still to m% 
By life's prime charm^-refin^d society ! 

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A PARODY. 
** Nancy / wik thou go tcith me ?** 

O Betsey ! wilt thou go with me ? 

I'm sick to breathe the smoke of town ; 
We'll walk to Bagnigge and take tea ; 

Tb' expence will be but half a crown : 
If thouMt in cleanly gown be drest 

I'll put on my best coat so rare, 
My onfy coat, of course, my best, 

To please the fairest of the fair. 

When first I squir'd thee to the play, 

Did'st thou not think me smart behind? 
Tails were the fashion of that day, 

And I for fashion was designed. 
How often has my tortur'd pate 

Extremes of lugging learnt to bear ! 
To soften my obdurate fate, 

And please the fairest of the fur. 

O Betsey ! I'm a shaver true ; 

With razors keen to work I go ; 
But if thy swain mishap should rue. 

And through the barber spoil a beau. 
Say, if a basting should befal, 

Could*st thou assume a fiercer air? 
And tooth and nail to fighting fall 

For me, thou &irest of the fair? 

And if, at last, thy swain should be 

By rude and filthy sailors prest, 
Would'st thou be constant still to me. 

And of my hammock make thy nest ? 
And would'st thou in the rigging lay. 

Hang shirts, and take them down with care, 
Nor yet regret the kitchen gay 

Where thou wert direst of the fair? 

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SONNET. 

ON LEAVING A country: RESIDENCE. 

AiNSwoRTH^ farewel ! I quit thy pastur'd meads. 
Thy sylvan- wood-walk% and thy grassy, dells ; — 

O Ain»worth ! severed from thy. peaceful shades, — ' 
GrieiTs tributary sigh my bosooi swcUs. 

No more, my rustic home I the smiling morn 
Shall m^t me issuing from the margin^ Held ; 

Or 'midst green labyrinths of springing corn, 
Shall mellow eve the wonted ramble yield f 

Yet from thy blooming haunts though forced to rove. 
Portioned with young regret, and doomed to part 

From those who love me, and from those I love, — 
Still, Ains worth I thou art pictured m my heart. — 

That heart, that owns its best alfcctions thiney 

And where fond. memory still shs^l call thee mine I 
Fl^outh, W. Ball. 

MEMORANDA DRAMATIC A* 



HAYM arret. 

This theatre closed a successful season oa Monday the 15th of September, 
with the following address. 

" Ladies and Geptlemen-^-TJiis night coticlodes a season, the success of 
which has strongly proved the continuance of that ample encouragement so long 
bestowed by a liberal public on this theatre ; and calls for the warmest acknow- 
ledgments from the proprietors. Th e honour devolves on me to express to you 
their gratitude for your past favour, and to assure you that it will be their pride 
and study to merit it in future^ The performers, ladies and gentlemen, beg 
you to accept (heir humble thanks for the generous support you have ^ven to 
their efibrts ; and we roost respectfiiUy take our letv^.''^ 

PRURY-tANE AND COVENT'OAaD|E|I. 

An ample report of the novelties exhibited ai the«>e theatres shall be made 
next month. 

BOYAL CIRCtW. 

Si NCB oar last notice of the amusements of this theatre, a new peiiie piece 
called the Stage Letter, and a ballet of action entitled t!ie False Friend^ or 
Assassin of the Mockst have beep produced. The Stage Letter is founded on 
an anecdote related in the memoirs of Ixfr Lewes. la our review of that 
article, the, incident was reconunended as worth the attention of our farce 
writers, but Mr, Cross has forestalled them, and with much ingenuity work- 
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^th a propriety unknown to the rest of the company, played the part of 
Buskin With iMnsidetable effect. The False Friend will prove a true friend 
tO'thetreasary,if an interesting story, «ret1 conducted, splendidly got up, and 
ilily yetfdrmed, is duly rewarded. The revived pantomime tailed the 
^yttreis ofHtro^i meets with gricat approbation, and Mr. Read^ who mocks 
die playtn,Ttcelves tribute. 

ilfr. Jktieth •ffmr.'keeording^^to puMic notice, termindted a v£ry succe^sfut 
iCBsoQ on the 26th of SeptaMber. His merits have entitled him to this Ube< 
c«l ptttM6age, and Che gratead labours df IHts AstUy, and the rest of the 
p^oRnerv) tiave been handidmcly rewarded by benefits both crowded zxA 

KEW OLYMPIC PAVILLION. 

Im Ncwcastk-strcct, Strand, "by the authority of the I-ord Chamberlain^ 
Mr, AstJeii, Senr. on the 18th of September opened the Nezo Olympic Pavillio/it 
for the exhibition of horsemanship, vaulting and pantomine. The theatre 
represents a spacious tent, and the arena in whidi the games and feats are 
^efft>m^4ii1aftter than that of the amphitheatre at Westminster Bridge. 
19Miio«Mtu% elegant, but m% nictitated to hold many persons; the pit is 
lai^er, and io its common place, but ^e gallery is under the boxes, behiiid 
•he^. The whole space devoted to the spectators does not appear to be 
€hle'«t>'eontain mdre than would produce 801. '^The music is situated in all 
^teMtod orehestraon the left of the curtain, and the house is principally and 
ail-«uffici(*titly Illuminated by twelveGredan lamps of gttat brilliancy, su«-i- 
pmi/tA |[ra)cefully f rom the deling. 

The peifimnances consist chidy of 1i6rsemSinship, in which Master Da- 
wk dlAlngnithes lilmself in a surprising manner. The excellence of Mn 
Smih\% well JUnowii. Tkt cavtikade with which the etltertainmcnts com- 
taeakt ie truly grand and ftell of affcdt. Twthre horses enter with all thei!^ 
4f^ppiay ridily capatisoiiedj'first unmounted and then mounted, and by their 
€Volatioa« forUa a very atilmatin^ spectacle. After many varieties, Whibh we 
halretaoroom ac preient to enumerate, the whole concludes with a serio-co* 
Mic fafltcMiiie called Hie Indian Chief y in which Mrs. Parker zp^tzrtid to 
great advantagt, and attracted, as formerly, much applause. This piece is in- 
terest^ and ilhe scenety beautifully painted. We virant however in panto* 
Ihhie what we shall perhaps soon haVe, our old friends the clown and harle- 
<iuin. in eons^uence of being narrow in their limits, the scenes that meet 
hte ptiodueed both on one side, and then jbined, but it is managed with such 
•kill as not t» be very destru<itive of effect. 

TlieMl of the night is prefaced by an appeal f^cm Mr, Astley, Senr. to 
the ]^ublic, in whose service he has spent much of a long life, and in the exer- 
tion of his profession, here and at Paris, experienced severe looses. We trust 
that this <* oZtf veteran** wiH meet With cncouragemeht, and that the agrd 
horse will by his masters l>e stippc)rted in ease and comfort, in thii snug little 
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VAVXHALt. 

Tats festive and delightful scene doitd on the 3rd. of September with 
grand gala. The gardens were crowded, and the singing, the music, and the 
fireworks j^reterved all their brilliancy and cdat to the last. Mr. Digmtn 
Wss the public orafor on this occasion, and in a speech, unequulledhj any, at^ 
suTfd the company how much the manager was obliged to them fpr thek 
warm patronage, notwithstanding the frequent inclemency of the season ; and 
informed them that many exertions would be made to re-bpen the gardens 
ntsx year with increased attractions. We dd not pretend to give the words 
of the orator, but this was the substance^it was *V Apolline digmm** Tht 
fuccess of th* season has been great and deKnred. It was never the intentiooi 
It seems, of the proprietor to let the gardens. The mistake originated in a de- 
nre to let Vauxhall PStfk, some ground behind them. The public ha¥e came 
to rejoice. 

THE AMERICAN STAGE. 
SKETCH bF THE LIFE OF MR. JOHN BERNA&Di 

[Continued from page 132.] 

Mr* Bern akd appears to have been held In high estimation in London ^ aid 
bis secession from Govent Garden was deeply regretted by public admiven as 
Well as private friends. 

Daring his residence in London he produced several dramatic entertain* 
iments, which met with approbation. One of these, called " The Poor Saikr^ 
or Little Bob and Littte Ben/* was written partly ibr the purpoie 6f bringiof 
forward a young person, whose talents Mr. B. thought were not properly est!- 
mated. While residing in Plymouth, he kept a vocabulary of sea-phrases, which 
Wa« of service in the composition of this piece. The songs, which the writer of this 
article is uell assured were the entire production of Mr. Bernard, were printed 
and given away at the doors of the theatre. They were highly applauded i bol 
from the utiwillingnesS of the public to look fatourably on a m^ain the two« 
fuld capacity of author and actor, they were attributed to some other pen^ and 
ihe real author never received the credit which was justly his due. . Mr. B* it 
likewise the author of several fugitive pieces of poetry^ which are i^ow in the 
possession of the editor, and shall decora' e some of the future num.bets of tht 
I'olyanthos. 

Mr. BemardN first appearance on the American stage was made at New 
York, Aug. 17, 1797, in the character of Goldfincb^ in tht Road to Ruin, Ht 
was engaged by Mr. Wignell, and at the 0|)ening of the winter campaign was 
introduced to the Philadelphia audience in the characters of Rttttekim and Tbi 
iJar» He continued it that place till the summer of 1803. ^ 

Id the autumn of 1603, he was engaged by Mr. Puwell, manager of the 
Boston thea're. He appeared in the chArzcter oi Humphrey GubbUny in the Bat- 
tie of Hexham, and received from a brinianC audience the most unequivocal 
demonstrations of applause. His professional talents and reputable conduct In 
private life have recommended him to the public favour. 

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the public eye. Mr. Bernard's person is of the middling $i2C ahd well made, hit 
complexion ruddy, and hair dark. His great poster in varving his featured 
enables him, a% it were, to identify himself wi'h the person he is to represent* 
To this the compass of his voice and the accuracy of his ear greatly contribute; 
while his eye has the happy faculty of lt>oking the passion he means to express. 
To these advantages for forming an actor, may be added a tiiscrimtnating judg* 
ment and a taste improved by cultivation. 

Whatever merit attaches to industry in his profession, mav he justly con- 
sidered as belonging to Mr. Bernard. He studies the sense of his author with 
indefatigable diligence j and isul^tays at home in the various parts which he 
undertakes to act. An enlightened audience, which will not be insulted with 
knpunlty by the cu'pable negligence of actors, appreciates this re pectful atten* 
tion more than is generally imagined. 

His range of acting has been extensive — from the most polished gentleman 
to'the most awkward clown, through the intermediate families of fops, hu* 
moorists, and distinciive characters of vaious knds. Our limits will only^al- 
low «s to mention such as Lord Oglehy^ Goldfitkb, Sbtva^ in The Benevolent 
Hebrew, the Jem in the Jew and Doctor, Nipperk'm, Dennis Brulgruddery^ Far" 
mir j4si^eid, Ruttekin^ Lovegotdf and DiddUr, All which characters, and many 
more, it is well known, have been personated by him with great applause. 

Mr. Bernard*8 Lord OgJehy, which appeared first on one of the London the- 
atres, at the same time the celebrated Mr. King was playiug in tlie same cha- 
racter at the other, was alone sufficient to have made the former rank high on 
the list of the distinguished actora of the age. Since that period he has \m* 
proved much in this part, and since the death of Mr. King, it is presumed by 
tliose who have seen it performed in Europe as well as America, Mr. Bernard's 
assumption would not suffer by a comparison with that of any performer now 
on the stage. 

We must still be indulged In just touchin<4 on his uncommon success in the 
difficult part of L<nfegoJdy in the Mi«er, This he placed in Boston the winter 
before last, for the first time in hU life. In it, he displayed the skill of a mas- 
ter; for it proved to be his cbefd'teuvre. It has been said by a person who has 
seen Moliere*s Miser performed in Paris, and Fielding's in London, that it it 
doubtful in his mind, whether this character has not been exhibited uiih as 
nrach fidelity to nature, in Boston, as in either of those capitals. The lesson, 
en the miserable consequences resulting from an inordinate love of riches, could 
not have been more strongly impressive. Nor could the ill-sorted connexion of 
avarice and gallantry have been more effectually exposed to ridicule, than it 
was by Mr. Bernard in this character of Lovegoidy aided by Mrs. Shaw in that 
or Lappet. It is but justice (o say, her representation was highly spirited and 
correct. The inimitable comic humour interspc rsed in the principal scene be* 
tween them, must have set all human gravity of muscles at defiance. In the 
excess of frantic feeling, when the miser discovers he has been robbed of his 
darling treasure, Bernard rose with his subject; and wihout ranting, or out* 
stepping <* the modesty of nature,** he expressed by turns the furious yet debi- 
litating passions of ra^e, grief, and despair, with their appropriate characteristics, 
and with uncommon dFi:ct. 

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I( it witlik. gfeiit 49t|sfjM:(iofl^ we. bfi?9 to »4d» tl^t the fifr^ o^^lyMB .W« aw 
IiOWtrea|^giiiK4,.lwpe^(W*Ujoi;h|i,morai, thaij re^jjc^aWft iij bivpfidfofo 
Ijonail cl^wtv. Hk i» en^fkf) t^^ih* betur p^a4U fqr l)avji|iKBtr%fll«i:«Kll 
all il^ ffJUtv^e daticf.of lifj;, ii^ ll a cQUfUnt, WlsfKioDI.9(^«»4W)|OP rAliS>T 
0U1 ^Hor|]|i|»> He wai a g9(yi.hus^4y Pvflog thf la^ >\jPkV ^ iOi^9i»«»9f 
c«llenC wi% wi^ wb^m \\t h^ Uve^ i||<ii>y y^f iti tlv^ gr^i^Ast CMUVg^ 
lupplncti. By her he has three chldreoa t9 ifk^tp^ he 1^ a tender, a^id iik;)]|ln 
gput ps^at, tnd fi^ whose w^elfiffe hje is sciUcitpiM tq re^^^.a rqinpstiml.and 
|p4(ipeDd(;at prpviiioQ. Tki$ iiuliiMs btfn,.hci vf v«r iib«r4 ia> hi* dispoMtim* SQ 
a|tf^ to 9MfH «Q9B«n|y iQ % imn«)g^|^ot of h}« a|ia|i«» lii|,8a)»nr MhI 
btnsQtt han beea so hj^idpomely prq^UQtivq, thai hq h^? Ui<i. up mpp^y awcft 
hff h^ bi^en in Ap^^ic^ Hif F,9»WP» **^ npw, stil) njora faygwahlo th^.|^ 
kive been. 

The tlieat^ in Boston bat bcSR let by the ptoprie^r^* f^r ^jn yeai», to. the 
p(e^ei)t n)aa9g^r&, of whQi9 Mf » 9- *« PQ^ He enabar^e^, for £RgU^> a few 
iUys ago,, to bring oi|C; a raioC^rf^x^qnt t? the comtopy . Wp ilff^erely . wj«h 
tUathem^ymeet witbs^cfc?^^ dj^^t the pMbUc^majr be.gs^iM ««MhjlA ekk 
g^ ao4 i^rcsting;aAlD8<in«i|l qf.a «fU reg«|aKd andJnipr^irAd the^ni and 
kjiat tJ^e qoaQagfirs ag4 all Qoiic^nq4ilMrb€ grpcraUyr^^a^dcdlortbcdf honc^l 
cndeaYou|u tp pr^vldf thi« rali9P4lgrst|fi«MkpifQr ibft towB* 



PROVINCIAL DRAMA, &c 

Theatre Bikmikcham.— Macready has closed his theatre with thi; fal- 
lowing address: 

« Ladies and Gkmtikmen-— As this .night concludes, the sc^^fQ^* I 
fannof ilcnv m^'sdf the grati/icatlQn of ofl^riqg my acknp^led|g^ie|its fof 
the support [ have experienced , aqd though the sesisqn may. pc^ have.beej^ 
so prpductive as heretofore, yet it hy no mean^ diminishes tbe^sipc^. 9Qd 
grateful Eena^tiona wlijch your kindness and liberality ha,Ye.im[^re89fid inJA- 
llbly on my mind { and to merit a continuation oC yp.ui; kix;)dacsS| i;fi^.ex 
pains } trouble t nr eicpence «haU be spared in pcoicidii^ fQr, yQi^? fMtlt/ei^,e;i^er- 
u|nmenc. A report has been industriously propag}te4>, that I pui:p(^(Q|, ff* 
signing ibe dtrcctioti of this theatre^ how or where 8uchaiV^^CQil|dl ocjL'« 
ginatc* I am at 3 los^ even to gaess^a? th§ tljowgl^t ut^ytf, e^terediz^ mifi4^ 
nor shpU le while! can, by the most unwearied as$ji4^ity, ^n^^^ vncvtliy ,p( 
tl^at patronagt; and protection with which yotj baye. hi^lj^Q h^noufeci ^n^ 
With pride T h.2.vtt received your favours, witl^ gr^titudq I ^Itnowledge thqi^ 
ant! the recollection of vour kindness. caQ only .cieas^. w^th my life. TJ>fr 
performer J in gt-neral unjtc inrptRrningjthgifj^jVjj^f^ea tbatikSffof^th^ iM>ll<\ 
port .nu cnroura^rmeiit with which you hav?. fav9ured thtm»a9()^cer4|{, 
Wishing you b?aUb, prosperity, anUh^pplfiess, w^^o/di^lly. a^d rcspeq^fuftr. 
bid you farewtl).'* 

7'his address was received with the m^st unbeu^^ ^jfetiKS^ ^>/> ^VW: 
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BMtiig ^i^dh dtir ritttrtg^rs ptdtai^efl^i tftt ^ratificaddn of fC^iWg several 
Kflyi^bfftc flf^t'tea^ltndfe. Ghlyohe has yet ippeai^, Vi2. Mw ^/n/fA, 
^0Hlb,f ^am Wity to «ay, iKls |)!«yed to rttj inStS^ftnt li6us<8. Ulr. fierigoifgk 
iaH Mr. Andr«rti^8,?r6mt1ietlife4tre fctytfl MihcTiester.haVe disjoined the 
ii6tntiitiy. hi tli)i liVie of tragedy imA genteel c!omedy,Mr. fietag6u|;1i t>6s- 
tes$^ mtit^^terlhrg tneHt. Af r. Andl^Vfrs, as a low comedlafi, Is alt-eady II 
great fkvGurttehcre; Ws77>no% Quaint, Shdrp, it the Lying Valet, ati(l 
Tofiy Lumpkh UftbWfAd a rfcli trejlt to Out hiighter-lovifg gods. Mr. Kol- 
l^tt>ok, in BoAe ^tbe 6ld inen, i« very respectable. 6f the rest the less we say 
the biettet", With the exception of Mrs. Heltae, who, in pert dhambermaids, is 
a sprightly Ifttleaett^9«,^d ai^pTeksfng ^nger. We hare sUso had a 
Comk Roschis performing here, but as the rage for hahy acting is gone by, fee 
diil hot prcJtre attractive. Of his merits, I tnust at present defei- \^viiig any ac- 
count, having seen him perform but once. 

August 16M, 1806. A Townsman. 

Tfteatre Royal Glasgow — Not having witnessed the exortioiif of Miei 
Smith, my report is necessarily defective. This lady wax sneeeeded by HIH 
of Covent Garden, and Mrs. Atkins, wlio,.d«iing the race, and ibe siicec«diiif 
week, exhibited themselves in various comic operas, which, to the credit of our 
provident managers, were seldom aist, or even aimounced to the greea-room 
or the orchestra, forty eight hours before representation. In such circum- 
stances no rationsd amusement could be received, and little pleasure of any 
kind expected. 1 have ever enteriained an opinion, that a theatre is not the 
place where a professional singer should be expected to exhibit his talents. 
At an opera, or in a concert room, I might relish the mere ** concord of sweet 
sounds,'* divested of even a panicle of intellectual enjoyment. Upon the 
boards of a theatre royal, a performer that can convey to an audience the 
sentiments of his author, tho* he can chant merely in time, I prefer to it 
whole " sea and landful,'* of bravura singers. At all events, under such de* 
lectable management as I have already hinted at, 1 do not believe even the 
most enthui'iastic of ihe dilletanti thought himself compensated for his ticket 
by the exertions of Mr. Hill and Mrs. Atkins. 

One of the mo«t ordinary consequences of an obliquity of understanding 
Is to confound an effect for its cause. The bad success of our managers is 
by them attributed to the highness of their salaries to performers, these must 
be reduced to the level of the receipts of the house t ! All this too when the 
experience of every Tyro proves, that the receipts of the Edinburgh house are 
mriformly in proportion to the merits of the company. Hence the two season s 
of 1'801, 1802, &c.^ed the coffers of the managers; hence the lamentable re- 
verse of the two or three last years. In fact, under proper management, as 
much (I think more) money might be drawn by a good company in £uin* 
burgh than even in Dublin. 

Acting upon such wise principles, almost all our performers, fhat either 
have or promise merit, are either dismissed, their salaries reduced, or are 
obliged to submit to such rigorous terms sis the prejudice or the ignorance 

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of their rulers may choose to impoie. Turpin and his wife are gone ; Mriw 
Orgcr has departed ; Mr. Mason is off, and Mr. Gibbon, wiih his wife* are 
already with a new company. Shaw, the most accurate of singer9« atid a 
good representative of Scots characters, soon. takes his leave. Bt^rry , the now 
support of this stage, hardly remains» the managers conceiving 40s. ueekl)^ 
fully adequate to bis deserts. Dwyer had taken his leave, and advertised re- 
citatiou, &c. He however made in time, and after much boggling, rhc most 
implicit submissians to the managers. Instead of playing, as before, but 
what and when he pleased, he is now bound to exhibit himself at what times, 
and in what shapes, his masters may incline. The swallowing such a pill, 
however bitter, will conduce to bis advantage, by purging his excessive vaoicy;, 
and physicking his self love, which was becoming daily more and more ridi* 
culous. 

1 know no» if I have liitherto stated, that the share of Mr. Aickin is trans* 
ferrcd to Rock, who now acts as joint, or rather dcpuiy manager. If the dis- 
misssls and system above mentioned be jastly imputable, as fame says, to him, 
be perf c<Iy confirms the opinion I had long since formed of his capacitf 
as an actor, a manager, and a man. I am, &c. JUbTus. 

P. S. The company proceed soon to Greenock. . 

Theatre Royal Glasgow.— An attempt has at length been made to rectify 
some of the most gros> and palpable blunders in the construction of our stage 
and two shining gallery, &c.— These alterations, however, are too trifling, 
too conieriiptible ever to produce much good— but as th- y are not yet folly 
completed, 1 bhall defer speaking of them in detail until another opportu- 
nity. 

'i'he house was opened on the 1 8ih of July, and clo'ed on the 28th . Dur- 
ing this short space, Mr. Hill and Mrs. Atkins, of Covent G rdcn theatre, 
were the principal objects of attraction. Of course the performances were 
all in the operatic line ; and it is but ju ticeto say that, though neither of t!.etc 
performers are stars of the first magnitKde, yet both acquitted themselves 
wih decency and propriety. But what could even the united talents of 
Braham and BUHnf^ton have done when so mi er.bly supported! Our .mge 
managers have reduced an originally pitiful and imbecile company almost to 
nuthhigi Mr. Toms remains in Edinburgh, teaching elocution— Mr. and 
Mf;* Tu pin and Mr. and Mr^. Mac^ibbon have left u. for EngLnd, as have 
jcveral f>tiers of inferior note; and our dashing hero, Mr. J..hn Dwyer, has 
n];idc an eii^uriion as f^rnorth as Aberdeen.— In lieu of all th.^e pcrform*^r9» 
ihe manager* have engaged who? Mr. Eyre ! ! » A gentleman who, l« 
bjm exert h. mself as he may, still 

' ^ ^' '■ It From hollow chest the low sepulchral note, 

' «* XJj.willing heaves, and struggles in his throat.'* 

Extraordinary, however, as this «♦ dcden ion which we all now mourn 
for*' may a] pear, managers have br»nght it about for the express purpo c of 
reducing the company of the Theatres Koyal of Edinburgh and Glasgovr, 
to a mummi/ig scheme fit for the meridian of Greenock I ! Thither they are 
therefore gone,with the intention of remaining untH oiir winter campaign 
f oinin<5n?cs. The Qre^notk thtatrc is said to hold ^bout 40 poinds. J>^ t- 



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Ing our short season the following benofiu were taken, tI^. Mr. Hill, 
(English Fleet) 1121. Mr. Knox, (School of Reform) 581. and Mri. Atkin^,. 
(Haunted Tower) 351. 

lo imitation of our superiors, we too haTe had a theatrical fracas. At 
the end of the first act, on the second night of Mr. Hill*8 engagement, h« 
came forward habited as Captain Mackeaih^ and appealed to the audience 
respecting the ungenerous, not to say ungentlcraanly, conduct of Mr. Rock» 
at a OMnager. Then, after having respectfully apologised and solicited per* 
mission of the audience, Mr. Hill, proceeded to read an ample detail of hit 
grievances. The charges teemed principally concerning Mr. Rock's refusing 
to abide by the established usage and practice of theatres respecting the time 
and manner of publishing benefit bilU, &c. and for an attempt to extend Mr. 
HilPs engagement beyond the original term. Mr. Hi!l al^o informed the 
audience that neither he nor Mrs. AtJdns had any remuneration whatever, 
from managert , but that they depended solely on the chance of their benefits. 
The house patiently heard these drcumstanccs detailed, but Mr. Rock uas 
ao anxiout to reply that he would not *< hear'' his antagonist out. He there- 
fore also made his appearance on the stage, and requested to be beard—but 
then the most tremendous cries of o£f ! oflf 1 go on^DO, no-*bravo— hear 
him, &C. were for a considerable time reiterated from every part of the 
bott-e ; silence being however, at lea^t in a great measure, procured, Mr. Rock 
ttatrd nearly in substaooe as follows. <* Ladies and gentlemen, I beg to be 
heard for one single moment, and I make no doubt, but that I will to 
your satbfaction, completely rebutt the allegations of that gentleman.** 
fPbinting to Mr. JHill,jusl coming on at tJie wing, J I pledge my honour, mjT 
life ! {here a long pause entuedt Mr, Rock being seemingly very much embarrassed 
fir words to express his meaning,) «* Yea more (what I may say I value aiore 
than life) the good will of the citizens of this toirn, that all Mr. HilVs state- 
ments will turn out false.'' 

Thi> kind of entertainment lasted more than half an hour, when the s||« 
dience became tired, and without having heard cither to an end, requested 
the play to go on, which request was readily complied with. The dispute I 
understand was comproomednext morning; since all has remained perfectly 
quiet. 

Theatricals being the subject, permit me, Mr. Editor, to offer a few re^ 
marks on the criticism of the pamphlet entitled " the Queen Sircet Gho t,'* 
which appeared in the Mirroe for Augu»t last signed, ** an enemy of rah m^ 
motors," The author of the Ghost being at present in a distant part of hit 
majesty's dominions, my love of truth and justice the more readily inducts 
me to volunteer in the cause. But " without more circumstance at all,** I 
proceed to the task, and have only to select the *« enemyV* first quoution to 
prove that he himself is one of the mo^t uncandid critics and malevolent of 
all calumniators, ** Two articles both indi*pensibly necessary to a theatre are 
i)ot blundered, they are omitted." Page 5. in the text the pasrage run^ 
thu«. " Among the actors, the inconveniency of the dreeing rooms is the 
(^bject cf universal complaint : ii is some consolation, however, to reflect^ 
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vh, 41 proper^ room, and thHntk^ tox^ f-^^^na ttrtf ztt'ottA^flA laiftl^ethgfl V* 
the abore specimen of the " enenitfs** itorMtif HxsA. b(XUfdcy\ti <j uttb <flm» 
will sufiee ' Indeed, to refute all his caVik, and restore t!*lesettf6n<fes HfftAth 
he has to dezterondy mangled, would be ^ftng htm too mndh setaitiM, it 
would literaUj be answering ** a fool ikeeofditfg to his fdlly.** 

A«6trs. 

DOMESTIC tVENTS. 



LONDON GAZETTE fiXtkAO!tM?:A<tY. 

FRIDAY SIPT 4. 

Downing'Streei, Sspiember ^, 1806. 
A din>iktch has been thU day ncdntsd by the Wght Hw. W41iM» 
Windham, one Of Mt Msjetty't Filntipri 8eoreiarife8<of Sttt«« firam My r 
General Sir John at»ut,cofniBaB^iig hk M^fcsy's tnapi atiing in Cria* 
Ma, of Wbieb the Mhmlng is a ttf>y ; 

Cim^ dA the tnain of Mklifa, 
Sr. Jnly 6, tm. 

It is with the ntiost heafffett sati fat^dcm thdtl him thelionolir of repdtt* 
ing to yoM, for the InformatlOD of his majesty, the parrtcntStrs of a«i attloti, 
In which the French army, pattered in this prorinee, haift «rtlatoed atlgi 
Aal defeat by the troops undor my command. 

General Rcgnier, having been apprised of our d sCdibarkatlon at ^f. Eu- 
femli, appears to have made a rapid March from Reggio, otfitlng, so he ad- 
vanced, his deuched corps ^or the purpose 6f attacking, and with his eharstt- 
teristic confidence of defeating us. 

On the afternoon of the 3d Inst. I received inielttgencc that ht bad that 
day encamped near Maida, about ten miles dlsitant lYom Our position, Yhtit 
his force consbted, at the moment, of about 4^)09 InftkHtfy, and 3G0 edcvalry, 
together with four pieces of artillery, md that he ttris fi eipect^tlM of 
being joined within a day or two by 3000 more troops^ woo wefe martblfqf 
ait^r him in a second dividon. 

I deterniined tbereiore to advance t(»wafds his po»idon, and» having Mft 
four comfanies of Wacteviile*s regiment under Major Ft^r to pvu^et the 
stores, and occupy a woric which had been thrown up at bliV landing pUti, 
the body of the army mar died the next morning according tb the folloWfog' 
deail:— 

Adoanced CbfTw.— Lieutenant-Colonel Kempt, «ith two 4 poutidtrs,, 
Light Infantry Battalion. Dctachme«it Royal CoMcan RSfigeTs. iJetuCfr- 
ment Royal Sicilian Volunteers. 

l«^^ri/rcrrftf.— Brigadier General Cole, With three 4-pOuiidef^. Oito*- 
dicr JBattalion. 27. h Regiment. 

2rt(/. i^igf/(/c— Brigadier-General Acklatid, with three 4-p>oundci%. T8th 
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^Kattti^liP'i fcgipwt, five c«mp»qiM, 

Ahttivi qf 4rtiil0rynrMH9€. htf^i^^ . 5ou|r ^poim^Md VfA tp^fr Im* 

T9t«)T-'i(;tfUc amd iUe, including tfc^ H«yiA ArtiUcriP, 4795. 

Qq). jBl^pier w»9 eBcaiQpe4.o9 cbff fiidf of a wi>«dy hiU, below tkft viUag* 
qtifM4^y s^Hifi into the p}air> of Sc« Enfiemi^ ; hit to^s were 8(rieQ«tbeoe4- 
1^ a ti^kk ia^nnous undcrwoo^f The Apuito» a rivor perfedly fordabU* 
but of vrhich ib^ &ide^ are extresa4y manhy, r^n along hi« front ; my ap^ 
^qo^ici^ to Hqk from the sea side (aloag the borders of ubicb 1 diro«t(e4 iny 
il^i^i^J^ iWtM I b^d n«fir'y turned liU left) wa^accofa a fiff^cUtm piaiA« wbkl^ 
giyvi^him every, opj^oi^umty of nuqutejy oU«?viQg my movemenu. 

After some loose firing of the flankers to cover the deploiements cf tbe tW9 
allies, by 4iio^o*c'ockin tiio morobil the opposing frpnti vvore warmly en* 
|pi0^, w|iCD tbr pf owepe pf ti;e rival nations sc«med now fairly to b«^ a. tiif4 
^^rd tli/cwpfHa^ (^ superioiity was greatly and gloriously decidi4 to bf 
wrown. 

The corps which formed the rigli^ of the advaQCe4 lim, was the battaUo» 
oCQgfi^.iM^tcy cof^fluqded by Lieuten^at Colonel Kemp(t, coiysisfiing of the 
l^t cooiKaxtfejf of the 20th, 27th, 35th, 58th, eist, 8l8t, and Watte^Ule's^ to* 
gffil^er mth 150 cboseo battalion m(« of the- 35th re^meiit, tmdtr Mi^ 
Robinson. Directly opposed to them^ was the favourite French regimeor 
t^ If e. £.q^re. The ^wo .corps at the distance of aboot lOO yardh^fired Jred- 
Pf^lj a few ronixd3, wbe»« as if by mutual agreemeni^the firing was sus* 
ffoMyji^ ^nplose coinpaa oraer and awfiil »iko£e,tbey advanced towwds 
cycb ptber* ui^ t|ieir bayonets b^gao tp cro;ii* At tbia momcotous crisii tb< 
enemy became appalled. They broke^ and eAdeavouced to fly, but it was 
toio late ; tb^y,wcre overtaken with the mott uxeadful slaughter. 

Brfgadie^ Qen«ra( iU;)Uand, w4)o»obrig^was immediately on the left«f 
the, ijghi; ivi^ifmfi :^^ V^ ^pMt availed Jtimsctfof thi> Cavoucafak mamtM. 
to press instantly forward iiftofk the corps in )ti8 fcoat ; tk« biave '78ibrogimeiiCft 
rpmnWfy*^^. b|y ^^Kiiteoan^Qol»Q4l Madcod^ and the 81st ivgimenti noder 
^)4J^ Plwdgrlcatjbg both diitjtogoisbid themselves oo tttis occasion. Tho 
enemy fied vith dismsiy and diaorder before tbeat, Icavtog Um plaiu covered 
Wi^b^^^de^d aitdr woupded* 

Tbe t%{mkj bfing thus completely ditcomted on their Itfti began to makt 
a new effort mjU^ tMf Mg^ Ia ihe h4^»e« of reeoveriog the day. They were 
i^NM# mfMt^gato^y l^y 'M bdgade under Brigadir-Osneral Cole. No* 
^hinfti'CVIiVisbak^ tb« UAdtmited firmness of the grenadiers under LieateMiot«> 
Colonel O^GallaghaPtUVi oS. the 27th regument uadcr Lieutefiant-Colonel 
Sjp^llb. Tii«.cayalri^ supocsaively repeUcdfrom before their Iroot, made an 
e|pr«Qt po^^v^ th^ l^f^wben Lienteqan^-Colonel Ro>s» who ba(4<tbatinorat- 
iV laftM ^^ Aieaiioa witb the 20Ui regiment, and wa» coming up to the 
army during the action, having observed the movement, threw his regimeut 
vfffiftmw^, imo a small cover npon tiie flanlt, and by a heavy and well 
diFfcred %e, enticQlf di cooeened this attempt. 

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Mt a mfU by dM intrepidity with which they wereatiailed, b^an precipitate- 
ly to retire, kaTing the field covered with C4niage. Above 700 bodies of 
their dei4 have been buried upon tlie grouud. The wounded and prisoDers 
already in onr hand* (among whom are General Compere, and an Aid-de- 
Camp, the Lieutenant -Cobnel of die Swiss regim nt, and a long list of officer^ 
of diflfereot ranks) amount to above 1000. There are also above 1000 men 
kit in Monteleone and the diflFerent posts between this and Reggio, who have 
mostly notified their readiness to surrender, whenever a British force shall be 
tent to receive their submission, and to protect them from the fury of the 
people. The peasantry are hourly bringing in fugitives, who dispersed in 
tiie woods and mountains after the batie. In s: ort, never has the pride of 
our presumptuous enemy been more severely humbled, nor the superiority of 
the British troops UKire glorioualy proved, than m the events of this raemora« 
Ue day. 

His Majesty may, perhaps, still deign to appreciate more highly the 
ftchievemems of thb little army, when it i:i known chat the second division 
which the enemy were said to be expectng had all joined them the night be- . 
bcfiire the action ; no statement that I have heard of their nimibers places 
t&em at a less calculation than 7000 men. 

Our victorious infantry cuntioued the pursuit of the routed enemy so long 
fts they were able; but at the latter dispersed io every direction, and we were 
under tbe necessity of preserving our order, the triil of speed became un- 
eqoaf. 

The total loss occasioned to the enemy by this conflict cannot be less than 
4000 men. When I oppoie to the abuve our small comparative loss, as under- 
neath detailed, his majesty will,! hope, discern in the fact, the happy efiects 
of that established diicipHne to which we owe the triumphs by which oar army 
has b^en latterly so htgfily distinguished* 

I am nov beginning my marcii southward preparatory to my return to Si-- 
eily, for which siaioii I shall re-embark with tiie army, as soon as his Sicilian 
majesty shuU have ananged a disposition ot his own forces to secure those ad- 
vantages which have been gained by the present expedition. 

There seldom has happ ned an action in which the zeal and personal ex- 
ertions of individuals were so imperiously called for as in the present; seldom 
an occabion where a general had a fairer opportunity of observing them. 

The general offitrrs, and those who commanded regiments, will fc^ a 
stronger test of their merits in the circumstances that have been detailed of their 
conduct^ than in any culogium I couKI presume to pass upon them. 

The 58th and 'Watteville's regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonels 
Johnston and Watteville, which formed the reserve, under' Colonel Oswald, 
were ably directed in their <«pplication to that essential doty. 

Th;j judgment and cfFoct with which Our artillery was directed by ^fajor 
Lemoine, was, in our dearth of cavalry, of most essential use ; ?nd 1 have a 
pira ure in repotting the effective services of that valuable and ^dtstiugutshed 
corps. 

To the several departments of the army, every acknowledgment is due t 
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tenant Colonel Bunbun', the deputy quarter- mattrr general, towhose-sral and 
activity, and able arrangements in the important Ivanch of strrice which he 
directs, the army as well as myself are under every inctked obligation. 

From Captain Tomlin, the actinij head of the'atiftirant general's department, 
and from the offi(fers of my own lamily, I have received much active assistance. 
Among the IdlttT I am to mention Lisutenant Colonel Mowre, ol the 23d Light 
Dragoons, who being in Sicily lor his health at the time of ow dep«rt«re» soil* 
cited permission to acconipany me on this expedition ; be was wouiuied in th« 
cxet ution of my orders. 

From the medical department, imderthe direction Of Mr. Orievet, the de- 
puty inspector, I am to acknowledge much professional attention ^ the more so 
as their labours have been greatly accumatated by Vte number of wounded 
prisoners, « ho have brcomc equally with our own^ the subject of their care. 
• The scene of action was too far from the sea to enable ns to derive any di- 
rect co-operation irom the navy ; but Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, who had ar- 
rived in the bay the evening before the action, had directed such a ditpoeitioii of 
•Iiips and gun-boats as would have greatly favoured us, h id events obliged as 
to retire. The solicitudey however, of every part of the navy to l>e ot use to 
us, the promptitude with which the seamen hastened on shore with our sup- 
plies, their anxiety to assist cUr wounded, and the tenderness with which they 
treated them, would have been an affecting circumstance to obicrvers even the 
most indi/ferent. To me it was particularly so. 

Captain Fellowes, of his majesty ^s ship ApoKo, has been specially tttachcd 
to this expedition by the rear admiral; and, in every circumstmce of profes- 
kiooal service, 1 beg leave to mention our grateful obligations to this oiiiccr, as 
well as to Captaius Cocket and Watson, agenH of tranaporrs, who acted under 
his orders. 

Captain Bulkeley, my aid-de-camp, who Will have the honour of present- 
ing this letter to you, has atfended me throughout the whole of the services in 
the Mediterranean, and will then fore be able to give you every additional in- 
formation on the subject of my present communication. 

I have the honour to be. Ice. 

J. SrwAaT, Maj, Gen. 

Return qf killtd and vjotmdeil. 

Royal Artillery. —2 horses killed ; 3 gunners wound^. 

OttoMa Batu]ioii.-*4 rank and file killed; 1 officer, 1 seijetot, 25 
rank and file woondcd. 

Mght laftatry BattalkMi. — 1 officer, 7 rank and file killed ; 1 officer, 1 
drummer, 41 nnk aad file wounded. 

20th Foot.— 1 rank and file killied; 1 drummer, 5 rank and file wounded. 

27ih Foot, 1st Batt.-^ rank and file killed ; 1 .scijeaut, 48 rank and file 
Woittdod. 

58th Foot, 1st Batt.^2 rank and file wounded. 

78th Foot, id Batt.— 4 rank and file killed ; 7 officers, 4 seijeants, 1 drum- 
mer, 69 rahk and file wounded. 

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8l8t Foot, Itc Batt.^d lerjeanu, 16 rank and 61e, killed { 2 officers^ 1 ser- 
jtaot, 69 rank and file, WAunded. 

Rti(timfit of WaturUle. — 3 rank and file wounded . 

Royal C«nlcal Rangers.— 3 rank and file killed; 5 rank and file 
WiNindrd. 

ToCal.»l oAeer, 3 feijeanu,41 rank and file killed; 11 officers, 8 ser- 
jcanii, 2 dniiimien,261 rank and file wounded. 

Namet cf qfficert kUledand xcounded, 

JTtT/edl— Light lo^try Batt. — Captain M* Leane>or20 Foot. 

iroamdB(i..*.Grenadkr Batt.— Mi^ HammiU, of Royal Regiment of 
Malta. 

Ligkt Infantry Batt.— Miijor Paalet of 44tlL Foot, severely. 

'73d Foot, ad Batt.- Ueot. Colonel Madeod ; Major O. Stuart; Cap. 
taint D. M'Pbcr^oB, and D. M'Gr«gor; Lieut. James M'Kay ; Ens'gns Col- 
lin M'Kenzie aind Peter M*Grcgor. 

81tt Foot, Ut Batt.— Captain Waterhouse i Lieutenant and AdjuUnt 
Ginger. 

Sta£r.— Lieutenant Cidonel Moore, of the 23d Light Dragoons, acting 
Aid-de-Capp to Major-General Sir John Stuart. 

R. Tonkin, Assist. Adj. Gen. 



The court of common council have met for the purpose of determining, by 
helloty wbkb of the moddt thculd be adopted for a monument, to be erected ' 
in GttUdbally t9 the memory of the illustrious William Pitt ; and, baring exa- 
mined fire modeli, recommended by the committee as most worthy, the court 
adopted the model numbered 12, and referred it to the committee to giye di- 
rections for the execution of the same. It consists of four Urge figures ; the 
one on the top is Mr. Pitt, in his chancellor's robe«, holding out h s righi hand 
in an oratorical attitude, wich Wisdom on one side,^ and Prudence on the other. 
—Britannia, on a sea-horse, is also represented uodemeath, with several ap- 
propriate emblems. The price given in with this model was 36751. It U to be 
placed at the east end of the hall, opposite that of the late Earl of Chatham. 

A beautiful young lady in the north of Ireland, having been compelled by 
her father to marry a gentleman of fortune, though she had promised her hand 
fo another, took poison in her tea the momiHg after her marriage, while at 
breakfast with her husband, and expired in leM than an hour. 

'tht ninety-iMt Jew drpu'ies are v«y constant ia thek iittingi at Bvis. 
They dress in black, and deliberate with heads uncoverud. A gokrd t)f hor 
Dour of fifty men attends m the door, and turns o«t witli preieated ariflis on 
the arrival and departure of the deputies. Such »< late aia equipages of tiieir 
own , are conveyed tbither and back in the emperor*i> taKriagetk 

At a late trial ft>r crim. con. ^Ae of fh« »i4»i< fcsei, a simple felKaw^ who 
lived io the family, was asked, if he ever suspected that the lady in questkai 
was unfaithful to her husbahdS bed? Hesatd, *' He never did, liar be rould 
•atfety swttr, thet he diii not believe there was a troinao i» thciingdbm that 
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AMERiCA.^The folloming is an accurate acoouot of the weattb, ft- 
flources, population, &c, of tbii couQtry» iluring the years 1804 and 1805. 
It cannot but be interesting to our readers : 

180*. 1805. , 

Free person^ including Louisiana, 50(XXXX) 5154000 

slavrs> increase near 21 per cent. an. - - - - - 909900 12090O4 

Total population, 6000000 6180000 

Toul increase in each year, 228582 180000 

Persons to each square mile, ....... 3 3 

Improved lands, 98P30000 39400000 

Cultivated land per acre» .......D 600 625 

Lands in their natural state per acre, ...-D 2 15 220 

Militia, 1050000 1100000 

JVcssels, --. 20 24 

''*^» iGuns, '500 574 

Seamen, 64000 66000 

European emigranti^ -- 5000 4600 

Merchandize imported^ ........D 80000000 96000000 

Domestic produce exponed, P 40477879 42087000 

Toialcxportf, D 77069074 90666021 

Tods iDcrcbant vessels (1803 and 1804), - ... 1107323 1443455 

Avcragcjabour per day, - .......D 075 075 

Impost on oKTchandize and tonnage (1803 and 1804) 10479417 1 1295565 

Total receipts (ihid) 11004097 11826300 

CifU list and coDiingeaoes (ibid) 576748 674795 

Total expeaditufcCiWd) 11158933 12612U2 

Metallic medium^ 17500000 18000000 

Bank notes in drcubtion, 14000000 15000000 

Banking capital, 39500000 43000000 

KumberpfbanlBS,- -. 39 72 

Nooiiual public debt, - -- 97939026 97232005 

Active sinkiog fund and reimbursemeots deducted, - 20208048 25406953 
Custom-house bonds and cash in the treasury, - - 16500000 18000304 
Kumbcr of acres scid to pay the public debt, at 2 to 

6 dollars per acre, 129^^^ 1912602 

Proceeds of saJ/Bs» ...D 238a509 4126462 

Mju G&wiTTAN.— The followiog description ha« been giveo of this cele- 
brated orator :~'* He is a tida man, oi' a pfCuUvir cast gf featuret* soarce t^e 
middle height— but thin as he is, lie has a joul thut would wear out half a do- 
aen bodies.** 

It is calculated chat 1300 penoas have either peiuihed or are dreadfully 
maimed by (he late explo«ioo of the magaztoe at Malta. The principal sufFerers 
aic the Maltese, who cUefly Uved near the place* One m^a has loit his wife 
and six children i others nearly the same; .and whole fiunilies are butied rogc* 
tlicr. Tl)0:e who escaped Bsomentary death, perhaps, are shockingU disfi. 
gored and maimed, and crawling about in a mi&erablc condition. Fourteen 
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artillerymen^ wlio nere m the magazine, weft, of coertev Uovn to afoau. 
The htnd of a rcgimmt (ihe 39tb) were jast pbylng «* Ood Save tfie King" 
Hear rheplM^; two mm werekiledon tfic spot— -the wftole remaipicr were 
mach wtMioded. The ifuarda On 4aty ^^c killed. 

The magazine U situated on the sJdp of the water opposite to the cHj of 
Viletta ; it is called Barmola. Stmien were thrown cfcr, some to tlie distance . 
of two mtlet. it was situated close to the water side» and the bed of the sea 
was so shook by it, that it rose up and overflowed the banks. Tuo vessels 
(9inall<'nes) were sunk. Immense stones were thrown up, whiih fell into 
th- water; others on the ships and rigging; one which fell on a vc ss«l just 
arrived, weighed one hundred weight. 

The guard-ship, the Madras man of war, was moored some distance from 
the <?i!iastroU9 pbce; but a stone fell upon tlie quarter-deck, and broke the 
(high of the gunner, who had lately arrived. A Mr. Woodhouse, who, wiib 
his brother, iux a great wtne-makini; rt>ncem in Sicily, has Icst 250 pipes «C it» 
worth nearly 70001. thi^j were at !»ome little distance from the place ; hot the 
shoik was so great, that tl e casks burst. The churches were filled with the 
dead. It is supposed that th»* men were employed in cntting away the fosc^ 
from the shdh, or doing something like that, when, by some means, a spark 
arose. The merch:ints have begun a subscription of 201. a piece for the re- 
lief >f the poor suflFerers. A whole town may be said to be destroyed. 

The accident happened about a quarter past six o^dock in ilie m mine; of 
the IS' h of July. It was r ported, that there were buried in the ruins. 
1000 ' arn-l-of gunpowf'er that are In danger; hut we hope this is untrue. 

MuNGo Pakke. — ^The following statement respecting this adventurous 
traveller bears date Goree, July 28th : — " About the 12th Inst, one of Mr., 
Parkers guides arrived here with a letter from him, dated Nov. 10, at San- 
sanding, on the Niger, a little to the eastward of Sego, confirming the death 
of Mr. Anderson, surgeon, with the addition that Mr. Scott, an artist, was 
dead ; in short, there only remained himself, Lieut Martyn, and three sol- 
diers of the African c rps. He had ascertained that the Niger joins the 
Hver ^ngo, which empties itself into the South Atlantic Orean, and for 
the purpose of exploring the same, Ike had procured a canoe from the King 
of Bambahra, and had proceed considerably farther before the guide left 
Mm, and be had then great hopes of soon making the coast. A subsequent 
rport, by a Mandango, is unpleafant, but, as it cannot be relied on, there 
are still hopes that he is living. The guide who brought his lettt r says* 
that he saw Mr Parke to the eastward of Sansandinsr, after the date of his 
lett'r. He also reports that there was an English ship in the Gambia, that 
had letters on board from Mr. Parke lor his majesty's secretary of state." 

A money-lender advertises to do business in two hours. There is no ex- 
traordinary expedition in that — a pickpocket would do \tin a second. 

Judge Toler, n<>w Lord Norhu y, sn a public dinner witii Ourran, the ce- 
lebrated Irish lawyer. --Toler observing Curran carving a piece of corned 
beef, told him " if it was hung beef he would try it.*' *« If you try it, my 
lord, (rcpWed Curran) I am sure it will be kung.^* 
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idio commmnded tbe French f irriKoi at Caii«» and made s furiooa diai^ 
ftgainat Menon, in which he aMcrte4,that Bgypt was loit by the incapacity 
of Menoo, iottead of btiiig won by tiie valour of the English. It ia further 
to be obserred, that Geseral StOart commanded the £ngU»h garrison in 
Alexandria, and is the rery officer whom Sebatdani, Bonaparte's commer- 
dal spy, in his famous visit to £gypt, represented as an officer of inferior ta- 
knts. The victory of St. Ei^bemia lias compUttly refuted these asper- 
sions. 

An inquest was lately held on the body of David George, of Swansea, 
a poor industrious fisherman, who lost hi^ lite on the preceding night, in the 
following singular manner :--Some unexpected success in the morning of 
the preceding day,indiieed him to go out to fi%h off the Pierhead late in the 
evening, accompanied by his son and two men ; tbey had drawn (he net on 
ifhore, and whilst George was clearing it, observing a small sole entangled in 
the meshes of the net, he put the head of the fish between his teeth to draw 
it through (a conunon practice we understand among fishermen) ; bat whe« 
tiier in so ddng, or going to open his mouth afterwards, cannot be ascertain- 
cd^ the fish slipped into his throat and choked him in a few minutes. Me- 
dical assistance was obtained with all possible speed ; but every effort to ex« 
tract the sok proved unavailing, while a chance of saving the man's lire re- 
mained ; nor was it until the operation of opening the wine-pipe had been 
performed that the whole of the fish could be removed. The jury returned 
a verdict of— 4ccklenial death, 

Tni JEWISH PsoPLB.— £.e//«r to itte Emperor Napoleon, by M. Jacobs 
son, agent of ^finances to the court of Brunszeick : — ** Sire,— Penetrated with 
sentiments of the most profound veneration, and filled with that admiration 
Whtch those extraordinary men always excite, who, at different periods, are 
ehosen by the Eternal to ennoble Che human race, I approach your majesty's 
ti>rone with all that confidence the great actions with which you have caused 
the astonished world to resound are calculated to inspire. 

I have not the happiness of being numbered among the people for whoee 
advantage you sacrifice all the mon)ents of your life. I belong not to that 
happy country to which you have called back peace. I am one of the un- 
tertunate Jewish people against whom Ignorance and superstition have 
leagued, in order to degrade,' them and render them tlie opprobrium of every 
odier nation ; but the Lord of Hosts hias chosen you to give happiness to 
the world, and the Jews are a part of that world. I belong to that people 
whose misery has for more than 1000 years in vain implored the compassion 
and the humanity of sovereigns*— to that people who expected in you their 
Saviour, and who in you, sire, have found him 1 

I have constantly endeavoured to promote the happiness of ny country' 
men by civiHxlng them ; and my efibits have been crowned with the hap- 
piest success. I have at last been able to interest several German princes in 
favour of the Jewish people. I have obtained for my unfortunate brethren 
the abolition of an infamous tax^ I have established, at my own expence, 
an institution for the instruction of Jewish ch Idren, and in wh'-ch there are 
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00 Umitfl CO my hopes, since I have the happiness to nit e my suppliant v^icc 
Co the throne of your majesty. 

Deign, sire, to extend your beneficent views to the Jews who inhabit 
the countries adjoining to your vast empire. If you confine your benefits 
to that part of my brethren who are among your majesty*s subjects, lu>w 
much will still remain to be de^Irrd ! How will it be possible to sormount 
the obstacles which the difference of the French administration and that of 
other states will place between tbem and us ? The commercial relations of 
France and Germany require a constant intercourse between the Jews of 
diese countries j but what Jew, inhabiting your sutes, would degrade tie 
title of French citizen, by the humiliations and vexations which the system 
of administration in Germany would make him experience? Would he 
choose his spouse among a people rendered infamous by the laws of the 
country which they inhabit ? 

How {treat and sublime is the enterprize of breaking the chains of a peo- 
ple unjustly oppressed ! Who but a God can hearken to their complaints and 
ddQver them firom an insupportable bondage ! 

The Princes of Germany do not oppose the accomplishment of this 
grand work : on the contrary, it b the object of their wishes. They are 
anxious to ameliorate our condition. We grOan under the operation of an- 
.cient laws d ctated by barbarism, and which prejudice only could have 
mainUined until the present day. 

The German Jew would be happy were he permitted to earn his bscad 
honestly, to enjoy the common right of protection which governments owe 
to their subjects, and were there given to bis worship a practical form, 
which, without deviating from his own law, would accord with the exercise 
of all the duties of citizenship . 

But to attain this object it would be necessary, 

I. To establish a sovereign Jewish council, presided by a patriarch re- . 
riding in France. 

II. To class an the persons professing the Jewish fkith according to the 
districts they inhabit, with a synod to each^ which^ umier the superinttnd- 
ance of tUe French government and the sovereign Jewish council, should 
decide on all affairs connected with worship^ and should appoint the 
Rabbins. 

III. To authorize the said sovereign council to supply each Jew with 
the necessary expences for enabling iiim to fulfil (he duties of a citizen in 
every country. 

These means, tire, appear equally certsdn and Indlspensible. On|y . 
break the political and ecdesUstical chains which con6ne the Jews to a state 
ef shivery, and you will 90on see them aspire to the dignified character of 
other uadons. Then shall we emukte our aiicestors, who changed the bar- , 
ren rocks of Palestine into delightful gardens, and covered them with the 
richest harvests. Then shall we be worthy of bearing the same name aa 
those heroes who planted their victorious standards on the banks of the 
river Jordan, with the same hands with which they guided tiie plough aod , 
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Tut BoNfPA&Ti Family.— Tlie foUowing Uit of the rcUtivoiof Bo- 
Q9|arte isglTen in th« Freoch Impoial Almanack for tbepns^t y««c» 
^ 4>e8 not indeed contain the whole of that family, hut only Indudoa thoat 
whom the Great Kapokoo, at the time of iu publication, was gradomlf. 
pleated to own. Luden Bonaparte, who hai been long ia diBgiraoe, ^ aol 
mentioned ; and Jerome is omitted. 

Nap<ieon,bom Aqgutt 15, 1769, ceniecrated and crowned £n\pccor ^f 
t|ie French at Pvis on tilie 3d of December, 1804; crowned King of Italy* 
May «6, 1805 ; married March 8, 1796, to 

Josephine, bom June 24, 1768, consecrated and crowned Empress of the 
French, December 2, 1804 ; crowned Queen of Italy, May 26, 1805. 

Eugene Napoleon, Arch-Chancellor of Sute of tbe French Empire, 
^Vleeroy of Ihe Kingdom of Italy, borki in 1782, and matriod Jaooary 13, 
1806, to 

AugBiu Amelia, of Bavaria, born June 2U 1788. 
Stephanie Adrienoe Uniise Napoleon, betn August 2${, 1789, w4 HMT-* 
lied April 7, 1806, to 

Cbaries Fiederick Loui^ Electoral Prince of Bade^, bom Jwe 8, 
1786. 

Joseph Napoleon, brother of the Emperor, Grand Elector, King oC Ikigim 
aod SKily, March 30, 1806, bom Fd»mary 3, 1768, married Septenber 2K 
1794, to 

Marie Julie, bom December 26, 1777. The Isshc of this maxriage SM 
Charlotu Zenaide Julie, born July 8, 1801, and Charlotie, bora Oetdbar 
31, 1802. 

Louis Napoleon, brother to the Emperor; CoMtiUe of FnoM^ 
Colonel General of Carabiniert, bora S^tember 4, 1778, married January 
3, 1802, to 

Hortense Eugeoie, bora April 10, 1783. The issue of this marriage 
are Kai^oleon-Cbaries, bora October 10, 1602, and Ns^oleon-Louic, born 
OiJtoberll,t804. 

Eliza, sister of the Emperor, Princess of Lucca and FSombino, bora 
January *?, 1777 ; married May 5, to 

Fdix, Ptince of Lucca and Piombino, bora May 18, 1762. 
Marie Plikiline, rister of the Emp«ror, Princess and Duchess of Guastathii 
born Apifl 02, 1'782, married (her second marriage) August 28, 1803, to 

Oindlh;, Vrinee of Borghese, Prince and Duke of Guaititlla, born August 
»,lTf5. 

Annuaciade Caroline, sister of the Emperor, bora March 25, 1783, mar- 
ried January 30, 1800, to 

Joachim, Prince and Grand Admiral of Francei Duke of Cleves and 
fietg, bora March ^, 1771. The issue of this marriage are. Napoleon 
Afchffie, Hereditary Prince of the Cleves, bora January 21, 1801 ; Napoleon 
iiarden Chatlcs, born May 16, 1803 ; Letida«Joseph» bora April 25, 1802 $ 
Loul^-Jyrte-Carolhie, bora March 22, 1805. 

Marie-Letitia, Madame, Mother of the Emperor and King, bora An^ 
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The foOowiog oceuiTence, incredible u it mty i^pear, is nerertheleM 
tne :»A nt was detected in a kitdien In t<»wn in the rery act of carrying 
«ff a UWer table tpoon, whicfi upon search was found concealed in the rat*a 
ipanment, togetlier with two other tpoons formerty lost (the value of 
which had been paid by the servant who had the charge of them) m 
purse with money, and other valuable articles. The astonished master 
teuRidiitely sent for the servant, repaid the money, and rewarded the 
p«soQ who recovered the property. N; B. The thief siade his escape. — 
Ei&nburgk Journal. 



MAHRIKO* 

At nnedon, Northampton, Charlotte, second daughter of John EngUsft 
Dolben, of Finedon Hall, £^q. and grand-daughter of Sir William Dolben, 
Bart, to the Rev. Samuel Woodfieki Paul, of the same place.— Arthur 
Cham ptin o wn e, Esq of Dartington, in the County of Devon, to Mi«s Bnl- 
ler, eldest daughter of the late John BuUer, Esq. of Morval in the County 
of Cornwall.^ WBliam Gosling Esq. of Roehampton, to the Hon. Chariotte 
2 De Grey, second daughter of Lord Walsingham. -•The Rev. Frandr Fil« 
mer, Rector of Crundale, Kent, son of Sir Edm md Fthner, Bart, to Miss 
]4iry Anna Close, second daugliter of the late Rev. Henry Jackson Close. 
—The Hon. Capt. Herl>ert, son of the Earl /of Carnarvon, to Miss Head, 
Mle bdress to the Rev. Dr. Head. The young lady, through the early 
death of her father, was a ward in chancery from her birth, tin a few weeks 
before her marriage^ and is now in possession of 40,0001. funded pr o p erty, 
and 11,0001. per annum. 

DIED. 

At Chelsea, Edward Naurne, Esq. F. R. S. in the 81st year of his age, 
fornurly optician to his majesty, in Cornhill, London.— At Road, aged 27, 
Mils A. Cromwell. Her illness and subsequent death were occa<duned by 
a fabricated report of her not having disposed of some money, entrusted to 
her by a benevolent lady, agreeably to directions; and though her inno- 
cence was dearly proved, the circumstance preyed thus fatally on her too 
susceptible mind.— Suddenly, in Dublin, io the prime of life, Joseph Saimiel 
Hume, Esq. brother to W. H. Hume, Esq. one of the present representa- 
tives in parliament fur the county of Wicklow. On opening the body, it 
was discovered that his dcAth was occasioned by a quantity of extravasated 
blood having found its way into the lungs.— At Cheltenham, aged 55^ Cle- 
ment Archer, M. D. husband of Lady Clonbrooke. — At Moorgate, near^ 
Rutherham, in Yorkshire, in consequence of a fall from his horse on the pre- 
ceding day, the Rev. John lieldtn, senior fellow and tutor of Sydney Col- 
lege, Cam!)ndge.— Captain Caesar Hawlcins, son to Charles Hawfcin8,.Esq* 
Serjeant surgeon to Us majesty, and eldest captain in the 8th regiment of 
Light Dragoons. — Mr. Packer, lateof Drury LaoeTheatre.— Biyht Hon. 
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Embellished with 

A PORTRAIT OF MR. MELVIN, LNCRAVLD BY RIDLEY, FROM AN 
ORIGINAL MINIATURE. 

CONTENTS. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 
Extracts from a CoQimon- Place 

Book, No. IV.\...:..;.: 219 

The Robber retbrnied , 322 

Biographical Sketch of the Right 
• Hon. C. J. Fox, concluded .. 225 

Modem Book-Making 235 

On DueUing... 238 



REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 
Lord Holland's Life of Lope de 

VegaCarpio, cotttmued -..^il 

An Inquiry into the State of the 

Nation ..'. V.'......'...'..:.. 246 

The Diamond ne^« p(>iated ..t,.^^ 247 
Hoare's Inquiry into the requisite 

Cultivation and present Stale 

of the Arts of Design in England 24$ 
The secret History of the Cdurt and ' 

Cabinet of St. Cload„„^ ,- 230 

Rickman's CorruplioA, a Satire .. ib. 
Taylor*s Renaarks on Sea- Water „ ib. 
Pinckard's Notes on the Westln- 

^tta .•.•*».. .•*...*.M*>*«*««««.«4*v*'. 25.1* 

]lhyme» for the Nursery ^ 253 

Mrs. Benfield*s Gleanings ib. 

Clarke's Naufragia 254 

AnewDunciad ib. 

Laurie and Whittle's uew Travel- 

^ leHt Companion »....» ib. 

A "Dialogue between Buonaparte 

and Talleyrand 255 

Flim Flaros ! *. 

A Father's Memoirs of his Child . 256 
The Three Old Maids of the 

House of Penruddock ib. 

An Elcsiv on the Death of Mr. Fox ib. 
Smith's kudiments of Reason .... ib. 



Lessons for Government 257 

Address to theBr^ti^ Public. ib. 

D RAMATIC. 

The Comedies*rf:ti»« Jtteodiajat of 
Venice and As you like it .... 258 

Maurice's Fall of the' Mogul ....... 'ib. 

Manners's Edgar, ...,, 968 



BRJITISW SfrAOE. 
Anecdotes of thp FrencKStag e... d64 
The Castle of Dunsinane 265 

M ^. '\,•^ I.-. ,'»- 1 i": I, , . 

ORlKJlNAL PtxtrR^ 

Sonnet to Good-Nature 268 

Frifntilhip r^ieWeri ...;.i..;.«...... ib. 

Song... Q/S9 

An Angler's Regret '. 270 

The wowHleit Soldier .v;..^..: 271 

Paraphrase of an £pigram by Gul- 
' • ari«i^».f...^. »'.... .'..i,....l. ......,.' ib« 

Song on, the Wreck of a Slave- 

Ship ...;..;.;.'...;;... 27^ 

Sonnet on Charles James Fox 273 

MEMORANDA DRAMATICA. ' 

Covent-Garden •273 

Drury-Lane *,..... 275 

King's Theatre ....« 276 

New Royal Circus 277 

New Olympic Pavillion ib. 

Royalty Theatre 278 



PROVINCIAL DRAMA. 

3ury St. Edmunds 278 

Military Theatricals 279 



Domestic Events, &c. . 



279 



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COREESPONDENCE. 

MoNTAOU (Winckesier) shall receive an answer per pest. 

W. M.'s essay, is preektded by its length. 

A letter from EtSnburgk, respecting the theatre there, aierely repeals what 
has already beea observed by another correspcmdent. 

We do not think proper to interfere is the dispiite between twadl$-ditm 
4nd tweedle-dee^t York. 

An Elegy on the death of Mr. Fox has <ome good line»; bat more had 
ones. It shall be returned to the writer, according to his desire. 

Thoughts on the dUtohtihn ofp<trltament are not calcuhited for this misoel- 
fany. 

An Ode to war by N— — (CA«ter) j 

Sonnet addressed to a friend abroad, by Poltdore ; 

And the favours of M. M. as soon as possible. 

We have no acquaintance with the party who i« statedby P. T. to be concori- 
ed in this publication. 

The passage from Thomson's Seasons has already occupied too much of our 
TOom. We cannot admit any further con^ments. 

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SCOTISH MASBrACES ^ 

A i-aTE dectiion hi the 8o|Jli, stems ta call In question the kgulU^ 
of those eags^gcmeiyts so frHuciit in Scotiaiid, ustinJly denominated 
irrf^ular naarnEigeii. Tij&K>l lowing hinb luuy throw some hghc on 
the subject to the mere Eiigilah reader, 

Marmjje, in Scotland, as in some other conn tries, is merely a 
civil contract, which mtiy bt t [itercd into by pBrties not wkhia die 
jiTohibited degrees of consiin>^yimtyj and out of the age ofpupilla- 
ritv, (iofaucyj* This contmct muy be dissolved at ihc suit of either 
pnrty, in cai>e of adultery, cruel teeamicDtj -miyul ^Sescrtion for a 
ctrtain period , atifl impaiency. 

lUie cou&ent m agre«nieut of parties, followed by coition (copu- 
Ja) constitutes marriage ; a proof of the^ tdct^ makes a Scots mar- 
riage, to ah hitenti luid ptJipiHe^^ binding in law» If the parties 
eicbange letters, declaring themselves husband and wife ; if they 
cohabit together, and in the world pass as such, even tholigh no 
such promise or writing exist, the law will declare their marriage 
valid. In such a case, their children will be legitimate, unless the 
parties can prove a positive agreement of their having assumed the 
9haracter of husband and wife^ only to save appearances with so- 
ciety, or some equally strong motive. Hence It is not uncommon 
for artful women, in this country, to decoy a lover to their bed, 
taking care to have witnesses ready, who, upon a preconcerted 
signal, burst in upon the couple ; and should his affection, or his 
fears, induce him to declare his companion to be his wife, the law^ 
upon the proof of such an acknowledgment^ will compel him to 
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A marriage is said to be regular^ when the parties have com- 
plied wkh those regulations which the religious society to wluch 
they belong, has thought proper, in such cases, to prescribe to its 
members. The usual requisites, in Scotland, are public proclama- 
tion of the banns three times in the congregation of which they 
form a part, and that the parties shall be free of scandal ; in other 
words, not liable to church ©ensure for immoralities. Residence 
for the short period of three weeks in the parish (which is some- 
times certified by a landlord of an inn, when the parties have not 
been in it as many hours) is the warrant to the parish presenter for 
proclamation; his (the presenter's) certificate of proclamation, 
which is also in Edinburgh often granted with as little hesitation, is 
the clergyman's authority for performing the ceremony. In this 
way, many Scots lovers are united with the greatest expedition, at 
Edinburgh particularly, in a regular marriage, without subjecting 
themselves to the censure of their ecclesiastical tribunals. But 
whether they comply, or not, with those forms, the marriage is 
equally ^valid in law, after the parties acknowledge each other, and 
go to bed as man and wife. A slight rebuke, or fine, is the price of 
their reconciliation with their congregation, for marrying irregular- 
ly, should they incline to continue members of the Presbyterian 
church. Those who have no such deaire, have no occasion to sub- 
mit to any such discipline. 

Hence it appears obvious, that the consent of parties, followed 
by a copula, is in Scotland, and if performed there, of course all the 
world over, a marriage perfectly valid and legal. What the parties 
should chiefly have in view, in marrying irregularly, as it is called, 
is sufficient evidence of their engagement and cohabitation. The 
usual method in this country is for them to appear before a justice 
of peace, and declare themselves married persons. A peti:ion- is 
usually presented, stating that they have intermarried without com- 
plying with the forms of the church ; the judge writes a few lines 
on this petition, finding them to be married, and fining them in a 
few shillings to the poor of the parish, cS:c. A document is then 
obtained, which can at all tiiues be referred to, in proof of the 
marriage ; and that is all which is necessary, since the marriage with- 
«utitis abundantly valid. 

The Gretna Green forms are equally unnecessary and ridicn- 
lous. The priest is no other than some low fellow of the village, 
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beadle, or town hangman. A clerical dress is provided for him at 
a public houae ; he is introduced to the lovers by the postillion that 
brought them thither, and who is said uniformly to run snacks with 
him in the gains. He passes himself ofiF for a clergyman, and begins 
his part by trying to make the most of his customers. His demands 
are generally one hundred guineas, though he will come down to as 
many pence* This important pein^settled, he proceeds to go over 
as much of the ceremony, which, in Scotland is verbal, as he can 
remember: the parties proceed to bed before witnesses, and h«^ 
after making out such a certificate as he can, gets drunk with his 
companions at the lovers' expence. This marriage has nothing in it 
regular; it is, however, sufficiently binding. All the fellow's real use 
is in seeing and witnessing the bedding, and the acknowledgment of 
the parties, all which can be done just as well by any body else. 
The landlord and any other person, for two are necessary, the pot- 
dllion, or any one, are sufficient for the purpose. The ceremony 
of the blacksmith is an impertinent piece of mummery, even to a 
de^ee criminal, as it is a mockery of the ecclesiastical forms of th« 
country, which can neither make the marriage one whit the less ir- 
regular, nor can the want of it render the engagement less valid or 
legal. Tlje parties, and they only, by their going to bed as acknow- 
ledged husband and wifc| make the marriage. Shigular as it may 
appear, I was assured, upon the spot, that this scandalous impostor 
has, in some years, drawn above twelve hundred guineas, by practi- 
sing upon the ignorance, or tlie urgent demands of the infatuated love- 
sick nymphs and swains of the South ; that above an hundred cou- 
ples have been annually the dupes of this tobacconist and his asso- 
ciates, from whom he contrives to get as much money as they can 
be swinilled out of, on pretence of marriage fees. His demands 
being in proportion to the fancied opulence of the parties, are, as I 
have already stated, from some hundred guineas to a crown, which 
be win accept, rather than lose the job. Of late, however, two 
interlopers, one of them a disbanded soldier, by trade a thatcher, 
and the other a journeyman mason, threaten to deprive him of half 
of his honourable gains. 

The acknowledgment of parties, and their bedding before wit- 
nesses, in any part of Scotland, constitutes, as I have already stated, 
the validity of marriage. The ceremony of the blacJcsmith is worse 
than useless, being an offence contra bonas mores, by a solemn 
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fBiDg to bed, Ste, if wb«t only if ufefiil, I wooid recommeBd to th* 
•oUnef of Ujfmen from the South, to proceed like our couDtry 
people so ciiaimf toDced, to a justice of peace in Scotland, and get 
iaedy whkk they can do either before or after bedding. In the 
apfMreheasion of pursuit, they fhould, to make all safe, get to bed 
together the instant they crota the Scotish border^ declaring theaio 
selves hufband wnd wife to the chambermaidf , or whom else they 
can procure as evidence. If no magistrate can be had, they might 
frid ottt seme public notary, make to him their declaration of mar-*- 
riage, and require him to certify the same (as well as the consum* 
•MUion, if thought necessary) by form of instrument, or otherwise 
as be may deem most proper for security or publicity. In either of 
these modes a document can be obtained, proving the marrif^ bor 
yond all possibility of denial, even should one of the parties, as is, I 
suppose, too often the case, choose to repent of the bajgaim, and 
wish to get unmarried. Indeed the marriage is abundantly firm 
without either of these two ceremonies, but if evidence be. sought 
for, tke best possible ought to be bad* 

Justus* 



TIIE ROBBER REFORMED. 

Mr. Editor, 
I KAVE always thought that great regard and encouragement are d«e 
to padcnt industry, even though the person who practises it should 
Tetain some of those foibles, from which even people of leisure and 
fesamiBg are not always exempt. m 

I was onee eonversing with an intelligent neighbour, when a poo^ 
ctttrpenter happened to pass by the window ; it was a sultry day, and 
he bore on his fhonlder a quantity of timber, and in one hand car- 
ried a basket of tools. This man had before frequently attracted 
my notice, as one not a little remarkable for his steady industry ; 
and as I had often seen him in conversation with my Aeighboar, I 
took tbt» opportunity of pointing him out, and asking some'^Murdcu- 
]mn of Ins history. *^ Ah poor Harry ! (said my aoquf^tasce wi^ 
sfi^} I know Inm well; the aaost benevolent aad wann*hearted 
df naen, with the least share of prudence and good fortune T Ap 
he* nttored these vrords, he tamed his eyes toward the ground, Ca 
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. '' Hm life of thiit man^'^ continued ht, " has keen cheqitefMl 
indeed ! so diversified, that I cannot attempt its detail. Buty t» 
ffpeak briefly, that nuui, who is now deserredly apfilauded for hife 
honest diligence, was once ejieorated for his uofireGedeilted viLW- 
nies,— but spare my feelings, for he is my kinsman. The ebuU»*> 
tioa of his active and youthful mind," he continued, ** was like the 
rapid overflow of a navigable river, which seemed suddenly dee»> 
^iaed to lay waste thtit country, whicli, by the pf*eservation of its 
ban)is, it would have rendered fertile and wealthy. Tttivel, battles^ 
baofifibiDent, and shipwreck, have diversified the latter part of hii 
eventful life ; and on bis return to England, it was natural fer hia 
friends to anticipate his return to his old companions, aiui vicioiM 
habits, but be flew to me as his best friend, with open arms, and 
with fair promises of future discretion. I bad much to say, but i 
feared to pour out the contents of my full heart; lest, by so doiof^ 
I- might block up my Way to his. I had, indeed, during a corres- 
pondence of ten years^ lavished on him all my rhetoric, on the ad- 
vantages of a virtuous life ; and from lus assurance of their goo4 
effects, and some fa\'Ourab}e appearances in his conduct, full of 
anxiety and hope, I waited its issue^ and which now seems likely to 
be happy. Several years have now elapsed, since his havin^i 
returned to the duties of a good citizen, nor have all the pangs of 
poverty been, able to shake his holiest resolves. The leading olject 
of his life is, according to his own declaration, that of makmg a$ 
manifJrieiuU hy bit humility and forbearance, as he formerly or^tUed 
enmrdeSf hy nnproftoked outrage. And though this man is n<H • 
pattern of perfectioi^ he is still a uscfel and a signal exaiaple to 
great ofienders, and the remnant of his former vicious cofnpaBloiw i 
for it can scarcely b^ doubted, but that one amiable instance ol 
returning penitence can do more good to the community tiha» 
tweuty of those examples, which only excite a temporary tetror, 
and irrecoverably harden those feelings which keep humanity and 
rktue idive.'' 

I returned to my apartment impressed with a coevictioii af tha 
tfiith of these remarks ; and I could net but reflect on this salutary^ 
aad no doubt not uucommoa instance of reclaimed dishonesty, aiMk 
how many of our unhappy fellow creatures mny^ by the vigour of 
Uw, have been aanually cut off from society, who like this mail. 
might have lived to recompense and acknowledge its clemency* 

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law has once scoarged ! or shall the cowardly assaults of a re- 
proachful world for ever add to the pangs of his innocent relatives ! 
We are informed that, twenty year« back, there were not less than 
two hundred and forty-one classes of offence punishable with death ! 
Though it appears sufficiently clear to me, that the talent and in- 
genuity which many of these misguided men employ . to effect their 
purposes, or to elude the pursuits of justice, would, if properly em- 
ployed, sufficiently repay the community for the labour of reform. 
Indeed it is time that the axe and the gibbet had given place to 
awards of justice more worthy of the eighteenth century, and then 
a robber reclaimed, should be held up as an object of public esteem 
and patronage, as the incorrigible villain should be considered 
the object of execration and proper punishment. Our nature is not 
as yet so much depraved by habit, but that a good example still re- 
tains its due force. 

And there is reason to believe, that morals are more often in- 
jured by our witnessing the fact of virtue being neglected, than vice' 
can ever be encouraged by partaking of clemency. 

Notwithstanding that the penal laws of the Japanese are se-' 
▼ere, their punishments ane very rarely inflicted, and historians as- 
•ore us there is no coimtry where fewer crimes against society arc 
Committed. 

I have lately been informed, that at Ghent and Vilvord manu- 
factories, with a view to reform, are established ; that every year a 
hundred persons leave these houses, who entered them witho^it 
having the power of gaining a livelihood by lawful means, and re- 
turn to society formed to labour, and that, from the savings which 
had been made for them, they iiud resources for t^e first purchase 
of materials and tools. Happy country ! (exclaims the traveller,} 
where to punish is to benefit. 

To the honour of the British nation be it said, that among- other 
monuments of benevolence, we have such an asylum as the Mag-- 
daleUf where the most unfortunate or abandoned of women may 
repose firom the pursuit of persecution, and where the guilty mind 
may find leisure to review its errors, and recover from its delusion. 
But a similar institution for the unfortunate and misguided of the 
male sex is yet wanted, who, driven from the company of the more 
honest or fortunate of inen, find no intermediate space between 
imprisonment and plunder. 

MoBftis Messrms. 

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BIOOBAPHICAL SKETCH. QF 

IHE MGHT H0NC«JIUBLE CHARLES JAMES roX. 

[CoQtiaued iroiA page 151.] 

In the year 1^74, Mr* Fox opposed the 1nttK>Juction of the Bos* 
ton Port bill, and apologised for the Conduct of the colonies. In 
kis speech on this occasion, he arraigned the conduct of the minis- 
ter in bold and energetic language, and explained the principles of 
the violated constitution, with an eloquence worthy of the cause* 
The treasury-bench began, for the first time, to calculftte the loss 
it had sustained, the opposition to estimate the strength it had ac- 
quired, while the people rejoiced to behold, in the person of a 
youthf\il senator, whom they had been taught to consider as an ene- 
my, a firm, an intrepid, and an eloquent advocate, such as would not 
have disgraced Rome in her best days^ 

On this occasion, he sat on the same seat as a Saville, a Barr^, 
nDnjining, and a Burke, with the last of whom he had frequently 
broken a lance, in the war of argument, fl^ra the opposite side of the 
house ; and he has since candidly avowed, that from this celebrated 
man he first imbibed those enlightened maxims of government, pro- 
fessed and acted upon by the pupil, alas ! when the master himself 
seemed to have abandoned them* 

On the discussion of Mr. Burke^s conciliatory propositions, ih 
1775, he strenuously supported the liberal schemes of policy 
pointed out by that gentleman, and spoke and voted during th« 
whole contest in direct opposition to that criminal system, which il 
had fbndly and fallaciously prognosticated was to produce the un* 
conditional submission of the colonies, and lay them prostrate at thf 
feet of the mother country ! 

At the general election in 1780, the family borough of Midhoret 
felting into other hands, and Mr* F. blushing, perhaps^ at the ide« 
of violating the very spirit and essence of a constitution which he 
now began, for the first time, to understand and venerate, deters 
mined to become a candidate for the city of Westminster, and h« 
at length succeeded, in which he baffled not only all the interest of 
die Newcastle family, but also all the infiuence of the crown, both 
of which were exerted against him. Being now the representaitivei 
Bot of a petty vemd borough, but of a great ckj", and that toa 

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-wtthoQt any expence to himself, he appeared in a more dignified 
dipacity, and acquired a considerable increase of weight and con*- 
sequence. 

Mr. Fox, in conjunction with many other sound patriots and 
consummate statesmen, put an end to that sophistry and corrupr- 
tion which enabled Lord North and his coadjutors to carry on th6 
American war. The motive of Mr. Fox's opposition to govern^ 
ment was always as obvious as it was rationaL The unfortunate 
progress, and the dishonourable termination of the^ contest, proved 
on what a vtrretched and mistaken policy it was founded. He aoi- 
formly laid it down as an axiom in politics, that when a country in 
the space of a few years is changed from a prosperous to an oppo- 
site condition, the government of it must be ill administered. The 
cfiectual opposition, however, of this great patriot and statesman, 
and of Lord Rockingham, during the short period that nobleman 
lived to act with him, saved us from the peril with which we were 
threatened. By the peace our views were directed again to coow 
xnerce ; and by this we were again elevated to a pitch of uncommou 
good fortune. It is true that Mr. Fox had no share in the govern- 
ment at this juncture we are speaking of; but it was chiefly owing 
to him that the afiairs of the nation had been directed into so haj^- 
py a channel. 

There are some who blame Mr. Fox's opposition, as they do 
every thing else, on the ground of its retarding the necessary 
movements of the state in time of war. In a masterly speech he 
delivered on the 9d of March, 1779, introductory to a motion of 
censure on the first lord of the admiralty, he offers a satisfactory 
answer to such persons. After speaking of the advantages a dea^ 
potic government derives fi*om secresy, and an exemption from 
public interference in many of its enterprizes, where the vigour of 
exertion is only bounded by the abilities of the state ; he beauti- 
fully exemplifies how much such advantages are overbalanced by 
those of a free government. *' No society," said he, " is constitute 
ed solely fur war. It would be imprudent not to provide against 
such a contingency ; but absurd to make it the exclusive object of 
every civil institution. In this respect, therefore, free are infinitely 
preferable to despotic states. Hie latter seem modelled, only with 
A few exceptions, to circumstances of hostility; the former are 
ehiefly calculated for times of peace. These more effectually pro- 
tect men in their persons and properties, encourage and stimulate 
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public service which might otherwise be lost in obscurity, assist the 
enterprises of trade and commerce, inspire the love of our country, 
and countenance a spirit of honest iAdependence. No modification 
of society can be altogether free from inconvenience ; but that it 
certainly best, on the whole, which puts every man as nearly on a 
level as possible, by subjecting ail equally to the same laws.'' 

He has been heard to say, and he was believed when ho said 
it, that all private aversions he sincerely and solemnly disclaimed, 
and has often protested, that man was not on earth against whom 
he harboured the least personal antipathy. '^ Malignity,'' (he has 
said,) ** I thank God, is a sensation totally foreign to my feelings.'' 
He has appealed to his fiiends and acquaintance, whether nature 
had cursed him with a disposition so hostile, either to his own or 
the happiness of others. The same declaration was made on thf 
occasion of his taking a hostile part against Sir Hugh Palliser, and 
defending the character of his gallant and honourable relation, 
Admiral Keppel. The dispute between these two naval officers, 
and the consequent court martial, excited a deal of animosity in the 
navy. Mr. Fox made an admirable speech in the House of Com* 
mons, on that occasion; it discovered strong powers of oratoryi 
much political sagacity, a great knowledge of the world, and, above 
all, an intimate acquaintance with the human heart. We have not 
room to transcribe the substance of the memorable and masterly 
oration he made on the intrigues employed by a court faction of 
that day, to exalt one character by the ruin of the other, as suited 
the interest of the men in power; but the facts to uhich it refers 
ought never to be forgotten, while the British navy is regarded in 
proportion to its utility. The whole influence of the crown was cx» 
erted to effect the design of its ministers, but it might be said of the 
veteran admiral, as Junius said of Wilkes, *^ The rays of royal in* 
dignation, concentered in this one man, served but to illumine, 
they could not consume him." 

It may not be thought improper just to mention here, that Vice 
Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser had preferred a charge against his com* 
mander in chief. Admiral Keppel, and that the court martial de* • 
clared the accusation to be malicious and iU-founded. Notwith- 
standing this proceeding had drawn considerable unpopularity on 
tlie head of the accuser, the ministry thought proper to reward him 
with the government of Greenwich Hospital. This appointment 
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of SO toutb ttitrtinality, so incoiigrtiotJs to the sense, anfdtierogatory 
to the bonotir of thentition, that ittl^ew from the veteran ad m iim iV 
relation a tOrtent of Tticihgnant wtltoty, and a aootion of cefiistii^ oii 
the a(>pointment. The above H t>ne bf the iilstanees wMcH 
Called up the inquisitor^l and patrieittc i^)fk of the ftbtest and 
most popular sehator that ever espoused the cause of tbe peo^o 
iigainst any government. The bold and uttdnguised nia!bner in 
%rhich this pnpit ofnaturty this inan cfthe ftofHt^ spoie concertiring 
men and their actions, once brought his Hfe into danger. Mr^ 
Adam, who had ull that titne aicted iii roncieit with the tninoritjr, 
hinted to the house, that he should Vote with admhiistraticiki. Tliia 
secession/at such a time (for it was in the most 'calamitous period 
of the war), ^reatl> altered the opinion of that gentlematn*s fri^tuds 
concerning the iot^ty 6f hSs news. Hie diE?f^ctioh of Mr. Admn 
hu^d the tone of the party he joined. Mhiisters mdastriotldy pro- 
pagated, both in and out of pariiament, that all our want of suoceses, 
and evei-y disaster in the War Wcfrb chargeal^e to the opposHitm, lay 
impeding the measures of government, and d&featiag its opi&ratimts^ 
Mr, Fox &b1y, and Mrith indignaot warmth, defended bittiself eihA 
his friends from thte imputation o^sthiggKng as a t>alfty merely for 
plaee, power, and profit* Such a preposterous mode df slanderitig 
opposition, he observed, scardefy merited ii serious answer; be t^'rew„ 
however, iipon his adrersaribs, such flashes of indignation, by way 
6f retort, that they never ventured afterwards to assafl hitai in tW 
»ame strain : after making an arch parody on a striking passage in 
Culliver^s travels, he said, ** I can bear well enough in some rie»* 
pects, and even make allowance for tlie ignoffance, incapacity, 'folly, 
corruption, love of place, emolument, and power, in these men., 
I can even pity tTiem Tor their wants, their impotence aad their 
gross stupidity, I feel for their miserable infatuation, not l^nowing 
"tvhether to rush headlong on immediate ruin, or retreat with safety., 
Despicable and unprincipled as tliey are, I have neverthele^ learn-* 
ed to regat-d tlieir persons with respect, from the conspicuous sta-s 
tions they hold in the view of the public,*' Such a portraiture of 
the associates oi'Mr. Adam, could not but be alittje galling to thajt 
gentleman : it is, therefore, not very surprising, that a misconstruc- 
tion in a warn) debate should induce him to think his own honouic- 
inipeached by the sarcastic allusions on the whole party X)f whiclv 
he now had become a member. The day after the debate alludecl 
to, Mr. Adam wrote to Mr. f'ox a note as follows, dated SaturddYj^ 
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** Mr. Adam presents his co m pli me nts to Mr. Foi^ and begs 
leave to represenft to hhn, that upoti considering again and again 
what pllssed between them last night, it is impossible for him to 
hare his eharacter cleared to the ptWic, wChoirt iriser titig the fol- 
lowing paragif^/h ha the newspapers :-** We have authority to as* 
^re ^e public, that, m a eonrerssttion that passed between Mr. Fox 
and Mr. Adam, in oonseqoence of the debate in the flonse of Com* 
motA on Thursday last, Mr, Fox declared that, however much his 
^peetih may have been misrepresented, he did not mean to throve 
any personal reflec?(ion upon Mr. Adam.*^ In a postscript was a*, 
^ed, ^ Migor Humberston does me ifhe honour of delivermg this to 
you, and wifl bring your answer.'' 

Mr. Fox, whose sentiments were not more nice on national than 
on personal hdaour, returned the following answer : 

** Sir, 1 am sorry it is utteriy inconsistent with my ideas of pro. 
prrety to authorise the putting* any thing hito the newspapers rela- 
tive to a Spee<ih, which in my opinion required no explanation. 
You, who heard the s^peech, must know, that it did convey no per« 
"SOnai reflection upon you, unless you felt yourself in the predica- 
ment apon which I animadverted. The account of my speech in 
the newspapers is certmnly incorrect, aifd as certainly unaUtfao* 
rised by me ; and therefore, with respect to that, I have nothing to 
say. Neither the conversation that passed at Brookes% nor this 
letter, is of a secret nature ; and, if you have any wish to relata 
the one, or shew the other, you are perfectly at liberty tq do 
so. I am, &c. &C.*' 

The consequence of this was a duel, in whidi Mr, Fox was 
wounded. From varioris circumstances connected with this pro-^ 
ceeding, the passions of the publio were iuflamed against the chal- 
lenger, and insinuations in the public papers were thrown out diat 
he chose this way of settling the difference from motives too ^bad to 
be avowed. In consequence, his person, country, and connectionS| 
were all exposed to a torrent of abuse. It was even said that the 
designs of the ministry on Mr, Fox were base and bloody, and that 
Mr. Adam had been made an instrument of their purpose, Thi$ 
severe and unjust interpretation obtained some 'kind of counter 
pance from the unfortunate and unperceived circumstance of Mr, 
F6x having been wounded, when Mr. Adam fired his second shot. 
Col, Fitzpatrick accompanied Mr. Fox, Mr. Adam aoknowledged 
his antagonist's conduct to be completely that of a man of honour, 
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courage were evinced by him on this awful occasion, and no action 
of his life tended more to endear and exalt him in the public opi* 
nioo. He was visited and congratulated on his escape by the most 
dbtinguished of the nobility and conlmoners in the kingdom. The 
moment when this serious afiair happened seemed big with the fate 
of the empire. Disunion at home, want of respectability abroad, 
loss of territory, danger of a general bankruptcy, were the unequivo- 
cal symptoms of approaching ruin. Ireland had entered into a spi- 
rited resolution, by which she had defended and righted herself, and 
the patriots of England proposed a measure of association, in order 
to stop the mad career of a ministry, whose infatuated conduct, 
they truly declared, if persisted in, must have occasioned our politi- 
cal dissolution. The county of York took the lead in this promising 
and important step, and the example was followed by Westminster* 
The meeting was held in the hall of that city, of which Mr. Fox 
was unanimously chosen churman. He delivered a forcible and 
argumentative oration to a vast assemblage of persons, who listened 
to him with rapture, and followed him with bursts of applause^ 
He commenced- his speech in a manner never to be forgotten. He 
said, *' Were you, gentlemen, to ask every member as he passes 
Uirough this hall to the Hpuse of Commons, what he thought of the 
measures, and what of the honesty and wisdom of ministers, he 
would tell you he detested and despised them. Yet, ten to one, the 
very same member would be instructed, by the nod of authority, to 
vote on whatever question the minister inclined. This corruption, 
which the profligacy of parliament has rendered so formidable and 
so universal, contains witlnn itself the baleful source of its own 
continuance." As the ministers of that day exerted all their influ- 
ence, through the newspapers at their disposal, to represent those 
meetings as seditious, r»nd the petitions they produced as dangerous, 
^r. Fox particularly dwelt upon their constitutionality, and their be^ 
Deficial tendency. " It is affirmed^** said he, ** that petitions lead ta 
anarchy and confusion. They do not; their cortseqbence is the very re- 
verse ; they tend to prevent every sort of public mischief,, to avert the 
downfal of the empire, to restore us to harmony and unanimity^ 
and to recover our national consequence and tranquillity by vigour^ 
exertion^ and success. '* But this is not a time to embarrass go- 
vernment." Is that then the object of these petitions? No! 
Their aim is ceconomy, and oeconomy is giving new supplies to go- 
vernment. All that can be saved from the sink of corruption will 
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arms, and enable as to maintain, with spirit and effect, the dreadfbl 
and unequal struggle in which we are engaged. We are told, 
**this is not a time for these complaints, or this reformation.** — 
What! is not this moment of necessity the moment of relief ? — 
When is ceconomy most seasonable but when pressed for supplies ? 
We now feel our wants. We are in need of every aid that inge- 
nuity can invent. We have occasion for all the money that can be 
r^sed. The measure would be criminal indeed, were we contriving 
to burthen the people with more taxes; but we wish to answer the 
demands of the state— not by additional impositions, but a frugal 
application of what we already possess.** Nothing but the deter- 
mined and temperate resolution of the people in the dangerous crisis 
we have been speaking of, saved the country. 

The great object of biography is general utility : we do not cou- 
ceive it necessary to enter into a minute detail of all those devia- 
tions from prudence and rectitude which Mr. Fox may have fallen 
nto. The sway of fashion, the etiquette of custom, not to say the 
prepare of necessity, may have impelled him to have recourse to 
those expedients for obtaining money, which a practically wise man 
would have avoided, and which, at a more advanced period in life, 
he would himself have shunned and disclaimed. We have never 
heard of a studied act of dishonour on his part. His sale of the 
Clerkship of the Pells, in Ireland, excited numerous aspersions on 
bis character, and imputations both of ingratitude to the minister he 
bad abandoned, and of indelicacy to the king. This transaction 
was entirely misconceived. He had neither been indebted to the 
fninister nor the king for this place. It was a reversionary grant to 
his father, and he inherited it as a patrimony; all, therefore, tha( 
can be said on it is, that it had been better for him if he could have 
kept it. It is not denied that some of the tribe of Moses and Levi 
may have reproached him at times for not being so punctual in hh 
payments; and, perhaps, if all the scenes were to be recited which 
Lave passed between him and these Israelites in his back parlour, 
(which he facetiously denominated his Jerusalem chamber), his ene- 
mies might be gratified by the edge it could uot fail to give to their 
malice. 

The vivacity of Mr. Fox often exposed him to severe and un- 
just animadversions. Such, for instance, as when his late brother'^ 
house was in flames, his offering to bet the noble owner which beam, 
or which partition would next give way. We do not, nor would any- 



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•M Qot (nr«r credki]«us bebeve the half of wtmt h«9 been sutf of 
this UQcommon chtimcter. One thing is certtin, hecanse it is on 
te«ord^ that however, much or Uttie he might he\ for the nmfbr* 
tunes of others, his own never made him gloomy. 

Now though fldversitj must always be a bar to a young gently 
man's career in politics, jH to have felt it,, and to bet able to bend 
to the stonn, allows » nan tor rise withmope independence of mind 
than ever. At the time of the great, tbe virtuous Lord Rockhig- 
ham's death, Mr, Fox, from principle alone, quitted tbe adminis* 
Iration of which he had been a member only as long as that noWe- 
ttuuBt had taken the lead in it. He said what is hononrable to him 
in the cemembraace ! ** In resigning my situation as secretary of 
state, I am not insensible to the inconvenience, I might almost say 
(o the necessity of its emolument, but in a case where honouJr or 
profit must be saeriiiced, I could not be long in resolving what to 
do< I dictajte to no gen^eman how he is to act; hnt ta there are 
gentlemen in the same predicament with myself, if they feel as I 
dOr they will act as I do.'^ His example was followed by several 
^ends» for at^this early period of his political Kfe, no man thought 
his honour unsafe in such hands. He never broke his word with 
his friend. "We have before observed, that Mr< Fox*s life has been 
% life of opposition, with very short interruptions. After the Ame^ 
tican war was censured and put an end to, every one must remem* 
ber that a coalition between two great parties took place^ which 
brought him again some time into power. 

The introduction of the India bill removed him fVom power. Of 
this measure, however> we do not think his adversaries in the right| 
for the matter was not generally understood, and as the India Conn 
pany were flattered by tbe bill of his opponent, and a certain cgbal^ 
meat the throne, kept np a great outcry, he was by mere intrigOQ 
and ministerial jockey ship thrown from his seat. It was not iu Mr« 
Fox^ nature to descend to littletiess, nor adopt subterfuges for the 
attainment of tbe most desirable lu^quisition in nature. Mr« Pitt 
entered tnumpliantly with bis new India hiH as a passport, not for 
popular fawmr, for the people at no time ever understood the cOerit 
or demerit of either bill. 

When tbe late Admiral Eodneywas raised to a peenf^ for his 
successes over the French, Mr. Fox was censored for nOt preferndg 
Lard Hood, as his ceU^ague to represent tho city of Westminster, 
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<lii>^te in the hoitse of cmndioas, by Lord Fielding wad otiiers, wIm 
•<»uted the idea of a raiabter appearii^ familiar and utidisguiiad 
at ao ebctioo. Mr. Fox met this argument without the leatc resist* 
aaoe. He said the professionai merits of Lord Hood were above hit 
praise. His lordship, who fMMsessed the grate&i aoknowiedgments 
of his couatty, coukl not ha vefy ambitious^ or at least stand in need 
of his individual trihata. It was, however, what he owed in com- 
anon with all men, and wh^t he was always ready to pay, a distino* 
tion founded on tlic most emiaent personal desert. But surely it^ 
was not shewing this gallant officer ^ny disrespect in not giving hini 
the preference to his old, hut honourable friend, for whom he had 
determined to vote. The politics of Sir Cecil Wray were known 
and established ; his parliamentary conduct had beeii decided on by 
the public ; his principles and attachments were tried. The city 
of Westminster was electing not an admiral, but a represoatativel 
not one who had »irved his country at sea, hot one qualified to serve 
her in parliament He should therefore give his vote to the best of 
his judgment^ but meant not by that circumstance any disrespect to 
any man. 

^ After what has passed, in ^is house,* he observed, '^ about the 
ftmachises of revenue officers, I liope no man will say, that a secretary 
of state necessariiy refoiquishes his right to vote as a member of the 
community at largt. U haapleased his miijesty to call me to the honour 
of serving the public as one of bit ministers. But does this office 
divest me of my birdiright as an Englishman ? Or is there no diffe* 
fence in exercising this right as a man, and acting offidally as a mi* 
nister ? I am a minister to-day : to-morrow may reduce me to my 
former situation and ciicamstances. But, while I am an BngUsh-* 
man, and within the protection of those laws that originate in liberty 
and have liberty for their object, this privilege must continue itn* 
alienable.'' 

The death of his political opponent, Mr. Pitt, in ^^^ beginning 
of 1806, in a moment of grefit poltdcal difficulties, paved the way 
for his appointment to a share in the administration, in conjunction 
with the GrenviUe party, and his majesty included his name in the 
list of the privy council (from whidi he had been erased) and gave 
him the tecretaryship of the fdrdga department. 

The French government soon afterwards made overtures to- 
wards a aegociation fpr peace; and Lord Lauderdale was dis^ 
patched to PariS| • but Mr* Fo^ did not liv^ to witness the result 
of his embassy. |iif ^onttitntioay through ft^ llvixtg, wat fr^V* 
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ly ifn|Mured, and fears were enterUuned tbmt the dropsy would oo 
casion his death. The remedy of tapping was several times bad 
recourse to-— the most able physicians were called in to consult on 
his disorder^ and their care and attention could only be etfuall^ by 
the anxious solicitude of his friends and the public. 

He was removed to Chiswick, the seat of the Duke o£ Devon* 
shire, and hopes were indulged that his constitution wooki get the 
better of bis disorder; but on Tuesday, the 9th of September a ru- 
mour was circulated that he was no more ! This report however , 
proved premature, and faint hopes were entertained of his recovery : 
all thesc^ however, vanished on Friday, September 12th, and on Sa- 
turday morning^ the following bulletin was seat to Devonshire House, 
from Chiswick : — 

'^ Dr. Mosely has the honour to acquaint Lady Elizabeth Foster, 
that Mr. Fox has had but little rest during the night, and that his 
pulse is quicker and weaker than it was yesterday, and the languor 
increased." 

From the period at which this notice was written, eight A. M» 
nntil two, his pulse grew weaker, and all hopes of his living out the 
day were given up by his physicians. The languor with which 
be was afiected, became every hour more deep, and proved, at lengthy 
resistless. The whole system was exhausted, and at mm;»*eiodt in 
the evening he expired ! His dissolution was gentle^ and to the last 
moment be appeared to suffer livtle pain. 

We understand that Mr. Fox has made no will.* His wishes^ oa 
that head, had, since the beginning of his indisposition,, been oooa- 
niunicated to bis nephew, Lord Holland. He has left little or no 
property, and was even obliged, shortly after his appointment to the 
odice of secretary of state, to borrow 5001. from an old political 
friend, a distinguished character ip the city, in order to enable him 
to meet the necessary expenccs of his new situation. Mrs. Fox, 
with tiie exception of a very moderate annuity, has liitk to expect 
for the support of herself and family. To the liberality and benevo* 
lonceof Lord Holland, they may look with perfect confidence. He 
loved his uncle as a father, and being the depositary of his last sen- 
timents, he will not fail to carry, them into effect, to an extent, evea 
greater than Mr. Fox himself might have wished. 

Mrs. Fox did not retire from Mr, Fox's apartment-until a late 
hour ; and Lord Holland and General Fitzpatrick continued by in- 

' * One has within these few days been fc^iud, in which he bequeaths a &« 
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te rviils in the room until the moment of his dissolution. Xord Ho- 
wick was also with Mr, Fox ; he had heen absent on a shooting paJty, 
in Hertfordshire, and a messenger having been dispatched to hiim 
at a late hour on Friday night, he reached Chiswick House at 1 2 
o'clock on Saturday. 

Of late years, except during the shooting season, when he visit- 
ed Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, he lived chiefly at St. Ann's Hill, near 
Chertscy, superintending the cultivation of his grounds, and amusing 
himself in forming shrubberies.^ 

In general he rose about seven, mounted his horse, rode to tli« 
river, and plunged into the Thames,-^after whicli he returned to 
breakfast. The forenoon he dedicated to his study, and sat dowi> 
to dinner a little after three o'clock. The evenings he generally de- 
dicated to domestic entertainments, — reading, or playing at som« 
manly game, or listening to the music of a favourite lady, while fin- 
gering the piano-forte. In person, Mr, Fox was somewhat about 
the middle size, of late years inclined to fat-r-his features, which 
were strongly marked, exhibited an appearance of shrewdness and 
ability, and his eye, in the midst of debate or the ammation of conr 
verse, flashed with fire. 



MODERN BOOK-MAKING. 

Mjt, Editor, 

W^HEN an author sends forth his works to the world, he ought tQ 
remember that he is not merely administering to the follies or 
amusing the vacant hours of his cotemporaries, l\e is adding to thos9 
documents by which posterity will judge of the moral character and 
determine the literary fame of the present age. It is a dignified 
station which he holds ; he blends himself in a great degree with 
the history of the times in which he li?es, and while his name may 
shed a lustre upon them, it may on the contrary cast abound it ^, 
gloom to which the darkness of total oblivion would perhaps h% 
preferable. 

These considerations ought to have great weight with those who 
wish to stand forth as literary characters ; and it awakens no small 
regret to see the little attention they apparently receive from many 
of those who now inundate the world wjth their publications. Thejr 
assume the o|Sce of instructing mankind, of increiising'the general 
fund of knowledge of forming* the tastes^ of improvieg th^ mindly 
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■"•te THE «roirT*iT tmiiidir. ^ 

•f entargitig tfa« ii^wft of tli^ wnvld; in thn diete « dbmelliiiig so 
»A»le, dMit ^i«>6ft«iiMt wMlMMtt hMligbbtiOTi fcec it ^egnuded into a 
mere^^ty s^em.- B#ot>-ittAKnrG^ «hat i% tlie seleetioii miKl ar- 
> tof w u ent of « mIjJ At for p«l»lkmtaoa, «6etlfis to be « tnie as «»• 
golitrly knrxkty and mechenicaliy practised, as t^ idaimfaolwre of 
ffeptr fk tiie 'caHing of t3^pet. litemiy hme seem n^ loiq^ vahi- 
. ^ble btit ibr the MnoiBiiieDt it prodiiees ; and sdme autfaoia tte^ 
iMratts to ^stalidlih their reputaiieii a»d their oamc^^vot only to 
promote the sale of their own works, Wt $ar tbe kciiefit of'dMMtf 
%lMy haw fiekher nvne tuorifefauaim of their «wb. Sahjaeta have 
flair turk^cy and demand Mhe afticles*«f feneia) tiafto^ and i^is 
iiy thii that they are esciitiaaed, lacker than hy their awn iotnntte 
HMrit ; fhe topie of the^fayis worn threadhaia ; tht tomh ef the 
ftlfen itelro is itidf buried under an iaMneaseikeap of odes» memoons 
biographical anecdotes^ funeral oratiansy and other epheawnal pro- 
dactions of such varioitt names and motley nator^^ as seem almast 
to h«ve eihaasttd inrention its^; even Ktirig charactdss^ distia* 
goMfed by their exploits <>r their talents^ must Mash^ 4f they have 
the litodMty tisMiHy aHied eo utadisftemhied eoara^^ ImmI oavar- 
nished merit, when they behold the different ways in which their 
names are introduced to the world, and made the stalking-horses of 
pedantry, vanity, and self-conceit. 

Those better prodtrctions, w^iich bear ttie stump of true genius^ 

are ushered into the world in « 4ttode which forms part of the same 

system ; they seem to rely more upon their ornaments thnn on their 

n^h exeen^nce ; smooth glossy pap^r, elegant ^ngravtags, and mar- 

|ms so fimf^e as to h^ capable 0( containing aotes totwice like 

%Tt^nt *f the «ext, ^ atm<»t indts^ensablc appendages ; butlhese 

H^'ftr^ vintfvttfling if the object be not tulapsed to Jhe aarroat 

(asre, ami the l^igtli of the wo A not simed to the expecfeatioa of 

the'pubH<*. 9t ^ imp^sibfe to heM* without disgusta ilia»«f *sanie 

' frrdbMming that he could fh^ wmteit madi more^ had ht not 

' %eefrihfor^M1)yhi» bo«ksencrtha«4)ts tfui^ect did aotraatboniEe 

• ¥toft thtm a tertain ^mimber of tolaawa. This then is the oviy 

" rcstramt to 'which th6 fiight of genius will now be sub)ectlj::fihade6 

bf Hotaoe, i^iNiitUian, aod Btatl-, hateyoa withdream fiom^tite 

i^ldis of sde^Mf at a bookidier'e aod, aadrleft i>be hiAepsN ^ fislse 

taste andlO^'tnoHdly-mhidednasB to deform tand desolate tte^ykfe 

expanded ^kk of inoa4edfa wiiai« yao ante |Mfesided? 

it'S^ms iHdMSd that iH]r«ioi)em> baoh««iidDefs hi|ve s^p^aed* to 
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Wthef<»4rttgtlalted4Miip09ician9 im a pimn turn ibcgr.tMiM lo coo^ 
pite, ooMect, attd write 4^ -tiiM afiiMrtaii* t# a Jstd^MMl w tbiir 
«igcniest to publN^ cli^if vrM'k^ W^ore itotMws i».hm€fmmif ib^ 
mUiniBy are obl^|ed to^overisok Hm "fon ^MJ iir^ w n ht^i iiA»* 

4e Bmvndiitimie, 4A3»*4<yMt) ao dcmriy Mid<x)nciariy^ Tlia 4«Mre 
dfimprovhig^ckertiRetM t(i^ bafdrg^ttao; ibe fiM •l^gmniiitbtt 
•rntfa of wfttf i o ^ thft ait iittati— k wp if « d by tbc « QM ii i 9» t>gg » of mir* 
Bojn^^vitat l^frcii lu^i iawbibiv, 4ue tost; vaaky aU)|iie i« |o be 
gratified^ torpec«iitKryMli%aiige»tt-b««bltM^ IwowldAdt^ 
vndeMCDod bflve to oMswimitiionibr wtabifig to deiiv* mnq i u i»—> 
froBi'ditirworiM^ iti8 4iiMrorlbyof«iieBU|hceii«d««tio«tol«Mro 
f&tiamb <Mmp«d by fomnf^ or to na|h<t imUgeot merit; tWr 
hboora do t tm <ttocew» ease, aflfwieei bonors—AH tbet • gnu^iiil 
eeootry e«i %m^ ail tbet m btncfitted woiU caa beilew. Ner 
wooM I app«iif to tViitk tbat tvae kerning or tupcnor taleats ere 
eotabined ei^%kh weik end opekncsi ier above tbe twacb of |ie» 
eoiy ; or thfft ef^ beok which it pvUitfaed tboe^ be a ^kwatMi 
lo lAie'wericH a gretiacoes ofisri^ en tbe altar of iihilaiithrDpyve 
feloiftafy saoriice of prhette interest to public inproveiQent. Iti« 
a Botimoiis tettlbat tteny ef ear grnatest literary charactem bare 
been poor^ and that we owe to Uiet vary drcunstance many of 
tbeir most vidaed prodnotiooss ^ was die reda blast of adrernty. 
wbicb seems to hare uirfDlded even the gsoies of Shakespeare. 

Beal learning is of ie6mte worth ; the active mind deserves tfie 
reward of its labours as much as the toiling bsod. fipt peverty is 
not cbin'eibte a qoalificetion Ibr writing well. Hmse only can be 
tbe objects of oensat^y and they alone will ieel the weif^ ef ni*' 
proef) who wiib««it the re^aisifee talents enter apen the araeeief 
Hteratere, ^nd oonleneed with a sporiensy dvetiagy but lucrative 
fao^ sacnftce to present grsrli to itiott the honourable meed ef 
histing applause. Such are our modem book-makem. There are 
certainly oMOiy among the anthors of the present day to whom this 
tide is not ^plicable, many who will ev^r rank. )iigh among the 
woithies of the age ; but there is a ncBaernua class of writers whe 
have no aim beyond tl»e advantiq^ resulting to themselves, from 
tbe eetwbiitihment ef e: sberi vepntaMony end by. whose uUekpeumf 
•preteiiena seeiety Jms base dehided enAleaming.d^ieded. Manjr 
will always he feund te enco ara ga and supply itbe foiUies of man"* 
kind« ^Theve in certainly now pneeailing e.^t<^wry mania, which 
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MHrpiwiBg llwt abmrnj ootne forward to m/My its crvrinft. li. 
nmf o«M h% <iwi lite d vpUobare lh< meat culpapble, those who en* 
t m« i n/ i » Fthotg wbo-fWBiper finbe taste; it cannot however be ka^ 
dan btad wfakb are'ilie aioot faoitioaraUe; the ^pfttinay be charged- 
wiA£9ilfj baft tha latter are goil^ of something inore beinons. 
- * Theta obcnDMaaces hare' given- rite also to* aaother evil, which 
iabiu ftnacettar^r part of .thesystain.; I laean the literary pt^ with- 
wlaqb 'atf.imwyapata aad advertoseaaents teem. V^'ore 4ha aathor of 
^ The.Qritaey'' nowAo publish a new editton o^. that eacelknt faree, 
Jm 4ie sdri p ri a p o£ maflfcam pmjgmg Biigl^..hie greatly -enrichedy in 
yMA^ bf the side of lottery^ttti^ kaepars, and 4>oaHiiig qaaiiksy 
authors or ^thair iiookseUars wouM be very coospicttoas figures* I* 
hart' lately me* with an iastaoce of.^t^ag, whidi i appears to me 
sa nae^anlled as to deserre exposore. A Landon periodical pub- 
lioitiion caatained recently e very ietorestiiig article^ whioh I had 
before aead in the Pfuis Magaaa Encydapedique -for last January^ 
Aait waS'Celottlated to attract maoh attention by ithe information. 
and 'benevolent seotimeots it displayed, I was surprised to see it 
inserted as an original article^ and the source from which it was 
taknn nOl ai^aowledged. But 'my surprise was still greater, when 
in the last number of the sane work, I found that the editor had 
inserted a letter dated firom Hamburgh, the writer of which had 
a^ressed to him the following rcm^ upon the paper to which I 
have alluded t '< It is one of the numerous artiotes which distinguish. 
]ff>iir aoiseellaay over €9§n^6thef pMiAtd in Europe.*' Sadtk a fact 
can. need no comment* 

> Public tasm wtU not surely continue tbng in its pvesent vitiated 
state ; thet erude «iaads.wtth which it is now glutted must produce 
m nauiee, that I finist will restore to it complete puri^, and raise 
tbeartef dtifosiiig knowledge firom its degraded rank, to the high 
pve-emtnenoe it ought to- hold among the pur»iits of mankind. 
JV^MWtf^, Oc/. i9, 1806. N«S. 

All men of pt^i3fp\& undefaftand what are t^eir respectire privi- 
leges in society, lind nndt one and the same motion can be given txx* 
the varioos parts of an immense body, redprocai rights will be vio* 
lated, social broib will ensue, and th^ practice of doeHing wiU exist. 
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its esktence'/tnid the very bold assettknis wkidi hav« %ei^ irtaade 
ttse of to explode it, I contend with <:eiifid«oe< that i% rfltis«r itid 
Defines every indivkbal faculty of mart y it rendeH hhn mdepeild«fic; 
aod indep«ndeaoe' leads to virtue: in 86cwty infmive aNHatftage^rw^ 
anlt from its existence; it estabHshes sincerity, cofic#it>, and good 
manners; it checks a multitude of evils, and consequently f»roiiib«eft 
tke interast of morality* Let those who censare it, as the t east^nf 
of bafbarians, as the rdic of an age of senseless ff»f«ti8ct8m,'«lid 
depWaUe sopefstidon, read the history of those nationrw^kh an^ 
tiqoity boasts of as being most polished, and then feitct on their 
argmaent ; kt them exa^^iae the modem world/ and pariicuhwiy 
Europe, where the sphere of ideas is' enlarged on ewty side, tha 
light of knowledge is morei^tensively disseminated, and where mm 
is best aoquaiated with his place in the system of nature, and widi 
his social duties^ and they will see that with the slow lapse of time; 
dvilixation has advanced, and with its advaooemeat dus cnstom hM 
become more general^ both in its inioenee and operatisin. If ig* 
norance really has misled us in this particular, the force of etpei^ 
rience would long before this have enlightened us. The man ^Aio 
refuses to fight a duel, is not considered by the world as acting with^ 
reason, but as sanctioning a vice'; he is held up as obnoxious to man- 
kind, aud like the detSH^ed Ptmoi « is viewed as au object of all 
conceivable depravity, and a degraifetion to his species. 

We are frequently told, thbt disorder has b^en generated 
through every class of -society by the prevalence of this custom ; 
that there are laws to punish those who injnre us> and that by not 
referrmg lo those laws, we arrogate to oarselves the"|^rivil^ge of 
judging in a cause, which, from being 'fnMr«t«d, #e<cinHlot consider 
impartially^— 'It is anoecessary to in^rm you, thfft these kisons, 
with a few others equally instructiTe, have beentepeatid f^n and 
again, without having any very wonderfill influence on tbe'conduct 
of mankind. I am well aware that the ounseqoedce' ofa duel is 
always misery to individuals; for ev^n the worst of those, who are 
so unfortunate as to be brought to a premature death by their own 
indiscretion, are respected by some who lament their loss; but 
these terrible catastrophes do nOT'intiitate agaihst the justice of 
the punishment. They ought to- remind the presumptuous and the 
ignorant, that man will not permit his exclusive privileges to be 
trampled on with impunity, , 

# The plana are a class of men in the East Indies, vhose fate Isj'peculiarly 
wretched ; they are not only denied every communion with their fellow cre^* 
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Wkh nf«r«l to m reteraoe to law»-HM> vajmry «mi be rep«nd 
iMitbf tbtconferriiigof apcopoftioQal^ benefit upon the iqjiireci | 
IMMl'tbere ere iigariet • tceu ii cc of tbe law wiU oat i«coBipeq89» 
Penmiiary upantiwi U the cbjef roodg of pmii^aieiit ; lusk^UyuK 
i d e ^u en to the leH of rtfuteoon? WiU it pMai9h the wretch, who 
>miig •edece4 one of the fairest |Mrt of ths creatioo, tunw her JAie 
lhe«erld»k»piiieypoUeted»MdcoDCamqat;ed? It «viU aeitber te^ 
M»e reimtatioe imt pooish. Mijactiee ! theal ceet^d» that the 
lanrt w^h preicnbe the racoi«|>6nce, fail with reg^ to jestioe» 
«ey more, thftt a peniihsiont so impotent tends u> thecorniptioa of 
aieralityy at it emholdent mee to conuuit every specie^ of criiBe, 
in the hope of an eiptalioa which th^ regard oaJlj as a trifling ux 
on their p l eaw r e^ Besides, when ail the springs of the heart ve 
in action, the nian of sansibilit.v as|(s aot who ia to lay before hia 
the law of equity and the pririieges of nature ; be evqe^res not into 
the principles on whi^ tbe expounders of the law administer 
jnstiee amd maintain order: when Uboariug andor indigwtiaf^ 
he would spam at tbe man who presumed to iastruct him how to 
act, 

■^■■^i M .i all arbitration he r^ects ; 

Within his bosom reigns tbe highest law, 
Bomwr^ sole judge an4 umpire of itself* 

A challeoge shoeid only be sent , fVom two eauses-«a fei)r oC 
shame, wfaiob is a laudable quality, and delicacy of principle^ wluch 
is founded on virtue; where these two do not exist, the partjee fsan 
hiwe no other stimulus to %bt, than that of wishing to appear oor 
torBous» In tbe awarding of a penalty, agreeable to the law made 
to pmnsb dn el bsi i ^ magismnes very properly diseriminate the Mo- 
tives which imeigatei the cfaattengev and ael» with move or iem se* 
verity, asUw o fi enders are po s se ss e d of the$e qualities. 

For my own part, I am convinced that it is the res^onablenem 
of tbe custom which has given it a permanency, that all the power 
of laws has neither been able to suapcAd nor suppress, that it ^ei 
stahility and eon6deiMie» that it curbs Ucentiousnesi^ and th»t its 
aMitien<att eeent^ which never wtU happen, without a combinatloa 
of eiroamstaocee that hnmao judgment cannot expect) would bea 
step towards imhratiag onr sp^eies* 

J.S- 

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Qui nwfiet 9Uasi at0it^, 

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^Sem ArtmM (ftfke lAfi and WrHings tf tji^eFl^de¥egtitia^, 
% S&htyTtichafi Lord Holland, Sro. pp. 294. Longrfitm, Md Ci*. 
' 1806^. Continued from page 180. 

Such intelligent and entertaining works as the present greatljr 
reward a reviewer for the labour of toiling througjh inniimerab]^ 
publications, stenle in both these \rtluable qualities and fruitfiil in 
nothing but dullness and ignorance. His pleasure on this occasion 
is double, that which he receives from an immediate perusal, and 
that which he experiences from the ability afforded him by his au- 
thor of imparting it to others. 

Denham has said : 

'* Such is our pride our folly or our fate, " 
That few, but those who cannot write, translate,** 
bat hi^ lordship is in no degree obnoxious to this censure, and that 
he is one of' thejfeWf his sryl6 of translating and his able criticisms 
on the poetry of Lope de Vega most clearly demonstrate. His re- 
marks on his au thorns pastoral, lyric and burlesque poems, (p. 93, 
4, 5,) are a striking proof of his taste, ingenuity and candour* 
These remarks we must oniit, but those which follow on Lope's 
essay on the dramatic art we cannot refrain from transcribing. 

*< The Arte de Jiacer ComediaSt nndertakea at the Instance of the Academy, 
to which it is inscribed, exdufive of its intriotic merit, derives anadditiunal por- 
doQ of hiteresc from bdng connected with the history Of the fipanish itage,and 
written by a maar wfaoM^oductioM decided fti cbcract«r,«nd to ^ose fCBittt, 
therdbre> are in MBCHMUiiiretD l»e iji8criie*«be f«iili«Me# iAich diitln- 
gniah the modem dona fxMBtiie ajpc&tot*. W]Mtev«riMr i^etbeUrcompap 
rative merit, it it turfptyboi^ Abwcd aod podaaficio jadflf .f£ the oqe by rules 
laid d<^wo*£oir (be i9th«r>— a practiqe» ^diich, Jbad bcf ua io the time of Lo|>e, 
ui4 is not aItogetiier.abaadoned to this da^ . There are many excellencies 
to which all dramatic authors of every age must aspire, and their success in 
these form the just points of comparison : but to tienstirk h iboden^ ailthor 
fol tiot felloMtog the plan of Sophodei^ Is-as abAudar to 6hject to a fk^esco 
that it la not painted in4>il voiowa^ pr^ »• Tinrinsdhltiiii bis^ofaUtiOf Azaoo- 
toaad Tassotr bapfily^bserwsf. to btame^Livy- ^ornot wkhtR f po«;m instead 
of a history. The Greek tragedians 2xei,^t^saJp^y swsia^^ to all modern3, if . 
we 9cept Racine, in the correctness of tkeir ta^te, and their equals at least in 
the sublimity of their poetry, aodinthe just and spirited delineation of those 
events and passions wliich they represent. These, hou cTer, at^ the merits 
of the execution rather yun of the designi the talents of the di>ciple rather 
than the excellenct of tlE^ schooTT and prove the siiU of the workman, not 
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the perfection of the system. Without dwelling on the expokton of 
the clionu (a most unnatural aod inconvenient macliiDe), the modems, by 
admitting a complication of plot, have introduced a greater variety ol 
incidenu and characters. The province of invention Is enlarged ; new 
pasdons, or at least new forms of the same pastiona, arebrooglit wltliitt 
the scope of dramatic poetry. Fre^h sources of interest are opened, and ad- 
ditional powers of imagioatioQ called into activity. Can we then deny what 
extends its jurisdiction and enhances its interest to be an improvement, in an 
art whose professed object is to stir the passions by the iodtadon of human 
actions ?•• P. 95-98. 

The Spanish dramatist had studied Aristotle, «7ef i ^oinraa^s 
and Horace de arte poiiticd or rather dramaticdf yet, con- 
versant in the ancient rules, anc} perhaps approving of them, he was 
obliged, as we learn, to quit their severity and abandon himself t» 
a licence peculiar to modern poets : 

Noporque yo ignorasie lot preceptos ^c, 

*< Not but I studied all the ancient rolts: 

Yes, God be praised ! long since, hi grammar schools, 

Scarce ten ye:ir8 old, with all the patience due. 

The books that subject treat I waded through : 

My case was simple. In these Utter days. 

The truant authors of our Spanish plays 

So vide bad wander*d from -the narrow road 

Which tlie strict fotUers of the drama trod, 

I found the stage with barbarous pieces stor'd : — 

The critics censur'd ; but the crowd ador'd. 

Nay more, these sad corrupters of the stege 

So blinded tasie, and so debauched the age. 

Who writes by rule must please himself alone^ 

Be danm*d without remorse, and die unknown. 

Such force has habit— for the nmau^ht fods. 

Trusting their own, demise the andent roles* 

Yet, true it is, I too have written plays. 

The wiser few, who judge ynth skill, might praise : 

But when I see how show, and nonsense, draws 

The crowd's, and, more than all, the £iir*s applause. 

Who still are forward with indulgent rage 

To sanction every monster of the stage, 

I, doomed to write, the public taste to bit. 

Resume the barb'rous dre«s *t was vain to quit : 

I lock up ev'ry rule before I write, 

Plautus and Terence drive from out my sight. 

Lest ,rage should teach these injured wits to join, • 

And their dumb books cry shame on works Eke nine. 

To vulgar standards dien I square my play. 

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*Tis juit, methinlcs, we by thdr compass steer. 
And write the nonsense that they love to hear." 

P. 103—104. 
A more severe satire on the taste of our times, ajid the play 
iiliters of Uie present day, it would be difficult to conceive. 

Lope then proceeds to give an account of what is requisite in 
** die comic monsters of the stage," the comedie hmoyante of 
the French, or the crying- laughing pantomimes of our own times. 

*< In doing this,'' says bis lordship, <' he contrives with great shrewdness, 
bttt apparent simplicity, to urge nearly all that can be said in their defence, 
at the same time diat lie ridicules the occasional evtravagance of himself and 
his contemporaries. As an apology for the mixture of comic with tragic 
scenes, he says: 

. ** Lo tragico, ^c.** 

" The tragic with the comic muse combinM, 
Grave Seneca with sprightly Terence join'd. 
May seem, I grant, Pasiphae's monstrous birth. 
Where one half movei our sorrow, one our niirth. 
But sweet variety must s'ill delight ; 
And, spight of rules, dame Nature says we're righ{. 
Who, throughout all her works th* etample gives, 
And from variety her charms derives.** 
With regard to the unities, he asserts' that an observance of them would 
disgust a Spanish audience : 

•« Who seated once, disdain to go away. 
Unless in two short hours they see the ^y 
Brought from creation down to judgment day.'' 

P. 113—115. 

Tliis reproach scarcely needs a mutalo nomine to be felt by our 
contemporary dramatists. 

Lope de Vega does not defend all his dramas, but on the con- 
trary confesses that they all, except six, sin grievously against the 
art. With respect to the six, the noble author f^easantly observes, 
** the Spanish critics have sought for these faultless models in vain.'' 
P. 117. 

In the course of a man's useless studies, or unrewarded pursuits,' 
he may read, we confidently assert, at least a hundred Spanish 
plays, which they call comediasfamosaSy and .not one that shall ap- 
pear to him above contemptible. In some of Calderoii's pieces, 
tbere is a bustle and activity which, with the help of lively action, 
doable doors and much shifting of scenes, might make an interest- 
ing representation for once. The French think that dialogue is the 
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oddly that tte gUyest ntddh hai pfodaced the graresc comedies^ and^ 
with a few etceptkm^ the ddll^t. The Spaniards, on the contrary^ 
delight in the tricks of a harlequin. ' We would by no means insi- 
noat^ that the genius of Calderon had the advantage of Lope*s, ak 
thou^ his success excluded the latter for a tin>e from the Spanish 
stage, as Beaumont and Fletcher were at a certain period of our dra- 
matic history preferred to Shakspeare^-prohpudor! 

After these obsenrations, it is fit that we should make room for 
bis lordship's comments on this subject, who, though alive to tha 
merits of his author, is never blind to his defect^: 

« The trutH it, that thefAtytof that ptrlod i6 not admit of the dlstincdoit 
ol trigedief and comedicf, according to the common, or at least the Frendfc 
accqttation of those terms. They are not 0oiatSk$ ; fbr not only distress- 
ing dtuations and yirwasgw of high rank, bat aasatrinatlons and murdera 
are admitted into tlieir plota i on the other haM, tik aprigfatliness of the dia- 
logne, the lowncsa of tome of d» eiitfrscMfa, the familiarity of the language, 
and the roncMoa of the pitce^ wUeh it genertUy fbrtvnat^, deprive them 
of all cl4m to the title of tfBge<UBs. Yai even in Lope*i works there is aa 
evident difftrcace in kit tonofptJOD as weH ai exteteioh of two distinct 
species of dramadc ctaDpe»hiDOt. In otie» the diaiaeters ayid incidents are 
Intended to ezdte torprite aad ftdrntradon ) bi (fie otiier, itterrimeDt mixed 
ocfaiionally with iMewtt. Lowt indeed ii the tabfect of t>olh : bat in 
one it is the love which distinguished the ages of drfvalry { in ifie i^ker, the 
gallantry which succeeded to it^ wm4 ^t/hkh the poets had otiiy to copy from 
the times in which tliey lif«d. The pbyaof tite iMter description, when the 
distinction bccaoie more mStJcrd, scared the nme of Comedlas de Capa 
y Espada, Comedies of the Cloaic and Sword, from the dresses in which they 
were represented ; and the former that of heroic comedies, from tlic character 
of the personages and inddenu which coii^pose them. It is true, that in se- 
veral of Lope de Vega, wlilch would come under the description of heroic 
comedies, there is an miderptot, of which the diaracters are purely comic i/m 
inventlm whlcU, if it is not hts own, seems to hate been of Spanish origin, 
and, as ia well ioioars, was adopted sAmott univerally on < «r stage ttom the 
tfane of Fletcher to i hat of Addison and Rowe. Lope was centamporary with 
both Shakspeare and Fletcher. In the choice of thdr subjecis, and in the 
conduct of thdr fables, a resemblance may often be found, v^hich is no doubt 
to be attributed to the taste and opinions of the times, rath'-r than to any 
knowledge df each other's writings. It is indeed in this point of view that, 
the Spanish poet can be compared with the greatest adyancage to himself, to 
the great fooodcr of our theatre, k is true that his imagery may occasions- 
ally remind the English i-eader of Shak^ere ; but Ids ftemimeaitt, espedally 
In tragedy, are more like Dryden and his conteniporvies than dieir prede- 
cesaors. The feelings of Shakspere*8 characters are the result of passions 
common to all men ; the extravagant sentiments of Lope^s, as of Dryden't 
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%j ckhralry and exaggerated by romaoee. In hk dtltneatfon of charaetot 
h€ is yet ntore unlike, and it it scarce necesaary to sidd» greatly inferior ) 
but in the choice and conduct of bis subjects, if he equals him in ostraTa- 
gance and improbability, be does not fall short of him in interest and variety. 
A rapid saccession of events, and sodden changes in tlie situation of the per* 
toQages, are the charms by which he interests us so forcibly in his plots. 
Tiiese are the only features of the Spanish stage which Corneille left im- 
improTcd ; and to these some slight resemblance may be traced in the operas 
«f Metastado, whom the Spaniards represent as the admirer and imitator of 
their theatre. In his heroic plays there is a greater variety of plot than in hia 
comedies; though it is not to be expected that in the many hundreds he 
composed he should not often repeat the same situation and events. On the 
whole, however, the fertility of bis genlut, in the contrivance of interesting 
plots, 18 as surprising as in the composi ion of verse. Among the many I have 
read, 1 have not ^Uen oh one which docs not strongly fix the attention ; and 
though many of his plots have been transferred to the French and English stage, 
and rendered mote correct and nore probatAe, they liave sddeiM or never been 
improved in the great article of exciting ciiriosily and interest. This was the 
spell by which he enchanted the populace, to whose ta^te for wonders he is ae* 
cused of having sacrificed so much solid reputation. True it is that his extraor- 
dinary and embarrassing situations are often as unprepared by previous events 
as they are unforeseen by tlie audieuce ; they come upon one by surprise, and 
vhen we know them, we are as much at a loss to account for sucli strange oc- 
cnrrences as befoie; they are proditced, nut ^r the purpose of e^ii>iting tbt 
peculiarities of character, or the workioga of naitarc, but ulth a view of tf- 
stonlshing the awiience with strange, uaexpccted, unnatural, and often incon- 
sistent cooduct in Aome of the principal characters. Nor is this the only de/ecC 
In his plots. The personages, like the author, are full of intrigne and isven^ 
tion ; and wM'e they lay scl^emes and devise plots, vith as much ingenuity at 
Lope himself, they seem t6 be actuated by the same motives also ; for it is 
difficult to discover any other than that of diverting and surprising tlie audience. 
Their efforts were generally attended with success. All contemporary au* 
thors bear testimony to tlie popularity of Lnpe^s pieces ; and f)r many 5 ears 
he contioqei the faveurite of the public. Stories are related of the audienct 
taking so lively an interest in his plays, as totally 10 give way to the illusion, 
and to interrupt ihe n presentation. A spectator on one occasion b said to have 
Interfered with great anxiety for the protection oY an unfortunate princess— 
«« dando voces/* sa\s my author, " contra el cruel homldda que degoUaba af 
parecer una dama inocente*'— crying out against the cruel murderer, who to all^ 
appearance was slaying an innocent lady. P. 1^—131. 

These remarks are followed by a sketch of one of Lope*s most 
interesiing plays. It is called the Estrella de Sevilla, and has lately 
been altered and revived at Madrid, under the name of Sancho Or^ 
Hz^ de lat Roelas. The original being scarce, his lordship has favour- 
ed the public with an admirable detail of the plot, scene by scene^ 
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•lated with great skill and delicacy. The whole occupies too much 
^ace for our limits, and we have indeed at present so nearly reached 
the boundary, as to make it necessary to defer the conclusion of oar 
observations on this learned, acute, and elegant work until next 
month. 

An Inquiry into the State of the Nation at the Commencemeutt 
of the present Administration, Bvo. pp. 219. 5s, Longman^ 
1806* 

Mosi of the^ pamphlets written on this subject merit but fittle 
attention, since they are in general to be taken with no moderate 
granum Safin. The state of the nation indeed is frequently according; 
to the state of the writer's mind or interest — flourishing or deplora- 
ble, as his own private views are favourable or unpromising ; and he, 
commonly, who paints most broadly in the darkest colours, like the 
•*Puritane one,*' who tells his congregation that they are all damned, 
IS sure to be listened to with profound attentk)n, and 16 be thought 
to know much of the matter. This " Inquiry" however, is free from 
any of these degrading imputations,, and if the prospect which it ex- 
hibits be gloomy, the picture is not tlie production of a distemper- 
ed or fearful imapnation, but tlie labour of an honourable mind^ 
enlightened by judgment, and devoted to truth. 

** It is,*' says the learped and ingenious author, " a very humble 
attempt at providing a substitute for the information respecting the 
state of their affairs, which the people would have received from 
the deliberations of their representatives, had the formation of the 
new ministry been so long delayed, as to have given time for an in* 
quiry iiuo the state of the nation." This attempt^ so modestly 
spoken of, is conducted in a masterly manner, and added to the 
candour and sagacity which prevail throughout, we have the satis- 
faction to learn that no authorities are cited which are not official. 
P. 49. voXfjAtf/tAiir not n^mit acycaiAtif are the words of the Stagyrite, 
and this writer, thinking with him, that the object of war is peace^ 
holdsi with wisdom and humanity that we have fought enough, and, 
ought for no trifling or funcifuL reason to delay the making of peace. 
Jt may be said that we have more to fear from French i^iends, 
than French enemies, but to encourage such language, is to. cast 
away the scabbard, and to destroy the doors of the temple of Ja- 
nus^ A more prudent, considerate and humane conduct is pro- 
posed by this argumentative and able writer, who concludes his ad- 
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happily placed at^ the kead of the state, will, without abaodonio^ . 
one point, which the honour of England requires them to maintaio^ 
abjure all those false, notions of honour, by which nothing but 
eternal hostility with all the world can ever be obtaiued ; and that, 
whether we are to be blessed with peace, or compelled to prepare 
for new battles, they will pursue those plans of moderate and saki- 
tary reform in the various branches of our national policy, without 
which no glory, no safety, not even the inheritance of a nai^e will 
remain for England.^ 

Ev^ry patriot, every good man must say, ameji to thb ; and tba 
^ory of the present administration will be great indeed, if tbey 
diouid happily rise superior to the innumerable evils, which their 
predecessors have left them to encounter on every side. 

The Diamond new pointed ; being a Supplement to Diamond cut 
Diamond; containing three Letters, which Mr, Jefferytunt t4 
the Earl of Moira, with a view to extort Money from his R, H, 
the Prince of Wales ; with Obseroations thereon, in a Letter to 
Mr. J. including Remarks on his Letter to Mrs, Fitzherhert, and 
many Facts never before published* By Philo-Veritas. Bvo. 
pp. 50. Chappie. 1806. 

Philo-Veritas, who by his name is a lover of truth, seems 
clearly of opinion that this ungrateful slanderer ef his Prince is a 
knave. He thus expresses his sentimeuts : 

" By your own language, you appear ready to compromise your 
character, and every thing that would be dear tx> a virtuous mind, for a 
little money ; but if you cannot frighten the Prince of Wales out of his 
property, then you threaten to publish a justification of a worthless 
piaiity, which you cannot lose too $oon ; and the earlier you can get 
another character, and a better, you will be more estimable in the 
eyes of the world. As a person dangerous to the happiness and 
interest of society, I certainly view you ; but if you were merely a 
pereonHl opponent, I should consider you as one of those animals^ 
which accompany the wretched and miserable orders of the popu- 
lace, who can revenge a bite of the creature of their sloth, by the 
strength of their thumb, which annihilates the offender, venom and 
mU, in a crack,'' P. 4. 

Now, though we may admire the spirit of our author's senti- 
ments^ considering the object, we must affirm^ as in the case of 
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The three letters are from Mr. Jefiferys to the Earl of Moira^ 
breathing the gentlest zephyrs, and the roughest blasts, all anxiouslj 
endeavouring at the production of gold, but hn^pUjr^ because pro- 
perly, in vain* The comments of Philo-Veritas forcibly expose Mr. 
J.*s meanness and chicanery, but with perhaps too muck seriou»» 
neM^-thatis, at this tinie of the day, when the cheat i| seen through^ 
and tha author, accordmg to his merit, uaivorsally rewarded with 
contempt. Had the present writer's indignation permitted him, he 
ivould have done better, now the serpent'^ teeth are drawn, to have 
turned him into ridicule. A mere recital of his own statements 
would have eflEected it sufficiently in many instances. What, for ^• 
•mple, can be more laughable, than Mr. JefiSery's assertion in his 
first letter, that ** the agitation caused by the Earl of Moira's vio- 
lent language,** had confined him to his bed with— take a month to 
guess — the rheumatism / / P. 7. 

If in the candid mind of any man, who is unacquainted with the 
feets, Mrs. Fitzherbert labours under the least odium, the just elu- 
cidation of the case, beginning in this pamphlet at p. 29, will eni» 
threly remove it. And here, as we once more take our leav^'of this 
hateful subject, we must lament to hear that Mr. Jefierys has 
found some half a dozen renegades, base enough to abet him in 
his scandal : but " Dabit Deus his quoqv^ejunem,^ 

An Inquiry into the requisite Cultivation and present State of the 

Arts qf Design in England. By Frince Hoare, 8vo. pp. 870. 

7s. Phillips. 1806. 

Few writers possess a mind so various and elegant as. Mr« 
Hoare. From the theatre, where his excellent Faroes, suppoHttd hgr 
the acting of Bannister, convulse us with laughter, he can^ sead ua 
to our closets^ to meditate on his enquiries^ and to gather wiMlom 
from his remarks. 

What Mr* Hoare proposes, will, in a measure, appear in these 
ebservationss 

** It is not my dc4gn, fh thin short treatise, to present to the reader a 
complete invesigaiion of the facttlties of Painting and Scolpture, four to offer 
to Ms perusal such ^remarks as niy particular situation has enabled meto' 
form. The Honorary Office wUch I hold in the Royd Academy, an4 the 
task in which I liave there engaged, have led me to many refltections on die 
various degrees of exertion made by different states, in propottion to their 
respective powers, for the advancement of Uie Plastic Arts; and thenoe, for- 
saking the ui^ateftil < ffice of comparison, I have been induced to examino 
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been made of the means and talents of my own country, for the discharge 
of Aat most important of all (rusts, the due cultivation of the strength an^ 
faculties of a natloH." Pref. p. iii.— iv. 

He candidly observes : 

« During the arrangement of these thoughts on paper, a work has been 
published which, at fir^r view, seemed to supersede the present design, and 
to i'ender any further efforts on the subject superfluous—this is Mr. Shee't 
Bpiritcdand nmsterly performance of Rhvmxs on Art; But, on further 
coosid^ration^ and aftqr conversation with the anther of that work, there 
appears reason to believe that even a repetition of argument maybe attended 
with beneficial consequences ; and where, in some instances, I differ from 
the sentiments expressed by Mr. Shee, 1 have too high an opinion of his 
Andour, to doubt that he will readily admit, ^d even approve of this pub- 
lic statement of such a difference.'* Pref. p. vi.~vii. 

In two divisions, the arts of design and their dependencies, arc 
thoroughly considered and luminously illustrated. The chaptei 
On the annual exhibition at Somerset House contains many shrewd 
and sensible remarks— 

^ « The public exhibition of the Works of artists, is a mode of appeal to 
Hie world, «hich seems to be sanctioned by the customs of all ages. Pliny, 
•peaJdog of ApelleS; says, < Idem perfecta opera proponebatin perguU tran<» 
seuptibui, atque post ipsam tab ilam latens, vitia quae notarentur au^culta- 
t>ftt, vulgum diligerttiorem j' dicem quam se prsefcrens.' 

«* To court investigation, and to seek fame through the discussion ot 
pdbUe sentiment, is tlie object of these cxhibidons.'* P. 136—7. 

** But the gratification of an ambitious individual, although it be 
the object first in order, soon ceases to be (he first in importance. The pub- 
lic derive from it an extensive benefit, which they could not so easily and 
•o effectually aequite by any other means, namely, the exercise and im- 
ptaitKoOnt of their «Wn powers of refinement and uste. It is chiefly on this 
gpQimd that exhibitions, sucii as they are now established in most of the 
ac^demi^ in Europe, lay claim to national respect. In England, they have 
greatly contributed to ripen the public judgment on all points of ait, and ap« 
pear to have had one vt-ry salutary consequence', that of diffusing a general 
desire (now first b^inning to assume form and substance, and mixing with 
the wishes of the artists) to see the arts employed in a manner more worthy 
t( their capaoity and extensile powers. For it mubt be observed, that un-» 
less the objects eidtibited be found adequate to tlie previous state of mind 
wqd (consequent expectation of the beholder, little el»e than di»conteut can 
be the result; instead of pleasure smiling in the eye, and pride mantling to , 
the heart, the weapons of critical animadversion will sooa sparkle in the 
luAds of many who are bidden to the fea>t.*' P. 137—8. 

The works of modern artists are treated with great lenity, 
tnd the affectation of connoisseurs ably exposed. The following it 
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a friendly obsMration, and perhaps the best cbloar that could be 
put on the question : 

*< In the aggre^iite appetrance of the ezhibitioD there is greater ^vacity 
than cyrectnest. Our painting it like our drama, libertine in method and 
combinadon, but animated and forcibly in effect.*' P. 142^3. 

As we have 'mentioned affectation^ we may add that Mr« H. 
though in general reiharkably free from i^ is, we dihtk, on this occar 
^on in a slight deg^ee within the pale. We allnde to the purpid 
ttuffof quotation, which frequently glares in these pages, especially 
in a long passage at pages IS and IS, cited fVom Thucydides— 
Smith's translation being given, and the Greek not i>eing correct, 
its omission would have been more creditable. The scrap from 
Lonjpnus p, 87, is in the same predicament. 

Tke ucret Hittory of the Court and Cabm^ of St. CUmi; in mSe- 
ria of Letters f from a Gentleman at Parit to a Nobleman •» 
London ; written during the Months of August, Septeinber, and 
October, 1805. 3 Vols. 18«. Murray. 1806. 
Secrets not worth knowing. Monstrous to the last excess of 

absurdity, and beyond all belief. 

Corruption, a Satire, with Notes. By Thomas CliolUckmanf Au- 
ikorof the '^ Fallen Cottage,'' ^c. Bkkmau. 1906. 
Ctio, Clio ! wheriefore art thou Cih ! 

** Quern vurum, aot heroa— ocn 
Tibid sumes celebrare, Clio i" 

Hor. 
i. e^ What man» what hero, wilt thou, Clio ! undntake to oti^ 
hntbon thy crabbed pipe? No man, no hero, reader, so par^; 
but universal love, the prevalence of which will be of great service 
|o Mr. Clio's verses, at present not likely to experience much. Be- 
ing a great stickler for liberty and reformation, he cannot be dis- 
pleased with us for the freedom we take in recommending reform to 
his private consideration. CUo aud satire do not agreeu His Muse 
can probably al&rd a better specimen in another way. 

Hentarks on Sea Water ; with Observations oh its Apptickfidn aiid 

Effects, internally and externally, as coniudve to Health. By 

C. Taylor, M. D. 8vo. 3«. 6d. Phillips. 1805. 

Dr. Sa NOR ADO was all for water, and io is Dr. Taylor, and one, 

in that respect, seems |o be about as wise as tiie other. With him 

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practises) is a panacea^i and catholic remedy. Though by ;do means 
much addicted to the internal use of water, we have no hydroph^ 
bia on us, and can approve, in some measure, of the doctor's ob- 
servations. However, he goes infinitely too far' for our taste or 
judgment. With respect to the taking of it intemaHyy fve fttidXi 
meet him with the motto of one who wrote a treatise against it : 

Qd. 4. V. 511. 
I^ysicians, surgeons, and jipothecaries are in general not trou*' 
Wed wit;h much Greek, therefore a translation may jbe agreeable :— 
^' So there he diedy when he had drunk salt water/^ Consider that^ 
good doctor ! For our part, we are sick at the bare idea; though, 
for a horse, it may not be a bad dose. As for the man getting into 
the salt water, in certain cases, it is well ; but vice vertd — pho ! — ^he 
hps no bowels who recommends it. 

Notes on the West Indies : written during the Expedition under the 
Command of the late Gen. Sir R, Abercrotnby ; induing Ohser^ 
rations on the Island (^ Barbadoes, arid tjie Settlements captured 
h/ the British Troops upon the Coast of Gufana ; Ukewiu 12e- 
jiwrh relating to the Creoles and Slaves of the Western Colonies^ 
smd the InOans of South America : with oecMtonal Hmt$, ri- 
gttr^^mg the Seasoning or Yeliow Fever (f hot CHmmtes. By 
Otorge Pinckard, M. D, 3 Vds, 8vo. Longman md Co, 180d. 

The ingredients of Dr. Pioekard's miscturt are, a scruple of 
•cieiice, several ounces of information, and many pounds of down- 
right foolery. Not to rob the poor, we shall teave the modicum of 
science untouched. Of the fbolery, not to create a nausea, we 
sh^ll take a drani. Remark on scfueezing an orange into his mouth 
on a hot day : — ^^ The oranges were not only ten times better than 
iJtm very best in the yforXd^ but they were taken fresh firom t^be^ree, 
and at a moment of heat and parching thirst, which was cidonlated to 
render them ten thousand times sweeter than the sweetest of them- 
selves*" This is a tolerable specimen of ^hat a leiaimed doctor can 
do, when he tries ; but, rich as it is, it is but a spice of bis.'^ by*gone 
fooleries/' In %urative language be shines, viz. The Dutch being 
fond of the use of tobacco, th^ are called ^ ^emper-smoking f cap- 
tains in the navy, ^ governors of ocean-castles;'' gormandizers, ** of 
Turkey stomach,'' &c. It is easy to laugh at thb ; but '< men lau^ 
in many ways — they only cry in one." 

"Where we catch him in a serious mood, and descended from his 
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rocking-horse, he arrests our attention, and rewards our laboar. — 
His indigoant observations on the uncling traffickers in hujnivn 
flesh, and the affliction of mind which, unheeded by their masters, 
they frequently exhibit at parting from their kindred and friends, 
are full of interest, and do honour to the writer. One a£[ectiog in« 
stance we shall transcribe : 

** When purrfaased, the sliTes were marked by placing m bit «f stringf 
or of red dr white ttpe^ round tbefr aroM or necki. One gentlefiian, wiio 
bought a considerable number of them, was proceeding to diOiDguith tliose 
he had telectcd, by tying a bit of red tape roand tlie neck, wtien I obsenred 
two negroes, who were standing together entwined in each other's armf, 
watch him with great anxiety. Presently he approached them, and, after 
maJtinghis examinatiuB, affixed the marlc only to oneof them. The ptber> 
^tb a look of uneriiog expression, and vfith an impulse of marked disap* 
pointment, cast his eyes up to the purchaser, seeming to say— < and will 
ycu not have me too?' — then Jumped, and danced, and stamped with his 
|cet, and made ^gm to signify that he also was sound and strong, and wor- 
thy his chdce. He was nevertheless passed by unregarded, upon which he ^ 
turned again to Ids companion, his friend, brother, whichever he was, to9k 
him to his bosom, hung upon him, and, in sorrowful countenance, ex* 
pressed the strongest marks of disappointment and aiRiction. The fediog 
was mutual : ft arose from reciprocal affection. His friend participated in 
Jifts .fric4-. and they both wept bittq^lf* Soon afterwards, «n laoking 
vvund to ^oqpplete his purchase, the planter again pas«9d that wiy^ *m(l not 
findipg/Si^y one tliat better suited hit purpose, ^e now h^g ^e tojicn of 
choice round the neck of the negro whom he had before dis'egarded. All 
the powern of art could not have effected the change that followed. More 
genuine joy was never expressed. His countenance became enlivened. 
Gdef and sadness vanLhed, and, flyiQg into the arms of liis friend, he a\- 
ressed him with warm en^braces, then skipped, and jumped, aijd danced 
about, exhibiting all the purest &ign& of mirth and gratification. His com- 
panion, not less delightea, received him with redprocdt feelings, and a more 
pure and native sympathy was never exhibited. Happy in being again as- 
sociated, they now retired apart from the crowd, and sat down in quiit 
contentment, hogging and kiating the red signal of bondage, like two at- 
tached and affectionate brojthers, satisfied to toU out their da \s for an uq- 
iLpown niastcr, bO they might but travel their j[oumey of slavery togaher,** 

This horrible commerce is, we trust, at a crisis favourably to 
justice and humanity. . If, on the contrary, it is per^sted in, and 
old systems of inhumanity, oppressidn, and blood are so rooted io 
the habits of these' abominable traders, let us (for it is ail we can 
dp) let us spare them some of the missionaries designed for savage 
tribes, and be it their necessary task to preacli christiai^ty to tbem,! 

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inerrtment and clumsy playfulnesa induce us, in charity, to recom* 
me^d to his perusal a certain &b)e called The Lap-dog and the Ass, 
It is so well known, that it is perhaps needless to say that the latter, 
•dmiring the pranks uf the former, attempted to imitate them;—- his 
master, the critic, not thinking so well of them as the ass, gare him 
i| good dru hbing. 

If in a future edition, by a free use of the knife, the dector be 
plessed to perform -a radical cure of these disorders, he will lea\-e a 
sound and desirable body. 

'Rhymes for the Nursery^ by the Author of" Original JPofmsJ* Dar- 
ton and Harvey, 1806. 

We seriously reconmiend the study of these rhymes to Messrs, 
Stewart, &c. &c. Versaie diumd, Jjet these be your models — turn 
them over cjay and night ; learn to avoid affectation^ and to ac» 
quire simplicity. Our young friends will read these rtj^mes with 
pleasi^re, and our old ones otoy read them with improvement. 

Gleanings from ZimmermarCs Solitude : to which are tatdedt occa^ 
sional Observations, and an Ode to Retirement, by i|lr5. Bayfield^ 
AMthor of Fugitive Toems, 12i»o. pp. 194. lAnd^elL 1806* 
The author of ^' A Piece of Family Biography^ has expr/eosed 
our opiaioo of Zimmerman : '' I may say of him,'' he observes, ^ what 
he himself a$rips of Dr. Blair ' I could read his works with plear 
sure every hour of my life.' But his tract oxk Solitude, in particular, 
has this peculiar quality, that few can read it attentively without 
being better men than they were, as they will purely feel an ardent 
wisli to refbrrx^ their morals, and to tread the peaceful paths of vir* 
tue." Vol. I. p. 3r. Thinking thvs, we are iiot well satisfied with 
Kny ahridgment of thia delightful treatise -, n^e wo^ld not lose ** a 
drop of the immortal man,'* and are certainly not amongst those 
who find tl^is' work " ^oo prolix.*' If ^he courtesy h^d be^n ex- 
tended to the book written in opposition to the tenets of the pre? 
sent, we should not have disapprove of it. There are persons,^ 
^lowerer, who think it possible, very possible in reading,, to have 
•* too much of a good thing," and to such Mrs. Bayfield's operations 
will prove acceptable. This lady's " notes," which occnpy eight 
pages, exhibit much sensibility, but no great degree of jpdgment, 
Y^hat can be learnt from short detached notes of exclamation? — 
" Oh no !••— " Alas I alas .'^— « Ah ! happy, thrice happy moments !* 
A Uttlc looseness of grammar occasionally prevails, as at p. xi. am} 
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p. 109^ i^iert wetmtiM tkt ihosje who " ^xe ot4>g«4 V) ?f<^ t^ 
•uppotttMr Buulies^ wkfm the/ bare • t^^ fox U^ i^pEe»etf '|i^ 
Brtiremcnt,'* pre, " by.tbe ngoiir of xhek dotiq^^ compiBU^i t^ f 

Vmtfm^ mr HiUoriad Mewvain of SMfSfir^f^y mdcfih^prmif 
ientud TMioeranee of Vet$eU, By J. S, aarke, F^JLSLpp. ^t 
• Of. 6d, Mamman. 1805. 
T9Z9 biftorjr of •bi{Kivrec)c9 19 » ^j^bsction /rom-Htlduyt, >PttQ]h||^ 
and others. The narratives are full of forcible interest, and CjUf/Ml 
^\, \«hile tbey a^tate the feelings and excite ^e astonbHmei^ 
of the reader, to impress bis mind with a due degree of 'venera- 
tion foj that Pro? idence whose helping hand they so fireqnentljr and 
hoanifestly exhibit. The w6rk is dedicated to the learoed Isaac 
Heed, ^nd other members of a literary club to which Mr. CtaH^# 
belongs. Jfr. Bowles, the author of the Spirk of Discovery, he*« 
eijoysthe * puff direct* in high perfection. 

A Nezp Dunciad. Facts and Anecdotes, illustrative of the iniqin- 
tous Wactices of anonymous Critics, Qvo, Tegg. ISOtf. 
Thi^s ' catchpenny publication 19 principally taken from a work 
called "The Picture of London," and the object of its further pro- 
malgation appears to be the gratification of some luckless dunce, 
who, having had the cap and bells ^xed -firmly on his head by the 
Critics, is determined not to sit still, and wisely, by silence, endea- 
vour to conceal his disgrace. Appears^ we say, becanse it is not 
likely that Mr. Phillips, the publisher of "The Picture of London,*' 
should have agreed to the printing of this segment of his work, 
much less that he should countenance any thing resembling a Dan- 
dad, which, taking in authors as well as critics, would fall very 
heavily on the many empty skulls, out of which, Scythian-like, he 
quaflfs his ale. The shame of these ^ facts and anecdotes," as they 
'are miscalled^ belongs, exclusively, to the enraged inventor of 
them, 

^Laurie and Whittle^s New Traveller's Companion, exhibiting a Com- 
.plete and correct Survey of all the direct and principal Cross RoaA 
in England, Wales, and Scotland, as far Ij^orth as Edinburgh 
and Olasgow, By jV. Coltman, ^to. ' Xaurie and Whittle^ 
53, Fleet-Street, 1806. 

]^A>'Y vain i^d imperfect .attempts have been nvuie to supply 
US with that gre^ travelling ,(/^{yeratum,copions and correct ipaf^ 
but it remained for Mr. Coltman, encouraged by the liberality anp 
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ireij ft^vellet In thl4 coutitry, by prt)durf«fg, hi * very high d^ee 
6f f>ef^cti6n, ^hat tfiey have so iotlg d^ired. Of thttte fo^ and 
tvifisnty chai-ts, it id, with trtrth, obsiervfcd thdt ih€j ** claim « mp^ 
fiority over any itinerary, from the roads being kept 8t> ccmiftct^d^ 
that the traveller may find hi6 Way td the most distant part, with- 
6tft the innumerable references which must, unavoidably, occur in 
all works of that description :— it likewise has a great adVahtagcf 
over a map of i^glaad, by the names of places reading parallel te 
the sights whereas all the southern and south- western roads in the 
peaeral map read upside down/' Advert, This work boasts also 
of th^.freat convenience of pointing out thos^ towns and places at 
whftoli f>e0t-borses may be procured, as well as the priideut foi:e** 
si||}il| in sckcting cross roads, of tifempting the eye, en the soAp^ with 
■one, wlvoh the foot or x^arriage may not pass, *' with safety, at any 
Maaon of the year**' 

We congratulate the public on this valuable and irapqrtant ac« 
auisition, which carries with it its own recommendation, being a 
wing perfect of its kind. 

4 j9iMi§gue betip^en Buontiffarte and TaUeyrand, on the SubjeH of 
JPtttc^with En^lmd, 18ma |)p. 24. Qd. Hatchard. 180a. 
Thia dialogae betv^een jMapoleon and his diabie boiteuXf would 
shew, that we have more to fear from a deceitful peace than iironr 
aa epea war. The hint has sen<)e in it, and is wofthy of conside- 
ration. We must pray heaven to preserve us from our friends; 
from our enemies we have nothing to fear. 

FUm. FlafniJ or th^ Life and Errors of my Uncle and kit Friends, 
With Illustrations and Obscurities^ by Messrs. Tag, Ragy and 
Bobtail. _A LMerary Romance. In 3 Vols, with li Plates, 
A new Edition, with material Alterations and Additions. 1/. Is. 
Murray, 1806. 

Our opinion of this very ingenious and facetious work was 
given shortly after the appearance of the first edition. To add 
any thing to the favourable judgment which we then passed on it, 
would be superfluous, since its reputation is established, and the 
fools of all denominations, learned and unlearned, scientific and ig- 
norant, which it so admirably ridicules, will afford food for laughter 
to many generations. This is a second edition, and therefore we 
notice it. The ** alterations and additions'' in it, may be justly de* 
tcnbed as very sensible impi-ovements. " An Apology for Flim 



ed as very s 
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here included in the first volume. From his qualities, Mr. Bobtail 
would not appear to deserve to be the last o£ this humorous iirm^ 
To ** lattgb and grow fat,*' may be a js^ood things but to laugh and 
grow wise, is certainly, far better ; therefore we, in charity, recom- 
mend the perusal of ** Tim flanu^ to all the ^ghty, addle-headed 
philosophers, as well as to all the grave, serious^ sententious, dull^ 
stupid scholars and geoiusses of the present age. 

A FatherU Memmr* cfhU CkUd. % B. Heath Mulkin, E$q. M . Ju 
F. A. 8. pp. 172. 10s* 6d. Longman, 1806. 
Vsmr afiectionate, and in a father very natural ; but to others 
Tastly silly, and to those who have paid their ten shillings and six- 
pence, exceedingly unsatisfactory. The boy probably had pacts^ 
and '* time was only wanting to bis fame,'' but if every father that 
thinks this oi his child is to make us read bis opinion, and pay for 
it, we must look about for new mines both of metal and patience* 
Such publications are altogether insufiferable. 

The Three Old Maids of the House of Penruddock. 3 Vols. IQmo* 
12*. Lane. 1806. 
Titts is a very creditable novel. The story is adroitly managedf 
and the whole interesting and pleasing. Be careful, Mr. Lane, how 
you treat this author, for you have not had one so gqod for some 
time. 

An Elegi/ on the Death of the Right, Hon, C. J* Fox. 4fa. Is. 
Crosby. 1806. 
For any thing we know to the contrary, these verses have been 
some time in possession of the bookseller, ready cut and dry, wait-^ 
ingthe event which they commemorate. The only internal evi- 
dence of their being written on the spur of the moment, is the loose 
and feeble quality of the manufacture. The inclination of the 
author is honourable to him, but inclination often wants the power 
of Virgil's /z^ror, and fails, as in this instance, to furnish arms. The 
' subject will go farther and fare better. 

Hui^^ments of Reason ; or, the Young Experimental Philosopher i 
being a Series of Femify Dialogues^ in which the Causes and Ef* 
Jects of the various Phanomena of Nature are rationally andfa^ 
miliarly explained. A new Edition, By the Rev, T. Smith* 
pp. 386. 5s. Harris. 

The first edition of this work we had not the misfortune to see. 
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fiilty revised," the former was, m all probabiHty, in a lamentdble 
pickle. The mistakes and follies of the presertt are abunddrit, and 
though there undoubtedly is some useful matter in the publication, 
^hich might instruct young minds, there is so much in it that is 
calculated to do more harm than good, that we think it would be 
better to keep the whole entirely out of their way. 

Lemons for Government ; or the Deliverance of a People. Qva. 
pp, 55. Printed at Croydon, 
This pamphlet is, we suppose, published exclusively for the 
people of Croydon, since no name of a London bookseller appears. 
It is a woeful account of the melancholy state of the country, and 
hray be of ser\'ice to the folks at Croydon, if they did not know it 
before. In Lortdon we certainly need no such information. 

Address to the British Public, and particular li/ to the Grand Juries 
of these Dominions. Bvo, pp.73. Booth, 1806. 
We lament the necessity, too apparent, of these serious exhor* 
tations to a life of greater morality and religion. Judges from the 
bench, and priests from the pulpit, have frequently, of late, with 
animated eloquence and manly feeling, ^ endeavoured to imprest 
us with the danger and inevitable consequence of the gnowth of 
iuiideiity and its attendant evils," but they have preached to the 
deaf, and irreligion and immorality daily increase, and assume a 
more frightful and abhorrent shape. To point out their melancholy 
consequences is the object of this well-inteirded pamphlet, and we 
recommend it to the grave attention of the public. The vices here 
dwelt upon, are written so glaringly on the face of society, that ** he 
that runs may read." — Let him also reflect, and be timely wise*^ 
From the lighter part of this work, wc shall select a passage, which 
is full of good sense^ and deserves the consideration of our fair 
readers : 

« When I contemplate one of our fa^hionable females, ushered into the 
world in early youth, with morah neglected, and a mind unstored with 
principles, by wji^ch to gnUc her steps ; when s)ie appears tricked cut in the 
indecent transparencies of motiem dress, netting nt nought all prec;3UtiQDi^ of 
health, and assuming a boldness ana efiProntery, cotally incoosistent with that 
unobtrusive modesty, in which iscompried the greatest charm oi fern U ex- 
cellence; — I mutt confers, that the prevailing sentiments of my bVast are 
compassion and^orrow. Ihis uniform, thi* unreserved and cheap dhjUay of 
beauty^ has reiid^re^ it too familiar, and disarmed ir of all fascinatioft i^ix. 
may attract the snares of the seducer ; but the l^onourable lover, the man of 

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•entc and reflection, «!!• looks for the solM aad istioDsl dcHgbtt of donetv 
ticliffy itcoUt from the idea of aMocUdng his dcaUay, or of risking htshopps 
of happiness, with such slight and frail materiab/* P. 98. 

The writer m^y be '* unlettered,'' but he is not uninformed, or 
without nn bonourable inclipation tago ahut 4oinggoo<L 

DRAMATIC. 

!Z%c Comedki of -the Merchant of Venice and As you like it. By W-? 
Ram Shahspeare. With the Notes and Illustrations of various 
Commentators, and Remarks by the Editor. In tzoo Vghimes, 
VoL L Qvo. pp. 327. 7s. Dublin. Jones, 1805, 

Several years have elapsed since two plays of Shakspeare, 
King Lear and Cymbeline, made their appearance in this guise, and 
they, says our editor, were my doing. " Unpropitious accidents,*^ 
it seems, attended them, and deprived them of" general notice." 
He hopes to enjoy a greater share of universality on the present oc- 
casion ; but though he confesses that public approbation would af- 
ford him pleasure, yet, in the case of failure, he intejfids to console 
himself with the reflection that he has been innocently employed in 
amusing himself. Advert, p. iv. This is all very pretty, but, as far 
as seven shillings go, we must say that the gentleman has amused 
himself at our expence. Whoever possesses Johnson and Steevens's 
edition, or the more complete edition of Isaac Reed, (and where is 
the note-reader who does not possess one or the other ?) will find 
little more than trouble in the perusal of these ^ Remarks,*' which 
are frequently long-winded illustrations of passages that require no 
light, (see the very first speech, ** in sooth"), and they are all writ- 
ten without any of that black-letter learning or recondite research 
wluch sometimes repays the tediou&ness of other commentators.-' 
This volume contains the Merchant of Venice. 

The Fall of the Mogul, a Tragedy, with other occasional Poems, By 
the Author of Indian Antiquities. 8V0. pp. 153. White* 1806. 

This tragedy is the production of the nervous and poetical pen 
of the Rev. Mr. Maurice, whose Muse has so often Relighted the 
"world, and whose deep researches in eastern history have so abun- 
dantly amused and instoucted hb countrymen^ The Fall of the Mo- 
gul is, we may say, a dramatic poem, rather than a piece calculated 
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the Oreek modd, tke fiiiaplicity of whidi no way ticcords with the 
pantomioiic taste of the age; It is founded oa a very interesting 
portion of Indian liistory, in which the reader is instructed by an 
Inircduction, written with the usual elegance, energy, and brilliancy 
of the author*8 styl«* The characters are-^ 

Mahommeo Shah, the Great Mogul, first dethroned and then re:' 

stored hy Nadir Shah, 
Nadir Sbah, Sovereign qfPersioy Conqueror of Hindoston, 
Sultan Hamed, Son of the Great Mogul, betrothed to SoUma, 
"i^iZAUy the Mifgul General A Omrahs supposed talutve invited 
Sadi, an Indian Chief, j Nadir Shah to iuviuk India. 

1'hamas Khan, tke Pertitm (General. 
ZuMANi> Empress of Hindostan. 

SoLiMA, a Princess of the race of Aurengzehe, betrothed to Homed, 
Chorus of Brahmins and Persee Priests. 
Persian Officers, Attendants, Guards, &c. 

The tragedy opens with a scene between Nizam and Sadi, who 
boasts of iheisucceSs of his conspiracy, which has hurled the' great 
Mogul, their sovereign, from his throne. The second scene intro- 
duces the following chorus of Brahmins. 

«« The inside of a magT^fiCfrU Pagoda : Hrnhm'int, tacfijfcing nt ike altar, w- 
lemnly pronounce an execrathn on the succetshe'phindtrers of India, 
«« \st Brahmin, Foil thirty centauries fi'avc seen the race, 
Who bote from Brahnia their sublime descent, 
Beneath a foreign de pot'i Iron scourge 
Bend the r(4uctant n^ck.— First, from the depths 
Of frozen Scythfa's boundless deiert:> ru<ih*d> 
Relentless a« rhe rocks tbat gave bim birth. 
The fierce Ogl.utian chief.— The Persian, next, 
fouriug bis legions down tb^ cVaggy steeps 
Of snowy Taurus, on our patient race 
Emptied tbe quivers of hi. hoarded vengeance. — 
The veteran I andls by fierce E-candar Ted, 
From distant Macedon to Sinde's proud Wave, 
Then like a wast(»fui fire impetuous burst 
On the rich kingdoms of the ravag'd Panjab, 
And bouhd great Porus to the Grecian yoke.— 
Next, the fierce Robber of Arabia came, 
Boming for plunder, and f6r » Tood^atbirst; 
Despoiled our temples of their boarded wealth 
Sacred to leav'n ; and the polluted sbrinew 
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Kor less ferocious 8talk*d Ih* «ii9pftHiif.Oftlttn8ny 
When the dire splendour of bit gleaming crescent 
Flam*d on ber bbitted pbiint. His countlesa hordes^ 
Devouring as the locust's ravening tribes. 
From all the mountains on our western frontier. 
Remorseless Nadir, Persla^t direst scourge. 
In dire array now poors impetuous down. 
And closes the dark scene.... Avenging Sbeva ! 
Thou whose red arm th' eternal thunder roUs 
0*er guUty nations that delight in blood. 
Defend our cause, and let the myriad host 
Around thy walls, imperial Ddhi ! pour*d, 
Smit by the blasting pestilence, expire ; 
Or, stong to madness by the pangs of famine, 
. Rush furious on their own destroying spean ; 
And by one general, undistinguishMxarnagc 
Expiate the murder of thy chosen race ! 

2d Brah, Eternal Spirit of Creative Brahme, 
That, ere the circling spheres their course began. 
Within the golden egg*s refulgent orb, 
In splendour brighter than a thousand sims> 
Floated sublime on the chaotic deep. 
And from the strife of warring elements 
Bad*st harmony and beauteous order spring, 
Sovereign of earth and skies— all-seeing Power ! 
How have these daring infidels defaced 
Thy fairest worlcs ; and o'er Creation's bounds. 
Through all the periods of revolving time. 
In the wide phrensy of ambition, hurrd 
Ravage and death I Ob, let the yawning earth. 
Whose loveliest regions tliey have laid in ruin. 
Ope wide its jaws, and in its deepest caves 
Ingulph their impious bands ! 

3rf Brah. And thou, dread Veishnu! 
Preserver of the worid by Brahma form'd, , 

That in the radiant sacrificial flame 
Dclighrst, and in iu central blaze, sublime. 
Hast fix*d, faivisible, thy burning throne ; 
If e*er these altars glow'd with purer fires ; 
If e*erfrom costliest gums, from sWeetest woods. 
And richest balsams of the ransacked East, 
Round you hi^h roofs the wafted incense streamed 
Arise in wrath, as when thy powerful arm 
(Our hallowed records tell) the rebel Deives 
0*erthrew in battle, and th* infected earth 
Purg'd of polluting dsmons. 

All. Sovereign Lords / 



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• ?—**■— ■****-^ • II ■■■—■m 

Divine , iiidiRilile,^ ctsrtoal Tai Ao 1 
To our united pcay'rvauspictouff bafid ) 
Cloch'dtD tke terror of the iddnigbtstorm, 
That sweeps the cUSh of blasted Taurus, rise $ 
Pursae them on the volley 'd Kglitning^s wing, 
And plunge 4iiem down die f^thotnleas aby»t 
Of Pattajl^ vrhere eternal darkii«s< broods. 
And furies like themselves lor ever yell.** P. SO. 

Much of tliis is very fine, but we cannot say that, for interpre- 
tation, it is " as good as a chorus,** nor does it, perhaps, well be- 
come the gentle nature of the harmless Bralunins. However, sup- 
posing them to be goaded to madness by their sufferings, it may be 
allowed and adrmr:eii« Endowed, as it may be imagined, with s 
prophetic spirit, they might, with a vast deal of propne<^, have in- 
cluded our christian trading, fighting, East India Company in their 
curse, and cursed on a page or two more with safety. Sadi, a little 
before, seems to make a faint dart^into futurity, in these words s 
<< Legions rush resistless on. 

Spread famine wide through India's fertile realm^ 

And heap her vales with carnage.'' P. 28. 

In scene 3, Sultan Homed and Solima disclose their mutual lovr^ 
which is interrupted by NiznnCs announcing t?d Selima that Nadir 
Shahf tlie conqueror, is desirous of laying Persia's imperial crown at 
her feet. The ambassador is dismissed with a scornful refusal. — ► 
Zwnanif in this act, is represented as anxious to know the fate of 
her dethroned husband, Mohammed Siiaw, The second act com- 
mences with Makmnmed Shaxo presenting Nadir Shaxo with his 
crown. The coflqueror restores it to him, but, Kke a true modern 
invader, plunders him of all his wealth, leaving him, in fact, but the 
semblance of a king. On his proposing to rob him of all his jewels ^ 
Mahommcd starts,— on which Nadir exclaims — 

'* How !— arc thou startled at our just demand ? 
. Know, all the wealth of Hindostan.we claim : 

Your sceptre Wt restore, your irmsures seize; ' 

But leave you LiiBEKT^.** P. 50. 

This is, indeed, a very keen satire on Leadenhall-Street f 

Homed is thrown into prison. Nadir has an interview with So^ 
lima, who treats him with the most severe reproof. The scene i» 
great. 

Nad, Secure Ib beauty's shining panoply, 
Say on^But did not tho$e cele;>tial charms 

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Give rhee resbdess Is^cncc o'er my heart, 
It ill would bfbokthis forward petvUnce $ 
Not Anrflngsebe himself ibouldtlnuhave 6ated 
With boM impunity-^ 

Sol, And yet / dare, 
Ann*d frith Me tidbit, to thy view unfold 
The ttnnu«ib«Y'd woes whieh war's wild rage hath bcap>d 
On bteedfng Hindoffao.— -In cr'ry breete 
Some frantic Juiek, or groan of deep despair 
Is wafted through her vales. The laboring hind. 
In India*8 happier day, from war^s rude toils 
By holiest laws rdeas'd, is forced to arms, 
Or dra jg^d to instant death. Millions of looms. 
The tieh reiottrees of her wealdi, rand stffi ; 
WftNuaV the tropMesof ber atwioit pofTY 
Are tefafd to eank by yeor enragM boibair^s 1 

Nad, By Heav'n, too £iraiy patience you ioiutt I 
Presume no longer on your beaiity*8 pow*r. 
But drop the tlieme^ and let us talk of love. 

Sol. Sbch love as animates the tiger's breast. 
Or derives the hungry p^ntiier oh his prey — 

J^on. Foi1>ear, my Solima/ with iD-iiniM zeal 
To urge to rage the victor's softcn'd mind. 
And tbon, most noble chief, desist tl^ suit 
Till the high tumult of her blood sub^des. 
And the unbounded spirit of her rare 
Has better learnt to bear a ^ctor^s presence. 

Scfl. A victor I cnn bear, but in that form 
Disdain a suitor ; ev^ though sceptres vait 
The faandf no pow*er on earth shall ni^ osd yield* 

NikL Stay, lovely SoMma* nor radily plunge 
in woes thai never may have bound or pause. 
Yonr language paints me tyrant in my nature. 
And savage in my love;— Would'st thou provoke 
A tyrant to reveuge, and from his slumber 
Kouse the reluctant savage ? 

Sol. UndismayM, 
And not nmuin'd, iit either case f hid 
A tyrant's rage defiance^ 

JSadi Stjom and fierce 
As war has made me to my foes appear, 
I have a heart th;«t in the softest flame 
Of tender love can melt ; a heart tliat feels 
Thy beauty's animating warmth^ and bums 
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5b/. The heart that knows with love'i sqft fires to glow. 
Delights in mercy j generous and benign, 
It plots no mischief) as U fears no ill. 
Ask the departed shades of those that fell 
On Kamat's cri:nsonM pIaius,or those who now,, 
The victims of thy boundless avarice, 
Stretch*d on our J umna's shores unburied lie. 
If mercy be /% darling attribute ? 

Nad. The victinu of their headlong rage they fell. 
But on this subject I no parley hold. 

Sol, Nor I on one so hateful as thy love. 
' Farewell I 

Hnmed is about to fall a sacrifice to the hatred of Nizam and 
the jealousy of Nadir : — SoUma*s consent to be wedded to Na^r can 
alone save him. She consents— the nuptial rites are performeil, 
when, at the altar, with a dagger given to her by Zumani, she stabs 
herself, and dies to prolong the days of Hamed, Sadi, one of the 
traitors to Mahommedy stung with remorse, poisons himself. This 
is according to historical fact. Harned is doomed in deepest dun- 
geons to pass his youth, " and never more behold the glorious sun.* 
Nadir proclaims his return to Persia. 

Such is a very imperfect sketch of this interesting and beautiful 
tragedy. It reflects great credit on the genius of the histo- 
rian of Hindostan, and will long continue to be read when the vul- 
gar dramas of the day are forgotten or despised. 

The occasional poenu are " The Lotos of Egypt,'' " Genius,** and 
a specimen of a descriptive and historical poem called '* Richmond 
Hiiy to be published by subscription, which will well repay the in- 
genious author, if it meet with half ^ patronage it deserves. 

Edgar, or the Caledonian Feuds, A Tragedy, By George Miitnerf, 
Esq, 35. ad. Tipper and Richards, 1806. 
To ** The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne,*' a romance by Mrs, 
RadcHfFe, the public is in a great measure indebted for this tragedy, 
which was acted, for the first time, at Covent Garden theatre, for the 
benefit of Miss Smith. Its reception was very favourable, and a 
perusal of it will not, as in common, excite surprise in the mind of 
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THE BRITISH STAGE. 



hmtaiio vita, apeeulum consuetuditm, imago tfevitatis. Cicero. 

The Imitation of Life— Tlie Mirror of ilauners -The Rcprescnfatiou of Truth. 



ANECDOTES OF THE FRENCH STAGE. 



The Death of Cjes^lr, a tragedy m three acts, by Voltaire, at the 
French theatre, 1743. 

This piece, without eitliec l<yve or wornen, was acted for the £rst 
time at the Hotel de Sas:>magef afterwards at the colleges of Hart 
court and Mazarin, where it had better success than at the French 
theatre, for which it was not calculated. 

Ajbhc Desfontaines spoke very indiflft rently of it in his periodical 
review, but Voltaire, through the interference of friends, and by po- 
lite letters to the Abbe, brought him over to be one of his warm ad- 
nirers. In a subsequent review he threw, the censure of his for- 
mer number upon the ediiur of the tragedy ; his words arc these : 
" As AL de Voltaire has assured me that tlie editor has materially 
altered his piece, I had the curiosity to see the original at the Abbi 
Asselin*s, proviseur of the Har court College^ who permitted me to 
examine it. I found many important alterations, and I know, from 
the best authority, tbat M, de Voltaire had no concern directly or 
indirectly in that edition. The gross faults of the editor prejudiced 
me against the play, and made me regard it as an unfinished' 
production. But the perusal of the original has changed my opi- 
nion. 

The Forced Marriage, a comedy in one act, in prose, by 
Moliere, 

This piece was acted for the first time at the Louvre, accompa- 
nied by a ballet of the same title, in which Louis the 14th danced. 
An anonymous writer verified it afterwards in 1674. The famous 
Count dc Gramont, whose memoirs were written by Lord Hamilton, 
furnished Moliere with the subject of this little drama, Count de 
Gramont whilst in England fell in love with Miss Hamilten. Their 
attachment was much talked of, the count however took his depar- 
ture for France without marr}ing the lady. Her two brothers fol- 
lowed him to Dover, intending to call him to account for neglecting 
the lady. As soon as they saw him, they cried out " Cotnte de 
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Xondon f^ *^J ^ your fMur^n^'" s^ the CQimt^ who peroei?ed tbtir 
intQQtifHi ; " I hav« for^tea t« mt^nj yoor sister, but I wUl re* 
turn with you directly for that purffose,'* 

The ldl9TAI(B9> Q9> ThX RlVAt yftOM HB8ElkIBL41Y0% a COOMcly 

of five acts, m verse of ten syllables, by PaUttot, of the FiieniQh the* 
atre, 1763. 

The author's enemies were revenged for the suocetf of bis Phi- 
L06OP«E&s. The comedy of the Mistakes was rery badly received* 
and when B^liecmirt c9iBe forward to give it out for another night, 
he was only penakted to say, tOr«iorrow will beperlbnned Alanre; 
OD Wednesday— *here he was intermpUd by a vioka^ uproai^ and ha. 
could not announce the pecon^ repseeefilation* tt. was^ aotwicb- 
standing, acted tmee more* A person, vei^ well known by all tha 
frequenters of the theatres, and who was no fxiMid of Pa/ifso^,. waa 
supposed to he very active in its damnatum^ and thinking that some 
officers, Gommcmly called ^»a ^ the police^ observed him in the pit^ 
he said, in an und^r voice, to those who sat near him^ *' The pi$c€^ 
can't keep ; it i$fy4»lmnJ* 

, ', . ' !IIJ !"!!'lfJM' ! MII,'l III Ullll \\ I' F»,' I' I'lil, ■ ■ "IVt 

THE CA8TLB OF BtJNSINANE. 

Ink author of the ** Statistical account of Scotland,'* happened, 
anno 1772, to tak^ an excursion to Perthshire, and being accidisn- 
tally led to visit the remains of Dunsinnan castle, took a sketch of 
them, as they appeared at that tira«, and collected afl the traditions 
respecting the History of Macbeth, that were current in the neigh- 
bourhood. The story purported, that Macbeth, after his elevation 
to the throne, had resided for ten years In Carnbeddie, in the neigh- 
bouring parish of St. Martin% which the country people call Cam* 
hefh, or Macbeth's Castle, and where the vestiges of his castle are 
still to, be seen. Boring those times, witchcraft was very prevalent 
in Scotland, and two of the most famous witches in the kingdom 
lived on each hand of Macbeth, one at Collace, the other not far 
from Dunsinnan House, at a place called the Cape.* Macbeth^ 
taking a superstitious twrn, appfied to them for advice ; and, by their' 
cocmsd, he built a lofty castle, upon 'the top of an adjoining hill, 

* The moor -wber« the witches m«t, vhich is in the p»risl» of St. Maitin% 19. 
yet pointed out by the country people ; and there is a stone still presen-ed, which 
is called the Witches^ stone. Tlie moor is now planted, by 'William Macdonald, Esq. 
otSt. Martin's, the proprietor, and to whom also Cambeth, or Carnbeddie, belongs j 
nrhose active zeal in promoting the improvemenf of the Highlands, will, long be rt- 
fnembered, in thfit part of the kingdom, with much respect. 
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M) m •coirTHi.T in&AOft. 

dnee cdM DmiiiinMui, whidi, in tho Oaetie Iaiigiiage» signifies the 
Mtt tf&nHj implykig ^be great labour «ad iadostry so etseodaUy re- 
^site ibr collecting the materials of so ?ast a building. It was bj 
natitfe smmg, as well as forlified by art, being partly defended by 
liigb ouiw roeka» and paitly sorrooaded by an outer wall, which en- 
doeed a considerable space of ground, ^ exercising the men, &c. 
There was also a fbsse^ wkicfa joined the wail and outer rocks, and 
a high rampart which emrironed the whole, and defended the castle, 
ittelf large and well fortified. From the top of the bill there is an 
ehctensii^ view of above fifty roilea every way, €oni|»«hexiding Fife- 
tflnre, the hiUs m the ■eighbourhood of Edinburgh, Glen-Almond, 
Crieff, the kSikt m the iieigbboiH*hood of Blair-Athol, and Braemar ; 
StrathAore aho, and a great part of AngQs, are immediately under 
vi^. In short, there could not be a mbre commanding situatioo.' 
' When Malcolm Caamore came into Scotland, supported by 
English autiHaries, to recover his dominfoos irom Macbet|i the giants 
as the country people call him, he marched first towards Dunkeld, 
in order to meet with those firiends who had promised' to join him 
from the north. This led' him to Bimam wood, where accidentally 
they were induced, either by way of distinction, or from some other 
motive, to ornament their bonnets, or to carry about with them in 
their hands, the branches of trees. . The people in the neighbour- 
hood stated, as the tradition of the country, that .^ey were^isti^^- 
guisbed in this situation by the spy whom Macbeth had stationed to 
watch their motions. He then began to despair, in cons^uenqe 
of the witches' prediction, who had warned b^ to ^w^re ^ wl^en 
Bimam wood ^uld come tp Dunsinane :'' and when Malcolm pre- 
pared to attack the castle, where it was principally: defended by the 
•uter rocks, he immediately deserted it, and, fiyii^ ran up the op- 
posite hni, pursued by Macduff; but finding it icnpo^ble to escajpe, 
he threw himself firom the top of the hill, was killed upon the rodu^ 
and buried at The Lang Mm^s Oraoe/f %»U is called, which is still 
extant. . ,^ . . . 

Such were the traditions in the neighbourhood of Dunsinjine 
Castle, in 1772 ; and the reader will naturally be struck with the re- 
semblance between them tod the celebrated play which S^akspeare 
founded on the Ustory of Macbeth. There is every reason, indeed, 
to believe, that our great dramatist wasupon the spot himself, and 
was inspired with such uncommon poetical powers, from having 

^ Jt would be worth «bile- ilk essiiU]ieJi)d(LCEV$9«,fs some carious fiacts roigh( 
be ascertained from it. It is proper to. add, that not far from it is the road, w))fr« 
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viewed the places, where the scenes he drew were"^uppos6d to have 
heen transactc^d. In Gutiirie's History of Scotland, (vol; viii. p. 
858,) h is stated, that, «nhd 1399,ititT^'*JaEioes-'ik8ired EUaabeth «9 
send bim, m that ytm, a coMipMy of En^ish comedians ; with 
which reqaett she complied ; and James ^ive them a licence to act 
in his capital, and before his court. ** I have great reaAOO,^* he 
adds, '* to think that the immortal Shakspeare was of the number,*^ 
And in the ** Statistical Aeoount of Perth^^ (ml. iviib pi 5d9,) we are 
toldy that plays were acttialiy exhibited in Perth, t>nljr a few miles 
from Dunsinane, in t589. It i» extremely improbabk that the 
occurrences, as narrated by Shakspeare, and the tmditions of the 
country, could have borne so strong a reamiblaMBe, uakis he had 
gathered diem upon the fipot htraself, or employed some other per- 
son for that purpose. The only matenal diflbrenoe is, that, ac- 
cording to traditi^, Macbeth throw hkaself from the top of » 
rock ; but it wa» much more poetical, as narralied hor: Shakspeare, 
Sis failing by the hands of Mac(kt0> whom he had so greatly 
injured. 

About the period 'idhided to, anno 17 f% I took much pleasure 
in tracing the antiquities of Scotland, on the spot whei^e the dif* 
ferent occurrences happened ; but was too young (being then only 
about eighteen years of age) to do justice to such interesting enqui^ 
Ties. I have been tempted, hoSvever, from the peculiar historical 
importance of the Castle of Dunsinane, to state the substance of 
the traditions I had collected respecting it *, and perhaps it may not 
be improper to add, that I found the traditions respecting the bat- 
tle of Luncarty, and other ancient events, much n^ore distinct and 
accurate than is commonly imagined ; and, in general, auUienti- 
cated by the remaios-of encampments, the ruins of castles^ the 
rest^es of tombs, the appearance of mote-hills, or seats of justice^ 
&ad the -names of places, all affording concurrent evidence of their 
authenticity. . . 

The circumstances regarding thebatde of Lun^ar^, in parties 
lar, were uncommonly minute and circumstantial. The encamp- 
ments of the ScotCiih and Danish* armies, the place where Hay 
and his gallant sons resided,, called GuUan, a farm opposft^ to 
Luncarty, the field they were plowing at the time, the ford where 
they crossed the Tay, and the very spot where they stopped 
and animated thelf flying jcountrymen, &c.&c. were^all pointed 
out by old men in the neighbourhood^ when, examinf d by. the ao' 

thor iji 1772. 

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ORIGINAL POTTRY. 

wammmmmmmmagssan 
SONNET* . 

TO GOOD NATURE. 
" As IB the shadow of » great rock ia a weary laad.** Isaiah. 

As o'er die dreary wilds of Araby 

The faintiiig pilmer toils his silent way» ' 

Languid and weak, he lifts hb boUow oye, . 

Noting bow slowly weads the painful day i 
High foUs the ?ertio sun ! th' oppressive hoi^r. 

Intense and merdless, yet fiercer glows, 
O now to him how balmy sweet to cower 

Beneath the thade the rocky iragment throws ! 
And thus it is with him wbose bitter &te 

Inttnicts him how to prtae thy cheering smile 
Good-Nature ! thou who canst indeed elace 

The drooping heart, tbe rising pang beguile, * 
And, with seraphic touch, awhile renew 
The joys which erst this thankfiil bosom^ knew ! 
Pfymoutk, William Ball* 



FRIENDSHIP RENEWED. 

The tows we lost, in lapse of time, 
That change the sickening heart porsu'd, 

Shall rest within dieir native clime, 
And love and friendship be renewed. 

Why dins depressed with brimful eyes ? 

Why thus must manhood be subdued ? 
When Hope in whispers soft MpUes-* 

<' To taste of friendship wl»9a i^a^w'df'^ ^ 

^ch absent friend^ to memory dear, 
Which cruel distance may preclude, 

la pillow'd fanqy still is near, 
And all our friendship seems rencw'dw 

That breast now labouring with a sigh, ' ■ 
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And swift as I%&ftfuiig ^m$^ tJhkfky 
May Igve aiifl ^ioadsiiip bcrrcDitw'd, 

Shall sordid triAss cteum our c«fe» 

Or Raocour^s tumult dare obtrod^ 
Where j oyi congeniai mof ibak ^iiare, . ■ '. 

And Frieadship^i Aame oaA be renewed ? 

So earth revolvis, and s^a^ons rejgn; . 

With winter's wrath the plains are strew'd ; 
Bat constant spring shall cheea* again, 

And Sol's warm friendship te rene^^dl 

^OHN MpRI^M,FlINDALL. 



SQNG. 
Tho' far, sw«ct maid I from (U^ 
I imste ^ ]oT^ and mournfttl di^y ; 

The' the wide sea 
*Has bonw me^om tby ftrm^ ftway» 
. Still shall prophetic hope sustaift 
The heart where thou ivilt ever reJgn, 
Most dear to Tiie ! 

Tho' Fate's unkiad d<scree 
Dooms me . to brave «he iKj^h^ly rtorro, 

Yettboa art free! 
Consoling tiuMXght} thy shalter'd fima, 
Safe froni the sweepiog teajj^te^jVifoar,, 
Abides on that protecting shore 

So dear to me i 

Thrice blest the hour shallbe 
That brings me to my native land, 

My love to see ! 
To seize again her fervent hand. 
Affection's rich reward to claim. 
And that fond prize, at last, obtain, 

Mfist dear to me. 
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AN ANGUai*3 REGHBT. 

ABOEIBI^D TO THE EIVEB LIA, lit MSl^TS: 

Upon thy mftrgin have t stood, 

Or trac*d the tlowly-winding ftream ; 
And tho^y emei^ging from the flood, 

No fabled nymph, as poets dream,. 
With sedges bound her dripping hair ; 

Yet woold my simple fancy rove, 
' (Renewing former scenes of oare) 

To parted hours of younger lore* 

7wat strange to think upon the maid 

* Whom liiMidfmess bad Glaim'4.her own^ 
When musing in thiswat'iry glade. 

And time so long a space had flown ; 
And snaring then the finny racc^ 

That haunt thy deeps, or iqpward flio^ 
DispcNTting on the dimpled fuo^, 

Circine the wa?ein many a ring. 

My vanishM float and bended reed 

Would frequent indicate a prise. 
When landed, what a noble deed 7 

• How lovely in the net he lies.* 
Then, haply, Susan was forgot. 

And her gay thoughts, a shining train f 
Which mem*ry tells me, *tis my lot 

Never to hear disclosed again ! 

So transitory are our joys. 

So soon do pleasing objects fade ! * 

Old friendships die, and timedestroyt 

Th* attractions of each blooming maid; 
But thou, blest stream ! whose beauties flow 

From fountains of eternal youth. 
Canst ne'er those fatal changes know. 

Which blight man's honour, and his tnitli. 

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THE WCXJNBED SOLDIER. 

^Cmm ! whj so slow ? youlisure be (Vftn ; 

«< Quick, msn^weVelost the day :"?-* 
^ Nfiy^ Captain, I'm amoog the slain, 

'^ Aod shall no more away ; . 
^ My g^ve is made; but now depart, 

^ Ye dear companions of my heart I 

*' Yet halt awhile: Ned's swift of fooj^ 

" Stay Ned : —lad, e'er you go, 
^ A£fecdon deep has taken root, 

** And gives my bosom woe ; -[ 
« This well-stor'd purse, my babes and wifii, 

** TwiH cheer thwr hours of ling'ring life. 

^And in my knapsack thou wilt find 

** Some epaulets of gold, 
.,^ Take them thyself ;-^a watch -^be kind, 

** That watch— my Other's old^— - 
^ He*!^ count the slow and tedious time, ' 

i^ l^nce death has robb*d me of my prime. 

^ To fight the battles of my king, ■ 

" To act a manly part, 
** My country more of fame to brmg, 

^ I feel the killing smart, 
f* And fall : — ^but see — now comrade, fly— » 

** Yon musket levels, and-— I die 1" 

Marpivs* 



PARAPHASE OF AN EPIGRAM BY GUARINI, 

•H S££J VO A BEAVTJVVL WOMAN ASLEEP, WBO HAD FINE BTtS« 

Lovety eyes, than stars more bright ! 

At once my bane and my delight, 

Why e'en in sleep ah cmel ! show 

That yoii still meditate my woet 
When your light's veiFd if thus my heart you move, 
How w4icn you spar ft/e should I burn with love ! 

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09 THX W^£CK QJF A StAV£ «IUP. , 

O blow not, ye tttriWfe winds; iwtbswefc force! 
O bid thfffoB- tempest arrest is ilseovrs«j 
Hark ! the cry oi distress:— no pmy^ can previnly 
For the voice of destnictian is beard ia the gale : 
Sad founder tny hopes, rtow oar vessel ia deft. 
Of shelter, of friends, ^d of cpmfort .bereft. 
Cold, feeble, uncertain, I wander forlbfn, 
And wait for the lardy approach of the morn. 

Yet roIU the dreatf thvMidet* treAiembiir en high ! 
And the flasft of eootieeion tltomet fh«i the sfe^y ; 
'Tis the red bolt of anger, ^^ Almighty has hurrd^ 
And his vengeance is seen in the watery world ! 
Ah ! why to this element e*er did I trust. 
And quit xny heart'i maxims, so prddent and just, 
Resigning the humble eihjiloy ofthe )p^h^ 
On the rude coast of Afiie to bartei^ fbr men ? 

Avarice spread her allarediMhtB ; a dii^ to her channs^ 
She bid me, for gold, brave the Ocean *s alarms, 
With traffic inhuman, those islands supply. 
Where death keeps his court, where *tis Nothing to die; 
Where man's boasted dignity, powerless, niust yield 
In condition, below the poor brute of the field : 
In Europe they pamper their borses and hounds, — 
Here man sinks by plague^ or by merciless wounds. 

Ye spirits of AfHe* yeo Mwi i wcB apt «bne, 
- For Heaves has pitied ibe child of the SiHL^ 
May your souls now revisit those fountains, and groves. 
Which, living, have witnessM tb* tratb 6f yoar \mes; 
Unreveng^4 tt«^ y« diedi— 4i\y compaJaioos ^r low. 
And sad for their loss shaU the frequent tear flow ; 
In defence oyf their countJry, they^d conquer or save, 
And the surgea have closed o'er tb^ beads of the brave ! 
r ' ' Marcius. 

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CiLAALES JAMJi&SOX. 

NAT. XTII JAN, MDCCtLIX. DENAT. XIII SEPT. MDCCCVI. 

FOX, THOU hastliv'd !— THE HELM ia our blest Dajs 
Of Sunshine and of Calm Thou didst not take : 
But when the Tempest made the firm Earth shake^ 

And Gloopi and Horror reignM.— This be thy Praise : 

That in no Hour to listen flattering lays 

The St^age boldest Pilp^ fear'd to ipake* 
And who lap^goverA^d hAat«n!d.to focsake^ 

Thy Hand acceptedir-*iienott THY COUI4TaY pays 

With Love and Veneration that finn Zeal, 
Thaf Life a Victim to the Public AVeaj, 

Th4 Spirit active, ^oippirehe^^y^, kiixd; 
Tihat ]&}eixy> oii.r«oovated Qas^ 
Whiob fixt tha^ IjUGWss of JiuAiss ; and tl^e Rack 

Of AFRIC liberates; and sought the World in PEACE 
to bmd. 



C.L. 

17 S. 1806. 



MEMORANDA DRAMATICA. 



OOVEHT-OARDEN 
Opeiied OB the 15th of September, with Jofin Bull and T7te Miser. Aao- 
ther attempt hat been made to fill the void occasioned by the secession of Mr. 
Johnstone, in the engagement of a Mr. Mara, who played i>^m« Brulgruddery. 
He is snch an Iris hman as most country companies can supply ; coarse, confident, 
and extravagant. The character itself is so whimsically drawn, that it requires 
little more that a xoig and hat to make it effective. This all the Brulgrudderys 
since Johnstone hav6 done wi{h nearly equal success; Waddy, Rock, Denman," 
i^d Koble ; and yet all have been ilfty degrees below the original. The first 
we have mentioned is the best of his four sticcessors. Mr. Mara was well re- 
ceived. This, however, is saying but little ; a London audience has long ceased 
to discriminate : they " fly at any thing they see." A Miss Logan (we believe 
from Liverpool) performed Mary and LaJ^t,ZQd has since done a few singing 
parts. She has a very elegant person, and possesses a degree of useKil talent,' 
that will occasion a freqqent call for her services. What she most wants— indeed 
what she wants almost entirely, is spirit and freedom of action. She mnst nqt 
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17. Mr. Stephen Kemble, engaged to play Fahtaf for three nights, ap- 
peared in the first part of H^nry IV. A candid criticism on his ftt knight will 
be found in toU p. xiy. 968. He is &r, very £ir from the park ; but, as times 
go, and op a comparison with the living actors (^ this character, his performance 
may pass for tolerable. Cooke, however, whose Falsit^is among hi» least com- 
mendable efforts, if yet the be>t our stage can boast. 

22. Henry VUi. Mrs. Stddou made her dcb6t for the wentm in Catktrme, 
Of her fine genius and unrivalled powers of acting there is no abatement, and 
certainly there is none in person* She begins, in truth, to look the sister o£^Mr. 
Stephen Kemble. Pope has considerably increased bis fame by his perform- 
ance of Harry, 

96. Laugh when pent can. Mr. Melirin,from York, introduced himself in 
€os9amer, and we think he made a cveditaUe stand, in a ebaraotor drawn ex- 
pressly for Mr* Lewis. He is ao agile, locomotive little. foUoir, . who under- 
stands all thejineste of the stage, and has as much vivacity as any of our actors, 
except Mr. Lewis, who, in this quality especially, and in all the ma^ vakiable 
accomplishments of a comedian, is, and perhaps ever will be, unrivalled. The 
person of Mr. Melvin i^ low, but there is a neatness in it altogether j he speaks 
articulately, and with ^gpod sen^, and his deportment, never atrkward, some- 
times approaches to elegance. A feir monkey gambols and H^lequin capers 
were noticeable in hk'bye*plajf, which, even in Gotsamefi and cbaractera.oi that 
4|ry species, are offensive to the judidoos spectator. T^ere is pothing, however, 
of the Gossamer in ^\% voice, which is baritonous, stioog, and capable of giving 
force and solemnity to sentiment. To shew his versatility, he afterwards played 
Miehaelf in the Adopted Child, a silly force, which nothing but the excellence of 
Bannister in the serio-comic could have carried beyond the first night. Mr, 
Melvin seemed to be quite at home in this part, and his performance was, no 
doubt, admirably characteristic, but we thought he threw an unnecessary rough- 
ness into the sailor, which made him rather repulsive than interesting. The 
gruff'-paihetic was the epiibet by wlifeh a morning print not unappropriatdy dis- 
tinguished his performance of MkhaeL Beth in play and farce he a as received 
with .universal applause. 

29. Cooke, whose misconduct seems only to increase his attraction, and en- 
dear him still mure to the public, was saluted, on hk entrie in Richmd, with re- 
peated shouts and peals of applause, which shook the house to its centre. The 
errors of last season were not recollected, or if so, remembered only to be forgiy/en 
and rewarded. He never played better. A Mrs. Makin, a lady of vast pro- 
portions, made her appearance in the Queen, and jf, as some critics maintain, 
height gives ros^sty, aH the queens on the stock-list (to which may be adde4 
Mabel Flourish, and GLumdalca) must be immediately^ assigned over, without 
any condition, to this lady, to Iiave and to hold, as long as she remains. in the 
theatre. fUie can /// them all. Her merit, however, is very rfwiinii^/W. Is 
this ti?igcdy so miserably attended to in the cast because Mr. Cooke plays 
Richard? Well, be it so; *' the king*s name is a tower of birength, which 
they upon the adverse faction want." 

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to aec Miflf Dc Caunp of Drury-l^ne) .presented herself at thi? theatre in th« 
tharacter of Maria, and her reception was such as her talents entitled her to ex- 
pect. We wish we could say yrp were satisfied with her performance of Maria, 
lier colouring of whicb exceeded the author's design as much, perhaps, as Mel- 

. yia's Pkiljci certainly tellbdow it. This &rce should be suffered to remain, at 
present^ at Drury-Lahe. 

6. Holnn itood, Mr. Bsllamy, anam^ well known in the theatrical and 

. Boslcal worldy performed Hobin Hood, He has a very pleasing voice, of con- 
nderable compass and depth, under the regulation of a good ear and a <iorri'.ct 

. taste. We nDderstand> also, that bQ is a sound musician. As an actor he m^y 
be called respectable, and he is certainly an important acquisition to the theatre. 
^' Beggar^s Opera. Miss BouiIton has made a successful appearance 
in PoUjff a character, if sustained with tolerable ability by a new performer, sure 
to give a temporary run to the opera : but Miss Boulton is more than tolerable. 
Since Miss Poole (now Mrs. Dickons) she is the most promising vocal deb-Citante 
tikat has been introduced on these boards. Her person is well calculated for the 
itage> and she is likely to become a decent actress. We wait for her Koseita to 
•peak more minutely and decisively as to her real value to (he stage, lucledoa's 
Macheath is perfection. 

9. Valenthie and Orson restored Voung Bologna in the Green Knight, after 
a season's absence, and introduced Grimaldi, from Drury-Lane, in Orion. — 
Grimaldi's merit in pantomime is undeniable, and we are always glad to Witness 
his powerful exertions ; we are inclined, however, to prefer his predecessor, Du 
fieis, in the xpild manofilte noods. The bear did not play her part so well as 
formerly. A Mdster Smalley introduced a song, and displayed extraordinary 
eicecution and powers of voice. Such genius should not be left long without ciil- 
tivafion. 

13. Children in the Wood. MeJvin's fVatier will n<* increase fis reputation. 
The managers at^ wrong in assigning to him characters where comparisons iwist 
be made, and ii^here there is so little probability of thdr beings made in bis fa- 

. vonr. Excepting Josephine, by little Tyi«r, the fiiroe is shamefully cast and acted. 
, 21 . This being the anniversary of Lord Nelson's vietory and death, an Ode 
Was performed on the occasion ^ the recitation by Mr. Cooke. Who is the poet 
we have not heard, nor is it necessary to enquire. The musician is X>avy, aad 
he has executed his task most ably. 

A spectade by Re3molds ; an operatic drama by Mr. Dimond, junr. Cbrso^ 
lanjtfy apd the Tempest, are in preparation at tliis theatre* 

DRVBY-t^Nfi 

Opened^ Sept. 15, with the Honey Momi and a Mr. Penl^y in JagUa. He 
Will be found useful,*ut such parts as Jerques^ Scrub, and Acres, are out of the 
i-each of his talents. 

27. A young lady, who performed last season at Covent-Gar^n, for the be- 
nefit of Mr. H. Johnston, fliadc a second trial thh evening in Miss Bkidy. She 
was favourably received, but hfcr fears prevented her from doing complete justice 
to4be character. X^e Camp was very fortunate in Captain Flask, 
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Oct. 4. /orly Ttleves, Mrt, Mduntain was Wc«arfurBeybbd"oar expl^-' 
tation in ilfor^toTitf . 

9. ^syou ftke it, Jaquet by 'Mr. Eyre, fit>m the Bath cdifipanyJ A1(^- 
•ibie speaker, but rather heavy and monotonous. 

Wj'H^onder. CoL '^Briton by Mr, Carfcs, TKe gentTeman wfTo'pliyk 
Othello znAJqffiert at Covent garden in 1803, [See M. M.'vo»."xv. pri^sijiid 
vho has been since actiulring practice An the provlncikr stages . tikis' eii|»ged 
at this theatre. In the place of Mr.'Hofland, and seems fu)}y c6n&jpi;tehtVtte 
characters allotted him. * 

16. The Will. liin,TMcs,fromiyu\:Sio,wzsnxtiytdm1^ 
manner in Albino, Her figure is ;)^f/ff, but' well prdpottion^,^ ki^^a^pbiftd 
to advantage in the male attire. Her voice is' plea'sin^y though n^jtoitterful, 
and her countenance fuU of expression, ^he went thYough 'fhe ^thiAe' of He 
character in a very easy, playful^ and spinled manner, ahd is^^bir%cifth fUetih- 
sideration of the managers. 

At this theatre we expect af comed^^'by Hokroft ; a'ttid^^iAi^ttia V Ae^j^Blfer 
Hook; an opera by Kenny; another by Cfierry, '^c. "Jht- ^^Htf^TMSk, 
by the late h^r. Tobin, the author of the Ht>Bey-^o6n> ^shtiiiiocrnctdlRir^- 
presentation, but withdrawn only a day or two before the'iitght appotntl^/inrtbte- 
pliment to the fashionable Itost of Pharaoh, who are not to be' molested, it s^ems» 
in their honourable and harmless amusements. 

iLllfC's TSEAtRE. 

Catalini,— The followiag wscoofit of this singer, who is to gnice~a«r 
'Opera stage, next seasoa, is Uken from a French paper : — 

** We do not here announce one of those litUe infantine prodigies, which 
astficish only because tlxey are one of season, one of those forced products of 
the hoe*ho«se, which seem Taluable only because they outrun n^mrc. We nnw 
HpfA of a talent in its fvU maitaritf , of a \<oice, which is rari: cdIv becaoie 
it it perf^, aad the extent of wUch nrpaases the limits bttberio assigned to 
the offglBe Of the nuMt Ibrtitiuites ia pne yftordp of the cilebratLd CataUnii 
the most Wonfdetful singer of Europe. Nature, it has bi en observed; wished 
to sQperiede in her fsYOU^ tlioie ordiqary laws which she has imposed on her- 
self, in regvfauing ihe structure and limits of the hufnan innjnx, l£i addiiit>Q 
• ie the ckarmt peoUiar lo thefiemsle^oicea ,sbe has bestowed on ^$ vtrlmd 
all the advattages of artificial instcoBients* 

** Madame Catalioi was bom in the p^al territory, under the' bappy 
clitnatcof Ausonia, where m^sicil an indi|eDOUS plant, atid melody a pro- 
perty of tbe sott. At 16 she made her debut \n thu fjret piiris ui th« serious 
opera : ^nd notwirhwH^ydi^g her youth, and her little faxntlbrity with the 
itlige, sht maintamrd her reputation by rbc iin^ular oit-nt i^f ^'cr voire, thouBh 
she iiad to undergo a com^rilsoa with fringent'f Che most eonautumati; t:i- 
ltnrt« Mir fame soon spread a^l oyer Europe, and she v^s not «t|jrcr«d to rt:-' 
main k»g in Italy. She W|U induced to vi^i^ Foriugal^ ^d resided for a cuci- 
rderabie ti^fftJU'Sl^qR* |n tha) ci^^',the wocicfertuj tafents which nature 
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'^ilieki^ stfpkffttety 'distributed to o^er Uttb^s, Wir'voittU eqvalUf astbtisfalig 

'IxAtfin'Uie 16W aHdti^the'l^h tOifti;^iiiid is no hss' i^^atkable for^ect- 

''i^ete'fthd'^etibillty,ihan fir Strength add eoin|>^is. 

"'Ffocn llibbn she WcYit to Aladiid, carrying with hief Wie tegret of tfce 
Portuguese. At (he Sjiaoish court she receNed the most 'flatttrfng distttic* 

'CSd6s. SBe «a« honouTbd «*itb lUDuflierafele marks of \he most gracious con- 
detoension fitdxi the Q]]eeo, td Whom she v as pdjrdtul^ily ret^omnt^iided b^l^ie 
Piincctt of Brad), She is now at Paris, which, as the metropolis of the 
iiaiiF«fi«, the centre of ^ry aod the fine aits, has a ri^iu to the potsessioo of 

*«^mdtaK Cvtalibi isViboot "d^ ^Sile - posii^lMesa ttry agiHableiiftrMii. 
Ute "^nffy imktd, might sefirc'ss a>isipOr(ta «n tnftfrior ^ vc^, aod-of 
-^^bmt it wm'noll dimiklMi^lie' ttiut of MMi yimciti$ elcelltnt. In a cmxmt, 
-ff^kdamc eataUni it ifte t>nfy sbger. l^o otiier ft^cci Mtef «f amii or IVO- 
^*ttte,bu) U h(^d betide liWs. ' Sbe i* even a Vtry fbAiliihbk J>iTal to tiie 
^^IdoafABIc^^crlbHners dfUierHdn 11^ or" Stringed initrvfll^ms. Th«ir nciat 
HHOitet fttsi^ ctotiot^ eotiipAred wHh^^lHkat MWftihd'Cala<iBl''eatily »te* 
"^^MSMtf fteriat^nl vdice. 

NfeW ftOTAL ClUeUS. 

Tflislhea&ils at^reseht wiridifig up a tefy luctesiftil acconnt^thtie* 
n^tt to the performers, tvho have,by their 'exertidns; deserved' itf^eli of 
the public. The talents of Mr, Cross are wdl known, and fiirto&ita^emehe , 
Ti ehtiUcd tt^ great praise. That" gold which (JomesTrom th*/f * i^i^sf, Smd 
the concern has derived much from it. 

Thb td'ccera of Mr. *AHky ^senr. vfcn^withoBt bis claims on tbe pubttc, 

at a mom'ent of distress, after long servicety would in all probability be cer« 

tain. In Paris the theatres are 1^-16t<rfiiore nomerous than with us. Oor 

'Tttpect'for private property, as the argument runs, (though our stupid disre- 

• gard for common sense, and the encouragement of a laudable and beneficial 

csnlation, would perhaps come nfarer to the truth,) prevents the licensipg 

of more than two reguUir theatres, 4n the populous cities of London alkd 

^Westminster. Mr, Aslhy senr, however, hat, in the vicinity of these nAooo- 

'•polizifig abodes of the tragic and comic nanse, hteen indulged wkh a license to 

exhibit entertainments nto more, and from his sttuation, and the excellence 

of Ids performers in their particular way, there can be no doiAt, tMit, without 

his eztraordinary^laims^ his success would be wiyletei, 

Since our Ja&t-and first notice, the stage exnibitlont have been improval 
by the addtdc^ of a new dance called the ^iherman Xtapers, or^farwit 
Homey in which Mrs, Parker distinguished herself by a style of dandng full 
of easci and productive of the most agreeaUe effect. Thfrfeats of strength, 
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nuiiy other objecu of ittraction, is mdded, the radouhtabie ckar^fr^ z hmmt 
who, to singular loogevity, adds a surprising degree of docility and iateld* 
fence. He U forty one years of age, aad performs all the offices of a ser^ 
vant waiting at tea. He was given^ twenty years iigo, by a nobleman, to 
. il/r. Astteyjunr, who, with commendable generosity, sufFers bim to es^hibit 
here for the benefit of Mr. Astley sent. 

The Dukes of York, Kent and Cambridge, whp patronize this under* 
taking, have already honoured the Pavillion with th. ir presence. 

ROYALTY THEATRE, WELLCLOSE-SQUARE. 

Mr, Asileyjunr, aftrr making his bay while the sun . sbon^ a( ^fs^t* 
minater-iHdge. has according to custom retired witi) bisiogeni/^ Jjibourersy 
dnriog ihe wriotrr season, to Welklo^e-Square. H« went into winter qu^- 
teisoa Monday the 6th of October^ and, judging from appearan^s, the 9$^ 
grass will near-y equal the £r8t crop, which was deservedly great. To drop 

• our figure, we must obsei^e, that the iog^nuity and lihenaUty of Mr, Aiiley 
jtmr, have been exe^is<c4 at this theatre la ^. nunper that reflecu mych cre- 
dit on bim, and n^rics the patronage which he receives. The b^UUs of ac- 
tion, and the daoccs, supported by Laurent and Giro^j are oceHe^it, 
The naval Pasticcio, in which a panoramic view o( Buenos Ay res U exhibited, 
is very ckver. With such a co:pi{ to put the inventions of his genius into 
effect, Mr, Asileyjunr, may safely look forward tu a fruitful season. 

This conr\pai)y. is unrivalled in the production oi pantomime ^ the merit of 

. which is due to Mr. Bradzcell, whose extraordinary abilities, and success in 
this department, have long excited the admiration and applause of the 
public 



PROVINCIAL DRAMA. 



T/ieatre Bur.y St. Edmunds.— This tbeaire has been attended with 
unusual success. — ^The company has lately been enriched by Mrs. Grove, 
(late Miss Biggs,) from the Theatre Royal Liverpool.^The merit of this 
lady is too well known to need a commest. — Yet it may not be ungratifying 
to the lovefs of the drama, to learn that her popularity increases with every 
new character. Her old maid is certainly a chef-d'oeuvre, improved, if possi- 
ble', by a parody on the BlUe Bells of Scotland. — This lady wc pronounce an 
honour to (he stage, and sincerely wish to see her raised to that situation, to 
which her merit entitles her. Since the closing of the Haymarket theatre, 
Mr. Grove has made his appearance, and gained universal credit in Solomon 
Gundy, Verdun, Muskato, Captain Cape, &c. &c. This gentleman, we ^o 
not hesitate to pronounce, will be a very great favourite with the public. 
Mrs. Bramwell is no small acquisition to the comic department, which, 
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occasioited for a fewtiights the retirement of Mr. and Mrs. Bowles. — The 
company has lately sustained a heavy loss in a Mr. Seyton, a promising * 
young man, «ho, at the age of nineteen, bids fair to be one of tiie first actors of 
the age. Mr. Thompson, a very clever performer, has al»o left the compa- 
ny, — perhaps it were better the public were ignorant of the true cause of 
this gentleman's bidding adieu to the theatre, which, if we arc rii»htly in- 
formed, reflects a shameful disgrace upon the manager, — or his advisers. 

MILITARY THEATRICALS. 

Extract ^a prw«te letter from GonmelU — " On Friday, Oct 2, was per* 
formed (for the porposes of charity) before a bfiliiant and oycrflowin; au- 
dience, Shakespeare's celebrated play of Henry iV. the principal chaiictttra 
hy gentliemen of the gairisoo. To particuhwixe any, where all were respect* 
aUe, and many excellent, might appear invidious ; but we cannot pass over, 
ifriihout a due tribute of praise, the inlmiuble performance of Captahi 
Georges, in the arduous character of Sir John FalsU^f: tdie original, and 
eccentric humour of the fat knight was most ably pourt rayed, and wtchoafe 
derogating from the merit of others, we have little hesitation in sayipg, tbftt 
this gentleman bids fair to rival the happiest efforts uf his dranaatlc cootem* 
poraries. Lieut. Waring, in the Prince of Wales^ fully gratified the high ex- 
pectations of the audience ^ Major Bryant Poins is too well known to re- 
quire any nev eulogium. S'tr Rktiard Vernon ^ and Sir Walter Dlttnt, wen 
si>Iy sustained by Lieutenants Hyde and Boyle, who displayed great or igi-. 
na^ity, and trod the stage with veteran ease. Mr. Lysaght being unfortu- 
nately prevented from performing the part of Hotspur ^ it was read, or rather 
actedt by Dr. Ryan, at a very short notice, who gave full force to the fiie 
ard impetuosity of the valiant chieftain, and died with a spirit worthy of his 
gallant ancestors. The admirable band of the Tyrone militia performed 
Martini's grand overture with great effect. Between the fourth and fifich 
acts, the favourite duet of ** How sweet in the woodlands^** was performed by 
Messrs* Wilmans (of the Tyrone band*) on the clarionet and trumpet, vith 
reiterated bursts of applause. The scenery, which was beautiful, we under- 
stsmd was executed by an amateur artist of distinctiou. 

DOMESTIC EVENTS. 

It has l>ecn erroneously stated, that peers, as well as members of the House 
of Commons, are deprived of the privilege of franki, g or receiving letters free 
during th ' dissolution of parliament. The fact is, that peers* letters are only 
charged with postage from the day of the dissolution until forty days previous to 
the a-^eembling the new parliamentt when their franking recommences ; and 
such memi>ers as are returned to the new parliament, then begin to send and 
receive letters free of postage. 

In a Latin inscription on the tomb of a Mr. Rush, a vinegar merchant In 
Claphamjit is stated that he was a greater man than Hannibal, as the Carthagi- 
nian general oniy cut his May through the Alps with vinegar — but Mr. R«ak 
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the Air ukp/cpoi Uienulet tlu( l^t|)^ qoUmit of bf^^i;^^" 

Jealousy.— M, D'Avitty, in liit bittory oi Syria, m.%s, that ** the 
■hrittiam of that couairy arrM j««l««ty thatih«^ wfll aat ycmk the «mm»' 
t*: c»afiM», ta. 9t\mtt^. th»9» oente. <e-.<iM»^ >nr<hM,">wjVwfp ««iiai;.that 
«< thk cwtom- of tha aoE conliBMing<ta»j|>< mk« maiiniifianwmnthi irtiH 
tawBMf > 9«ii/^r1llid»e«»*vt|k« ««• iot^laoiua^ -whnmarta jf^p^ntilW 
hii^wifa ihwiiJiil ft*y Ux the judby hntotq t ^ ff^«Mhf^ 

TOT KJ,Na;fii.Dj&(;L>RA;rao^ . 

Toe* offstlMibiis te wUdi bit flMjefty bef new cftgsgcv'^eilw 'nMiCf » 
hwiiag tcwwhMHerl ii»McoeMlttNf« hi» m iijait j tMitin pfop«rtO'ttahfe ttA 
|iM>ttideohmrtieii'tehit-«elijceuao4toBatt)^r<>^^»cfa!ourtstencce ^iOehf 
bae» bci't»4ft'WMie)Wliteh hit majeat^ A^lr regrets. Hehuik»V)hf«et 
nearer to hift hear*, thoR the concfaitioli of a seeere and permanent pcact, 
H» haaaaii* the tott^miaBeeof a iNir, itl^edng ttte bappinets ef so wtieji 
^ and^ t»hi€h, eiren amidst all the siftcetiea that attend his anas, it fa 
^ eeibialUthnil attdaffectieiiate i^eople. Btit he is conideiit ftit . 
tlM^iiaa ai4l6' da this occasion no other sentiment, either in his own <h^ 
I er fahaey part 9i Europe, than that of* an Increased conYictien, tbai 
an efgeneral tnn^uility, Is ietard<^ oniy hy the injttstice.andam- 
hWyn ef tfc»enaiy. 

TbeFieneh government, ansttisfilBd vith its immense acqeisltiens on the 
Ctentident, alill openly perseverea in a system destrttcthre of the Iwtependeuoe 
tf ererf ether povcr. W^ is pursued, not for sccuriiy, but ft>r con<juest ; 
gad eegetiatlbnB for peace appear to be entered into fbr no other obj^ecf, Chan 
tbM of dehitifaig the nefgltbouring powers into a state of felse semiity, while 
France is benrif prepaHng, arranging, and executing her onremiited projects 
ef eiitroacfament andasgreaslon. 

HsT conduct, in the re«7eut di>c«i£9ioii8, lia« &J^r4^ bat too many proofs of 
thh disposition. 

The negotiation originated in an ofi^r made by the French govermnenc of 
•reatiag §<x peace on the bad* of adual posleisiort, tbicli was stated td admit 
«# tAtatttil eompeosatiiin $ and a distinct assurance tras ftddedv that bis ma- 
fMy\ Gectlsast domltdens, w^ich had bcon attaciKed without eten tlie pie- 
tteiee of aey i^use of hostility, shodid be restored. '" 

Such a pNipossA appealed to ^ hie majesty to aft)fd a /est Ibunchiticn foe 
MgoHithi^ : it was therdbre acoepfeed with this reserve, that the negotiation 
should be conducted by his majesty in concert with his allies. 

No scener had this basis been mutually admitted, than it was departed 
It^m by the entniy, ahd that too, in pobits of so great importance, as to call for 
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been opened between the two govertuncACs must at onee be cloted. ^ 

TM» pr efa a cd mm |MMfc>$fciBt of the dU poti ifo n of ftrattce to matee ton- 
lldaraUe imtMc^^ fbr the attaiomcm of pfftce, if the ditcmsion* ware mtt^l% 
cd toproeee*; ai the tune tiitke that a ^cbhy was itamd, on account of 
the wmut of fall powws bKhe^jerson entresred hy his mtjcstjr wkh thia 
communication^ SUft vmft therevpon taken hj his majesty for opening a 
raipilar oe^odatiio, bj ministtrs 4iily aatfaorized, in order to aBrert3in> In a 
awaatr the most tatisfactery and aitthentic, whether pe^ce coul^ be of>eaine<f 
oa tennt iKmoufahle to the kiog and hit allies, and cohsMitent with ibe gene-' 
ral^attOBitf of Bunpe. 

During Uieie proctedingi, a miniiter, seat by the emperor of Rnsiia td 
treat for the tameimpoitaiit ob|eet,iiicoa ert wi^h Ms majesty's goipttroment, 
-was induced, by the artifices of the enemy, to sign a separate treaty, on terras 
equally repugnant to the honour and interests of bis imperial majesty. 

UsmoVMi hy thb unexpected event, the king contiaucd to aego^ate ,pre-> 
d»ely on the same prinGi|)les as before. He relied, with a confidence whS«fr 
esifOikDoe has amply justified, on the good faith and ateadfaieas of an ally, la 
aoocect with whom he had begun to treat, and whose interesta he had mt^ 
taincd- throughout Hith tlie same firmoMs as liisown. > 

The £reach goverjuaent, on the contrary, elatod by this advntage, oft 
which ithoasted as e^al la importance to the most decisive victory, deiiurted 
in erexy ceoferenca more and more widely from its own offers and en« 
gagpoieiita. . Not only did it take upon itseJf tochang(*, at its own will,th^ 
basis of the oegociation with Great Britain, but it violated, in points still asor# 
impioitaxu, every ptiadple of good faith with Russia. The chief inducement 
offered to that power, as the price of all the sacrifices eztoited- from h€t 
ndniscer, tvui been the pre^icnraUon of Germany. Yet, before the decision of 
Russia on this treaty could be linown, France had already auttibilated thdi 
whole Jframe and constitudufi of the German empire, had reduced under her 
own yoke a-lairge pcoportlon of the states and provinces of Germany; and^ 
nq^ content with this open contempt of oUigat ont so r««antly ooatracted, Iia4 
at the same time instigated the Purte.to measures directly subversi«« of her 
aubsiiting engagements with Russia. i 

While such conduct was pmsued towards his majeiity, towards bis alUes^ 
and towards all independent powers, there :*ppearcd so little hope of any fa- 
vourable isMie to the negotiadon, that bis majesty^ pleo^tentiAries denuod* 
fd their passports to return to £agland. 

This demand was at first eluded by an unusual, and unexplained delay, mA 
the French govcrnai<mt afterwards, by some material concessions, accboi«- 
panied w.th intimations that others of still greater consequenoc might be tbtf 
result of further diicussion^procured a renewal of tl^ coafereocet, which were 
protracted from day to day, till at length it was announced at Paris that tiio' 
emperor of Russia had iudignanily. rejected the unauthorized and separate' 
trptty si^ed by his minister. * 

In consequence of this important eveni, the strongest assurances were 
g^ea to bis majesty'sm&uister, that France was now prepared to makesacriw 
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CkUbliih Utc UdOqiilUit^ of the world. , 

. The ofe!)«ct of tbetg mi ■piiw sppov«d, liow«ver, to be tkte of co- 
ftflos h*t Jn^'T in a separate u cg Bciitfw i, to the exdusioB of hit allies s 
m p#opotit wlilch hit majesty had rejected in the outset, aad which he could 
ad)( kM admit of at a time when the conduct of Rustia had Imposed on him 
im incccased cbHgattoa not to separate his interests from those ef so £sitbf«t 
«n fllf* To the^e ts^ious overturei, his majesty steadily refused to listen | 
^t he tooh Che most eifectaal method to a< oid all appearanoe of delay, and 
ti* acederate, If poeiible, the favourable i^sue of the negociation. The con-i 
Mential hotercoarse vhich he had coRstantly maintained n^th Russia, ^na- 
hkd his majesty to q^ecify the terms on which peace with that power 
Ittifht be obtained; and his minister was accordingly initructed to 8tat« ta 
Fnuice, io addition to his own demands, thotic of his aHy, to rednee tbem 
into distinct aricks, and ercn to conclude, on thoi^e grounds^ a prosif 
ilooal treaty, to take effect whenever Russia should signify her access 

Th's form of aegociating was, after some objections, acceded to If Francf. 
Terms were now offered to his aajesty more nearly approaching than be%e 
to the original basis of negodation ; but these were stiU far sliort of whi<t bis 
4»jet^ had uniformly insisted on, and Wus now more than ever entitled to 
expect; and the decisive rejection cf tl^ just demands uf Russia, as well as 
of the eoBditioDS proposed by ids B)ajesty in behalf of his other alLes, left to 
kit majesty oo other course than that of ordering his minister to terminate 
^ disctts^loii and retam to £ogland« 

The foregoing short and simple ezposiiton of £iicts standi in need of no 
commcat. The first overtures which led to oegociation were made by the 
«8cmy, aod they were accepted by his ms«je»ty in the siocerest spirit of 
yeaecw Every opening which seemed to afford the most distant prospect 
«f accommodiition has been anxiously embraced, nor was the negociation 6- 
fiatty broken off while any hope of a favpurable i>sue could be entenained. 
His m^eity*s dcmaods were imi^rmly just and reasonable ; dtr«xted to no 
^t^tM of personal aggranditement, but to such only as were iudispensibly 
required by the honour of his crown, his eogagemeots to his allies, and a due 
^•asideratieo of the geoetal interests of Europe. 

It is with heartfelt ooocem that his majesty cooien plates the eontinuance 
ef ^Mse evils always kiseparahk from a state of war ; but it is with hfs ene- 
mies that this awfut responsibility rests ; and for the issue of the contest hif 
^^sty trusts, wi>h conddenee, to the justice of his cause; to the resources 
aadbcavery of bis people; to the fixlcllty of bisalbes; and, above aU, to 
tlir protection and support of the Divine Providence. 

In contributing to the great efibrts which such a contest most unavoida- 
Uy requifTy his fhithfbl and affectionate subjects will not forget that all 
thdt dearest inteiests are at stake ; that no sacrifices they can be called open 
io make, are to be compared with the certain disgrace and ruin of yieldios 
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UsslreBStliytnd ks indepeAdence, are essetktMty cotmecte4; and tliat, in ta* 
flftrthig the 'ights, and upholding the dfgni(*f of the British cmpfa^, they de- 
Itod the BK>»t powetfol buhMtrit of «be tibertiet^ nMt^nd. 

A rich dt-sen, lately deceased, left each of his two daughtersy aa ^leir for^ 
tune, their weight in II. BanlL-notes; and, on being put intp the scale» thi 
aldest weighed 7 stone Qlb. the second 8 stone. The eldest, in consequence^ 
became possessed of a fortune amounting to 51,2001. aad the youngest, being th# 
heaviest, to 67,3441. and it was ascertained on the following sc^ H-*32 Ban]»« 
noteSy of li. each, weigh an ounce avoirdupois; 51^ notes will therpfovt 
weigh a pound — 51,200 notes will weigh 7 stone 2 pounds^ or 100 pounda-*soA 
£7,344 notes weigh 112 pounds, or 8 stone. 

A |i;entleman one day sa d he had no doubt he could carry a milUpn fl 
11. Bank-notes ; but they will actually weigh 1953 pounds. 

Some days ago was cut, in the garden of the Dowager Countess of Shrowi* 
bury, at La\ cock Abbey, Wilts, a pumpkin, wei^hivg lOOlbs, 2 o«. the circus*^ 
ference of which is£ve feet one inch and a half. — Two others are still growiagt 
which in all probability will be of larger dimenuonSf 

Mr. Curran, cross-examining a Tailor.— -Upon your oath> Sir, where did 
this conversation happen^ * In the back parlour of my shop* my cutting 
room." — »* What were you then about yourself?" "Walking ^bouC.^'-"^ 
** Aye, just taking a stroll in your cab jage garden." 

A certain Barrister having a louse on his faCe in court, Mr. Gurran took 
notice of it to him ; the other rather pettishly answered, ** Surely^ Curraa, yw 
joke.**— «* Joke, Sir, cried Curran, by G — d, if you hav/- many such joketa» 
that in vonr head, I would advise you to crack them inirocdiatety-*" 

New French Ships.— We have oUen fdt a pleasure in observing, that ygib 
'arc more indebted for the rapid increane of our navy to Buonaparte, than ta 
half the ship'builders in oar own dock- yards^ He fits out vessels with remark* 
able dispatch, and we, with still greater celerity, capture tkem. It therefoi% 
gives us pleasure to learn, by the Comwallis Packet^ which arrived fron 
Malta, that a ship of 110 guns, died Le Commerce de Paris, was launched at 
Toulon OH the Isi of A ugust, and that another of the same force was laid dowa- 
therc on the 15ih, to be called L*Austtrlitz. Wc anticipate the certainly o£ 
^•eeing the names of those ships one day inserted in our navy U$t. 

We have to record another instance of the violence and atrocity of Boone* 
|>arte.. A bookseller, M. Palm, residing at Nuremberg, formerly an imperial 
town, and under the special protection or Prussia, has been dragged from his 
house to the fortress of Brannau, there tried, and shot by the sentence of a 
French military commission ; for no greater Crime than vending, in the way of 
his trade, a pidilication containing some fret reniarks upon the governmental 
Buonaparte. 

Murder or J. P. Palu.-* Berlin, Sept, 22. Yon have, no douI>t, reai 
the particulars of the murder of the unfortunate bookseller, Palm j and that, t» 
intimidate others, Buonaparte ordered 6000 copies of the senteoce of the mocfc 
tribunal to be circulated all over the continent. Some patriots here have, iia 
retura, subscribed for the pub}ication and dl&tiibutioo pf 60,000 copies of tha 
icveioted letter^ which he vrou to his wife some liours before bis exeeutioA, 

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You can form no idea of the general indigofttion this mordcr ha» ez^fed 
licrc and every where el*e in Germany. The pity of his fate is only »ur-^ 
pissvd by the abhorrence pf ihe tyrant who commanded and dkected thf 
tfttt'sin^ who pcrpetrat'^ this atrocious deed. 

'" LrTTER FROM J. P. Palm to his Wife. — " In the dungfon of the 
wiiliiartj prison ofRrannau^ August ^6t/t^ 1806. — Six o'clock in ihe morning. — ' 
My dearest betovcd.— -When you read these. lines you are a widow, and 
Oiir dear, dear (hi'dren have no longtr a father. My destiny is filed ; fn firer 
bonrs I cea^e to iive. Bnt tborgh 1 die the death 'of a criminal^ you know that 
I hivc committed no crime ; I lal! a victim oi the pn^cnt calamitous times ^ 
itmet when au untimely end can ni^ither dishonour a man, who-ie whole life 
has been irreproachable, nor throw a stain on his surriving family. In oar 
ttiii«rehle dayi what %irtuc has not expired by the hands Of the ezecuHooer I 
'"Do not let your affliction for the fate of a husband deprive yon of fimmot 
to support the duties of a mother. — Oor dear, dear babies (Oh, my God! I 
tinll never more pre»s them or you to my Inirsting hetirt !) haire now a 
doable claim on your maternal love, a^ well as on your matemal tenderness. 
Implant on tiiCir tender mind« all those virtuous sentiments AAhich made 
AiMr good mother so very <iear to their unibrtunate father. I advise you to 
collect as soon as poss.ble the wreck of our fortune (if any), and to retire vith 
it to England, or America. In chose fortunate landa, iuuocesce is still tecnre, 
and patriotiim is yet revered. 

' «* In my last fervent prayers, I recommend you aU to the protectkm of aa 
Omnipotent Provide Ace, aud to the compassion of thoie contemporary pa* 
ttiots of all countries, «hose noble bosoms s>mpathise with my own feelings, 
and deplore, if not weep over, the destrucilon of liberty ia wretched Ger* 
•lany. ' 

** Reward the friend who delivers this, and forgive^ and teach our dear 
children to foiglve, my mnrderer. May heaven pardoa him as much as 1 do. 
I cannot--I dare not say mure; — my Ireastistoo full. Oh, my God! 
never— never niore to b^ hold and embrace them and you ! \ !— Akuighty 
creator bless and preserve you all, until we meet in another and better worid, 
to part no m ire. — With my laat brtatb, your ever affcctboate husband, 

"John P. Pa4M.'* 

Horrid Murder.— At a district court, holden at Morganiown, in 
America, in Moy, Atiei Clements was found guilty of the murder of his wife 
and eight children. Among other evidence, Colonel George Jnclctoa testi- 
fied, that when he got to the prisoner's house, the morning after the mor- 
4er, he was fir>t met by the prisoner'^ mother, who exclaimed, that the family 
was murder* d and nibbed* He enquired what had beromeofthc prisoner? 
she replied, she beMeved, or eipected, he bad hung himself. Vftiiess odled 
aloud fur prisoner^ believing, if he heard witness's voice he would answer, bat 
^ answer was returned. Upon examining tiie dead bodies, found that the 
woman had received two blows on the forehead with the pole of an axe;' 
that all the other* had been killed at one blow^ on tbe side or fore part of the 
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Uule. The gaoler uf Harri^^^ where the prisoner was first confined, tcstiiK 
cd, tJ<a( he fcometimet appeared tq be cra^y, bu( uhentvcr his mother came in, 
hM talkt4 raticiiaL He cat ItcartUy, aod appeared to be in his rea»on» (hough 
" at ti-.iies melancholy. One Cunniagtiain, who stood indkttd for grand larce- 
ny, and was confined in the district gaol when the pritoner was first lodged 
there, te§ti6edy thikt (he fir^t evening the piisoner was confined in the gaol with 
him, b« heard him exclaiming to I imseli^ ** What a wretch am I, to. kill lo 
many innocCDt ones !** and the next day made use ol similar ezpressbot. 
That oo the ^thof April la#t, the prisoner taid to the witness, " Cusninf % 
ham, you Jlnow I was not in my teases uhen I came,. hut I am willing to die 
§ot the charge. If I had my I'amily as they were this time last year, ten 
liioasaod mountaios of gold should not part us.*'— The jury were out about 
an bottr, and returned with a verdict, guilty of Huirder in the first degree* 
WhcD tbu verdict was announced to the prisoner, he heard ic without the 
sHghrcst emotion or chaage of countenance, and manifested the same stupid 
indiffcreoce that hath marked bis conduct ever since his coi.fintment. He 
waj aentenced to be executed the 30th of June. 

Sir John Siuart has been rewarded lor his late ga'lant incursian into Cala- 
bria, and his recovery of the two provinces of that name, by being honoured 
with the title of ** OAint of Maida,'" and a considerable fief attached thereto^ 
by the king of Maples. 

Suicide. — A beautiful young lady in the north of Ireland, having been 
latrly couipelled by her father to marry a gentleman of fortune, though sbo 
had promised her hand to another, took poison in her tea the morning after 
her marriage, while at breakfast with her husband, and expired iu kssthanaa 
boor. 

Schiller's Maid of Orleans was lately represented at the Berlin theatre. 
The house was crowded, and the spirit of the stpcctator^ displayed itself in the 
most enthusiastic plaudits at the passage which concludes — ** Base is that 
nation xohkh stakes not Us all in defence of Us honour,** 
. Lady Hamilton has in ht r potse^^ion a leiier written by JLord Nelson pre* 
vious to the battle of Trafalijar, nsptctirrg the child which he commiited to 
her care, with an injunction tlat she shall not open it until the ^oung ladf 
attains the 18th year of her age. 

Tbe Jx ws.— The Moniteur of Sept. 23, gives an account ci the proceed- 
iogt respecting the Jewish Assembly, of which the following is an abstract. 

The speech of the emptror's commissioners to (he Jewish assembly, after 
signifying his majesty's approbation of their amwers> aud referring to the ro* 
Tpludon, vhieh menaced to swallow up religious thrones and empires, but the 
cyils inflicted by which had been n^paired by one man, proceeda to observe^ 
that the Jews overwhelmed by the contempt of nations, and of; en the objects 
•f the avarice of sovereigns, have not hitherto been treated uitb justice; 
and then statea the' following proposition oQ the part of his imperial 
majesty:— 

« Itia the wish of his nii^esty, that there should remain no excuse to 
those who will not become citizeni. He insures to you the fice esEcrcise of 
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ftr rbe wofoU protectlo* wM h he giitnts 500, be ctictt a religious guanatet 
lor tiM entire obsemncc «f the principles annovnoed io your aatwers.*^ 
Thl« assembly* a« it b at present constituted, canAoc alone offer tliii to btm. 
Itsans'crs nmk^t be comreited into clecisiont liy another assembly of a still 
more Imposing 9nd religious forsi, that they may be placed by the side oi 
the Tal«iud» and tJtus at quire in the eyes of the Jews of every country^ aiul 
•f errry age, the ^r: atest possible authority. This is the only mode of oon-- 
lormiBj; to th< Kre<>tness and generosity of his mjesty*s'viewsy and of 
causing to be felt by all those who profess your religion* the haf py influeoca 
•f this memorable epoch. 

** The number of comnxntators rn yonr Isv have doabtlfts altered IC« 
pvrityy and the divcr>ity of ihelr opiaions has created doubts in the minds of 
many of th^se who read thrm. Ic would tbereCore be rendering an impor* 
tast service to the gmcralicy of jews to fix their belief on the matters srhich 
lave already been !»ubmitted to you^ In order that the history of Israel may 
speak of a» assembly invested with .-n atitfaority capable of prodticing tlie re-* 
sttl s which wc <'xpect, there must be a Grand Sanhedrim. It is a Gran^ 
Saohtdrim wiich his majesty proposes to convoke. This assembly, which 
§tk with tiie Tenople, wiH thus re-appear to eoH^^hten every where (hcpeo* 
pie whom it govcPHK It will tha> restore the true spirit of your law, an^ 
give an explanation calculated :o put an end to all erroneoos interpreu*ion» 
It Will ca>t upon the Jewish p-^ople to love and to defend the country which 
they Inhjtbit, and will teach them that all the seniimenti which attach them 
to ibciv ancient CO >mry Are due, where, for the first time since the ruin of 
dictr i^cB, they C4n ekvate tiicir voice.** 

The speech tl en goes on to propose, that according to ancient usage th«' 
Otj ad Sanhedrim iihal; consist of 66 member j> ezclusifeof the president^ 
two-thirds to be Kabbim, inc'uding those present, the otiier third to be cho- 
sen by ilx assembly hy secret scrutiny ; thst ihe present assembly is to con^ 
tinue as 1 uug as the Grand Sanhedrim shall remain assembled, and that a com*- 
tnitice of nine members should be appointt^ to arrange the subjects for 
clisc»^8ion in the Sanhedrim. Lastly, ti:e iissemUy is requested to anttouuee 
the coovaation of the Sanhedrim to all the synagogues in Europe. 

Tlie prcsid<*nt of the assembly, M. Furiado, in hi* answer, after payingconb^ 
pKinenfs 10 the emperor, lanitnting the fiUlen state of the Jews, and e&pressing 
surprise that no prince had until now taken any steps to a>i>eIiorate their 
condition, proctedi to observe on the incoavenienccs arising from the di- 
vision of each religion into di£f(Tent sects, and that each ougltt to present to 
the sovereign a re ponsibility and the means of superlntendance, for which 
purpose!) there should be persons appointed to study its princip'es and pre* 
8«ev« its purity, of which they should be the depositaries and ttie gvardians* 
He then state?, that the explanation of the dogmas of tl>e Jevdsh religion, 
givtfnl>y (he assembly, had proved, that there was nothing either in its prin* 
ciplcs or i(s practice which could justify the exclusion of Jews from the en- 
jo^mcat of the cittt and political i^ighta ot Frenchmen. He concludes 
bv ejpres4ng great approbatioB oi die propa.itioo for eonvoJung the GnuMf 
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From a late estimation, it appears that tbe expences of Lord Nelson'* 
foneral aifiottfited to t4,O00L lis. 6d. and those of Mr. Pitt, to 60451. 
«s. 6d. 

Th» GatEN Mam. — Amotig the personages attraciing public notice at 
Arigbton, is an original, or rtould Be an original, generally knovm by the ap- 
^ettation <rf The Green Man, He is dressed in green pantaloons, green 
waisteoat, green frock, green crtivat, and though his ears, whiskers, cyc- 
|>roiws'and chin are better powdered than hts head, which is, however, co« 
vtred «itb flour, his [countcnan^* no doubt, from the reflection of lift 
cloaths, is also green. He eats nothing but greens, fruits, tmd Tegetables; 
has his rooms painted green, and furnished with green sofas, green ciiairsa 
green fables, green bed, and green curtatns. His gig, his livery, his port- 
manteau, his gloves, and bis whip, are all green. With a green silk hand- 
lierehief in his hand, aud alarge-xiatch chain with green seals, fastened to 
p^t green buttons of his green waistcoat, he parades every day on the Steyne. 

Dreadfui. Shipwreck.— The King George packet. Captain Walkcf, 
bound from Parl^gate to Dublin, sailed from Parkgate exactly at twelve 
o'clock on Sunday, Sept. 14th , with a flag at her tep-maft head^ full.tid^ 
weather hazy, and drizzling rain, with the wind nearly ditect Sputh. At 
^If past one o'clock she struok on the Salisbury Sand B^nk, and remaiiMid 
nearly four hours dry, with part of her crew on the .^ands, waiting for tiis 
next tide. No apprehensions were then enf ertained of her having received 
any injury. On the return of the tide, the wind veered round to the West, 
and tilt received the wind and tide right o\\ her side, resting against i:er an- 
chor. As the tide came in, she filled rapidly with water j the night was 
daik with rain. Her passengers, mostly Irish harvest-men, above one hun- 
dred in number, who were going home with the pittances of thdr labours to 
their families, were under hatches. The pumps Mere soon choaked, and tilt 
water came so fast on the Irishmen in the hold, that they drew their large 
barvest pocket knives, and with a desperation that a dnad of death alone in- 
ipiresy slew one another to make their way upon deck. The wind and 
graves beating hard upon her side, her cable broke^and she was drifted roun4 
with her bead towards the tide» and lay upon her »ide. Ihey were three 
miles from any vessel, and could not, or, at least, did not give any i>ignal that 
was heard. The l¥)at was launched, and ten persona, among whosn «as the 
ca|>tain and an Irish gentleman, got into it. It was nearly full of water, an4 
death on all sides stared them in the face. Her captain, seeing some of hit 
|>est sailors still with the vessel, and falsely hoping she might remain the ttde« 
Which had an hour and half to flow, went again on boards the Irish gentle-* 
man and three others followed binu One of the sailors in the boat« aeeing # 
poor Irish sailor-boy c'lin^ing to the side of the yes!>el, pulled him by Uie hair 
' pf the head into the boat, cut the rope that fastened it to the vessel, and U)# 
tide drove them away. At this lime great numbers ran screaming up the 
mast; a woman, withJutr chUfi fastened to lier back, was at the top-mas^ 
liead 5 the masts broke, the vessel being on her side, and they were all preci* 
pitated into* the waves i Only five men and ih^ poor Irish sailor-boy have 
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puseii|en» perithcd ! The boat and her little crew were driven op by the 
tide to within a q'lartrr of a mile of Parkgate. They beard tbe cries of the 
•ufferert distilKtly for ba^ an hour. The ebb tide washed the vessel dewa 
Into the deep waters, and the was seen no more till the next tide drove bet 
up. She is nov fastened by an anchor to a sand bank, and lies on her sidc^ 
with her keel towards Parkgate, and her head to the Welch coast ; her lower 
mast and rigging ou* of «ater. The King George packet belongs to Mr. 
Brown* of Uverpool; si>ewas formerly a privateer, and carried 16 guns; 
waa afretwards employed as a Uarw^cb packet. None of the bodies oCtht 
gofererthaTc yet been found. 

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BIRTHS. 

He Lady of Sir W. Beechey, of a son. Viieodntess Ashetbn, of a soa 
and heir. The Lady of J. Du Pre, Esq. M. P. of Wilton Park, BucJts, of a 
daughter. At Kingston House, Bucks, the Lady of Sir Di^by Mackwortb; 
Bart, of a ton. At Middi«(Oft HaU* Carmarthen, the Lady of Sir Wifflam 
Paxtoo, of a ton. At her iacher-in-la^«*8, at Wellington, after being 1^ 
7e.«rt nanied, without i«8ue> the Lady of James Holman, M. p. late of Satb, 
•fa daughter. 

MARRIED. 

J. Maoaers, Esq. to her Grace the Duchess of Roxburgh. Lord Foleyi^t* 
Lady Cecilia Fit7gerald. W. Gotlin^, Esq. of Roebampcon, to the HiD..& 
de Grty , second daughter of Lo^^i WalsfB^^mn Mr» Acklam> of the StfiBdi 
m Miss RubiosQo. 

DIED. 

At York, Lady Sempil, wife of Lord ScmpiL On Ms way to Jjath, the 
lUv. John Eaton, LL. D. Rector of Sf. Paul's Deptford, Kent. William 
Henry Fortetcoe, Earl of Clermont. At Dublin, aged 11 , Hector Grabam, 
Bsq. Rcgi-ter of the Court of Common Pie ^s, and father-in-law to Lord 
Chief Justice Nonhesk. On titc Pavillion Parade, Brighton, Samuel Hone^ 
ley, LL. D. Bi»hop of St. Asaph. At Hampstead, in the 86th year of ber 
age, Mrs. Baillie, widow of the Rev. Jan>es6ailiie,D. D. Professor ofDivi- 
9hy in the Colb^ oi GlaasQ.w> and sifter to the late Dr. William Hunter, and 
John Hunter, Esq. At Bona* Vista, near Lymington, Sir Mati^rew Blackis- 
' loo, Bart. At Gii t n ad « ,t he -H«B.- Alesandcr Seottr « liiMnber of Ms Majes* 
ty*s council for that colony. Sophia^ Couatess of Mount Edgcumbe. Tbo 
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Bio^raphicsU Sketch of Mn f^y^i- 

mond '. 291 

Ifcory Kirke WHi^e •.....«..,„ 2% 

Sketch of a Trip from Glasgow to 
_, t^^.F«Il*«tf tiw Oig>(te..-„.;.^...fi9fl 

The Man in the Iron Mask 301 

£«tiaets froM MUtOfa refatlng to 

. Music „ ^, 304 

J«iiceIteiiei^.<Mo. I. .....J.....*.*.. 30e 

ThcDving Child , *... . 311 

Select SenlS«*nces t.....-.......;.. .;.....' 312 

Longevity ©C Musicians ,.^.^ ib. 

REVIEW OF LITEl^ ATU JiE. 
Lord Holland's Li'fe of Lope de 
VegaCarpIo, concluded >..<... 313 

Molleson*s Miscellanies ,.. 318 

A Walk -throagt Leeds ;.;.. ;jb. 

TlieWood Nymph, a Novel 319 

A Letter to a, CSQuntry Gebtiemaa ib^ 
Howes's Miscellaneous Poetical 

Trandations ....'. : ib. 

Wooll't Biographical Memoirs of 

Dr. Wart<yn...:i...f........ ' ib. 

Frauds Translation of Horace, 

revised by H. J. Pye, Esq. ... 223 
Neaiiiao*s new Dictionary of the 
Spanish and Englifth' Languages 3^ 

More Miseries .««, ,. ,ib. 

The present State ©rPferu' :..*. 325* 

T^ Worka •f Wiv^), translated 

into English by John Dryden .. 326 
M;Lv«r's Peace .wiU» France and 
Catholic Emancipation repug- 
nant to the Godimand of Gt)d . .927 
Tlie Battle of Armageddon 328 



CONtENTS. , ' ] ' '^' '' 

Nfirti. iWwbain's IToang Person»s 

Hkns^s'FiBgai Poet?c« ib. 

Brookiana j....i. ,.*...« ^ ib* 

I^lftieVPilgnni'ohfce'CfO*^ 32^ 

Cayley's^f^ofaii^WaUetKyrte^^ >W 

DRAMATIC. 

Hobk»s Caich' hitn'i^^io cart ?'..V.;..' 330 
We fly by Night ......,...,...^...... - U». 



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Anecdotes df the French Std^ .;. SB 
Anecdotes of Foote .■...*..m..^,334 

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Address to the British- Cl»pvr.v,336. 
On Hcnr>'Kirke^hite^I.;..<..T!337 

V hopper's ^east.^^...,^>^^..^.j|jl t 

Covent-Garden ......... «,^„ ,. 345 

Royalty Theatre ».„ Mik 

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKSTCX OP 

MR. RAYMOND. 

(fFt/At /■.,...»..) 

That the charms of Thalia and Melpomene hav^ aomctimes proved 
powerful enough to attract votaries fttnn the substantial allure- 
meots of flattering commercial pios^^act^ as ivdl as froni tits 
^k>i«tered fiechision of a college, and even in early life from the 
reverential pursuit of the most lmti»^wcd Hudies^ is well koown c(» 
those who axe conversant with th« history of the drafu»< Of this 
iwe have heen reminded hy a circuio stance in the youager daya of 
the gentleman who is the subject of the following memoir, and which 
the reader will find below : and tkoTss^h i\-\e coooectiou indeed is but 
alight, yet it has served to lead us tuto this train of ideas; w^hich we 
shall there&re here pursue a httle further, as this may serve as well 
as any other opportunity for communicating a lew thooghts that 
have arisen in our minds on the present occasion. 

On the supposition then of a youug man^s havmg, by any mo<* 
iive or accident, been led to quit a course of preparation that was 
to fit him for the clerical profession, to embrace that of the atage^ 
it may he allowable for us to endeavour to appreciate how far the 
prospect of liis ultimate utility to society may he diminidied by suck 
m change. In stardng this question, we solemuly protest against^ 
being thought guilty of the least intention of profanenesa; or of 
hf any jAeant bria|^ng the pulpit and the stage into an irreverent 
comparison, or assodatixm of ideas : and ' is we nay surely do with 
aaiety under a sovereign of admired piety, who has, through hie 
whole reiga, been equally conspicuous for his attention and etieou« 
ragement to both* Sanctioned by so illustrious an example, we live 
in times when the coarse censures Once indiscriminately and igoo* 
rantly attached to the very name of an acter are almost forgotteo. 
Of these censures, it most be remeoibered, the church partioalarly 
was the foremost iBstigatx>f ; which has been ingeniously and sa^ 
tisfactorily accounted for by Mr* Godwin, in his life of Chaoceri 
^ere he shews that this vioieat antipathy of the clei^ to theatrical 
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ci^iQoed hy the first ioatitution of 3«cular dramatic repres^mations ; 
which the dc^ immediately opposed^ both with eccle&m;»tical de- 
nuaciatioQSy aad Qfsf th^ iuflue^ce) wit)i ciiil di^riobUUties'. sind pu- 
pishinents : from sheer Jca/buiy of this eiKroachment on,^ jdjen cs- 
published branch of their profession, and ** from the desire'' (as Mr, 
Godwin expresAcs it) ** of beii^ themselves the solesou^ce of amuse* 
ment to the people.'' 

So much for the constant oppositioigi of the clergj to the ^age,; 
an opposition which now is perhaps gradually declining among t^e^ 
more liberat-oiiiKled, and is taking refuge ainong tlie sectaries.-— 
There boweirer it may well be left undisturbed ; for before do one 
tational man would we be afraid of opposing the moral ^entimentt 
m'ourgr^t dramatic bard^ to the pestiferous mvings of methodism. 
On the subject of the positive utility of the theatres, inam^iral 
point of view, Foote's observation is the best that we have seen. 
Whereier, said he, s© many people arci crowded toj^ether ia ahigh 
state of civilization and luxury as in this metropolis, a great propor- 
tion of them will liave many of their evenings unocc»pied, Ustless, 
aod vacant, or fatigued and in want of recreation ; and wjutt re* 
source could supply to such numbers an amusement so harmless 
and so rational as the theatre f^-oWc shall now at^nd to our me- 
moir. 

1 he northern division of our island gave birth to tbe gentleman 
to wliom wc are now to introduce our readers. Mr. James Grant 
Eaymond was born on the 29th of March, 1771, in Strathspey, ia 
the Highlands of Scotland ; within a short dbtance from Culloden* 
moor, well known as the scene of th^ decisive battle between the 
partisans of the unfortunate house of Stuart, and the £ng|iisb^>rces 
under the Duke of Cumberland. His father, a descendant of Lo- 
dowick Grant an apcient Highland. cbieftai^ (and the koad of QM 
of the oldest and most powerful clans in that part of Scotland), was 
an ofHcer in the army ; andjost his life near Charlestown, in South 
GarcAinB, chiring tHe latter pan of tba AmericaA'wan Tbe widows 
being left with €ve children, the eldest of whom (our he^o) had not: 
attained bis ninth year, removed wkh her young family .&oai tbeir 
Inaljl paflerm^iosidence in theHigklancb, to tlierii«ge oHwnt-^ 
(eitbii^, in the oounty of Banff; where Jdmes was put to school 
undar the care and tuition of a geintleman who had tho jepjtfaa»>n 
ofAnabla teacher and.anesrqaUcint scholar. .. - * 

U^ mother^ who was of » r«figb«a >tnr6 of mi^, tojteaded to 

• •V^Dndietic .rnprfM0tMion» #f iiittprlMik. (M»U8tt ^ ctf acii^lfirt *; oHm of tlir dm^ 
ti«A, tbe F»ik ot JMaiu th« V^tmity, Wmmom, Cructfixioo, ice. parfbrgwd gMMraHy^ 
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liave hhii Succeed "for tlvp derical profession, as ft minister not of 
the kirk of ScoUand, baC of whflc in that country is call^ (be chapel; 
a sect ^llknog Very Ihde in dobtrine and ceremonkfs fi-om tho 
dUircb of Bo^and. At a proper age therefore he was sent to 
KingVCoHege, in tlie university of Aberdeen : but it was probably 
£pom possessing a letity of disposition, which did not weU accord- 
with a system of theological study and discipline, and not having the 
authority of a father to controul him, that his stay in this situation 
waft very short;' foe after passing a sin^ winter there, and in. that 
period g<ilnkig a hurse or bu^ (qs the college prizes are called;) he^ 
with this solitary mark of triumph, took l^ave 6f both college and 
school, and would never afterwards return to either. 

Indeed not only a levity, but a fickleness, jiardiy less common to 
yonth even of the best natural pj^ts,* seems to have constituted a 
prominent feature In this gentleraan'*5 juvenile character. At an.early 
period after he had left college, lie weut to sea in the capacity of 
pndshipman ; ■ but he soon quitted this way of life also. With his 
usual Inconstancy, however, he frequently afterwards regretted this 
last change ; and at two different times afterwards, actually em« 
braced and again relinquished a similar condition. On one of thesa 
■ Itttter occasions, by the interest of a friend, he procured an appointr 
ment in th6 Endeavour, previous to that ship^ setting out on her 
last voyage round the world ; and on another, in his majesty's ship 
the Impregnable. In tliese instances his resolution held till he had 
joined e^ch of those ships, at Gravcsend and Sheerness ; but th« 
. same instability whicli had interrupted his clerical, studies, now de- 
prived him of the dignified tide of a British sailor. 

He had once perseverance enough, however, to accomplish a voy* 
age to the East Indies, but was tlien too young to estimate justly th^ 
Value of such a prospect as presented itself ^o him fur the jicquire- 
ment of independence. In his passage home he contracted an in* 
timate fViendship with a gentleman who had acquired a handsome 

« The preseot Iiord Cbancellor Erskine, it is well knovo, was first placed ih Hm 
situation of a midshipman on board a king's ship, in vbich capacitj h« ^rved some 
timfe ; but afterwards relinquished it for a commission in a Highland regiment : it wa« 
ttdt, feowcter/lHl the growing burden of a large family pressed forcibly npon hi» 
jplmTthe eowi^smtfoB^ of n aore ' sdeqiate' totvma • «f provjdmf ftir tbe-vAts at the 
day tliat was passing ovejr hi|n. |hat 1^ wot It^ to twf^ hia thoughts to ft further 
change, in embracing a resource so very different as the study of the law. "While ia 
tM sfeotd of these fitoatldus,' ah aaecttocb Is reeoHect^ of Vim by an did fHead. 
«hich would probably be now beud ^tb «nljr * ^mit* by hi* lerdihip lamielf. Hia 
frisud helping him^Hi^ day to puf 4Hi u»a»9 p^rt of hi». military appami, obtenred fis- 
minarly, " "Why, Tommy, you want a new coat.".-" Aye," was the reply, ** but coto- 
•mdmvl^^Bn*9a\f UmwaA' thapnm^mjdmj; aiid^di«re«Malttt of w: w^erf mon- 
^w^yaimm^pKnc^ a jpmce*'* Tbif htmfffrMn^ «o» MrvRayaiaiMi*s case, as h« 
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fbrttme iforkif « Minderloer of 4wc>ntf4vl» ^e^ 
whose in^*don h^ ^kin^ Ii^ttttt^, » * W ra - b* OQO^ «be a tteaU M fc 
antf kutdnet^ of'fefts tiew'li4eii4 dttvitig At raiitifiillrof lftiBfr;gttii». 
tleotta^ttfe. AnHHigtfye plH^oM dftasie^iiiid wmii to iHiomilb*- 

aiAmhf itt liM lihe 6f the <Ir«Aa; iind to iiihom the B%hfrliotf. 
Mofick MMto h«r dedicated his edkiod of that ^reat hut n e|^ e c to d L 
geuitie Massinger, tod paid many jaw aekliewie i gnieiptt inliif p^ 
£bce. Mr. 7%he was the 9ohool-fl?lto# and fHend of <kamAf md 
was aHowed to be the best rewder of ^hiysin hit ^me* fiad B<>t 
Mr. Rajrmond heard the tragedy of Orooiioihe read 'by tfaiageiifl** 
man, it is Iftely he would never hHkv^ rhoaghe of theatag^ as ie^ 
^rofestiOQi but the distfesses of the sabk prince were so pathet^ 
ca% delii^ed by Mrt Tighe, that they took full possession of th« 
mind of hb yoaiig aaditor, who from that momeat abandoned the 
idea of every odier pursatt; aed, after (he interval of a few weeksy 
our sta^^strock hero, under the auspices and instruction of that 
stem critic, appeare4 on the stage ni Dublin, caparisoned in royal 
jrobes; and Iron his entliusiasm seemed to fancy himself in reality 
the lover of his fakbini Imoinda, though banished from his heredi- 
tary domains, and from the idol of his h^wU An unlucky accident 
occurred on his first performance ; for during the most interesting 
|mrt of the concluding act, the misery in which he saw his adored 
Imohtda fixed Hself with sech strength in his tortured mi«d;that^ in 
a from^ of lore and despair, he applied his burnished cheek so 
closely to that of l^s unhappy priacoss, as to leave half of his sooty 
complexioB on her fair fhce. This awkward blunder convulsed the. 
^mise with laaghter^ and it wa»8om« minutes before they could be 
neatored t»«hoir paroper tone of feeHng, notwi^standing the soliei* 
tude nahich the cmbanrassmeot of the ^icellent heroine (the lata 
Mjn* Pope) eidted in ;her ^our« The play however finished so 
much to the ^aci^ction of the youxig adventurer and.hi9 ffUrQOy 
ih«U he fqpfatp4^1»e character several time«. 
£To be condodcd in our next.] 

i ■ i^nuu ujwi inmii hwva.m i . . ' . i . n -.4 ,ii in ■■■ .. 1 1 ;^' .. 

^'' * ' KENUY KIRKE WHITE. 
T^E premature deadi of 6ne wh6' promised, at no dbtaiit period; bf 
th^ ardour of his btudres aAcf the f5re of hi^ gedius, to sthira i6 p^ 
mioent in the repuhlip of letters^ dumottk too deeply regfte^ed. It 
is a public loss, ft becomes at, however, mora thatf odMft<fla'geai* ' 
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Una woric las theaddkiooaimo«iveof private fiMiidthi^ which li% 
encartamd ^Ah Ae mott sineere regard. la the MomM; Mirror 
mwijofhisliicabratiaiiflhaveappeilrcd, which reflect the highest 
crwfit on ins taltots^ and haiftt a0brded universal satisfaction to our 
readen«' ' l%e tribute we haive At present to o£^, in resionbrancft 
of fafanyriacompascd •£ the effusioiis of other writer8> oo the qaalitien 
of hisiniitdyaiid the exoellenee of his nid;ure. At a foture hour, wa 
expect from die sdxle pen of Cupel Lofib, Esq. a memoir of Mr. 
Whitty wHhuvhioh m sbatt be prouc| to oblige the public; 

Hie manuscripts of Chb admirable youth are preserve«(, aod wiU» 
with the assistance of an editor whose spirit is congenial with all 
that is poctioaly hereafter form a posthumous work. Then will thb 
melsoiciioly truA appear^ that '^ time was <mly wanting to his firnie.*^ 

JRxitactfiom tht Ombridge Chr&nieU qftStk of October 1866. 

'^On Sunday last died, in his apartments in St. John's College^ 
greatly lamented by all who had the pleasure of knowing him> Mr, 
Henry Krke White^ a student of that society.—^He was a native of 
Nottingham^ and die author of a collection of poems, that wiO 
endear his memory to idl the lovers of poesy — 

** And when with time shall wane the vital fire, 

** m rwse my pillow on the desert shore, 
^ And lay me down to rest where the wild wave 
•• Shalt malfe sweet musk o'er my lonely grave.'* 

Sonnet U, p, Sft» 
Xjttr^ctffm the NottingJuim Journal, Friday Oetokr SUt, 1806. . 

^ Died, at St. John's College Cambridge, on the 19th instant, 
aged twenty-one years, Mr. Henry Kirke White, a native of this 
town, and author of a volume of poems, entitled Clifton Grove, Ike 
He was a youth, whose talents were only surpassed by his habits ; 
his imagination was chaste and briUiant, his judgment sound, bis' 
temper meek, but manly ; and his manners such as to procure him 
the esteem of all who knew him; to these qualities he added aa 
nnadected piety, which shewed ins heart to be equal to his bead.^ 

Extract from the Nottingham Paper, of the 7tk Nov. 1806. 

^ We feel pleasure hi being able to communicate the following 
particulars of Mr. Henry JOxke Whitens ch to w a ^r , whk^ Ittva b««^ 
traasnitted to as by ar getidem^a jn^Sm%l||l)r,il9|«ainted with tba^ 
fieoeasady whose death was annottnoed in our las^. 

Hcmf Kirke White was a youth of esitraordinary genhis ; of 
n aw e ari ai. ayifUMity ; and ambued. with the ndost imdissembkd 
pistgr^' Hia^feaint b^ga^ to daw» at a^ yeiy early age ; aqd before 
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the first literary characters of the day* The puUication of Cliftoa 
Grore procured htm a cgnsidorahle a^ditkui.to the fM<^n^r 9f lite- 
rary correspondeati. In Uis prosaic compositloos, ire are at a loss 
whether we shall roost admire the hrittiaocy and justness of his 
ideas, or the chaste, elegant, and forcible lan^age in which those 
ideas are cloathed. A reference to^his Melancholy Hoars, and some 
other pieces, which were published in the Monthly Mirror, will suf- 
ficieatly justify this assenioQ. On the merits of his poetical talents 
the critics have already decided ; and (though with some little va- 
riation)^ they -have, in the main, agree4l, that this little volume w^ 
ab iadicatioa of* sarpdaiag genius, and the precursor of future ex- 
cellence. He has left behind hkn two poems on sacred subjects^ 
one of which is in an unfinished state : of this however a gentle- . 
naoB well knpwn in the learned world, both for his poicticf4,4pnius 
and philosophical researches, has ventured to assert, that many of 
his ideas are not hiferior to those of jMilton.' ^ 

He did not seriously attend to the study of the classics till with- 
in the last three years of his life, during two of which he had no 
other master than his books ; and the very great proficiency he made 
is truly astonishing : in this was manifested not only his great ge- 
nius, but intense application. To have acquired even a moderate 
knowledge of the languages in so short a ti(ne wovld h^^ve deqiaod- 
td the effort of no common mind ; but to understand then^}G|(ittGaUy, 
so that the beauty and correctness of his Latin and Qreek campp- 
aitions, both in prose and verse, should not only procure him the 
most flattering distinctions in his own col^ge, but attraqt thfi miif^ 
of leading men in others, is a circumstance worthy of unirei^ ad- 
miration. His disposition was peculiarly endearing, both as a rela- 
tive and a friend; and as he was, in a great measure, fre% from 
those fiery ehuIlitionS| which too generally cliaracterae our younger 
years, the attachments which he formed seldom knew any abate- 
ment on his part. But wc see him to the most advantage in his 
religious pursuits; he did not, like too many of our youths, enter 
the univer:>ity without any established principles; or from no other 
inducement than a thirst fox literature; or, what is worse, in quest 
of intemperate pleasures : his principles were formed on the un'* 
erring Basis of scripture; and he would not be laughed .out of tbem 
either by the avowed infidel, or by sceptics of any descriptioD. 
- ^'^HefeH'Vt aneme«% when efcryeyv was ficed upon laBi*^^- 
when the greatest expeotationb were Ibrmcd ctaioiriitag huii,»'-4KKi» 
when his too sanguiae friends were predicting his future lemtneiice. 
We see^ in Ms IH^, an example worthy of imitatteo ;. and we read^* 
in Ifis-deatli, an instfvctive testes on the precarinns Unure q£W 
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SKETCH OF A 

TRIP FROM GLASGOW TO THE "FAUS OF THE CLYDE. 



Ill U.I ill, .. i ill Hi.,VMFi 

«« ^^^,..^....Ego l*u<1o rum amoMii_, 

" Rivos, et musco clrcumlita saxa nemusque.** Hor. 

Xv a phstoa ^e lei\ Glj^gow, at six Q*clock ia the morokig, oo 
the— — day of September, for the purpose of visiting the far-fasoed 
falls of the Clyde. As we advanced into the countiy, our atten- 
tion was frequently arrest^, i|nd our eyes delighted Ja surveying 
the beauties of numerous, rich, and extensive fields, where 

^ Autumn spread his treasures to the sun,^ 
in the most picturesque and luxuriant manner. The roads were \m 
fiD excellent state, and the morning uncommonly fine, which greatly 
augmented the pleasure of the scene; we therefore ^ took no note 
of time,'' but drove, rapidly on, and soon reached the Newtown of 
Wishaw, a thriving village* The few houses which it contains are 
chiefly occupied by hosiers and cotton weavers. The air here is 
salubrious^ and the few inhabitants which we saw wore much the 
appearance of industry and frugality. On leaving the village of 
Wisbaw, vre enjoyed, en passant, a bird's eye view of the town of 
ilamiltoa, and the duke's palace, a magnificent building, both^of 
vf hieh stand on the opposite banks of the Clyde. Passing through 
a rather barren track of country, we soou reached Carluke. It 
' was now near eleven o*dodc, and the parishioners (it being Sunday,) 
were collecting in swarms, by the sound of the church bell, for the 
purpose of attending divine service, or, as it is here more commonly 
called, the frtaehing. The votaries of superstition, we remarked^ 
with regret, penally increased the further we advanced from 
town. 

Here we perceived presbyterian gloom and sullen austerity 
depicted ia the faces of many rustics, in strong and glowing 
colours : indeed so much so^ that it left us no doubt but they might 
liave passed muster on ajieid day even with the renowned champions 
of the ** Solemn league" and covenants," Dohiidd Cargill, or James 
Renwick.* 

ft I» it fu)^»tr49g» tiia^ i0x9tmicfi umbnaHsf tvfpffM *' %rat felitlM* ' t* (insist, 
•M^^ in tii09U?rity, t^«mc«iy» and s*Ucy flooin ? 'J*h*> stupid «eal of Mr. Kenvcick 
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I(aving i«ken breakfast, and rested awhile at Carluke^ wt tb^ 
ttuntered across t^te fields, on foot, towards the Clyde. On ap- 
proaching, the banks of that noble river, we beheld 

*^— Lawns extend, that scorn Arcadian pride, 
** And brighter streams than fainM Hydaspes glide.^ 
After feasting our eyes with the delightful view, we descended 
a steep declivity, the path over-shadowed by choice fruit trees ; the 
apples, pears and plnmbsy were suspended over our heads in 
clusters. 

Nature -has here scattered her blessings so profusely, that the. 
natives seem insensible of the injprovements which art might easily 
render. A trifling labour and expencc would multiply the produce 
•f the soil a thousand fold ! No place in Scotland is more capably 
of improvement, nor looks more neglected. The' luxuriant crop 
which wc beheld appeared little more than the efforts of nature ! 
Indeed, from the spontaneous manner in which wild fruit is pro- 
duced, the soil seems to challenge the husbandman for his apathy 
and besotted indolence. 

The banks of the river Clyde present a continued series of 
etchards. The sour buUace plumb (prunus insititia) grows in the 
hedge rows in abundance, but never ripens till the frost sets in. 
Tlie annual produce of the orchards, between Hamilton and 
Lanark, may be estimated, I believe, communikui anniSf at 10,000/. • 

On reaching the water's edge, the scene was picturesque and 
highly romantic : tlie river winding beautifully among woods, and, 
in some places, the sloping sides of the towering hills nearly 
approadiipg its borders. It is here pretty broad, but liot deep, ^nd 
a ferry boat supplies the place of a bridge. Having occasion to 
cross, we saluted old Charon^ who came paddling immediately with 
his craay barge, and transported us to the other side of the ' 
ri»er. 

Charmed with the romantic grandeur of the scenery, we 
, hastened to ^^ the hazle hank,^ called Stonebyres wood. Here . 
grow nnts, raspberries^ &c. in abundance. The wood affords an 
agreeable walk. Having passed it, our ears were saluted with the , 

jpandin Uus inslKftce be to not tingular,) ^hurried him on so fkr, «s sk> debmr from 
» participation of the Lord*ssupf>«r, every one who was tpicAcfd enov^ to conimit V 
the horrid crime of smoking" tobacco ! But peace be to the mtoes of all then 
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sound of miglity falling waters ; and turning from the main road 
into the footpath, on the left, we reached in a short time, th* 
edge of a trcnicndous precipice, and beheld the Cl}'de gushing, 
furiously, 

*' ■ O'er liis rocks, 

'* And roaring cataracts." 
This stupendoiw water-fall is generally known by the name of 
Stoneb3nrcs Linn : the water descends si&ty feet^ but it is twioe im- 
peded in its progress by projections of rock, before it reaches the bed 
of the river. The water is so oomminuted by the fall, that it rises in 
f«m«, Uke the smoke of a fnniace, much higher than the precipice 
from which it discharge itself, and exhibits an uncommon pheno- 
menon among the woods and rocks. It was now three o'dock P. M. 
and the son shining immediately in the face of the cataract, pro- 
duced, in conjuration with thft fume, every twp or three seconds, a 
beautiful rainbow. • 

Tired of the ^ dashing «urge,'* we returned to tharoad that leads 
to' Lanark,^ which town we soon reached. Here we enjoyed ati 
excellent dinner, then descended into the vale of Clyde, where we 
bad an exterior view of Lanark cotton mills, which, with th6 sur- 
rounding scenery, is grand and picturesque. We 'then bent oil/ 
course up the river side, along a beautiful grai^el walk, finely skirted 
with trees, in order to see the Corra Linn. It is thus destt-ibed by 

. another pen. " The Corra Linn is composed of two separate ftfls, 
at an inconsiderable distance from each other, ' oter ^hich the vast 
body of water iivthe Clyde rushes, with impetuous fury, into a deep 

. abyw, eighty feet below its former level. On every side; the course of 
the river is environed witli lofly rocks, of the most romantic forms, 
and covered with trces'of every diversity of foliage. To paint in 
adequate language the beauties of the scene, is a difficult, If not ini- 

" possible task. The mighty rolling of tlie waters, daShing from rock 
to rock, as if they would pierce the earth to the centre, the tbuotfef- 
ing noise occasioned by these concussions/ the lofty rocks, the ivy- 
clad and mouldering castle of Corra, shaking from itsba^,* and 
the thick clouds of mist arising from the deep aby^s bdow, anftd 
towering towards heaven, the stately woods form sdcha scene, bnrd 

• In great floods, the cMtleof Cofr«i» somttlmessovioleally iMNb^^ te^pill 
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produce audi cfltos apon tbe mini, ts muftt oertainly Ittffle tiie 
Qinmst po were of description J* Various wild plants adocft the rodcs 
about dke Linh, the least common of which is the yellow sase6tig0 
(saxifraga aisititks,) 

' ' At the distance of aboat a mile feota Lanark is a soeoe ^e 
most picturesc|ue and romantic. The place is called Movac Water, 
•NiRlit^ Mem94ie^'to haire sported wkh cbe winter eonrte ; instead 
of taking the slope of the soil, it makes a sweep, ^umI runs 
•chroogbarmost tremendota^KOnrntion in tbereoks^ appiMraotly rest 
-ftsiHMkr 1^ some ^^eadftil idtiiinnjb iosccatable elemeiitsary Qoa«- 
vulsion. A chasm, in the most retired phice of theroQJ^, is called 
the cave tf Wallace, The rodes t hom aa lves «re called^ by the 
natires, Cattiand Omgi. 6upincitie» haa not^ failed to make 
them (as is usual -vriih aU romtotic situations) the haunt of the faky 
tribes, &c. The following doggerel lines, we were iofbrmedy 4ire ' 
still current among the co«ntry people. a 

** Cartland Craigs may well be seen, 

" Wlicre witches ride at Hfl//o»e'cn." ,. 
On the same side of the Clyde, about a mile from Carluke, 
stands a finely- wooded vale, in which runs a delightful rivulet. 
Near its baaks^ at a place called Mashok Mill, we perceived a very 
stoong petrifyiag spring : and further up, in the same dell, is a farm 
house called the clwpel, formerly a place of catholic worship, f^^ 
itliesalacge stone> "with moss grown gray,** which woiild^ no 
doubt, be a preciaus morsel for the Koyal Society of Antiquarians, 
•being entirely carved on one. side with 'ancient Eom^ characters, 
and hieroglyphics. About half a mile north from the chapel* 
stands the castle of Hall-bar. The upper, fiat is in ruins, but the 
two under ones are occupied by a son of St. Crispin. I'he difficulties 
of dimbing up and down the rugged roads to (hi^ castle^ were 
Amply compensated hy the romantic prospects which it a^ord^d." 

Neariy opposite this tower, on the other side of the Clyde, stahcfs, 
upon an eaMiieace, the cattle of Craignethan^ It was formerly a 
place of oonsidecablest^eng^, and anciently a seat of the Hami^on 
fkinily : tbeif anus are over the^^te way. If Buchannan may'be 
credited, it has stood several sieges, "^w, however, alas I there is 
ihaMi^ t»-te6«Mi but 

H >-. ... . G aunt ruin, grinning o'er the wreck . 

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By tbel^t of tt cdirdte, we visited atfveml itibttmtBean rooms^ 
in one drWhiiihiaft well, tbit appears between twenty and tbirty 
feet dieep ; btft tbe spring bttvttig found out anotbcr channel, it is at 
present perfectly dry. Indeed every department is strongly 
cbahK:t«nstic df the gloomy and tttrbulent age in wbich it was 
built. The sctfkiery around tbe castle is, on the whole, strikingly 
'beaotiful and the view w\3ll repays the stranger, whose curiosity may 
tethpt Him tt pay it a visit. 

Our tJkie not permitting us to remain any longer, we were under 
the necessity df biddieig adieu. to these d^htful scenes, and of re- 
tnrmng once m6tt to 

^ T he town, 

^Buried in sadie, mad sleep, and noisome damps,** 
I am yours, &c« 
Glasgow^ Sept. 1806. ' T. F, 

THE MAN IN THE IRON MASQUE. 
(the pact xlucidated.) 



1 AM^gcfifigto state to you a fact, which you may publiih, if you 
' tbiidL pMtper, and which, in my opinion, is more extraordinary than 

Veltalri^s story of the Man in the iron Masque; namely^ that 
*ilibouph the real secret of that story is perfectly known, and 

with unquestionable certainty, to several pertoot io France, it has 

been bitheito Is^ within that cirol^ and never yetg^nemlly 
'4i¥ti%ed. By one of diose persons, it was some years 4igo com- 

«iimieai^d to an English gen^man, with soch evidence, derived 
• from a dear, uninterrupted tradition, and with'such an entire cor- 

rtapondcnee with the known circumstances and petdod of the event, 
' *as they are stated by Voltaire, as estt^^hed the tfulii of ttie com- 
' mumcatieo beyowd the possibilky of a qaestioin. It* wenld be waste 

bf time torrefiite the silly, absurd supposition^ that the man in tbe 
' inasqoe #as our duke of Monmoot^. The story is too abaord to 

deserve one moment^s attention* The idea which generally prcr 

vails, at prlsseht, in Frftnoe, that:i^ was>the €mi/6 ife Venmmdois, 

anatnral son of Louis the XlVtfa. and. Madame dela Vaiiere, 
'«nd that he'was^nilbed in this extraordinary manner for having 

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Suffered death,} though not quite so extravagant^ is nevertheless 
equally false, and, if compared with the dates, will Jos found im- 
possible. Tlie man iu the masque was sent a prisoner to tte 
island of St. Margaret, a few months after Cardinal Mazarin's 
death, which happened m March 1661> when Louis, XIV, was 
twenly-three, and the prisoner was then a -young man grown up : 
whereas the Comte de Veniuiidois wfis not born until lOOT. lie 
was killed at the seige of Courcray, in 1682, or 1683, and whether 
jiilled or not, could not have disappeared sooner. But, at that 
time, the man in the masque had been in prison about twenty- 
years. Chamlllart, as Voltaire asserts, was the last cf the cabinet "* 
ministers, who knew the secret. When he was on his death bed, 
his nephew, the duke de la Fcuillarde, implored him on his knees ta 
tell him who the man in the iron masque was : butChamillart refused, 
declaring that it was the secret of the state, \vhich he was bound, by 
a sacramental oath, never to discover. Now the locking up a yoiing 
man of sixteen or seventeen, if he was nothing but the natural son 
of the king, could not, at any time, have been a secret of such ' 
essential importance to the state ; and, at the period of Chamillart's 
death, could have been of no importance at all. The fact itselT I 
was indeed a secret of state, and capable of producing great mischief 
in the kingdom, not only during the life time of Louis XIV. or his , 
immediate successors, but even in future ages. You wilisooas^ ^ 
the reason why the secret has been so weil kept. The tftith^is 
this. Anne of Austria, though a devot^ towards the end of h^r 
hfe, was a woman of gallantry in the early part of it; she had piany 
favourites, and our duke of Buckingham among the rest. Her 
husband, Louis XIIL was notoriously impotent; they. bad heea 
married twenty years before the birth of Louis XIV. which hap-. 
penedinl6d8. After a long separation, an accident, or rather, a 
ciintrivance of the queen, brought them together. They met at .a 
house where the king was obliged, by a violent storm, to pass the 
night, and there was no other bed for him but the queeD*s%. So fkr 
the facts are recorded and acknowledged. The meeoag wa<i made 
to correspond with, and account for, the pregnancy, which produced* 
Iiouis XIV. who succeeded quietly to the crMvn. A long miaojrity 
ensued, during which the queen regent, Anne of Austria, , was so 
devoted and enslaved to Cardinal Mazarin, who treated her with 
•#he utmost hflughtiness and insolence, that it was generally 6^*6« 
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Bot the case. His influence over her arose from another source,. 
He was master of the ^reat secret, and bad her cotnpletely in hb 
power. Very soon after his death, this secret came to the, knowledge 
of Louis XIV. by what means does not cerlainlyi appear, but 
probably by a communicaCfon from the Cardinal on his death bed ; 
irod material indeed it was that Louis XIV. should be informed of 
it. He then discovered, for the first ^ time, that he had an elder 
brother living; th%t is, a son of his mother, but ntJt of her husband, 
bom" at a period when she and Louis XIIL had not cohabited for 
many years, and when, consequently, it was impossible to palm that 
child upoir her husband, and on the nation, as his son. If Louis 
XrV. could have had any doubt of the truth of the fact, as stated to 
him by Mazarin, the resemblance between him and this young mAn 
was so striking and so obvious, that the moment he saw him he 
knew he was bis brother. The young man knew it too ; and the 
great question in the cabinet was, in what manner he should be . 
disposed of. Neither the members of the council, nor probably 
Louis XIV. himself, was wicked enough to murder his brother. He 
had hitherto been kept in obscurity, which accounts for the existence 
* and extraordinary care taken of a prisoner of state^ at a time when, 
as Voltaire observes, no person of any consequence, or name, in 
Europe, had disappeared. To acknowledge him as his natural 
brdther, would not only have blasted the reputation of his mother 
•but might have created a general doubt about his own legitimacy, a 
thing by no means unsuspected, considering the known imbecility 
of Louis XI IT. Anne of Austria declared herself with child. The 
condusion of the council was, that the young man must be sacrificed 
to the saftety of the state ; and that, if possible, this should be done 
withbut putting him to death. Accordingly, they offered him his 
life on the condition, to which we know he submitted, on pain of 
instant death, if he discovered who he was. In that species of con- 
finement he consented to remain, above forty years, for the sake of 
(existence. If he had nqt worQ the iron mask, the resemblance be- 
tween him and Louis XIV. must sooii have discovered the secret. 
This plain narration of the fact clears up all difficulties. The 
periods correspond ; the circumstances tally exactly. There never 
was, nor can be, another rational conjecture on the subject. Louis 
XIV. might possibly still think himself the son of Louis XIII,^ 
though, at this time of the day, no well-infonned person believes it, 
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• veftkniMino^Mr rM^pecti^ (aniuig n^t td mti^ fram iwci^itdlj 

which th» (Wfect ia comiitiitioD cqn0tan|;ly filM h» oiiid^ pa^ 
(icohrij aboot hit «>fe) be w9A person^ brftite, wherwu I^oif 
'XIV. eren when a youiip mai^ Md thoogh at «U Mokft an «xoelle«t 
aetor of miyettj, was a rank coward^ of whieK iadoad I had no 
donhty even before I had read the aiemoKTS of St, Sinnoa. Bat the 
lepataiieo of thb vain OMV baiU up by flattery aad fahehood, it 
falik^ to pieoaa aeery dagr/ and Xveveii^oce the nieaiQry of Harry 
IV. too sineerely to believe^ that bU grandsoa ooold have wanted 
pertenal courage. So mach ibrthe gtaat hoiftse of Boorbon. Yo« 
t ea wh at it it coo^Mised of.^A good leston to fools, who are prood 
of tbotr birth, and to the still grater fools, who are awed by 
aamet aad titles, or who think that there ever was a real iliatioi\ 
aad uointetf opted desceat, in any family upon earth. * * 



EXTRACTS FROM MILTON, RELATING TO MUSIC. 



LETTER, n. 

MiLTOv, at I stated ia my first latter, waa a sUiftd ymfommMm 
the organ. The foUowiag passage proras hew waM he natferitmcU 
and how completely he felt the efecfts produced by thii nubHimgt 
of instruments. 

* LcMib XIV. dans le cofai% d'm trop long rspie, adiev«, pu^m* 
touUetpece, Toavrage da detpotiraM. Srftin ogpuHtmx. ^ ae t 
d*MKr4 rcigle qnt m voUnMi et «m I'^riger en loi ; qi»i r^ J<i4pe«pl4 piT 4« 
Icttics da «achat» & let fit voler aa deli des men ; qui r^unit aux foUes da 
foavoir airbtareire ies fsreun de lintol^nuice et d^endit, sous peiM de galerM et dlT 
•onftscetion, k ^ sujecU. k dei Franfois, h des h — warn mAb, de serHr 4» 
royamne, leadia qa*il ea toartBeDto^ «q aftiUkM •'ec Ae glfife da pmffi/m^i.Q^ 
B e rth l t f u aowrille, pretqae aussi odieese que U premiere, et cent fois plus 
Ivnesta. qai Urra trois autres mil lions de sectaires aux ooirages de ses jaoissares ;>^ 
qui voalot forcer un peuple Hbre i reprendre un tyran ; qoi sicriia riofft noMiMia 
dlionintes 4 c« qu'oti a'a pas rougi d'appeHer 9a (Hoinet etprtt^Obtt* divifa jpsiint^^ 
«iul> centre Imc. Exacteiir imptfcoyable qoi devoua sr natipa k tovtes Ies. 
horreursfiscales que a^ceasiterenc cinquante aus de combats, Scci Administrateur 
isepte, %ui sacrifta Ies riohesses naturelles & presque iacaleulables de soft payt auk 
ttlostoQs fiiimaai, ^. Memaie e»fta en qui toat fnt iv^diecFe, except^ sen 
caractere plus siofaUcr que graod, si toutefois il ny entra pas encore pins 
d'aflectation que de singularite ; Sc la fortune qui pla^^ son tegne daus I'^oque la 

^ttsbriUaate peot-dtre des r6volatioM de I'espfit humaio VoUA le monarquc qOB 

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'^Bot fet my dtteiett itsver fisl 
To walk the studious doistet^s pale, 
AM ^ove the high embowedroo^ 
W^th antique pillars, mafsy pfO(of, 
And storied windows ncUj <%ht, 
Casting a dim rdigions Kght x 
There let the pMiagofKatfblwrf ' 
To the M^roiM quira below, > 
la sernoe lugh, and < 
As may with sweetness, tltfp' i 
Dissolve me into eatasies. 
And bnng all keasp^a Mbrefnine^ejes.*' 

it Pensefoeoi mk. 155, tt nq. 
How fordbly, how doquendy, how cothpletely do these lines 
describe our feetings on entering one of our venerable cathedrals, 
while the service of some of our fine church composers is perform- 
ing, when, 

'' Swelling organs lift th^ rising souK^ 
How accnratelj is every stnking feature in the building depicted, 
and each part^ that tends ta wyivfi the mind with awe and re* 
▼enncc^ brought to our recoUpotion. Surely nothing can more 
tlum a iStm soul abovie fhe carep :aod anjuties of the world, diaa 
cbo hup re ssi f e and awfaleoleniiiiqr of the cathedral worship wkan 
Vferfimiied in one of those majestic structures wjgth which this 
kingdom abounds. Milton was early inspired with ^ reverence for 
these sal^Usne edifice and tbtp service performed in them ; for while 
»bej, as St. Paul's sdiool, he constantly attended piublic worship a& 
the Old cathedral, which, so far as we can jndge in»m the plaies 
and d^sqnption^ w}|ich remain of it, was one of the finest sped* 
meos of ancient Gothic architecture in the kingdom. This early 
impression, not all the fanatical eant moA puritanical iUiherality of 
his republican friends could ever efiace. fndeed M&ton'ssoul wttg 
too great to be cramped and fettered by the narrow pr^Jndfotodf 
♦the bigotted assodates of Ciomwdl* An expression, in the abore 
piissa^o, was afterwards used by Tldcdl, in Ms lines on thai 
of Addison. 

** What awe did die slow tolinnn knell inspire^ 
Tbie ptaUnf pr^ar^ and the pausing chdr." 
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Aqd Pope certainly was indebted to BliltoD, fer the idea of the 
fellowiiig lines, 

^ Where awfbl arches make a noon-day night, 
^ And the dim windows shed a solemn I^ht." 

< Bpiittc ofBloimto Abdanf, v. 148 4* 144r 

^ Binf out ye cbcystal spheres, 
Ouoe bless ovr human cars, 

, If ye have pow*r to touch our senses so ; 
And let.your silver chime 
Move in melodious time. 
And kt the base of heaven's deep organ blew ; 
[ . * Andy with your ninefold harmony, 

lifike up full consort to th*, angelic ayn^diony.* 

Ode on the morning of Ckriifi wtm^ 
wr. 125, et seq, 
» "In deep of night, when drowsiness 

Hath locked up mort^ sense, then list^ I 
To the celestial syrens* harmony, 
That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, 
And sing to those that hold the Tital shears 
And turn the adamantine spindle roundj 
On which the fate of men and Gods is wound. ' 
Such sw^et compulsion dotli in music lie, 
To lull the daughters of Necessity, 
And keep unsteady nature to her law, 
And the low world in measured motion draw ' 
After the heavenly tune, which none can hear 
Of human mould with gross unpurged ear/' 

Arci»i(tt, Tir, 61, et scy. 
Milton has here g^ven us Rato's system of the harmony of th« 
iptieres. In order to explain the passfige, I cannot do better than 
transcribe Mr. Warton's account of this singular doctrine. " Fate, 
or Neeeiaity, holds t^ spindle q£ ada^iant, and, with her three 
^dau^hters, who h^pdle the. vital w/eb iiround tbQ spindle, she con- 
ducts or turns theiieavenly bodies. Nine Muses, or Syrens, siton the 
snmoiit of the spheres, which, in their revolutions, produce the most 
ravishing musical harmony. To this harmony, the th.ree daughters 
of Neosisity perpetually sing, in correspondent tones. In the mean 
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spheres, proceeding from the ra{nd motion of the heavens, is so 
loud, various and sweet, as to exceed all aptitude or proportion of 
the human ear, and thMefore isuo^'heaid by men. Moreover, this 
sphencal music comi^ta of eight uwonotts melodies i th$ ninUiii ft 
concentration of all tUaiaE«st,.or a diapason q£ ail those eight melodies, 
which diapason, or concentuiy the nine Syrens sing or address to th^ 
Supreme Being.^ Milton was probably indebted to Shakespeare 
for the first idea on this subject t * 

^ There^S not the smallest orb which thou behold^st, 

But, in his motion, like an angel sings. 

Still quiring to the young-e]^*d cheihibim : 

Such harmony is in immortal sounds ! 

But whilst his muddy vesture of decay 

Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it."' 

Merchant of Venice, Act. 6, tcA. * 
Perhaps the passage above quoted, from the Ode on* the Nativity, 
saggested to pryden one of the lines in his' first Ode en 9t«' 
Cecilia^s Day. 

** From harmony, from heav'nly harmony, 

This universal frame began : 

From harmony to harmony, 

Thro' all the compass of the notes, it ran; 

The diapason closing full in liian.'' 

' Dryden's Ode, 'ber, 10, et seq* 
In an organ, the ;itop called the * diapason is the lowest in 
pitch, and is consequently the base, or foundation, on which the rest 
of the instrument is built. It serves to bind, unite and cloiie the 
other stops together, and to give strength and grandeur to the whole. 
Thus Milton and Pryden, in the following lines, seem to have taken 
their ideas firom the e^ect or .use of this stop., 

'' And let your silver chime, , ,., 

. Move in n^lodious time, r. 

AAdletthe^aseofheaveit'sd^ep.o^lpmUsnv/' k 
'^Thro' all liie<oompa«s of the neieait ran, • ' 
The diapason closing fivii m man.*^ 

• n*A Dr. !Johiison possessed a littlf^ of M Oteii's tttekiit Itnowledfe, be woaki 
lisve endeaTOored to cUe anm ettMMtory daflHirio» of thb word, tfu* jMfsijr 

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OOMMIUTlVl Vt»W Of w^BaiWiwi* TH»«Ktiwrn! 

Aim MfiKTMWtU QEimuUtft. 

Digns 4 1ft fois d*honeur et de compassion f r^^o/r^. 

TowA»B8 the latter tmdoith& reifh of Pbiiip IV. tb«. plague raged 
wkh desolating fvjr riong llieto88i»of S|paii)« and ih^tice spread to 
Jtalyy where it dreadfally dvpofMiatecl maiiy of iM fOTarei|;nucs, anci 
partioilarly the land of (he droroh. Symplotna gi- infficnoii soon 
began to sbev^ tftens^tta m the populmM city <»f Naplet : »nd the 
then Spaaith Vkeioy, BdD OareUbi de Avellano e Haro, has been 
accused «f introdMng Ibis di^eadfai calamity with a most diabolical 
Tiaw. MfMiy Nca|ioti(«ns sooq ieli the vktinis of a suspkioas 
death; yet the govemmeDt adopted ao precaution wtkatever> for ar« 
resting the rapid «nd destroctive strides, which t^e contagion daily 
made. The ph^daus themselves, actuated either by their fears, 
their ignorance, or sordid motives, declared, that it was nothing 
mora than a Common putrid fever ; but recommeAdtid, however, 
that fires should be burlit in the stireets^ in order to purify tlie air, 
and that the sale of salt fish should be prohibited. 

. fit the mean ^hile, the disorder began to assume a more for- 
ihiikbfo el^ictir, threatening univertal desmctiOn, and er^ry pre^ 
Cftati6tl thftt individuals c6iild ddvis^ against it, pitoved dDSUcceflafid. 
ttttbdr^ijs pttiih^d M\f. The aif WM r^nt with tti^ df grief^ hbr^ 
f6t And €lest>ftir; the streets constantly presented the tnourirfid 
ipiMhdk ^ fuiSdfal bbs^qui^ pejrforming oter the dead'-^d . ^t 
ncessant passing to and fVoofpHetts, chai^d with th6 metaockol^ 
otece oi conveying the sacrament to the dying* 

Fear and dismay reigned to ^ery breast At length, ibe wretched 
dcsponHhi^ N«^>d&iilfty VHad to the &tal consequences whicii must 
inevttably. em» » » bad irMMMrs» ta.th^ i^n^eless and delusive cere« 
motties of a perventd ffel)t>0ii for their 4e^.verf«pe« 

Hlmterous processions, of both sexes, dad in habits of F^pa<'^> 
andUniirlmr flawlDgofer tbek sbi9«Merj,ipan^ded>the stiro^fron 
mmk% lo mght^ eattinf Mdly on Ood andtht'Sainto for aoiecour 
nnd rescue. In the mtdat of tbese pious devotipits, k ^ 'hi^^pmied, 
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herfy timralMlbeftniWs^ UrsiUa Benmcasa, who had died a short 
dm* before, and had auarted on her death-bed, « That if ever any 
draadflll calamity shoold threatsen Naples, her hermitage would be 
co«if«tted intu a palad*** Theei^ wowls, proneunced by one, wkiM 
sutc of mind botdefed on iffsaAky, he now^reulBted as a prophecy 
immediately proceeding fromdHrhie in9|Hracion. 

The calamity it alluded to, was now looked upon as arrived; 
beaming with hope, and pious confidence, every eye was ardently 
directed towards the herraitai^e of the holy Ursula, on the summit 
df mount St. Martin; and their minds became prepossessed with 
the conviction, that it was only by the restoration of these vapembla 
ruins their deliif^rance could he elfeeted. 

Not a moment was lost in fimming the plan of this saeaed edi* 
fiCc ; the impious Viceroy himseH" c^ried twelve baskets of cmth 
to the spot where it was to be erected, and, thereby, rendered hit 
inlkmy immortal. Every inhabitant of Naples, whether old orjroang, 
tradesman or grandee, artist or merchant, matron or virgin, vied 
vnth each other, in obeying the injunctions of their pries^ and imi- 
tating (What they esteemed) the piouft example oif their chief, whiba 
they thought no 8acri^6e either of money or iabe«r too great* The 
vcss^s, destined to ccmtara donations, soon overflowed with fald, 
silver, and Copper coins of every description ; tlie poorest NeapR)* 
Htan gloried in ^rrendering his hist soldi, and tho gaudiest dame iti 
divesting bterself of her finest ornaments, t6 complete die erectioaof 
the Sacred structore. Nor Was less readiness displayed in respaot 
to manual labour — ^both nobles and citltens subjected tkemaeliPcs to 
the moit tryhig exertions. The massy pile, aa if by <he cfiact of ma- 
gic, soon towered aloft in htoourof the holy BeQalcas»«-«4iat neMer 
did insulted reason revenge itself by so speedy and so dreadliil « 
blow, as on this Occasion. The very measure on which theao fkfaried 
enthusiasts so fhithfoUy rehod fbr their defiwraaoty most woefolly 
annihilated theit hopes, and, at once, became tie^Manaof hastening^ 
instead of avertmg, their destruction^ The'jntente heaa wbidi pre* 
vailed, and Which was rendered sriH more fetal in its conM<}uenoafly 
from the great concourse of peoplv Msemibled oa put spat, together 
with the hfltfnssittg exertidrtB whvdh aHaitstaintdviiaefssariiy dntcmi- 
nated the poisdnous infe^i^on thtoagh^very dasi, and Id every 
Quarter of the city. The phyticiana, themsel>res, at length, pro- 
nounced it to be the plague : and arvery pveoatition that m&dom or. 
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•nty mm^pt to stem Us deaoltJog Ip r o gwi w, wliifli -was ilafiy 
BMrked bjr the fall of tUmnnds of victims. In fi £ew daya» tbe 
clKirclkyards and eMensive cuitaoombs romd tht cily wcae fitted «ith - 
dead bodies* Th« |»«stileace sooarafi^ threugbout tba wiioi« kiif^ . 
dom, atid destroyed 400,000 uaibrtyiMa« beiagSy martyntd tbe sii* 
perstitioos firenzy of tbe 9^ of if bicb nmobar 06^000 were inbd>j- 
tants of tbe city pf Naples. 

It is paw nearly 150 years sioce tbis xaelaoGboly eveat ocearred : 
and, we egotists, casting a retrospect od tbose times, arrogate to our^ 
own, the appellation of * the enlightened age.* But ivbat right has 
Ifhe present age to » this distinguished title?. Have^tbe nomeroof 
reformersand philosophers, whodis^pguisbed that gloijouacia, i^es^ 
accomplished their boasted porpose of eQOob^Bg ^d enligbt^ung 
the rest of mankind by the propagation of their new systems and dog- 
mas? Has tiie reign of soperstidon rea/A|rbeen succeed^ by that of 
reason and truth ? Is mankind realfy become more enlightened ? Alas! 
although we are toU that all this has actually come to pass, yet, 
whe9 we compare tbe following anecdote of tbe present times, with ' 
wb^jt occurred in tbe siyteeotb ^ccnturj, a^ abosve-related, \ 4wveft- 
tore to say, that many doubts will arisein the mind qf tbe reflecting . 
philanthropist, on >his point, and that be will be s^nsjbly ^^iBietedait' . 
UiA comparison. , ^' 

The city of Leghorn was visited, in 1894^ by a dreadful oonta^ '■' 
giou, which the physicians asserted to be nolhing mor$ than arcem^ i 
mon putrid fever, notwithstan^iing its being the reoQn>ed opkiioB, * 
that it was the same disease as that whicbrage<f in the southern ptt>- 
▼inces of Spain, namely, the yellow fever. Tbe magistrates having 
resolved not only to call the powers of median^ but. also those of- 
the holy Roman religion, to their Aid, it^was ordained by the vicar** 
general, that, on the thirtieth day of Ootober, tbe niiraeolous image 
9f the Madonna del Montenero should be conveyed to a meadow * 
adjoining tlie church of Monlenero. Tbe ceremony, aocorcHngly, 
took place, amid incessant peals of bells, and tbe sacredbeHedictioD, 
accompanied by discharges of artillery fietom tbe fora-eeB,''w«8» at 
tbe same time, pronounced over the city, of Legfaortfi. This solemn ^- 
spectacle was witneised by, at ieast, tb^ty thoasaad persons, and 
among them the French general Verdier; they all held HgbtecT^ 
tapers in tbcir hands^ and loudly implored the intercession of the 
Madomia. Af^er the benediction, the miraculous image was carried 
in solepm procession ihfOflgh die idty. Wa;c-tapcij, weighing more 
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mothier of Clinst« Tife^ supeimttiotts mindar of the deluded rould- 
tinle were completely tranquifik^ by the performance of this 
abend otreMonjr 7 <nd, in order to pat a finishing stroke to the 
fiuce, the bones of' the holy Jaiiay (who had long been thetntehiry 
'saint of Leghons,) wa« pompoosly brois^ht forth and carried, with 
aU doe solennity^ tbcoogh the streets, together with the heart of the 
holy Vigilia, which, for centuries past, had been carefally preserved 
in the cacthedral. Notwithstanding the celebration of these pious 
solemnities which were regarded as an irifaUible means of deliver- 
ance, the pestilence continued to rage with unremitting Airy, daily 
destroying hundreds of Leghorn's deluded inhabitants : and, yet, 
die l^th, tStfa md 14th of November were appointed for a repeti* 
tion of these disgraoefel absurdities. S. D. 



^ ^ THE DYING CHILD, 

n?«E ta|ier was just ^mmering in the socket, as the weary and 

^^c^owful mother awaked from a momentary slumber, to renew 
her anguish ; she turned her eyes on her expiring inftmt, whose dim 

^ Orbs were slowly turning in their hollow abodes. It was roidni^it, 
and nothing was heard bort the strokes of the clock pendulum, and 

' the heavy sight of a disconsolate father, which mingled with the 
shorty deep breath of his sufibring darling. 

Half raised, and leaning on his pillow, he bad been watching die 

dread moment when a sigh or a struggle should announce, that 

hope and life had together taken their everlasting flight. A sudden 

• flatter drew theatteatioa of the wretched parents from Uieme^ 

laaehc^y^bjeol of their meditation : is was the expiring innocetit*^ ' 
&»Oiurit« bird, wfeofe £oad had been neglected ever since the danger \ 1 
of iti Httle admiffer had'abeorbed all other care, and, as the sad 
presage of bis £ae, it now expired I The i^rents looked alternately 
on ^aqkother^ and on the bird, but a( this instant, totidd to their 
distresi^ the candle ceaeed to bumj-^-the father seiaed his infaat^s 
hand*— the mother felt for it* forehead^ but th^ pulse was still, 
and ^l wa» cold ! 

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TviRx It something eitrtmely flattering to % generous mnMl, i« 
the idea of administeriiig relief to mother's piiiiis, to ^ ex^iMii the 
thought ; explore the a$king Qf€." Whet % delightifiil emplojioeat i 
•odytffhfn crovvned with toecess^ hy s recovery of o«r patieetyVe 
ere coneciom of an esuU4Uwn of Hiinciy which OMa on^ arise frwn ; 
the cortaioty of haviog done what oatiire ohuPQ») charUy eiiioin«^ aa4 
hearen approves^ 

To a mmd not perfectly at ease, there is sonaethiag extremely 
pleasing io the gwetness of the country. It is hke that artifiml 
?epose, which is aoqatrsd by opiates after long watching t Hke that 
too, though it netth^ strengthens nor nouri^shes» it allows us time 
Co recover our faculties, which are. often as mudi herrassed by 
living constantly in the midst of crowds, as our nerves are by aa 
acute disease. ; . 

It is somewhat difficult to reconcile the prpdigious activity of 
$ame woolen at the call of pleasure, with that mdolent life (• %hkh' , 
aiany coafine themselves ^— ^ometihies they eeem all firey^— a( o^ic( - 
tifaes they scarcely bf^tathe. 

It is too often the case, t|iat the a^eeable •qualities of the k^ 
are moie attractive than that steady virtue of the eoul, which 'Oi|ghl .' 
Ihrer to form the strongest link of firieadship. The ea^, d^oerful, 
aad entertaining companion, pieoMCi- mmt than the- delerofiaeil 
adherer to reason, virtue, and rel^irm ! This is the oature of shf' 
human mind-^and itis th^ source of fatal ertorfti 

. LONGEVITY OF MUSICIAN8. 

M • Sjkxf lETRo is another remarkable hietanoe of this, fie »*aq 
Itatiaii by birth, (I think a Florentine) and h priaciple seoood vio* 
Hn at the Opera-House ; he is now eighty-seven years of age, 6>r(!y 
of which he has phiyed in our opera : he is in the per^Sbpt pe^ 
s^Mion of all those faculties which a man of fi% usually pessessal* 
He makes nothing of walking ten or twelves mile a day; lie is aU 
*^ ways lively, his voice is still good and strong, hjs teedi^ vte und^ 
cayed, and his deportment indicates nothing of old a^, except hj a 
stoop in the shoulders, probably more owinj to the practice of tha 
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flb/w^ Actount of the Ufe and Writings of Lope Felix de Vegd Ciirph^ 
Bp Henfy Bdchard Lord Holtand. Svo. pp. 294, Longman 
' and Coi 1806. Concluded from p. 2^t> 

It was whh no slight degree of pleasure that we perused the foU 
lowing extract, which would seem to promise, from the enlightened 
mind' and able pen of Lord Holland, some further strictures on the 
drama, and perhaps some still more extensive assistance to polite li- 
terature, 

' «< Some scenes,** says Lord Holland, «* founded on a story similar to that 
' of 7/4 tf Orphan, may be compared to the correspondent parts of that tragedy 
widioot diflparagement to dthcr poot. Pathetic tenderness is not, however, 
Alt general duiacter of Lope*s prodpctloDs ;' aod / m^ have aft^re offpiorii^ 
Mieyofebewing, that, in that respect, ^ well at others, QuiDcQe4e Cintca 
^d^ a much stronger reieaiblancc to Oiw^y/* P. 177/' ^, 

To prevent the evil consequence of bad exaiQplesin dramatic; 
' exhibitions^ Lope's plays were R>r a period prohihu;^, and ho wa^ 
cQi^ftned to the |nrodactioa of sacred dranjas. 

f'THeyafttlndecdy'^s^ytbiUardtltip,^' truly rldictdottt^ lo the i#fu^ 
mei Pn^tOt St. Jul^ after having plotted tlie murder of lii»;frife«- and aor 
tually aCGoniplidied that of his father and mother, enters \p\o a coi)troyfr&|^ 
with the devil, as to the po8sibl)ity of beinjj iaved ; and >vhen Jesus Christ 
descends from heaven to effect a miracle for thai purpose in his favour, the 
desU^with mocb logical^recision, alledges such mtroy to be a breach of 
the original contract between him and the Almighty . He insinuates, indeed, 
that if he cannot reiekoa upan a parrkide^ ha m^y as well give over his bu- 
siness in 8opIs> ai there is noa{9eaaMWM<£iair d<;aUng in the Xx^e:* P. 1 BO. 
.-Besides iivorks oif Um soft^ hectHoposed innomefahle' " Entre- 
mH^^ in-whieh ** ^wre is nodsificieBcy of humoar ofihervimJent.'V 
' ''JiasKMir,'^ Us lonl^ wfelk gteat^ truth and ^d^ment observes, « Is 
ati tvs&jl^RaRrd of very peiisbajbla maScdaU. Same author remarks, that 
oyniipdjaugli in various ways^^ut alwaifs cry in t^e same. Tht? truth of 
that observation is strongly illustrated in the histofy of tj^e, theatre. Scarce 
a season pa!^ses without producing several successfwl pieces of humour; yet^ 
alter somd years are gone by, how few bear a reviv«l !" P. 184. 

^Icre immediately follows a luminous and just exposition of 
the merits of Lope as a .writer of plays. This we are reluctantly 
((jbligcd to omit^jio come to some observations made by his lordshim 

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on Voltaire, in which the French wit is strenueualy ^iefe^ded against 
hit detractors, 

«« Spaniards Englishmen, and Italians" we arc told," Tie with each other 
in tnTdghin; against hH occasional exaggeration d liaalty passages ; the an- ^ 
tbors of -which, tin he potnied oat their iMtatiet, were scarce known be-« 
yond Hikti country^ in which their Janguage was spoken: Those who feci such 
, Indignation at his misrepreirntati^as apd 'mistakes, would find it 4iificult ' 
to produce ag:itic» in any modem language, who> in speaMng of foreign 
literature, b better informed or more candid than Voltaiire j and they oer- ' 
uinly never woubl be able to dikcover one, who to those ^noMties' unites 
ao muth sagacity and liveliness. His eneinies would fain pertinad^ us t^t 
such exuberance of wit implies a w^t, or' information ; but they oo^yinc- ' 
ceed in shewing tha( a want of wit by no means implies an exAiberance (>| 
iafdrm^n.r P. 192. ' . . ' 

To this nnmber of plainlifift might -have been added" the' P6rta-» 
"guese. 'Thomas Joseph de Aquino, the editor tff the woiks ot'Ca-/ * 
moens, 1782, in his address to the sender, bn brought an actaoo 
agahnt hikn for defamation, and to his own satisfaction eleail^^ 
prtnrcd *• w calumnias efalUdadet do insolente e petulante Vdlt(dr%^ 
V. I. p. 14. Hare too it is but fair to allow, that the Portuguese has 
justice bn bls^e, fo* nothing can be imagine^d moire (fisingenuOHs'^ 
than the criticism ofV<»ltaireon the Lusiad, which was written with 
no other light than chat afforded to him by\he bald and ridicnlons J 
yeraion o^ Fam^iaw,' With segard to rtie character of the ttnmA of thfe ' 
eittraordinary French wf^t^r, a very accurate n6lion may be formed 
from these words pf1>r. Young. ^ 

** Voltaire had a great, but a genetal capitf:ity^ apd as 6wr a general 
genius, there is no such thing in nature, A.^nlus ucftpiite^ the .rays ,' 
of the miud coAcentred cmd detendiQed to some particiikr p(fid^i, 
when they are scattered widely, they a<?t iMily, and ttrihe nc^ with 
sufficient force to fire or ffesolve theheaft." • ^ 

We must indeed confess that we differ §rum his )Ard^tf> 4F9fith- 
rially in respect to the camiour of Vpltaire« Wi^eut nadRfstaniiBg ■ 
more of Eoglisb than migltf eniibk him to tead.'h ne^spftper, Ub 
undertook to ci*:t)cise Shakspeaee and Olway^ wi|}> a ^Bk&igttx£%^ 
norance, malice, and buffooHery, with which therniultltnde df vu!^ 
readers on the continentf could ndt fail to" be gratified. ■ ^If &ny ontf^ ■ 
wishes to have an exact ideaof hfs qualifications 9S a ct?tic of £ogK^ 
poetry, he should read Mrs. ^IVIountague's Essay on Shakspeare. She . 
has fairly brought hiih down, and a gi'eat portion of the French drama 
along with him. Her criticism of the Cinna is perfect an<J unap^werat- . 
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))art7calarl3r the Mahomet and Alzire. But he was deterrDitied to be 
(ktiiversaly and that was enough to make him superficial His prose 
writings are always bitter andratilignant, and .sometimes witty^ 
This makes his historical pic(ie$ entertaining, without dignity, moral^ 
or character. If Kit levities had been tedious, they wouUl soon 
have sunk into oblivion with his serious discourses in the Die- 
tionnnire Pfailosopbiqiie. But his style is sharp and quick, and you 
lose no time with him. His Siicle de Louis XIV • seems to ha^ 
been wi^ttea on purpose to keep the true character of that vain, ig- 
norant, cruel despot out of sight. The ostentatious actor of ma- . 
Jes|:y, the perpetual warrior without personal courage^ the formali- 
ties ol religion without piety or mbiUlity, and the dupe of the Je» 
9uit9^ who made bhn believe that the persecution of the innocent 
Protestants was the ^ight road to his own salvation; These are the 
» true features of th# character of Lewis the Fourteenth ;* but the5^ 
are not to be found in' the SitcU of Voltaire. It is true, he con- 
demns Charles the Twelfth for the death of Patkul; but he takes no 
pf^ns eb excite the horror and detestation due to thdt infernal act 
of cruelty ; and still loss for the wanton and, barbarous sacrifice of 
Ills'* friends at Bender* As to science, he (ia# just* xentured far 
enoti^lvt(f ^ew bb ignorance. In his Candide, he §eeras to have 
'^ intended to. try his slreHgih against Gulliver, and he perishes in tha 
1 attempt . Yet carietiture, burlesque, a(id buffoonery, wi^l carry itj 
with the vulgar, because at first impression they always excite 
laughter. No man of taste can read such tn»h twice, aod still less 
Tristram Shandy^ wbich once was \A vogue, and now forgotten. But 
GoBiver and Don Quixote are iiUmortal. Voltaire knew very weR 
tlmtreligiDn was one of tl>e weapons, with which it was intended that 
the few should govern the many; but he forgot that the many, even 
for their own sake, tnnst be governed by the few : therefore he made 
a perpetual ifiockcry of religion,' without being in earnests For that 
. « niftn of his sagacity could contemplate the system of the world, or 
' ^etk hi&own body, so wonderful in its contrivance, and bon& fidecx" 
clude*design from the construction of it, we believe to be impos- 
sible. But we lose sight of our subject. Lord Holland's remarks 
^on the services which Voltaire rentfered to literature, and the com- 
mendations, wtiich he bestows on hb wit, possess an abundance of 
taste and discrimination; artd if we ditf'er' ftom'his lordship in one 
"''^ pardcular, it is far from an impeachment of that joc^ment, which 
, we have had such constant occa^on to adoiire. 

* See Htrabcau d«s lettrv de cachet, et des prisoBs.d'^tat, p. 898, for 4 fiiU C9n- 
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The plou of Lope^s plajfs have proved a ricfa storehouse to the 
dramatic freebooters of other nations. On this suliject it is well 
observed : ^ 

*< Sophocles modestly u-ertc^d that his most finishe<i pUces were com* 
poicdof the crum'^ that had fallen from the tohle of Homer ; bat those, . 
(and tbcy are not few) who have fed on 'he leavings of Spanish writers, ha^e 
fvn away with the moft valtmMe pait of the feast, and profited as much 
frnm the bad Usee ai from the praftidon of their masters." P. 207. 

With relation to this point, we shall ^ve a piaisant extract 
from p. 213. 

** Dryden*i Almanazor, from which character that writer's acqtaint- 
ance with Castilian poetry U manifest, is meek and^ hamble in coniparlsoft 
of the Bfmartht and Mudarras cS the Spanish author; and if,as Johnsoa 
•ays, the Englis^h poet hovers on the confines of nonsense, I^opc nust^ ac- 
knowledged to have Irequently invaded the territory. Bernardo^ for in- 
•tance, is not contented with being a noble savage, as fh:e as nature first ^ 
made man, and with having neither lord nor parent, but he goes so far m 
to dedare himself his own : 

■* Since my high birth is by my valour ihowti, 
*< And yet my parents are till now unknown , 
« Methinki Beniardo needs mu>t be his own .'* 

• P. ^3. 
** 'Nee Deui inttnit^ nm dignut vindice nodui 
" Incident:'' 
Lope kn^w that he must not introduce a God to untie his knaCSy' 
therefore he introduces a fool. The ancients had their God^ the Ita- 
liaos their ilr/e^tno^*^and the Spaniards their GracioMOy* or buffoon. 
^ At the conclusion of a complicated plot, when tiie author is uoa^ 
ble to extricate himself from thchembkirrassments he Jias created, 
in any probable manner, the buffoon steps forward, cuts the Oar- 
dlan knot, explaii^s away the difficulty, discloses theaecret, and 
decides upon the fate and raarria|^es of all who are present.*' P. 193. 
In addition to this merit, he gives Lope a frequent opportu- 
nit J of displaying his talents for sprightly and burlesque poetry, of 
which his lordship has given us a lively specimen, turned with great 
eas^ point, and neatAess. " I subjoin," says he, " Julio's defeacife , 
of his master, who^ in the Hermosa fea, bad a^ted to be insen- 
sible to the charms of the duchess of Lorrain : 

," Julio ^ Celia. ' , ' ' 
•* Jui. Un mal gusto, &c. - 
^ Jul. Bad taste— but *twas allowed l<ttig since, , 
« That tastes of no dispute admfti 

• El que en U» Comediag y A«tos tiene el pap0 festiro y cfcfetofso, Ce« qae iVi- 
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^ CeL But, when to bad at In your prince, 

•< Tli€ want of taste shews want of w!t. 

« Jul Why men there are in cloudy days, 

«* Who, spite of rain , abroad will r6am ; 
*« Who hate the sun's all-cheering rays, 
« And when 'tis fine will mope at home ; 

** Men too there are who loath what'a tweet* 

<^ What ve like flMMt- they reUth least, 
** Xhey without bread their onions eat, 
C. . «^ '< And deem the sorry meal a feast ; 

^ Spaniards in India there have been, 
** Who to their wives extremely slack ; 

** Have loathM a fair and snowy skin, 
** And sighM in secret for a black; 

^* Some without cause their •u1>stance glre, 
'* Squander away their time and pence ; 

** Otiiers give nothing while they live, 
*' But trmible, umbrage, and offence ; 

** Some sleep by day, and waich by night; 

«« Some to one nymph their fife devote j 
«• Othf rs Adr faith and duty pHgbt 

<« To all who wear the petticoat, 

"* Then that one man Iier charms decries, 

*' Should givethe beauteous dame no carq 
^* Because my master wants his eyes^ 
** Your mistress sui'e is not less fair.*' 

1^.195. 
The noble author of thi$ learned, elegant, and amusing work) 
has, in his walks througli ** Vega's garden,*' (often to hifnself te* 
dious and uuprofitable) imitated, ia some degree, the bees of Lu^ 
cretkis, and might say : 

'' Fiorifem ut apes in sgliibus omnia Ubant-^ 
•* Omnia notJ* 
The agreeable fruits of Iiis labour are here before the puMic; 
•nod while his lordshipS judicious extracts, accompanied by trans • 
. ifttious full of merit, afford us a just idea uf the genius of the Spa- 
nish poet, bis criticisms either teach us all .that, it is necessary to 
• know about him, or ,po2nt out the avenues, which best lead to a 
more enb^ed gratifkation. 

. With these f^ensible observations his lordship terminates* this 
' ingenious: pLubliqation: 

* An Appendix is aftded, iHllch, atkiongst other desirable information, contains • 
list of Lope*s 'works, and an admirable treatisa Ujr Don Uaspar, with a vision, wK^cb 
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* Bat the effect or Lope*t Uboori mnit not be considered by tf Vefeitnctf 
to Uognage alone. For th^ genertl interest of draniatic produdiom, for 
the Tariety and ipicit of the dUlogtif, as well as for some partioilar plays, a^ 
modem theatres are Indebted to him. Perfection in any art U only to be 
attained by successire improremedt ; and though the last polish often ef« 
bees the nurlcs of the precdlng workman, his skill was not less necessary 
to tlie accompllslunent of Vt woitl, than the hand ef his mor»celebrated 
niccessor. ThiacoiMideratkm «^1f , Ilkope, excasc tbe length ofchistrea- . 
tise. Had I^ ncYer written, th< masterpioces of droelUe and MoUere 
might ncTcr have been prodoeed ; afid were not tho^e celebrated compoai- 
Cloos known) he might atdl be regarded as one of the best dramatic authon 
in Europe. 

** It seems but an act pf justice to ,pay some hepoor to the memory of 
men, whose labovrs have promoted literature^ aod -enabled others to eclipse 
theif own r^utation. SmcH wa^ Lope de Vega ; once the pride and glory 
Spaniards, who, in 'heir literary as weH as in their polidcal achievements^- 
hare, by a lingular fatality, discovered regions, and opened m>ne$, to benefit 
their neighboura and their rivals, and to enrich every nation of Europe, but 
their own."* P. 232. 

The style of iord Holland's writing is correct and elegant; and, 
there is an bgrcnwnt in his manner^ which of itself would give an at;* 
' traction to a less euc^rtaining subject^ mid to less interesting mate , 
ri^s. 

' ^itcellanie$ in Prose and Verse, ' By Alexander MoUe$on. Si* 

1800. 
Mr. Mollssok is what we may cafl a good sort of man, and 
■ there arc ten thousand readers who wooJd- do well to, prefer hi9 ' ' 
•* Miscellanies*^ to most of the books on which they waste their time* 
To promise any tb'mg extraordinary, however, whether he moves on 
foot or on the wing, would be to pave the way to disappointment. 
We cau admire the expressive and touching simplicity of melody 
as well as Mr. M. but^ot to the exclusion of harmony, Thomsori' 
* has tliis verse : . 

** The maiy, running soul of melody." — 
For mtlodyp we would read harmony* 

A Walk through Leeds, or Stranger'^ Gu^ide to every Tftbtg worf^ 
Notice^ M that ancient aHd populous Ihten^ wkh an Accoimt tff ' 
the Woollen Manufacture of Jhe Wett-tUding of Torlahlre.^y 
WiihPkKet. Umo. is, 6d. Crosby and Co. 1^.* .; ^\ 

This guide will be found to be a convenieiit and Intellig©^^- ; ■> 
compapioB in a walk (heugh Leeds* Those who vmlk*any oth^r '* - 
way, will of coarse leaveJt at home. \ ^ - 



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-rn iL. ■■■ "■ ■ u I II II . - M l I ■.. m ■..■■■^S5> 

Tkt Wo^ %W^ <» WwW; JBy ^ie -4»<Aor of Ariel, (j-c. 3 Fofr. 
125. Chapgle. 1806. 
^ A ttwod fi5fii8Jpiik iuideed ; and one more fond of " brown horrori* 
and frigbtfiil rambles* we nerer met witb — ^Ileavcn be praised ! 
Hiese laborious attempts to surprise, perpetually commence and 
teraunate witb absurdities^ wbicb excite a smile bj no mea^ flatter* 
ing to the author. 

A Letter to a Country Gentleman, containing some Remarks on the 

Principles and Conduct of those Ministers of the Church ofEng^ 

land, who exclunvely style themselves Evangelical Preachers, 

Sdo, U.6d. Button, 1806. 

, If, insteiid of the next set of charges, our bishops would take the 

p«ins to correct a few misstatements in this letter, and then address^ 

it to their respective dioceses, they would shew their wisdom ; and, 

if their lordships would further take an active part in producing the 

desired reformation, they would evince a respect for -their duty, 

which would be highly to their credit. 

Miscellaneous Foetioal Translatians, to which is add*d a Latim 

■ Priae Essay. By th€ Rtv. F. JSowes, A. M. pp. 14$. 4s. ^ 

Jiawmw, 1806, . * 

Tnis is the production of a sdiolar and elegant versifier, Uh 

version of the battle of the frogs and the mice, is rendered more h^- 

morqus than it appears in any other EngUs^h d^ess, by the names of 

' the heroes^ composed of two or more Greek words, being traos* 

lated, ' . 

This IS the most creditable piece in tlie collection. The woric 
is elegant, but by no mea^ wonderful^ uuless it be so th^t an A. M« 
* should trouble liimself to read any thing beyond a newspaperj^ or tq 
write an)|,thiug more important dian'a receipt. 

Biographical Memoirs of the late J^ev. J. War ton, D. J), to whick 
are added, a Selection from his Works, and a JMeraty Correspond 
ence Jtetween Eminent Persons,^ reserved by him for Publication, 
hy the Rev. J. Wooll, A. M* Master of the Free Graminar . 
'School of Midhurst,^c'. Volyt, 4^o. pp, iOTi Cadell and ] 
.\.f£)pvks. 1806. ' • , . " 

> The >vtijtings of Joseph. Warton are admired by ^ery maa of 
t^stil^and his severer labours, as master oi St. Mary Win ton College,. - 
'^re abundantly useful to the rising generation of his day* , 
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820 THE WOSTBLY MIRROR. 

' ! ■ — "i" ■; ' ■ : ■ ' •' n 

degree of interest ; bat our business is on tliif occasion more partis 
cularly to dilate on the merits of Mr. Wool! the editor^ who» 
hta to these selections prefiied a biographical meqsoir of their 
author. 

In the capacity of a school master, Mr. Woqtt may, in pn^jor-? 
tion to his sphere of action, share id that peculiar sort of praise which 
is due to his illustrious friend Dr. Warton, but as a v^riter he will 
partake in no degree of the admiratioa which the doctor excites. 
Mr. Wooll is, we are ready to. believe, a well-meaniug, honest oum^ 
but when he took up his pen for any purpose beyond the correction 
of an exercise, he should have listened to prudence, in preference to 
Tanity, and learnt that in writing for the public eye, ** II ne s^agit 
point d'honnetes gens, mais de gens de bori sens." If we were* * 
able for a moment to suppose the most egregious vanity iout of the 
question, we could guess but one reason that could have induced 
Mr, WooU, to attempt the writing of Dr. W's. life, and this we are 
ashamed to mention. However, on a silly subject,, we may be al- 
lowed to be absurd. On the principle of" He that drives fat bul- 
locks, should himself be fat," he probably thought that he who 
writes the life of a scho<^master, should himself be a schoohna^er. 
Ridiculous as this may appear, Mr. Wooll has really, and in tmth, 
ao other qualification ! The error of this gentleman's judgment is 
not uncommon. Schoolmasters, like naval officers, imagine, becau^ 
every thing is referred to them, and at their bidding in their respec- 
tive situations, that tliey may come forth into the world, and lead 
the way there as well as amongst the little boys of the former, or 
the obedient tars of the latter. The mistake however is soon disco- 
vered, and the affiiir terminates, in general, with a few affected gri- 
maces on the one hand^^ and a hearty laugh of contempt on the 
other. 

These memoirs ^re comprised in 103 pages, and in his preface 
the writer tells us, with ineffable coniplacency, that he " feels him- 
self acquitted of presumption" in this attempt^ because " ^ix years* 
have elapsed, and no gther person has undertaken to " rescue 
from oblivion, the excellency of Dv. W's. iporal and intellectual at- 
' tainments !'' ' He then adds, with a very natural pre$eT\timer^t of the 
C<>nscquence, that '^ in a word, if he has ipot tarnished -the reputa- 
tion, or lowered tlie name ©f Warton,»he will quietly submit to the^ 
im^utaiion o^7iot having exalted his osvn^^ P. v. * 

In die next page we learn that many family letters.were sup- 
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4« of the ^ Memoirs,'' produces m very sillj ope to Dr, W's, sister, 
mlach^ as Mr. WooU.fjrefers the ftpprobatioti of the family, to what 
be caUs ** the incidental deprivation of fame,'' should have been 
omitted. Its decapying tip^o and a half pages, quarto, seems to be 
the only sensible reason for its insertion. Still as the whole of the 
letter treats of vanity, it does not appear how Mr. WooU can be 
said to have consulted his interest when he gave it a place. These 
patches are frequent^ and in this interesting way runs the thread of 
Mr>, WooTs Memoirs-^Bom 17 ^?— goes to school — writes a letter 
lohis sister-— subject for verse, two and a half pages; Wooll inrap- 
tures, p. 13 — the doctor has the small pox — is ** tenderly nursed 
by the mother he idolized,** recovers, obtains a living, and ** imme- 
diately marries Miss Daman." After " a heart-wounding separa- 
tion from the wife of his unabating tenderness," he visits the con- 
tinent with the duke of Bolton^ Not understanding French, he 
had recourse to Latin— upon which Mr. Wooll, with exquisite feel- 
ing, exclaims jsias I ^ alas ! the bald, unclassical, and monkish style 
in which a few, and very few Irish friars in the convents were eiia* 
Ued to converse, imparted but at best disjointed information, and 
fiimisbed a very broken and imperfect correspondence/* The '* alas" 
IS unoonaroonly pretty, and introduced with great taste, but the 
cause of it is admirablr^ JrisA friars talking to an English doctor in 
bald Latin / The doctor^s impatience to be with his wife (more 
TuUural than any thing else) '^ induced him to wave," says bis bio* 
grapher, anxious not to tarnish his reputation^ " every consideration 
of intellectual improvement,** and return to England. 

Now he is the editor of Virgil, and, in consequence of his pre* 
ference of Pitt to Dryden, some pages are wasted on quotations 
iffom Drydeo, Johnson, &Cv We are then favoured with several 
erudite criticisms on Virgil, by Mr. WooU himself, who, it seems, is 
a great reader of translations, and boasts of the use they have been 
to him in school '' as a professioual man.** P. 38. Wartoo, to his 
mind, is better than Dryden — he admires ** his every opinion*" The 
doctor becomes a writer in the Adventurer, and, by the way of no- 
velty, his twenty-four papers are described. His Essay on Pope 
also introduces a tedious, idle, and extraneous investigation of 
Pope^s merits. Not content ■ with telling us what Warton wrote, 
he must do more, and with him '^ it would be injustice not to give 
it in his own words," consequently we have it, and it certainly does 
fill up and swell out most effectually. It is unnecessary to go en 
with a recapitulation of the 'trifling information and crambe repetita 

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«f iImm "" Memmt9.^ W« ae«d not M die wlWb of a bsutiai t» 
know that kit unfit ito bring 40 t»bk. We tkali Aotur tadse ore or 
tfiree MiiMkrks^ mmd than ieare «Im ui|gntelal diah te %e rcisM 
by flKMBftcbs to wbitb coarse fioiid is afpeeable. Hamg bte»(bft» 
sppoioted of our laeal, we iliell«Dda0voor to mako ourteWes mertf 
over our miofortooee. 

lastinct is tbat wbicti acts tfritbout tbe duection of choice or 
reaeoB, aod then we hear of a Icaraed doctor's ^ ituiinc$he iove 4if 
literature.** P. 29. We ane i^ told that the eagefiiess 4^ an ecBr 
tor to insert erery aokaowo production of hit audnr ra a " gen^ 
faUy venial desire/' P. 83. Would it not come nearer the mark to 
read '' venal desire ?^ At p. 88, on a late edition of <j^fs inorks, 
in whicii there is an ^ indecent copy of verses,^ is this eksgaat and 
well^written remark : ^ In tbb case a paet is become d^ectionaUe, 
through whose whole volume was not, ere this, one line which coold 
raise the slightest bhish on the dieek of virgmity. The puMi^er 
will^ it is hoped, see the propriety of oastigstmg tlie edition.'^ Cap' 
trafingy Mr. Woolt, would render the naughty book a more fit com* 
panion for virginity/ / After a period fay no meafis singular, (see 
p. 19 & passim) though utterly void of isonse, we have this shrewd 
■entence : ^ In every sense Of the word tbeM is something Rrsufioui^ 
if not despicable, ta ^cret 'oioUmeJ* P. 86. Yes, after all, in a 
iiote at the end of the vokirae, we learnt, to our^eat surprise, (for 
who could have guessed it,) that tlie eipecialmperfection of the work 
is in the punc^a^n / 

As a critic, this Woell is not the ^aple commodi^, but the 
*' hma caprinn** of Horace. What has proceeded, (to use bis new, 
but not insignificant term) from his " cloeef df criticisra,** p. 79, 
appears to be written in one closet, to be read ahortly and finally in 
auother. As a writer, generally peaking, he is contemptible. 

If it should be thought that we have shorn Mr. Wool! rather 
cruelly, we desire no other revenge for the injus^ce dwie us than 
that he who thinks so should be condemned to read the writings of 
our memorialist ;— he will then be both convinced and punished. 

The public is tbreatened with a second Volume, which, if it con- 
tain none of Mr. Wooll's wit, may be acceptable. However, we 
cannot doubt that if his friend, tlie doctor, could speak ^fi-om the 
grave, he would, varying a single term, exclaim with OtheUo ta 
Cassio— . 

" I love tliee, 
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Sorace, tnanHflted by ike Hetw Philip Francis^ md rexis^d b^f, 
H, J* Fycy Es%. Poet laurMut to lfi& iMS»^%# X^mOi^pp,. 4>5»^ 
4»« Cf 0% md Co. 180i^. 

Wb hwirea mspectfbrMr. Pfe^a9a§choliit,l^ we are ^rfhj* 
^iBg ptet trf witb the use vHlveh ^ htus mad^ of his nsMe, on'^t' 
occasion. Francis's Horace has hitherto heen pubHihCd, ivhh notes 
to the Latin and ^ii|^h teift ceitraterally ptinted. ISere iht trans- 
iatkm ap{>ears trkhont either the original or notes, aiittthe poel^ 
h^uveat'ft name has been obtained, to figure tiwaf m a reiHief, &» 
tlw tptie page, when We verily beliere that he kAowa nothing of 
tbe work, heyottd the sum whieh 1^ i«ceived ft)r the permission 
grattied to the pab^Ker ef using these five i^tter^, IF. J. Fye- This i^ 
a>practice, bbrrovred from eminent engrarers, and still more de- 
serving of reprobation in literature, than in the graphic art. Oat 
reasons for this opinion are simply these, — The text, which is saW tot 
have beea revised by Mr. Pye, has most of tlie errors of i^e early 
editions^ and the seventh, which was revised und corrected material^ 
by. the translator, ha» never been consulted. Many proofs of this 
fact mi^ht be adduced : two will suffice. The text^ corrected for the 
last time by the author, with an improved preface, a{)peared in 1765, 
where, to take the first page, it runs thus : 

Maecenas, whose high lineage springs 
From fair Etruria's ancient kings, 
O thou, my patron and my friend, 
On whom my life, my fame depend ; 
In clouds the Olympic dust tq roll, &c, 

' Acconbng to Mr. Pye^» revifingy ibut : 

O thou, whose birth illustrious spni g's 
From fair Etrurians ancient kings, 
Maecenas, to whose guardian name 
I'owe my fortune and my fame ; 
There are, who round the (dympic goal,&:c. * '' 

r 

which is the reading, of former uncorrected copies, {sit to be 
believed, that if Mr. Pye had actively undertaken the office pf 
' editor, he would not have fooked to this ? That the editor, whoever 
he was, knew nothing of it, is manifestly clear, and his ig^oran^a 

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with ra^EMtl to cht triiislatvir if not lessr apparent, lince he if her9 
t^ledy ** the Rgv, Fhilip Fn^ndt^'* when, premaf to t^e seventh 
edatioD of hit work, he had taken hb degree of Doctor of P^nitj, 
Tlrif it aa intuit to the pahlic» and a disgnece Co literatore, which 
ceaaotbetoo oiach repwhtadedar roMntedi. Xhatiatoholarand 
a ftnlkmaa tboald have imphcatedhiaffatf ini«ach>a tmntaetiea ia 
alWitether aef^aoahk. 

At la the pablication of Horaoei in. this ^eoaditioii, ef ea if the 
£a(Ua)ileu amca eonooc^ i& wauU^ witfaoat^aphmalory notet» be the 
idktttbiag thai ever droptftoBi the prett» ^Sach a waik ooukiastir 
he addiwttfd to the aMPe Bngiith leader^ ivha woaM, ia everj page, 
meet with such dilficaltief^ at jautt^ in the end« iodooe him to pnn 
nounoe the wisest and wittiest poet of the Aaguatan afe> oaa af 
near! J th^ duliest and most unintelligible wpters of his acquaiat* 
aoce. 

A turn Dictionary cf the Spaniih and English Ixmgmagei ; wherein 
the Words are explained agreeable to their different Jideanings, 
and a great Variety ofTerms^ relating to the ArtSy Sciences, 
Trade, and Navigation, carefully elucidated. Compiled from the 
best Authority, hy Henry Neuman. In two Parts, Svo. Vemor 
and Hood. 

At a period like^the present,^ when the elegant criticisms of Lord 
Holland, on the writings of Lope de Vega, are likelj to create a 
tafte for Spanish literature, and when the capture of 9uenot Ajfres 
must make the f tudj of that noble language, in man^ cases, aeces* 
sary, it is with peculiar satisfaction that we see thi9 desirable ac- 
quititioD Militated, by the possession of a copious and exceUent 
dictionary. Mr. Neumaahas^ ia tbie eompilatitMi, canealtedthe 
best fources, and we have here, withoot the inaccuraciee and stds' 
conqrptions of the Madrid quarto, of the R«v. Fathers Connelly and . 
Higgiufi, aUthatif requisite, in. a con?eaientfonD> topivmote Ae 
study of the Castilian language. 

More Miseries, hySir Fretjut Murmur, JTnf . Symonds, ani Mathews 
and Leigh. 5s, hoards, 
X^E'flirice welcome this littlc'volume, which wJU no doubt prove 
a cordial to the morbid, the melancholyi and the irritable, to whom 
il h addressed. * The dedicaUob, to Mr. Coleman, which is full of 
eccentribity, contains a very elegant' coinplimeht to that deligh^ul 
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•nd QOQftakis manj HMSterij touthet. Move Miseries Are Uitradooed 
m A cbrrevpoadMoo betvpeen Sir F. M. and his friend Giles 
Whimblcy in the course of wliicfa> some very uatural and whimsical 
an^cdatoi are related^ Sir FrtCful's sisteiv and her spense Mr. 
DeWty whkh made us lai^ most <heartitjr» The description of m 
botaniiQai iecUxn, at th» iastitate in Atbermarie^reet, ie vmj 
liappy and ludicrous. The Miseries contam a fresli catidogae, of 
ibose petty iwaatioiis^ which so often fret and fidget us into ill 
luuttOMf: they are all original, well worded, and possess mnch epK 
firaimnatic- point . In short, we strong^ roconQmend this prodactioa 
t^i^ otti-aenstore readers, who love a laugh. The name of the 
ToM author is not aaenrionod, bnt wo sMspeet^ from the style, that ha 
is well koowa to the public 

Represent State of Peru : ^Comprising its Geography , Topography, 
Natural History, Mineralogy, Commerce, ^c. l^c. The whole 
drawn from original and authentic Documents, chiefly written 
mtd compiled in the Peruvian Capital; and embellished by En* 
gravings, 4 to. pp. 48r. il. 2*. Phillips. 1805. 

This expensive work is little better than a loose translation, 
without judgment or discrimination, of El Mercurio Peruana, The 
Peruvian Mercury, a paper published periodically at Lima. It 
certainly contains some information, but it is bought at a great 
charge both in the purchase in the first instance, and the patience 
exhausted in bunting for it in the second. 

Lord Chesterfield, writing to Faulkner, hopes that he prints and 
sells a great number of books^ whether they are read or not. ^ If 
ihtj become bnt' fashionable furniture," says his lordsliip, " it will 
'serve -your purpose as wett, or it may be better; for if people 
bought ao piore books than they .intended ta reid, and no more 
aworde than they intended to use, the two worst trad^ in Eurbpe 
.woald he 4 bookseller^s and a sword«<utler^s ; buf luckily for both 
they are x^dLQutd gent^l ornamenti/' This splendid quarto comes 
prcc^ly within the dcKription of, << fashionable. furQitura»^- or 
" genteel ornaments,'' and m\\ be found very useful and ornamental 
to those who buy books to please the eye I But for the supofscrip** 
tion and anachronism, one would swear that the lettei;- above 
quoted had been written, within the last few years, to that great 
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t9mo, 4 Fob. JohmoHf SfC. 180G. 

Tn principal ^xceUence of cMs editioQ of Dtydtn^B Virgtl is itt 
ft ccuracy; and the novelty of it tiie jiJHiciotM' eorfectiofiof what 
Dr. Cwrey caMs hi* ** eertectiem*^ It appears that Dr. Carey pob- 
Bshed an addirioft of these works m 1803, whenr he rasMy presamed^ 
vnder the titte of *• eorrectioa*^* uooupporteo^ hy masiascnpt an*- 
thority, to meddle with Dryden's textj and to disturb the commoit 
readings by innovations, made according to his own judgment, to 
which he seems to have paid far too much respeiJt. WiU» a ** cer- 
tainty,'' **ttndottbtedfy,'^ ** un^esdoiwibly,'* the Doctor ha* msertiM 
in his edition whatever pleased his fancy, bnt, as the pfresent edHor 
truly observes, ^^ it by no means follows, because a oommentatot 
hits upon a better word, or phrase, or more sense, or what ought to 
be written, that the translator therefore unquestionabfy wrote so.^ 
Hem. vi. Dr. G. is, throughout these remarks^ treated with g^eat 
candour, and hb error so fairly exposed, with regard to the vitia- 
ting of Dryden's text, by his corrccfto?**, that he cannot but be con- 
irtnced of his fault, and lament the mistaken judgment on which he 
has acted. Bjr the way of afibrding a " taste of the quality* of our 
author, in the trimming which he has giv^n Dr. Carey, vre sfaaM 
transcribe several of his rtmarkt on the corrtetions, or rather cor- 
ruptions, of the latter. 

** Georgic, iv. line 591. 

Break out in crackling flames to shun thy snarCf 
Or hiss a dragon, or a tiger stare. 

Dr. Carey, having found " snares*' aiid *^ states,'* ih the 1st and'Sd 
«<Ktions, says, 'I^ave priftted snort and shore, aiccbr^bg to the 
poet's intention.'^ He might have sttid'acconHng W Vhr, Joh nson^ 
Edit. vol. xxii. p. iPS, where tins reading obtahrt. 86*0180 ih'Martin 
and Bain^s Edit. 1T95 ; and so even itr Ahderson^s vety %cofrect 
edition of the poets, vol. xii. This, we most dbserve, is sitnongst 
the errors of the first and secofld editions, which t>f. Carey som»- 
What hastily affirms, *bave be^n copied in cl/ thcJ others hitherto 
publbhed.' 

linena. ' , 

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Their anger, and remit the punishment. 
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m§y^--^£ we know not what— c(»nre<Aed ^rekwt, ^ word ^oo 
jdoobt,' used by Dryden, to ^repent J We, howevier, i^ satisfied 
wkk * repent/ conceiving it to a£brd us, even without, but certainly 
with, the subsequent member, * and remit the punithmenty^ a rery 
fair and intelligible translation of irasque remittent^ In this senaie^ 
the Lord says^ in Jeremiah, * I will repent of the evil that I thought 
to do unto them.' 

line 787. 

To appease the manes of the poet^ king. 

©r.'CapeyJprints *|>oc^king,* with his usual * 1 doubt not, Dryden 
^rote as I have printed ; Orpheus having, according to some ac- 
counts, been king of the Cicones.' 

' FoH^ km^ may stand. It 4S at least as probable as ^Ibr^ 
jner coq^tuve, and preferable, as it does not disturb the teiU;, that 
J>ffydeo meant, in consecjuence of the wonders related of his Jyre^ 
to distinguish Orpheus as the king of Poets, And, granting any 
faoderate share of his history to be true, he was indeed 'i^n'ace;^ 
^pteiarumt^ or ^poetarmn rex, as Homer has been called by XylandflT 
«Bd Heurnios. P. ix. x. 

^neisy ix. Dne 796. 

Him, when he spy'd from &r the Tuscan king, 
I^id by the lance, &c. 
.'Any fchool boy might at once,' says Dr. C. 'have discovered that 
Dryden had written,— 

Him when he sp^dfromfary the Tuscan kii^ 
Laid by the lance, &c. 
Yet — strange to relate, — the ajbsufd ponQtatioa of tko tot edition 
lia^ nev9r tiU mow beeu cc^rrected.' 

Br. Jiohnson's edition of the English Poets, vol xxii^ p« ^96, atvl 
Dr. Anderson's— linw^tf to relate J — ^Dr, Carey never saw. P. xviii 

Tlie wholeiof these remarki ar^ written with learning, taflte^ 
-and good sense. All the suggestions of Dr. Carey^ :refuAed or coin 
iuEsaed, are heve preserved, while the tej^t oC jDryden is treated wkdk 
.that respect, which the writings of ey^ry author are entkled to, hmm 
the care of an editor. This edition posses^^ mmy. claims ttp ^ 
preference of the public. 
Ikaee with France and Catholic Emancipation repugnant to the Conn 

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is bigUjr mpniiwrttB» «mI iIi^ talk of (kb wotk filte vttf iittio 
tfaori of biMpbemj. 

Ii5« BattU of Armageddon^ or a jintd Triumph qf the Prote$iani 
Cause. 12mo. It* llatckard. 

This author is without delay, to bo pot in the somo f^l wttb 
Mr. Mayer, tbe onbaf^ eatbuuaat just notioecU Hie nature of lu» 
work may be gathered from one piece of informatioa in it#-^»ii3Ltj 
yean (according to the ^fullest calcniation) the Millennium is ^ 
commence. 
I%eij^ng Per$on*$ Assistanfy in reading the old Teitament* Im • 

Series of letters from a Mother to her Children, relative to 

Divine Truth. By Mrs. Draxoharn. 8w. j^. ^9. 2«. 6d. bdz. 

White, Wisbech. 1806. 

It 18 acknowledged, that •* nearly the whole of these letters have 
been collected from Prideaux, Collyer, Brown, Scripture Diction- 
aries, ^c.** and their object is to point out '' a connected form of the 
Old Testament and its inseparable connection with the New," Tho8« 
for whom the work is designed, will find it equal to its pretensions. 
Huga Poetica. Consisting of a seriocomic Pom, on the Pursuits 

of Mankind : toith several original Pieces, on various Suljects, 

By W. A. Hails, Writing Master, and Teacher of various 

Branches of the Mathematics. Sre). pp. SB. S<. Longman, 

1806. 

Mr. Hidls has not been happy in his title. It would seem, that 
** a paraphrase on the song of Moses,^ with notes hebraically critical^ 
and *• elegiac verses,** ought not to be called ** Nuga,** if any poetry 
deserves a more serious denomination. We are told of comtc, .we al» 
h)w,i)Ut it is truly " serio-comic!* The elegiac strains possess the most 
poetical aierit, and the learning acquired by the author, notwith*- 
ftand^g his early apprenticeship to a shipwright, and many other 
obstacles, is very creditable to his perseverance, which will, we hope^ 
be ultimately rewarded. 

Brookiana. 3 Vols. 8vo. 10s. 6d. Phillips. 1806. 

Mr. Brooke, the author of the "Fool of Quality, Gustaviis Vasa^ 
&c. is well known, and his merits suffer no neglect. What we have 
here before us is an ana, a thing of very easy formation, and, in m^ost 
cases, neither creditable to the writer, nor to the reader. The pwa- 
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2WPli%vmffl*tC>Mi» 0r OtfCAfDftfcfero^CAHthtMlrJrMnv- 
^ay. jlii«fMten( Legmd. % £. ITeibe. 4 V<A, tSi. OrtillL 
Ir tbi« novel were compressed into a tingle TohmiB, it wo«M 
jpofltMB» €)aiHi» of no very ordinary kmd. At preMM, k k itt«iic«4 
iMf MiMT If for #^ fOMJer,' being let kit o th« Secret, throu^ tM 
<«rviler^ f*«at ef art, the t«atiog <K» is as grevc a waste of padencej 
4ia ih# trrkiaf ma #f paper. 

jTfC Xi/i o/*5ir TTfl/^er ll«/eg:Ji, Knight Bif Arthur Cayhy^ Jnnr, 
Esq. 2 VoU. Qvo. 1/. Is. Cadell and Davies. 1806. 
To write an interesting and satisfactory life of Sir Walter Rajegh,* 
who figured so actively on the stage ^t a remarkable period of our hii- 
\ toiy, required not the '* occasional leisure'' of an inexperienced han(i^ 
hat the undiverted attention of a writer of mature judgnveot and varA>^ 
ous and profound research. Mr. Cayley, though not without ^ 
merit, has paid too little respect to this excellent precept : 
'^ Sumite materiam vest r is, qui scribitis, aquam 
« rtribus.'^ 
His precipitancy has undone hira ; and instead of an ample an4 
phSoaophical life of the gneat Sir Walter, with allowably digressions 
yelating to his contempo^ravies, and the annals of liis timesy vre liavf 
a jejeuoe memoir of the knight, and a heavy make^weight of stale 
docaments. ^ Once for all/' (to ose Mr C*8. laagnoge) this will no^ 
satisfy the judicious^ aor reflect crtdit oa the opmpiler. After theat 
remarks, seme but jast, we may add that thou^ tbo work is by ci# 
means equal to what we expected^ and do still aapeci when tb» hm^ 
[ then shall be taken up on stronger shoulders, it contaius much ii;r 
formation which, from the fruitfulness of die soil, it would have bee^i 
difficult not to have collected. Many questions concerning Sir Wal- 
ter are not ably met^ but some are well discussed. From the Iat;ter 
we shall, with pleasure, make an extjract. llis History of thd World 
was published in 1614. 

•? Beginning," says Mr. C. "with the creation. Sir Walter has, 

in this work, given us the flower of recordecj story^lo the end of the 

'Steond Macedonian war; and having reviewed the three first monar* 

. thies ofthtf world, he leaves Rome triumphant in the fourth, aboat 

a Mr« C. spells his name without the i, in conformity to t^M orthography of bis r^n 
ktters. 

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A oentory and « half befor&tbe biHli^V'Osr ^^^^onr, comprelKnding 
m period of nearly four thousand yeacs* . Kankdng in that dasa of his- 
torians who prefer the exercise of judgment in selection tp.that of 
ganun io udomhig, hii^ndos^said'peiietrfitiaa ate higUj cMi^i- 
oaoua, and his style is thebaat «trfei i)£htt age« His superior man- 
Bar of treating Greek aiul Roman storj has justly excited regret 
that he has devoted so many pages to Jewish and Bahbinical 
leamiagi and that he has not permitted himself a greater latitude 
in those moarfisidaUnig subjecta. U^.tn this .gn^^wfiriDi he baa, 
to use the words of an eminent c r i ti c , ' Produced an historical disr 
afrtatioa» bet seldom riien to the miyesty of historjf^' stiU the .yam 
riaty of its learning, aiid the elegance of its $tyle» ar^ su^cient 
to seoare him a distinguished rank among the benefactors to oujr 
litaratyre.'' 

Hereafter Mr. Cayley will probably think with us on this sub- 
ject, and be may then be better qualified to undertake a life of Sir 
Walter Ralegh, with a due regard for the interest of letters^ and hU 
own'reputadon. 

DRAMATIC. 

Catch him who can ? A musical Farce, tn two Actt, By T*. E. Ttook. 
Boo. U.0cL Baldwin. 1806. 

This farce was produced at tbe Haymarket theatre, and raa 
through the last season with great ^lat. The perusal of such a 
p€tii€ piece as ** Catch him who cau,'' is not very diflPerent from the 
reading of a pantomime : therefore, we shall say nothing of its lite- 
rary merita. It proposed to excite a hearty laugh, and what it pro- 
posed it eiected, through tbe versatile and diverting powers of that 
pcomisiag young comedian Mr* Mattktwi, 

^^fly ^ Night, or long Stories, A Farce, agperfirmei at the The- 
atre "Royal, Corctni Garden^ mtk unbounded Applause, Jfy Ar» 
\ ihur Griffinhoofe, Esq. Bto, 1«. €d. lUdgway, 1806. 

^ Under the disgnise of Mr. Griffinhoofe we see the cloven foot of 
that merry devil George Cotman, to whom tlie stage is indebted for 
^0 nsany excellent scenes in comedy^ and so much ludicrous non- 
sense in farce. For its effect in acting, we refer tbe reader to our 
Memoranda Dramatica* — As to its effect in reading, the less said the 
iMstter. Tbes^ %>ny farces are as dull to read, as some comediea 
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Jpmtatio vita; spemtii/n ctfnmeiudiniSi irhag^ veHitiHi. * Vi^efo- ' 

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THE DRAMATIC ESSAYIST. ^ - . ' ' 

No. XIV. , . ' " ';/ ', 

rff^ ORIGIN OF DRAMATIC COMFOSl TdON. , 

£vERYarty that tends to the comfort or of nament of to«aiaiiMUft|^ 
took its first rke either from necessity or coavedi^ee. It ef^CA 
happens that chance sketches oat the rude design, which is after-; 
wards improved, niatured, aod polished by reflection. That thia 
was eminently the* case in the origin of theatrial representations is 
agreed on all hands* Tragedy and comedy were nothing more, ix^ 
their beginnings, than hymns to Bacchus. Some of his followers, 
one day, accidentally found a goat browaing in their vine-yard.—^ 
They .sacrificed it to their dead (and, perhaps, deified) master, fron^ 
motives of grsctitude, as well as interest. The neighbours were 
called in, who joined with tl^em in songs and dances; and the re- 
velling being approved of by the company, was, probably, soon 
converted into an annual solemnity. The persons who performed 
these extemporal hymns, either alternately or altogether, wcre^ 
in succeeding times, called the chorus. This custom was tran»» 
ferred into their cities, and tlie subject of it was much altered : for 
the composers of the songs, having almost exhaused their imagina- 
tion, by constantly exercising it on the same argument, recited the 
actions of some illustrious hero, with the praises of Bacchus. Thus: 
the, thing epi^uad till the daysof Thespis, who is allowed to ha^ 
beea.ihe first, who enbrged th&scheme, aj^ aboli^ng these rough 
and uncouth diihyrai^bs (as the Greeks. called (lie.n>) imroduced 
jusp and regular entertainmentm of v written poems. In aid of the 
chorus, be brought a single actor upon tlie stfts,e, who, at fit ioter- 
vals, came out from the rest, and amused tho uudfeoce with an ac^ 
pountofsopae ex pipits of famous men;, then retired again; when 
the chorus had taken breath, which was still the most considerable 
part pf the performance. Jlpwever, by tLU means, a new turn was 
given to it; the business of the chorus wai$ it^ssened; ftnd some* 
thing like a plot or i^ble was introduced* Thospis went about the 
villages in carts, daubed the faces-of hitraet^rs mi\i the lee^ af wine^ 

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and contended for tbe ^raoaiiim #f ttrngft^jT) a§o«t ; wl^Ie others vied 
fbrfiie premiam of corned j, a basket •f %s and a vessel of wine. 

He \vmi alx>ut the time^ ef fialen, mhs, by procariog an order 
from the codrt of Areopagos, obliged him to lay down an employ- 
ttentM nnpvofitri>IetDtb»iti«e. Tlwtaientetfnd penetrating kw- 
girer foesanr the cn»MH<inotn ib« W4ii]d«»ite,Md(theAihe- 
sians say) in the spirit of divination, foretold them^ 

Etckyias improved upon -this modd, by adding a seGond actor^ 
and diversiffiq$ the^Mle. As he was esttremely diligent in the 
MMiy of Heoier, he set the Hiad before his eyes as the sUndard of 
Metry. Heobs«fwdthevivttci«yofi4Mdial«^ueiiQ(cediictdtberer 
and eoMideredlMw nacb-m^re agMeaUe tiMy %w«M appeaK, tf ex* 
bibitad in Mcb amaaner aa toaeem wmly and to Aow^ naturally &oai^ 
fkm patiiens^ seiitHBeat^ and bcbavioifr olooauaoa life^ Hencebe 
Aongbt of cas^n^ his plays iata the form of conversation.^ By ihi» 
tnae the cboras wbiob was al first the priiMnpal pavt of tragedy, WM 
Mdy an accessary ornament of it, and employed to reiii^ve the actocs, 
ftS the actors we»e before admitted to relieve that. Najs ^ c^ 
ttis, which was anciendy tbe play itself, now served only ta espMSi 
the sentimentdof die by-staiMteK, to take tke side of i^jvred ina^ 
ceoce and virtue, and ta suggest saeb reftectiona as (he weU-odbded 
part of. the audietiee mi^t reasonably be siipposed to laake* £s«* 
cbybis tai^bt the persons concerned in it to mtke those move* 
mcnts in their dances, which ane called the Stroph€ and Anti$twph€* 
The first of them is from east to west, and intended to signify the 
course of the sun, the second is the reverse of tlmt motion* After 
some ^me they sung the epode, in concert with the nuisical instni* 
raents, and stood still in the middle of tbe stage, intimatingr^py^ 
^aint conceit, the stability of the earth in the centre. WbileTbes- 
-pris lived, the ^rfayers bad no regular place of representation, bat 
tjontented thettttelves i»rith tlie moveable ^tdge befonr'jneii^ooed. 
* E9th } 1 a g, as be ^A-as received with ^Wic -honour^ and e»»D# ra g e - 
'Ihent in Athens, after tbe death of Solon^ employed Agatbiklxshas, 
askilfiil ^(^Jectfto boitd a theati-fe, atthe ef^jwcce^the^tate, 
artd to contrive the decorations and scfentfry. He'ftrnWbfcd bi» 
'actors whih masks, dressed in llowirig- robe^ ag^eea%ljr totbf^'Aa- 
racters they Sustained on dfflferent eccas^ni, wid,by the ft^istance 
of bo^tins, advanced ibem to the fancied taMness of be«>e9. In t^s 
"he accommodated liimseirto the prejudioes of the- muU'itade, who 
entertained a adtion, that'^ill the ancient wan4ore were of^fc^iae be- 
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^Akmttm iff^ tlie {M, obi the kkd of eoirtfe faiH»«lft«'Mrl(k^^^M- 
r«^ k it, »e«m «o ^ct«re that tt i^«ifcs ibt^nd^iiiore to a»ie<^ 
Ymlgftrlaog^ tJhttfi toii bH imraiecMM to ]^pteof'd^lk»ic;^ ; ti^^ 
' withstanding this the moral intention of it is rery iatidid)}et^'is (o 
«hew us the danger of judging with too much precipitation, especi' 
afly when our passions are concerned. This truth, supported by a 
fund of gay humour, and the suljeot not being -uninteresting, drew 
a great number of spectators for ferty nights together, although it 
was in the summer time, and the nnrriage of the king kept the 
court from Paris. 

A tradesman of Paris, who considered himself a man of great 
importance, imagined that Moliert had taken him for the original 
of his ** Cuckold in Conceit/* Addressing himself to a friend ^ How 
dare an actor," said he^ ** have the impudence to introduce a map 
of my consequence upon tlie stage ?" " Why should you oomplain^^ 
replied his fnend. ** He has treated you very lenienUy, by only 
jnaking you a ' Cuckold in CoHceit fjoa ou^^t to feel yourself happj 
at bavipg come off so well.'' 

Cadmus and Herj^ione, a ttagic opera, by QuinauU, the music 
4)y JLtt%, ie73. 

This opera is the first musical tragedy composed by lully ; it 
was, at first, acted in a tennis-court, when Moliere and his com- 
pany occupied the theatre of the Palais Rotate, Moliere died soon 
after ; Lulfy, always attentive to his interest, petitioned for thft 
theatre, and die king granted his re(j[uest on the 2Sth of April fol- 
lowing; there he continued to act Cadmu^ and Hermione^ which 
was the first opera performed aft the^tlieatre of the Falais Hqyale. 

' HAtteQtrrv FAmtsa^^i^eiiat. :At!dyie<)peray in thftrsacts, 

in f«be, by OHttf»fl/; inol ' • ' '« v.... i. ^- .-^ « 

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Jittuoe^ being established to tr^ some ^Jicumcn. In (be secotiKf 
act, the scene is laid in Tartarus^ where the criminals pass in re^ 
▼ietr before Hvlequin, He (Nrdert tiie {ninldhment of Systpbus to 
be iillicled on a draniiuo paet for Kairing wntteB a avteber of bad 
piifii altha iwie siaa» liepoiaiwi iwtb bia fiagpr to n^anmkmA&o^ 
dbi tf9BUtmtf as moob as ta sa^^^thai^teiviiaKlnefiaiafof •the ntm^ 
fate : iba person so peiAted at» rose isp,an3t^i«ntly in agnsaS'pte* ^ 
sioo, and add i a si e d the «idieu«a9 which twrtilsdr^ ceMbenMe 
s; the 9BUKfe oame into the < bo e< »Ey vsiy aenoas ca»» 
( ware eipaded, but the basiaess termiMMd- p kaaa a at iy^ 
The supposed offiBtided poet was an actor placed there tm p«i^ 
pose ; which, when known^ caused the audience to lau^ heart^ljr 
at the deception. 



ANECDOTES OF FOOTE. 



G&ECIAN UlLkUJL, 

rooT£ told Lord Carlisle, that he once had it in contemplation to 
bring oat a piece, in order ta ridicule the absurdities of the Greciao, 
drama* 

liis plan was as follows : — ^He was to introduce but one per- 
sonage, who was to be a mock despotic monarch, attended by a ^ 
cboros of tmkers, taylons, blacksmiths, musicians, bakers, &c. This 
character was to stf ut about the stage, boast of the unlimited extent 
of his impenal power, threaten all with fire and sword, take the ckf, 
of London, storm the tower, and evea threaten to dethrone the so» 
vereign himself* 

The chorus, terrified at these exploits and menaces^ were tbe0 
to fell upon their knees, tear their hair, beat their breasts, and sup- 
plicate his unperial Isghnl^ss to spare'the effusion of so much human 
blood ; to whicb, after a conflict of contending passions, duriug the 
course of five acts^ the hero was to agree, and the piece was theft 
to conclude, with a full hymn of thanksgiving for the delivenmce of 
so many individuals. « 

aAjiaie&* 

. ..X&f J^'^ V4i0t baiagr one ai^ addadafr-a« alUwipiM^ to the. 

admiraUa^oonifediiof Db0 Demi ttpoa twf^-^^hy GiuenkH comiDjg 

into the s^een-roooi, cried out to Foote, •* W;elj Sam! I sae^ aftet 

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»m^' " ■ ' ' ' . " ■ ■ — L 

David," said the other, " what could I do better ? I must have somt 
ventilator for tlhii excessive hot weather.'^ 

. FooTB tidmg out on the Dawva nesr Bath, in oompaii^ with % 
pio^d, they »bsep»eil, at smkie discaifoty « f»ersofi co«iim|^ %9mm4^ 

oft^hDrsebaek is tbis^' said the ftimdi ^ PsiNbr^ (en hoB coMing a 
little cio66r)^<^tisii(ibo<ly;aibsr aU> bucthe little <|«rieh«il9ev apo- 
thecary, with bit taw*y 'waistcoat."—** Be a little more circuncH 
PfrnM^fartiheiimtr^,** said Foote, ** as you see it is not att gold tht^ 
gUttemJ* • 

FOOTE AND MAC^LIN.. 

FooTE, who was ever in the extremes of fortune, now at the 
top, now at the bottom of her wheel, happened to be in the latter 
^ondition^ whenMacklta and he happened to meet. They were both 
at the Bedford coffee-house together, when Foote, perhaps to keep 
up the appearance of prosperity, was every now and then showing 
off a £ne gold repeating watch, which he kept either dangling in his 
. Iiand, or up to his 6ar. At last he suddenly exclaimed, '* Zounds T 
my watch is itopt .'*'—" Poh ! Poh !* said Macklin, " never mind 
^at Sam, you may depend upon it, it will soon go." 



Previously to Foote's bringing out his Primitive PuppetSkeai^ 
at the Haymarket theatre, a lady of fashion asked him, ^ Pray Sir, 
2fh your poppett^tA bfe as large as l^f — ** Oh detr Maditn, no : 
not much above the CM of GarrickP* - - . 

imSII HOSPITALITY. 

Foots prai^og the liospitaJities of the Irish, aAer one of -his 
trips to the sister kingdom, a gentleman present* asked him whether 
he had ever b^en in Cork. " No Sir,*' said lie, cpxickly, ^ but I bane 
fi^eo a great «)any (lr«2&}Rgs of it." 

•WBBLE DAVIS. 

Dibble Davis, one of Foote's butts in ordinary, dining one dj^ 
?with him at North-end, observed that ** well as he loved portei*, he 
iceeld never driifk it vnthont' a Aisr(f.***-^^That mt^st be a 'mistake 
Dibble," returned his host^ '** as you have done sio tomy knAwle^ge 
above tbese twenty years.^* 



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TO TBB BDIT^ft QF TBS JUMIVm^Y iqEIK»« 

lAwM famndy with great uUirfaciion^ thai thei^iont ofi^lffrmh 
tf» Kmt are m KiiiAm with the temhment egprettod in tktjifim' 
imgUmi: mtentiment which surefy no EngUthman etM.ttnitm 
ta ha iirogoiUjry either to ^ etmragt or Ut patriatmm, 

Yamnf a 

Ba»« BbtMf R«*I 

ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH CHANNEL 

Roll, roll thy white wares, and enveloped in foam 

Pour dij tides round die ecboing ahore, 
TWm guard of Old England, my country^ my home, 

Aiiid my muI shall n^oke in the roar. 

Though high-fronted valour may scowl at the foe^ 

And with eyes of defiance advance^ . 
7is thou hast repell'd desoladon and wo^ 

And the conquering legions of France. 

Tis good to einh in the strength of the laad, 

That the flow'r of her youth are in arms. 
That her lightning is pointed, her javlin ih haniH, * '''' 

And aroused the rough, spirit that warms ; 

But neiwr mty tiiat day of hotior be knowa^ • v 

When dieseh&andthesavalheaiUl feel .. 

The rush of the phalanx by phalanx o'erthrown,. 
And the bound of the thundering wheel« 

The dread chaace of battle, its bloody and its roar^ 
Who can wish in his senses to pro?e ? . . ^ ^ 

To plant the foul fiencl on Qntannia^s own shore^ , ^ 
All sacred to peace and to love } 

Mvl I glory of Albion ! ye fleets, aad ye hosts^ 

I br^tbe not the tones of dismay; ' 

In ▼aloflir uncfuestionM still cover your coMtt, ^ 
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Tbou gem of the ocean, that sinU*at in diy power, 

Hay thy sons prove too stjrong to be slaves ; 
iTet^let thevi not scorn in the dark-fated hoar. 

But exult in their rampart of waves. 

The nations have trembled^ have cowrM in the dust, 

E'en the Alps heard the conqueror's song, ' ' 

When the genius of Gaul with unquenchable thirst 
Pushed her eagles resistless along. 

And still they advance ; aud the nations must bleed; 

Then sing, O my country, for joy ; 
Thy ^dle of ocean by Heav'n was decreed 

To protect what the sword would destroy. 

BeU, roU thy white waves, and enveloped in foan i 

Pour thy tides round the echoing shore ; 
. Thon goard of Old England, my country, my home, « 

And my eoul shall rej^oice in the roar. 



HENRY KIRKE WHITE. 



SONNET. 
Hastbe so early of the various lyre 
Energic, pure, sublime !— Thus art thou gone? 
In it's bright Dawn of Fame that Spirit flown 
Which breathed MMh iw«etnes9, te ndewt i i s and fire ! 
Wert thoa but shetm to win us to admire 
And veil in Death thy Splendor ? — Bui unknown 
Their Deslbiation whokost time hav« shafte 
And brightest beam'd. — When these the eternal stab 

II. 
— -Righteous and wise and good are all his ways — 

Eclipses, a^ their Sun begins to rise : 
Can mortal jndge« for their dtminisht Days 

What blest Equivalent in changeless skies 

What sacred Glory waits them ?— His the praise ; 

Gracious, whatever he gives, whate*er denies. 

24 Oct. 1806. 

C. L. 

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[Mb. £D(TMt» . ^ 

RsvutTiNo, in an idle mow a it, to jMp«r» wMeh I hU blotted in 
momeDU still more idle, t find one tbae no suggestions oJP'tanitj 
would have drawn forth fi[V>m the seclusion whereiditWas repomg^ 
if I did not petceifve i^ it a pastt*^ MMipff^attio deote con-^ 
sequence from somereo^at ebsevrationt of 4 distiQg(]»9h^ ocato^ 
whose manljF ^dbq«(elids is alway0 eietutd in behalf of i^^^jp^fffesse^ 
and from whose patriotic enefn^es* a hope andes^ tha(t (iia a^tentioii 
of the legislature will at length be directed towards an-ol^ect, the 
oeglect of which has hitherto been a singular reproach^ to ]^dsli 
gallantry, British justice, British humanity, and even British policy. 
I mean the condition of the industrious female portion of the coid.<4 
monity. A prospect is now presented, tha^i measures will be taken 
to prevent, or dieek at least, the raoiBtroas pnwtaot of eAiiplbyinf 
and retaining men in oftces only prop^ for wo«eii ;^ that tfa^ distaff 
so ingloriousiy oiurped, will bexonsigncd t» its phipctiMiii^ an4 
that, while the state will derive beoeik.froai tlie Ih^ha^^ioiflrws, and 
jtctivity of those, wli6 may thus ba compelied t» asaeH, in their 
country's defence, their dtdiipus manhood; a multitude of innocent 
females will not onlj be rescped from penury, d/stress, and almost 
vnavoidabie pfostitiition,^ but be restored to the comforts of salutarj 
aod product ve industry^ and reputable sodal enjbyments* 
I am^ Suy 

Your obedieht, huteUcT lidn^ant, 

JElji^. H. ^£TM0UR.] 



, ' EtJPHftONIA. 

4 Monody on ike Death 9fa hukfj mAoU' a t tm p l bry mut genuine! 
Pki^ vm ckiify totUpi(Hlou» 4n the Frmt^iee efuH the tmiral and 
social Virtues, and in tlie Exercise of an exptsnsite Benevolence,, 
embracing ever^ Species ^Cbarityy emong whkk^dt f^m^rkoMe,, 
a favourite and mumficent Estahlishmehtf fat* the IteceptioH,^^ 
C-omfbrt, and Utfortnat^ cfwrfcittwm^ Wm^sg- Wmt^w 

Whence was that doleful sound, ^ 

That deep convulsive sigh', 
Which shook my couch, and rous'd me ere the .^t^ 
As startled nature felt a' ruffling wound. 

And, to my wild distemper*d eye, 
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Ami 1q ! wbcrtt grief and pale de^ectioB wait^ 
And herrofvfVjpt ki aWmi slate. 

Upon eack Med cheek t 
H4t aaiiguiiie war, with ruthleM ktrndg 
Or pemhomf kid waste the laad^. 
^ That orphans, £ithe»9 widows laeMiniy 

From parents, chitdrcn, husbands, titneless toca^ 
OV| Q ! fot g^aot lycaany too weak^ 
Ye guardian saints forefend, 
That e^er Iome,^^your own clime, presid^^* 
And still OB virtue's cause attend I 
» , Has t^Qiping freedom imButtareljr died-f)* 

Bat hark ! the s(^mn bell 
Sends forth, with hallow'^d kneH, ' 
fittne way-worn mortal to his lasting rest : 
What means this rising tumult in my breast t 
Why strikes each burthen'd loU 
Un Wonted terror to mine ear ? 
And, as the black^ninf; crowd draws near, 
Ak me! what boding cares oppress my soul } 
Ve% *tis Euphronia's bier, Oj seraph bright 1 

O, spirit most belov'd ! 
Our daily theme ! blest vision of our night i 
V And would not heaven, by suppliant anguish mov*d, 
Prolong, in pity to mankind, 
The energiet of thy rare mind, 

To rouse, reform, and bless 
An indolent corrupted age, 
Turn etror^s glance to truth's ckar pagi^ 
And bid, to gild this gloom below. 
An antedated ray to glow, 
Of pure celestial happiness f 

W«Diaay ye weep divine Eophronia dead. 

For ah ! with her are fled, 
Forth from leme, to their native seat, 
• The pensive virtues sweet ; 
Sincerity, with open face. 
And piety's inspiring grace, 



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And candoortoo, tiiatbMlM dctmctidA^s wound, 

Oy where ihail now bttfiumd 
Corapassioo, pkM*d ibetootliiDg tearui fill ! 
B^DQfatewoe, that sbooe notM* •&«lkl 
Meeki-MigMiioo^wilfatH^UMdvjs! .. 
Staid. fa y t itiKte md e yw g iwig cfaarky ! 

.-. . ' .:.! 

* Well may yc weq), and natoreNs self pot o», ' ' 

For her Eaphronia gone, 
A garb of sablest hue ; '' 

For ail the sodal ties ^ 

"tlmt throQgfa creation's range extend, 

The glowing sympathies, 
She felt, to noblest instinct true. 
Sister, philosopher and friend. 

To help tjie peasant, and relieve his toil. 
Still was out-stretch*^d thy open hand ; 
The peasant*s grateful heart the boon repaid. 
And, as his furrows op*d tlie mellow land, 
Wherever the pregnant seed was laid, 
SowM fertile blessings in the accordant soil. 

The guileless herds, that crop the verdaflt Cbod, 
The leathered race aloft, that buo^«i^.ri^> 
The timid teqanu of the flood 
UavesharM thy bounties wide : 
Nor didst thou scorn with fostering sk)!!, 
. yhii laughing dowers (o rear ; 
All emulous to greet thy will, 
Thy myrtle higher raised his fragrant head, 
The roses br^ten^i with a richer bjoojoif 
The violet cast a more refin*d perfunjie. 
By the glad hours each willii^ day was led. 
Plenty the seasons crown*dy and happiness the y«siry 

How ofl, in winter's rigid jneigiif 
Bast thou utibound the icy chain ! . 
Aad when, with aU his hardy broody «: 
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Ofy ^gajDit ih'aBttiUng raga 
Of coldy the punjr war to wage^ ' 

About his useless, arms weu'd^iigy 
Then e^^ hischildrea with a piteous gaze» 

While saMowfasiiiie scowlVl «roitiML 
Then to his^jiqrlMs cot wonldfitooittlbrt brin^' 
Bid, on his hearth, the cradling faggot blaie, 
And with the copious meal his.humbla board be crown'd. 

And still where languid age» and haggard woe» 

And wan distemper drooping sat» 
And helpless in^ncy^ that mocks at fate, 
And, smiling, Qoeets th' inexorable ^low, i 
And blank misfortune, ^ fall'n on e?il*<iays,^ 
While busy memory, musing on the ground. 

Harrows, preposterous his own wound. 
Where'er calamity was wont to dwell, 
Thou, with btinignant care, her head wouldst raise, 
And like a radiant angel, cheer her gloomy celU 

, But O ye hapless tribe, whom cruel laws, 
** The whips and scorns o* the time," 
And an qnfeeling world, oppress, 
W^ose weakness is your crime, 
' Whose beauty kills your happiness. 
And odium on the boast of nature draws. 
JormM to be woo'd, and gentle to be w«o. 
And kind, O foul ingratitude ! to be undone ! 

Ye housdess wanderers of th' unwholesome ni^t, 

In iblly*s ruefiill hour. 

By fatal love betrayed. 
And to necessity, relentless power ! ^ 

That sways in virtue's spight, 

Devoted captives made, 
Disgraced, dejected, and foripm, 

By friends and kindred left. 

Of hope itself bereft— 
No more to find a parent's sheltering borne, 
But, spleenfhl, from his alien threshokl hurl'd, 
Toiafamy«pr^,fand)Hiblio seora^ 
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And die drear nines trj% 
or BDkaown 9ten\ cahmiify^ 
Amid the wide m&oqnUble world. 

Compell'jd tbe tortuvM &ce to droit 
Iq looks that iBOdc TO aehifig heart ; 
Jojieis yonnehnes m suUca joy t^part. 
And ttHif hf wan^s fell coansei ^ 
To barter modesty for bread ; 
-Yhi witless je^ obscene, t^abide. 
And sbwae's indignant blushes hide» " 
To meet tn smiles th^ loathed caress 
Of ignorance^ deibrmityy disease. 
Or; rage of savege hunger to appease, 
And ffaock recoiHng sense, 
Bend to the palsied clasp of hoary impotenbe. 

O deeply wretched, deeply injured race I 

Assailed by barbarous art. 
With only innocence to shield the heart; , 
And when of fame despoiTd, and ylrpn graoe^ 
From social eheer, like pestilfince fordi-cast, 

To cope with scandal's blast. 
The taunts of envy, the maligaant sneer, 
Withoet the balmy solace of a tear, 
Wtthoat, of kindness, even the dubious shew, 
F^m him, d^Mrter baqe! fell source of all your woe» 

Thus helpless, hopeless, wrecked, abandon'd, lost, 
Bdi^onia, heaven-suggested danie, 
tieard the keen accents of your^rief, 
, And, ardent to afibrd relief^ 

With all the charities embossom^d, came, 
While pious leal, whose force she felt the mos^ 
' Pure, gentle, holy, unaUied 
To sour austersty or prido, 
Misfortone, as a sister to her press'd^ 
And warm'd desponding frailty on her genial breast* 

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Then iet di' «ykoi^eilt frown ^filprMs, 
On them the bkiiig tconrge TipActiv^ ffy^ 

Th' jtnfteliiig and 6r6cio«8 bmid. 
The authors, not the Tictimi of distress; 

Too mooh^ idi» ! «f miieij 
Ahready, lii^ess penkent^is thine. 

An^: Ch«n i>^ith Bwe^ asistdaMp ieal ifha tmi 

The lost-one's 0cie6 (9 loanw^ 
Bade her distiose the Wrongs^ die fmfc%.tbe.tnie% 

That h^ sad heart engsg^d ; 
Whttiy aach warm palsa dilatiog jis sba hears^ 

And the fraak tale at oiice believM^ 

Blattk poverty was sobli reUerVi^ . 

And every modest waQt 8up|»liHy 

And cadi corroding thought ilssuag'd. 
Save tl^ose that from a bleedii^ conscience 4ofr* 

Blithe innocence was fled ; 
* Fled far, alas ! and never to return : 
And whaty O ifHioeiMiee ( ni%fat htM assume 
Thy radiant station ? Ah ! what grace supply 
^he roses of thy fadeless youth. 
And fresh therubic bloom? 
Pure emanafioq of unspotted truth) 
Not that ifrcbangd potent, from on high, 
WHeo, heaven-deputed, forth he led 
Through Paradise, the first transgressing pai^t 
And learned, as far as spirits may, to mour% 
Xbe fatal forfiiit could r^pairt 

Yet all that might, by thee was done. 

And innocence for ever Sown ; 
Thou bad'st repentance raise her humid ey^L, 
And with a slow, serene, and steady pace 

The b^tific vision trace : 
And rapt, behold her in the empyreal skies* 

III those bright regions of eternal love, 
Where, sainted, thou, methinks, the saints ^mongii 
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The holiest of the hallowM throag 

Awl he«ar^ rathooMnd eettM&et 

And tkmiBmd ohoftil •yiBpbonto% 

1% vATMri TMTtae^ praise. 
Bat of those ohMSe imaiotftftllajs 

None tooeh so sweet tbj rsTishM ear 
None to thy aiiftweriiig bosom strike so dear 
Asthese tliat, from an hamble hand retired. 
Breathe soft ami fAaMte, only heard awhile, 
fiythee f tiU Mary meek, inspir'd 
With hallowM fenrour .by his radiant staile, 

Wlio'died for erring man, eom^ iarth 
And sings akiod in numbers fall aedaim'd. 
Celestial concord ! thy exahed wo#tb: 

And charity, as now new»nara*d, ' 
Such grace to thee is giren ; 

While angels joyous catch the sound, 
Euphronia is— Euphronia rings around, 
Echoed by all the sanctities of heaven. ' 



THE BUTTERFLrS BAL^ and the GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST. 

Competed by Mr, EescoB^br A» Children^ and ordered to be 
eet to Musk hy Aer Majesty. 

Come, take np your hats, and away let ns baste 
To the Butterfly's ball, and the Grasshopper*s feast; 
The trumpeter Gadfly has summoned the crew, 
And the re?eU are now only waiting for you. 

On the smooth shaven grass, by the side of a wood, 
Beneath a broad oak, which for ages had stcfod, 
See the children of earth, and the tenants of air. 
To an evening's amusement together repair. 

And there came the Beetle,^ so blind and so black. 
Who carried the Emmet, his fHend, on his back ; 
And there came the Gnat, and the Dragon-fly too^ 
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And there «M«r.<4e ilMh^ mth hdrpiviiMige of down. 
And the Hornet, #itfe jatJket ^ yellow «id brown, 
Who with him the Wa8p» bi^ coi^pJanioR, didl)ririg, 
feu t, they promised, that ev*oi«g, to lay by their sting. 

then tlikCi4)y ^Miitt .I><»9V»ii«« poffpi'dip^ ^f Jiis Me, 
ARdl^t»tJid.f(»06^JiUUMudooi»s^l)bel^ . 
And the $oaU> with her liiarii»^fieepiiig«out <»f>ber «hcll| 
Came, fatigned With the dii9taBce, the length of a» elL 

A mushroom the table, and on it was spread 
A water dock J<»^f, which their tablcrdoth made. 
The viands vf^m .vari9U% to^^ach of |^r ta^. 
And Uie Bee hninght4lMS ife«»ey to^ sweeten the feast. 

With steps mote majestic the Snail did advance, 
And he promised the gazers minuet to dance; 
But they all laugh*d so loud, that he drew in his head. 
And went, in his own little, chamber, to bed* 

Then, as evening gave way to the shadows ofiiigb^ 
^heit watrfitaan, the Olow-wofrm, came ou« with his Kght * 
So home let us hasten, while yet we can see, 
For lio watchman is waiting for you, or for me I 



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MEMORANDA DRAMATICA. . 

COVENT^GARDEN. , 

Oct ^. Loitfe in is P'iHage, Miis Bolton's RoseUoy aa we rather ex- 
jpected weald be the om^ 414 Aot proerc so attraotiytM her /^)%. . Two reatoai 
kaay be assigned ^ tiua. Xbe B«ggar?s Opera is aonore popular .e^tertaip- 
rnent, and Moietta requires stronfer acting, and more sctenttiic singing ihaa 
Potiy. Several of the tarSf however, v-ere giyen with much taste and sweetneM j 
tome were encored, and her exertions throughout the evening u'ere h6ao«red 
with very geneoal applaasew . In. th« acting scenes we thought the» was a 
little affectatioii; and n degacs of • confidence perfiaps mora than enough. BeUa^ 
toy sung the sojigko^^filaiDMont.in'a Ana aoanljf style, and confirmed ^r opi- 
nion of his merit; bat the dauacter itself he .misconceived, an4 concerted it 
into a Boni/izce. 

31. M11.VIN played Bob^andy, in Speed the Plough, wtth'gtdat spirit; 
be hasaot Vffmswd in any clMracter to so much advanUge. 
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Nov. 3. Curiolm au m r evtved with proi^gkmt ftmp MkTvx^eMc. Kem- 
ble*s Cmits Aiarcmt is a chefd*dnvre. He might bold hit faiae on this <^i«nM>- 
ter, if he had never played any other. Let it be adnutted. As ftdbMy ft nmst, 
that Oarrick excelled him in Hamlet and Macbeth ; Barry in Othetlo; Mowop 
ift Z-Mpi ; aftd that Cooke War^ awdy the palm from him ui Richkrd. ~ Here 
he is ** HIMSELF ALONE.* Ifthere isa sidbllme 111 actlig, tts'llMfFe is fn poe«- 
tr>-, KemM«^ Corlolimis cettitoty nMrtc* that et^ithei ; iMt'lbr ^ take of pro- 
priety, of Sbaictpeve, sad all -wba have ii»s, M fahn m loag^iMMttt ih the 
obstigaicy of prononodDg it Co-ri <h»Bi. 

4. UumoHTs fff an Election, A faite vritten by Pikm, at Hw geaerat 
election iu 1780, and revived, in the hope of attracting to the theatre aome of 
the " swinish muUitude»» assembled before the hustings at Covent Sai4en. The: 
experiment was not so successful as to carry the piece on to a seccmd nigtrt*. 

15. AiiRfAN AND Orrila, OX 7i Motftet't VengeaMi, This drama isk 
frosn the pen ofyoung Mr. Dinfond, the author of^he Hef&ttffke Aorf*, and 
the Aii«rer tfeke Atps, In its: strucune it is GeffMan, Mid may he eiHed a ibo- 
dcra romanee put into dialogue. 

The story is certainly improbftble, butthe'pteC is aidlAtfly eandaelW ; the in- 
terest well sapported J and the mystery,, which creates that iatereat^ attfolty con- 
cealed till the last scene of the play. To detail the table wookl requite more 
room than we can spare. The mothet*s vengeance consists in stealing the legt- 
timate infant son Of her betrayer -(ber own <AiId by tbe same man haviwg dtod) 
and conve>ing him to a remote spot, where she brings him upas her own. The 
ftther, a power^' prinee, atiter many years, arrives at the plafce <eihM- reatdenoe, 
aad offers Ms hand to Owriia^ the daughter of a Sanon ndblemap« his tHend. 
The terrified moiheTy (if so we may call her) dreading a discovery, determines to 
escape with the youth, to whom sHie had given the name of Adrian, and whom 
she loves with the tenderness of a real parent. But Adrian was in lo^re with 
iOnibi, and Orrtia tfanmk from the addfesM»»«if thc-)ttinee,irkdtt» her #ahrr 
aeverthetess commanded her to mafcy. Tbe young lovers elope, but are ever- 
aken, and it is death by the Saxon taws to <jarry away an heiress. Dhtracted 
at this intelligence, the mother ihes to tte cotrot, and in vain implores litm to 
save Adrian's life. But the prince, whom Adrian had previously re4Med ftom 
great peril, enters with him at this moment, haVhig solicited and obtained his 
pardon, in re«iuital for the tignai service he htd seceived ffMB the yowns tnan. 
f he mother's Ceeliogs overeonM by this kiBi}neisy she disoevers. herself to the 
prinoe, end confesses the crime she had coounittad. The ob|ectioiis to the unioa 
ef Adrian an^OrrMa are Ihos removed, an4 itia p«im»^ ha4i»g longbotti te^ 
-mttAfttnti hk metrimoalal fetters, isbappyto^ ie6oiieUed4t»hisjS}^/iKWy 

* <Hnrolfei Ms*tffaBKch ft> mast appear tfaetHliei* is st«feaMiiMn* novelty its Ihc 
wik^i Mr. Dimood has selected for hii draoia ; and we may add thai tkm^m* 
•iShfyfAftTn 6hm pwfett jaatioe to hit laatBiWsy JlimHi- whatever faasfer,l»e may 
iMve ^theredi tbem^. The chamctir <tf the heioiaet is dcawa «ilh #eitt.fbcoe» 
knd e»riy iixdk tlte attehtion. The other personages are ca^t in the' oonameo 
motdd. Thept^iK^fiidkorthe.^piecc is; that the saenes asertedionsly^prin 
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«d tif the Sifmnger, in otha» oCLoMtv* Vows^ Hod) atfpiitlotv b«i been paid ' 
to ihe cHecioB, but though greatly tuperior to most of l)i« brother dramatiiU in 
this rQa|Mcl« tbcve is nmeh rwNadoncTv am) tome pnerils cooceitst *upb at ire 
poijitMl oQt to oor f«view of Mr. Dinion4'ti Pctrerchal SoQueti, [vol. X» p.93.1 • 
He k to^lbud of fitter aad gaude, but.ht3 faults^ which we aouce ooty that they 
mmj be avwded, are«lill the k^^iifzpoit. He will diif^td ihcfa as he growa 
< Mef , andesiAaBge hia ^iu4* for tha^now suhstftiktiii 9cq|«aeRts of poetry, 

What^ftr vgmy be thf)'atteactiof|of,^s pfoy, the author has eirtry right to ' 
tete tfie cretNt of it to himself, for In ppint of loea^ry and decorations litde or > 
AB help h#a been aCerdedit*. > , 

. lu the acting, Mis» Smith and Chades Kemblc particularly dHtinguished 
fktnmAyu. .Cooki bad a charaeter in the piece, and M Vf<DBN, but there was 
IHtle fpnrtnmty ix oKber of tbewHo exert their powers. 

In the C|>Uogoey written b/ Mr. Walsh Porter, -Mias Bnm^oa and Mrs. 
Matto da s su0aeiifttlly caaivassed the house for their votes, in favour of She 
ymns eaedidelo hr « acafe in the purlianent of xoH^ who va» leturaed duly 
elected by a great raa^o^ of Toioes. 

90«- Ihs&hpf Artbitw^i the play we have just noticed had to boast but * 
Jitfle splendour, it was, perhaps, that thia gnnd operatic entertaiwmni might 
have the greater share of it. The machtnUt, th^ painter, and the decorateur, 
bawe bestowed all their care upon it, and we doubt if Mr. Reynolds,, whose 
banUittf 4hefai«e«a» cafe ttoof^'im hk child.ia the Ane doattiaiu which. flley 
jMV«di«M^itiipb ^ ' 

• . The dialogue it marked with the eccentricity ofMr^ Beynoldt's Mq^e, } 
«biah» tiren i^ the DettrU of Arabia^ is a merry one. Much paipa 1^ iias : 
nofe tahefe with the story, bat he has dosie all that was necessary: aod, Ye aufif > 
poae will be cooteat with the profit of the oq4ertali|ng, arithout exp<|ctiQfl fny . 
^Kkiitiontohis£unefromthis^p/lrm/i</efefer/. ^ . ...v 

Thennric^ by Lanza^ iftdentific^ but not well calculated fat an English 
theatre. The represenmion of a caravan^ as crossing the desert, with wliich 
thr eMMtainmeBi condodes, fenns a most brJUiaot axtd i«^res|i«f .fe|</[> (^l, ' 
and^the llhtminatfd topib pieaeniaa veiy beanliCuii^i^, u^.on a prindple, r^l^^ 
mmr (othestage* .. ^ . i, . 

." TJie dresses are of the moti tasteful axid superb (iei»cri^i{>i^ai4 M^ iV9* 

PRXTRY LANE^ ' - -- • 

Nov.4h 7%0 C«[itiie4 intNiduoed Mr. Bcabaife «K tb<l 4|rst tioM^ ti^&^,| 
sptty but net Madame Stocaorv whose chawcttr. was ably 41M ^ .^c** M^UR- 
Uin, The former bdy, hoMrefer, appeared « iev B««l|ts ^r, (having setU^, 
wepreeoflie^ her teima wi^ the-miDatfir} and was, fa«eived w^b^ customecx 
appbuiae. ^ . , j, , 

2(X. TkeiTtmikthoe Afon, a^ooatd^^ by Mr. l^uk^qCb fi|H 9il ^e rage^pi-A 
wu^he aitdfenee. The' design of the ^otbor wm^. Ui »kfiW io<<^medy^ w>at 
Yaung ha^xemplified in his Revengt ; bow deeply the disgrace x)f a blpw. wa^ 
be fi^lt by a sensitive mind ; and how long the desire of revenge may live un- 
iijipai.ed in a breast, in every other respect the seat of (he most amiably (juali- 

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tiai. Bok • Utnp receiy«d b/ in Afrkaa . |#ice» (» *' ch^d of the saii» witb^ 
w^fln revMt^t is virtue,^) C|om M^f bain4 of U>e enemy of fak counUyy and hift. 
coa^iMroTy sn»j be tUowed k> nomish in ium Uiis iioplacabie b»t«ed,, without ex«% 
ci(ingeilhciLaiurpri9e or detestftUoo. A. pa«Moa of tbU nature, feU,|D all iU ex.<^ 
trMmgaace b^ • mercbant, a^iost » brother ^}\» iq a hojisfi ttfha^Ur^f^ hta^p 
appearp botii improbibk and aboBCM^abJc^ V<fila la id^ortif/^^ TbepMopiple q£ 
the comedy f«fs theiefiare abad one, but U did iK>t4i«( ooly beiy^.i the reat of the 
matorlab veie eUber coane, or trite and ioatpid, A socond GticUoob ftom 4he- 
Koad lo .Uma, madle hit appearance «du ^r-ecponi^ This «»« not to-b« en- 
dured, and precipitated the fate of the piece^ which /(Qon. M)€ iuft au0KQ4. bulk 
utt/atomably.. , 

Mr. Hal0ct>A hat doae. so much far iim t^ge9 and so ivell, that «e i^ri>py^ 
the failure of his comedy, while we caaiM)t>utr ^ppt^ud 4he judgment of ihe av^ 
dieiMSi^ which «o»dei6iied it. 

S»» Tekeii, or the C/f/Ze of Morgan, We have ju^t tiimftand coom (a 
say, that this melodrama l>a8 been received with gpeatj^^lauMy 'm.maoakm€fu^ 
interesting, and if it meets with what it meriU, wiU be /iMti^^vo ia^ xwy pow-«. 
eiful degpte. A' more particular account iie;Xt QV>nti)^ U-is th«^ 9rodMc^oo oC 
Mx..Thcodoie Hook, and it taken from, the Frei)ch« 

ipYALTY THEAtRH, WElCtOSE'-SQtrATlE, 

NciTBEK tkeoiertlott of the>ttleiiJt&of Mr. A»t|ey»|mur. to put ia«9 t|t» 
most desirable action the company behind the curtain, nor^hiatttfOtiMi ta 
the cdihfofft of thtt bef*rd<it» auflEiert aay Jbatetaeile. . Other gcniii9«e» mtsky^ 
as Rehear, have tbUr wite wcathez*-bound^ bnt Mr. A»tley'a arecquall^p 
on the akn, both winrfer and sosimcr* The ' eiceVeace of the corp«, «ih| 
the pe^ctval vaikty aa^ ingenuifcy of the peKormattcei, arejoatly rewarded. 
with the greatest public support. 

OLYMPIC PAVILION, WYCH-STREET. 

< Tri attnietion of' this amutlng spot iocieatea nighdy at the wittier sea* 
s6fi advaneet . - Odr hint (|>robably mnc catiB r y,) in retoqunendatitMi <rf a 
harlequinade hat been a<!fopt>d, and the prudoction of The Hagtof Hi^kief 
gMXVj impirbVB ilb* ctieitainmtnt of the hd«r. Miss Toy/or'f 'Cohiaahlne 
it light, airy , and agreeable. The clown df Du Bois^ temr. needs no eulogiom. 
— ItisatcifectQalat ever. Mr, If, Brysony Harlequin is heavy bcryond 
the heaviness of any Hariequin Wc ever saw in any place, if we except a 
jfii^uthAt, Flom' siich a body of s^.tive feUCwt, as we here see perfeftm- 
mj^'sorprfslngezerciset of agUity, eome one laore iiii«ble might be easily 
ehdlt^.' The Blachmith of ihetna Green U a very pifctty operatical daoceji 
ttf^hich Afra.' Ptrier ttept into public fiMronr, witli e];ceeding eaise and 
neatness. To the Redoubtable Otarger, who officiates as a waiter, we may 
fndfsay, with Uhanvt inl^Uafiis ** teefuo magie est equut Hullus sapiens.*^ 
*Tiii house is^eonstantly full, ^nd the sncceas^ the undertaUng acloiltt of 
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PROVINCIAL DRAMA^ 

North Shields theatricals. — On seeing K^essrs. Anderson andl 
Faulkner^s company at North Shields, I was led to some reflections as to 
the in/ent of the remarks signed Vindex, in your Mirror for August or 
September. I now join the general opinion, that it proceeded from a disap- 
pointed pirformer to iryure, if possible, the successors of Mr. Kemblc. Great 
changes have taken place ; among others, Mr. Terry is no longer a member, 
but as he never exhibited (in the language of Vindex,} ** any felicious 
irregularity of peculiar talent," we cannot regret his loss. ** Only on the 
stage he fill'd up a place, wliich was better SHppIied when he had made it 
empty." 

Mr.' Bellamy has restored the few prominent parts Mr. Terry assumed 
to their original importance. To tfiose who could for a moment iVnagino 
the strictures of Vindex unbiassed, I say in the language of ShyJock, *' Are 
ye answer'd.** 

Mr. Faulkner, who was so pointedly apd personally attacked, has evinced 
his judgment as a manager as well as an actor, in assembling to his aid the 
most valuable performers ever seen in this part of the country— foreknow- 
ledge' of this event might have levelled the shaft of envy, " Is it an- 
•wer*d yet.** 

t can, Mr. Editor, readily enter into the merits of the present company^ 
without resorting, as Vindex does, to Jire'side quol\ficattons to be xearm in coo* 
mendatloQ.— ;Space I know is valuable to you, aqd brevity no less with me« 
Therefore to the point. Mrs. Kniveton and Miss Johnson are the heroines* 
each possessing every natural requisite for characters, to which their mental 
pretensions are well founded. Mrs. Forbes and Mrs. Darley are singers, 
that, in a provincial theatre, are not likely to be surpassed. — The merits of 
Mr. Noble have often exercised your pen, and I doubt not you would greatly 
partake of the pleasure his acting affords, where his powers hnvc fuU acnpc. 
—With us " i* th* north,** he was ever a great faTouriiCj and we view 
him now with undiminished satl^faction.-— Mrs. Noble piea^ca by h- r cor* 
rectuess, neatness of dress, and "graceful motion to harmonioua soundd.'' 
Mr. Carr evidently po^^sesses niuch intelligence ; he always sp^ak- seDsc, arid 
though the observation may excite a smile, "there be pLyers fhiive i^een 
play, and heard others praise," to whom it wouM be no trifling culugii.m. 
Mrs. Carr is a lively, pleasant little actress in the cQumrii gtrh^ and Mr*, 
Tayl^ure truly excejlent in the oUl women. Mr. Ti^ylcurti displays much 
taknt in the cliaa ters of our favourite Emery, — I 8;iy uur tavonrirCt ai '* he 
is native litre, anJ to the manner bom.*' Mr. Walcoc pob^ei^es the alvan- 
tges of a good face and person, andvirouldbe entitled to iionourablc mi-u- 
Hon, if, where the sense of hi* author requires it, hi would i)s.^ume u LttU 
more rapidity and sp rit in his utterance. 

Mr. Lindoe, Mr. Darby, Mr.an4 Mrs. Pritchard,' Mr. and Mrs.Bland^ 
«nd Mrs. P.tt, form the rest of a company vi^hi^h, viewed ind.vidually an<^ 
£oUec'.ivt^ly, augurs much in favour of the new managers, and there can be 
little doubt of the publidiberality Iwepini^p^ce with private spirit. 

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The N0R.WIOH CoMTAff v. — ^A ptfugra^ w» iaeaty iotcncd in th« 
Mirror, itllectiog on the conduct of Mr. Hindes, die manager of the Mpr- 
%tch company. It rmutfanSf ** Mr. Tompson« averydercrporfivrmeryliaa 
left the company. Perhaps it wero hettnr the public w^re ignorant of the. 
irt^e cause .of this g(«t|cinan*a biddiiij; adieu to the theatre^ whicb, if ve; 
are rightly ioronned, rtfttcts <t shameful «f'fsgTaceonth€maHiigir,faUUid-' 
Yitert.- 

Probably y Sir, yon are not aware of the si(u<)tion of the (iianag^r ^f a pra- 
^dal company, where the company i^ not »a numerous as at either of the 
hooaes of the MetropoUc ; he haa pot the same opportunity of filling up a^ 
part« if refused, at an hour*aorevaii at a week's notica.«— The &ct is, Mr. 
Tompson refused to perform the part of Torrent, ip the play of, '* Who 
w»»t% a Goioea,'' cite p^t he h id fiUe^, with9ut any ol^ection tp it« tiU thia 
time, a^ instated upon playing Solomon Gundy, which he had neYcr (dayed^ 
gCQffODpapying his refusal with a notice that he ^ouIdleaxQ thccpmpany in 
two oHNiJis}— to which the manager replied, ** that uulea^ hje tOQ^ his share 
in the perCocmances, even during the, two months, he was no longer uaeful 
10 the company ; and, of courae, pcr»i«tiQg in his refusal, he waaimmediatelg 
discharged.~>«It is auspected that one of the performers, who has been 
iQany veara in the company, has been taking some painain keeping up 4 
party In opposition to the manager^ and that Tompaon has beep led on» by 
him, to behave thoa impmperiy. W. W. 

>" " ■■' '^ I I I ■ " I i ] I 1. Si 

CHARACTER OF THE LATE LORD IIIURLOW, 



^DWARp THtJRLow is said to have derived hia descent frbm the fkmoua 
secretary of that name to Oliver Cromwell.' His fetber^ was an ohscor^ 
clergyman, possessed of an incon>iderable living at Ashiield, in SuffoUc^ It ia 
a saying of him, ujion record, that he could give hir children nothing tnoie 
than education, and that Ned would fight his way in the worhL ' 1^ fprtu^ 
nate son, however, discovered no very eatlf proofs of distingnbhed genius^ 
but posscdsed, even in infancy, the assumed manners of the man, an4 was 
haughty, prc^ptning, churlish, and overttearing. At »he usual period, he was 
admitted (if Peterhouse, Cambridge) m here thk hopea entertained of his future 
progresa in li'e^were f.>r from being sanguine : his general deportment was 
ryde apd boisterous, little calculated (suys one of his biographers) to fun* 
ciliAte the rfespt'ct of the «otid, and apparently without any%is{i4d obtain it. 
The early part of his life was marked with'niiaAy iffeguhirittea, excte^nj; 
even the bounds of the most dissipated of the day ; Ms dtfflcultiea were of 
course, great, and he U remembered to have ei^tric«ted himself with great 
axidress'ani wonderful cotifiatnce. His nalui-al powers were a1w«>s viewed 
with respect, to which indeed they Were intitled.* De\ dted to a I fe of ptea*- 

StH« 

* The followhig account of his lordship Was transmitted by a very^ltamcd 
and re:>pectable member of t^e church, «'ho f^ intimately informed of bk 
lordship's character, family, ind early incidents of life, aadoncof hismo^l 
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sore and ^iipatio«»feportimpu^co Mm not only a coocompt of lit«r4ture» 
but alindst atotal nt?glect of it, at least adegree of iudolence in the pursuit, in* 
consistent with the attainments of even necessary kitowledgc ; but commoli 
fame in this instance addfd nothing to her reputation for veracity : hi» lord- 
ship wa« an admirable clM^ical scholar, and'attaine<) Ms knowledge by th^ 
4mly means knowledge it accessible — itudy ^d application. He differed 
from others Anly in the mode of acquirn;; it. He who was every u heft 
seen the picture of iudolence, loUlag on the noon-day bench, and considered, 
slmott as the fixture of a co&e-house in the day, regularly retired to the moic 
intense application at night. 

'« ■ His kamcd toil 

** O'er books coDsam'd the midnight oil.*' 
-. From Oonbrlege he removed to tlielikner Templet where the sattie ap- 
parent indolence of tempts and dl^^positkm marked his ctedntt. 

He attended the bar sev€raY years wmodccd and unknowe. The fir^ 
siniR^ehheissaid 16 have dtitinguishtd liimsdf, was that between 



'< Hit soperiori'y of abilities (says he) was di«covered very early, both at 
school and college ; they extorted tubmi^slon from his equals, and impressed 
kit seniors with awe.— The following anecdote is toM of him : Havlng^ been 
absent from chapel, or committed some other offence which came under tl e 
cognizance of the dean of the college, the dean, who, though a man of wit> 
was not remarkable for his Icami ng. set Thurlow, as a punishment, a paper 
in the Spectator to translate into Greek. "This he performed extremely WttT, 
and in a very little time ; but, instead of harrying it up to the dean, as he 
ought to have done, he r arried it to tke tutor, who was a good scholar, and 
a very respectable character. At this the dean was exc(>cdiki;ly wroti)> and 
complained to the fell<^s of the in<ult,and insisted that Mr. Thurlow should 
be Convened bcfor/e th^ nusters and fellows, and receive a severe reprimand. 
They were convt-Qcd accordingly, and the master of the college a( cosed hiftt 
of the insult above stated ; to which Thurlow coolly replied, That< what he 
had done proceeded not from disrespect to the dean, but merely from motivs'i 
of pity» an unwiQtngness to puzzle him. The irritated dean ordered him 
immediate:y out ai tKe room, and then insisted that the masters and f«Uows 
ought immediati^ly to expel or rusticate him. This request was nearly com- 
plied nith, when tWi9 of the fellows, wis'T than the rest, observed* that ex* 
pelli gorrusticatiiig a young man for sui;rh an offence, would perhaps do 
much injury to the collie, and expose it to ridicule ; and, that as h« would 
soon quit the coUege of his own accord to attend the Temple, it would b« 
^better.io let tbe matter re«t, than irritate hitn by such severe measures; 
which advice, was at lengtjh adopted.— •Ono of the gentlemen who recom^ 
mended lenient noea&ures, was the present master, for whom Ltird Thurlow 
procured the cbancdlorsh^ of the dtoce.s of IJncoln.** 
-"' As a proof of the consciousness which the chancellor frit of his abilities,^ 
' long before he Was caOed to the bar, he often declared to his frieDdSs-that he 
wcMd4joiie day be chancellor of England, a<)d that the title he would take for 
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Luke Robinson and Lord Winchelsea, whieli at once ga^e him reputation' 
and business. He was soon after pitched upon as managing counsel in the 
great Douglas Cause, in whicK he discovered ability and address. It' was 
always his aim, in practice, to give his oratorical productions more the air of 
genius than industry, and they oft^n carried the appearance of spontaneous 
cltu ion, although the effort of much premeditation and previous labour. 

His arrival at profesnooal honout*s Was first announced in 1762^ when he 
wai appointed king^ counsel, thus emerging at onre from legal obscurity^ 
his abilities being so little known at a barrister, that the appointment excited 
universal abtonishmtnt. Impelled by the most restless ardour, he rtishod in- 
trepidly, and almost immediately, to the summit of legal fdme; for in the 
year 1770, we find him advanced, under the patronage of the house of Bedford^ 
to the post of Solicftor Ceneral, on the resignation of Mr. Dunniflg ;aiid snc- 
cecding Sir WllHam dc Gfej at Attorney Oeoeral in 1771. 

He wa> t« ice elected into parliament fot the borough of Seafford. 

This is (he ptoper place to ttffltw Mb lofdship'fe pretensions to the imtt 
he held as a first rite orator and lawyer. 

He « as a powerful and uniform supporter of the measures of govern-' 
ment. It cannot be denied but he possessed strong na'ural talents, and quick-' 
oeas uf apprehension :— His eloquence parto >k of his character; it was bold^ 
explicit, decisive, and inflexib'e: — he driireredhis arguments as JoVedirectcd 
his bo ts,in tones of thunder : confident and daring, he rushed like Achillei 
into the field, and dealt de>trucdon around his adversaries more by the 
streugtU of his arm, the deep tones of his voice, and the lightning of his eye^ 
than by any peculiir felicities of genius, or derated powers of ora(ory..—He 
at time's combatt d his opponents vdth every species of argument, from the 
naked, unqualified, unsupported flat assertion, down to the sarcastic jokel 
His style, however, was often petulant and warm; neither remarkable for its 
neatness, nor offensiye for its vulgarity.— -His attempts at ridicule and humour 
were m<'ap ai^ dis^reea^le j but i^is words were generally well chosen, and 
his voice clear and sroog.-^-His rv-plies were consuntly acrimunious j he 
ezerci^kHl ail the figures of bis profession : his conbirucLion.^ of the taw were 
artful an4 malignant, and hq became gradually veh nictit and furious -• 

Hisniatjner had an assume! dignity, and an aif^cteii iuiprc3Sit>a tf aw;^ 
Whicb« however degcifous upon some occasions, i^ ccruiiJy imjiroper upon 
»)L Perhaps the natural sa^e of his face — that duir, dismalj dark, dT;- 
BStrous cottuttn»ttcq, threw an involuntary horror rotind him, — ^fenace 
and terror sate enthroned upon hia brow-— his whol^' Aspect was re |>elant^ 
and conveyed an idea of outrage..—- He affected to di>da[n ttie aid of th: 
OiaceSy aiidto command alf>ue by the energy of expre^ iun. aid fi^rte, both in 
tnanncr and.exfiiretsiQQ, was undoubtedly his lordjlnp'^ foite, but every 
qudificaion should be judged by comparison. — Aj a speaker in iLt^ Houae 
of Commons, n^any were far above turn. Thatforc^^ on which so much 
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UratHke Sttan*s toate< whh Omn'poteiice, mod like die aUmloo, left oaal« 
parisoD befaind it. Where, io the beet of his apeeches, it the iofbnaatloo> 
the defligii, the genius, the splendid coBflagmloii oC BarlLe f Where th« 
-wit, the cfaissie teste end cOrrectoess of Sheridsn t 'Hie lecords oC perlia* 
tnent win plaee Mm, as en orator, far t>elow any of these. 

As a proftodonal maa, he was not beard of, by the die of Torlte, Oe 
Omey, and Orantley ; and was always, with great propriotf , considered tn- 
feriur, both in and out of parfiamect, to his official competitors Athburtoil 
land Lougborotigh. 

In 17'78, he was created a peer by the title of Ijoed Tharlow, Baron el 
Ashfielif, Id Stiffollc, and advanced to the high, dignity of Lord Cbancdlur, tbc 
f lace best calculatrd for the display of hk abilities. 

As a Speaker of the house of X^rds, he had that intrepidity and firmnese 
that comnoanded order and regularity in their proceedings, and eonfined debate 
to the point in agitation. His lordship Tery prop irly felt the dignity ofhU 
situation, and wovld not suffer the pride of peerage to inv:.de its rights. Hie 
spirited and manly reply to the Duke of Orafcon did him honour. <* How* 
c^erthe ancient and hereditary nobles may feel on the ascent of lawyers to 
the peerage, it must be remcmhered, that (hey only rise by desert. I'he man 
who earns his hononrs, has the best right to wear them ; and ti.ey certaialy 
sit upon him with a grace seldom observed in the passive Inheritor. 

He v^as QOt ail example ot mean insinuation, but stood (^ays an elegant 
diurnal writer) amidst the warring factions of the times, like the Chan of tb< 
tJsbecs, too formidable to be visited by contumely, tho' too savage to crcite 
esteem. 

The remahdng part of his character, as given in a Tery excellent period!* 
tal publication, is so accurate and just, or at least so exactly eoineides widi 
our ideas, that we shall conclude our sketch of his Lordship with a trans* 
cript of it. 

*« The world has done sulfident jastice to the cliaracter of Lord ThurIow» 
which bdi^ ezavlned in the detail, may perhaps rather call for some abate- 
ment fo the extravagant applause given it, than to any additional enloginm. 
At a poUddan, be seems to stand the fairest chante of de^ceuding to posterity 
Ivitb rrputatioB, though he , probably posse>ses little more than the usual 
mnow information beltinging to tlu)se of his profession. In his conduct as a 
senator, he has distinguished himself by so decided, so confident a degree of 
Bi^eHolty, that he has receired ( redit for abilities, the existence of which may 
be questioBed without the smallest indecency. 

**■ It is certain, that little advantage has arisen to the public from any of hie 
poUtkad exertions $ and we are yet to leam wherein his taleats,as a legislator, 
m to be dtscoyered. Hehad,howeTer, aquxkneis of parts well suited to 
fmUkd^aie* and a cool deierroined manner, well adaped to obta n an a»r 
MDitnceovcr imbeGBity> topuihboidij all advantages^ andto secure art* 

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tint with credit^ when oppoied by superior powers. At a lawyer, Ms 
knowkdct is tofeiior (o mmy ;and bad his rise depended on bis profietsloiial 
adTsnt^es another miut haTe now prerided in the court of Chancery. 

«< U has boen th« misfortune of this counir> > thatthe legal and poUtieal 
cl aracter have been lately so bleoded, that more attention has beat paid to 
the Utter thao the former, and often at the expence of it. This was not fof- 
nteriy the case ; and we pronounce, without hesiution, that the public wf- 
^r* by the unoatuial union. Lrt those who have been long anxiously loolc- 
ing for decrees in the court of Chancery, be asked their sentiments of a poli- 
tical chancellor : They will pidnt their misery in such colours, as must 
oodtince ever>' iutpartial pvrson that the supremacy in the house of lords, 
and in ihc first court of equity, sbohldnot be in the same person. — ^Maay 
taw>ers have suggested the prevalence of a species of indecision totally ioooa- 
sifttent with any very comprehensive knowledge of jurisprudence, and totally 
^i/Terent from ihe general mode of proceeding in all other situations. The 
practiserscomplaia of the petulance and illiberal treatment they frequently 
facet uitb, and the surliness and ill-nature which is often to be seen in pub- 
lic ; and those who remember the patience, the good humour, and poUtcncas 
of the iiords Hardwicke and Camden, are perpetually drawing comparisona 
by oo means favourable to Thurlow.'* 

The ingenious and learned author of the Preface to Bellendenns having 
very happi y pourtraycd several striking features in his Lordship's character, 
lias the following conelttsion, M hich, from an entire coincidence of sentiment 
and opinion, u here transcribed : 

<* if be should ever peruse my senilmenu of his character, I would deaie 
hino not tP shake his tremendous head at me f— the severe and forbidding 
znanner with which he ever addressed himself to others, will probably exdte 
his indignation when directed against himself : I care not if be shall 
think me to have spoken of him with too much bitterness ; it is the fair and 
Reasonable con^sequence of the <t>nduct that provoked it.'* 

Another of his lordship's biographers has pomtrayed him as follows: 

** In times less fovourable to genius and freedom, the haughty baroBs, 
and Atill more haughty bishops, administered justice to their trembling vassals. 
Nobility and priesthood were the only criterions of merit,andliigh birth and 
the ecclesiastical tonsure seem to have assumed a prescriptive right over tht 
coble science of jurisprudence.— In this more liberal age, hereditary pre- 
tentious are forced to give way to personal worth, while the fortuitous ad- 
vantages arising from fortune and descent, maintain but a feeble competition 
with the nobler endowments of the mind. This position is no where better 
illtntratcd than in the profession of the law, as several of its members, un- 
supported by any other claim than those of their own merit and abiUtieti 
have, during the present century, ennol^ed themselves and their posterity. 

<* Let it be recorded, to their honour, that within Ibis -period, two of tlba 
greatest characters in this icinjdom have risen ^m the desks of attomies ; 
whik, if « e believe common report, a third maj' be literally said to baTc 
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" E4wtfd Tkarlov, tke son of » maiiiifacttircf of the dty i>f NtJrwlcK, 
like hit gremt predeccisors Somers and Hardwicke, bursting from obscurity 
bfytbestreagthofhisowngeehts, like them too, overcame the obstacles of 
bhrth and fortune, and suddenly rose to the first honours of his profession. 
The finger of the House of Bedford pointed the road to preferment ; and at a 
time when his cefemporaries were struggling with mediocrity, and a stuff* 
gowoy the slIlceQ robes of ]dsig*s counsel, and the patronage of diat illustrious 
^unilyi inspired him with no common ambition. The powers of his mind 
«^nding>ii(h his hopes, tlie high offices of solicitor and attomey-gerieral, 
whkb bound the views of some men, seemed to him but as legal appren* 
tic^ships, imposed by custom, before he could attain to (hat dignity, which 
yns to give Um precedrnee of every lay-subject in the kingdom, not of the 
Vlood royal. 

*• The people beheld with pleasure a man sudilenly emerging from 
among themselves, and enjoying the highest offices of the state ; his triumph 
teemed to be their own. It flattered their passion to sec plebeian merit coping 
with aristocraticaCl pride, and united, but acknowledged worth, conferring, 
by its participation, lustre on degenerate nobility. When they saw him, too, 
supporting his newly acquired honours with a dignity which they imagined 
had only appertained to hereditary grandeur, and bdield him in his contest 
with the head of the house of Grafton, stating his own merits in competitton 
with ducal honours, and weighing the fair claims of genius and learning, in 
opposing the meretricious, though royal descent, every good citizen partook 
of his honest pride, and participated in his victory; 

** Seated on the Chancery bench, the eyes of mankind were fixed upon ^ 
him. The iron days of equity were thought to be passed ; and it was fondly 
expected, that the epoch of hU advancement would be the commencement 
of a golden a§e. The nation felt that they had long groaned under the 
dominion of their own chancellors. The slowness iof their proceedings had 
mouldered insensibly away, in the pleadings of two centuries, some of the ' 
fairest forttmes in the kingdom ; and the subtilties of the civil law had in«» 
volvc'd, in the voluminous mazes of a Chancery bill, rights and claims, which 
the municipal courts would have immediately recognized. 

** At once haughty and indolent by nature^ attached to a party, and di»* 
tracted by politics; with a mind fitted to discountenance, abuse, and ^>pal 
oppression, Lord Thurlow disappointed their expectsftions ; and, by his con- 
duct, forcibly illustrated that great legal axiom, that the duties of the Wool- 
aack.and the Chancery are incompatil^e. 

<* A change of ministry taking place, the chancellor was suddenly dis- 
missed ; and the man who had risen with the approbation of mankind, re- 
tired amidst the clamours of the nation. 

*' Restored to his high office by another change, as sudden as his dis- 
mission had been precipitated, if his inactivity had been still the same , yet his 
personal conduct seemed to be greatly altered. £xilcd from power, he I ad 
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9S6 m MOHTBTT MrmKOR. . 

Wea taai^ by rrtirenMot what other men kavt oot karn«d bf adver^ty $ aai 
bit prcMOC alltniioo to bufinctt, and poUtmess to tbe geatleSBCft at Ue bar, 
sAbrdtd a bapfiy contrast to biiAwmer bebaviow. 

** The character of the cbanctllor •c«mata bedaveloped in his caonte* 
nanoe, by an ontUneat oner bold, haughty, and oonunaiidiag. like Haie^ be 
Itoeglitfcotofhispcr.-on^like Yorke, heJtas fW(T?t4 from Ua party; b^C 
like b msrlf alone, he baa ewer remained iruc to hiv own priocipie^. 

** Aa an oiator, hi* manner ia dignified, hia periodaare ihorty and^bi* 
^oice at once aouorous and coounanding. More nervooa than Caindeat 
aactc eloquent than Rich montly more masculine than Sydney, he is the sole 
support of tbe minister in the house of peers. like an insulated rock, hf 
^ppoaeshis sullen and rugged front to the aorm of debate, and rtunaiiMrun* 
shaken by (he whirlwind of opposition. 

** Better acquainted with hooks than with meUf ai a politician, his know- 
ledge of iOi eign aiiairs U narrow and c onfined ; he is, however, well infoimed 
of tii« domestic and immediate concerns of the empire. Wacmly attached ta 
the prerogative, he bf ands reform with ihe name of in^o^ ation ; aqd is fond of 
nrKiog the wholesome regulations of our ancient laws, in oppo!<itioQ to tho 
knproTcmenti of modem projraors. 

** Ub attachment lohis SoTcreign is personal, and at least equals his at<- 
tachmeot to prerogatiTc. Take his own words on a rev ent and important 
Cccaaion : — * When I forget my king (say« he) D»ay God forget ir.e!' The 
aeotifnent was strongly expressive of the fecliug> of gratitude. It did lionottl> 
to his heart, and certainly will not injur*; his preferment. 

** As a judge, his researches are deep, and ha deciidois are cooifesaedly 
imp rial : none of them, however, h ivc procured i:im celebrity. 

" As a legislator, he has as yet acquired no reputation ; and notwi Juitand^ 
iog a voluntary prcffer of Itis scivices, iias made no-alteratiou in the law* 
respecting the imprisonment of insolvent debtors, whom he ha« treated with 
aviolince ti at aav^urs of tiie rigour of justice ratlier than the mldnesa of 
hnoianity. 

** His enemie?, who bate him with rancour rather than enmity, dare not 
question his i< tc -rity, nor can they charge fain^with any action descrv ng of 
xaproach. His friends, who love l.ini from e»tecm rather than affection, avoWv 
Ibe greatncits of his de^rts, yet fia^ it 'lifiicult to fix his particular m;;i its. In 
floe, bis character is stiU negative and undetermined i with powers 6tted for 
urtf thing, he ha^ as yet done nothing, and although he seems tiie wonder c£ 
the present ag;>, will, perhaps, scarce meet witb the «iotice of pO!>terity. 

•* His gnat predecessors have eiccttd the noblest monuments to their 
foaie, by attention to tlie happinetsy the interests, and tbe welfare of their 
fellow-citizens. Lord Chancellor Hardwicke planned t><e bill for abolish- 
ing the heritable jyrisdictiona in Scocland ! l^-d Keeper Guikiford had a 
principal hand in tbe itatote of ftvtids and peijariea, of which :he Xx^rd 
t^thiKhtm observfld, « That ?v^ry line was worth a subsidy.* Lord Chan-, 
cdlor Somers projected the act of union betwixt England and Scotland, and % 
hill to correct some proceedings, both in common law ^nd equity, iha^ wf:^c 
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^ Ttesc wetttovkM t]«t at oDceclaiiBed tni MciiMd imii^^ 
<< The life^howerer, of the pretent Cbaneellor, if it is dcttitiite of c«lo« 
S'lViix* ^yet not without iti moral, as his success will nsturally siimulate the 
iBxertioDS of tudustry, and invigorate the eSbrU of geniof. Bat let this cha- 
racter tesch those who dare to consider successful ambition, not as the end, 
t>ut as the road only to true greatnesa, that nothing bat actiye werthcan form 
the good citizen, and the great lnwyer/' 

u . 1 I ■"■■ .^i I ' I .1 I i ii ii i nn i n i i aBPaagggeai 

DOMESTIC EVENTS, 

MR. FOX'S WILL. 

rHOVED AT I>0CTeB.*S COMMONS. 

This is the Win and Testament of the Hon. Charles Jamet Fox, •f St, 
Anne^s Hill, in the parish of Chertsey, In the county of Surrey. 

Whereas the late Mr. Herdman, of Hatton Garden, did by his will ghrt 
and bequeath onto me my legacy of 500 guineas, which sum I shall be cn^* 
titled, at some ftiture time, to receive, together with the interest that wOl be« 
came duefof the tame; now, I do hereby give and bequeath one moiety or 
equal part of all such monies Qnt» my nephew, Henry Fox, son of Generit 
l^ox I and the other moiety or equal half part thereof onto Robert St^en^ 
a youth» now living with Lord Viscount Boltngbroke,in America, 

And whereat, 1 am entitled to one annuity, or dear yearly sum of #ne 
baadred pounds> htely granted to me by his Grace John Duhe of Bedford^ 
for and during the; term of the natural Hfe of Harriot Willoughhy, in the 
grant thereof named ; now, I do hereby give and bequeath the same anniity 
uaco my wife, Elisabeth Bridget, for and during the term of her natural 
Bfe, if she, the said Harriot Willoughby, shall so long live ; and from and 
after the decease of my said wife, umo the said Harriot Willoughby, for 
her own use and benefit. 

I give, deviacy and bequeath all the rest and residue of my personal estate, 
of what nature or kind soever, not by me before disposed of, and also all and 
singular my real estates, whatsoever and wheresoever, unto my said wife, 
Elizabeth Bridget, her heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns for ever ; 
only I wish her to make presents in my name of any books, picturer, or 
marble she thinita fit» as remembrances of me to the following friends:— 
Lord Holland, General Fox, General Fitzpatrick, Lord Robert Spencer^ 
Lord Htzirliliam, Mr. Hare, the Bishop of Down, Lord John Townihend, 
MisaFox, andMr. Bouverie. There are many others whom I love and 
valaeto the greatest degree, but these are my oldest connections. 

I nominate^ fomtitute, and appoint my faid wife, Elizabeth Bridget, sole 
Exeeutrix of this my will ; and revoking all former wills by me made, do 
declare this only to be my last will and testament. In testimony whereof 
I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this twewy-first day of July, 1902. 
Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the said Charies James Fox, as 
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wicsessct thereof. 

(Signed) C. J. FOX. 

XtVAtDKlNT. 
CaAtLlf PSMtROKS, 
RotBJlT GlLIft* 



Parliament wat dluolTcd by the Privy Council, on the ^th of October* 
the writs for the New Parliament are returnable on the 15th of December. 

'I'he royal crown of England hat lately undergone considerable repairs* 
and was deposited in the Tower a few days ago. It is valued at 1,000)0001. 

It has been erroneously »uted> that peers, as well as memberi of the 
House of Commons, are deprived of the privilege of franking or recehring 
kttert free dvflng the dis solution of parliament. The fact is, that peers' 
letters are only charged w.th postage from the disfotution until forty days 
pKviousto the assembling the new parliament, when their franking re- 
commences; and such members as are returned to the new parliament 
then begin to tmd and receive letters free of postage. 

Mr. J. Hume» younger brother of Joseph Hume, Esq. of Nine Wells^ 
lervlckihire, and nepfaasr of David Hume, the celebrated historian, hasput 
an Old to hb existence, by shooting himself through the head with a pistol« 
in a field oh his brotber*t esute. 

The report of the death of Mango Park, who ^t said to have fidlen a 
tloikn in the interior of Africa, is now . found untrue. Accounuliave been 
fccehrcd of him at Cambridge, which staud his arrival at Tombactoo, and 
tfnt he is on hb return home. 

The following list of errata lately appeared at the end of a political 
wofk:— 

For the Potentates of the Continent, read Potatoes, 
For Buooaparte*s Gallic Dukes, read Ducks, 
For iome of our church Incumbents, read Incumbrance- 
For Jerry Sneak, read Jerome Napokon, 
For French Vessels ,Ttaii French Vassals. 
Mr. Mills is appointed Chief Judge of the South Wales circuit, in the 
room oi Mr. Lloyd, deceased. 

1 he following is a statement of the operation of the Sinking Fond, up to 
l^ovemhcr 1,1806, 

Redeemed by annnual million ..^.p.^.. 61,668,16S 

. Dhto by the 1 per Cent, per ann. upon all loans - - - 52,156,490 

Ditto by Und tax ----,---^--- 22,|645,280 

Ditto by 1 per Cent, per aon. on Imperial loan - • - 719,016 

I 

Total - - - - je' 137,188,88+ 

The sum to be expended in the ensuing quarter, 2,'267,1711. 178, 
Curious Duel.— 1 he followiog singular duel lately took, place at Bayran 
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^miTelled during the absence of the famil7---a challenge was immeifiatsly 
^ven and accepted, they found means to procure their master's pistols, and' 
repaired to an appointed tpot, where they measured off the ground, and pro* 
ceededto obtain satisfaction fiom each other for the affront given< At tht 
first fire, one of the sable heroines received a ball in tlie shoulder— and after 
Ineffectually endeavouring to discharge her pistol, threw it contemptuously 
mway,andtheaiiair ended.— (New, York Paper.) 

'Wniiam Fletcher, Esq. has been appointed to a seat in the Irish Court of 
Common Pleas, in the room of Judge Johnson. 

PRussIA^r Jaws. — It is confidently i^epttrted that the Jewi of PnistU 
have declined sending any of their lobbies to the grand sanhedrim con* 
▼ukedby the French government, and now actually sltdng at Paris. la- • 
consequence of the invitation sent t6 them, the rulers and heada of <ribii 
among the Prussian Jews have assembled, and declared in the most vneqni^ 
▼ocal, dear, and solenm nianner, that -Prussia is their country, that they 
never wish for a better, and that it is not a point in their religion to prefer tte 
Holyliand to any other, as has been supposed by the Christian dbrifws. Coo* 
formable to tliis doctrine, they have noticed, in the most pilblic and antheiM 
tic mamier, this declaration, and have invited his Prusstao majesty to re«> 
cefve their homage and oath of fealty, befcn'e the altar, at the grand ayti»* 
l^ngue at Potsdam. It is said that his majesty has Cxpitnsed moch satisfii** 
tion at this declaration, and has given the Jews to understand, that he wiU 
attend at Uieir place of worship on his return fmrni the army. The volnntarf 
subscriptions of the Jews at Berlin are without example, some of them 
Ittving sab%cribed 1000 guineas, and none onder 1001. steriing. 

Family Emolument. — ^The following estimate of the sums paid ottt 
^ the public mone>' to the Grenvllle family, is, we understand, rather under 
than' over the actual receipts of the emoluments and salaries attached to their 
respective places : 

The Marquis of Buckingham, Teller of the Exchequer, nearly 

aboutperyear ^.30,000 

The profits many years ago were 24,O00W. and they increase 
annually, as the public revenue becomes heavier. 

Mr. Thomas Grenvillc, C. J. <rf Forests South of Trent, per 

rear 3,500 

First Lord of the Admiralty, supposed about - - - ^ ^ . 4,000 

7,500 

Lord Grenvillc, Auditor of the Exchequer ---..-. 4,000^ 
First Lord of the Trcwury 7,000 

11,000 

Lord Temple, Paymaster General ---------- 4,000 

Lord Cary-fort, his ^rother-in-law, Postmaster General - - 2,500 



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Mvi»M.-«4iStelf wiM tppi«lMn4«d,iii Cafliile,bf Spenoe,* I 
ftom Puiitey, M«tth«w Smitk, aoeuacd «r tkc furde##f a fteak cUU* 
• h —t t hr e e withioid, in Ptitkyi Tlic Inliut ^m tkt iUcgitimaUofftprtog 
if t writer,iii Piiiley,wbo hid given the notber of the child ( Agta Kelly) 
the mn of 31. to udet in tntinrainint herol&pftef , iHdch was ooAsmncd la 
di hill, between ber and Matthew Sa|Jth» with«hoatie ^peart, ibebail 
•ome connfciion. Not knowing wiiere to get a fresh Mq;>ply» Sndth ttnm^e^ 
the infiocnrt.tnd laid it beneath the lootof anold tree in the gMtlen, and 
tent for the apprentice of a doctor in Pakley.it it Mppoved} with a view of 
tdOingtheboiyferlhe puipoie of disieetion I*- When they had aMvedat 
tke tpet, the cbiid having fonewhat recovered, ivaf crying. Tbtmoostci^ 
Snitht dicn took it by the hode, and dMbed its head against the groMMl 
fiilh all lilt facte, five or iiz times; but the nuinld being toft, this ezperi«> 
ttcnrwainotsnffieieiit to terminate the exlttciMe of thepoorhtile sufierer. 
TiiechBd still breadiing> the doetor^ Apprentice tiedabandfccrcliief,astight 
aapoMiUe, reoad the etooMfih^lo prevent the fdaying of the hings. Not*- 
w Mnnndi ii g ih ie c v sri o ii s de w>ioe§ » life was not yet totally eJU^Kt. In order 
t^compl^ thefar HeWihiattnc, (Sndth held the chlid^ head in a bucket of 
water» wMch l ew ntoate d k$ >ngeripgs» The chdd waitben put into a rag 
•dlar, and w« discovered ihortly Bfter* by the nanacr^at smci}, withooc 
«ftlM:foet,andpartof the h^, eaten aw«y by rsts. Such cgnylir^tedbag* 
bsiicyeonldnoteKapcthe all-ieeiAgeye of ajn4 PTovidenee; ThevaT 
scans whieh were nted &>rthe aecompUshment of this most strange anil 
flMst tmnalnfal mrder* were the means of Its disfovery.* The fauidkev* 
chiefvhich wutied roand the iuf jMt^ body hekmged to the atasier of the ap* 
pientiee, and was marked wkh his name. Accordiogly he was snspcc «1 ; he 
owned the handkereidef, but denied any koowledse of tke transaetiao. Th^ 
kpfMxntice then confessed, and turned evidence for the crown $ whefcnpon 
metseogers were dispatched in every direction ; and Smith v«s diiCffTfred at 
above related. He was next morning sent off to take hit trial* 



BIRTS* 

In Cnmberhmd Place, the Lady off Sfar Win. Bhckett, Bart, of m 



DIED. 

In the ^h year of her age, the Right Hon. Lady £!it. Di^, danghter 
of the late and sister to tKe present Earl of Dq:by. Lord Ponionby» fiither^ 
in-law to Viscount Howick, at hi« house in Seymoi^r place. Topthan^ 
Devctfu General Simcoe. In Cavendish-street, Lady Alva, aged about 90 
years. In Brook-street, H. Hayes* Etf . one of the oommiasioaeri for the 
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' Embellished with 

▲ PORTRAIT OF MRS, MATHEWS, OF DRURV-LAilE THEATRE, EN- 
GRAVED BY RIDLEY, FROM AN ORIGINAL PICTURE. 



CONTENTS. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 
Bi<^^phicai Sketch of Mrs. Ma* 

ihews 363 

Anecdote of a Cornish Boroagh .. 364 

OUver Cromwell 367 

Siographical Sketch of Mr. Ray- 
mond , 369 

Miscellanea. No. II.— Anecdote 

of Alexander the First 372 

Extract from a Paper, never print- 
ed, on the Games, Exhibitions^ 
and public Diversions of Spain 375 
Civilized and Barbaroui Nations . 380 
Conferring and receiving Favours 383 

• REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 

Scott's Lay of the last Minstrel ... 385 

Odell's Efsay on the Elements, 
Accents, and Prosody of tljc 
English Language 395 

Fireside Stories 1 398 

Hiirs Cow -pock Inoculation vin- 
dicated ib. 

Vaccinia, ib, 

Liardcl's Ca«e of the Hypochon- 
driac explained ....t ib. 

. Mrs. Rice's Monteith , 399 

Sanon's Causes of the French Re- 
volution.... t>**f ib* 

Lufltnan's new Pocket Atlas and 
Geography ib. 

DellingborOMgh Ca«tlf 400 

Pi I kington's Violet Vale * ib. 

The Bel.:iian Traveller ib. 

^ishop of London's beneficial Ef- 
fects of Christianity, on the 
^eifiporal Concerns of Mankind 401 



Scot'sBallads and Lyrical Pieces .. 401 
Raymond's Life of Dermody ...... 404 

Montefore's Bankrupt'and Credi-, 
tor's friendly Assistant 408 

DRAMATIC. 

Gardiner's Sultana, or the 'Jealous 
Queen, a Tragedy ..,' 408 



URtXISU StA9B. 



TheDnQfMtk 

Anecdotes 



«k£iHgr4i^-*No.XV. 409v 
of the French Stage ... 412 



ORIGINAL POETRY. 

Lines on the Death of Mr. Henry 

Kirke White , 414 

Prologue to Adrian and Orrila 415 

Prologue to Mr. H— • 416 

Description of a Connoisseur's 
, Room 417 



MEMORANDA BRAMATIC A. 

Covent-Garden 419 

Drury-Lane 420 

King's Theatre 421 



PROVINCIAL DRAMA. 
Edinburgh 422 



IMPERIAL PAULIAMENT. 
Speech of the Lords Commissioners 
to both Houses of Parliament 424 



Domestic Events, &c. 



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BIOCRAPHICAL SKETCH OP 

MRS. MATHEWS. 
[WiihaPdrtmU.] 

Xhc lady whose portrait accompanies this brief mem air, is the 
(laughter of Mr. Jackson, who had the honour to be n pypil nf th« 
celebrated Foote ; but his professional efforts wer^ of short dura^ 
don. He died at Bath, while our heroine was an infant. On tEie 
stage of that city Miss Jackson made her first appcftraitce. Oi»c (if 
her earliest performances was the Page, in the lnn^ls;i^l farce of tiie 
Purse; a character which, with the person of a cLiU]^ requires more 
than a child's capacity to do justice to it in the ro presentation. The 
infant debutante acquitted herself to the perfect smbfaction of her 
audience, and afterwards rendered herself acceptable j» soum other 
parts of a similar description. 

At a very early age she indicated a parjtiality to music^ aod her 
voice affording every promise that with proper culdvation it iD]|j[rt 
prove the means of obtaining for her both profit and diatjnctioap.,^ie 
was articled to Mr. Kblly of Drury-Lane theaLrc. The tuition of 
that gentleman and Mrs. Crouch, assisted by a good car anti correct 
taste on the part of the pupil, effected so r^pid an improvement, 
that she was very soon introduced on the boards of Drury-Lane 
theatre, and performed Juha in the Prize, Dick in the Shipwreck, 
and other juvenile parts, which had previously been in the posses- 
sion of young Welsh. She also played Ghita, in the Siege of Bel* 
griuk, for the benefit of Mrs, Crouch. Such was her proficiency, 
that, at the expiration of three years only of her article, she accepted 
a regular engagement in the York company, where she appeared in 
the winter of 1799, in the characten ofAmantkis and Rcifina, Here 
she immediately became a favourite, and sustained all the principal 
operatic characters, as well as the heroines in sentimental comedy, 
for which the delicacy of her form, her yoath, and a pleasi<ig style 
of delivery, pecuharly qualified her. 

Lrtfais company, besides the advantage of professional practice, 
Miss^ Jackson found in Tate Wilkinson, the manager, a friend who 
was always ready to afiiird her the best advice and assistance. That 

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364 THE MpVTBtY illRROft. 

rcsfjectable veteran treated her with' the indulgence whfeh fier'ses 
•nd jootb required, and, considering her as an innocent and onpio- 
tected female confided to his cart, Hs conduct to her in aO respects 

WBS tfltti Of ftB ftnOCItOBQte pftPCOv EO >HS CnHCra 

In this circuit Miss Jackson receifed the most signal marks of 
attention and regard from the natives of Yorkshire, whom she never 
mentions without expressii^ the most lively and grateful sense of 
their kindoesaes. 

In March 1803 Mr. Mathews had the happiness of receiviilg 
lier hand in marriage. She of course accompanied Wm to the Hay- 
market, when Mr. CoLMAN, resolved on establishing a company 
Independent of the winter houses, invited her hushand, who had 
acquired considerable reputation as an actor, to take the- lead in 
comedy at the Little Theatke. \ ' 

From this period, the progress of Mrs. Mathevrs on the ^age Is 
well known to our readers. At Drur^-Lane she has lately been 
"broi^ht forward in several very difficult characters, and, in all, her 
vocal efforts have been honoured with the most encouraging and 
unanimous plaudits of the audience. In a few seasons she will 
probably hold a very distinguished rank on that stage. Her voice is 
daily improving in sweetness and strength of tone, in flexibipty, and 
in compass. 

Her figure i^ symmetrically proportioned, her features interest- 
ing and expressive, and her deportment easy and gracefuL 

For her domestic character, we refer the reader to the Viogra* 
cal sketch of her husband, inserted in a former number of this work. 

ANECDOTE OF A CORNtSII BOROUGH. 



A i<AVGiuBlK ^ory was cireiihu«^ AMg tim mUm ht a uUQ n of 
the old Duke of NetrcflAtle, andl Tet«biM'to ^km pttUibis. vwnons 
forms. Tills nohievsan^ with ttmaf gwMl 'poant^ md idmet&ei 
by a popttfair coi^semp^tmry pott^as akaoa eaten np bf hj^sed for 
the house oC Hanover, was reioiKHctibW im bttn^.^woftiae of his 
pi'ombes on all occasi&ns, and v»kii»d'lmMeM)paitie<dailj!^ an. being 
able to ao^icipale tkc words' or tlie #at)U «£.iliej«anMia pecaoaft 
who attended his levees, faeibre tli«ir*itttc«ed a woii; tbit aoiB»' 
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iwipyto kriak pavni^9$, mUdk gnva ocoivsiQirfdr tbie lu^ecdpte I 
<ifa 1*11109 . to rekte;... 

- /kt til* decftien >«f « certaia kflrou^ in Cornwall^ where tht 
opposite iteevtsts were aimMt eqaaiiy poised^ a single vote was of 
tiM hiffbest impcf taace ; this object, the duke» l»jr z^eU-apphed ofv 
guments, and j>ersonal application, at length attained, and the gen- 
tienao he reconMbended gained his election. 

In the wiinntli of gratitude, hia gract poured forth ackDo«le(%- 
meets MMi pronusea^ tvithout ceas mg, on tlie fdrtuaate possewor of 
the casniag voto; caHed Imn his best and dearest friend; protested 
ihat he ciKMild eooatder himself as for ever indebted to him ; thajt 
he wotdd serve him hf n^hc or by day. 

The Cornish voter, an honest fdloir, as things go^ aad wbo 
would, ha^'e thought himself sufficiently paid^ but for such a torrent 
of ackoowjedgiveiits, thanked the di^e for his kindness^ and tol4 
Jupi ''The supervisor of excise wais old and iufiriii>juEid if he would 
have. the. goodness to recommend his son-in-law to |he commis^ 
eiQBera,ia case of the old man^s death, he should think himself and 
bis fanuiy bouud so.reiuler goverameut every assistaiKe in hi» 
pow^r, on any future occasion.'' 

^' My dear friefNl, why do you afife for such a trifling einploy- 
•Mot V^ esdaincd his grace, '' your lotion shall have it at a woi*d 
speaking the nminoat it is vataot. *'-»*-'' But how shall I get ad* 
flatted to you, my lord ? for in LoodoA, £ understand, it is a very 
*dt£^ei}it huttoess to get a sight of you gteat folks, though yott ate 
so kind.asd complaisaiit to us in the coiintry.'*'-^*^Tbe instant tht 
man dies/' replied the premie?, used to, arid ptepared. £br the 
fteedom of a contested electton, ^' tiie momest he dieSf set out 
f»st haste for Loaoba ; drive directly to aiy Ikmiso, by night or 
by dagr, sieeptag or waking, dead et alive, thunder at the door; I 
will Isave word with my porter to shew you ap stairs dkteetly, and 
the employment shall be disposed of according to your wishas.*' 

Th«v parties teparatdd ; 4>« duke drove to a fiend's house in 
.the neii^faourhoodj wJiore he was vieitiag, withoat a wish or a de« 
mpi o^saeiag hit new aequaifHau)ce till that day seven years^ But 
the^Minory of aCoffoish ekotor, not being loaded with sach a vd* 
riety ofohjeets^ was more retentive^ The supervisor died a few 
4aoBtJai aflor^' juid tha^mimstemi partt^ap, relying on die word of a 
peery xras^oanvc^^ to l/mdon posthaste, aiui ascended with alar 
cnty the steps.of A Igi^hoMse, BOW divided into three, m iincohiV 
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The reader should be iofomedy that praoMy at' the mooMsl 
when the expectations of a coniiderahle party of a boroogb ia 
Cornwall, were roused by the death of a tuptrfitor, no lets a per- 
son than the King of Spain was expected hourly to depart ; aa 
erent in wluch the minister of Great Britain was pardcolariy toa- 
Cemed. 

The Duke of Newcastle, on the Tcry night that the proprietiR' 
of the decisive Tote was at his door, had sat up anxiously expect- 
ing dispatches from Madrid. Wearied by official business and 
agitated spirits, he retired to rest, having previously given particu- 
lar instructions to Iiis porter, not to go to bed| as lie expected every 
minute a messenger with advices of the greatest importance^ and 
desired he might be shewn up stairs the moment of his arrival. 

His grace was sound asleep ; for with a thousand singolaritiesi 
of which the rascals about him did not forget to take advantage, 
his worst enemies could not deny him the merit of good design, 
that best sokux; in a solitary hour. The porter, settled for the 
ni^ht in his chair, had already* commenced a sonarous nap, when 
the vigorous arm of the Cornish voter roused him firom his 
slumbers. 

To his first question, " Is the duke at home ^ the porter re- 
plied, ** Yes, and in bed, but has left particular orders that come 
when you will, you arc to go up to him directly."--" Grod for ever 
bless him, a worthy and honest gentleman,*' cried our applier for the 
vacant post, smiling and nodding with approbation, at a prime mi- 
nister so accurately keeping his psomise ; *' how punctual his grace 
is ; I knew he would not deceive me ; let me hear no more of lords 
and dukes not keeping their words ; I believe verily they are as 
honest, and mean as well as any other folks, but I can't always s«^ 
the same of those who are about them ;^ repeating, these words as 
he ascended the stairs, tlie burgess of *♦**••• was ushered into the 
duke^s bed-chamber. 

«< l« he dead ?** exclaimed his grace, rubbing his «yei» and 
scarcely awaked from dreaming of the King of Spain. '^ Is he dead?^ 
** Yesy n^, lord,'* replied the eager expectant, delighted to £nd that 
the election promise, with all its circumstances, il^as so f^esh ia the 
minister's memory. "When did he die?'*—*' Xba day before 
yesterday, exactly at half past one o'olock, after b^ng confined 
three weeks to his bed, and taking tipotPfrjofflaeiori^ ^uf; and I 
hope your grace will be as good as your woc<^ and let' my son-in- 
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THE MOtTRLT MIRROR. 367 

The dule, by tins time perfectly awake, was staggered at tho 
impossibility of receiving intelligence from Madrid, in so short i| 
space of time, and perplexed at the absurdity of a king's messenges 
applying forjiis son-in law to succeed the King of Spain : " Is the 
man drunk or mad. Where are your dispatches f exclaimed his 
grace, hastily drawing back his curtain ; when instead of a royal 
pourier, his eager eye recognized, at the bed side, the well-known 
countenance of his friend in Cornwall, making low bows, with hat 
in hand, and " hoping my lord would not forget the gracious pro- 
mise he was so good as to make in favour of his son-in-law, at the 
last election at •••#*»«.^* 

Vexed at so untimely a disturbance, and disappointed of new9 
from Spain, he frowned for a few seconds, but chagrin soon gave 
way to mirth, at so singular and ridiculous a combination of appo? 
site circumstances j yielding to the irritation, he sunk on the bed in 
a violent fit of laughter, which, like the electrical fluid, was com- 
municated in a moment to the attendants. 

The rclater of this little narrative, concludes with observing, 
** Although the Duke of Newcastle could not place the relation of 
his old acquaintance on the throne of his catholic majesty, he ad* 
yanced him to a post, not les$ kono^rahle, be n>ade him an ex-r 
ciseman.*' , 



OLIVER CROMWELL 



The following extract, from Sir Philip Warwick^ Men»oirs, p. 24T, 
, IS very curious. •* The first time that ever I took notice of Crom- 
well, was in the beginning of the parliament held in November 
1640, when I vainly thought myself a courtly young gentleman (for 
we courtiers value ourselves much upon our good cloatfa$). 1 came 
one morning into the house well clad, and perpeiv^d a gentlemaii 
speaking (whom I knew not) very ordinarily apparelled,, for it wa$ 
a plain suit, which seeined to have been made by an \\] country 
taylor ; his frnen was plain, and not very clean ; and { remember ^ 
speck or two of blood upon his liltle band, if hich was not ittuch 
larger than his collar; his hat was without a hat-ba^d; his stature 
was of a good size, his sword stuck close to his side, his counte- 
nance swoln and reddish, his voice sharp and untunable, and his 
eloquence full of fervor. Yet I lived to see this very gentleman, by 
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(hnviBg had n better taylor and nove conferee amoDg good com- 
penr) in mj own eyo appear of a gpreafc aud majestic deportmeDt^ 
and cemely presence.^ • 

And io Butstrode*s Memoirs, p. 192.—-^ This cof>rereiK:e puts 
BM in miad of nbat Mr. Hanipdeo said to the Lord Digbjr, in the 
brginning of tha «rar, As thaj were going down the parliament 
stairt, CrofiiwcU JBtft gaitEig h&hte them, the Lord Digby (who was 
tlKn a great man ia the house of commons) asked Hampden ' Who 
that man was ? For i boe,* saith the Lord Pigby, ^ he is of our 
side, by his speaking so warmly th^ day/ Upon which Mr. Hamp- 
den replied, ' That slovenly fellow whick^ yoa ae« before us, if wo 
thonld ever come to liaye a breach with the king (which God for- 
bid I) I sey tiiat sloveP) in such case, will be one of the greatest 
men of Knglaad ;' which was^ prophetical speech. But Hampden 
knew htm well, and ^as intimately acquaiated with hiai/* 

^ Some years after thisy about December 1644, Charles I. sent 
for Archbishop Wiilianis to Oxford, to take his opiaion upon the 
shaatioB of hit aftftrs at tlmt tirea : in the coarse of their ocmversa- 
tion, spoking of CromweU, tho archbishop said^ ' That Cromwell, 
taken into tlK rebel/* army by his cousin Hampdea, is the most 
daagf root enemy yow asajesty has ; for though he is, at this time, 
of mean rank and use amongst them, yet he will dirab higher. I 
knew htm at Bugdeo, bat never knew his reHgkrn. He was then a 
common spokesman for sectaries ; and mitfiTtained their post with 
stubbornness. He nertr discoursed, as if be were pieased with 
your majesty aod your great offioCTs; and. indeed. he lonss none, 
that are more than his oqttab. Tour majesty -did him hot justice, 
in repulsing a petittOn put up by him, agatntC Sir Thoama Steward, 
of the Isle of EIt5 but lie takea aH those for \m enemies, that 
wfMiId not tet him trado his best ftnwA ; and a^iovaati that live, I 
think he is the most mindful of ao iffi)ury. His fonaaesare broken, 
that it is impossibtift fbr bim %o fsobsist, maoh less to be what he 
aspires to, but by yotlr majfesty'a botmty, or by the ruin of us all> 
and a common confasion. In short, every beait bath some evil 
propertic^-f botf^rtrniwdl hart^ the propetties of att eidl beasts^ 
My humble m<>i|on toymtr majesty ^therefore is, that either yoa 
would win him to you by pronases oF fiir treatment, or catch him 
by some stratagem, and then cut kirn $korjtJ* Ail which the king 
received with a smile, aad said nothing** '^-PAi/i/Js** L^'e t^ 4rd^ 
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Tn MOVTHLT MIRnDft* 3^ 

BIOORAPHIOAL 8K£TCB OP . 

MR. RAYMOND. 

(CoQcludttd from page 294.) 

Mr. Ratbcohd's next perfennftnoes • were the parts of Jaffi^r 
a&d Castalio; which also were repeated, and proctir^ hkn a permar 
nent engagement in the Dublin theatre. Soon af^rtins he became 
its acting^manager, nndertbe direc^n of Mr. DaJy (deputy mas* 
ter of the rerels, and patentee) : a situation neith<Sr enmhlc in piuht 
of ease, not* of ^nrofit, at that period ; when the public mind was so 
little disposed to theatrical entertainments, that the best perform- 
ers whom the proprietor could )$rocure, with th^r utmost ex- 
ertions, were insufficient to bring into the house 9¥eu tlie ordinary 
expences of the night. Such a circumstance nrast ever hlkv« a mbst 
powerful tendency to make the existing direction of a theatre nm- 
popular among the company and with the town; and^it appHarsr 
that, in the present instance, Mr. Daly was often oensuredon sub- 
jects, which should akme haye been placed to the account of the 
bad taste or political agitation of the times, • Mr, Reload is known 
however to give unqaaUfied pnuse to the liborality^od gsneral con- 
duct of Mr. Daly, as tlie conductor of a national theatre, notwith* 
standing the outcry, that has been so frequently heard a$E>^t that* 
gentleman; and he remained with him till his abdication of the- 
theatrical throne, in tke year 1797. 

Mr. Jones, the new Deblinr manager and pateotect having en- 
gaged Mr. Cooke from Manchester, Mr. Raymond accepted an inr 
vitadon to fiU the cast of characters thu| left vacamtin the theaa:e' 
of the latter town; where he continued two seasons^ -a-general fa- 
vourite in the higher walks of the drama. During the summer va- 
cation of the Manchester company, Mr. Raymond peHTormed a few 
nights at Lancaster: where Mr. Grub, one of the propnetors of Old 
Drury, happening to stop in an exoor^on to the Lakes, saw him 
act ; and engaged him for our elder metropolitan «beatre, on the 
boards of which he niade fads first appearance earir^ in the season * 
of 1799, in the part of Osmond, in the Castle Spectre, and was re- 
ceived with the most flatteving marks of.approbetioni Since that 
period, Mr. Raymond, in his peefcvmance of the Stranger, P^n- 
ruddock, Roila, Osmond, Octavian, Gloster, Macdu^, and in the 
general line of characters which call forth the stronger passions in 
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their fall extent, has displayed talents sofiicietitly prominent to 
place him in a distinguished rank in his profession. Yet it is certain 
that he is allowed to appear hut comparatively seldom before the 
pablic On such a subject as this, we wish to speak impartially, 
^n4 withaut giving offence : therefore we ^ia}l only obsenre, tha); 
thpi^ who' aire in the least conversant with the history of die stag;^ 
find the itfttf^ of it in their own time% must )iave found ma«jr occ^ 
fidMif of lamie^tiag iastai^ses in which, from whatever motives ii| 
^ miminiatration of ihciatrical affiEurs, p^formefs of ackfiqwie4gis<| 
and even emiqeAt merit ha^e be^n withheld from the due oppd^top 
lytiea of fxertiog their abilitief, while others wi^ far less preten- 
sions fauve heen thrust before the public tp almost a disgusting fi^ 
^enoy i » conduct which sui-ely cannot tend to the amus^n^iHit qi 
%bei towa, or the real advantage of the proprietory. 

I9 bis.ib^rary character, Mr. B4iymond has prodi^qed tmq tr%- 
fedfHi} onei i« founded on tU^ de^th of th^ upfortun^ l^^efyis the 
Sii;teenth; the other, taken from m incident in t^ history qf Hiiit 
doetas, and eatit^d thto Indian Capiive, h^$ be^ performed at 
Publin. He hifa also lately piiblishcKl the life of Qermody, in t^q 
volumes, which has been deservedly noticed in t^nm of ve^y higi) 
approbation by most of the critical journalfw It is indeed nqt only 
an amusing, bat an mtremdy interestiag a^d instructive work. The 
^h^ of that btiiUant and wonderful, feRt e^c^^itric geqips, haye 
oflen illumined the poetic pages qf theMovT«LY Miaiu>a^ andaf 
we are ia pqsseasion of an effusion of gratitude ad^j^^ by him, 
ia his misfortunes^ to Mr. Raymond) we eippceiya it ,^ut a justice 
to that gentleman to insert, and now make i^uhlic for tb^ fo^st ti^iei 
the feUowing lines: 

Friend of the Muse, wbas« fpeling h^ar^ 

(Dan animate her silent ^rt; 

Whose tender hand her woes cigi tamft, 

And lend to fancy's spw^k a flame ; 

StactBOt, in all your weU-eam'd pride 
. ;7o fold, us tery close allied ; 

Bor^ trust me, Vi thou t mutual md, 
< • E'en both our kindrodcharros wquld fad^. 

Withont your tongue, ray feehle strain 

Would flow but musically vain; ' 

And your tongue, though its boast is bigger, 

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The «Mt owfes much prdse, indeed, 
To the poor poets^ ragged breed ; 
Which debt tbat ydti fiill deftriy know^ 
Ydar oft-repeated favours shew, 
AVhen to the humblest of its heir* 
ifoa more th&h pay th^ii whole ftrredrs. 

tried in every tarn of iate 
l)ark-gloomiiig bd my wayward state; 
- In every tam^ when great Mks &oWn*d^ 
fitili generous and iaithfbl found ! 
How can I fortfi a pray'r to pay 
The goodness of eadi rolling day ? 
How call down bl^sisings on that head 
That sooth'd, admonished, guarded,/af / 
And, while fantastic Fashion veers. 
Or Dulness mocks poetic teaJrs^ 
in each disastrous crisis nigh. 
Still views m6 With unaltered eye ! 

May all thdi purest bliss below 
A parent's swelling breast can know, 
When dear affection joys to trace 
its features in the iiHal fxtce, 
Wit|4 every pleasing grace conspire 
To bid thee and the world admire ! 
May none but^e^n'^ misfortunes share 
That breftst, and visionary care ! 
And when firom life's tumultuous stage, . 
Slow warned by healthy virtuous age. 
Thy step to calmer transport bends, 
With worthy men alone its firiends^ ^ 
May, stooping at retirement's csdl^ 
Angels attend the curtain's fall ; 
And, after Sorrow's grateful pause, 
Crown thy last exit with applause ! 

Mr* Raymond bas^ both in his public and private iharacterj the 
Satisfaction of being highly respected by his professional brethren^ 
and enjoys an intimacy with many of the most eminent liteiary ] 

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of ^ preMDt day. Km has been happily a aCraBger to the dis«p« 
pointments and mortificationt so oft^ experienced by the profess- 
ors of the stage in tkm earher part of tbcsr -career; having never 
been engaged in any theatre except those of Dublin and Manches- 
ter, previous to his settlement in London. By possessbg a strong 
spirit of independanee^ and adhering stricdy to the rules of pru- 
dence and economy, he has, with the assistance of an amiable wife, 
been enabled, though stiU young, to support with decent pride, 
with comfort and r o ipectabiliQp, a very large family. To such ^ re- 
putation as is to be attained by prizing domestic felicity, by ful- 
filling the moral obligatioiM ^towards society, and by pursuing a 
conduct guided by reason and opposite to that #hich is deemed 
irregular, Mr. Raymond has as fair a daim as any otk€ ifvhom we 
know ; alhd while habits like diese attract the respect of the world, 
he will not live altogethto uanotieed by it, fior wiehoot satisfaction 
to himself*. 



MISCELLANEA. 

No. IL 

AlftCDOTE OF ALEXANDfittTHEftnSt^ 

The present Emperor qf Ru^* 



X HE laws of Russia fenact that one youth out of ^very peasant^s fa- 
mily shall be liable to serve as a soldier, anci, in caise there should 
be but one son oi^y in a family, that that son shall be exempt from 
the operation of military co0scripdon. Notwithstanding this, a pea- 
sant, whose eldest son wa^' slain in battle, saw, not only his second 
son torn from his home, but his third also, who was compelled to 
join the new levy ordained in the autumn of 1804'; so tliathimsdf, 
(an old man,) with bis disconsolate wife) a daughter, wlio was both 
diseased and blind, and his youngest son, a little deformed being, 
were left forlorn and helpless. Thrfr remonstfantes and entrea- 
ties being disregarded, himietf and his unft^tunate femily were at 
once consigned to a life of penuty ahd wretcbedtti^ss. 'The mother 
died shortly after of a broken heart, and thus was the period of her 
sdfferiiigs^oon Closed; but what ^en shMll describe Ihfe melancholy 
situation of the unhappy group she left behind to bei^oan her losV? 
a poor oW roan— 

*• Whose hoary locks procfaim'd his lengthen'd years," 
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^thout the means of presemi^ it ; hb daughter, bliod and hap- 
less, bewailing the loM of a mother, whose, t^der care might luive. 
preserved her father and hiiother, vfhilit sh^ is |efi to add to their 
load of misery; and hia son» a poor unhappy cripple, exjclaiaiiag^. 
in an agony of grief-—*' 2 ought now to wocif . for you~ i ought to 
aupport you — but, alas ! I have not the power to do so. Oh ! why 
was I not made Uke other men V* Can a more deplorable specude. 
of accumulated misery than this be conceived ? What heart is there 
but will Ueed at the bare mention of such At ^ceue of su£Eering inao* 
cence ? 

Possessed w^th the idea that it was^to bim the task, of supporting 
bis hoary parent and bis unfortunate sister had. devolved, tlte noble* 
minded cripple conceived the heroic resolution, of encountering 
every danger to save tUtm from destruction. Unmindful ef his in- 
firmitiesy this genjsrous youth enquired the road t^ the metropohs, 
and travelled five hundred wersts,* subsisting merely on the scanty 
pittance which his pitiable state extorted from the poor peasants, 
"whose humble dwellings are thinly scattered over the deserts of 
northern Russia, and at length, after surmounting innumerable 
difficulties, be arrived at the imperial capital. Wha^ a novel sight 
there presented its«lf tohis astonished faculties !— the gilded steeples, 
the noble palaces, the incessant rumbling of carriages, the tumult 
which constantly pervades the streets, and the consciousness of his 
own helplesi condition, all conipiiadto dishearten him. Is it then 
to be wonder^ ^^^^( ^^ should shudder ,at the idea of in^ploring 
succour from tUsJord of all these prodigies^ and, perhaps, of even 
conversing with him? Under these discouraging circumstances, 
how few would have., remfiined stedCast tfi mdi^A pjufpose as his! — 
Heaven only knows ip. vyhat maQQer he procured his tale of woe to 
be copmiittecl to pap^'^ he repaired wjtb' it to the parade, where the 
emperor daily reviews the ^trpops; but, .alas!, he arrived too late, 
He went there again the next day ; but, at the sight of the troops, 
and the pomp which surrounds, the e^penoifs person, his courage 
utterly forsook him. . Re^lvii^ |hat ^Ual dMty should no longer be 
overawed by. ^ /ear 9^ iVpylHT'^ i|»(Wtail,as himself, on the third 
day he thijew hi)]BS^lf Qfx bis kn^.b^^ftwe t^ empieror, and pre- 
sented his sad memoriah Alexander immediately ordered one of 
his attendants, to t^ke cbafg^of jt,.^^) ^h^ look? rested .on the 
jtmaciated cripple, wbose whole .appffarajpce b.oce. testimony to the, 
truth of his tale, a tear started in his eye. As. sopn as. the parade 
iras over, and the Emperor had refumM \o bis palace, he requested 
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to we tlM memorial : it was brought to faini, and, as be perused i^ 
Ms fUiercNis feebogs revolted at soeb an instance of inhuman op- 
preanoe. He immediately sent it to the minister of justke, Prine^ 
IjqMcbin, whom be directed to enquire minutely into the a^yr, 
and, if be found it authenticated by iacts, to ffwe the poor crip(^e*s 
hrolber hit diwnittal without delay, and to cons^n the governor, 
and all others who were oeacemed in the commission of this bsHrbaF* 
fOQs act of tyranny, to the puaisbmeat awarded by th^se laws wlricfar 
Ibey bad lO glaringly viohued. Prince Lapochin, who was ibrtu-> 
Bately a man of the most humane and benevolent disposition, imme^ 
diately caused the afiur to be investigated, and found it bat too 
fsell grounded. On receiving the minister's report, Alexander ge- 
aeroatiy ordered tkt peasant*s son to be set at liberty, and five bmw 
dred roubles to be paid to his poor brother^ as a s«ad( indemnifica- 
tioD for the sotteting which the ftMMy had endured^ Lapuchhi could 
AM fiyrbett- being an eye-witness to the joy, which die unfortunattf 
young man wooM naituully testify, on receiving such tfnexpeeted in** 
telligence, and ordered him imo his presence* TrembKng with 
amdety, the poor eripfrfe aocordipgly Mplured to the prince'i 
t»alace> to receive life or death ivoM hi> tommanication. IV 
autichamber was crowded with persons of every rank and de^ 
Seriptien, some of whom, having heard the young man's story, en^^ 
deavoared to bereave him of all hopes 6f a snceessAil issue* to hie 
petition. At length Prince Lapsdtin appearod, Mrkh the Emperor's^ 
order in his hand. ** Oo,'' said he to him, *^ go and ife^tch your bro- 
ther ; a kibitke » waiting for you below.^ The poor cHppie, firaU-* 
tic with joy, uttered a loud cry, fell down, and embraced the kneesr 
of the worthy Prince, who raised hhn tip Again. In the ecstasy of 
the moment, he ]aughed-*he wepf-H&li earthly grandeur VMished 
Irom his mind, and be forgot that he stood surtourtded by a 6rowd of 
Russian nobles. He adted, again and again, whether it were really 
true that bis dear brother was to be reSCOf^ to the embraces of his 
grey-headed fhther and his poor bBni sister f liie'Prince assured 
him that it was, shewed him hi» sovtreigi^s eignatui^, and ordered 
die money 00 be paid to Uhi. Ue^v^kacMir iie bdMKH ibr tii» joy,( 
and it was kmg before his mmd regained even^ttrmodertrte degree of 
eoiiiposure. 

Every spectator was ttfibeied uyMKM^ ifrtidif seiM^biltey attd 
" fe^ag ittherem m the breaatof one #h^ scaHM^y biMethe settibkttiee 
of a baman being'— and aH participated i^ Ms >re)<iteMg; - W^hAt » 
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The hftppy yWh Jmrried down to the kihitke, and battened ti| 
release his brother, who was stationed at Gatschina, about fortj 
^ersts from St. Petersburg. He €oon conducted him back, in tri- 
timph, to the arms of his now-happy family, whom their beneficent 
1M)vereign had rescued from misery and starvation. The inhnroan 
author of all their calamities was shortly ^fter dismissed^ with infiir 
|ny, from the emperor's service. 

Alexander! thou best of monarchs !— 

" Sow could my tongue 
** Take pleasure and be lavish in thy praise ! 
** How could I speak thy nobleness of nature ! 
** Thy open, manly heart, thy courage, constancy, 
•* And inborn truth !*^ 

EXTRACT 

¥^ni a P«per, never printed, oo 

THE GAMB^, EXHIBITIONS, AND PUBLIC DIVERSIONS 

OF SPAIN. 

fTrUim m 1^390, at tki lU^HJttt qf the Royal Aco^kmy-t^ Madrid^ by Von 
Ga^pgr dijekhor df Joveliwios. 

TRANSLATED FXOU THE SFAl^lSH BT LORD I|0LLAlfD. 

JuoRD Holland, before his translation of the Extract, observes that 
Cbe fonner parts of this treatise are occupied in giving a rapid his- 
loric^l sketch of tlie Roman exhibitions in Spain, and in vindicating^ 
fjcom the ipiputations of the clergy, the rational use of theatrical 
representations. The whole of his Lordship*s prefatory remarks 
we .have not room to quote. The gloomy appearance, so often ob- 
jected to in Spaniards, is ascribed to the perverse spirit of their mu> 
mcipal laws, which observq,tion introdjuces the extract. 



" The ^bcftiri^ class of society require diversions, but aot ei^hi- 
Vtioos; t^e govenjHXbeQt is not called upon to divert them, but to per- 
li^it th^m totciiyeit them^lvcp. For the few days, the short moments 
which they can devote tp recreation and entertainment^ they will 
naturally seek, and easily find amusements for themselves. Let 
them merely be uno^olested, and protected in the enjoyment of 
d^em. A bright sky and fine weather, on a lioliday, which wiH 
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coiti, or skittles, or to junket, drink, dance and caper on the grass, 
will fill all their desires, and yield them complete gratificadon and 
eontentmenu At so cheap a rate may a whole people, however 
numerous, be delighted and amused. 

^ How happens it then, that the minority of the people of Spais 
Inve BO diversion at all ? For every one who has travelled through our 
provinces must have made this melancholy remark. - Even on the 
greatest festivals, instead of that boisterous merrineat and noise 
which should bespeak the joy of the inhabitants, there reigns 
throughout the market-places and streets^ a slothful inactivity, a 
l^oomy stillness, which cannot be remarked without the mingled 
emotion^ of surprise and pity. The few persons who leave their 
kouses, seem to be driven firom them by li^Ubssnesjs, and dragged as 
^ as the threshold, the market, or the church-door. There, muf- 
fled in their cloaks, leaning against some corner, seated on some 
bench, or lounging backwards and forwards, without object,* aim^ 
•f purpose, they pass their hours, ayt, T may say their whole even- 
ings, without mirth, recreation, or amusement. When yoa add to 
this picture* the dreariness and filth pf the villages, the poor and 
slovenly dross of the inhabitants, the gloominess and silence of 
their air, the liziiicia, the want of concert and union so striking 
every where, who but would Be astonished; who but vrould be 
afflicted by so mournful a phsoomenon f This i^ not indeed the 
place to expose the errors which conspire to produce it; but what- 
ever those errors may be, one point is deat — that they are alt to be 
found in the laws. Without wandering from my subject, I may 
be permitted to observe, that the chief mbtake lies in the faulty 
police of our villages. Many magistrates are misled by an ill- 
judged zeal, to Suppose that the perfection of municipal govern- 
ment consists in the subjection of the people ; they imagine that 
the great object of subordination is accomplished, if the inhabi- 
tants tremble iat the voice of Justice, and no one ventures to move,^ 
oreven to breathe, at the very sound of her ntfme. Heqce any 
mob, any noise or distn^ance, is termed a riot Or a tumult; and 
every little dispute or scuffle becomes the subject of H criminal 
proceeding," involving in its consequences examinations and alrests, 
imprisonments and fines, with all the train of legal persecutions and 
vexations. Under such an oppressive police, the people grow dis- 
pirited and disheartened ; and sacrificing their inclinations to their 
security, they abjure diversions, virhich, though public and innocent, 
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inaction, dull and painful indeed to their feelings, but at least anr 
molested by law, and unattended with danger. 

** The same system has occasioned numberless regulations of 
|>olice, not only injurious to the liberties, bpt prejudicial to the wel- 
fare and prosperity of the villages, yet not less harshly or les9 
rigorously enforced on that account. There are some places wher« 
music and ringing of bells,* others where balls and marriage 
suppers are prohibited. In one village the inhabitants must re* 
tire to their houses at the curfew, in another they must not appear 
in the streets without a light; they must not loiter about th« 
oomers, or stop in the porches ; and in all they are subject to similar 
restraints and privations. 

" The rage for governing, in some cases perhaps the avarice of 
the magistrates, has extended to the most miserable hamlets, i«r 
golations which would hardly be necessary in all the confusion of • 
metropolis ; and the wretches) husbandman who has watered the 
earth with the sweat of his brow, and slept on the' ground through* 
out the week, cannot on Saturday sight bawl at his will in the streets 
of his village, or chaunt his ballad at the door of his sweetheart* 

^ Even the province in which I live (Asturji^ . |>emarkable for^ 
the natural cheerfulness and innocent manners of its inhabitants,, 
is not exempt from the hardship of similar regulations^ Indeed the 
discontent which they produce, and which I have frequently wit- 
nessed, has s^uggested many of these reflections on the subject. The 
dispersion of its population fortunately prevents that omnicipal 
police, which has been contrived for regular viHages and towns ; but 
the cottagers assemble for their diversions at a sort of wake, called 
Romerias, or Pilgrimages. And there it is that the regulations of tlie 
police pursue and molest them. Sticks, which are used more on 
account of the inequality of the country,, than as a precaution for 
self-defbnce, are prohibited in these wakes, . Men dances are for-* 
bidden ; those of women must close early in the, evening ; and the 
wakes themselves, the sole, diversion of these innocent and laborioes 
villagers, must break up at the hour of evening prayer* Haw « 
can they reconcile th ems^ves witb aqy cheerfulness to such 
vexatious interference ? It may indeed be said, ^ they bear it o//.^ 
Yes, it is true, they do bear it all ; but they bear it with an ill will; 

« Tb«re is a custom io Spanish viUi^os of paradiag the stfwCi en holid&y aichtt witlv 
the bells taken from tho mules and wethers. The rude kind Qfrnmictlitj predncf.. 
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amf who is blioil to tbe consfaquances of Joog mid reluctant sn^ 
mission ? The stat^ of free^ooi is a state of peace an4 cbeerfiiW* 
Qcss; a state ofiUili^ection is a i^tate of uneastQess and ^isconteat. 
Tbe fanner thei^ is perisaqent and durahie^ tbe Utter uosta(>Ie 9q4 

^Mogfi^ble, 

'* Ally therefore, is not acconaplished when the people are quiet; 
ihej should a)sQ be contiSQted ; and it is only a hea^t devoid of 
feeling, or a head unacquainted with th^ priiiciples of govemoaeota 
that can Q^bour a notion of securing the first 9f th^se objects wlth-» 
q^t obtaining tbe second- They yvbp disregard it, either do not s^ 
tbe necessary connexion between liberty and pFosp^ily;, or, if tbey 
see it, they neglect it. The error in either case is eqM^ly »i*- 
ebievous. For surely this connexion deseiTves tbe attcntictfi of every 
jyst aiui mild gpvernnft^t. A fr^ find cheerful people are alwaya 
^tive and l^ripu^ ; ^d an active m^d laborious people are always 
^tentive tA morfiU» ^nd obspwoat of tl^ laws. The greaJ^r tbeif 
eqjoyniaQtSi the i^ore they love the goyenynent under wbicb tb^y 
live, the t)etter ^hey obey it, fi^d ?be moracbeerfnlly and willingly do 
they contribute tQ its i^ainteiMuice and ^pport. The greater their 
enjoyments, th^ mftre they have to lo$e ; and the ;iiore therefore 
thpy fear ^py disturbance, and tjie mor^ they respect tt^e aytboritien 
fntQivded to repress it, Such a people feel more an^iiety to enrich 
themselves, bipcause they m^st be conscious that the ii?creasc of 
their pleasures will )iejpp pace with the improvement gf their for* 
t^nes, |o a vvord, th^y strive nu^e ardently to better their coiv- 
ijition, becap^e they are , obtain of ei?joying the fry its pf their 
i^xcrtlpn. If such thep be one of the chief objects 9(11 good goverin 
ipQUt, why }a it so. disregarded amof)g us ? Even pubUc prosperity, 
as it is cal^d, if if; be a^y thing but the aggregate of individual hap^ 
pluess, depends upon th^ attainmejit of the object in question; for 
the power and atrewgth qf a &t;U§ do npt consist exuirc^y i^ mulii-. 
tudp^ or riches, but in the mo;-al charactfsr of^its inhabitants. In 
point of fact, cap «ny i^^tiop \^ stjong whps^' subjects are we«kj» 
cor«jpt, harsh, urjfeeliog, sind strangers .to all senbHieut of public^ 
spirit and patriotism ? On the, other h^ind, a people who pi^et pft^, 
smd in security, jp public, forth.a jwuifpose^ of diversion, ipuit necesf 
sarily becoii}e ^n united and affectionate people ; they can fe?l 
what a common interest is, and are consequeniiy less likely to sacri- 
fice it to their own personal views and ipdividuul advantage. Tht^ 
have a! higher spirit, because they are freer ; a coAsctousaess of 
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stents of honour and courage. Every individaal respects bis ovrn 
class in such a society^ because he respects himself ; and he rOf 
spects that of others, as the best mode of ensuring respect for his 
vwxu If once the people respect the government^ and the subordi- 
Dation established by law, they regulate their conduct by it, they 
grow attached to the institutions of theik' country, and defend them 
with spirit ; because, in so doing, they are convinced that they are 
defending themselves. So clear is it that freedom and cheerful- 
ness are greater enemies of disorder than sul^ection a^ melaa<4 
choly, 

*' Let me Aot» however, be suspected of considering a magistracy 
or police, appointed to preserve the public peace, as in itself either 
useless or oppressive. On the contrary, it is my firm persuasion, tha(^ 
without such an institution, without its unremitting vigilance, neither 
tranquillity nor subordination can be preserved. I am well aware that 
Ucerito hovers on the very confines of liberty, and that some restraint 
must be devised to keep is those who would pass the limits. This ig 
indeed the most delicate point in civil jurisprudence ; and it is this» 
that so many, injudicious magistrates mistake, by coufouhding 
▼ig^kiiee with op p ressi o n. Hence, t erery festirid, at every pnbte 
diversion, or harmless amusement, they obtrude upon the people 
the insignia of magistracy and powers To JHidge by appearance, 
one should suppose that their aim was to build their authority on 
the fears of the subject, and to purchase their own convenience at 
the expence of the freedom and pleasure of the public. In eveiy 
other vi^w, sucli precautions are idle. For the people never divert 
themsefvefd without cofnplete exemption from restraint in their di- 
versions, freedom is scared away by watchmen and patroles^ 
<k>hstabWs and soldiers ; afld at the sight of staves and bayonets, 
harmless and timorous mirth takes the alarm, and disappears. This 
i& surdy not the method of accomplishing the purposes for which 
HQ&giStr^y was established ; Whose vigilance, if I may be permitted 
so awfui a comparison, should resemble that of a Supreme Beings 
^ould be p^petuai and certain, but invisible ; should be acknow- 
ledged by ev6i-y body, but seen by nobody ; should watch license, in 
ord^r 10 repress it, and liberty, in order to protect it. In one worc^ 
it shoatd operate as a restraint oil the bad, as a shield and protection 
to the good. The awful insignia of justice are ofhorwise the mere 
synbob of oppression «nd tyvaimy ; and the ptrlioe, in direct! oppos* 
ntion to tiM ^^ems of its ifi«tl6uftioB, oAly t^^ies and molests the 
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•* Sach are roy ideas upon popular diversions* Tliere is neither 
fMTOvince nor district, town nohr village, but has pmticular usages in 
itf amusements, -practised either habitually, or at particular pericxis 
of the year ; various exercises of strength, for instance, or feats of 
agility ; balls too, and junketings, walks, holidays, disguises, mask- 
ings, and mummeries. Whatever their diversions may be, if tbej ar« 
public they must be Innocent. It is the duty then of the good magis- 
strate to protect the people in l^ese simple pas^mes, to lay out and 
keep in order the places denned for them, to remove all obstacles^ 
and to leave the inhabitants at full liberty to abandon themselves to 
their botsterout merriment, their rude but harmless effusions of joy. 
If he appear sometimes among them, it should b^ to encourage, 
oot to intimidate them ; it should be like a father, gratified at the 
mirth of his children ; not like a tyrant, envious of the gaiety of his 
•laves. 

** In short, to return to our former remark, the people do not 
call upon the government to divert them, but merely to permit them 
to divert themselves.** 



ClVmZED AND BARBAB005 NATIONS. 



JViucn of the European cruelty, perhaps the greater part, which, 
to the disgrace of human nature, hath been practised i^ the Bast 
and West Indies, originated doubtless from the a^ri sacrufameSfthe 
accursed passion for gold : but much, I am persuaded, proceeded 
also from men's having considered the natives of those distant 
countries, as barbarians, savages, and greatly below the standard 
of our humanity. This hath been a fatal error; and I call it an 
error, because, tvofa all the information I have, been able to ac- 
quire, the inhabitants of England, whether regard be had to either 
hnoickdge or manners^ may be deemed aS much barbarians and sa^ 
vages, as those of any. other country in the world.* Andberel 
shall not instance from the coasts, where the cbristj^ people of 

• IndiriduaU in Engtand maybe, alid'£^rta!nly are, niore |x)lit« and Imow- 
iqg, Uum can b« fiouod in tbecoilntdet altttted to : but huSwIUAti do not stamp 
tilt general cliaiactcr of a nation: this must b« detcrmiofd b]^th««ommooaUJ, 
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^ood Old Engbiid conaider the distreiaes of 8eara«i> and the plun- 
der of a wreck as a blessings and, says Fielding/ bksphfmously call 
ic such; but will refer to the inland, and, nearly central parts^ 
vrhere civilization and knowledge may be ^tupposed to prevail th» 
most. 

I have spent some years in a village of .about two hundred fa- 
uilieSy oofisisting of farmery, manufacturer^ and labouring men ; 
and which hath a parson, a free*school, and the usual ways and 
means of improving and adorning human nature. Meeting one day 
a farmer, an intelligent skilful man in his way, and observing him as 
it were superstitiously attentive to a very small sprig of eldar, T ac- 
costed him upon the subject. *^ Perhaps, sir," say^ Ruff, ** I can 
now tell you something, that may hereafter be of use to you. Sir, 

I rode above thirty, years to L • market, yet never without 

loting leather, as the saying is; but, sir, since I have put this bit 
of eldar in my breeches-pocket, to whicli I was advised by my 
oeighbonr P— , and which with God^s leave I will never go with- 
out, far from being blistered, I have not been even chafed <^ 
beated.'' Upon my smiling, as if X did not conceive how tliis 
could be — ^ Sir," si^s he, '^ perfai^ yon may not beHcre ano- 
ther thing. John H.*s pig got lamed the other day : and how do 
yoQ think he cured him? ^y nothing in the world, but only boriofi^ 
m little haie in his ear, and putting in a small peg about as big as my 
eldar." I told him, that these thhigs were perfectly above my com- 
prehen^on ; and endeavoured to shew him, in language be under- 
stood, that there could be no connexion between the causes and 
effects, in either case. He was much disconcerted with my spirit of 
unbelief; and seemed to think me a person, whom nothing could 
isonvince. 

A few years ago, in this same village,jthe women in lal)Our used 
to drink* the urine of their husbands ; who were all the while sta- 
tioned, as I have seen the cows in St. James'*s Park, and straining 
themselves to gvoe as much as they could. The rationale of thi^ 
custom (that is, the why and the wherefore) I never could get 
rightly explained : it is however become obsolete, if not exploded; 
the patroness of it, who was a superior person in tlie parish, having 
some rime since departed this foolish world. I will mention but 
one instance more; only begging the reader not to consider the 
above as 6ctitious, but as matters of feet, that may be asceptained 
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A jonog wonum to the ae%hboinrbood wm nh fc ci to fiti, mh^ 
4aiii|g the paroxjstns, was to unruly, that there was a oecessitj of 
lioldiag her down by force. To do this more efiectaally, a irer)r 
i»eU meaning young man once spread himself upon her, in the pre* 
•ence of many attendants : to whom he soon and suddenly ex-^ 
daimed, as if oompeUed by iQepiration>* that ^ the Lord had spoken 
to him, and that it was the Loni's wi^ he should man|r the pa^^ 
tient." Now what eiftotioas the yovng man felt within, during this 
lender and deficate situation, I am unable to say : but, whedier 
from aatoral or sopematurai iespnlse, be speedily nrnrried the wo- 
man ; and the whoke afiair, at this present writing, is not two raooths 
•id. Hating this only from rumour, I cannot affirm thaC all tho 
circumstances were exactly as I have rdated : however, a dirioe 
interposition is believed upon the whole, and the hand of the Lord 
to be plainly visible. 

These few specimens may serve to ^lew the nnptncft'iiy of ktww* 
bdge in us enlightened civilized people, to that of Hottentots and 
other barbarians. How stands tlie eomparison with regard to 
mannen f Do the f(9rmer equally transcend the latter in maniter^ 
also ? Let us hear those, wifo seem t6 have had better <^[ipor%am« 
^ia^ of being informed than oorsekes* For my part, says a sen8i-> 
ble writer, and as should seem traveller, '' I have met with pei^ifo 
as polite, ingenious, and b«mttiie,''iflioin we ha^ been kaug^ to 
look upon as canibals, as ever I cOAfersed with in Europe ; and 
from my own experience am convinced, that human nature is every 
wliere the same, allowances being made for unavoidable prejudices, 
instilled in tlieir infancy by ignorance. and superstition. And t»* 
thing has contributed more to render the world barbarous, than 
men's having been taught, from their cradles, that every nation at^ 
most but their own are barbarians : they first imagine the people 
of distant na^ns to be monsters of cruelty and barbarity, and then 
prepare to mvade and extirpate them,^ exercising greater cruekiea 
than eter such nations were charged with. Thin was exactly the 
case of thfe Spaniards and the natives of America :"! <^nd would to 
heaven the case could suit no other people and country ! 

An ancient writer, who lived when the Komaas were the most 
polite and knowing, clearly ^ives ^ preference to those they^ 

* There is no interior movement of cither body or mind, but, witli weak and 
^enthusiastic persons, may pass for a divine impulse : this should put us upoa our 
guard against delusion, or rather madness. 

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eaUttd barbarimns, in point ofmannen. He is speaking of the Scjf* 
ichians ; and, after describing their way of lite, observes, that ''JM- 
tioe was cultivated and preserved among them, not by laws, hot 
by the spirit and temper of the people ; that they held no crime 
jBore atrocious than theft ; that they had not the same passion for 
gold and silver with other nations ; and that a moderation, coa* 
tentedness, and sobriety of manners, laid them under no teraptadow 
of invading what was not their own. And I wish,'^ says the histo* 
lian, that the rest of the world possessed the same spirit of moder«* 
tion^ the same justice in absfcaiiiing from what bebngs to others i 
arms would not then commit the ravages they do; nor mankind' 
perish more by the sword than fttm the natural lot of mortality.-^ 
And it may seem altogether wonderfVil, that nature grants to saii* 
▼ages, what the Greeks cannot attiun with all their refinement and 
parade of philosophy ; and that dvilized and polished manners ar« 
exceeded by those of uncultivated barbarism. So much more ad- 
▼antageous to the one is an ignorance of what is wrong, than to 
the other a knowledge of what is right.''* 



CONFERRING AND RECEIVING FAVOURS, 



Soct ATfiS, though importuned, refused to go to the court of Archt>? 
laus. King of Macedonia. Seneca, who has recorded the fact, says 
that his ostensible reason was, '^ not to receive favours which he 
could not return^^^-^-noZ/e te ad turn loenire, a quo acciperet benefkiop 4 
cum reddere iUi paria turn po$tet : his real one, ** not to go into vo- 
Ipntary servitude,** — noluit ire ad voluntariam 8erniut€m.f Tti^ * 

* Justitia gentis ingeuiis culta, noo legibus. NuUqm soelus apud eot furtQ 
gravius : aunim et argeotum non perinde, ac reliqui mortaies, appelnot. Lacte 
& melle vescuntur, &c. Hsec continentia illis inoruro quoque justitiam edidit^ 
nihil atienqm concupitcentibus : quippe ibidem divitiarum cupido est, ubi et 
U9m. Atque utinam reliquis mortalibos similis moderatio et abstinentia afieni 
foret ! profectd Don taatom beUorum per omaia tecula tenit omnibos contiiraa* 
retuT ; ntque plus hominum ferrum et anna, qoam naturalia fatorom conditJOj^ 
raperet. Prorsus, nt adrairabile videatur, hociliis naturam dare, quod Gneci 
Iong& sapientium dcctrini prseceptisque philotophorum consequi nequeuntj^ 
cultosque mores incultix barbarise coliatione superari. Tanto plus in illis proficit 
vitiorum ignoratio, quam la lift eo gn i ti o rtrtotis. JtUtm II* 2. 

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real one, certainly : for Archelaus was a bad prince ; and courts 
are noi places of freedom and iadependence, eren noder good 
ones.— Besides, the former reason woaM, I should think, have been 
ttnwort>^ of Socrates. What ! b no man to receiTe a benefit, but 
who is able to r^um it? If so, then (as Aristotle makes him repljr 
upon this oocasion, but surely uaphilosophically) ^ it mast be as 
gi«at an a£Epoot to coaler a benefit opon a person who c^not re* 
UDTB it, as to injure a person wbo cannot redress himself:*'* and 
tkeo all acts of kindness,. generosity, and charity, must be banbhed 
from among mea ; since one party is no more at l^ierty to dfnfer, 
than the other to reoetre a finroor. 

How is it, I wonder, that we hear so many cxcl»nitng loacUy 
against receiving favours ^ ^ I think nothing so dear as what is ^ven 
mtj* says Montaigne ; ^ aiMi that because my will lies at pawa 
inder the title of ingratitude. I more willingly accept of offices to 
be sold ; being of opinioa, that for the last I give nothing bat mo- 
ney, but for the first I give myself:'^ as if, according to ancient 
language, ^ to receive a favour was to sell our liberty,"— isne^'zun 
tKcy^ere at libertaiem vendere. It may be so in some cases, and. 
with some persons ; and I shall so far compromise the matter with 
Bfintaigoe, that we ought to be careful, and perhaps somewhat 
nice, from whom we receive favours. But to lay down the propo^ 
sition universally, and with respect to all manner of persons : tq 
spurn the very idea of receiving a favour from, or being obliged to, 
any one; to tliink and reason, as if services conferred and received 
aught, like other trading commodities, to be weighed as in a scale; 
vto keep an account as of creditor and debtor; and to dread a ba-> 
knee against us as much, as if loss of liberty and imprisonment were 
w itfe consequence«-nll this is wretched ; it is all fastidious hauteur, 
pride, insolence, denoting a spirit and temper certainly unchristian, 
ftnt unphilosophical also and irapolitic m the highest degree. An4 
why ? because it would greatly weaken, if not destroy, all that mu- 
tual affection, all that intercourse of kindness and good offices, so by 
nature necessary to the helpless, dependant state of mao^ and sa 
•ontributing>(if not essential) to bi» happiness in society. 

* Rhetor. II. 215. 
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REVIEW OF UTERATURE. 



JU Lmf of the kst Mhstrtl, a Pom. By Walter Scott^ Esq. 
Second J^dition* Uvo.pp. 334. Longman and Co, 
If tiSere ever was « poem imderMiliE^n wkh « perfect knowledgt 
«f tlic customs and immnera of tbesd wliof igui« ia- it, and written 
€on amorcy with an vrdent lo^ ef the ^ll|jebl» it is'tlie one now be- 
fore OS. A composttieli raer» «x«eflifkig in Ae Mnifie^ in some off 
its parts, and in the sweetest simpKe^ in CKiwrs^ has been rarely, 
if ever, produced. If this fsto bccalled ** The Lay t)f the ibif Min- 
streV"' not to be pfophaae* we d<^ aMrm that the last is the first. 
An analysis will perhaps be the most agreeable method of proceed- 
ing with a work of this description. 

The introduction' describes the last minstrel, ^ infirm and old,^ 
as arriving at * Newark*s stately Sqwct," when he is charitaUy re- 
ceived by Anne Duchess of Bucdtnch and Mornnoutli. His wants 
being relieved— - 

'* —he began to talk anon, 

Of good Earl Francis, dead and ^one, "^ 

And of Earl Walter, rest him God ! 

Abnurer ne'er to battle rod*: 

And how full many a tak be knewy 

Of the old waotor of Buccleuch ; 

And^ would t^e noble Duchess deign 

To livten to an old man's strain, 

Though stiff his hand, his voice though wea ' 

He thought even yet, the sooth to speak. 

That, ifshelov'd the harp to hear, ^ \ 

Hecoald make musk to her ear.*' P. 14« 

The boon was granted, and now— ^ 

*« While his bar^ responsive rung, 
•Twas thus the latest MtMSTREL snof^" P. 1^. 
The Lily begins with representing the Lady of Lord Walter re- 
tired to — 

" Her bower, that wta gaardcd by wood and by iipcll, 
Deadly to hear, and deadly io tdl.*' P. 17- 

The feast was over, and her numerous knights loitered through 
the lofty hall of Branksome^ sheathed inL,stfiaL Their 
" i tceds both flict and wi|^ 

Stood saddled iattabki day and fright,'* P. 19. 

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The reatOD of this is — 

** Thqr watcht to hetr tkt blood-hotwd baying ; 
They watch, to hear the war-horn braying ; 
^To tee St. George't red crott streaming. 
To tee the midnight beacon gleaming ; 
They watch against southern iiorce and^uile 
Lett Scroop, or Howard, or Percy^s powers, 
1 kreaten Beanksome^s lordly towers, 
RsomWMfcwiortlhorNaworthyormerryCailisle." P.dQtr 
Their diieftain. Lord Walter, had (alien in the Border war : 
« In sorrow,' o'er Lord Wafter'i bier 

The warlilLe foresters had bent; 
And many a flower, andmany a tear. 
Old Tcvioc^s maids and matrons lent: 
But o*cr lier warrior's bloody bier 
The Ladye dropped nor flower nor tear ! 
Vengeance, deep-brooding o*er the slain. 

Had locked the source of softer woe ; 
And buming pride, and high disdain, 

Forbade the rising tear to flow ; 
Until, amid his sorrowing clan. 

Her son lisped from the nurse's knee— ' 
< And, if I lire to be a man, 
< My fethcr's death revenged shall be.* »• P. 22. 
Being skilled in " ma|pc mystfry,^' he had tmi^t his art to bis 
^ lady fair.'' Their daughter Margaret iaves Lord Cranstoun, the 
foeman of her family. The mountaia spirit infoims the mother of 
'the stars that— 

** -^— no kind influence deign they shower 
On Tcviot's tide, and Branksome's tower. 
Till pride be gelled, and love be fr ce.'* P. 28. 

At which she is very indignant, and seeks amongst her knights for 
William of Deloraine, " a stark moss-trooping Scot, steady of heart 
and stout of hand.'' She bids him hie to fair Tweedside, and in 
Melrose's holy pile seek the monk of St. Mary*s aisle. To tell him 
that the fated hour is come, and to bring back what he shall give to 
him, *^ be it scroll or be it book," and solemnly cautions him not to 
at^mpt to read it. The warrior cheerfully undertakes to fulfil her 
command, and. to return ere break of day-padding, that the book 
will be very safe with him, since, says he, " Letter nor line know I 
never a one."* Away went Deloraine, on his dapple grey, and, 

♦ " No la Isyd, porque dktOr que na sabia ker, ni etcrhir,** was the con-^ I 
elusive reasonfng of Si^ncbo, when he accoaots for the Duldnea del Toboso's not 
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mfter some toil and danger, reached the convent Here ends the 
first canto. The minstrel seems dejected ; the duchess encouraj^es 
him, and he proceeds. 

He finds the monk, and unfolds his commission. 

** The Lsdyeof Branksome greets thee by me; n 

Says that thefkted hour is come, 
And that to-ni^t I Aall watch with thee. 

To whi the treaiure of the tomb/* P. 46. 

Hie monk would divert him from his purpose. The book was 
in the tomb of Michael Scott, '' a wizard of dreaded fame." Th« 
monk had known him, and when he died, says he, 

•« I swore to bury hh mighty book, 
That nerer mortal might therein look : 
And never to tell where it was hid, 
Save at his chief of Branksomc's need ; 
And when that need was past and o*er. 
Again the ▼olnme to restore.'* P. 53. 

This time is come. The knight pe^rsists. A finely terrific scene en- 
sues. The tomb is opened, and he obtains the book. The monk 
suddenly expires, and Deloraine departs with '^ the mystic book to 
bosom pressed." He approaches Branksome towers : 

** The wild bhrds told thehr warbling tale. 

And wakened every flower that blowt; 
And peeped fiarth the Tiolet pale , 

And spread her breast the mountain rose : 
And lovelier than the rose so red, 

Yet paler than the violet pale. 
She early left her sleepless bed, 

The fairest maid of Teviotdale.** P. 61 . 

This was Margaret of Branksome keeping an assignation with her 
lover, Henry of Cranstoun. Here is introduced Lord Craustoun*s 
goblin dwarf, who attends him ^thfully, but is always treacherous 
to others ; 

" —for at a word be it understood. 
He was always for ill and never for good.** 

As he held the baron's courser beneath an oak, he espies Delo- 
raine, and gives the lovers a signal that ^ no time was then to vow 
and sigh.** Their separation terminates the second canto. In this 
canto the minstrel supposes the duchess and her daughters expect 
to hear a melting tale of love, and exclaims, 
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3i§ Tirfe MOVTBLT MIRHOH, 

.** AhM\ fUrdameti, yotn-bopeitrevidQ! 
My htrp bas lost the endaneiiig strain ; 

la UghtncM would my age reprove : 
My hairs are grey, my limbs are old. 
My heart is dead, my veins are cold— 
I may not, tnusc not, sing of lore.** P. 64. 

But when he rests^ the page swells his old veins, and cheers his soul 
with mighty Wi% and he thus beautiful^ begins the third camo* 

<« And said I that my limbs were old ; 
And said I that my blood was cold> 
And that my kindly fire was fled. 
And my poor withered heart w«s detfd, 

Aod that I might not siqg of love ?— 
How coold I CO the dearest thrmc. 
Thai ever warm*«l a mini^rel'a dream. 

So foul su false a recreant prove ! 
How could I name love's very name. 
Nor wake my harp to notes of flame. 

n. 

In peace, Love tunes tiie shepherd's reed; 
In war, he mounts the warrlor^s steed ; 
In halls in gay attire is seen : 
In handets, dances on thegreen ; 
liovc rales the oaort, ilie camp, the grove^ 
Awl men bdowy and saiau above ; 
For love is heaven, and h^vea is love. 

III. 
So thought Lord Cranstoun, as I ween, 
While pondcrfog detip t>»c tender seenb-. 
He rode through Branksome*^ hawthorn gncn* 
But the page shouted wttd and shrill — 
And scarce hit hehnet could he doa,, 
When downward from the shady hlH 
A stately knight came pricking on. 
That warrior's steed, so dapple grey. 
Was dark with sweat, and splashed with clay; 

His armour red with many a stain ; 
He seemed m such a weary ptight. 
As if be had TMdea the Uve-kmg night; 
For it was William of Deloraine.*" P. 73— 15^ 

<* In rapid round the Baron toit ; 

He slisheda ai^ and pfay^ prayer ; 
The prayer was to his patron saint, 

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TbeD comes the onset— Deloraine's spear 
<' Into z thousand flinders flew. 
But Cranstoun's lance, of more avail, 
Pierced through like silk the borderer's mail ; 
Through shield, and jack, and acton, past, 
Deep in his bosom broke at last.'* P. T6.^77. 

As he lies " senseless as the bloody day," the baron orders his page 
to ttancb die woond, and then take him to Brankseme castle gate. 
He was compelled to depart, but 

** His noble mind was inly moved 
For the kinsman of the maid he loved.*' 

The goblin stayed, 

<< His lori^ eommand he ne'er witfastood, 
Thovfh •noM his pkasure to do good." 

He aoon espies the ^' mighty book,*' and neglects Deloraine Ui 
examine it, marvelling ^' that a knight of pride, like a book^Msomed 
pn«6t should ride**' Smearing it over with the knight's ^' conUed 
gore,** be succeeds in opening its clasps, and reads one of the spetti^ 
As he is reading a second, he receives, from an invisible hand, a 
buflfet on his cheek, which stretches kim on the pfaMn^wad the claape 
shut faster than before. > 

*< No ftiore the «tfin page durst try 

Into the wonderotts l^ook to pry." 

He now takes the warrior to Branksome hall, and flings him on the 
p-ound. As he repasses the outer court, he sees '* the f^tr young 
^oAd!* and, assuming the shape of a play-fellow, decoys him o'et 
bank and fell, till they. come to a woodland broods. Here -he takei 
his own elvish form agaio, and flc<miiiig on the acartkd child, darts 
away. He would have strangled him, but his power was limited. 
Now the boy, ** the more he sought his way, the fkrther still he 
went astray,'^ till he is met by an English yeoman and his fellow, 
^ho make him prisoner : 

« < Nowv by St. George,* the archer crits, 

< Edward, me t b i nk s wrfaave a prise ! 
*This boy's fair face, and courage free, 
* Shews be is coBM of b|gb digrca.* 

XIX. 

< Yft I 1 afl^eome of high degree, 

< For Imb the keir of bold Baodeuch ; 

< And iftboa dost not set me free, 

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< For Waker of Ardta shall cime wiUi 9eed, 

< And WUUamof Dbtonloe,80Qd at need, 
« And cwerj Seot from £ik to Tweed; 

« Andif thou deat eot let me ge» 

* Deapite thy arrowa andthf bow, 

« m have thee hanged to feed the crow.* *** P. 86—8T. 

Tl^fty bMT bbn to Loftl Dacre, his enemy. 

The dwarf still remains at the casUe^ in the shape of the boj^ 
and makes all kinds of mischief : 

« Well I ween the diannhe bdd 

The noble Ladye had aoon dispelled ; 

But she Was deeply busied then 

To tend the wounded Delondne/* P. 89. 

'^ In a night and a day** she expects his cure. 

The evening falls, when suddenly, from Branksome's towers, 
diey behold ** the beacon blaze of war." " Mount Jbr Branksome f 
the gathering word of the Scots is given, and all the alUed dans are 
warned. This canto closes, leaving them uncertain of the cause of 

alarm* 

In the fourth canto we learn that " the southern ravage was be« 

gan," and these are the (idings of the English foe : 
*( Belted Win Howard is marching hero. 
And hot Lord I>ac«c,wldK many a spear; " 
And all the Oermaa faagbut^mea. 
Who have long fadn at Adcerten.** P. 105*-106. 

Three hours would bring the English, three thousand strong, to Tc- 
viot's strand. The Scotch clans assemble, . " Ready^ aye rtadf for 
the field : 

<• The Ladye marked the aids eonie in, 

AodJUgh her heart of pdde srose; 
She bade her youthful son attend. 
That he might know his father^s friend. 
And learn to face his father's foes. 

* The boy is ripe to look on wir ; 

« I saw him draw a cross-bow stiff, 
« And his true arrow struck aTar 

« The ravcn*8 nest upon the cHf ; 
4 The Red Crees oA a southern bfe^ft, 
<Ishcoader than the r^ep's nest t . 

Thou, Whltslade, »^halt teach him his weapon to wield, 

* And o*er him hold his father^s shield.* 
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He oounurfekcd childUhfear, 

And ahriokedy and «hed full many a tear. 

And moaned and plained in manner wild. 
The attendants to the Ladye told, 

Some fairy tore had ehasftd the child, 
ThatwonttobetofiKtaodbokL*' P.11(V-111. 

Consequently, " ere the clan his faintness view,** Watt Tlnlinn if 
commissioned to bear him away to Ranglebnrn. Watt and hii pal- 
frey were sorely troubled with kirn. 

<* It cost Watt Tinlinn mickle tail. 
To drive him but a Scottish mile.** 

Crossing a running stream, according to the superstitious notion, 
the charm was dissolved, and in his own form the goblin fled. The 
English by this time i^proacb the wall, when the hoary seneschal 
conies forth, ^d is met by Lords Howard and Dacre, He thus 
addresses them : 

^ < Ye English warden lords, of yon 

* Demands the Ladye of Buccleuch, 

* Why, 'gainst the truce of Border-tide, 

* In hostile guise ye dare to ride, 

< With Kendal bow, and Gilsiand brand, 

* And all yon mercenary band, 

< Upon the bounds of fair Seotland ? 

* My Ladye reads you dwith .mtum ; 

* And, if hut one poor straw yon bttni« 

* Or do our towers so much UMikst, 

* As scare one swallow front her nest, 

< St. Mary ! but we^l light a brand, 

< Shan warm your hearths in Cumbeilattd.* 
A wrathful man was Dacre's lord. 

But calmer Howard took the word.** P* IIS. 

He desires that his mistress naay appeal* on the walls, then— 

** Our pur»uiTanC-at*arins shall shew, 
Both why we cane, and when we gp,'* 

The pursuivant now ea^te out a boy— 

•' « o sight to meet a mother's view 1 

It was the heir of great Buccleuch.'* 

Lord Howard then makes his eompkint, denmndtag that WilHam 
of Dcloraine shall suflfer for plundering the lands of Richard Mus- 
grave, and making his brother's wife a widow-^and farther that two 
hundred of his master's men shall be permitted to enter the towers. 
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« thkidrbo^toLoBdoftlld, 

Sk»n good King Ed«ar4's ptge be bfcd.** 

She bids tham dtfiance. At this moq^eut a |iqrt<gnMMi Vfvrts with 
news of the coming of Doug^^u)^ LordMv^KfiUy ten diousnnd 
strong. Lord Howard, se^og tJMp ara^aftliwialtaisand, advises 
that, before tha Scots are awara of the advaiiaiag aid> they i^^rae 
to let Mua^ve neet Oaloraine in single fi^t. This proposal is ac- 
ceded to. The terms, if Mosgrava conquered, the boy to remain 
an hostage for his clan — if Deloraine, to have bis liberty. The 
minstrel finishes this canto amidst the applauses of his noble hearers. 
The fifth canto opens with this delight fu l stanza: 

« Call It not Viin— they do not err, 
Who say, that, when the poet A^, 

Mute Nstore mourns her wertUpper, 
Aim eaiearates his QMC4|ui6i {^ 
Who say, taU cliff, and eavtm kme, 
For the departed bird maho bunui ; 
That mountains weep in crystal rill ; 
That ilowers in tears of balm distil ; 
Through his loved groves that brfczcs i^ 
And oaks, in deep<'r groan, reply. 
And riyers teach theif rushing wave 
To murmur diiges round his grave.*^ P. 435—136. 

The hardy clans approach. The lady iafonns them of what has 
happened, and invites the chiefs to 

" stay tbc figfrt to ace. 

And deign, in love and courtesy^ 
To Uste of Braaksome cheer.** 
The foes meet each other with sdctal good homoor, all but one, for 

« .... angry Dacre rather chose 
In y» pavilieaia repose.*' 

During their conviviali^, the lovers, Margaret and Cranstoun, have 
another interview, with the assistaace^of the a)>ellof the goblin page. 
Now the combat draws near* aod I{aadfo • aad ThuikBtaiBe coo- 
tend| which shall fight for tha wounded Deloraine c 
<< But yet not loag the ctrife-^br Is f - 

Himself, the kaight of Deloralae, 

Strong, as itsieaRd, ttfldfrre fiwa ptia, 
Iiiifm«s«isbcathi4^fitom«isptatae<*« F/-I49. 
Ihej cntar the lists, if argaret^s great ahirm— - 

•* Bat cause of terror, all unguessed. 

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Musgrave is overthrown and killed. While the conquering knight 
seemed insensible to the grasp of gratulating hands, strange cries of 
vrild surprise are heard, when, 

** ■■ " ■ ' I the throng*d arrays 
In panic liatte gate open way 
To a Wf^aked ghaitly man, 
t Wha downwaid£rom tile cattle rani 
He croMcd the barriers at a bound. 
And wild and hagard looked ground* 

As dizzy, and in pain ; . 
And an, upon the armed ground, 
Knew WmiiBi^f Ddoraftie ! 
Each faufic ipranf fraai scat witbtpced; 
Vattltedcachi9arshaUfnmi his steed; ; 

< And who art thou,' they cried, 
< Who hast this battle fought and won V 
HIsphimed helm was toon undone -^ 

* Cranitonn of Tevlotslde ! 
* For this to prise IWe fought ind woa,V- 
And to the ladle led her son.*' P. 157. 
The clans united prayed the lady to forego her feud^ 
*' And deign to bless the nttptial hour 
Of Cranstoun's lord and Teviot's flower.** 
She thought on the spirit's prophecy, and exclaimed-^ 
*' Not yoa, but F^e, has vanquished me V' 
Peloraine, like a generous foe, mourns over the bc^y of Mvisgraye^i 
yrho is, with honours, buried in bis father's grave* 
Ovid's . 

Nescio qui natale sohtm dulc§dlne cunctosr 
Duett, 
awakens the minstrel^s harp to siiag tl>e last canto of his last lay, 
" Breathes tlAre the man, with aoui so dead^ 
" Who never to himsdf hath said. 
This is ffiy own, roy native land I 

^ l^hose heart hath pe'er within hi^iborneds 
** As home his footsteps he hath turned. 

From wandering on a foreign strand ! 
. If^nrh there bveatbe, go, ttUtfk him weir ; 
For hiip no minstrel raptura nrcU ; 
- High tiioug^ his titles^ proyd his Dame, . 
Boundless his wealth 9,3 wish^caq claim; 
Despite those titles, power, and pe]f» 
The wretch, concentered ^U ijj ^1^ ,. , u I 
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Lhrlng/sbiH fer/dttan* fciiown» 
Aod, 4oiiUj ^yin^ shall go 4o^n . a^ 

To the vile d ust, ^m whepcf i^ .^pi^M^^ , p 
Unwept, unhonourcd, and unsung. , - 

The nuptials are utoWiiid widi ^ ••gMUCM^^Tesdval.'' Th» 
goblin page plajt hit •iekf m4kc hwJi&rf. Tht flftnstrels tttnd^ 
and harmoniac the feHSf. FfHC Albeft Or»me>i&s ** his sinipie 
song;** next Fitatraver; and then HaroTd sung 6r^osabelle. As 
Harold ends bis ^ piteous lay/ a dark (og iayoWeslbem all— ^ 

M . M^^ ^^^^L il^^Mm ^^^mM ^rflL«*A ■ • 

aialanwfMMeatMHflMMite^ * 

And the elrisb page fell to tfie groun(^ antt im vl^o had hiUierto 
continually repeated ^ la$t, t^t, fo9i !** BfOir, .^ sbijAlfriitg muttered 
*/<mn^fcHn^foum4f '* A Aask 4>f iifklUHV wMft^ and Gyikyn 
the elvish dwarf is seen no nkflf^* 

w Some heti^ » vcMce'lik ^ranksome liali, ^ 
Some taw a dght, not »een by all.'* 

M But Dooe ol all the aHont-hciL train 
Waf so dttoMyed as Del*r4nt ; 
Hb blood did frecsc» faisbrain did bam* 
Twas teared i.lt aibid wottld ne'er ictarn ; 
For be wa» speechless^ fM*^* va% 
Like him» <sf vrhr.m the ttury ran, 
Who spoke the Jpectfe-hound In man. 
At lenftb, by Uti, lie darkly told. 
With kroktii hint, and ^u4d»fing < 
. That lie had icen^ HUH cMtaial^ 
J^ tbq>e with amice wrapped arawody 
With a wrought Spanish baldric ^fmi, 
Like a pilgrim Tram beyoud tlie aei ; 
And knew— ^bot iiow it matterod Aot*^-* 
It t*as the wiatri* Michael Scott. 

F.'l«5U45fc 

lliey all agree to male a pilgrimage to Melrose ^V^ft " ^ot the 
sake of Micbael's restless sprite,^ and the }^^ fiof^ closes with 
this solemn procession . beautifully described. ^Tbeo follows tke 
happy ^te of lihe tuneful ihttstrel. . 

Hushed it the harp — the minstrel goarr 
And did he wander forth a)on$ ? . . // 

AloiiC, ih indigeftcfc 4nd age, ' ^ 
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Ma— do^ bttocttli pctwil Ne«N^\c«imf 
Arose th« irinstreri lowly bowery 
A sim|ilc hjDt ; but there Was lem ^ , 
Thermtle' gafc^ert ht^ged wltti green, 
Tl#ehettrfi1 hearth, and Httlct dean. 
thitt 8lick«t«d m n dcf m , by tlie biwef 

,a Ai4gnr<;Uie.9tdi^m9it4bc£a^, , 

Sopaised the winter's day — ^b«it •till* , ., . 
'TVrien suminer smiled on sweet BowbiU|, 
' AMjrtyS«^,iHthl*ilmybrcaili, . ' 

W«nd tilf MiMM)eli» oa Newark bcatli s 
WkfD JlMnlatMii mBmrnAKU^OUiW, 
Aa4 com vwred fK«n oa GwtcrfcAtigh, 
And Oouiliiied^ brc^, BbclMndtp*9 OAk, 
The aged harper's aoulawpke I , 

7h«i wwld l4 sing aobiflfficaentf higiiy 
And drcomttance of chlvalrf. 
Till the rapt traTeHfr would H%f» 
Fbigctful of th^ closing day ; 
And iMble y(Mih«, the »nmin to hear, 
Bonook liif Imntte^oTlbi ^MT) 
And Yarvow, «• h« folM aleii, 
Itoro knrden to tite mln^trel^ lODg* 

P. «n— 202. 
We makevo apology for treating the work before u$ io tbi# man- 
ner. We could not, ui^less we transcribed tlwe wtoie, dp more jiu- 
tice to Mr, Scott, nor cojiM we afl&ird j^aoire wtiafactiQif to tb« 
reader at present, or giirct a greater seM to hi» pleaawe in fatwc, 
when he comes to r^nd the poum itself than by the detailed ao- 
coiint whicjh we |iair« submitted Co hss nttemion. We mtt tfau 
from experiewji^ bavitig oiiUBelTee perused the pofem twice. 

The Not^ are very desirable ; and we have ^nw mer^y room 
to add, that the whole 6>rpi«.,«j wreath which jr(HQii^» fiur « to 
flourish and J^k w^Qn*',oii the poet's brow for agea, 

Mr. Farley, so ingen^us in the cofnpoMtion 9f>il{ets of .action, 

hh$, w^ undcrstdi^d, luj-ned l^s thpu^u to this exq^€^l^t plot for a 

spe<^tacIfeofthat deserijjtion. ■ , 

ill Ei$ay ontkeMiei^ients, AceinU^ tfM Prifto^^/^Xhi^ flmUsk 

Ungu0ge. J%f J. Oikll, M. A. pp. 205. 3t. ^ ' Laetin^on 

. fW^Cw. 1806* V ' V 

, T«i8 emy was, we are toW, mtended to Ji«^ been ptisted aa 

an introduction to Mr. Boucher's supplement to Dr. Johnson's 

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I)icUoimry,tb*4UM'e^«irMeh rttttk^ 'tPat-attliiel^ tb fulfil the pro- 
mises hdd OQt ni the proapeotim, tiw republic of Icitecs cannot too 
deeply ^tpbre* The deokbof Mr. ^oiiier* ^hfitseilttlefiitigable re- 
tevcb w htKVGy of late, re$jwcjied,.«(ppey8Tto.linij^Wlt fta c«d to the 
sanguinftfaopet eylnKhiincd oimto. a ^t> c t, .Wei^epifct^iatwehave, 
Uttfirijf^ faccft taufbt ta;rtipoot ^lffc.R^ft« Q #ii t»l i ^ bii( the excel- 
lence of cbe retigMuSttad hnMiI <teradter of JoimUiiiii Boucher, 
sole Cfteotttof and lu u r ci wal le^Hlee of Mis B&itrm;;of Paddiogton, 
we have yet to lelum from the discoveries of }(Iir. Odell. Mr. 
Oddl girea us aU he can, nod we lAust dr«ai9^ tbi^^rest. What he 
baft given is higlUy-creditablQ to his ingenui^ mi wrudkion. The 
^^jects he tre^i»^h#iNev6r>^NW ^ a juyuniev^ifhi«b, to eater pro- 
foundly mto thenv wottU^Mi aait t)m cole«r ofKiwrpablicationy or, 
geaeraUy speaki«gi > the' pailfende'^dvr readers. We shall, there- 
foKy bo brief ia our remarks ; bot, at the same time, we warmly 
reooaunend the pc^saJ of .Uis lai)6urs to all, those whose studies 
look this way. . .,,...., ., , 

The work is divided intc^th^ iP^rts*. T^^^t, on English 
Elmenti ^ is particuMf detw^iof of auction. . The simplicity of 
the system renders it faccBedln^y iotariBataif oo a^subject of such 
priioary importance. MxJbt unfolding hh^lan, his observes on ''a 
perfect orthogmpLy,7 tfc« pritr^al obstacle to tvhich, is " a circum- 
stance,'* says be, ** in which we seem to be altogether ^ngula^.— 
While we are careful in our Spelling, to preserve the traces gf ety- 
n»logy, and miake derivatives follow their leaders f 'we often prac-* 
tise the reverse in our pronunciaticm. Hwis we writCf^'he adds, 
"ariiongtt* other words, nature; natural ; cdn finery cbnfinei— but we 
fwm^nce nietiwr; natiwrul; ktinfyd; kurtlVhx!* "^. '4S, Where 
th» pfonfancirttion obtains, *wfi nf^' at « hJss tl^'^e^.' Section 23, 
on ihai used instead of the ' rcfjrtive wftieh, we p\*rfiect1y agree with" 
Mr. O. HI the preference dud to* the fojmer in particula/ cases.— 
SiififC4t MifM m of hat uaMl^}^ ^^-^plibe' of the other; diay be 
read with «» m6eh«eHotlsifto^, ai tAMr'm:^ht^naiide oCthe doctrine 
c i/ j pMj ui i *tt>4>ik'*0d^lf§. Stim «4, merits consideration. ' 
- The second division on English accents, is, as Mr. OJ* confesses, 
little more than comment on the text ofMri Slecle^s pfdsodia ra^ 
HonaUsI It may be flowed, Jio^Vever, that it COfitaih^ <*»s««e kleaa 
IkhH oeifv^d worthy of att^ation,'*' As mekd^ is a term which 
signifies the modulation peculiar to Btnging, our author coins a new 
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:■ ^j^^ fiw M H i-^ltUft to^tk* wMdy tbeeecihn Wtts^l^cotioiu Al 

^|i^t ia pro]i09edito rwe^ot o£ this ndqvj^MS MtiMnd qoite*«v 

.;fiuT^ .. By iifr. Sts«ie?8 vj%Km^ U notntioa, ibr i^prmadng ««t 

... :<w^.tW ynrt^Mi Kxnti of i pafol>, Imtalio thnrnwtrkid-pvtp^rntDt,' 

. \«f tliou^ht thac t^p^ of the ek>c«cioii of Bettcnoa^' BmH WiMn; 

• lftivya|||^^ mighft hwm been prteerved At accurately a» tlie nKiaiaii 

;^<'aj^nipositiGns bf Corelli P. 101. We shoald like a set of types of 

. V \lbe.tofies of Mr. J. P, Kemble. By these memos he belieTe44^ 

- -. " we'inight no^ have been able to ascertain, whether the oratory of 

'6ttr stage is improved or debased* Surely this is amongst the de- 

■ ' ^ , lirantenta doctrintB, 

f " • , ' The last part on EngUsk proioiy is well drawn up^ but certainly 

■■:' .' fibt'A little fat]<;;ifnl. The position that ^ quantity is no where liable 

. 1 tcr inodifieation frem any power but llrar of rythMoV itSntfifltki^nedF 

'•! /• i with m^ich ingenuity and learning. Many attempts hav6 tveea 

.. -> * /" made to write finglksh verses according to the-'cuwieMi'aieaBlfres, 

':^-.''.t.' bob they have universally failed of producing aaty dcaiiaWe etfbobi 

• viftfter- 'pointing out the errors of Dr. Watts^ eadeavftart aK tfai^ 

: .'V >'^h;in Sapphics, he submits his own traoslation in.thit wa^ef. 

'"J^il^^^ode prnnrmi, which we find too long to* quote, it^iaa 

; -;'0'^msi advantage over Dr. W. but it win not be taken for rcpM bf> 

T:-^.V|^h|^itH)Kon, nor by scholars, without the preamble. >Vfie shaHgjite. 

'j .; V; /)l^i4f'spe^en from the tlvrd Book, Od. 3. of Horace: 

*' <C*-', . :' ** Jnstum ♦ et tenacem propositi virum, &c. '^ 



0.t.>* 



. No oiwicardor^ madly tumultuous^ . ,. ^i 

.• , JtiQ iroivninK tyrant $erc6, and impjacabk, . . . y 

•?•.?:;' , •, |pi«.$hakf the just man's righteous puipose^. ^.^ 

.'. [[' ^ Cl< ' Firmly to upliold an approving consdepo^**^ ^^ . ^j . 

'.' vV\ .; ' '* [ ' * p. i8q, 

• /r-^ This is peofessedly a gottd ivutalipn of the %>rg^nv?a^re ; 
"^ .* .*bMC; we must •do. Mr«. O, tk»> jusitice ^tAiM^j ti^ ^ yj^W*^ so 
y^K "^^ *^^) ^'^ ^'^^^ eaipecting these apeoimens *-^ Urannl trjnpujtffifrn 

/*** . -^Jt^i^stum; We hotioe fliis error of the' press, for thr purpos^ ofobserx'ihg, that 
• n»!iy others occur in th« languages employed in this ««)t-k; St'^ is'%ied silmo«t in- 
;:i!iniably for tlie finftl s or sigma, wlucb in Bngliih iniglii hM« a M/it e^R^ct m tbf 
•i-- ; firomujcialiott— v}2,^r Hie pU^ is hi^*4hc play is hiit, 
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My be induotd to gire every part of these tobjoct* % tborqq^ iip« 
fMdgotioD.'' We think the field, which W )iat eo^feiifroaredl to 
' deer, deaenret callmtion. For oar pan» we h«fe siud too BHiek wtA 
fooHttWabottt iu 

9y'i^ik Storih ; or the plain TaUs of Aunt DeforaA am Xer triemh, 
5 Vols, lOi. 6d, Lake. 180^. 
With some afFectation of an ignorant descripti^. tbis^ work is 
not without merit. However the degree is not so greiit as not to 
Bake it dangerous to read these Fireside stories very long near the 
filc^letttMr many tedioos pages might too potently tempt the' 
reader to put them into it. ^ ^ 

Cm^p(i€h JmoevkktioH tindie^ted mtd recmmef^ded frmn .f^itn 
fftmt. ByBmUmdUiUyA.M, BiU^ionar^ Co. 1805. 
Tbb Sowleys, Mbseleys^ and Birches^ who have been so cUi* 
moroos ai^aktC tka cow-pock, ^ fox o* tkeir throat^ to use 
Sbakipeare^ langoage, have oertaiahr toiled most disbonourablyy 
and deierted very iU of mankind. It is not possible hot they mlost^ 
iMfWe teen, from dieir o%vn observation, the great benefit w'bich it » 
cilctdatcd to produce to the wopld, and their disgrace, not to say 
iitfiittdyy is oqn^uentiy doubled. Experience is the be$t wisdom* • 
and we have that to put them to shame* Mr. HiiiV sii^port of^ 
Dr. Jenncr will, we hope^ ;rssist to promote, the u^veraal adbptvoa. 
of this invaluable discovery. 

rf^xi;m^on,ihTriimpk^Bmm^i Utk UM !^M^ 1806. ^ 
This writer, but no poet, f^elt m every teM^Bh Oi rfd wa iM^ sab* ' 

jept, a|^l he if so far deserving of praiac. To pt1fxlk>n B U wnfi^l d 
I w^nkj tye inridioasi, _ * - 



IftaCftr^iikr Bj^poehoniriae ^^phumed, ttndtit Cvre madthmmy 
y\im 4t Fmik Mfs^h /r^ an mfpotMulf^c'^ik^PHgddkn. 



Av bypoehondfiiie k able to fiMttj «aj thi^g, tlrt^^^^ibre tHe aur- 
thor ofi tbia Xphtiktyethdopp, atwdfteacuied for poUislwig it, since 
k i^|Mi£hf^yki# ibMgh^bwely 9n^l^bQ«agh«f8ni^it.w|Mit^bet»kU8 
i!t^p$e$k^ Wei ha w ^r a iV ^boaf* tf tto-meaim Iv^Mwifuhen^libese 

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tut MONYHIY m^t(6ti. ^^ 

Mama^^-tmttdm^mmtmm^m^^ •-- ' ■ mi ^' ' ' ■ . ■ ■ ■ n— #—— 

fNHnitt, AM' peirf^<^ coiiv^ced t^ikt' more bald kni misentble 
terses have rarely bej^^prHited, and ^hat to addrets them io aU the 
motUy is a ftfour, which will meet with the most marked iiigniti* 
tode. 

Monteith, a Nbvef, founded on Scottish Hittori/. Byil/rs.. Kicr^ 
^tok fs. '^tfLue. 1806. ^ 
This is an interesting and amusing nov«I. The v^pflfrful 
mingled with it does not destroy the effect of its more n^teritorjio^ 

Zlk Coioei fifths Ffmuh Rtvtbuiou ; tmd iiiSmem$^^9iiiNUMg 
m Empire; an JSjmc (md Fhdowphical Fom^ Bf^^BmiBttf 
Bvo. pp.^^. t5u Bighky. 1806. 

To those who should enquire, (and there will be iii many en- 
quirers as readers) why Mr. Sanon calls this an epk paemj the an* 
gWer is very simple — ^Etrery poem must be sometluu^ or oilier, and 
as Mr. S.^s poem is just as much one tlikig n^ another, why Dot 
style it epic f Epic is a very good word, and so k puddings ahd m 
this instance equfllly applicable , though perhaps uot (|uice &o; jbr 
this compotition seems, much ttiore Jilce the latter^ as its ingrtdients 
are several plums, a few izceetmeats, a sraaEl portion of liiie^ ^ 
large portion of cwse floury and plenty ot' utUet^ Its m^^rality 
being generally unexceptionable, it may be SRid to be wAoiesomCf 
though being written in blank verse, of a rode descnpiion, h is very 
far from being agreeable to the taite. The philfistiphical part is cer- 
taody not tiiflidentiy c&ncotiH but we may «k])e<}t sb^ ft^dm W 
exarbitaat frits^ te ste the who W go to pdT^ 

A ntw Pocket Atlas and Geography of England and Wales^ ^iisira^'^ 
ted with fifty fiveCopper-plates^ shewing aU the great Tost Ro^s] 
wUh the Xmm and ViUagM sihuOed ikertths : idbv fkm^M 
4tfih0 "Ait^ Smlf PifodmMms wtd Mmte/aA^ir^ MWdU ^vr'th^ 

HmiseSf and Inhabitants^ By John Lafimm, €Mgraphei^ iAhno. 

Ts^Od^statntd^ortOsL^caious^ ^iackingtom^ 1800. 

Wfi had ebdMBOD, fedma* timd ago, -to 'tmnmitod avert bsefbl 
littlo worbbf the prcs<mt««tbrir,OBM«d^ '^n^fMeet^l^^hgist/^ 
and we are pkascd to Me that he hat now prodheed^a soMabli 
companion, in a pocket Geographer, Chronology and geography 
are the eyes of history, and without them this noble study, both of 
youth and age, is rendered vain and fruitless. Whatever i;^ thera« 



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4M ms MOHTStT Mfumom. 

■ ■ ' ■ III I If J L IIIXI 

iom doM it father, to Msitt Uie mMter, or to proau)ite tbe ioteresl 
d'the ichoUiv deserves 0Qoifiiendatiq9« Mr. Lutfinao stands m 
this nciitorioiis situatioB with regard to societjF. To point out tb& 
deserts of bis work, we have merely to desire the reader to 
perm the contents o£, its title page. What it professes, it 
femnskB, md Uie milit j of s«ic^ a p^forqnapce can Qever he qnes- 
tioiied. 

^' '^Yhe numher of hoases aDd the pOpoUttioD is ahstracted from 
Ae censnsy taken by order of government^ in the years 1801 and % 
mod printed for tbe use of parhaaieat«'* Pr^ 
^ M^md 'mM» Imdes lf«;p^ ^«ddedua order ta slMv.the relft* 
«M'|Mittm of QM county mtk .MotiMT} ,9»A 4heir aitualioA. by 
compass from London.*' PfigT. . . , 

There ia^nuob iiiforniatioo i^ thi^ volume^ coo^9M^d.j(i^ a .saaall 
^ttnpass :-rSome n^y possibly expect ii^re, but t^y. should re^ 
member that the work is for the pocket, and aot f#r the.hbrary^ ia 
which it ^otild. fill a long shel^.to expatiate fully pa all the tQ{»csi 
Iverc noticed* in a single pagjs to each shire^ 

Diila tg ba tmg h Cattle ; or the M^etim* Re^hte, a 'Novel d 

r^k. 7f. LnnetmdCo. 1866. 
* Mbssrs. Eme and Tvife at their old work again. The perturbed 
dtean^s of a literary pair, who •* have sapt full with horrors.* 

tiokt Xfh>^ ^ Saturday Night. By Mrs. FiUdngton. 12ma, 

\, A 5«.6d 180^., . 

^, MniCf Bi^KiiraTOii benevoleatliy perseveres k provmgJieraelf the 
children's friend. This yokime will be read kgt 'them both with de- 
light a^ pip^ t^o .<|uaUti£;s whiph our fiuthoress always wisely 
cumbioes. 

ti^,Alskm Trmielkfi «r • Tmr tthrm^ BfiUtmdtJPmKe^^nd 
yi^mitarUmdy4ii^mgtMYmnaSQ4^md%9S^;maSari^ 

isiU^/rmmuNtiklmmtt taii^mmUr of SMe. . S4iM iy the 
\,jlmthor.^.MM99liUmm3^ Piuim^ it. ,Qm, .^oU^, Si^er^ 

' ^Mus tntnels Me virtuaUy parform9d4a.aiB aras ^mir^ «f lother 
ene leas comfartablA ia a garret, and others ac« .reaiiy p rn dftsmc d 
by personal motion, but so, ^uteijLardad mthiies^Ahai^ itis difficult 
t9 give tbe la^l^ the pnefer^pee. The pres€Bl^r«^# ts^ be dfr* 
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Tftt VoirTHXt if jRHblu 401 

totb the Others, Jn f^^qt ^^| ,Be(gjfln IVatJ^/er is an occasional 
production, a tiding orepared for the taste of the moment, ana for 
immediate coDfumption,^ fabulaj ! JPure dim flams, edited by the 
author of the Refolutionary f*iutarch, tliat great leader oFthelegioii 
of horror and diaboli^ad invention, 

Tke benefind Efadh ^ amUi4im^^, m m tmpmJt i^ofmrm^ 
x)f Mankind^ proved from History and Facts, By th^ Km U» 
B. ProtefU, D. Ik Urd Bkh^p i^ Lonitm. at>a. flj^ 9a 
CadelL 1606. 

This truly excellent prodtretkm has for-itB 6bject to sheiv the 
light, Ififl tittcl happihe8», if^di the sun of ehfk^anl^ hm «^read 
oterey^part, on which -Its* bemns have fetton. in pMticdftr 
does it combat and clearly disprove the asseitidn, tihirt phil««o^y, 
and not the dnld and divine doctrines of christtanity, has |yfoduced 
those chari^es, which so distinguish the society of christian, from 
Pagan times. Hie true parent of the yevof ^ov ncsjrair of is pMlMO' 
phy. The greatest philosophers of ancient days encouraged and 
approved of horrible and inhuman cruelties ; of murder in various 
shapes. But to,<theinduepca q( chKisiianity are we indebted for a 
happier state of dHAgs; for a. greater shsure of peace and good will 
amongat men, 

In France this stands most openly confessed t-^-Sec there ^vhat 
philosophy has produced, then turn to these more favoured shores, 
and mark the better fruits of christian faith and worship. This, 
and othev positions of equal moment, his lordship, with vast learn* 
ing and irre^tigable argument, 6rmly establishes, to th^ honour of 
the mitre, which he so worthily possesses. 

Ballad and Lyrical Pieces By WitU& ScoH, Esq^- Bvo. pp, 
180. Longman,-London, Constable, Edinburgh, 1006, 
It would be vain tdenpect td see any thing in this way standing 
fiuriy in competition with The Jjay of the last Minstrel, Theae'BmU 
lads, written according to the old school, atid often improviag on it, 
have no such pretensions. " Tbey haw^^" at we Itarn,^ *< beto al- 
ready published in diflferent collections, some in the MInstrdsy of 
the Scottish Border; odiers in. the Tales of Woiftd«i^ and some in 
both these mtteellaotes. They are now first Q$)iketed into ooe vo- 
lume;^ and .when- we say that they are creditable to Che Mxmc of 
Mr. Scott, we pay them no ordinary compliment. 
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403 tne icoNTRLr iimnot. 

We afoidyasmuch as possible, any extracts ih>m bad poetry.—- 
We are, of course, constantly on the alert! But wlien that which 
IS good fiJls to our lot, " eximia raritate comtnendat natural we (^tn- 
not refrain from the indulgence. As the former pieces seem to 
have appeared in various shapes, we shall select two beautiftil spe- 
matm horn the portion called Stmg$^ ^ Written,'^ lays be, ^ afe 
Merent times, for the musical ooUeotaMia of Mr. G< Thomson and 
MnWI^yte," 

THE DYING BARD. 

AtH-^DArrYBZ OANOWKir. 

t%» Wdek trtiAiwn betcriy thai a bard, m hit dcMlk^hedf dtmumhdlUi hgrp, 
mdph^theair Hf t»^ch thm verse$ mrg i^di^dj requesting thMi U m^ 
htptrformed at fdtJwwaL 

I. 
DiMAs P111.JNN, lament & for the moment it nigh, 
When mute in the wopdlands thine echoes ^baU die : 
No more by iweet Teiyi Cadwallon bhall rave. 
And mix his wUd notes with the wild dashing wave. 

II. 
In spring aad In avtttum thf glQci«s«r Aide, 
UMioooofcd than floarU^ unkonenred ahall £Mle ; 
For soon shall be lifeless the eye and the tongue^ 
That viewed them wkh rapture, withraptur« that joog. 

in. 

, Tbf ions, Dioas Emttnn, may march in their pride> 
And chase the pro\id Saxon from Prestatyn's side; 
But where is the harp shall give life (6 their name } 
And inhere is the bard shall ghre heroes their famef 

IV. 
And Oh, Dinas EmHan ! thy daughters so fair, 
Who heave the white bosom, and wave the dark hair ; 
What tuneful enthusiast shall worship their eye. 
When half of their charms with Ckdwallon shall die? 

v. 

Then adieu, silver Tei\^! I quit thy loved scene, 
Tojoin the dim choir of the bards'v ho have been ; 
With Lewarch, and Meilor, and MerUntbe pldy 
And sage Talicssin, high haipng to h<dd. 

VL 
And adice, Dioas Emlina I still green be thy shade«t 
Unconquered thy warriors, and matchless thy maids ! 
And thou, whose faint warbUngs my weakoess can tell, 
Farewell, my loved Harp ! my last treasure, farewell 1 

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THE 1^0I7XHI.T MIl^lOR. 403 

There i«yiQ these strains, such a delicate pathos and true poe^ 
tical spirit a^ can never &il to touch the heart with pleasing pain. 
They are^ like Milton *s Nightingale, *^ most musical, most melan- 
choly.** The next piece, though the fact on which it is founded 
is of no uncommon occurrence, is handled in a most masterly and 
delightful manner. 

RBLLVELLYN. 

Jn tite spring of 1805, a young gentleman qf talents ^ and of a most amiable dfj- 
posithn, perished by losing his way on the mountain Hellvelhjn, His re- 
mains were not discovered till three months qfterwards, when they were found 
guar(kdby a faithful terrier- bitch , his constant attendant during frequent 
solitary rambles through t/te wilds of Cumberland and Westmoreland, 

I CLIMBED the dark brow of the mighty HtHvelTyn, 
Lakes and mouniains beneath me gleamed mltty and wUe; 

AU WIS 8CfU, savo, by fits, when the eagU was yettiiqri 
And stsrting around me the echoes replied. 

On the right, Striden-edge round the Red-tarn was bendiog. 

And Catcbedicam its Ifcft verge was defending, 

One huge nameless rock in the front was ascending. 
When I Qtariced tbciad spot sriiert the woidenr luul dfed. . 

Dark green was that spot mid the brown movmain-heather^ 
Where the Pilgrim of Nature lay stretched in decay. 

Like the corpse of an outcast abandoned to weather. 
Till the mountain-winds wasted the tenantless day. 

Nor yeC ^ukc deserted, though lonely extended. 

For, Mthiul in death, bis SMtc favourite attended. 

The nuicb-lov«d remains of her master defended. 
And chased the hill-fox and the raven away. 

Row long didst thou think that his silence was <himher ; 

When the wind waved his garment, how oft didst then start } 
How naany long days and long weeks didst thou number, 

£rc he faded before thee, the friend of thy heart ? v 
And, Oh ! was it meet, that, — no nnjuif m read o^er him. 
No mother to weep , and no friend to deplore hioi. 
And thou, little guardian, atone stretched before him, -» 

Unhonoured the Pilgrim from life should depart ? 

When a Prince to the fate of the Peasant has yielded 
TlKtap«sir^\ waves dark round the dim-lifted hall; 

W ith scutcheons ef silver the coffin is shiekled. 
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TbroQgb the couru, at deep midolgbt, the torches are glcimlng } 
In the prondly-arehed chapel the banners are beamiog ; 
Far adown the long ilsle sacred music is streamiDgt 
ttsmcntlog » chief of the people should f4!' 

But imcter fi>r thee, gemle lover of ntture, 
Xo lay <ioMi thy head like tiit nuck mountsiD lanb) 

Wheo> wildcred, he drops from some cliff huge ia statureg 
And draws his Is^t sob by the side of ids dam. 

And more stately ihy couch by this desert la|ie lying, 

Tl.y obsequies sung by the grey plover flying, 

With one faithful fr end but to witness thy dyings 
Id the arms of HellTcUyn and Catchedicana. 

The iotroductory matter relating to traditiouary circuinstaikcea, 
and t))e notes subsequent to the pieces, only serve to prove (at this 
poiod unnecettwrily) that Mr. Scott, alone, is possessed of that 
sort of knowledge, taste, and f^ius, which can presume to meddle, 
suGcettfiilly, with this branch of literature, 

T%e Life of Thomas DennoAf : iniertptrsed with Pieces of original 
Poetry ; many exfdinting unexampled Prematuriiy of genuine 
poetical Talent ; and containing a Series of Correspondence with 
several eminent Characters. By James Chrant Raymond. Itmo, 
2 Vols. Miiler. 1806. Concluded from p. 525, Vol. XXL 
When w^ last laid down this interesting piece of biography, we 
left the unfortunate subject of it at Killeigh, resolved on a visit to 
the British metpopolis, and unwisely and ungratefully relinquishing 
the protection of his liberal patroness the Countess Dowager of 
Moira. By means of her last present to him, he reached Dublin, 
where he remained some time '* picking up a sorry pittance as a 
parpgrephist, <ind by now and then a little fugitive lucubration for 
a magazine." Soon reduced to the utmost distress, ragged, jand al- 
most starving, he again applied to his steady Friend Owenson, who 
once more relieved him, and by his interest enabled him to publish 
his poems. " It was in one of those trying situations, about this 
period, when our poet was depressed by disappointment and aban^ 
doned by the world, that chance brought Mr. Raymond acquainted 
with him; anctit is with some pleasure and consolation tojumself 
')ie relates, that his better fortuue afibrded him, through a numbei^ 
of successive years, the means of often alleviating his misfortunes; 
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tfind Struck him down, enabled him to pay some respectfiil regard to 
his remains and to his memory.^ 

Many instances of Mr. Raymond's benevolent attention to this 
interests of this devoted youth are within our own knowledge. — 
We are ourselves acquainted with him, and can attest that the 
writer of these meaioirs made frequent, but ineffectual, exertions tQ 
reclaim him from his errors, and establish him in that rank of so* 
ciety, which genius and learning, like his, entitled him to look up 
to. 

While he continued in Dublin he neglected no opportunity of 
making his distresses known to the leading men in that city. A 
letter from hjmself, or a little flattering poem, was his usual mode 
of introduction, and there were few characters of eminence, in Dub» 
lin, who did not either relieve Ms necessities or befriend his ta- 
lents. Dr. Percy, Mr. Grattan, Mr. Flood, Lord Charlemont, Mr, 
J.' C, Walker, Mr. Monck Mason, Mr. Tighe, Mr. I^amuel Whiter 
Baron Smith, and Mr. Atkinson, were among his admirers and be* 
nefactors; but patronage was thrown away upon Dermody; he 
seems never to have bad any ambition that was laudable; and the 
opportunity of acquiring literary distinction,, and honourable means 
of Syubsistence, no sooner presented itself, than he was sure to taka 
some step, as if by de^gn, to balBe the efforts of his friends.* Had 
Chatterton been so assisted, we had not now, perhaps, to lament 
his miserable fate ! 

We need not protract this article in narrating the fortune, or 
rather the misfortune, of Dermody in this coqntry, where his genius 
was as warmly acknowledged, and liberally assisted^ as in Ireland. 
It was little more than a repetition of his past history. His early 
habits were not to be shaken off". To obtain the means of gratify^ 
ing, in company with the lowest associates, an insatiable thirst for 
spirituous liquors, appears to have been the extent of his desires; 
for this he courted patronage ; through this he forfeited the esteem 
of his patrons. After innumerable distresses, the consequence of 
his own irregularities and want of principle, he became an object 
for the attention of the ZAterary Fund, whose benefactions were 
frequently repeated. The vice to which he had so long habituated 
himself, brought on a decline. The friend who had hitherto assist-* 
ed him did not forsake him in this emergency ; he represented hit 
case to sevieral of the poet's welt-wishers, and collected a sum suf- 
ficient to enable him to procure necessaries, and discharge naany of 
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On the moih •( July* 1002^ he wrote the foUowing letter to Mr« 
Ra^iDOody from Sydenham. 

•^MYDftARplCIBIfD, 

«* You no doubt btve been ff rally surprised at mydefyarttire. I had nel- 
tber time nor opyortunity to refite my miseries. My poverty, and the im- 
^rtunltl-^s of my onfeciing landlord, compcled me to kave (Ikose abominable 
lodgings in Port] Ool> Lane ; aad^f camioc ntj I have cftan^ fbr the bette^l 
Pray, my dear friend, write to Lord Moira a^fale t aay I eaAoiM lli«long, 9m4 
k win be tli« last favour ooilferrod oa aa uoftf rtunais yesth. I expect ao* 
thing hot friendship from you at this fatal period, and therefore will not 
•Bnijpfe CO tsk an extraordinary faitour on my death-bed. I am ia want of 
ereiy il t g; aod hi saying this, I need not tell you that the smallest asJst- 
ance Will give me comfort— I cannot five, and my last hours aic tuH of mi- 
aery. The favour I have to beg is, tliat you will call again o^n Mr. Ad- 
dlngton, and explain that you have s^en me ; say hb Ust bounty ia expended; 
hefsg'^neraus; and though I do not deserve hi» Uadaeaa,! tidnh you «tt 
mot fail to move him. 

*• You will write me immediately, as you perceive i cmpk^ imotfaer lo 
write. Forget rae nor, my dear friend ; I have troabled yon long, but caimat 
much longer. God bless you! Thomas De&mody. 

«' 9fh July, 

** This letter/* says Mr. R* " the last he ever wrote, unfortunately ^d 
not reach town for several da\«. On the 15 th of July, the author, accoBH 
paoiedby Mr. Allinghani, went to visit him. They found Mm in a wretcft^ 
«1 hovel, leaning over a few embers, which hardly gave waimth to his siiK 
Bering and emaciattd body, in a state of the deep^at misery and defection. 
He had scarce power enough left to express the grateful sentiments whidi 
their visit inspired: the words Caltered on his parched lips;, his eyes be- 
came filkd with te:.rs ; and being unable to give expression to the strong 
feelings which Iabou<ed in his breaikt, he sunk again into the melancholy 
position in uhich they had discovered him, and continued silent for a consi- 
derable time. These emotions having subsided, he endeavou'cd to relate 
the patticuLri of his janhappy situaoion; bui was often obli^^'d to pause, is 
order to gather suifident strength to encounter the violent and oppressive 
eangh whioh momentarily returned. The deserted appearance of the bousey 
better calculated indeed ior the retreat of a horde of rubbers than the abode 
•fa dying person, and the wretched poverty displayed in the few articles of 
furniture which it contained— (a few shapeless stools; some faggota of wood 
scattered on the floor ; 9nd a crazy bedstead without curtains, placed op- 
posite a door which admitted through its crevices both the wind and raio)-^ 
added to the gloom which mas observable on entering it, and ihereiecdoa 
that a haman being was there struggling with a fatal disoodier, widiouteiiJbBr 
medical assistance, the comforts which sicitnets requires, or the iieoe>5ar)ci 
ffequi«ite for the mere support of nature, occasionied the mo»t painful efno- 
lions in his two friends. When he had recovered a little from the agitation 
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postate in Which {6r some t^me he hftd placed hiintelf o^rtbetfire ; and 
ftriog M the author his rank eyes , said, < Tbaok Ood for tfai« friendly «iiai( I 
1 thooghc I had ^wtn the vrhole vrorld,aod you ia particular, canst to forget 
■QC I ha?c 4c*ervod the severest censure ; but do not oow remember I have 
done so.' The caution w#8 needless ; his past errors were buried in the 
recollection of his present aufferingsy and he had little to dread from the 
chidfagt of those who had«ow to poribroi Mly the few bst offices of frieod- 
tki^ When hit diiorder aU»wed bins «o ester for a momen into conTer- 
MttoDy he assumed a spirit wbicht thoifh raiat» was yet n^ngled «ith (he 
eccentricity that had, on almost every occasion, marked his chutacter. and 
which was equally obsenaUe on trivial and on important matter s. While 
die author Was stating to him some partic u^ars which he imagined might be 
conducive to lils comfort and recover^-, Dermody broke suddenly frotn the 
cooTtrsatloai and obeerYisg that Mr. AHiofbam had taken up a volume of 
Httdihras which lay en ihe table, said, wih a ghastly smile, * You see I an 
merry to the last.' A idolent fit of coughing succeeded this effort i when, 
with a presentiment of his approaching dissolution, he said : * That hollow 
cough rings out my knell.' 

<* The com:ort9 which Ids s!tnatk»n required and admitted having been 
ofdered to be procured Tor him, his two friends went in search of a more 
CDBifortahle and commodioes lodging, which they speedily procured on the 
most delightful part of Sydenham-Common, where he was to have a care- 
ful muse, and to be removed the following day. Some money was now 
given to th^ landlord for his use t and having assured him that they would 
return th« next morning and convey him to the apartments they had pro- 
vided for him, his vitiitors tjok their leave, not without a hope that their 
•olicitude for his happiness, and the anxiety which they had expressed forh'i 
recovery, would have soothed his appreliensions, and secured him comfort 
during the tedious ni^ht. Their hopes however were vain, and their labonrs 
iaeffisctual. Dermody expired the sWe evening, at the age of twenty-seven 
years and six montha.'* 

Thus lived and died ThonAis Dermody, a young man, certainly 
of extraordinary genius, who, as hlr. II. justly observes, "had his 
ambition kept pace with the encouragement which he received ; 
had he studied and pursued moral vritli the same ardour as poetical 
propriety ; had his regard for character and decorum equalled hie 
poverty and his love of dissipation ; might have lived to be the ad- 
miration of the greaty the wonder of the learned, and the ornament 
of society ; science ntight have smiled upon his labours, fame might 
have proclaimed his excellence, and posterity with delight would 
record his name,*' 

These volumes, so creditable in every respect to their author, 
are interspersed with several beautiful pieces of poetry, and ingc* 
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kCtert from dtstingoMheil chaimotsn, wbo'liad, at different timesy 
•verted themselves in behalf of that unhappy youth. Some criti' 
cal remaHts on poetry in i^cocraT, and an able examen of the partl-^ 
cuJar qnalificatiotis of Dermody as a poet, appcm' at the beghnnii^ 
of the first and the conclusion of the second Voluilie* 

The Banhmpt and Creditor* t frUndltf Assiitmit ; or the Spirit of 
ike Bankrupt Lavs, tcith the Statutes relating to Bankruptt^ 
Orderffor regulating the Proceedtngt^ Rulet and Examples for 
the last Examination, and various useful Observations. By Jos* 
JUoni^ore, Solicitor. Crown Bw* pp. 283« Qs. Lackington 4* 
Co, 1806. 

Tbe fate of bankrupts, as Mr. Montefiore justly remarks, greats 
ly depends on prudence and discretion, and on knowing what it 
proper to be done in particular stages of the commission. Thii 
tract is calculated to furnish every necessary assistance to all par- , 
tics concerned in insolvent cases, the increase of which, and the 
distress consequent on them, we have daily cause to deplore. In 
the year 1770 the number of commissions of bankrupt issued was 
38, in 1793 it amounted to 1304. 

DRAMATIC 

The Sultana, or the Jealovs Ctueen, A Trage^, By W* Gardiner, 
8ro» Longman and Co, 1800. 
A Tragedy, not written for the theatre, would, were it found 
at a Grerman fair, appear, in a great measure, to resemble the ped- 
lar's razors, which were not made to share, bat to sell. The differ- 
ence, here, however, is very palpable. — ^Tbis draim » not oaly 
unfit for what its nature seems to require ; but it is unlikely to an- 
swer the purpose for wbich it was intended— sale. That the author 
is no Orpheus, we are informed, in his preface, which, had it been 
like the Irish historian's (Mr. VloYiAen^s) postUmtnums, would have 
been wholly superfluous : for he immediately proceeds to prove that 
be is no poet at all. We doubtnot, tliat when Mr. Gardiner sees 
the whole impression of his tragedy left on his bookseller's hands, his 
" dulcet bosom** (as he calls it) will heave; and, judging from bis 
own, he will be surprised at the public's want of fecHng. He once^ 
4)robably, said, with Dryden's poet in the prologue, 

** This tragedy will moisten every eye ;** 
and he may now add ; 

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THE BRITtSH STAGE. 



JmMatio vita, ipecuUun ccnsuetiuUniSf ima^o verit9tis. CScero. 

Tbe IxnitiitioQ o£ life— The Mirror of Manners— The R^prtfseatatioft of Truth. 



DRAMATIC ESSAVIST. 
No, XV. 



A COMPARISON OF THE MERITS OF DRYDEN AND POPE. 

BY DR. BCATTIE. 

7hbre is DO modern writer whose style is more distinguishable tfiaa 
I>r5den*8. Energy and ease are its chief characters. The former 
is owing to a happy choice of expressions, eqoally emphatical and 
]:^lain; the latter to a laudable partiality-in favour of the idioms and ra^ 
4ical words of the English tongue ! the native riches and peculiar f^e* 
nius whereof ard perhaps more apparent in him, than in any other of 
Ottr poets. In Dryden's more correct pieces, we meet with no affeo 
tatioD of words of Greek or Latin etymology, no cumbersome pomp 
of epithets, no drawling circomloctitions, no idle glare of images, no 
bkmderings rouad jabout ti roeaDing t bis English is pure and sim- 
fkSf nervous and Hear, to a degree whicb Pope has never exceeded, 
aad not always equalled. Yet, as I have elsewhere remnrked, his 
atCadfftteiat to the vernacular idioms, as well as the foshioa of hit 
age, often betrays him into a vulgarity, and even meanness of ei» 
pression, which is particuktriy observable in his transUiiions of Vii^ 
^I and Homer, and in those parts of bis writings where he aims at 
pathos or sublimity. In fact, Dryden*s genius did not lead him 4o' 
the sublime or pathetic. Good strokes of both may be found in' 
him; but they are momentary, and seem to be aceidenCal. He it 
too witty fbr the one, and too familiar for the other. That he had 
no adequate reitsh for the majesty of Panulise Lost, is evident to 
those who faeve compared bis opera called 77ie State cf Innocence, 
with that klmortal poem; and that his taste for the true pathetic 
was imperfect, too manifes^y appears from the general tenor of bis 
.translations as well as tragedies. His Virgil abounds in lines and- 
tiouplets of the most perfect beauty; but these are mixed with 
otlMrs of a different stamp, nor oan they' who judge of the oiig^al' 
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by this franilfttion, ever receive ttay tolerable idea of that unifornn 
Magnificence of sound and lan^iage, that ex<)uiiate choice of words 
and figures, and that sweet patHos'of expression and of sentinaent^ 
which characterise the Mantuan poet.-^In delineating the more 
familiar scenes ofHfe, in clothing plain moral doctrines with easy 
and graceful versification, in the variuHS departments of comic sa- 
tire, and in the spirit iind .melody of his lyric poems, Dryden is infe- 
rior to none of those who went before him. He exceeds his master 
Chaucer in the first: in the three last, he nraU Horace; the style 
6f whose epistles be has happily imitated in his Reiigio Ltnci, and 
other didactic pieces ; and the harmony aiwl elecrance of whose 
ode he has proved that he could have equalled, if he had ihouoht 
pro|x:r'to cultivate that hraneh of the poetic art^ I«deed^ whetiier 
we considdi^ his peculiar sigm^cancy of expMisioty or the. purity of 
ba« st>le ; the sweeloess of his lyric, or the case aed* perspicuity of 
bis moral poems; the sportive severity of his satire, or his talents 
Uk wit UNd humour; Dryden, in point of genius (I do not say teste) 
leems to bear a closer affinity to Horace^ than to any other, ancient 
or modem author. For energy of words, viiraeity of .description, 
and apposite variety of numbers, his Fea$t ofMexandfir is sup^ior 
to any ode of Horace or Pindar now extant. 

Dryden's verse, though often faulty, has a^^nice ftod a spirit pe» 
euliar to iisclfr That of Pope is more oerrcct, and perhaps vpoo 
the whole more harmonious ; bat it is in general more languid, and 
less diversified. Pope's numbers are sweet, but elaborate; and our 
senile of their energy is in some degree iote^rupted by out attentioQ 
to the t«rt displi^ed m their conteirtare : Drydea's are' natural and 
free; and, while tbey coRMiiuaicate their own sprigbtly motion to 
the spirits of the reader, harry him aloQ|^ with a gentle and filea^ing 
violence, without giviflg him time either to aotnwdvert on^ their 
£iul(s, ot to analyse their beauties. Pope &icei» in solemnity of 
sHuad; Piyden in- an eady melody and boitndlesa variel^ of 
ibytfaai. In this last respect be is perfaape superior U^.M pther 
English poets, Mittpn hiitiedf not excepted. TallsDryiden-^pear* 
ed, none of our writers in rhyme of the laftf oetiturfsi' appromikid 'ul 
any measure ]N> the huriMaf of faivfia ^nd %enser4 * Oi^ Waller 
itoanonlybe saniy thathe i&notharsli; ofDenham iukI Cow^y» 
if a few couplets were Miruck out of their works* we ponid not s»y 
* sa nuch. But in Dryd.ea*s hands, the English rhyming oauplet.aft* 
somed a new form; and seeins ha«%^susceptible of any further 
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Cray, modestly declared ta me^ tliat if there wa3 m his own xHinfr 
tiers any thmg tbat detierv^ «pprobaUe% he had learned it a4 
from Drydeo. 

Critics haire often 9Uted a oomparison between t)ryden and 
Pope, as poel» of the same order, ai^ who differed only in degret 
of merit. But, in miy t)pioioii, the merit of the one diners C0nsider*> 
ably in kind from that- of the other. Both were'happy in a sound 
judgment and most'oomprebenstve mind. Wit, and humour, and 
learning too, they seevEi te have possessed in equal measure; or, 
if Drydeb may be thought to have gone deeper in the sciences^ 
Pope must be allowed to have been the greater adept in the arts. 
The diversities in point of eorrectness and delicacy, which arof# 
from their different ways of life, T do not insist upon. But, set* 
ting these aside, if Dryden founds any claim of prefeience on th^ 
originality of hit manner, we shall venture to aiEi'm, that Popa 
may fbund a similar claim, and with equal justice, on the perfection 
of his taste; and that, if the critical wridngs of tlie first are mora 
Yolnmtnons, those of the second are more judicious; ifDryden's 
inventions are more diversified, those of Pope are more regular, and 
more important. Pope*s style may be thought to have less sina- 
phcity, less vivacity, and less of the purity of the mother-tongue* 
but is at the same time more uniformly elevated, and less debased 
with vulgarism, than that of his great matter :-^and the superior 
variety that animates the numbers of the latter^ will perhaps be 
found to be compensated by the steadier and more mcyestic raodu* 
lationofthe former. Thus far their merits would appear to be 
pretty equally balanced/ But if the opinion of those critics be 
nue^ who hold that the highest regions of Parnassus are appropriated 
to pathos and sublimity, Dryden must, after all, con^ss,, that be has 
never ascended so far as his illustrious imitator; th^*e beii^g nof 
Uiing in the writings of the first so pathetic as the Epitth of Eloisat 
Of the Elegy &n the UnfortunaU Lady; nor so uniformly sublime 
as the Essm/ on M^n, or the Pagt&ral of' the Messiah, This last i« 
indeed but a^leotion and imitation of choice passages ; but it be- 
speaks a powerof imitation, and a taste, in selection, that Dryden 
does not seem to have ponessed. To aU which may I. not be per- 
mitted to add, what I think I could prove, that the pathos of Ho- 
mer is frequently improved by Pope, and that of Virgil very fre- 
quently debased by Dryden ? 

The writings of Dryden are stamped with originality, but are 
not always the better' for that circumstance. pQpe H an imitator 

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pro£ett6dlj» %nd of choice ; hat to ^mt of those whoa he copies 
ke is at Jeait eq^al, aJKJi to i^miy of them superior: and it is 
pleasing to observe how he rises in proportion to his originals. 
^bere be follows Denbam^ Buckinghaai^ Roscommon, and Roches- 
ter, in his Windsor Forest, Ess^o^ on Criticism^ and poem on Silence^ 
he is superior indeed, but does not soar very, high above theca. 
When he veisiiies Chaucer, he catches, as b|y ioetinct, the esi^e, 
ttflsplicitjr, and spirit of Qryden, wiiom he th^re emotes. In the 
Bape of the Lock be outshines BoUeau, as much as the sylphs that 
flutter cound fielioda exceed ki sprigbtlines^ and himineus beauty 
those mechanical attendants of the goddess of luxury, who knea4 
up plumpness for the cliin of the canon, and pound vermilUon for 
the cheek of the monk. His Eioisa is beyond^ all coipparison more 
•ublime and more interesting than any of Ovid*s heroines. His 
imitations of Horace equal their archetypes in eleganoe» and oftea 
surpass them in energy and fire. In the lyric style, he was no 
saatoh for Dryden : but when he copies the manner of Virgil, and 
)x>rrow8 tb^ thoughts of Isaiah, Pope is superior not only to hijaxn 
•elf^ but to almost all otlier poets. 



ANECDOTES OF THE FRENCH STAGE. 



Joan OF Arc, Maid of Orleans, i^ tragedy, in five aets, itf^ 
vei-sc, 15«0. 

In the spring of 1580, Henry the Third, and Ldttisa his queen, 
proposed to take the benefit of the waters at Plomhieres. Father 
Frentctn, a Jesuit, to amuse their majesties, wished to produce be- 
fore tliem the present tragredy, but a contagious feyer having spread 
great alarm in France, the project miscarried, after considerable 
preparations had been n>ade for the performance. It was repre- 
sented on tie 17th of September, in the presence of Charles the 
Third, ddre of Lorrame. This prince was so well satisfied with his 
entertainment, that he presented the author, whom he teid seen vety 
shabbily dressed, with one hundred crowrts of gold, recommending 
him at the same time to empldy part of the money in baying some 
new deaths, of which he appeared to stand so much in need. 

The Death of Nero, a tragedy, by M. Pkchantr^, 1708. 

The author, attending to the Horatian precept, was nine years 
in writing this play, of which "the following anecdote is related ; — 
i^tchantri having left 9n the table of an inn a paper, wherein there 
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words, ** Here the kixig shall bfe killed,"^ thb landlord, who was not 
prepossessed in favour of the poet by his appearance, thought it hfs 
duty to carry the paper to the intendant of the police, who ordered 
hhn, if the stranger should retafn, to give him immediate informur 
Uon. Pecha^trc went back to the inn in a few days, and ordered 
something to eat; but just as he was sitting down to his repast, he 
was surrounded by a troop of archei;^. The intendant producing 
l^is paper, charged him with entertainiog a treasonable design* 
** Ah, monsieur!'' 'said the poet, " how rgpiced I am at seeing 
that paper. 'I have been looking for it several days. It is the 
principal scene in the tragedy which I am now wrhing,and wherein 
I intend to place the death of Nero." The intendant sent away th^ 
archers, and some little time afterwards P^hantre brought out hH 
play. 

Don John, or the I^5f of the Statu€f9. comedy, of five acts, in 
prose, acted at Paris, at the theatre of the Palais Royale, 15 Feb, 
1665. 

It was not through choice that Maliere wrote on the subject 
of Don John, or the Feaxt of the Statue^ [the Don Juan of the Eng- 
lish thfcatre.] The I^a^fW, who borrowed ^ froni the Spanishy ha<t 
brought it upon their stage in France, with vast success; A villaiq, 
pdious for his fcrimes and hypocrisy; the silly miracle of a moving 
and speaking statue, and the extravagant scene of hell, did not dis- 
gust the vulgar, who are always foqd of wonders. 

In 1660, Villers, a comedian of the Hotel de Bourgogne, acted 
it. in verse, and M oliere performed it in prose, in 1^5. His com- 
pany, who had set him upon diis work, were jiufficiently punished 
for their bad choice by the little success it met with ; which might 
be occasioned, perhs^s, either by th^ prejudice (which theo prevail*; 
^d against comedies in five acts written in prose) being stronger 
than the spirit of whim, which had drawn the puUic in crowds to 
the Italians^ and to the Hotel de Brntrgogne, or else by their being 
offended with some hazardous passages in it, which the author sup- 
pressed on the second representation. 

A company, formed- in 1637, out of thatbf Jliarnitfe and that 
of the Pakig Royale, which were both dissolved, per^ofmed MoUer^s 
Fetut of the StaiuCy ^fter ^ Thomas Comeille had turned it into verse, 
at the Hotel of Gutntgaud, in 1677, under whiob form it drew a pro-, 
digious concourse of spectators ; and this is the piece that has ever 
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ORIGINAL POETRY. 



UNES ON THE DEATH OF MR. HENRY KIRKE WHITE, 
Late of St. John*9 College^ Camhrit^, 

WRITTEN ABOUT AND IN THAT COtLXG£« 

Sorrows were mine — thea kt jne JQ»y9 evade. 
And ^eek for sympathies m this lone shade. 
The glooms of death fall heavj on my heart ; 
And, between life and me, a truce impart. 
Genius Itas vanisht in its opening bloom. 
And youtli and beauty wither in the tomb ! 

Thought ever prempt to lend th* enquiring eye 
Pursues thy spirit through futurity; 
Does thy aspiring mind new powers essay. 
Or, in suspended being, wait the day. 
When earth shall fail before the awful train 
Of Heav'n and virtues everlasting reign? 

May goodness, which th> heait did once enthrone. 
Emit one ray to meliorate my own ! 
«And, for thy sake, when time, affliction calm. 
Science shall please, and poesie shall charm. . 

I turn my steps whec^ie issued all my woes. 
Where the dull courts, monastic glooms impose^ 
Thence ded a spirit, whose unbounded scope, 
Surpass*d the fond creatipns, e^eu of hope. 

Along this path thy living step has fled. 
Along this path they bore thee to the dead. 
All that this languid eye can now si^rvey 
Witnessed the vigour of thy fleeting day : 
And witnessed all, as speaks this auguisht tear. 
The solemn progress of thy early bier. 

Sacred the walls that took thy parting breatl^ 
Ow^*d tl^ce iniife, encompassed thee in death ! 

Oh ! I can feel« as felt the sorrowing friend;^ 
Who o'er thy corse in agony did bend : 
Dead as thyself, to all the world inspires, 
Paid the last rites mortality requires ; 
Closed the dim eye, that beam'd with mind before ; 
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Some power the piQt4ire from my memory tear, 
Or feeling will rush onward to despair. 

Imroorul hopes ! come, lend your blest relief; 
' And raise the soul^ bow'd down with mortal, grief. 
Teach it to look for comfort in the skies i 
Earth cannot give what Heaven*s high will denies. 
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PROLOGUE. 

To the new piay of 

Adeian AND Orrila; or a Mother's Venceakci. 
l^ktin by Lumley, St. George Skegin^ton, Esq. 
Spoke» ky Mr. Bruntw, 

Long has the Stage, determined to impart 
Such scenes alone as meliorate the heart, 
Barr'd from all avenues, with rigid sway, 
P^ots which corrupt, and maxims that betray. 
With elevation now, the alter'd Muse 
That praise rejects, which virtue shoujd refuse : 
In Fancy'^s rose no vivid colour sees. 
Unless that vividness the Just can please ; 
In Wit's gay brilliant owns no sparkling gem, 
Unless allowed as brilliancy by them ; 
Proud of uo praise^ of no distinction vain, 
Unless distinguished in the moral train. 
Celebrity she holds as disrepute, 
And scorns all laurel from a shameful root ! 
Licentious follies rarely intervene, 
And truth, and sense, and honour claim the scene! 

When Love's distress shall in our story rise, 
Let sighs break forth — ibr those are Naturb^s sight. 
When persecuted Worth in grief appears. 
Be proud to weep—for those are Virtue*s tears. 

But to our audior : Each DraUatic Baid 
Solicits, but iu vain, a long regard ; 
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Thej gam, at most^ employed in such a cause. 
Uncertain honour, fugitive applause !— 
Now hopes, now fears his anxious heart compose^ 
Half sunk by these, and just upheld by (hose ; 
For in our days, when Envy smiles to sting. 
Grief follows joy, and praises censure bring. 
Then Wits and Heroes and the Critic tew^ 
Bere let me pass, and, Lapies, plead to you ; 
You, for whose favour ev*ry wit is bright, 
All cridcs commeut, and all heroes fight ! 
Protection from the fair at once conveys 
Ample renown, consolidated praise; 
JPor Truth acknowledges, in Nature's name. 
The 9mile$ of BEAurt are the wrtatht of Fams ! 
Urg'd still by them, by their reward impress^i 
£ach noble passion animates the breast; 
They form the heart to ev'ry aim refin'd. 
Exalt, delight, and dignify mankind ! 



PROL&Giyfi TO MR. H , 

tw #e have sinn'd in paring down a name, 
All civil well-bred authors do the same. 
Survey the colunms of our daily writers — 
' Yoult find that soine initials are grear fighters :— • 
How fierce the diock, how ihCatis die jar,^ 
When EottgD W. meets lieutenant R. * 
With two ^tout secondf, just of their owft gizzard, 
Cross Captain X. and rough old Genersd Izzabd ! 
Letter to letter spread the dire akirmB, 
Till half die alphabet is up in anns; 
Nor with lesslifltre bare inkiiil^ shone, 
To grace the gender amnds of Grim-Coa^ 
Where die dispeaeets of the public lash. 
Soft penance gire-*« leHer add a d ad » ■*■>«. 
Where ficty reduced in siae, lAmskA to a failing 
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Faux pas are told in sudi a modest w«y— 

« The afl&iir gf Colonel B. with Mr&. A.'' 

You must excuse them — for what is tl|ere> saj^ 

Which slich a pliant vowel mxOt not grant 

To such a very pressing consorDWit ! 

Or who poetic justice dareS dispute, 

Wheq^ mildly melting at a lover's suit^ 

The wife's a Liquid— her good man^ a mote ? 

!tven in the homelier scenes of honest life. 

The coarse-spun intercourse of man acfd wi% ' 

lilitialsy I am told, have taken place 

Of deary, ^)ouse, and that old-fashioo'd race : 

And Cabbage, ask'd by brother Snip to tea, 

ltep|ie% ** rU come— but it dOn't rest with m^b-^ 

*' I always leaves them things to Mrs; G— — ." 

O should this mincing fashion ever spread 

From names of living heroes to the deac^ 

How would ambition sigh and hang her head^ 

As each lovM syllable should melt away. 

Her Alexander turned into great A. 

A single C;— her Cssaf to express-^ 

Her Scipio shorted^d t^ a Romful &-^ 

And nick*d and ddck^d to theSe new mcklefl off Speeti^ 

Great Hannibal himself a Mr. H-^ — ; 



bE^RIPTION OF A CONf«TOiSSEUR^ ROOM< 

iMFmiMTS, wings of dn^on'iiiet 
Ifi. earious eirder calcli tke e^; 
Some Rtaaani aaoMs to cot ckpetif 
A tye-wig wet with Cmnbden^s vapoors ; 
Of boolss a rare itnd preciout oHo, 
An HoaEief>--bttt observe in ibiio; 
He would as Boon^pot mat his eyea 
As have it in a pochfiti«ise^ 
A serpent skia^aome fipiuabli llbrtiiags, 
A lion's tootle aodanclr like rare tfatiigs. 
Item, a rabd witfa bn»tei spangles, 
Some stones that form all kinds of angles^ 
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With him ibr andque Grecian brass. 

11i6«e raogM in their refpecti?a places 

Stand Mvies, Copid, and tha Gracet. 

Here an Ap<^ ttMidi hefbre je. 

Bat Ji«c|iirM a posteriori ; 

And there the .bust of Virgil dead, 

Deiectavc only in the head. 

Item, a toe; but whose, indeed 

The learned are not yet apeed. 

Hoj4e in two folios thinka 'twas Sully's^ 

fiM Boole in foor afiiras Hwas Tnlly^K 

Non aostruro est to interpose; 
' Commend me to the worth of toes. 

Item, three hairs from Caesar's head^ 
^ A snail, that was in India bred ; 

A three*l^d saucepan, but which age 

Into a «npod*8 fbrm could change. 

An helmet falling into dost, 

And crusted o'er with precious rust ; 

With R's, Vs; A's, which folly prove— 

Whatever to prove th' inventors love. 

Some sand from the Granicus gathered. 

The brush with which King Ch*les WM latherU 

A bottle full of snow Caucasian, 

A stone, which has some grand relation 

To the great king of this great nation. 

Here Venus stands, whose charms to find 

Requires in Sr«th «o common miod. 

There i«no Sbith true Udbok's eye,^ 

A^AeroVy witbotttwiogslo fly» ^ 

A Momus with a face of woe. 

And, Jove^ Heav'n's King ! witboot a toe ! 

While aU around, behind^ bofoie ye. 

Crying as ^twere ^ qiemento mori,^ 

lie arms, half eaten fkjAlis and ^ngfas^ 

T^ettJb, hesdt, lei^, hands, fees^ hone% toes, eyes, 

I^Mliigh tn consdenee to proeure 
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Dec. 8. --^Tfie Tempest^ or thct&dbm^Mi hhani^ ms.i^ived, a» «tbiWite« 
•ome ]rears ago at Drury-Ldne, witb Omi imleyfiMt^ alKuid, and tMagie a(hK-< 
tions of Dr>-den, omittiiig the female monster, originaily intto4iicecI as the cosmi 
paiiioD to Caliban, What Dryden, and his coadjutor Dkvenant, ho^ supplied, 
not only destroy tfie design, but detract, materially, from the interest of Shak4 
•pere's Tempest, and it U noC too great a compliment to our own time* to my 
that an audience in the one shiilmg gallery nom eannot hear^ without ^isgust/ 
the least ofiensive^ of those alluMoaiy'wbich, when Drjxden 'wroS, were, in aH 
their grossness, acccpte4 and applauded by thetteorw.' Butto harvc dome vittt 
the bad Uste of Drvden, and the taste equally had of Mr. Kembte, who covld^ 
not be content with the old stook of Shakspere without ihahaec inoemlaiioHr «0 
shall pass on to the performaQce, which, in some respects, was reiy creditabte 
to the theatre. Kemble must ilways impart consfcfuence to whatever character 
be assumes, and iu some of the solemn passage of Protpero, he was etticmeiy' 
impressive : but h'ti forte ia not dedsnatioo, fmd Pmpero «i)irds litlle room iot 
any thing else. Emery was much better than wp «speQ(«i in Caliban ; the ni%* 
fignity of the << abhorred slave^ capable of ailiU,'^ wasadJBiw^ly expressed ; but 
there was a falling off in the songs from what we remember tliem when given by- 
Bannister, and others. The daughters were played. by Miss Bronton and Mrs. 
C. Kemble. I'he dialogue of many of the scenes, in which they were concerih-'') . 
cd, excited such strong disapprobation, that the effect of their acting could aol' 
but be greatly injured. 7Wjfcirf» app*ar€5i, for the first tim^, iff a" fooPs tomi. 
That he was 9. jester we Imov, liar he « so ealied is tfat origiMd dr/tmathpertorke^ ' 
and that he should wear a party-coloured drdM, appears proper from the speech 
of Caliban, '* ^hat a pied ninny's this ?" We presume also that Mr. Kem- 
ble has some good reason for making him the Ari^i^r jester; but of the ttuthoHty 
for tbb we are not aware, unless the honour of being wrecked in the siime vessel 
with the king, may have heeo deemed stkflident to entitle him to the distinclion. 
Fawcett was the IrincuiOf and Binodea the Stephmnoi Two excellent comor, 
dians they are, and tbey did great justice to tbeir c h ar a otet * ; but after the Isttter 
bad lost his bottle pi the pool, it slioukl not iiave bfett setn dangling at hif 
breast. A new Ariel made her appearance; a Miss M99^k)iw$, whose father 
performed several years since at the Haynaarket. Her voice is very agreeable, 
ber execution promising, and her performance altogether worthy of much com«^ - 
mendation. This lady is a pupil of Mr. Davy, who furnished a nrw overture, 
which was not unworthy of introducing th6 admirable mofic of Porcdt, 

11. — Arbitration ; or. Free- 4ihd Easy. The author of this farce did not, 

, at firsts acknowledge it; but the ^nmerd was gtv«ii' to nradt in his fiivonr by the 

arbiters to whom he subnuttad it^that the naite of fho writer has transpired, and 

- if Mr. Reynolds had not thought proper to own hisoflspring, the f^attfres of 

the child must have declared the parent.' It is a merr}', bustling, little pieitt, 

' with several ,/7tff Aflf <2/'z£;*V agaiost lawyers, law- promotefs, protlorf, &c. which- 

set the audieuce in a roar, assisted by the boundless vivacity of Mr. Lewisi^ VhH 

t«ity humour of Blancbard^ tbeeomtcri f«ce^of Xi^n^'viid the ^ludloi^f dl<» 

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TiKiLi.— This melo-dnuiu, m we predicted, hat prored of great aervicfl 
to Iht Uieatre. The origin bfthe plot n the same as that of the Escapes, at the 
rival boQM ; but perhaps otie was taicn fVom thi* German and the other from 
iit Fraach. The atoiy hm eertainfY '«ppeamfi i« aoreral shapes on the conti- 
»cat» bat between Ust meJo^rMie anrf the opera there !s sufficient difference to 
giv9 lo tb« bonnet all ^ Inlrreat and vttraction oT novelty. 

The diAealties wMefa the hero enownfers, to etnde the vigilance and the ven- 
t of hh cmmies, form the Mbfect of the piece ; and these are contrived so 
and bjT means of so many hidcy incidents, that attentioD is fixed to 
the aeene «l the Tery commencement, and is not once diverted till the end of thet 
•econd act There the tottfest atops, andHierc themelo-drame should be^bronghf 
It m 6oal dota. The hst act U mere declamation, whidt is more vapid from ita 
pdiaefliiof nothing new, «thera« to •itoatt^m or sentiment. It ita repetition of 
tlw laat soeoe of the Em^sA fleH, The acting was very excellent. Tekeli re« 
^ eire a not oMcb from the actor, but IQliston Icoows how to make mticb of a littJe^ 
ftod Mr. Hook it greatly f ndcJbted to him' for undertaking ^6ie character. Dow- 
tua« i« ff^0fff the Cakhlilt friend of 7M^/, appeared to very great "advant^e. 
Wrooghlott) Matbewt, De Camp, Rin»ell, Mt« Duncan, and Mrs. Btand^ 
4id all that the wtthoreookr desire or e^rpedr. 

The aeene ef the mill i» tmcoonnoidy fine ; in ether respects there was a de- 
ieiiacyqfaAiw. The dee u e a t i e ni wen temished, attd the aiege was only a 
aoeoe of oonfuskm. Btit it proves that inlerest'ts saflicient of itaelf to aapport a 
4faiDa, vHhow Hm aM of ornaaaaiit. Oar mere 4p^ec(ifr are seldom worth 
«ay thing. 

W««ld it not been been-aa lael if Mn Hook had acknowledged, in the 
printed drama, the eb Ug atiena be has been mnleir to thePrench atage ? The task 
of Mlapting, w<e are awere^ is ceasidefable | bet the Inventor is auiely entitled to 
kMfttltthemofpmite. *' . 

i27. A gentleman attempted Pierre, in Venice PrmerveA 
Dec. fi. Bannialef nppeared lor tlie fint tinoe Mce kU accident, in Sir Bash^ 
Jtd CmttUmt* The nppkuise was prodigkina, and tlie actor aeeoaed deeply 
^Mefel ^Ikiaeddittonal iaetance ef tbe pd>Hc partialily. 

10. Mrn.H-*— t UndertkisiingDlarttiee&ffeewaapmdQQed on -this evening, 
y it oed ed by anexcetteot peologue, whiehy that onr ophtioft may be pat to the 
feat, we have printed in Aur poetioal de pa rtmen t. It is a Ikrce of very broad 
Immeer^ and quiie jm gemetit, Tbe dedtioo, though utttmately unlkvourable, 
aboold nd^liieona^ the writer, whe^ aa «e an<ler«tand, i» a-gentleman in tfie 
Indie Houaew The whole torus upon e man's diatike to hra own name, and after 
jmmcroQs nhimairal cnibarraaimentB, (oceaaiootd by his persisttng to. call him- 
aeVMr. H- « ) w|U» kie aervaata, tfaeiady tarwheni be it alfaiched, and iu 
foblie company, tie iimjaaiiently diwervirs that hia name is Hocsr lcss. Thr 
kome was oonvolaed with laughter tfafoogb the whole of the firatect. Inthese- 
food the incidents incftaaed in CKtmivaganee* and a fewcoefaeexpressioasoc* 
«pnnring, those who came to laugh, and had laogbed most immoderwtely, exer- 
eited their remaining privilege, less grateful to an author's feelings, and the cur- 
tIBB dropped amklst so much disapprobation that the piece was withdrawn by tbe 
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king's theatre. 

On Saturday the 13th of December under the able and experiencrd 
tnamgement of Mr, Kelly ^ a'ded by the active exertions of Mr. Jewel, the 
Opera commenced. The great attraction of the night was Madame Cataliml, 
»nd it wan £0 powerful as to crowd the house in a manner never before wit- 
nestcd on a similar occasion. Madame Banti made her first appearance |a 
S^miramde»'"Madtime Catalinit fearing no comparison, cho»e the sank part 
for her dtMi, The music of this Opera was ori«;inally composed by Bianchi, 
tMit the present coniposition is by I^riogallo, with a view to bring the vast 
powers of ttis sn prising singer into the most effiectual action. Oa her 
CDtr6e ^fema excfcums/ear no/,-— to whiih she replies ttfuor non e,Uis some^ 
thing mare than fear. The eii^ct which ihese speeches, so applicable to her 
sitoation« had on the feelings of the house must be left to the imagination. 
During the first act she u as not perfectly master of h erself, thouith encouraged 
by a deserved encore in her duet with RigfA^ and loudly applauded in the 
Caoatina and Bravura^ which she gave in a wondetful style of excdlence. 
Her coofidrnce increased as she proceedod, and with it the cx^ession of her 
powers, which have never been equalled In this country. Her acting was 
only inferior to her singing. Th« compass of her voice is extraordinary, go- 
iBg at onca as low as Gratshi^ and as high as BiUingion^s, Her tones are 
dettghtfttlly soft and music^df and her chromatic execution or running ^alf 
notes up and down is truly 8.trprising. For the last five years, Madame Cata* 
lint has l>een studying at Lisbon under O^jcen/ifii, a castrate of great science, 
and h mself a prodigy in the art. Of the middhog stature, her figure U very 
iotrresting, active, ea^y and gracefvL Her faee Is oval and full of female 
delicacy and expression. Wkb ril these corporeal charms added to a vbce 
which has in it all the ** mazy running soul of melody/* her secession to this 
theatre may be considered as one of the happiest events in the annals of the 
Italian opera in this country. 

On the »ame night was produced a new dancer, Mademouelle PresJe, 
4he is by no means a fir-t rate performer. Her agility requires graoe« 
The band ^led by fVeklkely is as before eactUeut. The Operatic corps is full 
and wrll ordered, the greatest attefttioo pidd to theeonver.ienre of the audi^ 
enee, and under these favonraUe cireumstaneesthe public have every thingto 
expect that can ra vi«h the ear imd cli»-m the sight. 

La^t seasun Mr. 6Vtt/</, ti** director and proprietor of the Optra, sub- 
mitt'^d a state of the coroern to a comnittee composed of his R. H. the 
Jhike of Sasser, ike, Marfuii of HeatifoH, Earls VhohnomMe^ and Sef/On, 
Visoount Hampden, Mfestrs, Bdtasyee and Ofg^'te, B3* the report of tlie third 
of June, the deiictr amounted for the four last years to fifteen tbousimd tvro 
iuindred' and ttro pounds three tbiUings and nliicpence. It was thei^fare 
proposed to aiTgmi^nt the subscription, which was readily agreed to by alt the 
subscribers except thrce^ for whose situstioa tliere are above thirty e^ndit^tca 
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TTkairt'Rojfal £dimbuiicn.-»Ic it not my object ttfdetail tht merits of a 
•ompany wfaofe cxcrtioas I bare so icldoai wimesied ; or, since they are 
aCiU iiicompUte, to ^tcoit their pretensions to the apf^dlation " best out of 
Londoat" so modttlly applied to tlKin in the manager's advertisement, eves 
liefore ihcy bad appeared at all. *' Sufficient for tl»e day is the evil thereol'* 
They shall bear from me in due season, tboogh I have no reason tabetievr 
that they are at all calculated to improve upon aeqoaintance. 

At present I state, ^7era%, that for Turpin, HoU'tngswortby &%. has 
been labstitutef!^ Johnson, and that the world do not conceive, more than If 
sfaat any addition has thus been made to the comic strength of the company* 
His wife is engaged for the tragic heroine, b«t of this lady I shall ofot say 
«oy thing at present. The pretensions of Miss Benson, a very yo«ng lady, 
who is, I suppose, to be coaxed and daadkd into name, i also pass over ia 
meri/er/ silence, ilntil I can discover tftat she has real daimt to' notke, be* 
yond those of her personal accompiisbments, which aire rcatty suAcknt t^ 
Inspire a^ hoary anchorite with more than devotion. As Httle intcmioa 
have I to enlarge upon the Nortbumbriaa, or *' Pse YoorluMre** dialect of 
Mrs. Bcnnet, as the incessant jelping utterance of Benner. I say notlung 
of Mrs. Young (my old lavouvlte when Miss Biggs), or of Mr. Archer, be* 
cause, though .innounced,the> bavenotyet*' met my view,'* 1 mention net 
the name of Miss Walton, because I have already said of her all I dugbt ta 
•ay, and because it is not in my nature to say any thing prejudicial of ». 
beautifol woman. I pass over in equal silence the pretensions of Joh» 
Dwyer, and ditjangliftg claims of Berry and of Rock, as I neither can ad* 
mit tiMse of the former gentleman to the extent be contends fbr, nc^ deign 
to even notice the qualities of the depute mana^r^ when contrasted witli 
those of his popular adversary : the subject is now a little hackiiiedi and tlie 
merits of both areV to your readers at least, as stale, as their exertions fmve 
of late, in Edinburgh, been '* fiat and \inprofitJd>le.'* I pass to 21 subject 
more agreeable to my feelings, because more stited to Ac natural mildnesi; 
and gentleness of n^y disposition, viz. to sute, In terms of just eolegidm, tlic 
merits of Mr. Meggett, whose deserving, as an actor, ean only be exceeded 
by what, in the opinion of Ins friends at least, forms his merit as a man. 

To a figure combining manliness with grace^ joh)ed to a deportment at 
once dignified, easy, and vnembarrasscd ; to a voice susceptible of every' 
modufetton, and ot cousiderabk compas* and strength, this very raeritoridus, 
and to «s new actor, possesses features at once expressive, pcominent, and^ 
to a considerable extent, flexible. I regTet to have seen hixti ia but one 
character, and- that, on my part, under very vnravourafole drcumltaiices. 
I could not help, however, observing, that his' general conception of the- 
part was accurate, that, in many of t^ sciney, he eXbSiited padtos and 
f rce in the highest degree. That he might fill, indeed, in the finer smd 
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At wise arrangement of die sianager, Hi eauatag plays to be perfonne* 
nightly, and of course thcduc revinlof preparation of greatparta thw rendered 
{ tepiMiMf , inch leadenckf were oatiir^ I mighty uide«:d, wub tiiatniuch 
of tbe fire expended, and in my a^ndunnccpHsarily to, in the earlier sccnet, 
ludbeen reserved for the last ones, wbicbare^ inmymiod, diegfeaU^t, andim 
'Wl»mi aU tl^e ^e ^ ala^Of fral> actors As at least neces^sar y . X allndo chiefly t» 
his mann^ iu the ca»^c, ^Hfl the hegUming of the fidd scene, where be wa^ 
«/ l^aU lame, not to say format I might mark m^ny errors in the dagger 
•cene, and complain of his dispjlayuig too modi of the mechanical tricks of 
the a<(tor, and th^ ta interrupt t|ie gradual growth of pa«»iQii, without 
Ipirhich tl»f c/i^adT.nerer «an he rcac^d; ^at hif manner in repeating the 
^ia^, iv^ich are perhaps t^e be&t calculated in the piece for stage tfiecty 
" ficfir it not, Duncan V waf loud and boistefotts, instead of dii|day 
ing the expression of genuine .fee^ng,t pityi and remorse, i might «oni« 
plain of hisrcmembering too much, and expressing too visibly^ tbat he washf:? 
^re an audience^ and tliis p^rticuUrly n the bap<}uet $cene ; of his giving 
too much pomp to level dijdflgue, utid being too fomml in more impu&sioBeA 
acenea. J mi^ht dilute fhfs propriety of many of his new readings, thoutgh, 
generally speakingt I must allow f^ar g^ntric trxrt^, at>d confess that thtey,. 
in every icst^nc^, pxpved that they were never ligl^tly or it consideratdf 
9idq»pted« Indcddj whft k^ been pubii hed as the Drury-X^ne (at least eo 
4enomiBated) edition of ihis piece, whi^h Mr. Meggett, in ^tncral, seenif^ 
with others, ^ fpUpw, appcrs ;» .me to adopt meanings totally mimical to 
the «piiit if, the play* and the meaning of the author. 1h£9e and 
other errors, of i>o great consequence^ migut he enlarged upoo, but which« 
in tl>e whole circumstances of t4»c ca^-it would be uuCair to cietaii. Bh per- 
•ooiicatioB of Scotia^ Ul-fated monarch was veil conceived, and in general 
must ably ttclineateU. In the first act, in pariicular, Ke threw out many 
beauties, and, ^s well as in the second* and in parts of the following one^ 
X ehe^ed that he could discriminate with judgment ai^d mark with accvracy. 
I have therefore no jtiesitatioo to declare him '* a tawer of surength*' to the 
Edinburgh co^ipany, or to progooaticatje tb»t> in due sra»on, he will i>e well 
eiatitUd to disfvite theci»vii,^veD hi yofir southern metijopoiif »witb themo>t 
^voMred votaries of MelpomOBC I harVein ta^rnc ^s to add, that in f he opini« 
on (/some iiidivtdttale whom i know f,o have tj^ judjfmeqt to appreciau» 
and the liberality to aiknovlcdge ineiitoriou8(«ert4c|is, Mr. Meggett's pec- 
soniiieation of Hamlet wac most aocurately d* lineared> and most masterly 
filled iif ; thatf in the dotet scene, in particidajtly, eticrgy Was never so h>^* 
pily and so successfully blended with the finer filial feeling, a task oi 4»c^<-< 
nation which even a Kembleis not always happy in m;ifkingii The list 
of the company, their merits ;ind suoecssea, shall be dcailed in n^y oext. t 
have merely to add, that my t >sKimcnts of them shaU be, as u^tiali ui^tasaed . 
i^ affeetion, and uninflueneed by fear. 

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Tlf SptikA qf tki Lordf OmmitiloHers io both Himtesc(f ParlituwUf om Fr^ 
AiytDee^ber%9,\906^ 

Mt Lo't.DI, AND GlIfTLCMEV^ 

If It Majeity hat commaoded va to assure yoo, that, in t&e diffieolt an^ 
irduoQt drcnmstakices under wUch you are now assembled; it is a great 
Mitlsfiictkm to him to recur to the firmness and wisdonf of his pariiamenCs 
ifter to recent an opportunity of collecting dae senSfc of his people.^ 

His Majesty has ordered th6 papers #hich liave been exchanged in th6 
Cotrse of the latd ne^tisCtion liHth France to be hid before you. H& 
Majesty has enjoyed every effort for the restoration of general tranquillicf 
Ott terms consl^nt with the iotcredti and honour of hi^ people, and witfi 
that intioLible food fa!th tdwardr his aWes/by whiclrdke conduct of thhf 
toontry has always been distinguished. 

Tie ambitioii and injustice of the«neniy disappointed ih^se endeavours^ 
and In ti*e same moment kindkd a fresh war in Europe, the progress of 
vUdk has been attended w th Che most calamitous erents. After witnessing 
the subversion of the ancient constitution of Germany, and the «nb]ugation^ 
ofalarfe proportion of itrmost considerable states, Pnisda found herself 
ittU more nearly threatened by chat danger which she had vainly hoped ta 
mttt by so many sacrifices. She was, therefore! at length cotopeiled to adopt 
the resolutioii oC openly resisting this unremitted sy^tera of agg^randitement 
and conquest. But neither thi» determinaCidn, nor tbe succeeding measures^- 
wcre pre? iously concerted with His Majesty ; nor bad smy disposition been^ 
ibewn to dfer any adequate satisfaction for those aggressions which had 
placed the two countries in a state of mutual hostility. 

Yet, in this situation, His Majc^y did not heJttate to adopt, Without delay,- 
fluch measures as were best calcuhted to unite their councils .and interest^ 
agamsr the common enemy. The rapid course of the calamities >^hich ensu- 
ed, opposed insurmoantable difficulties to the ezfcudun of this purpose. In^ 
the midst of fhese disastrous events, and under the most trying drcumatances,- 
tbe good faith of his Msrjesty^ allies has remained unshaken . The conduct of 
the King of Swede* has been distinguished bf the most honourable 6rnuids.- 
Between H s Majesty and the emperor of Russi;^ ti>e happiest union sifbsists*-^ 
It has been cemented by reciprocal proofs of good faitb and confidence ; and 
His Majesty doubts not that you will parrtieipate in his anxiety ti cultivate 
•nd eon6rm an alHancc, which affords the best remaining- hope of .safety for' 
the Continent of Europe. 

C( ntlemen of tho House of Connnons, 
His Ma'esty looks with confidence to your as»i^tanre lii those exerttoo^ 
which <he honour and iodependance of your ccmntry demand. The necessity 
of adding to the public burthens will be painfal to your feelings, and is deeply' 
distressing to His Majesty. In considering the estimates for the various 
branches of the puble service, you will best consult His Majesty's wishes bf 
combining all practicable economy vrith those cffort»^ which it is necessary W 
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.T«B iiONTai.T Miamoi. A96 

' -JBSSSSsssSsSssssssi ' , I I u amaaaammmmmmmmsssslai 

My Lords, aad Gentlemen^ ^ 

The kDg icries of misf ornine whick has affliaMl the Coodiient of Europe 
•«o«1d flot tail to affect in some degree many importtnt interests ^f this ceun- 
ftrf . Bat under every successive d ficalty His Majesty has had the satisfac- 
tion of witnessing an increasing energy and firmness on the part of his people* 
vhose unif«rm and determined resistance has been no less advantageous than 
iMeourable to themsdres, and has exhibited the most striking example to the 
forrottiidiog nations. 

The unconquerable valotef and dtsciplioedf His Majesty's fleets and amies 
cnoiiaite te be displayed With uodiaiiniebed Itistre ; the great sources of our 
prosperity and ttcetigtii areunimpared ; nor kas the British nation been at any 
time more united in sentiment and action, or more determined to maintain io- 
violate the Indepcndanee of the empire, aiid th^ dignity of the national cha- 
facter. 

With these advantiiges, and with an hvmhle reliance oa the protectl<M of 
'pnt divine providcDcet His M^esty b prepared to meet the exigencies of thia 
.great crids, assured of receiving the fullest support from dbe wisdom of yonr 
vlelibera^ons, and fhwi the tried afftection, loyalty, aod pubUc spirit of his 
^ffwc people. 



DOMESTIC EVENTS. 



CaIlleton House.— While kingdodiis arc subverted on me Odatineot, 
«& d monarcbs driven into exUe, tlie Prince of W^les seems determined to en- 
Joy all the comflouts and lux«nes of sleep. The following is said to be a cor- 
voct account of his bed-chamber:— Thb apartment is entirely hung with 
drab colour broad doth, wliich admits efbeing drawn aside at every apeKure, 
aseh as the dours, windows^ looking g^ses, &c The whole produces al- 
together the most novel and singularly pleasing ccmp (P osil hnagioabte. The 
bonne graces are of a dnnam^a colour, adorned with a pehnet of black velvety 
^Mliich, suspended from a richly gilt cornice, *compo>ed of the oak leaf and 
•pp^ branch, harmonize, and add greatly to the grandeur of the general eff 
feet. At the two opposite extremities of the room are two projecting domes) 
^wHh curtains of the same materials as the bonne graces : the fir^t forming a 
kind of anti-room to the bed chamber, in which is suspended a magnificent 
'vase,oontaiMng the night light, and in the other is affixed the bed. The 
litter is certihily the nux elegant and appropriate piece of furniture, perhaps 
ever attempted in this country. The form of this superb article is wholly 
after the Grecian costume. It is of black and gold, elevated upon a plat- 
form, the ascent to which is by a flight of three steps. The latte» are co* 
vcfftd with a light blue velvet csrpeting. The curtains which arrattached 
to the bed, are taspended from a golden eagle, placed in the centre ; they 
are of a light sky-blue silk, dotted over with silver stars. A large mirror 
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Whole Intonor of the room, md prwliicct tkt fiooit pcfspecttre lliat Jodg- 
tm m t w ad uutt cobU dtTite. The whole of the room tt corcred with a rich 
liutariiie» or ivter-bloe velfct earpet, omamentod wkh gold roaettes. The 
JaCtff adds coasidertbly to the riehne^t of the cAff d* teuvre. This-beaotifol 
apartncDt !• Mght«d up by four »uperb Gredaii candelabrat plaoed in the 
/oor corner* of the room. There are dretsing-rooms, and anti-rooms, the 
iaicer for the paieet Ip waiting. In ilie centre ofihe$e has been erected a mag- 
nificent bath, the walls of which are coinposed of verd antique^ and dit 
tHrth itsdf is pared with the most beautiful white marble. In the eight 
oiches or rccess(fi» in the bath, are to be pbced tht beaatiful and In Taluabie 
•tataes irhlch wae sent over from Italf by the Duke of Soisez some years 
4noe. 

The BaiTSSB NATy.«^Tbe whole of the ships in his majesty's service 
which are ia commissionat present, amount to 773. Of these, 133 are of the 
line, Id are 30*s or 40*s — 164 firigates, and 198 sloops. In the North Sea 
and DotMif thcte aie 154 ressels— About Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar, 34 1 
Mcdltcrranian,34i West lodies, 45 ; East Indies, 39. 

Muaj>aB. AsiD Suicide.— On the nlg^t of the 28th of Aognst, the 
following atrocious clrcitmstance took place at Basseterre, Su Kitts. Mr. 
Francis Constable, a man naturally of a gloomy habit, but whose probity 
and pladd manners for several years past had gained him the respect aod f 
teem of the inhabitants pf the l4sisA% quitted his stpfe, and went home in as 
apparent compostu'e as he had ever been. He desired the vroman with 
whom he cohabited, and by whom lie had three coloured children, to put 
them, and his only son by his late wife, to bed. When the siilloess of the 
night made bim believe his woman and children were fast asleep, he crept 
iitto the chamber, and began the worlc of death, by aa attempt to strangle the 
unsuspectiiig mother, giving her at the same Instant a violent blow on the 
temi4e with a boot-jack, to render her incapable of resistance. Fortonatdy 
the blow lad not the dedred effiecty but alarmed her so much, that she strug- 
gled from tb^ grasp be liad on her throat, and leaped through the window to 
call in the neighbours. Having previuudy prepared cocds^ be put one round 
tlie ne^ of each deeping infant, and, it must be presumed, tliat, finding he 
conld not efl'ectually strangle them, he must have held them up subtended 
in one hand, while with the other he gave them repeated stabs about the bo- 
dy, «iUi a pistol having a spring bayonet. The youngest, (a little girl not 
three months old) having one slight mark of the weapon on its left pap» no 
doubt the tightness of the cord had soon finished his purpose with her. 
liii son, iburtcen years old, and the two other girk -had seven of eight stabs, 
many of which were mortaL When the door was forced open by the nd^- 
hours, he was found pierced with wounds, and weltering in his blood on the 
floor. Assistance was procured fur the wretched man, but happily assistance 
was in vain ; be lived in convuldve agony till past eight the next morning, 
when he expired. He left a letter, from wMch it appears that h^ was induced 
to commit the horrid deed from the badstatoof his affairs. 

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tun as FlazmaD, Nolldtens Ros&i, &e. tke Univenity of Cambridgrehas 
commissioned a sculptor in a foreign country to make a design for a monu- 
ment to be erected to the hite iHmtrkms statesman, William Pitt. 

On Monday morning Dec. 1. about dglit o'clock, a bear belonging to 
Mr. Bradbury, down at the Circus, got loose from his den> In the yard ad- 
joining the tlieatre^and Immediately seized a fine boy, son of a Mr. Wilsoo, 
whom he (ore in a most thoeldng manner. The boy was barely extricated 
alive. He was immediately talcen to the hospital ; but ve understand he is 
idnoe dead. The animal, which had been generally considored as altogether 
barmless, had become ferocious from hunger, which impelled him to t^ar up 
the stake to which he was fasteqeff, and to rush fdrtb in search of f>x)d. His 
first object was an ostler, K ho was cleaning a hone !n the adjoining yardP, 
but he fortunately escaped through a window^ when the boy already nun. 
tioned was seized by the ravenous animal, who was prevented by hli muzzle 
from teariilg him instantly to pieces. The^ cries of the boy soon brought as- 
sistance, but he was not extricated from the horrid situation till the throat 
of the animal was cut, and then the mischief had been done^ which has 
been succeeded by such a fatal termination. 

Qf the savage atrocities oonunitted '<tt Lubeck, the following particulars 
are suted in a letter received by the last conveyance : After the French 
croopa had entered the cHy> and ghitted their savage ferodty with tkc blood 
of those who opposed them in arms, they entered the houses of the citizens la 
several parts, pursued tbje defenceless inhabitants, aad bayoneted tliem to di&» 
cover their property j plundered them and drove them to the tops of the 
houses, and then forced them back to the cellars, the stakcdscs and roonu 
a.'reaming with human blood, and covered with the mangled carcases of 
those «ho fell vietims to the savage fierochy of those devils in hvman shape. 
The writer describes the gallint conduct of the Prusfiap soldiers under Blu- 
<;ber and the Prince of Brunswick, as beyond all comparison ; they disputed 
every inch of ground, and Blucher never c^Pered ta surrender, until he found 
himself and his brave followers surrounded by six times their nismber« 

At one of chelate drill days of the Uxbridge volunteers, mn Uxbridge 
Common, the captain,, as usual, returned them thanks for their attention and 
good conduct. As ihey were about to quit the field, the scigeant major 
addressed theni as follows—*' Gentlemen> you will please to remember that 
you are to muster here ' the first Monday in each Qionth, qceept k should 
happen ta fall on a Sunday, 



At his scat at Arbiu^, Sir Roger Newdigatc, Bart, aged 88.— At Chelten- 
haiQj the Rev. Sir Richard Cope, Bart. — At his teat at Pyrland, Sir Wm. 
Yea, Bart. — Lidit. General Innes. 



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PROSE. 



Afainistnu'too of Justice 
ilrti, their Hbtonr . . 
'AthfMian Creed . . 
Avarice 



11 

168 

15 

S3 

94 



Beauty 

Bkwraphical Sketch of 

Mfb. Cowley • • • . 5 
Rev. Rich. Graves . . 76 
Right Hon. C. J. Fox, 147, 

Mr. Raymond . . 2Q1, 369 
Hennr Kirke White • . 294 
Mr. Bernard .... 131 
Mrs. Mathews . . . 363 f 
British Courage, the French 
Opinion of it . • . . 167 

Circumstantial Evidence . 13 
Civilized and Bacharous Na« 

tions 380 

Conferring and receiving 

Favours 383 

Cornish Borough, . . . 366 
Correspondence, 74, i46, 218, 

Cowperiana, No. XIII. . . 162 
CumDcrlan<fs Memoirs . . 7 

Dorncstic Events, 66, 136, 206, 

279, 357, 425 

Duelling ...... 238 

Dying Child 311 

Englishman's Cre^d ... 81 
Extracts from a Common 
Place Book 
No. III. Ossian's Poems 86 
No. IV. Scotish Mar- 
riages 219 



Extract from a Paper, never 
printed, on the Ganic», 
Exhibitions, and public 
Diversions of Spain . . S7S. 

FaHs of the Clyde— Trip 
thither from Glasgow . 29"?^ 

Highwayman, Anecdote of 
one ...... . 155 

Imperial Parliament . 66, 424 

Literature, its Advantages . 89^ 
Longevity of Musidans . .812 

Man in the Iron Mask . . 301 

Milton, Extracts from, re- 
lating to Music . ; 83, 304 

Miscellanea — No. I. Com- 
parative View of Super- 
stition in 16th and I9tti 
Centuries ..... 308; 
No. 11, Anecdote of Alex- 
ander the first, the pre- 
sent Emperor of Russia 372 

Modem Book -making . . 235, 

Naples — A Scene near the 
Royal Palace .... 151 

OhVer Cromwell, . . . 364 

Richardson, Professor . . ft 
Robber reformed .... 223 

Select Sentences . . 24, 312 

Talkers and Hearers ... 23 
Thomson's Seasons ... 93 
Thuriow, Lord, life and 
Character of . « . . 350 



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EEVIEW, 



Addressto the Bridsb Public ^7 
Admonitory Letter on the 
Subject of a late delicate 
Enquiry « » « . ,113 
Almon's JJetters of Junius . 37 

Battle of Armagiddon v . 323 
Bayford*s (Mrs.) Gleanings 

from Zimmermann ^ . 253 
Belgian Traveller • • . 400 
j^isbop of London's benefi- 
cial Effects . of Christi- 
anity OQ the temporal 
Concerns q{ Mankind . 401 
^itton*s Account of Cor- 

sham House • • • , 186 
Brookiana . .... . .328 

Srougham's Jlnquiiry into the 
Colonial Policy of the 
European Powers „ , 40 
Boirs (John) Soliloquies on 
the late Impeachment « 1 10 

Cayley's Life of Ralegh . . 329 
Claphara's Forty Sermons ^ 41 
darkens Naufragia . ^ . 254 
Claudio*8 Antidote to Poison 114 
Collection of Epitaphs . . 104 
Cromer, a descriptive Poem 187 



Dallas's Morlands : • • 

Dellinborough Castle, or the 
Mysterious Recluse . • 

Dialogue between Bona- 
parte and Talleyrand . 

Diamond cut Diamond . . 

Diamond new pointed . , 

Drawbarn's Young Person^s 
Assistant in reading the 
Old Testament • • . 

Dryden*s Virgil, new Edit, 
with Remarks on Dr. 
Carey's Corrections . . 



183 
400 

255 

109 
247 



328 



326 



Eccles' Merchant of Venice 258 
Elegy on the Death, of Mr* 
Foe 256 



Ferdinand and Amelia '• ,100 
Fireside Stories .... 39a 
Flim Flams, new Edit. . . 255 
Fortune *8 Foott)all . • ,119 
Foster's Essays , . . • 107 
Francises Speech respecting 

Foreign Property in tlte 

English Funds ... 25 
■■I — Speeches on the 

Mabratta War . . 97, 169 

Frederick Ill 

Freemasonry, History ^f * 112 
French Anas . • • . ^ 86 
Frost's Harper, and other 

Poems . . • ^ ^ • 35^ 

Gardiner's Sultana . . . 408 
Graves's (Rev. R.)Triflers . 18a 

Hails*8 Nugae Poetica . . 328 
Hamilton's (Miss M.) Forest 

of St. Bernard ... 18a 
Harris's Poems .... 183 
Hay ley's Supplementary 

Pages to Life of Cowper 33 
Helme's Pilgrim of the Cross 32^ 
Hill's (Rowland) Cow-Pock 

Inoculation vindicated . 398 
Hoare's Inquiry into the 
present State of the Arts 

m England 249^ 

Holland's (Lord) Life of 

Lope de Vega, 177, 241, 313 
Hook's Catch him who can 330 
Horace, translated by Fran- 
cis, revised by Pye . . 323 
Howe'^s Miscellaneous Po- 
edcal Translations • • 310^ 

Jefferys's Review of the 
Conduct of the Prince 

of Wales 301 

■ Letter to Mrs. Fitz- 
herbert 108 

Ipquiry into State of tha 
Nation 246 



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Xtfepm't Commercial • 

Phraseology • • . . 185 

TiBStMan 181 

Lf^rie and Whittle's New 

Traveller's Coqftpanioo . 954 
Lemons for Govemmetit • 067 
letter to a Coon try Gentle- 
man respecting Evange- 
lical Preachers . . • 319 
Latter to N. Jeflferjs ... 247 
liardet^ Case of the Hypo- 

choodnac explained . 396 
Lu£fauui*sNew Pocket Atlas 
and Geogra^hjr • • • 399 

Kalkia's Almahlde and Ii»- 

roct 48 

■^■» Father*s Memoirs of 

liis Child 956 

Hanners's Kdgar, a Tragedy 263 
Marcliffc's Looking Glass . 119 
«— Life of Lady Jane 

Grey 182 

Maurice*s FkUl of the Mogul 258 
Mayer's Peace with France, ' 

&c. ..,,,.. 327 
Measures and not Men . . 185 
Miseries of Human Life . 187 
Moileson^s Miscellanies . 318 
Hontague*s Citizen ... 39 
Montehore^s Bankrupt and 
Creditor's Friendly As^ 

sistant 408 

Moore*s Epistles, &c. . . 182 
More Miseries . . • • , 324 

Nevman's New Dictionary 
of Spanish and English 
Langui^e • . • . » 324 

New Dunciad 254 

Nicol's Poems 112 

Nutt's Confectioner . . . 39 

OdelL's Essay on the Ele- 
ments, Accents, and 
Prosody of the English 
Language . • • • • 395 



Pilkioirton's (Mrs.) Violet 
Vale ....... 40a 

Pinkard's Notes on the West 
Indies — A second Re- 
view . . . . ^ . . 251 

Pocket Chronologist . . • 106 

Post Captain 

Present State of Peru . . 325 
Prince's Dfe and Opinions . 11^ 

Raymond's Life of Dermody 402 
Reflections on Mr. Wind- 
ham's Plan for Improve- 
ment of the Army • . 35 
Report on the Trial oi Lord 

MelTille 183 

Rhymes Ibr the Nursery . 25S 
Rice's (Mrs.) Monteith . . 399 
Rickmao's Corruption, a 
Satire 250 

Sanotv's Causes of the French 

RerolutioR .... 399 
Scott's Lay of the Last Min- 
strel 385 

Ballad and Lyrietd 

Pieces 401 

Secret History of St. Cloud »50 
Sermon on the General Fast 161 
Sim's Works of Mickie . 189 
Sir Christ. IJatton^s Ghost . lOB 
Smith's Rudiments of Reason 25d) 
Surr's Winter in London . ISt 

Taylor's Plato lift 

Taylor's (Dr.) Renuirks on 

Sea Water 25«^ 

Three Old Maids of the 

House of Penruddock . 256 
Ticken's Practical English 

Grammar 106 

Toogood's Seventh Day a 

Day of Rest .... 112 
Torrio-Whipgo-Machia . . 18a 
Trial of H.Stanton, Esq. . 184 

Vaccinia, or Triumph of 

Beauty • 39ft 

Ulm and Trafalgar . . . 3<* 



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"Walk through Leeds . , . 318 
We fly by Night, a Farcse . S30 

'Wood Nymph 319 

Wooll's 'Memoirs of War- 
ton ...• v ,. 319 
Word or two, or Architec- 
tural Hints . . . .185 



Worsley's A coount of Franoe 
foatheiast three Years 18li 

Young Lady's Assistant in 
writing French Letters . 189 

Young*8 Memoirs of Mrs. • 
Crouch ... . . . . l8l 



STAGE. 



Adrian and Orilla, a l^lay, 
by Mr.Dimond, . . , 346 

American Stage — 

Biographical Sketch of 
Mr. Bernard, , . 131,300. 

Anecdotes of the French 
Stage, 43, 125, 190, 333, 412 



Bannister, Mr* 
Bellamy, Mr. 
Bolton, Miss,^^ 



, . 274 
275, 345 
275, 345 



Carter, Mr 276 

Catalani, Signora, . . * . 276 

Chapman, Mr 59 

Cooke, Mr. 274 

Coriolanus, revived at Co- 
vent Garden, . . ... 346 

De Camp, Mr. . . . 59,257 

Dermody*s Remarks on the 
Drama, 190 

Deserts of Arabia; ^ Spec- 
tacle by Mr. Reynolds, . 347 

Drama, Remarks on its pre- 
sent State, by B. H. Mai- 
kin, Esq 45 

Dramatic Essayist, No. 

XIV. Origin of Dramatic 
Composition, . . . .331 

r No. 

XV. a Comparison of 
the Merits • of Dryden 
and Pope, by Dr. Beat- 
tie, 409 

Prnmatic Simplicity of Sen- 
timent and Diction, by 
T. Dermody, .... 120 



Eyre, Mr. . •' . . . . QT^ 

Faw^ett, Mr, . • • • . 4iS 
Finger Post, a Comedy, by 

Mr.T. Dibdin, . . • 58 
Footc, Anecdotes of, . . <334 
Forbes, Mrs. ....,, 27« 

Garrick, Anecdote of him, 19T 
Grove, Mr. ...... 49 

Hatton, Mr TO 

Humours of tin Election rc- 
vived, ...... S^S 

IncledOB, Mr^ * . . . 27S 

Kemble, Mr. Coriolanut, • 'S4fi 

Mr. S 274 

— Mr.C 34r 

Mrs. C 274 



Liston, Mr. 
Logan, Miss, 



59 
27» 



Makin, Mrs. . . « . • 274 
Mara, Mr, ...,,, 27S 

Mathews, Mr, 59 

Melvin, Mr. . 274, 275, 34S 
Memoranda Dramatica— 

Haymarket, . 58, 129, 198 
Drwy Lane, 275, ^47, 42(^ 
Covent Garden, 273, 345, 421 
King's Theatre, 60,129,271 
New Royal Circus, 61, 130, 
198, 277 
Olympic Pavillion, 109, 277, 



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IXVCX TO nn TW£RTY«SEeOB]> TOLUIHv 



RoTAlty Theatre, . 278,348 
. Astie/s, • « 01,liO,199 
Sadler's Wells; ... 61 
Aref II Rooms Masq. • • flO 
Vauxhall, . 62, 151, 199 
If ilicaiy Tbeatncals, (Ckm^ 

mcU) 279 

MoiiDtmn, Mrs. . . 376, «47 

Penley,Mr 276 

Pope,Mr 274 

PoweU,Mrs. 59 

ProvibcJtU Dmmtf— * 

Richmond, .... 62 

eUSgow, -62; 64, 135, 203, 

204 

lavemttss^ 64 

Nonnrit^h, • • ^ 65, 350 
Sunderland, • • . . 133 



Manchester^ « * . . 135 
Binsinghatn,'. . • • 202 

Sheffield, 203 

Bury St. Edmunds, • • 279 
North Shields, . . . 340 
Edinbuigh, .... 433 

Rae, Mr. •...,. 59 

Siddons, Mrs. . . • . 274 
Smalley, Master, .... 275 
Smith, Miss, • . • » • 347 

Tek^li, a Melo-drMna, by 
Mr. T, Hook, • . . 348 

Vindictive Man, a Comedy, 

by Mr. Holcroft, . . 84t 
Young, Mrs. C. « . • . 60 



129 

336 
270 
195 



vAddress to ati Inmate^ • • 
spoken by Mr* Lew>- 
if, on bis taking a 6nal 
leave of ' the Dublin 
Stage, . , • • » • • 
■ — to the* British Chan- 
> nel, by R. BlopmfieId> . 
Angler^s Regret, « . ... 
Bon Joir la Compagnie, « 
Butterfly's )3all, and Grass- 
hopper's ("east, by Mr. 
Roscoe^ . . • . « 344 
Debtor's Soliloquy in Prison, 57 
Description o( a Connoisseur's 

Room, . . . » « 417 
Elegy on tt. K, White, . 414 
Euphroniai by £. H. Sey- 
mour, •..,., 338 
Friendship renewed, . . 268 
Lines on seeing some Pieces 
of AifMOur at Shaw 
Place, the Seat of Sir Jo- . 
seph Andrews, • . . 54 
^'— to a Lady, ^ . . . * 127 
I "- by Mr. Park, written 

on the Pier at Dover, • 196 
Moon, Ode to the,' ... 51 



POETRY. 



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Ode on the Anniversary of 

• Lord Nelson's Victory, . 27ifr 
Paraphrase on an Epigram 

by Guarini, • *. . • 271 
Pvody„ ....... 197 

Prologue to Adrian andOrrila 41S 

toMr. H • 416 

RosQ-bud, .56 

Setting Sun, Address to the, 52 
Song,. .... V . ^ 269 
^1 * on the Wreck of a 

Slave Ship . . . . . «7« 
Sonnet on H. K. White, by 

C. Lofft, Esq. ... v>58r 
— -^ — on leaving a Co.un*" 

try Re§id^Dc^, * - . 19B 

to Good Nature, . 2^ 

— -— — on Charles James 

Fox> 273 

Stanzas on -the Close of the 

IftteYeajv * * - • • ^28 
Verses on reacting the wan- 
derer of Switzerland . 192 
«on the Death of Mrs. 

Mary N . ♦ . .194 

WoUnded Soldier, , , .271 



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