dered as displaying an utter want of principle; and the author thinks that the political satirist ought not to be idle, when he sees an opposition so disturbed and its parts so badly cast that persons, who have been secretaries at war, oppose the recruiting of the militia; secretaries of state, attack state papers and negotiations; and chancellors of the exchequer, the taxes.' After having entered a virtuous protest against the new heresy of indifference to measures and partiality to men; after having lashed a party which he describes as having arisen without even the pretence of some public principle, or national object, to disguise the nakedness of its ambition; the author patriotically recommends the sacrifice of private rivalries and party hatreds on the altar of our country;—and he expresses an ardent wish that in this fearful crisis we may have no other cause, no other interest, but that of our country; that we contend not for patrons but for duties, not for parties but for the state." In the name of the public, we thank him for this seasonable and salutary advice. Art. 27. Brief Memoirs of the Right Honourable Henry Addington's Administration, through the first fifteen Months from its Commencement. 8vo. Pp. 255. 6s. Boards. Cadell and Davies. 1802. These papers are drawn up in a style of warm panegyric; and the reason which has induced the author to term them memoirs of the individual, rather than those of the period, we apprehend to be a consciousness that he assigns to him nearly the whole canvass, while he exhibits the other figures as reduced in the extreme; we mean the other members of administration, the several authorities of the state, and great public functionaries. In this narrative, whatever has happened during the ministry of Mr. Addington, springs from his mind and hand. In the victory of the North, in the atchievements in Egypt, in the preliminaries of London, and in the peace of Amiens, it is the premier alone that we behold. However favourable the contents of this chapter may have been to the object of the panegyrist, we suspect that, if the author proceed to a second chapter, he will find his topics less favourable to his views. Whether the minister can be justified in those pacific declarations which induced mercantile and monied men to take steps that have occasioned incalculable losses and inconveniences; whether a peace made in a different tone would not have been more durable; and whether, if the conduct of the British government had been throughout more skiiful, manly, and firm, a rupture might have been avoided; are questions which, if now of little public utility, press strongly on the attention of the assertor of Mr. Addington's superior ministerial qualifications. The following is the author's sketch of the man whom he deems proper to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation (here styled voluntary) of Mr. Pitt; and which, we believe, is a portrait intended for the present premier: The new minister should be a man of understanding, clear and perspicacious; of information, enlarged and general; of habits, indus trious and attentive; of disposition, inclined to conciliate; of experience in political concerns and in mankind, collected through many years of accurate observation; of insight into the causes and acquaintance with the conduct of the war, complete and perfect; of principles, upright and honourable; of attachment to the British constitution, tried, unshaken, ardent, zealous; of resolution, originating in conviction of what is right, and in determination to follow it so far as might be practicable; yet tempered with such prudence as to discern where departure from previously formed judgment might not only be allowable, but even salutary. Such was the Minister the times required.' Of the memoirs themselves, the author has given this account: They were begun in the Spring of the year eighteen hundred and one. They are regularly continued from that commencment, to their final conclusion. They profess nothing more than to register, and frequently in the very words of the most respectable public papers, facts of general notoriety and universal credit throughout the nation. The circumstances, however, which they do relate, were all recorded while still recent. The remarks also occasionally interspersed, are those, which suggested themselves, either at the very times when the several occurrences successively and respectively happened; or at periods which, if subsequent, were yet not distant from them any long interval. In all their parts, therefore, these Memoirs are contemporary with the persons concerned, and the affairs transacted.' A work of this nature, impartially drawn up, and confined principally to facts, continued at intervals of moderate length, would be convenient, and would probably meet with encouragement. Art. 28. Substance of the Speech of the Hon. Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons, on 24th May, 1803, on the Renewal of the War between Great Britain and France: Together with a brief Summary of the Proceedings on 27th May, on his Motion to address His Majesty to accept the Mediation of the Emperor of Russia. 8vo. pp. 120. 38. 6d. Debrett. The public fully recollect the merits of this speech, the attention which it excited, and the fate which it sustained. It is here reported by an editor apparently of some talents and discernment, but who explicitly admits that Mr. Fox neither authorizes the present publication, nor has seen the manuscript, or any part of it.' We cannot vouch for its accuracy, but the speech is detailed at considerable length, occupying nearly an hundred pages; and it will be read with much interest by all politicians, though the moment for its operation has passed away. TRAVELS, &c. 12mo. Art. 29. A Guide to all the Watering and Sea Bathing Places; with Ff3 afford afford useful information to tourists. The editor says that 'in pursuit of amusement, relaxation, or health, he has been repeatedly induced to visit most of the places described, and, having made his observations on the spot, he trusts his descriptions will be found as correct as the fleeting nature of fashion will allow.' He also adds that proof sheets have been sent to the principal places, and submitted to the revision of intelligent friends; that an incredible number of miscellaneous publications have been consulted; and that in no instance has the last edition of the various local guides been neglected.' The different places are inserted alphabetically, which method affords the most casy reference; and the maps, plans, and views, are very convenient illustrations. The whole forms an acceptable and instructive companion in summer excursions. Art. 30. A new and accurate Description of all the Direct and principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, and Part of the Roads of Scotland: With correct Routes of the Mail Coaches; and a great Variety of new Admeasurements. Also a Table of the Heights of Mountains and other Eminences, from the Grand Trigonometrical Survey of the Kingdom, under the Direction of Major Mudge; &c. &c. The whole greatly augmented and improved by the Assistance of Francis Freeling, Esq., Secretary to the Post Office, and of the Surveyors of the Provincial Districts. By Lieut. Colonel Paterson, Assistant Quarter Master General of His Majesty's Forces. The 13th Edition. 8vo. 7s. 6d. Boards. Longman and Co. The standard reputation of this work needs no comment from us; and we have only to inform our readers that the present edition has been re-composed and re-arranged from the beginning to the end, and has received every degree of correction and improvement which it bas been in the power of the proprietors to bestow, aided by the best authority and opportunities. Art. 31. POETIC and DRAMATIC. The Shield of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. A Poem. By P. W. Dwyer. 4to. 28. 6d. Ginger, 1803. A few specimens of Mr. Dwyer's poetical talents will render it unnecessary for us to trouble the reader with any criticisms on them : Arise my Muse and touch the tuneful Lyre, The Campaign in Egypt, all Nations know, Thy Gen'rals has shewn can vanquish our Foe, There There Abercromby for his Country bled, • In the sound reas'ning of a Pitt we find, By extensive knowledge and Judgment great, Can tell the cause from whence proceeds the pain, When we read such productions as this, and some others that have lately come before us under the denomination of poems, we feel almost disheartened at the little effect which the long exercise of our critical functions seems to have produced. We should have hoped that, at this time of day, it would have been difficult to find a journeyman in any printing-house (at least in London), who would not remonstrate against being employed in composing such libels on the laws of Apollo. Art. 32. The Triumph of Poesy: A Poem. By J. C. Hubbard, A.M. 4to. 28. Nicol. When an author executes a small undertaking with success, it is natural to wish that he had extended his plan. Such was the sentiment which the perusal of this little poem inspired. Why has the writer of these elegant stanzas confined himself within such narrow bounds? In singing the Triumphs of Poesy, a wide field lay before him; with a long list of bards, each of whom demanded from him appropriate praise: but Mr. Hubbard informs us that his design was merely to introduce a few of the most eminent Greek, Latin, and English Poets; without adverting to the Italian school and to the Drama.' We must remark that such a design is very imperfect; that it is not adapted to the title of the poem; and that it is therefore calculated to produce disappointment. Though the omission of Ariosto, Tasso, and other names dear to the Italian muse, may be tolerated; can the English reader, in a work which professes to record the Triumphs of Poesy, endure to have the name of our great Shakspeare left in oblivion? or, when Lord Lyttelton's poetic talent is distinctly noticed, that the elegiac Gray, some of whose compositions stand unrivalled in English verse, should be forgotten?-Mr. H. makes an apology for his anachronism respecting Milton, and we suppose that therefore we must ad mit it, though we must confess that we do not perceive the necessity for the deviation. The sublimity of Gray or Young, forcibly deli neated, might have made no unsuitable finale: but authors will yield to their own impressions. As Mr. Hubbard has reserved his description of Milton for his bonne bouche, we shall extract three or four stanzas from this part of the poem: Smit with a theme, beyond the Aonian lore, Where the rapt Seraph tunes his golden lyre, When first her atoms glow'd beneath the Omnific Word! Borne on the expansion of his wing sublime, Afar, his coming, power divine proclaims! The rapid fury of his burning wheels ; In every orb instinctive spirit lives, And round its fiery indignation deals; The rendering lightnings glare above, below, And in their hearts infix the avenging shafts of woe! Confounded, flying from his wasteful ire, Headlong they plunge into the dark profound- Dire seats of infinite despair! that lie Far from the dawn of Hope, and day's refulgent eye!' In p. 14. the author alludes to Pope's residence as in wale,' when he should have written in Twick'nham's vale. If a second Hampton's edition should be required, we recommend to him the enlargement of his plan, and the correction of some of his rhymes. Art. 33. Broad Grins; by George Colman, the Younger; comprising, with new additional Tales in Verse, those formerly published under the Title of "My Night-Gown and Slippers." Crown 8vo. 58. Boards. Cadell and Davies. 1802. We paid our tribute to the powers of this merry bard, on the appearance of the former publication announced in his title-page. (See Rev. vol. xxiii. N. S. p.106). The two additional tales are, the Knight and the Friar, an old story, which Mr. Colman has enlarged beyond its natural dimensions, and the Elder Brother, which possesses considerable comic effect. It would be unfair to plunder the hive, but we cannot forbear from making one extract from this story. The |