"Little more remains to add, than that the House having become very clamorous for a divifion, at half past three the question, on the amendment being put, the motion was rejected by a majority of 261 to 148. Tellers for the ayes, Mr. T. Tnd and Mr. B―ng;. for the noes, Sir G-y Cr and Mr. C- T-nd. The main queftion being then put, the original addrefs was carried in nearly the fame proportion.

"Immediately after the divifion, the H-e were much astonished at Mr. Cs T-rn-r's calling their attention to a most libellous, nefarious, and enormous pamphlet, entitled Anticipation, calcu lated to mifreprefent the debates, and vilify the proceedings of Pt; obferving, that the publication of honourable gentleman's fpeeches before they could poffibly have been fpoken, was in finitely more dangerous to the conftitution than miftaking them after they had actually been delivered; as not only the public were thereby much more likely to be deceived, but many country gentlemen were moft illegally hurried up to town before the time, to the great annoyance of themfelves and cattle. Befides, what ftruck at the very heart-ftrings of debate, many good fpeeches were marred thereby, and honourable gentlemen ftopt from repeating their own words, left they fhould authenticate the faid publication.

"For all which reafons, he humbly moved, that the publisher of a pamphlet, entitled, Anticipation, be immediately taken into cuftody by a meffenger of this Houfe, together with all papers in his fhops and ware-houses, in order that this Houfe may be enabled to difcover the author or authors of this very black confpiracy. He moved alfo, that the feveral ftatutes against forgery, coining, and uttering, knowing to be falfe, foreftallers, and regraters, &c. &c. be forthwith all read. And further-But, the laughter having now become intenfe, the remnant of his oratory was cut fhort by a moft clamorous repetition of Adjourn, Adjourn; fo that it was impoffible for the editor to collect the refult of this important mo

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"And then the Houfe adjourned till the morning, nine of the clock."

Letters from Henrietta to Morvina. Interfperfed with Anecdotes, hiftorical and amusing, of the different Courts and Countries through which the paffed. Founded on Facts. 2 Vols. 12mo. 55. fewed. Bew.

The epiftolary correfpondence of a young lady with her fifter; in which the letter-writer defcribes feveral characters, and relates fome interefting anecdotes in a very pleafing and agreeable manner; interfperfing occafionally fuch general fentiments and obfervations as do honour both to the head and heart of the writer.---Among others, we meet VOL. VIII.

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with the following anecdote, relative to that extraordinary character, Czar Peter; which, though not now firft divulged, has been little known; and will, therefore, we doubt not, be acceptable to our readers.

"Not to weary you out with convent anecdotes, I send you one of a court; no lefs a court than that of Ruffia, and of no lefs a man than the emperor, Peter the First, fo defervedly tiled the Great. You fhall have it fans preface, which almost always tries the patience, and fatigues the mind fo, as to leave little relish for the fory. That it is a fact, is all that I will now fay; my comments on, and how I came by it, fhall follow. Know then, this prince, fo fuperior to every other weaknefs, fo unconquerable in arms, was by no means a proof against the tender paffions, and received a wound from the bright eyes of the daughter of an officer in his army, above the power of art to heal, or the force of his refolution to fuftain with that dignity, that fortitude, which had hitherto fo peculiarly marked the character of this extraordinary man, throughout every fcene of action. She was young, perfectly beautiful, and along with it all, carried the appearance of virtue, which, the emperor has frequently declared, served more effectually to complets her conqueft, than all the other agréemens fhe poffeffed: fo unaccountably are we made, faid be, I could not help adoring that virtue, at the fame inftant I wifhed, and tried, by every warrantable means to undermine it. But long, alas! were all his efforts vain." Not Prior's Egyptian flave received her eastern monarch with more hauteur, or feemed more refolutely bent to mortify bis pride, and to make him feel how feeble, how vague, all human greatness, when we prefume on fecuring our happinefs by it, even in this gew-gaw world, and fuffer it to lead us beyond reafon's limits. He had indeed no rival (declared at least) to baffle his hopes. Time and perfeverance, he flattered himself, might in love, as in war (he had frequently experienced) furmount all difficulties, and in the end give him poffeflion of that heart, which only had power to fet his at eafe. He first attacked her vanity, believing, with the generality of mankind, that the ruling paffion in a female mind; bút although he offered every Tacrifice to her's, within the utmost extent of his power, (to marry her was not in his power) he had the mortification, after fome months clofe fiege, to find himself juft where he began. He next attacked her avarice, to the full as unfuccefsfully. In fhort, he tried her on all fides; left no paffion unflattered the human mind is heir to. At length, when be, from frequent repulfes, very rarely the lot of princes, was reduced to defpair, and upon the very verge of leaving her, the yielded; at the fame time alluring him, the combats fhe had fo long fustained between virtue, modeity, and her paffion for him (which had all along equalled that his majefty had fo honourably, nay, amply, manifetted towards her) had produced infinitely forer conflicts in her mind, than even Peter the Great ever had to encounter. But if her tufferings fhould happily enhance the value of an honest, though 3. humble

humble heart, in the eyes of her adored monarch, the must ever reflect on them with the highest gratification; that instead of idly attempting to exprefs fentiments fo far above above the reach of words, he begged leave to refer his majefty to her future conduct, for proofs of the gratitude and tenderness of an heart whose greatest glory, and warmest wifh, was to render itfelf worthy its poffeffor. All this the emperor implicitly believed, and held himself the happiest of mortals; that a life of abject flavery would but ill pay the value of a jewel fo ineftimable. Thus apparently they loved, and lived together in perfect union for fome years, till time and chance, the great difclofer of human events, fhewed the emperor, beyond all poffibility of doubt, the dupe her artifice had made of him, or more probably, the rectitude and nobleness of his own mind; for, convinced am I, a good heart will often betray the best head in the world into weakneffes that would be barely pardonable in a driveller. The emperor was ever ornamenting and improving Petersburgh; had built a fortrefs in the fea, which he defigned for prifoners of state. No fooner was it finiflied, than he gave a fu perb entertainment there to all the foreign minifters then refident at his court, and to many of his own nobility. Both at and after din per the glafs was pufhed about brifkly, confequently the whole company in fpirits. In coming out to take boat, the Polish minister, by fome untoward, and for him fatal, accident, fell over the bridge, and was drowned, notwithstanding every effort ufed to fave him. The emperor expreffed infinite concern at the accident, and the inefficacy of all the remedies which had been inftantly administered; then, turning to the rest of the company, he faid, all papers, he thought, fhould be deemed facred; and defired all the minifters there would be prefent at the taking the papers out of this unhappy man's pockets, and fet their feals upon them, along with his own. In fearching for papers, fomething fell on the floor; the emperor, himself stooped and took it up; to his aftonishment and confufion, it proved to be a picture of the lady who had fo long and fo unworthily engroffed his heart, nay, his very foul; who, if he ever fuffered a pang about, it proceeded from the reflection of having feduced fuch inflexible fuch untainted virtue and honour. Is it wonderful, then, his majefty fhould be curious to pry further? Surely no. On observing several letters, these, faid he, contain no ftate affairs, and opened them, read one or two, and took the remainder of that parcel, ordering the rest of the papers to be carefully fealed up, left the company, went into his barge, and the mo ment he landed fet off poft for Moscow, where he left the mistress of his heart. He arrived there in an incredible short space of time, went directly to the house of a lady who was a friend to them both, and ordered her to fend for his mistress to meet him there inftantly. She obeyed, though much furprised to fee the emperor fo unexpectedly, and with every mark of horror, rage, and despair, vifibly painted in his countenance. The moment the lady arrived, with much warmth he asked her how the came to write to the Polish minister? She at first denied ever having written to him ; on which

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his majefty produced the packet of letters taken our of that minifter's pocket, all of her writing, and in the common stile of fondnefs; informing her likewife how they fell into his hands, and of the unfortunate end of his rival. Not having heard of his death till that moment, forgetting, or at least regardless of alf danger, fhe delivered herself up to grief, to paffion; burst into tears and woeful lamentations for the lofs of all her heart held dear; while the emperor, in a storm of rage, reproached her, as he had but too just caufe, with falfehood, ingratitude, and every vice that degrades and finks humanity; when, to the amazement of all prefent, he on a fudden became calm as poffible, and turning towards her, faid, Madam, I too well, too poignantly feel, how hard it is for those who conquer others to conquer themfelves; 'tis there true glory lies, above all in love: fenfible as I am of the unfair, injurious treatment, offered by you, in return for an excefs of fondness, an unlimited confidence, an esteem you never merited from me, I cannot hate you; but to continue to live with you, muft render me contemptible in the eyes of the whole world, and, what is ftill more painful to endure, in my own eyes. You fhall never want the comforts wealth can give, if there are any for one fo fhamefully loft, abandoned to every fenfe of virtue; but determined am I něvértő fee you more. He kept his word with her; and as violent paffions which have neither honour nor honefty for their bafis foon fubfide, fhe confented to marry an officer in the Ruffian fervice, to whom the emperor was always exceedingly good, but continued him in fome profitable employment far diftant from the court. This great man, you fee, though by no means proof against love, was proof against the follies of it. The beauties of his mistrefs had indeed power to make him fo far forget his rank, the dignity of his fitua tion, as to kneel, implore, and fupplicate his fubject; but nothing could make him court vice, though couched beneath the form of an angel, or cheriff a ferpent in his bofom."

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To this pamphlet is prefixed the following preface. "The following obfervations are extracted from the London Re view, for September laft: being taken from the account of a pam phlet, lately published, entitled, An Appeal to the Public on the Right of using Oil cement, or Compofition for Stucco, Ece

"The editor makes no apology to the Reviewers, for thus republishing their obfervations, as none of their pamphlet is now to be had. Were it otherwife, indeed, he might plead their own example of making what extracts they pleafe from other wri

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ters, and fometimes of reprinting their whole performance, when it is to ferve the purpofe of Meffrs. the Reviewers.

"After their example, alfo, the editor has fubjoined his own remarks ;* in which he has corrected their errors, and perhaps improved fome of their obfervations, though in a stile less claffical and critical the candid reader, however, will make proper allowance for this; obferving a due diftinction between the hand, accustomed to brandifh the goofe-quill, and that to which the implements of the brush and trowel are more familiar.

* Printed in Italics at the bottom of the page.

The additional remarks of our practical plaisterer are, however fhrewd, farcaftic, and ingenious.

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A mere copy, tho' apparently a faithful one, of what the learned council and more learned judge, delivered in court, on this very extraordinary trial.

Narciffus; or the Young Man's Entertaining Mirror: containing a humorous Defcant on Manners. Taken from the Spanish Galateo of Don Lucas Gracian de Antifco, and adapted to the Manners of the British Nation, by. C. Wifeman N. P. S. T. 12mo. 2s. 6d. fewed. Bew.

We do not well underftand what Mr. Wifeman, N. P. S. T. means by his humourous defcant on manners. Don Luças Gratian's tract is a fenfible and pertinent discourse; but in our opinion, hath but little of what Englishmen call humour in it. And if it had, we conceive it required a more humourous pen than that of Mr. Wifeman's, to adapt it to the manners of the British nation, of whofe language Mr. W does not appear to be a perfect mafter.

The Hiftory of the Holy Bible, as contained in the facred Scriptures of the old and new Teftaments. Attempted in eafy Verfe. With occafional Notes. By John Fellows. 4 vol. fmall 8vo. 8s.

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