unworthy portion; the generous Anacharfis reftores him to freedom, and requests alone the enjoyment of his friendship. They fet out together in the latter end of the first year of the 104th olympiad, about 363 years before the birth of our Saviour.

ART. 17. Letters chiefly from India; containing an Account of the Military Transactions on the Coaft of Malabar, during the late War; together with a fhort Defcription of the Religion, Manners, and Culloms, of the Inhabitants of Indoftan. By John Le Couteur, Efq. Captain in his Majefty's 100th Regiment of Foot. Tranflated from the French. 8vo. 6s. boards. Murray. London, 1790.

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HE performance before us is the work of a lively and agreeable writer, who appears to have given an impartial and faithful narrative of the principal occurrences of the last war in India.

He was himself an actor in most of the scenes he has described; and, if we may judge from the propriety of his remarks on the conduct of the different commanders by fea and land, he was not unqualified to have produced fomething more than an hiftorical epitome.

Befide the narrative of military and political transactions, the author has enriched his little work with entertaining accounts of the natural curiofities, religious rites, and other peculiarities of the different countries he had the opportunity of seeing, during his abfence from home on his military duty; thefe are, we believe, the refult of his own obfervation, and though not very full, are fufficient to give a good general idea of those subjects, at the fame time that it will afford confiderable amufement to the reader.

The letters, however, are not entirely free from fault; there are luxuriancies to prune, and deficiencies to fupply; but our want of room cbliges us to poftpone the further examination of the work till next month.

ART. 18. A Fifteen Days Tour to Paris; containing Several interefting Circumstances, particularly the Origin and Progress of the prefent Revolution, and confufed Situation of that Country; including the Mode now adopted of Paying Bills at the Paris Bank, &c. 8vo. 2s. Kearfley. London, 1789.

The excurfion made by this traveller was fhort, but he has doubtlefs employed it to the best advantage. He went by Dover and CaJais, and returned by Dieppe and Brighthelmftone. Of all the moft noted places through which he paffed in this route, he gives a general defcription; but the greater part of his obfervations relates to the French capital; where having feen the king, the queen, and a few other eminent perfonages, he delivers a tranfient account of them. The defcription of the Bafille, which is annexed, appears to be drawn with fidelity.

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ART. 19. The Harp; a Legendary Tale, in Two Parts. 4to. 1s. 6d. Johnfon. London, 1789.

This performance would be entitled to praise were it the first production of either a boy or girl. If it comes from the hands of a veteran, we can only with he had been better employed; to pray for the amendment of a poet at a mature age, would both be idle and ineffectual.

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ART. 20. The Blunders of Loyalty, and other Mifcellaneous Poems; being a Selection of certain ancient Poems, partly on Subjects of local Hiftory. Together with the original Notes and Illufirations. The Poems modernifed by Ferdinand Fungus, Gent. 4to. 2s. 6d. Murray. London, 1789.

We are of opinion that the talents of Mr. Fungus for the fpecies of wit at which he aims ftand in no need of thofe uncouth and obfcure artifices of which he avails himself.

There is much keen fatire in these verses. But the object of ridicule being local, remote, and not general, the performance we apprehend cannot be in general demand. The author should felect a fubject for exercising his talents upon not liable to this objection.

ART. 21. The Tempeft; or, The Enchanted Island. Written by Shake Speare. With Additions from Dryden, as compiled by J. P. Kemble, and firft acted at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane, Oct. 13, 1789. 8vo. rs. Debrett. London, 1789.

We do not much admire this mode of jumbling our best authors into one heterogeneous mafs. The public taste ought to be formed and led by good writers; but Mr. Kemble fets the example of accommodating them to the fashion of the times. However fuch management may anfwer the purposes of the treafury in Old Drury, we fhould be forry to fee it adopted by the editors of our dramatic poets. Let not their beauties be thus mangled and deformed to gratify the faftidious taste, the intereft, or the vanity, of any, who, having no tenderness for their fame, wantonly sacrifice it to pecuniary confiderations.

ART. 22. A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Parr; occafioned by his Republication of Tracts by Warburton and a Warburtonian. 8vo. Is. Robson and Clarke. London, 1789.

The obvious and avowed purpose of this Letter is to expose what the writer deems the real motives of the republication referred to in the title, and pretty generally afcribed to the Rev. Dr. Parr. The only oftenfible reafons ftated by the editor for a new edition of the tracts mentioned, are, that thofe of a Warburtonian are scarce, and abandoned of their author; that fome compenfation to the Doctors Jortin and Leland was neceffary; and that fome juvenile pieces of the late celebrated author of the Diving Legation merited prefervation. These the Letter writer alleges are mere pretenfions, and roundly afferts that the learned editor had no higher motive for engaging in the prefent undertaking than a Arong propensity to abuse

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the Bishop of Worcester. Prefuming the offended state of the Doctor's mind to be fatisfactorily established, a variety of ingenious conjectures are hazarded to account, in fome degree, for the fact. The Letter is dictated with much severity, retaliates on the Doctor his own charges, with fome addrefs, and is fometimes very fuccefsful in raifing a laugh. The author can affume a tone, however, not deftitute of dignity when he chufes to be ferious. The following is an extract of this fort. We pretend not to give any opinion of its justice or aptitude in the prefent difpute, but it is written in a manner which discovers abilities. The most acceptable service, Sir, which you could poffibly have had it in your power to perform, for 'the memory of thofe refpectable characters whofe caufe you affect to take up, was to have fuffered the Tracts to have remained in that ftate of oblivion in which you found them. For it seems hardly confiftent with the regard you exprefs to felect these from among your fcarce and forgotten Tracts, and an act little short of piracy, to tear open the wounds afresh which the more friendly memory of the public had fo kindly healed.

There can be no doubt. Sir, but all the learned difputants concerned in this controversy give a common and a generous consent to the quiefcence of the fubject. In the ftrength and vigour of intellect, men of learning and ability feize the opportunities that offer for difplaying them; and, in the cause of what they deem the truth, they are anxious, and fometimes even angry, in the ftruggle. The hand of time, however, foftens and quiets the difpofition for combat, and even for victory. The fermentations of difpute, like the groffer particles in the compofition, fink gradually to reft, under the mild and clearer influence of religion and philofophy. That this, Sir, was the defirable iffue of the prefent controverfy, and that all the diftinguished characters concerned in it, before they were feparated by the great determiner of all questions, regarded each other with mutual refpect, as fcholars, as men, and as Chriftians, there cannot be the leaft doubt.

Little thanks, therefore, are due to him, who, to gratify his own fpleen and malignity, plunges it into the regions of oblivion, and, with a ruffian violence, drags forth a repofing spirit of conterition into new agitation and tumult.'

In a fubfequent part of the Letter the merits and views of the editor are thus boldly appreciated:

When the reader has gone through the whole of your publication (impreffed as he most probably is with previous refpect and veneration for the eminent prelate to whom the Tracts are dedicated), he is in fome anxiety to account for that profufion of abuse which he finds in your dedication and preface; as, in progrefs, he has difcovered no juft provocation for it. He perceives the carcity of the tracts to be none, the supposed desertion of the author could be none; for what is it to Dr. P. or to any one elfe, whether the author chufes ́to acknowledge them or not? The caufe could not be the defence of Fortin and Leland; for the abufe of the Letter Writer is no defence of them; and befides, he is informed that the Letter Writer is demolished," and the public had forgotten the letters. At laft, however, upon caft

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ing back he smells the rat, where he lies lurking in a sentence or two at page 156, and in the note at page 109. I leave it to the reader's difcernment to take the vermin by this direction.'

We add, without taking any fide in the controverfy, that Dr. Parr has roused an able antagonist; and the Bishop found an apt and well informed apologist.

ART. 23. Alfred's Appeal. Containing his Addrefs to the Court of King's Bench on the Subject of the Marriage of Mary Anne Fitzherbert, and her Intrigue with Count Bellois. 8vo. 2s. London.

Here is no contemptible share of genius, affociated, however, with much blameable indifcretion. Oppreffion, as the proverb has it, makes a wife man mad, and mad men often fpeak truth. But what fhall we fay of the counfel and his client; the jury who tried the caufe, and the court in which it was tried, if the reprefentation which this pamphlet gives be a fair one. We refpect the ardour and the abilities which Alfred difplays in this fpirited appeal, It exhibits at the fame time fuch fermentation of mind and intemperance of thought, fuch wildnefs and bitterness of expreffion, added to extravagance, which even the fufferings of the author will hardly justify.

It happens in this, as it does in many other cafes, Alfred expects every allowance to be made for what he feels, but is rather fparing of the fame indulgence to the feelings of thofe who managed the profecution. He must know that the arrogance or infolence of office is proverbial, and he was wanting to himfelf in difcovering any furprise from contumelious treatment. To expect the polifhed civilities of a drawing-room in a court of juftice, under a profecution for a libel, and after setting, in his own conduct, an example of grofs indelicacy to individuals of the highest rank in life, to fay the least of it betrays extreme weakness, and but a fuperficial knowledge of the world and human nature. The counsel's crimination, with all the colourings of a fervid elocution, was profeffional; his recrimination, full of afperity and invective as it was and highly inflammatory as he meant it should be, was alfo natural. But if the counfel, in his treatment of Alfred, wanted the complaifance of a gentleman, the replication of Alfred had neither the patience nor the composure of a christian. The counfel, feeling for his client, entered on the study of his brief under the impreffion that the defendant had forfeited all claim to the attentions of a gentleman, by ftooping to be the author and-publisher of deliberate flander. The counfel had it not in his option to act from any other fentiment, whether that fentiment was well or ill founded. There is no dignity without moderation, nor any manliness in the abfence of decency. Had Alfred poffeffed the leaft degree of philofophy or firmnefs of mind, thefe are circumftances of which he must have been aware, and even prepared to meet them with fortitude and temper.

Alfred is alfo highly offended with the counfel for not giving full credit to the affidavit made by Alfred that he was not the author of Nemefis. Here again, without fuch a statement of facts as we have

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not yet feen the reafoning of, Alfred feems to us altogether prema ture. Surely fome attention is due to the force of strong internal evidence. Where the fame train of thinking, the fame warmth of fancy, the fame arrangement and modification in the very turn of expreffion, ftrike the most careless reader, connected with all the circumstances of the cafe, there is, at leaft, fome room to doubt.

These reflections have occurred to us on reading this appeal, and we state them honeftly, without wishing to colour or mislead either on the one fide or the other. Apart from fuch temerity and termagency of mind as must in general be offenfive, Alfred's talents are above mediocrity. Otherwife directed and employed, he might become a very useful member of fociety, and we shall be happy in paying him our tribute of praise whenever we find him laudably engaged. ART. 24. The Partifan in War; or, The Use of a Corps of Light Troops to an Army. By Lieut. Col. A. Emmerick. Small 8vo. 4s. boards. Debrett. 1789.

The author of this treatise appears to be particularly well acquainted with the duty of a partifan, or the commander of a body of light troops. After mentioning the general qualifications of fuch an officer, he treats of the men and clothing, &c. neceffary for a light corps; with the particular duties of the partifan. He next delivers the rules to be obferved in marching by day and by night; with the precautions to which the partifan fhould always attend. The behaviour towards fpies is directed with good fenfe and knowledge of human nature. The author then confiders expeditions with cavalry, giving rules to be observed on service, and describing the mode of attack to interrupt couriers, &c. His attention is afterwards employed on expeditions with infantry; and he concludes with obfervations on conducting furprifes by night. The treatife is written with great perfpicuity; and, what muft not a little increase its ufefulness to military gentlemen, the colonel frequently illuftrates his observations by examples drawn from his own experience.

ART. 25. A Letter to J. Horne Tooke, Efq. occafioned by his Two Pair of Portraits, and other late Publications. 8vo. 2s. Stalker. London, 1789.

This author urges Mr. Tooke to an enlargement of his Two Pair of Portraits, which, for the gratification of the public, he wishes to be extended to a greater length. He likewife vindicates the consistency of that gentleman through the whole of his political conduct; affirming that he has uniformly fhown himself a friend to public li berty. Befides this, which forms the principal object of the pamphlet, the author takes a view of the fhop-tax, the Westminster election, the deliberations of the parliament on the regency, with other political topics of the times.

ART. 26. Tables of Exchange to and from France, from 25d to 28%, the French crown. By Andrew Thomas, Clerk to Sir Robert Her