one after another into the offices of state, and thus to domineer over both their sovereign and their fellowsubjects. Of the former part of this charge, the arbitrary principles and the insolent demeanour of the Grenvilles, we are all competent to judge. We cannot believe them capable of such excess of folly as to suppose their family fit to ingross the government of this country. of dress and amusement, it exercises an equal deminion in the walks of science and the Belles Lettres, and in the latter an investigation of the store of romantic fiction seems at present the order of the day. We by no means wish to undervalue those stores which furnished materials for the fancy of Chaucer and Spenser; which were held in high estimation by Milton, and which afforded many subjects for the flowing versification of Dryden. But perhaps, the present predilection for them is carried a little too far, as they seem now to have entirely set aside the beautiful mythology of the ancients. A transaction of which only a vague report spread abroad is distinctly related. About the beginning of April, a negociation was proposed and conducted by Lord Melville, for introducing Mr. Pitt and some of his friends into the cabinet. Every difficulty on the part of ministers was removed. Mr. Pitt, Lord Mel-Johnson has not a little contributed, though his senville, and some other of Mr. Pitt's friends, were not only to be admitted on a footing of equality with Mr. Addington and his colleagues, but beyond it. And a message from a quarter too high to be mentioned would not have been wanting, could matters have been brought to the position which required it. The negociation was broken off upon the unalterable demand of Mr. Pitt to bring back with him Lord Grenville, and the other persons who had been the most constant in opposition to the measures of ministers, and the most virulent in abuse of their characters. From this period is dated the open opposition of Mr. Pitt to the present ministers. His cold, unfriendly speech on the motion for an address to his majesty is noticed; his conduct on Mr. Patten's motion is animadverted upon: and his language with respect to some of the proposed ways and means of supply is stigmatized as a direct attempt to embarrass the administration of the finances. The author concludes in the following words: "The annals of our country abound with instances which we cannot always call to mind without sorrow and confusion; but never till the present moment did a party arise without the pretence at least of some public principle and some national object to dignify or disguise it. The church was in danger;' the succession was in danger;' the constitution was invaded ;' ́ a war was wanton and unnecessary.' But some pretence, some decent shred of hypocrisy has ever hitherto been spread over the nakedness of ambition. It remained for our own times to present the spectacle of a family compact, and a combination of wealth and influence openly claiming the first offices of the state as their right, insisting upon nominating each other in their turn for the king's cabinet, and professing their disregard of measures, and their attachment and antipathy to men." We cannot say that in point of stile the pamphlet deserves high praise. The language is often inflated, and often incorrect. But it is the work of a man who has been attentive to the course of affairs, and who has received a liberal education, though he has not been much accustomed to the art of composition. Amadis de Gaul; a Poem, in Three Books; freely Translated from the First Part of the French Version of Nicholas de Heberay, Sicur des Essars; with Notes. By William Stewart Rose, Esq. pp. 198. The empire of fashion is not confined to the circle To this, perhaps, the dogmatic censure of Dr. tence was certainly pronounced against machinery in general, and he would have given as little quarter to a fairy or an enchanter as to a heathen god. It should also be remembered that all our early poets have mixed the classical with the romantic machinery, and that Milton has introduced the deities of the Greeks among the fallen angels. In executing a translation of this sort, it is of much consequence to the poet to chuse a kind of versification adapted to the subject; and in this Mr. Rose, we think, has shewn his judgment in copying the manner of Dryden, in his imitations from Chaucer, Boccace, &c. The easy flow of the numbers, and the frequent use of the alexandrine and the triplet are admirably fitted for this species of composition. To have equalled the first of our poets in rhymed verse, would be su perlative praise indeed, but to have imitated his manner with success is no mean eulogy, and to this Mr. Rose is deservedly entitled. As a specimen of the language, we give the following simile, page 154: "As one, some vision scares, should dawning light Hears, but not dares to trust the joyful tale. In selecting this specimen of the translation, we are forced to notice the little merit of the poem itself. We wished to have given at the same time some splendid passage, some strong painting of supernatural beings, some description of the arms and devices of chivalry, which are the soul of romance, but nothing of the kind is to be found in the poem, though these are the circumstances alone, that by interesting the feelings, and fascinating the imagination, make us forget the violence committed against truth and probability in the fable. Every book is accompanied with notes, illustrating the allusions to the customs of chivalry, and the abounds, and to this part of the author's labour we superstitions of romance, with which the poem must give our praise; we select the following account of a favorite species of romantic machinery, page 58, "The fay, or fairy, a creature of Asiatic fiction, is very common character in romance. "The following account of these mysterious beings is extracted from Lewis's Ancient History of Britain. He quotes from Paracelsus. Having stated that they are not of Adam, and, that if they engender children with men, their children shall not be of their kinde but of ours,' he informs us that they speake, walke, cate and drink as Adamitical men; and on the other parte in agility, penetrability, and disparition are like spirits. That they are subject to the diseases of Adamitical men, and like them dye, but leve no soule after them, for all that is in them dyeth. Like them they are compelled to get their living and cloathing with the work of their hands. They use their arts and gyfts with superior subtilty, wanting only a soule, by meanes whereof they have no wish to serve God, nor to walk in his wayes.' Lewis's Ancient History of Britain, p. 247." There are also a few obsolete expressions explained at the bottom of the page, but here the author, like other annotators, has sometimes given elucidations where none are wanted, for who that is at all acquainted with the language of poetry, or that will be ever tempted to open such a volume as this, can want to be told that boon is a gift or favour, that hight is called, that hest is a command, and that to crave is to demand. Every married person, and those single ones who have read the marriage service, and they are not few, especially among the ladies, will certainly know the meaning of plighting troth: and Erin is now as familiar to us for Ireland, as Albion for Britain, or Gaul for France. "But tares and mildews, moths and rust, will beset the best labours of man-no wonder-when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan came also among them. Those ultimately evil geniuses of property, and I fear of every government where they can ob tain sufficient weight and influence, made a lodgment in our prosperous village; and the children of the law followed with no tardy pace. Small bankers, or small branches of small bankers, could not believe that the interests of the nation, and the advantages of spirited, and speculative, individuals, could be duly maintained and supported, unless they opened their paper shops among us. They opened them accordingly; and if they had done so with the three blue balls, like every other humiliated pawnbroker, it would have been little matter; but their offices, like the castle of a giant who lived on human marrow. bones, soon became momentuous, and even dreadful, all the country round. This monster was guilty of good, but it was so by its death. 66 Procurators, or Attorneys, opened their black-letteroffices also. How could plain honest men, who had never heard of Blackstone or Erskine, or read a statute all the days of their lives, except what they garbled from their catechism, conduct themselves clear of penalties and jeopardy, without council learned in the law? and when a little moodiness, or a pint of ale extra, sprung dubieties between neighbours, who was so fit to smooth over beginning misunderstandings, or to heal up inveterate animosi ties, as a member of the high law-courts of our country? "These, Sir, were black-bean days to our town; but as good frequently arises out of evil, with us individuals suffered by fictitious credit most abominably, and we were The Tourifications of Malachi Meldrum, Esq. of Mel-getting fast acquainted with the London Gazette, but the drum Hall, 2 vols. 12mo. By Dr. Robert Couper, pp.482. Mr. Meldrum is a humourist of a peculiar cast; he occasionally reminds us of Sterne, but he is not a servile imitator; his style is original, and his reflections conveyed in a manner which he may claim as his own, and perhaps without much danger of being copied. If we mistake not, however, the prose part of his Tourifications is a subordinate object, and merely intended as a vehicle to his poetry, of which he is very profuse; and if he be a candidate for a respectable rank among modern Scotch poets, we are of opinion that his claims will appear to be very wellfounded. He may not obtain the distinctions conferred on Burns, but he may yet rank high, and his effusions afford much gratification to those who have patience to search for the beauties of poetry with the light of a glossary. Among this industrious order, we do not profess to class ourselves, nor can we conceive why men of genius in Scotland, should endeaYour to perpetuate a barbarous language, which in most cases must limit their fame to the place of their birth. In literature whoever is ambitious, must be ambitious to be useful. We have, therefore, received more pleasure from the prose detail of our author's travels, especially from the episode of Mr. Shuttleworth, of which we shall extract a passage descriptive of the consequences of carrying certain modern improvements into an industrious and peaceful village. Mr. Shuttleworth, after explaining the advantages of the improvements he had introduced in a barren spot, and its advancement in population and comparative wealth, proceeds to reverse the picture. general progress of industry, and comfort, was perhaps encouraged. The man of paper, great as he was, nodded acquaintance with honest John the farmer; and a routine of discounted bills at these paper-warehouses, took place in consequence. The fields accordingly assumed a new face every day; slated houses became no phenomenon ; and the honest man who formerly looked into the market now and then in his slouched bonnet, coarse plaid, and with the remains of an old flail in his hand, and who seldom ventured to call for a bottle of twopenny at a carrier's quarters, now appeared regularly every market day, equipped in his water-proof great coat and boots, and put up at the Saracen's head, whence he went to his banker and his lawyer, then lounged an hour or two, and returned to the farmers' club at the Saracen's head, to conclude the day over a beef steak, and a bottle of port. Some of our tradesmen, as I have said, adopted the same paper-born plan; and ponies, gigs, and curricles came mightily in vogue. Papa, Mamma, young master, and the misses were touring it at no allowance every summer; and we sent a pretty decent cargo every year in its due season to some watering place or other. Weekly balls had been sometime in use through the winter; a lounging coffeeroom, with news-papers, magazines, and reviews, was opened, as was a circulating library; and it was in contemplation to have a neat little theatre.-Old as I was, and all my saws on my fingers ends, I was almost deluded with this semblance of happiness and wealth. Unfortunately these speculatists had not admitted into their consideration all possible events, and that extravagant amusements would make but a slender figure in balancing their books. It was wofully unproductive labour; for, worse than a shadow itself, it carried soul and body, time and all, with it. "But cash accounts became exhausted, or overdrawn ; names became thread-bare on the back of bills; tradesmen ceased to be paid, and a general crash ensued. The venders of paper saw themselves, notwithstanding their excessive caution and ingenuity, overwhelmed as well as their dupes; but the venders of law and good neighbourhood stepped alertly forward, as to their harvest day; and had not a remnant of common sense remained among us, sufficient to discomfit these desperate sorcerers, our town and all would have accompanied them to the devil. “Thus trade, and even commerce, were extended; and the country, for miles round, obtained a face, which few proprietors have either resolution or spirit to produce. It must be admitted, that those who effected this were sacrificed; but they were sacrifices chiefly to an overweening pride, and an unimproved, and ill-poised judgment; and the proprietors were always in the end great gainers. "The original simplicity and integrity, however, of the people, had suffered egregiously; and a mound was broke down, which, in the present temper of things, we have little reason to expect ever to see repaired. More cautious and wise farmers from distant places soon replaced, indeed, the hasty gentlemen of the flail; the alarm and decrepitude of the town produced a more diligent attendance in the shop, and even in the counting-room; but still the old barriers of diligence and frugality, if they were not quite broken down, were in woful disorder; and the papermongers, those harbingers of weakening principles, and of eventual destruction, though vilely palsied, were still able with their dark lantern to minister to the vain and the unwary. And the limb of the law, far less magnificent in his habifiments, though he had reaped his harvest, continued to prowl about the streets, with sepulchral note and cadaverous aspect, as one of his brethren described another; but a little chamber of trade of our own soon sickened him, and finally expelled him and his parchments entirely." If our readers are amused by this sketch, we can promise them more entertainment of the same kind in these volumes, and may add that their finer feelings will be interested in the author's pathetic attempts, particularly in the story of Jessy Hawthorn. Critical and Philosophical Essays. By the Author of the Adviser, Vol. I. pp. 336. The subjects of these essays are, "the Stage, Joanna Bailie's plays, marriage, religion, and Blair's lectures," but they are in no sense either critical or philosophical, and the general impression they are calculated to leave is that of disgust, which we should have perhaps expressed in our own language, if the author had not anticipated us in his preface. In this he informs us that "when the work was printed, he looked over it, and felt himself ashamed and disgusted with the manner in which much of it was written. All the copies were printed off, and it was consequently, too late to cancel the work." In this remark we must beg leave to differ from the author, having been informed, upon very good authority, that no work can be cancelled until it is printed off, but that it may be withheld from the public at any time. We must also differ from the next opinion he advances that "the style and expression are, in general, too harsh and cruel," because we cannot conceive that any human being will be injured, or any good principle brought into question by either his criticism or his philosophy. Having stated these objections, we go on, with the author to say, that "the vein of sarcastic and contemptuous asperity, which pervades nearly the whole of the work, must greatly tend to render the reader unwilling to listen, with complacency, by raising indignation against the author's want of gentleness To and urbanity." Dr. Blair is treated "with a coarseness of brutality and an insolence of contempt, that can possibly serve no other purpose, than to defeat the end for which these Essays were written.' this we would add-provided that end was any other than "the coarseness of brutality, and the insolence of contempt." But to proceed; "I have, therefore, to request that the reader will, if possible, divest the reasoning and the truth, which these essays contain, from the roughness and unmanly cruelty of their attendant phrases and expressions; and I solemnly pledge myself, if any future edition of this work shall ever be called for by the public, to soften down the harsh and rugged features, with which I have deformed my literary bantling, and endeavour to adorn its countenance with the smiles of innocence, and the beamings of benignity." In this passage, we apprehend, the author has imposed a task both upon himself, and his readers which can never be performed. The public must feel itself insulted by the offer of a work which the author acknowledges is unfit to be read, and which we must add, is equally disgraceful to literature and religion; that species of impudence which obtrudes such a work, under such circumstances, and at a time when the revolutionary spawn of France is nearly, if not quite, destroyed in this country, far exceeds our comprehension. On the other hand, the author's promise to "soften his features" excites no ardent wish on our part; his native deformity is far less dangerous; for it is not, upon the whole, his style, but his matter learning and piety.-As he has often referred to a prethat will excite the just indignation of every friend to vious publication, entitled the "Adviser, or Moral and Literary Tribunal," we shall spare ourselves the trouble of a perusal, by characterizing it in his own words. "Throughout nearly the whole of its course, it breathes more of the vindictive and merciless spirit of paganism than the mild forbearance of christianity." And as it proceeds from the same pen with the present volume, we are inclined to think this opinion a very just one, and that the author, when his own compositions are the subject, is rather happy in his criticisms. The Wanderer: or, a Collection of Original Tales and Essays, founded upon facts; illustrating the Virtues and Vices of the present age. In which are introduced The Oriental Travels of a Learned Mahometan of the last Century. Interspersed with Original Poetry, By Charles Fothergill, Esq. 2 vols. pp. 608. 66 The "virtues and vices of the present age" are not more clearly illustrated" in this, than in the common works of fiction, against which the author directs his censure in a preface. His serious tales are extremely romantic and improbable, and his language inflated to bombast, while his attempts at humour are gross and vulgar. The work, however, is of the mixed kind, and there are passages which may be read with pleasure, particularly some picturesque descriptions, in a sketch of a Tour in Scotland. 5 The Depraved Husband and the Philosophie Wife, 2 || being effected by Vien, his pupils resumed the study vols. 12mo. By Madame Genlis, pp. 325. The propagation of the disorganizing principles of Voltaire, Helvetius, Dalembert, and Diderot has been successful in France, and has familiarized to the mind all those crimes which destroy the happiness of families, and contaminate the whole mass of society. The same corruption of morals has been attempted in this nation by certain would-be philosophers of both sexes, whose writings, however, have either fallen into oblivion, or are treated with contempt. Still we cannot but approve every endeavour to render their principles more ridiculous, and this, we are of opi of nature, and strictly observed the rules of the beautiful and sublime. But in common with all revolutions, which are sudden and unprepared, the change produced by Vien, so far from proving universally useful, hurried many artists of the new French School from one extreme to another. Not satisfied with studying their Poussin and the masterly productions of the Italian schools, the generality of French painters endeavoured to outstep the excellence of those classical works, and to transplant the Grecian marble on the canvas. Hence their productions appear bassoof simplicity, and represent, as to the figures, Frenchrelievos rather than paintings, display an affected air men, who would make us believe that they are Greeks or Romans. nion, has been done with considerable success in Miss Hamilton's "Modern Philosophers," and a few similar works, to which we can now add this performance of Madame Genlis. Her object is to exBy these few observations, which must arise in the pose the depravity and licentions principles of the mind of every impartial observer of the works of the writers above enumerated, by reducing them to pracnew French school, we have thought it right to pretice in the form of a novel, or rather of two novels, face our account of Landon's Annals, in order to the plan of which is precisely the same, with this assist our readers in marking the progress of that slight variation, that in the one we have both a philo-school, and appreciating the merits of modern French sophic husband and wife, and in the other a philoso-painters, the record of whose labours our author has phic wife only. In the conduct of these stories, commenced in the numbers now before us. many obnoxious passages from the philosophers are N° 1, Antiochus entreating of Scipio the release of very happily and very fairly introduced, under the his captive son. The author of this picture, crowned precise circumstances to which, if they had any with the first prize at the "Ecole spéciale," is Ducq, meaning at all, they must have been intended to apply a pupil of Suvée. N° 29, which represents the same in real life. Considered merely as novels, these two subject and also obtained a prize, is by Ingres, a stories are not perhaps entitled to rank very high, but pupil of David. Ducq's composition is simple, and the specific intention is so laudable, they may be the floor diplays an intimate acquaintance with the recommended with advantage. We are sorry, how-rules of plain perspective, but the whole rises like a ever, to add, that whatever benefit may arise from the basso-relievo on one line. The ancient costume is perusal of them, must be sought in some other edi- strictly observed, but in point of architecture the tion than the one before us. The translation is so arches, resting on columns, unknown in those times, very slovenly, that it was by conjecture only we could should have been avoided. Scipio's head is copied reach at the probable meaning of the author in a great after a bust. The composition of the picture, N° 29, variety of instances. It must, we think, have been by Ingres of Montauban, is more striking and pictutranslated by some school-boy, or school-miss, not resque; the groups are finely formed and distributed, much acquainted either with French or English, and and the whole bespeaks an artist who has deeply stusent to the press without revision, correction or point- died his subject, and who, without sacrificing his oriing. The hero of the second story is in page 1. aginality of character, knows how to avail himself of Scotchman, and in p. 27 an Irishman. The following sentence is perhaps a fair specimen of the strange jargon into which the greater part is translated. That affectionate reception at once affranchised him of his jealousy, destroyed his suspicions, and belied to his senses all the neighbouring reports." We have not seen the original, and can form a very imperfect idea of it from such language as this. the advantages derived from an intense study of the antiques. N° 7, Marcus Severus, who having escaped the persecution of Sylla and returned home, finds his daughter weeping over the corpse of his deceased wife. Some of our readers may perhaps recollect the strong sensation produced by this picture on its first exhibition in the eighth year of the republic. But if we may judge of this famous production of Guerin by the drawing, given by our author, it abounds with faults and misconceptions. The sitting figure of Severus forms a cross with the dead body of his wife, Annales du Musée et de l'Ecole moderne des Beaux Arts; at least twelve heads in length, and proves offensive Recueil périodique de gravures au trait d'après les to the feelings of a connoisseur. The figure of the principaux ouvrages de Peinture, Sculpture, ou projets daughter, clasping the feet of her father, is also mean d'Architecture, qui chaque année ont remporté les prix and disproportionate. By the same author, is the soit aux écoles Spéciales, soit aux concours nationaux, picture N° 59, Orpheus grieving at the tomb of Eury&c. &c. &c. Rédigé par C. Landon, peintre. Liv.dice; his figure is strikingly expressive and graceful. 1-xxx. FOREIGN. About the middle of the last century the productions of the French school were so extremely deficient in point of delineation, composition and colouring, as to call imperiously for a reform. This reform N° 13, Belisarius, a fine painting by David, produced by that renowned artist after his first return from Italy. N° 14, Telemachus taking his last farewel of the nymph Eucharis, by Meunier, a pupil of Vincent. Both the composition and colouring are uncommonly We have to add, that the plates 6, 12 and 17, represent vases, utensils and furniture; 3, +, 10, 16, 18, ??, 26, 32, 34, 36, 58, 44, 52 and 58, contain architectonic drawings, partly copies, such as the Pantheon, a mosque at Constantinople, and several ancient buildings at Venice, and partly plans of new enterprizes; especially National Pillars and similar works, intended to proclaim the glory of the French nation; 25, 31, 35, 41, 43, 47, 49, 53 and 57, are engravings of the principal pictures of Raphael, Quido, Dominich no, Poussin, &c. which have been removed from Italy to France, or were there before; 28, 30, 33, 9, 45, 5, 54 and 6, represent elegant sketches of a variety of busts and antique statues, and lastly, 5 and 1 two plants, Carthamus tinctorius, and Reside aude, with a description of the latter plant, which in the Levant is used for dyeing, by Bertholet. pleasing, but the figure of Calypso, who unexpectedly || as a child saved by a shepherd, a full length model by makes her appearance, is devoid of dignity, and Chaudet. N° 48, A group forming part of a reprebetray's jealousy by a gloomy and graceless look. N° sentation of a deluge on a large scale, and represent15 and 21, two allegorical paintings by Caraffa, allu-ing a father in the act of carrying off his son, who sive to love, which at present adorn one of Madame is nearly lifeless. At his feet lie a woman and a Bonaparte's apartments; they are extremely studied child; the former is without life, and the latter on the and overcharged.. N° 19, President Molé, attacked point of death. The artist's name is Clodion; the by a rebellious mob. This picture, which was finished figure of the father deserves much praise, but the by l'incent as early as in the year 1779, breathes subject appears to us rather to belong to the departmuch vigour of fancy and spirit of sentiment. N° 23, ment of Painting than Sculpture. No 60, Marble Achilles and Chiron, by Regnault. We would readily image of Sappho. join in the implicit praise which has been bestowed on this celebrated picture, but for the figures of Achilles and Chi on, who appear sheer Frenchmen, and do not satisfy the expectation of the Connoisseur N° 27, Tiberius Gracchus leaving his house, without paying the least attention to the remonstrances of his wife, in order to press the passing of the Agrarian law. This is the last production of the renowned Dronais, whose premature decease cannot be too much lamented. This artist, in whom France has lost another Poussin, was born in 1765, and died at Rome in 1783. Some particulars of his life are related in the "Memorie per le belle arti," page 224. N° 40, The Musa Erato, writing down verses dictated by the God of Love. The picture is generally esteemed the most eminent production of Meynier, but to us there appears too much affectation and prudery in the figure of Erato. N° 6, The punishment of a Vestal, by Peyravin. The aspect of a mother buried alive with her new-born child is shockingly disgustful, but the execution bespeaks a pupil of David. N° 51, Orestes pursued by the furies, a painting by Hennequin, to which the prize was adjudged in the eighth year of the Republic. The scene is drawn with spirit, but from the mere sketch, given by Landon, we are not able to judge of the full effect of the chiaroscuro. N° 59, Endymion's dream by Giraudet. He finished this picture at Rome in 1792, where at that time he was studying his art at the expence of the late French academy. In the seventh year of the Republic it was publicly exhibited and crowned with the prize. The figure of Endymion possesses great merit, and the tout ensemble is much praised for vigour of expression and brilliancy of colouring. List of New Publications from August 1, to August 16, 1803. POLITICS. A Letter to the Right Honourable Charles Abbotcontaining an Enquiry of the most effectual Means for the Improvements of the Coast, and Western Isles of Scotland, and the Extension of the Fisheries. By Robert Fraser, Esq. 8vo. 38. A Few Cursory Remarks on the State of Parties dur- The Question, Why do we go to War? Temperately Svo. 1s. After reading with the greatest satisfaction a variety of We now proceed to the works of Sculpture. No tracts all uniformly tending to excite a general determination 2, Priam at the feet of Achilles, soliciting the dead to resist that domincering power with which we are threatbody of Hector, a basso-relievo by Norbiin, the same ened to be overwhelmed, we were not a little shocked to find an Englishman capable of writing, and a publisher subject occurs again, No 9, treated by Tek. Both capable of circulating a pamphlet accusing the government artists are natives of Prussia, and their productions of the country of a breach of faith,-—and giving the lie to possess incontestible merits, especially from the simhis Majesty's message respecting the preparations of the plicity displayed in the arrangement and composition enemy. What," says he, "would have been the senof the whole. Tick's work, however, is more richlysation in this country, if, three days after such danger was grouped, but Achilles is too clumsily formed. No 20 and 21, Two basso-relievos, destined for the pedestal of the national column in the Tuileries, of which one represents Mars seated in a car, drawn by four horses, attended by Wisdom in the form of Minerva, and crowned by Victory: and the other Bacchus and Ceres, seated in a car, drawn by two steers; both basso-relievos, executed by Moreau, possess considerable merit. No 24, An allegorical statue, a model 14 feet in height, by Esparcieux. N° 42, Oedipus announced, it had been known, as it is now, that there were but two frigates in the roads of Holland, and but three car-vettes in the roads of Dunkirk; and that Bonaparte had no more idea at the time of the message of invading this country, than he had of invading the empire of China." The author goes on to discuss several of the particulars in the official Correspondence; we cannot condescend to go over the arguments made use of, as a confutation of them is entirely unnecessary. Toward the conclusion, he says, “If we persist in rejecting all conciliatory projects from Russia, who has marked a dispproval of our conduct, what must Europe |