though, of course, not fo fully as in the book before us, in which the fpeeches, as well as the evidence, are profeffedly given verbatim. We have read this publication with that pleafure which arifes from obferving the ability difplayed on both fides; the liberal and humane 'conduct of the law officers of the crown, and (what indeed has long characterized our Judges) the dignified impartiality of the Bench. Among the fpeeches, we were peculiarly ftruck with the neat and perfpicuous reply of the Solicitor General, and with the folemn impreffive terms of the Lord Chief Juftice in paffing sentence. In the report, we do not find any appearance of inaccuracy, except in the punctuation, which should have been more attended to, as it makes the language of the fpeeches here and there appear, at the first reading, ungrammatical. In other refpects, we believe that both the arguments and evidence are faithfully detailed.

ART. 49. The Trial of William Codling, John Reid, William Macfarlane, and George Eufterby, for wilfully and feloniously deftroying and cafting away the Brig Adventure, on the High Seas. Taken in Short Hand by Joseph Gurney and William Brodie Gurney. 8vo. 257 pp. 55. Gurney. 1803.

This trial is chiefly remarkable as an inftance how difficult it is to provide beforehand for every cafe that may arife on a penal ftatute. Two of the four defendants (though found guilty by the Jury) efcaped, not from any defect in the proof, but from a want (or at least a doubt) of jurifdiction as to their offence; the act which contitutes the felony not having exprefsly faid by what court perfons procuring on hore a veffel to be deftroyed at fea fhall be tried, whether by the Admiralty Court, or the ordinary courts of criminal justice. The point was ftated and argued with great ability by Mr. Erkine; whofe fpeech, as here ftated, is a model of judicious reafoning and manly eloquence.

POLITICS.

ART. 50. A Friendly Addrefs to the Volunteers of Great Britain. 8vo. 13 pp. 6d. Rivingtons. 1803.

The object of this fhort Addrefs is fo laudable, and the advice it contains fo judicious, that we cannot too ftrongly recommend it to general perufal and circulation. The author, after giving credit to the Volunteers for the good effects which their zeal has already produced, points out to them the duties which still remain to be fulfilled. "What their zeal and promptitude have fo happily begun, their con du&t," he observes, " must complete." He therefore recommends regular attendance, acquiefcence in the fyftem of fubordination, filent attention and prompt obedience to the forms of difcipline; by which alone the objects of the patriot foldier can be effectually obtained.

The duty of implicit obedience is frongly and ably enforced, and it is juftly laid down as a maxim, that, "whenever and wherever the Volun teer is legally called upon, according to the terms of his acceptance, either to learn ar to perform the fervice of a foldier, he is equally bound with any

her foldier to the discharge of every duty, and the display of every quali fication, on which the value and merit of a foldier depend." Several other ufeful admonitions are given, and particularly one to avoid diffentions, "efpecially when they involve à fpirit of party;" which, it is truly obferved, are molt fatally deftructive "of that zealous concern for the public caufe, as well as that mutual dependance in the hour of trial and danger, by which a Volunteer corps, above all others, is supposed to be animated." Upon the whole, we confider this little tract as among the most useful of those to which public fpirit, directed by found judgment, has given birth.

ART. 51. Opinions on the prefent State of the Nation, and the Neceffity of an imm diate War with France, to fave the Country from greater Evils. 8vo. 30 pp. Ginger. 1803.

The tract before us, though published after the prefent war had. been determined upon (if not after it had commenced) appears to have been written during the short interval of peace; and ftrongly conveys the author's opinion, that the peace could not be permanent. From the First Conful's repeated declarations, from various intances of his conduct, and especially from his fituation and character, this author very july inters his hoftile intentions towards this country, and encourages us to an early and a determined refiftance. He infifts alfo, that our refources are ftill immense, and that our public debt is an advantage, not a calamity, to the country. Various other public topics are canvaffed (particularly thofe of education and morals.) Thefe lead the writer from his main fubject, which he again very briefly touches upon at the conclufion. Upon the whole, this pam phlet is too defultory; and (though, confidering the time when it was written, it fhows fome fagacity) it does not, at this period, appear to advantage, or throw much light on the fubject which it treats.

INVASION.

ART. 52. Advice, addreffed to the lower Ranks of Society; useful at all Times, more especially in the prefent. By Wm. Burden, A. M. 8vo. 22 pp. 6d. Oftell. 1803.

This is undoubtedly found and excellent advice, chiefly of a moral kind, but well digefted, and intelligible enough, we should fuppofe, to be of fervice to the perfons addreffed. The following paffage is jat and ufeful in the highest degree.

To thofe among you who have formed any falfe and idle hope of being bettered by a fuccefsful invafion of the French, I must fay, Look at the fate of Switzerland and Holland, two countries in which the condition of the lower ranks was formerly more to be envied than in any part of Europe; what are they now? Wretched, miferable, and enflaved; their cottages destroyed, the fources of their induftry torn up by the roots, and themfelves in many places compelled to feed on acorns and wild fruit. The boafted declaration of the French, war to the palace and peace to the cottage," has been completely

falfified;

falfified; for the only equality they have introduced has been equality of wretchedness to both, and equal mifery to all. The poor in these nations no longer labour for themselves or their country; the fruit of the industry is fwept away by the rapacity of the French, to cover the expences of the Chief Conful, and to make up for what he has wrung from his own fubjects, to fquander on his pomp and parade; and can you expect to be better treated than thefe countries have been?" P. 17.

To this question we fhould anfwer, with more ftrength than this author,-NO-fo far from better, infinitely worse. Innumerable caufes of hatred, envy, rage, and avarice are here united, which would render the plundering of this country more cruel, more shamelefs, more inexorable than any thing that has been done before, in any region of the world. He concludes by faying, with proper fpirit, "Let your motto be VICTORY or DEATH, for life is not worth poffefling in flavery.”

Thefe are fentiments which we cannot too ftrongly commend.

ART. 53. Home Truths: being a Collection of undeniable Facts, fe lected from the mft unquestionable Authorities; or, Hints to the reSpe&table Auditors (if any fuch are fill to be found) of the worthy Difciple of Horne Tooke; or, in other Words, to the base or ignorant Wretches who fill dare to talk of Reform, by which nothing more or lefs is meant than a bloody Revolution. 12mo. 24 pp. 2d. Ginger. 1803.

AKT. 54 The British Patriot's Catechism and Prayer fubjoined. Adapted to every Station in Life, and recommended to be attentively per rufed every Sunday, by the enrolled Defenders of Great Britain, before and after the Hours of Drilling. 12mo. 23 Fp. 2d. Ginger 1803.

ART. 55. The British Patriot's moral and political Creed; with illuftrative Notes of the Text; being a Companion to the British Patrio's Catechifm; adapted to all Conditions of Life, and recommended to be attentively perused by the enrolled Defenders of Great Britain, on every Sunday, before and after the Hours of Drilling. 12mo, 12 pp. 2d. Ginger. 1803.

Thefe may be confidered as a continuation of the patriotic papers and tracts, of which we gave a lift in our Review for Auguft, p. 214.. To the Home Truths is fubjoined the excellent Song, entitled a King or a Corful, which cannot too often be repeated. The Prayer in the fecond tract is fuch as every Briton fhould repeat, and we shall therefore furnish our readers with the means.

"THE BRITISH PATRIOT'S PRAYER.

"May God protect his Moft Gracious Majefty, and maintain the united Empire of Great Britain and Ireland long under his government; and defend us from being the flaves of the Three-headed Monfer of Republican France, united in the perfon of the most facrilegious, bloody-mindel, treacherous, and rapacious Ufurper that ever ruled mankind, or that ever foourged the inhabitants of the earth. Defend us, alfo, at fuch a moment, from the virulence of party

and

and faction: let us be united in Loyalty to our King, Love to our Country, and Charity to each other. Strengthen us, that we may vanquifh our enemies, and confound all their fnares and devices. This we beg for Jefus Chrift his fake, to whom be all honour and glory. Amen." P. 14.

This tract has alfo the Song of "Liberty or Death." To the Moral and Political Creed, are fubjoined Proots and Illustrations.

MISCELLANIES.

ART. 56. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire, comprebending a general Survey of the Picturefque Scenery, Remains of Antiquity, Hiftorical Events, peculiar Manners and commercial Situations of that interefting Portion of the Brith Empire. By J. T. Barber, F. S. A. Illuftrated with a Map and Twenty View's, engraved from Drawings by the Author. 8vo. 18s. Cadell and Davies. 1803.

We have of late been called upon to give account of fo many Welh tours and tourifts, that on the prefent occasion we may well be excufed, even by the author himself, for giving this volume a place among our catalogue articles. The narrative is entertaining enough, the Map very neatly executed, and the engravings certainly very pretty; but the title-page promises too much, and the flyle cannot be commended. ART. 57. The Cafle of the Tuileries, in a Nariative of all the Events which have taken Place in the Interior of that Palace, from the Time of its Conftruction to the Eighteenth Brumaire of the Year VIII. Tranflated from the French, by Francis Luthom, Efq. Two Volumes. 8vo. 145. Longman and Rees. 1803.

From the variety and intereft of the memorable facts which have at different periods taken place in the Cafle of the Tuileries, the ori ginal author has ingeniously formed an entertaining work, in which however, we conceive, he is confiderably indebted to his imagination. There are certainly many amufing anecdotes, and well-told tales, and the reader will be no where in danger of falling afleep. The tranfla tor alfo is entitled to confiderable praife; and the circulating libra ries have a better bargain in the Caitle of the Tuileries, than they have had for a long time from the French manufactories.

ART. 58. Walks and Sketches at the Cape of Good Hope; to which is fubjoined, a Journey from Cape Town to Blettenberg's Bay. By Robert Semple. Crown 8vo. 152 pp. 3s. 6d. Baldwin. 1803. Though this book is fmall, it is by no means deficient in amufement or information. "I have often read," fays Mr. S. fometimes heard, of the anxiety of an author on the publication of his works; and now, for the first time, I experience that anxiety. I find, that however trifling be the production, and however uninterefting it may prove to the public mind, the author views it with a pa

"C and

rent's

rent's fondnefs, and ufhers it into light with a parent's fears." This is well expreffed, and the truth of it is daily proved to us in a variety of ways. The letter of one author, the hint of another, the folicitation of a third for notice at all events; the furprise of a tourtb, that fuch a book as his fhould have been fo long overlooked; the preparations of a fifth againft imaginary attacks which never will be made; these, and various other fymptoms, daily and even hourly illuftrate the paffage now cited.

A familiar and pleafing account of the Cape is here given, in walks and converfations with a friend, whofe departure and fubfequent death will not be read without fympathy. The narrative is well calculated to excite it: yet not from any peculiar circumstances in the event, but from the feelings of the author and his friend in their laft interview, and partly from the fimple manner in which the fat is told. "Some days after, 1 faw my friend embark in a vessel bound to the eastward: a few months had fcarcely elapfed, when, being in daily expectation of hearing from him, I received the news of his death." P. 97.

Sunt lacrymæ rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

The reader, who is not too faftidious for his own intereft, will receive an agreeable entertainment from these "Walks and Sketches."

ART. 59. Materials for Thinking. By William Burdon, A. M. 8vo. 413 PP. 99. Oftell. 1803.

This is the book to which we alluded fome time ago (August, p. 207) which, on account of the author's prefent exertions, may perhaps be confidered as fortunate; fince the apparently cordial co-operation of a man who before the war was the warmest admirer of the First Conful, and a very difcontented friend, if any, to the conftitution of his country, is a pleafing proof of the conviction which late events have forced upon the most reluctant minds.

Mr. Burdon's" Materials for Thinking" appear, from a fecond title to this volume, to have been begun in a periodical form, No. I. having been printed in 1801. The numbers here united amount to nine; but as they do not accord with the principal divifions of the book, we fhall enumerate, the latter. The titles are thefe: 1. Liberality of Sentiment. 2, 3. On Human Inconfiftencies. 4. On the Imagination. 5, 6, 7. On Characters. 8. On the Feelings. 9. Character and Conduct of Bonaparte.

10. On the Feel

ings, concluded. 11, 12. On Education. 13. Political Economy, What Liberality of Sentiment fignifies, in the modern Vocabulary, is perfectly well known. It implies, primarily, an entire indifference to Religion; placing it on a level with, or even below, the crudeft human opinions, which prefume to take the title of Philofophy. Thus, Mr. B. "The liberality of true Philofophy is even more extensive than that of Chriflianity, for it efteems no opinions merely specula ive to be effential, but eftimates every man's merit by his conduct." P. 6. True; for man looks at the actions, but God looketh on the heart, The affertion he fubjoins, that "we every where find that philofo

phers