history before us, the defcription of that engagement well befits the glorious theme.

In India, Tippoo Saib and his empire fell, under the arms of the victorious Britons. In Europe a new confederacy was formed for repreffing the ambition of France. The Auftrians commenced the campaign in Italy with great fuccefs; and the Ruffians, having completed the conqueft, marched into Switzerland; but, ill fupported by the Auftrians, they found it neceffary to retire; and in the clofe of the campaign the allies loft many of the advantages which they had obtained. An expedition was undertaken from Britain to Holland, which began aufpiciously, but had a lefs favourable ter mination.

In Egypt, Buonaparte triumphed over the feeble natives; and, having collected all the plunder that he could, fought another fcene of depredation, betook himself to Syria, where he had to contend with English warriors, and received a fignal leffon of his temerity from Sir Sidney Smith: from Syria he retreated, and refumed his plunder in Egypt.

Mr. Pitt about this time propofed a fcheme of union between Great Britain and Ireland; which, after many difcuffions in both Parliaments, was concluded. Buonaparte, now returned from Egypt, found means to become abfolute Sovereign of France, and offered peace to Britain; which, however, it was not thought proper to accept. The campaign began; Buonaparte marched into Italy, fought the Austrians at Marengo, and, being almost defeated, was faved from deftruction by General Deffaix, who gained a victory which decided the fate of Italy. In Germany Moreau was no lefs fucceff ful, and the Auftrians were again obliged to conclude a peace. Buonaparte found means to inflame the Northern Powers against Britain; and the aspect of affairs at the beginning of the year 1801 was very gloomy to our country.

At this time the King was vifited by a fevere illness: the Minifters who had fo long prefided at the helm of affairs refigned their employments; and the new Minifters had very great difficul ties to combat. They, however, reloJutely fet about the talk. A fleet was fent to the Baltic, Nellon was victorious, and the Northern Powers ceafed

their enmity. In the Channel and the Ocean our navy was paramount; but for the army were referved the moit fplendid achievements of 1801. The campaign in Egypt employs the best efforts of our hiftorian; and, after a masterly narrative, he concludes his

account as follows:

"Such was the iffue of Buonaparte's expedition to Egypt: there, as in all their undertakings during the last war, the French profpered until they encountered the forces of Britain: there Buonaparte learned, that in vain he might project fchemes of maritime and commercial conqueft, when opposed by the naval and military heroes of Britain. All the mighty preparations and boasted achievements of four years, in purfuit of the favourite object of the Chief Conful, perifhed without leaving a wreck behind. The whole and every part of this expedition difplayed the British character in its manifold excellencies. Adventurous courage, aided by wisdom, united with patience and magnanimous conftancy, and were all infpired by patriotifm and loyalty, and enhanced by justice. Such were the qualities that rendered Britain triumphant in the fignally-glorious campaign of Egypt; in fuch Britain may always confide, and fuch let her ene mies dread. If ambitious pride fhould overlook more remote events, when the feeks War with Britain, let her REMEMBER EGYPT."-Dr. Biffet concludes his work with the termination of the war (1802).

We have thus, from an attentive reading, fketched a pretty accurate analysis of thefe Volumes. No event of the flightest public concern appears to have been overlooked; the spirit of history is faithfully preferved; throughout we perceive that the Author has had a view more to compreifion of in. formation than to minutenels of detail; but if any one object has, in our courfe of reading, more frequently attracted notice than another, it is an undeviating impartiality. The characters, meatures, and motives of Minitters have in all cafes been candidly confidered and appreciated, without the leaft apparent biafs or reference to vul. gir prejudices or fuperficial popularity.

On the whole, we confider the public as greatly indebted to Dr. Billet for having furnished them with to useful and complete a portion of contempo rary history.

J.

ARMINE AND ELVIRA. A legendary Tale. With other Poems. By Edmund Cartwright, M. A. 12mo.

WE remember the original publication of the principal poem in this collection about thirty years ago, and the pleasure we then received has not been diminished by a reperufal. It is fimple, tender, and pathetic, and will continue to rank in the first clafs of its fpecies of poetry. Some of the pieces now first published will hardly fupport the reputation the Author has acquired. From thefe, however, we except the following, which we believe to be the first fpecimen of Swedish poetry which has appeared in an English dress:

YOUTH AND AGE.

AN ODE.

From the Swedish of Chevalier EDEL

CRANTZ.

MINION of happiness! to-day
Tis yours in life's finooth path to fray,
While Youth and Health, twin fifters,
bring

The bloomy progeny of Spring,
A chaplet for your brow to weave;
While Hope, that fmiles but to deceive,
With sportive pinion fans the air,
Nor lets you fee the growing care;
The fenfes on your dazzled fight
Unlock the fluices of delight,
Deluge your heart with floods of joy,
Sufpecting not that they fhall cloy.
Soon as the morning drinks the dew,
And flings around her rofeate hue,
For you the groves their fweets prepare,
And new-blown rofes feent the air;
For you the groves their mufic breathe,
And form for you the feftive wreath.
The flowing goblet to entwine,
Where of the rich Burgundian vine,
The juice nectareous, sparkling bright,
Invites you with its ruby light.
Now jocund mirth and fong abound,
And tales of heroes now go round;
Thofe heroes of the Swedish name,
Whofe deeds reviv'd their country's fame,
Whole blood, profufely flowing, dyed,
With ftreams of glory, Finland's tide.

Now love your bounding heart engages, In every vein the tempeft rages; Keafon in chains of dalliance bound, Each fenfe in fweet delirium drown'd, Clafp'd in the Elysium of her arms You revel on the fair one's charms, Nor dream, while thus entranc'd you

lie,

The role of pleafure e'er shall die!

Miftaken youth! with quick decay
The rofe of pleasure dies away!
An infect of the fummer hour,
You bask upon a tranfient flower;
Faft fall its leaves, they perish all!
And with the falling leaf you fall!
Mistaken youth! your dreams are o'er,
And exultation is no more!
As o'er the lumberer in the vale

Unnotic'd fteals the paffing gale,
So unperceiv'd youth's moments flide;
Days, months, and years, with hurried
hafte,

Pass on, their very track untrac'd !
With equal fpeed, the pleasures too
Their unremitting flight purfue.
In vain would you impede their pace,
And win them back to your embrace;.
Mere unfubftantial forms, alas!
Now only feen in memory's glafs !
And even there how foon to fade,
As Time's dark wings extend their shade!
Ah! now what pangs your bofom share I
See pain, and grief, and want, and care;
Anxiety that gnaws the heart,
And felf-reproach's burning smart,
And wild unfatisfi'd defire,

All, all, against your peace confpire !
Time on your locks his snow has spread,
The roles on your cheeks are dead,
There forrow digs, with hand fevere,
A furrow for the falling tear!

Unthinking forrower, ceafe to mourn!
Tho' late, Reflection may return,
Reafon again refume her feat,
Calm Wifdom, from her till retreat,
Once more her precepts may impart,
And Friendship hold you to her heart I
Its foliage fcatter'd by the wind,
Yet on the tree remains behind
Autumnal fruit, that shall adorn
The leafless branches, tempeft- torn.

BRITANNICUS TO BUONAPARTE. An beroic Epistle, with Notes. By Henry Trefham, Efq. R. A. 4to.

In ftrong, manly verfe, Mr. Tresham here affails the Corfican Tyrant, and expofes to the view of mankind the atrocious acts committed by the modern disturber of the world's repofe. The fentiments are fuch as well become a Briton; they hurl defiance in the face of arrogant confidence, and tend to infufe fpirit into the bofom of every defender of his country, whole exertions, we doubt not, will be ultimately crowned with fuccefs, to the confufion of Gallic temerity, and to the fruftrating the defigns of an infulting boalter.

Beneficence;

The defign of this poem is fo laudable, that if the Author of it may, on fome accounts, be arraigned and condemned in the court of criticism, yet he is still entitled to the better praife of exerting his talents in behalf of that part of the community whole lot, by his means, may be ameliorated, and whofe happiness, by confequence, improved.

Letters of a Mameluke; or, A moral and critical Picture of the Manners of Paris. With Notes, by the Tranflator. From the French of Jofeph Lavallée, of the Philotechnic Society, &c. 2 Vols. 12mo. Goldsmith's Citizen of the World evidently afforded the model of the prefent performance, which contains a fprightly, interefting, and amufing picture of the existing manners of Paris. On many of the fubjects difcuffed in thefe volumes, the Mameluke exhibits too much of the Frenchman for the prefervation of character; but pardoning this defect, the reader will obtain both fatisfaction and inftruction from the perufal of these letters.

Good Things, partly fele&ted, partly original. By W. N. H. Reading. 12mo. 1803. Thefe good things are fuch as have been felected by the Compiler from the daily prints, or "are the production" (as he expreffes it)" of his own fhallow pericranium." They have the merit of endeavouring to raise a laugh at no one's expenfe, and are calculated to beguile an idle half hour without fhocking decency or contaminating the morals of the reader.

Thoughts on the Education of those who imtate the Great, as affecting the female Character. 12mo.

In this excellent pamphlet, which will amply repay any parent for the time spent in the perufal of it, there is no defign of giving a method of educating young women, but merely to point out a path that may render them ufeful members of fociety; to which end it is recommended to teach them religion reflectively, and to give them domeftic knowledge. In difcuffing thefe topics, much good fense is to be found, and much falutary advice

offered, without enthusiasm or imprac ticable extravagance.

A practical Effay on the Analysis of Mine rals, exemplifying the Methods of analyfing Ores, Earth, Stones, &c. By Frederick Accum, Teacher of Chemistry. London. 12mo.

The Author of this work has been

long known as an able practical Chemilt; and his Effay contains clear and copious directions for the analysis of mineral fubftances in general; fufficient, we conceive, to answer Mr. Accum's purpose of enabling perfons not intimately acquainted with analytical chemistry to afcertain both the nature and principal component parts of fuch unknown minerals as they may be defirous of proving. In addition to thefe directions will be found much information on topics connected with mineralogy; fuch as the natural history and characteristic properties of ores, earths and ftones, &c. Speaking of the natural history of Coals, the moft probable fuppofition, Mr. A. obferves, is, that they originate in vegetables. A few foretts buried are, however, evidently infuficient for the mountains of coal within the earth; and he has recourfe, for a fufficiency, to the prodigious quantity of vegetables of marine growth, increafed by the immenfe mafs carried down by rivers. These being agitated, heaped together, and broken by the waves, become covered with ftrata of argillaceous earth or fand, and undergoing gradual decompofition, form fo many ftrata of coal alternately with ftrata of clay or fand: that coal is of this origin is inferred from the vegetable remains, and from the prefence of hells and other productions of the ocean difcovered in the ftrata.

Mr. Accum's Effay may be pronounced an useful compendium, not only for the mineralogift, but for all who deem fubjects of this nature worthy of their attention.

The Revolutionary Plutarch: exhibiting the most diftinguished Characters, literary, military, and political, in the recent Annals of the French Republic; the greater Part from the original Information of a Gentleman refident at Paris. To [With] which, as an Appendix, is reprinted entire, the celebrated Pamphlet of "Killing no Murder." Two large Volumes.

The contents of thefe volumes are interefting in a remarkable degree; as detailing, either from perfonal knowledge, or from accredited works of other writers, the lives, conduct, and crimes of every perfon diftinguished as a relative, a courtier, a favourite, a tool, an accomplice, or a rival of the Corfican upstart, who has, hitherto with impunity, oppreffed and plun. dered the Continent of Europe; and, as exhibiting at the fame time a clear difplay of the extraordinary kind of police by which Paris is now regulated.

Such a mass of moral turpitude as is here difplayed, yet in a form that leaves little room to fufpect its authenticity, makes us blush for our fpecies. The public crimes of the Buonaparte family are not more odious than the vices of their private lives are flagitious.

We believe, that no reader, who begins to perufe this collection of Republican Biography, will feel inclined to relinquish it till he has gone through its pages. The fubject is univerfally interefting; and the incidents are fo well narrated, as to juftify us in giving the book our unqualified recommendation.

We fubjoin a lift of the perfons whose lives are here recorded:

Moreau, Sieyes, Fouché, Barras, Roederer, Volney, Pichegru, Riouffe, David, Talleyrand, Soult, Dumas, Dufour, St. Hilaire, Loifon, Van Damme, Augereau, Lafnes, Maflena, Andreoffy, Bruix-Thus far of military and naval characters.

Of the Buonaparte family, we have the lives of Carlo Buonaparte, the father; Letitia Raniolini, the mother; Jofeph, Napoleone, Lucien, Louis, and Jerome Buonaparte, brothers; Madame Bacchicchi, Princess Santa Cruce, Madame Murat, Princefs Borghefe (cidevant Madame Le Clerc), filters; with Madame Napoleone Buonaparte; Eugenius and Fanny de Beauharnois.

To the whole is appended a famous brochure of the feventeenth century, called "Killing no Murder, briefly difcourfed in three Questions," written by Colonel Silas Titus, though publifhed under the affumed name of Wil. liam Allen, in 1657. This mafterpiece of reasoning has long been collected by literary connoiffeurs as a scarce book, and at a proportionate price: and, though actually levelled at Cromwell, the arguments will fuit any other ufurping Tyrant as well as him.

The Decameron; or, Ten Days' Entertainment of Boccacio. Tranflated from the Italian. To which are prefixed, Remarks on the Life and Writings of Boccacio, and an Advertisement, by the Author of Old Nick, &c. &c. 2 Vols. 8vo.

To fome few of our readers it may not be known, that to the wit and invention of the ingenious Boccacio the early English Dramatifts and other Poets were chiefly indebted for the ground-work of their mott favoured productions. The fource was, indeed, inexhaustible; and perhaps, in the literature of the world, a writer more fertile in plots and contrivances, or more characteristic or difcriminating in his perfonages, than Boccacio, could not be named.

The feverity of fatire with which, in his Hundred Tales, he lafhed the frauds, hypocrify, and vices of the Monks, was jufly inflicted, and perhaps might tend firit to open the eyes of those who were blinded by a fuperftitious reverence of external fanctity, and thus pave the way for the religious Reformation which was brought about above a century afterwards.

Though infinitely diverting, however, the Decameron has been always confidered as too free in its language and defcriptions, for general perufal. A Gentleman and Scholar who has ably diftinguithed himself as a Novelift and Critic under the whimsical name of Old Nick, has here done all that we think can be performed towards purifying and chaftening the diction, without deteriorating the rich humour of the Novels. He has alfo, by attentively examining the original Italian, corrected many grofs blunders in the fenfe, which had been committed by former tranflators. "Many words and fentences that trenched on decency, although warranted by the ori ginal, he has metamorphofed or expunged, without ceremony or compunction." The intereft and effect of the story, however, are not diminished; and as our Writer fays, "a facrifice at the fhrine of modesty will not only be excufed, but commended, by thofe from whom alone it is fame and honour to receive praife." He goes on to say, "It may be fafely affirmed, that Boccacio, in his prefent condition, is in no way calculated to make either the good bad or the bad worfe; but, on the contrary, his wisdom and morality will

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