Afhort Address to the Members of the Loyal Affociations, on the prefent State of Public Affairs; containing a brief Expofition of the Defigns of the French upon this Country, and of their propofed Divifion of Great Britain and Ireland into three diftinét and independent Republics; with a Lift of the Directories and Minifters of the fame, as prepared by the Directory at Paris. By John Gifford, Efq. &c. 8vo. IS. Longman. 1798.

We are much indebted fo any well-informed gentleman who can explain to us the defigns of the French upon this country.' They did threaten a very formidable invafion in the last spring, and affembled an army, called the army of England, for that purpofe; but, except by a partial attempt upon Ireland, we have had no reason to think that they were ferious. It is prudent, however, to keep up fome dread of the enemy; and Mr. Gifford has prefented us with a scheme which the rulers of France have formed to divide Great Britain and Ireland into three republics: he even favours us with a lift of the English, Scotch, and Irifh directors, and with other revolutionary projects fufficient to drive a quiet Englishman out of his senfes. All this, he tells us, he had from undoubted authority; and he fpeaks with no fmall degree of acrimony of certain perfons who doubt his veracity. We have no with to excite his wrath by fuch fufpicions for this plain reafon, that it is not a matter of the fmalleft confequence whether his story be true or falfe. We all know in what manner the French have treated the conquered countries; and there is not the least reason to doubt that they would ferve us precisely in the fame manner. So far Mr. Gifford has ftated nothing new. As to the names of the intended directors of the new republics, he best knows why he published the lifts. He probably thought that they would ferve to increase popular prejudice, as that is the grand object with the enlightened and liberal politicians of his party.

The Bloody Buoy, thrown out as a Warning to the Political Pilots of all Nations. Or a faithful Relation of a Multitude of Acts of horrid Barbarity, fuch as the Eye never witneed, the Tongue never expreffed, or the Imagination conceived, until the Commencement of the French Revolution. To which is added, an inftru&ive Efay, tracing thefe dreadful Effects to their real Causes. By Peter Porcupine. With additional Facts, and a Preface addreffed to the People of Great Britain. 12mo. 35. Wright.

1797.

Those who can patiently peruse narratives of cruelty, will here find a deliberate ftatement of the moft atrocious barbarities that ever difgraced human nature. Even the relator, though apparently pleafed with the opportunity of detailing French inhumanities, af firms, that the pen has dropped fifty times from his trembling hand.' Why then did he continue his detail? Common fenfe might have informed him, that the mention of a few of these atrocities, with a CRIT. REV. VOL. XXIV. Oa. 1798.

general reference to others of the fame complexion, would have been as effectual as the ftudious accumulation of disgusting particulars.

The preface of the editor is chiefly diftinguished by a virulent attack upon Mr. Sheridan. In the introduction which follows, we are informed by Peter that the object of the work is to demonstrate the horrible effects of anarchy and infidelity.' The materials (he adds) have been collected from different publications, all written by Frenchmen, and all, except one, printed at Paris.'

We will extract fome paffages as fpecimens of the work. At Lyons,

An undiftinguished butchery of all the rich commenced. Hundreds of perfons, women as well as men, were taken out of the city at a time, tied to trees, fhot to death, ftabbed, or else knocked on the head. In the city the guillotine never ceased a moment; it was shifted three times; holes were dug at each place to receive the blood, and yet it ran in the gutters.' P. 21.

At Nantes, one of the chief feats of democratic barbarity,

The young men and women were picked out from among the mass of fufferers, ftripped naked, and tied together, face to face. After being kept in this situation about an hour, they were put into an open lighter; and, after receiving feveral blows on the skull with the butt of a mufket, thrown into the water. These were called republican marriages. P. 39.

• Carrier, the bloodieft of the bloody, harangued his agents fword in hand; he ordered a woman to be fhot at her window, merely because he looked at him; he chofe, from among the female prifoners, those whom he thought worthy of his foul embraces; and, after being fatiated with their charms, fent them to the guillotine.

Obferve well, reader, that this was a member of the national convention! a reprefentative of the people!-a law-giver!'

P. 40.

The Inftructive Effay' has been lately reviewed *. The writer, we think, fhould have left it to others to determine whe ther it be inftructive or not.

A Bone to gnaw for the Democrats. By Peter Porcupine. To which is prefixed a Rod, for the Backs of the Critics. By Humphrey Hedgehog.

12mo. 2s. 6d. Wright.

1797.

In the preface to this work, Humphrey Hedgehog pours out a copious torrent of invective and falfehood, difgraceful only to himfelf. He pretends to trace a chain of confpiracy, of which the

* See the 99th page of our prefent Volume.

links are easily fabricated by political impoftors; and he not only attacks jacobins, but even those who are as much anti-jacobins as he is; ignorantly or malicioufly branding with the former appella tion all who fcorn to bow the knee to Baal, or to maintain the infallibility of our fapient and patriotic ministers.

The Bone is divided into two parts. In the former of thefe, Peter affaults with great fury a pamphlet called the Political Progress of Britain, in which the British government is fatirised. In this part of the work, we meet with a strange farrago of petu~ lance, abuse, false reasoning, and abfurdity, into which it would be difgufting to enter. In the fecond part, the author treats of the conduct of the mal-contents of Ireland; a fubject which was fuggefted to him by the publication of the Proceedings of the United Irishmen.' His talents for historical compofition appear in the following extract.

The hiftory of the United Irishmen will not detain us long. Soon after the ever-to-be-regretted epoch, when God in his wrath fuffered the tinkers, butchers, harlequins, quacks, cut-throats, and other modern philofophers, to ufurp the government of France, their brethren in Ireland, tempted by the fuccefsful example, began with wonderful induftry, to prepare for taking the government of that country into their hands. With this laudable end in view, they formed what they called their fociety, in the city of Dublin. To say in what manner they proceeded to business would be fuperfluous, fince we know they were democrats.-Their meetings, as among us, produced refolves in abundance, and good fortune feemed for á time to fmile upon them. The prefs was fuffocated with their addreffes and letters of fraternity, which were swallowed by the mob, for whom they were intended, with an appetite which generally characterizes that clafs of citizens. But, all of a fudden, when they were in the height of their work, mangling the carcafe of the government, the magistracy foufed down upon them, like an eagle among a flock of carrion crows. Here was fine helter fkelter; fining, imprisoning, whipping and emigrating; fome ran this way, others that; fome came to America to brew whiskey, some went to France to gather laurels, while others, of a more philofophical turn, fet off to Botany Bay to cull fimples.' P. 98.

In the examination of this fubject, Peter takes an opportunity (from the mention of the name of Franklin in an address of the United Irishmen to Dr. Priestley) of reflecting on the memory of one of the chief founders of that republic in which he receives protection. It is faid in the addrefs, that the fhade of Franklin would look down with calm delight on the first statesman of the age (Washington) extending his protection to its first philofopher.'

What do they mean by the fhade of Franklin's looking down? To look down on a perfon one must be in an elevated situation,

and, I fancy, it is pretty generally believed, by those who under ftand the geography of the invisible world, that Franklin's fhade, as it is here termed, has taken a different route.' P. 116.

'Democratic Principles illustrated by Example,' we have alrea dy noticed in a feparate form *. Of Democratic Memoirs' wè need only obferve, that the Frenchified citizens of the United States' are the chief objects of Peter's fcurrility in that piece. The People's Anfwer to the Lord Bishop of Landaff. By John Hinckley. 8vo. Is. Jordan. 1798..

This is not the answer of the people to the bishop of Llandaff, though it may be that of John Hinckley. The people, we trufts have not learned to treat with disrespect the religious establishment of their country. For fome of the pofitions advanced by the bi fhop, we are not advocates; but we are ftill lefs inclined to vindicate an answer fo inconclufive in its reafoning, and intemperate in its language, as the present.

A Letter to the Right Rev. the Bishop of Landaff, recommended to the Perufal of thofe into whofe Hands his Lordfhip's Addrefs to the People of Great Britain may have fallen. By a Plebeian. 8vo. 15. Croby. 1798.

This writer, in decent language, and in our opinion very fuccefsfully, oppofes the principles of taxation advanced by the prelate, and appears to have thought more deeply on the subject. A tax on the amount of every perfon's property would certainly give a very violent fhock to individual credit; yet, in theory, it has an air of plaufibility, which will perhaps be expanded into conviction if the minifter fhould recommend the fcheme to the legiflature. A View of the Conduct of the Executive in the Foreign Affairs of the United States, as connected with the Miffion to the French Republic, during the Years 1794, 5, and 6. By James Monroe, late Minifter Plenipotentiary to the faid Republic. Mastrated by his Inftructions and Correspondence, and other authentic Documents. 8vo. 25. 6d. Ridgway. 1798.

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This pamphlet is published as an answer to the addrefs of Mr. Harper to his conftituents, though it was not originally written for that purpofe. Mr. Monroe is the advocate of the French in their treatment of the Americans, particularly in the affair of the commercial treaty with Great-Britain. Mr. Harper, our readers may remember, takes the oppofite fide of the queftion. It is not for us to adjust disputes of this kind; but, for thofe who have leifure to ftudy the politics of the United States, it will be neceffary to compare the arguments and affertions of these two writers with confiderable attention.

* See our laft Volume, p. 217.

See our XXIId Vol. New Arr. p. 83.

Lotter to the Landholders of Great Britain on the prefent impor tant Crifis: containing fame interefting Obfervations to Stockhold ers. By a Friend to the Landed Intereft. 8vo. 25. Jordan. 1798.

The landholders are advised by this writer to adopt the following plan.

"Let them form a phalanx to oppose the measures of placemen, penfioners, jobbers, and contractors, and they may fave themselves and their country: they may effect a change of adminiftration, prevent an invasion, obtain a peace, promote a falutary reform, and avoid the horrors of a revolution.'

P. 20.

But they feem to be of opinion, that a revolution will more effectually be prevented by a continuance of the war.

In fome parts of this pamphlet, the author is too violent; and his letter is a poor compofition; but no true friend of his country will cenfure him for recommending fuch a change of system, as may enfure the fafety of the ftate and the interefts of the community.'

An Inquiry into the Caufes and Effects of the Variole Vaccine, a Difeafe discovered in fome of the Western Counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the Name of the Cov Pox. By Edward Jenner, M. D. F. R. S. &c. 4to. 75. 6d. Boards. Law. 1798.

The diforder of which Dr. Jenner here treats, affects the nipples of cows. It confifts originally of pimples, which at length dege nerate into foul phagedenic ulcers. It is a difeafe by no means characterised in its form, and is unattended with regular fever. When it has been communicated to the milker's hands, the puftules are fimilar, the axillary glands are painful, and fome fever comes on. The puftules, however, and the fever, are in no refpect peculiar: the former are foul ulcers produced by putrid matter, and the fever is the common commotion in the fyftem, attending the introduction of any poison.

Such are the facts, divefted of fancy or hypothefis. Dr. Jenner endeavours to fhow, that the poifon originates from the disease in the heels of horses, called the greafe, communicated by the farmer's hands to the cow; and that this disease, in itself trifling and by no means dangerous, prevents the conftitution from being infected with the fmall-pox. The firft opinion is fupported by an affertion,. that the greafe appeared in the horses before the cows were infected: but the poft hoc does not always include the propter hoc; and it would convict the Glocefter fhire milkers of fuch a difgufting inattention to cleanlinefs, that we cannot, for a moment, admit the fufpicion. The fecond point is better supported; but the greater