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B., but have it not in our power to comply with his withes. We very willingly retract what was faid in our laft preface refpecting Mr. Spry's being Calviniftical. It was faid inadvertently, LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Crewell has at the prefs a Treatife on Linear Pers Spective. It is known by the lovers of Topographical works that the Third Volume of the Second Edition of the Hiftory of Dor. fetfhire, by Hutchins, was deftroyed by fire. Mr. Nichols, who is ever perfevering and indefatigable, has published propofals for completing the work, with improvements, by: the late Mr. Gough. Mr. Nichols only feeks to be indemnified, and as foon as a hundred copies fhall be fubfcribed for, the work will go to prefs. A New Edition of the Environs of London, by Meffrs. Lyfons, will be publifhed in a few weeks, to which an additional volume will be, fabjoined, to be feparately purchafed for the use of the fubfcribers to the first edition. Dr. Pearfon's Warburtonian Lectures, preached in Lincoln's. Inn Chapel, will be publifhed about the latter end of April. The firft volume of the Transactions of the Geological So ciety, in quarto, with many plates, will be ready for publication in May. Mr. De Luc is printing his Geological Travels in England, in two octavo volumes. The authorized Verfion of the Book of Pfalms, corrected and improved, with Notes, critical and explanatory, by the late Bishop Horfley, is in the prefs. The work is to be comprifed in one large quarto volume, and a prefatory Effay will be prefixed, by Mr. Heneage Horfley. Mr. Montagu Pennington has nearly ready for publication an octavo volume, entitled, Redemption, or a View of the Rife and Progrefs of the Chriftian Religion, from the Fall of Adam, to its complete Eftablishment under Conftantine. Mifs Mitford has in the Prefs, a Poem, entitled, Chriftina, the Maid of the South Seas, illuftrated with Notes, which will appear in the courfe of the prefent Month. The fecond volume of Mr. Moore's Tales of the Paffions, containing "The Married Man," being an illuftration of the Paffion of Jealoufy, is expected to appear fhortly. A new edition of Dr. Hutton's Mathematical and Philo-fophical Dictionary, with many improvements, is preparing for the prefs.. We hear of a Novel in the Prefs, of much originality, entitled, Think's-I-to-myself, and which will probably make its appearance this month. THE BRITISH CRITIC, For MARCH, 1811. "Arbitrii noftri non eft quod quifque loquatur." D. CATO. How can we help what folks will fay, or write! ART. 1. The State Papers and Letters of Sir Ralph Sadler, Knight-Banneret. Edited by Arthur Clifford, Ejq. in Two Volumes. To which is added, (prefixed) a Memoir of the Life of Sir Ralph Sadler, with hiftorical Notes, by Walter Scott, Efq. 4to. 51. 5s. Edinburgh, Conftable and Co.; London, Cadell and Davies. 1809. A VARIETY of circumftances concur in giving a great degree of importance to these interesting volumes. The period to which they relate; the tranfactions of that period; the abilities which Sir Ralph Sadler is known to have poffeffed; and the confidence that was repofed in him by Henry VIII. by the court of Edward VI. and by Queen Elizabeth, all confpire to make these letters peculiarly valuable to every one who wishes to be thoroughly acquainted with the British Hiftory, Scottish as well as English, at the æra of the refor. mation. An additional value is given to them by Mr. Scott's Memoir of the Life of the great Statesman, which will ferve as a guide to those who, though they have not leifure to read the whole collection, may yet wifh to confult these curious papers, with refpect to fome particular event in our national hiftory. Of this memoir, therefore, we fhall firft lay before P. BRIT. ERIT, VOL. XXXVII, MARCH, 1811, Our our readers a fhort abftra&t, and afterwards the fubftance of the letters and other papers. Sir Ralph Sadler was born in the year 1507, at Hackney, in Middlefex. He was the eldeft fon of Henry Sadler, Efq. who, though a gentleman by birth, and poffeffed of "a fair inheritance," feems to have afted in fome domeftic capacity, probably as fteward or furveyor to a nobleman, the proprietor of a manor called Gillney, near Great Hadham, in Effex. In thofe days, as Mr. Scott juftly obferves, fo entire was the feudal fyftem, that gentlemen of family and moderate fortune, fought, not only emolument, but protection, and even honour, by occupying, in the domeftic establishments of the nobles, thofe fituations, which the nobility themselves contended for in the Royal houfhold. Ralph Sadler, the fubject of this memoir, was fo fortunate, as, in early life, to gain a fituation in the family of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Effex, who repofed in him fuch truft as foon brought him under the eye of his Sovereign; and Henry, who with all his caprice, refpected fuch talents and accomplishments as Sadler poffeffed in an eminent degree, took him (we are told, on the authority of the infcription on Sadler's tomb) into his fervice in the year 1518. Here we think there must be fome mistake, either in reading the infcription on the tomb, or in fixing the year of Sadler's birth to 1507, for it is hardly conceivable, that a boy eleven years old could have been diftinguifhed by all thofe accomplishments which, we are told, Henry confidered as effential to the character of a man. It is not indeed conceivable that Cromwell repofed in fuch a boy that truft, which is here faid to have brought him under the eye of the King. Be this as it may, Sadler advanced daily in the King's favour, for he was peculianly active in the great work of dif folving the religious houfes; and he received his full share of the fpoil. In the year 1537, he commenced a long courfe of diplomatic fervices, by an embally to Scotland, whofe Monarch was then abfent in France. The objects of his miffion were to greet the dowager Queen, to ftrengthen the English interells in the councils of regency which then governed Scotland; and to difcover the probable confequences of the intimate union of Scotland with France. In his journey through the northern counties of England, Sadler travelled with fuch leifure as to obferve the difaffection that prevailed in most of them, on account of the innovations in religion; and when he reached Edinburgh, cr the place where the Scottish |