Each nail nice par'd, each hand smooth, soft and white; And plans a change in modes just new from France. And some light chit-chat ever has to say; Each upstart's fortune, and each proud man's race, O Sleeping Beauty, and O band-box Billy, BISHOP HORSLEY AND MR. HOARE. "Has BISHOP HORSLEY was a very proud prelate, and about as orthodox as Buonaparte. Returning from court one day, he enquired in a haughty manner, as he made towards his carriage, any body seen my fellow ?""No," cried a by-stander, “ curse me if ever I saw your fellow in all my life, nor any body else, I believe!" This quibble has been appropriated by Mr. Hoare, in the first act of the Three and the Deuce. JAQUES. + Who that walks Bond-street, can mistake the nice turn of the arm and shoulder of this" Jewel of a man," as Foote says; Qui movet in varios (eundem rather) brachia vulsa modos (modum rather) ? REVIEW OF LITERATURE. Books, such as are worthy the name of Books, ought to have no Patrons but Truth and Reason. Bacon, of the Advancement of Learning, Book 1. A Letter to the Right Reverend Lord Bishop of Peterboro', on the important Question of Church Burial by the Established Clergy. By John Wight Wickes, M. A. &c. &c. Drakard, Stamford; Rivingtons, London. It is not customary with us to notice such ephemeral publications as that at present before us: but, as we think the character of the Church of England is involved in the question between the Rev. John Wight Wickes, and his accuser, John Green, Independent Minister, Uppingham, Rutland, the subject acquires an importance, in our estimation, to which the manner in which it is discussed by Mr. Wickes, would not otherwise be entitled. The charges, brought against Mr. Wickes by Mr. Green, are, that he, Mr. Wickes, being rector of Wardley-cum-Belton, lately refused to perform the burial service of the Church of England, upon the interment of the body of a child of one John Swingler, which child had been baptized in the congregation assembled for public worship, in the dwelling-house of Thomas Goodliffe, at Lambly-Lodge, in the parish of Belton, by the Rev. George Gill, of Market Harborough, on the 17th of July then last, and died on the 28th of August last; and that he, Mr. Wickes, took the sum of five shillings for breaking his ground in the church-yard of Belton, for the child's interment, without the burial service, and three shillings and six-pence for burial fees. Mr. Wickes, in justification of his conduct as to his refusal to perform the burial service, refers his Right Reverend Diocesan to the 68th Canon of the Established Church, but reasons upon it with an imbecility that would almost induce one to imagine, that if Mr. Wickes read the Canon in his unprejudiced, he could not have read it in his serious, moments. The words' cited from the Canon are: "No Minister shall refuse or delay s' he has christen any child, ac cording to the form of Common Prayer, that is brought to the ehurch to him, upon Sundays or Holidays, to be christened; or to bury any corpse that is brought to the church or church-yard, convenient warning being given him thereof before, in such manner and form as is prescribed in the said Book of Common Prayer. And if he refuse to christen the one, or bury the other, (except, &c.) he shall be suspended by the Bishop of the Diocese from his ministry, by the space of three months." And on this canon he labours to prove that the obligation upon him, as a Minister of the Church to bury a corpse, has not reference to convenient warning merely, but must be preceded by previous baptism, according to the form of the Book of Common Prayer, established for the use of the Church of England. We think it impossible, however, to strain such a construction out of the canon, and we must confess we shall tremble for the discipline of the Church, when it depends for its support on such an advocate. 1 But, independently of any legal or cañonical obligation upon Mr. Wickes to have interred this child with the ordinary ceremonies, we think his refusal evinces a want of liberality and Christian charity, as well as a spirit ripe for contention: and that his taking fees for breaking the ground, after having refused the ordinary ceremonies, was " injudicious," if not mercenary. We mean not here to dispute Mr. Wickes's right to take fees from his parishioners, for breaking the common burial ground, in addition to the fees due for the performance of the burial service, though we think it of doubtful authority; nor are we well enough acquainted with the topography of the country, to ascertain whe ther Lambly-Lodge be or be not in the parish of Belton; but we are persuaded, if Mr. Wickes depends on such twigs to save him, he has a fair chance of a souse in the water. We will not follow Mr. Wickes through the low ribaldry concerning "A shop of sanctity"-" A pic-nic subscription house"Males that had transgressed, and those that wished to transgress, mixed in rapturous concord with females that had sinned, and females that wished to sin."- "The tub of humility"—the fair sex "who received the puff of inspiration, and hoisted the banners of the new birth," or " Mrs. Fawkes's love feasts and creeping nights" We could not have believed, had we not read such expressions in Mr. Wickes's pamphlet, that a sober minister of the Church of England, would have insulted his Diocesan, by intermixing an address to him with such indecorous and filthy allusions. We will, however, recommend to Mr. Wickes a piece of advice of high antiquity and authority: "Let him, that standeth, take heed lest he fall." With regard to some extraneous charges brought by Mr. Green against Mr. Wickes, we are willing to believe they are unfounded, and we not only reprobate as heartily as Mr. Wickes can do, the embezzlement of trust-monies, vested in private individuals for charitable purposes of a public nature, but, we deprecate all secrecy in the management of such trusts, as tending towards, if not designed for, fraud and peculation. Further, we think the management of public charities in general calls aloud for parliamentary investigation, and we have reason to believe that the time is not far distant when the subject will be brought forward. El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha; compuesto por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Nueva Edicion, corregida por el Rdo, Don Felipe Fernandez, A. M. En 4 Tomos, 18mo. fl. 13. Lackington, Allen, y Co. Templo de las Musas. 1808. In the Advertisement of the Editor, Don Philip Fernandez, we are told that a rade mecum form has been adopted as one most agreeable and desirable. Some difference has been made in the divisions of the work, as well as in its size. Cervantes himself divided the first part of Don Quixote into four books, and the present Editor has divided both parts into four volumes. The text is according to the editions published by La Real Academia Espanola, varying only in certain corrections and ameliorations made by Cervantes. A Life of the Author, his Dedication to the Duke de Bejar, the Prologo, and the complimentary verses, succeed to the Advertencia, and terminate the preliminary matter. It may here be observed, that it would have been a better ar rangement, if the Verses had followed the Life, and the Dedica tion and Preface had immediately preceded the first chapter of the work, for which they were written by the identical author. The Life has the curse of barrenness, which is entailed on most of the literary biography of its age. It is here said that he was born in the year 1547, and died the 23d of April, 1616, aged D-VOL. V.* 68-rather 69, which is the age given to him in the fifty-second plate of Blair's Chronology: :- Cervantes ob. 1620, æt. 69."* It will be remarked, that Blair says 1620, and the life 1616, the latter of which is right, as he died on the same day in the same year as Shakspeare. The other facts are little more than that he fought at the battle of Lepanto, lost the use of an arm, suffered a long captivity in Algiers, was redeemed, returned to Spain, wrote plays, pastorals, novels, and amongst other things which would have scarcely saved his name from oblivion, Don Quixote de la Mancha, whose fame will live to the end of time. Socrates, says the Biographer, philosophized as freely in prison as in the Lyceum, or on the banks of the Ilyssus; Tasso, in a similar situation, did not lament the loss of liberty, but the power to write, which his cruel oppressors denied him; and Cervantes, incarcerated at la Mancha, for reasons to this hour unknown, gave unbounded rein to his imagination, and there composed his Don Quixote. Notwithstanding all their merits in arms and in retirement, the two chief glories of the continent of Iberia, Cervantes and Camoens, may share one disgraceful epitaph : Aqui jaz Luis de Camoens, principe dos poetas de seu tempo: viveo pobre e miservalmente; e assi morreo. i. e. Here lies Luis de Camoens, the Prince of the Poets of his time he lived poorly and miserably, and so he died. : Of the poverty of Cervantes there is too much evidence. He has himself wittily reflected on his country for it, in El Viage al Parnasso. Apollo receives the Poets in a garden, and assigns a fit seat to each. None remains for Cervantes. His merits avail him nothing. At length Apollo advises him to double his cloak and sit upon it-he is obliged to own that he has none ! At p. x. we have a lively simile.-Treating of Cervantes' poetry, so despicable in comparison with his prose, the biographer thus excuses him: "Semejante a aquellas árboles, que frondosos y bellos en la libertad de las selvas, traslados al recinto de los jardines pierden su lozania y se marchitan." Such was precisely the case with Boccaccio-in the trammels of verse he was destroyed-he was one of those plants that flourish in the wilds of the forest, but wither in the precincts of the garden. *A pocket Biographical Dictionary, published by Robinsons in 1794, states his birth to have been in 1549---an error. |