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and Mr. Bryant, the artist, with proper attendants, went over to France immediately after the armistice of Amiens, with the view of enjoying the field-sports of that country, and of making a purchase of some one of the numerous seats of the ci-devant noblesse. He appears to have enjoyed his hunting with extraordinary gout, but was not so successful in the latter object. His work, however, is not confined to sporting subjects, but contains much miscellaneous matter, of an amusing description. The colonel interests as a writer, for the same reason that Erskine interests as an orator;-he always seems to be in earnest. The plates in this publication are very numerous, and extremely beautiful; and altogether, the performance may be regarded as a truly splendid specimen of graphic and typographic excellence.

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Mr. Lemaistre is occasionally, a lively and agreeable writer; but his Travels through France, performed about the same period as Colonel Thornton's, contain but little that is new, and still less that is interesting. The style of his performance may be characterised, as every thing by turns, but nothing long." At one time it is so easy, as to degene-' rate into familiarity, and flippancy; presently it becomes aukward and affected; and the next minute it is stiff and pedantic, yet abounding with inaccuracies.

Mr. Pinkerton, the geographical writer, has, till of late, been regarded as a hearty antigallican; but from some of his remarks in the new edition of his geography, and in his Recollections of Paris, now before us, he appears to have become, suddenly, an admirer and eulogist of French manne.s, French men, and French women. In his Recollections, (speaking of French women, the most licentious, perhaps, on the face of the earth) he seriously tells us, that innumerable are the young and beautiful females who preserve the sanctity of the marriage bed, and amidst a charming freedom of manners, and even A GREAT FRIENDSHIP FOR ANOTHER MAN,

are MODELS of maternal tenderness, and conjugal fidelity." He makes one of his " enchanting" Parisian ladies say, after long resisting the solicitations of a youthful admirer :- "No, my good sir, it would infallibly be the death of my husband, the father of my children, and I should never survive the con-ciousness of having caused such a disaster!' Poor Mr. Pinkerton! we really fear that he has himself been smitten by some of the French vestals.-In one of these volumes, we are told, that our supposedly national air of God Save the King, is a mere transcript of a Scotch anthem preserved in a collection printed at Aberdeen, in 1682. We should like to have some proof of this; but it must be very positive before we could give it full credit.-Mr. Pinkerton's Recollections are much too diffuse.

Forbes's Letters from France must be considered as a dull book; and Worsley's Account of the State of France as a still duller book.

The Belgian Traveller is a monstrous performance, as far as it relates to an exposure of the atrocious conduct of the French, and contains many curious anecdotes connected with the revolution. The auther of these volumes is said to be a nobleman of Brabant, who was employed by the minister of a continental sovereign, to make the tour of Holland, France, and Switzerland, for the purpose of ascertaining the real state of the public mind in those countries. The work is evidently the production of a foreigner, and the language, as might be expected, is frequently disfigured by foreign idioms. It is edited by the author of the Revolutionary Plutarch; who, we strongly suspect, is also the editor, if not the author of the Secret History of the Court and Cabinet of St. Cloud, another performance of a similar stamp.

We have derived considerable entertainment from Dr. Pinckard's work on the West Indies; though we think that many of his notes might be cancelled, without injuring its general effect: however, whether

we contemplate the performance as the production of a professional man, or a sagacious and entertaining traveller, it is highly estimable. In the parts avowedly amusive, it is written with ease, gaiety, good humour, and a talent for delineation; in those which go into subjects of greater pith and moment, the sobriety of the style rises in due proportion to the weight of the sentiments, and discovers a mind at once penetrating and diligent. In the letters, devoted to the consideration of the slave trade, although there will be many who may be disposed to contend against the doctor's arguments in favour of an abolition, yet there can be none who will hesitate to give him full credit for a feeling heart. And whatever dissonance of opinion there may be on this popular, and assuredly very important, question, it ought to gratify our author, that this division of his work has been honourably quoted in the parliamentry debates on the slave trade; copious extracts having been given by way of illustration. Our author's "notes" have, likewise, been referred to with high commendation by Mr. Wilberforce, in a work recently published. The medical parts of Dr. Pinckard's book have excited great attention among the most eminent of their profession both in this country and in America, and a selection of various passages relating to yellow fever published in the Philadelphia Gazettes, have been read with strong interest and high praise by the first medical characters.

A new edition of Bruce's Travels has appeared, with corrections and acditions from the manuscripts of the author. The work has been very carefully revised, and is much improved. A new, and very compact abridgment of these Travels has also been published, on a small scale.

We mention Mc Callum's Travels in Trinidad, merely to point them cut as a pernicious party publication. The object of Mc Callum's hatred, and against whom his book is levelled, is General Picton, a man who has been most honourably ac

quitted of all the charges brought against him before. the Privy Council. This officer, the mild and virtuous Mr. Mc Callum says, is "a mighty prater, whose knife was set in oil that it might cut the deeper, and never hesitated to engulf the reeking blade into the warm bowels of a fellow creature, nor to pour aquafortis into the bleeding wound, in order to provoke the innocent object to a state of madness." The man who could use such language, whilst a council was enquiring into the conduct of its object, ought to be guarded against as a dangerous character.

A Tour through some of the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, by Mr. Neill, will be found to elucidate the natural history of those parts, with which the author appears to be extremely well acquainted. Some sketches are also given, as to the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and as to the improvements which might be made in their domestic economy; but, had its language undergone a careful revision, the work would have been far more acceptable.

Our lively, agrecable, and instructive friend Carr, (now Sir John Carr) has followed up his Stranger in France, and Northern Summer, by the Stranger in Ireland. Comparatively speaking, so little was known of Ireland, that a work respecting that country, by such a writer as Carr, could not prove otherwise than acceptable. There is a liberality of sentiment in the work, which must prove particularly agreeable to the Irish; and, if the author here trusted less to himself than on former occasions, we are willing to attribute that circumstance rather to an anxiety to afford the fullest information, than to any wish unnecessarily to increase the bulk of his book. The aquatinta plates to this work, as well as to his Northern Summer, are very pleasingly executed; and, by their subjects and management, excite considerable interest.

Some would-be-thought-witty wight, conceiving the manner and matter of Sir John Carr to be flippant and unimportant, has thought proper to publish a work entitled My Pocket Book; or Hints for A

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Rughte Merrie and Conceitede' Tour in Quarto. This effort will have no effect on the reputation of Sir John; although we must confess that some of the hits are made with dexterity.

Of the more recent travels, we name, with much satisfaction, Janson's Stranger in America. Mr. Janson informs us, that seduced by the flattering picture which had been drawn of the new world, and the hospitality of our once trans-Atlantic brethren, he had, early in life, imbibed a strong desire to visit the distant shores of the United States. In the introductory part of this work, offered with diffidence and replete with judicious observations, he says, that his stay there was prolonged from time to time, for more than thirteen years, in the hope of again realizing a considerable sum of money, of which he had been defrauded, under a specious purchase of land, on the banks of the Mississipi, and which he eventually abandoned. In the former part of his residence in New England, Mr. Janson, who had been educated for the profession of the law, was called to the bar; by which means, he observes, he had an opportunity of examining the country and its inhabitants, in every point of view.

In this volume we find a vast fund of information. It comprises not only a tour through that great extent of country, from north to south, but observations and remarks on the genius, manners, and customs of the inhabitants-their public characters-the practice of the learned professions, commerce, manufactures, and agricuiture-travelling-the price of land, and its quality ascertained from the different species of timber with which it is covered-the charges and mode of travelling, and the price of the articles of life-the rise and progress of the drama, &c.-Respecting the treatment of slaves in America, the author relates some instances of barbarity, which came within his own kirowledge, and which degrade the American planters to a level with the Dutch boors at the Cape of Good Hope.

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