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His details on the dromedary, that patient, modeft, unaffuming animal, that friend of man in the parched wilds of Africa, where no cooling fountain iffues to refresh his thirst, and which he traverfes for fucceffive weeks, expofed to the heat of a burning fun that sheds " intolerable day," are at once interesting and impreffive. The reader fympathifes with the author, and laments with him the hard lot of the Arab's companion during his days of infancy.

We cannot difmifs the prefent work without paying a deferved commendation to M. Golberry, and regretting that any circumstances fhould have prevented him from executing, in their full extent, his intentions, though we hope he will yet be able to prefent to the public his remaining information at no very diftant period. The translation appears to be executed with fidelity, and the notes are, in general, illuftrative of those topics on which the author could not dwell more largely.

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ART. VIII. 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 which, as an Appendix, is re-printed entire, the celebrated Pamphlet of "Killing no Murder." 2 vols. 12mo. 1804. SOME of thefe fketches we are informed have already appeared in the columns of a newspaper, though the author adds, "they have been revised, corrected, or augmented, before they were collected together in the prefent publication."

It has been obferved by Swift, that all great changes have the fame effect upon commonwealths that thunder has upon liquors, making the dregs fly up to the top: the lowest plebeians rife to the head VOL. I.

of affairs, and there preferve themfelves by reprefenting the nobles and other friends to the old government as enemies to the public." This remark was never more juftly exemplified than in the French Revolution; a revolution which entirely fubverted the antient order of things, immolated on the fcaffold their legitimate fovereigns, defpoiled. the nobility of their rights and pri vileges, levelled all ranks of fociety, and deluged France and Europe with blood, in order to place at the helm of affairs, barbers, beggars, fwindlers, and gamefters. In perufing the prefent work, we were perpetually fhocked at the account of atrocities more barbarous than ever difgraced the most favage hordes of the human race; more barbarous, becaufe they were refinements upon deteftable and fanguinary cruelty; not the rafh and inconfiderate actions of men heated by perfecution, abforbed by furrounding danger, and impelled by the principle of felf-defence; but the cool calculations of unheard-of villany, the fyftematic conduct of blood-thirsty wretches, whofe very names, connected as they are with fuch abhorred crimes, infpire fentiments of horror and dismay.

We are by no means difpofed to confider the delineations here prefented to us as in any manner exaggerated; on the contrary, we have abundant reafon to fuppofe Frenchmen capable of fuch barbarities, and we have likewife numerous teftimonies from other writers in fupport (if fupport were needed) of the affertions of the prefent author. The only characters on which the mind can repose with any degree of felf-complacency, amid the whole here brought forward (thirty-five in number), are thofe of Moreau, of Pichegru, and of Fanny de Beauharnois, now married to Louis Buonaparte. The two former, indeed, are not without fome stains, and particularly Moreau, whose

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denunciation of Pichegru, his friend, his fellow-warrior, and his instructor, can never be effaced from his otherwife generally eftimable character.

In the fecond volume is a curious code of inftructions, faid to have been confided to Andreofly while on his public miffion in England, and which, if it be fo, muft for ever be a damning proof of French perfidy and French villany.

In the firft volume we are informed that,

"Amongst other inventions to infult loyalty, to honour difaffection, and to encourage difcontentment against law ful governments, Fouché, affifted by Talleyrand, made out, after the peace of Luneville, a lift of all known perfons in Europe, ftatefmen, politicians, and authors, who had either written or fpoken for monarchy, morality, religion, or who had published opinions in favour of modern innovations, praifed the French Revolution, and extolled its paft and prefent republican rulers. This lift begins with the letter A, and finishes with Z, and is a large volume in folio, left with the commiffaries of police in all the frontier towns of France. In the margin oppofite to each name, are inftructions for the police commiffary how to act towards travellers: if royalifts, either to arreft them or affront them; to fend them back with infult, or to permit them to continue their way with precaution, accompanied by a fpy or a geus d'armes; but, if fashionable patriots, to receive them with more or lefs revolutionary diftinétion, either by the commandant and the municipality en maffe, or only to honour them by a vifit of the police commiffary; either to feaft them at the expence of the republic in ftyle, or privately by the commiffary.

"This curious lift contains, befides the names of feveral foreigners, thofe of ftate creditors: they are to be ftopped under different pretences, until they lofe all patience, and are by no means permitted to go to Paris. If they become troublefome, they are to be ef corted to the other fide of the French frontiers by gens d'armes, and forbid to return, under pain of being regarded and punished as fpies. Mengaud, the police commiffary at Calais, has one of thefe lifts, which explains a part

of his late infolent conduct towards different British travellers* ".

The perufal of this brought to our minds the circumftance of Dennis the Critic, as he is generally called, who having in his tragedy of "Liberty Alerted," which was acted with great fuccefs, indulged himfelf in fome virulent abuse of the French nation, thought it of fuch political confequence, that he imagined Louis XV would make a point, at the peace, of having him delivered up to his refentment. He folicited the Duke of Marlborough to make fome claufe in his favour; and, being upon a vifit to a friend, who lived on the coast of Suffex, he faw a flip making towards land; when, conceiving this was a French veffel come to feize him, he exclaimed, that he was betrayed, and made the beft of his way to London, without taking leave of his hoft. We fear that there will be found many authors, who, on reading the above account, will conceive, like Dennis, that he is the particular object of the First Conful's hatred, and will turn over his productions with anxiety and difmay, to fee if he has unguardedly uttered a fentence which can be tortured into an accufation.

On the whole, the prefent work, though not prefenting much novelty, will prove an acceptable prefent to every true Briton, who feels the character he is called upon to fupport in the prefent conteft, and would wish to appreciate juftly the character of those who envy his conftitutional bleffings, and would deftroy his happinefs. The language is often incorrect, and seldom rifes above mediocrity. The "Appen

dix" was hardly worth re printing.

*La Police de Fouché devoilé, page 44. The author has feen one of thefe lifts depofited at the police office at Cologne, and by the names of Pitt, Windham, Grenftructions, which prove the illiberal, unjust, ville, &c. &c. wete fome very curious inand cruel characters of Buonaparte and his minifters.

ART. IX. 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. 2 cols. 12mo. 1804.

WE have read thefe volumes with fome degree of pleasure, though not with unmingled fatisfaction. The author is fometimes an apologift, and fometimes an accufer; but always an admirer of the Revolution and of Buonaparte, and a palliator of the crimes of both :--negatively we mean. Affuming as he has an unlimited fcope for remark, and a convenient throud for ballucinations, a power of minute investigation, and a facility in declaring his fentiments in the fuppofitious character of his Mameluke, we think he might have fketched more accurately his picture; he might have drawn with more vigor and life the predominant traits of character, and grouped with , greater energy and availability the exifting perfonages who now prefide over the welfare of his native country. The "Manners of Paris," abftractedly confidered, are the manners of its rulers and its fuperior claffes (for Superior claffes there certainly are, and as indubitably as under the ancien regime, whatever the vivacious Parifians may affect to believe); and in sketching off these, there was room to have difplayed fomething beyond the common routine of things. the apology for this neglect or omiffion is probably to be found in the prefent abject state of the French nation, and the degradation of its prefs; indeed, the author aptly obferves in his preface (perhaps with a fly allufion to this very thing, though apparently connected with the fallibility of human judgement)," that he would really be a madman who fhould affirm that he has feen with his own eyes, and to maintain that he has feen clearly,"

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M. Lavallée certainly does not always appreciate the French character juftly, and is palpably partial to his countrymen, fo much fo as to be blind to their most notorious defects. What can we fay to a man, who ventures to affert, in 1803, that the French nation is the "greatest, the most heroic, the most generous, the most warlike, perhaps that the world ever produced"-or who tells us, that "majefty, greatnefs, loyalty, bravery fincerity, franknefs, difinterestedness, and CLEMENCY!!!" are the characteristics of the French nation, and that "alone on the face of the earth, the French nation is IMMACULATE!”

"O fhame! where is thy blush!" Ferceiving, as we have, in almoft every page, fuch flagrant evidences of national partiality, our expectations and our confidence were of courfe greatly dimi nifhed. We neither looked for nor found a faithful picture of the prefent French character, but, on the contrary, the work exhibits, in either point of view, an exaggerated caricatura. When M. Lavallée forfakes his Bruyerean pencil, he is by far more pleafing; and what he lofes (probably) in felfcomplacency, he certainly gains in public eftimation. We cannot fufficiently applaud his humanity to the brute creation; and his anecdote of a faithful dog in the fecond volume is another honourable teftimony to the virtues of the canine brotherhood.

It is well known that the antient Gauls were fubdued by the Francs, a warlike nation, who gave to their conquered fubjects, in a great measure, their own peculiar cuftoms, manners, &c. But who could have fought (our author excepted) for an explication of the French revolution in this remote event? M. Lavallée gravely attempts to prove that these two people were never fo completely blended, as not to leave a very obvious

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fhade of character between them: the antient nobility, monarchy, &c. were the Francs; the people the Gauls therefore, in order to retaliate, and pay off an old debt of fifteen hundred years standing, our modern Gauls drove their antient conquerors out of the king dom, and enacted all the et cæteras of the revolution!

Confidered however on the whole, the prefent work will certainly afford amusement to a very numerous clafs of readers, whofe taftes, not much refined by critical detergents, can fwallow the bitter with the sweet, provided the latter predominate, which we willingly allow to be the cafe on the prefent occafion. The Citizen of the World, by Dr. Goldfmith, in all probability fuggefted the idea of a Mameluke to M. Lavallée; but the fuperiority is decidedly in favour of the former.

The general ftyle of the tranflation is good, though there are many gallicifms, and fometimes vernacular inelegancies; as "it has feemed to me." "I have been of opinion." "I have thought that it was proper." "It is from the combination of these agents that in the long run." The laft expreffion frequently occurs, but would difgrace the columns of a newfpaper; nor can we (being without the original) divine the meaning of the following fentence: "They have bears, and think it a comic amusement to exhibit their awkward geftures, and at the heavy motions of their clumfy ftructure. II, p. 90."

ART. X. A Rough Sketch of Modern Paris; or, Letters on the Society, Manners, Public Curiofities, and Amusements in that Capital. Written during the last two Months of 1801, and the first five of 1802. By J. G. Lemaitre, Efq. Second Edition. 1 vol. 8vo. 1803.

THE first edition of this work was published anonymously, but

its rapid fale and increasing popu larity have emboldened its author to prefix his name to the present impreffion of it. We do not think there was any reafon for his previous timidity (if timidity it was), on the fcore of its intereft and amusement, though we regret and firongly reprobate the marked partiality which Mr. Lemaitre has invariably fhewn towards the character, actions, and general policy of Buonaparte. We are no advocate for abufe, even of our enemies; it can never do good, but may produce infinite harm; nor where there is room for praife, however limited, do we wish to fee it neglected, for the purpose of induftriously bestow→ ing cenfure; but in a character so notorioufly infamous as that of the prefent ruler of France, fo difgraced by every crime, fo ftained with every fpecies of moral turpitude and political duplicity, we cannot, without difguft, behold an Englishman beftowing, in every inftance, epithets of the highest admiration on fuch a man. Nor is his palliation, that he fpeaks of him con fidered only at the time of his (the author's) being at Paris, without any reference to the paft or to the fucceeding events, occafioned by his inordinate ambition, or rather policy, which may however be confidered as equally paft, relative to the prefent edition of the work before us, in any respect fatisfactory.

"Speak of him as he is:

Nothing extenuate, nor fet down
Aught in malice."

Were it not for this one objection, we fhould confider Mr. Lemaiftre's publication as a pleafing and faithful fketch of modern Paris. Like all other fojourners in that place of luxury, vice, debauchery, and immorality, he warmly caftigates the profligacy of its inhabitants, and wonders how the young Parifians can command their amorous propenfities, when

embracing the naked forms of their fair countrywomen. The anfwer given by an elderly lady, to whom he imparted his aftonishment, is ftriking: "Believe me, Sr, our young men fee all this with the moft perfect indifference!"

Mr. L. confiders the French character as greatly divefted of its former gaiety and proverbial vivacioufnefs; indeed, he draws a moft fombre picture of the fociety of modern Paris, fuch as cannot make us anxious to quit our own firetides and elegant affemblies; but in this it must be remarked, that he differs greatly from other narrators, and efpecially from the defcriptions given us by M. Lavallée, who, as a native, may be confidered as able to give a more comprehenfive view of French manners and French fociety than a mere refident can. Novelty frequently makes impreffions which are very diftant from truth; and it is not until we have learnt to view things with indifference, that we can view them with impartiality, or delineate them with fidelity.

Our author's account of the inftitution for the deaf and dumb is fingularly interefting; as is likewife his defcription of the favage of Avignon: his remarks on the paintings contained in the Mufée Central des Arts, do not often display the fkill of the connoiffeur, but always the liberality of the gentleman. He views the foibles and the vices of the people with a keen and fcrutinifing eye, and his delineations are generally pleasingly correct, if not always ftrikingly impreffive. The prefs is very carelessly corrected.

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Carrier," is taken from Boccaccio, though without any acknowledge ment to that effect by the author: this we think ought to have been done. Cominge" is founded on a well known circumftance. "The Tale addreffed to a Sybarite" contains nothing new or ftriking. We do not think the prefent work likely to add much to the literary reputation which Mr. D. may have already acquired. The verfification is not remarkably correct, but it is finooth, and feldom offends by any harsh combinations, or improper rhymes. It is very neatly printed.

ART. XII. An Inquiry into the Structure and Animal Economy of the Horfe; comprehending the Difeafes to which his Limbs and Feet are fubject, with proper Directions for Shoeing; and pointing out a Method for afcertaining his Age until his twelfth Year. To which is added an Attempt to explain the Laws of his Progreffice Motion, on Mechanical and Anatomical Principles. The whole illuftrated by feventeen Copper Plates. 2nd Edition, Revifed and Corrected. By Richard Lawrence, Veterinary Surgeon, Birmingham.

WE do not ordinarily notice fecond editions; but the book before us coming abroad with extraordinary pretenfions, our duty to the public and to the author himself induces us to difpenfe with a general rule. After the elegant engrav ings, fine type, and modifh paper, with which Mr. R. L. makes his appearance before the public, we were moft forcibly ftricken, as others of our critical brethren have formerly been, with a curious advertifement immediately preceding the first chapter of the work: to wit,

The reader is requested to obferve that this treatife has no connection whatever with one published by John Lawrence.' We recollect be

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