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ing his father from him,' and spiritless and exhausted of an evening: but the defect, against which we most wish Miss Lee in future to guard, is the termination of her periods with adverbs and prepositions. Art. 49. A faithful Journal of the late Expedition to Egypt. Including a circumstantial Account of the Voyage, dispostion of the Fleet, Arrangements on Landing, Battle of Aboukir, Surrender of Alexandria, Death of Abercrombie, and other interesting Particulars. By a Private on board the Dictator. 12mo. 18. Lee. This journal has the appearance of really originating from the zource whence it is said to be derived; and it contains such particulars as might be supposed to fall within the knowlege and observation of a person so situated.

Mistakes in the orthography of the names of places, &c. in course occur; and we do not observe any circumstance of moment related with which the public was not before acquainted. The account, however, may afford some amusement, and gratify some curiosity. Articles of capitulation, copies of general orders, returns of losses in action, &c. are included.

Art. 50. The Life of Toussaint Louverture, Chief of the French Rebels in St. Domingo. To which are added, Interesting Notes respecting several Persons who have acted distinguished Parts in St. Domingo. By M. Dubroca. Translated from the French. Small 8vo. 29. 6d. Symonds. 1802.

Toussaint is not one of the successful few who have "waded through slaughter to a throne:" but he appears, in the short course which his ambition was destined to run, to have spilt blood enough to satisfy an ordinary hero. According to the account before us, he is a monster grown old in the perpetration of crimes; the assassin of his benefactors; hypocritical, perjured, and cruel. It must be remem bered, however, that this description was composed to justify the strong measures taken by the French Government against him; and therefore, though the atrocities of which this Negro Chief has been guilty would be sufficiently horrible, were they related without the least exaggeration, the pages of M. Dubroca must be read with

caution,

Toussaint was born in 1743. in the North department of Saint Domingo, on the estate of the Count de Noe; (a gentleman who, since the Revolution, has resided for some time at Hampton Court;) and at his birth he was in the condition of a slave. Giving early indications of genius, and teaching himself to read and write, he was noticed by the overseer of the estate, who took him into his own personal service, and first made him his coachman. Hence growing in favour, he was advanced to a superintendance over a number of slaves; and from one step to another he arrived at the supreme command of his revolted brethren. As his race of ambition is probably now run*, he will cease to call forth that interest which he formerly

The newspapers have announced the total subjugation of this revolt, and the final transportation of Toussaint to France. excited;

excited; and as to his political and military conduct, it has been so often detailed in the public prints, that it is unnecessary for us to record it.

The work is ornamented by a portrait of this Black Chief. We know not whether it was ever like him, but it could not have been recently taken, because it is too young for a man fifty-nine years old.

THANKSGIVING SERMONS.

Art. 51. Preached at the Parish Church of St. George, Hanover Square, the 1st of June, 1802, being the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving. By Henry Reginald, Lord Bishop of Exeter, Rector of that Parish. 4to. is. Robson.

A text applicable to thanksgiving in general (Ps. 1. 14.) here calls forth some general observations on the duty of publicly expressing our gratitude to God for his mercies; whence the R. R. preacher proceeds to make some remarks on the origin and object of the late war; and to offer his congratulations that, by the blessing of God on the promptness and vigor of our counsels, and on the exertions of our Navy and Army, it is now happily brought to a conclusion.

Art. 52. Preached at the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, Minories. Published at the Request of the Parishioners By Thomas Thirlwall, M. A. Curate. 4to. 18. Rivingtons.

After having enumerated the dangers which threatened us from disaffection, mutiny, scarcity, alarms of invasion, and irreligious principles, Mr. T. exhorts us to rejoice that, under the protecting 'shield of Divine Providence, the ark of the Constitution remains untouched; the throne and the altar are preserved sacred and inviolate; the charter of our civil and religious liberties is uninfringed; our lives, property, and independance, are guarded and protected; and our empire consolidated, strengthened, and defended. These mercies we are required to employ to a good use. Text, Ezek.

xxxvii. 3.

Art. 53. Preached in the Parish Church of High Wycombe, Bucks. Published by Request. By the Rev. W. B. Williams, B. A. 8vo. IS. Hatchard.

From Zeph. iii. 14, 15. we are here invited to consider the judg ments under which we have been labouring, our deliverance from them, and our duty in consequence of this mercy. The preacher congratulates his country on the Peace, since the Almighty has "abated the pride, assuaged the malice, and confounded the devices of our [late] enemies." Yet he recommends to us no extravagant hilarity on the occasion, but rather to rejoice with trembling.

Art. 54. Delivered at Worship-street: to which is subjoined the Congratulatory Address of the Protestant Dissenters on the return of Peace, presented to the King, on Thursday May 7; together with his Majesty's Answer. By John Evans, A. M. 8vo. 15. Symonds.

Reprobating

Reprobating war, and lamenting its horrors, Mr. Evans hails with enthusiasm the return of peace; and the drift of his sermon is to shew that, whether we consider the good man in his individual, social, religious, or public capacity, he will in all be induced to adopt the language of the text (Ps. exx. 7.) "I am for Peace." A Hyma on the Reign of Christ is added: but the spirit of poetry did not reign in the mind of the author.-In the Answer to the Address of the Dissenting Ministers, his Majesty assures them of "the continuance of his favour and protection."

OTHER SINGLE

SERMONS.

Art. 55. Pity upon the Poor.-Preached June 30, 1801, in St. Mary's Church, Brecon, at the Annual Meeting of the Subscribers to the Clerical Fund, in that Archdeaconry. By the Archdeacon. 4to. 15. Hurst.

We have perused with peculiar satisfaction this well-written discourse; the able writer of which signs his name Edward Edwards, at the bottom of his prefixed Address to Mrs. Chalie.' This address follows another paper of the same kind, which runs thus: To the Lady at Hamburgh, who, desiring to be unknown, has, at this trying period, most benevolently ordered the sum of one thousand pounds to be distributed in this kingdom, among Clergymen with large families and small incomes, through the House of Ransom, Morland, and Co. Pall Mall.'-The discourse does much credit to the writer; and it is to be hoped that it could not fail of promoting the good design with which it was composed.

Art. 56. Revelation indispensable to Morality-Preached in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, 21st March 1802. By the Honorable and Right Rev. William Knox, Lord Bishop of Killaloe. 8vo. Is. 6d. Dublin. Sold by Cadell jun. and Davies, in London.

The advocates for the sufficiency of Natural Religion are unable to point to any period or state of society, in which this sufficiency has been manifest. In the history of Philosophy, we see only opinionum commenta,-hypothesis succeeding hypothesis, without esta blishing any stable and satisfactory basis of moral conduct. The will of God seemed necessary to remove doubt; and the communication of this will is a circumstance which might be reasonably expected in the administration of his moral Providence. Dr. John Leland, in his work on the advantages and necessity of Revelation, by adducing all that was accomplished by the learned of antient times, has proved that the word by wisdom knew not God; and hence he demonstrated the expediency of a divine interference. The Bishop of Killaloe has not only well compressed Dr. Leland's argument, but has made a most important addition to it. From the tendency of civil society to generate vice, he maintains the indispensable necessity of religion to the promotion of good morals:

We collect (says he) from the history of many ages this important truth, that there is but one foundation of virtue, one secure and stedfast morality. We learn that neither private virtue, nor na

tional liberty, can subsist where the corruption consequent upon civi lization is not arrested in its progress by religion; and that without her, in spite of all declamation to the contrary, vice and profligacy must ever be the crime and the disease, and a despot the scourge and the cure.'

There is something striking in this observation; and from this short passage the reader may appreciate the superior merit of the whole discourse.

Art. 57. Preached in the Chapel of the London Hospital, April 8, 1802. By Richard Watson, Lord Bishop of Landaff. 4to, Is. 6d. Cadell jun. and Davies.

The present is a popular discourse, in which Dr. Watson endeavours to frustrate those who would pervert the Gospel of Christ, (text Gal. i. 7.) not by employing against them abstruse and learned rea soning, but arguments levelled to the apprehension of the ordinary classes of mankind. While we approve this method, we may be permitted to question the propriety of placing the credibility of our Saviour's resurrection on a par with that of the gun-powder plot, because suspicion attaches to all political plots, from which this is far from being exempt; whereas the resurrection of Christ, which cannot be attributed to any political agency, and which could not be applied to any political purpose, cannot be doubted on this ground. The witnesses of that event, though the objects of persecution, did not desist from glorying in the gospel; and assured, by a splendid fact, of the existence of a future state, they chearfully sacrificed their lives in the service of their heavenly master.

After having pointed to the immorality of the lives of men, and to religious inattention, as the prevailing causes of infidelity, the Bishop of Landaff pays his country a compliment which we are confident it justly merits, viz. that Christianity is in no part of the world better interpreted, more generally understood, or believed on more rafional grounds, than in Great Britain';-and that, though we are a rich and luxurious people, we are also a liberal and humane people.' If our crimes cannot be diminished, at least may they be "kept from despair by being long cherished by these virtues."

Art. 58. Occasioned by the Death of John, Earl of Clare, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Vice-Chancellor of the University. Delivered in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, on Sunday Feb. 7, 1802. By the Rev. William Magee, D. D. Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. 8vo. Pamphlet. Dublin; sold by Cadell jun. and Davies, London.

Reflections on mortality are not expected to possess novelty; it is sufficient if they be just, and stimulative to virtuous exertion. Such is the character and such is the tendency of those thoughts which form the basis of the discourse before us; and from which Dr. M., after having shed the tear of respect on the ashes of Dr. Murray, and Dr. Young, Bishop of Clontert (of whom the College has not long been deprived,) proceeds to lament the death and to embalm the memory of the late Earl of Clare. This nobleman is here repre

sented,

'sented, in his political character, as having displayed a noble ind ference to popular opinion, and an unshaken firmness in the cause of loyalty; in his judicial capacity, such integrity, dispatch, and atten tion to the respectability of the bar, that the nation may have long to wait for a successor of similar endowments; in private life, as pious towards God, generous as a landlord, punctual in his dealings, and steady in his friendships; and, as a member of the University, unwearied in his attachment to its interests, and to those of the Esta blished Religion.

Such, says Dr. M. were some of his merits; and if there were faults in his character, which cast a shade on his shining qualities, this is but the lot of man. Thus funeral sermons are only ex parte evidence; and the faithful historian will not highly estimate their unqualified

encomiums.

CORRESPONDENCE.

We are obliged to a Correspondent who humorously sigas himself Ignotus, for his remarks on the commencement of Gray's Ode on the Poetical Character, in reference to the observations of Dr. Berd more and ourselves; (see Rev. for May, p. 24, &c.) and though we do not entirely agree with him, we are far from undervaluing his opinion. The line in Virgil, to which he refers, certainly bears a close resemblance to that of Gray but the passage in Horace, pointed out by Dr. Berdmore, contains the same idea -In his sen timents of Gray's general merits, Ignotus seems to have adopted Dr. Johnson's criticisms: but on subjects of this nature diversity of opia nions will always subsist. We shall only observe that the metaphor of a stream, as applied to poetry, is not merely sanctioned by the authority of Horace, but that Homer has characterized the eloquence of Nestor in similar terms;

Το καὶ από γλώσσες μέλιτος γλυκίων μεν αυδή.

We would also beg leave to remind our Correspondent that, by the "Stream of Music," Gray did not understand the melody only, but the Sense of Poetry. The proposed alterations do not appear to us to be improvements of Gray.

Another letter has been sent to us by Dr. Hutton of Woolwich: but it is inconsistent with our plan, and incompatible with our limits, to continue this dispute.

We know nothing of the circumstance concerning which A. A. inquires.

B: B: B: is received, and will not be overlooked.

Mr. Cooke's letter has reached us, but we cannot interfere in the affair which is the subject of it.

In the last Review, P. 143. L. power. P. 201. 1. 3. from bott. for deleaf' after 'most.

5. from bott. after our,' insert these, read the. P. 210. 1.7,

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