Unmov'd, amidst the royal infantry,
In full revenge had op'd his bloody way.
With indignation fi'd, the monarch faw
The fatal rout, and in his lofty breaft,
High paffions rofe, by conscious dignity
Sublimer made, and fwell'd with impulfe ftrong,
Paternal. Longer could he not contain
His mighty rage, nor, for a nation's weal,
His fafety prize. Amidst the yielding troops,
With winged hafte he flies, he calls aloud,
To rouse their finking valour, stays their flight.
Their broken ranks reforms, reanimates
To bold revenge, affails the vaunting foe,
And from his hand his fhort-liv'd honour wrefts.

Now death, with hafty ftride, ftalks o'er the field;
Grimly exulting in the bloody fray.

Now on the crefted helm, or burnish'd shield,
He stamps new horrors; now the levell'd sword
Tempers with keener rage; with iron-hoof,
Now tramples on th' expiring ranks; or gores
The foaming fteed against th' oppofing fpear.
But chiefly on the cannon's brazen orb
He fits triumphant, and, with fatal aim,
Involves whole squadrons in the fulph'rous ftorm.'

In the fourth line of the next quotation, the harshness of the found is adapted to the sense:

• Such thine,
O Beaudefert! old Montfort's lofty feat!
Haunt of my youthful steps! where I was wont
To range, chaunting my rude notes to the wind,
While Somervile difdain'd not to regard

With candid ear, and regulate the strain.'

In feveral paffages of this poem we can discover a great fimilarity to the compofition of Milton: at the fame time we are of opinion, that our author has carried his imitation of that noble poet to an extravagant excefs in the use of some exceptionable elifions. We find 'caufe fubftituted for the adverb becaufe; and in the following line there is an elifion, not only of a fyllable, but likewise an entire particle :

The fun, whofe eaftern rays fcarce 'gan appear.'

No constrained regularity of measure can ever be justifiable, which is fupported at the united expence of perfpicuity, elegance, and propriety.

As to the merit of this poem in general, we must acknowledge.

ledge, that it does not possess all that warmth and animated colouring which are neceffary to affect the imagination: but this is an inconvenience refulting from the locality of the fubject, and is compenfated by every other ornament which could be infused into the work. Many curious anecdotes in history are alluded to, and elegant compliments to diftinguished perfons interfperfed. The diction is correct and elevated, the imagery frequently beautiful, the verfification always flowing and harmonious, and it appears upon the whole, that the author poffeffes a confiderable share of talent for descriptive poetry.

III. A Tour to the Eaft, in the Years 1763 and 1764. With Remarks on the City of Conftantinople and the Turks. Alfo felea Pieces of Oriental Wit, Poetry, and Wisdom. By F. Lord Baltimore. 8vo. Pr. 35. 6d. Richardfon and Clark.

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ERSONS of rank and quality cannot give a better proof of their regard for literature, than by becoming authors themselves. In matters wherein no party nor perfonal confiderations can find admittance, they can have no bias upon their pens; and we may fairly prefume, that the nobleman whose work lies before us, could have no object in compiling it but the information of the public.

This benevolent principle prevailed so strongly in his lordfhip, that he was, in his voyage from Naples through the Arches to Conftantinople in the year 1763, exposed to great perils both from ftorms and pirates. This difagreeable part of his journal is foftened by a variety of paffages from the Latin poets, fome of which are translated into profe, we apprehend by the noble author, and are far from being deftitute of clegance.

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In the morning (fays his lordship) we found ourselves becalmed off the island of Capra. I think I never beheld fo entertaining a fight; the fun cafting its rays on the greatest variety of objects I ever faw; the different light and fhade, the prifmatic teints which this fountain of all colours at its first pearance in the horizon gave them, is impoffible to be expreffed. The profpects in this neighbourhood are exceeding beautiful; whichever way a landscape painter turns his eye, he is ftruck with a charming picture. Rocks, feas, mountains, volcanos, ruins of cities, baths, bridges, porticos, temples, and palaces, are elegantly, by accident, here alone found mingled with fhips, boats, castles, stately cities, men, women, children, cattle, villages, vines, country feats, trees, and pafture.

A fresh wind fpringing up drove us from the beautiful

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coaft of Naples; and about midnight we were all on deck to fee the Strombolo, a mountain which stands in the fea like a fugar-loaf, and from its lofty fummit emits continual flames; its afpect at fea is more terrible than the Vefuvius, with which it is thought to have a connection, as well as with mount Ætna, the greatest of all these fire mountains; the which nevertheless is at moft times covered with fnow.'

The noble author fays, that the two works fo celebrated for merly by the names of Scylla and Charibdis, are places at prefent undeferving notice; that the city of Meflina, in Sicily, presents to view a moft elegant façade of ftone building on an extenfive quay; but is within a miserable city, void of inhabitants. It is with pain we accompany his lordship in his troublesome dangerous voyage to Corfu, which (fays he) is a beautiful ifland, and the fortifications are kept in a condition to make a vigorous defence. I enquired after, but could hear no tidings of, thofe delightful gardens of king Alcinöus, which were faid formerly to have been here, and wherein he entertained Ulyffes after his fhipwreck. The garrifon confifts of 10,000 foldiers; the governor is called proveditor, and has the command of all the Venetian iflands; he received us with the greatest politeness; and lives in, and treated us with, great magnificence.

Cephalonia (continues his lordship) is a near neighbour of Ithaca, the country of Ulyffes; it abounds with variety of botanical plants and flowers, which are esteemed the best in Europe; fome of these flowers being cropt by the goats and sheep, gild their teeth with an extraordinary luftre: they prepare alfo from these excellent herbs liquors of the finest flavour,

From hence we fteered to Zante, in which island there are two remarkable fountains of pitch. The ladies here never ftir out of their houses without being muffled up, wearing black masks on their faces, fo that there is no seeing the least part of them. We went on fhore to the English conful's, at whose houfe we ftaid ten days, waiting for a wind. On the 12th, looking into the harbour, I obferved four or five different winds at the fame time, and at fea fome merchant-men who had a fair wind on our course, which induced me to try to join them; but before we could do fo, a contrary wind obliged us to return to Zante, which we left on the 14th along with another Venetian man of war; and this through caution, having received advice that there were a number of piratical barks in the Morea, which refpected no flag.

The coast of Greece and of Barbary is very dangerous for a fmall veffel, fuch as ours was, to caft anchor near: thefe barbarians making it their livelihood to rob, under different pre

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tences, whatever fhip they can; and on thefe excurfiorrs have heard that their priests fometimes go with them. They feize on their prey by ftratagem, or by fuddenly and fwiftly coming along-fide, and jumping, fword in hand, on board.'

We are forry it did not fuit his lordship to give us any other defcription of the ifland of Cerigo, the celebrated Cytherea of the antients, than what is contained in the beautiful lines which introduce Lucretius's poem.

On the 24th, fays his lordship, we landed at Tinos, and lodged at the house of one who ftiled himself an English conful, fignior Dominico Alebrandi. Here we ftaid till the 27th, and then fet fail, but were immediately drove back on the oppofite island of Miconi. In this place the drefs of the fair fex is particularly strange, and as different from that of the other islands, as that of those iflands is different from the dress of the European ladies; their heads are adorned with lively coloured turbans; their garments are a short white shift, plaited before and behind, which reaches to their knees; they have white linen drawers, and red, green, yellow, or blue stockings, with various coloured flippers.

Purpureoque alte, furas vincire cothurno.

The Greek women have fine features, and beautiful complexions; they have very engaging countenances, much like what we fee of them in their ftatues. The Greeks certainly have excelled in fculpture all other nations, as the Italians have in painting. The houses in these islands have very little furniture in them; they are clean and neat, but a foreigner cannot judge of the manners or conversation either of men or women, without being well versed in the present Greek language.

We ftaid but a day or two at Miconi, for we were lodged at the house of another strange Greek, who called himself also an English conful; he imagined he treated us with great diftinction and delight; but his perfon and behaviour being equally coarfe, we quitted this place on the fecond of July, and found ourselves next day under the beautiful ifland of Scio, which, amongst other places, is faid to have given birth to Homer. We stopped near the harbour of St. Helena, about eight miles from the city; but a violent plague raging there at that time, prevented our having the pleasure to go on fhore. We left it the day following, and returned again to the fame place at night, the wind being against us: we failed again next day, and paffed by the city, which from its beautiful environs appeared to be fituated in the midft of a delightful garden. We obferved a great number of large covered barges full of people, who lived on the water to avoid being infected

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on fhore. Not being able to advance, we ftopped again at the end of the island, where we were obliged to stand still two days longer. The 28th, at break of day, we difscovered a Turkish galliot, about half a mile from us; they called to us through a trumpet to fend our boat on board them, which we complied with; the captain asked in a polite manner, in the Italian language, from whence we came, and where we were bound; answer being given accordingly, and a breeze springing up, we steered over to the island of Myteline, and were in fome hopes of having at least a day or two of good wind, but, as ufual, we were disappointed; for just as we reached Cape Sigri, not wanting an hundred yards to double it, we were driven back again by a strong north-wefter, and reduced to our usual entertainment of beating about from one tack to the other for three days.'

At last, after a very uncomfortable voyage, the noble author gets afhore at Rhoḍofto. Confidering, fays he, the length of time we had been on the water, and how flowly we had advanced, we thought it better to finish the remainder of our expedition by land; we therefore hired a Turkish coach, with feveral faddle horses; thefe coaches are long, and fomething fhaped like a hearfe, without any feats in them; they are very gay and pretty, being covered with a lively fcarlet cloth,. and painted red and green on the outfide, and embellished with flowers, painted on a filver and gold ground intermixed; they get into them by the help of a ladder, which is afterwards fastened behind; and they have painted lattices inftead of glaffes or doors.

The road from Rhodofto is beautiful; one paffes to Selivia over a very long and well-built ftone bridge; and from thence to Pera by land, or to St. Stephano.'

The next divifion of his lordship's work contains remarks on the city of Conftantinople, great part of which we believe is new to our readers, and therefore muft prove entertaining.

• Conftantinople, with the suburbs, is one of the largest cities in the world, and is faid to contain feven or eight hundred thousand people, and would be ftill fuller of inhabitants if the government would admit it. It is built on very unequal ground; and the streets are confequently the fame; they are paved, and though not so clean as thofe at the Hague, are not fo dirty as those were in London. The houfes are built of wood and plaifter; they make no great appearance without, but are convenient and fometimes very rich within: most of them command fine profpects to the fea. There are no carriages for the transportation of goods in this city; porters are the general vehicles made use of, except for timber and fuch like they

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