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27, 1805, was printed at Halle, in the dominions of the King of Prussia, and published at Leipzig, Bremen, and Hamburg. From the first-mentioned of these places the author has taken measures to have it conveyed into our hands, though it does not appear to have ever been published in this country. We should suspect the writer (who professes himself an Englishman) to be some journeymantrader from Manchester or Birmingham, who instead of attending to the sale of his cutlery, or his calicoes, has suffered his head to be possessed with mistaken notions of his own capacity, and been induced to fancy himself a politician. Such is his zeal in the cause, and such his conviction of his ability to give lessons of politics to his countrymen, that, removed as he is by sea and land from the scene of action, he still cherishes all the warmth of partyspirit, fulminates from the heart of Germany his anathemas against the late administration, and urges the people of England to peti, tion his majesty for a change of men and measures. His advice unfortunately is come too late, and he has doubtless, ere this, congratulated himself on the appointment of a ministry after his own beart.

He makes it his object to prove, that peace was desired by France after the treaty of Amiens, that the aggressions of that power were not sufficiently important to justify ministers in plunging the English nation into the present war, the real origin of which he asserts is to be found in the hatred which those ministers enter, tained towards the French government; their envy of its greatness, and their hope that a war might place them in a more comfortable. situation, than that in which they had been left by the inglorious treaty of Amiens.' He concludes with remarks on the expediency of an immediate peace. His arguments to prove these positions are many of them not of the most logical nature; some, however, it must be allowed, are weighty and good, and the writer must have had considerable trouble in collecting them from the different op position papers, in which they have perpetually appeared under different modifications, ever since the question of the present war began to be agitated.

This Anglo-German pamphlet is dedicated to the Prince of Wales, who, the writer thinks, merits, from his opposition to the late minis try and their measures, the most glorious of all titles, The Prince of Peace.' He has prefixed the following classical motto: Amicus Plato, amicus Socrates, sed magis amicus Veritas.'

NOVELS.

ART. 22. Ferdinand and Amelia, a Novel, in three Volumes. STQ. Crosby, 1806.

WE could wish that Sterne's ridicule had not banished the 'compasses' from the critics' table: they would be as useful to us, as the scales are in the hands of Justice. The novel-warehouses in

town supply their country customers with a fresh cargo every spring and winter, and (if the use of the compasses were allowed to us) we might give due information of the length, breadth, and thickness: of the new-printed volumes, so that orders might be executed ac cording to size of box per waggon.'

As a specimen of this mode of criticism (for which, by the by, wo intend to take out a patent), we announce to all circulating libraries. that The novel of Ferdinand and Amelia euds very happily, and that the three volumes are seven inches in length, four and a half in breadth, and two in thickness.-N. B. Unbound when measured.'

ART. 23.-Ezersfield Abbey, a Novel, in three Volumes, by the Authoress of the Aunt and the Niece, 8vo. Crosby. 1806.

THIS novel, like some modern comedies, may very fairly be allowed to run the usual season, and perhaps for the benefit of the authoress.

ART. 24.-The Eventful Marriage, a Tale in four Volumes, by the Author of Count de Norring, and Monckton.' 8vo. Crosby.. 1806.

THIS is a spirited performance. The incidents are interesting; and the language is above mediocrity. The scene lies in the region of romantic adventure, Spain; and the characters are well delineated. Dons, duennas, and abigails, flit across the stage with as much rapidity as any female-spectator could wish,

DRAMA.

ART. 25.-Sacred Dramas intended for Young Persons, by Joha Collet, Master of the Academy, Evesham, Worcestershire. Svo pp. 224. Longman. 1805.

THIS work is intended as a second volume to the Sacred Dramas of Miss Hannah More, and is suited for the use of those for whom it is professedly written. It may safely be adopted as a class-book at a ladies' school.

POETRY.

ART. 26.-Poetical Amusement on the Journey of Life; consisting of various Pieces in Verse: Serious, Theatric, Epigrammatic, and Miscellaneous. By Wm. Meyler. 8vo. Robinson. 1806. TIE original Pegasus, like the old Godolphin, from whom our racers are descended, was a noble animal; but his descendants aie. of a very motley description. Some of them bave fire in their eye, and shew a great deal of spirit in all their motions, but after the efort of two or three prancings, their vigour flags, and their wind.

fails them. Others sport a very fine figure, but give no proof of real mettle; and there are some who are so cropped and nicked, and have so much the appearance of common hacks, that their relationship to their sire of Parnassus can with difficulty be traced. The melo-dramatists have introduced a pie-bald breed: Peter Pindar boasts that he possesses oue of undeniable pedigree, but his horse has so many frolicksome tricks, that we suspect there must have been some cross with Mr. Astley's stud; Mr. Southey and his associates are fond of exhibiting themselves on an animal, who in shape and blood certainly has all the properties of a horse; but, like Rozinante, he is so untrimmed, so lank, so woe-begone, that he is rather an apology for what he ought to be, than a specimen of what Pegasus was: and then, they ride the poor creature in so slovenly a style, with stirrup leathers of unequal length, with patched girths, a rusty bit, and only one spur, sometimes walking him, sometimes galloping him, never keeping a steady rein, but sometimes jerking up his head, and at other times letting it poke down to the ground, 'till he falls and breaks his knees; that he seldom can carry himself well, and never would have an opportunity of shewing his speed, if he did not sometimes run away with his rider. From the same stock is derived an useful little breed of ponies, who have a very small portion of their ancestor's spirit, but they are of such a couvenient size (sometimes, when they get into the hands of lampooners, they throw the dirt too much) and are so easily mounted, stand so quiet in the stable, and on the road trot and amble so prettily, seldom breaking out of a tit-up, carrying their master so pleasantly to the theatre, to a club-dinner, or to a friend's house, that they are really very handy animals, and we do not wonder to see their breed very much encouraged, and of course very numerous.

One of these ponies has been in the possession of Mr. Meyler at Bath many years, who, when he was a boy, used frequently to can"ter him on a visit to Bath Easton. We refer our readers to Mr. M.'s own account of his Pegasiunculus.

'Reader! thou art here presented with a collection which the author has called Poetical Amusement on the Journey of Life; for, by the dates which have been annexed where they could be ascertained, thou wilt see that many of the pieces were written at a very early~ period of life, and so, progressively, to the present hour. When a mere boy he was honored, and he confesses that he then thought it as great an honor as even kings could confer, with the reward of several myrtle wreaths for verses which had the good fortune to be, approved by the elegant society instituted by Lady Millar, at Bath Easton Villa. This envied distinction,' to a juvenile mind, gave him a passion for rhyming, and that passion begot, at least, a facility of composition; for the author can assure thee, like the boasted professors of profile-painting, that the greater part of these Poems were finished at one sitting. Engaged in many serious avocations, with domestic and official duties, which he trusts have not been neglected for the less important services of the Muses, he could never

bead his mind long enough to subjects that required repeated attention, or intense application. These trifles would still have remained, as his friend Brush remarked, "locked up in an old lumber-box in one corner of his garret," or heedlessly scattered about the ephemeral columns of a periodical paper, had he not been stimulated to the publication by the wishes of those nearly connected with him, and by the reprehension of others whom he highly respects. He too has seen many of his light effusions creep anonymously into other collections, and sometimes with a different signature than W.M: There is a desire even in the most indolent mind to claim its own property.'

As he several times won the sweep-stakes at Lady Millar's races, perhaps our readers may wish to see some of his performances.

THE RIDER AND THE SAND-BOY.

A TALE.

To give the last polish to a youth, 'tis agreed
That travel doth all formal precepts exceed;

It adds ease and freedom to classic glean'd knowledge,
Rubs off the school rust, and the stiffness of college.
As proof of this system, what men are so easy
As those who for orders so fluently tease ye;
Who ride round the country, and shew, far and near,
Their Manchester patterns, or Birmingham ware?

'One day after dinner, as some of these wags
Were cracking their filberts, and praising their nags,
A poor shoeless urchin, half-starved, and sun tann'd,
Pass'd near the inn window, with-" Buy my fine sand!”
When Saddle-bag Sammy, long famed for his fun,
To banter the dust-cover'd squaller begun--

What dost cry there, my lad ?" "Why, sand! Sir."
"And prithee

Hast got a large stock ? I see none of it with thee."

"Ob-I leave sand and Neddy about the town's borders,
"And am just stepping round, Sir, to look out for orders."

ART. 27.—The Victory of Trafalgar, a Naval Ode, by Samuel
Maxey, Esq. 4to. pp. 35. 2s. Johnson. 1806.

THIS poem has the singular merit of affixing the proper accent to the name of the cape, which the victory of our hero has rendered one of the luminous spots' of our terraqueous globe. Trafalgar is not a false quantity in Mr. Maxey's verses:

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His stanza is harmonious and animated: we could wish that there were many of equal merit with the following:

'On yonder steep,

That overhangs the billowy deep,

See Victory stands!

Her diadem is covered o'er

With stains of purple clotted gore,

Her robes the bloody banners, that she tore
From slaughter'd bands.'

ART. 28.-Verses on the Victory off Trafalgar, by the Rev. W.
Tremenheere, A. B. late Chaplain to H. M. Ship Valiant: 4to.
Pp. 11. Faulder.

1806.

WE presume that Mr. Tremenheere's verses were written extempore.

ART. 29.-An Ode written upon the Death and Victory of Lord Viscount Nelson; to which are added, Lines addressed to him after the Battle of the Nile, by a Lady. Octavo. pp. 16. 2s. Boosey. 1805.

THIS ode, as the author now informs us, was written on the night of the illuminations, and might with great propriety have been inscribed under the painted device of a transparency. As an illuminated manuscript it might have had some merit; as a printed octavo, it has none.

Europe from Nelson's funeral pile,

As from his thunders at the Nile,
Shall catch the sacred flame,
And phoenix-like shall rise again!

Yet! he whose arm that splendor could restore,

Alas! is now no more!'

ART. 30.-The Death of the Hero! Verses to the Memory of Lord Nelson. 4to, pp. 8. 1s. Baldwin. 1806.

THE motto, which this poet has prefixed to his verses, is

'Roman drops from British eyes."

From the following address to the manes of Lord Nelson, it would appear, that he conceives the Roman like the British people to have been a hot-headed race.

Illustrious shade! to British hearts thy name
Strikes to the inmost nerve the patriot's flame,
We weep-but tears of fire-and Frenchmen see
A Nelson rise in every heart for thee!'

We know not whether the muse, or Mr. Baldwin, the printer deserve censure for the obscurity of the four lines, which are next

in succession.

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