designs,' by transcribing what we conceive to be the most interesting passage in the whole work. The hardy courage and generous loyalty of the Tyrolese are well known; an animating picture of both is exhibited in the following narrative, which, at this moment, must create a mournful interest in the bosom of every loyal Englishman. These intrepid and patriotic mountaineers are now become the vassals of France. At a period when all Europe appears on the point of crumbling into fragments under the iron mace of that colossal dominion, when mankind is threatened with a bondage which may perhaps for ages obstruct the progress of human improvement and the diffusion of all honourable sentiment, it is a melancholy duty to collect and record every exertion of virtuous bravery which has dignified the last struggles of independence. Posterity may thus be informed that sentiments and feelings once existed, which, had they been carefully encouraged and judiciously directed, might have saved their ancestors from the grinding fangs of military despotism, and preserved to themselves the blessings of moral and intellectual liberty.

This tribe of herdsmen appeared to me to be more brave and less corrupted than their neighbours, who cultivate the vine. What might not have been expected of them during the late war! With what courage they waited for the coming of the French! At Branneken, two posts from Brixen, they had not heard of the arrival of the enemy till he was almost at their gates. They immediately sent to General Sporke, who commanded a corps at no great distance, to inform him they were ready to fight if he would come and support them. The general promised to comply with their invitation. More than four thousand country people assembled, armed themselves, baked bread for the Austrians, procured wine, and waited for their leader. He came not: he sent them word, that his orders obliged him to return over the mountains. This message the honest peasants could not understand. They were acquainted with their mountains; they knew that, especially in spring, it was not possible to cross them, at least not with artillery. They wondered why the general should choose rather to throw his cannon into the water, than to bring it to their defence; and they still maintain that if this had been done, if they had been organized, and had any one to head them, not a man of the French would have escaped. Whoever has seen the country and its inhabitants, will give them credit for the assertion. The answer they received rendered them not dejected, but indignant. All the officers of government withdrew, leaving the people to shift for themselves. But whenever they met with one of these fugitives, they seized him by his queue, dragged him back, and tauntingly exclaimed, "Scoundrel, there is the enemy!"

Had, at that moment, a man appeared among them, endowed by

mature with military talents, he might have given the state of affairs a very different aspect, and have acquired great renown. Now their force was dispersed, but even in this situation they made head against the French, In a small town, a body of them assembled at the gate, merely opened a small door from time to time, fired, killed at each time a number of the enemy, and then instantly drew back their heads again. The French might threaten and storm as they pleased; the kule troop continued to defend themselves in this manner, and at length compelled them to retire. Even in a village situated on a rock, the inhabitants resolved to oppose the entrance of the invaders. The women armed themselves as well as the men, and the children rolled large stones down upon the French, who mnade a halt, and then proceeded farther. On their approach to Branneken, the peasants ascended the mountains, kindled some hundreds of fires in the vicinity, and so alarmed the numerous army of the cuemy, that he entered into a capitulation with this open town, the articles of which were faithfully observed. These brave herdsmen were therefore indebted to their courage alone for not being plundered. The word peasant was a terror to the French, and frequently restrained them from committing excesses. The heart of

a German patriot bleeds, when he sees what a two-edged sword government then had in its hand without daring to draw it from its scabbard.' VOL. IV. P. 275.

Again, speaking of the inhabitants of Lienz, the last froutier town of Tyrol :

Deserted by those who ought to brave protected them, unprovided with arms, except such as the troops had thrown away in their precipitate flight, they seized these, placed an innkeeper who had once been a serjeant at their head, boldly attacked the advanced guard of the French which had entered their little town, and drove them from street to street, out at the gate, and beyond the bridge, strewing the whole way with the bodies of their enemies. IBID. P. 283.

It would certainly be worth the while of a good historian to reside for a few months in Tyrol; he would there have an opportu nity of collecting the most extraordinary particulars of a war, the individual occurrences of which must appear incomprehensible to posterity. They will not be a little astonished to learn, that the military manifested a kind of hatred (I cannot possibly call it envy) against the brave peasantry; and that they went so far as to call the gallant General Laudon, by way of ridicule, the idol of the peasants, because he was the only officer who knew how to avail himself of the courage and energy of the Tyrolese; and who, let it bɛ well remarked, himself fought at their head.' IBID. P. 284.

MONTHLY CATALOGUE.

RELIGION.

ART. 11.—Second Thoughts on the Trinity, recommended to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester, in a Letter addressed to his Lordship, by Edward Evanson. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Johnson.

1805.

THESE Second Thoughts of Mr. Evanson consist partly of remarks and animadversions on the language and argument of what may be cailed the metaphysical division of the Bishop of Gloucester's Treatise, partly of observations on his scriptural testimonies; and the remainder is occupied in an appeal to the book of the Revelation of St. John, as sanctioning Mr. E.'s views on the doctrine of the Trinity, and some other generally accounted fundamental tenets of the christian scheme. We mentioned ourselves, in our review of that article, that we could by no means give an unqualified approbation to the skill and caution of the Right Reverend Prelate, in his metaphysical arguments. And yet we cannot affirm that Mr. Evanson, by his desultory observations, has in any degree presented us with an adequate and satisfactory exposition of all the blemishes which are contained in the bishop's performance while, in exposing the errors of another, he has not taken sufficient care to keep himself free from blame. In the part which respects the scriptutes, there are so many previous questions to be settled betwixt Mr. Evanson and his readers, that any mention between them of such a doctrine as that of the Trinity must, excepting in the case of a very few individuals, be quite premature. If that doctrine be supported at all, it must be by the evidence of scripture. What then can we do in such an argument with a man who has reasoned himself into a disbelief of the authenticity of so great a part of the sacred volume as Mr. E has done, and who seems to repose an undoubting confidence scarcely in any portion of scripture, excepting the Apocalypse? Truly, the gentleman has greatly the advantage of us. We want common principles and materials of debate. "We shall be unto him that speaketh, barbarians, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto us."-Thefar greatest number' of the Bishop's scriptural testimonies, Mr. Evanson tells his Lordship, are no more the works of any writers of the apostolic age, than these Thoughts of your Lordship which now lie before me; and therefore I certainly shall not think it of any use to take particular notice of them, until your Lordship, or some other advocate for their authenticity, shall have produced rational and sufficient evidence that they were in existence before the reign of the Emperor

Hadrian.' (P. 20.) The subject of debate then is quite changed it becomes a discussion of the canonical authority of the scriptures: and to him who entertains any doubts upon that subject, till they are removed, ali both First and Second Thoughts on any Scriptural Doctrine, are altogether in vain.

To us, and we presume to most common readers, Mr. Evanson's apocalyptical speculations appear in a great degree visionary; and exemplify very strikingly the fact how often credulity and scepticism are united in the same bosom. They remind us forcibly of honest Will. Whiston, and his darling apostolical constitutions.

Yet, let us not deprive Mr. Evanson, (though he is now alike cut of the reach of our praise and our censure) of his deserved commendation. The tract bears marks of acuteness and of learning, and is written, generally speaking, in a sober and serious frame of mind, and with much less unbecoming flippancy and intolerance, either with regard to the subject on which he writes, or the person of his antagonist, than is but too frequent among controversialists.

The most orthodox need not be ashamed to admire and to imitate the piety and seriousness of the concluding observations:

'Whether my feeble efforts on this, or any other occasion, may prove productive, in any manner, of such salutary effects as I fondly presume from them, depends entirely upon the will of the supreme" Disposer of all human events. He knoweth that I am actuated in them solely by benevolent, and, as far as concerns this world, by the most disinterested motives. And to his gracious, paternal disposal, I cheerfully resign myself and every thing that is mine?' (P. 60.)

ART. 12.-An Essay on the internal Evidence of the Religion of Moses. Published in Pursuance of the Will of the late Mr. Norris, having gained the annual Prize instituted by him in the University of Cambridge. By Thomas Broadley, A. M. of Trinity College. Svo. 2s. Cadell and Davies. 1805.

-IN this short essay the reader will naturally look for arguments few, select, and popular, rather than for any thing very novel or profound. The writer, however, has performed his part in a manner which does not discredit the character in which he appears before the public. He first briefly discusses the genuineness of the Pentateuch, and of this he conceives we have the same evidence which the natives of modern Europe have of that of the Iliad of Homer, or the British inhabitants of India, of that of the writings of Bacon and Newton. The internal evidence of the religion is examined under two general divisions; one relating more especially to the character of its author, or, more properly speaking, its promulgator, and the other to the nature and character of the religion itself. In this latter part, the writer might have found a wide field for the exercise of his pen in an exposition of the noble arguments, so intimately connected with his subjects, of those great men, Spencer and Warburton. But

bere, as in other parts of this Essay, we have to complain of deficiencies, which compel us to remind Mr. Broadley of the old precept, Qui studet optatam, &c. Nil sine magno Vita labore de

dit, &c. &c.

ART. 13...The Plain Man's Epistle to every Child of Adam, or the Voice of Earth to his Brother Dast. 12mo. Jones. 1805.

PLAIN enough!

ART. 14.-Sermons on various Subjects, by Alexander Hewat, D.D, Vol. II. Svo. pp. 447. Cadell and Davies. 1805.

AN account was given of the first volume of these Discourses in the Critical Review for January, 1805, We are by no means disposed to detract from, but would rather enlarge and extend the praises which were bestowed upon Dr. Hewat on that occasion. We have perused this second volume with feelings of almost unvaried satisfaction, Nor do we hesitate to say, that to our taste, and according to the principles which we hold concerning the eloquence of the pulpit, Dr. Hewat is one of the most respectable preachers of his day.

But let us not be misunderstood. His readers must not expectin these Discourses to be borne away by torrents of irresistible eloquence, to have their fancy amused and surprised by extraordinary allusions, or by any uncommon variety and felicity of illustrations; they must not look to be overawed by profound and extensive learn ing, or to be challenged to pursue the author through long and subtle trains of argumentation, These are not the praises to which Dr. Hewat lays claim. But, which shews his pretensions to still higher commendation, he recalls forcibly to our minds the declaration of the great apostle of the Gentiles: we preach not ourselyes, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake,' There will be found here no elaborate display of ornament, no toilsome efforts to catch praise and popularity; but all is plain, practical, simple, sincere, and pastoral. We shall rejoice to find that the number of such preachers increases: and it will give us great pleasure to learn that Dr. H. is induced by the patronage of the public to favour us with more of his Discourses. They cannot fail to improve the religion, the morals, the good sense and taste of their readers,

MEDICINE.

ART. 15.-Observations on the Nature and Cure of the Gout; an Nodes of the Joints; and on the Influence of certain Articles of Diet, in Gout, Rheumatism, and Gravel. By James Par kinson. 8vo. 5s. 6d. Symonds. 1805,

THE author, being himself subject to attacks of the gout, has been led both to practice and to meditate on this disease, with par ticular interest and attention; but he was chiefly incited to publish CRIT. REY, Vol, 7, January, 1806,