and love for the country in which he had been born and educated, and had received the high advantages of her protecting government, as to co-operate in every plan of her enemies to subjugate and ruin her; to rejoice in the success of those plans, or to grieve at their overthrow!-Mr. Stone, however, on evidence that has not been disputed, appears to be this character! Of the second letter, the following account is given at the close of the first; ' I enclose a note for our friend M. B. P.; but as ignorant of the name he bears at present among you, I must beg you to seal and address it. We have heard nothing of him since his departure, and know but vaguely that he is secreted at present at Kennebeck.' The same principles, and the same proofs of French citizenship, which marked the former letter, appear in this." It will not unreasonably be supposed, that the persons to whom these epistles are addressed entertain the same sentiments with those which actuated their correspondents. This, however, is but presumptive evidence, and may be resited by testimony of a contrary description: but, with regard to Mr. Stone, it may be remarked that " out of his own mouth is he condemned." - A preface and notes accompany these letters, to heighten their effect;-which was scarcely necessary. AFFAIRS OF FRANCE. Art. 50. Remonstrance, addressed to the Executive Directory of the French Republic, against the Invasion of Switzerland. By John Caspar Lavater, Rector at Zurich. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Debrett, &c. This letter, which is dated May 10, 1798, contains an animated, just, (but guarded,) and pathetic expostulation with the rulers of France, on account of their treacherous and tyrannic treatment of subdued Switzerland, especially the canton of Zurich : for example; • We were promised, (says the venerable and patriotic physiognomist,) at least verbally, by the agents of the great nation, that no French troops should enter our canton, that not a sou should be demanded from us. Yet the very reverse happened. They had the impudence to exact from us three millions of livres. They had the cruelty to march troops into our canton, without the least previous application, to exhaust our poor innocent country! In other words, they forced upon Us the liberty of suffering ourselves to be stripped of all rational freedom.'' 'Three millions!-and for what? To exact millions, is millionfold injustice. It is the demand, not of a civilized nation, I know of no other appropriate expression, the demand of a band of robbers, ill organized, grown overbearing by success in war, and in their own opinion entitled to whatever they chuse to claim.'-' Three millions!! from 200 burghers * of a small town, while the 2,600 burghers, of whom it consists, would not be able to raise that sum.-Great Nation, if any sense of shame and humanity remains in thy bosom, blush!' &c. &c. -The freedom of the few * The weight of this fine seems to have fallen on this select number of the inhabitants, ' on the pretext of subverting and punishing an aristocracy which was no more." 1 Lines which we have transcribed is nothing to the vehement upbraid ings and execrations * which the good rector of Zurich pours out against the French government, in the course of this reproachful address, in reference to the whole of their arbitrary treatment of poor unhappy HELVETIA! What effect was produced by this letter, which was addressed to Citizen REWBELL' in particular, we have not learnt: but the Eng lish Editor, who signs his preliminary advertisement, "H. NEWMAN," and dates from Lombard-street, observes that an answer was returned by the DIRECTOR:- of its contents, however, he only says, ' its complexion may be judged by the subsequent proceedings of his brother-in-law, Citizen RAPINAT, the wanton barbarity and injustice of which far surpass even the atrocity of those which form the proper objects of this address." MISCELLANEOUS. Art. 51. The Gentleman's Guide in Money Negociations; and Banker's, Merchant's, and Tradesman's Counting-House Assistant. 12mo. This neat little book contains tables for calculating interest at five per cent. from 1 to 1000 pounds for I to 31 days; for reckoning the elapse of bills; for valuing leases, lives, and annuities; and for comparing English and Irish currency. It also includes tables of weights and measures, and of expenditure: a list of the days of election to public establishments, of the prices of stamps, and of the London bankers. The whole forms a compendious and convenient pocket. book, not for men in business but for gentlemen of business. Art. 52. A rapid View of the Overthrow of Switzerland. By an Eye-witness. Translated from the French. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Hatchard, &c. 1798. The eloquent original of this translation was noticed by us at sufficient extent, in our last Appendix †, p. 546. The translation is provided with an appendix, containing the protest of the sincerely patriotic Zeltner against the detestable conduct of the French invaders. How melancholy a proof does Helvetia present, of the incurable mischief of having too long delayed the reform of its depraved borough constitution! "Whe Art. 53. Passages selected by distinguished Personages, on the great literary Trial of Vortigern and Rowena; a Comi-Tragedy; ther it be or be not from the immortal Pen of Shakspeare ?" Vol. III. 12mo. 2s. 6d. sewed. Ridgway. 1798. The design and the execution of this satirical composition have been already manifested to our readers, on the appearance of the former volumes. (See Rev. vol. xviii. p. 233. and vol. xxii. p. 356-7.) * Some expressions and phrases, however, seem rather too complaisant to the GREAT NATION, and inconsistent with the general strain of M. Li's reproachful expostulation with the tyrannical invaders: but allowance must be made for the delicacy and personal hazards of his peculiar situation while he was writing. † Published with the Review for September, 1798. The The writer still protests against the dismission of this cause from public notice, in the following terms : • IRELAND, versus SHAKESPEARE!!! By the COURT. • It having in our sapiency been discovered, through the course of the present important CAUSE, that more evidence may sometimes be given, where much has already been received • It is ordered, for the furtherance of strict poetical justice in said Cause, that no solemn AbJUDICATION be made therein, until final default of testimony extractive be made appear by due proclamation, through our trusty, and well beloved, FILAZER, the EDITOR of those Diurnal Records, ycleped the MORNING HERALD! Die Martis 119, 1798.' (Signed) POLONIUS. Whether the public voice will join in this determination of the selfcreated court, we know not: but we shall subjoin a few specimens of its proceedings, that it may be seen whether any of that wit remains which formerly enlivened the pretended evidence on this ques tion: CCXXXVI. Mr.Sec. R-SE. * Upon my honour, Sirs, I am condemned most unjustlie! As a serving man o'the State, I have drudged too harde for scantie pickings, to be thus hardilie entreated. To no one breathinge owe I aught on the score of friendshippe, or goode-wille -yet doe they cause hue and crie against me, as though I were the worlde's defaulter! Nay, since the regalle treasurie hath somewhat runnie to waste, mennes eyes inquisitivelie do search, as if the losse were to be found beneathe my humble goodes, and chatels; when " I can take my God to witnesse," (and he will come along with me) that I am as poore a creature as any in his Highnesse realme!" ، PAGE 10.-GENUINE CCXLV.-Lady H-L-D. "At her first enlaunchment, she was as trim a barque as ever floated on Love's billow! but her head-strong pilotte, clapping his helm too hard a weather, when she was light of ballast, the vessel was upsette, and soon drifted, sans reckoning or compasse, to a neighbouring Coaste, where, liberated from British Vassalage, she did be, come a leakie droit of Batavian Hollande !" 6 PAGE 35.-Not GENUINE." CCLXIV.-ADMIRAL LORD D-NC-N. " If that be not a man of stature high REV. Nov. 1798. Bb And And at their verie thresholde met their fate!-- PAGE 100.-GENUINE." • CCLXXXII-DR. L-WR-CE. " I did betake me, t'other morn, to Father L-wr-ce, a Soothe-sayer, and grave Oracle o' the Arches, one who dothe retaile you civille lawe and politiques most villanouslie compounded!-I found him in learned tribulation, having just escaped the COMMONS not Doctorial, where, being far from home, he did make it a dubitable question with his own pericranium, whether he had risen by his heade, or on his feete? -The wagges had laughed incontinentlie at his confusion, and told his Reverence to his bearde, that he had been assessing his five senses quintuplie, without levying from thence one graine of common understanding!" PAGE 104.-GENUINE." The author still delights in a play on words, and sometimes (though perhaps not so frequently as before) in double entendres. Art. 54. The Cause of Truth, containing, besides a great Variety of other Matter, a Refutation of Errors in the Political Works of Thomas Paine, and other Publications of a similar Kind. In a Series of Letters, of a Religious, Moral, and Political Nature. By Robert Thomas, Minister of Abdie. 12mo. PP-437- 38. Printed at Dundee, and sold by Vernor and Hood, in London. Mr. Thomas has the merit of having taken uncommon pains to refute the systems of some modern theorists; and if what is here offered to the public for the small price of 3s. (and to subscribers for 2s.) had been printed as some works are, it would have made a very handsome quarto volume. On the score of quantity, therefore, the reader, who wishes to have a pennyworth for bis penny, owes his thanks to Mr. T.; and the object of the writer being laudable, we should be happy to have it in our power to say as much for the quality: but, here, truth obliges us to remark that, in supporting the cause of truth, he has been too diffuse, and is more verbose and figurative than argumentative. Even in his introduction, instead of placing the general doctrines, which he intends to refute, in a clear manner before his readers, he gives them the following indistinct and metaphorical view of Mr. Paine and his works. This artful man has so blended truth and error, he has so infused the poison of asps [who ever heard of the poison of asps being infused? the poison of serpents is fatal, not by infusion, but by its being introduced, by the bite of the animal, into the circulation] into the salutary draught of truth, that he has blinded the understanding and infuriated the hearts of many. His falsehoods, his errors and his visionary schemes have served him as an enchanter's wand; (we have read in the old romances of strange visions proceeding from the touch of an enchanter's er's wand, but never of the visions themselves being a wand;) with the touch of which he introduces his reader into Fairyland; leads him in flowery paths through myrtle groves; [who ever before suspected Thomas Paine of this?) and presents nothing to his view but harmony, peace, riches, and happiness. He conceals the pit, which lies before the traveller. He hides the dæmons of discord, war, and all confusion and misery: which are ready to burst forth, and to change this fair and pleasing scene into a blasted heath covered with ruins and slain.'-This perhaps Mr. T. Inay esteem fine writing: but it contributes nothing either to the clear statement or to the refutation of an error. Mr. Thomas may say that he has most clearly and fully stated the doctrines which he opposes, and that he has largely replied to them in the subsequent letters, which are sixty-six in number. He here indeed undertakes to combat not only Mr. Paine, but Mr. Godwin; and he enters on a very wide and extensive field,--treating of the State. of Nature-the Rights of Men-Equality and Inequality-Universal Suffrage and Annual Parliaments-Liberty-Kingly GovernmentHereditary Succession-The British Constitution - Taxes - The National Debt, &c. He has not, however, elucidated these subjects, on which so much has been written, by any novelty or strength of remark; though he has laboured hard to prove that "whatever is, is right," and of course to make us contented with things as they are. He maintains not only the superiority of the British Constitution over every other, but the superiority of the Government, in this country, over all the governments that either are, or ever were, in any other. Taxes, he allows, are great: but he must take the liberty of affirming (he tells us) that they are not heavy, that is, not a sensible burden.' After this, we were surprised to find the next letter beginning with the following sentence: The most unpleasant of all tasks is to write in defence of our taxes; and even whilst a person is so employed, he can scarcely help wishing that they were less.' Surely if they be an insensible burden,' why should Mr. T. wish them less? On the subject of the National Debt, the writer consoles us by assuring us that we derive strength by living beyond our income. Indeed! why should we be frightened by the bugbear of a National Debt, when our Constitution, by making all free, has tended and does tend to make all rich? Let Britons, then, know when they are well, and beware of all republican changes: for Mr. T. informs them, through the medium of one of his brilliant metaphors, that the troubled atmosphere of a republican government, though of the best kind deviseable by the wit of man, would blast that Tree of Liberty, under which Britannia kindly nurses and provides for her children, and which is perpetually covered with blossoms, and loaded with the richest and most delicious fruit.' Art. 55. Buonaparte in Britain: Every Man's Friend; or Briton's Monitor. In Two Parts. Part I. an Historical Narrative of the Invasions of England from Julius Cæsar, &c. &c. Part II. A Catalogue of French Cruelties, &c. &c. 8vo. 2s. 6d. sewed. Richardson, &c. Bb2 The |