the ship, and flung all they found in it over board, having quitted their own ship. They continued the combat against the Spaniards, who fought valiantly, and whose cross-bowmen shot such bolts of iron as greatly dis tressed the English.

"This sea-fight, between the English and Spaniards, was well and hardly fought: but, as night was coming on, the English exerted themselves to do well their duty, and discomfit their enemies. The Spaniards, who are used to the sea, and were in large ships, acquitted themselves to the utmost of their power. The young prince of Wales and his division were engaged apart: his ship was grappled by a great Spaniard, when he and his knights suffered much; for she had so many holes, the water came in very abundantly, so that they could not by any means stop the leaks, which gave the crew fears of her sinking; they therefore did all they could to conquer the enemy's ship, but in vain; for she was very large, and excellently wel defended.

the sails fell on the deck, and the course of the ship was stopped. Lord Robert, seeing this, advanced with his men, and, boarding the Spaniard sword in hand, attacked the crew so vigorously, all were slain or thrown overboard, and the vessel won.

"I cannot speak of every particular cirrumstance of this engagement. It lasted a considerable time; and the Spaniards gave the king of England and his fleet enough to do. However at last victory declared for the English: the Spaniards lost fourteen ships; the others saved themselves by flight.

"When it was completely over, and the Az saw he had none to fight with, he ordered his trumpets to sound a retreat, and male for England. They anchored at Rye * Winchelsea a little after night-fall, when the king, the prince of Wales, the duke of Lancaster, the earl of Richmond, and other tons, disembarked, took horses in the town, d rode to the mansion where the queen was, scarcely two English leagues distant. The queen was mightily rejoiced on seeing her lord and her children: she had suffered at day great affliction from her doubts of #uccess; for they had seen from the hills of the coast the whole of the battle, as the weaut was fine and clear, and had told the hen, who was very anxious to learn the mber of the enemy, that the Spaniards had fary large ships: she was therefore much cloned by their safe return.

The king, with those knights who had eded him, passed the night in revelry th the ladies, conversing of arms and aOn the morrow, the greater part of tarons, who had been in this engage at, came to him: he greatly thanked them for the services they had done him, before dismissed them; when they took their es, and returned every man to bis

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Cannon are mentioned in this action, being used by the Spaniards; another Froof, if farther proof were needed, that the use of gunpowder came into Europe by way of Spain: this is the first mena of its use at sea. They must have en small pieces; for king Joam II. of Portugal, who reigned from 1481 to 1495, was the first person who sent great

guns to sea.

In his translation, Mr. Johnes has farthfully followed his motto

Whose shall tell a tale after a man, He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can, Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he never so rudely and so large; Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe.” He is not however so full of the language of chivalry, as might have been expected from his love of this delightful author. The word gentlemen, which ANN. REV. VOL. III.

he uses for sirs or gentle sirs, gives an unpleasant modernism, wherever it is introduced, and "dear gentleman," resembles the language of Richardson, instead of that of sir Philip Sidney. Beaux pres is rendered handsome meadow, and beau frere amiable brother, and s'as sit, placing himself on his sitting. It would on the whole have been better if Mr. Johnes had re-published lord Berners's translation, correcting the proper and bestowing the same pains of annotanames, inserting the additional chapters, tion as at present. The orthography might have been modernised, without injuring or affecting the language; and unlearned readers, when it had ceased to appear obsolete, would not have. found it difficult. But we do not wonder that the pleasure of dwelling on such an author should have induced Mr. Johnes to translate the whole himself. He has set the gentlemen of England a noble example.

We have to regret that the work could not have been made accessible to common purchasers. Four such volumes will fall little short of lord Berners's very rare version in price, and will conedition. It may not be amiss to inform siderably exceed the ordinary French those readers who wish for a book out of their reach, that the most interesting parts of Froissart are to be found in the History of Edward III. by old Joshua Barnes, to whom we are more obliged for this work than for all his other Bar

wo, as he called them. A history of this illustrious king, which should be at once full and philosophical, is greatly to be desired. What a race were the Plantagenets! No other single family ever produced such a succession of extraordinary men: Henry II. the greatest and ablest prince of his time; Richard Lion-heart, with whose name the nurses to this very day frighten the young Turk at the breast; Edward, who conquered Wales, and had well nigh conquered Scotland; Edward III. the most illus trious of the kings of Europe, to whose court combatants came, even from Armenia, to decide their quarrel; Edward of Cressy and of Poictiers; and Henry of Agincourt; and last of all Richard III. the last of that illustrious race, whom Horace Walpole and Malcolm Laing have fairly and fully exculpated from all the crimes laid to his charge by a successful enemy, who was as little wicked as he was deformed; who no

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more murdered his nephew, than he frightened his midwife, who was neither murderer, nor usurper, nor tyrant, but

lawful king of England, the worthy ra presentative of the Plantagenets, the wor thy favourite of the people.

ART. IX. The History of Canada, from its first Discovery, comprehending an Account of original Establishment of the Colony of Louisiana. By GEORGE HERIOT, Esq. dv. pp. 600.

THE age of European dominion in and the chance of the die hath fall: America is passing away. The Spanish against him, who does not regret to se and Portuguese colonies will follow the the old oaks, in which nature had carrie example of the United States, and detach on her functions for so many centuries themselves from the mother countries, and which would for many a generation whose protection is no longer necessary, longer have continued to flourish in th but who would fain continue to exact the beauty; who does not regret to see th obedience which they cannot enforce. cut down by the folly of their worthies This is the established order of things. lord, the country stript of its best orga The growing oyster falls from the back ment, and the old mansion laid open: of its parent as soon as it has acquired the storms, from which they had been i strength for a separate vitality; the shield and defence? Let it not be sp young lion, who can prowl for himself, is posed that we lament the independen expelled from his native den. It is ab of America. Sooner or later Ameri surd to suppose that the bee-swarm should must have been independent; but t collect honey for the original hive when disunion might have taken place like th they want it for themselves. separation between father and ch when the son is sent into the world w his fair portion, and his father's blessin to become the father of a family himse

Canada, the fragment which we have contrived to save from the wreck of our great American empire; Canada appears respectable in a map of the British territories to those who can forget the past; and it is indeed conspicuous for its lakes, and its number of square miles. But to us this land of ice, and beavers, and rattlesnakes, excites but little national interest; it was neither discovered nor colonized by Englishmen, and the greater part of its inhabitants continue to speak French, and to worship the Virgin Mary. With the thirteen provinces we did, indeed, connect a proud and patriotic feeling. The old worthies, who took refuge there from what Milton calls the inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery of their church and state oppressors, deserve little less bonour than their brethren who remained and asserted their rights with the edge of the sword. But more delightful were the recollections associated with Pennsylvania; there, indeed, the purest and the true doctrines had been most happily put in practice, the great founder had established his community upon the principles of peace and good will towards men, and God has blessed his labours. These were the trophies of our country; the monuments of English wisdom, and English virtue, and thesc now, like the captured standards of a routed army, bear record to our shame. When a spendthrif he has set the woods which his forefathers planted, upon the hazard,

We lament an unnatural war, p voked unjustly, foolishly carried on, an disgracefully terminated.

Canada, this single remnant of the robe which is left to Rehoboam, afford no very material advantage at present and offers for the future no very encou raging hopes. Its history we should call altogether uninteresting, did we not cal to mind the glorious death of Wolfe. Stig mishes with the savages, savage corp racies and murders, forts erected and abandoned, governors thwarted in te wise measures by intrigues at the coun at home, or undoing in their folly what the wisdom of their predecessors done; such are the events, too unch nected with the general system of p tics, and too insignificant in themselve to attract much attention beyond the own theatre. Not that we would be un derstood to depreciate the object of r Heriot's labours, or to despise what chielly of local value. On the contrat we are pleased when a county, a town, even a village finds its historian. Eve man is the better for the knowledge what has happened in his own district the daily circumstances of life all ca to cut us off from all that has been, and all that will be, and to insulate the feel ings of our whole being in this htt transitory now; these local histories tens

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to break the spell of the present, by awakening in us something of the same melancholy which we feel when think upon our forefathers. This good effect is produced by works of mere topography, the meanest departure of literature; and this is no trifling good. The present volume, while it possesses this utility, is one of a higher character. Civilization has now struck root in Ca. nada; colonists are no longer in danger from any neglect of the mother country, or from any treachery of their savage neighbours. Nor can it now be destroyed by the accidents of war; though the province should change masters it will still remain a civilized and a growing state. It would be a minute and tedious task to attempt an analysis of a history made up of trifling events, without any one splendid action. The only circumstance which arrests attention, and impresses the mind, is the following account of an earthquake in 1663.

"On the 5th of February, about half an hour past four in the evening, a great noise was heard, nearly at the same time, throughout the whole extent of Canada. That noise seems to have been the effect of a sudden viIrion of the air, agitated in all directions. It appeared as if the houses were on fire, and the inhabitants, in order to avoid its effects, Lamediately ran out of doors. But their astonishment was increased when they saw the badings shaken with the greatest violence, and the roofs disposed to fall, sometimes on Que side, sometimes on the other. The doors epened of themselves, and shut again with a great crash. All the bells were sounding, although no person touched them. The pallisales of the fences seemed to bound out of their places; the walls were rent; the planks of the floor separated, and again sprung together. The dogs answered these previous tokens of a general disorder of nature, by lameatable howlings. The other animals sent forth the most terrific groans and cries, and, by a natural instinct, extended their legs to prevent them from falling. The surface of the earth was moved like an agitated sca. The trees were thrown against each other, and many, torn up by the roots, were tossed to a considerable distance.

"Sounds of every description were then beard; at one time like the fury of a sea which had overflowed its barriers; at another like a multitude of carriages rolling over a (svement, and again like mountains of rock marble opening their bowels, and breaking into pieces with a tremendous roar. Thick clouds of dust, which at the same time arose, were taken for smoke, and for the symptoms of an universal conflagration.

"The consternation became so general, that not only men, but the animals, appeared

as if struck with thunder; they ran in every quarter without a knowledge of their course, and wherever they went they encountered of children, the lamentations of women, the the danger they wished to avoid. The cries alternate successions of fire and darkness in the atmosphere, all combined to aggravate the evils of a dire calamity which subverts every thing by the excruciating tortures of the ingination, distressed and confounded, and losing in the contemplation of this general confusion the means of self-preservation. and the other rivers, broke into pieces which “The ice which covered the St. Lawrence, crashed against each other; large bodies of ice were thrown up into the air, and from the place they had quitted a quantity of sand, and slime, and water spouted up. The sources of several springs and little rivers became dry; the waters of others were impregnated with sulphur. At sometimes the waters appeared red, at others of a yellowish cast; those of the St. Lawrence became white from Quebec quantity of matter necessary to impregnate so to Tadoussac, a space of thirty leagues: the vast a body of water must have been prodigious. In the mean time the atmosphere continued to exhibit the most awful phenomena; an incessant rushing noise was heard, and the fires assumed every species of form. The most plaintive voices augmented the general terror and alarm. Porpusses and sea-cows were heard howling in the water at Three Rivers, where none of these fishes had ever before been found; and the noise which they sent forth resembled not that of any known animal. Over the whole extent of three hundred leagues from east to west, and one hundred and fifty from south to north, the earth, the rivers, and the coasts of the occan experienced for a considerable time, although at intervals, the most dreadful agitation.

"The first shock continued without intermission for half an hour: about eight o'clock in the evening there came a second, no less violent than the first, and in the space of half an hour were two others. During the night were reckoned thirty shocks."

There occurs a fine specimen of savage oratory in the speech of a Tsonnonthouan deputy to the French governor.

"La Grangula, the Tsonnonthouan deputy, who during the foregoing speech seemed to fix his eyes on the end of his pipe, arose, and after making five or six turns within the circle composed of Frenchmen and savages, he resumed his situation, and standing erect, and regarding the general with a fixed and stern look, replied in the following terms:

"Onomhio, I honour thee. All the warriors who accompany me likewise honour thee. Thy interpreter hath finished thy discourse, I am about to speak in reply. My voice lastens to thy cars, listen then with attention to my words.

"Thou nust, on leaving Quebec, have imagined, Ononthio, that the intense heat of