LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Cambridge, Jan. 9.-The Hulsean prize for 1814, has this week been adjudged to the Rev. THOMAS FULLER, B. A. Fellow of St. John's ColTege, for his dissertation" on the comparative value of Prophecies and Miracles, as Evidences for the Truth of Christianity."-The subject of the Hulsean prize essay for 1815 is" The distinct provinces of Reason and Faith." The following are the subjects for Sir WILLIAM BROWNE'S Gold Medals for the present year: For the Greek Ode: In augustissimum Galliæ Regem solio avito redditum. - For the Latin Ode: Vivos ducent de marmore vultus. -For the Epigrams: Quicquid dicam, aut erit aut non. Works nearly ready for Publication: "The History of the Kings of England, from the arrival of the Saxons, A. D. 449, to his own Times. By WILLIAM of MALMESBURY. Collated with authentic MSS. and translated from the -original Latin, with a Preface, Notes, and an Index. By the Rev. JOHN SHARP, B. A. late of Trinity College, Oxford, Curate of Elstead and Treyford, Sussex. "Travels in Europe and Africa by Col. KEATINGE ; illustrated with Engravings of Antiquities, Scenery, and Costume, from Drawings taken on the spot." The Second Volume of Mr. Southey's History of Brazil. "A History of the War in Spain and Portugal, from the Year 1807 to 1814. By General SARRAZIN." "Memoirs of the French Campaigns in Spain, of 1808, 1809, and 1810. By M. ROCCA, Officer of Huzzars." "A Journal of a Tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany, and Belgium, during the Summer and Autumn of 1814. By the Hon. RICHARD BOYLE BERNARD, M. P." "Observations made during a recent visit to Paris; containing a particular account of that City, its buildings, amusements, manners, &c. By SAMUEL SMITH, Esq. of the Inner Temple." 8vo. "An Historical Survey of the Character of NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE, drawn from his own Words and Actions. By the Author of the Secret Memoirs'." "Memoirs of Thirty Years of the Life of the late Empress Josephine." "Maria, or the Hollanders. By Louis BUONAPARTE," 3 vols. A corrected edition of Dr. WILLIAMS'S "Abridgement of OWEN on the Hebrews." "A Supplement to the Memoirs of the Life, Writings, Discourses, and Profes sional Works of Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS. BY JAMES NORTHCOTE, Esq." 4to. A new Poem by Mr. PoLWHELE, entitled "The Fair Isabel," a Cornish Romance, in Six Cantos. Mr. Walter Scott (who had the perusal of it in MS.) speaks of the Poem at every opportunity in the highest terms of commendation. New editions of Theocritus, Bion, Moschus, and Tyrtæus, as also of the Local Attachment, are also in preparation. Lyrical Ballads, &c. &c. with additions. A new edition of Mr. WORDSWORTH'S "The Selection from the Works of GEORGE WITHER, announced some time since by Mr. GUTCH of Bristol, will appear in March or April next. It will contain a Life of the Author, with critical notices, and an engraved head of the Poet, from the one prefixed to his Vo lume of "Emblems." "Tannahill's Poetical Works; containing the favourite Songs of Jesse the flower o' Dunblayne, Gloomy Winter now away, &c." "A new and enlarged edition of Mr. WRIGHT'S Advice on the Study of the Law, with Directions for the choice of Books, addressed to Attorneys' Clerks." "Private Education, or the Studies of young Ladies considered. BY ELIZABETH APPLETON, late Governess in the Family of the Earl of Leven and Melville." The Third, being the concluding Part of "A Poetical History of England," written expressly for young Persons, and designed to afford facility and interest to the study of History. A Second Volume of Mr. T. MORELL'S "Studies in History; containing the History of Rome from its earliest Records to the death of Constantine." Works preparing for Publication: "A Translation of the Psalms of David, with Notes. By SAMUEL HORSLEY, LL.D. F. R. S. F. A. S. late Lord Bishop of St. Asaph." 2 vols. 8vo. "Sermons on Ancient Prophecies of the Messiah, dispersed among the Heathens. Also, Four Discourses on the Nature of the Evidence borne to the Fact of our Lord's Resurrection. By SAMUEL HORSLEY, LL.D. F. R. S. F. A. S. late Lord Bishop of St. Asaph." 8vo. The" French Preacher," 8vo; by the Rev. Mr. COBBIN; consisting of valuable Discourses, trauslated from the most eminent Catholic and Protestant Divines; with Biographical Notices, &c. Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE'S" History and Antiquities of the County of Warwick," is in considerable progress towards republication, with a very great accession of valuable materials both of Historical and Local interest. "A History of the Public Ex Europe, from the Commen the French Revolution, to the Restoration of the Bourbons. By JOHN SCOTT." "A Geological Itinerary through the Counties of Warwick, Stafford, and Derby," 8vo. "An Historical Account of the Episcopal See, and Cathedral Church of Sarum or SALISBURY: comprising Biographical Notices of the Bishops, the History of the Establishment, from the earliest Period; and a Description of the Monuments. Illustrated with Engravings, from Drawings by Mr. F. NASH. Compiled from the best authorities, particularly the Episcopal and Chapter Records. By W. DODSWORTH. ness of paper, and high price of printing, they shall be under the necessity of charging the subscribers twentyshillings for each book, which was to be a large folio volume, printed on fine paper, of 110 full sheets, including also five maps, and 35 elegant engravings of the seats, monuments, &c. of the Nobility and Gentry of that county. Of this work 500 copies were printed, and lately a copy was sold in London for forty-guineas. LUCIEN BUONAPARTE, in one of the notes affixed to the poem of "Charlemagne," has announced his intention to publish a second epic at some future time, the title of which is to be the Cirneide, from Cirnos, the Greek name of Corsica. The final expulsion of the Saracens from that Island, with descriptions of the manners of the Islanders, forms the subject. This poem, the author tells us, is intended to bear that relation to Charlemagne, which the "Memoirs on European and Asiatic Turkey, from the MS. Journals of Modern Travellers in those Countries, edited by ROBERT WALPOLE, A. M. with Plates." The Paris Spectator; or, L'Hermite de la Chaussée-D'Antin. Containing Observations upon Parisian Manners and Customs at the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century. Translated from the French, by WILLIAM JERDAN." "Ways and Means, in lieu of the Pro-Iliad bears to the Odyssey, as it will be perty Tax. By Captain FAIRMAN, Aidde-camp and Military Secretary to the Governor and Commander in Chief of Caracao. First proposed to, and approved by, the late Mr. Perceval; with an Epicedium on that Minister." "Varieties of Life; or, Conduct and Consequences. A Novel. By the Author of Sketches of Character,' 3 vols." Proposals have been circ lated for the republication of "CENSURA LITERARIA, containing Titles, Extracts, and Opinions of Old English Books, especially those which are Scarce. By Sir EGERTON BRYDGES, K. J." The articles will be classed in Chronological Order, under their separate heads of Poetry, History, &c.; and a general Index will be given. Mr. JAMES Baldwin Brown, of the Inner Temple, author of "An Historical Account of the Laws enacted against the Catholics, both in England and Ireland," has issued Proposals for publishing" An Historical Inquiry into the Ancient Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Crown; from the Period in which Great Britain formed a Part of the Roman Empire." In the Portledge Library, which a few years ago was purchased by Mr. S. Woolmer, of Exeter, and which he has still in his possession, was found a printed proposal, by four booksellers of London, for printing "Sir Henry Chauncey's History and Antiquities of Hertfordshire," dated 1697; in which they apologize to the Nobility and Gentry, that on account of the dear in some manner connected with it; Isolier, one of the subordinate charac ters in Charlemagne, being its hero. The French have published an Atlas of their naval discoveries in the Southern Ocean. In this they admit that the English first discovered the coast of New Holland from the isles St. Francois to a point, in which they were met by the French Captain Baudin; the remainder of the coast, with an exception of about 50 or 60 leagues, they claim the discovery of. INDEX INDICATORIUS. The Abstract of Dr. SPURZHEIM's Lec tures; Dr. BOOKER'S second Letter concerning H. P. LEWIS; ATTICUS; &c. &c. in our next. We thank L. S. for his useful and entertaining" Extracts." Mr. DODSWORTH'S Seal shall be used in our earliest Miscellaneous Plate.-We look forward with pleasure to his forthcoming HISTORY. The complaint of H. F. against the Trustees of Bamburgh Castle, comes more within the province of the Lord Chancellor than that of a periodical Publication. RICHMONDIENSIS asks, Whether the Rev. THOMAS HOLDSWORTH, rector of North Stoneham, co. Southampton, (mentioned in the notes of the History of Leicestershire, vol. IV. Part II. p. 857) is the same who was Dean of Middleham in Yorkshire? REVIEW REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 1. Consolatory Verses, addressed to Her Royal Highness Madame, Duchess of Angoulême; and dedicated to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of England. By the Rev. Sir Herbert Croft, Bart. Paris, printed by P. Didot, senr. 1814. Quarto, pp. 18. E rejoice to find that our old I don't deny the sources of your grief; "Stranger! yet Hartwell's * bowers You do not term the British Muses so. Wand much respected friend and valuable Correspondent (who has been long detained in France) has recovered sufficient energy to pursue his literary labours. The present elegant There Thomson prov'd how each kind tribute of consolation to an august Personage, is introduced by the following short, but loyal Address. "To His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. "May it please your Royal Highness to accept these lines, as a small mark of gratitude for the favours' conferred by your Royal Highness, through a long series of years, upon Lady Croft, and upon, Sir, your Royal Highness's most dutiful and most devoted humble servant, HERBERT CROFT. Paris, 30 May 1814; the day of the signature of your Royal Highness's European Peace." The Poem not having as yet been published in this country, our Readers will not be displeased by a perusal of the introductory lines; Season fills [worst ills: The world with charms that balanc'd life's ThereRogers taughtyourtender soul to see The Pleasures, sadly sweet, of Memory; Hurried your rapt thoughts back to your Which, sometimes, in a visionary trance, lov'd France. "You 're, now, come back to your lov'd Country; brought Oblivion's waters wash all tears away } If they should let the Royal Infant live; "I delayed the printing of these verses, expecting from England a drawing of Hartwell, which I meant to have used as a frontispiece. The present trifle might, so, have been more worthy the beautiful characters of Mr. P. Didot; well calculated, spite of the justice, he always renders others, to succeed to the reputation of the late Bodoni, as type-founder and as printer. I know that these useful talents are hereditary in this honourable family, and how justly celebrated the younger brother, Mr. Firmin Didot, is; for I possess his elegant octavo editions of Juvenal and Persius, in the preface to the latter of which his learned Editor thanks me for my little aid. But Mr. Firmin Didot's modesty would be shocked to see his name placed before that of his illustrious elder brother, to whose various talents France and Europe owe the famous folio editions of Virgil, Horace, Racine, and La Fontaine. Mr. P. Didot is, now, preparing a similar folio edition of Boileau; and is continuing his two most beautiful and correct collections of French Classics, one in octavo, for male readers, and a different one, in a smaller size, for ladies. These two patriotic collections were begun and carried on with uncommon courage, when the Corsican's tyranny had dried up every possible source of commerce. Since the Restoration, the female collection is taken under her Royal patronage by the Princess to whom these verses are addressed." +"The Night-Thoughts of Young, whose Life my friend Johnson permitted me to write, among his Lives of the English Poets, almost forty years ago." "The Seasons, one of the favourite books of the unfortunate." "I speak as a man, and not as an Englishman, when I say that France has obligations to Lewis the XVIIIth for consenting to reign, and to quit Hartwell for ·GENT. MAG. January, 1815. the "No, no! each wave that flows between our states Our Sister Nations joins, not separates : Each fisherman's, tir'd, late-returning oar, [to shore: When all is still, half sounds from shore The maid, on Shakespeare's moonlight cliff, whose heart [depart, Thinks where she saw her truelove sad Half sees a fond French sailor, joyful, reach [beach. His long-left home, and leap upon the "In how few minutes, Blanchard's air-hung boat, [high, to float? "Tween the two countries ceas'd, on Twice sixty minutes wafted Lewis over, To happy Calais, from delighted Dover; While Calais, as it shook with loyal joy, Seem'd to hear Dover join in VIVE LE Roi!" The Reverend Baronet has subjoined several excellent notes; some of which accompany our extracts. "I will finish these notes," he says, "with a quotation that will be seen with pleasure, I hope, by all French and English readers of verses, the second object of which is to contribute to do away alt mean enmity between the two greatest nations in Europe. I would be the first to blush for my own Nation, if it deserved the reproach from which it is so honourably and so completely cleared by this testimony of the gallant Comte de St. Morys. My noble friend, one of the officers of his restored King's guard, finishes, with this philanthropic passage, bis little work which was printed and published April 9, 1814, which produced a great effect, and of which the title alone (Reflexions d'un sujet de Louis XVIII.) did the highest credit to his courage, his loyalty, and his good sense, at such a moment. Ten days before it appeared, not to say almost at the very moment, Buonaparte was still the tyrant of France and of Europe. "Dates are of importance, when so many honest subjects of Lewis the XVIIIth cannot help using the language of the indignant Alceste: le monde 'Hé, madame, l'on loue aujourd'hui tout "Buonaparte avait constamment dirigé, contre les gouvernemens avec lesquels the Louvre. Montaigne quotes the saying of an antient King: That any man, who knew the weight of a sceptre, would not pick one up, if it lay before his feet.' Every French reader's heart will be touched by the first words of the fol lowing extract from the most sublime will and testament of Lewis the XVIth all wise heads will subscribe to the good sense and useful truths of the conclusion: Je recommande bien vivement à mes enfans, après ce qu'ils doivent à Dieu, qui doit marcher avant tout, de rester toujours unis entre eux, soumis et obéissans à leur mère, et reconnaissans de tous les soins et les peines qu'elle se donne pour eux; et en mémoire de moi, je les prie de regarder ma sœur comme une seconde mère. Je recommande à mon fils, s'il avait le malheur de devenir roi, de songer qu'il se doit tout entier au bonheur de tous ses concitoyens ; qu'il doit oublier toute baine et ressentiment, et nommément tout ce qui a rapport aux malheurs et aux chagrins que j'éprouve; qu'il ne peut faire le bonheur du peuple qu'en régnant suivant les lois, mais en même temps qu'un roi ne peut les faire respecter et faire le bien qui est dans son cœur qu'autant qu'il a l'autorité nécessaire, et qu'autrement, étant lié dans ses opérations, et n'inspirant point de respect, il est plus nuisible qu'utile.' "' il était en guerre, un systême d'imposture si vaste, qu'une grande partie des faits historiques les plus importans de notre temps, a été altérée, ou reste encore inconnue pour les Français; c'est surtout l'opinion sur la nation Anglaise qui a été égarée par les artifices du gouvernement de ce tyran. Je me rappelle avoir lu dans le Moniteur, à l'époque où il fit étrangler le général Pichegru, assassiner Monseigneur le duc d'Enghien, et où j'étais aussi incarcéré par son ordre, que les Anglais avaient envoyé la peste à Boulogne dans des ballots de marchandises jetés exprès par eux sur le rivage. Il se trouva alors des fonctionnaires publics assez vils et assez bêtes pour certifier qu'un chien avait été frappé de mort en leur présence à l'ouverture d'un de ces ballots. Je me rappelle aussi avoir vu, dans le catalogue d'une exposition des tableaux du salon, une description de celui qui représentait la défaite des royalistes à Quiberon, dans laquelle il était dit que les éternels ennemis du continent tiraient sur les émigrés, au lieu de chercher à les sauver. On voit qu'aucun moyen n'était oublié pour parvenir à tromper la France, et Buonaparte n'y réussissait que trop bien par cette infame calomnie, qui, à force d'être répétée, a fini par obtenir quelque croyance. Je dois donc à la vérité, de dire que mon père fut sauvé à Quiberon par les Anglais, avec plusieurs émigrés de distinction que je pourrais nommer, et qu'il n'a péri qu'après avoir été déposé par eux, suivant son desir, à l'île de Houat, près la presqu'île de Quiberon. Certes, aucune considération ne pourrait m'induire à vanter la générosité d'une nation à laquelle je devrais reprocher la mort de mon père et de plusieurs de mes amis; mais je n'ai connu de la part de la nation Anglaise que ses bienfaits répétés envers mes concitoyens. "De ce qu'à diverses époques de l'histoire, les Anglais ont été nos ennemis les plus dangereux, il ne s'ensuit pas que nous n'ayons trouvé en eux, dans ces derniers temps, de généreux amis. "De ce que le grand comte de Chatam avait une haine aveugle contre les Français, dans un temps où les idées libérales n'étaient pas aussi dominantes qu'à présent, il n'en est pas moins vrai que Lord Wellington offre un des plus beaux caractères de l'histoire moderne, et que la postérité consacrera avec ceux des Turenne et des Bayard. "De ce que les Anglais ont été quelquefois oppresseurs dans leurs colonies, il n'en est pas moins vrai que c'est à eux qu'est due l'abolition de la traite des Nègres. Enfin, de ce que dans les commencemens de la révolution, les Français ont été emportés au-delà des bornes par la noble passion de la liberté, et de ce qu'après ils ont été forcés de courber la tête en esclaves sous le joug de fer de Buonaparte, il ne s'ensuit pas qu'ils ne puissent être d'excellens citoyens sous le gouvernement légitime et paternel de Louis XVIII. Et en effet, quand nous crions Vivent les Bourbons! Vive Louis XVIII! nous avons le bonheur que la raison la plus sévère applaudisse à tous nos mouvemens d'amour et d'enthousiasme." 2. Réflexions soumises à la Sagesse des A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de P. Didot LIKE a true Patriot, and a Wellwisher, both to his native and adopted Country, Sir Herbert Croft fer his advice to the illustrious Neventures in this little volume to ofgotiators, who are settling, we confidently hope, a permanent Peace to the wearied world. Leaving the worthy Writer's arguments to the judgment of those for whose use they were more immediately intended, we shall content ourselves with extracting a second address to the Son and Representative of our own revered and justly beloved Sovereign. "A son Altesse Royale le Prince Régens d'Angleterre. "Mon Prince, j'ai eu l'honneur de vous dédier, comme une faible marque de ma profonde reconnaissance, mes vers Anglais adressés à MADAME, Duchesse d'Angoulême: je desire encore que votre auguste nom paraisse à la tête de l'ou vrage que je publie maintenant. Il n'a pour but que l'espoir d'être utile; et l'on ne soupçonnera jamais un baronnet Anglais et un ministre du culte, d'avoir pu, sans cet espoir, écrire et encore moins dédier son livre au Prince Régent d'Angleterre. "Le sujet de mon ouvrage me rappelle heureusement ici les mots dont Votre Altesse Royale se servit dans une lettre adréssée, il y a plus de onze ans, au Roi votre père; mots si justement applaudis par le public, et qui feront réfléchir, sans doute, dans des circonstances si critiques, les Souverains rassemblés à Vienne. 'Dane |