and on its known circumstances, since the destruction of their flest by the victorious Nelson. f Mr. Irwin is now, if possible, more strongly than ever persuaded of the total ruin, which from the beginnig awaited the Gallic invaders of Egypt; yet he somewhat dubiously concludes this pamphlet with the following paragraph: We are arrived at times, when probabilities are no longer to be weighed, but measures to be adopted against seeming impossibilities. Buonaparte's appearance in Egypt has put calculation to the blush and his reaching the coast of India, is only wanting to make us du bious of every thing, but the success of these marauders, in the breach of all faith, and the contempt of all rule and experienced Let the Company, let the Nation, be aware of the catastrophe. Though the present moméht be unfavourable to him, Buonaparte may so far succeed in his views, as to establish himself in Egypt. If the plague spare what this prowess and military genius may preserve from the sword, a year or two may produce a revolution at sea, to enable him to build and collect vessels for his projected expedition. An Admiral, whom I am proud to call my friend, has been long appointed to the Indian station. What delays the sailing of Sir John Colpoys? and why are his local knowledge and enterprising talents so long with held from the threatened scene of action? If a pass be once made 'over the Gulf that separates Egypt and India, by the undaunted perseverance of Buonaparte, the charm will be dissolved, and our possessions contested. No less fatal will it prove to the British grandeur, than the bridge which Satan threw over Chaos, to mankind, where « Sin and Death amain Following his track, such was the will of Heaveny 1 Aft. 20. Riply to wind or, The, Feasibility of Buonaparte's sup posed Expedition to the East, exemplified. By an Officer in the Service of the East India Company. 8vo. is. 6d. Cadell jun. Vahd Davies. de l These remarks on the above-mentioned Inquiry' appear to have presented themselves to the public under a disadvantage to which Mr. Irwin's pamphlet is not exposed the Answer wants the credit of its author's name.-With Mr. I.'s abilities, and his personal knowlege of the countries concerned in these discussions, we were previously were prepared to afford him that attention to which his Acquainted, and spectable character was entitled: but his anonymous opponent comes forth with no such advantage. He informs us, in the course of his observations on Mr. I.'s tracts, as well as in his title-page, that he has seen military service in the eastern parts, of the globe; and for this assurance we are inclined to give him full credit; but we have no doubt that his readers would have been better satisfied if his name had accompanied his pages, 'as openly as that of Mr. Irwin has appeared on this occasion, Not Notwithstanding this objection, we have little doubt respecting the author's personal acquaintance with some of the countries which have been, or were proposed to be, visited by Buonaparte; and there is an appearance of candor as well as of solidity in his objections to some of Mr. Irwin's representations. In brief, as, on the one hand, he declares himself to be by no means influenced by a spirit of despondency, neither, on the other, does he in the smallest degree desire to excite a false alarm.' He adds, there is certainly an appearance of an extensive confederacy against the British possessions in Asia, and to obviate the effect, we have only to be prepared to mect it, hy the adoption of such permanent arrangements there, as to obviate the necessity of resorting to temporary expedients, which, in a government so far removed from the mother country, may fatally prove too late; and not leave, what is allowed to be the "brightest jewel in the British crown," to that fate on which one of its greatest rulers has emphatically expressed its existence to be suspended, " BY A * THREAD SO FINE, THAT THE TOUCH OF CHANCE MIGHT BREAK, ** These two articles were written for insertion in our Review for November, but could not, till now, find room. Art. 31. Remarks on Inland Canals, the small System of interior This tract affords but small ground, to merely speculative perons, for ascertaining the relative merits of the lock and inclined plane used for the purposes of inland navigation. It may, however, in some degree, be interesting to those persons who are previously acquainted with the subjects to which Mr. Tatham refers. Art. 32. A brief Account of Stratford on Avon; with a particular Description and Survey of the Collegiate Church, the Mausoleum of Shakspeare, containing all the Armorial Bearings and Monumental Inscriptions therein: to which is added, some Account of the three eminent Prelates who derive their Sirnames from Stratford, the Place of their Nativity. 12mo. 1s. 6d. sewed. Stratford, printed: London, sold by Robinsons. The contents of this small tract are sufficiently specified in the above title. It has been, we understand, the innocent (and, if leisure admitted, the commendable) employment of a youth, who was persuaded to make public what he had collected on the subject. Dugdale's work is too voluminous for general recourse. To persons who visit a spot so famed, on one account at least, this pamphict may probably prove an agreeable companion, and not wholly unacceptable as amusement to others.-The young author has judged rightly in affixing a brief Account of John, Robert, and Ralph, De Stratford, who were natives of this town, and assumed their distinguishing * The principal of which he particularises in the course of his ob servations. Rev. R.Wood...e. name from it; all of them were eminent in the annals of the Eng- In our Review for October last, we gave some account of a recent publication by Mr. Maurice, intitled Sanscrit Fragments;" and it now appears that the last part of it, said to relate to the British Isles, is a republication of the tract at present before us. We then expressed our hopes that Capt. Wilford's communications respecting the allusions to the British Isles, which that gentleman imagined he had discovered in the Hindu Puranas, had not been given to the public without the permission of the ingenious author. This ob, servation was not of a nature to be overlooked by a man of General Vallancey's character; and he has, accordingly, convinced us, by a letter from a Mr. Quseley, in India, (though not from Major Ouse, ley, as the General supposes,) that he was at liberty to make what use he thought fit of Capt. Wilford's remarks. These remarks have been (by the aforesaid Mr. Ouseley) styled extracts; and thus the General has been led to imagine that the conjectures of Capt. Wilford are actually extracted from the Puranas. They begin by observ ing that "the British Isles are called in the Hindu sacred books Tricatachal, or the mountain with three peaks," &c. Now, is this, we ask, an extract from the Puranas; or is it a conjecture of Capt. Wilford, that the place thus called in those antient poems may (par grand hazard) be the British Isles? The first supposition does not deserve a comment.-Capt. Wilford has not assigned a single reason in support of his opinion above quoted; consequently, General Valancey and Mr. Maurice assign none; but, assuming it as proved that the Suvornachal, or golden mountain, (the others are of silver and iron,) was no other than Ireland, it remained only to explain a legend respecting a pious monarch of that country, contained in a real extract from the Brahmanda Puran, accurately translated by Capt, Wilford. His name was Cracacheswara. Now there is mention made in Irish records of a King Crach, who attempted to kill St. Patrick; ergo-We leave the sequitur to be deduced by those who may think that history is susceptible of illustration from verbal analogies. Hi. We hope that General Vallancey will not class us with "the unlettered tribe, who have aimed the shaft of ridicule at the vindicator of the history and antiquities of his country." Nothing, indeed, can be farther from our intention: but we think it deserving of his seri ous contemplation, how far such discussions as are contained in this pamphlet are calculated to elucidate the history of Ireland. Ham.... Art. 34. Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce, abrégé de l'Ouvrage de l'Albé Barthélemy; &c. &c. 8vo. pp. 377. 6s. 6d. Boards. Vernor and Hood. 1798. This French abridgment of the travels of Anacharsis closely re, sembles an English epitome noticed by us in vol. xxiii, p. 234, and is decorated with the same prints and maps as that edition. The historical introduction has here been wisely prefixed; and the volume is farther enriched with a life of Barthélemy, from the pen of the late Duke of Nivernois, which was mentioned in our xviiith vol. p. 558. The work is well adapted to the use of schools and young Tay. persons. THANKSGIVING SERMONS, Nov. 29, 1798. This discourse is rational, pious, and loyal. Dr, Rees has made the walls of the Old Jewry resound with a discourse which a Bishop might have preached at St. James's, and which would probably have given universal satisfaction to his audience: while at the same time the Doctor has not violated any one of his own principles. From Isaiah, v. 4. he has exhibited our local, civil, and religious privileges, with a view of exciting our gratitude to God for the blessings which we enjoy. Lord Nelson's splendid victory is thus loyally noticed. The late victory on the coast of Africa, so important in itself, so beneficial in its consequences, and so honourable to all who were engaged in atchieving it, will bring to our grateful recollection the glorious first of August, which has been long celebrated as the era of the accession of his Majesty's family to the throne of these realms, and by none of his Majesty's most loyal subjects more sincerely and more joyfully than by protestant dissenters.' What would Mr. Burke have said to such a sermon preached in the Old Jewry? Instead of commenting, we will make one more short extract. Such have been our late victories, that we have reason to hope that the attempts of the enemy against our religion and liberty will prove unsuccessful; and that neither their licentious principles nor -their present conduct will find any advocates in this country. That Providence, which has hitherto fenced us round and preserved our possessions and persons inviolate, will, we trust, yet deliver us, and render our salvation complete and permanent.' Art. 36. The Lord protecting Great Britain for his own Name's Sal IS. Mo-y. In introducing the subject of this discourse, Mr. S. observes: We do not meet here to enquire what men have been doing, but what the Lord hath done for us as a guilty nation.' So far he is right. He well understands the extent and limits of his province. Clergymen are not invited to preach Fast or Thanksgiving Sermons in order that they may discuss the merits or demerits of statesmen, but seriously to trace, if they can, and to improve the over-ruling Providence of God, who is carrying on his designs amid the contending interests, passions, and vices of men. Mr. S. has not undertaken distinctly and fully to explain what he means by the Lord's protect 118 ing us for his own name's sake; though we think that he mean for the sake of the honour of his divine perfections and moral govern ment; for the sake of religious truth; and for the promotion of that great system of mercy which is the object of revelation. In this view of the matter, there is something truly sublime;-something to which the vision of the mere worldly politician does not extend. 6 This serious preacher enumerates a variety of instances in which the hand of Providence (when our own arm was impotent) has interposed for us, especially in the preservation of Ireland, and during the mutiny on board our fleet. With suitable praise to each of our victorious naval Lords, he blends gratitude and praise to the alone Giver of all, victory. He seems to consider Great Britain as protected and preserved, as Judah was of old, in order to promote some religious purpose among the nations of the earth; and we sincerely hope that he has predicted rightly as to the future scheme of Providence. He remarks that, notwithstanding all our heinous crimes, we have not by any national act renounced the profession of Christi anity.' He farther notices, (what we wonder to see omitted in most of the sermons on this day,) the different language of the British and French commanders, in reporting to their respective governments the victory of the Nile. Lord Nelson ascribes the result to ALMIGHTY GOD-Buonaparte, to the Destinies - And so long (says Mr. Scott) as God is thus openly acknowledged by us, and despised or defied by our enemies; we may hope that "he will withdraw his hand, and work for his name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen." (Text, Ezek. xx. 22.) Yet Mr. Scott is not for boasting and vaunting on account A consistent Christian (he observes) will be of our successes. pamed to hear of Britain's ruling the waves, for he knows that the geLord alone rules the sea and the land.' This perhaps is carrying seriousness too far: but it proceeds, no doubt, from a spirit of nuine picty. Mo-y. Art. 37. Preached at the Meeting-House in Carter-Lane. By A volume of Sermons by Mr. Scott has lain for some time on our shelf, but is not forgotten. Thomas Tayler. 8vo. 6d. Dilly. We have met with laughing tragedies and crying comedies; with It is but justice to add that Mr. Tayler views the great events, now Christian |