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The " Printer's Devil" aforesaid has evidently done the author an injustice in 

 the second line. The rhyme to " squeal" should have been quad-reeZ, a style of 

 dancing in which the author must have frequently indulged while perpetrating the 

 " Lay of the Lady Ellen." 



A Sermon preached by the Right Honourable GEORGE HENRY, Bishop 

 of Wells, in aid of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear and 

 Deaf and Dumb. Rivington and Co. 



THIS sermon, preached in behalf of the excellent institution above-named 

 founded by the benevolent Dr. Curtis is a plain, sensible, and scholar-like com- 

 position on a subject which demands considerable talent to handle with any 

 degree of originality : charity. The sentiments which commence the sermon, are 

 just, and admirably expressed : 



" There are few obligations more generally allowed ; and, what is of far greater 

 importance, there are few more generally practised, than those which have for 

 their object the relief of the suffering part of the community. Amidst a too pre- 

 vailing -corruption of manners amidst a luxury which exceeds all bounds 

 amidst the decay or extinction of many sterner virtues, Charity is still left to plead 

 our cause with an offended God, and to lead us onward in the road to heaven. 

 Almost every argument and every principle which can be adduced in the recom- 

 mendation of any duty, all concur in enforcing the practice of charity. If we 

 retire into our own breasts, and examine the perceptions which are passing there, 

 we find our compassion so powerfully excited by cases of distress and misfortune ; 

 so cordial, so unmixed a delight in affording ease and consolation to the distressed, 

 that we cannot for a moment doubt, either concerning the reality of the feeling 

 which we call pity, or concerning the final cause for which that feeling was 

 implanted in our mind." 



The Life of Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth. By EDWARD OSTLER, 

 ESQ. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. pp. 448. 



THIS publication will prove a failure. From beginning to end there is no sufficient 

 information to interest even the interested. The London Gazette contains, for the 

 most part, nearly all the kind of information it pretends to furnish. With regard 

 to Lord Exmouth, every newspaper reader knows that he was an intrepid, thorough- 

 bred seaman : a man whose physical exceeded his personal energies. From the 

 period of his election to serve in Parliament for the borough of Barnstaple 

 already stigmatised to the very letter for its constitutional and political degrada- 

 tion, Sir Edward Pellew, afterwards Lord Exmouth, afforded mankind another 

 instance of the truth of Shakspeare's oft-repeated lines 



" There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, 

 When taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." 



It was by the aid of the rotten-borough system, then, that this gallant and enter- 

 prising sailor officer (being unable by servitude or private interest), procured pro- 

 motion which, it must be confessed, he did not disgrace ; but, on the contrary (we, 

 in common with every patriot British heart, have reason to acknowledge with 

 feelings of respect for Lord Exmouth's memory), honoured by his bravery arid 

 courage. That Lord Exmouth was the child of capricious fortune no one, we 

 think, will pretend to deny. Mr. Ostler has "got up" the work respectably; we 

 mean as regards the collating, printing, etcetera. He could not write what was not 

 true, in order to make the moral and Christian character of Sir Edward Pellew 

 stand out, so as to become matter of national and agreeable conversation. Lord 

 Exmouth was the antipodes of a benevolent man : philanthropy had no charms 

 for him. The historian, not Mr. Ostler, had already recorded the name of Sir 

 Edward Pellew on the pages of modern history as the conquering British admiral 



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