1830.] 



Domestic and Foreign. 



595 



boxes, and I painted all these scenes."" Did 

 you ?" said Sheridan, surveying them rapidly ; 

 " well, I should not have known you were a 

 Fox by your brush." 



Bernard's account of Lawrence, the 

 late President of the Academy, in his 

 boyhood, is a very interesting one, but 

 much too long to quote : he takes the 

 credit of contributing to deter him from 

 making the stage his profession. Mrs. 

 Hunn's (Canning's mother) story, com- 

 ing as it does from one who knew her 

 well, is worthy of commemoration. 



Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas 

 Munro a third volume. Edited by the 

 Rev. Mr. Gleig Though we think a 

 little too much fuss has been made about 

 Munro's correspondence, this additional 

 volume is acceptable enough. One half 

 of it, doubtless, as well as of the two 

 former volumes, might very well have 

 been withheld, without the loss of any 

 thing of public interest or value. Con- 

 fessedly many of the papers, in both 

 portions of the publication, are of real 

 importance, and we are willing to take 

 the chaff with the grain, especially where 

 the sifting is not very laborious, though 

 it might have been easily spared. Mun- 

 ro's thorough acquaintance with India, 

 coupled with an unusual power of easy 

 communication, throws an agreeable 

 clearness over matters, which with 

 most writers have been sufficiently 

 cloudy, while his ardent devotion to 

 the service gives a vigour and de- 

 finiteness to his statements, which a 

 cold indifference could never accom- 

 plish. He was troubled with no doubts 

 or qualms the subjugation of India to 

 English domination was a sort of pas- 

 sion with him, and the most vigorous 

 measures were always the best, because 

 they bade fairest to be most decisive. 

 When in authority and what officer, 

 however humble, in India, is not in au- 

 thority ? while the natives were quiet 

 and submissive, he was a gentle master 

 enough, but he had no toleration for 

 discontents. If they did not look happy 

 he was for making them so as many 

 are for flogging children out of their 

 sulks, and insisting upon smiles and a 

 cheerful demeanour. 



In the course of the correspondence 

 occur letters from Colonel Wellesley 

 the contents of which must surely have 

 escaped the editor. With some the 

 glory of the duke's great name throws 

 a halo around him, and conceals ugly 

 features ; but the editor must have 

 known there are sharp eyes on all sides, 

 and common discretion should have 

 taught him to suppress what, in a pri- 

 vate correspondence with a brother of- 

 ficer of congenial sentiments, might pass 

 very well, but could not be borne by the 

 cool and general reader. Colonel W. 



talks of destruction, and devastation, 

 and plunder, with the tone of one who 

 enjoys the horrid scenes. " Colonel Mon- 

 treser," says he, " has been very suc- 

 cessful in Bulum has beat, burnt, plun- 

 dered, and destroyed in all parts of the 

 country," &c. " I have taken and de- 

 stroyed Doondiah's baggage and guns, and 

 driven into the river where they were 

 drowned about 5,000 people," &c. "My 

 troops are in high health and spirits, and 

 their pockets full the produce of plun- 

 der," &c. Certainly, the coolest state- 

 ments we remember. 



Encyclopaedia Britannica. Seventh Edi- 

 tion. The proprietors of this popular 

 Encyclopaedia have started a new edi- 

 tion, far surpassing all its predecessors 

 in the mass of material, and in splen- 

 dour of embellishment. It amalgamates, 

 moreover, the well-known supplement, 

 and will bring, of course, all articles, af- 

 fected by the succeeding discoveries of 

 science, and the progress of public events, 

 to a level with the period of publication. 

 The plates are new engravings, and of 

 the first class, and the maps are to be 

 doubled in size. Dugald Stewart's dis- 

 sertation has been reprinted from a copy 

 corrected and added to by the author 

 himself; and a portion of it, containing 

 the Ethical Philosophy of the seven- 

 teenth and eighteenth centuries, 'which 

 Stewart did not live to complete, has 

 been contributed by Sir James Mackin- 

 tosh. Sir James's piece forms a part of 

 the fifth, sixth, and seventh fasciculi, 

 and is an able sketch of the opinions 

 of ethic philosophers, from Hobbes to 

 Brown, preceded by a glance at ancient 

 ethics. Sir James's estimate of Brown 

 is in handsome contrast with Stewart's 

 pitiful attempt to depreciate the man 

 whose rising fame was already eclipsing 

 his own. 



The whole work is pledged not to ex- 

 ceed twenty-one volumes, with a con- 

 fident belief, expressed by the learned 

 editor, of its being completed in twenty, 

 each volume containing 800 full and 



dose pages, at 36s. consequently be- 

 all former prices. " Considering its 



low 



extent and execution," observes the 

 editor, " it will present the cheapest 

 digest of human knowledge that has yet 

 appeared in Britain, in the convenient 

 form of a dictionary," which is true to 

 the letter. 



The Animal Kingdom, described and ar- 

 ranged in Conformity with its Organiza- 

 tion, by the Baron Cuvier, with Additions, 

 8fc. by Edward Griffith and others. Part 

 XXV. This very superior publication 

 advances rapidly. The portion before 

 us, the twenty-fifth, commences with 

 the Class Reptilia, and comprises the 

 two orders of Tortoises and Lizards 



