1823.] 



tliat their contents were of sucli a na- 

 ture as to satisfy the most zealous 

 champions of orthodoxy ; but we were, 

 it seems, raislakeu. Tlie Reviewer, 

 though he bestows a warm tribute of 

 commendation on Mr. Whateley's 

 Lectures, taxes him with ultra-libera- 

 lity on the topic of dissenters ; and, as 

 we have not for the first time to learn 

 what measure of liberality he himself 

 would portion out to those that dilier 

 from him on any subject, we are not at 

 all surprised at the objection he 

 makes to Mr. Whateley. 



Some observations on the Poyais 

 Loan, wliieli is not improperly termed 

 the Poyais Bubble, arising; out of a no- 

 tice of a book describing the country, 

 may probably add something to the 

 stock of information previously pos- 

 sessed by those who may read it, by 

 acquainting them with the situation of 

 this said Poyais territory. But by in- 

 troducing the mention of the Poyais 

 business, the Quarterly Scribe was 

 enabled to indulge in a sneer at the 

 Chili, Peruvian, Columbian, and Spa- 

 nish, loans; and,througli this channel, 

 to vent a portion of his treasured 

 spleen, against the cuuse of freedom in 

 general ; a temptation much too al- 

 Juringto be withstood. 



The ninth article will be read with 

 feelings of unmingled approbation by 

 all who arc advocates of genuine phi- 

 lanthropy. It notices the Sixteenth 

 Report of the African Institution, to- 

 Xether with the further papers printed 

 byordcr of the House of Commons, on 

 the subject of the slave-trade. Pro- 

 ceeding from these data, it enters into 

 an el()(|uent and luminous detail of the 

 circumstances connected ^^ilh the pre- 

 sent state of tiiis nefarious traffic ; and 

 stigmatizes, with just indignation, the 

 open disregard, or subtle evasion, by 

 which many of tiie Eu-opcan powers, 

 particularly the Dutch, French, and 

 Portuguese, have contrived to frus- 

 trate, or to render in great measure 

 nugatory, tlic benevolent and nobie ex- 

 ertions of the British government and 

 people to abolish a commerce so re- 

 plete with atrocity. 



An Essay by Mr. Tebbs, a proctor 

 of Doctor's Commons, on the Scrip- 

 ture Doctrines of A<iultery and Di- 

 vorce, wiiich obtained a premium of 

 fifly pounds, from the Soeicly fur pro- 

 moting Christian Knowledge in the 

 Diocese of St. Davicrs, next occupies 

 the atlcntioji ol'the Kc^viewer, \vlir> has 

 jjietty clearly proved, that the author 



Quarttvly Review, No. 55. t^l 



is indebted, not only for many of his 

 arguments, but, in a variety of in- 

 stances, for his language likewise, to a 

 treatise on the same subject, entitled, 

 " Nuptia Sacra," written by the 

 learned Dr. Ireland, the present Dean 

 of Westminster, in 1801, and which 

 has recently been reprinted. 



The criticism which succeeds on M. 

 ChampoUion's letter to Mr. Dacier, 

 relative to the Alphabet of phonetic 

 hieroglyphics used by the ancient 

 Egyptians, appears to us erudite and 

 ingenious. It seems, however, satis- 

 factorily to establish, both that M. 

 ChampoUion's discovery cannot lay 

 claim to the merit of novelty, bavin"- 

 been in great measure anticipated by 

 preceding writers, and that no further 

 use can be made of his alphabet, than 

 to furnish a clue for deciphering certain 

 proper names that appear to have 

 been written in it. 



We next come to one of the most 

 disgraceful efl'usions with which ranco- 

 rous party spirit ever pnUuted the 

 press of a free country. It professes 

 to be a review of "A Letter to his 

 Majesty George the Fourth, on the Tem- 

 per and Aspect of the Times;" but, with 

 a licence exceeding even that ordina- 

 rily practised by the Quarterly critics, 

 not a single allusion is made to the 

 pamphlet from the beginning to the 

 end of the article. Of its contents, 

 however, a tolerable idea may be 

 formed from its running title, "The 

 Opposition," upon which body it con- 

 tains an attack, almost unexampled, 

 even in tliis journal, for scurrilous 

 abuse and virulent invective. We 

 will not insult our readers by detain- 

 ing them with any lengthened obser- 

 vations on this piece of impotent ma- 

 lignity, calculated to excite alternate 

 feelings of pity and indignation. It is 

 difficult to decide whetiier it is more 

 odious or contemptible. It is labour- 

 ed and turgid in its style, flimsy and 

 feeble in its reasonings, coarse and 

 foul in its attacks, monstrous and 

 revolting in its inconsistencies. He 

 stigmatises tiie radicals as revolu- 

 tionists, and then endeavours to iden- 

 tify the Whigs with the Radicals. He 

 facetiously alfects to believe, that the 

 ministers must of all men be most 

 earnest in their desire to promote the 

 welfare, and accomplish the wishes, 

 of the nation; and gravely assures us, 

 tiiat a Tory opposition would, from 

 their piinciphs, bo loss iiijuiious to the 

 state than one composed of Whigs. 

 Lastly 



