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‘‘among the highest examples of ¢on- 
jugal faith, maternal duty, and Chris- 
‘ tian heroism.” 
We have next a discussion on the 
Cause of the Greeks, which is headed, 
for form’s sake, by the titles of two 
French works—Annuaire Historique 
Universel, 1822, and Histoire des Eve- 
nemens de la Gréce, par M. Raffenel. 
We have seen the first of these, and 
it certainly deserves a more appro- 
priate notice than an essay in defence 
of his majesty’s ministers,—the only 
matter in this review. The Annuaire 
Historique contains the best account 
of the origin and progress of the 
Greek revolution that has yet ap- 
peared; and it is written in a style of 
perspicuity and elegance which would 
do honour to any historian of any age. 
That our ministers ought to interfere 
in favour of the Greeks, we are not 
prepared to assert; that they would if 
they could, is known only to them- 
selves. ‘Their defence, therefore, is to 
us of no interest; and our only objec- 
tion to the article is, that it has not the 
most distant title to be called areview. 
It contains a number of extracts from 
other works; but not a line from the 
books that have been chosen for the 
text. 
The Histoire de la Théophilantropie, 
depuis sa Naissance jusqu’a son Extinc- 
tion, par M. Grégoire, is the next 
subject brought under review. M. 
Grégoire, formerly Bishop of Blois, is 
well known’ in the annals of the 
French revolution, and this Histoire 
de la Théophilantropie is a portion of* 
his ‘“‘ History of Religious Sects.” The 
Theophilanthropists were a set of 
well-meaning half-instructed French 
philosophers, who endeavoured to 
raise Deism to the rank of a sect, and 
to form a church of believers out of a 
congregated mass of infidels and scep- 
tics. Such a scheme was, long ago, 
tried in this metropolis, when David 
Williams preached some excellent 
moral sermons to empty pews, in a 
chapel in Margaret-street; and it was 
again attempted in Paris during the 
reign of the Directory. Both projects 
failed. The materials could not be 
cemented, and were, therefore, unfit- 
ted for the building of a temple. The 
history of this short-lived society is 
worthless, when thus taken alone, 
alihough, when conjoined with M. 
Grégoire’s account of religious sects, 
it adds another example to the history 
of human follies; but this was no part 
Philosophy of Contemporary Criticism, No. XXXII. [Sept. 3, 
of the consideration of the reviewer: 
he seizes on the work as a convenient 
excuse for venting forty-four pages of 
ignorance and vulgarity upon the 
progress of infidelity ; and of yililying 
the characters of individuals, many of 
whose names will live long after he 
and his review shall cease to be re- 
membered. The harangue is in the 
worst style of composition,—that of a 
fanatical sermon interspersed with 
prayers. This, however, is merely a 
matter of taste; but we will give a 
single extract, and then leave itto the 
reader, whatever his political or reli- 
gious opinions may be, to say whether 
any thing more uncalled-for and more 
disgraceful was ever inserted in a 
publication that pretended to be re- 
spectable. The writer is giving an 
account of a Parisian féte in honour of 
toleration: — ‘‘The only two heads 
worthy to have presided at it,were 
not there; the one, to the great sur- 
prise of its owner, having been taken 
from the neck of Anacharsis Clootz; 
and the other, which still retained its 
natural connexion with the shoulders 
of Jeremy Bentham, being at that 
time employed in planning Panoptical 
Prisons upon the principle of a spider’s 
web.” The writer then adds, in a 
note,—“‘ Long may it continue to 
adorn those shoulders! For were the 
egregious Jeremy to be deprived of 
it (as the orator of the human race 
was before him,) by an unlucky eflect 
of his own doctrines, let us not be 
suspected of flattery when we say 
that— 
The best of workmen, and the best of wood, 
Could scarce supply him with a head so good,” 
The last article, and we are glad 
that we are come to if, is on the 
Affairs of Spain. Of this we shall 
only say, that it advocates the cause 
of Spanish despotism ; and, like the 
preceding, is full of abuse against 
individuals, He, therefore, who loves 
slavery and slander will be gratified. 
by fie perusal. 
; J Fi Bi 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
TRANSLATION of HENRY THE EIGHTH’S 
FRENCH LOVE - LETTERS 140 ANN 
BOLEYN. 
T may not be amiss to premise to 
those readers, for whose satisfac- 
tion the editor requested these trans- 
lations, that they have been altogether 
very freely rendered, while the sense 
of many asentence has of necessity 
been added to, and some passages 
only 
