Supplementary Review of Literature. 
only answer by another question—What 
would have been the issue of the field of 
Waterloo, if all the Catholics of the Allied 
Army, or even of the British part of it, had 
gone over to the Catholic enemy ? 
If we have treated this subject seriously, 
it is on account of the subject, not in com- 
pliment to Mr. B.’s twelve-pemny pamph- 
let, the silly trash and flummery of which 
is fitter matter for a jest-book than fora 
literary review. Yet Mr. B. requests us 
to announce— 
“* That he has another book in the press respect- 
ing ‘ the royal and commercial navies of England, 
France, America, &c.,’ to which will be added a 
compendium of various useful discoveries which he 
has made, in naval and civil architecture, by pa- 
tent ventilafion; also a short process for tanning 
leather in old tan-yards, without any extra appa- 
ratus ; and that he intends to complete this work 
before next session of Parliament.” 
But if Mr. B. mends not bis pen a little, 
we should suspect that his-“ book’ will 
haye few readers, in Parliament or out ; and 
upon the whole, we would advise him to 
stick to his bricks and mortar—-to ventilate 
walls and preserve timbers from dry-rot. 
Eyery cobbler to his last. 
The Slave Colonies of Great Britain, or 
a Picture of Negro Slavery, drawn from the 
‘Colonies themselves ; being an Abstract of 
the various Papers recently laid before Par- 
tiament-on that Subject. 
«* During the session of 1924, a number of papers 
were moved for in the House of Commons on the 
subject of colonial slavery. A few of these were 
presented and printed in the same session; but by 
far the most important were not produced till the 
following session, and were not printed, and in the 
hands of members, till near its close, when it was too 
late to make any but a very partial use of them. 
As these papers are very voluminous, it has been 
judged advisable to form an abstract of them, with 
a view both to the convenience of Members of Par- 
liament, and to the information of the public at 
darge.”” 
_ For the performance of this task, the 
friends of humanity in particular, and the 
public in general, have great obligations to 
the author of this pamphlet, and for the 
explanatory notes and observations sub- 
joined. ‘To all who are desirous of authen- 
tic information of the sufferings the British 
legislature has, in this respect, to redress, 
and the temper and conduct of those by 
whom all redress is opposed, as well as of the 
colonial authorities, and to those, in par- 
ticlar, who feel a lively interest, or may 
have any influence, in accelerating the abo- 
lition of slavery, we recommend an atten- 
tive perusal of the facts and observations 
thus laid before them. } 
Moore's Life of Rich. Brinsley Sheridan. 
—Since our analysis o this work, the 
Westminster Review has ublished astate- 
ment, respecting the conduct of Sheridan 
when his party were negociating for pow- 
» Which exhibits a striking feature of 
political treachery, and is worthy, as a cu- 
Monruty Mac—Supp. 
513 
riosity, of a place in our Supplementary 
Review :— j 
“* The length to which this article has 
run, compels us to pass over intermediate 
events, to the last grand epoch in the life 
of Sheridan—his conduct in the negocia- 
tion with Lords Grey and Grenville, in 
181]. That Sheridan played false to his 
political friends on this occasion, certainly 
appears from the evidence before us; how 
far, in so doing, he may have been true 
to the Prince, or rather the instrument 
of his pleasure, we cannot so readily judge. 
The Whigs thought that they could have 
the government of the country on their 
own terms, and Sheridan took care that 
the dictatorial spirit which they discovered 
‘should not escape the royal eye.* He 
had no hopes at this period, we conceive, 
of rising with the Whigs, and therefore 
recommended himself to the Regent by 
his zeal in his cause, by his jealous care 
for the royal dignity; and, at the same 
time, in so doing, effected the exclusion 
of his party from power. The worst fea- 
ture in this intrigue was Sheridan’s sup- 
pression of an important communication, 
with which he was charged to the Lords 
Grey and Grenville, 
“The Whigs, who desired complete 
possession of royalty, stipulated that the 
Prince’s household, formed under a for- 
mer administration, should go out: this 
point was ceded by the court; but the 
concession, notified to Sheridan, did not 
reach the ears of those whose objection 
to office would have been removed by the 
knowledge of it. We cannot give the 
anecdote more shortly than in Mr, Moore’s 
words :— 
* Lord Yarmouth, it is well known, 
stated in the House of Commons, that he 
‘had communicated to Mr. Sheridan the 
intention of the household to resign, with 
the view of having that intention conveyed 
to Lord Grey and Lord Grenville, and 
thus removing the sole ground upon which 
these noble, lords objected to the accept- 
ance of office. Not only, however, did 
Sheridan endeavour to dissuade the noble 
vice-chamberlain from resigning, but, 
with an unfairness of dealing which admits, 
I own, of no vindication, he withheld 
from the two leaders of opposition the 
intelligence thus meant to be conveyed 
to them; and, when questioned by Mr. 
Tierney, as to the rumoured intentions 
of the household to resign, offered to bet 
j five 
* His graver commentaries in the correspondence 
of the Whig Lords may be considered as embodied 
in this jeu d’esprit, the effect of which ina certain 
quarter, may easily be imagined. 
An Address to the Prince, 1811. 
** In all humility we crave, 
Our Regent may become our slave; 
“+ And being so, we trust that he 
Will thank us for our loyalties " 
Then, if he’ll help us to pulldown 
His father's dignity and crown, 
We'll make him in sometime to come 
The greatest Prince in Christendom,” 
