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purified, as to be again admitted into the 
council, and finally, by Harley’s influence, 
was made lord lieutenant of Ireland in 1700. 
But ‘on Anne’s accession—and the causes 
are not clearly developed—he became per- 
fectly unmanageable, and, refusing to re- 
turn to his post in Ireland, was deprived of 
his office ; and was for some years a con- 
spicuous leader of opposition, till his old 
friend. Harley took the helm, when he was 
placed at the head of the council, and but 
for his death in 1712; would have again 
been appointed to the government of Ivre- 
land. 
The papers now published are the relics 
of the writings of these two eminent indi- 
viduals. Those of the elder were printed 
64 years ago, by Douglas, Bishop of Salis- 
bury, from copies. The originals, - lately 
rescued from destruction, by Upcott, of the 
London Institution, who ferrets out all these 
matters with singular diligence and suc- 
cess, haye supplied sundry omissions, to the 
amount of a fifth or sixth of the whole. 
The chief of this portion consists of Claren- 
don’s correspondence with Sunderland, the 
prime minister, and his own brother, during 
the year he was lord lieutenant of Ireland— 
and. most valuable they are, as exhibiting 
the headlong career of James, and his tur- 
bulent agent Tyrconnel. The resolution 
is manifest on the part of James, not to 
place the Catholics on a level with the 
Protestants, but to give them the supre- 
macy—and the beginning was to be made 
with Ireland. Clarendon, nevertheless, was 
not in the secret—he was not considered 
thorough-going enough, and Tyrconnel ac- 
cordingly was appointed a sort of viceroy 
over him. The steps which were taken to 
fill the council—the courts—the magistracy 
—the corporations, with Catholics, to the 
exclusion of the Protestants, are minutely 
detailed. The dispensation of oaths—the 
suppression of obnoxious trials—the -expur- 
gation of the army—for even the ranks 
were -purified—full 4,000 men were dis- 
placed, pretendedly on account of age and 
size, but unquestionably because they were 
not Catholics—all these matters are fully 
and distinctly unveiled. Tyrconnel in per- 
son executed many of these changes; and 
the conversations between that “ranting, 
swaggering”? person, and the good lieu- 
tenant, which are most dramatically de- 
tailed, are among the amusing as well as 
instructive portions of the book. Poor Cla- 
rendon’s embarrassments are truly pitiable. 
He was eager to serve the king, and morti- 
fied at the slights he experienced, and for a 
long time seems not to have penetrated into 
the views of the court, or to have under- 
stood the ground or extent of Tyrconnel’s 
influence. 
The diary, again, which is complete for 
the years 1688 and 9, presents many curious 
particulars relative to William’s career from 
the period of his landing to the time when 
he was declared king by the convention. 
Monthly Review of Literature, 
[Ocr. 
Impelled apparently by his fears for the 
hierarchy, Clarendon had joined the prince 
—his own son had gone over with the three 
regiments under his command at a most 
critical moment—but the good man seems 
to have joined William on the full convic- 
tion that he had no other views whatever 
than to secure the Protestant religion—no 
eye, not a glance at the crown; and when 
undeceived, would apparently have gladly 
receded. We have no space for extract ; 
but this part of the diary is full of interest, 
and will well repay the reading. Burnett 
shews admirably in it. 
The portions to which we have thus par- 
ticularly alluded, have been, the most of 
them, as we said, published before ; but to 
the greater part of readers they will be 
wholly new. Of the parts now for the first 
time printed, much is doubtless of inferior 
interest. They belong chiefly to, the younger 
brother—and consist mainly of a diary kept 
during his complimentary embassy to So- 
bieski—rather a dull performance. The 
correspondence contains numerous original 
letters of James, when Duke of York—of 
the Prince of Orange—Duke of Ormond 
and Sir William Temple--his own, with 
the lord justices of Ireland, during his ab- 
sence from the seat of government, and 
Vernon’s, the secretary of state, during his 
residence, which was but short. 
The Editor, Mr. Singer, the librarian of 
the Institution, in Albemarle-street, has 
executed his office with sound judgment— 
keeping his eye steadily fixed on the one - 
useful object—the reader’s convenience. 
Journal of a Voyage to Peru, &c., by 
Lieutenant Charles Brand ; 1828.—The 
author is a lieutenant of the navy, who on 
some professional commission, the object of 
which is of course withheld, started last 
year in a king’s packet for Monte Video, 
from which point, with all possible dis- 
patch, after failing in an attempt to elude the 
Brazil blockading squadron, he proceeded 
by land to Buenos Ayres. Without a mo- 
ment’s delay, he again set off, in a carriage, 
with three other travellers, to sweep across 
the Pampas to Mendoza, relieving the same- 
ness by occasionally riding on horseback, 
after the tearing manner of the country— 
—with which Captains Head and Andrews 
have recently made us all so familiar. From 
Mendoza, after due preparations, he scaled 
the heights of the Andes, in the depth of 
winter ; and descending thence, amidst nu- 
merous perils, and reaching Valparaiso, he 
took a passage in a small vessel, and arrived 
safely at Callao. Going up to Lima, he 
was so much occupied with the business he 
went upon, that, though he staid a whole 
month, he had no time to make observa- 
tions, he says; and contents himself with 
describing the ladies’ dresses, which he 
thinks not particularly decorous; and the 
tricks of the priests, which he represents as 
scandalous beyond endurance ; and the town 
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