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his body to be taken to a Le. py 
and dissected, in the presence of the stu- 
dents... 
In private life, he was nevertheless ever 
prompt. to lend his assistance ; and was for 
years involyed in legal embarrassments, con- 
nected with the concerns of his brother, Dr. 
Cartwright, the inventor of the power-loom. 
Though £10,000 was afterwards granted 
by, Parliament to indemnify the losses sus- 
tained by Dr. Cartwright i in bringing to per- 
fection this invention, then thought so emi- 
nently beneficial for the nation, Major Cart- 
wright, himself a loser of £14,000 by his 
brother’s failures, disapproved of the mea- 
sure, and refused to take any steps to fur- 
ther it.. ‘‘ The writer’s brother, says Miss 
Cartwright, when applied to for a confirma- 
tion of thisremarkable fact, says, your state- 
ment agrees entirely with my recollection. 
Our good. uncle’s inflexibility on this sub- 
ject, vexed some of my, father’ s friends more 
than it surprised me.”’ We give a letter 
written by Dr. Parr, to Major Cartwright, 
in 1820, by a man of seventy-four to ano- 
ther of eighty, both equally consistent 
‘through life, equally energetic, and equally 
fearless. 
«© TO JOHN CARTWRIGHT, ESQ. 
: «* Hatton, 15th September, 1820. 
«« DEAR AND EXCELLENT MR- CARTWRIGHT, 
.« Tam busy night and day in preparing such a 
catalogue* of my numerous books, as may guide my 
executors when I am no more. Scarcely any con- 
‘sideration could draw me away from the laborious 
‘but important task. If my presence had been ne- 
cessary for the cause of the Queén, I am pretty 
sure that I should have been summoned; and the 
“Queen knows I shouid have been ready to obey 
the summons. But all her interests and all her 
rights; are in the hands of able, and, we may now 
say, faithful auxiliaries. _ IL hold with you, that the 
honour of the Queen is closely connected with the 
constitutional rights of the people; and at all 
_eyents we are gaining ground against a vena] and 
oppressive crew in the palace, in the council-cham- 
ber, and in both houses of Parliament. 
«© My mind, like your own, is anxious for the 
‘success of the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Neapoli- 
tans, in their resistance to tyranny. 
«« J believe that the governors of this country 
will not dare to interfere.—I cannot with any con- 
“venience attend your dinner; and I must fairly 
acknowledge to you, that my own sense of decorum 
always leads me to keep at a distamce from con- 
vivial meetings upon political subjects. But I 
~shall not yield the palm of consistency and intre- 
pidity” to any Englishman now living, when, by 
open profession or by personal exertion, I can pro- 
‘mote the cause of genuine freedom. I set at de- 
‘fiance the invectives of party scribblers, and the 
~ taunts of courtiers, and the frowns of nobles and 
princes. I really, and I avowedly think you a 
‘most injured man; and J lament the servility, and 
the corruption, and intolerance, and the cruelty of 
. which so many vestiges are to be found among the 
-*,-This was never accomplished. A catalogue has 
singe been taken by Bone the bookseller, and is now 
printing. , The books. will be sold—a capital one 
h tunity for the London ‘University.—Ed. A 
Monthly Review of Literature, 
'Gibbon, injudicious and’ inefficient. 
[Jury, 
dignitarles of my own order, and, I am’ sorry ‘to 
add, among the ministers of public Justice, Our 
infatuated rulers are Dliiidly "into! fevery 
outrage which has a tendency to:accelerate) reyolu- 
tion.. Mrs, Parr unites with me in best eompli- 
ments.and best wishes to your well-bred and_intel- 
ligent lady, and to Miss Cartwright, .. ~ 
** | have the honour, &c. SAMUEL Pann.” 
Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall 
of the Roman Empire, for the use of Fami- 
hes and young Persons: reprinted from the 
original text, with the careful Omission of all 
passages of anirreligious or immoral Tendency, 
by THoMAs BowpDLER, Esq: 5 vols. 8vo.— 
The well known chapters, in which Mr. 
Gibbon discusses the causes, to which he 
ascribes the progress of the Christian reli- 
gion; and the sufferings of the early Chris- 
tians, are of course omitted. The establish- 
ment of Christianity by Constantine, and 
the restoration of Paganism by Julian, with 
many parts relative to Church History are 
reduced to very narrow limits, on the 
ground, that Church History is not the 
object of “ this publication,” meaning, we 
suppose, Mr. Bowdler’s, but in Gibbon’s 
view, it was a main, and an indispensable 
one. ‘The History is thus brought within 
the compass of five octavo volumes ; but 
as the type is something closer than the 
original octavo of twelve volumes, perhaps, 
not quite one half has been cut away ; aquan- 
tity, however, far beyond any occasion for 
removing passages of an “irreligious or im- 
moral tendency,’’ we should have supposed, 
in the eyes of any person of tolerable free- 
dom of intellect. 
With no doubt whatever of the well- 
meaningness of Mr. Bowdler, we cannot 
help thinking his expedient for converting 
By 
this anxiety to suppress certain parts, he 
“excites curiosity about them ; and so scru- 
pulously retaining the pure residium, he 
confesses a superiority in the Historian, 
which must be calculated to add weight to 
his general authority, and stir up in the rea- 
der a sense of injustice inflicted on the au- 
thor by the severity of this curtailment. 
If Gibbon be a dangerous book, the 
course to be taken was, not to drag it 
thus into closer and more inquiring no- 
tice, but to cast it in the shadé, wrapped in 
the cloak of oblivion, and supersede’its im- 
portance, by works of equal utility, equal 
splendour, and unexceptionable doctrines. 
Counteract the profaneness and repro- 
bate the depravity of existing writings ; not 
by maiming and maltreating them, but by 
furnishing superior publications.  What-will 
be the probable effect of the présent ‘pro- 
cess of purifying? raising a new°and! re- 
doubled demand for such works* in°their 
original, though it be in their impure ‘eon- 
dition. pnoitem it 
The Boyne Water, a Tale by the OHARA 
- Family. 3 ait 12mo.— Another tale’ of the 
Wayerly school, with Ireland for the ‘scene, 
