fhis last insult without indulging in any re- 
€rimination, is an object worthy if possible 
of higher admiration in the prison of Ar- 
bourg, than on the plains of Mortgarten.— 
This is indeed the homo fortifer miser, whom 
Seneca describes as the noblest spectacle of 
the creation. Hece spectaculum dignum, ad 
quod respiciat intentus operi suo deus  Eece 
par deo dignui, vir fortis cum mala fortund 
‘compositus utique si et provocavit.— la affecti 
sumus ut nihil eque magnam apud nos admi- 
rationem occupel quam homo fortiter miser.” 
To the general information, to the 
industry, and the sagacity of Sir Francis 
-D’Tvernois high praise is dué. His vin- 
_ dictive aversion to the French oppres- 
sors of his country, does honour to his 
republican spirit. His animosity against 
Bonaparte is shared by every enemy to 
Usurpation or tyranny. The first pro- 
mise which the consul is accused of hav- 
ing brokeh is respect for property; the 
second is respect for the constitution ; the 
third, peace, and moderation to the vanquish. 
ed; the fourth, not fo interfere in the domes- 
tic concerns of other countries ; the fifth, fa 
restore public credit. Under each head 
facts are detailed, which convincingly 
show a repeated departure from these 
professions; yet there is a something in 
the plan of criticism, not altogether dex- 
terous and consistent. Some of the 
‘omplaints tend only to render Bona- 
ms 
WHEN Richard Lion-heart coveted 
the Holy Land, he began by taking 
possession of the island of Cyprus. Per- 
Zaps the shipping then in use could be 
well accommodated there, but not mo- 
_ dern men of war. 
bok Rhodes was long a seat of maritime 
/ power: is its best port become a mere 
haven for sloops and feluccas? ; 
Is Lampedusa, though so dear to the 
‘muse, worthless to the armed Neptune? 
‘Is it asa maritime arsenal useless and 
_eontemptible? ‘ 
One must presume, at least, that a 
Nation, whose charts are the best in 
_ Europe, has been unable any where to 
_ detect a naval station in the Mediter- 
| Tanean ; since she has thought fit to set 
_ 80 extravagant a value on Malta, as to 
think her infinitesimal fraction of a right 
to it worth a war. 
Mr. Orr endeavours to demonstrate 
thi§ value. He justly calls it the watch- 
tower of the Mediterranean, and re- 
counts the advantages it afforded during 
Any. Rev. Vor. IL. 
ORR’S IMPORTANCE OF MALTA. 
321 
parte odious out of France: these shoulc 
have been separatedinto some address to 
the Swiss. Others only tend to render 
him odious in France: these should have 
been separated into some address to the 
French ; and might have been power- 
fully strengthened by a person duly ac- 
quainted with the state of opinion in 
Paris. In some places Steigner, an 
aristocratic chieftain of the Swiss, is 
unaccountably applauded : he is suppos- 
ed to have stimulated those measures 
of the Senate of Bern, which, by des 
stroying the hope of domestic redress, 
founded a’French party in Switzerland. 
Elsewhere Reding, the purer chieftain 
of a purer cause, is applauded with 
like zeal, and with less reserve. ‘Ihe 
art of hostility does not consist in indis« 
criminate, in perpetual, or in contradic. 
tory opposition; but in selecting the 
most uniformly thwarted interest for the 
especial object of protection, and in 
dropping all grounds of discussion which 
interfere with its sympathies. Bonaparte 
is a hero of the anti-jacobins, not of their 
adversaries; it is in the name of out- 
raged liberty that he should be devoted 
to the abhorrence of the nations he en- 
slaves. The restorer of popery and mo- 
narchy is sure of the perennial praise 
of the priest and of the couttier. 
Aur. XXIV. The Importance of Malta considered. By G. Orr, Esq. 8vo0.} 
the Egyptian campaign. Very true. 
But will no other island answer all these 
purposes nearly as well? 
ir. Orr takes it for granted that it is 
always an object to us (p. 22) to in- 
terrupt the proceedings of the French ; 
whereas, it ought to be an object to us 
only to interrupt those proceedings of 
the French, which tend to interfere with 
our own national interests. By inter- 
rupting last war their aggrandigement 
southward, we have compelled them to 
extend themselves in the worth, and are 
now wholly unable to eradicate them 
from Holland, from Westphalia, from 
Denmark. Never was such want of 
statesmanship displayed as in the se- 
lection of enterprizes during the anti- 
jacobin war. 
In the progressive partition of the 
‘world, Great Britain, from geographi- 
cal causes, cannot aggrandize herself, 
Her interest, therefore, is to promote 
the institution of new independentpowers, 
among whom she may preserve her old 
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