' in eleven books. 
Hiftoric Doubts concerning ‘Foan of Arc. 
difcover in it many paflages highly 
poetical; he will probably read the ele- 
venth book with pleafure more than once; 
and will unite with the celebrated atithor 
of * The Botanic Garden” in an‘culogium 
on the verfification, which for wniform 
eorreétnefs has feldom been furpatt. 
Dr. DwicurT has publifhed— 
1. The Conguef of Canaan, an epic poem 
Hartford, 1785. Reprinted 
in London, in 1786, I believe by Johnfon. 
2. Greenfield Hill, apoem in feven parts. 
Publifhed at New York in 1794. Repub- 
lifhed in London, in 1797. 
3. Numerous fmaller poems, publifhed at 
various periods 5 but principally collected in 
€¢ American Poems, felected and original,” vol. 1. 
Publifhed at Litchfield, Connect. in 1793. 
4. A Diifertation on the Poetry, Elo- 
quence, &c. of the Bible. This title is not 
exact; but I have not the Differtation before 
me. “It was delivered publicly, on the oc- 
cafion of the author’s takine the degree of 
A.M.’ and was printed at the time. 
5. A Sermon on the Capture of General 
Burgoyne. This title is not exact. 1777, 
er 1778. 
6. A Sermon, delivered before. the Go- 
vernor and Legiflature of Connecticut, at the 
General Electionin May, 1791. 
7. ADifcourfe onthe Genuinenefs and Au- 
thenticity or the New Teftament. 1794. 
8. The true Means of eftablifhing Public 
Happinefs: A fermon delivered on the oc- 
cafion of the 4th of July, before the Cin- 
cinnati. 1795. 
Several other pieces, in verfe and profe, 
have been afcribed to Dr. Dwicurt, 
which have never been colleSted, and fome 
of which he has never acknowledged. 
May, 1798. la 

For the Monthly Magazine. 
Historic Dousrs CONCERNING 
JOAN OF ARC. 
Virtuous and holy, chofen from abeve 
By infpiration of celeftial grace 
To work exceeding miracles on earth, 
I never had to do with wicked fpirits. 
But you, that are polluted with your lufts, 
Stain’d with the guiltlefs blood of innocents, 
Corrupt apd tainted with a thoufand vices, 
Becaufe you want the grace that others have, 
You judge it ftrait a thing impoflible 
To compafs wonders, but by help of devils. 
Speech of Foan of Arc to ber judges 
in Shak{peare’s Henry VJ. 
HE more attentively the charaéter of 
Joan of Arc is ftudied in *.¢ ori- 
ginal hiftorical authorities, the more evi- 
dent it will become that our great dia- 
matift has given, in the lines above quot- 
ed, a juft view of this extraordinary per- 
fonage. Even Voitaire, in his profe- 
works, feems willing to allow that the 
Was not, as is too commonly imagined, 
3 
one of thofe half-infane enthufiafts, em- 
ployed as tools to work upon the vulgar; 
whom the one party endeavoured to cry 
up as a prophetess, and the other to cry 
down as awitch; but that fhe was a real 
heuoine, fuperior to vulgar prejudice, and 
no lefs remarkable by force of mind than 
for a courage and ftrength unufual_ in 
her fex. Her behaviour in adverfity, and 
during her trial, was exalted without af- 
feCtation. There is, however, one part of 
her hiftory ftrangely enigmatical: After 
condemnation, was fhe really burnt’or no? 
The Bithop of Beauvais is accufed by 
all parties of treachery and trick in the 
condu&t of the trial: it was his known © 
propenfity to gain his ends by ftratagem, 
craft, manoeuvre, ‘fraud, dexterity. He 
feeks out and brings forward fuch tefti- 
mony only as relates to ecclefiaftical of- 
fences, and then hands over the decifion 
to the fecular judges, whofe clemency he 
invokes, Joan fays to him publicly; 
“ You * promifed to reftore me to the 
church, and you deliver me te my ene- 
mies.’” The intention of the bifhop, then, 
mult have been, that the fecular judges, 
for want of evidence, fhould fee no offence 
againit the ftate; as the clerical judges, 
notwithftanding the evidence, had declined 
to fee any againft the church. A fatal 
fentence was, however, pronounced ; and 
the fulfilment of it intrufted to the eccle+ 
fiaftical authorities. Immediately after 
the auto da fé, one of the executioners 
ran te two friars, and faid, ** that he-had 
never been fo fhocked at any execution, 
and that the Englifh had built up fa 
fcaffolding of platter (uz echafaud de pla- 
tre) fo lofty that he could not approach 
the culprit, which muft have caufed her 
fufferings'to be long and horrid.” She 
was, therefore, by fome wxufual contri- 
vance, kept out of the reach and obferva-’ 
tion even of the executioners. 
Some time after, when public commi- 
{eration had fucceeded to a vindictive bi- 
gotry, 'a woman appeared at Metz [, who 
declared herfelf to be Joan of Arc. She 
was every where welcomed with zeal. At 
Orleans, efpecially, where Joan was well 
known, the was received with the honours 


* €6 Villaret Hiftoire de France,” tom. ¥V.p.72-«. 
wi ios Pafguier Hifgoire @ Orleans,” liv. vi. 
} ‘* Gifloire de la Pucelle par P Abbé Lenglet.”” 
See alfo §¢ Adclanges Curienx,s Monfirelet,” 
and the manufcript authorities cited by the 
continuator of Velly. It were much to he 
withed that the truly curious notes, which 
accompany the new edition of a celebrated 
poem, had agitated this queftion coacerning 
the heroine, 
Az due 
