Po a 
his ‘* George the Third*,” He appears, 
however, even yet not to have acquired 
fufficient command over his temper for an 
hiftorian ; his charaéters are often over- 
loaded either with cenfure or encomium. 
William, prince of Orange, is fo great 
a favourite, that even the maffacre at 
Glencoe is not fuffered to difturb his re- 
pofe ; and the noble energetic refolution of 
the Commons relative to the difmiffion of 
his Dutch guards is treated as an ungra- 
cious refuial of a ‘* natural and reafon- 
able requeft,’? and as favoring ‘¢ much 
more of faétion than of patriotifm.”’ 
The accufation which Mr. Coxe, in his 
Life of Sir Robert’ Walpole, brought 
againft Mr. Belfham, of extreme negli- 
gence and want of candour, is repelled 
with fome degree of fuccefs. ‘From the 
weft of Europe, with magic velocity, we 
now fly to its moft eaftern corner. In our 
laf retrofpect we noticed Mr. Dallaway’s 
<< View of Conftantincple, Ancient and Mo- 
._ dern,” &c. fince which, Mr. Eton, many 
years refident in Turkey and in Rufha, 
has publifhed “¢ A Survey of the Turki/b 
Empire? As the immediate object of 
thefe two gentlemen’s purfuit was dif- 
ferent, fo of courfe is in a great degree 
the nature of the information which they 
communicate. Mr. Dallaway travelled as 
a claffical fcholar, prineipally to invelti- 
‘gate thofe mouldering ruins whole former 
_ magnificence was the pride of one of the 
moft polifhed people of antiquity. Mr. 
Eton, ‘* has been a conful: he “has had 
indireét concerns in trade; as a traveller 
he has vifited moft parts of the Turkith 
empire ; in Ruflia he was for feveral years 
in the confidence of the late prince Potem- 
_kin, and ina fituation to know more of 
the fecrets of the cabinet than moft foreign- 
ers.’ Where our two travellers have had 
occafion to touch on the fame topics, we 
have obferved a coincidence of remark 
which imparts credibility to both; on the 
whole, however, we are compelled to form 
a much worfe opinion of the Turkifh cha- 
raéter from Mr. Eton’s narrative than from 
that of Mr. Dallaway. They*accord 
in reprefenting ignorance and haughtineis 
as united in thele Mohammedan conquer- 
ors, but we gain more adequate idea from 

* Weallude to Mr Belfham’s decifive hof- 
tility againft Mr. Haftings at the time when 
that gentleman was under trial. Our opinion 
concerning’ the delinquency of Mr. Haftings 
is perfe€tly coincident with the opinion of 
Mr. Felfham, but nothing fhould have ex- 
torted it from us, till a jury of peers, shen 
Siting ia judgment on the prifoner, had pro- 
nounccd their verdi&t of acquittal or condem- 
nator, a 
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Retrofpect of Domeftic Literature....F1iftory. 
[Sup. 
Mr. Dallaway’s performance of their fe- 
rocious temper, their iniulting and bar- 
barian treatment cf the humbled and the 
fubjugated Chriftians, ‘* Every raja (that 
is, every fubjeét who is not of the Mo- 
hammedan religion) is allowed only the 
cruel alternative of death or tribute ; and 
even this is arbitrary in the breaft of the 
conqueror. The very words of the for- 
mulary given to their chriftian fubjects on 
paying the capitation tax, import that 
the fum of money received is taken as a 
compenfation for being permitted fo wear 
their heads a year.’ Population is daily 
decreafing in the empire ; a circumftance, 
which under fuch a government will not 
be deemed very wonderful. Mr. Dalla- 
way and’ Mr. Eton both mention the re- 
laxation of military difcipline. From 
this circumftance, added to the degeneracy 
of the Sultans and of the people, the 
latter gentleman confiders the expulfion 
ef the Turks from Europe, and the re- 
eftablifhament of the Greek empire, not 
merely as a feafible project, but as an 
event likely to take place in the firft cam- 
paign of the firft war in which the Turks 
fhall be engaged. Surely this is too fan- 
guine a fuppofition. An advertifement 
prefixed to the firft volume of Mr. Pen- 
‘nant’s ** Viewwof Hindooftan,”’ ftates it to 
be part of a moft comprehenfive work, 
which that veteran naturalift announced 
fome few years ago, to be publifhed after 
the death of its ingenious author, under 
the title ** Outlizes of the Globe 3° the pre- 
fent are to form the 14th or 15th volumes 
of that undertaking. It is impoffible to 
mention the name of Pennant in con- 
neCtion with a literary work, without ex- 
citing the higheft expettations ; the very — 
extended nature of the prefent, however, 
forbids us to anticipate minute inveftiga- 
tion, whilft the well-earned and eftablithed 
celebrity of the author’s character, and 
the fpecimen afforded by the prefent por- 
tion, juftify us in looking torward toa 
valuable legacy. The natural hiftory of 
Hindooftan, and of the marine animals 
peculiar to its adjoining ocean, as a mat- 
ter of courfe, occupies much of Mr. 
Pennant’s attention: he often enters, 
moreover, into topographical and geo- 
graphical details, and refpecting the ifland — 
of Ceylon, particularly, correéts the in- 
accurate accounts of the ancient geogra- 
phers. The defcriptive portion of this 
work is lively and energetic ; the iketch 
of © Cafhmere,’ the region of eternal 
{pring, the paradife of Hindooftan, and 
the defcription of the ‘ Ghaut mountains,” 
the Apennines of India, are peculiarly 
aie pictureique. 
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