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vaders, the patriotic baronet has, in one 
of the plates, reprefented the fpeaker of 
the honie of eommons as gageed with a 
drum-fick: Mr. Pirr and Mr. Dun- 
DAs are tied by the leg and neck with an 
iron chain! In another plate is a French 
major-general adminiffering a clyfter toa 
fat Englithman! Sir Joun DALRYMPLE 
ferioufly fuppofes that fuch nonfenle as 
this is to infpire his countrymen with 
{pirit and unanimity to oppoie an invafion! 
The “© Repiri of the Committee of the 
Houfe of Commons relative to the Treatment 
of Prifoners of War,” exeulpates the na- 
tional charaéter from the charge which 
has been brought againit it of harfi and 
uncivilized ulage towards thofe-unfortu-_ 
Nate captives: we cannot but be of opt- 
nion, however, that the committee de- 
grades its own dignity by a paltry unfub- 
flantiated retaliation. From their own 
report, it appears that the French pri- 
foners in this country hete occationally 
iuffered by the rapacity or negligence of 
individual contractors: and from a letter 
of the English agent at Paris, Mr. Swin- 
BURN, it appears, that although fimilar 
abuies have, in fome inftances, taken 
place in France, the Englith prifoners are 
plentitully provided and ‘comfo ‘tably 
taken careof. In our laf retrofpect we 
noticed Mr. AUFRERE’s «€ Warning to 
Britons,” a pamphlet in whieh the out- 
ages of the French towards the Susbian 
peaiants were pictured, we hope, with 
an exaggeraling pencii: a fimilar publi- 
cation has lately appeared, exhibiting a 
view of the atrocities perpetrated by Ge- 
neral Jourdain’s army, when it over-ran 
Franconia. This pamphlet is entitled, 
“* Anecdotes and Charaéteriftic Traits re- 
Speciing the Incurfion of the French Repub- 
licans into Pranconia in the Year 1796, by 
an Epe-Witnefr.” A tranflation has an- 
peared from the French of Mr. De Ca- 
lonne’s “ Letter to the Author of the Con- 
Sidcrations upon the State of Public Affairs 
at ihe commencement of the Year r798.”” 
Mr. De Calonne, after paffing fome high, 
and, we think, ill-merited encomiums on 
the author, ftates it as his opinion, that 
in merely proving the continuance of the 
war with France, to be effential to the 
interefts of England, he has only half ac- 
complithed what he ought to have had in 
view; namely, “ to fhew in what manner 
the war may be focontinued as to produce 
advantages proportioned to the evils it in- 
fliéts, and how to manage, that this we- 
sefary colamity may not become an infup- 
portable calamity.’ Mr. De Calonne con- 
fiders, thereiere, that it is the policy of 
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England to hinder a continental peace, 
and to revive a new coalition, not indeed 
of all the European powers againft F range, 
fer fuch a coalition he juftly deems chi- 
merical, as we do the probability of that 
triple alliance of Auttria, Pruffia, and 
England, which he feems to anticipate 
againit the common enemy. In this. 
pamphlet are many fenfible and interefting 
oblervations. ‘ A Ceuniry Clergynan” in 
his *¢ Letter to the kigit” Honourable Wil. 
liam Pitt,” is fo vafily iacetious, his ad- 
Vice is fo humourous and jocular, that we 
are at a lofs to know what the author - 
aims at. Mr. WAKEFIELD’S * Letter 
to Sir Fohn Scott, on the Subjed of a late 
Trial,” is written with that forcible 
eloquence which ever diftinguithes his po- 
litical pamphlets. Bithop Wartson’s 
‘* Charge to the Clergy of the Liocefe of 
Laondoff,” is intendea as a fupplement to 
his late “* Addrefs 5°? one would think it 
were unneceflary—it certainly is unge- 
nercus—to exaggerate the immoralities of 
the French. What oecafion can there be 
to infinuate, as the Bifhop of LanpaFF 
has done, that the ceremony of marriage 
has ceafed? that French equality fignifies 
acommunity of property ? that the French 
“‘itrip the pooreft of every thing they 
pofieis; plunder their cottages, and fet 
them on fire when the plunder is exhauft- 
ed; torfure the owners to difcover their 
wealth,” &c. &c. The learned prelate 
fhould avoid theie idle exaggerations, or 
he will lower himéelf to a level with the 
commoneit pamphieteers of the day. A 
tranilation has appeared of a fmall tract, 
entitled “* Coup Pocil fur le renverfemént 
ce la Suiffe:” it is written with indignant 
cloguence by fome one who appears to 
have fuffered from the revolution. The 
author's account Of the political fituation 
of the Swifs peafantry, is very different 
from that which was given by Mifs W1L- 
LiaMs (fee our laft Retrotpect). M. 
LAVATER, ia his Remonfirance,’* to the 
French Directory, breathes the {pirit of 
patriotifm ; that the anfwer which he re- 
ceived from REWBELL was unfatisfac- 
tory, will not appear wonderful, when it 
is known that his requeft was no lefs than 
that the power of France fhould be with- 
drawn from the Cantens, and the money 
repaid which the invaders had {ieized. 
Dean NicHOLLS’s “ Confiderations on the 
Prefent Timess? &c. are animated, but 
occafionally intemperate, ‘6 The Brii/p 
Mercury” appears once a fortnight; it. 
profefes to give an account of the politi- 
cal itate of Evrope; M.Matitet Du 
Pan is the author of this work,: which is 
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