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bounds which defpotifm had fitted to 
receive a conqueror with joy? Muft 
not degraded mangled Switzerland be 
told, that independence is a bleffing, 
and freedoma virtue? Miuftnot D’Iver- 
nois be invited to recollect the decla- 
mations of his youth, and to wake the 
mountain-echoes with tones of other 
times? In fhort, muft not the Anti- 
gallicans feek frefh fophifts to unteach 
all their leffons of the laft decennium ? 
Statefmen ought never to be fana- 
tics; for whatever creed they may pro- 
-fefs to arm, and whatever war-hoop 
they may provide to confociate their 
partifans, they ought equally to keep 
in view the greatnefs of their country. 
During the French Revolution one 
party arofe, which confifted not of 
ftatefmen, which undertook to f{ubdi- 
vide France into nine diftin& federal 
republics, and thus to paralyze that 
empire for all purpofes of offentive 
war and territorial encroachment. It 
was the intereft of every foreign neigh- 
bour to fupport this party, the Gi- 
rondift. And it was efpecially the in- 
tereft of Great Britain, which in the 
progrefs of European partition can no 
where annex a fhare (except, perhaps, 
a mere feather—a feather of hoar-froft 
—Iceland) and therefore con{fults. her 
own relative “importance by checking 
The Girondift-party 
that progrefs. 
Retrofped? of German Literature. 
fet fo high a value on Britifh recogni- 
tion, that they indirectly offered, 
through the mouth of Condeorget,to cede 
Madagafcar as the price of our gua- 
ranteeing the revolution, that is, of 
our propping their power. - Thofe mea 
and thofe focieties in England, who, 
by their propofals and addrefles of re- 
cognjtion, endeavoured to break for 
minifters the ice of unpopularity, and 
to blade the prow of the gondola of 
embafly, were proceeding extra-civi- 
cally perhaps, but furely with found 
patriotiim. The prejudices of the 
Anti-jacobins prevented this critical 
recognition ; and the oppqrtunity re- 
turned not. The more exception- 
able the men whom an enemy holds 
forth as his reprefentatives, the more 
pieafure an intelligent malice would 
have taken In the recognition. Now 
they ot recognized the {uperior of 
their King, whofe dignity no prior re- 
cognition could have compromifed, be- 
caufe not preceded by any aflumption 
of parity. 
But J am {pinning out prate—with- 
out the leifure to fplice its incoherence 
—to tinge it. with ornamental colour- 
ing—to braid it into connection with 
the pamphlet to which it is attached— 
or to elip off its fag-ends—the imps of 
Fauitus tug! 
HALF-YEARLY RETROSPECT OF GERMAN LITERATURE. | 
eg 
WO thoufand feven hundred and 
fixty new works, or at leaft works 
which had been revived, re-moulded, or 
had affumed a new face, were, by 299 
bookfellers, advertifed in the catalogue 
for the laft Leipzig Eafter-fair, as the pro- 
duce of the preceding booktellers’ year, 
from Eafter, 1800, to the fame period in 
w8o1; tor the Michaelmas Catalogue 
contains only the gleanings from the field 
ot German literature, and the full fheafs 
are colleéted in that of the Eafter-fair. 
But do they contain likewile full ears of 
corn? Never before, perhaps, was there 
more reafon for afking this queftion, 
when, on the firft flight examination, we 
cannot but obférve, that, for ten ftalks of 
wild-oats and tares, it would be difficult 
to find o#¢ found and full ear of wheat, 
which might be preferved in the granary 
of literature, or exported into foreign 
countries. 
THEOLOGY. 
That the invigorating breath of life, 
which for the lait twenty years has per- 
vaded the fchool and church affairs of al- 
moft all the nations fpeaking the German 
language, ftill continues its animating in- 
fluence ; we find feveral indubitable proofs 
in the Catalogue for the laft Eafter-fair at 
Leipzig, and fuch as muft prove very con- 
folatory to the friends of gentle gradual 
reform. 
_ The Criticifm of the Sacred Records, 
on which fo many works formerly ap- 
peared, would feem, if we might judge 
from the catalogue before us, to be almoft 
entirely exhaufted. Scarcely any thing 
worth mentioning appears, except a few 
gleanings which M. Bircu, of Copenha- 
gen, furnifnes in his ** Colleétion of Va- 
rious Keadings,”’ to the diligent Grizss- 
BaCH tor his fplendid edition of the New 
Teftament, N 
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