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perfon, although the one was devoid of 
beauty, and the other of elegance, defi- 
cient in intereft, unfuitaole to his purpofe, 
or inadequate to his views: for the low- 
ering frown that wrinkled his ample fore- 
head was calculated to appal; while the 
lightning of his eye feemed to blait; the 
thunder of his voice to terrify; and the 
vengeance of his uplifted arm to fmite, 
fubdue and overcome, his abafhed and in- 
timidated opponents.”’ 
The regular narrative commences in 
3792, with the declaration of war againtt 
Auftria, and while the means were point- 
ed out by which the combined powers 
were foiled in Champagne, and the King 
of Pruffia detached from the grand alli- 
ance; the portrait of that monarch, toge- 
ther with thofe of the prefent Duke of 
Orleans, Marfhal Luckner, the Generals 
La Fayette and Dumcurier, the Duke of 
Brunfwick, &c. &c. are delineated. 
The execution of Lovis XVI. which 
was foen after foliowed by hottilities on 
the part of Great Britain, prefents a new 
and interefting fcene ; and while it affords, 
on one hand, an opportunity of defcribing 
England as triumphant on every fea, and 
vigtor:ous in every quarter of the globes 
exhibits, on another hand, the conqueft of 
Holland, the fubjugation of which is ac- 
counted for, by a reference to the annals 
of that commercial republic, as well as to 
the opinions and parfuits of its invhabit- 
ants. This period is neceffarily connected 
with the chara&ers of the Prince of 
Orange, the Generals Clairfayt, Valence, 
Biron, Pichegru, and Cuftine, the Baron 
de Boetzelaer, the Prince de Cobourg, &c. 
The author next defcribes the Vendean 
war, and the principal chiefs of the rceyal 
_ party, fuch as Charette, Stofflet, Puifaye, 
Catineau, D’Elbée, as well as the repub- 
lican officers Santerre, Beyffer, Canclaux, 
Danican, and Heche. 
The invafion of Ireland affords an op- 
portunity of prefenting the reader with an 
hiftorical view of the fituation of that 
country, both at a remote and recent pe- 
riod; while the campaigns in Italy of 
courle produce a defcription of the battles 
of Nevi, Lodi, Ma:engo, and thofe of 
Gesmany, of the Paffage of the Rhine, 
and the aétions of Blenheim, Neubourg, 
Biberach, and Hohenlinden. The cha- 
r2Mers of the various Jeaders on both 
fides, fuch as the Archduke Charles and 
Bonaparte, Moreau and Wurmfer, Beau- 
lieu and Macdonald, are interfperied 
throughout tnis portion of the niftory. 
The memorable defcent on the domi- 
nions of the Ottuman empire in Africa, 
Retrofpect of Domeftic Literature.—Hiftory. 
prefents a fuitable opportunity for poisit- 
ing out the infatiable ambition of the 
Firft Conful, while their fubfequent con- 
queft by the Englith affords an appofite 
feafon for celebrating the achievements of 
a people, who, after maintaining rhe glo- 
ry of their flag on the ocean, and proving 
vigtorious im every naval engagement, 
completed the triumph of their arms by 
the conqueft of Egypt. 
The maflacre of the whole garrifen of 
Jaffa, with the exception of three hundred 
men, by order of the French Con‘ul, ig 
cenfured asa barbarous and atrocious aét 
of cruelty. The aceufation of Sir Ro- 
bert Willon, however, relative to the poi- 
foning of the fick, is candidly examined, 
and not only proved to be highly impro- 
bable, by a reference to the work of Def- 
genettes, by whofe fuppoled teftimony he 
appears to have been actuated, but des 
clared not to be entitled * to the fanétion 
of hiftory.””. The following is a defcrip- 
tion of the governor of Acre: 
“¢ Achmet, Pacha el D’jeffar, at thig 
period governed Syria, under a nominal 
fubjection to the Ottoman Porte, the au- 
thority of which. he has fince difavowed. 
This fingular man, whofe name alone in- 
dicates the ferocity of his difpofition, ap- - 
pears to have equalled any of the moft ce- 
Jebrated tyrants of antiquity. During the 
fhort period that he enjoyed the pachalate 
of Damafeus, his government exhibited 
one continual {cene of violence, cruelty, 
and injultice,; for he is fuppofed to have 
extorted from the people no Jefs than twen- 
ty-five thoufand purfes, or about a mil- 
lion and two hundred thoufand pounds 
fterling, and to have put to death fome 
hundreds of individuals, moft of whom 
were innocent, befides mutilating a num- 
ber, wko fill remain the living witneffes 
of his vengeance. Age, fo admirably cal- 
culated fo convey dignity and refpect, on- 
ly contributed to render the appearance of 
this hoary chief, more fierce and more in- 
exorable. His refidence at’ Acre was for- 
tified without like a caftle, while it refem- 
bled a den within; for near to the place of 
audicnce was a dungeon, into which the 
vistims of rage or fufpicton were imme- 
diately precipitated. That turban, at the 
nod of which a whole province trembled, 
was continually ftained with the blood of 
bis unhappy fubjeéts; and thofe unlettered - 
hands, incapable of figning the fentence - 
of death, were faid to be trequently em- 
ployed in executing it.” Affiited by a mi- 
nifier, one of whofeeyes had been tnatched 
away by violenye, and furrounded by fup- 
pliants, many ei whom had, in the fame - 
manilefy 
