Retrofpe of Denote Literature.—Hiftory. 
manner, been deprived of the fountain of 
light, this hideous defpot at once plun- 
dered and terrified the mulitude, over 
whom he was deftined to prefide.”* 
In the courfe of this work, the princi- 
pal ftatefnen in Britain as well as in 
France, pafs in review, and the opinions, 
talents, and purfuits of a Pitt, a Fox, an 
Addington, a Sheridan, a Dundas, a Bed- 
ford, and a Grenville, are noticed and 
enumerated. 
An Appendix, with two exceedingly 
valuable and copious Indexes, the one 
chronological and the other general, con- 
clude the work ; and it will be difcovered, 
by a reference to the former of thefe, that 
the fare of Farcelle, a free negro of Do- 
minica, is, to the full, as hard as that of 
Touiflaine. 
‘© Naval Chronology; or, an Hifforical 
Summary of Naval and Maritime Events, 
rom the time of the Romans to the Treaty of 
Peace, 1802, With an Appendix. By Isaac 
SCHOMBERG, Esq. Captain in the Royal 
Navy.’ 
The merit of fuch a work as this muft 
depend almoft entirely on its accuracy: 
we fee no reafon to difpute the claim to 
credit of the prefent. References are 
made to official documents, and thefe are 
given in the appendix, which is contained 
in two. feparate volumes (the whole work 
embracing five), in order the more readily 
to refer'to any particular occurrence. It 
contains the’ ftate of the royal navy of 
Great Britain, its various fuccefles and 
lofles, with a comparative view of thofe 
of other powers; a lift of fleets, {qua- 
drons, lines of battle, &e: &c. It is 
with high patriotic pride that an Englith- 
man turns over the pages of a work, every 
ene of which records the gailantry, the 
indomitable {pirit of his countrymen: pro- 
feffional men will emulate the deeds of 
their anceftors, and the Britith flag will 
wave triumphantly on whatever ocean ic 
is hoifted. 
Mr. SrewartT Rose has publithed the 
firtt volume of a ** Nawal Hiflory of the 
late War, compiled from authentic Docu- 
ments.” 
Mr. Rofe fays, in his introduétion, € if 
in the work I have undertaken I thal] fuc- 
ceed in freeing the accounts of your naval 
Operations from the inventions of the Ja- 
cobins, or the errors and exaggerations of 
the credulous, I fhall conceive my efforts 
fuccefsfully direfted and my objeé at- 
tained.”” With this view every meafure 
which this coun:ry adopted is ttoutly de- 
fended ; the burning of the fleet by Lord 
Hood at Toulen, a meafure in dire& op- 
607 
pofition to the written terms of his lord- 
fhip’s admiffion into the harbour is ftoudy 
defended. The diabolical plan.of flarving 
twenty-fix millicns of human beings into 
terms of peace; a plan, fortunately, the 
horror of which, horrible as it is, is fully 
equalled by its abfurdity: this plan is 
ftoutly defended! Mr. Rofe is a partial 
chronicler: if Mt proceeds as he has be- 
gun, his wak will fink into merited ob- 
livion, notwithftanding the intereft of 
the fubj-&. 
Mr. MacauLay has _publifhed the 
firft volume of ‘* The Hiffory of the Re- 
Jormation, from the French of Monf. de 
Beaufobre.”” 
We cannot but confider this as a great 
acquifition to hiftorical literature: the im- 
portance of the fubje& demanded talents, 
perfeverance, and impartiality. M. de 
Beaufobre is well known to have poffeffed 
thefe requifites in a very eminent degree. 
Mr. Macaulay has executed his tranfla- 
tion ma very refpeCtable manner, and it 
is to be hoped that the fuccefs of the pre- 
fent volume will induce him to complete 
his tafk. idan 
‘© An Account of the Englifh Colony in 
New South Wales, from its fof Settlement, 
2n January, 1788, 10 Auguff, 1801 ; with 
Remarks on the Difpofitions, Cuftoms, Man- 
ners, Sc. of the Native Inhabitants of that 
Country. To which are added, fome par- 
teculars of New Zealand; compiled by per- 
miffion, from the Manufcripts of Lieute- 
nant Governor King ; and an Account of 
a Vosage performed by Guptain Flinders 
and Mr. Bafs; by which the Ext/lence of 
a Strait feparating Van Dieman’s Land, 
Strom the Continent of New Holland was 
afcertained, Abfiracied from the Fournal 
of Mr. Bajs. By Lieutenant Colonel Co.~ 
Lins. Illuftrated by Engravings, Vol I.” 
A colony of convicts! Can this be- 
come a {chool of reformation ? and is it 
probable—is it poffible, with all his old 
affociates arcund bim, introduced too ® 
the acquaintance of others verfed in new 
arts of iniquity—of others the moft pro- 
fligate and abandoned of the human fpe- 
cies—that a man fhould repenc his fins 
and reform his condué&t ? The work be- 
fore us bears too decifive evidence that 
the difficulties which impede the progre(s 
of reformation are too numerous and toa 
ftubborn to be overcome. A large por- . 
tion of thefe pages is a chronicle of | 
ciimes ! 
The colony has now been eftablithed 
upwards of ten years, and the inftances 
recorded of refermation are as nothin,’ 
when compared with thofs of aggravates 
412 depravity 
