SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER 
To THE SIXTEENTH VOLUME OF THE 
MONTHLY 
MAGAZINE, 
Von. 16, No.110.] January 25, 1804. 
[Price Is. 6d. 
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HALF-YEARLY RETROSPECT 
HISTORY. . 
R. ADOLPHUS, concerning whofe 
Hittory of the Reign of George 
- the Third we fpoke with merited en- 
comium, has recently publifhed, in two 
large o€tavo volumes, ** The Hiffory of 
France from the Year 1790 to the Peace 
concluded at Amiens in 1802.” 
In connettion with the three volumes 
which this gentleman publithed fome 
time ago, of the Hiftory of France from 
the firit eftablifhment of the monarchy 
te the year 1790, thefe makea complete 
hiftory of that country from the ear- 
lieft periods to the year 1802. 
As Mr. Adolphus has acquitted him- 
felf fo refpeétably in the arduous and 
critical tafk of eltimating the merits of 
living characters, and of recording the 
contemporary events of his own coun- 
try, we expected that he might have 
. preferved the fame equanimity, and 
have held the fame even {cale of juf- 
tice, when employed in the hiftory of. 
another nation. ‘The fubject, however, 
is certainly much more ftimulant; and 
many aman may record with temper 
the tranquil intrigues and -bloodleis 
difputes of a Britifh cabinet, whofe 
breaft would {well with the mingled 
feelings of indignation. and horror as 
he related the dreadful contefts of Pa- 
rifian clubs, and the fanguinary faction 
of a convention or a directory. 
To have been a republican, and to 
have voted for the abolition of royalty, 
is a deadly fin in the eyes of Mr.Adol- 
phus, who overwhelms, with too little 
difcrimination of cenfure, the Right Side 
and the Left, the Facobinmsand the Gi-. 
rondifis, the Mountain and the Plain. 
Little lefs mercy is fhown to indivi- 
duals than to bodies: M. and Madame 
Roland, Briffot, Neckar, Fayette, Gre- 
goire, and many others, are pourtrayed 
with an unjuit feverity of pencil. The 
artift has had fo many ruffian portraits 
to draw, that he becomes a mannerif, 
and gives the features of perfidy and 
atrocity to honourable and humane 
‘charaéters. 
MontuHiy Mas. Ne. 110. 
OF DOMESTIC LITERATURE. 
It isa great fault in this work that 
there areno fiate papers ; the reader si 
referred to Annual Regifters, Statec-ol- 
lections, and fo on, for circular letters, 
treaties, proclamations, &c. which un- 
queitionably ought to have been in- 
ferted. Some interefting events in the 
revolution are hurried over in a. very 
fuperficial manner: this is the cafe 
with the affair at Nancy, fo amply de- 
tailed by the Marquis de Bouillé in his 
Memoirs of the Revolution ; the Queen’s 
trial and execution are begun and end- 
ed in about three pages, and thofe of 
Louis himfelf are meagrely and unin~ 
tereftingly related. The hiftory of the 
campaigns is, in general, given in a 
concife, but, generally fpeaking, in 2 
lucid and intelligible manner: we felt 
at once furprifed and ditguited that in 
the account of the invafion of Switzer- 
land, fo much credit fhould have been 
given to the proud, unbending arifto- 
crat of Berne, the Avoyer. Steiguer, 
whilft the immortal name of ALoys 
REDING is not once mentioned! This 
is the more unaccountable, as Mr. Adol- 
phus, among other very re{pettable au- 
thorities for his account of this atroci- 
ous invafion, tells us that he confulted 
the interefting and faithful Hiftory of 
M. Zichokke, where the name of that 
patriot hero very often occurs, anc 
where that homage is-_paid to his noble 
conduct to which it is fo amply.’ en- 
titled. 
The work to which we have juft al- 
luded was originally written in Ger- 
man, from which languageit was tran{- 
lated into French by M. Bieatte, fecre- 
tary of legation to the Helvetic Repub- 
lic at Paris; and it has very lately been 
tranflated into Enghfh by Dr. Aikin. 
Ir is entitled * An Hiffory of the Inva-~ 
fon of Switeerland by the French, and 
the Defiruction of the Democratical Re- 
publics of Schuwitz, Uri, and Underwal- 
den.” é 
. The author, M. Zfchokke, was na- 
tional prefeét of the canton of Bafil, 
and nominated, in the year 1798, by 
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