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mentioned, every day shews us more and 
more its paralysing effects.. Let the mo- 
dern Alexander make but a promise, we 
already begin to believe it half accom- 
.plished. If he should say: ‘I will crown 
Berthier at Constantinople, and _ place 
my eagles on the minarets of Jerusalem 
before the end of August,” immediately 
half the newspapers of Europe will say : 
© Alas! ’tis all over with Turkey and Sy- 
ria!’ But it is ame to awake from this 
sort of lethargy, and make use of com- 
mon sense. 
“ Let Austria say to her soldiers: 
‘ Nobility shall no longer be necessary 
to qualify my people for becoming officers ; 
ficht with courage and energy, for the 
contest is no longer fer me solely, but 
for your country and yourselves,’ 
“ Tet Spain dismiss her miserable 
juntas, and say to Palafox and Cuesta: 
* You are invested with plenary powers ; 
call forth alj the resources of your coun- 
try, and drive our invaders across the 
Pyrenees.” These things dune, victory 
would again fly from the eagles of Napo- 
Jeon, and the baffled armies of Gaul re- 
trace in terror their steps to their native 
land.” 
This interesting volume concludes with 
a copious Appendix, consisting of corre- 
spondence and official papers, relative to 
the operations in Portugal and Spain. 
MISCELLANIES, - 
First in the miscellaneous elass we 
make no hesitation to place the ** Letiers 
Srom a late eminent Prelate to one of his 
Friends.” Comprising a selection from 
the epistolary correspondence of Bishops 
Warsurron and Hurp. 
-On a blank page in the first of the five 
port-folios, in which the originals of these 
letters were contained, the following en- 
try was inserted. . 
“ These letters give so true a pic- 
_ ture of the writer’s character, and are, 
besides, so worthy of him in all respects 
(i mean, if the reader can forgive the 
playfulness of his wit in some instances, 
and the partiality of his friendship an 
many more,) that, in honour of his me- 
mory, I would have them published after 
ray death, and the profits arising from the 
sale of them, applied to the benefit of 
the Worcester Infirmary. 
. R. Worczst5R.” 
- * Fanuary 18th, 1793.” 
Among the more valuable of these let- 
ters we reckon the 64th, in which Bishop 
Hurd recites his own personal history ; 
the Sist, the 87th, the 93d the 169th, » 
and the 187th,~-One of these, with parts . 
3 
Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Miscellantes. 
of two others, we shall transcribe as spe- 
cimens. i 
Letter LKXXVIT—* I ought rather 
to rejoice with all who loved that good 
man lately released,* than to-condole 
with them. Can there be a greater con- 
solation to all his friends, than that he 
was snatched from human misenes to 
to the reward of his labours? You, I am 
sure, must rejoice, amidst all the tender- 
ness of filial piety and the softenings of 
natural affection; the gentle melancholy, 
that the incessant memory of so indul- 
gent a parent and so excelient aman will 
make habitual, will be always brightened 
with the sense of his present happiness ; 
where, perhaps, one of his pleasures is 
his ministering-care over those which 
were dearest to him in life. I dare say 
this will be your case, because the same 
circumstances have made it mine. My 
great concern for you was while your fa- 
ther was languishing on his death-bed. 
And my concern at present is fer your 
mother’s grief and ill state of health. 
True tendervess for your father, and the 
dread of adding to his distresses, abso- 
lutely required you to do what you did, 
and to-retire from so melancholy a scene. 
“‘ As I know your excellent nature, I 
conjure you by our friendship to divert 
your mind by the conversation of your 
friends, and the amusement of trifling 
reading, till you have fortified it suffici- 
ently, to bear that reflection on this com- 
mon calamity of our nature, without any 
other emotion than that occasioned, by 
a kind of soothing melancholy, which. 
perhaps.keeps it in a better frame than 
any other kind of disposition: | 
“ You see what man is, when never 
so little within the verge of matter and 
motion in a ferment. The affair of Lis- 
bon has made men tremble, as well as 
the continent shake, from one end of Eu- 
rope to another; from Gibraltar to the 
Highlands of Scotland. To suppose those 
desolations the scourge of Heaven for hu- 
‘man impieties, is a dreadful reflection ;. 
aad yét, to suppose ourselves in a for- 
lorn and fatherless world, is ten times a 
more frightful consideration. In the first 
case, we may reasonably hope to avoid 
our destruction by the amendment of our 
manners; in the latter, we are kept in- 
cessantly alarmed by the blind rage of 
warring elements. The relation of the caps 
tain of a vessel, to the Admiralty, as Mr. 
York told me the story, has something 
very striking in it. He lay off Lisbon on. 
See ene aemeemennenenenenmenemnnememameten tara rine 
* Bishop Hurd’s father. 
ae 
Lats. Se 
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