SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER. 
ro THE TWENTY-SEVENTH VOLUME or tuz 
MONTHLY 
V Olen ou 187. 
Jury 30, 1809. 
MAGAZINE. 
AS a aa 
PP RIC Fis, 
HALI-YEARLY RETROSPECT OF. DOMESTIC LITERATURE, 
HISTORY. 
PIRST in the class of History we 
place the “ Memoirs of the Reign of 
James 11.” by Joan Lorp Viscount 
Lowspatr; in which many points are il- 
Justrated in the history of that unfortunate 
monareh’s reign, that were betore ambi- 
guous; and no small share of light 
thrown on the singular history of Mon- 
mouth’s Rebellion. 
Another valuable work, connected 
with history more than with biography, 
has been published, in the “ Memoirs of 
Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth, writ- 
ten by Himself; with Explanatory Anno- 
tations.—The former part of this volume 
is, iw fact, are-publication, The latter, 
the ‘* Pragmenta Regalia,” contains some 
cliiracters very spiritedly drawn. Both 
deserve a place in the library of every 
lover of English History. 
As a production of the present day, a 
History of the Rebellion of 1745, in 
Latin, may, perbaps, be thought a kind 
of literary phenomenon, Such an one, 
however, has made its appearance, from 
the elegant penof Dr. F. D. Wuitaker. 
£6 De Motu per Britanniam Civico Annis 
MpDCCXLY. ef mpecxtvi. Liber Unicus.” 
A. neat duodecimo volume, not only ele- 
gant and spirited in its style, but accept- 
able for more important reasons, both 
to the scholar and the antiquary. 
In “ The History of Don Francisco de 
Mirandd’s Attempt to effect a Revolution 
in South America, by Mr. Brcos, we have 
an assemblage of facts, which, though 
moulded into a series of Letters, forms 
almost a complete Journal of the Expe- 
dition. General Miranda himself ap- 
pears to have been no great favourite 
with the author; so that for many pas- 
sages in the work, a little allowance must 
probably be. made, The expedition, 
well imagined as it might have been in 
the outset, was evidently ill supported; 
and our author’s own disappointinent may 
Je read in almost every page. He ap- 
pears to be an American; and _ his his- 
tory, which is called, in this impression, 
the London. Edition, is represented to 
Moninpy Mas. No. 187. 
have’ been revised, corrected, and en-, 
larged, 
Another work, however, of inferior im= 
portance to none that have been already 
named, will be found in the final portion 
of the second volume of Mr. Mavrice’s 
“ Modern Iist:ry of Hindostan ;” con- 
taining the History of India, and of the 
East India Company, during the seven- 
teenth, and part of the eighteenth, cen- 
tury. It was Mr. Maurice’s first ine 
tention to bring the modern history 
down to the close of the eighteenth cen- 
tury; but owing to the vast mass and 
press of matter, he found it impossible. 
The details, therefore, which mark the 
closing day of the Mogul dynasty, with 
what remains to be recorded of British 
transactions in India, down to year 1800, 
are to be presented to the public in a 
few months, in the form of an Appendix. 
The fifth book of the Modern History, 
with the second ehapter of which the pre- 
sent portion opens, relates mostly to the 
cominercial settlements of different coun- 
tries in India. The third, fourth, and 
fifth chapters, relate more particula ly to 
the history and policy of the English 
Company, down to the end of the year 
1757, he sixth book concludes the 
history of the Mogul Emperors, in three 
chapters, finishing with the death of 
Aurungzebe. 
We shali select a single specimen of 
the work, in Mr. Maurice’s Reflections 
on the Character and Manners of the 
Mahrattas—(p. 333.) 
‘© The Mahrattas, whether considered 
as a nation, or as individuals, constitute 
a peculiar phenomenon in the history of 
huinan society. Superstitiously addicted 
to the mild rites of the Brahmin religion; 
never eating of any thing that has life, 
and by their belief in the Metempsy- 
chosis, restrained from killing even the 
most noxious reptile that molests them ; 
yet barbarously mutilating, and, in their 
sanguinary warfare, putting to death, 
thousands of their fellow-creatures, and 
that often with aggravated tortures; they 
exhibit a contrast of character wholly un- 
a&P - paralleled 
