T8077. J 4 _* 
eecupy one'volume. His‘refearches into 
the art.of encamping are novel and pros 
found; and, although the author an+ 
ounces that he writes. anly for the in- 
ftruétion of {abaltern officers, all ranks 
may protit from the. perufal of it. 
‘The King of Prutka’s campaign in Bo- 
hemia, in 4788, has found amgid critie 
in the Comrr DE Scumertau, who, with 
the rank of major-general of cavalry, 
was the whole time attached to the per. 
fon ef his royal matter, [his remarks on 
the Gperations-of this campaign dileover 
the mind of an intelligent otheer, who 
relates with exactitude facts eftablithed 
by expericnee. This’ work is written 
with extreme beldnefs; it has been trant- 
lated inte French. 
Ancient hitory has ufually been found 
more feducing, as well as more intereti- 
ing, then ac hiltory : neverthelefs, 
the Fall of the Roman 1D i“mpire, the or 
gin of the modern kmgdems in Europe, 
the difcov ery.ot America, aud (in France, 
particular ly) the exploits ef Charle- 
agne,-the crufades, and the revival 
ot the arts under the foering reigu of 
Francis L., are, at lealt, equally impor- 
tant events with the. Grecian. wars. or 
Roman conquelis: It. 1s not, therefore, 
the materials that form this diftnction, 
ibis the manutacturer of whom we 1utt 
complain, Qur  hittorians 
punters, philofophers, nor 
fone one of which qualities every writer 
af antiquity poflefied, and many af them 
not untrequentiy the whole.» A man 
cannot be ellectually qualified as.an hil- 
torian, unleis he holds a confiderable 
ttateimen ; 
part in the goverament, and rifes with its: 
prolperity. Such an one, from having a 
perpetual crowd of objects within his ob- 
fervations, has opportunities of forming 
comparifons, of conceiving vatt projects, 
and of combining caufes and effects, watts 
advantages impervious to other people : 
hence the peculiar merits of many of 
eur Memoirs. But although amutement 
mingles with inttruction in this ftyle of 
compotion, the reader will do well to 
beware of its mupating qualitics: the pen 
vanders when the unogination is preyu- 
diced, and private feelinys {pecioutly dii- 
guile the truth. 
- Tau Marthal ot Mowrirc’s Gommen- 
panies, this fort of bias is remarkably 
glaring. We mutt, however, declare that 
the-author dees ape indulge his vanity 
at the expence of his veracity. In his 
iplendid reprefentations of his own ac- 
tious, he calls upon the candour of living 
witnelles to corroborate, or fetute, theur., 
] 
’ ’ ¥ 
are peither 
Writers of all Ages and Countries, a) 
De Thou, in his ‘very fodicious treatife, 
‘repeats and juttifies them all, 
Thé Mar 
fhal’s fublequent work, however, named, 
by Henri 1V., # The Soldier's Bible,” 
is not lefs eftedmed for this tthe weak 
nets. No better judze could have de~ 
cided on itsmerits, The book ran through 
feveral editions, and has been tranllated 
into Italian and Englith ; and, notwith- 
{tanding the tate improveme ats on tac- 
ties, it will ever deferve ta be the com- 
panion of nilitary men who with to mm 
prove in the profeflion, 
Du Betray feems to. have colleGed 
all is panegyric into one focus, to em~ 
blazon the character of Francis I. In 
his narrative he dwells too long on thofe 
battles where he wes either an agent or’ 
witacis. 
Ta Rance Toa 
| Per the Monthly Magazine. 
JOURNAL of a VOYAGE performed in the 
FNDIAN SEAS, ¢6 MADRAS, BENGAL, 
enina, &¢., &¢.. wt HIS MAIESTY’S 
SHIP CAROLINE, tn the yEARS 18038-4-5, 
interfperfed with short DYSCRIPTIVE 
SKETCHES of The PRESENT STATE of the 
principal. SETTLEMENTS 7 he INDIA 
COMPANY. 
Communicated tothe MONTHLY MAGAZIN 
by an orvicen of that surp. 
[Continued from Vol. 22, 540.] > 
- EING accommodated with a budge= 
row and proviliens, as the winds’ 
were very faint, and fometimes contrary, 
we. proceeded flewly down the river ox 
the ebb tidas; bringing up during the 
floods at the villages an the banks, and 
making excurfions from thence into the 
country to fee the manufactures, man~ 
ners, and cuitoms of thefe harmlets peo- 
ple: thus prolonging this little voyage 
of pleafure to the length of three or four 
days. 
We vifited the botanical garden, which: 
is delightfully fituated’ on the weilern 
bank of the river, a few miles fromm Cal+ 
cutta ; its appearance from the water: 
too, while pailing it, is very pidturefque, 
6¢ Here waving groves a chequer’d fcene dif. 
play, . 
And part admit, and part exclude the day; 
There, interipers’é in lawns and Spears - 
giades, 
Thin trees arife, that fhun cach others s fhades.”” 
The natives were exceedingly civil to. 
us wherever we went, thewing us every 
thing, avd fupplying us with all kinds of” 
fruits for a mere trifle. 
Having dropt_ down to Saugur roads, 
in order to coiled the homew arishoinde 
Twdiayen, we bere tpent eur Chrithmas 
with. 
