Retrofpect of Domeftic Literature—Voyages, Travels, Se. 
any extraordinary talents or attainments 
in the author of them. 
Mr. Broucuton has publifhed the 
account of his ‘* Voyage of Difcovery to 
the North Pacific Ocean; in which the 
Coaft of Afia, from the Latitude of 35° 
North, to the Latitude of 52° North, the 
Ifland of Fuja, commonly known under the 
Name of the Land of Feffo, the North, 
South, and Eafi Coafis of Fapan, the 
Licuchauz, and the adjacent fies, as well 
as the Coaj? of Corea, have been examined 
and furveyed 
This voyage was performed in his 
Majetty’s floop Providence, and her ten- 
der, in the years 1795-6-7-8. It is 
creditable to the perfeverance and fpirit 
of Mr. Broughton, that after he had the 
misfortune fo lofe his’ fhip, he profecuted 
the remainder of his voyage round the 
fiormy coaft ‘of Japan in ‘the tender! 
After having vilited the Canary !flands, 
Rio Janeiro, Port Jackfon, Otaheite, the 
Sandwich [flands, and Nootka Sound, the 
Providence iicered immediately for pes 
and Jufa. Mr. Brovghton next vilted 
the Karib Iilands, of which Ottareekan 
was the boundary of this, as well as La 
Pérouie’s vovaze. Ranging the eaftern 
toatt of Japan, and paffipg to the Lieu- 
chieux Iijands, he proceeded to Macao; 
thus completing the firft part of the ex- 
pedition, The fecond expedition was to 
the North, through the Straits of Sangaar, 
returning by the coaft of the ie and 
the Yeilow Sea. Unfortunately, his thip 
was wrecked on a coral reef, off the- 
ifland of Typiafan; the defcription of 
whofe natives, their manners, country, 
and habitations, is very interefting. This 
misfor:une eccationed his re.urn to China, 
where Captain Broughton proceeded to 
furvey the coatt of Tart: ary. This work 
is chiefly imterefing to navigators, who 
will derive much important information 
from it. 
Mr. Macken 
Britifh Weft In Tadtie 
é 
zis’s * Tour through the 
5,12 the Years 1802 and 
1803," conveys a great deal of intorma- 
tion ina very ae -abie manner. _ 
se i avels fr om Berlin through Swiffer- 
land and Paris, in the Year 1804, by 
AuGusTus Von Korzesue.” 
Noiwithittand:ng the numerous trips, 
tours, travels, journeys, excurfions, éc. 
to Paris, which our countrymen publifhed 
during the thort opportunity which the 
Jate peace afforded them of vifiting that 
metropolis, we have fill been much 
amuted by the lively unafluming pages of 
thefe little volumes: they are mere 
fketches ; but they are drawn by the hand 
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of a mafter. Indeed, we do not recollect 
any volume in which the modern fafhions 
and manners of the Parifians are more 
happily delineated. Kotzebue faw the 
beit company in Paris; was introduced to, 
and dined at, the refpe¢tive tables of the 
three confuls: and has told fome good 
acecdotes of Bonaparte. He has madea 
very gallant and zealous defence of ma- 
dame Recamier, with whom he was inti- 
mately acquainted, and who is reprefented 
as being a woman of the higheft accom- 
plifhments and virtues; mild, unaffaming, 
unaffected, and fo correét, both in her 
moral feelings and her public manners, as 
to be unfullied by the breath of flander. 
Avery curious account is given in the 
third volume of an impottor who has made 
confiderabie noife in France, by pretend- 
ing to be the fon of the unhappy Louis 
XVI. He is the fon of a taylor at St. 
Loo ; ran trom his father three or four 
times, and ingratiated himfelf into diffe- 
rent opulent families as the relation of 
various perfonages of high rank, reduced 
to poverty by the re volution. The idea 
of alfuming the title of the murdered Dau- 
phin appears from this account to have 
been fugcelied to him by the populace at 
Chalons, where he was imprifoned asa 
vagran’, and where, from the gravity, hau- 
teur, and mytterioufneis of his deport- 
ment, as well as from a {trong perfonal 
refemblance, it appears to have been infer- 
red, that he could be no other than the 
Dauprin himfif! This vagabond taylor 
has been in sean prifons, and every 
where, f: the credulity and infatuation 
of the people, fared in the moft fumptuous 
manner. Every day his table was ferved 
with the molt-Juxurious viands, and even 
his jailors bave been awed into the pro- 
foundeit reverence by the belief that their 
prifoner was the fon of the laft and beft- 
beloved of sheik Kings. The Government 
feefied to fmile at the delufion, until a 
reverend and venerable Bifhop, not con. 
teat with expretiing his belief of the iden- 
tity of Hewagat alt (one of the names he 
pafled by) wich the Dauphin, actually me- 
niin in conjunction with feveral of his 
nieroas to marry the impoitor toa dif- 
tant relation of the Royal Family, and to 
levy men and arms for his fervice! The 
affair now became ferious, and Govern. 
ment thought it neceffary to make the 
ftripling di; appear. 
The ftory which he told of him eb ee 
that in a negociation for peace betwen the 
Vendeans and the National Conventicn, | 
the former infiftcd upon the deliverance of 
the Dauphin, which the latter, for far of 
the 
