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"Such is the hift'ry of your loyal Louse,

"Whofe prefence breeds fuch tumult in the houfe.—”

The poet then notes the ill reception which this speech experienced;
infomuch that the life of the little orator was endangered; when, lo!
ZEPHYR, fo anxious for his life, drew near,
And fudden bore him to a distant sphere,
In triumph rais'd the animal on high,
Where BERENICE's locks adorn the sky;
But now he wish'd him nobler fame to share,
And crawl for ever on BELINDA's hair.
Yet to the Loufe was greater glory giv'n;
To roll a planet on the fplendid heav'n,
And draw of deep aftronomers the ken;

The GEORGIUM SIDUS of the fons of men ! ! !'

Such is the conclufion of this heroic poem: but there is a great deal of comic matter in the preceding part of this fifth canto, which we have not room to particularize, and for which we must refer to the pamphlet.

FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

MR
'R Roschmann, keeper of the ar-
chives of the household to the
Emperor, has published at Vienna,
1792, 8vo, a Hiftory of Tirol, with
a Map of Rhætia.

Zurich and Leipfic. Travels in various Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples, by C. Ulyffes von Salis Marfchlins. Vol. I. 8vo, 442 pages with plates. 1793. The obfervations and accounts here given, in which the author very properly endeavours to avoid all beaten ground, render this work highly pleafing and inftructive, tho' it cannot be commended for purity of style, and abounds with typographical errors. The prefent vo-, lume is divided into two parts; the firft contains a tour through Apulia, Bari, and Otranto; the fecond, a journey through part of Abbruzzo. At the end is a catalogue of fhell-fifh from the fea-coafts of Naples, illuf trated by fome neat plates. This the author gave, because he found many kinds not mentioned by thofe Ed. Mag. Jan. 1796.

who had writen on the fishes of the Mediterranean.

Fred. James Baft has published at Vienna, 1794, 8vo, a critical Ef fay on the Text of Plato's Sympofium, with an Investigation of Readings in Three MSS. in the Imperial Library.

Mr Tham, at Stockholm, 19 plates of Gothic antiquities, containing 38 fubjects.

Jena. A Collection of the moft remarkable Travels in the Eaft, tranflated or abridged, with felect Maps and Plates, and the neceffary Introductions, Remarks, and Indexes; by H. F. G. Paulus Prof. Th. Ord. at Jena. Vol. III. 8vo, 420 pages. 1794. This volume contains two journeys to Egypt by J. M. Wanfleb, one in 1663, the other in 1672 and 3. The former is now published for the first time, from a MS. in the library of the univerfity of Cottengen, and to it are added fome remarks of Ludolf, which he wrote on the MS. itself. It G

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is principally valuable for it's account of Abyffinia, from which Thevenot appears to have taken his, and of Fohr, or Darfoor, as Ledyard calls it. The latter journey has been publifhed in French.

Erlangen. Letters on the Two Franconian Principalities of Bayreuth and Anfpach, written during a Summer-tour in the Years, 1792-3; by J. Godfrey Koppel. 8vo. No I. 48 pages, 4 plates; No II. 40 pages, 6 plates; 1794. Both the plates and defcriptions of these two numbers of Mr K's antiquarian and picturefque tour deferve commendation. The

engravings are faithful representations of well-chofen fcenes.

Breflar. Account of every Thing remarkable in the Rehdiger Library at Breflaw; by its principal Librarián, J. Eph. Scheibel, Member of feveral Societies, &c. Part I. 4to. 80 pages. 1794. Mr S. purpofes to give an ample account of every thing particularly deferving notice in the library under his care, which contains about 800 volumes and bundles of manufcripts, 20,000 printed books, and 15,000 prints. He means to publish a number regularly every half-year.

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Theology. Morals.

1795.

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ERMONS delivered at the Sunday Evening Lecture in the Old Jewry. By Jofeph Fawcett. vols. 8vo. 12s bds. Johnfon. Obfervations on the Increase of Infidelity. By J. Priestley, LL. D. 8vo. 2s 6d. Johnfon. Exercises of Piety for the Ufe of enlightened and virtuous Chriftians, tranflated from Zollikofre. By J. Manning. 8vo. 3s. Rivingtons. A Sermon on the Death of Dr Harris. By the fame, Is. Johnfon.

at Coddington. By E. H. Hoare. 8vo. 6d. Chapman.

on the Eternal Generation of the Son of God. By the Bp. of Chefter. Is. Rivingtons.

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to the People on the Way to obtain Peace. By Lady Wallace. 6d. Reed St. James's-ftreet. Legal Rights, confiftent with National Liberties: a Sermon by W. Hawkins. Is. Rivingtons. Sermon before the Rutland Yeoman Cavalry. By. R Blyth. Is Newberry.

Letter to Mr Blyth, on the fame. Id. ib.

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Motives for leaving the Church of Rome, and acceding to the Church of England. By R. Norris. 1s 6d. Vernor and Hood.

Enquiry into the Second coming of Chrift. By the Author of Antichrift in the French Convention. Is. Cadell and Davies. Confiftency, the Teft of Truth; Reflections on French Atheifm, and English Chriftianity, 6d. Scatch

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The Hiftory of the Church of Chrift. By J. Milner. Vol. 2. §s. 6d. bds. Dilly.

An Alarm to Britain, or Inquiry into the rapid Progrefs of Infidelity, By J. Jamefon, D. D. 2s. ib.

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Effay on Ufes, by W. Cruife. 8vo. 3s

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The Practice of the Court of Exchequer. By D. B. Fowler. 2 vols. 8vo. 13s. bds. ib.

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Brook.

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The Works of the British Poets, with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, By Robert Anderfon, M.D. 13 vols. Royal 8vo. 81, bds. Arch. Bagatelles. By W. Butler.

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THE AFFECTING HISTORY OF M. DE M- AND ADELAIDE.

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FROM THE THIRD VOLUME OF LETTERS ON THE POLITICS OF FRANCE,' BY

HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS.

HE cities of Paris and of Lyons, The extenfive department of the Vendee, were not the only fcenes of horror which France exhibited during the tyranny of Robespierre; alas, there was scarcely a valley of that defolated country, whofe flowerets were not bruifed with the tread of hoftile paces!' Robefpierre could not have fo long maintained his iron fceptre, had he not found, to ufe the words of Shakespeare,

zard bowers profaned; the orange-grovet are defpoiled of their aromatic fweetness; the waters are tinged with blood; the hollow moans of calamity iffue from the caverns, and the shrieks of defpair re-echo from the cliffs, the guillotine has arifen amid thofe confecrated fhades where love alone had reared its altars!--no longer with the name of Vauclufe is affociated the idea of Petrarch; that of Maignet, the deftroying Maignet, prefents itself to the fhuddering imagination, and the afto

• Slaves that took his humours for a war nifhed foul ftarts back with horror

rant,

To break into the bloody houfe of life,
And, on the winking of authority,
To understand a law.'-

While Carrier ravaged the country of the weft, and Collot d'Herbois laid the opulent city of the caft in afhes, Le Bon hung like a destroying vulture over the north, feating his favage foul with the fight of mangled carcafes; and Maignet confumed the lovely villages of the fouth in the flames of a general conflagration. The fcene of Maignet's proconfulate was the departments of Vauclufe, and the mouth of the Rhone-thofe celebrated regions for ever dear to the lovers of the elegant arts, where, cheering the gloom of gothic barbarifm, to ufe the language of Offian, the light of the fong arofe; where the Troubadours ftrung their early harps, and where the immortal Petrarch poured forth his impaffioned ftrains. Divine poet! no more shall the unhappy lover feek for confolation in fhedding delicious tears on the brink of that fountain where thou haft wept for Laura !no more fhall he haunt with penfive enthufiafm that folitary valley, those craggy rocks, thofe hanging woods, and torrent ftreams, where thou haft wandered with congenial feelings, and to which thy tender complaints have given everlasting renown!-thofe enchanting dreams,thofe dear illufions have for ever vanished that delicious country, the pride of France, the garden of Europe, the claffical haunt of Petrarch, no longer prefents the delightful images of beauty, of poetry, of paffion; the magical fpell is broken, the foothing charm is diffolved; the fairy fcenes have been pulluted, the wiz

I fee, where late the verdant landscaps

fmil'd,

A joyless defart, and a dreary wild;
O'er all the air a direful gloom is spread;
Pale are the meads, and all their blossoms
dead:

The clouds of April fhed a baleful dew,
And nature wears a veil of deadly hue.'➡

One of the first acts of Maignet, upon his arrival in the department of Vauclufe, was the deftruction of the village of Bedouin, fituated in a country of the moft romantic beauty, and where the benign climate fofters all the rich productions of fummer, and forins a ftriking contraft to the eternal fnows which cover the mountain of Ventoux, at the foot of which the village is placed.

A fmall tree of liberty, which had been planted on a folitary fpot near Bedouin, was, during the night, torn from the ground by fome wretches who know that this incident would furnish a pretext for pillage and devaftation. At break of day the very perfons who were the perpetrators of this act, one of whom was the prefident of the popular fociety, founded a general alarm, and accused the guiltless inhabitants of Bedouin, of the facrilege committed against the hallowed fymbol of freedom.

Revolutionary troops were inftantly fummoned to carry fire and sword thro' the village and territory of Bedouin. A municipal commiffion was immediately organized by Maignet, which prefented itself wherever there was the hope of fpoil, fpreading every where defolation and death. Five hundred habitations were delivered to the flames; the fruits of the harveft were confumed, and the

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