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their anticipation altogether opposed to the resistlessly, inflaming this feverish vividness of openness and manly self-respect, which it is the European mind. The story of the French the first duty of those schools to create in the Revolution is still to be told; and the man by Memoir of His late Majesty, George the Fourth. young mind. Yet the moralist may well trem- whom that tale of grandeur and atrocity is By the Rev. G. Croly. 8vo. pp. circ. 500. ble at that contamination of morals which so told, will bequeath the most appalling lesson London, 1830. J. Duncan. often defies the vigilance of the tutor; the ever given to the tardy wisdom of nations. ALTHOUGH produced as a Memoir of our late man of limited income is entitled to reprobate But the first working of the principle of ruin Sovereign, this volume contains views of society the habits of extravagance engendered in the in France was brilliant; it spread an universal in England and, occasionally, in France, from great schools; and the parent who values the animation through the frame of foreign sothe middle of last century; characters and affections of his children, may justly dread the ciety. All was a hectic flush of vivacity. Like biographical sketches of many of the most dis-reckless and unruly self-will, the young inso- the Sicilian landscape, the gathering fires of tinguished individuals who figured during that lence, and the sullen and heartless disdain of the volcano were first felt in the singular luxperiod; anecdotes of leading public characters, parental authority, which spring up at a dis-uriance and fertility of the soil. Of all stimusuch as Pitt, Fox, Burke, Sherdian, &c. ; expo- tance from the paternal eye. But the question lants, political ambition lays the strongest hold sitions of the national policy at different im- is decided by the fact, that without public edu-on the sensibilities of man. The revolutionary portant epochs; and many other matters of cation a large portion of the youth of England doctrines, still covered with the graceful robes general attraction and interest. We have suc- would receive no education whatever; while of patriotism and philosophy, seemed to have cessive ministers characterised, and their mea- some of the more influential would receive, in led the whole population of France into ensures dissected; we have critical remarks on the feeble indulgences of opulent parentage and chanted ground. Every hour had its new acthe styles of public speakers; we have bon- the adulation of domestics, an education worse cession of light; every, new step displayed its mots, recollections, party negotiations and in- than none. The advantages belong to the new wonder. Court formality-hereditary pritrigues; we have political and satirical poetry; system, and to no other; while the disad-vilege-the solemnity of the altar-all that had we have Buonaparte and the Catholic question; | vantages are accidental, and require nothing for we have morals, wars, changes, &c. &c. &c.; their remedy beyond increased activity in the all revived upon the canvass, and painted with governors, and a more vigorous vigilance in the a vigorous hand by an author whose power of nation." delineation is too highly appreciated to require any eulogy from us.

hitherto stood an obstacle to the full indulgence of natural impulses, all the rigid and stately barriers established by the wisdom of elder times against popular passion, were seen sudWe cannot agree with Mr. C., however, in denly to shrink and fade away before the apthinking Eton or Westminster the place for proach of the new regeneration, like mists The book is altogether such a work as might educating the heir to the throne. A coup d'œil before the sunbeams. The listless life of the be expected from a man of strong sense and over Lord North's administration strikes us as man of rank was suddenly supplied with an practised literature, living so near the time very able, in this early part of the volume, excitement that kindled all the latent activities embraced in his descriptions, and aiming more which is also diversified by an episode about of his nature; the man of study found, with at a free and popular narrative than at the phi- Swift, and other retrospects; but we pass to delight, his solitary speculation assuming a life losophy of more remote history: yet it abounds the commencement of the prince's chequered and substantial shape before his eye, and the with profound observations; and often in a career, 1783, when the Commons voted him long arrears of fortune about to be paid in tone of sarcastic scorn lashes the follies and 50,000l. for income, and 100,000l. for the outfit public fame and power; the lower classes vices it is forced to depict. But a few extracts, of his household. Here the author says finely-listened with fierce avidity to the declaration, which we now proceed to give, will convey a "There are no faults that we discover with that the time was at hand for enjoying their better idea of Mr. Croly's performance than more proverbial rapidity than the faults of share of that opulent and glittering world on any long commentary of our own; and as we others; and none that generate a more vin- which they had hitherto gazed, with as little always prefer making an author speak for him- dictive spirit of virtue, and are softened down hope of reaching it as the firmament above self, to exhibiting ourselves as his spokesmen, by fewer attempts at palliation, than the faults their heads. Thus was prepared the Revoluhere follow remarks on public and private of princes in the grave. Yet, without justice, tion. Thus was laid under the foundation of education, as brought into discussion on the history is but a more solemn libel; and no the throne a deadly compound of real and system adopted towards the Prince of Wales. justice can be done to the memory of any fantastic injury, of offended virtue and em"The great schools were panegyrised, as public personage without considering the pe-bittered vice, of the honest zeal of general breeding a noble equality among the sons of culiar circumstances of his time. The close of good, and the desperate determination to put men of the various ranks of society; as inspir- the American war was the commencement of all to hazard for individual license, rapine, and ing those feelings of honour and independence, the most extraordinary period of modern Eu- revenge,-a mighty deposit and magazine of which in after-life make the man lift up his rope: all England, all France, the whole con-explosion, long visible to the eyes of Europe, fearless front in the presence of his superiors in tinent, were in a state of the most powerful invisible to the French government alone, and all but knowledge and virtue; and as pre-emi- excitement: England rejoicing at the cessation which only waited the first touch of the incennently training the youth of the land to that of hostilities, long unpopular and galling to diary, to scatter the monarchy in fragments personal resolution, mental resource, and intel- the pride of a country accustomed to conquer; round the world. 'Philosophy' was the grand lectual dignity, which are essential to every yet with the stain of transatlantic defeat splen-leader in this progress of crime; and it is a honourable career; and are congenial, above didly effaced by her triumph at Gibraltar, and striking coincidence, that at this period its title all, to the free spirit and high-minded habits of the proof given in that memorable siege, of the to national homage should have been, as if by England. All those advantages must be con-unimpaired energies of her naval and military an angry destiny, suffered to aid its popular ceded, though burlesqued and tarnished by the power,- France, vain of her fatal success, and ambition. fantastic and selfish tales of extraordinary faci- exulting in the twofold triumph of wresting lities furnished to the man by the companions America from England, and raising up a new of the boy; of the road to fortune smoothed, rival for the sovereignty of the seas,the conthe ladder of eminence miraculously placed in tinental states, habitually obeying the impulses his grasp, the coronet, the mitre, the highest of the two great movers of the world, England and most sparkling honours of statesmanship, and France, and feeling the return of life in held forth to the aspirant by the hand of early the new activity of all interests, public, perassociation.-Hopes, in their conception mean, sonal, and commercial. But a deeper and in their nature infinitely fallacious, and in fearful influence was at work, invisibly, but

"The peace of 1782 threw open the continent; and it was scarcely proclaimed, when France was crowded with the English nobility. Versailles was the centre of all that was sumptuous in Europe. The graces of the young queen, then in the pride of youth and beauty, the pomp of the royal family and the noblesse; and the costliness of the fêtes and celebrations, for which France has been always famous,

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rendered the court the dictator of manners, exterior. He spoke the principal modern lan- ments. The king was frequently present; the morals, and politics, to all the higher ranks of guages with sufficient skill; he was a tasteful queen superintended the younger children, like the civilised world. But the Revolution was musician; his acquaintance with English lite- an English mother. The two elder princes now hastening with the strides of a giant upon rature was, in early life, unusually accurate and laboured at Greek and Latin with their tutors, France: the torch was already waving over the extensive; Markham's discipline, and Jackson's and were by no means spared in consequence chambers of this morbid and guilty luxury. scholarship, had given him a large portion of of their rank. How would your majesty wish The corrective was terrible: history has no classical knowledge; and nature had given him to have the princes treated?' was said to be more stinging retrospect than the contrast of the more important public talent of speaking Markham's inquiry of the king. • Like the that brilliant time with the days of shame and with fluency, dignity, and vigour. Admiration sons of any private English gentleman,' was agony that followed the untimely fate of was the right of such qualities, and we can feel the manly and sensible answer. If they debeauty, birth, and heroism, the more than no surprise if it were lavishly offered by both serve it, let them be flogged: do as you used serpent-brood that started up in the path which sexes. But it has been strongly asserted, that to do at Westminster.' The command was France once emulously covered with flowers for the temptations of flattery and pleasure were adhered to, and the royal culprits acquired the step of her rulers, the hideous suspense of thrown in his way for other objects than those their learning by the plebeian mode. The the dungeon, the heart-broken farewell to life of the hour; that his wanderings were watched story is told, that on the subsequent change of and royalty upon the scaffold. But France was by the eyes of politicians; and that every step preceptors, the command having been repeated, the grand corrupter; and its supremacy must which plunged him deeper into pecuniary em- Arnald, or one of his assistants, thought pro. in a few years have spread incurable disease barrassment was triumphed in, as separating per to inflict a punishment, without taking through the moral frame of Europe. The him more widely from his natural connexions, into due consideration that the infants whom English men of rank brought back with them and compelling him in his helplessness to throw Markham had disciplined with impunity were its dissipation and its infidelity. The imme- himself into the arms of factions alike hostile now stout boys. However, the Prince and the diate circle of the English court was clear. to his character and his throne." Duke of York held a little council on the The grave virtue of the king held the courtiers matter, and organised rebellion to the rod : on in awe; and the queen, with a pious wisdom, its next appearance they rushed upon the tutor, for which her name should long be held in wrested his weapons from him, and exercised honour, indignantly repulsed every attempt of them with so much activity on his person, that female levity to approach her presence. But "In other lands the king is a despot, and the offence was never ventured again. Louis beyond this sacred circle the influence of foreign the heir apparent a rebel; in England the the Fourteenth, when, in his intercourse with association was felt through every class of so-relation is softened, and the king is a tory, and the accomplished society of France, he felt his ciety. The great body of the writers of Eng- the heir apparent a whig. Without uncover-own deficiencies, often upbraided the foolish land, the men of whom the indiscretions of the ing the grave, to bring up things for dispute indulgence which had left his youth without higher ranks stand most in awe, had become which have lain till their shape and substance instruction; exclaiming, Was there not birch less the guardians than the seducers of the are half dissolved away in that great receptacle enough in the forest of Fontainebleau ?' George public mind. The Encyclopédie,' the code of the follies and arts of mankind, it is obvious the Third was determined that no reproach of of rebellion and irreligion still more than of that there was enough in the contrast of men this nature should rest upon his memory; and science, had enlisted the majority in open scorn and parties to have allured the young Prince of probably no private family in the empire were of all that the heart should practise or the head Wales to the side of opposition. Almost pro- educated with more diligence in study, more revere; and the Parisian atheists scarcely exhibited, by the rules of the English court, from attention to religious observances, and more ceeded the truth, when they boasted of erecting bearing any important part in government; rational respect for their duties to society, than a temple that was to be frequented by wor- almost condemned to silence in the legislature the children of the throne. shippers of every tongue. A cosmopolite, in- by the custom of the constitution; almost "There can be no difficulty in relieving the fidel republic of letters was already lifting its restricted, by the etiquette of his birth, from memory of George the Third from the charge front above the old sovereignties, gathering exerting himself in any of those pursuits which of undue restraint; for nothing can be idler under its banners a race of mankind new to cheer and elevate a manly mind, by the noble than the theory, that to let loose the passions public struggle,—the whole secluded, yet jea-consciousness that it is of value to its country; of the young is to inculcate self-control. Vice lous and vexed race of labourers in the intel- the life of the eldest born of the throne appears is not to be conquered by inoculation; and the lectual field, and summoning them to devote condemned to be a splendid sinecure. The parent who gives his sons a taste of evil, wil their most unexhausted vigour and masculine valley of Rasselas, with its impassable boun- soon find that what he gave as an antidote has ambition to the service of a sovereign, at whose dary, and its luxurious and spirit-subduing been swallowed as a temptation. The palpright and left, like the urns of Homer's Jove, bowers, was but an emblem of princely exist- able misfortune of the prince was, that on stood the golden founts of glory. London was ence; and the moralist is unfit to decide on emerging from the palace, he had still to lear becoming Paris in all but the name. There human nature, who, in estimating the career, human character, the most essential public never was a period when the tone of our society forgets the temptation. It is neither for the lesson for his rank. Even the virtues of his was more polished, more animated, or more purpose of undue praise to those who are now parents were injurious to that lesson. Through corrupt. Gaming, horse-racing, and still deeper gone beyond human opinion, nor with the idle infancy and youth he had seen nothing rod deviations from the right rule of life, were zeal of hazarding new conjectures, that the him that could give a conception of the infinite looked upon as the natural embellishments of long exclusion of the Prince of Wales from heartlessness and artifice, the specious vice, rank and fortune. Private theatricals, one of public activity is pronounced to have been a and the selfish professions, that must beset the most dexterous and assured expedients to signal injury to his fair fame. The same men- him at his first step into life. A public edu extinguish, first the delicacy of woman, and tal and bodily gifts which were lavished on the cation might have, in some degree, opened his then her virtue, were the favourite indulgence; listless course of fashionable life, might have eyes to the realities of human nature. Even and, by an outrage to English decorum, which assisted the councils, or thrown new lustre on among boys, some bitter evidence of the halcompleted the likeness to France, women were the arms, of his country; the royal tree, exposed lowness and hypocrisy of life is administered; beginning to mingle in public life, try their to the free blasts of heaven, might have tossed and the prince's understanding might have influence in party, and entangle their feeble-away those parasite plants and weeds which been early awakened to the salutary caution, ness in the absurdities and abominations of encumbered its growth, and the nation might which would have cast out before him, naked, political intrigue. In the midst of this luxu- have been proud of its stateliness, and loved to if not ashamed, the tribe of flatterers and rious period the Prince of Wales commenced shelter in its shade. The education of the pretended friends who so long perverted his his public career. His rank alone would have royal family had been conducted with so regular natural popularity. But there was much in secured him flatterers; but he had higher titles and minute an attention, that the lapses of the the times to perplex a man of his high station to homage. He was, then, one of the hand- prince's youth excited peculiar displeasure in and hazardous opportunities, let his self-consomest men in Europe: his countenance open the king. The family discipline was almost trol be however vigilant. The habits of soand manly; his figure tall, and strikingly pro- that of a public school: their majesties gene-ciety have since been so much changed, that it portioned; his address remarkable for easy ele- rally rose at six, breakfasted at eight with the is difficult to conceive the circumstances of that gance, and his whole air singularly noble. His two elder princes, and then summoned the singular and stirring period. We live in a contemporaries still describe him as the model younger children: the several teachers next day of mediocrity in all things. The habits of of a man of fashion, and amusingly lament over appeared, and the time till dinner was spent fifty years ago were, beyond all comparison, the degeneracy of an age which no longer pro-in diligent application to languages and the those of a more prominent, showy, and popular dnces such men. But he possessed qualities severer kinds of literature, varied by lessons system. The English nobleman sustained the which might have atoned for a less attractive in music, drawing, and the other accomplish. honours of his rank with a larger display;

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the English man of fashionable life was more | endured the long anxieties, or wrapt up his paused a moment; then looked Doyle in the conspicuous in his establishment, in his ap-mystery in the profound concealment of a face, and, laughing, said, 'Ah! I know where pearance, and even in his eccentricities: the Catiline, he had all the qualities that might that hit came from, you rogue; that could be phaeton, his favourite equipage, was not more have made a Caius Gracchus; the eloquence, nobody's but yours. Come, take some wine.'' unlike the cabriolet, that miserable and creep- the ingenuousness of manner, the republican "The Lewes races were thinly attended, in ing contrivance of our day, than his rich dress simplicity of life, and the shewy and specious consequence of a rainy day. The prince and a and cultivated manners were like the wretched zeal of popularity in all its forms. Fox would few persons of rank were there, and underwent costume and low fooleries that make the vapid have made the first of tribunes. He, unques-a drenching. On their return, some observalounger of modern society. The women of tionably, possessed the means, at that period, tion was made on the small number of noblerank, if not wiser nor better than their suc- to have become the most dangerous subject men on the course. 'I beg pardon,' said the cessors, at least aimed at nobler objects: they of England. Fox's life is a memorable lesson prince; I think I saw threw open their mansions to the intelligent to the pride of talents. With every kind of sprinkling of the nobility.' and accomplished minds of their time, and public ability, every kind of public opportunity, "The conversation turning on some new instead of fête-ing every foreign coxcomb, who and an unceasing and indefatigable determina-eccentricity of Lord George Gordon; his uncame with no better title to respect than his tion to be at the summit in all things, his fitness for a mob leader was instanced in his grimace and his guitar, surrounded themselves whole life was a succession of disappointments. suffering the rioters of 1780 to break open with the wits, orators, and scholars of En- It has been said, that, on commencing his par- the gin-shops, and, in particular, to intoxicate gland. The contrivance of watering-places liamentary course, he declared that there were themselves by the plunder of Langdale's great had not been then adopted as an escape, less three objects of his ambition, and that he would distillery in Holborn. But why did not Langfrom the heats of summer than from the attain them all :-that he should be the most dale defend his property?' was the question. observances of summer hospitality. The great popular man in England, the husband of the He had not the means,' was the answer. families returned to their country-seats with handsomest woman, and prime minister. He Not the means of defence?' said the prince; the close of parliament, and their return was a did attain them all; but in what diminished ask Angelo: he, a brewer, a fellow all his holyday to the country. They received their and illusory degree, how the juggling fiend life long at cart and tierce.' neighbours with opulent entertainment; cheered kept the promise to the ear, and broke it to and raised the character of the humbler ranks the hope,' is long since known. He was the by their liberality and their example; extin-most popular man in England, if the Westguished the little oppressions, and low pro- minster electors were the nation; his marriage pensities to crime, which habitually grow up secured him beauty, if it secured him nothing where the lord is an absentee; and by their else; and his premiership lasted scarcely long mere presence, and in the simple exercise of enough for him to appear at the levee. In the natural duties of rank and wealth, were a life of fifty-eight years, Fox's whole exist the great benefactors of society. A noble ence as a cabinet minister was but nineteen family of that time would no more have months; while Pitt, ten years his junior, and thought of flying from its country neigh- dying at forty-seven, passed almost his whole bours to creep into miserable lodgings at a life, from his entrance into parliament, at the watering-place, and hide its diminished head head of the country."

"The prince's regiment were expecting orders for Ireland. St. Leger said that garrison duty in Dublin was irksome, and that country quarters were so squalid, that they would destroy the lace and uniforms of the regiment, which even then were remarkably rich. 'Well, then,' said the prince, let them do their duty as dragoons, and scour the country.'

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"A heavy-heeled cavalry officer, at one of the Brighton balls, astounded the room by the peculiar impressiveness of his dancing. A circle of affrighted ladies fluttered over to the prince, among the meagre accommodations and mis- We regret we cannot find room for the por- and inquired, by what possibility they could cellaneous society of a sea-coast village, than trait of George III.; but we wish to relieve escape being trampled out of the world by this it would of burning its title-deeds. The ex-our theme, and, lo, some bon-mots offer them-formidable performer. Nothing can be done,’ penses of the French war may have done some-selves, as the folks say, quite handy. Hare said the prince, since the war is over: then, thing of this; and the reduced rent-rolls of was a wit of the day (1787). he might have been sent back to America, as a the nobility may countenance a more limited "Pleasant news, this, from America,' said republication of the stamp act.' expenditure. But whether the change have he, meeting General Fitzpatrick on the first Our next choice falls on a vivid sketch of been in matter or mind, in the purse or the intelligence of Burgoyne's defeat. The general the French court at the breaking out of the spirit, the change is undeniable; and where it doubted, and replied, that he had just come revolution (1795). is not compelled by circumstances, is contempt from the secretary of state's office without hear- "The bewildered career and unhappy fate ible. The prince was launched into public life ing any thing of it.' Perhaps so,' said Hare; of the Duke of Orleans are now matter of in the midst of this high-toned time. With an but take it from me as a flying rumour.'-history. He was born in a hazardous time for income of 50,000l. a-year, he was to take the Fox's negligence of his fortune had induced a man of weak understanding, strong passions, lead of the English nobility, many of them with his friends to find out a wife for him among and libertine principles.-The monarch but a twice his income, and, of course, free from the the great heiresses. Miss Pulteney, afterwards grown child: the queen, estimable but impecourt encumbrances of an official household. Countess of Bath, was fixed upon; and Fox, rious, full of Austrian right divine,' and All princes are made to be plundered; and the though probably without any peculiar inclina- openly contemptuous of the people: the court youth, generosity, and companionship of the tion to the match, paid his court for a while. jealous, feeble, and finding no resource for its prince, marked him out for especial plunder. A seat was frequently left for him beside the weakness but in obsolete artifice and tempoHe was at once fastened on by every glittering lady, and he made his attentions rather con-rary expedient: the nobility a mass of haughty profligate who had a debt of honour to dis- spicuous during Hastings' trial. Some one idlers, a hundred and twenty thousand gamecharge, by every foreign marquess who had a observed to Hare the odd contrast between sters and intriguers, public despisers of religion bijou to dispose of at ten times its value, by Fox's singularly dark complexion, and Miss and the common moral obligations by which every member of the turf who had an unknown Pulteney's pale face and light hair. What society is held together; chiefly poor, and living Eclipse or Childers in his stables, and by every a strange sort of children they will make,' was nameless claimant on his personal patronage or the observation. Why, duns, to be sure,' his unguarded finance, until he fell into the replied Hare; cream-coloured bodies, with hands of the Jews, who offered him money at black manes and tails.' fifty per cent; and from them into the hands of political Jews, who offered him the national treasury at a price to which a hundred per cent was moderation. At this time the prince was nineteen, as ripe an age as could be desired for ruin; and in three short years the consummation was arrived at, he was ruined."

We have read this picture of the change of manners with great pleasure; but we leave the subject, for an example of the characteristic personal sketches-Fox and Pitt.

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on the mendicant bounty of the court; worthless consumers of the fruits of the earth, yet monopolists of all situations of honour and emolument, and by their foolish pride in the "On the king's opening the session of par- most accidental of all distinctions, birth; by liament, the prince had gone in state in a mili- their open meanness of solicitation for that last tary uniform, with diamond epaulettes. At livelihood which a man of true dignity of mind dinner Doyle came in late, and, to the prince's would seek, a dependence on the public purse; inquiry, whether he had seen the procession? and by their utter uselessness for any purpose answered, that he had been among the mob, but that of filling up the ranks of the army; who prodigiously admired his royal highness's rendered at once weary of themselves and equipage.' ́ And did they say nothing else?'odious to the nation. But beyond those cenasked the prince, who was at this time a good tral, projecting points in the aspect of France, deal talked of, from his encumbrances. Yes. those fragments of the old system of the moOne fellow, looking at your epaulette, said,narchy, the politician saw a wilderness of living Tom, what an amazing fine thing the prince waves, a boundless and sullen expanse of stormy has got on his shoulders!'. Ay,' answered passions, furious aspirations, daring ambition, the other, fine enough, and fine as it is it and popular thirst of slaughter; a deluge, rising will soon be on our shoulders.' The prince hourly round the final, desperate refuge of the

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state, and soon to overtop its last pinnacle. narrative is painful, and cannot be too hastily felt the more from generally being in juxtaBut the Duke of Orleans was not to see this passed over." position with one or two, or, it may be, a consummation. He returned to France; was And with this we must close our review. greater number of exquisite productions. We seized by the men of liberty; condemned with- From the extracts it will be seen that the get through one-two; but palling of the third out a hearing by the votaries of immaculate author's style is yet remarkable for the use of demonstrates how intrinsically humble are the justice; and murdered on the scaffold by the epithets rarely employed by other writers in a pretensions of all. purifiers of the crimes of lawgivers and kings. similar way or sense; and that his favourite When we consider the great outlay upon The son of that duke has now peaceably phrases of sterner, opulent, fierce, vigorous, these speculations, with new projects springing ascended the magnificent throne which dazzled masculine, trivial, &c. &c. &c., figure frequently in to augment the crowd every year; when the ambition of his father. Whether France in alliterative or sonorous construction. This we consider the employment they give to the will long suffer a king, may be doubtful. But, we notice as a peculiarity, not as a blemish. arts, though eminently calculated to destroy while his claim is that of the national choice, The force and talent of the whole will be our GREAT School of Engraving; and when entitled, by an exertion of extraordinary cou- acknowledged by every reader of discernment; we admire those parts which are really original rage, justice, and moderation, to the disposal of and a work of the kind more likely to have a or beautiful, we are loath to speak of the entire the throne; we must rejoice that France has popular run we can hardly imagine. If we body in terms of disparagement. But the truth obtained a man of virtue, and that such a man add to its literary merits, that an excellent is, there must be improvement, or the plates should be endowed with so illustrious an oppor- portrait of the king is given as a frontispiece, had infinitely better be published separately; tunity of redeeming his name, and of spreading and that the volume is printed in Moyes's best in which shape they are even now, in four the benefits of wisdom and power to mankind." manner, we have done our duty towards heartily cases out of five, infinitely preferable to that The prince's marriage is a subject of great recommending the Memoir of George IV. of their forced and ill-matched union with embarrassment to a biographer, but Mr. Croly letter-press. has extricated himself with great credit: we We have been led to throw this glance over can only cite a small portion of his account. The New Comic Annual for 1831. By Sir John the field from the aspect of the novelty before "Never was there a more speaking lesson Falstaff. London: Hurst, Chance, and Co. us, which is an inseparable combination of to the dissipations of men of rank, than the FROM what we have yet seen of the Annuals wood-cut, and such other cuts as the wit of prince's involvements. While he was thus of this season (excepting the particular instances its author could invent; so that we have had wearied with the attempt to extricate himself where we have expressed a different opinion, no other way of making our readers acquainted from Lady Jersey's irritations, another claimant and to which instances we beg to refer), we are with it except by copying two or three of the came; Mrs. Fitzherbert was again in the field. much inclined to think, upon the whole, that former, which, to say the least, have amused Whatever might be her rights; since the royal this class of publications must depend for success us quite as much as any of the latter. The marriage, at least, the right of a wife could not more upon its pictorial than its literary merits. Rotten-seat (1) was susceptible, especially at the be included among them; but her demands Perhaps it may be that the novelty of such period of a general election, of far more enter. were not the less embarrassing. A large pen- miscellanies having worn off, the contributors taining illustration than it has received: as in sion, a handsome outfit, and a costly mansion being almost the same year after year, and the generality of cases of very violent opposition, in Park Lane, at length reconciled her to life; equally furnishing their efforts to several vo- the object at issue is lost to the contending parand his royal highness had the delight of being lumes, the subjects embracing little of variety, ties. Squally (2) is a good impersonation: and hampered with three women at a time, two of and other obvious causes, the decies repetita non the Forlorn Hope (3) a sufficiently "humour. them prodigal, and totally past the day of at- placet one-tenth part so much as the first ous melancholy" allegory; such as we hope traction, even if attraction could have been an uprising of these annual luminaries. The me- never to see the British Anchor, with its excuse; and the third complaining of neglects, diocrity which, of necessity, must obtain pos- Sailor King [private mem. Clap-trap, agreewhich brought upon him and his two old women session of the mass of their pages, is a fearful ably to the fashion of the times], reduced to a storm of censure and ridicule. But the whole drawback upon the enjoyment of readers, and recognise !

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Now, with regard to the literary mattersince it must be so-we dislike the approaches to indelicacy in the Hottentot Venus, and warn the writer, that whatever may be the vices of the age, it is very fastidious on such points, and will not tolerate outward indecency in word or deed. We quote "the Waterman's Soliloquy," as one of the most favourable specimens:

"Well! things are coming to a pretty pass,

I think the end o'th' world will soon begin:Some years ago, I used to get a glass

O' gin an' bitters-now I gets no gin, But lots o' bitters. Now an honest man Can't get no work-no, blow me if he can.

We sha'n't be able soon to see our way,
There's such a sight o' bridges building now-
And then they'll want gas lights to burn all day,
But they won't take one lighter-man in tow."
My poor old wherry's wery near worn out-
Folks never think o' taking wherries now;
And I have got the rheumatiz' an' gout-

But how to get clear on 'em I don't know.
The Steamers, tho' they do make lots of smoke,
Used once to bring us many a bite an' sup:
But now-folks walk ashore-a pretty joke!
I wish them cursed quays were all locked up.
I know the time, when I've earned two-pun-ten
In sixpences, a dozen at a time:

Anglice; i. e. in English (for we would translate every thing into mother-tongue), the tenth repetition does not please.

Such days as those I ne'er shall see again

I'm getting old-I've long been past my prime.
Then, 'cause we've got no bridges there's Brunel
Must build one under ground-the curs'd Thames
Tunnel:

My eye-if he but knowed what I could tell,
How we contrived to make his work a funnel,!

Here is the list for the present year:-Forget-me Not (1823), consequently vol. 9; Friendship's Offering (1824), vol. 8; Literary Souvenir (1825), vol. 7; Amulet (1826), vol. 6; The Winter's Wreath (1827), vol. 5: Keepsake (1828), vol. 4; Bijou (1828), vol. 4; Gem (1899, vol. 3; Landscape Annual (1830), vol. 2; Iris (183 vol. 2; Hood's Comic Annual (1830), vol. 2; Sheridan's Comic Offering, Humourist, New Comic Annual, Le Keepsake Français, The Talisman, all for 1831; besides half-a-dozen Juvenile, and half-a-dozen Musical c panions.

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