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Thomas Munro.

REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. The Life of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, How rarely, in our laborious examinations Bert, and K.C.B. late Governor of Madras; of even the more choice of the passing prowith Extracts from his Correspondence and ductions of the day, are we rewarded by the Private Papers. By the Rev. G. R. Gleig, pleasure and instruction derived from such a M.A. M.R.S.L. &c. &c. 2 vols. 8vo. Lon-work! don, 1830. Colburn and Bentley. Sir Thomas Munro was a native of GlasFEW writers of the present day have contri- gow; born of a respectable family, and one of buted more considerably to the amusement and many children; of whom some are still living, gratification of the public than the reverend honoured and respected for their own merits and excellent author of these volumes. But, in the public service, as well as for those of without disparagement to the great merits of their more distinguished relation. The inhis preceding works, he has here given us that terest of his friends having procured for him a which, in point of interest and of value, must cadetship in the East India Company, he arbe placed in the very foremost rank of the pro-rived at Madras in June 1780. ductions of our time.

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perienced in the perusal of this account of Sir | upon the low woody hills near me.
I con-
tinued admiring the scene above an hour,
when I was driven from my station by the
rain, which poured down in a torrent, and was
followed by a tempest of hail; the second I
have seen in this country. The stones were
perfectly smooth and round, and about the size.
of small pistol - balls. I swallowed a great
number of them, to the memory of former
days, while I was hastening to my tent to get
dry clothes; but my reception there was not
so comfortable as it would have been at home:
for the convenience of being near a well, it
had been pitched in the dry bed of a swamp,
which was now almost knee-deep. After two
hours' work in cutting trenches to carry off
the water, and in throwing baskets of sand on
the floor of the tent to make it firm, I have at
length got a spot to bear my table and chair;
and am at last, after having weathered the
storm, engaged in giving you an account of it.

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"I regret extremely," says Mr. Gleig, "that The name of Sir Thomas Munro is known my limits will not permit the insertion of any in a greater or a less degree to every one who letters addressed at this period by Mr. Munro pays an ordinary attention to current events, to different members of his own family. on account of the striking transactions in which Though written, as might be expected, in an he bore a part, and the high offices that he inartificial style, they contain several ludicrous "I have at this moment had a visit from an held. A man, of whom Mr. Canning declared in details of adventures, and sketch the society of old man, the accountant of the village: he was Parliament, that " Europe never produced a Madras in a manner not unworthy of the pen drawn here by curiosity, for he could not more accomplished statesman; nor India, so fer- of a Smollett, or the pencil of a Hogarth. conceive what use I meant to make of the tile in heroes, a more skilful soldier" was in- Among other matters, they describe his re-baskets of sand he saw passing; he told me deed well worthy of the utmost care of biography. ception by the commander-in-chief, Sir Hector there was an excellent clean hut in the village, Nevertheless, we confess we were not prepared Munro, who said he would be happy to serve proof against all rain. I answered, that after to expect that a narration of his life, and a me, but was sorry it was not in his power to having been almost washed away, there was no picture of his talents, character, and conduct, do any thing for me.' Whilst a lady, who was occasion to go any farther in search of cleansuch as is given in the letters and papers now present, demanded—' Are you from Glasgow?' liness. He said there would be a great deal before us, could so strongly engage our at-Yes.' 'Are you a son of John Munro ?' more rain in the course of the night, and that tention, and excite such surpassing interest. No.' 'Of Ebenezer's, then?' 'No.' 'Lord I should certainly be drowned if I did not take It is not to persons connected with India, help me! whose son are you, then ?" " his advice. This remark gave me an opporwhere the greater part of the life of Sir For the present we pass over the masterly tunity of shewing my knowledge in natural Thomas Munro was spent in the public ser- sketches of the campaigns against Hyder Ally philosophy: I informed him, that even if the vice, that the pleasure to be derived from this and Tippoo, and of the personal adventures of rain should again demolish my floor, I would work can be at all confined. A man who rose the young cadet, during the perilous and get my couch and set it at defiance; for that, to the highest rank in that service to which he eventful operations of the British troops. The in our elevated situation, it could not possibly devoted himself; who, during the greater part following are some extracts from a letter in reach me till every soul in the Carnatic was d'his life, was in familiar and friendly inter- the form of a journal, written to his mother in drowned; that I did not care how much water course with the greatest and most illustrious 1795, during his residence in the district of came down the hills, I should never be alarmed men of the age; who was himself always ani- Baramhaul, where he was appointed to a si-till I saw it coming up; when that happened, mated by a noble and generous spirit, gifted tuation in the revenue department. It is a I should begin to have some serious thoughts with faculties of the finest order, with a fair specimen of the correspondence-an ad- of drowning. He is gone home, fully conkindly and even temper, with a quick per- mirable picture of the mode of life of the vinced that I am drunk. He saw me drinking ception of the ridiculous, keen feelings, great country-and of the character of the man; tea, which he supposed to be some strong spirits, power of observation, all regulated and con- and reminds us of the better parts of Bishop to counteract the cold. trolled by sound common sense, when the Heber's Journal. "Sholapaddi, 22d May.-I am now on the history of his life is recorded by himself or "Mullegoord, 17th May, 1795.-I could bank of the Cavery, about a mile below Caby another so admirably as by the present get no farther with this letter yesterday. I veriporam. The river is about four hundred writer, contributes not less to the benefit of came here this morning, about five miles to yards broad here, and is beginning to fill. In fature times than of those in which he lived. the north-west of the place I have just left. a month more it will be even with its banks, Sir Thomas Munro, in the course of a Yesterday was the hottest day we have had which are about twenty feet high. You, bustling and active career, was concerned in some this year; but there is a great change since. perhaps, figure me to yourself in the middle of of the most remarkable occurrences of his day, It began to thunder about two o'clock this a rich country, walking on the side of a beauand took a distinguished part in executing or afternoon; and at four it looked so threat-tiful stream; but every thing here is wild and directing measures which had, and continue to ening, that I went out to enjoy the coming savage: the valley, which is about two miles have, an important effect on the fate of our storm. I mounted an old high cavalier, the broad, between the river and the hills, does own nation, through those which are incor- only remaining part of a mud fort which once not produce a blade of grass. During the wet porated into its gigantic territories. It is not, covered this village: the view was wild and weather, by the force of labour, it is covered therefore, surprising that the story of his life, magnificent; it was a vast assemblage of hills; with a poor kind of grain; but the rest of the told principally by himself in the unrestrained for, from the spot where I stood, not a valley year it is nothing but a heap of stones, mixed flow of an animated correspondence with his was visible, except the small one which I had with thorns; it is hardly possible to walk friends; and when not so told by himself, come through in the morning. The dust of along the side of the river, as the ground is gisen to us in the clear, simple, and im- the fresh - ploughed fields was every where every where cut by prodigious deep ravines, pressive narrative of Mr. Gleig, should have flying up in whirlwinds; and the dark clouds full of bushes. I was above half an hour yesafforded us the delight which we have ex-were descending from the distant mountains terday in walking a mile, and half the time, at

possible, that within this period, time alone, without any foreign aid, might have despatched a couple of women and a few cattle."

Of the following letter, addressed to one of his brothers, Mr. Gleig says, with great truth, that he inserts it, "not only because of its extreme beauty, but on account of its striking illustration of that affection for early scenes and early friends which formed so prominent a feature in the writer's character." We do not envy the man, without the most lively pleasure. "Senklidroog, 25th Jan. 1796. "Dear James,-I have received your letters

least, was spent in crossing them, because, the darkness, that it was rain; but when it elfshooting, is universal among all ranks. after descending, I was often obliged to go a came within a few miles, I soon guessed, They frequently take the conjuror by surprise, considerable way along the bottom before I from the red colour of the cloud, what it was; and draw his teeth themselves, without applycould find a place to scramble up. In re for I had before seen one, though not half so ing to justice. The cattle of the farmers selturning, I attempted to come along the bed of violent, at Bangalore. It lasted about half an dom die a natural death. If any accident the river; but this way was not pleasanter hour; and, as I was in the middle of it all the happens in any of their families when they than the other way, wading through deep time, bare-headed, I caught a cold, which, begin to plough a field; if a snake runs across sand, or stumbling over blue rocks rising ab- together with the king's birth-day, carried me the path, or if they see a land-crab; they ruptly from it. The only agreeable part of my to Senklidroog. I stayed there a week, as the abandon it, and say that it is in possession journey was in sitting down upon one of them doctor told me, to recover my health; but it of the devil: it lies waste for several years; and looking at the different kinds of water-fowl was, in reality, neither him nor health, but and if then some bold fellow ventures to break catching fish. the Swallow packet, that detained me. I it up, and loses neither his life nor his bulWhile I rested here, the heat of the burn-wished to be in society when she arrived, that locks, it is supposed that the devil has, for the ing sun was rendered still more oppressive by I might have a debate upon the intelligence present, relinquished his claim. the reflection from the sand and water; and I she was expected to bring out, both respecting "I once had a complaint from a man, of a do not know whether the patience of the European politics and the regulations of the conjuror's having killed his wife and mother, fishing-birds in watching for their prey, or Indian army; but hearing nothing of her, and about seventy cows and bullocks. Í mine in looking at them, was greatest. II took the field again, and, after several move- thought at first, that some of the characters in thought once of varying the scene, and going ments, I am now on a beautiful spot, twelve the Arabian Nights had started up; but on home by water: this might have been the miles north of Senklidroog, and four from farther inquiry, I found that he had taken shortest way, and would certainly have been Cavery. On all sides are groves of palmyra fourteen years to effect this; and I thought it the coolest; but I felt some kind of repugnance trees, and the country is every where green to swimming among alligators; for though with the rising grain: the only uncultivated here, as in many other parts of the country, ground is a small space in front of the village, they are not mischievous, and there is no on which my tent stands. The weather is instance of their ever having carried off any of now pleasanter than in England; the wind is the natives, who are perpetually bathing, I high, and the sky so cloudy that the sun has reflected that it would be no consolation to me scarcely been visible since the beginning of the to have it remarked by the old people of the month. I walked out this afternoon at three village, that they never remembered to have o'clock, which is usually as hot as any hour in seen any person taken down by them till this the day, and did not return till near seven, blessed day. I also recollected two or three when it began to grow dark. I made a circuit instances of accidents having happened where of ten miles, without once thinking of heat. these animals are said to be perfectly harmless: "At this season of the year I take so much these arguments were quite sufficient to deter pleasure in these rambles, that I find it diffime from attempting the passage by water. I cult to confine myself to my tent. They of June and September 1794, and May 1795. have not yet taken the trouble to ascertain are not so solitary as I could wish; for I often I cannot read your account of your ramble whether my conduct on this occasion was the fall in with story-tellers, who keep me company among our old haunts, without wishing myself result of self-love, or of that wisdom which all the way. The farmers of this country are, along with you. I understand all the alteraDr. Zimmerman, one of the most absurd cox- I believe, the most talkative race on the face of tions you mention, as well as if I saw them; combs I ever met with, says is produced by the earth. A party of them met me this even- but I have too much veneration for every thing seclusion from the world. If solitude is the ing, with a complaint against some unknown about the place, to relish any changes. mother of wisdom, it is to be hoped, that in a conjuror, who had set fire to their village twice neither like the stone wall nor the making the few years more I shall be as wise as Solomon in the course of the year. I told them I had a entrance from the hollow part of the road, or Robinson Crusoe. There is another thing great antipathy to all conjurors, and would where the burn runs, instead of letting it go in favour of this idea, the simplicity of my give them satisfaction on their producing him. through the avenue, as formerly. I hope the fare, which, according to some philosophers, is They said they had concerted a plan for disco- mill-lade is still full of mud; that the short a great friend to genius and digestion. I do vering him, but that it could not be executed road through the garden still remains; that not know if the case is altered by this diet without my assistance. I was to take my sta- the raspberries opposite to the dam still thrive, being the effect of necessity, and not of choice. tion at a little distance from the village, with a for the benefit of wandering boys; and that no "When my cook brings me a sheep, it is spy-glass in my hand; all the inhabitants were flood has carried away the great stone in the generally so lean, that it is no easy matter to to pass in review before me, when I could not deep water opposite to the bathing-house, cut it. Fowls are still worse, unless fed with fail, by means of the virtues of the glass, to from which we used to plunge. Often have I particular care,—a science for which I have no discover the felon who had done so much mis- sat upon it, and encouraged you, in vain, to turn; and as to river fish, very few of them chief. I answered, that it was an excellent come in. Alexander and William were not are eatable. If the fish and fowls were both thought, but that the trial must be deferred afraid of the water, and soon learned to swim ; boiled, it would puzzle any naturalist to tell till I should get a new glass, as my old one was but I could never prevail on you to come above the one from the other merely by the taste. broken; and as we should then certainly catch the dam: you always amused yourself among Some sects of philosophers recommend nuts the conjuror, I asked what punishment it the stones in the shallow water below, where it and apples, and other sorts of fruit; but would be proper to inflict on him. They said, was hardly deep enough for the minnows to nothing is to be found in the woods or gardens no other than that of drawing two of his teeth, play. This spot-next to our own family-if here, except a few limes, and a coarse kind of by which he would lose all his magic powers. any thing ever draws me home, will do it. I plantain, which is never eaten without the I replied, that this could not be done till he have no friendships nor employments that help of cookery. I have dined to-day on was taken; but that, in the mean time, there should induce me to return; I had no compa. porridge made of half-ground flour instead of was another remedy equally simple at hand, to nions in the grammar.school, with whom I oatmeal; and I shall most likely dine to-mor- defend themselves from him in future;-any associated after leaving it, except John Brown's row on plantain fritters. Some other phi- person who had suspicion of his evil designs sons and my brothers; and they are now dislosophers think that gentle exercise, as a upon himself, had only to get two of his own persed in all parts of the world. By spending branch of temperance, has also a share in teeth drawn; which would secure both himself so much of my time in the house, I was more illuminating the understanding, I am very among Erskine's acquaintances than any of my fond of riding in an evening shower after a own; and I would much rather see them than hot day; but I do not rest much upon this; any of my schoolfellows. my great dependance for the expansion of my genius is upon the porridge.

"Chittore, 18th June.-I remained only a few days in the Caveriporam district, after writing the last part of this letter: my tent was blown away one afternoon by a hurricane of dust, such as those that Mr. Bruce met with in the desert. I thought at first, from

and his property against all the art of the
enemy. I said I had some years ago parted
with two of my own teeth; and offered, if
they would accompany me back, to get them
all made magic-proof at the same cheap rate.
They asked leave to go home and consult about
my proposal, and promised to give me their
answer in the morning; but I suspect that I
shall hear no more of the matter.

"Among the natives of this country, the
belief in all kinds of witchcraft, goblins, and

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"My attachment to India has been much weakened since you left it, by the loss of many valuable friends. You already know of James Irving; but Dods, the oldest and dearest of them all, is now gone; he was my tent-mate in 80, at Conjevram; and from that time till the day of his death, my affection for him grew stronger and stronger: he was carried off

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in the course of a week, by a hill fever, which | philosophy consists, not so much in despising | my father, at Richmond, were so many opporhe caught at Gingee, where he had gone with the talents or wealth of other men, as in bear-tunities for me to take airings on horseback, another officer, for the sake of solitary excur- ing our own fortune, whatever it may be, attended by the servant who carried the sions, of which he was so fond, and of visiting with an unaltered mind. I am preaching to despatches. On these occasions, I always, on the stupendous rocks and ruins about that you about an error that I often fall into myself, arriving at Garrick's, ran about his gardens, place. No year ever passed that he did not but never without repenting it. Your affec- where he taught me the game of trap-ball, contrive to spend several weeks with me. He tionate brother, THOMAS MUNRO." which superseded our former nine-pins. He was going to see some friends at Trichinopoly, If any thing were wanting, after such a letter practised, too, a thousand monkey tricks upon and from thence had promised to come through as this, to mark the kindness of heart, simpli- me; he was Punch, Harlequin, a Cat in a the Baramhaul, on his way to Arnie. I wrote city, and manly feeling, united with a powerful Gutter, then King Lear, with a mad touch, to him, that I had a tent ready for him; but understanding, which distinguished this excel- at times, that almost terrified me; and he had my letter came back under a cover, informing lent man, it would be found in the letters to a peculiar mode of flashing the lightning of his me of his death. You fancy to yourself Foulis his wife, written soon after her departure for eye, by darting it into the astonished mind of and he and I meeting at Derampoory; such a England; but our limits prevent farther indul- a child, (as a serpent is said to fascinate a meeting I once flattered myself with seeing; gence-and we must bid adieu, at least for a bird,) which was an attribute belonging only but it is all over now, and the world has nothing while, to this admirable work, which ought to to this theatrical Jupiter. All this was very which can ever give me so much pleasure as it take its place wherever Collingwood's Memoirs kind and condescending, but it wanted the would have done; but I am afraid I shall soon and Correspondence, and Bishop Heber's Jour-bonhomie of Goldsmith, who played to please have to lament the loss of another friend. nal, are to be found improving and delighting the boy; whereas Garrick always seemed Foulis is so ill that there is hardly any chance the human mind. of his recovery; if he dies, I shall have seen the end of almost the only three men with whom I have ever been intimate. Taylor is the only exception; and his constitution is so much impaired that he will be obliged to go to Europe.

"I am now too old to form new friendships, and I foresee that I must go through life like a stranger among people, some of whom I esteem, but for none of whom I have any particular partiality.

Colman's Random Records.

(Second Notice.)

WE resume our samples of this work from
those parts where the author is speaking of the
notable men he saw in his youth; his descrip-
tions of whom are acceptable to our generation;
though it must be perceived that the after
opinions of the man are thoroughly engrafted
on, if they do not supersede, the early impres-
sions of the boy.

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playing to please himself, as he did in a theatre, where, doubtless, he tickled his amour propre, while he charmed the spectators; he diverted and dazzled me, but never made me love him; and I had always this feeling for him, though I was too young to define it. The fact is, no remark was ever more true than that Garrick acted both on and off the stage.'

with a pretending to hear more than is actually heard, and a disappointment in having lost much; an embarrassed look, between intelligence and something approaching to stupidity: all this he conveyed admirably; and if I could convey it in words, one tithe as well, I should have made myself more intelligible. On the whole, with all his superior art in portraying nature, it is to be lamented that he outraged her in one character,—and that was his own; he over-acted the part of Garrick.”

I have mentioned the uncommon brilliancy of his eye; but he had the art of completely quenching its fire; as in his acting Sir An"Daniel's marriage inclines me to believe "Foote's earliest notices of me (says Mr. C.) thony Branville, a dramatic personage who that I am still a young man; but when I see were far from flattering; but though they had talks passionately with the greatest sang froid, all my friends dropping off, I feel that I have none of Goldsmith's tenderness, they had none and whose language, opposed to his temsurvived all the pleasures of youth, and that I of Johnson's ferocity; - and when he accosted perature, breathes flame like Hecla in Iceland. have only those of age to look to the recollec- me with his usual salutation of, Blow your In this part, I have been told, he made the tion of what is past. In all my letters I have nose, child!' there was a whimsical manner, twin stars, which nature had stuck in his constantly approved of your plan of sacrificing and a broad grin upon his features, which head, look as dull as two coddled gooseberries: every prospect to the recovery of your health; always made me laugh. His own nose was but his Deaf Man's eye, (of which I once and I hope you will persevere in this resolu- generally begrimed with snuff; and if he had witnessed a specimen at Hampton,) evinced his tion; but I am afraid that your studies will be never been more facetious than upon the sub-minuteness of observation, and gift of exea great obstacle to success in this point, because ject of my emunctories (which, by the by, did cution. There is an expression in the eye of they confine you too much, and give you too not want cleansing), I need not tell the reader deaf persons (I mean of such as have not lost little exercise. I have often been attacked at that he would not have been distinguished as a all perception of sound) which, difficult as it Kishnagerry about your indolence, and have wit: he afterwards condescended to pass better may be to exhibit in mimickry, it is still more always defended you on the plea of bad health; jokes upon me. The paradoxical celebrity difficult to define in writing: it consists of a and the state I saw you in would certainly which he maintained upon the stage was very mixture of dulness and vivacity in the organs have made any man listless, and incapable of singular :-his satirical sketches were scarcely of vision; indicating an anxiety to hear all, exertion. I have often, for a simple headach, dramas, and he could not be called a good at without moving or speaking for a whole legitimate performer. Yet there is no Shakeday. Smith, who came out in the ship with speare or Roscius upon record who, like Foote, you, tells me that you were very lazy, and supported a theatre for a series of years by his that you shammed illness, and spent all your own acting in his own writings, and, for ten time reading books in the jolly-boat, with a years of the time, upon a wooden leg! This Schman called Marshall. According to prop to his person I once saw standing by his Sith's ideas, reading books is a very idle bed-side ready dressed in a handsome silk kind of employment; and I am so far of his stocking, with a polished shoe and gold buckle, opinion, that I think it would have been better awaiting the owner's getting up: it had a kind had you in your earlier days spent less of your of tragi-comical appearance; and I leave to time in school or college, and more with boys in inveterate wags the ingenuity of punning upon streets : : it might probably have saved you a Foote in bed and a Leg out of it. The We pass opinions of Jekyll, (still living; and, from the sickness, occasioned, I suppose, by too proxy for a limb thus decorated, though ludi- if playful wit, and good sense to temper it, can Each confinement, which threw you into the crous, is too strong a reminder of amputation make an old man delightful company, an emihands of quacks. Daniel has settled fifty to be very laughable. His undressed sup-nently desirable person), and of Sheridan, poands a year upon you. I shall remit you a porter was the common wooden leg, like a whom Mr. C. does not prize very highly for like sum in a month or two; and, with the mere stick, which was not a little injurious to conversational powers; to give an anecdote of help of what Alexander can spare, I hope you a well-kept pleasure-ground. I remember fol- the well-known Bonnell Thornton. will be able to manage till you get into some lowing him, after a shower of rain, upon a "When Thornton was on his death-bed, his kind of business; but you must keep up your nicely rolled terrace, in which he stumped a relations surrounding it, he told them that he spirits, and be cheerful and full of exertion, deep round hole at every other step he took; should expire before he had counted twenty; whenever health permits; there is no doing till it appeared as if the gardener had been and, covering his head with the bed-clothes, he without these qualities. there with his dibble, preparing (against all began to count - One, two -, eighteen, I have seen you, with all the dignity of a horticultural rule) to plant a long row of cab. nineteen, twenty.' He then thrust out his philosopher, speak contemptuously of the un-bages in a gravel walk.” head, exclaiming, By 'od! it's very strange! derstandings, the pursuits, and engagements of Of Garrick, Mr. Colman speaks in a manner but why are n't you all crying? - Teach my your neighbours; but nothing is more unphi- not to elevate him, we believe he speaks son,' said he to the bystanders, teach him, hical, and, what is of more consequence, truly; for Garrick's thirst of praise was inor- when I am gone, his A, B, C: I know mine Bere imprudent, than to shew a slight to any dinate, and he was theatrical in every thing. in several languages; but I perceive no good perion, however humble his capacity; there is "The frequent letters (we quote the Re- that the know edge has done me; so, if you hardly any man who ever forgives it; and true cords) passing between him, at Hampton, and never teach him his A, B, C, at all, it don't

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