tion of crimes, to preserve a certain class of mortals from those preffing wants, those argent neceffities, which have certainly a tendency to ftimulate to dishonest and even atrocious actions. - Left I be poor and steal' (Prov. xxx. 9), is part of a petition dictated by genuine human feelings: and that perfon who affures us that the de struction of the poor is their poverty' (ibid. x. 15), certainly is allowed to have written from the refult of experience, and a perfect knowledge of human nature. For, it is charitably to be supposed that people are more frequently impelled to robbery by poverty than by a natural depravity of heart; and murder is too often committed, afterwards, through fear of detection Still 'poverty' was the caufe, the cogent mover of the fatal deed, and which eventually produces destruction.' - Those asylums, therefore, which open their hofpitable doors to receive the child of Want or Maffortune, which offer a timely supply for every real and preffing neceffity, which fuperfede the defperate alternative, to perifo or to fleal; fuch asylums are furely founded in genuine policy, as they not only powerfully conduce to the alleviation of human wretchedness, but alfo to the prevention of crimes, and, consequently, to public safety. But, as the best inftitutions may, for want of certain regulations, fail to an

swer all the wife purposes for which they

were intended, thefe parochial receptacles for the poor are (I am forry to fay), in geneval, unproductive of all the falutary effects which they are capable of producing, Not to mention the cruel expedient (adop ed in many parithes) of farming, as it is called, which is but another phrafe for grinding the faces of, the poor' (Ifaish iii. 15), the cause of so general a failure of good effects, in these manfions for poverty, is owing to a defect in moral order and difcipline, to a disregard and negle& of RELIGION, particularly that effential part of RELIGION, FAMILY DEVOTION. - The inhabitants of

a parish work-houte form one family, of which the fuperintendants are the head; and they should confider themselves placed in that fituation to exercise the mild duties of a father and mother, as well as the authority of governors. The orderly and deferving they thould commend, encourage, and, if poffible, reward; the immoral and difobedient (for fuch there will be) they should admonith, with gentleness punish, of reprove. The unhappy, the ff Sted, the fick, and the infirm, they thould comfort, foothe, and take care of, to the utmost of their power. In short, the different tempers, the different failings, vices, and calamities (which usually meet in foch places), they hou'd study, correct, and affuage, as an attentive parent would fimilar matters within his own family. In particular, a proper fpirit of piety should be ex

cited in them; which would not fail to tranquillize their minds, to make them happy and harmless, orderly and diligent, indeed, what the good would with them to be in their lowly and fubordinate station. To the accomplishment of thefe deûrable ends, should this little work in the leaft contabute, its author will feel more real fatisfaction than the voice of Fame can inspire by applauding other (feemingly more important) productions of his pen, not fo much connected with the good of his fellow-creatures."

The "Morning Service" then opens with Bp. Kenn's Morning Hymn;" to which is added another, applicable to the Chriftian Sabbath. Directions are next given for a judicious Selection of Prayers, &c. from the Liturgy of the Church of England and Ireland, concluding with the Apoftolic Form of Benediction. The Evening Service" commences with a proper Admonition" from the parochial minifter or the fuperintendant. nt. A "Selection" from the fame admirable Liturgy, fimilar to that for the "Morning Service," is then made, with the addition of an appropriate "Occasional Prayer." After which, all rifing, and decently feating themselves, the minifter or fuperintendant addresses in a thort but impreffive "Exhortation." Bp Kenn's "Evening Hyın" and the Apoftolic Benediction conclude the service. At the end are thirteen Hymns for particular occafions.

219. Remarks on the late War in St Domingo; with Objervations on the relative Situation of Jamaica, and other interesting Subjects. By Gol. Chalmers, late Inspector-general of Colonial Troops in St. Domingo.

IT is here intended to prove that "the temporary misfortunes sustained by France were occafioned by her impolicy, cruelty, or other caufes totally independent of the power of her black enemies, whose strength is utterly inadequate to render thein independent of that empire, or of any other much less formidable power;" that, "if Touffaint really meant opposition, his efforts and his ignorance alike were contemptible;" and that, "if the propofal of Gen. Simcoe, to return immediately with a few thousand troops, aided by French Loyalifts, to the accomplishment of the reduction of French St. Domin

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abuse of our nation in the official papers, were crowned by the converfation of Buonaparte with Lord V/hitworth. It may be fafely pronounced, that, in the annals of diploinacy, few events can be produced to parallel the conduct of the ruler of France, who, in a converfation of two hours, hardly allowed the embaffador to fpeak, and, in a rambling, unconvected manner, recapitulated all the abute which had loaded his paper, adding the most indifcreet avowals and the most proffigate declarations, threats which a brave man could not be fuppofed to have conceived, and proffers which none but the most unprincipled of potentates could either make or accept." (p. 106.) "The paffion prevalent in the note delivered by Talleyrand to our embaffador, after his Majesty's meslage Parliament, was ftill more forcibly expreffed by Buonaparte himself at the court held at the Thuilleries on Sunday March 13. This interview, famous because it shewed the littlenets of a reputed great man, was, in all other respects, too unimportant to deserve confideration. The language and conduct of the First Conful were fuch as to infpire 200 perfous who witnessed them with a fenfe of their extreme impropriety and total want of dignity as well as decency?" (p. 119.) "The information received by Government from Lord Whitworth imported that the French, not being prepared for hoftilities, were willing to commence difcuffions, but ftill pertinaciously adhered to their main object. Buonaparte was willing to enter into any engagement for the fecurity of Egypt, but would not hear of any compromise on the fubject of Malta. This affectation of limiting the difcuffion to the fingle fubject of that ifland could not delude or fatisfy the British Government, and the embaffador thewed a clear and manifest distinction. If Malta were poffeffed by Great Britain, France was not threatened, but the cafe would be reversed should the accefs to Egypt be opened by its evacuation." (p. 120.)

Mr. A. shews that Sebaftiani could not have been fent to refute Sir Robert Wilfon's lies and calumnies, his book being not published till November, when Sebastiani, who failed from Toulon in September, had quitted Acre for Zante; and many of the facts in the offentive history were no less public GENT. MAG. November, 1804.

and authentic than the massacre and proclamation at Alexandria. The maffacre of the prisoners was first mentioned in Mr. Willyams' Voyage up the Mediterranean; and it is attested by the skeletons (een by Dr. Wittman; and Sebastiani's Report confefses that he received mortifications in his progress.

The evafions about the French fleets are next examined; and it is shewn that they failed to St. Domingo and the East Indies, and that at Helvoetfluys was intended for Louisiana; and, April 30, a definitive treaty was executed, by which the sovereignty of New Orleans and Louisiana was conveyed to the United States of America.

When the First Conful found he could not fucceed in delaying definitive decision by all the arts of chicane, he compelled the Senate of Hamburgh to infert in their Gazette the most low, profligate, and fcurrilous libel againft the King and Government of Great Britain that had ever been issued by any government but that of France in her furious revolutionary career. Satiffaction was demanded, and Talleyrand explicitly disavowed the conduct of M. Rhienhardt.

The inference from these details is, that, with a man of Buonaparte's determined and avowed hatred to this country, war was unavoidable; and that, while the French maintain their intention to seize Egypt, Great Britain cannot relinquish Malta without seeming voluntarily to incur all the difafters which must ensue froin the lofs of India.

"The causes of the rupture are clear and manifeft: the firmnefs, forbearance, and integrity of the Ministry unimpeachable; the dearest rights of the nation at stake; and the whole fubject freed from those embarrafling difcuffions and difficult diftinétions which fatigue the understanding instead of permitting a direct and manly appeal to the heart. The fpirit of the people will confequently remain unbroken, their firmnefs unfhaken; and from the British Nation thus animated, and thus united, what may not be hoped ?" (p. 164.) Nor are the finances or fleets of France, or the inclination of her people, fufficient to carry the First Conful's threats into effect.

222. Correspondence between the Right Honourable the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and the Right Honourable the Earl of Fingal. Te which

aubich is annexed, the Narrative Remonftrance of the Rev. P. O'Neil.

presented to our readers in pp. 257259, we cannot do better than transcribe for them the judicious reumarks of the authors of "The British Critic:"

"This pamphlet is made the vehic'e of circulating, in a small size, and at a cheap price, the malignant and impudent falsehoods with which it concludes. That the reader may the better form his opinion on the merit of the question, we shall, as briefly as we can, describe to him the author, and the cafe which led to these asperfions on the Protestants.

"In the year 1798 the state of Ireland was indeed deplorable; but particularly many cold-blooded murders had been perpetrated, in the course of a few weeks, in the town of Youghall and its vicinity, in the county of Cork. An entire family was mafsacred in the night, with the most favage barbarity, merely from a groundless fufpicion that the head of that farmily had made some discoveries of the treasonable designs of the neighbourhood. The Rev. Peter O'Neil, the author of this Remonstrance, was at this time parith-priest of Ballymacoda, in this county, the inhabitants of which were well known to be difaffect ed and organized. Thomas O'Neil, the neighbour and near relation of Father Peter O'Neil, was arrested by Capt. Archer, of the Wexford regiment, on fufpicion of being concerned in the murder of one Reily, a foldier of the Meath regiment. He confeffed that Reily had been formally condemned by a Committee of Affaffination, confifting of thirteen or fifteen perfons in the parith of Ballymacoda; that they took the fentence to Father O'Neil, who approved of it, and who, after the murder had been committed, gave abfolution to the affaffins. All these facts appear by affidavits. On this information Father O'Neil was apprehended and flogged; a practice, certainly, which nothing but the plea of neceffity can palliate. He however confessed, that he himfelf had chosen the Committee of Affaffination, had figned the death-warrant of the foldier, and that he looked upon himself to be the real murderer. Some months after his punishment, Father O'Neil prevailed on a gentleman of rank to prefent a memorial in his behalf to Marquis Cornwallis, who directed General Graham, then commanding at Youghall, to investigate the truth of his allegations. A Court of Enquiry was held for this purpofe. They confifted of officers of the Lancashire Fencibles, commanded by the Earl of Wilton, who, being perfect itran