affecting. To us it is particularly fo in this inftance, because we knew the man! ART. 32. MISCELLANIES. Phedri Fabule in ufum Scholarum expurgatæ, cum Notis Anglicis. Studio C. Bradley, A. M. Lond. in Ed. Valpian. Longman. 4s. 1812. Various have been the editions of Phædrus, exprefsly published for the ufe of schools, fome with claves, others with interpretations, and many with the ordo verborum annexed. Mr. Bradley purfues a different fyftem, and merely prints the text, with fome fuch concife notes in English as may be efteemed useful and inAructive to pupils. This indeed is a plan we approve in prefe rence to either that of claves, which teach boys to be idle, and diffatisfied when requested to translate any passage in which words are found, for which it may be neceffary to confult their dic tionary and fuperior to the ordo verborum, because here the pupil is compelled to exert his own judgement, and discover the chief words in each fentence. We have frequently indeed known boys who could conftrue a paffage with tolerable fluency, when poffeffed with the order of the words, who have been totally at a lofs when asked the fame paffage without this order. Having tated this, we fcruple not to recommend the prefent publication as a very useful work for schools or private tuition. ART. 33. A Letter upon the mischievous Influence of the Spanish Inquifition, as it actually exifts in the Provinces under the Spanish Government. Tranflated from El Espanol, a periodical Spanish Journal published in London, 8vo. Is. 6d. Johnfon. 1811. The fenfible writer of this pamphlet introduces it with a ftory of a poor miferable girl, who for her fanaticifm was first confined for four years in the cells of the Inquifition, and afterwards barbaroufly executed at an Auto de Fe at Seville. He was a spectator of this enormity which happened only thirty years ago. He proceeds to obferve, that notwithstanding the prefent political fituation of the country the fame laws ftill exift in Spain, and in all their force. But the worst of the prefent and exifting operations of the Spanish Inquifition is, that they impose an eternal restraint upon a good education. The lift of books prohibited is fo numerous and fo extenfive, that the ftudent is confined to Thomas Aquinas, the Laws of Spain, or the Attorney's Guide. If an ingenuous youth is ambitious of overcoming or avoiding these obstructions to knowledge, the terrors of excommunication are before him; he muft, if called upon, deliver up all his books accufe the procurer, and violate the moft facred bonds of con. fidence. fidence. The writer in his own perfon experienced thefe evils. It is finally propofed in this tract to difarm the Inquifition of its fting, and the mode recommended feems very plaufible, of eafy execution, and can only be oppofed or rejected by remorseless intolerance, or the most extravagant bigotry. ART. 34. Salmagundi; or the Whim-Whams and Opinions of fon. 1811. I 20. The refinements of fatirical humour feldom appear in an early ftage of literary progrefs, and our American brethren have probably many steps to make, not only in writing, but in focial elegance, before they can hope, in any degree, to rival the best of our beft periodical effays. It is, however, an object of reafonable curiofity to fee what they are doing, and the British public have, therefore, obligations to Mr. J. Lambert, for the re. production of this work among us. The Salmagundi is a collection of effays, publifhed at New York, at periods not exactly regular, but nearly at the rate of one in a fortnight, and they were received throughout the States with unprecedented applaufe. In a long, but fenfible, introductory effay, the editor labours, very laudably, to foften the prejudices generally entertained in this country, against any work of American origin. We do not believe that there exifts among us fo much prejudice of that kind as he fuppofes, having known many republications from the American prefs extremely well received: and we have always lent our aid to any thing that might tend even in the remoteft degree to revive the kindness that naturally should fubfift between us. "Thefe effays," fays the editor, "partake more of the broad humour and fatirical wit of Rabelais and Swift, than the refined morality of Addifon and Johnfon; their chief aim is to raise a laugh at the expence of folly and abfurdity, and to lafh the vices of fociety with the rod of fatire," p. xxxvii. With what propriety Swift is here claffed with Rabelais, and otherwife characterized, we shall not ftop to enquire; but it is certain that the humour of Salmagundi is coarfe and flippant, and though it may amufe, is not likely to fatisfy the taste of British readers. Much illustration of American manners will, however, be found in these pages, and fatirical attacks, of fome force, against certain English travellers, and against a writer of their own, named Feifenden, whofe Hudibraftics in favour of the Tractors, we long ago noticed. [Brit. Crit. xxi. 552, alfo his Poems, xxv, 196.] The following recipe for a New York lady's full drefs, will illuftrate at once the fafhions of the place, and the ftyle of the effayifts. "Take "Take of fpider.net, crape, fatin, gymp, cat-gut, gauze, whalebone, lace, bobbins, ribbons, and artificial flowers, as much as will rig out the congregation of a village-church; to thefe add as many fpangles, beads, and gew-gaws, as would be fufficient to turn the heads of all the fashionable fair ones of Nootka-Sound. Let Mrs. Toole or Madam Bouchard, [Milliners,] patch all thofe articles together, one upon another, dash them plentifully over with ftars, bugles, and tinfel, and they will altogether form a drefs, which, hung upon a lady's back, can. not fail of fupplying the place of beauty, youth, and grace, and of reminding the fpectator of that celebrated region of finery, called Rag-fair." "Vol, 1. p. 51. It cannot be expected, however, that, in fo fhort an account, we can give an accurate idea of a very miscellaneous work: we therefore recommend thofe readers, whofe curiofity may be at all excited by what we have faid, to feek the fatisfaction of it in the book itself, ART. 35. Prefent State of the Spanish Colonies, including a parti cular Report of Hifpaniola, or the Spanish Part of St. Domingo, with a general Survey of the Settlements on the South Continent of America, as relates to Hiftory, Trade, Population, Customs, Manners, &c. with a concife Statement of the Sentiments of the People on their relative Situation to their Mother Country, &c. By William Walter, jun. Secretary to the Expedition which captured the City of Santo Domingo from the French, and Refident British Agent there. 8vo. 2 vols. 11. 15. 1812. This is one of the many publications of the kind to which we would willingly give a principal place in our journal, but they have of late fo multiplied upon us, that unless we fatisfied ourfelves with giving a concife opinion of their contents and merits, we should be totally unable to keep pace with the public curiofity. The author gives in his first volume a circumftantial account of Hifpaniola from its firft difcovery, its foil, natural history, po. pulation, prefent manners, and the advantages which are likely to refult from difpoffeffing the French of this interefting country. To this volume an appendix of confiderable extent is fubjoined; in which fome of the articles appear of no great importance. The fecond volume is employed in defcribing the other portions. of Spanish America, the varieties of climate, the fate of trade, population, and the opinions of the author on the relative ftate of the Spanish Colonies to the mother country. To this volume alfo a long Appendix is fubjoined, containing fome curious and interefting articles, We would gladly give an extract, but it must then be deferred to another time. The volumes will be found interesting and acceptable at the prefent period. They have alfo the embellishments of a plan of the city of St. Domingo, and the route pursued by the British army on its capture, with a head of the prefent king king of Spain, and a reprefentation of a fingular idol of the Lingan xind carved in granite, and found in Hifpaniola. ART. 36. An Account of the different Charities belonging to the Poor of the County of Norfolk, abridged from the Returns under Gilbert's Act to the House of Commms in 1786, and from the Terriers in the Office of the Lord Bishop of Norwich. By Zachary Clark. 1811. This is a fomewhat fingular, but benevolent and eventually a very important publication. Zachary Clark, the author, fome time before Mr. Gilbert's Bill of 1786, was introduced into Par liament, employed himfelf in afcertaining in the county of Nor folk, where he refided an account of the different charities which well difpofed individuals had bequeathed for the ufe of the poor. His object, doubtlefs, was the amiable one of being the inftrument of preventing their future mifapplication and mifmanagement. With this view he fubmitted to great labour and incurred much inconvenience and expence, in obtaining copies of wills, decrees, terriers, and other authentic documents. Mr. Gilbert's bill and the active kindness of the Bishop of Norwich facilitated his exertions; and the public now poffefs an authentic account in alphabetical order of all the different charities of the various parishes in the county of Norfolk. 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