fexes fhould be fo wifely ordered as to make it a school of the kind affections, and a fit nursery for the commonwealth." P. 41. Never was there fo able a vindication of thefe inftitutions; indeed, never before was it neceffary, as they had never been expofed to fo open and daring attacks. On the fubject of property Mr. Mackintosh confiders the foundation of the rights of acquifition, alienation, and tranf miffion, in their fubferviency to the fubfiftence and well-being of mankind; and propofes" to trace the hiftory of property from the firft loofe and tranfient occupancy of the favage, through all the modifications which it has at different times received, to that comprehenfive, fubtle, and anxiously minute code of property, which is the last refult of the most refined civilization." P. 42. He proposes the fame order in confidering the fociety of the fexes, as it is regulated by the inftitution of marriage; first, to lay open thofe unalterable principles of general interest on which that inftitution refts; next, the hiftory of marriage through its various forms, until its prefent ftate in the most civilized focieties. "Among (he fays,) many other enquiries which this fubject will fuggeft, I fhall be led more particularly to examine the natural station and duties of the female fex, their condition among different nations, its improvement in Europe, and the bounds which nature herself has prefcribed to the progrefs of that improvement, beyond which every pretended advance will be a real degradation." P. 43. Having established the principles of private duty, Mr. Mackintosh proceeds, thirdly, to confider the important relation of fubject and Sovereign; but this admirable portion of his work we fhall confider in our next number, wherein we shall conclude one of the ablest and most important articles that has been the fubject of criticism. (To be continued.) POETRY. ART. X. The Shade of Alexander Pope, on the Banks of the Thames: a Satirical Poem, with Notes. Occafioned chiefly, but not wholly, by the Refidence of Henry Grattan, Ex-Reprefentative in Parliament for the City of Dublin, at Twickenham, in November, 1798. By the Author of Purfuits of Literature. 8vo. Pp. 86. Price 2s. 6d. Becket, London. 1799. HE author tells us, in his preface, that "this Poem was chiefly occafioned by the perufal of Dr. Patrick Duigenan's Answer to the Of the Addrefs of Mr. Grattan to his fellow-citizens of Dublin." that publication we gave a faithful account in the first number of our Review; and a re-perufal of it has only tended to confirm our opinion of the foundness of its arguments, and of its beneficial tendency. We very much lament that it has not been re-published in this country, and circulated as extenfively as, from its importance, it unquef tionably deferves to be. The bard reprefents the Shade of Pope as rifing, indignant, at the intrufion of the Hibernian patriot on his favourite retreat, and addreffing him in fuch terms as are appropriate to the indignation which he is fuppofed to feel. The following ftrains of interrogation will afford an apt specimen of the spirit and tendency of the whole : "Whence, and what art thou, Grattan? Has the shock, And terror low'ring o'er the fable rock, Hurl'd thee aftounded with tumultuous fears, From Ireland's mutter'd curfe, from Ireland's tears? No Muse invites thee to my facred îhade; "From thee, whate'er thy fame, I fpurn all praise; With other wreaths these temples once were bound; By Gallic mercy, and a Marian hand. "Hence, and thy baffled Gallic jargon try On coward flaves, in abject tyranny : Know, thy twice-conquer'd Britons ftill advance; His friend, the people; his Creator, God."+ Pp. 22-24. It has not fallen to our lot to review this well-known Addrefs of Mr. Grattan, of which it is no injuftice to fay, that it is at once the "The English have been conquered, firft, by the Minifter, and afterwards, by the French." Henry Grattan's Address to his Fellow-Citizens of Dublin, P. 37. "In the people it would only be rebellion against their creature (the King); in the other (i. e. in the King) it would be rebellion, against his creator, the people." Grattan, P. 12. No. IX. VOL, II, L1 moft moft contemptible and the most profligate production to which any man, who had a reputation to lofe, ever dared to prefix his name. It is replete with the most wanton mifreprefentation of facts; the most inexcufable ignorance of every principle of government; and the most fcandalous attempts to inflame the minds of the populace, by the moft flagrant impoftures, and the most mifchievous deceptions. Folly and prefumption feem to difpute the pre-eminence in every page; and the whole work is worthy the confidential adviser of Neilfon and Hughes. The notes to this poem are more voluminous than the text, and fome of them contain many judicious obfervations, which lead us to regret that the author does not more frequently employ himself in profe-compofitions. In the book before us, the profe has certainly much more merit than the verfe; the latter is marked by no particular beauties, and, in fome parts, is lame, languid, and obfcure; while the former displays foundness of principle, and, with few exceptions, accuracy of judgement. The remarks on Godwin, and his philofophy, are particularly pertinent and juft. The brief obfer. vations on female writers we shall extract: "It is unpleafant to criticize, even in the gentleft manner, the works of the female pen. We have ladies of ingenuity, learning, and of every varied excellence; I would name Mrs. Carter, and Mrs. Hannah More, in the most eminent fenfe. The genius of the authorefs of the Elegy on Captain Cook, the poetry of Mrs. Charlotte Smith, and the fombrous fancy and high-wrought imagery of Mrs. Radcliffe, cannot be mentioned without admiration. But when female writers forget the character and delicacy of their fex; when they take the trumpet of democracy, and let loofe the fpirit of grofs licentioufnefs, moral and political, in contempt of thofe laws which are their best shield, and of that religion which has invariably befriended and protected them; the duty which is owing to the defence of our country, and of all female virtue, comfort, and happiness, calls for ftrong animadverfion. When their foftness is laid afide, when they appear as the Minervas of the modern illuminated fyftems, and the Bellonas of France; in fuch cafes men must be excufed, if they would avoid deftruction even from their writings." Pp. 51, 52. On the prepofterous attempt of modern philofophifts, both French and English, to fanétion their vile democratical principles, by the facred authority of the New Teftament, the author's remarks are equally judicious: "I would yet add a few words on thefe modern philofophers. They fometimes tell us, fneering, and in fcorn, that the code of Chriftians is the code of equality. They have attempted to fhew this more than once. But furely we may afk, what is the equality held forth in the Chriftian Scriptures? Is it not the equality of the crea tures before the Creator? The equality of men before God, and not before each other? They every where fpeak of the distinctions and ranks ranks in fociety. They ordain tribute to be paid to whom tribute is due; custom to whom cuftom, honour to whom honour; and they fpeak of all lawful power as derived from God. The great Founder of it himself acknowledged the image and fuperfcription of Cæfar. His Apoftles declare the gradations of power, delegated by authority; they speak of fubmiffion to the ordinances of inan, for the Lord's fake; to the King, as Supreme; to Governors and Magiftrates, as unto them who are fent by him. Is this the political equality of the boafted deliverers or oppreffors of the world? How long fhall we Juffer the tyrant, the blafphemer, the diforganizing Sophift, to triumph and to deceive us?" Pp. 63, 64. We have more than once had occafion to cenfure the practice of importing the dramatic productions of the German fchool, which are almost invariably tainted with the poifon of Jacobinifm. How, indeed, can it be otherwife, when German literature is in the ftate in which we truly reprefented it to be, in the obfervations on the foreign prefs, prefixed to the Appendix to our first Volume? On this topic the bard makes fome proper comments : "No Congress props our Drama's falling ftate, "The modern productions of the German stage, which filly men and women are daily tranflating, have one general tendency to Jacobinifm. Improbable plots, and dull fcenes, bombastic and languid profe alternately, are their leaft defects. They are too often the licenfed vehicles of immorality and licentioufnefs, particularly in refpect to marriage; and it should be remarked in the strongest manner, that all good characters are chiefly and ftudioufly drawn from the lower orders; while the vicious and profligate are feldom, if ever, repre. fented but among the higher ranks of fociety,+ and among men of property and poffeffions. This is not done without defign. "It is, indeed, time to confider a little, to what and to whom we give our applaufe, in an hour of fuch general danger as the prefent. The Stage furely has the most powerful effect on the public mind. The author of The School for Scandal, with the purest and most patriotic intentions, long ago endeavoured to make dilhonefty, gambling, deep drinking, debauchery, and libertinifm, appear amiable and attracting in his character of Charles Surface; and the German Doctors of the fock and buskin are now making no indirect attacks on the very fundamentals of fociety and established government, fubordination, and religious principle; the vaunt-couriers of French anarchy, national plunder, and general mifery." +"This obfervation will be found in our account of "Lover's Vows." Vol. I. P. 480.—Reviewer. L12 Through * Through four dull acts the Drama drags, and drawls, "Lo next, where deep within that civic wood, From flimfy Tow'rs, and Belham's Magazine. And Bentley's heat with Bentley's port affumes; "The infignia of Citizen Hardy, Citizen Kingsbury, Citizen Thelwall, Citizen Tom Paine, &c. &c. and all thofe philofophers, fcribblers, and lecturers, who ferve us In a double Capacity, to preach and cobble." "Life of Edinund Burke by M'Cormick.” Two Pair of Portraits, of two Fathers and two Sons, by John Horne Tocke." See the former Numbers of our Review.→ REVIEWER. Mr. Belham and Dr. Towers, two diffenting Compilers of fome information and ingenuity, who would be thought Hiftorians.— They make lame mifchief, but they mean it well.” * Richard Porfon, M. A. The most learned and acute Greek fcholar of the prefent age. I allude to his late accurate and most valuable editions of the Hecuba, and Oreites of Euripides, whofe integral works may be expected from the Profeffor. He modeftly fays, that they are published in ufum ftudiofæ Juventutis,' or, as I fuppofe, for the ufe of fchools and Tyros. But his notes and remarks are not adapted to fchool-boys, to their wants, or their comprehenfion. He might as well have published them for the ufe of the Mamalukes in Egypt, or Buonaparte's Savans. The Profeffor fhould condefcend to give fome more general illuftrations, and a felection of the Greek Scholia, if he would confer a real favour, as it is in his power do to, on the Mafters of the Schools and the Tators of Col. leges. I hope he will proceed in this important revifion, and per haps effect the final establishment of the Greek text of all the Tragedians. This he can do, or no man. He will be entitled to the public gratitude of the learned world.---Such a man, fo gifted, fo inftructed, fo adorned with various fcience, I could wish to number among the defenders of the beft interefts of his country. But at prefent, most unfortunately, in many of our learned men there is, in regard to fubjects of political and facred importance, a fomething, which, in the phrafe of Hamlet, Doth all the noble fubftance often dout. Why is it fo?" "Tiron.m ufibus potiffimum deftinata." Profat. ad Hecubam, P. 3. Dramatic |