to meet him. The Emperor civilly declined the invitation. What! cried Buonaparte, in one of those fits of passion to which he is frequently subject," does he refuse to come? Tell him, then, I will pay him a visit at Vienna, and will sleep in his bed.' '' We shall now leave our Tourist to pursue his way to England; having given our readers a sufficient insight into the merits and demerits of his production, the latter of which greatly preponderate.— The style, though occasionally easy, is often awkward and affected, and sometimes stiff and pedantic. The frequent introduction of French words and phrases, disgusts the English reader; all the substantives ending in our, derived from the Latin, such as honour, favour, &c. are, either from ignorance or affectation, written without the ; so that, in fact, the Latin words are substituted for the English. Grammatical inaccuracies, too, often occur. A few instances of improper language we have marked. In vol. i. p. 273, we are told of " the second finest church of Milan." In p. 285, we have the word Marquisse, which is neither French nor Italian. Vol. ii. p. 111, speaking of the Cardinal York, the last Prince of the hapless House of Stuart, Mr. Lemaistre observes, "instead of performing the high functions of executive magistrate in a great kingdom, he passes his time in the ceremonies of a church; and has changed" (what, be it observed, he never possessed)," a court of statesmen, legislators, and peers, for a conclave of friars, monks, and abbots.' We notice this passage, in order to censure the author for his adoption of the democratic cant, in calling the King of Great Britain, an Executive Magistrate; and some members of his Court, we know not who, legislators. It betrays a gross ignorance of the nature of the sovereignty, which involves the possession of supreme power, both executive and legislative. Is Mr. Lemaistre to be told, that it is the King who makes the law, which the two great councils of the nation prepare and propose, by his royal fiat, imperatively pronounced, Le Roi le veut ? Such loose modes of expression, leading to errors of great consequence, should never pass without exposure and reproof. P. 266, "Every wrinkle and every hair is (are) distinctly marked." P. 318, the author talks of the "unrivalled superiority," of our countrywomen.We do not well see how superiority can be rivalled. If one woman possesses greater charms than another, she has the undoubted superiority in that respect; but, if her charms are successfully rivalled by those of another, she has no longer a superiority, but merely an equality of charms. We have taken no notice of the third volume, which consists entirely of appendices, in number, four. The first contains, some Account of the Pontine Marshes, between Rome and Naples; the second, an Abridgment of principal Facts in the History of Naples; the third, a Descriptive and Historical Account of Mount Vesuvius; and the fourth, which occupies upwards of three hundred pages, some Account of the principal Buildings, Statues, Pictures, and Antiqui 1 44 ties, remaining at Rome in 1803; including Catalogues of the most, admired works of art still seen in the churches and palaces in that city. The whole of this volume might have been suppressed, without any loss to the reader: as its contents had previously appeared in various other publications; and as it therefore contains little that is interesting, and less that is new. It seems calculated only to enhance the price of the book, and, consequently, to promote the interest of the author and publisher. THE PICTONIAN PROSECUTION. 1. Colonel Fullarton's Statement, Letters, and Documents, respecting the Affairs of Trinidad. 2. Colonel Picton's Letter to Lord Hobart. 3. Colonel Fullarton's Refutation of Colone! Picton's Letter. 4. Evidence taken at Port of Spain in the Case of Louisa Calderon. (Continued from page 185.) IT remains for us chiefly to notice the Letter to Sir Samuel Hocd by Colonel Picton, prefixed to the "Evidence taken at Port of Spain;" and the very spirited "Address" of Lieutenant-Colonel Draper, "to the British Public." Colonel Picton begins his Letter with some very strong and pertinent observations respecting the very extraordinary means which have been adopted for rendering him odious in the eyes of the nation. "I doubt not but you will do me the justice to believe, that the in ventions of malice, and the credulity of ignorance, are equally incapable of affecting my mind, or influencing my conduct in any situation or cir. cumstance of life; and that the indecent caricatures exhibited every where in the streets and windows, and the malignant, scandalous libels, which have inundated the metropolis, to outrage truth, and corrupt the sources of public justice, will neither succeed in alarming my apprehen sions, nor irritating my disposition. Yet, I am very far from despising the judgment of the public; on the contrary, no one possesses a higher veneration for it, when calmly and coolly exercised; but to have any va. Jue in' my mind, it must proceed from the operation of reason, and be the result of temperate investigation. "The reputation which rests upon the solid foundation of honourable public services, and zealous devotion to the cause of our country, is an object of virtuous ambition, to which no well ordered mind can ever be in sensible; it is the shadow which accompanies the solid substance of meri torious actions, and the evidence of their existence; it is the only genuine source of popularity, and the public opinion which rests upon any other foundation, or is derived from any other cause, though it may, for a time, serve the purposes of faction and intrigue, will ever be esteemed, by prudent and discerning persons, as a counterfeit coin, and spurious imitation of the more precious metal. "The inhabitants of this country possess, perhaps, more of the milk of human nature, than those of any other nation in the world. They are more feelingly alive to every tale of woe and oppression; and these amia. ble qualities are, in a great measure, the cause of their being so open to the impositions, and conting hypocrisy of pretended philanthropists; but they have invariably a fund of sound good sense at bottom, which will never allow any delusion to be of long duration. Such a public, when the first impres. sion begins to subside, will naturally inquire into the causes and motives of appeals to their passions, and when an apparently public object is pur. sued and pressed upon them, with all the rancour and animosity of private interest and resentment, they will not be slow in suspecting some concealed selfish motive lurking beneath the specious pretext." These are the reflections of an honest heart, united with a manly and enlightened mind. Curse on such canting hypocrites, say we, who conceal, beneath the most unbounded professions of zeal for the public good, the most mean, sordid, and selfish passions; who, with honour, truth, and justice in their mouths, have rancour, falsehood, and iniquity in their hearts, If, reader, thou shouldst ever meet with such a reptile, avoid him as thou wouldst the plague; or, in compassion to thy fellow-creatures, crush him as thou wouldst a scorpion.— Should there be a man, so lost to every honest feeling of humanity, so base, so sunk, and so degraded, as to be conscious that he is such a reptile (and such a man there unhappily is), to him we say-Qui capit ille facit. As to the caricatures, and all the artillery of malice which were employed, both in the King's Bench, to the great disgrace of that high tribunal, and, sub equently, in every book-stall in town, we shall have cccasion to express our opinion respecting them, when we come to consider Lieutenant-Colonel Draper's pamphlet. Colone! Picton follows up these reflections, by reminding the gallant Officer whom he addresses, of the facility with which his own (Colonel Picton's resignation, as one of the Commissioners of Trinidad, was accepted; and of the difficulty which Sir Samuel experienced in obtaining the acceptance of his. It is a very easy matter to perceive, that this different treatment originated in the same source. It was obous, that Sir Samuel Hood's countenance to the proceedings of Col. Picton's enemies would be highly important; and that, on the other hand, his support of the Colonel would throw great discredit upon the attacks that were meditated against him; we say, meditated, because none but a perfect ideot can fail to perceive that the enmity and opposition which he encountered, had been long meditated-they were the work of deep foresight, and cold-blooded calculation. "The disagreements amongst the Commissioners" (says Col. Picton), "produced, at least, one good consequence, as they led to the abolition of a chimerical system of government, which has realized the apprehensions of every practical statesman, by producing an infinity of evil, and Но no one advantage, except a convincing proof of its impracticability, which may deter future theoretical politicians from attempting a similar incongruity." It was as pretty a piece of patch-work as the Peace of Amiens itself; but we beg pardon, we ought to reprove the Colonel for hist presumptuous censure of such a master-piece of wisdom in the art of government; and to remind him of the chorus of an song old "What, do you think the DOCTOR don't know better than you?" Colonel Picton then notices the stage trick of converting a little Mulatto prostitute and thief, whom a mistaken lenity had saved from the gallows, into an interesting little innocent, as such presented by Mrs. Fullarton to her friends, and as such introduced into the Court of King's Bench, with suitable animadversions, by that grand master of the dramatic art, Mr. Garrow. He afterwards gives a true pic-, ture of his own situation in Trinidad, of the great disadvantages under which he laboured, and of the honourable motives which influenced his conduct. "You well know, Sir, that I was placed, without any solicitation, as a matter of professional duty, in a most extraordinary situation, at the head of a new conquest, without any legal adviser to guide me in the administration of an intricate system of foreign laws, written in a foreign language; without any magistrate legally constituted, or acquainted with the jurisprudence of the country to execute them; without any law books, except such as I could casually pick up on the spot; without any council, with whom I could share the responsibility, and without any detailed in structions to supply the deficiency; and that, so situated, I was left six years solely to my own judgment and discretion to carry on the business of the Colony in the best manner I could. Thus circumstanced, 'what more could reasonably be expected of me, than that I should act honestly, to the extent of my abilities, with the best advice I could procure in the place? How is it possible that I could become acquainted with the laws, or the practice of them, except from the books within my reach, and the magistrates who were most accustomed to their application? I did guide myself on this, as well as on every other occasion, by the advice of the magistrates and other law officers the only sources of legal information or practice; and, if more is required of me, I am ready to confess that I am not capable of impossibilities. However, Sir, if I were to estimate my merits in so novel a situation, by the assurances of con fidence and approbation which I continued officially to receive from the high authorities under which I acted, up to the very moment of my re signation, I might allow myself to indulge in very considerable claims and pretensions, without incurring a charge of extravagance; but I have learnt to estimate such assurances by the consequences which have followed them, and which it is not within the bounds of probability that I shall early or easily forget." No, indeed, a prosecution which has lasted upwards of two years, during which every attempt that the basest malignity of the human heart heart could suggest, or the most subtle ingenuity of interested malice could devise, has been made to defame his character, to destroy his peace, and to ruin his fortune, is not very likely to be forgotten. We may be allowed to hope, however, that the moment of justice, the hour of truth, the day of retribution, is near at hand. "I trust that the English people are too reasonable to require of me more than they would of any other person of moderate abilities, under similar circumstances. Let any one of them suppose himself" (aye, even Mr. Garrow, with his whole stock of legal knowledge, his quirks, and his quibbles, his pantomimes and puppets to boot!) "posted where I was, without any solicitation and intrigue on his part: would he be satisfied to be placed in the midst of darkness, and then punished for not seeing clearly? I am ordered to administer an intricate system of laws, of which I am totally ignorant, and then I am made accountable for the errors (which) I involuntarily committed, and criminally prosecuted for what I could not possibly avoid." We cannot here refrain from noticing a most extraordinary position advanced by Mr. Garrow, on the trial of Colonel Picton. I understand we are to be told, that although the highest authority in this country could not inflict such a punishment"-(the picquet, which is frequently inflicted in our regiments of cavalry),-" on the meanest individual, yet, that by the laws of Spain, such a practice may be justified in the Island of Trinidad. I should venture to assert, without the smallest danger of contradiction from any unprejudiced person, that if it were written in characters so impossible to be mistaken, that he who runs may read, that the torture was the acknowledged law of the Island of Trinidad, this would supply no vindication of a British Governor." Now, in order to estimate the value of Mr. Garrow's assertion, it will only be necessary to supply a direct and positive contradiction of it from the Lord Chief Justice himself, leaving it to Mr. Garrow to decide whether his Lordship be an "unprejudiced man" or not. "Lord ELLENBOROUGH.- "If what the defendant has done be not under the authority of law, he ought to be punished; if under that autho vity, he ought to be quit and go free."-Trial, p. 70. But, according to Mr. Garrow, Colonel Picton ought to have governed the Island by "the mild, benign, and equitable spirit of British jurisprudence;" that is, in direct contradiction to those instructions which he was imperatively ordered to follow, and which directed him to take the Spanish law for his guide. With equal truth did this distinguished Pleader assert, that Colonel Picton had inflicted "torture upon one of his Majesty's subjects" (whom the mild, benign, and equitable spirit of British jurisprudence would infallibly have consigned to the gallows), "without the least motive but to gratify a tyrannical disposition, to oppress an unfortunate and defenceless victim of his cruelty." In opening a criminal charge, |