confiftency on fuch fubjects, admits that a fociety of political Jefuits is incónteftibly proved to have exifted; and that when the revolution broke out, they who had raised the ftorm, could not direct it, but became its victims.

- "What became of the Avignon fociety Heaven knows. The honeft dupes, whom they had fent abroad fully prepared to welcome any novelty as the commencement of the Millenium, were left to their own direction. A king of the Hebrews appeared in England, and Wright and Berger (two fanatics who had gone from England to vifit the fociety at Avignon) were, as you may fuppofe, among the first to acknowledge him. They imagined that the appointed time was come, and publifhed the fecrets of the fociety which they had been ordered to keep concealed." P. 253.

We have a full account, indeed too full an account, of the mad king of the Hebrews and his followers; as well as of the fanatacifms and falfehoods of Joanna Southcott and her adherents, among whom, we are carefully informed, were one or two clergymen of the established Church. We have likewise, in a preceding part of the work, as intelligible a view as, we believe, could easily be given, of the doctrines of the New Jerufalem Church, founded by Baron Swedenberg; and, on the whole, we have no hefitation to fay, that the judicious reader will find in these three volumes fome information and much amufement; but it is not a work which can with fafety be put into the hands of the young and inexperienced; and in the lower orders of fociety, if it could be generally read, it must be productive of the very worst effects. The author or authors may indeed excufe their own conduct, as they attempted (vol. i. p. 39). to excufe the conduct of their friend Gilbert Wakefield, by alledging that The Letters from England" are defigned as a warning to rulers, not as an addrefs to the mob;" but this plea cannot be admitted, for any book which is publicly advertised for sale, under a title calculated to attract readers of every defcription. It appears, however, that the work, with all its faults, has attracted attention enough to induce the authors to continue it, in two additional volumes, now advertised. How far their fuccefs will continue, when it fhall be univerfally known that they are the production not of any foreigner, but of very mischievous, though ingenious Englishmen, we cannot undertake to predict. Cenfure is but too much relifhed, in whatever form it appears; which is now fo well known, that it has become one of the most hackneyed, as it must always be one of the bafelt, arts of bookmaking.

ART. X. Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelfon: with the Circumftances preceding, attending, and fubfequent to that Event: the profeffional Report of his Lordship's Wound, and feveral interefting Anecdotes. By William Beatty, M. D. Surgeon to the Victory, in the Battle of Trafalgar, and new Physician to the Fleet under the Command ef Earl St. Vincent, &c. &c. &c. 8vo. 99 pp. 7s.

Cadell & Co. 1807.

CONCERNING a man fo juftly loved and admired by a

whole country, as the fubject of this narrative, all authentic particulars must be fought with avidity and this little volume is well calculated to gratify the general curiofity, fo far as its boundaries extend. It takes up the account from the 15th of September, 1805, when Lord Nelfon failed from St. Helen's, and continues it to the landing of his remains at Greenwich. The narrative is clear, fimple, and from the very nature of the circumftances, extremely interefting: it is ftill intended to be incorporated into the magnificent publication on Lord Nelfon's Life, undertaken by Meffrs. Clarke and M'Arthur: but is publifhed, in the mean time, in a smaller form, to gratify the wifhes of the public.

To copy any material quantity of fo fhort a narrative, would neither be juft nor fatisfactory; for what part of fuch a piece of hiftory could be omitted without the reader's regret? We fhall therefore notice only one remakable feature of it; his lordship's ardent piety, connected with that which has been thought inconfiftent with it, his attachment to a particular lady. It appears from his own memorandum book, that when he left home for the last time, he wrote the fol lowing ejaculation, in an early part of his journey.

"Friday night, at half paft ten, drove from dear, dear Merton, where I left all which I hold dear in this world, to go to ferve my king and country. May the great God whom I adore, enable me to fulfil the expectations of my country! and if it is His good pleasure that I fhould return, my thanks will never ceafe being offered up to the throne of his mercy, But if it is His good providence to cut fhort my days upon earth, I bow. with the greatest fubmiffion: relying that he will protect Phofe, fo dear to me, that I may leave behind. His will be done!

"Amen, amen, amen." P. 75.

It is related alfo, that immediately before the action, he wrote the following devout prayer, and the codicil to his will, which we hall alfo copy.

"May

"May the great God whom I worship grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious vic. tory; and may no mifconduct in any one tarnish it, and may hu manity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet! For myself individually, I commit my life to Him that made me; and may His bleffing alight on my endeavours for ferving my country faithfully! To Him I refign myself, and the juft caufe which is entrusted to me to defend. Amen, amen, amen. P. 14.

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Yet at the very time when his mind was full of thefe pious as well as heroic fentiments, he forgot not, in giving directions to remove the fixtures in his cabin, to infift upon à peculiar care being taken, in taking down the picture of fady Hamilton, applying to it thefe remarkable words. Take care of my guardian angel!" When it fhall be found that almoft the whole of the codicil to his will, written immediately after the above prayer, relates to the fame lady, readers more full of rigour than of knowledge of human nature, will be apt to exclaim against this employment of his mind, as inconfiftent with his other fentiments. On us the effect is very different. It inclines us to hope, and in great measure to believe, that the attachment which the moft fervent feelings of piety could not difturb, was of a dif." ferent nature from what the world in general, judging from its own vices, is determined to conclude. That it was, in faft, a pure friendship, founded on admiration of great merits and great obligations, and though not to be defended, in point of prudence (in fome particulars) by no means ftained with crime. We are aware of the improbabilities, which, perhaps the majority will fee in this furmife. We adhere to this. That it is not in human nature to appeal confidently and deyoutly to the Almighty for his protection, and at the very fame moment, under the very fame feelings to cherish and to avow that, which was a glaring infult to one of his moft pofitive commands. At different times it might happen, fuch is the in-. confiftency of man.-But at the very moment when life was put to the hazard, and every feeling of religion roufed by that reflection, in the fanie unaltered frame of mind, to contemplate. with complacency a known fubject of grofs offence to heaven, muft furely be impoffible. We conclude therefore, that Lord Nelfon knew, that whatever the judgment of man might pronounce, the eve of Omnifcience could fee any direct violation of the divine laws in the attachment which he cherished. We pretend not to defend fo warm a friendship between a married man and a lady not his wife; but we would shield it from that worst interpretation, "which"

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many fuppofe to be the only meaning it could have. We go not into other particulars, of which many might be ated on both fides*; we adhere only to this, that, even in his moft folemn and devout moments, Lord Nelfon repented not of this friendship. We now give the codicil of his will, written, as well as the laft cited prayers, while the enemy was actually in fight. P. 15.

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"October 21ft, 1805. Then in fight of the combined fleets of France and Spain, diftant about ten miles.

"Whereas the eminent fervices of Emma Hamilton, widow of the Right Honourable Sir William Hamilton, have been of the very greatest service to my king and country, to my knowledge, without ever receiving any reward from either our king

or country:

First, that the obtained the king of Spain's letter in 1796, to his brother the king of Naples, acquainting him of his intention to declare war againft England; from which letter the miniftry fent out orders to the then Sir John Jervis, to strike a ftroke, if opportunity offered, either against the arfenals of Spain or her fleets:that neither of thefe was done, is not the fault of lady Hamilton: The opportunity might have been offered t.

"Secondly: the British fleet under my command could never have returned the fecond time to Egypt, had not lady Hamilton's influence with the queen of Naples caufed letters to be wrote to the governor of Syracufe, that he was to encourage the fleet's being fupplied with every thing, fhould they put into any port in Sicily: We put into Syracufe, and received every supply; went to Egypt, and deftroyed the French fleet

"Could I have rewarded thefe fervices, I would not now call upon my country; but as that has not been in my power, I leave Emma lady Hamilton therefore a legacy to my king and country, that they will give her an ample provifion to maintain her rank in life.

"I alfo leave to the beneficence of my country my adopted daughter, Horatia Nelfon Thompfon: and I defire she will ufe in future the name of Nelfon only.

"Thefe are the only favours I afk of my king and country, at this moment when I am going to fight their battle. May God bless my king and country, and all thofe I hold dear! My

As the entire acquiefcence of Sir W. Hamilton, &c.

+"This phrafe has been fubjected to misconftruction; to the writer of thefe pages, however, both the purport and expreffion of it seem very clear, thus: "might have been offered” (though it was not.”)

relations it is needlefs to mention, they will of course be amply provided for.

HENRY BLACKWOOD,

« Witnefs { T. M. HARDY."

NELSON and BRONTE.

Such were the dying requefts of this diftinguished hero. How far they have been complied with, we have no means of being correctly informed; but to us it feems, that they ought to have all the force of a command. The fervices flated are in themselves very eminent; to the fecond indeed it appears that the country owes, in the opinion of the conqueror, nothing lefs than the victory of Aboukir. For fuch a fervice, the public gratitude ought to be neither tardy nor imperfect; efpecially when ftimulated by the earnest, and what may be called the dying request of Lord Nelfon.

This little volume is adorned by an admirably engraved head of the hero: and a plate reprefenting the fatal ball, &c. The latter may to fome appear fuperfluous, but fervent attachment does not fo calculate proprieties.

ART. XI. General View of the Agriculture of Eaft Lothian; drawn up for the Confideration of the Board of Agriculture and internal Improvement, from the Papers of the late Robert Somerville, Efq. Surgeon in Haddington. 8vo. $26 pp. 6s. Wilkie and Robinfon, &c. 1805.

IT is no mean commendation of this book, to say that it is one of the most unexceptionable which have been patronized by the Board of Agriculture. In turning over, not inattentively, the pages of it, we had marked more than twenty, as containing matter worthy of being placed before our readers; a very few others, as deferving of obliteration. Let us how, by a few extracts and occafional remarks, that fix fhillings will not be altogether walled in the purchase of this _volume.

Stables. It may not be improper to hint, that a little more attention to cleanlinefs would be ferviceable in more refpects

than one.

"Except in a few inftances, the dung is not taken out of the ftable so often as health and cleanliness require; the confequences of which are, that while the horfes have the appearance of a dry comfortable bed, they are half fuffocated with the ftench and fer

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