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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Our Correspondent, J. R. from St. Alban's, is informed, that Major Cartwright's admirable and well-written Letters to the Duke of Bedford, on the State of the Nation, mentioned in our last Number amongst our Literary Notices, is now before the public, and our Correspondent, of course, will be enabled to read and judge for himself; but we shall, however, in our critical department, take an early opportu nity of passing our judgment upon it. We perfectly agree with our Correspondent, that the subject in question is, at this very critical juncture, of the highest importance to every Briton, from the highest to the lowest; and we are happy to see such a splendid subject in such able and masterly hands.

The truly excellent abridgment of Aristotle's Poetics, communicated by our very valuable Correspondent, Gaunt Notegore, shall appear in the first Number of our next Volume.

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W. B.'s favour,and several other very interesting Correspondents, are duly received and will appear in our next,

The Numbers of the Universal Magazine already published, are embellished with highly finished portraits, containing also biographical memoirs, of Dr. Richard" Watson, Lord Bishop of Landaff; Dr. Lettsom; Right Hon. Henry Addington; General Moreau; Dr. Joseph Priestley; General Pichegru; Dr. James Sims Pres. Med. Society, London; Wm. Coxe; A. M. F. R. S. F. A. S. John Pinkerton, Esq. the Young Roscius, in the character of Frederick; Colonel Sir R. T. Wilson, K. M. T. Right Hon. William Pitt; Hon. Charles James Fox; Benjamin West, Esq. F. R. S. William Paley, D. D. Archdeacon of Carlisle. With an accurate Map of St. Domingo, and the Windward Islands of the West Indies; as also, a Plate of a Machine for raising Water by the Wind.

This work, which is esteemed an excellent companion on a long voyage, as well as a very profitable article of commerce, forms a volume every six months, price 10s. 6d. neatly half bound and lettered,

ERRATA In the Modern Discoveries, page 264 of our last, for "that great mathematician and universal genius"—read, "that great mathematician and universal genius, Leibnitz, &c. &c."

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UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE.

No. XXIV.-VOL. IV.] For NOVEMBER, 1805.

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A the country is shed for its defence, it is impossible for the most insensible of our countrymen to be wholly indifferent to the causes or the measures which have committed us to such, hazard, Thus every man, in some degree, is forced, with whatever reluctance, to connect the fate of the individual with the condition of his country. The hero whose name our feeble pen so gladly contributes to immortalize, is no mote He planned, he in great part consum mated another splendid victory! But, alas! the cypress is so largely entwined with the laurel, that the eye weeps while the heart would fain exult. The mingled sensation is painful in the ex

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allowing himself to enquire into its necessity or expediency, let the governors of the country not forget how great is the responsibility on those who wantonly open the temple of Janus, or unnecessarily delay one hour to shut its gates. The virtue of a senator, and the underan incompetent or a corrupt governcourage of a soldier, are vainly exerted

ment. A minister may exultimgly display the riches of the country; he undertakes to govern, he may boast of the dominion over those seas, through which that wealth is wafted into his treasuries: for unless his wisdom contribute as much as the sailor or soldier's sword, to protect what he so highly prizes, he will but awaken envy, create enemy after enemy, and immolate withthe one whose loss we have too much reason to deplore. We have a powerful out end such magnanimous persons as and an inveterate enemy to cope with. has the ambition of that Grecian, with He is a furious, and, in many respects, the disposition of a Nadir Shaw, and an a fortunate emulator of Alexander. He' survived the moment which is to unscal and being a soldier of fortune, like these the fortune or the doom of his country two latter chiefs, he may be supposed Abdallah, to obtain its gratification; He has more than once, as by a countermine, blown up the hostile and the to seek his safety in nearly the same insidious operations of those enemies, measures, though in different quarters declared or otherwise, who had taken of the globe. It will be the interest o measures for sapping the tions of our greatness: he should have a civilized plunderer to spare as little as very foundalived to see the perfection of his pa- than any inodern cities contain, tis true, barbarian plunderer. Agra and Delhi were sacked of more immense treasures triotism, the reward of his devotion, in the end of the troubles which involved but it was not so much to the advantage his beloved, his grateful country. His of the Eastern conquerors to destroy ardor and his sacrifice are the more ho- those thrones, as it would be in a nourable to him as a warrior, because he has never been considered a courtier. Though he even disapproved of the measures of an administration, he felt it his duty to struggle to his utmost power for the salvation of his country's glory. In his expiring eyes might be read the apophthegm of Horace :

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori."

While the generous combatant thus pours out his blood in battle, without

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Western, to subvert that of the capital
of Britain. It is a folly to estimate the
strength of an empire by its riches, ra-
ther than by the maxims which are cal-
culated to uphold them.

the 29th of September, 1758, in the
This illustrious Briton was born on
parsonage-house of Burnham Thorpe,
in the county of Norfolk. His grand-
father was rector of Hilborough, in the
same county, where the family had
they are, and for many years have been,
been long resident, and of which living
the patrons. His Lordship's father,
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son.

the Rev. E-Nelson, married Catherine, under the care of Mr. John Rathbone, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Maurice Suck- who had formerly been in the king's ling, rector of Barsham, in Suffolk, and service with Captain Suckling, in the Woodton, in Norfolk, and one of the Dreadnought. Having returned from prebendaries of Westminster. By this this voyage, in July, 1772, Horatio lady Mr. Nelson had issue eight sons was received by his uncle on board the and three daughters, of whom only one Triumph, then lying at Chatham. Ey son and two daughters are now living; this voyage to the West Indies, though the subject of our memoir was the fourth Mr. Nelson had gained a practical knowledge of seamanship, he had acThe high school at Norwich possesses quired a thorough dislike to the Roy l the honour of having instilled the first navy, whether from the horror at the rudiments of education into the noble contemplation of those scenes of severity mind of this distinguished character, at one time, and of excesses and vice at from which school he afterwards re- another, or whatever might be the cause, moved to that of North Walsham. certain it is, that it was not without the "Captain Suckling, his Lordship's ma- utmost difficulty Captain Suckling could ternal uncle, was his early and very va- remove his aversion. This, however, luable friend. He was an officer in the was at length effected, by the firmness 'sea service, and commanded, first the and address of his uncle. Among other Raisonnable, of 64 guns, and afterwards methods adopted for accomplishing this the Triumph f. In 1770, he took desirable end, it was held out to his reyoung Nelson, then only twelve years phew, that if he attended well to his old, from the above school, and entered duty, he should be permitted to go in hini as midshipman on board of his own the cutter, and decked long-boat, atship. The subject of altercation, how- tached to the commanding officer's ship ever, with Spain, being adjusted, and at Chatham: this operated on the mind the Raisonnable paid off, our young of the aspiring youth, as was expected, mariner was sent by his uncle on board and by its means he became an excellent of a West India ship, belonging to the house of Hibbert, Purrier, and Horton,

pilot for vessels of that class, which sailed from Chatham to the Tower of London, and also down the Swin Channel to the North Foreland. By * The Nelsons are, therefore, related these short navigations, some of them to the noble families of Walpole, Chol- in most difficult passages, the mind of mondely, and Townshend, his mother Nelson acquired that strength and firm being the grand-daughter of Sir Charles ness, for which he was so particularly Turner, bart. of Warham, in the county distinguished throughout his subsequint of Norfolk, and of Mary, daughter of glorious career.

Robert Walpole, esq. of Houghton, and A voyage of discovery towards the sister to Sir Robert Walpole, first Earl North Pole having been resolved upon, of Orford, and to Horatio, first Lord the Race Horse and Carcase, bombs, Walpole, of Wolterton, whose next were ordered in April, 1773, to be fitted sister, Dorothy, was married to Charles out for that purpose; the command of Viscount Townshend. The Sucklings the former was given to the Honourable have been seated at Woodton, in Nor- Captain Constantine John Phipps, afterfolk, near three centuries. wards Lord Mulgrave, that of the latter The

This gallant oflicer commanded to Skeffington Lutwidge, esq. the Dreadnought, in the West Indies, object of this voyage was to ascertain during the month of October, 1757, the practicability of a North-west pas when, in concert with Captain Forrest, sage into the South Seas, or at least to of the Augusta, and Captain Langdon, discover how far navigation was possible of the Edinburgh, they engaged, off Cape towards the North Pole, and to make François seven French ships, three of such observations as might contribute them of the line, one of 50, two of 44, to the advancement of nautical knowand two of 30 guns. In April, 1775, ledge. Instructions had been given Captain Suckling succeeded Sir Hugh that no boys should be received on Palliser as comptroller of the navy. In board; yet the ardent manner in which 1778, Captain Suckling was elected young Nelson entreated to be permitted member of parliament for Portsmouth, to accompany the expedition, and hibut died in July of the same year. offer to become coxswain to Captain

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