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and a bottle of wine drains my pocket of between five or, fix fhillings-for fifteen pence I had, in the famished country on the other fide of the water, my foup, my fish, my gigst, and my deffert, and tenpence more gave me an excellent bottle of claret." Whatever may have been the horrors of Robelpierre's tyranny at Paris, he feems to have left ftarvation for this fide of the water. At the fame time no one felt more for the injury done to the cause of liberty, by the favage ferocity and outrageous anarchy of the French; but well acquainted with the caufes of their crimes, with the preffure which they fuffered from without, and the treachery which was daily nurtured within by foreign geld, he diftinguished between the vices of the revolutionary government, and the attempt of a whole people, to refcue themfelves from the prejudices of birth, the tales of prieftcraft, and the antiquated remains of feudal oppreffion. He felt, as be used to fay, like an Englifliman, who had imbibed his notions of liberty in the days of George the Second, and accuftomed to affociate together, as in those good old times, the founds of monarchy, popery, and wooden fhoes; he could never reconcile himself to the new ftyle of thinking on these subjects, nor think it an advantage to this country, that Bourbon politics fhould grow in fashion, and that, because the French run mad, the found principles of English liberty fhould be trodden under foot. Hence he was a ftrenuous advocate for the reform of parfiament, and frequently repeated the prophecy of the late Earl of Chatham, fcarcely permitting himself to entertain the moft remote idea, that the euthanafia of the English conftitution was likely to fhew the fuperiority in fecond-fight of the Scotch historian over the English politician.

His philanthropy was unbounded. To him we are indebted in great meafure for the expreffion of national gratitude, to the memory of Howard, in St. Paul's; and though in a different fphere from that ornament of our country, he was fcarcely lefs active in the relief of the diftreffed. The watch tax afforded ample fcope for benevolent exertion; the diftrefs it brought upon the parish in which he refided, cannot be conceived by thofe who are little accuftome 1 to reflect on the effects of decay of employment in an induftrious family. From a neat and comfortable houfe, by degrees every article of furniture difappears; the tools go next; a fupply of food is wanted by the children, and the parent, almoft in despair, is compelled to beg re

lief at a foup-fhop. Dr. Warner was the guardian angel to numbers, he affifted in all the benevolent plans of his parish, and was continually pouring the oil of comfort into the wounds inflicted by an act of the Minister, adopted without confideration, and fupported by obstinacy.

To pure benevolence Dr. Warner added the firmeft integrity; and he was endeared to his friends by a difpofition the most cheerful, and by that gaieté du cœur which at all times was producing pleafing images. No one excelled him in genuine humour, and in adapting his story to the courfe of converfation: full of anecdote. from real life, or from the ftories of extenfive reading, he fhone at the festive board of mixed and polished society, but ftill more in the retired circle, where, with a few literary friends, he could indulge in an expansion of fentiment, and enjoy the happinefs of real conviviality.

He was a great fmoaker, and may in this alone be faid, in thefe days, to have been almoft immoderate, for in every other reipect he was frugal and abstemious. A pipe, a book, and a friend were his great enjoyments; and in the works he has left behind him, appear fufficient proofs of original thinking, as well as extenfive learning. To him we are indebted for the tranflation of the Life of Friar Gerund; a work to be read by every one who cultivates the eloquence of the pulpit; and his Metron-ariston is now in the hands of all the learned. The doctor wifhed to give an English ear some idea of the fyftem of the ancients. Having been much abroad, he could not but obferve the difference between the English and foreign pronunciation of Latin; and this led him to reflect more deeply on the faults which we imbibe in our early years. No young perfons are more strictly educated in the theory of quantity than the boys of Eton and Weftminster, but to us

"qui digito callemus et aure," their practice is terrible. The ear is totally neglected in thefe fchools, and at the inftant the boy is telling you the fyllable is fhort, he contradicts his own affertion frequently by his pronunciation. This was grating to the ears of Dr. Warner, as it is to thofe of every man of taste; but the evil is perhaps incurable; and we shall fcarcely correct our natural inclination for the trochee and the dactyl, till the Latin language itfelf ceafes to be in fashion.

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Every thing in which the doctor was engaged he took up warmly; and the late contefts on the end of the century, originated in a convivial party, in which he faked his opinion against that of the majority of the company. The difpute was referred to two gentlemen, who both decided the bets in favour of the doctor; and according to their decifion we are now in the nineteenth century. From this decifion there was no appeal, and many cheerful parties arofe out of it, in which the difference of opinion which prevailed on this fubject, ferved to increase the good humour of the meetings. But this harmony did not prevail every where; fome were found weak enough to be angry in fuch a contest, and as the question was de

cided differently by various perfons to whom it was referred, a confiderable degree of acrimony fometimes broke out in converfation and periodical communications. The doctor was always on the alert, but he did not fuffer his temper t be foured by such trifles.

After a few day's illness, and preferving his recollection and calmness to the laft, he died on the twenty-second of January, at his houfe in St. John'sSquare, and was on the thirtieth of the fame month committed to the vault under the church in that square, by a select party of his friends, who in him lamented the lofs of an excellent fcholar, a cheerful companion, a fincere friend, and a worthy

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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. (The Loan of new Prints and Articles of Intelligence is requested.)

THE BRITISH NAVAL HERO. T. Stothard R. A. Pinxit. John Young, Mezzotinto Engraver to the Prince of Wales, fculp. published for Young, Fitzroy Square. Price 1l. 11.

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forcibly dragged from the arms of his afflicted parents, to fight in a caufe in which none of them with to embark, is a striking contrast to the fcene exhibited in our difpofition of whole,

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fifteen years of age, appears to be entering heartily into the fervice of his country; and the fame enthufiaftic and lively expectation with which he is actuated, is diffused to his parents and fifters, who feem to confider him as entered into the path of glory, and likely to become a future admiral. A younger boy drawing the officer's fword, though not a new thought, has a very happy effect. A group of failors hugging in the back ground is appropriate to the subject, in which every figure introduced is engaged and interested.

Reprefentations of such scenes as these, render the preparations for war attractive and animating to a young and afpiring mind, and lead him to confider himself as engaged in an honourable caufe, contributing to the defence and fupport of that nation which gave him birth, and treading in the fame path with thofe heroes whole names are enrolled in the temple of Fame; and fhould he fall in the conteft, he expects that furvivors will confider him as De of

"The brave, who fink to reft,

By all their country's wishes bleft." fo far the profpect is cheering and flattering to a young mind. The companion print, which is entitled

THE FRENCH CONSCRIPT.

is of course the reverse, and presents a very different profpect. A young man

to the preceding print. With respect to the engraving, they might each of them have had more transparency. The subject may at this time be confidered as national, and calculated to add to the fpirit and energy of the country in a conteft, on the neceffity or propriety of which there are fuch va rious opinions. Something more than thirty years ago, Hogarth published two prints entitled France and England, which, though addressed to the lower orders of society, had a fimilar intention.

HIS MAJESTY reviewing the VOLUNTEER CORPS in Hyde Park. Painted by R. K. Porter; engraved by Reynolds. Price 1 11s. 6d. plain: in colours 31. 35. Jefferies and Co.

This carries very strong marks of being partly borrowed from an admirable print which we noticed in a former retrospect, copied by Ward, from a painting by Sir William Beechey. The figure of the king is too fmall, and he is seated upon a wooden horfe. By Reynolds we have feen better engravings.

The Cowflip-Gatherer and the Blackberry

Gatherer.

A pair of prints engraved in the chalk manner, by A. FOGG, from Hamilton R. A. publifhed by Fogg, Bond Street, and Teftolini, Cornhill; price 10s. 6d. the pair. Weftall's drawings of these fubjects are fo exquifite, fo inimitable, that it is not a very severe censure to say

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these are inferior. They are however extremely pretty. The Blackberry Girl has the appearance of being a portrait, the other is evidently imag nary. They are very well engraved.

Much as we have heard of General Washington, there has not until very lately been any portrait of him that deferved much notice. One, fome time fince publifhed, engraved by CHEESMAN, from a picture by TRUMBULL, has confiderable merit, but the leading portrait is one copied from STUART by HEATH, and which in point of refemblance is faid by those who have seen the General to be uncommonly faithful. Indeed Stuart's fidelity to his original is fo great, that we fcarcely ever faw a portrait from his pencil, that could not be immediately iden. tified. The sketch of the head, from which he copied Lord Lanfdowne's picture, has been extremely well engraved by NUTTER, and is published by CRIBB in Holborn. The engraving by Mr. HEATH being finished juft at the time of this great man's death, has had an almost unprecidented fale. It has been faid that the whole impreffion which could be taken from the plate was purchased by one merchant, and is configned to America. Among the fingularities of the prefent day, we must notice a tremendous plan of the City of London, drawn from actual measurement, on a fcale 200 feet to an inch, comprifing Westminster, Southwark, and all the fuburbs in Middlefex and Surrey, exhibiting not only every ftreet, fquare, court, alley, &c. the boundaries of the city, and parifhes in the fuburbs, but also the divifion of houfes, and when regularity would permit, the numbers by which they are diftinguished. Price to fubfcribers 51. 5s. To be feen at No. 11, Haymarket.

Meffrs. BOYDELLS intend to publish in April the Copies from the Guildhall pures, price 31. 35. the pair. They will alio publifh very fhortly, the Woman taken ia Adultery, and Tribute Money, by Facius,

after Dufart, and copies by Gaugain, of two most exquifite drawings by Weftall. The fame gentlemen receive fubfcriptions for a book to be publifhed early in the spring, by Mr. James Roberts, portrait painter to the Duke of Clarence, entitled Introductory Leffons for teaching the Art of Drawing and Painting in Water Colours, principally intended for the Ufe of the inge nious Scholar, though not unworthy the attention of thofe more advanced in Art. Price to Subfcribers 10s. 6d. to Non-fubfcribers 155.

By the death of the late Mr. Stevens of Hampstead, his very fine collection of Hogarth's prints becomes the property of Mr. Windham, the fecretary at war, to whom he has bequeathed them. Of the genuine works there is a very fine collection. Several of them were purchased at the fale of the late Mr. Gulston; and two, at moft immenfe prices; THE EVENING, without the Girl, 471. and an impreffion from a gold fnuff box, engraved by Hogarth from the Rapeof the Lock, 331.

Large as this collection is, it is not complete: befides fome deficiencies in inferior and fcarce prints, it does not contain, what may perhaps be deemed the most curious print Hogarth ever engraved, viz. ENTHUSIASM DELINEATED, of which, we are told, there are only two impreffions; one of them in the very fine collection of Mr. Meyler, of Crawley Houfe, near Winchester; the other in the poffeffion of Mr. John Ireland, of Hans Place, Knightsbridge; who fome time fince published a spirited copy.

Mr.Stevens's collection, including copies, variations, imitations, imputed traf, and relatives, contains upwards 700 prints.

Martin Arthur Shee, and John Flaxman, associates, have been elected royal academicans.

Thomas Keyfe, of Bermondsey Spa, fo remarkable for painting rounds of beef and legs of mutton, equal to the first Dutch mafters, is dead, at the great age of 79.

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tion of the Drill Plough; by E. Darwin, .M. D. with Plates, 4to. Il. 11s. 6d. boards. Johnion.

BOTANY.

TheLady and Gentleman'sBotanical Pocket Book; by William Mavor, L. L. D. Illuftrated with Plates 4s. 6d. bound. Newbery. Tranfaction of the Linnean Society; vol 5. 11. Is. boards. White.

BIOGRAPHY.

Memoirs of Hyppolite Clairon, the celebrated French Actrefs; with Reflections upon the Dramatic Art, written by herself. Tranflated from the French. 2 vols. 8s. fewed. Robinfons.

Literary and Characteristical Lives of John Gregory, M. D. Henry Home, Lord Kames, David Hume, Efq. and Adam Smith, L. L. D. To which are added, A Differtation on Public Spirit; and Three Effays; by the late Wm. Smellie, Member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh. 75. boards. Ogle.

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addition of the Modern Cafes; by John Wyatt, of the Inner Temple. 1os. 6d. Butterworth,

A Treatife on the Law of Legacies; by R. S. Donnifon Roper, of Gray's Inn, 4s. 6d. boards. Butterworth.

The modern Practice of Levying Fines, and Suffering Recovery, in the Court of Common Pleas ; with Precedents; by William Hands. 4s. 6d. boards. Butterworth.

A Plan for the effectual Diftribution of Bankrupts Eftates, with Remarks on the Misconduct of Affignees; by M. Concannon, jun. 6d. Weft and Hughes.

MEDICAL.

Inftructions for the Relief and Cure of Ruptures. And Advice to Families who have weak, rickety, or deformed Children; by 7. Edy, M. D. 25. 6d. H. D. Symonds.

The Anatomift's Vade Mecum; by Robert Hooper, M. D. A new edition enlarged. 35. 6d. fewed. Murray and Highley. A View of the Treatment of Ulcers, more éfpecially thofe of the fcrophulous, phagedanic, and cancerous defcription. With an Appendix on Baynton's new mode of treating old Ulcers of the Legs; by Richard Nayler, Surgeon to the Gloucefter Infirmary. 3s. 6d. boards. Kearsley.

The Villagers' Friend and Physician; or, A familiar Addrefs on the Prefervation of Health, and the removal of Diseases; by James Parkinson. 1s. Symonds.

MILITARY.

A Review of the late decifive War in Myfore. With an Appendix, comprifing the whole of the State Papers found in the Cabinet of Tippoo Sultan; by M. Wood, Colonel, and late Chief Engineer, Bengal, 4to. 15s. boards. Cadell and Davies.

Proceedings of the General Court Martial, held in November 1798, on Captain John Flory Howard, of the Royal Horfe Guards, on Charges exhibited by Major Corbet; with Obfervations. Is. 6d. Cadell and Davies.

MISCELLANIES.

Letters on the Irish Nation, written during a vifit to that kingdom, in Autumn 1799; by George Cooper, Efq. 8vo. 45. 6d. fewed. White,

The March Fafhions of London and Paris containing Ten beautifully coloured Figures of Ladies in the actually prevailing and moft favourite Dreffes of the Month; intended for the ufe of milliners, &c. and of ladies of quality and of private families refiding in the country; to be continued monthly. Is. 6d. Phillips.

Copies of Letters from the Army in Egypt, to the French Government, faid to be intercepted by fome cruizer of the British Fleet; with an English Tranflation. Part 3d. 4s. Wright.

A choice Collection of the best Pfalm Tunes, from the most efteemed old Masters, collated and fet by Richard Sampfon, organist of St. John's, Wakefield. 2s. Hurft.

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The Theatrical Magazine; or, Monthly Difplay of Dramatic Characters on the London Stage, No. 1. Is. (To be continued.) Harrison.

An Architectural Account of the French Expedition to Egypt, containing a View of the Country and its Inhabitants. Tranflated from the French of Cha. Nory. 2s. Debrett.

Solitude; or, The pernicious Influence of total Seclufion from Society upon the Mind and the Heart; by J. G. Zimmermann, vol. 2. 12mo. 65. 8vo. 7s. 6d. boards. Vernor and Hood.

The European Repertory, No. I. rs. 6d. (To be continued Monthly.) H. D. Symonds. The Armenian; or, The Ghost Seer, a Hiftory founded on Fact. Tranflated from the German of F. Schillar, 4 vols. 12mo. 165. boards. H. D. Symonds.

Colquhoun's Treatife on the Police of the Metropolis. A new edition enlarged.

Mawman.

Rules for the Game of Cards, called Bofton. 6d. Robinions. The Everlasting Songster: A Collection of the most approved Songs. To which are added, Original Rules for Behaviour. Is.

Robinsons.

The Trigon, confifting of Perspective Pieces, Mifcellaneous Articles of Amusement, and Arts and Sciences, No. I. 6d. (To be continued every Fortnight.) Weft and Hughes. A Statement of the Differences fubfifting between the Proprietors and Performers of the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden; by Mefirs. Jonene, Holman, Pope, Incledon, Munden, Fawcett, and Knight. Is. 6d. Miller.

The Cambrian Directory; or. Sketches of the Welsh Territory, with a Chart. 4s. 6d. boards. Hurt. Original Letters of J. J. Rouffeau, with a fac-fimile of his hand-writing. Tranflated from the French. 4s. 6d. H. D. Symonds.

NOVELS.

Mordaunt; or, Sketches of Life, Characters and Manners in various countries; including the Memoirs of a French Lady of Quality; by the Author of Zelucco and Edward, 3 vois. Svo. Il. Is. boards. Robinfons.

Adeline St. Julian; or, The Midnight Hour by Mrs. Anne Ker, 2 vols. Kerby. Douglafs; or, The Highlander; by Robert Bett, L. L. D. 4 vols. 12mo. 185 lewed. Hurt. Juvenile Emigrants, 2 vols. 5s. fewed. H. D. Symonds. Ankerwick Caftle; by Mrs. Crofts, 4 vols. 345. fewed. Lane and Miller. Judith, 2 vols. 75. fewed. Lane and Miller. Caftle of Strazzo, 3s. 6d Lane and Miller. Mary Jane, 2 vols. 75. Lane and Miller. Feudal Events; or, The Days of Yore, an ancient ftory; by Anne Maria Mackenzie, 2 vols 75. Lane and Miller. Jeanetta, 4 vols. 145. Lane and Miller.

POETRY.

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A Collection of State Papers relative to the War now carrying on against France, Volume VIIlth. 18s. boards, or complete fets in 8 volumes, 41 95 61. Debrett.

The Speech of Patrick Duigenan, L. L. D. in the Irish Houte of Commons, Feb. 5, 1800, on the Motion for approving his Majesty's Conduct in declining the Negotiation with the French Government. Is. 6d. Wright.

The Speech of Lord Caftlereagh in the Irish Parliament, Feb. 5, on offering Refolutions relative to the Union with Great Britain. Is. 6d. Wright.

Speech of the Hon. Charles James Fox against the Addrefs approving of the Refufal to negotiate with France; and a Lift of the Minority. Is. Jordar.

A Reply to Mr. Grattan's Speech in the Irish Parliament, Jan. 15, on the Subject of a Legislative Union. 63.

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Morality united with Policy; or, Redections upon the old and new Government of France, and of various important Topics of civil and ecclefiaftical Reform; by Robert Fellowes, A. B. 2s. 6d. White. The Question stated, as it refpects Peace and War. Is. Crosby and Letterman. Proteft from one of the Propie of Ireland, against an Union with Great Britain.

Folby, Dublin.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

The Tenth Report of the Society for bettering the Condition of the Pour. Is.

Hatchard.

An Examination of the Statutes in force relating to the Aize of Bread, with Remarks on the Bill intended to be brought into Parliament by the Country Bakels; by James Najmith, D. D. 2s. 6d. Rivingtons.

THEOLOGY.

The Purpose of Christ reipecting his People among the Gentiles; together with the Certainty, Manner, and Cosiequence of its Accomplishment: a Sermon preached before the Edinburgh Milhonary Socie.y; by David Dickjon, one of the Minifters of the aid City. Is.

Ogle.

A Plea for Union, and for a free propaga Lodon and Miranda, a Poem. To which tion of the Gofpel: being an Aniwer to Dr.

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