ceived on the other fide of the bridge by the magiftrates of the city in a body in their ceremonial, habits, which are black. The prefident prefented to him on a velvet cushion the keys of the city, which are red, with the ufual accompaniments of falt and bread, and delivered a brief harangue. The general took the keys, put them to his lips, and then holding them up to heaven, be faid, "Almighty God, I render thee thanks that I have not been com. pelled to purchafe the keys of this place as dear as"-(turning his face towards Praga). His voice failed him, and his cheeks were inftantly bathed in tears. He then cordially embraced the magiftrates, and was immediately furrounded by a crowd of people: fome threw themfelves at his feet, others extended their arms towards him, and he gave his hands to his bumble admirers. He embraced fuch,

were nearest to him, and anfwered with a filent fenfibility to thofe ardent difplays of esteem and refpect, which are more affecting than the loudeft eulogiums, and which in one moment afford a recompence for years of fatigue and danger. He gave the cushion and keys to Gen. Ilinief, who preceded him on horfeback, and the proceffion continued. When he came to the cathedral, he ordered all his fuite to halt, and repeated a prayer. A new and very affecting trial was made of his fenfibility, when the magiftrates prefented to him 1376 Ruffian prifoners, whom he had rettored to liberty, and whom it had been propofed in the revolutionary committee, before the taking of Prague, by a wretch named Kolontay, the Robespierre of Poland, to affacre, together with the Poles fufpected to be attached to the Court of Ratha. S. next, in his grand uniform, decorated with all his orders, had audience of the king, who en bra ced and conduЯed him into his closet, where they remained together upwards of an hour. It was agreed that the Polish troops, whom he always mentioned under the denomination of revolters, should lay down their arms, and deliver up their artillery to the Ruffians; and on the king's fking for the liberty of his page, S. restored 317 fuperior officers. The Poles, who quitted Warfaw in four confiderable divifions, being purfued, laid down their arms. Paflports were given to thole who engaged to quit the fervice;

thofe who refused were fent into the interior parts of the country. Several Polish chiefs and generals fecretly ef caped. "Such was the clofe of this glorious campaign, which is far fupe rior to any thing that is to be found in the military annals of modern times, as well for the unexampled rapidity of its operations as the important confe. quences that refulted from it. The careers of Gen. S. the wildom of his measures, the diftribution of his forces, the undoubted character of his operations, and the progreffive continuation of his fucceffes, are darling proofs of the fuperiority of his talents. But though it may be faid with truth, that thefe great qualities were manifefted in all his campaigns, he feems to have furpaffed himself. We have only to collect the events of it to prove, that a fmall army may work wonders, when a general, by the vigour of his refolution, and the skill of applying the means he poffeffes, can give ftabi lity to fortune. We have feen S. difarm, without effufion of blood, 30,000 rebels feattered over an extenfive coun try, accompany his foldiers in long and difficult marches, which would have disheartened the troops of Han nibal, and gain three battles against enemies of martial intrepidity and fuperior numbers. We have feen him temporize during four weeks at Bry efcia till his detachments had formed a junction with him; and, after the decifive victory of Matfcheviz, to fly as it were to that of Kobylka. We have feen him repofing there only for the three days which were neceffary to make preparation for an affault with out example. He then carried by ef calade in one morning the intrenchments of Prague, defended by 30,000 men, and entered into Warfaw with the olive-branch of peace. Nor is this all: thefe wonderful atchievements were effected in the fhort (pace of two months, between Sept. 6 and Nov. 7 1794, the day when Wavrofchewski laid down his arms. But this brilliant expedition is not more remarkable for its aftonishing rapidity, than it is me morable for the extraordinary events which fucceeded. In a fhort time after the fate of Poland was irrevocably decided by the late partition of a kingdom, whofe name is no longer to be found among the nations of Europe, and which, in a former age, dictated laws to Ruffia; if the operations of

this

this campaign had been urged with lefs activity, it is probable that the infur gents would have re-affembled with added ftrength; the Poles might also have received foreign aid in the Spring of 1795, and prolonged a war whofe events might have had an incalculable influence on the general affairs of Europe." When S returned to Peterf. burg, in December, in a carriage which the Empress had fent to meet him, he entered the city at night, alighted at the winter palace, and threw himfelf at the feet of her Imperial Majefty, who received him with the most diftinguished marks of regard. He foon after went to vifit Finland, was prefent at the marriage of the Grand Duke, and appointed to the command of the army of 80 coo men in the governmen's of Braz ow, Wofnenfki, Chaf kow, and Catharinaftow, and fixed his head quarters a: Tulczin, in the caftle of Potocka, on the banks of the Dniefter. After having run with a gigantc ftride this vaft career of glory, th ck fown indeed with obftructions, but producing a continual harveft of laurels, from the frozen banks of the Viftula to the burning fands of the Black Sea, this illuftrious warrior is called to the command of the Auftro Ruffian army in Italy. He came into that country to fave it, and he has been its faviour. His first entrance into it was attended by victory, and victory has accompanied his march through it. He brought his brave and hardy bands from the North to drive back the profigate, pillaging, and bloodthirsty armies of France to their own country, and they are driven back with difgrace and flaughter; they already approach its confines; and with the fame rapid ftep he will follow them, and with the fame avenging fword, we truft, will punish them. His campaigns of the prefent year will, we doubt not, add to the glory of thofe that are paft; and with them we fhall hereafter extend the hiftory of Suvvaroff."

Though he appears to have been made the victim of intrigue in one cabinet, we truft he will be supported to purfue his meafures without controul in the enfuing campaign.

13. A Letter to Mifs Hannah More on fome Part of her late Publication, intituled, "Strictures on Female Education." To which is added a Difcourfe on Gen. xv. 6, preached at Chrift's Church, in Bath. By

the Rev. Charles Danby, LL.B. Minifter of Chrift's Church, Bath.

MR. D. fhews that the doctrine laid down by Mr. Wilberforce, and adopted by Mifs M. defcribing "faith as the first radical grace of the Holy Spirit which takes place in the heart of a finner, and which brings with it pardon, reconciliation, and repentance, and never can exift without producing the radical fruits of holiness;" which is to fay, in Mifs M.'s words, that there is an indivifible union between the doctrines and duties of Chriftianity; or that the latter grow out of the former as the natural and neceflary productions of fuch a living root, is not the language either of the Scriptures or of the Church of God, whofe doctrine is taken from it. There may be a living root without fruit; and the allufions made to the tree which was ordered to be cut down, not becaufe it was entirely dead, but because it bore no fruit; and to the tree which was permitted to ftand one year longer, after having lived three years in an unprofitable ftate, for the exprefs purpose of trying what effect additional cultivation might produce on it. In the fermon from Gen. xv. 6, Abraham's faith and practice are exprefsly noted as concus ring together.

14. Ecclefiaftes; or, the Preacher. An EfJay on the Duties of a public religious InBructor; chiefly taken from the Latin Trea tife on this Subject by Erafmus. With a prefatory Addrefs to Patrons of Livings, &c. To which is added, the Subftanse of a Charge to a Miffionary,

MORE blame certainly attaches to bishops and their chaplains for the introduction of improper minifters into the Church, than to parents or guardians who educate improper fubjects. or to patrons who prefent them. A bishop and a chaplain have obferved a contrary and proper courfe, notwithftanding the cenfures which have been lavifhed on them for it; as if it were undue feverity to refer back to their ftudies fix out of e'even candidates. As fo much power is given to the laity in the difpofal of preferments, it is certainly a duty to the Church and to the publick in general, that the bishop thould not lay hands on any one without a rigid enquiry into the propriety of his affuming the facred character. This is a valuable addition to the two

works

works already reviewed by us in vol. LXIX. art. 156 and 167.

15. Am Effay on the Manufactures of Ireland; in which is confidered to what Manufactures ber national Advantages are beft fuited, and what are the beft Means of improving fuch Manufactures. By Thomas Wallace, of the King's Inns, Dublin, and Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

AFTER an inflated panegyrick, by way of Dedication, to the Earl of Moira, and expreffions of difappoint ment at not fucceeding in his application for Mr. Cuningham's 50l. prizes which was adjudged to Mr. Prefton, author of feveral dramatic and poetic pieces, the writer fhews that manufactures deferve encouragement, confiders what are the circumftances that render e manufacture proper for a country to profecute, and how they apply to the principal ones within the reach of Ireland. He concludes with observations on the modes of encouragement generally recommended, and the general caules which promote or retard their progrefs, in a clear and eafy ftyle and arguments, but too much calculated to promote jealoufy and hoftility, political and commercial, between the two kingdoms.

16. St. Godwin, a Tale of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. By Count Reginald de St. Leon.

ST. GODWIN, a tale by Count St. Leon, is a happy travesty of St. Leon, a tale by Mr. Godwin. All the turgid expreffions, as well as every principal

incident, in Mr. Godwin's four volumes, are here condenfed in one, and moft humorously burleiqued. If any readers be found that are admirers of what the author of a work on Political Juice may call fine writing, fuch perfons must neceflarily be pleated with the volume before us, which comprises the quinteffence of it. To us, however, the Count is more interefting when attacking and turning into ridicule the fallacious doctrines, abfurd principles, and pernicious dogmas, of the modern philofopher.

We have been much amufed by the perufal of this little work, in which the fo:-difant Count has not entirely confined himself to the expofition of St. Leon, but has occafionally interfperfed claffical comments, which difplay confiderable ingenuity as well as learning. His remarks on Le Noble's ftory of the ham ghoft particularly, and the laft

30 or 40 pages of the book, are novel and interefting.

17. Moral Reflections, fuggefted by a View of London from off the Monument. By John Evans, M. A.

MANY philofophic and thinking men have taken a moral furvey from the Monument; but it was fcarcely to be fuppofed a gentleman of Mr. Evans's fuperior literary attainments should leave fuch a fpot without taking fome pains to let the publick know what his thoughts were when in that fituation. Thele Moral Reflections are trite and common, and exhibit no trait of origi. nality. Mr. Evans, after having defcended from this lofty column, "pointing to the fkies," clofes his reflections with an advertifenient, intimating his intention of fuperintending the educa tion of ten pupils.

INDEX INDICATORIUS.

The Character of Dr. Johnson, by Bp. Horne, in our laft, p. 9, we did not then recollect had before been copied in our vol. LVII. p. 557; where it was prefaced by a fevere attack upon a lady, under the cha

racter of BENVOLIO; to which that lady made a very judicious, animated, and wellwritten reply, ibid. p. 684.

A Correfpondent defires to be informed in what manner the family of Monk, Duke of Albemarle, became extinct, as Collins's Peerage is entirely filent on the fubject, except that the Earl of Montague married Elizabeth, relict of Chriftopher Duke of and how the great poffeffions of Monk, in Albemarle, whichChriftopher died in 1690; Lancashire, mentioned in Collins as belonging to the Montagues, came to them, and are now enjoyed by the Barclay family.

Z. C. obferves, In 1681 Sir Samuel Moreland invented a machine which, by the ftrength of eight men, would force water, in a continual ftream, from the river Thames to the top of Windfor caftle, and 60 feet higher, at the rate of 60 barrels an hour; which experiment was repeated feveraltimes before the King, Queen, and Court, the latter end of the year; and his Majefty gave Sir Samuel a medal, with his effigy fet round with diamonds, and conftituted him mafter of mechanicks, &c. Can any of our correfpondents favour us with some account of Sir Sam

and his invention; of which, as it appears to exceed the powers of any machine now in ufe, a drawing and particular defcription might be very serviceable?

We shall thank W. S. and E. for PEBROKE and CONISBRO CASTLES; and are very much obliged to B. P. W.; to our SOUTHWELL Friend; and to Mr. HawION.

Mr. URBAN,

HE Welch Poem, of which I have at

Tenped a tranflation in the following

PERIS.

lines, was compofed by Hywel an David ap
Jenan ap Rhys, in honour of Bardfey (in
Welch, Enlli), its monaftery, and 20,000
faints; about the year 1480. The original
is in my poffeftion. -
Mi av i luniaw vy medd
T'r Ynys oddiar Wynedd, &c.
IN the ifle near Gwynedd's coaft,
I would with to yield the ghost,
Search each fpot from pole to pole,
Bardfey's belt to cleanfe the foul;
There I'll keep my confcience pure,
Juan's+ ifle like Troy fecure,
As was Hoywyn‡ erit, you'll find
Abbot Jean good and kind,
'Mong that twenty thoufand train,
Scarce you'll meet with fuch a twain;
Those whom boitterous billows bore
To their Bardfey's happy thore.
Hermits twain this ifle had fought,
And their griefs to Lleuddad§ brought,
Hoywyn and a brother faint
To that abbot made complaint,
That their dues || had been detain'd
And unpaid, their rents remain'd;
Thefe offenders were ftruck dumb, "
And to Bardfey now were come;
Hoywyn too had crofs'd the wave,
God and Lleuddad's aid to crave.
Straight the blefs'd affembly there
Sought the Lord with earnest pray'r,
Then ordain'd, without delay,
That these men their dues fhould pay;
And, befides, they fhould allow
To thefe monks a fruitful cow,
From their fins to be abfolv'd;
Thefe tranfgreffors foon refolv'd,
To comply with this demand,
And obey the faint's command.
Soon the cow along the mead
To the holy well they lead;

There when now they'd brought her fafe,
Soon the dropp'd a charming calf,
Which increased more and more,
As in Galilee of
yore.
Thefe offenders had laid by
Near the hill both fteep and high,
All their crutches, and each fees
Them grow up as ftately trees,
Like to Mofes' rod of old,
And then bloffoms to unfold:
This was God Almighty's will
His own purpofe to fulfill.
When a folemn vow they'd made,
Never more thefe rights t'invade,
* Gwynedd, North Wales.
+ The then abbot.

Patron Saint of Aberdaron. Lleudd d, firit abbot of Bardfey. From this fabulous story, it seems, there was fome kind of an ecclefiaftical court there in former times.

GENT. MAG. February, 1800.

And their dues would gladly pay;
Then the faint began to pray,
And reftor'd them all their ftaves,
Back to row them through the waves,
And, to fave them from Hell pains,
The Pope's pardon he obtains;
Thofe who'd have a confcience clear,
Soon for Bardfey let them fteer;
If on leav'n you've fet your mind,
That the shorteft way you'll find;
For in Bardfey should you die,
There in fafety you will lie,
Neither men nor devils dare
Touch the foul or body there:
Search the fpacious world around,
None like Bardfey can be found;
'Mong the islands of the fea
Where's the ifle fo bleft as the?
God bath bade it rife its head,
Nor the torrent's rage to dread;
That's the temple of the juft,
In its choir is laid their duft.
No uncleannaís can defile
That most pure and holy ifle;
Land of pardons and of grace
To reform the human race.
Their deliv'rance may be found
By the captives fin hath bound;
Like a cultivated field

Ev'ry bletting it doth yield;
Where fuch holy feed is fown,
What a harvest will be mown!
Bones of faints are ftrew'd around
On the furface of the ground;
And if thefe you daily wear,
Then no danger you need fear,
For they'll furely prove a charm
To protest you from all harm.
See its rich and fertile meads,
Where the friars count their beads;
'Tis a garden God hath made,
Which no robber dare invade;

Bieffed fpot! thou fweet retreat!

Where the faints have fix'd their feat.

In the abbey you behold

Every image deck'd with gold;
As you enter at the door,
View the teffelated floor,
And its marble altar (pread
Thick with off'rings for the dead.
Then its fpacious burying-ground,
Chequer'd all with graves around;
At the tolling of the bell,
Each was laid within his cell;
See in coffins, wrought of stones,
Relicts old, and holy bones.
To their convent I would bring
This fmall tribute which I fing, ›
And would offer at their thrine
This poor trifling gift of mine.
Abbot Jeuan 's just and true,
His example let 's purfue:
Twenty thousand faints of yore
Came to lie on Bardfey's fhore.
Now we 'll add good Jeuan's name
To that number known to fame;

David,