when in office, appears not to have been acceptable to Sir Brook Watfon, his principal. We do not pretend to judge between the different plans of thefe gentlemen; but we lament that a dif ference as to the mode of carrying on the fervice, between public officers of fuch acknowledged abilities and integrity, could not be adjusted by their fuperiors, confiftently with the fucceffion of Mr. Le Mefurier to a fituation for which he feems to have been eminently qualified. His fyftem will, no doubt, be impartially examined by the Commiffioners of Military Inquiry. We fhould have been happy, if the author had lived to fee justice done to his ability and zeal in fo important a branch of the military fervice. ART. 36. The British Trident; or Register of Naval Actions: including Authentic Accounts of all the most remarkable Engage ments at Sea, in which the British Flag has been eminently dif tinguished; from the Period of the memorable Defeat of the Spanish Armada, to the prefent Time. Chronologically arranged by Archibald Duncan, Efq. late of the Royal Navy. 4 Vois. 12mo. 11. 2s. Chapple. 1805. This was probably intended to be a cheap publication for common circulation, as the paper is bad, and the engravings worse. But it contains a great deal of interesting matter, and the facts related being taken from authentic documents, it seems excellently calculated for a failor's library, and may not improperly be recommended to young naval adventurers, who are eager to tread in the steps of the long line of British heroes. ART. 37. The Female Revolutionary Plutarch, containing biogra phical, hiftorical, and revolutionary Sketches, Characters, and Anecdotes. By the Author of the Revolutionary Plutarch, and Memoirs of Talleyrand. In Three Volumes. 12mo. 158. Murray. 1806. We hear on every fide, it is too atrocious, it cannot be ! In the name of fuffering and infulted humanity let not this prevail. Let not the memory of the greateft villains that the earth ever produced be protected by the foolish perfuafion that they could not be fo atrocious as they were: teaching the world this dreadful leffon, that it is only neceffary to be inconceivably wicked, and history will not dare to record your crimes, for fear of not being believed. Who are the witneffes? Frenchmen against French. men. Thofe whofe relations were murdered with every refinement of barbarity, against those by whom they faw the acts of horror perpetrated. Is it this man, is it that, by whom these things are exclufively teftified? Is it the author of the Revolutionary Plutarch alone? No, it is a mass of authors whom he quotes, whom he calls to witness, whose very words he cites, whofe heart-rend Q44 ing ! ing narratives he compiles. Are our faculties of memory oblite rated? Do we not remember that the public prints of the day attested the greater part of the facts, which readers now refufe to believe? If any thing can facilitate the repetition of fuch enormous crimes, it is this ftupid, weak, and driveling incredulity. Here are three volumes, added to feveral others, published by the fame author, and all recording the most dreadful enormities. To fay that we believe every word in them would be equally weak with a general disbelief; becaufe fuch a multitude of facts cannot, all be afcertained with equal precifion; but that the chief part of them is true we believe with as much perfuafion as we believe that the book is placed before us while we write. Who could fit down to invent fuch horrors? Who could perfuade himself that any reader would believe fuch hiftories, if he had not truth for his prompter ? The picture is not, however, all dark; and the following beau tiful lines, infcribed on a monument, raised to the memory of the murdered royalists of Lyons, but fince deftrayed by republican banditti, form a delightful variety among furrounding horrors. "Lyonnois venez fouvent fur ce trifte rivage, A vos amis répéter vos adieux Ils vous ont legué leur courage, Sachez vivre et mourir comme eux. "Pour eux la mort devient une victoire, Ils étoit las de voir tant de forfaits. Dans le trépas ils ont trouvé la gloire, Sous ce gazon ils ont trouvé la paix. "Paffant, refpecte notre cendre, Couvre-la d'une fimple fleur: A tes neveux nous te chargéons d'apprendre, "Champ ravagé par une horrible guerre The clofe of the third stanza alone feems to want truth; for alas, no happiness is yet purchafed. Thefe volumes contain anecdotes of Jofephine Buonaparte, Jofephine Deffalines, Madame Recamier, Medames de Stael, de Genlis, and Fouché, the late queen of France, the princefs de Lamballe, &c. &c. fome on the fide of the perfecutors, and fome on that of the victims; with occafional pictures of virtue and excellence on the latter part, as well as of terocity and every fexual and unfexual vice on the former. 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