tions of the populace, who huzzaed him home to the palace, from whence he fent double the tum he had won to the waterman's wife and children, with other tokens of kindness. Mean time, while he refolves to be happy himself, he is equally determined to make no man miserable.' The ftory of the lady, who loft her fon in the earthquake of Calabria, is an admirable one: we never faw paffion fo feelingly, fo tenderly pourtrayed. It is worth a whole volume: and, whatever might be its extent, we should have transcribed it, if the eager proveditores for public curiofity had not already anticipated us. On the lady's return to Rome, she supplies us with information which had before escaped her, refpecting the manners of the Romans and the objects of curiofity and antiquity. When pointing out the tame fubmiffion of those in middle life, and the infolence as well as infults of their fuperiors, she farcaftically remarks, that the Romans deferve to reign over the world once more, if to command is beft learned from the practice of obedience. Let us felect one other paffage, defcriptive of St. Peter's church and its objects : The figures of angels, or rather cherubims, eight feet high, which fupport the vales holding holy water, as they are made after the form of babies, do perfectly and clofely reprefent infants of eighteen or twenty months old; nor till one comes quite close to them, indeed, is it poffible to difcern that they are coloffal. This is brought by fome as a proof of the exact proportions kept, and of the prodigious fpace occupied, by the area of this immenfe edifice; and urged by others, as a peculi arity of the human body to deceive fo at a distance, most unjustly: for one is furprifed exactly in the fame manner by the doves, which ornament the church in various parts of it. They Fikewife appear of the natural fize, and completely within one's reach upon entering the door, but foon as approached, recede to a confiderable height, and prove their magnitude nicely proportioned to that of the angels and other decorations. The canopied altar, and its appurtenances, are likewise all coloffal I think, when they tell me of four hundred and fifty thousand pounds weight of bronze brought from the Pantheon, and used to form the wreathed pillars which fupport, and the torfes that adorn it. Yet airy lightness and exquifite elegance are the characteristics of the fabric, not gloomy greatness, or heavy folidity. How immenfe then must be the space it stands on! tour hundred and fixty-feven of my steps carried me from the door to the end. Warwick caftle would be contained in its middle ale. Here are one hundred and twenty filver lamps, each larger than I could lift, conftantly burning round the altar; and one never fees either of them, or the light they dispense, till forced upon the obfervation of them, fo completely are they loft loft in the general grandeur of the whole. In fhort, with a profufion of wealth that attonishes, and of fplendour that dazzles, as foon as you enter on an examination of its fecondary parts, every man's firft impreffion at entering St. Peter's church, muft be furprise at feeing it fo clear of fuperfluous ornament. is the true character of innate excellence, the fimplex munditiis, or freedom from decorations the noble fimplicity to which no embellishment can add dignity, but seems a mere appendage.' This The Latin phrafe, which has fo often tortured philologers is well tranflated; but, in a moment, this merit is obliterated by a grofs error, in a fimilar attempt. Surely one of her learned friends fhould have told her that she has entirely miftaken the point and meaning of the lines in p. 113. Vendit Alexander claves, altaria Chriftum ; Vendere jure poteft :-emerat ille prius.” Our Alexander fells keys, altars, heaven; When law and right are fold, he'll buy-that's even.' If it must be rendered in verfe, we fhall add the following, of which the chief merit is the clofeness of the verfion: Keys, altars, Chrift himself were fold, - Justly the bishop thought: No one can furely think him bold, To fell what first he bought.' There are some other little errors in translations, but none very glaring, except the version which we have transcribed. The fhort account of the Ambrofian Library and its contents, is interefting; but, in this returning tract, we do not meet many things very entertaining. The remarks are the gleanings of what we met with before, and we shall now turn for a little while to the tour through Germany. The Tyrolefe Alps are, our author tells us, lefs wild than thofe of Savoy; the river that runs between them is wide; and, as it affords a paffage for floats, the ideas of commerce and of focial life take from the horror of the scene. We find ourselves, in a moment, hurried into Germany, where vaft and unwieldy magnificence holds the place which the lighter elegance and more corrected taste of Italy had formerly filled, Unfortunately Mrs. Piozzi's entertainment was received only by the eye; and, though the employs her eyes advantageously, and fometimes fees more than could have been expected in her hafty progrefs, yet we meet with nothing very interesting to record. The emperor is a great object in her picture; but his character was not yet loft by trifling inconfiftencies, wild romantic attempts, ill fupported by fteadiness or refolution. The account of Metaftafio contains nothing that we wish to transcribe: if he would not attain the German language, guage, he at leaft was not difcontented with the regular, invariably regular, routine, which we think a German only could have fupported. The account of Drefden is amufing, and the defcription of the library and the museum, we believe, in a great measure new. Berlin and Potsdam are described in our author's peculiar manner, for the fees circumstances and facts often in a new and generally in an ingenious light. She can remark of Tonfon's Cæfar, which the faw at the king's library, that it was written by the first general in the world, dedicated to the Second (the duke of Marlborough), and poffeffed by the third. We apprehend that he has well appreciated their respective merits, for we know fome good military judges, who are of opinion, that Frederick's victories would neither have been fo brilliant, nor fo cafy, had he been oppofed to the duke of Marlborough. We fmile to fee that the duchefs of Brunf -wick's coffin was made before he was married to the duke; at leaft, before fhe left England. Mrs. Piozzi's remarks on the pictures, which fhe faw in Germany, are, as ufual, animated and judicious. On her return through Bruffels and Antwerp her attention continues to be alive, and her fpirits feem not to fail. We have been thus led on by our fprightly author, who amufes, difpleafes us, and again recovers her former favour, with fkill and addrefs. Faftidious criticifm (perhaps the may give this title to our remarks), may reject the work; but no perfon of tafte and good humour can be long angry. Her vo lumes will be favourites, when criticism is no more. Travels through the Interior Parts of America. In 14s. in Boards. IF any one fhould fay, why do you tell again the old obfo lete story at this time?-It is because you should be acquainted with, and fenfible of the merits of each party. Such is the fubftance, and nearly the words of our author's motto. We were led by it to fufpect that the truth would be revealed, difficulties removed, and the whole of the unfortunate expedition of general Burgoyne, for the author was an officer in the convention-army, placed in a true light. We are forry to obferve, that our expectations were almost entirely fruftrated. From a careful comparison we can pronounce this work, in its most effential parts, to be an ill-digefted plagiarism from general Burgoyne's Narrative, and from the Account of the Profecution of Colonel Henley. He arraigns fir William. Howe Howe in the fame manner as Mr. Galloway and a numerous herd of pamphleteers have already done; and, when he speaks of that general's neglect in not attacking Washington at Valley Forge, he adopts the fentiments and expreflions of the Penfylvanian lawyer. The fimilarity of language in various parts of thefe volumes, to that which occurs in the works re. ferred to, render us a little fufpicious that the more material' parts of these letters were not written on the fpot. The. views however are clear, inftructive, and characteristic: for these we are certainly indebted to him, and they have much merit. Juftice has drawn a little reluctantly from us these remarks, for we own that we wished to have given a favourable verdict. If in his moments of leifure he had taken up the works we have mentioned, and added to, or elucidated them if Burnaby, the American Farmer's Letters, and a few other works which appear familiar to him, had been' quoted, instead of being transcribed, and any circumstance which occurred in confirmation of their remarks been fup. plied, however fcanty the fare, we should have been pleafed with it. But we now walk on infecure ground, and, unless we examine more attentively than the objects before us feem to demand, we know not when to praise the author as a careful obferver, or as an accurate copier. In the remarks which lie before us, our recollection has fupplied us in a great de-' gree; but we wish to turn from this unpleafing task; to step over the path again which our author really trod, and to glean from his collections, what in the former harveft had been omitted. Mr. Anbury is a pleafing narrator, but his reflections are not alway politically deep, or philofophically juft. We arrive with him in the Gulf of the river St. Lawrence, and we examine after him a little more clofely, and with more entertainment than in the voyage of any other traveller, this famous river. We omit the little accounts of the voyage, and the difficulty which the author feels at accounting for the number of cod on the banks of Newfoundland, a fact that has been very often explained; as well as the philofophical account of the formation of these banks, which in reality owe their origin to the Gulf-ftream, and their inhabitants to the proper nidus they afford for the fpawn. Of Quebec our author's account is not fo brilliant and fo flattering as that of Mrs. Brooks in Emily Montague; but the devastations of the fiege were not then, we find, repaired. The country round is paffed over curforily; but the Canadian feigneurs appear to be imperious, illiterate, and ignorant. General Carlton, by his attention to conciliate the affections of the inhabitants, has rendered their conduct infolent and oppreffive; but as the caufe I cause of this peculiar regard is at an end, we have no doubt but that it is now regulated on a more general and more impartial foundation. The author's declamation in praise of a favage, in comparison of a civilifed life, is too much in the manner of Rouffeau to please a lefs enthufiaftic enquirer. It is with more fatisfaction, because we have ample reafon to believe it juft, that we wish to transcribe his character of general Burgoyne. • I have been this afternoon upon the ramparts, to see the Apollo frigate drop down, in which general Burgoyne fails for England; who, I am perfuaded, has the fincere and ardent willies of all ranks in the army, for his fafety and happy arrival. The general joins to the dignity of office, and strict attention to military difcipline, that confideration, humanity, and mildnefs of manners, which must ever endear him to all who have the happiness to be under his command; for my own part, I fhall pray with Shakspeare," that the winds of all the corners may kifs the fails, and make his veffel profperous." Even after the unfortunate event of the expedition, and in the fubfequent events, the language is the fame; we shall add a fhort fpecimen. General Burgoyne has done every thing in this convention for the good of the troops, confiftent with the fervice of his king and country: all that wisdom, valour, and a ftrict sense of honour could fuggeft. Confident, no doubt, of having exerted himself with indefatigable fpirit in their fervice, he will defpife popular clamour, truly fenfible that no perfect and unbiaffed judge of actual service can condemn him. Addison has fomewhere obferved, ""Tis not in mortals to command fuccefs!" And as the populace, in this verfatile age startle at untoward events, so our general is liable to be expofed to public cenfure. Ample juftice muft raise him in the mind of every liberal man who will judge with caution, acquit him with honour, and take him to his heart as the foldier's friend-as a man of cool judgment, but ardent for glory-as courageous, but unfortunate !' Every part of the following relation is fo vague and fo uncertain, that it feems not to deferve much attention; yet we bring it forward, as it seems connected with what we have observed in our review of the late voyages of capt. Dixon and capt. Portlock. It having been hinted that a reward would be given to him who should discover a north-weft paffage, or whether the continent joins to India, two fuppofitions much credited by the Eu ropeans in general; feveral of the traders have endeavoured to find which is the true one: as there is every year fome fresh |