and feeing the object of his journey fulfilled. In fact, the most interefting part of his travels was now beginning. I was going," fays he, "to break up, as it were, a new country; to be the first to fee, and to fee without prejudice; to make refearches in a part of the earth hitherto covered with a veil of mystery, and for two thousand years fhut out from the curiofity of Europeans." Here, therefore, we find

a proper paufe, for the prefent. And fhall only, by way of note, remind the readers of the work, that prefixed to this volume there is an accurate Map of Lower Egypt. Of the other nume rous engravings we fhall render an account hereafter, as they follow the progrefs of the travels, and are not either regularly numbered or properly placed M. in the three volumes.

(To be concluded in our next.)

THIS wonderful story belongs to the marvellous has rendered fathionable: the fuccefs of fuch performances as Lewis's Monk, the Caftle Spectre, and feveral others, of recent date, has augmented the number of champions in the caufe of fuperftition, the main fupport of the Roman Catholic religion; which Chriftian charity teaches to tolerate; but the propagation of which, in this Proteftant country, it is our duty to impede.

A reference to the Review of "A Journey from Edinburgh through Parts of North Britain," in our lat (See September Review, page 201), will afford a timely hint to guard against the revival of a belief in ghofts, the impreffions of which have defcended from generation to generation, "and are not altogether extinguithed in many parts of the Highlands and Western Ilands." Notwithitanding the indefatigable pains that were taken by the firit Proteitant Minifters of the Gofpel to eradicate this branch of fuperitition, and the affiduity of many of their fucceffors in our day, it is to be feared, that the prefent tafte for novels and dramatic pieces, in which fupernatural agency is the ground-work of the plot or catastrophe, may be the fatal means of intimidating and debilitating the minds of the ring generation, at that age when delufive impreffions are molt apt to fix a durable itamp on the future character-the age of adolefcence.

Let parents and guardians reflect on thefe obfervations, fuggefted by an attentive perufal of the Novel now before us, which has the merit of an intention to lerve the caufe of virtue and piety, but through the means which, as Proteltants and rational beings, we are bound to reprobate, more efpecially

as we can truly affirm, that with very Spectres, and the dead alive, in the "Memoirs of a Family in Switzerland," and yet, from the remaining materials, produce a very pretty, interefting, and inftructive Novel, in three, instead of four, volumes.

The fcenes of this medley of inventive imagination; of beautiful and fublime defcription; of probable facts; and of inconliltent, incoherent, and abfurd incidents; are laid partly in Switzerland, and partiy in England. A young English Lady, in a long vifit to the daughter of Dr. Weijerman, a Swifs Phylician refiding at Richterfwyl, his native village, in the canton of Zurich, contracts a warm and per manent friendship for the young Swifs, and on their feparation, Angelica Belfont returning to England, a correfpondence by letters takes place, which is opened by Gertrude Wellerman, on the melancholy fubject of their parting.

The brother of Angelica, Sir Charles Belfont, who had likewife been a temporary refident in Dr. Wellerman's family, has fallen violently in love with Gertrude, and after his return to England makes advantageous proposals of marriage in a letter to her father; but Gertrude has long fince plighted her faith to Arminfield, the only fon of a refpectable neighbour; from their infancy, a familiar intercourse between the two families had given unmoletted opportunities to the children to form an attachment to each other, which ripened into love. On the other hand, Angelica, during her abode at Ritchterfwyl, had difcovered fo many excellencies in this amiable youth, that it ftaggered her conftancy to a valiant Naval English Officer of the name of Herbert; and Gertrude's brother has

conceived

conceived a fecret infurmountable paffion for Angelica. These cross purpofes in love conftitute fome of the cuftomary perplexities of a Novel, and furnish ample fcope for a series of letters. A dangerous illness however, and the knowledge of the inviolable engagements between her beloved friend Gertrude and Arminfield, reftore tranquillity to the bofom of Angelica; and the rewards Herbert's conitant affiduities with her hand. Herbert, for his fingular bravery, is raifed to the rank of an Admiral, and created a Peer; like other men of fashion, he is gallant, and is feduced by an intriguing woman to a breach of conjugal fidelity; and places in a proper point of view the danger of reforting to Mafquerades.

As a fpecimen of the talents of the Authorefs (for we have not the leaft doubt of the work being a female manufacture) in delineating the perfections of a lover, take the following, by Gertrude Wefferman--" While we look forward to the period that is to unite us, we each ftudy to cultivate thofe manners and accomplishments calculated to infure our mutual happinefs, and prolong the existence of the paffion by which we are reciprocally infpired. Love may originate in perfonal beauty, but will fcarcely outlive the fhort feafon of youthful charms, unless it be founded on indeftructible qualities."

"Arminfield's form at prefent is moulded to the most exact fymmetry; his motions have an eafy agility, arifing from the lightness of his elegant figure, the ftrength of exquifite proportions, and the activity of youth. It glows in the ruddy hue of his complexion, it gives luftre to his fine dark eyes, foark. Ing with lively intelligence and all the fire of genius. The gaiety of youth animates every feature, and his whole figure, with an indefinable expreffion, which perfonifies grace, and addreffes the heart in each look and gefture" Here we want only a Juliet, to cut him eut in little fars, &c.

"But youth will lofe itself in age. Time will bend his commanding fature, cramp his activity, dim the brilliancy of his eyes, fade the bloom of his cheeks, furrow numberlefs wrinkles on his fmooth forehead, now ornamented with carelessly waving and luxuriant hair, whofe thining brown will be bleached into hoary locks.

"Age," adds the lovely Gertrude, "will deprive us both of perfonal attractions; but may give to our minds more charms than it can take from our appearance-trained in habits of good. nefs, they will become each day ftronger, and meliorate our character." With this view, the lovers ftudy together every accomplishment calculated to enliven their future days, and fit them for focial intercourse. Arminfield inftructs his fair pupil in thofe fciences that are beft adapted to her fex, in the specification of which we should not have imagined it was neceffary to include either aftronomy or mathematics. After geography, we fhould have introduced biftory; and in the place of mathematics, a course of natural history, as coadjutors to drawing and painting, justly ranked as two distinguished female accomplishments, nearly as fashionable at present as mutic, which clofes the lift of Gertrude's inftructive and "amusive occupations."

Angelica, exalted to the rank of a Peerefs, regrets being obliged to spend the winters in London, and, fettered by the constraints of fashion, to be devoted to its numerous polite amusements, one of which, a rout, the defcribes at length, in a letter to her Swifs friend, more accurately, and with more propriety, than any former account we remember to have read of these motley affemblies.

"The real fignification of a rout," fays Lady Albion, "is hurry, bustle, noise, tumult, uproar, or a fearch after fomething; alto, a mob, riot, or public disturbance. Thefe explications may, with ftrict propriety, be equally ap plied as a true defcription of this modern entertainment, peculiar to our nation.

"The invitation to it is made without trouble. On a vifiting card, under the fuperfcription of the Lady's name, the defires her waiting-woman, or, if fhe cannot write, commands her to order the valet or footman to write down these few words-At home on Monday evening the 25th of January.— At the appointed time, it is an affemblage of people of almost every defcription, and nearly all claffes, huddled together promifcuously without order, which is quite out of date.Near a cold door, which stands open all the evening for the ingrefs and egrets of the numerous vifitors, and

the

the admiffion of the keen wintry wind, there ftands a Countefs. Next to her Ladyfhip ftands the proud Lady of a City Knight, who was once a Grocer, and it is faid he married a waiting woman; but that's no matter: people in this kingdom neither regard profeffion nor ancestry; Sir John Plumb is wealthy, and that entitles him to come, into the best company; and his Lady's jewels make a fplendid figure in it. My Lady was indeed very brilliant that evening. Next to her a refpectable matron and two beautiful young ladies ftand quite unheeded by the company. They were invited by the lady of the house, because the could not avoid it; but the does not pay any attention to her old friend or the charming girls her daughters. They are handfome, it must be confeffed, but too modestly diffident to make any effect in public; their drefs is becoming enough to be fure, but it was not made up at the most falhionable milliners (or fancy-drefs-makers): in fact, they could not afford it: they have loft their father, who was in the road to fortune, and was the benefactor of the mafter of the houfe, where they are now received as a prodigious favour."-The exhibition continues in a fimilar style through feveral pages, and fome of the characters are too well known to be mistaken by perfons who are in the habit of frequenting thefe routs particularly the apothecary's wife-the fcene clofes with cards, with out which no such assemblies could be held; for the company being moftly ftrangers to each other, have nothing to fay to each other, and but for a foreknowledge of card-playing being the only entertainment in which they could expect to partake, would not have regarded the invitation. The

Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, during the Campaigns of General Bonaparte. By Vivant Denon. Tranflated from the French. To which is prefixed, An biftorical Account of the Invasion of Egypt by the French. By E. A. Kendal, Efq. Illuftrated by Maps, Views, &c.

2 Vols. 8vo.

THE travels of Monf. Denon have been expected with impatience by the

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lively Authorefs, therefore, annexes a difquifition on our card-players, as they form fo very confiderable a portion of the inhabitants of this immenfe metropolis. She divides them into thirteen claffes. The first and fecond we give as famples of the reft

"Card-players by profeffion are gamblers, who make cards a trade. To-night they are i leally worth a hundred thousand poun is-to-morrow that fum is ftaked on a card, it is loft, and they are really ruined.

"Profeffed card-players differ from the above in feveral particulars. The first clafs is entirely compofed of men -the fecond of women chiefly. The first make cards their trade-the fecond make them a bufinefs or occupation. The first live by cards-the fecond live for cards."

As it is neither our inclination, nor within the limits prefcribed by our duty to the public, to follow our leader through church-yar is, or to vifit gholts, or pretended ghosts, either amidst tombs, or in ladies' bed-chambers, we shall leave the plot and catastrophes of this extraordinary Novel to the gratification of the numerous conftant readers of fuch productions; affuring them, that if the more rational part will take the pains to detach the ore from the drofs, they will find fome admirable fentiments worthy of prefervation; forcible recommendations of morality and piety; and fublime defcriptions of the romantic fcenery of Switzerland, at prefent the fubject of general attention, on account of its inteftine political diffenfions, and the fatal commencement of a civil war, which threatens in its confequence a total fubverfion of its ancient free conftitution and national independ

Tranflator to compress what is valuable in the original, and we think he has fucceeded in his attempt. The work is, as he afferts, a compreffion rather than an abridgment, and confults the advantage of a large clafs of readers, to whom we recommend the work, as interefting in its fubject, and fatiffactory in its execution.

The Infidel and Chriftian Philofophers; or, The laft Hours of Voltaire and Addison contrafted. A Poem. 4to.

The concluding fcenes in the lives of two eminent writers are here depicted with truth and fenfibility. They thew the power of religion on the human mind, and its fuperior efficacy in administering confolation and fupport in the hour of fickness and of death. To those who seriously contemplate the affecting circumstances here brought to view, few words are neceffary to point out the affecting contrast. Every

reader, on the perufal, will be ready to cry out, in the language of the Pfalmift, "Let me die the death of the Righteous, and let my end be like unto his."

On the Improvement of Poor Soils, read in the Holderness Agricultural Society, June 6, 1796, in Answer to the following Question, "What is the beft Method of cultivating and improving poor Soils, where Lime and Manure cannot be bad?" With an Appendix and Notes. By J. Alderfon, M. D. 8vo.

Agricultural pursuits are now fo much attended to, that we doubt not but this important enquiry will meet with the notice it fo well deferves. Dr. Alderson has here offered to the confideration of his readers many experiments, accompanied with reafons which tend to thew that the improvements fuggefted by him are worthy the notice of the practical Farmers. To them we recommend the present pamphlet.

TH HE following Correspondence between thefe Gentlemen has appeared in one of the Newspapers.

SIR,

"I am forry that it is not in my power to place you in a fituation which would well become you-I mean in the Epifcopal Palace at Bugden: but I can bring you very near to it; for I have the Prefentation to a Rectory now vacant, within a mile and a half of it, which is very much at Dr. Parr's fervice. It is the Rectory of Graff ham, at prefent worth two hundred pounds a year, and, as I am informed, may foon be worth two hundred and feventy; and I this mo.. ment learn that the Incumbent died laft Tuesday.

"Dr. Parr's talents and character might well entitle him to better patronage than this from thofe who know how to eftimate his merits; but I acknowledge that a great additional motive with me to the offer I now make him, is, that I believe I cannot do any thing more pleafing to his friends, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, and Mr. Knight; and I defire you,

Sir, to confider yourself obliged to them only.

"I have the honour to be, Sir, "With the greatest respect, "Your obedient fervant, "FRANCIS BURDETT."

"Vicarage House, Buckden, "DEAR SIR, Sept. 26, 1802. "After rambling in various parts of Norfolk, I went to Cambridge, and from Cambridge I yefterday came to the Parfonage of my moft refpe&table. friend, Mr. Maltby, at Buckden, where I this morning had the honour of receiving your letter. Mrs. Parr opened it laft Friday at Hatton, and I trust that you will pardon the liberty fhe took in defring your fervant to convey it to me in Huntingdonshire, where the knew that I should be, as upon this day.

"Permit me, dear Sir, to request that you would accept the warmest and most fincere thanks of my heart for this unsolicited, but most honourable, expreffion of your good-will towards me. Nothing can be more important to my worldly intereft than the fervice you have done me, in presenting me to the Living of Graffham. No

thing

thing can be more exquifitely gratify. ing to my very beft feeling, than the language in which you have conveyed to me this mark of your friendship. Indeed, dear Sir, you have enabled me to pass the years of declining life in comfortable and honourable independence. You have given me additional and unalterable conviction, that the firmness with which I have adhered to my principles has obtained for me the approbation of wife and good men. And when that approbation affumes, as it now does, the form of protection, I fairly confefs to you, that the patronage of Sir Francis Burdett has a right to be ranked among the proudeft, as well as the happiest, events of my life. I trust that my future conduct will justify you in the difinterested and generous gift which you have beftowed upon me and fure I am that my friends Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, and Mr. Knight, will not only fhare with me in my joy, but fympathife with me in thofe fentiments of refpect and gratitude which I fhall ever feel towards Sir Francis Burdett

"Moft affuredly I fhall myself fet a higher value upon your kindness, when I confider it as intended to gratify the

friendly feelings of the fe excellent men, as well as to promote my own perfonal happiness.

I fhall wait your pleasure about the Presentation; and I beg leave to add, that I fhall stay at Buckden for one week only, and shall have reached Hatton about this day fortnight, where I fhall obey your commands. One circumftance, I am fure, will give you great fatisfaction, and therefore I thail beg leave to ftate it. The Living of Graffham will be of infinite value to me, because it is tenable with a Rectory I now have in Northamptonshire; and happy I am, that my future refi dence will be fixed, and my existence clofed, upon that spot where Sir Fran cis Burdett has given me the power of fpending my old age with comforts and conveniences quite equal to the extent of my fondeft withes, and far furpaffing any expectations I have hitherto ventured to indulge.

"I have the honour to be, with the greatest respect and most unfeigned thankfulness, "Dear Sir,

"Your very obedient faithful fervant,

"S. PARR."

SIR,

THE prevailing paffion for vocal mufic mult form my excufe for requetting your infertion of a few remarks on the fubject, defigned to facilitate our estimation of the art itself, and of the various merit of its pro. felfors.

Notwithstanding the difrepute into which methodical divifions have fallen, from the frivolous and oftentatious pedantry with which they are fometimes difplayed, they conduce fo much, when judiciously chofen, to a clear and exact view of any fubject, that I fhall venture to employ them on one, where they may appear, at first view, most incongruous and unseemly.

Singing feenis naturally to refolve itself into four distinct parts: I. VOICE. II. EXECUTION. III. TASTE. IV. EXPRESSION. Let us attend to each. I. The qualities of VOICE are Tone and Compass.-Of Tone, the requisites feem clearness, strength, and richness: clearness, as opposed to whatever is

thick or husky; ftrength, to tenuity and tremuloufnefs; richness, to meagreness or harthness. I am far from confidering these as all the modifications, good and bad, of which tone is fufceptible: there are many others. Nothing, for instance, can be more distinguishable than the ready terfeness of Storace's voice, the luscious sweetnefs of Mifs Tennant's, or the smooth flow of Mrs. Crouch's. All I mean is, to point out what appear the mit ftriking of thefe modifications.-Compafs explains itself, and furnishes little matter for obfervation. One topic, however, it fuggefts, which I cannot pafs over. The compafs of voice, in men, is frequently extended upwards, by what is called feigned voice, or falfetto. To a refined ear, nothing, I believe, can in general be more dif gulting than thefe ftrained tones, as they are commonly employed: the notes themselves are never quite in tune, fo as thoroughly to fatisfy the

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