- LONDON REVIEW. ... Lieutenant-colonel Johnson's Journey ......337 POETRY.. ....350 ...356 .313 .318 Character of Mr. Pliable. ib. On the Death of the late celebrated ib. Correction of a Mis Statement in the Curious Arithmetical Question ...... ib. MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. No. Abstract of Foreign and Domestic In .320 ..322 Acknowledgments to Correspondents..365 List of Bankrupts, Dividends, and Cer Dissolutions of Partnership ib. .368 AND MAY BE HAD OF ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. Europ. Mag. Vol. LXXIV. Oct. 1818. 00 With their Managing Owners, Commanders, Principal Officers, Surgeons, Pursers, Time of coming afloat, &c. LONDON, Published for the European Magazine by Asperne 32 Cornbill 2 Nov. 1818. The Right Honourable – EARL OF LIVERPOOL, EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND LONDON REVIEW, FOR OCTOBER, 1818. MEMOIR OF THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL, [WITH A PORTRAIT, DRAWN BY WIVELL, FROM A BUST OF JOSEPH NOLLEKENS, R. A. ENGRAVED BY J. THOMSON.] Here be it thine to calm and guide AMONGST all the vacillations of opi nion and the diversities of interest in which we have so long been accustomed to contemplate the conflicting parties of this country who have by turus had possession of the popular favour, we may justly take upon ourselves to decide, that in no personal instance of stedfastness of principle and integrity of action, can there be found a purer example of wise and honorable consistency than that which the political course of this estimable nobleman displays; and in tracing the virtues of his character, as they have, from time to time, in the various circumstances of his public life, thrown a lustre on the path through which he has passed, we may use the language of the poet, and comprize them in that Worth not to favour or to fame confined, But fix'd in all the dignity of mind. And it is no slight cause for exultation to an Englishman's heart, who feels the reputation of his country to be essentially blended with the talents and the transactions of her statesmen, that he is enabled to assert the justice of their high pretensions to the esteem and admiration of the world, by referring them to so elevated a standard as that which the Earl of Liverpool impresses upon its acknowledgment. From the commencement of his parliamentary career in 1790, to the present period, he has been a judicious and faithful supporter of the true interests of his country. At a period when Fac AKENS. tion, in its most formidable array of democratic force, sought to subvert every authority of constitutional restraint, and, in its march of insolent advance, menaced the security of the throne and the very existence of sovereign power; when men of genius and ability surrendered their better convictions, to the prevalence of doctrines, as novel in their origin as they were pernicious in their influence; when even the deliberative councils of the empire were insulted by a furious zeal, that set at defiance the enactments of their decisions and the power of the laws; in short, when the torrent of anarchy seemed fast rolling in upon every barrier of national welfare, and rushing forwards to overwhelm every distinction of rank and degree, every provision of political expediency and social good, in one indiscriminate waste of wild insubordinacy;-then it was that the exalted subject of this memoir presented himself among the foremost in that phalanx of loyal allegiance which, by an unyielding perseverance in attachment to the sovereign, and in opposition to the pseudo patriots of that stormy period, resisted and turned aside the devastating evil. By such well-timed inflexibility of resolve to maintain, unperverted by mistaken ardour, unchanged by rash innovation, that system of things which had been established by the wisdom of our forefathers, and justified by the experience of ages, he lent his aid to the adminis |