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The European Magazine is not a proper channel for so watery a composition as the Poem on the "New River."

As "Eleanor Johnson's" character did not suit, the Editor has sent her home by the mail to Worcester.

Arguments of Counsel in favour of a New Series of our Work have been repeatedly beard, but always found inadmissible.

G. F. M. has the Editor's best thanks for his polite attention, and shall be imme diately attended to.

Z. Z.'s friendly hints have been received, but it is wished he had been more explicit.

The Observer, No. XX. is unavoidably deferred, on account of the author's in disposition, till next month.

J. R.—F. W.-and W. D. A. are received.

C. B.-Z.-and Hildebrand Oldford, as soon as possible.

J. R.-R.-R. A. D.-A.—and An Old Sea Officer, in our next.

J. D. is inadmissible.

ERRATA in our last.-Page 298, col. 2, line 42, for terminas, read terminus.-Page 308, line 19, for to, read so.— Page 310, line 16, for unexpected, read interesting -Page 311, line 3, for ear, read tear.-Page 358, line 11, for die, read lie.

STATE OF THE BRITISH NAVAL FORCE ON THE IST OF NOVEMBER

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LONDON, Published for the European Magazine, by James Asperne N32,Cornbill Dec 18th.

Charles_Phillips Esq., " =

Barrister at Law

Engraved by Henry Meyer from an original Picture by & Drummond Eja"

EUROPEAN MAGAZINE,

AND

LONDON REVIEW,

FOR NOVEMBER, 1816.

A BRIEF MEMOIR OF

CHARLES PHILLIPS, Esq.

BARRISTER AT LAW.

(WITH A PORTRAIT, ENGRAVED BY HENRY MEYER, FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING BY S. DRUMMOND, ESQ. A.R.A.]

Erat in verborum splendore elegans, compositione aplus, facultate copiosus.
Cic. de Cl. Oratoribus, p. 117, Sect. 303.

F the progress of knowledge and the conservation of justice recommend themselves to the concern of society by the important relation which they bear to its best interests, it will necessarily follow, that those individuals who, by their talents and assiduity, rank among the ablest promoters of both, make out a just claim to our respectful consideration -and biography then most usefully applies its resources of intelligence, when it employs them in the description of those characters whose talents it is virtue to emulate, and whose industry it is honour to adopt.

In the eminence of living worth, this description substantiates its most salutary efficiency-the characteristics are more instantly acknowledged-the example is more directly applied, and emulation becomes a prompter impulse to every vigorous exertion of the mind. In no application of the intellectual powers of man is more talent required, and more assiduity demanded, than in those studies which are indispensable to the acquisition of forensic eloquence. And in no acquirement do these powers reflect higher credit upon him who possesses them, than when they are employed in its peculiar appropriation to the defence and support of the unalienable principles of that justice which constitutes the true distinction between legal claim and fraudulent pretension, moral right, and libertine violation.

In whomsoever these powers are displayed, and this acquirement is thus applied, we behold an individual who, in the most extensive acceptation of the term, may be denominated the advocate of the most intimate dependencies, on which are grounded the purest privileges of the citizen, and the happiest consolations of the man. These, with all their numerous combinations, can no longer be preserved, than while the or dinances of divine and human authority co-operate in their blended influence upon the conviction and conduct of those whom they are designed to govern and direct. But as the impetuosity of his passions, and the obliquities of his will, too frequently induce man to disregard, in the pursuit of his object, those restraints with which the laws of his GOD and of his fellow-creature would check his vicious progress, it is essential that his ignorant perverseness, and his evasive subtilty, should be made amenable to some tribunal of judgment, which may place his delinquency within the reach of adjudication and retributive punishment.

Hence, in order to meet the various ramifications of criminal trespass upon the common weal, different courts of judicature have been instituted in the general system of our jurisprudence, in order that every species of evil perpe tration might not only be prevented in its unjust design and remedied in its in

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