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Regent, from the original Stuart Manuscripts which had been carefully preserved at Rome in the Family of the Pretender, and are now deposited in Carlton House. By the Rev. J. S. Clarke, LL. B. F.R.S. Historiographer to the King, Chaplain to the Household, and Librarian to the Prince Regent. 2 vols. 4to. 61. 6s. boards. This work comprises the History of Great Britain and France, from the latter part of the Reign of Charles the 1st, to the close of King William's Reign.

BIBLICAL LITERATURE.

Greek Testament, from Griesbach's Text, with notes from Hardy, Raphel, Kypke, Schleusner, Rosenmüller, &c. By the Rev. Edward Valpy, B.D. Master of Norwich School. 3 vols. 8vo. 21. 12s. 6d. large paper 41.

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Ovidii Metamorphoses Selectæ, et in usum Scholarum expurgatæ; cum notis Anglicis. By the Rev. C. Bradley, A.M. 4s. 6d. bd.

A Selection of Esop's Fables, with English Notes. To which are added, some English Fables, to be translated into Latin. By K. K. Barker, 2s. bound.

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3. These various Significations are reduced into proper classes; in a different and better manner than in any Dictionary extant. Compiled out of the best Authors on Virgil, by several Hands, in a Method ntirely new; for the use of Schools, nd the improvement of those who ave made but a small progress in the owledge of the Latin Tongue. 8vo. 6d. boards.

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Juvenile Pieces, in Prose and Verse, with Lessons for Spelling, and all the difficult Words in the Reading Lessons alphabetically arranged, with their Orthoepy in the opposite Column. In the Reading Lessons is introduced a new and simple Mark, intended to supply the Defects of the common Punctuation. By William Angus, A. M. Teacher of English, 12mo. 2s. bound.

Dedicated, by Permission, to H. R. H. the Princess Elizabeth. Symbolic Illustrations of the History of England, from the Roman Invasion to the present Time, accompanied with a Narrative of the principal Events; designed more particularly for the Instruction of Young Persons. By Mary Anne Rundall, of Bath. Author of the Grammar of Sacred History. 4to. 21. 2s. boards.

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The Articles on Brown's History of Missions, Lefters from the North of Scotland, Report respecting Madhouses, Frey's Hebrew Lexicon; and Bonar's Sermons, are reserved for our next Number.

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ECLECTIC REVIEW

FOR MARCH, 1816.

Art. I. 1. Paris Revisited, in 1815, by way of Brussels: including a Walk over the Field of Battle at Waterloo. By John Scott, Author of a Visit to Paris in 1814, and Editor of the Champion. 8vo. pp. 405. Price 12s. Longman and Co. 1816.

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THE traditional feud which has from a remote period

existed between this country and France, and which difference of religion and conflicting political interests have conspired to inflame into a series of inveterate contests, has occasioned the feelings of Englishmen with regard to their continental neighbours, to border on a natural antipathy. Every thing glorious in our annals, according to the usual acceptation of the term glorious, is connected with the subjugation or the humiliation of France. Cressy, Poitiers, and Agincourt, are themes on which every Englishman exults to dwell. To beat the French, has been the glory of our navy, and our peerage has been swelled with the reward of such achievements. And if Spain has shared in the feelings of contempt and defiance which it has seemed a point of honour to our countrymen to cherish towards their enemies, that country has been so regarded, chiefly as a subordinate ally of our great rival, or on account of its relation to France in the detested dynasty of Bourbon. Those times, indeed, are gone by: Bourbon and the Pope are no longer our enemies. Our navy has other flags to encounter, than those of which she gloried to sweep the seas, and Nelson himself seems almost forgotten in Wellington. But still there seems to remain, pretty generally, a feeling towards the French nation, which it would take many years of peace to subdue to perfect reconciliation; and this feeling is accompanied with a strong misgiving, that the policy which our rulers have adopted VOL. V. N. S.

with regard to the affairs of France, will not admit of the experiment.

But, were it possible to regard the French otherwise than as political allies or as political rivals, to regard them simply as our fellow-men, differing from ourselves principally in consequence of the character of their laws, their religion, and their government, the present state of France would present one of the most instructive lessons, one of the most interesting subjects, on which we could fix our attention. To what cause but our superior moral advantages, can we ascribe that difference of national character, on which we pride ourselves? or in what other light can we regard the vitiated and debased population of France, but as the victims of evils, the effects of which it is not enough that we deprecate: they must be traced up to their principles, and combated, in their remote causes, if we would secure ourselves against their invasion.

Whatever obscurity may involve the springs of action-the fundamental motives of conduct, and how difficult soever it may be to develop the process by which the individual has attained a certain moral bias and intellectual character, the habits and characteristic manners of a nation are the result of a much slower and more obvious process, and little uncertainty attaches to the means of their formation. The fate of dynasties has, indeed, often been decided by some obstruction caused by perhaps a minute and apparently insignificant part of the machinery of government. But the moral character of a nation is not subjected to those accidental changes which determine the fate of rulers, or to the political aspect of things. Happily, it is not in the power of one human will, to inflict any but physical suffering upon a nation, except it be by the introduction of a system of evil, which implicates the nation that endures it, in the guilt of its own debasement.

We take it for granted, as a thing agreed upon by men of all parties, by the more intelligent of the French themselves, that the moral condition of France, at this moment, is, whatever be the cause, exceedingly deplorable. Mr. Scott's present work, although not containing much that is essentially new, will be received as further evidence on this point. The want of public principle has been undeniably conspicuous throughout the large class of public functionaries, few of whose names appear in the " Dictionary of Weathercocks," without three or four marks, each indicating a change of political principle. A want of public confidence was the natural result of a series of such tragical revolutions, and private confidence also has been destroyed by the system of espionage in which Despotism finds its only security. If Paris may be considered as presenting

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