Of Mr. Pitt, he speaks with some severity, but still with respect; he censures his political inconsistency, but praises his intrepidity and the overwhelming power of his oratory; once, indeed, he indulges in a sneer, and talks about "the redundency of words peculiar to his family," but his general treatment of him is a sort of struggle between his prejudice and his candour, in which the latter feeling predominates. The author and Mr. Pitt took the same side on the melancholy and disgraceful affair of Admiral Byng, by endeavouring to save him from his unmerited death. The conduct of the opposition on this occasion, displayed the basest and most profligate sacrifice of the principles of humanity to party purposes: the inclination of the ministers to procure the Admiral's pardon, was traversed by Mr. Fox and his faction upon a mere formal pretence, while he would have had it appear, that he was desirous of saving that unfortunate, and beyond question, gallant officer. The king, whose notions of justice were so much like peevish vengeance as can be imagined, was resolved on revenging the defeat upon the accused author of it; but even this feeling might have been, must have been overcome, if a wicked division had not been effected among the majority who were in favour of mercy. In addition to the account given in the Memoirs, the Editor has subjoined the Author's account, from his correspondence, of the Admiral's meeting his fate, the very interesting nature of which will warrant our extracting it.

"March 17, 1757.-Admiral Byng's tragedy was completed on Monday: a perfect tragedy-for there were variety of incidents, villainy, murder, and a hero. His sufferings, persecutions, aspersions, disturbances; nay, the revolations of his fate had not in the least unhinged his mind; his whole behaviour was natural and firm. ***. He said, that being acquitted of cowardice, and being persuaded on the coolest reflection, that he had acted for the best, and should act so again, he was not unwilling to suffer. He desired to be shot on the quarter deck, not where common malefactors are:-came out at twelve; sate down in a chair, for he would not kneel; and refused to have his face covered, that his countenance might show whether he feared death; but being told that it might frighten his executioners, he Eur. Mag. Vol. 81. April 1822.

submitted-gave the signal at once; received one shot through the head, another through the heart, and fell.”

"It has often been remarked, that whoever dies in public, dies well. Perhaps those, who trembling most maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest; resolation on reflection is real courage. It is glory, when some men are ostentatious at less condemnable than a melancholy vain adjust the circumstances of his execution their death. But surely a man who can before hand; who can say, 'Thus I will do, and thus' who can sustain the determined part, and throw in no unnecessary pomp, that man does not fear-can it be probable he ever did fear? I say nothing of Mr. Byng's duels; cowards have ventured life for reputation; I say nothing of his having been a warm persecutor of Admiral Matthews: cowards, like other guilty persons, are often severe against failings, which they hope to conceal in themselves by condemning them in others; it was the uniformity of Mr. Byng's behaviour, from the outset of his persecution to his catastrophe, from whence I conclude that he was aspersed as unjustly as I am sure that he was devoted maliciously, and put to death contrary to all equity and precedent."

Among those persons who fall under the Author's remarkable and peculiar satire, Lord Chesterfield, the author of the letters to his son, is severely handled. Although there is some of the malice of a rival wit in this, we are glad to see it, because we think that nobleman was a great impostor, a man who raised a sort of reputation upon other men's abilities, and who well deserves to be stripped of borrowed plumes. He says,

"He had early in his life announced his claim to wit, and the women believed in it. He had, besides; given himself out for a man of great intrigue, with as slender retensions, yet the womca believed in that too;-one should have thought they had been more competent judges of merit in that particular! It was not his fault if he had not wit: nothing exceeded his ef forts in that point; and though they were far from producing the wit, they at least amply yielded the applause he aimed at. ****** His speeches were fine, but as much laboured as his extempore sayings."

The above extract will serve as a specimen of the Author's wit, which, to use his own words, is never without 3 A

"its faithful attendant, ill nature." He delights in epigrammatic and antithetical turns in his sentences, and tries to surprise his readers into a laugh without seeming to mean it; for instance, he says Lord Egmont "smiled once, and that was at chess." He is severe upon all the lawyers; Hardwicke and Mansfield are treated with great personal contempt; he says something civil of the Chief Justice Wills, who, though a gamester and libertine, had, he says, "a merit which would atone for many foibles, his severity to and discouragement of that pest of society--attorneys.'

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We are compelled to close our review of this work; which has already gone to some extent. Two quarto vo

lumes, and of so interesting a nature, are, however, not to be very lightly disposed of. They have been edited with great ease, impartiality and ability; they supply a most important comment upon, and addition to the history of the period of which they treat, and may be regarded as a valuable public legacy from their author. In concluding, we must express our unqualified approbation of that remarkable instance (among many) of the propriety with which they have been prepared for the press, in concealing the names of females who were spoken of in some of the scandalous stories, as well as certain omissions which have been made for a similar reason.

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WILLIAM SPENCE, Esq. is republishing his Tracts on Political Economy, viz. Britain independent of Commerce. Agriculture the source of the Wealth of Britain. 3. The Objections against the Corn Bill refuted. 4. Speech on the East India Trade; with Prefatory Remarks on the causes and cure of our present distresses, as originating from a neglect of principles laid down in these works.

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