stage of human affairs, we can safely recommend these two volumes. They afford a very fair portion of the public history of the times; they will entertain many, who are desirous, of gaining political information at a cheap rate; and the characters of opposite parties are given with so much temper, that few can be offended. As a specimen we shall give the character of Joel Barlow.

"Though Mr. Barlow is now removed from the political scene, yet, as his works have not gone with him, and his portrait was write ten before his death, we shall give it; softening down, however, a few of the asperities, as he can no longer answer for himself.

"Mr. Barlow, who was a sort of methodist preacher at the time of the American revolution, got himself into some notice by writing a long, tedious poem, intituled the Vision of Columbus, in which there are some beauties, and a great many defects; but in which he lavishly flatters the new world, at the expense of the old. This flattery to the American character could not fail to procure him friends in America; accordingly, Mr. Barlow came over to Europe as an agent for the sale of lands on the right bank of the Ohio, to the extent of three millions of acres, for which his principals had never paid one shilling; and for the sale of which they had formed no plan, further than to give a promise of delivery vis a vis l'argent comptant. It was in Paris that he arrived in 1788, unable to speak French, and ignorant of business *

At last, having with the assistance of others sold part of the lands, and having staid long enough in France to learn something of the language, he united with his friend Thomas Paine in flattering and serving the jacobins, and in abusing England and the English constitution.

Taciturn and selfish, Barlow was at great pains to give an idea to others that he was a profound genius; and as in the kingdom of the blind, a one-eyed man is king, so, amongst the personages that started up at the beginning of the revolution, Mr. Barlow passed for a great man. His hatred of England, his speaking English, his infidelity, and contempt for religion, all tended to make him useful,

* "The title to the lands was merely one of preference, in case the persons contracting should pay for half a million of acres at a time, at the rate of about eight-pence; with such a title an Ame rican agent thought he might sell half a million of acres at a time, at five shillings an acre, that is, get about 200,000/. for 18,0007. without any kind of security for the delivery!! The plan devised by another person was to sell the land in lots, leaving a mortgage on each lot, more than sufficient to pay the American states for the first purchase, Mr. Jefferson, the American ambassador, consenting to the sales. This plan set Mr. Barlow afloat, though his avarice, and that of his employers, stopped the sales when 150,000 acres were sold."

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and a favourite. He came over to England several times, as a mem ber of the propaganda, and at last got a mission to Barbary, in the time of Robespierre, when it is said he signed an instrument in which he disclaimed Christianity.

"On his return, he came again to this country, having collected some money in France, by waiting to seize upon occasions when the property of the emigrants was sold for a tenth of what it was worth. Returned to America, he intrigued, and made his court to the President, whose hatred to England, and attachment to France, were not less than his own; and by that means he obtained his nomination as ambassador to Buonaparte.

"With all due detestation for the man on account of his total want of a principle of justice, and contempt for him as an enemy to all religion, justice compels us to say, that he appears to have stood up boldly and firmly for the interests of America, and that he was much better fitted for an ambassador than many persons who have been regularly bred to diplomacy. Mr. Barlow had a great degree of cunning ingenuity, such as was highly advantageous in France; and being unrestrained by principle, and accompanied with a grave exterior, he was well calculated to acquire the confi dence of those who ruled in France, and after that to be well received in America, as a person capable of rendering the Americans great service, by returning to France, and combining with the French for the destruction of England: a work for which he bad consider able ability, and the most unbounded inclination.

"The zeal of Mr. Barlow in this cause, induced him to follow Buonaparte to Moscow, but he was taken ill, and died on his way, after finding the French army had been obliged to return in the most disastrous state.

"Barlow, in his early times, was the friend of Thomas Paine and Paul Jones, and was protected by the weak, but well-intentioned La Fayette, who patronized most of the Americans in France, and who at one time was their only patron. The author of Columbus was then humble and subservient, for he knew that "lowliness is young ambition's ladder ;" and had he lived it is more than probable he might have been President of the United States." P. 137.

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