Sir, TO THE EDITOR OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW. AS I wish this Letter to appear, if poffible, in your Appendix, I fhall not intrude much on your time. I was certainly disappointed in not feeing my fecond letter in your last number; nor can I help fufpecting that you have not been altogether impartial. On this, however, I fhall not dwell, as I wish to be brief. Valerius commences his letter by faying, "I fhall not condefcend to reply to Præcurfor." I think his determination prudent; as it will fave him the mortification of being treated with the most marked contempt. He proceeds to fay; "His menaces I defpife."-Be it fo: of that, perhaps, more hereafter. Again, "His fcurrility it is foreign to my habits and manners to retort." Excellent l'faith. This "out Herods Herod." The man who, for two years, has inundated the prefs, and abused the public ear, with the most unbridled fcurrility, prefumes to fay, that it is foreign to his habits and manners. Tun' Sanus? And as to argument," continues Valerius, "he has given me none to anfwer." Argument for what? Does Valerius mean argument in defence of Mr. Sullivan? Mr. Sullivan requires no defence. His conduct, in every tranfaction of his life, will dare the minuteft fcrutiny, of honourable and impartial investigation. I come not forward to defend Mr. Sullivan; mistake me not; my motives for addreffing you were, and are, to fet the public opinion right; to ftate facts as they really exifted; and to expofe the infamy of Valerius. The affertion, that Mr. Sullivan has been recently applying for the government of Madras, is not true. The tranfactions of the fhip Elizabeth are an eternal theme for the venomous illiberality of Valerius; but if the actions of men are to be judged by the will and the intention, Mr. Sullivan's conduct in the whole of that business was moft ftrialy honourable. What Valerius fays of his intended "appeal to those who guided the affairs of ftate;" and his friendly remark that, "Mr. Sullivan may find fhelter in obfcurity," can excite nothing but ridicule. It may perhaps be well for Valerius, should he endeavour to draw the veil of obfcurity round himself. Quid tu? nulla ne habes vitia? But, I am at a lofs which moft to admire, the ingenuity of the difcovery, or the ingenuoufnefs of Valerius, in the confession, that he has "animadverted on Mr. Sullivan as a public character, not as a private individual!!! Poor Valerius! I pity you. I hardly thought you could have defcended to this. It is, however, according to the nature of things: one meannefs generates another. Let me recommend this paffage from the profound Hume to your attention: "In men of more ordinary talent and capacity, the focial virtues become ftill more effentially requifite, there being nothing eminent in that cafe to compenfate for the want of them, or preferve the perfon from our feveret hatred and contempt." PRECURSOR. Our Printer can inform Præcurfor that his letter was omitted in our last number folely on account of the prefs of matter. INDEX. ABSENCE of mind, a well-drawn cha- Authors, dramatic, their planey to the ca- racter of, 285 Accounts, merchants', their knowledge ren- Acid, fluoric, its important influence in AЯ for the repeal of the acts of fettlement in --- 239 of Attainder paffed in Ireland, accurate of Repeal, its abominable contents, 233 fop, commended for his confiftency in his Affidavits, fome remarks on, 303 of Mr. Sullivan and Dr. Lynch, Age, the prefent, characteristicsof, 176 vice of the United States during the Altamont, despicable character of, 390 172 Angel, the vindictive, defcription of his Animals, cruelty towards them ftrongly re- Anti-Jacobin Review charged with avarice and venality by a fcurrilous writer, 305 Auftria, reafons of her difcomfiture and prices of actors injurious to their own in- Barailon, M. his national frenzy against the Behaviour, officer-like, explanation respect- Belus, account of that great king's wars and Biographer, a new, fatirical sketch of him- Blacks, difcharged, addicted to floth and Boyle, Hon. Mr. fome particulars relative to Bruere, particulars refpecting the ruins of, 438 Buonaparte, his appearance to retrieve the his impolitic conduct subse- correct eftimate of his character, -'s life, character, and behaviour, Burke, Mr. his feceffion in politics from Mr. Calmucks, probably the real descendants of 163 Calvinifm, the fundamental principle of, 68 Catholics, Irish, their continual state of Chambon, particulars of its antiquities, 494 the Lord, confidered as the gene. Index. Chapels, private, in the metropolis confe- Characters, loft female, confequences of Character, good, judicious remarks on its Charles, Mr. futility of his charges against a Chastity, juftly confidered as the characteristic -, erroneous affertion that his appear. Chriftianity, the study of its doctrines and 13 its hiftorical evidences confi- dered, 365 its decay apprehended, inquiry into the caules which injure the, 426 the eftablished, neceffity of ex- 310 of Rome, grounds of the Church Clarendon, the Earl of, his appointment to of the Church of England, inquiry the inferior, their low falaries a , their reading of the firft fentence in circulation by order of King James, 234 Combraille, antiquarian remarks on the dif- Concordat, reflections on the establishment of Confeffion, auricular, unjuft attack made Continent, its imperfect views of the conduct APPENDIX. VOL. XXVI. 1 497 Cooke, Mr. the actor, declared to be a man- Corfican, deteftability of his character, 387 Courtezan, faded, her appearance in a fplendid Courts of the Quakers, nature of the bufinefs Cowhage, recommended in the cure of worms, 172 Cozacks, account of the different tribes of, 162 Creed, the Apoftles', denied to contain the the foundation of religious principles, 327 123 Cup, the Sacramental, prefumption and teme- De Caftro, his depofition refpecting the pick- Decius, fooner able to restore the luftre of the Deportation from France, ftrictures on the Difmheritance of children, ingenious obfer Dramas, inquiry into the propriety of intro- Dublin Bay, ludicrous description of, 375 Eaft India Company, impolicy of their ex- Education of youth, the, often entrusted to of girls, neceflity of adapting it to 1 with Mr. Fox, 42 ---· Lord, ftrictures on his political Election of a member for Weftminster, de- Grenville, Lord, ftrictures on his coalition and America, ofte policy of the , its find on a noble but dreadful ele- Entertainments, theatrical, prefent licentiouf- Euthufi fm, British military, pleafing account Enthufiafts, wild,their influence with the mul Evil, the difcuffion of its origin frequently Famine reprefented as an agent in the French Females, fafhionable, reflections on their in- Mr. confequences of one of his elections Mr. why to be ranked in the lift of di- her true prefent flate confidered, 137; Fullarton, Mr. called upon to ftate the na- Grinfield, Lieut. General, his teftimonials 464 Heir apparent, expectations of the public on Herbert of Chertbury, analyfis of his tenets Herefy undoubtedly punishable by law, 180 Hill, Rowland, his defence of fchifm confi- dered and refuted, 418; remarks on his Hiftorians, Armenian, lift of several, 456; Hiftory defined to be experience teaching by Hobart, Lord, his official letters teftifying 187 Hobbes, his firenuous efforts to establish Holland, Lord, a party in publishing a late Hood, Commodare, fecond report of the Privy Council refpecting the charge Horfes, Irish, curious remark that they un- Hume, account of him and his works, 266 juflitication of a fimilar breach of duty oa James H. hiftorical review of his reign, 230 Idolatry, heathen, proved to be a wilful Immory, fome of us fources traced, 32 Infidelity, its progrefs traced during the mid- ---, its rapid progress in the eighteenth Infidelity, Infidelity, ufe of difcuffing the fubject of, 271 Malmbury, curious information relative to its Man confidered in an uncivilized ftate, 247 281 his inability to frame a religion for Infects, their torture by children apt at laft, his propenfity to foar above his station, 1 Intereft, remarks on the ufe of the word by , mercantile, ingenious remarks on Julian, fketch of the character of that apof- Juries, petty, effects of their frequently ill- of England, his prerogatives, 337 Language, Spanish, its diftinguishing fea- Law-books, extracts from fome Spanish, 57 -61 Laws, two codes of, fubfifting in the Spanish of Nature, neceffity of confidering man Leland, Dr. his pathetic defcription of the Leyes de la Partida, les, found policy of thefe Libel, opinions of its nature, 423 Love, affectionate defcription of true, 174 Luxuries of a nation no proof of its propor- Macartney, Lord, his fentiments relative to Machiavel, his erroneous opinion respecting M'Queen, Mr. his declaration on the fubject Marriage, a certain myfterious, just animad- Melancthon, his fentiments on predeftina- Melville, Lord, his trial now acknowledged ,, interefting obfervations ré- Memory, a good, why equally necessary to Methodifts, their fyftem of increasing their Calviniftic, ingenious remarks on the, 325– Mineral, a new, difcovered, 469 Minifters, their most abject fervility in re- their inconfiftency in respect to the their indecent behaviour after the Moira, Earl, commended for his invariably unjuity charged with having Monuments, Celtic, in the environs of Huriel Moore, Mr. judgment of a refpectable author Moorland Mary, fweet and fimple tale of, 398 Morning at sea, inimitable defeription of, 384 ,neceffity of pointing out to youth, religion, 164; manner of puriuing it, 165 Needle, its importance in ancient and modern times, 335 Negociation, the great talent of, lately ex- Negroes, affecting scene attending a fale of, 114 Neris, antiquities of the Roman town of, 437 |