Whofe affiftance can they claim? Am I deftined to have, on my last day, nothing in view, but the mifery and woe of all that is dear to me? Thefe are the pains and inquietudes which affail my heart, and dash with bitterness the moments of joy that I derive from my family. Had I been formed like other mortals, I could, like most of them, have subsisted by industry and labour; but my ftature has irrevocably excluded me from the common circle of fociety: nay, but few people only feem to take notice of my being a man, an honest man, a man of feeling. How painful are thefe reflections!

O beneficent and generous nation!-fhould I fink under my griefs, 1 recommend to you my wife and children,—my children, who came into life among you!-if I am not at the end of my career, then I muft repair to other climates, where, yielding to my deftiny, I will fubmit to that fate which feems to await me; but I will take with me every where, will cherish, and carefully keep in the inmoft receffes of my heart, the grateful fentiments which your repeated favours have excited in me."

Mr. Boruwlafki has written this work in French, in which language it is here printed, with an English translation, on the oppofite pages, by Mr. Des Carrieres. A copper-plate frontispiece is given, reprefenting our amiable hero, with his lady, and one of their children, in a family fcene.

We have not yet had the fatisfaction of feeing Mr. B. but we are informed that this print affords a good refemblance of his perfon. Of his pleafing manners and agreeable conversation (of which we have heard a moft advantageous account) a judgment can only be formed by paying him a vifit; and that we have refolved to do, at the first convenient opportunity: meantime, we thank him for the pleasure he has afforded us by a perufal of his Memoirs, which, from the number of agreeable anecdotes of eminent perfons, of both fexes, have many of the graces of a well-told tale, with all the advantages and merit of truth:-for we have not the least distrust of his veracity, in any circumftance of the narrative.

* The pretty love-letters, which paffed, during their courtship, between Mr. B. and his fair Ifalina, will, to young readers efpecially, prove a very acceptable part of the entertainment which they will find in the perufal of this volume.

MONTHLY

CATALOGUE,

For JULY, 1788.

POLITICA L.

Art. 17. Confiderations on the War with the Turks. Tranflated from the French of M. de Volney. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Debrett. 1788.

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De Volney, whom we lately introduced to the acquaintance of our Readers, by the review which we gave of his Travels through Syria and Egypt, here inveftigates and flates the probable confequences of the prefent war between the Turks, the Auftrians, and the Ruffians, with the profundity of an acute politician, but with rather too much of the fpirit of prophecy. He has bufied himfelf in difpofing of the bear's fkin before the bear is killed t. He, however, offers many pertinent confiderations on the fubject, which will much amufe, if not completely fatisfy, the political speculatift.M. de Volney is, certainly, a very fenfible man, and an ingenious writer.

Art. 18. Anecdotes of Junius: to which is prefixed The King's Reply. Svo. 1s. 6d. Bew. 1788.

If this gentleman's information, with respect to the identity of Junius, be no better than that to which he has been obliged for his lift of Reviewers, we may venture to affure both him and the Public, that he knows very little of the matter.

The Reply which he has manufactured for the King, is a piece of good writing, and contains a well imagined vindication for the fuppofed royal writer, in regard to the errors charged on his government by Junius-that Junius, whom this Author declares to be Mr. Burke. As for the Anecdotes refpecting the hero of this questionable tale, they chiefly confift of a detail of Mr. B.'s well known publications,-in which we meet with nothing new except a flight sketch of a parallel between Junius and Lord Bolingbroke, as writers ;-and here we have the honour to agree pretty nearly with the Author.

Art. 19 The Speeches of Mr. Wilkes in the Houfe of Commons. Large 8vo. 6s. fewed. 1786. No Bookfeller's Name.

It was but lately that this handfome edition of Mr. Wilkes's Speeches came to our hands. It contains, as the Preface affures us, a faithful tranfcript of the three volumes which the fame editor formerly printed in 12mo. with the addition of feveral fpeeches, fince the period of the laft publication, drawn from the fame fources 1, with equal diligence and attention.'

* See the Appendix to Vol. Ixxvii. of the Review, p. 589.

He predicts the total overthrow of the Ottomans, and very gravely proceeds to the difmemberment and partition of their empre; in which, particular care is taken, that the interefts of France fhall not be overlooked.

From the public prints, and oral tradition.

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The additional orations contain a confiderable quantity of new matter, on the most interesting fubjects. Among others, we have Mr. W.'s excellent fpeech on the Bill for the further Relief of Proteftant Diffenting Minifters and School-mafters; which is both argumentative and entertaining. The Diffenters were, indeed, greatly obliged to their witty and fenfible advocate on this occafion.

The Editor has added Notes, where he deemed fome explanation neceffary. An Index would be a farther improvement.

Art. 20. A Review of the Government and Grievances of the Province of Quebec, fince the Conqueft of it by the British Arms. To which is added, an Appendix, containing Extracts from authentic Papers. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Stockdale. 1788.

The province of Quebec having, fince its conqueft, been ceded to the British empire, the government of the French inhabitants there, together with fuch British fettlers as have mingled among them, became a difficult operation. The French wifhed to hold, and convey their poffeffions, according to French tenures and ufages, while they preferred our commercial laws; the British required to be governed altogether by their own laws, and to that end wanted an elective house of affembly. It is pleaded, that in the space of twenty-eight years, the inhabitants have been obliged to conform to three different fyftems of laws, all improper, and at variance with each other: fyftems forced upon them in the aggregate, never defired, and of courfe never understood. At length the old and new fabjects were obliged to unite in the fame petitions and the fame prayers. Time and experience had convinced them, that as members of the fame province, their interefts were infeparable; they now perceived the invidious policy of thofe who had kept them fo long dif united, in the view to difappoint both parties: they faw they were left without any effective, any fixed or permanent laws, or at beft, fo loofe, indigefted, and frequently unintelligible, that eventually they were worse than none, producing jealoufies, public and private difagreements, and creating a general fpirit of difcontent.' To remedy thefe evils, the writer recommends a conftitution of a mixed kind, fo as to accommodate both parties, by felecting fuch parts of either fyftem, as would fuit the fituation of the province; which being Britifh, its conflitution fhould of course be that of the parent ftate, and the laws by which it is governed British alfo; with a skilful engrafting of fuch parts of the Canadian laws as had reference to thofe favourite and neceffary points, where policy might fafely indulge prejudices, viz. landed property, inheritance, dower, and family affairs."

Education under defpotifm debilitates the mind; and if we perfift in forcing new laws upon a people under which they remain uneafy, the excellence of thofe laws will not hinder them from being oppreffive: a perfon recovered from blindness cannot fuddenly bear the full light of the day.

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Art. 21. The Trial of Warren Haflings, Efq. late Governor General of Bengal, before the Court of Peers, in Westminster Hall. which the Speeches of Meff. Adam, Pelham, Anftruther, Sheri

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dan, &c. &c. are given at full Length. Part II. 6s. fewed. Ridgway. 1788.

The former part of Mr. Ridgway's edition of this great national trial, continued the proceedings to the 29th of February, in the prefent year, when the High Court adjourned to the 10th of April following. This fecond part, in courfe, commences with the last mentioned date, and the twelfth day of the trial. It amounts to a large volume of near 500 pages; and concludes with Mr. Sheridan's grand fpeech, June 10,-when the Houfe adjourned to the firft Tuesday in the next feffion of Parliament.

In this concluding part of what conftitutes the first volume of Mr. Ridgway's edition, the Editor, as in the former part, exhibits a distinct view, and arrangement of the principal matters; on which plan, the fpeeches are neceffarily abbreviated. But this circumftance we have already noticed, in our brief mention of the first Part: See Rev. April, p. 247.

Art. 22. The Speech of Sir Elijah Impey, late Chief Juftice of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Bengal, at the Bar of the House of Commons, Feb. 4, 1788. Being the Matter of his DEFENCE to the First Article of Charge exhibited to that House, by Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bart. Dec. 12, 1787. 8vo. 6s. Boards. Stockdale.

The Editor of this important publication affures his readers, in a prefatory advertisement, that he took a very accurate note of Sir Elijah's Speech, when it was delivered *.' He conceives that the Public has a right to know why fo enormous a parliamentary charge has not been profecuted with effect. This delay has given him an opportunity of availing himfelf of the right Sir Elijah had given the Members of the Houfe to examine and copy the original papers which had been left in the hands of a Member, for that purpose, by which means the vouchers may be depended on as accurate and authentic.'

The large Appendix to Sir Elijah's elaborate fpeech, is divided into three parts; I. Papers called for by the Houfe. II. Papers referred to in the fpeech. III. Minutes of the evidence before the Committee. The 3d Part exhibits all the evidence on the part of the profecution; and, confequently, contains the whole grounds on which it could have been fupported: fo that thofe who need information, with respect to the nature of the cafe, and the proceedings on the charge brought againft Sir E. Impey, may be completely gratified by the perufal of this compilement.

BRITISH FISHERIES.

Art. 23. The Subftance of the Speech of Henry Beaufoy, Efq; to the British Society for extending the Fisheries, &c. at the General Court held on Tuesday, March 28, 1788. To which is added, a Copy of the Act for the Society's Incorporation. 8vo. 2 S. Cadell. 1788.

Mr. Beaufoy, the Chairman of the Committee of Parliament appointed to enquire into the state of the British fisheries in the year

*Sir Elijah, himfelf, as we are given to understand, declined the publication.

1786, gives, in this pamphlet, an animated account of the benefits which Great Britain might derive from the fisheries on her coafts; and a lively picture of the diftreffed fituation of the natives of the remote coaft of Scotland; and the circumstances that have prevented them from pursuing the fisheries to advantage. In this part of the publication, we meet with nothing that the Public were not before informed of. But it is impoffible to repeat too often, particulars of fo interefting a nature.

We are forry, however, to obferve, that though one of the principal obftructions that have retarded the fifheries on our coafts (by Mr. Beaufoy's account) be our injudicious laws, yet little has been done in that way to encourage them. And though our Orator, in very ftrong terms, holds out, to public view, the few alterations of the laws that have been made of late, as highly advatageous to the community, yet it must be owned that they do not by any means effect a radical cure of this evil.

The patriotic efforts of the Private Affociation for the purpose of encouraging the fisheries, furnishes here an ample field for panegyric. They deserve much praife, and we fincerely with fuccefs to their benevolent endeavours. Mr. Beaufoy exerts himself to remove one prejudice againft this fociety, which may arife in the minds of those who have not attended much to the fubject, by proving, that in the principles of its inftitution, it is effentially different from the fociety that was inftituted about forty years ago, under a name nearly fimilar; fo that the objections raised against the former, do not affect the prefent fociety.

The remaining part of the Speech contains a journal of the Author's excurfion to the Hebrides laft fummer, and a detailed account of the advantages and difadvantages attending certain ftations that had been propofed for erecting fishing villages on thefe coafts, with the reafons that determined the fociety to make choice of Tobermory in Mull, and Ullapool in Loch Broom, in preference to the others,which appear, from the data here ftated, to be very fatisfactory.

Those who have no leifure to perufe the larger accounts that have lately been published relative to this fubject, will find pleasure in reading this elegant abstract.

NEGROE SLAVERY.

Art. 24. Remarks upon the Situation of Negroes in Jamaica, impartially made, from a local Experience of nearly thirteen Years in that Ifland. By W. Beckford, Jun. formerly of Somerly in Suffolk, and late of Hertford in Jamaica. 8vo. 2s. Egerton. 1788. The obfervations of an intelligent writer, drawn from the experience of fo many years, will naturally, at this time, and on fo important a fubject, excite the attention of the Public; and the reader who looks for important information, in this account, will not (we imagine) be disappointed. Mr. Beckford appears to be perfonally and fully acquainted with the real ftate of Negroe flavery in the Weft Indies, particularly in Jamaica; and from fuch acquaintance, a man of obfervation must be particularly qualified to give his opinion, both with respect to the propofed regulation, and even to the great queftion of an abolition, of the flave trade.

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