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By William Coxe, Tournay was undertaken, and in 21 days M.A. F.R.S. F.S.A. Archdeacon of the town surrendered to Marlborough and Wilts. London, 1819. Vol. 3. 4to. Prince Eugene. pp. 665. The third and concluding volume of this very able work has just issued from the press, the author having very nearly redeemed a pledge rarely fulfilled, by finishing a literary undertaking of great magnitude within three months of the time originally specified to the public. The first volume was reviewed, and a summary of its contents given, in No. 67 of the Literary Gazette (May 2, 1818,) and the second received the same attention from us on its appearing in August following, for which we refer to our paper of the 15th of that month, No. 82. This brought down the history to arrangements for the campaign of 1710, and the present volume commences with the preceding proceedings of the first parliament which met after the Union, on the 16th of November 1708, when Sir Richard Onslow, a moderate Whig, was voted to the Chair. Of the mining resorted to, in order to subdue the citadel, a dreadful description is given. The miners frequently met and fought with those of the enemy, and sometimes the troops mistaking friend for foe, killed their fellow soldiers; sometimes whole companies entered the mines at the very moment when they were ready primed for explosion. They were often inundated with water, suffocated with smoke, or buried alive in the cavities, and left to perish; and on some occasions whole battalions were blown into the air, and their limbs scattered to a distance, like lava from a volcano. Dumont's military history contains many particulars of contests in these infernal labyrinths. On the 15th, (says the Author) M. de Surville made a sally, and drove the besiegers from a post they had taken; but being repulsed, and 150 men taking possession of the lodgment, the enemy sprung a mine, blew them all into the air, and Never did the turmoils of party run overturned all the gabions. In the night, higher than at this period, and it affords between the 16th and 17th, there happened a melancholy example of the cares which which ended at last in favour of the bea long and fierce combat in the mines, attend alike on ministers and those am- siegers. On the 20th, M. de Surville caused bitious of office, to hear such a man as a wall to be blown up which hung over a Godolphin complaining that "a life of sap, and thereby smothered a captain, a a slave in the galleys is Paradise in com- lieutenant, thirty soldiers, and five miners. parison of mine!" and Marlborough- - - On the 26th, an inhabitant of Tourlonging for a quiet retirement, rather nay went to the Earl of Albemarle, and than to "be the greatest man England offered to discover one of the principal mines of the citadel, on condition he would make him head gaoler of all the prisons in In the beginning of 1709, Marlborough Tournay: this was agreed to, and the man paid a short visit to England, where the performed what he had undertaken, so that Queen received him with coldness, and he 300 men were posted in the mine, and 800 had an opportunity of witnessing the grow-in the town ditch to support them; but in ing influence of Mrs. Masham, and the de- the middle of the night, M. de Megrigny clining favour of his own Duchess. What sprung two mines, one immediately under added to his embarrassments, was the con- the large mine, in which all the 300 men viction, that, notwithstanding their coalition, before-mentioned were stifled; the other the new whig ministry were still jealous threw up part of the ditch, and buried a both of him and of Godolphin. On his re- hundred men. turn to Holland, negociations for peace were formally carried on, and preliminaries agreed to, which the King of France immediately rejected. The Barrier Treaty was then concluded among the Allies, contrary to the advice of the Duke; and preparations ever had"! VOL. III. Notwithstanding this determined defence, however, the citadel speedily surrendered on the 3d of September, and left Tournay, a very important city covering Spanish Flanders, in the hands PRICE 8d. of the Allies. The famous battle of Malplaquet ensued on the 11th of the same month. It is well described, but being also well known, we refrain from any extract or analysis. The siege and capture of Mons was the next operation of the war. In this siege an honourable anecdote of the Duke of Argyle is copied from a singular book, "The Memoirs of Mrs. Christian Davies," usually called Mother Ross, who served as a common soldier in an English regiment of horse, till her sex was discovered, in consequence of a wound she received. The Duke, it seems, joined an attacking corps when it was Shrinking from the onset; and pushing among them open-breasted, he exclaimed, "You see, brothers, I have no concealed armour, I am equally exposed with you; I require none to go where I shall refuse to liberties of Europe, and the glory of your venture. Remember, you fight for the viour; and I hope the character of a Briton nation, and shall never suffer by my belais as dear to every one of you." This spirit animated the soldiers, the assault was made, and the work was carried. The contemporary operations on the Rhine and in Spain, not being of so much interest to our readers, we pass them of Charles XII. who had personally disover, only noticing the defeat at Pultowa, tinguished Marlborough in such a way as to render his Grace deeply sensible of his misfortune. At home, the Whigs their power, by forcing Lord Orford into got the last department of State into the Admiralty; the Queen continued to Duchess of Marlborough, and to hate quarrel grievously with the overbearing Duchess of Marlborough, and to hate the party the more as she feared them, while the Duke himself increased her alienation and alarm, by asking to be created General for life, an office unknown to the Constitution. His return to London, however, in November 1709, was still popularly triumphant. But the period had now arrived when the proud fabric of glory and security, reared by the union of this consummate warrior with the Whigs, was about to be overthrown by the jealousy of his Sovereign, the bickerings of party, and the intrigues of the crafty Harley. We shall not pursue the thread of the narrative, which traces the downfall of the Whig Ministry, from the impolitic trial of Dr. Sacheverell, through the appointment of the Duke of Shrewsbury to be Lord Chamberlain without consulting the Cabinet, the dismissal of Lord Sunderland, the defection of Halifax from the Junta, the disgrace of Godolphin, and appointment of a new Treasury Board, with Harley as Chancellor of the Exchequer,—and, finally, the total removal of the Whig administration, whose own want of union, and jealousies, suffering one after another of their members to be displaced, rendered their fall the more easy to their opponents. respondence ceased between the dear | (To be concluded in our next.) To some old house, down alley, court, or lane, pose, The "spouting throng" repair Of one of these it is written- This rhyme is only paralleled by a cut at Mr. Dibdin, who, for dramatizing old Or why this meaness? Why with metric hammer The rest of the production relates to strolling players, and to the writers for, and actors of Drury Lane and Covent Garden. But probably our readers are satisfied with the samples already extracted: we shall add very little more. The annexed note affords some insight into private theatricals : THE DRAMATIC SCORPION. A Satire. In three Cantos; with Explanatory Notes. London 1818. 8vo. pp. 71. The Drama being at present the popular rage, we take up this work, which in-novels, is asked deed ought sooner to have received our The effect of this change was not only notice, but we did not much like the painfully perceptible to the Duke, in do- title; Scorpion!"-it conveys no idea mestic affairs and internal policy, but of of honest satire, but of malice and venom. very considerable injury to the allied But on perusing it we find the offence is cause. Douay was indeed taken, but all only in the name, for it is very innocent the ulterior plan of the campaign of of sting, and might with as much pro1710 defeated by the delays and obsta-priety be designated a panegyric as a eles thrown in the way of this great tac-philippic. Indeed we cannot compliment tician. He was paralysed, and the enemy the author on the execution of his task, inspirited; and it was even said, possibly which is, both in prose and verse, freattempts were really made, that the quently even ungrammatically incorrect, Elector of Hanover should supersede and in verse has several most atrocious him in the command of the confede- rhymes, without a general force or beauty rates. The Elector, however, wrote to to atone for them. We find the vulassure him that he should always conti-garism of "lay" for "lie" repeated nue his friend; though it appears that continually, and many other cockney most of his late colleagues were haunted offences, too tedious to mention. As an with the idea that he, with the officers example of bad prose, the following in his family, possessed too much power from the preface may be quoted: for a subject. To these vexations in the general cause, more nearly touching personal annoyances were abundantly added. The final rupture between the Queen and her quondam favourite had previously taken place at Kensington Palace, when the Duchess, after a weeping passionate interview, being able to obtain no words from her angry mistress but a repetition of " You desired no answer, and you shall have none," most indecorously retorted, with a degree of highly unbecoming violence, "I am confident you will suffer in this world or the next, for so much inhumanity;" which so incensed the Queen, that she withdrew to her closet, saying, "That is my business;" and thus closed their personal intercourse for ever. From this time the Duchess became as great an object of disgust and aversion, as she had formerly been of favour and affection; and the anxiety of the Queen, to remove from her household so obnoxious an attendant, was one among many other causes, which induced her to accelerate the execution of those meditated changes which had been recommended by her secret advisers. Indeed we do not wonder at this, for never was private individual nor sovereign condemned to endure so irksome a control, as the Duchess desired to exercise over her royal mistress. Shortly after this grand fracas, all epistolary cor Among the variety of ruinous customs to which the private votaries of the drama are subject, there is not one that puts honesty It is highly necessary to explain this custom: to the test so much as the "general sale." whenever a play is intended to be produced on the private boards, there is a leading man nominated, who appoints an early period for the sale of the dramatis persona," which is done by regular auction; the characters are named, and the highest bidder becomes the purchaser. It is here "Notwithstanding the highest consideration of his own imperfections, he (the bition; the apprentice boy, unable to accent we witness the most signal effect of amauthor) cannot forbear the strictest observ-words with more than two syllables, and ance of the total degeneracy of both poet and actor, when considered not only as the most exalted members of literature, and the decided guardians of the stage, but as combining at once the creative and executive soul of the drama!! Greater nonsense worse expressed it (Men long distinguished on the boards of London) strives able only to set his mark! in the list of Get it honest, if thou can'st; We conclude with one other extract and note, which we most earnestly recommend to the writer's own peculiar consideration. They alone should stand Blessed with reward, and nursed by friendship's hand, Who boast a genius. All the scribbling tribe So have we seen, nursed by the genial ray, Thus bad begins, but worse remains behind. Ex. gr. in a well-meant and well-founded tirade against private theatricals, which have indeed been the ruin of many an innocent mind, we learn that of cleanliness and exercise, and die at last without a single shilling. This is very severe, but the author of the Scorpion must be too good a judge of its truth to suffer the useful lesson to be read to him in vain. Esq. &c. By a Lover of Harmony. it may be understood that no further light will be thrown upon these points till other voyagers explore the regions of sterility and ice. We have already alluded to the amazing effect upon vision which was produced by the refraction of light in these high latitudes. Distant objects were wonderfully raised by it, and on one occasion it is noticed A Letter to a Friend of Edmund Kean, it to reject a production of gen ijected publications being given up,) merely for the want of this one recommendation. You and I, my good friend, are, I know, above these ridiculous prejudices; but we must recollect, that those who are stupid enough to avow these sentiments, are obstinate enough to maintain them. We must not, therefore, imagine, that because these ill-judging and misguided encouragers of the Old School are a comparative few to the many admirers of the New system of Theatricals, we can at any time easily and speedily crush them. No, we must ever be diously instilling their antediluvian princithe alert to prevent them from insiples into minds equally obstinate as their own, by whose assistance they might hope to restore the old order of things, violently to depose the carpenter and scene-painter them secondary objects to the poet. from their present situation, and to render pp. 42. This is a very ably written pamphlet in reply to the "defence of Mr. Kean," which we noticed in our strictures upon The Italians in our last. It is exceedingly ironical, and exceedingly bitter; but what is still worse for Mr. Kean and his defender, it is exceedingly just and altogether unanswerable. With regard to the actor who, in that capacity, attracts so much public attention, this exposition may be considered as called for, though with regard to the poor author of his defence, it is most notoriously "breaking a butterfly on the wheel." We shall not enter into a detail of the arguments so cleverly and cuttingly put, but quote one or two passages as samples of the severe trimming which has been bestowed on Messieurs Kean and Co. upon As we merely desire to tell the public where it can find a very clever pamphlet, we shall not copy the biting lecture You kindly (says the lover of harmony to given to Mr. Kean to act rather than the author of the defence) inform us you set himself up as a standard of taste, and have "no personal feelings." For this in- forsake the cultivation of pot-house conformation, I, as well as most of your read-nexions as a sure card for popularity iners, must feel infinitely obliged; your ac- stead of good conduct and a modest dequaintance with Mr. Kean would naturally meanour; nor the advice bestowed on have led us to imagine you had " personal his advocate, if ever he wishes to ruin a feelings" for that gentleman; you, howman in the public opinion, to ever, are one of the exceptions to that rule you have laid down in one part of your book, "That Mr. Kean's private virtues will ever secure to him the regard of all those who have the honour of knowing him." This in vulgar logic would be called a clencher. The following is also a fair specimen of the writer's abilities, and more generally applicable : WRITE A PAMPHLET Those who take an interest in this controversy, will be much amused with talent displayed by the "lover of harmony." Captain Ross's Voyage to Baffin's Bay. The sun passing in azimuth, served to and beautiful manner; the reflections of delineate them on the horizon in a distinct light on the icebergs were particularly splendid, the emerald, sapphire, and orange, being the prevailing colours. What a scene to gaze upon for 140 or 150 miles round the spectator, standing in the centre of a circle where his vision embraced a diameter of 300 miles!! Other natural appearances were equally curious, if not equally grand. Here we have a vessel of ice in a boundless ocean of glaciers and optical illusions. We were (says Captain R.) occasionally visited by fogs, which were, in general, extremely thick, and of a very white appearance, while in the zenith the blue sky was apparent. At this time (Aug. 18, lat. 76° 12) the thermometer is generally at the freezing point; the moment this fog touches the ropes of the ship, it freezes, and these are in a very short time covered with ice, to the thickness of a man's arm, and at every evolution of the ship it covers the deck with its fragments. In the absence of these fogs, we had sometimes the atmosphere most beautifully clear; the objects on the horizon were often most wonderfully raised by the powers of refraction, while others at a short distance from them were as much sunk. The use of the dip-sector was could be obtained from it. These objects totally suspended, as no satisfactory result had sometimes the appearance of an imwere continually varying in shape; the ice mense wall on the horizon, and here and there a space resembling a breach in it; icebergs, and even small pieces of ice, had often the appearance of trees; and while, on one side, we had the resemblance of a other side were so greatly lengthened, as forest near us, the pieces of ice on the to look like long low islands. I now come to another of your new sentiments. Plagiarism is the last thing you can In our last we presented our readers be accused of. You say the actors and with all the intelligence furnished by actresses had no hesitation in calling Mr. B's a "beautiful poem ;" and you then go and the iron of Baffin's Bay, shewing the Captain Ross respecting the red snow on to remark, that it 66 be a may beautiful poem," yet still not have one single requi- former to be vegetable colouring, and site towards Dramatic excellence." If good the latter of meteoric origin: whereas poetry is not one of the requisites towards there is reason to believe that what have Dramatic excellence, I, as well as many been considered by the vulgar of all ages others, have been most egregiously de- miraculous, and by the scientific of our ceived in our ideas of what constitutes dra- time remarkable falls of coloured snow, matic excellence. We have all along been have derived this peculiarity from the going upon a wrong system, when we have considered good poetry not only as a requi- atmosphere, and differ entirely from the Aug. 21. lat. 76° 324. Since our leaving site, but as a most essential requisite in the phenomenon in the North, and similar Wolstenholme Island, the ice which we constituting dramatic excellence. No per- patches found on Alpine Mountains; and met with had assumed a very different chason of real taste will, in the present enlight- the appearance of these meteoric masses racter from any we had before met with ; ened age, deny that Stage Effect is far su- of metal, is one of the most extraordi- it had generally a green tint, and appeared perior to good poetry. But I would, never-nary occurrences in natural or chemical to have been a long time at sea, without, theless, have you bear in mind, there are a history. Captain Sabine, we observe, however, being in a state of deeay: it was few, who still feel dissatisfied at seeing has published a short account of these in huge pieces of irregular forms heaped sense sacrificed to show and sound, and who discoveries, in the Quarterly Journal of upon each other by some tremendous force, and then frozen together. are not yet so far gone in nonsense as to imagine that stage effect is the whole, sole, and indispensable requisite towards the formation of a good Tragedy; nor is every one so blindly prejudiced in favour of this said Stage effect, as to reckon it either just or Science, &c. but it affords no additional Aug. 25th. lat. 76° 10. It is worthy of remark that the icebergs here were only three-fourths under water, while those to the south were five-sixths. This singular fact is not explained, and |