after an engagement between two hostile armies, both sides claim the victory, and chaunt a solemn Te Deum. This ceremony is as necessary to keep up the spirits of the vanquished, as to incite the conquerors to gather fresh laurels. Even such a vile instrument as a Mary Canning, may be made a powerful engine in the hands of a dexterous minister; and we have before mentioned an ill-natured surmise, that one of the Stewards of Freeland had answered his purpose by an insurrection and a conflagration. Hence it has been generally suspected that a state procession is nothing more than a state trick, played off opportunely to botch up some misfortune or to cover some sinister design.Some such trick was now become necessary in the manor of Freeland, as the Gulls were not only gaining ground, but the fatal effects, which Brush had predicted from the war, had begun to manifest themselves. The stagnation of trade and the disappointment of trading speculations had occasioned an uncommon number of failures, and had paralysed the manor. Many families were reduced to beggary and ruin, and the manufacturers especially were

driven to desperation. Jealousy and distrust naturally pervaded every bosom, and those who had money, were afraid to entrust it out of their own hands. As trade cannot exist without confidence, it was of course nearly at a stand. Some such trick was also become necessary on another account, as the Squire, notwithstanding his solemn promise to the contrary, had by his licentious courses incurred another immense arrear of debt, which groaned for payment. A trick was devised to answer both these exigencies, which was no other than that of the Squire's Marriage. The pomp of the ceremony was intended to divert the tenants from their misfortunes, and the Squire's debts were to be discharged out of the establishment which their generosity should settle on him. But as this affair was, in itself, too important, and was, besides, too pregnant with great events, to be huddled in at the latter end of a volume, we shall begin our continuation of The Frailties of Human Life, with the Epithalamium.

END OF VOL. I.

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The Rising Sun,

A Serio-Comic Satiric Romance,

By CERVANTES HOGG, F. S. M.

"The Author is well acquainted with Public Characters and "Incidents; his Romance is ingenious and whimsical; and the "Satire is boldly levelled against those vices which are beyond "the reach of the Law, and those Persons who are too great "for it." Cabinet, No. III. May 1807.

The RISING SUN, Vol. III.

"The Sale of the first two Volumes of this Satire was so satisfactory to the Publisher, that he has added a third by Way of Postscript; in which some further Adventures of Mr.Merryman, Mr. Windpuff, Mr. Bedboard, Mr. Brownbread, Mr. Minikin, Mr. Turn-any-way, and other notorious Worshippers of the Rising Sun are related with the same blunt whimsicality as in the preceding Volumes. They have amused us not a little, and we can commend, in pretty warm Terms, the Parody on a Fairy Tale, to which the Author has given the Title of Prince Georgiskhan, and the Fairy Prudentia. It is ingeniously managed; the Satire is just, and we hope it may prove salutary.

Cabinet, No. VI. August 1807.