66 moft effectual in accelerating the education of youth, according to their peculiar idiofyncraly. The prefent race of ill-educated fathionable females" are very wifely reprefented as objects of pity." exciting concern rather than furprife. Way," argues the intelligent author, are the generality of young women fo averle to [from] rational and domeftic purfuits? Because they have never been taught their true value. Why do they offer their perfons and drefs to occupy fo much of their time and attention? Because they have been principally inftructed in the art of exciting admiration, inftead of the proper method of cultivating efteem. Why are they, fo ill-qualified for rational companious, for the fociety of tenuble . people? Because they have been accustomed to frivolous converfation, and to that fort of reading which is more likely to contract than expand their understanding. Why are they fo remifs in the performance of their moral and religious duties, fo negligent in the practice of christian virtues ? Because their knowledge is merely fuperficial. Why are they fo often made the tools of defiguing men, and even after manage fo frequently led aftray, and made the dupes of vice and folly? Because the whole artillery of inttruction. has been directed towards exterior graces and accompliments, and, unfortunately, they have been taught the most effectual method of inviting the enemy, instead of being armed with the proper wea pons for refta: ce. "Tough common fenfe fuggefts the expe diency of a reformation in the fyftem of female education, and our daily papers and courts of Law exhibit ftill ftronger proofs of its ecellity, it is nevertheless a caufe in which fome oppofition may be expected, especially from governeffes and the gentlemen of Doctors' Commons, as the infidelity of wives may very properly be ranked foremoft in the catalogue of mitchievous effects and ferious evils, refulting from the prefent fashionable mode of edu cation." " The author's Reflections on Senfibility are very judicious. "We behold," fays Mrs. B. "beings one hour weeping at a tra gical tale, and the next exercifing the noft unfeeling infenfibility and malevolence; we hear of perfons of fuch refined fentiments, that even the bare poffibilty of any ferious misfortune befaling a friend will agonize their feelings, who neverthelefs, when calamity really comes, have fuch extraordinary command over them, that, though poffefling the power of alleviating, and, perhaps, of removing the evil entirely, they can coolly harangue on the vi ciffitudes of life, and the difpenfations of Providence; and can fee a human being, nav, a friend, finking for the want of that affit ance which they could inftantaneously afford. Ye wretched beings, who are a difgrace to the community; ye who can fuffer thousands of your fellow-creatures to languifh in want and mifery, while you are indulging yourselves in all the luxuries of life; ye, who poffeffing every good that fortune can beftow, who are spend. ing thoufands on fuperfluities, while your friends are labouring under the preffure of poverty; ye, whọ under these circumstances dare to affume the appearance of fenfibility, blush at your own prefumption, for ye are ftrangers to the virtue." It would, perhaps, be quite as well to recommend the virtuous part of fenfibility as related to Chriftian charity, rather than to any emotion of the heart which may have vicious as well as virtuous effects If we may believe the fentiments of all claffes of fociety, there is no great want of that amiable quality fenfibility, although there probably never was a time when lefs voluntary charity pre- vailed. Every little mifs, from the daughter of the Peer to that of the meaneft mechanic, can now boast of her acute sensibility, and fall into hyfteric fits with as much grace as the most dignified matron in the empire; yet fuch fits are not lefs fatal to charity, than drunkenness to moral decorum.-There is one other obfervation of our author which must be noticed; we mean the vulgar accufation of deception practifed by men. We difdain all allegations about fexual virtue, as we do not believe in its exiftence, and therefore with not to defend the men on this head; but we would affert that men never have recourte to the arts of deception without previously having difcovered fome weaknefs which infpires a hope of their fuccefs. It is, perhaps, a rule without exception, that the female face of chastity, fupported by a rational mind, was never yet seriously assailed by the licentious arts of men. There is a fanctity in purity, especially when animated by intelligence, which difpels fuch arts as the fun does the nocturnal darkness. Upon the whole, we have no hesitation infying that Mrs. Badger's" Admonitions," although brief, will be found as ufeful and inftructive by thofe perfons to whom they are addreffed, as any other modern work on the now hackneyed but ill underflood subject of female education. It is but justice to say that her morality is more practical, more rational, and as much better than that of Mrs. H. More, whofe affected holinefs obtained a momentary notoriety. British Chronology; or a Catalogue of Monarchs, from the Incafion of Julius Cafar to the Conquest of William, Duke of Normandy. To which are added Chronological Tables of English Hiftory, from the Conqueft to the present Reign, calculated to afford Assistance to young Students of either Sex who are defirous of attaining a Knowledge of the Annals of their Country. By the Rev. George Whittaker, A. M., Chaplain to the Marquis of Lanfdowne, and Mafter of the Grammar-fchool, Southampton. Pp. 72. Small Svo. Skelton, Southampton; Law, London. 1808. NOTWITHSTANDING the variety of little works of this defcription, we have not feen one better adapted to teach the chronological history of our own country, or convey in a more concife manner a brief knowledge of its political hiftory, than the present. The reigns of the Saxon heptarchy are explicitly related; and to the Chronological Tables, or rather epitome, of the Hiftory of England fince the Norman conqueft, are added impartial characters of each fovereign, as well as the particular events of his reign, and the names of the great men who flourished at the time. Ha the lift indeed of eminent perfons been a little more copious, the view of each reign would have conveyed an accurate idea of the state of the kingdom. Leffons for Young Perfoms in Humble Life, calculated to promote their Improvement in the Art of Reading, in Virtue and Piety, and particularly in the Knowledge of their Duties peculiar to their Stations. 12mo. Pp. 336. 3s 6d. Longman and Co. 1808. THESE Leffons are very well calculated to answer the purpose for which they were compofed. Both the design and the execution are highly creditable to the author. MISCELLANEOUS. Debates in Parliament respecting the Jennerian Difcovery, including the late Debate on the farther Grant of 20,000l to Dr. Jenner; together with the Report of the Royal College of Phyficians of London on the Vaccine Inoculation. With Introductory Remarks. By Charles Murray. Pp. 184, 8vo. 5s. Hatchard, Murray, &c. 1808. WE think that Mr. Murray has done a public fervice in collecting thefe Debates, and giving them a more regular character, for whether evaccination fhould eventually be found useful or injurious to fociety, although we do not yet doubt its utility, we flali ever contend for the found policy of the measure of bellowing the moft liberal reward on the difcoverer, efpecially at the prefent, calamitous and critical period. The Report of the Royal College of Physicians, with fome other ingenious papers on the mortality of fmall-pox, are properly added to this collection of Debates, which contain much less nonfenfe than we ufually hear reported from the auguft affembly in which they were delivered. It is but juftice to add, that Mr. Murray's Introductory Remarks are wholly exempt from that odious feurrility which has difgraced moft of the latter productions on vaccination, and that he writes with gentlemanly decorum and rational difcrimination. Vindicia Lufitaniæ; or an Answer to a Pamphlet entitled "The Caufes and Confequences of the Emigration to the Brazils." By Edward James Lingham, Efq. Pp. 09. 8vo. 2s 6d. Budd. 1808. WE cannot but regret that any one poffeffing fuch a knowledge of the fubject on which he writes, and with fo much talents as Mr. Lingham, fhould have thought it not unworthy of him to anfwer the defpicable, ignorant, and malicious pamphlet published under the above title. It bears the moft unequivocal marks of being the pro duction of one of the meanest and most ignorant panders of a defperate party that ever iffued from the prefs. To fay that every sen tence of it is a vulgar and grofs calumny on the Prince and people of Portugal would be flight condemnation; it is plain that the writer knew nothing of either, and that his only ftudy has been, without any regard to truth or falsehood, right or wrong, to pour out his fuppofed incenfe on the altar of a party, which however was not fo base as to accept it for a peace offering. Extraordinary events, as well as the manly and explicit declaration of war against Buonaparte by the Brazilian Court, have placed the conduct of the virtuous Prince of Brazil in fuch a confpic ous and just point of view, that they who formerly were the first to revile him, are now, we hope from compunction, the moft forward and the moft noify in their expreffions of applaufe. Still, however, the fufferings of the unfortunate people of Portugal from the wanton cruelty of the French must excite the commiferation of every humane mind." A French army," obferves Mr. Lingham, "when unopposed, takes poffeffion of a country pretty quietly, promifing protection and happiness to all who thall bow their heads at the name of the invincible Napoleon. Il-fated Portugal, however, has fared worfe. An eye-witnefs affured me that the country from the frontiers to Arantes is one fcene of ruin and devaftation. The peafans abandoned their cottages, and fled with their wives and children to the neighbouring mountains; and the heiny, dilappointed in many refpes by this unexpected flight, fet fire to thofe peaceful dwellings, and marked their progrefs by fuch & Aine of defolation as might have ferved to retrace the march of the moft favage barbarians." We shall mention oue inftance of the diabolical disposition of the French in Portugal. A fubaltern officer and a few privates wifhed to have fome fresh fish one day at Aldea Gallega, a fmall town in the oppofite fide of the river at Lisbon, inhabited chiefly by filhermen; they could not be fupplied, and in revenge they cut with their fwords all the fishing nets to pieces: the confequence of which was that feveral of the poor people's families literally died with hunger, às they could neither purchafe nor make other nets, the cordage being all used to equip the ficets! Antiquity, a Farce, in two Aas. Pp. 45. 8vo. Chapple. 1808. HAD the anonymous author of this Farce interlarded it with a plentiful portion of buffoonery and nonfenfe, it would have obtained à representation on fome of our theatres; but, as it contains only rational fatire, mixed with a little delicate humour, he fhould not have expected that it would be received among the animal exhibitions which annually difgrace our places of public amusement, and vitiate the tale and the morals of the community." Antiquity," confidered as a juvenile piece, is by no means devoid of merit, and al though in the present state of the ftage it would perhaps be imprudent to advise the author to purfue fuch a study, yet if we withhold that advice, it is not that we think him deficient in talents to attain fome eminence in this department of literature. An Examination of the Charges maintained by Meffrs. Malone, Chalmers, and others, of Ben Jonfon's Enmity, &c. towards Shakefpear. By Octavius Gulchritt, Pp. 62. 8vo. 25 Ou. Taylor and Heffey. 66 1808. WE fhould have confidered any examination of the opinions of Mers Malone and Chalmers as frivolous as the likes or dislikes of old maids over a deleterious cup of green tea, were it not fufceptible of many curious digreflions on the ftate and progrefs of our language and manners about two centuries ago.. If it were not for the "strange caprice and phantatie" which occafionally traverse men's minds, it would be difficult to believe that any man could for a moment ferioudly believe that Jonfon bore any mean jealoufy or enmity towards Shakelpear, after the epitaph and eulogium which he addretled to the memory of his beloved Mr. William Shakelpeare, and what he has left us." The unhappy critics who maintain this opinion, perhaps, think that they are honouring the genius of Shakespear, whereas they are hewing it "with three rufty fwords" to a level with that of Jonfon. Jealoufy cannot exift but where there is a certain degree of equality, which degree appears never to have exifled neither in the mind of Jonton nor in any of his cotemporaries. Mr. Gilchrift, however, defends old Ben with confiderable learning and addrefs, and is "fo fharp and fententious, so pleasant without fourtility, witty without aff chon, audacious without impudency, and learned without opinion," that we were tempted to confefs, in the language of his acquitted client As neither man nor muse can praise too much," and to hope that he will foon exercife his talents on fome more general fubject. Obfervations on the Brumal Retreat of the Swallow. To which is annexed a copious Inder to many Paffages relating to this Bird in ancient and modern Authors. By Philochelidon. Second Edition, with Additions. Pp 32. 8vo. W. Phillips. 1808. THESE Oblervations are written con amore, as the fignature implies, and difplay, without the difgafting affectation of pedantry, very extenfive reading and learning on the fubject of natural hiftory in almost all the European languages. The queftion how or where does the swallow tribe pass their winter, is ably and minutely investi gated, numerous refpectable authorities are cited, and the general refult is that they migrate to a more fouthern climate. Several curious and interefting anecdotes and obfervations are collected into a Darrow compals, and various accidental occurrences, which have been mistaken for natural phenomena, are mentioned and explained. To all who have any tafte for natural history, particularly ornitholo gy, this tract will be highly acceptable; and although there are few birds fo fingular, as it furnished a proverb familiar in ancient Greece, Rome, and every country in modern Europe, yet, as friends to this |