SIR, TO THE EDITOR. THE public are infinitely indebted to you and to Mr. William Gifford for the chaftifement you have given to a writer, who has libell'd with impunity all that is excellent and refpectable in public or in private life without the leaft regard to rank, fex, or profeilion. He has long deferved the punishment which he has received in more ways than one, and he merits much more; and if you think the following lines worthy of a place in your Review, I fhall be happy to contribute my mite, in the virtuous caufe, of holding up to contempt and deteftation a character uniformly infamous. A SUFFOLK FREEHOLDER, To WILLIAM GIFFORD, Esq Quid vetat et nosmet? * SECURE, at least, the wretched World to please, Were vont each others praises to rehearse, Would curb the worst of crimes with wholefome laws? Another manufcript fays, Secure the world, vile Topham's World, to pleafe- The Bishop of London, The friend of vice prepares his ready pen, *Mifs Hannah More. S. + The Monthly Review, which has long laboured in the fame good caufe with Peter, but with more art, begins to think, fince he has fallen into universal contempt, that he has not chofen his subjects happily of late; but was always in the habit of praifing him till he was firit fatirized and afterwards defervedly horfewhipped." The Morning Chronicle, a fellow-labourer alfo, turns its back upon poor Peter, and coolly calls him, a fool and a blockhead. SIR, IF the following bagatelle, written in honour of Gallic freedom, is, in your eftimation, deferving a place in your truly patriotic Ma gazine, the infertion of it would oblige ANTIGALLICUS. LE SOLDAT REPUBLICAIN AUX FRONTIERES. Si, des maux que cause l'absence, '; Dans le tems de mille entravés II eft donc paffè ce bel age Nous nous aimions dans l'esclavage Malgré ce fameux privilege, Nous affure que, bientôt, la Terre, Jufqu'au fond de nos provinces ci-devant. Malgré notre fatal empire, Si par quelque etrange miracle Mais-je me tais! car l'amour même ANNUAL ANTI-JACOBIN Review and Magazine; &c. &c. &c. For FEBRUARY, 1801. Si iftis ad maledicendum difertis et eloquentibus effe licet, nos, in optimâ noftrâ caufâ, ad verè respondendum haud fanè convenit esse mutos. Juelli. Apol. ORIGINAL CRITICISM. The Hiflory of the Campaign of 1799, in Holland. Tranflated from the French. 8vo. PP. 496. 158. Cadell and Davies. THIS 1801. HIS forms the fifth and last volume of the military history of the war from the beginning of the campaign of 1796 to the close of that of 1799. It is compofed with the fame ability, the fame fcrupulous attention to facts, and the fame rigid impartiality, which fo eminently diftinguifhed the former volumes. It contains, beyond comparison, the beft, and, indeed, the only complete and fatisfactory account of the Expedition to Holland, which has hitherto appeared in Europe. The author has, evidently, had access to the most authentic fources of information, and he has availed himself of them with equal judgment and fkill: the military operations, in which the troops of this country took fo decided and fo diftinguished a part, are detailed in a manner at once the most perfpicuous and the moft scientific, fo as to afford the fullest information to the common reader, and the highest Tatisfaction to the profeffional ftudent. The end and object of the Expedition are clearly and forcibly explained, and ably rescued from the imputations of ignorance, and the perverfions of malice. Here, as before, the author has rendered a public fervice by exK NO. XXXII. VOL. VIII. pofing |