Corfican Ufurper has led him to commit! To return friendship with enmity, protection with hoftility, indicates an extraordinary degree either of human depravity, or human degradation. Weak and infatuated Prince not to perseive, that his compliance with this infidious propofition, which with its object and confequences we long fince predicted, is an act of fuicide! His own deftruction must fpeedily follow the ruin of his enemy. If he flatter himself that he fhall avert this deftruction by additional conceffions, he will foon be convinced of his error. He may fuppofe that, in return for the ceffion of his colonial poffeffions, Florida and New Orleans, which, we have good reason to believe was the object of the treaty privately concluded with BERTHIER laft fummer, the Conful may fulff. his promife by employing an army on a Quixotic expedition against the fortrefs of Gibraltar, that ftumbling block of French and Spanish pride! but he will find to his coft, that the intention of Buona➡ parte is to employ his troops in a more eafy and more profitable enterprize..

The fovereign of Pruffia feems anxious to difpute with the French the palm of excellence, in the fuccefsful ufe of the new revolutionary cafuiftry, and the. new fyftem of revolutionary ethics. We have formerly fhewn in what manner this Prince has reduced to practice his principles of neutrality, by his feizure of neutral towns, and his occupation of neutral territories; and if any faith be due to the letters which we have lately received from Berlin, from a Correfpondent who has never yet deceived us, he means to give to the world a ftill fuller expofition of these principles, by the invafion of Hanover, the reduction of Hamburgh, and the provifional occupation of Bremen, Lubeck, and Francfort; fo rendering the gratification of his favourite paffions, ayarice and ambition, fubfervient to the favourite, but hopeless, project of his. worthy ally Buonaparte, the exclufion of Britons and British manufactures from the ports and countries of the Continent. A notable fpecimen of the revolutionary cafuiftry of this Prince may be seen in the curious correfpondence of his minifter, Haugwitz, with the British Ambaffador, Lord Carysfort; in which he modeftly terms the embargo imposed on Danish and Swedish vessels, after an act of profeffed hoftility to this country by those powers, a violation of the rights of neutral states, and a full justification of his refentment against us, while he not only paffes fub filentio the flagrant breach of a folemn treaty by the EMPEROR OF RUSSIA, by the feizure of our fhips, the imprisonment of our countrymen, and the plunder of our property, in direct violation of every principle of public law, as well as of the fpecific provifions of a par ticular treaty, but, immediately after the commiffion of this act, which cannot even be palliated by the imputation of any previous infult, flight, or provocation whatever; an act, therefore, which muft extort the reprobation of every honeft mind, contracts a clofer alliance with the Emperor, and fcruples not to join with him in a league which has for its main object to sanction and fupport the unprincipled conduct of which he has been guilty! We forbear to characterize fuch a proceeding; and our limits will not allow us to enter into a detail of the particulars which we have received refpecting the internal ftate of Pruflia, and the paltry intrigues of the Pruffian Cabinet, both of which are highly favourable to the revolutionary defigns of the grand reformer of Europe,

By the fame obftacle we are alfo prevented from giving a description of the internal fituation of the French Republic, refpecting which we have likewife received, from our Correfpondents, fome interefting particulars. A fhort extract or two, from the letters before us, are all that we have now room to

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infert. "So long as the breakers of the laws are the makers of the laws, anarchy and defpotifm muft continue to reign by turns, and fuch are' the laws now in existence in France that a corrupt judge need never want a fufficient plea for the acquittal of a favoured criminal, from the petty thief to the bloody affaffin. The civil laws are neither lefs numerous nor lefs contradictory than the criminal laws, fo that the property of the people is not better protected nor more fecure than their lives. You must have feen, no doubt, from the reports of the Minister of Police, that there is not a province which has not its regular band of robbers and affaffins, and that, in fome, the Judges and the Justices of Peace are at the head of them; but that Minifter has not deemed it expedient to proclaim to the world, a fact equally notorious, viz. that the Revolution has fo accustomed and encouraged the people of France to the commiffion of crimes, that any man who has an enemy that he wishes to get rid of may eafily procure a hundred affaffins to difpatch him; and that the known ingenuity of the French, in all their undertakings, whether good or bad, has enabled them to contrive fuch means of plunder and of murder as would, moftly, I believe, elude even the vigilance of an English Judge, and as, by enhancing the difficulty of obtaining proof, fecure impunity to the culprits.A valet-de-place, who lived with me feveral months, and whom I knew to be a fpy to the Police, fhewed me a boy, twelve years old, at Paris, who had poifoned feven Gens d'Armes, and killed three other men, befides a Juftice of Peace, who had committed a friend of his Employer's to prifon. This boy had been tried in four different courts, and acquitted, from a defect of proof. He has fince been fent, by the Minifter of the Police, on board the Breft fleet! A well-known revolutionary hero in the Western department, being left without employment, and harraffed by his creditors, appointed them to meet him at a houfe which he had in a retired part of the country; among the creditors were two rich coufins to whom he was heir. He had undermined the house, previous to their arrival, and they were all blown up to the number of twenty-two. He had the affurance to inform the Government that he had deftroyed two and twenty Chouans; and, in Auguft laft, the fact was fo ftated in all the French papers. But the truth has fince been difcovered; and the man has been apprehended, tried, and acquitted, by divid ing his coufins property with the Judge!!!" Though Fauchè has more power and greater means than were ever poffeffed by any Minister of Police under the Monarchy, he cannot prevent the commiffion of crimes. He con trives, however, to make them a fource of profit to himself; he is known to derive a revenue of 100,000 crowns (about 12,5001. fterling) by licensing gaming-houses and brotheis"(the remaining part of this fentence is too horrid to tranfcribe; fuffice it to fay that it exhibits an inftance of depravity till now unexampled in Europe!)" There is a regular farmer-general for the brothels and gaming-houfes, who pays Fauché, and lets them out to underfarmers, who pay him; and the cards of addrefs for thefe houfes of refort, for the vicious and the profligate, are as openly diftributed at Paris, as the bills of your quacks are in London. I send you one of them which was put into my hand at the door of the Opera." "The confequence of this ftate of things is an almoft incredible number of fuicides. I heard a fenator, a friend of Fauché's declare, that from the registers of the Police, it appeared, that more people destroy themfelves now in one decade, than formerly in a whole year."" Add to this the great scarcity of money which bears an intereft of from eighteen to thirty per cent,-whatever the friends of the Conful, the in

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triguers and fpeculators of the day may affert, be affured that money is as fcarce as ever; and the confidence of men of property no greater than before." We lament the infufficiency of our limits for the admiffiou of farther extracts; but we fhall take a future opportunity of recurring to this fubject, which is almoft inexhaustible.

The fovereign of Naples, forced, in fpite of himfelf, into the revolutionary vortex, and abandoned by his Continental Allies, has been compelled to fub mit to his fate, and reluctantly to fubfcribe to the difgraceful terms, which the fuccefsful Ufurper of France has been pleafed to prefcribe to him. The exclufion of British veffels from the Neapolitan and Sicilian ports, forms a leading article of the preliminary treaty; but the poffeffion of Malta by the British will defeat the malice of Buonaparte, and fecure to us the free naviga tion of the Mediterranean.

At home we have only to notice the completion of the new Minifterial arrangements, and the indecorous and unjust reflections which have been caft on the members of the new Administration. We are not verfed in the language of flattery, nor yet difpofed to employ it; but, with the fingle exceptions of Mr. Pitt and Mr. Windham, we defy the moft ftrenuous parti fans of the old Ministry, to felect, from among its members, any whofe abili ties will stand a comparison with thofe of the present Premier and several of his colleagues. But the foundness and purity of their principles, and the ftrength of their attachment to their Sovereign and the conftitution of their country, give them a much stronger claim to public efteem, fupport, and confidence, than any which can refult from splendour of talents, or the powers of eloquence, however brilliant or extenfive. At all events prejudication is the height of injuftice. They have an arduous tafk to fulfil; the times are critical; and the state of the country calls for great exertions of vigilance and vigour. The Jacobin focieties are again in motion; encouraged by the expiration of those falutary laws which have fo long confined their treafonable efforts, within a very limited and contracted fphere of action; they have again met, and propofe, under a new title, once more to difplay their banners in the field, and try an appeal to thofe feelings of the people, which, at this crifis, are the most fufceptible, to endeavour to inflame their minds, and to incite them to acts of rebellion; or, to use the more eloquent language a leading member of the Whig Club, their efforts will be directed" to rouze, the dormant energies of an infatuated people." At fuch a time any attempt to weaken the public confidence in those whom his Majefty has chofen for his Minifters, putting the indecency and injustice of it entirely out of the question, is particularly improper and dangerous. Let them be tried by their actions, which we have no doubt will fully justify the high character which they bear; and let all who value their country combine to ftrengthen those hands which, at a season of alarm and danger, are nobly stretched out to fave and to fupport her.

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On the policy of this country refpecting foreign powers, we have no room to expatiate; we shall only state the firm conviction of our mind; that every effort fhould be made for the recovery of Egypt, and the fecurity of the Brazils. These are objects of primary importance.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Our numerous Correfpondents are requested to accept this general acknowledgment of their communications, the infertions of which we have been reluctantly obliged to poftpone; but they fhall moft of them appear either in the next Number, or in the Appendix to the prefent Volume.

ANTI JACOBIN

Review and Magazine;

&c. &c. &c.

For APRIL, 1801.

Τρία δέ τινα χρὴ ἔχειν τὰς μέλλονίας ἄρξειν τὰς κυρίας ἀρχάς· Πρῶτον μὲν, φιλίας πρὸς τὴν καθεςῶσαν πολιτείαν. ἔπειτα, δύναμιν μεγίςην τῶν ἔργων τῆς ἀρχῆς· τρίτον δε ἀρετὴν καὶ δικαιοσύνην ἐν ἑκάσῃ πολείᾳ, τὴν πρὸς τὴν πολιτείαν.

ARIST. POL. lib. v. ch. 9.

There are three things, which those ought to poffefs, who are intended for bigh offices in the State; firft, an affection for the exifting government; fecondly, ability for the affairs of it; thirdly, fuch opinions in religion, and politics as are fuitable with it.

ORIGINAL CRITICISM.

A Collation of the Hebrew and Greek Texts of the Pfalms; in Order to account for the Variances between them, and thereby establish the Authenticity of the one, and the Fidelity of the other. By John Reeves, Efq. 8vo. Pages 286. Payne, White, and Wright London, 1801.

(Continued from P. 171.)

WE now proceed to give extracts from what we have already called

"a learned" Epiftle prefixed to this Collation. From thefe, it will be feen what opinions the author has expressed on the points, upon which we have made some observations in a former month.

First, as to the object of this Collation, and the manner in which it was conducted.

"With thefe confiderations, as I before faid, in my mind, I had the curiofity to difcover what was the real extent of the difcordance between the Greek and Hebrew texts, by making myself an exact Collation of them. This experiment, I thought, would be more usefully made upon the Pfalms, which is the most popular, moft interefting, and best known of all the books in the Old Teftament. Being so fortunate as to know a perfon of the Jewish nation, who is extremely well verfed in their Scripture, and in all parts of Jewish learning, I fat down with him to make this trial; the refult of which will be feen in the following pages."

NO. XXXIV, VOL YIII;

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Further on in page 37, he thus explains the defign of the work, and his method of making the Collation of the two texts.

"The view propofed in this inquiry is, as I have before faid, to vindicate the fidelity of these tranflators; to induce the Greek fcholar to confult more frequently his Septuagint, where he may poffibly find as credible a witness to the true fenfe of the original, as in the prefent Maforetical text of the Jews; and further, to prevail with thofe who have been at the pains to acquaint themselves with the Hebrew, not to defpife the aid of the Greek text, which is more ancient than their favourite one, and will afford light in many points, where their Hebrew learning may fail them. After this, I have a hope, that the Greek and Hebrew schools will unite in allowing a proportionate share of credit and confidence to the two texts; and will, in their biblical ftudies, take pains fo to approximate them, that they may reflect a mutual light upon one another, and contribute to establish the Word of God upon two teftimonies, rather than upon one.

"Whether the attempt made in the following Collation is of a fort to forward any fuch defign; and whether, indeed, it is worthy to catch any of that tranfient notice, which is bestowed upon the publications of the day, is for the reader to judge. I fhall not prefume to fay any thing of the weight, or the worth of it; I will only undertake for its having one property, which is not ufually found in works of research; namely, that there is nothing in it, which is borrowed or adopted from, or formed by the aid of, any writer whatfoever, except only the commentary of THEODORET for the one text; and for the other text, the critical notes of SOLOMON BEN MELEC, to which he has given the fanciful title of MICLAL OPI, "The perfection of Beauty;" with the Jewish commentators, that are ufually comprehended in the Rabbinical Bible; to these were added the two Lexicons of BUXTORF; the Concordances of BUXTORF, TAYLOR, and TROMMIUS, and the publication called, the HEXAPLA of Origen. Refolved that this fhould be a real trial of the two texts made by myfelf, with the affiftance of the learned perfon before alluded to, I fat down to the examination, without any inquiry after the fpeculations, conjectures, or fuggeftions of other men; except fuch as are contained in the books of reference before mentioned. If fuch a process makes a work genuine, and that gives it any recommendation, for that I can vouch; but for nothing else.

"However, when the above-mentioned procefs was finished, I felt myself at liberty to indulge a curiofity to look into fome writers, who, I knew, mult have gone over the fame ground. I then found, that fome points, which are prefented in thefe pages as new, have been anticipated by others; but after full confideration of thefe coincidences, I ftill thought there was fomething belonging to the Collation here made, that diftinguished it from all that I faw in thole writers. I hope I do not deceive my reader or myself, when I fay, that what is here attempted, has been more fully opened, more anxiously explained, and more fcrupulously fupported by authorities, than any of the difquifitions which I have happened to turn to, fince this Collation was made: it has, I may add, another advantage over them all, which no English reader, I think, will deny to be one; I mean, that the whole is adapted to our church tranflation of the Bible."

Mr. R.'s opinion respecting the Septuagint tranflation, and of the English tranflations of the Palms, are contained in the following paflages.

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