declare, that the safety and intereft of the community must be preferred to individual advantage.

There is one point in which we agree with this author, which is, that expreffed in P. 329.---" They (the Quakers), perhaps, ftill owe the world a more public declaration of thole principles which feparate them, and keep them, like a diftant caft, in fome of the most interesting concerns of human life.” We hope the fociety of Friends will take this hint, and favour mankind with fome reasons for the faith they profess.

In P. 332, when writing on the English conftitution, he has this expreffion :--

"Unless he be a man of certain property, whatever may be his capacity or integrity, he is unqualified for the Legislature, and almost every other fpecies of the magiftracy; and, as if his perfonal privileges, or the rights of his family, were lefs due to him than the fecurity of his property, he has not even a voice in choosing a reprefentative ?"

Does he mean here to claim the right of universal fuffrage? If he do not, what does he intend? If he does, we are prepared to leave him, like Glendowr, calling " fpirits from the vafty deep;" and, we trust, they will not come though he does call.---It is a demand that has been made a thousand times, and the utter impracticability of purfuing it, to any purpofe of good government, has as often been manifefted; but to fuch affertions there is no end; reafon, experience, and argument, have little chance of fuccefs with obftinate and wilful blindness.

In the fame page he proceeds :--

"Impreffing of feamen is warranted at home; and, by ballot, he (not a feaman, but any other man,) may be taken from his family, and fubjected to all the feverities of military fervice, and to military discipline alfo, and martial law; by order of his mafters and officers he may be tied up and whipt, or he may be put to death without any trial by his peers,Such is the condition of the self-applauding Englishmen, the inlanders cut off from, and defpifing, the other nations of the earth,"

From the very bottom of our hearts, we truft this partial, this prejudiced compiler, is not an Englishman! He who could thus mifchievously, and for what purpose he best knows, mifrepresent the fyftem of our militia laws, is utterly unworthy of the protection they afford.

Even this account he thinks not fufficiently ftrong:---Hear him again in P. 612. Since the establishment of a militia, or the coercion of peaceable inhabitants into the degraded fate ef hired affaffins, Sc. 9." Is this trath to be borne with

patience?

patience? Is the honour of the officers of the militia, men felected from one of the moft refpectable claffes of fociety this country affords, to be thus afperfed under the cloke of Quakerifm? But what can be expected from the man who writes thus Far from fhewing himself a citizen of the world, he betrays, in his writings, the partialities and narrow fenti ments of a PATRIOT." (P. 593.) What "fentiment" does John Walker betray in his writings? There can be but one fentiment" on that fubject.

With one other question, merely to fhew what this man does approve, we will leave him :

"While the other governments of Europe generally exhibit the mafs of the people in chains, and the rulers exercifing all the address of keepers of ftrong and dangerous animals, goading them till they begin to fhew their teeth, and then only defifting till they begin to growl, and return to their former apathetic or fubmiffive ftate, the FRENCH have rifen fuperior to thefe debafing and infulting establish. ments." P. 454.

Here the fecret is out; here the "friend to Britain's foes" tells you what he would be at, and here let us leave him. He has infulted the conftitution of England---we repeat the hope that it is not his country; he has infulted those establishments which were framed by the wifdom of her fenators, and approved by the people; which time hath made venerable, and experience hath evinced to be most excellent---and for what? To contraft them with a government founded on regicide, and fupported by a tyranny to which " eastern defpotifm" is

mercy.

At the conclufion of his preface he writes thus :--

"It is a matter with me, in prints and books, to blot out, erase, or feal up, with pafte and paper, fuch parts as I do not wish again to read or fee; and to make a fort of distinctive marks at the parts I think moft excellent.-Now thofe who do not approve of particular parts of this work, would, perhaps, find more fatisfaction in thus demolishing what they do not like, than in minding much about the authors-it is the mode I would recommend."

I thank thee, Jew, for giving me that word.'

For we will ufe it---We moft heartily recommend it to those who already poffefs this book, and to thofe who may hereafter poffefs it, to "blot out, erafe, and demolish," every part that feems to be the production of, John Walker, whether it appear in the fhape of comment, reflection, or opinion; for, without fo doing, it is neither fit for school, closet, nor library.

Having thus given an analysis of the principles, at least, contained in this work, written by a Quaker, and publifhed

by

by Quakers, (a circumftance which we take leave to recommend to the notice of " Examiner," who fo recently exulted in the exemption of modern Friends' from all charges of improper conduct,"*) and thus enabled our readers to form their own judgement of its merits, we fhall now observe, that it had not before fallen to our lot to review any book which had fo thoroughly convinced us of the neceffity of fuch a tribunal as that which we have, moft fortunately, fucceeded in establishing. It might naturally have been expected, without paying any great compliment to the integrity of our critics, that there could not be any one of them, having the fmalleft pretenfions to character, who would not, in criticising Mr. Walker's publication, indicate its defects, and put the public on their guard against the pernicious principles which it contained. With this impreffion on our minds, duly modified, however, by our knowledge of the individuals to whose labours we had to refer for the fettlement of the point in question, we turned over the pages of the Monthly Review, (which is certainly conducted with more ability, and has a more extensive circulation, than any of the Jacobin Reviews,) and in Pp. 457, 458, VOL. xx. of the new feries, we found that Mr. John Walker had not only "compreffed a great deal. of information in a very small compafs," but had alfo "interfperfed his narrative with a variety of remarks and reflections, which do equal honour to the man and the philofopher!" No doubt, the condemnation of the English government, fo decidedly pronounced by the author, and his admiration of the French, as decidedly expreffed, for their abolition of "debafing and infulting ESTABLISHMENTS," contributed not a little to extort from the Reviewer this liberal acknowledgement; indeed, this is nearly proved to have been the cafe, from his indication of those parts of the work with which, he declares, he had been particularly pleased.".

In order farther to excite curiofity, and to promote circulation, the Reviewer obferves:-" This work abounds with ftriking, and fome peculiar fentiments."---'Tis true, indeed,, that the fentiments which we have noticed, are peculiar to the Jacobins, and, therefore, it is, that this Jacobin critic adds,

which, on the whole, juftly merit our commendation, AS

BEING WELL ADAPTED FOR THE INFORMATION AND

IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH!!!" It is fcarcely poffible to carry critical profligacy to a greater height. Can we wonder at the prevalent corruption of mind and manners, when the

See p. 216 of this Volume of our Review.

very men whofe peculiar duty it is to point out the lurking poifon, and dafh it from the lips of inconfiderate youth, thus offer the cup and ftimulate them to fwallow the destructive draught? But the Reviewer, anxious to recommend this fa. voured author to every defcription of perfons, extends his panegyric on the work :

"It may alfo be confidered as an agreeable companion for thole who have frequently turned over the pages of antient and modern biftory. Books of this nature are generally written in a dry unani. mated manner, with fcarcely a fhadow of fentimentality.* But the character of Mr. W.'s performance is fo much the reverse of this, that we think it peculiarly valuable, for the author's multifarious refections and remarks on a great variety of topics, as they occafionally accurred to his obfervation, in the courfe of his compilement."

This eulogy, no doubt, had its effect, in producing a fecond edition of a work, which, had it been fairly and honeftly reviewed, would, it is apprehended, have been as limited in its circulation, as it is reprehenfible for its doctrine. At that sime, the critics difplayed the cloven foot of Jacobinism, without fear of controul, or dread of expofure; they incurred no oppofition to the propagation of their principles, and they adopted no referve in the exertion of their efforts, for illuminating the public mind. Since the eftablishment of the ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW, they have found it expedient to alter their tone, and to encreafe their circumfpection; and were this the only good effect which our work had produced, we fhould not think our labours wholly thrown away; but, fortu nately for the public, and fatisfactorily to ourselves, its benecral confequences have been more deeply felt, more widely diffufed; while we have torn off the mafk of Jacobinifm, and have expofed the Jacobins in all their naked deformity, to public indignation and fcorn, we have imparted courage and confidence to the literary fupporters of our religious and poli

After witneffing fuch liberties as the Monthly Reviewer here takes with the language of his country, and fuch commendations, as he bestows on the licentious production of Mr. John Walker, we were not a little furprized to find the following juft obfervation in the very ext page of his Review, which exemplifies, in a ftriking manner, the wonderful confifteney of his practice with his profeffions :

Next to the care with which Reviewers ought to mark and reprehend every thing offenfive to morals, is the duty which they owe to the language and taffe of their country."!!!-Subfcribing cheerfully to this doctrine, we fhall only remark-Vita que pari cum verbis ambulat gradu, adproba eft;—and, on the other hand, Duplicem pænam meretur qui specie boni eft malus.

tical establishments, and fecured for them, fome portion, at leaft, of that encouragement and of that protection to which their exertions are fo justly entitled.

ART II The Poetical Works of the Rev. Samuel Boop A. M. late Head-Mafter of Merchant-Taylors' School, Rector of St. Martin Outwich, London, and of Ditten in the County of Kent, and Chaplain to the Bishop of Bangor. To which are prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author. By the Rev. Thomas Clare, A. M. 4to. 2 Vols. Pp. 387. Price 21. 2s. Cadell and Davies. London. 1798.

HE Poetical Works of Mr. Bishop are extremely mifcellaneous, and difplay a vigorous mind, poffeffing great variety of knowledge, and capable of delineating the ideas impreffed upon it with great facility, terfenefs, ftrength, and elegance. Thefe pofthumous volumes have been published under the fuperintendance of a friend, who has written the Memoirs of his Life, and given a fhort critique on his ftyle and compofitions in general. The Editors of the Monthly Review have reprefented the talents afcribed to Mr. Bishop, by his biographer, as " extravagant encomiums," originating from an immoral and impolitic partiality." (VOL. XXII. P. 377.) Of the fame Memoirs, the British Critic obferves, that they" contain a modest and fenfible account of the Life and merits of the author, drawn up by a friend, who writes with no more partiality than is well-becoming of that character, and with a deference to the public opinion, which the zeal of friendship does not always maintain." (VOL. VIII. P. 461.) As the Monthly Review, however, "believes every thing that his biographer fays in favour of the moral and religious character" (ib. P. 385,) of Mr. Bishop, we shall best eftimate the juftice of fuch contrariety of fentiment in critics, by giving extracts from every fpecies of compofition contained in thefe volumes. Of the Odes, the Monthly Review has felected that on eloquence, as containing fome "trong and nervous lines, dictated by a manly and liberal fpirit.' We shall extract fome irregular ftanzas from the Ode on Inftruments of Mufic, that are above mediocrity :

"Hark! how the folemn Organ calls

Attention's fober ears to hallow'd walls;

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Where meek, yet warm, beneath the Temple's fhade
Devotion feeks with ftedfaft eyes

The God, whofe glories every gloom pervade,

To whom for ever prayer is made,

And daily praifes rife!

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