had preferred her religion to her country. The profeffion of her father did not extinguish the moderation and philofophy of his temper*, and he lived contentedly with a small salary and laborious duty, in the obfcure lot of minifter of Craffy, in the mountains that separate the Pays de Vaud from the county of Burgundy. In the folitude of a fequeftered village, he bestowed a liberal and even learned education on his only daughter. She furpaffed his hopes by her proficiency in the sciences and languages; and in her fhort vifits to fome relations at Lausanne, the wit, the beauty and the erudition of Mademoiselle Curchod were the theme of univerfal applaufe. The report of fuch a prodigy awakened my curiofity: I faw and loved. I found her learned without pedantry, lively in converfation, pure in fentiment, and elegant in manners; and the firft fudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance. She permitted me to make her two or three vifits at her father's houfe. I paffed fome happy days there in the mountains of Burgundy, and her parents honourably encouraged the connection. In a calm retirement the gay vanity of youth o longer fluttered in her bofom: fhe lif tened to the voice of truth and paffion, and I might prefume to hope that I had made fome impreffion on a virtuous heart. At Craffy and Laufanne I indulged my dream of felicity; but on my return to England I foon difcovered that my father would not hear of this frange alliance, and that without his confent I was myself deftitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate, I fighed as a lover, I obeyed as a fon; my wound was infenfibly healed by time, abfence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herfelf; and my love fubfided in friendship and efteem. The minifter of Craffy foon afterwards died, his ftipend died with him; his daughter retired to Geneva, where, by teaching young ladies, the earned a hard fubfiftence for herself and her mother but in her loweft diftrefs the maintained a spotless reputation and a dignified be* This is a fcoff which is neither dictated by the spirit of moderation nor by that of true philofophy. haviour. A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good fenfe to difcover and poffefs this ineftimable treasure; and in the capital of taste and luxury fhe refifted the temptations of wealth as fhe had fuftained the hardfhips of indigence. The genius of her husband has exalted him to the moft confpicuous station in Europe. In every change of profperity and difgrace, he has reclined on the bofom of a faithful friend, and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker the minifter, and perhaps the legillator of the French monarchy." (Some further extracts will be given in a future number.) The History of the Trial of Warren Haftings, Efq; late Governor-General of Bengal, before the High Court of Parliament in Weftminster Hall, on an Impeachment by the Commons of Great Britain, for High Crimes and Mifdemeanors. Containing the whole of the Proceedings and Debates in both Houses of Parliament, relating to that celebrated Profecution, from Feb. 17. 1786, until his acquittal, April 23. 1795. To which is added, an account of the Proceedings of various General Courts of the Honourable United Eaft-India Company, held in confequence of his Acquittal. 8vo. Ios. 6d. boards. Debrett. THERE is a very great variety of mattle of which is highly interefting. The ter compreffed into this volume, not a litCompiler and Editor feems to have poffeffed a fpirit of patient perfeverance fomewhat analogous to that which fupfication during his long trial. ported the illuftrious fubject of his pub The introductory address touches in the volume.-As a fpecimen we shall with an elegant brevity on all the fubjects tranfcribe what is faid of Mr Haftings. ners, and of an elegant mind. From his "MR Haftings is a man of gentle manearlieft years he has been devoted to ftudy and to the fervice of his country. In private life he has uniformly displayed univerfal benevolence to all around him, in the government of his own paffions— as well as most exemplary moderation in the public characters in which he was fucceffively employed, the most impartial juftice. His mind, active and comprehenfive at all times, rofe with an elaftic force under every preffure; and, con fe fequently, his talents and virtues fhone forth with the greatest splendor in times of difficulty and danger. In 1768, at a crifis pregnant with danger, and full of alarm, he purfued thofe meafures which the impending calamities required. In another hemifphere, and among nations governed by other religions, cuftoms, and laws, he maintained the British dominion in India, by means exactly of the fame kind with thofe that acquired them. It has been justly ob ferved, on the subject of legiflation, that what is metaphyfically true may be in that, very proportion politically falfe; and that in all cafes refpect fhould be had to times and circumftances. It could fcarcely be expected that Mr Haftings, in circumftances that admit of great lati tude of conduct in Europe, fhould attempt to weather the ftorm in India by an European compafs. Without violating the ufages and laws of Afia, he combined and directed a large military force for the preservation of our Asiatic fettle ments. "The confederacy of Europe with America, the irruption of Hyder into the Carnatic, the flight of Sir Thomas Rumbold from Madras, the fupineness and imbecility of his fucceffors in that prefidency, the defeat of the British army under Sir Hector Munro, the excision of Colonel Baillie's detachment; all thefe circumstances of improvidence, difgrace, and difafter, ftruck a temporary panic, and, for a time, unnerved the heart, and unftrung the arm. He who was the firft in mind as in ftation, to whom every anxious and imploring eye was now turned, did not difappoint the fond hopes and expectations of his countrymen. From the centre of Calcutta an energy was diffused throughout the whole of the British fettlements in Hindoftan. The Governor General displayed a dignity and elevation of mind that feemed to carry him wholly out of himfelf, as well as to fink every private intereft and concern in the grand pursuits of public fpirit; and, notwithstanding the very powerful oppofition he had to encounter, he conducted the war at laft to a profperous and glorious iffue. "Such is Mr Haftings, whom neither innocence, nor virtue, nor talents, nor complete and brilliant fuccefs in the moft arduous as well as important enterprize, was able to fave from a profecution not more furprizing in its origin than wonderful in its conduct: which, when we reflect on the spirit that dietated, perplexed, and protracted it, may be called, in the emphatic language of the Sacred Scriptures, a fiery Trial; and of which it may be remarked, that never was Trial fo long protracted, or fo completely triumphant over fuch a combination of learning, ability, and politi cal power. "The public mind, by the obtrufion of never ceafing affertion, aided by all the powers of oratory, was stunned into an apprehenfion that the late Governor General might not be found fo free as was generally wifhed, from all ground and fhadow of reproach. Year paffed on after year, and a degree of fufpicion was followed by a greater degree of indifference to the matter at issue. "At last men began to wonder, that where accufation was fo loud, proof fhould be fo feeble; and public opinion, that had been the floweft to give any degree of credit to his accufers, formed the first and most certain prefage of his acquittal. Every thing in human affairs is mixed. Good is blended, and depends in fome meafure for its very effence on evil. But the ways of Providence, though myfterious, are juft. The caufe of temporary affliction has configned the name of Haftings to immortal honour, by incorporating his life and actions with the juridical as well as the political and military hiftory of his country. The char ges brought against Mr Haftings are not now to be confidered as misfortunes, but as difficulties that have proved and ennobled his virtues." The Profperity of Great Britain, compared with the State of France, her Conquests, and Allies. Addreffed principally to the Freeholders, Farmers, and Artificers of Great Britain, and particular ly to thofe of the County of Salop, By Rowland Hunt, Efq. 8vo. 18. 6d. Stockdale. AMONG other remarks, which may well deferve attention, we find the fol lowing on private juftice in the diftribution of property, as one of the means of preferving our national profperity "THE laying out of a landed Estate, and the letting of it, are important chari ges; they are a truft for the good, not only of a man's own family, but of the community, for the present time, as welli as as for pofterity. Whatever will make the most of an Estate in point of money, is by no means the only confideration: what renders it of moft fervice to the community is alfo a principal object; and particularly the letting of lands at fuch a rent, that, if cultivated with induftryand judgment, the tenant may thrive, when corn is at a price adapted to the labour of the country. The exertions of industry should have every encouragement, but indolence should be rooted out by every means in our power. "The Farmer fhould confider, that as the price of corn is, fo is every other commodity; and that as the confumer purchases, fo will he fell his own goods. If corn is fold at nine fhillings, the collar-maker, the blacksmith, the cooper, the chandler, and all the other tradesmen will fell at their usual prices; but if not, all the tradefmen muft raise their goods in one way or other. The ironmonger will not fell nails by the long hundred'; the chandler will not give thirteen to the dozen; the blacksmith cannot throw his farriery into the bill of iron work; and, in fhort, either prices will be raised, or the usual indulgences, which make farming and trade on a friendly footing with each other, will be with-held.Now if the farmer fells at nine fhillings to the contractor, and he felling it again, and fo repeatedly, till the confumer buys it at twelve fhillings; the farmer not on ly lofes the three fhillings once; but in every thing he purchases, he feels the ill effect of one article, namely corn, being raifed. This is as evident to every one who confiders it, as the fun at noonday; and is a reason for felling to the confumer in the public market, at as reafonable a price as the times will allow, "So again the Tradefman: if he fells at a moderate price, he will turn ten pounds ten times over, while a perfon who fells a little dearer than he ought, will not do the fame thrice in the fame time. This the late Mr Wedgewood felt as an honeft man; practised like a wife man; left a noble fortune to his family; and his example to posterity. "So of the Labourer: the good will of an employer is worth more than twopence a day. When the price of labour is moderate, conftant employment will be had univerfally; when it is not, foreign aid, and every kind of contract will be fought for, to avoid a lafting burden. In short, it is for the good of all, that all VOL. LVIII. fhould be well off: if the landlord is at eafe, his repairs, draining, and other encouragements, will be obtained on proper terms; if the tenant, then will he cultivate well, and pay honeftly; if the artificer or tradesman, he will fell good things, make good work, and can afford fuch moderate credit, as much affifts the benefit of society: if the labourer is contented, he will work cheerfully, bring up his family to induftry; will be the friend of his neighbours; and not liable to many temptations, which, in a ftate of want, fow the feeds of vice and mifery. In fhort, it is good for all, that all shall be well off; and as God has profpered us, let us not be wanting to ourselves; but, as Britons and as Chrif tians, let us acknowledge our gratitude, by promoting the welfare of each other." NEW PUBLICATIONS. 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To him more fweet thro' afhen woods to rove, As eddying winds the foliage round him whirl, Than cull the bloffoms of an orange grove Skirted by rofe-tree bowers, where rivulets purl Mid bafil tufts, and odorous breezes curl The stream befprent with many a filver lote; While, on the fmooth canal, light ships unfurl Their sportive fails, and gently as they float, Flutter the billing doves, and croud the neighbouring cote. While the gay-gilded mofque fhines, half conceal'd By tamarinds and the broad-leav'd fyca more, And, as beneath their trembling verdureveil'd, Airs, Eden-born, delicious incense pour Softening the fervours of the fummer hour! While rich pomegranates bid their cooling feeds To the parcht palate a keen sense restore, And, round each whispering iflet of cane reeds Its melon's grateful pulp the tepid water feeds. Given as a specimen of The Influence of Local Attachment; a Poem just published. Not ivory palaces, their roofs inlaid With maffy gold, where thrones of coral glow Starr'd with the gems of Ormuz; not the fhade Ambrofial, waving its peach-flowers that blow To pearly grapes, and kifs the turf below, The genuine fon of Albion could induce His dairy-meads, his fallows to forego: Not all the fruits, that bloom o'er every fluice, Would, in his mind, outvie the redftreak's vermeil juice. Nor, if to innocence a gentle fmile Beam, placid as the May's mild morningbreak; If, with a modeft blush, to mark our ifle, Mantle to veins of azure the fair cheek: Are not the charms of foreign beauty weak, Beauty that wantons with voluptuous air? Can jetty ringlets that adorn the neck, Sleek as they glisten to the funny glare, Rival, O Albion's dames, your amber-brightening hair? Yet pleasure views, and trembles at the gaze, Thofe gloffy treffes their luxuriance fpread To rofeate effences; the diamond-blaze Of many a crefcent on the turban'd head, Or the pearl luftre as by rainbows fed; The full dark eye; the panting of the breaft Thro' gauze that feems to kindle; limbs that fhed Purpureal light by filken folds careft, And the rich zone that checks the thin tranf parent veft. See, as the rofe-lipt Almé weave the dance, To melting airs they move, in amorous play; Or, arch with nods and wreathed fmiles, they glance Their nimble feet to frolic measures gay: The cymbal's notes to love new warmth convey: 3 X 2 The |