Confeffedly beautiful as the original is, it fuffers little in the hands of Mr. Cowper; and though Pope has been happy enough in his verfion of this paffage, yet the prefent tranflator has nothing to dread from comparifon.

on the shore

She found him feated; tears fucceeding tears
Delug'd his eyes, while, hopeless of return,
Life's precious hours to eating cares he gave
Continual, with the nymph now charm'd no more.
Yet, cold as fhe was am'rous, ftill he pafs'd
His nights befide her in the hollow grot,
Conftrain'd, and day by day the rocks among
Which lined the fhore heart-broken fat, and oft
While wiftfully he eyed the barren deep,

Wept, groan'd, defponded, figh'd, and wept again."

POPE'S VERSION.

"Him penfive on the lonely beach fhe found,
With freaming eyes in briny torrents drown'd,
And inly pining for his native fhore;

For now the foft Enchantress pleas'd no more:
For now, reluctant, and conftrain'd by charms,
Abfent he lay in her defiring arms,

In flumber wore the heavy night away,
On rocks and fhores confum'd the tedious day;
There fat all defolate, and figh'd alone,

With echoing forrows made the mountains groan,
And roll'd his eyes o'er all the reftless main,

Till dimm'd with rifing grief, they ftream'd again."

MONTHLY

Par...s.

CATALOGUE,

For AUGU ́S T, 1792.

EAST INDIA AFFAIRS.

Art. 15. Reprefentation and Petition from his Highness the Nabob of the Carnatic, prefented to the Houfe of Commons, March 5, 1792. 8vo. PP. 75. 25. Debrett.

THERE is, perhaps, no clafs of men that more requires hints of

recollection that they are but men, and fubject to human viciffitudes, than fovereign princes; and perhaps there never was an age that furnished more pointed leffons of this kind than the prefent. Among the humiliating examples, is that of the Nabob of the Carnatic, ftanding at the bar of a popular affembly fome thousands of miles from his own dominions, fuing for protection against a long feries of oppreffions and ufurpations of a company of merchants, who have, at length, taken the adminiftration of his government out of his hands, in violation of a recent treaty, on the plea of that treaty being infufficient for fecuring the expected advantages! This

treaty of perpetual friendship and alliance was concluded with the Nabob in February 1787, by Sir Archibald Campbell, under the orders of the Board of Controul; from which board, it is ftated, the treaty received the fulleft approbation.

• Sir Archibald Campbell, when he fent home the treaty, speaks in the following terms of the Nabob.

"I have narrowly watched all the Nabob's conduct and fentiments fince my arrival in this country, and I am ready to declare that I do not think it poffible that any Prince, or Power on earth, can be more fincerely attached to the profperity of the Honourable Company than his Highness, or that any one has a higher claim to their favour and liberality."

It is neither practicable nor neceffary for us to enter into the detail of the Nabob's complaints, but he concludes with the following reprefentation:

That the Nabob has now been the most faithful and stedfaft ally of the English nation, during a period of near fifty years: that he has gone hand in hand with them at all times of adverfity as well as profperity, and has devoted his whole life and fortune to their welfare: that, after all, inflead of enjoying repofe and tranquillity which he had expected would have been the reward of his long and faithful attachment to the English nation, his latter days are embittered with aggravated misfortune and affliction, and his grey hairs treated with derifion and contempt: that there are many other grievances under which the Nabob labours, but which the eftablishing a general line, that muft not be tranfgreffed, will remove: that, in fetting forth the grievances he has explained, he has avoided to accufe or blame individuals: that redress is his object, and not revenge; and that, content with receiving justice for the future, he wants no retribution for paft injuries: that he is willing to afcribe fome public encroachments upon his rights to the Company's being ignorant of the limits of their own; and far be it from his heart to lay to the charge of a great nation, whom he esteems, admires, and loves, thofe enormities, encroachments, and oppreffions, which paffions of various kinds have fuggefted to individuals: that the Nabob of The Carnatic fends this his Petition to the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament affembled, as the Company of Merchants of England trading to The East Indies, and their concerns, are peculiarly under their infpection and controul; and therefore praying the Houfe to take the premifes into their confideration, and to do in them as to the House shall seem fit.'

Surely it does not become a generous government to fuffer a friendly ally to be reduced to the circumftances fo pathetically, yet fo mildly, reprefented!

N.

Art. 16. A Letter from a Gentleman in Lancashire to his Friend in the Eaft Indies, on the Subject of the War with Tippoo Sultan. 8vo. pp. 27. IS. Richardfon. 1792.

It is fufficiently clear that this was intended to be a very clever letter: but its particular aim, if it has any, beyond being witty on

the

the Eastern war, baffles our difcovery. The occafion is also paffed,
and our operations are closed; whether to the author's fatisfaction,
we know not: but if he has any stock of humour on hand to fend
to market, he may now employ it on the treaty of peace.
N.
Art. 17. A general View of the Variations which have been made in
the Affairs of the Eaft India Company, from the Conclufion of the
War in India in 1784, to the Commencement of the present
Hoftilities. By George Anderfon, A. M. Accountant to the
Right Honourable the Commiffioners for the Affairs of India.
Large Paper 8vo. pp. 116; with a Supplement, pp. 37. 6s.
Stockdale. 1792.

Art. 18. A Letter to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, Prefident of the
Board of Controul, on the Statement of the Affairs of the Eaft
India Company, lately published by George Anderfon, Efq.
Accountant to the Commiffioners for the Affairs of India. By
George Tierney, Efq. Large Paper 8vo. PP. 47. 1s. 6d.
Debrett. 1792.

We have claffed thefe two publications together, because Mr.
Anderfon principally controverts the difadvantageous ftatements in
A Letter to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, published during the last
year*, and which, by the letter above mentioned, appears to have
been the work of Mr. Tierney; and the fupplement to Mr. Ander-
fon's pamphlet is a reply to this fecond letter. These two gentle-
men are both deeply involved in the mazes of Eaft India accounts,
whither we cannot pretend to follow them; and are warmly con-
tefting matters on which we prefume not to decide. We can however
add, that Mr. Anderfon's fatements are introduced by a clear ex-
planation of the feveral departments of the Company's accounts,
both in their commercial and in their fovereign capacities:-but
thefe blend with and interfere fo intricately in general ftate-
ments, that we can only infer that their concerns are grown too
mighty either for proper management, or for due comprehenfion. N.
Art. 19. Strictures and Occafional Obfervations upon the Syftem of
British Commerce with the East Indies: with Remarks, and pro-
pofed Regulations, for encouraging the Importation of Sugar
from Bengal; and Hints for the Arrangement of the Trade, after
it fhall be feparated from the Revenue of our Territorial Acqui-
fitions. To which is added, A Succinct Hiftory of the Sugar
Trade in general. By the Author of A Short Review of the
Trade of the East India Company. 8vo. pp. 210.
Debrett. 1792.

4s. fewed.

This pamphlet contains propofed regulations for the fupply of this country with fugar from the Eaft Indies; in his expectations of the fuccefs of which, the writer is very fanguine. He does not, however, advert to the circumftances of our Weft Indian iflands, nor to our reciprocal engagements with the planters, who have cultivated thole islands in reliance on parliamentary faith:-but it must be ad

* See Rev. New Series, vol. vi. p. 333.

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mitted,

mitted, that when fuch flrenuous efforts are made, and when mea, fores are purfuing, which may render the future fupply of Weft Indian fugar at least problematical, it may be high time to look out for a fupply of fo neceffary an article elfewhere.

The writer urges many reafons for terminating the monopoly of our trade to the Eaft, or at least for transferring it to a company purely mercantile.

SLAVE TRADE.

N. Art. 20. Subftance of a Speech intended to have been made on Mr. Wilberforce's Motion for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade, April 3d, 1792: but the Unwillingness of the Committee to hear any Thing farther on the Subject, after Mr. Pitt had spoken, prevented the Member from being heard. 8vo. pp. 76. is. 6d. Owen, Piccadilly.

This intended fpeech may gain more attention in print, than in an affembly of men whofe imaginations are heated by declamatory addreffes to the paffiors The writer combats the idea that the voice of the people demanded the abolition of the flave-trade, by giving Colonel Tarleton's reprefentation of the difingenuous mode by which the fenfe of the people has been obtained: that is, from thofe who know no more of the fubject than they have been taught by the induftrious circulation of garbled and partial accounts of it. He turns the evidence and arguments againit this trade entirely against the abolitionists; for example;

A Right Hon. Gentleman, whofe weight with the Houfe is defervedly great, and whofe abilities and eloquence are sufficient to make the worfe appear the better caufe, has exerted both in fupport of the motion. He has endeavoured to fhew, that the abolition of this trade cannot be injurious to our Weft India colonies, " because it appears we are able now to keep up the prefent ftock by the number of births, which, upon an average in all the islands, equal, if they do not exceed the deaths." But permit me to obferve to this Committee, that if there be already a fufficient number of Negroes in our colonies, this argument proves too much-there would be no need to abolish a trade which would end of itself, because there would be no market for the flaves in the West Indies, and confequently no perfon would bring them over.'

He fhews, from the favage manners of the Africans, which are too well known to be doubted, that whatever may be the abstract fpeculative merits of fuch a trade, it is a pofitive act of humanity to carry any human beings out of the country; and that even the late interference in regulating flave fhips, is likely to occafion violent outrages against humanity. The circumftances of the follow-⚫ ing flory are too natural to be doubted:

A captain of a trading ship had a young woman with a child at her breast brought to him to purchase, which he refufed, as by the late regulation fuch child would be reckoned among the number he was permitted to carry. Some few days after, one of his officers

Mr. Pitt.'

purchafed

purchased a young woman, who having a breaft full of milk, and appearing melancholy, the captain endeavoured, by his linguilt, to learn the caufe; he found that this poor woman was the fame he had refused fome little time before. Her owner had taken her away, murdered the infant, and brought her back without the child. The gentle abolitionists may glory in their humanity.-The barbarous flave captain told the story with the most lively fentiments of regret.

If this horrid tranfaction happened in confequence of regulation, and many others of the fame fort will undoubtedly happen, which we fhall know nothing of, the confequences of abolition will be a thousand times worfe; in proof of which we refer to the hiftories of Africa, the evidence on your table, and the affidavit annexed.' We shall close this article by a tranfcript of the following obfervation:

The only rational mode of abolishing the flave trade, is to increase the population in the Weft Indies; and the mode of doing fo, in the fpeediest and most effectual manner, is by increasing the importation of young women. When by that means you have as many Negroes in the colonies as you have occafion for, the trade to Africa for them will end of courle. This will be a gradual abolition, and the only mode by which a gradual abolition can take place, confiftent with juftice or bumanity. In time, this will allo abolith fervitude-for it is an abuse of the word, to call the condition of the Negroes in the West Indies, flavery.'

N.

Art. 21. A Letter to Bache Heathcote, Efq. on the fatal Confequences of Abolishing the Slave-Trade, both to England, and her American Colonies. By Henry Redhead, Efq. 8vo. pp. 85. 25. Stockdale. 1792.

This is another fenfib.e confideration of the flave trade, fo far as it goes, but it does not enter into an abstract difcuffion of the leading question agitated by the abolitioners. How fatal the abolition of the trade may prove to England, to her American colonies, or even to the poor wretches in Africa who are the objects of this trade, are matters furely not beneath the notice of thefe gentlemen, while they plead that the rights of man are invaded by it! N. Art. 22. Thoughts in favour of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and the Emancipation of the Negroes, refpectfully inscribed to the Honourable Houfe of Commons. By Francis Stone, M. A. F. S. A. Rector of Cold-Norton, Effex. 8vo. pp. 35. IS. Stalker.

Mr. Stone, most probably, means well: but when a parochial clergyman, who has immediate duties enough on his hands, wanders into a fubject embracing fo many circumftances and confiderations foreign to his knowlege and profefional ftudies, he muft neceffarily treat it fuperficially: efpecially when he is difpofed to indulge in a little ludicrous innocent fun on a ferious fubject.' (P. 19.) Art. 23. The Interim; or, Thoughts on the Trafic of Weft India Slaves; and on fome other Slaves, not lefs worthy of Compatfion;