with desperation, and heaps of the slain, both French and English, were afterwards found on the points of attack; most of them had been killed with the bayonet. It was supposed that the enemy would make his principal efforts against the bridge of vessels; and to be in readiness for the approach on that side, Lord Saltoun barricaded every entrance tò the old Convent of St. Bernard; this post he had strongly intrenched, and with great ability had converted it into a respectable little fortress. The French gun-boats descended the river opposite to the limits of the intrenched camp, and opened a heavy flanking cannonade against the first division, which now moved forward to support the piquets upon the right flank of the line. Major-General Hay, whose division had crossed the Adour some time before, and encamped near Boucaut, was the general in command of the outposts for the night; and, whilst giving directions for the defence of some of the most important buildings in the village of St. Etienne, was unfortunately killed, and the enemy gained possession of nearly the whole of them." #ed sat ai

In the early part of the attack, Sir John Hope, accompanied by all his staff, went forward to ascertain the enemy's movements against St. Etienne; and wishing to arrive there by the shortest way, entered the cross-road, or lane, before described, not aware that a great part of it was in the enemy's possession, and that the piquets of the right flank had fallen back when the French columns pierced the line of outposts. He Irad not proceeded far, before he discovered, by a faint glimmer in the horizon, that he was upon the point of riding into the enemy's line, and iinmediately ordered his staff to face about and get out of the hollow road. The general with his aide-de-camp Lieutenant Moore, and Captain Herries of the Quarter-Master General's Department, were in front, and consequently the last in retiring; however, before they could get out of the road, the French infantry came up to about twelve y yards distance, and began firing. Sir John Hope's horse received three balls, and instantly fell dead, bringing him to the ground, and entangling his foot under its side. Lieutenant Moore and Captain Herries immediately dismounted to his assistance, and were in the act of attempting to raise the general and disengage his foot, when the latter officer ful severely wounded; and, as ill-luck would have it, the instant after'á báll struck Lieutenant Moore and shattered his right arm. The general himself received a slight wound in the arm, and the French soldiers instantly came up and made them all prisoners. It appeared that they were only able to extricate Sir John Hope by drawing his leg out of the boot, which was afterwards found under the horse's side. As the French were conducting the general along the road towards Bayonne, he was again struck by a ball, supposed to be fired from our own piquets, which wounded him severely in the foot.' misiqs vá bor

The enemy, having thus far completely succeeded in His attack, lost no time in filling up the intrenchments made by the allies on the line of outposts. They had taken many prisoners, and amongst them was the Honourable Colonel Townsend, commanding the piquets of the first brigade of Guards. Nearly seventy pieces of their artillery had been constantly firing to support their attack; shells were continually flying

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through the air, describing beautiful curves of light as they fell; and the flashes from the cannon were almost incessant, rendering darkness doubly obscure at any momentary pause.'

In this state of the action, Major-General Howard directed Colonel Maitland to support the right flank with the first brigade of guards, to Co-operate in recovering the ground between the right flank and St. Etienne, Major-General Stopford was soon after wounded, leaving the command of the second brigade to General Guise. As it was supposed that the enemy would push on in the direction of Boucaut, with a view to destroy the bridge of vessels, Colonel Maitland formed, his brigade on the heights above the old convent of St. Bernard, to be in readiness to charge the enemy in flank, should he advance towards the bridge; but, when it was found that the attack was wholly directed against the centre of the semicircular countervallation opposite to the citadel, he advanced with the third battalion of the First Foot-Guards, under the Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart, to attack the French in the hollow road, and in the fields in its rear, of which they had gained possession.de, ?

12 On arriving near the French, line, which, from the extreme obscurity of the night, we could still only distinguish by the firing of their musketry from behind the hedges and walls, the whole battalion was ordered to lie down on the ground, and awaitasignal to rush forward and charge; whilst orders were communicated to the Coldstream Guarils, under Lieutenant-Colonel Woodford, to make a simultaneous attack for the recovery of the old position in the hollow road. During this interval, a hot fire was kept up by the skirmishers, and several officers and soldiers, in both brigades, were wounded. The third battalion, under Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart, was obliged to keep close to the ground, on a little eminence, which was so exposed to the fire of artillery from the citadel, that, had they stood up for a few moments, they must soon have been nearly annihilated. At length, the signal was given to charge and the battalion, rising in mass, rushed forward with an appalling shout; the Coldstream battalion, under Lieutenant-Colonel Woodford, charging the enemy in the opposite flank at the same inoment. This well combined attack decided, immediately, the contest on this part of the line; for the French, fearing to have their retreat upon the citadel cut off, ran with all speed to scramble through the difficult hollow lane, which, in a few moments after, was again in possession of the Guards. A most destructive fire was instantly commenced by both battalions against the French, in their retreat over the glacis of the citadel within the covered way.

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On the side of St. Etienne, the contest was extremely obstinate; but the enemy in vain endeavoured to take possession of a house occu pied by Captain Foster of the thirty-eighth regiment, who bravely maintained his post, although the greater part of his men were killed and wounded, till the brigade of the King's German Legion, commanded by Major-General Hinuber, retook the village, and rescued this brave officer and his intrepid little garrison. When the enemy was driven out of St. Etienne, a field-piece was brought to bear on the retreating

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columns, and no less than thirteen rounds of grape and cannister shot were fired with effect at them, as they retreated down the great road into St. Esprit: the slaughter at this point was terrific.'

Towards the close of the action, the moon had risen, and, as dawn broke over the scene of battle, we began to discern the dreadful havock that had been made; the French and English soldiers and officers were lying on all sides, either killed or wounded; and so intermixed were they that there appeared to have been no distinct line belonging to either party.

It would be almost impossible to convey an idea of the effect produced by the numerous flashes from the cannon and the sparkling light from the musketry, or of the confused noise from the roar of cannon, the bursting of shells, and the cheers of the soldiers, intermingled with the piercing shrieks and groans of the dying and wounded. At times the darkness was in part dispelled by the bright blue light of/fire-bals thrown from the citadel, to shew the assailants, where to direct their guns; which they effectually did, by the great, brilliancy with, which they burned. Some of these fire-balls and shells fell into the midst of the depôt of fascines, which instantly caught fire and burnt with great fierceness; so as to require constant texertions before they could be extinguished. Several houses caught fire, and two in particular burnt for a time with great violence, casting a lurid light under the vaulted clouds of smoke which rose to the skies. It seemed as if the elements of destruction had all burst forth together over this deep ensanguined scene of two contending armies, and in stuen antott, kiding

The loss, as may well be imagined, was severe, during so hard a conflict on a narrowly circumscribed space. It amounted, of the allies, to nearly eight hundred men, of whom about three hundred were prisoners. The loss of the French was much more severe; besides a general of brigade and a great number of officers killed, their ascertained loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners, was nine hundred and thirteen, but of these there were barely twenty prisoners. Independent of the mortification caused by the capture of their General-in-Chief, the left wing had to lament the loss of many brave officers. In the brigades of Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Sullivan, and Captain Crofton of the Coldstream Regiment, were killed, and about twelve officers of the three regiments received severe wounds, and unhappily most of these proved fatal.

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After the engagement was over, a momentary truc took place o the outposts, and the officers of both armies conversed together. On our expressing the deep regret we felt at the useless sacrifice that had been made of so many brave men, it was quite disgusting to observe the nonchalance affected by these gentlemen, and the light manner in which they pretended to treat it, remarking that, after all, it was nothing more than a petite promenade militaire. But it would be difficult to convey an idea of their astonishment, when we informed them of the events which had recently occurred in Paris, and they would not believe it possible that their idol Napoleon had abdicated the throne.'-pp. 159-165.

This obstinate conflict terminated our author's career of service until the crowning glories of Waterloo. The blockade of Bayonne ceased, very soon after the sortie, by the conclusion of the convention between the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Soult; and the Guards commenced their march through the Pays des Landes to Bordeaux there to embark for England. Of the scenery on the Adour and Garonne, and in the Landes, our author has a few pleasing views, accompanied by an agreeable journal of his route to Bordeaux; but for this closing part of his work we must refer our readers to the volume itself.

ART IV The Epistles of Paul the Apostle translated, with an Exposition and Notes. By the Rev. Thomas Belsham, Minister of Essex Street Chapel: 4 vols. 8vo. London. 1823. MR. Belsham has lately been in so unusual a state of quiescence,

that we began to doubt whether the lapse of years had not extinguished his love of controversy and prevailed over his hatred of dignitaries and establishments. He has now atoned for his silence by the production of four ponderous octavos, containing what he is pleased to call an exposition of St. Paul. The task of examining his former publications assuredly has never been rewarded by the occurrence of any depth of research, any felicity of conjecture, or even any ingenuity of paradox. His Tearning is altogether mean, his reading principally confined to the meagre catalogue of writers of his own party, his method of ratiocination positive and dogmatical, and convincing to himself alone, or to a few devoted followers. We were, on these accounts, so heartily wearied with Mr. Belsham's writings in general, that we little expected to have been provoked into any further discussion of them. But the work before us possesses claims to attention. It is the first full and systematical exposition of the opinions of the modern Unitarians on the momentous question of man's justification, founded indeed on principles already avowed, but differing from former works by considerJug, at great length, the whole of St. Paul's writings, in which that question is so fully treated, and endeavouring to bend or force every expression in them to an agreement with the Unitarian theory. We need hardly say that we are far from thinking Mr. Belsham a sufficient commentator on any part of the Sacred Volume; but the writings of St. Paul are assuredly that portion of it which he is the most incapable of explaining. We do not say this merely because a logician of Mr. Belsham's school may find peculiar difficulties in following the bold and rapid reasonings of the great Apostle, as we shall see hereafter is really the case; nor because the sudden breaks,

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