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Ingredients*. What shall we, what can we say to this?—We who understand no part of the subject, except the concluding operation, when the liquor is set before us in the sparkling glass!-Mystery apart, the author, it must be acknowleged, writes like an honest as well as an intelligent brewer; and we have no doubt that his book will prove useful to those readers for whom it is calculated.

An Index and Glossary accompany the work: to which, also, is prefixed a brief History of the London Brewery, from the earliest accounts of this truly important manufactory in our country.

Art. 48. Canterbury Tales. Vol. IV. By Harriet Lee. Svo. pp. 500. 8s. Boards. Robinsons. 1801.

Under this title, a string of romances and novels may be spun out ad libitum. We know not when this lady and her sister propose to stop, nor to what extent their imagination will supply them with ma⚫terials. Of the general merit of the Canterbury Tales, we have spoken on former occasions; and nothing more remains for us at present, than to notice the contents of the volume before us. It includes only two narratives; the German's Tale, and the Scotsman's Tale. The former, which occupies almost the whole volume, is constructed on ideas which the modern German writers have so abundantly supplied. Though not destitute of merit, it exhibits little else than a gloomy, horrid, and unnatural picture; and in some parts the story drags on with as much heaviness as a German stage waggon in a bad road. It would have produced more effect, had it been less dilated. The Scotsman's Tale is more pleasant and congenial to common feelings; and it uniformly sustains the interest which it excites. The history of two lovers, from the first moment of mutual attachment to their union in the vulgar bands of wedlock, is rapidly sketched, with some of those difficulties and perturbations which often intervene between hope and fruition. We are not, however, kept long in suspense; and, before the curtain drops, the Scotsman and his Claudina are rendered affluent and happy.

Miss Lee's reflections are in general judicious and amiable. Of the latter kind, is the remark which is made on the return of Claudina's brother, who was a French emigré, to his native country; How sincerely did we all lament that the tide of human affairs should separate beings united by every principle of affection or intellect! Surely it is for the liberal-minded and humane of every nation to encounter the destructive influence of general prejudice, by extending and strengthening, in their private habits, those social feelings which bid man acknowledge his fellow-crcature in every quarter of the globe.'

To the style of this work we cannot uniformly extend our approbation. Provincialisms and colloquialisms appear; such as motion

Mr. Morice, however, speaks of most of them as wholesome: but the Coculus Indicus berry he describes very differently: acknowleging it to be a 'hurtful narcotic, by no means advisable to be used independently of the penalty, &c.

ing his father from him,' and 'spiritless and exhausted of an evening' but the defect, against which we most wish Miss Lee in future to guard, is the termination of her periods with adverbs and prepositions. Mo-y

Art. 49. A faithful Journal of the late Expedition to Egypt. Including a circumstantial Account of the Voyage, dispostion of the Fleet, Arrangements on Landing, Battle of Aboukir, Surrender of Alexandria, Death of Abercrombie, and other interesting Particulars. By a Private on board the Dictator. 12mo. Is. Lee. This journal has the appearance of really originating from the source whence it is said to be derived; and it contains such particulars as might be supposed to fall within the knowlege and observation of a person so situated.

Mistakes in the orthography of the names of places, &c. in course occur; and we do not observe any circumstance of moment related with which the public was not before acquainted. The account, however, may afford some amusement, and gratify some curiosity. Articles of capitulation, copies of general orders, returns of losses in action, &c. are included.

The Life of Toussaint Louverture, Chief of the French Rebels in St. Domingo. To which are added, Interesting Notes respecting several Persons who have acted distinguished Parts in St. Domingo. By M. Dubroca. Translated from the French. Small 8vo. 28. 6d. Symonds. 1802.

Toussaint is not one of the successful few who have "waded through slaughter to a throne:" but he appears, in the short course which his ambition was destined to run, to have spilt blood enough to satisfy an ordinary hero. According to the account before us, he is a monster grown old in the perpetration of crimes; the assassin of his benefactors; hypocritical, perjured, and cruel. It must be remembered, however, that this description was composed to justify the strong measures taken by the French Government against him; and therefore, though the atrocities of which this Negro Chief has been guilty would be sufficiently horrible, were they related without the least exaggeration, the pages of M. Dubroca must be read with caution.

Toussaint was born in 1743, in the North Jepartment of Saint Domingo, on the estate of the Count de Noe; (a gentleman who, since the Revolution, has resided for some time at Hampton Court ;) and at his birth he was in the condition of a slave. Giving early indications of genius, and teaching himself to read and write, he was noticed by the overseer of the estate, who took him into his own personal service, and first made him his coachman. Hence growing in favour, he was advanced to a superintendance over a number of slaves; and from one step to another he arrived at the supreme command of his revolted brethren. As his race of ambition is probably now run*, he will cease to call forth that interest which he formerly

The newspapers have announced the total subjugation of this revolt, and the final transportation of Toussaint to France. excited;

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excited; and as to his political and military conduct, it has been so often detailed in the public prints, that it is unnecessary for us to record it.

The work is ornamented by a portrait of this Black Chief. We know not whether it was ever like him, but it could not have been recently taken, because it is too young for a man fifty-nine years old. Mo-y

THANKSGIVING SERMONS.

Art. 51. Preached at the Parish Church of St. George, Hanover
Square, the 1st of June, 1802, being the Day appointed for a
General Thanksgiving. By Henry Reginald, Lord Bishop of
Exeter, Rector of that Parish. 4to. Is. Robson.

A text applicable to thanksgiving in general (Ps. 1. 14.) here calls forth some general observations on the duty of publicly expressing our gratitude to God for his mercies; whence the R. R. preacher proceeds to make some remarks on the origin and object of the late war; and to offer his congratulations that, by the blessing of God on the promptness and vigor of our counsels, and on the exertions of our Navy and Army, it is now happily brought to a conclusion.

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Do Art. 52. Preached at the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, Minories. Published at the Request of the Parishioners mas Thirlwall, M. A. Curate. 4to. 18. Rivingtons. After having enumerated the dangers which threatened us from disaffection, mutiny, scarcity, alarms of invasion, and irreligious principles, Mr. T. exhorts us to rejoice that, under the protecting shield of Divine Providence, the ark of the Constitution remains untouched; the throne and the altar are preserved sacred and invio late; the charter of our civil and religious liberties is uninfringed; our lives, property, and independance, are guarded and protected; and our empire consolidated, strengthened, and defended.' These mercies we are required to employ to a good use. Text, Ezek. xxxvii. 3.

Do Art. 53. Preached in the Parish Church of High Wycombe, Bucks. Published by Request. By the Rev. W. B. Williams, B. A. 8vo. 18. Hatchard.

From Zeph. iii. 14, 15. we are here invited to consider the judg ments under which we have been labouring, our deliverance from them, and our duty in consequence of this mercy. The preacher congratulates his country on the Peace, since the Almighty has "abated the pride, assuaged the malice, and confounded the devices of our [late] enemies." Yet he recommends to us no extravagant hilarity on the occasion, but rather to rejoice with trembling.

Do Art. 54. Delivered at Worship-street to which is subjoined the Congratulatory Address of the Protestant Dissenters on the return of Peace, presented to the King, on Thursday May 27; together with his Majesty's Answer. By John Evans, Á. M. 8vo. IS. Symonds.

Reprobating

Reprobating war, and lamenting its horrors, Mr. Evans hails with enthusiasm the return of peace; and the drift of his sermon is to shew that, whether we consider the good man in his individual, social, religious, or public capacity, he will in all be induced to adopt the language of the text (Ps. cxx. 7.) "I am for Peace." A Hymn on the Reign of Christ is added: but the spirit of poetry did not reign in the mind of the author.-In the Answer to the Address of the Dissenting Ministers, his Majesty assures them of "the continuance of his favour and protection." Mo-y

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Art. 55.
Pity upon the Poor.-Preached June 30, 1801, in St.
Mary's Church, Brecon, at the Annual Meeting of the Subscribers
to the Clerical Fund, in that Archdeaconry. By the Arch-
deacon. 4to. IS. Hurst.

We have perused with peculiar satisfaction this well-written discourse; the able writer of which signs his name Edward Edwards, at the bottom of his prefixed Address to Mrs. Chalie.' This address follows another paper of the same kind, which runs thus: To the Lady at Hamburgh, who, desiring to be unknown, has, at this trying period, most benevolently ordered the sum of one thou sand pounds to be distributed in this kingdom, among Clergymen with large families and small incomes, through the House of Ransom, Morland, and Co. Pall Mall.'-The discourse does much credit to the writer; and it is to be hoped that it could not fail of promoting the good design with which it was composed.

Art. 56. Revelation indispensable to Morality-Preached in the
Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, 21st March 1802. By the
Honorable and Right Rev. William Knox, Lord Bishop of
Killaloe. 8vo. Is. 6d. Dublin, Sold by Cadell jun. and
Davies, in London.

The advocates for the sufficiency of Natural Religion are unable to point to any period or state of society, in which this sufficiency has been manifest. In the history of Philosophy, we see only opinionum commenta,-hypothesis succceding hypothesis, without establishing any stable and satisfactory basis of moral conduct. The will of God seemed necessary to remove doubt; and the communication of this will is a circumstance which might be reasonably expected in the administration of his moral Providence. Dr. John Leland, in his work on the advantages and necessity of Revelation, by adducing all that was accomplished by the learned of antient times, has proved that the world by wisdom knew not God; and hence he demonstrated the expediency of a divine interference. The Bishop of Killaloe has not only well compressed Dr. Leland's argument, but has made a most important addition to it. From the tendency of civil society to generate vice, he maintains the indispensable necessity of religion to the promotion of good morals:

We collect (says he) from the history of many ages this important truth, that there is but one foundation of virtue, one secure and stedfast morality. We learn that neither private virtue, nor na

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tional liberty, can subsist where the corruption consequent upon civilization is not arrested in its progress by religion; and that without her, in spite of all declamation to the contrary, vice and profligacy must ever be the crime and the disease, and a despot the scourge and the cure.'

There is something striking in this observation; and from this short passage the reader may appreciate the superior merit of the whole discourse.

Art. 57. Preached in the Chapel of the London Hospital, April 8, 1802. By Richard Watson, Lord Bishop of Landaff. 4to. Is. 6d. Cadell jun. and Davies.

The present is a popular discourse, in which Dr. Watson endeavours to frustrate those who would pervert the Gospel of Christ, (text Gal. i. 7.) not by employing against them abstruse and learned rea-. soning, but arguments levelled to the apprehension of the ordinary classes of mankind. While we approve this method, we may be permitted to question the propriety of placing the credibility of our Saviour's resurrection on a par with that of the gun-powder plot, because suspicion attaches to all political plots, from which this is far from being exempt; whereas the resurrection of Christ, which cannot be attributed to any political agency, and which could not he applied to any political purpose, cannot be doubted on this ground. The witnesses of that event, though the objects of persecu tion, did not desist from glorying in the gospel; and assured, by a splendid fact, of the existence of a future state, they chearfully sacrificed their lives in the service of their heavenly master.

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After having pointed to the immorality of the lives of men, and to religious inattention, as the prevailing causes of infidelity, the Bishop of Landaff pays his country a compliment which we are confident it justly merits, viz. that Christianity is in no part of the world better interpreted, more generally understood, or believed on more rational grounds, than in Great Britain';-and that, though we are a rich and luxurious people, we are also a liberal and humane people.' If our crimes cannot be diminished, at least may they be "kept from despair by being long cherished by these virtues."

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Art. 58. Occasioned by the Death of John, Earl of Clare, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Vice-Chancellor of the University. Delivered in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, on Sunday Feb. 7, 1802. By the Rev. William Magee, D. D. Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. 8vo. Pamphlet. Dublin; sold by Cadell jun. and Davies, London.

Reflections on mortality are not expected to possess novelty; it is sufficient if they be just, and stimulative to virtuous exertion. Such is the character and such is the tendency of those thoughts which form the basis of the discourse before us; and from which Dr. M., after having shed the tear of respect on the ashes of Dr. Murray, and Dr. Young, Bishop of Clonfert (of whom the College has not long been deprived,) proceeds to lament the death and to embalm the memory of the late Earl of Clare. This nobleman is here repre

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