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Ros. And feathers of our own geese.

Lob. Heaven be praised that I again find myself among men! All I see and hear inspires confidence. I should like, good old man, to have a little conversation with you in private.

Wel. With all my heart! My friends and children, you will find employment enough, if you will go into the court, and assist in the preparations for our little country feast.

Dal. I sent you a few poles for the occasion, from the forest. • Pau. And I made the garlands for them.'

A very different picture of rural elegance and simplicity might be drawn by some able artist of this country: -but what inducement can men of genius feel to risk their reputation on our stage, while bombast, extravagance, and the vilest caricatures of human nature, obtain the public applause!

EDUCATION, &c.

Art. 40. Philosophical Questions, selected for the Use of the upper Classes in Berkhamsted School. By R. Hartley. Small Syo. pp. 120. 3s. bound. Murray and Co.

These questions are designed for tutors, to enable them to appreciate the proficiency of their scholars. Many of the interrogatories are certainly well adapted for this purpose, but some should have been `omitted. If learned and wise men cannot give a clear account of essences, accidents, causes, and effects, why puzzle the heads of young students with such intricacies?

MISCELLANEOUS.

Art. 41. A Letter to the Committee for raising the Naval Pillar, or Monument, under the Patronage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. By John Flaxman, Sculptor. 4to.

jun. and Davies.

29. 6d. Cadell

No sooner were we gratified by the suggestion that it was in contemplation to erect a stupendous monument of the glory acquired by our great naval commanders, which should remain to distant ages as a testimony of the nation's gratitude, than we had to lament that the execution of this idea should depend on the precarious and scanty means of private subscription. As a national act, the expence of its execution should have been voted out of the public purse; and, considering the effect of such monuments in exciting emulation and a thirst for glory, it could not have been deemed the worst applica tion of public money. Whether this scheme will be taken up in our Houses of Parliament, we cannot say: but unless it be, there seems little prospect of its being executed. Our artists, however, without waiting to see whether a fund can be raised adequate to the magnificence of such an undertaking, are prompt in obeying the invitation of the Committee to send in their designs; and we have no doubt that the genius of our modern Professors of the Arts, if a sufficient fund can be collected, will form a monument that will do credit, in after ages, to the taste and execution of the present. We much question, however, whether Mr. Flaxman's idea would be adopted, though there be great magnificence in his design. He proposes not an obe

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lisk, nor a column, nor any architectural erection: but, consistently with his profession as a sculptor, he recommends an immense Colossal statue, 230 feet high, to be placed on Greenwich Hill, near the Observatory, to be seen from the River, and from the Kent road. Plates are given, to illustrate his idea.

Art. 42. Letter to the Nobility and Gentry composing the Committee for raising the Naval Pillar, or Monument, under the Patronage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence; in Answer to the Letter of John Flaxman, Sculptor, to the Committee on that Subject. By Alexander Dufour, Architect. 4to. Is. 6d. Taylor.

With apparent acrimony, though he disclaims being actuated by any hostile motive, Mr. Dufour criticizes Mr. Flaxman's letter. He in the first place reproves him for publishing his design, when the Committee desired that the Models and Drawings should be sent in without the name of the author, and he in the next place offers his strictures on Mr. Flaxman's remarks on the Obelisk, Column, Meta, Triumphal Arch, Pharos, and Temple; reprobates the idea of a Colossal Statue; and contends, consistently with his profession as an architect, (recollect reader, the old fable,) that a monument of architecture, in which the talents of different artists must necessarily combine, is more durable and more proper than a statue, to transmit to posterity the talents, the bravery, and the riches that distinguish the British nation.' He does not, however, disapprove of the spot chosen by Mr. Flaxman; which seems, indeed, the proper ones as then the monument, being in the place whence the longitude is reckoned, would be (as Mr. Flaxman remarks) like the first mile-stone in the city of Rome; the point from which the world would be measured,

Art. 43. Authentic Memoirs of Tippoo Sultaun, including his cruel Treatment of English Prisoners; accounts of his Campaigns with the Malhrattas, Rajahs, Warren Hastings, Esq., Lord Cornwallis, and Lord Mornington; Plunders, Captures, Intrigues, and Secret Correspondence with France; as laid before the House of Commons: also Descriptions of Eastern Countries hitherto unknown, Palaces, Gardens, Zanana, &c. &c. with a preliminary Sketch of the Life and Character of Hyder Ali Khan. By an Officer in the East India Service. 12mo. pp. 224. 3s. West and Hughes. 1799.

Tippu Sultan was born in 1748, and towards the close of 1783 he succeeded to the usurped dominion of Mysore, by the death of his father Hyder Ali Khan. To the states of the deposed Dalaway, Hyder had annexed by conquest a tract of country nearly three times as extensive, by the reduction of the petty principalities in his vicinity. Two years previously to his death, he had commenced hostilities with the English, by an irruption into the Carnatic; and that war, in which Tippu displayed uncommon prowess on various occasions, still continued when the latter mounted the throne. Hitherto, success had been alternate and indecisive: but the unhappy expedition of General Mathews, stained by cruelty, disgraced by rapine, and ultimately punished by the severest calamities, left the English in possession only of Mangalor, and a few isolated fortresses, when peace

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was concluded in 1784. From this period, we find a chasm in the memoirs now before us, till the year 1789; a chasm the more remarkable, as the interval was filled with uninterrupted hostilities between the Sultan and the Mahrattas, with various success, and much effusion of blood.

In 1789, the Rajah of Travancor purchased the forts of Cranganor and Joycotta from the Dutch: Tippu claimed them as antient dependencies of Mysore, and on the 29th of December commenced hostilities by an attack on the Rajah's lines; thus the English were once more forced to take arms in defence of their ally. It is not a little singular that the present author considers this as merely the ostensible cause of warfare; what was the real motive he has not informed us. Admitting that the Rajah's claim to these forts was obnoxious to controversy, and that the Sultan offered to negotiate, yet, as he refused to suspend his attack in order to wait the issue of the negotiations, we conceive that the only alternative left to Lord Cornwallis (the English Governor-General) was to desert his ally, or take up arms in his defence. The military operations which ensued have long been given to the public in the correspondence of the commanders; and we meet with no additional facts in the publication before us, that are of considerable importance. In February 1792, a treaty was dic tated to the Sultan, at the gates of his capital; by which he agreed to pay 3 millions sterling, and to cede a moiety of his do dominions to the allied powers.

Here, a second chasm intervenes; and we hear nothing of the Sultan's operations till the re-commencement of hostilities in $798. In the beginning of that year, Tippu dispatched ambassadors to the Isle of France, to conclude an alliance offensive and defensive with the French, and to solicit a supply of troops. They returned to Mangalor in April, with a body of 2000 French troops, commanded by M. Dubuc. As no pretext of grievance was alleged by the Sul tan against the English, and no explanation could be obtained that was calculated to extenuate the impression of his perfidy, preparations were immediately commenced for a vigorous attack. General Harris, after a march in which he encountered little opposition, arrived before Seringapatam on the 4th of April 1799; and exactly a month after ward, the capital of Mysore was taken by storm, and the body of the Sultan found buried under a multitude of slain..

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It being now near sun-set, (says the writer,) every one was desirous to secure, if possible, the Mysorean chief. After much inquiry, they found a person, who seemed to be a man of consequence, but his name was unknown. He said that Tippu Sultan had been killed in endeavouring to make his escape. This man was immediately seized, and threatened with immediate death, if he did not show the place. Accordingly, he led the way to a kind of gateway, leading to a bridge across the ditch; there, in a place about four feet wide, and twelve long, were upwards of 70 dead bodies, and Tippoo's palanquin appeared in the midst of them. Immediate search was then made for his body, but so numerous were the slain, that it was a full hour before he was discovered. The unfortunate Tippoo had received a shot in his arm at the time of the storm; for he was himself on the ramparts:

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ramparts: after this, in endeavouring to make his escape, he was met by a party of Europeans, who wounded him on the side with a bayonet; he had also received a shot in the temple, which put an end to his existence. The body was recognized by his relatives and some Palanquin boys, and was still warm when discovered. He had his sabre clenched fast in his hand.

• Tippoo Sultan was rather above the middle size, stout, corpulent, and well made. He dressed rather plain, and his head was shaved close, He was in his 51st year when killed, and was interred, agree-able to the supplication of his his far family, on the left side of his father, in Lal Baug, with all the ceremonies and honours of the place.'

The author trusts that his work bears sufficient testimony of its own authenticity, but, as a fuller assurance, the reader is respectfully informed, that it comes from the pen, which was the first to announce to Great Britain our late glorious victory at Seringapatam." This officer's materials have been, however, very scanty, and relate almost exclusively to the wars of the Sultan with the English; the particulars of which, in considerable detail, have long been in the hands of the public. Of his internal polity and government, or of his long and bloody wars with the Mahrattas, we find nothing mentioned. Proper names are printed with much inaccuracy: the Jats are called Gauts Moduji Bonsla is said to be Rajah of Bezar,' instead of Berar; the Dawlerbaug' signifies the Rajah's garden, though the Arabic word Dawlet, which it ought to be, proves the garden to have been the work of Hyder.-Seringapatam cannot with any propriety be said to be on the Malabar coast.' The inhabitants are asserted to be particularly tenacious of their religion, and will not mix with those of opposite opinions; these contrary opinions have been attended with much bloodshed." Yet these inhabitants are composed of Mahomedans and Hindoos, whose tenets are widely different from each other.

Art. 44. The Genealogy of the Stewarts refuted: in a Letter to Andrew Stuart, Esq. M. P. 8vo. 4s. 6d. Boards. Robinsons, 1799:

Art. 45. Supplement to the Genealogical History of the Stewarts, with Corrections and Additions; and containing Answers to an anonymous Attack on that History, published at Edinburgh in February 1799, under the Title of "the Genealogical History of the 'Stewarts' refuted.?". By Andrew Stuart, Esq. M. P. 4to. 6s. sewed. Cadell jun. and Davies. 1799.

The anonymous refutation of Mr. Stuart's work is more distinguished for ability than urbanity, for sarcastic severity than respectful discussion. The author maintains, on the authority of Hall's and Grafton's History of Henry VI. that Sir William Stewart of Jedworth was not in the battle of Homildon, but actually confined in the Tower of London at the time when it happened: that he was liberated on the accession of Henry V.; and that he accompanied his brother, the Constable of Scotland, to France, where they both fell at the siege of Orleans in 1429. As it is not contested that the Earl of Galloway is the representative of Sir William Stuart of Jed worth,

worth, it follows that, on the demise of the Cardinal York, he will also represent the Stuarts of Darnley and Lennox; and this consequence is not denied, if the premises were established.

On the other hand, Mr. Stuart produces additional proofs of his first position, that the brave knight, who fell in the field of Rouv.. roy, could not have been Sir William Stewart of Jedworth; whose capture at the battle of Homildon, unjust sentence, and ignominious death in, 1402, are circumstantially related in the Scoti-chronicon, in Winton's chronicle, and on their authority by Mr. Crawford, the antiquary. The weight of evidence seems to preponderate in favor of Mr. Stuart: but we are still to learn the importance of the discussion.

We insert the quotation from Winton, as a specimen of the Scottish Janguage at the commencement of the fifteenth century.

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" Schir William Stewart of Tivydaill
That day was tain in that battaill,
And ain uthir gude Squyeir,

That be name was callit Thomas Ker.

This Schir Henry de Percy
Thai twa demanyt unlauchefully,
As in jugement sittand he
Gart thir twa accusit be,
That thir twa before then

Had been the King of Inglond's men
And armyt agane him; forthi
Thai war accusit of Tratuary
Sua in cullaur of justice,

(Set it was nane) he rasit assis
Ane assis first maid thame guyt.
Bot this Parcy, with mair despyte,
To this assis eikit then

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Mair malicious fellowne men,
That durst noch doe, but all as he

Wald, sua behussit it to be.

Than accusit he thir twa men,

Saras far than before then;

And by this accusatiaun,

Of deid thai tholit the passiaune

And of thair quarteris he gart be set

Sum untill York, upon the yett."

Art. 46. Will Whimsical's Miscellany, Vol. I. 8vo. pp. 248, 4s. Boards. Longman and Rees.

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This author may be a country-wit, for aught that we know, (he dates from Chichester,) but we cannot assign to him a very distin guished place in the ranks of literature. He is a dealer both in prose and verse; yet we cannot legally characterize him otherwise than as a haberdasher of small wares. I

We seriously advise our facetious friend in the country to be content, in future, with the applause of the critics at his weekly club.

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