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notwithstanding the frequent insults which he received. Mr. Morris was succeeded in the situation of American minister in Paris, by Mr. Monroe, and, after relinquishing his duties in this capacity, he proceeded to London, where he proceeded to Court. The following is the entry which he makes of this event in his diary:-tur

This morning the Count de Moustier calls on me, and we have a long conversation. He is working to place himself as one of the new King of France's Ministers, if I can judge of his views by his conversation. He tells me, that the King will be well disposed to conciliate with all parties. I mention the Duke of Orleans, but he thinks that plan may encounter some difficulties. While he is here, Mr. Burgess comes in. He gives me a rendezvous at Lord Grenville's, and descants on the rights of ci-devant Monsieur to be acknowledged as king of France; whence I conclude, that the administration here lean to that idea.^

Go thence to the Marquis de Spinola's. The conversation here, where our company consists of the Aristocrats of the first feather, turns on French affairs. They, at first, agree that union among the French is necessary. But, when come to particulars, they fly off and are mad. Madame Spinola would send the Duke of Orleans to Siberia. An Abbé, a young man, talks much and loud, to show his esprit; and, to hear them, one would suppose! that they were quite at ease in a petit soupé de Paris.

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Dine at Mr. Pitt's. We sit down at six. Lords Grenville, Chatham, and another come later. The rule is established for six precisely, which is right, I think. The wines are good and the conversation flippant. After dinner I have some further conversation with Lord Grenville, and mention, par hasard, Monsieur de B. my companion in a tour through Holstein, his poverty among other things, and he says the means of joining the army shall be supplied.os

Am presented to the King, who takes me at first for an Englishmanda not recollecting me, says, "You have been a good while in the country." We set him right, and Lord Grenville tells his Majesty, that I was not liked by the ruling powers in France. “I suppose Mr. Morris is too much attached to regular government."

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Yes, Sir; and if your Majesty would send thither your discontented subjects, it would do them much good." "Well, if you'll contrive it for me, I'll give my hearty consent." Lord Grenville adds, "There are enough of them, Sir." "Oh, aye, quite enough." I can give your Majesty good news from the continent," says Lord Grenville, "General Clairfait is still following the French." "And I, Sir, can give you a piece of intelligence, which I am sure will be agreeable. I am informed, from unquestionable authority, that all the lower orders of people in Holland are strongly attached to the Stadtholder." "Ah! that's good," (with surprise). "Sir, they have always been so." "Then it is only the aristocratic party which

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is against him." "Just so, Sir." Pray, Mr. Morris, what part of America are you from?" "I am from near New York, Sir. I have a brother, who has the honour to be a Lieutenant-General in your Majesty's service." "Ah, what, you're a brother of General Morris? Yes, I think I see a likeness. But you're much younger." "Yes, Sir." "Well, and how does your brother do? He's at Plymouth, isn't he?" "Yes, Sir."

This morning I go to the Queen's drawing-room. They are in high spirits. The Count Staremberg, who is overjoyed at the answer of the French Directory, speaks of it to the Queen as being a piece of very good news. She prudently answers in German. Asks me afterwards, if I understand German, on which I tell her, that I think she was right in speaking that language upon that occasion. "I believe it was prudent." Yes, Madam, much more so, than the speech to which you replied." The King, however, is very open to Count Woranzow, and also to me, who arrive while they are in the discussion.'

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From London he proceeded to Germany, and made the greatest exertion, to which he was exhorted by Madame de Stael, for the enlargement of Lafayette, but all to no purpose, and, in one of his notes, made at Vienna, in 1796, he informs us that a friend of his, named Monsieur St. Priest, who had recently returned from Petersburgh, gave him an account of the creditable conduct of the Emperor of Russia to the hero Kosciusko. The emperor, according to this representation, took his son to the apartment where Kosciusko lay ill. He told the prisoner, that he saw in him a man of honour, who had done his duty, and from whom he asked no other security than his word, that he would never act against him. Kosciusko attempted to rise, but the emperor forbade him, sat half an hour and conversed with him, and told his son to esteem the unhappy prisoner, who was immediately released, the guard being taken away. At the same time, expresses were sent off into Siberia, and twelve thousand Poles, confined there, received passports and money to bring them home. This story was afterwards told to Mr. Morris by Monsieur Lanskorenski, a Pole, who could scarcely restrain his tears as he related it.

It appears that afterwards, when Lafayette was emancipated from prison, it was through the provisions set down in the treaty of Leoben, which was preliminary to that of Campo Formio. Mr. Morris is convinced that Lafayette owed his liberty to the exertions which he (Mr. Morris) made; but Lafayette himself attributed his deliverance to Bonaparte.

Proceeding in his tour, Mr. Morris arrived at Munich, where he found his countryman, Count Rumford, in the full enjoyment of his high reputation as a civil economist.

Returning to his native country, Mr. Morris shone afterwards as an able member of Congress, and died, much regretted, in 1816.

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ART. XIV.-A Supplement to the

Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Florists' Flowers, containing Additional Directions and Improved Modes of Cultivating the Auricula, Polyanthus, Tulip, Ranunculus, Heartsease, Carnation, Pahlia, &c. with Catalogues of hte newest and most esteemed Varieties. 1 Vol. 12mo. By TнoMAS HOGG, Florist: Published by the Author, 1833.

Mr. HOGG states, that during the thirteen years which have elapsed since he first published his small treatise on the culture of Florists' Flowers, he has pursued the same mode of cultivation which he had then recommended, a fact which shows that the work was based on a sound foundation.

The work commences with an article on Tulips, which is very full, and contains a great many interesting facts, which are likewise highly instructive. It comprehends a minute account of the new method of raising seedling tulips, whereby the varieties are increased, and are perfectly new, and very beautiful. Nobody, it appears, until lately thought of crossing the breed of tulips; yet, when this practice was carried into effect, the results appear to have been quite satisfactory. The work contains very valuable directions for florists, and the experience of the author, it must be admitted, invests them with an authority which is scarcely to be equalled. Besides the merits of the practical contents of this supplement, the reader will find other matter in the preface to invite his attention, if not his sym

pathy, in the melancholy allusions which Mr. Hogg makes to his own circumstances-"As to myself, who unfortunately have been an invalid for sixteen years, suffering from paralysis and a diseased state of the nerves, and whose memory and faculties have been affected thereby, I cannot expect to claim any exemption from the like infirmities attendant more or less on old age; yet, while I solicit indulgence on this account, I seek not, by unmanly concessions, to disarm fair censure and criticism of their just right to examine and judge of its merits; I mean as to the subject matter, and not this manner of describing it. With the admission, which, under ordinary circumstances, ought to have stayed my proceeding with the Supplement, I am bound to explain the motives which have induced me to undertake it. My object is twofold; in the first place, I have been anxious sometimes to amend and supply the defects in my former work; and, in the next place, I have been not without hope of deriving some small profit and advantage by publishing the Supplement on my own account; for the same necessity which obliged me to attempt seeking a livelihood in the garden, after I had been unfortunately rendered incapable of continuing my labours in the school, and I had then been gerund-grinding for thirty years, still exists in all its force; the gifts of fortune have not fallen to my lot; and I am therefore compelled to use the means within my reach for the subsistence of myself and a numerous family: and though I have found a wide differ

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THE object of this profoundly SO learned and able work, the very creditable production of American intellect, is to vindicate the Pauline origin, and the canonical credit of the Epistle to the Hebrews, which has been chiefly called in question by German theologians. For this purpose, the reverend author has given a new translation of the Epistle, which a more exact view of the original Greek is given. The translation is followed by a con tinuous commentary upon the whole Epistle, and, by way of a supplement, an excursus is added at the end, for subjects demanding special and extended investigation.

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After examining most carefully and scrupulously the various objections which have been made to the authenticity of. the epistle in question, he declares his inability to acknowledge that they are by any means conclusive. At the same time, he admits that the proof of its genuineness is not positive, but circumstantial. Nevertheless, uniting the whole of the facts, connected with its history, together; consider. ing the intimate knowledge of Jew ish sh rites, the strong attachment to

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their ritual, and the special danger of defection from Christianity in consequence of it, which the whole texture of the epistle necessarily supposes; and, combining these things with the other circumstances which are discussed in this work, the reverend gentleman cannot resist the impression, that the universal opinion of the ancient church, respecting the persons to whom this epistle was addressed, was wellfounded, being built upon early tradition, and the contents of the epistle. He further considers, that the doubts and difficulties thrown in the way by modern and recent critics, are not of sufficient importance to justify us in relinquishing the belief, that Palestine Christians were addressed by the epistle to the Hebrews.d

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ART. XVI. The Conchologist's Companion. By MARY ROBERTS, Author of "The Wonders of the Vegetable Kingdom," &c. 1 Vol. 12mo. London: Whittaker & Co., 1833. qui rath Sternning. I

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In this Series, we have fourteen more of the Prize Poems of the Two Univerities, translated. Amongst the number, we find the version of a poem, called Peter the Great," -written and recited by the late Hon. Charles Abbott, the first Lord Colchester-"The Nile," by D. J. Webb The Siege of Gibraltar," by Wm. Lisle Bowles" Herculaneum," by Thomas Gisborne"Malta surrendered to the British," by the Hon. F. Robinson, now Earl of Ripon "The Deliverance of Portugal," by John Lonsdale-" Alexander at the Tomb of Achilles," by H. H. Milman, Professor of Poetry (afterwards)" Thebes," by Thomas Henry Hall" Syracuse," by the Hon. Ed. Geof. Stanley, Secretary for the Colonies" The Earthquake of Aleppo," by Benjamin Hall Kennedy" Cicero, in the Society of His Friends at TuscuIum," by John Eardly Wilmot "The Rainbow," by Wm. Selwyn→→ Tyre," by Wm. Palmer Han nibal," by Christopher Wordsworth.

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ART.XVIII.The Encyclopedia of steRomance. Conducted by the Rev. b HENRY MARTINEAU. Vol. II. -London: Henderson, 1833. *!

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maintains its high character as it proceeds. The present volume is chiefly taken up with the Story" of "The Captive," a tale of modern times. The plot may be briefly stated.

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In the north of England lives Sir Wm. Becket, who has two sons, William and Henry. The younger one, Henry, is brought up by his paternal uncle, a most worthy man. On Sir William's estate resides an ✅ old farmer, named Mortimer, whose adopted daughter, Eliza, is a most beautiful girl, and was once rescued by him, while she was an infant, from the hands of a villain about to murder her for the sake of a gold necklace which she wore. William soon dies, and is succeeded by his son William, who is a great profligate, and employs a man to way-lay Eliza, and carry her off to a country-seat of his. When Henry, who is in love with Eliza, hears of this outrage, he pursues the party, and rescues her, but not without receiving a wound which obliges him to remain with her all night at a cottage to which he had conveyed her. His uncle hears of the attachment between Henry and Miss Mortimer; and, in order to put an end to it, he sends him to Alicant, During his absence, Sir William caused Mortimer to be seized for the non-payment of a bond, and to be thrown into prison, where his daughter remains with him, until death puts an end to his sufferings. Sir William causes Eliza to be conveyed to a mad-house, where he intends forcing her to become his mistress, but, refusing to give the money which he promised Sedley, the accomplice of his guilt, this act gives rise to a duel, in which Sir William falls. Henry, who had by good fortune met with the real father of the girl, adopted by Mortimer, returns at this crisis, traces

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