lection, have all, except one, been before the public, and their republication in the prefent form originated in a defire of having her name more clofely united to that of Della Crufca. Proud of their poetical attachment, fhe wifhed to have it recorded in a diftinct publication. Him fhe looks up to as her friend, genius, and favorite bard; and we may conceive her addreffing him in the elegant apoftrophe of Pope to Lord Bolingbroke;

"Say, fhall my little bark attendant fail,

Purfue the triumph and partake the gale?"

Having, in a preceding article, given our opinion of the merit of the poetry of Anna Matilda, it is unneceffary to enter into any difcuffion of it here. She is certainly not equal to Della Crufca. But fince our readers may wish for a fpecimen of her mufe, as well as of his, we will take this opportunity of prefenting them with an entire poem. When we gave an account of the Poetry of the World,' we extracted the Elegy of Della Crufca, written on the plains of Fontenoy; we shall now lay before them Anna Matilda's STANZAS to Della Crufca, occafioned by his elegy.

Hush'd be each ruder note!-foft filence spread,
With ermine hand, thy cobweb robe around;
Attention! pillow my reclining head,

Whilft eagerly I catch the golden found.

Ha! What a tone was that, which floating near,
Seem'd Harmony's full foul-whofe is the lyre?
Which feizing thus on my enraptur'd ear,

Chills with its force, yet melts me with its fire?
Ah dull of heart! thy Minstrel's touch not know,
What Bard but DELLA CRUSCA boafts fuch skill?
From him alone, thofe melting notes can flow-
He only knows adroitly thus to trill.
Well have I left the Groves, which fighing wave
Amidst November's blaft their naked arms,
Whilft their red leaves fall flutt'ring to their grave,
And give again to duft May's vernal charms.

Well have I left the air-embofom'd hills,

Where fprightly Health in verdant bufkin plays;
Forfaken fallow meads, and circling mills,

And thyme-drefs'd heaths, where the foft flock yet ftrays.

Obfcuring fmoak, and air impure I greet,

With the coarfe din that Trade and Folly form,

For here the Mufe's Son again I meet

I catch his notes amidst the vulgar storm.

His notes now bear me, penfive, to the Plain,

Cloth'd by a verdure drawn from Britain's heart;

Whofe heroes bled fuperior to their pain,

Sunk, crown'd with glory, and contemn'd the fmart.

Soft,

Soft, as he leads me round th' enfanguin'd fields,
The laurel'd fhades forfake their graffy tomb,
The bursting fod its palid inmate yields,"

And o'er th'immortal wafte their spirits roam.
Obedient to the Mufe the acts revive

Which Time long past had veil'd from mortal ken,
Embattled fquadrons rush, as when alive,

And fhadowy falchions gleam o'er fhadowy men.
Ah, who art thou, who thus with frantic air
Fly'ft fearless to fupport that bleeding youth;
Binds his deep gafhes with thy glowing hair,
And diest beside him to atteft thy truth?
His Sifter I; an orphan'd pair, we griev'd
"For Parents long at reft within the grave,
By a falfe Guardian of our wealth bereav'd.
"The little ALL parental care could fave.

Chill look'd the world, and chilly grew our hearts,
"Oh! where fhall Poverty expect a smile?

Grofs, lawless Love, affumed its ready arts,

"And all befet was I, with Fraud and Guile.

My Henry fought the war, and drop'd the tears
"Of love fraternal as he bade farewel;

But fear foon made me rife above my fears-
"I follow'd—and Fate tolls our mutual knell."
Chafte Maiden, reft; and brighter fpring the green
That decorates the turf thy bloom will feed!
And oh, in fofteft mercy 'twas I ween,

To worth like thine, a Brother's grave's decreed.
The dreadful fhriek of Death now darts around,
The hollow winds repeat each tortur'd figh,
Deep bitter groans, ftill deeper groans refound,
Whilft Fathers, Brothers, Lovers, Husbands die!
Turn from this fpot, bleft Bard! thy mental eye;
To hamlets, cities, empires bend its beam!
"Twill there fuch multiplying deaths defcry,

That all before thee'll but an abstract seem.
Why waste thy tears o'er this contracted Plain ?
The sky which canopies the fons of breath,
Sees the whole Earth one fcene of mortal pain,
The vaft, the univerfal BED OF DEATH!
Where do not Hufbands, Fathers, dying moan?
Where do not Mothers, Sifters, Orphans weep?
Where is not heard the laft expiring groan,
Or the deep throttle of the deathful Sleep!
If, as Philofophy doth often muse,

A ftate of war, is natural state to man,
Battle's the SICKNESS bravery would choose-
Nobleft DISEASE in Nature's various plan!
Rev. Jan. 1789.

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Let vulgar fouls floop to the Fever's rage,
Or flow, beneath pale Atrophy depart,
With Gout and Scrophula weak variance wage,
Or fink, with forrow cank'ring at the heart;
Thefe, be to common Minds, th' unwifh'd decree!
The FIRM felect an illness more fublime;
By languid pains, fcorn their high fouls to free,

But feek the Sword's fwift edge, and fpurn at time.

ANNA MATILDA.'

There is fomething very poetical in the third line of the first ftanza, Attention! pillow my reclining head: but the compliment to Della Crufca in the laft line of the third ftanza might, we think, have been more happily expreffed: He only knows adroitly how to trill. The whole, however, will be read with pleasure.

To make out this little volume, is added to the poetry, fome curious profe, written in other times." This is a fragment from the autograph of the famous Sir William Waller, an important actor in the bufy drama of the last century. It is entitled RECOLLECTIONS; and introduced by an addrefs from Anna Matilda to those who read.-Perhaps fome of those who read this addrefs may be inclined to queftion the fex of Anna Matilda. We have our doubts whether a lady wrote the following paffage :

That he (Sir William) had a mind capable of the tendereft impreffions, and alive to all the charms of love, appears from this, that he never lived unmarried. Three times he exulted in the flowery hymeneal chain; and fpeaks of each lady with exalted fondnefs and affection. But thofe, alas! were days in which the connubial paffion was the only one tolerated!'

The fragment is written, in that pious ftyle which then pervaded almost every fpecies of compofition. It will amufe; and one part of it refpecting Cromwell, and his quick infight into characters, will be deemed, by the hiftorian, worthy of particular obfervation:

THE BEATING UPP OF COLL. LONG'S QUARTERS, in which Cromwell's horfe did good fervice. And here I cannot but mention the wonder which I have oft times had, to fee this eagle in his eirey: he att this time had never fhewn extraordinary partes, nor do I think that he did himself believe that he had them; for although he was blunt, he did not bear himself with pride, or difdaine. As an oficer he was obedient, and did never difpute my orders, nor argue upon them. He did, indeed, feeme to have great cunning, and whilst he was cautious of his own words, not putting forth too many left they fhould betray his thoughts, he made others talk, untill he had as it were fifted them, and known their inmot defigns. A notable inftance was his difcovering in one fhort converfation with one Captain Giles (a great favorite with the Lord Generall, and whome he

moft

moft confided in), that although his words were full of zeal, and his actions feemingly brave, that his heart was not with the caufe: and in fine, this man did fhortly after join the enemy at Oxford, with three and twenty ftout fellowes. One other inftance I will here fett down, being of the fame fort, as to his cunning.

When I tooke the Lord Piercy att Andover, having att that time an inconvenient diftemper, I defired Collonell Cromwell to entertaine him with fome civility; who did afterwards tell me, that amongst those whom we tooke with him (being about thirty), their was a youth of fo faire a countenance, that he doubted of his condition; and to confirm himself willed him to fing; which he did with fuch a daintinefs that Cromwell fcrupled not to fay to Lord Piercy, that being a warriour, he did wifely to he accompanied by Amaons; on which that Lord, in fome confufion, did acknowledg that she was a damfel; this afterwards gave cause for fcoffe at the King's party, as that they were loofe and wanton, and minded their pleafure, more than either their Country's fervice, or their Maifter's good.'

Thus has Mr. Bell, in his beautiful typography, given us both verfe and profe, in a little volume of 139 pages, which will find many readers, and, probably, not a few admirers.

MONTHLY

Moo.y.

CATALOGUE,

For JANUARY, 1789.

INLAND NAVIGATION.

Art. 16. A brief Review of the Arguments for and against the intended Canal, from Cambridge to the River Stort, as produced at Chefterford, Sept. 5, 1788. By Y. Z. 8vo. 6d. Scatcherd and Co.

VERY fcheme of this kind which hath, within our memory,

men

or fancied themfelves to be, interested in thofe fchemes not taking effect. Thus it has happened, in regard to the above-mentioned project. It has been oppofed; but the weight of argument feems, as far as we can judge from hearing only one party, to lie all on the fide of those who have efpoufed the undertaking. The reafoning of the gentlemen who are friends to the defign, appears, indeed, to be very cogent, clear, and irrefragable.

EDUCATION.

Art. 17. As it is well known that boys at fchool feldom read the whole of their first books, it was thought that a felection might contribute both to convenience and economy. Such a reafon is aligned for this publication; and we have only to add, that the selection is made from the Gofpels of Beza's Latin Teftament, according to the direction of Dr. Anthony Blackwall, from the Colloquies of Cordery, the Fables of Phaedrus, and Garretfon's Preliminary Exer

Analecta Latina: for the Ufe of Schools. 12mo. Is. 68.
bound. Dilly. 1788.

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eifes for making Latin, with the Latin fupplied from the Hermes Romanus, and that the book appears well calculated to answer the proposed defign. Hi.

Art. 18. Analecta Græca Evangelica: for the Ufe of Schools. 12mo. 1 s. bound. Dilly. 1788.

This little work is of a fimilar kind with the above mentioned. Some chapters are here felected from the Greek Gofpels, according to the direction of Dr. Blackwall; and appear to be fuited to the purpose: though we rather think that the Greek fcholar fhould pafs regularly through the Greek Teftament. D."

Art. 19. A Dialogue betwixt a Mafter and bis Scholar, in which are difcuffed the following Subjects; by F. Wragg, Matter of the Boarding School, Church Street, Stoke Newington, Middlesex : The Impropriety of the external Parade of fome of the Clergy, and its Inconfiftency with the facred Office they affume-The erroneous Ideas that many are too apt to form of an Univerfity Education, and the real Advantages there enjoyed by the Student The Caufe why fome return as ignorant from College as when they first fet out upon their Studies-A proper Exercise of our Reason in Matters of Religion-Why it ought, in many Intances, to give way to Divine Revelation; and a Plan laid down by which contending Parties in Chriftianity may become more reconciled-The Existence of the Deity, and his conftant Government of the World, against the Attacks of Atheists and Infidels. 12mo. I s. 6 d. Hookham. 1788.

If the reader fhould be led, by this long bill of fare, to promise himfelf much entertainment or inftruction, he will be disappointed. Had the piece been written with more coherence, correctness, and elegance, the writer would, with a better grace, have inveighed against an university education.

NEGROE-SLAVERY.

E.

Art. 20. An Aufwer to the Rev. Mr. Harris's "Scriptural Refearches on the Licitnefs of the Slave-Trade." By the Rev. W. Hughes, M. A. The fecond Edition. 8vo. is. Cadell. 1788.

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In our Review for June last, p. 515, we noticed, with approbation, the first edition of Mr. Hughes's tract; which we are glad to fee hath paffed through the prefs a fecond time. The following is the Author's prefatory advertifement on this occafion :

When I first wrote an answer to the Reverend Mr. Harris's Refearches, I thought it would be fufficient to prove, that the arguments which he pretended to derive from Scripture, in vindication. of the Slave-trade, were fallacious and abfurd, and founded folely on mifreprefentation; I therefore took no notice of his data, or of his corollaries, which I confidered as of no fort of importance in themfelves. Others, however, have thought differently; and, in deference to their judgments, I have now taken a distinct notice of each of them, without omitting a reply to any argument that I conceived could be regarded by any one as of weight enough to require confutation,"

Mr.