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Review Of New Publications .
The Annual Register , or a flew of the History , Politics , and Literature , for ( of ] the Year 1792 . Part I . History of England , Part il . Chronicle , Slate Papers , & c . Svo . boards . 14 / . Rivingtons . 179 S . A WORK of this kind is of acknowledged utility , and it has been so long continued in a regular series , that to specify the plan of the work will be deemed superfluous . ¦ This volume brings up the arrears of the history , of Poland . The
deliberation of the Diet of 1789 , for the establishment of a new constitution , are well depicted . The conduit of the late king of Prussia is developed with great propriety ; the exertions of Stanislaus meet with approbation ; the in . terference of the Empress Catharine is very justly stigmatized as unjust and despotic . The concerns of Poland are again resumed ; and the war which broke out in 1791 is briefly noticed . The French affairs are narrated with spirit , and , as they appear to us , with fidelity .
By quoting the character that is drawn of Mirabeau , we shall give a specimen of the style and spirit of this work , ' In all the great relations of life , his character was such as to admit of nq defence , no excuse . His enemies , both of the royalist and democratic parties , concur in representing him as the most immoral of men ; a bad son , an execrable husband , a brutal lover , and an imperious master . Nor , indeed , do his very friends , conceal , that from his own account he appeared to have possessed in his early days few dispositions to virtue and rectitude , and but little natural goodness of heart ; the best they can say for his memory is , that lie
was a being , who , by the force of circumstances operating on a character of lofty energy , was driven beyond , the bounds of nature and morality . His infancy was untfactable and turbulent . In his youth , by his scandalous vices , he alienated all who were connected with him b y ' the ties of blood , and acquired no friend . The best years of his manhood were spent in prison , where he was confined at the request of his family , sometimes to punish , sometimes to prevent his crimes , and sometimes to screen him from the
vengeance of the law , which had proncunced more than one capital sentence against him . His father believed him a parricide ; his wife divorced him ; his mistress , Madame Mennier , he seduced from her husband , his friend and protector , and when he had spent what she had brought away with her , sent her back to gain his own pardon . He accepted the employment of a spy from the court of Versailles at the court of Berl n , and betrayed both courts . Not long before the revolution he was in this metropolis ; and he was known
to most of our criminal jurisdictions , sometimes as a prosecutor , sometimes as the object of prosecution , and every way alike to his disgrace * ' As a writer , he obtained a reputation of chusing with dexterity the favourite topics of the day . His styie was his own ; powerful in expression , exciting and arresting the attention b y frequent paradoxes . ' As a speaker , he had a commanding voice , an imposing manner of authority . His oratory was less eloquent than bold , less profound than orig inal . ' The finishing stroke of this man ' s character we will give in our next number .
Fragments on Paris .. By Frederick J . L . Meyer . Translated from the German fy General Dumourier . Svo . 2 vols . JOS . 6 d . Hamburgh . THIS is an interesting work , and displays the real state of the Great Nation The picture is drawn by the hand of a gentleman , from whom , however , ws
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications .
The Annual Register , or a flew of the History , Politics , and Literature , for ( of ] the Year 1792 . Part I . History of England , Part il . Chronicle , Slate Papers , & c . Svo . boards . 14 / . Rivingtons . 179 S . A WORK of this kind is of acknowledged utility , and it has been so long continued in a regular series , that to specify the plan of the work will be deemed superfluous . ¦ This volume brings up the arrears of the history , of Poland . The
deliberation of the Diet of 1789 , for the establishment of a new constitution , are well depicted . The conduit of the late king of Prussia is developed with great propriety ; the exertions of Stanislaus meet with approbation ; the in . terference of the Empress Catharine is very justly stigmatized as unjust and despotic . The concerns of Poland are again resumed ; and the war which broke out in 1791 is briefly noticed . The French affairs are narrated with spirit , and , as they appear to us , with fidelity .
By quoting the character that is drawn of Mirabeau , we shall give a specimen of the style and spirit of this work , ' In all the great relations of life , his character was such as to admit of nq defence , no excuse . His enemies , both of the royalist and democratic parties , concur in representing him as the most immoral of men ; a bad son , an execrable husband , a brutal lover , and an imperious master . Nor , indeed , do his very friends , conceal , that from his own account he appeared to have possessed in his early days few dispositions to virtue and rectitude , and but little natural goodness of heart ; the best they can say for his memory is , that lie
was a being , who , by the force of circumstances operating on a character of lofty energy , was driven beyond , the bounds of nature and morality . His infancy was untfactable and turbulent . In his youth , by his scandalous vices , he alienated all who were connected with him b y ' the ties of blood , and acquired no friend . The best years of his manhood were spent in prison , where he was confined at the request of his family , sometimes to punish , sometimes to prevent his crimes , and sometimes to screen him from the
vengeance of the law , which had proncunced more than one capital sentence against him . His father believed him a parricide ; his wife divorced him ; his mistress , Madame Mennier , he seduced from her husband , his friend and protector , and when he had spent what she had brought away with her , sent her back to gain his own pardon . He accepted the employment of a spy from the court of Versailles at the court of Berl n , and betrayed both courts . Not long before the revolution he was in this metropolis ; and he was known
to most of our criminal jurisdictions , sometimes as a prosecutor , sometimes as the object of prosecution , and every way alike to his disgrace * ' As a writer , he obtained a reputation of chusing with dexterity the favourite topics of the day . His styie was his own ; powerful in expression , exciting and arresting the attention b y frequent paradoxes . ' As a speaker , he had a commanding voice , an imposing manner of authority . His oratory was less eloquent than bold , less profound than orig inal . ' The finishing stroke of this man ' s character we will give in our next number .
Fragments on Paris .. By Frederick J . L . Meyer . Translated from the German fy General Dumourier . Svo . 2 vols . JOS . 6 d . Hamburgh . THIS is an interesting work , and displays the real state of the Great Nation The picture is drawn by the hand of a gentleman , from whom , however , ws