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opinions, her sentiments, her judgment, her actions, and her political conduct. In the course of her Memoirs, Madame Roland advances some very strange proposi

language, they appear more as a needless display than natural to those who use the sentences, and actually drag them in, "head and shoulders," on all possible occasions. There is also a slight anachronism-like || tions. She paints those mortals worthy coincidence in the modern dress, acquirements, and the display of them in Miss L'Estrange, with the riots in London; we know of no other than those of 1780; nor would any other well agree with the age of General de Vere's young grandson; the General, it seems, was born in 1706dates in novels had better be avoided as much as possible; the tale is all a fable, and it is as well to leave dates to the reader's fancy; otherwise the imagination, especially a fertile one, like that of the author of Traits and Trials, is either fettered, or by the glow, that we cannot, however, fail of admiring, will stray into improbabili-nuing to worship this fallacious deity,

ties.

We shall close our remarks, and that must be in favour of the author, by citing the following beautiful extract :

"It is one of the principal blessings resulting from a thoroughly well regulated mind, that the various ordeals through which it passes in its initiatory lessons, tend to lessen the sanguine expectations of the smoothness and evenness of life; they are ordeals, it is true, only to those who learn, and learn betimes, to withstand the force of early temptation; they are sources of enjoyments, perhaps, to those who yield to them, and there are those who pass them as unfelt evils; but the little crosses of life ought not to be passed over unprofitably; they should neither be overrated nor forgotten; they should be used as lessons to us for practical trials hereafter, in greater and more important mischances. Isabella was taught this early lesson throughout the years of childhood; she expected not a bright sun to shine at all seasons, though she enjoyed it not the less when it brightened her path."

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of the highest honours, who rather merited the most sovereign contempt, and she strives to tarnish honourable characters. It is not, however, after the notice of M. Barière that we shall judge Madame Roland: we shall judge her by her own conduct, her actions, her conversations, and her Memoirs. M. Barière says—“ It can not be imputed as a crime to Madame Rolaud, because she loved, and promoted the cause of liberty; though her opposers sullied its image!" Her only fault was in making the reign of liberty subservient to her own pride and vanity, and her conti

when it was already stained with blood and horror. The publication of these Memoirs has left us the right of passing judgment upon her, who wished to act as a judge over every one, and that often indiscreetly and unjustly; and who, for the sake of playing a conspicuous part on the grand theatre of the world, meddled with the most violent agitations, wishing to regenerate not only sovereigns, but the Pope himself; more a minister than ber husband, chief of a party, a philosopher, a politician, a writer, what did Madame Roland not undertake, what room did she not give to be judged! The grave, her ashes, her last rest, and all the pathetic rhetoric of M. Barière, cannot operate on the sensibility of his readers. The prison of Louis XVI. of Marie Antoinette, of the whole royal family, was much more sacred than the tomb of Madame Rolaud, and when we behold this woman, not only insensible to such heart-rending miseries, but applauding them with rapcrimes of the 10th of August, and their ture, and celebrating with enthusiasm the vile authors, we think ourselves justified in neither feeling indulgence nor tenderness towards her.

These Memoirs describe Madame Roland as a woman impressed with the full sen sense of her own importance, and every page attests that she was perfectly conscious of it. The history commences from the time she was in her childhood; and we are told, that when she came home

from nurse, she remarked to her astonish-
ed parents, that the lamps in the streets
of Paris resembled beautiful bottles; and||
that she heroically resisted the will of her
father, who wanted to force her to take
some physic; on which memorable occa-
sion, being threatened with being whipped
the third time, she heroically desired him
to inflict the punishment. Madame Ro-
land, who had certainly strength of mind,
energy, and penetration, had, according to
these Memoirs, neither charms nor ami-
ability: nor does the style answer to her
qualifications; it is neither light nor pro-
found.

As we follow her, step by step, through her moral progress, and the developement of her intellectual and physical faculties, we find Madame Roland passing from childhood to adolescence, and we describe this passage as physiologists; she imitated before the Confessions of Rousseau, but if she had read a work which was not published till after her death-that execrable romance the Nun of Diderot, one would imagine she had taken her for her model. As she increased in years, she preferred the severe sect of the Stoics.However, the conduct of Madame Roland shewed her not devoid of morality; and her behaviour, in many instances, was that of a modest and virtuous woman: but such is the effect of philosophy on the mind of a female, that it often makes her throw aside the graces of delicacy in her conversation, and to rega rd that charming decency of speech as the prejudices of a confined understanding, or proceeding from a bigotted and rigid education. In a religious government, a woman, far more reprehensible in her morals than Madame Roland, would have blushed to have written what she has related in her Memoirs.

But Madame Roland lived in an age of philosophy, and also in that of revolutionary fury; and this revolution took her from her father's shop, whence she often went to buy a halfpenny-worth of salad or parsley, and to go back again to cook and scum the pot, or make an omelette: from thence she entered the house of the minister, and became more the minister than himself.

WORKS IN THE PRESS.

A Memoir of the Operations of the British Army in India, during the Mahratta War of 1817, 1818, and 1819; illustrated by Maps and Topographical Plans. By Lieutenaut-Colonel Blacker, Companion of the most honourable Order of the Bath, and Quarter-Master-General of the Army of Fort St. George, in one volume 4to. and a separate volume of Maps and Plans.The author's military appointments having afforded him a ready access to the original documents, they form a very valuable Appendix to the work; while the important situation he occupied in the active operations of the war, secures to the memoir itself every thing that is to be expected from intelligence and authenticity.

Memoirs of William Wallace, Esq. late Captain in the 15th Hussars; comprehending a general view of his character and conduct in some well-known recent events; the motives which induced him, in consequence, to remove to the Continent; and a complete exculpation from the false and insidious charges brought against him by designing persons. Also, interesting particulars of his residence and confinement in Paris, the unparalleled persecution he experienced in that country, and some account of the leading characters of fashion in that metropolis. Interspersed with Anecdotes of some illustrious Military individuals, of the celebrated Mrs. M. A. Clarke, Mrs. Bartram, Hill Darley, Captain Sweyn, and other notorious characters.

BIRTHS.

At Harrington-house, the Duchess of Leinster, of a son.

The Marchioness of Blandford, of a daughter. At his Excellency's residence in Grosvenorplace, Countess Munster, the Lady of the Hanoverian Minister, of a son.

At his seat in Herefordshire, the lady of Sir G. Cornewall, Bart. of a daughter.

At his house in Stratton-street, Piccadilly, the lady of Captain Gifford, R. N. M. P. of a

son.

At the Vicarage, Waddington, Yorkshire, the Hon. Mrs J. Parker, of a son.

In Gloucester-place, the Lady of G. H. Cherry, Esq. M. P. of a daughter.

In Tavistock-square, the wife of J. Braham, Esq. of a daughter.

MARRIED.

At Inveresk-house, J. H. Mackenzie, Esq. Advocate, to the Honourable H. A. Mackenzie, youngest daughter of the late Right Hon. Lord Seaforth.

At St. Pancras Church, Captain C. C. Owen, to Miss M. Peckwell, daughter of Mr. Sergeant

Blosset, of Lamb's Conduit-place.

At Madeira, on board his Britannic Majesty's ship Esk, J. Telling, Esq. to the illustrious Lady Donna J. L. da Cunha Telho.

At St. Mary-le-bone Church, Capt. the Hon. E. Cust, M. P. Equerry to his Royal Highness Prince Leopold, to Mary Ann, only daughter of the late L. W. Boode, Esq.

At Llangollen, Mr. F. Frances, timber-merchant, aged 29, to Mrs. Roberts, aged 85, a widow of large property.

At Mereworth, the Hon. M. J. Stapleton, third son of Lord Le Despencer, to Anne Byam Kerby, only child of the late Hon. T. N. Kerby, of the Council of Antigua.

At Oxgang, G. Stirling, Esq. Captain in the Army, second son of the late Sir John Stirling, Bart. of Glorat, to Ann Henrietta, only daughter of William Grey, Esq. of Oxgang.

At. St. George's, Hanover-square, the Rev. F. Sullivan, to A. J. Wilmot, only daughter of the late V. H. Wilmot, Esq. and of the Right Hon. Lady Dacre.

Lieutenant-Colonel R Torrens, to Miss E. S. Serle, youngest daughter of the late Ambrose Serle, Esq. Commissioner of the Transport

Board.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, W. F. L. Carnegie, Esq. of Spynie and Boysack, county of Angus, to Lady Jane Carnegie, fourth daughter of the Earl of Northesk.

At Westport-house, Ireland, E. Peel, Esq. of the 49th regiment, first cousin of the Right Hon. R. Peel, to Maria, daughter of D. Browne, Esq. of Ashford, and cousin of the Marquis of Sligo.

At Brislington, near Bristol, J. Gordon, Esq. M. A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, eldest son of the Dean of Lincoln, to Miss Matthews, late of Covent-garden Theatre.

DIED.

At Bath, in the 81st year of her age, the Hon. Agueta Yorke, second wife and widow of the Lord Chancellor Charles Yorke.

At her house in Baker-street, Portman-square, after an illness of a few days, Miss E. M. Booth, sister to Lady Ford.

At Norton-house, in Devonshire, Lady Jodrell, relict of the late Sir Paul Jodrell.

At Neasdon, in the house of W. T. Money, Esq. M. P. Mrs. Cunningham, wife of the Rev. J. W. Cunningham, Vicar of Harrow, leaving a husband and nine children.

Lady of Sir W. W. Dixie, Bart. This amiable At their seat, Normanton-hall, Lady Dixie, the woman was only in the 29th year of her age.

At Pitfour, Aberdeenshire, in his 72d year, G. Ferguson, Esq. of Pitfour, only surviving brother of the late J. Ferguson, M. P. for that county.

At Stockwell, in his 49th year, C. C. Dymoke, Esq. cousin to the late Hon. Lewis Dymoke, Champion of England.

In her 79th year, the widow of the late J. Hunter, Esq. whose collection in Comparative Anatomy is deposited in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, in Lincoln's-inn-fields, under Parliamentary Trustees.

Lately, T. Jones, Esq. of Llandysilio-hall, near Llangollen, Denbighshire. Having no very near relation, it is said that the Lords of the different Manors intend to take possession of his estates that are situate in their respective manors. His real and personal property is supposed to amount to little short of one hundred thousand pounds. It is believed that he has made a will, but none has yet been found, although considerable rewards are offered for such information as may lead to the discovery of a will. Mr. Jones the most eminent artists of the day always met was a great admirer of the arts, and some of with a hearty welcome at Llandysilio-ball, when. ever they visited the romantic vale of Llangollen.

At Langholm, Mr. R. Ker, lineal descendant of George Ker, of Faddowside, a near relation of Robert, first Earl of Roxburgh, and one of the heirs entail of that noble dukedom.

Lately, at Knaresborough, Mr. Wheelhouse, aged 83 years; and on the same day, at Knares borough, Mr. Benson, aged 83. It is rather remarkable, that the two deaths here recorded were those of two gentlemen who were born in the same year, lived in the same town, and who died on the same day.

At Court-lodge, Westerham, Kent, J. Browne, Esq.

Aged 52, W. Golding, Esq. surgeon, Reading, Berks.

At Bishopsgate, near Egham, in the 17th year of her age, Barbara Matilda, sister to T. Coventry, Esq. of North Cray, Kent, and niece to the Earl of Coventry.

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LITERARY CONTENTS.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF DIS

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