square statute miles, by this Map. The Late years have afforded great assistance towards the execution of a work so laborious; not only the coast has been surveyed, but the interior has been laid down by a series of triangles, and calculations made, at the national expence. We presume that Mr. A. has benefited greatly by these truly noble works. They have occupied many years' labours of professional men, of the first talents, and the highest respectability; whose accuracy cannot but tend to the advance and establishment of science. This is one of the most considerable Maps that we ever have had under our inspection. The scale of it is one inch to three miles, so that it shews every road, place, town, and village, with great distinctness. It usually also shews the shape of each correctly, and affords an opportunity of tracing any route, either accomplished or intended. We pay very little attention to the nicety mentioned by Mr. Arrowsmith, of ob- It gives us pleasure, on this opportaining the proportionate areas of the tunity, to report, that a Map, representcounties, by the weight of the paper oc- ing the strata of the island; that has cupied by each, though we know that long been expected, is at length on the Long employed that mode to obtain the point of appearing; so that between the proportion between the land and water labours of Messrs. Smith and Carey in on the Terraqueous Globe :- But we representing the conformation and riches must be allowed to say, that the face of of England, the mines, clays, &c. below the country, the situations, and even ground, and Mr. Arrowsmith's reprethe forms of the mountains, the courses sentation of the mountains, plains, of the rivers, the extent of the flat coun- parks, roads, &c. above ground, we may try, and the general air and appear-be able to form a correct notion of what ance of the whole, present a more com- Old England really is. plete picture of this part of the island, than we have before inspected. This has been too much overlooked by Geographers, who, satisfied with marking the situations of places, as well as they could, paid little attention to other par ticulars. It would be improper to conclude this article without binting at the extensive divisions of Country presented in this Map. It appears as if either several islands had been united to form one; or as if the sea had, at some ancient period, made great inroads on the land, and swept away vast quantities in one But, this we must desolating ruin. leave to Geologists of leisure. It has been said, that if certain famous men of learning, the glory of Antiquity, were to revisit this world, they would see, in modern improvements of science, most incredible wonders. Perhaps, there is scarcely any thing in Mr. A. has carefully explained, in spare places of his Map, the principle on which it is constructed; and he has drawn out a list of the Counties, with their contents, in square Statute Miles, each of 640 Acres. It is somewhat singular, that though the aggregates of several calculations, some of them made for public service, agree very nearly, as to the entire contents of the King-which that remark would be so strictly dom, yet the proportion which each County bears to the whole, and to its neighbours, rarely coincides. The probability is, that hills, and mountains, with other varieties of form, are differently calculated by different persons; and that they occasionally, even mislead the judgment of Surveyors, and Engineers engaged in their labours. The whole contents of England are 50,533 verified, as in the Graphic arts. Ptolemy, Hipparchus, Chiron, and even Archimedes, would want words in which to express their delight at the publication of a Map like the present, at a moderate rate, for the supply of the Public. Our readers will determine for themselves, whether such advantages may not be at once an occasion of self-congratulation, aud of national pride. Four Dissertations, Moral and Religious, Sensible Essays on important subjects; composed, apparently, for public delivery; but quite as proper in their present form. The same hand would, probably, have given additional value to them by consulting the force of contrast. Covetousness should have been opposed to Prodigality; and a fair Estimate of the condition of men in the world, generally, would have tended much to check and moderate that repining disposition, which is in itself, no small evil, and sin. We should not have expected in a sensible writer, the common misnomer of "Charity," as the opposite to Covetousness; and we are not pleased with him for admitting the notion, or possibility of planetary influence. It is true, that, "He who hath once suffered his passion to gain the ascendant, is as one out of his own power, and under the influence of an evil planet:" but, the truth might have been better expressed by another metaphor. That these are inadvertencies, the general tenor of the writer's remarks sufficiently prove, Ile observes, very justly, temperate, not because it is befitting our nature and state, or because God has enjoined antipathies, or in favour of a weak constituit, but merely on account of some particular tion; when we are just for reputation; frugal and diligent for the sake of wealth; and devout to be seen of men. All these acts are totally void of worth, as proceeding from indirect aims and oblique regards, without any reference to religious principle. These distinctions are properly made, and properly placed the following exhortations to stand forward in good, is never out of season; and manifests not only a pious mind, but a mind enlightened by study, and observation of man kind. Is it not the height of folly for a good man to become accessary to the general depravity merely for want of heart to oppose it? If we would have goodness maintain its and extirpated, we must openly take its part: ground, if we would not see it supplanted we must stand up for it against the many and the mighty, who by their interest, and authority, and example endeavour to discou rage and disgrace it. It is not a shy reservedness, it is not invisible thoughts, or afto its worth and excellence, an inward and fections of heart, a tacit or timorous assent secret veneration for it, that will bring virtue into request and vogue. No! To accomplish this, all good men must appear to be engaged on its side, must unite their scattered forces, that the visible succour and countenance of numbers may add weight to their cause; as the justness of their cause will add weight to their numbers. Certainly, if any thing can bring about a reformation and amendment of the world (without which even its present prosperity cannot subsist), it must be the resolute concurrence of good men to avow virtue in the face of it, to honour the profession and practice of it, by such a frank and open avowal. The distinction between the motives on which men act, is of the utmost consequence. To instance in a few particulars: Vanity may build and endow an hospital, as well as Charity. The action is the same, but how different are the motives! The one directs its views to the flattering prospects of granAnd how can a man better deserve of his deur and fame: the other aims at nothing country, than by concurring to stop the probut the removal or dimunition of human mi-gress of sin; to prevent the spreading of its sery; the relief of those who seem to be infection, and the infliction of those severe marked out as the martyrs of a cruel and judgments which overgrown villainy and tripersecuting destiny, or have yielded them-umphant wickedness will derive upon it? selves the victims of yet more cruel and destructive vices. Without the power to relieve one single individual, this person is warmed with the most benevolent affections; but cold and spiritless, selfish and unfriendly, would the other be, though a thousand proud and princely monuments should record his munificence. In like manner, we may perform other actions good and commendable in themselves, without deserving the least praise or commendation; as when we are Vol. III. LIT. PAN. No. 11. N. S, FEB. 1. How can we better deserve of posterity, than by providing every security of virtue now; than by seasoning the minds of our contemporaries with those excellent principles which will be transmitted with advantage to future generations? How much are we ourselves iudebted to the wisdom and spirit of our fore-fathers, who, in spite of the reproaches and calumnies of their adversaries, undertook and accomplished (with the blessing of God) the 2 E deriving all the benefit from it which the author intended for his countrymen. The perpetual reference to German wri great work of reforming religion when deeply corrupted, and of reviving liberty when almost extinguished? The common interests of both demanded the public profession of their sentiments; it was dangerous to givers on particular subjects, where they it, but they gave it frankly and freely; far are treated on at large, is little other from dissembling their piety or smothering than a constant cause of mortification to their conscience, to humour those who had the English reader, who is tantalized by neither. the mention of works which he can never hope to obtain. The present translator has endeavoured to remedy this; gree; still, however, we feel the want of an English work of the kind; and we Utility; or, Sketches of Domestic Educa- and he has remedied it, in a great detion. 12mo. Darton and Co London. 1815. Domestic Pleasures; or, the Happy Fire-heartily wish for one. Side. By F. B. Vaux. Darton and Co. London. 1816. We know that the Editor of Calmet was strongly urged to the compilation of a Bibliotheca Sacra; and that mate rials for such a work have been in part collected by other hands. Nothing, however, has appeared; and now, the necessity of better acquaintance with various learned works published on the Continent, which have long been prohibited, by circumstances, is revived, with more than former influence. Books of instruction for children multiply so rapidly, that we can do little more than announce them. These are among the vehicles of information which propose to infuse knowledge without forms and system. Whether they do not, in fact, require more knowledge for the purpose of explaining what they contain, than falls to the share of most parents, is doubtful. Children who can understand the terms necessarily employed in such works, may be safely entrusted with studies under the acknowledged name of studies. In the mean while, if these efforts prepare the mind, or even if they contribute to instruct the instructresses, they accomplish a valuable purpose, and are by no means with-mation, and to direct this in the right out their use to the rising generation, for which they are intended. A Guide to the Reading and Study of the Holy Scriptures, by Augustus Herman Franck, A. M. with the Life of the Author: by W. Jaques. Second edi tion. 12mo. price 5s. 6d. Burton and Co. London. 1815. This work was valuable, and would continue to be very valuable, if so many excellent critics had not flourished since the days of the author, and so many sources of additional instruction had not been opened, in the course of the last and present centuries. The principles on which it is composed are general, and not restricted to Germany; yet, circum. stances prevent the English reader from This little volume is useful and acceptable, as an assistance. It contains much that is profitable for Scripture students; and in a small compass.→→ Though it is not all we wish for, it well deserves a favourable reception, and the Editor is entitled to the thanks of the religious world. There is at present an extensive desire for Scriptural infor channel, is no small service to Truth. The addition of the Life of Professor Franek, is acceptable; but, after all, the list of English Books annexed, is the most valuable part of the volume. The Speech of Charles Phillips, Esq. in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, în the Case of Guthrie versus Sterne, for Adultery; with an introduction by Rev. H. G. White. Price 1s. 6d. Asperne, London. 1816. Nothing can compensate the calamities attendant on Adultery; and shame pronounced by the law, ought, perhaps, to be added to, that very incompetent punishment, a pecuniary mulet. There seems to be somewhat of a disposition to lay aside the use of the pillory, but whether it might not be reserved for cases, in just and indignant terms:-Is there like the present, would well deserve con- no ecclesiastical punishment for this of sideration. The person exposed is Wil-fence against religion, as well as against liam Peter Barker Dunstanville Sterne. common humanity to which resource One would think, says the Counsel, he might be had, in extra cases? had names enough, without adding to them the title of ADULTERER." As the affair has made a great noise in Ireland, where this said Mr. Adulterer Sterne, lived in a flashy style, and sported the title of Esquire, there is no inducement to enlarge on it. The Counsel has done his utmost to rouse the feelings of the Jury, (who awarded 5,000). damages) but, perhaps nothing in his speech is so truly eloquent, as a few words read by him from his brief. Hints from an Invalid Mother to her Daughter, on subjects connected with moral and religious improvement in the conduct of life, in various relations, by Anna Williams. 8vo. price 4s. Hatchard, London. The title fully expresses the contents and purport of this work; which is formed by a series of letters on important subjects. They are short, but sensible. They are religious, and manifest an ex The fugitives were traced successively to Kildare, to Carlow, to Waterford, MilfordHaven, on through Wales, and finally to Il-perience of life, combined with Christian fracombe, in Devonshire, where the clue was lost. I am glad that, in this route and restless of their guilt, as the crime was foreign to the soil, they did not make that soil'the scene of its habitation. I will not follow them through this joyless journey, nor brand by my record the unconscious scenes of its pollution. But philosophy never taught, the pulpit never enforced, a more imperative morality thau the itinerary of that accursed tour proinulgates. Oh! if there be a maid or matron in this island, balancing between the alternative of virtue and of crime, trembling between the hell of the seducer and the adulterer, and the heaven of the parental and the nuptial home, let her pause upon this one out of the many horrors I could depict, and be converted. I will give you the relation in the very words of my brief; I cannot improve upon the simplicity of the recital: feeling. They may guard the docile female from evils which all have reason to dread. They refer principally to the mind-of accomplishments, as music, management of time of studies-of the reading, writing, public amusements-on the cultivation of rural pleasures—on habits of exaggeration-on patience-on the single state, the conjugal state, and the parental state. The advice is generally good; and whoever confornms to it. will certainly avoid grosser faults, and escape from the heavier evils of life, so far as prudence and piety can govern ; which it were to be wished, should be always and effectually; but Providence, which has other purposes in view, and "On the 7th of July they arrived at Miluses the vicissitades of this life as a school ford; the captain of the packet dined with of education for a better, suffers the most them, and was astonished at the magnifi- virtuous intention to be disappointed, and cence of her dress. (Poor wretch! she was the most virtuous characters to be afflictdecked and adorned for the sacrifice.) The ed. Hence the trials, and hence the sup next day they dined alone. Towards evening, the housemaid, passing near their cham-Hope, as well as of Charity. ports of Faith, as well as of Patience; of ber, heard Mr. Sterne SCOLDING and, apparently, BEATING her. In a short time after, Mrs. Guthrie rushed out of her chamber into the drawing room, and throwing herself in agony upon the sofa, she exclaimed, 'Oh! what an unhappy wretch I am; I left my home, where I was happy, too happy, seduced by a man who has deceived me. My poor husband! my dear children! Oh! if they would even let my little William live with me, it would be some consolation to my broken heart.' " The Introduction by Rev. Mr. White, enlarges on the immorality of the crime, LITERARY REGISTER, Authors, Editors, and Publishers, are particularly requested to forward to the Literary Panorama Office, post paid, the titles, prices, and other particulars of works in hand, or published, far insertion in this department of the work. WORKS ANNOUNCED FOR PUBLICATION. BIOGRAPHÝ. Mr. Meadley, author of the Memoirs of Algernon Sidney and Dr. Paley, is collecting hundred and ten engravings, by the first materials for a Life of Johu Hampden. Artists. CLASSICAL LITERATURE. 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