will find fome other curious particulars of Chapman, and an exact lift or his dramatick writings.

"Of the Batrachomyomachia and Hymns, I have the copy prefented to Lord Ruffel, with the following MS. dedication:

For the many noble favors, receiv'd of the righte honourable the Lord Ruffell; and defiroufe by all beft fervices, to crowne his Lordship's free graces with continewance; George Chapman humblie infcribes this crowne of all the Homericall Graces and Mufes to his Lordship's Honor: wishing the fame, crownde above title, and establishte past marble."

Dr. Yalden and Archdeacon Parnell are indebted to the attention of Mr. Nichols. We fhall conclude this article by an original poem from each of thefe ingenious writers.

To Myra; written in her Cleopatra. By Dr. Yalden.*

Here, lovely Myra, you behold

The wonders Beauty wrought of old:
In every mournful page appears

The nymph's difdain, and lover's tears.
Whilft thefe feign'd tragic tales you view,
Fondly you weep, and think them true;
Lament the hero's flighted flame,
Yet praise the fair ungrateful dame.

For youths unknown no longer grieve,

But rather heal the wounds you give;
The flaves your eyes have ruin'd mourn,
And pity flames with which your lovers burn.

*Of this writer's life, Dr. Johnfon's elegant little compofition fuperfedes what otherwise might have been faid. Yalden's Hymn to Darkness' is his best performance,' being for the most part imagined with great vigour, and expreffed with great propriety. Of his other poems it is fufficient to fay that they deferve perufal, though they are not always exactly polished." I the rather cite this teftimony of the great Biographer, as the publishers of the English Poets have been cenfured for admitting Yalden into their collection; a' cenfure which, if deferved, I must take upon myfelf. However it happened that this writer's poems had never been before collected, I am perfuaded that there are few who have actually read them but muft have found much to admire. In the English Poets' I inferted as many of them as could then be met with. Farther refearches have difcovered what are here printed': but there are ftill three poems (which are known to be Dr. Yalden's, two of which are particularly noticed in Dr. Johnson's life of him) which have eluded my inquiries, The Conquest of Namur, 1695,' folio; The Temple of Fame, to the Memory of the Duke of Gloucefter 1700,' folio; and a poem " on the late Queen's acceffion,' I fuppofe Queen Anne; which, by the title of it, feems not to have been published till after her death.

Oh,

Chloris appearing in a Looking-Glafs. By Dr. Parnell.

Oft have I feen a piece of art,

Of light and fhade the mixture fine,
Speak all the paffions of the heart,
And fhew true life in every line.

But what is this before my eyes,
With every feature, every grace.
That ftrikes with love and with furprize,
And gives me all the vital face?

It is not Chloris: for, behold,

The fhifting phantom comes and goes;
And when 'tis here, 'tis pale and cold,
Nor any female foftnefs knows.

But 'tis her image, for I feel

The very pains that Chloris gives;
Her charms are there, I know them well,
I fee what in my bofom lives.

Oh, could I but the picture fave!

"Tis drawn by her own matchless skill;

Nature the lively colours gave,

And the need only look to kill.

Ah! fair-one, will it not fuffice,
That I fhould once your victimì lie;

Unless you multiply your eyes,

And itrive to make me doubly die?

We could gladly add to the length of this article: but fhall clofe it by obferving that the collection is printed uniformly with Dr. Johnfon's edition of the English Poets, and that it is ornamented with beautiful engravings of Dryden, Sir William Temple, Dr. King, and Sir Richard Steele.

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The Hiftory and Management of the Eaft India Company, from its Origin in 1600 to the prefent Time, Volume the Firft, containing the Affairs of the Carnatic, in which the Rights of the Nabob are explained, and the Injustice of the Company proved. Cadell.

Ariftotle confiders rifibility as the differential circumftance which diftinguishes man from other animals. The moderns, lefs attentive to the fpecific difference than to the various degrees of the fame quality poffeffed by different creatures, have defined him a focial or rational animal. Ariftotle is certainly more logical in his definition than thefe innovators whofe pride would make reafon and an attachment to fociety the peculiar characterifticks of the human fpecies, while they only enjoy them in common, but in a fuperior degree, with other animals. But, if in imitation of the moderns we may indulge ourselves in a deviation from the ftrict rules of logick, we think ourselves juftified from a perufal of the Hiftory of the Eaft Indies, in defining him by way of diftinction, a predareous animal.

In this clafs we do not mean to include the firft conquerors, Lord Clive and General Coote; for we believe, with Mr. Wedderburne, in his defence of Lord Clive, that it will be impoffible to point out in the annnals of history so great a revolution, atchieved by ftrangers, with fo little bloodfhed and rapine. The principal object of our cenfure is that tribe of low untutored mechanicks, for we can give them by no better name, who iffue out from behind coun ters, poffeffing no other talent but the ufe of the quill, and practife with all the authority of legiflators, and all the infolence of defpots, the fordid maxims of avarice and rapacity imbibed at a tradefinan's defk. For fome time paft it. is notorious that the Company's civil fervants, who are to be the legislators of the Eaft, do not even attempt to acquire a grammatical, much lefs a liberal education, and therefore fail for India without any other principle but the thirst of riches. What is the confequence? The devaftation of the country by extortion and monopoly. The legislative autho rity and executive power fhould be taken out of such rude hands, or care fhould be ufed, ere they are entrusted with fuch weighty matters, to render them more fkilful and lefs fubject to corruption. The raw and unprincipled boys, who are now fent out, and intended as the exclufive governors of vaft kingdoms, ought never to rife above the direction

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of a counting-house, or at most of a factory; for the difference is wide between an arithmetician and a politician, between a merchant and a statesman; and every man's education ought to be fuited to his ftation in life. While the contrary practice fubfifts, we fhall in vain lament that individuals, with hardly three grains of merit, return in a few years oppreffed with the fpoils of defolate provinces.

Thele ideas fuggefted themselves to us from the perusal of this hiftory, which is written with great perfpicuity and energy of ftile, and contains facts, which the Directors of the Eaft India Company have prudently forborne to controvert, because they are taken from records avowedly publifhed by themfelves. After having given a diftinct detail of the Company's affairs from its origin, our author fums up the whole in the following mafterly manner.

It has appeared that the Eaft India Company, which was first formed in a period of time unfavourable to commerce, had carried into its original inftitution and management the narrow principles of mean traders: that the managers of their affairs at home had very early ufurped an abfolute dominion over the flockholders; and had, by private contract, unjust deductions, and iniquitous frauds, embezzled their property: that their principal fervants abroad, following the example of their fuperiors, or obeying their orders, had been guilty of treachery to the natives of India, and of acts of cruelty, injuftice, and oppref Lion, to their fellow fubjects: that, when they were called to ac count by the Great Mogul for their injuftice to his fubjects, teir conduct in adverfity was as mean, abject, and fubmiffive, as their infolence and haughtiness had been intolerable in profperity: that when the mifmanagements of the Company forced, in a manner, their affairs into Parliamentary difcuffion, they were detected in perverting public juflice, by corrupting the venal, and bribing the profligate that after the two Companies were united, in the beginning of the prefent century, the fame attention to felf-intereft, the fame cager purfuit of perfonal gain, continued among the leaders at home; and the fahe tyranny, circumvention, and fraud, among their principal fervants abroad: that, when the Company, by various revolutions in Aha, afcended from the conuition of traders to that of SOVEREIGNS, they multiplied their acts of injuftice, in proportion to the extent of their power: that, though fome men of talents, and fome of integrity, had frequently the management of affairs at home and abroad, few of thefe could diveft themselves of the confined principles of avarice and felf-interestedness: that inftead of behaving themfelves like dutiful fubjects of the ftate, with whofe juft authority the real interefts of the Company are clofely and infeparably connected, the managers of their affairs infulted the commiffion of their Sovereign, difregarded the public faith, and trampled upon a national guarantee that thefe principles, as they proteed chiefly VOL. XI.

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from radical defects in the conftitution of the Company, call aloud for the correcting hand of the legiflature, to prevent future mifchiefs by new regulations, if not to punish former delinquencies.

In the courfe of the preceding work, it has been proved, that the Company's fervants uniformly were confidered, and owned themselves fubjects of the Mogul, in all parts of that Monarch's dominions where they poffeffed fettlements: that efpecially in the Carnatic, when they took up arms, upon any occafion, they avowed that they only performed their duty as fubjects of the Mogul empire, according to their original condition and tenure in the country, and the fundamental principles of the Mogul government that they confidered and always acknowledged the Nabob of Arcot as the mediate power between them and the Mogul, to whom their allegiance and fupport was due, as faithful and approved fubjects: that they knew and owned, that Mahommed Ali, the prefent Nabob of the Carnatic, was the LAWFUL Nabob of that country, by the free and legal faneds of the Mogul, as well as of his deputy, the Viceroy of the Decan: that they looked upon the French Company, who had been established in the Carnatic, on the very fame footing with themfelves, in the light of REBELS, for carrying on war against Mahommed Ali: that in the perfon of their governor, Mr. Pigot, they fignified their wish to carry on their bufinefs under that Prince's protection, as they did under that of the former Subadars: that upon the whole, as no revolution has happened in the Carnatic, no breach upon the legal appointment of Mahommed Ali, to the government of that country, the Company and their fervants ftill continue in the fame relation to that Nabob, as they had uniformly food with regard to his predeceffors and to himself: that in the double capacity of fubjects to Great Britain, and to the government of the country where the fettlement is placed, the Company neither had nor have any right to become principals in any war; and that they can only appear as auxiliaries, allies, or mercenaries: that in none of thefe characters, they have any right whatsoever to either the poffeffion or the difpofal of conquefts; and that their claiming the one, or arrogating the other, is a violation of their duty as fubjects of Great Britain, and of the government of the

country.

"To demonftrate the indifputed right of the Mogul to the Carnatic and all its dependencies, by conqueft, the history of that country has been deduced from the earliest times. It has been proved as early as the year 1310, a Gentoo prince reigned in the Carnatic, who was Sovereign of the provinces of Canara, Myjore, Travancore, Tanjore, Marava, and Madura: that this prince, to defend himself against the incurfions of the Mahommedans, built the city of Bigenagur, in the mountains, about eighty geometrical miles to the fouth-eaft of Goa: that this city, which gave its name to the kingdom of which it was the capital, was attacked and taken in the year 1565, by the united force of the