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wine were all his indulgences. During this review he promoted about one hundred soldiers of different grades; some from the very ranks. As a soldier then, the man is fitted for his station; as a king to whom is committed the welfare of his constituents he is a criminal to be execrated, and an example to be

now opened to a young Telemachus; he would there read the curses which such a character draws down on its head; every page would appear inscribed in great letters:

AVOID THE MISERABLE CHARACTER OF THE WOE-DISPENSING WARRIOR !

know, that three fortresses in Portugal, on the frontiers of Spain, are absolutely impregnable; and that to reduce them by famine, the only way by which they can be reduced, would have occupied many months, during which the army necessary to blockade them might be much more advantageously employed elsewhere. These forts are Elvas, Mon-shunned. Were the laws of Minos to be talvas and Almeida: the way to the first two was completely open to Junot, being South of the Tagus, while the British army was on the North, and we have heard Junot greatly blamed by a Portuguese military officer, of extensive information, for hazarding any battle with the English, since it was in his power to employ the British army effectually, certainly through the ensuing winter, merely by retreating, in a leisurely manner, to these impregnable fortresses. We hope, and trust, that the future movements of the British Generals will redeem their credit with the nation, at present, greatly dissatisfied, and disconcerted with their convention : an agreement which the most inoderate acknowledge to be clumsy, while others consider it as criminal. The report that KelJerman dictated the terms, and the British officers signed to his dictation, has contributed essentially to this offence.

Amidst these turmoils and perplexities, what is the situation of their chief mover? Raving with the insanity of ambition he is preparing, on a scale of immense magnitude,

FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF ALL ROYAL

TY, NOT DERIVED FROM HIMSELF; and although he must be conscious merely from the operation of memory, that he has no natural right to a throne, neither can the empire of the world make him really a king, yet is he intent on dethroning all lawful monarchs, and crushing all established governments beneath the sole of his foot. We repeat, that HE IS INTENT ON DESTRUCTION. Hellish intention, surely! the very character of the monarch of the Bottomless Pit! but not less certain of one who affects to change the rulers of states merely for the good of the people, of which he makes himself the sole judge and disposer.

AVOID THE INIQUITIES OF THE INSEN-
SATE BLOOD-SHEDDING HEROE!

AVOID THE POISONOUS FANGS OF THE
SERPENT!THE PESTILENCE THAT FLOATS
ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND!.
MUCH MORE EARNESTLY

AVOID THE MURDEROUS CAREER OF IN-
SATIABLE AMBITION!

But those whose probationary lot it is to live in times when such ravagers are let loose on the face of the earth, and those, especially, who may be called to meet him or his agents in the field, must rouze every energy of the soul, must exert all their faculties, must understand his true character, must resist him as the author of all evil ought to be resisted; and must be as cautious of his snares and stratagems as wisdom and prudence when conscious that the fate of the world depends on their Aye or their No.

Let this be well understood by British Generals : Let them consider well the example which their enemy sets them, and determine not to be outdone by him, in the way of their profession, their duty and their patriotism, whatever privations it may cost them. Their country is their stake: his stake is only his iron crown.

If it be asked, against whom are all these preparations ?-Death is not more silent than the Politicians of Paris are on the deeds of their Emperor: his intentions no one presumes to penetrate; disgusted, shocked at the devasting guillotine of the virtuous Robes We know from the testimony of an eye-pierre, they are numbed into that torpid state, witness, who quitted Paris so lately as the 8th inst. that since he has returned from Bayonne, Buonaparte has reviewed at one time, on the Plaine de Sablons, near Paris, thirty thousand men under arms: the review began at four o'clock in the morning and lasted till the afternoon. He tired out no less than sixteen horses: he took no other refreshment than a slice of gingerbread, and a single glass of lemonade, procured from some of the hawkers who attend such sights; and after he got home-we mean to his palace, for home he has none!—a frugal dinner of half an hour only, by the watch, and two glasses of

to which certain worms of the earth are annually subject: they may be broken asunder by blows, yet continue insensible to the stroke. The French yield their sons to the sword: they know that they shall see them no more: 'they shed a few tears, as nature commands: and then, they pursue their own destiny, and leave that of their offspring to the determination of fate. The Parisians silence the aff.c tions of nature in the noise of amusements.

The Panorama (Vide Vol. IV.p. 815) had ventured to arrange the course of the Tornado in the order of-Spain: Austria: Prussia: Turkey: Russia.-Is the fate of Russia dis

tant?-Not very distant:-how far off, then, are the fates of those who precede it?

We presume not to certain knowledge;but we believe, that the conflicts in Spain have by this time received their highest importance: and that the Ebro has rolled its blood-stained stream to the Mediterranean. Buonaparte has publicly promised to exert his whole force against Spain: he has ordered out those parts of his former Conscriptions that had escaped his tyranny, he has anticipated the Conscription of the year 1810 to the number of 80,000 men: and thus he affects to say that his army is increased 200,000 men. We do not believe it: his army has been led to perish in foreign countries, and the deficiencies are to be supplied by these accessions; Stand then, France,-stand as an example at which other nations may take warning, of a people maddened for what they called Liberty, but void of moral sentiments to guide them in the means of obtaining it!—a people sunk into a slavery ten thousand times more degrading than that from which they affected to escape: a people in bondage to a foreigner, to an infidel, to a criminal, to a Corsican,-to a BUONAPARTE!!!

Accounts multiply upon us, stating that Austria is strengthening her military position with all diligence: her people are under arms; her fortresses are preparing; all her motions are certainly in contemplation of approaching events. Has she then refused to part with two or three provinces more, to enable the emperor and king to complete his plans? -We believe she has. She knows that to surrender as requests are made, will be to sign her own death-warrant: she knows, that he has one chance for escape, in the field: she has none by compliance. She fights for her life! May her convulsive struggles prove her virtue! And, if she falls, may her enemy feel that however he could betray her integrity before, yet conquest over virtue affords no triumph.

We know not whether we were mistaken in saying that king Louis was to be displaced to make way for Murat. We rather think that Napoleon found an unwillingness in Louis to be made a puppet of, elsewhere than in a station with which he is now familiar. Possibly the air of Holland has impregnated his constitution with that phlegmatie consideration which characterizes the Hollanders, and he has calculated-as all true Dutchmen calculate-on the differences which he should have to pay by his change of Stocks. Not so the more lively, sing-song, Italianized Joseph: he feit himself uneasy; thought the climate of Spain would relieve

The current price for a substitute conscript is 5,000 liures: say two hundred guineas!

him; has found the air of Madrid too hot; we trust he will find that of the Pyrenees too cold; and that he will have to wait for a kingdom:-let him wait, till we find one to suit him. In the mean while, Murat is gone to Naples: where he will experience the same thorns as pricked brother Joseph; and where even his heart of stone will not be able to controul the Lazaroni. The best thing he can do will be to enroll himself among them: for which, if report say true, he is extremely well adapted by nature, and qualified by practice.

Turkey has experienced another revolution : Sultan Mustapha was lately enthroned instead of Sultan Selim: and he spared Selim's lifea clemency unworthy of a genuine Turkthe consequences have been-as regular-that another change was contemplated by some of the leading officers, and the deposed Selin was once more appointed to the throne-but Mustapha vacated his appointment by depriving him of life: he was himself directly deprived of his life and now the posterity of Othman is once more reduced to the single existence of Sultan Mahomed, younger brother of Mustapha; should he die childless, there ends the race of the Ottoman dynasty. What a lesson to the ambitions is presented by the state of the families of the kings of Europe! Buonaparte has no son: for whom does he fight? The Bourbons of the direct line are restricted in their hopes of issue to one: the Ottomans to one: the British Isles await a female reign: the Spanish throne has been blown upon by the breath of scandal :--what family will next be extinct?

Russia continues her enmity to Sweden and Britain: she must do so she is so ordered: but this will prove little to her profit: her conquests in Sweden will never repay their cost: her navy will gather few laurels from the British fleet; and already has it suffered some loss (one ship of the line) and more disgrace in the Baltic, its own sea: to say nothing. of events at Lisbon. The more this power involves herself in the machinations of her new intimate, the further will she be from prosperity: and to retrace her steps will cost her the greater abundance of tears.

Sweden maintains the conflict gallantly:she deserves success: events may give it her. She has refused to be made the tool of the Corsican's iniquity-may no tool of the Corsican's iniquity prevail against her!

Denmark does as she is bid; what can she do more? Can she unrivet the fetters that have bound her to Russia? No: she has made herself enemies, it is true; but they will do her much less injury than her friends. Her accounts at the termination of hostilities, will witness the truth of this sentiment.

If we were called on to determine the most pleasing sensations that may animate the

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human breast, perhaps we should select those of the Spaniards who lately passed the straits of Dover, on their way to their own country. Escaped from tyranny, from the toils of the destroyer, they had left behind them countries enslaved arrived in the British seas they saw on one side of the vessels that conveyed them, the land whence all their sufferings originated: the guilty land! herself a slave, and the propagatress of slavery whereever her emissaries penetrate by force or fraud on the other side of their vessels, they saw the island of liberty, ( the mighty island of the ocean" as their countrymen call it) the island that had struck off their chains, and to which they owed their personal freedom and that of their country! Happy island! on thee be the benediction of every genuine Spaniard! As they advanced towards Spain, the renewed ideas of home, of the natal soil, of relatives, and friends, of patriotism and public duty: all these sentiments in powerful combination must have agitated the breasts of the passing Spaniards, and have filled them with şerisations which the longest liver among them will never forget.

Britain enjoys internal peace; expectation anticipates commercial prosperity: may expectations naval, military and commercial be amply gratified. The West Indies have been visited with sickness and even with mor. tality: we hope this has abated; our private information says it was serious. Our Eastern world is not disturbed that we hear of, by any unusual commotions; and as the Moniteur assures us that the English are hated throughout India, Persia, &c. &c. we are completely at ease, in respect to our Indian possessions.

America!-Oh, we had almost forgot America, and no wonder; for America had quite forgot herself. The fact is now evident that Europe can do without America: if she is not convinced of it-let her prolong her embargo ad libitum.

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We should be very glad, for the sake of humanity, if a hint dropped by a correspondent, may prove useful. He advises that when a child is lost, or one is found, a description should be printed and pasted on the doors of all churches, chapels, meeting-houses, &c. there to remain till its purposes, it may be presumed, are answered. He has transmitted the following account of such a casualty. His benevolent purposes we hope will succeed. A woman was lately seen begging at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, with a little boy, about five years old. From circumstances it appeared evident that the child was not her own, in consequence of which he was taken

from her, and she was sent to prison. The child has light brown hair, and light eyes, he appears from ill treatment to have had his faculties impaired; he cannot speak quite plainly: he seems to have bad a fair complexion, but his face has been discoloured by art; and his features are much distorted, by his head having been bound up to excite pity. He calls himself Charies. Smith; also Charles Davis; which is thought to be his real name, as the woman says her name is Catherine Smith. The child says that the woman whom he calls the old woman, told him not to tell his name; that she rubbed his face with something black; that she sold his fine clothes and put him on rags; that he had yellow shoes, which she sold. The woman, he says, is not his mother that is in London, that he has a sister Peggy who is a woman; that his mother washes clothes, and keeps chickens; and that his father is in the West Indies. He mentioned also his having a little wheel-barrow at home.

PATRONAGE OF LITERATURE IN THE STATE

OF VERMONT, IN NORTH AMERICA. The legislature of Vermont, having considered that the state was almost wholly destitute of the means of education, granted, A. D. 1800, to a number of individuals, the charter of a college at Middlebury; but were unable to extend to it the hand of public bounty.

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A commodious building for the accommodation of students was immediately prepared. A well selected library of near seven hundred volumes, and a small philosophical apparatus, have been procured for the use of the students. Competent instructors are obtained and permanently established. Forty-six alumni of the college have been admitted to the degree of bachelors of arts. The number of under graduates is about sixty. The progress of the institution has more than equalled the expec tations of the most sanguine of its friends. It has depended for its success upon the liberality of private gentlemen, but has not yet received any adequate endowment. The state of Vermont is new. The inhabitants generally are indigent and none are wealthy. The popu lation, (which is rapidly increasing) amounts, at present, to two hundred thousand. The state is furnished with but few academies, or good schools for the education of youth. The number of Christian preachers, of every denomination, is very small; and by far the greater part of the inhabitants of the state have not the Gospel dispensed to them. Middlebury college is the chief resort of those youths who seek an education superior to what can be obtained at the common schools.

The situation of the state, and the increase of students, require that their plans should be extended and their means enlarged.

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At the Earl of Tankerville's, in Privy Gardens,
Lady Ossulton.

In Grosvenor square, the Right Hon. Lady Petre.
The lady of the Hon. W. H. Gardner.

At Battersca Rise, the lady of Col. H. Thornton,
M. P.

At Blenheim, the lady of Lord F. Spencer.
At Oteley Park, Salop, the Right Hon. Lady
Kenyon.

At Bodmington Park, Gloucestershire,the Duchess
of Beaufort.

The Hon. Mrs. Borough.

MARRIAGES.

By special licence, the Rev. Wm. Huntingdon, to Lady Saunderson.

William Scott, Esq. Receiver-general for the Isle
of Man, to the Hon. Miss Murray, eldest daugh-
ter of the late Lord Henry Murray, and niece
to the Duke of Athol.

At East Knoyle, Wilts, Sir Wm. George Parker,
Bart. to Miss Elizabeth Still.

At Kensington, Captain Forest, of Binfield, Berks,
to Miss M. Lowther, eldest daughter of Col. J.
Lowther, M. P.

Captain Abdy, of the Royal Navy, to Miss Rich,
daughter of the late Sir T. Rich, Bart. of Sun-
ning, in Berkshire.

At Sandal, near Wakefield, the Rev. Dr. Zouch,
Prebendary of Durham, to Miss Brookes, of
Wakefield.

Edward Symonds Ommaney, Esq. of Yarmouth,
to Miss H. M. Lacon, second daughter of Sir
Edmund Lacon.

At Bath, J. H. Holder, Esq. to Miss Elizabeth
Hewitt, youngest daughter of the late Hon.
Wm. Hewitt, and niece to Viscount Lifford.
At Cork, Major Milling, of the 81st regiment, to
Miss E. Corroll, of Askeen.

The Rev. S. Sorrell, of Wells, to Miss H. Digby,
daughter of the late Dean of Durham, and sister
to Lady Ilchester.

C. H. Hastings, Esq. Major of the 63d regiment,
to Miss Gardiner, daughter of Lieut. General
Gardiner, commander of the forces in Nova
Scotia.

H. Hooper, Esq. of Exeter, to Miss Caroline
Broughton, second daughter of the late Sir S.
Broughton, Bart.

VOL. V. [Lit. Pan. Oct. 1808.]

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Sir Walter Ogilvy, Bart.

At Lee, the Right Hon. Lady Dacre.

At Dublin, J. Trait, Esq. Under Secretary to the
Lord Lieutenant.

At Rio de Janeiro, General Jonn Forbes.
At Great Holland, Essex, Miss Margaret Fulton,
In Russell-square, Sir G. Pauncefoni, Bart.
daughter of Lieut. Col. Fulton.

At Wilmington, near Dartford, J. Cumming, Esq.
At Southcote House, near Reading, the Comte
d'Hector.

Admiral of the White.

Lady Anna Margaretta Fitzgerald, daughter of
the late Earl of Kerry, and relict of Maurice
Fitzgerald, Knight of the Shire.

At Brighton, Miss C. Napier, daughter of the late
At Worthing, Lord Wm. Russell.
Hon. Geo. Napier.

At Tewkesbury Park, J. Wall, Esq.

In Gloucester-place, Catherine, second daughter
of Lieut. Gen. Lord Forbes.

At Gosford, aged 85, the Right Hon. Francis
At Cheltenham, Lieut. Gen. Bowyer.
Charteris Wemiss, Earl of Wemiss.
In Bloomsbury-square, Lady Wallace Dunlop.
Aged 87, the Rev. Sir William Whithorn Wray,
Bart.

At Bury St. Edmund's, Dr. Edm. Hamilton.
Lady A. Rich, widow of Admiral Sir T. Rich,

Bart.

At Richmond, Mrs. Denn, mother to the Right The Hon. Miss Trefusis, sister to the late, and Hon. Lady Beauchamp. At Merchieston Bank, near Edinburgh, in his aunt to the present Lord Clinton. 86th year, John Home, Esq. of Kilduff, author J. Judd, Esq. of Chelmsford. This gentleman of the tragedy of Douglas, &c. had directed in his will, and made it a request to his friends, that upon his decease, his body" should be dressed in his clothes, and in that state, deposited in the coffin. This has been complied with, and the remains are covered with his best suit of cloaths; a blue coat, boots, and a hat, form part of the funeral apparel. Aged 101, Mrs. M. Monegment, of St. Faith's,

Norwich, who retained her faculties to the last.
Dorothy Turnbull, of Newcastle, aged 107
years.

At Ramsgate, the youngest daughter of Sir Ib. D.
Massey, Bart.

At Crantoure, near Edinburgh, C. Hope, Esq.
Commissioner of the Navy.

At Hopetown House, Scotland, the Right Hon.
Lady Jemima Johnstone Hope, wife of Captain
Aged 84, Wm. Henry Lyttleton, Lord Eyuleton,
G. J. Hope, R. N.
Baron Frankley, in Worcestershire.

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Lord Reddlesham. While on a shooting party, his
lordship fell back, and instantly expired.
The Dowager Lady Middleton.
The Rev. J. Ekins, D. D. aged 77 years.

At Barham, Kent, Edward Dering, Esq. eldest son of Sir E. Dering, Bart.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
STAFF, &C. IN 1808.

AUGUST 27-Staff-Lieut. col. Sir G. Smith, Knt. 82d foot, aid-de-camp to the King, v. Howard, appointed a field-officer in the guards. SEPTEMBER 3.-Brevet-Capt. C. Campbell, 75th foot, major in the army; and capt. C. A. Quist, principal of the riding-house department of the ordnance, major, with temporary rank in the army.

Garrison.-Col. J. Robertson, on h. p. of the 92d foot, deputy governor of Fort George, v. Stewart, deceased.

10.-Brevet-Lieut. col. W. Raymond, deputý adj. gen. to forces serving in Ireland, col. in the army; and capt. J. R. Nason, 27th foot, major in the army. Garrison-Col. R. Burne, 36th foot, governor of Carlisle, v. gen. Agnew, deceased.

— 24.—Staff-H. L. Templer, Esq. late major of 10th light drag. an inspecting field-officer of yeomanry and volunteer corps, with rank of fieut. col. while so employed, v. Locke, appointed to 84th foot.

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Rev. T. Gell, M. A. has been inducted to the rectory of Boylston, Derbyshire, vacated by death of Rev. C. Fletcher.

Rev. J. Cragg, M. A. formerly of Trinity coll., has been instituted to the rectory of Withcott, and licenced to the perpetual curacy of Ouston, both in Leicestershire, on the presentation of Sir J. Palmer, Bart

Rev. C. Graham has been presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the vicarages of Petham and Waltham in Kent, vacated by death of Rev. T. Randolph.

Rev. J. Plumptre, D. D. formerly of King's coll., Camb., has been presented by the King to the Deanery of the cathedral church of Gloucester, vacated by translation of the Bishop of Bristol to the see of Hereford.

Rev. J. Dicaster, M. A. Fell. of Christ coll., Camb., and one of his Majesty's preachers at Whitehall, elected head master of Oakham school, Rutland.

Rev. G. Millers, M. A. is instituted to the vicarage of Stanford, Norfolk, on the presentation of the Bishop of Ely.

Rev. W Johnson is licensed to the perpetual curacy of Horsham St. Faith's, and the vicarage of Horsford, Norfolk, vacant by cession of Rev. W. Burton, on the nomination and presentation of Sir P. Stephens, Bart.

Sep. 4. The following gentlemen were ordained deacons at Eccleshall, Staffordshire, by the bishop of Litchfield and Coventry :-J. W. Judgson, M.A. fell. of Trin. coll. Camb.; F. White, M.A. Trin. coll. Camb.; T. Harris, M.A. Trin. coll.; Camb.

Rev. Mr. Proby, rector of Stanwick, nephew of the Earl of Carysford, is installed prebendary of Lafford, alias Sealford, in the cathedral church of Lincoln.

Rev. J. S. Coleman, of St. John's coll., is presented, by Mrs. Coulton and Miss Coulton, to the rectory of Houghton, Leicestershire.

Rev. Mr. Allenson, of Thurnby, Leicester, is is presented by the bishop of Lincoln, to the vicarage of Evington, Leicestershire.

Rev. S. Smith. one of the canons of Christ church, Oxford, has been instituted, on his own presentation, to the rectory of Dry Drayton, Camb. vacated by the death of his father.

MEDICAL REPORT.

To the Editor of the Literary Panorama.

SIR, The prevailing diseases of this month, may be arranged under the following heads-consumption and its varieties, dropsy, measles, worms, affections of the head, and also of the stomach and bowels, (called cholera morbus) sore throat, tumours in the face and neck, and ulcers of the legs, &c. I shall proceed therefore to the intended observations on our English endemic, called cholera morbus, which has been of late so prevelant. I am, Sir,

Yours, &c.

New Kent Road, Sept. 20, 1808. C. PEARS. The disease called cholera morbus is so common, that hardly any individual escapes its attack. It is called the endemic or peculiar disease of England, depending, as is supposed, on the air, water, and situation. It is an affection of the stomach and bowels, or vomiting, and relaxation: and as it prevails in the fruit season, it has been, and still is, very eroneously attributed to the use of fruit. But, as it also as generally and severely prevails whenever we have a combination of heat and moisture, this circumstance alone proves the common opinion to be erroneous. There is likewise another opinion, not less common and equaily false, that it depends on the bile, and is a bilious disease. This mistake wholly arrises from neglecting to notice a very uniform and common fact. Whenever the stomach is long under the influence of vomiting, it necessarily must evacuate bile, the action of every common emetic proves this, and yet it is even now attributed to the superabundance of bile, rather than the necessary consequence of such an action, on such an organ, and so placed, as the stomach. When the cons

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