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The mangling scourge . Oh ye who , at your ease , Sip the blood-sweelen'd beverage ! thoughts like these Haply ye scorn : I thank thee , gracious God ! That I do feel upon my cheek the glow Of indignation , when beneath the rod A sable brother writhes in silent woe . ' Remarks on the Conduct of the respective Governments of Great Britain and Francein the
, late Negotiation for Peace . By Elias Taunton , Esq . THIS pamphlet is written by a gentleman , who , we are informed , was educated at Oxford . It is one more , to the many melanchol y proofs already extant , that a liberal and classical education is not sufficient to form a good writer . Of its matter it would be impossible to give even a . tolerable account , . without assigning it more room and more attention than it seems to deserve . Its great merit ( if it should be deemed a merit ) consists in viewing facts in
a particular light ( the justness of which would be completely denied by his adversaries ) , and then reasoning upon them in a flippant ready manner . —¦ After all , were it purged of its great incorrectness of stile , though the author would deserve but . little credit , he would not merit our censure . The following half of the fifth page will , we doubt not , justify our report of" this composition . Speaking of the late decisive message , of the Executive
Directory , which crushed all our hopes of peace , he goes on thus : — ' It is of service , in unfolding to us the disposition of mind tohh which the Rulers of France have been uniformly aiJuated . It tends to ascertain , in the question of insincerity , ivbich some have ajfeeled to ? nake as of uncertain applicability on the late occasion of pacific advances , to which Government that charge is most justly due . And in proportion as it fixes on France the reproach of a wanton and unjustifiable rupture of the negociationit confirms
, the repeated assurances of a conciliatory disposition , which , throughout the present contest , his Majesty ' s Ministers have constantl y affirmed , and as far as circumstances would permit them , ftitlifully . y «^?// irt / . ' But the measure , it should be observed , is only so far beneficial , as it puts beyond possibility of cavil or suspicion , by those whom prejudice and interest may mislead , the motives which have respectively influenced the Go .-vernments of Great Britain and France . The circumstances themselves are
too strong to admit of doubt ivitb the fair and unbiassed . However the increasing necessities of France may have induced the friends of peace in this country to hope , that the unfavourable symptoms in the anterior proceedings of the Executive Directory , would , in the end have been conquered by a due sense of those necessities , and a desire to relieve them , yet the proceedings considered by themselves are sufficiently explicit . '
Before this gentleman publishes again , we would advise him to consider the attention which Gibbon , Robertson , Franklin , and all good writers , however different their excellence , have uniformly paid to stile and true criticism . From the just corrections made by Blair , in several papers selected from the Spectator , this gentleman might perceive the absolute necessity of submitting his labours to the judgment of a few judicious and critical friends , before he . sends them forth to the world . Stile may be bad , and yet admit of no
correction . But that stile must be bad indeed , which may be amended in every page , by shortening or dividing the sentences , by a dirterent arrangement of the members , and by verbal corrections . An Examination of Events , termed Miraculous , as reported in Letters from Italy . By the Rev . L Berington , ivo .-price is . Booker . Some Letters from Itaiy > containing an account of Miraculous F . vents ,
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Review Of New Publications.
The mangling scourge . Oh ye who , at your ease , Sip the blood-sweelen'd beverage ! thoughts like these Haply ye scorn : I thank thee , gracious God ! That I do feel upon my cheek the glow Of indignation , when beneath the rod A sable brother writhes in silent woe . ' Remarks on the Conduct of the respective Governments of Great Britain and Francein the
, late Negotiation for Peace . By Elias Taunton , Esq . THIS pamphlet is written by a gentleman , who , we are informed , was educated at Oxford . It is one more , to the many melanchol y proofs already extant , that a liberal and classical education is not sufficient to form a good writer . Of its matter it would be impossible to give even a . tolerable account , . without assigning it more room and more attention than it seems to deserve . Its great merit ( if it should be deemed a merit ) consists in viewing facts in
a particular light ( the justness of which would be completely denied by his adversaries ) , and then reasoning upon them in a flippant ready manner . —¦ After all , were it purged of its great incorrectness of stile , though the author would deserve but . little credit , he would not merit our censure . The following half of the fifth page will , we doubt not , justify our report of" this composition . Speaking of the late decisive message , of the Executive
Directory , which crushed all our hopes of peace , he goes on thus : — ' It is of service , in unfolding to us the disposition of mind tohh which the Rulers of France have been uniformly aiJuated . It tends to ascertain , in the question of insincerity , ivbich some have ajfeeled to ? nake as of uncertain applicability on the late occasion of pacific advances , to which Government that charge is most justly due . And in proportion as it fixes on France the reproach of a wanton and unjustifiable rupture of the negociationit confirms
, the repeated assurances of a conciliatory disposition , which , throughout the present contest , his Majesty ' s Ministers have constantl y affirmed , and as far as circumstances would permit them , ftitlifully . y «^?// irt / . ' But the measure , it should be observed , is only so far beneficial , as it puts beyond possibility of cavil or suspicion , by those whom prejudice and interest may mislead , the motives which have respectively influenced the Go .-vernments of Great Britain and France . The circumstances themselves are
too strong to admit of doubt ivitb the fair and unbiassed . However the increasing necessities of France may have induced the friends of peace in this country to hope , that the unfavourable symptoms in the anterior proceedings of the Executive Directory , would , in the end have been conquered by a due sense of those necessities , and a desire to relieve them , yet the proceedings considered by themselves are sufficiently explicit . '
Before this gentleman publishes again , we would advise him to consider the attention which Gibbon , Robertson , Franklin , and all good writers , however different their excellence , have uniformly paid to stile and true criticism . From the just corrections made by Blair , in several papers selected from the Spectator , this gentleman might perceive the absolute necessity of submitting his labours to the judgment of a few judicious and critical friends , before he . sends them forth to the world . Stile may be bad , and yet admit of no
correction . But that stile must be bad indeed , which may be amended in every page , by shortening or dividing the sentences , by a dirterent arrangement of the members , and by verbal corrections . An Examination of Events , termed Miraculous , as reported in Letters from Italy . By the Rev . L Berington , ivo .-price is . Booker . Some Letters from Itaiy > containing an account of Miraculous F . vents ,