moved by the care of his friends from his dishonourable exile, to one, under all circumstances, hardly more honourable. He was sent (probably by the influence of Mr. Fox, to whom the offensive ode had been addressed) minister to Dresden; and he accepted this office from a ministry which he had individually derided and insulted. It must be confessed that this is not the brilliant part of Sir Charles's life; we touch it lightly, and should not have touched it all, but that it is necessary to his poetical history, and to the understanding of some of the best and most vigorous pieces in the whole publication. There is one ode in particular, which is called an answer to the Conquered Duchess,' and which professes to be an expostulation with Sir Charles; but the expostulation is so gentle, and the satire it contains is so general and so poignant that we should have suspected it to be Sir Charles's, even if all the editions had not given it as his. There is, however, one allusion in it to the punishment of Diomede, which Sir Charles could hardly have written, or which, if he did write it, is a most extraordinary prophecy of a misfortune uttered by a man against himself;-for Sir Charles did, as the ode writer menaced, lose his reason: if this ode, however, was not written by him, (which those who have the originals could, we suppose, tell,) there was, then, another poet at least equal to Sir Charles at his own weapons, and superior to him in the audacity of using them. We are tempted to extract a stanza or two (the least offensive we can find) from this sprightly ode,-even at this distance of time we are unwilling to quote his very licentious satire upon individual females, but the two following stanzas, in which Sir Charles's triumphs over the new ministry are celebrated, may be extracted without any indelicacy. Sir Charles is addressed as telling How Sands, in sense and person queer, No mortal yet knows why; How Pulteney truck'd the fairest fame How Compton rose, when Walpole fell, How Vane and Rushout, Bathurst, Gower, And rais'd to be expos'd.'-vol. i. p. 97. But there is another class of Sir Charles's poetry to which we may look, if not with as great admiration, with at least more ap plause. plause. These volumes contain several pieces which are wholly unexceptionable in point either of morals or honour; they are less distinguished for brilliancy than their criminal associates, but they exhibit considerable talents. Such is the epistle, already quoted, to Mr. Fox, from which we are tempted to extract a character of Sir Robert Walpole, drawn with, certainly not an impartial but, a knowing and an able hand. ""But Orford's self, I've seen whilst I have read, Laugh the heart's laugh, and nod th' approving head; If I who follow'd thro' thy various day, Thy glorious zenith and thy bright decay, Now strew thy tomb with flow'rs, and o'er thy urn, Where prudence sees no track, yet never strays; And what can heighten thought or genius raise, Like praise from him whom all mankind must praise; } Whom many lov'd, few hated, none despis'd.'-vol. ii. p. 146. Less diffuse and therefore better is his character of Mr. Winnington. 'In him we find unite, what rarely meet, Taught by his sense, and by his spirit warm'd,'-p. 446. Our readers will see in these extracts great irregularities; lines the most vigorous match with lines the most feeble and prosaic; and such is the character of the whole epistle, and indeed, we may say, of all Sir Charles's poetry. We must now conclude, repeating our wish that an expurgated edition of this work were printed, omitting all the indecencies, the blasphemies, and the dulness which compose the major part of Mr. Jeffrey's volumes, and elucidating the rest by such notes as should explain the history and brighten the wit. Sir Charles, without any effort on his part, has achieved a lasting fame. He will be always mentioned, and, if a decent edition be published, often read; but of the present work we are obliged to say, notwithstanding the respectable names which the editor has entrapped into his title-page and dedication, that it is a disgrace to good manners, good morals, and literature, and that no man of sense and no woman of delicacy can allow it to be seen on their` table. ART. III-1. Voyage à l'Oasis de Thèbes et dans les Déserts situés à l'Orient et à l'Occident de la Thébaide, faits pendant les Années 1815, 1816, 1817 et 1818. Par M. Frédéric Cailliaud; et le Voyage à l'Oasis du Dakel; par M. Le Chevalier Drovetti, Consul-Général de France en Egypte; rédigé et publié par M. Jomard, &c. Fol. Paris. 1822. 2. A Journey to Two of the Oases of Upper Egypt. By Sir Archibald Edmonstone, Bart. London. 1822. 3. Notes, during a Visit to Egypt, Nubia and the Oasis, Mount Sinai and Jerusalem. By Sir Frederick Henniker, Bart. 8vo. London. 1822. 4. Travels along the Mediterranean and Parts adjacent; in company with the Earl of Belmore, during the Years 1816, 17, and 18: extending as far as the Second Cataract of the plause. These volumes contain several pieces which are wholly unexceptionable in point either of morals or honour; they are less distinguished for brilliancy than their criminal associates, but they exhibit considerable talents. Such is the epistle, already quoted, to Mr. Fox, from which we are tempted to extract a character of Sir Robert Walpole, drawn with, certainly not an impartial but, a knowing and an able hand. "But Orford's self, I've seen whilst I have read, Laugh the heart's laugh, and nod th' approving head; If I who follow'd thro' thy various day, Now strew thy tomb with flow'rs, and o'er thy urn, Where prudence sees no track, yet never strays; And what can heighten thought or genius raise, Like praise from him whom all mankind must praise; } } Whom many lov'd, few hated, none despis'd.'-vol. ii. p. 146. Less diffuse and therefore better is his character of Mr. Win nington. 'In him we find unite, what rarely meet, Taught by his sense, and by his spirit warm'd,'-p. 446. Our readers will see in these extracts great irregularities; lines the most vigorous match with lines the most feeble and prosaic; and such is the character of the whole epistle, and indeed, we may say, of all Sir Charles's poetry. We must now conclude, repeating our wish that an expurgated edition of this work were printed, omitting all the indecencies, the blasphemies, and the dulness which compose the major part of Mr. Jeffrey's volumes, and elucidating the rest by such notes as should explain the history and brighten the wit. Sir Charles, without any effort on his part, has achieved a lasting fame. He will be always mentioned, and, if a decent edition be published, often read; but of the present work we are obliged to say, notwithstanding the respectable names which the editor has entrapped into his title-page and dedication, that it is a disgrace to good manners, good morals, and literature, and that no man of sense and no woman of delicacy can allow it to be seen on their` table. ART. III.-1. Voyage à l'Oasis de Thèbes et dans les Déserts situés à l'Orient et à l'Occident de la Thébaide, faits pendant les Années 1815, 1816, 1817 et 1818. Par M. Frédéric Cailliaud; et le Voyage à l'Oasis du Dakel; par M. Le Chevalier Drovetti, Consul-Général de France en Egypte; rédigé et publié par M. Jomard, &c. Fol. Paris. 1822. 2. A Journey to Two of the Oases of Upper Egypt. Archibald Edmonstone, Bart. London. 1822. 3. Notes, during a Visit to Egypt, Nubia and the Qasis, Mount Sinai and Jerusalem. By Sir Frederick Henniker, Bart. 8vo. London. 1822. By Sir 4. Travels along the Mediterranean and Parts adjacent; in company with the Earl of Belmore, during the Years 1816, 17, and 18: extending as far as the Second Cataract of the |