texture confifts of one foliloquy, one chorus, and one dialogue. The following remonftrance is not ill conceived. "Then for what purpofe, tell me if you can, And chufe (hard choice to make!) or him, or P-11." P. 17. A good deal of acrimony appears in fome other parts of the poem. TRAVELS. ART. 19. Travels in the Year 1806 from Italy to England, through the Tyrol, Styria, Bohemia, Poland, &c. containing the Particulars of the Liberation of Mrs. Spencer Smith from the Hands of the French. Effected and written by the Marquis de Salvo. This is an interefting account of the refcue of an English lady and two children from the hands of the French, by a Sicilian nobleman on his travels through Italy, where he was detained on his way homeward, by the French having got poffeffion of Venice. Mrs. Spencer Smith, a Greek lady, was wife to the brother of our brave Sir Sidney, and on account of her health had been obliged to quit England, and to refide at Venice, receiving at the fame time from the French General Lauriston affurances of protection, and a passport to enable her to depart whenever she pleafed. She was, however, fuddenly fummoned to appear be. fore the police, and declared to be under arreft as a French prifoner. Interceffions were made in her favour to no purpose; the was condemned to be taken under a ftrong military escort to Valenciennes. The confidence which the had placed in the enemy's promife of fecurity was her only fault; no ftain of culpability appeared even to the French, except her connection with a name fynonymous to patriotic attachment. The fituation of Mrs. Smith, harraffed, fickly, and forlorn, called aloud for the friendly intervention of fome man of feeling and refolution, and fuch a one the fortunately found in the Marquis de Salvo; who, deeply affected, determined to refcue her by a fecret flight G 2 from from the cruel fangs of her enemy; and having engaged her to exert the utmost degree of fortitude to co-operate in the bold attempt, the confented, though not without infinite reluctance at the idea of the danger he ran by expofing himself to fo perilous an enterprize on her account. Preliminaries being fettled, he began by faving the children, who, with their preceptor, were fafely conducted to Gratz. He then gained permiffion as a friend to accompany Mrs. Smith, the parting between whom and her fifter, the Countefs of Atems, and other friends, wholly uncertain of the fate that might await her, was affecting in the highest degree. After encountering delays, infults, and disappointments through every town they paffed, they reached Brefcia, where her hero determined to put his plans of liberation into effect, it be. ing the nearest place to a neutral territory. He ran to examine the windows of the inn, in which a room was appointed for Mrs. Smith fifty feet from the ground; the gens d'armes taking the room adjoining to her's. He next got a paffport figned for the Tyrol, and provided a light carriage and horses, and a man's drefs for the difguife of Mrs. Smith. On producing these to her he was at once forcibly ftruck with the dangers that were to be encountered, but which the defire of obtaining her liberty at length overcame. The next difficulty to encounter was how to get her out of the apartment thus carefully guarded. To leap from the window at fo great a height was impoffible; but as neceffity prompts us to exertion, the Marquis was not long it fecretly completing a ladder of ropes, which, being faftened to the iron of her window, enabled her to reach the ground without receiving any material injury. With, trepidation and delight they now began their flight. They reached Salo, and at length gained the, Tyrolefe frontier. Encountering innumerable diffi culties, they at length reached the banks of the Danube, and arrived at Lintz. It was to meet her mother, fifter, and rejoin her children, that Mrs. Smith had been induced to go through Germany, when he was ordered to depart from the states of a power whofe neutrality precluded any further ftay. The attain ment of her defires being thus denied, the travelled without pleasure, though her captivity was at an end, and received orders to repair to Prague, whence he was to take the road to Saxony or Ruffia. Here the Marquis left her to proceed to Gratz, where he had the fatisfaction of finding her mother and fifter, and announcing to them her fafety, the difficulties that had attended. their efcape, and witnefling their joy at finding they had at length overcome, fo many obftacles. He next proceeded with them to Prague, where they had all the fupreme happiness of again being reunited to Mrs. Smith. Nothing further seemed requifite to render them happy, but the cautious government could not allow the mother and children to remain united before their arrival on the confines of Ruffian Poland, when they again met at Riga, and after waiting there a fhort time they procured a paffage a paffage for England, arrived at Copenhagen, and on the 26th September fafely landed on our happy fhores. ART. 20. AGRICULTURE. The English Practice of Agriculture, exemplified in the Management of a Farm in Ireland, belonging to the Earl of Conyngham, at Slane, in the County of Meath. With an Appendix; containing, firft, A Comparative Eftimate of the Irifb and English Mode of Culture, as to Profit and Lofs; and fe condly, A Regular Retation of Crops, for a Period of Six Years. By Richard Parkinson, Author of The Experienced Farmer,' and other Works of Agriculture. 8vo. 338 pp. 9s. Longman. 1806. Readers, who have much time on their hands, and who like an inftructor the better, the more pages he can fill with a given quantity of matter, muft be highly gratified by a perufal of this volume. The author has been a farmer many years in England; two in America; and laftly, two in Ireland, as partner with the Earl of Conyngham in 500 acres, pafture and tillage. His confeffion, at p. 226, begins and proceeds ingenuously, but ends fomewhat confidently: "Though I have written much, and reflected deeply, on agriculture; I ftill confider myfelf as wandering in a labyrinth, as to improvements in it. The advantages I have enjoyed have certainly been uncommon;-yet I cannot fay that, fatisfactorily to my own mind, I have formed a complete and infallible. fyftem. All the fchemes I have started are good in themselves, for the pre. fent; and as fully explained, as I am able to explain them: but I would not have the reader fuppofe, that I have for a moment indulged the conceit that I have arrived at perfection. I ftill with, and ball always wifb, to continue my enquiry. [Oh, when will there be an end to our reading!] Though I am in the habit of reading works on agriculture for the improvement of my own practice, I never give the public my opinion on their merits, till I have tried them by the teft of experiment; and I can fay without vanity, that I do not know a fingle obfervation of any agricultural author, that in practice I have not improved upon." We ftrongly recommend the author's example, in one point, to all agricultural writers: After quoting lefs than a page, he fays, This is the only quotation I have ever given in my publications." P. 234, What a mass, what mountains of paper wouldhave been faved, if this had been a general practice!-Page 240 tempts us to wish for an introduction to the company there spoken of; but to what part of England muft we refort for it? a market-town, an English ordinary is a valuable fchool for a young farmer; for he will generally find fome refpectable gentle G 3 "At man man-farmer at the head of the table, who afks and answers quef tions on agricultural fubjects; and being befides a man of more refinement than the company in general, the youth, if attentive to his converfation, will have an opportunity of improving his manners, and of acquiring many other kinds of knowledge befides that of agriculture."-Some good hints occur at p. 260, concerning gentlemen-farmers, and their disappointment in expected profits; but we demur as to the expediency of founding a farming-college; even though Dr. E. Tatham, the projector, fhould alfo be the rector of it. We fear that neither the tutor, nor the scholars, would usually practice the good leffon with which this work is concluded: "A farmer's life ought to be a life of industry: He ought to rife early in the morning, and fpend the whole of the day on his farm, as an example to the people that work upon it; for upon his conduct every thing depends; he is the power that fets the whole work agoing; like the power of water, or fire, acting upon a machine." The Appendix, which is the effential part of the book, contains "a Comparison of the Irifh mode of culture, with the English method purfued by the author at Slane; with a ftatement of the expences and profits of each." The fubftance, and result, of the author's English practice on an Irish farm, appear at p. 336. As the reader will perceive, the principal object of the preceding tables is to fhow the difference between the Irish farming, or what may be termed straight-forward farming, and the English farming, or what may be termed projecting farming. The Irish farming is done without lofs; the other loft in the first year 3657. 15s. 6d. a fum that, when a perfon is employed as an agent, or has a concern with a gentleman who knows nothing of the bufinefs, is apparently alarming; as it may lead him to conclude, if fuch a fum be loft in one year, what will be the cafe in the next or any fucceeding year. But it fhould be remembered, that though the money is not in the pocket of the projecting farmer, it is in the land, which is in a regularly improving ftate, while the other is continally deteriorating. The plan in the one cafe is, by well dunging and clean fallowing, to improve an eftate; and the effect in the other, by a neglect of these things, to destroy it. When I entered for inftance on lord Conyngham's eftate, the greater part of the land was in fo foul and rude a ftate as to be unufeable by the Irish farmer, for his implements were not able to till it. Whereas by two years attentive management it was brought into fo good a train, that when I left it, the farmer who fucceeded me would have nothing to do but to fow and reap. Mine was the drudgery and expence, his the pleasure and profit." But why did not Mr. P. ftay longer; that he might fow and reap? At p. 144, for guineas, we muft doubtlefs read billings: "pigs, of feven or eight weeks old, at from twelve to fifteen guineas guineas each," would be precious morfels indeed! These things are now felling off, (Dec. 1807), on account of the high price of their food, at 3s. each, in the fens of Lincolnshire, (a district well known to Mr. P.), to the great present fatisfaction of the lovers of good living; which is faid to have been very generally extended, of late years, throughout that neighbourhood; and (with the aid of skin-touching flannel waistcoats, and draining acts of parliament), nearly to have banished from it the ague, with all its fhivering and palefacedness. If the author's account of the Irish peafantry be correct, we fhould prefer a middling farm in England to the very best in Ire. land: From what I have seen of the lower order of people in Ireland, they are a fet of mifcreants; cunning, and watchful to take all advantages of the master." P. 8g." Thieving is fo common, as not to appear a vice." P. 96. "There is nothing on the farm, of any kind, that they are not apt to steal, if opportunity offered." P. 146. "I have been told by different gentlemen of the country, that the common people prefer telling a lie to fpeaking the truth, even when the truth would anfwer to them a much better purpose." P. 179. "A man who has never feen this country would fcarcely believe that there exifted so corrupt a fet of people on the earth." P. 182. POLITICS. ART. 21. A Letter to William Wilberforce, Efq. M. P. on the propafed Abolition of the Slave Trade, at prefent under the Con fideration of Parliament. By William Smith, Efq. late Reprefentative for the Coty of Norwich. 12mo. 48 PP. Longman and Co. 1807. 15. To contribute as much as poffible by his writings to the abo lition of the Slave Trade, fince he could no longer affift by a parliamentary vote, appears to have been the laudable object of this author. Happily his wifh, and that of almost every friend to humanity, have fince been accomplished. It would be fuperfluous, therefore, to detail his arguments, more especially as from the frequent difcuffion of this fubject they cannot be expected to contain much novelty of matter. They are, however, pointed in the manner and language; and those who may not choofe, or may not have leifure, to go through the more elaborate work of Mr. Wilberforce, will find fome of his reafonings neatly epitomized in this. Among thofe remarks which trike us as the moft novel is that, by which the author accounts for the Slave Trade having been fo long permitted to continue, from the cira cumftance of the attention of the public having been drawn in a great measure from its origin in Africa to its effects in the WestIndies. His obfervations alfo refpecting the proof that should |