could not, for his life, lie quietly in his grave; even after digging it for him:felf, and entering it of his own accord. Far, however, are we from infinuating, that when he, in this queftionable shape, revifits the glimpfes of the moon, or of the fun, he makes either the night or day hideous; on the contrary, between exceffive good humour, and perfectly inoffensive, egotifm, he always renders his appearance pleafing; and whether he may prefer to be called an honest ful, or a good kind of body, he will to us be always an acceptable companion. Our refufcitated author, like his ghoft, with whom we formerly made acquaintance, feems to delight not a little in recording trifles; among which the following, though not indeed introduced with equal humour, reminds us of Falstaff's account of himfelf to the Lord Chief Jultice. My lord, I was born about three of the clock in the afternoon, with a white head, and fomething of a round belly: for my voice, I have loft it with hallowing and finging anthems."

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"To prevent all difputes about the place and time of my birth, be it known, that I was born on June 14, 1726, old ftyle, in the room now called the Yellow Room; that the celebrated Mrs. Clayton, of Shrewibury, afhered me into the world, and delivered me to Mifs Jenny Parry of Merton, in this parish; who, to her dying day, never failed telling me, "Ah, you rogue! I remember you when you had not a fhirt to your back."

We are neverthelefs willing to let fuch a visitor tell his ftory his own way, and to repay his opennefs by our indulgence.

Mr. Pennant begins his book with an account of his own houfe at Downing, in which he is fo particular, as to tell us that when it came into his poffeffion, it had partly tranfume, partly fathed windows." The Abbey of Malandina, conftructed by himfelf from the ruins of an old mill, certainly

obliged to Mr. William Denman of Holywell, furgeon, for the above account of the fad diforder, (the mill-diflemper, contracted in the lead works) but more materially for his fkill, and my excellent conftitution, for a speedy recovery in the laft fpring (April 6, 2 P. M.) from the confequences of a knee-pan fnapped in two traufverfelcy, by no other violence than stepping down two steps, inftead of one. After a ftrict recumbency of near feven weeks, in poffeffion of high fpirits, fulness of faculties, and enjoyment of my favourite amufements, I rofe from my bed, with the grateful profpect of palling the remainder of my days with my prior activity little impaired; thankful to Providence for graciously adding this bleffing to the numbers of others it has thowered on me, during my long and various life." Thus the refurgam had a double fenfe, I will get up from my bed after feven weeks recumbency," and, "I will tile again as an author"

makes

makes a refpectable appearance in the view of the grounds: and the Fairy Oak is well worthy of the portrait exhibited in the plate enfuing. This curious circumftance refpecting it is related by Mr. Pennant.

"In this very century, a poor cottager, who lived near the fpot, had a child who grew uncommonly peevish; the parents attributed this to the fairies, and imagined that it was a changeling, They took the child, put it into a cradle, and left it all night beneath the tree, in hopes that the tylawydd teg, or fairy family, or the fairy folk, would reftore their own before morning. When morning came, they found the child perfectly quiet, fo went away with it, quite confirmed in their belief." P. 5.

Mr. Pennant, dead or alive, is an indefatigable author; were we inclined to continue the allufion to the Ghost in Hamlet, we might fay,

Well faid, old mole, can't work i'th' earth fo faft?

A worthy pioneer!

for, in the interval between May, 1793, and the prefent day, his great work in manufcript, which he calls "Out-lines of the Globe," has increafed from fourteen to twenty-two volumes in folio, "on which uncommon expence has been bestowed in ornament and illuminations." We are much difpofed to advife, that a work of fuch magnitude and importance, (being a collection of every thing that can instruct or amufe, refpecting the world at large) fhould not be left altogether to pofthumous publication. Some part, at least, more complete than the reft, fhould be published by the author himfelf as a fpecimen of the manner in which he would have his papers digefted and brought forward. A fketch of the work is given a p. 318, which, as we are now upon the subject, and the work promifes to be interefting, we fhall take the liberty to

tranfcribe.

OUT-LINES OF THE GLOBE, ACCORDING TO THEIR PERMANENT STATE.

"Vol. I. England; Scotland; Orkney Ifles; Schetland Ifles; Ferce Ifles; Iceland; Holland; Denmark.-II. Sweden; Norway; Spitsbergen; Ruffia.-II. Dominions bordering on the Volga; circuit of the Cafpian Sea; mountains of Caucafus; Ghilan, Mazendaran; from the north end of the Cafpian Sea to the Urallian Chain.IV. Nova Zemlja; Siberia; Kamtfchatka: these four volumes contain the fubjects of the first ccviii. pages of the Introduction to the Arctic Zoology, enlarged and extended.-V. Wellern Coast of America: British Colonies in America; United States of America;

being the remaining part of the Introduction to the Arctic Zoology, enlarged. VI. VII. France, from Calais to Anday e, and the French Pyrenees. VIII. Spain, from Fontarabia to the borders of Portugal; Portugal; Spain again, from the mouth of the Guadiana, to the eaftern entrance of the Streights of Gibraltar.-IX. The Mediterranean coaft of Spain, from Europa Point to the beginning of Southern France; Southern France, to the Maritime Alps.-X. Northern Africa, from the mouths of the Nile, along the Mediterranean coaft of Africa, through the Streights of Gibraltar, and from thence to the river of Senegal; with an account of the Madeira, the Canary Ilands, and thofe of Cape Verd.-XI. Nigritian Africa, from the river Senegal to Cape Negro; with an account of Prince's Ifle, Ifle of St. Thomas, Isle of Afcenfion, and that of St. Helena.-XII. From Cape Negro to the Cape of Good Hope, from thence to the mouth of the Red Sea, and the African coaft of the Red Sea, as far as the Ifthmus of Suez; with an account of Madagascar, Ifle of Bourbon or Mafcarenhas, Ifle of France or Mauritius, ifle of Rodrigues, Ifles of Comoro, Joanna, the Twelve Ifles, and Amirantes Ifles or Sechelles.XIII. Arabia, and its coafts, the Perfian Gulph, and the coafts of Pería, as far as the Indus.-XIV. From the mouth of the Indus to the Panjab and Cafhmere; from the mouth of the Indus, along the weftein coaft of Indoftan, to Cape Comorin; Ifland of Ceylon, and the Laccadive and Maldive Islands.-XV. The Eaftern Coast of Hindooftan, to the mouth of the Ganges; from the mouth of the Ganges to its origin with its contributory rivers; the origin of the Sampoo or Burrampooter river, to its junction with the Ganges, near the fall of the latter into the Gulph of Bengal; feveral particulars refpecting the foregoing volumes, may be found in my Literary Life, from p. 41 to 45.-XVI. India extra Gangem, to the borders of China; with the tranflation of Adriani Periplus Maris Erythræi: by the Reverend Robert Williams, curate of Whiteford, 1792.XVII. The empires of China and Japan, with the islands to the north and fouth of the latter, Matmay, &c. and the Kuril iflands.XVIII. The Malayan and Manilla Ilands, the Philippine Islands; the Iflands of Mildanao, Celebes, or Macaffar, and the Timerian Chain; New Holland.-XIX. Molucca, or Spicy Iflands; Papuan Iflands; Land of Papuas, or New Guinea; New Britain; New. Ireland. BRITISH.-" Vol. XX. A Journey from London to Dover, along the Coafts, in the year 1787.-XXI. The fame continued from Dover along the remaining coaft of Kent, of all Suffex, of Hampshire, to Portfmouth, and the circuit of the Ifle of Wight; accompanied by my fon, David Pennant.-The object of this journey is fully mentioned in p. 31 of my Literary Life.-XXII, A Journey taken in 1773, through fome of the internal parts of Cheshire, Lancafhire, Yorkshire, Wettmoreland, and Cumberland, as far as Aiton Moor. See more of this tour in my Literary Life, p. 16." P. 318

The prefent book contains a minute account of the parishes of Whiteford and Holywell, in the former of which stands

Mr.

Mr. Pennant's houfe called Downing. It may not be amifs to mention, by the way, that the local pronunciation of the place is Dooning, which no Englishman would guefs. The author defcribes, with great exactnefs, the pictures and other curiofities in his own houfe, and in that of Sir Roger Mostyn, his neighbour; the latter containing fome very curious antiquities, with manuscripts and books of confiderable value.

It deferves to be recorded in our pages, that the Literary Life of Mr. Pennant, to which we alluded in the beginning of this article, has been tranflated into German. We shall tranfcribe the paffage in which the author mentions this circumftance.

"The picturesque dingle Nant-y-bi abounds with what the botanifts name the cryptogamous plants. The idea of cryptogamy infpired Timæus with ideas of loves of other kind; and he makes our Nant the tender fcene of courtship for all the nymphs and fwains of Whiteford parish, which he candidly admits does always terminate in honeft matrimony in the parish church. I leave the learned in German, to perufe his very graphical account*."

On the whole, this work is various and amufing, in the ufual ftyle of the author, and is adorned with many plates, executed in a manner greatly fuperior to most of thofe which have appeared in his former publications. At p. 162 is a ftrong argument in favour of large farms, which is worthy of confideration by thofe who have taken up the common opinion, or prejudice, against them. Mr. Pennant's axiom is, "Never has there been a famine in England fince the introduction of great farms." Scarcities, he allows, there will be occafionally, but he fays, "there has not been an inftance, for a number of centuries, for the poor running into corners to die for want of food; of feeing their infants perith before their eye."-May his opinion be confirmed, and may fuch calamities never return!

«The learned J. C. Timæus, of the Lunebourgh College, at Hamburgh, did me the honour of tranflating into German my Literary Life, and illuftrated it with notes; and gives a letter from Doctor John Reinhold Forster, and another from my friend Zimmerman, containing certain important anecdotes, viz. That I dine at one, drink conftantly two glaffes of ale and two of wine after dinner, and then take a nap in my elbow-chair.-I confefs the ale, and its quantity: but as to the wine, I do no limit myfelf, but by the bounds of temperance. My hour of dining is half an hour paft two; and, excepting in the very depth of winter, I conitantly take a walk after I rife from table. As to the nap, which may fometimes furprise me, let me only plead-Aliquando bonus dormilat, &c. &c." P. 153.

ART.

ART. XII. Sermons by the late Right Reverend John Hinchliff, D. D. 8vo. 202 pp. 5s. Faulder. 1796.

MR. R. Jones, in his life of Bishop Horne, fays of the prelate whofe fermons are now publifhed, what few will deny. who ever had the pleasure of hearing him from the pulpit. "The late Bishop of Peterborough, Dr. Hinchliffe, was one of the most plealing preachers of his time. His melodious voice was the gift of nature, and he fpake with the accent of a man of fenfe (fuch as he really was in a fupreme degree)." He then adds, as he is confidering the beft mode of delivering the voice in public elocution; "but it was remarkable, and, to thofe who did not know the caufe, myfterious, that there was not a corner of the church in which he could not be heard difinally. I noted this myfelf with great fatisfaction; and, by watching him attentively, I perceived it was an invariable rule with him to do justice to every confonant, knowing that the vowels will be fure to fpeak for themfelves; and thus he became the surest and clearest of speakers: his elocution was perfect, and never difappointed his audience. In this refpect moft preachers have it in their power to follow him: his fenfe, and his matter, and the fweetnefs of his tone, were fuch as few will attain to."

That all this is ftrictly true we felt ourselves prepared to vouch on the first perufal of it. What then thall we fay to the prefent volume? That it has been felected without fufficient care, or that the extraordinary charms of the bishop's elocution gave a weight to his difcourfes, which from the merit of compofition they could not have obtained; and that we must retract a part of our eulogium which declares him not eafy to be rivalled in his fenfe and matter? In the latter way we are unwilling to decide; yet undeniable it is, to our apprehenfion, that the prefent volume offers to the reader nothing above mediocrity. The ftyle is not remarkable for vigour, nor the matter for originality or acutenefs. In point of compofition thefe difcourfes are often carelefs and inelegant; fentences are ill-constructed, and conclude with fome very unimportant word; faults, which certainly were not perceived when from the mouth of the preacher---μέλιτος γλυκίων ῥέεν αὐδή.

The difcourfes in this volume are thirteen in number, on the following fubjects: 1. The general Plan of Providence in Creation and Redemption; 2. Self-confideration; 3. Uncer tainty of Life; 4. The Refurrection; 5. The Law fulfilled by the Gospel, 6. The Nature of Faith; 7. The Evidence

of