to have spared her the horrors of the Revolutionary Bills,

she her- self departed to that place for which it had beets her task during forty years to prepare others.

MCIGRAPIIY, Of course Mr. ROBERTS'S four volumes do not wholly consist of Memoirs of Ilte L and Correspond F■41. 4 vols Sect*. and Burnside. the letters of HANNAH MORE. There are epistles from most of DIVVY.% her intimate acquaintances, several being from nobles, some from The Angler in Ireland; .or ae Englishman's Ramble through Connaught aud

royalty. The best of these letters emanate from fiefs duals. GertRicR--dii stnguished by smartness, lightness, and

Lnes of Er•litent Zoolo2i4s, from Aristotle to (Antitrust with Introductory Re. animal vivacity, and who comes out, not only under his own hand but also under others, vain of course, but good-natured, friendly, of the Travels awl Besmirches of Alexander Von I I itmbohlt." With a Portrait and considerate. PORTEUS—who writes like a plain, lively, simple- of Lintimus. (Edinburgh Cabinet Library, Nu in.) Wirer and Blvd. minded Christian, without the airs or the gravity of a Bishop. de By Emily Ty kw...Dorton and flarre WALPOLE—who in a few letters on the French Revolution rises

itexoeation Of the Edict of Nantes; coutainiug Nlemoirs of above himself. The original birth and station of the actors

sway of the Sufferers itt the Persecution att mating that eveot. shocked his aristocratic notions; their coarseness offended his. By the Author f ••I It‘‘ild Lectures a t Horne- DiAm..ery and Manutucture of Glass. Re. taste, their bold-faced impiety his polished and gentlemanly

By Markt !lack scepticism ; the bloodshed and massacre disgusted his prosperous th good-nature; and he was thoroughly alarmed lest the new trinity

The Garden. By the Compiler of •• Fruits and Rosters," Sze of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, should reach England. All A Shot History of the Ohl anti New Testament, ter the use of this excited the witty WALPOLE, and he seems to have given Gleaning s nom Mi:ity Fields. By the Authoruf " Portugal," Sze. vent to his mixed emotions in a more spirited and forcible style

Tales of Distant (Ards • than he was wont. The fourth correspondent of most length and Lessons in At Mimetic fur Junior Classes. By James Trotter, Author of " A Key

mark is Jon ar NEWTON ; hut his letters are scarcely equal to Memoirs et American Missionaries If hittalte r and Co. hiteself,—or rather, perhaps, a state of sin is more striking to the The Theological Clit.rs rook. A System of Divinity fur the use of the Iliuher reader than a state of grace. In the well-regulated life of the

Rector of All-Hallows, there is none of the interest which attaches to the career of the " African blasphemer and profligate," when he

HANNAH MORE'S LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE. used on the slave coast to eke out the short commous of his hard The four thick volumes of epistles and commentaries connected taskmaster by angling in over times, and to feel an indescribable with the career of Hear:vett MORE, which Mr. Rot:eters has given joy in catching a fish; or when, brought into the way of worldly to the public, are somewhat dull and heavy in parts : but, speak- wisdom, he studied HoeecE on shipboard; or when, after he had ing from the impression which a perusal of the whole has left, they turned his thoughts towards religion, and become the captain of ee pregnant with amusement and instruction. To a biography, a slaver, he used to put himself on vegetable diet upon reaching a fer as the editor is concerned, they can indeed make little certain point, lest he might be tempted by the black Circassians, pretension. The public importance of Mrs. MORE, whatever it —thinking incontinence to be a sin, but never feeling, as lie said eight be, arose from her character as an author. But the reader himself in the noon of his regeneration, that the slave trade was vho possesses a regular series of her works, will have nearly any thing save an honest and respectable line of business. as good an idea of the circumstances by which her mind was de- So much for the contents and character of the work. Let us teloped, of the mode in which it was stored with ideas and trained come to the life of the heroine ; who, as the editor somewhat am- to composition, of the hints which suggested her pieces, or the way bitiously expresses it, " in the twilight of the old, and the dawn of in which they were composed, as if he perused the seventeen or the new mm, accomplished her date here." HANNAH MORE WIWI eighteen hundred pages before us. For instruction, therefore, we born in the Forty-five, at Stapleton, in Gloucester. Her father cannot look to Mr. ROBERTS; but he is eery amusing. The was a Tory and a High Churchman; but there was Puritanism grandiloquence of his expressions, contras .11 with the common- in the blood. Two of her great-great uncles had been captains in place nature of his ideas, excites an atter: eon and sustains an in- CROMWELL'S army, and her great grandfather was a Nonconformist,. terest which would have been altogether wanting had the style of who " boarded a minister and his horse for ten pounds a year, and the editor been more assimilated to his thoughts. guarded the door with a drawn sword whilst the holy man delivered In what then, it may be asked, does the value of the work con- the words of inspiration," during the persecutions in the days of the sit, since it cannot he called, in the usual acceptation of the term, Second CHARLES. Her family shared the fate of those whose a biography ?—We answer, in a voluminous collection of letters members are to figure in biography : it had formerly been more from some of the most conspicuous or well-known characters who distinguished than it was, having lost by a lawsuit an estate of flourished during a period of nearly sixty years (1774 to 1830), eight thousand a year. Mr.MORE therefore migrated from Suffolk commencing with GARRICK and Jonesoer and closing with into Gloucestershire ; procured a foundation school, through the WILBERFORCE and DANIEL WILSON. Some of the epistles are patronage of Lord BOUTLETORT ; married, and had a family of five trifling ; some are mere notes of condolence or compliment; and daughters, of whom KANNAH was the youngest save one. She some, being versions of the same subject (for the notion of selection was early distinguished for her quickness of parts, and her love of seems never to have entered Mr. ROBERTS'S head), express the reading : her father taught her Latin ; her eldest sister, who was same ideas in similar or identical phraseology : but all are cha- educated for a governess, French; and nature prompted her " to racteristic of the writers, and though slight or careless, they are lisp in numbers." When she was twelve years old, her senior ' real. Many are gossipy, anecdotical, and slightly descriptive of the sisters removed to Bristol, and established a boarding-school, with age: they bring up before us great minds in deshabille, or in their prosperous success; and thither HANNAH accompanied them.. private and social characters ; describe en passant the brilliant as- Four years seem to have passed without any event of importance semblies of scholars, wits, authors, statesmen, and nobles, which taking place; but when she had reached her sixteenth year, flourished in the higher circles of London life towards the close of SHERIDAN the actor came to Bristol to lecture on education. She the eighteenth century ; and exhibit pretty fully the little sets of heard the old gentleman; and (not appearing ever to have been mall wits, average scholars, and blues of different grades, who (in backward in display) hailed his exhibition in some complimentary conjunction with one* mind of a higher cast), exalted and fiat- verses, whose eulogy tickled him, and he desired an introduction. tend each other, mancouvered for early copies or first sights of Her next year produced the Search after Happiness, written to manuseripts, and deemed themselves the most important if not supersede the selections from plays then prevalent in schools: and the only beings in the world, till the French Revolution came at (passing over some small matters which occurred in the interval) fest to startle them, and then to terrify. A continuous and pa- her twenty-second year engaged her in an affair of the heart, with tent perusal of the whole leaves almost an historical impression. a gentleman whose "residence was beautifully situated, who had Ile catch glimpses of great men ; we hear occasionally of great carriages and horses,and every thing agreeable," save some two-and- nests, from those who had access to some of the persons who are forty years and an indifferent temper. HANNAH, however, was won: vulgarly said to have influenced them; and we note the effects "she quitted her interest in the concern of the school, and was at they produced en the minds of their. contemporaries : but these are great expense in preparing and fitting herself out to be the wife of the secondary qualities—the essential characteristic of the whole a man of large fortune." But Mr. TURNER was capricious, or is to present a reflection of what life itself must appear to a long- dreaded the plunge. "The day was fixed more than once for the lived cbserver. We seem to he introduced to a succession of marriage, and Mr. TURNER each time postponed it. Her sisters circles, and see the members one by one gradually drop away. and friends interfered, and would not permit her to be so treated The burden of the theme is Death. Heeeren MORE was in- and trifled with." The gallant then repented; but it was too late. traduced to the world young. She associated with a society most He, however, made an anzende honorable, and settled upon her of whom bad already reached their prime—some had exceeded the "an annual sum which might enable her to devote herself to days allotted to man, and had been connected with our _Augustan literary pursuits." This was HANNAH MORE'S first love, and her age.. She survived them all ; formed new acquaintanceships, and last. From that time she eschewed the tender passion, and deter- outlived many of them. As we read on, we see distinguished mined to remelts in single blessedness. Whether there was any sctors on the world's great scene continually dropping off,—GAR- prompthig clause to that effect in the deed of settlement, we are EI.CR, JOHNSON, GIBBON, BURKE, WALPOLE, and many stellce not told.

• tionAcz next year—assuming that we have correctly made out Mr. ROBERTS'S chronology—she again visited London, with two of her sisters; and within a week, an event occurred, which, we incline to think, laid the foundation of her future celebrity. This was her introduction to GARRICK. The embryo denouncer of playgoing had seen Roscius in Lear : she wrcte to a friend an account of the effect which his performance produced upon her mind ; and the letter being shown to the actor, he expressed a wish for an inter- view. From what we gather, it appears that her conversation must have been suightly and entertaining, and her manners charming—a mixture of girlish buoyancy with the demureness of a religieuse. The meeting, at any rate. was reciprocally pleasing, be the cause what it might. GARRICK took a fancy to her, and introduced her to the blues awl the great world. Soon after, she met Joirssox at the house of IlEvNor.ns. Her manners appear to have made as much impression upon the dictator of literature as upon the king of Drury. She became the old man's pet ; a sort of Platonic flirtation went on between them ; and his patron- age and the truly respectable character of her little works, not only secured her footing in the world of literature, but even enforced its countenance. As far as amusement goes, the letters relating to this period are the besein the volumes. We take a bit or two de- scriptive of her first starting.

The desire she had long felt to see Dr. Johnson, was speedily gratified. Her first introduction to him took place at the house of Sir Joshua Reynolds ; who prepared her, as he handed her up stairs, for the possibility of his being in one of his moods of sadness and silence.

She as as surprised at bin cooling to meet her as she entered the room, with good-humour in his countenance, and a macaw of Sir Joshua's in his hand ; and still more, at his accosting her with a verse from a morning hymn which she had written at the desire of Sir James Stonehouse. In the same pleasant hu- mour le continued the \elude of the evening. Soule extracts frosts the letters of one of her sprightly sisters to the family at home, will afford the best picture of the intercourse and scenes in which Hannah was now beginning to bear a part.

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" We have paid another visit to Miss Reynolds. She had sent to engage Dr. Percy (Percy's collection—now you know him), quite a sprightly modern, in- steel of a rusty antique, as I expected. He was no sooner gone, than the most .ainiable and obliging of women (Miss Reynolds), ordered the coach, to take us to Dr. Johnson's eery own house ; v Abyssinia's Johnson ! Dictionary John- son ! Rambler's. Idler's, and Irene's..Johnson ! Can you picture to yourselves the palpitation of our hearts as we approached his mansion ? The conversation w turned upon a new work of his, just going to the press (the Tour to the _Hebrides), and his old friend Richardson. Mrs. Williams, the blind poet, who lives with him, was introduced to us. She is engaging in her mariners; her conversation lively and enter taining. Miss Reynolds told the Doctor of all our rapturous exclamations on the road. Ile shook his scientific head at Hannah, and said ' She was a silly thing.' When our visit was ended, be called for his hat (as it rained) to attend us down a very long entry to our coach, and not Rasselas could have acquitted himself more en cavalier. We are engaged with him at Sir Joshua's, Wednesday evening. What do you think of us: "1 forgot to mention, that not finding Johnson in his little parlour when we came in, Hannah seated herself in his great chair, hopiug to catch a little ray of his genius : when he heard it, he laughed heartily. and told her it was a chair on which he never sat. Ile said it reminded him of Boswell and :iimself, when they stopped a night at the spot (as they imagined) where the Weird Sisters aap- pearedto Macbeth : the idea so worked upon their enthusiasm, that it quite deprived them of rest: however they learnt, the next morning, to their mortifi- cation, that they had beets deceived, and were quite in another part of the

..c mut ry." • • •

a Tuesday evening we drank tea at Sir Joshua's with Dr. Johnson. Hannah is certainly a great favourite. She was placed next to him, and they had the entire conversation to themselves. They were both in remarkably high spirits. It was certainly her lucky night. I never heard her say so many good things. The old genius was extremely jocular, and the young one very pleasant. You would have imagined we had been at some comedy, had you heard our peals of laughter. They, indeed, tried which could ' pepper the highest ;' and it is not clear to me that the lexicographer was really the highest seasoner. Yesterday Mr. Garrick called upon us: a volume of Pope lay upon the table; we asked him to read; and be went through the latter part of the Essay on Man. He was exceedingly good-humoured, and expressed Maisel( quite delighted with our eager desire for information ; and when he had satisfied one interrogatory, I Now, Madam, what next?' Ile read several lines we had been disputing about with regard to emphasis, in ninny different ways before he decided which was right. Ile sat with us from half-past twelve till three, reading and criti- cizing. We have just had a call from Mr. Burke."

At this period, HANNAH MORE may fairly be said to have been launched into life ; and till some years after the death of GARRICK, that life was uniform in its course, though the scenes she passed through were pleasantly varied. She annually visited London in the season ; sojourning for the most part in GARRICK'S at the Adel- phi and Hampton, but frequenting the first society. The remainder of the year a as spent at Bristol, and at the houses of a large circle of great friends, to whom her manners, the respectability of her character, and the correctness of her principles, recommended and endeared her. In this interval, she cultivated the muses; pro- ducing Sir Eldred and the Bleeding Rock, Percy, the Fatal Falsehood, Sensibility, and some other matters; she also wrote pretty regular accounts of her doings to her sisters. As time rolled on and her early friends passed off, she grew serious, and attacked, in Manners of the Great, the frivolous amusements and Sabbath-breaking of the age. The coarse infidelity of PAINE, the blasphemies of the worshippers of the Goddess of Reason, the Corresponding Societies at home, and the spread of Republican and Revolutionary notions everywhere, drove her into the field of polities. She published tracts to refute the philosophy both irreligious and political of the Movement party, and to preach sub- mission to the powers that be. This was a fashionable and a saving doctrine. Much practical godlessness is always overlooked in those who defend establishments ; to advocate Church and State would of course redeem an amiable straightlacedness. Her tracts were ciiculated by Government and " the friends of order." Thousands upon thousands were published; and the year 1792 was to her an tera of crowning glory,—having, according to her bio- grapher, 4' under Providence, averted a revolution." After accom- plishing thie feat, she again retired into private life. More deaths of friends, gibwing infirmities, and the graver feelinge attendant upon advancing age, took her more and snore out of mixed society. She gave greater exertion to the establishment of religious schools in some benighted parishes in her neighbourhood ; she more earnestly endeavoured to lure the world into the strait and narrow path ; her successive publications grew more and more evangelical, though never enthusiastic. Her headaches, her toothaches, her rheumatism, and her annual fevers, attacked her with increasing severity, and she finally gave up visiting; yet, so great was the throng of pious or of prim people 'who sought the light of her countenance, that she had levees at Barley Wood, like kings cr commanders-in-chief. The reader who would trace the successive appearance of her works, may have recourse to the volumes, or procure a list of them : for the mode in which her friends acknow. !edged the receipt of them, Mr. ROBERTS is indispensable- Hay- ing reached more than threescore years and ten, she again pre- served the state, by taking the field against CORBETT, WOOLER, WATSON, HUNT, and the respectable representatives of SIMIOUTH and his bag. After this, she supped full of ;he sorrows and troubles of long life. Her sisters successively dropped before her ; her household, unimproved by her works and her example, was guilty of backsliding,—whether in waste, in riot, or in looseness, is left in dubio ; and after a removal from her beloved Barley Wood to break up her establishment, her reason tottered, her constitution sunk, and she died on the 7th September 1333,. hav- ing existed for ten months in a state of perfect dotage. We have left ourselves little room for extracts from a work still capable of affording many, notwithstanding the way in which it was prematurely rifled. We will, however, pick out a few, from the notes we have taken. Here is GARRICK 'S funeral : a strange mixture of sorrow, show-seeing, petty anxiety, religion, and carnal comforts- " We (Miss Cadogan and myself) went to Charing Cross tosee the melan- choly procession. Just as we got there, we received a ticket from the Bishop of

Rochester, to admit us into the Abbey. No admittance could be obtained but under his hand. We hurried away in a hackney-coach, dreading to be too late. The bell of St. Martin's and the Abbey gave a sound that smote upon my very soul. When we got to the cloisters, we found multitudes striving for admit- tance. We gave our ticket, and were let in ; but unluckily we ought to have kept it. We followed the man, who unlocked a door of iron, and directly closed it upon us and t wo or three others ; and we found ourselves in a tower, with a dark winding staircase, consisting of half a hundred stone steps. When we got to the top, there was no way out ; we ran down again, called, and heat the door

till the whole pile resounded with our cries. Here we staid half an hour' in pet feet agony : we were sure it would be all over ; nay, we might never be let

out ; we might starve ; we might perish. At length our clamours brought an honest man—a guardian angel I then thought him. We implored him to take care of us, and get us into a part of the Abbey whence we might see the grave. He asked for the Bishop's ticket : we had given it away to the wrong persoa ; and he was not obliged to believe we ever had one: yet he saw so much truth in our grief, that though we were most shabby, and a hundred fine people were soliciting the same favour, he took us under each arm, carried us safely through the crowd, and put us in a little gallery directly over the grave, where we could see and hear every thing as distinctly as if the Abbey had been a parlour. Little things sometimes affect the mind strongly. We were no sooner recovered from the fresh burst of grief, than I cast my eyes, the first thing, on handers monu- ment, and read the scroll in his hand, ' I know that my Redeemer liveth.' Just at three, the great doors burst open with a noise that shook the roof; the organ struck up, and the whole choir, in strains only less solemn than the archangel's trump,' began Handel's fine anthem. The whole choir advanced to the grave in hoods and surplices, singing all the way ; then Sheridan, as chief mourner;

then the body (alas! whose body ?) with ten noblemen and gentlemen, pallbearers; then the rest of the friends and mourners: hardly a dry eye—the very

players, bred to the trade of counterfeiting, shed genuine tears.

"As soon as the body was let down, the Bishop began the service ; which lie read in a low, but solemn and devout manner. Such an awful stillness reigned, that every word was audible. How I felt it ! Judge if my heart did not assent to the wish, that the soul of our dear brother now departed was in peace. And this is all of Garrick ! Yet a very little while, and he shall 'say to the worm, thou art my brother; and to corruption, thou art my mother and my sister.' So passes away the fashion of this world ! And the very night he was buried, the playhouses were as full, and the Pantheon was as crowded, as if no such thing had happened: nay, the very mourners of the day partook of the rdvelries of the night—the Slire night too. "As soon as the crowd was dispersed, our friend came to us with an invitation from the Bishop's lady, to whom he had related our disaster, to come into the deanery. We were carried into her dressing-room but being incapable of speech, she very kindly said she would not interrupt such sorrow, and left us; but sent up wine, cakes and all manner of good things, which was really well-timed. I caught no cold, notwithstanding all I went through."

Her schools have been already alluded to. Education was not then fashionable, but decried ; and many were the difficulties she encountered in establishing them. Take an account of her adven- tures in one parish, which will also give a slight idea of her manners— "I was told we should meet with great opposition if I did not try to propi- tiate the chief despot of the village, who is very rich and very brutal; so I ventured to the den of this monster, in a country as savage as himself, near Bridgewater. Ile begged I would not think of bringing any religion into the country; it was the worst thing in the world for the poor, for it made them lazy and useless. In vain I represented to him, that they would be more indus- trious as they were better principled ; and that, for my own part, I had no selfish views in what I was doing. Ile gave me to understand, that he knew the world too well to believe either the one or the other. Somewhat dismayed to find that may success bore no proportion to my submissions, I was almost discouraged from more visits; but I found that friends must be secured at all events, for if these rich savages set their faces against us, and influenced the poor people, I saw that nothing but hostilities would ensue: so I made eleven more of these agreeable visits ; and, as I improved in the art of canvassing, had better success. Miss Wilberforce would have been shocked, had she seen the petty tyrants whose Insolence I stroked and tamed, the ugly children I praised, the pointers and spaniels I caressed, the cider I commended, and the wine I swallowed. After these irressistible flatteries, I inquired of each if he could recommend me to house ; and said that I bad a little plan which I hoped would secure their or. chards from being robbed, their rabbits from being shot their game from beng stolen, and which might lower the poor-rates. If effect be the best proof of eloquence, then mine wail a good speech ; for I gained at length the hearty con• currence of the whole people, and their promise to discourage or favour the Door in proportion as they were attentive or negligent in sending their children. Patty, who 111 with me, says she has good hope that the hearts of some of these rich poor wretches may he touched : they are as ignorant as the beasts that perish. intoxicated every day before dinner. and plunged in such vices as make pie begin to think London a virtuous place."

This passage Was written in 1789. Thirty-four years elapsed, and she was among the scorners of the Schoolmaster. The age bad outgrown her.

" Our poor are now to be made scholars and philosophers. I am not the champion of ignorance ; but I own I am alarmsd at the violence of the contrast. Even our excellent C— seems to me to refine too much; but my friend F— is an Ultra of the fist magnitude. The poor must not only read English, but ancient history, and even the sciences are to be laid open to them. Now, not to inquire where would they get the money, I ask, where would a labouring man get the time? Time is the fortune of a poor man ; and as to what they would gain from Grecian history,—why, they

would learn that the meanest citizen of Athens could determine on the merits of a tragedy of Euripides ; to do which, they must always live in a playhouse, as indeed they almost always did; they were such critics in language as to detect a foreign accent in a great philosopher, Sze. ;'and yet history does not speak of a more tor bulent, unmanageable, profligate people. •• • • is If you are not quite tired of me and my senilities, I will proceeed to a few facts to illustrate my theory. Not only in the great national schools, but in the little paltry cottage seminaries of threepence a week, I hear of the most ridiculous instances of the affectation of literature. A poor little girl of this stamp was in my room one day when a gentleman was sitting with me. He asked her what she was reading at school. 'Oh, Sir, the whole circle of the sciences!' ' Indeed,' sidd he, that must be a very large work!' ' No, Sir, it is a very small book, and I had it for half-a-crown.' My friend smiled, lamented that what had cost him so much time and money was of such easy attainment. I asked a little girl, a servant's child, the other day, what she was reading, and if she could say her Catechism ? 0 no, Madam, I am learning Syntax.' What I am going to add, you will think an exaggeration, if not an invention, but it is a literal fact. A girl in the next parish being asked what she learnt, answered, I learns gography, and the harts and senses.

"In many schools, I am assured, writing and accounts are taught on Sundays. This is a regular apprenticeship to sin. He who is taught arithmetic when a boy, will, when a man, open his shop on a Sunday. Now, in my poor judg- ment, all this has a revolutionary as well as irreligious tendency; and the mis- fortune is, that the growing ultraism on the side of learning, falsely so called, will irritate and inflame the old bigotry which hugged absolute ignorance as bidden treasure, not to be parted with ; while that sober measure of Christian instruction which lies between the twoextrenies, will be rejected by both parties."

A few anecdotes shall close.

PRECOCIOUS' PRINCECRAFT.

"I have since dined with Bryant at Mrs. Montagu's, and we are become great friends. He hears his faculties so meekly,' and has such simplicity of mariners, that I take to him as I did to Hermes Harris, whom every body must regret. that bad the pleasure and advantage of knowing him. Only 13ryant is the pleasanter man. He told me an amusing anecdote of one of the little Princes. He had been that morning to Windsor to present his book. He was met in the ante- chamber by the youngest of therm who begged to look at it. When it was put into his hands, he held it upside down, and glancing his eyes for a moment over the pages, returned it with an air of important graciousness, pronouncing it excellent! "

A SINGULAR FRIEND FOR, A PIETIST.

"Poor Ayrey dropped down dead a few days ago! he was the only Atheist I ever knew ; but what I thought particularly argued a wrong judgment in him was this, that he was an honest, good-natured man,—which certainly he should not have been on his principles. He was a fatalist ; and if he snuffed the candle, or stirred the fire, or took snuff, he solemnly protested he was compelled to do it; and it did not depend on his own discretion whether he should buckle his shoe or tie his garter. If I had not known him well, I would not have believed there had existed such a character. He always confessed he was a coward ; and had a natural fear of pain and death, though he knew he should be as if he had never been. I cannot think of him without horror and compassion. He knows by this time whether a future state was really such a ridiculous invention of priesteraft and superstition, as he always said it was."

BOSWELL AND JOHNSON.

"Tuesday, we were a small and very choice party at Bishop Shipley's. Lord and Lady Spencer, Lord and Lady Althorp, Sir Joshua Langton, Boswell, Gibbon, and to my agreeable surprise, Dr. Johnson, were there.

"Mrs. Garrick and he had never met since her bereavement. I was heartily disgusted with Mr. Boswell, who came up stairs after dinner, much disordered with wine, and addressed me in a manner that drew from me a sharp rebuke, for which I fancy he will not easily forgive me. Johnson came to see us the next morning, and made us a long visit. On Mrs. Garrick's telling him she SAI always more at her ease with persons who had suffered the same loss with herself, he said that was a comfort she could seldom have, considering the supe- riority of his merit, and the cordiality of their union. Ile bore his strong testi- mony to the liberality of Garrick. He reproved me with pretended sharpness, for reading Les Pensees de Pascal, or any of the Port Royal authors alleging, * that as a good Protestant, I ought to abstain from books written by Catholics. I was beginning to stand upon toy defence, when he took me with both hands, and with a tear running down his cheeks, 'Child,' said he, with the most affecting earnestness, I am heartily glad that you read pious books, by whom- soever they may be written.'"

A 3fORAVIAN REPARTEE.

"Miss Hamilton told us a pleasant anecdote of Hutton, the Moravian, who has the honour of being occasionally admitted to the Royal breakfast-table. 'flatten,' said the King to him to one morning, is it true that you Moravians marry without any previous knowledge of each other ? ' Yes, may it please your Majesty,' returned baton, Our marriages are quite royal.'"

DEATHBED OF AN AMBASSADOR.

"I believe I mentioned that a foreign ambassador,Count Adhemar, hail* stroke of apoplexy, and that he was to have had a great assembly on the night of the day on which it happened : it is shocking to relate the sequel. It was on a Sunday. The company went—sonic hundreds. The man lay deprived of sense and motion ; his bed-chamber joins the great drawing-room, where was a faro- bank held close to his bed's-head. Somebody said they thought they made too much noise. 'Oh, no!' another answered, it will do him good ; the worst thing he can do is to sleep.' A third said, '1 did not think Adhemar had been a fellow of such rare spirit: palsy and faro together is spirited indeed ; this is keeping it NO' I was telling this to Mr. Walpole the other day, and lamenting It as a national stigma, one of the worst signs of the times I had met with. In return, lie told me of a French gentleman at Paris, who being in the article of death, had just signed hit will, when the lawyer who drew it up was invit:r1 by the wife to stay supper. The table was luid in the dying man's apartment ; the lawyer took a glass of wine, and, addressing himself to the lady, drank a la sank': de notre amiable agonisant !

Have we now, that our leisurely reading is accomplished, been able to solve the problem formerly enunciated—the cause of this writer's extraordinary reputation ? For extraordinary it certainly was. The entire editions of some of her works were bespoke before publication ; several of the works were translated into many languages,—French, Dutch, German, Hindostan, and Cin- galese ; her connexions and correspondents were amongst the great ones of the earth ; her publications (of which she retained the copyright) made a pretty annual addition to her income ; and man, woman, and child, had heard of HANNAH Moire, if they had heard of anybody. We cannot positively answer in the affir- mative the question we have put ; for the whole case is scarcely before us ; but we can give a guess. Her reputation was the creation of circumstances. Luck, time, events, the choice of her pursuit, the propriety of her conduct, and the character of her mind, combined together to make her known. It is a great matter to start well ; and she set off with the approval of persons

whose judgment was held final. She appeared neither too late

nor too early ; the age was adapted to her, and she to the age : the old actors were going off; and many of the audience, accus- tomed to the grave and stately decorum of the old school, were willing to receive the form for the spirit, and to applaud any thing rather titanthe first gross extravgances of the new. In stirring and factious times, when the public mind was excited by rage and terror,, she took the "right side ;" and Tories have always been noted for making their geese swans. All these things, however,

would wily have raised her to the state of a female HAYLEY: but

she chose a subject on which to mean well is to do well. In her religion, too, she advanced with the age,—first rational, then strict,

then evangelical; and though her reputation may be called

ascendental, being closely connected with the Established Church, yet her notions coalesced with those of the more reasonable sectarians. After all, much must be allowed to the character of her mind. She represented in perfection a very widely- diffused quality—the respectable commonplace. She tasked no one by profound thoughts; he who ran could read. She neither startled nor offended by originality ; but she dealt in small novelties —things that could be seen by opening the eyes—matters that the worldly had disregarded, but which she, being first a-field in her peculiar walk, was naturally the first to discover. Her style was neither strong, striking, nor eloquent, but clear, neat, and well. composed, with a grave yet vivacious suavity, pleasing in itself, and comfortably delightful to that numerous body whose opinions she echoed. As a poet, a novelist, and a politician, she has even

now, we suspect, had her day. Her endurance as a Christian didactic writer it is difficult to fix.' but when editions of HANN.A/R MORE are no longer in demand, her name will be familiar in the annals of literature, and her life occupy a place in biographical dictionaries.