THE PORT ADMIRAL.
OUR remarks on the evils superinduced upon novel-writing by the necessity of love-making, and the mischief of fixing upon the Procrustean length of three volumes, be the material; of the tale ample or scanty, could not be better illustrated than in this new production of the author of Cavendish. The true subject of the Port Admiral is a mutiny on board a seventy-four bearing the Admiral's flag, on' his return from India. The event takes place somewhere in the seas between Bombay and the Isle of France. The tyrannical proceedings which drive the men to desperation are described; and then we have the out- break, and the contest between the bulk of the seamen on one part, and on the other the officers and the marines, and a portion of the crew that had not joined in the insurrection. This narrative is con- ducted with great skill; and the spirit of daring enterprise and of inexhaustible contrivance with which the combat is continued and carried on, inspires the reader with an enthusiasm and a breathless interest which bear undeniable testimony to the author's power. Well, all this occupies one admirable volume. The Admiral is
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