CONTENTS. PAGE ACCOUNT of the Life, Ministry, and Writings of the late Rev. J. Fawcett, D.D. 93 179 176 Brunton's, Mrs. Emmeline S27 Burder's John, Elementary Discourses; or, Sermons addressed to Children 268 335 Coxe's Memoirs of John, Duke of Marlborough Chateauvieux's Italy; its Agriculture, &c. Christian's Vindication of the Criminal Law, and the Administration of Conder on Protestant Nonconformity Fitzclarence's Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt to England Foster's Discourses delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the Bap- Fox's Course of Lectures on Subjects connected with the Corruption, Re- Hamilton's, (formerly Buchanan) Account of the Kingdom of Nepal Jackson's Shakspeare's Genius justified Laou-Sengh-Urh, or 66 An Heir in his Old Age," a Chinese Drama Maurice and Berghetta; or, the Priest of Rahery; a Tale Macnab's Theory of the Moral and Physical System of the Universe, de.. Magendie's Récherches Physiologiques et Medicales sur les Causes, les Memoirs of the last Months of the Life of Mr. Thomas Vaughan Milne's Sacred Edict. Translated from the Chinese Original Narrative of a Private Soldier, in one of his Majesty's Regiments of Foot Neale's Lyrical Dramas; with Domestic Hours Original Letters from the Rev. John Newton, to the Rev. W. Borlass Owen's, (Rev John) Letters, on the Objects and Connexions of the British and Foreign Bible Society during his late Tour to France, &c. Savigny and Correard's Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal, in 1816 Williams's Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage Winter's, Dr. Duty of Christian Churches in Reference to the Admission of THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JULY, 1819. Art. I. Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt to England, in the latter End of the Year 1817, and the Beginning of 1818. By Lieutenant Colonel Fitzclarence. 4to. pp. 502. Price 21. 18s. 1819. TOWA OWARD the end of the year 1817, when the military force of the Indian Government was in motion for the extermination of the Pindarries, and while an infatuation hardly paralleled in history, was betraying some of the Mahratta princes into one more defiance of the power which had hitherto trampled on every opponent in every conflict, Scindiah, the most martial of those princes, was intimidated by the approach of the Governor General, with some of the legions so often victorious, into what was denominated, with all proper courtesy, a treaty, of which the terms were humiliating to him in the same proportion in which they were indispensable to the tranquillity of the provinces on that side of the empire. This treaty, gained without an absolute war, and at a juncture when the state of the relations with some other of the native powers was so precarious and ominous, was deemed of consequence enough to be, without waiting for the important events which even a week at such a crisis might bring to pass, transmitted to England, in two sets of despatches, the one by the usual naval course, and the other, by a messenger, by the more direct route of the Red Sea and Egypt, to secure the advantage of two chances for both safety and expedition. The latter service was allotted to Col. Fitzclarence, who in consequence set off instantly, and worked and pushed his way, day and night, sick or well, through amicable territories, and hostile, over cultivated tracts, and through wood, jungle, fen, defile, burning sand, and every hazard of the sea lightly thrown into the account. More resolute to get on, more enterprising, enduring, or indefatigable, Vol. XII. N.S. B he could not have been required to be, if the intelligence he conveyed had been that the English were in imminent danger of losing kingdoms in Asia, instead of being secure of gaining them. This unremitting impetuosity, with an escort during the Indian part of the route, of many hundred soldiers, does really sometimes excite a slight feeling of the ludicrous, when the reader recollects that the matter of intelligence conveyed, is so very customary a thing as the forced consent of an Asiatic Sovereign to the establishment of an English camp, under the denomination of a subsidiary force,' within his dominions; in other words, his having sunk into the condition of a vassal, as is perfectly well understood by both the high contracting parties in the treaty, amid all the ceremony, and complaisance, and diplomatic farce, acted between them. This somewhat ludicrous effect is not diminished, if the reader happens to look by anticipation at the conclusion of the career, where he sees that the Author on his arrival found that the intelligence which it had cost him so much exertion and sufferance to expedite, bad reached, many days before, by the speedier conveyance round the Cape of Good Hope. To him, however, this would be somewhat of a serious vexation, particularly in recollecting some of the sacrifices made to his professional duty of despatch. It was inevitable that during this long race against time, a multitude of impressions would assail all the five senses. The 1 gallant officer had a laudable practice of noting them into a journal, and hence this large quarto, so handsome in each of the points of getting up, in typography, and decorations, and composition. It is a publication which nobody would have thought of demanding, which describes few scenes of which we had not a variety of descriptions before, and which leaves us in much the same notions in which it found us of Indian princes and courts, of Hindoos, Arabs, Egyptians, and Turks. Yet it may be run through with considerable gratification. The Author is a lively elastic sort of a spirit, full of good humour, fire, and adventure; quite a soldier in the better characteristics of the profession; clever, we should think, in point of intellect; and alert in looking about him, without the benefit of which quality an ample narration of such a race as he ran would have been a notable hoax played off on the consumers of quartos. As it always appears to us a very paltry spectacle when we see the man, with all his faculties, sentiments, and opinions, sunk in the soldier by profession, we are not altogether displeased to see our lieutenant-colonel sometimes taking upon him considerably in the way of statesman, as to Indian affairs. He may be somewhat rash and presumptuous in this extra-official character, and assuredly the politician has no little yet to learn, |