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to the defeat at Nerwinde, he endeavour ed to confirm the opinion then circulated, that it was owing to the treachery of the commander in chief and his adherents. At the same time he continned to correspond with Dumourier. Miranda did not save himself by this doubled faced precaution. He was arrested at the moment of the desertion of that general and was sent to Paris for trial. The revolutionary tribunal acquitted him in May. Before the end of the same month he was again arrested. He appeared in person at the bar of the convention, to justify himself, but he did not obtain his liberty until the fall of the mountain.

In October, 1795, he attempted to recover his lost influence by serving the convention against the sections. This expedition did not succeed. On the 22d of the same month his arrestation was decreed. He was sentenced to be transported beyond the limits of France. In vain he endeavoured to effect a retraction of his sentence. He was delivered to a body of gens des armes,who were charg ed to conduct him to the frontiers He got away from his escort and wrote to the directory, demanding a reversion of his sentence. This business was kept in train a long time, although the director Detouveur was his particular enemy. Finally, the 4th of September, 1797, finished his residence in France. He was included in the grand deportation. England afforded him refuge. He was among the number whom Bonaparte did not recal in 1799. After this period he continued in London. Failing in various attempts to interest the British ministry in his project respecting South America, he embarked for New York, under the assumed name of George Martin, of New-Orleans. On the 2d of September he sailed from England and arrived in the United States on the 12th of November following Here he commenced operations for carrying into effect his project of twenty years contemplation, to revolutionize his native country. A mercantile house in New York furnished him with the ship and armament, as has been described in this history. He gave Mr Ogden three bills, one of five thousand, one of two thousand and one of eight hundred pounds sterling. The two last only were duly paid. The property taken by him from New York was all spent, dissipated, or remains in his

hands. No part of the proceeds of the sale of the Leander was ever repaid to the original owners.

Dumour er says of this personage "that he was a man of capacity and extensive information. He was better versed in the theory ofwar than anyother of the French generals, but he was not equally versed in the practice." He had been of great service to him in the different attacks on the Prussians But he had a haughtines of disposition and bluntness of manher, which begai hìm many enemies; and he was unfit to command the French, whose confidence it is impossible to gain, but by good humour, and conduct expressive of respect for them."

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in the preceding history, Miranda's injudicious selection of his place of lauding is mentio ed as one cause of his tailure The reasons in favour of his choice were not stated. His principal is ducement probably was that from inramas tion or rumour he imagined he hadtricnds in Coro. In stating his grounds for expecting success, I might have placed them in a summary form by reciting four posi tions laid down by one of his advocates at the outset.

First, From the boundless extent of the coast of Spanish America, he can choose his point of landing.

Second, From the same circunstance, the whole military force, that is to say, the military foree from the mother coun try, is distributed into small detachments, and these detachments are most remote from each other. In no single post in America can there be more than one thou sand men.

Third, The militia of the country are invariably in his cause.

Fourth, If he could therefore, raise a sufficient force to withstand the attack of two or three of these detachments. for more could never join, he would be en. abled to maintain his ground; and revolutionizing as he went, add his conquests to his force.

From this narrative in connexion with the prior history of general Miranda, you will receive an impression of his charac ter not so favourable as that entertained by many persons. I have' related facts. They must be allowed to speak for themselves His imagination and feelings were an overmatch for his judgment. more rash and presumptuous in projects, than dexterous in extracting himself from

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difficulties. In religion he is reputed skeptical; but in our hearing he never derided subjects of this nature. He used formerly to talk infidelity to the offence of the serious; experience has taught him caution, or he has changed his sentiments. It is said upon good authority that he partook the sacrament at Coro. He is

too much of an enthusiast in his favour ite objects to allow his means to be en feebled by moral scruples. 'I am willing to believe he has as much conscience as the impetuous passions of such men generally admit.

I make a few remarks on his person, Banners and petty habits.

He is about five feet ten inches high. His limbs are well proportioned; his whole frame is stout and active. His complexion is dark, florid and healthy. His eyes are hazel coloured, but not of the darkest hue. They are peircing quick and intelligent, expressing more of the severe than the mild feelings. He has good teeth, which he takes much care to keep clean, His nose is large and handsome, rather of the English than Roman cast. His chest is square and prominent. His hair is grey and he wears it tied long behind with powder. He has strong grey whiskers growing on the outer edges of his ears, as large as most Spaniards have on their checks. In the contour of his visage you plainly perceive an expression of pertinaciousness and suspicion: Upon the whole, without saying he is an elegant, we may pronounce him a handsome man. He has a constant habit of picking his teeth. When sitting he is never perfect ly still; his foot or hand must be moving to keep time with his mind which is always in exercise. He always sleeps a few moments after dinner, and then walks till bed time, which with him is about midnight. He is an eminent example of temperance A seanty or bad meal is never regarded by him as a subject of complaint. He uses no ardent spirits; seldom any wine. Sweetened water is his common beverage. Sweetmess and warmth, says he, are the two greatest physical goods; and acid and

cold are the greatest physical evils in the universe.

He is a courtier and a gentleman is his manners. Dignity and grace preside in his movements Unless when angry, he has a great command of his feelings; and can assume what looks and tones he pleases. In general his demeanour is mar ked by hauteur and distance. When be is angry he loses discretion. He is impa tient of contradiction. In discourse be is logical in the management of his thoughts. He appears conversant on ail subjects. His iron memory prevents his ever being at a loss for names, dates and authorities.

He used his mental resources and colloquial powers with great address to rec ommend himself to his followers. He assumed the manners of a father and instructor to the young men He spoke of the prospect of success, and of the preparations made for him with great confidence. The glory and advantages of the enterprise were described in glowing colours. At another time he detailed his travels, his sufferings and escapes in a manner to interest both their admiration and sympathy. He appeared the master of languages, of science and lite rature. In his conversations he carried his hearers to the scenes of great actions and introduced them to the distinguished characters of every age. He took excursions to Troy, Babylon, Jerusalem, Rome, Athens and Syracuse. Men fam ed as statesmen, heroes, patriots,conquer. ors and tyrants, priests and scholars he produced, and weighed their merits and defects. Modern history and biography afforded him abundant topicks. He im pressed an opinion of his comprehensive views, his inexhaustible fund of learning; his probity, his generosity and patriot ism. After all, this man of renown, I fear, must be considered as having more learning than wisdom; more theoret ical knowledge than practical talent ; to sanguine and too opinionated to distin guish between the vigour of enterprise and the hardiness of infatuation.

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CATALOGUE

OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, FOR NOVEMBER, 1808.

Sunt bona, sunt quædam mediocria, sunt mala plura.—Mart.

NEW WORKS. WORKS.

The universal spread of the Gospel. A Sermon preached at Northampton, before the Hampshire Missionary Society, at their annual meeting, Aug 25, 1808-by the Rev. Timothy Cooley, A. M. Pastor of the first Church in Granville. (Mass) to which is annexed, the annual report of the Trustees of the Hampshire Missionary Society, at the meeting of the Society, Aug. 25, 1808. Northampton, W. Butler.

A Sermon preached at Northampton, Oct 27, 1808, at the opening of North ampton Bridge. By Samuel Willard, minister of Deerfield. Northampton,

Bull & Butler.

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The Messiah of the Scripture. Sermon preached at the Tabernacle, in Salem, April 8, 1808-also at Beverly, May 1, 1808. By Samuel Worcester, A. M. Pastor of the Tabernacle Church, in Salem, Boston, Lincoln & Edmands. Memoir of the Northern Kingdom, written A. D. 1872, by the late Rev. Wm. Jahnsenykes, L. L. D. and honourable Member of the Royal American Board of Literature, in six Letters to his Son.

"Olim meminisse juvabit.” Now first published, Quebec, A. D. 1901.

A Discourse delivered before the Sodiety for propagating the Gospel among the Indians in North America, at their anniversary meeting in Boston, Nov. 3, 1808. By Abiel Holmes, member of the first church in Cambridge. Boston, pubfished by Farrand, Mallory and Co. Belcher & Armstrong, Printers.

The Columbian Preacher, or, a collection of Original Sermons, from preachers of eminence in the United States, embracing the distinguishing doctrines of of grace, vol. 1. Catskill, Nathan Elliot.

A Seimon preached May 11, 1808, at the Ordination of the Rev. Ebenezer Hubbard, over the second church and society in Newbury. By Timothy Flint, pastor of the church in Lunenburgh.

Newburyport, published by Thomas & Whipple. E. W. Allen, printer.

New German Text Copies, for the use of schools. Thomas & Whipple, proprietors, Newburyport.

Large and small round Text, round and running hand, biogresshical copies, with the component parts of letters, and an Alphabet of Capitals, arranged according to their similarity, &c. Thomas & Whipple, proprietors, Newburyport.

An Anthem for Ordination, selected from the scriptures, and set to musick by Samuel Temple, A.M. Boston, printed for the author, by Manning and Loring.

A Thanksgiving Anthem, by Daniel Hardy, jun. A. M. Boston, printed by Manning & Loring, for the author. 8vo. p. 32.

No. 1, of Evangelical Tracts; narrative, instructive and devotional; containing an adventure in Vermont, or the story of Mr. Anderson. Boston, Lincoln & Edmands.

William Sawyer & Co. of Newburyport have now in the press, to be published in the course of the next month, the third volume of Massachusetts Reports, containing the cases from June 1807, to the end of the year.

NEW EDITIONS.

A Monitor for an Apprentice; or, a sure guide to gain both esteem and estate, with rules for his conduct to his master, and to others. By a Lord Mayor of London. To which is added, Advice to a young man, on his entrance in to the world, by J. Watts, D. D. and two essays by Dr. Benjamin Franklin. First American, from the sixth London Edition. Boston, published by Ebene. zer Blake. Belcher & Armstrong, Printers.

Poems by the Rev. George Crabb, 1 vol. Izmo. Philadelphia, Bradford & Inskeep.

The works of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, Minister of the Gospel, in Northhampton, Mass. and afterwards President of the College in New-Jersey. & volumes-the 4 first only published. Worcester. Isaiah Thomas, jr.

Particulars respecting the trial, condemnation and execution of Major Henry Alexander Campbell, at the Armagh Assizes, August 10, 1808, for killing in a duel, Alexander Boyd; together with two letters by Major Campbell, one to his confidential friend, written several months previous to his condemnation; the other to his wife, on the day previous to his execution, and which he continues writing and dating from hour to hour, until within a few moments of his exit. Also, a letter from Mrs. Campbell to her condemned husband in prison, and a memorial to his Majesty, petitioning the life of her husband. Boston-J. Cushing.

Debates, Resolutions, and other pro ceedings of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. convened at Boston, on the 9th of January, 1788, and continued until the 7th of February following, for the purpose of assenting to, and ratifying the Constitution, recommended by the graud Federal Convention, together with the Yeas and Nays, on the decision of the grand question. To which the Federal Constitution is prefixed; and to which are added, the amendments which have been made therein. Boston, Oliver & Munroe and Joshua Cushing.

Thoughts on the revival of Religion in New England about the year 1740, in a treatise offered to the publick on that subject By Joathan Edwards, A. M. Worcester. I. Thomas. Jun

A Compendious History of New England, designed for schools and private Families. By Jedidiah Morse, D. D. and Elijah Parish, D. D. ornamented with a neat Map of New England. Second Edition,with Improvements by the authors. Published at Newburyport, by Thomas & Whipple, Proprietors of the work, I 2mo. pp.336. price 1 dol. 12 cents.

WORKS IN PRESS. Greenough & Stebbins, of this town, have in the press, and will shortly publish Mrs. Grant's Letters, from the Mountaing

David West, of this town, has in the press, and will shortly publish Bishop Butler's Analogy, a book which has

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WORKS ANNOUNCED.

Thomas & Whipple, of Newburyport, and M. Cary, of Philadelphia, propose to print by subscription, four kinds of quarto bibles, to be published in December, at six, seven, ten and twelve dollars, to be handsomely printed, on good paper, and neatly and strongly bound, in plain or elegant bindings, to be embellished with from ten to twenty Maps and Historical Engravings; containing the Old and New Testaments, the Apocrypha, Brown's Concordance, a Chronological Index of the years and times from Adam to Christ, a curious Analytical Diffection of the Books of Scripture, a Geographical Sketch of the boundaries, rivers, mountains, chief towns, population, and other particulars respecting Palestine, with a view of the present masters and miseries of that once happy country, a Family Record for marriages, births, deaths, &c. a concise view of the evidences of the Christian Religion, above eight thousand Marginal References, in adition to those in the common, editions, together with tables of different characters and offices in the Bible, of Scripture weights, measures, and coins, reduced to those of the U.S. of the divisions of time among the Jews, of kindred and affinity. of all those passages in the Old Testa ment quoted by Christ and his apostles, a Chronological Table of the most remarkable events recorded in the Scrip tures, an Alphabetical Table of proper Names used in the Bible, &c.

Lincoin and Edmands, of this town, propose to publish by subscription, the Works of the Rev. ohn Arndt, late su perintendant-general of Luneburgh. written originally in High dutch, entitled, True Christianity; or, the whole Economy of God towards Man, and the whole duty of man towards God. The work will consist of one volume, octavo. Price to subscribers, two dollars in boards,

FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Abridgment of the Trial, in an action, in which Sir John Carr, Knt. was Plaintiff, and Messrs. Hood and Sharpe, Defendants.

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Attorney General-Q. At what time did you change your system. Will you swear, that within these last six years, you have not publish ed a book annexing to its advertisement,the commendation of reviewers? A. Yes, I have no doubt I have. It may have happened within these two or three years, perhaps, but this has arisen from accident. We keep our old advertisements standing in the form in which we have been used to send them to the news

papers, for five or six years togeth

er.

So that an advertisement may latterly have gone into a newspaper with the same paragraph in it, of the commendation of the reviewer,a long time after I had determined to discontinue that practice.

Q. You know of the Annual Review, and there is the Monthly

Review?-A. Yes.

Q And there is the Eclectick Review, and the Critical Review? -A. Yes.

Q. Now, I ask you, there being this number of reviews, have you never looked into any of them to see if sir John Carr's work was reviewed by them?-A. I do not recollect to have done so, within the last twelvemonth,

Q. I ask you whether you have not looked into them concerning The Stranger in Ireland?" — Vol. V. No. XI.

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A. I do not recollect to have seen in more than one review. I have "The Stranger in Ireland," noticed recollect which it was. seen it in some review; I do not

Q What was the character given in the review in which I saw it, it of it in that review ?-A. I think, had a very good character.

Richard Phillips, I will ask you Attorney General. -Now, Sir yourself assigned as a reason for not another question; have you not publishing this work of sir John

Carr's, which you have seen in manuscript, "The Tour in Scotland," "That sir John Carr was worn out?"-A. I never used the phrase. Q Nor any thing like it? A No, nor any thing like it.

Q. You never have assigned that as Nor any other reason except that a reason for not publishing that work? of this publication, called "My Pocket Book," and these imputations cast upon the genius of the author? A. I have been asked by booksellers, questions, which they had no business to ask me, about sir John Carr's works, and conceiving such questions to be impertinent, I have said to such booksellers, "that my publick engagements would prevent me from embarking in such publiin tenderness to sir John Carr." cations, and I have given that answer

Q. Have you read "The Tour

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