of the character to which they are applied! In the same strain he proceeds

Whate'er experience GREGORY might boast,
Say, is not WALSINGHAM himself a host?
His grateful countrymen, with joyful eyes,
From SACKVILLE's ashes see this Phoenix rise:
Perhaps with all his master's talents blest,
To save the East as he subdu'd the West.

The historical allusion is here judiciously introduced; and the pleasing prospect hinted at of the same happy issue attending our affairs in the Eastern, that has already crowned them in the Western world, must afford peculiar satisfaction to the feelings of every British reader.

The next character is most ingeniously described, but, like a former one, containing some personal allusions, requires, in order to be fully understood, a more intimate acquaintance with the exterior qualifications of the gentleman in question, than can have fallen to the lot of every reader. All who have had the pleasure of seeing him, however, will immediately acknowledge the resemblance of the portrait.

See next advance, in knowing FLETCHER's stead,
A youth, who boasts no commen share of head;

What plenteous stores of knowledge may contain
The spacious tenement of GRENVILLE's brain!
Nature, in all her dispensations wise,

Who form'd his head-piece of so vast a size,
Hath not, 't is true, neglected to bestow
Its due proportion to the part below;

And hence we reason, that, to serve the state,
His top and bottom may have equal weight.

Every reader will naturally conceive, that in the description of the principal person of the Board, the author has exerted the whole force of his genius, and he will not find his expectations disappointed; he has reserved him for the last, and has judiciously evaded disgracing him by a comparison with any other, upon the principle, no doubt, quoted from Mr. Theobald, by that excellent critic, Martinus Scriblerus:

"None but himself can be his parallel."

DOUBLE FALSEHOOD.

As he has drawn this character at considerable length, we shall content ourselves with selecting some few of the most striking passages, whatever may be the difficulty of selecting where almost the whole is equally beautiful. The grandeur of the opening prepares the mind for the sublime

sensations suitable to the dignity of a subject so exalted:

Above the rest, majestically great,
Behold the infant Atlas of the state,
The matchless miracle of modern days,
In whom Britannia to the world displays
A sight to make surrounding nations stare:
A kingdom trusted to a school-boy's care.

It is to be observed, to the credit of our author, that, although his political principles are unquestionably favourable to the present happy government, he does not scruple, with that boldness which ever characterizes real genius, to animadvert with freedom on persons of the most elevated rank and station; and he has accordingly interspersed his commendations of our favourite young Minister with much excellent and seasonable counsel, forewarning him of the dangers to which he is by his situation exposed. After having mentioned his introduction into public life, and concurred in that admirable panegyric of his immaculate virtues, made in the House of Commons by a noble Lord already celebrated in the poem, upon which he has the following observation :

AS MULGRAVE, who so fit

To chaunt the praises of ingenious PITT?
The nymph unhackney'd and unknown abroad,
Is thus commended by the hackney'd bawd.
The dupe, enraptur'd, views her fancied charms,
And clasps the maiden mischief to his arms,
Till dire disease reveals the truth too late;
O grant my country, Heav'n, a milder fate!

he attends him to the high and distinguished station he now so ably fills, and, in a nervous strain of manly eloquence, describes the defects of character and conduct to which his situation, and the means by which he came to it, render him peculiarly liable. The spirit of the following lines is remarkable:

Oft in one bosom may be found allied

Excess of meanness, and excess of pride:

Oft may the Statesman, in St. Stephen's brave,
Sink in St. James's to an abject slave;
Erect and proud at Westminster, may fall
Prostrate and pitiful at Leadenhall ;
In word a giant, though a dwarf in deed,
Be led by others while he seems to lead,

He afterwards, with great force, describes the lamentable state of humiliation into which he may fall from his present pinnacle of greatness, by too great a subserviency to

those from whom he has derived it, and appeals to his pride in the following beautiful exclamation:

Shall CHATHAM's offspring basely beg support,
Now from the India, now St. James's court;

With pow'r admiring Senates to bewitch,
Now kiss a Monarch's-now a Merchant's breech;
And prove a pupil of St. Omer's school,

Of either KINSON, AT. or JEN. the tool?

Though cold and cautious criticism may perhaps stare at the boldness of the concluding line, we will venture to pronounce it the most masterly stroke of the sublime to be met with in this or any other poem. It may be justly said, as Mr. Pope has so happily expressed it

"To snatch a grace beyond the reach of art."

ESSAY ON CRITICISM.

As we despair of offering any thing equal to this lofty flight of genius to the reader of true taste, we shall conclude with recommending to him the immediate perusal of the whole poem; and, in the name of an admiring public, returning our heart-felt thanks to the wonderful author of this invaluable work,