he may choose to communicate the let

ters."

From this it is evident that Mr. Warden is addressing a person who had not expected such a communication, and he accounts to him for his motive in commencing a series of letters so different from what might have been expected. All this is very well: but when the second letter, also dated at sea, came to be fabricated, Mr. Warden had forgot his first professions, and writes as if he were answering the inquiries of a person who had entreated him to give a daily journal of Buonaparte's proceedings:

68 My dear

"I renew my desultory occupation-la tache journaliere, telle que vous la voulez,” -"the daily task which you enjoin me." Mr. Warden did not recollect that be

tween the first letter at sea and the second

letter at sea, he could not possibly have had an answer from his correspondent "enjoining the daily task." In a subsequent letter he falls into the same blunder, by calling Buonaparte the object of his friend's "inquisitive spirit"-and he in consequence gives a description of his

person.

In another letter, dated from St. Helena, but without a date of time, there is

this passage:

"I answered Buonaparte, that there was not, I thought, a person in England who received Sir Robert Wilson, or his companions, with a diminution of regard for the part they had taken in La Valette's business."

Now this answer to Buonaparte must have been made some time prior to the 10th of May, 1816, for a subsequent letter states itself to be written after the arrival of the fleet from India in which Lady Loudon was embarked, and that this fleet arrived at St. Helena at the time we have just mentioned; when Sir R. Wilson, so far from being in London, enjoying the congratulations of his acquaintance for his success in La Valette's escape, was still a prisoner in the Conciergerie; his sentence was pronounced only on the 24th April; and could not, of course, have been known at St. Helena prior to the 10th of May; so that all Mr. Warden's statement, and Buonaparte's snbsequent reply, (which conveys an infamous imputation against Sir Robert,) must be wholly and gratuitously false; nay, what makes the matter quite ridiculous, is that Sir Robert did not, we believe, return to England till after the return of Mr. Warden he returned indeed before these precious letters from St. Helena were concocted; and Mr. Warden, or the person employed by him to forge the Correspondence, mistook the period at which he wrote for that at which he affected to write.

These are minute circumstances, but it is only by such that imposition can be detected; a liar arranges all the great course of his story, and it is only by dates which he omits, and trifles which he records, that he is ever detected. This original imposture throws a general discredit over Mr. Warden's subsequent relations; some of them may be, and we know. are, well-founded; but they are to be credited on better grounds than those of Mr. Warden's veracity. In fact we have heard, and we believe, that he brought to England a few sheets of notes, gleaned for the most part from the conversation of his better informed fellow-officers, and that he applied to some manufacturer of correspondence in London to spin them out into "Letters from St. Helena," a task which, it must be allowed, the writer has executed with some talent, and for which hire) Mr. Warden has handsomely rewardwe hope (as the labourer is worthy of his ed him.

Mr. Warden says, that in publishing luctantly, to become an author, from persuathese Letters "he has yielded, rather rewhich he had some reasons to suspect resion he scarce knew how to resist, and to sistance might be vain." He consented reluctantly to become an author!—if the letters had been written, he was already an author, though his work was unpublished; the fact is, no such Letters exist. ed. We have also reason to believe that he did not yield reluctantly, but that he had, from the first moment, resolved to publish, and that he received with great dissatisfaction some advice which was given him to the contrary. How he could be forced by an irresistible power to publish, is more than we can comprehend, unless, as we shrewdly suspect, that irresistible power was a talismanic paper inscribed with certain figures of pounds, shillings, and pence, which were at once the object and reward of the imposture.

He affects to write colloquial French, and relates with great effrontery his direct conversations with Napoleon and his suite. The fact is, the surgeon is wholly igno rant of that language; and of this we find positive proof in his own book.

In the first place, no man who understood French could have written the words tâche journalière as he has done; in his mode they mean a spot, and not a task.

In the next place, Mr. Warden lets slip the avowal, that he spoke to Buonaparte by an interpreter, and that this interpreter was the veracious Count de les Cases, a kind of secretary and ame damnée of the Ex-emperor, (who is now said to be under arrest for attempting a secret correspondence,) and who seems to be, of the whole suite, the person who is the most careless of truth, and the most ready to say, not what he believes or knows, but

what he thinks most convenient at the moment. "This worthy person," says Mr. Warden, "interpreted with great ap, titude and perspicuity, and afforded me time to arrange my answers." Notwithstanding this avowal, Mr. Warden describes himself as conversing with ease and volubility with Buonaparte, whom he represents as speaking English.

"The moment his eye met mine, he started up and exclaimed in English, ' Ab, Warden, how do you do? I bowed in return, when he stretched out his hand, saying, I've got a fever.' I expressed,' &c. And so on for a long conversation, in which the interpreter is entirely sunk. When the Doctor replies, he replies, not like a person who wanted" time to arrange his answer," but "rather quickly," and is so far encouraged by the easy communicative manners of the Ex-emperor, (not a word of the interpreter,) that he continues to make his observations without reserve. I was resolved (he says) to speak my sentiments with freedom; and you may think I did not balk my resolution."

Again" Here Napoleon became very animated, and often raised himself on the sofa where he had hitherto remained in a reclining posture. The interest attached to the subject, and the energy of his delivery, combined to impress the tenor of his narrative so strongly on my mind, that you need not doubt the accuracy of this repetition of it"-and what follows for four pages is placed within inverted commas, as if Mr. Warden wished us to suppose that he gave the very words of the man.

All these are, we admit, only insinuations and equivocations; but in the second letter there is a direct and palpable falsehood.

Buonaparte is represented as inquiring after the health of Madame de Montholon, and attributing her illness to her horror of the idea of St. Helena-Mr. Warden says he repeated to his doctor the quotation of Macbeth in the following man

ner:

"Can a physician minister to a mind diseased, Or pluck from memory a rooted sorrow≫ At this time Buonaparte could not have pronounced the three first words of this quotation; he could as well have written Macbeth. Nay, in one of his last interviews, Mr. Warden represents his utmost efforts in English to be a stammering attempt to call Madam Bertrand his love, or his friend.

Mr. Warden says, "that the British government proscribed Bertrand from accompanying Buonaparte," and " that Lord Keith took on himself the responsibility of including such an attached friend in the number of his attendants." This is notoriously false.

Again he says "A delicacy was maintained in communicating to Buonaparte the contents of the English Journals. That truth is not to be spoken, or in any way imparted at all times, is a proverb which was now faithfully adhered to on board the Northumberland."

Mr. Warden here speaks truly as of himself and his French friends; but it is well known that Sir George Cockburn is as much above any such paltry deceit as is here imputed to him, as he is above giving a person in Buonaparte's situation any intentional offence.--The truth, we believe, is, that the newspapers, both English and French, were freely sent to Buonaparte; and if the contents of the former were ever kept from him, it must have been by Las Cases, who was his usual interpreter; and upon whose veracity in this office, so much of Mr. Warden's own credit unfortunately depends.

Mr. Warden affects to relate to us the Abbé de Pradt's famous account of the interview at Warsaw, and lo! the tall figure who enters the Abbé-Ambassador's hotel wrapped in fur is-not Caulaincourt --but Cambacérès, poor old gentleman! He cannot even write the name of one of Buonaparte's followers, whom he attended in a dangerous illness, and who studied English under him; he an hundred times calls General Gourgaud, General Gourgond; and lest this should appear an error of the press, he varies his orthography and calls him Geueral Gourgon! but never does he call him by his proper name; Maret, Duke of Bassano, he confounds with Marat; Count Erlon he calls Erelon; and Colonel Prontowski is always Piontowski; Doctor Corvisart is Corvesart, and sometimes Covisart; the Baron de Kolli, a Swiss, is metamorphosed into the Baron de Colai, a Pole; Morbihan, is Morbeau; the Duke of Frioul becomes the Duke of Frieuli:-in short, there is no end to these errors, which prove Mr. Warden to be very ignorant or very inaccurate, or, what we believe to be the real state of the case-both.

Such is the blundering, presumptuous and falsifying scribbler, who has dared to speak of the sensible and modest pamphlet of Lieutenant Bowerbank, as “trash which he is ashamed to repeat, and which he wonders that this Review" (which we are sorry to find he calls a respectable work) "should condescend to notice."

After this detailed exposure of Mr. Warden's ignorance and inaccuracy, it now becomes our duty to say, that though his letters are a clumsy fabrication, and therefore unworthy of credit, yet there are some of his reports which are sub. stantially correct, and which, as we before said, Mr. Warden may have heard from those who had at once the opportunities and the means of holding a conversation

with Buonaparte, and who were not obliged to put up, like Mr. Warden, with second-hand stories from M. de Bertrand, General Gourgaud, and the Count de las Cases, who seem in their conversations with Mr. Warden, to have given a more than usual career to their disposition for fabling; and the simplicity with which this gobemouche seems to have swallowed all those fables, must have been at once amusiug and encouraging to the worthy trio. They evidently saw that the Doctor was a credulous gossip, who would not fail to repeat, if he did not print, all his conversations with them; and they therefore took care to tell him only what they wished to have known-so that even when he means to speak truth, and does actually repeat what he heard, the substance of his story is generally and often grossly false.

Family Devotion.-An Extract.

It is evident from reason, as well as from Scripture, that Family Devotion is the indispensable duty of every Christian society. God expects and requires of every family, who have been blest with the high privilege of living in a Christian land, not only the particular duties of each single member thereof, but the joint worship of the whole, to prove before Him, and His holy Church here on earth, that they are indeed a household of faith. If Christian families do not join in the necessary duty of family devotion, their religion is deprived of one of its essential parts an open and practical acknowledg. ment of the duty of prayer. If they do not assemble together to hear the word of God, and to join in prayer and praise, the aid and incentive to devotion, afforded from the united act of duty, "when two or three are gathered together" in the name of Christ, will not be known. The heads of a family, who meet not in acts of family religion, draw a distinction between themselves and those who are under them, which might suit a state of heathen idolatry, but which ill accords with the situation of those who know that, as far as concerns the soul, we are all equal; that we are fellow servants, serving, with various talents, under one head, one common Lord and Master, Jesus Christ.

But, when the members of a family meet together in solemn acts of religious duty, when parents and children, when masters and servants, in one united solemn act, humble themselves before their great Lord and Master which is in Heaven, they then, in obedience to their Saviour's command, give one proof of their Christian faith; they "let their light so shine before men, that they may see their good works, and glorify their Father

which is in Heaven." The true Christian wants no other inducement to the performance of this necessary duty than the knowledge which he has, of its being God's will that all should perform it. He knows that the holy word of God is to be read, and His worship to be cultivated, not only in the presence of the whole congregation, but in the more retired scenes of domestic life. He remembers and acts upon what is written. "These words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart, and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." (Deut. vi. 6, 7.) "I know him," said God himself, when speaking of the patriarch Abraham, "that he will command his children, and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment." (Gen. xviii. 19.)

Convinced of the duty incumbent upon all to fulfil these gracious commands, the true Christian not only performs them, but thereby receives some of his joys. He receives and applies the encouragements given in Holy Writ for the faithful discharge of the great and necessary duty of family religion.

" Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I," said our Lord Jesus Christ, "in the midst of them." (Matth. xviii. 20.) His gracious presence will comfort, His Holy Spirit will sanctify them, in all that they think and do in His service. The conviction of His merciful and superintending care will support and comfort them, all the day long; it will teach them to use, without abusing the things of this present state of trial; it will moderate their enjoyment of the really innocent earthly blessings, which God shall bestow; and it will lead them to look up to Him, under all the changes of life and death, as the sole end of all their hopes. Hence too, in all the daily duties of life, which each in his separate vocation may have to discharge, will arise much spiritual and lasting good. When parents and children, when masters and servants, all meet together, with one heart and one voice in praise and prayer unto God-when they assemble to hear and learn His Holy Word, they have each cause of hope, that duties, thus performed, will influence all, in the active pursuits of their respective stations in life.

CANZONETTE.

'TIS sweet, when in the glowing West,

The sun's bright wheels their course are leaving, Upon the azure Ocean's breast,

To watch the dark wave slowly heaving.

And oh at glimpse of early morn,
When holy monks their beads are telling,
"Tis sweet to hear the hunter's horn

From glen to mountain widely swelling.

And it is sweet, at mid-day hour,
Beneath the forest oak reclining,
To hear the driving tempest pour,
Each sense to fairy dreams resigning.
"Tis sweet, where nodding rocks around
The nightshade dark is wildly wreathing,
To listen to some solemn sound

From harp or lyre divinely breathing.
And sweeter yet the genuine glow

Of youthful Friendship's high devotion, Responsive to the voice of woe,

When heaves the heart with strong emotion.

And Youth is sweet with many a joy,

That frolick by in artless measure; And Age is sweet with less alloy,

In tranquil thought and silent pleasure.

For He who gave the life we share,

With every charın His gift adorning, Bade Five her pearly dew-drops wear, And drest in smiles the blush of Morning.

Jehovah's throne is fix'd above,
And bright through all the courts of love
His Cherub Choirs appear:
Ah! how shall man ascend so high,
A feeble race condemn'd to die,

The heirs of guilt and fear!

Shail towering strength, or eagle flight,
Essay to win the sacred height

By Saint and Seraph trod?
That living light, that holiest air,
The guileless heart alone shall share,
The pure behold their God.

Yet think not that with fruitless pain,
One tear shall drop, one sigh in vain

Repentant swell thy breast;
See, sce the great Redeemer come
To bear his exiled children home,

Triumphant to their rest.

Even now from Earth's remotest end
Ten thousand thousand voices blend
To bless the Saviour's power.
Within thy temple, Lord, we stand
With willing heart a pilgrim band,
And wait the promis'd hour.
Then high your golden portals raise,
Ye everlasting gates of praise;

Ye heavens, the triumph share:
Messiah comes, with all his train;
He comes to claim his purchas'd reign,
And rest for ever there!

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT-BRITAIN.

In the press-A System of Mechanical Philosophy, by the late Dr. John Robin'son, of Edinburgh, edited by Dr. Brewster, comprising the most recent Discoveries, in 4 vols. 8vo.;-A History of Mohammedanism, by Mr. C. Mills ;-An Inquiry into the Effects of Spirituous Li

quors on the Physical and Moral Faculties of Man ;-An Examination of the Prophecies, with a View to passing Events, by Mr. Bicheno;-A Course of Lectures on the Church Catechism, for every Sunday in the Year, by the Rev. Sir Adam Gordon, Bart.;-Serious Warnings, by the Rev. J. Thornton, in 1 vol. 12mo. ;-and some detached Portions of an Epic Poem, with a Poem in Greek Hexameters, by Mr. Bayley, formerly of Merton College.

Preparing for publication:-Two volumes of Practical Sermons, by the late Dr. W. Bell ;-Description of the Remains of Antiquity on the South Coast of Asia Minor, by Capt. Beaufort;-Outlines of Geology, by Mr. Brande, of the Royal Institution;-A Journey through Asia Minor, Armenia, and Koordistan, in 1813 and 1814, by J. M. Kinneir.

AFRICA.

We are much concerned to announce to our readers the disastrous termination of the expedition to explore the river Congo or Zaire. The vessel having ascended the river as far as the first rapids, and its farther progress being there arrested, Captain Tuckey determined on prosecuting his researches by land. The attempt proved fatal to him and about fourteen or fifteen of his associates, who fell the victims of disease, induced by excessive fatigue and exposure, in a climate very uncongenial to European constitutions. Among the deaths are numbered Captain Tuckey, the commander; Lieut. Hawkey; Mr. Smith, the botanist; Mr. Tudor, the comparative anatomist; Mr. Cranch, the natural historian; Mr. Eyre, the purser, and Mr. Galway The journals of the captain and the different scientific gentlemen have been preserved, and will be given, we understand, to the public, by Mr. Barrow, of the Admiralty.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

A Sermon preached in the Church_of St. George's, Hanover-square, on Sunday 29th December, by the very Rev. the Dean of Chester, in behalf of the Subscription for the Relief of the Poor of that Parish.

Scriptural Essays, adapted to the Holydays of the Church of England, with Meditations on the prescribed Services; by Mrs. West, author of Letters to a Young Man, &c. &c. 2 vols. 12mo.

Sermons preached at Welbeck Chapel, St. Mary-le-bone; by the Rev. T. White, M. A. Minister of that Chapel, and late Vicar of Feckenham, Worcester. 8vo.

Printed and published by T. & J. Swords, No. 160 Pearl-street, New-York; where Subscriptions for this Work will be received, at one dollar per annum, or 24 numbers-All Letters relative to this Journal must come free of Postage.

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CHARACTER

Of Dr. MUDGE, Prebendary of Exeter. The following masterly portrait of a Clergyman, is from the pen of Dr. Johnson. Though it is not to be found in the collection of his works, Mr. Boswell, in his life of that eminent character, says, that Johnson confessed to him, he was the author of it.

"The Reverend Mr. Zachariah Mudge, Prebendary of Exeter, and Vicar of St. Andrews, in Plymouth; a man equally eminent for his virtues and abilities, and at once beloved as a companion and revered as a pastor. He had that general curiosity to which no kind of knowledge is indifferent or superfluous; and the general benevolence by which no order of men is hated or despised.

"His principles both of thought and action were great and comprehensive. By a solicitous examination of objections, and judicious comparison of opposite arguments, he attained what inquiry never gives but to industry and perspicuity, a firm and unshaken settlement of conviction. But his firmness was without asperity; for knowing with how much difficulty truth was sometimes found, he did not wonder that many missed it.

"The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the sacred volumes in the original languages; with what diligence and success his notes upon the psalms give sufficient evidence. He once endeavoured to add "the knowledge of Arabick to that of the Hebrew; but finding his thoughts too much diverted from other studies, after some time, desisted from his purpose. "His discharge of parochial duties was exemplary. How his sermons were composed, may be learned from the excellent

volume which he has given to the public; but how they were delivered, can be known only to those that heard them, for 2 he appeared in the pulpit, words will not easily describe him. though unconstrained, was not negligent; His delivery, and though forcible, was not turbulent; disdaining anxious nicety of emphasis, and laboured artifice of action, it captiVOL. I.

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vated the hearer by its natural dignity, it tile, and detained the mind upon the subroused the sluggish, and fixed the volaject, without directing it to the speaker.

"The grandeur and solemnity of the preacher did not intrude upon his general behaviour; at the table of his friends he was a companion communicative and attentive, of unaffected manners, of manly cheerfulness, willing to please, and easy to be pleased:-His acquaintance was universally solicited, and his presence obstructed no enjoyment which religion did not forbid. Though studious he was popular; though argumentative he was modest; and though inflexible he was can

did."

A short plain Orthodox Sermon, principally in the language of the Book of Common Prayer.

The propriety of the epithet orthodox, will be evident to every one who makes use of our incomparable Liturgy. For he will perceive that its doctrines and sentiments are inculcated; and that even its expressions are adopted in almost every succeeding line.

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. (Prov. xxvii. 13.)

You cannot but know, my brethren, if you remember at all what you read and hear, that "the Scripture moveth you in sundry places to acknowledge and confess your manifold sins and wickedness; and that you should not dare to dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart, to the end that ye may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy." It behoves you therefore to inquire whethis scriptural injunction. ther you have really complied with

That I may assist you in making this needful inquiry, and effectually

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