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European Magazine,

For MARCH 1807.

[Embellished with, 1. A Portrait of ALEXANDER THE FIRST, EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. And, 2. A View of RENDLESHAM HOUSE.

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168 Supplement to Mr. Cumberland's ibid. Memoirs

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Memoir of the Emperor of Russia 163
Copy of a Letter from M. de Novos-.
silzoff to Dr. Thornton
ExtraordinaryCircumstances relating
to the Sophistication of Potatoes ibid.
Some Particulars relative to the pri-
vate Life of Collins the Poet
Method of feeding Cows in Winter
Omission in the Chronological List
Inscription in Ware Church-yard
Account of Rendlesham House.
Vestiges, collected and recollected,
by Joseph Moser, Esq. No. LV.
Description of the Great Desert of
Westminster. By Joseph Moser,
Esq. [Concluded]

The Reasoner. No. V.

ibid.

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Infallible Method of detecting bad
Gold or Silver

Colquhoun's Treatise on Indigence
[Concluded]

Antiquarian Repertory [Concluded] 211
Hale's Letter to Mr. Whitbread'
Maxwell's Navy Pocket Paymaster
Mr. Deputy Birch's Speech"

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182 D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature ibid. 185 Reeve's Mysterious Wanderer

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ibid. TheatricalJournal;-including, Fable
ibid. and Character ofTown and Coun-`
ibid. try and The Young Hussar
186 Poetry-including, The Horrors of
War; &c.

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Journal of the Proceedings of the
First Sessfour of the Third Par-
liament of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland
Intelligence from the London Ga-

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Domestic Intelligence

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The Genuine Spirit of Masonry
A Brief Account of Cronstadt
Account of General Sebastiani 192
Journal of a Voyage from the West
Indies, &c. to London [Continued] 193

London:

Printed by J. Gold, Stoc- ane, Fleet-street,

FOR JAMES ASPERNE,

At the BIBLE, CROWN, and CONSTITUTION,
No. 32, CORNHILL.

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The Biographical Notices of GENERAL FROST and GENERAL THAW shall be inserted in our next.

GENERAL TOLERATION is inadmissible.

The dissertation on the art of building Rocks in certain places, which was to have been included in the " Description of the Great Desert of Westminster," must be deferred until another opportunity.

We are obliged to our Correspondent for the print of NAPIER of Merchiston; but, as it has already been published, must decline the use of it.

The Society for the Investigation of the Causes, Symptoms, and Cure of the HYDROPHOBIA, has our warmest wishes for its success; but we cannot, from its length, insert the address.

In our last Review we omitted to mention, that the Sermon "On the Utility of Academical Institutions, &c." was preached by BENJAMIN CRACKNELL, A.M., Minister of Weymouth Chapel. The profit derived from it is, we understand, to be devoted to the institution for which it pleads.

JANSON's Stranger in America, and TOMKINS's Rays of Genius. shall be reviewed in the next Magazine.

We have received several other works, which shall be noticed as soon as possible,

Essays, Historical, Literary, and Moral, we are sorry to state, came too late to be inserted this month, but shall have a place in the next Magazine; as shall the Essay on the Use of British Fir as a Substitute for Elm Timber: the Mechanism of the Eye; Mr. Richardson's, and several other pieces with which we have been favoured.

Britannicus, Address to a faded Lily, and a number of poetical pieces from our former Correspondent, Mr. M., are received, and shall have due attention paid to them.

ERRATUM in our last Magazine. Page 137, col. 1, line 16 from the bottom, for cureless mis'ry."

"careless mis'ry," read

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Alexander Emperor of Russia?

Published by J.Asperne at the Bible,Crown & Constitution, Cornhill 1 April 1807

EUROPEAN MAGAZINE,

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LONDON REVIEW,

FOR MARCH 1807.

MEMOIR OF ALEXANDER THE FIRST, EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.

THE

[WITH A PORTRAIT.]

HE rise and fall of empires, kingdoms, and states, are circumstances not only calculated to excite the strongest interest in the mind of the historian, and to produce the deep est contemplation in that of the philosopher, but also to afford to the divine and the moralist the most ample scope wherein to display the astonishing examples of God's judgments, exhibited in those extraordinary revolutions which, as scourges to mankind, he has suffered at different periods to operate both in the physical and political worlds. If we contemplate the fate of the kingdoms and states that were destroyed to erect the empire of Alexander, by a misnomer termed the Great, whose domination stretched from the shore of the Mediterranean to the base of Caucasus; while we lament the fall of establishments coeval with the earliest traces of history; candour will not permit us to conceal the cause that operated to their destruction, or one moment to doubt that they sunk under the weight of their own vices: luxury produced mental timidity and corporeal imbecility, and rendered them an easy prey to the irregular irruptions of myriads of military assassins, heated by enthusiasm, excited by avarice, and stimulated by ambition.

Astonishing as the revolution occasioned by the erection of this empire appeared upon the historic tablet, in this age it is unfortunately no longer considered as singular. A political change has occurred in the western hemisphere, in geographical space perhaps less extensive, yet in its baneful and malignant effects dreadful as that which, foretold by the Prophet Daniel*, once convulsed the eastern.

Daniel, chap. viii, ver. 7, and xi, ver. 13.

Perhaps causes nearly similar produced both those violent concussions. The modern, like the ancient. nations, enervated by their vices, withered before the accumulated energy of ferocious hordes, stimulated by a leader who possesses no traits of the character of the Grecian, except his rapacity, his cruelty, and injustice.

The division of the Alexandrine empire, the contentions of his successors, and its final subversion by the Romans, are circumstances which, in the punishment of nations, mark the fatality attendant upon unjust acquisitions. The irruption of the Goths appears a scourge to those people; and the wars among these and their descendants manifest that the world has not, in latter ages, been more wise or virtuous than it was in the former.

In the subversion of empires, it has always been observed, that leaders have, in different ages, arisen, who seemed, to a certain degree, to command, rather than to follow, fortune. Such is the usurper of modern Europe, who, after hurling devastation from the shore of the Baltic to the Strait of Messina, has, like Charles the XIIth with respect to Feter the Great, found his strenuous, and we hope his most successful, opposer upon the Continent, in the young hero, whose portrait at once adorns and dignifies this number of our Magazine.

Alexander the Ist, upon whom the eyes of all nations are at present turned, as toward the barrier of Gallic ambition, the avenger of the wrongs and restorer of the liberties of Europe, was born on the 23d of December, 1777. At the age of sixteen, he was united to Louisa, Princess of Laden Durlach *, two years

* Conformable to the canons of the G cek Church, this Princess took the names of El

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