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ter may have sense enough to avoid that idle exaggeration which eventually injures the reputation it is intended to aggrandize; he may understand how his task ought to be performed, and be disposed to perform it with fidelity, and yet circumstances s may exist which compel him to leave it imperfect, and therefore in some degree unfaithful. The feelings of the living must never be sacrificed to the celebrity of the dead; and before the time arrives when the whole truth might allowably be told, those persons from whom alone it could be collected, pass away with their generation. The life of Thomas Day, the author of Sandford and Merton, was written by one of his friends, and the most extraordinary and characteristick incidents of his life were totally suppressed. Chatterton was insane-better proof of this than the coroner's verdict is, that there was insanity in his family. His biographers were not informed of this important fact; and the editors of his collected works forbore to state it, because the collection was made for the benefit of his surviving relations, a sister and niece, in both of whom (both are now no more) the disease had manifested itself. In these cases the suppression was allowable and right; but not unfrequently the dead have been embalmed, when for the instruction of posterity they ought to have been dissected. It is not necessary, that the evil deeds of all men should be written in brass; but the effrontery of cloaking them over, not merely by indiscriminate eulogy, but by praising them for qualities the very opposite to those by which they were marked, is a species of falsehood as severely to be reprobated in literary history, as the crime of bearing false witness is in a court of law. There may be no occasion to gibbet such offenders; but it is intolerable that they should lie in state.

The time is not yet come when the life of our great Nelson can be

fully and faithfully related; his private history cannot be laid open without greater injury to individual feelings than the publick has any right to inflict for the gratification of its curiosity; and of the political transactions in which he bore so great a part, the views which he entertained, and the projects which he formed, there are some which could not be exposed without great and manifest imprudence.

We have before us four lives of this admirable man, who, like our own Shakspeare, surpassing in his sphere of action all who have gone before him, remains himself, we fear, never to be surpassed, and probably never to be equalled. The first is by Mr. Charnock, author of a Biogra phia Navalis, and of a laborious and expensive History of Marine Architecture. Mr. Charnock had a passion for a naval life, and not being permitted to follow it, employed himself with great ardour upon naval history; but he was of two eager a temper to execute all the important works which he undertook. Born to fair prospects, and endowed with talents the most promising, and a disposition to employ them honourably and usefully for himself and for society, his life was embittered and shortened by undeserved misfortunes. Captain Locker, the late lieutenant governour of Greenwich hospital, suggested this undertaking even during the life of Nelson, and supplied him with a series of letters and with all the information which he possessed. Mr. Charnock had no other sources of private history; and for those publick actions "wherewith all Europe rings from side to side," he contented himself with copying the Gazettes and Naval Chronicles. Professing to be only a faithful collector and reporter of such authentick intelligence as lay widely scattered, he proposed, if no other person undertook a work upon a larger scale, to devote to it all the intervals which "an uncertain state of health