that of doing justice to another Englishman, his (Sir W. Jones's) contemporary, the Statesman and Orator Burke. This man has been to his own country and to all Europe-in a very particular manner to Germany-a new light of political wisdom and moral experience. He corrected his age when it was at the height of its revolutionary phrenzy ; and without maintaining any system of philosophy he seems to have seen farther into the true nature of society, and to have more clearly comprehended the effect of religion in connecting individual security with national welfare, than any philosopher, or any system of philosophy, of any preceding age."*

"This I deliberately and steadily affirm," writes a learned man more than once quoted, after an animated eulogy on him as a critic and philosopher, "that of all the men who are, or who ever have been, eminent for energy or splendour of eloquence, or for skill and grace in composition, there is not one who, in genius or erudition, in philanthropy or piety, or in any of the qualities of a wise and good man, surpasses Burke."

"If," said Mr. Fox, in opening the first charge of the impeachment, and the allusion to Mr. Burke was rapidly caught by the auditory, "If we are no longer in shameful ignorance of India; if India no longer makes us blush in the eyes of Europe; let us know and feel our OBLIGATIONS to HIMwhose admirable resources of opinion and affection --whose untiring toil, sublime genius, and highaspiring honour, raised him up conspicuous among the most beneficent worthies of mankind!”

* Schlegel's Lectures on Literature, vol. ii. p. 278.

"To whom," said Sheridan in his happier moments, before the false lights of French liberty misled him, "I look up with homage, whose genius is commensurate to his philanthropy, whose memory will stretch itself beyond the fleeting objects of any little, partial, temporary shuffling, through the whole range of human knowledge and honourable aspirations after human good, as large as the system which forms life, as lasting as those objects which adorn it;"-" a gentleman whose abilities, happily for the glory of the age in which we live, are not entrusted to the perishable eloquence of the day, but will live to be the admiration of that hour when all of us shall be mute, and most of us forgotten."

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Vol. I, page 10-line 31 from top.

SPENSER thus alludes to Sir Walter Raleigh's visits to him when resident at Kilcolman Castle

"There a strange shepherd chanc'd to find me out,
Whether allured by my pipe's delight,

Whose pleasing sound yskilled far about,
Or thither led by chance, I know not right;

Whom when I asked from what place he came,
And how he hight, himself he did ycleep,
"The shepherd of the ocean by name,'
And said he came far from the main sea deep."

Vol. I, page 52-begin the page.

It was about this time that Mr. Burke accidentally formed an acquaintance in St. James's Park, with a very enterprising and original character, who, though a native of the East, nearly friendless in England, and who, consequently, appeared in rather a "questionable shape," presented evidences of a mind so much above his situation, that he instantly, to the best of his power, befriended him. This man, with a little more of the favour of fortune, might have turned out one of the most conspicuous, as he was one of the most adventurous, spirits of modern times. Sir W. Jones thus writes of him, (May, 1786) to Sir John Macpherson, when Governor General of India :

"I have already thanked you for your attentions to Emin, and I beg to repeat them; many in England will be

equally thankful. He is a fine fellow; and if active service should be required, he would seek nothing so much as to be placed in the most perilous edge of the battle.”—Lord Teignmouth, in his Memoirs of Sir W. Jones, gives an abstract of his career:

"Few persons have passed through a greater variety of hardships and perilous adventures than the person mentioned by Sir W. Jones, under the name of Emin. Born at Hamadan, in Persia, of Armenian parents, and exposed during his infancy to uncommon disasters, while a mere youth he followed his father and ruined family to Calcutta. He had there an opportunity of observing the superiority of Europeans in arms, arts, and sciences, over the Asiatics; and the impression which he received from it inspired an invincible desire in Emin to acquire the knowledge which they possessed. For this purpose he determined at all hazards to visit England; and after a long opposition from his father, having obtained his reluctant assent, he adopted the only means left for the accomplishment of his purpose, by working his passage as a common sailor in one of the ships belonging to the East India Company. After his arrival in England, he lost no time in beginning to acquire the instruction which he so anxiously desired, but his progress was retarded by the narrowness of his circumstances, and he was compelled to submit to menial occupations and laborious employments, to procure a subsistFortune favoured his perseverance, and in a moment of despair he was accidentally introduced to the notice of the Duke of Northumberland, and afterwards to that of many gentlemen of rank and fortune, by whose assistance his views were promoted.

ence.

"The great object of Emin was to obtain a knowledge of military tactics, in the hopes of employing it suc cessfully in rescuing the liberty and religion of the country of his ancestors from the despotism of the Turks and Persians. After serving with the Prussian and English armies in Germany, he procured the means of transporting himself into the mountains of Armenia, in the view of offering