"her imagination with the conviction that the subscription " which has been extorted by her importunity, or given to "her necessities, has been offered as an homage to her ge"nius. And this confidence instantly levies a fresh contri"bution for a succeeding work. Capacity and cultivation are so little taken into the account, that writing a book 66 seems to be now considered as the only sure resource "which the idle & the illiterate have always in their power,"

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"Let her who is innocent cast the first stone." What said the pot to the kettle! I feel the indignant temper of the Sarcasm family roused in me; and if I cannot apply to Mrs. More " sugar hogs"heads and rum puncheons," I can ask, whether she and her sisters did not begin business with the produce of a subscription? I have known more than one amiable female, who wrote a novel to raise subsistence for a father, mother and sisters, all of whom would reprobate the practice of Miss "Moon," "private accusations ;" and the same feelings which then induced me to recommend the books to the public, by stating privately the application of the produce, to some literary censors, force even now, as I re-enjoy the long ago past pleasure, the tears to run down my hoary cheeks. Madam! my family is ancient; my motto is Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos; and, though I respect the merit which in the law, army, navy, or the church, raises a man to peerage and dignity, I hate that upstart pride, which attempts to make Joan a gentlewoman, intellectual imbecility a Johnson; a Lilliputian in literature a Patagon,

"Miss Hannah's graces dazzle not the view......
"No bonfire she no sun's meridian blaze:-.
"A rushlight 'midst th' illuminating FEW;

"A farthing rushlight, with its winking rays.
"Miss HANNAH has no eagle wing to flee,
"Whom thus some adulation can befool:
"Alas! a poor Ephemeron is SHE!

“A humming NATIVE of a Bristol pool.

"Had WISDOM crush'd Miss HANNAH's forward quill, "Had silence put a gag on HANNAH's tongue

upon

"No
had mourn'd
crape
the Muse's hill,
"Nor Phoebus blubber'd for the loss of song.

"People shou'd not run riot with applause,

"But ah! how many praise without pretence; "Bawl for a work with wide extended jaws ; "Of words a deluge, and a drop of sense. "Though HANNAH's prose presents us nothing new-→→→ "Though HANNAH's verse be lame insipid stuff; "Some sable CRITIC, in some kind Review, "Shall give the little paper-kite a puff.

"I'll tell the public, what, Miss HANNAH's strictures "Are decent things-perhaps Miss HANNAH's plan; "But trust me, they are all some PARSON's pictures, "These, HANNAH never drew, nor coloured, - .! "Miss HANNAH may be aptly term'd a hen,

"Who sits on PHEASANT's eggs, to kindness prone; "Hatches the birds, a pretty brood; but then, "Weak vanity! She calls the chicks her own. "Miss HANNAH's heels are greasy, let me say; Miss HANNAH's joints are very stiff indeed : "Her form is rather fitted for the dray,

"Than on NEWMARKET turf to show a speed. "Then bid Miss HANNAH MORE her pen confine: "Repress the vainly rhyming, prosing rage, "That makes us sinful damn the nerveless line, "Un-Job-like curse the pen'ry of the page.

"Now, ladies, don't be in a passion, "Because I've treated in such fashion

"Miss HANNAH, whom you idolize and foster: "I do assure you, SOLEMN DAMES, "Miss HANNAH with no merit flames,

"No! She's a little bit of an impostor.

"I know you call the nymph, the sun so bright:
"Now, she's MISS MOON-and borroweth all her light.

"Who has not seen a kind old mother CAT

"Deliver a dead bird, or mouse, or rat,

"To her young kitten, Miss GRIMALKIN? "Miss catches it with raptur'd claws,

"Locks it at once within her jaws,

"Round with cock'd tail, and round, triumphant walking; "So carefully her treasure holding, watching,

"And proudly purring this is all my catching."'

"Has not Miss HANNAH been the kitten here? "Too strongly she resembles it, I fear!

"Miss HANNAH, too, a LUCKY lift has had

"On some kind PRIEST'S perchance a Bishop's pad "Miss Hannah's work so much beprais'd,

"By flattery's puff so highly rais'd ;—

"I say Miss HANNAH's pretty EDUCATION book, "Of fishing party's starts a story,

“Where one shall steal another's trout or dory, "And slily pull it in on his own hook.

"Now, LADIES, as your honours are at stake,

"I beg you for your reputation sake,

"To sift this petty larceny of the pen; "And as ye probably may find it out,

"Confront Miss HANNAH-kick up some small rout"And make her give the man his fish again."

Mrs. More, p. 229, vol. 7, declares herself of opi nion, that the flattering accounts given by our circumnavigators of the mild and amiable disposition of the inhabitants of new-discovered countries, and particularly the Hindoos, and the Pellew Islands,

are expressly given with the design of counteracting the doctrine of human corruption, and destroying the necessity of Christ's sacrifice of satisfaction. The atonement is an established doctrine, which I will by no means gainsay or impugn. But I will not neglect, in this place to point out what I am sure all who have perused her book must have observed, the studious anxiety with which she, on every occasion, brings this subject before her reader's eye. She seems to consider all as unbelievers who do not receive this doctrine. Let us be just. Let reason and the scriptures decide. She ought to know that many who deny it, nevertheless, believe the divine mission, life and immortality being brought to light by Christ, the resurrection from the dead unto eternal life, and the immortality of the soul and future judgment, and consider themselves no less christians than if they believed this doctrine. Nay, even those who deny the Trinitarian doctrine altogether, insist that they are christians; and they argue, that the word Trinity is not to be found in the scriptures, nor will they allow the corruption of human nature, nor the atonement, to be proved by scripture. Charity! charity! charity! The love the first christians had for one another extracted from the heathens the apostrophe; How these christians love one another! Do modern christians love one another? Let H. More and Sir A. Elton's conduct in the Blagdon controversy bear witness.

Some pages are occupied by common place observations on the ways and doctrine of Providence, which explain and account for various events in the history of nations and individuals, and are all shown to promote the great ends and objects of the divine administration, proving, from the frequent success of vice, and the depressions of virtue, the certainty of a future state. This is a specimen of the mode in which she recommends history to be read to pupils by governesses.

But above all knowledge, self knowledge is again expatiated upon; and individual self denial recommended, by historical interrogatories. The fair are asked, whether they never " carry about "with them a convenient religion, which accom❝modates itself to places and seasons; which is "decent with the pious, sober with the orderly, "and loose with the licentious?" Whether, while with patriotic indignation she inveighs against thirty theatres in Paris, well attended every night, she may not miss an evening at one of the three in London, during our public calamities by war? Will Mrs. More say her own religion is not a very convenient one, and that her conscience is not perfectly elastic, which permit her to write plays, and to write against plays; to write against the theatre, and yet re-publish her plays? Surely this is a most glaring inconsistency, this is hypocrisy with a vengeance! Need the world wonder she should" privately accuse" honest men, or be guilty of almost any other vice?

A chapter is devoted to " Definitions," and it teaches as much of that as it does of roasting eggs.