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THE GLEANER. No. IX...

Reflections of a Young Man in Prison, after committing an Act of Sulcide.... ..481

History of Peter Pliant [Concluded]..486
IRISH EXTRACTS: containing a concise
Description of some of the principal
Places in Ireland; with the Antiqui-
ties, Customs, Character, and Man-
ners of that Country [Concluded] ..489
BIOGRAPHICAL Register of eminent
PERSONS RECENTLY DECEASED, NO.
XXVII.-John Gifford, Esq.
Emma: a Tale founded on Fact
Epitaph in Eyam Church-yard
Memoir of Patrick Colquhoun, Esq.
[Concluded].

FRAGMENTA. Being Thoughts, Observations, Reflections, and Criticisms, with Anecdotes and Characters Ancient and Modern. No. XXVI.....503 An Essay on Charity

Answers to Arithmetical Queries 508, 509 Nautical Query

LONDON REVIEW.

Benger's Memoirs of Mrs. Elizabeth

The Fudge Family in Paris.
Evans's Excursion to Windsor ......519
THEATRICAL JOURNAL: State of

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Drury-lane Theatre-The Castle of Paluzzi, or the Extorted Oath-Mr. Mathews's Address-Opening of the English Opera-How to write an Opera, or the Delights of Dramatic Composition-The Kaleidoscope, or Pay for Peeping-False Accusation, &c. &c. POETRY...

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On a Lady's Kaleidoscope

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Births

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Literary Intelligence...

List of New Publications

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Acknowledgments to Correspondents.. ib.

List of Bankrupts, Dividends, and Certificates...

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London :

PRINTED FOR JAMES ASPERNE,

AT THE BIBLE, CROWN, AND CONSTITUTION,

NO. 32, CORNHILL.

AND MAY BE HAD OF ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Europ. Mag. Vol. LXXIII. June 1818.

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LONDON, Published for the European Magazine by Asperne 32, Cornbill 15 July 1818.

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Engraved by Thomson, from an original Painting in the Provost Lodge

at Eton College, by S.Drummond Esq. A.RA.

THE

EUROPEAN MAGAZINE,

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LONDON REVIEW,

FOR JUNE, 1818.

A SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF
JOHN REEVES, Esq.

FOUNDER AND PROMOTER OF ASSOCIATIONS FOR PRESERVING LIBERTY AND
PROPERTY AGAINST REPUBLICANS AND LEVELLERS.

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[WITH A PORTRAIT, ENGRAVED BY J. THOMSON, FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING IN THE PREVOST'S ROOM, ETON COLLEGE, BY S. DRUMMOND ESQ. Á. R. A.

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EROISM in the field is surrounded with such a blaze of glory, and most men afe so liable to be dazzled by the splendor of military exploits, that not only the poet, but the biographer and historian, have always too fondly enlarged on the successes of the warrior, while the less brilliant, but more serviceable, exertions of the statesman are mentioned with sparing testimonies of applause. We often see the powers of genius employed in giving an artificial verdure to the blood-stained laurels of victory, and we hear the car of triumph rattle through the sounding periods, though its wheels are clogged with HUMAN GORE.

But whatever praise may be due to the champion who risks his life in fighting the battles of his country, and of repelling the attacks of a foreign invader, the highest honours of patriot ism, and the warmest tributes of public gratitude, ought certainly to be reserved for the man who, in the hour of internal alarm, and amidst the DARK BROODING of DOMESTIC TREASON, steps forward by his wisdom, his virtue, and his spirit, to save a whole people from the HORRORS of a CIVIL WAR.

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Such was the state of affairs in which the talents of Mr. REEVES, not long since, were so happily displayed. A tempest was gathering over our heads which was likely to burst with irresistible jury. The FRENCH HORN of sedition had been

sounded, and all the banditti of Great Britain and Ireland were rallying toge ther at its blast. Anarchy and licentiousness proclaimed with loud boast the multitude of their adherents, while hypocrisy, ambition, and avarice, were secretly plotting how to secure the SPOILS of a PLUNDERED NATION. The loyal and the brave, though undaunted by Jacobin menaces, foresaw with agony the woUNDS they must be forced to inflict, in the hateful struggle; and Justice herself turned pale at the number of apprehended executions.

At this crisis, the heaven inspired counsels of a vigilant patriot averted all those calamities, and put a stop to the rising tumult, without shedding ONE DROP of BLOOD. He joined men of property and virtue in the bonds of indissoluble union; he inspired the peaceful and industrious with security and confidence; he restored deluded thousands to their allegiance and their duty; he quelled the turbulent; he intimidated the audacious; he confounded the designing; he made the dagger fall from the hand of the assassin; and he extinguished the torch which the incendiary had just lighted to involve the kingdom in flames.

Can it then be deemed an useless or an uninteresting task to trace the outlines of this admirable character, and to present to the real lovers of their country so bright and so encou

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