fweep towards the eaft, in a line directly oppofite to the courfe of that river, washes the vast country of Tibet, where, by way of diftinction, it is denominated Sanpoo, or the river. Winding with a rapid current through Tibet, and, for many a league, amidst dreary deferts and regions, remote from the habitations of men, it waters the borders of the territory of Laffa, the refidence of the grand Lama; and then deviating with a cometary irregularity, from an eaft to a fouth-eaft courfe, the mighty wanderer approaches within 200 miles of the western frontiers of the vast empire of China. From this point its more direct path to the ocean lay through the gulph of Siam; but with a defultory courfe. peculiar to itself, it fuddenly turns to the weft through Assam, and: enters Bengal on the north-east quarter. Circling round the waf-. tern point of the Garrow mountains, the Burrampooter now takes a fouthern direction; and for 60 miles before it meets the Ganges, its fifter in point of origin, but not its rival in point of magnitude, glides majestically along in a ftream which is regularly from four to five miles wide, and but for its freshness, Mr. Rennel fays, might pafs for an arm of the fea. About 40 miles from the ocean thefe mighty rivers unite their ftreams; but that gentleman is of opinion that their junction was formerly higher up, and that. the accumulation of two fuch vaft bodies of water, fcooped out the amazing bed of the Megna lake. Their prefent conflux is below Luckipoor, and by that confluence a body of fresh running water is produced, hardly equalled, and not exceeded either in the old or the new hemifphere. So ftupendous is that body of water, it has formed a gulph of fuch extent as to contain islands that rival our Isle of Wight in fize and fertility; and with fuch refiitlefs violence does it rufh into the ocean, that in the rainy feafon the fea itself, or at leaft its furface, is perfectly fresh for many leagues out.

The Delta, formed by the Ganges, exhibits an appearance widely different from that formed by the Indus; and is confiderably more than twice the area of that of the Nile. It is at the bafe near two hundred miles broad, and has, Mr. Rennel informs us, no less than eight confiderable openings into the fea, each of which we pronounce without hesitation to have probably been, in its turn, the principal mouth of the Ganges. This whole extent is one vast foreft; from that circumftance denominated the woods, or funderbunds, whofe dangerous receffes the fortitude and induftry of man have never yet completely explored, and which, from their forming an impenetrable barrier on that fide, as well as from their affording an inexhaustible fupply of timber for boat-building, the policy of the English has not yet attempted to clear. Thefe woods are the gloomy haunts of every fpecies of favage animals, but particularly of thofe formidable race of tigers called the Royal, or Bengal tiger, fo celebrated throughout the world.

The

The fiercenefs and intrepidity of thefe animals are fo great, that they have been known to fwim, in queft of prey, to the boats that lie at anchor in the river, and often make havoc among the wood-cutters and falt-makers, who carry on "their dreadful trade" upon the fhore. Befides thofe principal openings above-mentioned, the whole coaft of the Delta, bordering on the fea, is indented with innumerable rivers and creeks, while the internal parts of the Sunderbunds are interfected in every direction with a thousand ftreams, which form a complete inland navigation, and which, according to a defcription given me by the late worthy colonel Ironfide, abound with feenes fo romantic and beautiful, that they alternately excite in the mind the most rapturous admiration, and imprefs it with the most awful aftonishment.'

Notwithstanding the exception before made, we should do Mr. Maurice great injuftice if we did not recommend his work. The liberality of his conduct towards his fubfcribers, and the engravings with which he has adorned it, intitle him alfo to confiderable praife.

(To be continued.)

An Afyirm for Fugitive Pieces, in Profe and Verse, not in any other Collection with feveral Pieces never before published. Vol. IV. 12mo. 35. 6d. Jewed. Debrett. 1793.

HERE is in this collection, as in all others of the kind,

THERE

a good deal of trash; but there is likewife enough of a different caft to afford amufement to any man who is not faftidious; that is, provided he has no objection to the subjects, which are most of them political, and to the fentiments, which are on the anti-minifterial fide. Not, however, without fome exception, as, Village Politics, a piece attributed to Mrs. Hannah More, and which has been very generally distributed amongst the poor; and the Goitre, a fly humourous tale of a very oppofite tendency, amicably occupy the fame fheet. We would wish to point out the parody on Bofwell's Life of Johnson, as particularly excellent. There is humour likewife in the account of the flociation in the kingdom of Truina, and the parody on Mr. Burke's reflections. We fhall felect as fpecimens, the two following pieces.

Catalogue of Works in the Prefs, and shortly to be published.

The Literary History of the University of Oxford and Cambridge for the last thirty Years. Two Pocket Volumes.

A Grammatical Differtation on the Verb To Reform, fhewing that it has properly no prefent tenfe. By the Principal of Brazen Nofe Coll. Oxon.

An

An additional Canto to the late King of Pruffia's Poem on the Art of War, containing the Practice of Retreating; with a Digreffion on Proclamations. By bis Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick.

Proposals for a general Confederacy of Prince's, Nobles, and Clergy, in Oppofition to the Principles of the detestable French Revolution. Infcribed (by permiffion) to his Holiness the Pope, and her Imperial Majefty of Ruffia. By the Right Hon. Edm. Burke.

The Expediency of an Union between the English and Gallican Churches again confidered. By an Emigrant.

Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet."

Short Work with the Diffenters. A new Edition, printed at Birmingham, with a prefatory Addrefs to Dr. Madan and the

Rev. Mr. Curtis.

⚫ Letters from a Welch Curate to the Bishop of Durham, on the Subject of Equalization.

Bofwell's Memorabilia; or Converfation Anecdotes of all the diftinguished Characters in Great Britain during the Reign of his prefent Majefty. Ten vols. quarto.

Additions to the Life of Dr. Johnfen, containing an exact Copy of his Account Book, and triennial Inventories of his Wardrobe, collated with his Taylor's, Barber's, and Laundrefs's Bills together with Memoranda of Mrs. Williams and Mr. Levett. By the fame Author.

Epitaphiologia Anglica; or, an accurate Tranfcript of all the Epitaphs in every confecrated Church and Chapel throughout England and Wales. No. I. 4to. to be continued monthly. By Richard Gough, F. R. S. and F. A. S.

⚫ Sentimental Effufions, in a Series of Eulogiac Sonnets. By Clementina Crimp, a Billingsgate Fishbwoman. Published by Subfcription. To which will be added, a copious Gloffary of Modern or Billingsgate Grubs.

Stolen Sweets, a Novel, in fix vols. By a young Lady in a Boarding-School, aged 16.'

• The following capital Works are expected from Edinburgh.

• The Hiftory of the Republic of St. Marino, in 3 vols. 410. A new Theory of the Pleafures derived from the fine Arts. Two vols. 410.

Philofophical Illuftrations of the Characters in the Gentle Shepherd, 4to.

Metaphyfical Enquiries into the thinking Principle of the Oufang Outang. By Lord M-b-do.

On the Principles of Melody in Verfification; illuftrated by Examples from Erfe Poetry. By Profeffor Mac Lacklin.' C. R. N. AR. (IX.) Sept. 1793

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• Creeds.

• Creeds to choose.

Firf, or Tory Creed.

I believe in the infallibility of all crowned heads.

I believe in the infallibility of the minifter for the time being.

I believe in William Pitt as the maker of all good men.

I believe in the perfection and inviolability of the English conftitution, as now adminiftered; and I think it a damnable. herefy to believe that it can be amended.

I believe in the charity, religion, and virtues of the church as established by law.

I believe in the holiness of all bishops-in the neceffity of pluralities in the advantages of tythes-and in all the good things dependent upon high church government.

I believe in the falvation of test acts.

I believe in the virtue of corruption, without which there can be no regeneration..

I believe in the faving grace conferred by penfions and finecure places.

I believe in the virtue of riches, and vice of poverty and I believe that all men who do not believe as I believe, will, or ought to be, damned in fecula feculorum. Amen.

A Cavalier of the old Court Cut.

• Second, or Jacobin Creed.

"I do not believe in any thing that is ancient, fixed, ftable or permanent.

prey.

I believe only in the virtues of change and experiment.

I believe that all crowned heads are tygers, prowling for

I believe that all minifters are jackals purveying for fuch tygers.

I believe that the English conftitution is bad, will be worse, and ought to be deftroyed.

I believe that it is wifer to rush into any evils that may await change, than to attempt to mend what is amifs, becaufé life is not long enough to wait the flow progrefs of reform.

I believe that all good governments are made only for the exifting members, and that they have nothing to do with posterity.

I believe that the next world has nothing to do with us, and confequently that we have nothing to do with the next world. I believe that every rich man is a rogue, and ought to be

poor.

I believe that every poor man is honeft, and ought to be rich. I believe in the Rights of Man, as far as they ferve to give me a right to live independent of all controul, as a man ought to do.

• I believe

I believe that the only fit men to frame a government for free men,are those who have always lived independent of anygovernment whatever, as they only can know what freedom is.

I believe in Tom Paine as the faviour of this world.. Amen..

A Republican of the newest Cut?

• Third, or my own Greed.

• I believe that every conftitution is not adapted to every coun try.

1 believe that a limited monarchy is beft adapted to produce peace, plenty, profperity, and protection in Great Bri

tain.

I believe that the conftitution of England, as originally framed, is the wifeft idea of a free government that ever entered into the imagination of man.

I believe that no human inftitution ever was, or will be perfect; but if it is fufceptible of amendment, may always be approaching nearer to perfection.

I believe that, being of human inftitution, the English conftitution is fubject to abuses and to decay.

I believe that many abuses have crept into the administration, and that many decays have begun to appear in the English conftitution.

I believe that no man is infallible, either as a king, or as a minifter.

I believe it to be the intereft of every minifter to encourage abuses in the adminiftration, and to hide decays in the conftitution.

'I believe that all the abuses in the administration, and all the decays in the conftitution, are practical evils, and admit of easy and practical cures.'

We cannot help thinking there would be more propriety, if in collections of this kind, made for the purpofe of preferving pieces which have been originally printed in newspapers, and other fuch temporary publications, it were made a rule to admit nothing which has been prefented to the public in a more durable form. The deviations from this rule are, however, in this volume, but few.