THE

ANTI-JACOBIN

REVIEW AND MAGAZINE,

OR,

Monthly Political and Literary Censor,

FROM

JANUARY TO APRIL (INCLUSIVE,)

-1803-

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

AN AMPLE REVIEW OF FOREIGN LITERATURE.

PRODESSE ET DELECTARE.

VOL. XIV.

LONDON:

Printed, for the Proprietors, at the Anti-Jacobin Prefs, No. 3, Southampton-Street, Strand,
By R. BOSTOCK, of Brydges-Street, Covent-Garden.

AND PUBLISHED AT THE ANTI-JACOBIN OFFICE, NO.3, SOUTHAMPTON-STREET, STRAND,
BY J. WHITTLE; AND BY E. HARDING, AT THE CROWN AND MITRE, PALL-MALL;
C. CHAPPLE, PALL MALL; T. PIERSON, BIRMINGHAM; BELL AND BRADFUTE, DIN-
BURGH; BRASH AND REID, GLASGOW; AND BY J. W. FENNO, NEW-YORK.

THE

ANTI-JACOBIN Review and Magazine;

&c. &c. &c.

For JANUARY, 1803.

Proprietates ingeniorum difpicere prorfus neceffarium eft; erit alius hiftoriæ magis idoneus, alius compofitus ad carmen, alius utilis ftudio Juris, ut nonnulli rus fortalle mittendi. QUINCT.

ORIGINAL CRITICISM.

The Hiftory of France from the earliest Times to the Death of Louis the fifteenth. By John Gifford, Efq. one of his Majesty's Juftices of the Peace for the Counties of Middlefex, Effex, Surry, and Kent, &c. &c. A NEW EDITION; with Portraits, and hiftorical Plates. 4 vols. large quarto. PP. 2686. 81. 8s. Published by Whittle, at the Anti-Jacobin Office, Southampton-ftreet; Rivingtons, St. Paul's Church Yard; Cobbett and Morgan, PallMall. 1802.

THE

'HE firft edition of this Hiftory was published, we believe, before the French revolution, and confequently long before the establishment of our Review. It received, however, the commendations of the critics of that day, and even of fuch of them as could be leaft fufpected of partiality to the principles of the author. One. of thefe obferved, "It may be confidered as filling up pretty completely the excellent outline of the Prefident Henault. The style, which is uniformly preferved through the work, is clear and correct, with few attempts at embellishment. On the whole it appears to us to be a performance which thofe who read to be informed, or who wish to collect materials for fpeculation, will perufe with advantage and pleasure."* Another critic thus fpeaks of it." If by complete the author mean entire" (what else could he mean?) "his work will certainly have in this view a kind of merit, which few real hiftories

Monthly Review enlarged. Vol. 10. p. 122.

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