las has succeeded; 2. the house of Lochbuy, with its cadets of Scallasdale, Urquhart, Dochgarroch, KingerJoch, and Cappurnuch; 3. the house of Ardgour, with its cadets of Borreray, Treshnish, Inverscadell, and Blaich; 4. the house of Lehire and Ross; 5. the house of Coll, with its branches of Muke, Drimnacross, Crosspool, and Gallanach; 6. the house of Morvern, with its cadets of Kin

lochaline, Drimnin, and Pennycross; 7. the house of Torloisk; and 8. the Counts Maclean of Sweden. Of the Scallasdale branch is Col. Sir Archibald Maclaine, C.B., K.T.S., and K.C.T.; of the Dochgarroch branch are Major-Gen. Sir John Maclean, K.C.B. K.T.S. and George Maclean, Esq. Governor of the Gold Coast; of the Inverscadell branch is Major-Gen. Sir Joseph Maclean, K.C.H.; of the Blaich branch was Gen. Francis Maclean, Governor of Halifax, who died in 1781; of the Lehire family, (at Langmull) the late Major Donald Maclean, of the Royal Scots, to whom two affectionate letters of the late Duke of Kent are addressed; of the Macleans of Coll is Lieut. Gen. Sir Hector Maclean, K.C.B.; and from the same stock was Lauchlin Maclaine, Under-Secretary of State to Lord Shelburne, and afterwards agent to the Nabob of Arcot*; as is also Mr. Lachlan Maclean, merchant in Glasgow, and author of Sketches of Iona, and an elaborate work on the Celtic or Gaelic language; and of the house of Torloisk, was General Allan Maclean, who died in 1797. Of these persons, particularly the military officers, extended memoirs are given; and the genealogy is throughout richly studded with the names of those who have rendered valuable services to their king and country. We may further mention that the representation of the Macleans of Torloisk will descend through the Marchioness of Northampton, whose second son Lord William Compton will, if he survives his grandmother, the widow of General Doug

* See a memoir of Lauchlin Macleane in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xcIv. ii. 400, and further of him and his sup. posed claim to the authorship of the Letters of Junius, ibid. p. 488; vol. c. ii. 579, cr. i. 104, 318, 319.

las Clephane, inherit that estate, and assume the name of Maclean. Further, that Mr. Justice Park is also the grandson of a Maclean of Torloisk; and finally, that another well-known member of the family, Mr. Thomas Maclean, of the Haymarket, the publisher of the caricatures of the immortal H. B. is a descendant of the lairds of Dochgarroch.

On the whole, the genealogies are very satisfactory, though we think they are rather deficient in dates. We shall conclude with observing that, with full concurrence in the spirit of our author's loyal sentiments, we think his expressions of animosity towards the Argyles, the republicans, and the whigs, are somewhat too violent. They resemble too much the impassioned diatribe of the political pamphleteer, and too little the tempered judgment of the sober historian. One expression (in p. 140, and repeated in p. 142) we cannot pass without censure, -that the Scotish Lords who negociated the surrender of Charles the First "out-judased Judas." This is an indiscretion scarcely inferior to that which once compared that king himself to the Redeemer, a profanation which the good sense of later times has universally condemned. If the expression were only once casually introduced, (without being actually amplified and argued upon in p. 142), we might have imagined that it was inadvertently employed in the place or in imitation of the customary expression of "out-Heroding Herod," but in that instance the phrase has originated in a way which relieves it of its impropriety. It is not the conduct of the actual Herod in sacred history that is alluded to; but the rant and extravagance of the actors by whom Herod was formerly personated on the dramatic stage.

In the letter of Montrose to the laird of Coll (p. 139) instead of for the advancing thereof, the king's service," we should probably read "for the advancing there of the king's service."

Account of the Misfortunes of the Dauphin, &c. translated by the Hon. and Rev. C. C. Perceval. 8υο. 1838.

IN the papers and documents of this work, the fact is endeavoured to be established, that the Dauphin, the son of Louis XVI. and brother of the Duchess d'Angoulême, is still alive, and is known by the title of the Duke of Normandy. He endeavoured to bring his case before the legal tribunals in France, but was seized by the police, and, after a month's imprisonment, sent out of the country. In consequence he was obliged to have recourse to the press, to make his pretensions known. The translator says, "That the legitimate right to the throne of France is involved in the question of the identity with the son of Louis XVI.; and that the right is openly asserted in the following pages, the editor does not mean to deny; but he thinks it must be allowed that if he had been influenced by political motives to publish this translation, he could hardly have made a more awkward attempt to disturb the Orleans dynasty than by bringing forward a rival to the acknowledged legitimate heir to the throne already existing in the person of the Duke of Bordeaux." He adds, "that he knew from a relation that the attempt of the Duke of Normandy to bring his claims into a court of justice, and his consequent expulsion from France, in order to prevent his doing so, had actually taken place. The former of these facts affording a presumption that he must really have the evidence to produce which he professes; the latter exciting a suspicion, at least, that the government were afraid of the production of that evidence; the more so, as no longer ago than 1834 the really false Dauphin Reuthemont was brought to trial by them, and condemned as an impostor, as the other false Dauphin who appeared in the time of Louis the XVIII. was dealt with by him. Of all the individuals therefore who have laid claim to the title, the writer of this narrative is the only one who has been refused a legal inquiry into the validity of his claim." To this is to be added, that Madame de Rambaud, the Dauphin's nurse from his birth till he was seven years old, is entirely convinced of the writer's identity with the prince of whom she had the care, that she declares her conviction openly, that she did make a journey to Prague, in hopes of obtaining an audience of the Duchess of Augoulême on

this very subject, which audience was refused her; and that the conviction and declaration of Madame Rambaud are participated in most fully by her family. It happens that the Duke is now supported (at Dresden ?) with his wife and six children by friends, whose sincerity of belief in him is the cause of their generosity. These facts are, then, ascertained on other authority than the writer's own: as it appears

1. That he has endeavoured to procure a legal inquiry into the validity of his claims, which has been refused. 2. That the French government, which has itself brought other false Dauphins to trial, refuses him this appeal to the laws of his country.

3. That one of his chief witnesses (his nurse), certainly competent to identify him, does recognise him, and declares it openly.

4. That other of his friends believe in his claim, and take onerous obligations on themselves in consequence of that belief.

5. That he does not possess the means of procuring false witnesses by bribery.

To this the translator adds, "that he is able to certify, and conscientiously, having made the acquaintance of the prince and his friend and advocate, the editor of the French volume, that he never was in company and had communication with any two persons who had less the appearance of anything bordering upon imposture and deceit, with whose frankness he had better reason to be satisfied,-or of whose perfect integrity and honesty he was more thoroughly convinced." We have no room to enter into an examination of the vast variety of facts and documents, in the shape of proofs of the tracing of the claim, that are advanced here; but this we can say, that it is the leading aim of all impostors to avoid minute and circumstantial detail - Error latet in generalibus - but here, nothing is avoided, nothing appears concealed; and statements which an impostor might easily have dropped, and urged, as a valid excuse for dropping, the impossibility of remembering circumstances that took place in his childhood, are here voluntarily brought forward in all the particularities of the attendant circumstances. It appears that when confined in the Tower of the Temple, the friends of him and his unhappy family contrived his escape by substituting a wooden figure of a child in his bed; and when that was discovered, the government, unwilling that his escape should be known, substituted a deaf and dumb child in his place, and subsequently another, who died 1795. In the coffin intended for that, he was placed; and subsequently, on his way to the place of interment, taken out, and the coffin filled with rubbish; he escaped to Trieste, and thence to Italy. It is altogether a very singular and curious

statement.

The rest of the narrative contains an account of his subsequent adventures, trials, and misfortunes to the present time, and this is followed by a large assemblage of original documents, letters, &c. to authenticate the facts asserted. Among them are one or two of a most extraordinary character: we allude to the letters written from the Count de Provence (Louis XVIII.), the authenticity of which the French editor says he could prove in a court of justice. Well does Mr. Perceval say, "that they are of so atrociously wicked a character as are calculated to blacken his memory for ever; and, what is more startling, that of Charles X." Here they are.

"TO THE DUKE OF FITZJAMES.

"Versailles, May 13, 1787.

"Here is, my dear Duke, the Assembly of Notables drawing to its close, and yet the great question has not been touched upon. You cannot doubt that the Notables will not hesitate to believe, from the documents which you sent them more than six weeks ago, that the King's children are not his own: these papers give the clearest proofs of the Queen's guilty conduct. You are a subject too much attached to the blood of your Sovereigns not to blush at bowing before these adulterous fruits. I shall be absent, but my brother Artois, whose committee does not hold its sitting, will preside in my place. The fact in question once averred, it is easy to infer the consequences. The parliament, which dislikes the Queen, will not make any great difficulty; but if it should have the fancy to raise any, we have the means of bringing it to reason-in short, we must attempt the blow.

"(Signed) LOUIS STANISLAS XAVIER."

"TO THE COUNT D'ARTOIS. "All that fortune could devise most fatal, has been united against us for more than eighteen months; but it seems that she is going to relent and to look upon us with somewhat more favour. What does it signify to us, in fact, that Condè has obtained, to our prejudice, the command of the army furnished by the King of Prussia and the Emperor? If the blow which is preparing is struck, it will be worth an army. Sixty Mountaineers of the Assembly and the English ministry will remain to us; with such succours, every thing may be hoped for. The reed that bends, lives longer than the oak that breaks. You will be the oak in your turn, my brother; and God knows what will be the result.

"(Signed) L. S. XAVIER."

"TO THE COUNT D'ARTOIS.

"It is done, my brother-the blow is struck! I hold in my hand the official news of the death of the unfortunate Louis XVI., and have only time to forward it to you. I am afraid, also, that his son is dying. You will not forget how useful to the state their death will be. Let this reflection console you; and remember that the Grand Prior your son is, after me, the hope and heir of the monarchy. (Signed) L. S. XAVIER."

Is it possible that these letters-the very concentration of the highest villany-that stamp these wretches as the basest of traitors, calumniators, and fratricides - that cover them with threefold infamy-can they be true? If so, we must say that the darkest pages of modern history offer nothing so detestable, so enormous, so fiendish, to our revolting and sickening eyes: to which the worst excesses committed in the Revolution which followed these criminal letters, by ignorant and brutal ruffians, appear light in comparison. Here are wretches, whose life-blood should have been poured out in defence of the afflicted and shattered throne, looking forward with rejoicing to its downfall-forging the vilest slanders against a woman and a Queen-congratulating each other on the death of the nephew and the heir of the throne -and lastly, consummating all this by laying a dark and deeply-concocted plot for the death of their Brother the King!!* We have no heart to be

* The Duke of Normandy, in a letter to the Duchess of Angoulême, accuses

lieve this; we cannot. The crime is too stupendous to have been imagined in the most guilty bosom; it cannot be. Yet we wish we could say "Non premia cædis interfectores mansura." Like Macbeth, they had it all : but, like him, the crown for which they had given their immortal spirits to the bondage of shame in exchange, soon dropt from either head.

We will now give a letter which follows, bearing the signature of our venerable old King George the Third, and which the French editor really believed to be authentic.

"GEORGE THE THIRD, KING OF ENGLAND, TO THE DUKE OF ANGOULEME.

"My Cousin, - I write this letter to acquaint you, that it being our royal will and pleasure to deliver France from the oppression under which she groans, especially since the death of our brother and cousin, his most Christian Majesty, as also to place one of his direct heirs upon the throne, we invest you with the command of the army which we send for this purpose, and recognize in you alone the right to the regency of the kingdom during the minority of Louis XVII. son of the late King. That if the said child should happen to die, we will and intend that you shall reign after him, in immediate succession, without delay or division, to the exclusion of every pretender, direct and indirect; under the express condition, however, of your fulfilling the wishes of his majesty Louis the XVI. by causing the Princess Maria Theresa, his daughter, whom he destined to be your wife, to ascend with you to the throne, thus become yours. Being desirous to give authority to our royal decision and conduct, we proclaim before God, and in the face of all the world, that they who conspired against the safety, power, and life of the late King, have excluded themselves from the hereditary line of succession to his crown; interpreting thus the state laws of France, and those of Charlemagne, which, though they render the princes of his house not amenable to the tribunals of ordinary justice, have not forbidden princes, their peers, from be. coming, by unusual means, the organs of divine justice.

"On which I pray God, &c. Given at Westminster.

We can only add, that the documents, which are very numerous and particular in their statements, and highly curious from the circumstances with which they are connected and the persons to whom they allude, appear to substantiate the claims of this person, and to prove that his being alive was known to, and acknowledged by, the royal family of France, if they are true. It appears (v. 646) that the Duchess of Angoulême has given her word of honour that her brother died in the Temple; and the Duke feels how strongly this declaration acts against him; and accordingly his appeals to her affection and honour are very strong and urgent,and have not been noticed.

The Church and her Ministration, in a Series of Discourses. By R. Mant, Bishop of Down and Connor. 8vo.

THE object of these Discourses, as the Bishop informs us in his preface, "is to bring forward the character, principles, and provisions of the national church, and to show their agreement with the word of God in holy scripture." When we consider the erroneous opinions that are prevalent on this subject, and the laxity of conduct as regards the Church, in the present day, too manifest to be at all consistent with the situation she fills, the character she claims, or the power she legitimately may exercise; when we consider how she is despised by the profane, and disparaged by the Sectarian, and, alas! too feebly and lukewarmly supported by the children of her own communion-the laity: with these facts before us, we cannot but congratulate ourselves when we see more correct views advanced and higher claims and privileges acknowledged, and her title to be a main branch of the Apostolic and Catholic Church undeniably asserted and proved, and that she stands preeminent and distinct from all Sectarian rivalry of any denomination whatsoever. Such a subject we could not wish to see entrusted to safer hands than those of Bishop Mant; and the volume before us confirms our previous acquaintance with the soundness of his doctrine, the temperance and moderation of his language, his zeal for the honour of the Church to which he belongs, and the devout and religious feelings which give to his writings the character of coming from the heart. The volume is dedicated to the Queen, and the address to her is calculated to impart to that illustrious person most correct views on the subject of the Anglican Church over which she presides.

"The Church of Christ is of God's creation. And the Anglican Church being a true part of the Church of Christ, whether established by law or not, is essentially the same. The State cannot make a Church which God has not made; nor can it unmake one which God has made. The most that the State can do, in settling a national religion, is to associate itself with a true part of Christ's Church. Still, in whatever degree such association may recommend the Church to the people, her chief and proper claim is derived from her own character, as a true part of the Church of Christ, and as thus ordained and constituted by God; nor would that claim be abated, should

the State choose to discontinue the association."

We must give another passage from the same dedication, serving to show that while the Bishop contemplates the probability of renewed attacks on the Church by the violence of schismatics, the bigotry of Papists, or the rashness of theorists and reformers; he derives comfort from the contemplation of her essential excellence, which at least is beyond their power to impair.

"It is no unreasonable anticipation that, blessed as she has for the most part been since her last deliverance, and under the rule of her Majesty's most august family, with peace and prosperity, she may at no distant period, by God's inscrutable Providence, be called upon to suffer another trial of affliction; 'when the hedge of his vine shall again be broken down, so that all that go by pluck off her grapes, that the wild boar out of the wood may root it out, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.' Still, in every variety of untoward circumstances, Madam, the spiritual character of the Church and her spiritual claims have at all times remained and do remain the same; and as she has experienced heretofore, so by God's continued blessing she will doubtless again experience, in the severest trials, the hearty affection, and the strong attachment of her faithful

children; of those who estimate her value and judge of her pretensions, not from regard to any external transitory accidents of worldly love or dishonour, of secular good or evil, but from a contemplation of her essential excellence, resulting from the apostolical, primitive, and catholic character, by God's mercy, impressed upon her and attached by her policy, her doctrines, the commission of her ministers, the dispensation of her sacraments, and her forms of divine worship."

The volume consists of twenty-one Discourses, connected in their line of arguments and in their subjects with each other; among which, we beg to recommend (not to the disparagement of the others, but from the peculiar claims that branch of the sub

ject has on our attention in the present times) the third discourse, showing the conformity of our national Church, in principles and practice, with the primitive Church of Christ, or a general view of doctrine, churchgovernment, the sacraments, and divine worship; and with that, the fourth, showing how the Church is distinguished from other Protestant professors of Christianity; and to these we would add the two next;"the Church's judgment on the necessity of holding the Catholic faith." So then we conclude in the language of a Presbyter of the Apostolic Church, as applied to our own times. "Quod si neque Apostolica definita neque Ecclesiastica decreta temeranda sunt, quibus secundum Sacrosanctam Universitatis et Antiquitatis Confessiosemper hæritici jure meritoque damnati sunt, necesse est profato omnibus Catholicis, qui sese ecclesiæ matris legitimos filios probare student, ut sanctæ sanctorum patrum fidei adgluterentur, profanas vero profanorum novitates detestentur, horrescant, persequantur."

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Parochial Lectures on the Apostolical Succession. By W. J. Irons, A.M.

1838.

THESE Sermons were preached in Advent last at Saint Mary's Newington. Their object being to give some clear and distinct notions respecting the origin, nature, and power of the Christian ministry, they are dedicated to Dr. Pusey the Professor of Hebrew at