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and exhibited " such an ardent desire to excel,
that to this day the old people relate of him that.
Warren aye took his learning kindly.' In pro-
cess of time he was dispatched tei Westminster
school, where he continued his studies vial equal
assiduity, so much so, that " the greatest expects;tions were formed of his success at the University,
but before he could realize those expectations, he
was sent off by his guardian " in the capacity of
a writer to Bengal," where, after the lapse of a few
year, he entered upon that Creat public career
which is familiar to all readers of modern Indian
history. From the letters of Warren Hastings con-
tained in these Memoirs, we should infer that he
was a man of singular clearness and vigortr of in-
tellect, and 'perfectly amiable in all the social rela-
tions of life.

PEPYS'S LIFE, JOURNALS. and CO.RIM-
SPONDENCE. 2 Vols.
Bentiv, London, IS-11.
These pleasant volumes are introduced with a
short biographical sketch of Pepys, from which we
learn that in his boyhood he was " a great Round-
head," and witnessed with avowed satisfaction the
execution of Charles I.—a circumstance that occa-
sioned him touch uneashiess at a more discreet and
worldly period of his life, and for which he hastened
Lo make all the reparation possible, by attending the
cxt cution of Harrison, the Regicide. A man en-
dowed with accommodating principles like these,
and whose conscience is so quiet and
well-behaved as never to occasion him
uneasiness, is sure to get on in life ; and ac-
cordingly we find Pepys at the outset of his career
clinging fast to the skirts of an influential relative,
Sir Edward Montague, afterwards Earl of Sand-
wich, who, like himself, had turned from repub-
lican to " monarchical notions, and to whose good
offices was owing his success in life, and ultimately
his appointment to the office of Secretary to the
Admiralty, which he held in the reigns of Charles
the Second and James the Second. During a great
portion of his life Pepys kept a Journal
of'his proceedings from day to day, which was pub-
lished by Lord Braybroeke in the year 1826 ; but
sii.ce that period other curious INIS. Diaries have
been discovered, and are here, for the first time,
given to the world. These Diaries will be specially
interesting to those who desire to become acquainted
with the domestic history of the period of which
they treat, and those also will be entertained by them
alto are fond of watching unconscious revelations
of character. We should deduce from them that
Pepys, to much practical shrewdness, added
much simplicity and bonhommie of nature ; that
he was a quiet observer of other men's peculiarities,
and was something precise in his own private
habits. The most amusing portion of his Journal
is that where he gives a narrative of his voyage to
Tangier, which in places is marked by the most
uncommon minuteness of detail. Some of its
touches of character, too, are exquisite of their
sort, especially where the Journalist speaks
of himself as playing the part of Job's comforter
to Lord D irtmouth. His Lordship being out of
spirits, and anxious, as one would suppose, to
rouse himself by the cheerful conversation of his
friends, Pcpys says :—" My Lord sent for me to
supper, and very melancholy I made hint with my
discourse. Talking of Dr. Trumbull and Mr.
Sheres, and remarking that I had observed him to
be himself sometimes melancholy, he answered,
how could he be without thoughts, to find himself
sent with such promises of every sort of supplies,
and he in this condition. Which I magnin.ed, by
telling him his dreadful prospect of the condition
of the fleet in a few days !" This is a delicious
trait of character. A nervous and dispirited noble-
man invites his friend to supper, in order that he
may be cheered by his sprightly conversation ; but
instead of this, his friend adopts the most dismal tone
possible, and succeeds in rendering his host twice
as miserable as he was before he sent for him !
How Fielding—the immortal creator of Parson
Adams—would have chuckled at an anecdote like
this ! As a specimen of Pepys's mode of journaliz-
ing, we quote his references to. Colot.el Kirke,
who, if we mistake not, was the same individual
who made himself so notorious by his treachery
and cruelty in the \Vest of England, during the pe-
riod of Monmouth's ill-starred insutrection :
" This morning, Da Lawrence told ale his own case
with the Governor; which shows Kerke a very brute.
Shores, also, to-day called me aside on the Mole, to
tell me that. Kirke owes 1,500/. among the inhabitaws
of the to-An, who can get no money front him, but curses,
and, Why do you trust me ?' Nor dare they com-
plain, for fear of his employing some one or other to
do them mischief, as, Shares says, he bath done to two
men that have been killed,as r,entotally believed, by his
order. Ile caused a sergeant to be tied to a post, then
beaten by himself as long as he could do it ; then Ly
another ; and all for bidding a servant of his go to his
mistress, Mrs. Collier.
" To show Low little he rrisks of drunkenness
(thonoh he will beat a fellow for having a dirty face or
band), I have seen, as he has been walking with me in
the street, a soldier reel on him as drunk as a dog, at
this busy time too, when everybody not on guard is at
work. He listh only looked at him, and cried, The
fellow path got a good morning's draught already and
so let him go without one word of reprehension. My
Lard does also tell me of nine hundred fdse muster!,
(that, I think, was the number,) in two thousand seven
hundred men. Tois I will inquire after most certainly.
" At supper, Dr. Ken told my Lord and the cimpany
(Mr. Hughes, minister of the parish, bcing by) how
Kirke bath put one Roberts on the parish, to be reader,
who will swear, drink, &c., as freely as any man in the
town ; end now would put him on Shovel to be his
chaplain, in the James galley. But Dr. Ken proposes,
and desires my Lord to put in one Mercer, schoolmaster
of the town, for several reasons ; among the rest, keeping
out Roberts. The reason of Kirke's thus appearing
for him is, because ho is brother to Mrs. Collier, his
mistress.
" To show, after all, bow good a soldier he is, and
how good discipline he keeps here, my Lord Dartmouth
going the round, and I with him, to the Mole, this Oc-
tober 23d at night, may Lord found one officer of the
guard drunk, below the church, and another asleep on
his bed, below that, at the head of the Mole ; and all
of them, to give both words, the in and the outward,
contrary to all order, and the reason of the thing, as
my Lord made me understand, the words being, Edin-
burgh and Dublin."

TIIE REAL AND THE IDEAL. 2 PoLs,
Saunders and Utley, London, 1340.
There is too much of the rhapsodical in these
volumes, which, when Italy is the theme, is very apt
to weary one ; for so many works, both in prose and
verse, have been written of late years about this
country, and so much panegyric lavished upon it,
that the very mention of the subject induces in-
difference, which is pretty sure to end in disgust,
unless it be treated in the most masterly manna.
Now, unfortunately, this cannot be said of the
" Real and the Ideal," which is written in a sort
of poetic prose, as far removed front true feeling
and simplicity as can well be ; and discourses about
Italy, its landscapes, ruins, pictures, sculptures, &c.,
in a fashion which ;we cannot fitter describe than
by saying that it is exaggerated common-place.
The only chapter in the volumes which we have
read with any thing like interest, is the one headed
" Hootings in the Colisccum"—which, by the bye,
the author calls " Colosseum," evidently thinking
cf the huge building in the Regent's Park—wherein
a train of reflection, suggested by the brutal gladia-
torial fights of which the ancient R.mmans were so
fond, is pursued, creditable to the author's sense of
hu inanity.

PA RDON OF FROST.—If there is any truth at
all in the statement of the Standard's Liverpool penny-a-
lfter, as we hope there may be, Sir John Franklin has,
" in the exercise of that heavenly prerogative, mercy,"
extended to Frost the indulgence of being employed in
kreVng books, instead of working in a chain-gang ; and
then the whole pack of Tory newspapers on this side the
water set up a fearful howl, charging the Government with
encouraging treason, and declaring that Frost ought to
have been subjected to the most irksome and degrading la-
bour. Truly there is no satisfying these people.—Man-
chester Guardian •

POST-OFFICE MONEY ORDERS —lt is not
generally known that the Pest-office will pay money or-
ders through a banker. %Ye hear that the increase of
money orders since the reduction of the fees in November
last, in London, is about threefold.
On Monday last a convict, who was engaged
outside the Justitia convict-ship at Woolwich in painting
thu vessel, was carried away with the boat he was iti by
a field of ice, and was unable to extricate himself.
in-
formation was sent to the police, giving a description of
hi 3 person, and stating that he had escaped and taken the
boat with him. It appeared, however, that such was not
the case ; it was the ice that took him
InvaYle;y aanndd taakfe
en
he had been carried several miles up and down the rivterr,
he was picked up by the harbour-master's galley
back to the Justitia.
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he has nothing to do but
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t. ni for the borough atthe
next election.