The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-06-15 00:00:00

rns EDINBURGH REVIEW.

[nine nit " eult.aort.enta winos.")
Whohar it be tree or not, that this celebrated
Journal it on the decline, no. thing is certain, that
It no longer merits the influence whieh it formerly
possessed. The well-trained band of its original con.
. it itors oppress ro hasebeen broken up, and the new,
:Permits to s.pply the ascent posts, has. neither tho
nrength nor the shill of their predecessors. There
sits • time slew all tne articles appeal:A to be
relines by the same hand, and when pith and signer
were their predominant charecterieks. list, in
the latter 'timbers, we Inns either a dell and
prolix disquisition of matters eat the sett
terming, or a bombastic tad incomprehensible
thensody In faner of some stupid book. The
.F4ffter; ton, bat been spoiled. listing acquired a
vernation, ha thinks It easy to etelotsie it; and, is.
strpJ of rellectieg oneself,. and writing with shale
rare sad a little modesty, he dined, tiff • few loan.
I.nt and seperlicel peregesphs, and seams to imagine,
that the reader. eheformerly,yeilded to his logic,
4111 now obey his aerthosity.
'7The-Edintsairgh Review has ecessinnally professed ,
sow. friendship far this &sudsy ; bet the avowed
atislistotehesmility of Mr. Gifford is mach lens It.ja-
-eritis J oar tihareeter than the "civil wars," the
and sapercllloss advice of Mr.
ltiffray. N•inber, for instance (61), there
la in ankle Ilion AlaffilllOU travellers, and a more
rant and resnemptlble Milne of tittle-tattle. never
friereareb.strete.—" [Attester., the Amen.
awl Nse cone—ao native Mestere, we seen. it
1; Of imparted. They bed a Franklin, sod way
Mel to lire half a teatery on his name. There is,
or wash Mr. Disight, who wrote some poems; and
hitlmptinnel name was Tinsnitty There is also an
Account of Virginia by Jefferson (for the sake of
vniformity of style and at the learned lie.
viewer should have said ' ono Jefferson.); ass Epic,
by Jail Barlow ; and some pieces of pleasantry by
Mr. Irving. list why should the Americans woke
b•siks, when • sit weeks' passage brings them in
theist awn teems oar sense, scieace, and genies, iu
bales end hogsheads."
And Alien sappossis apart of the" sense,science,
end pules," which we import by the hogshead ! It
is antainly anyone& ansalaitirm to write In • style
like this ; and we will even attempt to imitate so
este a pattern of " lease" sad', Relies." And there
tau • man whom they call Jeffrey ; and his bop-
tinsel name was Francis. And Francis voysged
into a far reentry, sad did melt with meth
people, and with many rail leases. And Francis
did marvel at the people ; and the people did
marvel at Francis.—Aitd Francis was
afore time trusted in • decent kind ; and being re.
eeived as • Gentleman, he (lid straight way conceive
himself a god. And be did play divers tricks before
high heaven, and is the face of tbe People. And
the People were disgusted with Fennel' anti Francis
nes disgusted with the People. And Francis did re-
turn unto his own land, aid did bud that his shadow
was short as of afore time. And the People of the
far reentry did reason with oat another.
mint a serree:dosettinli se 1. to take

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