per places; even the Cyprian corps (which is more than can be faid of any other corps in the army) pitch regularly, fo that no one is at a lofs where to go for the commodity required.

"The park is fometimes in the centre, and fometimes on the flanks of the camp, and the cavalry are picketed without order or regularity, around the standards of their refpective Chiefs. As to the infantry, we know not how they were difpofed of, for they are, in general, fo contemptible, as foldiers, that they hardly deferve notice.The best of them are called Gardees, of whom the Bhow has five or fix thoufand, armed, cloathed, and difciplined, in imitation of Tippoo's, at leaft fo attempted, after the European manner; their coats are of red ferge, with a blue collar and cuff, cut in the country tafte, to lap over before and tie with ftrings. Their arms, it is true, are, for the most part, English, and out of twenty, two will be found without locks, fix without cocks, and, perhaps, not a flint among the remaining twelve. Their difcipline is in much the fame ftate as their arms and appearance. In addition to the musket, most of the Gardees carry a fword or a piftol, and fuch as have bayonets, keep them conftantly fixed, which, as well as having a more warlike appearance, faves the incumbrance of a fcabbard and belt. Thefe troops, being esteemed the beft, have affigned to them the important poft of defending the park with, and near which, we believe, they generally march and pitch The Gardees were faid, originally, to have amounted to twelve thousand, but many of them have been left to garrifon forts taken by the Bhow: from which, and other reductions, about half that number would, we conjecture, be nearer their prefent ftrength.They are commanded by Gopal Punt, who is Buckthee, or Paymafter to all the infantry, and, to give our own terms to their officers, Deputy Treasurer: Chinto Punt Phirnavees, being Cafh-keeper, and fecond to the Bhow in Council; Hurry Punt Tantea, his affiftant they are all Bramins, as their names denote,

"The remainder of the infantry is compofed of finall corps of Mahrattas, Rohillas, Arabs, and motley corps; one of which, and by far the most refpectable, has already been mentioned in the occurrences before Darwar, commanded by the brave, but unfortunate, Mr. Yvon. The irregular corps of Rohillas and Arabs are, in our eftimation, by far the best infantry in the Mahratta fervice: they are armed with matchlocks, fwords and targets, or both; fome with fpears, fome with bows and arrows, and fome with altogether,”P. 82.

The eighteenth Chapter contains sketches of the character of Tippoo Saib, in which the author appears very jndiciously to avoid all prejudice, either against or for the fubject of his delineation, and to take that middle line which is generally the nearest to truth. After premifing that the arbitrary nature of the Monarchy is frequently objected as the crime of the Monarch, Lieut. Moor replies to the opinion, which even Major Rennel has countenanced, that Tippoo is detested by his own fubjects.

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Impreffed with the fame fentiments that Tippoo was, in his own country, utterly detefted, many highly refpectable perfons at the commencement of the late war, doubted not the defection of his whole army would be the immediate confequence of the approach of the confederate forces: but, in the very reverfe*, have been seen of his army, fuch instances of attachment and fidelity, as excite our admiration, or perhaps can scarcely be equalled. Without attempting to draw a comparison that might have an invidious appearance, let it be afked what troops, under fuch highly difadvantageous circumftances, would have fhewn an attachment fuperior to thofe of Tippoo?"

After pursuing this argument ftrongly, from the circumstances of conftant difcouragement under which Tippoo's foldiers, continued to fight for two years, with perfevering courage and fidelity, the author proceeds to his character as a flatefman; which, as he obferves, feems to be rendered questionable by his rafhness in provoking the English when he did: to this he answers:

"From every circumftance that has come to light, we have reason to conclude that Tippoo expected from France very powerful fuccours to fupport him in his late enterprife: the distracted state of that kingdom precluding the poffibility of fending any, may therefore be deemed the dawn of Tippoo's inaufpicious fortune; for had five thousand French been added to his army, it would have rendered the operations in the field more precarious, and the fhips attending the expedition might materially have affected our means of forwarding fupplies to different parts by fea, which, throughout this war, we did uninteruptedly. Deprived by chance of his European Ally, fortune frowned allo upon his endeavours of attaching any of the native powers of the Peninfula to his intereft; and from the great abilities of the British ambaffadors at the principal courts, the war commenced with a general confederacy in our favour; an inftance unparalleled in the annals of our hiftory in the Eaft. Had not our negociations at the court of Poona fucceeded, in gaining to our party the powerful nation of the Mahrattas, the war would have been carried on under circumstances comparatively unfavourable or had not the fluctuating councils of Hydrabad by address been fixed in our intereft, we should have found the effects of the Nizam's alliance with Tippoo more fevere than will at first be imagined probable, when their inactivity as friends is only feen, which will admit the Nizamites to no greater fhare of credit in the war, than having been of negative affiftance; it is an indulgence to allow them even that, for sometimes they were doubtless felt as an incumbrance."

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Lieut. Moor then proceeds to fhow, that notwithstanding thefe circumstances fo inaufpicious to Tippoo, and though "never was more head in planning, or heart in executing, dif

This is a faulty fentence.

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played, than by our generals and armies in this war," yet ftill we were much indebted to fortune. Inftances of this truth are then produced. Afterwards he proceeds to another part of the Sultan's character.

"We will now confider Tippoo, not as a general, or a statesman, but as the guardian to his people. When a perfon travelling through a ftrange country finds it well cultivated, populous with induftrious inhabitants, cities newly founded, commerce extending, towns increafing, and every thing flourishing fo as to indicate happiness, he will naturally conclude it to be under a form of government congenial to the minds of the people. This is a picture of Tippoo's country, and our conclufion refpecting its government."

This the author afferts further from his own obfervation. One more circumftance is fubjoined.

Tippoo yet remains to be noticed under another character; in his polítical capacity we have perhaps detained him too long; but as a meffenger from God, we have lefs to do with, and lefs to fay of him. Tippoo, not content with the reputation he must have acquired as a general, and a statesman, and not finding in military or political views, objects fufficiently exalted to bound his ambition, has, it is said, asfumed the fpecious authority of a prophet.

This although apparently fuperior to worldly concerns, is perhaps only a fecondary confideration, and meant to be totally fubfervient to fublunary projects. His fubjects, he may poffibly think, will with more reverence liften to his mandates, when fanctioned by the authority of religion; and his armies will with more awe contemplate the power and dignity of their Sovereign and General, when the abilities they admire, are annexed to the fpiritual fanctity of his character."

P.203.

The following account of the Bandjarrahs, who fupply the armies with provifions, is worthy of notice.

"This very useful clafs of Hindoos, generally, but we think improperly, called Brinjarries, have cuftoms and manners peculiar to themfelves; it is not however in our power to give any fatisfactory particulars concerning them. They affociate chiefly together, feldom or never intermixing with other tribes; they seem to have no home nor character, but that of merchants, in which capacity they travel great diftances, to whatever parts are moft in want of their merchandize, which is, the greatest part, corn. In times of war they attend, and are of great affiftance to armies, and being neutral, it is a matter of indifference to them who purchase their goods.

We obferved the Bandjarrahs feldom, either in the march, or in the camp, mixed with the Bhow's army, but they marched and formed their own encampments apart, relying on their own courage for protection, for which purpofe all the men are armed with fwords, or match-locks. The women drive the cattle, and are the most robust we ever faw in India, undergoing a great deal of labour, with apparent

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eafe; their drefs in particular, and all their ornaments fo fingularly chofen, that we have, we are confident, feen women who (not to mention a child at their backs) have had eight or ten pounds weight in metal or ivory, round their arms and legs. The favourite ornaments appear to be rings of ivory from the wrift to the fhoulder, regularly increafing in fize, fo that the ring next the fhoulder will be immoderately large, fixteen or eighteen inches, or more perhaps, in circumference. Thefe rings are fometimes dyed red. Silver, Lead, Copper, or Brafs, in ponderous bars, encircle their fhins, fometimes round, others in the form of feftoons, and truly *we have feen fome fo circumftanced, that a criminal in irons would not have much more to incommode him than thefe damfels deem ornamental and agreeable trappings on a long march, for they are never difpenfed with in the hottest weather. Å kind of ftomacher, with holes for the arms, and tied behind at the bottom, covers the breaft, and has fome ftrings of cowries, depending behind, dangling at their backs. The ftomacher is curiously ftudded with cowries, and their hair is also bedecked with them. They wear likewife ear-rings, necklaces, rings on the fingers and toes, ant In contradiftinction to most we think the nut, or nofe-jewel. Eaftern females, the Hindoos in particular, the Bandjarrahs pay little or no regard to cleanliness; their hair once plaited, is not combed or opened perhaps for a month; their bodies or clothes are feldom washed; their arms indeed are so encafed with ivory, that it would be no eafy matter to clean them. They are chafte and affable; any indecorum offered to a woman, would be refented by the men, who have a high fenfe of honour on that head, and are faid in general to be honourable in their dealings; they seem to be somewhat referved and grave. Some of them are men of great property: it is faid that droves of loaded bullocks, to the number of fifty or fixty thoufand, have at different times followed the Bhow's army; and two days before we croffed the Toombudra, Mr. Twifs informed us of a drove passed light from Appah's Sahib's army, confifting he was affured, of eighty thoufand. The men, though in general well knit, are not in appearance robuft in proportion to the women; the latter are by no means handfome: we never faw more than two or three who would, even with the aid of clean linen (an advantageous point of view, by the way, in which we never faw one) have been reckoned attracting." P. 131.

The twenty-first chapter, which gives hiftorical and defcriptive particulars of Canara and the Canareefe, comprises. fome very remarkable accounts of their women, contrasted with thofe of the Teatees. In this part the author (at p. 289.) feems to quote the hiftory of the Caliph Vathek as a genuine. oriental narrative, which we have always understood to be only a jeu d'Efprit of a young Englishman, much more commendable for genius, than for other good qualities. We cannot

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We cannot refrain from remarking that this conftant use of we, a work profeffedly written by an individual, has often a very ludicrous effect, and is altogether injudicious. Reviewers have a better excufe for it.

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ART. II. The English Anthology, Vols. II. and III. 8vo. 125. Egertons. 1794.

IF the reader will give himself the trouble to look back to our first volume, p. 95, he will fee the account which we gave of the introductory part of this elegant work. Our ob jections, however, yet remain, if not to the propriety of calling it a Selection of English Poetry in a Chronological Series, yet certainly to the editor's profeffing to have borrowed the idea from the Anthologie Francoife.

The chronological order is broken, we think, unneceffarily, for the fake of putting thofe authors apart, the exact date of whofe birth happens to be unknown. This brings Sic John Harrington after Chatterton, &c. The third volume, which is called Extracts, and which gives large portions, first from the works of Chaucer, then of Langelande, Spenfer, and others, difiniffes this overfcrupulous exactnefs, and places Langelande and Fletcher in their own age, though their exact period of birth is unknown.

It undoubtedly feems difficult to imagine how the Anthologie Francoife could poffibly fuggeft the idea of the English Anthology. The French Anthology is a collection of fongs only, with which the mufic is given in the manner which the ingenious editor of the prefent work has adopted in a preceding publication. The name Anthologia was common enough, if that was all that was borrowed. Setting, however, the objections apart, the English Anthology is entitled to much. commendation from the correct taste with which the felection is made, for the careful accuracy with which the whole is printed, for the extreme elegance and beauty which diftinguish it as a fpecimen of typography. It is, indeed, an ornament to the English prefs, and very few who are lovers either of Poetry or Printing will confent to be without it. We anxiously looked for fome original compofition, which, as we know the author to be converfant with, and to have access to curious manuscripts, we hoped to have feen, for the first time, printed in the English Anthology, Not finding this to be the cafe, we muft fatisfy our readers and our felves with the infertion of a piece eminent for its merit, but probably of lefs public notoriety than many others;

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