at times still beams in his eye, and irradiates his countenance. Dr. B. has refrained from visiting the metropolis for some years: he was formerly accustomed to repair thither almost every summer, sometimes making a journey by land, and sometimes, by way of variety, preferring a voyage by sea. He now resides constantly at Aberdeen during the winter, and contents himself with a short excursion to the Wells of Peterhead* towards the beginning of autuinn. "Is there a heart that music cannot melt? He needs not woo the Muse; he is her scorn. The sophist's rope of cobweb he shall twine, Mope o'er the schoolman's peevish page, or mourn, Sneak with the scoundrel fox, or grunt with glutton swine." * Peterhead, the occasional residence of some of the nobility, and many of the northern gentry, during the summer months, appears to have been always a favourite spot, both with Dr. Beattie and his son, the latter of whom has celebrated the place in an Alcaick ode; here follows a specimen: “ AD PETRIPROMONTORIUM INVITATIO. "QUICUNQUE Nostis turbida gaudia Tuti quieti pectoris otio, Silentio qui ruris urbem Post habuisse tumultuantem: "Queis sana sono in corpore mens placet; Excelsa quorum corda vel evehit Sublime, As his health is not yet completely re-established, Dr. Glennie at present superintends his class; but the author of this article is happy to learn, from a Subline, vel mulcet Venustum, "Hic fundit urna divite nam Salus Dat querulum liquida unda murmur," &c. "INVITATION TO PETERHEAD. "YE, who for sweets that never cloy Can quit wild pleasure's toilsome strife; For rural peace, and silent joy, Can quit the storms of city life : Whom languor, or whom pain, alarms, Who seek a mind from trouble freed, On nature's mild or awful charms Who gaze in rapture; hither speed. "Here Health her baths enlivening tide, And fountains sparkling nectar pours; Fields fluctuate in flowery pride, While cool gales fan the quiet shores. "What, though for us no tainted breeze Along the vocal thicket rove ;* No rivulet glance through whispering trees, Th' expanded plain health joys to tread," &c. *There are no woods in the neighbourhood, and very few trees. gentleman gentleman who saw and conversed with him some time since, that he has recovered from his late indisposition, has become once more cheerful, and is in full possession of all his faculties. May he long continue to testify his indignation against 66 Pyrrho's maze and Epicurus' stye," and exclaim now as heretofore: "Hence! ye, who snare and stupify the mind, Hence to dark Error's den, whose rankling slime HIS EXCELLENCY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL THE HON. SIR JOHN HELY HUTCHINSON, Knight of the most noble Order of the Bath, Commander in Chief of the Army of Egypt, &c. NO spot of equal, or even of ten times the size, on the face of the habitable globe, hath produced so many celebrated naval commanders as have been born within the narrow bounds of the British empire. The genius of our nation was never directed towards large standing armies, or a system of military tactics, on a grand scale: the love of liberty, inherent in the inhabitants of these islands, has always rendered them jealous jealous of the first, while an enlightened policy has until of late precluded the second. From the continental wars of our Henries and our Edwards we only reaped a barren glory; while the shining victories obtained during the reign of Anne have led to a gigantic national debt, taxes that appal even the most inconsiderate, and fiscal regulations that may in the end sweep away all our boasted privileges, and spread desolation through the land. It is but little wonder, therefore, that Britain being in some measure a nursery of seamen, we should boast of many scores of able and intrepid Admirals, while so barren bave we been in regard to great Generals, that we have scarcely any more than one single solitary instance of a man of genius * being placed at the head of our armies since the glorious period of the Revolution. It indeed falls to the lot of but few either to be born with, or to acquire the talents necessary for command; and of these few it is absolutely necessary, on one hand, that they should possess the singular good fortune which produces favourable opportunities for exertion, and the family connexion and influence on the other, without which it is dif ficult, if not impossible, to attain high and eminent situations under our mixed form of government. None of these, however, appear to have been wanting in the person of the present Commander in Chief of the Army of Egypt; and indeed, by a happy union The Duke of Marlborough. of of all, he has contrived to burst forth like a meteor, and to attain high honours and great celebrity before the conclusion of a single campaign. Sir John Hely Hutchinson is a native of Ireland, having been born in Dublin on the 15th of May 1757. His family is a very ancient one, and, like most of the old race, paid dearly for political attachments, it having forfeited a tract of country containing forty thousand acres. His grandfather, Mr. Hely, was an attorney of some eminence: his father, the Right Hon. John Hely Hutchinson, a man of trenscendant abilities and insatiable ambition, changed the paternal hame, in consequence of a marriage with a rich heiress*, and occupied high situations in the country that gave him birth. He commenced his splendid career as an advocate, and realized 80,0001. at least as a lawyer. In 1774 he attained the lucrative and honourable situation of Provost of Trinity College, Dublin † ; and three years after (in 1777) succeeded Philip Tisdale, Esq. as Secretary of State, in which capacity he may be said to have been the first Irishman who for centuries has governed Ireland . In return for the *The addition of Hutchinson was assumed on, or soon after, his nuptials with Miss Nixon, the daughter of Nixon, Esq. of Murry, in the county of Wicklow, niece and heiress to the latė Richard Hutchinson, Esq. of Knockloity. On the death of Francis Andrew, Esq. Until the seals were deposited with the nobleman who has possession of them at present, there is no instance upon record of an Irishman having presided in the Court of Chancery. 1801-2. I i opulence |