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Vict. Bills. Navy and 34 d. Ditto. Tickets. Lottery for Acct. Consols Omnium. Irish Irish THE LITERARY PANORAMA. FOR NOVEMBER, 1806. · Report of the Arrangements which were made for the internal Defence of these Kingdoms, when Spain, by its Armada, projected the Invasion and Conquest of England; and Application of the wise Proceedings of our Ancestors to the present Crisis of public Safety.-Not published. 8vo. pp. 420. THE duties of government are more extensive and diversified, than those who are not immediately concerned in their execution can imagine. Shakespeare says well: The slave, a member of the country's peace, Enjoys it; but in gross brain little wots, What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace, Whose hours the peasant best advantages! HEN. V. When the commonwealth is threatened, the public officers of the state must meet tho-e threats, at their personal peril; and must discharge the duties of their offices with promptitude, zeal and intelligence, or subject themselves to the reproaches and hatred of their contemporaries, to the execration and contempt of posterity.-Late events have roused the spirit of this country to exertions which exhibit no symptoms of declining empire; whatever some atrabilious politicians foreboded. An examination of what the power and patriotism of Britain has effected under our own observation, compared with those efforts that distinguished the brightest period of our national history, and days which we are taught to look back upon as eminently glorious, forms no weak antidote to that despondency which a few ill-informed minds or hypocondriac constitutions, have rather harboured than indulged, rather obscurely suggested, than openly acknowledged. We consider ourselves, therefore, as being very much obliged to a Right Honourable Friend who has favoured us with an opportunity of consulting the curious compi ation announced in the present article, VOL. I. [Lit. Pan, Nov. 1806.] We understand that his Majesty conceiving the situation of his dominions lately to resemble in many respects that which issued so fortunately for England in the days of Queen Elizabeth, directed proper researches to be made for ascertaining the principles and preparations adopted at that period. Accordingly, the records in the Tower were consulted; and a selection of papers, apparently of the greatest consequence, was formed, and printed, but not published. They are classed in the order of external alliance, internal defence, military arrangements, and naval equipments. They are preceded by a stateinent of facts in the History of Eu rope, at the period of the Spanish Armada, and a sketch of events, shewing the effects of the Queen's measures, at home and abroad. It is very properly observed, that in 1588, the state of Scotland, as a neighbour, and perhaps, a rival, of England, constantly required a watchfulness and attention, which had a weighty influence on operations in the south. A portion, larger or smaller as exigencies were estimated, yet still a por tion, of the English force was of necessity, attached to the northern counties, and the expense attending it was an unavoidable contingency, and felt as such by the exchequer. The internal situation of England itself was unsettled; in as much as the minds of many were averse from the establishment of protestantism, and retained no small egard for that manner of worship, which their fathers had transmitted to their posterity as the only mean of salvation of this persuasion the invader was the professed support and patron. The head and visible representative, to whom all who maintained this worship looked up with unbounded veneration, was, if not the instigator, yet the well-wisher of this attack on our island, had consecrated it by I : 64 is blessing, and had bestowed on it the title of Invincible." Ireland too, acknowledged the Pope as its head, in religious matters; and dreaded nothing more than his anathema. Philip of Spain was the only enemy whose power could be thought formidable to England. His army was decidedly the most inured to arms, the best appointed and disciplined of any in Europe; it was already in Flanders, was commanded by the first General of the age, ready to act, and willing to pour its myriads on the shores of its devoted prey. The of Philip was vast and unrivalnavy led; he was at that time the great naval power of Europe; and his ports on the Continent, opposite to the most convenient landing places of England, gave him every advantage that could be desired. His influence with the catholic party in France was great; his resources in Europe and the Indies were immense; his national strength, his political dexterity, his personal character, induced the whole continent to conclude that England was most certainly overmatched, and that the hour was come, in which she must yield to an implacable and triumphant enemy. History relates with rapture the event of that perilous period: and from this æra we may date the progressive But what propower of the British Navy portion of the then existing evils to be provided against by authority, is in activity at the present moment? Scotland is LO longer a separate kingdom, but a horde of auxiliary heroes: the protestant succession is established in Britain beyond removal, and the political ascendancy of the catholic religion is an event whose probability makes no man's heart ache; the power of the Pope is the shadow of a shade, his consecrations or his execrations are regarded with the mere gaze of uninterested curiosity. Is the navy of Bonaparte equal to the navy of Philip? neither in reputation, power, nor skill: Are his troops superior to those which had long been hardened to service in Flanders? man for man they are inferior: and their very numbers, is their disadvantage in a project of invasion. The ports he possesses, are the same as Philip possessed; but their advantages are not increased during the lapse of ages; on the contrary, their essential strength is abated; and their relative strength is comparatively in a state of decay, if not of decrepitude. Neverthe less there are many points of comparison which attach uncommon interest to whatever is recorded concerning the Spanish Armada; we, therefore, coincide perfectly with the object for which this selection was corimanded; and cannot help think ing that the dispositions of our forces in modern days, are at least equal in skill as they are superior in the spirit of enterprize, tothose which were so happily crowned with success in the sixteenth century. We shall consider the volume before us in two points of view: first, as a collection of historical documents narrating an important event in British History; an event in which we ourselves are interested not only as antiquaries, as critics, as general readers, but as men and Britons, as Patriots and Pailanthropists, as Protestants and Christians. Under a second point of view, we shall take occasion to compare the relative strength of this country in population, and other resources, as it was in the days of the valiant heroine who "though she had but the body of a "weak and feeble woman; yet had the "heart of a king; and of a king of Eng"land too; and thought foul scorn, that "Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Eu rope, should dare to invade the borders "of her realms :"-with its present state, under a monarch who announced to Parliament his intention of unfurling the royal standard, and sharing the dangers as well as the honours of his country. We shall first introduce specimens of the writing and manners of the age; including the judgment of our great naval officers, as to the duty of enterprize and activity against the enemy. There is a kind of English Bull-dog growling, in Lord Howard's letter, which seems to express in a manner perfectly natural, a persuasion that he had suffered the loss of a great victory: Sir Francis Drake's style is more lively. The difference in size between the Spanish and English vessels, as described by the English fugitives is very striking. Lord Howard's Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham. Sr. 15th June, 1588. WITHIN three houres, after I had written my letter, which herewith I send you, I receaved your letter of the 9th of this present, by a pursuyvante, which letter I doe not a litle mervaile at; for therby you signifie, that Her Ma'tie perceavinge, by a letter I sent you, heretofore, that I was mynded to goo on |