TH THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND LONDON REVIEW; FOR FEBRUARY 1798. PRINCE HOARE, ESQ. (WITH A PORTRAIT.) HIS Gentleman has often contributed to the public amufement. His dramatic performances, if not of the higher order, are always entertaining, free from exceptionable ribaldry, and not calculated to inflame the paffions, or debafe the understanding. From the fuccefs he has met with, we hope he may be encouraged to continue his exertions, and no longer confine himself to the province of farce; but afford the town fomething likely to confer on his name a more laiting celebrity. He is the fon of a Gentleman well known in the polite world, who refided at Bath, as a painter of confiderable eminence in that city, where he acquired both reputation and fortune. Our author is a native of Bath, and employs his pen more for his amusement than pecuniary advantage. His first performance was a tragedy, entitled "Such Things Were," acted at Bath the 2d of January 1788, and formed on the ftory of Kirk's Cruelty in the reign of James the Second, the circumstances of which are known to moft of our readers from Pomfret's poem on the fubject. When this was originally acted, Mr. Hoare was abfent at Lifbon, in a valetudinary ftate of health. On the 16th of April, his pleafant and popular comic opera of "No Song no Supper" was acted at Drury Lane, for the benefit of Mr. Kelly; and this was followed, on the 3d of May 1791, by "The Cave of Trophonius," acted at the fame Theatre, for the benefit of Mrs. Crouch. On the 23d of May 1792, he produced, at the Haymarket, Dido, Queen of Carthage," tranflated from Metaftafio, which, though aided by the performance of Madame Mara in the principal character, by the mufic of Storace, and by fplendid fcenery, met with but a cold reception. On the 11th of March 1793, his farce of "The Prize, or 2, 5, 3, 8," was acted at the Haymarket, for the benefit of Signora Storace. This piece met with a very cordial reception, and continues to take its turn each feafon at every Theatre in the three kingdoms. On the 16th of December, in the fame year, he again complimented Signora Storace with another farce, which has been almost equally ficcessful, first acted for her benefit, entitled "My Grandmother." All the fe pieces had the advantage of Storace's mufic. His next production was "Lock and Key," a musical farce, acted the first time at Covent Garden the 2d of February 1796, with great applaufe; and this was followed, on the 30th of April, by “Mahmoud,” a musical opera, acted at Drury Lane, and though produced late in the feafon, was not coldly received. Two days after, Mr. Hoare's first dramatic production was again brought before the public, at the benefit of Mrs. Siddons, the 2d of May, at Drury Lane, under the title of "Julia, or Such Things Were," in which that accomplished actress reprefented the principal character with her ufual excellence. The last performance of Mr. Hoare was "The Italian Villagers," an opera, acted at Covent Garden the 25th of April laft, in which the ferious and comic are pleatingly intermixed. So fertile a pen as this Gentleman holds, we can hardly believe will be long in repofe; we there fore doubt not but we fhall again be foon called upon to notice fome further prcductions, which we are confident will be equally entitled to the applaufe by which the bett of their predeceffors have been diftinguished. L 2 THE THE NATURE OF THE DOG. FROM THE SEMAINIER, A PARIS PAPER. WIW it be unworthy of history the hall, and crouched himself between Will it be a departure from the refpect I owe my readers, to preferve the memory of a Dog, who poured out his life with his grief upon the ashes of the man whofe hand had nourished him? A few days before ti.. 9th Thermidor, a Revolutionary Tribunal in one of the departments of the North of France condemned to death M. des R****, an ancient Magiflrate, and a molt eftimnable man, guilty, at fifty leagues from Paris, of a confpiracy, which had not exified at St. Lazare. M. des R. had a Water Spaniel, of ten or twelve years old, of the fmall breed, which had been brought up by him, and had never quitted him. Des R**** in prifon faw his family difperfed by a fyftem of terror ;-fome had taken flight, others, themfelves arrefted, were carried into diftant gaols; his domeftics were difmiffed; his houfe was buried in the folitude of the Seals; his friends either abandoned him, or concealed themselves; every thing in the world was filent to him, except his Dog. This faithful animal had been refuted admittance into the prifon. He had returned to his pafter's houfe, and found it hut. He took refuge with a neighbour, who received him; but that pofterity may judge foundly of the times in which we have exifted, it must be added, that this man received him trembling, in fecret, and dreading left his humanity for an animal fhould conduct him to the fcaffold. Every day, at the fame hour, the Dog left the house, and went to the door of the prifon. He was refuted admittance, but he epnítantly pafled an hour before it, and then returned. His fidelity at length won upon the porter, and he was one day allowed to enter. The Dog faw his matter. It was diffie cult to leparate them; but the gacler carried him away, and the Dog returned to his retreat. He came back the next morning, and every day; and once each day he was admitted. He licked the hand of his friend, looked at him, licked his hand again, and went away of him felf. "When the day of fentence arrived, notwithstanding the crowd, notwithtanding the guard, he penetrated into the legs of the unhappy man, whom he was about to lofe for ever. The Judges condemned the man; and, may my tears be pardoned for the expreffion, which efcapes from them, they condemned him in the prefence of his Dog. They reconducted him to the prifon, and the Dog, for that time, did not quit the door. The fatal hour arrives; the prifon opens; the unfortunate man pafles out; it is the Dog that receives him at the threshold. He clings upon his hand. Alas! that hand will never more be spread upon thy careffing head! He follows him. The axe falls, the matter dies, but the tenderness of the Dog cannot ceafe. The body is carried away, he walks at its fide; the earth receives it, he lays himfelf upon the grave. "There he paffed the first night, the next day, the fecond night. The neighbour, in the mean time, unhappy at not feeing him, risks himself, fearching for the Dog, gueffes for the extent of his fidelity the afylum he has chofen, finds him, carefles him, brings him back, and makes him eat. An hour afterwards, the Dog efcaped, and regained his fa vourite place. Three months paffed away, each morning of which he came to feek his food, and then returned to the afhes of his matter; but each day he was more fad, more meagre, more languishing, and it was plain that he was gradually reaching his end. They endeavoured, by chaining him up to wean him, but you cannot triumph over Nature! He broke, or bit through his bonds; efcaped; returned to the grave, and never quitted it more. It was in vain that they endeavoured to bring him back. They carried him food, but he ate no longer. For four and twenty hours he was feen employing his weakened limbs in digging up the earth that feparated him from the remains of the man he had fo much loved. Paflion gave him ftrength, and he gra dually approached the body; his labours of affection then vehemently increased i his efforts became convulfive; he thrieked in his struggles; his faithful heart gave way, and he breathed out his laft gap, as if he knew that he had found his mafter !" The day on which Robespierre was overthrown. THE THE PROGRESS OF MAN A DIDACTIC POEM. IN FORTY CANTOS, WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY; DEDICATED TO R. P. KNIGHT, ESQ. CANTO FIRST. CONTENTS. The Subject propofed.-Doubts and Waverings.-Queries not to be answered.→→ Formation of the ftupendous Whole.-Colmogony; or the Creation of the World :-The Devil-Man-Various Claffes of Beings.-Animated BeingsBirds-Fith-Beats.-The Influence of the Sexual Appetite-on Tygers-on Whales-on Crimpt Cod-on Perch-on Shrimps-on Oyiters.-Various Stations affigned to different Animals :-Birds-Bears-Mackarel.-Bears remarkable for their Fur-Mackarel cried on a Sunday-Birds do not graze-uor Fines fly-nor Beafts live in the Water.-PLANTS equally contented with their lot :-PotatoesCabbage--Lettuce.-Leeks--Cucumbers.-MAN only difcontented-born a Savage; not chuting to continue fo, becomes polifhed-refigus his Liberty-Prielt-craftKing-craft-Tyranny of Laws and Inftitutions.-Savage Life-Defcription thereof:-The Savage Free-roaming Woods-feeds on Hips and Haws. -Ani mai Food-first Notion of it from leeing a Tiger tearing his Prey-wonders if it is good-refolves to try-makes a Bow and Arrow-kills a Pig or two - refolves to roast a Part of them-lights a Fire-APOSTROPHE to Fires.-Spits and Jacks not yet invented.-Digreffion.-CORINTH.-SHEFFIELD. Love the molt natural defire after Food.-Savage Courtship.-Concubinage recommended.-Satirical Reflections on Parents and Children-Husbands and Wives-again Collate ral Confanguinity.-FREEDOM the only Morality, &c. &c. &c. WHETHER fome great, fupreme, o'er-ruling Power Or whether, fprung from CHAOs' mingling ftorin, Or CHANCE o'er Earth's green lap ipontaneous fling Confounds, refracts, invig'rates, and combines ? aces. Who rules ABOVE? or who refide BELOW ?(3) (1.-Line 3.) A modern Author of great penetration and judgment observes very Ahrewdly, that "Cefmogony, or creation of the World, has puzzled the Philofophers of ali What a medley of opinions have they not broached upon the creation of the World? SANCONIATHON, MANETHO, BEROSUS, and OCELLUS LUCANUS, have all attempted it in vain. The latter has thefe words - Anarchon ara kai uteleutaion to pan-which imply, that all things have neither beginning nor end.”—See GoLDSMITH's Vicar of Wakefield.-See afo Mr. KNIGHT's Poem on the Progress of Civil Society. (2.-Line 14.) See GODWIN'S Enquirer.-DARWIN'S Zoonomia.-PAINE.-PRIEST11Y, &c. &c. &c. Alfo the French Encyclopediites (3.-Line 16.) Quaeftio fpinofa et contortula. Let |