A Life of the celebrated Judge Jeffreys is announced. The scanty memoirs which have been yet published concerning this extraordinary person are confined entirely to a view of the vicious part of his character, and do not canvass the actions of his impetuous career with the impartiality due to history.

Shortly will appear, The Diary of a Member in the Parliaments of the Protectors, Oliver and Richard Cromwell, from 1656 to 1659, now first published from the Original Autograph Manuscript in the possession of Witham Upcott, of the London Institution. Interspersed with several curious documents and notices, historical and biographical, by John Towill Rutt, Esq. This work will include a variety of original papers, and particularly the Minutes of the Parliamentary Debates, which now, for the first time, fill that chasm, which has been so often lamented as existing in one of the most important parts of our national history. The whole is designed, and we think will appear well calculated to throw additional light on this highly interesting period. The new facts and arguments contained in these volumes, will serve especially to develope, more clearly than any previous pu cation, the project of Cromwell for the assumption of the royal dignity, the real extent of his power as Protector, the manner of its administration, and the rapid decline and speedy extinction of that power under the short protectorate of his son.

Mr. Buckingham, the Eastern traveller, has a new volume in the press, on Mesopotamia. It is now a very long period since we have had any account of this interesting region, either from Englislı or foreign travellers. The present work will, we understand, contribute greatly to supply this desitcratum in our department of modern travels, Mr. Buckingham's journey commences at Aleppo, from whence he proceeds to cross the Euphrates at Bir, the Birtha of the ancients; from thence over the plains of the Turcoman Hordes at the foot of Mount Faurus, to Urjah, a large Turkish city scarcely at present known, though hardly inferior in size to Smyrna or Aleppo, and containing the inters esting remains of the Edena of the Greeks, and the Ur of the Chaldees, near Haran, the place to which the patriarch Abraham repaired from Ur, the city of his birth, at the command of God. From Urjah, Mr. Buckinghain journeyed to Diarbekr, a Turkish city in the heart of Asia Minor; from theuce to Mardin, and across the plans of Sindjar, through the ruins of Nisibis, a celebrated station of the Greeks, and the great city, Mosul; visiting also the remains of Arbela, the scene of the celebrated battle of that name, the ruins of Nineveh on the Tigris, and those of Babylon on the Euphrates, the Tower of Babel, and otlier objects of ancient celebrity and interest. The journey ends at Bagdad, the most renowned among the cities of the East.

Sir Jonah Barrington, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Ireland, has announced an autobiographical work, to be entitled Personal Sketches, being in substance his own individual recollections of distinguished personages, remarkable events, high lite, and Irish manners, for the last fifty years. The following valuable work will soon appear; namely, The Correspondence of Henry Earl of Clarendon, and Laurence Earl of Rochester. Accompanied by Lord Clarendon's private diary from 1687 to 1690, comprising minute particulars of the events attending the Revolution. The greater part now first published from the originals, with Notes by S. W. Singer, F.S.A. Illustrated with portraits, copied from the originals by permission of the Right Hon. the Earl of Clarendon, and other engravings.

An Indian romance, entitled The Natchez, by the Viscount Chateaubriand, is printing in French and English. Report speaks highly of this forthcoming work, which is said to be in every respect worthy of the eloquent author of Atala.

A Life of the eminent Dr. Jenner is in preparation by Dr. Baron, who attended him in his last moments. By the will of Dr. Jenner, his executors were directed to deliver all his papers to Dr. Baron, with a view to the fulfilment of the testator's wishes that this gentlemau should become his biographer.

Truckleborough Hall. The satire of this new novel is not, we understand, confined, as is usual in

works of this description, to the ridicule of any particular party, but glances sharply at all, from the advocate of passive obedience to the low and absurd radical. Many well-known schemers in polities, (servile Tories, inconsistent Whigs, wild retormers, and reverend hunters after the good things of this lite), are brought upon the taps, and exhibited in situations, by the contemplation of which, it is hoped that themselves will be edified, and that readers in general will be amused.

Mr. Boaden's Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Siddons, will be published in a few days.

Mr Cooper (the Walter Scott of America) author of The Spy, The Pilot, and other popular works, has announced a new romance, to be called The Prairie.

A work of a very extraordinary description is spoken of as being in preparation. It will be entitled Richmond, or Scenes from the Life of a Bow Street Officer; drawn up by himselt trom his private memoranda.

In the press, the Traveller's Oracle, or Maxims for Locomotion; being Precepts for promoting the Pleasures, Hints for preserving the Health, and Estimates of the Expenses of Persons Traveling on Foot, on Horseback, in Stages, iu Post Chaises, and in Private Carriages.

"Mirth and motion prolong life." By William Kitchener, M.D. Author of the Cook's Oracle, &c. &c. &c.

And shortly will be pablished, as a companion to the above, The Horse and Carriage-keeper, and Hackury Coach Hirer's Guide; containing rules for purchasing and keeping, or jobbing houses and carriages, in the easiest and most economical manner, with accurate estimates of every expeвсе остаsioned thereby. Also an easy plan for ascertaining every Hackney Coach Fare. By John Jervis, an Old Coachman. Revised by Dr. Kitchener.

Shortly will appear, in three vols, post 80. Stories from the Old Chronicles; with Essays and Historical Notes. This work will illustrate the manners, and narrate many of the wild and chi valrous adventures of the Middle Ages.

The author of Gilbert Earle has announced Tales of Passion, to consist of three volumes.

The New Edition of Burke's Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage will soon appear under the most favourable auspices. The Editor has received, in the hand-writing of nearly every titled personage in the kingdom, detailed particulars connected with the genealogical history of their families; so that the forthcoming edition of this work may be resorted to as furni-bing the only undoubed information to be obtained on these ponts.

Mr. Surr, the popular author of A Winter in London, is engaged on a new novel, which it is expected will appear soon after Christmas.

The Military Sketch Book, written by an Officer of the Line, is in a state of forwardness. It will furnish an amusing companion to the Naval Sketch Book.

A new work of fiction, to be entitled Tales of an Antiquary, chiefly illustrative of the Traditions and Remarkable Localities of London, may soon be expected. It will be in three Volumes post 8vo.

The Chronicles of London Bridge, winch have been so long in preparation, are now announced to be published in the course of next mouth. This work will comprise a complete history of that ancient edifice, from its earliest mention in the English anuals, down to the commencement of the new structure in 1825.

The First Part of a Series of One Hundred and Ten Engravings in Line, from Drawings by Barun Taylor, of Views in Spain, Portugal, and on the Coast of Africa, from Taugers to Tetuar, will appear in December, and be continued regularly every two months. Besides a letter press descrпр tiou to accompany each plate; the tour in the order of the author's journey, commencing at the Pyrences, will be inserted in the last two numbers.

Mr. Faraday has in the press an Octavo Volume, to be entitled, Chemical Manipulation; containing instructions to Students in Chemistry, relative to the methods of performing experiments, either of demonstration or research, with accuracy and success. It will be illustrated with numerous engravings of apparatus, in wood.

1826.

THE HONOURABLE CHRISTOPHER HELY

HUTCHINSON.

The Hon. Christopher Hely Hutchinson (late member for Cork) was the fifth son of the Right Hon. John Hely Hutchinson, by his wife Christiana Baroness of Dononghmore. His father was, perhaps, the most gifted, certainly one of the most remarkable men of his day in (reland. Unlike the generality of his countrymen, though he had inherited a good paternal property, and by his marriage became possessed of an estate of six thousand a year, he followed, with the utmost zeal, his profession of the law, which was in those times the pursuit offering the greatest facilities for the display of talent and the acquirement of distinction. To Mr. Hutchinson it was at once lucrative and honourable, by enabling him to realize fourscore thousand pounds at the bar, and to fill the office of prime serjeant; subsequently to which he was, at the same time, Provost of the University of Dublin, Privy Seal, and Secretary of State for Ireland. Hisson Christopherhad consequently from his early youth all the advantages that are derived from rank, fortune, and high consideration. His mother was an immediate descendant of Colonel Hutchinson, - Governor of Nottingham Castle, and seemed to have inherited much of his talents, firmness, and piety. It was no doubt owing to her example, and to the influence of a happy home, that her son first received the impression that remained indelible, that happiness was only to be found in the domestic circle. His education was conducted on the most liberal principles, combining the advantages of private and public tuition. He gained various academic honours in the University of Dublin, where he took a degree, and was much distinguished in the historical and debating society so deservedly esteemed at that time, but since, unfortunately, dissolved. During the vacations of the college he was sent, with two of his brothers, to travel on the Continent, with their tutor Mr. Adair, a gentleman of considerable learning and ability. Mr. Hutchinson had always the greatest desire to enter the army, which indeed subsequently proved to bave been his natural vocation; but he was unfortunately not permitted to choose his own line, but sent to the Temple to study the law-a profession the least suited to his character. He was, however, called to the bar in 1792, and at the close of the same year, married the young and beau

tiful daughter of Sir James Bonnel. In January, 1795, Mr. Hutchinson came into Parliament for the borough of Taghmon, vacant by the death of his father. This entrance into public life was during the memorable period to Ireland of Lord Fitzwilliam's administration. The appointment of this nobleman was by no one hailed with higher hopes for the welfare of his country than by Mr. Hutchinson, who warmly supported measures dictated by the most enlightened policy, and was one of those who deeply deplored that distinguished viceroy's recall, and anticipated its fatal consequences. He of course entered into the most decided opposition to the government under Lord Camden, - sanguinary and relentless, worthy only of the dark ages, unparalleled in modern history. In the memorable debate on the Catholic question, in the summer of 1795, Mr. Hutchinson made a most impressive speech; and, immediately after, as his eldest brother, the late Lord Donoughmore, supported the government on other questions, and was displeased at the independent line Mr. Hutchinson had adopted, he vacated his seat.

The spring of the following year plunged him in the deepest affliction by the loss of his wife, who died of a consumption, leaving him an only son, the present candidate for the representation of Cork. A prey to immoderate grief, and mortified by the political state of his country, Mr. Hutchinson retired wholly from public life, gave up his profession, and lived with his infant son in the greatest privacy at the Black Rock near Dublin. From this state of inaction he was roused by the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1798, when it became incumbent on every gentleman to espouse one side or the other. Perhaps Mr. Hutchinson thought with Mr. Fox, that after the conduct that had been adopted, rebellion to an Irishman must be a question, not of right but expediency, and considered the government as the real instigators of that rebellion, and even sympathised with and honoured the feelings of some of the leaders. But sufficient proof had transpired of the sanguinary intentions of others among them to shock every humane mind. Besides, Mr. Hutchinson, though an enemy to oppression, was a friend to order, and attached to the principles of the British Constitution; only insisting that its blessings should be extended to his countrymen. But when, in this instance, they took up arms on what appeared to him insufficient grounds, he thought that they should not be treated with, but put down, and afterwards every effort made to redress their grievances. Accordingly he enrolled himself in the lawyers corps, one of the military associations for the protection of Dublin, in which gentlemen of the first families performed the duties of common soldiers. He was conspicuous for his zeal and loyalty, while he made the most strenuous and often successful efforts to rescue various victims from the merciless system of flogging and torture, so disgracefully exhibited at Beresford's riding-school, and in the Castle-yard of Dublin, under the eyes of the first officers of the state. In the August following, the French landed on the coast of Galway, in which district General Hutchinson commanded. His brother Christopher immediately joined him. After a partial success at the battle of Castlebar, the invaders laid down their arms at Ballinamuck, where Mr. Hutchinson received the swords of two generals under rather singular circumstances. General Cradock, Admiral Pakenham, Colonel Crawford, of the Hompesch dragoons, and Mr. Hutchinson, who accompanied the staff of the Viceroy, Lord Cornwallis, commanding in person the force which marched against the invaders, volunteered to reconnoitre; and at the distance of about three miles from headquarters, suddenly fell in with the whole of the French troops-they gave themselves up for lost; but Mr. Hutchinson directly rode up to Generals La Fontaine and Sarrazin, telling them he was followed by a force it would be vain to resist, and demanding their swords, which, strange to say, were instantly delivered up. But when more than an hour elapsed before Lord Cornwallis's army appeared, General La Fontaine perceived the deception that had been put upon him, and struck with the intrepidity and presence of mind Mr. Hutchinson had displayed, exclaimed, "Pardi, mon Colonel, cela ne se fait pas deux fois." On the title of colonel being disclaimed, and that of a civilian acknowledged, the general replied, "Monsieur a donc manqué sa vocation!" Lord Cornwallis, as a mark of respect to Mr. Hutchinson, entrusted the prisoners to his care, and on the third of September, 1798, he conducted them to England. About this time commenced his attachment to the lady he afterwards married, and who still survives him. In the ensuing year the union between Great Britain and Ireland was proposed in Parliament, a measure which Mr. Hutchinson ever regarded with abhorrence. It is

well known that the general feeling in Ireland was strongly against the Union. Innumerable pamphlets were written, and meetings convened to oppose it. At one of these, of the lawyers corps, the legality of the measure was discussed; the debate ran high. Mr. Hutchinson observed that it was idle to argue the question, which was not one of expediency but force; and calling the attention of the meeting to the manner in which Government had strengthened its hands, and to the number of regiments which had been brought over, he proposed a resistance at the point of the bayonet. The proposal not being seconded, he withdrew in disgust, and soon after quitted Ireland, determined

never to return.

In the following autumn, General Hutchinson having been appointed to the unfortunate expedition of the Helder, Mr. Hutchinson, who had ever been extremely attached to his brother, and passionately fond of a military life, volunteered to accompany him. He acted as his aide-decamp (though the present General Taylor held that station) and was at his side when his lordship was severely wounded at the battle of Altmar. The Duke of York, and the officers of that expedition, formed a high opinion of his military talents; and Lord Hutchinson, in a letter to Mrs. Hutchinson, on his return to England, wrote, "My brother returns, poor as he went, but covered with the glory of the campaign. The whole army do him justice. He has taken the greatest care of me in my wounded state, and attended me with all the tenderness of a woman." Such was his nature, for never was on earth a more rare combination of every manly quality with every kind and gentle feeling. He returned from Holland in November 1799, remained in England till the ensuing May, when he again volunteered with Lord Hutchinson, who was appointed second in commaud on the memorable expedition to Egypt, under Sir Ralph Abercromby. In Sir Robert Wilson's account of that. campaign, he makes honourable mention of Mr. Hutchinson, whose conduct during the whole time, and under circumstances of great delicacy and difficulty, is too well known to all the distinguished officers engaged to be here dwelt upon. Suffice it to say, that Lord Hutchinson had the greatest confidence in him, which was repaid by the most important services. Upon his lordship's elevation to the peerage, the representation of the city of Cork became vacant, and Mr. Hutchinson was unanimously chosen to succeed him. He accordingly returned to England in 1802, and took his seat in the first Impe