European Magazine, For AUGUST, 1807. [Embellished with, 1. A Portrait of SIR SAMUEL HOOD, K.B. And, 2. A View of EAGLEHURST, HAMPSHIRE.] Printed by J. Gold, Stee-lane, Fleet-street, FOR JAMES ASPERNE, At the BIBLE, CROWN, and CONSTITUTION, Persons who reside abroad, and who wish to be supplied with this Work every Month, as published, may have it sent to them, FREE OF POSTAGE, to New York, Halifax, Quebec, and every Part of the West Indies, at Two Guineas per Annum, by Mr. THORNBILL, of the General Post Office, at No. 21, Sherborne-lane; to Hamburgh, Lisbon. Gibraltar, or any Part of the Mediterranean, at Two Guineas per Annum, by Mr. BISHOP, of the General Post Office, at No. 22, Sherborne-lane; to any Part of Ireland, at One Guinea and a Half per Annum, by Mr. SMITH, of the General Post Office, a No. 3, Sherborne-lane; and to the Cape of Good Hope, or any Part of the East Indies, at Thirty Shillings per Annum, by Mr. Gur, at the East India House. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS. We some time since received a letter, complaining that a number of publichouses, to the amount of NINETEEN, were licensed in WHITECROSS-STREET, in the Finsbury division of the county of Middlesex, and six in the same street, we think, by the magistrates acting for the city. We have inquired into the circumstance, and find that the writer is correct; but we also find that no NEw license has been granted on that or any other spot to which the writer alludes for a great number of years; and it is curious enough to observe, that while, as we see by the newspapers, complaints have been urged that licenses are withheld in the WEST, we should have complaints that they are too freely granted in the NORTE: both classes of which are, in our opinions, equally futile, unfounded, and absurd, and seem to have arisen from the same source, viz. the zeal, attention, and correctness, with which the magistrates in the county of Middlesex, the city liberty of Westminster, &c. &c. have executed that IMPORTANT branch of their duty, the licensing and inspection of public-houses within their several districts. We are extremely obliged to "A Constant Reader of the European Magazine" for his suggestion: the portrait of the gentleman to whom he alludes would do credit any publication, to to ours. and If our cor and be particularly agreeable respondent can assist us in obtaining it, we will take care to have it immediately engraved. Shall we venture to say to one of our correspondents, "Haud your hond, mon?" We are sure that he must, upon reflection, be convinced, that if we were to print all that he sends, we should have no room for any other articles. We are obliged to F. E. for his generous zeal to serve us: but mediocrity in quality cannot be compensated by superabundance in quantity. However we may disappoint this worthy correspondent by withholding articles of his from our readers, he must allow us the privilege of judging for ourselves. D. I. C.'s lines are not poetical enough for insertion.-J. D.'s fall under similar verdict. a Poverty; the Adjudication of Prizes at St. Petersburg; and the Latin Specch delivered at the Hague, are unavoidably deferred till our next. We shall be much obliged to TRAFALGARIUS for his promised favours, A View of the Population of Paris in our next. ERRATA in our last Magazine. The reader is desired to correct in the second plate, Selim II. to Selim III. Page 3, col. 1, lines 16, 17, for with machinations read with THE machinations. Essex Kent Sussex Suffolk 4, col. 1, line 12 from bottom, for sin read Jew. 6, col. 1, line 17, for furnished read PURCHASED. ib. col. 2, line 29, for its read HIS. AVERAGE PRICES of CORN from August 8 to August 15. MARITIME COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barl. | Oats Beans 70 641 4 36 129 10 42 0 Bedford 142 INLAND COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barl. | Oats Beans 78 249 739 434 1051 3 80 446 840 034 052 0 74 843 039 927 643 0 74 154 039 028 144 11 041 9 038 636 036 022 940 9 Juntingdon 69 1000 Cambridge 71 751 4 Leicester 0 45 78 600 86 1100 000 035 900 0 Nottingham 78 446 0 42 Durham 77 600 036 629 544 0 Hereford 9 29 1044 6 000 055 0 4 29 951 9 031 649 0 029 1051 9 5 30 1063 1 831 11 00 0 10 31 11 48 10 036 049 1 80 000 000 Chester Somerset Devon Cornwall Gloucester 78 500 036 434 752 5 Warwick 81 500 037 223 246 0 Wilts Monmouth 75 400 000 000 000 0 Berks 81 500 040 131 700 Oxford 85 200 040 11 24 1000 0 Bucks 79 252 039 033 952 2 74 400 035 232 248 8 74 500 037 450 647 10 Dorset 79 400 039 400 000 0 WALES. 74 1000 035 031 0499 N. Wales 69 S. Wales 74 400 038 0/23 400 0 0100 034 200 000 2200응이 THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND LONDON REVIEW, FOR AUGUST, 1807, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SIR SAMUEL HOOD, K.B. K.S.F. and M.P. [WITH A PORTRAIT.] "Then ardent rise! Oh! great in vengeance rise! THE HE ancient philosophers, who upon every important occasion were fond of combining human events with mythological presages, have more than once remarked, that the rotations of the wheel of fortune, with respect to families, always run in the same track; and have, in many instances, endeavoured to prove, that the descendants have always inherited the virtues and the valour of the other branches of their parental lineage. Without attempting more accurately to examine this general proposition, we shall in the instance before us implicitly adopt it, and in consequence state, that it is fully verified in the race from which the naval hero whose portrait we have the pleasure to present to the public is descended; the representatives of the family of Hood have, while they have exalted the honour of the British flag, identified their name with those of the illustrious sharers in the naval glory of their country, whom to this hour we lament, and in whom we at present exult. Sir Samuel Hood was born in November 1762. His grandfather was the Rev. Arthur Hood, of Dawlish, So mersetshire, elder brother of the fathers of Lords Hood and Bridport. His fa THOMSON. ther was the late Mr. Samuel Hood, of Kingsland, in the parish of Netherby, Dorsetshire. His elder brother, Arthur, was unfortunately drowned in his Majesty's, sloop Pomona, which foundered in a hurricane on the Leeward Island station, in 1775; and his second brothe Alexander, captain of the Mars, was killed on board that ship, in an action with l'Hercule, on the 21st April, 1798. From these genealogical particulars, it appears that Sir Samuel Hood is second cousin to those two illustrious admirals, and not, as has been most generally understood, their nephew. About the age of fourteen he commenced his nautical career, in the usual course, as midshipman, under the protection of Lord Hood, who at that period (1776) commanded the Courageux. He seeins to have shared in an equal degree the protection of both his noble relatives, for after his first initiation he removed to the Robust, then com manded by Captain Hood (Lord Brid port), where he remained until the year 1779. While in this ship, he was in the engagement which concluded with the capture of two French frigates, the Pallas and the Licorne. On the * June 17 and 18. Vide NAVAL CHRONI CLE, vol. i. p. 273; and vol, vii. p. 293, |