and from many occafions of war; and the fcope and encouragement which their plan of government affords to the exertions of genius and induftry, &c. The oration abounds with excellent advice to cultivate industry, frugality, and temperance, to promote domestic union and harmony, and to encourage the univerfal diffufion of know. lege.

From the prefent ftate of America as reprefented in this oration, the European governments may gather many useful hints for the neceffary improvement of antient eftablishments.

Art. 18. The Speech of Mr. Smith, of South Carolina, in the House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, on the Reduction of the Public Debts, December 1794. 8vo. Is. Debrett.

1795.

In perufing this piece of incorrect oratory, the following remark particularly truck us:

After a furvey of the ftate of our burdens, a picture which, however únavoidable, and the neceffary price of our liberties, was still an unpleasant one, it must be highly gratifying to every patriotic eye, to furvey the interefting picture which the prefent ftate of our revenues exhibited. The beauty of this picture was confiderably heightened by contrasting it with the gloomy fcenes difplayed in the old world, where the great and powerful nations of Europe were heaping burden upon burden on their diftreffed fubjects, and exhaufting their refources and their ftrength in a conflict the most bloody and obftinate that history had recorded, while this happy country, under the aufpices of peace and the fmiles of Providence, was encreafing in its population, its commerce, and its ftrength in a progreffion which outran all calculation.'

The above paragraph may ftand as a reply to many reports which have been induftrioufly circulated in Great Britain, refpecting the actual public circumftances of the government of North America, under the United States.

SCHOOL BOOKS.

Art. 19. Walkinghame's improved Arithmetic; for the Ufe of Schools: put into a more eafy, ufeful, concife, and methodical Form than any extant. 12mo. 25. fewed. Knott. 1794.

This book of arithmetic, in its prefent improved ftate, appears to be very well adapted to the purpofe of teaching fuch parts of arithmetic as are most useful in bufinefs. Rules and questions of a lefs practical nature are omitted, and the former part of the book is confiderably enlarged, and difpofed in a more advantageous form.

Art. 20.

The Conjugation of French Verbs, regular, and irregular, fimplified, on a Scheme entirely new. By J. Evans. Svo. 6d. Faulder. 1795.

In order to expedite the learning of the French verbs, Mr. Evans prefents the public with two tables. In the firft, by an ingenious arrangement of the terminations, the four conjugations are nearly reduced to one. The fecond points out the coincidence of the variable parts in the fame tenfe of different conjugations, and in different tenfes

of the fame conjugation. An ufeful table of irregular verbs is added; and a confiderable portion of elementary matter is here, very conveniently for the learner, brought within the small compass of half a sheet.

ARTS.

Art. 21. The Art of Etching and Aqua Tinting, ftrictly laid down by the most approved Matters. With a Specimen of Landscape and Profile. By F. Yrubflips. 12mo. Is. Barker.

By the directions here given, Mr. Yrubflips profeffes to enable amateurs in drawing to tranfmit their works to pofterity:' at least we may allow that the practice of the elegant art here recommended, even when merely intended for amusement, is both innocent and ingenious, and fo far laudable:-much more fo than the filly boy's play of attempting to difguife a name by the tranfpofition of the letters which compofe it, fo (for inftance) as to transform Spilbury into YRUBSLIPS!

LAW.

Art. 22. An Account of the Proceedings on a Charge of HIGH TREA SON, against John Martin, Author of the following Works, 1. An Inquiry into the State of the legal and judicial Polity of Scotland* ; 2. A Letter to the Earl of Lauderdale +.' 8vo. is. Smith, &c. Mr. Martin's narrative is introduced by a copy of his discharge from the King's Bench prifon, by a warrant of Privy Council t; at the foot of which he adds the following paragraph;

The proceedings of my profecutors against me being at an end, it now becomes a duty which I owe to MY COUNTRY, to lay before THE PEOPLE the proceedings of thofe to whom the Administration of the Government is intrufted, in a cafe in which THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE are so much involved. It is a duty which I likewise owe to MY COUNTRY, and to MYSELF, to endeavour, in a judicial way, to punish the profecutors of these flagitious proceedings, and to obtain fuch redress for the injuries which I have fuftained as by THE LAW I am entitled to.

• THESE DUTIES I SOLEMNLY PROMISE TO PERFORM TO THE UTMOST OF MY POWER.

• May 8, 1795-'

The narrative itfelf contains many very remarkable particulars; affording a ftriking proof (if any such proof were wanting) of the narrator's abilities.

Art. 23. The Laws refpecting Wills. Teftaments, and Codicils, and Executars and Adminiftrators, laid down in a plain and easy Manner; in which all technical Terms of Law are familiarly explained; and in which the Statute of Wills, and fuch Parts of the Statute of Frauds and Perjuries as relate to the Subject of Devifes, are particularly confidered and expounded. Collected from the feveral Reports and other Books of Authority, up to the Commencement of the present Easter Term 1795. By the Author of the Laws re

*See Rev. N. S. vol. x. p. 217.

The warrant is dated May 6, 1795:

+ Ibid. vol. xiii. p. 84.

fpecting

fpecting Landlords and Tenants, and the Laws refpecting Masters and Servants. 8vo. pp. 110. 25. Clarke. 1795.

This treatise is intended to compose the second divifion of the work announced to the public, under the title of Law Selections.-The treatifes noticed in articles 25 and 26 are other parts of the fame plan. We are of opinion that the present fubject is of too important and com. prehenfive a nature to be confined to fuch fmall limits, and that many particulars of great confequence are omitted, necessarily indeed, from the reftricted plan of the undertaking.

Art. 24. The Oeconomy of Teftaments; or, Reflections on the Mifchievous Confequences generally arifing from the ufual Difpofitions of Property by Will. Written by Mr. John Cranch, of Kingsbridge, in Devonshire; and published, with a Preface, by William Lang. worthy, of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. 12mo. IS. Dilly. 1794.

These reflections were addressed to a private individual, for whose use they were written, and to the circumftances of whose case they were applicable.

Art. 25. The Larus refpecting Landlords, Tenants, and Lodgers, laid down in a plain and easy Manner; and in which all technical Terms of Law are familiarly explained; together with many practical Directions concerning Leafes, Affignments, Surrenders, Agreements, Covenants, Repairs, Wafte, &c. Demand and Payment of Rent, Diftrefs, and Ejectment, as collected from the feveral Reports and other Books of Authority, up to the Commencement of the present Hilary Term 1795. With an Appendix of Precedents, &c. &c, The Second Edition, enlarged and improved, 8vo. PP. 120. 25. Clarke. 1795

We recommended in our xvth vol. N. S. p. 201. the first edition of this work, as an ufeful compendium of an important branch of the English law. The author informs us that he has introduced into this edition all fuch Determinations relative to his Subject as have fince occurred, and has added others, which had before escaped his observation.-We think that the present treatise fhews diligence and attention. Art. 26. The Laws refpecting Mafters and Servants, articled Clerks, Apprentices, Journeymen, and Manufacturers. Comprising as well the Laws refpecting Combinations amongst Workmen, as all other Matters relative to Mafters and their Servants. Laid down in a plain and eafy Manner; and in which all technical Terms of Law are familiarly explained. Collected and digefted from the feveral Reports and other Books of Authority, up to Eafter Term 1795. Together with an Appendix of Precedents, &c. &c. By the Author of the Laws refpecting Landlords and Tenants. 8vo. pp. 110. 25. Clarke. 1795.

The author confiders this subject under the divifions of menial or domeftic fervants, apprentices, journeymen, workmen, and labourers; and this treatife (compendious as it is,) will be found useful to that clafs of readers for whofe benefit it was chiefly compiled. .

Art. 27. A Report of an Action brought in his Majefty's Court of King's Bench, by William Middleton, of Stockeld Park, Efq. against

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John Rofe, his Groom, for Criminal Converfation with Clara Louifa Middleton, the Wife of Mr. Middleton, Taken in Shorthand by J. H. Blanchard. 4to. 35. 6d. Robinfons. 1795.

Thefe proceedings were had in the fheriff's court, Feb. 28, 1795. The adulterous intercourfe being fally proved, the jury brought in a verdict for the plaintiff-500l. An introductory difcourfe is given, in which we have a fhort fketch of the proceedings of the Spiritual Court in the fait for a divorce (till pending) between Mr. Middleton and his wife.' Explanatory notes are also added.

POLITICS, &c.

Artr 28. Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between his Britannic Majefty, and the United States of America; by their Prefident, with the Advice and Confent of the Senate, Nov. 19, 1794. 8vo. IS. Debrett. 1795.

As this is an authentic copy of the treaty, and as its xiith article has occafioned, fince the treaty was figned, fome degree of diffention among the citizens of the United States, we had refolved to copy that article into our Review, for the fatisfaction of fuch of our readers as may be attentive to the fubject: but, on a second perufal, we find it too long for our purpose, and must therefore content ourselves with a bare reference to the pamphlet.

Art. 29. The Prompter: Political and Moral.

In Effays, Characters, and Anecdotes. 8vo. 6d. Parfons, &c. 1795. Those who expect to find much valuable matter in fix-penny-worth of ante-minifterial politics will in courfe be disappointed, and nobody can be to blame but themfelves. Here are a competent number of ufeful hints and fuggeftions, on common though important topics; as juries, the liberty of the prefs, the fpirited manner in which magna charta was extorted from King John, fock-jobbing, &c. &c. On these and various other heads, the good people of England are here prompted to guard well their moft invaluable interefts.

Art. 30. Declaration of the Principles and Plan of Parliamentary Reform, recommended by the Society of the Friends of the People. 8vo. 6d. Printed for D. Stuart, Secretary; and fold by all Bookfellers. 1795.

To the great object of parliamentary reform, fo much defired, and fo much dreaded, by oppofite parties, this declaration again calls the attention of the public. It fates with great perfpicuity, and with great candour, a plan which promifes to embrace the two leading ends of reformation, the protection of the property of the wealthy, and the fecurity of the freedom of the inferior claffes. Although the Society of the Friends of the People admit the general right of voting in elections to be common and perfonal, they acknowlege it to be neceffary that the exercife of this right should be subject to fome qualification; and they are willing to accede to fuch reftrictions as may not be inconfiftent with the independence of the houfe of commons. The heads of their plan are as follow:

ift. That every houfeholder inreat Britain, paying parish taxes, except peers, fhould have a vote in the election of one member of parliament.

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zd. The election of the whole reprefentation of the kingdom fhould be made at the fame hour, and on the fame day.

3d. The fame principles and proceedings, which are propofed for England, to be followed in Scotland, and every folemnity obferved in the conduct of the elections, in both kingdoms, which can tend to make it grave, serious, and respectable.

4th. That wages fhould be paid to members ferving in parlia ment, and not holding offices under the crown, not by the particular divifion for which they are elected, but out of the revenue of the public, for the general intereft of which the conftitution intends them to ferve.

5th. Suppofing all the preceding measures to be adopted, and not other wife, we then are of opinion, that a general election for the whole kingdom might be conducted without tumult or expence, and completed in a few hours; that every fair and honeft objection to shortening the duration of parliaments would be removed, and that in future the elections might be triennial, biennial, or even annual, as they were in former times. Members of parliament, who acted faithfully, would generally be re-chofen : but it is neither fafe nor conftitutional to leave any reprefentative very long out of the reach of his conflituents.

This plan appears to promife the restoration of the popular part of the British conftitution to its juft efficiency, and confequently the correction of many public evils: but the great difficulty is, how to carry this or any fimilar plan into effect, without involving the nation in confufion; and of this difficulty the prefent declaration offers no fatisfactory folution.

Art. 31. An Addrefs to the King, moved in the House of Lords by the Earl of Lauderdale, June 5, 1795 with Notes and Authorities. 8vo. 6d. Ridgway.

Notwithstanding that the fate of this important movement in the upper house of the British parliament, in favour of a negociation for peace, is well-known, an authentic publication of the form of the propofed addrefs cannot but prove acceptable to many readers; efpecially on account of the notes, authorities, and references to the exifting ftate of the war, which throw lights on the facts and reprefentations brought forwards by the noble mover. That the motion was unfuccefsful, is a circumftance which cannot leffen the merit of a wellintended endeavour to bring the miseries of a moft deftructive war to a speedy termination.

Art. 32. A Political Dictionary; explaining the true Meaning of Words; illuftrated and exemplified in the Lives, Morals, Characters, &c. of illuftrious Perfonages. By the late Charles Pigot, Efq. Author of the Jockey Clubs, &c. &c. 8vo. 3s. 6d. Eaton. 1795. A pofthumous fatirical production of the ingenious but licentious writer mentioned in the title.

SPECIMEN.

Alarm, the torfin of delufion :-a pretext for profecutions, unconftitutional augmentation of the army, the introduction of foreign troops, barracks, &c.'

Alarmits,