14, Rhode Island 2, Connecticut 7; 29 members-Maryland 7, Virginia 19, Kentucky 2, North-Carolina 10, South-Carolina 6, Georgia 2-46 members. 1,005,636 free citizens in the Northern States had 29 representation, and 1,221,364 in the Southern, 46 representation. Without allowing any fractions of the ratio of representation in the apportionment to the several States, and making no allowance for Slaves, the Northern States would have been entitled, by the census of 1791, to 30 representatives, and a fraction of 15,636-the Southern to 37 only, and a trifling fraction of 364. In consequence, therefore, of the constitutional representation for Slaves, the relative weight of the Northern and Southern States was only as 29 to 46, when otherwise it would have been as 30 to 37.

By the present census, the Northern States have 35 representatives, and the Southern 64, including Tennessee.1,231,672 free people, in the Northern States, have 35 rep resentatives. The Southern States, including Tennessee, have 64 representatives for 1,696,257 free people. As above, the Northern States would have been entitled by the census of 1800, to 37 members, with a fraction of 10,672; the Southern to 51, and a fraction of 13,257. It is as 35 to 64, and, were freemen alone represented, and that equally, it would be as 37 to 51. Instead of being little more than half, it would be less than two-thirds.

The five Northern States contain 1,231,672 free people, and send 10 senators; the seven Southern States 1,696,257, and send 14 senators. The Southern States, by their numbers, in proportion to those of the Northern, are entitled only to 13 senators, with a fraction of 9 parts of 123. The Middle States stand almost on the same ground with the Northern. As it respects the Senate, they are on worse ground. With a free population, but one eighth less than that of the Southern States, they have but one more than half the number of Senators.

The day is not far distant, when the Southern and Western States, will have more Representatives in Congress, and Electors of President, for Slaves only, than the Northern will have for all their free people.

DESCRIPTION OF HAMBURGH.

In a Letter from Germany to the Princess Royal of England. BY HERBERT CROFT, L. L. B.

I WRITE, madam, from a city where the well fortified ramparts are of use only for walking, and the ill-paved streets for any thing but walking; where the outside of the houses is often all windows, and the inside all entrance; where it is not reckoned unmercantile to play at billiards in the 'change time; and to pass from making a hazard for nothing, to making a bargain for many thousands; where the circulation of commerce on their universal 'change, is an inverse ratio to the circulation of air in their stove-heated apartments; where families are forbidden by law to feed their servants with salmon more than twice a week; and where they are obliged by custom to give them carp for supper on Christmas eve; where a common long wagon, with two or three stools,

makes a usual carriage for country excursions; and where a short wooden box, without a lid, and with nothing but two large bags of feathers, makes a common bed; where the bells at all the doors tell of an arrival or a departure before either can take place; and all the clocks of the churches tell the time half an hour before it arrives; where life seems to be counted by the number of pipes, (whence king James, who wrote against the sin of tobacco, would have been whiffed away in an hour;) but where the beef is improved by smoaking, whatever the men may be; where they have more than eighty physicians to keep them from, or guide them to, Charon's ferry in the next world; and almost as many bridges to save them the trouble of ferrying over. their unhealthy and baneful canals in this; where they who wish for hospitable and tempting suppers, as much as Johnson liked Scottish breakfasts, may be well content to live; and they who, after a full meal of life, wish to be pompously and temptingly carried to their last home, should contrive to die; where a female, when abroad, goes in all weathers without any thing on her head, or with a Danish hat, put on` as if she were carrying it to some one else; where the gates of the city are shut every evening, and the windows of many of the houses are not opened for weeks together; where, in private apartments, one tastes, along with the sparkling, highflavoured politeness of modern life, the full bodied, unadulterated manners of the last century; and where, in the publick cellar of the city, one drinks genuine hock, solemnly dated almost two centuries ago (1620); where all the inhabitants are wakened with the beating of cottons, on the canals, for female dresses, and where I wake for no better purpose, perhaps, than to lay all my male and female readers to asleep; where every two steps one meets travellers from all the four quarters of the world, and from almost all their different parts, and where in a week one confutes ones's own language, and does not acquire another; both which I fear this letter may prove,

But I write, madam, also, in a city which has many more things to boast of, than to be smiled at; in a city, which, though now perhaps the second in the world for commerce, exhibits a publick library, little known even in Germany, containing more than eighty thousand volumes, and many rare manuscripts; a city in which I know already more liberal, valuable, amiable, informed, and even learned characters, than I ever found any where else during the same space of time; which has such a connexion with the rest of Europe, at present, that one of its newspapers (the Correspondenten) published four days in the seven, prints ninetysix thousand copies every week; a city in which, the French revolution has enabled the resident at Geneva, under the old government, to show his good sense by becoming a bookseller; and where the literary traveller may find a regular bookseller, of whom I should say more in this letter from Hamburgh, if he were not the printer and publisher of it; a city where the late Empress of Russia was in part educated, and where Gustavus Vasa spent part of his retirement; while its sister Altona, affords a refuge, just now, to much worth and many talents, not often seen in a city which justly boasts that it has given birth, among its casks, its bales, and its packages, to such men as Hagedorn, Brockas, Gisecke, Fabricius Ehert, and Eschenpurg; which Klopstock has chosen to dignify by making it his abode for the last twenty-five years; and where a merchant, though an extensive one, (Casper Voght) displays the mind of a prince in trying every means to introduce into his country the various improvements he has found or heard of in Europe, and by studying the happiness of the poor, as if they were all his relations; a city, in short, which does not perhaps, yield to the capital of any empire in the general character of its inhabitants of every description; in the use generally made of its immense riches; in the number or nature of its publick chari.

ties; or in any thing which at all regards government. Long may it flourish, and ever may its ramparts remain as useless as they happily are at present!

CRITICISM.

SCOTT'S LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL.

ALTHOUGH this delightful work does not rise to the sublime heights of epic poetry, yet it is never disgraced by the absurdities which are to be met with in most of those which affect that name. Even Homer himself, to whom nothing has appeared as yet aut simile aut secundum, has puerilities which are only to be excused, as Horace says, by supposing him sometimes to nod; Virgil, more equal throughout, is less sublime; but was so blind an idolater of his great master, that notwithstanding the judgment for which all ages have given him credit, he even copied some of his most glaring faults. Every schoolboy can point out the bombast and feebleness of Lucan, Statius, and Silius Italicus, notwithstanding the fine and even sublime passages which are to be found in them, especially the first. Of the modern Italian Poets, Boiardo and Ariosto were writers of romance in verse, and as such, however engaging, are hardly subject to the rules of criticism. Tasso's Gierusaleme Liberata is more regular, and has many beautiful and affecting passages, but seldom rises to sublimity. The same may be said of the Portuguese Camoens, whose subject indeed is less generally interesting than the others! Voltaire's Henriaade is more approved by the judgment than the fancy. It is coldly correct, and though it cannot be denied to have beauties, few persons are tempted to search for them a second time.