tant to the immediate interefts of the State, as that entitled War in Difguife. It is attributed now to Mr. Stephen, of whofe very able pen it is well worthy. The fubject was followed up by Mr. Brown, of Great Farmouth, who in a tract, entitled the Mysteries of Neutralization †, illuftrated and confirmed the pofitions of Mr. Stephen, by many new facts.

The remaining articles before us are of very different defcriptions; on the means of fecurity and defence, on internal arrangements, on general principles, or those of particular branches of policy. On the means of National Safety we have noticed a tract, written by Mr. John Botoles, with his ufual uprightness of intention, foundness of argument, and vigour of style. His vigilance is always alive, ne quid refpublica detrimenti caperet; but unfortunately without the authority conveyed by those words to the ancient confulate of Rome. On National Defence, in à military point of view, two authors have written with much ability;Mr. Macdiarmid §, whofe Enquiry extends to two large volumes, in which much is well fuggefted, and much, in our opinion, liable to great objection; and an anonymous writer, who confines his Observations || chiefly to the Volunteer Force. The principles of Politics are well laid down in a work tranflated from the French, we understand, by Col. Macdonald. It is entitled an Effay on Sovereign Power, and the doctrines of the original are ftrongly confirmed and ably illuftrated by the tranflator **.

With respect to internal arrangement, Mr. Nolan has written with diftinguished ability, on that great national object, the Poor Laws tt; which work would indeed have belonged to the clafs of LAW, had we found materials to constitute fuch a divifion. On the

* No. I. p. 29. No. VI. p. 637.

+ No. IV. p. 444.
No. I. p. 82.

** The Original was noticed in British Critic, ft No. IV. p. 423.

No. VI. p. 657.

No. III. p. 310. vol. xxiv. p. 96.

Highlands of Scotland, and particularly on the Emigration to long prevalent in thofe parts, Lord Selkirk * has well employed his pen: and the difcuffion, though not exhausted, is materially illuftrated by his obfervations. The Letters on the Commiffariat, by the late Mr. Havilland Le Mefurier †, though confined to a limited fubject, evince ability and knowledge in it, and may be confulted with advantage, though the worthy author is no more.

COMMERCE.

As a work of great magnitude and labour, we must not omit to mention Mr. Macpberfon's Annals of Commerce; though we could have wifhed to find in the. author fome qualities which appeared to be wanting, and to expunge from the book fome blemishes which we were obliged to remark. To write on ancient commerce no author is fo qualified as the author of the Periplus, mentioned in a former fection §, the learned Dean of Westminster. On a fingle but eminently important branch of the Hiftory of Commerce, the Commerce of Great Britain, a valuable tract has been compofed in German, by Dr. Charles Reinhard, and tranflated into English by Mr. Savage. On, or rather against, that difgraceful branch of British Commerce the Slave Trade, now fpeedily, we truft to be abolished, Mr. Clarke, Prebendary of Hereford, has written with vigour and effect; particularly in oppofition to a man whofe general profeffions ought to have confined him to the fame fide of the argument.

The work of Mr. Marfball, on the Landed Property of England **, though not without a taint of opinions too prevalent with writers on that fubject, is certainly deferving of attention, as an elementary book, and contains much practical information.

No. IV. p. 375. No. V. p. 566. III. p. 301. IV. p. 363. § TRAVELS, p. viii. ** No. I. p. 89.

P. 326.

No. IV. p. 446.

No. II. p. 173.
No. 111.

PHILOSOPHY...

No book of its kind has been more generally approved than Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects, in various branches of Philofophy: we rejoiced therefore to fee it in a new Edition, with many important acceffions, from the pen of Mr. Brewster *. A ftandard book, as this is, muft, from time to time, be accommodated to the actual ftate of fcience. To the labours of Drs. Irvine, father and fon, the philofophy of Chemiftry is deeply indebted; and the volume of Essays † will not only record their difcoveries, but will lead to many more, of which they have difclofed the fources. Botany, a pleafing and popular branch of natural Philofophy, is enriched by the knowledge which Mr. Dawfon Turner has collected, on the fubject of the British Fuci, and we shall hope to fee the cognate and equally obfcure genera of Algæ, Ulvæ, and Confervæ, illuftrated by the fame Enquirer.

Number, rather than magnitude or importance, has lately characterized the productions of this clafs. Out of that number, we shall felect a few, more entitled to notice than the reft. Of thefe, one of the moft confpicuous is the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London §, which has now arrived at a fixth volume. It is a volume of felect contributions, many of which are extremely valuable. Next to this may be placed, the Modern Practice of Phyfic by Dr. E. G, Clarke, a book containing more information than is ufually comprifed within the fame compafs. Dr. Willan's work on Cutaneous Difeafes is ftill in progrefsion, and maintains the character it originally acquired,

*No. V. p. 465. No. V. p. 504.

No. VI. p. 644.
No. VI. p. 673. 1

No. IV. p. 370. No. III. p. 260.

from

from the correctnefs of its delineations and defcriptions. Dr. Haygarth has given a volume of no great extent, but of more than proportionable value, which he calls a Clinical Hiftory of Difeafes*. As the materials for continuing the work are confeffedly in his hands, the public may hope, with us, to fee it further extended. A treatise on the Diseases of the Stomach, particularly useful to young practitioners, has been published by Dr. Stonet; and Collections on the Medical Effects of Cold, by Dr. Stock T. Both thefe authors may be confulted by students with advantage, but not too implicitly followed. A fenfible Effay, though anonymous, entitled Expofitions on the Inoculation of the Small-Pox and of the Cow-Pox §, may serve to remove fome of the errors lately circulated, with but too much fuccefs, on both these subjects.

A small volume on Hemorrhage, by Mr. Jones, is the only furgical work of any value that has lately paffed through our hands.

A curious hiftory of the Plague at Marfeilles has been tranflated from the French of M. Bertrand, by Mifs Plumbtre; but in a medical point of view it contains little information, except that which is but too common in the history of epidemic difeafes; that many different Phyficians employed various methods and remedies, with equal confidence, and equal want of fuccefs.

POETRY.

The premature death of the elegant and ingenious Profeffor Carlyle was the subject of lamentation to all the friends of literature; his pofthumous Poems ** while they further juftify that regret, form alfo a new monument of his tafte and genius, promifing to be

coeval with his former productions. The merits of Nelfon, and the demerits of the man who commands the land of Europe, as Nelfon did the feas of all the world, are most poetically displayed in a little poem, entitled Ulm and Trafalgar. We long to mention the author, for the fake of his well-earned credit; but we are not authorized to do fo. Very congenial in feeling, and not far remote in other points, is the anonymous Monody on Mr. Pittt. Of this alfo we could perhaps point out the author; but the celebrators of departed patriots are not always to be encouraged to declare themfelves. The Woodman's Talet, by Mr. Boyd, the approved translator of Dante, is, as well as his other poems in the fame volume, extremely worthy of our notice. The Progress of Refinement, by the Rev. W. Gillespie §, is a poem of no finali merit; and his other compofitions, in the fame volume, prove him equally fuccessful in various ftyles. The Alexandriad is an attempt, not devoid of poetical powers, to celebrate the prefent Emperor of Ruffia. The author will probably proceed to other compofitions, and will then take courage to difclofe his name. Chaplet is a mere collection, but cheap and comprehenfive; and contains poems of merit, not fufficiently known, as well as a few of fuch general fame, that few perfons can have occafion to perufe them.

The

The drama is, as ufual, unproductive; but Mifs Joanna Baillie refcues it from oblivion, by her Mifcilaneous Plays**, and affords a fpecimen of genius, which few writers will emulate, and not one in an age Turpass.

NEW EDITIONS.

Spenfer, though praifed with fufficient liberality, has long wanted an edition, which fhould at once give

* No. V. P. 547. No. IV. P. 432. **No. I. p. 22.

+ No. III. p. 313. ‡ No. VI. p. 6ic.

No. VI. p. 667.

No. H. p. 185.

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