me, the profpect of approaching immortality robs death of all its terrors; but to you the last moments of life will be embittered by reflections more poignant than any tortures you can fuffer. The innocent blood you have fhed will be heard against you, and you will die without daring to implore the pardon of heaven." P. 34. We ftrongly recommend thefe tracts, particularly the tranflation, to the attention of our readers. ART. 48. An authentic Narrative of Facts relative to the late Difmemberment of Poland. Second Edition. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Qwen. 1795. This is a very fenfible and well written pamphlet, and evidently the performance of a perfon well informed. The tendency of the publication is to fhow what few we believe are inclined to difpute, the ambition of fome powers, the perfidy of others, and the virtue and talents of the late unfortunate Monarch of Poland. ART. 49. Letters which paffed between General Dumourier, and Pache, Minister at War, to the French Republic, during the Campaign in the Netherlands in 1792; tranflated from the Original French. By Robert Heron. 12mo. pp. 230. 35. Perth. Morifon. 1794. The editor of this volume juftifies its tranflation from the French, as it tends to prove, that "intrigue and difhoneft ambition have been from the first prevalent in the Councils of the French Republic and not lefs than in the Courts and Cabinets of Kings." The letters do indeed prove this; and they prove alfo, that Dumourier was haraffed by the envy, and thwarted in his defigns by the jealoufy, of his competitors for power and popularity. ART. 50. A Political Dictionary: explaining the true meaning of Words; illuftrated and exemplified in the Lives, Morals, Character, and Conduct of the following most illuftrious Perfonages, among many others. The King, Queen, Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Pope Pius VI. Emperor, King of Pruffia, the Tigress of Ruffa. Dukes of Brunswick, Portland, Richmond, Newcastle, Leeds. Earls Chatham, Fitzwilliam, Darlington, Spencer, lowe, Chefterfield. Lords Grenville. Mornington, Moira, Mountmorris, Mulgrave, Fitzgerald, Harvey. Judges. Kenyon, and Loughborough, Hon. Frank North. Sirs George Saville, Gilbert Elliot, Francis Molyneux, Watkin Lewes, Roger Curtis, Sydney Smythe, Francis Sykes, Richard Hill. Landgrave of Heffe, Caffel, Madam Schwellenbergen. Mers. Pitt, Fox, Burke, Dumourier, Warren Haftings, Wyndham, Powis, Dundas, Thornton, Wilberforce, Reeves, Arthur Young, George Hanger, Charles Jenkinfon, Colonel Tarleton, Brook Watfon. Aldermen, Curtis, Anderfon, Le Mefurier, Saunderfon. Bishops and Clergy. Charles I. and Louis XVI. By the late Charles Pigott, Efq. Author of the Jockey Club, c. 8vo. 175 P. 3s. Eaton. 1795. While the words in our Law Dictionary retained their proper and conftitutional fenfe, this would have been called a libel upon all or moft of the perfonages here mentioned. The fhop of D. J. Eaton, who who ftyles himself Printer and Book/eller to the Supreme Majefty of the people, furnishes ample fupplies of the fame kind, which in the prefent oppreffed ftate of the liberty of the prefs, are fuffered to circulate uncenfured. Whether the deceased Charles Pigott, was the author of this tract or not, it is worthy of his turpitude, and as he is out of the reach of profecution, his name is convenient. A fpecimen of this work will tend at least to create abhorrence of it: and all the perfons named, will, we truft, feel that it is an honour to be abufed in the fhop of Eaton, and in company with our beloved and excellent Sovereign. Nefafti dies-Thofe days wherein it is not allowed to adminifter juftice. This has been the cafe ever fince Kenyon prefided in the Court of King's Bench." Reeves-Every thing that is corrupt, flagitious, depraved, and abandoned, affociated into one human form; in competition for villainy with Loughborough, and Juftice Clerk." Royalty-The curfe of God Almighty in his wrath to man: Where this office exifts, the country is pale, fickly, and unfruitful. The poor lucklefs inhabitants miferable, melancholy, and almoft mad with defpair. Emaciated through hunger, fpiritlefs through fubjection, and depraved to the utmoft poffible by mimicking the abandoned profligacy of the Court.-See England. Majefty-This word once fignified greatnefs of mind, but fince it has been used as a title for Kings, it has of courfe acquired a contrary interpretation. It is indifcriminately applied to a Trajan, and a Louis; a Harry the Fourth of France, and a George the Third of England." Many periodical publications are daily iffued at the fame Officina Seditionis, at a cheap price, which, from their nature, do not rife to the dignity of being noticed here. But, fince they cannot, as it feems, be fuppreffed by law, we are very glad to find that a plan for counteracting them, by publishing cheap tracts, of a good tendency, has been fet on foot by the excellent Mrs. Hannah Moore, and is much patronized, at Mr. R. White's, in Piccadilly, and in other places. ART. 51. The Fence of the calm Obferver, on the Subjects of the Concert of Princes, the difmemberment of Poland, and the War with France, (first published in the Morning Chronicle, between July 8vo. 75 PP. 20, 1792, and June 25, 1793.) The Second Edition. 1s. 6d. Symonds. 1793. "Effence of Egg-fhell, Tincture of Tinder, Balfam of Broomftick." Foote's Devil on two Sticks. ART. 52. A Letter to the Right Honourable Charles James Fox. Though this elector cannot fpell, he can rant, and that, in the very jargon of the French Convention and, by the use of a modern rhe"I dare not make my torical figure called the Hibernicifm, he fays, complaints," while he is making his complaints. Even the ingenuity of Mr. Fox might be puzzled to reply to this fimple elector. ART. ART. 53. A Hint to fupply Refources for the War without additional Taxation. 8vo. 16 pp. 6d. Stockdale. The obfervations of a thinking man (Thomas Law, Efq.) urged modettly, and worthy at least of attention. They turn chiefly upon the nature and efficacy of bounties, and drawbacks allowed upon exported goods. ART. 54. The Grounds of Alderman Wilkes and Boydell's propofed Petitions for Peace, examined and refuted. By J. Reeves, Efq. 8vo. 27 pp. 15. Printed for Waiter Downes, near Fleet Street, 1795. A forgery both of the author's name and the bockfeller's, for the fake of circulating, if poffible, a few copies of a coarfe and awkward attempt at wit against the war. So low is malignity fallen ! ART. 55. Treafon triumphant over Law and Conftitution! addressed to both Houses of Parliament. 8vo. 64 pp. 25. Downes, 1795. "The following addrefs was written for the confideration of parliament on the first day of this feffions. The fubjects it chiefly endeavours to embrace, are the truth of the confpiracy-the criminality of thofe acquitted the neceffity of an alteration of the ftatute of Edward III. as applicable to Republican treafons," &c. Preface. It is certainly written with fpirit, and without any apparent dread of offending the parties attacked. In one place the author quotes Sir John Fenwick's expreffion, the truth of which, we fear, was but too fully proved on the occafion here alluded to, "that as the law of treafon ftood, he was but a forry politician, that could not ruin the government, and yet elude the flatute of treafon." P. 35. We are inclined, however, to hope that the extremity is not fo urgent, as this writer, in many pasfages of his tract, represents it. ART. 56. Thoughts on the prefent War with France: addreffed to all Ranks of People in Great Britain. 8vo. 19 pp. 6d. Faulder, 1794. A difpaffionate and fenfible difcuffion of a popular topic, replete with arguments tending to foothe the mind to patience, under the calamities of a neceffary war. ART. 57. Afhort Review of the principal Events of the Campaign, 1793. 8vo. 34 pp. 1s. Owen, 1794. The contents of this pamphlet exactly tally with its title, and it has the appearance of an accurate journal of events, as they took place in the year 1793. But it is a mere lift of dates, without detail or narrative annexed. ART. 58. Original Correspondence between Generals Dumourier, Miranda, Pache, and Beurnonville, Minifters of War. fince January 1793. Including the Orders of General Dumourier to General Miranda, from the Invafion of Holland to the Overthrow of the French after the Battle of Nerwinden. Tranflated from the French, published by General Miranda. 8vo. 136 pp. 2s. 6d. Owen, 1794. From this correfpondence we trace the conduct and motives of Dumourier to a certain point, perhaps more clearly than from his own memoirs. The fanguine hopes, the blind temerity of that commander difcovered in his letters to Miranda fufficiently mark the gafconading invader of Holland. But we find in this collection a confidential letter from Miranda to Dumourier, and, twelve days after that, one from the fame General to Petion, intimating fufpicions with regard to Dumourier, for which no juft grounds appear. We do not mean to say that this diftruft was unreafonable, but that the correl pondence throws no light upon that particular part of Dumourier's conduct, on which the world looks moit eagerly for information. ART. 59, Good Senfe: addreffed to the British Nation, as their preeminent and peculiar Characteristic, in the prefent awful Crisis of War, of focial Existence, exhibiting the actual and eventful State of various Nations. By John Stewart the Traveller. 8vo. 124 pp. 2s. 6d. Owen, 1794. Mr. Stewart's Good Senfe is known fo exceedingly to refemble the nonfenfe of other people, that it will not be very neceffary for us to give a fpecimen of it. Yet, if the reader would know to what his efforts tend, let him take it in the words which conclude the preface: "The philontopift moving progreffively on the fcale of good fenfe to the index of felf-knowledge or manhood, makes the end of the philofopher his mean to procure univerfal good, or univerfal truth, to all exiftence, in unity of co-eternal effence, co-eternal energy, and coeternal intereft." Though we are inclined to say that Mr. S. means well, we might be much puzzled by the awkward question, what does he mean? ART. 60. Better late than Never! an impartial Review of Mr. Pitt's Adminiftration, on the Ground of Refponfibility, during the prefent War. To which are added, Curfory Remarks on the two left Campaigns, the whole being a full Elucidation of Mr. Pitt's new Way to conquer by Degrees. By An Enemy to the War on its original partial Principles, but a fincere Well-wisher to the King and Conftitution of Great Britain. Addreffed to the Hon. Charles Jenkinson. 8vo. 70 pp. Is. 6d. Johnfon. 1794. "Woeful would be the hour (fays this author p. 18) fhould circumstances fo combine, as to render the influx of ttock commodity fuperior to the means of liquidation. Nor is an event, fo truly fatal to the credit of the nation, impoffible or unlikely." &c. It is in fuch prophetic ftrains as thefe, that this and many other of our most exalted patriots, our molt fincere well-wishers to the King and Conftitution of Great Britain, delight to cheer their countrymen, at a feafon which they are pleafed to fay is calamitous beyond example, and threatened with the vifitation of increafing difafters. So dearly as their country must be beloved, by thofe who with fuch tendernes and anxiety brood over her impending ruin, we cannot but compaffionate the pangs which they muft feel, who, through a publication of feventy feventy pages have been found to deny themselves the gratification of paying her one compliment, but who have been compelled to devote every line to the recapitulation of paft, or the anticipation of future evils. As we know, that in their patriotifm, they have exaggerated their recapitulations, fo we trust they may, through their folicitude, have been unfounded in their anticipation. The author of the pamphlet before us is a patriot of this fevere and difinterested caft ; fo that, devoted to his country alone, he comes like Brutus, to contemplate with calmnefs the execution of vengeance upon objects which muft naturally be most dear to him. But let him remember, that what in Brutus was not univerfally called Roman virtue, will certainly not in thefe days be univerfally confidered as British patriotifm. ART. 61. Hints to Oppofition, in a Letter to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox. 8vo. IS. Pridden. 1795. This writer questions the motives of the Oppofition, of which Mr. Fox is the oftenfible head; and particularly reprobates the treatment which the Attorney and Solicitor Generals received, in confequence of their conduct in the late State Trials. ART. 62. Memoirs of M. Danton, late Minister of Fuftice to the National Convention, who fuffered by the Guillotine, Saturday, April 5, 1794. To which are added, Genuine Anecdotes of M. RobeSpierre, late Leader of the Revolutionists in France, who was guillo tined July 28, 1794. 8vo. 50 pp. IS. Allen and Welt. 1794. The gleanings of newfpaper information, which will probably bring but little difappointment on the reader, as they will excite in him but little expectation. ART. 63. Speech of William Adam, Efq. in the House of Commons, March 10, 1794, on moving for the production of certain Records, and for an Address to the King, to interpofe the royal Justice and Clemency in behalf of Thomas Muir, Efq. and the Rev. Thomas Fyfhe Palmer. 8vo. pp. 117. 2s. 6d. Debrett. 1794. Throughout this Speech there is an appearance of much learning, and there is certainly much eloquence and ingenuity.-But though Mr. Adam affirms, in p. 99, that he had shown or proved all the points he undertook to argue, yet he failed to convince the House that he had done fo; for all his motions, except one, were negatived, and that without a divifion. He is certainly however entitled to the praife which he claims, of having preferved a calm and difpationate temper of mind; and they who were not convinced, had yet no cause to be offended, either by his arguments or his language. In the conclufion of his Speech, Mr. Adam explains, in a very unexceptionable manner, his motives for bringing this question before the Houfe. Among other things, he fays, it was not "from a defire of promoting a reform in the reprefentation of the people in parliament. My opinion in oppofition to fuch a plan (notwithstanding my attachment to the refpectable friends around me who fupport it) has been uniformly the fame. It refts in a firm perfuafion of the danger and inefficacy |