an operation therefore to reduce it is impolitic and dangerous, while cutting it off would attack the principles of life.

The remedy which I thall propofe for putting a stop to the dangers that threaten Great Britain, will no doubt have the effect of augmenting the fize of this excrefcence, but the body to which it adheres, will receive a much greater increase of ftrength for fupporting it, and finally be required to give a lefs quantity of nourishment for its exiftence, which can only terminate with their mutual diẞolution.

I repeat, therefore, that it is not the reimbursement of a capital, but the folidity and regularity in the payment of the intereft, which produces public credit in Great Britain, and that the ufe of this credit may, and ought to be substituted inftead of taxes, in order to pay the peace establishment.

'I affert moreover, that this substitution will increase population, confumption, induftry, and trade; and of course augment the annual produce of the remaining taxes to a much greater degree, than is neceffary on account of these additional loans.'

As we cannot agree with this author, that the national debt is an excrefcence inherent to the conftitution, we must totally dif fer from him with refpect to the expediency of leaving it for ever unreduced. He has the addrefs to deliver his plan in a manner which counterfeits the appearance of fcientific enquiry; but he feems to have mistaken for a real principle, a phantom which his imagination has started in the wilds of hypothetical fpeculation. The fyftem propofed in this Effay may be comprised within a very narrow compafs, and fpeaks a language to the following effect. Upon no public emergency, ever impose any new taxes, but fapply the hands of government plentifully with loans, and let the intereft of the money be paid out of the produce of the old taxes, which by this policy will prodigiously increase.' But we would ask the anthor, where are men to be found who will advance money to the public upon the foundation which he mentions? Let him produce fuch men before the chancellor of the exchequer; and then, and not till then, his propofal may be admitted as practicable.

The Propofed Reformation in Parliament confi ered. By John Taylor, A. M. 8vo. 15. 6d. Rivington.

This fpeech was delivered, in part, at the county-meeting held at York, January 1, 1784, when the freeholders had convened for the purpofe of deciding with regard to the propriety of a parliamentary reform. Mr. Taylor, in oppofition to the prejudices of those who favoured the popular fide of the queftion, argues ftrongly against that meafure, which he combats with a variety of objections. His difapprobation is expreffed not only by argument but ridicule; a circumftance which, at the fame time that it evinces his zeal, affords a fufficient reafon for the fpeech having been delivered only in part.

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Thoughts on the Freedom of Election. By John Burnby. 8vo. 6. Wilkie.

A moft fuperficial and defultory production, which feems to have owed its origin entirely to the fallacious vanity of author fhip.

We have been all in the Wrong. Svo. 25. Debrett.

This is the production of a friend to Mr. Fox's Eaft India bill, and to the public meafores which occafioned the diffolution of the latt parliament. The author's prejudices appear too evidently to be questioned; and the subject is no longer a matter of any general concern.

The Parliamentary Guide; or the Members' and Ele&ors' complete Companion. 8vo. 75. Stockdale.

We are here presented with a historical account of the feveral cities, counties, and boroughs in Great Britain; their right of election; when they were first reprefented in parliament; the number of voters in each place; and a recital of the various ftatutes relative to the election of members, and the fucceffion of parliaments from the Refloration, beside several other articles. The collection is intended for the ufe of members and electors; and to fuch it is likely to prove acceptable.

A Key to the Parliamentary Debates. 8vo. 15. 6d. Debrett. The production of fome political wag, neither deftitute of humour nor acuteness.

The Commercial Regulations with Ireland explained and confidered, in the Speech of the Right Hon. Mr. Orde, in the House of Commons in Ireland. 8vo. 15. Debrett.

This pamphlet confifts of the fpeech of the right hon. Mr. Orde, upon opening the fubject in the houfe of commons in Ireland; with an authentic copy of the Propofitions, and of the obfervations made upon them by the committee of mer chants and traders of the city of London. According to the reprefentation of the committee, which is fufliciently known to the public, thofe Propofitions have been cenfured as pernicious to the trade of this country.

Mr. Pitt's Reply to Mr. Orde. 8vo. 15. Jarvis.

This is faid to be a correct abstract of the fpeeches of thofe right honourable gentlemen, as delivered in the different fenates of Great Britain and Ireland, on the fubject of the new commercial regulations. The defign of the compiler is to fhow, from a contrait of the two fpeeches, that the British minifter, to favour the reception of the Propofitions, held a different language in each country.

To guard against Mifreprefentation, &c. 8vo. 15. Stockdale. This pamphlet contains what is faid to be an Authentic Statement, faithfully extracted from the Report of the Committee of

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the Privy Council, appointed by his Majesty for the Confideration of all Matters relating to the intended system of ComInerce between Great Britain and Ireland. To the Statement are added Obfervations, addreffed to the Merchants and Manufacturers of Great Britain, which, to thofe who think them well founded, muft afford very ominous apprehenfions.

A Short View of the Proposals lately made for the final Adjußment of the Commercial Syjiem between Great Britain and Ireland.. δυο. IS. Stockdale.

In this pamphlet are delineated the gratuitous conceffions made in favour of Ireland by lord North and Mr. Fox; the effects that have refulted from them; and the extentions now propofed by ftipulation. From the whole, the author draws a favourable inference with regard to the propofed regulations.

The Arrangements with Ireland confidered. 8vo. 25. Stockdale. The propofitions relative to the commerce beween Great Britain and Ireland are vindicated by this author difpaffionately, and with much force of argument.

Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council, appointed for the Confideration of all Matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations. 8ve. 25. Almon.

This Report relates to the two following Queftions, referred to the committee by his majesty's order in council of the fourteenth of January laft, viz. firft, upon the propriety of reducing the duties payable in Great Britain on the importation of goods, the growth and manufacture of Ireland, to the fame rate as the dutics payable in Ireland, on the importation of the like goods, the growth and manufacture of Great Britain. Secondly, what references [preferences] are now given to the importation of any article, the growth, produce, or manufacture of Ireland, by any duty or prohibition on the importation, ufe, or fale of the like article from foreign parts; and how far it may be the intereft of Great Britain, in future, to continue or alter the fame. The evidence exhibited in this pamphlet, feems from its nature to be the most fatisfactory that can be obtained, relative to the effect of the intended commercial regulations between Great Britain and Ireland; for it conveys the genuine fentiments of a number of manufacturers, unconnected with each other, and apparently untainted with the prejudices which have fo much infected many of the writers and fpeakers on this subject.

Flans for reducing the extraordinary Expences of the Nation, and gradually paying off the National Debt. By G. Box. 800. IS. Sold by the Author.

Though Mr. Box propofes a variety of fchemes for alleviat ing the public burthens, yet unfortunately they require the interpofition of additional taxes. By the objects of taxation which he fuggefts, the poor may not be affected immediately;

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bit, from the complicated operation of taxes, an impoft on any one article never fails, in time, to increate the price of every other; on which account, we fufpect that our author's plans, however well intended, might rather prove fallacious than ferviceable.

Confiderations on the Advantages of an improved Syftem of Finance.. 4140 25. Wilkie.

The author of this pamphlet fets out with condemning the policy of taxing articies of manufacture during the operations they undergo previously to their being completed; and recommends apparel and food, as more fuitable objects of taxation. On this principle he propofes that taylors fhould be licensed; that they should collect from their customers five per cent on' plain cloaths, feven and a half per cent. on filk mixtures, and ten fer cent. on filk and embroidery. That they should stamp "their work, and fwear to their books; that mantua-makers and milliners do the fame. He likewife propofes that butchers take out licences in the fame manner; that they tax their meat a halfpenny a pound, and fwear to their books.

Original Papers relating to the Rights and Pretenfions of the Nabob of Arcot, and the Rajab of Tanjore, and to the Demands of the British Subjects on the Nabob of Arcott. 8vo. 25. Debrett.

Thefe Papers confist of extracts from the late act of parliament relative to the rights and pretenfions of the nabob and rajah; to which are fubjoined other official documents on the fame fubject.

Repost from the Select Committee appointed to examine the Reports of the Directors of the East India Company, 8vo. Wilkie.

15. 6d.

In the courfe of this Report, we meet with many acute remarks, calculated to evince that the circumstances of the company do not warrant the expectations held out in the reports of the Directors.

The Report r, or the Subflance of a Debate in the House of Commons, May 10, 17851 8vo. 15, 6d, Walter.

The idea of this pamphlet appears to have been taken from Anticipation,' which the author has not badly imitated. Mr. Pitt is introduced as propofing a tax upon falt, in imitation of the Gabelle in France. A debate enfues, in which the members of oppofition endeavour to throw ridicule upon the ministry and its adherents. The chancellor of the exchequer is left in a minority, and precipitately quits the houfe; an incident which affords great triumph to the oppofite party; and excites a general belief that he must foon retire from the helm of govern

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This Pamphlet was published in April,
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Thoughts on the Merits of the Westminster Scrutiny. 8vo. 15. 6d.

Debrett.

The Westminster fcrutiny is now generally confidered as one of thofe farcical tranfactions which frequently arife from the intemperance of oppofite parties. As fuch it is treated, and not improperly cenfured by the author of this pamphlet.

Speech of Lieutenant-general Hale. 8vo. 1s. Baldwin.

In this Speech, which was delivered at the nomination and election of a member of parliament, in the room of fir George Saville, general Hale appears to have greatly exceeded the bounds of moderation in the difplay of his political sentiments. Had he confined his eloquence towards enforcing a parliamentary reform, he might have been feconded by many freeholders of the county of York; but it is not furprifing that his motions for inftructing their reprefentatives to procure a repeal of the game-laws, the qualification act, &c. and efpecially the riot-act, should meet with no fupport from any member of the affembly.

The Deformity of the Doctrine of Libels and Informations ex Officio, with a View to the Cafe of the Dean of St. Asaph, Sc. By M. Dawes, Efq. Evo. 15. Stockdale.

In this pamphlet, which confifts of a letter to the honourable Thomas Erskine, the author vindicates the rights of jurymen, and approves himself at least a zealous friend to what he confiders as the cause of liberty.

POETRY.

A Poem addreffed to the Armies of the United States of America. By David Humphries, Efq. Colonel in the Service of the United States. 4to. 25. Kearsley.

The following lines will poffibly give no very favourable idea of this performance.

Such are the glories of the allied band!

And fuch the dawning hope that cheers our land!
Since Gallia's fire, high on a throne of state,

Sublimely good, magnarin oufly great!

Protector of the rights of human kind!

Weigh'd the dread conteft in his royal mind.'

One would imagine that the author fhould have been perfectly acquainted with the proper accent of allied,' a word empha tically felt by us. The other lines verge towards the burlesque. High on a throne of ftate,' feems fuperfluous, and dragged in to fill out the line. The pomp of Gallia's fire is not here the great object intended to be conveyed, as datan's is, in the fecond book of Paradife Loft, which opens with the fame words, but his extenfive benevolence; on which account we think a closet would have been better adapted than a throne, for ex