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Scripture Characters; or a practical Improvement of the principal Histories of the Old and New Testament. By Thomas Robinson, M.A. late Vicar of St. Mary's, Leicester, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Abridged for the Use of young Persons. 12mo. 7s. 6d.

Thoughts on Universal Peace: a Sermon, delivered on Thursday, Jan. 18, 1816, the Day of National Thanksgiving. By the Rev. Thomas Chalmers, Minister of the Iron Church, Glasgow. 8vo. 1s. 6d.

LAW.

A concise Report of the Proceedings on the Trial of the late Action brought by James Webster Wedderburn Webster, Esq. and Lady Francis his Wife, against the Editor of the St. James's Chronicle, for a Libel. Taken in Short-hand by Mr. W. B. Gurney, Short-hand Writer to both Houses of Parliament.

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Minutes of the Proceedings of a Court Martial, holden on Board his Majesty's Ship Albion, in Sheerness Harbour, October 16, 1815, on Charges exhibited by Capt. Sam. Butcher, late of his Majefty's Ship Antelope, against the Right Hon. Lord George Stuart, late of his Majesty's Ship Newcastle. 5s.

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An Epitome of Juridical or Forensic Medicine, containing the Tests and Antidotes of Poisons: with Observations on Hanging, Drowning, Lunacy, Childmurder, Abortion, &c. By George Edward Male, M.D. Physician to the Birmingham Hospital. 7s.

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A Narrative of a Journey to London in 1814, or a Parallel of the English and French Surgery, preceded by some Observations on the London Hospitals. By Philibert Joseph Roux, Doctor in Surgery, &c. Translated from the French. 8vo. Three Lectures on Craniological Physiognomy, in which the Opinions of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim are controverted. Delivered before the City Philosophical Society. By a Member. 8vo. 8s.

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On the late Persecution of the Protestants in the South of France. By Helen Maria Williams. 3s. 6d.

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A Volume of Sermons, by Mr. Archdeacon Daubeny.

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The Travels of Colonel Keatinge in Europe and Africa. The Journal of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli, in Africa, from the original Correspondence in the possession of the late Richard Tully, Esq. the British Consul.

Amusements in Retirement, by the Author of the Philosophy of Nature.

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The Condemned Cell, or Devotions, &c. suited to Convicts under Sentence of Death, by the Rev. James Rudge, Curate of Limehouse.

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THE

BRITISH CRITIC,

FOR APRIL, 1816.

ART. I. A Letter to W. Wilberforce, Esq. containing Remarks on the Reports of the Sierra Leone Company and African Institution, &c. By Robert Thorpe, LL.D. Chief Justice of Sierra Leone. Rivingtons. 1815.

II. A Letter to His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester from 2. Macaulay, Esq. occasioned by Dr. Thorpe's Pamphlet.

Hatchard. 1815.

III. Special Report of the Directors of the African Institution, respecting the Allegations contained in Dr. Thorpe's Pamphlet. Hatchard. 1815.

IV. Ninth Report of the Directors of the African Institution. Hatchard.

1815.

V. Reply" Point by Point" to the Special Report of the Directors of the African Institution. By R. Thorpe, LL.D. Rivingtons. 1815.

VI. Postscript to the Reply" Point by Point," being a Reply also to the Matters contained in the Ninth Report of the African Institution. Rivingtons. 1815.

VII. Thoughts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, with Remarks on the African Institution, &c. Second Edition. Svo. pp. 235. 4s. 6d. Richardson. 1815.

IN the year 1791, a society of gentlemen was formed, called the Sierra Leone Company. The professed objects of the institution were, in the words of its first report, to encourage trade with the west coast of Africa, to promote cultivation, advance civilization, diffuse morality, and induce some attention. to a pure system of Religion in Africa; and above all-not to suffer their servants to have the slightest connexion with the Slave Trade; neither to buy, sell, or employ any one in a state of slavery, and to repress the traffic as far as their influence would extend." The chairman and leading member of the A a

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company, was the late Mr. H. Thornton. The deputy chairmen were, successively, Philip Sansom, Esq., Charles Grant, Esq., and Lord Teignmouth. Among the efficient directors were Lord Barham, Mr. Thomas Clarkson, Hon. E. J. Eliot, Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Babington, Mr. Parry, Mr. Prinsess, Mr. Granville Sharp, &c. After sixteen years struggle with all the difficulties consequent on such an undertaking, from various causes their funds were found to be nearly exhausted. An application was then made to parliament in their favour, who liberally granted them nearly 100,000 7. as a reimbursement, in great part, of the expences incurred. On the 1st of January, 1808, the colony was surrendered to the crown. The recommendations and suggestions, however, of the directors of the former company, were, in most instances, attended to by Government, on assuming the management of the colony; these gentlemen, in the mean time, formed themselves into another ostensible body, called the "African Institution," for the purpose of forwarding the same laudable designs, which had been the objects of the Sierra Leone Company. Subscriptions were solicited, reports published, and much progress was supposed to have been made, when about the end of the year 1814, a pamphlet appeared, written by Dr. Thorpe, Chief Justice of the Colony, preferring charges of the most serious nature, both against the directors of the Sierra Leone Company, and of the African Institution, This pamphlet was referred by the directors of the latter institution, to the committee for Sierra Leone affairs, who, in June, 1815, published a Special Report, in answer to the charges brought against both societies by Dr. Thorpe, pronouncing them vague, indefinite, and unfounded. About the same time appeared, a letter from Mr. Z. Macaulay to the Duke of Gloucester, the president of the African Institution, exculpating himself from the accusations preferred against him as secretary of the former society, and as a director of the latter. In September, 1815, a Reply "Point by Point" to the Special Report was published by Dr. Thorpe, in which he labours to substantiate his former charges, and to shew the weakness and fallacy of the defence. In October, the ninth regular Report of the Institution appeared, which, as it contained matter in which the character of Dr. Thorpe was involved, was again answered by him in a Postscript to the Reply" Point by Point." Such then, as far as Principals are concerned, is the state of the con troversy at present, and such is the evidence upon which the public are to form their determination.

The question before the public is of a very grave and important nature, being nothing less than this, whether to successive institutions, patronized by the most distinguished personages,

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