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themfelves : and it is his Lordfhip's w'fli 

 that fome ftron? encouragement (hould be 

 held out by Government to induce the 

 Highlanders to change the courfe of their 

 emigration ; and he reafons that it might 

 be done without any increal'e to the fpirit 

 of them. With thefe views anJ impref- 

 (ions, at the clofe of the late war, Loid 

 Selkirk became not only a theoretical but 

 a praSical colonili:, and ellabliftied a fmall 

 body of Highland emigrants on Prince 

 Edward's Iflsnd, rear the coaft of Nova- 

 Scotia, where, tiiat nothing might be 

 wanting to enfure luccefs to his experi- 

 ment, he attended t:ie planting of the co- 

 lony himfelf. In the ciofing clnpter of 

 his work he has related in the mod (enfible 

 and c.noid manner the various obftacles 

 he met with, the principles ht- adhered to, 

 and the happy progrcfs of his exertions. 

 The iaipolicy of endeavouring, by law, 

 to prevent the emigrations of the High- 

 landers, is fet forth in the moft linking 

 and imprefllve manner ; and a line of coii- 

 du(5l, not merely fpeculative, drawn, the 

 greateft advantage of which can only be 

 deiived by the interference of the G'^vern- 

 ment. Lord Selkirk d^feivts the thanks 

 cf the community. 



Among the political works of an infe- 

 rior nature we rank the " Remarks on the 

 probable ConduB of Rujia end France to- 

 nt'ards this Country." It contains very 

 little either of ftrong reaibning or nov;;l 

 information. 



Mr. CocKB urn's " DiJfertatioK on the 

 hej} Means of Civilizing the SubjeSis of 

 the Britijb Empire in India" which ob- 

 tained Mr. Buchanan's prize at Cam- 

 bridge, we coulefs difappointed us in the 

 perufil. 



Mr. Rose's " Ohfervations on the Poor 

 Laivs, and on the Management of the toor 

 in Great Britain," arc well entitled to the 

 confidciation of all who enter into one of 

 the moft difficult problems of government. 

 The laws both of this country and Scot- 

 land relating to the queliion, are entered 

 into with confiderable care, and a variety 

 of the moft important points connected 

 with the fubjeit carefully examined ; but 

 Mr. Rofe's principal obje£t is ra'her to 

 cxci;e the labour and atienri n of ohers, 

 fchan to enter himfclf into an ample dif. 

 cuftion. 



'I he fame reafons which induced us to 

 forego any mention of the different pjin- 

 phiets on Lord Melville''* cafe are (till in 

 force J am) we again refer for their titlen 

 to the Monthly Catalogue. 'I'he p etry 

 it has given rile to is m no inltanci.' d«- 

 krving of the name. 



" IP'ar in Difguife, or the Frauds of 

 Neutral Flags," is a work very ably writ- 

 ten ; though we confefs we cannot lee the 

 founJnefs of all the principles on which it 

 has been grounded. The trade carried on 

 between France and her Weft India pof- 

 leflions in neutral bottoms,, cannot be lb 

 great as the rrv-lent writer ftems to ima- 

 gine. He rtcommerds a line of conduft 

 more rigorous than found policy would 

 probably dire<5t. 



" A Concife Account of the Commerce and 

 Navigation of the Black Sea, from recent 

 and authentic Information," appears to 

 have been wii ten under the impreflion 

 that France, among her rther intentions of 

 aggrandizement, has it in view to engrofs 

 the commerce of it to hei feU ; and, with- 

 out confidering whether we have not bet- 

 ter channel.* for our trade at pieltnt, rt- 

 conim.ends it to the attention ot Great- 

 Britain. 



Since our notice of Mr. Rose's work 

 already nieivioied, we have feen aa 

 " Outline of a Plan for reducing the Poors'"- 

 Riite, and amendiiig the Condition of the 

 Aged and Unfortunate ; including thofe of 

 the Naval Department, /^yJoH.N iioNE," 

 in a Letter, occafioned by the " Ohfer- 

 vations." His remarks on the defeft of 

 our prefent fyftem aie unqueliirinably 

 good ; and he has fuggeiied a few ideas 

 toward the f-rmation ot another. 



Mr. Playfair. has pnbliftied " An 

 Inquiry into the Caufes of the Decline and 

 Fall of Poiverful and IVealthy Nations : 

 defigned topevj how the Frofperitj of the 

 Britijh Efupire may be prolonged." It is 

 difficult to give a jultitlea of the work ia 

 fo concife a way as we could wifli. We 

 fh?.ll only obferve, that Mr. Playfair ap- 

 pears 10 have confideied his fu!)je6f witti 

 a deep attention. His work is accurate, 

 and replete with curious intelligence. 



The coiidudt of Great Britain toward 

 Spain has been Lately defended by Mr. 

 Macleod in " A Revie-v of the Papers 

 on the War ivith Spain." It is written 

 but indifferently, and its arguments are 

 not fo ftrong as the fubjeft led us to ex- 

 pea. 



" The Horrors of the Negro-Slavery 

 exiftmg in our IVeJf- In ii.t IJlands, dcmon- 

 Jlrated from Offifial Documents recently 

 prefented to the llou/e cf Commons." The 

 C'Ccafion fwr which iiii> valuable pamphlet 

 was vi rittcii, is now gene by. Here and 

 there perhaps fa-dls and arguments may be 

 too highly .coloured. But whenever the 

 fubjccl of tiie llavttrade fhall be ngaiti 

 brought forward, we have ro quefti jn it 

 will be telbrtcd to> 



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