1825.] 
has bee me one of the scarcest and most 
expensive luxuries. This book ought to be 
read with interest by all classes. It is high 
time the subject should be properly taken 
into consideration; and the spontaneous 
produce of the waters be so far protected, 
as to yield in due portion their auxiliary 
assistance to the more toil-wrought fruits 
of ‘the earth, in sustaining the life and com- 
fort of an increasing and necessitous popu- 
lation. 
Review of the Quarterly Review; or an 
exposure of the erreneous opinions, promul- 
gated in that work, on the subject of Colonial 
Slavery: being the substance of a series of 
letters which appeared in the “ New Times” 
of Sept. and Oct. 1824, It may be regarded 
as among the extraordinary phenomena of 
political literature, that in this interesting 
controversy between the principles of 
natural liberty and humanity, on the one 
side, and the interests of tyranny and rapa- 
cious barbarism, on the other, the cause of 
oppression should find its advocate, if not 
in the person, at least in the co-association 
of the author of ‘‘ Wat Tyler,’ while what 
may be called the jacobin side of the ques- 
tion should have for its organ, the ultra-mo- 
narchial press of Dr. Stodart and the “‘ New 
Times.”? But with such inconsistencies 
we are, in these days, familiar; there are 
throngs of writers and bawlers, we are 
sorry to say, who only bark for liberty, till 
corruption, will stop their mouths with a 
sufficient sop ; and there are conspicuous 
examples of those who can sympathize with 
eyery suffering but that which is at home ; 
whose, humanity acts alone with a centri- 
fugal force, and with an intensity which 
increases in a sort of geometrical ratio 
with the distance of its object; who with 
the same breath in fact, can argue for the 
abolition of slavery in the West-Indies, and 
its progressive establishment in Britain. 
We, for our part, would have it abolished 
every where, and established no. where : 
but if we cannot meet with those who will 
co-operate upon the principle, in every 
direction, we will receive with thanks. and 
gratitude eyen the partial assistance which 
tends to any one of the points, from what- 
eyer direction it may proceed ; and we re- 
commend accordingly to the review-reading 
public in general, this temperate and gentle- 
manly castigation, which the correspondent 
of the New Times has given to the apos- 
tates and c¢oalescents of the Quarterly 
Reyiew., As we haye not space even for 
the most brief analysis of the pamphlet 
before us (momentously interesting as we 
regard the subject), two short extracts 
must suffice as indications of the merits of 
the controversy : 
_ * With a yery imposing gravity, the .re- 
viewer next tells us, that ‘those who, ad- 
vance facts, of the correctness of which they 
are not absolutely certain, allow themselves 
a Jatitude very nearly approaching to cri- 
mipality.” Thisis, without doubt, avery just 
Literary and Critical Proémium. 
539 
remark, He adds, however, ‘ We are some 
times afraid that there are persons, enfaged 
in polemical controversy upon this subject, 
so hurried on by their detestation of slavery, 
so morbidly anxious for its extinction, that 
they are disposed to adopt the most danger- 
ous of all human principles of action, that 
the end may occasionally sanctify the em- 
ployment of means which, in, themselves, 
and abstractedly taken, cannot be justified.’ 
Has the reviewer no fear, then, with 
respect to those who take the opposite side 
in this controversy? Are there no crimi- 
nal misrepresentations to be apprehended 
on the part of those who love, as well as 
on the part of those who detest, slavery ? 
no dishonourable means to be suspected 
among the partizans of the former, for at- 
taining an end which they think important ? 
And is it no indication of the partiality of 
the reviewer, that he should deem it neces- 
sary to preach exclusively to the abolition- 
ists, as if they alone were capable of resort- 
‘ing to base and unworthy arts to promote 
their objects.” 
Unfortunately for the Quarterly Re- 
viewer, he stands convicted and condemned 
in all the penalties of his own sentence : 
“ The reviewer, who, it is, plain, never 
visited the West-Indies himself, instead of 
citing authentic documents, or adducing 
unimpeachable testimony. in proof of his 
statements, supports them with extracts 
from anonymous letters, and with loose and 
unauthenticated details, obviously taken 
from the mouths of West-Indian planters, 
anxious to vindicate themselves in the eyes 
of the public.” 
Nor is this the worst, that is not only 
charged, but apparently proved against this 
conscientious apologist of stripesand bonds : 
this advocate for the sacred property of a 
rapacious few in the blood and bones of 
his fellow men. 
The Good Nurse, or Hints on the manage- 
ment of the Sick and Lying-in Chamber, and 
the Nursery. —The above. title shews the 
nature of this work, but we would have a 
bill of indictment preferred against common 
sense, for being found in such company, as 
quackery, absurdity, and ignorance: and 
we assure our readers, that they are all four 
closely connected in this book, which of 
course, is likely to do so much the more 
mischief. i 
The Housekeeper’s Ledger, by Dr. Kitche- 
ner.— With all due reverence and precision 
of ceremony, we introduce Dr. Kitchener 
(M.D.) to our philosophical and scientific 
readers. It is well known that our ances- 
tors (in gratitude to the capabilities nature 
had endowed them withal) took their names 
from their several occupations: thus, we 
haye ‘Tailors, Smiths, Masons, Bakers, 
Butchers, &c. &e. in abundance. This was 
a courteous compliment to Nature for her 
gifts; but who would have thought of Mrs. 
Nature’s condescending to return the compli- 
ment, and of her endowing her children with 
3Z2 attributes — 
