;fi 



Literary and Critical Prdemitim. 



1 J une 



ei'^ltt hundred and twcnt'j-tivo ; and to 

 permit such Persons in Great Brifn/'n 

 ii-i have otuilfed to make and Jlie ^Kji- 

 dncits iif the e.recnlion of Indentures of 

 Vlerks to Atturnies and Solicitors, to 

 ntake and jlle tlie same on or before the 

 First Dni/ of Ililari) Term, one thou- 

 sand eli>-ht hundred and twen'n-iiv:), 

 and to allow Person:; to nsulce and file 

 such Affidavits, although the Persons 

 whom theif served sh'ill hare tiegtecled 

 tn take out their Annua! CerHJieates.- — 

 ivJarcli 24t!i, lb!:?l. 



Perso:is who liavc omitted to qualify 

 themselves agreeably to 1 G. 2. tt. "2. c. 13. 

 before the passing' of this Act ; and who 

 sliall on or bef ire March 25. 1821, qualify 

 the.). selves, shall bo iiidemiiified against 

 Forfeitures. 



Pers:)iis neglectiuaf to qualify themselves 

 agreeably to the Irish Act, 2 Amie, and 

 v.ho shall qualify on or before March 25, 

 1822, shall be iiidenii.ified. 



(lAP. \'I. To continue for two Years 

 from the passing thereof, to the end of 

 the then ne.vt Session of Parliament, the 

 several Acts for the transpoHation of 



Offenders from Great Britain, — March 

 2'uh, 1S21. 



CAP. "V'll. To make perpetual tin 

 Act of the Fifty-eighth Year of His 

 late Majexfi/, to alloiv the Importation 

 into certain Ports in Nova Seolia and 

 New Brunswick, of certain enumerated 

 Articles, and the Re-e.rportntion thereof 

 fron such Ports.—Unwh l'4f!i, 1S21. 



CAP. A'lII. To continue until the 

 first Da>i of January One thousand 

 eight hundred and twenty-three, an Act 

 of the Fifty-ninth Year (f His lute 

 Majesty, for ttaying Proceedings 

 against any Governor or other Persons 

 concerned in imposin.; and levying Du- 

 ties in New South (Pales ; for continu- 

 ing certain Duties; and for eiipi.irering 

 the said Governor to liv) a Duty on 

 Spirits made in the said Culoni). — March 

 24'h, 1S21. 



CAP. IX. For punishing Mutiny and 

 Desertion ; and for the better Payment 

 of the Arm i/ and their Quarters. — ^lardi 

 24(h, 182r. 



Number of forces, 81,468 ; and also 

 11,794 proposed to be disbanded; &c. 



NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED IN MAY, 



With an HiSTouiCAL and Critkwl Pkoe.miu.m. 



Authors or Publishers desirous of seciny an early notice of their Worhs, are 

 requested to transmit copies before the ISth of the Month. 



DURING the last month, the public 

 CHrioi?ity ha> been graliScd by the 

 perusal of the long expected i Narratives 

 of the hist voyage to the Arctic Regions 

 in search of a North West passage. The 

 publicatioii of Capt. Parry oa this subject, 

 >vas anticipated in an unexpected way by 

 the sorry journal of ?ilr. Fisher, assistant- 

 surge )n of the HecKi. The manuscript of 

 the latter work, up to a vory late period, 

 remained in (he hands of the Adniiialty ; 

 but on bting returned to its author, was 

 carried through the prc-s with unexampled 

 rapidity. We cannot in justice say that 

 the magi:i!ufle and sue ess of the late ex- 

 pedition deserve to be recorded in a better 

 style than that of Mr. Fisher, whose lite- 

 rary deneiencies are nevertheless many and 

 glaring, and in addition to this, from his 

 siniation ns a subordi;,ate officei', ha is un- 

 able to detail the reasons which directed 

 the movements of the expedition, and which 

 Capt. Parry's work alone supplies. Oil 

 the 11th of May, 1819, the expedition, con- 

 sis! iug- of the Hecla and Grip. -r, sailed from 

 the Nore. They reached Lancaster Sound 

 on (he 1st of August, and on the 1th 

 tliey ascfrtained the non-existence of the 

 land to the west of Lancaster Sound, 

 which was said to have been seen (he frc 



ceding year. They proceeded westward, 

 till the setting in of the winter compelled 

 them to lay up the ships in harbour on the 

 26 of September, from which time until the 

 1st of August, 1820, upwards of ten calen- 

 dar months, they were ice-bound. On that 

 day they rccomm;nced their course to the 

 west, which they finally relinquished on 

 the 16lh of the same mouth, having ad- 

 vanced to about 114 degrees of west longi- 

 tude. Little worthy of notice occurred on 

 their homeward vojage, which terminated 

 about the end of Seplensber. Independent 

 of (he question about the north west pas- 

 sage still pending-, there is little novelty of 

 incident in the details of these works. The 

 dangers and difiiculiics encountered with, 

 we rejoice to find, were not so numerous 

 and imminent as might have been sup- 

 posed, which leads us to look forward with 

 pleasure aud hope to the result of the third 

 experfition, which has lately sailed again 

 under the command of Captain Parry. We 

 should recommend a revision of the style 

 of Air. Fisher's work in a future edition, 

 and in regard to Capt. Parry's quarto, it 

 is so extravagantly brought out at the 

 price of f.j {3s. 6d. (though one supplement 

 is puUjshfd at lOs. Cd. and another is 

 threatened^ that we presume few will con- 

 cern 



