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Lileiarij and Crilicul Procmivm. 



[Jul 



of the Pamphleteer \\\\\ be found pai- 

 licularly forcible and iiiterestiiio;-. It is 

 eutitled " Tlic declaration of England 

 against the Acts and Projects of the Holy 

 Alliance; with an appcudix, containing 

 oHiciai documents ;" and is attributed to 

 the pen of a writer equally conspicuous by 

 ^is rank and talents. The appendix con- 

 tains a scries nf official documents from 

 the courts of Austria, Russia and Prussia, 

 relative to the late affairs in Spain, the go- 

 verumeut of Uuiversilics, the discovery of 

 revolutionary plots, &c. &c. which tor) 

 plainly discover the raolive of that spirit 

 which has pi-onipted the allied sovcrcigr.s to 

 join together to insure the rig'. Is < fthroncx, 

 without which they have declared that exter- 

 nal peace itself can neither hare value nor 

 duration. The next article is" JRe/lcctlovs 

 on the conduct of the Allies,'''' v.rilten in the 

 sani<- style ofmanly and patriotic feeling as 

 the " Dcclaratio;!," above mentioned. This 

 is followed by the " Skefoh of a plan for a 

 Reformation in the System of Provincial 

 Banking,'' bv which the author proposes 

 that hankers in England and Ireland should 

 issue promissory notes secured upon a de- 

 posit of public funds, or other government 

 securities. To this succeeds an " Essay on 

 Criminal Jurisprudence, with thedraft of a 

 new Penal Code. B\' J.T. Barber Beau- 

 jhont, esq. F.A.S.one of his Majesty's Jus- 

 tices of Peace for Middlesex and West- 

 minster. V/ehavc next, B.>%nj. Constant's 

 celel)rated pamphlet " On the Dissolution 

 of the Chamber of Deputies, and on the 

 possible consequence of this dissolution to 

 the nation, the government and the minis- 

 try." This essay has been translated e.r- 

 clusiveli/ for the Pamphleteer, and forms 

 one of the most interesting articles of the 

 present number. It is followed by " Two 

 Pairs of Historical Portraits, Octavius 

 Ctcsarand \Vm. Pitt (reprinted); Rienzi and 

 Buonaparte, (never before published).'' By 

 George WiLvoN IWeadley; a gentleman 

 known to the public as an author by his 

 Memoirs of Dr. Paley and Algernon Sid- 

 ney. An article however, of far more inter- 

 est succeeds to this, is Mr. Halford's 

 *' Thoughts on the Criminal Prisons of 

 this Country," in which he comments more 

 especially upon the propriety of allowing 

 pensions to gaolers who become aged 

 in the laudable exercise of their duties ; on 

 the treatment fit for boys who are subjected 

 to the discipline of a prison, upon the de- 

 gree of tolerable comfort, beyond which 

 indulgence to faulty persons becomes hurt- 

 ful ; and above all upon the small impor- 

 tance which is annexed to religious influ- 

 ence in the reformation o*" depraved cha- 

 racters, in comparison of that which is 

 allowed to motives of political co-.isidcra- 

 tion and expediency. The next aDicle is 

 a very impartial cxan-.inalieii of the ar'.;ij- 



ments respecting the " Kxclusion of the 

 Queen's name from tl-.e Liturgy," by a 

 Barrister; who pretty plainly shows that 

 custom has passed the praying for the 

 Queen into an established part of our form 

 of worship, which the king cannot do away 

 with, at l^is own will and pleasure, and 

 that tliere are plenty of precedents exir't- 

 ing, to shew that in the case of either the 

 King or Qi:ecn being prayed for, their 

 merits or demerits as individuals, never 

 appear to have been taken info the smallest 

 consideration. The concli-sion of Mr. 

 Bowles's vindication of his opinions re- 

 specting Pope, against the animadversions 

 of Mr. Gilchrist, and " Phocion's reply to 

 Cato," being an answer to two letters 

 written under that signattre in the New 

 Timet;, Dec. 14, IS'iO, and Jan. 12, liS'21, 

 are the next articles in this nund)ei', which 

 is cr.ncludad by a " Statement of the pre- 

 sent Timber and Deal Trade, as regards 

 Europe,a:;d IheBritishAmerican Colonies," 

 an o; iginal essay, in which tlic author ad- 

 vises the utmost lUvour to be shewn to 

 Russia and Prussia, in prcferer.ce to Ame- 

 rica, and prov.'s the justice cf his reason- 

 ing- hy calculations, which are evidently 

 the result of much persoi;al observation. 



A poem enliiled Queen Mah, by Mr. 

 Percy Bvrshe Shelley, was printed 

 and distributed among his friends, about 

 seven years ajio ; but has at length been 

 pu'jiishcd. The text of the woik is in 

 measure!) lines, of unequal length, v^hich 

 being divided into parccds, by means of Ro- 

 man numerals, have the appearance of so 

 many odes, but without rhyme. It is in 

 the Tlialaba style, which has been so be- 

 praised by the poetasters of the present 

 day. " He," says Dr. Johr.son, " that 

 thinks himself capable of astonishing, may 

 write blank verse ; but these that hope 

 only to please, must condescend to rhyme." 

 The Author before us does, indeed, endea- 

 vour to iisiGnish, by the extravagance of 

 his paradoxes, and the incongruity of his 

 me.'aphors; and may, therefore, claim the 

 right to print his lines of such various 

 lengths as may suit his ovra wi im or the 

 taste of his con^posifor. It is a continuous 

 declamation without either " rhyme or rea- 

 son," and the speaker may pause where he 

 will without injury to the sense or inter- 

 ruption to the monotonous flow of the haran- 

 gue. The notes occupy much more space 

 than the text ; and consist chiefly of ex- 

 tracts from various authors, in favour of 

 Atheism, the equalization of property, and 

 the unrestrained intercourse of the sexes ! 

 The Frcr.ch, Laiiu, a:id Greek passage, 

 which were left in their original dress iu 

 the gratuitoi's edition, are here translated 

 for the bcnef-t of the more Eug!i^h reader. 

 Advocates, as we are, for a very extended 

 freedom of the press, we fea.r connnenting 

 farther 



