1822.) 
are,—where can relief be administered 
at the least expence—and where the 
pauper’s industry, when relief can be 
dispensed with, will be most valuable ? 
At that place, we say, where the pauper 
happens to be, and no other. The talk 
about parishes pulling down houses, to 
drive out the poor, is very foolish. Let 
them pull them down, their employers 
will build them up again; or if they 
do not, others will, who have spare 
capital for which they want interest. 
We wonder indeed the reviewer delivers 
himself in this way, because he appears 
to be a political economist, and we 
doubt not would make a great outcry 
if one were to propose interfering with 
the Freedom of Trade,— though the 
two cases in principle are exactly the 
same. 
The “ Persecutions of the Protes- 
tants” isan able historical digest of 
French intolerance—of the growth of 
fanaticism—of the union of licentious- 
ness and bigotry under the old regime 
—with some notice of the machinations 
carried on by the ultra faction, and 
their attempts to strengthen their in- 
terest by encouraging fanaticism, and 
conniving at its crimes, rather than at- 
tach themselves to the new order of 
things. 
' * Craven’s Tour in South Italy” 
forms the next subject. It is an indul- 
gent article, and from what we can 
glean of Mr. Craven’s book, is intended 
ather to encourage him to produce 
something better, than considered as 
strictly due to his present performance; 
which appears to us, rather laboured 
in style, and somewhat objectionable 
in principle. 
We are again advancing rapidly, be- 
ing at the ninth article, the ‘“* Nomina- 
tion of Scottish Juries.”’ If the editor 
did not write the first paragraph in this 
article, we think he ought lo have 
struck it out. Mr. Bentham is not a 
pore to be treated flippantly by any 
inburgh reviewer: besides it is not 
correct that the evils of which Mr. 
Bentham complains in his ‘ Elements,’ 
have been ‘corrected in recent prac- 
tice." The only interruption to the 
abuses of the Crown Office, was during 
the shrievalty of Sir Richard Phillips : 
since which the old abuseshave returned 
without abatement, with the exception 
of some late improvements in the Spe- 
cial Jury Lists of the City. To the re- 
mainder we have no objection, except 
that the subject is overlaid, and we fear 
that the Scottish freeholders will more 
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readily comprehend the ‘ Loaves and 
Fishes,’ said to be annually shared 
among them, than the diffuse reasoning 
of the reviewer. The question, how- 
ever, is very plain. The Scottish judges 
not only pack the juries, but have 
power to make new laws, amounting in 
their penalties to FOURTEEN YEARS 
TRANSPORTATION. A system of judi- 
cial administration more repugnant to 
reason, one cannot conceive, and what 
auginents our surprise is, that Scot- 
land, so famous for learning and philo- 
sophy, should so long suffer it to remain 
without exposure oranimadversion, Be- 
tween the judge packing, or, as Erskine 
more fitly termed it ‘ picking’ the jury 
to try criminal offences, and trying the 
offences himself, we can see no differ- 
ence, except that, in the former: case, 
he is partly relieved of the salutary re- 
sponsibility which ought to attach tu 
his decision. 
The tenth and last article, ““ Stewart's 
Introduction to the Encyclopadia,” isa 
learned, ingenious and able discourse ; 
but our remarks having already exceed- 
ed our limits, we are afraid to trust our- 
selves with the examination of it. What 
struck us as most deserving considera- 
tion, are the observations (pp. 255, 
260) on the disingenuousness of con- 
necting moral delinquency with philo- 
sophical speculation: thereby appeal- 
ing to the most dangerous and excit- 
able passions of mankind to check the 
freedom of inquiry. The whole article, 
however, is full of curious information, 
profound remark, and luminous disqui- 
sition, and is well worthy attentive 
perusal. With this obseryation we 
rather hastily dismiss the present num- 
ber, but not without first expressing our 
general approbation of its contents,— 
which we are persuaded will be read 
with admiration and interest, by all 
but the vain, the frivolous and the 
unprincipled. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
TOUR from THESSALONICA to PELLA, 
the celebrated Capital of the KINGS 
of MACEDON, by M. POUQUEVILLE. 
EAVING Thessalonica on the 15th 
of February, 1817, while the 
- weather was cold, we went out by the 
gate of the river Vardar, the Axius of 
antiquity, on the north side of the 
city, and took the road to Jenidgé, 
which passes under the low hills of 
Pella. On the outside of the walls, on 
the right hand, on the slope of the 
hill, partly occupied by Thessalonica, 
; R we 
