1822.] 
Amount ; also those who have Compoundéd 
ia a diffe-ent Division than where they are 
entitled to Renew. Compositionson Houses 
may be Compounded for without including 
the other Taxes, and vice rersé, 
XIX. Compounders not liable to Penalty 
of Assessed Tax Acis, except Penalty for 
Concealment to evade Assessment of any 
Duty for the Year ending 5th April, 1822, 
or other Concealment to evade the Amount 
of Composition. 
&X Persons occupying Houses, or 
keeping Articles Compounded for by other 
Persons, or set up by other Persons under 
Colour of the Composition, to be liable to 
Duty. Intent to defraud, Treble the Amount 
of Duty... 
XXI. Persons procuring a Contract tobe 
entered into to a less Amount than ought 
to be included, the Contract to be veid, 
and the Offender to forfeit 501. 
XXII. Persovs having diminished their 
Establishment during their Residence out 
of Great Britain, or residing out of Great 
Britain, not entitled to Compound. 
Literary and Critical Proemium. 
ts 258 
[We do not know what amount of 
revenue has been antieipated by this 
complicated statute, but its provisions 
are, in truth, so complicated, that we 
should imagine very few persons could 
or would entangle themselves with it.] 
CAP. CXIV. For the Conveyance, 
Surrender, and Assignment of Estates 
in Bee, for Lives, or Terms of Years, 
which shall be vested in Trust, or by 
way of Mortzage, in Idiots and Luna- 
tics, not having been found such by In- 
quisition. 
CAP. CXV. Fo repeal so much of 
an Act, of the Fifth Year of the Reign 
of His late Majesty King George the 
Second, relating to Bankrupts, as re- 
quires the Meetings under Commissions 
of Bankrupt to be holden in the Guild- 
hall of the City of London; and for 
building Offices in the said City for the 
Meetings of the Commissioners; and 
for the more regular Transaction of 
Businessin Bankruptcy. 
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—=a 
- is singular that, whilst our geogra- 
phers are exploring and defining the 
most remote and inaccessible regions of 
the globe, so great a portion of the Conti- 
nent of Africa should still present a blank 
upon our maps. The work of enquiry and 
civilization is, however, advancing from 
several opposite points; and iz no part do 
the steps of our intrepid traveilcrs seem 
to be pushed further, or with more flatter- 
ing success, than in the southern latitudes 
of this immense continent. Our curiosity 
has been particularly gratified by the pe- 
rusal of Mr. W.1. BuRcHELL’s 7'ravels in 
the Interior of Southern Africa. This 
gentleman, attended by Mr. Anderson and 
Mr. Kramer, two missionaries, and by a 
yumber of Hottentots, never exceeding 
ten, penetrated more than five hundred 
miles into the interior, and found his la- 
hours amply repaid, not only’ by the ac- 
quisition of local kuowledge, but by the 
discoyery of many new specimens in na- 
tural history and botany. Commencing 
his journey in the autumn of 1810, and 
coulinuing it through the two following 
years, Mr. Burchell proceeded from Cape 
Town to Klaarwater, the residence of the 
missionaries, whence he made successive 
excursions into the surrounding country. 
fle continued there a considerable time, 
and proceeded in a northern direction as 
far as 26 degrees south latitude, advanc- 
ing ultimately to the Maadjé Mountains, 
which are far north of Klaarwater. Mr. 
Burchell’s highly interesting adventures 
and discoveries, narrated in. the form of a 
journal, are illustrated by many coloured 
plates and wood cuts, sketched, for the 
most part, on the spot, with his own hand. 
A rich fund of political and personal 
anecdote is presented to the public in the 
Memoirs of the last Ten Years of the 
Reign of George the Second, by HORACE 
Wa rotr, Earl! of Orford, from the origi- 
nal manuscript. We are not surprised at 
the clamour which is raised against the 
posthumous discoveries of the nobleauthor. 
The follies and vices of the great can never 
be so fully disclosed as by one of their own 
order; and, whateyer might be the motives 
of the author, we thank him for admitting 
us, so far as he has done, behind the scenes. 
At the same time, Lord Orford is by no 
means to be regarded as an impartial or 
very sagacious historian, His personal 
piques and political animosities were as 
strong as his powers of satire and sarcasm. 
After making proper allowances for these 
disqualifying prejudices, enough of truth, 
and an infinite variety of entertainment, 
will remain, for the edification of the 
readers 
