Sak * 
and idle. The chance, therefore, of rash 
venture is much increased on their part. 
Let us suppose that of a force em- 
barked, without a protecting navy, in 
Dutch fishing-boats, one-third would be 
met and sunk at sea. Let us suppose 
another third would be run aground on 
the shoals and sand-banks near the Eng- 
lish coast, in consequence of cutting 
away the buoys, and snuffing out the 
light-houses ; there would still remaina 
third to be fought by the people ashore. 
Some persons so much doubt the po- 
licy of driving the country, as it is called, 
that is of destroying all the corn, flour, 
and other provision in the sea-ports near 
the landing-place, that it will probably 
be inefficaciously executed, The people 
think that the French would take care 
to be fed in preference; and that they 
should be starved themselyes by the at- 
Art. XLII. Proceedings at a General Meeting of the Loyal North Britions, held at the 
Crown and Anchor, August 8, 1803 ; containing a correct Copy of the celebrated Speech 
Z James Mackintosh; Esq. ; the Stanzas spoken on the same Occasion, by Thomas Cam, 
ell, Esq. 3 and ihe Substance of the Speeches of the Right Hon. Lord Reay and J. W: 
Adam, Esq. on being elected Officers of the Corps, 8vo. pp. 43. ; 
IT is sufficient to copy the title of this 
little pamphlet: we would, however, 
notice one trivial error Mr. Campbell's 
stanzas ; he says 
Let a death-bed repentance be taught the 
proud foe. 
But the spirit of his poem is to swear 
that theinvaders shall not die in their beds. 
Arr. XLIIL. LEngland’s gis; or the 
IT is particularly avorthy of remark, 
~and ought to teach us a lesson of tolera- 
“tion and confidence, that the numerous 
body of people who were injuriously 
smarked by the last administration as 
disaffected, and eager to overthrow the 
constitution, are actually now among 
-the foremost to offer their lives in its 
-defence... It is a fact, that in some parts 
of the kingdom, a majority of the volun- 
jteer corps is:composed of those perscns, 
who, a few. years ago, were branded as 
republicans and levellers : their country 
is in danger, and they have~-evinced 
their patriotism in coming forward in 
its defence.  ‘Uhe*name of Major Cart- 
-wright is familiat 26 A See of our readers: 
the: has employe ifs-pen and his sword 
‘on: more occasions than ‘one; and it is 
well known that @ edom, perhaps 
the incautious freedom with which he 
Miltary Energies of the Empire. -By Joux 
Caartwricut, £sg. 12mo."pp. 191. : 
HISTORY, POLITICS, AND STATISTICS. 
tempt at starvation. The necessity for 
transports, therefore, about which so 
much is said here, may be overstated. 
We are assured by this author, (p. 7} 
that from the time the French boats 
are seen in the offing, to the time of 
landing, three days mustintervene. How 
extravagant a calculation! How igno- 
rant an assertion ! 
And, after all, why allay the public 
apprehension ? why diminish the public 
precaution? Is not the volunteering 
system as favourable to peace and to 
liberty, as to protection? We presume, 
however, that some persons, who dislike 
to learn the use of arms, choose to be 
supplied with pretences for indolence— 
and the most decorous is to see no dan- 
ger. To such persons, we recommend 
the purchase and distribution of Dr. 
Tucker’s Reflectious on Invasion. 
The appendix contains, among. other 
pieces, Mr. Bonsanquet’s Declaration, 
Burns’s fine ode of Bannock-Burn, and 
the War Song of the Edinburgh Dra- 
goons, one of the productions of a gen- 
tleman, of whom every production is 
good, 
has used the former, excited the sus- 
picion of a jealous administration, as to 
the use he might be disposed to make of 
the latter. 
The plan which Major Cartwright re- 
commends, as being in itself the most 
eflicien? for defence, and constituting at 
the same time an essential part of the 
constitution of the country, is, that the 
King should have recourse to the origi- 
nal militia of the Saxon times, the posse. 
comitatus. He reprobates standing armies 
as injurious to the liberties of the sub- 
ject ; contends that every may should 
be taught the use of arms, and be pos- 
sessed of them; in short, he would have. 
the volunteer system extended to em- 
brace every individual, and imstead of. 
_being a temporary, converted into a per- 
manent measure of defence. 
In addition to the gis asa shield, 
