~ A PLAIN ANSWER TO CURSORY REMARKS, 
Major Cartwright has dedicated to his 
country as a weapon, the Britannic spear : 
this weapon is described at length, to- 
gether with the double-barrelled board- 
ing pistol; their advantages are detailed, 
a plate is given of them ; a pattern of 
the spear will be deposited with some 
mechanic who will undertake to make 
them, and a reference left with the pub- 
lisher of Major Cartwright’s work. 
We are not very conversant in tactics, 
©r competent to appropriate the com- 
parative excellence of different weapons ; 
we have, however, remarked, that when 
any desperate onset is to be made, it is 
customary to take out the flints from the 
soldier’s firelock, and charge with the 
bayonet. This looks as if the musquet 
had lost its superiority : pikes and spears 
are getting into fashion, and we should 
like to see revived the old English wea- 
pon, that victorious weapon which de- 
feated the French on their own soil, on the 
plains of Cressy, Poictiers, and Agin- 
court, the tonc sow. For several suc- 
cessive centuries, this country acquired a 
formidable celebrity for its skill and 
success in archery : all our victories over 
the French in their own country were 
effected by the bow, and these victories 
are known to be many and decisive. 
The carnage produced by this weapon, 
particularly where it is opposed to caval- 
ry, is dreadful; and at Poictiers, the 
English took prisoners to the amount of 
double the number of their own army ! 
Jt has been estimated that not moze 
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than one ball in eighty-five takes effecy 
in a day’s action. 
About six years ago Mr. Oswald 
Mason published a little pamphlet, en- 
titled “ Pro Aris et Focis,”’ &c.3; the 
object of which was to revive the use of 
the long bow and the pike ; it was pub- 
lished for Egerton. A republication of 
it now would be of service, and if it 
were enlarged by an historical account 
of the different battles in which we have 
fought with this national weapon, by an 
account of the numbers of the contend- 
ing armies, and the weapons of our ene- 
mies; and if to this was added, an ac- 
count of the principal statutes, which at 
different times have been enacted for the 
enforcement, and of prizes, which at 
different times have been offered, for 
the encouragement of the long bow; it 
would be a very interesting and useful 
work. 
There are a few societies of archers at 
this time in Great Britain; the Toxo- 
philites, the Woodmen of Arden, and the 
Royal Company of Archers in Scotland, 
which last is said to have been instituted 
by James I. of Scotland, for the encou- 
ragement of archery. The majority, if 
not the total of these societies, however, 
are now merely. societies for exercise and, 
amusement, like cricket clubs: whether 
they might not be increased and made 
subservient to the national defence, is a 
question which we myst leave to the. 
discussion of others. ! 
Art. XLIV. The Parallel between, England and Carthage, and between Franee and 
Rome, examined, by a Citizen of Dublin. 8vo. pp. 47. 
IT was hardly necessary to write a 
pamphlet to shew the absurdity of the 
boasted parallel which France has made 
between herself and Rome, and between 
England and Carthage. It has given 
Occasion, however, to some animated 
declamation on the part of a patriotic 
citizen of Dublin, who, if he speak with 
the same fluency and spirit with which 
he writes, might harangue an army on, 
3 eve. of action with considerable ef-. 
ect. 
Art. XLY. A few Cursory Remarks upon the State of Parties during the Administrae, 
tion of the Right Hon. Henry Addington. Bya Near Osserver. 8vo0- pp. 48, 
Arr, XLVI. A plain Answer to the Misrepresentations and Calumnieg contained in the. 
Cursory Remarks of a Near Observer. By amore Accurate OssERVER. 8v0. pp. 83. 
THE former of these pamphlets is an 
attack directed for the most part against 
the expelled chiefs of the anti-jacobin 
Ministry, for their parliamentary con- 
duct towards Lord Hawkesbury, ‘Mr. 
Addington, and the other underlings of 
the party, who foun¢ themselves con- 
verted into ministers by the dismission 
of their masters. The charges and accu. 
sations here brought forwards are repell- 
ed, or attempted to be repelled, by the 
author of the lagter, publication. 
