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XLIX. Notices respecting New Books. 
Force Navale de la Grande Bretagne. 2 Vols. 4to. with large 
Plates, forming the Second Part of Mr. Dupin’s Voyages 
dans la Grande Bretagne. 
Mz. Dupin, a distinguished member of the Royal Institute of 
France, and one of the most eminent engineers formed by the 
Polytechnic School, has conceived the project of examining all 
our public works and institutions, and of giving to the public 
what he finds in them worthy of general attention. His object 
is to present a complete picture of every thing connected with or 
conducive to the public force, opulence and glory of Great 
Britain. 
To methodise this immense plan, he has divided his subject into 
four principal parts, military, naval, commercial, and of in- 
dustry. In the course of last year, he gave to the world the mi- 
litary part, and he has now published the naval one. The author 
has consequently finished all that relates to the arts of war; the 
destruction part of his work is complete, and what remains to be 
done relates to the far more valuable part of production. If Mr. 
Dupin shows himself equally accurate, judicious and philoso- 
phical, in treating of the last, as he has been in treating of the 
former, he will raise a monument worthy of our national great- 
ness ; and acquire for himself a claim to the gratitude and re- 
membrance both of his own country and of ours. 
In a former number of our Magazine, we gave an account of 
the volume on military force ; we shall now proceed with giving 
the account of that on the naval. 
The judgement which we have given of the first part has been 
adopted and confirmed ky most of the critics who have since re- 
viewed it; and we dare say they will equally join us, in paying 
to the author a still greater and not less merited tribute of esteem 
for the two subsequent volumes. In these, not only the institu- 
tions upon which the English navy is founded, but all the esta- 
blishments and public works relating to it, are described and 
judged notonly with an acute, penetrating, and skilfuleye, but with 
an unprejudiced, candid and philosophical mind. 
The first volume of the naval part (the third of the collection) 
presents the Constitution of the navy. Under this title the author 
treats at first of the royal and legislative authorities considered as 
far as regards their influence and authority upon the navy. Af- 
terwards he considers the nature and extent of the authority of 
the Admiralty, and of the military officers from the admirals down 
tothe petty officers; he describes the composition and organiza- 
tion of the crews of ships of war and of the royal marines. Then 
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