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Literary and Critical Proemium 
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idee of the Year One thousand eight 
hundred and twenty-one. 
CAP. LXXXI. To amend so much of 
an Act of the Twenty-eighth Year of 
His late Majesty as requires a Registry 
of Wool sent Coastwise.' 
CAP. LXXXII. For allowing to 
Distillers of Spirits for Home Con¬ 
sumption in Scotland , a Drawback of 
a Portion of the Duty on Malt used by 
them; and for the further prevention of 
smuggling of Spirits on the Borders of 
Scotland and England. 
CAP. LXXXII I. For fu rther reduc¬ 
ing , until the Fifth Day of July One 
thousand eight hundred and twenty-two , 
the Duty on Malt made from Bear or 
Bigg only, for Home Consumption in 
Scotland. 
CAP. LXXXIV. To Grant Duties 
of Customs on certain Articles of Wood 
imported into Great Britain , in lieu of 
former Duties ; and to amend an Act 
made in the Fifty-ninth Year of His 
late Majesty, for granting certain Duties 
of Customs in Great Britain. 
CAP. LXXXV. To explain and 
amend several Acts relating to the as¬ 
sessing , levying , and collecting the 
County Rates. 
CAP. LXXXVI. For amending an 
Act passed in the First Year of His 
present Majesty , for enabling William 
Blackall Simonds , Esquire , to sell or 
mortgage his Estate and Interest in the 
Impropriate Rectory of Caversham , in 
the County of Oxford , free from the 
Claims of the Crown. 
NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED IN DECEMBER, 
With an Historical and Critical Proemium. 
* Authors or Publishers desirous of seeing an early notice of their Works are 
requested to transmit copies before the IS th of the Month. 
M R. WILKS’S Memoirs of her Ma¬ 
jesty , Queen Caroline Amelia Eli¬ 
zabeth , Consort of George the Fourth , 
King of Great Britain, in two volmmes, 
is an interesting 1 work, divided into eleven 
chapters; to which is added, a copious 
appendix, containing, besides the cele¬ 
brated defence of the Princess of Wales in 
answer to the charges on the Delicate In¬ 
vestigation by Mr. Perceval, numerous 
and important documents from many re¬ 
spectable persons in Italy, relative to the 
conduct of the Princess of Wales. The 
whole abounds in curious, important, and 
novel information. The first chapter con¬ 
tains some account of her late Majesty’s 
ancestors, the Dukes of Brunswick. The 
second , the early history of the life of her 
late Majesty. The third , the life of the 
Prince of Wales from his infancy to the 
period of his marriage with the Princess 
Caroline of Brunswick, in 1795. The 
fourth, a narrative of events which 
transpired from 1795 to 1800, including 
particulars of quarrels between the Prince 
and Princess of Wales, their separation, 
correspondence, &c. Th e. fifth, a history 
and developement of the Douglas con¬ 
spiracy. The sixth , memoirs of the pri¬ 
vate and public life of her Majesty from 
1806 to 1814, including the history of the 
celebrated Book, &c. The seventh , tra¬ 
vels of her Royal Highness on the conti¬ 
nent, the Holy Land, &c. from 1814 to 
1820, including the particulars of her re¬ 
turn to England. The eighth includes the 
period from the Queen's landing at Dover 
to the termination of her trial before the 
House of Lords. The first chapter of the 
second volume contains observations on 
the trial, and the character of the wit¬ 
nesses, together with a tabular analysis 
of the trial, and the ulterior proceedings 
in the House of Lords, &c. The second 
includes the period from the withdrawing 
of the Bill of Pains and Penalties to the in¬ 
terment of her Majesty at Brunswick. 
The third , and last chapter, contains con¬ 
cluding moral and political observations. 
The author of this work has been indefa¬ 
tigable in his researches, and in obtaining 
the most authentic information relative to 
the illustrious lady, of whose life he has 
here drawn an interesting, though lamenta¬ 
ble portrait. He has bad, too, the rare 
good fortune to have access to persons and 
documents, on whose veracity undoubted 
reliance may be placed ; and, therefore, 
this life of the late Queen is entitled to 
peculiar regard. The secret history of the 
first year after the marriage of the royal 
parties; the motives, here for the first 
time distinctly developed, which prompted 
the Douglas conspiracy; the documents 
relative to the Milan commission ; the ta¬ 
bular view of the charges made by the At¬ 
torney-General against her Majesty, with 
the answer to these charges ; and the do¬ 
cuments in the appendix No. 2, are those 
parts of the \\ ork which will unquestionably 
attract the most attention. The whole 
will, however, be perused with an inten¬ 
sity of interest and of feeliug, which the 
history of oppression and misfortune never 
fails to excite. 
We feel a pleasure iu directing the atten- 
„ tion 
