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expreffions ‘of execration ; for we .are 
-acquainted with no treafon again% the 
_ flate, or_againft humanity, more heinous, 
than that’ of fomenting implacable en- 
mity between contending nations, and 
ftimulating them to the favage ferocity 
of reciprocal extermination. - The fo- 
phiftry of Mr, Burke’s reafoning has 
been happily expofedin a mafterly reply, 
under thetitle ef * Stri€tureés, &c.”’ part [. 
evidently the production of a writer of 
eminent ability. Mr. TaHELWALL. has 
alfo commenced an Anf{wer,, concerning 
which, while we bear a willing teftimony 
\ 
to the writer's liberal principles. and: 
great popular talents, we muft exprefs 
our regret, that he has thought it necef- 
fary, on this occafion, to aflame a lefs., 
temperate tone than that of his juftly- 
approved reply to one of: Mr. Burke’s | 
former publications. Other ref{pondents 
to Mr. Burke have appeared ; of whom, 
Mr. WabDDINGTON is difpaifionate and 
convincing 3. Mr. Wittiams difcevers 
plain good fenfe, and a predilection for 
republican principles; and the author of 
the “ Retort Politic’’ writes with a rudeé 
freedom, but. ftrong argument... Other 
temporary political publications of this 
period we may mention : on the fide of 
Adiminiftration, “ Remarks. on the con- 
duct of perfons pofleffed of the Powers of 
Government in France ;” written. to 
fhow, that the French Government is 
an{werable for the war; and ‘+ Confi- 
derations on the State of Public Affairs 
at the Beginning of the Year 1796,”’ at- 
tempting to reconcile the nation to the 
continuance of the war. On the fide of 
Oppofition, Mr.O’Bryan’s ‘ Utrum Ho- 
yum the Government or the Country?” 
in which is forcibly argued the neceflity 
of fpeedily changing the miniftry, and 
terminating the war; Major Carr: 
wRIGHT’s “ Conftitutional Defence of 
England,” a {pirited affertion of the 
rights of Englifhmen; and Di. Bep- 
DOES’s “ Effay on the Public Merit of 
Mr. Pitt,” in which the portrait is 
fketched with a mafterly hand. Mr. 
BrRaNn’s ‘Hiftoricai Effay on the Prin- 
ciples of Political Affociation in a State,” 
4s an ingenious, but fophiftical work ; the 
reafoning of which, if admitted, would 
preclude the moft oppreffed people from 
all opportunity of obtaining the correc- 
tion of public errors, or the melioration 
of their condition. Mr. THELWALL has 
publifhed a “ Profpeétus of a Courfe of 
Leétures, to be delivered during Lent,” 
m which he propofes, within the limit of 
law, to deduce from ancient hiftory, 
Principles of political wildom, conducive 
Political Economy. 
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tothe happinefs of fociety. The re-pub- 
ligation of“ Dr. Towers’s valuable 
Colleétion of .Traéts,’’ chiefly political, 
is entitled to honourable mention. An 
important feries of ‘*.State-~Papers,”’ 
been publifhed by DEBRETT. 
(<> POLITICAL EGONOMY. 
--Mr:-Paine’s attack. on the credit of 
this country, in his ‘ Decline and Fall 
of the Englith Syftem of Finance,” has 
called forth feveral ingenious, and, in 
many particulars, fatistactory replies : 
Mr. Broome’s ‘ Qbfervations,’ &c. 
-Mr.S$mrru’s “ Examination,” &c. Mr. 
DANIEL. WAKEFIELD’s ‘*. Letter,” 
and. Lieutenant - Colonel CHALMER’s 
ee SURE an esa 12 aero 
Ufeful hints. for retrenching public 
expences will be found in a fenfible pam- 
phlet, entitled ‘* Confiderations on pub- 
lig Economy.’ The prefent method of 
providing for the poor is examined and 
condemned, in Sir W. Younc’s. judi- 
cious ** Confiderations on the fubject of 
Poor-Laws. and Workhoufes:’’ ‘The 
fae fubjeét is difeufled, with a fimilar 
refult, in Mr. Jones’s ‘* Prevention of 
Poverty, by Beneficial Clubs, or Parifh 
-Funds.’’. Many plans for meliorating the 
condition of the poor are fuggefted 
an. A-Letter to Sir J..SincLair,. en- 
titled, “« Thoughts on the High Price of 
Provifions.”. The defign of a general in- 
clofure bill is oppofed, in “ RetleCtions 
on the Cruelty. of inclofing Common 
Fields, as it will affeét the Church and 
the Poor.” An ufeful project is propofed, 
and fome ingenious information is com- 
municated, concerning the Method of 
‘collecting honey from bee-hives, in Dr. 
Letrsom’s * Hints for promoting a 
Bee Society.” Mr. PLAYFAIR, a zea= 
lous advocate for the prefent war, has 
written a piece which he calls ** A real 
Statement of the Finances and Refources 
of Great--Britain;’ in which he endea- 
vours, not very fuccefsfully, we fear, to 
prove, that the ftrength of the nation 
has increafed fafter than its burthers. 
The prefent ftate of internal police in 
our Eaft-India territory, may be, in part, 
learned from ‘“‘ Letters on the prefent. 
State of Government in the Province of 
Oude, addreffed to Sir John Shore ;”’ 
in thefe letters, a diftrefling picture ‘is 
drawn of the impoverithed ftate of this 
country, owing to the enormous fums 
drawn from it-by the Englifh. Cer- 
tain yvegulations, promifing to produce a 
happy effeét, are defcribed in a pam- 
plet entitled «* New military Arrange~ 
ments in the Eaft Indies.” Military gen. 
tlemen may be glad to be informed, that 
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