ada Poktics. «. Commerce... Law ... Medicine. f July 
batants. Mr. Wakefield’s vehen Mt, late immediate exertions for a refornt 
but cla‘fical, eloquence ; Mr. €Ss inthis particular. It is not furprifing, 
corrofive cauftic; Mr. The:wail ‘r+ that the late rapid increafe of the public . 
getic, but not intemperate declamaion; burdens fhould have given birth to pro- 
Mr. Brown’s and Mr. Adair’s firong jeéts for lightening them. Mr. Ben 
reafoning and {mooth urbanity; and the tham has deviled a fcheme, to the ac- 
Old Whig’s calm good-fenfe, and far- count of which he has given the bold 
cailic poignancy, have united, to give title of Supply without Burden, or, 
uncommon brilliancy and celebrity to Efcheat inftead of Taxation,” in which 
this controverfy. . it is propofed, that ail fuceeffion to pro- 
POLITICAL GCONOMY. - perty, vacant through the failure of néar 
The important department of Poxr- relations, fhould lapie to the public; and 
TICAL @CONoMyY has yielded feveral Mr. Tremleitt has fuggefted a plan of - 
ufeful produétions. The late fcarcity of reverfionary annuities; by which. he 
provifion called forth much humanity, hopes to afiift the Minifter in putting 
and fome ingenuity, in fuggefting plans off the evil day of account: but the dn- 
for. alleviating the temporary diftreffes jurious nature of thefe projes muf 
oi the poor; and the very important and prevent their adoption. A projeét of 
urgent objeét of the general amelioration ae but of more obvious utility, 
ef their condition has excited a confide- is ftarted in a publication, entitled, 
rabie fhare of attention... The “ Firft ‘‘ Confiderations on the practicability of 
Report of a Parliamentary Committee,” a more fpeedy Communication betweea 
has informed the public of the advances Great-Britain and India.” 
which have been made towards accom- COMMERCE. 
plifiing the great national defign of cul- + Pew publications have lately appeared 
tvating and improving wafte lands. of commercraL fubjedis. A work, 
Uteful fuggeftions, concerning the legii- ‘containing much mercantile Knowledge, 
lative regulation of agriculture, will’ Be and many practical hints fer the regula- 
found in Mr. Dirom’s “ Enquiry into tion of trade, has lately been publithed, 
the Corn Laws, and Corn Trade.” under the affuming title of “ Ab entire 
‘Count Rumford, an Enelifhman, in the new Syflem of Mercantile Calculation.” 
fervice of the Elector Palatine ot Ba- An unfuccefsful attempt has been made 
varia, lias diftinguifhed himfelf in ‘the to fuperfede the Italian method of book- 
firft clafs of human merit, as a benefac- keeping, in “ Jones’s Englith Syftem.” 
<o eo his fpecies. His report, o his Thofe who are concerned in that fac 
Effays,”” of the improvement, which  titioys kind of merchandife, called ftock- 
he has introduced into the flate of the jobbing, may be pleafed to be informed, 
poor, in Munich, muft be read with {hat a ufeful work on this fubjeét has 
pleafure, by every friend of humanity. heen publithed, entitled, “ Fairman’s” 
sIne¢ re ic x Vyenre” : . : 
A fimilar report 1s made of a fix years” Stocks examined and compared.” 
experiment in purfuit of the fame object, 
in Mr. Voght’s very fenfible and inte- Go fee nate, idea 
refeing’ ‘4 'ACcount ofthe Managementiog, QP SenS 2 LAW O88 gaa oka 
the Poor: Hemnburch.”? > “Thefe works with a new book of * Reports of Cafes 
Pi *~ *% = S <S i. - bs = Sa a ee ee x 
fhould be read by all legiflators and ma- the rg of pie M a quee 
= Sm } 7 vir. 
giftrates, and by every one who withes pul ORG geet Ae h a op ie a too 
to fee the condition of the lower clafles | ages Up 60, tie o gee a a 
improved. Farther hints, on the fame @' 178 3 and an improved edition of 
oa 2 = « : Se? Ps cp. . ef 
fubjeé&t, may be feen m Mr. Townfend’s C fae Lav Oh ee ae 
ingenious“, Differtationon: the -Poor- DSReae os, “Shee Se ee 
Laws?’ Some valuable information, and 0% the Right to Ty rhe a e e ground 
. > : i= S e - = ? he a a 
jut ideas, onthe fubjeétyaf penal law, © os paren es BS on 
Sr tices ee ia eof Tian, peared, which is*afcribed to thé sprefen 
will be met with in the Duke of Lian Pre. bet lor of Oxford 
, court’s ‘* Comparative View of Mild : : : 
? LAW. 
and Sanguinary Laws,’ cxhibiting the MEDICINE, CHEMISTRY, &c. 
good effets of the former, in the ceco- In MEDICINE, among the works 
nomy of the prifons in Pennfylvania. which may be entitled to be diftinguithed 
How ineffeétual the rigorous fyftem of from common-place medical productions, 
penal law is in this country, may be feen are, Mr.Adams's ingenious ‘“Obiervations 
.in “A Treatife on the Police of the on Morbid Poifons;° Dr. Ruth's ‘* Me- 
Metropolis,” by a Magiftrate; in which, dicai Enquiries and Obiervations;" Dr, 
facts are detailed, which ought to fiimu- Beddoes’s ** Confiderations on the Medi. 
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