Half-yearly Retrofpedt of Domeftic. Literature. 
Qyueftion as it fleod ia March 1798," isa 
pamphlet attributed to Mr. FRANcIs: it 
has obtained from the public a merited 
approbation for the perfpicuity of its. 
ftyle, the acutenefs of its reafoning, and 
the accuracy of its ftatements. A great 
deal of found, good fenfe, expreffed in 
ealy, intelligible and unornamented lan- 
guage, is to be found in a {mall -publi- 
cation, which we earneftly recommend to 
general perufal, intitled ‘‘ Peace 12 cur 
Power upon Terms not Unreafonable,” by 
QuHARLEs BaRInG, Efq.. Mr. LISTER’s 
“* Oppofition Dangerous,” « was written 
fome to our readers than ourfelves); 
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treacheuous and inhuman conduct.of the 
French officers and foldiers towards the 
peafants of Suabia, during the invation ot 
Germany in 1796. 
We could enumerate the glee: of, - 
various other political :publications, but 
the tatk, perhaps, would be no le(s tire- 
Pats 
ticularly as we are not aware of having 
oraitted any, whofe eminence, either in 
wiidom, ‘or in folly, merits enumeration. 
On the fubject of American . politics, 
however, trvo publications deferve atten- 
tion: the aim of Mr. Harper’s ‘ O4- 
when the ghoft of invafion frightened fervations on the Difpute between the United 
- us; it very properly | recommended us to 
forget all petty political difputes, and 
heartily unite to lay it. Of a fimilar na- 
ture is ** An Addrefs to the People of Great 
Britain,” by Mr. GEORGE BurcGEs. 
“<A ferious ped: alfo has been fub- 
mitted ‘ to the People of Great Britain,” 
by JAMES JOHNSON, Eig. a gentleman 
of minifterial politics, who warmly repro- 
bates the ungenerous artifice which many 
friends of government adopt, of blending 
and confounding the two diftingt and 
often oppofite characters of reformer and 
revolutionift. PETER PoRCUPINE, of 
no very honourable notoriety, has pub- 
lifhed a work, in two parts, intitled, 
«* Democratic Principles illuftrated by Ex- 
ample.” The name of H. R. YorKE is 
familiar to many of us: in confequence 
of a conviction for feditious pragtices, he 
was tentenced to a long imprifonment, 
during which period he appears to have 
_ undergone a gradual and complete change 
in his political principles; he has now 
publithed “* 4 Letter to the Reformers,” 
wherein he exhibits a full recantation of 
his former tenets. Knowing fo little of 
Mr. YORKE as we do, it would be highly 
unbecoming to join that generai voice of 
cenfure which, of courie, is ‘directed 
againft him by the party, whofe princi- 
ples he has deferted: Mr. YoRKE may 
be actuated by the pureft and molt ho- 
nourable motives ;, we enter not into the 
recefles of another man’s heart. <«* The 
Caje of the People of England,’ &c. is 
_ written by *< one of 80,000 RAED EENS 
jacobins,”” who, notwithitanding, appear 
to have a fincere refpeét for the form cad 
principles of our own conftitution; his 
pamphlet difplays ability and aterm 
tion. Mr. ANTHONY AUFRERE, as 
“© A Warning to Britons,’’. has publifhed 
<* from a well-authenticated Germau pub-; 
°°? 
lication,’’. 4 moft horrible, and, we. fin-. 
cerely hope, as every man of fecling mutt 
hopes an exaggerated relation of: the 
States and France,” is to criminate the 
latter and exculpate the former: it is a 
well-known and melancholy truth, that 
America is divided into two parties, the 
one acherent—perhaps through gratitude 
—to the French, who generoully itepped 
forward to aflift them in their ever-me- 
morable ftruggle; and’the other, yet at- 
tached to phe once parent-country, who 
are folicitous to preferve with it, their 
prefent alliancé. Mr. HARPER is a cham- 
pion of the latter; he enlarges in a ftrain 
of animated, indeed, but not very slo- 
quent inveétive, on the arrogance and 
unbounded ambition of the French Re- 
public; he developes her political ma- 
neeuvres in refpect to the United States, 
and confiders the object of her conneétion 
with them, to be the revival of ancient 
animotity between England and Americas 
reflecting, that this Tevival would evi- 
dently be attended with ftriking and im- 
mediate advantages to Braice, Thetfe 
obfervations, however, of Mr. Harper, 
it feems, are to be received with very 
cautious confent; for a late minifter ple- 
nipotentiary from the republic of Ame- 
rica to that of France, Mr. MuNRoE, 
has publifhed “ 4 View of the Coudud 
of the Executive in the Foreigsn Affairs of 
the United States, as con: netied with the 
Miffion to the French Repuslic during the 
Years 1794-5, and 6, wherein fome of 
the moft important ftatements of Mr.. 
HARPER are invalidated; not to fay in- 
tirely overthrown. Mr. MUNROE’s 
pamphiet is entitled to the greater refpett 
perhaps, finge it was not written in re; ply 
to Mr. HarPeER, but contains, an acci- 
dental. and unintended impeachment of 
his accuracy 5 Mr. M. has, moreover; 
illuftvated his»pamphle E, and given it in- 
difputable authority, by the infertion of - 
his own.diplomatic inftructions and core 
refpondence. Few aré the works which 
have come betore us onthe fubjects of 
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