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it is to create confidence in the wifdom 
and virtues of the prefent adminifiration : 
it is to make us believe that our refources 
are almott- exhauftlefs, and that the effect 
of prolonging the war is to increafe the 
commerce and revenue of the country ! 
In the Analytical Review for April laft, 
this pamphlet has undergone a very ma- 
fiery criticifm : we know not, nor 1s it 
material that we fhould know, the author 
of it: but, be he who he may, we are 
forry that he was prohibited, by the na- 
ture of the work in which he wrote, to 
enter fo elaborately into the iubyeét as he 
would have done in a feparate publication. 
As it is, he has compietely invalidated 
many of the moft material ftatements in 
Wir. Rofe’s work, and of courfe has fhown 
that it is not to be implicitly depended on 
in any. We fincerely hope that the able 
author of that review may enlarge it, and 
pubiifh, in a diftinét pamphlet, a complete 
deteétion of Mr. Rofe’s Hattering and in- 
fidious errors. 
The only work which remains to be 
mentioned on the fubjeét of finance is the 
following, which is faid to contain many 
good obfervations, although by no means 
to difplay that compafs cf knowlege which 
is requifite to the political, ceconomift : | 
“© Three Effayson Taxation of Income, with 
Remarks on ithe late A& of Parliament on 
that Subje&. On ihe national Debt; the 
public Funds; on tke probable Confequences 
of the Law for the Sale of the Land-Tax ; 
end on the prefent State of Agriculture in 
Great Britain; with a Scheme for the Im- 
provement of every Branch of tt, and Re- 
marks on the Difference between national 
Produce and Confumption. 
PouiTicaL Giconomy. 
We are always happy when it is in our 
power to notice any additional labour of 
Count RuMrorp: his venerated name, 
when princes, minifters, and ftatefmen, 
when heroes and conquerors, the Zengis, 
the Timurs, and the Barbarofflas of modern 
times, fhall have funk into fortunate oblivion, 
or are only remembered in deep-tonedcurfes 
and execration—his venerated name will 
be pronounced with gratitude by the poor 
cottager, the mechanic, and day labourer ; 
and the benedi€tions of the fatherlefs and 
widowed will pay honour to his memory. 
Count Rumford has publifhed Propojals for 
forming by Subfcription, in the Metropolis of 
the Britifh Empire, a public Infitution for 
difirfing ibe Knowledge,and facilitating the 
veacral Introduction of ufeful mechanical In- 
ventions and Improvements, and for teaching 
by Courses of poilofophical Leéiures and Ex- 
periments, ibe Application of Science to the 
Retrofpedt of Domeftic Literature...Political Occonomy. 
common Purpofes of Life. It were fuper= 
fluous to enlarge on the benefits, which 
muft refult to fociety from an inftitution 
of this fort, founded on principles fo liberal 
and extenfive as the prefent. The two 
great objedts which will conftantly be had 
in view are, firft, the fpeedy and general ~ 
diffufion of the knowledge of all new and 
ufeful improvements in whatever quarter 
of the world they may originate; and, fe- 
condly, the teaching the application of {ci- 
entic difcoveries to the improvement 
of arts and manufaétures in this country, 
and to the increafe of domeftic comfort and 
convenience. We {fhould certainly have 
been tempted to have entered fomewhat 
more particularly into the nature of this 
eftablifhment, but that in a former vo- 
lume it has already come under our noe 
tice * ; we muft take leave of the prefent 
propofals, therefore, with fimply obfery- 
ing, that there is one article which ftrikes 
us as a deviation from that open, liberal, 
and communicative fyftem which in every 
other refpeét is moft {crupuloufly purfued, 
‘The article to which we refer is the fol- 
lowing: “ In order that the proprietors 
of the inftitution and the fubfcribers 
may have the earlieft notice of all new 
difeoveries and ufeful improvements that 
fhall be made from time to time, not only 
in this country, but alfo in all the diffe- 
rent parts of the world, the managers will 
employ the proper means for obtaining, as 
early as poflible, from every part of the 
Britith empire, and from all foreign coune 
tries, authentic accounts of all fuch new 
and interefting difcoveries in the various 
_ branches of fcience, and in arts and manu- 
faétures, and alfo of all fuch new and ufe- 
ful mechanical improvements, as {hall 
be made; and a room will be fet apart 
in the inftitution, where all fuch infor- 
mation will be lodged, and where ti will be 
kept for the fole and exclufive ufe and ine 
Jpeciton of the proprietors and fubfcribers; ang 
where no firanger will ever be admitted. 
We are indebted to Mr. RoBERT 
SAUNDERS, for fome excellent Obfervations 
on the prefent State and Influence of the Poor 
Laws; founded on Experience ; and a Plan 
propofed for the Confideration of Parliament, 
by which the Affairs of the Poor may in future 
be better regulated. In this volume Mr. 
Saunders takes a view of the fentiments 
of the various authors who have written 
on the poor laws, and appreciates their 
refpeétive merits with much judgment 
and acutenefs. The extenfive power of 
overfeers appears to him to be the root of 

* See Month! Magazine vol, Vii. p. 233. 
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