Retrofpe? of Domeftic Literature....Political Occonomy. as 
almoft all the evils which attend on the 
management of the poor: Mr. S$. would 
feparate the duties of the overfeer from 
thofe of the colle€tor: the confequence 
of this feparation would be that men of 
talents, refpe€tability, and confequence in 
the parifh, who are now difgufted with the 
trouble of colleéting money, would be re- 
conciled to an office which is of the ut- 
moft importance, and would accept it, ex- 
onerated from fo troublefome and dif- 
agreeable a tafk. Mr. S. puts it down as a 
rule with fcarce any exception, that the 
parith which goes on pgradatim, encreafing 
its rates, is adding in the fame ratio to the 
mifery and wretchednefs of its poor, and 
vice verfa. In the year 1795 the rate 
that was granted in his own parith (Lew- 
ifham in Kent) was expended, and a debt 
of £100 incurred: a fubfcription more- 
over of £330 was raifed and carefully ex- 
pended for the relief of the poor. Inthe 
year 1797 the fame rate provided for the 
poor in a very ample manner, without any 
private fubfcription, and left the fum of 
upwards of £ 600 to pay old debts! “ If 
it fhould therefore be allowed,” fays Mr. 
Saunders, “ (which I truft it will) that 
there was as little or lefs wretchednefs a- 
mong the lower clafs of people in the 
parifh of Lewifham in the year 1797 
than 1795, my argument is fo far con- 
firmed by practice.’ Mr. §. acknow- 
ledges, and the acknowledgement does ho- 
nour to both parties, that his zeal in the 
caufe which has now employed his pen 
was confiderably roufed by the fentiments 
contained in Count Rumford’s Experi- 
mental Effays. May thofe fentiments roufe 
many others into fimilar activity, and-ac- 
tivity which may be equally fuccefsful in 
its confequences ! 
The Rev. Rocers Rupinc has pub- 
lithed A Propofal for refioring the ancient 
Conflitution of the Mint fo far as relates to 
the Expence of Coinage, together with the 
Outline of a Plan for Improvement of the 
Money, and for encreafing the Difficulty of 
counterfeiting. The fubjeét of coinage 
is here treated with an ability adequate to 
its importance. The author laments that 
whilft other nations have derived confi- 
derable advantage from their mins, Great 
Britain has for nearly a century and a 
half coined at a great and regular ex- 
pence, and has given that profit to in- 
dividuals, which might with more pro- 
priety have been applied to the public 
fervice.. The obfervations contained in 
this little traét are chiefly direéted to the 
coinage of filver: but, as the author ob- 
feryes, Many of them are equally appli- 
¢able to gold and copper-money: they 
are ftated to be the refult of inveftiga- 
tions into the ancient hiftory of the mints 
of this kingdom, which hiftory, we learn 
with much pleafure from the introduction, 
it is the intention of Mr. Reding to lay 
before the public. Refpecting the means 
of encreafing the difficulty of counter- 
feiting, Mr. &. is of opinion that ** fu- 
periority of execution alone can protect 
our money from being counterfeited and . 
debafed.”’ 
They that in quarrels interpofe 
Mutt often wipe a bloody nofe ; 
Such being the cafe, it is no more than 
prudent, on our part, to fpeak in terms of 
caurious encomium on Mr Woop’s Ad- 
drefi, delivered to the Committees of feveral 
parithes met to deliberate upon the pro- 
priety of incorporating for the better re- 
lief and employment of the poor, by the 
eftablifhment of a houfe of induftry. Mr. 
Good, however, will not be angry with 
us for being of opinion that our author is 
well acquainted with the fubject on which 
he writes, and that he poffeffes a feeling 
and benevolent heart. ‘* An enquiry into 
the truth of the two pofitions of the 
French ceconomitts, that Jabour employed 
in French manufaétures is unproduétive, 
and that all taxes ultimately fall on land.” 
This enquiry is carried on with acutenefs, 
but the arguments which are adduced are 
not novel: indeed it is not to be expect 
ed that very new fhould be urged on a 
fubjeét that has undergone fuch repeated 
and minute inveftigatkon. Our author in 
fumming up this difpute very juftly ob- 
ferves, * that the natural defire of men to 
better their condition, is the origin of the 
wealth of nations, whether their talents 
and their induftry are employed in agri-, 
culture, manufactures, or commerce.” 
Mr. Tatuam’s Remarks on Inland Ca- 
nals, however ingenious and however juft, 
will not enable the mere theorift to efti- 
mate the relative merits of the lock ana 
inclined plane : they will be ufeful to per- 
fons already acquainted with the fubject. 
It appears from Mr. Dopp’s Keporis 
with Plans, Seétions, &c. of the propofed 
dry Tunnel, or Pafage from Gravefend in 
Kent to Tilbury in Effex, that this vat pro- 
jet, far from being impracticable, is at- 
tended with fewer difficulties in its accom- 
plifhment than might at firft be imagined.. 
Mr. Dodd has dwelt on the great im- 
portance of fuch a tunnel, as well to the 
nation at large, as to the two counties in 
particular, In this work are incorporated 
reports on a canal from near Grayelend ta 
Streud, 
