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Stroud, together with mifcellaneous and 
practical obfervations. We ought to men- 
tion that Mr. CLarKE’s Ob/ervations 
on the intended Tunnel beneath the River 
“Thames thow that there are many defeéts 
in the prefent ftate of that propofiticn. 
Mr. Dodd is alfo known as the author of 
Letters to a Merchant on the Improvement 
of the Port of London, demonftrating its 
Praficability without wet Docks, or any 
additional Burdens being laid on Sipping, 
a5c. Mr. D’s fcheme is to make fuch an 
alteration in London bridge as that it will 
** admit of merchant veffels, fuch as ufu- 
ally navigate the pool (or larger if ne- 
ceffary) to pafs under it.” 
PouiTics. 
In our laft retrofpeét we noticed, flight- 
ly indeed, but in commendatory terms, 
an elegant little work of Mr. FEt- 
LOWES, entitled, A Prétare of Chriftian 
Pbilojophy. The fame gentleman has lately 
publithed Au Addrc/s to the People on tbe 
prefent relative Situations of England and 
france. This is, in our eftimation, but a 
very fuperficial performance, abounding 
much more in metaphor than argument. 
Te is worthy of remark, that Mr. FeUowes 
feems infinitely more. tolerant to religicus 
than political herefy : he can regard with 
complacency the difciples of Confucius, 
Mahomet, or Zoroafter ; but when he has 
occafion to mention the French direétory, 
he lofts all command of his temper. 
What confidence are we to place in an 
author who in one of his paroxyfms af- 
ferts that the direétorial defpots “ in the 
{pace of a few years, nay of a few months, 
have fned more blood, have fpent more 
treafure, have violated more obligations of 
humanity and of juftice, than the old. de- 
{potifm of Verfailles did 72 the courfe of 
ages, from the time of the fuft Capet to tbe 
mild reign of Lewis the XVI?” Mir. F. 
is a firenuous advocate for parliamentary 
reform; he oppofes the univerfality of 
elective franchife, but has not brought 
forward a fingle argument which has 
not been adduced a hundred times before, 
and a hundred times before been fatif- 
faGtorily anfwered. So far as the general 
tendency of this pamphlet is to create and 
cement unanimity among the people of 
this country to refift a French invafion it 
has our complete and unqualified appro- 
bation : at all times we will moft cordi- 
ally and aétively co-operate with Mr. 
Fellows in this patriotic and incumbent la- 
bour; we cannot, however, by any means 
regard his “ Addrefs to the People” as a 
work of high merit or fignificance. In 
she “* fecond part” which is publifhed of 
Retrofpedt of Dameftic Literature...Politics: 
the *‘ Copies of original Letters from thé 
army of General Buonapartein Egypt, &c.” 
the editor appears to be ftill more angry, 
and ftill more abufive than he was before = 
he had not fenfe enough to perceive that 
a fimple unadorned publication of the in- 
tercepted correfpondence would have - 
made a much deeper impreffion on the 
public mind than any expreffion of his 
ideot rage. 2 
Mr. Bow Les has obtrudéd upon us a 
republication of his traéts which have ap+ 
peared at different periods of the War 
he has called his work The Retrof/pe., Mr. 
Bowles’s politics are well known: his plan 
is openly and unblufhingly to avow, as 
the real obje&t of the prefent war, the 
deftruction of the French republic and of 
French republicans: whata mercilefs pro« 
{cription ! 


Fools that we are 
Never to think of death and of ourfelves 
At the fame time ! 
Mr. Bowles has dedicated his book—+~ 
“ To his moft Chriftian majefty Lewis 
XVIilI. king of France, Navarre, &c.” 
Mr. WyvILL, a_ gentleman long 
known and refpeéted, has vindicated 
The Seceffion from Parliament of the oppo- 
fition members, on the ground that fuch 
a feceffion, in addition to its conformity 
with the Jaw and ufage of parliament, 
when occafion is fufficiently imperious to 
require it, is an ante-revolutionary meafure 
a meafure which powerfully appeais to 
the reafon of the community, and does not 
in the leaft degree endanger its tranquillity. 
We perfeétly agree with Mr. W. in his 
opinion. 2 
Mr. Davip Rivers’ Od/ervations ox 
the Political Condudt of tbe Protefiant Dif- 
Jenters, Sc. are written with all the intem- 
perance and rancour of a profelyte. 
The Antyacobin newfpaper, a work 
which evinced much talent and political 
fury, is republifved in two oétavo volumes. 
‘Tie Poetry of the Antijacobin has- more- 
over been publifhed in a feparate volume, 
and the Beauies of it in another ! 
Mr. Penwn’s Timely Appeal to the coms 
mon Senje of the People of Great Britain, 
&c, is a defultory work, touching on a 
variety of topics in language which is 
oftentimes utterly unintelligible. Mr. P. 
propofes one very important innovation 
in.our national police: it is, to adopt a 
fyfiem of rewards inftead of punifhments. 
How far fuch an experiment might fuc- 
ceed on the large feale which is fuggetted, 
is not to be anticipated, nor is it likely to 
be wied. The plan, however, does honour 
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