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* to the author’s heart, and is deferving of fubje¢t on which he treats with attention, 
deep attention. and that he has produced a ‘work which 
Application of Barruel’s Memoirs of may be read at once with pleafure and in- 
Facobinifm to the fecret Societies of ireland + firuction. — 
and Great Britain, by the Tranflator of that — Neutrality of Pruffia, is a pamphlet 
work. This isa mere compilation, con- tranflated from the German: the writer’s 
fitting of an abridgement of the Abbé’s object is to urge that power to an union 
Memoirs, the reports of the Lords and with Auftria againft the republic of 
Commons of Ireland refpeéting the re- France: he obferves, with too much juf- 
bellion,and thofe-of the Britifh parliament, tice, that the continental powers could 
publifhed in 1794. The plot-making unite fer the partition of Poland; and he 
compiler of this pamphlet abfolutely fan- fays,what no one will difpute,that mutual 
cies that he difcovered a link conneéting fafety ought to be as powerful a ftimulus 
the Trifh and Englith affociations with to union, as mutual plunder. 
thofe of the German zlluminés! PeTeR PorcuPinté has written fome 
An anonymous auther has publifhed, in Remarks on the Explanation lately publifb- 
an elaborate pamphlet, fome Ot/ervations ed by Dr. Priefiley refpecting the intercepted 
on the Political Siate of the Continent, Letters of bis friend and diferple, 7» A. Stones 
Should France be fuffered to retain ber im- We have not feen Dr. P’s explanation, 
menfe Acquifitions;in which is reviewed the which, however, we cannot but confider 
whole Syftem of Aggrandizxement, and the to have been a work of fupererogation. 
probable Advantages which fhe will derive It is fufficient to fay of thefe “ Remarks, 
from the Subverfion of Italy and the Pof- that they are, like the reft of Peter Por- 
Seljion of Belgium on tbe Return of Peace. ¢pine’s writings, vulgar, and contempti- 
The conclufion drawn from thefe obfer- ble to the laft degree. _ 
vations is, that azy peace would be unfafe | Mr. JoHNSoNn’s Serious Addrefs to the 
with France fo long as the is permitted to People of England, on the Subjed? of a Re- 
retain her conquefis. ‘So thaken as we form, andthe Neceffity of Zeal and Unani- 
are, fo wan with care,” yet thallwe never ily in Defence of their Country,well merits 
attention. The author writes like a man 
who is fincerely defirous to diminifh the 
We may mention, asa political work, enemies of the government, and more 
a feleétion which has been publifhed in warmly attach toit the friends, by remedy- 
two 8vo. volumes, of The Beauties of Mr. ing thofe abufes in the church and ftate 

Find a time for frighted Peace to pant ? 
Burke. Thecontents of thefe volumes 
are alphabetically arranged, and have the 
advantage of a copious index. To the 
work is prefixed A Sketch of Mr Burke's 
Life, and many Anecdotes which efcaped the 
refearch of Dr. Bisset and Mr. Mc. 
Cormick. What reliance can be placed 
on the authenticity of thefe original an- 
ecdotes we know not, as the editor is ano- 
nymous. 
The Rev. Mr. FALCONER has tranf- 
which can have no fincere advocates but 
thofe who enjoy the partial and difgrace- 
ful benefits which flow from them. A 
great deal of matter relative to the vari- 
ous political focieties which have exifted 
in Great Britain and Ireland is to be tound 
in the “* Report of the Committee of Se- 
crecy of the Houfe of Commons,” which 
was ordered to be printed,15thMarch,1799. 
A tranflation has appeared of the Re- 
ponfe de L..N. M. Carnot, &c. to the Re- 
lated from the French of M. DuTENS port of M. Bailleul, relative to the Con/pi= 
~ The Tocfin ; or an Appeal to Good Senfe. racy of the 18th Frudtidor. It is now very 
This little publication is intended as a_ generallyagreed, that thisis a diabolical for- 
Warning againft atheifts, theifis, and gery of fome emigrant who 1s defirous te 
thofe who plead for natural religion, 
but proceed no further. M. Dutens 
fhows utter ignorance—for we are very 
unwilling to impute to him any motive 
of malevolence—in confounding atheifts 
and materialifts, and in confidering the 
latter as belonging to the former. 
keep alive the hoftility of this country 
againft France, by perfuading us, from 
feeming authority, that the dire€tory is 
determined on eternal warfare with ‘us. 
This forgery is one of the clumfieft that 
ever blockhead fabricated: both the ori- 
ginal and the tranflation were firft pub- 
' that Mr. D. feems to have ftudied the 
Mr. DyeErR’s Addrefs to the People of \ifthed by the fame Englifh book{elier ! 
Great Britain on the Doétrine of Libels, and The direétor Carnot applies to an Englifh 
the Office of Furor, more particularly in Cafes bookfeller to publith his work: this En- 
of Libel, breathes the fame fpirit of pa-  glifh bookfeller procures a tranflation, and 
triotifm which has ever diftinguifhed his fuffers the editor to write a preface, in 
Writings: it is almoft fuperfluous to fay, which the author who employed him is 
infulted. Nor is this all: the editor tells 
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