Retrsfpect of Domeftic Literature Politics. 
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brief Vindication of the Rights of the 
Britith Legiflature, &c.” Jn this pam- 
phlet the learned author has fully refuted 
the letter-writer, even from the authorities 
which himfelf has adduced, and contends 
that the very words of the aéts of Par- 
liament, in exprefling that each law is en- 
aéted not only by apd with the advice, but 
by the authority of that body, direttly 
and peremptorily oppofe the doétrine of 
Mr. Reeves. This latter gentleman has 
expofed himfelf to public ridicule and 
difcredit in a‘¢ Third-and Fourth Letter” 
which are chiefly employed in replying to 
Dr Wooddefen’s vindication: This reply is 
weak and contemptible to the laft degree. 
Sir Francis D’Ivernois has again 
blown the trumpet of war: he has pub- 
lithed in one oétavo volume a * Hiftorical 
and Political Survey of the Loffes fuftained 
by the French Nation, in Population, 
Agriculture, Colonies, Manufactures, and 
Commerce in confequence cf the Revo- 
lution, and the prefent War.” A fober 
calculator, one who had really the good of 
his country at heart, would not, we fhould 
imagine, have confined his furvey to the 
toffes {ufained by our enemy; he would 
have direéted his attention a!{o to the loffes 
we have ourfelves fuftained in this terrible 
and ferecious confiiét: he would have ex- 
aminedthe effeéts of the war on owr colonies, 
commerce, manufactures, &c. and have ba- 
laneed the immediate and certain advan- 
tages to be derived from peace againft the 
remote and precarious fuccefles of war. 
Sir Francis D’{vernois, however, becaufe 
he finds out that the French finances are 
dilapidated; thatis to fay, that the ex- 
pente of the government exceeds its in- 
come, fancies that the reftoration of mo- 
narchy is a very feafible project, and calls 
amain for a coalition of the Eurepean 
powers to re-eftablifh the throne. 
Mr. HerperT Marsu, the able and 
learned tranflator of Michaelis, has pub- 
lithed in two oétavo volumes, ** The Hif- 
tory of the Politics of Great Britain and 
France, from the time of the conference 
at Pilnitz to the declaration of war again{t 
Great Britain; with an Appendix, con- 
taining a Narrative of the Actemprs made 
‘by the. Britifh government to reftore 
Peace.” In this work the author has in- 
defatigably laboured to throw the odium 
of the prefent war on France: he has 
ftudied with much minutenefs all the pub- 
lic documents which could be procured 
relative to the fubjeét, and examined the 
condition of both countries within the 
period of his hiftory. Numerous publi- 
cations have appeared on the origin of the 
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war by writers of high refpeCtability whe 
have maintained very oppefite opinions 
with arguments plaufible and ftrong. But 
with whomfoeverthe culpability sefts in the 
firfk inftance, there can be little doubt of 
the guiltof the Minifter in refufing to treat, 
for peace at one time, and in commencing 
an equivocal negotiation at another. 
OF thefe notorious faéts, we have the 
Minifter’s avowal in his ‘¢ Speech in the 
Houfe of Commons, February 3d, 15005 
on a Motion for an Addrefs to the Thrones 
approving the an{wers returned to the 
Communications from France relative to 
a negotiation for Peace.” his labored 
fpeech has pafied through feveral editions - 
it is a fpecimen of fplendid captivating 
oratory—mere oratory— fairs eloquenties 
fapientie parum, for its flatements wert 
invalidated and its conclufions reduced to 
abfurdity, in a fpeech—fuch an one as the 
houfe fearcely ever heard before but from 
the fame orator—in a.“ Speech” of the 
Hon. Cuas. James Fox which has alle 
been publifhed. We will not fuffer our- 
felyes to enlarge on the comparative ex- 
cellencies and demerits of thefe two juftly 
celebrated produétions, for reafons which 
it is unneceffary to ftate: they who feel 
interefted in the fubjeét may at an ecaly 
expenfe indulge themfelves with beth 
publications and form an unbiafled judg- 
ment for themfelves. The ‘¢ Speeches” 
of Meffrs. Dundas and Erfkine on the 
{ame occafion have alfo been publifhed. 
Joun Bow es, Efg. has given the 
public his “ Refleétions on the Political 
State of Society at the commencement of 
the year 1800.” The voice of Mr. Bowles 
like that of Sempronius, ‘is fill for 
war’—interminable war! maythe found 
of it never reach our ears again. 
A fellow of St. John’s College, Cam- 
bridge, has in a {mall pamphlet compretled 
fome fenfible ‘‘ Confiderations concerning 
Peace :” the author gives it as his opinion, 
that France is fully competent to maintain 
the relations of peace and amity; nay, 
that fhe 7? maintain thofe relations when- 
ever a peace is concluded, for the people 
of France will feel their intereft, fo deeply 
involved in it, that the governmeM§ cannot 
renew hoftilities without an appeal tothem, 
which he contends muft be inefieétual. 
The author of a pamphlet entitled 
‘‘ The Queftion Stated as it refpeéts Peace 
and War’’ adopts the fame opinion with 
the preceding writer as to the expediency 
of an immediate pacitic negotiation, and 
the probable permanence of peace: he 
argues with ability and fairnefs. 
The fame may be faid of Mr. Cross of 
Lincoln’s- 



