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original reflections, however, and his 
general views, evince, we are afraid, fo 
little acutenefs and fo little philofophy, 
that the merit of them is too equivocal to 
give the author the {malleft claim to hi- 
ftoric honours. 
Weare indebtedto Ina ALLEN, Efq. 
Major-General in the Militia of the 
State of Vermont, for ‘* The Natural 
and Political Hiftory” of that S:ate. The 
object of the prefent publication is pro- 
feifedly to difclofe the orivin of thofe dif- 
putes, which for many years exifted be- 
tween the Vermontefe and the govern- 
ment of New-York, and to ftateé the rea- 
fons ‘* which induced the former to re- 
pudiate both the jurifdiétion and claims of 
the latter, before and during the Ame- 
rican Revolution.” The amicable and 
final adjuftments of thefe difputes took 
place in the year 1790, fhortly after 
which time, the ftate of Vermont was 
acknowledged and admitted into the 
Federal Union ;> fince which acknow- 
ledgement and admiffion, it feems to 
have continued in a ftate of progreffive 
profperity. In the year 1792, the popu- 
jation amounted to 85,589 fouls, and the 
militia was computed at 18,500; in the 
year 1798, the militia alone amounted to 
nearly 30,000! 
Iitical manceuvre and intrigue gave op- 
portun'ty for attention to more important 
fubjecis: feveral {chools for inftruétion 
were founded, and an univerfity was 
eftablifhed on the Eaft-bank of Lake 
Champlain, endowed with 50,000 acres 
of land, and fupported by voluntary con- 
tribution to the amount of 10,000]. An 
Englifhman fcarcely knows how to credit 
that the whole expence of government 
in the State of Vermont, from Oobér 
1, 1791, to Oétober 1, 1792, amounted 
only to 3,219]. 9s. gd. currency, (about 
241s]. fterling), and that the expences 
have not generally differed fince: Mr. 
| Allen affures us, that fuch was aétually 
the cafe, and ‘that when the fum in 
1791 was divided between the inhabitants 
of the State according to the cenfus, it 
was found that each perfon paid only 
fxpence threc-fartbings to government 
for the protectin of his perfox, liberty, 
and property > Well may he conclude 
his volume with a prayer, that all man- 
kind were as happy this minute as the 
Vermontele. 
Mr. Tooxe’s “ View of the Ruffian 
Empire, during the Reign of Catharine 
zhe Second, and to the clofe of the pre- 
dent Century,” could not have appeared 
at a more feafonable ume: in the polic- 
The fufpenfion of po-- 
Retro/ped of Domefiic Literature... Hiftery. 
cal convulfions of Europe, the Ruffians 
have taken a very attive concern; and 
their alliance with us naturally creates an 
intereft in their general charaéter and 
cuftoms. Mr. Tooke (who publifhed, 
anonymoufly, the Life of the late Em- 
prefs) refided many years in the empire, 
and was very amply fupplied with ma- 
terials for the prefent work, which con- — 
tains a vaft fund of information relative 
to the natural as well as the political hi- 
fiory of Ruffia. 
It will be learned with pleafure, that 
anew edition has appeared, revifed and 
corre€ted, of that moft valuable work, 
Dr. FErRGuson’'s -‘ Hiftory of the Pro- 
greffion and Termination of the Roman 
Republic.” 
Major OusELEY has publifhed a.duo- 
decimo ‘‘ Epitome of the Ancient Hi- 
ftory of Perfa, extraéted and tranflated 
from the Jeha Ara, a Perfian Manu- 
fcript :’’ The tranflator of this little work 
prefents it to the public, rather as the 
herald of another, than as claiming atten- 
tion from its intrinfic merit: we have, 
indeed, learned from thofe far better 
fkilled in oriental lore than we are, that 
the intrinfic merit of this chronicle is 
highly queftionable: its originality is fu- 
fpected: the chronological _confufion 
which is obfervable in it, has given rife — 
to an apprehenfion, that it is a compila- 
tion by fome modern writer, infufficiently 
acquainted with the antiquities of his 
own and of neighbouring nations. The 
Chronicle extends from Cainmuras, faid 
to be the firft Perfian monarch, to thie — 
death of Mohammed, a feries compre- 
hending 72 reigns and 3031 years. The 
work which Major Oufeley has it in con~ 
templation to publifh, relative to the 
hiftory and antiquities of Perfia, and for 
which he has already colleéted the ma~ 
terials, will form two large quarto vo- 
lumes, each containing at leaft 400 pages, 
befides maps and views, plates of in- 
fcription, medals and gems, engraved al- 
phabets of ancient charaéters, and fpeci- 
mens of writing, fac-fimiles from minia- 
tures in MSS. ) 
We have feldom completed our femi- 
annual article without enjoying the op- 
portunity of noticing fome publication of 
thag laborious orientalift Mr. MAuRICE. 
In our laf{ we announced the firft and 
fecond parts of the fecond volume of his 
*€ Hiftory of Hindcftan ;’’ this work is 
now brought to a conclufion, and evinces” 
to the Jaft the fame ardent fpirit of re- 
fearch which diftinguifhed t¢ at firft. In 
this third and final part, the Life of 
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