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Africans, 772 tbe.r prefent fiate of barbari- 
#y, would receive no adequate benefit. The 
merchants and planters would have flood 
much higher in our eftimation than they 
do now, had they inftruéted his Royal 
Highne(s to affure the Noble Houfe that 
means were already taken for the civi- 
lization and inftruction of thefe miferable, 
thefe degraded beings, and that a final 
period to their fervitude was bova fide in- 
zended, fo foon as fhould be confiftent 
with the welfare of the flaves, and the 
fafecy of the mafters. 
The “ Subftance”’ of the Earlof West- 
MORLAND’s {peech on the {ame occafion, - 
and on the fame fide of the queftion, is 
alfo publifhed at the requeft of the trium- 
phant Weft-India merchants and planters. 
Whoever reads thefe pamphlets, fhould 
alfo read another which was not printed at 
the requeft of the Weft-India planters and 
merchants, namely, the ‘ Subftance”’ of 
the Bishop of ROCHESTER’S {peech in 
the Houfe of Peers on the fame day, and 
on the fame occafion. The prelate argues 
againft the unfpeakable iniquity of this 
curfed trafic, with a tone of animated 
mdignation becoming his character as a 
Chriftian teacher, and as a man of feeling 
for the diftreffes of his fellow creatures. 
Major. CARTWRIGHT has publithed 
** An Appeal, Civil and Military, on the 
Subjeét of the Englifh Conftitution.’’ The 
firft part of this work has long been be- 
fore us: the fecond and third have the 
fame objeét in view, namely, the vindi- 
cation of univerfal fuffrage, and the efia- 
blifhment of an univer{al armament. Ma- 
jor Cartwright is not a political Hotfpur ; 
his propofitions are not thefe of an hafty 
ignorant enthufiaft ; they are the refult of 
deep and laborious refearch into the legal 
and hiftorical antiquities of this country. 
To the univerfality of drms our author 
attributes the flourifhing ftate of the 
kingdom during the reign of the illuftri- 
ous Alfred; the refifilefs authority of his 
laws, the energy of his civil and milttary 
power. Let any man, fays he, compare 
the internal tranquillity of thofe diftant 
times, with the frequen turbulence and 
confufion which have appeared among 
us: ‘let him take a retrofpeét of what 
happened in St. George’s Fields, of the in- 
famous conflagrations at Birmingham, 
and of the infernal proceedings in the ca- 
pital in the year 17803 and then let him 
afk nimfelf, 1f any of thofe events, fo a- 
jarming and fo calamitous to the people, 
and fo difgraceful to Englifhmen, could 
poffibty have taken place, had the fyftem 
of the immortal Alfred been in ufe and vi- 
Ritro/peét of Domeftic Literature....Palities, 
ba 
gour?”” ‘The abolition of mercenary foi- 
diers, and ftanding armies, conftitutes, of 
courfe, a part of Major Cartwright’s plan. 
An anonymous writer has undertaken 
a work of no common difficulty and dan- 
ger; he has undertaken to trace “The 
Rife, Progrefs, and Confequences of the 
new Opinions and Principles lately intro- 
duced into France.”’ In this publication 
is a moft ftrange m-xture of fenfe and 
nonfenfe, of tolerable reafoning, and 
empty contemptible declama:?om: wearé 
furprifed that a man who difplays oceafi- 
onal fafhes of intelleét fhould yield the 
moft unhefitating credulity to ali the tales 
of tne Abbé BARRUEL and Profeffor 
Ropison ; andthat he thould aétually re- 
commend to government, as the means 
of arreflings the dangerous progrefs of 
French philofophy, the abolition of the 
fociety of Freemafons, the regulation of 
the prefs, the qualification of book fellers, 
anda limitation of thetr number! The 
author, propofes moreover, that review- 
ers fhail be under the neceflity of difelof- 
ing their names: ‘for readers,”’ fays he, 
* will be highly cenfurable, and guilty 
of the moft criminal negligence and dan- 
gerous credulity, if they place confidence 
in the advice or affertions of a writer 
of whofe judgement and honefty they are 
entirely ignorant.”’ Now, the judgement 
of a writer is very eafily eftimated by his 
comvofitions, and as to his honefty—but 
readers, mark the confiftency of this gen- 
tleman ; bis own publication 15 anonymous. 
Dr. THORNTON has publrfhed a third 
volume of his ‘* Politician’s Creed ; or Pa- 
litical Extraéts, being an anfwer to thefe 
qucftions : What is the beft form of go- 
vernment ? What is the beft adminiftra- 
tion of government?” In this third yo- 
lume the following important topics are 
touched upon, accompanied with much 
excellent advice, and many valuable hints : 
the feverity of our penal laws; peniten- 
tiary houfes; employment of convicts ; 
tranfportation ; prevention of crimes ; 
police ; receivers of ftolen goods ; receiv- 
ing of bafe money; begging, public 
eftablifhments for the poor; the adminif- 
tration of juftice with refpeét to the 
poor; flavery, &c. &c. 
Mr. CHARLES TwWEEDIE, junior, has 
attempted to vindicate ‘ The Conduct of 
Great Britain again ft the Calumnies of Fo- 
reign Enemies and Domeftic Confpira- 
tors.” Mr. Tweedie has unfortunately 
employed his pen ona fubjeét which has fo 
frequently been canvaffed, that wé know 
not how to eftimate the merit of his per~ 
formance : the portion of original matter 
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