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ter to the Earl of Charlemont,” written 
with judgment and temper, on the fub- 
jeét of the defence of Ireland, ‘and pro- 
poling a plan fora Telegraph between 
Dublin and Cork. The late prefident of 
America appears with all the dignity of 
a wife and honeft ftatefinan, in his 
‘Letter to the People of the United 
States of America ;”’ a ftate paper which 
will remain as a model to governors, 
and a monument of the fuperior wifdom 
and unparalleled merit of WaASHING- - 
yon, when the petulant and abufive 
attack of Mr. Parne’s “ Lettex’’ to the 
Prefident will be forgotten. An alarmitt, 
in “A Letter to the Marquis of 
Buckingham, on the emigrant french 
Priefts,” has renewed the old cry againft 
Popery : in the prefent ftate of opinions, 
we conceive this writer's apprehenfions 
to be altogether groundlefs. A gentle- 
man, who calls himfelf an wuprejudiced 
traveller, in “A Summary View of the 
Prefent Population of France, and Great 
Brirain and Ireland,’ has endeavoured to 
convince the public, that the prefent 
population of the former is only /vteca 
millions, and that the number of inha- 
bitants ig the latter amounts to fowr- 
teen milffens: of the accuracy of the 
lifts of cities and towns on which this 
extravagant computation is founded, a 
fingle {pecimen may be futficient: the 
city of ‘Norwich, which certainly does 
not contain more than 40,000 inhabi- 
tants, is entered as containing 80,000: 
fuch grofs impofition deferves. the 
fevereft cenfure. 
. HISTORY. 
In the important department of 
hiftory, feveral valuable publications 
have appeared. Mr. Mirrorp, with 
whofe diligence of refearch, and folidity 
of judgment, the publie is well acquaint- 
ed, has publifhed a Third Volume of his 
‘© Hiftory of Greece,” in which he has 
given new proofs of his fuperior talents 
for this branch of literature. The ori- 
ginal and ufeful plan upon which Dr. 
Henry conftructed anew “ Hiftory of 
Great Britain,’’ and which he executed 
from the beginning of the Britifh hiftory 
down to the end of the reign of Henry 
Vill, is refumed by Mr. ANDREWS, a 
gentleman well qualified to do juftice to 
the undertaking: he has continued the 
hiftory to the acceflion of James I, 
and appears to have fpared no pains 
to enrich the work with great variety 
of fatts and anecdotes, and to em- 
bellith it with the graces of ftyle: we 
are willing to believe that this work 
will be carried on with great advantage 
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to the public, and great credit to the 
continuator. The period in the Scotch 
hiftory, between the antiquarian re- 
fearches of Sir Davin DadRYMPLE, 
and the modern hiftory of Dr. ROBERT- 
SON, has been very ably filled up by Mr. 
PINKERTON, in his ‘* Hiftory of Scot- 
land; a work, in which the hiftorical 
reader will find much new matter, col- 
lected from documents not till now 
brought to light, and will fee great rea- 
fon to admire the writer’s induftry, 
penetration, and impartiality. The 
friends of Britith freedom are indebted 
to Mr. OLDFIELD, the author of the 
Hiftory of Boroughs, for “ An Hiftory 
of the original Conttitution of Parlia- 
ment, from the Time of the Ancient 
Britons to the Prefent Day,’ in which 
the rife and progrefs of corruption and 
abufe are clearly traced. The ingenious 
author of The Hiftory of the Britifh 
Colonies in the Weft Indies, Mr. Ep- 
WARDS, has favoured the public with 
“ An hiftorical Survey of the Hland of 
St. Domingo,” in which important facts 
are well arranged, and elegantly nar- 
rated: we muft, however, regret that 
fo able a writer fhould be an apologift for 
the inigu'‘tous traffic in flaves, and fhould 
attribute to unworthy motives, the 
humane exertions of thofe who are de- 
firous of its abolition. The wonderful 
account given in Hermann of Unna, of 
a fecret tribunal, has produced a very 
curicus ‘¢ Letter on the fecret Tribunal 
of Weftphalia,’’ in which its exiftence 
is afcertained, and its hiftory traced up 
to the time of Charlemagne. An affeét- 
ing ‘* Narrative’ has appeared, “ of the 
Sufferings of Mr. Parmer and Mr. 
SKIRVING,” in which they are fully 
vindicated from the charge of confpiracy, 
and are faid to have been treated witha 
degree of inhumanity which. calls for 
juftice. 
The French revolution ftill continues 
to furnifh ample materials for hiftorical 
narrative and philofophical fpeculation: 
With a glow of fentiment in the caufe of 
freedom, which gives a boldnefs to his, 
ftyle, Mr. Sam. Perry, partly from ge- 
nuine materials collected,during a refi- 
dence jn France, has written “ An hif- 
torical fketch of the French Revolution.” 
The origin of this great event is clearl 
traced in an ingenious and candid “ Effay 
on the Caules and Vicillitudes of the 
French Revolution,” including a vindi 
cation of the charaéter of general La 
Fayette, who is maintained to be-a 
fincere friend to liberty. Another ‘+ Ef— 
fay” has appeared, * on the Ambition 
and 

