£06 Retrofpect of Deme/ftic 
tion, and-refifted with all poffible power. 
Mr. Fry’s “ New Syftem of Finance,” is 
a {mall work, embracing a great deal of 
curious and important matter; the hu- 
mour of the ftyle is a very good relief to 
the drynefs of the fubjeét. 
POLITICS, Z 
As ufual, have employed a variety 
of pens: and although, perhaps, they 
do not, in general, difplay much depth 
of refearch, much novelty of remark, 
er much bDrilliancy of genius, for our 
own part, we feel no little fatisfaétion 
‘in the proofs which are evinced of the ge- 
neral attention which ispaid to the fubjedt. 
Ie is curious that Mr. Burke’s Letter to 
the Duke of Portland, which, it has been 
very neatly obferved, ‘¢ like a {nail from 
irs fhell, juft made its appearance and re- 
tired,”’ fhould again have put out its horns, 
and once more have crawled into notice; 
the executors of that gentleman are grati- 
fying, or rather indeed, aging in the pub- 
lic with feveral of his detached pieces, pre- 
vioufly to the publication of the pofthu- 
mous volume, which, we underftand, is to 
be added to the elegant edition already in 
three volumes quarto. ‘The executors are 
taking in the public, for ‘* The Two Let- 
ters on the Conduét of Domeftic Politics ; 
including Obfervations on the Conduét of 
the Minority in the Seffion of 1793,” 
which thofe gentlemen have publifhed, are 
under a new name; and,with but little ad- 
dition, the forty-five articles of impeach- 
‘ment againft Mr. Fox, which were fpuri- 
eully publifhed by Owen. ‘Thefe acco- 
modating executors have alfo publifhed 
Mir. Burke’s ‘* Third Letter, &c. on the 
Propofals for Peace ;” they have moreover 
informed us, that it is not an exact tran{- 
eript from the author’s copy! but it certain- 
ly bears ftrong internal marks of authenti- 
city,for itis a very common fewer of meta- 
phorical filthinefs. Mr. Burke’s ‘ Three 
Wiemorials on FrenchA fairs,written in the 
years 1791, 1792,-1793, contain fome 
fhort hints for a memorial, which the au- 
thor wifhed to have been delivered to M. 
Mentmorin, by Lord Gower, offering 
the interpefition ef the king of Great 
Britain, to reconcile the differences which 
‘then exifted in France. Ina former pro- 
duction, Mr. B. denounced about 80,000 
incurabie Jacobins, and in the prefent, 
this meek Chriftian has profcribed, in one 
mercilefs lift, moft of the diffenters of the 
three denominations, with the reftlefs 
who refemble them, of all ranks andall 
parties; the whole race of half-bred 
fpeculators, all the atheifts, deifts, and 
Socinians, all who hate the ciergy and 
Literature—Politics. [Sura 
envy the nobility, many of the monied 
people, and the Eaft Indians almoft to a 
man! Obe jam fatis! The following 
{pecious advertifement announced the pub- 
lication of much original matter from the 
fame pen; together with “‘ Memoirs of 
the Rr. Hon. Edmund Burke,” by 
Charles M‘Cormick, LL.B. 
The Injun&ion. , j 
“The regular fale of the above work 
having been prevented by menaces 
held out to the trade, the author is 
obliged to become his own bookfeller. 
But he begs leave to affure the Lord 
Chancelior, and the public, that he 
never had any idea of doing what the 
injunction forbids. Every reader of 
the Memoirs will be convinced, that 
if Mrs. Burke, Dr. Laurence, or Dr. 
King, had been in_ poffeffion of the 
papers from which the moft intereftin 
extracts are given, they would not 
have fuffered them to fee the light.’? 
In a “Second Letter to the Hon, 
Thomas Erfkine,’ Mr. Gifford « throws 
about his dung with an air of * fomewhat 
more “ gracefulnefs”’ than he did in his 
firft; his attempt, however, to exculpate 
England from the charge of agyreffion, 
refpeéting the origin of the prefent 
war, is, in our opinion, laboured altogether 
in vain. A fecond part is publifhed of 
the interefting ‘* Correfpondence of -the 
Rev. C. Wyvill with the Rt. Hon. Wile 
liam Pitt, in the year 1785, for an im- 
proved Reprefentation in Parliament -” 
this latter gentleman’s conduét will ferve 
as a moft curious text-book to future 
commentators; but all the fcholiafts in 
the world, cum nots variorum, will. be 
puzzled to reconcile his inconfiftencies, or 
account for them on any rational principle 
—bui a lofs of memory! In an « Impar- 
tial and Comprehenfive View of the Pre- 
fent State of Great Britain,” bythe Rey, 
G. S. Keith, the fubje& of retrofpective 
or, more properly, of retro:aétive is 
tion, is treated in a tone of becoming 
indignation: the author fuppofes, that it 
would only be neceffary for a man who 
poffefled a little animation of charaéer 
and who was charged for a duty by i 
retro-active law, to bring the officer who 
demanded it before fuch a judge as Lord 
Chief Juftice Holt, and “a proper jury 
named by him,” (why fo?) * and ¥ have 
no doubt,” fays he, “ of the event 3 for 
the people of England have never dele. 
gated the judiciary power-—they. exercife 
it themfelves.” Ina “ Curfory View of 
Civil Governmenr, chiefly in Relation to 
Virtue and Happinefs,” the author, Mr. 
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