Retrofpe& of Domeftic Literature.—Political Economy, &c. 
and by an.anonymous writer, who whim- 
fically enough figns himfelf «a Banker,” 
in another well-written pamphlet, enti- 
tled, ‘* Profufion of Paper Money not 
deficiency in Harveft(—Taxation not Spe- 
culation, the principal Caufes of the Suf- 
ferings of the People,” &c. * 
*¢ Propofals to Government for efta- 
blifhing that Syftem of Regulations moft 
favourable to the Keeping the’ Price of 
Corn at what it ought to bear; from the 
Quantity of Corm grown annually being 
accurately afcertained ; for the beft Mode 
of giving {uch Affiftance to the Cultivators 
of the wafte Lands, as fhall be fafeft to the 
Country, and moft advantageous to them. 
With Refleétions on the Advantages and 
Difadvantages of Country Banks ; alfo, on 
the Mode and Expediency of bringingGold 
into Circulation inthis Country, equally 
in Bullion as Coin.’ This auther is 
defirous of extending the excife laws over 
the corn-{tacks of the farmer: he wifhes 
the farm-yards to be occafionally vifited 
by that relpeétabie and popular character, 
the excifeman, the changes that have tak- 
en place in them, to be pubiifhed fonr 
times a year in the county papers, with 
the names of the perfons by whom the 
corn has been purchated, &c. &c. What 
a pity that we have no gagging bills, to 
ftop the utterance of fuch nonfenfe and 
abfurdity ! 
Although minifters were fo imperioufl 
called upon by the voice of the public, 
that they were compelled to repeal the 
tax upon income, and therefore, although 
it is become unneceffary to notice the many 
pamphlets which were written on the fub- 
ject, we cannot avoid announcing a traét 
by that very able economift, Dr. Gray, 
entitled, ‘* The Income Tax fcrutinized, 
and fome Amendments propofed to ren- 
der it more agreeable to the Britifh Con- 
ftitution.”” Dr. Gray, it is well known, is 
a powerful oppugner of Adam Smith, and 
a powerful fupporter of the French eco- 
nomifts: he confiders territorial income 
and national income to be nearly fynoni- 
mous, and that this, therefore, is aloue 
the proper fubjeét for taxation. But 
there is too much fimplicity in Dr. Gray’s 
fyftem, not to prevent its adoption: 
*‘that ten times as much money 1s now 
requifite for the fupport of government, 
as was neceffary an hundred yearsago, Is 
not owing to government being more 
wafeful or more powerful, but to the pre- 
fent abfurd ftructure of taxation, with all 
its {caffolding, which is more expenfive 
than the ftructure itfelf.”> True; but in 
erder to fupport its influence, govern- 
639 
ment muft keep workmen in pay ; and if 
the ftructure itfelf of taxation is built in fo 
fimple a ftyle of architeéture, as not to 
employ workmen enough, a complex {caf- 
foiding muft be ereéted in order to give 
employment to more. There is fo much 
good fenfe and found policy in this pam- 
phlet, that we hope it will notbe neglected, 
although the fubjeét which called it forth 
is now no more. 
«< The Sound and Baltic, confidered in 
a political, military,and commercial View: 
intended toilluftrate the relativeConnexions 
and maritime Strength of the Northern 
Powers; to which are added, Obferva- 
tions upon Egypt, and the Trade of In- 
dia, as connected with the Baltic, or Eak 
Sea. Tranflated from a German pam- 
phlet, publifhed at Berlin in April laft.” 
This pamphlet is written by fome one not 
unacquainted with the politics of Europe : 
the author is extremely inimical to this 
country, whofe influence alone appeared 
to prolong hoftilities among the contend- 
ing powers, by means of her intrigues, 
and the profufion with which the lavithed 
her fubfidies. Our conduét in Egypt ref- 
pecting the capitulation of Gen. Kleber, 
is feverely reprobated, and we are accufed 
of fuch a breach of faith towards the late 
Emperor Paul, as goes a great way to- 
wards juftifying his confequent behaviour 
towardsus. The author jooks with more 
jealoufy on the dominion of Great Britain 
over the feas, than he does on the victo- 
ricus march of the French Armies on the 
Continent, and enters into an elaborate 
vindication of the convention of the North- 
ern Powers: in fhort, wherever it is pof- 
fible to glofs over the errors of the French, 
or detract from the merit of the Englifh, 
he is very ready to become the advocate 
of the one, and the accufer of the other. . 
TuHeoLocy, Morats, and METaA- 
PHysics. Mr. Reeves, whofe excellent 
edition of the book of Common Prayer 
we noticed on a former occafion, has now 
publifhed, in nine oétavo volumes, “ The 
Holy Bible, containing the Old Tefta- 
ment and the New, tranflated out of the 
original Tongues, and with the former 
Tranflation, diligently compared and re- 
vifed.” The text of this work is printed 
in an unufual form; the modern divifion, 
comparatively {peaking at leaft, the mo- 
dern divilicn, into chapters and verfes, 
though not entirely done away, being fo 
modified, that the readers may now pro- 
ceed in aa unbroken line, without that 
harfla interruption which arifes from ca- 
pricious punéiyation and unfinifhed fen- 
tences. Although. the interruption of 
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