Retrofpect of Domeftie Literature.—Law. 
fakes, and rivers, by means of machinery.” 
The original expence, he conceives, would 
be five millions fterling, and the annual 
colt one million five hundred thoufand 
pounds. At any rate, Mr. Tatham has 
fuggefted a novel idea, and his book may 
be read with individual advantage. 
. LAW. 
Review of the Statutes and Ordinances 
of Affize, which have been eftablifhed in 
England from the Fourth Year of King 
John, 1202, to the Thirty-feventh Year 
of his prefent Majefty. By G. Arwoon, 
Efqg. F. R.S.” In this work is a vat 
fund of information: the fubje&t is im- 
portant, and Mr. Atwood has treated it 
with becoming care and caution. As the 
Legiflature of this Kingdom has for feve- 
ral centuries thought proper, by an affize, 
to endeavour to fecure the confumer of 
bread from impofition, and at the fame 
time to give to the manufacturer of it a 
fair compenfation for the time, labour, 
and capital which he employs, it is of the 
higheft importance to afcertain by certain 
calculations, and by the aflumption of cer- 
tain average proportions, as exifling 1, be- 
tween a given meafure of corn and its 
weight ; 2, between the weight of corn, 
and that of the flour it produces ; and 3, 
between the weight of flour, and that of 
the bread made and baked from it, fome 
fixed principles on which a table of affize 
may be equitably eftablifhed. Such, then, 
is the objeét of Mr. Atwood’s work: he 
has declined, indeed, to offer any opinion 
ref{pecting the proportion of allowance or 
profit which eught to be granted to the 
manufacturer of bread, but has endea- 
voured to ftate, with precifion, what the 
amount has actually been, according to 
preceding regulations, and what it is, ac- 
cording to the laws now exiting: alfo, to 
point out the principle on which thefe al- 
Jowances_ have been given, diftinguifhing 
thofe which are apparent and avowed, 
from others which .are either concealed 
from public knowledge, or are lels dif- 
tinétly exprefled. 
Mr. Cooke, of Lincoln’s-inn, has 
publifhed fome very neceflary ‘* Addenda 
to the fourth Edition of his own Treatife 
onthe Bankrupt Laws,” 
Dr. Roginson’s ‘ Colleétanea Mari- 
tima”’ is a colleétion of public inftsuments, 
&c. tending to illuftrate the hiftory and 
practice of prize law. 
«¢ An accurate and impartial Narrative 
of the Apprehenfion, Trial, and Execu- 
tion, on the sth of June, 1798, of Sir 
Epwarkp WILLIAM CrosBik, Bart, 
655. 
including a Copy of the Proceedings of 
the Court Martial which tried him; to- 
gether with authentic Documents relating 
to the whole of his Conduct, and the 
Proceedings againft him; publifhed in 
juitice to his Memory, by his Family.”’"— 
Sir Edward Crofbie was apprehended, and 
tried by a court-martial, ¢ for traitorous 
and rebellious conduct, in aiding and 
abetting a moft villainous confpiracy for 
the overthrow of his Majefty’s Crown, and 
the extinction of all loyal fubjeéts, and for 
e: deavouring to conceal perfons, knowing 
them to be engaged in the above-men- 
tioned project.” On thefe charges he was 
found guilty, and fuffered the fentence of 
the law : but it is the object of the pre- 
fent publication to fhew that he was un- 
juftly convicted, in confequence of im- 
proper evidence having been received, 
and admiflible teftimony having been re- 
jected. 
We are happy to obferve that the fub- 
ject of the poor-laws continues to occupy 
the attention of feveral gentlemen of great 
ability, experience, and legal information. 
The Rev. Mr. DuDLEY, a Juftice of the 
peace for the county of Effex, has pub- 
lifhed «‘ A few Obfervations on the pre- 
fent State of the Poor, and the Defeéts of 
the Poor Laws; with fome Remarks up- 
on parochial Affeflments and Expendi- 
tures.” An anonymous writer of fome 
*¢ Remarks onthe Poor Laws, &c.”’ has 
given a concife but comprehenfive view of 
the laws which, in different periods of our 
hiftory, have been made for the relief and 
employment of the poor, and has pointed 
out ina very forcible, but difpaffionate 
manner, the abufes in which the prefent 
fyftem is involved, by the introduétion of 
the Law of Settlements, in the Reign of 
Charles II. and by the departure from the 
principles and regulations of the ftatute 
paficd inthe forty third year of Elizabeth. 
Mr. SaunpeRrs has alfo publifhed * An 
Abfiraé&t of Obfervations on the Poor 
Laws,” with a reply to the remarks of 
the Rev. James Nafmith. D. D. 
Mr. Peake’s “ Compendium of the 
Law of Evidence,’ is drawn up with 
great judgment and correétne!s ; it is di- 
vided into three chapters, in the firft of 
which, the general rules of evidence are 
difcuffed ; in the fecond, the fubject of 
written evidence is confidered, comprifing 
the law refpeéting records ; and the third 
chapter treats of parole evidence. In an 
appendix are contained fome of the lead- 
ing cafes on the fubjeét of evidence, and 
fome M.S. cafes cited in the courfe of the 
work. ; 
we Z PoETRY. 
