586 Retrofpeet of Domeftic Literature —Statiftics and furifprudences 
the whole interior of Africa the muf- 
kets of Birmingham, and the dark-blue 
ealicoes of Manchefter, and to fend the 
packages to be towed by hippopota- 
mefles on to the negro-fairs of Houfia, 
fEgypt may more than refume the con- 
fequence fhe had under the Ptolemies. 
-Mr. Baldwin, however, does not ap- 
pear to found on fuch an expedation 
his eftimate. His information is the 
refult of long refidence and natural {a- 
gacity; and it terminates in”recom- 
_mending the retention of AZgypt asa 
Britifh colony. A very interefting nar- 
native is given of SirR. Abercrombie’s 
campaign. 
*< Beauties of Wiltthire, 2 vols. 21s.” 
This fplendid work does equal ho- 
nour to the artift and the author: it is 
feldom that the fame individual ‘can 
employ with fkill the pencil of the 
painter and of the enditer; like Gilpin, 
draw land{capes in acquatinta and in 
profe; or, like Angelo, immortalize in 
a fonnet and ina buit. The accounts 
of Stonehenge, of Salifbury Cathedral, 
and of Fonthill, are peculiarly in- 
terefting, Of the libraries of the gen- 
tlemen of Wiltthire thefe volumes will 
be a regular ornament. 
« Ee yee of the Malay. Tongue, 
ss. 6d.” 
Without pretending to decide whe- 
ther the Malay language defcends from 
that of Thibet, or of Arabia; or whe- 
ther it be a fea-port jabber, formed in 
the Indian Ocean among failors, by the 
mifhmafh of a hundred dialeés, like 
the lingua franca of the Mediterranean, 
or the xorfe of the Baltic, it may be 
worth while to record one obfervation 
refpecting it. The names of Mango 
Capac and of Oello, the founders of 
Peruvian civilization and of the race 
of Incas, are Malay, and fignify a man 
with an axe anc a ferpent. Confe- 
quently neither the Welfh, as fome 
Englifh antiquaries pretend, nor the 
Icelanders, as fome German antiqua- 
ries pretend, were the civilizers of. 
Peru, but the Malays. 
* STATISTICS AND JURISPRUDENCE. 
** The Queftion as to the Admiffion 
ef Catholics to Parliament confidered, 
3S." 
* The common expreffion, ‘ political 
economy,” fignifying city-houfe-law, is a bull 
in language: it was borrowed from French 
writers; the Italians lefs inaccurately fay 
economia pubblica. 
’ Tf we inquire for the feats of praéti- 
cal tolerance, we fhall find them to be 
trading towns. Venice fet the example 
of alleviating the oppreffion of the 
Jews in Italy: Florence tolerated Anti- 
chriftians; Genoa, Proteftants. In 
Switzerland, in Holland, every variety 
of fect has been feen to live for ages in, 
amicable contiguity, and to ferve in 
concert the offices of magiftracy. This 
is a natural confequence of the travel 
and intercourfe of merchants; they 
perceive fincerity in the moft oppofite 
fects, and infer that what religion caz 
do for the character it may do in any 
denomination. They experience the 
effential qualities of probity, fidelity, 
induftry, hofpitality, from Jew, Papiit, 
Proteftant, Deift, and no more afk What 
temple than what club he keeps. 
But in all the feudal nations, in all 
the governments by country-gentle- 
men, a-mighty ftrefs has been laid on, » 
church-going. A fon of the family 
preaches there perhaps; itis felt as an 
affront in the tenantry not to compli- 
ment him with a hearing. The pride 
of confequence is aroufed againit the 
independence of feceffion, and, as the 
chain of {ubordination is in a village 
very complete, the indifcipline of 
difient is commonly got under. This 
principle, fo learnt, is carried into the 
management of the ftate; and the in- 
habitants of towns, whofe opinions the 
novelties of literature often metamor- 
phofe, are to be drilled into deference 
for the opinions of men whofe rude- 
nefs has not yet afcended to curiofity 
about the opinions in difcuffion. 
This was very much the real hiftory 
of the perfecutions of the Reformation. 
May no American hiftorian fancy that 
any thing fimilar once prevailed in 
England; that by refufing to repeal 
the Teft-aét we almoft irritated the 
Diffenters into becoming *‘a perni- 
cious foreign faction ;” and, by refufing 
to take off the reftrictions on the Ca- 
tholics, quite drove a multitude of 
Trifhmen into conneétion with the pub- 
licenemy. The defolation of the fifter- 
ifand, the introduction of torture by 
flagellation into its jurifprudence, 
would be indeed an enormous price to 
pay for a queftion between a wafer and 
a crumb of bread. 
But let the people, on their part, - 
learn, that to no party has it-ever an- - 
{wered to purfue its ends by foreign 
aid; a minority has no right to it, a 
majority 
