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majority no need of it. From Jere- 
miah the prophet to Sforza the Mi- 
lanefe, the importer of foreign force 
has been the misfortune of his coun- 
try. ' 
ah Roginson’s Colleétanea Mariti- 
ma.” 
This valuable periodical publication 
promifes to fill a chafm in Englifh h- 
terature. 
‘*Const’s Laws relating to the 
Poor.” 
A. judicious and to the magiftrate 
almoft effential tract. 
«© CLaRKE’s Survey of the Opulence 
of Great Britain, 5s.’”’ 
The national debt of Great Britain 
is already fo large, that its very amount 
is become an object of national vanity. 
It may be hoped, by funding the In- 
come-tax and the Tythe; by convert- 
Ing the five-per-cents into three-per- 
cents, which would increafe the nomi- 
nal capital; and by new contrivances 
of expenditure; that the file of figures 
which reprefents our ftock may yet 
_confiderably be prolonged; that we 
may fhortly have to reckon our debt by 
lacks of millions, and bravely afpire to 
extend it to a crore. Such a confum- 
mation would, no doubt, give-pleafure 
to this very encouraging writer, who 
thinks that taxes invigorate, and that 
the increafing price of moft articles of 
confumption is a caufe and a proof of 
unparalleled profperity. 
“‘ BuRCHELL’S Obfervations on the 
Income-tax, 1s.” - 
The Income-tax is affeffed by a fcale 
fo unfair, and is levied with fo quef- 
tionable an equity, that fome fubfti- 
_tute fhould be contrived. The prin- 
ciple of the double, treble, and qua- 
druple affeflments, was much more 
jut. A minifter of finance may be 
compared to a common pump; he is 
the beft who with feweft checks fup- 
plies the moft refervoirs in the leaft 
time. Mr. Pitt, in this department of 
excellence, is unrivalled. 
<‘ Examination of the Sentence in 
the Cafe of the Swedifh Convoy, by 
Profeffor SCHLEGEL, 4s.” 
Of this important publication two 
editions have appeared, the one tranf- 
lated by agents of the Britifh Govern- 
melt, and printed for Wilfon; the 
other tranflated under the author’s in- 
fpection, and printed for Debrett. Of 
all tribunals the lofers will complain. 
Suffice it, that the Britifh courts of 
jaftice are of all others the leaf unjuft, 
Comparatively {peaking, ‘they are no 
refpecters of rank, little of wealth, 
feldom of party, and, in caufes de- 
cided by jury, they arbitrate, without 
nationality, alien interelts.. It. may, 
however, be queftioned, whether, in 
thofe of our courts where the decifion 
vefts in the judge, fuflicient provifion 
has been made for habitual impartiali- 
ty. Sir W. Scott is not immortal, nor 
has his {pirit always animated his pre- 
deceffors. Why not introduce, before 
the High Court of Admiralty, trial by 
mixt juries, half alien, half (to ufe 
the jargon of the law) natural-born, 
In this cafe, a decifion hoftile to the 
interefts of foreigners could never be- 
come a juft topic of complaint from 
foreign powers, Whereas now it will 
always feem reafonable to be jealous of 
a judge, apparently difcretionary, and 
appointed by the Englith Sovereign. 
A more important part of this pam- 
phlet than what refpects the Admiral- 
ty-fentence of the 11th of June, 1s a 
difquifition relative to international 
law, which has for its object to prove, 
that ‘* by right of nature free fhips make 
free goods:’’ and that all arrogation 
of a privilege of fearch, not repofing on 
exprefs convention with the fearched 
party, is ufurpation, is defpotiim, is 
tyranny, and ought to be refilted (un- 
lefs indemnity be made) by war. 
' This doftrine is more alarming to 
our military than to our commercial 
marine. If the right of fearch were 
withdrawn, midfhipmen and admirals 
might have fewer prizes to partition ; 
but the rates of freight and infurance 
on néutral bottoms would decreafe, 
and, as fhips are eafily neutralized, 
trade would incur lefs change of path, 
during war, thannow. Itiscurious to 
fee claims repofing on general princi- 
ples and abftraét doétrines, patronized 
by the Court which collects the Sound- 
duties. On the grounds of prefcrip- 
tion and convention only, can a levy 
fo oppreffive to univerfal commerce be 
derenided. 
«© Remarks on Mr. Schlegel’s Work, 
by A. CRokg, 4s.”” . 
This perfpicuous, well-reafoned, and 
fatisfactory anfwer to the foreign Pro- 
feffor, may fuffice: yet in a queftion 
which depertds much on authority, one 
defiderates, perhaps, more pedantry o 
quotation. The argument from the 
analogous ufage in land-war. might 
have been adduced: neutral buildings 
and fortrefles may not only be fearched, 
but 
