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Tt is fufficitent to fay of the prefent 
volome that it bears the fame marks of 
induftry, accuracy, and judgment which 
have fiamped fo high a merit on thofe 
which have preceded it. In the pretace, 
the editors anticipate and repel any charge 
of inconfiiency which may be brought 
againit them, as being now the panegy- 
rifts of minifters, onthe ground that they 
have not gone over to Government, but 
that Government and its meafures have 
come to them. \ 
“The Afiatic Axnual Regiffer ; or, a View 
ef the Hiftory of Hindoftan, and of the Pols 
tics, Commerce, and Literature, for 1801.” 
It is much to be hoped that this work 
will receive from the public that encourage- 
ment and patronage which the interett 
and importance of its fubject, and the 
merit of its execution demand. The laft 
volume brought down the Hiftory of Hin- 
doftan to the clofe of the fixteenth century ; 
the prefent, refuming the narrative, with 
an account of the political and commer- 
cial fituation of the country at the begin- 
ning of the feventeenth century, embraces 
one of the molt mcmentous periods in the 
annals of India. This is the period at 
which ‘* the mighty fabric of the Mogul 
government had attained its higheft emi- 
nence, if not the utmoft plenitude of its 
power ; at this time too, commenced the 
conneflion with England by which it was 
deitined to be fubverted.”> The editors, 
by colle&ting that hiftorical information 
which is inacceflible to common readers 
from the fearcity of the volumes over 
which it is fcattered, and from the diffe- 
rent languages in which they are written, 
have unfolded the principles on which the 
political inftitutions and civil policy of 
that government were founded; have 
viewed the modes in which thele were 
practifed, and explained the effeéts of 
their operation ; they have fhewn the ftate 
of domefiic and foreign commerce in In- 
dia, and toe peculiar maxims by which 
it had been regulated in all ages ; and fi- 
nally have given an account of the man- 
ner in which that commerce gave birth to 
the intercourfe with England, as well as 
of the origin of the India Company and 
their infant eftablifhment. 
Among the hittorical acquiiitions imme- 
diately betore vs mult be reckoned  Dat- 
LAS’s Hifiory of the Maroons, from ther 
Origin to the Effablifbment of their Chief 
Tribe at Sterra Leone, including a State 
of the Ifland of Jamaica, €c. Se. 
A work of this nature has been long 
wanted, and we are glad to find it has been 
underraken and executed by this able and 
animated writer, who has here combineda 
Retrofped? of Dome/ftic Literatune.—Pilitics, Se. Se 
fatisfactory and faithful though bigef hif- 
tory of ourmoft valuable Welt India poflef- 
fions, with an exact defcription of the rife, 
progre{s, and termination of the moft bloody 
conflict our countrymen on that fide of the 
water have ever yet had to fuftain. 
Dr. Mavor, to whom the rifing gene- 
ration is already under fo many obliga- 
tions, and who has been juftly denomi- 
nated the “ The Children’s Friend,”’ pro- 
ceeds with regularity in his Univerfal 
Rijiery,, which is to be completed in 
twenty-five volumes, and the nineteenth 
is already publifhed. 
POLITICS, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND 
FINANCE. 
In reply to M. Hauterive’s De I’Etat 
de la France ala Finde ’An 8.” Mr. 
Gentz, a Pruffian, has publifhed a work 
entitled ‘* De Etat del Europe, avant 
& apresla Revolution Francaye.” 
Both thefe works are tranflated; the 
firft we noticed on a fermer occafion ; the 
fecond has but recently made its appear- 
ance in an Englifhdrefs. It is confidered 
as a matterly production, exhibiting the 
moft accurate, as well as comprehenfive, 
view of the actual and relative fitvations 
of all the European powers, antecedent 
and fubfequent to the French Revolution. 
M. Hauterive had {tated the balance of 
power in Europe and the authority of 
public law as having been progreffively 
impaired from the Treaty of Wettphalia, 
in 1648, till the era of the French Revo- 
Jution, at which time fearcely a trace of 
it was difcernible; he afferted that the 
revolution, and the wars which it occa- 
fioned, were the neceflary and natural con- 
feguence of this neglect of the ancient 
public polity among fttates, and contends 
that the power which has refulted to France 
in thefe confliéts will be employed by her 
in the eftablifhment of a new federal fyf- 
tem, better accommodated to the prefent 
condition of the European nations. He 
reprefents France as enjoying the zenith of 
happine/s and power: her fources as moft 
ample, her foil molt fertile, her geogra- 
phical pofition moft favourable, her people 
moft enterprizing, ingenious, and brave, . 
her counfels as direéted by wifdom and 
moderation, in fhort, every thing com- 
bining to conter on France the high ttile 
of the arbirrefs of Europe. 
T he objeét af M. Gent2’s work is to fhew, 
which he does in the moft fatisfaétory 
manner, that the French Revolution was 
neither produced nor jultified by any real 
diforder in the general fyftem of European 
politics, and that its confequences have 
been to fubvert that ancient and falutary 
fyftem without fubftituting any other in 
its 
