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immediately affect the property of the 
church, and confequenily the refpectabi- 
lity of the clergy and the interefts of re- 
ligion, has reafoned in an able manner to 
fhew that fech a commutation would be 
unneceffary, unjuf, and impolitic. Feel- 
ing, however, im all probability, that the 
‘Tythe-laws are not im every refpect pre- 
cifely what they thould be, he has laid 
dows a plan for their amelioration. He 
fuggeits that an act might be paffed to 
enable clergymen, with the affent of the 
bifhop and natron on one fide, and the 
land-owner on the other, to grant leafes 
of their tythes and glebes for twenty-one 
years: and, in cafe of any difference of 
Opinion as to rent, that two arbitrators 
be appointed; one to be named by the 
bihhop, patron, and incumbent, and the 
other by the landlord and tenant. Er- 
neftly anxious, for our own part, that the 
interefts of agriculture fhould as mueh as 
poilible be confulted on the one hand ; 
and on the other, deprecating the flighteft 
infringement on private property and the 
rights of individuals, we with to fee this 
fubject fairly brought to iffue, and argued, 
pro and cen, in a calm and temperate man- 
ner, by gentlemen well qualified for the 
difcuffion. Mr. Cove hasthrown down the 
glove, and we hope to fee the challenge 
accepted; we cannot, however, avoid no- 
ticing that he has zmpoliticly been guilty 
of fome illiberal and indecoreus infinua- 
tions againft thofe perfons who are favour- 
able to a commutation for tythes: it 
furely does not follow that every man 
muit be a Jacobin and have fome finiiter 
Views againft the clergy, becaufe he dif- 
fers from Myr. Cove reipeéting the mode 
by which they may be moft eligibly main- 
tained: it is extremely impolitic as well 
as irrelevant, in a fubject of reafoning 
and argument, to irritate and provake 
perfonalities from a refpondent. 
From Political Economy we proceed to 
.the fubject of " 
POLITICS AND FINANCE. 
The late fearcity of provifions has oc- 
eupied fo much of the public attention, 
that, comparatively, few political pim- 
phlets have been publifhed within the laft 
fix months:—we fhal enumerate thofe 
which merit attention. 
An anonymous author has offered fome 
«* Obfervations ch the Commerce of Great 
ritain with the Ruffian and Ottoman 
Empires, and on the Projects of Ruffia 
againft the Ottoman and Britifh Domi- 
nions.”? The writer of this pamphlet, 
forefering the ruin of the Ottoman Em- 
pire in tre ambitious project, of Ruffia, 
and the feriows confequences te Great 
Retrofpeét of Domeftic Literature.—Politics and Finance. 
Britain and other European powers, whicla 
might refult from that acceffion of ftrength 
which Ruffia would obtain from an an- 
nexation of Conftantinople and the Turk- 
if) European Provinces, propofes that the 
Porte fhould cede to the King of Hun- 
gary, the two Provinces of Moldavia ‘and 
Wallachia, by which fhe would be fe- 
cured from being attacked. by Ruffiad by 
land, and that fhe fhould admit the Bri- 
tilh navy into the Black Sea, in order to 
fecure herfe!f from any naval impreffions — 
from her inveterate foe. Is not this like 
advifing a man to give away his money 
left it fhould be ftolen from him ? 
The author of “Letters on the real Caufes 
and probable Confequences of the prefent 
War with Rufiia,” confiders the Emperor 
Paul to have held up his defire of the 
poflefion of Malta, as a fcreen for the 
concealment of his ambitious views on 
Turkey. There is little doubt but that 
Paul would have had no objection to the 
attainment of the latter, but we fee norea- 
fon to believe that he would have fub- 
mitted to the ceffion of the former. 
The author of ‘* Financial Faéts of the - 
Eighteenth Century,” &c. labours-hard to 
thew cur ability to continue the prefent 
conteft: he endeavours to prove, that the 
commerce and riches of the country have 
increafed with its increafing revenue, and 
that our profperity will continue on the 
return of peace. ‘This political pilot fees 
nothing before him but fair weather :— 
in his gaily-gilded veffel fit <¢ youth on the 
prow, and pleafure at the helm;” but.we 
are afraid of trufting to his “nautical 
knowledge in this tempeftuous fea. © 
Mr. BowLés, a gentleman of confider- 
able notoriety, has prefented the public 
with fome ‘ Reflections on the Political 
State of Society at the Clofe of the Eigh- 
teenth Century.’? ‘They who havea tafte 
for the Reflections of this writer may in- 
dulge it at the eafy expence of five fhiliings 
— We have net. ae 
The foliowing is a ufeful compilations » 
*¢ Opinions of his Majefty’s Minifters re- 
{peGting the French Revolution, the War, 
&c. from 1790 to 1801, chronologically 
arranged: fele€ted from the Speeches in 
Parliament; with Extraéts from the 
Speeches of the Oppofition, compiled by 
James BANNANTINE.” 
‘© The Minifterial Regifter,”” &c. isa 
very ufeful folio fheet chart, exhibiting a, 
bird’s-eye-view of the feries of adminiftra- 
tion, from the acceffion of his Majefty, in. 
“the year 1760, to 1800: on one fide of 
this chart are marked the different Parlia- 
ments under which thefe adminiftrations 
have fubfifted; and on the other, the dif- 
ferent 
