Retrofpect of Domeftie Literature—Politics and Finance. 
ferent war's, their commencement and du- 
ration, in which this country has been eu- 
gaged. 
The author of « A Candid Appeal to 
the Nation upon the prefent Crifis, and the 
recent Change of Minifters,’’ highly ap- 
plauds the King for refufing to emanci- 
pate the Irifh Catholics, a body of men, 
again(t whom our candid appellant would 
wage open hoftility, rather than incur the 
dangers of pretended friendthip. 
A gentleman, who fiens himfelf a Bull- 
Dog has addreffed a Letter to his Grace 
the Duke of Portland, on the fubjeét of 
Catholic Emancipation in Ireland, where- 
in he contends, that if that body of men 
were once admitted to a ‘fhare in the go- 
vernment they would fooner or later prove 
the entire deftruétion of the Proteftant in- 
tereft. The Duke of Portland’s canine 
friend has no bad idea of worrying. 
Mr. NEWBERRY, one of the Commif- 
fioners ofAppeal for the County of Suffex, 
has publithed fome “ Obfervations on the 
Income AG, particularly as it relates to 
the Occupiers of Land,” &c, » Mr. New- 
berry is of opinion, that the income of 
farmers ought to be eftimated in a manner 
different from that which is now adopted, 
the operation of the prefent tax being 
particularly in their favour. The profits 
of the farmer have unqueftionably been 
high during the laft year: and we doubt 
not, but that Mr. Newberry, as a cam- 
miffioner of appeal, will find a confider- 
able alteration in the returns of their in: 
come; for the franiers of the act have 
blundered upon a plan which will materi- 
ally affe& them. According to the com: 
plex rules by which the annual value of a 
farm is eftimated, it is neceflary, among 
other e¢ ceteras, to add, the total of pa- 
rochia] rates: the more heavily, therefore, 
that a farmer is affefled to the poor, the 
greater is fuppofed to be his income. 
The rates of the farmer therefore having 
been throughout the year enormoufly 
high—in many places not lefs than thirty 
fhillings inthe pound upon the rack-rent ! 
—the returns of their income muft be 
proportionally increafed.—We are inclin- 
ed to fufpeét, that mercantile property 
pays much lefs to the income-tax than 
property on land. 
Mr. HunrTer, of the Inner Temple, 
has taken ** A Short View of the Political 
Situation of the Northern Powers, found- 
ed on Obfervations made during a Tour 
through Ruffia, Sweden, and Denmark in 
the Iaft feven Months of the Year 1800; 
with Conjectures of the prebable Iflue of 
the approaching Centeit.” It is but too 
- ftrong to be refitted. 
575 
common among the politicians of the pre- 
fent day, to reprefent the finances and fitu i 
ation of our enemies as delperate, and to- 
tally inadequate to the fuccefsful continu- 
ation of the conteit: this policy, which 
has fo often deceived us with refpe& to 
France, is adopted by the prefent writer 
with refpect to the three Nurthern powers 
with whom we were about to commence 
hoftilities when the pamphlet was com- 
pofed. The author, after glancing at 
the prominént events of the two lait cam-. 
paigns on the Continent, endeavours to 
afcertain, in fome meafure, to what ex- 
tent the Northern Powers can injure us, 
and enlarges on * the total hopeleffne!s on 
their part of ultimate fuctefs.”” The 
Emperor Paul’s fudden change of difpofi- 
tion againit Great Britain is obvicufly 
enough accounted for, by the childifh ca- 
price and ungoverned violence of his cha- 
racter. The naval force of Ruffia is 
ftated to be extremely deficient, and its 
commerce and revenue to depend, in a 
great meafure, on its intercourfe with 
Great Britain. The finances of Sweden: 
are reprefented to be in a very miferable 
flate; and thofe of Denmark, though 
fomewhat better, to be incapable of fup- 
porting the expences of a war, The au. 
thor gives a fhrewd hint, that the capital 
of Denmark is not fecure trom a fuccefs- 
ful aflault, fhould the enterprifing {pirit 
and fuperior fkill of our failors attack it. 
The battle off Copenhagen, fo honotirable 
to the bravery of the Danes and Englith, 
makes it decifive, that the former would 
have died to a man, before they wouid 
have fubmitted to the furrender of their 
capital ; for, notwithftanding the pomp. 
ous accounts which we received of our 
victory on that occafion, the internal evi- 
dence afforded by the terms of the armif- 
tice, that the engagement was little lefs 
fatal to one fide than the other, is toa 
Mr. Brann has addreffed ¢¢ A Letter 
£0; AANA RERSRE HS BigionsDorlaparte’s 
Propofals for opening a Negociation for 
Peace; in which the Buritith Guarantee of 
the Crown of France to the: Houle of 
Bourbon, contained in the Triple and 
Quadruple Alliances, and renewed by the 
Treaty of the Year 1783, ts contidered 5 
together with the Conduét of our Na- 
tional Parties relating to it.” This Let 
ter contains the fame vulgarity and abvie, 
which fo eminently difinguifh the politi- 
cal iquibs of this writer. 
An Ex-member of the prefent Parlia- 
ment has penned fome ** Thoughts on 
Parliamentary Reform, and-on Ketorm in 
