Retrofpeé? of Domeftic Literature—Political Economy, ce. 573 
brothers, Lay-fifters, and Servants ;°’ with 
their Duties and Rules of Praftice. Here, 
*« in order to check that fpirit of Monach- 
ifm and Popery, which has lately been ‘re- 
vived,”” Mr. Fofbrooke enlarges, with an 
offenfive minutenefs, on the vices and 
crimes of Monachifm: it is to be hoped, 
that the picture of enormities is here over- 
charged; at leaft, that fome virtues might 
have been introduced into’ the canvas, 
which would have afforded a relief to the 
mind’s eye. The fourth and laf part 
treats of monajtic offices. At the con- 
clufion are two detached little pieces, the 
one confiiting of «* Emendations of Bifhop 
Gibfon’s Vertion of the Saxon Chronicle ;”’ 
the other is an ode, entitled «¢ The Tri- 
umphs of Vengeance ; or, the Count of 
Julian,’ founded on an event in Spanifh 
Hiftory. 
“« Hiftory of the Rife and progrefs of 
the Naval Power of England, interfperfed 
with various important Notices relative to 
the French Marine; to which are added, 
Obfervations on the principal Articles of 
the Navigation Aét.* This work is 
tranflated from the French by Mr. Evan- 
son Wuire, who, juftly confidering that 
it might be ufeful to know what our ene- 
mies fay of us, undertook to make us ac- 
quainted with it. The anonymous author 
commences his hiltory fo early’ as the 
retgn of Offa, and relates inftaaces of the 
fovereignty of the ocean being claimed 
by the Britith in very remote antiquity. 
He confiders the foundation of our naval 
power to have been Jaid by Henry VII. 
who turned the attention of his fubjegts to 
their native riches, the wool ; the exporta- 
tion of which to the Flemings he entirely 
prohibited. | The fecond book—this 
work is divided into four—commences 
with the acceffion of Elizabeth, to whom 
is properly afcribed a very great extenfion 
of our maritime power. In the courfe of 
the work are interfperfed fhort narratives 
of the moft remarkable of our naval ac- 
tions: thofe which have been fought in 
recent times are not always recorded with 
the fame {pirit of impartiality. An Ap- 
pendix is attached to this interefting work, 
containing a lift of the thips which com- 
poled the Englifh navy at the death of 
Elizabeth ; and a table, exhibiting the 
naval forces of Great Britain at different 
periods, from the acceffion of WilliamIIT, 
tothe year 1777 3 together with fome cu- 
rious documents, &c. to which reference 
is made inthe work. The tranflator has 
thrown fome valuable obfervations into his. 
potes. . 
POLITICAL ECONOMY, POLITICS, aNp 
FINANCE. 
Weare truly happy to learn, that plans 
have been deliberately fuggefted and dif- 
cuffed, for ameliorating the ftate of the 
Jewifh poor, a clafs of beings miferably 
degraded and defpiled among men. It is 
true, that the plans hitherto propofed have 
not been generally approved of, or thought 
calculated for adoption ; but that the fub- 
ject has exciced attention, affords, in the 
prefent day, an affurance that fomething or 
other will be done towards relieving the 
poverty of the lower clafles of the Jews, 
and cultivating the morals of their off- 
fpring; and by this means refcuing 
them from that deep debafement, which 
has been the caufe of their proverbial cun- 
ning and.want of principle. ‘* Letters 
on the State of the Jewifh Poor in the 
Metropolis; with Propofitions for ameli- 
orating their Condition, by improving the 
Morals.of the Youth of both Sexes, and 
by rendering their Labour ufeful and pro- 
ductive, in a greater Degree, to them- 
felves,; and to the Nation.’ The Jews 
in England are ftated to have very much 
increafed within ticfe late years, as well by 
importation as by_propagation: the opu- 
lent part of the body is faid to be few; 
the middling clafs pofleffes. but little pro- 
perty 3 andthe bulk of the nation confifts 
of a very numerous poor, who, by their’ 
religious reftraints, are prohibited from ac- 
quiring a trade, unlefs they can find a 
mafter of the fame perfuafion, and from 
being employed 10 more than four days 
and a half in the week. As they are aifo 
prohibited bytheirreligion from partaking 
of the food of a Chrittian workhoufe, the 
infafficient fund of the fynagogue ts’ the 
only refource to which they can apply for 
relief. The firft of thefe letters is ad- 
drefled, by Mr. JosHua VANOVEN, to 
Mr. Colquhoun, in which he has commu- 
nicated to him his plan for ‘ relieving the 
hopelefs, inftruéting the children, and dif- 
tufing among them the knowledge of han- 
dicraft trades, without any infringement of 
their eftablifhed religion and cuftems.” 
This planis an appropriation of part of the 
poor’s rate now paid by the Jewifh houle- 
keepers, to the ereCtion and fupport of a 
Jewithh houfe of induttry, an hofpital, and 
a {chool; and the levying an additional 
rate on theJews, for the purpofe of colle&t- 
ing an adequate fund. The fecond of thefe 
letters is the Anfwer of Mr. COLQUHOUNs 
in which he gives the plan his approbation.) 
The third letter is a Reply from Mr.Van- 
oven, in which he informs the acute and 
philan- 
