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improve her marine, and place it on that 
refpectable footing that may enable her, 
~ in conjunction with her vaftal ftates, tg 
difpute with us the empire of the feas at 
any future period. In the event of a war, 
India, as being the moft valuable and im- 
portant of our dependencies, will be the 
point of her attack; its there, on the 
coaft of Hindooftan, that we may have to 
ftrugele for our fovereignty at home; and 
itis there, that by every confideration of 
national policy we are invited to flrengthen 
ourfelves. It is not by fleets and armies 
alone, that we can preferve thefe diftant 
dominions. Let us reign in the hearts of 
the people, and a bulwark more powerful 
is erected, than even the walls of our glo-- 
rv. Letus attach te our caufe and our 
interefts both the wtives of the Eaft and 
the fubje&ts of Great Britain, by extend- 
ing to them all the bleffings which a mild 
and h-neficent government is capable of 
imparting 3 and, by fhewing to them, that, 
if we have reduced them to our dominion, 
it is only to improve their happinefs.”’ 
Sir George grows warm with his ar- 
gument: he.is animated and eloquent :— 
‘« Let us not fee the foreign flag ftreaming 
on the Ganges, to confer protection where 
we can yield it ourfelves; and to bear 
away to foreign Europe the wealth of our 
fubje&ts, when we ought to conyey it to 
our own fhores. Let us open the Thames 
to the flow of their gratitude, and the pro- 
duce of their foil. Let us caft off the fet- 
ters of commercial reftraint, and breathe 
the expanfive fentiment of national great- 
nefs. The natives. of India expect it from 
us—The fubje&ts of Britain:claim it. The 
voice of millions implores of their con- 
querors not to paralize the efforts of their 
induftry, but to allow them, for their reci- 
procal benefit, freely to extract from their 
foil and their arts all the advantages of 
which they are capable.” We-could pro- 
ceed with pleafure, but we have already 
indulged ourfelves with an extraé unufu- 
ally long. 
By an overfight, which with all our 
vigilance it is impoffible always to avoid, 
we omitted in our laft to notice Mr. 
Morrimer’s ‘* Leétures. on the Ele- 
ments of Commerce, Politics, and Fi- 
nance, &c.” They are intended as a 
companion to Blackitone’s Commentaries 
on the Laws of England, and the author 
conceives that they are peculiarly calcu- 
Jated to qualify young noblemen and” 
gentlemen fer fituations in any of the 
public offices under government, and for 
parliamentary bufinefs. © The Elements 
of Commerce. are comprehended in te 
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lectures: the three firft are employed in 
giving a Hiltory of Commerce, and in ela- 
cidating fome general principles on inland 
trade, agriculture and population. Lec- 
ture fourth, treats of manufactures; sth 
of univerfal commerce ; 6th treats of 
public commercial companies ; 7th of 
Colonies; 8th of infurances ; gth of the 
balance of commerce; roth of the ‘ad- 
miniftration of gommereial affairs. To 
this divifion, js fubjoined a conclufion, 
exhibiting a fetch of the education, ac- 
complifhments, and charaéter of a Bri- 
tifh merchant. ‘The Elements of Politics 
are alfo included in ten lectures, the zft 
contains introductory obfervations; lec 
ture the 2d treats of the law of nations, 
in which the general obligations of civil 
focieties to each other are difcuffed ; lec- 
ture the 3d treats of the origin of ga- 
vernments ; 4th of the different forms of 
governments; sth of their advantages 
and difadvantages; 6th of the origin of 
the Britifh conititution ; 7th of its pecu- 
liar advantages; lecture the 8th exprefs- 
ly treats of the prerogatives and obliga- 
tions of the King; lecture the gth confi- 
ders the rights and privileges of Britifh | 
{ubjects, with the duty which they owe to 
their king and country; and lecture the 
roth fketches the accomplifhments ’ which 
are requifite to form a conftitutional mem- 
ber of the Britifh parliament. The fub- 
ject of finance occupies but’ fix leétures. 
The rift is an hiftorical account of the 
nature of ancient revenues, and of the 
origin of taxes; the 2d treats of the 
nature and extent of the public credit, 
and funding fyiem of Great Britain. 
The jd exhivits the progrefs of the national 
debt ; lecture 4th treats of {tock jobbing 5 
sth of the Goking-fund; 6th ot taxation 
in general, and flates the amount of the — 
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national debt to the year 1801. 
Dr. ANDERSON has now fnifhed, in 
fix o€tavo volumes, his ** Recreations in ~ 
Agriculture, Natural Hiftory, Arts, and 
Mifcellaneous Literature.”” .He has com- 
pleted a work which communicates, in 4 
very pleafing manner, a great variety of 
very interefting and uweful information, 
and evinces an inquifitive and weil-cul- 
tured mind, Whatever becomes the topic 
of inveltigation, receives fome new lultre s 
Dr. Anderfon helds in his hand the torch 
of philofophy, which in ail his recrea- 
tions—-whether he explores the paths of 
(cience or of art—burns with a clear and 
fteady light. ; 
Mr. W. Betsvam, an honest anc vigilant 
politician,who fuffersao public meafure of 
importance (o efcaps hig animad verfion,has 
made 
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