Retrofpest of Domeftic Literature. Pelitics, Finance, Se. 
Official Correfpondence, all the charges 
broucht againft the’ French, which he 
_yeduces to eight, and’ examines fepa- 
rately and minutely, endeavouring to 
fhow that France had withdrawn all 
thofe imperious demands upon this 
country which gave fo juit offence, and 
therefore that we bad/no right to quar- 
rel with her. 
mercial agents into the country ; we 
turn them out again, and fay, No, 
they (ball not come here. They afk, 
Will you fend away the emigrants, and 
defire the Bourbons to retire? We an- 
fwer, No.—Wéill you fupprefs the abufe 
of us in your newipapers, and puta 
ftop to thefe {¢andalous publications ? 
We repeat,No. And are wenot con- 
tent? Are we fo tefty and fo quarrel- 
fome,. we will not’ fwbmit to be folicit- 
ed, but muf accompany our refufal 
with a blow—enforce’ our negative 
with ‘war? then’ca!l ourfelvew degrad- 
ed, vilifiedjand infulted—our laws and 
conftitution) endangered—the liberty 
of our prefs invaded?’ Haughty. Bri- 
tons ! beware how ye merit the name 
too often applied, of proud, overbear- 
ing, infolent, iflanders.” 
To this pamphlet two very able re- 
plies have been given; one {aid to he 
written by Mr. BraGce, intitled, 
<< The Reafon why’? in which, what- 
ever fophiftry there may be in Mr. 
Fox’s “© Quettion,” 1s detected and ex- 
pofed. Mr.’ Bragge meets his antago- 
nift with great vigour, contends with 
great fkill, and tas defended the con- 
duct of the Britifii’ Miniitry with much 
ability, . 
Some ** Obfervations” on’ Mr. Fox’s 
pamphlet, in a Letrer toa Friend, are 
exceedingly well worthy of pernfal, al- 
though theauthor has not the gladia- 
torial powers of his opponent. 
To-thefe replies a very acute, ‘if not 
fatisfactory, rejbinder has been given 
by the original interrogator. Indeed 
the whole controverfy is conduéted 
with unufual ipirit and ability. 
‘¢ Elements of Oppoftion,’’ an ironical 
attack upon all thoie who have waged 
parliamentary, or extra-parliamentary, 
war againit the prefent Adminiftration. 
Acbout half a hundred rules are laid 
down for conduéting an Oppoilition, 
profefled to be drawn from the {peeches 
or writings of the perfons above-men- 
tioned, {ome of whom, particularly the 
Windham party, are caftigated with 
deferved feverity. It is altogether well 
~Montury Mae. Ng, ix0. 
‘¢ The French fend com-— 
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done; thedatire is humourcus, but the 
humour is always fatirical. 
An anonymous author has given us 
fome very {pirited ** RefleZions on the 
Caufesof the War, and on the ConduG of 
bis Majefiy’s Minziffers.” 
8 A fummary Account of Leibnitz’s 
Memoir addreffed to Louis XIV ©. 
The original of this curious Memoir 
was written in Latin, and we are not 
informed by what means the editor ob- 
tained?it. The philofopher Leibnitz 
faw diftinétly the immenfe importance 
which the pofleflion of Egypt would 
be to France; and when Louis XIV. 
whofe ambition, he thought, would be 
gratified by the congueft, had prepared 
an expedition again{t Holland, he en- 
deavoured to perfuade him to change 
its déftination, and employ it againtt 
that country. In a Memoir addrefied 
to that Monarch, Leibnitz pointed 
out all the advantages which would 
refult from the expedition, and the fa- 
cility with which. the country might 
be conquered. , The expedition which, 
in the year 1798, failed under Bona- 
parte, was only the eventual accom- 
plifhment and exact execution of this 
plan—of a plan fuggelted by a German 
philofopher toa Prince of the Houfe 
of Bourbon, and which had been trea- 
{ured tor more than a century among 
the fecrets of ffate at Verfailles—wait- 
ing for its accomplifhment in the per- 
fon of a Corfican.Ufurper of his here- 
ditary throne 4 
“¢ ‘Sketches ou the intrinfic Strength, Mi- 
litary aid Naval Force, of France and 
Rufiia; with Remarks on their prefent 
Connection, political infiuence, and future 
Projets. Part te" | 
Theauthor of thefe valuableSketches 
feems to have made himfelf accurately 
acquainted with tne refources, fitua- 
tions, and eftabhithments, relative and 
intrinfic, of mo of the European 
Powers; he throws a_ retrofpective 
glance on their paft meafures, and 
points out, what he conceives to be, 
their Jine of policy for the future.— 
Fle looks upon the political power and. 
military force of continental Europe as 
concentered in the Governments. of 
France and Ruflia. North. of the Da- 
nube and the.Elbe to, the Frozen, 
Qcean is under the dominion of Ruf- 
fia, and continental Europe to. the; 
fouth of thofe rivers is directly or indie, 
rectly fubject to France. When thefe 
two mighty States, therefore, are’ in. 
hg Ns good 
