Retrofped? of Domeftic Literature. — Political Economy, Se. 
diabolical, purpofe of cafting fulpicion on 
the pure unfullied patriotifm of Mr. Fox. 
On a former occafion (Vol. XV. p. 
610) we noticed the able and fatisfactory 
reply of M. Gentz to Mr. Hauterive’s 
work: this latter has been animadverted 
on by Dr. CLARKE, in a pamphlet, of 
which the following is the title: ‘* 4z 
Hiftorical and Political View of the Di/- 
organization of Europe, wherein the 
Laws aud Chara&ers of Nations, and 
the Maritime and Commercial Syftem of 
Great Britain and other States are de- 
fended againft the Imputations and Revo- 
lutionary Propojals of M. Talleyrand and 
M. Hauterive, Secretaries of State to the 
French Republic.” 
A great many pamphlets have recently 
iffued from the prefs; our readers will fee 
the titles of them in the Monthly Cata- 
logue of Publications. To notice them at 
large would occupy that room which may 
be more profitably employed. There are 
fome, however, which are entitled to dif- 
tinction. The ‘ Subflance’ of the Bi- 
fhop of Landaff’s intended fpeech has 
already gone through feveral editions. 
After an exordium of great gravity, in 
which the right reverend Prelate enters 
upon an animated and juft evlogy of the 
conftitution of thefe realms, he proceeds 
to the fubject before him, which he di- 
vides into four parts: in thefe he pro- 
poles, firft, a new fyftem of defence ; 
fecondly, a new {cheme for paying off the 
national debt; thirdly, a plan for reliev- 
ing the Roman Catholics of Ireland ; and, 
fourthly, he delivers an exhortation for 
the repeal of the Corporation and Teeft 
Acts. With refpect to defence, his Lard- 
fhip propofes that the firft clafs under the 
Defence Act fhould be called out and 
trained to arms, not merely as a tempo- 
rary expedient to anfwer the prefent exi- 
gency, but that it fhould be annually 
continued as a permanent mealure of the 
executive government. He fates himfelf 
to be of opinion, that the population of 
the country would annually fupply at leaft 
50,000 youths who in the preceding 
twelyemonth had attained the feventeenth 
year of their age; in fix years, therefore, 
that we fhould have 300,000 young men 
fufficiently inftructed in the ule of arms, 
and that in the feventh 50,c00 of them 
might be difmiffed, as emeriti from fur- 
ther attendance on military duty, except 
when the country was invaded. ‘The ob- 
jections againft this immature plan are ob- 
vious, many, and infuperable: we fhould 
certainly have thought it incumbent on 
ws to have urged them heie, if they had 
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not already been brought forward in al- 
moft every one of our critical journals,* 
as well as in other productions. His 
Lordfhip’s plan for the liquidation of the 
national debt was broached by him ina 
pamphlet fome fix or feven years agos 
the objection againft it is its utter im- 
practicability. On the two laft topics, 
the reverend Prelate argues with his won- 
ted judgment, and adviles with his wonted 
liberality. ‘*I have always thought it a 
hardfhip (fays he) that a great majority of 
the Irifla people fhould be obliged at their 
own expence to provide religious teachers 
for themfelves and their families.—Juf- 
tice, I think, may be done to the Catho- 
lics without injuftice being done to the 
Proteitants. The Proteftant clergy may 
continue to poffefs the tythes of the coun- 
try, and the Catholic clergy may be pro- 
vided for from the public exchequer of the 
empire. I fee no danger which would arife 
to the eftablifhed church from fome fuch 
arrangement as this, and it would pro- 
bably be attended with the greateft advan- 
tage to the ftate. We think the Catholics 
to bein an error: they think the fame of 
us; both ought to reflect, that every error 
is notacriminal error, and that theirerror is 
the greateft who moft err againft Chriftian 
charity.” His Lordfhip fays, that he has 
by him the copy of a Letter which he 
addreffid to the Duke of Rutland when 
Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, prefling upon 
his-confideration the propriety of making 
a provifion tor the Catholic bifhops and 
clergy in that country ; and he tells us, 
that, he has been affured by men well ac- 
quainted with the temper of the Irifh, 
that had fuch a meafure been then judi- 
cioufly adopted, a rebellion would have 
been avoided, and Ireland would long aga 
have been tranquillized. The reverend 
Prelate, in perfect confiftency with thofe 
princivles of toleration which he has ever 
profeffed, is a ttrenuous advocate for libe- 
rating the Diffenters, a numerous, loyal, 
intelligent, and refpe¢table, body, from 
the reftraints of the Teft and Corporation 
Afts, 
Mr. WiNTER’s * Obfervations on the 
Temper and Spirit of the Irifh Nation af 
the prefent Crifis” are written with con- 
fiderable elegance; and fome “‘ Hints ox 
the Policy of making a National Prowifioy 
for the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland,” 
well merit attention. 
Mr. AnsTiz’s “* Obferwations on the 
Iinportance and Neceffity of introducing 
* See particularly the Critical for Deceme 
ber, and No, VI, of the Edinburgh Review. 
