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printed, manuscript, and oral. The first 
of these are found constantly referred to 
in their preper places. The sources of 
the last it was impossible always to dis- 
close: where he could not do this, Mr.Coxe 
hopes for, and certainly deserves, that 
credit for integrity and good faith which 
he has always ‘hitherto maintained. His 
manuscript authorities commence with 
the accession of Charles the Sixth, the 
principal of which he thus mentions: 
‘* T have had the singular good fortune 
to obtain access to the papers of most of 
the British ministers at the court of Vi- 
ears from 1714 to 1792. These are, 
«T, The Letters of General Stanhope, 
Lerd Cobham, General Cadogan, and Sin 
Luke Schaub, who were sent to Vienna 
to negociate the Barrier Treaty, 
Walpole Papers. 
“ If. The Papers of St. Saphorin, a 
native of Switzerland, who was Batch 
agent at Vienna from 1720 to 1728. In 
the W alpole, Townshend, Hardwicke, 
and Waldegrave Papers. 
“ TI, The Dispatches of Lord Wal- 
degrave, dnring his embassy, froin 1728 
to 1730. In the Waldegrave Papers. 
“« IV. The Diplomatic Correspondence 
of Sir Thomas Robinson, afterwards Lord 
Grantham, during his long residence at 
Vienna, from 1730 to 1748, as well as at 
the Congress of Aix-ia-Chapeile, where 
he was plenipotentiary. In the Grant- 
ham papers. 
*“ V. The Dispatches of Mr. Keith 
during his residence as British minister 
at Vienna, from 1747 to 1758. During 
this period he witnessed the breach of 
that alliance with England, which nature, 
gratitude, and political interests, had all 
contributed to cement; and that sinister 
union with France, which, however vaunt- 
ed, however splendid and specious in its 
commencement, was the most fatal inhe- 
ritance ever left by a sovereign to his 
successor, and the most prominent among 
the vatjous causes. which nave led to the 
present humiliation of Austria and the 
pernicious aggrandizement of France. 
“ VI. But the documents of el others 
the most important, and without which 
I could not have completed the latter 
part of the history, are ‘contained in the 
papers of his son, Sir Robert Murray 
nese which commence with 1772, ter- 
minate at the close of 1791, and com- 
prise the latter part of the reign of 
Maria-Theresa, and those of Joseph and 
Leopold. 
‘«; VII. Besides these documents pe- 
sused at Vienna, 1 have bad recourse to 
In the- 
Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Poltiics, Kc. 
the extensive correspondence of the mi- 
nisters at home, or ambassadors in fo- 
reign courts, contained in the Orford, 
Walpole, ‘Townshend, Keene, Harring- 
ton, and other Collections, which are 
enumerated in the Prefaces to the Me- 
moirs of Sir Robert and Lord Walpole. 
“« VIII. Other papers of later date, 
delicacy precludes us from particula- 
rizing. 
On the subject of 
POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY, 
We have scarcely any thing to notice of 
primary ‘importance. The dismissal of 
his Majesty’s late Ministers, the Catholic 
Emancipation, and the attack of the 
British upon Copenhagen, have been 
among the foremost topics of our politi- 
cal writers. The latter of these subjects 
has certainly excited the most serious 
consideration. 
The Author of “ A Letter to ihe Right 
Honourable the Chancellor of the Exche- 
quer, on the Expediency and “Pr opriety ef - 
regulating by Par kanal Authority 
the Praciice of Variolous Inoculation, 
with a View to the Extermination of the 
Small Por,” confirms his own arguments 
by references to the policy of our fore- 
fathers, who provided regulations in all 
cases of leprosy and yeneral comtagion, 
in conformity to the old maxim, Salus 
populi suprema lex. | 
The principal Tracts upon the subject 
f the Poor are such as‘ have taken their 
rise from Mr. Whitebread’s Bill. Mr. 
Mattuvus and Dr. Jarrotp have both 
addressed their ‘* Letters” to its author ; 
Mr. Bernarp, his, to the Bishop of 
Durham. 
Mr. Bowxzs’s “ Strictures on the Mo- 
tions made in the Last Parliament,” are 
marked by that same zeal which it has 
been more than once.our lot to mention. 
An animated pamphlet of another kind 
will be found in the “ Brief Considera- 
tions on the Test-Laws,” mn a Letter to 
Lord Viscount Milton, by a Clergyman 
of- the Establshed Church. 
Mr, Wrtson’s “ Letter to Lord Gren- 
ville,” is, to say the least, unbecoming in 
its language. 
THEOLOGY, MORAL AND. ECCLESIAS- 
TICAL AFFAIRS. 
In Dr. Ansor’s “ Parochial Divinity,” 
we have avolume of no less than twenty- 
seven Sermons, the subjects of which are 
various, but enforced with a zeal and 
a which do great credit to the 
author’s feelings. One of the best Ser- 
mons is the first, on the beauty of morak 
Virtue. vy 
. Mr, 
