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he, which is placed in the very centre of 
the Mediterranean, poffeffing a port in 
which the Britifh navy might moor, and 
prefenting a coaft impregnable by any 
affault, if but moderately defended ; guard- 
ing the whole of the Levant, and effec- 
tually controlling the naval movements of 
France on the eaft in that fea. The pof- 
feTion of it to England, he conceives, wiil 
fet a limit to the acquiftions of Bona- 
parte, who will inevitably feize it, when-_ 
ever fhe quits her hald. Egypt, the gate 
and veftibule of the Eaf, as it is here 
called, follows; the bar to univerfal em- 
pire now ftanding in the way of that ftate 
1s removed, and France would foon be- 
hold a captive world at her feet! 
On a former occafion we noticed with 
approbation Mr. Frenp’s inftructive 
pamphlet on the Principles of Taxation. 
He has recently publifhed another, en- 
titled ** Patriotifm, or the Love of our 
Country 3’ an Efay, illuftrated by Ex- 
amples from ancient and modern Hiftory. 
A writer figning himfelf «A Liverpool 
Merchant,”” has addreffed to the {crious 
confideration of the Peers, a pamphlet, 
entitled ‘* No Slaves, No Sugar.” This 
is an ironical defence, conducted with ad- 
mirable dexterity, of the flave trade; by 
ftating, in plain and undifguifed lan- 
guag, the arguments of its advocates, 
this author has expofed the infamy and 
atrocity of the fyftems. 
“ The True Intere/t of the United King- 
dem prove in Tawo beneficial Plans of 
Finance; by Jos—EPH CoaD. 
_ Mr. Coap’s firt propofal is to value 
the Jand accerdine to its rent, from five 
to torty fhillings per acre, and impofe at 
once 2 Jaiid-tax equal to fuch rent, of the 
average value of twenty fhillings per acre. 
The fecond is for a poll-tax, varying ac- 
cording to the circumftances of the perfons 
impofed. He is for charging every indi- 
vidual, men, women, children, paupers, 
from twenty fhillings to twenty pounds 
each, and expéeéts fo to raife thirty mil- 
lions fterling annvally. What is this but 
an income or a property-tax ? : 
“<< Defultory Obfervations on the Property- 
Tax 37° addrefled to the Landed Intereft 
of Great Britain, by A LanpHOLDER. 
There are fome fhrewd remarks in this 
pamphlet, which is written by a Scotch- 
man, who complains of the property-tax 
as an infringement of the Articles of 
Guion. - 
‘“« Egeria, or Elementary Studies on the 
Progrefs of Nations in Political Economy, 
- Legiflaticn, and Government.” 
‘J his volume is evidently the preduCtion 
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of a man who has meditated deeply on the 
fubjeé&t which employs his pen, and at the 
fame time has made himfelf acquainted 
with the writings of legiflators and poli- 
tical economifts. Tie ftyle is animated 
and figurative, and the illuftrations are 
ftriking. 5 
Several pamphlets have been writ'en on 
the fubje& of Lord Melville’s cafe ; but 
as that ftate criminal is now under the 
pains of an impeachmen’, we fhould think 
it unbeccming to notice them: our readers 
may fee the title-pages in the Monthly Ca- 
talogue. 
We have read a very fenfible pamphlet 
entitled ‘ Thoughts on the National De- 
fence.’ The author takes a view of the 
various continental invafions which were 
attempted during the laft war, and from 
the uniform inefficacioufnefs of them, 
ftrongly reproba es the fyltem. Our~at~- 
tempts at L’Ovient, Rochefort, St. Malo, 
Cherbourg, Belle Ifle, Teneriffe, Quibe- 
ron, Ofterfd, Boulogne, Ferrol, the Hel- 
der, and off Cadiz, were alike unfuccels- 
ful, not to fay difreputable. The author 
recommends a fyftem purely defenfive, and 
as the moft efficient form of- defence, a 
vatt increafe of the militia 
“© The Oficial Defence of General Mo- 
vreau, before the Tribunal at Paris,” is 
tranflated from the French; the original 
is fuppref[ed in Paris. 
Mr. Foster, of Lincoln’s Inn, in an 
‘© Effay on the Principles of Commercial 
Exchange,’ has fhewn himfelf to be a 
clear and fkilful reafoner ona fubje&t of 
great intricacy and doubt.  ~ ‘ 
“6 Four Letters addrefed ta a Noble Lord 
on the Manufa&ures, Agriculture, and 
apparent Profperity of Scotland,” with a 
few Srrictures on the Speculations, Mo- 
rails, and Manners of the Nineteenth Cen- 
tury. : 
Thefe letters contain fome wholefome 
admonitions, delivered in forcible and 
animated language. The author fees 
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with a prophetic eye the haplefs confe- 
quences of an increafing expenditure in 
every clafs of fociety. The prefent ap- 
pearances of profperity may be delufive.. 
Speculation becomes every day more rafhe 
In the hour of adverfity the habi's of ex- 
pence will remain when the means of gra- 
tification are withdrawn. 
An Anonymous Author has undertaken 
to demonflrate ‘* The Fuflice and Policy of 
a War with Spaia.’ The vindication is 
as bad as the caufe: it is mnpofible to 
fpeak worfe of it. . . 
We recommend to the attentive perufal 
of all merchants and meanufaéturers the 
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