1810.) Mr. Jennings’s Reply to the Eclectic Reviewers. 
The revenue of the United States 
being principally derived fram duties on 
the importation of foreign merchandize, 
these have also operated as a premium 
in favour of Aimerican manufactures ; 
whilst, on the other hand, the continuance 
of peace, and the frugality of govern- 
ment, have rendered unnecessary any 
Oppressive taxes, tending materially to 
enhance the price of labour, or impeding 
any species of industry. 
_. No cause indeed has perhaps more 
promoted, in every respect, the general 
prosperity of the United States, than the 
absence of those systems of internal re- 
Strictions and monopoly which continue 
to disfigure the state of society in other 
countries.* No laws exist ‘here directly 
or indirectly confining man to a parti- 
cular occupation or place, or excluding 
any citizen from any branch he may at 
any time think. proper to pursue. In- 
dustry is in every respect perfectly free 
and unfettered; every species of trade, 
commerce, art, profession, and manu- 
facture, being equally opened to all, with- 
out requiring any previous regular ap- 
prenticeship, admission, or license. Hence 
the progress of America has not been 
confined to the improvement of her agri- 
culture, and to the rapid formation of 
new settlements and states in the wil- 
derness, but her citizens have extended 
their commerce through every part of 
the globe, and carry on with complete 
success even those branches for which 
a monopoly had heretofore been consi- 
dered essentially necessary. 
Washington, ALBERT GALLATIN. 
April 17:h, 1810. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
DID not expect to have occasion to 
{ trouble yeu with any thing which 
personally regards myself; but the Eclec- 
tic Review, for October, is just put into 
my hands, in which my poems are, I do 
not. say reviewed, but misrepresented 
anu misquoted. 
Surely it is the indispensable duty of a 
literary censor, to take care thatall be 
* Happily for America, there is no 
establishment of the pernicious operation of 
the Bank of England, which gives system and 
body to monopoly ia all branches of trade. 
tence the factitious value of every thing in 
England, and the general poverty and bank- 
Fuptcy of solvent traders and manufacturers. 
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done in the spirit of fairness, and for the 
interests of literature, otherwise such 
writers become mere pests. The prac- 
tices of anonymous_ reviewing have been. 
so often and ably exposed, that a reca- 
pitulation of the poverty and wretch 
edness of many of tis bireclings, must be 
quite useless, As I am so fortunate as 
to meet with two pages of plentiful 
Splashings from one of those wights 
aforesaid, I have to congratulate myself 
aud the pubhe upon the edification 
which both they and I shail experience 
from the same. Perhaps, however, this 
worthy descendant of Bayle can inform 
me where, in my poems, the foliowing 
lines can be found. I confess that I 
cauvnot find them exactly ; but a word or 
twe different, that is all. Buta word or 
two, Is net perhaps, in this critic’s esti- 
mation, of much consequence. Tie lines 
to which L allude, stand in my volume, 
I think, thus: 
‘s Durst interpose one single ray, 
Tremendous volies pourd, and thunder 
frown’d.” 
In the critic’s quotation, they stand 
thus: 
‘¢ Durst interpose asingle ray, 
Tremendous vollies pour’d, and big thunder 
frown’d.” 
Gentle reader, pray observe how harmoe 
nious the last line becomes, by the ad= 
dition of the word hig! Excellent cri- 
tic! Worthy director of the public taste ! 
And could’st thou find in a volume 
of about two hundred and thirty pages 
nothing more worthy of thy quixotic 
fancies than the disjecta membra of my 
boyish years? 
Of the greater part of the poems he 
says nothing: probably he was too much 
of a reviewer to read them through. 
However, of Lady Bianche he tells me 
something new: that ‘* she remained se- 
vera! years at the bottom of the water.” 
Indeed, Mr. Critic) DP thought. a few 
weeks only; bat you understand my 
writing better than I do myself, And 
then, sir, the poor Monthly Magazine 
could not escape! My pieces are well 
enough for that, but for a separate vo- 
lume, odious! Surely the Monthly Ma- 
gazine cannot be placed in competition 
with the Eclectic Review, and for this’ 
plain reason, because the Monthly Mad 
gazine lias, in all probabilily, one hune 
dred times the number of readers. 
J. JENNINGS. 
Huntspill, Nov. 8, 1810, 
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