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furnish some useful assistance to the po- 
hitical economist: but it should not have 
been ealled a short Inquiry. 
As a Sup, aiement to this work, Mr. 
WEYLAND, jun. its author, has published 
some “ Observations on Mr. Whitbread’s 
Kil/;” in the conclusion of which he ex- 
presses a wish that it may be the first 
stone in the foundation of a strong and 
uniform edifice for the comfort of future 
generations. 
Connected in some degree with the 
same object is Mr. Corguuoun’s 
“ Treatise on Indigence, exhibiting « 
general View of the National Lesourees 
jor productwwe Labour; with Proposi- 
gens for ameliorating the Condition 2 
the Poor, and improving the Moral 
Habits, and iacreasing the Comforts of 
the labouring People, particularly the 
rising Generation.”—In contemplating 
the ailairs of the poor, Mr. Colquhoun 
deems it necessary, in the first instance, 
to have a clear conception of the dis- 
tinction between indigence and poverty. 
Suggestions are next “olfcred for legisla- 
tive intervention, and “a board of Pau- 
per and general Police,” “a Police Ga- 
vette,” &c. proposed. Other labours of 
the same tendency have long entitled 
the author of this treatise to the ap- 
probation of the public. 
“< The Substance of the Speech of the 
Right Honourable Lord Henry Perry, 
en a Metion to bring ina Bill to provide 
for the more effe ectuul Examination of the 
“Public Accounts, and for the better Disco- 
wery of Frauds,” forms a pamphiet well 
deserving of attention. It explains a 
great deal that ought to be corrected in 
the examining, passing, and auditing the 
public accounts. 
“ The Substance of another Speech,” de- 
livered by the sawwe noble Lord in the 
committee of finance, presents a very 
flattering account of our revenues, con- 
eluding with this remark, that “it 1s con-’ 
soling to reflect that, if we cannot subdue 
our present difticulties, we may at least 
survive them.” 
The Author of the “Letter to Mr. 
Whitbread, on ihe Duty of Rescinding 
the Resolutiens which preceded the Iin- 
peachment of Lord Melville,’ seems 
perfectly master of his subject. de 1s 
an acute reasoner, and writes with con- 
siderable energy. 
At the close of our last pein of 
works on political economy, we did little 
more than barciy notice. ‘Phe Vest 
Indian 2g hie silt Book,” by Str Wi1- 
ziam Younc. I: will appear, says Sir 
. William, 
Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Folities, Kc. 
from official documents which ' 
T shall insert in this work, how largely 
the sugar-colonists contribute to the 
wealth and power of Great Britam ; but 
they can only so far contribute, as for 
themselves they are rich and safe : they 
are tenants within the paramount manor 
of the state, and their rents will be co1.- 
siderable and punctual jn the payment, 
according to their means; and those’ 
means will and must depend on the con- + 
duct of the authority to whieh they are 
in vassalage; on collections without ex- 
action, on forbearance from officious in- 
terference with their labourers, and pro- 
cess of culture; on the insurance and se- 
curity of their ‘homesteads, on the keep- 
ing open and protecting their roads te 
market ; on the liberal grant of repairs 
in occasional disaster and distress; and 
on all other kinduesses and regulations 
which the stewards of their Lerd and 
Sovereign may devise for the henefit of 
his estate, and for the comforts of his 
people. Sir Wilham Young has been a’ 
member of parliament for three and 
twenty years, At.his entrance he was 
careful to observe the course and succes=- 
sion of parliamentary business, with the 
view, he says, of chalking out some line 
of industry rather taan of talent, in which 
he might qualify himself to be humbly 
useful to his country. “He accordingly 
selected the poor-laws, the British’ fish- 
Be and the commerce of the kingdom, 
as the leading subjects on which his at- 
tention was to be fixed, and his atten- 
dance given on every committee. From 
that time (June, 1784,) he kept a Com- 
meon-place Book, in which he entered, 
under distinet heads, whatever occurred 
on these matters in debate, or could be 
collected from the statute-book or other 
reading; at the same time carefuily ar- 
ranging and preserving every document 
returned to parliament; and even copy- 
ing some in the Journal ofiice which were 
net printed by order of the house. In 
1796, he was appointed chairman of a 
committee for enquiring into the best 
means “of accommodating the Thames 
and Port of Loudon to the increased and 
increasing trade of the kihgdom;” as 
such, holdin an immediate correspon- 
dence withgthe custom-house in every. 
quarter, an IS engaging a confidence 
on the par lis readers, in the foun- 
dation ‘9 bat earnest plea to the 
public consid ration and regard, which, 
on the part of the British colonies,” , 1S 
here preferred. The work itself consists 
ef sixteen chapters, of which the follow- 
ing 
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