“Retrofpeé of Domefiic Literature.—Political Economy, &e. 
two-fold Mode of Election adopted by the 
French,” poflels the acutenels and judg- 
ment which fo eminently diftinguifh all the 
political writings of this warm patriot. 
Mr. Cock has publithed an ** dafwer” 
to Lord Sheffield’s: pamphlet on the fub- 
jeét of the Navigation Syfem; in which 
he has, with great ability, endeavoured 
to prove, that thofe A&ts of the Leg:fla- 
ture which have difpenfed with the Te- 
firaints im pofed ‘ the Navigation Aét, 
and which, in confequence of that dilpen- 
fation, ‘were feverely cenfured by his 
Lordthip, were actually beneficial to our 
trace and navy ta the jali war, and ought 
to be renewed in the prefent. The fubject 
merits profound attention, and it is here 
treated with perfpicuity and good fenfe. 
Mr. GRreEvit.e has tranflated M. 
Tinleau’s ‘© Lfay on the political Relatiens 
between Reffia and Frunce.”” 
Iusey, exceedingly angry at the 
tax which the Legiflature has impoted 
upon attorneys, has puilfhed A brief 
Enquiry concerning the Origin, Progrefs, 
and Impolicy of taxing them” In reply 
tothis, has appeared a pamphlet entitled, 
*< A Defence, of Attornies,” &c. &e. in 
which ir is contended, that the obvious 
and neceffary tendency of th.s tax is to in- 
creafy the refpectat Bile of the profeffion, 
Te ** Speeches” of Sir Francis Bur- 
DETT, at the late Middlefex Election, 
are ColleGted and liek ifhed. Num-rous 
pamphiets alfo, relative to that Election, 
have ifued from the prefs, which we do 
ot think it neceffary to enumerate. 
Few political pampblets have excited 
more interefl than Sir ROBERT WILSON’s 
<< Enquiry into the prefent State of the mi- 
litary Force of the Britijh Empire, with a 
Vievo to its Reongarizaticn? "Sir Robert 
is no friend to tre Volunteer fyftem, as it 
is- at prefent managed, and certainly he 
has argued againtt its efficiency with 
reat force, « fin Engiifhiman,’ as he 
Preis himfelf, has addiefled ** 4 Letter” 
to Sir Robert, in reply te the opinions 
laid aown and defended in his pamphiet. 
‘¢ Letters intercepied on Board the Ad- 
miral Athan (Eaf? Ilataman), captured by 
the French, and inferted by the French Go- 
vernment in the Miniteur, and two fup- 
plementary Sheets?’ We fhould {carcely 
have noticed the co leétion into a volume 
of thefe intercepted ietters, the moft inte- 
refting of which have been publithed in 
all ovr new {pape s, but for the fake of 
mentioning, at the fame time, that Mr. 
Playfair has prefented the public with 
what he confiders as ‘* Proofs, relative to 
the Falfification of the Correfpondence.” 
Mr, 
et impugnabo,”’ 
o7a 
P. infers the falfification from a va- | 
riety of circumftances; but he relies prin- | 
cipally ‘on a letter which he received trom /. 
a friend in Holland, dated September 15,, 
of whofe integrity and information hes 
{peaks in high terms, and in which he wa 6 
told, ** an Englifh Indiaman has bee i 
ken near the Mauritius, with a corre fc. 
pondente on board, which Mr. O’Conr or 
and Mr. O'Neil were occupied in altering 
and tranylating, to put into the new{papers, 
when I left Paris. 1. cannot tell you the 
exact alterations; but the purpofe /for 
which they were made is to perfuade| the 
people an. the army, that Bonapaite i is 
ruining England with more certamiy/than 
if he invaded it. This is meant to ije the 
ufe of the \Jetters for France; ard for 
England they will be altered {0 as/ to fet 
individuals at variance, and create wneah- 
nefs and jealonly : you may depend on 
this informatien, and that the payer dated 
at the Mauritius is pristed in Pris, and 
not there.”? 
On the <\ppearance of Milfs Wit- 
Liams’s & Political and conficential Cor- 
refpondence of| Louis XVI vie animad« 
verted, with traticient feverity, onthe un- 
fecling character of her remarks. M. 
BERTRAND DE MoOLEVILZ‘E has written 
“A Refutatiog’ of the didel on the me- 
mcry of the da) te King, as he calls Muiis 
Wiiliams’s pu')l ication. Mt is tranflated by 
Mr. Dallas, and ouglit ro be read by every 
one who could|cafi a patient eye over the 
voiume which it endeavours to difcredit, 
Out of the fev.enty-two royal letters, M. 
de Molewille :\liows the geotiuene! s of 
ouly feven! His reafons muit be fought for 
in his work. 
Several pam bl ets have lately a ppeared 
on the fubje&t cf Lrith affairs. Roperr 
SrEaRNE Tic as, Erg. has fubmitted to’ 
the confiderari.in of the Brith nation 
fome “¢ Obferve\tions and Refleions on the 
State of Ireland,’ iw which-he reminds 
Mr. Put of the pledges he once gave of 
ameliorating the \S:ate of the Ca:-holics. 
The State Vrials\or Hardy eee 5 Xe 
fhew, very cleariy » that Mr. Pit’s- me- 
mory is treachcrels. We are glad t 
learn, from this pwnoplvet, that ihe ex- 
prefhon In the con ‘eration oath of tbe 
Catholic Bitix. ps; \ Hereticos pe rfeguax 
havin. 5 been deemed ctftm- 
five by the heads of ti’ Protefant Chures 
was, at the reprefen tel: on of the Ca: ac- 
lic Bifhops, expunged by order of the 
Pope; and that his Holinefs dire&ted that 
aclaufe, exprefsly referving their allegi- 
ance tothe crown, fhould be introduced, 
couched in the terms approved by! the 
Emy els 
