590 Retrofpedt of Doms/tic Literature—Viyages, Travels, €Fe, 
notes, and ijluftrative references to the 
Briifh and Pruffian fyftem of taétics. 
The fecond volume confiits entirely of 
plates. 
A reverend. phyfician, Dr. Martin 
TRINDER, has dedicated, by permiffion, 
to His Roya! Highnefs the Duke of York, 
“¢ Nine Letters, on Military Subjedts 3° 
which contain fome go:d advice on the 
means of preferving the health of the 
troops. P 
“« The New Military Finance; contain- 
ing the Hiftory, Pay, and Allowances, of - 
the Britifb Army.” 
From the hiftorical part of this little 
volume, which is ccntained in a very few 
pages, we learn that there are no traces 
of a force being kept up in tim:s of peace, 
until the year 1486, when Henry VIi. 
eftablifhed fifty yeomen of the guards, 
from which time they hzve been regularly 
increafing in numbers ; and, at the end of 
the year 1803, our author makes the ef- 
feCtive Polditrs to amouni to nearly one 
million; of which, however, 463,367 are 
voluntecss. Befides giving an account of 
the pay and allowances of the Britith 
army, Mr. Hoop deferibes the nature of 
the duty required from every officer, either 
belonging to the army, or connected with 
it. By military men, the contents of this 
volume will be thought worthy of atten- 
tion. 
© A general Attack and Defence; with 
fome general Rules for ere&iing Fortifica- 
fons without the circuttcus Aid of Trigono- 
metry, by W. JENNINGs.” 
We do not feel at all confident in the 
policy of any attempt to fupertede the aid 
of mathematical knowledge in thefe who 
have the charge of erecting fortifications, 
erin conducting a general fyfem of at- 
tack and defence. A knowledge of ma- 
thematics is, we fufpect, eflential to a 
good officer and a good engineer. 
The following work is, in every page, 
pregnant with vely judicious advice, and 
with practical information on every fub- 
ject conneéted wich military {eience. “ The 
Military Mentor ; betmg a Series of Let- 
ters recently written by a General Officer 
to his Son, on his entering the Army: com- 
prifing a Courfe of elegant Infiruction, cal- 
culated chiefly to unite the Accomplifoments 
of the Gentleman and the Soldier. 
As an elementary work, it is exceeded 
in value by none in the Englifh language. 
VOYAGES, TRAVELS, and TOURS, 
“<< View of the Climate and Soil of the 
United States of America: to which are 
annexed, fore Accounts of Florida, the 
Freach Coleny of the Scioto, certain Ca- 
nadian Colonies, and the Savages, or Na- 
tives. Tranflated from, the French ef | 
C.F. Voiney.” 
M. Volney fled with difguft from his 
own country, in the year 1795. 
barked for America, where he hoped to 
enjoy that peace and fccurity, which bitter 
experience had prohioited him from ex- 
pecting at home. He vitited, fucceffively, 
almoft all parts of the Dajte States, fe . 
dying the climate, laws, inhabitants and 
their mant ners, chiefly with regard to focial 
life asd oe happirefs. Influenced 
by a variety of gioomy and deprefiing 
coqtitetay: ons as to the ftate of Europe, 
he had at length formed a refolution to 
pafs the remainder of his days there ; 
‘when in the {pring of 1798, an epidemic 
anime fity againft the French breaking 
out, and the threat of an immediate rup- 
ture,” he was compelled to withdraw, 
The three years, however, 
Volney pafled in America, gave him am- 
ple opportunity of inveftigating the geo- 
logy and natural hiftory of the country, 
as well as the charaéter and manners of 
its inhabitants: and the refult of his in. 
vefltigations 1s comprehended im this inte-. 
reiting volume, which 
templation to produce, end which we, are 
forry to learn he was prevented from pur- 
{uing by iH heaith and a variety ef en- 
gagements. ‘ 
Mr. Barrow, who was one of Lord 
Macartney’s fuite in his embafly is Chiogs 
hag publithed an account of hi s “Travels 
through that country. 
A perufal of this work fhews that Sir 
George Staunton and Van Braam by ne 
means exhautted the iubject. Much of 
the information which Mr. Barrow has 
imparted concerning the manners of the 
Chinefe, is new; his difiertations on the 
language, eccaten and fine arts; his 
eftimate of the fate of {cience, mechanics, 
medicine, zc. ‘and bis difquilition and 
cconjeciure concerning the origin of the 
Chinefe, as well as bis remarks ow the go- 
vernment, laws, religious ie€ls, tenets, and 
ceremonies, mark the politican, the man 
of icience, the philofupher, and the phi- 
lanthro pitt. 
“* Letters on. Silefia; voritten during 
a Tour th rough that Country, in the Years 
1300 and 1801, dy his Excellency Joan 
Quincy Apans, then Miniffer from the 
United States to tie Court of Berlin, and 
fice Member of the American Senate.” 
Thefe letters are light and amufing : 
they appear, however, to have been writ. - 
ten haftily, and certainly do not evince 
any 
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