country fubjects it to various disadvantages. It would have been a much more agreeable theme for obfervation, had he endeavoured to show by what means thofe natural difadvantages might either be corrected or alleviated; as every fuch unfavourable picture of the state of a nation tends rather to damp than afford encouragement to the exertions of industry. We, therefore, hope that Mr. Fraser will, on fome future occafion, turn his thoughts to this important enquiry. The Prefent State of Great Britain confidered; and the National Debt difcuffed, towards a radical and Speedy Payment. 8vo. 15. 6d. Becket. The author of this pamphlet fets out with obferving, that fince the late war, which has increased the national debt to an exorbitant fum, every little politician has been propofing fchemes for difcharging it. When he fpeaks in this contemptuous ftyle of his honeft fellow-labourers in the public fervice, he feems not to reflect that, notwithstanding the opinion which he betrays of his own fuperiority, he may perhaps be arranged in the fame clafs. It is certain, at least, that this author yields to none in what relates to the spirit of innovation. All the plans, however, which he fuggefts, are not entirely new; and, under particular modifications, we doubt not that fome of them might be adopted with advantage to the public. It would be unneceffary to make any farther obfervations, at prefent, on the schemes propofed by this author. Letters from the Right Honourable W E- on the late Political Arrangement. 8vo. IS. Letter to the Earl of Carlisle, from the Right Honourable William Eden, on the Subject of the late Arrangement. 8vo. Walker. 15. 6d. Thefe Letters bear the most evident marks of their spurious origin. They have arifen from the licentioufnefs of the times, and must therefore be configned to oblivion. Thoughts upon a Bill, lately offered to Parliament, for regulating the Export and Import of Corn: with Obfervations upon Dean Tucker's Reflections, fo far as they relate to this Subject. 8vo. IS. Pridden. To devife regulations for the exportation and importation of corn, is a fubject which has repeatedly afforded exercife to the legislative wifdom of parliament. But no law, hitherto enacted, has proved fufficient for reftraining frauds and abufes in this important article of commerce. A bill was brought into par liament laft feffions, with the view of remedying thofe evils; but, for particular reafons, was withdrawn. The pamphlet now before us is intended to furnish light towards a reconLideration of this great national object: but fuch is the mifre prefentation prefentation to which it is liable, from the prejudice and arti fices of interested individuals, that in the framing of a new law, the most accurate enquiry and mature deliberation will be neceffaty. Two Letters addreffed to the Right Hon. W. Pitt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, for obtaining an equal Syftem of Taxation, and for reducing the National Debt. By P, Barfoot, Efq. 8.00. Debrett. 15. In what Mr. Barfoot fuggefts concerning taxation, we meet with nothing that is new. His idea is the common one, that the taxes on the neceffaries of life fhould be reduced, and the deficiency of the revenue fupplied by additional impofts on luxury. With regard to the difcharge of the national debt. his opinion nearly correfponds with that of lord Newhaven on the fame fubject. Liberal Opinions on Taxation, and a new Syftem of Funding. Small Sve. Printed for the Author. This author maintains, as a juft and rational principle, that the public creditors ought to be liable to the expences incurred by national defence. To introduce fuch a fyltem into our finances, he recommends the opening of a fubfcription for one million, by way of experiment. The terms to be four per cent. per annum perpetual fock, but liable to fluctuations of intereft, according to a rate which he fpecifies. He propofes that money upon mortgage fhould likewife be charged with the additional tax. That our author's opinions proceed from a liberality of difpofition, we entertain not the fmallest degree of doubt; but there is little reafon to expect that this virtue will ever operate fuccefsfully in the fcience of finance, A Letter from Warren Haflings, Efq, Dated 21ft of February, 1784. With Remarks and Authentic Documents to fupport the Remarks. 8vo. 15. Ridgway, The author of the Remarks on this Letter examines it with a degree of acuteness not free from the fufpicion of perfonal animofity; but by whatever motives he may be actuated, to urge a charge of delinquency, after leave has been granted for a public enquiry by parliament, betrays a conduct not perfectly reconcilable with the principles of juftice and moderation. A Letter from Warren Haftings, Efq. Governor-General of Bengal, to the Honourable the Court of Diretors of the Eaft-India Com pany. Dated from Lucknow, April 30. With a Pofifcript. Dated May 13, 1784, 8vo.. is. 6d. Debrett. In this Letter Mr. Haftings recites the hiftory of his nego ciation with the nabob vizier Owde; his treatment of whom, we cannot but acknowledge, appears to have been greatly mif reprefented. Advice Advice to the Lord Lieutenants of Counties, commanding Regiments of Militia. Small 8vo. 15. Walker. This pamphlet is of the ironical kind; and, if we may form an opinion upon the great variety of circumftances fuggefted by the author, he is a perfon extremely well acquainted with the abuses committed in the management of the militia. Obfervations on the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the State of the British Fishery. By Robert Fall, Efq. 8vo. 25. Debrett. As the extenfion and improvement of the British fisheries are now the object of parliamentary attention, thefe Observations are of great importance. They are the production of an able and intelligent man, who has joined experience to knowledge, and whofe views are neither partial or confined. We perceive, indeed, occafionally, a little biafs, a little predilection, arifing from local circumftances and fituation; but these are prejudices which few can avoid. The Obfervations relate to a very extenfive report on this fubject, the effects of a careful and attentive enquiry; but, though apparently fimple, it is encumbered with difficulties. Thefe have been fenfibly felt by the committee; and, therefore, it becomes not a fubject of difcuffion in this place, except under a more general and abstracted view, as a political and a commercial enquiry. A Second Addrefs to Parliament on a Subject of the firft Confequence to the Welfare of the State. By William Renwick. 8vo. Law. In our Fifty-ninth Volume, page 389, we gave our opinion of the first Addrefs. The purport of the fecond is the fame; but, while its object is equally important and deferving of attention, the style is improved, the language is lefs vague, and the digreffions not fo numerous. We can only with the author fuccefs, without flattering him with the prospect of obtain ing it. DIVINITY. Sermons, doctrinal and practical, on several Subje&s. By D. Grant, Minifter of the Gofpel at Newcafile. 12mo. 25. 6d. ferved. Dilly. This volume contains fixteen Sermons on the following subjects. I. The Wisdom of God illuftrated in the Humiliation of Chrift.-II. The Love of God to the World.-III, Christ, the Chriftian's all.-IV. The great Salvation.-V. The Folly of neglecting the Gofpel.-VI. A heavenly Converfation defcribed. VII. Jefus, the Object of the Chriftian's Defire.VIII. The fame Subject continued.-IX. The Example of Chrift. Chrift.-X. The fame Subject continued.-XI. The Prefence of God with his People.-XII. The fame Subject continued. XIII. Comfort to the Afflicted.-XIV. The fame Subject con⚫ tinued.-XV. The Life of Faith in the Time of Affliction.XVI. The fame Subject continued. These discourses are affecting and ferious, with fome little tendency perhaps towards gloominefs. We are doubtful whether they be not better calculated to infpire, quiefcent devotion and religious melancholy, than that vigorous and active piety, the ordinary Chriftian's better character, as fitting him to live uncorruptly in the midst of society, which he neither can, nor ought to defert. Our author's language is generally plain and eafy, but warm and pathetic. It abounds with apoftrophe and interrogative, and has more force than elegance. A Sermon preached at York, on Wednesday the 13th of April, 1785, for the Benefit of the Lunatic Afylum. By Robert Pierson, A. M. 4to. IS. Cadell. This is a pious and rational difcourfe, written with elegance, and not deficient in pathos. We shall select the author's fhort and affecting defcription of lunacy, as a fpecimen of his manner, Of all the afflictions which are incident to man, none is fo fhocking as that of lunacy-none fo humiliating-none that excites the pity and compaffion of the benevolent and humane, in a stronger degree. Reafon, which was originally bestowed on man, to distinguish him from the brute creation, to be the guide of his actions, and to become a perpetual fource of plea fure and entertainment to his mind, is here, alas! ftrangely overpowered and obftructed. When this alarming change takes place, what a dreadful fituation is the poor fufferer reduced to Like a fhip bereft of its rudder, he drives before the ftorm, and is dashed to pieces on the first rock that presents itself. The conflict must be terrible indeed; for reafon no fooner yields up her reins, than the unhappy lunatic is bent upon destroying his life-now, feemingly, a burden too grievous to be born. Strange perverfion of the ordinary courfe of human nature! For God has wifely implanted in us an inviolable attachment to life; and has impreffed us with a natural dread of death.' A Sermon preached in the Church of St. Nicholas, Rochefter, on June 24, 1785, (Being the Day of the Vifitation of the Rev. John Law, D.D. Archdeacon of Rochefier,) on the Introduction of Sunday Schools. By the Rev. Charles Moore, M. A. 410. 15. 6d. Johnfon, We learn from the author's fhort preface, that this difcourfe met the general approbation of a clerical audience; many of whom had, as he was afterwards informed, previously employed much of their thoughts and endeavours to establish the scheme he recommends. We can, however, well conceive the good fense and discreet zeal he has manifested must have entitled his Sermon Q3 Sermon not at all the lefs to favourable reception on account of the foregoing circumftance. Mr. Moore has added a large Appendix, containing various arguments on the utility and importance of Sunday fchools, and anfwers to objections, together with a particular account of their establishment in his own parishes. This part is properly written in a more familiar ftyle than the Sermon, and well calculated to imprefs a due fenfe of the advantages of Sunday fchools on the yeomanry of the coun try, and that clafs of readers more immediately interested in providing the means of their establishment. We warmly recommend both the Sermon and the Appendix to the confideration of the public, confeffing ourselves much inclined to wish fuccefs to thefe undertakings, whilft experience continues to fpeak, as it has done, in their behalf. We will tempt none of our readers to content themselves with an extract from this performance, as the whole deferves their ferious perufal 4 Sermon on Galatians iv. 6. Preached in the epifcopal Chapel at The Swedenborgian Doctrine of a Trinity confidered: or, Strictures on a late Publication, entitled, The Scripture Doctrine of a Trinity vindicated; according to the Principles of the illuminated Emanuel Swedenborg. With Remarks upon a Sermon on Gal, iv. 6. 12mo. Is. Longman. The first of the three articles, viz. Mr. Bayley's Sermon, militates frongly against the idea of the famous Swedenborgh, on the Trinity. The author, in the following note at page eleventh, briefly acquaints us with Swedenborgh's opinion, and his own fentin ents upon it, which he maintains at large in the difcourfe itself, from the confideration of numerous paffages both in the Old and New Testament. A Trinity of Perfons," fays a late writer," was unknown in the apoftolic church, whilft the apoftles lived, and for two or three ages after their deceafe." If the author had never read the writings of the fathers of the first ages of Christianity, we may apologise for his affertion. But furely it was then known and defended. Tertullian. was alive at the time of St. John's death, and was the first who wrote profeffedly against the notion of there being only a nominal diftinction in the godhead. In his days arofe, in Afia, the heretic Praxeas, who maintained there was no plurality of perfons in the godhead. Against the opinions of this man, Tertullian wrote a treatife, wherein |