laws, that the people, who are all freemen, may be accustomed to the use of arms. Abolish the payment of tithes in kind, but give a reafonable converfion in place of them; and revise and reform the laws in regard to poor's rates in England. Abolish perpetual entails upon landed estates in Scotland, and let that country have a jury in civil causes. In both kingdoms let labour find its own price; revise your corn laws; regulate your weights and measures; fimplify all your laws as much as you can in the present state of society; and out of the two codes of English and Scotch laws, make out a comprehenfive fyftem for Great Britain, while you have men of mind and of information who are adéquate to the office. Ye cannot banish, but ye can tax luxury; and ye can revite your laws with regard to imprisonment for debt; and alfo all your penal laws, which are too fevere, and also impolitic. Repeal those late acts which are injurious to liberty, but provide for the protection of the Sovereign; and prevent, rather than punith, feditious practices; but let occafional reftrictions of liberty be renewed with reluctance, and only from one year to another. Let every man use his property as he pleates, if he pay all taxes; and let no law have a retrofpect. But if ye wish (and ye certainly wish) to restore this country to its former splendor, attend particularly to the state of our finances; weigh attentively the outsines of the plan of a direct tax, which is here proposed; and remember, that by impofing direct taxes in the most popular mode, ye shall conciliate the affections of the people, and, without any violent means, both repair our finances and virtually reform the representation of the people. Liberty and equality are only fit for robbers. Liberty and property are the principles according to which we should both impose taxes and reform the conftitution. Having thus gained the confidence of all ranks, ye will have leifure for compiling a general code of laws both for South and for North Britain. We are in an advanced period of fociety, and that work must embrace a great extent of fubject, and require both great wisdom and virtue to execute it properly. But thew to the nations of Europe that the legiflators of Britain are men of vigorous minds; and let the following examples of a vigorous understanding, taken from the Hiftory of Greece, encourage you to discharge your public duty.

Some wrong-headed men infift that our free constitution

has

has loft all its vigour, and that our legislators are become altogether corrupted. So the children of Sophocles infifted that their father was in a state of dotage, though he retained the vivacity and vigour of his genius to extreme old age. They fummoned him before the judges on pretence of lunacy, that they might obtain a decree to take poffeffion of his eftate. He made no other defence than by reading the tragedy of Edipus Colonneus. His judges were delighted, and his unnatural children were disappointed. In like manner, by a comprehenfive system of wife laws, not cruel, or like the reprefentation of a tragedy, but abounding in the moral fublime, thew to all the world, as judges between you and fome of your feditious and unnatural countrymen, that the British conftitution has not lost its vigour, nor her fenators and reprefentatives that strength of mind and deep powers of reason by which they have been so long distinguished. Some misguided zealots have left this country, hoping to find liberty in a neighbouring kingdom-they have been sadly disappointed. Let another example from the History of Greece attract your attention. The Athenians, who were engaged in the unfortunate expedition into Sicily under Nicias, were delivered from their slavery by the Sicilians, in confequence of repeating fome of the verses of Euripides (another Grecian poet); and upon coming back to their own country, they went to his house and returned public thanks to their benefactor. So, I doubt not, those few British subjects who left this happy ifland, hoping for greater liberty in another kingdom, when they fee the wisdom of your laws and the bleffings of which they are deprived, shall return again to this ifland, confefs they were deluded by worthless impoftors, and, throwing off the yoke of liberty and equality, shall publicly recant their political errors, and acknowledge, that the British conftitution and the British laws are the best in the known world."

The author, in order to render his reasonings as intelligible as poffible, has also thrown the contents of the pamphlet into an allegorical representation, entitled, Sketches of the History of John Bull, Farmer and Manufacturer. There is so much ingenuity and good humour in the representation, that we shall present it to our readers in a future Number.

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The Trial at Large of Arthur O'Conn
Binns, John Allen, Jeremiah Leary,
Coigley, for High Treason, before Judge L
under a Special Commission, at Maidston.
County of Kent. Taken in Short-Hand. Ridg
2s. 6d.

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Ο the particulars of this memorable trial the Public are already in poffeffion by means of the papers. Should, however, any individual wish to obtain a full detail of the whole, his curiofity will be gratified by the perusal of this pamphlet, the contents of which appear to have been taken down with fairness and impartiality. The speeches of the counsel, on both fides, the depofition of the witnesses, the defence of the pri foners, together with the address of the Judge to the unhappy Coigley after conviction, contain many interesting particulars. In a land of freedom, the inhabitants are naturally defirous to become acquainted with the process of law, whether it ends in the acquittal or conviction of their fellow subjects. This privilege we enjoy, and long may we enjoy it. It is to be numbered among the bleffings refulting from the British Conftitution.

Youth's Mifcellany; or, Father's Gift to his Children. By the Author of the Juvenile Olio. 4s. bound. Newbury.

THE encouragement which the Author has received from the Public on a former occafion, has induced him to produce the present work, which will afford to young minds instruction and entertainment. It confifts of Effays, Tales, Fables, and Reflections, and may be fafely introduced both into schools or families, where a particular attention is paid to the interests of the rifing generation.

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has loft all its vignily; written for the Amusement and In-
gether corruptef Young Persons. By Charlotte Sanders.
their father wss. Dilly.
vivacity an

fummop work appears well calculated to answer the ends
they or which it was composed. Its style is easy, and
contents fufficiently diverfifi In spite of a few
naccuracies, which are difcernible, the amiable design

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✓ of its Authoress should fecure it from the feverity of
criticifm.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We are obliged to F. S. for his Remarks on the Reading of
Novels, and to P. for his Effay on the Influence of Habit in the
Formation of the Human Character. They shall be inserted in
our next Number.

Lines to Almeira. Retribution. - Good Friday, and the
Epigram, by Sciolulus, are too imperfect to be admitted into
the Garland.

Ode to the Zephyr.-To Cynthia. To Cheerfulness.-To
the Mufe, and the Complaint, together with fimilar favours,
coming too late for a more particular acknowledgement, are
under confideration.

Remarks on the Verfification of Modern Poetry, shall be
given in our next Number. We beg leave at the fame time to
fuggeft to its Author a closer attention to style. He is cer-
tainly possessed of ability, but does not always communicate
his ideas after the most accurate manner. We are perfuaded it
is for want of greater attention, fince many of his fentences are
well written. He will therefore excuse this hint dictated in the
fpirit of friendship. The remark is applicable to fome other of
our Correfpondents, whom we hope will alfo profit by it.

We shall thank the Author of the Ode to Knowledge, (which
shall have a place in our Number for July), for Profe commu-
nications. From the favourable specimen he has fent us of his
Poetry, we are of opinion that he may also become an accep-
table contributor to our Profe Department. We are defirous of
stimulating, by means of our Miscellany, promifing young men
to the affiduous cultivation of their talents.