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By GEOFFREY CRAYON,

Bracebridge Hall; or, the Humorists.
Gent. Author of "The Sketch Book," &c.
A Portraiture of Quakerism, as taken from a View of the Moral
Education, Discipline, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles,
Political and Civil Economy, and Character of the Society of
Friends. By THOMAS CLARKSON, M. A., Author of several
Essays on the Subject of the Slave Trade

Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn. By
THOMAS CLARKSON, M. A.

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A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence of ViceAdmiral Lord Collingwood: interspersed with Memoirs of his Life. By G. L. NEWNHAM COLLINGWOOD, Esq. F. R. S. Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824, 1825 (with Notes upon Ceylon); an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826; and Letters written in India. By the late Right Reverend REGINALD HEBER, Lord Bishop of Calcutta Sketches of India. Written by an Officer, for Fire-Side Travellers at Home

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Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and in Italy. By the Author of "Sketches of India," and "Recollections of the Peninsula" ib. Letters from a late eminent Prelate to one of his Friends - 337 Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont, Knight of St. Patrick, &c. &c. By FRANCIS HARDY, Esq., Member of the House of Commons in the three last Parliaments of Ireland An Inquiry whether Crime and Misery are produced or prevented by our present System of Prison Discipline. Illustrated by Descriptions of the Borough Compter, Tothill Fields Prison, the Jail at St. Albans, the Jail at Guildford, the Jail at Bristol, the Jails at Bury and Ilchester, the Maison de Force at Ghent, the Philadelphia Prison, the Penitentiary at Millbank, and the Proceedings of the Ladies' Committee at Newgate. By THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON

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Memoirs of Richard Cumberland: written by Himself.
taining an Account of his Life and Writings, interspersed with
Anecdotes and Characters of the most distinguished Persons
of his Time with whom he had Intercourse or Connexion
The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Mon-
tagu. Including her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays
The Life of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, late
Master of the Rolls in Ireland. By his Son, WILLIAM HENRY
CURRAN, Barrister-at-Law

Switzerland, or a Journal of a Tour and Residence in that Country in the Years 1817, 1818, 1819. Followed by an Historical

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Sketch of the Manners and Customs of Ancient and Modern Helvetia, in which the Events of our own Time are fully detailed; together with the Causes to which they may be referred. By L. SIMOND, Author of "Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain during the Years 1810 and 1811" Rejected Addresses; or the New Theatrum Poetarum Euvres Inédites de Madame la Baronne de Staël, publiées par son Fils; précédées d'une Notice sur le Caractère et les Ecrits de M. de Staël. Par Madame NECKER SAUSSURE Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh. Edited by his Son, ROBERT JAMES MACKINTOSH, Esq.

Notice of the Honourable Henry Erskine

Notice and Character of Professor Playfair

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Notice and Character of James Watt

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GENERAL POLITICS.

A GREAT deal that should naturally come under this title has been unavoidably given already, under that of History; and more, I fear, may be detected under still less appropriate denominations. If any unwary readers have been thus unwittingly decoyed into Politics, while intent on more innocent studies, I can only hope that they will now take comfort, from finding how little of this obnoxious commodity has been left to appear in its proper colours; and also from seeing, from the decorous title now assumed, that all intention of engaging them in Party discussions is disclaimed.

I do not think that I was ever a violent or (consciously) uncandid partisan; and at all events, ten years of honest abstinence and entire segregation from party contentions (to say nothing of the sobering effects of threescore antecedent years!), should have pretty much effaced the vestiges of such predilections, and awakened the least considerate to a sense of the exaggerations, and occasional unfairness, which such influences must almost unavoidably impart to political disquisitions. In what I now reprint I have naturally been anxious to select what seemed least liable to this objection: and though I cannot flatter myself that a tone of absolute, Judicial impartiality is maintained in all these early productions, I trust that nothing will be found in them that can suggest the idea either of personal animosity, or of an ungenerous feeling towards a public opponent.

To the two first, and most considerable, of the following papers, indeed, I should wish particularly to refer, as fair exponents both of the principles I think I have always maintained, and of the temper in which I was generally disposed to maintain them. In some of the others a more vehement and contentious tone may no doubt be detected. But as they touch upon matters of permanent interest and importance, and advocate opinions which I still think substantially right, I have felt that it would be pusillanimous now to suppress them, from a poor fear of censure, which, if just, I cannot but know that I deserve or a still poorer distrust of those allowances which I have no reason to think will be withheld from me by the better part of my readers.