22. Navigation de Bourgogne, ou Mémoires et Projets pour augmenter et établir le Navigation fur les Riviéres du Duché de Bourgogne. Par M. Antoine. Tome 1. 410. Amsterdam, Dijon, Paris.

From a minute difcuffion of all the projects hitherto made for the improvement of inland navigation in the duchy of Burgundy, M. Antoine proceeds to an elaborate exhibition of his own scheme, under the title, Idée Générale du Systéme de Navigation, dans lequel on croit que la province de Bourgogne doit fe renfermer." His fcheme is confined to the rivers Saone, Seille, Doubs, and Ouche; and is illuftrated with a plan...

23. Thermis de Borbonienfibus, apud Campanos, Specimen Medica Practicum five de legitimo circa illos Tractatu practico, Prolegomena. 410. Calvomonti. (Chaumont.)

Dr. Juvet, the learned author of this differtation, appears to be well acquainted with all that had been written before him on the celebrated waters of Bourbonne les Bains, in Champaigne, and on mineral waters in general; and to have improved upon the experiments and obfervations of his predeceffors. 24. Principes d'Inflitution, ou de la Manière d'élever les Enfans des deux Sexes, par rapport au Corps, à l'Esprit et au Coeur. M. l'Abbé le More, 12mo. Paris.

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Sallies of eccentric genius, and innovations, are not to be fought for in this plan of education; but fober, practical fenfe will be found in it, especially in the article on the education of daughters.

75. Traité de Morale, ou Devoirs de l'Homme envers Dieu, envers la Société, et envers lui même, Par M. la Croix. Nouvelle Edition, Revue & confiderablement augmentée par l'Auteur. 2 Vols. 12mo. Toulouse and Paris.

This fhort fyftem of morality, has been fo carefully revifed, and fo judiciously improved in this new edition, that it is almoft become a new work.

26. Hifcire de Photius, Patriarche Schifmatique de Conftantinople, fuivie d'Obfervations fur le Fanatisme. Par le P. Ch, F. 120. Paris.

From this history, the celebrated Photius appears to have been a great, a wicked, a dreadful, and a most unhappy character indeed! All the bleffings that nature and fortune had heaped upon him, were, by his ambition, perverted to the disturbance of the church and state. From his firft efforts to feize and keep the patriarchal chair, his life became a fcene of perfecutions, crimes, and revolutions, and a fcandal to religion and genius. Nine popes, five councils, and fix patriarchs exerted all their au thority against him, to no purpose. Yet was he at laft fubdued by the emperor Leo the Philofopher, and confined in a monaftery; happy, then at leaft, if ever he learned to contemplate hip former elevations and depreffions as a storm, and to enjoy his port of reft, MONTHLY

27. Three Letters to a Member of Parliament, on the Subject of the prefent Difpute with our American Colonies, 800. Lowndes.

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HE purport of thefe Letters is to evince, that the measures which administration has adopted with refpect to the Americans is indefenfible on conftitutional principles. The author affects to admit the fupreme power of the king and parliament over the colonies, but he alleges that it is only a power of retraining, inhibiting, and regulating; and that the colonists have a right to enact laws for themselves, not repugnant to thofe of the mother country. He maintains the argument which has been so often urged, that taxation is only annexed to reprefentation; fupporting this plea by the inftance of the counties palatine of Chester and Durham, and that of the English clergy, which were not taxed by parliament till they were reprefented in that affembly. The cafe of Ireland is alfo again produced in fupport of the fame doctrine. It does not appear, however, that any of these inftances is applicable to the cafe of the colonies; at least no argument can juftly be drawn from them, in favour of the American claim, which is not invalidated by the obfervation of the greater part of the inhabitants of Britain being only virtually reprefented in parliament.

28. A Short Addrefs to the Government, the Merchants, Manufacturers, and the Colonists in America, and the Sugar Islands, "on the prefent State of Affairs. 8vo. 15. Robinson.

This writer fets out upon the principle, that the legislative authority of Great Britain extends over all its dominions; that confequently the colonies are fubject to its power; and that no fupreme authority ever existed without the right of taxation. At the fame time that he affirms this propofition, however, he thinks it adviseable, that the parliament leave to the Americans the regulation of fuch taxes as are laid in the colonies, and exert their power in laying a duty only on the importations made by the colonists from foreign countries.

29. Thoughts upon the prefent Contest between Administration, and the British Colonies in America. Svo. 15. Browne,

This writer undertakes to juftify of the Americans, for their oppofition to the authority of the British legislature in the article of taxation. He argues with too much warmth to be confidered as a difpaffionate inquirer; nor has he produced any auxiliary obfervations to fortify the caufe which he defends. 30. A friendly Address to all reasonable Americans, on the Subjec of our Political Confufions. 8vo. 15. Richardfon and Urquhart. We find in this Address a cool and rational expoftulation with the Americans, refpecting the fupreme power of the British par

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liament over our colonies. With regard to the force of char ters, which has been infifted upon by the advocates for the latter as conveying to the feveral provinces an independent and uncontroulable legiflative authority, the writer very juftly obferves, that nothing more can be understood by thofe grants from the crown, than a fubordinate right of jurifdiction, for the internal regulation of the provincial diftrict. It is the height of abfurdity to fuppofe, that any charter from a king of Great Britain, can confer an emancipation from the laws of the realm; because the conftitution has invested the crown with no fuch authority. In the fubfequent part of the Addrefs, the author vindicates the conduct of adminiftration by pertinent and reafonable arguments.

31. The Supremacy of the British Legislature over the Colonies, candidly difcuffed. 8vo. 15. Johnson.

The author fets out with an inquiry into the origin of the British conftitution, fhewing that the parliament, from the principles on which it was conftituted, poffeffes a fupreme legislative power: he then proves, that for many years, the Americans entertained this idea of its authority; and he afterwards confirms this affertion, by the recital of feveral acts of parliament which the Americans have always fubmitted to as laws, whether they were enacted for the purpose of legislation or taxation. Though thefe remarks have already been made, in fome of the former publications on the subject, yet this writer gives additional force to the arguments in fupport of the authority of the British legislature. 32. A Letter to the Right Honourable Lord M

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fairs of America. 8vo. IS. Almon. The author of this Letter ufes a variety of arguments to juftify the conduct of the Americans, and expofe the meafures of adminiftration. His intention is to procure a repeal of the acts paffed in the laft parliament refpecting Bofton, through the mediation of the noble lord whofe influence in the cabinet he fuppofes to be very great.

33. An Argument in Defence of the Exclufive Right claimed by the

Colonies to tax themselves. With a Review of the Laws of England, relative to Reprefentation and Taxation. Svo. 2s. 6d. Brotherton and Sewell.

In the prefent publication the great question concerning the power of the British parliament to tax the colonies, is again determined in the negative for the reason which has been fo often repeated, of their not being represented in that affembly. In fupport of this determination the author prefents us with fome of the laws relating to the fecurity of private property, taxation, and the right of reprefentation. But it ought to be obferved, that all thofe laws were only declaratory of the right of the English parliament, and cannot therefore be urged in limitation of its authority. To decide the fubject of the American contro

verfy, recourfe ought certainly to be had to the first principles of colonization, without a clear view of which the underftanding is apt to be fufpended between the oppofite arguments that are drawn from actual and virtual representation. 34. A Letter to the People of Great Britain from the Delegates of the American Congress in Philadelphia. 8vo. 2d. Andrews. After attending to the various publications, produced by the feveral advocates on either fide of this important difpute, we now proceed to the papers faid to be tranfmitted by the Americans themselves. The Letter under confideration is dated September 5, 1774, and has already appeared in the public prints. It is a mixture of compliment and expoftulation, accompanied with complaints relative to the establishment of the catholic religion in Canada, and to the fuppofed violation of their privileges in the article of taxation; interfperfed with ominous anticipations of the future flavery of the whole British dominions, in confequence of the plan of government adopted by adminiftration. With refpect to the Quebec Bill, it was only fulfilling engagements which we were folemnly bound to maintain by the treaty of peace, and for the performance of which the national faith had been pledged. In regard to the point of taxation, we might have expected that the Americans would enter largely into the difcuffion of the fubject, upon political principles; and that they likewife would have at least attempted to invalidate the force of the feveral precedents produced to evince their own acknowledgment or former acquiefcence in the fupreme authority of the British parliament. Nothing of this kind, is, however, to be found in the Letter before us; a moft material and unaccountable defect, if we confider that it was written at a time when the delegates, by whom it is fent, were upon the eve of adopting fuch extraordi. nary measures, as might endanger the whole fyftem of British and American commerce.

35. Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia, on the 5th of September, 1774. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Almon.

The contents of this pamphlet are already generally known through the channel of the public papers. That part of it which is an addrefs to the people of Great Britain, is a copy of the Letter which forms our preceding article.

36. Authentic Papers from America: fubmitted to the dispassionate Confideration of the Public. 8vo. Is. Becket.

Thefe Papers confift chiefly of a petition to his majesty, from the inhabitants of Maffachufet's Bay, Rhode Island, &c. a memorial to the houfe of lords, and a petition to the houfe of commons; requesting relief in the grievances of which they complain. On the fubject of taxation, in the petition to the king, they use the following words," a right, in fine, which all other your majefty's English fubjects both within and without the

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realm have hitherto enjoyed." In the two other addreffes, they profefs to acknowledge all due fubordination to the parliament of Great Britain, and that they fhall always retain the most grateful fenfe of their afiftance and protection.

37. Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress, beld at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774. 8vo. 15. Richardfon and Urquhart.

In this fenfible and fpirited pamphlet the author holds forth to the Americans the pernicious confequences which must ensue from carrying into execution the non-importation and non-exportation agreements prefcribed by the congrefs. He thinks it unquestionable that the intention of the congrefs was to diftrefs the manufacturers in Great Britain, by depriving them of employment; to diftrefs the inhabitants of Ireland, by depriving them of flax-feed, and of a vent for their linens; and to distress the Weft-India planters, by with holding from them provifions and lumber, and by flopping the market for their produce. After animadverting on the injuftice of thefe meafures, he clearly fhews them to be impolitic, and that they must inevitably terminate in the utter ruin of the American commerce, and confequently of the profperity of that country.-His remarks on the fhutting up the courts of juftice in the province of Maffachufet's Bay are likewife highly worthy of attention, as they place in the strongest light the direful effects which must result to the community, from the fufpenfion of all legal process by this violent and unconftitutional procedure. Would the Americans fubmit to perufe this pamphlet with the attention it truly deferves, we are perfuaded that they would unanimously disapprove of the meafures which their delegates have inconfiderately adopted; and that the people of the province above-mentioned would, for their own fake, immediately remove the restraint which they have laid on civil judicature, without which no government can fubfift.

38. A Plan for conciliating the jarring Political Interefts of Great Britain and her North American Colonies, and for promoting a general Re-union throughout the IVbole of the British Empire. 8vo. bd. Ridley.

The fubftance of this Plan is, that the Board of Trade and Plantation be converted into a Supreme Council of Colonies and Commerce, to which a certain limited deputation shall be sent from both houses of parliament, and reprefentatives from the colonies and Weft India iflands be admitted.

39. An Addrefs to the People of England, Scotland, and Ireland, on the prefent important Crifis of Affairs. By Catharine Macaulay. 8vo. 6d. Dilly.

The world will, we doubt not, be of opinion, that when a lady addresses the public on the ftate of national affairs, the fteps out of the proper fphere of female life and action. But the reputation which Mrs. Macualay bas acquired as a historian, may intitle her to particular indulgence in this refpect. The