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ANTI-JACOBIN

REVIEW AND MAGAZINE,

OR,

Monthly Political and Literary Censor,

FROM

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SEPTEMBER TO JANUARY, (INCLUSIVE,)

1700
-1801-

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

AN AMPLE REVIEW OF FOREIGN LITERATURE,

PLUS BONI MONES VALENT, QUAM BONÆ LEGES..

TACITUS.

VOL. VII.

LONDON:

Printed, for the Proprietors, at the Anti-Jacobin Prefs, Peterborough-Court,
Fleet-Street. By T. CROWDER, No. 2, Temple-Lane, White-Friars.

AND PUBLISHED AT THE ANTI-JACOBIN OFFICE, PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET
STREET, BY J. WHITTLE; AND BY C. CHAPPLE, BOOKSELLER, PALL MALL;
T. PIERSON, BIRMINGHAM; BELL AND BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH; BRASH
AND REID,
GLASGOW; AND BY J. W. FENNO, NEW YORK.

1801.

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the Titles, Authors Names, &c. of the Publications
reviewed in this Volume, including both the Original Criticism,
and the Reviewers reviewed.

N. B. For remarkable Paffages in the CRITICISMS and EXTRACTS, fee the
GENERAL INDEX at the End of the Volume.

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WE have, at length, brought our work to the close of

the Seventh Volume; but if that were the only circumftance which we had to animadvert on, at prefent, we fhould beg leave to decline all animadverfion whatever, and to confine ourselves to becoming expreffions of gratitude, for the continuance of that public favour and patronage, which, from the first establishment of our Review, to this moment, have never forfaken us ;-and which form a fource of much higher confolation to us, than any which we could derive from the gratification of literary vanity, or the promotion of perfonal intereft. The wide extenfion of our religious, moral, and political principles, conftitutes the primary object of our efforts, the grand end of our wishes; and the only theme of our exultation. But we have not merely brought our work to the clofe of a volume; we have arrived at the close of a century; at an æra, too, ftrongly marked by every circumftance which can rouze attention, create alarm, infpire awe, ftimulate exertion, and lead to REFLECTION! At fuch a momentous crifis we would fain take a curfory view of the political and moral state of fociety, in every part of the civilized globe ;'tis an enquiry well worthy the deepest investigation ;-but, unhappily, our limits preclude the attempt.-Some few remarks, however, on the actual state and difpofition of those nations and potentates, whofe friendship or enmity may have an influence on the fate of our own country, will not, we conceive, be unacceptable to our readers ;-they will ferve, too, as a fubftitute for our political fummary; and as the beft preface to the prefent volume of our work.

FRANCE.

Much as divines have preached, moralifts have expatiated, and historians have written, on the nutabilty of fortune and the viciffitudes of human life, the diverfified events of the French Revolution, and the ftrange incidents and deplorable calamities which have arifen out of it, have greatly exceeded all that has been printed or uttered upon this melancholy fubject.-In France, we have witneffed a nation, rejecting the wisdom of experience, which the Sages of ancient and modern times, had ever received as their beft guide in worldly affairs; openly trampling under foot, not only the moft folemn treaties, between one ftate and another, which the rulers of every country had profeffed, at least, to refpect, but even the whole code of public laws, which had, for ages, regulated the conduct of all the nations of Europe; not only burfting through every political barrier which tends to the prefervation of order in fociety, and is effential to the well-being of civiA 2 lized

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