Murray, Bishop of St. David's, and Dr. Lawrence at a Vifitation. Of all thefe, the diftinctive merits will be feen expreffed in the feveral articles to which we have referred. Generally and collectively it may be faid of them, that they are honourable to the writers and to the church, and of the beft tendency with refpect to the public. Mr. Crowther, in his Farewel Sermont, at Barking, converted a private to pic into a matter of public inftruction. We praifed the difcourfe with juftice, and we again recommend it to notice. The two difcourfes of Dr. Dwight, on the Danger of the Infidel Philofophy§, have with propriety been naturalized among us, by reprinting. Though they were written for America, and publifhed there, the subject they difcufs is one to which the dark diftemperature of the times has given a general intereft. Any wife man who examines the infidel philofophy, will perceive its futility and its danger. But few have examined with fuch care as Dr. Dwight, and no one can be better qualified to publifh the refult. LAW. The internal fupport of Law is Divinity, the temporal coadjutor of Divinity is Law. The former has moft efficacy when all is right, the latter is the human remedy when any thing is wrong. The Law of Tithes, a most venerable branch of our common Law, feems particularly calculated to point out the connection. It has been fupported with great vi gour by Mr. Covell, in an able and learned tract; to which, without implicit affent, we gave defervedly abundant praife. Various other works, on the fubject of Law, deferve more or lefs notice. The treatife on the Law of Legacies, by Mr. Roper, though not furnished with all the aids that fuch a work re No. III. p. 317. § No. 11, p. 194. + No. VI. p. 656. 1 No. IV. p. 423. 1 No. IV. p. 438. No. I. p. 40. quires, quires, is creditable to the author, as a man of fense and study. A perfpicuous and methodical treatise on the office and duty of Executors, by Mr. Toler, demands peculiar commendation. The writer has evinced moft clearly his ability to render it a complete and mafterly work, if in a future edition he should introduce the improvements which mature confideration fhows at prefent to be wanted. It is, however, even in its first state, a book of fingular merit. The Principles of Conveyancing may be ftudied with advantage, in the work of Mr. Watkinst, who, after inftructing private pupils, has come forward to inftruct the world. A few more tracts, belonging to this clafs, are connected alfo with the topic of Scarcity. On the subject of foreftalling, a very complete and well-digefted collection has been made by Mr. Illingworth. Mr. Morris has indeed difcuffed the fubject with more science§; but either work may be confulted with advantage, and particularly as connected with the nature of our prefent circumftances. Experienced in the application of the ftatutes relating to the affize of bread, Dr. Nafmith has entered into an Examination of them, which may at once affift the magiftrate, and afford fuggeftions of importance to the legiflator. On the fubject of the poorlaws, abundant information may be drawn from the example of the town of Hull, in a tract entitled Confiderations on the Increase, &c. In this production it is clearly shown that care and management may, in fome cafes, reduce the poor-rates more than half, and yet provide more amply and effectually for the real objects who require afliftance. SCARCITY. Some of the topics in the preceding clafs have led us almoft infenfibly to the prefent, of which we have * No. II. p. 178. No. II. p. 208. + No. V. p. 500. I No. II. p. 199. I No. I. p. 87. I No. VI. p. 663 ufually ufually made a diftinct head in our monthly Catalogues, fince the fubject forced itfelf upon our attention; in hopes that we might thus concentrate the knowledge which various minds diftribute, for the use and benefit of the country. Of thofe various tracts, however, we fhall at prefent notice only three, as more important than the reft. The firft of thefe bears the name of Mr. Burke*, being originally drawn up by that great man, and prefented to Mr. Pitt, on occafion of the preffure in 1795.- Lord Sheffield is another able enquirer, whofe diligent investigation has brought forward many ufeful facts, and fuggeftions of a valuable kind. Experimental tracts like this are more fatisfactory than any others, and in fuch difcuffions the noble writer has few rivals. A report of a tremendous experiment made in France, on the operation of a law of maximum, rigorously enforced, is given in another pamphlett, anonymous indeed, but known to proceed from a lady, who beheld and felt the confequences: the refult is, that the ftrenuously urges her countrymen to avoid a fimilar danger. POLITICS. We fhall open this divifion with a name which we have often had occafion to mention with the highest commendation, and never more fo than in the prefent inftance. It is that of Mr. Bowles, who, in his Reflections on the Political and Moral State of Society, at the Clafe of the 18th Century, has brought to view a ftatement of facts, and a courfe of reafonings, momentous in the highest degree to this and every European nation, To with for its circulation is, in fact, to wish well to Great Britain, to virtue, and to religion. The overtures of Bonaparte, on the fubje& • No. I. p. 36. No. II. p. 174 of |