in their ideas of what is reasonable, may be easily forefeen :-but our Volunteer politician confiders the claim of Ireland to nothing Short of a free trade (under our circumstances) as an axe levelled at the root of our connexions.'. For his arguments, on this head, we muft refer to the pamphlet, at length. Art. 23. Four Letters to the Earl of Carlisle, from William Eden, Efq;-On certain Perverfions of political Reasoning; and on the Nature, Progress, and Effect of Party Spirit, and of Parties:-On the prefent Circumstances of the War between Great Britain and the combined Powers of France and Spain :-On the public Debts, on the public Credit, and on the Means of raising Supplies:-On the Representations of Ireland refpecting a free Trade. 8vo. 2 s. 6 d. White, &c. 1779. Contains a ferious, accurate, and comprehenfive review of the prefent fituation of this country; including diftin&t eftimates of our public difficulties, and our national refources: from all which, the very ingenious Writer tell: us, for our comfort (and, furely, there is occafion for it), that he fees, or thinks he fees, much folid ground for hope, and none for defpondency :'-that this profpect may not, like the Patriarch's Pifgah-fight of Palestine, prefent us with a delightful vifion of bleffed fcenes, which we must never enter, will be the ardent prayer of every good Englishman! Mr. Eden is undoubtedly partial to Government, whatever are his principles, but he writes with a masterly pen; his mode of argument is candid, his manner is agreeable, his ftyle is elegant, and his fpeculations are frequently countenanced by the best authorities :-He would, by all means, encourage us to perfevere in the prefent war till the Colonies are reduced: an event which, he is ftrongly perfuaded, muft at length happen, though it will, probably (he acknowledges), be the work of years :-according to his eftimate of probabilities we are to infer, that though it should prove to be the work of many years, we are not to be difcouraged. He fees, from the top of the mount, VICTORY hovering afar off; and he fears not, that the will, in time, repair to our standard: but we must wait her tardy steps with patience. Mr. Eden's fourth Letter, on the prefent demands of Ireland, is, perhaps, that part of his pamphlet which will afford the moft general fatisfaction to moderate readers of every political perfuafion. It is rational, conciliatory, and to the point; and if we may confider him as delivering the fentiments of his friends in administration, it may, happily, feem to indicate their good difpofition toward an equitable, effectual, and permanent accommodation of the points in debate, between the fifter islands. Art. 24. Inftructions for a Prince: To which are added, State Maxims, and interesting Paper; found in the Cabinet of the King of Lunaria. Svo. 1 S. Faulder. 1779. A fatire on the prefent Court fyftem in a form fomewhat refembling that of the Royal Regifter. See Reviews for Feb. 1778, and May 1779. Whether he is himself encouraged by what he faw or learnt when he vifited America, on the bufinefs of the late memorable CoмMISSION, is best known to himself. H h 4 As a fpecimen of the manner in which the fatirift aims his fhafts at his Lunarian Majefty, take the following detached paffages: From the STATE MAXIMS. PERSEVERANCE is commendable, even in a doubtful caufe-(my own reign fhall be a proof of it.) It infpires fear,-fhews that you are no way timid and irrefolute;-it gives, in fhort, a TRUE IDEA OF A KING. Never give ear to the petitions of citizens. They are a fet of impertinents; who, while they are contending for the rights of mankind, will offer every indignity to their prince. I will never forgive them. My best friends, (i. e. the North Britons) who are ever ready to affift me with their counfel, and in whom I place an entire confidence, must be fuitably rewarded. The liberty, or, rather, licentioufnefs of the prefs, is infuffer. able; it calls loudly for reftriction. Is no deference to be paid to M-y? Some abufe me openly,-while others ironically tell me "Nunquam libertas gratior exftat quam fub rege pio.". I must speak to Md about it. From the MEMORANDUMS. Note: [for the meeting of Parl-t] To make, according to the vulgar expreffion, a flaming Speech. To talk much about the honour and dignity of my crown. I will fay nothing about the infire of it, left I hear of "once brighter"-" now tarnished," &c. &c. To affure the people that Am-a is already greatly weakened by our excellent method of conducting the war; and that it will not coft above an HUNDRED MILLIONS more, effectually to fubdue her. Enough of Lunarian politics. Art. 25. A full Anfwer to the King of Spain's laft Manifefto, respect ing the Bay of Honduras, and the Mofquito-fhore; in which all the Accufations brought against the Subjects of Great Britain fettled in the Bay of Honduras; and against the ancient British Settlement in the free and independent Dominions of the MosquitoShore; are candidly ftated and refuted; and the Importance of the Mofquito-Shore to Great Britain delineated and afcertained. 8vo. I s. 6d. Cadell. 1779. We have here a very fentible and fpirited refutation of the King of Spain's Manifefto, particularly in regard to the ill-founded accu. fations brought againft the fubjects of Great Britain fettled in the Bay of Honduras; and against the ancient British fettlement in the Free and Independent dominions of the Mofquito fhore. What the well-informed Author fays concerning the importance of the country known by the name of the Mojquito-fhore to Great Britain, will be matter of curious information to many of our Readers; and, certainly, holds out, to our confideration, an object of great importance to this country: especially in her prefent circum ftances. To inforce the idea which he gives us of the advantages to be derived from effectually fupporting and improving the English fettle ments, fo long established on that coaft, and where we have lately been to fuccessful, in a spirited coup-de-main, he proceeds to the fol lowing defcription: • The The Mofquito-fhore,' fays he, extends by fea eastward from Point Caftile, the boundary dividing it from the Bay of Honduras, to Cape Gracios a Dios, 87 leagues; and fouthward from Cape Gracios a Dios to St. John's river, 94 leagues. The interior part of the country is bounded by the lake Nicaragua, and fenced by mountains stretching to the weft. In magnitude it exceeds the kingdom of Portugal; is excellently watered by navigable rivers and lagunes; abounds in fish, game, and provifions of all forts; furnishes every neceffary for raising cattle and ftock on plantations of every kind, and to any extent; and is clothed with woods producing timber, for every use and purpose at land or fea. The foil is fuperior to that of all our Weft-India islands, in fertilizing all kinds of Weft-India produce; and its dimenfion incomparably furpaffes them all. The air is most falubrious, and the climate more healthy than in any of the iflands; nor have ever deftructive ravages of hurricanes and earthquakes been known there. In this delightful paradife have the gallant Indians maintained their liberty againit every artifice, and violence of fraud and force, which the power of Spain has been able to exert against them. A century of years has inviolably fixed in them a tranfcendent efteem and affectionate friendship for Great Britain; and they not only court her favour and protection, but wish, at this time, to fubmit themselves to the juft laws of her gentle and beneficent fway. To the friends of liberty, fons and heirs of the British conftitution, whether ins or outs; as well as to the real friends of our most amiable fovereign; this proffered prefent cannot but be acceptable, To reject it, would be to betray and give up the liberty and lives of our faithful friends, to the infult of their ancient and irreconcilable enemies, as well as our own. Spain thus might gain, what the has aimed at from the commencement of her government in America; and Britain lofe the most truly valuable acquifition, that ever was tendered to her. The acceptance of this, inflantly adds to our force thousands of brave warriors, not only without bounty-money, but with hearts already animated for our fervice, and burning with implacable refentment towards our foes; befides the dominion and poffeffion of a country, for intrinfic commercial Weft-India merit, far fuperior to all our islands united; impregnable, from its internal force and fituation, to all the efforts of the enemy by fea and land; and from whence we might foon and easily shake and tumble down from its fummit, that proud, unjuft, imperious, and enflaving empire of Spain in America.' If we have any thing to object to the fentiments of this ingenious Writer, it will refpect the conclufion of his pamphlet,-in which he zealously preffes our perfeverance in carrying on the ruinous and (in the opinion of many well-informed people) hopeless war in Ame rica. He fpeaks, with confidence, of our encouraging profpects of final fuccefs, in our coercive attempts to reduce the revolted Colonies; but he does not fay what is to become of this nation, if we fail at last, after all our defperate exertions,-our irretrievable expence of blood and treasure? What retreat have we fecured? It is to be feared that few of our politicians look fo far before them! -- AFFAIRS AFFAIRS OF IRELAND. Art. 26. A View of the prefent State of Ireland. Containing Obfervations on the following Subjects, viz. Its Dependance,Linen Trade,-Provifion Trade,-Woollen Manufactory,-Coals, Fishery, Agriculture, Of Emigration,-Import Trade of the City of Dublin,-Effect of the prefent Mode of raising the Revenue, on the Health and Happinefs of the people,-the Revenue, a National Bank,-and an Abfentee Tax. Intended for the Confideration of Parliament, on the approaching Enlargement of the Trade of that Kingdom. To which is added, a Sketch of fome of the principal Characters in the Irish House of Commons. 8vo. 1 s. 6 d. Faulder. 1780. Those who may require information on the very interesting and important fubjects which are difcuffed in this elaborate, well digefted, and well written performance, will meet with great fatisfaction in perufing it. It is worth an hundred of the flimfy invectives, commonly produced by political-efpecial'y national, difputes. Art. 27. A Letter to the People of Ireland. In which are included, fome curfory Obfervations on the Effect of a Union. Sva. 1 s. 6d. Faulder. 1779. Strenuously recommends a general written affeciation of the people of Ireland, in fupport of their trade, particularly the woollen manufactures, as the only defirable, fafe, and effectual mode of redreffing their grievances, and making their country flourish. An affociation of this national kind, the Propofer obferves, is a meafure wonderfully calculated to unite all defcriptions of men, and to infpire that union. It is not a question about the power of the crown, in which the Whig might take one fide and the Tory another. It is not a queftion about the liberties of the people, in which the Diffenters might go farther, perhaps, than the Roman Catholics; nor is it about the plunder of government, where the majority of parliament might be on one fide, and the majority of the people on the other; but it is that question where Whig and Tory, Diffenter and Roman Catholic, Country Gentleman and Courtier, must agree: they must unite to prefer property to poverty, and trade to the want of it.' The Author ftates the objections that will, probably, be made to this great and important defign, and anfwers them. He feems to expect nothing from the justice or generofity of England. There is, fays he, no fuch thing as political humanity; or, if the fentiment did exift, it is not likely to be found in a country of commerce.' Some parts of this pamphlet are written with fpirit, and the whole. with judgment. Art. 28. A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Hillsborough, Secretary of State for the Southern Department, on the prefent State of Affairs in Ireland; and An Address to the People of that Kingdom. 8vo. Is. Bew. 1779. Warm declamation, in fupport of the claims of Ireland. Art. 29. An Inquiry, how far the Restrictions laid upon the Trade of Ireland, by British Acts of Parliament, are a Benefit or Difadvantage to the British Dominions in general, and to England in particular, for whole feparate Advantage they were obtained. tained. By Sir James Caldwell, Bart. 8vo. I s. 6d. Becket, &c. 1779. The general purport of this treatife, is to fhew, that the reftrictions which England has laid upon the trade of Ireland, with a view to her own particular advantage, have a contrary effect,-or, at leaft, that they are difadvantageous to the nation, as an aggregate, including England and Ireland.' Sir James appears to be intimately con verfant with the fubject; and he treats it in a judicious, difpaffionate, and intelligent manner. POETICAL. Art. 30. Mifcellaneous Poems. By Mr. Ewan Clark. 8vo. Whitehaven. Ware and Son. The numerous lift of fubfcribers prefixed to thefe poems, may be confidered as no bad proof of the eitimation in which Mr. Clark is held by those who are acquainted with him: but, whether it is as a man or a poet, they who fubfcribed will be the best judges themselves. We fear his poetry alone would not have intitled him to fuch diftinction. Art. 31. The House of Commons: or, Debates in St. Giles's Chapel. 4to. 2s. 6d. Fielding. We must fay of these poetical conversations in the terus, what we faid of the poem on Bagnigge-Wells (in our Review for September lait, p. 235.) that the Author feems happily converfant with his noble fubject.'-Of his abilities, a fpecimen was given, in the account of Bagnigge Wells, here referred to. Art. 32. The dying Hero. A Poem. By Mr. Shepherd. 4to. 1 s. Flexney, &c. 1779. The principal intention of the Poem before us, is to fhew on what foundation ftands the warrior's pride.' With this view, the dying hero, Palermo, is introduced as mortally wounded in battle. Roderick, the monarch, under whofe banners he fights, endeavours to confole him, by promifing to build a temple to his memory; or if, adds he, -Revenge your fiercer with implies, Yon ravaged realms fhall pay the dear-bought facrifice. Rejecting thefe offers, he requests a refpite from death, and that he may -charge once more in glory's crimson field. Finding from the monarch's reply, that he had, as we may suppose, no power over the grave, he then bids him to prepare Some glorious manfion of eternal joy, Secure from change and free from all alloy. Roderick, fenfible that the regions of eternal joy made no part of his dominions, tries to divert his anxiety, by hinting that the foul might poffibly perish with the body. Far from being convinced, he demands more fubftantial proof, than what is drawn from conjecture, that the foul is not immortal: but perceiving by the monarch's downçaft looks, How vainly spent his life, his prayer how vain, He very wifely and piously concludes with old Wolfey, "Oh had I ferved my God with half the care "I ferved my prince, that God had heard my prayer." Such |