Swifferland. The treaty of Pilnitz is called the treaty of Padua; the author mistaking, for the former, that which is generally called by the French, Le circulaire de Padoue-a circular letter written by the Emperor Leopold to the different courts of Europe, and dated at Padua in Italy. In the article of this treaty refpecting Spain, it is faid, "His Majesty the King of Spain fhall have Rouffillon and Berne." This may be an error of the prefs; it should be Bearn, a province in the fouth-weft of France, bordering on Spain.-Berne is one of the cantons of Swifferland. The author of this letter writes forcibly, but he is cold and phlegmatic; he does not warm his readers; he foars not to the manliness of bold fatire, nor does he rife fuperior to a fneer. Sh. Art. 26. A fort Review of the principal Events of the Campaign 1793. 8vo. pp. 34. IS. Owen. 1794: We have here little more than a chronological table of the events of the last campaign, in which the fucceffes and loffes of the allies appear to be stated with accuracy and fairness. The object of the compiler is to fhew that the fortune of war has been fo far favourable to us, that we have gained confiderably more than we have loft during the period in queftion. The acquifition of Tobago, of part of St. Domingo, Miquelon, and St. Pierre, (all nuríeries of feamen,) taken by us in the Weft, and all the French fettlements in the Eaft, the deftruction of forty-five French fhips of war, nineteen of which were of the line, (but fome of which, by the bye, never fell into our hands,) he defcribes as advantages furpaffing any which we could have expected from the most fuccessful war, in as much as they deprive the French of more than one-half of their means of training up men to the fea, and confequently leave us in poffeffion of an extended and undisturbed commerce. He adds fome reflections to prove that we were bounden by intereft, had treaties and national faith been out of the queftion, to defend Holland; and that, while the French continue to profefs the principles which have hitherto governed their conduct, it would be abfurd in us to expect any security from them for the faithful obfervance of any articles of peace. The style and candor of the writer are entitled to commendation. Do Art. 27. A feafonable Publication, in Two Parts. By the Rev. Richard Tapprell. 4to. pp. 48. 2s. Dilly, The firft part of this pamphlet contains Obfervations on the origin of government, and on the advantages of a wife and good government;-thefe advantages are fhewn by a fhort contrast between good government and a state of anarchy on the one hand, and tyranny on the other; - reafons are urged against what is called a state of natural liberty; with an encomium on the English conftitution.-Some of the duties of fubjects to their lawful fovereign.' The fecond part contains, Firft, reafons for a revolution in France. Secondly, reafons against fuch a revolution in England.' The first part was delivered as a fermon from Jer. xviii. 6. on the day of thanksgiving for his prefent Majefty's recovery ;-the fecond is wholly new. Both are introduced by an addrefs to Mr. Pitt, in which the writer profeffes his loyalty, and at the fame time, with modefty modefty and firmnefs, urges that fome more equitable mode of conduct may be adopted refpecting proteftant diffenters. Mr. Tapprell writes like a plain, fenfible, honeft man, and dif covers both reading and learning. Every impartial reader, though he fhould not always affent to his ideas, will be pleafed with that air of candor and fimplicity, integrity and piety, which thefe pages manifeft. While Mr. T. applauds and rejoices in the benefits of the English conftitution, he does not deny its defects. While he approves of the original French revolution, and is convinced of its neceffity, he deplores the evils with which it has been attended, and the horrid exceffes which have been committed. He warns his countrymen against rash attempts at revolution. He flatters himself that the eye of common fense will immediately difcover, that the general state of things in the two nations is exceedingly diflimilar; if France wanted medicine, that is no reason why England fhould take poifon.'-The reader of this pamphlet will be agreeably amused, and will have no reafon to think that his time has been mifemployed. Art. 28. An Address delivered at a Meeting of the Magiftrates, Clergy, It appears, from this fmall tract, that the meeting mentioned in the title was numerously attended by perfons of all ranks and defcriptions. Dr.W. therefore very properly embraced the favourable opportunity for the delivery of a fpeech fraught with fentiments of loyalty, and animated by a becoming zeal for the prefervation of our conftitution, and for the fecurity of our prefent government.-Perfons of all degrees of influence, and of property, are here very earnestly exhorted to exert their utmost abilities, of every kind, against the enemies of our country, foreign and domestic. Art. 29. A Propofal to the Ladies of Great Britain, respectfully offered. 4to, IS. Printed at Bath; Robinfons, London. 179+ The propofal is that the ladies fhould raise a fubfcription for the affiftance of government in the war against France. To induce his fair readers to carry this advice into immediate execution, the loyal propofer endeavours to inflame their zeal by an animated though fomewhat flighty invective, (we had almoft said, a Philippic oration,) against the French, and against thofe of our own country who recommend peace with thofe Monsters,' &c. &c.-treating all, who are in oppofition to the meafures of our present adminiftration, with the worst language that Abuse can furnish. To manifeft his own zeal in the caufe which he fo eagerly pleads, the philanthropic propofer makes the following declaration: Sooner than fue for peace, or even accept it by thofe apoftates, I had rather behold the city of London razed to the level of the earth; and a pile made of every thing valuable in it;' [how VAST and RICH that pile!] when blazing, fee the inhabitants, with myfelf, rufh into the flames, rather than deny our God or our King, or fubmit to the mifery of prolonging an existence under tyranny the moft com plete, Hi. plete, and fubjection the most abject; which would inevitably follow admitting a fyftem of republican government.' What true-born Englishwoman, after reading the foregoing "fpirit-ftirring" lines, (which, the writer affures us, contain the ⚫ fentiments of one who is not apt to be led away by INTEMPERATE BEAT,') will for a moment delay her subscription? AFFAIRS OF FRANCE. Art. 30. Original Correfpondence between Generals Dumourier, Miranda, Pache, and Beurnonville, Minifters of War, fince January 1793 Including the Orders of General Dumourier to General Miranda, from the Invafion of Holland to the Overthrow of the French after the Battle of Nerwidden. Tranflated from the French published by General Miranda. 8vo. 3s. Owen. This correfpondence, which commences on January 5th, 1793, concludes with fome particulars relative to the defeat of the French in the actions of March 18th, &c. and the fubfequent movements, continued to the 24th of the fame month. All the letters relate to the plans and manœuvres for profecuting the campaign. Those of Miranda feem to manifeft the abilities and prudence of that officer; while those of Dumourier ferve to confirm the general opinion of the enterprizing spirit, but flighty and random conduct, of that commander in chief: whofe victory at Jemmappe has been much tarnished by his fubfequent measures. It appears that General Miranda published this correfpondence to pave the way for his defence at his fubfequent trial; when, if we are rightly informed, he was acquitted;-much to the fatisfaction of his military affociates, who were beft acquainted with the merit of his conduct as a general officer. Art. 31. Hints; or, a fhort Account of the principal Movers of the French Revolution. 8vo. 15. Egerton. The only merit of this pamphlet confifts in its being a record of the principal perfons who have ftrutted and fretted their hour on the ftage of revolution. For the reft, it is but a meagre repetition of the common reports and vulgar abuse of the times; in which Frenchmen and monsters are fynonymous terms:-but this is John Bull's way; when John quarrels, he is always foul-mouth'd: yet, when it comes to hard knocks, John is not an ungenerous adverfary; he always fights fair. AMERICA. Art. 32. A Cafe decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, in February 1793. In which is difcuffed the Queftion, " Whether a State be liable to be fued by a private Citizen of another State?" 8vo. pp. 120. 2s. 6d. Philadelphia, Dobfon: London, Dilly. 1793. The court intimated a defire that the four following points fhould be confidered in the prefent question: 1. Can the State of Georgia, being one of the United States of America, be made a party-defendant in any cafe, in the Supreme Court of the United States, at the fuit of a private citizen, even although he himself is, and his teftator was, a citizen of the State of South Carolina ? 2. If 2. If the State of Georgia can be made a party defendant in certain cafes, does an action of affumpfit lie against her? 3. Is the fervice of the fummons upon the Governor and Attorney General of the State of Georgia a competent fervice? 6 4. By what procefs ought the appearance of the State of Georgia to be enforced?' The Attorney General, who maintained the affirmative, observed that the constitution and judicial law are the fources from which the jurifdiction of the Supreme Court is derived. The effective paffages in the conftitution are in the second fection of the third article." The judicial power fhall extend to controverfies between a State and citizens of another State."-" In cafes, in which a State fhall be a party, the Supreme Court fhall have original jurifdiction." The judicial act thus organizes the jurifdiction, delineated by the constitution. "The Supreme Court fhall have exclufive jurifdiction of all controverfies of a civil nature, where a State is a party, except between a State and its citizens; and except alfo, between a State and citizens of other States or aliens, in which latter cafe, it shall have original, but not exclufive jurisdiction." On this ground, he contended that the conftitution vefts a juris diction in the Supreme Court over a State, as defendant, at the suit of a private citizen of another State: fecondly, That the judicial act recognizes that jurifdiction;' and he argued thefe points with much ability. The Court, excepting Judge Iredell, were of opinion that the State was liable, and that an action of affumpfit might be brought against it. MATHEMATICS, &C. Art. 33. An Introduction to plane Trigonometry, with its Application to Heights and Distances: containing an Explanation of the three Varieties of right-angled Triangles, and the four Cafes of Oblique, together with a Variety of Questions interfperfed by Way of Exercife. By Richard Cockrel, Teacher of the Free School at Lartington. Small 8vo. pp. 99. 2s. bound. Law. We can difcern no peculiar excellence in Mr. Cockrel's mode of teaching plane trigonometry which should efpecially recommend it to the public. No advantage feems to accrue from refolving the whole doctrine of right-angled triangles into three varieties, and perplexing the learner with a multitude of different conftructions adapted to the purpofe of explaining and applying them. When a fingle figure is fufficient for illuftrating all the cafes of right-angled triangles, why should we recur to a complicated apparatus which ferves to puzzle and confound the youthful mind, and to fuggeft ideas of difficulty that does not actually exist in the fubject itself? Plane trigonometry depends on a few obvious principles, and the mode of applying them may be fufficiently explained in a few pages. We can easily conceive, however, that the author may have availed himself of his own plan, though it be fuch as we fhould neither adopt nor recommend. While we are difpofed to excufe the partiality of authors to their own performances, we cannot fuffer defects and errors in any department of Science to escape animadverfion: more especially in a work announced 6 S.R. nounced to be fo plain and eafy, that, to be comprehended, it needs only to be read,' and defigned to facilitate the acquifition of fo useful a science' as trigonometry. In def. 19. p. 5. the author has not distinguished, as he ought to have done, between a rectangle and a parallelogram. His proof of the 12th propofition depends on a principle which he has not demonftrated; viz. that two triangles, having a common vertex, are as their bafes. The definition of the verfed fine, as a space contained between the fine and circumference, &c. in p. 29. is inaccurately expreffed; and his definition of a tangent in p. 30. is obfcure and imperfect. His demonftration of the firft principle in trigonometry, p. 33. is not fufficiently general and comprehenfive, nor indeed, as he has expreffed it, intelligible. To his demonftration of the rule that occurs in p. 75. we have the fame objection; and in p. 78. he has referred to a property of the circle, which he has neither proved, nor even mentioned. Thefe inaccuracies are owing, we apprehend, more to inattention than to want of competent acquaintance with the fubject. The examples for practice which the author has felected are pertinent and ufeful; and, as we have no reason to doubt his qualification for that branch of inftruction to which this treatife is adapted, we have therefore, without contenting ourselves with a general charge, fpecified his errors for future correction. Re-s. POETRY and DRAMATIC. Art. 34. Liverpool Odes, or, affectionate Epiftles, for the Year 1793. By Junius Churchill, Efq. 4to. 1s. 6d. Leicester, Oxford-road. Thefe Odes, five in number, are faint imitations of P. Pindar's laughter-provoking Ditties. They are not without humour, but that humour is clownish, and flovenly dreft. The author's fatire is not a keenly polished blade which cuts fmoothly though severely, but a hedging-bill which hacks and hews in a ruftic manner. From his first Ode, addreffed to the Poet Laureate, and which we deem the best of the five, we give the following ftanzas, as a fpeci men: Dame Fortune's oft depicted blind, But zounds, I think the painters highly wrong, And ftock of royal favor, for thy fong. And dullness lends her leaden charms, I've often feen a lingering wretch, And Doctor ftand, unknowing what to do, Upon the invalid to creep, Let him prefcribe, quantum fufficit-you.' Τη |
