VI. The Origin, Object and Operation of the Apprentice

Laws; with their application to times past, present, and to

come: addressed to the Committee of General Purposes of

the City of London, by the Committee of Manufacturers

of London and its Vicinity. [Original]

VII. Insurance against Robbery; or the Present System of

the Police considered, and a New one proposed. [Ori-

ginal.]

VIII. Observations on the Bill, rendering the Militia dis-

posable for Foreign Service. By JOHN PHILIPPART,

Esq. [Original.]

PAGE.

217

. 243

263

*** Owing to the absence of Sir FRANCIS D'IVERNOIS from
this country, his pamphlet is unavoidably postponed.

No. VI. will be published on the 1st of JUNE, and will contain

Lord SHEFFIELD's Pamphlet on the Trade in Wool and Wool-

lens, &c. &c.

CONTENTS OF NO. VI.

I. On the Trade in Wool and Woollens, including an ex-

position of the Commercial situation of the British Empire:

extracted from the Reports addressed to the Wool-Meetings

at Lewes, in the years 1809, 1810, 1811, and 1812, by the

President JOHN, LORD SHEFFIELD, from the Commnni-

cations to THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

II. A Letter to THOMAS HOPE, Esq. Hereditary Go-

vernor and Director of the BRITISH INSTITUTION for

promoting the Fine Arts in the UNITED KINGDOM, &c.

&c. on the insufficiency of the existing establishments for

promoting the Fine Arts, towards that of Architecture and

its Professors; attempting to show the cause of the decline

of pure taste in that branch of the Fine Arts, and with some

hints towards its better encouragement. By JAMES ELMES,

Architect. [Original.]

III. A Review of First Principles of Bishop Berkeley,

Dr. Reid, and Professor Stewart. With an indication of

other Principles. By JOHN FEARN, Esq. Author of an

Essay on Consciousness.

PAGE

281

329

345

IV. Narrative of the Crucifixion of Matthew Lovat, exe-

cuted by his own hands, at Venice, in July, 1805. Originally

communicated to the Public by CESAR RUGGIERI, M.D.

Professor of Clynical Surgery at Venice, in a letter to a Me-

dical Friend. [Now first translated into English. With a

wood-cut.]

V. A Series of Letters on the Political and Financial state

of the Nation, at the commencement of the year 1814; ad-

dressed to the EARL OF LIVERPOOL. BY FRANCIS PER-

CIVAL ELIOT, Esq. under the signature of FALKLAND.

VI. Observations on Medical Reform. By a Member of

the University of Oxford. [Original.]

VII. On Buonaparte and the Bourbons, and the necessity

of rallying around our legitimate Princes, for the safety of

France and Europe. Translated from the French of F. A.

DE CHATEAUBRIAND.

VIII. An Appeal to the Legislature for the repeal of the

Act regulating the Marriage of the Royal Family. [Ori-

ginal.]

PAGE

361

377

413

433

475

IX. A Short Sketch of a Short Trip to Paris in 1788.

By R. VALPY, D. D. F.A.S.

489

X. Reflections on the Letters of CONCILIATOR, on the

Question of Catholic Emancipation; contained in No. V.

By the Right Reverend BISHOP MILNER, D.D. [Original.] 553

PREFACE.

ALTHOUGH a short interval only has elapsed since the following performance was laid before the public, this period has been distinguished by a rapid succession of events of the highest political importance. These most memorable and most interesting events are, in truth, the natural and necessary consequences of the general and comprehensive plan of hostility, which the allied powers have so wisely and so steadily pursued. The practicability of this general system of cordial and unanimous co-operation was long denied: corruption, jealousy, imbecility, financial derangement, national supineness, in short every element. of disunion existed, it was believed, in such force, as to render a zealous combination of the continental powers against France almost equally hopeless and visionary. The eventful history of the campaign, since the rupture of the armistice, furnishes a perfect refutation of this error.

The spirit of the times, and the new and characteristic features of the war, were too much overlooked by those