This is a fecond edition, and we felt a pleasure in arriving at a knowledge of the fuccefs of this treatife fince its first publi cation. The fale of an edition in a period of time hardly exceeding fix months, if it proves merely utility and the want of fuch a work is at least an important object with the author.

Being perfectly of Mr. A.'s fentiments as to the preference of mat er to manner (although it is by no means our opinion there is a want of the latter in the book before us) we shall conclude with his own words.

"Should the cafe of fhip owners receive any fupport from this effort, that of the commanders of their veffels cannot fail experiencing, in an equal proportion, its beneficial effects; and if it thall be found to conduce one jot to the publie good, fuch a merit will go far to compenfate for its deficiency in the more ornamental, but lefs valuable, recommendations of style and lan. guage."

The owners and mafters of transports will do well ta furnish themselves with this volume.

ART. 29. Biographic Scotica; or Scottish Biographical Di&imary containing a short Account of the Lives and Writings of the maft eminent Perfons, and remarkable Characters, Natives of Scotland, from the earliest Ages to the prefent Time. By J. Stark. Embellished with Portraits. I 2mo. 55. Murray. 1805.

This is a very entertaining little volume, and will, we doubt not, experience an extenfive circulation in Scotland. We have noticed very few either of important omiffions or inaccuracies; but there fhould either have been more portraits or none at allThese confift but of four, which are, however, of tolerable exe. cution. We at least expected to have feen one of the “ admirable Crichton." We repeat, without reluctance, that it is an interefting and entertaining little volume. Dr. Granger, the author of the Sugar Cane, deferved to have a more detailed account; and lefs, perhaps, might as well have been faid of fome other individuals.

ART. 30. Obfervations on the South Carolina Memorial upon the Subject of Duelling. In a Letter to a Friend. By Pofthumus. 8vo. 32 pp. No Publisher's Name. 1805.

The fatal duel in America between two diftinguished leaders of parties in that country, occafioned, it feems, a Memorial to the Legillature of South Carolina from feveral inhabitants of that state, requiring more fevere laws againft duelling. This Memorial the writer before us attempts to anfwer; and, among other things, ventures to argue, that it is not contrary to any divine or human law; or rather, that it does not (as alleged in the Memorial) trame ple upon them; quibbling upon the term used by the Memorialifts.

Duelling

Duelling (according to this author) may or may not be murder, according to circumftances. But we should be glad to know under what circumftances a man can be justified in deliberately taking away the life of a fellow-creature, though he risks, at the fame time, his own; or, (fince we prefume the laws of Ame rica are, on this fubject, fimilar to those of Britain) how a man, who conftitutes himself the avenger of his own real or fuppofed wrongs, and openly defies the law which condemns fuch a practice, can be faid not "to trample on the laws of his coun. try?" But it would be useless to purfue this author through his flimfy reafonings. This work is not owned by any publisher, and, if it were, is not likely to be much read. Two important facts, however, are admitted in this pamphlet. There are, it seems, "more duels fought in the United States of America than in any other country;" and the caufe of this is allowed to be" the excefs of party heats and animofities." When we recollect how feldom in this country a duel arifes from any political controverfy, we fhall, perhaps, be lefs eager than fome writers have been to extol the American character; or to paint the delights of a region, in which party differences can generate a rancour extinguishable only by blood.

ART. 31.

Account of the State of France, and its Government, during the last three Years, particularly as it has Relation to the Belgic Provinces, and the Treatment of the English, by Ifrael Worley, detained as a Heftage. 12mo. 5s. Johnson. 1806.

The author had established a fchool in France after the Revolution; the troublesome times which enfued drove him back to England, whence he again returned to his occupation after the Peace of Amiens. He was arrested among the reft of his countrymen at the commencement of hoftilities, and after various removals from place to place, finally made his efcape to Holland. He has now published a detailed account of his adventures, with obfervations on the ftate of France, under its new government. The work is entertaining, and at p. 158 we find an account of fome French troops, of which we had never heard, called Leapers.

The French have fome battalions of troops unlike any that we know; they are called Leapers, and are trained to the greatest agility and skill in corporeal movements. They accompany a correfponding number of cavalry into the field, whofe herfes are accustomed to carry double, and not to itart when a man leaps up behind the rider. Their evolutions are made with wonderful rapidity they gallop away to the place where they are required to act, and immediately the Leapers jump down, form themselves into a line of battle behind the horfes, and become a feparate army. When their orders are executed, or they meet with a

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repulfe,

repulfe, they jump up again each behind his companion, and are carried off in fafety to another place."

ART. 32. The Hiftory of England, for the Ufe of Schools and Young Perfons. By Edward Baldwin, Efq. Author of Fables, Ancient and Modern. With Thirty-two Heads of the Kings engraved on Copper-plate, and a striking Reprefentation of an ancient Tournament. 12mo. Price 4s. Hodgkins. 1806.

We much approved of this author's fables, and recommended them accordingly. This alfo is a very fuitable book for children, and we particularly like the fhort characters of the Kings of England, which introduce the work itself. Of the engravings we cannot speak in very high terms; but the book is remarkably well printed. The tables alfo at the end, of the various fubjects treated of in the preceding pages, with particular references, is alfo highly ufeful, as it may be fo easily impressed upon the memory.

ART. 33. Picture of Edinburgh; containing a Hiftory and Defcription of the City, with a particular Account of every remarkable Object in an Establishment connected with the Scottish Metropolis. By J. Stark. Illuftrated with a Plan, and upwards of thirty Engravings on Wood. 12mo. 5s. Murray. 1806.

This is a neatly printed and convenient little book. It is alfo well written, and gives a very fatisfactory, though neceffarily, a fuccinct account of all the more memorable circumftances in the hiftory of Edinburgh. It would, however, have been quite as well without the engravings on wood, which are almost the meaneft things of the kind that we have ever seen, and not much better than thofe which are prefixed to halfpenny ballads. The plan of Edinburgh is, however, neatly executed.

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