Many of the notes are merely explanatory of words, as Canto I. 12. "Fia, voce poetica, ufata talvolta da' prosatori : d cifi anche fie, et ambedue fignificano farà."

A very ufeful addition to the work would be an index of the words thus explained, which would be advantageous in reading other Italian poets. Even as it is, however, the edition is very desirable.

ART. 32. Opere feelte dell' Abate Metaftafio. Rivedute da Leonardo Nardini, al Ufo degli ftudiofi della Lingua Italiano. 2 tom. 18mo. IOS. Dulau. 1806.

This edition is without notes, but we conceive that it may be recommended as containing a very correct Text. The dramas admitted into it are: 1. Artafeffe. 2. Adriano. 3. Demetrio, 4. Olimpiade. 5. La Clemenza di Tito. 6. Demofoonte. 7. Ciro. 8. Temistocle. 9. Zenobia. 10. Attilio Regolo. L'Ifola difabitata. 12. Le Cinefi. 13. Gioas Re di Giuda. 14. Giuseppe riconosciuto. Ifaaco. Thefe are followed by the Cantate, and other fmall poems. The felection is judi. cious, and the book elegantly printed.

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ART. 33. Portable Mathematical Tables, containing Logarithms of Numbers; proportional Parts; artificial Sines and Tangents; natural Sines and Tangents to every Degree, and Minute of the Quadrant; and a Table of Square and cube Roots to No. 180. By Thomas Whiting, Matier of Keppel Honfe Seminary. 12mo. 45. Longman. 1806.

We have never feen any book of this nature fo portable and @onvenient in its form as the prefent, the origin of which is thus related by the author: "As much as twenty years ago, I heard a military gentleman lament, that there was no fuch thing as a neat, portable fet of mathematical tables; and that he, to fupply. the defect, had purchafed an old copy of Sir Jonas Moore's Mathematics, taken the book to pieces, and bound the tables by themfelves, for the conveniency of the pocket: I have alfo, fince that time, known feveral of my acquaintance do the same, which led me to a determination to correct the tables above mentioned, and to publish them." We have no doubt that many perfons will be glad to avail themfelves of this publication.

ART. 34. The Cafe of Lieutenant Hocper of his Majefty's 73d. Regiment; containing a Copy of the Proceedings of the Court Martial by which he was tried; and a Narrative of Hardships and Indignities fubfequently inflicted on Him: with Documents, explanatory Notes, and Illuftrations of the Whole.-Refpe&fully addreffed to the Officers of the Army and to the Public, in Vindica

tion of Lieutenant Hooper's Character; and to manifeft that the Offence alledged was merely Private, the Profecution as foreign and unneceffary to the Interests of the Service, as the Motives and Conduct of the Profecutor were Selfish and Dishonourable; and that erroneous Impreffions only could, in fuch a Cafe, have induced fo fevere a Sentence. 8vo. 68 pp. 2s. 6d. Traice. 1807.

We have given the title-page of this publication (prolix as it is) at full length, because the contents are not of a nature to be detailed here. The fentence of a competent and (as we muft prefume) impartial tribunal, is not a fit fubject for our examination; nor do its proceedings furnish matter for literary criticifm. Upon the whole ftatement of this cafe, it fufficiently appears that this officer had conducted himself in a very rafh and intemperate manner; though, confidering his youth, the flight which appears to have been shown him, and the difputable feniority of the other party, we fhould have thought that a fevere reprimand (or perhaps a temporary fufpenfion, if within the power of the court) might have answered the ordinary purposes of juftice. Whether or not the maintenance of military difcipline requires a feverer fentence, we do not take upon ourfelves to pronounce; but we cannot dif femble our opinion that there feem to be fome features of prejudice (if nothing worfe; in the conduct of the profecutors; (we allude particu-. larly to the letter from the late lieutenant-colonel to the adjutant, prefuming it to be genuine) and we fincerely hope that this gentle. man may have an opportunity afforded him of returning to his profeffion, and of effacing the late ftain by a more temperate conduct, and by a zealous discharge of his military duties.

ART. 35. The Speech of Randle Jackson, Efq. addressed to the Honorable the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to confider of the State of the Woollen Manufacture of England, on behalf of the Cloth-workers and Sheermen of the Counties of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Wiltshire, Somerfetfbire, and Gloucefterfhire. Published by them from the short-hand Copy of Mr. Gurney. 8vo. 79 PP. Stockdale. 1806.

1s. 6d.

We know not by what accident it has happened that this Speech, on an important fubject, though published confiderably more than a year ago, has hitherto efcaped our notice. No copy of the petition to which it relates is prefixed to it, nor intimation of the event but, as a parliamentary decifion on the case must Jong fince have taken place, it would be needlefs for us to go through the arguments of the learned counfel for the petitioners, whofe caufe he certainly maintains with ability and judgment. The points in queftion he ftates to be," the Gig-mill, the Sheering-frame, the Searchers and Scalers, and the Apprenticeloom." On the two first articles, he admits (as every reasonable man must admit) "the ftupendous advantages which our country

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has derived from machinery;" but he argues ftrongly against its unlimited ufe; fince "machinery," he obferves, by its fuperfeffion of human labour has a moft depopulating effect." He, therefore, lays down certain rules for judging whether machinery should be encouraged or not; namely, that it should not be encouraged "unlefs it be neceffary to enable you to meet com petitors at a foreign market," nor if the prices are already fufficiently low, and if the articles made by machinery are not of a better quality than those wrought by hand. These diftinctions he applies to the cafe before the committee; but, if we mistake not, the petition went not only to deprecate an encouragement, but to require a prohibition of the machinery in question: and if this was the cafe (concerning which it is extraordinary that we have no intimation one way or the other) we fhould, upon general principles, find it very difficult to agree with the learned advocate: The queftion refpecting Searchers and Scalers (for the continuance of whom Mr. J. argues at fome length) is fo much a matter of internal regulation, that we deem the difcuffion entirely out of our province. The fubject of apprenticeships opens a very wide field of argument; but the learned counsel (applying it to the manufactory in queftion) propofes a modification of the fyftem, allowing children to be employed in fuch work as they can perform, until the proper age for binding them, and, after they are bound, employing them upon progreffive wages. He confents that the duration of the apprenticeship should he fhortened from seven to five years if it fhall be expedient; but he infifts that the fyftem of apprenticeships fhould not be wholly laid afide.

As the decifion of Parliament upon this fubject has, we believe, long fince taken place, we have deemed this faint outline of an able difcuffion fufficient; as those who may be interested will doubtless refer to the fpeech itself.

ART. 36. Official Letters written by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haldane, Captain of Royal Invalid Engineers, to the Mafters General of His Majefty's Ordnance, fince the Year 1802. 8vo. 132 pp. 2s. Harding. 1807.

A confiderable portion of this pamphlet confifts of the Letters from the author to the Earl of Chatham, which were briefly noticed by us foon after their appearance*. The chief addition confifts of Letters on the fame fubject to the Earl of Moira, during the time when his lordship prefided at the Board of Ordnance. They relate to a regulation refpecting the brevet rank of officers in the corps of engineers, when on the invalid establishment. If fuch officers are invalided after having obtained regimental rank of field officers, they are included in fubfequent brevets. But it

* See Brit, Crit, vol. xxiv. p. 90.

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has not been thought fit to extend this advantage to "captains of artillery, or engineers poffeffing brevet army rank."Of this regulation the author (being of the latter defcription) vehemently complains, and gives inftances of a different practice.-This is fo entirely a military question that we can only fay, that the author's military fuperiors (and, as it fhould feem) the king himself, are of a different opinion; and in their opinion, after a full reprefentation of his cafe, we conceive it is his duty to acquiefce.

ART. 37. Mr. Blore's Statement of a Correspondence with Richard
Phillips, Efq. Sheriff, &c. &c. c. refpecting the Antiquary's
Magazine. Second Edition. 8vo.
31 PP. 15. Stamford,

printed; Crosby, &c. London. 1808.

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The biography of eminent men is always a liberal, and at prefent a very popular study. Among the materials for the life of Mr. Sheriff Phillips, perhaps this little tract will be laid by. reveals fome fecrets of trade, and fome features of character; and though neither of the parties concerned, can, we think, be entirely acquitted from the charge of petulance, yet the great man, who fneers at whole focieties at once, has certainly made the most proficiency in the fublime art of defpifing others.

ART. 38. Obfervations on Seduction, and the Evil Confequences attending it extracted from Matthew Henry's Expofition of the Old and New Teftament, by Mary Smith, a Penitent, late of the Magdalen Hofpital, and published for her Benefit; to which is added a Poem, by Mr. Pratt, on the fame Subject. 12mo. 1s. 6d. Hatchard. 1808.

'68 pp.

This little book was fent to us with a requeft, that if we approved we would recommend it. We certainly approve of any effort made, by a fincere penitent, to obtain fubfiftence by honest means; and as the prefatory addrefs declares it to be the object of the prefent publication to enable the compiler to fettle in fome bufinefs which may refcue her from want, we heartily with that our recommendation may be effectual to promote its fale. . It is divided into four chapters, the two first of which are extracted from the commentary of Dr. Henry on the Proverbs, and two from that on the New Teftament; all having reference to the cafes of incontinence and feduction, and tending strongly to warn the reader against them. Henry's ftyle of expofition, though not exactly what we approve, is perhaps better calculated to ftrike the uneducated, than what we fhould cfteem more prudent and judicious. Mr. Pratt's poem of the Penitent, which con cludes this compilation, has in it many fine lines, and feveral ftriking paffages. It may doubtlefs very ftrongly promote the fame good purposes of warning and advice.

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