man who holds a very respectable situation in one of the public offices, while it rectifies some errors respecting his family, details a variety of curious particulars connected with the latter portion of his life. Had it been received sooner, more justice would have been done to an article, which, in its original form, must have merited a double portion of praise. The whole, taken together, will, perhaps, be found to constitute one of the completest specimens of biography, lately submitted to the notice of the Public. A short but authentic life of the late James Watt, F. R. S. cannot fail to attract attention. It has been sanctioned by the approbation of those to whom his memory and reputation are peculiarly dear. At a time, when the penal statutes are thought by some to stand in need of revision, and the condition of the criminal poor, has become a subject of frequent debate and investigation in both Houses of Parliament, the documents contained in the memoirs of the late Inspector-General of convicts, cannot fail to prove worthy of attention. The rules laid down by him being the result of long experience both by sea and land, are well calculated to afford useful hints to such benevolent legislators as are occupied about meliorating the condition of those confined on board of hulks, conveyed to distant settlements by means of transports, or doomed to spend a large portion of their lives in Penitentiary * Aaron Graham, Esq. Houses. It is greatly to be lamented, that we have been unable to include many celebrated characters within the limits of the present volume. Among some others that excite our regret, are the Father of the English Bar*; the venerable and learned Dean of Christ Church; and a nobleman, whose name is connected with the Agriculture of this country, in all its various branches, having not only devoted the greater part of his life to husbandry, experimental and practical, but to the improvement of our various breeds of cattle, both native and foreign. Of all these, memoirs shall appear in our next volume. *Sir Arthur Pigot, late Attorney-General. 1. Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough, &c. &c. By 2. Letters from the Abbé Edgeworth to his friends, with Memoirs of his Life, including some Account of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork, Dr. Moylan, and Letters to him from the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, |