entertained of the power of public opinion anticipation, if he moved, of his brother's fate; a certain degree of misanthropy, and com- plete scepticism on the possibility of improving his fellow creatures. This misanthropy guided him very strangely in his conduct towards the officers in his department. He gave himself not the least trouble. about them. Whether they succeeded or were ruined; whether they were respectable or contemptible, industrious or idle, it was all the same to him. Merit never assisted, nor demerit lowered any one. Scarcely was he acquainted personally with half a dozen: persons in the offices nearest to him; the rest he never saw, nor" did · he even know their names. It was not pride nor the spirit of aris-` tocracy which occasioned so strange a conduct: it arose entirelyr from contempt. of mankind, and coldness of heart. Great faults that passed immediately under his eyes, he would scarcely notice, or if an inquiry was to be made, he would throw all difficulties into the way, and then make the bitterest jests on those who conducted, the inquiry. It may easily, be imagined that such a character could not be beloved, and it scarcely seems necessary to employ so many; pages on his life.
But this unhappy misanthrope was not free from the vices attaching so generally to ministerial characters. He could prefer his relations to posts of profit, though they had no pretensions from merit; and he vindicated his conduct, by saying that it was natural and necessary, and nothing else but what was done by every public man in the world, and that others in his place would have done much worse. Yet with all these drawbacks we are told that Struensee was a valuable character, that he possessed the noblest sentiments, that he was' incapable of meanness, and was devoid of selfishness. A proof of the latter is the small sum left by him at his decease, only about a hundred and twenty thousand rixdollars, a sum which much dise appointed the expectation of the public.
A negligent public officer is no uncommon thing, but whether theyare misanthropes, or fond of the pleasures of society, they ought to be held up to the indignation of the public. The author was a friend to his hero, but he has painted him in such colours, that no one will respect his memory; and as he has given us no information. on the nature of the departments over which Struensee was placed, few persons will take an interest in the perusal of a life capable of affording so little of either instruction or amusement,
ART. 28.-Zweckmässige vorkehrungen gegen die ausgebrochene getreide theurung, c.
Animadversions on the Scarcity of Provisions, and Means of preventing it in future.
ART. 29-Ein sehr leichtes mittel wie rittergutsbesitzer, &c. A very easy Method for Landholders and Farmers to give Bread in the cheapest Manner to the Poor,
THE above works on the scarcity of provisions, and the remedy
against this evil in future, are a small part only of the number of writings, which this subject occasioned in Germany as well asia Eng land. The same absurdities issued from the press and the pulpit in both countries. Every one, who was not concerned in the raising of food, or in the sale of it, could casily see the disagreeable effects of the dearness of provisions, and point out a remedy at the expense of the landholder, farmer, miller, and cornfactor; but, if the same remedies had been proposed for the dearness of cloth, shoes, sugar, and similar articles, all the dealers in these commodities would have been in an uproar, and exclaimed against such illegal interference. The first of these publications has found out an easy remedy against scarcity: it is simply to establish magazines in every district; to have in them a stock of provisions sufficient for a half year's cousumption; to dole them out when they should arise beyond a certain price, and thus plenty would remain for ever in the country. Unaccountable illusion! What will be the expence of erecting these magazines, providing officers to inspect them, and purchasing the provisions? Are they likely to be so well preserved as in the barns of the farmer, who has an interest in preserving them, and who in fact is obliged, for the supply of his own wants, to bring them forward little by little to market? The barns and yards of the farmer are, we assert it, the best repositories for the corn; the less the government of any state interferes in it, the better; and the experience of our own country, when the council took the providing of it with corn out of the hands of the regular merchant, and thus prodigiausly enhanced its price, may teach other nations, that the only way to obviate the evils of famine, is to leave the supply of the mar kets unrestrained by either checks or rewards.
If the erecting of magazines would be a most expensive way of supplying the country with corn, the mode proposed to alleviate famine by the divine in the second of these works is fraught with every species of absurdity as well as of mischief. Under the appearance of regard for humanity, is couched an encouragement to indolence, inpertinence, and every evil propensity of our nature. The landholder and the farmer are, at the time of harvest, to throw away bountifully their sheaves to the hungry; at the time when labourers are most wanted, they are to be filled with food without labour. If Providence sends an abundance, it does not follow that it is to be dissipated without foresight. In his zeal for humanity, the preacher forgets that some charity is due to the farmer, and if he is to pay his rent and his taxes, he can no more distribute his sheaves than the preacher call in all the vagabonds of the district, to divide with them the profits of his benefice. We have happily got the better of our scarcity, and also of those dreams of benevolence in soup kitchens and similar devices, which to relieve one class the most undeserving, brought great distress upon the industrious housekeeper, who was only just removed from the recessity of applying to them for relief. But this German divine has gone out of his sphere, and be should have reflected, that his mode of talking was calculated not only to increase discontent and to encourage idleness, but absolutely to make famine perpetual.
AUTHORS' NAMES AND TITLES OF BOOKS.
BALDWIN's Fables, Bampton Lecture, by Lawrence, 1. The predestinarian system of Calvin totally inconsistent with the doc- trine of the articles of the church of England, equally irreconcileable with her liturgy and homilies, and the private sentiments of the reformers, ib. The peculiar points of contro- versy between the Calvinists and Arminians, of a later date than the æra of the established confessions, ibid. The 10th and 13th article framed solely with an eye to Roman error, 3. The English reformation in general of a Lutheran tendency, which also prevails in the articles collectively considered, 4. Argument respecting the general tendency, ibid. APP. VOL. 7.
Liable to material objections, 6. The doctrine of original sin as taught by the schoolmen, 7. As taught by the Lutherans, 8. These contending theories applied to the explication of the 9th article, 9. The opinions of the schoolmen and the Romish church not so much, nor so exclusively be- fore the eyes of the compiler, as Dr. L. supposes: references intended to he made to the dangerous opinions of the Pelagians and Anabaptists, 10. An important misrepresentation of Burnet pointed out, 13. The contro- versy on the Eucharist first rendered Calvinism a characteristical appel.. lation, ibid. Bankers, method of keeping accounts with, Basely's funeral oration, Beaver's African memoranda, relative to an attempt to establish a British settlement on the island of Bulama on the western coast of Africa, 193. The outline of the work, ibid. Rea sons stated why the island of Bulama was fixed upon as the spot best cal- culated for the commencement of the plan, 194. The causes of the failure of the plan originatingin Europe, as- signed, 195. Acts of hostility on the part of the Calypso; five men, and one woman killed, four men wound- ed, and four men, one woman, and three children taken prisoners by the natives of the neighbouring isles, 196. The prisoners purchased of king Belichore for 801. 11s. 83. sterling, 197. Captain Beaver proceeds to the country of Bisugas, for the purpose of treating with the king for the sale of the island Bulama, which he purchased for 781. 16s. 8d. sterling, 198. Dissension prevails in the coun• N n
Erowne's Selection from the Old and New Testaments, 323 Bruenmark's Introduction to Swedish Grammar, 446 Bryan Perdue, Memoirs of, a novel by Holcroft, 14., The aim of this work
to diffuse the philanthropic doc- trine, that proper receptacles for the diseased in mind are even more highly necessary, and should at present be no less numerous than for the diseased in body,' 15. Jack the Painter, Mother Brownrigg, Catherine Hayes, Jonathan Wild, 19. Analysis of the story, 21. Specimen of style, 21,
CAPPER's Observations on waste land, Carlyle's Poems,
Carr's Northern Summer, 129. sentimental but peevish traveller; a cosmopolite and a philanthropist; the village schoolmaster and sexton; the prolific mortuary laureates of Har- wich, 130. Helogoland, 131. epitome of nonsense at the head of every page, ibid. The conspiracy; a luxurious dinner at Copenhagen, 132. The battle of the second of April, ibid. Valour facetious, ibid. The author disappointed in not having the honour of being introduced to the Crown Prince, 133. A Turk in a Lutheran country can get as drunk as a Christian, 133. Danes picking their teeth with a fork; interesting prisoners; excessive sensibility; Ma-
Coilet's Sacred Dramas, Commerce, Elements of,
Commerce of Great Britain, present state of the, Confessionum Sylloge. Vide Sylloge. Contes Moraux pour l'instruction de la jeunesse,
Conversations on moral and religious subjects,
Cooke's Funeral Sermon, Cooper on the cataract,
Coup d'œil tapide sur Vienne, 468. Description of the streets, &c. ibid. The temperature of Vienna, not so warm as might be expected from the latitude in which it is placed, (48 deg. 12 min); the health of the inhabi tants much affected by the impetuo sity of the winds, 469. Pharmacy . more successfully cultivated in Vien- na than in all the other towns of Ger- many, 470. Fatality of the small- pox; charitable institutions; mo- derate price of provisions, ibid. Nu- merous signs of taverns and public houses; a coffee-house almost en tirely frequented by Greeks; the hos pitality of the inhabitants of Vien na, 471. Music in high request, ibid. Palace of Schoenbrunn, 372. Of Au garten; the forest of Prater, ibid. Crampton's Essay on the entropeon,
Creation of body and soul, Cultes des, qui ontt precédés et amenés
idolatrie par Dulaure, 507. The origin of idolatry lost in the obscuresti recesses of history, ibid. The authet of the book of Wisdom assigns the most probable cause, ibid. Princi ples laid down by the author as a clue to conduct us in our wanderings, 508. Three species of religious opinions. each still existing in the world paved the way for idolatry, ibid. Ingeniou! remarks on the worship of Fetiches,
rog. Derivation of Hermes, 510. History of Mercury, ibid. The dif- ferent qualities of Venus analysed, 511
Curran's Speeches, 35. Extract from a speech delivered before the lord lieute- nant and privy council of Ireland, on a question respecting the right of elec- tion of lord mayor of the city of Dub- lin, between Aldermen Howison and James, 37, 38, 39. Under the sem- blance of describing the character of a former chance.or, Sir Constantine' Phipps, the speaker takes the op- portunity of pourtraying the intellec- tual and moral qualities of the chan- cellor, the Earl of Clare, whom he' was then addressing, 40, 41. Ex- tract from a speech in behalf of Mr. Peter Finerty indicted for a libel; the speaker commences by openly telling the jury, that they are packed and prejudiced against the cause, ibid. DALLAS's Elements of self-know- ledge, 300. Definition of man, 301. The anatomy of the mind, 303. The topic of love, 305 Davie's Letters from Paraguay, 148. The author's arrival at New York, whither he had directed his course, with a view of wandering about he knew not well where on the conti- nent of North America, 149. Di- verted from this resolution by the prospect of a voyage to Botany Bay, ibid. Disgusted with the Anglo- Americans, on account of the short time they allot to their meals, ibid. The American women patterns of domestic economy and cleanliness, 150. The question of emigration considered, 151. The author sets out for Botany Bay; is driven by a hurri- cane into Monte Video in the river La Plata, 152. Attacked by a dis- ease incident to Europeans, on their first going into these latitudes, which compels his shipmates to leave him behind, ibid. His recovery, 153. His relapse; removed by order of the governor to Buenos Ayres, 154. His restoration to reason; acquires the affections of the Dominicans, ibid. The population of Paraguay, 155. The resemblance between the Indian tribes, and the boors of Russia, ibid. Specimen of North American clean- liness, 157. The author accom- panies Father Hernandez on a spiritu al mission to the presidency of Rioja Minor, 159. A revoir of the eccle-
siastics and Indians to massacre the Spaniards; the author escapes from the general lot by the favour and precau- tion of an Indian, who interfered in' his behalf and provided him, with the signal, by which friends were to be distinguished from enemies, 159. Is, packed up among some goods, which are annually sent to Buenos Ayres from the inter or settlements, 160 Dawson on the doctrine of philoso- phical necessity, Death of the Hero, Delinquent,
Dermody, life of, by Raymond, 312.
Dermody placed in the situation of Latin and Greek teacher in his fa- ther's school at Ennis in the county' of Clare, in the ninth year of his age,' 313. The influence of bad example, 314. Specimens of his poetry in his tenth year, ibid. Dermody quits his 1.ome with only two shillings in his pocket, and arrives at Dublin, ibid. Finds a patron in the keeper of an obscure bookstall, but disgusted with his situation, engages himself as a shop-boy to a second-hand booksel- ler, where he attracted the notice of Dr. Houlton, who affords him an asylum in his house, 315. The sensitive linnet, ibid. He quits Dr. Houlton's, and engages himself to a scene painter belonging to the Dublin Theatre, where he attracted the no- tice of Mr. Owenson, who intro- duced the youthful poet to a numerous and respectable circle of friends, 317. He loses through his misconduct the exertions of his friends, 317. Is pa- tronized by the Countess of Moira: enlists as a private soldier in the 108th regiment; arrives in England' in 1794; is patronized by the most illustrious characters, 319. Dies in
the 28th year of his age, Dick's Lectures on the Acts, Die Alterthumer der Mannussohne aus der fedar des grafen, Dimsdale sulphur baths, Diversions of Purley. Vide Tooke. Dix's Treatise on co. s.ructing maps,
Doctrine of philosophical necessity,219 Douglas's Life of Professor Geliert 358. Gellert commences his stu- dies at the university of Leipsic at the age of nineteen, 359. An inci dent recorded of his first essay in the pulpit; Gellert undertakes the education of two young men who resided near Dresden, ibid
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