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of the very worst kind, purchased of the white people; and of the fmall-pox, which at different periods has made dreadful ravages. On the whole, it appears, that the poor Indians have little reafon to congratulate themselves on their acquaintance with the Europeans. The evil occafioned by fpirituous liquors alone is fufficiently dreadful. A fmall dofe, it is faid, never fatiffies them. They drink it unmixed, until they can drink no more, and then become literally mad; thus, by frequent repetition, they are befotted and enfeebled, and the mischief spreads to their pofterity.

In the account of the fur-trade, it is remarked, that monopolies have been at all times hurtful to industry, and ftill more fo to commerce. Every kind of restraint that is laid on this trade must therefore hurt, inftead of answering the intended purpofe of doing it good; and, like a plant left to its own native foil, if left to itfelf, it will be found to thrive the better. In fine, it is impoffible the extent of the advantages can be afcertained, which the province may receive from it. Thus far it may be affirmed, that it is a thing which, though capable of great improvement, has this farther to recommend it, that the perfeverance of the inhabitants in giving encouragement to it, by trading on reasonable terms with the Indians, 19 fully ade quate to the purpose of rendering it, as much as poffible, advan tageous either to Great Britain or themselves.'

The hint offered by this writer, in a note, when he mentions the mafts that are cut for the royal navy, may require fome notice: It is furely,' fays he, bad policy to mark all the large fir-trees for the ufe of government without allowing any thing in confideration of damages to the proprietor of the lands where fuch trees grow; as in this cafe, they will not be over-folicitous for the preservation of the large timber.'

The importance of the navigation-act is strongly pleaded for in this volume: It can never be too often repeated,' we are told, that those laws, and the principles of them, which have raised these islands to their present greatnefs, will, without doubt, ifonce relaxed, have a contrary effect, and plunge us into the very depth of wretchedness and mifery; fince a decrease of shipping muft of neceffity be attended with a proportional lofs of revenue, of feamen, and of national confidence, which in the present state of things is the chief bulwark of the kingdom. If the fimple requifitions of that law (the Navigation act), enjoining all our national fhipping to be British built, and to be manned with at leaft two thirds of feamen born in the dominions of England, have produced fuch mighty effects, what could equal the folly of giving them up ?'

From the view which is here given us of the territories yet remaining to Great Britain in North America, we cannot but infer, that, under a wife and proper direction, they may be ren

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dered profperous in themfelves, and beneficial to the mothercountry. We affected,' obferves. this writer, to defpife a country, with whofe worth we were unacquainted, and rested fatisfied in an unpardonable degree of ignorance. Canada was equally neglected, though poffefled of a luxuriant foil, a territory almost unbounded, the nobleft woods, rivers without number, and lakes equal to the feas of Europe in extent, and probably in ufefulnefs; it was confidered with a gloomy fatisfaction that bordered on malevolence. The folly and misfortunes of the French nation loft them the poffeffion of a province, to the importance of which they had been, until that moment, ftrangers. If then fuch ample poffeffions are left to Britain, it will be true wisdom to improve and encourage them, especially as the war itself, however deftructive in other refpects, has added fo greatly to their population, many citizens independent on those on whom the fentence of banishment has been paffed by their countrymen, having come voluntarily to refide on the lands guaranteed to them by a conftitution, that is equally free from the defpotifm of kings, and the abufes of a democracy,'

We will not enter into an enquiry concerning the juftice of the encomium which is paffed on the numbers, who under the denomination of loyalists, have lately fettled in this country; it is probable that, as a body, they may not be at all more respectable than those whom they have left, and that many individuals may have placed themfelves among them in the hope of bettering their circumftances by a connection with Britain: it is time, however, that these confiderations should now be dropped: the acceffion which has been made by different means to the popu lation of Nova Scotia appears greatly to advance its importance, and from the prefent aspect, the province is likely to be flourishing and confequential, as in other refpects, especially in this, as entirely commanding the fisheries, which,' adds this writer, while properly encouraged, may be confidered as an inexhauftible mine of wealth to the empire at large, and one of the chief finews of its power,'

It is not always eafy to decide on the merit of publications that are, in any degree, political; and which, like paragraphs in a news-paper, are fometimes written with a concealed finifter purpose, to mislead the reader, or to prepare the way for fomewhat, perhaps, unfufpected. The tract before us, however, feems to be very honeftly intended, and certainly affords both entertainment and inftruction; it is not a mere compilation, but written by a man acquainted with the country, and whofe remarks appear to merit attentive confideration,

The anonymous writer profeffes him felf a warm friend to the liberties of mankind. He very briefly defcribes the form of government in Nova Scotia, which, he fays, approaches as nearly to that of the parent ftate as poffible,' and adds, This kind of

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government, though apparently complicated, is, on a clofer analyfis, juft and fimple. The liberties of the people can only be endangered by the pufillanimity or treachery of their reprefentatives; and, whilft their freedom is guarded against the encroachments of weak, arbitrary, or profligate minifters, by the power and authority of a British parliament, an entire, full, and complete exemption from taxation for ever, but by their own consent, is fecured to them by the fame facred contract.'

Again it is remarked, where freedom does not exift, in the fulleft and moft unconfined fenfe, very little good is to be expected from the richest foil, or moft unbounded territories, even in those countries where fcience has long fince reared its head, and the arts have enjoyed the patronage of the great; but, in countries newly planted, whole inhabitants know how to prize their liberties, and esteem them as natural and inherent rights, every innovation that can poffibly affect them, must be a step toward the ruin of the colonies, and the means of fowing eternal difcord with the mother country.'

The work is clofed in the following terms: Long may this island continue, by the wifdom of her councils, and the justice of her measures, to unite all the diftant parts of fo great an empire in one strict and indiffoluble bond of fraternal union; and while the freedom of her facred conftitution beftows bleffings on the unborn millions, who may hereafter become inhabitants of her remaining colonies, may it be the fecond with of every fubject, that the King may long continue the fovereign of a free people,-the first should be, that the people may be free.'

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ART. XII. A Supplement to the fifth Edition of Collins's Peerage of England: containing a general Account of the Marriages, Births, Promotions, Deaths, &c. which have occurred in each Family, from that Publication in the Year 1779 to the prefent Time. Alfo an Account of thofe Families which have been advanced to the English Peerage, whether by Defcent or Creation, fince that Period. With their paternal Coats of Arms, &c. on 34 Copperplates. By B. Longmate, Editor of the 5th Edition of Collins's Peerage. 8vo. 7s. 6d. Boards. Cadell. 1784.

Work of this nature requires great induftry and applica

Ation, and a particular talent for that fpecies of minute in

veftigation which an accurate genealogift ought to poffefs.With these qualifications, Mr. Longmate appears to be endowed in a very confiderable degree; and the prefent work is an eminent proof of it. It is a valuable Supplement to Collins's ufeful Memorials of English Peerage; and may also be confidered as a promifing fpecimen of the Author's abilities for a publication of a more difficult, but not lefs curious and interesting nature, viz, "The extinct Peerage of England."

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The title, as above, hath already given our Readers a general idea of the present work.

The additions to Collins's eight volumes, as published by Mr. Longmate in 1779, end with the barony of Coniers, now poffeffed by the eldest fon of the Marquis of Carmarthen in right of his mother, daughter of the late Countels of Holderneffe, in whom the title was vefted.

Since this period, a confiderable addition hath been made to the English peerage. A particular account is given in the prefent volume of the families which have been enobled, beginning with Wedderburn, Lord Loughborough, and ending with Dut ton, Lord Shirborne *.

The genealogies of the families are traced out with great accuracy, and from the most authentic memorials; though the Author had many great difficulties to furmount, particularly in the younger branches of ancient families. This circumftance he particularly notices, when he speaks of Lord Rodney, defcended, by fome diftant and obscure ramification, from the old ftem of the Rodneys of Stoke Rodney in Somersetshire. The flender notice (fays he) taken of fuch branches, in the heralds vifitations, the long difufe of thofe vifitations, together with the general confufion in which this kingdom was involved by the civil war between King Charles and the Parliament, and the great deftruction of family deeds and evidences which it occahioned, muft render it extremely difficult, if not altogether impoffible, for not only his Lordship, but also moft of the defcendants of the younger fons of the best families in the kingdom, to join themfelves to the old family flock.'

Perfons attached to genealogical ftudies will find in this work much information and amufement. We have noticed fome flight inaccuracies relating to names, places, and dates; and poffibly there are others, which we were incapable of obferving, for want of a fufficient acquaintance with thefe minutia of genealogy.

From a publication of this nature, little can be extracted for the entertainment of general readers. It may be, however, amufing to every one to read the method in which our ancient monarchs conveyed a grant of royal lands to their favourites.

William the Conqueror granted to an ancestor of Lord Rawdon the estates in Yorkshire, on which is the noble manfion called

• Griffin, Lord Howard of Walden, is the laft peer of whom we have an account in this Supplement. But his title is not fo much a new creation, as the revival of an ancient peerage in right of his great-grandmother, Lady Effex Howard, daughter of the laft Lord Howard of Walden.-This right, in Sir John Griffin Griffin, was confirmed by Parliament, Aug. 3, 1784.

Rawdon

Rawdon Hall, ftill enjoyed by his father the Earl of Moira, in the following brief poetical deed, according to the cuftom of the times

I William Kyng, the thurd yere of my reign,
Give to the Paulyn Roydon, Hope and Hopetowne,
With all the bounds both up and downe;
From Heven to Yerthe, from Yerthe to Hel,
For the and thyn, ther to dwel,
As truly as this Kyng right is myn;
For a Croffebow and an Arrow,
When I fal come to hunt on Yarrow.
And in token that this thing is footh,
I bit the whyt wax with my tooth.
Before Meg, Mawd, and Margery,
And my thurd fonne Henry *.'

B--k.

ART. XIII. Two ancient Scottish Poems; the Gaberlunzie-Man, and Christ's Kirk on the Green; with Notes and Obfervations. By John Callander, Efquire, of Craig forth. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Boards. Donaldfon.

OTH thefe curious fongs are attributed to James V. of

monarch to have been intimately acquainted with the scenes of vulgar life. It seems that he had a paffion for ftrolling about in difguife, and mixing with vagrants and the lower clafs of people. In his excurfions he fometimes met with odd adventures: and he diverted himself with writing ballads on the fubjects of them.

The Gaberlunzie-Man records an adventure of this fort. The word is compounded of gaber, a wallet, and lunzie, loin; i. e. an itinerant mechanic, or tinker, who carries on his back the implements of his trade.

• The pauky † auld carle came o'er the lee,
Wi' mony gude e'ens and days to mee,
Saying, gudewife, for zour courtefie

Will zee ludge a filly poor man.

The night was cauld, the carle was wat,
And down azont the ingle he fat,
My dochter's fhouthers he 'gan to clap,
And cadgily ranted and fang.'

* A grant of an estate in Devonshire was originally made by the celebrated John of Gaunt to a great family (viz. the Baffets of Heanton-Court) of that county, in a fimilar manner:

I John of Gaunt

Do freely give and grant,

From me and mine,

To thee and thine,

The Barton-Fee

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