deftruction of barbarous nations, that civilifed ones may fupply their place, as we praife the hand that roots up weeds in order to fow grain: but when this order is reverfed, there is occafion for poignant regret; and we are dubious which to prefer, the good fenfe of our ancestors, or our own fenfibility. The debates on the conftitution of the Scottish burghs prefented a fingular scene.-Great numbers of the moft refpectable people in that country figned petitions for redrefs; yet the minifter, the former friend of a parliamentary reform, did not fupport their claims; and the fecretary, with his coadjutor, treated them with contempt. Let it not be fuppofed from this, and our remarks on fome other tranfactions of this feffion of parliament, that we mean to contribute in the fmalleft degree to the murmurs of diffatiffaction. If any man imagine himself a better friend to the public tranquillity, he errs. But that there are difcontents it would be ridiculous to deny; and, in our opinion, finall conceffions and conciliations are abfolutely neceffary to the national peace. That obftinacy which excites oppofition, that contempt which kindles rage, are dangerous weapons to weild at this enlightened period. In former ages it might be a prudent maxim to yield nothing, that nothing might be expected; but maxims muft vary with times. If our parties be kept at fuch extreme distance, that the one feems to fhelter itself under defpotic power, and the other to fly to republicanifin, the collifion, if they encountered, must be dreadful. It is furely the duty of every friend to his country, to recommend fome conceffions on the part of power; temper and content to the other fide; moderation to all. The Spartan king, who diminished his own power in order to render it more lafting, may be recommended as a model to rulers, who ought to treat those who offer reafonable requests as their friends and brothers, and not to excite accumulated vengeance by a stern refufal of the smallest conceffion, far lefs to obtrude upon the public patience by fuch unwife obduracy at a critical period. In regard to the two other kingdoms of this empire, Ireland acquired fo many advantages lately by a patriotic parliament, that he has every reafon to be contented and happy: but Scotland, as we are concerned to obferve from fome periodical publications of that country, and to learn from intelligent natives,complains much of old fetters on her commerce and improvement, not yet removed, and of the marked neglect fhewn to her interefts. The defpotifm of laft century, and Iwo rebellions of a part of her people in this, rendered Scot R14 land land fo tame, that the has long regarded any oppofition to the The parliament of Ireland has extended liberal indulgences May 1, 1792. from the general committee 478 472 468 474 109 Ancient popular poetry, 55 of the late duke of King- fton and mifs Chudleigh, 239 B. Agatelle, or the Bath anniver- Bampton lectures, read before the uni- at, 165 Baviad, an imitation of the first fatire 193 Billington (Mrs.) memoirs of, 238 116 Boroughs of Great Britain, hiftory of Effay on duelling, 132 revenue, commerce, &c. of Great 115 Expofition of the beginning of Genefis, 238 F. Airford, in Gloucestershire, ac- 237 476 Female geniad, the, 113 education, fketches of, 117 235 175 Festival of beauty, the, 110 Foreign articles, 92,481 99 literary intelligence, Foreft fcenery, Fortune, inftances of the mutability of, France, a concife hiftory of, vol. II. 177 357 Free mafonry for the ladies, 75 233 and vindicated, Friendship, the triumphs of, G G. 441 234 Enera infectorum Linnæi & Fa- 233 92 Globus coeleftis Cufico-Arabicus Veli- H 475 HEdaya (the), or guide; a com mentary on the Muffulman law, of of flaves; XIII. Perfons miffing: 28,29 345 121 Hiftory of painting and fculpture, from I. 85 346 of advice from a French de- 464 to the right hon. Wm. Pitt on man, in aufwer to Paine's rights of Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. 257 of Mrs. Gooch, |