Oor  Author  answers  thefe  pretcnfions  in  a  manner  that  merits  Uie
confidetatipn  of  our  American  fellow-fubje£l$ ;  but  we  have  not
joom  to  enter  into  his  arguxpents.  H^.  (concludes,  that  to  gra^t  the
Americans  an  exestption  from  parliamentary  taxation,  would,  befi^es
the  diihonour,  in  all  likelihooa  bring  on  a  dilemma  from  which  we
could  hardly  extricate  ourfelves.  Great  numbers  of  our  commpn
people,  he  thinks,  in  hopes  of  mending  their  fortunes,  would  emi**
grateito  a  country  which  would  have  fo  much  the  advantage  of  their
native  Xbil,  and  a  moft  alarmine  degree  of  depopulation  at  home  muft
be  the  con&aoence. — ^This,  inaee<n  feems  to  .be  a  circumdance  not
to  be  overlooked. — With  regard  to  other  probable  ill  effeds  of  fach
a  <#«r(^e,  oar  Author  hath  alfo  a  variety  of  itxiking  reiparU,  fot
Khich  we  si^uft  refer  ;o  the  pampM^.
L  3  In


yso  Mditthlv  Catalogue,

In  bis  third  pajt,  havingdd&efWith  commercialOMifiiejrattonSy  be
enquires  into  {ome  very  material  dbafes  which  have  crepe  into  the
-laodod  intereft;  ameng(l  whieh  the  deftrul^ion  of  xhtfimli  hnns  is
again  noticed,  and  the  mifchiefs  arifiBg  from  the  dwelling  of  th«
larger  ones  tb  an  iimnodenate  lize,  are  pointed  out.  On  t&fe,  and
:oA  fome  other  points,  particulariy  the  improper  footine  on  which  th*
igame  and  Alh  a^s  at  prefent  ftatid,  he  has  many  jaoicioui  animad-
Verfions.  But  we  mud  now  cake  leave  of  this  very  intelligent  oifir^mr
■tf  the  times;  which  we  do  with  a^ncere  acknowJedgeoie»t  of  the  fa->
ciiladton  aifenkd  osby  the  per4i(alof  a  trad  duic«  in  our  opiaion*
dderves  to  be  generaDy  read,  and  ierioaffy  confidered.
Art.  33.  The  Ffagmeni  ;  •r^  P^t  ef  a  Diahgue  beiwan  thai  cds^
'     hrstteid  Miniftef  Sir  Robert  Walf^le  and  a  Uue  M-^^-^r^of  the  ^— *

L :•.     4  to,    6d.     Evans.     1770.
