rican parents with letting their children run drunk about the streets-a loathsome rivalship in scandal that would have disgraced honest fishwomen. From calumnies like these, base as they are, spring antipathies that prepare the human mind for the guilt of war. The serpents' teeth, though buried in the dirt, produce armed men. The evil of nationally hostile writers lives long after their short reputations it is felt by posterity, when their works are gone to the grocer's shop. In all that the Editor has said, he has not meant to justify the malignity or injustice of any American railer against England. He has only argued that British pride should be above exasperation, and should be inclined rather to pardon than punish the irascible anxiety of the Americans respecting their national character, which, though great for their age as a nation, is yet proceeding, and incomplete. That very anxiety, though it may have been misdirected, is a virtuous emotion in a young nation. If any ill-natured remarks should be made on this apology which the Editor has offered the people of the United States, he can promise his critics one advantage, that he will (in all probability) make no reply to them. But the sober part of the British community will scarcely require an excuse for his having spoken thus respectfully of the Americans. It was a duty peculiarly imposed on him by the candid manner of Mr. Everitt's reply; and it was otherwise, as he felt in his heart, deservedly claimed by a people eulogized by Burke and Chathamby a land that brings such recollections to the mind as the wisdom of Washington and Franklin, and the heroism of Warren and Montgomery. Confident that with the exception of such an accidental aberration as has been mentioned, his compilation will be found to have no characteristic at variance with the best interests of society, the Editor presumes to solicit the assistance of the literary men of all countries to support him in its continuance. And finally he begs leave to return his thanks to the individuals who have hitherto lent him their aid, as well as to the public for having given him their encouragement. T. C. A Journey to Palmyra, or Tadmor in the Desert; with a short inquiry re- Letters to M. Say, on some fundamental Principles in Statistics, and the Phantasmata, with a new Theory of Apparitions The Science of Political Economy On the prevailing taste for Isolated Columns, as public Monuments Grimm's Ghost, with the Bachelor's Thermometer Poetical Works of Mrs. John Hunter .. Captivity of Alexander Scott among the wandering Arabs of the Great The Complaint of "Le Cavalier Seul" Memoirs from 1754 to 1758, by James Earl Waldegrave, K.G. Stanzas excited by some reflections on the present state of Greece .. |