therefore had made people think that the prince would die in the 8th year of his reign, which made it still more proper for his friends to invent such a device just at that time as should recal the fortunate circumstances under which he came to the throne, and at the same time feem propitiatory of the Gods, on whom they professed him to depend. Having thus explained the particular medals, the Abbé proposes some very ingenious conjectures on the use of attending to the belief, of the ancients, in judicial astrology, in the explanation of obfcure types.

Historical Enquiries into the Edicts of the Roman Magiftrates. By Mr. Bouvard.

THE author, having confidered the edicts given by the Kings and Confuls of Rome, proceeds to the Prætorian. There is much useful information in his paper to those who wish to understand the progress of the Roman jurifprudence, or indeed the common classical authors, who, particularly Tully, are full of allufions to it. The topics particularly treated are, of the origin of the Praetors; their number, the distinction between the Praetor Urbanus and Peregrinus with regard to the power of propounding edicts at their entrance into the magistracy, an explanation of the particular powers implied by the formal words, Do, Dico, Addico; what the extraordinary powers of the Praetor confifted in, the nature of their edicts, repentina, or perpetuae jurisdictionis caufa, and either tralatitia, fromother Praetors, or nova: their forms on entering into office, as their oath, their speech to the people, and custom of fixing up the law they meant to follow, in some confpicuous place; by what artifices, and by what process, they came to change the law of the twelve tables which was originally understood to be the grounds of their judgments, and to annex to it the Praetorian Code, which made a very bulky part of the law in after-times: what has been written for and against the code of Juftinian in France, by whom, and with what success. The author treats all these subjects with great good sense and classical know

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ledge, and promises another differtation on the edicts of the Ediles.

23, 24, 25, differtations of Mr. Le Beau on the Roman legion. It is much to be wished that fomebody would translate these excellent dissertations, which are a complete work on Roman tacticks, and contain a great. deal of useful and entertaining classical information, and fome good criticism, untainted with any declamation.

Memoire on Greek Prose. - Entertaining to every body, and very useful to those who have not opportunities of reading frequently what the ancients have faid upon this subject. L'Abbé Arnauld thinks that figures and me.. taphors naturally grow trite, and that therefore licenses of language, and bold flights, are not always to be abjected to.

(To be continued.)

ART. V. Reflections on the present low Price of coarse Wools. By Jofiah Tucker, Dean of Glocester.

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This amet, with the Dean's a pamphlet, with the Dean's usual stamp of

purpose the author has in view.

Causes. Stoppage of exportation. Disuse of Woolen manufactories. Diminution of cottagers. Encrease of the staple itself by breaking up waste grounds.

1. Remedy. Export under a duty of a penny in the pound, and apply the duty as a bounty on the exportation of coarfe woolens and worsteads of our own,

2. Allow a bounty of id per yard to the exporter for the exportation of coarse woolens and worsteds, to the Baltic.

Repeal the monopoly granted to the Ruffia company; and, to defray the expence of the bounty, withdraw one third of the bounty now given on exported coarse linens, and one third of the bounty allowed on the exportation of corn.

3. Raise up people to wear your wool, by creating cottages, which you are to do by making out lots of ground, of not more than an acre and not less than half an acre, in the wastes of every country, and near

the road, adequate to the number of militia men in the county.

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- Do this by a guinea lottery in each county; one half of the profits to go to the adventurers, the other to your

buildings.

Let the Lord Lieutenant, &c. elect the inhabitants till the number is compleat.

The candidates to be married men, every man elected to serve for life, to reside at his cottage when not on fervice, and to keep the ground in repair. Rent or poor tax of his cottage to be paid by the adjutant, and he to be expelled if he fails in the conditions. The man not to be a freeholder, but to reside in his cottage tho' difabled from service; and his son, if a militia man, to have the choice of it after him.

The advantages of this scheme will be, that the militia man will never have more land than he can cultivate, without defrauding those, who have hired him, of his labour.

That, being near the roads in winter, he may mend them.

That, being known to every body, he will not turn poacher.

That substitutes will be easily got. And

That the human species will be greatly multiplied.

Jam rediit virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna!

ART. VI. All the Works of Ifocrates, to which are added felect Dialogues from other Authors, translated from the Greek into French, by L' Abbé Augier. 3 vol. Octavo. L' Abbé Augier juslly got for that

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excellent and very readable book, his tranflation of Demofthenes, and the Supellex Critica which accompanies it, led him to the present publication, which, tho' of less importance, feems to have equal merit in the execution. What may be particularly interesting in it to the scholars of this country, is the life and character of Ifocrates, with a judgment on the nature of his eloquence. This of course is in a great meafure a compilation from the ancient writers; but even to have this at hand

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hand is useful to a reader of Ifocrates, and so must be the ideas of so sensible a man as the Abbé Augier, who, amongst other things, gives a good deal of praise to Themistius.

When he has done with the Greek orators, L'Abbé Augier proposes publishing select pieces from the Fathers, whom he places far above many of the sophifts for eloquence. The bare pointing out of these pieces to those who wish to have them, and do not know where to look for them, will be of use. He likewise intends giving a new edition of the present writers in Greek, with a Latin tranflation and short classical notes.

There are some very sensible observations in the preface, on the nature of compofition, and translation, and on the peculiar beauties of the Greek language.

ART. VII. Confiderations on the Exportation of Wool. By Sir John Dalrymple.

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AW materials to be exported when they cannot be worked at home; the criterion of which is the lowness of the price of them. Nor is the fear of fupplying the enemy to be an obJection, as they will be supplied, in the other case, by fmuggling.

Application. But wool is funk in many places 50, and and in very few places less than 30 per cent.

The quality would be improved by offering it to foreign markets, as has been the case in Spain.

The present prohibition sinks the price and encourages smuggling; and smuggling has this bad consequence, that fmuggling out produces smuggling at home.

All the arguments against exportation of wool apply to the exportation of corn, but this is permitted. Objection 1. It would turn pasture into corn land. Answer. But this would produce a like redundancy of corn, and it is probable that might not be exported; befides wool may be comprised in far less tonnage, which is an object in time of war.

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Object. 2. Would raise wool too high, and hurt the manufacturing interest.

Ans. 1. Serving the landed is serving the manufacturing interest.

Ans. 2. Price of wool will not be raised upon the manufacturer beyond a just medium; and when it arrives at that, the exportation will be stopped.

Ans. 3. The manufacturer will be benefited by having the wool always at an equal price, whereas he must now sometimes overstock, and fometimes not supply, the market. Besides, wool may be so improved, that the manufacturer may make his cloth of English wool bought for one shilling in the pound, instead of Spanish wool at three.

Object. 3. Foreign woollens, which require a mixture of English wool, will be improved.

Ans. 1. They will be equally so by smuggling. Ans. 2. The fact is not true; Spain and Portugal have all but the long Lincolnshire wool, as the author can testify from eye-fight, and therefore do not abfolutely want yours.

Ans. 3. If it were true, it would be wife to keep up the dependance against a time of war.

Object. 4. Woollen manufactures of Spain have been kept down by the latitude given to the exportation of

wool.

Ans. Owing to the illimited exportation of wool, and limited exportation of filk. The wool-grower has only the foreign market, and the manufacturer is at the mercy of foreigners to call for his wool when they please:; whereas the foreigner can only call for filk when there is a redundaney. Hence the filken provinces are the richest and best peopled of Spain, and hence there are few woollen manufactures, though the material is much cheaper to the Spaniard than to the Englishman.

Object. 5. Tax will produce continuance of smuggling, or wool wont be exported at all.

Make the tax equal to the danger of smuggling, and the smuggler will leave off his trade.

Principles, if just, must be supported by facts. But Smith, in his memoirs of wool, says the price of wool

was