PAGE. I. On the ADMINISTRATION of the CRIMINAL CODE in ENGLAND, and the SPIRIT of the ENGLISH GO- VERNMENT. By M. COTTU, Counsellor of the Royal Court of Paris, and Secretary-General to the Royal Society of Prisons, and to the Special Council of the Prisons of Paris. [Translated exclusively for the Pam- II. NOTES on a VISIT made to some of the PRISONS in SCOTLAND and the NORTH of ENGLAND, in com- pany with ELIZABETH FRY; with some GENERAL tion. (Concluded from No. xxx.)......... III. FIRST REPORT of the COMMISSIONERS appointed to consider the subject of WEIGHTS and MEASURES.. 135 IV. LETTERS addressed to the Right Honorable the EARL of LIVERPOOL and the Right Honorable NICHOLAS VANSITTART on the Resumption of CASH PAYMENTS. 141 V. SUMMARY of FACTS and INFERENCES respecting the CAUSES, proper and adventitious, of PLAGUE, and other PESTILENTIAL DISEASES; with proofs of the non-existence of contagion in these maladies: intended for the use of the SELECT COMMITTEE of the HOUSE of COMMONS, for enquiring into the validity of the Doctrine of Contagion, in the Plague, &c. in February, 1819, and presented to them, but not hitherto pub- lished. By CHARLES MACLEAN, M.D. Lecturer on the Diseases of Hot Climates to the Honorable East India Company. [Original.] ••• VI. BARON SMITH'S CHARGE, delivered on the 9th of March, 1820, to the Grand Jury of the County of Westmeath, and published at their unanimous request.. 193 yll, The BRITISH METRE, and its DERIVATIVES; being a sketch of a proposed REFORMATION in the BRI- TISH MEASURES, WEIGHTS, and COINS; founded on a system, from which, as a universal basis, may emanate, after correction, the different systems of all civilized nations. [Original.]. VIII. SPEECH of the Rt. Hon. GEORGE CANNING, de- livered at the Liverpool Dinner, given in celebration of The following Intire Pamphlets and Works have been published in the late Nos. A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury; on the equalization of Bishopricks and Church Preferment. By Richard, late Lord Bishop of Landaff. A Reply to the most popular Objections to Public Schools, with particular reference to the Tyrocinium of Cowper. Thoughts on the Increase of Crimes, the Education of the Poor, and the National Schools; in a letter to Sir James Mackintosh. By the Rev. W. L. Bowles. 7 Thoughts on the Character and Tendency of the Property Tax, as adapted to a permanent System of Taxation. By the Rev. G. Glover, M. A. The National Debt in its True Colors, with Plans for its extinction by honest means. By W. Frend, Esq. Inquiry respecting the Insolvent Debtor's Bill, with the opinions of Dr. Paley, Mr. Burke, and Dr. Johnson, upon Imprisonment for Debt. Observations on the Game Laws, with proposed Alterations for the Protection and Increase of Game, and the Decrease of Crimes. By J. Chitty, Esq. of the Middle Temple. Some Inquiries respecting the punishment of Death for Crimes without Violence. By Basil Montagu, Esq.. An Attempt to estimate the Poetical Talent of the Present Age, including a Sketch of the History of Poetry; and Characters of Southey, Crabbe, Scott, Moore, Lord Byron, Campbell, Lamb, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. By T. N. Talfourd, of the Middle Temple. [Original.] A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries. By Thomas Taylor. On the origin and Vicissitudes of Literature, Science, and Art, and their Influence on the present state of Society. A Discourse, delivered on the opening of the Liverpool Royal Institutions, Nov. 1817. By William Roscoe, Esq. A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the Expediency of Revising the Authorized Version of Scripture. By an Essex Rector. [Original.] A Treatise on Duelling; together with the Aanuals of Chivalry, the Ordeal Trial, and Judicia! Combat, from the earliest times. By A. Bosquett, Esq. A Letter to the Earl of Fingal, on the Claims of the Roman Catholics. By the Right Hon. Lord Grenville. On the Responsibility of Ministers: By M. Benj. de Constant. On the Liberty of the Press, or an Inquiry how far Government may safely allow the publi cation of Political Pamphlets, Essays, and Periodical Works. By the Same. A Defence of the Constitution of Great Britain and Ireland, as by law established, against the innovating and levelling attempts of the friends to Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage. By the Right Hon. Lord Somers. An Essay on the Practice of the British Government; distinguished from the abstract theory in which it is supposed to be founded. By Gould Francis Leckie. Germany and the Revolution, by Professor Goerres, late Editor of the Rhenish Mercury Translated liberally (from the German Pamphlet lately suppressed by the Prussian Government) exclusively for the Pamphleteer. Reflections on the Liberty of the Press in Great Britain, translated from the German of the celebrated F. Von Gentz, Aulic Counsellor to the Emperor of Austria, and author of " Fragments of the Balance of Power in Europe," &c. The Defences of the Whigs; a new Edition, with a Preface. By Thomas, Lord Erskine, Of the Impracticability of the Resumption of Cash Payments; of the sufficiency of a Representative Currency in this Country, under due regulations; and of the danger of a reduction of the Circulating Medium, in the present state of things. By Sir W. Congreve, Bart. Elements of a plan for the Liquidation of the public Debt of the United Kingdom; by R. Heathfield. Memoir concerning the Commercial Relations of the United States with Great Britain. By M. de Talleyrand, Read at the National Institute. Considerations on the Rate of Interest, and on Redeemable Annuities. By E. B. Sugden, Esq. Defence of Economy, against the late Mr. Burke, By Jeremy Bentham, Esq. [Original.] Further Observations on the State of the Nation-the Means of Employment of Labor-the Sinking Fund and its application--Pauperism-Protection requisite to the Landed and Agri. cultural Interests. By R. Preston, Esq. M. P. III. A LETTER from a JEW to a CHRISTIAN, occasioned by the recent attacks on the Bible. [Original.]...... 275 IV. GRAMMAR SCHOOLS considered, with reference to a V. A PHILOSOPHIC and PRACTICAL INQUIRY into the NATURE and CONSTITUTION of TIMBER; including an investigation into the causes and origin of the dry rot; some important considerations, introductory to the sug- gestion of a better method for seasoning timber; a pro- posal for effectually preserving timber against ever con- tracting the dry rot, or internal decay; and the particų- lars and result of a set of successful experiments made, VI. A LETTER to the RIGHT HON. the LORD VISCOUNT SIDMOUTH, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, &c. &c. on the expected PARLIAMENTARY PROVISION in furtherance of GE- NERAL EDUCATION; suggested by the REPORTS of the EDUCATION COMMITTEE of the HOUSE of COM- MONS. By the REV. W. B. WHITEHEAD, A. M., Vicar VII. On the MEANS of RETAINING the POPULATION within any REQUIRED LIMITS. [Original.]........ 409 VIII. EPISCOPACY considered with reference to the Mo- DERN POPULAR SOCIETIES. [Second Edition.].... 421 IX. On the MEANS of BENEFITTING the POOR. [Original.] 457 X. Two POLITICAL ALLEGORIES; written in the year 1793, and now revised for the PAMPHLETEER. By and EXPEDIENCY of LIQUIDATING the PUBLIC DEBT of the UNITED KINGDOM; with reference, particularly, to the Landed Proprietor: including some considerations on Population and the Poor. [Second Edition.] By RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Gent., Au- 481 |