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tween that province and Portugal, can enable us to trade to any considerable amount with its inhabitants. It is equally evident, that, even if the communication were restored, we should receive the produce of Portugal round about by Brazil, instead of getting: it direct from the place of growth, as formerly. So that this will be the whole difference produced by the revolution, upon the trade which we have hitherto carried on with Portugal and her colonies, in so far as the returns of that traffic are concerned; and, taking the most favourable supposition that can be made, we shall receive the bulk of our returns circuitously, which used to come directly; and we shall get that lesser portion directly, which used to come round about.

If, on the other hand, peace is restored, and the separation of Brazil from Portugal finally sealed, we are led to another,

and somewhat more favourable view of our case.

5. In this fituation of things, the trade between Brazil and Portugal being reestablished, but left to its natural course, only fo much Brazil produce will go thither as Portugal may require, and the overplus of the produce of Portugal, beyond what Brazil may require, will come to England direct, both in payment for goods fent from hence to Portugal, and in payment of articles fent to, Brazil; but which, not obtaining a price in Brazil produce, muft be paid for by the export of that produce to Portugal. The for-, mer ftate of things will therefore be wholly restored, with this only difference, that we fhall get the Brazil produce direct from thence, and fend our goods direct thither. The other branches of the trade in which England, Portugal and Brazil have been connected together, will fubfift entirely upon the ancient footing., But if peace fhall continue, and if tolerably wife and liberal views regulate the domeftic policy of the new government, the increase, of the culture in Brazil, and the proportional increase of demand for British goods, must be productive of the most beneficial con fequences to our manufacturing and trading interefts. The produce moft adapted to the state of our markets, will, of courfe, be raised, and we fhall have a wide and increafing field of commercial intercourfe opened to us; which being placed far beyond the reach of European politics, may be more furely relied upon as our own, than any of the nearer channels of employment. This flowly increafing and remote advantage, he must be a blind or a factious politician not to perceive.

In this fenfe, and with these limitations, we may rationally view, in the confequencees of the Portugueze emigration, a balance to the fuccefies of our inveterate enemy in Europe, mighty and uninterrupted as thofe have been. It is not for the purpose of depreciating them, or of darkening this profpect, that we have en

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tered into the preceding detail; but with the view of stripping off the false colours which have, for interested ends, been ftudioufly caft upon the fubject; and of warning the country against once more falling a prey to the difeafe of hope, which, in this climate, feems at once to be epidemical and incurable; although we are furrounded on all hands with the powerful antidote of perennial difappointment. It is in order to lend our feeble aid towards furnishing a preventive, in the present crisis, to a malady fo extensively hurtful, that we have gone through the particulars of the preceding review; and proved-not that Brazil is nothing-nor yet that it will not prove highly and permanently beneficial to England,-but that the immediate effects of the emigration muft be, upon the whole, rather hurtful than advantageous; that many years must elapfe before they can be very important; that they shall moft affuredly be bitterly deceived, who expect to find in this new kingdom any compenfation for the loffes which we are daily fuffering in every other quarter of the globe; and that the confummation of public folly will be that of this nation, if it fhall affume a more haughty and warlike pofture towards other powers, from a reliance on the benefits of its new American connexion.

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QUARTERLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,
From January to April 1808,

AGRICULTURE.

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A General View of the Agriculture of Chefhire, drawn up for the Board of Agriculture. By Henry Holland, Efq. with a coloured map,

8vo. 10s.

A Treatise on the Cultivation and Preparation of Hemp, with plates. By Robert Wiffett, Efq. F. R. & A. S. Clerk to the Committee of Warehouses of the Eaft India Company, 4to.

Letters and Papers on Agriculture, Planting, &c. felected from the Correfpondence of the Bath and Weft of England Society, Vol. II, 8vo. 78. 6d.

Practical Obfervations on Gypfum, or Plaster of Paris, as a Manure; by Richard Parkinfon. 38. 6d. fewed.

The Profitable Planter, a Theoretical and Practical Treatife on Planting. By William Pontey, Nurseryman. 98. boards,

ANTIQUITIES.

The Hiftory of Leicestershire, Part VI. containing the Hundred of Guthiaxton. By John Nichols, F. S. A. Edin, and Perth. With 68 plates, Folio, 2l. 128. 6d.

Munimenta Antiqua, or Obfervations on Ancient Caftles, including the whole Progrefs of Architecture, Ecclefiaftical as well as Military, in Great Britain. By Edward King, Efq. F. R. S. and A. S. Vol, IV. 51. 15s. 6d.

ARCHITECTURE.

A Series of Defigns for Villas and Country Houfes, By C. A. Bufby, Architect, 11. 55.

A Collection of Defigns for Modern Decorations, fuitable to ParHours, Dining and Drawing-rooms, Ceilings, Chimney-pieces, Folding. doors, Balconies, Virandas, &c. &c. By C. A. Busby, Architect. il. 118. 6d.

Eflays of the London Architectural Society, Royal 8vo. 7a. 6d,,

BIOGRAPHY.

Memoirs of Sir Thomas More, with a new Translation of his Utopia, his Hiftory of king Richard III. and his Latin Poems. By Arthur Cayley, jun. Efq. 2 vol. 4to. 21. 28. boards.

A Portrait of the Right Hon. Vifcount Nelfon, with a brief Account of what he did and how he died. 4to. 10s. 6d.

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of George Buchanan. By David Irving, A. M. 8s.

A Biographical Index to the Houfe of Commons, containing brief bat correct Notices of the Lives, Families, and Party Connexions, Senatorial Character and Conduct, and other ufeful and fatisfactory Particulars relative to all the Members of the Commons' Houfe of Parliament. Corrected to February, 1808. 12s. boards. 12. 6d. red.

The Life of George Washington. By David Ramfay, M. D. 95. Memoirs of the Public Life of the late Right Hon. Charles James Fox. By R. Fell. 4to. 11. 11s. 6d.

Authentic Memoirs of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. 3 pol. 24:

An Effay on the Life and Writings of Mr Abraham Booth, late Paftor of the Baptist Church in Little Prefcot- ftreet, Goodman's-fields. By W. Jones. 8vo. 4s.

COMMERCE.

An Answer to the Arguments by which Mr Spence, Mr Cobbett, and others have attempted to prove that Commerce is not a Source of National Wealth. By James Mill, Efq.

Emancipation in Difguife, a true Crifis of the Colonies, with Confiderations on Colonial Monopoly, and the Advantages derived by America from Louisiana. 58.

Orders in Council, or an Examination of the Juftice, Legality and Policy of the New Syftem of Commercial Regulations. 48.

An Inquiry into the Caufes and Confequences of the Orders in Council, and an Examination of the Conduct of Great Britain towards the Neutral Commerce of America. By Alex. Baring, Efq. M. P. 48. The Merchant's and Tradefman's Pocket Dictionary. By J. J. Maxwell. 68. 6d.

DRAMA.

. Illuftrations of Shakespeare and of ancient Manners, with Differtations on the Clowns of Shakespeare, on the Collection of Popular Tales, entitled Gefta Romanorum, and on the English Morris Dance. By Francis Douce. 2 vol. 8vo. 11. 118. 6d. boards.

Three Comedies, tranflated from the Spanish. 78. 6d.

Critical Effays on the Principal Performers of the London Theatres, including general Remarks on the Practice and Genius of the Stage. Small 8vo. 8s. boards.

Begone Dull Care; a Comedy in five Acts. By Frederic Reynolds, Efq. 28. 6d.

The Blind Boy; a Melo-Drama, in two Acts.

26.

The Heir at Law; a Comedy in 5 A&ts. By G. Colman, Efq. 2s. 6d.
The Surrender of Calais. By George Colman, Efq. 2s. 6d.
The Battle of Hexham. By &. Colman, Efq. 2s. 6d.
Antiquity; a Farce, in two Acts.

25.

EDUCATION.

Collectanea Oratoria, or the Academic Orator; confifting of a Diverfity of Oratorical Selections, appertaining to every Class of public Orations. By J. H. Rice. 12mo. 59. bound.

Philofophy for Youth, or Scientific Tutor; being the Young Natu ral Philofopher's useful Companion. To which are prefixed Exercises in Elocution. By William Perry. 129.

A Catechifm compiled from the Book of Common Prayer. By William Buckle, A. M. 28. On fine paper, 38.

A Vocabulary, English and Greek, arranged fyftematically. By Nathaniel Howard. 38. bound.

The New Pantheon, or an Introduction to the Mythology of the Ancients, in Queftion and Anfwer. By W. J. Hort. 4s.

Extracts from Mrs Piozzi's Retrofpection, felected for the Ufe of Young Perfons. By a Lady. Foolfcap 8vo.

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A Differtation on Metrical Paufes, and the due Conftruction and pre

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