Je vous aime, et mon cœur touché Voudroit par mille morts venger vos Mais vous même pourriez prendre La mort d'un ennemi qui n'est pas Il en triompheroit, et bravant ma ifle, as most likely not only to give stability to his power, but good laws and emancipation from bad ones to his new fubjects. Accordingly it is proved by the cleareft evidence that he did make "good ftatutes and whole fome laws," for the government of this kingdom, that they were joyfully received by all, and confirmed by the king; he having first accepted their oaths for the obfervation Porus dans le tombeau defcendroit of them. en vainqueur. As the records, cited by Davis in his Souffrez que jufqu'au bout achevant hiftorical relations, are as explicit as ma carriere Laiffez regner Porus couronné par mes mains Et commandez-vous mème au refte Prenez le fentiment que ce Roi vous infpire Faites dans fa naiffance admirer votre Et regardant l'eclat qui fe répand fur Vous words can make them, that these laws De la Sœur de Taxile oubliez le their inheritances fecured to their fami- Alexandre le Grand, (To be continued.) lies. And yet in direct contradiction to this mafs of evidence, ftill on record, Davis reckons it one of the defects of English civil policy, that it did not communicate the English laws to the Irishry, but confined it to particular fepts. This bafe untruth has been fhamefully echoed Hiftorical Memoirs of the Inns of Court by every writer from his age to the pre in Ireland. W HOEVER reviews the wife and fent time. Davis, with a meanness of adulation unbecoming his liberal profeflion, wifhed to recommend himself to the notice of the elder James, to whom he afcribes the aggregate merits of all precedent monarchs, who endeavoured the fettlement of Ireland; and in doing which, he unblushing afferts numberless falfehoods, as could eafily be proved, was this the proper place: Davis took the hint from Spencer, who tells us— NOTE S. a Girald. Camb. lib. 1. cap. 35. Matt. Paris. ad ann. 1172. Harris's Ware, p. 78 & feq. Ledwich's Antiquities of Ireland, p. 216. b View of the State of Ireland, p. 5. the the Irish bound themselves to king Henry's laws and obedience, and in cafe it had been followed upon them, as it fhould have been, and a government thereupon fettled among them agrecable thereunto, they would have been reduced to perfect civility. It is very eafy and very weak to find fault without reafon. Could Henry do more than was done? It was impoflible. Domeftic troubles and alarms in England made him haften from this ifle. He had scarcely withdrawn when the Irish, flighting their oaths, ran every where into rebellion. The most cruel exceffes did not make the English deprive them of the benefits of the English laws; nor does Davis attempt to fhow, that they did fo for one hundred years. After that, continuing their enormities, they were put out of the protection of the law, and protection was granted to thofe who continued loyal, the very cafe of outlawry at this day, and indeed the practice of common prudence, to place a diftinction between good and bad fubjects. 66 This being a point of Irish hiftory, ftrangely mifreprefented, and constantly adduced for inflammatory purposes, it feemed proper to ftate it in its true light. Befides it will explain to us the conduct of John, as it is expreffed in a record of the 11 Henry 3, which more fully confirms what has been advanced. King John at the inftance of the Irish, ordained and appointed the English laws to be obferved by them, reduced them into writing, and left them under his feal in the Exchequer at Dublin: this was done alfo by the advice of difcreet and learned lawyers whom he brought with him." The kingdom was divided into Shires, and Courts, Judges, Sheriffs and other officers were appointed as well for the administration of justice as collecting the royal revenue. A curious proof of this has furvived the lapfe of ages. It is a record in Harris's collections, dated Nov. 2. A. D. 1204, intitled-Quod Brevia Jufticiarii currant per totam Hiberniam. This, with the foregoing proofs cannot be limited to the English colonies, but must be extended to the whole ifle This valuable document I fhall transcribe, as it will show that courts were established here fo early as the 6 John, that there must have been practitioners of law, and furely a feminary here or in England for their education. Rex, &c. Jufticiariis, Baronibus, militibus et omnibus fidelibus fuis Hibernis, &c. Sciatis quod dedimus poteftatem Juftic. noftro Hiberniæ, quod Brevia fua currant per totam terram nostram & poteftatem noftram Hiber. Sc. Breve de recto de feodo mil. & infra, & de morte antecefforis fimiliter de feodo dimid. Mil. & infra; et erit terminus de morte antecefforis poft transfretationem Henrici regis, patris noft. de Hiber. in Angliam. Et breve de nova diffeifina, cujus erit terminus poft primam coronacionem noftram apud Cantuar. Et breve de fugitivis & nativis, qui ejus erit terminus poft captionem Dublin. Et breve de divifis faciendis inter duas villas, exceptis baroniis. Et ideo vobis mandamus & firmiter præcipimus, quod hæc ita fieri & firmiter teneri per totam poteftatem noftram Hiber. faciatis, Tefte meipfo apud Weftm. 20 die Novembris. If no account of antient law feminaries or hoftels are to be found in England antecedent to the 18 Edw. 3, to fearch for them in Ireland must be in vain. The 1 Henry 6, A. D. 1422, informs us, the Irish ftudied law then at Oxford, and probably did fo long before; for in the 3 Edw. 2, A. D. 1310, it appears by page 22 of the Anthologia, before that we had a Lord Juftice, Chancellor, Chief Juftice of the Bench, Chief Baron, other Judges of the Courts, Remembrancer, Summoner, a King's Serjeant, and other officers receiving from the public revenue of the kingdom confiderable falaries : fo that the knowledge and practice of English law must have been well underfood here; and the great collection of pleas in Birmingham tower will evince us how regularly justice was administered in every part of Ireland. (To be continued.) LITERARY LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Differtation fur une ancienne Inscription IN the month of May 1788, M. Gaf pari, Vice Conful of France, at Athens, fent to M. de la Luzerne, Se cretary of State, a copy of a Greek infcription found in that antient and celebrated city. This was laid before the Academy of Belles Lettres, who requefted our author, with Meffrs. Larcher and Villoifin, conjointly to examine it. As there were many erazures and doubt. ful readings in the copy, our learned author recurred to the original, which Monf. de Choifeul-Gouffier, the French 'Ambassador at the Porte, had with other curious Greek antiquities brought to France. On infpecting the marble itfelf every difficulty and obfcurity vanished. On comparing the infcription with thofe of Nointel, Sandwich and Chandler, its date appeared between the year 457 and 373 before Chrift; but the firft line determines it to the 92d olympiad, that is, from the 14th July 410, before the incarnation, to the 2d of July 409, or the 22d year of the Peloponelian war. The infcription records the expences of each Prytany, and names the public officers who received and paid the public money. The following may ferve as a fpecimen. Our Abbé, who poffeffes the most profound Greek erudition, as his various papers in the French academy, and lately his travels of Anacharfis inconteftibly demonftrate, here gives a new and ftriking proof of his intimate acquaintance with whatever regards Grecian literature in his illuftrations on this infcription. He examines every part with a critical eye, and throws fome new light on Greek palæography. From a comparison of many antient monuments he determines, that the Athenians 500 years before Chrift ufed the letters Heta and Omega, both as currents and in infcriptions, but that they were not placed on public works before the Archonfhip of Euclid, 400 years before our æra. 2 Abbé Barthelemy feems to us to have overlooked a very neceffary part of this infcription, in omitting to notice the diaalect in which it is compofed. Thus in the firft line, we have Cλes for Ceang, this is an antient atticifin, which arofe from neceffity, as the Athenians at first had but 16 letters; was after introduced with the Ionic alphabet. Tantum abest, ut o literam per & exprimerent, ut contra illâ literá folâ uterentur & vice diphthongi, & loco w. Salmas. ad Infcrip. Herod. Attic. p. 73. The people of Attica, even after they were furnished with letters, faid Cae inftead of Cean, the fecond perfon of the paffive verb. In the "Here is what the Athenians ex- fame line another atticifm occurs, it is pended under the archonfhip of Glaucipe for fubfcribed. Numberless inftances pus, and during the Senate, to whom of this dialect are found, which, in our Cleogenes of the town of Hale was re- opinion, would go as near to determine gifter of the first prytany. The keepers the date of the infcription as the form of of the facred treasure of Minerva, Cal- the letters, at least the one would be no liftratus of the town of Marathon and weak aid to the other. his affociates, delivered one part of the revenue of the goddess, according to the decree of the people." April 1793 In a fecond note fubjoined to the dif fertation, the Abbé inews the letter Gam ma is fubftituted in the place of the letter Q? Nr Ny. In a third, he ftates the price of provifions; in a fourth he difcuffes the queftion, whether the month puanepfion was the 4th or 5th in the Athenian Kalendar and in the fifth, he gives an account of the Dionyfics, or feafts of Bacchus; and he concludes with a curious Greek calendar of the Prytanies, the prefiding tribes, the names of the months and feftivals. In all thefe there is a profufion of valuable and well digefted Greek learning, fuch as might be expected from the elegant and accomplished Barthelemy. "Tranfactions of the London Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce. Vol. 10. THERE are many 55. valuable papers in this collection. One in mechanics A shell particularly deferves notice. eight inches in diameter, filled with lead and weighing about feventy pounds may be thrown from a fmall mortar fixed in a fhip or boat to the distance of 200 yards. This buries itfelf in the gravel eighteen inches deep. To the fhell a rope is faftened, which communicated with the boat or fhip. A raft floated by cafks eafily and fafely brought two men afhore by means of the rope. The utility of this invention is obvious where a fhip is ftranded or in danger of being fo: numberlefs lives may be faved by it, and the apparatus is neither expenfive or cumberfome. Capt. Pakenham, our fenfible and brave countryman, here points out an expeditious mode of fpeedy refitting mafts, by having their heels fo, formed as to become their heads. The idea is inge tree; Muffelman women; peasants of Hindoftan; a curious column; palaces, &c. and a map of part of Bahar and Bengal. The author gives a differtation on the antient models of architecture, particularly the oriental, and many judicious remarks on the state of the arts in India. A Selection from the Harleian Mifcellany, relative to Englifb biflory. 4to. 14. 15. THIS is a curious and interefting publication, and contains one fixth of the whole collection at a very moderate price. The value of this work to the English hiftorian has been long known and acknowledged. "Hints for a Syftem of Education for a Female Orphan-boufe." In a Letter to Mrs. Peter Latouche. By Eubante. Mercier, 6d. INTERESTED in whatever con cerns the honour and happiness of the weaker sex, the elegant and accomplifhed Eubante exerts on their behalf thofe engaging and powerful talents, for which he has been long distinguished. The lady, whom he here particularly addreffes, has been justly the object of public attention, of public refpect and admiration. While others, poffeffing little of her perfonal attractions, the charms of her converfation and refined manners, pafs their time in a round of frivolity and diffipation, Mrs. Latouche, alive to the calls of humanity and diftrefs, is eager to fnatch the deferted and helpless orphan from penury and ruin, and to render her, who would be the difgrace and bane of fociety, a useful and valuable member of it. Eubante, with congenial fentiments, points out in this well-written and interesting tract proper female employment; a becoming and deserved compliment is paid to the Rev. Mr. Kirwan, whofe eminent abilities have been devoted to the fupport of the Female Orphan-houfe, and to other objects of chriftian benevolence. Sermons Robert Hawker. 8vo. 5s. 295 Sermons on the Divinity of Chrift, by and the confequent oppreffions can only be remedied by a general diffufion of cuffion fhould rather be encouraged than knowledge, and therefore political difreftrained. closet-theories, is contradicted by fact This, like other plausible and experience. In direct oppofition to this notion we put the Athenians, the Romans and the French. Did the general diffufion of knowledge among them, in their brightest periods, prevent mifgovernment and oppreffion? By no means, political evils became more poignant as the people were refined and inquifitive; thefe evils are not to be remedied by new and untried fyftems of legiflation in any country, but by recurring to, and firmly establishing the first principles of the conftitution of that country. THE great doctrines of chriftianity are here inculcated with zeal and ability, and their great importance to mankind clearly ftated. Thefe fermons differ very widely from the fashionable ones of the prefent day, wherein morality is fubftituted for chriftianity, and lately politics in the place of both. From this conduct of the clergy for many years, what could be expected but indifference to revelation and the decay of religion; both we have seen realized in a neighbouring kingdom, where the confequence has fatally been the fubverfion of fociety. In this happy ifland, the clergy, if not timely reftrained, are run ning the fame career, the termination of which will be domeftic convulfion and anarchy. to fhow the fallacy of thofe praises, which We have made these remarks fone monthly publications too lavishly fquander on political dabblers, each of 12mo. 4 vols. whom, by fuch indifcriminate applaufe, believe themfelves adequate to the reforapply to the prefent work, wherein we mation of the greateft ftate. They alfo difcover a ftrong and vigorous mind, many important truths and much political fpeculation, amufing in the abstract, but highly dangerous in the practice. ERY fuperior to the common run of fuch productions: it poffeffes tafte, science and fentiment, and may be read with pleasure and improvement. "A General View of the actual Force and Refources of France, in January, 1793-" By Wm. Playfair. Svo. 13. 6d. A LAMENTABLE and apparently a true picture is here exhibited of the force and refources of France. The creation of affignats fince the 10th of Auguft is equal to 32 millions fterling. The fum now created is 112 millions fterling of paper, and that is augmenting at the rate of fix millions a month. No ftate can long support so ruinous a system. "An Inquiry concerning political Justice, and its Influence on general Virtue and Happiness." By William Godin. 4to. I 2 vols. 1l. 165. T has been frequently afferted, that unwife legislation and mifgovernment Irifb Literature. WERE the abilities of the Irish to productions, they would scarcely rank be estimated by their literary higher than thofe nations who had juft emerged from barbarifm and incivility. Notwithstanding this unfavourable appearance, letters are almoft univerfally cultivated in this ifle, and the preffes groan beneath the weight of voluminous and expenfive publications. But thefe are not the works of native writers. Vain Ireland. 1. The law has not given ferious caufes ftop the growth of authorifm curity to the poffeffion or transfer of li terary property. This muft ever damp the vigour of mental exertions. are happy to hear a remedy is providing for this evil, by men of distinguished abi We lities, |