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tions and explanatory notes.

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1781.

8vo.

Mr. Galloway, under the name of Cicero, attacks the Hon. C. J. Fox (Cataline the Second), and the leaders of the Opposition, with the view of exposing them to the scorn and indignation of the public.

18 A LETTER to Cicero, Lucius Cataline, the American deputy; with two letters in defence of the present and more general association of Protestants in England, &c.

8vo.

Stockdale,

A zealous friend to religious and civil liberty, but a very indifferent writer, who attacks Mr. Galloway with much asperity, stigmatizing him as a "traitor, who has quitted one injured country to injure another."

19 A LETTER from Cicero to the R. H. Lord Viscount Hoccasioned by his late speech in the House of Commons.

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8vo.
Mr. Galloway here accuses Lord Howe, and his brother Sir William, of
having most flagrantly, shamefully, and wickedly betrayed the trust
reposed in them, in the command of the British naval and land forces in
America.

20 FREE THOUGHTS on the continuance of the American war,
and the necessity of its termination. Addressed to the
inhabitants of Great Britain. By a Gentleman of Lincoln's
Inn.

8vo. pp. 22.

Payne,

21 THE TRIAL of Lieut. Col. Thomas, of the first regiment of Foot
Guards, on a charge exhibited by Lieut. Col. Cosmo Gordon,
for aspersing his character, by accusing him of neglect of duty
before the enemy, as commanding officer of the first battalion
of Guards, on the 23d of June, 1780, near Springfield, in the
Jerseys; containing the whole proceedings of a general court
martial, held at New York on the 16th of September
last, &c.
Ridley,

8vo. pp. 118.

22 THREE LETTERS to Lieutenant-General Sir William Howe,

with an Appendix.

8vo. pp. 48, and map.

Wilkie,

23 THREE LETTERS to Lord Viscount Howe, with remarks on the attack at Bunker's Hill. The second edition. To which is

1781.

added, a comparative view of the conduct of Lord Cornwallis and General Howe.

8vo. pp. 48, and map.

Wilkie,

This tract, as well as the preceding, was written by Israel Mauduit, esq.
24 THE SPEECH of General Conway, member of Parliament for
Saint Edmondsbury, on moving in the House of Commons,
on the 5th of May, 1780, "That leave be given to bring in
a Bill for quieting the troubles now reigning in the British
colonies in America, and for enabling his Majesty to appoint
Commissioners with full powers to treat and conclude upon
terms of conciliation with the said colonies." Cadell, -
8vo. pp. 51.

25 THE ACTS of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, carefully compared with the originals, and an
Appendix, containing the laws now in force, passed between
the 30th Sept. 1775 and the Revolution. Together with the
Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the State of
Pennsylvania, and the articles of Confederation of the United
States of America. Published by order of the General
Philadelphia.

Assembly.

Folio.

26 THE REVOLUTION of America. By the Abbé Raynal, author
of the Philosophical and political history of the establishments
and commerce of the Europeans in both the Indies.
12mo.

Davies,

The translator of this work procured a copy of the original unpublished ms. from the Abbé Raynal, and, without his knowledge or consent, published it in French, at the same time with this translation. It was printed in the same year at Geneva, in the new edition of the Histoire Philosophique. 27 REVOLUTION de l'Amerique. Par M. l'Abbé Raynal, auteur de l'histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes. A Dublin. 8vo. pp. 131, vignettes.

"The author pleads the cause of the revolted colonies with a degree of zeal, censures the conduct of the British government with a keenness of asperity, and displays a knowledge of the principles and intrigues of the different factions which at that period divided the English nation, that surely was not natural to the impartial pen of a philosophic foreigner. Hence he has been supposed to have been incited to the

undertaking, and to have been furnished with part of his materials by 1781.
some persons who opposed the measures of the English government, and
secretly fomented the American cause." Chalmers.

28 EXPOSURE or Examination of the operations of the Ministry since
the beginning of the war against the Americans. Written by
M. Joly de St. Valier.
London.

8vo.

The above title is taken from the following work, to which is prefixed the following advertisement, in English: "It has been lately seen that the booksellers, dreading the keenness of the ministry's resentment, refused to vend the English translation of the Exposure, &c., which has laid the author under the necessity of vending it at his own lodgings, &c." From a printed letter from the same person to Mr. Pitt, dated Bridewell, Dec. 1784, it appears that his pamphlet had got him into difficulties; that he had been imprisoned, and bad been released on condition of his leaving England; that the "Chevalier Yorke" had had something to do with it, for which he felt himself aggrieved, and in consequence returned to England, and sent him a challenge, for which he was again condemned to a twelvemonth's imprisonment in Bridewell.

29 EXPOSÉ OU EXAMEN des operations des ministres d'Angleterre depuis le commencement de la guerre contre les Americains jusqu'aujourd'hui, comparées avec les operations qui auraient convenu aux interêts de la Grande Bretagne, par M. Joly de St. Valier, Lieut.-col. d'Infanterie. II. Partie. On trouvera dans cette seconde partie les vrais motifs qui ont porté les ministres d'Angleterre à ordonner les actes d'hostilité contre les provinces unies; motifs d'autant plus interessants a connoftre qu'il parait que personne jusqu'ici ne les a pas même soupçonne. Amsterdam.

8vo. pp. 52.

The first part was printed in London in January, and an English translation
of it in March (see the preceding article). No printer or publisher in
London would have anything to do with this second part, which obliged
the author to have it printed in Holland.

30 PAUL JONES, ou prophéties sur l'Amerique, l'Angleterre, la
France, l'Espagne, la Hollande, &c. par Paul Jones, corsaire,
prophéte, et sorcier, comme il n'en fût jamais. Y joint le
rêve d'un Suisse sur la revolution de l'Amerique, dédié à S. E.
Mgr l'Ambassadeur Franklin, et à leurs noble et hautes
puissances messeigneurs du Congrès. De l'ere de l'Inde-

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8vo. pp. 120.

(Basle?)

A very amusing jeu d'esprit, the author of which shews himself to be no false prophet.

31 VOYAGE de Newport à Philadelphie, Albany, etc.

Quarto, pp. 188.

"De l'imprimerie Royale de l'Escadre."

Newport, R.I.

The Marquis de Chastelleux caused twenty-four copies of this journal to be printed at a press on board one of the ships of the French squadron at Newport. It consists only of that part which forms the first volume of the edition of Paris of 1786, comprising his travels in the winter of 1780-1, and was printed, he says, to avoid the trouble of making мs. copies to send to his friends in Europe.

32 DESCRIPTION TOPOGRAPHIQUE de la Virginie, de la Pennsylvanie, du Maryland, et de la Caroline Septentrionale; contenant les rivieres d'Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, &c. Et de toutes les parties representées, dans les cartes ci-jointes; publiée par Thomas Hutchins, &c. Traduit de l'Anglois. Puris. 8vo. pp. 72, plates 3.

A translation of No. 12 of 1778.

33 ESSAIS HISTORIQUES ET POLITIQUES sur les Anglo-Americains,
par M. Hilliard d'Auberteuil.
A Bruxelles.

8vo. 2 vols. in 4 parts, 17 maps and plates.

An edition in quarto was printed at the same time. The second volume, printed in 1782, is called Essais historiques et politiques sur la Revolution de l'Amerique Septentrionale, &c. The plates are very well engraved, and among them is a full length portrait of Washington, after Trumbull. 34 DIARIO de las operaciones contra la plaza de Panzacola concluida por las armas de S. M. C. baxo las ordenes del Mariscal de campo D. Bernardo de Galvez. S. l. a. etc.

Small 4to. pp. 48.

This tract, without date or place, was apparently printed at Madrid, about this time.

35 ELOGI STORICI di Cristoforo Colombo e di Andrea D'Oria.

Parma.

Quarto, pp. 337.
"The Eulogy of Columbus, published anonymously in conjunction with a
Eulogy of Andrew D'Oria, but since attributed to the Marquis Ippolito
Durazzo, is written with great fulness and elegance, and is particularly
valuable for its elucidation of many points of cotemporary history bear-
ing on the life of Columbus." N. Am. Rev. xxi. p. 425.

36 RELIQUIA HOUSTONIANE seu plantarum in America Meridi

dionali à Gulielmo Houstoun, M.D. F.R.S. collectarum Icones manu propriæ ære incise; cum descriptionibus e schedis ejusdem in bibliotheca Josephi Banks, asservatis. Quarto, pp. 12, 26 plates.

MDCCLXXXII.

London.

1 NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA; written in the year 1781, somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, for the use of a foreigner of distinction, in answer to certain queries proposed by him respecting

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(Table of contents).
Paris.

1781.

8vo. pp. 391.

This edition of Mr. Jefferson's celebrated Notes was evidently printed in Paris; but as Mr. Jefferson did not reach France until the year 1784, the date on the title probably is not that of the year in which it was printed, but of the year in which the manuscript was completed. A copy presented to M. Malesherbe had the following note, in Mr. Jefferson's handwriting. "Mr. Jefferson having had a few copies of these notes printed to present to some of his friends, and to some estimable characters beyond that line, takes the liberty of presenting a copy to M. de Malesherbe, as a testimony of his respect to his character. Unwilling to expose them to the public eye, he begs the favour of M. de M. to put them into the hands of no person on whose care and fidelity he cannot rely, to guard them against publication." It was reprinted in London in 1787. The best edition is probably that of Philadelphia, in 1801, with the Appendix, which was first printed separately in 1800. 2 AN INTRODUCTION to the history of the revolt of the colonies; giving from the state papers a comprehensive view of their conduct, from the successive settlements of each, to their declaration of independence, and of the policy of Britain during every reign. By George Chalmers, Esq. In two volumes. 8vo. Vol. I. pp. 496. Printed by Baker and Galabin. Here is a volume by a celebrated author, apparently entirely unknown, purchased at an auction in Fleet street, in March, 1834. It has the book-plate of Gilbert Buchanan, LL.D., with this manuscript note: "not published, corrected for the press by me, G. B." The work has no preliminaries; is divided into reigns, beginning with James I. and ending with George I. It has the appearance of being an abridgment of the same author's Political Annals; and if it were not for the difference in the dates, the latter might be considered an enlarged edition of the present work.

London.

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