The Sun.
London, England, 1815-01-11 00:00:00

(No. 1.XT1.)

The PA:urn LETTER, containiuc the best: productions of the
day, dedicate.! to both Hous•es- of Parrliatnent. No ;VIII.
Nov. 1814. To be continued
_occasionally ; at an average
of four or five Numbers annually. Bvo. pp. 2SO. Price
js. 6(.1. Gale, Curtis, and Fenner; Rodwell ; Black, Parry
and CO. London; Munday and.Siatter, Okford ; Deighton,
Cambridge; I`,lacredie and Co. EdiOburgh.

WVl►en we look to our Libraries, the careless
among us find a litter of loose pamphlets without
arrangement, torn, deficient, and useless, while
the mo're systematic discover in a crowded shelf
-a mass of this species of production bound up,
lettered, and in good order, it is. true, brit so vo-
luminous 'and debased with inferior publications,
as to render the collection, independent of its
heavy expence, of little comparative value, either
for reference, entertainment, or,instruction. The

project of making a selection like that now be-
fore us, and of submitting it to the public at a
very moderate charge,- was therefore an excel-'
•lent idea, and would certainly have been ear-
lier noticed in the Sox REVIEW had we seen.any of
the preceding parts. Not having had an opportuni-
ty of consulting them, we cannot speak of the gene-
ral 'merits of the PAMPHLETEER ; whether impar,
tiality and sound discretion have been exercised in
the choice of the matter thus distinguished by be-
ing, consigned to a more permanent form, or wile-
der a party leaning and injudiciOus preference
have given honour where honour was not due.—
If we may be allowed to judge, however, of what
we have not seen by this single Number which
we haVe perused, our opiaioa must be of a very
favrprable nature. Subjects of great national
'consideration, of high political importince, of
much scientific interest, of general information,
and of practical utility possess the pages of this
Number: Ist. Mr. Serjeant O'Nstow's Speech on
the Apprentice Bill, which has led to a measure
of as great practical good as any which has lately
occupied the Legislature ; 2. Mr. STEPHEN'S ad-
mirable history of TOUSSAINT 'LOUVEETURE, sr-
ways instructive, but at present rendered pecu-
liarly worthy of attention from the actual state
of St. Domingo; 3. Judge FLETCHE Cs celebrated
and imprudent Charge to the Grand Jury of Wex
ford ; 4. ASpeech of Sir S. ROMILLY against Peace
being made without insisting on the instant aboli-
tion of the Slave Trade :' 5. Observations on the
Brumal retreat of the Swallow, by Taos. rolls-
TER, F L. S.: 6. TALLYRAND'S Memoir to the
National Institute of France, concerning the com-
mercial relations of America and Great Britain ;
and four original Essays, compose the present
publication. Of the re=published matter, we shall
observe nothing more than that all these pamph-
lets seem to merit the distinction they have re-
ceived, with the exception of Sir S. RO3IILLY'S
Speech, which is too narrow a party view of a
great question, and discloses too little of informa-
tion to deserve being rescued front the silence
which accompanied its emission fioni the groaning
press. Enlarged and universally useful exposi-
tions, combined with the illustration of novel
and instructing facts, sire the only grounds
which shotad ever lead the Conductors of
this Work to reprint what are strictly and li-
terally party • effusions. The oration of. Sir S.
ROMILLY is neither remarkable for any of these
qualities or for eloquence,and without the speeches
which preceded and followed it, it presents an
insulated and uuft.ir picture of a question, which,
to say the ,least of it,. may well admit- of much
being urged on the other side. N'Ve ought not
perhaps to lay so much censure on this point, as
almost any two of the other selections arc worth
the full price of the whole volume ; but it is not
of the pecuniary cost, so much as of the cost of
time, and the lack of justice in forget-dug the
" Audi alterant partent" that We complain.—
The original treatises conskt of I . Observations
on the Report of the Committee of Weights and
Measures, by Calculator ; 2. An Inquiry cOn-
cerning the propriety of increasing- the import
dory on Foreig;u Coin, by JOHN N Ale MIT}I, L5(l.
S.. Brief Observations on the Punishment of the
; and 4. Obseevations on the American
Q,:e.stion, by Conciliator.

All these subjects Were'' dignes virdice nodus,"
awl, as fur as they go, arc treated with consider-
able ariiity. The ri:zi is, Lowever, a mere sketch,
bear being more fully handled. The
difficulty att:c►lccl for the subject it embraces is
to and a'l unchangeable standard ; when that is

determined upon, the !node of division, de„„mi_
11. atioo, &c.
.1611 not be of difsetilt arrangement,
arid CaL;k4ttn's hints will merit every attention
Assay, and

O;1 the tli'l• milting Weight

coftcspondent cvith rich other.
of Mr. y we have only space
to say, that it is a laborious, conipreliemive, and
.able tr;:,:r, replete with intelligence, and worthy
Or being read by all ranks of die I3ritish Nation.

We perfectly coincide with him in every poia,
and thank him for the valualgleinformation he has

sffindeti us.

IN/id& regard to the two last Essays, we lament
to say we cannot speak so favourably in truth,
we cannot say one word, on their behalf. The
first is the raving of a Westminster Elector,- who
mistakes himself fOr the-Public, and sets his opi-
nion above the Laws of his Country, as WoLsE.v
set hiniself above his King—" Ego et rex meus,"
said the -one ; " Ego et loges Anglid.," says the
other.

The last of all is a series of democratical dia-
tribes in favour of the Republican gentry on the-.
other side of- the Atlantic, which having been
justly rejected by-the Editors of several British
Journals, (why were they not sent to the Morning
Chronicle ?) have been consolidated int) a pam-
Otto and aid a feature, not nnentertaining, to the
Pamphleteer. They are thought by the Author
to be sufficiently provocative of controversy, but
we shall not be moved by a dish of Skim milk.
Looking to the whole of this publication, we •
think ourselves justified in pronouncing it to be •
well deserving of public
,encourageMent. With
one or two blots, which are perhaps unavoidable ..
in a work of the kind, whose object must be to
provide food for all palates, it contains twice or
thrice as much " sterling stuff" as could be pur-
chased •in any other shape at twice the sum at
Ndliell it is sold.. All that we would impress/upon
its Conductors, is-,to be strictly impartial in Weir
selections ; and,--as they appear to be "ex officio"
More responsible for original nnonymotts Essays
(nameless bastards which the parish in- which
they- are born must maintain adopted
children) than for any other portion of.
their publication, that they ought to be moat
• •
cautious in lending their countenance to such
as may be excepted against. In this ,branch
(and an excellent one it- is) of their work, we
would advise them to adhere to subjects. of
science, or- of political economy, and avoid, the
discussions which Faction, lie it Whig or Tory,
delights CO dwell upon.