A Female Correfpondent reprefents to us, very much to our furprife, that there are fuch creatures as tyrannical hufbands, who use their wives very ill. We have alfo heard of wives, who kept their husbands in great fubjection. If so, there are occafionally wrongs on both fides. We thank A. Z. for his communication on the fubject of errata; which the greatest care cannot totally exclude. P. O. is quite right in his notion, that there is no predilection in the cafe he mentions. He would know that this must be the cafe, were he better accquainted with our internal arrangements. The works he mentions are not forgotten, nor will be omitted. The Suffolk Freeholder will moft probably, at fome time or other, fee many of the poems which he published with his But we are own name, nearly in the fame light as we did. very glad to have given due commendations to thofe anonymous performances which were free from fuch defects. The preceding article will at the fame time announce to another correfpondent, that we now know who the Suffolk Freeholder really is; and that he is not Mr. Ranby. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. De Chronico integro. Eufebii Pamphili Ex Graco Armeniacè atque Latinè nunc primùm edendo à Monachis Armenis in infulâ Sancti Lazari apud Venetias degentibus Eufebii Pamphili Chronicon Græcè confcriptum, opus longè pretioffimum, jamdiu deperditum fuiffe, et apud viros literatos conftat, et eft ab iis hujus cemodi jactura maxima femper habita. Vix tamen hactenus innotuit fupereffe operis ipfius integri verfionem Armeniacam, certè fæculo quinto æræ vulgaris factam: quæ Eufebii textum omni cum fide reprefentet. Itaque operæ pretium fe facturos exiftimant Monachi Armeni San&ti Lazari apud Venetias, fi Verfionem ipfam in propriâ infulâ fuâ typis impreffiam in lucem emittant; verfione latinâ adjectâ, cum tragmentis græcis omnibus, quæ fuperfunt. Hac editione Chronicon totum primò prodibit eâ ratione, qua ab Auctore bipartitum eft, ut pars prior hiftoriam Chronographicam antiquis monumentis refertam, posterior canonem chronicum chronicum contineat. Quantum in Sancti Hieronymi tranf latione defit, vel interpolatum fit; necnon quàm malè in Chronici editionefe gefferit. Jofephus Scaliger, palam omnino fiet. Verfionem Armeniacam proferentes, interpretationem latinam à fe elaboratam Editores è regione adjicient; itidemque fuis locis fragmenta græca genuina, quæ fidem Verfioni Almeniacæ adftruent. Annotationes opportunæ non deerunt, in quibus fragmentis încertæ auctoritatis locus dabitur : Scaligeri præterea, Vallari, aliorumque vivorum eruditorum de toto opere, aut de variis ipfius locis errores ac inanes conjecturas fe commonftraturos Monachi profitentur. Hac de re literatis viris nuntium publicè dare è re effe Editores putârunt, tum ut de opere Eufebii redivivo iidem gaudeant; tum ut editionis nuntiatæ confcii, poffint, fi velint, curam gerere pro exemplaribus operis comparandis. Conftabit opus totum volumine uno in folio, quod ut eâ, qua par eft curà atque ftudio imprimatur, nec non pretio aquo veneat, follicitudinem omnem fe adhibituros elle Editores pollicentur. Ex infulâ Sancti Lazari prope Venetias, Dr. Warton is preparing an edition of the poetical works of Dryden. The Travels of Ifaac Weld, Efq. Jun. through the States of North America, and the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, will foon be published in quarto, with many plates. Dr. Morfe, author of the American Geography, has also prepared an American Gazetteer. Many of our readers will be glad to be informed, that the Anti-Facobin Newspaper is reprinting altogether in an octavo fize. The Rev. Mr. Rivers, author of a tract, entitled Obfervations on the Political Conduct of the Diffenters, is preparing a volume of Sermons for the prefs. ERRATA. In our laft number, p. 227, 1. 17, for form read foam. p. 311, 1. 19 from the bottom, for effervefeence read efflorefcence. p. 227, in Art, 62, for orders read organs. ART. I. Juridical Arguments and Collections. By Francis Hargrave, Efq. Barrister at Law. 4to. 570 pp. l. 75. Robinfons. 1797. WE E are happy to notice another publication from Mr. Hargrave, on matters of law. Of all the branches of literature that come fucceffively under our confideration, that of the law of the land feems to be the moft fingularly circumItanced. The ability and energy employed upon the study and practice of the law, are certainly equal, if not fuperior, to those bestowed on any other profeffion, or any other ftudy or pursuit whatfoever; the number of its profeffors, the rivalry of their competition, the riches and honours that attend on many, and that operate as incitements to all its votaries, fhould, we think, contribute to make difquifitions on the law and conftitution very diftinguished pieces in the literature of the country; but, on the contrary, we find fuch productions in general come be fore the public without the ufual advantages of compofition; the learning of judges, the arguments of counfel, are expofed to be reported by others; this is performed not always with Kk fidelity, BRIT, CRIT. VÖL. XII, NOV. 1798. fidelity, much lefs with elegance; and the reader has the mortification to reflect, that the best pieces of juridical authority are not delivered down in the very words of thofe to whom he looks up for authentic information. To this indeed there are fome exceptions; but it must be confeffed, that the most eminent lawyers, whofe writings we have, and whofe opinions therefore we fee in their own words, have been fo careless about the art of compofition, that very few of them can claim a diftinguithed place upon the fcale of English literature. Impreffed with the prevalence of thefe defects, we think much praife is due to Mr. H. for giving to the public the result of his refearches, and confiderations upon points of law. We have here from him a work, not only of learning, but of elegance. We think it mere juftice to Mr. H. to declare, that on matters of legal difcuffion, he has, in our opinion, a title to the reputation of an excellent didactic writer; and he may fairly be reckoned among the foremost of thofe, who, in our time, have done much towards giving an air of literature to juridical writings.. We thall now proceed to give an account of the various articles which compofe these arguments and collections. The first article is a profeffional opinion given by Mr. H. on the cafe of Mr. Butler and Mr. Bond. These gentlemen had, on March 1, 1793, by the Houfe of Lords of Ireland, for a grofs contempt and high breach of their privilege, in publishing a libel against that houfe, been committed to the prison of Newgate in Dublin for fix months, and fined 500l. each. Thefe gentlemen, and their partifans, the United Irishmen (a fet of men fince branded with infamy) felt little difpofition to acquiefce in the exercife of a special authority, always viewed with jealousy, and in order to obtain fome legal ground to proceed upon, a cafe was laid before Mr. Hargrave, containing five questions; the fubitance of which was, 1. Whether the imprifonment and fine were warranted; 2. and whether the parties were entitled to be difcharged by any, and what jurifdiction, either before or after the prorogation; 3. whether the time was to be reckoned by lunar or calendar months, and from the date of the order of commitment, or by relation to the first day of the feffion; 4. and whether the House of Lords can adminifter an oath; 5. and an indictment lie for perjury on fuch falfe fwearing. The fum of Mr. H.'s opinion, in answer to these points of difcuffion and difficulty, is in favour of the proceedings of the House of Lords, as warranted by the uf.ge of both Houfes of Parliament in Great Britain; and, therefore, if the cafe had happened here, it would, in his opinion, have been conformable with the law and constitution of the realm. Mr. Mr. H. has cited all the leading precedents applicable to this important inquiry, and has entered into the examination of fome of them with freedom and liberality of fentiment; and yet without deviating from that refpect for authority and ufage, which every lawyer is bound to entertain. The manner of this may be feen in the following ex'ract. "Thus confidering the prefent cafe, as if it had arifen in England, and as if the commitment had been by our houfe of lords, and thus adverting to our law and cuftom of parliament in cafes of privilege and contempt, I cannot undertake to fay, that the imprisonment and fine in queftion are illegal. What might be the refult of a more minute inveftigation than the one I have made for the purpose of this cafe, I am far from certain. But according to my prefent impreffions, I fhould fcarce expect to advance further against the proceeding, than being more able to exemplify the occafional exceffes of our two houfes of parliament, in the exercife of their jurifdiction over privilege and contempts, and more confirmed in my doubts of the power of imprifoning beyond the feffion and of the power of fining. That any perfon fhould be more jealous of and averfe to, than I am at prefent, all extenfion of fo peculiar and abfolute a jurifdiction as that of the two houfes, over offences against their privileges, and over contempts of their proceedings; that any perfon fhould be more convinced of the wisdom of not reforting to fuch a judicative power, except in cafes of great neceffity; that any perfon fhould be more anxious to fee thofe poffeffed of this high jurifdiction confining it within its more antient bounds; or that any perfon fhould be more apprehenfive of the danger of everting its power of punishing beyond inere imprisonment for the feffion; I feel to be fcarce poffible. But there are occafions, upon which our conftitution, favorable as it is to liberty, entrusts very high and fomething like abfolute powers, out of the ordinary line and courfe of our law and government. Of this defcription are the king's power of laying embargoes at the ports, and other branches of the royal prerogative. Such is the power of attaching for contempts, which belongs to our chief courts of juftice. Such alfo, as I conceive, are the judicative powers of our two houfes of parliament, in respect of privilege and contempts. But thefe, and the like extraordinary powers, are given from a fort of neceflity, which belongs to the particular cafe. Whilst also they are reforted to only under the compulfion of the extremity for which they are a provifion, and whilft being called into exercife, they are exerted with all poffible tenderness, they fulfil the purpofe intended without adminiftering any just caufe of odium, and are likely to continue undisturbed. But it is natural to fee fuch powers with a jealous eye; and when ftretched in the exercife, they alarm and difguft thofe over whom they are exercifeable; and the refult often is the entire deftruction of a useful and perhaps ncceffary policy, or fuch an exceffive curtailment as threatens to render the policy vain and ineffectual." P. 10. In another paffage, Mr. H. comments in the following manner, upon the feeming concurrence of opinion (in Crofby's Kk 2 cafe, |