Printed, for the PROPRIETORS, by Knight and Compton, Cloth Fair. PUBLISHED AT THE ANTI-JACOBIN OFFICE, NO. 20, WYCH STREET, DRURY LANE, BY J. WHITTLE; AND SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOMS OF CREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND; ALSO BY SERJEANT, NEW YORK. 1807. THE ANTI-JACOBIN Review and Magazine, &c. &c. &c. For MAY, 1807. "Un Royaume profpére lors que le Roi gouverne ses fujets; il dépérit, quand les fujets gouvernent le fouverain.” ORIGINAL CRITICISM. An Enquiry into the Principles of Civil and Military Subordination. By John Macdiarmid, Efq. Pp. 556, 8vo, 10s 6d. Baldwins, 1806. INQUIRIES properly conducted, and deftined to enlarge the fphere of our knowledge, muft always meet with refpectful attention. Nor fhall we paufe to inveftigate the particular or relative importance of any fubject, fatisfied that all true knowledge is good in itfelf, that is ufeful to fociety, as being either directly or indirectly an auxiliary in the caufe of virtue. Of the importance of the prefent inquiry, let the author himself speak: "The fubjects treated of," fays he, "in this work are connected with the foundations of government, and of all political inftitutions: it is therefore of the laft importance to the happiness of society that they fhould be diftinctly elucidated. If political inftitutions are formed in the dark and at random, it is an equal chance that they will prove pernicious instead of beneficial to mankind. The progrefs of human knowledge is, however, gradual; and it is not, unless by a careful attention to the facts prefented by experience, that it is poffible to develope the confequences of political institutions." We readily admit that the exiflence of fubordination, whether phyfical or moral, conftitutes the neceffity of an artificial inftitution of fociety, which inftitution has been denominated government. Without fuch an eftablishment, the juft privileges of the natural degrees of fubordination would be too often violated to be A NO. CVII. VOL. XXVII, 364631 |