Address

Abstract

It has long been the custom of belligerents, at the commencement of a war, to issue a manifesto, in which they declare the grounds of the contest, and the objects which it is intended to attain: and, at the opening of a literary campaign, it is usual to send forth a similar declaration, which is called a Prospectus. Again, the General publishes his dispatches, in which he enumerates the fertile provinces conquered, and the hostile armies destroyed: and we see no reason why an Editor should not, in like manner, give a Retrospective Review of his own Journal, and touch upon the valuable works analysed by the able pens of his contributors, or hint the fact, that in his pages sundry quackish sciolists have met with a tithe, or so, of the castigation they merited.