shown that on my system of a revolving turret, a heavier broadside can be thrown than from ships armed on the broadside; but it possesses this further advantage, that my turrets can be adapted to the heaviest description of ordnance; indeed, no other plan has yet been put in practice, while it is impossible to adapt the broadside ships to them, without the enlargement of the ports, which would destructively weaken the ships, and leave the guns’ crew exposed to rifles, grape-shot or shells.” Captain Coles then quotes the armaments of the Prince Albert (now constructing at Millwall,) and the Warrior, and shows that although the broadside of the Prince Albert is nominally reduced to 1120 lbs. (still in excess of the Warrior’s if compared with tonnage); it still gives this great advantage, that whereas late experiments have demonstrated that 4½-inch plates can be made to resist 68-pounder and 110-pounder shot, they have also shown that the 300-pounder smashes them when formed into a “Warrior target” with the greatest ease. The Prince Albert, therefore, can smash the Warrior, though the Warrior carries no gun that can injure her; nor can she, as a broadside ship, be altered to carry heavier guns.

The Engraving represents Captain Coles’s Ship cleared for action, and the bulwarks down.

CONTENTS.

I.—Historico-Political Information, 1-56:

Politics not yet a Science, —The Philosopher and the Historian, 1. —Whig and Tory Ministries, 2. —Protectionists, —Rats, and Ratting, —The Heir to the British Throne always in Opposition, 4. —Legitimacy and Government, —“The Fourth Estate,” 5. —Writing for the Press, —Shorthand Writers, 7. —The Worth of Popular Opinion, 8. —Machiavelism, —Free-speaking, 9. —Speakers of the Houses of Parliament, 10. —The National Conscience, 11. —“The Nation of Shopkeepers,” 12. —Results of Revolutions, 13. —Worth of a Republic, —“Safe Men,” 14. —Church Preferment, —Peace Statesmanship, —The Burial of Sir John Moore, 15. —The Ancestors of Washington, 16. —The “Star-spangled Banner,” —Ancestry of President Adams, 18. —The Irish Union, 19. —The House of Bonaparte, 20. —Invasion of England projected by Napoleon I., 21. —Fate of the Duc d’Enghien, 24. —Last Moments of Mr. Pitt, 25. —What drove George III. mad, 27. —Predictions of