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THE

ENTIRE WORKS

OF THE

REV. ROBERT HALL, A.M.

WITH

A BRIEF MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE,

AND A CRITICAL ESTIMATE OF HIS CHARACTER

AND WRITINGS.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF

OLINTHUS GREGORY, LL.D. F.R.A.S.

PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY.

VOL. III.

TRACTS, POLITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.

LONDON:

HOLDSWORTH AND BALL,

18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

M DCCC XXXI.

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JOHN HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY.

ADVERTISEMENT.

In this Volume, Mr. Hall's Political Tracts are arranged in the order of their publication. To them succeeds various Tracts, which, though not strictly political, hear an obvious relation to the subjects of politics and political economy; employing the latter term, not in its restricted sense, which regards merely the wealth of nations, but in the more extended acceptation, which embraces the momentous topics of general security, freedom, comfort, and happiness. Some of these pieces, though very extensively circulated to promote the purposes for which they were respectively written, were never issued by sale, and it is now exceedingly difficult to procure a single copy of them. Others, which were regularly published, have been long out of print.

The origin of the Fragments on Village Preaching, and general Toleration, I have briefly described in a prefatory note, p. 329.

The Summary of the arguments on Christian Communion, could not be included in the second volume without unduly augmenting its bulk; it is, therefore, inserted in this.

The Miscellaneous Pieces which terminate the volume, have, it is true, no necessary connexion with the Tracts which precede them; but as they are equally unconnected with any of the subjects treated in the fourth volume, they are here introduced, solely for the purpose of preserving a

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