7 JANUARY 1837, Page 23

Mr. RAMSAY'S Di.qiabition on Government is rather a tedious affair;

exhibiting, though crudely, the results of a good deal of his- torical reading, but not the mental power of turning it to account. The author reviews the three modes of government, Monarchal, Aristocratical, and Democratical, and decides against each. He next tests, or attempts to test, a combination of either two, deter- mining them to be nought; and there being nothing then left but a trinity in unity, be concludes for a mixed government, i. e. the British Constitution.