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spective articles of commerce. The work that follows, confifts of authentic tables, which muft prove very acceptable to the fpeculative politician, as exhibiting a clear view of a subject extremely interefting to those who devote their attention to the commercial profperity of their country.

ART. III. A Spiritual Diary and Soliloquies. By John Rutty, M. D. late of Dublin. 8vo. 2 Vols. 6 s. Phillips.

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ATAN, faith John Bunyan, ceaseth not to buffet the faints; for which he ufeth many crafts and fhapes, fometimes taking upon him the form of a dog, fometimes an hog; and he will oftentimes hide himself in the bole of a tobacco pipe, or fquat at the bottom of a bowl, or creep in at the neck of a bottle, and fo get within the Lord's people unawares. BUN, Three locks for the ftrong box of faith. P. 507.

Never were obfervations more ftrongly verified than these of the prophetic Tinker are in this fpiritual Diary! It will appear, from a variety of extracts, which we shall lay before our Readers for their spiritual caution and edification, that the Wicked One did actually exercise all these manoeuvres, and play off these identical arts on the late Dr. Rutty.

Third Month, 1754.

29. Lord deliver me from living to eat, drink, fleep, fmoke, and ftudy! No devil like that in my own bofom!" Here it is evident that the fiend had entered either through the pipe or the bottle, and that the Doctor was fenfible of the ingrefs.

Fifth Month, 1755.

23. A vifit to one guilty of paying tythes-choler reigned in the morning'-Here it appears that Satan had been at the Doctor again, and tempted him to oppose an express injunction of Chrift, who faith plainly that the paying of tythes is a work that ought NOT TO BE LEFT UNDONE. But, indeed, he very foon after difcovers who had been at work, for Sixth Month. 12. He fays, is not the Devil of Hell at my right hand?'

Ninth Month, 1755

28. At meeting-with ftammering lips will I fpeak unto this people-and why?An over dofe of whifky! Tenth Month. 8. Published a paper againft drinking whisky.' Satan here had fquatted at the bottom of the bowl.

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13. Eleven patients and not one fee; my patience abused confiderably. I muttered a little.' This was worse than the

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See Luke xi. 42.

In the Sixth Month, 1756, we find the Doctor grievously buffeted by the arch-enemy in the fhape of a hog; for in his Diary he fays, 3. A feaft-Swinifhnefs within! 9. Feafted beyond bounds. 17. Feafted a little piggifhly! 28. Drank beyond the holy bounds. Seventh Month. 8. A degree of fwinishness at feasts. 20. Although I dined with the faints, I drank rather beyond bounds. Eighth Month. 5. A feaft wherein a little fwinifh.'

From the above minutes the poor Doctor feems to have been in a very defperate way; for it appears that this pig of a devil had him in his clutches near three months. So true is the obfervation of Bunyan, that he fometimes taketh upon him the form of an hog.' This was undoubtedly one of those identical devils, or one of the fame breed at least with those that entered into the herd.

This fhape, however, the wicked one does not appear to have retained much longer; for we find him soon afterwards attacking the Doctor in the form of a dog.

Tenth Month, 1756. 2. Some dogged nefs. 5. Dogged on a certain rencounter. 22. A little doggednefs. Eleventh Month. 5. Dogged. 22. Still too dogged,' &c. &c.

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Satan feems to have retained this fhape about three months, and then to have resumed his Suilian form. For on the 22d of the First Month, 1757, we find the Doctor again a little swinish at dinner and repaft.' But, as the devil himself knows the power and influence of variety, about the latter end of the fame year, he reaffumes his canine fhape. Twelfth Month. 5. • DIABOLICALLY dogged this morning.' Here the Doctor feems to have had a thorough conviction of his real state, and to have been satisfied, with the holy Tinker, that Satan fometimes taketh upon him the form of a dog.

About the beginning of the year 1758, Satan, who is never at a lofs, adopts a new character, and has the infolence to affault the Doctor in the perfon of a dwarf.

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Firft Month. Satan buffets.'

The Devil was at my right hand'-20. O my dwarfishness." 7. My wretched dwarfifhnefs !' It is more than probable that the Proteus of the Pagans, and Dr. Rutty's Devil were one and the fame being. We find him continually changing fhapes. Thus about a month after his dwarfish character, he attends his old friend the Doctor upon some ecclefiaftical business, in the capacity of a footman.

Dr. R. was one of the elders among the people called Quakers: but it ought to be observed, that neither the people of this fect, nor their tenets, are, in any measure, anfwerable for the freaks of a weak brother.

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Second Month. 29. A fort of half preaching! Lucifer followed me.'

Like Proteus, too, he was mifchievous, for he would frequently torment the poor Doctor by knocking at his door in the character of a pauper, for advice, and this feveral times in a morning. Third Month. 18. Seven patients without a penny, as ufual!' But this might be partly for mischief, and partly to hurt him in his fpirituals, for he often complains of an unrighteous impatience' on fuch occafions.

Inftigated by the fame unwearied fiend, our unfortunate Diarift had, it feems, a quarrel with a weak brother, whom he had accused of ranterifm*, that rag of the whore of Babylon, and the brother, in return, charged the Doctor (Heu Pietas !) with unchaftity, retorting the whore of Babylon by a whore of Dublin. Howbeit the Doctor in this Diary, Tenth Month, 1758. 22. Saith fervently, Lord preferve from whoredom, and the spirit of it.'

Thus as we formerly took notice of God's dealings with Cornelius Cayley †, we have here given an account of the Devil's practices upon Dr. Rutty. And this we have done from the best motives imaginable, for the edification of our Readers, and for our own.

Baptifmal Sprinkling.

+ See Review, vol. xix. p. 615.

ART. IV. Two Sermons, preached at the Spring and Summer Affizes for the County of Norfolk, 1776. By the Rev. T. Priestley, of Caius College, Cambridge, and Vicar of Snettisham, in Norfolk. 8vo. Walker and Fielding.

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S we do not recollect that we have feen any former production of this Gentleman's pen, we imagine that he is a juvenile writer, and we are confirmed in this conjecture, by the circumftance of his numerous quotations from Shakespeare. The practice of quoting the poets is frequent with young divines who are endowed with imagination, and have acquired a tafte for animated compofition.-Nor is this, perhaps, an ill foundation for them to begin with. Time, and improved reflexion, will ripen their conceptions; exuberances of ftyle will be pruned away; and a chaftifed and correct manner will be formed by an happy union of the powers of fancy with the faculties of judgment. The preacher will then perceive that the folemn dignity of pulpit eloquence difdains the meretricious ornaments of poetry; of which he has no need,-nor would they become her if he wore them.-And yet, we must allow, it is poffible that a citation from a fublime or moral poet may pro

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duce no unhappy effect in a fermon; but fuch adjuncts ought to be rarely admitted, left there fhould feem to be any appearance of lettered foppery, where fober reafon, and unaffected piety fhould only be seen.

We mean not, by this remark, to pass a fevere cenfure on Mr. Prieftley, or to difcourage him from future publication. On the contrary, we muft obferve, in juftice to the abilities which he obviously poffeffes, that we have been pleafed with the perufal of his prefent difcourfes; which are written in an agreeable, eafy, and we may even add, elegant style. They are, indeed, very brief compofitions; but the matter of them is well adapted to the occafions on which they were delivered : and perhaps their brevity will be confidered as a proof of the Preacher's judgment.-The following fhort paffages may be given as a fpecimen; and the obfervations they contain, on the neceffity of a due execution of the criminal laws, are, at this juncture, when the arm of juftice is fo notoriously unnerv'd, peculiarly feasonable.

If we reflect how often mercy fhewn to one man, has proved injuftice to thousands, how often lenity to the guilty has proved cruelty to the innocent, we fhall be convinced, not only of the political expediency, but of the moral neceffity of doing justly, in bringing the accufed to trial, and the cri minal to condemnation.

Let not thy fenfibility for the diftreffed, or companion for the miferable, make thee wish to fcreen the guilty, or withhold the facrifice that is due to offended justice.

He who wilfully violates the laws of fociety, gives up, voluntarily, his claim to the rights of the focial union. He is declaredly no longer one of us, nor is entitled to reciprocal protection. A profeffed enemy to all, he has a claim to the mutual friendship and good offices of none. And, though, as men and Chriftians, the individual is enjoined not only to love his neighbour as bimfelf but even to love his enemies, and do god to thofe that hate and despitefully use him,-yet, when his enemies become enemies to others, he must confider the intereft of thofe others; and shall he prefer that of a fingle enemy to a thousand friends?'

Mr. P. is not, however, too rigid in his demands for public juftice. He is equally folicitous and warm as an advocate for mercy, where mercy can with propriety be extended;-but that, we are forry to add (on well-grounded experience and obfervation) is feldom, very feldom the cafe, with regard to the wretched objects here alluded to.

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ART. V. The Hifery of Gunnery, with a new Method of deriving the Theory of Projectiles in Vacuo, from the Properties of the Square and Rhombus. By James Glenie, A. M. 8vo. 4 s. 6 d. bound. Edinburgh printed, and fold in London by Cadell, &c.

HE hiftorical part of this treatife contains an abstract of the principal difcoveries relating to the theory and practice of gunnery. The Author, however, is not a mere hiftorian; he makes many juft and pertinent remarks on the improvements fuggefted by others, and concludes with propofing to the investigation of mathematicians a variety of problems concerning the refiftance of mediums; fome of which, he tells us, he has already confidered, and the reft are referved for future examination. The first name of any note in this History, whose discoveries deferve to be recorded, is Galileo. He was properly the founder of this art; Galileo, neglecting the refiftance of the air because he apprehended that the retardation arifing from it was inconfiderable, demonftrated, that a projectile, urged by gravity, defcribes nearly a parabola; for he was not unapprized that theory and experience, even in vacuo, do not perfectly agree. Our Readers who are converfant with this fubject well know, that the proof of this theorem depends on two fuppofitions, neither of which is strictly true. The one is, that the accelerating force of gravity is uniform, or the same at different distances; whereas any projectile muft receive unequal degrees of acceleration at different points of the curve, which it defcribes. The other fuppofition regards the direc tion of this accelerating force, which, according to the theorem, is always perpendicular to the fenfible horizon at the point of projection, or to the plane touching the earth's surface at that point; whereas, in fact, it tends, in every part of the curve defcribed by the projectile, to the center of the earth, and therefore the lines of direction, inftead of being parallel, form angles with each other at the center: but, as the greatest range on an horizontal plane is inconfiderable, compared with the femidiameter of the earth, thefe angles are too fmall to require notice. But the refiftance of the medium, through which the projectile paffes, produces much more powerful effects than both these caufes combined. Nevertheless it was generally difregarded, till Sir Ifaac Newton examined the effects caused by it, and found them to be much greater than any of his predeceffors had imagined: and therefore that projectiles would trace paths, by reafon of this refiftance, deviating very confiderably from thofe parabolic curves which they would defcribe in vacuо. Our Author has given a fummary of his difcoveries and obfervations on this fubject, contained in the fecond book of his Principia, &c,

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