contemptible light to every body who beheld her. But her conduct · in life is more than contemptible; it is in the highest degree cenfurable: for, by treating her daughter in fo unjustifiable, fo unkind, fo cruel a manner; fhe might have driven her into the commiffion of fome capital indifcretions, had the not been bleft with uncommon prudence, and fallen into the hands of a man who knew how to estimate an accomplishment which is not very commonly found among the young females of the prefent age.'

It is, we imagine, quite unneceffary to inform our female readers, that the accomplishment, hinted at above, is something very like DISCRETION.

34. The Noble Family a Novel. In a Scries of Letters. Two Vols. 55. Pearch.

Humanity prompts us to hope that Mrs. Auften, of Clerkenwell, does not truft to her pen for her fubfiftance. As a writer fhe is no object of criticifm; as a woman fhe is entitled to candour. 35. Memoirs of Lady Woodford; written by herself; and addressed to a Friend. Two Vols. 55. Noble.

Lady Woodford tells her tale in a decent manner, and does not furfeit her reader with thofe violent egotifms, by which the majority of memoir-writers render their narrations extremely difgufting. Her ladyship relates the most interefting parts of her life, from her early youth, to the confummation of her felicity in the marriage ftate, (during which period fhe is thrown into many trying fituations) without paying any grofs compliments to her own understanding; without concealing her imperfections: and we will venture to recommend her mode of behaviour to every young lady who finds herself in fimilar circumstances.

36. The Unguarded Moment. Two Vols. 5s. Almon.

The laudable defign with which this novel feems to have been written is fufficient to refcue it from a fevere fcrutiny as a literary compofition. It is particularly calculated by the author for the married part of his readers, and it merits a careful perufal from hufbands as well as from wives.

31. Coquetilla; or Envy its own Scourge: containing the Adventures of feevral great Perfonages. 2s. 6d. Leacroft. In order to fharpen the curiofity of the public, the editor of this volume informs us in his title page, that it is from a manufcript late in the poffeffion of a gentleman famous for his acquaintance with the great world.'

Harkee, Mr. Editor, we are not to be so hummed. We do not believe a fyllable of your account about your fellow-traveller in the Plymouth ftage coach. We fincerely pity all poor unfortunate authors, and heartily fubfcribe to your quotation from Juvenal. It is, indeed, very difficult for a man to strike out to advantage in life, whofe virtues are crampt by a narrow fortune; but the dabbler in literature deserves no compaffion for mifemploying his time in preparing fuch fheets as thefe under our prefent infpection for the press. If a man will obftinately persist in being an author, without genius, or a tranflator without tafte, he ought not to think himself hardly treated by the world, if he does not find himfelf in the road to riches. The volume before us is fo uninterefting, that we cannot help looking upon it as a flovenly translation from a very indiffer ent French original.

38. The Man of Feeling. 12mo. 25. 6d. Cadell.

By those who have feeling hearts, and a true relish for timplicity in writing, many pages in this mifcellaneous volume will be read with fatisfaction, There is not indeed fable enough in this volume

a match under them, hopes to fmoke our judges, like bees, out of their hives, and fire our minifters, like foxes* from the helm.

To analyfe this pamphlet, must be confidered as an unneceffary talk, because the daily papers have fufficiently divulged the fource of altercation between the author and the judge to whom it is addreffed, and all the arguments employed in it are borrowed from the fame originals. All that has been urged in defence of the rights of juries, all that has been objected to the disadvantage of our prefent legiflators, is here affembled and spun out through fixty-eight pages. The indignation of Mr. Morris, in confequence of this fuppofititious and private injury, is thrown in to ferment the political tipple, which, however vapid it may prove to the tafte, feems to have been brewed for the fole motive of contributing to the prefent national intoxication.

It is certain, that no policy can be more weak than that which would teach the people contempt of their judges and their kings. When we throw off all respect to our fuperiors, our inferiors will foon retort the fame ufage on ourselves. He who refuses to obey those who are placed above him to difpenfe juftice, must not wonder if his fervants pay no obedience to him as their mafter. Judges, in the mean time, are but men, and, like other human beings, are liable to error. A mistake in opinion, an unguarded expreffion, which all are willing to overlook in their equals, is reprefented with every addition that malignity can fuggeft, when fuch an imperfection is discovered in one whofe fituation is more elevated than their own. Private refentment is blind to the general good, and to punish the man, hefitates not a moment to bring the ftation which he fills, into difgrace. In hafte to do themselves a little juftice, our modern patriots care not what injury they inflict on the community; and in their hurry to root up a weed, pay no regard to the neighbouring flowers, which at the fame time they inconfiderately deftroy.-The Reviewers could be willing to find fome more commodicus excufe for all the mifchiefs done under the pretence of fupporting our liberties, did they not believe that, like wanton sportsmen trampling down whole fields of corn, the chief pleasure of thefe pretended reformers is to fhew their power to introduce confufion with impunity; nor is the propriety of the comparison the lefs, because it confiders them in the light of those who pursue something on which they place no real value. -Half of our prefent incendiaries, like their predeceffor Erostratus, are only prompted by a defire of empty fame, to fet the boafted temple of English freedom on a blaze. The oftenfible reafon why this pamphlet was produced, is the vindication of a perfon who was scarce ever heard of, till he placed himfelf on a ridiculous emi. nence, from which he has fince defcended, and feems at prefent willing enough to bazard the liberty of which he talks fo loudly, for the fake of becoming confpicuous again. We hope the judge will difappoint him.

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furely the following speeches will be thought, by many readers, of a difputable nature.

It is a great error in whoever fuppofes all nuns to be unhap py-(we do not believe indeed that all nuns are fo)-I had an opportunity, during the courfe of fix years and upwards, which I fpent in a convent, to convince my felf of the contrary: many, nay all of them, with only the exception of one or two, were the happieft, as being the contentedeft fet of people I ever faw: their wants were few, and thofe were gratified: the facrifice they had made of their liberty, through a motive of piety, was a pleafing thought which fufficiently paid them for that lofs. Pride, that fource of pleasure and of pain, is in them a great inftrument towards their felicity."

We can hardly fuppofe that all the nuns in any convent in Chrif tendom-one or two only excepted-were ever, for fix years and upwards, fufficiently pleafed with their fituation-notwithstanding their pride to be the contentedeft of their fex. But we are still more puzzled to conceive how a young man should grow up to the age of virility in a female drefs, and enact a nun, without discovering, in fome unguarded moment, to his pious fifters, the fexual difference between them, or how thofe fifters-with all their piety -fhould, as they are no ftrangers to that difference, keep themfelves thoroughly chafte when he came to the poffeffion of his mafculine powers.

There is fomething extremely curious in lady Merton's speech to her fon, when the had acquainted him with the caufe of his confinement, en fille. I look upon it almost as a miracle that you have been kept ignorant of your fex fo long. What care and attention muft these good nuns have had to prevent your discovering what you really were for fo many years.'

42. Harriet: or the Innocent Adultrefs. Two Vols. 5s. 12mo. Baldwin. The profefed defign of this performance is to fhew the danger, in thefe times, of prefuming a lady guilty of adultery, upon the frongeft circumftances, when there is not irrefiftible and precife evidence to convict her. Though the author takes his fable from the late trial between the D- of C and L-d G-, he means to combat the principle of convicting upon equivocal evidence, rather than condemning feriously the verdict given in that trial. The ladies are certainly much obliged to him; but though we admire the wit. humour, and character which appears throughout the whole of these volumes, we must confefs he appears to have favoured one sex, a lite tle too much at the expence of the other.

43. Letters from Clara, or, the Effufions of the Heart. 12mo. Two Vols. 55. fewed. Wilkie.

Dull, frigid effufions, neither flowing from the heart, nor poffeffing the power of affecting it; and which even the unexceptionable morality they contain cannot preferve from oblivion.

44. The Hifiory of Mr. Cecil and Miss Grey.

Richardfon and Urquhart.

12mo. 5. Serweds

This little piece abounds with so much good fenfe, and fo many virtuous fentiments, that it ought to be exempted from cenfure for any defects which may be difcovered in regard to taste and variety.

45. Betfy; or, the Caprices of Fortune. 12mo. Three Vols. 75. 6d. Jones. While this author endeavours to intereft the heart, and amufe the imagination, he frequently lofes fight of probability, which gives his performance, in many parts, a ridiculous appearance.

38. A Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. Preached at the Chapel in Tottenham Court-Road, and at the Tabernacle near Moorfields, on Sunday, November 18, 1770. By John Wesley, M. A. 6d. Oliver.

This difcourfe is divided into three heads. The firft contains fome particulars of Mr. Whitefield's life; the second a sketch of his character; and the third, fome practical obfervations.

We fhall give our readers a fhort account of the earlier part of his life, agreeable to the narrative now before us, though not in the fame expreffions.

Mr. Whitefield was born at Gloucefter, in 1714. When he was about twelve years of age, he was fent to a grammar-school in that city; and about fix years afterwards, to Pembroke College, Oxford. Here he became acquainted with the Methodists, entered cordially into their party, and joined with them in fafting on Wednesdays and Fridays, and in vifiting the fick and the prifoners. About this time he was exercifed with the fevereft trials. His reputation was loft, and fome of his dearest friends forfook him. Many nights he lay fleepless upon his bed, and many days proftrate upon the ground. In this fituation he continued feveral months; and his health being impaired, it was thought neceffary that he fhould go into the country for his recovery. He accordingly went to Gloucefter, where he made a number of converts, formed a little fociety, read twice or thrice a week to fome poor people in the town, and prayed every day with the prifoners in the county gaol. In 1736, he' was ordained deacon, and took his bachelor's degree at Oxford. Soon afterwards he was invited to London, to ferve the cure of a friend going into the country. He continued there

two months, lodging in the Tower, reading prayers in the chapel twice a week, catechizing and preaching once, befides daily vifiting the foldiers in the barracks and the infirmary. He allo read prayers every evening at Wapping chapel, and preached at Ludgate prifon every Tuesday. Not long afterwards he fupplied the cure of Dummer, in Hampshire, with the fame extraordinary affiduity. But having received an invitation from fome of his friends in Georgia, he returned to Gloucefter to make preparations for his voyage. Before his departure to America, he preached at feveral places to amazing multitudes of people. In December 1737, he went on board, and arrived in Georgia in May following. About the end of the fame year he returned to England, and was ordained priest at Chrift-Church, Oxford. He now began to be fo popular, that the largest churches could no longer contain his followers. On Sunday, April 29, 1738, he preached the first time in Moorfields, and on Kennington Common.)

Here we leave him, as the generality of our readers are fufficiently acquainted with most of his tranfactions, during the fub-. fequent part of his life. We will, however give one short fpecimen of Mr. Wefley's narrative; on which every one may make what obfervation he pleases.

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In April 1740 he made another tour through Penfylvania, the Jerfeys, and New york. Incredible multitudes flocked to hear, among whom were abundance of Negroes. In all places the greater part of the hearers were affected to an amazing degree. Many were deeply convinced of their loft ftate; many truly con verted to God. In fome places thousands cried out aloud; many as in the agonies of death; moft were drowned in tears; fome turned pale as death; others were wringing their hands; others lying on the gronnd; others finking into the arms of their friends; almost all lifting up their eyes, and calling for mercy.

He returned to Savannah June 5. The next evening, during the public fervice, the whole congregation, young and old, were diffolved in tears; after fervice, feveral of the parishioners, and all his family, particularly the little children, returned home crying along the street, and fome could not help praying aloud. The groans and cries of the children continued all night, and great part of the next day.'

Our author having continued his account of Mr. Whitfield to the day of his death, which happened Sept. 30, 1770, proceeds to take a view of his character. We do not in the leaft difpute the truth of what he fays of his zeal, his activity, his tenderheartedness, his charitablenefs, his gratitude, his friendlinefs, his franknefs, his openness, his modefty, his intrepidity, his patience, his fteadiness, his integrity, his eloquence, &c. But as it has been infinuated by wicked and cenforious people, who have not been better informed, that this popular preacher, out of his frequent collections, amaffed a very confiderable fum and confequently, that intereft (with a little vain glory) might influence his zeal and activity, it was incumbent on his friend Mr. Wesley to obviate fuch malevolent reports, and to confute gainfayers, by proving, that the paftor of the chapel in Tottenham-Court-Road, was as difinterefted as his brother of the Ta bernacle near Moorfields, who in one of his Appeals has made this heroic declaration: "As to gold and filver, I count it dang and drois; I trample it under my feet; I esteem it just as the mire in the fireets. It muft indeed pafs through my hands, but it fhall only pafs through; it fhall not reft there; none of the accurfed thing fhall be found in my tent when the Lord calleth me hence.'

In the latter part of this difcourfe the author mentions the principal doctrines which Mr. Whitefield conftantly preached; and then fums them up in these two articles; The new birthy and justification by faith.

To this difcourfe he has fubjoined an Hymn, in which, we are told, that Mr. Whitefield is now lodged in the breast of his Redeemer.?

39. Token of Refped to the Memory of the Rev. George Whitefield, A. M. Being the Subftance of a Sermon preacked, on his Death, at the Right: Hon. the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel at Bath, the 18th of Nov. 1770. By the Reu. Mr. Venn. 6d. Dilly.

This difcourfe is entitled, A Token of Refpect to the Me