Art. 22. A Letter from a Gentleman in the Country to his Friend in Town, on his Perufal of a Pamphlet addreffed to Two Great Men. 8vo. 6d. Davis.

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Contains fome plain and fenfible obfervations on the Letter to Two Great Men. Our Author declares himself averse to our prefent continental operations, which in truth, though expedient Sub modo, may be pursued improperly, and to too great extent. likewife differs with the Letter-Writer in thinking Canada of fuch importance, and Guadaloupe, &c. fo inconfiderable. In short, thefe points are all extremely problematical, and though they have been much agitated, we do not think that the advantages and difadvantages on each fide, have been yet fufficiently stated to warrant a pofitive conclufion on either. R-d

Art. 23. A Plan of fhort Heads of a Scheme, (for a Bill, if paffed into a Law) whereby this Nation may, for ever, keep the fole Manufacturing up of our Wool, by eafy and most effectual Regulations aud Restrictions, (to prevent the infamous Smuggling of our raw and combed Wool, and Woollen-Yarn) and immediately thereby recover our decayed Woollen Trade to Turky, and all other foreign Markets, as heretofore. Ta which are added, all the Forfeitures, Pains and Penalties, enacted by our Laws, from the Original, in the 27 and 28 Ed. 3. 1353, down to Geo. 2. 1758, relative to the Premifes, made against the tranfporting of our Wool and Woollen Yarn from out of Great-Britain and Ireland, to any Part or Parts beyond the Seas. Addreffed to, and now before Parliament. By George Bonnell, Gent. 4to. Is. Meres.

The title-page fufficiently exprefies the purport of this pamphlet: and the heads of the propofed bill are too numerous for us to epitomize Whether fuch a bill, if paffed into a law could answer all the ends propofed, as our fanguine Author feems confident it would, experience will beft determine. We are of opinion, however, that the fubject merits the ferious attention of the legislature. It is griev us to reflect, that fo many laws in being against the running of wool, fhould be cluded to the fcandal and detriment of the nation: and we hope, that the parliament will devife proper means to prevent future abules in fo effential a branch of manufacture.

R-d Art. 24. Some Thoughts on the Nature of Paper Credit, relative to the late Failures of Bankers and Receivers in Ireland. By a Free Citizen. 8vo. 6d. Dublin.

This Gentleman did well to fign himfelf a free Citizen: for his expoftulations are, indeed, extremely free and bold. He inveighs violently against the abufes of the Bankers and Receivers in Ireland, and argues ftrongly against their proposals for the fecurity of their Creditors. He appears, however, to be a man of knowlege and

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acuteness: but we must add, that his reflections would have loft none of their force, had they been more genteely and decently expreffed. The Spirit of Liberty has for fometime past been fo ftrong in Ireland, that the Patriots of that kingdom unhappily ufe improper means in the pursuit of meafures, which may, perhaps, be laudable in the end in short, they seem to have more zeal than difcretion.

R-d Art. 25. A Letter to the Right Hon. W. Pitt, Efq; Wherein the Utility and Neceffity of a well-regulated Militia is clearly demonftrated, &c. By an Englishman. 8vo. Is.

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All Impertinence.

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Art. 26. Themistocles. A Satire on Modern Marriage 4to, 6 d. Morley.

If this Author be really young, as he infinuates, we hope he is not fo violently enamoured with the Mules, as not to be able to bid them easily adieu: fince we are much afraid he will never infinuate himfelf fo far into their good graces, as to engage them to favour his paffion. It were, therefore, better perhaps, that he should timely betake himself to fome other amufement.

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Art. 27. Phil and Harriet: A true Tale. With Inftructions to a Rofe: An Ode. In Paraphrafe on Waller and Crudeli. 4to. 6d. Morley.

The tale here paraphrafed may be feen, in the fixth number of the Bee, as it is faid to have been firft imagined by Tomafo Crudeli, an academician of Florence. It would have alfo, been pretty enough, had it been elegantly verfified: but the prefent is a poor attempt; from which, as well as the fubfequent ode, the writer difcovers himfelf either to be a very young poet indeed, or one that is an utter ftranger to the harmony of poetical numbers.

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Art. 28. The Rendezvous, or Covent-Garden Piazza. A Satire, 4to. I s. Thrush.

It seems it is become a cuftom with people of a certain character. (not uncommon in the purlieus of Covent-Garden, to walk the piazza there, in the evening; in order to make, or to fulfil, affignationsor for other fuch important and worthy purposes: and we have here a lively, fmart rhapfodical sketch of thefe gentry; among whom the moft celebrated women of the town are particularly pointed out. The moral of this fatire is, the fubjecting our paflions to the government of reafon, by fhunning thefe gilded baits-thefe delufive votaries of pleasure. The advice is good, but the misfortune is, that there feems little probability of its being much regarded by thofe for whom it was chiefly intended. Alas! how little does Virtue gain by preaching against the Paffions? Her fureft way to conquer Vice, is to affail her with her own weapons, to put on an alluring face, and win

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win us to her embraces, rather by an amiable display of her own charms, than by decrying those of her rival -But we need fay the lefs on this head, as the fame thought has been fo lately and so happily illuftrated, by the Author of The Way to keep Him.

Art. 29. Titus Vefpafian: A Tragedy. By the Author of Memoirs of a Coxcomb. 8vo. Is. 6d. Griffiths.

The Author of this unacted tragedy, modeftly acquiefces in the determination of the managers; who it feems have refufed his performance the advantages of theatrical reprefentation. Yet it does not thence follow that it has not merit enough to fucceed on the ftage. There are indeed feveral dramatic pieces, we might mention, that have met with applaufe in acting, and are not preferable, in our opinion, to this before us. The plot and moft of the fentiments are taken from the excellent Metaitafio's opera, intitled, La Clemenza di Tito; a circumstance which the Author does not endeavour to conceal. Perhaps this piece may want nerve and force enough to enfure its fuccefs on the British Itage. In the reading however it has given us fome pleasure; and though our Author's language be not the most poetical, his principal fcenes are not wanting in that Tendree, as the French exprefs it, which is one very diftinguishable characteristic of, and perhaps effentially neceflary to, the perfection of dramatic poefy.x Cler and K-n-k

Art. 30. Mifcellanea Sacra: Containing the Song of Deborah and Barak, David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan, a Pindaric Poem; and the Prayer of Solomon at the Dedication of the Temple. By the late ingenious Mr. E. Tafwell. 4to. Is. Burd.

As Mr. Pope has pronounced the Poet fupremely bleft in his Muse, we need not be furprized that Mr. Tafwell should himself find gratification in writing the pieces which compofe his Mifcellanea Sacra. But, that any one, befide their Author, fhould fend them to the press, is a matter beyond our comprehenfion.

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RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL. Art. 31. A Spiritual Voice to the Chriftian Church, and to the Jews; in an Explication of the Sabbatical Year of Moses by the Gofpel of Jefus Chrift; in which the approaching Millennium is fupported, and the different Durations of future Punifhments are proved and confirmed by the two Revelations of God. By the Rev. Mr. Clarke, Author of the Effay on the Number Seven, and of the Calculations on the Prophecies of Daniel and John. 8vo. IS. 6d. Townsend.

Mr. Clarke tells us, in his preface to this work, that his Effay on the number Seven*, was published to fhew the ground of expecting * See Review, voi, XX. page 611.

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fome great fpiritual revolution on a feventh period of time; and that his calculations on the Prophecies of Daniel and John, were wrote by a fupernatural light, altogether new and extraordinary to him. The spiritual explanation of the Sabbatical Year, he fays, is offered to the Christian Church, with a view of fupporting the expectation of the Millennium near at hand; and of unfolding fomewhat more fully the nature of Regeneration, or the Spiritual Kingdom of God within his people in this lite.

As to the merit of the work, we fhall only fay, that the Author seems to have a very lively and fruitful imagination, but does not appear to us, to be under the guidance of jupernatural light.

R Art. 32. Habitual Religion explained and recommended, in Three Sermons preached at Taunton, September 1759. By Thomas Amory. 8vo. IS. Waugh.

Thefe Sermons are dedicated to the congregation of Proteftant Diffenters of the new Meeting in Taunton. Mr Amory tells us, that as the tenderness of his regard, for a people, among whom he had spent many years, would not admit his preaching a farewell Sermon in form, he thought the end of fuch a difcourfe might be as well anfwered by clofing his Ministry with the fentiments contained in these Sermons, as fupplying fome of the mit powerful motives and encouragements to a life of uniform piety and goodness.They are plain, ferious, fenfible Difcourfes, from thele words, Pfal. xvi. 8. I have fet the Lord always before me; because he is at my righthand, I shall not be moved.

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Art. 33. A clofe View of Death and its fubfequent Immortalities; (a) giving a large Account of the Primitive Chriflians, who conducted their Lives by thofe Views (b). With a previous Difcourfe, briefly, but fully, demonftrating the Truth of Christianity, and, in confequence of that, urging moft earnestly to folemn Confideration (c). The whole with vigour enforced by an awful Frontispiece, exhibiting one of our deplorable Bodies putrefying in the Vault. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Dilly.

(a) This part of the work before us, which, from the turn of the title-page, one would think should conftitute the main body of the Author's defign, confifts of fcarce eight pages and a half, tho' the whole book is extended to no less than three hundred and four.-As Mr. Cannon feems to be a well meaning man, tho' certainly not well qualified for an advocate in defence of religion, proper for convincing the cavilling wits of the present age; we fall omit giving any direct opinion of his performance, out of a jutt regard to the fubject of it,-undoubtedly a folemn one! However, if the Reader infifts upon a fpecimen, let him take the very first paragraph of this Clofe View of Death; which we have felected mer ly because it is the first, and as likely as any other to convey a true idea of the Author's manner of treating his fubject.

"Look at that head: [in the front fpiece,] infpect, I tell thee, "yonder skull, from whofe right eye hole flides forth the filent de

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vourer. Whom tell I? Thee in particular, thou man of taste, who determineft to have thy pride fomented, thy palate pampered, "thy lechery gratified, thy drefs diftinguished, thine houfe orna"mented. Thou doft look inquifitively. Then wherefoever thou

art, may this thought be thy companion; that quite as certainly "the worm will perforate that orb of thine, which now collected to a point, darts into this fight of mortality."

(b) An abridgment of Cave's Primitive Chriftianity.

(c) This previous Difcourfe, tho' hinted, in the title-page, to be only a brief one, occupies 141 pages; but confifts of little more than extracts from E hard's Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, Doddridge's Family Expofitor, Pafchal's Thoughts on Religion, and Doolittle on the Lord's Supper; together with a few pious, tho' fomewhat enthufiaftic, Reflections of the Author's own.

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Art. 34. Free Grace indeed! Set forth in a Scriptural View of the Principle of Grace wrought in the Heart of the Spirit. By Samuel Pike. 12mo. I S. Buckland.

We are told, in the preface, that - a note of admiration is affixed to the general title, in order to exprefs in the fewest words and in the cleareft language, the central defign of this perform⚫ance wherein the Author endeavours to prove, that gofpelgrace is perfectly free, unconditional, abfolute, and immediate; requiring nothing for the helpless finner to do or endeavour towards obtaining an intereft in the divine favour:' but affording relief previous to the exertion of any act of ours.'-See Pref. p. ii.

Mr. Pike's method of argumentation upon this abftrufe fubject, is far from being fo clear and fatisfactory as might have been wished, and even expected, in one, who hopes that what is here written may prove a happy means of ftriking conviction into the confciences of fome. See Pref. p. iv. Notwithstanding this hope, yet he him. fell is fo candid as to own, at p. 87. that feveral particulars, advanced by him, may, perhaps, appear fomewhat confused, or may "require a close attention to take them clearly in :"- -in which laft acknowledgement, we entirely concur in his opinion.

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Art. 35. Simple Truth vindicated: in fundry important theological Queries; which are examined and refolved by the Scriptures only under four Heads; namely, 1. The Knowledge of the true God. 2. Exhortations to Faith and Obedience. 3. The Nature and Effects of justifying Faith. 4. The Nature, Manner, and Evidences of the Work of the Spirit of God on the Hearts of Men. 12mo. I S. Buckland.

The writer before us very jufly obferves, in his preface, that the moft abfurd imaginations have claimed the fanstion of God's word, by a pretence to evidence in the divine records. And certainly nothing has been more common than for men to appeal to thofe jacred oracles of truth, in fupport of very different opinions: not always confidering, that one part of fcripture fhould never be interpre ed in

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