heart, with a fenfe of guilt for what he had done against the the honour and life of Uriah, and points out fome of the moft dangerous and delufive inftances of felf-deceit, in a very juft, lively, and ftriking manner. The fifth is a Charity Sermon, and was printed fome years ago: the fixth, which is the laft of the firft volume, contains fome very juft reflections on the character and behaviour of the Pharifee and Publican, when they went up into the temple to pray; but the bounds we have prefcribed to this article will not allow us to give a particular account of it. R MONTHLY CATALOGUE, For M AY, 1760. POLITICAL Art. 1. A Letter to the Great Man, occafioned by the Letter to two Great Men. In which many of that Writer's Abfurdities, Inconfiftencies, and Contradictions are detected, and the fatal Tendency of his Propofitions expofed. By a Citizen of London, a Difciple of Sydney and Locke. 8vo 1s. Briftow. I' F this Gentleman is really a Difciple of those two great Masters, we cannot fay, that he does much credit to his Preceptors. Had he profited by their useful inftructions, he would have learned more moderation; a quality which our Author ftands in great need of: for his zeal is fo exuberant, that he destroys all the force which some of his arguments might have, by loading them with invectives. His refentment at firft is perfonal, and the Author of the Letter to Two Great Men, is the object against whom he directs its severity: it then becomes local, and Hanover feels all the weight of his indignation. In few words, he gives it as his opinion, that If poor, unhappy, ⚫ ever facrificed Britain must cede any thing to France, she had better ⚫cede Canada, which our long headed Author (meaning the Author of the Letter to two Great Men) has told us, is fo unhealthy and chargeable to the French, than thofe rich and most important acquifi⚫tions propofed by him. If France,' he adds, by our foolish and unnatural tenderness ⚫ for a trifling contemptible Gn E-te, should regain by treaty thofe important poffeffions, fhe will foon ftretch out her menacing arm, both againit us and her neighbours on the Continent. But, he continues, it is not enough to affert, I ought to prove the fatal ⚫ confequences of giving up thofe acquifitions wherewith our Author would buy a peace; in order thereto I lay down the following Axioms. ift, That Commerce is the true fource of national strength, power, and grandeur. zdly, That the late formidable ftrength, power, and grandeur of France, were chiefly the effects of her Commerce to and from thofe very places, and to the privilege of fishing off the Banks of • Newfoundland, which our Author would restore to them.. 3dly, That the existence of Great Britain as an independent nation upon France, abfolutely depends on keeping in our hands thofe places, and not permitting France to fish off the Banks of New⚫foundland. 4thly, That a Peace with France is unneceffary, as no one truly national argument can be urged in favour of fuch a Peace.' We must obferve, that it is not very modest in the Gentleman to call these affertions, Axioms. An Axiom is an uncontestible self-evident Propofition, which does not admit of clearer proof: but we are afraid that fome of his Propofitions do not admit of any proof at all. R-J Art. 2. The Interest of Great Britain confidered with regard to The vast contrariety of opinions with regard to the British Colonies, and more especially with refpect to the ceffion of Quebec or Guadeloupe, is an unwelcome omen of the difficulty likely to attend the conclufion of the wifhed-for Peace, and of the little probability there is of making the terms fatisfactory to all parties. As to the fhoals of pamphlets which have been published by Writers without abilities, or opportunities of information, they are not worthy recollection: but it is matter of concern to find men equally able and intelligent, diametrically oppofite in their opinions. The Author of the Letter to Two Great Men, ftrongly recommended the retention of Canada, as the fine qua non of accommodation. The Writer of the Remarks on that Letter, differed from him toto Calo, and preferred the poffeffion of Guadeloupe before all our other acquifitions. The Author of the pamphlet before us, which is penned with great good fenfe and moderation, controverts the Remarker's fentiments, and difputes his facts. This very mafterly Writer obferves, that Ca⚫nada in the hands of Britain, will endanger the kingdom of France as little as any other ceffion; and from its fituation and circum⚫ftances cannot be hurtful to any other State. Rather, if Peace be an advantage, this ceffion may be fuch to all Europe. The prefent war,' fays he, teaches us, that disputes arifing in America, may be an occafion of embroiling nations who have no ⚫ concerns there. If the French remain in Canada and Louisiana, 'fix the boundaries as you will between us and them, we must border on each other for more than fifteen hundred miles. The peo⚫ple that inhabit the frontiers, are generally the refuse of both nations, often of the worst morals and the leaft difcretion, remote ⚫ from the eye, the prudence, and the reftraint of Government. In⚫juries are therefore frequently, in fome part or other of fo long a ⚫ frontier, A By Dr Franklin 2 frontier, committed on both fides, refentment provoked, the Colonies first engaged, and then the Mother Countries. And two great nations can fcarce be at war in Europe, but fome other Prince or State, thinks it a convenient opportunity, to revive fome ancient claim, feize fome advantage, obtain fome territory, or enlarge fome power at the expence of a neighbour? With refpe&t to Guadeloupe, fays he, though I am far from thinking we have Sugar land-enough, I cannot think Guadeloupe is fo defirable an increase of it. A country fully inhabited by any nation, is no proper poffeffion for another of different language, manners, and religion. It is hardly ever tenable at lefs expence than it is worth. But,' he continues, fhould we keep Guadeloupe, we are told, it would enable us to export 300,000l. in Sugars. Admit it to be true, though perhaps the amazing increase of English confumption, might ftop moft of it here; to whofe profit is this to redound? To the profit of the French inhabitants of the island; except a small part that fhould fall to the fhare of the English Purchafers, but whofe purchase-money must first be added to the wealth and circulation of France,' Upon the whole, from what we can collect among fuch various opinions, the keeping poffeffion of Guadeloupe would be of most prefent profit; the retention of Canada would be of most real fecurity, and therefore to be preferred. We are forry, however, to hear it infinuated, that private and partial motives fhould fway the Advocates on either fide: and that fuch as argue for retaining Canada, fhould be charged with efpoufing the caufe of the Jamaica Monopolizers; while, on the other hand, they who contend for keeping Guadeloupe, are accused of favouring the Monopolizers of the Fur Trade. Rad Art. 4. Reflections without Doors, on what paffes within. Remmended to the Perufal of all Friends to the Militia: As well as those who wish to preferve Unanimity and Coalition between Adminiftration and People, fo neceffary at this critical Conjunc↳ ture. By a Country Gentleman. 8vo. 6d. R. Davis. This Gentleman takes notice of fome abufes relating to the Militia. Inftead,' fays he, of being called out only for the purpose * of Rebellion, Invafion, or immediate Danger thereof, and to be kept out only for the fuppreffion of the faid Rebellion or Invafion, ⚫ the regiments are made ufe of to form camps in fummer, and do daty out of their counties at quarters in winter, thereby loading the feveral places with an immenfe expence.' He therefore thinks it reafonable, that the provifion for the Militia men's families, fhould be placed to the public account, inftead of being made a partial county expence.' " It must be owned, indeed, that the Militia feem to be employed in duties not required by the Act: but how far it may be just to load the public with an additional charge in confequence of fuch irregular proceedings, is a propofition which, to difcufs, require; greater REV. May, 1760. Gg trength ftrength of argument, and power of expreffion, than our Author feems mafter of. R-d Art. 5. A Political Effay on the English and French Colonies in Northern and Southern America. Confidered in a new Light. By a Patriot. 8vo. 6d. Woodfall. This Patriot, as he ftiles himself, fays little, very little, indeed! on the extenfive fubject he has chofen to difplay his political talents upon; and what he has faid is, likewife, fo little to the purpose, that we think it no way improper to follow his example; and difpatch both him and his pamphlet, in as fummary a manner, as that in which he has brushed through the American Colonies. His whole pamphlet might be contained in lefs than two Pages of our Review. Art. 6. Six concluding Letters to a Senator, on the Tendencies of the Foundling Hofpital in its boundless Extent. Part II. Shewing what is bad in that Plan; and pointing out a new one to be fubftituted instead of it, or to be united to what is good in it; this new one tending to make the Poor become a full Support to the Poor, and not only not burthenfome to the Public, but great Benefactors to it. 4to. Is. Henderson. After having fhewn the great evils attending the Foundling Hofpital in its prefent extent, by their tendencies, (along with the deftruction of all infants legitimate as well as illegitimate) firft, to the en couragement of a general incontinency; and to all the deftructive evils incident to that encouragement. Secondly, to the abolition of Matrimony; and to all the destructive evils incident to that abolition, the Writer then proceeds to its third ftep towards a total national destruction, viz. by its difcouraging national industry; and fo introducing all the destructive evils which are incident to that difcouragement. In the eighth Letter he opens his plan for a new establishment, by declaring himself of opinion with those who wifh our Poor Laws had been abolished, and that fo many thousands of private and public bounties which have been expended in the exceptionable confined manner they have been, had been expended rather in this more unconfined and lefs exceptionable manner of erecting • national or county Workhouses upon Commons or wafte • Grounds. In thefe Workhoufes,' fays he, what could take place more promifingly, than the thin cloth manufactury, (imitating that of France) for the Turkey trade carried on with vigour ?—Ă manufacture, which would neither leffen, nor interfere at all with, the exportation of our other branches of manufacture, and which I may venture to fay, would fully employ all thofe Poor in the Englifh nation, who, by the lovers of the most real, the most substan*tial, the moft ufefully extenfive Charity, fhould be deemed the • moft moft real objects of it. This,' he adds, would corroborate the ⚫ commercial connection, and cement the friendship between the King of Great Britain's fubjects and thofe of the Grand Seignior; and would rob the French in proportion, of their connection and friendship with the fublime Port.' In the 9th and laft Letter, he points out other good tendencies which, he apprehends, will attend the establishment he proposes. But whether thefe advantages are real or imaginary, experience only can determine. In the mean time, tho' we highly applaud our Author's virtuous fentiments, and public fpirited intentions, yet we are perfuaded, that if he had opened his propofition with lefs prolixity and fingularity of expreffion, his scheme would have been more likely to meet with that attention which he, no doubt, wishes it to receive. MISCELLANEOUS. R-d Art. 7. The Courtezans: a Comedy of two Acts: founded on Truth; and acted every Night at Drury-lane and CoventGarden. 8vo. Is. Lewis. The view of this little piece, fays the Writer, is to expose, in its proper colours, the general vice of the age; known, according to the various ranks of the perfons engaged, under the various denominations of keeping, free living, and w--g. There is no great merit in the intrigue of this little piece; the execution, however, is far from being contemptible. The characters are evidently drawn from the life, and the fcenes directly copied from nature. We recommend it, therefore, to the perufal of all thofe Gentlemen of pleasure and gaiety about town, who play the feveral parts of this little drama; who, would they but confider, as the Author juftly obferves, what they are about, and what it is to be a dupe and cully to the lowest and most contemptible part of the human fpecies, they must acknowlege the tables turned on them, and that the married men have the laugh on their fide. Art. 8. The Life and Adventures of a Cat. bound. Minors. K-n-k 12mo. 2s. 6d. In the title-page page of this performance it is faid to be written by the late Mr. Fielding. It has been thought proper, however, to omit this particular in the Advertisements, where it is faid only, to be written in the facetious manner of that Writer. We need not acquaint those who have read it, that neither the one or the other is true: it may not be unneceffary, however, to intimate this to others, left they fhould be deceived by fo egregious a falfity, into the purchafe of a very dull and infignificant performance. So far, indeed, is the execution of this piece from bearing any refemblance to the facetious manner of the juftly celebrated Writer whose name is profaned on this occafion, that the only attempt at humour, in which the Writer has met with the leaft share of fuccefs, is contained in a difpute about the etymology of the word Cat. An Gg z attempt, |