Art. 3. Tables for Buying and Selling Stocks, from 60, 60, ,, &c. to 130l. per Cent. Conftructed on fo eafy a Plan, that Solutions to most Questions may be obtained by Inspection only, and other Cafes may generally be answered by adding toge ther two or three fimple Numbers. To which is added, a Table fhewing the Value of the Parts, or Refiduals, from 19s. 11d. three Farthings, down to one Farthing. Likewife, Tables of Intereft at 3, 3 and a half, 4 and 5 per Cent. fhewing at one View, the Intereft due on India Bonds, Navy, and Victualling Bills, &c. in Pounds, Shillings, and Pence, from 1000l. to one Shilling, for any Number of Days or Months required. With a Lift of the Holidays kept at all the Public Offices, the Days and Hours of Transferring Stocks, &c. By Benjamin Webb, Writing Master and Accomptant, and Master of the Grammar-School belonging to the Company of Haberdashers in Bunhill-Row. 12mo. 4s. Brotherton.

The title of this little volume is fo ample and explicit, that it is almost needless to fay any thing concerning it, except that the Tables are correct and ufeful. The buying and felling Stocks is become fo general a traffic among the moneyed people of this wealthy island, and their calculations fo nice, that we are of opinion there are many Gentlemen of intrinfic tafte, who will prefer this Author to all the books in our language. There is a poffibility of being very rich, and, at the fame time, very ignorant, even in matters of calculation; in which cafe, a man is obliged to trust to the reckoning of a Broker, who, in the hurry of bufinefs, may easily mistake a few fourths or eighths, to the great prejudice of his Employer. But by the affiftance of this excellent book, any man, with very little trouble, will not only have a conftant check upon his Merchant, Banker, and Broker, but may have the unfpeakable fatisfaction of feeing how much he gains by every article of real, or Change-alley, good news; no matter which.Seriously, tho' the tranfactions in the public Funds may generally be of too great importance, to truft entirely to any Tables whatever, yet we make no doubt, but the Gentlemen of the Alley, Bankers, and Merchants, will be glad to prove their own calculations by thefe Tables.

The method of applying them is very intelligibly explained by the Author in the beginning of the book, and, to prevent impofition, he has diftinguished every authentic copy with his Sign Manual. As to the plan upon which the Tables are conftructed, it is a matter of no confequence to any of thofe Gentlemen to whom the book will be useful that they are correct is all that is required, and that they really are fo, we are very confidently affured by the Author, who has been at uncommon pains to render them fuch as might fafely be depended on.

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Art. 4. An Anfwer to the Letter to Two Great Men, containing Remarks and Obfervations on that Piece, and vindicating the Character

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Character of a Noble Lord from Inactivity. 8vo. 6d.

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This Anfwerer appears to be a man of more knowlege than judgHe is not unprovided with matter, but it is very ill digefted: his arguments being loofe, defuitory, and fometimes abfurd. He agrees with the Letter-Writer in retaining Canada, with the ifles of Cape Breton and St. John, which he thinks ought to be annexed to the Crown of Great Britain by A&t of Parliament; but he cannot af fent to the deftruction of Louisbourg.

He then attempts to juftify Lord Loudon's conduct in America: and in the next piace proceeds to confider the Letter Writer's propofal concerning Guadelupe, Senegal, and Gree; infifting ftrongly not only for the retention of Guadeloupe, but farther recommending the reduction of Martinico. He takes occafion to differ from the Letter Writer in the opinion, that the Pankruptcy in France hath arifen from the German war: on the contrary, he boldly afferts, that fo far from exhaufting their treafure by the German war, they have been enriched thereby; and that Marshal Richelieu, by the fpoils of the country. has paid off the numerous incumberances and mortgages upon his eftate.' That Marshal Richelieu may have grown wealthy by the fpoils of the war, we can readily believe; but that it has contributed to enrich the French nation, is what no one, we apprehend, will take our Author's word for. If their treasure

has been augmented by the German war, it may be asked, by what means it has been exhaufted: for certainly the expences of their Marine have not been fufficient to drain both their flock in hand, and the treasure he fuppofes they have accumulated in Germany. But our Author does not give himself the trouble to enter into particulars; he reafons at large; and like a bold Patriot, tells us in the conclufion, that he is of the number who think, that the Germans ought to fight for themfelves.'

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Art. 5. Some Remarks on the Royal Navy. To which are annexed, fome short but interefting Reflections on a future Peace. 8vo. Is. R. Davis.

A new Title-page, to a pamphlet mentioned in our Catal gue for October laft (Art. 17.), entitled, some farther Remarks on Naval Affairs.' To this new edition of the title-page is added, however, a Poffeript, of 13 pages; containing a number of curfory obfervations, relating to the economy of our shipping, and to the terms which the Author thinks we should infft cn, and abide by, at the next treaty for a peace. He is an odd fort of a fanguine, pofitive writer, and talks of many things, without treating of any: for, like the active bee, he lights upon a great variety of topics, juft touches each, but dwells upon none; like the tame flighty infect too, he feems to leave every thing just as he found it. One paffage, in his poftfcript, deferves particular notice for its fingularity. It relates to his Majefty's German dominions. After cautioning us from acting like Hannibal, who knew how to conquer, but not how to fecure the fruits of his victories; he advifes, that if Hanover fhould

fhould fall a facrifice to the enemy, to let them keep it, rather than give them back any of our American conquefts in exchange; and to recompence his Majesty by giving him Guadaloupe in lieu of the loft Electorate There, he thinks, his Majefty's German fubjects would have much richer lands, and not be fo liable to the incurfions of the French, as they are in Hanover. Efpecially as they might always be defended by our fleet; for it is a part of the Author's Icheme, to keep a feet of twenty capital fhips, for the defence of our islands in that part of the world.-Ihe facility with which this writer can people and unpeople countries, is truly admirable; and as he is fo ready at these things, we could with, when his hand is in, he would do us the favour to banish all the inhabitants of Old France, into Siberia, or Tartary; that we might be rid of fuch troublesome neighbours.

Art. 6. Unafwerable Arguments against a Peace. By a British Freeholder. 8vo. Is. Burd.

So much prefumption in a title page, generally forebodes want of understanding in the writer; and, in the prefent cafe, the omen does not deceive us. This enthufiaftic zealot does not fcruple to say, that we are decreed to be the Scourge of Heaven, to avenge the Caufe of God and all his People. He therefore recommends it to us to continue the war, and not to permit the King of Pruffia to be over. powered; and as foon as the New Year will permit, to land upon France itself, with a force fufficient to destroy that Sodom, whose unnatural dealings with the Inhabitants of the Earth, have provoked both God and Man; and to make France a tributary kingdom. He adds, that we are authorized to put the men to the sword, to make their women and children flaves, and their goods and chattels a prey; that we are commanded by the Word of God to give them no quarter, but to root them out of the earth. In proot of our right to exercite all this, barbarity, he quotes a paffage from Scripture, which relates to the right of the befiegers over the befieged, where a city is taken by form. What a fenfe of Religion muit that man have, who would pervert the meaning of Scripture, in fupport of rapine and bloodshed? As to his arguments, as he is pleafed to file them, they are indeeed unanswerable; for a man who has no notion of reafoning, is not to be answered. R-d

Art. 7. Liberty and Common Sense to the People of Ireland Greeting. 8vo. Is. Williams.

The late Commotions in Ireland gave birth to this pamphlet, which is written with a great deal of affected plainness and fimplicity, and evidently calculated to influence the common people. We can-not however compliment the writer fo far, as to fay that his arguments are likely to be perfuafive and convincing to perfons of any difcernment.

He examines the two caufes affigned for the late disturbances in Ireland. First, that a Bill was propofed to be brought for effecting

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Secondly, that a Motion for an Act, whereby fhould for ever after

an Union between the two Kingdoms. was actually made in the H- of C the K-s of G-t B- -n and their Mbe empowered to call a Pt when they pleased, and to prorogue it as long as they pleafed, and to make it as little as they pleaf ed, and fo to annihilate it if they pleased

With regard to the first, E- -d, he fays, has already experienced the confequences of fuch a U-n. What hath been, might be again and the additional weight of an I -fh Pt thrown into the M-ft- fcale, would be fuch as all the patriot fm in Britain would never be able to balance.

With regard to the fecond, he owns that fuch a Motion was made, but that the Gentleman who made it, perceiving it was difagrecable, immediately withdrew it, without putting the quefiion. The Author adds, that though he cannot any way wreit the lenfe of the motion to that fatal import, with which it was faid to be laden, yet he is greatly pleafed that it did not país.

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Art. 8. De Natura Mufculorum Praelectiones tres, in Theatro Collegii Medicorum Londinenfium habita. A THOMA LAURENCE, M. D. Collegii ejufdem Socio. 8vo. 2s. Whifton.

These three lectures on the Nature of the Mufcles, are given in confequence of the will of Dr. Croun, who ordered annual lectures on the Brain, Nerves, and fuch fubjects, as thould lead to the dif covery, or illuftration, of the caufes and minner of mufcular motion. The first lecture is chiefly employed in defcribing the different parts, and the Fibres of Mufcles; and in diftinguishing the mufcular Tibres, ftrictly fo called, from other animal Fibres, and efpecially from thofe in the mufcular coat of the arteries, as it has been thought by fome, which Dr. Nicholls first fuppofed to be ligamentous. "It treats alfo of the nature and use of the Tendons.

The fecond lecture is taken up in defcribing and diftinguishing the principal different forms of the Mufcles, by which they have obtained different epithets, together with their nerves and blood-veffels.

The third, in which we might fuppofe the lecturer would endeavour to advance fomething new, on the often attempted, and fill abftrufe fubject of mufcular motion [a difcovery of the primary and immediate caufe and quomodo of this having been the object of the founder] treats of the action, or contraction of the Mufcles, with the hypothefes of Borelli, Bernoulli, and of the founder himfelt, for folving mufcular motion; the last of whom his lecturer affirms to have firft effected a material difquifition of this fubject, and particularly to have established an extraordinary derivation of blood into the Mufcles, as a circumftance effential to their action. To thefe fucceed the opinion and the experiments of Cowper on this occafion, which Dr. Lawrence fuppofes to have come itill nearer to a difcovery of the true caufe of their action. To this notwithstanding, he makes feveral phyfiological objections; and particularly fuppofes himte f, that the blood does not produce, or concur, to mufcular motion by its

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momentum, or quantity, which Cowper imagined, but rather by its Stimulus, which feems Dr. Lawrence's immediate caufe of muscular motion. To this indeed, he fuppofes the nerves to contribute, by their action on the blood-veffels of the Mufcles; and by determining the impetus and quantity of their Contents, to the most irritable parts of the Mufcles, as well as by regulating the degree and duration of fuch extraordinary acceffion of the blood to them. This, feems to be either allowing the Nerves themfelves, or the power to which they are inftrumental, a faculty of difcovering thefe moft irritable parts of the Mufcles; which is, what we fhall not affume to dif prove, and are not fufficiently informed of to fubfcribe to. Our learned lecturer however, proceeds, in fupporting his opinion, to the conclufion of this lecture, where he modeltly calls them conjectures, in which light they also appear to us. But though we must fuppofe, the fubitance of what he has faid throughout this performance, whether in Anatomy or Phyfics, fufficiently known before to his auditors, as af iates; it would be unjuft not to obferve, that his threads are finely fpun out, in no impure, nor inelegant Latin, into that diffufion and parade which medical oratory may feem to demand; and from which verbofity is not the more likely to be excluded, when there is either nothing, or nothing material, difcovered.

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Art. 9. A fhort Expofition of a fure and eafy Method for preventing the Communication of the venereal Diftemper. Grounded upon the true Nature of that Poifon, and verified by a Series of new Experiments and Obfervations; containing plain Inftructions for Men, and proper Advices in particular, to Women, which are neceffary to fecure the Health of both, whenever liable to be infected; and fufficient to eradicate, in a few` Years, that fatal Diftemper. By O. G. M. D, I s. 6d. Stevens in Pater-nofter-row.

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This little pamphlet on fo modeft and popular a fubject, printed on a fleet and a half of paper, at the modeft price of eighteenpence, is a grave and formal puff of a prefervative Pomatum for Men at 3s and of the Cleanfer for Women at 6 s. to be had at fome medicinal warehoufe, which is fituated, with great judgment, very near Covent Garden, and to which an advertisement will direct its purchafers. The Pomatum is acknowledged to be a mercurial, though the exact preparation must be a fecret of courfe and the Cleanfer for the injection of falt-water is fome kind of Syringe, There is little doubt but any weak mercurial ointment, or probably a little fweet oil, might prove as effectual a prefervative on fuch occafions. Had the pamphlet been quite anonymous, we could not reasonably suppose any Surgeon, would have been ingrateful or imprudent enough to attempt the utter annihilation of the Company's beft Friend. The writer therefore, who profeffes the most extenfive philanthropy, chufes rather to affume the husk of an experienced and nameless Physician, who has difcovered the exquifite morality of being very commodious to the fexes in their humbleft amours, by fe