appears, that they have been posted in the house of Lords for the mere purpose of fupporting the meafures of government. They were fuppofed to have no opinions of their own, and obeyed, with a pliant fervility, the mandates of a minifter. Nor are the advantages arifing from their degradation, to be compared to those which, in the event of their free election, will refult to themselves, to the rank to which they belong, and to the country they reprefent. Thefe particulars are urged, with great ftrength of argument, and much elegance of expreffion, in the fpirited publication before us. Art. 17. The Complete Baker; or a Method of effectually raifing a Bushel of Flour with a Tea-fpoonful of Barm: intended to ob viate the great Difficulties Bakers are often put to, for Want of a Quantity of Barm.-In which is likewife fhewn, that the Caufe of Bread being clofe and heavy, is entirely owing to the Baker being unacquainted with the Nature of Barm and Flour. By James Stone, of Amport, in Hampshire. 8vo. 1 s. Salisbury printed, for the Author, and fold by Crowder in London.

Mr. James Stone deferves the thanks of all thofe who are interefted in the point in question. The effects of barm, as well as of many other ferments, may by a proper management be extended in infinitum.-The knowledge of this fact is the foundation of the directions which are here delivered.

Art. 18. A fhart Grammar and Vocabulary of the Moors Language. 8vo. I s. 6d. Flexney. 1771. The Author of this publication may be very well acquainted with the Indoftan language; but the materials he employs are so scanty, that they furnish but an imperfect idea of it; and, on this account, little advantage can refult from his work.

Art. 19. A free Addrefs to Freemen. By William Sharp, Jun. 8vo. 6 d. Flexney. 1771.

This performance is compofed with more paffion than judgment; and, though we respect the cause it would ferve, we must think, that its intereft may rather be hurt, than promoted by it.

Art. 20. A Letter to Robert Morris, Efq; wherein the Rife and Progrefs of our political Difputes are confidered. Together with fome Obfervations on the Power of Judges and Juries, as relating to the Cafes of Woodfall and Almon. 8vo. 2 s. 6d. Baldwin. 1771.

Great abilities, furely, are neceffary to the writer, who, in a free country, would inculcate leffons of fubjection and dependance. The Author, however, of the pamphlet before us, though he is an advocate for prerogative and tyranny, has no great claim to fagacity or eloquence. Bold affertion, and a feeble attempt towards wit, he has fubftituted in the place of argument and reafoning. Art. 21. Free Thoughts on the prefent State of public Affairs, in a Letter to a Friend. 8vo. I s. 1770.

The Writer of this letter profeffes, that he has no intimacy with politicians; and acknowledges, that politics lie quite out of his province. On what title, then, it may be afked, does he prefume to treat of public affairs? He has likewife informed his Reader, that

with regard to the prefent political contefts, he has no bias either one way, or the other. His performance, however, extols, beyond meafure, all the acts of adminiftration; and he is perpetually expreffing his dislike of what he terms the prefent public commotions, the amazing ferment among the people,-and the general difcontent of the nation.' We perceive nothing in his letter that can induce us to recommend it to the public.

Art. 22. A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley; in Answer to his late Pamphlet, entitled, Free Thoughts on the present State of public Affairs.' 8vo. 9 d. Towers.

This addrefs to Mr. Wefley contains an examination of the more remarkable paffages in the preceding article. It is fpirited and fenfible; and the opinions it combats, deferved not, in our judgment, fo able a refutation.

Art. 23. Public Accounts of Services and Grants: fhewing how the Money given for each Year has been difpofed of; what Parts remain unfatisfied; and the Balance of Overplus and Deficiency. To which is added, an Introductory Preface to explain particular Parts, and a Table of the Totals of Services and Grants, and of the Acts of Parliament paffed each Year for the Ways and Means; likewife an Index to the fundry Services. By Sir Charles Whitworth, Chairman of the Committee of Supply and Ways and Means. Folio. 5 s. fewed. Robfon. 1771.

The public is obliged to Mr. Whitworth for this valuable communication, the worth of which will be estimated folely by its correctness; and of its correctnefs we can entertain no degree of doubt, The accounts are extracted from the parliamentary Journals, commencing with the year 1722; before which time they were not regularly entered. The articles are arranged under the particular heads of Navy, Ordnance, Forces, Sundry Services, Deficiencies, &c.

-Such a collection of our annual public accounts cannot fail of being very ufeful, as the refpectable Compiler obferves, not only to members of parliament, but to every attentive Reader of English hiftory.

In order to authenticate his publication, and render it the more ufeful, Mr. Whitworth has inferted the volume and page of the Journals, where referred to, with the name and date when and by whom the account was prefented: and he has, further, thought it proper to add, to the accounts of fervices and grants, extracts of the feveral acts relative to the three capital funds, the aggregate, general, and finking funds, recited in the very words of the ftatutes, to prevent mistakes.

Art. 24. The Lawyers inveftigated. In a Series of Letters addreffed to the Right Honourable E D, Sir S. S. She, Sir W- Md, &c. By W. G. of Richmond; and the Lawyers Letters in Reply, with other needful Vouchers. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Bingley.

The tranfactions alluded to in this performance may have had a real foundation; but we do not think it was neceffary to publish a dull feries of letters, to let the world know that lawyers are addicted to frauds and chicanery.

Art. 25. The Juryman's Touchstone: or, a full Refutation of Lord Mansfield's lawless Opinion in Crown Libels. Addreffed to all the Jurors of England, by the Cenfor General. 8vo. 2 s. Evans.

The Author of this pamphlet has published it, under the perfuafion, that it would be of ufe to his countrymen; and this is the only commendation that we can bestow upon it.

Art. 26. Vox Senatus. The Speeches at large which were made in a great Affembly on the 27th of November last, when Mr. Phipps made a Motion, For Leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Act of William the Third, which empowers the Attorney General to file Informations ex officio.' And on the 6th of December, when Serjeant Glynn moved, That a Committee fhould be appointed to enquire into the Administration of criminal Justice, and the Proceedings of the Judges in Westminster-hall, particu larly in Cafes relating to the Liberty of the Prefs, and the conftitutional Power and Duty of Juries. 8vo. 2 s. Woodfall, in WhiteFriars.

Thefe fpeeches are faid, by the Editor, to contain the fentiments of the speakers to whom they are afcribed; and we have no reason to fufpect his veracity. Concerning their merit, it is fufficient for us to obferve, that it is, by no means, in proportion to the importance of the topics to which they relate.

Art. 27. A Dialogue between a Lawyer and a Country Gentleman, upon the Subject of the Game Laws, relative to Hares, Partridges, and Pheasants: Wherein is fhewn, the feveral Qualifications to kill Game; the Penalties fuch Perfons are liable to, who kill them without fuch Qualifications; the Manner of recovering fuch Penalties, and being punished as Trefpaffers; the Distinction between voluntary and involuntary Trefpaffers; the neceffary Steps to be taken to make wilful Trefpaffers, and the Confequences of being fuch; together with fome Obfervations upon thefe Laws. To which are added Three Tables, fhewing, at one View, the Offences, the Statutes creating them, the Perfons to whom the Pealties are given, the Manner of Recovery, and laftly the feveral Penalties a Perfon may be liable to by one Act. With a Letter to John Glynn, Efq; Serjeant at Law, and Reprefentative of the County of Middlefex, upon the Penal Laws of this Country. By a Gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn, a Freeholder of Middlesex.

The title of this publication is fo ample and diffufe, that there is, no occafion for us to fpeak of its contents. The dialogue contains a very juft cenfure of the feverity of the game-laws. The letter to Mr. Glynn on the penal laws is lefs fatisfactory.

L A W.

Art. 28. A Summary of the Law of Libel: in four Letters, figned Phileleutherus Anglicanus, addreffed to, and printed in, the Public Advertiser. 8vo. 6d. Bladon 1771.

These letters abound with masterly reflections on the law of libel; and difcover that indignant fpirit, with which the worthy citizen muft furvey the proceedings of men, who would. infringe on the laws and conftitution of their country.

MEDICAL.

MEDICAL.

Art. 29. Dua Differtationes in Publicis, &c. Two Differtations delivered in the public Schools at Cambridge. I. The Knowledge of Anatomy is not principally neceffary to the Practice of Medicine. II. The Deformities of the Foetus do not arife from the Imagination of the Mother. To which is added, a Florilegium Medicum, (Anglicè a medical Nofegay,) or Extracts from the Greek of Hippocrates, with a new Latin Translation, Notes and Emendations. By Thomas Okes, M. D. Cantab. Svo. 2 5. Cadell, &c. 1770.

The two differtations are college declamations.-And the extracts from Hippocrates are intended as a specimen of a larger work of the fame kind. Cæterorum Hippocratis librorum utiliora prelo quam citiffimè mandare meditor.-It is on account of this larger work, that our Author publishes the following advertisement.-Dr. Okes begs the favour of thofe Gentlemen who will be fo kind as to communicate any obfervations, to fend them to him at Cambridge, or order them to be left at Mr. White's, Bookfeller. Fleetttreet, London, poft paid, as the profits arifing from the fale of the book are intended for the benefit of Adenbroke's hofpital in Cambridge.'

From the fpecimen before us, Dr. Okes appears to be well acquainted with the Greek; and to be competently qualified for the work in question.

Art. 30. A Differtation on the Spafmodic Afthma of Children: in a Letter to Dr. Millar. By Benjamin Rush, M. D. Profeffor of Chemistry in the College of Philadelphia. 8vo. 1 s. Cadell, &c. 1770.

This DISSERTATION was firft published in a Pennsylvania Newspaper. The obfervations it contains, are neither fo accurate or fo important as to merit a republication.

MATHEMATICAL. Article 31. Cyclomathefis; or, an eafy Introduction to the feveral Branches of the Mathematics. Principally defigned for the Inftruction of young Students before they enter upon the more abstruse and difficult Parts. By Mr. Emerfon. 8vo. 10 Vols. 31. 5 s.

Nourfe.

The feveral volumes of which this work confifts, have been feparately mentioned in our late Reviews, at the times of their respective publications.

Art. 32. An Attempt to illuftrate the Ufefulness of Decimal Arithmetic, in the Rev. Mr. Brown's Method of working interminate Fractions. To which is now added An Appendix. By William Rivet, Efq; the fecond Edition. 12mo. 1 s. 6 d. Brown.

1771.

This fmall treatife on decimal arithmetic, in the method of Mr. Brown, we have formerly had occafion to speak of with approbation*. -The Appendix, which is new, (and is fold feparately 1) contains a brief abftract of the work itself, together with tables for expediting the calculation of all annuities, penfions, &c. conftructed

See Review, vol. xxix. p. 479.

Price 6 d.

on

on the plan which the Author had laid down; of which we need only fay, that the use of them is illuftrated by two or three examples, and that they may be acceptable to those who are defirous of certainty and dispatch in all fuch matters.

NOVEL S.

Art. 33. The Contraft: or, Hiftory of Mifs Weldon and Mifs. Mofely. 12mo. 2 Vols. 5 s. fewed. Noble.

Two female characters form the oppofition alluded to in the foregoing title; each Lady is beautiful and accomplished, but very diffimilar in inclinations and manners. Although both, being relations, were brought up in the fame family, one of them was gay, giddy, and extravagant; the other, decent, thoughtful, and prudent. The first marries, and ruins her husband by her indifcretions. Her coufin also becomes a wife; and is efteemed and admired by all who know her; while the diffipated dame is pitied by some and despised by all.

The adventures in which these contrasted heroines are involved, are interefting and exemplary; and their ftory, upon the whole, though not of the highest rank in this fpecies of literature, deferves commendation for its good tendency. An evening or two spent, by a young female, in perufing it, may not only be innocently employed, but perhaps attended with fome degree of improvement. Art. 34. Louifa. A fentimental Novel. 12mo. 38. Lowndes.

A very high encomium on this performance is prefixed to it; in which the Editor affures the public, that it is the elegant production of a Lady, who, to a fine genius, has added every advantage that could be derived from a polite education :'-an affertion which will not weigh much with thofe readers who may apprehend that the two letters, T. M. fubfcribed to it, are by no means fufficient vouchers for its veracity. Who is this Mr. T. M.? they may afk; and they will refort, for further fatisfaction, as to the merits of the work, to the internal evidence afforded by itself, in fupport of the great character here given it-and, in justice to Madam Louifa, we muft obferve, that we believe this evidence will not turn out altogether unfavourable to the Editor's allegations, particularly with respect to the chaflity and refinement of the Lady's fentiments, and the eafy, unaffected flow of her language. Yet we do not look upon this novel as an high-wrought compofition. It does not feem, to us, entitled to ftand in the firft rank of this order of books of entertainment; but it is, undoubtedly, in our eftimation, greatly to be preferred to the mob of them, and efpecially, to thofe loofer productions of the prefs, which vitiate the manners, and corrupt the heart:'-as the Editor well expreffes himself.

Art. 35. The Danger of the Paffions; or, Syrian and Egyptian Anecdotes. Tranflated from the French of the Author of the School of Friendship. 2 Vols. 12mo. 5s fewed. Evans 1770. Thefe anecdotes are fo frivolous, and fo infipid, that they cannot, we apprehend, greatly excite the attention, or contribute to the entertainment, of even the most infignificant reader.

POETICA L.