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Scriptores Logarithmici; or, a Collection of feveral curious Tracts on the nature and Conftruction of Logarithms, mentioned in Dr Hutton's Hiftorical Introduction to his new edition of Sherwin's Mathematical Tables: Together with fome Tracts on the Binomial Theorem, and other fubjects connected with the doctrine of Logarithms, 4to. 2 vols. 21. 12s. 6d. boards. White.

Experiments and Observations relative to the Influence lately difcovered by M. Galvani, and commonly called Animal Electricity. By Richard Fowler, Svo. 38. 6d. boards. Johnfon.

This very curious treatise seems worthy of notice, the fubject having till of late been but little attended to. The following facts are remarkable:

"Put a plate of Zinc into one cheek, and a plate of filver (a crown piece) into the other, at a little distance from each. Apply the cheeks to them as extenfively as poffible. Thurst in a rod of zinc between the zinc and the cheek, and a rod of filver between the filver and the other cheek. Bring their outer ends flowly into contact, and a fmart convulfive twitch will be felt in the parts of the gums fituated betwixt them, accompanied by bright flashes in the eyes. And thefe will be diftinctly perceived before contact, and a fe cond time on feparating the ends of the rods, or when they have again attained what may be called the striking distance. If the rods be alternated, no effect whatever is produced."

Letters from Dr Withering of Birmingham, Dr Ewart of Bath, Dr, Thornton of London, and Dr Briggs, late of the ifle of Santa Cruz; together with fome other Papers, fupplementary to two Publications on Asthma, Confumption, Fever, and other difeafes. By Thamas Beddoes, M. D. 8vo. Is. Johnson.

The Alteration of the Conftitution of the House of Commons, and the Inequality of the Land-tax, confidered conjointly. By J. Brand Cl. M. A. 8vo. 3s. boards. Evans, 1793.Mr B. is not only an excellent calculator, and a powerful reafoner, but extremely well verfed in the whole fyftem of finance; he is also an able writer, and the most formidable copponent that has yet appeared to the measure of parliamentary reform.

Democratic Rage, or Louis the unfortunate a tragedy. By William Prefton, Efq; 8vo. Is. 6d. Miller, 1793.

The Siege of Berwick, a tragedy. By Mr Jerningham. As performed. at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Svo. Is. 6d. Robfun.

Original Correfpondence between Generals Dumourier, Miranda, Pache, and Bournonville, minifter of war, fince January 1793. Including the orders of Gen. Dumourier to Gen. Miranda, from the invafion of Holland to the overthrow of the French after the battle

of Nerwidden. Tranflated from the French, published by Gen. Miranda. 8vo. 38. Owen. Hints; or, a fhort recount of the principal movers of the French revolution 8vo. 1. Egerton.

EDINBURGH.

Cafes Decided in the Court of Seffion. Col. leted by R. Bell, W. S. Part fecond. 6s. 6d. Dickfon, Hill, and Watfon.

The Syftem of Conveyancing, compiled by the Juridical Society, vol. 3. This volume relates to Moveable Rights. Manners & Miller.

The fubftance of a Speech, made at a county meeting at Perth, 11th April 1794, on the fubject of promoting the internal defence of the country. 15. Balfour.

Inftitutes of Natural History; containing the heads of the Lectures in Natural History; delivered by Dr Walker in the University of Edinburgh. 2s. 6d. Creech.

The Debate in Parliament on embodying the French emigrants; containing the speeches of Mr Fox, Mr Dundas, Mr Burke, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at full length. 6d. Creech.

Sermons by the late Rev. John Logan, F. R. S. 2 vols. 3d edition. 14s. bound. Bell Bradfute.

The statistical Account of Scotland, drawn up from the communications of the Minifters of the different parishes. By Sir John Sinclair, Bart. vols. 11, 12, and 13. Creech.

A Letter, addreffed to the Clergy of the Church of Scotland, on Domestic Innoculation. By William Brown, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. 6d. Hill.

The Pfalms of David Methodized; being an attempt to bring together (without the least alteration) thofe paffages in them which relate to the fame fubjects, for the use of churches and families. By Robert Walker, F. R. S. E. Senior Minifter of Canongate, and Chaplain to the Chamber of Commerce, Edinburgh.

The Confequences of Sin, Correctives of Sin: A Sermon, preached at Crawford, on the 27th of February 1794. By the Rev. Mr James M'Conochie, minister of that parish. Is. Dickfon.

The Importance of Religion to National Profperity: A Sermon, preached at the Opening of the General Affembly, on Thursday, May 15. By Thomas Hardy, D. D. 1s. Dickfon.

Theory of Intereft, fimple and compound, derived from first principles, and applied to Annuities of all defcription. By the Rev. Mr David Wilkie, Minifter at Cults. gs. bound. Hill.

A Collection of Scots, Galwegian, and Bor. der Tunes, for the Violin and Piano Forte, with a Bafs for the Violincello or Harpsichord. Selected by Robert Riddell of Glenriddle, Efq; Jobnfon and Co. Mufic Sellers.

POETRY.

POETRY.

THE PRIEST AND THE PHYSICIAN.
DEAR Doctor to my words attend;
You know I am your hearty friend,
On Wednesday next*, to spare digreffion,
I fhall preach down your whole profeffion :
My text, "Indulge not," my intent
To teach good Chriftians to keep Lent;
Their dainty ftomachs to restrain,
Their eager appetites to rein,
That it may be their with and care,
To live in penitence and pray'r.

For you must know, when paunch is full,
To think or pray, one's mighty dull;
And when head's charged with low defires,
It feldom catches heavenly fires;
For this good end, I've largely mused,
And many pithy reasons used;
All which are, If you'd do and be well,
Eat little meat, drink water-gruel.
Hail Abftinence! all healing power!
Physician general to the poor.
Hence juices pure, and rofy cheek.
Hence active limbs, and body fleek,
Muscles firm, and fpirits light,
Peace by day, found fleep by night,
The foft foot, the dex'trous hand,
Arts that rule both fea and land;
Science to our wondring eyes,
Deep Nature's fecret fpring fupplies,
Hence men afcend, when planets roll,
Baloon'd in air, from pole to pole.
In spite of paffions, winds, and tides,
Hence Reafon fixt' at another rides,
Hence Virtues' train a numerous brood,
Hence all that's pleasant, fair and good.

The Doctor fiil'd, each went his way,
I to exhort, to fast, and pray;
He to excite low carnal finners,
To good roaft-beef, and port-wine dinners.
BY MRS DELANY UPON LOSING HER

SIGHT.

THE time is come, I can no more
The vegetable world explore;

No more with rapture cull each flower
That paints the mead, or twines the bower;
No more with admiration fee

Its beauteous form and fymmetry;
No more attempt, with hope elate,
Its lovely hues to imitate.

Farewell to all thofe friendly powers
That bleft my folitary hours;
Alas, Farewell! but fhall I mourn
As one who is of hope forlorn?

Ah! No; my mind with rapture feels,
The promise which thy word reveals.
Come, Holy Spirit! on thy wing
Thy facred confolations bring;
Teach me to contemplate that grace
Which hath fo long fuftained my race;
* Afh-Wednesday.

Vol. LVI.

Which various bleffings ftill beftows,
And pours in balm to all my woes.
O! fantify the pointed dart,
That at this moment rends my heart;
Teach me, fubmiffive, to refign,
When fummon'd by thy will divine.
St James' palace, 1782.

ON THE DEATH OF Mr AIKMAN,
THE PAINTER.

BY MR THOMSON.

O! COULD I draw, my friend, thy genuine
mind,

Juft, as the living forms by thee defign'd!
Of Raphael's figures none fhould fairer fhine,
Nor Titian's colours longer last than mine.
A mind in wisdom old, in lenience young,
From fervent truth where every virtue fprung;
Where all was real, modeft, plain, sincere;
Worth above fhow, and goodness unfevere.
View'd round and round, as lucid diamonds
show,

Still as you turn them, a revolving glow :
So did his mind reflect with fecret ray,
In various virtues, Heaven's eternal day.
Whether in high difcourfe it foar'd fublime,
And fprung impatient o'er the bounds of time;
Or wand'ring Nature e'er with raptured eye,
Ador'd the hand that turn'd yon azure sky:
Whether to focial life he bent his thought,
And the right poife that mingling paffions
fought,

Gay converse bleft, or in the thoughtful grove,
Bid the heart open every fource of love:
In varying lights ftill fet before our eyes,
The juft, the good, the focial, or the wife.
For fuch a death who can, who would refufe,
The Friend a tear, a verse the mournful Mate?
Yet we must pay acknowledgment to Heav'n,
Though fnatch'd fo foon, that AIRMAN e'er
was giv❜n.

Grateful from Nature's banquet let us rife,
Nor meanly leave it with reluctant eyes;
A friend, when dead, is but remov'd from
fight,

Sunk in the luftre of eternal light;
And when the parting ftorms of life are o'er,
May yet rejoin us on a happier shore.

"As thofe we love decay, we die in part; "String after ftring is fever'd from the heart, "Till loofen'd life at laft-but breathing clay, "Without one pang, is glad to fly away.

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Unhappy he who latest feels the blow; "Whofe eyes have wept o'er every friend laid low;

"Dragg'd ling'ring on from partial death to death,

"And, dying, all he can refign is breath."

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COLIN.

More pleas'd with the dangerless hour,
I plant in my garden the rofe;
Or mufe in my jeffamine bow'r,

Where nigh the sweet eglantine blows:
And pleas'd with the blackbird and thruth,
I walk the green meadows along;
Or under the bloom-cover'd bush
I fit and attend to their fong.
STREPHON.

In the fport of the turf I delight,

The fwift running steeds of the race; When holiday ganibols invite,

I ev'ry gay moment embrace; When mirthful at eye on the mead, We lead the gay paftime along, Through the rounds of its rapture I speed; The frolic, the dance, and the song.

COLIN

More usefully spending the day.

My flocks I'll attend on the down;
Where, fled from all follies away,
The moments are fwectly my own.
I pleasures, approv'd by the wife,
In fcenes of tranquillity feek;
The nobleft enjoyments arise

From thoughts that are peaceful and meek.

STREPHON.

Through thickets with Chloris I walk;
I fondle with Phillis the fair;
Amynta can mirthfully talk,

How charming her shape and her air! I, chief of the mufical fwains,

Could I wish to be fetter'd for life; Might cull from the nymphs of our plains The fairest of all for my wife.

COLIN.

My Delia for modesty fam'd,

For a foul that can folly defpife;
My beautiful Delia that's nam'd

By none but the good and the wife:
I lov'd her with passion unfeign'd,
For mental endowments alone;
The wifh of my foul is obtain'd,
For wedlock has made her my own,

The prize was a pipe of renown,
It came from a region remote ;
It's warblings at eve on the down
Out-rival'd the nightingale's note:
Whilft loud approbations declar'd

The wifh of th' unanimous throng;
This pipe was proclaimed the reward
Of COLIN's unparallell'd fong.

Williams' Poems, lately publifoed.

MONTHLY

FRANCE.

MONTHLY REGISTER.

NATIONAL CONVENTION. March 20 & 21. The Affembly received feveral deputations from the departments, congratulating them on the difcovery of the confpiracy against liberty, and exhorting the Convention to remain at their pofts.

22. A large body of the armed force of Paris filed through the hall; the commandant, Henriot, fpoke as follows: "Citizens, reprefentatives, You fee before you a part of the armed forced of Paris; it will never separate from the people; never from the Convention; nor will it ever ferve any faction. The fteel with which it is armed fhall be employed to defend the republican government, of which the Convention is the foul and the centre. (Loud Applauses.) Continue to labour for our good; punish crimes, tyrants who are the enemies of the people; and ftretch your hands towards perfecuted patriots. Our love and our gratitude fhall be as eternal as liberty, equality, and the public." (Honourable mention.)

23. Richard, a national representative, ftated, that he was just arrived from the Northern army, which had received the news of the confpiracy with the profoundeft indignation. The foldiery had heard, with horror, that the men whom they had deemed patriots, had attempted to fnatch from them the fruit of their labours and their blood-Liberty. In the army itself the plot had fome ramifications, and feveral individuals who had kept up a correfpondence with the principal confpirators, had been put under arreft. "Our brave defenders (continued Richard) pant to meet the enemy; and we, in perfon, fhall foon lead them into the field. Our advanced posts have lived at their expence for these five weeks paft. From one end of the line to the other, an ardent courage, which will furmount every difficulty, is difplayed; and in a little time the army of the North will obtain triumphs equal to thofe of the army of the Rhine." (Great applaufe.)

Du Barron, in the name of the committee of general safety, obtained a decree by which two officers belonging to the army of the North, who had been put under arreft, were released; fix were or dered to be tried by the revolutionary tribunal, and feveral others, charged with having joined the confpiracy, were ordered to be ftill kept under arreft.

24. The Affembly, by letters from the representatives at Chamberry and Thouloufe, were informed of the progress of the principles of the revolution in these parts; that fanaticifm had received a total overthrow.

On the propofition of Barrere, it was decreed, that henceforward no wife of an emigrant, whether divorced or not, fhall either marry a foreigner, quit the territory of the republic, or difpofe of her effects, under penalty of being herself confidered as an emigrant. The motive of this law is, that the wives of feveral emigrants have contracted fham marriages, with Swiss, Genevefe, and others, and then, on pretext of repairing to their new hufbands, have fet off to the old ones with their property.

25. Citizen Le Blanc presented a work calculated to correct end fimplify the art of navigation, and Sans-Culotife the aftronomical science.

26. Many felicitations, fimilar to the preceding, were prefented on the difcovery of the late confpiracy. On the 21ft ult. the confpirators were brought before the revolutionary tribunal for trial; the act of accufation was lodged, charging them with caufing a famine in Paris, with the defign of maffacring the reprefentatives of the people, combining with the foreign powers to overturn the government, and introduce the ancient defpotifm. One only, Laborreau, was acquitted. As foon as he was liberated, the prefident of the tribunal embraced him, and placed him at his fide, while the hall refounded with applaufes. When the fentences were pronounced, Anarcharfis Clootes was the only one who addreffed the auditors. He appealed to the human race, whose constant orator he had been. Ronfin made an attempt to speak, but was carried off with the reft. Madame Queineau declared herfelf pregnant.

The confpirators, when carried back to the Conciergerie, demanded a gallon of wine to be divided among them, and fome foup. About nine yesterday morning they were conveyed in three carts to the place of execution. Never did a spectacle attract such a crowd; fuch an infinite number of spectators. During the whole way along, hands were clapped, and hats toffed in the air, amidst the cry of "Live the Republic." Infenfible to the indignation manifcfted against them, they passed along, and when at the foot of the fcafNn 2

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26. Various communes expressed their indignation at the late confpiracy, and their attachment to the Convention.

27. The Convention were informed, that the fate of the effects of emigrants had produced a grofs total of 192,402,396 livres, exceeding the estimated produce above 98 millions.

Barrere," It has been found that the revolutionary army is a dangerous inftitution, on account of its being more immediately within the power of the general of it. It refembles the army of Cromwell or the ufurped power of a fenate. You want neither Pretorian bands nor Janiffaries. The committee of public fafety therefore propofes to you to decree," That the revolutionary army fhall be difbanded, and that the foldiers who compofe it thall return to their former occupations, furrendering first to the republic their arms and equipage." Decreed.

30. Barrere announced, that the committec of public fafety were bufy in purifying the conftituted authorities. He adverted next to the actual state of Paris, which never contained, he said, fo many mifcreants and traitors as at prefent. All the villains of Europe had made it their rendezvous; but they were every where watched never did that city fhow themfelves more friendy to the national reprefentatives, or more inimical to traitors. The committee is employed in an extenfive plan of regeneration; the refult of which will be, to banish immorality and prejudices, fuperftition and atheism, and to found the republic on good principles and morals.

31. Legendre mentioned the arreft of four deputies. The celebrated Danton is one of them, faid he; if they are guilty, I will be the first to call for their punishment; but you ought to hear them. I am pure, and and I believe Danton to be as pure as myfelf. He was here interrupted by noife and tumult. The prefident called to order. He then proceeded and concluded with moving. That the deputies fhould be heard at the bar. This motion was oppofed by Fayau, Robespierre, and others, who faid, there ought to be no exception to the general laws. "Could not all, faid Robespierre, that had been faid

of Danton, be faid of Briffot, Hebert, and Chabot? They were, at a certain period, the defenders of liberty. Why then should Danton be allowed a privilege which was denied to his companion Fabre d'Eglantine? Attempts are made to alarm you on the abufe of power. What have you done which you have not done freely, which has not contributed to the falvation of your country, which has not drawn down upon you the bleffings of the people? It is feared that individuals may be facrificed. Do you then distrust that juftice which conftitutes the people's hope? I declare, that whofoever trembles at this crifis is guilty. Me too they have tried tointimidate. The friends of Danton have written, that if Danton be overthrown, I must perifh under the ftroke of the ariftocrates. They have imagined that connections might induce me to divert the courfe of juftice. What fignified to me dangers that may threaten? My life is my country's, my heart is free from reproach, and above all fear. I was alfo the friend of Petion, of Rolland, of Briffot; they betrayed their country, and I declared against them. Danton wishes to take their place. Danton, in my eyes, is only the enemy of his country." I move the previous question, on Legendre's motion. This was put and carried.

St Juft, in the name of the committees of public and general fafety, reported on all the confpiracies which, in fucceffion, had threatened and agitated the republic, whofe object was to reftore royalty and defpotifm. The revolution, said he, depends upon the people, not on the renown of particular men. In the facred love of our country, there is fomething terrible which facrifices even our affections. Your committes have charged me to demand juftice on men who were the accomplices of Orleans, Briffot, and Hebert, and whofe object it was to confound the republican government. He entered into a detail of the feveral factions that have followed in fucceffion for five years. He concluded with propofing the following decree: "The Convention decrees accufation against Camille-Defmoulins Herault d'Schelles, Danton, Phillipeaux, and Lacroix of Eure and Loire, charged with having been accomplices of Dumourier, d'Orleans, and Fabre d'Eglantine, and with having been concerned in the confpiracy for re-establishing monarchy, and diffolving the national representation. They shall be tried along with Fabre d' Eglantine." It was unanimously adopted.

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