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Give me in Learning's ample field to ftray,)
It's facred tomes of treafur'd fenfe unfold,
With steady step to trace the devious way,
Where fleep the latent mines of claffic gold.

Or 'midft the folemn ftillness of the grove,
Where Philomela warbles wood-notes wild;
With me, O Contemplation, deign to rove,
The facred scene and hour inviting mufings mild.
There 'till gay Phoebus gilds another sky,
With thee I'll wafte the sweetly ferious hour,
From life's low fcenes and fatal follies fly,
And woo fage wisdom in her cavern'd bow'r.

These sounds whilst fancy's plastic pow'r exprell,
As thro' the folitary wilds I ftray'd;
Majestic, like a Roman matron dreft,
Imagination faw the heavenly maid.

Around a fudden gleam illum'd the place,
The path with eafy elegance the trod,
When thus foft-fmiling with angelic grace,
'Here Contemplation holds her fill abode.

Here oft my Milton in the midnight gloom,
Has caught the lofty fentiment refin'd,
Here oft fought Science in her cloyfter'd dome,
⚫ Hence fill'd the mighty volume of his mind.
• Here learnt above the duller fons of earth,
In all the dignity of thought to rife,

Here plann'd the work, that told creation's birth,
Hence gain'd his native palace in the skies.

But rais'd to join the aerial choir on high,
That chaunt harmonious at the Almighty's throne,
• Mov'd at the penfive world's complaintive figh,
I to direct them fent this fecond fon.'

When leading in her hand a reverend fage,
Her heavenly accents thus my ears addrest :-
Receive the inftructor of a darken'd age,
Religion's friend, and piety's high-priest.'
She ceas'd, and to my fancy's longing fight,
No more was given, the glorious form to fee,
She fled along the thick'ning fhades of night,

And left the world to Darkness, YOUNG, and Met

This vifionary fcene is finely imagined, and does equal honour to its Author, and to the truly reverend and juffly admired Bard whom he has introduced into it. De

Art. 16.

Art. 16. An Addrefs to one of the Greatest, Gallanteft, moft Loyal, and Humane Gentlemen in the World. By John Slack, A. M. Refidentiary at Briftol, and fome time Fellow of Broughton College, Oxford Road. 4to. Is. Hinxman.

Some maggotty fon of the Mufes has here perfonated the noted Bruifer, Slack, (the Vanquisher of the great Broughton) and reprefented him as lamenting the fuppreffion of the manly recreation of Bruifing; and addreffing a great man, it does not appear who, to intercede with his Majelty, to reftore the British Gymnafium. The Poetry is more than equal to the occafion.

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Scott.

Art. 17. Buffy and Satan, a Fragment. 4to.
Political humour and fatire, in the ftyle of the famous Caufidicade,
Triumvirade, &c. Pamphlets which made a great noife about fixteen
years ago.

Specimen of the present performance, from the clofe of the Dialogue.

"Dear Buffy, your fervant,my good Satan, adieu k
Remember our maxim,Fo da, and undo.....
Keep difcord aliye! and pray, fix up contention;
'Mong the deare of friends fow the feeds of diffenfion :
Keep the populace blinded with fhadows and forms;
Sink the Stocks, ralfe the Debt, and make daily alarms!
Puff, to roufe them, the trifles which Ferdinand does;
Plunge Minden's poor SCAPE-GOAT, ftill, deeper in woes-
Let the fpirit of Cain, univerfally, fpread!

And Darkness turn Sexton to bury the Dead!"

Art. 18. Lycidas, a Mafque. To which is added, Delia, a paStoral Elegy; and Verfes on the Death of the Marquis of Carmarthen. 448. Pote.

Lycidas muft be added to the number of unpoetical Poems produced by the Royal Nuptials. The Elegy has rather more merit than the Mafque; but the Verfes on the Marquis of Carmarthen's Death, are beneath Cenfure. Whoever is the Author, we suppose this may be his first publication; and if we fincerely wish it may also be his latt, it proceeds from no unfriendly meaning towards him, as we conceive it impoffible for him to mifemploy his time in any way, more than in attempting the province of Poetry.

MISCELLANEOUS,

Art. 19. Letters between Emilia and Harriet. 8vo. 35.

Dodsley.

The method of cloathing Novels, or Tales, in the form of Letters, hath been practifed with remarkable fuccefs by Richardson, and lately by Rouffeau, in his Eloifa. Other Writers of inferior fame

have also ftruck into the fame path, and have not totally miffed their way to the public favour. The little volume now before us, is a new attempt of the fame kind; and if it is not equal to the productions of the great masters above mentioned, neither is it to be ranked among the meanest of their imitators. It is, in fhort, what may be termed, a decent performance; fuch as an Author need not be extremely vain of, nor yet altogether afhamed to acknowlege.

Emilia is a young lady of great prudence and regularity of conduct, an enemy to the fopperies and diffipating pleafures of the town, and extremely fond of a country life. Harriet, her friend, is of a gayer turn, a more fprightly difpofition, and hates the country. Notwithstanding this contrariety of character, these two young ladies have a moft cordial efteem for each other, which is manifefted by the fincerity and openness with which they mutually exprefs their fentiments, in the course of their correspondence. Emilia has a lover, a modeft, fenfible young man, Mr. Sidney, whom the efteem's for his virtues. Harriet is captivated with the glare, the gallantry, and the title of Sir George Townly, a town-debauchee, whofe addreffes the prefers to thofe of Mr. Lovewell, a man of real worth and good character. The different characters, and pretenfions of their lovers, with the oppofite fchemes of life formed by these two ladies, furnish the main bufinefs of their letters, each striving to make a convert of the other. The country lady at length prevails, the baronet turns out a fad fcoundrel, and Mrs. Lovewell and Mrs. Sidney are as happy as matrimony can make them, with youth, beauty, virtue, and fortune in her train. As to the ftyle of thefe Letters, though neither laboured nor lofty, it is above the vulgar frain, eafy and natural; and uniformly confiftent with the oppofite characters of the Writers,

Art. 20. A circunftantial Account relating to that unfortunate young Woman, Mrs Anne Bell, alias Sharpe, containing the Particulars of a most ridiculous Affair that has happened fince the Trial of Mr. Sutton, which never yet tranfpired. Together with the remarkable Behaviour of Mr. William Bell, the Father of the Deceafed. By Mr. Thomas Holland, 8vo. I s. Withy.

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Mr. Holland, formerly an Adjutant in the Norfolk Militia, com plains of the hard treatment he has met with, on account of his endeavours to bring to jullice the fuppofed Murderer of the young Woman above mentioned. It feems this gentleman made himself enemies by his activity in that famous profecution; in confequence of which he has been traduced in his character, deprived of his commiffion, and otherwise injured in his circumstances. According to this account also, Mr. B-, the young woman's father, has behaved fhamefully, in regard to public juftice, in the profecution of Mr. S as well as very ungratefully to Mr. Holland in particular. Art. 21. The General Gazetteer: Or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary. Containing, a Defcription of all the Empires, Kingdoms,

Kingdoms, States, Cities, Towns, Forts, Caftles, Citadels, Seas, Harbours, Bays, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Capes, and Promontories in the known World; together with the Government, Policy, Cuftoms, Manners, and Religion of the Inhabitants; the Extent, Bounds, and natural Productions of each Country; and the Trade, Manufactures, and Curiofities of the Cities and Towns; their Longitude, Latitude, Bearing, and Distances in English Miles from remarkable Places; as alfo the Sieges they have undergone, and the Battles that have been fought near them · down to this prefent Year. Including an authentic Account of all the Counties, Cities, Market Towns, and Villages, in England and Wales; with the Fairs, according to the New Style; as well as the Cattle, Goods, and Merchandize, that are fold thereat. By R. Brookes, M. D. 8vo. 6s. Newbery.

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Dr. Brookes, in his Preface, acquaints us, that he had for fome years past made Geography his particular study, and that the imperfections of the Gazetteers in being, gave rife to this Compilation. He alleges that their deficiencies, efpecially regarding many places in our own country, are here more fully fupplied; which is probably true, as the book certainly exceeds former Gazetteers in quantity, and is better fupplied with maps: a circumftance of no inconfiderable aid to those brief defcriptions, to which all Compilations of this kind... are neceffarily confined.

Art. 22. Military Inftructions, written by the King of Prussia, for the Generals of his Army: Being his Majefty's own Commentaries on his former Campaigns. Together with foort InStructions for the Ufe of his Light Troops*. Illuftrated with Copper Plates. Tranflated by an Officer. 8vo. 4s. in Boards. Becket and Dehondt.

In our Review for last month we gave an account of the original of this work, as a Foreign Article; it is, therefore, unnecessary for us to enlarge on this publication of it in English. It is fufficient if we inform our Readers, that the Tranflation appears to be accurate, and that it is accompanied with all the plates, as in the original.

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On this head, the Military Reader may confult M. Jeney's Partizan, of which a Translation was published some time ago, See Review, Vol. XXII. p. 70.

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Art. 23. Reflections on Coin in general; on the Coins of Gold and Silver of Great-Britain in particular; on thofe Metals as Merchandizes and alfo on Paper paffing as Money. 4to. 6d. Waugh.

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Art. 24.

Art. 24. The Mystery Revealed. Containing a Series of Transactions and authentic Teftimonials, respecting the supposed Cocklane Ghoft, which have hitherto been concealed from the Public 8vo. I S. Briftow."

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Not a Revelation of the Mystery, if by Myflery the Author means the art of Knocking and Scratching, as practifed at the Schoolmafter's in Cock-lane; but a mere Defence of Mr. K-, who was fo ftrangely accufed of Murder, by thofe wife acres who took upon them to converse with the fuppofed Ghoft. Mr. Kfeems to be here fully cleared from this wicked and fcandalous imputation; but by what means can the characters of thofe ever be restored, who fo vilely contributed to caft fuch an imputation upon him? Among thefe, we are forry to hear, were fome Gentlemen, Clergy of the Church of England, who, by their attendance upon the fuppofed apparition, their hefitations, doubts, and interrogations, have kept this wretched impoftor in countenance, till the very mob cried out, Shame on them!-We are equally forry that our plan obliges us to mention fo ridiculous and fhameful a tranfaction, because the fooner it is configned to oblivion the better,-for the honour of the religion we profess, and for the credit of the age we live in !-unless it be found expedient to have it duly recorded in a Court of Justice.

Art. 25. Remarks on the History of Fingal, and other Poems of
Offian. Tranflated by Mr. Macpherfon. In a Letter to the
Right Honourable the Lord L
By Ferdinando
Warner, L. L. D. 8vo. 6d. Payne and Cropley.i

Dr. Warner, who is writing a General Hiftory of Ireland, from the earliest times, is of opinion, that the celebrated Poem, entitled Fingal, is originally an Irish production; and the heroes of it alo natives of that country, and not Caledonians, or North Britains, as Mr. Macpherson, the Tranflator of Fingal, fuppoles. He accufes Mr. M. of feveral mistakes and mifreprefentations, with regard to both the Irish History and Nation; fo that we shall probably have a national conteft for the honour of having produced the performances of old Offian, the Homer of the North.

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Art. 26. The School for Lovers, a Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-lane. By William Whitehead, Efq; Poet Laureat.. 8vo. Is. 6d. DodЛley.

We are not to confider this Comedy as an exertion of the whole force of Mr. Whitehead's genius. It is formed on a plan of M. de Fontenelle's; and, like moft of the French productions of this kind,

It is fomewhat remarkable, that the Comedyof the French, though they are the lighteft and gayeft people in the world, is of a graver and more folemn caft, than that of the English. The levity of our Comic Pieces would not be endured on their fage. Their Comedies, in general, are certainly the moft chafte and regular performances; but thofe of the English are undoubtedly more diverting, though lefs delicate and, we are afraid, lefs moral: an imputation, however, from which the prefent production is entirely free.

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