than they are generally fuppofed. He thinks a Land War in Portugal must be as fatal to British forces, as the War in Germany hath proved; and he apprehends that it may coft us 100,000 men in five year's time. Our Readers will be the lefs furprized at this Pamphleteer's ability to afcertain the number fo long before hand, when they are informed that he is a fecond-fighted Scotsman. Art. 2. The Caufes of the War between Great-Britain and Spain, as they appear from the Papers that paffed between both Courts, impartially confidered. 4to. Is. Griffiths. This is a fober performance, penned with good fenfe and decency; but neither is the matter new, nor is the manner fufficiently fiking, to engage attention on a beaten fubject. R-d Art. 3. The Conftitutional Querift. Containing the Sentiments of an impartial Englishman on the prefent Rupture with Spain; its political State, internal Weakness, and beft Method of attacking her. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Nicoll. As our Readers may be fomewhat put to it, as the phrafe is, to make out the fenfe of this Author's Title page, it may not be unneceffary to inform them, that, from a perufal of the Pamphlet itself, we have difcovered the meaning. By the words prefent Rupture with Spain, its political State, &c. we are not to understand the political State of the Rupture, but of the Kingdom. This is, indeed, partly afcertained by his " beft method of attacking ber;" by which he obviously intends the Spanish nation: for nations are always fpoken of in the feminine, but who ever heard of the Sex of a Rupture? 'Having fettled the meaning of the Title-page, it remains that we mention a word or two concerning the reft of the work; but, after the fpecimen we have given of the Author's manner of writing, little more need be faid about him, or his performance. In brief, then, the man talks like a good, honeft fort of a body, and what he says may país very current among our Coffee-houfe Politicians; Mr. What d'ye call him, at the Somerfet, will certainly deem him an Oracle,he talks fo much in Mr. What d'ze call him's own way. Art. 4. A full Exposition of a Pamphlet, entitled, Obfervations on the Papers relative to the Rupture with Spain*. In which the Charge, in refpect to a criminal Concealment of thofe Papers, is refuted; the Unreasonableness of fuch a Rupture, at the Time of Mr. Pitt's Refignation, is demonftrated; and the pretended Procrafination of that Meafure, vindicated. In an Answer from the Country-Gentleman to the Member of Parliament's Letter. 8vo. Is. Williams, Fleetstreet. The Country-Gentleman feems to be a match for the Town-Politician. His remarks on the above mentioned topics are fpirited, and, we think, much to the purpose. * See Review for March, p. 230. Art. 5. A Treatise upon perennial Ways and Means, with other political Tracts. Infcribed to the King. By. T. Brecknock. 4to. 38. Becket. When we saw the Advertisement of this Treatise, under the title of Brecknock's Ways and Means, we could not but admire the generofity and public fpirit of a private Subject, who kindly condefcended to relieve the Committee of Supplies from the weight of providing for the public neceflities. Whether he was a pupil and affistant of the induftrious 7. Mafie, or of the more induftrious 7. Henriques, we were, and ftill are, at a lofs to determine; but we do not hesitate to affirm, that the best of their works, or, in other words, the finest of their frenzies, are not fuperior to this production of Mr. Timothy, or Timoleon, Brecknock We advife him, however, to check the rapidity of his compofi tion; for the laws of the land, and the regulations of a certain affembly, are great enemies to the bold exertion of political genius: and there have been times, when the following paragraph might have been thought too full of spirit. "The Brewers (fays this incomparable Writer) have a bill of the moft dangerous tendency now depending in Parliament; the Com mons, without one fingle debate about it, or without once enquiring into the political rectitude, or turpitude of it, will probably have given their confent to it before the publication of these sheets. The Peers, moft likely, will throw it out of their house; but ex majori Cautela, I thought it, Sir, my duty thus humbly to advertise your Majefty of it, that by fo timely an intelligence your Majesty might, by virtue of your Royal Prerogative, ADVISE UPON IT." It is certainly very kind in Mr. Brecknock to give his Majesty fuch timely intelligence; and the Privy Council, as well as the whole Parliament, will undoubtedly be greatly obliged to him for doing their duty for them. As warm patriots, however, whofe attention is directly bent on grand and perennial projects, are apt to overlook collateral circumstances, we take this opportunity of reminding Mr. Brecknock, that there is an officer belonging to the House of Commons, called the Serjeant at Arms. As to Mr. Brecknock's Scheme, to epitomize it would be to do it injustice; more especially as we are perfuaded that a Reader of taste and difcernment, would as foon perufe the whole at large, as go through an abstract of fo extraordinary a performance. POETICA L. R-a Art. 6. Tales from Fontaine; the firft Satire, and first Epistle of Horace; and a Letter to a Friend on his repining at old Age. 12mo. 2s. 6d. fewed. Nourse. Fontaine, and our countryman, Prior, were inspired by the fame Mufe. Their Writings are diftinguished by the fame happy ease, and graceful negligence of expreffion. They both greatly excelled in Tale-telling Poetry, and the Tales of both are too licentious. By this fault they have defervedly robbed themselves of that praife which every fon of Phobus is fond of, the public approbation of the Fair. A modeft Lady cannot with any countenance mention the eafy Stories of Matt. Prior, or give any intimation that she is fond of the Tales of Fontaine. Some of thofe Tales are here unequally tranflated. The Tranf lator has now and then hit off a few tolerable lines, but his verses are in general very lame, flovenly, and inaccurate; and fuch rhymes has he tagged as never were tagged before:-such as, The first declares fhe is undone, Each Female pipes the felf-fame note. The Translations from Horace are like those from Fontaine; and the Letter to a Friend, on his repining at old Age, has no more poetical merit than the reft. บล 4to. Is: Art. 7. The Progrefs of Lying, a Satire. 4to. I s. Nicoll. A good fober fort of a fatire, against a very bad fort of vice; the meanest and most contemptible to which the weakness of human nature is liable. The ftyle of the Poetry resembles that of Daniel de Foe's fatirical pieces. Art. 8. Ierne's Mufe to the King. Folio. 6d. Dodfley. Art. 9. Poems. By Robert Lloyd. A. M. 4to. 10s. 6d. The principal Poems in this Collection were first published in distinct Pamphlets, and have been refpectively confidered in the Review; as the Actor; Shakespear, an Epiftle to Mr. Garrick; an Epistle to Mr. Churchill; fome Odes, &c. Several of the additional pieces are equal in merit to any thing before published by this ingenious Writer. As for those of inferior note, they are, as Corneille faid of Cardinal Richlieu, not good enough to be praised, and too good to be damned. However, all have done their part toward filling up a handfome Quarto Volume; and the numerous lift of fubfcribers, added to the many other lifts of the like kind, which we have feen, will ferve to fecure the prefent age from the reproach of being unfavourable to literature. La Art. 10. The Farmer's Return from London: An Interlude. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, 4to. Tonfon. I S. The Farmer humorously relates to his Wife and Children what rare things he zaw in London foin Zity; the Crownation, the Pleays, and the Ghost of Cock leane!-The piece is truly comic; but poffibly there is more wit in it than may be deemed fuitable to the cha: Rev. May, 1762. Cc rafters. 1 racters. Mr. Hogarth has embellished this little performance with a frontispiece. Art. 11. The Quack-Doctors, a Satire, in Hudibraftic Style. 4to. I s. Moran. The vileft Poem on the vileft Subject. La Art. 12. Elegia Scripta in Coemeterio ruftico Latine reddita. 4to. Is. Rivington. Prefixed to this tranflation of the ingenious Elegy written in a Country Church-yard, is an elegant complimentary Poem to the Author, Mr. Gray. The Tranflation, though in general inferior to the beautiful Original, is not without fome claffical merit; and, the following paffages excepted, is tolerably correct. Page 5. v. 3. in the following line, Eternum pofuere angufto in Carcere duri Villarum Patres. The Tranflator has ufed the word pfuere in a neutral fenfe, which is not common. Can ftoried Urn, or animated Buft, Back to its manfion call the fleeting breath? This Stanza is thus tranflated: Inferiptene valent Urnæ, Spirantiaque Era Gloria fi gelidas Fatorum mulceat Aures? Mr. Gray, by the word Death, meant the Dead; in which cafe, to lay the cold Ear of Death, was very proper and beautiful: but as the Tranflator has rendered the word Death by Fatorum, his gelidas Aures has not the fame propriety, neither do we think that in this line he has taken the fenfe of the Original. They kept the noifelefs tenor of their way is at beft an uncouth line in the Original; and in the Translation, Servabant placidum, Curfu fallente, Tenorem is equally quaint. For fuch of our Scholaftic Readers as are admirers of Anglo-Latin Poetry, we fhall quote the Tranflation of the Epitaph which makes a part of the Elegy, as a fpecimen of this performance. EPITAPHIUM. Nec Famæ, neque notus, hic quiefcit, Telluris Gremio Caput reponens. Non Curas humiles, Laremque parvum Juffit Melpomene fuum vocari. Huic largum fuit integrumque Pectus, MISCELLANEOUS. Art. 13. The Nice Lady: A Comedy. 1s. 6d. Lo Medley. The complaints of disappointed Genius merit the attention and redress of every friend to literature. Mr. G. S. Green, Author of the Comedy before us, has enrolled himself in this number. Excited, as he tells us in his Preface, by the glorious profpect of a thoufand Guineas, which Mr. Garrick had declared he would give for a good Comedy, he immediately went to work. "This, fays he, (the account of the thousand Guineas) being imparted to the Author hereof, about fix years ago, he was refolved to put in for the palm; and having written half the firft aft about ten years before that, in fix weeks time he compleated the Fabric as it now ftands, with Prologue and Epilogue to embellish both fronts. Thus finished, it was handed to Mr. Garrick for his liking; but a thousand Guineas being a weighty fum, and what most people would like much better than a MS. of one quire of paper, no favour was found, nor prize to be ob tained: He did not like it." Unmerciful David! how couldft thou reject the first-born of this poor uncircumcifed Philiftine! Repulfed by thee, he betook himself with his child, now fixteen years old, into the confines of * Oriel and Baliol, and faid unto all their fons, Here is my child, do unto her as it feemeth ye good. Now the children of Oriel and Baliol had knowlege of her; and having had her in keeping fome time, they, as ufual, difmiffed her, and raised a contribution to enable her to come apon the town. Thus the Nice Lady, once driven from Drury Lane, is come to try her fortune there again, and a more miferable drab never wandered in that dirty region. Art. 14. An Effay upon Oeconomy. The fecond Edition. By Edward Watkinson, M. D. Rector of Little Chart, in Kent. 12mo. 6d. Sheffield, printed by Ward. At a time when "A prevalence of Luxury, the love of falfe pleafure, and the pride of Life, tempts (I had almost said) all perfons to live above the rank which they hold in Society *,'- -this excel * The Author's words, p. 18. lent |