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fuggefts very little that is applicable to our particular cafe: it is dedicated to the noble heir of the Townfhend-family, very properly dignified by the Tranflator, with the title of Militia-Townf bend. He has also, in his preface, bestowed the title of Lord on Captain Hervey and to make amends for that excess of courtefey, he has gone out of his way to difcourfe of one Byng, as if he had no title at all.

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VII. A Letter to the University of Cambridge, on a late refignation. By a Gentleman of Oxford. 8vo. 6d. Cooper.

An ironical piece, calculated equally to expose and abuse that learned univerfity, and the noble perfon at the head of it. Tho' published under an Oxford mafk, it very probably belongs to fome Cambridge-bronze, which needed none at all: the little water-gilding affectation of wit and pleafantry it is lacquered over with, is chiefly topical; and if intelligible at Cambridge, will afford little entertainment any where else.

VIII. A Letter from a Bavarian Officer, in the fervice of the Emprefs-Queen, &c. to his Friend in London: containing a view of the state of the empire; together with some reflections on the prefent political turn of affairs in Germany, and the part the English are likely to act on this important occafion. Tranflated from the original German, now in 'the hands of a Gentleman in London. By Mr. P. M. M. 8vo. I s. Morgan.

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Here we have another publication under falfe colours; for tho' it must be admitted, that the Author is really an adventurer in the fervice of the Emprefs-Queen, he is no more a Bavarian than a Japanese. All his knowlege is British-all his images are Britifh; and every phrafe he makes ufe of, is British, British, Britifh.The ground of his whole performance is a fuppofition, That we Britons were all of us out of our wits with joy, at his Pruffian Majetty's Gazette-victory over the Auftrians; and that thefe intemperate tranfports of ours were owing either to our love of juftice, in the belief that his Pruffian Majefty had undertaken a juft war; or a felf-concern for our own welfare, in a like belief, that our interefts were linked and interwoven with his. And his endeavours are to fhew, that policy has nothing to do with juftice, and of all political measures, the Pruffian march into Saxony the leaft that his Pruffian Majefty's interefts, and thofe of Britain, had not the leaft connection; and though we might be ferviceable to him in the shape of fubfidies, he could make us no returns, either by land or fea ;-that even the very électorate of Hanover, for whofe fake the fo much boasted treaty of Whitehall was made, was likely to incur all the difficulties and dangers by it, which it was calculated to obviate: And that theEmprefsQueen deferves none of the blame we daily throw upon her, for entering into a concert with the French court; fince the was for

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ced into it, for the fake of her own fecurity, by the faid treaty of Whitehall.

IX. A View of the Manner in which Trade and Civil Liberty fupport each other. Being one of the two differtations on that fubject, which obtained the prizes at Cambridge in 1755, then firft inftituted by the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Townshend; read before the Univerfity June 17, by William Hazeland, M. A. Schoolmafter at Tottenham-Highcrofs, in Middlefex. 4to. Is. Beecroft.

A very fenfible, fpirited, manly performance...

X. The Voice of the People; a collection of Addresses to his Majefty, and Instructions to Members of Parliament, by their Conftituents, upon the unfuccefsful management of the prefent war, both by land and fea, and the establishment of a national Militia, &c. &c. 8vo. Is. Payne.

To this Collection, the Editor has prefixed a well-written preface, in defence of the addreffes, and (with the ingenious Author of the Confiderations) to prove them conftitutional, decent, and neceffary.

See Review for November, p. 518.

XI. Bungiana; or, An Affemblage of What-d'ye-call-'ems, in profe and verfe, that have occafionally appeared, relative to the conduct of a certain naval Commander. Now firft collected, in order to perpetuate the memory of his wonderful at⚫chievements. 8vo. 6d. Doughty.

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XII: A Collection of feveral Pamphlets, very little known; Tome fuppreffed letters, and fundry detached pieces, published in the daily papers, & relative to the cafe of Admiral Byng. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Lacy. To ao

This is a collection of pieces in favour of Mr. Byng, and is published as a counterpoife to Bungiana; the preceding article. * XIII. Some Reafons for believing fundry letters and papers, afcribed, in three late publications, to Admiral Byng, not only fpurious, but also an infidious attempt to prejudice the Admiral's character. 8vo. rs Doughty

The above title apparently indicates an ironical performance. The pamphlet is by no means the most contemptible of those that have appeared against the Admiral.

- RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL.

XIV. The Fall of Man: An Enquiry into the nature of To that event, and how far the pofterity of Adam are involved

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in the guilt of his tranfgreffion. Addreffed to all, but particularly Preachers, who embrace the doctrine of original fin. By Anthony Fothergill, a Hufbandman in the county of Weftmoreland. 8yo. I s. Payne.

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Having had occafion, more than once, to give our fentiments of Mr. Fothergill, as an Author, we fhall at prefent content ourfelves with oblerving, that this piece, though it contains nothing new upon the fubject, is written in a clear and fenfible manner, and carries with it evident marks of found judgment.195) (9 vada bne so wer (5)ght XV. The Trial of Spirits; or, A Treatife upon the Nature, Office, and Operations of the Spirit of Truth By James Relly. 8vo. Is. Lewis yem 19 1⁄2 doimodT

This is a strange rhapfody, wherein is often difficult to perceive, what the Author means. The great point which he is folicitous to establish, feems to be this; that whatever the Spirit worketh for the falvation and comfort of mankind, is all wrought by his fhewing us the things of Chrift, and teftifying of him, that he may be glorified. Whatever operating power and influence (upon our hearts)' fays he, tends to lead us to Jefus for righteoufnefs and ftrength, to Jefus for wisdom and purity; to Jefus for eternal falvation and comfort, fhows us the glory of Jefus, and endears Jesus to the foul, yea, conftantly leads us out of ourfelves, to have all our hope and dependence on Jesus; this is the fpirit of truth, the Holy Ghoft, the Comforter." Lawollca u GAY JAS

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XVI. Elays on feveral Divine and Moral Subjects: particularly on the Chriftian temper and conduct fober-mindedednefs-the fear of God a future ftate-marriage-the middle ftate the imitation of Chrift-degrees in glory-religionthe fabbath-affliction-contentment a pacific difpofitionthe late earthquakes the advent and crucifixion-moderation, &c. By William Richardfon of Blencowe, Vicar of Dacre, in Cumberland. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Hodges, stess

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Though there is nothing particularly triking, or animated in thefe Effays, yet the fentiments are juft, the language is easy and perfpicuous, and a fpirit of candor, and benevolence breathes through the whole of them. The Author enters into, no nice or refined fpeculations, but following the dictates of plain common fenfe, has adapted his performance to the capacity of almoft every Reader.

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XVII. The Wisdom of the Supreme Being. A Poem. By George Bally, M. A. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. 4to. Is. B. Dod, &c.

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This is the fecond time that Mr. Bally has obtained Mr. Sea'ton's (a) reward; and we can fafely fay, that if his first attempt merited that diftin&tion, the present performance deferves it no lefs. In our account of that poem, we, in general, remarked, that Mr. Bally's only refemblance to Milton, confifted in his larding this verfes with fome peculiar words ufed by that great Bard, but which, as they were now obfolete, could neither add dignity nor xfpirit to poetical numbers. Tho' Mr. Bally feems to have been convinced of the propriety of that criticism, yet is he now guilty of greater tranfgreffion, in introducing unmufical (b) words, coining (e) new ones, and changing adjectives into fubftantives (d). There can be no apology for the ufe of words incapable of harmonious combination: and though Milton, Philips, Young, Thomson, and others, may be cited as authorities for the practice mentioned in the other parts of our charge, Mr. Bally ought to confider, that those who scarce rife to the middle of Parnaffus, are, by the eternal laws of Apollo, excluded from many licences wherein they who have reached the fummit, are indulged.

After his introductory Addrefs to the Supreme Being, Mr. Bally cenfures Reafon, and Philofophy, as the grand fources of Scepticism and Infidelity; and yet, can any propofition be more evident, than that reason, and philofophy are the only media, by which man can demonftrate the wifdom of the great Architect of Nature; whether we consider that attribute a priori; or, a pofteriori, from the works of creation? This, we humbly conceive, is a little flip at the very threshold of the work.

The Mufes, it is allowed, are exempted from a fcientifical precifion Yet, when a Master of Arts, and Fellow of a College, writes on a learned fubject, the world has a right to look for marks of erudition, if not of genius. But much we fear, that Mr. Bally is not a little deficient in this respect; especially in what he has faid of the human anatomy. We shall pass over his account of the eye and ear, the structure of which he had done better to have copied from any modern anatomist than from Cicero, (e) with this obfervation, that though none of the other fenfes afford fuch a fund of poetical images, yet is his defcription of them both unpoetical and barren. Nor is he culpable only for his omiffions; the epithet which he beflows on the finews (f) his fpiral knots of veins, not to mention his ftringing the fabrick with nerves, betray his ignorance of anatomy. Would not one conclude from the following

(a) Review, vol. XII. page 159.

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(a) The Fair Archetypal,' &c. p. 17.

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Mr. Bally's refutation of the Epicurean fyftem, is less exceptionable; but had this gentleman looked into Cardinal Polignac's Anti-Lucretius, or had he even condescended to perufe Sir Richard Blackmore's Poem on the Creation; and availed himself ever fo moderately of his reading, perhaps, neither his reasoning or numbers, might have been the worfe for it.lDepresoni

But though our Bard, in what he has advanced against Epicurus, is intelligible enough, yet in the first lines of his refutation of Ariftotle, he feems, to have taken the contrary biafss at least we, who, alass! are not OEdipufes, are unable to unriddle them. apebits h

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