Nizza, where Signor Pietro Lanteri, the author of this hiftory, had a great number of patients to attend. He gives a very minute and valuable account of its various degrees, fymptoms, and effects, and the remedies applied. Many of the patients owed the prefervation of their lives to a timely application of blisters.

Della Pena di Morte. 8vo. Milano.

The author Doctor Paolo Vergani's fentiments and drift appear from his motto: Quæ nunc a quibufdam benignitas nominatur, vitam omnem remifit ad improbitatem.' He juftifies capital punish ments even for theft and robbery, and even the fevere modes of punishments. He founds his opinion on the ftronger impreffion made by these punishments, and on the abfolute neceffity of this impreffion for preventing crimes as much as poffible; and then anfwers the objections made to this argument, from reafon and expe rience. He remarks, however, that a too frequent application of capital punishments cannot but prove very pernicious in its confequences.

Differtations fur le Droit public des Colonies Françoifes, Espagnoles, et Angloifes, d'après les Loix des trois Nations, comparées entr'elles. Dans la prémiére de ces Differtations on traite entre autres Objets de l'Origine et des Caufes de la Guerre entre l'Angleterre et fes Colonies, el de l'Etat Civil & Religieux des Canadiens Catholiques. 8vo. Paris. This first volume of a work which will probably become volu minous, contains a general account of the legiflation of the Englith, Spanish, and French colonies, and of the rife of the prefent difputes between England and America.

Anecdotes de l'Empire Romain, depuis fa Fondation jusqu'à la Destruction de la Republique. 8vo. Paris.

Almost all ancient and modern ecclefiaftical and profane hiftory, has of late years in France been turned into flight fummer reading, or anecdotes: the prefent volume is by no means the worst of these compilations.

Commentarius in quo medicata Quafiæ Vires expenduntur Auct. D. Sebaft. Severi. 4to. Pavia.

After a fhort hiftory of quaffia-wood, Dr. Severi relates, in his first and longeft fection, fixteen cafes in which quaffia was given in almost every species of intermittent fevers, generally with good, though not complete, fuccefs. He then proceeds to examine the an tifceptic virtues of quaffia, and to compare them with thofe of the bark; and concludes with examining its conftituent parts by a great number and variety of valuable experiments.

De Camphora. Pavia.

By the fame Dr. Severi. He afferts the heating quality of camphire, which, when given in too large dofes, proves very dangerous; but may be corrected by gum or sperma ceti.

M. Warnekros de Palæftinæ Fertilitate præcipuifque illius dotibus cum Egypto comparatis. Greifswald.

A learned treatife on the uncommon fertility of Palestine, which is here evinced by the evidence of Tacitus, Pliny, Arifteas, Jofephus, Abulfeda; of Thomson, Shaw, Belon, and other travellers. Q. Horatii Carmina cum Annotat. Gallicis Lud. Poinfinet de Sivri. Tom. I. et II. 8vo. Paris.

The main drift of M. de Sivri in his notes, feems to be to vindicate Horace's character from the imputation of licentiousness and

extravagance, by fhowing that the obnoxious paffages in his poems were mere tranflations, or imitations from ancient Greek poets: a paradox which has betrayed his commentator into many forced, illfounded, and awkward fuppofitions.

Eloge de Guy du Faur de Pibrac, Difcours qui a remporté le prix à Academie des Jeux Floraux de Toulouse en 1778. Par M. l'Abbé Calvet. Paris.

Pibrac was, if none of the greatest and most shining characters, yet a very worthy man and magiftrate, and a friend of the famous chancellor l'Hôpital. His quatrains, or ftanzas, contain a great deal of good fenfe and naïvete, in homely rhymes; for inftance, that on calumny, often repeated by the great Condé : • Quand une fois ce monftre nous attache, Il fait i bien fes cordillons nouer,

Que, bien qu'on puiffe enfin les denouer,
Reftent toujours les marques de l'attache.'

And the following fpecimen of his and his age's manly sentiments

and freedom:

Je hais ces mots de puiffance abfolue,
De plein pouvoir, de propre mouvement,
Aux faints décrets ils ont prémierement,
Puis à nos loix la puiffance tolluc.'

Mémoire fur les diverses Méthodes inventées jufqu'à préfent pour garantir les Edifices des incendies. Par M. l'Abbé Mann, &c.

Bruffels.

4to.

This Memoir was intended for the fecond volume of the Memoires of the new Imperial Academy of Sciences of Bruffels; but the importance of the fubject, and the regard to public advantage, determined that academy to publish it immediately and feparately. It contains a full and fatisfactory account chiefly of Mr. Hartley's and Lord Mahon's methods; both of which have met with juft and general approbation, and, we hope, will prove of fignal fervice to mankind.

MONTHLY CATALOGUE.
POLITICA L.

A Speech on fome Political Topics. 8vo. IS. Cadell.

THE

HE fubftance of this Speech was intended to have been delivered in the house of commons, on Monday the 14th of December, 1778, when the estimates of the army were agreed to in the committee of fupply. Though it was not delivered, we are glad to find that it has not been with-held from the public perufal; for it contains fo many juft and candid remarks, on the conduct of government on one hand, and that of oppofition on the other, as place both the author's difcernment and liberal motives in the moft confpicuous light. Whoever, therefore, would form a clear and unbiaffed opinion of public meafures, may find in this pamphlet a variety of interefting and important confiderations for that purpose. We may add, that the author's fentiments every where difcover an integrity, particularly meritorious and honourable in a member of the legiflature.-Nor can we omit to mention the notice he has

taken

taken of a paragraph in a certain daily paper, which he cites as an inftance of the extreme licentioufnefs of the times, and of the lenity of administration.

Letters on the American War. By David Hartley, Efq. Member of Parliament for the Town of Kingston upon Hull." 480. 35. Almon.

In thefe Letters Mr. Hartley prefents his conftituents with detail of the public tranfactions refpecting America, which he accompanies with many unfavourable remarks on the conduct of administration. As they are obviously written with the zeal, fo they frequently discover the prejudice of an opponent; but in many parts, the fubjects are fairly stated, and appear to be examined impartially.

A Propofal for Peace between Great Britain and North America; upon a New Plan. In a Letter to Lord North. By D. M. Knight. 8vo. 6d. Baldwin.

The general terms contained in this Propofal are, that the Americans be acknowleged a free and independent people; that a parliament be established in America, like that of Great Britain; and that the prince of Wales, or the heir apparent of the British crown, fhall be acknowleged fovereign of America; where, we prefume it is understood, he ought chiefly to refide. The Freeholder's Supplication to both Houfes of Parliament. 4to. 15. H. Payne.

The object of this Supplication is an addrefs from both houfes of parliament to our gracious fovereign, to remove the American fecretary from his poft.' A very modeft request, and ftrenuously urged by the Freeholder.

"Remarks on an Act of Parliament, paffed in the 15th Year of his Majefty's Reign, on the Credit of Vice Admiral Sir Hugh Pallifer's Information, intituled An A&t for the Encouragement of the Fisheries carried on from Great Britain, Ireland," &c. to Newfoundland, &c. By William Auguftus Miles. 4to. 25. H. Payne. The feveral inconveniences attending this act of parliament, and which even tend to defeat its intention, are fo clearly pointed out in the Remarks, that the petition of the merchants and traders for an amendment of it, cannot fail of meeting with the ready concurrence of the legislature.

An Effay on the Toleration of Papifts. 8vo. 15. Dodfley. Obfervations on the fituation of Europe, and the natural effects of univerfal toleration, calculated to fhew, that religious and civil freedom has nothing to fear from the indulgence which the government has lately fhewn to its Roman Catholics fubjects..

In the following paffage the author invalidates his own argument: While the general commerce of Europe continues, with its infinite train of bleffings, we can never be expofed to the . dangerous encroachments of prieftcraft: and this general commerce, in all probability, will continue to very remote generations until fome power has obtained an univerfal empire, like

that of ancient Rome; and that empire is overturned by fome favage and fuperftitious race of barbarians, who will establish in it their own religious and civil inftitutions, preferring the gloom of fuperftition and ignorance to the pleafing and chearful lights of learning and philofophy.' From whence are these favage and fuperftitious barbarians' to emigrate? If arts and fciences gradually diffuse themselves through every corner of the globe, fuch an inundation is more likely to happen in the courfe of one century, than at the distance of a thousand years.

POETRY.

Epifle to Admiral Keppel. 4to.. IS. Fielding and Walker. A fanciful, and not inanimate compliment to admiral Keppel on his late honourable acquittal by the Court Martial.

The Anti-Palliferiad: or, Britain's Triumphs over France.

De

dicated to the Honorable Auguftus Keppel, Admiral of the British Fleet. 4to. 15. 6d. Bew.

This piece might be concluded from its title to be a counterpart to the preceding; but though it terminates in a strain of farcafm against the perfon alluded to, and fome others, it is chiefly a defcant, in blank verfe, though not in fublime poetry, of the triumphs of England over France.

Neptune. A Poem. Inferibed to the Hon. Auguftus Keppel. 4to. 15. Kearily.

This little Poem appears to be the production of a youthful bard, who is ardent in the praife of the brave and popular admiral. As it is not improbable but he may continue a vo tary of the Mufes, we wish that he would hereafter pay a little more attention to the harmony of cadence, and to the rhymes. With respect to the latter, he will readily perceive the impropriety of the following: gem, then-forth, youth—change, rang'd-wrath, abyfs. We know not why our juvenile author deviates from the common practice of poets and mythologists in making the fun of the feminine gender.

A congratulatory Ode to Admiral Keppel. 4to. Is. Dodley. The poet invokes the Mufe (with all the parade of an ancient bard) and then launches out into a diffufive panegyric on his hero. He mentions his intrepidity at the fiege of Paita, a fea-port in Peru, under commodore Anfon, in 1741; when, we are told *, ' one fide of the jockey cap, which he then wore, was taken off by a cannon-ball;' his taking of the island of Goree, in 1759; his engagement with the Thefée, in the memorable fea-fight between fir Edward Hawke and M. Conflans; his bravery at the fiege of the Havannah, in 1762, &c.

Kimber's Peerage (from Anson's Voyage), p. 87.

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The poet should be free from party-zeal. It was by no means neceffary to the honour of admiral Keppel, that this disgraceful imputation fhould be thrown on a commander equally gallant and intrepid:

• Malice and Envy aimed the blow

At Keppel's facred head.'

The Mufe, who is a candid and benevolent being, fhould leave it to Minos, acus, and Rhadamanthus, to difcover the secrets of the heart, and the motives of human actions. The Tears of Britannia: a folemn Appeal to all her Sons at this tremendous fundure. 4to. 2s. 6d. Rivington.

Britannia is here reprefented as lamenting the degeneracy of her fons, whom the endeavours to excite, by the recollection of their former glory, to unanimity and deeds of valour. Metaphorical description, and animated fentiment, are fo much blended through the whole, that the poem, though diffuse, is not void of beauty and energy.

The Female Patriot: an Epiftle from C-t-e M-c-y to the rev. Dr. W—l—n. 4to. Is. 6d. Bew:

This Epiftle is written in the character of a certain female hiftorian, to her reverend friend, foon after the is fuppofed to have confummated a fecond marriage. As it breathes a fpirit of poetry fuperior to the fugitive productions of this month, we are surprised to discover in it fo diffonant and incongruous rhymes as the following: blaze, rais'd-perform'd, mourn'd-defcribe, pride.

Fanatical Converfion; or Methodism Difplayed. A Satire. Illuf trated and verified by Notes from J. Welley's Fanatical Journals, and by the Author, unravelling the delufive Craft of that wellinvented Syftem of pious Sorcery which turns Lions into Lambs, called in Derifion, Methodifm. By the Author of Perfection, a Poetical Effay, &c. &c. 4to. 25. 6d. Bew.

This gentleman's performances have been so often characterifed, that it is unneceffary for us to fay any thing more upon the fubject; especially, as they are of the fame fatirical fpecies, and equal, or nearly equal, with respect to poetical merit. An Epifle from the Rector of St. Anne, Westminster, to the Vicar of Rochdale. 4to. 25. Bew.

Some readers will be entertained with Mr. Martyn's strokes of fatire; others will exclaim against his temerity. With refpect to ourselves, we defire to act a neutral part; as we know that a wife man may be impelled beyond the bounds of moderation, by what he feels.

Poems, by the rev. William Tasker, A. B. 4to. 2s. 6d. Dodfley.

This publication confifts of, An Ode to the Warlike Genius of Great Britain; an Ode to Curiofity, a poetical Amusement for Bath-Easton Villa; an Encomium on Trade, addressed to the

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