company him, and engaged two Draughtsmen to affift him in the execution of his defign; he fet fail from Venice in the month of July 1757, on his intended expedition. In this, we are told, he fucceeded, in a few weeks*, to his fatisfaction: and being encouraged, by the favourable reception which has been given of late to works of this kind, particularly to the Ruins of Palmyra and Balbec, he hath now prefented the fruits of his labour to the public,

I am far, continues Mr. Adam, from comparing my undertaking with that of Meffrs. Dawkins, Bouverie, and Wood, one of the most splendid and liberal that was ever attempted by private perfons. I was not, like thefe Gentlemen, obliged to traverse defarts, or to expofe myfelf to the infults of Barbarians+; nor can the remains of a single palace, vie with those furprizing and almoft unknown monuments of fequeftered grandeur which they have brought to light: but at a time when the admiration of the Grecian and Roman Architecture hath rifen to fuch a height in Britain, as to banish, in a great measure, all fantastic and frivolous taftes, and to make it neceffary for every Architect, to ftudy and to imitate the ancient manner, I Hatter myself that this work, executed at a confiderable expence, the effect of great labour and perfeverance, and which contains the only full and accurate defigns that have hitherto been published, of any private edifice of the antients, will be received with indulgence, and may, perhaps, be efteemed an acquifition of fome importance."

We perfectly agree with Mr. Adam in the importance of the object of his work; as we fee with pleasure the numerous and refpectable lift of Subfcribers, who have done themfelves and their country honour, by encouraging fo capital a performance. At the fame time, it is with equal pleafure, we can congratulate the Lovers of the fine arts, with this valuable addition to the late Defcriptions of ancient Architecture .

* Five weeks, fays our Author. A very short time, indeed, to take fuch a number and variety of views and admeasurements as are contained in this performance: but as, according to Mr. Adam, they were fpent in unwearied application, and the accuracy of his labours were fo very fatisfactory to himself, we have only to admire his great fedulity and expedition.

+ Spalatro, is in Venetian Dalmatia.

Is this ftrictly true? We hope our Author doth not compliment his Patrons here, at the expence of his fincerity. It is, however, no matter, as the inference he draws, is not affected by it.

As well fuch as have been actually published, as those we have reafon to expect, in the future volumes of Mr. Stuart's Antiquities of Athens.

The number of plates contained in this work are seventy-one, all executed in the moft masterly manner; the engravings of the Architecture in particular, frequently ftriking the eye with uncommon beauty,

To the whole is prefixed, a verbal defcription of the general plan of Dioclefian's palace as reftored; explaining the manner of difpofing the apartments in the houfes of the antients. As this defcription, however, is chiefly explanatory of the several plates, and would be unintelligible without them, any extract from it would be ufelefs.

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MONTHLY CATALOGUE,

For J U L Y,

1764.

RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL.

Art. 1. A View of human Life, in a Series of Sermons on the following Subjects, viz. The Duty of Parents to their Childrenthe Mortality of Children confidered and improved-the Poffibility of a young Man's preferving his Virtue-the young Man must take heed to his Way-perfonal Care, without a principle of Piety, infufficient-the Word of God the young Man's Guide-Creation, or our Obligations to God our Maker-Providence, or our Obligations to God our Preferver and Benefactor-the Goodness of God in former Life, a Ground of Encouragement in old Agethe Returns due to God for all his Benefits-the Fear of Death conquerable-how to conquer the Fear of Death-the great Duty of drawing near to God, confidered and explained-the Happiness of drawing near to God-the gradual Workings and Product Afflictions. By Samuel Eaton, D. D. For the Ufe of Families. Published at the Requeft of many of the Author's Friends. 8vo. 5s. bound. Waugh.

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HESE Sermons being intended for the use of families, have nothing in them to gratify the prevailing rage for novelty, or the tate of thofe faftidious Readers, who are difgufted with every performance, that is not recommended by friking and lively imagery, or elegance of compofition.-They are plain, cafy, fenfible Difcourfes, on important practical fubjects, and contain many observations which thew

that the Author is well acquainted with human life and manners. R Art. 2. Grace and Truth; or, the Glory and Fulness of the Redeemer difplayed. In an Attempt to explain, illustrate, and enforce the most remarkable Types, Figures, and Allegories of the Od Teftament. To which is added, Thoughts on various Subjects. By the late Rev. Mr. William McEwen, Minifter of the Gofpel at Dundee. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Dilly,

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The fober and judicious Chriftian will find many ridiculous and trifling conceits in this performance, and very little to edify or entertain

him.

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Art. 3. A fovereign Remedy for the Cure of Hypocrify and blind Zeal, &c. &c. By an Enemy to pious Fraud. 8vo. Becket.

IS.

Attacks the Methodists with more zeal than ability. Much better tracts have been written against these Enthusiasts; and therefore we cannot recommend the prefent feeble attempt.

Art. 4. Two Letters, from a late Diffenting Teacher; with an Anfwer to the former, and Animadverfions upon the latter: Proving, from the beft Authorities, that the Doctrine, Difcipline, and Government of the Church of England, are truly primitive and apoftolical. By Thomas Fofter, Rector of Hafleworth with Chedifton in Suffolk, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable and Reverend the Earl of Home. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Bathurst, We have here a controverfy of very inconfiderable moment, between Mr. Fofter and Mr. Crompton, a late Diffenting Minifter. The fubject of the difpute has been often agitated; and thofe who are well acquainted with it, will find fcarce any thing new in what Mr. Fofter or Mr. Crompton have advanced.

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Art. 5. A Paraphrafe on the Books of Job, Pfalms, Proverbs, and Ecclefiaftes, with Notes critical, historical, and practical. In Four Volumes. By Lawrence Holden, of Maldon in Effex. Svo. 4 Vols. 11. 1S. in boards. Henderfon, &c.

To what clafs of Readers this performance will be useful, or agree able, we really know not; but this we verily believe, that perfons of tafte, learning, or judgment, will find very little in it to engage their attention.

POETICAL.

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Art. 6. The Temptation; being the Second Book of the Meffiah, a facred Poem. 4to. 2s. Coote.

We gave our opinion of the first book of this facred Poem, as the Author ftyles it, in the Review for November laft, page 399; and then and there did we charitably advise the mistaken Writer, to proceed no farther in a defign for which he is totally unqualified: but, in regard to a paffion for writing, as to that of love, Advice is feldom regarded. Art. 7. The Crucifixion. Being the Third Part of the Meffiah, a facred Poem. 4to. 2s. 6d. Coote.

Over shoes, over boots. The Author feems now to have done his worft; and may go on-having nothing farther, except his money, to lofe by perfevering

in fpight

Of Nature, and his ftars, to write.

After all, we are forry to fee facred fubjects in danger of being turned into ridicule, by the miftaken zeal of those who think they are doing good, while, in reality, they are doing mifchief to the cause they efpoufe, and which can never be fo much hurt by any open attacks, as By a weak and injudicious defence."

NOVEL S.

Art. 8. The Hiftories of Lady Frances S-, and Lady Caroline S. Written by the Mifs Minifies, of Fair-waterin Somersetshire. 12mo. Vol. IVth. 3s. DodЛley.

We have nothing to add, on the publication of this additional volume, to the little we had to fay on the appearance of the former three. See Review for Auguft 1763, p. 163.

POLITICAL.

Art. 9. An Alarm to the Stock-Holders; neceffary to be perufed by thofe who have any Property in the Bank, &c. 8vo. 6d. Cooke.

Occafioned by a late refolution of the Bank-Directors, not to difcount the bills of Merchants, &c. The Author feverely arraigns the conduct and management of thofe to whom the direction of the Bank' of England is entrusted: and propofes fome methods for redreling the grievances complained of.

Art. 10. A Letter from the Elephant to the People of England: 4to. Is. Sumpter.

A ridiculous attempt at political fatire.

Art. 11. The Wallet, a Supplementary Expofition of the Budget. 4to. rs. 6d. Williams and Co.

The Budget was a notable pamphlet, and had a good fale; and fuch pieces feldom go without an Anwer, whether they are answerable or not; for which an eternally unanswerable reafon might be affigned; but it is too obvious to need mentioning.

The Wallet, whatever were the Writer's motives for producing it, is not unworthy the attention of those who were struck with the contents of the Budget. The Author fets out with an encomium on the meafures of the prefent Administration, enters into a particular difcuffion of a celebrated Advertisement, defends the affair of the Smuggling Cutters, and wards off from the Miniftry the charge of the great Fall of Stocks, 15 per Cent. below Par, and fixes it upon the Albemarle Club, and their Agents, who, fays he, like this Writer, exert their utmost to imprefs the people with wrong ideas of those national meafures, that ought to meet with the most univerfal approbation. To them is to be imputed that mean opinion of the prefent methods used for supporting and preferving our credit, for they are the perfons that propagate thofe falfe apprehenfions: and if their Votaries in the monied part of the nation, fuffer by their own adopted tenets, they are felones de fe: they fuffer by their own hands.'

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He then anfwers the allegation, That the army is greater than after the last peace, and that the over-proportion of Officers kept on the establishment, is a tacit acknowlegement of the inftability of this greatly extolled peace. He proceeds to confider the third charge upon the Ministry, for fetting up falfe pretences, whereon to build an unmerited fame; and with regard to the fifth charge, That the Navy Debt always provided for, formerly, out of a particular fund, is, by the late Ministry, thrown upon the Sinking Fund, and, by this, continued on it; the answer is (for the kingdom in general) too unfortunately obvious. They ought to anfwer for it, who anticipated all our funds, and threw us into ten millions of unfunded debt, by the moft enormous prodigality that Europe ever witneffed! Without new taxes we cannot have a particular fund referved for the Navy Debt; and the nation has been fo bled by former Administrations, that they can no longer bear fuch increafing burdens. The Sinking Fund will foon relieve itfelf Its increasing funds are a certain pledge of the restoration of our credit, by a proper fyllem of Frugality: an unpopular, but, in our circumftances, a neceffary fyftem of Government, which will gradually, but certainly, relieve us from the merciless hands of thofe Money-Jobbers, that, in former Administrations, preyed on the vitals of the State; but, by the vigilant tenderness of the prefent Miniftry, are precluded from devouring the laft remains of national faith and national honesty.'

He concludes with fome remarks on what he calls the primary View of the Budget-Writer, viz. To incenfe the Landed Intereft against the Miniftry, on account of their continuing the Land Tax at Four fhillings. in the pound, when it had been the rule, in former administrations, in the most early dawn of Peace, to reduce it to Two.

Specious, however, as this argument may be at firft fight, it will not, it is to be hoped, delude the judicious part of the Landholders, to conceive an ill opinion of, or entertain the leaft refentment to, the Miniftry, at this neceffary and equitable measure of Government. They will confider, that the Landholders have, for many years past, paid much less than they ought to have done, provided the amount of their rent-rolls had been truly stated in the Freeholders Book. Some few of them, indeed, may pay rather more than is adequate to their real rent; occafioned by the vanity and over-abundant loyalty of their predeceffors, who gave in, at the time of the Revolution, the annual return of their eftates larger than it truly was. But this is not a very common cafe. In general, the fact is as above reprefented; namely, that the Landholders pay much less than they ought. Rents in this kingdom are greatly increased. Farms, that about half a century ago, annually produced to the Landlord only One hundred and fifty pounds, are, in various parts, now rifen to Two hundred and fifty: and, notwithstanding this amazing increafe of rent, thofe eftates are charged in the Free-, holders books no more than formerly. Again, in the time of King William, others (and thefe, it is to be feared, compofed the major part of the nation) lefs fired by vanity, and lefs animated by loyalty, gave in, on the contrary, an exceeding low account of their inheritance; infomuch, that it is now a well known fact, that many (very many!) Eftates, I had almost faid many Counties, in this kingdom, do not pay, when the land tax fands at Four fhillings in the pound, above Nine Pence or One Shilling. So that the Landholders, though charged by

the