ART. 34. A Sermon, preached before the Honourable and Right Reverend Shute Lord Bishop of Durham, the Honourable Mr. Juftice Rooke, and the Hon. Mr. Justice Lawrence, at the Affixes holden as Durham, the 13th of August, 1794. By Reynold Gideon Bouyer, L. L. B, Prebendary of Durham. Published at their Lordship's Request. 4to. 17 pp. 15. Rivingtons. In this Difcourfe the duties of rational, Chriftian, and manly fuhmiffion are (from 1 Pet. ii. 13, 14.) clearly expounded and ably enforced. The particular difcuffion of the fubject is followed up by an argument, drawn from the contrafted condition of thofe to whom the injunction was originally addreffed, and those to whom it is now recommended. ART. 35. A Sermon, preached before the University of Cambridge, on the 3d of May, 1795, at Great St. Mary's Church, by John Mainwa ring, B. D. late Margaret's Profeffor in Divinity, and late Fellow of St. John's-College. 4to. 19 pp. 1s. 6d. Cadell, &c. 1795. This is a very fenfible and judicious Difcourfe, upon the Mystery of Iniquity; (2 Theff. ii, 7) in which, among other particulars equally important, the author, traces-to ufe his own words-" the abufes of reafon and learning, the dangerous domineering influence of a prefumptuous, felf-fuflicient, free-thinking philofophy." On this fubject Mr. M. employs the language of juft and spirited indignation; al concludes his Difcourfe with an animated exhortation to students of Divinity, not to be deterred by opprobious or farcaftic epithets, from defending the purity of the Chriftian doctrine, the integrity of the faith once delivered to the Saints." ART. 36. A Faft Sermon preached in the County of Durham, on Wednesday, February 25, 1795. 4to. 13 pp. 15. Longman. 1795. "Yet forty days and Nineveh fhall be overthrown," is the preacher's fubject; and the fermon is fuch an improvement of the text as the occafion might be fuppofed to inspire, to a learned, able, and zealous divine. POLITICS. ART. 37. A View of the relative State of Great-Britain and France, at the Commencement of the Year 1796. Svo. 90 PP. Is. 6d. Debrett. 1796. A confiderable part of this pamphlet, contains rather a retrospective view of paft tranfactions, than a comparative statement of prefent affairs. We proceed as far as 43 pages, out of 90, before we can perceive that we have made further progrefs than to the fall of Robefpierre. At page 44, we find a concile and able flatement of the departure from democratic principles, apparent in the prefent Conftitution of France. "In the forms, as well as in the effence of the new Conftitution, recently promulgated, we trace with fatisfaction a degree of umilarity to our own. The imaginary equality of man difappears, and property is recognized as the indifpenfable requifite or bafis of government. It is no longer a tumultuous affembly governed by clubs, furrounded by a clamorous populace, and impelled, or with-held in its deliberations by galleries, [or] that frames laws by acclamation. We fee, on the contrary, two chambers, which in their comparative numbers, and modes of conducting public bufinefs, bear no very dif tant refemblance to the two Houfes of Parliament. The regal dignity and functions, without its title, are committed to the Executive Directory, or in more correct language," the crown is put into 4 commiflion." In the coflume, affumed by the members of the legiflative body, we almoft behold the revival of the extinguished infignia of knighthood. Louis the Fourteenth never gave audience at Verfailles, with more affectation of pageantry and fplendour, than the Directory, recently exhibited at the Palace of the Luxembourg, on the first prefentation of the foreign amb fladors." p. 44. This is lefs diftinct and specific than the flatement of the fame truths in the "Confiderations on the State of Public Affairs," but it has merit. The whole tract is, in like manner rather, too general and declamatory, though well intended, and for the most part well written. ART. 38. Conflitutional Catechifm, adapted to all Ranks and Capacities; illuftrated with copious Notes, principally extracted from Judge Blackfione: To which is prefixed, an Epiftolary Dedication, to the Honourable Tb mas Erfkine, M. P. by John Roje. 8vo. 87 pp. 25. Evans. 1795. A Knowledge of the Laws and Conftitution of that Government under which he lives, is, fo far as circumstances render it practicable, a duty binding on every man. It is doubtlefs owing, to a confiderable degree, to a defect of this, that factions multiply in the state, and difcontent finds fo eafy an accefs into the minds of many, from whom a better judgment might reafonably be expected. The plan there. fore of a Conflitutional Catechifm, is laudably concei ed; and, though the prefent is not wholly unexceptionable, it is, for the most part, executed with judgment, fidelity, and spirit. The Dedication is an awkward piece of flattery, for which Mr. Erfkine will not think himfelf greatly obliged to the author. Yet in defiance of this, and other blamies that might be cited, this Catechifm affords a fatisfactory Analyfis of the Constitution; and will furnish an inftrument of eafy inftruction to those who are defirous of appreciating its merits. ART. ART. 39. Advice to the Privileged Orders in the feveral States of Europe, refulting from the Neceffity and Propriety of a general Revolution in the Principle of Government, Part II. by Jol Barlow, Author of the Vifion of Columbus, a Letter to the National Convention, and the Conspiracy of Kings. 8vo. 64 PP. 25. Eaton. 1795. There is in fome writers of an exceptionable clafs, an artful talent of prefenting their fentiments under the difguife of delicacy and decorum. We cannot compliment Mr. Barlow with any fuch eulogium. He appears to affect the manner of his American Precurfor, though the model is but faintly diftinguishable in the imitation. Revenue, and Expenditure, are the objects of difcuffion; and a variety of luminous remarks are accumulated to show the advantages which would refult, from deftroying every exilling mode of rafing the one, and conducting the other. Some pages of preface and advertisement are employed, in accounting for the delay which has cbft ucted the publication of the prefent pamphlet; and in announcing to the Privileged Orders, that they are threatened with fome further advice from this courteous and public-fpirited Monitor. ART. 40. Letters to the Duke of Portland, on his Dereliction of the Caufe of the People; first published in the Morning Chronicle, under the Signature of Hampden. Dedicated to the Right Hon. William Pitt. 5° PP. 25. Ridgeway. 1794. dvo. The affumption of an anonymous fignature for the purpofes of being fcurrilous with impunity, is an artifice of no very modern invention. Hampden, as this writer conveniently calls himself, wrote fo much to his own fatisfaction in the Morning Chronicle, that he is defirous of perpetuating the fame of his letters; and leaving his fituation as a Journalist, has afpired to the rank of a Pamphleteer. We envy him neither his fame nor his fpleen; and leave the defence of the noble Duke to thofe, who may think it demanded or deferved by the prefent attack. ART. 41. A Remonflrance in favour of British Liberty, addreffed to the Right Hon. William Pitt, firft Lord of the Treafury, &c. &c. By a Country Gentleman. 8vo. 35 pp. 15. Symonds. 1796. This Country Gentleman is in a terrible taking, left the Bill of Rights fhould be wounded by means of the famous Bills. He writes pompously, but with laughable inaccuracy in his metaphors, and talks of Mr. Pitt's fwimming in a current to the pinnacle of power. We thought that currents ufually run downwards-perhaps it may be an Irish Current. ART. 42. Pax in Bello; or a few Reficians on the Fr fpe&t of Peace, arifing out of the prefent Circumftances of the War. svo. pp. 88. Is. 6d. Owen. 1796. Thefe Reflections were firt printed in a public Paper; they are weil and f nfibly written, and merit re-publication in their prefent form. ART. ART. 43. The Politician's Creed. Being the great Outline of political When we first faw this work, in 1794, it bore the title of The Citizen, and feemed to want a first part, for the appearance of which we waited. It has now changed its name, and Part II. is altered to Part I. We fhall therefore wait no longer. We have confidered it with care, and find it a compilation well calculated to be the guide of a politician. It is expreffed in good language, and contains a collec tion of Maxims and Reflections, which denote a great and fuccessful attention to political ftudies. The author gives a decided preference to mixed government, like our own, over all other forms; and therefore, in one of his titles, very juftly ftyles this part a defence of the British Conftitution. A fecond volume is promifed, which is to contain "an impartial Enquiry into the Administration of Govern ments," and, if executed as well as the firft volume, will be a very defirable work. The book is printed upon excellent paper, and the matter is fet off with every advantage of Italics and emphatic Capi tals; but though this kind of form would not in itself prejudice us in its favour, we can affure the reader, that no falfe colours are held out, meft of the paffages marked as emphatic really deferving to be fo. ART. 44. A Letter to the Lord Chancellor, on the Cafe of his Royal 1795. We are occafionally alarmed by the appearance of a pamphlet, which, from fome obfcure corner of our thelves, ftarts up, like a ghoft from the filent tomb, to reproach us with having suffered it to die unnoticed. Of this defeription is the pamphlet here announced, belonging to a clafs which we thought had all been quietly inurned, but fill they rife," to push us from our ftools." The writer, who took the name of Honeftus, argued, and that ftrenuously, that his R. H. fhould be cleared, on his marriage, from all incumbrances, and rendered eafy with a splendid eftablishment, fuitable to his high rank, and to the great credit of the nation. ART. 45. Two Words of Counsel and one of Comfort. Addressed to his Royal Highnes the Prince of Wales. 8vo. 60 pp. 1s. 6d. Mafon. 1795. Among the various addreffes which have been made to the heir ap parent, upon the circumstances which regard himself and the nation, we have feen none which deferve a higher degree of attention, than that which the prefent pamphlet contains. The language and fentiments employed are manly, judicious, and refpeétful. The author appears to view through a juft medium the interefts of the Prince and of the Public; and we cannot exprefs our attachment more strongly to the one and the other, than by wishing that the coun el and comfort may refpectively produce the intended effect. ART. 1 ****. 8vo. ART. 46. A Whig's Apology for his Confiflency. In a Letter from a Member of Parliament to his Friend in the Borough of 198 pp. 35. Debrett. 1795 The prefent very fingular and unparalleled crisis of political affairs has produced divifions, which it is equally reafonable to expect and deplore. Men, whofe bofoms beat with an equal ardour of patriotifm, and whofe veneration for the conftitution of their forefathers is equally undifputed, may yet, in periods of public ferment, be led to purfue very oppofite meafures, for effecting the fame ends of justice and fecurity. The Whig, whofe apology is now under confideration, ap-. pears to have found in his conitituents a ftrong fentiment of dif-approbation, on account of his adherence to Mr. Fox. To account for the line of conduct which he has purfued, is the object of the prefent pamphlet. It will be readily conjectured that fuch a vindication muft involve a variety of particulars, connected with the politics of Europe, for fome years paft. On these the writer defcants with that warmth and decifion which he feems to confider as expedient for fubftantiating his own defence. It will be unneceffary for us to enter into the merits of a queftion at iffue between a member and his conftituents. The writer appears to poffefs no ordinary talents; and the general courfe of his reafoning feems to indicate a conviction, in his own mind, of the juftice of his caufe, and the rectitude of his conduct. ART. 47. Sketch of a Plan to prevent Crimes. Second Edition. By John Donaldfon, Ejq. 8vo. 16 pp. 6d. Cadell. 1795. The prevention is indifputably preferable to the punishment of crimes; and, if Mr. Donaldfon's Plan be founded upon folid principles, he will certainly deferve the attention of thofe entrusted with the police, and in general the thanks of his country. The prefent fketch prefents fo flight an outline, that it would be rath to pronounce from fuch data either for or againft. The establishment of a daily watch, and fome other collateral precautions, are all that Mr. Donaldfon divulges in the tract before us; and the few pages it contains are chiefly employed in ftating the efforts he has made to introduce thei into practice, and the beneficial ends which they are calculated to ferve. ART. 48. An Addrefs to the King, moved in the Haufe of Lords by the Earl of Lauderdale, Friday, June 5, 1795. With Notes and Autho ritics. 8vo. 15 pp. 6d. Ridgway. 1795. The addrefs which this pamphlet profeffes to give will be recoll &ted by those who are acquainted with the tranfactions in the Upper Hufe. The notes and authorities confit of extracts, references, and elucidations. The addrefs bears a very fmall proportion to the fcholium with which it is accompanied; and refembles, in the Johnfonian dialect, a rivulet of text, meandering through an ocean of commentary. ART. |