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vileges, at all times, and in every country, England is doubly culpable, and can have no reasonable hope that the fupreme Governor. of all nations, the King of Kings, and the Lords, will particularly profper ber fleets and armies. Efpecially when we reflect, that these fleets and armies are gone forth against a people that never attacked us, till by the great law of retaliation (a fpirited and neceffary fpecies of felf-defence) we compelled them to it: a people yet in the fimplicity of an empire, confequently difengaged and unfuborned infruments in the hands of Providence; who have not established superftition into a system, or religion into a trade among its teachers.* Speculum Britannicum: or, a View of the Miferies and Calamities fucceffively brought upon Great Britain by inteftine Divifions, in the last and prejent Centuries. 8vo. 35. 6d. fewed. Robinson. This volume is compofed of extracts from the hiftories of Lord Clarendon, Mr. Hume, fir John Dalrymple, and Mr. Macpherson, relative to party fpirit, and the effects which it has produced in this country. The paffages are well chofen for exhibiting the fubject in the moft ftriking light; and contain a general view of the political tranfactions in Britain, during the interesting period between 1640 and 1716.

An Efay on Liberty. 8vo.

15. Bew.

The author of this Effay takes a general view of the various changes that have happened in the fyftem of English liberty, from the early periods of our conftitution; concluding with an encomium on its prefent flate, and an exhortation to maintain it.

Republican Letters; or an Effay, fhewing the Tendency of the Popular Principle, &c. Small Svo. 2s. 6d. Jewed. Coghlan.

This volume confifts of ten Letters, in which the author endeavours to evince the fuperiority of a monarchical, over a republican government. Each form is neceffarily accompanied with its refpective inconveniencies; but, upon the whole, the tranquillity, as well as the liberty of the people, feems to be equally fecure, if the former be not more fo, under a limited monarchy, than in a democratical state.

Addrefs to the Rulers of the State, &c. 8vo. 25. Bew.

A defcant on the conduct of adminiftration, the principles and abilities of its opponents, and the intereft of Great Britain, which, in the opinion of this writer, requires an immediate reconciliation with America, on any terms.

Letters in Anfwer to Dr. Price's Two Pamphlets on Civil Liberty, &c. with fome Remarks on the parliamentary Debates of laft Seffion, as they appeared in the News-papers. Alfo Copies of Four Letters, concerning the Slavery of the Colliers, Coal-Bearers, and Salters in Scotland. Addreffed to the Members of the House of Commons, in the Year 1774. By John Stevenson. 8vo. 6d. Burnet.

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It appears that Mr. Stevenfon, the author of these Letters, was abroad at the time when Dr. Price's pamphlets were pub

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lifhed; on which account he had been late in his reply. But notwithstanding the time that elapfed, and even the temporary nature of Dr. Price's two performances, he entertained an opi nion that an answer, though long protracted, was not become inexpedient.

Confidering, fays he, Dr. Price as a diffenting minifter, I thought diffenters were in danger of being deemed difaffected to government, through his conduct; and therefore I entered the lift with him as a proteftant diffenter. That amazing degree to which the doctor had proceeded, in his oppofition to legal government, rendered fuch a feverity on my part neceffary; which, had he been lefs daring, I fhould not have thought advifeable. When a minister of the gofpel contumaciou fly overleaps the boundary of his province, that deference which is otherwife due to his facred character becomes forfeited: and he must expect to be treated as an inhabitant of that ground on which he has placed himself. When endeavours are used to destroy all filial af fection; when doctrines are inculcated which have a tendency to exterminate all legal authority; and when repeated attempts are made to render civil fociety a fcene of rapacity, anarchy, and carnage! It is impoffible that language too fevere, can be applied to the author of fuch meditated devaftation. Some may probably afk, why I have quoted fo many paffages of Scripture, in a political controverfy? In anfwer to fuch, I beg leave to obferve, that, although the fubject be of a civil nature, the Scriptures are properly applicable; and, as the author whom I oppofe is a clergyman, he is obliged to acquiefce in that authority, which fome laymen, from the deiftical difpofition of tha age, might probably attempt to turn into ridicule.'

Many of thefe Letters have formerly appeared in the newspapers; and of moft of the fugitive effays that are published in that manner, they are worthy of being preferved in a collection.

An Appeal to Reafon and Justice, in behalf of the British Conftitution, and the Subjects of the British Empire. To which is added, an Appendix, containing Remarks on a Pamphlet intitled, Pulteney's Thoughts on the prefent State of Affairs with America." 8vo. 2s. 6d. Nicoll.

The long-contefted claims of Great Britain and America are treated by this author with much candour, as well as great force of argument. The conflitutional fupremacy of parliament over the colonies, in the manner here ftated, and often before af ferted, whatever may prove the iffue of the controversy, cannot admit of any doubt. The author has added fome remarks on Mr. Pulteney's pamphlet, the principal arguments contained in which performance are incidentally confidered in the Ap peal.

POETRY,

POETRY.

The Voice of the Minority: being an expoftulatory Address to an unpopular Minister, on Occafion of an impolitic War. 8vo. Is. Fielding and Walker.

This may be the Voice of the Minority, but it is vox et præterea nibil; for the expoftulation is dull, though declamatory; and feeble, though meant to be argumentative.

An Epifle from the Earl of Chatham to the King. Written during bis laft Illness. 4to. 15. Goldsmith.

A poetical effufion, in elegiac verfe, but fo little calculated to affect the heart, that the moft we can fay of it, is, circum præcordia ludit.

An Epifle to Wm E of M-f-d, the most unpopular Man in the Kingdom, except bis and L--d B, 410, Is. 6d.

Bew.

A petulant, abufive rhapfody, the author of which appears to be animated with the vileft dregs of patriotic fanaticism. A poetical, fupplicating, modeft, and affecting Epistle to thofe literary Coloffufes, the Reviewers. 4to. 6d. Baldwin.

The writer of this Epiftle is a man of humour, and his petition a piece of well-conducted irony. Though his compli ments are by no means applicable to the authors of the Critical Review, they have no objections to a few gentle appellations; fuch as, murderers and mohocks. The author of the Dunciad was called an ape, an afs, a frog, a coward, a knave, and a fool, by his polite and ingenious contemporaries.

The Court of Adultery: a Vifion: A New Edition, with Additions. 4to. 25. Smith.

The queen of England is fuppofed to be feated on a throne of judgement, Truth, Juftice, and Mercy attending her. The adultreffes are fummon'd; and it is decreed, that the most guilty among them fhall be facrificed, to expiate the licentioufnefs of the age. Several ladies of the ton appear; and some of them folicit the honour of being the public victim. The principal part of the poem confifts of their fpeeches on this occafion. The verfification is tolerable, but the plan is abfurd. The Beauties of the Poets. Or, a Collection Poetry. From the mit eminent Authors. rev. Thomas Janes, of Bristol. 8vo. 35. The poems, included in this Collection, are of a ferious caft, and intended to inftil into the mind of the reader the love of virtue and religion. They are extracted from the works of Milton, Daniel, Ward, Thomson, Collins, Pope, Watts, Prior, Perronet, Gambold, Addifon, Shakspeare, Pomfret, Onely, Shenftone, Parnell, Gray, Tickell, Fitzgerald, Arbuthnot,

of moral and facred Compiled by the late Evans.

See the Appendix fubjoined to the Dunciad.

Gay,

Gay, Rowe, Dyer, Young, Blair, Wesley, Cowley, Broome, Jane, Glynn.

They are more elegantly printed than religious poems ufually are, and the form of the volume will be no difgrace to any library.

Envy, a Poem, addreffed to Mrs. Miller, at Batheafton Villa. 410. 15. 6d. Dodfley.

Ovid, in the fifteenth elegy of his first book, which he addreffes to Envy, difplays the fuperiority of poetry over every other occupation, art, or fcience, reprefenting it as capable of beftowing immortality on its profeffors. This he exemplifies by the glorious eulogiums, which have been conferred on Homer, Hefiod, Sophocles, Callimachus, Virgil, and other eminent poets. The author of this poem adopts Ovid's plan, and pays fome polite, and fome ironical compliments to the poets of Bathealton, Jerningham, Graves, Bragge, Palmerston, Grevill, Lutterell, Sedley, Drax, Digby, Burgefs, Hunt, More, Hardcastle, Anftey, and Jekyl; intimating, that their productions will procure them everlaiting honour.

Fame fhall exalt the poet's lyres,

And Miller, who their notes infpires.'

Exalt them undoubtedly to the fkies! when the far-gazers of future times fhall point them out among the conftellations; when the Harp* fhall be called the emblem of the Batheaston poets, and Caffiopea fhall refign her feat to Mrs. Miller.

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The Gospel-Shop, a Comedy of Five Acts; with a new Prologue and Epilogue. By R. Hill, Efq. of Cambridge. 8vo. 25. Field, ing and Walker.

Without any plot, or any humorous incident.

DIVINITY.

A fort Enquiry into the Scripture Account of the Ufe and Intent of the Death of Chrift. By Philalethes Borealis. 8vo. 15. Longman.

It is the conftant and uniform doctrine of the New Testament, that Chrift Jefus came into the world to fave, or redeem finners.' This is univerfally allowed. But how these words are to be underflood, or what is the fcripture notion of redemption, is a point, which has been long and warmly disputed. Some imagine, that the death of Christ was neceflary, as a strict and proper fatisfaction, or equivalent, to divine juftice, for the fins of the world. Others think, that redemption was purely the effect of God's mercy and goodness, and was no otherwife owing to Christ, than as he was the prime agent or inftrument, the minifter and mediator, of this difpenfation; that the great de. fign of his coming was to manifelt the goodness of the divine nature, to fhew us the way to regain the divine favour, and to

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entreat us to be reconciled to God; that he died, not to pay an equivalent fatisfaction for fin, but to bear witness to the truth of the gospel, i. e. the gracious meffage of pardon upon repentance; to give it the ftrongest fanction, and to afford us, by his rifing from the dead, the fureft earnest of our refurrection, &c.

These are fome of the principles, which the author has stated and explained, with great force and propriety, in this excellent

tract.

A Sermon preached at the Vifitation of the right rev. the Lord Bishop of London, in the Church of Thaxted, in Effex, on Wednesday, May 28, 1778. By John Law, D. D. 4to. Payne.

This ingenious writer examines the criterion by which Ga. maliel propofed to try the divinity of the Chriftian religion : If this counfel, or this work, be of men, it will come to nought: but, if it be of God, we cannot overthrow it.' This naturally leads him to confider, how this divine religion has maintained its ground, and diffufed itfelf over the world, against all oppofition. Had this work, fays he, been of men, it is not likely, that it would have been originally propofed in fuch an age of general knowledge; or, if it had, it must have been inftantaneously detected: for having no allurement to throw out for its admiffion, every one would have joined in expofing its fallacy. Or, if we can poffibly fuppofe it to have furmounted every obftacle, that prejudice and felt-love could have fuggefted, yet it is ftill irreconcileable with the ufual courfe of things to impute the reformation of it, when loaded with enormous abfurdities, to any other caufe, than to the irrefiftible force of truth, and to the fostering care of that Being, who divides the light from the darkness in the moral and intellectual, as well as in the natural fyftem.'

Having examined the reafons, which tended to promote the reception of Chriftianity, and feen, that it did not owe its fuccefs originally to worldly power, or to any of thofe motives, which ufually influence the paffions and govern the conduct of mankind, he concludes, that we muft afcribe its growth and propagation to the affifting power of divine agency.

In this enquiry he has very juftly preferred the most obvious and fatisfactory proofs, to thofe, which by their novelty rather amufe, than convince.

The Commandments of God, in Nature, Inftitution, and religious Statutes in the Jewish and Chriftian Churches. With Notes critical and hiftorical. Two Sermons preached before the Univerfity of Oxford, at St. Mary's, on Sunday, October 12, 1777. By Anfelm Bayly, LL. D. 8vo. 15. Ridley.

My hands will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved, and I will meditate in thy ftatutes.' Pf. cxix. 48.By commandments, fays the author, are evidently meant cer

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