Thus nine months more he lies in chains,
And, when his freedom he regains,
He puts it to fo bad a use,

'Tis found he must not yet go loose.
Tyrannic nurfe then claims her right
To plague him both by day and night.
Then grave as Pope, and gruff as Turk,
Prelatic fchoolmaster, like York,
Thrashes the wretch with grammar's flail,
To mend his head corrects his tail,
And this with most defpotic fury,

Heedlefs of mercy, law and jury.'

Should it be thought that this facetious Writer has not fucceeded fo happily in this production as in fome former ones, it must be remembered, that there are fubjects (and the political reveries of the Dean and the 'Squire are furely of the number) which are in their own nature so obviously abfurd and ridiculous, that it is not in the power of human wit to place them in any additional point of ridicule. Art. 29. Enoch, a Poem. Book the Firft. 4to. I s. 6d.

Cadell. 1782.

The poem, of which this is a part, is to be completed in five books. How far it may be advifeable for the Author to complete or relinquish his defign, the Reader will form his own judgment from the following fhort extract which is impartially felected:

In night's ftill fhade tir'd Nature finds repofe;
But no repofe finds ENOCH. O'er his head

Now Time's cold hand had fhower'd his fleecy fnow,
And the revealing furrow of deep care
Was pictur'd on his vifage. Yet ferene
His manner, as enur'd to trying scenes;
His foul fuperior rifing on the wing
Of Contemplation. His majestic mien,
His look fublime, his penetrating eye,
Temper'd by mild nefs and benignant grace,
Created love and rev'rence. RAPHAEL faw,
(For quick as light he join'd the heaven-rapt Seer,
And, clad in human habit ftood reveal'd,
Of age mature, yet languid, faint, and wan)
He faw, and foft compaffion fill'd his breast,
To mark the long relentless train of woe

That haften'd to approach him. "Hail," he cry'd,
"Moft venerable Sage! Canft thou direct

To where my wearied feet may safely reft;

And this worn frame, fatigued by weakening toil,
Enjoy the rights of hofpitality ?"

Art. 30. N-wt-n's Principia: or, Live to Love. A Poem.
With a Prologue. 4to. 1s. Lewis. 1782.

An effufion of the Harlot-Mufe; and Mrs. Newton's harlotry is the fubject. The Author of this wretched encomium on lafcivioufnefs fays (by way of apology for its defects) that he was fick when he wrote it: it will be his Reader's turn, if they have the patience to go half way through it.

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LAW.

LAW.

Art. 31. The Juryman's Guide; or the Englishman's Right. With a new Preface, &c. By David Davies, Efq; of the Middle Temple. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Harrifon. 1779".

This little tract is faid to have been originally written by Sir John Hawles, Solicitor General to King William; and has enjoyed a confiderable share of popularity. Mr. Davies has prefented the Public with a new Preface, containing directions for the affiftance of jurymen in making proper minutes on trials, and has likewife fubjoined (what he calls in his title-page) fome useful modern Notes.' Thefe ufeful modern notes are a few fcraps of law (taken principally from Blackstone's Commentaries), which, though they thew no very great compafs or extent of knowledge in the Editor, may be of fervice to jurymen, by impreffing them with a proper fenfe of the dignity and importance of their truit. We confider it, however, as an unpardonable omiffion, that he takes no notice of the celebrated verdict of the jury in the cafe of Woodfall, who was profecuted for printing Junius' Letters to the King; a cafe that gave rise to much curious argument, particularly applicable to a great part of the fubject of this publication: a fubject on which thofe perfons who are liable to ferve on juries ought to be much better acquainted than they usually are.

NATURAL HISTORY. Art. 32. A Short Hiftory of the Brown Tail Moth, the Caterpillars of which are at prefent uncommonly numerous and deftructive in the Vicinity of the Metropolis. Illuftrated by a CopperPlate, couloured from Nature, reprefenting the Infect in its various States. By William Curtis, Author of Flora Londinenfis. 4to, is. 6d. White, &c. 1782.

This fhort but accurate account of a very common infect, was feafonably published laft fpring, when fome perfons, of more zeal than knowledge, raifed an alarm among the good people of the metropolis, on its being found in uncommon numbers in the neighbouring trees and hedges. The only misfortune is, that wonderers feldom read, even if they can; unless it be fomething to wonder at! They love an object of aftonishment far better than dull matter-of-fact explanation, that defroys their amufement.

PHILOSOPHICAL.

Art. 33. The Phoenix: an Effay. Being an Attempt to prove, from Hiftory and Aftronomical Calculations, that the Comet, which, by its Approximation to our Earth, occafioned the Change made at the Fall, and at the Deluge, is the real Phoenix of the Ancients. By John Goodridge t. 8vo. 3s. Wells, in Cornhill. 1781.

In the very last number of our Journal, we informed the world, as far as the difcoverer enabled us, with the invention of the Philofopher's Stone. We have now an opportunity of announcing another great

This article has been mislaid.

Late Commander of one of his Majefty's packet-boats ftationed at Falmouth.

discovery,

difcovery, but of a different nature, and which will render the former This last difcovery is nothing of very little value 500 years hence. Jefs than the affigning the period, within a year or two, of the habitable earth's existence, or, in other words, the general conflagration.

The conduct of the two difcoverers is exceedingly different. The firft obferves the most profound and truly alchemistical secrecy, even with refpect to the hiftory of the invention, and only brings evidence of the fact. But our open-hearted Captain divulges all he knows, and relates every particular of the prophetic process. He declares his apprehenfions of the feverity of the ill-natured Critics: but, on the contrary, we almoft envy the honeft foul for the felf-complacency and conviction with which he affigns the date of the earth's final catastro❤ phe; at the fame time that we admire his diffidence, in thinking it prefumptuous to point out the day. As to when the conflagration is to take place,' fays he, have not in the least hinted either the day or month, in which it may happen; nor have I attempted to confine the time to a fingle year: but, unless it should please God to alter the courfe of the comet-for this is the grand inflrument of projeation in the Captain's fublime procefs-I am confident it will hap pen fome time in the year 2255 or 6.'

The comet above mentioned is that of 1680, whofe period is 575 This fame comet according to the Author, is the real years. Phanix of the ancients; which returns once in nearly 600 years, goes down to the altar of the fun, and is there burnt:'-but our Readers, who are inclined to patronize the labour of an old man, worn out at fea,' will, if we conjecture right, do a meritorious action in purchafing the volume; where they may at least be amused, in feeing how the honeft Captain, who is perfectly in earneft throughout, lets fly his Phoenix, now, alas! on her laft flight, and predicts her return.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Art. 34. Obfervations, and Clofer Remarks, on Commodore Johnstone's Letter to the Earl of Hillsborough, dated at Port Praya, Is. Stockdale. in the Island of St. Jago. By a Seaman. 8vo.

1782.

Commodore Johnstone, who had irritated Lord Howe's friends by his parliamentary ftrictures on that Commander, as we obferved on a former occafion, has by the account of his own action with the French in Port Praya road, afforded them opportunity for two retorts, not of the most courteous kind.-Turn and turn about.

Art. 35 Hints refpecting fome of the University Officers, its Jurisdiction, its Revenues, &c. fubmitted to the Confideration of the Members of the Senate of the University of Cambridge. By Robert Piumptree, D. D. Mafter of Queen's College. 8vo. 6 d. Cadell.

1782.

Not only from the decrease in the value of money fince 1570, when the Univerfity fees were regulated by ftatute, but from other caufes, the emoluments of the Vice-chancellor, and other officers, being no longer adequate to the trouble that attends them, Dr. Plumptree is of opinion, that fome new regulations ought to take place; but what those regulations should be, he has not specified referving

See Review, Vol. LXV. p 156.

the

the confideration of them till the fubject is fully debated in the fenate of the Univerfity.

Whenever the bufinefs of regulation comes before the University, it might not be unworthy of their attention to advert to another matter, which calls loudly for reform-the expences of refidence to the younger students; which are now almost intolerable, and will, if they are fuffered to increafe, foon render an University education unattain able by any but men of large forcune.

Art. 36. Memoirs of the Life and Writings (Profe and Verfe) of k-ch-d G-rd-n-r, Efq; alias Dick Merry-Fellow, of jerious and facetious Memory! Author of the History of Pudica; An Expedition to the West Indies; the Lynn Magazine; The Conteft; Letters to Sir H. H. and T. W. C. Efq.; the Tripping Jury, &c. 8vo. 3 s. 6d. Kea fly. 1782.

We have tranfcribed nearly the whole of the title of this performance, principally for the fake of fuch of our Readers as may have perused fome of the works mentioned in it; and may, from thence, have acquired fome curiofity to learn any anecdotes of the author of them. The greatest part of thefe compofitions is of a local and temporary nature; and can only be relithed, and indeed understood, by an inhabitant of the county of Norfolk: for though the life of the gentleman, who is the fubject of this piece of biography and criticism, may afford entertainment in the circle of his acquaintance, by reminding them of what they otherwise might have forgot; it is not to be fuppofed that the Public at large can intereft themselves very deeply in reading the particulars of a life not variegated by any very fingular events; and chiefly compiled from writings which were, with a few exceptions, even originally, circulated within a very narrow compass. Extracts, however, from thefe works, are occafionally and frequently given; and perhaps ftill more frequently the obfervations and refections of the Biographer.

In the greater part of thefe extracts, the Reader will meet with much political, provincial, electioneering, and perfonal fatire; with a little panegyric intermixed, invitá Minerva. Their prevailing feature is inequality. The biographer does not imitate the manner of our polite neighbours, the French; who, in their Eloges, constantly adhere to the old maxim of De mortuis nil nifi bonum. What could be his motives for writing and publishing thefe Memoirs, we cannot conjecture: but reverence, or affection for the subject of them, notwith landing his occafional praises, could fcarce be of the number. NOVEL S.

Art. 37. Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman. Tranflated from the French of J. J. Rouleau. Small 8vo. fewed. Bew. 1781.

29.

Not Rouffeau's, but in many refpe&ts worthy of his exquifite pen. The story is interefting and pathetic: and the letters are written with fpirit and elegance.. We are forry to have omitted noticing this lule novel fo long.

Art. 38. Blandford Races. A Novel, in Two Vols. fmall 8vo. 6 s. bourd. Bew. 1782.

This is one of thofe neutral things whofe " generation is fo equivocal," that it would puzzle Aristotle himfelf to characterize them. RELIGIOUS,

RELIGIOUS.

Art. 39. A New Hiftory of the Holy Bible. By a Lady. 8vo. 3s. Boards. Ipfwich, unchard; London, Rivington, &c. It is the laudable design of this female writer, to intice young perfons into an acquaintance with the Scriptures, by giving the nittorieal parts of the Bible a modern drefs; connecting the feveral portions in a continued narrative, and relating the facts in a copious paraphrafe, and with interfperfed reflections. The prefent volume is employed upon the book of Genefis: it is written in an agreeable ftyle, and may be very useful to those for whom it is defigned. If the work meets with the approbation of the Public, it is to be continued.

Art. 40. St. Paul's Reafons for not being afhamed of the Gospel. A Sermon preached at Salter's Hall, May 15, 1782, at the Ordination of the Rev. Hugh Worthington, Jun. and the Rev. Robert Jacomb. By Andrew Kippis, D. D. F. R. S. and S. A. To which are added, the Questions propofed by the Rev. Michael Pope to the Gentlemen ordained; and the Charge by the Rev. Hugh Worthington. 8vo. 1s. Buckland.

Ordination fubjects are so hacknied, that it would require a more than ordinary degree of genius to fay any thing original or ftriking on fuch exhaufted topics. With refpect to the prefent performances, what is wanting in novelty, is made up in wholesome doctrine: and if there is but little to captivate the curious, or gratify the critical, there is much to edify the ferious, and nothing to offend the judi cious.

SERMONS.

I. Erroneous Opinions concerning Providence refuted; the true Notion ftated and illuftrated, by the Events which have lately happened to this Nation. Preached in the Parish Church of Great Yarmouth, Feb. 28, 1782. To which are added Notes. Published by requeft. By Samuel Cooper, D. D. Minifter of that Parish. 4to. 1 S. Becker. 1782.

This is a fenfible, ingenious, and animated difcourfe. The reader may form fome idea of the Author's fentiments and manner from the following extract:

It must indeed be acknowledged, that even in the common occurrences of human life fome events befal us, which are feemingly fo unconnected with any prior caufes, fo furprizing, if not altoge ther fingular, fo wonderful, if not abfolutely miraculous, that it is fometimes difficult to difcern the marks of difcrimination; and they are allowed by almost every one to be fuch striking demonftrations of a divine providence, that, for the moment at least, they roufe the most careless, and appal the most abondoned.' ... • All fuch events, the pious but hafty zealot inftantly pronounces to be marks of a miraculous interpofition. But by feeming to confine the divine agency to thefe particular events, he occafions in fome a dif belief of its operations in the more general course of human affairs; whilst others, discovering that regular though latent series of caufes and effects, by which fome fingular acquifition or deliverance was

brought