fermon occafioned by the death of the reverend Mr. John Gawfel, preached at the Chapel in churcb-gate fireet, Bury St. Edmunds, July 17, 1768.

MR

R. Gawfel, was certainly a gentleman of an amiable character; but this piece is no better than a fleepy

Şermon.

A letter from T. Harris, to G. Colman, on the affairs of CoventGarden theatre, to which is prefixed, an addrefs to the public 1s. 6d. Fletcher and Co.

it is that Mr. Harris will not employ a better

PITY band

to defend him, when one of the best writers publishes a

gainst him!

The true nature and intent of religion. A fermon preached in the cathedral church of Durham, on the 15th of May, 1768. being the Sunday after the interment of the late reverend Dr. Bland, fenior prebend of that church, by Edmund Law, D. D. 6d. Charnley,

OH! LA W!

A defence of the doubts concerning the authenticity of the last publication of the confeffional &c. in answer to occafional remarks, 8vo, 6d. J. and F. Rivington.

HE fubjects of this debate, are the declarations of Charles II, from Breda, and that prefixed to the thirtymine articles, together with the fignification of the words inferi, and hell, &c. And the difputants make use of all the arts of polemical divinity,

#full and impartial view of the trial of Donald Maclane, who was indicted at the affizes at Guildford, for the wilful murder of William Allen. 8vo. 1s. Harris,

HE public may judge of the impartiality of the author, when he is informed, that he was the writer of the fummary of the trial of Justice Gillam, published in the public Ledger. To prevent impofition, we would advife this thing of an author to alter his title page, into "A foolish, and partial "view of the trial of Donald Maclane, who was indicted at

the affize at Guildford, for the skillful murder, &c.”

The

The conduct of Ralph Hodgson, Efq; one of his Majesty's juftices of the peace, for the county of Middlefex, in the affair of the Coal-beavers. 8vo. Is. Nicoll.

OW truly facts are represented by the juftice, we will

HOW

not venture to fay; he bears hard upon Mr. Green, and makes great pretentions to humanity, and difintereftednefs. But it should be remembered, that if Mr. Green bears hard upon the juftice in his evidence at the Old Bailey, that evidence was given in upon oath, a circumstance in which the juftice's account feems to be defective.

A further defence of prieftcraft; being a particular improvement of the Shaver's fermon, on the expulfion of fix young gentlemen from the univerfity of Oxford. 8vo. Keith.

Tfcurrility and impertinence!

HE production of fome hireling fcribbler, abounding in

A lecture on moving figures, representing the principal actors on our political ftage, as they really are, divefted of falfe colourings of party or prejudice. By fignior Fidalgo, of Chelfea. 8vo. Is. Wilkic.

A Vain attempt to be witty at the expence of perfons of

character; and as ridiculous for the fulfomenets of the encomium paid to a late first Lord of the admiralty.

The rudiments of English grammar, adapted to the ufe of fchools, with notes and obfervations for the use of those who have made fome proficiency in the language. By Jofeph Priestly, L. L. D. F. R. S. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Becket and de Hondt.

T

HE author's defign is

good, fome of his obfervations are new and useful; but it were to be wished that he had not quoted Scotch tranflators, or the journeymen of Scatch tranflators, as standards of the English language.

Libellus de Natura, curationeque fcorbuti, auctore Nathanaele Hulme. To which is annexed a propofal for preventing the fcurvy in the British navy. 8vo. 35. Cadell.

THIS is an attempt in which the author has fhewn great humanity and precifion. The anecdotes or cafes he has introduced, are fingular and diverting. With refpect to the author's Latin ftyle we have little to fay; but when we find him beginning a fentence with a "ut pote cum autem;" we cannot help thinking of Tom Brown's declamation, confifting entirely of adverbs.

An

An effay on the difeafes incident to literary and fedentary persons® By S. A. Tillot, M. D. 12mo. 25. Dilly.

S literary and fedentary perfons are much indebted A to the Dr. for his thus interefting himself for their prefervation, the leaft they can do in return is, to recommend his effay to the attention of the studious.

Obfervations on the dropfy in the brain, by Robert Whytt, M. D. late phyfician to his Majefty, prefident of the royal college of phyficians, profeffor of medicine in the univerfity, and F. R. S. To which are added his other treatifes, never hitherto published by themselves. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Becket.

A

Performance which difplays industry, fagacity, and precifion, and does great honour to the author.

Remarks and differtations on Virgil: with fome other claffical obfervations, by Mr. Holdsworth. Published with feveral notes and additional remarks, by Mr. Spence. 4to. 11. 1os. Dodfley. THO' this work, on the whole, fhews a parade, or oftentation of learning, yet it abounds with curious remarks that may be no lefs improving to the learned, than to the illiterate.

The academy of play; containing a full defeription of the laws of play, now obferved in the academies of paris, relating to the following games, picquet, quadrille, ombre, &c. &c. From the French of the Abbé Bellecour 12mo. 35. F. Newbery

T HO' cards may hold a principal place in the diverfions of the illiterate, no one can read of an academy for gaming, without a fmile. The author has indeed done juftice to his fubjects, and his treatife is more perfect than any that have preceded.

An expofition of the church catechism, in a new method, adapted both to the young chriftian and the adult, with variety of origina al notes. To which are added, four fermons, on confirmation, education, the choice of a wife, and a friend; with morning and evening prayers, by the Rev. James Penn, vicar of Clavering. cum Langley, in the county of Effex, and chaplain to the right hon. earl Gower. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Horsfield.

ork HIS is the performance of the merry parfon, who has

before us, may be of fervice to children; and though it is equal to the former pieces of this author, it is much to be queftioned whether it can be of any advantage to adults.

THE

POLITICAL REGISTER,

For NOVEMBER, 1768.

NUMBER XX.

To the Author of the POLITICAL REGISTER.

SIR,

AF

Την ελευθερίαν το καλλιτον και περιμαχιμωτάτον άθλον.

Plutarch in the life of T. Q. Flaminius

October 29, 1768.

FTER the great variety of pieces, which to this hour have appeared for and against Mr. Wilkes, that sub◄ ject does not feem yet exhaufted, nor indeed is every particular of importance relative to his public conduct hitherto known and authenticated. I fay, fir, public conduct, r for I am entirely of opinion with ******, who declares, "I do not think myself at liberty to fcan the private actions "of any man, but have a right to confider the conduct of every man in public, and to approve or to condemn his

doings, as they appear to me to be calculated, either for "the good or the hurt of his country." A letter concerning libels, warrants, &c. firft published in 1764. I fhall not now stay to fhew how far the equity of this rule was vioVOL. III.

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lated

lated by the concealed author himself before he got half through his pamphlet, in a manner equally indecent and unjust to a fick and absent friend, whom he bafely wounded; but after the long harveft, which you, fir, and your brother authors and printers have made of Mr. Wilkes, I fhall venture to offer you a few tolerable gleanings.

The public, fir, have a right to ask why Mr. Wilkes did not perfonally attend the trials for the re-publication of the North Briton, No. 45, and the Efay on Woman, as he did all the actions brought by the printers apprehended under the general warrant. We ought likewife to be told why he was not present in the house of commons, when the charge against him was heard on the 19th of january 1764. The juftice of the nation, and his own personal honour, demanded his appearance. He had made an appeal to his country, and the cause of liberty had a particular claim on a man, who had pledged himfelf in its defence. He was prevented, not by fear, to which I believe him a ftranger, but by a prohibition from the highest of all powers, by a dangerous illness. Towards the end of december 1763, he went during the recefs of parliament to pass the holidays with an only daughter, who was at Paris for a part of her education. That journey being generally made in four days, often in three, the distance was of no confequence, fince in fo fhort a time he could hear from his friends. He was feized at Paris with a violent fever. A confiderable inflammation, with other bad fymptoms, attended the dangerous wound he received in a duel with Mr. Martin. In this condition he tranfmitted to the speaker on the 11th of january 1764, an original certificate of his ill health, figned by the French king's phyfician and a furgeon of his army. He requested in the letter a more diftant day, that he might have it in his power to attend the difcuffion of points, fo very important in themselves, and in which he was fo very materially concerned; but the decree of expulfion had pafled the lips of the Scottish minifter to his slaves, the minifters of the day, to whom,for a fhort time he had delegated his omnipotence. They were empowered in a

proper