The charges unfortunately do not come in a regular and official way, fo as to enable the colonel to prove by public trial his allegations, but through the channel of a newspaper, in which he prints what he had before addreffed privately to the duke in writing.

So far does Mr. Debbeig's intemperance hurry him that he accufes his commanding officer of rejecting his affiftance at a board of fea and land officers, appointed by him (the duke), under a vote of the Houfe of Commons; but it is well known that the bill intended to conftitute fuch a board was, thrown out in the House! This circumftance the duke enlarged upon in the course of the profecution; but we do not find a word of what he faid on the subject in the Authentic Copy of the Proceedings' we are examining.

Colonel Debbeig's,

Two points in the trial we cannot pafs over. letter was copied from the Gazetteer, in which it was firft inferted, by his order, and into the Public Advertiser of the enfuing day. When the duke demands of him whether its appearance in the latter print was by his direction, or with his confent or knowledge, he evades the question. And when the duke alledges that his fpeaking in direct terms of the want of a fortified harbour points out to our natural enemy the weakness of our national defence, the colonel infifts that the obfervation was in general terms only, and could tend to no fuch effect!

ART. 24.

A Letter to a Member of Parliament on the Cafe of the Proteftant Diffenters. 8vo. is. Faulder. London, 1789. This letter contains a fund of legal and conftitutional remark on the expediency of a general repeal of all penal statutes that regard religious opinion, which deferve to be well confidered by the promoters and abettors of that measure. It exhibits at the fame time a moderation and candour peculiarly laudable and exemplary on a fubject that has produced fo much animofity on both fides; and it is written with a manly and difpaffionate attention to the true state of the question, the interests it involves, and the confequences most likely to follow from a rash or premature decision.

ART. 25. First Report of the Philanthropic Society, inftituted in London September 1788, for the Prevention of Crimes. 8vo. 1s. Becket. London, 1789.

This highly laudable fociety has now been established a twelvemonth, and, being formed upon principles rather of police than of charity, promises, if well conducted, to become of great advantage to the public. The founders of this inftitution were of opinion that in the general application of charitable funds, policy had been too little regarded; and that, upon the whole, the prefent ftate and management of benevolencies were productive of actual injury to mankind. Convinced that the only way of rendering charity truly ufeful, is by encouraging induftry among the lower claffes of the people; and particularly by refcuing from wretchedness, idleness, and ruin, the helpless children of unfortunate or vicious parents; it is the peculiar object of their inftitution to take under its protection those children who would otherwise be not only miferable in themselves,

but become both extremely dangerous and pernicious to their coun try. An inftitution fo judicioufly planned, and wifely directed, cannot fail of meeting with the warmeft approbation of every friend of virtue and humanity. We have the pleasure to find that it has already obtained a very refpectable lift of fubfcribers. Our limits. will not permit us to enter farther into the merits, the plan, or prefent circumstances, of this inftitution; but, from the Report before us, there is every reafon to hope that the humane and liberal efforts of the Philanthropic Society will be productive of happinefs to many individuals, and of great utility to the public; as the inftitution, by preventing poverty and idlenefs, the great fources both of natural and moral evil in a state, mult greatly diminish the influence of temptation, and confequently the commiffion of crimes.

ART. 26. The Letter to the most infolent Man alive answered. 8vo. 15. Stockdale. London, 1789.

The Letter to the most infolent Man alive was fo ftrongly marked with petulance, malignity, and party prejudices, that it could not but immediately fink into oblivion by its own extreme illiberality. The answer now before us is written entirely in the fame ftrain. We therefore give it likewise a passport to the regions of dulnefs and defamation.

ART. 27. Swift's Letter to the King; in which the Conduct of Mr. Lenox and the Minifer, in the Affair with his Royal Highness the Duke of York, is fully confidered. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Ridgeway. London, 1789.

Mr. Swift arrogates the praife of having fully confidered the conduct of Mr. Lenox and the minifter in the fubject of which he treats; but we cannot, in justice, admit the validity of his pretenfions. We fhall, if he pleafes, and indeed we muft of neceffity, allow him to be, what perhaps he esteems of more confequence, a violent party-man. But when he confiders the affair a little more fully, he will be of opinion that he has not only dragged the minifter into an affair in which he had not the fmalleft concern, but that he has improperly attempted to approach the royal ear with crude and malicious infinuations.

ART. 28. An Anfer to the Letter of Theophilus Swift, Efq. on the Subject of the Royal Duel. 8vo. 6d. Stalker. London, 1789. This answer is not much diftinguished by elegance of ftyle, or phiFofophical dignity of fentiment; but it contains many, juft obfervations, and, in truth, faps the whole foundation of Mr. Swift's laboured letter to the king.

MEDICAL

ART. 29. A Tale of Truth, addreffed to Arthritis; containing a fecure, cheap, and certain Remedy for the Gout. Svo. 6d. Kearfley. London, 1789.

The remedy recommended by this honeft arthritic, from his own perfonal experience, is opium. But, had his experience been more

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extenfive, he would probably have been lefs confident in his affurances of fuccefs, and much more difcriminating in his therapeutic injunctions.

ART. 30. A fhort Appendix to Dr. Monro's Treatife on Medical and Pharmaceutical Chymistry, and the Materia Medica. To which is added an Answer to the Remarks of the Critical Review for October 1788 on the first Volume of the faid Work. 8vo. 1s. Cadell. London, 1789.

This appendix contains fome articles which had been omitted in the Treatife. In refpect of the Answer fubjoined by the author, it would be invidious, and is now unneceffary, for us to give any opinion.

ART. 31. Clare's Treatife on the Gonorrhea; and on the fuperior Efficacy of the Cure by Injection. 8vo. 1s. Cadell. London, 1789.

Mr. Clare's Treatife is generally well known to practitioners. The prefent edition of it is confiderably improved; and to render it farther useful, the author has now very properly annexed a concife view of the formulæ for different injections.

DIVINITY.

ART. 32. A Charge, delivered at Bridport, Dorfetfire, on the 10th of July 1789, at the Ordination of the. Rev. Thomas Howe; and on the 16th of the fame Month at Ringwood, Hants, at the Ordination of the Rev. William Gellibrand. By Andrew Kippis, D.D. FR. S. and S. A. Published by Request. 8vo. No Bookfeller's Name. London, 1788.

A fenfible difcourfe on the ftudies, duties, and conduct of a minifter of the gospel. In this charge Dr. Kippis has not completed the plan he had laid down; but he means, fhould he ever again be called to the like service, to consider the remainder of the subject. ART. 33. Thoughts on various Kinds of Error, particularly with regard to modern Unitarian Writers. By the Rev. John Weddard, Vicar of St. John Baptift, Peterborough, and Member of Trinity College, Cambridge. 8vo. is. Rivingtons. London, 1789.

This writer takes up the diftinguishing tenets of the unitarians in a very ferious and momentous point of view. He appreciates the parts and virtues of many who take a lead in thefe opinions very highly, and regrets, with much apparent concern, the licentiousness of their belief. He takes a good deal of pains to afcertain the true caufes of their errors, and with fome probability afcribes them to an abuse of principle; the love of fingularity and paradox; the impertinence of an exceffive curiofity; and the domineering influence of prejudice. His remarks are fenfible, but without tafte, acuteness, or novelty; and though no where tawdry or incorrect, we conceive, upon the whole, the pamphlet to be executed in a ftyle neither equal to the author's intention, nor the importance of the fubject.

ART.

ART. 34. Remarks on Dr. Horfley's Ordination Sermon, in a Letter to the Lord Bishop of Gloucefter. By Gilbert Wakefield, B. A. and late Fellow of Jefus College, Cambridge. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Deighton.

London, 1789.

We never were more at a lofs than to reconcile the spirit in which this publication is written with these declarations of its author, I am not petulant-I have no ill humours to gratify. For to estimate his performance by the acrimony and virulence which diftinguish it, we think it poffeffed of no common merit. And it affords one very elegant example of the well-known adage, that the wifeft of men are often moft blind to their own frailties.'

ART. 35. Man incapable of spiritual Fervour and Difcernment without the illuminating Prefence of his Saviour, maintained and illuftrated in a Difcourfe preached by a Youth. 8vo. 1s. Parfons. London, 1789. Notwithstanding the oddity of this puritanical title, the discourse before us discovers no common share both of genius and taste. Enthufiaftic it certainly is, in a very high degree; but it is the enthufiafm of the heart. And the fame ebullition of intelligence and fenfibility on any of the fine arts would have entitled our author to the appellation of a mafter. He is probably, however, happier in cultivating both in himself and others thefe devotional fervours; and we have only to with Providence may render his pursuits, whatever they are, equal to his merits...

ART. 36. A Sermon on the public as well as private Advantages of Hofpitals. By the Rev. Thomas Willis, LL.D. Prebendary of Lincoln, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Monfon. 8vo. Is.

London, 1789.

In this fenfible and elegant difcourfe we find many original and useful obfervations, both on public and private charities. The great object of the fermon is to fhew that, although poverty and indigence are relieved by an hofpital, riches and power are at the fame time partakers of thofe bleffings which it widely diffufes over the public at large, thus gratefully repaying the hand that feeds it. In illuftrating this point our author confiders hofpitals as nurseries of medical fcience, as excitements of exemplary benevolence, as a check to the impofitions of ignorant pretenders to phyfic, as affording an opportunity for penitential recollection, and enjoying the important benefit of clerical attendance on a bed of fickness. Such, in his opinion, are the principal good effects which hofpitals produce. And we heartily agree with him that, in whatever way we are led to confider them, whether as promoting the cause of religion, or the welfare of fociety, they equally maintain the utility of the inftitution, and forcibly folicit protection and support.

ART.

ART. 37. A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Buckingham, in Recommendation of a Sunday School for the Inftruction of poor Children. By the Rev. William Eyre, A M. Curate of the faid Church. 8vo. Robinfons. London, 1789.

IS.

This fermon is by a curate; but we have seen a much worse from a bishop. The fubject is trite, but the genius and philanthropy of the preacher renders it interesting.

ART. 38. Slave-Trade; a Sermon preached at Stonehouse Chapel, De cember 28, 1788 By John Bidlake, A.B. of Chrift Church, Oxford, Chaplain to the Right Hon. Earl Ferrers, and Master of the Grammar School, Plymouth. 8vo. Is. Law. London, 1789.

This stale topic, which has fo lately been the ftalking-horfe of popularity, feems no longer fufceptible of novelty or intereft. The paroxyfm with good John Bull is now nearly over; who, notwithftanding his compaffion for the poor Africans, thinks it not unreafonable to commence the work of mercy in his own neighbourhood, be-` fore he go beyond fea in quest of objects; and that there is both fenfe and prudence in the common proverb, that charity begins at home. There is nothing fingular in Mr. Bidlake's mode of treating the fubject, except a strong propenfity to make a facrifice of his countrymen to the feelings of negroes. He aims much at the pathetic; but, confidering the tragic fcenes he defcribes, we think with indifferent fuccefs. And, as old Rowley fays to Sir Peter in the play, on an occafion perhaps not more ludicrous, we fhould have liked to have feen the faces of the fchoolboys on hearing their mafter yelping against cruelty. The following phrafeology is not very confiftent with pulpit fimplicity: concentration, aberration, beatified choir of ce leftial beings, attrition of adverfity, condenfation of the noxious vapours, nutritive aliment, particle of divine compofition, toilfome drudgery, cutaneous affections.

AGRICULTURE.

ART. 39. The Gentleman Farmer's Pocket Campanion, or General Remembrancer; defcribing the best and most practicable Methods of improving barren or wafie and worn-out Lands. With the Nature and Application of the most proper Grass Seeds; fhewing the great Advantage to be derived from cultivating them. Aljo a full Description of the feveral Soils moft advantageous for the Propagation of artificial Graffes. To which is added a copious Account of Manures, and their Application to different Soils. By a Gentleman well versed in modern Agriculture. 12mo. Is. Forfter. London, 1788.

All included in fifty pages fmall duodecimo!-Concifenefs we ever deem one of the most eftimable qualities in writing; but to be concife, and to be fort, are different things. A work may be short, and at the fame time diffuje. It may be fhort in confequence of numerous omiffions, though it may be diffuse by unneceffarily

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