attack on his fortune, in endeavouring to deprive his Lordship, to the amount of 30,000!, per annum, which was fettled on him by Meir Jaffier, the late Nabob, as a reward for the fervices he rendered him, in advancing him to that dignity. His Lordship gives a brief detail of the fituation of affairs when he undertook their direction; and after a modest ingenious account of his conduct, both military and civil, he appeals to the Court of Directors for the truth of the facts, and calls upon them to declare, whether they think, that without the battle of Plaffey, and its confequences, the Eaft-India Company would have been at this time exifting? Art. 32. An Address to the Proprietors of East-India Stock; Setting forth the unavoidable Neceffity and real Motives, for the Revolu tion in Bengal in 1760. By John Zephaniah Holwell, Efq; 4to. 2s. Becket, &c. The purport of this pamphlet is, to justify the depofition of Meir Jaffier, and the fhare which Governor Vanfittart is alledged to have had in that tranfaction. For this purpofe, we have a long account of various correfpondencies between Mr. Halden, Major Caillaud, and others, tending to expose the weakness, barbarity, and treachery of Meir Jaffer and from thence to infer the neceffity of depofing him. Art. 33. Facts relating to the Treaty of Commerce lately concluded by Governor Vanfittart, without the Confent of his Council, with the Nabob of Bengal: Together with Copies of fome original Papers. 4to. Is, 6d. Becket, &c. This, as may be inferred from the title, is a fevere ftricture on Mr. Vanfittart's treaty; which, if this Writer's animadverfions are well founded, was highly exceptionable. Art. 34. An Addrefs to the Proprietors of East-India Stock. 4to. 6d. Kearfly. What has been ftated in former pamphlets, is here repeated. The Writer imputes our difafters to the want of experience in a Governor brought from a diftant fettlement; and to the turning out a number of Counsellors, by orders from home, for no other crime, but an attachment to Jaffer Ally Cawn, who, at this time, must be either Soubah, or the English drove out of the country. Art. 35. Reflections on the prefent State of our Eaft-India Affairs, with many interefting Anecdotes never before made public. By a Gentleman long refident in India. 8vo. Is. 6d. Lownds, The Author takes a great fcope, too wide for us to follow him. He writes in a spirited style, though fometimes intermixed with too much levity. Upon the whole, he blames the depofition of Meir Jaffier, and does not speak very favourably of the Governor who is fuppofed to have promoted the revolution. How far he is culpable, we leave others to determine; we will only obferve, that the majority of these printed narratives concur in cenfuring his conduct. Art. Art. 36. Another Letter from a Proprietor of India Stock, to his Friend, a Proprietor. Wherein are contained, two authentic Papers from the Nabob, Coffem Ally Khan: which give farther Light into the Grounds of the prefent Disturbances. 8vo. 6d. Bathurst. This is in vindication of the Governor; and a material charge against him is here denied: for it is contended, that he never concluded a treaty of commerce without the concurrence of his Council. With regard to the two Letters from the Nabob, if they were really penned by him, they are strong evidence of his abilities; for they are in truth much better written than most of the pieces which have appeared upon the fubject. Art. 37. A Supplement to the Narrative of what happened in Bengal in the Year 1760, confifting of Letters from a Proprietor of India Stock, to his Friend, a Proprietor; as alfo fome authentic Papers which paffed in the Council at Calcutta, and give a Light into the prefent Difputes. 8vo. 6d. Bathurst. It will be fufficient to fay of this little piece, that it tends to justify the conduct of the Governor; and the Writer takes it for granted, that the revolution in 1760, has nothing to do with the merits of the prefent difpute. QUACKER Y. Art. 38. The Virtues of Sage, in Lengthening Human Life. With Rules to attain old Age, with Health and Chearfulness. By Dr. Hill. 8vo. 6d. Baldwin. What an inexhauftible fource of advantage to individuals, is the credality of mankind in general!Availing himfelf of this well-tried and well-known fund, and of the old faying, Cur moriatur homo cui Salvia crefcit in horto ? . the very ingenious Author of this pamphlet has put forth a new Noßrum for the year 1764: the Bardana and Honey beginning, perhaps, to grow a little out of date. Next year, we fhall probably have a Tincture of Rofes, or Balfam of St. John's Wort:-In fhort, the Doctor's garden at Baywater may poffibly turn out to be one of the finest eftates in the county. MISCELLANEOUS. Art. 39, The Reign of George VI. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Nicoll. Of this odd production the Author himfelf gives the following ac Count:" In the history of George VI. fays he, we find few or none of thofe episodes or particular circumftances that might happen among the great men of his time; the hiftorian has confined himself to the ac tions of the Prince alone; and in the account of the exploit, little more than names any principal Commander, directing his whole attention to the conduct of the King. He paints him refolute, wife, and magnanimous at home; vigilant, intrepid, and fortunate abroad; fuc cessful against domeftic factions, and victorious over foreign enemies; a promoter of arts and sciences, an encourager of religion and virtue, and, in fhort, draws him a very great king, and a truly good man.-We fhall not, adds he, offer fo poor a compliment to the Reader, as to mention any perfonage of the prefent age, of English growth, who deferves the character given to the hero of the future: but we fhall very much pity his understanding, if he meets with any difficulty in finding him out." If the Author's main defign in this precurfory performance was to pay a compliment to his prefent majefty, we cannot but think his plan as aukward an one, as his execution of the defign is fuperficial and boyish. It is probably the work of fome callow writer, of more vivacity than judgment or genius. The witlings of the prefent generation are in too much hafte to fnatch the honours of authorship :-They would become writers before they have well learnt to read. ༥ Art. 40. The Caftrated Sheet in the Sixth Volume of Biographia Britannica, containing a curious Letter of Sir Thomas Hanmer, wherein is difcovered the firft Rife of the prefent Bishop of Glocefter's Quarrel with that Bart. about his Edition of Shakespear's Plays. To which is prefixed, an impartial Account of the extraordinary Means employed to fupprefs this remarkable Letter. By. a Proprietor of that Work. Folio. Is. Pridden. We can difcern nothing fo very remarkable or curious in this letter of Sir Thomas Hanmer's, as to have rendered it worthy of this fpecial publication, with fuch abundance of narrative and commentary about and about it. There was a misunderstanding between Sir Thomas and Mr. Warburton, in regard to fome notes communicated by the latter, and inferted by the former, in his edition of Shakespeare. The Letter here fpoken of, and printed, was written by Sir Thomas to the late Dr. Jofeph Smith of Oxford, and contained fome lighting expreffions concerning the Reverend Annotator, but of little or no importance to the world. This letter, however, with two others on the fame fubject falling into the hands of Mr. Philip Nicholls*, a writer in the Biographia Britannica, and a proprietor alfo in that work, he thought it expedient to enrich his compilation, by inferting them in his account of the life of the said Dr. Smith. In this defign he was however fruftrated, by the management of the other proprietors, who, out of refpect to the Bishop of Glocefter, cancelled the fheet which contained the moft material of the three letters, and published the work without it. Mr. Nicholls, in refentment of this procedure, has here published the letter in queftion, with a circumftantial narrative of the means by which he became poffeffed of the letters, of his previously communicating the peculiarly offenfive one to the Bishop of Glocester, of that Prelate's fuppofed influence over the other proprietors, and of the steps they took in order to fupprefs its publication; together with fundry notes and anecdotes relating to Sir Thomas Hanmer, particularly to his being honoured with a place in Mr. Pope's Dunciad. In fine, Mr. Nicholls appears to be very angry with his affociates in the Biographia, but more efpecially angry with the Bishop; who feems, on his part, indeed, to have paid no great respect to our learned Biographer, having mentioned * Who bere figns bin felf "A poor penitent Thief." The meaning of have do not unierßland. him rather contemptuously (as the good Prelate's manner fometimes is) in a paper containing remarks on Hanmer's letter, and a refutation of its contents; which has already appeared in the Chronicles, &c.-But, in our opinion, the whole difpute is a mere wrangling contest de lanê caprina, and utterly unworthy the attention of the public. Art. 41. The Life of Prince Albert Henry of Brunfwick Luneburg, Brother to the Hereditary Prince, who fo eminently distinguished himself in the Battle of Fellinghaufen, at the Head of a Regi ment of Scotch Highlanders; containing alfo the excellent Plan of Education for the Princes of that family. Written originally in German, by the Reverend Mr. Hierufalem. 8vo. Curtis, &c. The Life of this lamented young hero, being written by a retainer of the houfe of Brunfwick Luneburg, difgufts the Reader with fulfome panegyric, and fuch high-wrought encomiums as no human being ever deferved. Moreover, it is not rendered the more agreeable by being plentifully interlarded with German divinity, of which we have, of fate, had fuch abominable inundations. We have seen fome biographical accounts of our Edward the Sixth, written in the fame fanatical ftrain. Art. 42. Letters to the Dutchefs of Lefdiguieries; giving an Account of a Voyage to Canada, and travels through that vaft Country, and Louifiana, to the Gulph of Mexico. Undertaken by Order of the prefent King of France. By Father Charlevoix. 8vo. 4 s. boards. Goadby. As we have given a pretty ample account of this work, in our Review for December 170, when a tranflation of thefe letters was publifhed under the title of a Journal of a Voyage to North America, it is needless for us to take any farther notice of it in this place, than juft to obferve, that the whole fubftance of the two volumes formerly publifhed for Dodfley, is, by an industrious book-maker, here crammed into one. Art. 43. A letter of Advice from Alma Mater, to her beloved Son, Jemmy Twitcher. 4to. I s. Pottinger. Low and contemptible abuse of L▬▬▬d S▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬k. To the AUTHORS of the MONTHLY REVIEW. GENTLEMEN, Boston in the Province of the Massachusets-Bay in YOUR known candor, and love to truth, has encouraged me to fend Y you the inciofed. I am, with pleafure, IN Your conftant reader and humble servant. N your Review for May 1763, p. 403, art. 17. in the account of A Plan for improving the Trade at Senegal, &c. I find the following words words, quoted from the Author; viz. I fhall, fays he, confine myself to North America, and compare the Province of New-England, our oldeft fettlement there, with that of our lately fettled one, Penfilvania; and let any one give me any tolerably probable reason, for the one excelling the other so much in commerce, the improvement of lands, &c.; but that Penfilvania owns no laws merely religious, nor punishes any man for a crime that does not immediately affect fociety." Upon which paffage I am to obferve, that the Author does not appear to know much of this part of the world; for New-England, which he calls a Province, confifts of four Provinces, viz. Maffachufets, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode-Mand; and their laws are as different from each other, as those of any other four provinces on the Continent. Rhode-iflanders are as lax in their laws relating to religious matters, as any people in America; yet we do not, from hence, find any of thofe good effects which he fuppofes to be the confequence of fuch a remiffness: for they have kept more at a ftand these last fifty years, than any of the other New-England provinces. But poffibly I may give a better reafon for the quick growth of Penfilvania, than that which the aboye Author has affigned. I allow that New-England is an older fettlement than Penfilvania, though not fo old as Virginia; but their manner of fettlement has been very different, The Maffachufets (for that is the Province I fuppofe the Author had reference to) was fettled by a few original planters who came hither upon principle, to avoid the intollerable reigns of the arbitrary Stuart Family. Their number was very inconfiderable at firft, and there hath been but very small importations fince the happy Revolution; fo that most of our prefent numbers are the direct produce of the original fettlers, and that to a degree, perhaps, exceeding any thing to be found in hiftory. The original fettlers of the Massachufets only cannot be reckoned at more than 2000, men, women, and children. I fay Maffachusets only, as Connecticut, New-Hampthire, and Rhode-Island, have been in a great meafure fettled from this Province; and, by a late enumeration of the militia of this province, there appears to be near 70,000 males, from fixteen years and upwards, all in the space of little more than 140 years. This encrease we attribute, in a great measure, to our religious laws; if thofe which forbid fornication, and encourage matrimony, may be called fuch. How far our other laws relating to the ftrict keeping the Sab Bath, have a tendency to imprefs upon the minds of the people thofe virtues which are productive of industry and honesty, I leave to the eftimation of every fober-minded man; who will obferve, at the fame time, that we have no laws that infringe upon the confciences of any man. Every one has a right to worship God in what manner he pleases; while almost every one holds charity with his neighbour, though he differs in the mode of religious worship: So that no one need be deterred from fealing among us for fear of perfecution; or the leaft infringement upon rational and fober liberty, if he rightly inform himfelf of our conftiution. We indeed have been spoken of as a rigid puritanic people; but, I believe, for no other reason, than the good order and general regard to the Sabbath, which has been obferved among us; which, I imagine, moit of the fober-thinking people of our Mother Country would be glad to fee revived among them. But, to return, Op the other hand, Philadelphia, or Penfilvania, has been fettled |