or, poffibly, the Public was not worthy, of his own attention-Nay, indeed, we have reason to be thankful, that he did not appoint his Butler to introduce the brats to us.-Poor children! what an unnatural parent have they found! He profeffes to have begot them merely for his amufement; and afterwards to have prostituted them for the benefit of a Bookfeller!-alas! poor children!-But death will foon put an end to their miferies!

Art. 5. Elegies. By Robert Scott. 4to. Is. Burnet.

The fubjects and the fentiments are common; the harmony is tolerable, and the expreffion trite.

Art. 6. The Crifis: Being three State Poems. 8vo. 6d.

Williams.

More low and dirty abuse of the Scotch,-in the old, beaten, barren, itch and brimstone ftyle! Thefe poor Fleet-ditch Geniuses, who can do nothing but call names, and who are so totally deftitute of all the powers of imagination, have yet the impudence to abufe the hardy, manly Highlanders for their lack of breeches !

Art. 7. The Cap and Staff; or the Recantation of the Reverend Captain Charles Cll. Addreffed to John W―s, Ef2; Efai 4to. 2s. 6d. Gibson.

Brings Mr. Churchill to the ftool of repentance, though without the leaft authority for fo doing.- -How fhould the Author of this poem know when Mr. C intends to repent?-It is a ftrange thing, that a Gentleman cannot take his own time for that bufinefs, but mult be put upon it by the impertinence of every little fcurrilous Verfifier!

Art. 8. The Farewell, a Poem. By C. Churchill. 4to. 2s. 6d. Kearfly, &c.

The subject of this fadly-folemn Poem, is of a very interefting and alarming nature. The patriotic Bard is in doubt whether he should not leave his country, and go to the Eat-Indies.-Alas! poor England! what will become of her, if her last, last Patriot forfakes her? What have the fons of the Greeks done to offend Achilles? Have they taken away his Handmaid?—Let them restore him fourfold !— Alas! fhould this woeful event take place, what will become of us poor Critics we fhall perish for want of bread. -- Our friend, our whose pride and boat it was, that he generous friend Mr. Cfed us monthly, will he leave us to the griping paws of hunger, and fhall this be the last meal he will afford us -Ah cruel Farewell! most woeful of all woeful poems!

Art. 9. Mufe Anglo-Rhetorices, five Eclega quatuor unà cum Ode ab Alexandro Pope Anglicè confcriptæ a Rhetoribus Collegii Anglicani Brugis Latinè redditæ, Anno 1763..

If thofe arts that never can be useful, have any title to praife, an excellence in the compofition of Latin Verfe may claim its fhare. This tranflation

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tranflation of Pope's Paftorals, the work of different Gentlemen at the English college in Bruges, is executed with different merit; fome of the Pastorals being rendered in a ftyle of verfe truly Virgilian, others with lefs fuccefs; but all in pure and chaite Latinity. Nothing, however, could be more eafy than fuch a task: fince a great part of thofe poems being borrowed from Virgil, wanted only to be replaced in the original language. Pope's Paftorais are, indeed, with great propriety, called Eclogues; for they confit chiefly of paffages felected from former Writers; and probably this was the reafon why Virgil's poems of the fame kind obtained that title.-A conjecture which we wonder none of his Commentators, at least none that we remember, have hit upon.

Art. 10. Mr, Hervey's Meditations and Contemplations; attempted in Blank Verfe, after the Manner of Dr. Young By T. Newcomb, A. M. Small 8vo. 2 Vols. 43. fewed. Davis and Reymers.

In our XVIth volume, p. 289, feq. we gave a pretty full account of the first part of this undertaking, viz. the verfion of the Contemplations on the Night: and in vol. XVII. the Reader will alfo find our Review of the Flower Garden. These two articles we confider as fufficient fpecimens of Mr. Newcomb's performance; which is now compleated, by the addition of Meditations among the Tombs, Contemplations on the Starry Heavens, A Defiant on Creation, and A Winter-piece.

NOVELS.

Art. 11. The Rife and furprizing Adventures of Donald M'Gregor. Small 8vo. 2 Vols. 4s. Williams.

To fuch Readers as can be pleafed with flashy wit, and delighted with lewd intrigues, we recommend the Adventures of Donald McGregor. But as the Author feems capable of more reputable productions, we would advise him, for the future, to employ his talents in a manner that may redound more to his credit; when he writes again, he would moreover, do well to be more confiftent in his plan, than he has been in the flovenly production before us towards the conclufion of which, he abfurdly turns the low and rafcally intrigues of Donald, the knavish City-Broker, into the fcandalous common-place abuse of a certain unpopular northern Peer!

Art. 12. The History of Mifs Oakley. 12mo. 25. fewed. Printed for the Author, and fold by Bladon.

An agreeable trifle: written with more cafe and vivacity, than cor-rectness or judgment.

Art. 13. The Discovery; or, Memoirs of Mifs Marianne Middleton. By Mrs. Woodfin, Author of Harriot Watfon, Sally Sable, and of The Auction, a modern Novel, 12mo. 2 Vols. 6s. Lownds.

Mrs. Woodfin is a notable Spinfter of Novels. Befides the several Adventure-books mentioned above, fhe is the Author of Memoirs of a

Scotch

Scotch Family, and, probably, of many other fuch like performances, long fince buried in oblivion. She does not want invention; for which we are very forry; and hope that her school in Bullen Court in the Strand, will find her in better employment for the future, than in manufacturing tedious and trivial Romances.

Vid. Pref. Advert. p.xxxii.

Art. 14. Memoirs of the Princess of Monpenfier, and the Duke of Balatre. Tranflated from the French, 12mo. 2s. fewed. Wilkie.

Art. 15. Homer Travestie: Being a new Burlesque Tranflation of the Ten firft Books of the Iliad. By the Tranflator. The Second Volume. Small 8vo. 3s. bound. Hooper.

Of the first volume of this work, our Readers will find an account in our Review, vol. XXVI, page 454, to which we refer them for a character of this equally droll and indecent ribaldry. This kind of reading, we fuppofe, has had its day,

POLITICAL.

Art. 16. An Addrefs to the Public, on the late Difmiffion of a General Officer. 8vo. s. Nicoll.

1s.

What effect this fenfible and fpirited Addrefs will have upon the minds of the generality of Readers, we know not; the impartial and judicious, however, we are perfuaded, will read it with pleasure. The Author's defign is very laudable, and worthy of a good Citizen; it is to improve our confidence in the government under which we live, and to detect the malicious arts of thofe who would influence us to withdraw it. This confidence is, undoubtedly, the real firength apd fpirit of every kingdom; and whatever tends to leffen it, fhould be looked upon with a cautious jealouly. It should neither be given nor withdrawn, indeed, without the most impartial and fcrupulous confideration.

Our Author endeavours to make it appear, and, in our opinion, makes it clearly appear, that the army has no reason to complain of the difmiffion of the Officer in question, that he himself has not, upon the whole, received an injury as a private Citizen, nor the public any de-. triment. He does not mean to depreciate the General's conduct, or to fet it below that ftandard, which can be justified by fact, and a fair appeal to past tranfactions.

I am ready to allow him, fays he, what he unquestionably has, a Spirited courage; as to conduct, have we heard of this General Officer in the fame brilliant light as we did of Wolfe and of Amherft? Have we heard of him diftinguishing himself in Germany, as we did of Moftyn, Waldegrave, and others in the plains of Minden? heard of him at Rochefort; but the indulgent public draws a veil over that tranfaction, and though it might have been called forth

We have

in all its glaring

glaring colours, had he taken an active part in favour of adminiftration, the good caufe he is now engaged in, fanctifies every part of his former conduct.

• What tho' the trumpet of war founds no longer its big alarms, the General, even in this piping time of peace, may have an opportunity of being prefent at councils of war at Wildman's, and of figning refolutions that nothing can be done."

Art. 17. An annual Abstract of the Sinking Fund, from Michaelmas 1718, when it was first flated to Parliament, to the 10th of October 1763. By a Member of Parliament, many Years in the Treasury. 4to. 5 s. boards. Newbery, &c.

As this abstract of the account, Debtor and Creditor, of the Sinking Fund, from the first establishment thereof, to Michaelmas laft, is undoubtedly authentic, it cannot fail of being very acceptable to the public.

Art. 18. An Answer to the Budget. Infcribed to the Coterie.

4to. Is. Sumpter.

As it was afked of a bad Reader- Do you read, or do you fing? If you fing, you fing very ill.'-So it might be demanded of this Pamphleteer-Are you ferious, or in jeft? If you joke, you joke very ił.

Art. 19. A Second Letter to the Common Council of the City of Lon don, with Remarks on Lord Chief Justice Pratt's Answer to Sir Thomas Harrifon, the Chamberlain. 8vo. 1s. Nícoll.

In our Catalogue for April, we gave an account of the first Letter to this refpectable body of Citizens; who, however, were therein not very refpectably handled. In this fecond epittolary document, another pleafant and farcaftical Writer (for the Author of the firft Letter has difclaimed this, in a public Advertisement) again attacks the worshipful Common Council, on the fubject of Lord Chief Juftice Pratt's Answer to the Compliment paid him, at the communication of their refolution with regard to his conduct, and at the prefenting him with a Copy of his Freedom in a gold box. The Anfwer itself, too, is, with great acrimony, taken, or rather torn to pieces, with as little ceremony as the former Writer treated his Lordship's Letter to the city of Exeter: and our Author concludes with the following reflection, couched in a more ferious strain.

What, fays he, ought to be the ambition of a Judge? Ought it to be to please any man, or any body of men, how great, or how refpectable foever? To do juftice, his Lordship well knows, is a Judge's utmost ambition. Warped, he should be, by no affection, no prejudice, no partiality, no affectation of leaning to the popular fide: fuch a Magiftrate will be conftant and inflexible in the performance of his duty, let who will be pleafed or difpleafed. Nec fumit aut ponit fecures arbitrio popularis auræ. And I have faid this the rather, becaufe the human mind, guarded as it is naturally against the groffer acts of corTuption, by the delicacy of its feelings, and by the apprehenfion of detection, is fometimes leis aware of the fecret and poisonous influence of a thirst after popular credit and eftimation: both are equally diftant from

from the true and found principles of justice and equity, though the latter defire is by far the most baneful to fociety, becaufe extending itfelf to a greater variety of objects, and fecurer in its very nature from the fear of a discovery.'

MISCELLANEOUS.

Art. 20. A Treatise upon Wheel-Carriages; fhewing their prefent Defects: With a Plan and Defcription of a new-conftructed Waggon; which will effectually preferve and improve the public Roads, and be more useful, cheap, and handy to the Proprietor. By Daniel Bourn. 8vo. Is. 6d. Crowder.

As we were informed, that the Author of this pamphlet intended to build a waggon on the plan given in the work before us, in order that it might be infpected by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, we thought it not improper to poftpone our account of this pamphlet, till the machine had been infpected by a Committee of that useful body. This has now been done; and it appeared, from a trial made with this machine against a broad-wheel waggon with iron axles, that tho' Mr. Bourn's waggon would undoubtedly improve the roads, and might be purchased at about half the expence of a broad-wheel waggon, yet the additional force requifite to draw the machine, would very greatly increase the expence of the Proprietor, and confequently render it useless as a common stage-waggon; for fix horfes in the broad-wheeled waggon, drew a load of five tons, as easily as eight could draw the fame load on Mr. Bourn's carriage.

This defect, however, feems in a great meafure to have flowed from the Author's miftaking the nature of his own contrivance. He did not confider, that his wheels having a double bearing, the pivots on which. they move need be only half as big as the iron axle of a broad-wheeled waggon; whereas it appeared, from an accurate menfuration made by the Committee of the Society of Arts, that Mr. Bourn's pivots were nearly as large as the axles of the broad wheeled waggon against which his machine was tried; and confequently the friction of his wheels increased to almoft double what it might have been. Convinced of this, and fome other defects in his waggon, he feems determined to compleat his own defign, and give it all the advantages the nature of the conftruction will admit. If he purfues his defign, and can find means to enlarge the diameters of his wheels, as well as leffen his pivots; and remove the friction of the fcrapers he has fixed to his upright planks, for clearing the dirt from the fole of the wheels, there is no doubt, but it will move with the fame facility as a broad-wheeled waggon, and, confequently, become a very useful and profitable machine.

In Part II of this pamphlet, entitled, A few Remarks upon the Highways, Mr. Bourn modeftly acknowleges himfelf a little more out of his province upon fuch a fubject, than when treating upon Mechanics. Herein we cannot help joining with our ingenious Author, and we wish he had confined himself to thofe fubjects in which he is most converfant. His scheme for the management of Turnpike Roads without Commiffioners, by one or more Clerks for each county, who, by the authority, and under the inspection, of the Juftices and leading Gen

tlemen