in its primitive fimplicity, without any human additions, they might eafily, he fays, baffle their most fubtle adverfaries; whereas, by weak and inconfiftent fyftems, creeds, articles, and catechifms, which cannot be authorized, or fupported by fcripture, they render the beft caufe in the world liable to the affaults of infidels, who groundlessly triumph on the demolition of those outworks, as if they had effectually carried the place. His apology for publishing, at this diftance, animadverfions on a pamphlet printed fo long fince, is that he has juft now, and not before, perufed it with that defign.

N. B. The piece here alluded to, was published a few years before the commencement of our Review; and had a great run. It was indeed a mask'd battery, fo artfully raised and conftructed, that many were deceived by it: imagining it was intended as a defence of that caufe to which the Author really defigned to give a mortal blow; but his pious purpose was defeated by the fuccessful efforts of the opponents he met with among whom, if we mistake not, was his own brother.

*Mr. Dodwell,

Art. 4. The important Question, What do I lack? confidered and applied. By C. H. V. Bogatsky, Author of The Golden Treasury. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Law.

What do you lack?' Mr. Bogatzky! We will very plainly answer this question, to the best of our apprehenfion. You lack KNOWLEGE, JUDGMENT, and TASTE; without which requifites, in a much greater degree than you now feem to poffefs them, we fear you will never make a very illuftrious figure (in this country at leaft) either as a man of letters, or as a divine. Your writings may perhaps pleafe the Moravians, or fome other of our modern fanaticks; but they will never be relished by fuch as have had their tafte improved by the works of a Tillotson, an Atterbury, a Butler, or a Balguy. You are, with most of the reverend gentlemen of your country, above a century behind our rational English divines; and must rank with Gouge, and Keach, and Owen, of the last age.

Germany. Which, however, has made the world ample amends for the production of much rubbish, by the works of the learned Michaëlis, Mofheim, and a few others.

Art. 5. An Appendix to an Enquiry into the Nature and Defign of Chrifl's Temptation in the Wilderness. Containing fome farther Obfervations upon this Subject, and an Answer to Objections. By Hugh Farmer. 8vo. 6d. Waugh.

In cur Review for Auguft 1761, we gave a pretty full account of Mr. Farmer's Enquiry, to which we refer our Readers.In this Appendix he endeavours to remove the objections which have been urged against it, and it must be owned, we cannot but think, by every impartial judge of the fubject, that the interpretation he has given of one of the most difficult parts of the Evangelical hiftory is now rendered by far the most probable and fatisfactory of any that has been yet offered to L 3

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the public: -the notes added to the fecond Edition, the Author tella us, would have been inferted in the Appendix, if they had not been to numerous, as to make it neceffary to infert them in the Enquiry, for the ease and convenience of the Reader.

Art. 6. The Favourite.

POLITICA L.

With a Dedication to Lord B***. 8vo. Is. Harrifon, in Covent-garden.

S.

Recapitulates the mifconduct and misfortunes of former Court favourites,-Mortimer, Car, Villiers, &c. with a view to fuch applica tions as must be obvious even to the meaneft of that mob of readers, for whom this raving, unletter'd Politician writes. He fays his late friend, Mr. Churchill, intended a fatire on the fame plan. Very likely. But we are forry to fee the glorious caufe of freedom difgraced by fo fcurvy a champion as the prefent Writer; of whofe abilities we may candidly give the following as a fpecimen: The appearance of things began now to declare the fall of this mighty minion, [Buckingham] which he difregarded, in spite of his father's ghost, which appeared repeated times, [not to bim] to his friend Mr. Towers, at Windior.-But Buckingham, In spite of men and ghofts, (what a fpiteful duke was he!) proceeded in his tyranny, &c.'-Surely, this wife Author can be no other than the late School-mafter of Cock-lane!

Art. 7. Regulations lately made concerning the Colonies, and the Taxes impofed upon them, confidered. 8vo. 2s. Wilkie.

The fenfible Author of this elaborate performance endeavours to fhew, that as the immediate defence of our colonies was the fole caufe of the laft war, fo has their permanent fecurity been effectually obtained by the peace and that even their aggrandizement [the term he has thought proper to ufe for the formation of this anti-climax] and improvement have been provided for, by the negociators of that treaty, beyond the idea of any former administration. The advantages that muft neceffarily accrue to the parent country, from a due attention to the interefts of her colonies, are too obvious to need reciting. To encourage their population and their culture, to regulate their commerce, and io cement and perfect the neceffary connection between them and the mother-country, fhould therefore, as he rightly obferves, be the princijal objects of a British minister's care.. Many fteps (adds he) have been lately taken, which, by their immediate operations, or diftant confequences, may materially affect thefe important concerns; and therefore everymanwho is fincerely interefied in whatever is interefting to his country, will anxioufly confider the propriety of those measures; will enquire into the principles upon which they have been adopted; and will be as ready to applaud what has been well done, as to condemn what has been done amifs: and to fuggeft fuch emendations, improvements, or additions, as may fall within the compafs of his knowlege, or occur to his reflection. The following fheets were written with a view to facilitate fuch an examination: they pretend to no more than to colle& the feveral regu lations lately made with refpect to the colonies, to weigh the reafons upon which each of them appears to have been founded, and to fee how

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far thefe are fupported by facts, and by maxims of trade and policy. Thefe regulations are many, and have been made in the different departiments of our legiflative or executive government; they are scattered through proclamations, ftatutes, and orders; but they are all of equal public notoriety; which every man may know, and ought to know ;',and which are here, therefore, brought into one view, that they may be confider'd together, and that it may fairly appear whether they are crude, incoherent, weak, or pernicious acts of power; or whether they form a well-digefted, confifteut, wife, and falutary plan of colonization and government.-The perufal of this tract, therefore, though a minifterial production, cannot be too earnefly recommended to a great commercial nation, abounding with provincial fettlements in almost every part of the globe.

Art. 8. The Rights of the British Colonies afferted and proved.. By James Otis, Efq; 8vo. 2s. Almon

A very zealous defence of the colonies, tending to prove, that every man in the British dominions is constitutionally a free man; that no parts of his Majelly's dominions can conftitutionally be taxed without their own confent; and that every part has a right to be reprefented in the fupreme, or fome fubordinate legiflature. In fine, that they fhould not only be continued in the enjoyment of fubordinate legiflation, but be alfo reprefented, in proportion to their number and eftates, in the grand national legiflation;which, the Author avers, and we think with good reafon, would firmly unite all parts of the British empire, in peace and profperity, and render it invulnerable and perpetual.-There are many things in this tract, that (however warmly the Author may write) deserve to be very coolly and seriously confider`d.

L A W.

Art. 9. The Law of Libels, &c. &c. 8vo. 4 s. in boards,

Thrufh.

An hotch-potch, catch-penny collection of detach'd fheets, gathered from unfold magazines, for which they were originally printed; and now Jafonably fitched together, to make a book. This was one way in which the ingenious Mr. Curl used to thin his flock of quire-books, when his warehoufe grew too full. We are told that he once compleated a bundle of imperfect voyages and travels, in which every copy wanted the latter-çnd, with the concluding fheet of another heap which proved to be a treatife on parifh offices. In like manner, this Law of Libels is ek'd out not only with a parcel of fham trials, but with a particular account of all the curious, ufeful, and authentic manufcripts in the British mufcum, relative to the topographical deferiptions and antiquities of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, &c. &c.' But there is nothing clever in this contrivance: It is only Curlif at second hand. CURL was the ORIGINAL GENIUS, to whom the honour of this and many other great improvements in the myftery of book-felling is due.

*The doctrine of Libels at this time greatly engroffing the public attention.

POETICA L.

Art. 10. The Advantages of Repentance. A Moral Tale, attempted in blank Verfe; and founded on the Anecdotes of a private Family in ******bire. 8vo. Is. 6d. Tonfon, &c.

A murder committed the affaffin in exile-his return to his native country and friends in happy circumftances the apparition of the perfon murther'd-the confequent horrour of the criminal-his exemplary penitence, and redress of the injur'd family; these are the principal circumstances of this ftrange and wonderful ftory; which a writer, poffeffed of more imagination than judgment, has here dress'd out, in fuch verfe as the following fpecimen:

Appearance of the Ghoft, in the midst of a Feaft;

-Before him flood,

Unfeen 'till now, a terrifying Form!
Within the haggard face, diftracted fear,"
And writhing pain, and agonizing grief,
Had ftruck their talons deep; the bushy locks
With crimson ftreams were clotted, and uprear'd;
From hollow eye look'd forth reproachful forrow
And damp'd the pious joy, fo newly born

In Edward's heart.

It is no great wonder that the appearance of fo unexpected a guest fhould damp the joy of the perfon to whom fuch an unfeasonable vifit was made! But the ghoft was, nevertheless, a very quiet, pacific fort of a ghoft; fo that Master Edward had no occafion to fwear the peace against him, or bind him over to the quarter-feffions. All that the harmlefs forgiving fpectre (though a furly chap, before he was knock'd on the head) demanded, by way of fatisfaction for the lofs of his life, was a comfortable provifion, for his diftreffed widow and two poor children: with which very reafonable compofition the terrified delinquent gladly complies; the apparition appears again to bid peace be with him: -Since REPENTANCE

In never-failing ftreams hath wash'd away
The ftains of guilt,-

And then follows this general releafe, and receipt in full:
-Well thou haft discharg'd

Thy debt to JUSTICE, CHARITY and Gop!

In short, Edward is now affured, that henceforth guilt, pain, and forrow fhould be strangers to his breaft; that pleasure should firew his paths; that his courfe through life fhould be fafe and long; the bed of death fmooth, and faireft gleams of opening blifs fhine on his parting fpirit: from all which the Reader cannot but fee with what propriety this performance is entitled The Advantages of Repentance.' Yet fome may perhaps think that a happier and more adequate term than advan sages might have been used.

See p. zz.

Art. 119

Art. 11. The Inefficacy of Satire, a Poem; occafioned by the Death of Mr. Churchill. 4to, 6d. Hawes, &c.

-The pen

I draw

To keep the trembling, impious world in awe.

Euge! O brave! Made tua virtute, puer! Now for the next

couplet

To wound the knave, to strip the seeming faint,
What . ... . . . . dares to act, I dare to paint.

What! my bold champion! my undoubted Alcæus! feven dots inftead of a name! fie, fie upon it! This fs, indeed, the inefficacy of fatire! Would you know more of this poem, Reader ?- -then know that the Author vifited Churchill's grave, that he faw his ghoft, that it spoke to him, called him a generous youth, and wifely, very wifely, bad him ceafe his generous labour.

Art. 12. The Laureat, a Poem, infcribed to the Memory of C. Churchill. 4to. Is. 6d. Ridley.

The dominions of Alexander the Great had not more competitors, after his decease, than the poetical defmenes of the late Mr. Churchill. Various, indeed, are the candidates; but their pretencés are nearly the fame To measure couplets, to scatter abuse, and to praise the bard whose name they take in vain. Their ambition, at the fame time, is as fordid as their verfe; for it is not Mr. Churchill's Crown of Laurel that they feek, but his Half Crown Sterling. With regard to the author of the Laureat, however, we are not a little obliged to him; for by informing us in an advertisement that he is the author, likewife, of Friendfhip, a poem, (for an account of which fee Rev. Vol. XXIX. p. 405.) he has faved both our Readers and ourselves the trouble of entering into any account of this. Would all fcriblers do the fame, the province of the Reviewer would be much easier, fince one fpecimen of their abilities in the fame species of writing, would be amply fufficient.

Art. 13. The Race. By Mercurius Spur, Efq; with Notes by Fauftinus Scriblerus. 4to. 2s. 6d. Flexney.

We fhall fhall give the Author of this Poem a teftimony of that candour he seems fo unwilling to allow us, by acknowledging that his production is not deftitute either of comic or of poetic merit, though it cannot boast that arch, and highly feafoned humour, which a poem on a Race of Bards contending for the Laurel might have afforded.

Art. 14. The Patriotic Mufe, or Poems on fome of the principal Events of the late War; together with a Poem on the Peace. By an American Gentleman. 8vo. Is. 6d. Bird.

This Muse of the new world is a public-fpirited Girl, and crowds her verfe with Arms, and George, and Brunfwic, and Nova Scotia, and Quebecca, and Monongohela, and Montreal, and Shirley, and Johnson, and Montcalm, and Braddock, and Ofwego, and Schuyler, and Minorca, and Blakeney, and Byng, and Canada, and the lamented death of Jona

than