of his plan, and confequently cannot entirely agree with him in regard to the fubordinate parts, we think he evinces very clearly, that Ireland is capable of affording a proportionable fhare of the burden which is neceffary for the naval protection of the fifter kingdoms. To this the Irish can have lefs objection, when they are affured by the author, and that by arguments not in the leaft paradoxical, that by the means of such a contribution, their national profperity would be increased.

An Address to the Members of both Houfes of Parliament on the late Tax laid on Fuftian and viber Cotton Goods. By John Wright, -M. DJ 800 rs Johnson.

The author of this pamphlet, who refides at Manchester, reprefents the tax on fuftian and other cotton goods, as extremely pernicious to the manufactures of this country. He affirms, that it has already affected the trade of Manchester very fenfibly; and that if it should be allowed to continue, it may not only ruin that flourishing town, and feveral others in Great Britain, but prove the means of extinguishing this valaable branch of manufacture throughout the kingdom. We are forry that the inhabitants of fo confiderable a town as Manchefter fhould find reafon to cenfure the obnoxious tax so severely; and there is reafon to think, that if the representation made by Dr. Wright should prove not to be exaggerated by any local interefts or attachments, the tax will either be repealed, or fo modified as to be rendered unexceptionable.

The Thirty-nine Articles; or, a Plan of Reform in the Legislative Delegation of Utopia. 8vo. 6d. Johnfon.

These Thirty-nine Articles are merely political, and contain the general heads of a propofed reformation in the election of reprefentatives in parliament. The fecond article is⚫ That all men of age, grandees, convicts, and infane perfons excepted, be admitted to vote at the election of the legislative delegates of Utopia. The reader may eafily form a judgment of the reft by this leading article; which, though a favourite fcheme with fome reformers is a wild and chimerical project, that would be attended with no advantage; but, on the contrary, with fatal effects on the fobriety, induftry, regularity, and peace of the nation in general.. An annual election, which this writer recommends, upon thefe principles, would be an annual

curfe.

Remarks on the Commutation A&. 8vo. Is. 6d.

.. Two objects were propofed by the Commutation Act. One of these was to lower the duties, and reduce the price of teas, as the means of difcouraging illicit trade; and the other, to fupply the confequent defalcation of revenue, by fubftituting an additional tax on windows; for which new impoft the public was to be compenfated by the reduced price of teas. But it

has

has been very currently objected to this act, that it obliges many families to pay an equivalent tax for a commodity which they either do not confume, or in a far lefs quantity than is requifite to indemnify them, by the reduced price, for the ad ditional impoft on the windows. It has alfo been objected to this act, that, from the different kinds of tea confumed by the different claffes of the people, and from the unequal reduction of the prices of teas, thofe perfons who chiefly pay the new rate for windows, partake the leaft of all in the benefit of the commutation. Thefe objections are difplayed by the author of the Remarks with much amplification. Did he however confine himself to thefe, and a few others which might be mentioned as reasonable, his conduct would merit approbation; but when he endeavours to perfuade his readers of a combination between the minifter and the directors of the East India company, he overleaps the bounds of candour, and indulges himself, as he does alfo on other occafions, in a prejudice, too obvious to gain credit, and too groundless not to be cenfured. A Sermon on the Window-Tax. Not intended to be preached in St. Stephen's Chapel, on Candlemas-Day, 1785. 40. 1s. Bladon. The text which this preacher has chofen for the difplay of his oratorial talents, is taken from Exodus x. 21. And the Lord faid unto Mofes, ftretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness that may be felt. It is fufficient to fay, that the author has very happily illuftrated the text by his own example; for, from the beginning to the end, he is almoft perpetually enveloped in the darkness which himself has created. We must however except a few intervals, where fome faint rays of humour are difcernible.

Tim Twifings to Dick Twining; or, a Seaman to a Teaman: being a Plain-Dealer's Anfwer to a Tea-Dealer's Leiter, &vo. 25. Jarvis.

Under a ludicrous title-page, this pamphlet is almost entirely employed on the commutation-act, which honeft Tim 1 wifting certainly twifts in a very humorous manner.

POETRY.

Effais fur le Paix de 1783. 8vo. 15. Longman.

This poem is an epifode of a larger work, preparing for the The fentiments are animated, and the verification

preís. ealy.

A Dialogue between the Earl of Cd and Mr. Garrick, in the Elyfian Shades. 4to. 15. 6. Cadell,

This Dialogue opens with considering the merits of Shakfpeare, and his Henry the Vth. Garrick intreats his lordship not to mifname' the latter a portrait,' and feems to forget his fpirituab fituation, when he exclaims,

'Let

Let me perish if it is not

Harry's great felf that flames forth into view
Led on by Shakspeare.'

Lord Cd, very confiderately, defires him to paufe a time, and refume his tale.' After thrice bidding his lordship to pine,' he informs him that there is coming to the Elyfian fhade,

♦ The tutor of all times,

The everlasting minifter of truth,

Alive, tho' dead.'

The reader cannot be furprifed at lord Cd's twice defiring him to name' the perfon invested with attributes not ftrictly confiftent with humanity. Dr. Johnfon is then mentioned; and his lordship having made fome ineffectual efforts to check the violence of Garrick's encomiums, permits him to conclude the poem in the moit rapturous ftyle of panegyric. The author having informed us, in his dedication, that he and Johnfon were natives of the fame city, and that he had been perfonally obliged by Garrick,' we were in hopes of finding fome anecdotes relative to perfons fo justly celebrated; and that he would, to ufe his own words,

The mental refection however we have met with, proved ra ther infipid, and unpalatable.-We by no means difcommend the author's zeal, and wish we could fpeak higher of his abilities.

Poetic Lectures, adapted to the prefent Crifis. 8vo. 6d. Buck

land.

This is only the First Number of a work, which we are told, if it meets with approbation, will be continued, and comprifed, if poffible, in one hundred octavo Numbers.' It is a strange incoherent performance. The author's understanding is certainly deranged, or he muft fuppofe his readers, if he has any befides his unfortunate reviewer, in that fituation.

Elegy to the Memory of Captain James King, LL. D. F. R.S. By the Rev. William Fordyce Mavor. 4to. Nichol.

No fentiment is more frequently introduced in funereal pane gyrics than that if virtue, honour, &c. could exempt mortals from fate, the lamented object would not fo foon have perished. The author having expatiated on this hackneyed idea, contrives in the conclufion, to give it an air of obfcurity, of which we fhould fcarcely imagine it fufceptible.

'No-could thefe plead, and length of days enfure,

Late fhould our tears for thee, O King! have flown, And long, from fublunary ills fecure,

The guardian powers had claim'd thee for their own,'

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For thefe," we fhould read thofe, for flown,' forved; the frit being the participle from Ay, not flow, perplexes the sense, which is by no means clearly expreffed in the lines that follow. The poem is however, in general, written with spirit and elegance; and neither reflects difgrace on the author, nor the brave and ingenious officer whofe memory he celebrates.

An Efay on the Uterine Hemorrhage, which precedes the delivery of the full-grown Fetus. By Edward Rigby. Third Edition. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Johnson.

This is an improved edition of a very valuable work, which we recommend with the more confidence, as we know it to be a narrative faithfully related from the dictates of nature. Mr. Rigby gives us the best and most useful rules how to proceed in an exigence which has puzzled the moft able practitioners, and on which authors have been frequently filent, from an inability to decide. These rules have been now reviewed by dif ferent practitioners, and the increafing demand for the work is fufficient argument of the propriety of the author'sdirections. We have had frequent occafion of mentioning it with respect.. Some New Hints, relative to the Recovery of Perfons drowned, and apparently dead. By John Fuller, Surgeon. So. 15. Cadell.

Thefe Hints deserve attention: the novelty confifts first in laying the body on cakes of wax, by which it is completely infulated, and, in that fituation, drawing sparks from different parts of it; 2dly, in transfufing the warm blood of a living animal into the veins of the perfon who is apparently drowned. If electricity is ever of fervice, it will be probably in the way here recommended; but the fecond expedient, which promises great advantages, will not be fo readily adopted. A proper animal cannot always be procured; and a confiderable averfion to transfufion yet continues. The author, whofe ingenuity deferves our commendation, thinks alfo, that bleeding from the jugular veins is not practifed so often as it fhould be, for the advantage of the patient. In this too we agree with him; fince, in the experiments of De Haen, a large collection of blood was always found in the veffels of the brain.

A Treatife an Cancers, with a new and fuccefsful Method of ope rating, &c. By Henry Fearon. 8vo. 15. 6d. Johnfon.

It was formerly a received opinion, that the wounds, after the extirpation of cancers, fhould be kept open, so as to dif charge freely, and evacuate that part of the morbid matter which might imperceptibly have remained. But, though, the practice was in appearance plaufible, the fuccefs was not fo ftrongly marked as to prevent practitioners from other attempts. Mr. Fearon recommends a longitudinal incifion, and advifes the furgeon to preferve the fkin, if found, that after the diffec

tion the edges may be brought together, and united by the first intention. In this way cancers of the lips have been usually treated; and our author only extends the method to thofe of other parts, well adapted to it. The pain is certainly in fome degree diminished, but not much; for the diffection from the fkin, though not fo exquifitely painful as that of the fkin itfelf, is an addition to the ufual operation. Whether, in this way, the cancer is lefs liable to return, must be decided by more extenfive experience: the wound is much more quickly healed, and the ftrength lefs impaired. Indeed we fufpect, that cancers are more frequently local than practitioners commonly imagine; there are very few inftances, in which they seem connected with the general fyftem; and we fear that Dr. Fothergill's opinion on this fubject has awakened the apprehenfions of many, without fufficient foundation.

A Letter on Confumptions, and their Cure. By N. Godbold. 8vo. 15. Almon.

Hippocrates was the first botanist, Turner the first English botanist, and the vegetable balfam the beft remedy for confumptions. The incredulous reader may perhaps doubt of fome of these affertions; but the two former are on the author's own teftimony, and the latter fupported by a cloud of witneffes, fome of them of high rank and refpectable characters.-This is all the information we have derived from the Letter, and we liberally communicate it. There is a lift of fyrups at the end, which the author has prepared; but it requires a commentary to explain the meaning of fome of thefe titles. Who has ever heard of fyrup of gibrumbeth, mivabolano, or ringea? Buers paftory, we fuppofe, may mean burfa paftoris, or thepherd's purfe.

DIVINITY.

Sacred Hiftory Selected from the Scriptures, with Annotations and Reflections, fuited to the Comprehenfion of young Minds. Vols, V. \ and VI. By Mrs. Trimmer. 12mo. 75. ferved. Robinson. These two volumes comprehend the hiftory of our Saviour, and the Acts of the Apoftles. The narative is continued in the words of our common translation. Wherever there feemed to be occafion, the prophecies are introduced, and applied in conformity to the ufual acceptation. At the conclufion of the fixth volume, the author gives a fhort account of the evangelifs and apoftles, and an extract from the Apocalypfe on the confummation of all things. The annotations and reflections are copious, practical, and orthodox, and difplay the great piety, industry, and good fenfe of the writer.

Appendix to the Scripture Lexicon. 8vo. Is. Johnson.

The compiler of the Scripture Lexicon, having omitted fome names in the canonical books,and many which occur in the Apocrypha, has fupplied this defect in the prefent Appendix; and has likewife inferted a fhort account of feveral Jewish rites,

See Crit. Rev. vol. lviii. p. 312.

and