"monstrated does not require the aid "of eloquence or rhetorick: the rea"foning contained in the following "fheets, and the grounds upon which "that reasoning is built, are fubmitted "to the most rigid examination; but it "is hoped the reader will not expect "elegant language." Preface.

The writer, by a few mathematical deductions, demonftrates the fallacy of Mr. P's reafoning, the thallownefs of his understanding, and the abfurdity, as well as the villainous tendency, of his pretended Rights of Man. Nor is it lefs clearly made out, that the firf government was monarchical; and "the "first government may come under the "head of what Mr. P. calls a govern"meat of reafon, because it was a go"vernment of duty." p. 14. Our au thor examines what Mr. P. urges against the immutability of a conftitution, hereditary government, the privi. leges of nobility, about the equality of man, the rife of aristocracy and nobility from conquest, and the greatest charac ters from "the democratic floor," republicks being seldom or never plunged in war.

"There is one part of this ifland where it is not in the nature of things "that fuch a change as has happened lately in France could be accomplished. The whole lands of that coun"try, a mere trifle excepted, are poffelfed by families, in general, of very antient establishment, and their "branches, which are extremely nu"merous: there is no intermediate "clafs between them and the labouring "people, who have no property, and "depend on the first clafs for fubfift"ence. Religion is out of the question; "and any other object of a revolution is "abfolutely repugnant to the intereft as "well as the fentiments of those who "bave alone the power of accomplish"ing fuch a thing, were they wicked "enough to attempt it." The reader will at once perceive, without further extracts, that the perfons here alluded to are the Scots; and "that thofe who "recommend to our imitation what his "lately happened in France are as "hort-fighted as they are wicked, if "they do not fee that fuch an attempt "could only end in bringing crowds of "deluded people to the gibbet, or in "making this country a scene of blood"fhed for a number of years, and at "laft, if the rebels prevailed any where, "in dividing this ifland into two, pet

haps three, different states, the fource "of endless wars, and very likely (con"fidering the prefent ftate of Europe) the caufe of fubjecting the whole to "the yoke of fome foreign power."

If we wanted more than mathemati cal demonftration against thefe newbroached doctrines, we need go no further than the late aweful teft of public difapprobation of them in the heart of the kingdom. If this be called, as the defenders of thefe doctrines chufe to call it, violence, and not argument, we anfwer, it is the prevention of worfe confufion and violence by a timely exertion of that refentment which God and Nature have implanted in the heart of a nation too fpirited to fubmit to be the dupes of a faction, interfering with their dearest interefts, civil and relīgious.

137. A Series of Letters to the Right Honourable

Edmund Burke; in which are contained Enquiries into the Conftitutional Exiftence of the Impeachment against Mr. Haftings. By George Hardinge, Efq. M. P. The Second Edition, with an Appendix, in subich are contained Obfervations upon Major Scott's Letter publifhed in The Diary, 11 April,

1791.

TO us, who have always been of opinion that the neceflities of ftate, which may have led Mr. H. to certain acts which, on common occafions, might be deemed injuftice, were not a ground for a profccution on which the national honour and integrity have been fo much and fo long committed, this enquiry into the conftitutional exiftence of the impeachment appears to carry convic tion, and abounds with manly energy, found reafoning, and extenfive confiitutional knowledge. We cannot enter into a minute examination of the fubjet, having ftudioufly declined engaging in the quetion. This fecond edi tion is only augmented by the appendix, in reply to Major Scott; which contains Mr. H's declaration, that the circumstances imputed to him were ow ing to his fuller acquaintance with Indian politicks, which, in some respects, altered his opinion.

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and in the Three laf Seffions of the last Parliament.

THIS is an attempt at Mr. Anftey's humour to burlefque the preceding, and is a continuation of Letters from Simkin the Second, Poetic Recorder of all the Proceedings on this Trial, and Letters from Simkin the Second to his dear Brother in Wales, publifhed originally in The World, and thence reprinted by Mr. Stockdale, 1789. The letters for 1790 fall off confiderably.

139. A Journal kept in the Isle of Man; giv ing an Account of the Wind and Weather, and Daily Occurrences, for upwards of Eleven Months; with Obfervations on the Soil, Clime, and Natural Productions of that Ifland: alfo, Antiquities of various Kinds now extant there; a Trait of the Manners and Customs, both general and peculiar, of the Inbabitants; an Account of their Harbours; great Usefulness of Douglas Harbour; Neg lect and Want of Repairs; Defcription of their noble Herring-fishery: together with a large Appendix, containing an Account of tbe antient Forms of Government, and mild A miniftration of Justice under the noble House of Stanley; with Tranfcriptions and Extracts from the antient Statute-Books of the Ile. Together with explanatory Notes and Obfervations. In Two Volumes. By Richard Townley, Efq.

THIS work is dedicated to Edward Earl of Derby. The journal begins with the author's departure from the humble peaceful village of Bootle, in Cumberland, his ufual refidence, April 30, 1789, and ends at his return thither, April 21, 1790. He landed at Douglas May 9, where he found that very extraordinary perfonage Mr. Livefey, refident under the name of Warner, who quitted it a day or two after, for Scotland. He next vifits Kirkfanton fair, and Caftletown, Ballafala, Kirk bradden, the calf of Man, Peele, Kirk Michel, Ramfay, Sodor island, and makes the complete circuit of the illand of Mau; so he has an opportunity of giving a fuller account of it than any former traveller in it.

Being confined by bad weather, Mr. T. amused himself with framing his fecond volume, with copious extracts from Seacome's Hiftory of the land, published 1741, and from a MS History of the island, by a learned Welth justice in the last age, lent him by a friend there. From this laft, and from another MS. by Mr. Alexander Rofs, of Grav's Inn, who died in 1753, are extracted the ftatutes and cufloms of the

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island, which form the Appendix, of about 100 pages, the most useful part of the book, the reft being a dull journal of uninterefting events, intermixed with a meteorological diary, and interlarded thick with hackneyed quotations, by wholesale, from Virgil, Shakfpeare, and other poets, antient and modern. The effence of the whole might have been compreffed into 100 pages.

Among exceptionable phrafes we note the following:-Crefcentrical, p. 773 fepultural, 82, 171, 177, 178; hogo, 107, 166; the centennial of his nativity, 124; fomnorous, 130; my fweet lad, 131; a triftful family parting, 131; depositarium, 174; cremation and inurnment, 174; invulnerable at all points, with his fingers gripped, 176; large patches of ground, 200.

A curious converfation with him and Mr. Thorkelin, vol. I. p. 156, who left the island without making any difcoveries, his ftay being too short to allow thofe ftrict and minute explorings from which, with his perfect knowledge of the Runic characters, fome very valu able difcoveries might have been expected, fuch as would have rewarded the toil of fo long a journey. He faid, a gentleman at Caftletown had given him three or four Danish medals, found in that neighbourhood; among them, one of Canute. "Medals and Runic "characters feemed to be the chief ob"jects of his enquiries and refearches," p. 185; and Mr. T. doubts if he noticed Danifh bergs, or barrows.

"I never faw a barrow opened; but "I was once fo fortunate as to fee a t"mulus laid open to the bottom, the "whole earth being entirely taken

away. It was upon Gog-ma-gog hills, "near Cambridge." p. 177.

Mr. T. fhould not fo haftily correct Mr. Camden, and fubftitute Pope Gregory XIV, who lived in 1590, and did not fit a month, to Gregory JV, who fat from 827 to 844, and is much more likely to have founded the fee of Sodor (p. 188, note).

140. A Difcourfe on Pain, preached at Bath.

By James Fordyce, D. D.

AN excellent ferious, plain, practical difcourfe on "the heart ache, and all "the thousand natural fhocks that fiefh "is heir to," many of which the preacher has himtelf experienced. It would have been better if one dirty remedy had been omitted; but perhaps

WE reviewed the first part of this expensive publication, containing nineteen portraits, in our vol. LIX. p 52. To there are now added fixty-one more. Queen Elizabeth. Mary Queen of Scots. *Archb fhop Whitgift Thomas Howard fourth Duke of Norfolk. Ezabeth Countess of Shrewsbury. Margaret Countefs of Cumberland Robert Dudley Earl of Leicefter. Ambrofe Dudley Earl of Warwick Thomas Ratcliffe Earl of Suffex. *Walter Devereux Earl of Effex. Edward Clinton Ei of Lincoln. Henry Haflings Eari of Huntingdon. Robert Devereux Earl of Ex. Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham. Matthew Staart End of Lenox. William Cecil Lord Beigh. *Edmund Sheffield Lord Stfid. *Sir Thomas Bromley Sir Chrido pher Hatton. Sir Francis Wallingham. Sir Walter Mildmay. Sir Thomas Bodley, Peregne Bertie Lord Willoughby of Ertfoy. S John No ris. Sir Francis Drake. Sir Robert South well. Sir George Carew. Sir Nathand Bacon. George Buchanan, King James I. *Lay Arabella Seymour 1, coutin to James I. and gred-daughter to the famous Couarefs of Shrew Bury, She died in the Tower, for marrying Sir Wiliam Seymoar, fecond fon of the Earl of Hertford, and effing his and her chape. Archithop Matthew. *Ludovick Duke of Lenex, &c. *john Digby Earl of Britto!. James Hay Earl of Carlile. Earl of Dorfet of Northampton. of Northumberland. Francis Minneis Earl of Rutland. *Su Robert Cecil Earl of Sulfbury. *Thomas Howard Earl of Suffak. Edward Somerfer Earl of Worcester. Henry Cary Vilcount Palkland. Sir George Calvert Lord Binore.

Thomas Sackville Henry Howard Earl Henry Percy Earl

*Thom Everton Lord

The original letter of this lady, in Mr. Thane's collection, as are all the reft, rums thus:

"Sweet Brother, Every one fortakes me But thofe that cannot help. Your most unfortun.te fifter, A BE LASEYMAURE."

GENT. MAG. September, 1791.

Ellefmere. John Lord Harrington. *William Lord Knolles. Sir James Ley Lord Ley. Sr Francis Bacon Lord Verulam. Sr Julius Cæfar. Sir Robert Cotton t. Sir Edward Cecil.. #Sir John Ogle. Sir Thomas Smith. *Sir Henry Spelman. *Sir Horace Vere. *Lady Mary Vere. *Sir William Waad. *William Camden ‡. Thomas Sutton, Elq.

Thofe portraits marked have no originals mentioned

A plate of autographs of Richard III. Elizabeth. in her fecond year, Howard Earl of Nottingham, Lord Sheffield, Ley Farl of Marlborough, and William Camden, clofes the who e.

To the work, now complete, are prefixed brief memoirs of the refperave perfonages, and tris fhort preface: "The "Fac fimilies given in thi work are "from goals which formerly were "in the collections of thofe well-known

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antiquaries, Raph Thor fov, Eq. "Par Le Neve, Eq. James West, (4 Eq. Rz Mr. Ives [read Thomas "Ives, Ejg] Mr. Barterct, Gutta us "Bruder, E'q. The portraks, many "of there, are from orginals never be "tore engraved, or from very scarce "and curious prints, that bear a price "from one to five gineas cach; there"fore, thole collectors of portraits, as "wells the antiquaries who do not "chule to go to the price of thofe rait66 tes,

have here an opportunity of "fin-up many of their chalms, and "the whole formis a collection to thofe 66 who have none. '

142. Particular of the Breeding Stick late the Property of Mr. Robert Fowler, of Little Rollright, in the Coun, of Oxford, deceafd; comprising the Nams of the jove al Perbafers, their Places of Rendence, and the Price of each respective Lot, which was fold on the Premiffes, March 29, 30, and 3T 1.91, by R. Parry, of Shipfton upon Stour, Auctioneer and master of tie Bell inn there]. A catalogue raifonnée of bull, cows, rams, ewes, beave, wether teks, beerhogs ewe legs, ram hogs, with a prefatory hiftory of Mr. F's beginning his core-flock (which, as well as his jeepflock were originally derived from Mr. Bakewell) to his death, in 1790, not, as matevolently reported, infolvent, "for.

+ Compare this with the porträt publifhed by the Society of Antiquaries, from the fame original, by Van Somer.

* Compare this with any print.

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842 "his abftra& property amounts to much "more than the produce of the auc ❝tion." Mr. Guy, who began with co vs from Mr. F, but was unfortunate in the choice of some bulis, fold a stock in April, 1790, fufficient to convince us of their cfteemed fuperiority to most others. Some of his cows, by a bull of Mr. F's, fold for from 30 to upwards of 40 guineas apiece.

Sales of this kind are not unfrequent. The late Earl of Oxford, at his death, left on his eftates in Herefordshire 1700 fat oxen, and 3000 head of other cattle, which all came under the hammer. He had given Mr Fowler zo guineas for a ram, which, at his Lordship's fale, was fold for two and an half. An annual auction is held at Croom Abbot of Lady Coventry's live flock, the farm being festled on her in part of pin-money. The ftock this year confifted of curious Alderney, Scots, and Holderness cows and buils, blood-horfes and mares, of the largest and fmalleft breed, spotted and variegated in a most beautiful manner, pigs, &c. in 74 lots, most of which fold high. A cow for 20l. 10s.; an Alderney cow, not much bigger than a maftiff, 12.; a buffalo cow, that leaped over fences like a hunter, 51.

143. A Letter to the Rev. Jofeph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S. occafioned by his late Addrejs to the Inhabitants of Birmingham.

A cool, difpaflionate compofition; which we fincerely hope may be read with advantage by all parties.

144. A Letter from a Blacksmith to the Minifters and Elders of the Church of Scotland; in which the Manner of public Worship in that Church is confidered, its Inconveniences and Defects printed out, and Meib ds for removing them hamby propofed. A new Edition, prefaced by a brief Account of fome late Publications on the leading Points at ifjue be tween Protellat Diffenters and the Church of England. By the Editor.

THE letter here reprinted was reviewed in our vol. XXIX. p. 182, and contains a great deal of humour and found reafoning. The preface which now introduces it is a mafter-piece of reafoning against the fentiments and principles of the new doctrines propagated by certain leaders among the Proteftant Diffenters of the prefent day. It repeats the ftrictures, as to their politi. cil conduct, and may be thought by fome readers, perhaps, to proceed from the fame pen as the

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145. Hiftorical Memoirs of Religious Diffenfion, addreffed to the Seventeenth Parliament of Great Britain.

AS the author of the Look to the laft Century (see vol. LIX. p. 345) reviews the principles of the Diffenters of that day, and compares them with the prefent; fo this author, with equal candour and ftrength of reasoning, eftimates and judges the principles of the present Diffenters by their avowed fentiments and refolutions, always diftinguishing rightly between the moderate and more nume. rous part of them and their discontented brethren who fet no bounds to their claims. We recommend this pamphlet as highly deferving an attentive perufal at the prefent moment-if the events which have happened since its publica. tion (for it appeared last year) have not concurred in effect with it.

"This feems to be only a detached "portion of a very large work, intended "by the author to comprehend the whole "complex question between Protestant "Diffenters and the Church of England; and every friend of our happy Eftab"liment, and its unimpaired tranf"miffion to pofterity, cannot but with "the argument by this eminent mafter "of reafoning fpeedily published and "liberally encouraged.' Preface to the Blacksmith's Letter, p. iii. n.

As a counterblaft to fuch publication, we oblerve a new edition intended, with improvements, enlargements, and a continuation of Mr. Neal's Hiftory of the Puritans; a work written in all the fpirit of mifrepresentation and dullness, and ably detected on its first appearance.

146. An Address to bis Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, as a Vifitor of Colleges in the University of Oxford, and as Primate of ail England. By a Country Clergyman.

AN excellent and decent reprefentation on the expediency of maintaining a regard to oaths and inftitutions in the University, revifing the Articles and Liturgy, by the omiffion of the Athanafian creed and the defcent into Hell, a new and more regular arrangement of the fervice, adminiftration of baptifm after the fecond leffon, a thorough revifal of the articles, and a ftricter attention to the decent performance of confirmation, which appears to have been moft difgracefully conducted in the diocefe to which the writer belongs, which, from his panegyrick on Bihop Ken, feems to be Bath and Wells; more frequent and careful vifitations; a more

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equal adminiftration of the service by the clergy of all ranks [here the author expreffes his furprize that Methodists of good character fhould not be admitted into the church in preference to "youths "of very mean abilities, and of fufpi"cious morals," and "modern Cal"vinifm being, upon the comparifon, "an innocent thing"]; and a better apportioned equalization and distribution of what the state allows for the maintenance of the clergy, agreeable to the Bishop of Landaff's plan of a bill."The Church fhould have the dignity "to reform itself;" for, agreeable to Dr. Whichcote's aphorifm, "the more "a man's religion is his own, the more "fierce he is for it; but the more it is "the religion of God, the lefs concern"ed he is for its defence "

This writer appears to us to reason justly concerning the immortality reftored to all men by Jefus Chrift, and the intermediate ftate betweeen death and the refurrection, and fhews how jejune and forced an interpretation fo fine a reasoner and fo good a scholar as Bp. Law contented himself with of our Lord's declaration to the penitent thief, by tranfpofing the comma to onutgov.There is much of true Chriftian doctrine and temper in this whole compofition.

147. A Letter to the Electors of Great Britain. By James Sutherland, Efq. late Judge of the Admiralty at Minorca.

AFTER what has been faid of this unfortunate man in our Obituaries of the laft and prefent month, we shall only add here, that the publication now before us is prefaced by an introductory addrefs to the electors of Great Britain, in which they are folemnly requested to inftruct their reprefentatives to procure a law, affording relief to every perfon whofe character may be afperfed in a petition to the House of Commons, and alfo an act of parliament "to affure "the communication of the royal will, "by bis Majesty's minifters, to every "fubject who may in future prefent "fuch a petition to the King.""By "which means," fays he in his conclufion, "I hope, that the laft man who "fhall be driven to deftruction in this country, by the abufe of power and "its contemptuous neglect, will be your "injured fellow-fubject," &c.

After an interval fufficient to afford ample room for investigation and enquiry, Mr. Sutherland wrote another

letter to Mr. Pitt, ftating his urgent neceffities, and affirming that he had not the means of fubfifting longer, as he had hitherto fupported himfelf by felling every little thing of value that be bad, and now had not any thing more to fell.

148. Account of the Origin, Proceedings, and Intentions of the Society for Promotion of Induftry, in the Southern Diftri&t of the Parts of Lindfey, in the County of Lincoln. Publifhed at the Defire, and with the Approbation, of the Standing Committee of the faid Society. The Third Edition. In which the Society's Accounts, and the Lifts of Benefactors, Subfcribers, and Trufees, are continued to the Audit in 1789, including an Account of the Subfcription for be Fftabliment of a Dyer and Hot-prefer at Louth. To this Edition is alfo added. A Report of the Board of Trade to the Lords Juftices respecting the Relief and Employment of the Poor & drawn in the Year 1697, by Mr. John Locke, one of the original Commiffioners of that Board; with Notes by the Editor. 8vo.

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TO obviate the diftreffes in which the county of Lincoln was found to be involved at the conclufion of the last war, the magiftrates of the Southern diftrict, at their Michaelmas quarterfetfion, held at Louth, in 1783, thought proper to enact certain regulations, which they agreed to purfue in the exercife of their difcretional control over the poor. These confifted of the three following articles:

1. That the overfeer fhould purchase ftock and materials, and provide proper and convenient places, in which the poor might work.

2. That no relief fhould be granted in money till the perfon afking for it had done fuch work as he or she was capable of.

3. To direct that all poor children within their diftrict (except in cafes of fickness) fhould be taught to knit before they were fix, and to ipin before they were nine years of age.

A fociety afterwards was formed to concur with thefe defigns, by propofing rewards to infant industry. Their benevolent exertions have been fo fucceffful, that, "upon taking a general aver"age, it is clearly proved, that 135 "children, between 11 and 12 years of age, have, in ten months, taken in the depth of the five laft winters, earned "the fum of 680l. 35. 3d. or half a crown a week each."

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The Report of the Board of Trade, drawn up by the celebrated Mr. Locke, is highly deferving of the attention of

all