important as well as an arduous undertaking. Plates are inferted to render intelligible fuch articles as cannot otherwife be explained. The following lift of works that fall within their plan, is given by the editors, and they folicit any information that may render it more complete.

England. Philofophical Tranfactions.-Antiquarian Society, London.-Tranfactions of the Society of Arts.-Tranfactions of the Linnæan Society.-Tranfactions of the African Affociation.Manchester Memoirs.-Bath Society of Agriculture.

Scotland. Royal Society, Edinburgh.-Antiquarian Society, ditto. Ireland. -Royal Society, Dublin.

France.Hiftoire de l'Academie des Sciences, à Paris.--Memoires de l'Academie de Medicine, à Paris.-Memoires de l'Academie de Chirurgie, à Paris.-Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Infcriptions, à Paris.-Memoires de l'Academie d'Agriculture, à Paris.-Memoires de l'Academie de Touloufe.-Memoires de l'Academie de Dijon, pour la partie des Sciences et des Arts.-Memoires de l'Academie des Arts et Sciences, à Rouen.-Memoires des Infcriptions et de Belles Lettres, à Nifme. Germany.Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et des Belles Lettres, à Berlin.-Commentationes foc. reg. fcientiarum Goettingenfis. Acta Phyfico-Medica Academiæ Čefariæ naturæ curioforum, Norimb.-Abhandlungen der Kaiferlichen Academie zu Wien. Vienna.-Acta Academiæ electoralis Moguntinæ fcientiarum utilium.-Abhandlungen der Kurfuftlich Baierifchen Academie der Wiffchenfchaften, Munich, 4to.-Acta et commentationes Academiæ Electoralis Scientiæ et elegantiorum literarum, Theodore Palatine.-Befchaeftigungen der Berlinifchen Gefellfchafft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin.-Economical Society at Heidelberg. Acta Soc. Acad. fcient. principalis Haffiacæ. Abhandelungen einer Privatgesellschafft zur aufnahme der Mathematik in Böhmen, Prague.-Verfuchen und Abhandlungen der Naturforfchenden Gefellchafft, zu Dantzig.

Netherlands.Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale et Royale des Sciences et des Belles Lettres de Bruxelles.-Academy of Sciences at Valences. Society of Emulation at Liege.

Italy.Saggi di Naturali efperienze fatte nell' Academia del Cimento, Firenze, Gli Atti dell' Academia delle Scienze de Siena.Commentarie dei Bononienfi. Melanges de Philofophie et de Mathematique de la Societé Royale de Turin. Memoire de Mathematica, &c. Verona.-Traníactions of the Patriotic Society at Milan.-Academy of Belles Lettres at Padua.-Etrufcan Society of Antiquities at Cortona.

Ruffia. Commentarii Academiæ fcientiarum Petropolitane. Sweden. Acta focietatis regiæ fcientiarum Uplalienfis.-Kengl. tenskaps Academiens handlinder, Stockholm.

Denmark. Royal Academy of Sciences at Copenhagen.-Royal Icelandic Society.

Portugal.Academy of Sciences, Lisbon.

Spain

Spain. Academia Della Hifpania.

Switzerland. Acta Helvetica, Bafil.-Adhandlungen der Naturforfchen den Gefellfchaft, in Zurich.-Memoires de la Societé des Sciences Phyfiques de Laufanne, à Laufanne, 4to.

Holland. Der Hollandfchen Gefellschaft der Wiffenfchaften, zu Haarlem, Abhanglungen Altenb.-Society of Agriculture at Amfterdam.-Verhandelingen van het Bataafich Genootfchap der profondervindelfe Wifbegierde, Rotterdam. Verhandelingen uitgegeven door heet Zeeuwfch Geenootfchap der Wetenschappen te Uliffingen. Medical Society of Amfterdam.

America. Tranfactions of the Society at Philadelphia.
Eaft-Indies.Tranfactions of the Afiatick Society at Bengal.
We heartily wish fuccefs to a plan of fo much utility.

ART. 41. On the Investigation of Aftronomical Circles. By Count de
Brühl. 8vo. 15 pages, with one Plate and two Tables.
T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies. 1794.

Is. 6d.

As the general advantages refulting from the ufe of circular inftruments, recently introduced for advancing practical aftronomy, are now well known, every enquiry into the caufe of error to which they are fubject, and every attempt to correct it, must be gratefully received, by those who watch and register the motions of the heavenly bodies. With this temper of mind, and with hopes of additional fatisfaction, to what we lately received from fome papers on the fubject in the Philofophical Tranfactions, we entered upon a perufal of the publication before us; but this additional fatisfaction, of which we were fo defirous, fell fhort, at the end of the laft page, of that which we expected from a profefted inveftigation. Our disappointment arofe from not meeting with any demonftration of the rules here given, for guarding against the errors of divifion and eccentricity in circular inftruments, and these are the only rules which the publication contains.

To the Investigation is added, "A Register of one of Mr. Mudge's Time-keepers, and a Defcription of the Scapement invented by this artist."

POLITICS.

ART. 42. A Speech intended to have ben spoken in the House of Commons, on Tuesday the 30th of December, 1794. on the causes and the remedies of the impotence of the States at prejent united against France. 8vo. 49, pp. 1s. 6d. Evans. 1795.

mons.

This is nothing like a fpeech, and certainly not the production of any one who could have a right to deliver it in the House of ComThe grand fecret is, according to its author, that," the two privileged orders, the clergy, and the nobility, are the two heavy mill-ftones that hang to the necks of all the belligerent powers, except the French, and which render them nerveless and impotent.'

Were this true refpecting other nations, yet in England, where thefe privileged orders, as the author calls them, have no privileges, it can hardly be applicable. Hatred to nobility and clergy is what guides fuch pens. Open and profeffed irreligion characterizes this production throughout, the author of which, if he be as he fays, fixty, ought to have learned more wisdom.

ART. 43. An Attempt to establish the Bafis of Freedom on fimple and unerring Principles, in a Series of Letters. By Charles Patton. 8vo. 75 pp. 1s. 6d. Hill, Edinburgh. Debrett, London. 1793.

Mr. Patton's idea is fimple and ftriking. That the effence of Freedom confifts in the fecurity of property and that of perfons. He would therefore conftitute his legiflature fo that property and perfons fhould have equal influence in it, while the executive power, or chief magiftrate, should form a perfect balance between the two. Difficult as it is to reduce complicated practice to the perfection of fimple theory, perhaps the conftitution of this country executes Mr. Pat ton's plan as well as it can be executed. Certain it is that perfons and property are univerfally and equally protected by it, which is the thing required; confequently the bafis of freedom is already justly established among us.

ART. 44. Fas relative to the late Dismemberment of Poland. Owen. 8vo, pp. 42. price 1s. 6d. 1794. fecond edition.

A very fenfible and well written pamphlet, from the arguments and facts adduced in which, we may draw this fatisfactory conclufion, that no form of government is fo weak and fo imperfect as that of an elective monarchy.

ART. 45. Monarchy no Creature of God's making, wherein is proved by Scripture and Redfon, that Monarchical Government is against the Mind of God. By John Cooke Efq. late of Gray's Inn. 8vo. 2s. Eaton. 1794.

When the worthy gentry, whofe well-chofen agent Mr. Eaton fs, find themselves in any danger from their practices against the public peace, then they will fay, and fwear, that they are firm friends to the Conflitution, and only wish for temperate reforms. At other times their republican tenets are readily avowed. The detection of fuch bafe duplicity, though it cannot make them afhamed, ought in reafon to make them univerfally defpifed and fufpected. This publication is one of those in which the truth, denied at the Old Bailey, is openly avowed. It is a new edition of an old republican tract, dedicated to the parliament of the Commonwealth; and the unknown Editor does not fcruple to fay, after afferting that the perfonage of the Sovereign is a farce, that he wishes the people of England may no longer be amufed with fuch farces.

ART,

MISCELLANIES.

ART. 46. Dettami Amichevoli, di un poco di tutto, per quelli che vogliono maritarfi bene, viver lieti, con diverfi paragrafi di varj authori, parte compilati, et parte tradotti. De Cefare Muffolini, Profeffore di Lingua Italiana, in Londra. 8vo. 135 pp. 3s. 6d. Richardfon. &c. 1794.-Friendly Precepts, of a little of every Thing. &c. By Cæfar Muffolini.

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This very ftrange farrago is well enough characterized by the phrafe un poco di tutto" a little of every thing; but what good end can be promoted by lifts of perfons tried for adultery, aftrological extracts from Moor's Alınanack, and fuch stuff we conceive.

cannot

ART. 47. A Lift, or fhort Account of various Charitable Inftitutions in Great Britain, for the Benefit of the Poor and Infirm, &c. Recommended to all benevolent Perfons 8vo. 56 pp, 1s. Todd, York. Johnson, London. 1794.

This little tract may properly be called a Guide to Charity. Its object is to make known all the charitable inftitutions at prefent fubfifting, a defign evidently useful as well as honourable to the nation. In order to render the lift hereafter complete, the author "requests of all perfens knowing of any charities not herein mentioned, to transfer accounts of them to H. G. at either of the publisher's, in London or York;" and as he may unintentionally have omitted circumftances, or mis-ftated the intentions of fome charities" he hopes the perfons concerned in them will fend him fuch corrections as may ferve to replace the omiffion or rectify the mistake." The charities noticed in the prefent publication are chiefly thofe in the metropo lis, and they amount to upwards of eighty, befides charity fchools, of which no feparate account is given, and of which perhaps every parish in and about London and Westminster has one at least.

ART. 48. Bengal Sugar. An Account of the Method and Expence of cultivating the Sugar-cane in Bengal. with Calculations of the first Coft to the Manufacturer and Exporter, and Suggestions for attracting that Article of Eaftern Produce exclufively to Great Britain. In a Letter from a Planter and Diftiller in Bengal, to his Friend in Lon8vo. 162 pp. 3s. Debrett. 1794.

don.

Having," fays the author, "fome years ago hazarded an opinion, that Bengal, with an open trade, and proper encouragement, could not only fupply the European market with fugars cheaper than the West Indies can poffibly do, but alfo underfell the Weft Indian cultivator in his own ifland, I then incurred the ridi

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cule of a vifionary fpeculatift. Time, however, which proves the truth or fallacy of human opinions, is about to embody this with the fubitantial form of proof; and I hope to be able, in the prefent addrefs, to demonftrate, by an exact and fair comparison of the expence and produce of fugar plantations in Bengal with thofe of the Weft Indies, the validity of my affertion." p. 27. Such is the nature of this publication. The object is important, and will doubtless be regarded with due attention.

ART. 49. Sejour de dix mois en France, par un Emigré, qui n'avoit pu fortir de Toulon en Decembre 1793, et ne s'eft fauvé de France que par l'élargiffement des Prifonniers de Paris, en Août 1794. Cet intervalle eft rempli par une foule d'ad-ventures intéressantes et fingulières, qui peuvent donner une idée de l'interieur de la France, et des Maurs de fes habitans durant ce Periode. On y trouve la relation complette du fiége de Lyon, l'Hiftoire de la Vendée, et celle des Chouans. Par le Comte de C 8vo. 98 pp. 2s. De Boffe, &c.

1794.

ART. 50. Le Meme, feconde Partie. 124 PP. 2s. 6d. 1795.
Ten Months Refidence of an Emigrant in France, &c.

An injudicious mixture of palpable and evident fiction, as to the writer's perfonal adventures, with facts concerning the internal ftate of France, that feem to be derived from accurate information, deftroys in a great measure the intereft that would naturally be excited by thele tracts.

The author contrives to place himself in every fituation moft open to the curiofity of ftrangers for the ten months in which he profeffes to have been in France; but the miraculous incidents by which he is transferred from one fcene of action to another, very greatly counteract the impreffion of defcriptions and narratives apparently founded on truth. The part that we cannot poffibly believe, produces doubt refpecting all the reft. The Count is at Toulon at the time of its evacuation; he is then at Lyons, he is in La Vendée, and obliged at laft to join the Sans-culottes, with whom, after meditating in vain to defert to the Chouans, he proceeds to Paris, whence at length he efcapes. His narratives, particularly thofe refpecting La Vendée are full of fpirit and intereft, and we should willingly tranflate fome part of them for the amusement and information of our readers, could we tell how far they might rely upon them. But his being blown up at Toulon, his adventure in the prifon at Lyons, where he in the difguife of a woman is liberated by his miftrefs in the difguife of a man, his ef cape from death when made prifoner in La Vendée, the final winding up of the whole in the poffcriptum, and various other circumftances, forbid us to give the weight of hiftory to that which, if more probable, would have been a ftill more pleafing romance.