1776. Review of New Publications. • Benjamin, immortal Jonson, most highly renowned'. But to explain to you the prefent Coptic verfes; they run thus: Oh, Pharao, may I go? Pharao cries, Sir, by my troth, no. Bring ye the kilderkin, and about house fling ye the foffet. Now fup it up brifkly, and then pr'ythee call for another; See an it all out is ? There's none can drink any longer. Teen't, Pharaoh, may I go? Pharaoh cries, go if you can go." But that language which may be of most ufe to you is the Scrawlian. It may pafs through as many countries as the Illyric, Malay, or Lingua Franca. This is wholly unintelligible, and is of great eafe in the compofition of verfes; you must take care that your ines be ftraight, and that you begin your veries with the great letters from the left (for the Orientals generally write fo;) and if you can make the fame figures towards the laft to feem as if this rhimed, all will be extremely well; you may call them Turkish, Perfic, Moroccian, Fezzian, or what you please; for, being without points, no one can difprove you. I expect fhortly fome Mufcovitic operas, fome fonnets from Crim Tartary, and fome elegies from America; which will be the more easy, because those people have always to me seemed more inclined to traffic than poetry. Gefner, in his "Mithridates," gives us an account, that the elephants have a language. I have fent to the court of Siam, to know whether the white elephant keeps a fecretary or an interpreter, and what compofitions are amongst them in profe or verfe. 1 have a friend who converfes much with Fanciful beings, who has procured me many elegant works of the fairies. According to the fpecimen that Giraldus Cambrenfis has given us of their language, it approaches near the Greek, as Al Ydoram, Give me falt ;" Hydor Ydoram, "Give me water :" by which it may appear that the fairies are no devils, because then they would have no falt among them. And we may observe, by this fpecimen, that their diftinction is extremely f norous." CXXXV. A Relation of a Journey to the Glaciers in the Duchy of Savoy, tranflated from the French. 55. Robinson. The Glaciers are prodigious large maffes of ice, lodged on the tops and defents of the Alps, and exhibit both awful and picturefque fcenes. Our traveller appears to have had great refolution in his journey, and poffeffes talents for defcribing it. The following is a fpecimen. "The farther we penetrate, the more we are delighted with the beauties of this romantic region. The views become ftill more and more gaging as we advance; every valley appears 49 like a new country from its different form over-hanging rocks of a prodigious height, and torrents pouring down in fheets from their very fummits, are fuch wonders of nature, as it is poffible to look upon without a mixture of aftonishment and awe; to heighten the picture, we may add the different tints of rocks and mountains, their contraft with the browner colour of the woods, and the whitenefs of the fnow and ice, efpecially when enlightened by the fun; their tops at fun-rife taking the fimilitude of melted filver, and at his festing that of gold, while the refractions of his rays by their angles, fometimes offer fuch a variegated fplendor, as exceeds defcription "Mille trabens varios adverfo fole colores. An "There is still a fingular emotion which the fight of this country excites in the mind, from the prodigious height of the mountains, which furround thefe valleys on every fide. Mount Blanc efpecially, produces a fenfation which is very difficult to explain. obelisk of one hundred yards, appears of a prodigious height, yet we can form a tolerable idea of it from recollection or imagination only; but when that height is thirty or nearly forty times increased, upon a bafe proportionably maffive, which yet the eye can take in at one view, the mind is almoft loft in the fublimity of its own idea, and no tongue whatever is capable of defcribing, and conveying juftly to other, the fucceffively humiliating, elevated, awful feelings of the foul, upon the fight of fuch an object. "We beheld, fays M. Bourrit, a fpacious icy plain entirely level; upon this there rofe a mountain all of ice, with steps afcending to the top, which feemed the throne of fome divinity. It took the form moreover of a grand cafade, whofe figure was beyond conception beautiful, and the fun which fhone upon it, gave a sparkling brilliance to the whole; it was as a giafs, which fent his rays to a prodigious diftance: a polished mirror, upon which the objects were defigned with fuch a perfect mixture of light and fhade, as ravished our fight; and to complete the beauty of the profpect, this even glaffy lake was crowned with mountains differently coloured, and enlivened by a varnish of the cleareft ice; thefe, ali together, formed a composition of the most delightful fplendid objects, heightened by the deeper colour of a fingle neighbouring mountain, which graduated from top to bottom: whilft this again was interlaced with ftreams of now, whofe winding currents caft a luftre from the fun. In fhort the whole of this enchanting view was terminated with the rocks of cryftal, and by others, all whofe feveral tints were richly and profufely varied. "New beauties till continued to delight us, aftonished as we were at prefent, by a number of objects fo magnificent and vaft, 3R 2 Montanvert, "The 492 Review of New Publications. "The valley on our right was ornamented with prodigious Glaciers, that shooting up to an immeaturable height between the mountains, blend their colours with the fkies, which they appear to reach. The gradual rife of one of them, induced us to conceive it practicable to afcend it; and fuch is the engroffing nature of these objects, that they feem to efface every other idea. We are no longer our own mafters; and it is next to an impoffibility to ftop the impulfe of our inclinations. It would open ftill new scenes, of more extenfive grandeur, that, as we certainly fhould gain a view behind the Needles, fuch a point of elevation (beyond which no mortal whatever had yet gone) would not only prefent Mount Blanc to us under a new form, and with new beauties, but that in hort, looking towares the fouth, we should have a picture of all Italy before us as in a camera obfcura. It was thus the wildness of imagination prompted us to think the project poffible, and we were in the full enjoyment of our reverie, when a horrid noife from the very fame Glaciers put an end to this delightful dream, and shattered all the fcenery at once. Reafon dictated immediately, that fuppofing fuch a fancied pic ture as we had reprefented to curfelves, to be real, and that it were poffible to afcend the height of the Glacier to enjoy a fight of it, the execution of the plan would require our Ray all night upon this frozen va'ly, which was abfolutely impoffible from the want of fewel only. CXXXVI. An Introduction to Free Mafonry; for the Uje of the Fraternity, and none elfe. In four Parts. Among the feveral Particulars, of which, are contained choice and felett Songs, ufed by free and accepted Majons the Bye-Laws of a Lodge; the Memento; the Free Mafon's perpetual Almanack; a Demonfiration of the Foundation of Mafonry; a Specimen of Moral Geometry; and the DefideTata. By W. Meefon, M. M. 1s. 6d. Baldwin, This author is one of Jacob Behmer.'s free mafons. He has admirably allegorized the tools and occupation of the brotherhood, and made the Lodges, places of moral and religious improvement. The following are fome of his maforical aphorifms, which perhaps are as litthe understood by the brethren within, as their fecrets are by the women without the lodges, MASONICAL APHORISMS, &c. "The mighty PILLARS on which MASONRY is founded, are thofe whofe BASIS is wifdem, whole SHAFT is frength, and whole CHAPITER is beauty. "The wisdom is that which defcends from above; and is first pure, then peaceable, gentie and eafy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without bypocrisy. The frength, is that which depends on the living God; who refifteth the mighty, Sept. and scattereth the proud in the imagination of their hearts; who giveth us power to refift and escape all temptations, and to fubdue our evil appetites. A ftrength, which is a refuge to the distressed; a bond of unity and love amongst brethren, and of peace and quiet in our own hearts. "Our beauty, is fuch as adorns all our actions with holiness; is bewn out of the rock, which is CHRIST, and raised UPRIGHT by the PLUMB-LINE of the gospel; SQUARED and LEVELLED to the borizontal of God's will, in the boly lodge of St. John: and fuch as becomes the temple, whose maker and builder is Gov." "Thofe focieties dwindle away and vanish, which are not contrived, fupported, and adorned with the wisdom, frength, and beauty, of our most ancient and honourable order; where nobility is ennobled; where knowledge is improved, and where converfation is rendered ufeful; as MASONS and rational creatures draw no defign, but on the TRASEL-BOARD of a good intention. "Though we are all free and on the LEVEL, yet it is our duty always to keep within COMPASS, and to conduct ourselves according to the SQUARE and PLUMB." "Prudence is the queen and guide of all other virtues; the ornament of our actions, the SQUARE and RULE of all our affairs. "Faith, hope, and charity, are the three principal graces, by which we afcend to the grand celeftial LODGE, where pleasures flow for evermore, "Let every true MASON knock off every evil difpofition, by the GAVEL of righteousness and mercy measure out his actions by the RULE of one day: fit them to the SQUARE of prudence and equity: keep them within the bounds of the COMPASS of moderation and temperance: adjust them by the true PLUMBLINE of gospel fincerity bring them up to the juft LEVEL of perfection; and spread them abroad with the filent TROWEL of peace, &c. &c. &c." CXXXVII. Medical Advice for the Ufe of the Army and Navy, in the prefent Ame rican Expedition. Intended for the Perujal of Private Gentlemen as well as Medical Practitioners. By William Rowley, M. D.1.Murray, The objects principally confidered in this treatife are, the manner of preventing ficknefs during a voyage to America; what difeafes are moft predominant in that country; how to avoid or cure them; and the manner of treating gun-fhot wounds, as there is an abfolute neceffity of proceeding in quite different ways to the practice ufed in England, We have felected the following paffage, On the Difcafes that happen at Sea. For the firft fourteen days of the voyage there is most commonly little or no ficknets, except the vomiting which the motions of the fhip For fea-fickness, abftinence from fluids is proper ; a little magnesia may be taken z but ke c❤ ing on the deck is the most effectual remedy. 1776. Review of New Publications. ship occafion to those who are unaccustomed to failing; this is however of little confequence. Soon after, and fometimes before this period, a confiderable change in the diet of the feamen commences; wine or fpirits are ferved to the fhip's company instead of fmall beer; of wine each man is allowed a pint in the day, of rum or brandy half a pint, which laft is diluted with a confiderable quan tity of water, and the liquor thus united is called grog. Through neceffity fait provifions are the diet. Neither this diet, nor the grog, produce diseases, unless the water should be very putrid; but this is too common not only in tranfports, but likewife in our men of war. It may be fweetened in the following manner. After the butts are hoifted out of the hold, let the water in them contained be pumped out with a hand pump, from one veffel into another, and let this be frequently repeated for two or three days before it is put into the fcuttle butts for the ufe of the ship's company. It is common to quench hot iron in the water, which may likewife be useful; but above all things, agitating the water in the open air, is the moft effectual means of fweetening it; fimple however as this operation is, it is generally neglected. The putrid water will fometimes, in hot climates, occafion fevers of the malignant kind, and fluxes; and by the fea air, through the imprudence of the men fleeping on the deck, are pleurifies and peripneumonies produced. The firft fometimes degenerate into intermittents, and the latter feldom prove fatal if judiciously treated. It is a common practice to keep the fick on board of a man of war in that part which is called the bay. In cold climates this fituation may be proper, but in hot countries nothing can be more prejudicial: more men have been loft through this injudicious management, than by the violence of the moft maJignant difeafes. It is necefiary therefore, in order to cure the fick in fhips, to confider the heat or cold; and to beg leave of the commander to admit the fick to lie in the most commodious airy place, if neceffary: for a free circulation of air, above all other things, is a remedy in putrid malignant difeafes; it prevents in a great measure, the infection fpreading, and greatly affifts the operation of medicine. CXXXVIII. Political Empiricifm: A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley, 68. Johnson. This author, with great smartness and jus tice, expofes the fecond Sacheverell's attempt to revive the exploded notions of paffive obedience and non-refiftance in the fubject, and of abfolute and unlimited power in the fovereign; no tenets can be more hoftile to the interests of humanity, and by Mr. Welley's attempting to revive and propagate them, and to let the nation against America, our author $ 493 charges him with having brought upon himfelf, "the grofs imputations of selfishness, hypocrify, cunning, prevarication, and falfe hood." CXXXIX. An Essay on the Origin, Progrejs and Eftablishment of national Society; in which the Principles of Government, and the Definitions of Liberty contained in Dr. Price's Obfervations, are fairly examined and fully refuted, &c. By J. Shebbeare, M. D. 3s. Bew. The Doctor's title page doth not correfpond with the contents. The author neither hath refuted, nor fairly examined the principles and observations of his antagonist. We meet with a number of hard names, much scurrility, and implacable rancour. Penfioned Jacobites, and the flaves of ftate are very improper perfons to define government, or harangue on liberty. So ignorant, or furioufly warm is our author, that notwithftanding the king and miniftry who perfion him arc Calvinists by public profeffion, he inveighs against the "Calvinistical herefy," and fays in no country hath it been eftablifhed, or attempted fo to be, where the fanatics of that abominable feet have not waded through rivers of human gore, to arrive at power". Popery and the papifts are his chief favourites, and if we could believe him, the nation's best friends. CXL. A fecond Appeal to the Justice and Interefts of the People, on the Measures refpecting America. Is. Almon. The author hath fully, and it seems, faithfully, ftated the measures and acts of adminiftration, and the proceedings in America, fince the new parliament: he is an able advocate for the colonists, and cautions the people at home to guard against arbitrary power, inftancing in feveral kings who excrcifed arbitrary fway through the mediation of parliaments. By that medium, it is not only compaffed with more plausibilityand case, but exercifed with more abfolute power and fecurity. CXLI. A Congratulatory Poem on the late Succefes of the British Arms, &c. 15. Baldwin. A levere, poetical fatire on administration, and their clerical, military, and penfioned, abettors. The following lines are a fpecimen. "Be common truths perceiv'd by common men, Our Palinurus boasts a clearer ken; Ye gods! what conquests claim the British lyre! Befieging foes, unhurt, untouch'd, retire. Not 494 Review of New Publications. Not fottifh tyranny, not creeping art, While warring winds and wintry billows rave, Distracted counfels, and unmeaning fchemes, And rush to vengeance in a final blow." CXLII. Marmor Norfolcienfe; or an Effay on an ancient propbetical Infcription, in monkif Rhyme, published in 1739, lately discovered Lynn in Norfolk, with Notes, and a Dedication to Sam. Jobnfon. By Tribunus.. LL.D. 15. 6d. Williams. near The effay is a pointed attack on the glorious revolution, with perfonal invectives against the boufe of Hanover, and is attributed to the pen of the gentleman to whom it is now dedicated. The prefent editor accounts for the author's renouncing every principle adopted and inferred in the effay, by his being perfoxed: this he fuppofes hath made him to zealous a friend to his prefent majefty, and righteous adminiftration. CXLIII. An Efay upon the King's Friends, with an Account of fome Discoveries made in Italy, and found in a Virgil, concerning the To ies. To Dr. S. Jobnfon. 18. Almon. Intended for a fatire on the penfioner to whom it is addreffed, but penned with fo much obfcurity, few readers will dif over the writer's meaning. He maintains that Tories are now in power, and that it is as impoffible for a Whig to truft a Tory, as for a Tory to love a Whig in the prefent world, and concludes with the following prophecy, Lift to my prophecy-there's not a Jew Among the prophets, prophefies fo true. "London, thy pride shall have a fall, like "theirs *, "When the king's foes fhall kick his friends down fairs." CXLIV. A Letter to Scame Jenyns, Efq; by a Clergyman of the Church of England. is. Baldwin. Our author is afraid that Mr. Jenyns's View of the internal Evidence of Chriflianity, will be productive of more harm than good, and therefore makes fome remarks to point out the futility and errors of feveral of his affertions. We with he had given a more laboured reply to the View.-Some of his ftrictures are pertinent and judicious. As Mr. Jenyns hath degraded patriotifm and friendthip, and would exclude them from the Chriftian code; our letter writer obferves that the command, Love thy neighbour as Sept, thyfelf," includes love in all its degrees, from univerfal benevolence to patriotism, and its centre friendship. CXLV. Obfervations on Soame Jenyns's View of the internal Evidence of the Cbriftian Religion; addreffed to its almoft Chriftian Author, by W. Kenrick, LL.D. 35. Evans. By feveral obfervations in this volume, the learned author doth not appear to be more of an altogether Chriftian, than Mr. Jenyns, We think that both of them have advanced too near the head-quarters of "Chriftianity not founded on argument". The doctrines as well as the duties inculcated in the New Teftament will bear the feverest test of resfon and of ridicule, We meet however with many judicious remarks by our obferver, particularly the following-fpeaking of that unreferved obedience which feems to be enjoined by fome of the apostles to the heathen magistrates, he says, "In this, however, they have made men no farther flaves in this world than they are Chriftians, whofe faith is fixed and whofe hopes are centered on another. So far as they are fill men, and bound to take part in the concerns of this world, while on their journey to the next, they are at liberty to refift oppreffion, and combat injustice, whether that of a domestic tyrant or foreign invader. Granting that Chriftians, therefore, are not to propagate their religion, by force of arms, or to fight for Chrift's kingdom, which is not of this world, they are not forbidden to fight for their own fhare in the kingdoms, which are of this world.-If men may not fight for their religion, they may fight for their liberty and property: and, in our opinion, they act the part of brave men and good Chriftians in fo doing." CXLVI. Difcourfes on Poetical Subjects, by John Moir. 35. Cadell. Serious and inftructive-but the flyle is too affected, and intermixed with Scotticisms. CXLVII. A Dialogue on the Principles of the Conflitution and legal Liberty compared with Defpotism, applied to the American Queftion, &c. 2s. Owen. For the Americans and worthy perufal. CXLVIII. The total Refutation and political Overthrow of Dr. Price, or Great Britain fuccessfully vindicated against all American Rebels and their Advocates, by James Stewart. 1s. 6d. Bew. The writer is too wife and powerful in his own conceit; his bodily might may be of more fervice to Government against their American rebels than ever will his pen. CXLIX. Three Letters to Dr. Price, containing Remarks on bis Obfervations, &c. by a Member of Lincoln's Inn. 2s. 6d. Payne. Severe, but harmless; and the author in affecting to be witty, expofes his many imperfections. CL. The conflitutional Advocate : by which from Ancient Seats of Empire. 1776. Review and Lift of New Publications. from the Evidence of Hiftory, and of Records, and from the Principle of British Government, every Reader may form his Judgment concerning the Juftice and Policy of the prefent War with America. Is. Flexney. A cool and able advocate for the colonies. CLI. Obfervations on the Nature of civil Liberty and the Principles of Government, by Richard Hey, M.A. and Barrister at Law. 15. Cadell, A cool and able advocate for the authority of the legislature over the colonies; but he differs with adminiftration as well as with Dr. Price in fome particulars. CLII. A fhort Appeal to the People of Great Britain on the unavoidable Neceffity of the Prefent War with our difaffected Colonies. 2d. Kearsley. Very partial as well as fhort, and worth, but little. CLIII. America, an Ode; to the People of England. 6d. Almon. Poetical, and its author a warm friend to America. CLIV. W's Feaft, or Dryden Travefti; a Mock Pindaric. 16. 63, Barker, This pindaric will fearcely furnish the writer with half a feaft for himself, or bookfeller. CLV. A Poetical Epifle from the late Lord Melcomb to the Earl of Bute, with Correcti ons, by the Author of the Night Thoughts. 15. Becket. Our readers will judge of the poetry, and Dr. Young's corrections by the following extract; probably the author intended thefe lines for the perfon to whom they are addreffed. When men unfit for greatnefs will be great, *Why don't they trust to title and eftate? What dæmon, envious of their peace and fame, [aim; Drives them to make the care of ftates their *Why truft they not. + Sure. 1 495 To quit the fhade of private life, and fray For heaven beftows on all fufficient skill Haft thou not wit? be gen'rous and fin cere: Does learning fail? let focial love appear; Lettruth, good nature, virtue, be improv'd, And, fince thou canst not be admir'd, be lov'd. CLVI. A Narrative of Fats leading to the Trials of Mabarajah Nuncomar and Thomas Fowke, for a Forgery and Confpiracy, &c. by a Gentleman refident in Calcutta. 2s. Bew. POETICAL ESSAYS. My ruffet gown was laid afide, And curl'd my flowing hair; Too well, alas! my wish fucceeds; He swore by every name in heav'n, |