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confiftent with the principles of pure platonism occurred, in the course of Mr. Sterne's correfpondence with this Lady. Indeed, after the following pathetic affeveration, in one of his fondest epistles, it were ungenerous to fufpect him of harbouring any difhonourable intention! May poverty, diftrefs, anguish, and thame be my portion, if ever I give thee reafon to repent the knowledge of me!-1 would not mislead thee, Eliza; I would not injure thee in the opinion of a fingle individual, for the richest crown the proudest monarch wears."

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And he strengthens thefe profeffions by a declaration that they are made in the prefence of a juft God;'-adding, I pray to him that fo it may speed with me, as I deal candidly and honourably with thee.'

As to the Letters themfelves, there is not a great deal in them; but they are Sterne's; and every thing from his pen will be precious in the eyes of his numerous admirers. They appear to have been the genuine effufions of a moft lively and tender attachment to a virtuous and amiable woman, whom (with a very small exception, indeed) he deemed the best female character within the circle of his acquaintance.

Art. 49. A fhort Tour in the Midland Counties of England; performed in the Summer of 1772; together with an Account of a fimilar Excurfion, undertaken September, 1774. 8vo. 1 S. 6 d. Bew. 1775.

Although the Author of thefe Tours is not a Banks, a Pennant, or a Johnfon, he is by no means an unobserving, or an unintelligent traveller. He describes, in a plain unaffected style, whatever occurred to his notice in the counties of Herts, Lincoln, Derby, Nottingham, Northampton, Oxford, &c. and his remarks may be confi dered as forming not an improper fupplement to Mr. Young's Tour through the fame parts of the kingdom.

Art. 50. Theatrical Amusements; or the Diverfions of the Green. Room, &c. I 2mo

1 S. Witts.

A paltry jest book, vamped with a new title.

Art. 51. An Appeal to the Jockey Club; or a true Narrative of the late Affair between Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Walker, By George Robert Fitzgerald, Efq; 8vo. 1 s. Parker, &c. 1775

CASE, as fated by F.

W. owes F. 300ol. [we fuppofe on a gaming account] and pleading bankruptcy, requefts F.'s acquiefcence in a fmall compofition, in common with the rest of his creditors. F. complies; but, afterward, finding reafon to believe, that W. had impofed on him, by a bafe mifreprefentation of his circumstances, he gives him a public caning, at Afcot races. Some days after a duel enfues; and F. afferts, that his antagonist providentially] escaped unhurt by the means of paper armour under his clothes, which repelled a well-aimed bullet that hit him on the arm. In brief, F. ftill purfues his evafive opponent, who, day after day, week after week, and month after month,' plays at hide and feek with him. In the mean time, our appellant fubmits the propriety of his conduct to the arbitration of the gentlemen of the Jockey Club; whofe decifions, as a court of bonour, we are to fuppofe, no man of honour will have reason to impeach.

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Art. 52. An Anfwer to Mr. Fitzgerald's Appeal.
Walker, Efq; 8vo. Is. KearЛley.

By Thomas

Mr. W. explains fome circumftances, (particularly with regard to the nature of Mr. F.'s pecuniary demand upon him) which are neceffary to be truly known, before a juft and decifive judgment can be formed of the real merits of the difpute between the contending parties. The appellant is here charged with fome very confiderable mifreprefentations. Mr. W.'s Answer is written with lefs appearance of authorship than the Appeal, but with the fame becoming deference to the court of honour before which the caufe has been brought; and it is probable that the perufal of it will give the public a better opinion of him, than that which might have been collected from reading Mr. F.'s performance alone, and uncontroverted. As to the story of the paper armour, Mr. W. has noticed it only by a fmile of contempt.

Art. 53. The Reply to Thomas Walker, Efq; Ci-devant, Cornet in Burgoyne's Light Dragoons. By George Robert Fitzgerald, Efq; 8vo. Is. Parker. &c.

Hey! Hey! where are we now? Here we have the lie direct, accomplished villain, paper'd coward, and blafted cheat, with many other compliments of the true St. Giles's breed. Yet is not Mr. F.'s pamphlet ill-written. There is in it fpirit, and even pleafantry; and, on the whole, he feems to have, by far, the best end of the argument. But, after all, what have the public to do with the quarrels of turf men and gamefters? Let them cut each other's throats as they pleafe, without interruption; and the more the better, that fociety may get rid of them.

Art. 54. A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnfon, on his Journey to the Western Iles. By Andrew Henderfon, Author of the Life of the late Duke of Cumberland. 8vo. 1 s. Millan, &c. The Frog contending with the Ox.

Art. 55. The Borough Broker; or Nobleman Trick'd. Being a Detail of Facts, &c. By a Lady, 8vo. 1s. Williams. 1774. Whether this is really a piece of fecret hiftory, or a catch-penny fiction, we pretend not to determine. The ftory relates that a lord V. was cheated of 300 1. by one J. R. who is reprefented as a common harper; and, at that time, pretended he had a power to fell the reprefentation of Hindon. This borough, which has fo lately had the ill luck to be exposed to fhame, for no uncommon kind of traffic, perhaps appeared the fittest to engage attention; but whether the tale be true or falfe, it is fo ill told, that it is fearce worth reading. N. Art. 56. Principles of Politeness, and of knowing the World; by the late Lord Chefterfield, methodifed and digefted, &c. By the Rev. Dr. John Trufler. 8vo. 2 s. 6d. Bell, &c. 1775Lord Chesterfield's celebrated letters to his fon, 'undoubtedly con tain a great number of precepts, against the morality of which, no juft exceptions can be brought. A felection of thefe was an obvious thought; and Dr. Trufler has done all that was requifite in digefting them fyftematically, by a proper arrangement under diftinct heads,as modefy, genteel carriage, choice of company, employment of time, dignity of manners, &c. &c.

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Art. 57. Principles of Politeness, and of knowing the World. Part II. Addreffed to young Ladies. By the Rev. Dr. John Trufler. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Bell. 1775.

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A proper companion to the foregoing Article. It is collected from the most respectable writers; and treats the fubject under the three general heads of MODESTY, LOVE, and MARRIAGE, and Female CONDUCT in GENERAL; thefe being fubdivided into a great number of diftinct branches: all of which are judiciously treated. Art. 58. A Sunday's Ramble; or, Modern Sabbath-Day's' Journey in and about the Cities of London and Westminster. Defcribing, in an agreeable manner, the various interesting Scenes - to be met with, &c. the whole illuftrated with a great variety of Original Chara&ers, Anecdotes, Memoirs, &c. 12mo. 1s. Bew. We have had feveral books on plans fimilar to this, which have been called Spies, trips, &c. And they have been the more frivolous,* as their Authors pretended to wit or waggery. This Ramble takes a fober, reflecting, and moral turn; and is fo far tolerable, at least. The writer appears to have really vifited the fcenes he defcribes ; but not all in one day, as he fets forth,-unless he borrowed the giant's feven-league boots and had there been a greater variety of defcription, and fewer ftories, characters, &c. (none of which are very interefting, or important) his performance would, in our opinion, have been more generally acceptable to thofe readers for whofe amufement and information he intended it.

Art. 59. Hotch Potch, containing a Conclamation of Original Pieces, a higgledy piggledy of Controverfies and Opinions on various Subjects.-Morfels of Hiftory, Phyfiology, fragments of Art, portions of Humour, goblets of Ratiocination, crumbs of Comfort, piece-meals of Oeconomy, &c. By Thomas Medley, Efq; Vice Prefident of Bollimong College, Doctor of Gallimafry, Utopian Profeffor of Oddities, and Fellow of Civil Society. 12mo. Vol. I. 2s. 6d. bound. Nicoll. 1774.

Humorous, witty, and pleafant; and the Reviewer is truly obliged to the learned and ingenious prefident of Bollimong College, for the comfortable nap which the perufal of his falmagunda of lucubrations' hath procured him.

Art. 60. The Southampton Guide; or, The Ancient and Present State of that Town.-Alfo the Ifle of Wight, &c. &c. 12mo. 1 s. Beecroft, &c. 1774.

Ufeful, particularly to thofe who vifit the pleasant town of Southampton, in the fummer-feafon.

SCHOOL BOOK.

Art. 61. Græca Grammatica Rudimenta, Ordine novo, ac faciliori Ratione, tradita, ex Opera Georgii Gulielmi Lemon. Apxididaonane Regia Schola Norvicenfis. The Rudiments of Greek Grammar, &c. by George William Lemon, Head Master of the King's School, Norwich. 12mo. 2 s. 6 d. Nourse. 1774. Notwithstanding what we have occafionally faid in commendation of feveral publications of this kind, there is one obvious inconvenience attending a variety of Greek and Latin Graminars, which is, that when the half-grounded pupil changes his after, a circumstance that many contingencies muft occafion, he

finds his new preceptor with a different grammar in his hands, and has the mortification to be thrown back to the entrance of those thorny paths, through which he had paffed with fo much time and toil. This renders it a moft defirable, and a most expedient thing, to have but one national grammar of the dead languages taught in all fchools. The Tyro might then pafs from school to school without fuch an intolerable lofs of time and labour.

The Author of this Grammar profeffes to have made fome alteration in the order of the declenfions, and the tenfes, &c. but we are fatisfied that every attempt of this nature, is only adding to that great and general inconvenience we have mentioned.

SERMON S.

I. On the Nature of Subscription to Articles of Religion, preached be-
fore the Rev. John Law, A M. Archdeacon of Rochefter; at his
Vifitation held at Bromley, June 7th, 1774 By Andrew Burnaby,
A. M. Vicar of Greenwich. 8vo. is. Payne.

This Writer has not given us a direct and explicit definition of religion. We wish he had done fo, because there appears to us rather an obfcurity and perplexity in what he fays concerning it, in one part of his difcourfe. We apprehend religion is a perfonal thing, confifting in a certain temper of mind, which influences our practice; and this temper is to be expreffed, affifted and improved by an attendance on the inflitutions of public worship: but we cannot confider it, according to Mr. Burnaby's account, as a system of truths,' or a collection of rules,' fince thefe truths and rules a man may receive and acknowledge, who is utterly deftitute of real religion. We would not be thought to cavil; but we cannot avoid offering fome objection to what he fays on this fubject. In other refpects we confider his fermon as an ingenious and candid performance. It pleads for affent and fubfcription to articles, but it pleads for it with moderation, and argues that it implies nothing more than general belief of and acquiefcence in them; a firm perfuafion that they contain nothing effentially or fundamentally wrong; and an undiffembled and fincere preference of them to the articles of any other church or communion.'

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In the conclufion of his fermon our Author obferves, the prefent diffenfions among us concerning the articles, require, I think, a different mode of conduct, from what has been yet adopted, if we serioufly wish to adjuft and accommodate them.-No method feems to remain, but, reafonable allowance on one fide, and reasonable compliance on the other: and this I think not only juftifiable, but required by the principles I have endeavoured to lay down and explain.If I know my own heart, I am neither infincere in the cause of religion, nor indifferent to that of liberty. I truly believe and revere the religion of Chrift, as it is revealed in the gospel; and as truly believe it to be profeffed in greater purity and perfection in the church of England, than in any other church. On the other hand, I think every one has a right, an unalienable right, to liberty of opinion; and that no church can require fuch implicit belief and affent to its injunctions and articles, as must neceffarily fubvert this

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liberty:general belief and approbation with acquiefcence and conformity is all that either is, or can be, required." It is all that the church has a right to require:I will farther add;-all that the spirit of her acts or injunctions feem to require.'

We do not recollect that any method for adjusting the diffenfions about articles has been adopted by our governors; they appear to us to think it a matter not worthy of attention.

II. St. Chryfoftom's Second and Third Sermons, in honour of Good Friday and Eafter-day; tranflated from the Greek, and never before in our Language. By the Rev. William Scott, M. A. Price 6 d. each.

Crowder.

Ill. Free will and Merit fairly examined, or Men not their own Saviours. -At St. Ann's, Black Fryars, May 25, 1774. By the Rev. Auguftus Toplady. 6d. Mathews.

IV. Good News from Heaven; or, the Gofpel a Joyful Sound.-At the Lock Chapel, near Hyde Park Corner, June 19, 1774. By the Rev. Auguftus Tonlady. 6d. Mathews.

The rest of the Sermons in our next.

CORRESPONDENCE.

UR ingenious Correfpondent, who fubfcribes himself N. from

O Casat a lofs to apprehend, how the fuppofition.

that the earth is an beterogeneaus globe,' makes any difference in the eftimate of the proportion between the polar and the equatorial forces, and between the lengths of the polar and equatorial diameters. In an homogeneous earth, or an earth of uniform denfity, he well knows, that the forces of gravity are reciprocally as the distances from the center; i. e. the gravity at the equator is less than that at the pole, in the proportion of the distance of the pole from the center to the femidiameter of the equator, or, according to the Newtonian calculation, as 229 to 230. But if we fuppose an accumulation of matter at the center, or that the parts encompaffing the center are more denfe than any other, Sir I. Newton has demonftrated, (vide Principia Mathematica Phil. Prop. 76. Lib. I.) that the gravity will be very nearly in the reciprocal proportion of the fquares of the diftances: admitting, therefore, this fuppofition, or that the earth is thus beterogeneous, the force of gravity at the equator will be to that at the pole, (fo far as this accumulation of the matter is concerned in the queftion) in the reciprocal proportion of the fquares of the diftance; i. e. as 222 to 2302, which is evidently a lefs proportion than that of the fimple diftances. The difference therefore between the forces may be greater than any affigned number; but the difference between the diameters or distances less than that number, and vice versa. But the theory of an heterogeneous globe has been fully and accurately explained by Monf. Clairault, in his excellent Treatise on the Figure of the Earth.' He has raised a theorem for determining the elliptic figure of the earth on this hypothefis; and the perufal of that work will, we apprehend, obviate our Correfpondent's difficul ties, as far at leaft as the article, with which we are immediately concerned, requires. We fhall only add, that nothing has been ●mitted in our extract from the publication to which our correfpon

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