tions:-5thly, That it invigorates, renews, and fortifies mufcu lar motion; and laftly, That, even when it is ftrongly adminiftered, it is attended with no pernicious effects, neither affects the breast, nor excites trembling, as fome have infinuated, but ftrengthens the body, and augments the activity of the intellectual powers. It appears, from the Report before us, that the patients of M. Comus daily increase, and that his practice is, in every way, facilitated and encouraged by the protection of go. vernment, and the countenance of the medical faculty. VI. Lettres contenant le Journal d'un Voyage fait à Rome, &c. i. e. Letters concerning a Journey to Rome in the Year 1773. 2 Vols. 12mo. Paris. 1783.Every traveller has his peculiar manner of obferving, and of confequence, where the field of obfervation is rich and extenfiye, every new book. of travels may exhibit new points of view even in the fame ground that has been delineated by his predeceffors. Savoy, Turin, Milan, Venice, and Rome, are defcribed in these letters; as alfo, Tufcany, Modena, Parma, and Genoa, from which latter place our Author returned to France, by Nice and Monaco. His work is far from being an unanimated journal; for his defcriptions are lively, often fentimental, and fometimes accompanied with obfervations and reflections, that have escaped other travellers. He informs us in a note, that if this part of his Travels is well received by the Public, he will publifh the remainder, which will contain his peregrinations in Naples, England, Switzerland, and Holland. VII. More Travels:-Voyage aux Ifles de Lipari, &c. i. e. A Voyage to the Islands of Lipari, in the Year 1781, containing fome Accounts of the Eolian Ifles, that may form Materials for the Hiftory of Volcanos. By M. DEODAT DE DOLOMIEU, Commander of the Order of Malta, Correfpondent Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, &c. Paris. 8vo. 1783.-The Æolian Islands, which are, generally, all comprehended under the name of Lipari (becaufe that is the name of the one that is moft remarkable for its fertility and population), are but little known. Their fituation in a boifterous fea, where the navigation is rendered dangerous both by ftorms and pirates, is probably the reafon why they are fo little frequented. But when it is confidered, that thefe ifles, alone, exhibit a series of volcanos of every kind, degree, and defcription, and how much the combuftible matter they contain in their bowels may have contributed to the calamitous and awful revolutions of nature in Calabria and Sicily, it is not furprising they should become an object of attentive contemplation to all who cultivate the ftudy of natural history. In this Cafs our Author deserves an eminent rank. That the number of reprefentatives fhall remain the fame as at prefent. That parochial lifts of the whole body of the people shall be taken, infants, infane perfons, and criminals incapacitated by law, only excepted; in order to afcertain the exact proportion of the whole number, intitled to the choice of one reprefentative. That every county be divided into diftricts, under the name of boroughs, each containing as nearly as poffible the number of people, thus found intitled to elect one member in parliament. That parliaments fhall be elected every year, on September ift. That all candidates fhall declare them felves on or before June 15th, be proclaimed in every parish on the 16th, fhall be confidered by parochial affemblies of the people on the 17th, who may declare any others they think proper; all of whom fhall be proclaimed on the 18th, be tranfmitted to the Secretaries of State, and be inserted in the London Gazette; when no other candidate fhall afterward be admitted. The army, militia, and navy, not to vote with the rest of the people; th but to vote for the diflricts to which they belong, on or before Auguft 10th, before any juftice of peace, of the place where they then happen to rede, or be quartered. No perfons to vote at intermediate elections on vacancies, but those who voted at the last general election. All petitions against undue elections to be prefented to the house on the first day of the feffion; no committee to fit longer than three days on any petition; and no other business to be proceeded on, till all controverted elections are determined. The peers of Scotland to elect fixteen peers, in whom that right fhall remain hereditary; the number to be kept up by a new election, whenever the male line of a parliamentary peer becomes extinct. All peers of Scotland, with their heirs apparent, are made capable of creations to English peerages; or of election to the House of Com mons. Such is the general tenor of this famous bill, which as it is circalated openly for public confideration, we leave to the critical remarks of our political Readers. Art. 15. Hiftory of the Political Life and Public Services, as a The offices of the panegyrift and of the biographer are often confounded; and this is fometimes done with fo much ingenuity, that it is difficult to diftinguish them. In the prefent cafe, the point is easily determined. Every one will fee, from the encomiaftic train. in which this book is written, that the writer does not fo much intend to exhibit an exact portrait for the information of pofterity, as to draw an agreeable picture that fhall produce a prefent effect. The work, in short, is nothing more than a laboured apology for a Great Man, in order to ferve a political purpose. It is a narrative of his whole courfe of public conduct, including fuch particulars of state history, as might place his character in the fairest point of view. Near 600 pages of good writing are employed upon this subject; but Gg 3 as as the defign is temporary, and the principal facts are already before the Public, we fhall content ourselves with this general notice of the work. Art. 16. A Collection of the Letters which have been addreffed ta the Volunteers of Ireland, on the Subject of a Parliamentary Reform. By the Earl of Effingham, Dr. Price, Major Cartwright, Dr. Jebb, and the Rev. Mr. Wyvill. To which are annexed, a Letter of the Rev. Mr. Northcote, on the fame Subject; a Letter of Lieut. Col. Sharman to Dr. Jebb, with his Anfwer; and all the Letters of the Rev. Mr. Wyvill, addressed to the Yorkshire Committee of Affociation, to John Campbell, Efq; Chairman of the Committee of Stirling Merchants, Er fs Crofsby, Efq. and others. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Stockdale. 1783. There is no doubt, that this collection of the fentiments of the above mentioned able politicians, on the great fubject of parliamentary reformation, and conftitutional feedom, will be very acceptable to all who are friends to the natural and political rights of the people in both kingdoms. Art. 17. A plain Letter to the Common People of Great Britain and Ireland, giving fome fair Warning againit tranfporting themselves to America. Izmo. 2d. Dixwell, &c. This plain letter will most probably fail in its intended purpose, by undertaking to prove too much; it is a most curious invective against the country of North America, and every circumstance attending it; and as fuch may ferve as a contraft to Mr. St. John's Letters from an American Farmer*. Art. 18. An Inquiry into the Legality and Expediency of increafing the Royal Navy by Subfcriptions for building County Ships. Being the Correfpondence on that Subject between Arthur Young and Capel Loft, Efqrs. With a Lift of the Subfcribers to the Suffolk Man of War. To which are added, Obfervations on the State of the Taxes and Refources of the Kingdom, on the Conclufion of the Peace. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Bladon. A correfpondence originally carried on in a country news-paper, on the merits of an abortive fcheme to profecute the war, is now of very little confequence. EAST INDIA AFFAIRS. Art. 19. An Addrefs to the Proprietors of East India Stock. 8vo. IS. Wilkie. 1783. In this addrefs, which is dated from Bengal, the principles and conduct of the Mahratta war are reprobated in ftrong terms, and Mr. Haftings is as feverely cenfured as the perfonal and fole author of it., Mr. Haftings and his friends, in publications that have occafionally come under our view, relate fo fair a flory on the other fide of the question, that readers, unbiaffed by connexions, are abfolutely confounded between them. Were not the theatre of action fo remote, lacks of rupees fo plentiful, and the exercife of power fo inviting, fo many able pens would not be engaged in counterworking each other. But where the data are so obfcuted, they excite only general reflec * See Rev. Vol. LXVI. p. 401. LXVII. p. 140, 273. tions; and we have fo frequently been tempted to exprefs them, that we will not run the hazard of repetitions. The next generation may probably be better informed. Art. 20. Two Letters to the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, in Reply to the Infinuations and palpable Mifreprefentations, in a Pamphlet intitled the Ninth Report from the Select Committee, &c. By J. S. 8vo. Is. 6d. Gilbert and Plummer. The Preface to thefe Letters is figned John Scott, who is as warm on the part of Mr. Haftings, as the preceding writer is against him. Mr. Burke and General Smith are here the objects of crimination, for perfonal enmity to that gentleman; and Mr. Burke's political activity affords ample fcope for perfonal animadverfion. Art. 21. A Letter to the Court of Directors of the East India Company from Warren Haflings, Etq; Governor General of Bengal. Dated, Fort William, March 20, 1783. 8vo. binfon. Is. 6d. Ro In our Review for laft January, p. 87, we gave a brief account of Mr. Haftings's Narrative of the late Tranjactions at Benares. In that publication he entered into a very ingenuous and fatisfactory explanation of the motives of his conduct; which has nevertheless been fince cenfured by fome harth refolutions of the Court of Directors. Thefe refolutions have produced the cogent, well written, and manly letter now before us; a letter, that, like the former narrative, contains internal evidence of being dictated by clear decided judgment, and confcious integrity; it is indeed a compofition of dignity, that keeps close to the merits of the fubject, without defcending to the little fineffes of controverfy, or farcaftic turns fo frequently employed by auxiliary pens on either fide: and that while it fhews the writer's abilities, irresistibly interefts the reader in favour of the man who is capable of fuch mafterly juftifications. Art. 22. The Letters of a Citizen on India Affairs. 8vo. Gilbert and Plummer. IS. These Letters are a feries, first published in fome news-paper, as remarks on the Ninth and Tenth Reports of the Select Committee; and now collected together by the advice of friends. They are in behalf of Mr. Haftings, and pointed at Mr. Burke and General Smith; but fcarcely merited a revival. Art. 23. A Letter to the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, on the Subject of his late Charges against the Governor General of Bengal. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Johnfon in Whitechapel. 1783. Another angry remonftrance with Mr. Burke on the violent part he has taken in the Select Committee against Mr. Haftings. The Public can collect little from the fe little literary altercations, more than that the conduct of Mr. Haftings is either very culpable, or that his antagonists are actuated by very unworthy motives. We shall foon fee which party weighs heaviest at Westminster. AMERICAN. Art. 24. A Letter from General Washington to General Green. 8vo. 6d. Stockdale. An expofition of the motives of this American Cincinnatus for returning again to the plough. His reafons do honour to his good under Gg 4 flanding ftanding and amiable difpofition; and his parting advice to the United States, is fuch as they ought to write in letters of gold, on the front of their ftate house-if they had enough of that precious metal to spare from more preffing demands. Art. 25. Political Reflections on the late Colonial Governments: in which their original conftitutional Defects are pointed out, and fhewn to have naturally produced the Rebellion, which has unfortunately terminated in the Difmemberment of the British Empire. By an American. 8vo. 3s. Wilkie. 1783. This is a well written review of the feveral forms of government eftablished by this country in the American colonies; tending to fhew, that the feeds of revolt were fown in the difcordant principles ..of their compofition: for that the delegated powers not being tempered according to the conftitution of the prefent ftate, no permanent harmony could fubfit between them. The Author reafons well to the event that has taken place: but is not the difcuffion now obfolete and unprofitable * 2 Art. 26. A View of the Conftitution of the British Colonies in North America and the West Indies, at the Time the Civil War broke out on the Continent of America. In which Notice is taken of fuch Alterations as have happened fince that Time, down to the prefent Period. With a Variety of Colony Precedents, which are chiefly adapted to the British Weft India Mlands; and may be ufeful to those who have any Intercourfe with the Colonies. By Anthony Stokes, of the Inner Temple, London; Barrister at Law; his Majefty's Chief Juflice of Georgia. 8vo. 6s. Boards. White. 1783. This work may prove a valuable common place book for all genatlemen engaged in the practice of law in our Weft Indian iflands; as it confifts chiefly of forms of legal process, and deeds, used on the moft, current occafions in the plantations. Thefe precedents are introduced with a very intelligent account of the late conftitution of the North American provinces under British government; and the prefent frame of their government as independent united states; interfperfed with tuch obfervations as fhow the author to be well qualified for the task he has executed.. Art. 27. Directions to the American Loyalifts, in order to enable them to state their Cafes by way of Memorial to the Commiffioners appointed (by Statute 23 Geo. III. c. 80.) to inquire into the Loffes and Services of thofe Perfons who have fuffered in confequence of their Loyalty, &c. By a Loyalist. 8vo. 19. Flexney. 1783. Where a fet of men are deputed to tranfact a multitude of bufinefs of a fimilar nature, it is neceflary that every fuch business should be laid before them in a regular form, in order to the being regularly dispatched: and this attention to form, is no lefs necessary to the fuitors, to fecure them as much as poffible against the delays and difappointments fo frequently and fo juftly complained of, by those whole good or ill fortune requires attendance at a public office. For Perhaps not, indeed, wholly unprofitable; as we have ftill fome provincial fettlements to lofe, or to preserve. the |