derness to the very profeffors of them, and, that it is incumbent on the legislature to reduce the law to a compafs fo fmall, that every one may be able certainly to know all the injunctions he is bound to obey.

To reduce the vaft body of our laws into fuch a compafs is certainly a work of great difficulty and labour, but the acts of parJiament might be eafily methodized, and this would leffen their bulk at least one third.

To facilitate the knowledge of our laws, in their prefent confufed, enormous, and multifarious ftate, this treatife is intended.

11. A Candid refutation of the charges brought against the prefent minifters, in a pamphlet, intitled, The principles of the late. changes impartially examined. 13. Newbery.

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wood of Bristol. is 6d. Becket.

It confifts of a regular feries of propofitions, naturally arifing out of each other, and illuftrated by an analysis: It is a work of which no judgment can be formed by an extract, and which cannot be reduced to an epitome; the young ftudent, therefore, especially the attorney's clerk, is referred to the performance itself, which appears to be well calculated to give him fuch a general and comprehenfive knowledge of the law, C as very few practitioners have acquired.

5. Mofes and Bolinbroke, a dialogue in the manner of the Right Honourable authour of Dialogues of the

dead. By S. Pye, M. D. Sandly 35.

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13. A dialogue concerning the fubjection of women to their husbands. Wilkie 6d.

The intention of this dialogue is to prove the fubjection. The law, fays the authour, confiders the acts of the wife as not binding in many cafes upon herself; the husband is obliged to pay the debts the contracts, and to repair the damages of which he may be the caufe, and if a man is accountable for his wife's actions, it is but reasonable that he should have the direction of them. He obferves farther, that the woman engages to obey by her marDriage contract; and that the fcriptures themselves teach this obedience as a duty. He would not however be thought to a pologize for tyranny, much less defend it. He would have the man fteadily maintain the fuperiority, which nature, revelation, and the laws give him, and fays, that if derftanding, whether the would chufe for he was to afk almost any woman of un a husband, a man who has fenfe and fpirit enough to act in that manner which his reafon and understanding directed him; in which he would always be inflexible, but be at the fame time an affectionate husband; which is certainly a very fupa temper, that the might bend and mould pofeable cafe; or one of fo foft and pliant him which way fhe pleafed, and altogether govern him; fuppofing both their fortunes to be equal, it is his opinion that the love of way is not fo deeply rooted in woman, but that he would prefer the former. It is obferved, I remember, fays he, by an old Ghave foolish husbands, whom they author, that "fuch wives as would rather "might rule, than be ruled by fober wife "men. are like him that would rather "lead a blind man in an unknown way, "than follow one that can both fee and "alio knoweth the way well."

This is a defence of Mofer's hiftory of the creation, against Lord Bolingbroke,s objections, in which the authour endeavours to prove that the extraordinary action of God on the human mind, is not more inconceivable than the ordinary action of mind on body, and of body on mind. That the motion of a fluid chaos, is prior to the doctrine of the mundane egg, and cannot be deduced from any of the phæ nomena in nature. That the comets of our fyftem are included in the Mofaic account of creation. That the wif dom and learning of the Egyptians were of no use to Mofes in writing of creation. That, by the Heavens, Mofes means the heavenly bodies. That images taken from the human nature are neceffary F to our conceptions of the divine nature. That the do&rine of Incubation is unjustly imputed to Mofes, That Mofer's commiffion to his bretheren was divine. That Moses's fyftem and Lord Bolingbroke's are the fame. That the planetary inhabitants, are the final caufe of the fyftem. That there is mternal proof of the authenticity of the Mofaic creation. That revelation runs parallel with creation. That fabbaths, or days of reft, were appointed to every primary planet in the fystem; and many ther particulars which cannot be reducedto an epitome.

6. The Under Sheriff, containing the H office and duty of high theriffs. 7. 6d. Worra!.

7. The works of Lord Chancellor Bacon,' with his life; a new edition. 5 8.

14. The trial of Catharine Nairne, and Lieut. Ogily. See p. 518. 25. Becket.

15. The book of Lamentations for the lofs of the D. of Cumberland. 6 d. Cook.

16. Practical Chriftianity illuftrated; in

nine tracts, on various fubjects. By S. Walker, A. B. late of Truro. 3s Dilly.

17. Rules and orders of the court of exchequer, relative to the equity court, the office of pleas, and the revenue. 2s Sandby.

not tend to procure an agreeable existence, and that there is no other difference between useful and agreeable, than that one gives pleasure mediately, the other immediately.

He talks of private interest as a thing

18. The ceremonial of the interment of A wholly diftinct from the love either of mo the D. of Cumberland, 3d. Woodfall.

19. A botanical lexicon. By J. Berken bout, M. D. of Ifleworth. 35 6d. Becket.

20. A letter to the Right Rev. authour of the divine legation of Mofes demonstrated; in answer to the appendix to the fifth volume of that work; with an appendix, containing a former literary correfpondence. By a late profeffor at Oxford. is 6d. Millar.

21. An Effay on Luxury translated from the French of M. Pinto, faid to be of a merchant's family in Holland. Becket.

ney or of pleasure, and from all paffions which introduce luxury; and fays that this private intereft has corrupted states. This private interest must certainly be a creator of paffion, for it can be reduced to no paffion now exifting in the human breast.

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This tract contains a feries of propofitions, from which the author concludes, that luxury is contrary or favourable to the enrichment of a nation, as it confumes more or less of the products of its foil, and its industry; or as it confumes more or lefs of the produce of the foil and industry of foreign countries; and that it ought to have a greater or lefs number of objects according as thele nations have more or 'D lefs wealth.

The performance appears to be very fuperficial and unphilofophical. The author defines luxury to be "the ufe that

we make of riches and industry in or"der to procure an agreeable existence," But according to this definition, it is difficult to prove, that all nations which have money or induftry are not equally luxurious, fince they all equally ufe money and industry to procure an agreeable existence; and indeed money and industry can be used only with a view to obtain thofe purposes.

The author alfo tells us, that a defire of bettering our condition, is the cause of our paffions; but he might as well have faid, that the idea of colour is the cause of fight,

He has by no means clear and definite ideas under the terms he ufes: He fuppofes wealth and the circulation of money, and the cultivation of the elegant arts to be things ultimately diftinct from Luxury, whereas they are only the means, of which luxury is the end.

Having defined luxury to be the use of money and induftry to procure an agreeable existence, he fuppofes Holland to be lefs luxurious than Portugal, because it is more frugal and fimple, whereas frugality and fimplicity in the employment of money and induftry are most likely to procure an agreeable exiftence.

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Luxury is the introduction and gratification of artificial wants.

Artificial wants are exceffive, when more is fuffered by thofe that fupply them, than is enjoyed by thofe, in whom they are fupplied,

Their effect upon wealth and the arts, are fubordinate confiderations; their effect upon general happiness only, in their whole extent, fhould be examined by him who would truly eftimate the good and ill of luxury.

22. The Royal Shepherds, a pastoral of three acts; by J. Cuningham. 6d Jones.

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26. Philofophical Reveries, Becket.

The fubjects of thete reveries, are Refpiration, the Salivary Secretions and fevers,

The author fupposes that respiration, befides putting into motion the greater fprings of life, communicates its power to minuter parts of the vascular fyflen. He fuppofes alfo, that the perfpiratory pores alternately exude and reforb, infpire and expire like the mouth, in true time with the great organs of breath, from which they derive their motion. He thinks the quickness with which Infections are tranf

mitted to the vital parts, favours this opinion.

He fuppofes the falivary fecretion to be that from which the nourishment and reparation of an animal body is immediately derived, and that all aliments are converted into this fluid before they pals into the blood. As the fluid evidently re-enters the blood, being continually fwallowed in A

a quantity fufficient for nourishment and reparation, he fuppofes it more rational to conclude, that nourishment and reparation are produced by the tranfition of a fluid fo greatly elaborated and refermented, than from the chilification of crude aliment,

As to Fevers, he supposes them all to be fymptomatic, and that there is no fuch thing as an effential fever; the fevers that proceed from diforders in the humours or folids, being as truly fymptomatic, as any other which are excited by any local affeftion, by the fmali pox, contufions, burns, the erifipelas or gout, He fays a fever is a remedy, and not a difeafe, and if it ever fails of curing the patient, it is because the disease it comes to cure is too powerful, for a man faid to die of a putrid fever, really dies of a putrefaction which the fever could not overcome, Medicines, fays he, called febrefuges, more frequently counteract the fever in its falutary intention, than co operate with it, and fo retard the cure, or perhaps kill the patient,

Thefe reveries are written in a file fo turged and affected that the fenfe is often obfcure; the author affects to use uncommon words without perfectly underftanding them, and has diftorted the language by forcing it into new forms.

The following extract will justify this remark "However among other corol"Ilaries to this idea fuppofing it verifiable, "it may be obferved that the quickness of "contagious miafms penetrating inftantane"oufly to the centrical regions of vitality, "to the diaphragm, to the heart, and its "adjacencies, with which the communica ❝tion of the pores muft, in the act of their Sinhalation be immediate, feems more "plaufibly, more rationally to be account

ed for, than by the flower and more in❝tricate progrefs of circulation through the blood."

By which the author only means, that the rapid progiefs of infections to the vital parts is more easily accounted for, upon a fuppofition that they are inhaled by the pores, than that they are conveyed by the blood in its circulation,

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27. A view of the advantages of inland navigations; with a plan of a navi- H gable canal, intended for a communication between Liverpoole and Hull, Becket.

This piece is divided into three fections, The first treats of the general advantage of

inland navigations; the fecond contains detcription of the intended canal; and the third thews its particular advantages. It is fufficient for us to give fome account of the laft, for if this particular navigation is of advantage, it is eligible whether others are fo or not. The principal benefit propofed by this communication, is the removing

from place to place, at a comparatively fmail expence, various commodities, of which the author gives the following account:

They are first the natural productions of the countries that lie near the cana!. (2) Cultivated commodities and manufactures, (3) Imported raw-materials, and genera! commerce.

Among the first is a bed of rock-falt, between Northweb and Lawton, forty yards thick. In a mountain called Mole Cop, near Lawton, are four different and useful kinds of ftone; mill-ftone,lime-stone, freeftone, and grinding-ftones of different forts,

All the way to Trentham there is a chain of collieries. On the banks of the Trent a free-flone is found, not inferior to that of Portland or Roche Abbey.

A mile from Rudgley, a blazing kind of coal, called canel, and other coals are found, belonging to the Earl of Uxbridge,

Near the Trent too, arises a vaft moun, tain of lime ftone; at Twickenhall, in Derby fire, are allo quarries with lime-ftone; and at Barrow in Leicestershire, they burn an excellent kind of lime for building,

A few miles lower, at Clay-bill, a firm and elegant alabaster is found.

Near the Soar, in Leicestershire, are the noted quarries of Switbland flate; and prodigious rocks of that kind of grey porphyry which is brought from Scotland, to pave the streets of London and Wefiminfter.

Manures of all kinds will alfo be procured from marle-pits and large towns, on reasonable terms, by which the value of many farms bordering upon the canal will be doubled,-Iron ore, proper for making cold-fhort iron; & which, when mixed with the red ore from Cumberland, makes the bef kind of tough, or merchant iron. The iron ftone of this country is likewife so neceffary for working the ore in the North, that even the great expence of land carriage hath not prevented large quantities of it from being conveyed that way to the river Wea ver, to be shipped for Cumberland; and the ore from the North has been brought into this country under the like inconveniencies. It feems, therefore, bighly probable, that the intended canal will occafion the fending much greater quantities of irontone into the North; and the receiving more red mine back in return; and there, by greatly encrease the intercourfe between these two parts of the kingdom, to their mutual advantage.

Not only these natural productions, but ma

REMARKABLE

Pon the 5th of October the fhips arrived at Philadelphia, with the ftamps on board, for Maryland, New Jersey, and Penfylvania, when feveral thousand citizens afTembled in order to confider ways and means for preventing the ftamp at taking place in that province, and at laft came to a refolu. tion to request the diftributor to refign his office; which after fome demur he in part did, affuring his countrymen that no act of his, or his deputies, fhould enforce the execution of the ftamp-act in the provinces for which he was commiffioned, before the fame fhould be generally put in force in the neighbouring colonies. And at the fame time the lawyers entered into an agreement not to purchafe any of thofe ftamps, giving it as their opinion, that it was impoffible the duty impofed by them could be paid for in gold and Elver. The lawyers in other provinces have come to the like refolution.

A beautiful little black horfe from Shetland in the North of Scotland, was landed at Newcaftle, and measured only 33 inches high; fo that the little horfe brought from the Eaft(Gent, Mag, Nov. 1765.)

To prevent the many accidents that happen by cleaning foul wells, the following method has been discovered and recommended by Mr Millington of the city of Worcester; let down an iron pot with a few ounces of gun powder in it, to the furface of the water, then tofs a fhovel full of live coals into the well, fome of which will probably fall in the pot, and fet the powder on fire, the explofion of which, will effectually difpell the noxious damps, and then workmen may go down with fafety.

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Mr Yeoman having observed a deficiency of water, from the great increase of buildings in the neighbourhood of London, has pointed out a very practicable fupply, by improving the navigation of the river Lee in fuch a manner, that a fiftieth part of the water now used fhould fuffice for that purpofe, by which B enough would remain regularly to work all the mills upon that river, and a large quantity to spare for the use of the New River company.

The logwood cutters have received another check in the Bay of Honduras, by the defertion of a formidable body of their Negroes, who have murder'd feveral of their masters and others, and greatly intimidated the reft.

expired. One of the Barons, her fons, is Chamberlain at the court of Hanover; the other, a major-general in the Hanoverian guards.

Circular letters have been fent to the clergy in the diocese of London, requiring them to make diligent fearch tor difcovering all private mafs-houfes, and to tranfmit to their Bishop the number of Catholics in their refpective parishes.

A treatife has lately been publifhed at Paris in which the author has urged many reafons for a reformation of the laws in that kingdom, among the reft, That fpeedy Injustice is preferable to juftice not to be obtained till after a long and ruinous fuit."

The Lifbon factors finding themselves injuriously dealt with by the Portuguese government have declined electing a confervator of their rights for the year enfuing, The manufactures of Great Britain that by treaties were liable only to 23 per cent. duty, have lately been charged at the custom house there with above 80 per cent.

There has been a great fire at Calmar, in Sweden, by which 160 houfes have been Creduced to afhes.

The governor of New-England, upon the The fimple remedy for the tooth-ach, faid arrival of the flamp paper for that province, to have been fuccefsfully tried in Sweden, by and that of New Hampshire, fent a meffage to applying an artificial magnet, eafy to be purboth houses of affembly, defiring their advice chafed at the hardware-fhops, to the tooth afand affistance, in order to preferve the stampt fected, is frongly recommended to the public papers safe and secure for his majefty's further by a gentleman who figns himself H. Boefnier orders; to which they made anfwer, that the de la Touche. He also recommends horse-radfampt-papers mentioned in the aneffage, be- dif, garlic, and mustard, a pound of each, to ing fent without any directions to the govern- D be infufed in eight gallons of fmall wort, inment, they defired to be excufed from giving ftead of hops, as an ordinary drink for any advice or affiftance in a matter that might perfons troubled with the fcurvy, rheumatism, prove of ill confequence for them to take any or other chronic diforders; and alfo fays, that part in. The Governor, on receiving this an- warm fallad oil is an abfolute fpecific for the fwer, went in form to the affembly, and deli- bite of vipers; it is to be rubbed upon the vered a very long and fpirited speech, to which part affected as foon as poffible, and, in dethe affembly was preparing an anfwer, when fperate cafes, fome should be taken inwardly. they received a meffage from his excellency, adjourning them to the23d of the ensuing month. This adjournment was fudden, unexpected, and aftonishing, as the members had been called together, at a great expence, to confult upon affairs of the laft importance, and then difilled before they could have opportunity to take them into confideration!

The fociety of arts at Hambourgb have pubFlished premiums for two very useful difcoveries; the firft, for refining fugar without lime, or bullock's-blood; the fecond, for dying cot ton equal in beauty to the Turkey scarlet,

The French having conceived a defign of forming a fettlement on fome islands nearCoy. F enne, Meff. Remfon and Ricke, merchants in Philadelphia, enter'd into contract to furnish the adventurers with provisions; but by the vigilance of Adm. Tyrrel, the first ship on this clandeftine commerce was feized, and the contract there by defeated. A circumftantial account of this affair has been laid before the government. This and fome other captures on the coaft of Newfoundland, have given occafion to fome warm remon-. frances between the two courts, which the Count de Guerchy has received inftructions to accommodate with the British miniftry.

The Countess of Yarmouth, who died lately at Hanover, has left her two fons a million of

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A new thread manufactory has been attempted in Scotland, but wants the patronage of the Society of Arts in London to bring it to perfection; by which the lace-makers will be enabled to make lace as fine and more durable than any foreign lace; which cofts the people of this nation 100.cool, annually.————— Some has already been made fo fine as to fell for 40s. an ounce.

The late affembly of the island of Jamaica having been diffolved on account of a difference with the governor, and a new assembly being chofen, the fame was ordered to fit for the difpatch of business on the 16th of Augu laft; but new matter of difpute arifing, Gov. Lyttleton diffolved this affembly likewife on the day of meeting. The trade with the Spaniards is again opened, and money begins to circulate; 60000 dollars have, on this occa hon, been fhipp'd for the London merchants.

A Bicefter in Oxfordshire, a child died lately by having too ftrong a dofe of Bear's-foot given him for the worms. Hifo