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the Author to blend and incorporate the characters and incidents of other recent dramas with those of his own. Befides the plays he has mentioned, it is impoffible for the reader of Duplicity not to rceollect and recognize The Bufy Body, The Minor, and The Oxonian in Town: and we do not remember to have met with a circumftance that fmells ranker of the player, than the following marginal direction, p. 20. "Enter a fervant. (Delivers a card to Meliffa; fhe EXITS!")

The chief moral of the piece, tending to reprobate the vice of gaming, has been much more forcibly given in many other pieces on the fame fubject; and the under plot, intended to enliven the general gravity of the fable, is lame and improbable; so that even that acknowledged receipt for laughter, the Equivoque fails of its effect. We can discover but little humour in any of the profeffed comick perfonages, except Scrip, the brokers whose character, however, is almoft entirely fuperfluous. It may therefore, without violence, be detached from the reft of the piece.

• Enter TIMID and SCRIP.

Timid. Brokerage comes rather heavy, Mr. Scrip, when the fum is large.

Scrip. Heavy! no, no-a damned paltry pittance-five and twenty pounds only, you fee, for felling out twenty thoufand-Get more by one lucky hit, than fifty of these would produce.

Timid. Ay!

• Scrip. Oh, yes!-Jobbing-Stock-jobbing, between you and me, is the high road to wealth.

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Timid. Lackaday, may be fo-Well, good day. (Scrip is gon ing, but feeing Sir Hornet, ftops to liften)

Sir Hornet. What, old Lackaday!

Timid. Ah, Sir Hornet!

Sir Hornet. What's the best news with you ?—

Timid. Ah, lackaday, the best news I know, is fcarce worth relating.

Scrip. Beg pardon, Sir, (To Sir Hornet)-beg pardon-bad news in town, did you say?

Sir Hornet. Bad, Sir! not that I have heard.

· Scrip. Exceedingly forry for it!

• Sir Hornet. Sir!

Scrip. Never was more diftreffed for bad news.

Sir Hornet. Diftreffed for bad news!

• Scrip. Exceffively! The reduction of Gibraltar, the taking of Jamaica, or the deftruction of the grand fleet, either of the three would make me a happy man for life

Sir Hornet. The deftruction of the grand fleet make you happy for life!

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Scrip. Completely.

Sir Hornet. Here's a precious fcoundrel!

Scrip. No great reafon to complain, to be fure-do more business than any three doctors of the College-Generally of the fure fide

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Made a large fortune, if this does not give me a twinge-rather. overdone it; but any fevere ftroke-any great national misfortune, would exactly clofe my account.

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Sir Hornet. Hark you, Sir.

Scrip. Sir!

Sir Hornet. It is to be hoped.

Scrip. Yes, Sir, it is to be hoped.

Sir Hornet. That a halter will exactly clofe your account.
Scrip. Sir!

Sir Hornet. You raven-faced rafcal!-Rejoice at national miffortunes! Zounds! I thought fuch language was no where to be. heard from the mouth of an Englishman-unless he were a Member of Parliament.

Scrip. Lord, Sir!-You don't confider that I am a bear for almoft half a million.

Sir Hornet. You are an impudent villain!-rejoice at the diftrefs of your country

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Scrip. Why, Lord, Sir, to be fure-when I am a bearThere's not a bear in the Alley but what would do the fame-Were I a bull, indeed, the cafe would be altered.

Sir Hornet. A bull!

Scrip. For instance, at the taking of Charles-Town, no man was merrier, no man more elate, no man in better fpirits.

Sir Hornet. How fo, gentle Sir?

Scrip. Oh, dear Sir, at that time I was a bull to a vaft. amount, when, very fortunately for me, the news arrived; the guns fired; the bells clattered; the ftocks mounted; and I made ten thousand pounds!-Enough to make a man. merry-Never fpent a happier night in my life!

⚫ Sir Hornet. Aha!-then, according to that arithmetic, you would be as merry, and as happy to-night, could you accomplish the deftruction of the said British fleet.

Scrip. Happier, happier by half!-for I fhould realize at least twice the fum!-twice the fum!

• Sir Hornet. Twice the fum!

Scrip. Ay, twice the fum!-Oh! that would be a glorious event, indeed! Never prayed fo earnestly for any thing fince I was bornand who knows-who knows what a little time may do for us? Sir Hornet. Zounds! how my elbow aches. (afide.)

Scrip. I fhall call on fome leading people-men of intelligence of the right ftamp.

• Sir Hornet. You fhall.

Scrip. Yes, Sir.

Sir Hornet. Why then-perhaps you will be able to deftroy the British fleet between you.

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Scrip. I hope fo-I hope fo-do every thing in my power-Oh!

it would be a glorious event.

Sir Hornet. Hark you, Sir-Do you fee that door?

• Scrip. Sir!

• Sir Hornet. And this cane?

Scrip. Why, but, Sir!

Sir Hornet. Make your exit, your imp.

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Scrip. But, Sir!

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Sir Hornet. Get out of the houfe, you vile rascal, you diabolical ·[Drives Scrip off] A fon's fon of a fcoundrel-Who is he? What bufinefs had ne here?

Timid. Lackaday, Sir, he is a stock-broker, thatSir Harry employ'd, at his fifler's request, to fell out for her; because fhe chufes to have her fortune in her own poffeffion against to-morrow-I have been paying him the brokerage, and receiving the money, which I fhall deliver to Madam Meliffa directly.

Sir Hornet. An incomprehenfible dog! pray for the reduction of Gibraltar, the taking of Jamaica, or the deftruction of the British fleet!

Timid. Lackaday, Sir? it is his trade.

Sir Hornet. Trade! a nation will never flourish, that encourages traders to thrive by her misfortunes.'

The title, Duplicity, ufed in a good fenfe, is, we think, unwarranted, and unwarrantable. Would it be proper to describe a virtuous character by the unqualified appellations of The Hypocrite, or The Impoftor? The Prologue and Epilogue are but middling. C.

ART. XI. A Trip to Scarborough. A Comedy. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Altered from Vanbrugh's Relapfe; or, Virtue in Danger.' By Richard Brinley Sheridan, Efq. Svo. 1 s. 6d. Wilkie. 1-81.

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HIS alteration from Vanbrugh is introduced by a cheerful Prologue, written by the much lamented Garrick. The beginning and conclufion are as follow:

What various transformations we remark,
From East Whitechapel to the Weft Hyde-park!

Men, women, children, houses, figns, and fashions,

State, ftage, trade, tate, the humours and the paffions;
Th' Exchange, 'Change alley, wherefoe'er you're ranging,
Court, city, country, all are chang'd, or changing.-
As change thus circulates throughout the nation,
Some plays may justly call for alteration;
At least to draw fome flender cov'ring o'er
That graceless wit, which was too bare before:
Those writers well and wifely use their pens,
Who turn our Wantons into Magdalens;
And howfoever wicked wits revile 'em,
We hope to find in you, their Stage Afylum.

For the fake of preferving, in fome measure, the unity of place, the scene of this alteration from the Relapfe, is laid at Scarborough; from which might have been expected fome difplay of the manners and cuftoms of an English Spaw; but no fuch delineation is attempted, nor is much more probability given to the incidents by fhifting the fcene of action: for though this expedient faves Vanbrugh's long journies to the country and

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back again, it throws an aukward air over fome circumstances, particularly the levee of Lord Foppington, who would scarce appear furrounded with his tradefmen at Scarborough. Neither the adventure of Lord Foppington and his younger brother, nor the relapfe of Lovelefs are much varied from the original and perhaps even the amours of Worthy and Berinthia, the chief object of the alteration, might have been more materially improved. It is laudable however in those, who have the direction of our theatres, to keep the productions of our most eminent comic writers before the eye of the Public.

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ART. XII. A General View of the Writings of Linnæus. By Richard
Pulteney, M. D. F. R. S. 8vo. 6 s. Boards. Payne and White,

1781.

Series THERE perhaps never was an author who, from the va4,361. TH

riety of the objects which he pursued, and the systematical fpirit pervading all his writings, has rendered a fynoptical view of his works more practicable and defireable than Linnæus. The fphere of this great man's ftudies was no less extenfive than all the productions of nature, as exifting in this globe which we inhabit. And though it cannot be denied, that very great advances had been made in moft branches of natural knowledge by the united labours of many eminent men before and during his period; yet the admirable talents for arrangement and method, with which he purfued his researches into each class of Nature, rendered him in every branch an improver, and in fome almoft a founder.

Dr. Pulteney, who is well known to the public as a phyfician and naturalift, appears perfectly well qualified for the task he has undertaken: and we doubt not but his work will be favourably received by all the lovers of thefe ftudies; both as an excellent introduction to the Linnæan Syftem of Nature to thofe as yet unacquainted with it, and an useful compendium of his numerous works to thofe already converfant with them. The first part of the volume is chiefly biographical; exhibiting an interesting sketch of the gradual progrefs of the great Naturalift, to that extent of knowledge, fame, and honours, which he at length attained. Notice is taken of all his publications in their order of time. On occafion of the appearance of the improved edition of the Syftema Natura, the Author gives a pretty copious analyfis of the contents of that work, with the characters of the genera, and of feveral of the fpecies, through the kingdoms of Nature. This, with a particular account of Linnæus's claflification of difeafes, in his Genera Morborum, conftitutes the body of the volume. All the latter part is taken up with an account of the papers in the collection entitled, Amo

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nitates Academica, publifhed under the infpection of Linnæus, and the product of his school.

As all these parts of the work are themselves an analysis, we cannot give our learned Readers any abridgment of them; and fhall therefore felect, as a fpecimen of the Writer's ftyle, part of the conclufion of the biographical matter, which will be read with pleasure by readers of every class.

To the lovers of fcience it will not appear ftrange, nor will it be unpleasant to hear, that uncommon respect was fhewn to the memory of this great man. We are told, that, "on his death a general mourning took place at Upfal, and that his funeral proceffion was attended by the whole University, as well Profeffors as Students, and the pall fupported by fixteen Doctors of phyfic, all of whom had been his pupils." The King of Sweden, after the death of LINNAEUS, ordered a medal to be ftruck, of which "one fide exhibits Linnæus's buft and name, and the other Cybele, in a dejected attitude, holding in her lefthand a key, and furrounded with animals and growing plants, with this legend-Deam luctus angit amiffi;-and beneath-Poft obitum Upfalia, die K Jan. M.DCC.LXXVIII. Rege jubente.". The fame generous monarch not only honoured the Royal Academy of Sciences with his prefence when LINNEUS's Commemoration was held at Stockholm, but, as a ftill higher tribute, in his fpeech from the throne to the Affembly of the States, lamented Sweden's lofs by his death. Nor was be honoured only in his own country; the prefent learned and worthy Profeffor of Botany at Edinburgh not only pronounced an eulogium in honour of LINNEUS, before his ftudents, at the opening of his lectures in the spring of 1778, but laid alfo the foundation ftone of a monument to be raised to his memory, which, while it perpetuates the name and merit of LINNAEUS, 'will do honour to the founder; and, it may be hoped, prove the means of raifing an emulation favourable to that fcience which this illuftrious Swede fo highly dignified and improved. This monument confifts of a vafe, fupported on a pedestal, with this infcription,

LINNEO POSUIT J. HOPE.

The high reputation which this great man has long held among the naturalifts throughout the world, might readily perhaps preclude any encomium from our pen; fince to all lovers of natural fcience his name itself is eulogy, and will doubtlefs very long be infeparable from the idea of his extraordinary merit. Might we, nevertheless, be indulged fo far, we hope the following brief estimate of his talents will be thought juft, and eafily deduced from an impartial view of his writings.

Nature had, in an eminent manner, been liberal of the endowments of his mind. He feems to have been poffeffed of a

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