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If thefe agree, and flie perfift

To answer all your love with hate,
Seek elfewhere to be better bleft,

And let her figh when 'tis too late.

If a word or two in thefe ftanza fhould be thought too uncouth for fouthern ears, they might be easily foftened; but even geck and blate are not more obfolete than many others which the prefent compiler has retained. As for example!

The fondled bairn thus takes the pet,

Nor eats tho' hunger crave,
Whimpers and tarrows at its meat,

And's laugh'd at by the lave.

In the Song of Cauld be the Rebels Caft, we cannot much admire the following ftanza, which is additional:

High fhall he ftand in fame,

Wha's faithfu' to his duty,

Thro' à the land we'll spread his name,

And crown his night wi' beauty.

Night we take to be an error of the prefs for might. The materials of the Song, beginning When laft the wind, are to be found in Allan Ramfay; but there compofe part of the dialogue. Similar thoughts occur in the Puck of Shakespeare. We remember no further alterations worthy of notice. The PEA-STACK 'fore the door, in Song IX. according to Allan Ramfay, and the truth of Scotch fcenery, thould be PEAT-flack; but this alfo we conceive to be an error of the prefs. C.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Att. 24. The Hiftory of the Chevalier Bayard. By the Rev.

Jofeph Sterling. 8vo. 2 s. tewed. Kobisfon. 1781.

The name of the gallant Chevalier Bayard stands highly diftinguished in French hittory, for a lofty military fpirit, ftrongly tinctared with the principles of chivalry. His whole life being spent in fields of flaughter, the events of it are peculiarly adapted to military readers; and they are here brought together, in a concife form, prefaced with an account of the principles and ufages of that romantic inftitution by which the heroilm of his age was regulated. N. Art. 25. An Efay on Female Education: Containing an Ac count of the prefent State of the Boarding chools for young Ladies in England; in which the Errors are pointed out, and a Plan laid down for a complete Reformation, on a Principle never before attempted. By George Hawkins, Eiq: Author of the Royal Letter Writer. Small 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Wilkie. 1781.

The education of young females in boarding fchools, is a subject that affords ample room ter difcuffion, and feveral pertinent remarks on obvious circumftances, are to be found in this Effay; but it is nevertheleft, on the whole, a beetely written, flimfy periormance.

L A W.

Art. 26. Reports of Cafes adjudged in the Court of King's Bench
fince the Time of Lord Mansheld's coming to prefide in it, by Sir
James Burrow. Folio. Vol. V. 15 s. bound. Brooke.
This venerable Reporter, in a poftfcript to the prefent volume,
announces to the Public his determination to retire; and to take Ho-

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race's hint, as he informs us in the language of Horace, folvere fenefcentem equum, "to loofe his aged courfer from the car."-In other words (more homely perhaps, but more characteristic), he has refolved to lay afide his pen, now almost worn to the pith in the dull duty of a Reporter.

The first volume of thefe Reports commenced with Michaelmas Term 1756, the Term in which Lord Mansfield took his feat at the head of the law. The fifth, which is now published, ends with Hilary Term, 1772.

Having attended this great Luminary on his courfe for fo long a time, the humble Satellite is at length grown weary. Advancing years and infirmities are gathering taft upon him, and urge him to retire. His retreat is honourable, and may he enjoy it long!

The character of thefe Reports, as well as that of the noble Chief Juftice, whofe decifions they help to record, is too well known to make. any particular mention of them neceffary. It is the high reputation of the learned Judge that can alone infure a long and lafting reception to the voluminous labours of his Reporter, though the latter may feem to give a durability, which in effect they owe to the former: like a column defigned to perpetuate the fame of fome illuftrious action, or monuments erected to preferve the memory of great poets, which, after a length of time, are indebted to the names they cele brate, if they become objects either of curiofity or veneration. We may accordingly apoftrophize the elaborate work before us in the words of an ancient epitaph:

Art. 27.

"When thy ruins fhall difclaim
To be the treasurer of his name;
His name, that cannot fade, fhall be
An everlasting monument to thee."

MEDICA L.

T.

A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philofophical Works of John Fothergill, M. D. F. R. S. and S. A. &c. &c. With an Account of his Life; and occafional Notes; by John Elliot, M.D.* 8vo. 7 s. 6d. Walker. 1781.

In this volume are collected all the printed works of the late Dr. Fothergill, the acknowledged value of which, will doubtlefs renrder it an acceptable addition to the medical library. As most of the papers have been noticed by us as they appeared, it is enough for us merely to announce them in their collected ftate. Of the medical ones, almost all of them, except the Inaugural Thefis, and the Treatife on the Putrid Sore Throat, were published in that excellent collection, the London Medical Obfervations and Inquiries. Some, relative to natural philofophy and hiftory, appeared in the Philofophical Tranfactions. Of the two elegant biographical pieces, on Mr. Peter Collinfon, and Dr. Alexander Ruffell, the latter was never publifhed, but a few copies only were printed for prefents to the writer's friends.

The life of Dr. Fothergill, prefixed, contains little information but what has been derived from Dr. Hird's pamphlet, and fome letters in the Gentleman's Magazine.

* Author of Philosophical Obfervations on the Senfes, &c.; noticed with approbation in the Seventh Article of our Review for Jan. 1780.

ART.

A.

Art. 28. Medicine Praxeos Syftema, ex Academicæ Edinburgenæ Difputationibus Inauguralibus præcipuè depromptum, et fecundum Naturæ ordinem digeftum. Curante Carolo Webster, M. D. &c. &c. Tomus III. 8vo. 2 s. 6 d. Boards. and Murray, Edinburgh; Dilly, London. 1781.

Gordon

This third volume of Dr. Webiter's Collection of Medical Thefes, contains thofe relative to the feveral orders Morbi Hydropici; Morbi Anomali; Morbi Locales; Morbi Muliebres; et Morbi Infantiles. The writers from whom they are taken are as follows: De Hydrope; Bennet, Scott, and Vize. De Hydrocephalo Interno; Quin. De Scorbuto Brereton. De Scrophula; Weftrop. De Rachitide; Moore. De Ulcufculis Venereis; White. De Lues Venereæ ftadio confirmato ;Walth. De Scirrho & Carcinomate; Hopkins. De Morbis Cutaneis; Dimfdale. De Icero; Willis. De Calculo Renum 3 Veficæ; Lanphier. De Ifchuria Veficali; Buck. De Vermibus Inteftinorum; Broughton. De Venenis; Logan. De Amauroft. De Auditu Difficili Surditate. De Amenorrhea. De Leucorrhea; Keating. De Abortu; Waite. De quibufdam Puerperarum Morbis ; Gibbons. De Febre Puerperali; Slaughter. De Morbis Infantium; Logan. A. Art. 29. Every man his own Farrier; being a Collection of Valuable and Efficacious Receipts for most Disorders incident to Horfes, carefully collected and applied with repeated Success for upwards of fifty Years paft. By Sir Paulet St. John, Bart. of Farley, Hants." 12mo. 2 s. 6 d. Crowder. 1780.

We are forry that fo noble and ferviceable an animal as the horse, has not met with a better farrier than the prefent baronet, who however fays, or is made to fay, in a formal address to the Public, that whoever has attended to the means purfued by the greatest part of the pretenders to farriery, muft have had fufficient caufe to lament their great want of fkill, difcernment, and inftruction: for these, as well as the owners of horfes, is this valuable collection of receipts made public.'

We differ greatly in opinion from this addreffer, with respect to the value of these receipts. We fcarce remember to have met with fo abfurd a farrago.

RELIGIOUS.

B..y. Art. 30. Martin's Hobby houghed and pounded: or Letters on Thelyphthora, to a Friend, on the Subjects of Marriage and Polygamy, with other incidental and curfory Obfervations. Svo. 1 s. 6d. Buckland. 1781.

This Writer treats the fubject with fome degree of humour as well as argument: though we do not entirely approve of his frequent allufions to Scripture, in the lighter parts of his letters. The title fhews our Author's propensity to ufe in a ludicrous fenfe, what was originally spoken in a ferious one. We should not readily have gueffed at the meaning of Martin's Hobby houghed,' if the motto, taken from the 9th chapter of the Book of Joinua, had not explained it. "And the Lord faid unto Joshua, Thou shalt bough their horfes, &c." As a fpecimen of this Writer's fkill in the management of metaphors and allufions, the following quotation may fuffice. The grand question to be tried in reality is, whether Thelyphthora is one grand fophifm or not. That it is Martin's Hobby is well known:

and thefe I take to be his four legs: That marriage is a part of and be longs to the Moral Law, I fhall call the near foot before; that nothing is effential to marriage, befide the one single Act of union, is the forefoot on the off fide; the hind-leg on the off-side is the Chapter of Polygamy, wherein is pleaded its lawfulness; and the Unlawfulness of Divorce, the near-leg behind.' We think, however, that this Writer hath not managed his legs well. We have the vanity to think that we could have difpofed of them with more addrefs. Let the chapters change legs, and the joke will be improved. Let the one fingle Act' be configned to the near-foot before:' and let Divorce ftand only on the hind leg of the off:fide.' B.d.h Art. 31. Whispers for the Ear of the Author of Thelyphthora, in favour of Reason, and Religion, afperjed through that Work. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Payne. 1781.

Thefe Whispers are to confufed and indiftinct, that we can only catch their meaning by balves;-which is more provoking than not catching it at all. From Mr. Madan's ears (and we congratulate him that he hath any), we paffed by an eafy gradation to thofe eyes, which are fo conftructed as to be only able to bear that "dim ray of light" which, as Mr. Pope obferves in his 4th Book of the Dunciad, gives an equivocal illumination to the skirts of darkness, and-"half D thews, half veils a deep intent."

Art. 32. Obfervations on the Nature, Caufes, and Cure of Me-
lancholy, especially of what is commonly called Religicus Melancholy.
By Benjamin Fawcett, A. M. 8vo. I s. Buckland. 1780.
This little tract appears to have been written with the most pious
and benevolent intentions; but fome of the intances of rapid and ai-
moft inftantaneous tranfition from the very depth of defpondency, to
the highest exultations of joy and affurance, by the power of another's
prayers, favour more of enthusiasm than fober truth; and can only
edify the moft ignorant retainers to the Tabernacle, &c. &c. &c.
Art. 33. The general Doctrine of Toleration applied to the par-
ticular Cafe of free Communion. By Robert Robinson. 8vo. 6d.
Buckland. 1781.

The more rigid part of the Baptifs refufe the admiffion of all, without exception, to their communion, who were never baptifed by immersion in their adult years. They confider the latter as an indif penfible pre-requifite to the receiving of the Lerd's Supper. Others of that left are of a more candid way,of thinking, and do not deem their own mode of baptifin effential to communion. Among the latter is the Writer of the prefent pamphlet. He confiders the controverfy in its origin, in the reign of Charles I. through the more illustrious periods of its progrefs, down to the prefent day. It began, it feems, in the church of Mr. Lathorp; which was afterwards divided into three parts, over which prefided Mr. Canne, Mr. Barebone, and Mr. Jeffev. The controverfy afterwards engaged the attention of Mr. Spilbury and Mr. Kiffin. The latter, in conjunction with Mr. Paul, warmly oppofed Mr. John Dunyan, who was for free communion: and in the rage of difpute, thete renowned controvertits tell the honeft tinker, that "his conclufion was devilish top full of ignorance and prejudice." John, however, was not to be laughed or abuted out of his conclufion; he was determined that it should abide by him" till the mos grew upon his eyebrows." Since this time,

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the controverfy hath fometimes fubfided, and other times rifen into confiderable warmth. The celebrated Dr. James Fofter, warmly pleaded the caufe of mixed communion. The Rev. Mr. C. Bulkley and others fupported the Doctor's fide of the question; and the Rev. Grantham Killingworth, and others, maintained the contrary opinion. In 1772, the question was itarted again: and the doctrine of mixed communion was affirmed by the Rev. Meffrs. Turner of Abington, Ryland of Northampton, and Brown of Kettering; and denied by the Rev Mers Turner of Birmingham, Booth of London, Butterfield of Thorn and feveral more.'

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The laf, but no the leat, in this controverfy, is the Rev. Mr. Robert Robi fon of Cambridge:-and with him may it end! Do Art. 34. The Signs of the Times: or a Syftem of true Politics; humbly addrelled to all his Majefty's Subjects. By James Illingworth. D. D. Lecturer of St. Alphage, London Wall. 1s 6 d. Donaldson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, &c. 1-81. Among many difagreeable appearances of the jigns of the times, the fpirit of reviling, judging, and condemning adminiration is not the leaft. This i one of the crying fins of the nation' p. 24. It is incompatible with the character of a Chriftian, and inconfiftent with the duty, as well as the interests of British fubjects, to speak evil of their King as fupreme, or of their governors appointed under him, to affitt him in the government of his people, and in the great and important work of managing and conducting public affairs, for the good of the whole body politic. "For they are God's minifters *." Lawn fleeves for Dr. Illingworth!

*Rom. xiii. 6.

SERMONS.

I. Preached December 31st, 1780, at the New Meeting in Birmingham, on undertaking the Paftoral Office in that Piace. By Jofeph Priestley, LL. D. F.R, S. 8vo... is. John fon. 1781.

This difcourfe is published at the particular defire of the Society to which it was preached, as we learn from a very handíome Letter, containing their request, which is prefixed. The fubject is, the End and Ufe of Chriftian Societies, with the Duties of the feveral Members of them. Having obferved that Chriftians are in greater danger of affimilating with the world in times of peace and tranquillity, than in times of oppofition and perfecution, Dr. Priestley goes on, Now the use of Christian Societies is, to counteract the influence of the world around us, to keep up the idea of our being feparate from the world, and of the importance of being upon our guard against the infection of it.' The means by which this end is anfwered are, public inftruction, joint devotion, and particular admonition, for each of which the best provifion was made in the conftitution of the primitive churches.

With refpect to the duties of the feveral members of Chriftian Societies, the Doctor obferves, that befides thofe which refpect their own improvement and edification, there are others which are incumbent upon them, as bearing a relation to, and part of, the whole, Chriftian church. Among thefe he particularly infifis upon the duty

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