The feripture - precept of fubjection to vil government, ftated and enforced. At ottingham, by Thomas Prentice. 6 d. fey.· Another pious recommendation the flavish doctrine of paffive obedience. cording to this gentleman's principles, if ken in their full extent, (of which he is, Erhaps, not aware), the Glorious Revolu⚫ on was a moft unchriflian measure. This eacher may be a fincere, well-meaning vine, but he is a very indifferent politi an. M The nature of religious abstinence, as a eans of depretiating national calamities, daverting the heavy judgements of God. the Rev. George Kelly, jun. B. A. 6 d. w.Having expended our whole ftock praife on the faft-fermons of an Hurd, Butler, a Radcliff, a Stebbing, a Leland, E. we are forry to find that we have none for the performance of poor Mr Kelly: no feems to be a mighty good fort of an. M. tural History, Medicine, Mathematics, &c. Philofophical Tranfactions, of the royal ciety of London. Vol. 66. for the year 76. Part 2. 4to. 75. 6d. fewed. L. Davis. We extract an experiment of parting fh water from falt by freezing, by Thoas Barker, Efq; viz. "In the fevere froft January, fome falt water being fet aDad, froze into an ice, which was not fobut porous, the hollows being filled with falteft part of the water; for the ice, en drained, was quite fresh. The falt ter, being again fer abroad, froze as bee: what remained still unfrozen was now come exceeding falt; but the ice, drained d diffolved, was little if at all brackish. his agrees with what Capt. Cook mentions his late voyage, that in 61° 35' fouth lati de they filled their water-cafks with fresh ater, melted out of ice found floating in the [132]. By this experiment, if another ne more fully repeated, it may be found what degree the faltnefs of water may be creafed, by continuing to freeze away the h water. May not the knowledge of is be of ufe to the falt-makers, efpecially cold countries? The fun is ftrong enough itfelf between the tropics to dry away the a-water into falt; and, I think, at the faltorks near Lymington, they increase the tnefs of the fea-water by drying it away the fun before they boit it into falt. And is feems to be another means of parting Eh water from the falt, which would fave pence in boiling it away, and may be of e in the cold countries, and in winter." The elements of botany; containing the flory of the fcience; with accurate definions of all the terms of art, exemplified in ven copper-plates; the theory of veges tables; the fcientific arrangement of plants, and names used in botany; rules concerning the general history, virtues, and ufes of plants. Being a tranflation of the Philofophia Botanica and other treatifes of the celebrated Linnæus. By Hugh Rofe, apothecary. 65. boards. Cadell. Executed with judgement and accuracy. The tranflator has added, a defcription of fome plants lately found' in Norfolk and Suffolk, never before difcovered in England, or not described as Englifh plants. M. E. The art of healing; or, A new practice of phyfic. By Thomas Marryat, M. D. dit. 5. with alterations and additions. 5 s. in boards. Robinfon. great measure adopted the model of Dr BuMarryat has in chan's ufeful and popular work; but in a way which is far from betraying a fervile adherence to the anthority, either of that, or any other medical treatife. C. An examination of the charge brought a gainst inoculation, by De nayen, Raft, Dimfdale, and other writers. By John Wat kinson, M. D. Is. 6d J. Johnson.- -The charge is, That inoculation fpreads the variolous contagion, and increases the mortality of the natural fmall pox. Dr Watkinson, however, produces the strongest evidence to prove that fuch an opinion is totally groundlefs and chimerical. C [xxvii. 427]. A fupplement to calculations of the value of annuities, publifhed for the ufe of focieties inftituted for benefit of age. Containing various illuftrations of the doctrine of annuities, and complete tables of the value of 11. immediate annuity (being the only ones extant by half-yearly intereft and payments). Together with investigations of the state of the Laudable Society of annuitants; fhewing what annuity each member hath purchased, and real mortality therein, from its inftitution, compared with Dr Halley's table. Alfo feveral publications, let ters, and anecdotes, relative to that fociety, and explanatory of proceedings to the prefent year. To which are added, a table and obfervations to elucidate the fubject of the national debt, occafioned by Mr Laurie's Remarks on Dr Price's Obfervations. 2s. 6d. Ridley. - Mr Dale endeavours to open the eyes of his deluded affociates, and to prevent the complicated ruin which muft eventually accrue from an inftitution founded and continued on an inequitable plan. What opinion can be reafonably formed of those who contentedly receive 241. per ann. instead of 15 l. after the clearest evidence of the inability of the inftitution to make fuch a pay. ment at prefent, much lefs to continue it for the future? M. Entertainment. A dialogue on friendship and fociety. as. 6d. 2s. 6d. fewed. Becket.-Evinces the author (the ingenious Mrs Dobfon of Liverpool) to be endowed with great fenfibility of mind, as well as difcernment, and an ardent love of focial virtue. C. 'Squire Randal's excurfion round London; or, A week's frolic, in the year 1776. With the temarks of John Trufly. 2s. Richard fon and Urquhart. Lively and infinuating. From this recital of a week's frolic, a perfon unacquainted with the capital may form a geDeral idea of the many different fcenes which it exhibits. C. Plays and Poetry. Sir Thomas Overbury: A tragedy. Al tered from the late Mr Richard Savage [43.] As now performing at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-garden. s. 6d. Newbery. - It were to have been wifhed, that the altera tions had been made by a bolder hand, and with a lefs fervile "deference to the manufcript of the author."- Savage wrote under the preffure of misfortune, fufficient to have damped the most towering fpirit: but his i. deas of tragedy do not feem to have rifen beyond that clafs established by Addison and Hughes, never rifing to the magnificence of Shakespeare, but now and then catching a faint gleam from Otway, and his diftant follower, Rowe. In imitation of all thefe authors, the acts are concluded with fimiles and rhymes, and the language in general relifhes more of poetry than nature. M. 4to. Rona; a poem, in feven books. Illuftrated with a correct map of the Hebrides, and elegant engravings. By John Ogilvie, D. D. 12 s. 6d. boards. Murray. This poem derives its title from the remotest of the Hebrides, or Western ifles of Scotland. Dr. Ogilvie informs us, that the first idea of it was fuggefted by the following anecdote, mentioned by Mr Martin, relative to the caufes which laid waste the island of Rona. "A fwarm of vermin deftroyed the little produce of their fields; their cattle were rendered useless by the barbarity of fome feamen; and they received no fupplies from the nearest island (that of Lewes) for a twelvemonth, their communication having been interrupted during that time partly by a tempestuous feason, and partly by accidental occurrences. Thefe caufes co-operated with fuch efficacy, as to fweep off (fays Mr Martin) all that ancient race of people. The fteward of St Kilda (fays he) told me, that having been driven into Rona by a ftorm, he found a woman with a child at her breaft, both lying dead on the fide of a rock."If Dr Ogilvie is intitled to approbation for the difplay of this inventive faculty, he has a yet more meritorious claim to the praife of criticism, on account of the important moral which he endeavours to in culcate -This elegant poem is truly anima The Fingal of Offian, an ancient ep aion th poem, in fix books. Translated from th public-T original Gaelic language by Mr James Mae e moit li pherfon, and now rendered into heroic verfe A mo By Ewen Cameron. 4to. 15 s. boards. Roseth Du fon. -With a view to establish the authen ticity of the poems of Offian, besides the apos teftations collected by Dr Blair, at Edinburg Parfait [xxv. 205.], relative to this fubject, Mr Cad meron has prefixed to his work many jul ne fancy and forcible remarks, in reply to the fever and intere objections made by Dr Johnfon, against the term credibility of the fact.-A metrical version ad only the fame poem, we find, was published al An eleg most five years ago [xxxiii. 305.], which 's na through an unaccountable neglect, has hey, wh therto never appeared in our Review. Wes are extremely glad, however, to have an opp to b portunity of refcuing it from the unmerite oblivion in which it has lain fo long a times. [Thefe Reviewers infert feveral paffages The G fucceffively, from Macpherfon, Cameron, an the version published fome years ago; ans Fat conclude thus.] After impartially contrafi ded thofe feveral poems, we may pronounce that neither of the metrical versions is charged able with being paraphraftic, but that fome idea times the one and fometimes the other add heres more clofely to the original. In poinse of elegance and spirit, the tranflation of the of anonymous author is in general fuperior that of Mr Cameron, whofe cadence is of ten extremely profaic, and his rhymes in tolerably diffonant. We may add, how of ver, that in the expreffion of fome of th most beautiful fentiments and images, bod C these verfions appear only as foils to the ad mirable fimplicity and energy of the pro translation. We ought not to conclude thi article without obferving, that Mr Camero The has favoured his readers with many judicie annotations, occafionally intermixed with the remarks of Mr Macpherson, and Dr Blair and that the anonymous author has prefixe to his verfion an ode, which, for fentimen imagery, and enthusiaẩm, does honour to hi poetical talents. C. Mr Macpherson e deavoured to make Homer fpeak like English Offian; Mr Cameron has attemp to make Offian speak like the English H mer: both have failed: but fome refpe was due to the former, as to a man of ge nius, whofe labour was mifemployed; the latter, equally void of talents and taste, ha no claim to our attention. M. Poems, fupposed to have been written: Briftol, by Thomas Rowley, and others, the fifteenth century, the greateft part o first published from the most authentic co pies, with an engraved specimen of one the MSS. To which are added, a preface, an introductory account of the feveral pieces, and a glossary, ss. in boards. Payne. A more curious and entertaining publi-, cation than this is very rarely offered to the public. The editor has executed his task in the most liberal and intelligent manner. A monody, facred to the memory of ElC. fabeth Duchefs of Northumberland. Dodfley. Inferior to the author's defcrip6 d. tive poem Hagley. M. z s. 6 d. Purfuit after happiness: A poem, &c. Kearsley. the fancy is prefented with many luxurious In this production and interesting objects; the purfuit, however, terminating in the attainment of virtue, as the only path that leads to happiness. C. An elegy; occafioned by the death of a lady's linnet. I S. Davies. elegy, which contains a variety of ingenious This lyric fentiments, expreffed in flowing verfe, appears to be the produce of a warm imagination, extremely fufceptible of the tender paffions. C. The Goat's beard. A fable. Dodfley.- An amplification of one of Phæ5. 6 d drus's Fables, which the English author has extended in an eafy and lively manner. The narrative is conducted with fimplicity, and the defcription is picturefque. C. Has a confiderable degree of merit. It is easy and fpirited. M. Affes ears: A fable. Addreffed to the author of the Goat's beard. 6 d. Riley-An ill-natured and fatirical attack on the Laureat, for his lively fable which is the fubject of the preceding article. It is not, however, void of pleasantry. M. A familiar epiftle from C. Anftey, Efq; to C. W. Bampfielde, Efq; tranflated, and addreffed to the ladies. I S. tranflation, not ill executed, of the Latin eAlmon.A pistle mentioned in our last [42.]. C. The economy of Beauty; in a series of fables; addreffed to the ladies. By Dr Cofens. Ios. 6d. boards. Walter.-Introduced by a variety of moral obeservations, and die verfified with little fallies of wit, and occahonal frokes of fatire. C. The new paradife of dainty devices: confifting of original poems. By different hands. 2s. 6d. Almon. 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C. out a canine appetite for poetical offals. The electrical cel; or, Gymnotus electriof the R-1 S-y, by Adam Strong, natucus. Infcribed to the honourable members ralift. 1 s. 6d. Bew. chefter revived. M. -Poetical fmut. Ro An heroic epiftle from Donna Teresa PinEfq; F.R.S. na y Ruiz, of Murcia, to Richard Twifs, When author-travellers make their remarks 4to. 1 s. 6d. Kearsley. — on a country, or on its inhabitants, they puféquences. Thus Johnfon freely delivered blifh at their peril, and muft abide the conhis opinion of Scotland; and the Scots were angry. Thus Twifs fpoke, in fome particulars, difrefpectfully of Ireland [xxxviii. 379]; and we have heard of his meeting with difagreeable effects of Irish refentment. This fatire is written after the manner of the There is wit, and there is humour in it, with celebrated heroic epiftle to Sir W. Chambers.. tion. M. an cafy and harmonious flow of verifica An heroic anfwer from Richard Twifs, Efq; to Donna Teresa Pinna pofe, by the fame ingenious author. The Ruiz. Is 6d. Kearsley. y 4to. -Written, as we fupnotes, in both pieces, are extracted from Twifs's Travels, and add no small embel lifhment to the poetry, M. EDINBURGH. poor of the city of Edinburgh, by an alte A plan for the better providing for the ration of the fyftem of management of the charity-workhoufe. Drawn up for the inJudges of the Court of Seffion, and the Lord formation of a committee appointed by the Provost and Magistrates, for the purpose of infpecting the management of that charitable to the confideration of the inhabitants. By eftablishment, and now humbly submitted a citizen of Edinburgh. [Sir W-----m F----§§. 6d. Creech. charity-workhouse of Edinburgh was erected solicie, folicit a public general collection; that, including a collection in the year 1775, no Jefs has been contributed by fuch collections, than 10,735. Sterling; that about 1150 bolls of meal, 300 bolls of bear, and 230 bolls of wheat, are annually confumed in the houfe ;-that in June 1774, the numbers,, maintained in the houfe were, 102 men, 306 women, or boys, and 101 girls, who all lived in the house, 119 children at board in the country, 78 quarterly penfioners, 73 weekly pensioners, 28 lunatics in bedlam, 25 criminals in the houfe of correction or bridewell, 13 beggars feized in the ftreets, and in confinement in the houfe of correction, 11, houfe-keeper, clerks, and other fervants of the family, in all 957; and by an average of eight years, from 1965 to 1773, the annual expence of supporting thefe amounted to L 3544:19:6; and that the children in the house are of different ages, from four or five years, at which period they are ufually taken from their keepers in the country, to the age of twelve or fourteen, when they are put apprentices to business, or fent to fervice. It is propofed, to abolish entirely the practice of rearing children in the houfe, and to bring them up altogether in the country, by which the children would be more healthy, and a confiderable expence would be faved; -to divide the grown-up people in the house into two claffes, those who are unable to do any work, and those who can work in part for their own fupport; to remove the former into a feparate almfhouse, and to give each of the latter an allowance in money, according as they fhall be more or lefs able to do fomething for themfelves, not more than the price of feven pounds of meal weekly, befides the full price of their work; to live in the houfe, and have an allowance of coals, themfelves to prepare their own victuals; to be removed to the hofpital when fick, and to the almhouse when old, and incapable to work;-instead of baking and brewing in the house, to contract for the delivery of thefe and every other article of confumption ready prepared;-to difmifs feveral of the perfons now employed in the fervice of the house, whofe ervice will be unnecessary, when the old fhall be divided into two claffes, and the young fhall be reared entirely in the country; that lifts of the poor thould be made up once a quarter, or half-year, by the conflables, exprefling the number, names, and occupation of each family, and diftinguishing children, fervants, and lodgers; and tha: application fhould be made to every fociety who aflemble for religious worship feparate from the eftablithed church, requesting an annual collection in their meeting houfes, or fuch other aid as they hall judge mot proper. A calculation is made, by which it appears that upwards of sool per ann. would be faved by the mode propofed.- One particular in this humane pamphlet is fo affecting, that we must insert the paragraph entire. "There is one fpecies of begging which calls loudly on every feeling of humanity to put an immediate ftop to it Begging in general is a voluntary occupation; and if thofe who practise it are fubjected to the inclemency of the weather, in the courfe of their walks, they chearfully fubmit to it, for the fake of the pleasure and advantage they derive from fuch a roving, idle life. A turdy beggar, who is the peft of fociety, will undergo any hardship, provided he can but procure what he confiders as indifpenfable to his happiness, a warm fire at night, a hot fupper, a dram, and his trull. But there are hundreds of children, from five years old and upwards, whose parents are inhuman enough to send them abroad in the morning to beg throughout the day; and compel them to remain in the ftreets until they are almoft petrified with cold, at the latest hours of the evening, and in the most rigorous fea fons of the year. Every one must have obferved fuch unhappy infants lying in corners of the fireets, endeavouring, by their cries,' to attract the pity of the paffenger; and afraid to go home, without fome alms, left they fhould be beaten by their parents for their want of fuccefs. It is very difficult to prevent every degree of wretchednefs caufed by thofe who are chiefly diftinguished by their barbarity; but the utmoft endeavours fhould be used to find out the parents of fuch children, and inflict a proper degree of correction on them. If the children be ac tually deferted, as it is believed there are many fuch, who are employed by beggars, not their parents, as implements of extorting charity, they should be properly taken care of." The pamphlet concludes thus. "This plan is now humbly submitted to the confideration of the inhabitants, who are fo effentially interefted in the proper management of the funds very liberally beftowed for the fupport of the poor. It is earnestly requested, that those who have had better opportunity than the writer, of knowing the police of other countries in regard to the poor, or have employed their thoughts on a subject of fuch general utility, will be pleased to point out any objections that may be offered against the plan, or any improvements which may render it more perfect, or more practicable. Every the flightest hint will be gratefully received. And letters addreffed to the care of the clerk of the Charity-workhoufe, will be carefully attended to, by A CITIZEN of EDINBURGH." Beyond thefe vales, with health and safety Why feek to plow the hoar Atlantic foam, > mad ambition! curs'd defire of gold! Ye naked groves! why should I mourn for you? tears, Swells the full tide of overflowing grief. Now ruthless Death the facred band difparts, On the Death of a FLORIST. Uriculas, with me your lofs deplore, VIRG Thou pregnant fource of ev'ry mortal woe! A And open fable next, or ope no more: Whole hapless vot'ries, defperately bold, Or climb the hill, or skip along the glade, While now I confecrate this fun'ral fong, And hang my harp upon a blasted spray ;, ende fome dark and melancholy rill, Accordant to the owl's nocturnal lay. Let every tulip hang its drooping head, That in the stream 'twere fafe thyfelf to view. You loft a cultivator, I a friend : For you parterres of richest mold prepare ? To guard from Northern blasts and nipping froft, But open to the fun's meridian ray That with your beauties your fond beams might play? His curious hand shall fort your bulbs no more: On the melancholy fituation of a certain unfortunate HER awful fword, when facred Justice tears: rears In wounds, — not death! — fhe places all her fhepherds! then, I muft your fport forego, Aad tray alone, from noity mirth remote ; is meet that I fhould now indulge my woe, And to deep forrow all the day devote. generous minds; have I not cause to mourn? Or can ye blame this pious, bursting tear, Then from my inmost hofom all is torn, That in a brother and a friend was dear? wakeful Autumn! how I dread thy pow'r! So fatal to each blooming flow'r and tree; now thy hand has pluck'd the fairest flow'r, Which made it fummer all the year to me. Self judging, his prerogative extend! heav'n.! On the fame pillow both recline to reft, And, |