"It is inconfiftent with the good of a Sovereign, and the welfare of a people, for a royal bofom to harbour a Favourite of any kind.” -Surely, Surely, Mr. ancient Briton, you will except a Queenconfort, the wife of that bofom!-But he goes on. "The nation has the greatest right to the affection of its Sovereign; and as he is but a mere dependent upon the fidelity, ftrength, and opulence of the people, he ought not to confer the higheft pots of honour and profit on any particular man, without the approbation and confent of his fubjects." How ftrangely times are altered fince the divine right of Kings was made the fubject of political epiftles! The vox populi vox dei would, we find, be our Author's cry. We would, however, remind him of the old proverb, eft modus in rebus, or, there is reafon in roafting eggs. It is true, that we pay all proper de ference to the facred perfon of the mob; but we cannot forget that thofe are the terms alfo applied to Majefty: and, tho' we have the greatest opinion of the cities and corporations of Great Britain, as the nurfing fathers or mothers of our conftitution, we should be very forry to fee the greatest Monarch in the world fo far degraded, as to be led about every where in the leading-ftrings of the multitude.

Art. 11. An Epistle to Lord Bute, on the prefent happy Profpect of a Peace. 4to. 6d. Rawlings.

Another wretched attempt at irony. A Sarcafm on his Lordship.But whether taken in an ironical or literal fenfe, it is equally deftitute of meaning.

Art. 12. The Liberty of the Prefs. 8vo. 1s. Nicoll.

Any other title might have fuited this pamphlet as well: for we find very little relative to the profeffed fubject; and that little, nothing to the purpose. We will difmifs this fervile advocate for power, with affuring him, that he has not fenfe enough to correct the licentioufnefs, nor fpirit enough to fupport the liberty, of the Prefs.

Art. 13. Confiderations on the approaching Peace. 8vo. Is.

Morgan.

A tame and fpiritlefs endeavour to inflame the public, and render them averfe to peace. This inconfiderate Confiderer does not fcruple to fay, that "a Peace at this inftant will, in all probability, brand the times with epithets that will be ever difgraceful in our Hiftory." We have always thought, that a good Peace was defirable at all times; and we cannot pronounce the expected Peace a bad one, because we are ftrangers to the terms. It is to be wifhed, that these Pefts of the Prefs, had never learned the use of pen and ink.

Art. 14. Serious Confiderations on the falutary Defign of the A of Parliament for a regular, uniform Regifter of the Parishpoor Infants, in all the Parishes within the Bills of Mortality.

In two Letters, addressed to a Church-Warden. 8vo. I S. Rivington.

We owe these seasonable and important Observations to the public fpirited and benevolent Mr. Hanway, whofe indefatigable pen is fo frequently employed for the advantage of his country. In the prefent well-intended tract, the worthy Author endeavours to point out the humanity, as well as the utility which will attend the due execution of the Act above-mentioned; the inefficacy of paft attempts relating to fuch infants; the neceffity of fending them to nurse at a proper distance from London; the pecuniary value of a life to the community; and the importance of increafing our numbers at home and abroad, as the trueft means of fupporting our independency as a nation. He has alfo added, fome thoughts on the usefulness of Ventilators; the pernicious effects of bad air, narrow streets, and ruined houses; the advantages of cleanliness, and decent cloathing in Workhoufes; and the honourable esteem in which Parish officers ought to be held, while they difcharge their duty. In an Appendix, he has like wife fome very fenfible reflections, occafioned by reading Mr. Rouffeau's hints to Mothers, in his new treatife of Education, entitled Emilius.

Art. 15. The True Briton. A Letter addressed to the Right H nourable Sir Samuel Fludyer, Bart. Lord Mayor. 8vo. 6d. - Scott.

This little pamphlet contains fome fenfible, tho' trite, remarks on the prefent ftate of affairs, and the spirit of our Party-writers; among whom the Author of the Briton is pretty feverely handled, on account of his having advanced the following fentiments relative to the faith of treaties. No State can be bound by any treaty, which fhall turn out manifeftly prejudicial to its interefts; because it is always fuppofed, that every engagement of this nature is contracted with a view to felf-prefervation or public advantage." This paffage our True-Briton treats as infamous, and unworthy the pen of an Englishman. It is, fays he, reminding the French of their old maxims, of agreeing to any thing to ferve the prefent purpose, and of breaking their engagements when it fuits them.

This Writer hath alfo fome other pertinent remarks on the prefent general topics of converfation; a greater deference, however, might have been paid him, had not his pamphlet appeared in the difingenuous light of a catch-penny performance, by his affuming the name of a well-known Writer, [Churchill] who certainly had no hand in its production.

Art. 16. A Letter to the Author of the Epistle to Lord Bute, on the prefent happy Profpect of a Peace. Folio. 6d. Nicoll. This Letter-Writer is an enemy to peace. marks, that there are too many in the world, REV. Sep, 1762. P

He very fagely rewho, if they ferve

their

their own private aims and purposes, care not a rush for the community. What British principles are thefe! For fuch men, is in Tartarus, by the Furies prepared, the baneful cup of red-hot poison." Bravo! This is the very quinteffence of Bombaft: this is Nonfenfe fublimated with a vengeance!

Art. 17. A Letter to her R-1 H- s the P. -s D-w-g-r of W, on the approaching Peace. With a few Words concerning the Right Honourable the Earl of B—, and the general Talk of the World. Svo. 1 s. 6d. Williams.

Fronti nulla files. The title-page of this pamphlet, in which is inferted alfo two or three very fingular mottoes, is evidently calculated to catch the eye of the incautious Reader, and deceive him into the purchase of a very different performance from what he might reafonably expect. At leaft, we fuppofe that few perfons, unacquainted with the various illiberal tricks and impofitions of literary Sharpers, would expect, from feeing the title or advertisement of this piece, to find it a dull recapitulation of hackney'd common-place obfervations on the prefent fituation of public affairs. Yet fuch it is; and, as fuch, unworthy our farther notice.

MUSICA L.

The

Art. 18. Obfervations on the prefent State of Mufic and Muficians. With general Rules for fludying Mufic, in a new, eafy, and familiar Manner; in order to promote the further Cultivation and Improvement of this difficult Science. whole illuftrated with many useful and entertaining Remarks, intended for the Service of its Practitioners in general. With the Characters of fome of the most eminent Masters of Music. To which is added, a Scheme for erecting and fupporting a Musical Academy in this Kingdom. By John Potter. 1 s. 6d. Henderson.

8vo.

Thefe Obfervations, which, we are told, were interfperfed in fome late Lectures read at Gresham-college, are too incoherent and crude to yield any improvement to the Practitioners of Mufic, or to engage the publ c attention toward the object which the Writer has in view. His fcheme alio, of which he has only given a very light fketch, is, by no means, fufficiently digefted. The fubject, however, is worthy an abler hand, and the defign truly deferving the patronage of a liberal and polite nation. As to the style of this pamphlet, it is beneath criticism.

POETICAL.

Art. 19. A Poem on the Merchants new beautifying the Statue of King Charles II. in the Royal-Exchange. With many hiftori

cal

cal Remarks to George I. In two Parts. By the Author of the True Briton. 4to. Is. Hope.

The trivial circumftances mentioned in the title, appears to have animated this true British Mufe to fing the virtuous and heroic actions of the unfortunate family of the Stuarts. Fired with the imaginary injustice heretofore done them, the Poet cries out;

:

Duteous to truth, we'll tell thofe deeds alone;
Which we to them, and they for us have done
And fhall their fame be buried in the duft;
From James pacific down to James the juft?
On all their race immortal fcandals fly?
And all their gracious acts unnotic'd die?
Forbid it Heav'n-fome generous Genius raife,
To fhew their worth-till then accept this praife,
Such humble verfe, as may be thought to flow,

From length of years, opprefs'd with length of woe.

Indeed, thefe verfes found much like the laft dying groans of expiring Jacobitifm, which feems juft to have opened its eyes, at the glimmering of a rufh light, to clofe them in darkness for ever.Peace to its Manes!

Art. 20. Poems: The Chimney Sweeper and Laundrefs. The Practice of Phyfic. The Poet at Guild-Hall. 4to. 6d. Flexney.

The Mufes are by no means partial in the diftribution of their fa vours. At the fame time that they have drawn the Statesman from the Balance of Europe to meafure a couplet, and have taken the fine Gentleman from the embellishment of his perfon to polish a stanza, they have been no lefs benevolently employed to footh the labours of the anvil and the flail. Hence, perhaps, it is that our Poet, who, for ought we know, may be a Chimney-fweeper, has defcended from his Obfervatory on the houfe-top, to climb the more arduous heights of Parnaffus, and to woo the daughters of Jove to his footy embrace. Whether he brandishes the pen or the brush with more dexterity, we know not; but the Reader will be able to judge of his poetical talents from the following Epithalamion on the nuptials of one of his fra⚫ternity.

The CHIMNEY-SWEEPER and LAUNDRESS.

Ridet Hoc, Inquam, Venus.
I.

"To win I hope
"Fair Maid of foap,"

A Chimney-sweeper loves!
The Queftion's put,
The man of foot
To river nimbly moves.

HOR.

II.

His friend attends,

(The best of friends)

With plain but clean apparel,

A wedding-fuit;

He were a brute

With fuch a friend to quarrel. P 2

There is fomething of the humour and manner of Sir John Suckling in this odd performance; and the other two poems are in a fimilar ftrain.

Auditis? an me ludit amabilis
Infania? Audire et videor pios, &c.

HOR.

Art. 21. A Collection of original Poems. By Scotch Gentle men. Vol. II. 2s. 6d. fewed. Edinburgh printed by Donaldson, and fold by Richardfon, &c. in London.

In the Appendix to the twenty-fifth volume of our Review, we made fome mention of the first part of this Northern Collection; and then expreffed our apprehenfion that, from the fpecimen then given, it would never equal that made by Mr. Dodiley.

This apprehenfion is not in any degree leffened by the contents of the prefent volume: in which, among a number of paffable, and a few elegant pieces, are many infipid trifles, which dishonour the reft.

The Editor has prefixed an Advertisement, in which he declares his refolution to add only one other volume, as intimated in his first Advertisement; and he affects to laugh at the Reviewers for prophofying, that his Collection would never equal Dodley's. "How

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