We fhould very willingly attend our adventurer with his friend to the beer-cellar, where the latter gave proof of his being a philofopher in practice as well as in theory; a circumftance in which he differed alfo from moft other philofophers: but we really fear the effluvia of the baked ox-cheek and legs of beef, however humorously dispensed, would prove too powerful for the delicacy of our readers.If our correfpondent is ftill diffatisfied, we fhall recommend to his adoption Mr. Lemuel Dab, the three-half-penny philofopher's maxim, viz. to take things as he finds them. Truth and Error contrafted, in a Familiar Dialogue, 28. Leacroft. (Continued from p. 374. &c. 8vo. Having given our readers a fpecimen of this writer's dialogue, we proceed to fulfil our promife in taking fome notice of his Appendix, containing eflays and extracts of letters on the fame fubject. In thefe, as in the dialogue itself, the writer fhews himfelf to be a better divine than a philofpher. Of this, his confounding organized bodies, or the feeds of plants and animals, with fimple fubftance, and his denying the faculty of thinking to every animal but man, are fufficient proofs. There is fomething, nevertheless, fingular and fcriptural in his notions of the different kinds of body, which man is poffeffed of in his different ftates of life. "Of life," fays he, "there are different kinds, and yet all life originates from the fame root; but the difference of each life is only made by the difference of its body. The angelick life has an angelick body; the paradifiacal life a paradifiacal body; and the earthly life an earthly body. Adam's life, at his creation, was paradifiacal, becaufe his body was paradifiacal. "All creatures are from and out of nature; and fuch as the nature, or world is, out of which the creatures are formed, fuch and of the fame nature they evidently are; otherwife they could not poffi. bly have any communion with it. But take notice; before Adam was created, nature, which was then paradifiacal, had brought forth every order of creation: now fuch as their nature was, fuch was it abfolutely needful for Adam's body to be; otherwise, he would have been as diftinct and feparate from them, as if he had had only an abgelick nature: but he was formed to live with them, and to rule and govern over all nature, which he could only do by the medium of his paradiacal body, But when the fall deftroyed this body then all this power ceafed; and as man was become fubject to vanity, fo on man's account the creature was made fubject to vanity likewife. Rom. viii. 20. The four united harmonious elements loft their bright ftate, and became, grofs, thick, dark, difunited, and full of contradiction. All nature fets her feal to this." "But "But now comes the point. This loft paradifiacal body you think. will not be restored till the last conflagration: but it certainly was reftored to the thief, or for want of it he could not poffibly have entered into paradife; for if he had entered without it, he could have had no more communion with paradise, than an angel can have communion with this world, because he has nothing earthly in his nature. I agree with you, that in good men the divine, and in bad the diabolick body grows. But this is not our question. On the aforementioned principles, I fay, it is impoffible for a creature to exist in a world, the nature of which it has not. Paradifiacal creatures muft have a paradifiacal body. This body Jefus raised and restored to the thief; and the fame he can do for you and me, for we carry it about with us, though dead: and this is the body, the redemption of which, St. Paul fays, he waits for. Rom. viii. 23. this is the building of God not made with hands, which he fo earnestly groaned 'for: Read the fifth chapter of the fecond epistle to the Corinthians to verfe 5, and you will fee how it is mortality is swallowed up of life, and when. corruption puts on incorruption." "But do you not greatly err, my dear friend? you seem to stumble at the very threshold. You told me that you thought man was not fown a natural body, till he was laid in the grave. In my little tract you fee that falfe notion of body being created firft, and a foul infufed into it after, Tufficiently exploded'; for I therein prove, that every life brings forth its own body with it; and that the inftant the natural life exifts, the natural body exifts alfo. But if you afk, when is it the natural life exifts? anfwer, in the womb: and that it is there the natural body is fown, and not when it is put a dead, cold, lifeless lump of clay into the ground. Man, the firft fallen Adam, fows a natural body; he can do no more: Jefus, the fecond Adam, by his almighty power, raises it a fpiritual body. When you fee things in this light, it will enlarge your ideas, and make you think quite different from what you have hitherto done." In a fubfequent extract, the writer endeavours to explain his meaning more fully; but whether to the fatisfaction of either philofophers or divines, we must leave them to decide. W. Reflections on the Law and its Minifters, wherein the Defects of the one, and the Iniquity of the other, in Point of Practice, are freely expofed, including ufeful Directions for the Choice of a proper attorney, and other interefting Particulars. A Work indifpenfibly neceffary for the Perujal of every Englishman, and humbly Jubmitted to the Confideration of the Legislature. Dedicated to the Right Hon. Villiam, Earl Mansfield. In five Letters from a Father to his Son. 4to. Is. Williams. The author of thefe Reflections must be either fome recreant attorney, who, telling tales out of fchool, hath here expofed the the impofitions of his profeffion; or he must be fome client who hath been let pretty deep into the fecret. Be who he will, his obfervations are, for the moft part, pertinent and juft; we wish they bore as much probability of being adopted by thofe in whofe power it is to remedy the abufes he complains of. Of thefe not the leaft incurious are the items of an attorney's charge in a common bill of cofts in the Court of King's Bench; which we therefore extract, in terrorem to thofe of our readers, if any fuch there are, who are litigiously difpofed. 0 3 4 3 4 060 8 I 7 Searching for fpecial bail 8 Motion for rule for the Sheriff to return writ 9 Paid for rule, 45. copy and fervice, zs. o 10 Paid for returning and filing writ 11 Copy of notice of bail being put in 12 Many attendances and much trouble' enquiring after the bail in the city and other places 13 Excepting against them 14 Drawing notice of exception, copy 15 Copy of notice of juftifting bail 18 Several attendances, examining wit 19 Drawing declarations folio, 22 20 Clofe copy femt 21 Drawing notice of declaration, filed copy, and fervice } 22 Ingroffing & filing continuance & duty 23 Term fee, 5s. letters, 25. - 2 O 7 4 O 8 3 0 7 HILARY 96 35 Docket and warrants I 10 O 36 Drawing notice of trial, copy and fervice o o o 37 Venire 38 Return 8 6 12 669486∞0 O 8 6 3 6 0 12 O 12 8 3 4 I 10 2 46 Return 47 Entering caufe 48 Attending thereon. 49 To Mr. D. Retainer I 51 Drawing brief, 7 brief theets 52 Two fair copies of it for counfel 53 Fair copy the trial of the iffue for counfel at 54 Subpoenaing 4 witneffes 55 Paid them is. each 55 To Mr. D. with his brief, 31. 38. attendance, 3s. 4d. clerk, 2s. 6d. 57 To Mr. L. with brief, 21. 2s. ditto 58 Attending the trial 59 Coach-hire and expences 60 Paid fees to marshal, 12s. 8d. Cry er, 8.-Clerk of Nifi Prius, 118. } 3 540 200 O 00 4 9 8 10 7 10 0 13 4 O 3 I 12 8 61 Rule No. 1. is feldom done, though there is an act of parliament exprefsly commanding it.-5. Sometimes not above 4d. or not that.8. Not done. 12. Perhaps very little done.-13. Ufually done, in order to found the charge upon.-14. Done for ditto.-15. Done, though unneceffarily.-16. Frequently, not done, never but on an oppofition.-17. Done, though unneceffarily.-18. Perhaps not done at all, or very little trouble.-19. This is charged 18. per folio, or 72 words, and perhaps 10 of thefe folics would anfwer the end as well as 22. The roguery in thefe cafes is fometimes fo difgraceful as to demand the notice of the court, who frequently curtail them, to the chagrin of the attorney.-20. Done, but unneceffarily,even in a coun try caufe; a letter, naming the courts, which would not exceed two lines, would answer the end; but it is allowed.-22. Scarcely ever done, never but in cafes where neceffity drives to it.-23. In this charge, 5s. is allowed as a gratuity, or fee, and 2s. for letters. See Numb. 5.-25. Sometimes done, but always charged.-27. Done, but unneceflarily.-29. This confifts of the declaration, ples, &c. on which iffue is joined.-30. Very often not done.-43.Done by Clerk. 48. Done by Clerk.-50. Sometimes very few; however, the charge is always the fame.-56. Done by Clerk.-57. Done by Clerk.-59. Sometimes neither.-64, 65. This is not done when the caufe has nothing fpecial; but the longer the bill is, the larger this charge is: How much more equitable would it be, that this should be done at the attorney's own charge, as it frequently is done merely for his benefit.-73. Seldom done." R. Philofophical |