fill that thefe circumstances ought to be attended to, though perhaps they are of a fecondary importance. The chief advantage arifes from the peculiarity of the breed; and this they think depends almoft exclufively on the ram. The permanent effects depend on the breed alone, and, though fheep of a proper stock be enlarged in the moister and more luxuriant paftures of the fouth-east of England, or diminished on the mole inclement hills of the North, yet the fleece remains in each fitua ion equally fine. Their propofals for increasing the kindly' shetland breed are the refult of mature deliberation, much experi-" ence, and a profound judgment: they feem to have applied a radical remedy to what we feared was an incurable difeafe; and, in their progress, whatever affiftance our commendation and applaufe can give, they fhill affuredly receive. It is faid that fome rams from Colchis, the native foil of the golden fleece, and from Thibet, where the fheep are probably tili more valuable, are expected.

Official Papers relative to the Difpute between the Courts of Great Britain and Spain, on the Subject of the Ships captured in Nootka Sound, and the Negociation that followed thereon. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Debrett.

The origin and nature of this difpute is fufficiently known, as is likewife its advantageous and honourable termination. Great Britain is faid not only to have obtained a full indemnification of the loffes incurred by her fubjects, in the transaction at Nootka Sound, but the most ample conceffion of her claims on the north-west coast of America, and in the Pacific Ocean. It is the more fortunate, that these great objects fhould, after a long and difficult negociation, be reluctantly ceded by Spain, without our being obliged to have recourfe to that barbarous, and always to be deprecated, expedient, in the irreconcileable differences of nations. To the firmness of our requifitions, feconded by an armament which reflects the highest honour on British exertions, we are indebted for this aufpicious event. Both thofe who act with, and thofe who oppofe, adminiftration, concurred on this interefting fubject, in the propriety of demanding fatisfaction from Spain; but of avoiding, at the fame time, a recourfe to hoftilities, as much as poffible. Both, therefore, have now the pleasure to fee their wishes accomplished. We own, however, that what we have obferved proceeds at least as much from our good wishes as from our expectation that the convention will be univerfally approved of, as we know that tranfaction will natu rally occafion a great difference in the opinions of the public. Free Thoughts on Liberty, and the Revolution in France. By the Author of a Letter to Earl Stanhope on the Teft. 8vo. Rivingtons.

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Our author fports with what he confiders to be the contradictions of the national affembly, who, while they establish the rights of man' by words, abolith it by deeds. Every government is, in his opinion, inconfiftent with liberty; but this we VOL. LXX. Nov. 1790.

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think arifes from his not having taken a proper view of what is meant by modern theorists when they use this term. It is not inconfiftent with liberty to be governed by laws which we ourfelves frame; and what is done by the reprefentatives we appoint, who are equally amenable to thefe laws, is done by ourfelves. Liberty, he fuppofed, is a relative term, as it implies a controuling power. In this too we suspect he is mistaken. It has become a relative term, in confequence of controul; but we might call the emanations of the fun, light, and enjoy it, though the great luminary which bestowed it never fet. In fhort, our author feems to have written and printed in a hurry; which we regret the more, because he has in fome degree betrayed a good caufe. His remarks on fome parts of the conduct of the national affembly flow him to be ingenious and acute. Remarkable Extracts felected from a Work printed in the Year 1687, by Peter Juricu, entitled the Accomplishment of the Scripture Prophecies, c. By Edward May. Evo. 15. Darton.

The Nonconformists of the last century fo often prophecied. of the downfall of the Whore of Babylon, this naughty old woman who had perverted fo many princes, and deprived the faints of fo many good things, that it is not furprising to find traces of fome great revolution in their works. But honeft Peter foretold all about it,' and particularly referred the difrurbances alluded to in the Apocalypfe to France a fo that while we have been blaming the national afferbly for robbing the clergy and infulting the king, we did nor reflect that they were under the impulfe of dire neceffity, that it might be fulfilled.” The Sexes of Plants vindicand: in a Letter to Mr. William Smelties containing, a Refutation of his Arguments against the Sexes of Plants. And Remarks on certain Paffages of his Philofophy Natural Hiftory. By John Rotheram, M. D. 8vo. 13.62. Cadell,

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We did not take any particular notice in our review of the Philofophy of Natural History, of the chapter on the fexes of plants. It was a juvenile work, and remembered perhaps with the fondness which we all feel for our carly efforts. Dr. Rotheram pays it, we think, more attention than it probably deferved, and fhows that it contains fome futile objections, fome inconclufive obfervations, and arguments already confuted. This little pamphlet is the work of an able and intelligent fupporter of the fexual fyftem, and deferves great attention from thofe who fill retain any doubts. We remember being lately in a garden where the gardener was expatiaring on this fyftem, to fome gentlemen whole views had been differently directed, and to whom his remarks were in a great degree new. How, fays one of the auditors, will the duft reach the top of this part, which you call the piftil, (it was an orange lily, where the anthere are below the ftigma) as, from its fituation, it appears to be little calculated for the office you afcribe to it. Do you ob

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ferve, fays the gardener, this little portion of dust on the fide of the pistil? yes: remark then its distance from the top, and preferve it accurately in your mind. Catching at this obfervation, we drew nearer, and attentively observed it. On returning from our walk, the gardener fhewed it to us again, and the little grains which were peculiarly difpofed in a triangle, had certainly advanced much nearer to the top. We mention this fingular remark for future obfervers. Our attention was called away to other fubjects, and we have not purfued the experiment; but the gardener was confident of the event, and had, he faid, often remarked it. If true, the phenomenon is new and fingular. Anecdotes of the Life, Adventures, and Vindication of a Medical Character metaphorically defunct. Published for the Benefit of the Tin-Miners in Cornwall. By Benjamin Goofequill and Peter Paragraph. 8vo. 5. Bateman.

The Anecdotes relate to Dr. Mackitterick, who has lately called himself Adair, and has been the terror of quacks, the antagonist of lady-doctors, a volunteer physician, and a popular eflayith. We at first received his works with fome attention and refpect, an attention which he feemed to acknowledge, and a respect which we thought he deferved. As he drinks of two waters,' we fhall add no more, than that appearances are saved by the fubftitution of an editor, and that he very candidly ac cufes himself, (for it is admitted that he furnished the materials) of 'every virtue under heaven.'

Elays on Fabionable Difeafes, the dangerous Effects of hot and crowded Rooms, &c. &c. By James M. Adair, formerly M. D. With a Dedication to Philip Thicknesje. To which is added, a Dramatic Dialogue. Published for the benefit of the Tin-Miners in Cornwall. By Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph. 8vo. 45, Bateman.

A new edition of the Medical Cautions,' with some farther account of quacks, and the quack-medicines of reputation. In truth, we fee little difference between repeatedly advertising trifling books and trifling medicines, only that the loss is nor equally great. As a man may be a bigot in opposition to enthusiasm, a man may be a quack in his violence against secret remedies, Dr. M. A, has, however, the confolation of reflecting that he is not the only regular physician in this predica

ment.

Unanswerable Arguments against the Abolition of the Slave-Trade,

with a Defence of the Proprietors of the British Sugar-Colonies. Published for the benefit of the ftarving Tin-Miners in Cornwall. By James M. Adair, formerly M, D. 8vo. 45. Bateman. Our author first attacks captain Thomson, M. Luffman, Mr. Newton, &c. who have given an unfavourable reprefentation

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of the manners and conduct of the Creoles and British inhabitants of the Leeward Iflands. In thefe refpects he has paid a debt of gratitude and refpect: his defence we know to be in general juit and proper. His arguments against the abolition of the flave trade arc able, and we think well founded. They certainly deferve the particular attention of the legislature, for they are the refult of his perfonal obfervations, in part derived from his knowledge of the plauter's business, and the negro's conftitution. It is enough for us to remark, that Dr. M. A. feems ..not to object to a regulation of the trade, with a view to its abolition at a more distant period.

An Efay on a Non-defcript, or Neavly-invented Difcafe, its Nature, Caufis, and Means of Relief. With some very important Obfer·vations on the powerful and moft surprising effects of Animal Magnetifm in the Cure of the faid Disease. By F. G. Published for the benefit of the Tin-Miners in Cornwall. 8vo.

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This Effay, we fufpect, to have been almost wholly written by Jenny. It is intended to raise a laugh against Animal Magnetifm; but Scriblerus would call the ftyle too prurient : and from a man of fixty, crofied in love, with a head and heart ach,' almost finking under a nervous fever in Winchester jail! - Fye for fhame Dr. M. A!

A candid Enquiry into the truth of certain Charges of the dangerous Confequences of the Suttonian, or Cooling Regimen, under Ineculation for the Small-Pex. By James M. Adair, formerly ... M. D. 8vo. 15. Bateman..

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In this Enquiry,' it is fhown, (but who has doubted it?) that the Suttonian regimen has been carried too far, and various chronic difeafes have been the confequence. The Hungarian practice is taken from Dr. Fifcher's treatife, which was many years fince analyfed in the Gentleman's Magazine, and the prin ciples of his practice clearly explained.

Who fares beft? The Chriftian, or the Man of the World? or the Advantages of a Life of real Piety, to a Life of Fabionable Difpation. By a Marine Officer, So. 15. Matthews. The question in this dialogue relates to the comparative advantage of the Chriftian and the man of the world. The author, who affumes the title of a marine officer, may indeed be a man of principle, but he evidently betrays an uncommon degree of enthufiafin..

For the character of Jenny and thefe different circumstances, fee Anecdotes His confinement, the prolific parent of thefe various publications (for idleness, we are told, is the root of all evil), we ought to add, was not for any crime, but only for a breach of the peace in fending a challeage.

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A Catalogue of the Pictures, &c. in the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, 8vo. 15. 6d. Sold at the Place of Exhibition.

The progrefs which is making in the plan of illustrating our immortal bard, by the exhibition of pictures portrayed by his own imaginati n, muft afford the greatest pleasure to all the lovers of the imitative arts of dramatic poetry. The excellence of fome of the fpecimens which have already been submitted to the public, leave no room to question the admirable difplay which will be made when the whole is completed. It is impoffible for us to furvey the noble collection already in the Shakf peare Gallery, without congratulating our cou. try on the nius of thofe artists who have contributed their various efforts towards accomplishing fo great an undertaking.

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Thoughts on the probable Influence of the French Revolution to Great Britain. Evo.. 15. Debrett.

The author of this pamphlet appears to be an enthusiastic admirer of the French revolution, and anticipates, from that extraordinary event, the most beneficial confequences to this country. There is reafon for thinking that he is much too fanguine in his hopes; and had he carried his anticipations to what may yet happen in France, the government, introduced by the late revolution, is not likely to prove fo permanent as he expects. A little time ought always to be allowed for the confolidation of new eftablishments, especially fuch as are produced by any fudden convulsion.

A Difcourfe by M. L'Abbé Fauchet, on the Liberty of France. Tranflated from the French, by William Harvest. So, 15. Chalklen.

The difcourfe, of which this is a tranflation, was delivered on the 5th of Auguft 178, in the parish of St. Jaques, and of the S. S. Innocens, at a folemn fervice, facred to the memory of those citizens who fell at the taking of the Bastile, in the defence of their country. The abbe Fauchet appears to be animated with all the enthufiafm of liberty; and he celebrates the patriotic exertions of the destroyers of the Baftile in the warmeft effufions of rhetorical declamation. Happy will it be for the establishment of public freedom, if his countrymen fhall continue to be actuated with the generous fentiments which he endeavours to infpire.

Four Letters on the Subject of Mr. Steckdale's Trial. By a Briton. 8vo. Is. 6d. Stockdale.

The author of thefe Letters, after congratulating the public on the iffue of Mr. Stockdale's trial, as highly favourable to the liberty of the prefs, proceeds to examine the merit of the pamphlet which was the fubject of the profecution. He ar raigns, in very fevere terms, the conduct of the managers of the impeachment against Mr. Haftings; and he even cenfures that of the minifter and his friends, in voting for the measure.

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