He pronounces the impeachment to be founded in injustice, and carried on at an expence prejudicial to the public, and oppreffive to the late governor-general..

The whole Proceedings on the Trial of an Information exhibited ex officio, by the King's Attorney-General, against John Stockdale. Svo. 55. Boards. Stockdale.

The information which produced this trial was filed by the attorney-general, for a libel on the house of commons, contained in a pamphlet entitled, A Review of the principal Charges against Warren Haftings, Efq.' The author of the pamphlet impured the profecution of Mr Haftings to partial and vindictive motives. This charge was reprefented as highly injurious to the honour and justice of the houfe of commons, But Mr. Erfkine, counfel for the defendant, repelled by strong arguments the propriety of any fuch inference; and Mr. Stockdale, in confequence, was acquitted..

The Address of William Bull, Gent. to William Poole, Efq. By the Rev. W. Keate. 8vo. 15. Dilly.

A myftical, allegorical, whimsical production, feemingly in imitation of Swift, but without the humour of that celebrated original.

The Spanish Pretenfions fairly difcuffed. By A. Dalrymple, 8vo, 15. Elinfly.

Mr. Dalrymple refutes the validity of the Spanish pretenfions by very juft obfervations. But happily, the difpute is now terminated, at leaft by a compromise, which has, in effect, the fame validity with a renunciation of former pretenfions on the part of Spain.

An Account of the Mutinous Seizure of the Bounty; with the fucceeding Hardships of the Crew. 8vo. 25. Bell and Taylor.. The account of the feizure of the Bounty is compiled from lieut. Bligh's narrative, noticed in the prefent Number. To render the pamphlet more interefting, the compiler has added what he calls fecret anecdotes of the Otaheitean females; but fo far from being fecret, they were publifhed in Hawkefworth's Collection of Voyages many years ago.

Additions and Corrections to the Firft Volume of the Hiftory of Greece. By William Mitford, Efq. 410. 25. Cadell.

Thefe Additions, published in the fecond edition of the hif tory, are extensive and valuable, and muft, therefore, be highly acceptable to the purchafers of the firft. Mr. Mitford, in thus accommodating those readers with a feparate publication of the Additions, performs an act which reflects much honour on his conduct.

Addrefs

Address of the National Assembly of France, to the People; with an Appendix, confifling of fuch authentic Documents as explain more fully the Changes of Government alluded to in the Addrefs. 8vo. 25. Ridgway.

This Addrefs, which is figned by Bureaux de Pufy, prefident, and by feveral others as fecretaries, recapitulates the changes which have already been effected, and those likewife which are propofed to be accomplished, by the new government. It may be confidered as an appeal to the people refpecting the patriotic intentions of the national affembly; but with regard to their po litical wisdom, time only can enable the nation to judge with any certainty.

A Letter addreffed to the Hon. Court of Directors of the Eaft India Company. By the Rev. Thomas Maurice, A. M. 8vo.

Richardfon.

This Letter contains proposals for printing a history of the Revolutions of the Empire of Indoftan, from the earliest ages to the prefent. Mr. Maurice gives a sketch of the plan on which the work will be conducted: a concise account of the authors who will principally be confulted; and a fhort retrospect of the general history of Indoftan. That fuch a work as is pro pofed would prove interesting, there is little reafon to doubt; but it ought to be executed with fuch ftrict impartiality, as is fcarcely confiftent with the avowed patronage of the Directors of the East India Company.

An arranged Catalogue of the feveral Publications which have ap peared relating to the Enlargement of the Toleration of Proteftant Diffenting Minifters, and the Repeal of the Corporation and Teft Acts. 8vo. is. Johnson.

We find from the first part of this Catalogue, that the diffenting minifters' application gave rife to forty-two publications; and by the fecond, that the application for the repeal of the corporation and test acts, had, at the drawing up of this Catalogue, produced no less than ninety-fix. When publications become fo numerous, a lift of them is indeed expedient for those who wish to make them felves mafters of the controverfy. It is, however, intended chiefly for the ufe of any body of men who may hereafter revive the measure of again appealing to parliament on the fame fubjects.

Free Thoughts on the Death threatened against Adam, By John Golledge. 12mo. 6d. Johnson.

We learn from an advertisement prefixed to thefe Thoughts, that Mr. Golledge was educated in the principles of Calvinism; but that, when he came to think for himself, he was obliged to renounce them, as highly erroneous. He therefore attacks, but in a cool argumentative manner, the doctrines of original fin and predeftination, which he defcribes as repugnant to the tenor of fcripture, and irreconcileable with reafon.

The

The Chriftian's Pocket Companion. 16mo. 3d. Marshall.

The inftruction compiled in this little manual is extracted from Burkit's Expofition of the New Teftament. We would warmly recommend it to young perfons in general. Both on account of cheapnefs, and the excellent principles, it inculcates, it is peculiarly well calculated for Sunday-schools.

Account of the Shipwreck and Captivity of M. de Briffon. Tranf lated from the French. 8vo. 25. 6d. fewed. Johnson.

The account of this fhipwreck is far from being related with that precifion which is expected in narratives of fuch a kind; it is in many points extremely unfatisfactory. The general circumftances are, that M. de Briffon, in 1785, received orders from M. de Caftries, fecretary of ftate for the French marine, to embark for the island of St. Lewis, at the mouth of the Senegal, on board the St. Catharine, commanded by Le Turk. After paffing the Canary Iflands, by failing too near the coaft, the fhip ftruck on a rock at midnight, when, what may appear not a little extraordinary, to navigators, every perfon on board was in profound fleep. In what part of the coast of Africa the fhipwreck happened, or through what countries the author travelled, we are left entirely ignorant. We only know that he reached the country of Morocco, where he had an audience of the emperor. The circumstances of the narrative are mostly of a perfonal nature; and, fubjoined to them, are some mifcellaneous remarks on the character and cuftoms of the Arabs.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE fugitive picces of Montefquieu mentioned by our Correfpondent C. S. efcaped our notice, and from his very candid account we think them entitled to our attention.

THE tranflator of French Morality cut fhort,' after having confeffedly mutilated a work, is furprifed that its object should not be eafily understood. Our affociate, to whom it was committed, cannot at prefent answer for him elf; but though he fpoke with doubt and hesitation, we well remember the book, and few to whom it was communicated had any doubt of its being at least a very trifling performance.

A feries of accidents, equally unpleasant and unexpected, have delayed our continuation of Dr. Burney's Hiftory; but we trust we fhall now very foon be able to comply with the wishes of more than one refpectable correfpondent by refuming it.

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THE

CRITICAL REVIEW.

For DECEMBER,

1790.

Hora Paulina, or the Truth of the Scripture History of St. Paul evinced, by a Comparison of the Epistles which bear his Name, with the Alts of the Apofties, and with one another. By William Paley, M. A. Archdeacon of Carlisle. 800. 65. Boards. Faulder.

IF

F the Epiftles, attributed to St. Paul, and the Hiftory of this Apoftle, fuppofed to be written by St. Luke, were forgeries, it might be expected that, in fome inftances, they 'would contradict each other. The coincidence, on the other hand, might be glaring and oftentatiously brought forward; or the Epiftles might confift of general doctrines, without alluding to any particular transactions of the History, styled in our tranflation, the Acts of the Apoftles. Either peculiarity might fubject them to fufpicion, and the last mode of detection may be fuccefsfully employed in the fpurious Epistle to the Laodiceans, and the fuppofed Anfwer of St. Paul to the Reply of the Corinthians. On the contrary, though there are not many personal or fecular remarks in these Epistles, -they fometimes occur, apparently without defign; and thefe, when traced in other Epistles, or the Hiftory of St. Paul, are confiftent, and support each other. The obfcure and unexpected coincidences it is Mr. Paley's object to point out; and, by their affiftance, the credit of the author of the Acts, and of St. Paul, are equally fupported.

The first Epistle of St. Paul, in the order, is that to the Romans, though it was undoubtedly written during the apostle's fecond vifit to his church at Corinth. It is addreffed to the -Judaizing Chriftians at Rome, where St. Paul had not yet been, and appears calculated to gain their attention, by obviating a disadvantageous report respecting one part of his doctrines, which feemingly bore hard on the Gentile converts, and by expreffing his veneration for the law. We never confidered it as one of thofe epiftles which would moft fuccefsfully fupport the credit of the apostle. There is at times a fervility in the faving claufes, which fhows an improper fear VOL. LXX. Dec. 1790. S s

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of offending, and a little confufion in the argument, as if he wished to decline being explicit. Indeed of all the epiftles we fully agree in the archdeacon's opinion: in every letter of the collection, an involved argumentation, frequent obscurities, especially in the order and tranfition of the thought, piety, vehemence, affection,' as well as bursts of rapture and of unparalleled fublimity,' are discernible.

The first paffage adduced is Romans xv. 25 and 26, where the apostle fpeaks of his intention to go to Jerufalem, to diftribute the charitable collections from the faints of Macedonia and Achaia. His return to Macedonia, to pursue his jour ney to Jerufalem, is mentioned Acts xx. 2, 3. the alms and offerings, in Acts xxiv. 17-19. the directions for a contribution at Corinth, the capital of Achaia, in 1 Corinthians, xvi. 14. the liberality of the churches in Macedonia, in 2 Corinthians, viii. 1–4. and ix. 2. These coincidences, together with the natural, plain, inobtrusive manner in which the fact is mentioned to the Romans, form one of the strongeft proofs of the authenticity of the Epistle.

The fecond coincidence is taken from the falutations'; and as many of the perfons are faid, in the hiftory, to have been with Paul, and as fome others are added, the Epistle was, at leaft, not built on the relation in the Acts. Eraftus abode, we know from the. Epiftle to Timothy, in Corinth; and Phoebe, the fervant of the church at Cenchrea, the haven of Corinth, fix, without any great doubt, the place from which the Epistle was written, and connect all the circumftances together.

The third paffage is St. Paul's promife to vifit Rome, Rom. i. 13. which is ftrongly supported by Acts xix. 21. The addition or omillion of Spain is not, we think, a very important circumftance.

The fourth is the geographical coincidence, infifted on by Dr. Lardner, Rom. xv. 19, in which our author tranflates very properly, Mixp te huge, to the confines of Illiricum. Our author next compares Rom. xv. 30. and Acts xx. 22, 23. which both relate to Paul's apprehenfion of the event of the journey to Jerufalem; only, as may be expected, these are fronger in the Epiftle when he is nearer to the scene. A forger alio, with the Acts before him, would not have required the prayers of the Romans for his delivery from a fituation, and from diftreffes by which he was at laft overwhelmed. The laft fections relate to the peculiar flate of the Roman converts, and the conduct of the argument in this Epiftle.

The first Epistle to the Corinthians is the next object of Mr. Paley's examination; and he finds arguments to fupport its authenticity