3734, published a very ample introduction to arithmetics and geometry, and even the ufe of fines and logarithms, for the benefit of fuch Bohemian millers as delight in mathematics, and efpecially mechanics. Jofeph Stepling is here faid to have fent Boffuet's book of the Catholic Faith, to the famous German philofopher Wolf, at his defire, a fhort time before his death. A moft improbable story! for Wolf had certainly not deferred fo long to confider and examine the different religions; and had he ever wanted 'Boffuet's book, for any purpose whatever, he might very easily have procured it much nearer home.

Specimen Hierarchie Hungarice, complectens Seriem Chronologicam Archiepifcoporum & Epifcoporum Hungariæ, cum rudi Dioecefium Delineatione, adjectis, fi quæ funt peculiares, Prærogativis, ut plurimum ex Diplomatibus congeftum a Georgio Pray, Prefb. Seculari. P. I. de Archiepifcopatu Strigonienfi & ejus Suffraganeis. 4to. Presburg and Caschaw, in Hungary.

This first part of the Hungarian Hierarchy contains a very full and accurate account of the foundation, and refpective rights and prerogatives of the archbishoprick of Gran, and of feveral bishopricks, with a chronological lift of the names of the prelates, and a few potes. Mr. Pray intends to publish a fecond volume, concerning the diocese of Colocfa; and a third, of the Illyrian bishopricks.

The archbishop of Gran, we find, is not only endowed with princely annual revenues, (eftimated by Dr. Bufching at 360,000 Horins) but alfo invefted with great power, authority, and several fingular prerogatives. He is, fince 1275, comes perpetuus, fummus & fecretarius cancellarius, & perfonalis præfentiæ regiæ; (Hungarian Latin.) He crowns the king; is, with his lands and vaffals exempted from fecular jurifdiction, and from all taxes; allowed to appoint a palatine (or chief judge of a district) by his own authority; had a tenth of the royal chamber demefnes, of the revenues of the exchequer, of the cattle-tax impofed on the Ulachi (Wallachians) and Siculi, and of all the monies coined in, or imported into, the kingdom. Every nobleman or gentleman was, without obtaining the king's confent, allowed to appoint the archbishoprick his heir: and whenever any vaffal of the archbishop was executed for theft, by the fentence of the king's palatine, his confifcated eftate was delivered up to the archbishop, &c. &c.

The prefent archbishop of Gran, Jofeph Count Battyan, was appointed in 1776, after an eleven year's vacancy of that archiepifcopal

fee.

Therma Varadienfes Examini phyfico & med. Subjecta. Item de illarum Ufu falutari fimul cum Obferv. Med. nec non de Sale medio in iis contento; cujus Occafione Diff. inferitur de Natura Salium, nominatim vero de Salibus qui circa Debrecinum colliguntur, Nitro noftri Temporis & Veterum S. Natro, i. e. Alcalino Foffili, vel Saponario Debrecinenfi, per Steph. Hathvány, M. D. 8vo. Vienna.

The baths here indifferently defcribed, are fituated at an hour's distance from Varad. They appear to contain a very fine and volatile phlogiston, mineral fpirits, calcareous earth, and falt. They are faid to prove very serviceable against the gout, hysterics, melancholy, confumption, scurvy, &c. and may be used both externally and internally."

De Salubritate & Morbis Hungariæ Schediafma. Au&. Fred. Jac. Fuker Med. Hung. 8vo. Lipfiæ.

The author vindicates his native country from the common opinion of unwholesomeness; and for this purpose exactly reviews its moft common difeafes: fevers, agues, intermitting fevers, diarrheas, dyfenteries, &c. The plague rarely invades Hungary. The famous Hungarian fever is not peculiar to Hungary alone; (the words hagymaz-fceptlô denote any ardent fever;) this fever feems nearly related to the goal-fever. Upon the whole, Hungary ap pears to have been unjustly accused of being peculiarly unwholefome.

Jof. Mingoni, Patavini Prof. Hiftoria medica Thermarum Patavinarum, J. Obfervationum Medico-practicarum circa Morbos iifdem Thermis tractatos Centuria prima. 4to. Padoua.

The warm baths in question were neglected, when the republic of Venice gave them to Prof. Mingoni, who caused the neceffary buildings to be erected, and provided with proper accommodations then removed thither himself in order to affift the patients; and has already procured them no inconfiderable degree of credit. Such was the occafion of this well written and valuable work, in which he relates the hiftory of one hundred patients, most of them cured by bathing, drinking, &c. with an apparent veracity that does him much credit: as he not only records his fucceffes, but also bis miscarriages, in those cases where the baths proved either useless, or even burtful.

Tubera Terra, Carmen Jo. Bernardi Vigi, Rhetorices Professoris. Turin.

An elegant didactic poem on the Culture of Truffles, entirely in the tafte of Virgil's Georgics; with whofe beauties our author appears intimately acquainted. His poem confists of 997 verses, to which, an Italian tranflation is fubjoined.

Nuova Expofizione della vera Struttura del Cerveletto umano di Vicenzo Malacarne. 8vo. Torino.

This anatomical defcription of the human brain is very minute, and appears to be accurate; though fomewhat obfcure, especially for foreigners, from a great number of new technical terms, and from want of plates.

Trattato de' Canali navigabili dell' Abbate Antonio Lecchi, Matematico delle L. L. M. M J. J. 40. Milano.

The learned author relates in his introduction the feveral attempts to make rivers navigable, efpecially in Italy, and during the middle ages. The treatife itself abounds with excellent and chiefly practical inftruction.

Sopra la Qualità dagli Effluvi de Baco de Seta. Difcorso di Antonio Pimbiolo degli Engelfandi, nobile Paduano, Profeffore di Pavia. 4to. Padoua.

Grabiolo is faid to have imputed a very dangerous and prevailing fever to the pernicious effluvia of filk-worms. Those who manage them, our author affirms, are fubject to difeafes of the lungs, and to confumption. This bufineis ought therefore not to be allowed to be carried on in very populous villages; and the build

ings neceffary for that purpose ought to be erected in airy fituations: though filk-worms, ftrictly speaking, occafion no epidemical dif eases.

Lettere di un Italiano ad un Parigino, intorno alle Refeffioni del Signor Caffini de Thury, ful Grado Torineje. 8vo. Florence.

Signor Caffini having published some remarks on the measurement of the degree of Turin, in the Mercure de France; his remarks are minutely anfwered by Signor Gaetano Cambiagi.

Inftituzioni di Mecanica, d'Idroftatica, d'Idrometria, e dell'Architettura Statica e Idraulica, &c. dell' A. D. P. Frif. With 7 Plates. 4to. Milano.

An inftructive work, calculated for the ufe of the Royal Academy for Architects and Engineers at Milan. The author has every where applied theory to real practical, especially Italian cafes; and interfperfed feveral informations that will render his book inftructive and valuable, even for proficients in thefe fciences.

Lettere full' Aria inflammabile nativa delle Paludi. 8vo. Milano. This book was originally published November 14, 1776, at Como, by Prof. Volta, under the title Lettera al P. Carlo Giuseppe Campi full' Aria, &c. The fecond edition is much improved. It contains a great deal of new and agreeable information, concerning the native inflammable air, obferved by the author near the Lago Maggiore, the Lago di Como, and several other lakes and springs. Obfervations fur les Epizoties contagieufes, particulièrement fur celle qui a regné en Champagne, par M. Grignon, Chevalier. 8vo. Paris.

The epidemical diftemper in question broke out at Neufville in Burgundy, in the autumn of 1775. Some cows became fo mad of it, that they were shot. Mr. Grignon judged it a peftilential disease. Its defcription is compared with that given by Mr. Vicq d'Azyr of the famous great epidemy. Its fmell was fo dangerous, that feveral ftudents of the veterinary art died by having much frequented the infected cattle. Dogs who had eaten of the flesh of the cows became mad, though the bite caused no hydrophobia. The author propofes burning brimftone, vinegar, &c. which are faid to have produced large fwellings, and fome mitigation of the evil. Hiftoire génerale de Hongrie, depuis la première Invafion des Huns, jufqu'à nos jours, par M. de Sacy. 2 Vols, 12mo. Paris.

This hiftory is drawn up from Bonfinius, Ifthuanfius, and other Hungarian chronicles. It begins with the invafion of the Huns, according to Mr. De Guigne's fyftem; confifts of 12 books, and ends with the year 1748. Had the author availed himself of Mr. Pray's works, his performance would have remained free from feveral miftakes, into which he was led by his vouchers. To each volume fome notes are fubjoined, containing geographical, gentalogical, and ftatical illuftrations, and fome anecdotes.

Fai Chronologique, Hiftorique & Politique fur l'Ile de Corse, par Mr. Ferrand du Puy. 12mo. Paris.

If this writer be not well informed, he is at least a very zealous French patriot. He endeavours to point out the advantages accruing to France by the poffeffion of Corfica. He afferts that the inhabitants of that ifland had dwindled down to fourfcore thousand perfons; and that their number have increased one fixth, fince its conquest by

the

the French but in his opinion, the Corficans owe to them, not only this very confiderable increase of their population, but many valuable improvements and refinements in their manners, as well as the coquetry of their fair ones, and their confcioufnefs of their own charms, &c. &c.

MONTHLY CATALOGUE.
POLITICA L.

Anticipation: containing the Subftance of His My's most gra cious Speech to both H―s of P―――t, on the Opening of the approaching Seffion, together with a full and authentic Account of the Debate which will take Place in the He of Cs, on the Motion for the Addrefs, and the Amendment. 8vo. 6d. Becket,

Erfonal mimickry may be productive of mifery as well as entertainment at the fame time that it makes hundreds laugh for one short evening, it may make a worthy individual, a whole family perhaps, wretched for life. Such is not the fate of literary imitation, of mimickry of ftyle-it is here the bad only who are ridiculed, the worthlefs alone who can be held up to laughter; and this, not for having a lame leg or a distorted body, but for an unequal manner and a disjointed ftyle, a cenfure which if they cannot remedy the misfortune, they may at least avoid by ceafing to deferve it.

The witty and original pamphlet before us contains an account of the debate, which, it was fuppofed, would take place in the h-e of c-ns upon the K-g's Speech. The characters of the fpeakers are drawn by the hand of a master. So ftrong is every line, fo true is every feature, that there is hardly an individual in the groupe, who, feeing fo ftriking a refemblance of himself, recognizing his own very air, attitude, and manner, muft not ftare and wonder, with Pope,

How the devil he got there.'

Could we fpare room, we know not that we should gratify our readers by copying any one of these inimitable paintings, fince every portrait is fo perfectly the man for whom it is defigned, that we should be afraid of offending the honourable gentlemen by exhibiting them in our Review,

This most truly original piece is faid to be the production of the author of The Wreath of Fashion,' and The Project,' Great Britain undeceived in the Conduct of Government and Views of America. 12mo. Is. 6d. Cadell.

The vague, unconfequential fpeculations of fome political declaimer, who appears to be ftrongly actuated by an ungovernable itch of writing.

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Confiderations on the Mode and Forms of a Treaty of Peace with America. 8vo. 6d. Dilly.

In the opinion of this fage politician, Great Britain cannot obtain peace with America on any other terms, than by acknowleging the independency of that country.

A Plan of internal Defence, in the prefent Crifis. 8vo. IS.

Shatwell.

This plan confifts in regulating the militia in fuch a manner, that all those who have been properly difciplined may, if any invafion fhould happen, be immediately embodied.

De Jure Colonias inter et Metropolen apud Prifcos. 12mo.

Cater.

Is. 6d.

This little treatife is faid to be printed at Geneva, but there is reafon to fufpect its being a domeftic production. Of whatever country, however, it contains feveral juft and pertinent obferv. ations on the respective rights of colonies and parent ftates. Confiderations on the important Benefits to be derived from the Éaft India Company's Building and Navigating their own Ships. 8vo. Is. Almon.

This author attempts to prove by calculation that the Company, in the first instance, may bring home 9,500 tons of goods from China, Bencoolen, and Bombay, for £.171,000- and 5,500 tons from Coast and Bay, L.110,000-in the whole,

281,000; which is .258,259 per annum lefs than they paid on average of fix years, to 1772. And by all the fucceeding fhips having the first coft and outfet discharged by the balance profit arriving from the first fett, they will continue to bring home the whole of the investments at £15 per ton, which will then be a farther faving of £56,000 in the whole, to the amount of £.314,259 per annum, which is confiderably more than the prefent dividend paid to the proprietors, and this without any rifque, and with a very trifling advance in cash from the Company, for which even there is an allowance of 5 per cent. intereft.»

In a former Review (July laft, p. 80,) we declined entering upon any detail of this queftion, which we doubted not would be maturely confidered by the court of directors. The queftion. has now fo repeatedly been forced upon the public, it is become our duty to notice it. The prudence of this gentleman's scheme will depend upon the truth of his calculations. To build and navigate for ourselves, to go to the firft hand, as we fay in common life, holds out a flattering profpect of fuccefs, but too frequently leads to diftrefs and ruin. We hope the Company, by grafping at too much profit, may not lofe what they at present enjoy.

This pamphlet might have been written in a more calm, difpaffionate, and liberal manner, without weakening the force of the author's arguments.