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named-with many others that might be mentioned. He was a good and a fenfible man; and his writings, were there a scarcity of books of the like kind, would be highly valuable, notwithstanding we might (as Chriftians, merely on fcripture principles) object to a few doctrinal points, to be met with in his divinity: fuch, particularly, as the article of imputed righteoufuefs, which we think fo very. fenfible an Editor as Dr. Scrope might well have omitted: efpecially in an edition wherein fo many other liberties are taken with the original.To the moral part of this book, however, we can have little objection. It contains, indeed, many ufeful and admirable directions for the improvement of our minds, and the regulation of our conduct; and the notes of Mr. Sartoris, the former Editor,-together with thofe of the prefent judicious Tranflator, altogether contribute to render the work much more mifcellaneous and entertaining than the title-page may feem to promife: Dr. Scrope alfo informs us, in one of his notes, that this work, as he is informed, is held by the French proteftants to be of fuch great ufe, that they have it in every family, by way of a Companion to the Bible.

POLITICAL.

Art. 9. Confiderations on Behalf of the Colonifts. In a Letter to a noble Lord. 8vo. IS. Almon.

In our Catalogue for laft March, we cenfured a pamphlet entitled The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies, by the Legiflature of Great Britain, briefly confidered; to which pamphlet the tract now before us is a profetied anfwer: and it is a keen and spirited one. The Author dates his letter from Bofton in New-England, and figns it F. A. Sept. 4, 1765. He appears to be a ftaunch North-American, fired with the glorious idea of LIBERTY! and flaming with patriotic zeal for the RIGHTS, or what he conceives to be the RIGHTS of his native country of which he appears to be neither an incompetent judge, nor a weak defender.- -From what he

fays of the lamp-act, fo highly resented by the British northern colonifts, our Readers may form fome judgment of the apprehended burthenfome nature of that act. The burden of the ftamp-act, fays he, will certainly fall on the middling and labouring people. The widow, the orphan, and others, who have few on earth to help, or even pity them, muft pay heavily to this tax. An inftance or two will give fome idea of the weight of this impofition. A rheam of printed bail-bonds is now fold for about fifteen fhillings fterling: with the ftamps, the fame quantity will, I am told, amount to near ONE HUNDRED POUNDS fterling. A rheam of printed policies of affurance is now about two pounds fterling with the ftamps it will be ong HUNDPED AND NINETY POUNDS fterling. Many other articles in common ufe here are in the fame proportion. The fees in the probate offices, with the addition of the ftamps, will, in moft provinces, be three times what has been hitherto paid,'-It is not however fo much, perhaps, the burden of this particular tax which is fo grievoully refented by our North-American brethren, as their unpleafing

This pamphlet is, by the prefent Confiderer, ftyled the opufeulum of the celebrated Mr. J----5,'

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profpect of a chain of taxes (of which this may be only one link) being faftened on them by the authority of a pt in which they do not conceive themfelves to be properly and conftitutionally repreJented. Much hath been faid on both fides of the grand question concerning the expediency, propriety, and policy of an American reprefentation; but to us it appears extremely obvious, that all parts of the British dominions ought to be actually, not merely virtually reprefented in the great council of the nation.

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urged, from the confideration that, even in our own island, fuch great and populous towns as Manchester, Birmingham, &c. &c. are not reprefented in parliament, we entirely acquiefce in our Author's laconic reply, That it is high time they should.

Art. 10. The Principles of the late Changes impartially examined. In a Letter from a Son of Candor to the Public Advertiser. 8vo. Is. 6d. Almon.

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Refentment of the fall of the Outs, appears to have given birth to this attack on the INs: in which the principles of the late changes' do not seem to be very impartially examined. This Son of Candor proceeds on the fame pofitive affumption of the reality of the old invifible agency, on which the Honest Man* grounded his refufal to take any part in the new administration; and on which the Political Apologist, mentioned in our last month's catalogue, chiefly argues on the fame fide of the question. He particularly vindicates Lord Temple's abfolute refufal to enter, at this juncture, into the fervice of his country; and after endeavouring to refute thofe who have afcribed his Lordship's refufal to motives that never exifted, he comes to this conclufion, that his Lordship's not embarking with the new miniftry, could only proceed from his apprehenfion of the impoffibility to do his king and country that fervice which an honest man would wish to do, in the ftation he declined.' He adds, The noble lord, we may fuppofe, [yes, we may fuppofe a great many things; but if we proceed on groundlefs fuppofitions, and argue wrongly from mistaken premifes,-then-what becomes of our fuppofes?] knew more of the real fituation of things than the public at large can. But to what has been obferved in the progrefs of these animadverfions, little needs be added, to evince that his apprehenfions were not groundless. Stronger evidence cannot be required of the continued afcendant of Lord B-, and that his aim was ftill to maintain an abfrute dominion over this country, by being master of any miniftry, to decide their fate, not according to their conduct towards the nation, but according to their fubmiffion to him.'-Hence our Author ftrenuously maintains, that the late miniftry were not difmiffed on account of their unpopularity—that they did not die for violations of liberty; to expiate general warrants; feizure of papers; reftrictions of the privilege and fecurity of parliament; refraint on the freedom of the prefs, rigorous crown profecutions, &c. &c. &c.' That they were not offered up to the complaints, the cries, nor the wishes of the PEOPLE: but, becaufe they would not, in all things, implicitly fubmit to L-B-;-because they prefumed to difpleafe his L-p's

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brother, Mr. St- M-;-in fine, because there was no remiffion for treafon against the favorite.

As to the prefent miniftry, our Author fpeaks of them with a de gree of afperity, and even malignity, which is not altogether confiftent with his affumed title of an impartial examiner. He not only prejudges their adminiftration by repeating the common cry, want of experience, against them, but he even ventures to infinuate, that, allowing them both ability and inclination to act in a manner becoming their ftations, yet they will not be permitted to do any thing contrary to the good plc.fure of that invifible power which will inevitably control them. This general infiftence on the continued tho' fecret influence of the northern peer, without producing inftances in proof of the operations of fuch invifible fpirit, has been pleafantly ridiculed by one of the many antagonitis of Anti-Sejanus: an honeft fellow, fays he, paffing through the Borough, paid fixpence for feeing an invisible cock; at which he was to peep through a hole in the lid of a box." And pray, faid his friend, did you fee him?" No, you' fool! how could I replied the other, did not I tell you he was INVISIBLE? But I am fure he was there.'

A title affumed by a zealous writer of political effays published in the news-papers; and faid to be employed by L-Sh, in order to hunt down the new miniftry.

Art. 11. A Candid Refutation of the Charges brought against the prefent Minifters, in a Tract entitled The Principles of the late Changes impartially examined. 8vo. 1s. F. Newbery. A fuperficial defence of the ministry, from the objections briefly ftated in these three articles- That they are the inftruments of the favorite ;-that neither Mr. P-nor Lord T are with them; and

that they are young and unexperienced.' To thefe objections the Author offers, on mere fpeculation, what muft naturally occur to any fpeculatift in a garret or in a coffee-houfe. But he holds out no new light to the public, and has not even conjectured any thing but what hath been fo often conjectured, and urged, and anfwered, and faid, and afferted, and argued, and proved, and refuted,-in an hundred and fifty news-papers and pamphlets, that nobody now believes or underflands one word of the matter, on either fide the question.

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Art. 12. A New Treatife on the Laws concerning Tithes: Containing all the Statutes, Adjudged Cafes, Refolutions and Judgments relative thereto, under the following Heads: Chap. I. Definition of Tithes, Parfonage, Vicarage, Impropriation, and Appropriation, and of the Origin, Nature, and feveral Kinds of Tithes. II. Out of what Things Tithes shall be paid; what Lands are fubject to Tithes, and the feveral Statutes for diffolving Abbies, Monafteries, and other Religious Houfes, and vejting their Lands in the King; what Lands are difbarged from Tithes by thefe Acts respectively, with a Catalogue of the Monasteries diffolued by Stat. 31 Hen. 8. of the yearly Value of 2001. and upwards; what Order they were of, and the Times of their refpective Foundations.

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ÍÏ. Ôf Exemption from Payment of Tithes: and of Modus, Guftom, and Prefcription. IV. An Alphabetical Table or Index of Things Titheable, and not Titheable, viz. Acorns, After-eatage, After-math, After-pafture, Agiftment, Alders, Altarage, Apples, Afb, Afp-trees, Bark, Barren land, Beans, Beech, Bees, Birch, Brick, Broom, Calves, Chalk, Cheefe, Cherry-trees, Chickens, Clay, Clover, Coal, Colts, Conies, Copper-mill, Deer, Dotards, Dove, Eggs, Elms, Fallow, Ferns, Fish, Flax, Foreft, Fowl, Fruit, Fuel, Furzes, Gardens, Geefe, Glass-houfe, Grafs, Gravel, Hafle, Hay, Head-lands, Heath, Hedge-poles, Hemp, Herbage, Holly, Honey, Hops, Horfes, Houfes, Lambs, Lattermath, Lead, Lime, Loppings, Maple, Maßt, Milk, Mill, Mines, Nurferies, Oak, Orchards, Ofiers, Park, Partridge, Pafture, Peafe, Phea fants, Pigeons, Pigs, Quarries, Rakings, Roots, Saffron, Salt, Sheep, Slate, Stubble, Sylva Cadua, Tares, Tiles, Trees, Turf, Turkeys, Warren, Wafte, Willows, Woad, Wood. V. Of Setting out, and Taking and Carrying away Tithes. VI. Of the Remedies for Recovering Tithes, and the feveral Acts of Parliament made for that Purpose. VII. Of the Manner of paying Tithes, and the Sums payable by the refpective Parishes in London. By a Gentleman of the Middle Temple. 8vo. 3s. few'd. Griffin, &c. Every attempt to reduce the scattered and diffufive matter relative to the feveral branches of jurisprudence into one collected body, is deferving of public thanks and encouragement: and therefore compilements of this kind ought not to be too critically and feverely examined. If the reader is not misled by false doctrine, he should think himself obliged to the compiler, though he may not meet with all the infor mation he had reafon to expect. When we confider the little work before us with thefe allowances, its defects claim our indulgence. At the fame time, we cannot but deem the Compiler cenfurable, for having transcribed feveral whole pages literally from Burn's Ecclefiaftical Law, title TITHES: and for having omitted fome particulars in his alphabetical table of things titheable, fuch as madder, turnips t, &c. On fo dry a fubject, we shall add nothing farther, but refer fuch of our Readers as are defirous to be better acquainted with R-d. the law of Tithes, to the treatise itself.

Likewife for ftudiously endeavouring to disguise this plagiarism, by quoting (instead of Burn) the authors quoted by Dr. Burn himself. And where he thinks it neceffary to refer toDr.Burn, instead of referring to him, he only puts down B. E. L.

+ He follows Bifhop Gibfon, in his alphabetical lift of all things. tithable, even to chalk and flate; and, in confequence, hath adopted, from him, one capital error, viz. that, in the fame catalogue, Corn is never mentioned among things tithable,

Art. 13. A Key to the Law; or an Introduction to Legal Knowlege. Towhich is prefixed a prefatory Difcourfe on the prefent State of the Laws of England, with Hints for the Amendment thereof. By Richard Helmfworth, Efq; of the Middle Temple. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Webly.

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This Key will never open the cheft of legal knowledge: and, in on judgment, Hale, Fettiplace, and Blackstone are the best locksmiths. R-d.

• See their feveral Analyses.

MEDICAL.

Art. 14. Rational Phyfic; or the Art of Healing: founded and explained on the Principles of Reason and Experience. To which is added, a Family Difpenfatory, containing plain and familiar Directions in English for preparing the most approved Remedies to be found in learned Authors; with others used in private Practice. Accompanied with Remarks on the Virtues, Qualities, &c. of each Medicine. By W. Samfon, Surgeon at Sherborne, Dorfetfhire. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Fletcher.

In an age fo notorious for empiricifm and lay practice, what have not the faculty to fear from fuch repeated publications of their arcana? -What a number of authors, from Diocles Cariftius to Mr. W. Samfon, Surgeon at Sherborne, have attempted to discover the mysteries of our art?-Diocles Cariftius gave fome excellent directions for the prefervation of health, to Antigonus, one of the fucceffors of Alexander the Great and Mr. Samfon, Surgeon, advertises to the good people of England the whole art of healing for the trifling expence of half a crown. Surely the free-mafonry of medicine muft ere this be fully laid open to the most vulgar eye!—and a cobler may now mend a difeafed body, with the fame tightnefs and fecurity that he patches an old fhoe.-Alas, for the betrayed, deferted fons of Afculapius! What remains for us but to tear our venerable wigs!-and, with the diftracted Moor, cry out, our Occupation's gone!-But hold! perhaps it is better as it is :-for there are fome who think, that publications of this kind will never diminish the number of patients;-and they furthermore obferve, that one reading, dabbling, practising patient, is worth five of thofe hardy, heedlefs fons of mortality, who never think of a disease till it comes; and if, by the affiftance of art, or the ftrength of a good confiitution, they brush through the attack, why then they think as little of it when it is over.

Mr. Samfon's work confifts of 116 pages :-in the firft 38 pages, he pretends to inftil into his reader fuch a degree of medical knowlege, as to enable him to diftinguish one disease from another, and to judge what method of cure is to be pursued ;-this part is little more than a fuperficial, common-place collection from what has been published' at large. The remaining 80 pages make up an alphabetical difpenfatory, compiled from prefcriptions, hofpital recipies, and the numberlefs difpenfatories which have already appeared in the world.-From. the first part of this work, the reader will learn pretty nearly nothing, whic is as much, we apprehend, as a lay-man, if he confiders his own peace and intereft, ought to know of thefe fubjects:and, in the difpenfatory, he will find himself half-buried in a bufy, bustling apothecary's fhop; and the fooner he gets out of it, the better.

D. Art. 15. A feafonable and modeft Reply to Dr. Lucas's Curfory Remarks on Dr. Sutherland's Treatife on Bath and Briftof Wa

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