ters; in which the Innocence of Brimstone is vindicated; and Dr. Sutherland's Experiments on the Existency of that Mineral in Bath Waters, are confirmed. By Diederick Weffel Linden, M. D. 8vo. Is. Moran.

As there hath been more perfonal abuse and scurrility than candid and fober arguments in this Bath-water controverfy, we shall not enter farther into the particulars of what hath paffed, or is now paffing in it, than barely to mention the grand point in difpute among these practitioners in medicine and fcolding. The question in difpute is this, Whether there is any brimftone in the Bath-waters? Dr. Lucas maintains there is none; Dr. Sutherland holds the affirmative; and Dr. Linden, who undertakes to decide between them, avers that Sutherland is right, and that Lucas is no chemist.

Who fhall decide, when doctors disagree?'

For our part, we fhall pretend to decide nothing in regard to this dif pute, but what relates to the manner in which it is carried on. Dr. Sutherland we have fufficiently fhewn to be a very indifferent writer; Dr. Lucas, with fuperior literary talents †, has treated his opponent with the groffeft contempt; and Dr. Linden abuses Dr. Lucas in language that bespeaks him neither gentleman nor fcholar. In fhort, kis ftyling this indecent, ill-written pamphlet a modeft reply,'-is a most unfortunate proof of his own modeity: and in his motto, too, we apprehend he is equally unlucky. He intends it for Dr. Lucas; but a due confideration of the precept will do none of the parties in this illiberal difpute any harm: Be not hafty in thy spirit to be angry, for anger refleth in the bofom of fools. Ecclefiaftes, Ch. vii. v. 9.

See the review of his Treatife on Bath and Briftol-waters, in our 28th volume.

+ See our account of his Remarks, &c. in the Review for January laft, P. 70.

Art. 16. Obfervations on the Beaume de Vie; firft difcovered by Monf. Le Lievre, the King's Apothecary at Paris. Wherein all the Objections made to it by the ignorant and interested, are fully refuted, and its wonderful Efficacy, in a Variety of Difeafes, juftified on the most reafonable Principles; with Letters and Atteftations in its Favour, from People of the first Distinction. 8vo. Is. Flexney, &c.

This is an abstract of the late Mr. Le Lievre's much larger volume, concerning his famous medicine entitled as above. Of the original we have feen two or three editions*; from one of which this pamphlet is, probably, extracted: but with what fidelity, we cannot pretend to fay, not having any copy of the original French at hand. As to the medicine itfelf, which is now publicly vended in London, we know nothing of it but from hearfay, from the Author's own account of its powers and effects, and from the very advantageous character given of it in the letters which he hath inferted in his book; many of which, it must be acknowledged, are from perfons of confiderable

* Particularly one printed in Paris, in 1763.

rank

rank and distinction abroad: whofe names, one would imagine, could never be made ufe of, and prostituted to ferve the fordid purpofes of quackery.

In a preliminary advertisement, the Author, or his Translator, we are not certain which, earneilly recommends this balfam of life, to the FACULTY, as the greatest antifceptic ever difcovered, both for external and internal application.' If this be true, has he not miftaken the CLASS to which he has thus recommended his medicine? In fuch a fceptical age as this, the CLERGY (and not the physicians, whofe miniftry is confined to bodily difeafes) are the proper doctors, to difpenfe this noftrum, in cafes where they find their own-fermons inefficacious. And, truly, who knows how far the well-fcowering of a free-thinker's inteftines may operate towards the purification of his brain, and rectifying the diforder of his head?

But, poffibly, our Author, Tranflator, or Printer, whoever be the party here concerned, may tell us, that we mistake the matter entirely; that we are drawing erroneous conclufions from an error of the prefs; and that, for antifceptic, we fhould read antifeptic.-No matter: the medicine is ftill a refifter of corruption; and may, for ought we know, prove equally fuccefsful in mental as in corporal cafes. Therefore, whoever may be troubled with the ague 1 or atheifm, fcurayt or fcepticism, fever or freethinking, we advife them to take Beaume de Vie,quantum fufficit.

Among which are, the Marquis de Havringcourt, the French ambaffador at the court of Sweden, Count Treffau, Lieut. Gen. of the King's forces, and member of the Royal Society, &c. &c.

The difeafes, printed in Italics, are among those for which this medicine is faid to be a never-failing cure.

POETICA L.

Art. 17. Mifcellaneous Pieces of Poetry, felected from various eminent Authors. Among which are interfperfed a few Originals. Small 8vo. 3. Edinburgh, printed for W. Gray.

To please every palate, is generally the aim of every collector of mifcellaneous pieces; and, accordingly, in this poetical collection, we have the good, the bad, and the indifferent. Here Meffrs. Akenfide, Grey, Weft, Ogilvie, Langhorne, Mafon, and Lord Lyttelton, with fome others of no mean fame, figure in with Duik, Savage, Mofes Brown, Sam. Boyce, and a variety of magazine-poets. The Gentleman's Magazine, in particular, has been heavily taxed on this occafion. Among the originals, we do not obferve one piece that we can fuppofe any of the above-mentioned bards would be proud to fee joined with their productions. For instance, what does the Reader think of fuch verfes as thefe; from a poem to Belinda, with a copy of Pope and Mitchell's Works :'

Surprising power of harmony,

To foften the most fubborn foul,
To fet the captive prisoner free,

And every vicious thought controu?!
Sure then eternal vengeance WAITS

he impious hand who first prophan'd
And durft thefe facred numbers, TREAT
As if for vice alone defign'd.

The

The late Rev. Mr. B.' (Author of the foregoing lines) feems to have entirely forgot the rhimes which should have been in the fecond ftanza. From this fhort fpecimen, our Readers will perceive that the Editor's tafte is not over-nice; and from these verses, too, they may form a tolerable guess what kind of a felection he has been capable of making.

Art. 18. A Paftoral Elegy, on the Death of his Royal Highness William Duke of Cumberland. By J. P. Stock, A. M. 4to; 6 d. Peate.

What should be great, Mr. Stock, you turn to farce. For in ftance:

Ye fwains of Windfor, chiefly you may moan,
WILLIAM's departed, never to return;
His arms are ufelefs, filent is his head,

His name but mention'd with the mighty dead.

Such a curious fpecimen of Mr. Stock's poetical abilities will naturally turn the reader's attention from the melancholy fubject of this paftoral, to its Author; and Who is Mr. Stock?' will be the queftion. Stock! Stock! Is it a real or a fictitious name? Surely never was the found of it heard in the mufes' train before! Stock, and block, indeed, are terms which frequently occur, in mentioning the appurtenances of a farm, &c. but, unluckily, the farms on Mount Parnaffus have neither Stock nor block belonging to them.

Art. 19.

A Monody, on the Deceafe of his Royal Highness William Auguftus, Duke of Cumberland. 4to. I S. Becket and De

Hondt.

This Monody is feveral degrees fuperiour to the Pastoral abovementioned; but, alas! the English Achilles hath not yet found an Homer!

NOVEL S.

Art. 20. The History of Mifs Clarinda Cathcart, and Mifs Fanny Renton.. 12mo. 2 Vols. 5s. few'd. Noble.

If there are no marks of uncommon genius in thefe letters, they contain no extravagant flights beyond the boundaries of nature. If the Writer has not produced any extraordinary or high-wrought characters, the (for this work is the production of a female pen) has, however, sketched out fome very agreeable ones; -and if the scenes and fituations which fhe defcribes are not the most brilliant, or the moft deeply affecting, fhe has, nevertheless, the art and the power of keeping up the attention of her readers; and of interefting them in the bulinefs of her drama, and in the fates of the feveral perfonages by whom the principal parts are acted. In brief, the work is both entertaining and INNOCENT: which is faying not a little in recom mendation of a modern novel; and much more than one half of them deserve.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Art. 21. The Book of Lamentations for the Lofs of his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cumberland. Folio. 6d. Cooke.

A foolish

A foolish application of phrafes culled from the prophetical parts of the Old Testament, to a fubject which rather called for the most ferious concern,-for a genuine, a manly expreffion of that forrow, which every true friend to this country muft naturally feel, on the late melancholy occafion.

Art. 22. The Reformation of the Church of England, reformed; or Proposals for recovering and fixing it in its former Purity, and upon its original Eftablishment. In a fericus Addrefs to the Parihioners of St. Stephen, Coleman-freet, on the present and late Management of their Parochial Affairs. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Nicoll. A most ridiculous rhapfodical account of fome alledged mifma nagement of affairs in the parifh of St. Stephen, Coleman-ftreet. The Author is prodigioufly angry with one Mr. Shank; and, indeed, with almost every body elfe in the parifh. But he is most of all offended at the shameful and impious prostitution of the once HOLY and REVEREND Office of CHURCHWARDEN: for, he affures us, that nothing is fo common, of late years, as to chufe into this facred office, Atheists, Deifts, Heretics, yea, Jews and Mahometans ! This is monftrous indeed! but how comes it that the Author forgot the Papifts? He fhould by no means have left them out of this worshipful group; for, to our certain knowlege, they have as good a right to figure in with the reft, as ever an Heretic or Mahometan of them all. -By the way, though, where did he pick up his Mahometan churchwardens. Oh! belike they were fome of the Turks who lately came over as attendants on the zebra, the elephants, or the little Indian mare.-Well, to be impartial, we must allow, it was wrong to make fuch people churchwardens.

Art. 23. Moral and Political Dialogues; with Letters on Chivalry and Romance. By the Rev. Mr. Hurd. The Third Edition. Small 8vo. 3 Vols. 9s. Millar, &c.

The former editions of thefe Dialogues* (of which we gave an account, as alfo of the Letters on Chivalry+, at the time of their first publication) were given to the public without a name, and under the fictitious perfon of an Editor: not for any purpose fo filly as that of impofing on the public; but for reafons of another kind, which it is not difficult to apprehend.' Pref. p. 1. The learned and ingenious Author hath now thought it proper to affix his name to thefe pieces; and to preface them with a differtation on the manner of writing dialogue; which is of itself a confiderable tract, extending to no lefs than fixty pages. In this prefatory difcourfe, he confiders the antients as the belt models for the dialogue-form of writing; and what he hath faid on the fubject is well worth the critical reader's attention. * See Rev. Vol. XXI. + Ib. Vol. XXVII.

Art. 24. Stemmata Chicheleana: Or, a Genealogical Account of
fome of the Families derived from Thomas Chichele, of
Higham-Ferrers, in the County of Northampton; all whofe
Defcendants are held to be entitled to Fellowships in All
Souls College, Oxford; by Virtue of their Confanguinity to

Arch

Archbishop Chichele, the Founder. Oxford, printed at the Clarendon Prefs, 1765. 4to. 10s. 6d. few'd. T. Payne.

The following tables of defcents are publifhed with a view of pointing out fome of the traces of the blood of Thomas Chichele, of Higham-Ferrers, which may be found in the families of the nobility and gentry of Great Britain and Ireland; in order to facilitate the enquiries of thofe gentlemen who may be inclined to become candidates for Fellowships at All Souls College in Oxford, on the claim of collateral confanguinity with his fon Henry Chichele, archbishop of Canterbury, the founder. This qualification is now, indeed, abfolutely neceffary to form their approaches to thefe competitions; and to endeavour to make the way plain and level before them, and to widen it, where it may be properly done, fo as to admit a greater number of adventurers, and to give a larger and freer choice to the college at all future elections, will, it is hoped, be no unacceptable fervice to the public and to fociety.' Pref.

Thefe tables are numerous indeed; the founder's kindred having increafed prodigioufly! Archbishop Chichele flourished about three hundred years ago; and his collateral defcendants, among the nobility, gentry and commonalty of thefe kingdoms, are, in this work, traced (computing by the names in the index) through about 1200 families. The Editor, in his preface, acquaints his readers, by what means he has been enabled to collect fuch a great number of pedigrees; and makes the proper acknowledgments in refpect to the gentleman who first fet about this laborious talk; as well as to those who have fince contributed to the completion of the design.

Art. 25. An Account of the Deftruction of the Jefuits in France. By M. D'Alembert. 12mo. 2s. 6d. few'd. Becket and Co. In our last Appendix we gave, as a foreign article, a very full abftract of the performance here tranflated; from which our Readers have already received a competent idea of what fo excellent and fo free a writer as M. D'Alembert had to say on fo extraordinary a subject, as the expulfion of the Jefuits from France. If our opinion of the tranflation be expected, we fhall only fay, that it is like moft other modern tranflations. This illuftrious Frenchman has not been fo fortunate, in this refpect, as the famous citizen of Geneva; whofe Eloifa and Emilius make fo refpectable an appearance in the English language.

Art. 26. The Trial of Katherine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie, for the Crimes of Inceft and Murder. Containing the whole Procedure of the High Court of Jufliciary, upon the 5th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th Days of August, 1765. Edinburgh printed London reprinted. 8vo. 2s. Becket and De Hondt.

Genuine;-and tolerably free from thofe peculiar terms and phrafes which commonly render the law-proceedings in Scotland unintelligible to English Readers. Some of thefe, however, are, perhaps neceffarily, retained in this publication; which, together with a few

vulgar