arifing from the alteration of the Style; and of the Victorian or Dionyfian, and the Julian periods. As alfo Formulæ for reducing the Old to the New Style.

The Chevalier feems to have brought the dread of the holy Inquifition along with him into England; for even in fo trifling a matter as that of forming a fuppofition (by way of example) that there might have been a year 172293 before Chrift; he takes care to add, • with all due refpect to Authorities:' had he been long refident in England, he would have feen, that in fuch matters we pay no regard to Authorities.

The performance is ingenious, and may be of use. As fuch, we recommend it to the notice of the curious.

MEDICAL.

Art. 25. Obfervations on the Theory and Cure of the Venereal Difeafe. By John Andree, Member of the Corporation of Surgeons of London, and Surgeon to the Magdalen Hofpital. 8vo. 35. Boards. Davis. 1779.

The account we gave of this Writer's Effay on the Gonorrhoea * will equally apply to his prefent performance. It contains little that will be new to an experienced practitioner; yet, as it exhibits the most rational and improved methods of cure in every inftance, it may be perufed with advantage by thofe to whom this branch of practice is lefs familiar. What appears more peculiar to this Author is, an improvement in the manner of treating venereal buboes. He advises that these should be managed as common abfceffes, and remitted to break of themselves, without the use of either knife or cauftic; and he afferts, from experience, the fafety and fuperior advantage of this milder mode of practice. If the Author bas occafion to publish a fecond edition, we would advise him to add (what every book, efpecially one, containing much miscellaneous matter, ought to have) a table of contents. He may also perhaps think it expedient to fpeak in a more guarded manner concerning the ufe of arfenic, the external and internal application of which he recommends in particular cafes, without reserve.

Art. 26. An Addrefs to the Commander in Chief, and FieldOfficers of the Army. By an old Surgeon. 4to. 6 d. Middle

ton.

The purpose of this Addrefs (confifting of two quotations, one from Dr. Brocklesby, and the other from a writer in the Morning Poft) is to fhew the expediency of fome advance of pay to the regimental furgeons. There feems to be reafon enough in what is propofed but, alas! this will scarcely be thought a time for adding to the expences of Government!

Art. 27. A Letter to a Lady on the Management of the Infant, Baker and Galabin. 1779.

800. 2 S.

Mrs. Sarah Brown, the Authorefs of this pamphlet, appears to be an intelligent fort of a body, and most of her directions are rational enough; but we are not to fuppofe that he puts forth all her ftrength on this occafion, as one material purpose of this work is to announce

See Review for March 1777.

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two other treatifes, the fubfcription for which is one guinea. Mrs. Brown likewife gives advice concerning the nipples, and has invented a bajon, and a machine called the Nurse-maid's relief. In short, if the good lady is fomewhat of a quack, the is certainly more harmless in that character than the generality of the tribe.

Art. 28. Obfervations and Remarks, refpecting the more effectual Means of Prefervation of wounded Seamen and Marines, on Board of his Majesty's Ships, in Time of Action. 8vo. I S. Donaldson, &c. 1780.

Mr. Rymer, the Writer of this little piece, fhews the neceflity of a number of tourniquets on board of ships in time of action, in order to prevent deaths from hemorrhage before the furgeon has time to ftop them. He recommends for this purpose a tourniquet of his own invention, as an improvement on Petit's. As there feems to be reafon in what he says, it is to be wished that a matter in which the lives of many brave men are concerned may meet with due attention. We can fay nothing of the merit of his tourniquet, as he gives no figure or description of it.

MILITARY.

Art. 29. Patriotic and Military Inftructions. Addreffed to the People of England, with a View to enable them to defeat the Purpofes of the Enemy, in cafe of an Invafion of any of the Poffeffions of his Majefty. Preceded by fome new Obfervations relative to Fortification, fubmitted to the Judgment of Engineers, and of those who cultivate the Military Science. By a Citizen of the World. I 2mo. 3 S. Faulder. 1780.

This performance is divided into five chapters in the first, the Author combats an opinion which, he fays, prevails in England, that the art of fortifying places is of no ufe here.

In the fecond, he endeavours to convince us of the intentions of France and Spain to invade England, and to fet forth the confequences that muft refult from fuch a circumftance, if the country people are not taught how to fortify themselves in such a manner as to refift them.

In the third, he opens his new views of fortification-gives directions for conftructing forts, and for defending them-not by cannon, but by means of a new catapult, which he has invented, and which is capable, he fays, of producing much greater effects than can be produced by cannon.

The fourth contains general inftructions for repulfing the enemy in cafe of an invafion. Here he directs the country people in the making of an abbatis, intrenchments, the flanking them, the making of fafcines, wells, palifades, and all the modes of fortification which the country people may be fuppofed capable of putting in practice.

In the last chapter, he gives inftructions for fortifying a plain country, narrow paffes, inns, private houfes, fmall towns and villages, and for forming ambufcades and stratagems for the deftruction of the invaders.

The book appears to be written by a foreigner; or at least by fome perfon fo little acquainted with the English language, that, in many places, it feems impoffible to understand him.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Art. 30. Hiftory and Amours of Rhodope. 4to. 2 s. 6 d.

Diemar. 180.

Mr. Diemar is publishing, by fubfcription, two engravings, from paintings of Angelica Kauffman, by Bartolozzi. The fubject of one piece is, The Loves of Rhodope and Efopus;' of the other, Pfammetichus, King of Egypt, chufing Rhodope for his Queen.' The Publisher, fearing that the hiftory of Rhodope might either be overlooked by many, or forgotten by others; has thought it neceffary to inftruct the one part, and to refrefn the memory of the other, by a fhort recital of the history and amours of Rhodope. Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch, Ovid, Suidas, and others, gave the materials for this hiftory; the putting of the materials together, and embellishing the whole by poetical fiction and epifodes, has fallen to the fhare of the Author.' If this little tale anfwer its Author's intention in making the fubject of the engravings known and familiar, we apprehend it is all that he will expect from it. Prefixed to this publication is a very elegant frontifpiece, from a defign of Angelica Kauffmann's, engraved by Delatre.

Art. 31. A new and complete Intereft Book, exhibiting the Intereft of any Sum of Money from 5 s. to roool. at any Rate from a Quarter to 5 per Cent. and for any Time from one Day to one Year. Carefully calculated to a Farthing. To which are added, Tables of Annuities, Reverfions, Compound-Interest; Portugal Money; and Expences, Income or Wages. By William Simpson. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Lowndes. 1780.

We have not the least doubt but that this book will be found very ufeful to all bankers, merchants, brokers, attorneys, ftewards, auctioneers, and all other persons who are any ways concerned in calculations relative to intereft, brokerage, commiffion, or wages: and it appears to us, as far as we have had an opportunity of examining it, to be very carefully printed.

TRACTS relative to Popery, &c. Art. 32. A free Addrefs to those who have petitioned for the Repeal of the late Act of Parliament in Favour of the Roman Catholics. By a Lover of Peace and Truth. 8vo. 2 d. Johnson. 1780.

This little Pamphlet contains a ferious remonstrance with our too zealous affociators for oppofing Popery, by methods inconfiftent with the fpirit of Chriftianity, and repugnant to the real honour and intereft of Proteftantifm. The Author thinks their oppofition was as impolitic in a civil, as it was unchriftian in a religious view. Independent (fays he) of the peculiar fpirit of Christianity, which the best of us are too apt to lofe fight of, let us confider our conduct as that of men to men, who have equal zeal for their respective tenets, and may have equal power. Can we coerce others, without vindiceting those who coerce us-without fetting them an example, and therefore, in fact, urging them to proceed in the fame manner? Though the power of the Papifts be happily at an end in this country, it fubfifts in full force abroad, and in countries where there are Proteftants. And in feveral countries where the Government is Popish;

there

there are more Proteftants than there are Papifts here. If then you would know how you should behave to Papifts here, the answer is' obvious, viz. in the very fame manner in which you would have Papists behave to Proteftants abroad. You should fhow the favour you wish to receive, and forbear as you wish to be forborne with yourselves!'

These are plain reasonings, obvious to the weakest capacity, and perfectly adapted to the benevolent defign of this little Tract, which is chiefly calculated for the unlettered tribe,-under which defcription the Author, we fuppofe, claffed the general body of the Proteftant Affociation.

This candid and well-timed Pamphlet is attributed to the calebrated Dr. Priestley. It bears ftrong marks of that freedom, fimplicity, and perfpicuity which are the known characteristics of his popular Tracts: for though his talents are beft adapted to the higher fpheres of learning and philofophy, yet he knows how to condefcend to men of low degree,' and can 'anfwer fools according to their folly, without becoming like one of them.?

Art. 33. A Defence of the Proteftant Association, and others. In two Letters. 8vo. 6d. Kearfley. 1780.

The Author calls himself a Man of Rofs. We fhould fooner think him a Man of Straw, fet up in ridicule by fome fly rogue of a Papist, in order to expofe the caufe it profeffed to vindicate.

RELIG I O U S.

Art. 34. The Refloration of all Things: Or, a Vindication of the Goodness and Grace of God, to be manifefted at laft, in the Recovery of his whole Creation out of their Fall. By Jeremiah White, Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. The third Edition. With an additional Preface; containing Quotations from divers other Authors, not mentioned in the first Preface, who have wrote in Confirmation of the above Doctrine. 8vo. 3 s. fewed. Denis and Son. 1779.

The doctrine of the proper eternity of future punishment, is fo repugnant to all our ideas of the equity and goodness of the great Moral Governor of the world, that it is no wonder it should have been called in queftion, by fome free and generous fpirits,, in almost every age, and of almost every party among Chriftians. Among others, in the Jaft century, the Author, of this Treatife, a man of confiderable learning and ingenuity, and of a fprightly and liberal turn of mind, found himself unable to reconcile the common opinion on the fubject, with the reprefentations and declarations of the fcriptures refpecting the effential goodness of God, and his love and kindness toward men. This led him to adopt the fcheme of the Restoration or Reftitution of all Things: which, in the Work before us, he propofes to fupport and illustrate upon the ground of Holy Scripture, and in confiftency with the Calviniflic doctrine of Election and Reprobation; a doctrine, that, in his opinion, stands in need of fuch an hypothefis to falve its harfhnefs, and to render it confiftent with the grace and goodness of God.

The first edition of this Treatife, as we learn from the additional Preface, was printed in 1712, five years after the death of the Author, without his name. The Editor of the prefent edition has 3

copied,

copied, in his Preface, two articles relating to Jeremiah White, from Calamy's Account of the Ejected Minifters in 1662; to which we refer thofe of our Readers, who with to be acquainted with his general history and character. He has likewife given us feveral quotations from different writers, in favour of the doctrine of univerfal Reftoration, in addition to thofe which are inferted in the Preface to the first edition. The authors from whom he quotes are, Richard Cop. pin, William Erbury, and two anonymous writers in the last century, and Dr. Cheyne and Dr. Burnet of the Charter-House in the prefent. To thefe he has added two modern myftical Divines, William Law, and Richard Clarke. He ought, in justice to his Author, and for the credit of his fcheme, to have noticed two other modern writers, who have argued with great ability and fuccefs, in favour of the future reftoration of the whole human race to virtue and happiness: We mean, the late Mr. Tucker*, in his Light of Nature pursued; and Dr. Hartley, in his Obfervations on Man: not to mention any living writers, who have advanced the fame opinion.

With refpect to the Treatife itfelf, we cannot fay much in its commendation. The fentiments are Calviniftical: the ftyle is verbofe, fwelling, and affected; and the reafonings, for the greater part, are intricate, abstract, and mystical. The Author argues from texts of fcripture, which, in our opinion, have no reference to the fubject; fuch as, i Tim. ii. 3—6. 1 Pet. iii. 18, 19, 20. and Rev. x. 1-6; and hurts his caufe by his injudicious method of fopporting it. But though we cannot approve of the fentiments, language, or reafoning of this Treatife, or think it can be agreeable to the improved judgment and tafte of the prefent age, we are difpofed to give full credit to the pious and benevolent profeffions and intentions of the Author and Editor; and readily join with the latter in reprobating the thought, that the all-powerful, wife, and beneficent Creator could defignedly bring into exiftence, millions of beings to be in pains and agonies to all Eternity.'

Art. 35. Chriftian Catholicifm defended: In fome Remarks on a Letter to the Rev. Benjamin Fawcett, M. A. occafioned by his Candid Reflections, &c. concerning the Trinity. In five Letters to the anonymous Author. 8vo. Is. Buckland. 1780.

This Pamphlet, we are told, was drawn up on the fappofition that Mr. Fawcett intended to make no reply to the above-mentioned Letter; and under an apprehenfion that fome remarks were of importance to that Writer's character, as well as his caufe; and that thofe of an impartial by-ftander might be attended with fome peculiar advantage. The account which the Author gives of himself is in the following terms: He is neither Arian, Socinian, nor Sabellian he is by no means partial to those who are so denominated, nor does he admire the flrain of preaching which is common to them, but gives the preference to thofe who approach the nearest to our old Puritanical divines. His principal connexions are with fuch, and he defires to preferve them : at the fame time that he thinks their charity too much confined; and wishes to fhew them, that they are mis

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