T ardour of more forward and intrepid Commanders ?—And after these shameful inftances of glaring misbehaviour-Shall H be per⚫mitted to retire with haughty relignation, and enjoy the long accumulated fruits of a nation's industry, unreproved, uncenfured, and uncondemned?-Nay more, Shall HE, by his own, or hired pens, prefume to defame thofe, who exprefs their honeft indignation against him?-Shall He, dare to vilify his Royal* Accufer, and even condemn his own Sovereign of injuftice? • No! while there is fenfe and fpirit in Great Britain, the public will teftify their refentment of fuch ignominious conduct, aggravated by fuch daring infolence. The frowns of public indignation have been fmoothed by the fmiles of Victory: but let not his Lordship, by an ill-timed effrontery, wrinkle that ferenity which is the pledge of his fecurity. Let him retire with peaceful contrition : let him associate with his apologifts and dependants: let him not brave the face of the public: let him hide himself in obscurity: and not dare to advance now with fuch defperate ftrides, when he moved with fuch caution in the field.' Princely, we humbly conceive, (with deference to this elegant Writer) would have been more proper, when fpeaking of the Duke of Brunfwic's ther. younger bro Art. 3. High Life below Stairs. A Farce of two Acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-royal in Drury-lane. 8vo. I s. : Newbery. Exposes the villainous extravagance of fervants, who squander the of their masters; and ridicules their prepofterous affectation property of the mann rs, or rather the foibles of their fuperiors. The defign: is not useless; and the execution of the piece is well enough for the tail-piece of a play,-a make-weight for the mob of an audience, who love to have a large twelve penny-worth for their twelve-pence, Art. 4. Low-Life above Stairs: a Farce, as it is acted in most Families of Diftinction throughout the Kingdom. 8vo. I S. Williams. Made up of low common place fatire; of fwearing and obfcenity.. The Author merits only contempt for his incapacity, but a cudgel for his impudence. 1 Art. 5. Hymen: an accurate Defcription of the Ceremonies used in Marriage, by every Nation in the known World,&c., 12mo. 3s. Pottinger. Old rubbish, collected from the Religious Ceremonies, Modern Hiftories, Travels, &c. The like collection was published fome years ago, under the title of Marriage Ceremonies, &c. Art. 6. The Hiftories of fome of the Penitents in the Magdalen-. Hh We We cannot but applaud the author of thefe ftories for his confciencious ingenuity in inferting the word supposed in his title page; as it is probable that his books would have been more univerfally read, if he had published them under the title of real hiftories: for, though in reality, this might have imposed upon a very small number of his readers; yet, when we are pofitively told, before we begin a story, that it is an entire fiction, it naturally, though perhaps unaccountably, becomes lefs interesting. To increase our entertainment, we wish to be deceived, and are therefore easily perfuaded. Confidering the heroines of thefe romances, the world might perhaps be led to expect a collection of lewd immoral tales, of which, to the difcredit of the prefs, the prefent age is much too prolific.But on the contrary, we have the pleasure to affure our readers, especially the female part, that these books contain nothing that will, in the leaft, wound their ears, or offend their delicacy: inftead of this, they will find in them both entertainment and inftruction. Each story has an obvious and moral tendency; and, which is very uncommon in modern romances, they are written in good English. Art. 7. Lettres de M. le Marechal Duc de Belleifle, à M. Le Marechal de Contades. Trouvées parmi les papiers de Mon-fieur de Contades après la Bataille de Minden. 1759. 8vo, Is. 6d. That is, Letters of M. Duke of Belleifle to M. Contades, found among the Papers of the latter, after the Battle of Minden, Though the publisher of these letters has not thought fit to prefix his name, or to give the publick any information concerning their authenticity; yet we are of opinion, that there will be few readers, who, if they are fufficiently acquainted with the French language, and the hiftory of the last year, will doubt their being genuine. They are twelve in number. The first is dated from Versailles, July 8, 1758. Its chief contents are, fome cautions for the fecurity of Duffeldorff. M. Belleifle fufpects the fidelity of the Elector Palatine's minifters, and advifes Contades to remove the troops of that prince from Duffeldorff, and to replace them with French battalions. The fecond letter is dated Versailles, July 15, and contains the following remarkable paragraph. I have already told you, that, after the obfervance of ufual forms and ceremonies towards the magistrates of Cologne, you must take their heavy artillery by force; telling them, that it is for their own defence against the ⚫ common enemy of the empire, and that they will be reflored to them as foon as their city is out of danger: but you must, at all. events, take every thing you may have occafion for; and proper receipts are to be given Letter 3d.. Repeats the king's order to take their cannon by force, urging to the magiftrates, that Cologne is an imperial city, and therefore neceffarily at war with the king of Pruffia, and his ? adherents.' Letter 4th. I pbferve with pleasure, fays the marshal, that you have feized the artillery by force; and that in doing it you have obferved all the neceffary formalities, as by that means all their com. • complaints to the Diet of Ratifbon, can have no effect.' This letter contains likewife fome military intelligence, and advice concerning the English troops expected in Germany. Letter 5th. Complains, that the expence of the war is infupportable. I país my whole life, fays he, in demanding money of the comptroller-general, who has none to give me.' He then recom mends œconomy as the only means of proceeding. Letter 6th. Nothing remarkable. Letter 7th. At all events, Sir, you are to confume or destroy all • the subfistance in the neighbourhood of Paderborn, and of all the ⚫ intermediate country as far as Warfbourgh. Weftphasia must be made • an entire defert, &c. Thefe orders are three or four times repeated in fome of the subsequent letters: but the publick have already feen extracts from them in the news papers. Upon the whole, we look upon these twelve epiftles, as real and valuable curiofities; not only as authentic specimens of French policy, but as trophies of our glorious victory over them, in the ever memorable year 1759. N. B: A tranflation of thefe Letters is published by T. Payne, price 1 s. 6d. Art. 8. Agenor and Ifmena; or the War of the Tender Paffions." A Novel. Tranflated from the French. 12mo. 2 vols. 6s. Cooke. Amorous nonsense. १ Art. 9. The Adventures of a Rake; in the Character of a public Orator. Interfperfed with feveral ferious and comic Pieces. pronounced before fome polite Audiences with great Applause, and published at their Requeft. By R. Lewis. 12mo. 2 vols. 6s. Withy, &c. Mr. R. Lewis affures his Readers, that he relates to them his own adventures; and that he relates nothing but the 'ftricteft truth. If this be fo, we may pronounce Mr. Lewis to be one of the most im pudent men living: for he tells fuch ftories of his own debaucheries, as no man poffeffed of the smallest degree of modesty, would ever have prefumed to lay before the public; figned too, with his own name, and unaccompanied with the flighteft intimation of fhame, or forrow, for what he has done.- -We are the more furpr zed at this behaviour, as the man really appears to be poffelfed of a capacity from which better things might have been expected. He has fome learning, and is not deftitute of genius; but, probably, for want of better employment, he has been induced to prostitute both, (at least if we may believe his own account) in a vagrant attempt to raise contributions upon the public, by playing the Orator in feveral countrytowns; to fuch audiences as he could gather together, at one fhilling, or fix pehce a head. Art. 10. A Difcourfe concerning Plays and Players: Occafioned by a late and very extraordinary Sermon, in which fome Senti Hh 2 ments ments relative to the above Subjects were delivered in a very co-› pious and affecting Manner, from the Pulpit of a certain popular Preacher of the Society called Methodists. 8vo. 6d.. Cooper. The Writer of this pamphlet profeffes, that he is a Methodit;. that he has long entertained a blind, uncharitable, and ignorant zeal against Plays and Players; but that he has been happily cured of this prejudice by the converfation of a (omedian of his acquaintance, and by feeing Mr. Garrick act. He likewife informs us, that a Sermon. has been lately delivered by one of their principal Preachers, (Mr. Whitefield, we fuppofe, from what the Author fays of that Rev. Gentleman in another place) in which damnation was freely dealt to all the frequenters of the theatres. If this be true, we hope the pious Orator, made fome referve, at leaft, in favour of those who frequent the theatres in the neighbourhood of Moorfields, Tottenham-Court, Cow-crofs, and Broad St. Giles's.'-After all, it were no wonder, that a Whitefield, or a Wefley fhould be jealous of fo powerful a rival as a Garrick; or even a Woodward, a Shuter, or a Yates. However, it must be allowed uncharitable in any performers, or Managers, thus to confign cach others audiences to the Devil. But we hope our good friends of Drury-lane and Covent-Garden have never been chargeable with fuch unfair and unchriftian dealings. Emulation is certainly commendable, while accompanied with honesty and decency; and if we can improve and extend our traffic by furnishing a better commodity than another can, why it is all fair: but neither decency nor honefty will allow us to break the windows, or to abuse or frighten away the customers, of our rivals in trade. Art. 11. Obfervations on the Duty of an Attorney and Sollicitor. Submitted to the public Confideration, but addreffed more efpecially to young Practicers of the Law. 8vo. 3 d. Shuckburg. Thefe Obfervations feem to flow from a found head, and an honest heart. But we are apprehenfive, that the Reformation which this worthy Writer endeavours to promote, will remain a thing rather to be wished for than expected; unless means are devised to exclude thofe low members, who owe their admiffion to their fervility to fome illiberal mafter, whom they have served, perhaps, in the capacity of Footman, or Hackney Writer. Art. 12. French and Indian Cruelty: Exemplified in the Life, and various Viciffitudes of Fortune, of Peter Williamfon. Containing, a particular Account of the Manners, Customs, and Drefs of the Savages; of their Scalping, Burning, and other Barbarities, committed on the English in North-America, During his Refidence among them: Being at eight Years of Age ftolen from his Parents, and fent to Pennsylvania, where he was fold as a Slave: Afterwards married, and fettled as a Planter, till the Indians destroyed his Houfe, and every Thing be he had, and carried him off a Captive; from whom after feveral Months Captivity, he made his Efcape, and ferved as a Voluntier and Soldier in many Expeditions against them. Comprebending, in the whole, a Summary of the Tranfactions of the feveral Provinces in America; particularly, thofe relative to the intended Attack on Crown-Point and Niagara. And an accurate and fuccinct Detail of the Operations of the French and English Forces at the Siege of Ofwego, where the Author was wounded and taken Prifoner. Also a curious Difcourfe on Kidnapping. Written by himself. The Fourth Edition, with confiderable Improvements. 12mo. Price 1 s. We imagine this ftory of Peter Williamfon to be, in general, matter of fact; with a few pardonable embellishments, by the hand of fome literary friend. It is printed for the benefit of the unfortunate Author. Art. 13. The Double Difappointment; a Farce, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. By the late Mofes Mendez, Efq; 8vo. Is. Noble. As this diverting little piece has been frequently afted for fome years paft (tho' not published before this month) we suppose it so well known, as to render a more particular account unneceffary. Art. 14. ΤΑ ΣΩΖΟΜΕΝΑ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΕΓΕΙΑΚΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΙ ΝΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΛΥΡΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΙΗΤΩΝ. ΠΡΟΣΤΙΘΕΝΤΑΙ ΚΑΙ ΣΚΟΛΙΑ ΤΙΝΑ. 8vo. 35. Oxon. The shortest and clearest account we can give of this performance, is that prefixed to it; which is as follows. LECTORI S. Relliquias hafce fatis tibi commendabit vel ipfarum venuftas, vel • magnorum Auctorum nomina; quorum quid fuperfit, fere nemo eft paulo re literaria provectior, qui non cupide anquifiverit. Elegiaca ex Athenæo, Stobæo, alliifque quibus erant difperfa, pleraque nos collegimus. Fulvii Urfini libro rariffimo præcipue uti fuimus in Lyricis edendis; quæ autem fragmenta valde corrupta, ⚫ aut paucorum effent verborum, poene omnibus confulto prætermiffis: eamque auximus partem Iambis Simonides, Erinnes ode, Archilochi relliquiis, & fragmentis quibufdam Pindari. Scolia maxime haufimus ex Athenæo, apud quem eorum nonnulla curiofe ad• modum materiæ & perquam elegantia, dudum nullo in medium proferente, latitarunt. Locis plurimis emaculandis, illuftrandis & ⚫reftituendis egregiam nanavit operam Cafaubonus; aliquam & nos. Omifimus interpretationem Latinam tum quod nulli fatis bonæ offendimus, tum quod ita facilia funt pleraque, ut ea omnino non egeant: fi quid vero difficilius occurrat, id in Notis, quas diversorum bene multas addidimus, fere femper explicabitur. Sine Ac⚫ centibus denique cun&ta dedimus impreffa, partim rei ratione ad ⚫ducti, 2 |