up our readers time with mentioning those pointed out by the author of this little piece. XXXIX. A Letter from a Minifter of the Moravian Branch of the Unitas fratrum; together with fome additional Notes by the English Editor, to the Author of The Moravians compared and detected.' 8vo. 13. Robinson. It chiefly coufifts of general expoftulation with the Comparer; charging him with having rafhly traduced a fet of peaceable, inoffenfive people, concerning whom he had received no authentic intelligence and concluding with an intimation, that proper measures are now taking to vindicate the principles and conduct of the Unitas fratrum, and effectually filence their enemies. XL. An Enquiry after new Lights, Innovators, and Enthufiafts. In a Letter to the Rev. Thomas Jones, M. A. Chaplain of St. Saviour, Southwark, Occafioned by his Sermon preached at Bifhopfgate. [See the lift of fermons.] · 4to. 3d. Lewis. The author appears to be a zealous fanatic; who meanly condefcends to compliment, and even almost idolize, Mr. Jones, for advancing the free grace of God, and contending for the neceffity of Spiritual operations and influences, in order to the ⚫ converfion and falvation of finners.' XLI. A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Jones: Intended as a rational and candid Answer to his Sermon preached at St, Botolph, Bishopfgate. 4to. 6d. Collyer. 6 Our anonymous letter-writer entertains a very mean opinion of Mr. Jones's fcripture-learning; treats him as an ignorant enthufiaft; and concludes his expoftulations with him, in the following terms. I have now, Sir, confidered the most remarkable paffages in your fermon, and have only to obferve, that wherever people, instead of forming the principles of ⚫ their religion on the plainest and most obvious parts of fcripture, and explaining thofe that are obfcure, by those whose meaning is evident, found schemes of religion on the most difficult paffages, and build a foundation on metaphors and allufions; and, by the help of a warm imagination, explain ⚫ the plainest parts by thofe that are dark and indeterminate, their opinions must ever be abfurd and extravagant; wanting the light of reafon, the candle of the Lard, they will be⚫ wilder themselves in the depth of myltery and error; and the doctrines they teach will be unworthy of God, and in every inftance inconfiftent with the invariable laws of truth ⚫ and virtue.' MEDICAL. XLII. The Ligature preferable to Agaric in fecuring the Blood Veffels after Amputations: In which the dangerous and 2 fatal fatal Confequences that may attend a Dependance upon the latter are offered to the Confideration of Surgeons; and the Experiments made at Paris by Monfieur Faget, and at London by Mr. Warner, proved to be infufficient to authorize fuch a Practice. By Henry Parker, of Sandwich, fome time Surgeon to the royal Navy. 8vo. 6d. Griffiths, &c. Did it appear that Mr. Parker had ever, in the course of his numerous amputations, employed and being difappointed by the agaric, a fomewhat greater regard might be due to his fuggeftions (for he only fuggefts) against the use of it. A too obftinate tenacity of old opinions and cuftoms, has, perhaps, much oftener prejudiced the improvement of fcience, than, what our author calls a propenfity to innovations in practice.' Till fome real inconvenience fhall be experienced, mere prefumption ought not to preclude a method admitted, even by this gentleman, to be lefs painful than the ligature. It is, at least, intitled to the privilege of experience. POETICAL. XLIII. The Fairies, an Opera, taken from Shakespeare's Midfummer Night's Dream. As it is performed at the Theatre-royal in Drury-lane. The fongs from Shakespear, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Hammond, &c. The mufic composed by Mr. Smith. 8vo. Is. Tonfan... XLIV. Colin and Lucy. A Fragment. Dated in the year 1564, being in or about the fixth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 4to. 6d. Owen. An anonymous advertisement prefixed to this fmall piece afferts, That the MS. of it is dated at Eaft-fbeen in Surry, then 6 Who the elegant retreat of the reigning queen and her court. ⚫ the perfonages were (concealed under the fimple characters of *the poem) does not,' fays the advertiser, appear; but, as a lady of the noble family of Hungerford is recorded to have ⚫ drowned herself, near about that period, 'tis not unlikely but it gave birth to this moft elegant and affecting tale.' The above account may poffibly be true; but whofe word are we to take for it? not that of an editor who refufes us the fatisfaction of his name! The contents of this advertisement, and the date in the title page, may, then be fictitious; and only a ftudied difguife, for the concealment of a modern production: yet wherefore fuch concealment we cannot guess; but let the poem fpeak for itself.-The forfaken Lucy is reprefented lamenting the inconftancy of her faithlefs Colin, on the border of the Thames, near Richmond. In the midft of her complaint fhe observes her own figure in the water, and thus pathetically addreffes the phantom: There! There! there! is it Lucy I fee?- But the plung'd from her grafs-fpringing bed; And the mirror clos'd over her head.*. Is this the language of Queen Elizabeth's days, or fomething better! But, to whatever age, or to whatever author, we are indebted for this beautiful piece, it must be allowed an honour to both; and therefore worth contending for, in be half of our own time. After all, we are not certain, whether these verses have appeared in print, before the prefent impreffion, or not. XLV. Truth and Falfhood, a Tale. Folio. 6d. Cooper. The immediate occafion and fubject of this little piece, is the late abominable calumny invented and propagated to defame a noble duchefs. XLVI. The Imperial Ruffian Mifcellany: Containing an Ode on the birth of the Imperial Prince of Ruffia; an Epiftle to the Czarina; the Czar Peter the Great's Triumph, an Ode; &c. 4to. Is. Cooper. It cannot be averred that her imperial majesty is here be oded to fome tune; for the author of this imperial miscellany has nothing of harmony about him; however the honeft man seems to do his best, and labours hard to convince those who are ftran gers to the perfonal merits of this great princess, that Her great genius feems to fhew no lefs, ⚫ Than that the reigns to bless the universe. VIDE p. 36. XLVII. Cafar's Camp: or St. George's-Hill. A Poem. By the Reverend Mr. Duck, Rector of Byfleet. 4to. Is. Dodfley. *We have only given the 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th, and 20th stanzas; the whole amount to twenty-four. The The poetical talents of Mr. Stephen Duck are too well known to the public, to require our enlarging on this article; we shall therefore only acquaint fuch of our readers as may not know in what part of the kingdom St. George's-Hill is fituated, that it lies in Surrey; and that Mr. Duck has here celebrated it, (and fome other places, in that delightful county, in no contemptible numbers, and enriched the fubject with a fufficiency of invention and fancy. XLVIII. The Justice of the Supreme Being. A Poem. By George Bally, M. A. Fellow of King's-College. 4to. I S. B. Dod, &c. Mr. Seaton's reward was adjudged, in October 1754, to the author of this poem, by the vice-chancellor, &c. of the univerfity of Cambridge. Whether he had any competitor for this prize we have not heard.This gentleman feems to be one of those mistaken bards who think, that in order to write like Milton, little more is required than to select certain peculiar. now exploded, words, used by that great poet, and familiar to the times in which he lived; as nathlefs, caitiff, erft, ken, governance, &c. But we are lefs charmed with one word in the under-written line, than we fuppofe his judges were with the whole performance, when they affigned the prize to Mr. Bally, on this occafion.-Speaking of the horrors of the guil ty in the day of doom, he fays, Confcience Now rings her loud alarum in their hearts." We need not point out to the critical reader, for what cause the word alarm is here rejected for that poor and vulgar extenfion of it, ufed only by mechanics, and beneath the dignity of the mufe. XLIX. The Poet's Recantation. Humbly infcribed to the Right Honourable Edward Montague, Knight of the Bath; by his moft obedient humble Servant John Carteret Pilkington. folio. 6d. Tovey. On what foundation it is that Mr. J. C. P. fancies himself a poet, we are at a lofs to discover; unless he claims the friendfhip of the mufes by hereditary right, as the fon of Mr. Matthew Pilkington, and the late ingenious Lætitia.However, the youth tags his rhimes together dapperly enough; what he means by his recantation, appears from a few fuch lines as the following; Take notice hence, ye tuneful nine, I'll never write another line.. No longer fhall I curfe my fate, Condemn'd to write when I fhould eat. * See Review, Vol. IV. p. 508; Vol. VII. p. 474; Vol. X. p. 78. SINGLE SERMONS fince December laft. 1. CONCIO ad Clerum in Synodo Provinciali Cantuarienfis Provinciæ. Ad. D. Pauli Die 15 Novembris, A. D. 1754. Habita a Carolo Plumptre, S. T. P. Archidiacono Elienfi. 4to. 6d. Beecroft. 2. Preached before the Sons of the Clergy, at St. Paul's; May 9, 1754 By John Butler, L. L. D. Chaplain to her Royal Highness the Princefs of Wales. To which is annexed, a Lift of the annual Account of the Collection of this Charity from the year 1721. 4to. 6d. Tonfon. 3. Preached at St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, Nov. 24, 1754, at the opening of the faid Church. By T. Jones, M. A. Chaplain of St. Saviour, Southwark. 4to. 6d. Robinson. 4. The Antiquity and Holiness of Places fet apart for publie Worship. Preached at the Confecration of St. George's Chapel, in the Parish of Portfea near Portsmouth, Sept. 17, 1754. By Philip Barton, L. L. D. Vicar of Portfea, and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majefty. 8vo. 6d. Sandby. 5. Union and Loyalty recommended. Preached at the Mayor's Chapel in Bristol, Sept. 15, 1754: being a day of electing a mayor and fheriffs for the faid City. By William Batt M. A. Rector of Wraxall, Somersetshire. 4to. 6d. Crowder and Co. 6. The fure Performance of Prophecy. Preached to the society that fupport the Wednesday Evening Lecture in great Eaftcheap, January the 1ft, 1755. By John Gill, D. D. 8vo. 6d. Keith. 7. David's dying Charge to Solomon: Addreffed to the Children of religious Parents. Preached in St. Thomas's, Southwark, December 25, 1754. By Henry Read. 8vo. 6d. Waugh, &c. 8. A Paftor's commending of his People to God confidered, as illuftrated by the Apostle Paul's taking his final Leave of the Elders at Ephefus. Preached at the congregational Church at Cambridge, October 13, 1754. By John Conder. 8vo. 6d. Buckland. 9. Preached at St. Paul's, Jan. 25, 1755, at the anniverfary meeting of the gentlemen educated at St. Paul's fchool. By Jofeph Fearon, M. A. fellow of Sidney-Suffex college, Cambridge. 4to. 6d. L. Davis. 10. The Chriftian's defire to be with Chrift confidered. Occafioned by the deceafe of Mrs. Hannah Brittain. Preached at Horfley-down, Southwark. By Samuel Fry. 8vo. 6d. Gardiner. II. The importance of education. Preached at St. Thomas's, Jan. 1, 1755. for the benefit of the charity-fchool, Gravellane, Southwark. By Philip Furneaux. 8vo. 6d. Waugh, |