NEW PUBLICATIONS, Printed for ALEX. HOGG at the KING'S ARMS, No. 16, Paternofter-Row. COOK'S VOYAGES in Octavo Size. HOGG'S NEW and ELEGANT EDITION-SIXPENNY NUMBERS— Containing the Whole of his FIRST, SECOND and THIRD Voyages, Complete. Illudrated with all the elegant, fplendid, and fine Copper-plates (being Views of Places, Portraits of Perlons, and hiftorical Reprefentations of remarkable incidents, together with the nece.lary Maps, Charts, Plans, Draughts, &c.) belonging to his Three respective Voyages, (amoanting to near Two Hundred moft Elegant and Superb Engravings, finely engraved by the moft eminent Mafters. Dedicated to the King and the Lords of the Admiralty. The whole to be completed in only Eighty Sixpenny Numbers (making Six handfome Volumes) every Number of which will be embellished with two fhe Copper-plates. Being the cheapest, as well as the most complete and elegant Ferformance, on the Subject, whereby the Intention of Parliament, in diffeminating Geographical, Nautical and Philofophical Knowledge, among all Claffes of People, will be fully anfwered, and all Ranks of Perfons gratified. No. 1. [Embellished with the following Engravings, executed in a fuperior Style, viz. 1. A fine Portrait and ftriking Likeness of Captain JAMES COOK, taken from an approved Original Painting by Thornion. 2. A View of a Fortified Town of Village, called a Hippah, built on a perforated or pierced rock, at Tolega, in New Zealand, elegantly engraved by Rennoldfon], Of the Whole of A New, Authentic, Entertaining, Inftru&tive, and Complete History of Three Voyages Round the World Complete. Undertaken and performed by Order of his Prefent Majelly, for making New Difcoveries in various Parts of the Globe, viz. ན His First Voyage-Undertaken and Performed, in the Endeavour, for obferving the His Third and Laft-in the Refolution and Discovery, to the Pacific Ocean, for making Difcoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, &c. and to determine the Puf tion and Extent of the Weft Side of North-America; it's Distance from Alia; and the Practicability of a Northern Paffage to Europe. Comprehending Genuine Memoirs of the Life and unfortunate Death of Captain Cook, &c. To which will be added, Genuine Narratives of other Voyages of Difcovery round the World, &c. performed in the Reign of his prefent Majefty, viz. thofe of Lord Byron, Capt. Wallace, Capt. Carteret, &c. The Whole carefully revifed and corrected By Captain JOHN HOGG, Late of the Royal Navy. 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The following Propofal is humbly fubmitted to your Attention: EIGHTHS and SIXTEENTHS of Irifh Tickets, entitled to A T MARGRAY and Co.'s OLD OFFICE, No. 137, Fleet-Street, London. An EIGHTH of an Irish Prize will produce in English Money (after deducting the Difference in Exchange and Difcount) the following net Sums, viz. Thus an Eighth purchased at this Office, at Eighteen Shillings only, is FIRST entitled to its full Proportion in the above Prizes in the prefent Irish Lottery:AND FURTHER, hould it be drawn a Prize of £. 10, or should it even be drawn a Blank! it will be exchanged for fuch a Share and Proportion in an English Ticket, as will entitle the Holder thereof to near one Third of the above Produce in the English Lottery, viz. Hence, an EIGHTH, at Eighteen Shillings only, ftands entitled FIRST, in the Irish Lottery, to SECOND, in the English,. Total £. 2200 750 £. 2930! And to the fame Proportion in every other specified Prize. And A SIXTEENTH, at Nine Shillings, is entitled to HALF of all the above! [Turn over. TH TO THE PUBLIC. HE great Advantages arifing from this rational Mode of Adventure are fo clear, fo obvious, and muft fo forcibly ftrike every Reader, as to give it a decided Preference-A fuller Explanation of its Advantages therefore becomes needlefs.There is, however, a capital and a reasonable Objection, and which is this:-What Security is offered to the Purchafer, that this feasible Contract will be fulfilled in either the Irish or English Lotteries? THE ANSWER.-To thofe numerous Friends who have honoured the above Office with their Commands for upwards of TWENTY YEARS, to them needs no Reply; they are, it is humbly prefumed, well fatisfied with the Refponfibility, as well as the Integrity of this Office. There fcarcely is a Town in the whole Kingdom-nor a Street in the Cities of London and Weftminfter, but fome Individual therein has experienced the Inte grity of this Office. In the Courfe of Twenty Years Tranfactions, there never exifted any Imputation, Murmur, or even a Whisper to the Difcredit of this Office. To the Scrupulous, the ftricteft Scrutiny is recommended; the Office will bear the Teft. But, to the more liberal, who have a fuperior Knowledge of the World, it only needs to be hinted, that HONOR IS THE GRATEFUL RETURN FOR A GENEROUS CONFIDENCE! *The Irish Lottery begins Drawing on Thursday, November 12, and the Exprefs from Dublin with the First Day's Drawing will probably arrive on Saturday Morning. 'REFLECTIONS on BENEFICENCE, THE HE infpired mouth, which fays, "He that gives to the poor, himself shall not want," tells us immediately after, "that whofo ftopeth his ears to the cry of the poor, he also fhall cry himself, and fhall not be heard."-Is not this Beneficence?" Is not this," fays the infpired prophet, in the name of the Almighty himfelf, "the faft which I have chofen? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor, that are caft out, into thy houfe? when thou feeft the naked that thou cover him? and that thou hide not thyfelf from thine own flesh ?" In fact, do we not find, the words of Our Creator, wherever they are communicated, strongly inculcating the precepts of benevolence? Has he not, by the mouth of infpiration preached the practice of phiJanthropy? Has not every facred writer we have heard of urged this virtuous fympathy?" Do unto all men, as ye would they should do unto you," was the injunction of our bleffed Saviour, and is in truth the abfolute axis, on which our conduct should move, to fecure our temporal happiness; the focial duties the obfervance of this precept would cherifh, would as inevitably promote our moral ones, as their practices would fecure our eternal felicity.-Faith, which is effential to the purfuits of virtue. Hope, which fweetens our endeavours, are the primal bleflings mortals can enjoy, fo far as they affect their earthly feelings; but the Apostle Paul fays, greater than thefe is Charity. The general plea, I have it not, was anticipated by the observations of our Saviour, when the widow bestowed her mite; and to excuse ourselves rendering relief, when in our power, to the diftreffed of our fellow creatures because they are strangers, is rendering nugatory the parable of the good Samaritan. It is not to be contended, that the power of doing good is alike in every one; but to feel for the diftreffes of our fellow creatures, is: "Verily I fay unto you, that this poor widow hath caft more in," faid our Saviour, when the widow bestowed her two mites, "than all they that have caft into the treafury. For all they did caft in of their abundance, but the of her want did caft in all that she had, even all her living." But fo perverfe are mankind in general, that we find where heaven has most bestowed the means, the inclination feems moft wanting to do acts of benevolence. It is an erroneous opinion to believe every one is really charitable and humane, whofe names appear to the pompous lifts of benefactors to charities: it is not perhaps hazarding too much, when I fay, that was it poflible we knew the private donations to relieve diftrefs of thofe, whofe names we always may difcover pompously arranged in the front of a publication, we fhould find them not bestowing a fingle farthing, where their. pretended charity was not held out. Giving, for the pride of doing it, is not liberality, 'tis oftentation. An equal diftribution of the goods of fortune (to quote a celebrated author) would have deftroyed that fubordination of conditions and degrees on which the very exiftence of a focial ftate depends: he who created us as focial beings, and who forefaw every event of our feveral conditions, bestowed the means of this fubordination; but while he, for the fake of this necellary order, dealt out the goods 470 Vindication of Mr. Winter's Syftem of Husbandry. of fortune with an unequal hand, he meant that we fhould have the virtue to difpofe them so as to render the neceffary humiliation of man to man, supportable; he has fuffered fome, equally intitled to his beneficence with thofe who poffefs the utmoft bounties of it, to be diftreffed, but the relief of thefe diftreffes is a charge upon the means. The conduct of many in affifting their fellow creatures who are in want, in many instances, rather rankles than heals the wound; but as the fuperficial view of fuch conduct must excite our momentary approbation, I will acknowledge with Chesterfield, that though I approve of humane actions in fevery one, I admire them in fome from the peculiar grace with which they are done. THOMAS ROBERTSON, Jun. (To be continued.) To Mr. A. HAMILTON and Meffrs. ROBINSONS, Editors of the Critical Review, GENTLEMEN, THE month of June being generally the most leifure feafon of the year with me, I fometimes employ an idle hour in reading. This morning I happened to lay my hard on your publication for the month of Auguft laft, wherein my Syftem of Husbandry is review'd, and as I have juft now, no better employment to engage my time, I appropriate this day to anfwer, and correct the Reviewer's very apparent errors. I addrefs myself to you as Editors, that the gentleman (whofe name I have not the pleasure of knowing) may be apprized of the contents of my letter. It must evidently appear to every experienced profeffor of agricultural knowledge, that his affertions are grounded upon theory only, his language is too learned and refined to be used or even properly underftood by practical farmers. point of erudition and abilities I doubt not his being equal to moft, but from his fophiftical criticifms, I will confidently fay, that his deficiency of knowledge in the agricultural line appears to be very great; and that he may be convinced of his mistakes their refutation fhall be fupported by facts." In The gentleman begins with a learned preface by way of apology, which he concludes with general affertions, faying, "We muft pronounce this work full of errors," as a whole imperfect and incomplete." What, the whole work full of errors, imperfect and incomplete? a moft extraordinary circumstance this, indeed! Anfwer. That there are three paragraphs containing errors I do acknowledge; my friends on mature confideration were astonished, that fuch a work (being haftened by the importunities of my fubfcribers, and for the purpose of making public the Drill Machine) was arranged, written over twice, with my attention to the prefs at the diftance of five miles from my farm, could have been thus far completed and publifhed with fo few errors, and all executed within fix months. The Reviewer fays, that, "Hufbandry has not yet attained a fyftematic form; its affifting fciences have not yet lighted their torches fufficiently, to elucidate its obfcurity: they have not yet been applied to explore its recondite and unknown paths; the best chemifts, the most experienced philofophers, look |