ART. 41. Also, the Second Book, with a few Variations in the TitlePage, fpecifying particularly that it relates to the prefent Times, the prefent War, and the Prophecies now fulfilling, and the fudden and perpetual fall of the Turkish, German, and Ruffian Empires. 8vo. 93 Pp. Both figned at the end, Richard Brothers. Given away by the author.

It is a melancholy task to record the extravagancies of a madman, particularly when mifinterpretation and mifapplication of Scripture, with narrations nearly, if not quite, blafphemous, form the bulk of his rhapfodies. The following addrefs to a gentleman in Westminster "Moreover I am comwill show the style of this unhappy prophet.

manded to inform you, as well for the benefit of your children hereafter, as yourself immediately: that although your name is Hanchett, there is John Pitt Earl of Chatham, Sir Gilbert Elliott, and Charles Grey; you as well as them, the whole as well as myself are of the Hebrews; branches of my own family, and are defcended from King David."

Part 2. p. 49. Mr. Brothers alfo diftributed a half sheet of quotations from former prophets of his own ftamp, viz. C. Love, executed 1651; Kotterus, 1621; Chriftina Poniatonia, 1628; Dabritius, 1662; John Lacy, 1707; J. M. Daut, 1710; which, whether they are real quotations, or inventions of his own, we neither know nor are folicitous to know.

ART. 42. Teftimony of (to) the authenticity of the Prophecies of Richard Brothers, and of his Miffion to recall the Jews. Second Edition. By Nathaniel Braffey Halhed, M. P. 8vo. 40 pp. 13. 1795.

That the infane publications of poor Brothers fhould call forth a fwarm of writers pro and con, was to be expected, as the common effect of every novelty, however abfurd. But that a member of the British Parliament, a man hitherto respected for his abilities, fhould write in defence of fuch a creature's extravagancies, was paft calculation. After a careful and reiterated perufal of Mr. Halhed's tract (for it feemed to us a curious queftion, what should induce such a man to take up fuch an office) we find ourselves entirely at a lofs to account for its publication. It begins, like a common political pamphlet, with fquibs against the war; and throughout contains a ftrong mixture of jocularity. In the first five pages, no man can poffibly conjecture that he is reading any thing but a tract of mere politics, fuch as iffue from various fhops, and are produced in various garrets. Mr. H. then, after a few preliminary obfervations on prophecies, &c. undertakes to prove by the ordinary exertion of human fagacity," that Brothers is infpired: and feems to be full of confidence, both before and after his attempt, that he can do fo, and has done it. Yet fo far fetched, improbable, and even abfurd are his applications of the ancient prophecies for this purpose, that, fuppofing him fane, we cannot think it poffible that they fhould have feemed fpecious even to himself. Ribs to serve as wheftones to the teeth, and to fignify luft,

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ambition, and cruelty, &c. &c. can extravagance go further? yet he talks of criticism and logic! all this is intermingled with occafional witticifms, and farcafms against his majefty's minifters. Prefently he fays, "Now of all the beats of the earth, why is the king or nation of France moft like a leopard." This is copied from a child's game called, "of all the birds in the air," &c. and the reafons affigned are fitteft for the fport of children. After much mock folemnity in his ftrange mode of applying prophecies, Mr. Halhed becomes jocular again: puns about a man calling his foul his own, jefts about felling his own foul in the Houfe of Commons, and compares the peers of Great Britain to the devil; yet, in the midft of this ftrange raillery afks, "have I not in the moft clear and fatisfactory manner, and upon full proof, established every one of my positions :" to which it is not poffible for any reasonable man to answer yes; nor even conceivable that the author fhould think he had. Surely, in all this there are ftrong marks of derangement. Were the author rational, and did he believe what he wrote, he would be profoundly ferious. If he be rational, and writes thus without believing it, he has committed one of the moft atrocious acts that the world has ever feen.

ART. 43. Anecdotes of Richard Brothers in the year 1791 and 1792, with fome Thoughts upon Credulity. Occafioned by the Teftimony of N. B. Halbed, Efq. of the Authenticity of his Prophecies. By Jofeph Mofer, Author of Turkish Tales, Timothy Twig, &c. Fr. 8vo. 36 pp. 1s. Owen, 1795.

Could any doubt be entertained of the infanity of poor Brothers, this plain narrative of the commencement of his malady, which accidentally fell under the immediate knowledge of the author, is fufficient to remove it altogether. Nothing more completely fatisfactory can be imagined. Mr. Mofer has judiciously thrown in fome short accounts of former falfe prophets, that were famous in their day, thereby reminding his readers, that if fuch enthufiafts were in all times to be found, wicked men were never wanting to make them, if poffible, the inftruments of mischief.

ART. 44. The Age of Credulity: a Letter to Nathaniel Braffey Halhed, Efq. M. P. in Answer to his Teftimony in Favour of Richard Brothers. With an Appendix in Vindication of the Scripture Prophecies. By the Author of the Age of Infidelity"-and other Tracts. 8vo. 47 PP. Is. Button, 1795.

This publication alfo is written on a useful plan. It is a painful confideration, that fo many weapons fhould be wanted to refift the efforts of a few madmen, yet thofe that are well-formed for the purpose fhould be accepted. Mr. Halhed pretends to apply fome of the fcriptural prophecies to the prefent times, this fenfible writer fur. nifhes thofe who may not know it already, with the approved applica. tion of the fame prophecies. He alfo argues against B, Halhed him felf, accufing him, from the evidence of his own pamphlet, of preJumption, ignorance, artifice, and falsehood.

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ART. 45. A Letter to Nathaniel Braffey Halked, Efq. M. P. from ant Old Woman. 8vo. 32 pp. 6d. G. Nicol. 1795.

We understand that this little tract is really the production of an old lady, not unconnected with the Shakspeare Gallery. She rallies Mr. H. very fuccefsfully on the fubject of his teftimony, and gives him feveral useful hints, and fome found information.

ART. 46. The Debates at the Eaft-India Houfe on the 18th of June, 1794, on the Confideration of the Report of the Committee of By-Laws, and on Mr. Twining's Motion," That no Director be allowed to carry on any Trade or Commerce to or from India, directly or indirect`ly, either as principal or Agent." Reported by William Woodfall: with an Appendix, containing Letters, c. neceffary to elucidate the Subject. 40. 62 pp. 2s. Debrett. 1794.

ART. 47. The Debates at the Eaft-India-Houfe on Wednesday, the 17th of December, 1794, on the adjourned Confideration of Mr. Twining's Motion," That no Director be allowed to carry on any Trade or Commerce to or from India, directly or indirectly, either as Principal or Agent." Reported by William Woodfall. 4to. 92 pp. Debrett. 1794.

25. 6d.

The accuracy of Mr. Woodfall in reporting debates, has long been known to the public; and they who are anxious about the interests and proceedings of the Eaft-India Company, will not fail to attend to thefe two publications.

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ART. 48. A Sketch of the Debate that took place at the India-House in Leadenhall-Areet, on Wednesday, the 9th of October inft. on the fol Loving Mation of W. Lufbington, Ejg. That a General Court be the 23d inft. to take into Confideration an Addrefs to his Majesty, expreffive of the firm Determination of this Company to give every Support in their Power to the Government of the Country at this arducus Crifis, and particularly to exprefs a Wish to raise and clothe three Fencible Regiments, to ferve in Great Britain, Ireland, or the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, and to recommend that the Officers belonging to the Company's Military Eftablishment in India, now in Europe, may be employed in thofe Regiments, fubject to his Majefty's Approbation. By William Woodfall. 4to. 36 pp. 1s. 6d. Debrett. 1794. ART. 49. The Adjourned Debate which took place at the India-Houfe in Leadenhall-street, on Thursday, October 23, 1794, on the Question for prefenting an Addrefs to his Majesty, offering to raise three Regiments for the Public Service. Reported by William Woodfall. 4to. 58 PP. 25. Debrett. 1794.

Thefe two reports, in their nature infeparable, are peculiarly important, as they exhibit the greatest commercial company in the world, acting in a truly patriotic character.

FOREIGN

FOREIGN CATALOGUE.

FRANCE.

ART. 50. Defcription topographique du diftrict de Chatelleraud, département de la Vienne, avec l'expofition de la nature de fon fol, de fes diverfes productions, de l'état actuel de fon commerce de fon agriculture, des obfervations fur le caractere et les mœurs de fes habitans, & une carte du pays; par M. Creuzé-Latouche, habitant de ce diftrict, correfpondant de la fociété d'agriculture. A Chatelleraud, & fe trouve à Paris. Brochure in 8vo. de 120 pp.

One of the most important works to France would unquestionably be a circumftantial defcription, with a view to rural economy, not only of all its departments, but likewife of all its diftricts, and even of the feveral cantons of which it is compofed. To this truth the Society of Agriculture appear to have been fufficiently fenfible, when they folicited their correfpondents to addrefs to them the œconomical defcription of the countries which they inhabit; when they expreffed, in the ftrongest terms, their acknowledgements for every attempt of this kind, however imperfect, and defired the government to favor the execution of a plan, the utility of which was fo very evident..

But we are not to believe that this is fo eafy a task in the performance, as it might at first be imagined; it is not enough that the eye of him who undertakes it fhould be accustomed to observation; he muft poffefs fuch a variety of information as rarely falls to the fhare of any individual; he must have a clear and methodical head, capable of arranging and properly defining the objects of which he treats; which may know how to confine its refearches to fuch as are deferving of attention, whilft fufficient care is taken that none of this kind are overlooked; which may be able to determine the aggregate of the different branches of culture and industry, point out the means of improving and extending them, eftimate the local influence of agriculture on commerce, and of commerce on agriculture, and, laftly, acquaint us with the neceffary relation between the manners and the degree of cultivation or induftry, obfervable in any particular country.

The lefs we are entitled to expect this combination of talents in any one perfon, the more valuable ought this effay of Mr. Cr. L. to ap pear to us. The public will eafily recognife in it the author of the work on the commerce of grain, which is certainly a master-piece in its kind. The prefent tract confifts of three chapters only. In the first of these are included the description of the country, its natural hiftory, with an account of the manners of the inhabitants; the fecond is dedicated to commerce and industry; and the third to agriculture; on each of which heads the obfervations of the author are of fuch general importance, as to induce. us rather to refer our readers to the book itfelf, than to prefent them with imperfect extracts from it. Efpr. d. Journ.

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ART. 51. Bibliotheque phyfico-économique, inftructive & amusante, douzieme année; contenant des memoires, obfervations pratiques fur l'économie rurale; les nouvelles découvertes les plus intéressantes dans les arts utiles & agréables; la defcription & la figure des nouvelles machines, des inftrumens qu'on peut y employer d'après les experiences des auteurs qui les ont imaginés; des recettes pratiques, procédés, médi. camens nouveaux externes ou internes, qui peuvent fervir aux hommes & aux animaux; les moyens d'arrêter & de prevenir les accidens, d'y remédier, de fe garantir des fraudes; de nouvelles vues fur plufieurs points d'économie domestique, & en général fur tous les objets d'utilité d'agrément dans la vie civile, & privée, &c. &c. Ön y a joint des notes que l'on a cru néceffaires à plufieurs articles, avec des planches en taille-douce. Prix relié 3 livres. In 12 de 475 pp. A Paris.

This volume of a work already recommended by the British Critic is particularly reftricted to agriculture. It exhibits what may in fome degree be termed an epitome of that fcience, reducing to diftinct axioms the practice of the most eminent cultivators. Little room has therefore been here allowed for the department of the arts. That of agriculture is drawn up by a gentleman well acquainted with the latest publications on this fubject, more especially with thofe printed in the North; but it feems that he has chiefly availed himself in the volume before us of the treatife on agriculture, written in the Swedish language by Mr. Gadd, profeffor of chemistry and director of the plantations; as alfo of the different articles inferted by him in the Memoirs of the Academy of Stockholm, and we cannot certainly but highly approve of the choice which he has made.

ART. 52. Vocabulaire de nouveaux primitifs François, imités des langues Latine, Italienne, Espagnole, Portugaife, Allemande & Angloife, juivi d'un catalogue raifonné des écrivains les plus célebres en ces cinq langues, propre à fervir d'inftitution pour une bibliotheque choifie; ouvrage effentiel aux orateurs & aux poetes; par Pougens, auteur de la Religieufe de Nifmes; des Effais* fur les Revolutions du Globe, &c. A Paris. vol. 1 in 8vo. Prix 3. 1. broché.

We have here a repertory of more than 1200 new words, imitated not only from the Latin, but likewife from fuch of the principal European languages as have any relation to the French, which has always been confidered as very deficient in primitives. They have infenfible, indocile, irreligieux, déraisonnable, &c., but they want, or, at leaft, have not incélebre, inélégant, inapperçu, defallaiter, inaliené, impropre, &c., expreffions, which, if judicioufly employed, might, fays the author, become the fruitful fource of a variety of delicate difcrimi. nations neceffary alike to the orator and the poet. Moreover, these new privatives, by freeing the language from fuch harsh and inadequate idiotilms as fon manque de-fon défaut de-fon peu de-might, he conceives, impart to it that character of laconifm of which it ftands so much in

* See Brit. Crit. No. VI. Vol. III. p. 708,

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