forms are published, but such as appear to the Compiler to he accu. råte." His motive, no doubt, was good, but we can by no means approve of his plan of execution: fince it is manifeftly notorious, that the far greater part of the precedents in these volumes are copied from burn's Justice, without any acknowlegement whatever.

Mr. Cunningham is to learn, that there is some difference between a Compiler and a Plagiary:

Art. 2. Dialogues of the Living. 12mo. 2 s. sewed. Cook.

Dialogues of the living! Palpably false and abfurd! No men alive ever talked like these men -Ah! Mr. Cook, you have here

cook'd up a miserable hath indeed! | Art. 3. A Description of Ranelagh Rotundo and Gardens. Be

ing a proper Companion for those who visit that Place, as it explains every Beauty and Curiosity therein to be found. 12mo. 6 d. Hooper.

12mo.

2 s. 6 d.

Art. 4. A Description of Vaux-Hall Gardens. Being a proper

Companion and Guide for all who visit that Place. 12mo. 6 d. Hooper.

These Descriptions are embellished with copper-plates; and they are, as the Author intimates, no improper Companion for th se who visit these elegant scenes of public amulernent. Sich as have never feen Vaux hall and Ranelagh, will also find their curiosity excited by a perulal of these little iracis. Art. 5. Youth's In Pruilor; or on Introdution to Arithmetic,

Vulgar and Dicimal. By John Sharpe, Schoolmaster at
Coggeshall in Ellex.

Owen.
Th s differs only from other modern treatises of Ari hmetic, by the
Sncratic form of question and ansver, in which the Author has thought
proper to convey his initructions.
Art. 6. Proceedings of a general Court Martial upon the Trial of

Lieut. Col. Glover, of the South Battalion of the Lincolnshire
Militia. 8vo. I s. 6d. Wilson.

Relates to fome exceptionable expressions that passed between Co-
lonel Glover and Captain Gardiner, in the warmth of a dispute con-
Cernir.g a Deferter.
Art. 7. Political Arnols. By the late celebrated M. Charles

Irenée Caitel, Abbot of St. Pierre, and Member of the : French Academy. • Translated from the last correct and enlarged Edision of the French. 8vo. 2 vols.

Ios. bound. Woodgate.

These

These Annals were sufficiently noticed at their first publication in the original French, in the XVIIIth volume of our Review, page 391; where the Author and his work were briefly characterised. It will be the less necessary therefore to speak now to the merit of a perf smance which will not fail to gratify the judiciou, Po'itician: the Author being a very accurate Obterver of the transactions of Europe.

The Introduction contains many threwd obfervations, and notable hints, which fufficiently shew the abilities of the Abbot for the task be has compleated. The tranllation is tolerable,

Art. 8. A genuine Letter from Paul Gilchrif, Elg; Merchant

at Petersburgh, to Mr. Saunders in London. Giving a particular Acccunt of the great Revolution in Russia, and the Death of Peter III. the late Emperor. In which that very extraordinary Ajuir is set in a true Light. To which is added, a furt Account of ihe Government, Religion, Laws, and Inbabitants of that Nation. Svo. is. Williams. E'ther Mr. Saunders has already furnished us with all the accounts of this memorable Revolution which have appeared in the Newspapers by previously re aiing his friend' letter in them; or, the several paragraphs contained in the said papers, have been connected, with a few exple ives, to coin pose Mr. Gilchritt's letter. The Reac er is left to determine which of these methuds is most probable. Some of the books of Geography have furnished a few paragraphs to which the latter part of the title alludes.

Art. 9. Il Talı, a Dialogue ; the Speakers. John Milton, and

Torquato Tasso. In which new Light is thrown on their poetical and moral Characters. 8vo. 6d. Baldwin.

No ne v light a' all have we heen able to discover: fo, gentle Author, in your own words, our “ Valediction attends you

Art. 10. A Review of the Evils that have prevailed in the Linen

Manufacture of Ireland. Arising from a Neglect of the original Laws.

Part I. also Part II. Being a Narrative of what has been done, or attempted, to enforce the Laws, and to bring about a general Reformation. With an attempt to point out the Causes of the Opposition that is still kept up; and the priper Means to be used, for carrying the Laws fully into Exé

ed, or infatgated, as to oppose the application of those remedies which the Legislature hath provided against such capital evils. We could with our plan would permit-os to give a particular account of the various matters relative to this interesting fubject; but we are afraid left any abftract, fo confined as we should be under a necessity of making it, hould in any respect millead the Reader. We must content ourselves, therefore, with recommending the perufal of these tracts to every one who is a friend to trade, and a lover of his country; not doubting, that every disinterelted person will be fully convinced of the justice of the measures now taking by the LinenBoard, and other friends to this manufacture, to effect fo neceffary a reformation. At the same time it is to be hoped, that every MagiAtrate in that part of the British dominions, will be ready, on every occafion, to thew his zeal for the good of the community, by ađively exerting himself to suppress those tumults which, we hear, are formed, in order to prevent the most falutary laws from being carried into execution. Our friends in Ireland have, on some occafions, fufpected their national interelts to have suffered from the cabals of their secret enemies on this side the water ; it is to be hoped, therefore, they will not, on the present, be such open and declared enemies to themselves, as to persilt, to their own ruin, in the de. fruction of a manufacture to which England has given fo much encouragement.

POLITICAL Art. 11. Gisbal, an Hyperborean Tale : Translated from the

Fragments of Olian, the Son of Fingal. 8vo. Is. Pridden. This Hyperborean Tale, as it is called, consists chiefly of scanda. , Jous inuendoes, and impudent abuse; which are here very indecently thrown out against the most respectable personages, and are conveyed to us in a wretched imitation of the scripture flyle. Art. 12. Letters to two great Men. The firft to the Earl of

Et: The second to the Earl of B-e. In which is a beautiful Anecdote concerning his Majesty King George III. 8vo. IS.

A. Henderson. Two rambling, incoherent letters, about the war and the peace, and the Portuguese, and the Spaniards, and the French, cum multis aliis, &c. Never surely did irony appear so barefaced, or panegyric so gross, as in the encomiums lavished on the latter of the noble Peers addressed in this publication : whether satire or eulogy be intended, is best known to the Writer.

POETIC AL. Art. 13. An Epistle to his Grace the Duke of Nm, on his Relignation. By an Independent Whig. 4to. 6d. Corbet.

This Epistle is a compliment to the Duke of Newcastle. Panegyric, however, is not the only business of it; the Writer, while he praises his Patroa, for his exemplary merit in office, and disinterested refignation, aiming some very fevere strokes at his Grace's fucceflor, as well as at another popular Patriot, who, he conceives, did not retire from public employment with the same dignity and spirit. Of the merit of the Poct, and the delicacy and sincerity of the Panegyrist, the Reader may form a judgment from the following lines that cloie the piece.

Through each great scene, your firmer mind pursued,
Your Monarch's glory, and your country's good.
No little pallion lured your soul astray
To other paths than Honour's public way:
No little complaisance to party rage,
No souffling with the humours of the age,
Fix'd at the helm full forty years, your place,
'Twas worn by worth, and rais'd on Virtue's base.
If ought was deem'd fill wanting to compleat
Your race of glory, 'twas your late retrcat:
No Penfion's purchase, but the Patriot's choice,
'Twas Reason's dictates, and 'twas Honour's voice,
This COURSE, this En»), thus firmly to pursue,
Is worthy BRITISH VIRTUE, worthy You,

Art. 14. The Battle of Lora, a Poem: With some Fragments

written in the Erfe or Irish Language, by Osian the Son of Fingal. Translated into English Verse by Ms. Derrick. 4to. 16. 6d. Dodsey.

The Battle of Lora is an excellent subject for a poem. There is fomething very magnificent and interesting in all its circumstances. “ Fingal, King of Morven, returning home victorious from the expedition in Ireland, which is celebrated in the epic poem bearing his name, made a feast to which all his Chiefs, Maronnan and Aldo excepted, were invited. The neglect seems to have been accidental; however they resented it fo strongly, as to abandon their native coun. try, and enter into the service of Erragon King of Sora, a name given to fome part of Scandinavia. In this country

Brave Aldo once, returning from the fight,
Was seen by Lorma, Erragon's delight,
His beauteous wife,--and then in luckless hour,
She first acknowlegd Love's imperious power,
Aldo the faw, but like an evening sun
Glancing an upward beam, his race now run ;
Her head she lean'd on her right arm reclin'd;
Her dark brown locks loose-Hoated in the wind;
Still as she look d, high heav'd her breasts of snow,
Quick throbb’d her heart, and tears unbidden floxv.

It was not long, however, before Aldo, like another Paris, carried her off, into his own country.

When lo! in wsach the King of Morven rose,
And faid, shall I defend thee from thy tors?
Hence, youth of feeble hand, avoid the brave !

Thy guilt conceul in some deserted cave. In the mean time Erragon, in pursuit of Aldo, invades Morven, and demands the combat of Fingal. The aged chief prudently fends his daughter Boimina to the enraged Invader, to invite him to a teatt, and offer him, as a recompence tor the injury he had receive ed, the wealth of Aldo.

Thus, mildly blushing, the began to speak,
“ Thy royal presence we in Seima leek;
« For thee the fealt is spread by Morven's King ;
“ I'll be thy guide, provie'ed peace you bring:
“ The wealth of Kings we offer, if

you chuse,
“Nor you to hear what Aldo says refuse.
“ An hundred steeds he gives that own the rein,
“ Never a swifter race devour'd the plain.
“ An hundred maids from diftant lands he gives,
• Beneath the sky not brighter beauty lives :
« An hundred hawks, all well inur'd to game,
“Of which none haggar'd ever'miss'd their aim.
“ An hundred girdle also shall be thine,
“ Such, when they round high-bofom't women twine,
• (rivis sudden eale to travail's fierceft throws,
" And their valt virtue every matron knows.
“ Ten Thèlls with gems inlaid, which ours we call,

Shall luftre beam thro’ Sora's lofty hall. All this, and even the offer of Lorma was insufficient. Erragon would not be appeafed, unless Fingal should do him homage, and deliver his trophies of war.

Never so low thall Morven's Monarch fall,” faid the noble Vire gin. Both sides now prepare for the war. The batile begins, and Aldo falls by the fingle hand of Erragon.

". After this the forrow's of Lorma are described, who dies of grief for the death of Aldo."', But we thall not trouble our Readers with farther quotations, as the version is in many places very indifferent.

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Art. 15. An Address to his mos gracious Majesty King George III.

on the most happy Arrival, at London, of her Serene H ghness Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, who was that Day made our mojí gracicus Queen. By George Pooke. 8vo. 6 d. Keith.

Our Readers have already had a sufficient specimen of Mr Pooke's rare talents for poetical compofition, in the shost account we gave of his Q...es: fee Review, vol. XVII. page 281. We were in hopes