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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. Is. Is. Robinson.

It chiefly confifts 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 Bishopfgate. [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 Anfwer to his Sermon preached at St. Botolph, Bishopfgate. 4to. 6d. Collyer.

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 observe, that wherever people, inftead of forming the principles of their religion on the plainest and most obvious parts of fcripture, and explaining thofe that are obfcure, by those whofe meaning is evident, found fchemes 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 plaineft 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 Lord, they will bewilder themselves in the depth of mystery 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

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Fatal Confequences that may attend a Dependance upon the Patter 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, fometime 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 been disappointed by the agaric, a fomewhat greater regard might be due to his suggestions (for he only fuggefts) against the ufe 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.

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XLIII. The Fairies, an Opera, taken from Shakespear'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. Tonfon.

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-Sheen in Surry, then the elegant retreat of the reigning queen and her court. Who the perfonages were (concealed under the fimple characters of the poem) does not,' fays the advertifer, 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 most elegant and affecting tale.'

The above account may poffibly be true; but whole 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 pro. duction yet wherefore fuch concealment we cannot guefs; but let the poem fpeak for itself.-The forfaken Lucy is reprefented lamenting the inconftancy of her faithless Gain, on the border of the Thames, near Richmond. In the midst of her complaint fhe obferves her own figure in the water, and thus pathetically addreffes the phantom:

There!

There! there! is it Lucy I fee?
'Tis Lucy, the loft, undone maid!
Ah! no, 'tis fome Lucy like me-

Some hapless, young virgin betray'd.
Like me, fhe has forrow'd and wept ;
Like me! fhe has fondly believ'd;
Like me, her true promise fhe kept,
And, like me too, is juftly deceived.
I come, dear companion in grief!
Gay fcenes, and fond pleafures, adieu !
I come, and we'll gather relief,
From bofoms so chafte and so true.
Ye meadows fo lovely, farewel!

Your velvet ftill Colin fhall tread :
All deaf to the found of that knell,
Which tolls for his Lacy, when dead!
Scarce Eccho had gather'd the found,

But the plung'd from her grafs-fpringing bed;
The liquid ftream parts, to the ground;

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 behalf of our own time. After all, we are not certain, whether thefe verfes have appeared in print, before the present 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 dutchefs.

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 majefty is here be oded to fome tune; for the author of this imperial mifcellany has nothing of harmony about him; however the honeft man seems to do his best, and labours hard to convince those who are ftrangers to the perfonal merits of this great princess, that Her great genius feems to fhew no lefs,

Than that the reigns to blefs the universe. VIDE p. 36. XLVII. Cæfar'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 ftanza; the whole amount to twenty-four.

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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. 1 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 felect certain peculiar, now exploded, words, ufed 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 guilty 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 most 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 difcover; unless he claims the friendfhip of the mufes by hereditary right, as the son of Mr. Matthew Pilkington, and the late ingenious Letitia. 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 Provincia. 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, Bishopfgate, Nov. 24, 1754 at the opening of the faid Church. By T. Jones, M. A. Chaplain of St. Saviour, Southwark. 4to. 6d. Robinfon.

4. The Antiquity and Holiness of Places fet apart for public 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 theriffs for the faid City. By William Batt, M. A. Rector of Wraxall, Somerfetfhire. 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.

Solomon: Addreffed to the
Preached in St. Thomas's,

7. David's dying Charge to Children of religious Parents. 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 school. 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.

11. The importance of education. Preached at St. Thomas's, Jan. 1, 1755. for the benefit of the charity-school, Gravel lane, Southwark. By Philip Furneaux. 8vo. 6d. Waugh.