to advance the efcort a league before towards the enemy. This Manoeuvre will fecure and conceal the convoy." Fourteen Plans are added by the French Editor. With respect to the maxims for fkirmishing Parties, we must refer the curious Reader to the work, and conclude this article with only obferving, that this performance may be regarded as no improper appendix to the regulations for the Pruffian Infantry and Cavalry, of which we gave an account in some former number of the Review. * น. Remontrances au Parlement de Paris, fur fon Arreft rendu le 8 May 1761, contre les Féfuits, foit-difantes de la Campagnie de Féfus, &c. &c. Par. M. de Voltaire. That is, Remonftrances to the Parliament of Paris, upon their decree of the 8th of May 1761, against the Jesuits, or the Company of Jefus. A Work in the manner of the Henriade, with Notes, containing fome things hitherto unpublished, concerning the Conduct which these Gentlemen have obferved in France, from their Eftalifhment there to the prefent Time. By M. Voltaire. To which is added, a Ballad on the Occafion, by the Author of the City Latin, [faid to be printed at Paris, and re-printed at London. 8vo. I S. Dixwell. THIS HIS is a juft Satyr, in French verfe, against the Jefuits, on occafion of the fentence mentioned in the titlepage, by which thirty-two judges unanimoufly condemned P. Ricci, fuperior-general of the jefuits, and, in his person, the whole fociety in France, in the fum of fifty thousand livres to the Lioncys and Gouffée, merchants at Marseilles, for cofts, daniages, and intereft. These gentlemen are affirmed to have accepted bills of exchange, drawn by P. Lavalette, (whose conduct was authorized by P. Ricci) for 150,266 livres. This Lavalette was fent abroad as apoftolic Prefect of the miffions in South America, but happened to be more advantageously employed in trade at Martinico: and these negotiants were obliged to difpofe of their whole fubftance, as the original fays, reduits a la Chemife, to honour thofe bills, notwithstanding Lavalette and the fociety had failed in performing the engagements they had contracted, on their parts, with thefe gentlemen. * See vol. XI. p. 138. and vol. XVII. p. 360, and p. 364. Though Though it seems more probable than otherwife, that Voltaire is not the Author of this Satyr, it contains feveral good lines, and exhibits many just and fevere truths. The poet ironically accufes the parliament of Paris, for proceeding with more severity against thefe good fathers, than the merciful parliament of Aix did against father Girard in mifs Cadiere's cafe, on the fcore of fpiritual inceft (as we think they term it) with her, and fome of his other penitents. With regard to this continent jefuit, who died in Franche-Comtè, we are informed by father Montigny, that he departed in the odour of fanctity, and, according to father Colomnia, with all his baptifmal innocence. As we do not imagine any extracts from the French poetry would entertain many of our English readers; and we were rather more entertained with the notes than with the text ourfelves, we fhall extract a few jefuitical maxims, and inftances of their notorious conduct, from the former. One note, taken from their Avis fecrets, their fecret councils, affures us, the order of the jefuits comprizes all the perfections of all the other orders; which fhine forth moft eminently in theirs. Another note affirms, the jefuits at Lifle erected an altar there to father Guignard, who was hanged and burned at the Grêve, for faying, it was lawful to murder Henry IV. and that the act of Clement, in the parricide of Henry III. was infpired by the Holy Ghoft. This altar was infcribed-" To the beatified Guignard, martyred for the faith by the heretics of France." We are also told, the jefuits of Portugal have decided, that the lately attempted affaffination of the king there, did not amount even to a venial fin, or peccadillo, as they term it. The Compendium of their Privileges excommunicates all who fhall have the temerity to contravene fuch of their privileges, as allow their members to be criminal. M. Palafox (probably the prelate lately canonized at Rome at the earnest instances of the king of Spain) acquaints his cotemporary pope, by a letter in 1649, That the great and populous city of Seville was all in tears, on account of a fhameless bankruptcy of the jefuits there, who had borrowed the effects of widows and orphans, to the amount of four hundred thoufand ducats, and paid them folely by the bankruptcy. The conflitutions of this order inform us, that when there is any propofal about killing a tyrant, it must not be executed without confulting their General. We are to infer then, that He, and He only, can give a proper fanction to it; but, at the fame time, if he refufes this, it gives him an an opportunity of felling many lives to the tyrant, to the enrichment of himself, or his order. Their fecret councils avow, the fociety is invefted with the moft ample Power to difpenfe with paying their debts; and they are to obey the voice of their general as zealously as the voice of Jefus Chrift. Not content with obeying this injunction, they are fure to overact it abundantly; fince, of all exifting orders of men, this, which impudently affumes the name of Jefus, by the account of a majority of their own church, imitate him the leaft. The Veaudeville, or French Ballad in short verfe, annexed to this Satyr, whoever wrote it, is also a just and a droll invective against thefe fame pious fathers; who have discovered a quirk or noftrum to become holy, without an atom of goodness, or even of righteousness. It is the happy lot, indeed, of this realm, to need but little precaution against fuch ecclefiaftical pefts. Nevertheless, it may be highly prudent, their extraordinary artifices and activity being confidered, to preferve, by all juft means, that laudable averfion, and even horror, which we entertain for a fet of men, who, we find, are become so justly odious to a majority of their own com munion.. K. The Nuptials. A Didactic Poem, in three Books. 4to. 2s. 6d. TH Flexney. HIS is not a Poem on the Royal Nuptials, which, from the Title and the time of its publication, fome may have fuppofed, but a poetical Effay on Marriage. The Didactic is not one of the leaft difficult fpecies of Poetry, for it certainly requires great art, with precept to communicate pleafure; neither is it the moft capable of the embellishments and graces of fancy, as truth is beft discovered in a fimple drefs. The Author of this Poem, however, either through the copious variety of his fubject, or the fertility of his genius, or more probably by means of both, has happily united the pleafing and the inftructive: The Verfification refembles that of Dr. Armstrong; in his Oeconomy of Love, and his Art of preferving Health: but we cannot join with thofe who think this not inferior to thofe elegant Poems, either in force of imagination, or harmony of numbers. And REV. Jan. 1762. F we ers. we can by no means approve of the Dialogue at the end of it, which, in our opinion, is much too refined for the speakThe ftory of Lucrece might have been wrought up in a much more pathetic and affecting manner, and the Digreffion on the Militia feems foreign to the fubject, however commendable it may be in other refpects. Some idea of this agreeable performance may be drawn from the following Extracts: B. I. p. 8. The Arguments which are drawn from nature, in behalf of Marriage, are not more poetical than just. "Be man and woman one."- -So fpake the power The glimmering lamp of Reafon gives to read She absent, why fhould chearless nature droop, Or 'scape his eye, or have no power to charm. Speaking of the peculiarities of fancy in chufing the objects of Love, the Author has availed himself of that humourous Ode of Catullus on the Miftrefs of Formianus. Blush not, my Friend, to own the power of Love, To own the fair Ophelia has your heart. What though the world hold not Ophelia fair, 8 With elephantine nofe, and teeth of jet, Some fecret fympathy, which knits the heart Amongst the many inftances of unhappy matches which are introduced in this Poem, the following, we prefume, will not be the leaft entertaining to our Readers. Wretched Lucilia! doom'd to wafte thofe hours, At morn entangled in a net of gold. Nor lefs ftriking is the defcription of a Half-pay Officer and an Attorney's Clerk, laying fiege to the only Daughter of a country 'Squire. The taudry Captain, and intriguing Clerk, |