20. Reflexions fur les Avantages et la Liberté d'écrire et d'imprimer fur les Matières de l' Adminiflration, écrites en 1764, à l'Occafion de la Déclaration du Roi au 28 Mars de la même Année, qui fait défenje d'imprimer, et de débiter aucuns Ecrits, Quvrages ou Projets concernant la réforme ou Adminiftration des Finances, &c. Par. M l'A. M. 8vo. Paris.

The author of this work has treated a delicate fubject with temper, in a manner fuitable to its importance, and as a citizen who has no other intereft than the general profperity.

21. Céremonial du Sacre des Rois de France, précédé d'une Dif fertation fur l'ancienneté de cet Ale de Religion; les Motifs de fon Inflitution, du grand Appareil avec lequel il eft célébré: et juivi d'une Table Chronologique du Sacre des Rois de la feconde I troifieme Race. Paris,

All the circumftances preceding, attending, and following the auguft ceremony of the inauguration of the French momarchs, are here fully explained.

22. La Nouvelle imprévue. Drame en un alle, et en Profe. Dédié aux Dames. Par M. de St. C. 8vo. Paris.

A marquise de Florange, longing for the return of her spouse, a colonel, from Corfica, and actually bufied in celebrating his birth day, receives information, by a letter directed to one of his friends, that he is dying. Such is the fubject of this fimple, fhort, and elegant drama; which, though deftitute of incidents, is rendered fufficiently interefting by the charming picture of conjugal love.

23. Dialogue entre Henry IV. le Marechal de Biron, et le brave Grillon, fur le regne fortuné de Louis XVI. recueilli par M. l' Abbé Regley. 8vo. Paris.

The interlocutors in this Dialogue confider honour, morals, and truth as the principal fupports of the profperity of France; and prefage its future permanent happiness from the amiable character of its present king.

24. Refutation de l'Ouvrage qui a four tire: Dialogue fur le Commerce des bleds. 8vo. Paris.

This writer appears to be intimately acquainted with his fubject, and to have difcuffed fome queftions highly interesting to the internal adminiftration of France, with accuracy and folidity.

25. Eloge de Matthieu Molé, Prémier Prefident du Parlement de Paris, et Garde des Sceaux de France. Difcours prononcé à la rentrée de la Conference publique de Mers. les Avocats au Parlement de Paris. Par M. Henrion de Pencé. Svo. Paris.

A just tribute of respect to the memory of an illuftrious magiftrate, whofe integrity, genuine patriotifin, unfhaken loyalty, and intrepidity, have been celebrated in the Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz; and, therefore, are not unknown to foreign readers.

26. M. de

26. M. de Fintac, ou le Faux Connoiffeur. Comédie en Trois Actess et en Vers. 8vo. Geneve, & Paris.

Containing fome well written and interefting scenes.

27. Du Calcul infinitefimal et de la Géométrie des Courbes, pour fer vir de Supplement au Tome I. de Philofopbie. par M. Beguin, Profeffeur de Philosophie en l'Univ. de Paris. 8vo. Paris.

A methodical fupplement, neceffary to many French elements of mathematics.

28. Difcours contenant l'Hiftoire des Jeux Floraux, et celle de la Dame Clemence, prononcé au Confeil de la Ville de Toulouse, par M. Lagane, Procureur du Roi, & ancien Capitout de Touloufe, imprimé par Délibération du même Confeil, pour servir à l'Inftance que la Ville a arrété de former devant le Roi, en Rapport de l'Edit. du Mois d'Août, 1773. Portant Statuts pour l'A ad. des Jeux Floraux. 8vo.

The Jeux Floraux are a very ancient and fingular inftitution, defigned for the cultivation of poetry, and have been fome time erected into an academy. Their history is related in the firft part of this formal difcourfe; in the fecond part, the author vigorously attacks an ancient report of the faid Jeux Floraux having been originally founded by a certain lady Clemence, and not by fome citizens, as the corporation of Toulouse affert. The patriotic author appears to be highly incenfed against the faid lady Clemence's partifans; he even denies that their pas tronefs has ever existed.

MONTHLY CATALOGUE.

POLITICA L.

29. An Humble Address to the King, concerning the Dearness of Provifions, and Emigration. 8vo. 15. Wilkie.

T

HIS writer appears to be actuated by a truly benevolent principle; and it is to be wished, for the public good, that the grievance in which he interefts himself could be effectually removed by the legislature. He traces the various caufes of the dearness of provifions, to what we believe are its proper fources; and his address is so dutiful, as to claim the royal attention. 30. A Letter to thofe Ladies whofe Hufbands poffefs a Seat in either Houfe of Parliament. 4to. 6d. Almon.

The author of this letter endeavours to excite the ladies to an exertion of their interest in favour of the Americans, by reprefenting the right of taxation inforced by parliament, as a meafure no lefs arbitrary and unjuft, than if it fhould be determined to impofe a heavy tax upon pin-money. As a further inducement to their interpofition, he mentions the example of a lady, wife to one of the judges in the reign of Charles I. who, by her influence with her husband, is faid to have prevented him from giving judgment in fupport of the right of taxation, at that time claimed by the crown.

31. An Effay on the Nature of Colonies, and the Conduct of the Mother-Country towards them. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Johnson.

This Effay is chiefly extracted from the writings of the marquis de Mirabeau, published fome years fince; but we meet with nothing in it which has not been already more concisely explained.

32. The Falfe Alarm; or the Americans Miftaken. 8vo. 15. Ridley.

A letter to lord North, in which the writer ftates the neceffity and utility of the conduct of government towards America. He particularly confiders the non-importation agreement, into which fome of the colonies have entered, as a fortunate incident for trade, by preventing the markets from being overftocked; a beneficial effect formerly produced by the temporary non-importation in confequence of the ftamp act.

33. The American Querift: or, fome Queftions propofed relative to the prefent Difputes between Great Britain and her American Colonies. 8vo. 6d. Richardson and Urquhart.

A hundred questions! the production of fome zealous American-equally frivolous and impertinent.

34. What think ye of the Congress now? or, an Enquiry how far the Americans are bound to abide by and execute the Decifions of the late Continental Congrefs. With a Plan for a proposed Union between Great Britain and the Colonies. To which is added, An Alarm to the Legislature of the Province of New-York. 8vo. 15. 6d. Richardson and Urqhuhart.

The interrogatory title of this pamphlet might justify our difmiffing it with a laconic reply: but left we should seem to treat the author in too cavalier a manner, and as he is rather a reafoner than a querift, we fhall beftow a few more words on the fubject. After declaring his difinterestedness in the American difpute, and acknowledging that he difapproves of the policy of fome of the late acts refpecting the colonies, this writer enquires into the authority with which the feveral delegates at the congrefs were invested by their refpective provinces; and he fhews that they generally exceeded their inftructions; acting even in oppofition to the defign of the provinces, which was, to obtain an accommodation with the British legislature. We here meet with many fenfible observations on the subject of the congrefs, in which the author difplays, in a clear light, the abfurd and pernicious refolutions of that American af fembly.

35. Conciliatory Addrefs to the People of Great Britain and of the Colonies, on the prefent important Crifis. 8vo. Is. Wilkie. It would be unneceffary to fay any thing more of this addrefs, than that the plan of accommodation which the author recom

mends,

mends, appears to be the fame in fubftance, with what was lately proposed in the house of commons.

36. Some Candid Suggestions towards Accommodation of Differences

with America.

8vo. 6d.

Cadell.

We here meet with nothing material, different from what has been fuggefted in the other plans of accommodation.

37. The Annals of Adminiftration. Svo. is. Bew. From the title of this production the reader will readily conclude, that it alludes to the difpute between Great Britain and America. The allegory is ingeniously conducted in favour of the colonies, and contains a fanciful sketch of fome eminent characters, drawn with the fame partiality, for the fide of oppofition. 38. The Rights of the English Colonies eftablished in America, fated and defended. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Almon.

The author of this production illuftrates his fubject by a variety of facts from ancient and modern hiftory. Of those we cannot help obferving, that fome are unfuitable to his purpose; but we are fatisfied from the impartiality with which he writes, that he has no intention to mislead the judgment of his readers. 39. View of the Controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Richardfon and Urquhart.

A reply to a pamphlet entitled, A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congrefs, from the Calumnies of their Enemies. As we have not yet feen the latter, which we believe has not been reprinted in England, we must poftpone the account of this performance.

40. An Addrefs to the Right Hon. Lord M-sf-d, in which the Measures of Government refpecting America are considered in a new Light, with a View to his Lordship's Interpofition there.n. 8vo. 15. Almon.

The diftinguished abilities of the noble lord here addreffed, have repeatedly expofed him to public applications relative to the meatures of government; but it is not to be fuppofed, that thofe addreffes can have any greater weight with his lordship, than the idle declamation of counfel at the bar.

41. The Speech of the Right Hon. John Wilkes, Efg. Lord Mayor of London, on the Motion for an Addrefs to his Majefty against the Americans. 3d. Whitaker.

The American affairs have so often been the fubject of literary and parliamentary difcuffion, that we cannot expect any new argument on that exhauled topic. The Lord Mayor, however, it must be acknowledged, has argued with much plaufibility on the fide of oppofition.

42. The Speech of the Right Hn. John Wilkes, Ff. on the Subject of the Middlefex Election, delivered on Feb. 22, 1775, in the House of Commons. Fol. 6d. Snage.

This fpeech, though on a different fubject, ftands in the fame predicament with the preceding.

POETRY.

43. The Advertiser. A Poem. 4to. TS. Bew. The first hint of this poem, we are told, was fuggefted by the great number of advertisements which appeared in the daily papers, from thofe who were candidates at the late general election. The author inveighs with manly vehemence against the difingenuous declarations of patriotifm, and we might be perfuaded that he was totally impartial, both in cenfure and panegyric, did we not find, that the only characters which he applauds are thofe of a particular party. There never, perhaps, were poli tical divifions in any country, where each of the parties could not boast of Jome respectable affociates.

44. Ode Pindarica, pro Cambriæ Vatibus, Latino Carmine reddita. 4to. 6d. Rivington.

Mr. Gray's Ode, of which this is a tranflation, is founded on a tradition current in Wales, that Edward I. when he completed the conqueft of that country, ordered all the bards, who fell into his hands, to be put to death. The poet introduces the only furviving bard of that country, in concert with the spirits of his murdered brethren, prophetically denouncing woes upon the conqueror and his pofterity, in imitation, probably, of the fifteenth ode of the first book of Horace. When the bard has finished his prophecies, he concludes in this expreffive language; Enough for me with joy I fee

The different doom our fates affign,
Be thine defpair, and fcepter'd care,
To triumph, and to die, are mine.'

He fpoke, and headlong from the mountain's height,
Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night.'
Sufficit vati, arbitrioque fati

Cedo, nec ploro; tibi fpes inanis
Sceptra tu cura--mihi vita dura,

morte triumphus.

Dixit-præcipiti rapidus de monte profundum
Appetit, et fremitu fub gurgitis irruit umbris.'

This tranflation, if we may venture to form a conje&ure from three initial letters, is the production of the ingenious E. B. Greene, efq.

45. Mifcellaneous Pieces in Verfe; with curfory theatrical Remarks. By P. Lewis, Comedian. 410. 2s. 6d. Davies.

The firit of thefe poems is remarkable for fo particular a kind of beauty, that we fhall quote a few lines from the beginning. Far from the fchools of claffic light,

Far from the awful fage's fight,

Far from fair Wifdom's polifh'd code,
Far from the barren book-worm's road,
O far from Learning's lucid ring,.
The fons of nature fit and fing.
VOL. XXXIX. Feb. 1775.

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