best apology that can be made, however, for any deviation from the established rules of propriety, is a good intention, and by this laudable motive we readily admit that she is actuated. Mrs. Macaulay fets out with cenfuring the electors of Great Britain for not following the example of the city of London, in requiring a teft from thofe whom they elected their reprefentatives; the fuppofes, however, that among the body of electors, there are many who have been unduly influenced, contrary to their judgment and inclination; while there are others who have been misled by their own ignorance, or the artifices of defigning men. To these two claffes, and to that large body of her countrymen whom the confiders as unjustly debarred the privilege of election, the addreffes herfelf on this momentous occafion, with the compellation of Friends and Fellow Citizens, The burden of the Addrefs is our prefent difpute with America, in which the vehemently arraigns the conduct of adminif tration, and charges them with a premeditated plan of establishing a defpotic government over the British empire. After frongly infifting upon thefe points, the Addrefs thus concludes. If a long fucceffion of abufed profperity fhould, my friends and fellow citizens, have entirely deprived you of that virtue, the renown of which makes you even at this day respectable among all the nations of the civilized world; if neither the principles of justice or generofity have any weight with you, let me conjure you to take into confideration the interefts of your fafety and preservation :-Suffer me again to remind you of the imminent danger of your fituation Your minifters, by attacking the rights of all America, have effected that which the malicious policy of more judicious minds would have avoided. Your colonists, convinced that their fafety depends on their harmony, are now united in one ftrong bond of union; nor will it be in the power of a Machiavel to take any advantage of those feuds and jealoufies which formerly fubfifted among them, and which expofed their liberties to more real danger than all the fleets and armies we are able to fend against them. Your mi nitters alfo, deceived by prefent appearances, vainly imagine, because our rivals in Europe are encouraging us to engage beyond the poffibility of a retreat, that they will reject the opportunity when it offers of putting a final end to the greatnefs and the glory of our empire; but if, by the imprudent measures of the government, the public expences increase, or the public income decrease to fuch a degree that the public revenue fail, and you be rendered unable to pay the intereft of your debt, then will no longer be delayed the day and the hour of your deftruction; then will you become an eafy prey to the courts of France and Spain, who, you may depend upon it, will fall upon you as foon as they fee you fairly engaged in a war with your colonifts; and, according to what is foretold you in a late publication, that conjuncture will prove the latest and the uttermoft of your your profperity, your peace, and, in all probability, of your existence, as an independent flate and nation. Roufe, my countrymen! rouse from that ftate of guilty diffi pation in which you have too long remained, and in which, if you longer continue, you are loft for ever. Roufe! and unite in one general effort; 'till, by your unanimous and repeated addreffes to the throne, and to both houfes of parliament, you draw the attention of every part of the government to their own interefts, and to the dangerous ftate of the British empire.' "ita digerit omnia Calchas." 40. A Complaint to the of against a Pamphlet intitled a Speech intended to have been spoken on the Bill for altering the Charters of the Colony of Maffachufets Bay. 8vo. Pr. 15. White. We are here prefented with remarks on a pamphlet entitled, A Speech intended to have been spoken on the Bill for altering the Charters of the Colony of Maffachufet's Bay. In general, the remarks are juft, and the author feems not to be deftitute of acuteness. 41. Remarks on the Patriot. Including fome Eints refpecting the Americans with an Address to the Electors of Great Britain. 8vo. 15. Richardfon and Urquhart. When the writings of an author are commented upon by a perfon of oppofite principles, his fentiments are generally viewed through the medium of prejudice, and his words fometimes construed into a meaning different from what he intended. This appears to be in fome degree the cafe of the author of the Patriot; for we cannot afcribe to any other caufe, the fuggeftion of feveral of these Remarks, as they feem to be the production of a writer who can reafon with ingenuity and justness.— Refpecting the Americans, this author contends for their independency on the British parliament with regard to taxation.His Addrefs to the Electors of Great Britain contains an admonition to petition and remonftrate, till they have fecured their liberties, by obtaining a Place and Penfion Act. 42. A Full and Clear Procf, that the Spaniards can have no Claim to Balambangan, by Alexander Dalrymple, Efq. 8vo. Nourfe. 15. The fmall island of Balambangan lies at the north point of Borneo, in the East Indies, and was formerly the property of the king of Sooloo, who ceded it to Great Britain in 1762; in confequence of which, Mr Dalrymple took poffeffion of it for the East India company the fubfequent year, and a regular fettlement has been established upon it. This event is faid to have given umbrage to the Spaniards and Dutch, who are jealous of our making any commercial acquifition fo near to the Philippine and Molucca iflands: and it is even affirmed, that the Spanish governor of Manilla has required the British fettlers to evacuate Balambangan. Mr. Dalrymple, who is diftinguished for his knowledge in geography, maintains that, by an exprefs article in the treaty of Munfter, the Spaniards have no right to extend their navigation in the Eaft Indies any further than it was carried at the conclufion of that treaty in 1648, and therefore that they can have no claim to Balambangan. Of what importance an establishment on that ifland would be to the Eaft India company, Mr. Dalrymple has formerly fhewn, in a publication entiled A Plan for extending the commerce of this kingdom, &c. in which he gives a particular account of the territory in question. 43. The Speech of the right hon. the Earl of Chatham, in the House of Lords, on January 20, 1775. 4to. 15. Kearfly. This publication appears, upon the beft authority, to be sputious. POETRY. 44. Sele&a Poema:a Anglorum Latina, feu fparfim edita fea hactenus inedita, accurante Edvardo Popham, Coll. Oriel. Oxon. nuper Soc. 2 Vols. 12mo. 65. ferved. Dodfley. This collection of poems is far fuperior to the Poemata Italorum, the Poetarum Germanorum Deliciæ, and the like. It contains, indeed, many elegant compofitions, fuch as, the Mufcipula, Debora Epinicium, Oratio Habacuci Prophetæ, Carmen Alexandri Pope in S. Cæciliam, à Ch. Smart, and a great variety of fmaller pieces. The following fhort epigram has been generally admired. Luna rubet, pallet, crefcit, nocte ambulat, errat, Cornua luna facit, facit hæc quoque foemina; mutat Schol. Eton. 1738. As it now falls in our way, we fhall venture to offer fome emendations. Luna rubet, pallet, crefcit, noctu ambulat, errat : Cornua luna facit; facit hæc quoque tæmina : luna The editor informs us, that having lately received from his friends many other valuable pieces of Latin poetry, he intends to publish a third volume. 45. Verfes addreffed to the Queen, with a New-Years Gift of Irish Manufacture. By Lord Clare. 4to. 15. Dodfiey. These Verfes are diftinguished by elegant compliment, and poetical, well-conceived imagery. The attitudes in which lord Clare delineates the royal family are particularly beautiful; and the emblematical representation he has given of the commotions in America, is touched with a delicate hand. For the gratification of fuch of our readers as may not have feen the poem, we fhall extract a part of it. Could poor lerne gifts afford, Of Of pureft gold a fculptur'd frame, The face illumin'd by the mind; Poetry and politics are fubjects which it is difficult to unite, yet the noble author has interwoven, in his deferiptive tiffue, the calamitous ftate of poor lerne, with a happy addrefs. If we may judge from this fpecimen of his lordship's poetical talents, he cannot be a ftranger to the Mufes; and as he has condefcended to facrifice to them on New Year's Day, we hope that, before the expiration of the year, we shall be honoured with more of his productions. • 46. The Academic Dream: A Poem. 4to. 1s. 6d. Bew. The defign of this writer is to expofe, and, if poffible, put a ftop to that immoderate purfuit of mathematical learning, which is encouraged in the univerfity of Cambridge, to the exclufion, he tells us, of almost every other branch of useful knowledge. The fons of the Alma Mater, according to his representation, employ their time in nothing but ftudying mathematics and Leeping. 66 Here you can't expect to fee, Where doom'd to linger in this dreary spot, If they have any character at all, Know but one character, you'll know them all, Explore these fons of apathy, you'll find, Two ruling paffions actuate their mind; Thefe only fix'd invariably keep, The love of figures, and the love of fleep; Though fome you'll find, and those too not a few, When When the reader expects fomething more particularly fmare and poignant on the principal fubject of this piece, the author wanders from the point, and describes the amorous dreams of Corinna, and the nocturnal inquietudes of Mr. Wkes and Mr. R-y-ds. He returns, indeed from thefe digreffions; but a great part of his fatire is fo obfcure, that know not whether to pronounce it good or bad. DRAMATIC. 47. The Choleric Man. A Comedy. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drary-Lane. By Richard Cumberland, Esq. 8.v0. 15. 6d. Becket. This comedy is the production of the author of the Weft Indian, and other dramatic pieces. It is sketched on the plan of the Adelphi of Terence, a comedy which has been imitated both by French and English writers; but hitherto never with much fuccefs. Had Mr. Cumberland conducted his fable in a manner correfpondent to the expectations excited in the firft act, he would have attained the applause of having produced the best imitation of the admired Latin author. He has prefixed to the play, a Dedication to Detraction, an impertinent, loquacious, allegorical perfonage, who generally fhoots his arrows at every candidate for fame, &c. against whofe attacks the genus irritabile should take care to be armed cap-a-pee, when they mount their Pegasus. 48. The Tavo Mifers: A Mufical Farce. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. By the Author of Midas and the Golden Pippin. 8vo. s. Kearfly. This Entertainment is founded upon the comedy entitled Les Deux Avares, the outlines of which Mr. O Hara has preferved, and reduced it within the compafs of an English Farce The mufic is generally well adapted to the fituations, and though the Piece is not equal to the former productions of the author, it has been favourably received by the public. MISCELLANEOUS. 49. The Mirror of Human Nature. Wherein are exhibited analytical Definitions of the Natural and Moral Faculties, Affections and Paffions, hence all Actions originate. With Maxims for the Regulation thereof. To which is jubjoined, a Systematical Viewe of Human Knowledge. 12mo. 15. Bew. This little tract is faid to be compiled from fome papers received by the editor in a correfpondence, with which he was honoured by a noble lord, lately deceafed. What noble lord the us; but he gives us that it is no fmall editor means, he does not explicitly inform a very plain intimation, when he tells us, pleasure to him thus publicly to teftify, in honour of his noble patron, the late earl of Chesterfield, that he preferred the beauties and embellishments of the mind to all personal endowments and graces whatfoever.' It is true, no certain conclufion can be drawn |