with great expence; and teachers properly qualified (fuch, for inftance, as would write, Course of inftruction in the English language, and not, as in the preceding extract, English course of inftruction *), might obtain more lucrative employments in other departments, and perhaps be of more fervice to fociety.

Art. 37. The Juvenile Speaker; or, Dialogues, and Miscellaneous Pieces in Profe and Verfe: For the Inftruction of Youth in the Art of Reading. By the Author of The Polite Reafoner.' 12mo. I s. 6d. Bent. 1787.

The Compiler of this little book has given it to the Public as an Introduction to the Art of Reading. The Pieces felected, however, are fo very incorrectly printed, that he who fhould ftudy by them would be likely, instead of deriving advantage from it, to remain a juvenile Speaker all his life.

Art. 39. Rudiments and Practical Exercifes, for learning the French Language, by an eafy Method. By A. Scot, A. M. Fellow of the University of Paris. The fecond Edition, greatly enlarged and improved. 8vo. 3 s. 6d. bound. Edinburgh, Creech; London, Longman, &c. 1786.

We gave our opinion of the first edition of this Work in our Review, vol. lxvii. p. 74. The prefent impreffion has, as the titlepage truly fays, many improvements.

POLITICA L.

Art. 39. An Eay, containing a few Strictures on the Union of Scotland with England; and on the prefent Situation of Ireland. Being an Introduction to De Foe's Hiftory of the Union. By J. L. De Lolme, Adv. 4to. 3 s. 6d. fewed. Stockdale. 1787.

This work confifts of two parts, though not fo divided. The firft part gives a plain, concife, perfpicuous view of the relative ftate of England and Scotland, from the time of Edward the First to the Union under Anne, in 1707. This part is written entirely by Mr. De Lolme, and is a moft excellent introduction to the history of that Union by De Foe t. But the reader who expects to find Strictures on that Union will be difappointed. -The fecond part relates to Ireland, and is written partly by Mr. de L. and partly by another hand. The introductory Hiftorical Sketch of the State of Ireland, from the first invafion of that country by the English under Henry the Second, till the beginning of the late Rockingham adminiftration,' is likewife written by Mr. De Lolme. It deferves the fame character for brevity and perfpicuity with the former; and it will be read with pleasure by every impartial inquirer, who wishes to gain a distinct notion of the political fituation of Ireland during the period above mentioned; as fuch a diftinct view of that fubject is no where else, that we know of, to be found. What flows (near one fourth part

*Or, as our Author elsewhere repeatedly expreffes it, Course of English inftruction.'

For an account of the late edition of this hiftory, fee p. 459 of this Number.

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of the book) by another hand, gives us a view of the procedure refpecting the Irish propofitions, and subsequent events; with many obfervations tending to recommend an incorporating union between Great Britain and Ireland. We have here, alfo, quotations from feveral authors who have pointed out the expediency of the fame measure. Art. 40. Profpes on the Rubicon; or, an Inveftigation into the Caufes and Confequences of the Politics to be agitated at the Meeting of Parliament. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Debrett. 1787.

Whatever may have been the opinions of diffatisfied individuals, the prefent minifter hath fully juftified his conduct refpecting the late armament, for which, however, he is railed at by the Writer of this Pamphlet,

The Author defcribes England as a ruined country, funk in debt which can never be paid, and whofe harmony with France has been deftroyed by the pettish vanity of a young and unexperienced minifter. The wealth of the nation is a topic on which he enlarges ; and he labours to prove, that it ought only to be estimated by the quantity of gold and filver in circulation. In treating this fubject, he reflects on the credit of the Bank, and, among other ftrange whims, he hints, that the neceffity of weighing guineas was adopted and perfifted in for the fake of forcing paper currency into circulation: That the Bank is only a difguife in which government iffue paper :

:-That

We should have proceeded to have given more of this heated Writer's opinions, did we not apprehend that our Readers are already fatisfied.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Art. 41. Tables of Intereft, from one Pound to five hundred millions for one Day; by which the Intereft of any Sum of Money within thofe Limits may be found with more Expedition than by any Tables hitherto published. By Thomas Hurry. 12mo. 3 s. bound. Robinfons. 1786.

Mr.

The utility of tables of this kind, to perfons who have frequent occafion to calculate the intereft of money, is felf-evident. Hurry has computed a table of intereft for one day only, at 1,1,1, 3, 4, and 5 per cent. per ann. The method of using the Table is explained in the Preface. It is extremely eafy in thofe cafes by which it is exemplified. To find the intereft of any fum, for a number of days, a multiplication must be performed; and when the number of days exceeds 10 or 12, the operation becomes laborious; and much more fo when it exceeds 100. Now, tables ought to be fo contrived, as to exclude, if poffible, all calculation: and as cales may, and often do occur, in which the intereft is required for upwards of 100 or 200 days, the multiplication must be tedious, and the purpose of having a tab, will be fo far defeated.

We have examined the book in feveral places, and have conftantly found the articles exactly computed, to within half a farthing; we can therefore recommend it as correct.

Our paper currency is, with this Writer, a fubject of much harth invective.

Tables

Tables are added, fhewing the value of the parts of an hundred weight, beginning at 1 lb. at different prices, from 2s. to 2/ 45. per hundred weight:-The value of one hundred weight and one ton, at different prices per lb.-The decimal parts of a foot, with its ufe in computing the tonnage of fhips, &c.

Art. 42. A Differtation on the Growth of Wine in England; to ferve as an Introduction to a Treatife on the Method of cultivating Vineyards, in a Country from which they feem at prefent entirely eradicated; and making from them good fubftantial Wine. By F. X. Vifpré. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Dilly. 1786.

This Author is a great advocate for English vineyards, and endeavours to prove the poffibility of their being made to flourish with us. Little anecdotes from ancient writers are called to give a zeft to the fubject; neither is Sir E. Barry's treatife forgotten.

At the conclufion, Mr. Vifpré contends with Mr. Le Brocq (for an account of whofe treatife fee our Review, vol. lxxiv. p. 390.) for the palm of invention of the method of training vines on the ground. Mr. Le Brocq afferts that he has a patent for it. Mr. Vispré boasts of having preceded him in this mode of culture, and hopes (p. 68.) to make good wine with well ripened grapes, without making use of beds, lattice work, low walls, frames covered with glasses or oiled paper, flues, nor any part of the patentee's coftly and cumbersome apparatus. And thus we leave them, F. X. VISPRE verfus P. LE BROCQ

It is to be observed, that this is only an Introduction to a treatise.When the treatise itfelf appears, and teaches us to fill our bowls with fubftantial nectar of English growth, we fhall be jolly rogues!

Carmina tum melius cum venerit ipfe canemus.

Art. 43. An Anfwer to Captain Inglefield's Vindication of his Conduct, &c. 8vo. 6d. Sewell.

Captain Inglefield's Vindication was the fubject of a fhort article in our Catalogue for October. If the ground of all this conteft appeared then, to us, to be a matter of total uncertainty, and enveloped in utter darkness, that darkness is not yet, in the fmallest degree, cleared up. The difpute is now become a mere fcribbling difpute, a war of words, and perfonal altercation, in which facts are lefs attended to than cavilling, fneers, and farcafm: with all of which the Public, we imagine, are as much tired, on this occafion at least, as are the Monthly Reviewers: who, to this moment, are as ignorant of the real merits of the cafe, as they were at the commencement of the litigation, and of the confequent publications.

Art. 44. The fingular and interesting Cafe of Patrick Dillon, Efquire, late Surgeon of the 64th Regiment of foot, lately difmiffed from his Majesty's Service in confequence of having fent a Challenge to Robert Hedges, Efq. late Captain in the 67th Regiment, for Defamation, &c. 8vo. 1s. Strahan. 1787.

According to Mr. Dillon's statement of this affair, his lot has been very unfortunate; and the favourable teftimony of Lord Rawdon, here given, muft be of great weight with the Public. His Lordship has expreffed his ideas of Mr. Dillon's conduct, in language which, while it must be very grateful to the feelings of Mr. D. reflects the

highest

highest honour on himself, as a man of nice difcrimination, fense, and fpirit.

Among other obfervations, Lord R. has the following,-which, no doubt, will be univerfally approved by our military Readers.— "No man can hold in greater abhorrence than I do, the character of a captious perfon: there are offences, however, which, according to the way of thinking established among gentlemen, leave it not in the option of a man of honour to be patient; and fuch, by all I have heard, was the affront that you received. Till fome fufficient punishment fhall be awarded against thofe who wantonly offer infaits of that nature, it will be incumbent on every officer to take it upon himself, whatever ordinance may stand in the way."

Art. 45. Eaft-Bourne; being a defcriptive Account of that Village, in the County of Suffex, and its Environs. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Hooper, &c.

Gives fuch a defcription of Eaft-Bourne, and places adjacent, as will tempt the curious traveller to vifit the romantic and beautiful fcenery, exclufive of the ufual advantages, in refpect of health, to be derived from the fea-air and bathing. The Author has decorated his account with a little map of the county, and views of Beachyhead and Newhaven bridge.

Art. 46. Remarks on the new Edition of Bellendenus, with fome Ob fervations on the extraordinary Preface. 8vo. 1s. Stalker. 1787. The new edition of Bellenden, which we noticed in our number for June last, p. 489. has engaged the attention of the Literati, ia general, throughout the kingdom, and has given rife to the prefent performance, which is a review of the work, and especially of the Preface.

In addition to what we have faid of Bellenden, we fhall tranfcribe what the Author of this pamphlet has obferved, concerning him and his writings.

William Bellenden, a Scotch writer, flourished at the beginning of the 17th century, and is faid to have been a Profeffor in the Univerfity of Paris; he enjoyed, indeed, at the fame time, a post of a very different nature, being Magifter Supplicum Libellorum, or Reader of private petitions to his own fovereign, James I. of England. The duty of his place muft have confifted in the name only, for this Reader of the petitions to one Prince appears to have refided conftantly at the capital of another. At Paris he certainly fojourned long, for it was there he published, in 1608, his Cicero princeps, a fingular work; in which he extracted, from Cicero's writings, detached paffages, and comprized them into one regular body, containing the rules of monarchical government, with the line of conduct to be pursued, and the virtues proper to be encouraged, by the Prince him felf. And the treatife, when finished, he dedicated, from a principle of patriotitm and gratitude, to the fon of his master, Henry, then Prince of Wales.

Four years afterwards, namely, in 1612, he proceeded to publish another work of a fimilar nature, which he called Cicero Conful, Senator Senatufque Romanus, in which he treated, with much perfpicuity, and a fund of folid information, on the nature of the Confular office, and the conftitution of the Roman Senate.

Finding thefe works received, as they deferved, with the una nimous approbation of the learned, he conceived the plan of a third work, De Statu prifci Orbis, which was to contain a hiftory of the progress of government and philofophy, from the times before the Flood, to their various degrees of improvement under the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans.

He proceeded fo far as to print a few copies of this work, in the year 1615, when it feems to have been fuggefted that his treatifes, De Statu Principis, De Statu Reipublicæ, and De Statu Orbis, being on fubjects fo nearly refembling each other, there might be a propriety in uniting them into one work, by republishing the two former, and entitling the whole Bellendenus de Statu.

With this view, he recalled the few copies of his last work that were abroad, and, after a delay of fome months, published the three treatises together, under their new title, in 1616.'

Such is the account given of Bellenden. The remainder of the work confifts of mifcellaneous obfervations on what the Author calls the Extraordinary Preface. The circumftance of the Tria Lumina, he fays, appears to have fuggefted, to the mind of the Editor, the idea of republishing the three treatifes, De Statu, and dedicating them to the Tria Lumina Anglorum, Lord North, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Burke.For the reft, we refer to this Critique at length-the work of fome brother Reviewer, to us unknown.

Art. 47. Hiftorical Memoir of the last Year of the Reign of Frederic II. King of Pruffia: read in the public Aflembly of the Academy of Berlin, Jan. 25, 1787. By Count de Hertzberg. Tranflated from the French. Svo. I S. Bell. 1787.

The Academy at Berlin had been accustomed to celebrate the 24th of January, as the birth day of the King, its reflorer; and we have, as our Readers muft remember, frequently had the pleasure of laying before them an abstract of Count de Hertzberg's Orations on this annual commemoration. Notwithstanding the King's death, the custom is to be continued, in remembrance of the revival of the Academy, on the anniversary of that day; and this great Academician imagined he could not difcharge his duty better than by reading, before the affembly, a Memoir, giving an abridged account of the public tranfactions of the last year of the reign of his late fovereign. The Count, however, has done more than he promifed, for he gives an ample and circumftantial detail of the public life of the late King.

The Count informs us, that the King has written his own history, after the example, and in the fpirit of Thucydides, Polybius, and Cæfar. It is to be publifhed, without any effential abridgment, or alteration The Preface to it is here given, as it was read to the Academy by the Count; and as it is to be found at the head of the King's manufcript, corrected by his own hand, in 1775.

Art. 48. Confiderations on the Oaths required by the Univerñty of Cambridge, at the Time of taking Degrees; and on other Subjects which relate to the Difcipline of that Seminary. By a Member of the Senate. 8vo. 1 s. 6d Deighton. 1787.

That the difcipline of our univerfities ftands in fome need of reformation, will hardly be difputed. The great question is, How can REV. Dec. 1787.

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