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knowledge, that the acrimony of Mr. Ramfay's publications is a powerful ftimulant; and we are not surprised to find that Mr. Tobin has been roused by it. Thofe paffages of Mr. Ramfay's Reply, which are the objects of Mr. Tobin's prefent attention, are animadverted on in a very able manner; and although our Author's language is animated, yet it is not filled with thofe farcaftic retorts, and invective expreffions, which we were forry to obferve, and obliged to cenfure, in Mr. Ramfay's Reply.

Mr. T. adds fome obfervations on An Inquiry into the Effect of putting a Stop to the African Trade*,' &c. and on Captain Smith's Letter. He notices alfo the Eay on the Commerce and Slavery of the buman Species t R-m

Art. 47. A Narrative of the Life and Death of John Elliot, M. D. Containing an Account of his unhappy Paffion for Mifs Mary Boydell; a Review of his Writings; together with an Apology, written by himself, under the Preffure of expected Condemnation. 4to. 2s. Ridgeway. 1787.

The fhort Life here given of Dr. Elliot, confifts chiefly of virulent abufe of Mifs Boydell; and even the worthy Alderman, her uncle, does not escape. This is followed by an high panegyric on the unfortunate lover. Very long extracts from the Doctor's last publication ‡ are added; and the Narrative concludes with the Apology mentioned in the title-page. With refpect to this laft part of the work, the newspapers have already informed the public, on the authority of affidavits, that Dr. Elliot did not "put pen to paper," during his fhort confinement, after his trial. We have been fincerely concerned for the hapless fate of this ingenious man, with whofe good abilities we were well acquainted for feveral years paft. G.E.G. Art. 48. Mrs. Inglefield's Juftification; containing the Proceedings in the Ecclefiaftical Court, July 11th and 17th, 1785, taken in Short Hand, by W. Blanchard; with a Preface and Notes by Mrs. Ann Inglefield. 8vo. 3 s. fewed. Sewell, &c. 1787. Mrs. Inglefield has prefaced this account of the proceedings in the caufe inftituted by her husband, with a copious review of the circumftances of the cafe (fee Rev. Vol. 75. p. 388. Art. 38.), in order to clear her injured character, by fhewing on what fallacious grounds Capt. I. brought against her a charge of indecent behaviour, and criminal connection with a Negro fervant.-It is impoffible to read this account of the whole affair, without feeling a strong prepoffeffion in favour of the accufed.-Surely the Captain has been too hafty! Art. 49. An Hafty Sketch of a Tour through Part of the Auftrian Netherlands, and great Part of Holland, made in the Year 1785. With an Account of the internal Policy, Government, &c. of the Cities of Bruffels and Amfterdam. By an English Gentleman: 8vo. 5s. Boards. Faulder. 1787.

This gentleman fpeaks fo humbly of himfelf and his performance, and his motives for publication are fo truly praife-worthy-as will

*See Rev. Vol. lxxii. p. 437.

+ See Rev. Vol. lxxv. p. 364.

Experiments and Obfervations on Light and Colours,' &c.

See Review for June laft, p. 524..

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be feen by the following quotation from his Preface-that we fin cerely with him the greateft fuccefs:

The diffidence with which I prefent the following fheets to the Public, with the humble title this work affumes, will, I truft, difarm the criticisms and cenfures of the learned world. Confcious of its many defects and inaccuracies, I entreat particularly their candour and indulgence.

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But to the Public in general, I have a more powerful, more interefting claim. An unhappy mother, reduced by unfavourable, unforefeen misfortunes, from a life of affluence and elegance to that of actual want and mifery, aggravated by the additional diftrefs of beholding four helpless children looking up to her for that fupport which the cruelty of fate deprives her of the means of affordingthrough the channel of the following fheets fupplicates affiftance. To the ufe of herself and family, the emoluments arifing from the fale of this trifling work will be appropriated; and in fuch a cafe [ have no doubt, but the generofity of a benevolent and humane Pub lic will be excited to patronize a work from which the Author claims no merit, but in the intention.'

Reader!" Go thou, and do likewife." We mean not, in compofing A Sketch of a Tour,' but in affisting the indigent and dif treffed.

As to the Sketches here given, of towns, &c. in the Auftrian Netherlands, and in Holland, if we may judge of the whole of our Author's defcriptions, from our recollection of thofe places which we have feen, his accounts are very just. A.B.

Art. 50. An Account of the Conduct of Mr. Levy, refpecting Chriftian Claufs, and other extraordinary Perfonages. By a Friend to Mr. Levy. 12mo. 46 Pages. No Price. Printed for the Writer. 1787.

Mr. Levy was formerly in partnership with Mr. Claufs, a maker of piano forte guitars, on an improved principle, for which, as the inventor, he had a patent. The copartners not agreeing, a feparation, and a chancery fuit, enfued; and Mr. Levy's hard cafe is here published, by (as the Writer profefles) a friend. The narrative is well drawn up; and if the facts are all truly and impartially stated, as they really appear to be, never man had greater cause of complaint, than hath the person who had the misfortune to be connected in bufinefs with Mr. C. C.

Art. 51. A Guide to the Lottery; or the Laws of Chance laid down in a plain and intelligible Manner, &c. By W. Painter. 8vo. 25. Kearney. › 1787.

Mr. Painter has, here given the folutions of feveral problems relative to gaming; most of which are taken from De Moivre's Doctrine of Chances; but that mathematician's demonftrations are omitted. The chances in the last lottery are peculiarly attended to, and many tables are inferted, by means of which, various queftions relative to that lottery may be answered by inspection only. The bufinefs of infuring tickets is explained, the advantages taken by office-keepers are pointed out, and methods are laid down for afcertaining the prices of infurance for every day's drawing. REV. Aug. 1787.

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- Mr. Painter has added fome obfervations on the game of draughts; he has given 30 felect games in which he fhews the manner of moving the pieces to the best advantage.

** This article fhould have appeared fooner; but the pamphlet did not come to our hands till within thefe few days. R-m.

Art. 52. The New Polite Preceptor: containing the Beauties of Englifh Profe, Selected from the Writings of the most eminent Authors, in order to form the Style, and promote a literary Emulation in the Youth of both Sexes. By the Editor of the Sunday Moni tor. 12mo. 35. E. Johnson.

Collections of admired paffages detached from approved writers, are become very common; and no wonder, fince the only difficulty in compiling them, is the invention of a new title.-If fuch publi cations are not to be ranked among the most useful, they, at leaft, afford entertainment to the generality of young readers, who are al ways fond of Mifcellanies.

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Art. 53. A Collection of Pamphlets concerning the Poor, with Abstracts of the Poor's Rates; Expences of different Houses, of Industry, &c. and Obfervations by the Editor. 4to. 5s. Boards. Elliot and Co. 1787.

The pamphlets here republifhed are, 1. Some proposals for the employing of the Poor, efpecially in and about the city of London. By Thomas Firmin. First printed in 1678. 2. Bread for the Poor; or, a method fhewing bow the Poor may be maintained, and duly provided for, in a far more plentiful and yet cheaper manner than they now are. By R. D. Printed in 1698. 3. Giving alms no charity. By Daniel de Foe. Printed in 1704. 4. A Letter to the Citizens of Glafgow, containing a fhort view of the management of the Poor's funds. By a Citizen of Glasgow.-Printed in 1783. The Editor has added fome pertinent reflections on our poor rates, and has given large abftracts from the returns made by the overfeers of feveral places to the house of commons, in 1776.

. The republication of the firft three pamphlets may prove ac ceptable to the Public at the time when a revifal of the poor laws is in contemplation. They all contain many useful hints, and may be deemed valuable, as exhibiting the ftate of the poor, and fhewing the means that have been used for supplying their wants, &c. &c. Art. 54. The Afiatic Mifcellany; confifting of Tranflations, fugitive Pieces, Imitations, original Productions, and Extracts from curious Publications. By Sir W. Jones, and William Chambers, Efq; and other literary Gentlemen, now refident in India. : Crown 8vo. 3 s. fewed. Wallis, &c. 1787.

Of the original Calcutta edition of these Afiatic Miscellanies, we have given an ample account in our Reviews for May and June laft. This pocket edition contains the fame pieces, except the paper on the Arabian Aftronomy, and Thevenot's Account of his Journey from Cairo to Suez, which feem to have been defignedly omitted, on reafons fimilar to what we remarked, when we noticed those papers in the article above referred to.

Art. 55. A foort Account of the Marratta State. Written in Perfian, by a Munfhy, who accompanied Col. Upton in his Embaffy to Poonah. Tranflated by W. Chambers, Efq; Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. To which is added, The Voyages and Travels of M. Cæfar Frede ricke, into the Eaft Indies, &c. 8vo. 2s. Kearley. 1787. Re-printed from the Afiatic Mifcellany above mentioned. Art. 56. Rane Comice Evangelizantes; or the comic Frogs turned Methodift. 8vo. 1 s. Macklew. 1786.

The pretended Editor (who, no doubt, is the Author), in his previous advertisement, ftyles this work an abominable rhapsody !" and he has in thefe words juftly characterifed the performance. We never knew fatire worfe applied! Under the pretence of attacking fanaticifm and bigotry, every thing facred, and awful, even the very day of judgment, is expofed to ridicule !

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Learn, ye dunces, not to fcorn your God!"
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Art. 57. Short Directions for the Management of Infants. By T. Mantell, Surgeon and Practitioner in Midwifery, at Dover, 12mo. 25. Becket. 1787.

The great number of books on the fubject of nurfing, might have induced us to think that little more remained to be added. Though Mr. Mantell has not advanced many new thoughts, yet his directions are good, and fuited to the clafs of readers for whom they were

chiefly intended: they are however rather too concife. R-m. Art. 58. Medical Cautions, chiefly for the Confideration of Invalids, &c. The fecond Edition: to which are now added two Appendices. Publifhed for the Benefit of the General Hospital at Bath. By James Makittrick Adair, M. D. Member of the Medical Society, and Fellow of the College of Phyficians at Edinburgh. 8vo. 6s. Boards. Dilly. 1787.

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In our brief review of the first edition of this work, we made fuch remarks as we thought it merited. In this edition, we obferve the effays to be confiderably enlarged, especially that on regimen, which, by its plan being extended, affumes the appearance of a new work. Two effays are added under the form of Appendices...

The nature of the work has led the Author to animadvert on a variety of medical abuses. As he has not always executed this jak with fufficient moderation, he has unluckily expofed himself to the attacks of empirics, and, in fome meafure, to the cenfure of regular phyficians. A great part of the preface is employed in repelling thefe attacks, which ought, if prudence had prevailed, to have been treated in a different manner. Private piques and quarrels are un interefting to the Public, and it is beneath the dignity of the. profeffional character to carry on a controverfy with the venders. of noftrums.

The originality of the work, and the ingenuity and humour, which the Author frequently manifefts, efpecially when he addreffes bimfelf to his learned fifters, the Lady Doctors, may be agreeable to See Review for Sept. 1786. p. 227.. N 2

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many readers and we efteem Dr. Adair for his (as we verily be lieve) well-meant and fincere endeavours to abolish every species of empiricifm. But before that bane of fociety can be thoroughly eradicated, many abufes in what is called the regular practice muft, we apprehend, be reformed; and the English nation cured, if poffible, of its endemical difeafe,-credulity. R-m

Art. 59. Obfervations on the new Opinions of John Hunter, in his late Treatife on the Venereal Difeafe. Part III. By Jeffe Foot, Surgeon, 8vo. 3s. Becket. 1787.

The two former parts of Mr. Foot's Obfervations we have already noticed. This third part is, like the others, replete with juft remarks on Mr. Hunter's Treatife. Mr. Foot's cenfures on tranfplanting teeth, perfectly coincide with our own fentiments on that fubject, and are evidently the dictates of benevolence. Whoever will fuffer a tooth to be tranfplanted after having read the reprefentation here given of the confequences of that dangerous practice, must be poffeffed of no fmall defire for beauty. We hope thefe wellwritten arguments will totally abolish fo deteftable an operation. If it is neceffary, for the fake of fpeaking, to fill up a vacancy in the fore-teeth, artificial teeth answer the purpose very well; they can be neatly made, and exactly fitted by a good artift.

We must again repeat our difapprobation of Mr. Foot's virulent ftyle, Mildness is a great recommendation to a good caufe, and is molt especially commendable in a difputant.

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Art. 60. An Effay on Humanity; or a View of Abuses in Hospitals, with à Plan of correcting them. By William Nolan. 8vo. Murray." 3

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- Mr. Nolan is angry with the fervants, officers, phyficians, fargeons, and legiflators of hofpitals; they are remifs in their duty, cruel to the patients, and fruftrate the intentions of benefactors, by increasing, rather than leffening the miferies of the unfortunate people who are committed to their care. To reform these abuses, Mr. N. recommends a committee to vifit the hospitals, and oblige all the officers not only to do their duty, but every act of humanity that may be in their power.

Art. 61. Medical Remarks on natural, spontaneous, and artificial Evacuation By John Anderson, M. D. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Marray.

1787.

After making fome pertinent obfervations on evacuation in general, this rational writer proceeds to treat of the feveral evacuations feparately. Each of these is again judiciously fubdivided, and the diagnostic symptoms are accurately enumerated. Dr. Anderson's remarks on the inteftinal evacuation feem, in our opinion, to be the moft material part of his ufeful publication; they are evidently the refult of attentive practice and just reafoning. What is faid of perfpiration, is no lefs worthy the attention of the medical reader; and indeed the whole pamphlet will be found ferviceable to the practitioner.

* See Rev. Vol. lxxv. p. 303. and ixxvi. p. 75

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