money which brings us eafe, plenty, command, power, every thing, and of courfe happiness. You are the bar to my attaining this; therefore 'tis neceffary for my good-and which I think you value Farico. You know I do; fo much, that it wou'd break my heart to leave you. Inkle. But we muft part. If you are feen with me, I fhall lofe all. Yar. I gave up all for you-my friends: my country: all that was dear to me and ftill grown dearer fince you fhelter'd thereAll, all was left for you, and were it now to do again-again I'd cross the feas, and follow you all the world over. Inkle. We idle time, Sir; fhe is your's. See you obey this gentleman; 'twill be the better for you. (going.) Yar. O barbarous ! (holding him.) Do not, do not abandon me! Yar. Stay but a little. Protect me but a little, and I'll obey this man, and undergo all hardships for your good; ftay, but to witnefs 'em. I foon fhall fink with grief; tarry till then, and hear me blefs your name when I am dying, and beg you now and then, when I'm gone, to heave a figh for your poor Yarico. Inkle. I dare not liften. You, Sir, I hope, will take good care of her. (going) Sir Chr. Care of her!-that I will-I'll cherish her like my own daughter, and pour balm into the heart of a poor innocent girl, that has been wounded by the artifices of a fcoundrel. Inkle. Ha! 'Sdeath, Sir, how dare you! • Sir Chr. 'Sdeath, Sir, how dare you look an honeft man in the face? Inkle. Sir, you shall feel Sir Chr. Feel!-It's more than ever you did, I believe; mean, fordid, wretch! dead to all fenfe of honour, gratitude, or humanityI never heard of fuch barbarity. I have a fon-in-law, who has been left in the fame fituation, but, if I thought him capable of fuch cruelty, dam'me if I wou'd not turn him to fea with a peck loaf in a cockle-thell-Come, come, cheer up, my girl. You fhan't want a friend to protect you, I warrant you. (taking Yarico by the hand) Inkle. Infolence! The Governor fhall hear of this infult. Sir Chr. The Governor! lyar! cheat! rogue! impoftor! breaking all ties you ought to keep, and pretending to thofe you have no right to. The Governor had never fuch a fellow in the whole catalogue of his acquaintance-the Governor difowns you—the Governor difclaims you the Governor abhors you; and to your utter confufion, here itands the Governor to tell you fo. Here ftands old Curry, who never talk'd to a rogue without telling him what he thought of him.' Were we difpofed to cavil, or inclined to adminifter correction, for the purpofe of improvement, to a young student in the drama, we should fay that Inkle's ideas of Tare and Tret, and his valet's jocularity, fhould have been fufpended during their very dangerous fituation on the main of America, and deferred, as Ligon has deferred them, to " Mr. Thomas Inkle's coming into English territories, when he began feriously to reflect upon his lofs lofs of time, and to weigh with himfelf how many days intereft of his money he had loft during his ftay with Yarico." In this ftrain we might add that the Author is (whether in or out of feafon) too fond of a pun,-the Cleopatra, as Johnfon fays, for which Shakespeare loft the world. The Polith denominations of Vowski, and Pownatowski, are alfo very flagrant miftakes, as well as his geographical trefpaffes, by converting America into Africa, and peopling her forests with lions, where no lion was ever seen. Mr. Colman, junior, has judiciously conceived that the reformation of his hero would be agreeable to an English audience: yet he has rather injudiciously put into the mouth of Inkle, indecent accufations of his father, to whom he attributes a bafeness and criminality, for which he ought to have fhewn his own contrition, by every mark of felf-felt remorfe and penitence. Ligon was not writing a play, but a hiftory. He therefore fhould not have been too implicitly followed, but the fubftance of his narrative artfully wrought into the drama. When, however, we confider the very narrow foundation on which the Author has built the opera of Inkle and Yarico, we think there is much more reason to applaud than to cenfure the fuperftructure, and we heartily with him to fhew equal fkill and ability in any future edifices, if he means to raise them. A.B ART. XIV. An Academy for Grown Horfemen, containing the completest Inftructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. Illuftrated with Copper-plates, and adorned with a Portrait of the Author. By Geoffrey Gambado, Efq; Riding Mafter, Mafter of the Horfe, and Grand Equerry, to the Doge of Venice. Folio. 11. 1s. Boards. Hooper. 1787. Lively and entertaining jeu d'efprit of the pencil and the A pen. Hogarth appears to be the mafter copied in the one fchool, and Swift, in his Directions to Servants, the object of imitation in the other; and the prefent difciple is no difgrace to either. His defcriptions and exhibitions are both irrefiftibly laughable, and abound with traits of comedy, which, according to Vanbrugh's definition, the Author feems to have confidered as the art of teaching men what they should do, by fhewing them doing what they should not do." A fhort fpecimen may be given of the Author's humour; and we shall take it from his directions How to ride a horse upon three legs:' but we are forry that we cannot infert the best part of this pleasant chapter-the EXCELLENT PRINT*. *The prints are 12 in number, including the portrait; the atti tudes of the horses and riders are well imagined, and as well executed. Dd 3 'Let * N.B. A.B's article was much alter'd. Let me intreat you to examine your tackling well at fetting out,. particularly from an inn, and after dinner: fee that your girths are tight; any a good fail have I got by not attending to this. Hoftlers are too apt to be careless, and ought never to be paid till we fee them the next time. An inftance of a fingular nature occurred at Huntingdon a few years fince to the Rev. D. B. of Jefus College in Cambridge, which has given a difcovery to the world (productive indeed of a paper war), but which may turn out beneficial to mankind, as it proves 3 to be equal to 4. The Doctor dined at the Crown, it was dufk when he fet out northwards: I myself faw three fhillings charged in his bill for wine; this accounts for his want of obfervation; for the hoftler's, I must attribute it to his having been paid before-hand. The Doctor went off at a fpurt, pretty much in the manner I have recommended, and having got clear of the pavement, wished to (what is called) mend his pace; but his horfe was obdurate, and all his influence could not prevail. The Doctor fancied, at times, he went oddly, and therefore brought to, at Alconbury, five miles from Huntingdon, and alighted for an examination: when he difcovered that the hoftler, through inattention, had buckled up one of the horfe's hind legs in the furcingle: and to this alone he had to attribuze his hobbling way of going *. There was an hoftler + at Barnet, who was a moralift; poffibly this at Huntingdon was an experimental philofopher, and thought an old member of the University the propereft fubject to put his experiment in execution. It certainly anfwered, as far as five miles; but how it would fucceed in bringing horfes of different forms, together, over Newmarket, I am not competent to determine. It feems as if one might work a lame horfe thus, and keep his unfound leg quiet. If this experiment has been repeated, it has been in private, for I have not heard of it; and I much queftion, if it would ever be generally adopted; when I fay generally, no reflection upon general officers. A timid major, however, might keep his horfe in due fubjection on a review-day, by this method." Some of our public papers have liberally given the Academy for Grown Horfemen' to that celebrated antiquary, Captain Grofe; but we are well informed that this ingenious artist (however equal to the tafk) hath no legal title to the honour of having produced the work before us. The name of H. Bunbury, Efq. the well-known caricaturift, ftands at the bottom of each of the humorous prints; and he has not difclaimed them: we have also other reasons for believing that it is to him we are obliged for the entertainment we have met with, in perufing a work that hath made us fome amends for the drudgery of labouring through an enormous pile of polemical divinity. This story is faid to be founded on a well-known fact. James Ripley, many years, and till very lately, hoftler at the Red Lion, at Barnet, published a volume of Letters,' See Review, vol, lxvii. p. 73. c. ART. ART. XV. Supplement to the General Synopfis of Birds. By John Latham. 4to. 11. 6s. Boards. Leigh and Sotheby. 1787. MR R. Latham gives the following account of his work: In order to form this fupplemental volume, every fpecies in the former ones has been revifed; and to fuch of them as wanted correction, or where any new remark feemed neceffary to be added, it has been done: after which, thofe defcribed as new, follow at the end of each genus; making, in the whole, not fewer than 3000 birds; a number never imagined, by former writers in ornithology, to exift in nature.' We muft add, that it is decorated with 14 coloured plates, neatly executed. At the end is a lift of the birds of Great Britain, referred to their places in the feveral volumes of Mr. Latham's General Synopfis, in Pennant's British Zoology, and in Linnæus. At the bottom of each page of this lift are a few fhort notes, mentioning the places where fome of the rarer fpecies have been met with, &c. We have likewife a lift of the errata in the former volumes, and an index to this fupplement. When we reviewed the former volumes, published by this most induftrious and very intelligent Author, we strongly recommended to him to draw out, in imitation of the Linnæan method, fhort generic and fpecific defcriptions, which, by placing the fubject in a more comprehenfive point of view, might make it more readily understood. We had flattered ourfelves, especially as we had heard that the very first naturalifts joined in our recommendation, that Mr. Latham would have willingly turned his thoughts to the execution of fo neceffary and fo very valuable an addition. How, then, were we mortified, at reading the preface to this fupplemental volume, wherein he endeavours to produce arguments, and advance excufes, why this part need not be executed? They take up almoft the whole preface. As we are confcious that we were ftrictly justified in our remark, we fhall not decline purfuing the argument. To act therefore as fairly as we can, we will ftate Mr. Latham's reafons for his omiffions, and fubjoin our remarks on them. Page 1. It has been thought by fome, that fuch an undertaking as the prefent might have been rendered more complete, if fhort generic and fpecific defcriptions had been added; but as fuch, if joined to the work, could not, with propriety, have been placed any where except at the head of the defcriptions at large, it would not, in the Author's opinion, have elucidated the fub What we fay to Mr. Latham, we mean to point equally at his colleague in manner and fentiment. Indeed as Mr. Pennant fet the pattern of this defective mode of publication, he must be confidered as by far the more culpable writer of the two; and, in just confequence, he ought to be the first to correct the error. Dd 4 ject fst ject in the fame proportion as it must have added to the bulk of the volumes.' As to the place where they ought to be introduced, it is not fo very material, provided they be introduced at all.-For ourfelves, we are free to declare, that we fhould not have difliked to fee them in their proper place, at the head of the descriptions at large for as to the adding to the bulk of volumes fo moderate in their prefent fize, and fo rich in their contents, by introducing fuch valuable materials, being an evil of greater magnitude than not introducing them at all (whereby we are in a great measure left in diftrefs), this we muft ftrenuously deny. Never, fcarcely in literature, was the obfervation, The farthest way about is the fhortest way home, more truly verified than in the prefent inftance. Extenfive as the work is, the road through it will be much fhorter, when directions are fet up to prevent the traveller from bewildering himfelf. Though the road may run circuitously, it must at length prove easier and more expeditious to the diligent traveller: the work, as it at prefent ftands, is rather a book of reference The part to be principally examined remains behind, viz. the generic and fpecific tables. We hope no idea of expence interfered-for would any one lay out a large fum on an unwieldy mass of collections, who would not much more cheerfully make an addition, to have the whole rendered eafy and pleasant? But to proceed: page 2. A performance of this kind, therefore, to be of real utility, muft be in a feparate publication; as in that cafe, the defcriptions being compreffed into a smaller Space, might be curforily perufed, in the fame manner as in the Syftema Naturæ of Linnæus, after whofe elegant model it should alfo be formed.' Who denies it? This is the very thing which we wished to fee accomplished: a feparate publication, containing generic and fpecific descriptions. In our zeal to procure this valuable addition, we faid, that the place of the introduction is immaterial, &c. But certainly we fhould prefer this method, for the very fame reasons that Mr. Latham advances, viz. that the subject would be placed in a more comprehenfive view, and becaufe it would be more conformable to the Linnæan model. Here we fecm all agreed-Why then is it not accomplished? Can any obftacle arife from the idea of a feparate publication? If an omiffion has been made, can the fault be too early remedied? We are perfuaded, that all Mr. Latham's readers would rejoice at feeing this fame feparate publication-and if he wishes to confult real utility, he would publifh the defcriptions in an octavo volume-It would be more portable, more convenient in the use, and cheaper, Mr. |