Tables are added, fhewing the value of the parts of an hundred weight, beginning at 1 lb. at different prices, from 25. to 21. 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 use 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 zest 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 treatise see 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. Vifpré boasts of having preceded him in this mode of culture, and hopes (p. 68.) to make good wine with well ripened grapes, without making ufe 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 treatife.When the treatise itself appears, and teaches us to fill our bowls with fubftantial nectar of English growth, we shall be jolly rogues!

Carmina tum melius cum venerit ipfe canemus. G-d-h. 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 darknefs, 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, Esquire, 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 ftatement of this affair, his lot has been very unfortunate; and the favourable teftimony of Lord Rawdon, here given, must 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

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highest honour on himself, as a man of nice difcrimination, fenfe, 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 shall be awarded against thofe who wantonly offer infults of that nature, it will be incumbent on every officer to take it upon himself, whatever ordinance may ftand in the way." G.2. Art. 45. Eaft-Bourne; being a defcriptive Account of that Vil lage, in the County of Suffex, and its Environs. 12mo. Hooper, &c.

2s. 6d.

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 ObJervations 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, in general, throughout the kingdom, and has given rise 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 shall transcribe what the Author of this pamphlet has observed, 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 poft 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 must 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 purfued, and the virtues proper to be encouraged, by the Prince himself. And the treatife, when finished, he dedicated, from a principle of patriotifm and gratitude, to the fon of his mafter, 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 unanimous approbation of the learned, he conceived the plan of a third work, De Statu prifci Orbis, which was to contain a hiftory of the progrefs 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 Reipublice, 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 laft work that, were abroad, and, after a delay of fome months, published the three treatifes 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 fuggelted, 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 laft Year of the Reign of Frederic II. King of Pruffia: read in the public fembly of the Academy of Berlin, Jan. 25, 1787. By Count de Hertzberg. Tranflated from the French. 8vo. 1 S. Bell. 1787.

The Academy at Berlin had been accuftomed to celebrate the 24th of January, as the birth day of the King, its reftorer; and we have, as our Readers must 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 cuftom 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 promised, 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 published, 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. R— m. Art. 48. Confiderations on the Oaths required by the University 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 itands in fome need of reformation, will hardly be difputed. The great question is, How can REV. Dec. 1787.

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reformation be effected? Not by abufing thofe in power, nor by blaming the prefent mode of inftruction, without pointing out a better. With respect to the arguments against fubfcription, the Author has gone over the fame ground which Dr. Jebb had trod before him, adding fome judicious remarks to what had been faid on the subject, on former occafions.

The cenfure on the mifapplication of the money annually allowed for the publication of useful books, is a just one; that fund was undoubtedly intended to defray the expences of printing original works, or reprinting old and valuable books, fo as to afford them at a moderate price to the ftudent, and not to be fquandered away in giving a fac fimile copy of Beza's manufcript, or a fuperb edition of Taffo. In oppofition to this, however, we must place the fums that have been paid toward Profeffor Waring's new edition of his Meditationes Analytica, Mr. Rehlan's Flora Cantabrigienfis, Mr. Ludlam's Introduction to Algebra and Geometry, Profeffor Cooke's edition of Ariftotle's Poetics, &c. R-m.

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Art. 49. Additions and Corrections to the former Editions of Dr. Robertfon's Hiftory of Scotland. 4to. Is. Cadell. 1787.

A new edition of Dr. Robertfon's Hiftory of Scotland was lately published with fome confiderable additions and corrections. For the fake of thofe perfons who are poffeffed of the quarto edition of 1771, thefe additions and corrections are feparately printed, by which means' they may make the edition of 1771 equal to the 11th of 1787.

Among the additions, we have the following defcription of that fpecies of eloquence for which Knox the reformer was diftinguifhed. It is given by Mr James Melville one of his contemporaries.

But of all the benefites I had that year [1571] was the coming of that most notible prophet and apoftle of our nation, Mr. John Knox, to St. Andrews, who by the faction of the Queen occupying the castle and town of Edinburgh, was compelled to remove there fra with a number of the best, and chufed to come to St. Andrews. I heard him teach there the prophecies of Daniel that fummer and the winter following. I had my pen and little buik, and took away fic things as I could comprehend. In the opening of his text he was moderat the space of half an hour; but when he entered to application, he made me fo to grue [thrill] and tremble, that I could not hald my pen to write. He was very weak. I faw him every day of his doctrine go bulie [flowly] and fair, with a furring of marticks about his neck, a staff in one hand, and good godlie Richart Ballanden holding him up by the oxter [under the arm] from the abbey to the parish kirk; and he the faid Richart and another fervant lifted him up to the pulpit, where he behoved to lean at his sirft entrie; but e're he was done with his fermon, he was fo active and vigorous, that he was like to ding the pulpit in blads [beat the pulpit to pieces), and fly out of it.'

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Art. 50. A Treatise on the Church Catechism; chiefly intended for the Ufe of the elder Children in the Charity and Sunday Schools, in the Parish of Chifwick. By Jmes Trebeek, M. A. Rector of Queenhithe

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Queenhithe and Holy Trinity, Vicar of Chifwick, and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majefty. izmo. Is. Rivingtons. 1787. As we turned over the pages of this little volume, we began to think that the good Vicar of Chifwick had prepared frong men," instead of milk for babes," but when we reperufed the title page, and obferved that his work is chiefly calculated for the elder children,' the objection we were forming was in a great measure removed; yet till we think, that in respect both of matter and language, greater powers of digeftion will be required, than his young parishioners' in general will be found to poffefs.The performance, however, is, on the whole, as refpectably executed as it is well intended.

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Art. 51. Apoftolical Conceptions of God, propounded in a Course of Letters to a Friend. 8vo. 2 s. Dodley, &c. 1786. This anonymous Writer fets out with the following remark: It feems to be now generally acknowledged, that natural religion, the topic of difpute among the learned of the last century, is a mere chimera, without foundation either in experience, hiftory, or reafon.' Whence he draws fo extraordinary a conclufion we are not told; but we must own ourfelves rather furprised at the affertion. Had he, indeed, infifted, that the discoveries of mankind on the subject of natural religion were very imperfect and defective, we should have agreed with him. Or, had he farther faid, that fome writers have afcribed more, in this respect, to the ability of man, than fact and experience would entirely justify,' we should not have objected; fince it is certain, that the human mind may heartily approve of truths and obligations, properly prefented to it, the knowledge of which it could not with any clearnefs and certainty have itself attained. We therefore wonder that this Author, who, with all his myfticifm, must be allowed to exhibit fome marks of fenfe and learning, fhould have laid down fuch a propofition.

One principal defign of thefe Letters is to prove, that the name Jehovah, or, as it is here uniformly written, Jeve, belongs folely to Chrift and his Spirit; or, in the Writer's own words, That the holy Father of our Lord Chrift cannot be comprehended, or at all purported or concluded, in the name Jeve; and that confequently, by the name Jeve is defigned, fingly and alone, the divine Logos, or Angel- God, together with his Holy Spirit, or the Spirit of God; and that Jeve is the name, by no means of the Holy Trinity, but of the Holy Duality, Jeve and his Spirit.'

This, to fome of our Readers, will, no doubt, feem unintelligible jargon; yet they will much mistake, if they hence infer that the Letter-writer is deftitute of capacity or erudition. Whether he is a Behmenift, or Hutchinfonian, or Swedenborgian, or unites with them all, we will not enquire; nor fhall we pretend to accompany him in his argument, illuftrations, and obfervations. He confiders his doctrine as of high importance to the interefts of mankind, to which he appears to be a real friend. His ftyle has a remarkable fingularity: let the Reader judge by fome extracts.

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