Thro' the furrounding mists which cloud the throne, Rais'd thee to govern and to bless the land.' "Thefe fpecimens will be fufficient to fhew the general style and execution of this little poem, which is not without a confiderable share of merit, though in many parts unequal. ART. 24. Six Days Tour in Normandy. London, 1790. 8vo. 25. Egerton. This little work is entertaining, and contains fome information. The defcription of the infurrections at Caen and Cherbourg carry with them an air of accuracy and truth, which may make them useful documents for the future hiftorians of the revolution then becoming general. ART. 25. Gynomachia; or, A Contest between Two Old Ladies in the Service of a celebrated Orator. 4to. 2s. 6d. Walter. Lon don, 1790. The two old ladies are the moral and political confciences of Mr. Burke. These our fatirical bard has thought proper to represent in the act of juftifying their conduct before Minos, and the other judges of hell. They give their reasons at length for having induced their mafter to speak and act fo inconfiftently. The defign of the writer is to perfuade the public that the political connexions of Mr. Burke have been unfriendly to his original moral principles. The poem is too long, nor does it atone for this fault by its pleafantry, or any other fpecies of merit. ART. 26. The Trial between the Phoenix Affurance Company and Mr. James Brown, late of St. Paul's Church-Yard: containing the Evidence delivered in the Court of Common Pleas, at the Guildhall in the City of London, Dec. 15, 1789. Copied from the Notes of Mr. Gurney, taken in the Court. 8vo. No Price. Published by Order of the Phoenix Fire-Office. The beft account we can give of this trial is by tranfcribing the advertisement prefixed to it: Several of the public prints having lately inferted false and inflammatory accounts refpecting the caufe between the Phoenix Affurance Company and Mr. James Brown, late of St. Paul's Churchyard, tending to caft reflections on the office, who acted under the advice of eminent counfel, and who had nothing in view by refifting Mr. Brown's claim but a defire of difcharging their duty to the public.-The following is a correct account of the evidence given at the trial, and taken by Mr. Gurney.' ART. 27. The Young Lady of Fortune; or, Her Lover gained by Stratagem. A Novel in Two Volumes. By a Lady. 8vo. 3s. Stalker. London, 1789. Whatever may be the contents of a two-volume novel we at least expect two neat pocket volumes, printed on fine paper, price 5s. The one before us is two volumes ftitched in one, and vilely printed on vile paper. Perhaps this was all that could be afforded for three fhillings; and we will venture to pronounce it as much as the work deferves. ART. 28. Tyranny annihilated; or, The Triumph of Freedom over De-Spetifm; containing a particular Account of the Rije, Progress, and va rious Incidents which produced the late grand and memorable Revolution in the Government of France. With an ample and juμ Defcription of that horrid State Prifon the Baftile, &c. 8vo. is. Adlard, London, 1789. This pamphlet differs from that entitled Deftruction, of the Baftile,' by affording a retrospect of the incidents which-led to that important event. It may therefore be confidered as a proper introduction to the memorable catastrophe which enfued. ART. 29. A System of Mechanics; being the Subtance of Lectures upon that branch of Natural Philofophy. By the Rev. T. Parkinjon, M. 4. 4to. 16s. fewed. Merrill, Cambridge; Cadell, London, 1785. This dull compilation is decorated with a mathematical form. The author's ideas are generally crude, often abfurd, and his labours have been conducted without tafte or judgment. The magnitude of the ratio of equal quantities is,' he fays, equal to nothing; for the exiftence of ratios refults from the inequality of the quantities compared.' The fame unphilofophical spirit pervades the whole work, He treats the properties of motion, gravitation, cohesion, elafticity, the mechanical powers, the centres of gravity, ofcillation, percuffion, &c. with great diffufion; but his demonstrations are obscure and highly inelegant. DIVINITY. ART. 30. An Apology for the Liturgy and Clergy of the Church of England; in Anfwer to a Pamphlet entitled Hints, &c. fubmitted to the lerious Attention of the Clergy, Nobility, and Gentry, newly afficiated, By a Layman. In a Letter to the Author from a Clergyman. London, 1789. The pamphlet, to which this is an answer, has been greatly extolled by fuch as are sticklers for a revifal of our liturgy. It is even afcribed, and with fome confidence, to a nobleman of talents, who had once the honour to occupy the first department in the flate. The reply likewife difcovers fome marks of being the production of no common writer. After giving his opinion of the two metropolitans, which is equally honourable to both, the author fpeaks of his independence, and prevents all imputation of flattery from the hope of reward in very ferious and unequivocal language. This from a clergyman clergyman is a proof that his fituation must at least be to him fatiffactory. But be the writer who he may, our religious establishment is indebted to his abilities and his induftry for one of the beft apologies for her clergy and liturgy that has ever been penned. He is perfectly mafter of the argument, and aware of every exception that has been urged to leffen or invalidate its influence. His details and ftatements are enriched with an abundance of the best information; the writers of note or name who have diftinguished themfelves for or against the Church of England, are familiar to him. And notwithftanding his avowed and ftrenuous attachment to the general principles of the hierarchy, in repelling the cavils of the ignorant or the credulous, he preferves the manners and writes in the language of a gentleman. We are therefore of opinion that this Apology will be read for the spirit it breathes, and the information it gives, when the dispute in which it originated is forgotten. ART. 31. A Sermon preached in Whitehall Chapel, at the Confecration of the Right Rev. John Douglas, D. D. Lord Bishop of Carlisle, on Sunday, Nov. 18, 1787. By Brown Grifdale, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majeny. Published by Command of the Lord Archbishop of York. 4to. Is. Cadell. London, 1788. The duty of moderation, particularly in religious paftors, is in this fermon very elegantly and pathetically infifted on. The various advantages attending it are forcibly and judiciously pointed out, and the eftablished Church of England is fhewn to have derived its principal' ftrength and true confequence from the exercise of this virtue, even in the plenitude of her power. The contrary conduct of fome diffentients is marked out, and the warmest advocates for reformation are taught that the way to procure it is not by violent declamation, but by that moderation which may induce men to attend to them with calmness, inftead of being alarmed at the boldness and novelty of their propofitions. Several honourable teftimonies from foreign writers are added, to fhew the high efteem in which the English church is defervedly held in every enlightened part of the globe. ART. 32. Two Difcourfes, I. On the Wisdom attainable by Meditation on the Vanity of Human Life, and the Benefit of Christianity; II. Men more influenced by Example than Precept evident from facred and prophane Scripture. Preached in the Aflum, March 8, 1789. By the Rev. Samuel Hopkinson, A. M. 4to. 2s. London, 1789. These are probationary difcourfes, preached at the Afylum during the late vacancy. To the first is added a very fenfible addrefs to the guardians; and to the fecond a most affectionate one to the children of the Afylum. It has been the fate of Mr. Hopkinfon in offering himfelf a candidate for this popular fituation, though farting with very inferior competitors, to be diftanced. But this publication is a fatisfactory proof to his friends that his failure was not owing to want of parts, but want of intereft, want of affiduity, or want of addrefs. ART. ART. 33. A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of in the County of Cornwall, on Thursday the 23d of April, 1789, the Day of public Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the Recovery of his most facred Majefty King George the Third from his late dangerous Indifpofition. 8vo. 15. All Bookfellers. London, 1789. Notwithstanding this difcourfe is anonymous, preached we know not where, and fold we know not by whom, there is nothing in it that is exceptionable. It is full of piety and gratitude for the prefervation of the king; it endeavours to render our duty to fuperiors a willing obedience, and it exhorts the good people of England to be quiet and thankful, to do their own bufinefs, and demean themfelves as ufeful members of fociety; to go to church, fay their prayers, and pay their taxes. Thefe wholefome doctrines are taught in plain language; and the author, from what he fays, and his manner of saying it, feems to be a serious, honeft, well-meaning man. ART. 34. The English Revolution vindicated from the Mifrepresentation df. of the Adherents of the House of Stuart, in a Difcourfe preached at Cookham, in the Diocese of Sarum, on Sunday, Oct. 25, 1789, being the Anniversary of his Majesty's happy Acceffion. By George Berkeley, LL.D. Prebendary of Canterbury, and Rector of St. Clement Danes, 4to. 1s. 6d. Cadell. London, 1789. The author of this popular difcourfe has looked into the English conftitution with the eye of a philofopher and a patriot, a Christian divine, and a citizen of the world. Upon the unfeigned allegiance now paid to the king by his fubjects of every defcription, the reeftablishment of his majefty's health, and the duty of fubjects to government, as the leading heads of his fermon, he infifts at confiderable length. And what he fays is often both original and convincing. He anticipates the arguments of the Diffenters against the teft, and warns the public, in language at once earnest and forcible, of the handle they would make of the commotions in France. He reprobates and expofes this dangerous reference in the true spirit of one who fincerely loves and prays for the peace of Jerufalem. His account of the Revolution, his character of King William the Third, though different from that which is annually read in the Revolution Club, his statement of the doctrine of refiftance, and his objections to the prefent ferment raifed by the enemies of the establishment, are all fpecimens of found reasoning and good writing, ART. 35. A Sermon preached at Maze Pond, Southwark, Sept. 27, 1789, for the Benefit of the Society established in London for the Support and Encouragement of Sunday Schools in the different Counties of England. By James Dore. 8vo. 6d. Buckland. London, 1789. The scope of this difcourfe is to imprefs the minds of men with the invaluable contents of the facred books. And this the preacher does in a ftrain of eloquence at once fimple, elegant, and convincing. Here is no labour, no affectation, no ftraining after fine language, originality of compofition, richness of imagery, or any other ornament; but the preacher is every where in earneft; every thing he fays fays is ferious; and the truths he details are in their nature so interesting and weighty as to make a proper and lafting impreffion on every welldifpofed mind. The application of the fubject to the encouragement of Sunday schools is natural and appofite. The inftitution is a benefit to fociety, has our best wishes for its fuccefs, and every effort in its favour is always fure of our approbation. Jo For the ENGLISH REVIEW. NATIONAL AFFAIRS For MARCH, 1790. THE LATE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. OSEPH II. of Austria, of whom, during the life-time of his illuftrious mother and immediate predeceffor on the AuAtrian throne, the world, according to its ufual prepoffeffion in favour of untried princes, fondly predicted all that was good and great, terminated his, reign precifely where he should have begun it. He recognised himself, and enjoined to his fucceffor, the neceffity of moderation in matters of government, and particularly that of governing a free people by their own laws, and leaving or placing the great offices of power and truft in the hands of chiefs natives of the country. How far, had his life been miraculously prolonged, he would have been regulated in his conduct by his own dying maxims, it is impoffible to ascer tain, though not very difficult to conjecture. Eafe, perhaps, would have recanted vows made in pain. The restoration of health would have been followed by a return of habit. The ufual modes of thinking and acting would have recurred. No condition of human affairs, whether profperous or adverse, is fo fixed as to be exempted from revolution. And the very firft favourable turn in politics, or advantage in war, might have induced the fickle, fluctuating, and faithlefs mind of the everactive and ambitious Jofeph, full of the dignity of his family and the pretenfions of fovereign princes, a third time to have violated his word to his Belgic fubjects; if we could conceive it poffible that they might have trusted to a repetition of vows repeatedly broken. Thefe conjectures will not appear wholly nugatory if they only afford a natural transition from what Jofeph would have probably done to what his brother and fucceffor LEOPOLD may probably do. The late Grand Duke of Tuscany, and prefent King of Hungary and Bohemia, &c. has proved by his celebrated code of laws, and the whole tenour of his life and converfation, the humanity and juftice of his own difpofition, and the mildness of the clofe of the eighteenth century. 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