the Titles, Authors Names, &c. of the Publications reviewed in this Volume, including both the Original Criticism, and the Reviewers reviewed. N. B. For remarkable Paffages in the CRITICISMS and EXTRACTS, fee the GENERAL INDEX at the End of the Volume. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Κασσανδρα ψευδομάνις 171 Pedestrian Tour through the British 489 Ker's (Mrs.) Adeline St. Julian 202 King's (Mis) Victim of Friendship 416 Works of Cicero 491 Commentation on Fungi ib. 59 397 148 376 Plowden's (Mrs.) Virginia 414- 334 201 Long's Temperate Difcuffion of the Radcliffe's (Mrs.) Italian Rebel, the, a Tale Review of the Review of a new Ripaud's Report of the Antiqu t'es Romances, two metrical and other Pieces 79 222 Mavor's Selection of the Lives of Plutarch, abridged 421 Salmond's Review of the Origin, Methodifm tried and acquitted 301 Moonshine's Battle of the Bards 58 416 Sibbitt's Differtation on Luxury 133 17 a Revolutionary writer Sotherby's Siege of Cufco Fever of 1797, 1798, 1799 46,438 304 Sin of Schifm 253 State Papers on the late negociation 315 Stuart's Plan for the fupplying the City of Edinburgh with Coals 422 Syftematic Philofopher 316 A. Phenomenon, a fingular 515 712 POETRY-TO Sir William Jones, on the firft Publication of his Afiatic Poems, 33-Epitaph on a beautiful Infant-- Addrefs to W. Gifford, Efq. 57- Extract from the Battle of the Bards, 58-From the Parish Priest, 60, 61- The Chriftian and the Infidel, 102, 113-Ditty, by Queen Elizabeth, 150 -Extracts from the Revolution, or Britain Delivered, 221-Addrefs to a Coquette, 223, 224-Advice to the Fair Sex, ibid-Cana Civica, 233, 235 Poetical Merits of Hufdis, Polwhele, and Cowper, contrasted, M. Moral and Political Reflections Townfon's Philofophy of Minera WE have, at length, brought our work to the clofe of the Seventh Volume; but if that were the only circumftance which we had to animadvert on, at prefent, we fhould beg leave to decline all animadverfion whatever, and to confine ourselves to becoming expreffions of gratitude, for the continuance of that public favour and patronage, which, from the first establishment of our Review, to this moment, have never forfaken us ;--and which form a fource of much higher confolation to us, than any which we could derive from the gratification of literary vanity, or the promotion of perfonal intereft. The wide extenfion of our religious, moral, and political principles, conftitutes the primary object of our ef forts, the grand end of our wishes; and the only theme of our exultation. But we have not merely brought our work to the close of a volume; we have arrived at the clofe of a century; at an æra, too, strongly marked by every circumftance which can rouze attention, create alarm, infpire awe, ftimulate exertion, and lead to REFLECTION! At fuch a momentous crifis we would fain take a curfory view of the political and moral state of society, in every part of the civilized globe ;→→→ 'tis an enquiry well worthy the deepest investigation ;-but, unhappily, our limits preclude the attempt.-Some few remarks, however, on the actual state and difpofition of those nations and potentates, whofe friendship or enmity may have an influence on the fate of our own country, will not, we conceive, be unacceptable to our readers;-they will ferve, too, as a fubftitute for our political fummary; and as the best preface to the prefent volume of our work. FRANCE. * Much as divines have preached, moralifts have expatiated, and hiftorians have written, on the mutabilty of fortune and the viciffitudes of human life, the diverfified events of the French Revolution, and the ftrange incidents and deplorable calamities which have arifen out of it, have greatly exceeded all that has been printed or uttered upon this melancholy fubject.-In France, we have witneffed a nation, rejecting the wifdom of experience, which the Sages of ancient and modern times, had ever received as their beft guide in worldly affairs; openly trampling under foot, not only the most folemn treaties, between one state and another, which the rulers of every country had profeffed, at least, to refpect, but even the whole code of public laws, which had, for ages, regulated the conduct of all the nations of Europe; not only bursting through every political barrier which tends to the prefervation of order in fociety, and is effential to the well-being of civilized A 2 lized man; but opening the flood-gates of immorality, licen tiousness, and vice, to poifon, corrupt, feduce, and enervate the objects of her tyranny and the victims of her power ;-and, laftly, to complete the fum of her turpitude, and to brand her name with infamy indelible, blafphemously renouncing the Creator of the world, exchanging the worship of God for the veneration of a ftrumpet, and converting his houfe into a temple of proftitution.-We have seen this nation, thus violating every law human and divine, and confiftent only in fin, nearly fucceed, inft all rational ground of expectation, and all probable chance of fuccefs, in the accomplishment of a scheme not lefs wild and vifionary than it was daring and nefarious; a scheme which had for its object, nothing less than the fubjugation of all the neighbouring ftates, and the general revolution of Europe!-When we confider the vaft inadequacy of her means to the attainment of her object; and the apparently infurmountable difficulties which he had to fubdue ;when we farther confider that, without the adoption of a line of conduct, on the part of her adverfaries, at direct variance with all the known fprings of human action, in immediate oppofition to every maxim of policy and every principle of intereft-refulting from abfolute infatuation, and bearing the ftrongest characteristics of that infanity, which in the body politic as in the natural body, leads to the commiffion of Juicide;-when we confider that, without this extraordinary combination of circumftances, which it were the height of folly to expect, and a belief in the exiftence of which nothing fhort of experience could juftify, fuccefs was impracticable; we cannot but defcry in fuch events, the hand of providence uplifted to chaftife a finful world, and felecting, as the inftrument of his vengeance, the most finful nation in that world, in order to increase its humiliation and to aggravate its punifhment!-The reflections which this awful confideration muft fuggeft it is not our prefent purpose to purfue. The feries of calamities which followed the battle of Marengo have fo far decided the fate of the continent, as to leave it entirely at the mercy of the French Republic, which may now prefcribe the terms of peace to her vanquished enemy.The precife nature of thofe terms will depend, upon her private conventions with her crowned allies, and upon her farther schemes of revolution, aggrandizement, and conqueft, in other quarters. But it requires no ftretch of political fagacity to foretell; that the boundaries of the republic will be extended to the Rhine, to the German Ocean, and to the Mincio, including, of course, the baftard Republics to which he has given birth, and which, for all purpofes of Government, will conftitute an integral part of the Republic of France. The |