This Work confifts of 380 Octavo Pages. In the Preface, the Author points out the Utility of fuch an Undertaking, and the peculiar or principal View of our Author in this Work, viz. To establish the Sexual Syftem of Botary. We shall not think it neceffary to trace our Author's Hypothefis, and Arguments very minutely, but shall give two Extracts from the Preface, viz. Page 3.

Though the Study of Botany is of late Years become a very general Amusement in this Country, there has yet appeared no Work, in our own Language, that profeffedJy treats of the Elements of that Science; it is therefore hoped, that what is now of fered to the Public, if it shall appear to have been carefully, executed, will be confidered as a Performance of fome Utility. The Matter it contains, or at least the far greater Part it, will probably be new to the English Reader; for though fome Explanations of the fame Kind may be found interfperfed in larger Works, thefe are for the moft Part too costly to fall into many Hands; nor could the Reader expect to find therein the Whole of what he feeks, the explaining the Theory of the Science not having been the immediate Object of those Publications.

The Matter of the following Sheets has been collected from the Works of the celebrated Dr. Linnæus; whofe Labors for the Reformation of this Science in general, and whofe Invention of the Sexual System in particular are well known.

Extra of Mr. Mylins's Letter to Mr. Watfon, dat.d at Berlin, Feb. 20, 1750-51, Page 7.

"The Sex of Plants is very well confirmed, by an Experiment that has been made here on the Palma major foliis flabelliformibus. There is a great Tree of this Kind in the Garden of the Royal Academy. It has flowered and bore Fruit thefe thirty Years, but the Fruit never ripened, and when planted, it did not vegetate. The Palm Tree, well known, is a Planta Dioecia, that is, one of thofe in which the male and female Parts of Generation are in different Plants. We having therefore no male Plants, the Flowers of our Female were never impregnated by the Farina of the Male. There is a male Plant of this Kind, in a Garden at Leitfic, twenty Gervan Miles from Berlin. We procured from thence, in April 1749, a Branch of male Flowers, and fufpended it over our female Ones, and our Experiment fucceeded fo well, that our Palm Tree produced more than an Hundred perfectly ripe Fruit; from

which we have already eleven young Palm Trees. This Experiment was repeated latt Year, and our Palm Tree bore above twe thoufard ripe Fruit. As I do not remem ber a like Experiment, I thought it convenient to mention it to you; and if you think proper, be pleafed to the communicate it to the Royal Society."

This Treatife of Botany is divided into Claffes, Orders, Genera, Species, Varieties, &c. in 57 Chapters: To which is likewife fubjoined, a Table containing fuch Englip Names of Plants, as have been generally received, whether Specific or Generic, and fhewing the Titles of the Genera, Doder which they are feverally ranged in the Linnæan System.

III.

The Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Rion, Mofchus and Mufæus. Tranflated into Englith. By a young Gentleman of Cambridge. J. Newbery.

This Work is printed in 12mo, and contains 321 Pages; to which is prefixed an Introduction, and the Life of Anacres, and an Index to the Odes.

Nothing more appears necessary in an Account of this Piece, than an Ode, as a Specimen of the Stile, &c. of the Trarilator, which I fhall felect from Page 286, Idyllium VII.

To the Evening Star.

Hail, golden Star of Ray ferene,
Thou Fav'rite of the Cyprian Queen,
O Hefper! Glory of the Night,
Diffuting through the Gloom Delight;
Whofe Beams all other Stars outshine,
As much as filver Cynthia thine;
O! guide me, speeding o'er the Plain,
To him I love my Shepherd-fwain;
He keeps the mirthful Feasts, and foon
Dark Shades will cloud the splendid Moon,
Of Lambs I never robb'd the Fold,
Nor the lone Traveller of Gold:
Love is my Crime: Olend thy Ray
To guide a Lover on her Way!
May the bright Star of Venus prove
The gentle Harbinger of Love!

IV.

Louifa: Or, Virtue in Diftrefs. Being the Hiftory of a natural Daughter of Lady C. Corbett, and W. Flexney. This Novel is printed in 12mo. and contains 212 Pages, Price 3 s.

The Author introduces the Work itself by a Preface, apologizing for Novels in general,

general, and for this in particular. We fhall content ourfelves with giving a Paragraph in the Beginning of the Preface, and refer the more curious Reader to the Work itself, for the Author's Stile and Merit of this Performance, viz.

Books are intended for the general Emolument of Mankind, to applaud Virtue, and to explode Vice; and in whatever defpicable Light the World may look upon Novels, they are feldom defective of noble and virtuous Characters, and are wrote with a View of entertaining as well as amending the Age we live in: The Utili and the Dulci are joined, and in whatever Drefs it appears, a Man may glean fomething from it, that may be advantageous to him.

V.

A Treatife on the Gout: From the French of M. Charles Louis Liger, M. D. Profef for of Phyfic in the University of Paris. Ř. Griffiths, 5s.

This Work is printed in 8vo. and contains 384 Pages, divided according to the Table of Contents into three Parts.

Part I. contains IV Chapters.

II. contains XV Chapters. III. contains XIV Chapters, with a Preface and an Introduction.

The Preface by the Editor, exhibits the Author's Design in the following Work; the first Paragraph of which, we shall here infert.

In this Treatife M. Liger undertakes to difcover the real Caufe, and to diftinguish the true Character of the Gout; he alfo propofes fuch Means, as undoubtedly appear to him effectual, as well for the Prevention as the Cure of this Diftemper, which has hitherto been deemed a Reproach to physical Knowledge. That our Author has affiduously ftudied, and been earneftly attached to, his Subject, is manifeft from the numerous Authors both antient and mo. dern that he has quoted. Nevertheless he does not seem a Slave to Authority; his Remarks upon, and Objections to, the Opinions of thofe Writers, who have previously traversed the fame Path of Medicine, appear generally pertinent, and judicious.

The following Extract may serve as a Specimen of the Author's Stile and Genius. It is taken for granted, that the gouty Humour is of a mucilaginous Character; a Character which is the Effect of a plentiful Ufe of Liquors and Aliments containing a great deal of Mucilage. This Matter giving no Indications of its Prefence, and declaring itself only by Tortures, which is always the Cafe when its Quantity fuperabounds, it follows that there are two different Methods of procuring Relief and treating this Distemper with Succefs; ei

ther by totally destroying its efficient Caufe, the very mucilaginous Particles, or by removing the fecondary Caufes, which determine the Fits.

The Destruction of the Mucilage will be eafily compaffed by a proper Regimen, oppofite to that which has produced the Dif temper. Nothing is more eafy,, it being the Product of Subftances heterogeneous to the Mafs of our Juices; I mean of Aliments and Liquors, the Use of which is not abfolutely neceifary to the Prefervation of Life, or even to Health, but fuch as may be easily abstained from. A Cure might fpeedily be effected where there is a fincere Inclination to be cured; efpecially if in the first Appearances of the Gout, the Patients would refolutely confine themselves to Foods and Liquors of very little Nourishment, and, which, confequently, contain very little Mucilage.

But gouty Perfons no fooner imagine the Fit to be over, than they forget the Tortures of it, and are immediately making themselves amends for the long Time they have been debarred from their favourite Way of Living. They are impatient till they renew their epicurean Practices; Dishes must be prepared for them to revive that Appetite which the Distemper had taken away; they will be obeyed, and which, to their Misfortune, they are too readily. Ac customed to enjoy the Pleafures of this Life with all poffible Freedom and Facility, and being able to gratify all their Caprices, they refufe to liften to thofe falutary Advices by which their Conftitutions might be improved and their Health confirmed. On the leaft Refpite they imagine themselves in a Condition of partaking in all the Freedoms and Engagements permitted to one in a confirmed State of Health.

But if there are any who are really defirous of being cured, and who will themfelves contribute towards their Cure, their Endeavours will not be in vain. Let them only abridge themselves of one Meal a Day, especially Supper; content themselves with a good Dinner, which muft, however, confift only of Foods containing very little Nourishment in a confiderable Degree, and make Ufe of the faponaceous Medicines I fhall mention in the third Part of this Work.

By fuch a Conduct the Superabundance of the gouty Humour will be prevented, and at the fame Time deftroyed. This is not indeed the Work of a Moment; but which is not to be abandoned as it will relieve us from a Diftemper, which, when regular, is attended by fuch terrible Torments, and, when irregular, so dangerous and fatal.

VI.

The Trial of the Right Honourable Lord George Sackville, at a Court-Martial held at the Horfe-Guards, February 29, 1760, for an Enquiry into bis Conduct, being charged with Difobedience of Orders, while he commanded the British Horfe in Germany, Together with bis Lordship's Defence. W. Owen.

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Horfe-Guards, Feb. 29, 1760, at a CourtMartial there held. Prefent,

General Onflow, Prefident.
Lt. Gens.Sir C. Howard, Earls of Harrington,
Campbell,
Abercrombie,
Lord Delaware,
Albemarle,
Cholmondely, Maj. Genl. Leighton,
Stuart,
Carr,

Earls of Panmure, Earl of Effingham,
Ancram,
Belford,

Charles Gould, Judge Advocate.
His Majesty's Warrant to try Lord George

Sackville read, dated Jan. 26, 1760. Reciting the King's Orders to Lord George, requiring his Lordship to obey fuch Orders as fhould be given him by Prince Ferdinand, or fuch Perfon as should be appointed Commander in Chief of the Allied Army. That his Majefty had received Information, that L. G. Sackville had difobeyed Orders given him by Prince Ferdi mand, and that his Majefty had thought fit to enquire into his Conduct at a general Court-Martial; therefore wills and requires that a general Court-Martial be fummoned, whereof Gen. Onflow to be Prefident. This Charge the Judge Advocate propofed to infift upon.

March 7. Prefident, to L. G. Sackville, General Onflow being taken ill, there is a new Warrant to hold the Court-Martial. Warrant read, dated March 6, 1760, appointing Sir Charles Howard Prefident; and adding to the Court, the Lord Robert Man

advance to form in the Plain of Minden; that they may be well acquainted with them, thould the Army be ordered to advance: That is all, relative to the Battle.The 31ft.-His Serene Highness orders, that, at one o'clock to-morrow Morning, the Army shall be ready to march; the Cavalry must be faddled, the Artillery-horses harnaffed, and the Infantry gatered. But the Tents are not to be ftruck, nor the Troops under Arms till further Orders. That was the Order I fent to the Lines.There was another Part of it relative to my Lord George only, which I immediately fhewed to his Lordship, together with thofe I have recited, upon his Return from the advanced Pickets where he had been detached. The Purport of it was, that his Serene Highnefs defired the Generals, leading in Columns, according to the Difpofition given that Day, would make themfelves acquainted with the Avenues leading from the Camp. That is, the March of the Columns from the Camp, as well as the Ground in Front. I do not pofitively recollect, whether the Pofition the Army fhould then take, was mentioned or not.-This, to the beft of my Remembrance, is the Substance of that Order.

Major Stubbs (worn, who depofed as follows:

On the first of Auguft, the General's Aid de Camp came to my Tent before 4 o'Clock. He inquired for Col. Preften. I thought it was fome Orders for the Cavalry, and went to him; he told me, his Business was to order the Cavalry to strike their Tents, and immediately form at the Head of the Lanes. I accordingly fent the orderly Men in Waiting to the first and fecond Lines, acquainting them with these Orders: The first and fecond Lines of the Cavalry, I mean. They immediately ftruck their . The Tents, mounted, and formed. Troops being formed, I heard several Officers fay, where is Lord George Sackville, who is to lead the Line? Upon which, knowing the Village his Lordfhip was quartered in, I galloped down to his Lordship's Quarters to inform him the Line was formed. I found his Lordship in the Yard of his Quarters, between the Stable and the House; his Lordship immediately ordered

Col. Hotham called, in Support of the Charge, who depofed as follows.

The Orders given on the 29th of July were thefe The regiments to make immediately the neceffary Overtures and Communications, that they may be able to march in Front without any Impediment. Generals will take particular Notice of the nine Debouchers, by which the Army may

The

faying, he had but juft before had Notice of it from General Sporken.

Col. Jobafton depofed to the fame Effect. Capt. Winjchingrode, Prince Ferdinand's Heian Aid de Camp, fworn in French.

2. Relate to the Court, whether you carried any Orders from Prince Ferdinand, and

when.

A. I do not remember the Hour, but I know what Pofition the Army was in at that Time. It was at the Time when the Infantry of the right Wing was advancing towards the Enemy for the fecond Time after Duke Ferdinand had ordered them to halt a Moment, to give Time for the right of the Infantry adjoining, and the fecond Line to come up and form. His Serene Highnefs, as I have been saying, then ordered me to go and give his Orders to Lord George Sackville to advance with the Cavalry of the right Wing to fuftain the Infantry which was going to be engaged. I went immediately. The Duke of Richmond joined me after I had gone a few Paces, to tell me again from his Highness, to haften the Arrival of the Cavalry, and to tell Lord George Sackville to form with the Cavalry of the right Wing under his Command, upon the Heath in a third Line behind our Regiments. I found Lord George with the Cavalry of the right Wing posted there, where I believe they were first formed, on arriving at their Pofition, at fome Distance, but I cannot tell what, behind our Artillery, which was posted near the Wind-mill of the Village of Halen, having fome Trees on his left, which prevented him from feeing our Infantry. In coming up I paffed before the fecond Line, I afked where I could find Lord George. My Lord Granby, whom I met that Inftant at the Head of the fecond Line of Cavalry, told me, that I fhould find Lord George Sackville at the Head of the first Line. I acquainted Lord Granby then, as I paffed, that I was going to carry Orders from his Highness to Lord George Sackville to advance and form upon the Heath behind the Infantry to sustain it; after which I found Lord George at the Head of the first Line of Cavalry. - I communicated to him the Orders of his Highness as they were given to me by him. My Lord George Sackville feemed not to understand them. He asked me the Queftion, how that was to be done? I endeavoured to explain them as well as I could to him. I told him (I do not remember the exact Terms I made use of then) but I am certain that I explained the Senfe of the Orders that I brought him. I made him understand that he was to pafs with the Cavalry between the Trees that he saw upon his Left; that he would then arrive upon the Heath, where he was to form with the Cavalry, to advance in order to fuftain our Infantry, that I thought was already engaged with the Enemy. My Lord George asked me again feveral Questions, how that was to be done? I repeated to him what I had been faying. Then my

Lord turned towards the Officers of his Retinue, that belonged to him, and I, firmly perfuaded that he was going to give Orders for advancing, went to rejoin his Highness; in riding upon the Heath, behind our Infantry, which were then fully engaged with the Enemy, I faw Col. Fitzroy coming towards me full gallop; he asked me why our Cavalry of the right Wing did not advance? He made me to understand, as he went by, that his Highnefs was under the greatest Impatience about it. I followed him to tell him, that I had been carrying Orders for that Purpofe, from his Highness to Lord George, and that the Cavalry was coming. But he, without waiting for any Answer, went his Way towards Lord George; and I feeing that our Cavalry of the right Wing, from whence I was coming, made as yet no Movement, beyond the Trees, or on the Side of the Trees that then feparated it from the Heath, where it was to form itself to advance, I followed Col. Fitzroy to affift him in haftening the Advancing of the Cavalry; he going towards Lord George Sackville and I towards Lord Granby, whom I found at the Head of the fecond Line of the Cavalry in the fame Position as when I paffed by him firft, juft as I found him when I first paffed him. I have nothing further to fay concerning Lord George; these were the Orders I carried him from his Highness.

2. Did you repeat the Substance of Prince Ferdinand's Orders in any other Language than French.

A. I fpoke them at first in French, and I do not remember to have made Ufe of the English Language, nor of any other, except that I think, that I endeavoured to make him understand in English, that he was to pafs between the Trees on the Left, to form upon the Heath, on the other Side. I spoke to him in general in French. Colonel Legonier sworn.

2. Please to inform the Court, whether you carried any, and what Orders, from Prince Ferdinand, to Lord George Sackville that Day.

A. I brought Lord George Orders from Prince Ferdinand, to advance with the Cavalry, in order to profit from the Disorder which appeard in the Enemy's Cavalry. I found his Lordship at the Head of Bland's Dragoons. I delivered him my Orders, to which his Lordship made no Answer, but turning about to the Troops ordered Swords to be drawn, and to march, which they did, moving a few Paces upon the Right forwards. I then told his Lordship it was to the Left he was to march. In that Time Col. Fitzroy arrived and delivered Orders

for

for the British Cavalry only to advance. Lord George, turned to me, faid our Orders were contradictory. I answered, they differed only in Numbers; that the Deftination of his March was the fame to the Left. His Lordship then asked me if I would lead the Columns, I faid I could not undertake to conduct them properly; but if his Lordship would truft it to me, I would do my best.

Colonel Fitzroy sworn.

2. Did you bring any Orders from Prince Ferdinand, to Lord George Sackville that Day, viz. the tft of August, and what paffed in Confequence of it.

A. I think when I came to Lord George Sackville he was then upon the Right of Bland's Regiment, I told him it was the Prince's Orders, for the British Cavalry to advance towards the Left. He defired me not to be in a hurry, and to give my Orders more diftinctly. I think he faid fo, or fomething to that Purpose. I again repeated that it was the Prince's Orders for the British Cavalry to advance towards the Left. I think Lord George Sackville observed, that Col. Legonier's Orders were different; his Lordship faid, he thought the Prince did not mean to break the Line.

I think my Lord George afked which Way the Cavalry was to march? Who was to be their Guide? I told my Lord, I did not know of any Guide being appointed to lead the Column; but offered to lead the Column myself through the little Wood, that was upon our Left, where I imagined they might pals two Squadrons in Front, through that Wood. Lord George then did not feem to be fatisfied with the Order, faying it did not agree with that which Col. Ligonier brought him. He defired me to lead him to the Prince to have an Explanation of these Orders, which I did. My Lord George came to the Prince foon after I got to him. That is all except what paffed between Capt. Smith, one of Lord George's Aids de Camp, and myself. Col. Sloper fworn.

About Four o'clock in the Morning of the 1st of Auguft Captain Pence called upon me at my Tent, and told me that it was his Serene Highnefs Duke Ferdinand's Orders that the Regiment fhould ftrike their Tents and mount as foon as poffible; adding, it was for Action. I immediately went round the Regiment myfelf, and ordered his Serene Highness's Orders to he put in Execution as foon as poffible. The Horfes were then faddled, the Men booted and lain down in their Tents. This had been done at One o'clock in the Morning, agreeable to Orders received the Evening before. When the Regiment had been mounted much about half an Hour Lord George Sackville

came to the Head of it, and ordered it to march. We marched to the Ground the Cavalry formed upon. Upon that Spot. I heard Capt. Malborti (I am not fure as to the name) Aid de Camp to his Serene Highnefs the Duke, give Lord George Sacker it an Order to form the Line. Juft after the Line was formed, Capt. Winfchirgrode, Aid de Camp to Duke Ferdinand, came up to Lord George Sackville, and told him in French, that it was the Duke's Orders he fhould advance to the Left with the Right Wing of the Cavalry, and form in a Line behind the Infantry. My Lord faid, Mais Comment, mais Comment. At that Time Capt. Winfebingrede faid, moving his Hand, you muft pafs thro' thofe Trees. He faid thro' the Trees; that was the Word I am certain. You will then arrive upon the Heath; yea will then fee our Infantry and the Enemy. Capt. Winfelingrode left my Lord. I heard my Lord fay, I do not comprehend how the Movement is to be made. Being fo near to him I answered (I don't know that the Queftion was addreffed to me) I faid it was very clear to me that it was to be made to the Left by the Right Wing of the Cavalry. His Lordship faid he would make it. Fora Quarter of an Hour after that I did not ice his Lordship. He then returning to the Squadron that I was at the Head of, faid, Sir, Colonel, put your Regiment in Motion. I faid, my Lord, to the Left? I asked him that Question. His Lordship answered, no, ftraight forwards. The Regiment moved a very few paces. Capt. Ligonier arrived. He faid to Lord George Sackville, that it was the Duke's Orders that he immediately advanced with the Cavalry under his Command, and that the Movement was to the Left. I then spoke to Capt. Ligonier ; as to what I faid the Court muft tell me whether I am to go on.

Judge Adv. Yes, proceed.

Col. Sloper. Ifaid, for God's Sake, Sir, repeat your Orders to that Man, that he may not pretend not to understand them, for it is near half an Hour ago that he has received Orders to advance, and yet we are still here.

2. Who did you mean by the Words, that Man?

A. My Lord George Sackville. My Oath obliges me to fay all I faid. For you fee

the Condition he is in.

Being asked to explain himself, the Witnefs replied,

My Opinion is, that my Lord George Sackville was alarmed to a very great Degree. When his Lordship ordered me to advance, he feemed in the utmost Confufion. The original Order was to the Left;

Capt.