Rev. Richard Baron *, and Sir Samuel Morland; the latter introduced not as a patriot, or an honest man, but as a hypocrite and a villain. These are followed by " Papers relative to the foregoing Memoirs." To the "Anecdotes of Mr. Stephens," rector of Sutton (No. XLI.), might be added, that his celebrated fermon on Jan. 30, 16991700, occafioned the refolve of the H. of Commons, that none but a doctor, or dignitary, fhould in future preach before them. Mrs. Honoretta Pratt" (No. CVI.) was fifter to Sir James Brooke, Bart. of Ellinthorp, Yorkfhire, and a friend and correfpondent of Swift, her husband being one of the Vice-Treasurers of Ireland. Lady Savile, her daughter, was mother to the prefent Sir George. " Venuti's Infcrip. tion on one of his Books, "(No.CX.) is ot fuch as Mr. H. would have had it," as he wished it to be only "Senatui Populoque Britanno," without "Regifque Academiis." Appendix II. refpects virtù, and gives a general idea of Mr. Hollis's collection. The prints which embellish these volumes are, 1.Britannia, Liberty, Mr. Hollis, Gen. Ludlow, Milton a boy, Andrew Marvell, Hubert Languet, Bulstrode Whitelock, Dr. Wallis, Mr. Locke, Dr.Mayhew, Milton Victorious. II. Milton from Mr. Onflow's, Milton from the buft, and Milton from crayons; Algernon Sydney, Mr. Francis Hutcheson, Sir Ifaac Newton, Britannia ViЯrix; with feveral medals, coins, and antiques, particularly Timoleon, Phthia, and Iole; all of them (Hutchefon and Newton excepted) drawn, and most of them alfo etched or engraved, by Cipriani; the reft by Bartolozzi. Dr. Mayhew, as well as the fecond Milton, it is obfervable, is drawn victorious." As in the one the head of CHARLES (we fuppofe), is pendent under" DEF. PRO POP. ANGLIC." with an owl and an axe in the background, in the other hangs an archiepifcopal mitre fubverted, with a snake transfixed crawling out of it, under "REMARKS ON AN ANON. TRACT, LXXXII. I AM INDEED A POOR P. MAN." Befide it, an owl in a bush, with oak leaves, and the cap of Liberty, the ufual infignia of all Mr. Hollis's books and prints. 60. A Tour in Ireland; with general Obfervations on the prefent State of that Kingdom: Made in the Years 1776, 1777, and 1778, and brought down to the End of the Year 1179. By Arthur Young, Efq. OF the many curious particulars contained in this work, which is by no means confined to agriculture, the ruling paffion of its intelligent author, none is more pleafing than the account of the Lord Chief Baron Forster's improvements at Cullen, and the Primate's at Armagh. Par nobile. From a wafte fheep-walk, 22 years ago, covered chiefly with heath, the cabbins and people miserable, no Proteftants, no paffable roads, the lands 3 or 4s. an acre, by liming and draining, manuring and ditching, at a vaft expence, fixing there a new colony of French and English Proteftants, and building above 30 new farm-houfes, his Lordfhip's whole eftate of 5000 acres, before deemed irreclaimable, is now let, on an average, at aos. an acre. "The lime (to which he attributes principally his fuccefs) coft him gd. a barre on the land: his ufual quantity: 60 [barrels to an acre], and the total of that expence alone 30,000l. After the liming, fallowed the land for rye ; and after the rye took two crops of oats. Without it, all other circumftances equal, he has got 3 or 4 barrels an acre of oats, but with it 20 and 22 of barley." The Primate has erected the following buildings in feven years: a very elegant palace, 90 feet by 60, and 40 high, with plantations, &c.; barracks; a flourishing fchool (falary of the mafter 400l. a year); four churches; a public library (which he has alfo furnished and endowed); a markethouse and fhambles, all at his own expence, beĥides repairing the cathedral, being the means of erecting a public infirmary, and, by giving leafes upon that condition, of almost new building the whole city. "I heard it afferted,' fays Mr. Young, "that his Grace in One of his publications is here omitted. Mr. Baron, a man," as Mr. H. ftyles him" of genius and infirmities," publifhed in 1750, from a MS, letter to Abp. Herring, which fell into his hands," Bower's own Account of his Escape from the Inquifition," of which that prelate fays, in one of his letters, "Mr. Baron has doubtless done an imprudent thing in the spirit of an honeft zeal; and Bower had done well if he had only declared his narrative not authentic." This first occafioned a fufpicion, and led to a detection of Bower. †The cap of Liberty was Mr. Hollis's arms, and the owl part of his creft. fays these noble undertakings had not expended lefs than 30,000l. befides what he had been the means of doing, though not directly at his own expence. " These are imperial works, and worthy kings!" Ireland has long been famous for its horfes drawing by the tail: Lord Shannon has now imported from France a cultom no lefs ingular, of oxen drawing by the horns. A labourer practifed in that method, and a bullock of the best fort, that had been worked three years, with a hay-cart, a plough, harrows, and all the proper harness, were fent for from Bourdeaux. And though "the experiment, from firit to laft, cost above 100!. his Lordship is perfuaded that the first year of his introducing it at large on his farm faved him the whole. He has pursued the method ever fince, and with the greatest fuccefs. He finds the bullocks fo perfectly at their eafe, that it is a pleasure to fee them. For first breaking up lays, and for crossploughing, he ufes four, but in all fucceeding earths only two; nor more for the first ploughing of tubbles. I faw fix ploughs doing this in a wheatftubble, and they did it five or fix inches deep with great eafe. They plough an acre a day, and carry very great loads of corn and hay, coals, &c." Mr. Young faw two oxen draw without difficulty above three tons of wheat, which he much doubts whether in yokes they would have ftirred. Many other articles equally entertaining and inftructive may be found in this tour. 61. A Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red Sea, on the Coafts of Arabia and Egypt; and of a Route through the Dejerts of Thebais, hitherto unknown to the European Traveller. By Eyles Irwin, Efq. Illustrated with Maps and Cuts. 410. 155. in Boards. Dodfley. THIS curious account is given in two letters to a beloved lady j in England. Setting out on a voyage from Madras to Suez, this fpirited and very intelligent traveller croffes the Indian ocean, enters the Red-Sea by the ftraits of Babelmandel, arrives at Mo. cha, is driven on the coaft of Arabia; reaches the Gulph of Suez, but by the treachery of the Arabs is carried to Cofire, a part of Upper Egypt; sets out with the caravan for Ghinnah on the Nile, but is carried by other treacherous guides to Lanute; arrives at laft at Ghinnah, refolves to pass through the deferts of Thebais, meets with a band of robbers, with whom he makes a treaty, and proceeds; travels on the banks of the Nile, fees the pyramids, and arrives at Grand Cairo, gives an account of its antiquities; embarks for Alexandria, arrives there, gives an account of that city; embarks in a French fhip, and lands at Marfeilles. 62. Eaftern Eclogues: Written during Tour through Arabia, Egypt, &c. in 1777. 4to, 2s. 6d. Dodley. THE ingenious traveller mentioned above has here convinced us that even in thefe dry deferts he could drink deep of the Pierian Spring. Had he been more lavish of fcenery or defcription, his fentiments and verfification being unexceptionable, his fubject would have given him an advantage over all our modern eclogifts. But of this advantage, except in a few inftances, he has not made the ufe that might have been expected. The Eclogues are four in number, viz. I. Alexis; or, The Traveller. Scene, the Ruins of Alexandria. II. Selima; or, The Fair Greek. Scene, a Seraglio in Arabia Felix. III. Ramah; or, The Bramin. Scene, the Pagoda of Conjeverem. IV. The Escape; or, The Captives. Scene, the Suburbs of Tunis. Time, Midnight. Our limits will not permit us at prefent to select from either of his works any more than his Dedication of the latter, which, we doubt not, our readers will join with us in admiring. "To Mrs. IRWIN. Lamp of my life, and fummit of my The bright reward of all my toilfome days, To thee I dedicate thefe rambling lays, Man's falary 4co livres a year, with board, the bullock 118, tackle for two bullocks 36, two carts 314, a plough and harrow 123, which with other expences came to 451. 175. and freight 161. 165. Now, we prefume, the author's wife. See the following article. "See on our blifs the nuptial year decline, And fill the fun which lit it feems to thine." Crown'd is our union with a fmiling boy, And thou ftill courted like a virgin coy. Ye fhades of lovers, witnefs what we feelTo modern couples vain were the appeal. "Though human joys are ever on the wing, pace, [ring; Though fmall the fcope of life's enchanted Though Time advances with a courfer's [grace; And ftill muft rob thee of fome charm or No fights ungrateful can falute our eyes, Who ufe no optics but what Love fupplies; Who but in this betray a partial fide, Still cach to each, the bridegroom and the bride!" 63. Elegy on Captain Cook. To which is added, An Ode to the Sun. By Mifs Seward. 4to, 15. 6d. Dodiley. THIS accomplished lady feems at once to inherit the genius, and to juf tify the arguments, of the author of The Female Right to Literature *, admirably maintained in Dodfley's Poems, vol. I. to whom, we apprehend, the is very nearly related. Be that as it may, with the affiftance of the Mufes, the has here raised a trophy worthy of the memory of one of the greatest men this or any age or nation has produced. From an attentive ftudy of his voyages, Mifs Seward has acquired and interwoven fuch local ideas as no other fubject could prefent, which fhe has embellished with language equally forcible and poetic. Witnefs the following beautiful allufion to the funeral ceremonies of the Otaheiteans: "Gay Eden of the South, thy tribute [Morai!* pay, And raife, in pomp of woe, thy Cook's Bid mild Omiah bring his choice ftores, The juicy fruits and the luxuriant flowers; Bring the bright plumes that drink the [Morai! torrid ray. And frew each lavifh fpoil on Cook's "Come, Oberea, hapless fair one! come, With piercing fhrieks bewail thy hero's [furvey! doom! She comes! - the gazes round with dire Oh! fly the mourner on her frantic way. See! fee! the pointed ivory wounds that [fpread; head, Where late the Loves impurpled rofes Now ftain'd with gore, her raven treffes flow In ruthless negligence of maddening woe; Loud the laments!-and long the nymph fball stray [Morai!" With wild, unequal flep round Cook's The iron fails," ice mountains, vegetable filk, the rangroos, poi-birds, giant bats, &c. are introduced with equal elegance and propriety. Captain Cook's Morai the Otaheiteans thought and were told by their "Toote" (as they called him) would be at Stepney. How the account of his immature death must affect thofe friendly people, thofe only who are like-minded can conceive. The fenfations of one much nearer to him are thus beautifully pourtrayed in the fucceeding lines: But, ah!--aloft on Albion's rocky Steep, [deep, That frowns incumbent o'er the boiling Solicitous and fad, a fofter form Eges the lone flood, and deprecates the ftorm. Ill-fated matron; for, alas! in vain wave, Tis not his fails!-thy husband comes no more! His bones now whiten an accurfed shore!Retire, for hark! the fea-gull thricking foars, The lurid atmosphere portentous lours; Night's fullen fpirit groans in every gale, And o'er the waters draws the darkling veil, Sighs in thy hair, and shills thy throbbing breaft [to reft! Go, wretched mourner! -weep thy griefs "Yet, though through life is loft each fond delight, Tho' fet thy earthly fun in dreary night, Oh! raife thy thoughts to yonder starry plain, [vain; And own thy forrow felh, weak, and Since, while Britannia, to his virtues juft, Twines the bright wreath, and rears th immortal bust; While on each wind of heaven his fame fall rife In endless incenfe to the fmiling skies; TH' ATTENDANT POWER, that bade his fails expand, And waft her bleffings to each barren land, Now raptur'd bears him to th' immortal plains, [ftrains; Where Mercy hails him with congenial Where foars, on Joy's white plume, his [THEE," And angels choir him, while he waits for fpirit free, The Rev. Mr. Seward, canon of Litchfield, and one of the editors of Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, in 1750. "The Morai is a kind of funeral-altar which the people of Otaheite raife to their deceafed friends. They bring to it a daily tribute of fruits, flowers, and the plumage of birds. The chief mourner wanders around it in a state of apparent distraction, hrieking furiously, and striking at intervals a fharp tooth into her head. All people fly her, as the aims at wounding not only herfelf, but others." We would rather read, Now bears him raptur'd.' A bort A for: Efay on CHARLES CHURCHILL. Written in 1764. With Notes and Alterations in 1774. A } Though not all sheep, has CHURCHILL flain, All animated Nature meet, For matter all is ever ranging, And thro' new modes and figures changing; In foul and body ftrong alike, Quick with vile brewings in his belly; The barber's boy repeats his name, * Judges and Pipers are faid in proverbs to live in the most diftant extremes of fobriety and drunkenness. Yet doubtless a few may be found in both profeffons who difclaim fo anfociable an opposition, And to each individual hair Of CHURCHILL's periwig will fwear. For, if in choler, men of letters Όνος επ' λύραν την Κυρχιλλο "Who treats my periods as a Turk ill. "Morphy might lend an angry lay; Pay your half-crown for CHURCHILL poem, You fee the peerage all below him; Dr. J. read his name Pompofo, and made this mark: I thought him a fhallow fellow at firft, and think fo ftill." His friend Mr. Murphy, the reputed author of a periodical effay in defence of the politics and peace of 1762, had the misfortune to be impofed on by a wag, who fent him a letter recommending the importation of Canada peat, as a measure of the greatest public utility, which could not fail to lower the price of Newcastle coals. This ferious project was believed and printed. Sir John Fielding, like Livy's Jupiter Stator, makes many a man ftand, when he is more difpofed to run, Livy in forms us, that Jupiter got not only this title but also a temple by rallying an army. To regulate our belief in a tory, we should always confider who it is that tells it. If Lucian had underftood Latin, perhaps he would have told us, that Jupiter got his name of Stator from keeping a ftationer's fhop in Crete, or perhaps from stopping pallengers on the highway. Af As what the learned world's about, A great man's wit there's no withstanding, Ah! well he knows, the worst and best, ↑ Cinna is fopposed to grow fat and forgotten in Northumberland, where he is barely equal to an election-ballad. Even Jonas is lefs notorious than he was. So very uncertain is all fublunary greatness! § Dr. Jonathan Swift, a learned antiquarian, whofe painful refearches and profound crudition can never be enough praised, has inconteftably proved, to the folid fatisfaction of all his loving countrymen, that Mioar@gwos is a word purely English, which was originally written Mice and throw-pufs. Forgetting Zechariah, let us remember how the claffical Zachary refcued from vile affaffins his paragon of patrons. Here fol. loweth a part of Zachary's dedication. "Illuftriffimo et prænobili viro D.D. Joanni comiti de S. Illud vero me præcipue impulit, ut hanc orationem tuo nomine, vir ampliffime, tanquam lumine quodam, ornari atque diftingui velim; quippe quem novi et doctrinâ liberaliter inftitutum, et verâ Christi Imbutum religione." He concludes with thefe words: "Tibi tuæque fummæ virtuti a me bonifque omnibus eft habendi gratulatio. Z. B."-Reader, wander not abroad with vagabond report; rather chuse to shelter thyself under ettablilled teftimony. Go, rather all thy reafon arm, "The English law is lefs embarraffed with inconfiftent refolutions and doubtful questions, than any other known fyftem of the fame extent and the fame duration. I may instance in the civil law; the text whereof, as collected by Juftinian and his agents, is extremely voluminous and diffufe; but the idle comments, obfcure gloffes, and jarring interpretations grafted thereupon by the learned jurifts, are literally without number, And thefe gloffes, which are mere privato opinions of fcholaftic doctors, (and not, like our books of reports, judicial determinations of the court) are all of authority fufficient to be vouched and relied on; which must needs breed great diffraction and confufiog in their tribunals." Blackflone's Commentaries, B.III. P. 328, quarto edition. This is already in fome measure effected by the learned labours of Jofephus Millerus. Though hiftory is filent as to the time when Jofephus flourished, his book of apophthegms will long render him the darling philofopher of the English gentry, being recommended by daily ufe in moft feminaries of found learning. It is much to the honour of a Ld, Chief Juftice, that he is reported to have been the friend of Dr. Hurd, HABAK |