XXII. The Mock-Monarchs: or the benefits of high blood. 12mo. 2 vols. 6s. Crowder, &c.

The heroes in this performance, by deeply fearching into their respective pedigrees, came at laft to difcover, that the one, by a lineal defcent from Robert Bruce heretofore king of Scotland, had the cleareft title imaginable to the crown of that kingdom; and that the other, by relationship, equally near to Llewellin of famous memory, prince of Wales, had as indifputable a right to that principality.

His majefty of Scots, by condefcending to make fhoes for the Yorkshire gentry, affifted by the Welch prince, in the capacity of foreman, had, at the laft, put his finances into fo good a condition as to leave off trade; and, with a full determination to employ his fortune in the recovery of his own and the prince's dominions, they fet out, affert their claim wherever they come; and thereby give rife to fuch adventures as our author thought fit to run them into.

There is a good deal of Don Quixote in this performance; but, alas! nothing of Cervantes.

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XXIII. A refutation of Sir Crifp Gafcoyne's addrefs to the liverymen of London. By a clear ftate of the cafe of Elizabeth Canning, in a narrative of facts, ranged in a regular feries, and fupported by the informations and affidavits of near eighty witneffes of good credit. Folio. 2s. 6d. Payne.

Tho' this is by far the moft confiderable performance that has appeared in favour of the young woman, yet we shall decline entering into particulars concerning it, as the story is now become too ftale; and, which is a better reason, as we gave nothing from Sir Crifp's addrefs. See Review for Auguft,

1754, P. 153.

POLITICAL and CONTROVERSIAL.

XXIV. A Defence of the Rector and Fellows of Exeter-callege, from the accufation brought against them by the rev. Dr. Huddesford, vice-chancellor of Oxford; in his fpeech to the convocation, Oct. 8, 1754, on account of the conduct of the faid college, at the time of the late election for the county. 8vo. Is. Bouquet.

Dr. Huddesford is here feverely handled for the cenfure he paffed upon Exeter college, on the occafion above mentioned. We shall fay no more of this affair, as the public papers, particularly the London Evening Poft, and the Evening Advertiser, have fufficiently dwelt upon it already.

XXV. The Conduct of Coll. confidered; with fome reAections upon a late pamphlet, entitled, A Defence of the RecHh 4

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tor and Fellows of Exeter college. In a letter from a Cambridge Soph, to a gentleman in Hampfire. 4to. 6d. Corbet.

Our Soph is very angry with the author of the Defence, on whom he liberally beftows hard names, and terms of contempt, He alfo, in a Drawcanfir-like mood, affects to despise both the London Evening Poft and the Evening Advertier; yet are there, in each of thefe papers, writers, of talents far fuperior to any that this pretended Cantab. has, in this piece, fhewn himself mafter of; for he has faid little, and proved nothing, relative to the controverfy he has engaged in.

XXVI. Fifty Queries, concerning the prefent Oxfordshire conteft, in a letter to a clergyman, on points of the utmost importance to the conftitution. 8vo. 6d. Bouquet.

In thefe queries the managers on the part of the old interest are called upon, to clear themselves from the charge of misconduct at the late election for the county of Oxford, in many very remarkable inftances, here enumerated.

XXVII. The Conduct of the French with regard to Nova Scotia, from its firft fettlement to the presenttime. In which are expofed, the falfehood and abfurdity of their arguments to elude the treaty of Utrecht, and fupport their unjuft proceedings. In a letter to a member of parliament. 8vo. is. Jefferys, near Charing-crofs.

The public have been long fince acquainted, by the newspapers, with the encroachments the French have of late made, or attempted, upon our colonies on the American continent: the profelled defign of this publication is to vindicate our right to thofe lands they pretend a claim to. To this purpose our author has given a regular, and, as it appears to us, an authentic account of the feveral proprietors of these countries, from their first fettlement by Europeans, as well as of the treaties that have been concluded relative thereto. As this pamphlet will not eafily admit of either an abstract, or extracts, we fhal! only obferve, that both the quantity and quality indicate its coming from the hand of no common, catch-penny writer.

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XXVIII. True Blue: or a letter to the gentlemen of the old intereft in the county of Oxford. By an A8vo. 6d. Cooper.

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What we are to understand by the A- - in the title-page of this performance, let thofe pronounce who are able to make the difcovery.-Whether the author thereby means to inform us that he is an alderman, an anti-gallican, or an anti-chriftian, will, poffibly, remain a mystery to all but himself. Of one thing, however, we are

fufficiently fatisfied, viz. That he is a hearty advocate for the new intereft, and no contemptible writer. He affumes the character of a real True Blue, according to his own idea of that denomination. The True Blue of our author, is The

determined enemy to every invader of our conftitution, and to every infatuated flave, that would impofe a [Roman] catholic king upon a proteffant people.' Hambden and lord Ruffel he numbers among the original great True Blues: the latter he mentions with the following juft encomium. It was

• HE who taught the patriots of his age the danger impending over the public weal, from that alarming circumftance of a popish heir to a proteftant crown, a fon of Rome fucceeding to the throne of England: HE forefaw the danger, he warned the nation, he tried to refcue his poor countrymen, he nobly perished in the attempt. The event proclaimed his judgment, as the fcaffold did his bravery.'

This is the light in which our author fays he fhall,himself ever be proud to appear, as a True Blue. But he confiders the partizans of the prefent time, called Old-intereft men, as Blues of a quite different hue; and he rallies them very agreeably for affuming to themfelves a term of diftinction, diametrically oppofite to their true principles.

XXIX. The Devil to pay at Wr, or, St. J—s's in an uproar. Being a true account of a moft defperate and bloody battle, which was fought by four Italians, commonly called, The fweet fingers of Ifrael. [i.e. the miniftry] By Blindem Buckhorfe, M.A. 8vo. 6d. Raymond.

The author is one of thofe would-be-merry wags, that think there is nothing like a touch on the times; who love to have a fling at the court, and if they can but fo wrap up their fun, that no body can find it out but themselves, imagine they have atchieved fomething. Writers of this fort feem to aim at no higher applaufe than that which the Merry-Andrew obtains from the tickled clown, who flily obferves to his gaping neighbours, Ecod! this fellow's no fool!' However, we very much doubt, if any reader will fay as much of Mr. Blindem Buckhorfe.

XXX. A cenfure and examination of Mr. Thomas Ruddiman's philological notes on the works of the great Buchanan, more particularly on the hiftory of Scotland: in which alfo, moft of the chronological and geographical, and many of the historical and political notes are taken into confideration. In a letter to a friend. Neceflary for reftoring the true readings, the graces and beauties, and for understanding the true mean

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ing of a vast number of paffages of Buchanan's writings, which have been fo foully corrupted, fo miferably defaced, fo grofly perverted and misunderstood containing many curious particulars of his life, and a vindication of his character from many grofs calumnies. 12mo. 4s. Keith.

The author of this work endeavours to fhew, that Mr. Ruddiman has greatly corrupted Buchanan's writings, more particularly his hiftory, in the edition printed by Mr. Robert Freebairn at Edinburgh 1715, in two vols. in folio; of which edition Mr. Ruddiman had the overfight: that he discovers great ignorance of the ufe and meaning of verbs, adverbs, pronouns, prepofitions, conjunctions, &c. &c. that he is unacquainted with the elegancies, the idioms and figures of the Latin tongue that his corrections are, for the most part, corruptions of the text of Buchanan's writings: that throughout the text and notes he discovers ignorance, inattention, forgetfulness, vanity and inconfiftence, want of tafte, want of judgment, and fometimes want of fincerity: in a word, that he is a finifhed pedant, and a moft furious calumniator. In regard to the merit of the performance, we fhall only fay, that tho' our author has certainly, in a variety of inftances, made good his charge against Mr. Ruddiman, and discovered no inconfiderable knowledge of the Latin clafficks: he deals too much in abuse and scurrility, and writes more like a snarling pedagogue than a gentleman.

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XXXI. Remarks on the Reverend Mr. Delafay's vindication of his fermon, intitled, Inoculation an indefenfible. practice; by N. Bolaine, furgeon. 8vo. Is. Baldwin.

Mr. Belaine, who has appeared before in this controversy †, fmartly, and, it seems to us, fuccefsfully attacks Mr. Delafay's opinion concerning inoculation; and, in the course of his remarks, has convicted his reverend antagonist of grofs mitreprefentations of authors, and facts, and even of having advanced downright falfhoods, to ferve his purpose. ப

XXXII. Some remarks on the Reverend Mr. Delafay's vindication of his fermon against Innoculation: in a letter to a friend, by a regular Phyfician. 8vo. Is. Printed for Smith in Canterbury, and fold by Davy and Law in London.

See Review for last September, p. 240.

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The arguments in this performance turn, principally, on the fame points with thofe in the preceding pamphlet. The ingenious author has prefixed to his reafonings, an account of the fuccefs inoculation has met with in Canterbury, and its vicinage; that out of 128, not one fingle perfon has mifcarried, and there were scarce any but had the disease in •a mild favourable manner.' It were to have been wished, that he had likewife given us the proportion of thofe who died in the natural diftemper, as it would have confiderably illuftrated the fuperior advantages of one kind of infection, compared with the other.

L XXXIII. De Aqua Marina Commentarius. Autore J. Speed, M. D. 4to. IS. Baldwin.

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In this performance, which is neatly printed, and ornamented with handfome emblematical head and tail picces, Dr. Speed, from a chymical analysis of fea-water, infifts, that its bitterness does not proceed from any bituminous matter existing therein, as has been fuppofed by fome writers upon the fame fubject. He alfo ftrongly contends against the adminiftration of this medicine internally on many occafions, wherein it has been thought particularly useful by others. To enforce thefe doctrines, and to oppofe Dr. Ruffel (tho' our author endeavours to evade any fufpicion of the last mentioned motive) seem to us the principal defign of this publication ; however, as his objections to that learned writer have fome appearance of a difpofition to cavil, and his general arguments in fupport of his own opinions have fo pofitive an air, we apprehend the injunction he has imposed on the public, not to give any tranflation of his performance, will the more readily be obeyed. His opinion of his own work, and his indifference about the judgment of others concerning it, will appear from the following paflage. Hæc funt quæ d: aqua marina

dicenda habui; quibus qui fidem habuerit, et quæ ex his fequ"untur rectâ ratione poterit deducere, credulitatis illum fuæ haud 'pænitebit: fiquis autem ifta flocci fecerit, faciat, per me licet.' L

XXXIV. A treatife on the gout; in which the caufe is first briefly affigned; and fecondly, an effectual and certain cure is pointed out. By Arentius Ferdinand Lambrechts, M. D. 8vo. 68. Bouquet.

This little pamphlet, whofe title page promifes fo much, and which is dedicated to four or five foreign doctors of phyfic, be

A pretty large abstract of Dr. Russel's differtation upon fea-water may be feen in the ninth volume of the Review, ¡. 188.

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