Many juft and pertinent obfervations are fcattered through this difcourfe one of them deferves particular notice, viz. If both parties bad acted agreeable to the principles of the Chriftian religion (which, as it condemns faction and rebellion, fo likewife defpotifm and tyranny), the catastrophe of this day would not have happened. The Bishop adds, in conclufion, The recollection of the calamities and oppreffions under which this kingdom groaned for the greatest part of the last century, fhould infpire our minds with a just fenfe of gratitude to the Supreme Difpofer of all events, who has defined us to reap in peace and fecurity the fruits of thofe ftruggles." -Let us be temperate in the enjoyment, and fteady in the fupport, of true liberty. Let us not endanger it by yielding to the fubtle refinements vifionary fpeculatifts, the infidious harangues of pretended patriots, or the ground lefs affertions of thofe who dare to defend arbitrary power upon the authority of the Scriptures.-Thus will the purity of our established religion make us wife and good, equally removed from the licentious fpirit of republicanifm, and the degrading principles of defpotifm.' Br....w. III. Preached at Stonehoufe Chapel, December 28, 1788. By John Bidlake, A. B. of Chrift Church, Oxford; Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Earl Ferrers, and Master of the Grammar School, Plymouth. 4to. PP. 32. IS. Printed at Plymouth, and fold in London by Law, Lowndes, &c. So much has been written on the fubject of this difcourfe, that nothing new can be expected, nor is at all neceffary, fince humanity pleads fo powerfully in favour of thefe unhappy wretches. Their fufferings are great indeed; but we hope and believe, not fo great as here reprefented. The author afferts that man is by nature a faage: an opinion to which we cannot fubfcribe, as it feems to caft the highest reflection on the God of nature; and indeed in fome measure excufes the perpetrators of the horrid barbarities here alJuded to; fince, in many of them, nature has not been fufficiently corrected by education. The benevolent author, we are perfuaded, did not fee the doctrine in this light, as he feems very fincerely to feel the fufferings which he defcribes, and, in the removal of which, he wishes to be inftrumental, D: IV. The Injuftice of the African Slave Trade, proved, from Principles of natural Equality. Preached in the Church of Charles, Plymouth, January 11, 1789. By Robert Hawker, Vicar of the Parish, and formerly of Magdalene Hall, Oxford. 4to. PP. 28. 15. Printed at Plymouth, and fold in London by Law, &c. Another able advocate for the poor negroes. How far the total abolition of the flave trade may be practicable or expedient, muft be left to the Government to determine. As it has been carried on, it feems a most iniquitous branch of commerce, flained with cruelty and blood; at which humanity fhudders, and which chriftianity condemns. We rejoice to hear that, in fome of our plantations, laws have lately been enacted, much in favour of these unhappy beings; by which their fufferings have been greatly alleviated. We heartily with fuccefs to all who plead the caufe of our much injured fellow fellow-creatures; and that the fale of this very fenfible difcourfe may be fully equal to the wishes of its author, as he generously gives the profits arifing from it to promote fo good a defign. ....W. V. Preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Columb's, Derry, on the Commemoration of the 7th of December, 1688. By the Rev. John Hume, A. M. Dean of Derry. 4to. 21 pages. London derry printed, 1788. When James the Second advanced with his army against the city of Derry, where he expected to meet with confiderable refiftance from the Proteftants, the citizens, confcious of the weakness of the garrifon, were ftruck with great confternation on his near approach, and an immediate furrender was apprehended. But, as the preacher of this very commendable fermon obferves, What the prudence of years could not attempt, the rafhnefs of youth effected. The young men of the city, without leader, without arms, rush to the gates and fhut them." The courage of the young was then well fupported by the wisdom of the more experienced:-James was repulfed, and at length obliged to abandon his enterprife; but not till the heroic inhabitants had endured all the horrors of a long fiege, in which they fuffered every calamity that fatigue and famine could inflict. The particulars of this memorable event were given to the Public by the Rev. Dr. Walker, who bravely headed the citizens; and who, as Mr. Dean Hume remarks, was at once their priest and general. It is in commemoration of the day, Dec. 7. on which the apprentices, with other brave youths of the city, fhut the gates againf James and his well-appointed army, that this fermon was preached; and it is now published by defire of the Mayor and Corporation of Derry, who have done themfelves credit by their approbation of this judicious and animated difcourfe against bigotry and defpotifm. VI. Preached at Peckham, Surrey, on Sunday, Nov. 2, 1788, in contemplation of the then approaching Anniverfary of the glorious REVOLUTION, &c. By R. Jones. 8vo. pp. 49. 1 S. Dilly. Mr. Jones juftly ftyles the 4th of November, a day DEAR to all good Proteftants; and, conformably to this idea, he zealously expatiates on the bleffings of liberty, civil and religious; and warmly afferts, like an able and learned advocate, the natural rights and juft claims of men.' In brief, his difcourfe abounds with fuch pertinent obfervations, and animated expreflions, as could not fail of exciting, in the minds of his hearers, the moft fervent fentiments of gratitude to Heaven, for the inestimable privileges which were fecured to us, by the glorious event commemorated in this dif course. Gand Br.....w VII. Preached in the Church of St. Mary, Truro, at the Anniverfary of Truro School-meeting, Sept. 11, 1788. By the Rev. R. Polewhele. 4to. pp. 15. IS. Cadell, &c. The fubject of this difcourfe is peculiar. From Heb. x. 32. Call to remembrance the former days, the author directs the thoughts of his audience (which confifted of gentlemen educated at the abovementioned fchool), to the fimplicity, inftructions, amufements, and employ employments of their youthful days. The reprefentation that is given, and the remarks which are offered, are pertinent and pleafingThe moral reflections and obfervations have a direct tendency to cherish benevolence, and to promote the love and practice of truth and virtue. Hi. CORRESPONDENCE. To the MONTHLY REVIEWERS. 'I EG EC OG In confequence of this, the numbers which exprefs the horizontal force, towards the end of the book, are too fmall. Thefe numbers, however, may be very easily corrected by means of the Algebraic Theorems given in page 132, taking e always 3; and the Geometrical part of the fame paper may be quickly corrected, by fubftituting the proportion here given inftead of that which was used. Having rectified this mistake in my own book, I fhall be further obliged to you, if you will now permit me, through the fame channel, to communicate to your mathematical readers a correction of a miftake in Emerfon's Fluxions. In the 27th Example to Propofition X. he has fet down an infinite feries for the value of y, which is not right, the true value of y being xx + 4x — 1. Green's Norton, near Toweefter, 1 am, GENTLEMEN, See Rev. for Auguft laft. An Impartial Obferver' is entitled to our thanks for his friendly information of an intended abufive attack upon us in the News-papers. Such effects of refentment are natural; and must be allowed, while they are clothed in decent language. When they are otherwife, they will be little regarded by the Monthly Reviewers: whofe utmost wifh is, to do juftice to the Public, as well as the Authors (good and bad) whofe works they are, by their plan, obliged to no tice. 4. B. of Wakefield, who, in our laft month's Correfpondence, dons Dr. Ellis's " Knowledge of Divine Things, &c." will foon have an opportunity of feeing feme remarks on that work, in a book juft ready for publication, entitled, "Mifcellanics, literary and philoJophical." For this information, we are obliged to a Correfpondent, who figns A CONSTANT READER.' * We are obliged to our old Correfpondent, Mr. James Woodhoufe, for his friendly intimation, refpecting two inftances of inaccurate language, in our Review for October laft. He is perfectly right in objecting to the mode of expreffion, in each of the paffages; and we are forry that his Letter was not of a date early enough to give us an opportunity of noticing thofe flips of the pen, in our last Appendix it is now fcarcely worth while to recall the attention of our readers to them. * A Lover of Confiftency, and an Enemy to Bigotry of all forts,' is under confideration. GENTLEMEN, As you have not corrected an error printed in your last Appendix, in your Review for February, give me leave to point it out, as it may have efcaped your notice. It is in your extract from the Fulda Difpenfatory, page 686, on the preparation of acid of tartar cryftallifed; where you mention, "Mix 10 ounces of concentrated vitriolic acid with as much pure water." In the original, it is ten ounces of concentrated vitriolic acid with ten pounds of water; which is exactly conformable to fe veral proceffes I have feen for making this most useful falt, and which it is furprifing was not published in the late New Pharmacopoia, as the preparation was well known to many of the prefent Phyficians of the College. Hermitage, March 17, 1789. I am, Gentlemen, Your obliged, obedient Servant, Q. In what manner would you eafily procure falt of tartar from We are much obliged to Mr. Willis for the correction of fo material an error. In the preceding fentence, it is faid, 'Boil two pounds of cream of tartar in ten of water,' and the words with as much pure water' in this fentence ought to refer to the ten pounds above mentioned. A parenthefis coming between the two fentences occafions the obfcurity. In answer to the Quere, which, we think, refers to a note in the fame page of our Appendix, we conceive that nothing more is required to procure falt of tartar from cauftic vegetable alkali, than the addition of fixed air; which may be effected by fimple exposure to the atmosphere. R. R..... m. $18 Our Friend and Well-wisher' is referred to the fourth article of Correfpondence on the laft page of our Review for February, relative to the Difpenfatorium Fuldenfe. Gentlemen who want foreign publications, fhould apply to Mr. Elmfley in the Strand; or the other London Bookfellers, who are importers of foreign books. 1st A fecond Letter from the Gentleman'-like writer, who figns Omnes Veritas,' has afforded us a hearty laugh; for which we are obliged to him. The firft letter from Tranquillus was received, but the writer did not inform us how to addrefs him; there is the fame omiffion i omiffion in his fecond epiftle; and we did not choofe to make a public reply. A letter, however, is now left for him at Mr. Becket's. +++ Our correspondent Monitor' will find the fatisfaction which he requires, where he ought to have looked, viz. in Henault's Abridg ment of the Hiftory of France; in Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV. and in Moreri's Dictionary, article Philippe de France, Duc d'Orléans. This prince, fon of Lewis XIII. and only brother of Lewis XIV. was, at firft, ftyled Duc d'Anjou, and, in 1661, Duc d'Orléans. He was first married to Princefs Henrietta, daughter of Charles I. of England, in 1661; and the dying in 1670, he took for his fecond wife, in the next year, Charlotte Elizabeth, Princefs Palatine and of Bavaria, authorefs of the letters whence the Fragmens are faid to be taken. Her husband was more commonly called Monfieur, than Duc d'Orléans; which title, however, was always given, after his decease, to his fon, the Regent. Dr B....y. From Monitor's' imperfect defcription of Dr. Hawes's work, we cannot inform him, precifely, what is the title of it; but we fufpect that this correfpondent means "An Addrefs to the King and Parliament, &c. with Hints for improving the Art of restoring fufpended Animation. 8vo. 25. Dodiley. 1782." See Review for March 1783 (Vol. 68.), p. 280. + It is become neceflary for us to caution the Public against the practice of fome unblufhing Publishers, who, in their puffing advertisements, fcruple not to infert pretended commendatory extracts from the Reviews, in praife of books, or pamphlets, of which the Reviewers have either not given any character at all, or of which they have fpoken in terms very different from thofe ufed in fuch falfe quotations. Such impofitions on the Public are not only fraudulent, with refpect to those who are thus mifled, by fictitious recommendations, to become purchafers of trash; but they tend, very greatly, to injure the reputation of the Reviews :-thus fubjected, without any fault of their own, to the imputation of bearing falfe witness. Several new productions, in profe and verfe, have lately been tranfmitted to us, from Ireland; but as our plan does not, neceflarily, include all the publications of that kingdom, we shall notice only fuch as we can cOMMEND, or that are of importance enough to call for CRITICAL ATTENTION. ttt Some other Letters, which arrived late in the present month, will be confidered in our next number. In the note to p. 280, line 1. for manive", acad maniere. |