gency), that Mr. Pitt's plan is either to weaken the Prince of
Wales's government, or elfe to be Regent himself.' This is not the
leaft entertaining of the tracts that have appeared in oppofition to the
idea of a Regency with restrictions.
R......m.

Art. 49. Regency; and the Ufe and Abufe of the Great Seal: contain-
ing a correct Lift of all the Regencies fince the Origin of Parlia-
ments to the prefent Period; with an Account of the Caufe, Mode
of Appointment, Limitations and Confequences of each Re-
gency, &c. &c. 8vo. 1s. Ridgway. 1789.

The chief intention of this pamphlet is, to guard us against the attempts of corrupt parliaments,' and parliamentary cabals,' for the purposes alluded to in the title-page. Admitting his inftances to be fairly and faithfully extracted from the writers to whom this author refers, the little collection which he has here laid before the Public may poffibly be found useful.

Art. 50. Detached Hints upon the Queftion, in its prefent Pofture. 8vo. 6d. Debrett. 1789.

Tending to fhew that the Heir Apparent, during the King's inca-
pacity, and no longer, has a pre-eminent claim to the full exercife
of the royal authority.
R......m.

Art. 51. Reflections on the Cafe of a Regency. By a Gentleman of
Lincoln's Inn. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Ridgway. 1789.

After recapitulating the proceedings in Parliament, this Writer examines the feveral precedents that have been mentioned, and concludes his pamphlet with afferting the right of the Prince, and propofing nine questions for the confideration of the people.

This Gentleman of Lincoln's Inn is not the first lawyer who has propofed questions that are, if not totally foreign to prefent exigencies, at least fuch as have a tendency to withdraw the attention of the people from fuch material points as merit their utmost confideration. What, for inftance, is the intention of his laft queftion, • Whether it is fafest for the people to adhere to the old conftitution, or to make a new one, on the occafion of the King's illness?' His opponents, if he should have any, might ask him in turn, Who, on the occafion of the King's illness, endeavours to make a new conftitution ? Do

Art. 52. Thoughts on the prefent Proceedings of the House of Commons. 8vo. 1 s. Debrett.

This Author thinks, that nothing less than the contefts of party, and the ftruggles of ambitious ftatefmen, could for a moment obfcure fo plain a truth, as the fimple and obvious mode of restoring the conftitutional government to its full vigour, by addrefing the Prince of Wales, and calling on him to exercife the regal authority in the name of his father. He offers this opinion, after having fignified his difapprobation of the parliamentary difcuffion of right. The idea confutes itfelf. If Parliament have the power to call the Prince to the exercife of regal authority, they are doubtlefs at liberty to debate whether fuch a ftep is expedient, and to reftrict their dele, gated power in the manner which they, as our national reprefentauves, bet approve.

D. Art.

Art. 53. The Debate on the Subject of a Regency, in the House of Com mons, Dec. 16, 1788. Containing the Speeches of Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, &c. &c. With a correct Lift of the Divifion thereon. 2 s. 6d. Stockdale.

Svo.

The title fufficiently explains the contents of this pamphlet; which ought not to be overlooked by thofe who make collections of this kind.

Art. 54. The Powers of a Regent conftitutionally confidered. 8vo. 1s. Faulder.

The Author principally objects to any restrictions being laid on the Regent He more efpecially confines himself to the maintenance of the Regent's prerogative of creating peers, and of diffolving the parliament. His language is nervous, but for his arguments, let his readers decide. 1 R......m.

Art. 55. Whig and no Whig. A political Paradox. 8vo. 1s. Stalker. 1789.

A whimsical dialogue between William and Charles, in which the latter is doubtful whether the former is, or is not, a Whig. William's principles are fometimes combated by Charles, who feems to have the worst of the argument. Di

Art. 56. A folemn Appeal to the Citizens of Great Britain and Ireland; on the prefent Emergency. 8vo. 2 S. Stockdale.

This performance is evidently the production of a writer who poffeffes a very confiderable share of historical and political knowlege.

He fets out with feveral obfervations, intended to fhew, that where the spirit of unbridled freedom prevails, and where the people are accustomed to hear the nature of liberty difcuffed, a fet of defperate men, afpiring after power which their principles do not deserve, or hungry for bread, from which their debts have almost precluded them, may blow up the flame of difcord when it is leaft expected, and embroil in civil confufions and animofities, a community which but a moment before was in peaceable and happy circumftances. He proceeds with enumerating the examples which ancient and modern history afford of the truth of his remarks; and, speaking of our own times, he fays,

Let us not, therefore, be fo blind, fo very much flaves to our own prejudices, as to fuppofe that ruin, or at least distraction, may not en fue from men of an unreftained ambition, because they call themselves the men and friends of the people.'

. He applies to the prefent time what the hiftorian applied to the manners of the Roman republic; and fhews how far Salluft's characters of the confpirators agree with feveral perfons who now, in our own country, employ much of the public attention.

The author next defcribes Mr. Pitt, whofe character, finished in the richest colours, is contrafted with that of his great opponent.

As the prefent fituation of affairs renders the times fit for the execution of ambitious views, the author exhorts his fellow-citizens to beware of the mischiefs which muft neceffarily follow the admiffion of factious and profligate men into power.

The warmth and energy of his expreffion, which his zeal only feems to have infpired, has produced many harfh reflections on the

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prefent leading members of oppofition, and the higheft panegyric
on the minifter. On the whole, however, he writes like a fcholar,
and a gentleman.
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Art. 57. Advice humbly offered to the Prince of Wales. By a well

meaning Briton. 8vo. 6d. Hookham. 1789. The main object of this well-meant letter is, to fuggeft to his Royal Highness the propriety and prudence of ftrictly observing the maxim feftina lente, in his conduct, when Regent, toward his father's confidential fervants and friends, and not to hurry them precipitately out of place, in order to make room for those who may be too eager to fucceed them.-The advice is good, well enforced by judicious arguments, and delivered in plain language, but not in terms too familiar for the royal ear to which it is addressed. Art. 58. The Royal Dialogue between the P. of W. and the Right Hon. C. J. F. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Stalker, 1789. Low abuse of the characters alluded to by the initials inferted in the title-page.

MEDICAL.

Art. 59. An Attempt to ascertain the Causes of the K-'s present Illness; with a new Method of treating it, applicable to all who fuffer in like Manner; moft humbly recommended, by a dutiful Subject. 4to. Is. Robfon and Co.

The anonymous author of this well-meant attempt, attributes the K-'s illness to exceffive exercife and extreme temperance. His reafonings on the fubject, as well as his ftyle, are not, throughout, fo correct as might be expected from a fcientific writer; but his defign feems to proceed from a fincere wish for the fpeedy recovery of his Sovereign. The method of care which he recommends, is fuch as the hypothefis certainly indicates. The maxim that omne nimium nocet is incontrovertible, and in the prefent cafe, the nimium or nimia with refpect to the body are easily afcertained: but it is not allowable to affert that all mental derangements can be referred to corporeal or animal exceffes. Experience daily fhews them to be folely produced by the violence of certain paffions; and the bodily derangements which are concomitant, are frequently the effect of the difeafed mind. The investigation of the causes of difeafes is, in general, moft intricate and difficult, but more especially fo in thofe cafes where the mind is difordered; which require the most minute attention to every fymptom, and the most accurate comparison of every circumftance. Had the prefent writer feen the patient, the cause of whofe disease he attempts to explain, he might have been better qualified for the inveftigation. Ri.....m.

Art. 60. A Differtation on the Influence of the Paffions upon the Dif orders of the Body. By William Falconer, M. D. F. R. S. Being the Effay to which the Fothergillian Medal was adjudged. 8vo. 3s. Boards. Dilly. 1788.

In our account of the Memoirs of the Medical Society we mentioned the inftitution of the Fothergillian medal, and said that it

Rev. Jan. 1789.

* See Rev. voli lxxvii. p. 358.

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was

* By James Pettit Andrews, F.A.S.

was adjudged to Dr. Falconer, of Bath, for his answer to the queftion-What difeafes may be mitigated or cured by exciting particular affections or paffions of the mind? The Differtation is now before the Public, who, by its perufal, must be convinced that the medal was not unworthily beftowed. Of its comparative merit with refpect to the performances of his competitors, if there were any, it is impoffible for us to fpeak, as they are not published.

Before Dr. Falconer offers any arguments on the queftion, he mentions fome general laws by which the human conftitution feems. to be conducted; and defcribes the apparent effects of the paffions on the frame and conftitution. Having thus eftablished a general fyftem, he proceeds to apply what he has advanced, to particular diseases.

He acknowledges that many difficulties muft occur in the management of thofe precarious and nice inftruments, the paffions; he has, nevertheless, given an excellent view of their effects on the corporeal and vital fyftems; and has fhewn his intimate acquaintance with the best writers on metaphyfics and medicine. ·R... M.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Art. 61. The prefent State of Nova Scotia: With a brief Account of Canada, and the British Islands on the Coast of North America. The Second Edition, corrected and enlarged, and illuftrated with a Map. 8vo. 4s. Boards. Edinburgh, Creech; London, Cadell, &c. 1787.

The lofs which Great Britain fuftained, in the difmemberment of her empire, by the feparation of her American colonies, feems to be, in a very confiderable degree, compenfated by the flourishing ftate of what remains of her former poffeffions in that part of the world. According to all accounts, as well as to the representations contained in the volume before us, Canada, and Nova Scotia, &c. bid fair to recompenfe us, in time, for all the damage that we have fuftained by the defection of thofe provinces which now constitute the United States.

The account here given of the rapid growth of the infant fettlement of Nova Scotia, efpecially fince the termination of the war with our late colonists, is really aftonishing; and leaves us no room to doubt the very great advantages which will, in all human probability, accrue to the mother country, from the welfare and profperity of this her youngest child.

Of Canada, Newfoundland, Cape Breton, St. John's, &c. the accounts here. given muft, undoubtedly, be very acceptable to the public; but, as we have already laid before our readers a review of this work, from the first edition *, it is unneceffary for us to enlarge the prefent article, farther than, briefly, to obferve, that this fecond edition has received confiderable improvements; particularly a large, and, to all appearance, accurate map of North America, including, not only the British colonies, as now limited and defined, but also the territories of the United States..

Art. 62. The Flowers of modern Travels; being elegant and inftructive Extracts from the Works of the most celebrated Travellers. Intended chiefly for Young People. By the Rev. John Adams, A. M. 12mo. 2 Vols. 6s. fewed. Kearfley. 1788. Mr. Adams has made a very entertaining felection from the books that have been published within our own memory, by travellers of different countries; as Lord Lyttelton, Sir W. Hamilton, Barop de Tott, Dr. Moore, Dr. Von Troil, Meffrs. Brydone, Coxe, Wraxall, Savary, Swinburne, Lady M. W. Montagu, &c. The works, at large, of all these writers, have been reviewed by us in the course of our undertaking; and we think that Mr. Adams hath judiciously extracted the moft proper paffages for a mifcellany of this kind; which, to young readers, who are fond of perufing books of authentic travels, cannot fail of furnishing the moft profitable and innocent amufement.

Art. 63. Mrs. Stewart's Cafe, written by Herfelf, and refpectfully fubmitted to the enlightened Part of the Public: including her Letter to Lord Rawdon. 4to. 1s. 6d. Kerby, &c. 1788.

This Lady fets forth, that she is lineally defcended from Graham Earls of Monteith, and Stewart, Earls of Galloway, whose common ancestor and mine was Alexander the Sixth, Lord High Steward of Scotland, father to Robert the Second, firit monarch of the name of Stewart.'-She farther ftates, that she is in great poverty and diftrefs; that Lord Rawdon has, on her application, contributed feveral times to her relief; but that, of late, he has not only difcontinued his bounty, but has also been inftrumental in preventing others from relieving her. She, therefore, now publicly addreffes, and reproaches, his Lordship, in the style of a remonftrant, and with all the hauteur and dignity of high defcent and family pride,-increased rather than humbled by adverfity.-It fhould feem, however, as if Lord R. had received fome conviction that Mrs. S. had imposed on him, and that he no longer confidered her as a proper object of his benevolence: and that he really thinks fo, we are thoroughly convinced from circumftances mentioned in her own account. Befide which, we have obferved a letter, figned JUSTICE, printed in the Morning Poft of January 9, 1789, and addreffed To Mrs. MARGARET CAROLINE KUDD, alias STEWART." Now, if our high fpirited authorefs be really the celebrated Mrs. Rudd, formerly affociated with the unfortunate Perreaus, we can no longer be at a lofs to account for the change in Lord R.'s conduct toward her.

This Peerage is now dormant, by the failure of male heirs. The coheiress daughters were Mary and Helen. Mrs. Stewart is the grand-daughter of Mary, the elder; and Lord Rawdon is the great grandfon of Helen, the younger. Mary married her coufin, Walter Graham of Gartur, first cadet of the Monteith family; and Helen married Sir James Rawdon : confequently, Mrs. Stewart and Lord' Rawdon are prefumptive claimants to this dormant peerage.' Mrs. Stewart's note.