that it is fupported by fome perfons of respectable authority in France.

24. Diotrephes re-admonished: or fome Remarks on the Second Edition of a Letter from the Author of Pietas Oxonienfis to the rev. Dr. Adams of Shrewsbury. 8vo. Is. White.

Soon after Dr. Adams had published his late discourse on the Teft of True and Falfe Doctrines, he was attacked by the author of Pietas Oxonienfis, and defended by a writer who ftiles himself a Parishoner of St. Chad's, in a pamphlet entitled, Diotrephes Admonished. While this latter publication was in the prefs, the author of Pietas prints a new edition of his letter to Dr. Adams, with some additional remarks and improvements, and an Answer to the parishioner of St. Chad's under the title of the Admonisher Admonished. Here was a fresh attack upon Dr. Adams and his friend, in two different publications. This author therefore in the Remarks before us endeavours to vindicate himself, the minister of St. Chad's, and the church of England, against the strictures and mifreprefentations of his antagonist. He appears on this occafion to be a cool, fenfible controverfialift, who undoubtedly gives his adverfary fome very proper admonitions. But controverfies afford very little amufement to others, unless the combatants are men of ingenuity and spirit. To have made this dispute entertaining, the cæftus fhould have been taken up by a champion, animated with the valour, ardor, and activity of the redoubtable hero della Pieta.

25. Pietas Salopienfis: or an Answer to the firft of the Series of Letters addreffed to the Author of Pietas Oxonienfis. 8vo. Is. Dilly.

This is another production of that prolific genius, the renowned author of Pietas Oxonienfis. In this pamphlet he tells us, that his antagonist has only beaten the air, and been tak ing prodigious pains to confute what it never entered into the heart of Pietas Oxonienfis to conceive;' that the whole purport of the first of the Series (which is all that has been hitherto published) amounts to this, 'That all men by the light of nature and reafon have, or may have. fome knowledge or conceptions of a Supreme Being, as holy, juft, good, wife, &c.' that, in his letter to Dr. Adams, he never pretended to deny, that mankind might form fuch conceptions of the Deity; but that by knowledge he meant true faving knowledge. This, he infifts, is not attainable without revelation; and to corroborate his opinion he produces the fentiments of Dr. Patten, Dr. Horne,

Mr.

as he affures them, he never had the advantage of a liberal education.

The fubjects of thefe letters are as follow. The removal of the prefent executions from Tyburn, to fome fitter place. Propofals for a general act of parliament, for improving the roads of this metropolis, and its environs. A reformation of the abufes among ftage coach-men, waggon-mafters, porters, &c. On the neceffity of opening feveral new roads. On the fuppofed preparations of the French, for acts of hoftility. For teaching the military exercife to 200,000 men. On removing Billinggate. On reforming abufes in Smithfield market, the Haymarket, and St. James's Park. Methods to prevent fuch frequent attacks from houfe-breakers, &c. Means by which tranfportation may be avoided, &c.

Of thefe Schemes, fome are very reasonable, fome plaufible, and fome vifionary. They, however, deferve the attention of our legiflators.

CHIRURGICA L.

34. An Efay on the Cure of ulcerated Legs, without reft, &c. by William Rowley, Surgeon. 8vo. 15. 6d. F. Newbery.

The tendency of ulcerated legs to relapse on the patient's return to the ufe of exercife, has rendered the common method of curing thofe diforders one of the most unsuccessful in the practice of furgery. Mr. Rowley here informs us of a new method, which he has practifed for fome years with great advantage; whereby the patients are laid under no restriction in point of reft, or dietetical regimen, and the ulcers are not difpofed to regenerate. The medicine he recommends is nitre, taken in the quantity of a fcruple, three or four times a day, and corrected with twenty or thirty drops of fp. fal. ammoniac. or fome of the julep. e camphora. For diminishing the inflammation in patients who live freely, he orders a gentle laxative to be taken after every meal, compofed of a fourth part of jalap, and three fourths of powdered nitre, of which the dofe is from a fcruple to half a drachm. The effect of thefe medicines is commonly to occafion very great pain all round the ulcers, when they are firft taken; but that fymptom gradually decreases, as the ulcers advance in their cure; and they promote, in general, a moft copious discharge of urine. The external applications, he advifes, are thofe only of the moft fimple kind, in which the precipitate digestive, fo commonly ufed, has no fhare. In fupport of this method of cure, Mr. Rowley prefents us with twentyfour cafes of various kinds of ulcers, which were fuccessfully treated. One inftance only occurred, where the liberal ufe of nitre seemed to hazard a mortification, till fuch a confequence was prevented by the bark.

Upon the whole, the practice in this pamphlet is delivered with judgment, and highly merits the attention of the faculty.

These vain and ridiculous reprefentations are very juftly and genteely cenfured in thefe remarks.

27. A Theofophic Lucubration on the Nature of Influx, as it refpects the Communication and Operations of Soul and Body. By the bonourable and learned Emanuel Swedenborg. Now first tranf lated from the original Latin. 410. 2s. 6d. Lewis.

In a letter to a friend, dated London, 1769, and published at the end of this tract, the author communicates the following particulars of his life:

I was born at Stockholm in the year of our Lord 1689, Jan. 29. My father's name was Jefper Swedberg, who was bishop of Weft-Gothia, and of celebrated character in his time: he was alfo a member of the fociety for the propagation of the gofpel, formed on the model of that in England, and appointed prefident of the Swedish churches in Penfilvania and London by King Charles XII. In the year 1710, I began my travels, firft into England, and afterwards into Holland, France, and Germany, and returned home in 1714. In the year 1716, and afterwards, I frequently converfed with Charles XII king of Sweden, who was pleafed to beftow on me a large fhare of his favour, and in that year appointed me to the office of Affeffor in the Metalic-College, in which office I continued till the year 1747, when I quitted the office, but ftill retain the falary annexed to it, as an appointment for life: the reafon of my withdrawing from the bufinefs of that employment was, that I might be more at liberty to apply myself to that new -function to which the Lord had called me. About this time a place of higher dignity in the ftate was offered me, which I declined to accept, left it fhould prove a fare to me. In 1719 I was ennobled by queen Ulrica Eleonora, and named Swedenborg, from which time I have taken my feat with the nobles of the equeftrian order, in the triennial aflemblies of the ftates. I am a fellow, by invitation, of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, but have never defired to be of any other community, as I belong to the fociety of angels, in which things spiritual and heavenly are the only fubjects of dif course and entertainment, whereas in our literary focieties the attention is wholly taken up with things relating to the body and this world. In the year 1734, I publifhed the Regnum Minerale, at Leipfic, in three volumes, folio; and in 1738, I took a journey into Italy, and staid a year at Venice and Rome.'

After giving an account of his refpe&table family-connections, he fays: Whatever of worldly honour and advantage may appear to be in the things beforementioned, I hold them but

as

MISCELLA NE O U S.

38. The Tutor's Guide: being a Complete Syftem of Arithmetic, with various Branches in the Mathematics. In Six Parts. By Charles Vyfe. 12mo. 31. Robinfon and Roberts,

Arithmetic, confidered in its full extent, is, doubtless, a very copious fubject; but as the practical part is generally underftood to confift chiefly in the four great rules, or operations of addition, fubtraction, multiplication, and divifion, the learner, when master of thefe, will not find much difficulty in obtaining a thorough knowledge of fuch other useful rules, namely, fellowship, alligation, fimple and compound intereft, discount, barter, rebate, &c. as have been contrived for facilitating mercantile computations; and which, indeed, are no more than an application of the first four general rules above mentioned. It has, however, been found neceffary by the modern writers upon arithmetic, to enlarge the former plan, by the introduction of Practical Geometry, the Rudiments of Algebra, and likewise the Extraction of Square and Cube Roots, by which means their publications are rendered of general ufe to every art or profeffion, wherein the knowledge of numbers becomes neceffary; and notwithstanding there are many books already extant upon the fame fubject, yet we apprehend, that the work before us will not be deemed either unneceffary or impertinent, after having affured our readers, it is recommended to the favour of the public, by one of the most confiderable mathematical writers of the prefent age.

39. Proceedings of a general Court-Martial, held at Pensacola, in Weft Florida, on Wednesday, March 16, 1768, and continued till Wednesday, April 20, 1768. 8vo. 3s. 6d. Johnston.

This work is of fuch a nature, that no account can be given of it; or, in other words, it cannot be reviewed in fuch a manner as to convey any adequate notion of it to our readers. And where a private character is concerned, we do not think it proper to give our own unfupported opinion. In a word, thofe who want to know whether major Farmer, to whom these proceedings relate, was unjustly accufed, or fairly acquitted, must confult the work itself.

·40. Thoughts on Capital Punishments, in a series of Letters, 8vo. 15. Baldwin.

This pamphlet contains a collection of Letters formerly publifhed, at different times, in the London Magazine; and fuggefts many ingenious arguments for a mitigation of the penal laws.

THE

CRITICAL REVIEW.

For the Month of August, 1770.

ARTICLE I.

Sketch of the Philofophical Character of the late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. By Thomas Hunter, Vicar of Weverham in Chefhire. 8vo. 5. Cadell.

TH

HE tafk which the author of this work has undertaken, is one of the most arduous in the province of literature, and requires at once the most extenfive learning, the moft acute difcernment, the moft folid reflexion, and the most unbiaffed impartiality. The opinions of a great and learned philofopher, who had ranged the compafs of human knowledge, are to be canvaffed; principles the most important to the happiness of mankind are either to be confirmed or exploded by a just determination; abftra&t truths are to be feparated from ingenious plaufibility; the ideas of philosophy are to be traced through the most intricate regions of natural and moral fpeculation; the force of laboured argument, the bril liancy of wit, and the blaze of eloquence, are to be examined with unprejudiced and unawed attention; and a character the moft illuftrious for genius and abilities is to be estimated by its conformity to the common apprehenfions of mankind. We fhould not be furprized to fee the philofophical works of lord Bolingbroke reprobated by a clerical tribunal, even upon the flightest and most curfory examination; but we must acknowledge, in juftice to the author of the Sketch before us, that though we are confident he has not engaged in this inquiry without the influence of invincible prejudice, he displays, however, an acuteness and fpirit of argument, which place him VOL. XXX. Auguß, 1770.

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