the Umcones (the fouth eastern part of Navarre), he arrived at Vareia (Logrono in Navarre), a very strong city.

Thefe events happened

We fhall felect Sertorius' advice to Herennuleius and Hertuleius:

Eodem tempore & ad Herennulcium, qui in iifdem locis erat litteras mifit, & in alteram provinciam ad L. Hertuleium, precipiens, quemadmodum bellum adminiftare vellet; ante omnia ut ita focias civitates tueretur, ne acie cum Metello demicaret, cui neque auctoritate neque viribus par effet: ne ipfe quidem confilium inierat adverfùs eum cundi, neque in præfentiarum incurfurum eum credebat, fi traheretur bellum: hofti, cùm mare ab tergo provinciafque omnes in poteftate haberet, navibus undique commeatus venturos: ipfi autem, confumptis priore æftate, que præparata fuiffent, omnium rerum inopiam fore: Perpernam in imaritimam regionem fuperventurum, ut ea, quæ integra adhuc, ab hoftis vi tutari poffet, &, fi qua occafio detur, incautos per tempus adgreffurum. Ipfe cum fuo exercitu Hiberones & Autalcones progredi ftatuit, a quibus gratiam querebatur infamem: cùm nufer oppugnaretur Celtiberorum urber imploratam efse opem ab Metello, miffofque qui itinera exercitui Romano monftrarent. Quam perfidiam ultum iri volebat Sertorius, ut infigni exemplo ceterorum fidem retineret. Illos cum pro flagitii gravitate muletaflet, variis diftrabitur curis, ambiguus quonam bellum vertat, utrum fidos Romanis populos incurfet, maritimamne oram, ut Pompeium ab Ilercaoniá & Conteltaniâ arceat, utrâque focia gente, an ad Metellum & Lufitaniam fe convertat.'

Let us extract the fame paffage as it appears in the manucript

Letters of the late Thomas Rundle, LL. D. Lord Bishop of Derry in Ireland, to Mrs. Barbara Sandys, of Miferden, Gloucestershire. With Introductory Memoirs by James Dallaway, M. A. Two Volumes. 8vo. 6s. in Boards. Cadell.

EVERY one of thefe Letters is not only an evidence of the

truth of Pope's character of the bishop of Derry, but an admirably practical comment on it. We fee truly in them that Rundle had a heart

In his friends' happiness he was the warmest fharer; and in their misfortunes felt feverely of their interefts he was anxiocfly mindful; and in his good offices for their fervices he was unremittingly diligent. If it were not too ftrong an expreffion, we might fay he was a part of their conftitution: at each impulfe on their nerves his own feemed to vibrate.

The first of thefe pleafing volumes is ftyled a biographical preface, printed a little too oftentatiously. The few incidents of the life of Dr. Rundle are related with plainnefs and apparent candour. He was, Dr. Johnfon tells us, unfortunately famous. Indeed, in the eagernefs of early unfufpicious youth, he embarked too inconfiderately in the caufe, and adopted too implicitly the opinions of Whifton: we fufpect that he always retained a predilection for the Arian hypothefis; but we ought not to fay that he did not fubfcribe the articles of religion without the fullest conviction of their truth, for his life was never blemished by a single inftance of infincerity or duplicity. Yet his early errors prevented his attain

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ing the bishoprick of Gloucefter; and Dr. Gibfon, the bishop of London, with an intolerance which would have difgraced the blindeft fectary, not only reverted to his connection with Whifton, but was influenced by a vague ftory of fomething faid, many years before, difrefpectfully of Abraham's faith in offering up his fon Ifaac. Thefe tales did not, however, prevent his obtaining the bishoprick of Derry, where he focn conquered the prejudices entertained against him, and lived highly refpected by all parties. Dr. Rundle owed his preferment to Dr. Talbot, the bishop of Durham, as well as to his brother earl Talbot, the lord chancellor; and with this family he lived in the strictest friendship, without having his interest or his affection engaged by any nearer relatives of his own.

We shall extract a few paffages from these volumes, which are characteristic of Dr. Rundle, or curious in themselves. Let us attend first to almoft his laft words: the clofing of a well spent life is an interefting and an awful fcene. We look up to the pious dying Chriftian, as being of a fuperior nature, quitting the heavy clog of mortality.

'Dear Sir,

To Archdeacon S.

Dublin, March 22, 1742-3

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• Adieu-for ever.-Perhaps I may be alive when this comes to your hands-more probably not; but in either condition your fincere well-wifler.-Believe me, my friend, there is no comfort in this world, but a life of virtue and piety; and no death fupportable, but one comforted by Christianity, and its real and rational hope. The first, I doubt not, you experience daily May it be long before you experience the fecond!-I have lived to be Conviva fatur,-paffed through good report and evil report; have not been injured more than outwardly by the laft, and folidly benefitted by the former. May all who love the truth in Chrift Jefus, and fincerely obey the gospel, be happy! For they deferve to be fo, who (Abr Apan) feek truth in the spirit of love.

Adieu 'I have no more ftrength.-My affectionate last adieu to your lady. T. DERRY.'

The Letters to Mrs. Sandys were written at different periods, from the year 1718 to 1737. They confist of circumstances relating to his patrons family, the little golipings of wellbred and well-informed perfons, with fome literary remarks of a fuperior kind. The first part, which appeared to us most interefling, was the obfervations on Mandeville's doctrine in the fable of the bees. It is a malterly sketch of an able answer to a very pernicious fyftem. In the literary line alfo, we perceive a pleafing account of the disturbances which occurred on Polly's' being forbidden to be acted. It is well known that Polly was the work of Gay, defigned as a fequel

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to the Beggar's Opera: it is written (fays Dr. Rundle) with fpirit and fatire; the wit is new, the humour gay, and the reflections pointed at high life.' The duchefs of Queensbury urged their majefties to fubfcribe, after its representation had been prevented; for this indecorum fhe was forbidden the court; but he lived to fee it acted in 1777 at the Haymarket,

Thefe Letters may, perhaps, inform fome readers, and remind others, of the fhocking ftate of the prifons of that era, when the exaggerated horrors of the tranfportation of the Africans to our Weft-India colonies were almost realised in this land of boafted liberty. Mr. Ogelthorpe, the Howard of his day, rescued the debtors and the felons from this wretched state, which might have fufficed as a punishment for the worst of crimes.

Of Dr. Clarke our author fpeaks with the warmest encomiums; and of Thomson with the highest admiration, tempered with a correct judgment; let us extract fome paffages relating to the poet of the Seafons:

Madam,

To Mrs, Sandys.

July 16, 1730.

I have prefumed to fend you a prefent of Mr. Thompson's Seafons; a volume on which reafon beltows as many beauties as imagination. It is a fubject that our first parents would have fung in paradife, had they never been feduced by the ferene flattery of falie knowledge to forfake humility and innocence. But they would fcarcely have excited by what they fung, a purer praife of virtue or higher raptures of adoration, than will warm your heart when you read the defcription of thefe rural fcenes of the graces and benevolence of nature. Such writings give dignity to leifure, and exalt entertainment and amufements into devotion. If I praife the performance more than it deferves, confider it as an honest art of giving value to my prefent: for I would not willingly offer any thing to you of which I had not an high esteem.'

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His prefent flory is the death of Agamemnon. An adultrefs, who murders her hufbind, is but an odd example to be prefented before, and admonith the beauties of Great Britain, However, if he will be advited, it fall not be a fhocking, though it cannot be a noble flory. He will enrich it with a profution of worthy fentiments and high poetry, but it will be written in a rough, harth ftyle, and in numbers great, but carelefs. He wants that neatness and fimplicity of diction which is fo natural in dialogue. He cannot throw the light of an ele gant cafe on his thoughts, which will make the fublimeft turns of art appear the genuine unpremeditated dictates of the heart

of the fpeaker. But with all his faults, he will have a thoufand masterly ftrokes of a great genius feen in all he writes. And he will be applauded by thofe who moft cenfure him.'

Of the author of Leonidas he fays:

He feems to be infpired rather by reafon than fancy; and if he hath any thing wanting in the performance, it is the agree able wildnefs of a young imagination, in whom extravagance and whimfies are pleafing, becaufe beautiful. One's judgment and virtue are oftener approving the good-fenfe and worthiness of fentiment, than one's fancy tranfported by the magic of poetry and its gay creation.'

Of the family in which he lived, and of the bifhop in particular, he fcarcely fpeaks without rifing almoft to enthusiasm : it is a pleafing picture of the warmth of his affections and the goodness of his heart. I would not live any longer (fays he) in one place, than I could get opportunities to fhow my gratitude to that family, to which I owe all the happiness and dignity of my life' The feventeenth letter, on the death of bishop Talbot, is extremely interefling and affecting :

I have loft, I have loft my patron, fiiend, father! To him I owe all the happiness i have ever enjoyed in life, all the comfort (if life hath any future comfort for me!) that I am fill to receive, flow from his bounty to me! I faw him in mifery who never before was beheld by any that depended on him, but with gratitude and pleasure to look on him who loved us all, was a joy that made us relifh the good fortune, with which he had bleft us. What can I do to show my fenfe of gratitude to him! The labour of my life, the ambition of my life, fhall be to enjoy the fatisfaction of acting with a regard and love to his dear dear memory.'

We own that we have been much pleafed with this work, and we have strongly shown it by the attention which we have paid it. To examine the truly genuine effufions of a good mind, to fee its moft familiar and carelefs traits, without finding them fullied by a blot which could detract from the character of a man and a Christian, muft add to our respect for the dignity of human nature, and our veneration for that religion which could alone infpire and uniformly fupport a character of this fuperior kind.

The Works of the late John Gregory, M. D. To which is prefixed an Account of the Life of the Author. 4 Vols. 800. 125. in Boards. Cadell.

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HE eagerness of the admirers of the late Dr. Gregory was fcarcely fatisfied with the little pofthumous tract, entitled a Father's Laft Legacy to his Daughters. Without detracting

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