with enumerating their names only, and adding, that the engravings are not unworthy of the general excellence of the other fafciculi. In the continuation of our account, as new fafciculi appear, we mean to return to this before us. The firft plant is the hib fcus folandra, and the fecond, the malope parviflora: the reft are fidas-viz. the fida truncara, auguftifolia(Miller), fupina, fragrans, paniculata, L. vifcofa, L. althæi-. folia, fuberofa ricinoides, jatrophoides, unilocularis, pterofperma, nutans, hernandioides, (Alcær Plukn, & Sloan, affin.) nudiflora, craffifolia, ciftiflora, Mauritiana, beloere, Afiatica, L. pilofa, arborea Lin. & retroría, Revolutions de Paris, dedées a la Nation, & au District des Petits Auguflins. Paris. Prudhomme. T HIS work is published every week; and we have receiv, ed fifteen of these number, which contain the late tranf actions fo far as the 24th of October laft. The author is a warm zealous patriot. He writes with enthusiasm, animation, and energy: he feems to feel pain from the exceffes of the mob, and mentions fome of their most atrocious acts, as if he wished to escape from the painful ideas which they excited. In general, the defcriptions appear to be faithful and accurate. The flame of liberty burst out with a fury of a fire long fuppreffed. Our author could publith the following reflections at Paris, even on the 17th of July. They conclude the account of the events of the 12th. Bafe courtiers! Sullied with vice and infamy; how can they contend with any profpect of fuccefs against legions of citizens, animated by the torch of found philofophy, armed with the facred rights of the people, of rea fon and humanity? Be under no apprehenfions, brave nation! intrepid citizens, liberty awaits you!' It would be ufelefs again to relate events published in every newspaper, or to point out the mistakes of our diurnal vehicles of intelligence or error. We fhall mention a few of those cir cumftances, which we think curious, or which have not been often mentioned. Of these the extracts from the Journals of the Bastille, and the inferiptions left by the prifoners may appear interefting. One of the infcriptions is very affecting. Charuel of Chalons, overwhelmed with forrow in this place, has compofed the following verfes, waiting for the intelligence of a more happy conclusion: Il fortera quand ce cadran Marquera l'heure & le moment' The dial that was to mark the hour and the moment was a death's bead and fome bones. Our author, however, overlooking the application, tells us, that the dial is effaced. Some other verfes follow; but the Mufes never deigned to visit thefe gloomy manfions; or if they ever condefcended so far, no traces of their prefence remain. A reflection of Guiche, on the the fame walls, is well expreffed: Time flies; eternity approaches; men pafs away; and God only remains.' What may be styled poetry is very infipid, not unlike the attempts of Sternhold and Hopkins. Indeed we find very little, notwithftanding the expectations which may be formed, and the promifing appearance of the fubject, that is worth tranfcribing. The editor feems to think that the man with the iron mask was Fouguet. The famous festival, which occurred at Versailles on the 5th of October, and which terminated in bringing the king to Paris, is described at length. Our editor is confident that it was a plot of the aristocracy. He adds a circumstance which we do not remember to have heard before, that there were near 1200 officers at Verfailles, who had been gradually drawn there from the different regiments, in confequence of this concerted plan. They had fix months leave of abfence. This report, however, and fome of the other reprefentations are a little fufpicious, when we reflect that the editor is a violent demagogue; but as he admits of his correfpondent's rectifying his mifreprefentations, we cannot fuppofe that he has committed any confiderable error. One of these letters begins with this addrefs, Vile demagogue;' and the rest of it is proportionably violent. The few anecdotes we had marked out for tranfcribing are not we fear new: the following, however, we do not recollect to have already seen. This revolution muft neceffarily make a great impreffion on the children; and they of courfe have been collected in companies in every street, with little drums, very fharp fwords of wood, and lances tipped with tin. The affembly of reprefentatives have been obliged to forbid thefe affociations, fince they had produced fome difagreeable accidents: every one would be an officer, and the rank was difputed by arms. Two boys were feparated when fighting, with fo much yiolence as to produce blood, and the caufe of the quarrel demanded-Indeed, fays one, it was my turn to be colonel an hour ago.' M. de Calonne (the editor is no friend of the ex-minifter) loft no time on the departure of M. Necker, but eagerly transmitted his notes on the memoir fent by this minifter to the committee of fubfiftence. Nothing feems facred to this ambitious courtier: he attempts every thing, not only calumny, but perfidious imputations: he is prodigal of every means in his power, wishing to prove, without proving any thing. At laft he defcribes the darling minifter of the nation, as having for his fatellite the spectre of famine, and refting on the torch of fedition." If we find any thing new or interefting in the continuation, we shall continue the fubject. The plates, with which fome of the latter Numbers are illuftrated, are executed very indifferently, INDEX. INDE X. A NO Abolition; or an attempt to prove to the conviction of every rational British subject, that the abolition of the British trade with Africa for negroes, would be a meafure as unjust as impolitic, fatal to the interefts of this nation, ruinous to its fugar colonies, and more or less pernicious in its confequences to every defcription of the people, 71 Academy, Royal Swedish, new transactions of the, 56 Acidity, the compofition of water, and phlogifton, objections to the experiments and obfervations relating to the principle of, confidered; with farther experiments and obfervations on the fame fubject, by the rev. J. Priestley, LL. D. F. R. S. Alla academiæ Cæs. reg. Jofephina Medico-Chirurgica Vindobonenfis: tom. I. 4to. 534 The Adularia, a new felt fpar, difcovered and defcr.bed, by M. Spini, 481 Vind. 414 Agriculture, an effay on the prefervation of the health of perfons employed in, and on the cure of difeafes incident to that way of life, by W. Falconer, M. D. F. R. S. 8vo. 407 Fixible Air, obfervations on the nature and properties of, and on the falutary effects of the aqua falubris, in preferving health, and preventing difeafes, by J. Melville, M. D. 406 Albertina, a novel, 2 vols. 12mo. 494 Alfred, an hiftorical tragedy, to which is added, a collection of mifcellaneous poems, by the fame author, 159 's apology, fecond edition, 8vo. δνο. 497 309 Ariftophanes, fome curious literary information, concerning, 395 Ariftotle's treatife on poetry, tranflated: with notes, on the tranflation, and on the original. And two differtations on poetical and musical imitation, by Thomas Twining, M. A. 4to.- And The Poetic of Ariftotle, tranflated from the Greek, with notes, by Henry James Pye, efq. fmall 8vo. 348 's treatife on poetry, tranflated, &c. by T. Twining.-Aud the Poetic of Ariftotle, tranflated &c. by H. J. Pye, efq. [concluded], 501 The Art of war at fea: or, naval tactics reduced to new principles: with a new order of battle, illuftrated with copper-plates, tranflated from the French of the vifcount de Grenier, by the chevalier de Soufeil, 457 Arthur; or, the northern enchantment, a poetical romance, in feven books, by Richard Hole, LL. B. 86 As it fhould be; a dramatic entertainment, in one act, 245 Tha The Winter Affembly; or, provincial ball, a poem, inicribed to the ladies of the Weft, 4to. 325 Atkinfon, Mr. a linen-draper of Cheap fide, the trial of, for crim. con, with Mrs. Conner, wife of Mr. Conner, late of the Mitre, Barnet, 498 Atmosphere of London, a ledure on the; as read before a public fociety, June 14th, 1788, with plates, illuitrative of the phenomet a, and a preface, by B. Taylor, 4to. B 330 Baptift circular letter, dated at Aulcefter, in June 1786, obfervations on fome of Mr. Thomas's remarks on Mr. Bradford's reflections upon the: by J. Tomkies, 12mo. 406 Baptifts in the Weft of England, a review of the debates, now in agitatation among the, on the fubject of unfcriptural prayers and doxologies, 8vo. ibid. Calvinistic, of the Weftern affociation, a vindication of a printed letter, addrefied to the, from the remarks of a member of the Western affociation, by a Baptift, 8vo. ibid. Baftile, hißorical remarks on the caftle of the, with curious and entertaining anecdotes of that fortrefs, &c. &c. from the French, 8vo. 313 a truc and minute account of the deftruction of the, by Jean Jaques Calet. Tranflated from the French, by an English gentleman, Svo. 323 Belinda; or, the fair fugitive, a novel, by Mrs. C. 2 vols. 12mo. The Belle Widows, with characteristic fketches of real perfonages and living characters, a novel. Infcribed to the beau monde, with a preface, by the editor of the letters of Charlotte, during her connexion with Werter, 2 vols. Izmo. 250 495 407 The man of Benevolence, 12mo. Biddle, the rev. John, M. A. a review of the life, character, and writings of the, who was banished to the ifle of Scilly, in the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell: by Joshua Toulmin, A. M. 12mo. 409 Binous difeafes, and fome particular affe&ions of the liver, and the gallbladder, confiderations on, by John Andree, M. D. 69 Bituminous lake or plain in the island of Trinidad, an account of a, hy Mr. Alexander Anderfon, 417 Blagden, Dr. fingular obfervation by, on the production of nitrous air from alkaline and pure air, after palling through a red-hot tube, 477 Elenheim, the feat of his grace the duke of Marlborough, new defeription of, to which is perfixed, Blenheim, a poem: a new and much improved edition, 155 The Botanic garden, part II. containing the loves of the plauts, a poem, with philofophical notes, volume the fecond, 4to. Boutan and Thibet, an account of the vegetable and mineral productions of: by Mr. Robert Saunders, furgeon at Boylepoor in Bengal, 418 Great Britain, the aggrandifement and natural perfection of; being an humble propofal, comprehending under one fimple and practicable undertaking, without laying additional burdens upon the fubjects, the means of paying off the public debt, within the ipace of thirty years, by George Edwards, elq. M. D. 375 527 The Bufy Body, a collection of periodical effays, moral, whimfical, comic, and fentimental, by Mr. Oulton, 2 vols. 12mo. CA C 80 327 Alifta, a novel, by Mrs Johnfon, author of Retribution, Gamesters, &c. 2 vols. 12mo. Calonne, miniftre d'etat; extrait de la requête addreffée au roi par M. de, 484.-La lettre, addreffée au rei par M. de Calonne : la reponse critique à la lettre, addressée au roi par M. de Calonne, le 9 Feurier, 1789. Par M. de Soyres, 485 Campaign in Sweden, in 1788, memoirs relative to the, by his ferene highness prince Charles of Heffe, commander in chief of the Danish auxiliary army. Tranflated from the French, with thirty-three vouchers, 119 improvement of the principal hiftorics in the Old Teftament, froma Adam to Joshua inclufive: by T. Robinfon, M. A. 1 mo. 405 Characters of the age, further remarks on two of the most fingular: by the author of the critique, on the conduct of the rev. John Croffe, vicar of Bradford, and the rev. W. Atkinfon, fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, Svo. 411 Chatterton, Thomas, the life of, with criticifms on his genius and writings, and a concite view of the controverly, concerning Rowley's poems: by G. Gregory, D. D. F. A. S. Chemistry, fome new objects of, let forth by M. Crell, in letters to M. D'Arcet, and M. de la Matherie, 463 Chefs, vol. II. 8vo. 283 Chrift, the Unitarian, Arian and Trinitarian opinion refpecting, examined and tried by fcripture-evidence alone, in a method hitherto unattempted: by W. Afhdowne, 493 Christian Religion, remarks on the internal evidence of the; by Gilbert Wakefield, B. A. Church of Rome, a furvey of the modern ftate of the; with additional obfervations on the doctrine of the pope's Supremacy, by William Hales, D. D. 55 26 492 Nero Church, which is meant by the new Jerufalem, in the Apocalypfe, a brief expofition of the doctrine of the tranflated from the Latin of the hon. Eman. Swedenborg, Circle of Franconia, and particularly of Bayrut, effay on the ancient history of the, by M. Henze, 232 Clergy, from their importance to fociety, a fermon, preached on the confideration due to the; at the anniversary meeting of the fons of the clergy of Pembrokeshire: by Charles Symmons, B. D. 489 Coal-trade, a treatife on the: by Charles Beaumont, 4to. 331 Coinage of England, remarks on the, from the earliest to the prefent times, to which is added an appendix, containing obfervations on the ancient coinage, &c. by Walter Merrey, 121 The Conduct, to be obferved by dif fenters, in order to procure the repeal of the corporation and tek acts; recommended in a formon, preached before the congregations of the old and new meetings of Birmingham, Nov. 5, 1789, by Jofeph Priestley, LL. D. F. R. S. 488 A Congratulatory epiftle, to his grace the duke of Portland on his majefty's recovery, 155 : 73 Conway Caftle, a poem; to which are added verfes to the memory of the late earl of Chatham; and the moon, a fimile for the fafhionable world by James White, efq. Coromandel Coaft, a narrative of the military operations on the; againft the combined forces of the French, Dutch, and Hyder Ally Cawn, fron the year 1780, to the peace in 1784; in a feries of letters; by Innes Munro, eiq. 4to. 356 Correfpondence, the authentic, be tween the duke of Richmond and lord Rawdon; with an appendix, containing the authentic papers refpe&ing the affair between the duke of York and lieut. col. Lenox, Correfpondents of the critical reviewers, anfwers to, 82, 331, 412, 76 D. 485 Arnley vale; or, Emilia Firoy, Cold of the winter of 1788 and 1782. Da novel, by Mrs. Bon.tote, author defcribed in a very correct and elaborate memoir, by father Cotta, &c. 144-149 Commercial reafons for the non-abolition of the flave-trade, in the West India islands, by a planter and mer of the parental monitor, &c. 3 vols. 12mo. 407 Wisdom's Dictates: or, a collection of maxims and obfervations concerning divine and fpiritual truths, extracted from |
