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thefe errors are few, and probably not more numerous than in Dictionaries of a larger fize, and greater price. The accents on the foreign words, on the names of heathen deities, &c. are more exact. On the whole, we think this an useful and elegant compilation.

Baron Munchaufen's Narrative of his marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Ruffia. Small 8vo. IS. Smith. This is a fatirical production, calculated to throw ridicule on the bold affertions of fome parliamentary declaimers. If rant may be best foiled at its own weapons, the author's defign is not ill-founded; for the marvellous has never been carried to a more whimfical and ludicrous extent.

The Cafe of Major John Savage. Svo. 25. Nicholls.

In this pamphlet, major Savage gives an account of his em ployment under government, during lord North's adminiftration, in the recruiting fervice in Germany. He claims a reimbursement of his expences, and a compenfation for his fervices, which, it seems, he never has received. On what account a requifition fo reasonable should be denied, we do not know; but humanity induces us to wish, that a cafe which is reprefented as fo unjust and oppreffive, should meet with a fair inveftigation.

New Annals of Gallantry. 8vo. IS. Randall.

A collection from the General Advertiser relative to the unfortunate incident in captain I- -'s family. It is entirely foreign to the province of criticism, and merits only our fympathy for the captain's domeftic unhappiness.

CORRESPONDENCE.

IN our review of Mr. Mofs's Medical Survey of Liverpool, we aimed at giving a candid and impartial account; nor at this moment are we aware that we have misunderstood his defign, unless there be any not yet hinted at. We cannot follow him through all his animadverfions; but shall felect thofe which militate against our conduct. He feems averfe to allowing the utility and importance of mechanical affiftance,' in measuring the heat or the weight of the air. He has great authorities on bis fide, and we are not without them on our's. It must not, however, be decided by thefe, but by experiment; and, as the attention of physicians have been lately directed to this point, we may have an opportunity of enlarging on it.

We might amufe ourselves by one paffage in his Letter, where he says, our bills of mortality take not in the births (which I fuppofe you mean for deaths) and give only the num ber of burials.' We never knew of any other meaning for bills of MORTALITY, but what we have given. We hope the copperworks are more distant than the opposite island, otherwife there

may

may be ftill danger from infection. The fize of the town, and the fluctuating number of inhabitants, can be no objection to a calculation of its population; and this may be easily made from the number of deaths, though not with the nicest accuracy.

Though we alledged that no circumstances, actually confidered independent of their effects, could explain the falubrity of any place, yet we meant not to caft a damp' on fimilar enquiries. If Mr. Mofs will compare the first part of his Letter with the middle, he will find, that he has contended for the pofition, which he afterwards fears may, when we more clearly explained it, impede medical enquiries.

We cannot enter on the fubject of ale, diet, or rheumatisms; as we spoke, on mature confideration, and without the slightest influence, we are not difpofed to retract our.cenfure. At the fame time, we must allow Mr. Mofs both good temper and candour. We regret only that, at our diftance, and in our fituation, it is not eafy to enter into a friendly examination of these very doubtful fubjects, on which it is no difgrace to our author that we differ from him. He cannot think it any imputation, that remarks of fo little extent, on subjects of fuch magnitude,. fhould be neceffarily imperfect.'

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WE are obliged to the gentleman who, fearing that we may be too bufy, or diftrufting our impartiality, has kindly reviewed his own work. We muft beg leave to inform him, that every attempt of this kind we reject with indignation: if it be again repeated, we shall mention the name of the perfon who appears meanly to fhrink from a fair examination.

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OUR Anonymous' Friend feems a little hypercritical in his language. If we deduct errors, what muft remain? We prefume, merit.

We do not believe Mr. Hume a fophift, who was not himfelf a convert; but we know that he did not aim at making difciples among the forward and ignorant; and that he pur pofely kept his writings from their view, by the intricacy of fome of his difquifitions. The confufion in his definitions, we own, could not be defigned for this purpofe; but the errors in thefe preliminary fteps may have mifled himself. The attention of fuch candid correlpondents we shall always confider as a fayour, and their approbation as our greateft reward.

WE fully agree with our correfpondent who styles himself "Neither a Parfon nor a Methodist.' Muft he be either, to countenance profanenefs? The play alluded to is, however, the Critic, not the School for Scandal.'

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64
Account of the fox-glove, 248-Of
Lunardi's fecond aerial voyage, 319
Acts of the chancellor of the exche-
quer, tenth chapter of the, 382
Adams' lectiones felecte,
80
Address to the king and people of Ire-
land, 76-To the loyal part of the
British empire, 309-To farmers in
relation to the payment of tithes,
320-To the ftockholders, 388
Adventures of Alonzo, 74-Of a pin-
cufhion, 79-Of Telemachus, 147-
Of fix princeffes of Babylon, 221-
Of a flea, 318—Of George Mait-
land, efq.

ABELARD to Eloifa,

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Aeronaut, the female,

313

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Machines,

treatise on,

319

fopiad, the,

392

156
Birds, general fynopfis of, vol. III. 256
Black's vale of innocence,
Blizard's defultory reflections on po-
lice,

468

310

78

Boethius's confolation of philosophy,

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Africans, cafe of the oppreffed,
Agriculture, effay on,

Aikin's (Dr.) manual of the materia
medicá,
267
Air (fixed), remarkable effects of, 236
Amant malade,
396
Amusements, rational,

Analysis of the political history of In-
dia,

143

361

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Book (the) of seven chapters,
Booker's poems,

Bofwell's journal of a tour to the He-
brides, 337-Remarks on, 473
Botany, letters on the elements of, 109
Bray's fketch of a tour into Derby-
fhire, &c.
Brill's (bp. of) fermon before the
lords,
156

$92

ftranger, narrative of facts re-

lating to the,

400

372

Britain, the mufe of,
British rights afferted,

Annual regifter, for 1784,
Aufwer to Ramfay's effays on the
treatment of African flaves, 436
Antimonial preparations, obfervations

on,

464

228

Apologia fecunda,
Apology for the life of George Anne
Bellamy, vol. IV.
239
Appearance is againít them,
393
Archeologia, vol. VII.

Arts, enquiry into the fine, 10-And
fciences, view of the,

As you like it,

320

316
389
Brown's reftitution of all things, 390
Bull (John), fragment of the hiftory
of,
Burke's (Mr.) speech,
Butt's Ifaiah verfified,

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310
308

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Campbell's (Dr.) observations on the
typhus,
223
Candid review of Mr. Pitt's twenty
refolutions,
Cartwright's (Mrs.) duped guardian,
396

177,276

263

316

Cafe of the oppreffed Africans,
Cervantes, life of,

Afblurton's (lord) epiftle to Mr. Pitt,
67

Attempt towards an improved verfion,
&c. of the minor prophets, 113

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78

94

Chapple's review of Rifdon's furvey
of Devon,

470

193
Character of the late lord vifcom.t
Sackville,
Chauncy's (Dr.) benevolence of the
deity confidered, 289-Five differ-
tations on the fcripture account of
the fall,
444
Cheltenham waters, enquiry into the
nature of,
237
Chiropo

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159 Discourse on suicide, 312-Upon re
393 pentance,

Chirstedelegia,
Choleric fathers, the,
Chriflianity, differtations on the evi-

dences of,

391

Differtations on the internal evidences
of christianity,

378

466

392

378
Chronicle of the times, oriental, 309
Claims of the British feamen to a more
equal distribution of prize-money,
Clement XIV. (pope) life of, 397
Cockell's (Dr.) effay on the retrover- Du Mitand's French spelling-book,

Dobfon's medical commentary on fixed
air,
Dream, the royal,
Drinkwater's history of the fiege of
Gibraltar,

1

ibid.

157

fion of the uterus,
Coffee, obfervatious on the properties
of,
156, 157
Coffin, the stone,
67
Collection of Gaelic proverbs, 398-Of
treaties of peace, &c. between
Great Britain and other powers,

390
Colonies, crisis of the, confidered, 227
Commentaries and effays, No. II.
154
Confcio ad clerum, xiv. cal. Junias,
1784,
156
Confiderations on the order of Cincin-
On the nature and
natus, 126
œconomy of beafts and cattle, 311
Confolation of philosophy,
Conftance, a novel,

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Corp's (Dr.) effay on the jaundice,

Correspondence,

Cottage, love in a,

453
294
467
479, 480
395

Cottingham's new year's counfel,

156

Corper's talk, a poem,

251

Cranmer (abp.) life of,

130

Cricklade cafe, report of the,

390

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English law, hiftory of the, vol. II. 88
Enquiry into the fine arts, 10-Into
the confequence of inclofing wafte
lands, 153 Into the caufes of
corns, warts, &c.
159
Epifle from the rev. Mr. M―n to
Mr. Pitt, 67-From lord Afhbur-
ton to Mr. Pitt, ibid.-Heroic, to
Major Scott,
397
Efay on the life and character of Pe-
trarch, 59-To prove the infuffici-
ency of fubalterns pay in the army,
&c. 79-On the theory of the pro-
duction of animal heat, 97-On the
retroverfion of the uterus, 157-On
the cure of the phthifis pulmonalis,
234-On agriculture, 333-On the
jaundice,
467
Elays hiftorical and moral, 37-On
the intellectual powers of man, 241
-On fome of the poems of several
English poets,
Etymologist, the, a comedy,
Euclid, elements of,
Engenius,

345

470

52

199

234

Euthydemus & Georgias Platonis, 37
Excursions in an air-balloon,
Executive juftice, letter to the author
of thoughts on,

397

315

393

160

310

478

Directions for impregnating Buxton
water with gaffes,

468

Disbanded fubaltern, ́zd. ed.

142

Experimental enquiry into the nature
of Cheltenham water,
Explanation of Mr. Pitt's bill for
amending the reprefentation in par-
liament, 152-Of the propofal for
liquidating the national debt, 226

237

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Hiftory of the English law, vol II, 88.

Of the practice of trepanning the
fkull, 158-Of New Hampshire,
238-Of the Westminster election,
310-Of John Bull, ibid.-Of the
hon. Edw. Mortimer, 316-Of the
fiege of Gibraltar, 350-Of the
wars in Scotland,
Holcroft's choleric fathers,
Hutton's journey from Birmingham
to London,

1. J.

400
393

477

---'s (Wm.) reply to fir Lucius
O'Brien,
389 Impartial sketch of the debate in the
Gibraltar, hiftory of the fiege of, 350 house of commons in Ireland, 306
Gilpin's (Wm.) life of archbishop Incendiaries, the pious,
130 Inchbald's (Mrs.) appearance is against

Cranmer,

147

(J.) tranflation of Fletcher's
ode on the peace of 1783,

them,

469

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