XXI. Thoughts on Gallantry, Love, and Marriage. 8vo. 6d. Doufley.

A declamation against libertinism and debauchery; and in praife of matrimony. This performance, like its price, is but a flight one.

XXII. A Voyage to the Island of Ceylon, on board a Dutch Indiaman, in the year 1747. Containing a fuccinct relation of the productions, trade, and inhabitants of that place: together with fome account of St. Helena, and the islands vifited by the author, in confequence of the fhip's diftreffes at sea. Written by a Dutch gentleman. 8vo. 6d. Bouquet.

The public are already fufficiently acquainted with the contents of this piece, by its having been previously inserted in the Evening Advertiser, a paper much called for, on account of its profeffed oppofition to the principles of the London Evening Poft.

XXIII. The Trial of William Mitchel, furgean, for perjury. Tried at the fittings after Trinity term, 1754, in his majesty's court of king's-bench, Westminster. 4to. Is. Baldwin.

Some remarkable occurrences in the course of this trial, will fufficiently apologize for our taking more notice of it than we commonly afford to publications of this fort. The altercations between Mr. Lee on the one part, and Meff. Ranby and Hawkins on the other, concerning the abilities of the former, as to the cure of ruptures, has occafioned fome appeals to the public *. Mr. Lee brought his action against Mr. Ranby for defamatory words fpoken against him the faid Lee; particularly, that at a Greenwich-board Mr. Ranby had called him an Impoftor. This caufe was, in Hillary term, Jan. 23, 1753; when it was mutually agreed, that the action fhould be entirely put an end to by withdrawing a juror from the pannel, and by a rule of court, ordering, that the matters in question in that cause, between the two parties, should cease, and the plaintiff fhould trouble the defendant no more in respect thereof.'-Some time afterwords, another action was brought by Mr. Lee against Mr. Ranby, for words faid to be spoken after the above-mentioned 23d of January, upon which action a verdict was found for, and one hundred pounds damages given to, the plaintiff. Mr. Mitchel, a furgeon belonging to the horse-guards, was examined on this latter trial in favour of Mr. Lee, and fwore pofitively to certain defamatory words spoken by Mr. Ranby, particularly that at a Greenwich-board held on the 26th day of

See Review, vol. IX. p. 147. vol. X. P. 149-310.

January, he called the faid Lee an impoftor.-Mr. Mitchel's teftimony upon this occafion gave rife to the indictment against him for perjury, and it appears to have been very clearly proved, that there was no Greenwich-board held that day, and that Mr. Ranby had been confined to his bed, or his chamber, from the third of January to the middle of February; confequently, that he could not have uttered those words at the time and place fworn to. It was alfo évident, that the words alluded to, if used at any time, could have been spoke only on the 22d of December preceding, and that the first action was partly founded on the fame; therefore, that Mr. Ranby ought not to have been troubled a fecond time on that account. However, in confideration of Mr. Mitchel's univerfal good character, upon his making an acknowledgment of his being mistaken, and that he did not intend any injury to Mr. Ranby thereby; alfo that the latter fhould declare his belief that no injury was defigned by the former, it was agreed, that Mr. Mitchel fhould be acquitted. The lord chief justice, not lefs genteely than candidly, reproved this gentleman for his precipitance in fwearing.

Without intending the leaft reflection on Mr. Mitchel's integrity, whofe friendship, in this particular inftance, feems for once to have got the better of his prudence, we cannot help lamenting the levity with which oaths are too frequently taken: it is to be feared, all men do not fufficiently reflect, that

An oath is a recognizance to heaven,
Binding us over in the courts above

To plead to the ind &tment of our crimes,

That those who 'fcape this world fhould fuffer there.

Southern's Oroonoke.

Is not therefore the utmost precifion and circumfpection néceffary, as well in taking as adminiftring an oath; by which (confidered only in a temporal view) the properties, liberties, and even lives of our fellow-creatures, may in a moment be injured or deftroyed? And it is a truth, tho' a melancholy one, that an inconfiderate oath may do as much mischief as a wilful and corrupt perjury. J. L.

XXIV. The Universal Traveller; or, A Defcription of the feveral foreign Nations of the World. Shewing, 1. The situa tion, boundaries, and face of the respective countries. 2. Number of provinces and chief towns in each. 3. The genius, temper, and habits of the feveral people. 4. Their religion, government, and forces, by fea and land. 5. Their traffic, produce of their foil, animals, and minerals. 6. An abstract

of

of the hiftory of each nation, brought down to the prefent time. By Mr. Salmon, author of the New Geographical Grammar. Folio, 2 vols. 31. in fheets. Baldwin.

This work has been published in weekly numbers, at 6d. each, is now finished in 121 numbers, illuftrated with 226 maps and copper plates; reprefenting the habits of the people, views of cities, animals, &c.-Mr. Salmon's character for productions of this nature, is so well known, that it would be altogether a work of fupererogation in us to say any thing on that head.

XXV. A Propofal or Plan for an Act of Parliament for the better paving, cleanfing and lighting the ftreets, courts, lanes, alleys, and other open paffages, as well within the feveral parishes of the city and liberty of Westminster, as of St. Mary le Bone, St. Giles in the fields, St. George the martyr, St. George, Bloomsbury; that part of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, which lies in the county of Middlefex; the feveral liberties of the Rolls and Savoy in the faid county, and that part of the dutchy of Lancafter, which lies in the fame county, and for other purposes therein mentioned. By John Spranger, of Covent Garden. 6d. Baker.

XXVI. The Trial of Richard Hathaway, upon an information for being a cheat and impoftor, for endeavouring to take away the life of Sarah Morduck, for being a witch, at Surry affizes, begun and held in the borough of Southwark, March the 24th, 1702. In which is discovered the malicious defigns of the faid impoftor, with an account of his pretended inchantments and witchcraft. Before the right honourable the lord chief justice Holt and Mr. baron Hatfell. To which is added, a fhort account of the trial of Richard Hathaway, Thomas Wellyn and Elizabeth his wife, and Elizabeth Willoughby, wife of Walter Willoughby upon an information for a riot and affault upon Sarah Morduck, the pretended witch, at the said affizes. 12mo. Is. Griffiths.

This extraordinary trial, &c. is reprinted from an edition published at the time when Hathaway's impofture was detected; and, if we mistake not, it is alfo printed at large, in the State Trials. It feems to be now re-publifhed as a kind of parallel to the late affair for which Elizabeth Canning received fentence of transportation.

POETICAL.

XXVII. The Italian Husband; or the Violated Bed avenged. A moral drama. By Edward Lewis, M. A. 8vo. 1s. Cooper. A very tragical ftory, told in very tragical verfe. The following thort fpecimen is taken from the author's enumeration of the difmal portents that preceded the catastrophe.

8

• You

You know his lordship's bailiff, Giovanni,
Lives in a farm near to his caftle-gate.
Whilft he at dinner fate, a favourite hen

Came cackling, and at's feet laid a live chick,
Perfect with wings and claws, with eyes and voice,
Which ran without delay after its mother.

But lo! a greater wonder

For which the curious reader is referred to Mr. Lewis's pamphlet.

XXVIII. Verses to the memory of the late Sir Theodore Janffen, bart. father to the right hon. Stephen Theodore Jansen, efq; the prefent lord mayor. With notes, wherein is given a fhort hiftorical account of him and his family. Folio, 6d. Robinfon.

From the notes it appears, that, in the reigns of King William III. Queen Anne, and King George I. Sir Theodore was accounted one of the most able merchants in Europe; and what is highly to his honour, and much endeared him to the British nation, was his ftrenuously oppofing the bill for opening the trade with France, 1713. Of which affair, and fome other particulars of Sir Theodore's hiftory, mention was made in our Review for April laft, p. 279. This gentleman lived to be near 100 years of age, and died Sept. 22. 1748. The annotator on the veries now published in commemoration of Sir Theodore's many virtues, has added a panegyric on his fon, the present lord mayor of London, of which Mr. Janffen is every way worthy.

XXIX. The fourth Grace. Folio, 6d. Crowder, and Company.

A compliment to the countefs of Coventry: the poetry not fo beautiful as the fubject; for example,

She oft has made me pipe faft heretofore;

Now will I fafter pipe, and more and more.

And, alas, how can it be prevented! except the piper should discover, that he is like to pay himself for fuch lays as no one elfe can poffibly dance to? But if he will be obftinate like Hobin the farce, who declares he wull dance, and does strangely; and fhould perfevere, by piping the celebrated fifter of his fair patronefs into a fifth GRACE (which, indeed, is partly done to his hand already) we beg he will mend his pipe a little; or, perhaps, on fettling the prefent account, his bookseller may prefent him a whistle for his next essay.

By his grace the duke of Hamilton.

K.

Po

POLITICAL and COMMERCIAL.

XXX. An Essay towards a method of speedily manning a fleet upon any fudden emergency. 8vo. Is. Sandby.

The author's fcheme is, to keep a conftant register of ten or twelve thousand able-bodied feamen, fuch only as fhall voluntarily enter their names for that purpose; who fhall be obliged to submit to certain regulations and reftrictions, whereby they may be speedily collected on any emergency in confideration of which it is propofed, that each man be allowed 51. a year, or 2s. a week.-The methods prefcribed for raifing a fund fufficient to defray the expence of thefe regiftered men, are, ift. An application to this purpose of an eighth of the bounty upon exported corn.-2dly. A triennial lottery, to be called the feamens lottery.-3dly. The suppressing of franks.—4thly and 5thly, A tax upon dogs and horfes.

However well meant, however plaufible these proposals may appear in fpeculation, there are obvious difficulties that oppofe their being foon carried into execution: we refer those who are defirous of further particulars to the pamphlet itself. Y.L XXXI. Some Thoughts relating to trade in general, and to the Eaft Indies in particular. 8vo. 6d. Baldwin.

This pamphlet is intended to vindicate the exportation of bullion to the Eaft Indies, but as the author's reasonings are merely hypothetical, and unfupported by any pofitive facts, or modern calculations, we refer those whom it may concern to the performance itself.

CONTROVERSIAL.

J.L

XXXII. An Appeal to the Public; or, A Review of the Conduct of Dr. Ad-gt-n towards Dr. Piggot. 8vo. Is. Baldwin. Dr. P here gives the hiftory of his late connection and fubfequent difference, with Dr. A; whom he accufes of a very fcandalous breach of friendship in relation to Dr. P's fettlement at Reading, and to his practice, as a phyfician, in that town. Our readers may remember a former charge of malevolence brought against this gentleman by another complainant. See Dr. Ruffel's letter to Dr. Addingtons Review, vol. I. p. 276. We do not recollect that Dr. Aever produced any thing in his own defence, with refpect to the former occafion; and we wish he may be able to wipe off the imputation that must remain upon his moral character, if the facts now fimply related by Dr. Pare not difproved.,

* See Review, vol. X. p. 369, upon the fame fubject.