gentleman, and cheat a man of his fortune at cards and dice: and, upon a pinch, thou shalt take a purfe on the highway, like a gentleman.'

To his catechifm the author has added, a lift of books proper for the library of a modern free-thinker; among which are orator Henley's pieces, and Weftly Hall's fermon preached at Salisbury, in defence of polygamy: but how that truly inoral piece, the Sure Guide to Hell, came among them, we cannot conceive; unless it be that our author took a prejudice againft it, from its title, without ever giving himself the

trouble to look into it.

V. A Charge delivered to the Grand Jury at the feffions of the peace held for the city and liberty of Westminster, on Wednesday 16th of October, 1754. By Thomas Lediard, efq; chairman of the faid feffions. To which is added, the prefentment of the grand jury of the philofophical works of the late viscount Bolingbroke. Published by order of the court. &vo. Is. T. Payne.

This piece bears too near a refemblance to the many others we have feen of the fame kind, to require a more particular account here.

VI. The Tuner. Letter the Third. To be occafionally continued. 8vo. 6d. Cooper.

This number contains nothing material. Its author writes himfelf down by fwifter gradations than we have ever known any other occafional writer do before him.

VII. The Hiftory of Joshua Trueman, efq; and Mifs Peggy Williams. 2 vols. 12mo. 6s. Wilson and Durham.

The above performance has at least this to recommend it, it is neither immoral nor indecent; a decorum which too many of the prefent race of fabulous hiftorians pay little regard to. There is nothing, however, elevated, or ftriking, in the fentiment, ftyle, or incidents. The author is unhappy in the catastrophes of moft of his characters, which turn upon the discovery that the parties concerned are not the children of those who were thought to be their parents. This gives a difagreeable famenefs, and leffens that furprife, which in this kind of writing, an author fhould be particularly careful to lead his reader into.

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VIII. The Hiftory of Will Ramble, a libertine. Compiled from genuine materials, and the feveral incidents taken from real life. 2 vols. 12mo. 6s. Woodfall.

This hiftory gives a detail of circumstances very different from what one would expect from the title. His hero is, indeed, a libertine as to women and gaming, but a libertine of

fenfe,

fenfe, and (in what are called points of honour) of principle. The performance, take it altogether, is but moderate; yet better worth reading than fome of the late productions of the kind.

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IX. The Hiftory of Sir Harry Herald and Sir Edward Haunch. 3 vols. 12mo. gs. Noble.

We have read this performance with fome pleafure, and cannot but think it the best of the fort that has come from the prefs this feafon. The characters are natural and strongly mark'd; the fentiments generally juft and elevated, the fiyle eafy, and most of the incidents fuch as might happen in real life. We are forry, however, that the prefs has not acquitted itself fo well as the author. The number of fheets in each volume is fo fmall, the printing fo diffufe, the words fo disjoined, the lines at fo wide a diftance, the margin fo large, and the blank spaces at the end of the chapters fo long and numerous, that it has all the appearance of a jobb, as it obliges the public to pay for one book in three more than, according to ufual printing, they ought to do. We are even inclined to think, that the whole might have been brought within the compafs and price of a reasonable three fhilling volume, fuch as we have frequently met with. P

X. The Story of the new tragedy, called Barbaroffa, the usurper of Algiers. 8vo. 6d. Reeve.

The particulars here related concerning Barbareffa, are purloined from a book called, The history of the pyratical states of Barbary, &c. for which fee the third volume of our Review; wherein, among other extracts from this work, is an abítract of the hiftory of that celebrated corfair.

XI. The Bertoldi at the court of King Albaino. A new comic opera, as it is acted at the Theatre-royal, in Covent-garden. 8vo. is. Woodfall.

The fame in French and Italian, Is. Woodfall.

XII. L'Arcadia in Brenta. A new opera.. Is. Woodfall. XIII. Love and Wine; or, the fequel to the comedy of Love and Friendship. By the author of Alfred the Great, a tragedy. 8vo. 6d. Mechell.

In our Review, vol. VI. p. 396. and feq. we intimated our opinion of the comedy of Love and Friendship. If that piece was juftiy thought defpicable, this fequel is not entitied to a more favourable regard. Our thoughts alfo of Alfred the Great may be feen in vol. VII. p. 391.

XIV. The Poll for Knights of the Shire for the county of Kent, expreffing the names of the candidates, and for which of them every perfon voted, the places of abode and names of the elec

tors; their parifh and nature of their freeholds, with the names of the occupiers thereof, taken at Maidstone, on Wednesdy and Thursday the 1st and 2d of May, 1754. By Sir Thomas Rider, knt. fheriff. To which is added, A complete alphabetical index. 8vo. 5s. Vaillant, &c.

XV. (Beautifully printed on a fine writing-paper, adorned with twenty-four copper-plates, in ten volumes, price 11. Is. bound in calf) A NEW EDITION of the works of Alexander Pope, efq; complete. With his laft corrections, additions, and improvements: together with all his own notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death: printed from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton. Small 8vo. Knapton, Lintot, Tonfon and Bathurst.

XVI. Antique Lingue Britannica Thefaurus; being a British or Welsh English dictionary. Containing fome thoufands of British words more than any Welsh dictionary hitherto publifhed. And, to make this work more complete, befides the explications and etymologies of words, many valuable British antiquities are interfperfed through all the Parts of it. To which is prefixed, a compendious Welsh grammar, with all the rules in English. By Thomas Richards, curate of Coychurch. -Bristol: printed and fold by Eliz. Farley: Sold also by B. Ded, in Ave-mary-lane, London.

As this dictionary confifts only of a Welsh and English part, we could not inform ourfelves, in relation to that co: pioufnefs of the Welsh language, which the author afcribes to it, as readily as if he had added an English and Welsh part, which is the fcheme of moft dictionaries. But from the extent of this book we cannot avoid fuppofing, that both the Greek and English muft exceed it in copioufnefs, as they feem to do in harmony. We fhall infift however the less on this, as it is above our own erudition; and the modern date of our annals has not induced any ancient Briton to affociate with us. Mr. Richards has added a long lift of British proverbs, but without giving the English of them.

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XVII. A Letter to Mr. John Spranger, on his excellent propofal for paving, cleanfing, and lighting the ftreets of Westminster, &c. [See our laft, p. 398, art. 25.] By Mr. J. Hanway. 8vo. Is. Waugh.

Mr. Hanway, with whofe public-fpirited difpofition our readers are already acquainted, has bere offered many judicious hints for the improvement of feveral parts of Mr. Spranger's plan. But as the feveral regulations propofed therein, will not, probably, be thought very interefting to the majority of r readers, we decline particulars.

XVIII. Lettres choifies, fur toutes fortes de fujets; or a collection of familiar letters in French and English. Defigned for the ufe of fchools, and young gentlemen and ladies. 8vo. 25. Stonehoufe.

Thefe letters are not ill chofen to ferve the purposes for which they are profeffedly defigned; but the tranflation is fomewhat the worfe from a too clofe adherence to the French idiom: the following fhort extract may ferve as a specimen.

Pour fouhaiter une heureufe année.

******* fe vous demande à ce commencement de l'année, la continuation de vôtre amitié; vous affurant que de ma part je ne manquerai jamais à celle que je vous dois. Trop heureux, fi les proteftations que je vous en fais,vous font toujours agréables, &fi je vous puis les rendre utiles, autant que je le fouhaite. Ce font les fentiments qu'aura toujours, Très-cher ami

Votre, &c.

******* I ask, at this be

ginning of the year, the continuation of your friendship, alluring you on my part, that Ifhall never fail in that which I owe you. Too happy, if the proteftations I make to you of it are always acceptable, and if I can make them useful to you, as much as I defire it. Thefe are the sentiments that will always be had by,

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My dear friend, &c.

XIX. An Enquiry into the grounds and nature of the feveral fpecies of ratiocination. In which the argument made use of in the philofophical effays of D. Hume, efq; is occafionally taken notice of. By A. G. O. T. V. O. C. 8vo. Is. Marfh.

According to the author of this piece, whatever can become the object of a rational enquiry, is ultimately reducible to one or another of three general claffes. One of thefe, we are told, includes the feveral relations of ideas; another, the whole fyftem of moral relations; and the remaining one, that of all actual exiflences. To these three diftinct claffes of objects, it is faid, three diftinct fpecies of ratiocination correfpond, viz. demonftration, moral evidence, and prefumption. Quantity alone, our author thinks, is the object of demonftration; and fuch propofitions as are affirmative of the feveral relations of equality, proportion, &c. betwixt any two ideas of quantity, the only ones that are fufceptible of demonftrative proof.

He endeavours to fhew, that the exiftence of a firft caufe is not capable of being demonftrated: if it is afked why it is not capable of being demonftrated, his anfwer is, because it is not deducible from any principle of neceflary truth. By necessary truths, he means fuch as manifeftly cannot but be, in oppofition to fuch as, however evident, and however we may be perfuaded Hh 3 of,

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cf, are yet not certain in such a manner, but that the contrary alfo may be fuppofed to take place, without a natural contradiction.

Every man, however, he tells us, bears in his own breast a perpetual teftimony that there exifts a firft caufe. The teftimony he means, is that indelible perfuafion of the human mind, in confequence of which we are led to acknowledge it as a certain truth, that nothing could ever have begun to exift of itself; but that every thing which ever began to exist at all, did really flow from fome pre-exiftent nature, whofe active influence introduced it on the ftage of being. In eftablifhing this perfuafion, he fays, reafon can have no fhare, fince there is nothing, properly fpeaking, unreasonable in fuppofing the contrary.

In the courfe of his enquiry he advances feveral things concerning experience, teftimony, and the credibility of facts; but without that clearnefs, that accuracy, and precifion, which are neceflary, in order to a fatisfactory difcuffion of fuch fubiects. R

XX The Adventures of William B--d--w, commonly filed Devil Dick, the fon and brother to two pious minifters: Containg inftructive accounts of his wicked exploits, during a courfe of feveral years, in company with Ann S--z--d, whom he afterwards married; the penitent reformation of both thefe profligates; their coming to a great eftate of her -father's; and their religious as well as generous behaviour to Will. Edgcomb, one of their iniquitous affociates, who by their endeavours was happily reformed, and became a worthy gentleman farmer. Drawn up for the benefit of mankind, by Mr. B--df--w's own hand, and published from his papers. 12mo. 2 vol. 6s. Robinson, &c.

The public are, really, more obliged to us Reviewers than they imagine. We are neceffitated to read every thing that comes out, and muft, confequently, fubmit to the vile drud ery of going through thofe loads of trah, which are thrown in upon us under the denomination of Lives, Adventures, Memoirs, Hiftories, &c. How reasonable our complaint is, may eafily be judged of by the readers of William B-d-w. The author muft, certainly, be deeply read in the Newgate memoirs and Tyburn hiftory: a collection of thefe he has jumbled together, and publifhed, to plague us,

in the form of DEVIL DICK.

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XXI. The adventures of Dick Hazard. 12mo. 3s. Reeves. We have here the hiftory of the gaming table, and its confequence, a prijan. The chief merit of this performance is, that it exceeds not one volume.

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