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tion in the French rulers to the happiness of mankind. We are always forry to perufe fuch accounts, for they inuft be painful to every mind of fenfibility.

MAURICE'S Hiftory of Indoftan; its Arts and Sciences, as connected with the other great Empires of Afia, during the moft early Periods of the World, is pregnant with curious information. We recommend its perufal; for it throws light on various articles of the Eaft, which were before involved in profound darknefs,

WOOD's View of the Hiftory of Switzerland, with a particular Account of the Origin and Accomplishment of the Swifs Revolution, lays open a scene of iniquity with refpect to the French, at which every well conftituted mind muft revolt with abhorrence. Injustice and oppreffion always raife our deteftation; and our deteftation is heightened, when we perceive fuch enor. mities committed under the facred name of liberty! The French had no right to meddle with Switzerland.

THEOLOGY.

Here we fhall introduce only a very few works, and thofe only whofe contents are adapted to promote the beft interests of the human race. Our Mifcellany is not of a theological caft, and yet the important fubject ought, by no means, to be wholly excluded from it.

KETT'S Hiftory, the Interpreter of Prophecy, or a View of Scriptural Prophecies, and their Accomplishment, in the paft and prefent Occurrences of the World, with Conjectures refpe&ting their future Completion, in three volumes, is a production of confiderable merit. Every rational work upon this curious and profound fubject meets our approbation. The topic has been miferably abused by enthufiafts of every description. It gives us, therefore, pleafure to perceive it handled in a way that imparts fatisfaction to the more judicious friends of revelation.

A Picture

A Picture of Chriftian Philofophy, by Mr. FELLOWES, a curate of the church of England, is a charming volume, in which the character of the great and venerable founder of our religion is ably drawndivefted of every trait that has the moft diftant alliance with fanaticism or fuperftition. The candid deist must admire, and will furely acquiefce in, the fuperior beauty of the delineation.

Sermons, by the REV. EDMUND BUTCHER, are a valuable acceffion to Difcourfes for Families. The cafe of the language, the juftnefs of the fentiments, and the rational fervour by which the whole volume ftands characterised, must recommend it to the cordial approbation of every pious and liberal mind.

The re-publication of Winchester's Dialogues, by MR. VIDLER, will be efteemed by all who are at tached to thofe truly enlarged views of revelation, which are included in the grand doctrine of Univerfal Restoration!

MEDICINE.

The Medical and Phyfical Journal, under the fuperintendance of DRS. BRADLEY and WILLICH, is a valuable periodical publication of its kind, and contains a very curious account of the cow-pox, which may, in time, become an admirable fubftitute for the fmallpox. Experiments are now making for the purpose, and fhould they fucceed, the fact will prove highly fer. .viceable to the human fpecies.

Medical Admonitions for Families, by JAMES PARKINSON, in two volumes, is a work which cannot be too much commended for the perfpicuity of its information, and the benevolence of its tendency, Heads of families fhould have it lying by them; it describes, with accuracy, the nature and fymptoms of the difeafes to which we are most subject, and points out the period of indifpofition when medical aid becomes of indifpenfible neceffity, The common faults of fach perfor

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mances are, to induce valetudinarians to tamper too much with their own conftitutions; but here all fuch danger is precluded.

TOWNSEND'S Vade Mecum, is a manual in which ingenuity and utility are combined. Other works might be mentioned, but our limits forbid an enlarge

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POLITICS

Next demand our attention; but, alas! this portion of our department ftill continues a turbulent region, in which nothing very pleasing can be contemplated.

PENN's Timely Appeal to the Common Sense of Great Britain, prefents us with fome fingular fpeculations. Among other articles of reformation, he recommends, in our police, a fyftem of rewards, instead of punishment. How far this would turn out for an improvement we cannot fay, but the plan is benevolent, and deferving, from our rulers, of attentive confideration; certain it is, that many of our present laws are exceffively fevere, nor do we find the offenders, on that account, diminished. Every poffible fcheme fhould be at least tried, which promises the amelioration of mankind.

Obfervations on the Political Conduct of the Protef tant Diffenters, by D. RIVERS, is a pamphlet replete with falihoods, and only calculated to inflame the worst paffions of the heart. The virulence of the language defeats the ends it was intended to accomplish, and the diffenters themselves, we understand, have not thought the piece worthy of animadverfion. It is, indeed, already funk into its merited oblivion.

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JOHNSON's Serious Addrefs to the People of England, on the Subject of Reformation, and the Neceffity of Zeal and Unanimity in Defence of their Country, well repaid our perufal of it. It is evidently dictated by an enlarged and liberal fpirit, and breathes throughout a warm attachment to his native land. His ideas

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of reform are temperate, and appear to have been fuggefted by the perfuafion that he was contributing to the welfare and profperity of his country. When we read fuch productions, we are reminded of Cowper's beau tiful lines:

"England! with all thy faults I love thee ftill,
My country and while yet a nook is left,

Where English minds and manners may be found,
Shall be conftrajn'd to love thee."

But we haften from the noify region of politics, to the far more pleafing department of

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

Voyages to the Eaft Indies, by the late SPLINTER STAUVRINUS, Esq. Rear Admiral in the Service of the States General, abound with information refpecting that diftant part of the globe. The Dutch settlements are well deferibed, and much light thrown on their condition, with which we were before little acquainted.

The Miffionary Voyage is a ftrange compound of enthufiafm and perfevering induftry. Its Appendix contains fome curious facts refpe&ting the Otaheitans whilft we reprobate the indecent anecdotes by which the work is debased.

COLNETT's Voyage to the South Atlantic, and round Cape Horn, into the Pacific Ocean, for the Purpose of extending the Spermaceti Whale Fishery, and other Objects of Commerce, is adapted to answer the ends for which it was intended. Many fingular accounts are given of the whales, who, on account of their bulk and ftrength, may be pronounced the monarchs of the Ocean! TAYLOR's Travels from England into India, afford an infight into the difficulties peculiarly attendant on fuch an undertaking.

We close this article by the mention of Mr. WARNER'S Second Walk through Wales; a work in which elegance

elegance and fentiment are at once agreeably united. He leads us over the barren and craggy mountains of the principality, in the most pleafing manner, entertaining his readers with fpeculations which both inftruct and amuse them. His Second is, in every respect, equal to his First Walk through Wales, and, together, these volumes form an interefting body of information refpecting that ancient and renowned part of our kingdom.

BIOGRAPHY.

The first volume of a New Biographical Dictionary, by DR. AIKIN, and the late DR. ENFIELD, promises fo well, that upon its completion it will be the best work of the kind in our language. The details are proportioned to the importance of the characters, and a`due eftimate made of their refpective works.

HICKMAN'S Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Efq. furnifh us with a competent idea of that celebrated actor, whofe years were extended beyond a century. The narrative, however, might have been more compact; and we could have difpenfed with that immoderate ftrain of panegyric which always injures the fubject on which it is lavished.

British Public Characters contain much information, but we could have wifhed that its authority was not anonymous; for in fuch a cafe the opinion of its authenticity is always leffened.

The Life of the Empress of Ruffia, afcribed to Mr. Tooke, is a mafterly performance, and lets us into an acquaintance with many traits in the conduct of that extraordinary woman.

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Dr. Comber, by his great grandfon, have the merit of accuracy ; and his learning and piety are subjects of just commendation.

Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution are interefting, as they lay open to our view a va

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