fyftem of the public boards, and by eftablishing the general courfe of the faid boards by law -How the first principles of the conflitu- ́ tion confist in a renewal of a fyftem of the public boards, we cannot apprehend. Indeed our author's meaning, in many parts of the pamphlet, feems to be a fecret of ftate, which we cannot pretend to explain; but if ever it should be found needful to establish a board of perplexity, he may command all our intereft towards his being elected prefident.
ART. 26. Three Letters relating to the Navy, Gibraltar, and Portmahon. Wrote in the Years 1747 and 1748. But now first publifhed; being very applicable to the prefent Time. If an extraordinary Liberty is affumed in thefe Letters, vouchsafe, Britons, to hear thefe Truths which are mentioned only for your good. DEMOST. 3 Olym. 8vo. Pr. 2s. 6d. BLADON.
In the preface to this pamphlet, the author takes occafion to ar gue upon the behaviour of Mr. Byng in the Mediterranean, and, with the appearance of a very good heart, fuffers himself to be borne away by the popular clamours against that gentleman. If this is not the cafe, we cannot account for his ftating the following queftion; whether it might not be poffible, if the French fleet was beaten, to throw fome fuccours into the place, which would enable general Blakeney to hold out against a much greater force than the • French had in Minorca? Now it has been proved again and again, and is a decided point, that admiral Byng had no fuccours to throw into Minorca. We can hardly think the author was ignoraut of this circumftance.
In the first letter, written to explain the reasons of the misconduct and miscarriages of the Navy, he propofes, that one or two gentlemen of genius fhould be employed in compofing fongs to celebrate the atchievements of the British Navy; that the failors, by getting them by heart, and finging them occafionally, might be warmed into a nobler fpirit of courage and emulation. We approve of the expedient, and hope that the Lords of the Admiralty will, without lofs of time, appoint a poet, and his crew, for the ufe of the navy. The marine laureat may wear a tiara of feagreen bays; and his mates be diftinguished by cockle-fhells, as the boatfwains drivers are known by their whiftles. He may have a cabin on the poop as the part analagous to a cock-loft, and his women and people may be differently employed in picking fentiments, fplicing fyllables, reeving rhimes, and caulking ftanzas.
The fecond letter of this pamphlet turns upon naval court-martials; and the third on the condition and importance of Gibraltar and Minorca.-fuit Ilium! The reflexions are judicious, though not uncommon; and the work, though a little tedious and diffufe, is well worth perufing.
HE young gentleman, adorned with every focial virtue, who fent to the publisher of the CRITICAL REVIEW, a panegyric on his own poem upon the Robin-hood Society, and afterwards an abufive letter, fubfcribed W. W. (Witwoud Wifeacre) is defired to take notice, that he cannot be admitted as a freeman of Parnassus, until he fhall have served out his clerkship, and given some more un- doubted fpecimen of his poetical capacity. He will find it easier to engrofs deeds, than to indite madrigals,
The judicious criticism of W. G. came too late to be inserted in this number; but the proprietors gladly comply with that gentle- man's defire, in giving the public to understand, that the New Ver- fion of Milton is not the work of any perfon belonging to the univer- fity of Oxford, but the production of one Green, an idle mechanic, who lately troubled the world with a wretched piece, intitled, The Parfon's Parlour, a character of which may be seen in No. V. of the CRITICAL REVIEW.
There is something dark and enigmatical in the letter of T. H.- He feems to allude to former animadverfions that never were re- ceived. Mr. are characters which the REVIEWERS cannot decypher, though they may contain as much energy as the Jewish Cabala.-The Tale and the Ode he mentions have not yet fallen into their hands; bat the Connoisseur shall be treated with all due regard.
P. P. is extremely obliging.-The Anel de Bradamante is curious and entertaining; the REVIEWERS will be proud of his correfpon- dence. They dare not hope the fame favour from his fair pupil Meliffa, whofe approbation, however, will animate their endeavours for the entertainment of the public. They do not doubt that she will ftill continue to imitate the conduct of her name-fake, who In ben di molti adaperò l'anello.
The Letter fign'd Philalethes came to hand.
We are obliged to A. M. for his friendly animadverfions on our laft.
BILITIES, caufes con-
A tributing to the difplay of
215 Abraham, the cafe of his offer- ing up Ifaac confidered-148 Account of what paffed between Mr. Thompfon and Dr. Burton
Bates (Corporal) his life and me- moirs, fpecimens, and a cha- racter of that work 139-143
(Julius) his fimilitudes of the Lord God in the Old Testa- ment, an account of
256 Blake (Dr.) his fermon before the Univerfity of Oxford, its cha- racter and extract from 377 Bower (Mr.) vindicated from the infinuations of the papifts, an account of 72-75 B-w-r (A—d) fevere reflections 86 Brander (Guftavus) his account of an echinus difcovered in An- tigua 129 Bread, the virtues of a crust of, by Dr. Robinfon, a character and specimen of 93 Brekanridge, his letter on the pro- babilities of life in London 26 Concerning the number of people in England 126 Britain, the hiftory of, vol. 2d. by David Hume, Efq; remarks on and extracts from 385-404 and character of 404 true Syftem, by Malachy Poftlethwait, Efq; an account and fpecimen of 432-448 Brockley (Dr.) his letter conerning fenfibility and irritability 32 Buckhorse, Memoirs of, its charac-
-72 Coal, where most probably to be found- -105 Coins (Papal) legends on 415 Conclave, an account of-363- 369 Concubinage inconfiftent with mar- riage Conder, his fermon, &c. an ac- count of, with extracts 381 Candillac (Abbe de) his effay on human knowledge, plan of 193, 194.-Peculiar opinions of his 195 Conftantinople, curious particulars concerning it- 14 feveral earthquakes there 19 Contracts, the nature of, confider- ed
D. Damages, reparation of, confider- ed
178 Davies, Crufoe, Richard, the life of, a character and account of 351-357 Debt (national) a humorous pro- ject for paying it, 125.-Public, the danger of 434 Defence, the right of, confidered, 177. Private, the nature of, and how far juftifiable 234 Demades, a Grecian orator, fome account of. 3. Demofthenes, his orations, the fub- jects and defign of them, 1. His character as an orator, 4, 5, as a ftatesman and citizen, 5. The fubjects and order of his feveral orations 5,6
488 Franklin. See Electrical.
James II. remarks on his character and conduct Januarius (St.) a remarkable in- . fcription to 417 Ideas, figns, how given them 199 Jenks, his meditations, a character and fpecimens of 424-433 Jenty (Nicolas) an account of his
tables 373 Jewish law, its particular end and defign 117 The filts, or Female Fortune- -hunters, a character of. -276 Illuftrious men, the lives of, com- pared, fome account of, with fpecimens 467 Imagination, the progress of, 196, graces of, whence borrowed
198 Inoculation, the grand objection to, confidered. Account of that, pamphlet -- 278 Infcriptions (Roman) account of fome 29
Interpretation of promises, -con- tracts, wills, &c. feveral kinds of -242, 243 Job, fome account of that antient book 116 Johnfon (Sir William) fome ac- count of, 156-158. Obliga- tions of the British nation to him, 158. His great influence on the Indians, ibid.
Keyfler's travels, an account and character of, with extracts, 363
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