Free Thoughts on the Book of Common Prayer, Inquiry into the Neceffity of Preparation for the Lord's Supper,ib. Ten Dialgues on the Conduct of Human Life, Fenning's Syftem of Geography, Third Edition, Landen's Animadverfions on Dr. Stewart's Computation of the Savigny's Effay on the Mystery of tempering Steel, 324 Sir John Dalrymple's Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland 325 Macpherson's Introduction to the Hiftory of Great Britain and Three Comedies, tranflated from Meff. de St. Foix and Fagan, Freedom of the Prefs and Privileges of the Commons, confider- Anglo-Lufitanic Difcourfe on the Complaints of the British ibid. Church of England vindicated against the Charge of Abfolute Dr. Burney's Prefent State of Mufic in France and Italy, 421 Millars's Obfervations on the Distinction of Ranks in Society, Hurly's Eclipticles Aftronomy, Principles and Power of Harmony, Pott's Account of the Method of curing the Hydrocele by a ibid. Obfervations on feveral Paffages in " A Review of the Charac- ters of the principal Nations of Europe," ibid. Two Speeches of a late Lord Chancellor, Miffing's Letter to Lord Mansfield, Enquiry into the Nature and Legality of Prefs Warrants, Count Gyllenborg's Natural and Chemical Elements of Agricul- ture, ibid. Dr. Cook's Voyages and Travels through the Ruffian Empire, The Reapers, or the Englishman out of Paris, an Opera, Confiderations upon the military establishments of Great Britain, [ ] THE CRITICAL REVIEW. For the Month of July, 1770. ARTICLE I. Memoirs of Ruffia, Hiftorical, Political, and Military, from the Year MDCCXXVII, to MDCCXLIV. A Period comprehending many remarkable Events. In particular the Wars of Ruffia with Turky and Sweden. With a Supplement, containing a Summary Account of the State of the Military, the Marine, the Commerce, Sc. of that great Empire. Tranflated from the Original Manufcript of General Manstein, an Officer of Diftinction in the Ruffian Service. 4to. 18s. Becket and De Hondt. WE E are informed, in an advertisement prefixed to these Memoirs, that they were fent from Berlin by the earl Marshal to Mr. Hume, with a defire that they should be published in England: and the bookfeller imagining that an English edition would be more agreeable to British readers than the original French, the celebrated hiftorian abovementioned, gave his consent to the publication of this translation of the work. As the author, general Manstein, was himself engaged in most of the tranfactions which he relates, and had access to the best information, few memoirs can boaft of greater authenticity than these now before us, which contain the fucceffive alternate reigns of three unfortunate young princes, and as many princeffes of the Ruffian empire. When we confider that it was only under the government of the monarch immediately preceding the commencement of this hiftory, that that prodigious empire emerged from barbarity, we must be amazed at the regular fyftem of administration, which, fo lately extending its influence over a wild, divided, and reVOL. XXX. July, 1770. B fractory |