which the obfcureft individual is intitled. But to determine, to reject, or to redrefs, lies intirely in the breast of the general reprefentative of the whole.

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But if neither the Commons Houfe of Parliament, nor any of its Members, are under an obligation to obey the instructions or commands of the perfons who elect them, fignified as fuch inftructions, have hitherto been, with lefs appearance of reafon can it be expected, that the opinions of the freeholders of a county fhould influence the crown.

"The King, the Houfe of Lords, and the Commons of this country, equally and adequately reprefented in Parliament, are each of them to be regarded as abfolutely free and independent. While the Conftitution fubfifts, the King cannot fubmit to the moft diftant idea of coercion by one or both of the other branches of the Legiflature; and confequently may, if he judges proper, reject the petition or remonftrance of a fet of men, whofe opinion, even the Commons Houfe of Parliament is not under an obligation to regard.

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"This doctrine, I truft, will not be found in the leaft to militate against the acknowledged right of the people to new-model the Constitution, and to punish with exemplary rigour every perfon with whom they have entrusted power, provided, in their opinion, he fhall be found to have betrayed that trust.

"I fpeak only of a period, when, from the acquiefence of the people, it plainly appears to be their will, that the form of government already established should continue in exiftence.

"Widely different from the prefent, would be the nature and energy of my expreflions, were I treating of that folemn hour, when the delegates of a state, chofen according to forms, which not law and cuftom but neceffity or expedience fhall prefcribe, and affembling for the purpose of inquiring into the abufe of power, fhall fit in awful judgment upon the traiterous invaders of their rights In fuch affembly alone I acknowledge the Sovereign power to refide. To fuch alone the tremendous name of Majefty may with propriety be attributed. And, compared with its imperial jurifdiction, the prerogatives of the Crown, the fplendid privileges of the Nobles, and the authority of the Commons House of Parliament, either feparately confidered, or combined, are less than duft upon the scale.

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"For the reafons above-mentioned, and others to which I fhall not at prefent call the attention of my readers, the memorable petitions of the Freeholders of Middlefex, and of other counties of England to the Crown, praying a diffolution of the Parliament, appear to have been very ill calculated to produce any falutary effect.

"To what purpose was it to prefer an ungrateful petition to a power which you could not legally coerce? Men poffeffed of pow. er are not difpofed to part with it, upon the petition of the perfons who have declared themfelves injured by its exertion. Such mode of feeking redrefs rather tends to perpetuate the grievances of which we complain. It cannot be conftrued a breach of privilege to

affert,

affert, that the Houfe of Commons of that day was an Engine of Opppreffion, worked by that very power, from which it was requested the destruction of it should proceeed.

A Sermon preached before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in the Abbey Church, Westminster, on Friday February 4th, 1780, being the Day appointed by his Majefty's Proclamation for a general Faft. By John Lord Bishop of St. David's. 4to. Is. Davis.

His Lordship hath made choice of the following words for his text: Sandlify ye a faft, call a folemn affembly, gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the houfe of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord." Joel i. 14.

This fermon hath neither force of argument, elegance of diction, or propriety of fentiment to recommend it. But hold-otherwife we fhall be deemed contumacious, and be accufed of Speaking evil of dignities; which practice" is certainly very criminal, it being an offence againft decency and good order, and as such extremely hurtful to civil fociety,"

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A Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at the Church of St. Margaret's, Weftminster, on Friday, February 4th, 1780, being the day appointed by his Majefty's Proclamation, to be obferved as a Day of Fafting and Humiliation. By George Horne, D. D. Prefident of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majefty. 4to. Is. Rivington.

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In the first part of this pertinent difcourfe, Doctor Horne fhews, that the characters of the warrior and the Chriftian. are not incompatible, and that a time of war should be a time of reformation,

"But it may be asked," fays he, "what is to be the nature of of this reformation, and wherein is it to confift? An answer may be returned to this question in the concluding words of the text; (taken from Deut. iii. v. 29.) "keep thee from every wicked thing;" forfake all evil, and be upon your guard against the return of it; but as fome fins, like fome disease, are more prevalent and contagious at certain times, and in certain places, than others, mark well the abominations which discriminate and disgrace the age and Y y 2

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the country in which you live, and be more especially upon your guard against them.

"Jehovah," faith the divine Pfalmift, "looketh from heaven, he beholdeth all the fons of men; from the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth; and confidereth all their works." He looketh, then, on all the inhabitants of this land; he confidereth all their works. And, when thus he looketh, what doth he behold?

"He beholdeth a great people, much degenerated, and daily more and more degenerating from that noble fimplicity and manly integrity, which characterised the manners of their venerable anceftors; depraving their minds by the adoption of bad principles, enfeebling their bodies by vice and effeminacy, fquandering their fortunes at the gaming table, and then by an act of violence, in the rage and fury of defpair, rufhing forth to meet their judge.

"He beholdeth that virtue, which conftitutes the excellency and dignity of the other fex, which is to it protection and ornament, a robe and a diadem, in danger of being totally laid afide, while the courts are crouded with trials for conjugal infidelity.

"He beholdeth an enormous and fenfelefs luxury, ftill increafing with the diftreffes of the times, accompanied by a diffipation, depriving its votaries of attention to all that is wife, and great, and good.

"He beholdeth his ordinances neglected; his fabbaths profaned; his facraments difparaged; his temples forfaken; his minifters defpifed; his religion torn in pieces by contending fects, while there feems to be scarcely enough of it, for each of them to take a little; the infidel openly reviling, or covertly mocking the faith once delivered to the faints deferted for the dregs of Socinianism; a set of men ftiling themselves philofophers, wantoning in all the paradoxical abfurdities of fcepticifm, leaving us, between them, neither matter nor Spirit, neither body nor foul, and doing their beft endeavours, in their lives, and after their deaths, to render us a nation literally "without God in the world."

In the above extract the Doctor hath drawn the leading features of the times from life.

The Force of Truth, an Authentic Narrative, by Thomas Scott, Curate of Fefton Underwood, and Ravenflone, Bucks, 12m0, 2s. Unbound.

Keith.

Here we have fresh milk for the babes and fucklings of grace. Let them come and tafte, Mr. Scott gives a free

invitation.

However, to give our readers a true idea of this narrative, we will present them with part of Mr. Scott's Preface.

"In this Narrative," fays he "little more is contained than an Hiftory of the workings of my heart, that forge of iniquity: and of my conscience, that friendly monitor, whom we generally hate, becaufe, as far as informed, it boldly tells us the truth, whom we endeavour to pacify, to lay afleep, and to render infenfible, as if feared with a hot iron; which, through the deceitfulness of our hearts, of fin, and of the world, by the affiftance of Satan, we generally in time accomplish; and to whofe remonftrances, until this is effected, we commonly deafen ourselves by living in a continual noise and bustle. The conflict in my foul between these two are here related, and fome account given of the artifices which Satan, in confederacy with my heart, made ufe of to keep my confcience quiet, and filence its remonftrances; as alfo of the means which the Lord employed to defeat this confpiracy, to give confcience its due afcendancy, and to incline my before unwilling heart to become obedient to its friendly admonitions; with the effect thereof upon my religious views and conduct."

In this enthufiaftic performance Mr. Scott describes the different revolutions of his mind, how from a leper in every part, he became found and perfect, so as to be numbered among the enlightened lambs of the tabernacle. He alfo mentions his course of ftudy, and points out how he was affected after reading particular authors. On reading Mr. Venn's effay on the prophecy of Zecharias, a folemn paffage went home to his heart. Confequently thereupon, he makes the following declaration :

I fhould as eafily be convinced that there were no Holy Ghoft, as that he was not present with my foul. When I read this paffage, and the whole of what Mr. Venn has written upon that subject, it came to my heart with such power, conviction, and demonftration of the Spirit, that it lifted me up above the world, and gave me that victory which faith alone can give ;' and that liberty which is where the spirit of the Lord is, and no where elfe."

The above extract is truly in the Whitfieldian ftrain, (i. e.) confonant to the warm, passionate, and rapturous phraseology of experienced faints.

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Phyficians, both Ancient and Modern; to which are added, feveral well authenticated Cafes of Cures, performed on Perfons of Credit and Reputation. By R. Dominiceti, M. D. 8vo. Price 1s. Nichol.

A description of an apparatus erected in Panton-Square, upon the fame plan with that of Dr. Dominiceti of Chelfea, together with a collection of fome cafes of cures.

A Practical Grammar of the French Language. By N. WanoStrocht. 8vo. Johnson.

We have already fo many, and fo much better publications on the fame fubject, that we do not fee the neceffity, nor even propriety of the prefent performance. Not only its plan, but even, in fome measure, its title is borrowed from preceeding works of a fimilar nature. As Mr. Wanoftrocht, however, is a private teacher of the French tongue, and as every teacher may be fuppofed to understand his own method of inftruction better than he could do that of any other, the work may meet with fome encouragement and may even be of fome ufe, in the narrow circle of the author's acquaintance.

Deifm not confiftent with the Religion of Reafon and Nature. By Capel Berrow, A. M. 4to. Price 4s. Dodfley.

In the courfe of Mr. Berrow's controverfy with the author of "Deifm fairly ftated and fully vindicated," [Annett, by name] we have with great pleasure observed his fpirited and powerful defence of Revelation: efteemed his conduct, especially in these days of fcepticism, becoming the chriftian and the divine. The prefent edition is infcribed, in a pleafing and artless manner, to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

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