A Supplement to Calculations of the Value of Annuities; published for the Ufe of Societies inftituted for Benefit of Age. Containing various Illuftrations of the Doctrine of Annuities; and compleat Tables of the Value of 1. immediate Annuity, (being the only ones extant by half-yearly Intereft and Payments). Together with Invefligations of the State of the Laudable Society of Annuitants; fhewing what Annuity each Member hath purchased, and real Mortality therein from its Inftitution, compared with Dr. Halley's Table. Also feveral Publications, Letters, and Anecdates, relative to that Society, and explanatory Proceedings to the prefent Year. To which are added, a Table and Obfervations to elucidate the Subject of the National Debt, occafioned by Mr. Laurie's Remarks on Dr. Price's Obfervations. 8vo. 2s 6d. Ridley.

The papers, contained in this publication, relate principally to the difputes, which have taken place at the feveral meetings of the Laudable Society of Annuitants: although fome of them convey information and inftruction of more general utility, in regard to the interefting fubject of Annuities. The writer, Mr. Dale, hath confiderable merit as a calculator; and it might be well for annuitants in general, if they would pay a proper attention to the refalt of his researches.

Letters from the Marquis de Montcalm, Governor General of Canada, to Meffrs. de Berryer, &c. de la Mole, in the Years 1757, 1758, 1759. With an English Translation, 8vo. is. Almon.

The Marquis de Montcalm fell in the very action which deprived this country of the celebrated General Wolfe. In thefe letters, which appear to have been written from a thorough knowledge of the fubject of them, the ftate of our American Colonies, the Marquis foretells fome of those important changes which have fince taken place in that part of the world.

A Letter from an Officer at New York to a Friend in London. 8vo. IS. Nicoll.

A mere compilation of a few extracts from News-papers; perhaps by the news-collector or paragraph-maker himself.

An Authentic Narrative of Fatts, relating to the Exchange of Prifoners taken at the Cedars; fupported by the Teftimonies and Depofitions of His Majesty's Officers, with feveral Original Letters und Papers. Together with Remarks upon the Report and Refolves of the American Congress, on that Subject. 8vo. is. Cadell.

A defence of the officers of his majesty's forces against the imputation of misbehaviour, in regard to the American prifoners. In the remarks on the reports and refolves of the Congrefs, the writer endeavours to prove that body guilty of falfehood and duplicity.

An Inquiry into the Nature and Defign of Chrift's Temptation in the Wilderness, by Hugh Farmer. The Third Edition. 850. 3s. 6d. Buckland.

To this third Edition of Mr. Farmer's Inquiry, are made very confiderable additions, particularly refpecting the explication of Chriff's being brought into a wilderness by, or in, the Spirit.

Political Lamentations, written in the Years 1775 and 1776. T. which is annexed, a Political Sermon, preached in the Pari Church of Walfal, Dec. 13, 1776. being the Day appointed for a General Faft. By John Darwell. 4to. 2s. Nicoll.

There is fomething extremely lamentable, both in this writer's poetry and his profe. If the gods however have neither made him poetical nor politic, they have made him loyal; which, in these times of difloyalty and rebellion, is one good quality at leaft

Infancy, or the Management of Children, a Didactic Poem in Three Books. By Hugh Dowman. M. D. 12mo. 2s. Bell,

'An excellent didactic poem, of whofe parts feparately pubJifhed we have before fpoken. It is now compleated and elegantly printed entire.

Mifcellanies; or a Mifcellaneous Treatife; containing feveral Mathematical Subjects. 8vo. 7s 6d. Nourse.

The fubjects, here treated, are entitled as follows; The Laws of Chance-Annuities-Societies-The Moon's Motion -The Conftruction of Arches-The Preceffion of the Equinoxes-The Conftruction of Logarithms-Interpolation-I he Longitude-Intereft-The Figure of Sines, &c.-Fortification-Gunnery-Architecture-Mufic-Rules of Philofophy -Optical Lectures-Problems.

The author, Mr. Emerfon, hath displayed as ufual his mathematical knowledge of his fubject, and hath, as usual, prefixed a fpecimen of Billing gate oratory, by way of introduction,

An Effay on the Theory and Cure of the Venereal Gonorrhoea, and the Difeafes which happen in Confequence of that Disorder. By John Andrée, Surgeon to the Magdalen Hofpital, and Teacher of Anatomy. 8vo. Is. Blyth, &c.

A concife abftract of the best rules and methods, of theory and practice, regarding the cure of the disorder above-mentioned. How far the faculty were in want of fuch an abstract, we prefume not to fay. If its publication indicate the author's want of employment, the performance has fufficient merit to recommend him.

Reflections on the Rife, Progrefs, and probable Consequences, of the prefent Contentions with the Colonies. By a Freeholder. Edinburgh, Gray.

It is fuch pretty amufement for prophetic minds to take a peep into futurity, that it is no wonder fo many ingenious and inquifitive perfons divert themfelves with putting together premiles that warrant a deduction of fuch inferences as their teeming imagination and fertile fancy fuggeft. ! he spirit of prophecy, however, is fo little apparent in thefe latter ages, that we put little faith in these manufacturers of moral probabilities,

Biographical Sermons: or, A Series of Difcourfes on the principal, Characters in Scripture. By W. Enfield, LL. D. 12mo. 35. fewed. Johnson.

The characters here defcribed and commented on, are thofe of Abraham, Jacob, Jofeph, Mofes, Job, David, Daniel, Peter, Paul, and Jefus Chrift; which are reprefented as objects worthy not only of admiration but imitation. They are profeffedly calculated for the edification of young people, for whole perufal they are not improperly adapted,

Every Farmer his own Cattle Doctor : containing a full and clear Account of the Symptoms and Causes of the Difeafes of Cattle, with the most approved Preferiptions for their Cure, Ic. &c. By John Swaine. 12mo. 2s. Richardson and Urquhart.

Heaven help the poor diftempered cattle under the hands of fuch fimple Swains of doctors, as are moft of our country-farmers!It is, indeed, with pleasure we reflect that even our profeffed farriers and cattle-doctors think it more neceffary to apply to the ftudy of anatomy and furgery than did their predeceflors in that ufeful, and therefore creditable, profeffion.

The Equity and Wisdom of Administration, in Measures that have unhappily occafioned the American Revolt, tried by the Sacred Oracle. 12mo. 2d. Edinburgh, Gray.

A twopenny trial of adminiftration for provoking the Americans to revolt! If it were tried by the fame interpreter (for the Sacred Oracle speaks inerely through an interpreter) it would be convicted, no doubt, in like manner, for attempting to fupprefs their rebellion: for that verdict, the author would probably charge a groat.

An Appeal to the Unprejudiced; or, a Vindication of the Measures of Government with Refpect to America. 8vo. 15. Oxford printed, and fold by Rivington in London.

An Appeal in fact to-nobody. For who is not in fome degree prejudiced either on one fide or on the other of this uni verially-interefting and particularly diftreffing conteft?

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A Letter from the celebrated Dr. Tillot to Dr. Zimmerman, on the Morbus Niger; including fome appofite Cafes equally curious and interefting. The whole illuftrated with an A count of the morbid Appearances of the diffected Bodies. Tranflated from the French by John Burke, M. D. 8vo. Is. 6d. Kearfly.

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Two cafes, of this disorder, with the caufe of which the Ancients who termed it atra bilis were wholly acquainted, are here particularly recorded; the one attended with fuccefs, the other fatal. A third cafe fomewhat fimilar is likewife given; together with obfervations on two others, the firft relating to a very fingular inteftinal worm, and the laft to a pain in the head; which was cured by a deep incifion on the part affected.

A Treatise upon the Extraction of the Cryftalline Lens. By George Borthwick, Surgeon of the Fourteenth Regiment of Dragoons. 8vo. Is. Ldinburgh. Sold by Murray in London.

This practitioner, by confining himself to the defcription of the manner of performing the operation of extraction in a catarat, appears to prefer that method to the mode of depreffion : for which, however, he does not give his reafons, or any inftance of the fuperior fuccefs attending it.

John the Painter's Ghoft: How he appeared on the Night of his Execution to Lord Temple, &c. 4to. Is. 6d. Williams.

Lord Temple being charged, with having employed one Baldwin to infinuate himself into the confidence of his brother brush, and draw from him the confeffion which convicted him; he is here fuppofed to receive a vifit from the convict's ghost; who is not a little fevere on courts and courtiers. There comes little edification, however, from the Devil's correcting fin.

Letters from General Washington to several of his Friends in the Year 1776. 8vo. :s. 6d. Bew.

Senfible and artful remonftrances in favour of the Amerieans, but certainly not written by General Washington.

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