bridge; but we do not understand that, in this respect, any fetters are impofed upon the student's particular propenfities. ART. 55. 55 A Philofophical and Practical Treatife on Horfes, and on the Moral Daties of Man towards the Brute Creation. By John Law8vo. Pp. 600. 75. 6d. Longman. 1798. rence. In our account of the former volume of his publication we have faid, n very few words, all that is neceffary to be reported on the subjec*. Mr. Lawrence is a writer of a very fingular kind. Nothing is too high or too low for his pen. In one page we meet with metaphyfical fpeculations on the philofophy of riding, and fports in general; in another, there are lifts of the repofitories for horfes in London, with particulars of the mode of felling in Smithfield, at Tatterfall's, and other places. The humid inflation of the ftyle in fome parts, and the flat familiarity of it in others, preduce a ftrange effect; and whether the author is on his high horfe, or on his pony, he is not, much an object of attention to critics. It is the work of an oftentatious groom or Jockey, and no more. ART. 56. The Good Schoolmefter, exemplified in the Chara&er of the Reverend John Clarke, M. A. formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; and fucceffively Master of the Schools of Shipton Beverley, and Wakefield, in the County of York. By Thomas Žouch, M. A. and F. L. S. 4to. 23 pp. 15.6d. Robfon, &c. 1798. A good fchoolmaster is one of the most useful and meritorious, and ufually one of the worst rewarded labourers, in the fervice of the public. He deferves as ma: y patrons as he has fcholars, and as they have parents; but how often does he find none! All of them join in praifing him, and each leaves to the reft the care of befriending him. Such was the fate of Mr. Clarke; with one fingle abatement that he was prefented to a small vicarage by one of his old fcholars, at a time when "his imbecility both of mind and body incapacitated him from receiving inftitution." p. 15. Mr. Zouch has here paid a very honourable though fomewhat late tribute to his memory. He appears to have been no lefs amiable as a man, than accomplished as a fcholar, and excellent as a fchoolmafter. They who knew him will eagerly revive their acquaintance, by retracing his character in the lively picture here exhibited. To our readers in general we fhall recommend this publication, by extracting from it a paffage of ufeful tendency: "It was one of the rules, eftablished in his fchool, to begin the mornings of the three first days in each week, with explaining to his cholers one felect portion in the version of the LXXII, and another in the Greek New Teftament. Hence they familiarized themselves in their more tender years to the language of the Sacred Penmen. Many of them, intended for the Church, in conformity to his advice, continued to dedicate a short time every day to the careful perufal of the Scriptures, with the regular ufe of an interleaved. Bible for the infertion of incidental remarks and illuftrations. Sce Brit. Crit. Vol. ix. p. 699. From From this plan of ftudy they derived very fignal advantages. If this mode were univerfally adopted in our public fchools, might it not enable the Candidates for Orders to quit themselves with fome degree of fuperior credit?" p. 8. An ufeful caution may be gathered by young clergymen, from the incident which produced Mr. Clark's fatal illness: Overheated, he went into a damp Church, and put on a damp furplice. His perfpiration fuftained fo fudden and fevere a check, that the next morning he was feized with a molt alarming stroke of an apoplexy, from which he never perfectly recovered." p. 16. The appendix contains fome latin lines by Dr. Bentley not generally known. They will be acceptable to claffical readers, though unconnected with the fubject of this tract. In the addrefs to the Queen there is fome inequality of fpirit; the 2nd. 5th. and 6th, lines being as feeble, as fome of the reft are animated and vigorous. The 14th. line might be received with applause from a school-boy; but not from Dr. Bentley. Of the fame character is the 2d. line in "Allocutio ad Sepulchrum." ART. 57. A Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Loughborough, Lord High Chancellor of England, &c. &c. from Richard Wilfon. Efq. M. P. on the Subject of his Bill of Divorce, from the Honourable Anne Wiljon, late Townsend, prefented in the laft Seffion of Parliament to the House of Lords. Svo. Pp. 26. Is. Chapple. 1798. The author's bill of divorce was loft in the upper Houfe of Parliament, because no peer could be found who would move it. The causes of this extraordinary refufal are fomewhat obfcurely hinted at in this angry letter; which is very unlikely to conciliate any noble mover in a future feffion, and which speaks of a prelate, (who feems to have merely done his duty) in terms very grofs and inexcufable. Pp. 20, 21. ART. 58. The fubftance of this propofal is, the "annual registration, over all the kingdom, of all the acres fown with wheat, barley, and oats," (p. 16); the establishment of granaries, to be ftored with a whole year's fupply in the course of eight years; and, in order to this," an addition of one eighth to the number of acres under the plough," (p. 12); and "a parliamentary encouragement to the farmer to produce this additional eighth, by a public bounty, (p. 13.) The author then confiders "the capital that would be required to furnish London with one year's fupply of wheat,-who would be the capitalifts, or proprietors of that fupply,-what profits they ought to receive on their capital, and how thofe profits would arife." P. 18. The capital required for building granaries, and fupplying London, is 2,120,000l. Next, it is shown how much London taxes itself an nually nually for diverfions; namely, Drury Lane and Covent Garden, 150,000l. Opera Houfe, 37,000l. Little Theatre in the Haymarket, 10,000l. Public Concerts, 10,000l. Ranelagh, 6oool. Attley's, 6000l. The Circus, 60ool. Total, 245,ocol. If this be a right eftimate, and the author thinks it a very low one, our inference is, that we have an abundant refource in the ability to fupply this and other corref ponding expences, with which to defend our property from Gallic fraternity and confifcation. Though the calculations for building and filling granaries are here reftricted to London, yet they may eafily be extended to the whole kingdom (p. 24) and "the reafoning applies equally to every large city, to every town, and to every parish, throughout Great Britain and Ireland." P. 24. Britain would require a capital of 17,000,000l. Excepting particularly the fcheme of a bounty for raifing corn, this tract feems to contain fome good fuggeftions; and therefore we recommend it to the attention of thofe who fpeculate in political œco nomy. ART. 59. An Address delivered to the Committees of the feveral Parifbes of St. Peter and Paul, St. James, St. Michael, Lyntomb and Wiacomb, and Bathwick, met to deliberate upon the Propriety of incorporating for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, by the Establishment of an House of Industry. By J. Wood, a Director of the Shrewsbury House. 8vo. 3+ PP. IS. Cruttwell, Bath; Dilly, London. 1798. 66 The fervices which Mr. Wood has rendered (we understand) to the public, in the capacity of a director of the house of industry at Shrewibury, entitle him to a favourable hearing on fuch questions as the title-page fets forth. He admits, that the beneficial effects of thefe establishments can never be obtained or continued, without the exer. cife of a conflant, fleady, and vigorous fuperintendance on the part of the directors." (p. 18.) Another very effential epithet might be added, namely, difinterefted; efpecially in cities and boroughs; where other confiderations than that of fitness for the poft are too apt to influence the appointment of mafter, furgeon, matron, nurses, and all other affiftants whatfoever. Thefe matters being provided for, (but who will enfure them for any long time?) we agree that "the gene ral establishment of Houles of Industry, in our cities and great towns, is a confummation devoutly to be withed." (p. 33.) In public undertakings of this kind, we take it for granted that there is no danger of fecing introduced that recent and abominable innovation, by which the avarice of various manufactures now fhock the feelings, of all ́religious and humane perfons, namely, the inceffant labour of the poor, by day and by, night, on every day in the year. If we deferve to fuffer as a nation for our offences, our doom will furely not be averted by fuch new habits as this, ART. 60. An Effay on the Education of Youth. By John Evans, A. M. Author of the Sketch of the Denominations of the Chriftian World, together with its Sequel; and Mafter of a Seminary for Ten Pupils, Hoxton Square. 8vo. 37 pp. 1s. Symonds. 1798. It appears from the title-page and the appendix, that this Effay was intended as a vehicle of information to the public, that the author keeps a feminary for the education of ten pupils, at forty guineas a year; most of whom, we apprehend, are the children of Diffenters. We are far from being inclined to obstruct fo laudable a purpofe; and therefore willingly atteft, that the plan of education here laid down appears to be unexceptionable. But we are bound to fay of the Effay, a a compofition, that it is not above mediocrity. We have not met with any new ideas on the subject of education; nor have we found the common ones displayed with any vigour of thought, or felicity of language. ART. 61. Hints on Inclofing, Agriculture, Stewardfips, and Tithes. 1798. A few trite thoughts, expressed in mean language. ART. 62. An Addrefs to the Board of Baptift Minifters. By John 1798. "The Baptift Board is a voluntary Society of Minifters, who have agreed to meet together at the Jamaica Coffee. Houfe, in St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, on a Tuesday evening, to talk of their own affairs, and on mifcellaneous fubjects." (p. 3.) The body of Diffenting Minifters, in and near London, meet together whenever they think proper, at the Library in Red Cross-ftreet; not for devotion, nor as agreeing in any religious creed, but as Diffenters from the Church of England, and to fupport what they are pleafed to call the diffenting intereft." (p. 4.) Mr. Martin was the oldeft member of the Baptift Board, having been fo more than twenty years. He was lately excluded from that fociety, for having faid in a fermon (as he states it) that he believed there were fome, in every denomination of Christians, not to be trufted in our alarming fituation; the Baptifts not excepted; and fuppofing that any of them fhould join the French, he was difpofed to reprove them in ftronger terms than other people." (p. 23.) He has long revered moderate and firth Diffenters, and obferved in others, the excess of non-conformity. He wishes to guard ingenuous minds against that excefs, and to promote that kind of moderation and firmnefs which he approves." (p. 12.) Without haftry deciding againft his opponents in this cafe we may at least fay, that they are here rebuked in fuch a manner, as calls upon them ftrongly for a juftification, FOREIGN FOREIGN CATALOGUE. FRANCE. ART. 63. Voyage à Conftantinople, en Italie et aux iles de l'Archipek, par l'Allemagne et la Hongrie, en 1790 et 1791. A Paris, 1 Vol. in 8vo. Notwithstanding fome inaccuracies both in the matter and language, this work has undoubtedly confiderable merit. The comparison of the Fr nch with English travellers, the portrait of the Prince de Ligne, every thingy hich regards the manners and government of the Turks, are parts written with equal judgment and tafte. There are in the 41etter on the Ruffians, fome affertions, perhaps not fufficiently au thenticated; but it contains, at the fame time, other very interetiing details, with fome particulars not generally known, relative to Prince Potemkin, Marthal Souworoff, and the Prince of Naifau. In Letters 43 and 45 we might likewife point out fome flight errors, where the author describes the Archipelago of Greece; he ought not, in the year 1790, to have mentioned the ifle of Tine, of which the Turks have now been in poffeffion for more than a century, as belonging to the Venetians; nor to have faid, that that of Scio, which is lefs extenfive and lefs populous than that of Negropont, is the largeft ifland in the Archipelago after Crete; but we may however obferve, that thefe Letters on Greece, on Malta, and on Sicily, exhibit, though generally in more faithful colours, pictures equally interefting with those of Bridore and Savary. Our readers will be able to form fome judgment of the authors manner, from the following extracts. "Au pied du mont Hémus eft Cafanlick, le Ghuliftan de l'Europe: on ne voit par tout qu'arbres frutiers de toutes effèces; le village eft au muieu d'un imn enfe verger. Les rofes, qui y viennent en fillon comme la vigne, y font recueillies et travaillés avec le mème foin. Dans le printems, l'odeur de ces charmantes récoltes, parfume l'air à plus d'une licue: que d'idées cet endroit délicieux infpire! il n'en falloit pas tant pour fair éclore de la brillan e imagination des Grecs la plus ingénicufe allégorie. O Cafnlick! pourquoi n'as-tu pas ton Theocrite ou ton Anacré n? il auroit amené Vénus préfider à la moiffon de fa fleur chéri; Pluron t'auroit enlevé une Proferpine, et les rfes de Cafanlick cellent fait oubler les prairies de l'Enna. Ton rėte puzojit “modli les nymphes oderes de la Thrace qui expriment es feuilles de la rofe cite divine effence qui va, à mille neues, meer on parfum au fouffle d'une jolie française; mais il |