difpenfation is immediately procured, and Lord Edward Carteret is bleffed in the arms of his grandmother. The reader will readily perceive that there is fomething of novelty in the story, which is conducted with tolerable skill and addrefs. -The work, however, is incorrectly written, and several vulgarifms are scattered through it. One lady, for example, is made to talk of being hummed into happiness, and another of a skin-deep imD: preflion, &c. &c. Art. 37. William of Normandy. 2 Vols. 55. fewed. An hiftorical Novel. 12mo. A monstrous and mif-fhapen birth; and fuch as criticism turns from in terror and disgust. Art. 38. The Sorrows of the Heart. 12mo. 2 Vols. 55. fewed. Murray, 1787. The modern novel affords us nothing like variety. Soup for breakfast, foup for dinner, and foup for fupper,' as the libertine in the We are very fairly tired of it. comedy obferves of his wife. The compofition before us is an infipid mas indeed! but we will pick out a few of its ingredients, fo that our readers may taste and judge. Oh my friend, that I could reprefs this ardor, this impetuofity of temper in every thing in which my heart has any concern! It is not by reafon it is to be calmed down. For two or three days paft a lucid interval of ferenity has beamed upon my mind, and my fpirits are calmed down in a very unwonted degree. He is a genteel young man, about twenty-five. My father, whofe letter it feems was only in general terms, was ignorant of the In the courfe of conmotives that induced him to visit this place. verfation after dinner, he asked him rather abruptly, which threw him into the most tremulous confufion.' Afked him what? Why inquired into the motives which induced him to vifit the town,' to be fure, replies our Author. Very true-fuch is the meaning without a doubt. But what kind of writing is this? He ftill purfues me with the most unfeeling perfeverance; and encouraged as he is by my parents, I fear it will not ceafe till ĺ have taken refuge in his arms'-Julia. The lady may be right;the unfeeling perfeverance of her lover may very poffibly ceafe, when Once the has taken refuge in his arms. O Matilda! could you but feel a momentary glimpse of the joy this letter has produced in my breast.' I flew upon the wings of impatient friendship to your house. NATURAL HISTORY. Title unpleasant! 4 Title-page) Indexes to the Ornithology of the Comte de Buffon and the Planches enluminées. 4to. 7s. 6d. fewed. White and Son. 1786. Mr. Pennant has here prefented the Public two Indexes. The first is arranged according to the Author's own fyftem, with the names of Buffon, Linnæus, and Latham : to these fynonyma are added references to the Planches enluminées. The fecond Index is a mere catalogue of the Planches enlumineés. LAW. m Art. 40. The Speeches of the Judges of the Court of Exchequer, upon granting a new Trial in the Cafe of Captain Sutton, againft Commodore Johnstone, on the 30th of June 1784; together with Baron Eyre's Speech, on the Motion to arreft the Judgment. Taken in Short Hand by Jofeph Gurney. The Report of the two Chief Juftices, Lords Mansfield and Loughborough, to the Lord Chancellor, on an Appeal from the Judgment of the Court of Exchequer, in the Cafe of Sutton against Johnstone. 4to. 1s. 6d. Stockdale. 1787. The power neceffary to give energy to military enterprizes, does not combine well with the liberal fpirit of our civil institutions; there is hence little caufe for furprize to find Commodore Johnstone refift the verdict of a jury againft him for damages, in an inftance that would difarm every Commander in Chief, and difable the country from all exertion of its ftrength. The chief juttices truly ob. ferve, that "the falvation of this country depends on the difcipline of the fleet; without difcipline they would be a rabble, dangerous only to their friends, and harmlefs to the enemy." The reader who is interefted will find many curious remarks in the fpeeches of the judges, on a new caufe, the hiftory of which is to be found in all the periodical prints of the time. 66 N. Art. 41. Letters which paffed between Commodore Johnstone and Captain Sutton, in 1781, with respect to the bringing Captain Sutton to Trial. 8vo. 6d. Stockdale. 1787. These letters are reprinted from the court martial trial, to fhew that no juft imputation can be fixed on Commodore Johnstone for delaying the trial of Captain Sutton, or for want of indulgence or politeness to him under the arrest. N. Art. 42. Confiderations on the Queftion lately agitated in WeftminsterHall, whether the Proceedings of Commanders in Chief of Fleets and Armies, acting within the Military Powers delegated to them, and in the courfe of Difcipline, are fubject to the Review of the Civil Courts of Law; with Obfervations on the Cafe which has given rife to this important Question, and on other Points which have occurred in that Caufe. By William Pulteney, Efq. 8vo. Is. 6d. Stockdale. 1787. It is publicly known that Commodore Johnftone, under a diffatisfaction with the conduct of Captain Sutton in the action at Port Praya, caufed an inquiry into his conduct to be made by a court martial for difobedience of orders: and that Captain Sutton, being honourably acquitted by proof of the difability of his fhip, com menced menced an action against Commodore Johnstone for a malicious charge and arreft; in which action he obtained a verdict for 5000 l. damages. The Commodore moved for a new trial, which when granted, the damages were extended to 6000l. and on his farther motion for an arrest of judgment, on the pleas that no fuch action could lie against a Commander in Chief; and that if it could, the fentence of the court martial admitted the disobedience, by the juftification from circumftances, which was fufficient bar to an action for malice; on June 15th 1785, the Court of Exchequer determined against arrefting the judgment, and the caufe was referred to the Houfe of Lords for a final decifion: The Lords, accordingly, on May 22, 1787, determined it in favour of the Governor,-who died on the 24th, within two hours after he received the news. Mr. Pulteney justly obferves, that though the public have hitherto confidered the caufe merely as a queftion between two individuals, it is really of a public nature, has never yet been determined, and is of the most ferious confequence to the difcipline both of the navy and army. The cafe of thofe, fays our author, who ferve in the navy and army, is different from that of the other fubjects; they are subjected to military law and difcipline, because without that fort of law they could not be effectually employed for the service of the state. They furrender, by entering into either of thefe fervices, many valuable privileges of citizens, because the public policy and neceffity requires that they fhould do fo; but, on the other hand, they are entitled to many diftinguished privileges and advantages, from which the rest of the fubjects are excluded. The articles of war are a complete fyftem for the difcipline and government of the navy and army, and all military offences are punishable under thefe laws, and not fubject to any other. If an inferior officer is guilty of any military offence, it is the duty of the commander in chief to bring him to trial by a court-martial. He is the grand jury in that cafe to find the bill of indictment, but he cannot himself fit upon the trial. If the commander in chief is guilty of oppreffion in bringing any inferior officer to trial, the commander in chief is himself punishable for that offence by a court-martial.' The confequences of land and fea officers being cramped in their difcipline, by the dread or by the threats of actions at law, are well reprefented; and many judicious remarks are made on Baron Eyre's Speech against the motion for arreft of the judgment given on the fecond trial; particularly in one inftance, which as well fhews the extent of military power, as the remedy afforded by the martial code, when it may happen to be unduly afferted, or refifted. Mr. Baron Eyre feems in fome measure to call in question alfo the neceffity of obedience, in all cafes, to the orders of a fuperior officer, and he puts the cafe of a man ordered to the mast head, who the fuperior officer knew was incapacitated by fome bodily infirmity from doing it, and that he must infallibly break his neck in the attempt, and fays, if the order was obeyed, and the man killed, the officer might be tried for murder. This doctrine, if held to be law, would be of very ferious confequence indeed to the difcipline of the navy and army. The articles of war require obedience only to lawful lawful commands. If fuch an order as is ftated fhould be given and difobeyed, a court-martial would try it, and determine whether or not it was a lawful command. If it was obeyed, be the confequence what it might, there would be end of the difcipline of the navy if the officer could be tried for murder; for, if he could be fo tried in the worst cafe that could be put, he might be tried in every cafe, and he would be anfwerable to be tried for his life for any ac cident occasioning death that happened to any man in his hip, or under his command, in the execution of any hazardous order; nay, he might be tried, for every fhip and for all the lives on board, that fhould be loft, by obeying any order from him. It is not fufficient to Tay, that he could only be convicted when he knew that the infallible confequence of his order would be, the death of the man, or the lofs of the fhip; becaufe, if he can be tried in any such case, he may be tried in every cafe; and what an occafion would fuch a doctrine afford, to perfons unwilling to do their duty, of obftructing the public fervice, by threatening profecutions in confequence of every order, and foretelling what would happen if obeyed, having themselves in a great meafure the power of fulfilling their prediction.' Rigid as this doctrine may be deemed, it is as effential to the nature of the fervice required, as that fervice is to the fafety of the ftate; nor can it be deemed too rigid, while there is no want of men from all stations of life, defirous of fubfcribing to the full extent of it in this view, no extraneous principles whatever ought to be admitted that can in the leaft degree tend to relaxation. Every one must be fenfible of the difference between a mob convulfed by dif cordant caprices, and a regular body of men guided and actuated by one will. N. Art. 43. Anno 27mo Georgii III. An A&t for repealing the feveral Duties of Cuftoms and Excife, and granting other Duties in lieu thereof, and for applying the faid Duties, together with other Duties compofing the public Revenue; for permitting the Importation of certain Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, the Produce or Manufacture of the European Dominions of the French King, into this Kingdom, &c. Folio. 9s. The King's Printers. Though we do not ordinarily notice acts of parliament, we think ourfelves obliged to acquaint our readers with this, which fo grea:ly concerns the public revenue. By this act, the old duties and draw. backs are to ceafe, and new ones are to be levied, from May 10, 1787, according to the rates fpecified in fix annexed schedules, which form a complete book of rates, both of the Cuftom and Excife duties. By the arrangement here made, any perfon may inftantly inform himself of the duty and drawbacks on any particular ticle. Art. 44. R-m Tables of the net Duties payable, and drawbacks allorved, on Goods, Wares, &c. Publifhed under the infpection of Mr. Ed. ward James Mafcal, of the Custom Houfe. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Lowndes. 1787. The schedules mentioned in the foregoing article are here put into a smaller form, feveral alphabets of the former being reduced to to one, fo as to give a more comprehenfive view of the whole. We cannot however fuppofe that any abridgement, though it may be more portable, or convenient, can, in point of correctnefs, be preferable to the original, published by authority. 2: MEDICA L. Art. 45. An Account of Cures, by the Vegetable Syrup of Mr. De Velnos, in the Venereal Difeafe. 8vo. 6d. Sold at No. 21. Frith-Street, Soho. Art. 46. Hints to Families on the increafing prevalence of Scrophulas, Afthmas, Confumptions, and Palfies, from the prefent Method of Treatment in the Meales and Small-pox. By Ifaac Swainfon. 8vo. 6d. Ridgeway. 1787. These two publications fpeak, in ftrong terms, of the efficacy of Velnos' Vegetable Syrup, especially in fcrophulous cafes. As to the production of fcrophula by an exceffive antiphlogistic treatment of the fmall-pox, our fentiments are different from thofe of Mr. Swainfon, and mutt remain fo, until facts and experience, joined with Mr. Swainfon's reafoning, confirm his doctrine. We have frequently feen glandular fwellings fucceed the inoculated fmall-pox; but thefe tumours differ effentially from the fcrophula in being inflamatory, easy of fuppuration, readily healed, &c. Mr. Swainson juftly remarks, that the antiphlogistic regimen is carried to excefs; a certain degree of warmth is abfolutely neceffary for the difcharge of the morbific matter, either by means of the eruption or infenfible perfpiration. Art. 47. Narrative of the efficacy of Bath Waters, in various kinds of Paralytic Disorders admitted into the Bath Hofpital from the end of 1775 to the end of 1785; with particular Relations of 52 Cafes. Publifhed by order of the Committee at the Hofpital expence. 8vo. Is. 6d. Bath, Cruttwell. London, Dilly. 1787. By this ftatement of the fuccefs of Bath waters, in cafes of palfies, for 10 years, it appears, that 1102 paralytic patients were received into the Hofpital; of thefe 237 were cured; 596 were benefited; 233 were not benefited; and 36 died. This part of the publication is an extract from the Hofpital regifter, made by the attending phyficians and furgeons; yet the principal part of the performance is a minute relation of 52 particular cafes of palfy, in which the waters of Bath had been used with the particular view of determining their antiparalytic quality. It is from facts alone, when faithfully related, that the medical properties of any remedy can be afcertained. On this principle, the authors of the prefent publication have fpecified each cafe, and have given a particular defcription of the leading symptoms, before, during, and after, the ufe of the waters; fo that their efficacy is placed in a moft confpicuous point of view. Do Art. 48. The Edinburgh new Difpenfatory: Containing, firft, The Elements of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. 2dly, The Materia Medica, or an Alphabetical Arrangement of the Subftances employed, in Medicine; with an Account of their Virtues and Ufes. 3dly, Pharmaceutical |