But lo! the man in whom at once we find, To ferve his country, wealth, and place forego, Art. 37. Ode addreffed to the Right Hon. William Pitt. By J. N. Puddicombe, M. A. The Second Edition, Is. Robfon. This Ode is above mediocrity, and breathes the warmest fentiments of esteem and admiration of our young Atlas. The fecond edition of this poem is more correct and improved than the first. Art. 38. A familiar Pactical Epifile to Thomas Lamb, Efq. Mayor of Rye, in Suffex; fuppofed to be Written about Three Years ago, and occafioned by a Wager concerning the prefent John Earl of Sandwich, in which are interfperfed feveral Remarks, both Moral and Political, on the Manners and Characters of the prefent Age; together with a Novel Species of Criticifm on Mufic, and many of its Profeffors. By Major Henry Walter, as, 6d, Shepperfon and Reynolds. If the reader can accept of the author's whimsical excufe for trou bling the public with a quarto hudibraftic, of more than feventeen hundred lines, he will find fome entertainment in the perufal of this Familiar Epistle. The author difplays both humour and taste, and a great degree of philanthropy, His criticisms are always mild and juft-thofe on the prefent mufical cognofcenti we think the beft, and therefore fubmit an extract to the reader. It were unhandfome, and unmanly, By Accident, perhaps, I ftumble Hard on my Sides may Mufick's Lafh lay, If I forget the honeft Ashley, And offer not one hearty Boon From which to draw Notes foft and fine To his well fill'd, and clear Baffoon: Was firft the Gift of Scamardine; But he was as One juft begun, Put in the Scale with Parkinfon Bb 2 Great 1 Great is his Fame, but ftill G-d damn m' it's Where, fhould you think me wrong, I'll tell you Beyond due Size my Page would fwell, Of all, who in fome Way excell. I own, me nunquam magis placet Flauto-than when the Leaf fays-Tacet.' Perhaps there is not a better fhift for a rhime in all Butler, than in the lines, "Great is his fame, but ftill G-d damn m’it's "Hard, to find out a rhime for Stamitz.' The reader is to understand, that this poem is a botch poteh, without order, or method, but is not defective in wit, or good fenfe. Art. 39. The Sick Queen and Phyficians, a Poetical Tale, in Five Cantos. 2s. 6d. Stockdale. Another hudibraftic, on the whole above mediocrity, and i many parts entertaining. The author relates the fate of Britain, from the acceffion of his prefent Majefty to the difnition of the co alition miniitry, and to whom he feems to be an enemy. There is method, fome humour, and much good fenfe, but as the author is a partifan, he must expect that his principles will deftroy his poetry in the eyes of politicians. Art. 40 An Epitaph on the late Illuftrious Earl of Chatham. ενα. 18. Davies. This is the longest epitaph, perhaps, that ever was written. It is indeed, a faithful enumeration of the political virtues of Lord Chatham, as they were difplayed in the progrefs of his public life, But it wants the energetic brevity, and the peculiar felicity of expreffion, which belong to epitaph." Dependent Cormorants Gallic bondage Iberian Court." Thefe are a fpecimen of the phrafes by which our author endeavours to convert a very just character, into an epitaph. The writer of this heterogeneous compofition, dedicates it to the Right Hon. William Pitt, Efq; and exhorts him to follow the example of his illuftrious father. Art. 41. The Love of our Country, a Poem; together with a Poetical Paraphrafe on the Thirteenth Chapter of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians. By the Rev. Henry Charles Chriftian Newman, A. B. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Vicar of Stotford, in the County of Bedford. 2s. 6d. Faulder, 1783. 1 This poem contains fome good lines, and fuch principles as the following. For "For ne'er, though greatly fallen the mighty ftate, "While Portland, Cavendish, and Burke unite With Fox, his country's idol and delight," "With Townshend, and with Conway, friend to peace, The reader may perhaps think Mr. Newman flatters; but thefe lines are blunt honefly, when compared to the dedication to the Duchefs of Devonshire, wherein he tells the Duchefs, that in morals, manners, and confummate beauty, her grace is inferior only to Jefus Chrift.-All this to from a Clergyman! Art. 42. An Epilogue on the late Peace, addreffed to the Rt. Baldwin. 1783. Hon. the Earl of N IS. We may fay of this Epilogue, as of the peace they will be best pleafed with it, who made it. POLITICA L. Art. 43. The Deformities of Fox and Burke, faithfully felected from their Speeches. Together with Authentic Copies of the Addreffes prefented to the King's most excellent Majefty, on the Rejection of the Eaft India Bill, introduced by Mr. Fox, and the Difmiffion of the late Adminiftration from his Majesty's Councils. 8vo. 2S. Stockdale. 1 The Beauties of Fox, North, and Burke, being a faithful félection of their fpeeches, in the Houfe of Commons, from the year 1774 to the prefent time, having had a very rapid and general cir culation: In confideration thereof, and at the defire of feveral high and refpectable characters, the publifher has been induced to offer fome extracts of the fpeeches of Fox and Burke, from the year 1770 to the year 1774, and to publifh the fame under the titles of The Deformities of Fox and Burke, as a companion to bind up with the Beauties of Fox, North, and Burke. A variety of plain facts, delivered in a plain and unadorned manner, renders this fingular publication, the most severe fatire on the coalition that we have met with. It requires not any labour of the mind to apprehend the full force of this fatire. Contradictory declarations, and contradictory actions, ftrike, as by a fenfa, tion, the strongest conviction, that private, not the public intereft, is the great object of our most celebrated Orators. To this publication, including both the Beauties and the Defor mities of our great Orators, is fubjoined a copious index to the whole. Art. 44. Remarks on a Pamphlet, entitled, Thoughts on the Naval Strength of the British Empire. Part Second. By J. Sinclair, Efq. M. P. So far as that Tract contains Strictures on the" Marine Bill. Alfo, Obfervations on a Plan for forming and keeping up a Body of Twenty-five Thoufand men, from the Marines, to be called Royal Navy Men. And a Copy of a Letter to the Committee of Trade in Newcastle upon Tyne. Dedicated to Sir Herbert Mackworth. 8vo. IST W. Nicol Bb 3 Thefe Thefe Remarks appear to us to defervé the attention of all who have taken, or may take an active part, either in promoting or rejecting the marine bill. Art. 45. Ten Minutes Advice to the Freeholders of Yorkshire on their Meeting of the Twenty-fifth of March. By a Freeholder. 8vo. 6d. Egerton. This Yorkshire-man affumes the character of a wag. He makes an ironical defence of Mr. Fox: but, in reality, only exposes his own dullness. Art. 46. The Nature and Extent of Civil and Religious Liberty. A Sermon preached before the University of Cambridge. November 5th, 1783. By Peter Peckard, A. M. Master of Magdalen College, 4to. Is. 6d. Cadell. In this moderate, fenfible, and well-timed difcourfe, the Mafter of Magdalen College ftates, with great juftnefs, the nature. and extent of civil and religious liberty; and fhews, that our ancestors, though frequently deprived of this bleffing, yet never loft fight of it; but always, as circumftances permitted, afferted their rights, and controuled the madness and abfurdity of defpotifm. In that middle region, according to this writer, which in morals, is the place of virtue, which in the natural world is the climate of happiness; in that middle region in civil polity, between anarchy and defpotifm, is erected the throne of liberty. Mr. Peckard is a ftrenuous advocate for political reformation. "If the fundamental principles in any ftate fhould be obfcured by adventitious impurities, it is the duty of good men to endeavour to remove every superinduced corruption; which, at all times might be effected without any prejudice to the principles themfelves.Nothing can evince this impor tant truth more decidely, than a careful attention to the alterations that have been made in the legal inftitutions of this country, till they arrived at that happy period which is the fubject of the prefent folemnity." What this writer fays concerning the antiquity, and what we fhall call the univerfality of liberty in England, deferves attention. The barbarous nations who by predatory incurfions fettled themselves in this country, formed, we deny not, a fort of Conftitution which held the people in Slavery, to a number of finall, but cruel tyrants. A people uncivilized as they were, had not any. proper notions of fubordination: their turn of mind was warlike, and their fentiments ferocious: their Liberty might border too nearly upon Licentioufnefs, and one fpecies of violence might call for another to reftrain it. But as Science, and the Arts gained ground, as Commerce opened a communication with civilized nations, and foftened their manners, they became fenfible of the Rights of human nature, claining gradually, and at length afferting ef fectually, their Liberty.' The Author has proved and illuftrated many of his pofitions, by very learned hiftorical notes. Art. 47. The Cafe of the Eaft India Company, as ftated and proved at the Bar of the Houfe of Lords, on the 15th and 16th Days of December, 1783; upon the hearing of two Petitions a gainst a Bill, entituled, " An A&t for establishing certain Regulations for the better Management of the Territories, Revenues, and Commerce of this Kingdom in the Eaft Indies." Containing the Arguments of Mr. Rous, and Mr. Dallas, for the Company; Mr. Hardinge, and Mr. Plumer, for the Directors; as taken in Short-hand by Mr. Gurney. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Gurney. The fpeeches of the counsel in this caufe deferve to be recorded. Mr. Gurney has performed this with his ufual accuracy. The fpeech of Mr. Hardinge, in particular, abounds with lively strokes, which give an agreeable feafoning to many folid arguments. Art. 48. The Speech of Mr. Hardinge, as Counsel for the Directors of the Eaft India Company, at the Bar of the Houfe of Lords, on Tuesday the 16th of December, 1783. 8vo. 13. 6d. Stockdale. This is as animated and convincing a fpeech as was ever delivered at the bar of either the Lords, or the Commons. Mr. Hardinge's imagination is, perhaps, too ardent, Too much brilliancy of thought,. too many fallies of the imagination, are not, perhaps, confiftent with the grave tone of public fpeaking. Like too many ornaments, which diminish the dignity, by diminishing the fimplicity of drefs. We do not fay, that Mr. Hardinge's fancy, like an unruly horfe, ever runs away with his rider; we only fubmit it to his confideration, Whether it does not lead him into too frequent, though fhort excurfions. Time, it is to be hoped, will retrench in the author this redundancy, Art. 49. Obfervations on the Principles and Tendency of the Eaft-India Bills proposed by he Right Honourable Charles James Fox, and the Right Honourable William Pitt, with fhort Sketches of their Political Characters. 8vo. Is. 6d. Stockdale. The author advances feveral weighty objections to Mr. Fox's Eaft-India bill, and arraigns the Houfe of Commons for rejecting Mr. Pitt's bill," for the better government of In dia; although it was unftained by the violation of charters, "and feizure of property, unclogged by glaring innovations of "the constitution, and a rapacious affumption of unbounded patronage." It is very true that Mr. Pitt's bill was free from thefe defects: yet it certainly was deftitute of that promptitude and vi gour which are neceffary for maintaining the connection between India and Great Britain.- -When we reflect on this evident truth, and that our author fcruples not to affirm, in a very high eulogium on Mr. Pitt, that he is a young man of abilities, at least equal in extent to thofe of Mr. Fox, we cannot, though we approve his caufe, pronounce him an impartial writer. |