men; who came and joined him, while feveral of us landed to keep the Captain company. Afhort conversation enfued, of which very little was understood on both fides, for want of a competent knowledge of the language. Mr Hodges immediately took fketches of their countenances; and their geftures fhewed, that they clearly understood what he was doing; on which they called him Toazoa, that term being probably applicable to the imitative arts. The man's countenance was very pleafing and open: one of the women, which we afterwards believed to be his daughter, was not wholly fo difagreeable as one might have expected in New Zeeland; but the other was remarkably ugly, and had a prodigious excrefcence on her upper lip. They were all of a dark brown or olive complexion. Their hair was black, and curling, and fmeared with oil and ruddle the man wore his tied upon the crown of the head, but the women had it cut ihort. Their bodies were tolerably well proportioned in the upper part; but they had remarkable flender, ill-made, and bandy legs. Their dress confifted of mats made of the New-Zecland flax-plant, interwoven with feathers; and in their ears they wore fmall pieces of white albatross skins, ftained with ruddle or ochre. We offered them fome fishes and wildfowl; but they threw them back to us, intimating that they did not want provifions. The approaching night obliged us to retire, not without promifing our new friends a vifit the next morning. The man remained filent, and looked after us with compo, fure and great attention, which feemed to fpeak a profound meditation; but the youngest of the two women, whofe vociferous volubility of tongue exceeded every thing we had met with, began to dance at our departure, and continued to be as loud as ever. Our feamen paffed several coarfe jefts on this occafion; but nothing was more obvious to us, than the general drift of nature, which not only provided man with a partner to alleviate his cares, and fweeten his labours, but endowed that partner like wife with a defire of pleafing, by a fuperior degree of vivacity and affability.'

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Mr Forfter has given a particular ac count of the ceremony with which an old man and a woman of this country paid a vifit to the hip. On approaching the veffel, they were met by Capt. Cook

and Dr Forster, whom the man faluted with his nofe against theirs, prefenting each of them with a new cloak or piece of cloth made of the flax-plant, curioufly interwoven with parrots feathers, and at the fame time giving the Captain a piece of green nephritic ftone, or jadde, which was formed into the blade of a hatchet. Then turning afide, he introduced a bit of a bird's fkin, with white' feathers, through a hole in one of his ears, and broke off a fmall green branch from a neighbouring bush. Thus cquipped, he walked on; and ftopping when he could just reach the fhip's fides, with his hand, he ftruck them and the main-fhrouds feveral times with his branch. He then began to repeat a kind of fpeech or prayer, which feemed to have regular cadences, and to be metrically arranged as a poem. His eyes were fixed upon the place he had touched, his voice was raised, and his whole behaviour grave and folemn. The young woman, though at other times laughing and dancing, now kept close to the man, and was ferious all the while he spoke, during the space of two or three minutes. At the clofe of his fpeech, the, man ftruck the fhip's fide again, and, throwing away the branch, both he and the girl came on board, with each a spear in their hand. [To be continued.]

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Religion, Morality, Controverfy, &c. Addreffes to young men. By James For 2 vols. 75. fewed. Cadell. dyce, D. D. Thofe who have read Dr Fordyce's naturally form great expectations from his Sermons to Young Women [xxviii. 591], will Addreffes to Young Men; and we may venture to affure fuch as are difpofed to make candid and equitable allowances for the difficulty of the task, that their expectations will not be disappointed. The tender and affectionate concern which the author exprefles for the improvement of youth in knowledge and virtue, in every thing that can render them truly amiable,hews the good. nefs of his heart; and the agreeable and entertaining manner in which he communicates to them the most useful instructions, does honour to his taffe and genius.-1 he subMen owe to themfelves; Honour as a prinjects are thefe: The reverence which Young ciple; Honour as a reward; The defire of praife; Love; Friendship; A manly fpirit, as oppofed to cffeminacy; A manly fpirit, as oppofed to cowardice; The beauty of humility; The ftate of the times as a mo. tive to early piety.-Thefe fubje&ts have not

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The child's conductor: defigned to impart to children, in a plain and fimple manner, a full knowledge of thofe important truths which ought to take the lead of all other inftruction. By Lady Pennington, for the ufe of her grandchildren. 1 s. 6 d. Walter. There is a tincture of myfticifm in this performance, which will render it lefs ufeful to young readers, than an excellent treatife by the fame hand, intitled, "An unfortunate Mother's Advice to her abfent Daughters." C.

Interefting letters of Pope Clement XIV. (Ganganelli.) Vol. 3. [xxxviii. 547.]. Part 1. and 2. Likewife an original letter, in answer to M. Voltaire's objections to the authenticity of Ganganelli's letters. 55. Durham. In the preceding volumes, and in this continuation, there is a perfect uniformity of style and fentiment, the marks of a lively imagination, an excellent underftanding, an unfeigned piety, and an univerfal benevolence. In an advertisement prefixed, the French editor endeavours to convince the public, that thefe letters were actually written by Ganganelli. But he produces no evidence which is decifive; no atteftation figned by any of thofe perfons to whom they were ad

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cially that affected fingularity of dress, by which, as it is faid, her Grace has frequent ly condefcended, in the moft public manner, to distinguish herself. M.

A fecond letter to her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire. I S. Fielding and Co. This fecond Letter fets out with a declaration, that "the apprehenfions which her Grace, and fome of her confidential friends, expreffed," previous to the publication of the author's first Letter, had induced him "to fupprefs many parts of it;" that he (the writer) “had formed a vain hope, that a ferious addrefs might awaken her Grace's flumbering reafon, turn its fcrutinies to her paft conduct, and force upon her a confcioufnefs of the many fubjects which might be observed there, for rigid, investigation, and fevere chastisement." "But, (adds he), the public appearance of that epiftle converted your apprehenfions, and thofe of your trusty associates, into a boasting affectation; and though it had been the fource of much anxiety, you treated it with a childish levity and contempt, which has brought me to my paper again. I fhall, therefore, proceed, with much good-will, to offer the fuppref fions of my former Letter to the Public, and to your Grace." The fuppreflions are, accordingly, here restored to the living world; and they confift of certain additional ftrictures on the great lady's public conduct, and averred levities; conveyed in language of a leis ceremonious tone and tenor, than that of the former epittle. But does all this look well? We hope the author has not been endeavouring to levy contributions on the Duchefs! [xxxvii. 415.]. If he has, we are not forry to find that her Grace had fagacity and spirit enough to frustrate the defign.-But we beg the gentleman's pardon.le profeffes (and every body believes the profeffions of anonymous writers), that he is "not actuated by personal envy, or per- 1 fonal refentment." Yet, after all, is there not fomething like refentment, in the reasons affigned, as above, for the publication of thefe fuppreffions? M.

Objections to Mr Lindfey's interpretation of the first fourteen verses of St John's gopel, as fet forth in the Sequel to his apolo gy [xxxviii. 445.]; with fome rictures on his explication of St Paul's text, Phil. ii. 5. 6. &c. By a ferious inquirer, s. 6d. John for. This author is an Unitarian upon that plan which fuppofes the pre existence of Chrift; he hath treated Mr Lindley with the utmost candour and refpect; and has examined the paffages of the New Teftament mentioned in the title page with a very mi pute and critical attention.

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the Son or to the Holy Ghost? By the late Rev. Paul Cardale, author of "The true New-Teltament doctrine of Jefus Chrift confidered," &c. To which are prefixed, a few ftrictures relative to the author. And, by way of appendix, a letter on the perfonality of the Spirit, which was sent to the editor in the year 1762. By the late Rev. Nath. Lardner, D. D. s. Johnson.- The editor of this pamphlet is Dr Caleb Fleming, to whom Mr Cardale bequeathed his manufcripts. This writer does not lanch out into thofe warm and bitter invectives which have fo greatly, and fo often, difgraced controverafil wri tings. Different writers will place the fame fubject in fomewhat of a different light, otherwife we do not obferve any thing properly new in this performance; unless it be. in the obfervations on the addreffes made to Chrift by the Apostle Thomas, and by the Martyr Stephen. These are the two texts of fcripture principally confidered and enlarged on in this tract. M.

Philofophical difquifitions on the Chriftian religion. Addreffed to Soame Jenyns, Efq; and W. Kenrick, LL. D. [xxxviii. 491.]. a s. 6 d. Bew. -This writer lays down a plan or fyftem of religious notions extracted from Cheyne's Effay on Regimen; the principal of which are, That finite fpirits of every order are miniatures, effluxes, emanations, or infinitely small fparkles of the Deity; that the fall of man took place in fome prior ftate of existence; that the prefent earthly body was defigned to concentre and circumfcribe the fpiritual powers, to curb and reftrain the exalted functions of the radical intellectual faculties, in proportion to the defacement and decay of the moral ones; that our lapsed state is probitary, experimental, and progreffive, from the first period of our lives, through the different gradations we shall yet pafs, up to our restored and improveable state, &c. It is agreed, that the prefent fcene of God's difpenfations is dark and intricate: our author thinks, that freedom of choice in all intelligent beings to do good or evil, pre-existence abufed, and progreffive univerfal reftoration well explained, will remove all difficulties and obfcurities in nature, providence, and revelation. C.

Hiftory, Law, Politics, &c.

The history of the Flagellants; or, The advantages of difcipline: being a paraphrafe and commentary on the Hiftoria Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne, Canon of the holy chapel, &c. By Somebody who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne. 4to. 1. 1. Hingefton, &c. M. de Lolme, author of a treatife on the conftitution of England, is faid to be the author of this work. The ends he propofes to VOL. XXXIX.

himself are, the information of posterity; the moral instruction of the prefent age; and the entertainment of philofophers and critics, by furnishing them with an unusual fubject of fpeculation and debate, and of the public in general, by colle&ting into one view, without any offence to religion or decency, many fingular and ludicrous facts.

The writer proves, that no perfons under the Jewish law, inflicted on themselves, with their own hands,, or received from the hands of others, voluntary chaftifement, this mode of punishment being only impofed in

a coercive manner as an atonement for certain crimes; that there is no authority for this practice in the New Testament; and that flagellation prevailed among the ancient Heathens, both as a punishment of flaves, captives, and criminals, and as a voluntary, act of religion. Nothing is more certain, than that when flagellation is performed as an act of religion, and confidered either as an atonement for moral turpitude, a fubflitute for active virtue, or a method of increafing a man's stock of merit, it is attended with the moft ferious inconveniencies. But if it were excluded from all religious tranfactions, and only employed as a punishment for thofe offences which cannot come under the notice of the civil power, who can queftion its utility? If a court of flagellation were inftituted, in which the betrayer of confidence, the violator of decorum, the duellift, and the defamer, fhould be fentenced to receive a number of stripes proportioned to the nature of his offence; it would perhaps foon be found, that there is more good fenfe than is commonly imagined in the ancient apophthegm, "A rod is for the back of a fool;" for there is many a fool, and many a fcoundrel, who, though he can feel nothing else, would feel a cat-o'nine-tails, M

The modern traveller: Being a collection, of useful and entertaining travels, lately made into various countries; the whole carefully abridged; exhibiting a view of the manners, religion, government, arts, agriculture, manufactures, and commerce of the known world. Illustrated with maps and ornamental views. 6 vols. 1 1s. Lowndes.

In 1757 we had an abridgement of Modern Travels, in four duodecimos: it comprehended Maundrel, Shaw, Pococke, Drummond, Ruffel, Hanway, Pontoppidan, Norden, and the celebrated Journey to Palmy ra. That work we are to confider as the foundation of the abstract now before us, in fix volumes; the editor of which has extended the plan, and brought the collection down to the prefent time. The "Modern Traveller," therefore, contains, beside the authors before mentioned, the additional travels of Algatotti, Kalm, Sharpe, Baretti, Kk

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Clarke, Abbé Chappe, Smollett, Großley, Nugent, Riedefel, Brydone, Chandler, Pennant, Johnson, Twifs, &c. He has, alfo, placed in chronological order, the voyages of Anfon, Ulloa, Byron, Bougainville, Of beck, Toreen, and Meff. Wallis, Carteret, and Cooke, and others. Publications, fuch as the above, are well calculated for the million, but particularly for young perfons; as no kind of reading is more pleafing, and at the fame time more inftructive. M.

The characters of George I. Q. Caroline, Sir Robert Walpole, Mr Pulteney, Lord Hardwicke, Mr Fox, and Mr Pitt [205.], reviewed. With royal and noble anecdotes: and a fketch of Lord Chesterfield's charac ter. 1 s. 6 d. fewed. T. Davies. This author has fometimes enlarged and fometimes foftened features, to make the por traits a fuller refemblance of the originals; and he appears to write from good information. The fketch fubjoined has no inconfiderable degree of merit. C.

The history of New York, from the first discovery, &c. By William Smith, A. M. 5 s. Almon. A republication of a work originally printed in 1757, and recommended. M.

A common-place book for travellers in foreign countries. 3 s. Rivington.

Aftrong's actual furvey of the great poft road between London and Dover, with the country three miles on each fide. Drawn on a fcale of half an inch to a mile. 3 s.From the plan and execution of this work we think it cannot fail of a favourable recep1.on. C.

A code of Gentoo laws; or, Ordinations of the Pundits, from a Perfian tranflation, nade from the original, written in the Shanferit language 4to. 322 pages, with a preface of 74-This code of laws will afford ample matter for reflection to the philofopher, the politician, and even to the divine. The laws bear the most genuine ftamp of antiquity; correfpond, in many inftances, with the manners of the early Grecians at or before the period of the Trojan war, and of the Western nations before their emerfion from barbarifm; and feem calculated for the crude conceptions of an almost illiterate people upon their first civilization. M.

A fhort account of the motives which de

termined the man called John the Painter; and a juftification of his conduct. Written by himself, and fent to his friend Mr A. Tomkins, with a request to publish it after his execution. I s. Williams. The author makes John declare himself an American born, and fired with the most enthusiaftic love of his country; in confequence of which he thought it his duty to diftrefs the enemies of America by every poffible means within the power of an individual to perform. But how does this agree with the accounts which we have had, of John's penitence after condemnation [163, 6.]? Either the pamphlet, or thofe accounts, must be fpurious. Sufpicion feems to fall heaviest on the performance before us.

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The trial at large of James Hill, otherwife James Hind, otherwife James Aitken, for feloniously, &c. fetting fire to the ropehoufe in his Majefty's dock-yard at Portf mouth. At the affize at Winchester, March 6. 1777 [162.]. Taken in short-hand by Jofeph Gurney. Published by permillion of the judges. 2 s. Kearsley. There is fomething fo very extraordinary in the story of this wretch, and his defperate underta kings, that his trial, of which this is a genuine detail, will, in course, be perused, as a matter of fingular curiofity in its kind. M.

The trial at large of Jofeph Stackpole, Efq; William Gapper, Attorney at Law, and James Lagier, for fhooting John Parker, Efq; at the aflizes held at Maidstone, March 20. 1777. Taken in fhort-hand by Jofeph Gurney. 35. Kearsley.Authentic. Mr Stackpole's Defence is a masterly

fpeech. M.

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An addrefs to the inhabitants of the parifh of St Anne, Westminster. By the Rev. Tho. Martyn Curate]. Containing a full ftate of his cafe with the Rev. Dr Hind [Rector]; and the opinion of the court of king's-bench upon the fubject; in which the clergy in general are materially interefted, and the rights of the inferior clergy in particular are clearly afcertained. Corral. The curates are highly indebted to their ingenious and spirited brother, for his inftrumentality in procuring, from the court of king's-bench, a full and fatisfactory explanation of the different engagements by which rectors and curates are connected, and the different cafes which may from thence arite. Arbitrary difmiffions, even under the flightcft of the te engagements, were confidered by Lord Mansfield to be indefenfible, both in reafon and in law.—It ap peared, to the honour of his Lordship's humanity, that he was neither indifferent or inattentive to the hardships of a numerous and refpectable body of men, who fuffer worfe than Egyptian tyranny from the talkmafters of their own profellion. To these,

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A letter from an officer at New York to a friend in London. 1 s. Nicoll.Erratum in the above title-page: For New York read Grub-freet. M.

Obfervations on Mr Welley's Second "Calm Addrefs" [154.], and incidentally on other writings upon the American question. Together with thoughts on toleration, and on the point, How far the confcience of the fubject is concerned in a war? remarks on conftitution in general, and that of England in particular; on the nature of colonial government, and a recommendation of a plan of peace. 15. DillyPlain, fenfible, and difpaffionate. M.

A letter to the Rev. Dr Cooper on the origin of civil government. In anfwer to his fermon, preached before the univerfity of Oxford on the day appointed for a general faft. 15. Almon. Shews the tendency of Dr Cooper's doctrines [39] when adopt ed in their full extent. In general there can be no doubt of the propriety of his remarks: Yet it must be remembered,

Ef modus in rebus; funt certi denique fines, Quas ultra eitraque nequit confiftere redum. C. Natural Hiftory, Medicine, Mathematics, &c. Illuftratio fyftematis fexualis Linnei; or, An illuftration of the fexual fyftem of Linnæus. By John Miller. 2 vols. Folio. 211. Miller, Dorfet-court, Parliament-fireet. The. firft ten numbers of this work were publifhed in 1775"xxvii. 147.] The whole is now

completed; contains 111 plates coloured, and the fame uncoloured, with 113 fheets of letter-prefs, in which the reference to botanic terms is printed in Latin and English; and the work is no lefs fplendid and valuable, than it must have been laborious and expenfive. We may, with the fricteft juftice, apply to all the plates the eulogium bestowed by the celebrated Linnæus on thofe which had been feat for his infpection : "Pulchriores et accuratiores funt quam ullæ quas vidit mundus a condito orbe." C.

A method of making useful mineral collections. To which are added, some experiments an a deliquefcent calcareous earth, or native fixed Sal Ammoniac. By D. L. Meyer. s. 6d. Davis.-The directions to the collector of follils appear judicious, and calculated to render fuch collections fomewhat better than the mere raree-shows they are frequently made. The deliquefcent calcareous earth is a production of a moun tain near Luneburg in Germany. It appears, by the experiments related, to be an earth of the calcareous kind, faturated with the muriatic acid. M.

Cafes, medical, chirurgical, and anatomical, with Obfervations. Selected, and tranflated into English, from the history and memoirs of the royal academy of sciences at Paris, from the year 1666 to the prefent time. By Loftus Wood, M. D. Vol. 1. N° 1. 2. & 3. 15. each. Bew.- From the title and introduction of this compilement, we might be led to fuppofe, that it was the first attempt to give to the English reader any of the medical papers of the Academy of Sciences. Yet no longer ago than the year 1764, Dr Thomas Southwell publifhed, in 4 vols 8vo, an abridged collection of the me'dical, anatomical, chymical, and botanical papers contained in the Memoirs, &c. of the Academy, from its re-establishment in 1699. to 1950. Thofe felected for the prefent work are, indeed, for the most part, of a later date; and the utility of a continuation of fuch a collection would be indifputable, were it conducted upon a proper plan. But the tranflation before us, befide the mark of book-craft already noticed, is published in a manner the most unfit of all others for the purposes of science and ufeful information, although, perhaps, advantageous for the vender. A number of papers, taken promifcu oufly, without any regard to arrangement, either from order of time or fubject, is pu blished monthly; and each of the three hi therto printed is contrived to terminate, not only in the middle of a paper, but of a fentence, for the obvious but dishonest purpofe of obliging the purchafer to buy the next. We think we cannot in too ftrong terms exprefs our difapprobation of thefe mean arts, which difcredit publications that otherwife Kka

might