A poetical Addrefs to Almighty God. Suppofed to be delivered by his moft Sacred Majefty, George III. 4to. IS. Bladon.

A kind of appeal to the deity in favour of his Majefty's fincere defire for the good of his people.-We have no doubt of his Majesty's goodness to his fubjects, or his piety to God; but how this writer became fo particularly acquainted with his fentiments on these fubjects, we are at a loss to conceive.

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The Age of Loyalty: An Hiftorical Panegyric. 4to, IS. Wallis.

This panegyric on past times is a fatire on the present; in which the author difplays a quantum fufficit of ill-humour and indifferent verfification.

Religion, a Poem. By Chriftopher Wells. 4to. Is. Bathurst.

A production in blank verfe, not deftitute of poetical imagery, tho' loose in point of diction, and frequently wanting in that propriety; in which confifts the beauty of rhetorical perfonification; of which the writer feeins particularly fond.

Prophecy, a Poem. By the Rev. Samuel Hayes, M. A. 4to. Is. DodЛley.

A prize poem, which obtained the author Mr. Seaton's reward; a prefumption of its being the beft that might be offered, tho' no proof that the best might not be but indifferent.

A poetical Epifile to Sir Joshua Reynolds, Kt. and Prefident of the Royal Academy. 4to. Is. 6d. Fielding and Walker. If Sir Joshua Reynolds were no better a painter than this prefuming connoiffeur is a poet, he might ftand in need of the inftructions here given him; of which, as it is, we prefume, he is too prudent to take any notice,

Ranelagh

Ranelagh: A Poem. 4to. IS. Almon.

A piece of perfonal fatire, rather dictated by the spleen than infpired by the Mufe.

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Poetical Reveries. By Jacob Mountain, A. M. 4to. Is. 6d. DodЛley.

Merit, accompanied with modefty, diftinguishes these little poems.

Pro-Pinchbeck's Anfwer to the Ode, from the Author of the Heroic Epifle to Sir W. Chambers., 4to. 6d. Ridley.

A whimfical reply to as whimsical an Ode, probably by the very whimsical author himself.

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A Letter to a Young Nobleman on his late Nuptials. 4to. is. Bew.

It is a pity the public liberty of the prefs fhould be proftituted, as it is in this pamphlet, to the purpose of disturbing private peace. We really think if fome legal expedient were adopted to prevent anonymous publication, where the characters of individuals are concerned, it might have a falutary effect.

The Chronicle of England, Vol. I. From the Arrival of Julius Cæfar to the End of the Saxon Heptarchy. By Jofeph Strutt. 4to. 15s. Boards. Shropshire.

This volume is divided into three parts; the firft containing the civil and military history; the fecond the ecclefiaftical; and the third the popular, or an account of the genius, arts, and manners, of the people. As a chronicler, Mr. Strutt feems to be fufficiently exact, and as an antiquarian well-inftructed and curious as a writer, however, he appears to be deficient ; poffeffing but a small portion of the literary abilities requifite for the hiftorian.

A Common-place Book for Travellers in Foreign Countries. 39. Rivington.

The rage for foreign travelling, at prefent prevailing among the English, feems to have fuggefted the idea of this publication; which may be useful to fuch as wander about Europe in fearch of what they know not how to look for; and of whom it may not be improperly asked, on their return; "What went ye out to fee?—the reed shaken by the wind!"

The Child's Conductor: defigned to impart to Children, in a plain and fimple Manner, a full Knowledge of those important Truths, which ought to take the Lead of all other Inftruction. By Lady Pennington, for the Ufe of her Grandchildren. 24to. 1s. 6d. Walter.

Lady Pennington's publication, entitled, An unfortunate Mother's Advice to her absent Daughters, which appeared fome years ago, was fo well and defervedly received by the public, that the prefent performance will probably fuffer in the comparison. It should be remembered, however, that her ladyfhip in growing old is grown more devout; and that it is excufable, if not proper, to talk in a more infantine strain to grandchildren than to grown children.

Elements of Conchology: Or, an Introduction to the Knowledge of Shells. By Emanuel Mendes Da Cofla. With Plates. 8vo, 7s. 6d. Boards. White.

Mr. Da Cofta's inerit, as a naturalift, being already known by his hiftory of foffils, his Elements of Conchology will of courfe recommend itself to the lovers of this kind of study. Objections having been made to Linnæus's manner of claffing fhells, our naturalift has devised a method peculiar to himself; on the fuperior advantages of which, we, being no fhell-fanciers, fhall not prefume to decide.

Sentimental and Practical Theology. From the French of the Che 8vo. 3s. Wilkie.

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Devout meditations in the myftical strain adapted to readers of the Romish Communion.

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The Vifion of Prophecy; or Scandal convicted. A Poetic Epifle to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. Wherein the Calummy of the Times is fatirized; and a Letter to her Grace the Duchefs of Devonshire, particularly confidered.. The Whole calculated for the Vindication of Youth, Innocence, and Beauty; and for the Dignity and Honour of the Fair Sex. By a Templar. 4to. IS. Shatwell.

To convict fcandal, and fatirize the calumny of the times, may be a laudable attempt; but, alas! we fear that calumny is fatire-proof, and fcandal not very open to conviction. At leaft this writer's talents do not feem adequate to fo arduous 'an undertaking.

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A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Cooper on the Origin of Civil Govern In Anfwer to his Sermon, preached before the University of Oxford on the Day appointed by Proclamation for à General Faft. 8vo. 1s. Álmon.

All that can be gathered from this letter, as well as from Dr. Cooper's fermon, is, that the extreme of right borders very nearly upon wrong: the divine right of kings and original government-compacts made by the people being equally vifionary and erroneous.

Dialogues in the Shades, between General Wolfe, General Montgo mery, David Hume, George Grenville, and Charles Townsend. 8vo. 2s. fewed. Kearfly.:

A whimsical groupe of characters are here affembled to can vafs the matter in difpute between Great Britain and her Colohies: Montgomery being a flout advocate for the Americans. The difputants, though in the fhades, talk, nevertheless, exactly like folks of this world, and juft to as little purpose.

The Hiflory and the Mystery of Good Friday. 8vo. 1s. Fielding

and Walker.

There is more wit and pleasantry than fenfe and piety in this production, which attempts to turn into ridicule the folemn ob fervance of high-days and holidays!

VOL. V.

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Letters on the Worship of Chrift, addressed to the Rev. George Horne, D. D. Prefident of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majefty. By Theofebes. 8vo. s. Johnson.

Dr. Horne, in a fermon, preached about two years ago, before the University of Oxford, maintained, agreeable to the orthodoxy of the Trinitarians, that Chrift is the object of religious adoration, and therefore very God. The author of thefe letters denies the divinity and rejects the worship of Chrift, as being directly contrary to the firft commandment, in conformity to the opinion of the Unitarians. The manner, in which this writer introduces his argument, may serve as a fpecimen of his logical acumen, and the little likelihood there is that Dr. Horne fhould get the better of Theofebes, or Theofebes of Dr. Horne, in difcuffing fo problematical a point.

"You are undoubtedly too good a logician, not to acknowledge, that, if different paffages of fcripture be contradictory one to the other, both cannot be true. But, it is the univerfal doctrine of fcripture, that there is only one God, one living and true God, who is from everlafting, and to everlasting. And, in perfect harmony with the audible voice of nature, it is the firft and great commandment of scripture, Thou shalt have no other Gods before me: and this implies, as we are repeatedly taught, that Thou shalt worship no other God. We learn, again, that the one only God, and fupreme uncontroulable fovereign of the univerfe, is, without any variableness or Shadow of turning. As believers in fcripture, therefore, we cannot admit that the one God was humbled or exalted, was born, fuffered death, or was raised from the dead. We cannot believe, therefore, that Jefus Chrift is the one God. Inftead, therefore, of reafoning thus, f Jefus Chrift be Jebovab, he must be the object of religious adoration; and if the object of religious adoration, he must be Jehovah; you should rather have argued, fince Fefus Chrift is not Jehovah, he cannot be the object of religious adoration; and if religious adoration, therefore, be intended by calling upon the name of the Lord," in my text, Jefus Chrift cannot be that Lord, to whom religious adoration is required to be offered."

We cannot help thinking it might be as well, for the cause of religion in general, if queftions confeffedly fo difficult, and on which fo much may with plaufibility be faid on both fides, were not made fo frequently the fubje&t of public difcuffion. It muft certainly tend to difcredit the facred text, in the opinion of the illiterate, when they fee the learned differ fo widely about its conftruction, refpecting a tenet of fuch importance as the divinity of our Saviour.

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