come to a pretty long poem of the Dean's, entitled directions for making a birth-day fong, 1729. This is fo fevere a satire on the royal family, that we do not wonder it was not printed in the late reign. The whole house of Hanover is most infolently abused in it; but it must be owned the piece, confidered merely as a poem, is excellent: yet after the juft character we have given of it, it would not be decent or proper for us to make extracts from fuch a virulent lampoon.

The laft-mentioned article is fucceeded by about a dozen pieces of inferior note; after which we have a poem to Mr. * Delany, on the talents fit for conversation; an extract from which will ferve to enrich our miscellany :

Talents for conversation fit,

Are humour, breeding, fenfe, and wit:
The last, as boundless as the wind,
Is well conceiv'd, though not defin'd:
For, fure, by wit is chiefly meant
Applying well what we invent.
What humour is, not all the tribe
Of logic-mongers can describe ;
Here nature only acts her part,
Unhelp'd by practice, books, or art:
For wit and humour differ quite,
That gives furprise, and this delight.
Humour is odd, grotefque, and wild,
Only by affectation spoil'd:
'Tis never by invention got,
Men have it when they know it not.
Our converfation to refine,

Humour and wit muft both combine :
From both we learn to rally well,
Wherein fometimes the French excel.
Voiture, in various lights, difplays
That irony which turns to praise :
His genius first found out the rule
For an obliging ridicule :
He flatters with peculiar air
The brave, the witty, and the fair:
And fools would fancy he intends
A fatire where he most commends.

But, as a poor pretending beau,
Because he fain would make a show,
Nor can arrive at filver lace,
Takes up

with copper in the place:
So the pert dunces of mankind,

Whene'er they would be thought refin'd,
As if the diff'rence lay abftrufe

'Twixt raillery and grofs abuse;

To fhew their parts, will fcold and rail,
Like porters o'er a pot of ale.

Afterwards Dr. Delany.

Such

Such is the clan of boist'rous Bears,
Always together by the ears;
Shrewd fellows and arch wags, a tribe
That meet for nothing but to gibe;
Who first run one another down,
And then fall foul on all the town;
Skill'd in the horse-laugh and dry rub,
And call'd by excellence The Club.
I mean your Butler, Dawfon, Car,
All special friends, and always jar.

The mettled and the vicious fteed
Differ as little in their breed;
Nay, Voiture is as like Tom Lee
As rudeness is to repartee.

If what you faid, I wish unfpoke,
'Twill not fuffice, it was a joke:
Reproach not, though in jeft, a friend
For those defects he cannot mend;
His lineage, calling, fhape, or fense,
If nam'd with fcorn, gives juft offence.

What use in life to make men fret,
Part in worfe humour than they met ?
Thus all fociety is loft,

Men laugh at one another's coft;
And half the company is teaz'd,
That came together to be pleas'd:
For, all buffoons have most in view
To please themselves by vexing you.

You wonder now to fee me write
So gravely on a fubject light;
Some part of what I here defign
Regards a friend of yours and mine;
Who, neither void of fenfe nor wit,
Yet feldom judges what is fit,
But fallies oft beyond his bounds,
And takes unmeasurable rounds.

When jests are carried on too far,
And the loud laugh begins the war,
You keep your countenance for fhame,
Yet ftill you think your friend to blame.
For, though men cry they love a jeft,
"Tis but when others ftand the test:

And, would you have their meaning known!
They love a jeft that is their own.

About half a dozen other pieces, of various merit, follow next; turning over which, we come to DAPHNE ; a fatire on some female character: a character which (begging pardon of the lovely

Sex) may be pretty generally applied; for which reafon we shall lay it before our Readers:

DAPHNE knows, with equal eafe,
How to vex and how to please;
But, the folly of her fex
Makes her fole delight to vex.
Never woman more devis'd
Surer ways to be despis'd:
Paradoxes weakly wielding,
Always conquer'd, never yielding.
To difpute, her chief delight,
With not one opinion right:
Thick her arguments fhe lays on,
And with cavils combats reafon :
Answers in decifive way,

Never hears what you can fay:
Still her odd perverfenefs fhows
Chiefly where the nothing knows.
And where fhe is most familiar,
Always peevisher and fillier :
All her fpirits in a flame

When fhe knows fhe's moft to blame.

Send me hence ten thousand miles,

From a face that always fmiles:
None could ever act that part,
But a Fury in her heart.

Ye who hate fuch inconfiftence,
To be eafy keep your distance;
Or in folly ftill befriend her,
But have no concern to mend her.
Lofe not time to contradict her,
Nor endeavour to convict her.
Never take it in your thought,
That she'll own, or cure a fault.

Into contradiction warm her,

Then, perhaps, you may reform her:
Only take this rule along,

Always to advife her wrong;

And reprove her when she's right;

She may then grow wife for fpight.

Nothat fcheme will ne'er fuccced,,

She has better learnt her creed:

She's too cunning, and too fkilful,
When to yield, and when be wilful.

Nature holds her forth two mirrors,

One for truth, and one for errors:

That looks hideous, fierce, and frightful;
This is flatt'ring, and delightful:
That she throws away as foul;

Sits by this, to drefs her foul.

Thus

Thus you have the cafe in view,
Daphne, 'twixt the Dean and you;
Heav'n forbid he should defpife thee;
But will never more advise thee.

From Daphne, we turn to the remainder of the poetical pieces, confifting of about thirty articles; fome of which are printed as Dr. Delany's; others as Dr. Sheridan's; but most of them are given us as the Dean's; and that they are the genuine productions of his pen, there is no room to doubt.

The remainder of the volume confifts of small pieces in profe; fome of which are quibbling letters, and fcraps of conundrum wit, the reproach of Swift's memory, and the difgrace of this otherwise valuable collection of the remains of that great, that univerfally admired genius, whose name will reflect immortal honour on his country.

G.

MONTHLY CATALOGUE, For OCTOBER, 1765.

RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL.

Art. 10. The Grace of God in Chrift to all Men fcripturally vindicated: In a free and fober Examination of Mr. Michael Bligh's Difcourfe on Deuteronomy xxxii. 9. delivered at Sevenoaks, in Kent, O. 14, 1764. By Thomas Harrifon. 8vo. I S. Gardner.

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N this examination of Mr. Bligh's Sermon, Mr. Harrison undertakes to give a more plain and full view of the fentiments of many of the baptist churches, than, perhaps, is elfewhere to be met with; and which may tend to the fatisfaction of ferious enquirers into the points difcuffed. He affures us, that it was not the love of controverfy, or a conceit of his own ability, which engaged him in this difpute; but, adds he, the difcourfe referred to being delivered in the neighbour hood of thofe I ferve in the gofpel; and Divine Providence, by vifiting me with bodily incapacity for other fervice and employment, which might have taken up my time, having given me leifure and opportunity; and at the fame time graciously continued the ufe of the faculties of my mind, I have been moved to the following publication with thefe views: to give a check to what I count erroneous, left, no notice being taken thereof, error might seem to triumph over truth and to establish my own people, and others alfo of the fame fentiments, with whom I have fome connection, to whofe hands that discourse may have come.'--We fhall only add, that our Author does really difcufs the points that fall under his examination, with Sobriety and decency of manner; but his tract will appear extremely verbofe and tedious to those readers who do not love to defcend into the profundity of fuch controverfies. He appears indeed, himself,

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to be fully fenfible of his prolixity; and he apologizes for it, from his regard to common capacities, who, he rightly judges, will always be the majority. Men in common, he fays, do not fo eafily take in the fenfe and force of an argument contained in few words; they mut, as Calvin fomewhere fays, have their ears beat with the doctrine!'

Art. 11. A Letter to Mr. Phillips, containing fome Obfervations on his Hifiory of the Life of Reginald Pele. By Richard Tillard, M. A. 8vo. 1s. Horsfield.

Mr. Tillard has here given the public a number of very judicious criticisms, on various palages in Mr. Phillips's Life of Cardinal Pole; and fully refuted many of that writer's arguments and reprefentations in favour of popery.

Art. 12. The Doctrine of Predeflination unto Life explained and 'vindicated. In four Sermons, preached at Boflon in New England. By William Cooper. 12mo. Is. 6d. Dilly.

Although the doctrine of predestination has never yet been explained and vindicated to our fatisfaction, yet this doctrine has its advocates; and to thofe who are difpofed to lend a favourable ear to whatever can be advanced in its defence, Mr. Cooper's difcourfes will, perhaps, appear to be maferly performances.

POLITICA L.

Art. 13. The Political Apolazy; or, Candid Reafons for not taking Part with the prefent Public System. In a Letter from a MAN who never had a Place, to a Right Hon. GENTLEMAN who has lately accepted of an High Office. 8vo. Is. Wilkie.

Thefe candid reafons are near akin to thofe given by the Honeft Man (fee Rev. for July, p. 76.) for declining to take any part in the new administration; and there is fuch a fimilitude in the temper in which the Authors argue, fuch a conformity in the principles on which they ground their feceffion, and fuch a famenefs in the style of both thefe tracts, that we are not a little inclined to conclude them both to be the production of the fame pen. Be this, however, as it may, the fubftance of the two pieces being fo very fimilar, and we having given fo large an abstract of the first of them, it seems unneceffary for us to enter particularly into the contents of the prefent performance. Art. 14. A Vindication of the Whigs, against the Clamours of a Tory Mob; with an Addrefs to the City. 8vo. IS. Moran. What this ranting Writer calls a Vindication of the Whigs, is nothing but a wild, Hurlothrumbo invective against all who in any meafure concur in oppofition to, or exprefs any diflike of the prefent administration. His addrefs to the city contains the groffeft abuse of the Londoners, on account of their late addrefs to the throne. Part of what he fays, in his raving against the citizens, may ferve as a fpecimen of