tant to communicate to him; after which fhe leaves them, together. Julia afks Clitander, if it is true that he really loves Orphifa? He answers, that nothing is more certain, that he admires in her all thofe virtues fo capable of pleafing fo that, replies Julia, had I been poffeft of those fame virtues, I might have flattered myself with engaging you.' You need not, fays Clitander, doubt of it; fince there is nothing wanting but such sentiments and folidity to make you perfectly adorable.' At this she cannot fuppress her vexation and despair; and says things fo affecting, that Clitander cries out,' Why this is fentiment! this is the difpofition in which I wished to fee you. He then throws himself at her feet, and protefts the fincereft love. Orphifa now appears again, embraces Julia with joy; owns to her, that all that had paffed had been concerted with Clitander to bring her back into the road of efteem, and to unite her to a man that would make her happy. Julia is charmed with this turn, and Rofetta, who comes in to acquaint her that the marquifs, the prefident's lady, and a great band of company, were waiting for her, perceives her fatisfaction. Julia goes to receive them, for the last time, and to break off all connexions with a fet of acquaintance which the now despises. ART. XI. A Voyage to Ægypt and Nubia, by Mr. Frederic Louis Norden, late Captain in the Danish navy. THIS HIS work, which has been tranflated from the Danish to the French language, is published by the royal fociety of sciences at Copenhagen, in two large volumes in folio, illuftrated with a great variety of copper plates. The author produces fome very plaufible reafons for fuppofing that Alexandria was built from the ruins of Memphis, and the ftones conveyed through the calisch, or canal of Cleopatra. He gives fome very neceffary cautions, and inftructions for those who may have occafion to travel among such brutal people; exhorting them, in particular, to beware of expreffing too much curiosity, of ftriking a Muffelman, or of engaging in an amour with a lady of the country. He defcribes the cutting of the canal of Califch, at the overflowing of the Nile, as a very paultry ceremony. He gives an account of the money, weights, meafures, and commerce of Cairo, as well as of the well and granaries of Joseph, and the famous Mokkins, where they measure the increase of the Nile upon a pillar. Then we find a fhort, concise description of the Arabs, who inhabit lower Egypt, those that are settled in villages, and those that wander about; thofe that pay tribute to the Turks, and those that are independent. In the fourth part he treats of the pyramids of Memphis, and obferves, that in all probability they were more antient than the use of hieroglyphics, as no figures of that kind appear on any part of them. This divifion is concluded with remarks upon the pyramidography of Greaves, communicated to Mr. Folkes, late president of the Royal Society; and the volume concludes with fome obfervations on the obelisks. The second volume begins with a circumftantial journal of the author's voyage on the river Nile from Cairo to Derrie in upper Egypt, traced upon a chart of the river made from obfervations. In his paffage he defcribes more accurately the pyramids of Sakarra, which he supposes are more antient than thofe of Memphis; and ascertains the superb ruins of antient Thebes at Carnae and Luxxor, comprehending temples, colonades, obelifks, coloffal ftatues, and the palace of Memnon-He paffed the first cataract of the Nile, and visited the ifland Giefiret ell Heift, or qan of the antients, where he found the magnificent remains of the temple of Isis, which no modern traveller, before Mr. Norden, has had an opportunity to defcribe. The journal is entertaining, and writ with candour and perfpicuity; the paper is excellent, and the work elegantly printed; but the most valuable part of the performance confifts in the plates, of which there are above a hundred and fifty in the two volumes, exhibiting every thing curious and remarkable, that occurred to the author in the course of his voyage, from beautiful drawings made with his own hand on the spot, engraved by his particular friend the celebrated Marc Tufcher of Nuremberg, who has likewife adorned the book book with a print of the author, and fome curious head and tail pieces. There are some few errors of the prefs, as well as uncouth idioms in the language, which have escaped the corrector and tranflator; but on the whole we recommend it as a work of equal taste and labour, and the best description now extant of the courfe of the Nile, and the monuments of antiquity in upper Ægypt. Monthly CATALOGUE. Art. 12. A Pathetic Addrefs to all True Britons, Pr. 6d. Scot. The author of this piece may have a very good heart, but, in turning poet, he has given us but a bad inftance of head; a fentence which our readers will be apt to confirm after perufing the fol lowing lines: Let past mistakes now warn you to be wife! Your life, your liberty, your all's at stake, Fight for your wives, and for your children's fake! • Scorn to be prefs'd, ye able feamen fly, And for admittance in our fhips apply; • With generous ardour let your bofoms burn, ART. 13. German Cruelty. This is no other than an extract from the British Hiftory, giving an account of the weakness and vicious difpofition of king Vortigern, who called in the Saxons to affift the Britons in repelling their enemies; of the ingratitude and villainy of thofe mercenaries, who expelled the people they came to protect; and of an enterprizing pretender, called Aurelius Ambrofius, to whose personal valour the Britons had recourfe in their distress. Whatever view the author may have had in writing this pamphlet, the events of that period are fuch as deserve the ferious attention of every Englishman, who wishes well to his country. A Reply to a Letter in the GENERAL EVENING POST, fubfcribed J. Parfons. A Letter addreffed to the author of the CRITICAL REVIEW, and fubfcribed 7. Parfons, having made its appearance in the General Evening Post of Tuesday September 21, it may not be improper to fay fomething, by way of reply, to that that extraordinary epiftle, which puts us in mind of those antient theatrical mafques which laughed on one fide of the face, and cried on the other-Perhaps we might have let it fleep in oblivion, had not we thought that the reputation of the learned Dr. Parfons was more affected by it, than that of any other perfon. We are affuredly grieved to fee fome ill-natured wag has fubfcribed that venerable name to fuch a heap of galimatias: verily he might as well have ftoln the Doctor's perriwig, and placed the fool in that difguife, in order to bring the real owner's underftanding into difcredit. In the first place, this irreverent joker fays, the authors of the CRITICAL REVIEW ought to have published the whole article, by Dr. Parfons, relating to the lycoperdon, that the world might be made acquainted with every experiment relating to it. Now we cannot imagine the modeft Dr. Parfons himself could expect that we should give his article the preference to all others: far lefs can we fuppofe that he would have us transcribe the whole volume of the Philofophical Tranfactions, in a fhilling pamphlet. Such a thing might, perhaps, be effected with the affiftance of the curious Mr. Aulay Macaulay, teacher and inventor of fhort-hand; but, that expedient would neither answer the Doctor's purpose, nor ours, and might conceal a vast fund of useful knowledge from the ordinary reader. The next ftrange doctrine which this disguised enemy of Dr. Parfons advances, is, that a man, who writes of matters of importance, ought not to trouble his head about diction: that is to fay, if your intention is to communicate knowledge, no matter whether you be, or be not, understood: for, we apprehend, that diction is the vehicle in which an author's meaning is conveyed; and if no regard is to be paid to this vehicle, it may be conveyed in Arabic as well as in English. This affertion is like that of an honeft gentleman, who affirmed he had seen an Irish manuscript that contained a thousand curious particulars, a good number of which he recounted, adding it was written in characters which no man alive understood. As this cannot be the cafe, with the writings of Dr. Parfons, so neither can we believe he would make fuch a wild declaration, as, that diction is not to be minded by a philofopher. With refpect to the lycoperdon, we never doubted its vegetation, though we called it an excrefcence-we need not look into Linneus for a defcription of the common puff-bulls, which are produced under the fhade of every old tree; neither could our words imply that we supposed it was a substance pulverized for the purpose. If the powder of this puff had not affected the eye-fight of the letter writer, he would have feen the contrary: unless this remark, like the other parts of the letter, was calculated for depreciating the intellects of the learned Dr. Par fons. fons. That eminent philofopher would have known the lycoperdon is oftener termed an excrefcence than a plant: nor would he have called the powder, a collection of feeds, upon hearsay. What would the world fay of a professed naturalift, if he was found fo ignorant of the conftituent parts of a common puff-ball? would not they say that all human wisdom was vanity, and that to philofophize, was no better than weędw, anglicè to puff. But in nothing has this fictitious counterfeit abused the honourable name he affumes, more than in his criticism upon the words nothing more and nothing less. "If" (fays he) "I had "faid that agates were nothing more than criftals debafed, it "would have been a rank folecifm." Suppofe a vapourish lady, feeing Dr. Parfons approach, fhould cry, "O Lord! "who fent for that undertaker?" and the nurse should reply, "Undertaker! madam, I fee nothing more than the Doctor;" would any perfon tax the nurse with having been guilty of a folecism and yet every man must allow that Dr. Parfons is fuperior to any undertaker in her clafs. No, that learned gentleman would never have persisted in such an error. He would have found upon recollection, that nothing more than, is an idiom copied from the Latin, nihil amplius quam, fignifying nothing but, or nothing else; for example, nihil amplius quam continere fe ftatuit. On the other hand, he would have owned, after due deliberation, that nothing could be more improper than this phrafe," Flints "and agates are nothing less than criftals debafed by earth;" unless his meaning was that they were as little the fubftance of criftals debased by earth, as any other fubftance whatsoever -if any perfon fhould fay that Dr. Parfons was nothing less than a philofopher, would not the hearer naturally conclude he was no philofopher? Indeed, if the phrafe was carried to no lefs than a philofopher, it would bear a contrary interpretation; because no is used for the fimple negative particle not, as not lefs; whereas nothing, in this phrafe, implies a fort of comparifon, as no-thing lefs; or no creature lefs; it has the fame accep tation in Latin, nihil minus quam philofophus; in Greek, as, dev lov, in Italian, as niente meno, in Spanish, as nada menos, and in French, as. Rien moins, rien moins que philofophe; rien moins que politique; any thing but a philofopher, a moft wretched politician. I do not doubt but the fame idiom prevails in the Irish tongue; though the phrafeology of that language is faid in many inftances to be quite different from the peculiarities of the other European tongues; but, for this, as well as the rest of our doubts, we will appeal to the Doctor's own extenfive knowledge. The last reafon we thall produce for believing Dr. Parfons could not be the author of the letter in the General Evening Post, |