On the reverfe is a lady, with a child on her left-arm, leaning on à pillar, as the emblem of conftancy, and with "her right-hand pointing to a globe, on which is seen England, Scotland, and Ireland. The legend, "Providentia obftetrix." • Underneath are these words: "Carolo Princ. Valliæ "Nat. die ultimâ "A. MDCCXX. He generally appears abroad with three coaches; and his ⚫ houfhold confifts of about forty perfons. He lately affumed fome authority at the opera, by calling encore, when a fong that pleased him and fome others was performed: it was not, however, till after a confiderable paufe that his order was ⚫ complied with. This is the only time that ever he has been known to affect the leaft power; and this inftance of compliance is no more than what the claps of half a dozen of the ⚫ spectators will at any time procure. At his coming into an affembly, no English proteftant rifes up; and even the Roman catholics pay him their compliments in a very fuperficial * manner. It is certain that his pufillanimity and the licen'tiousness of his amours have leffened him in every body's • efteem. His lady is too pale and thin to be reckoned a handfome 'woman; her frequent mifcarriages have brought her very low; fo that fhe feldoms ftirs abroad, unless it be to vifit a convent out of devotion. She allows her fervants no gold nor filver lace on their liveries, and this proceeds from what is called her piety. But it may be prefumed this is owing 'partly to her ill ftate of health, and partly to the jealousy,' • inconftancy, and other ill qualities of her husband; and one of these provocations affected her fo much, that fhe ⚫ withdrew for fome time into a convent, whilst the pretender, in order to be more at liberty to pursue his amours, went away to Bologna; but the pope difapproved of thefe separate houfholds, and, in order to induce him to return to Rome, and be reconciled to his lady, difcontinued his penfion. This however is but an outward reconciliation, as he ftill con'tinues L B b 2 tinues to pursue thofe vices which occafioned the difference? and he knows him too well even to entertain a cordial af'fection for him again. Mr. S-, who pretends to be an anti quarian, and bears the title of a Polish counsellor of state, narrowly watches the steps of the pretender and his adherents, ⚫ and holds a correspondence with the British ministry. Whilft the pretender refided at Bologna, Mr. S had little news to fend; and being himself no longer neceflary, his remit'tances were likely to be withdrawn, till the pretender's return gave him an opportunity of continuing his fervices., 6 . Intereft and neceffity were the motives which brought the pretender back to Rome; this gave rife to an observation, that no ftricter friendship could be imagined than that betwixt, the pretender and Mr. S, the one not being able to live without the other. The king of Great Britain, though at fuch a distance, is not a little dreaded at Rome, on ac-, 'count of his long arms, as the Italians call the powerful fleets which he can fend into the Mediteranean. Mr. Sis, • a man of a good prefence, and has made himfelf confiderable, by affecting to be thought an atheist, and capable of any. ⚫ attempt whatever. Some years fince, his chariot happened, in the night to run against that of a lady with a numerous retinue, one of whom leaped down and gave S's coach'man feveral blows with his cane; but S--- in the mean time called to his fervant not to ftrike again. The next, day he went to Falconieri, governor of Rome, to demand fatisfaction, or elfe he threatened to find out the offender, ⚫ and take his own revenge. The governor made feveral propofals for mitigating or dropping the affair, but to no pur-, 'pose. Mr. Sinfifted upon the offender's being publickly whipped; upon which Falconieri, with fome warmth, afked him, why he had not run the fellow thro' the body without more ado; that all the lofs would then have been of a worthlefs fcoundrel, which would have faved him a great deal of fatigue and vexation. It coft the pope three hundred feudi ❝ or crowns, before the offender could be found out, who was fent to the gallies for five years, which is the punishment for alfaulting a foreign minifter's fervant.' [To be continued. ] ART. XII. On ARTS and SCIENCES. Structura humana demonftratio. Omnes corporis partes ad naturæ magnitudinem demediatam. Hoc opus e fex conftat tabulis, ab Iconibus (poft dissectiones Confulto factas) a magiftro Van Riemsdyk depictis, &c. Cura ac ftudio Caroli Nicolai Jenty, rei anatomicæ ac chirurgica profefforis.. S we have been called upon by Mr. Jenty and his friends to give fome account of this work, we fhall communicate our fentiments of the plates in the most candid manner, without animadverting upon the ftile of the fyllabus or defcription, which might afford some entertainment to the public. The author gives us to understand that his tables or plates are difpofed in fuch a manner as to reprefent the structure of the whole human body, as appearing in the diffection of the natural fubject; together with the capital arteries and veins, as injected. He tells us, that these figures convey a clearer idea of the animal economy, than any hitherto publifhed; and that he has avoided the fault of Albinus, who has puzzled the ftudent with a fuperfluous multitude of references. In Mr. Fenty's third table, which is coloured, the colours and lines do not coincide, and hence arifes a confufion very obfervable in the hands of the firft figure; but we must açknowledge that Mr. Fenty, in a letter to the authors of the Critical Review, makes an apology for this defect, by owning he was milled by a person who undertook to print the table in colours, and failed in the execution. We cannot however agree with this gentleman's opinion, when he fays, that mezzotinto seemed the most proper way of exhibiting his subject. Perhaps mezzotinto may foften the appearance of the whole into a more pleafing picture; but it certainly cannot give the fame ftrength, precision and effect, which may be derived from the lines of engraving. Indeed the parts are fo indiftinctly reprefented, as to be in fome places altogether unintelligible. For example, in the third figure of the third plate, exhibiting the contents of the left fide of the thorax, we have no diftinct idea of the heart, pericardium, and great veffels. There is a ftrange confufion in Bb 3 the the parts about the larynx, in figure 2. in those about the eye, in figure 4. and in the first of the first figure, in table IV, the bones, ligaments, and muscles, are all represented by the fame fort of parallel lines. Then with respect to inaccuracies: in fig. 1. tab. I. the temporal artery, and that of the face, are larger than their respective veins. The pyramidalis mufcle, he reprefents as inferted at its outward edge, in the rectus abdominis; (which by the bye, he calls the inteftinum rectum) and the longest fibres next the linea alba, whereas it is really inferted at its inner edge into the linea alba. The trunks of the veins in the bend of the left arm, are exhibited as coming from the fore-part of the hand; yet in nature they come from the back-part of the hand. In fig. 1. of tab. IV. the short head of the byceps extenfor cubiti, is reprefented as arifing from the very head of the humerus, tho' in fact, it takes its origin much lower down in the bone.— In both hands the extenfor digitorum he inferts entirely at the middle joint of the finger, whereas only part of the tendon is there inferted, and the two lateral parts extend to the last bone. In plate III. fig. 3. the lungs are faid to be shewn in a state of inflation, in which case they are really fimooth and equal; whereas here they are reprefented more tuberous and uneven than they appear in their most flaccid ftate. The final lobe of the liver is likewife ftrangely roughened, and the inteftines refemble a bunch of grapes.-In the fecond figure of this plate, the pectoral mufcle is reprefented with vorticofe fibres; and the granulated mufculary glands are altogether imaginary. In tab. IV. fig. 4. the thin expanded mufcles of the pharynx, arc reprefented as large, thick, mufcular masses.—I he œfophagus refembles a fmooth ivory glyfter pipe; and his reprefentation of the open kidney, is, we apprehend, taken, not from nature, but from the author's imagination. Upon the whole, the defign is laudable, and Mr. Jenty commendable for the pains he has taken; but, we are forry to fay the execution is not fo accurate as we could wifh; nor do we think he has a happy manner of communicating his knowledge. We cenfure the more freely on this occafion, as Mr. Jenty, in his proposals, hath given his own work the preference to every thing hitherto published on the fame fubject, ART, ART. XIII. Foreign DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT. THE lic a long time; and confequently brought as great an audience as if it had been a new tragedy of Voltaire's. But alas, the critics were disappointed in their expectations. The whole piece appeared extremely flat; the humour of it contemptible, and not in the leaft proper for the eye and ear of modefty. Yet it was better received the fecond night than the firft; with the help of fome licentious epigrams, fome common-place praifes of monarchy, and a few indifferent but lively fongs, it went off pretty well, although it is allowed to have neither plot, character, nor intrigue. The whole of it turns upon a hair-cutter's making love to a young woman, who prefers a foldier to him, with whom fhe plots to remove poor Monf. Toupee by having him enlifted; and the fucceeds in her designs. The author of this piece has genius and capacity; what pity 'tis he fhould proftitute them thus. Monthly CATALOGUE. Art. 14. A Letter to the Right Honourable WILLIAM PITT, Efq; being an impartial vindication of the Conduct of the Minifry, from the commencement of the prefent war to this time.— In answer to the afperfions caft upon them by admiral Byng and his advocates. 8vo. Pr. 1s. Hodges. TH HIS is one of thofe motly performances which a reader does not well know whether to interpret into jeft or earnest. From the contents of the first pages, one would imagine, it was intended as an ironical fatire against the late miniftry; but, in the progress of the performance, we find a fober and earnest attempt to justify the administration, and recriminate upon admiral Byng. We cannot help thinking, however, that the author has failed egregioully in his undertaking; and the public will probably be of our opinion when they have perufed the following paragraphs. In answer to Byng's complaint that the French fquadron was fuperior in weight of metal and number of men to the English, he obferves, it was for the honour of Great Britain that a larger fleet was not fent into the Mediterranean; for what honour can be obtained by engaging an enemy inferior in ftrength Is this the language of a Don Quixote, or of a found politician?-To the admiral's affirming he used his utmoit endeavours to deftroy the French fleet, this pamphleteer replies Credat Judæus apella! This, to be fure, is a fummary way of deciding the difpute; but, his anfwer to the following article, is exemely curious. Suppofing Mr. Fyng had driven Galifoniere from Bb 4 before |