fcriptoribus, defumens; & quo unaquæque gens tempore, cujufve opera, chriftianam fidem amplexa fit, enarrans. Totum opus in fex tomos in 4. magno, ut vocant, Reale, di-, viditur: cui titulus: kalendaria ecclefiæ univerfæ, in quibus, tum ex vetuftis marmoribus, tum ex codicibus, tabulis, parietinis, pictis, fcriptis, fcalptifve, sanctorum nomina, imagines, & fefti perannum dies ecclefiarum orientis, & occidentis, præmiffis uniufcujufque ecclefia originibus, recenfentur, defcribuntur, notifque illustrantur, ftudio & opera Jofephi Simonii Affemani, bibliotheca Va-. ticana præfecti, & facrofaneta Bafilice principis apoftolorum de urbe canonici. In priore Tomi primi parte, occafio hujus operis, & idea defcribitur: nec non elucidantur ephemerides Vaticana, Capponiana, Poffeviniana, Papebrochianæ, Culciniana, & Falconiana. Differitur quoque de Athoniticis, aliifve. Græcorum pervetuftis imaginibus de chriftianorum picturis: de diptychis & faftis effigiatis & non effigiatis. In altera vero ejufdem Tomi primi parte, & in fequentibus Tomis fecundo, tertio, & quarto, traditur origo Scytharum, Sarmatarum, Slavorum, Rufforum, Mofchorum. Oftenditur, Slavos in Scythia quidem & Sarmatia indigenas effe; ad venas vero in Germania, Polonia, Bohemia, Pannonia, Dalmatia, Illyrico: tempus eoram in hafce regiones adventus, & occafio defignatur: & quando primum ad Chrifti fidem fint converfi, & quorum apoftolorum opera, & qui fuerint primi eorum Antiftites, & duces, five reges. Interferuntur animadverfiones in recentiores quofdam rerum Dalmaticarum, Polonicarum, Bohemicarum, & Hungaricarum fcriptores, fabulofa nonnulla de Slavis & Hunnis congerentes. Demonftratur, alios effe Slavos a Gothis, Vandalis, Langobardis, Alemannis, Suedis, Danis, Hunnis, Abaribus, Hungaris. Res eorum geftæ à prima orgine ufque ad annum Chrifti fere 1100, ex authenticis documentis defcribuntnr. Slavicæ demum linguæ in divinis celebrandis ufus afferitur, tam apud Dalmatas & Illyrios Latini ritus homines; quam apud Ruffos, Mofchos, Bulgaros, aliofque Græcarum cerimoniarum cultores. Sacrarum præterea fcripturarum in Slavicum fermonem verfio auctori genuino tribuitur: & catalogus ecclefiafticorum librorum Slavice confcriptorum recenfetur. VOL. II. G Denique Denique Tomo quinto & fexto, Ephemerides Græco-Mofchæ feu Slavicæ, juxta Græcorum kalendarium, à mense Septembri ufque ad finem Augufti, per anni circulum, defcribuntur, & perpetuis obfervationibus illuftrantur; præmittendo tribus quibufque menfibus incifas in ære fanctorum uniuscujufque menfis ac diei imagines, ex autographis tabulis Capponianis delineatis; additis notis ad ea quæ de iifdem fanctis Poffevinus, Papebrochius, Culcinius, Falconius, aliique funt com mentati. Opus, ut arbitror, omnibus ecclefiafticæ eruditionis ftudiofis perutile; fub aufpiciis SSmi Dni noftri Benedicti XIV. Pont. Max. literarum patroni munificentiffimi, ab auctore fufceptum. Conftat unufquifque Tomus nummis argenteis Romanis duobus; vel Florenis Germanicis quatuor; vel Libellis Gallicis decem. Valete. ROME, M.DCC.LVI. Monthly CATALOGUE. Art. 12. A Letter from a Citizen of Port-Royal in Jamaica, to a Citizen of New-York. Relating to fome extraordinary Meafures, lately fet on foot in that Island. Pr. 6d. Scott. ΤΗ HE writer of this letter pretends to arraign the conduct of a certain governor of Jamaica, who having in vain tried by menaces and corruption to bring the members of the affembly into his interested views, prorogued their meeting in a manner as unprecedented as it was fudden; whereby he prevented them from laying the ftate of their affairs before the King. He then proceeds to inform us, that a new Speaker was put upon them almoft without their knowing it; while the old one, after having infinuated himself into the full confidence of the people, betrayed them, and was paid for his perfidy with an annuity, valued in grofs, at £60,000! a modeft pluck out of the public funds! not to reward public merit; but to fanctify public demerit. A little attention to this pamphlet fhews us, that this is not the ftate of affairs in Jamaica, but in I-rl-d; and the fhare which is given, in many ill-conducted tranfactions, to a certain Secretary, and to a principal Clergyman-a Pope--the remarkable affociate of a very powerful family, fets the matter beyond doubt. The letterwriter has not preferved the character which he affumes with proper uniformity; for he speaks of the power of Sheriffs, and the danger that may acrue from electing fuch as are either partial or arbitrary; whereas the name of a Sheriff is unknown in Jamaica; there the 5 Provost Provost-marshal has the direction of fuch bufinefs, as is, among us, done by the Sheriffs; and he enjoys his place for life. There is al so another overfight, or at least an instance of our author's forgetting his character, in the following paragraph, with which we shall prefent the reader, as a specimen of his abilities. Why these doings in an island, alike remarkable for loyalty and tranquillity, ever ready to devote their perfons and estates to the fervice of their Prince? one fingle county in the northern part ⚫ of this ifland, during the time of the late rebellion in Scotland, ⚫ offered to raise 20,000 men, the gentlemen to enlist as private fol'diers, for encouragement of their tenants, and to ferve his Majesty, until the rebellion fhould be fupprefied. Was not this a cordial proof of the ftrongest attachment? will you (for this is addreffed to any British fubject), will you do fuch a people the dishonour, to put the private intereft of a few mercenary men in the fcale against them? will you do fuch a people the injustice, to give them a moment of general difquietude, for the private gratification of any afpiring individuals ? 6 < Art. 13. The Parallel, or the Conduct and Fate of Great-Britain in regard to our prefent Contest with France: exemplified from the Hiftories of Macedon and Athens. 8vo. Pr. I S. Scott. The Parallel feems to be the performance of a person who is well acquainted with hiftory, as well antient as modern; and who has not prefumed to draw characters, form comparifons, or make inferences, without proper and judicious digeftion. He handles his fubject in a plain and convincing manner, aiming rather at perfpicuity, than charms of eloquence. His intention is to prove, that our commencing hoftilities, without declaring war, is not without precedent; and this he does in his 22d and 23d pages. His character of Chares, in the 29th page, ftrongly points out a late unfortunate general, whofe name ought to be buried in oblivion -And Holland feems to be the original from which he drew the picture he has given us of Baotia. To extract it will, we are certain, not be thought amifs by any of our readers. A nation of fo heavy a genius, by reafon of the groffness and ⚫ humidity of the air, as to become a proverbial expreffion; their ⚫ fituation lay convenient for trade; but low, damp, and liable to inundations of the fea. They were a people juft in their private, ⚫ but infincere with regard to public dealings; their parts were folid, adapted to their government; friends to liberty, but neither fpecious nor penetrating: they had produced one commander, who had preferved their freedom; but after his death they were 'reduced to ask affiitance from Athens, by whofe aid this nation again flourished and preferved her dignity: a fervice which the repaid with the highest ingratitude; for on every occafion fhe deceived her Allies, and made it plainly apparent, that if Athens was not betrayed, the might impute it rather to imbecility or cowardice, than to the good-will of the Baotians.” G 2 This This pamphlet juftly concludes with admonishing us, not to neglect the defenfive, while we act the offenfive part against our enemies ; not without obferving, that the best endeavours of virtue will be vainly exerted to fave us from ruin, fhould indolence, luxury, and corruption become the fole ends of the adminiftration. Art. 14. Love and Duty. A Tragedy. By Mr. John Slade. 8vo. Pr. Is. 6d. Griffiths. Mr. Slade, in his preface, difcovers to us, a very particular fecret, viz. That he wrote this piece for the itage; where he hoped to gain fome advantage by it; but in that effential circumftance he found himself miferably disappointed: nor are we furprized at this, for it is a molt miferable piece *. However, fays he, I have the modefty to acknowledge, I believe the true reason why they (the managers) refufed it, was their honeft opinion it would not fucceed. Mr. Slade is right to tell us of his modefty, otherwife we should have fet him down as influenced by the virtues that entitle the hero of the Dunciad to his throne: for what elfe could have induced him to expofe himself in public? We fhall give a fhort extract, nor fhall it be the worst, from this extraordinary production, on which we will leave the reader to comment; and after having asked Mr. Slade, What in the name of wonder could have induced him to think he could write poetry? we fhall take the liberty to tell him, that among many other qualifications, tafte, judgment, fancy, and ftile are abfolutely neceffary to a poet; and we cannot think Mr. Slade's modefty will permit him to imagine he poffeffes any of them. -Cou'd I prevail With this repugnant breaft to curfe my father, Which promifes relief?-be gone ye tics Curfe on my daftard heart! I cannot do it : And yet I ought, for he deferves to fall: How!-by thefe hands?-thall they be formn'd to shed The facred veffels of my father's blood? My recollecting foul abhors an act So curfed and inhuman :—once again I am myself, and tremble at that thought Which none but hell cou'd ever have devis'd. Art. * Love and Duty has been performed at Drury-lane to a very crouded audience, fince the writing of this article; the actors were the author and bis friends, and never quere writing and acting so well matched. Art. 15. A Satirical Review of the manifold Falfhoods and Abfur dities hitherto publish'd concerning the Earthquake. To which is annext, an authentic Account of the late Catastrophe at Lisbon, and the Prefent State of that august Capital. The whole interfperfed with Reflections of Importance to the Moral and Political Interefts of Great Britain: And a Set of new Characters drawn from the Life. By a Man of Bufinefs. 8vo. Pr. I s. 6d. Corbett. The Man of Bufinefs who fcrawled this Satirical Review, is mighty angry at fome articles of intelligence, published in the Daily Papers, which he imagines were thrown out with a view to infult the diftreffes of the Portuguese: he has collected all the paragraphs relating to the earthquake, taken them to pieces with great martnefs, and while he takes pains to affure us that the writers of them are Jers, and enemies to our allies, the most worthy Portuguese, and to their respectable Monarch, who truly dejerves, and really poffeffes OUR affections and efteem; he points out their ignorance, and errors, in language in a manner very little better than that which he condemns. This ingenious commentator affures us, that the private houses, and the common fireets wore one fettled face of fadness, when the news of the calamities of Lisbon arrived in this metropolis; and the ladies toilette, and the poor woman's barrow were equally dejected; yet warmed with lefs fenfibility than these inanimates, are thofe ferawling caitiffs the news writers, whofe productions are fo very important, that they feem to be levelled at the deftruction of the friendly alliance fubfifting between us and his Moft Faithful Majefty, For what confidence, fays our author, can our friendship cherish or maintain in the Portuguele? or what friendly fentiments can they retain for us; if our beneficence to them in time of afAistion affume the appearance of infult, by coming to them embitter'd with loads of coarfe abuse? and what other light can the 'fuccours, we fend them, appear in; if we continue tamely to fuffer, as we have done, that thofe fuccours be accompanied with infolent, venomous invectives of fnarling Jews and other foreign rabble, from a British prefs, and under the ftolen cover of an English drefs and English characters ?" As this pamphleteer often ufes the word bunting, we shall only affure the reader, that by adopting this vulgarifin, and giving it as an epithet to this performance, we are very far from doing it injuftice. Art. 16. A Satirical Review, &c. Part IId. 8vo. Pr. 1s. Corbett. This fecond part is conducted in the fame ftrain with the former; it contains a defence of the inquifition; which, upon the whole, will appear not unjust to impartial eyes: and abounds with fome arguments to prove, that if the earthquake at Lifson was a vifitation upon that city for its crimes, London ought allo to tremble, |