ing the great horfe. He has taken his lodgings at the house of Mrs. Mechlin, a commode gentlewoman, who, under pretence of felling fmuggled laces and filks from France, for the use of the quality, keeps a convenient house of rendezvous for the two fexes, and exercifes the trade of bawd and marriage-brokerThis good matron lays faft hold on Fungus, and feizing him by the handle of his pride and vanity, palms upon him a leaky veffel, who paffed for her niece, as a young lady of the first quality in Scotland, and he makes his addreffes to her in form. The business is likewife thickened by an under-plot, which turns upon widow Loveit, an old, tificky, rich dowager from the city, who, in the third week of her widowhood, applies to Mrs. Mechlin for a young, ftrong-backed husband.-The denoüement is effected by a double difcovery. The widow Loveit, in the person of the husband provided by Mrs. Mechlin, finds her own fon, who had applied to the fame procuress for a rich wife, under a feigned name; and the bride of Mr. Fungus is detected in the very nick of time by Dr. Catgut, whofe miftress she had been. Catgut coming in by accident to give the Commiffary a leffon in mufic, and feeing his old friend Dolly dreffed up for the marriage, accofts her with his ufual familiarity, in presence of the bridegroom, not knowing the scheme; and thus the whole impofture comes to light. This piece, when read in the clofet, will afford pleasure, as a fenfible and spirited fatire; but the humour of it is irresistible when heightened in the reprefentation by the furprizing talents of the author. 17. Churchil: An Elegy. 4to. Pr. 6d. Baldwin. A centaur of a compofition! A rank enthufiaft writes a flaming elegy upon Mr. Churchil, moft poetically dull, and moft piously abufive. In compofitions of this kind one would almoft take an equal bett that the firft lines end with come, tomb-fave, grave-fweet, wit-and that the author fhall then proceed through all the horn-book of rhime, and common places of poetry, without once deviating from the beaten track of panegyric, except when he endeavours to varnish the crimes, or to abuse the enemies, of the fubject he celebrates. As a fpecimen of this writer's panegyric, we fhall give the first fix lines of his elegy. • Great Churchil dead! ye weeping muses come F 4 Silent Silent there lies the tongue, that fang fo fweet, A B, tho' lodg'd within his Sovran's breaft, Poor Lord B-! 18. Bribery: A Poem. By Thomas Lumley. 4to. Pr. 1s. 6d. Flexney. Mr. Lumley feems animated with the fame laudable zeal against the vile, bafe-born Scot, which hath infpired almost all the writings of this country, whether poetry or profe, for fome years paft. Mr. Lumley boldly dashes through thick and thin, even when the verfe halts for it; and fometimes his choler tranfports him fo far, that he minds neither rhime nor reafon. He has not failed, to celebrate the Minority, like a true patriot; and we hope he will stick to his principles; for we can eafily perceive his works will never be relished by the Majority. 19. The Trial for Murder, or, the Siege of Calais befieged; infcribed to Lord and Monfieur de Belloy. 4to. Pr. 2s. 6d. Pridden. -There feems to be fome humour in this hurlo-thrumbo performance: we are of opinion, however, that the author ought to be brought to the bar, and tried for murdering the middling talents he is poffeffed of, in the unintelligible manner he does, and upon fo poor a fubject as the tranflation of the Siege of Calais, for the character of which fee our laft Review, p. 479. 20. A Dialogue in the Elyfian Fields, between Two D-k-s. Folio. Pr. 6d. Hooper. The dukes of D- and B are here reprefented as meeting in the fhades, and owning themselves the dupes of an atrocious faction, which hath brought their country to the brink of ruin, 21. Politica 21. Political Logic difplayed: or, a Key to the Thoughts on Civil Liberty, Licentiousness and Faction. 8vo. Pr. 1s. 6d. Newberry. This profeffed member of the academy of fciences in Grub. street, has here exercifed his talent for ridicule at the expence of Dr. B―n, 1—d B—e, and the Scotch nation; but to shew that he is in utrumque paratus, and understands panegyric as well as fatire, he has intermingled an elogium on the people, of England, which we are perfuaded every true born Englishman will read with peculiar fatisfaction In a word, this wonderful key, really forged in Grub-street, unlocks all the stores of politicks, wit, irony, argument, and fatire; and may be had at the Crown in Paternofter-row, for fo fmall a price as one fhilling and fix-pence, 22. A Letter to the Earl of B—, relative to the late Changes that have happened in the Adminiftration. 4to. Pr. 15. Richardson. This letter is figned A Plain Dealer; and indeed the author deals very plainly with his lordship. He accufes him of having mifled his prince; of having driven the great commoner from his majesty's councils; of having embarraffed the duke of B in his negotiation for the peace; of having betrayed the last m -y; in short, of being the most knavish, dirty, mean, perfidious creature that ever lived. It is very ftrange, that after all thofe charges, which have been so often urged and repeated in the face of day, our fn, who is generally allowed to be an honeft man, should still continue to distinguish him by marks of favour and affection. The truth muft be, our fn knows, in his own confcience, that all thofe accufations" are prompted by factious malice, and revenge. 23. A fhort, feasonable, plain Addrefs, from an boneft old Man to the good People of England, on their prefent critical Situation. 8vo. Pr. 6d. Wilkie. This is a paneygrick on the marquis of Rn, whose conduct at the head of the t-y, will, we hope, justify every thing which this good old man has faid in his praife. 34. An honeft Man's Reafons for declining to take any Part in the New Adminiftration. In a Letter to the Marquis of: 8vo. Pr. 6d. Wilkie. This honeft man is, in all probability, a discarded minifter, pr rather fome tool or dependant of a m -r, who has been 1 com compelled to refign.-The chagrin of his patron's dismission, feems to have had an unfortunate effect upon his faculties; for, he argues like a perfon really difordered. He obferves that the new m- -y either comes in under the shadow of lord B-'s influence, or they act intirely independent of that odious favourite. If the first, they have ftocped to the vileft condefcenfion, in diametrical oppofition to all the maxims they have profeffed these two years; if the laft, they will foon be victims of lord B-e's envy and revenge.-With fubmiffion to this honest man, we should imagine if the new administration acts independent of the favourite, and those who are difcarded join the oppofition against him; if he continues to be hated, execrated, and abhorred by the whole body of the people; far from having it in his power to revenge himself on the new adn, he will not be able to fcreen himself from the vengeance of the public.-If thus abandoned and abused, both by the outs and the ins, he ftill eats his bread in fafety, he must either be hedged about by a charm of innocence, which all the rage of malice, envy, and prejudice, cannot undo; or else he must have actually dealt with the devil to confound the devices of his enemies. 25. The Gospel-Hiftory, from the Text of the Four Evangelifts. With explanatory Notes. In five Books. By Mr. Robert Wait. 8vo. Pr. 6s. Millar. The gofpel was originally delivered in a plain and familiar manner; but feveral caufes have concurred to render it, by degrees, more difficult to be understood. It was written by four evangelifts, and thefe writers did not always obferve the fame chronological order; new languages, with different idioms. and forms of addrefs, are introduced; and the cuftoms and manners of men are entirely changed. Our author has therefore attempted to accommodate the language of the gospelhistory to the taste of modern readers, and to exhibit the life and doctrine of Jefus Chrift in one diftin&t and uninterrupted view. In the execution of this defign, he has given the text a free translation, and disposed the contents of the four gospels in a regular feries. 'For the tranflation, he says, he has confulted Dr. Clarke, Dr. Heylin, M L'Enfant, and others for the order of the hiftory, he has had affiftance from L'Abbé de St. Real, Mr. Stackhouse, and Dr. Nelson.' He has fubjoined some short annotations, illuftrating difficult paffages, pointing out the fituation of places, ascertaining the chro chronology of events, and explaining the defign of our Saviour's figurative and parabolical difcourfes. He proceeds on a fuppofition that there were four paffovers during our Saviour's public miniftry, according to the common opinion, which he endeavours to fupport. The first book comprehends the time between the birth of Jefus Chrift, and the first paffover in his public miniftry; the three following contain an account of fo many different years; and the laft includes the interval between his going up to the paffover and his afcenfion into heaven. The fix days before his crucifixion are divided from each other, and the occurrences of each diftinctly related. The author has expreffed the meaning of the facred writers with great perfpicuity of ftile, has removed several difficulties and objections in the courfe of his narration, and given a hiftory of the gospel from which the reader may form a clearer idea of the life and doctrine of Jefus Chrift, than he can, perhaps, from the critical and practical annotations of many voluminous.compilers. 26. On the Female Character and Education: A Sermon, preached on Thursday the 16th of May, 1765, at the Anniversary Meeting of the Guardians of the Afylum for deferted female Orphans. By John Brown, D. D. 4to. Pr. 15. Davis. The author, on this occafion, has taken for his text thefe words of the Pfalmift-That our fons may grow up as the young plants; and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple. 6 This verse (he fays) is entirely confiftent with the deftination of the two fexes, and indeed explanatory of it. The pfalmift reprefents our fons, under the image of young plants or trees, growing up for the greater and more public ends of agriculture, commerce and defence. He elegantly figures out 'our daughters, under the idea of the polished corners of the temple; clearly implying their domeftic character, adorned by a certain fanctity of manners.'—In his discourse, the author endeavours to prove, that the female frame of perfon and mind tends chiefly to fit and qualify the fex for domeftic life only; that from this frame of perfon and mind, conducted by a fuitable education, the female virtues, prefcribed by christianity, do naturally arife; and that from a neglect of this proper education, a certain train of defects and vices come on; and form a character, in one extreme or other, either contemptible or odious. 1 This difcourfe contains an ingenious analyfis of the female mind, and many fprightly fentiments, But the application of the |