fpecting Landlords and Tenants, and the Laws refpecting Masters and Servants. 8vo. pp. 110. 25. Clarke. 1795.

This treatife is intended to compofe the fecond divifion of the work announced to the public, under the title of Law Selections.-The treatifes noticed in articles 25 and 26 are other parts of the fame plan. We are of opinion that the prefent fubject is of too important and comprehensive a nature to be confined to fuch fmall limits, and that many particulars of great confequence are omitted, neceffarily indeed, from the restricted plan of the undertaking.

Art. 24. The Oeconomy of Teftaments; or, Reflections on the Mifchievous Confequences generally arifing from the ufual Difpofitions of Property by Will. Written by Mr. John Cranch, of Kingsbridge, in Devonshire; and published, with a Preface, by William Langworthy, of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. 12mo. 1s. Dilly. 1794.

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These reflections were addreffed to a private individual, for whose ufe they were written, and to the circumstances of whose case they were applicable.

Art. 25. The Laws refpe&ting Landlords, Tenants, and Lodgers, laid down in a plain and easy Manner; and in which all technical Terms of Law are familiarly explained; together with many practical Directions concerning Leafes, Affignments, Surrenders, Agreements, Covenants, Repairs, Waste, &c. Demand and Payment of Rent, Diftrefs, and Ejectment, as collected from the feveral Reports and other Books of Authority, up to the Commencement of the prefent Hilary Term 1795. With an Appendix of Precedents, &c. &c. The Second Edition, enlarged and improved. 8vo. pp. 120. 25. Clarke. 1795.

We recommended in our xvth vol. N. S. p. 201. the first edition of this work, as an ufeful compendium of an important branch of the English law. The author informs us that he has introduced into this edition all fuch Determinations relative to his Subject as have fince occurred, and has added others, which had before escaped his obfervation.-We think that the present treatise fhews diligence and attention. Art. 26. The Laws refpecting Mafters and Servants, articled Clerks, Apprentices, Journeymen, and Manufacturers. Comprising as well the Laws refpecting Combinations amongst Workmen, as all other Matters relative to Mafters and their Servants. Laid down in a plain and eafy Manner; and in which all technical Terms of Law are familiarly explained. Coilected and digefted from the feveral Reports and other Books of Authority, up to Eafter Term 1795. Together with an Appendix of Precedents, &c. &c. By the Author of the Laws refpecting Landlords and Tenants. 8vo. pp. 110. 25. Clarke. 1795.

The author confiders this fubject under the divifions of menial or domeftic fervants, apprentices, journeymen, workmen, and labourers; and this treatife (compendious as it is,) will be found useful to that clafs of readers for whofe benefit it was chiefly compiled.

Art. 27. A Report of an Action brought in his Majesty's Court of King's Bench, by William Middleton, of Stockeld Park, Efq. against

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John Rofe, his Groom, for Criminal Converfation with Clara Louifa Middleton, the Wife of Mr. Middleton. Taken in Shorthand by J. H. Blanchard. 4to. 35. 6d. Robinsons. 1795.

Thefe proceedings were had in the fheriff's court, Feb. 28, 1795. The adulterous intercourfe being fully proved, the jury brought in a verdict for the plaintiff-500l. An introductory difcourfe is given, in which we have a fhort fketch of the proceedings of the Spiritual Court in the fuit for a divorce (till pending) between Mr. Middleton and his wife.' Explanatory notes are also added.

POLITICS, &c.

Artr 28. Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between his Britannic Majetty, and the United States of America; by their Prefident, with the Advice and Confent of the Senate, Nov. 19, 1794. 8vo. IS. Debrett. 1795.

As this is an authentic copy of the treaty, and as its xiith article has occafioned, fince the treaty was figned, fome degree of diffention among the citizens of the United States, we had refolved to copy that article into our Review, for the fatisfaction of fuch of our readers as may be attentive to the fubject: but, on a fecond perufal, we find it too long for our purpose, and must therefore content purfelves with a bare reference to the pamphlet.

Art. 29. The Prompter: Political and Moral.

In Effays, Characters, and Anecdotes. 8vo. 6d. Parfons, &c. 1795. Those who expect to find much valuable matter in fix-penny-worth of ante-minifterial politics will in courfe be difappointed, and nobody can be to blame but themfelves. Here are a competent number of useful hints and fuggeftions, on common though important topics; as juries, the liberty of the prefs, the spirited manner in which magna charta was extorted from King John, flock-jobbing, &c. &c. On these and various other heads, the good people of England are here prompted to guard well their most invaluable interests.

Art. 30. Declaration of the Principles and Plan of Parliamentary Reform, recommended by the Society of the Friends of the People. 8vo. 6d. Printed for D. Stuart, Secretary; and fold by all Bookfellers. 1795:

To the great object of parliamentary reform, fo much defired, and fo much dreaded, by oppofite parties, this declaration again calls the attention of the public. It ftates with great perfpicuity, and with great candour, a plan which promifes to embrace the two leading ends of reformation, the protection of the property of the wealthy, and the fecurity of the freedom of the inferior claffes. Although the Society of the Friends of the People admit the general right of voting in elections to be common and perfonal, they acknowlege it to be necessary that the exercise of this right fhould be fubject to fome qualification; and they are willing to accede to fuch reftrictions as may not be inconfiftent with the independence of the house of commons. The heads of their plan are as follow:

1. That every householder in Great Britain, paying parish taxes, except peers, fhould have a vote in the election of one member of parliament.

2d. The election of the whole reprefentation of the kingdom fhould be made at the fame hour, and on the fame day.

3d. The fame principles and proceedings, which are propofed for England, to be followed in Scotland, and every folemnity obferved in the conduct of the elections, in both kingdoms, which can tend to make it grave, serious, and refpectable.

4th. That wages fhould be paid to members ferving in parlia ment, and not holding offices under the crown, not by the particular divifion for which they are elected, but out of the revenue of the public, for the general intereft of which the conftitution intends them to serve.

5th. Suppofing all the preceding measures to be adopted, and not other wife, we then are of opinion, that a general election for the whole kingdom might be conducted without tumult or expence, and completed in a few hours; that every fair and honest objection to fhortening the duration of parliaments would be removed, and that in future the elections might be triennial, biennial, or even annual, as they were in former times. Members of parliament, who acted faithfully, would generally be re-chofen : but it is neither fafe nor constitutional to leave any reprefentative very long out of the reach of his conftituents.'

This plan appears to promife the restoration of the popular part of the British conftitution to its juft efficiency, and confequently the correction of many public evils: but the great difficulty is, how to carry this or any fimilar plan into effect, without involving the nation in confufion; and of this difficulty the prefent declaration offers no fatisfactory folution.

Art. 31. An Addrefs to the King, moved in the House of Lords by the Earl of Lauderdale, June 5, 1795 with Notes and Authorities. 8vo. 6d. Ridgway.

Notwithstanding that the fate of this important movement in the upper house of the British parliament, in favour of a negociation for peace, is well-known, an authentic publication of the form of the propofed addrefs cannot but prove acceptable to many readers; efpecially on account of the notes, authorities, and references to the exifting state of the war, which throw lights on the facts and reprefentations brought forwards by the noble mover. That the motion was unsuccessful, is a circumstance which cannot leffen the merit of a wellintended endeavour to bring the miseries of a moft deftructive war to a fpeedy termination.

Art. 32. A Political Dictionary; explaining the true Meaning of Words; illuftrated and exemplified in the Lives, Morals, Characters, &c. of illuftrious Perfonages. By the late Charles Pigot, Efq. Author of the Jockey Clubs, &c. &c. 8vo. 3s. 6d. Eaton. 1795. A pofthumous fatirical production of the ingenious but licentious writer mentioned in the title.

SPECIMEN.

Alarm, the tocfin of delufion :-a pretext for profecutions, unconftitutional augmentation of the army, the introduction of foreign troops, barracks, &c.'

Alarmifts,

Alarmifts, miferable politicians, who have been dupes of the found; terrified by the downfall of aristocracy in France. Bewildered by apprehenfions and fears for themselves, they have loft all fenfe of their duty towards the people, and have joined the conspiracy of courts against the interefts of humanity: for example-Duke of Portland, Earls Fitzwilliam and Spencer, Meffrs. Windham, Powis, and a lift of et cæteras, ad infinitum.'

Art. 33. A Letter to the Prince of Wales, on a Second Application to Parliament to difcharge Debts, &c. The Eleventh Edition. With Notes. Corrected by the Author. 8vo. pp. 111. 25. Owen,

1795.

In the preface to the prefent edition, the author again introduces the name of Mr. Fox; whom, through every edition, he has attacked as a partizan of the heir apparent. He is likewife fevere on the various defcriptions of people who (according to him) have attached themselves to the fortunes of Mr. F. with a view to the improvement of their own.' He here alfo takes occafion to clear himself from the imputation of being a minifterial fcribbler, becaufe he has cenfured the conduct of oppofition. Be this charge as it may, one thing feems perfectly clear, that the extraordinary attention of the public to a pamphlet already advanced to the eleventh edition muit certainly be a circumftance extremely flattering, as well as beneficial, to this animated and adventurous writer.

MEDICAL, &c.

Art. 34. A Treatise on the Difeafes in Children, in Two Parts: the First comprehending all fuch Infantile Complaints as may fall under the Province of the Surgeon: Part II. containing general Direc tions for the Management of Infants from the Birth; particularly in regard to Drefs, Air, Exercife, and Diet, &c. &c. By Michael Underwood, M. D. Licentiate in Midwifery, and Physician to the British Lying-in Hofpital. A new Edition revised and enlarged. 2 Vols. 8vo. ios. 6d. Boards. Matthews. 1795.

Of two previous editions of this ufeful work we gave an account in our Reviews for December 1784, and March 1790. It is fufficient for us to announce the prefent as a much improved and augmented impreffion.

Art. 35. An Efay on the Caufes and Phenomena of Animal Life. By John Herdman, Member of the Medical Society, Edinburgh, and Surgeon in Leith. 8vo. pp. 336. 35. 6d. Johnfon. 1795. This is a rational and well-written compendium of those doctrines concerning animal life, which have obtained general admiffion in confequence of the modern discoverics, chemical and phyfiological. The writer firft takes a brief view of the ftructure of the animal body, chiefly for the purpofe of fhewing that a fimilar organization, differently modified, fubfifts in every part. Secondly, he fhews that, by the union of the various parts of the animal body, a complete and indivifible whole is formed. Thirdly, he gives fome general obfervations on the nature of the principle of excitability; and, Fourthly, takes a view of thofe agents, by the operation of which the phenomena of life are produced and continued. Of all thefe topics he gives

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as clear views as their intricate nature, and the narrow limits to which he has confined himself, will admit; and, though he has freely copied from other writers, it is evident that he is capable of thinking and examining for himself. The work may be ufefully perufed by ftudents who are defirous of obtaining, in a fmall compass, general information concerning doctrines which are certainly interesting matters of difcuffion, how much foever they may yet fall fhort of the feientific precifion and certainty which can alone enable them to be fafe and ufeful guides in the practice of medicine.

Art. 36. A Treatise on Difeafes in the Urinary Paffage, &c. &c. To which are added fome new Obfervations on the Venereal Disease. By Mr. Dufour, Villiers-Street, York Buildings, Strand. 8vo. Allen and Weft. 1795.

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A tolerable Quack Bill!

NOVELS.

Art. 37. Robert and Adela: or, the Rights of Women beft maintained by the Sentiments of Nature. 12mo. 3 Vols. 9s. 6d. Boards. Robinsons. 1795.

The defign of this novel is to counteract the influence of the doctrine, which has lately been maintained with fo much ingenuity, concerning the rights of women. In one of the principal female characters, natural fenfibility is fuppreffed by the affectation of equality and independence. The heroine, after having tormented her lover and herself by an obftinate perfeverance in the haughty reserve which her fyftem prompts, in fpite of her feelings, at laft lofes his affection, and from vexation throws herself away on a vulgar Welsh efquire, who poffeffes no qualities congenial with her difpofition. The cha racter is throughout well fupported, and the leffon fuggefted in the title is strongly enforced. This is, however, by no means, the whole bufinefs of the novel. Other very natural and interefting tales of love are related, and many lively defcriptions and pertinent reflections are interspersed. Some of the principal characters being French, allufions to the recent ftate of France are fo frequently introduced, as to give the novel a political air. We also meet with other digreffions of a more general kind, among which the most pleafing are, a retrospect of the antient ftate of England, made during an excurfion through Wiltshire and Hampshire; and a defcription of a part of South Wales.

character.

The ftory is ingeniously conftructed, but the ftyle is not, on the whole, correct. In one or two places, we remark inftances of the Hibernian or Scottish idiom; for example, "I think we would not be the worse of an emetic;" this phrafe is very improperly put into the mouth of Lord Mount-garth, a Devonshire nobleman, a moft fingular and original Mifs Wollstonecraft's name is written Woolftone Croft; the Earl of Landsford is fon to the Countefs of Aldborough; French noblemen are made to fign their letters with their Chriftian name, inftead of with their title, according to fact; and the frequent repetition of the frigid and vulgar termination of Your's,' particularly from a female, is tirefome and difgufting.

Art. 38. Myfteries elucidated. By the Author of Danish Maffacre, Monmouth, &c. 12mo. 3 Vols. 9s. fewed. Lane. 1795.

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