principally to affect the lymphatic fyftem, invigorating and increafing its power of abforption.' p. 17. On a perufal of the whole paffage, the author will appear ftill more at cross purposes with himself than in this fhort extract. THEOLOGY, &c. Art. 45. Seven Sermons, preached on particular Occafions: By Jofeph Robertfon, Minifter of Sleights, near Whitby, Yorkshire. 4to. pp. 200. 3s. Boards. Dilly. 1795. Thefe Difcourfes are on the following fubjects;-fuppreffion of vice and impiety, the duties of all perfons, especially those in authority ;christian love; preparation for death;-caution to youth, against bad company, and life of fenfual pleafure ;-duty of thankfulness to God; addreffed particularly to Sea-faring people;-humanity and beneficence; to which is added, a fermon on the duty of a perfonalfervice, in defence of ourselves and our country, preached before the Volunteers of Whitby in June laft-In the general principle of regard to our country, which this laft fermon maintains, it may be concluded that all persons will agree, though they may not entirely concur in the justice and propriety of fome remarks more peculiar to the immediate occafion: but whatever exception of this kind might be made, the difcourfe is ftil! good; and, indeed, we may apply that general epithet to all the fermons in this volume. They are practical, fenfible, lively, and perfuafive; and their tendency is to advance Chriftian piety and morality. Art. 46. Conjectures on the Prophefies of Daniel, and the Apocalypfe of St. John, in order to afcertain the Periods when the Vials of Wrath will finish, agreeably to the Dates given in Daniel, Chap. 12, as they appear to refpect Ruffia, Germany, France, Conftantinople, and the Roman Provinces in Afia. Small 8vo. pp. 64. 1s. 6d. fewed. Faulder. It is by no means wonderful that the prefent eventful period fhould lead the thoughts of Chriftians to the predictions contained in their facred books: nor is it very furprizing if, in fome inftances, this fhould produce accounts, fanciful, extravagant, and contradictory.Time will gradually develope the whole of the mystery.-We do not, however, mean to difcourage calm refearches, chaitized by judgment, and guided by truth, reason, and science. The Author of the little treatife now before us appears not to be deftitute of that hiftorical knowlege which is requifite for this kind of ftudy, nor of fome ingenuity and dexterity in applying paffages to his purpose: but his remarks are offered rather like notes for the affiftance of private ftudy, than for general information. We cannot pretend to give our readers a full idea of his fchemes, even did we clearly understand them.-We will not dispute with him concerning his calculations, which fignify, if we read him rightly, that the predictions relative to Rome, Ruffia, and France, will receive their final accomplishment in the year 1796: Conftantinople follows in 1826, and the Eastern empire in 1871. Thefe are fome of his fuppofitions; and, having agreed with others that the woman in the wilderness is the Gospel, Gofpel, he pronounces the wilderness to be Ruffia, and France no other than the bottomless pit: but it appears to be only fince its late violent concuffions that it has obtained the distinction here allotted. Separate, however, from this hafty conclufion, there are other parts of the tract which do not accord with fober attention and judg ment. Of this kind is the conjecture that Rev, vi. v. 2. which mentions a white horse, whofe rider had a bow and a crown, fignifies Ruffia, because, feveral ages paft, fome emblems of this kind accompanied a Mulcovite idol. He might with equal propriety have said, that the white horse is the electorate of Hanover. Again, we are informed that the red horfe in the fame chapter denotes Germany, and the black horfe, Great Britain. All this is fo futile, and fo abfurd, especially when he appeals, as he does, to the horfe at Charing-crofs, that we are nearly difpofed to abandon all favourable opinion of the writer. Art. 47. Prayers and Thanksgivings, principally intended for the Ufe of Children, but to be used, on fuitable Occafions, by Perfons of all Ages and Degrees; with Rules for the Regulation of a Sunday-school; to which are added, brief Reflections on the proper Employment of our Time: also a few pertinent Paffages, carefully felected from the Holy Scriptures, against Swearing, Lying, Evil-fpeaking, and Intemperance. By Samuel Hopkinson, B. D. late Fellow of Clare-Hall. 12mo. PP. 132. Is. Newbery. This full title fufficiently declares the nature and defign of this little publication. So pious, charitable, and laudable, are the intentions of the author, that criticism muft ftand at a refpectful distance.In his advertisement, addreffed to the inhabitants of Etton, of which parish we conclude he is the minifter, he blames the omiflion, now become fo prevalent, of the ufual and proper acknowlegements of Divine Providence before and after ftated meals;-the fhort ejaculations fuppofed to be used at entering and leaving the established places of public worship;-and the neglect of evening and morning devotions; for all which he here prefcribes fome fuitable forms; together with a prayer for youth, and others for those who prefide in a Sunday-fchool. We should add that, with a commendable warmth, he declares himself a ftrenuous advocate for practical religion, in distinction from all that is merely formal and ceremonious. MISCELLANEOUS. Art. 48. Sermons; and Trafts upon various Subjects; Literary, Critical, and Political. Vol. I. By the Rev. Richard Lickorish, M. D. Late of Lincoln College, Oxford. 8vo. PP. 3336s. 6d. Boards. White. What would be thought of an architect, who, building a house without any previous plan, fhould make the porch larger than the main body, and, to render the difproportion ftill more enormous, should add, at the back, a prodigious mafs of out-houses? Such an irregular and fingular edifice is prefented to the reader in the present volume; where two fermons, contained in 71 pages, are introduced by a pre a preface of 45 pages, and a preliminary differtation with its ap pendix 167 pages in length, and followed by an appendix and notes which together fill up 81 pages. This, at leaf, cannot be faid to be making up a book like a workman. We should, however, have been very ready to overlook any irregularity in point of form, had the defect been compenfated by the excellence of the matter :-but here too we find ourselves unable to make fo favourable a report as we could wifh. The two difcourfes, the subjects of which are the nature and defign of poverty and riches, with obfervations on the prefent inequality of mankind in this refpect, are nothing more than a diffuse amplification of obvious and trite ideas. In the preliminary differtation, the author dwells largely on himself and his own affairs, and in a way which only ferves to fhew that he has fuffered much mortification and difappointment. He very feelingly laments that, under the present ecclefiaftical establishment, emoluments are lavished on unworthy objects; while mere merit and mere learning ftarve unpitied, unbefriended, and neglected. He infifts, with much vehemence, on the great hardships fuftained by the regular clergy, and on the difgrace brought on religion and the church by the ordination of improper and unqualified períons. Diffatisfied, however, as he is with the management of affairs in the established church, and notwithstanding all the negle& which he has experienced, he remains a zealous advocate for the divine origin of epifcopacy, and ftrenuously afferts that the church of England is in this circumftance, and in all other respects, formed after the model of the primitive church, and confequently is truly apoftolical. This fubject, as well as other topics cafually introduced in this mifcellaneous difcourfe, is treated in a curfory and declamatory manner. The appendix to the fermons, which treats wholly on the politics of the day, is written in the fame defultory ftyle with the rest of the work-but it fufficiently appears from this part of the volume, that the author, at the time when it was written, was a friend to the French revolution, and to the immediate reformation of parliament. He fpeaks of the retreat of the combined armies from France, as a proof that they were engaged in a cause which could not claim the protection of Heaven. He complains of the duplicity of courtiers, laments the defection of Mr. Burke from the caufe of freedom, and mentions, as a proof of the fad influence of power and intereft in working changes in opinions, Mr. Pitt's defertion of his former principles, and his oppofition to thofe reforms for the neceffity of which he once earnestly contended. We notice thefe particulars, for a reafon which will appear in the next article. Art. 49. An Appeal to the Public, on the Subjes of Politics. Containing a Refutation of fome grafs and unfounded Mifrepresentation of the Author's Sentiments on the above interefting Queftion, &c. &c. &c. By the Rev. Richard Lickorish, M. D. Late of Lincoln College, Oxford. 8vo. pp. 163. 3s. 6d. Boards. White. This appeal can be confidered in no other light than as Dr. Lickorith's recantation of political opinions expreffed in his former work. In a long and fulfome dedication to the Premier, he declares his de See the preceding article, teftation testation of the prefent principles of the French, his conviction of the neceffity of the prefent war, and his earnest wish that Mr. Pitt may long fuperintend the councils of this nation; and he earnestly exhorts Mr. Pitt to pay fome attention to the fituation of thofe of the clergy, who, from the want of friends among the great, are left without that regard and attention to which, from their merit, they are entitled. Perhaps the Doctor may by this time have a nearer view Latium, fedes ubi fata quietas of that Oftendunt which he feems to have had in diftant prospect, when he wrote his fermons and tracts. We cannot, however, fuppofe that the prefent volume, notwithstanding all the learned quotations with which it abounds, will contribute much towards establishing his claim to the attention of his fuperiors on the fcore of literary merit. It may indeed serve to prove that he is very defirous of being thought a zealous advocate for the prefent measures; and that he dreads nothing fo much as that the infamous calumny, which has been raised against him, fhould gain credit, that the healths of Dr. Priestley and of Mr. Paine were lately given by him as a toast. The public are encouraged to expect from this writer a fecond volume of tracts and effays; in which, befides the farther prosecution of his moral and theological difquifitions, he means to introduce brief observations on the ftudy of phyfic, and fhort remarks on the importance of agriculture; all which fubjects he is no doubt well qualified to difcufs, as we learn from this publication that he at present fuftains the triple character of a divine, a phyfician, and a farmer. Art. 50. A Collection of Poems and Letters.-POEMS, &c. I. An Ode from Sans Souci, Characteristic of the late Northern Potentate, with Annotations by Machiavel in the Shades. 2. Lines on the Death of Infants, &c. 3. A Father's Soliloquy over a fleeping. Child, before his going to Prifon. 4. Verfes on the Death of a Son four Years old. 5. On the late Faft for national Sins. 6. On the French Standards hung up in St. Paul's.-LETTERS: 1. On German Electors and Princes hiring out their Subjects for Soldiers. 2. An Account of the Author's Publications in Support of Univerfal Redemption, and of his Objections to an exclufive Priesthood. 3. A fhort View of the Signs of the Times, drawn from a larger Work on the Numbers in the Law, the Prophets, and the Gospel. 4. A Letter on the Military Profeffion, to a Gentleman who, from Doubt and Fear of its being inconfiftent with his Christian Profeffion, refigned his Commiffion. 5. A Letter on the prefent Rage for Fragments of Prophecies not founded on Scripture; in which the late Mr. Toplady's Prophecy of Chriftopher Love, given by the late Dr. Gifford, Librarian to the British Museum, is confidered with fome Notice of the Bishops of Llandaff and Rochefter. 8vo. pp. 82. 19. 6d. Sael. To the long enumeration of the contents of this pamphlet given in the title, it is only neceffary to add that both the poetry and the profe bear strong marks of excentricity, and of an enthufiaftic turn of mind. The author appears to be a great enemy to priests, and a zealous advocate for prophets, modern as well as antient. Indeed he is himself a kind of prophet, revealing to his readers the figns of the times, and teaching them to expect in the year 1805 fome great revolution in the church,-though he does not very clearly inform us of what fort it will be. To the last two pieces are fubfcribed the name of Richard Clarke. Art. 51. The Bleffings of Billy's Budget, the Heaven-born Tinker: a fermonical Addrefs to the Right Hon. John Bull. By a Loyal Layman. 8vo. 6d. 1795. The late taxes on wine and hair-powder, and the juftice and neceffity of the war in which we are engaged, compofe the fubject matter of this pamphlet, which is drawn up in the form of an ironical address of the Premier to the nation, expatiating on the advantages of war, poverty, and starvation-Concerning this little piece not much either good or bad can be faid; the fentiments will be differently appreciated by the different parties: but with respect to the manner there can be only one opinion; for all men mult concur in the belief that our prefent fituation, our paft tranfactions, and our future expectations or apprehenfions, are much too ferious to be made the fubject of jocularity. Art. 52. Maternal Letters to a young Lady on her Entrance into Life. This is one of thofe publications which are recommended to attention rather by the importance of the subject, than by any extraordinary entertainment which they are likely to afford. The letters contain muchwholesome advice on religious, moral, and prudential fubjects, expreffed in unaffected language; and they are very proper to be put into the hands of young females when they leave the boarding-school, to correct the falfe notions which they are too apt to gather there, and to prepare them for filling, with credit and advantage, the most important of all female relations,-those of a wife and a mother. Art. 53. An Hiftorical Account of Ludlow Castle; the ancient Palace 1794. Though this writer appears to have been industrious in collecting materials for a favourite object, we cannot congratulate him on any remarkable fuccefs. The pamphlet is indeed amusing and well written: but it is rather extraordinary that fo noted and antient a building fhould furnish fo few memorials, or that they should not be of 2 more interesting nature. It was erected, Wharton fays, about 1112: but, if, according to concurring teftimony, it was raised by Roger de Montgomery, it must have somewhat of an earlier date, as he died in the year 1094. The defign of this caftle was to repel the ravages of its turbulent neighbours, the Welsh. In the war between Stephen and the Empress Maud, 1138, it was befieged by the former, attended by Henry, fon of David king of Scotland. It is a memorable cir 9 cumftance, |