The mistake is, however, plainly owing to inattention, and not to a defect of genius.

The other poems in this collection are of the fame ferious, pious, turn, but without any mixture of enthufiafm or fanaticism. He concludes a poem called Winter, written in behalf of the ftarving poor, with an addrefs to the members of the legislature, part of which is as follows:

By a perpetual act, the ftill o'erthrow,
That fatal fource whence hydra evils flow:
id Nor pamper with our grain our native foes,
Who whilft we feed them aggravate our woes!
Whilft the long night round chearful fires you país,
In focial converfe fill the fparkling glafs;
Hear the distemper'd ftorms commix'd
engage,
And lafh your fumpt'ous domes with empty rage;
Our wretched poor! without the means of mirth?
O'er dying embers croud a fquallid hearth;
Dejected parents! children wanting bread!
Naked and ftarv'd, whilft greater ills they dread:
This who can fee, and not diffolve in grief?
Who has the pow'r, yet can withold relief?
Them from th' alarming dread of want fecure,
Few, few can perifh, and hold virtue pure!
On this their peace, their health, their lives depend
And 'tis for this kind heaven does extend
To you its bleffings, with a bounteous hand;
Oh! then without delay, revive the famifh'd land. ›
But, from the Weft arifes gentle gales ;
The melting fnow foft down the mountain feals;
The ice diffolves; the meads are deck'd with green;
With chearful beams Sol dignifies the scene;
The buds expand; the birds exulting fing;
And nature gladly hails approaching fpring!

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We can venture to recommend fome paffages in this writer's poem upon Hagley-Park, lord Lyttleton's feat, as proofs of his defcriptive powers. Our limits will not admit our enlarging upon this article, otherwife we could add, that, from fome hints w meet with in this collection, we believe the countehance of the public to his labours may be as feafonable to his circumstances as a man, as they will be flattering to his ambition as an author. cbol si rogg terig

2010 The Mafquerade, a Poem. Infcribed to the King of Denmark. 4to. Pr. 15. 6d. T. Evans.

This bard's poem is a very proper emblem of his fubje&. Some of his lines are dreft up with propriety and elegance;

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others are magnificently tawdry; and fome few appear like ar ill-ftuffed pincushion, lean, lank, and flabby. We fhall give him credit that his indifferent lines are inferted by defign, to give his performance the greater air of propriety: We fhould willingly introduce our reader to the very combuftion of the preparations for the entertainment, and of the mafquerade itself, were we not fenfible that he must be already fatiated the profe defcriptions we have had of its pomp, fplendor, and brilliancy, and the fine execution of the different characters which composed it. We shall content ourselves with faying, that the author has exerted his defcriptive powers to no small advantage with a profufion of variety, and without departing from truth in his drawings..

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The following compliment to the company is well turned, poetical, and, we believe, new y sin cor

Oh! ye poor flaves, condemn'd in mines to toil,
Shut up in night beneath the burning foil,

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Ye, who for years fucceffive rend the rock,
And tear each jewel from its fparry block,
From friends and kindred forc'd, from children, wives,
Doom'd to wear out in mifery your lives,

The fighs and tears fo frequent ye have fhed,

And mourn'd ye living, as we mourn the dead,

Here turn your eyes! look up, and here admire, Honda
View the sweet angels of the foul's defire

No toil, no pain, in memory fhall rife,

de diglt Sorrow fhall cease, when ye behold their eyes, i lav Was it for thefe I crack'd my finewy strength, 196702@ For thefe fuftain'd the fummer's burning length al ons It is enough; the labour that I gave

Softens the horror of a living grave,

Since forms, divine as thefe, enjoy my toil,
With hope I'll travail, and in anguish smile."

21. An irregular balladiftical Ode, compofed in order to be `fet" to Mufic, and annually performed, in Commemoration of the Refolution entered into by the Cmm Cof London, to invite his Majesty the King of Denmark to dine with the Lord Mr, c. c. Humbly dedicated to the Right Honourable the Ld Mr, the Right Worshipful the Court of An, and the Right Elegant, and well-bred Gentlemen of the Mazarine Robe. By Peter No-Head, Efq; Candidate for the Place of City PoetLaureat. Nicoll. A 300 vad 2 & 3) pden ?fo .*.4to. There is not humour fufficient in this mad-cap performance to atone for the author's abufing many respectable names of his fellow-citizens.

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zz. A poetical Epifle to the Right Honourable Lord M********. By a Gentleman of the King's Bench Prifon. Pr. 1 4. 6 d. Bingley.

This author pretends to write from the King's Bench prifon in St. George's fields, but his poetry feems to give him a better. title to an apartment in Moorfields.

23. A Letter to the Right Honourable William Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice of England, and one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, upon fome late Star-Chamber Proceedings in the Court of King's Bench, against the Publishers of the extraordi3 mary North Briton No. IV. By the Author of thofe Papers. འར 800. Pr. 15. toode

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Another invective against a great judge, without wit, learning, language, or decency to recommend it.

24. The extraordinary Cafe of William Penrice, late Deputy Marfball, or upper Turnkey of the King's Bench Prifon, with a short but precife Narrative of the Tranfactions in St. George's Fields, on the memorable 10th May, 1768, never before published, being a Key to the King's Bench Prifon; for Relief of those, whoje Misfortunes at prefent, or bereafter may fubject them to Confinement therein. Addreffed to the Public. 8vo. Pr. 1 s. Bingley.

We are no judges of the facts advanced in this extraordinary cafe of the late upper turnkey of the King's Bench Prison, from which place he imagines he was arbitrarily turned out by the prefent marshal. Mr. Penrice, however, takes care to give his difmiflion a popular caft, by pretending that it was against the univerfal fentiments of the prifoners, to whom he behaved with unexampled humanity; and that it was occafioned entirely by the indulgence he fhewed, and the warm fide he expreffed towards a popular prifoner in his cuftody.

We are ignorant upon what grounds Mr. Penrice calls himself late deputy marthal, as we always apprehended that poft to be entirely diftinct from that of the head turnkey.

25. An Extra& of a remarkable and Spirited Speech upon Loyalty, Liberty, Patriotifm, and Laws, daunilefily delivered at a Coronation, by one of the most diftinguished Patriots of Antiquity, the noble Thane of Argyle, wherein the Mifchiefs of Favouritijm are nervously, but candidly, expofed; together with the whole Body of Laws (comprifed in fix Pages) by which that Kingdom was then governed. Extracted (with the Editor's Confent) from the first Volume of a new Work, now published, entitled, A Key to the Drama, and containing private Memoirs of the Life and Character of Macbeth. 40. Pr. 6 d. Domville med ton gí This is a fupid production of fome hair-brained garretteer, whoby its ftile and contents feerps to be a Scotchman,

26. The conftitutional Right of the Legislature of Great Britain, to Tax the British Colonies in America, impartially stated. 8vo. Pr. 1. Ridley.

This publication is not unfkilfully compiled; but its most valuable contents may be found in many other pamphlets on the fame subject which we have already reviewed.

27. A bort Account of that Part of Africa, inhabited by the Ne groes, with respect to the Fertility of the Country, the good Dif pofition of many of the Natives, and the Manner by which the Slave Trade is carried on; extracted from divers Authors, in order to thew the Iniquity of that Trade, and the Falfity of the Arguments ufually advanced in its Vindication, with Quotations from the Writings of feveral Perfons of Note, viz. George Wallis, Francis Hutchefon, and James Fofter, and a large Extract from a Pamphlet, lately published in London, on the Subject of the Slave Trade. 8vo. Pr. 25. Horsfield, &c.

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Tho' we apprehend this to be an old publication, yet the intention of the editor is fo benevolent, and the flave-trade in every branch is fo fhocking to humanity, that we heartily recommend it to the public. If the argument which runs through Cicero's book of Offices, that nothing can be utile except what is honeftum, holds good, we could not hesitate a moment in pronouncing the flave-trade to be detrimental to Great Britain; for furely never was any commerce fo difgraceful and dif honeft as that in the flesh and blood of the rational part of the creation. This author has abundantly fupported his philofophical and theological reafonings by quotations from the works of our beft divines and political writers; and tho' we do not pretend to decide as to the public utility of the traffic, yet if we miftake not, we have feen very strong objections to it, even in a mercantile light. What a fatire is it upon this country. to fee, as it often happens at a public auction, the company bidding one against another for the carcass of a human creature, who is perched up upon a table, furveyed, examined, and bought, as if he was an antique ftatue, tho' not yielding perhaps a fourth part of the money?

28. Remarks upon a Book, intitled, A fhort Hiflory of Barbadoes: in which the partial and unfair Representations of the Author upon. the Subjects of bis History in general, and upon that of the Demand of Privileges in particular, are detected and expofed. 8vo. Pr. 2. Almon.

Thefe Remarks are intended as an answer to a work we have already reviewed *. Almost all the Remarker's objections are lo

* See vol. xxv. p. 267.

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dal, and can afford very little information or amufement to an inhabitant of this ifland; nor would it be proper for us to enter deeply into the controverfy, as we are ignorant of the facts. The capital objection urged by this writer, relates to the claim of privileges made by Mr. Gay Alleyne, fpeaker of the Affembly, for the members. He justifies this claim by the practice of the British House of Commons, The Americans, in general, have of late become extremely fond of thefe analogical conclufions; but we can by no means agree with them, as the conftitution of the two affemblies are entirely different, and as in an ifland like Barbadoes, fuch difcretionary, and indeed unprecedented claims, if granted, may have the most fatal effect upon commercial credit.

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29. The Journal of a two Months Tour; with a View of promoting Religion among the Frontier Inhabitants of Penfylvania, and of introducing Chriftianity among the Indians to the Westward of be Alegh-geny Mountains. To which are added, Remarks on the Language and Customs of fome particular Tribes among the In~*`dians, with a brief Account of the various Attempts that have been made to civilize and convert them, from the firft Settlement of New-England to this Day. By Charles Beatty, A. M. 8vo. Pr. 1s. 6d. Davenhill.

We cannot fufficiently commend the labours of Mr. Beatty and his fellow-miffionaries in the vineyard of the gofpel; and we fincerely think that propagating Chriftianity in America is a most effential service to the intereft as well as religion of this country. The travels of our author, and the fuccefs of his miflion, come not properly under our review, farther than that we believe the former were extremely fatiguing, and the latter as great as could have been expected.

The following paffage, however, prefents us with a curiofity as remarkable as any we have, perhaps, in the fyftem of modern difcoveries. After our travellers had proceeded eight miles through the Alegh-geny mountains, he came to one John Miller's house.

Here (fays he) we met with one Benjamin Sutton, who had been taken captive by the Indians, had been in different nations, and lived many years among them.

• He informed us, when he was with the Chactaw Nation, or Tribe of Indians, at the Miffiffippi river, he went to an Indian town, a very confiderable diftance from New-Orleans, whose inhabitants were of different complexions, not fo tawny as those of the other Indians, and who fpoke Welch. He faid he faw a book among them, which he fuppofed was a Welch bible, which they carefully kept wrapped up in a fkin, but that VOL. XXVI. Nov. 1768.

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