they could not read it; and that he heard fome of thofe Indians afterwards in the Lower Shawanaugh town, fpeak Welch with one Lewis, a Welchman, captive there. This Welch tribe now live on the weft fide of the Millilippi river, van great way above New Orleans. om soboty, vio

Levi Hicks, before mentioned, as being among the Indians from his youth, told us he had been, when attending an em baffy, in a town of Indians, on the weft fide of Miffifippio: river, who talked Welch (as he was told, for he did not ́understand them); and our interpreter, Jofeph, faw fome Indians, whom he fuppofed to be of the fame tribe, who talked Welch, for he told us fome of the words they faid, which he knew. to be Welch, as he had been acquainted with fomel Welch people.

• Correfpondent hereto, I have been informed, that many years ago, a clergyman went from Britain to Virginia, and having lived fome time there, went from thence to South-Carolina; › but, either because the climate did not agree with him, or for fome other reafon, refolved to return to Virginia, and accor dingly fet out by land, accompanied with fome other perfons but travelling through the back parts of the country, which o was then very thinly inhabited, fuppofing, very probably, this. was the nearest way, he fell in with a party of Indian warriors, going to attack the inhabitants of Virginia, against whom they 1 had declared war.

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The Indians, upon examining the clergyman, and finding that he was going to Virginia, looked upon him and his come panions as belonging to Virginia, and therefore took them all. prifoners, and let them know they muft die. The clergyman, in preparation for another world, went to prayer, and being a Welchman, prayed in the Welch language, poffibly because this language was moft familiar to him, or to prevent the Indians understanding him--One or more of the party of the Indians was much furprifed to hear him pray in their language.Upon this they fpake to him, and finding that he could underftand their fpeech, they got the fentence of death reversedand thus this happy circumftance was the means of faving his life.

They took him back with them into their country, where he found a tribe, whofe native language was Welch, though the dialect was a little different from his own, which he foon came to understand. They fhewed him a book, which he found to be the Bible, but which they could not read, and, if I miftake not, his ability to read it tended to raife their regard for him.'.

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As the contents of this note are matters of fact, they rest up. on the credit of the relators. If America was peopled, as feems now to be generally agreed, from the continent of Afia or Eu rope, we can easily conceive why many Welch words, which are radically Celtic, may be found in certain American provinces; and it is well known that the tradition of the Welch tongue being spoken in America was fo ftrong, that queen Eli zabeth herself gave inftructions to her minifters on that fub ject.

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Mr. Beatty, not fatisfied with the above valuable difcove ry, has made a bold push to prove, that the remains of the Twelve Tribes of Ifrael are to be found among the Delaware Indians. He chiefly founds this conjecture upon a fimilarity of manners, and upon the conduct of the Indian women, which in certain circumftances, he fays, feems to be in a manner perfectly agreeable to the law of Moses. We are forry that the limits of our Review will not admit of our giving Mr. Beatty's reafons for this opinion. We cannot conclude this article, however, without recommending his performance as one of the moft ingenuous and inftructive accounts we meet with of the 'ftate of that country, and the manners of its inhabitants; and we moft fincerely with fuccefs to the laudable endeavours of the trustees for the reverend Dr.Wheelock's Indian charity schools, who employed Mr. Beatty upon this laborious miffion.

30. A Letter to his Excellency Count ***, 'on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture. 840.5Pt. 15. Becket.

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This is one of thofe compofitions which confifts of fome ftandard phrases of the vertù stuck upon a ground of commonplace obfervations. The author, towards the beginning, tells us, that the fubject-matter of all poetical imitation may be divided into external and internal objects; that it is evident, that painting and fculpture have for their mode of representation, figns which are the exact refemblance of the object they would create in the mind; and that therefore they speak the language of every nation on the earth; for vision among all mankind depends upon the fame principles of optics. The great point this writer wants to prove is, that allegorical perfonages ought never to be admitted into the higher claffes of painting or fculpture.' This paradox is apparently introduced to give him an opportunity of difplaying a very fuperficial knowledge of the fubject he undertakes. A few remarks upon well-known paffages of Homer, Virgil, and Horace, and the works of the great painters, whom the author feems to be acquainted with by prints only, compofes this cold collation, in which there is nothing that excites either

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difguft or pleasure. The whole is fomewhat in the nature of thofe inftructive converfations, which generally pafs on the day of viewing a picture fale among thofe beings who are part beaux, part scholars, and part connoiffeurs.

31. The Royal Garland, a new occafional Interlude, in Honour of bis Danish Majefty. Set to Music by Mr. Arnold, and performed at the Theatre Royal," Covent Garden. 80 Pris6d.19 Becket and De Hondt. De 11 250 189. edt faisas

A little piece, merely occafional, containing a few fmooth lines and airs, not unpoetical, in honour of the King of Denmark, to whom it was not injudicious in the directors of the theatre to pay this compliment before his departure.

32. The Padlock a Comic Opera: as it is performed by his Majefty's Servants at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.

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This performance is not unworthy the author of Love in a Village, who is juftly allowed to have a very happy talent in the compofition of comic operas. The tale is well adapted to that fpecies of the drama; and the character of Mungo is well drawn, and is almoft wholly new to the stage.,

33. Matrimony. A Letter to Young Gentlemen and Ladies, Married or Single. 410. Pr. s. Domville.

A ftring of detached fentiments, or concife obfervations on matrimony, beneath any character; for the writer feems to be a perfect ftranger to the common rules of grammar.

34. A Letter from a Citizen of London, to a Friend in the Country. Containing, a Full, Authentic, and Impartial Narrative of fome late Debates and Proceedings in Common-Council, relative to the Diftribution of certain Tickets for the King of Denmark's "Masquerade. 8vo. Pri 1. Nicoll.

A moft ftuoid, illiberal, and unfupported attack upon the, conduct of the late lord-mayor. From fome particulars of the writer's narrative, favourable as it is for himfelf, there is foo much reafon to believe that part of the chave become a faction against the city; but we hope the magiftrates who prefide over that t great body will always, as in the prefent cafe, continue to affert their powers with becoming fpirit and dignity.

35. 4 Letters to John Day, Efq; Mayor of Norwich, containing Ir a Letter of Inftructions to Harbord, Harbord, Efq; and to

Edward Bacon, Efq; Reprefentatives in Parliament for the xCity and County of Norwich, dated October 25, 1768, being the Day of his Majefty's happy Acceffion to the Crown of thefe Realms. Folio. Pr. 1 5.

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As the name of no printer or publisher is prefixed to this sletter, we must fuppofe it to be fpurious, efpecially as we have not yet heard that any statute of lunacy has been iffued out against the instructing parties. It is, perhaps, a question in law, how far fuch a proceeding could take place againft a corporation, which is always fuppofed to be in a ftate of minority. 36. Infolvency with Obfervations concerning the Same. By a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple. 8vo. Pr. 6daq Bingley

We entertain no doubt as to the benevolent intention of this writer. We are forry that it is calculated fo entirely for the perufal of lawyers, that we had fome difficulty in clearing the first page, had not a gentleman of the profeffion explained to us the nature of a mefne procefs, or fpecial original. We gather enough, however, from this little publication to be convinced, that imprifoned debtors in this country labour under difficulties which are highly inconfiftent with juftice, and fhocking to humanity.lude

37. A New Baronetage of England; or a Genealogical and Hiftorical Account of the present English Baronets. To which is aaded, a complete Lift of all the Perfons who have been advanced to this or Dignity, from the firft Inftitution of it; with the Dates of their Several Patents (according to the Order of their Creations) from the most Authentic Materials. 3 Vols. 12mo. Pr. 10s. 6d. Almon. It would require almost as much labour as this compiler has bestowed upon his work, to review it as a critic, and therefore we must do it as a bookfeller. Know then, gentle cuftomers,. that the paper and print is tolerable; that the t three volumes are reduced to pocket-fizes; that the author feveral times fpeaks of affiftances he received from the college of heralds; that he proceeds in alphabetical order; and that he is pretty exact in confining himself to his fubject of the English baroshetage, for he very feldom (if he can avoid it) fteps half a 2-foot backward, to prove that his baronet is a gentleman. He generally contents himself with the firft baronet of the family; tiis fufficiently accurate in afcertaining births, iffues, and arms; but gives himself very little trouble about dry hiftorical details or characters, though he fometimes feems to have particular family favourites.

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38. Chronology or a concife View of the Annals of England. Wheres in every particular Occurrence, from the Defcent of Julius Cæfari to the prefent Time, met with in different Hiftorians, is accurately and alphabetically recorded, with the Date fixed: also an exact Chronology of the Lives of the most eminent Men, in all Ages of the World. To which is added, A Plan of the Saxon Heptareby; by which Means, the various Succeffions of different Kings may be seen at one View, and the Time of each particular Event immediately found, without the Trouble of recurring to the voluminous Pages of Hiftory. Ufeful to all who are defirous of being acquainted with their own Country. By John Trufler, Cler Pr. 15. Almon.

This pocket chronology feems to be drawn up with tolera ble accuracy, and may ferve as a very ufeful vade mecum to an English reader, in determining facts and dates.

39. An Anfower to a Pamphlet, entitled, Pietas Oxonienfis, or, a full and impartial Account of the Expulfion of fix Students from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. In a Letter to the Author. By Thomas Nowell, D. D. Principal of St. Mary Hall, and public. Orator of the University of Oxford. 8vo. Pr. 1s. 6d. Riving

The tranfaction, which is the fubject of this pamphlet, has been variously reprefented. Dr. Nowell has therefore laid before the public the articles of accufation which were exhibited to the vice-chancellor against the ftudents, by Mr. Higfon, vice principal and tutor of Edmund-hall, with minutes of their examination, taken by Dr. Nowell himself, and the fentence pronounced against them by the vice-chancellor, from which the world is enabled to form a proper judgment of the first proceedings of the vice-chancellor and his affeffors, and the propriety and equity of their final determination, and standi

The latter part of the pamphlet contains an answer to this affertion in Pietas Oxonienfis, "that all the doctrines which these fix ftudents were expelled for maintaining, are the very fundamental avowed doctrines of the church of England. "

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40.. A brief Defence of the divine Institution of the Epifcopal Order and of the Superiority of Bilhops over the inferior Clergy, the Prefbyters and Deacons. By a Prefbyter of the Church of England. In Anfver to a Pamphlet lately published, intitled, Epif copacy. 8vo. Pr. 21.0 Bathurst.

This writer affures us, that, as far as he knows, he has confidered every thing material, which Mr. How has alledged againft the divine right of diocefan epifcopacy. He seems to have taken fome pains with his fubject, and to be competently