party. According to Mr. Beatson, none of the officers concerned in that tranfaction, were to blame. The whole misfortune of that -day, he thinks, depended on the want of fignals, which prevent ed a proper communication between the commander in chief and the feveral fhips in the fleet. He urges the expediency of reme dying, in future, a defect of great importance to the interefts of the nation. For which purpofe he recommends, with much zeal and propriety, a more complete fyftem of fignals than has hither. to been adopted in the navy. Thoughts on the Origin and Excellence of Regal Government. 8vo. 15. Stockdale. 1790, The defign of this author is to invalidate the principles of thofe political enthufiafts who have lately contended with much vehe mence for the unalienable rights of man, and who labour to expel fubordination from civil fociety. He endeavours to show, by the natural progrefs of the human mind in forming plans of affo ciation, and by the earlieft examples in hiftory, that the regal *form of government is the beft adapted to practice, and that it was originally inflituted, not by means of violence, but with the general confent of the people. The author's remarks are well intended, and may ferve as a plain refutation of the vifionary theories of government maintained by thofe modern innovators. The Speech of Henry Grattan, Efq. on the Addrefs to his Majefty, at the Opening of the Irish Parliament. 1792. 8vo. is. 6d. Ridgway. 1793. In this fpeech Mr. Grattan, with his ufual warmth, oppofes fome parts of the addrefs of the Irish houfe of commons to his majefly, It is no difparagement to the speaker's ingenuity, to obferve, that his arguments are, in general, drawn from the fund of declamation; and the effect of his eloquence may be known from the iffae of the debate; the addrefs was carried without an amendment. An Appendix to the speech contains the public pa pers and refolutions of the united Irish, the committee of delegates for the Roman Catholics, &c. Thoughts on the Propriety of fixing Eafter Term. 8vo. IS. Cadell, 1792. The author of thefe Thoughts objects to the alteration of the moveable terms, his only argument against which is contained in the following paragraph; The confequence of this propofed alteration will be, that Good-Friday and Eafter-Day will fometimes happen in the middle of the Law-Terms:--and that fuitors will at that feafen be called together from all parts of the kingdom to give their attendance at Westminster :-an event against which our church, our courts of law, and our legiflature, have hitherto most carefully provided.' A brief A brief Examination into the Increase of the Revenue, Commerce, and Navigation of Great Britain, fince the Conclufion of the Peace in 1783. A new Edition, with Additions. 4to. 1's. Stockdale. 17928 It appears from this Examination, that the revenue has almost gradually rifen, in the course of the last nine years, from io,194,2591. to 14,132,000l. Of this great increase, amounting To near four millions, it is obferved, that 1,075,000l." may be placed to the account of new taxes impofed within that period. 968,000l. is derived from the improved collection of feveral priacipal duties. A farther proportion is owing to the measures for preventing contraband trade, and for the better collection of the revenues; and the remainder, fays the author, is to be ascrib ed to the ingenuity and energy of our manufacturers, the enter prife of our merchants, and to the general spirit of the nation, which has availed itfelf with fuch efficiency of the advantages and bleffings of peace.' The Examination appears to be accurate, and the refult of it confirms the general obfervation refpecting the prefent national profperity. Its æra fhould be particularly examined, for it bears fo near a refemblance to a late celebrated minifterial fpeech, that one is moft probably copied from the other: the curious politician muft decide, whether this was the prototype of the Budget, or the contrary. The fource, at all events, may have been the fame. A Letter to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester, upon the Removal of poor Children from their respective Settlements to the Cotton and other Manufactories of Manchester, &c. &c. 12mo. 15. Faulder. 1792. The author argues very warmly against feparating children from their parents and their native home, to affift the cotton manufacture in diftant counties. His moft powerful argument however is, that, when grown up, they must be again fent back. If this be juft, the plan is highly injurious; but we have fome reason to believe that he is mifinformed. Thoughts on the Manifefto of the French to all States and Nations, By the Rev. R. Worthington. 8vo. 15. Debrett. 1792. The Manifefto, tranflated in this pamphlet, is that which was published when the neighbouring princes protected the emigrants, and war was threatened on the frontiers. It was, indeed, a mafterly compofition, and deferves all the praifes which Mr. Worthington has bestowed on it.Si fic femper ! A Letter on Tythes to A. Young, Efq. with his Remarks on it; and a fecond Letter in Answer to thofe Remarks. 8vo. is. Cadell. 1792. The author of the Letter replies to Mr. Young, who, in the Annals, Annals of Agriculture, had confidered Tythes as an injurious tax. A rejoinder from Mr. Young, and fome obfervations on it by Mr. Ş. author of the Letter, are fubjoined. We are not willing to enter into the merits of this question: tythes, to a certain extent, may undoubtedly be defended; but, on the whole, as an unpopular and odious impoft, we could with the method of providing for the clergy were altered. CORRESPONDENCE. THE author of the New Collection of Medical Prefcriptions, (fee p. 523.) after pointing out the error there mentioned, proceeds with the following judicious remarks: If, notwithstanding this difference between the London and Vienna preparations, any perfon fhould ftill think the aforefaid mixture too ftrong, he is defired to refer to Collin's Annus Medicus Tertius, Viennæ, 1779. Pars prima. Caput tertium. De Cicuta Efficacia.' From the cases there related it will be feen, that this phyfician began with twelve or fifteen grains of the extract in pills twice a day, which he afterwards increased till a dram or more was confumed in the same space of time. When he prescribed the extract, as he frequently did, in the form of a mixture, it was (as in the mixture under confideration) in the proportion of about feven grains to every ounce of the liquid medium. Of fuch a mixture, which generally ferved for two days, he gave from half an ounce to a whole ounce feveral times in the day. It is true that Storck, the introducer of the remedy, began with only two grains of the extract twice a day; but, when practitioners became familiarifed with the medicine, they found it might be administered much more liberally.' On referring to the work, we find our author's account strictly correct; but we cannot avoid adding, that we are apprehenfive his comparative view of the different ftrengths of the medicine is not exact. His note, which is annexed to the copy in our hands, orders half a drachm, instead of a drachm, to be added to eight Ounces of the liquid menftruum; and the dose, instead of being repeated every three or four hours, to be given only three or four times a day. In the prefent ftate, the dofe of the foreign extract is three grains and three quarters; and of our own nearly two grains, a dofe that with many irritable people in higher life is borne with great difficulty. Perhaps it would be fafer to make the eight ounce mixture with a fcruple, or fifteen grains only, of the infpiffated juice of hemlock. THE CRITICAL REVIEW. For APRIL, 1792. The Iliad and Odyffey of Homer, tranflated into English blank Verfe, by William Cowper, Eq. (Continued from p. 249.) WE objected, in our critique of laft month, to Mr. Cowper's affertion in regard to the impeccability of Homer. He is equally decifive, and we think no less improperly fo, in regard to nimfelf. The English reader is to be admonished that the matter found in me, whether he like it or not, is found allo in Homer, and that the matter not found in me, how much foever he may admire it, is found only in Mr. Pope. I have omitted nothing: I have invented nothing.' When Mr. Cowper perfonifies what, in Homer, is merely an epithet, we certainly may confider that perfonification as matter not found in Homer. Ulyffes calls a Grecian (I. ii. 201.) weak and cowardly, aлTomos nai avarnie. In Mr. Cowper it is a daftard and a drone. Hector tells the Trojan dames (Il. vi. 297.) that woe was on the wing;' the original is anos de unde OUTO. Diomede exclaims, with a voice like thunder,' (II. viii. 108.) in Homer †, qusgdanov d'εConey. We are often told of the flower of Ilium,' and the flower of the hoft,' but no fimilar phrafe is to be found in Homer. Scratch'd her lily hand,' is an epithet neither in Homer nor Pope. The latter, indeed, pleasantly amplifies the difafter of Venus: * Raz'd her foft hand (xsiga agaíxv ‡) with this lamented wound. On wings of destiny this day approach The Grecians, they will fly our first affault.' II. xii. 97. The figure is very bold, but not in Homer or Pope. The words marked in Italics in the fubfequent quotations, may certainly be confidered as additions to the original. Theftor next he fmote. He on his chariot feat magnificent now woe to Troy H. xvi. 488. From Jove himself! her fate is on the wing. Il. ii. 39 the heavens Sang them together with a trumpet's voice.' Il. xxi. 454. Therfites farcaftically remarks, But hufh-Achilles lacks Himself the spirit of a man; no gall Hath he within him, or his hand long fince Had flopped that mouth, that it should fcoff no more.' This is but a lax tranflation of Αλλά μαλ' εκ Αχιλης χέλος φρεσιν, αλλά μεθήμων, Then follows, Thus mocking royal Agamemnon, fpake νεικιων Αγαμέμνονα παρορα λαων Il. ii. 290. It should be reproaching, not mocking Agamemnon' the Paftor of his people. The phrafe is oriental, and often occurs. Here it should certainly have been retained, as an elevation of his character feems intended. The fame endearing expreffion in Ulyffes' fpirited answer, is cooly rendered, leader of the hoft,' and the words following in Italics are not in the original. If I find thee, as ev'n now, On thefe my shoulders more' II. ü. 312. It must be confeffed that Ulyffes concludes his fpeech, both in the original and the copy, more like a fcholding school-mif trefs, |