troduced Since that time the public have univerfally com plained, (and every year more and more) as well of the greater dearnefs, as of the much worfe quality of bread, though unacquainted with the true foundation of their complaints, for which a variety of falfe and ridiculous caufes have been affigned, and remedies impracticable, anti-commercial, and dangerous, abfurdly propofed."

Our author is a ftrenuous advocate for the landholder and the farmer, and believes himself the most important of all im portant confiderers upon this fubject.

24. Confiderations on the Expediency of raifing, at this Time of general Dearth, the Wages of Servants that are not Domestic, particularly Clerks in Public Offices. 8vo. Pr. 1s. Nicoll..

This pamphlet is very feelingly written, being intended, as a fecond title expreffes, to convey "thoughts on a modern pofition, that clerks in public offices ought not to marry, and that fifty pounds a year is abundantly fufficient for their fubfiftence; in a letter to a merchant of London."

The author is a warm, and indeed a fenfible, advocate for raifing the wages of clerks in public offices, especially at this time, when the price of the neceffaries of life is fo much enhanced.. He gives us a detail of the expences, fare, and furniture of a clerk at fifty pounds a year, and fhews very plainly that let ⚫him live ever fo oeconomically, it is impoffible he can fave at the year's end above twenty fhillings and nine-pence, without allowing him, at his own coft, one night at Sadler's-wells, one drop of wine or punch, one difh of tea or coffee, one pennyworth of fruit, one pipe of tobacco, or one pinch of fhuff.

25. An Appeal to the Public: or, Confiderations on the Dearness of Corn, &c. 800. Pr. Is. Keith.

Agriculture has lately employed as many pens as ploughs; and this author, like all his brethren who write upon the fubject, offers his noftrum, which he fays, is infallible for procuring relief to the poor. He thinks that if the bounty on exported corn be reduced about 7 th, orth part, it could not prejudice trade, but would contribute to pacify the people, and by preventing the neceffity of embargoes, or acts of prohibition, would prove an eafe to parliament. He declares against withdrawing the bounties on exported corn, as well as erecting magazines in every county; and in his preface obferves very juftly, that writers on this fubject have been fo numerous, that it is become ftale.

5. The true Intereft of Great Britain, in regard to the Trade and Government of Canada, Newfoundland, and the Coast of Labrador. Shewing the Abfurdity of appointing military and naval Officers to rule over a commercial People; and the great Uneafiness and Prejudice that is occafioned by fuch unnatural Appointments ; which are made more through Intereft than Merit. 8vo. 6d. Williams.

Pr. 15.

Another noftrum-monger-All in the wrong! and this nation never can be happy till his majefty fhall be pleased to dif -card governor-general Murray, governor admiral Pallifer, and governor captain Johnston, and take this author into his privy council, by way of introduction to his being appointed first minifter of state.

27. A Letter to the Earl of Bute, upon his Union with the Earl of Chatham, in Support of the popular Meafure of a Four Shillings Land-Tax. Fol. Pr. 6d. Almon.

This writer is very angry with the fuppofed connection between the two noble lords mentioned in his title-page; and defires the earl to whom he addreffes his letter, to take care of his own head, if he does not purfue measures which are neceffary for his own and the public fafety, meaning fuch meafures as he (the author) fhall please to prescribe.

28. Letters which have paffed between John Beard, Efq; Manager of Covent-Garden Theatre, and John Shebbeare, M. D. 8vo. Pr. Is. Kearly.

This pamphlet contains an arraignment of Mr. Beard for keeping a comedy of Dr. Shebbeare's two years, and then refufing to act it, because he did not think it fit for the stage.

29. The French Flogged, or, the British Sailors in America, a Farce of two Acts, as it was performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden. 8vo. Pr. 1S. Williams.

If we had not actually perufed this performance, we could not have believed that fo much nonfenfe could have been committed to print.

As it is now 30. Phillis at Court; a Comic Opera of three Acts. performing, with great Applaufe, at the Theatre-Royal in CrowStreet, Dublin. The Music by Signior Tomafo Giordani. 8vo. Pr. 15. Williams.

The reader, upon perufal, will perceive this comic opera to be no other than the late Mr. Lloyd's opera called The Capricious Lovers, with a few infignificant alterations.

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31. The Ghost a Comedy of Two Aas. As it is performed, with great Applaufe, at the Theatre in Smock-Alley, Dublin. 8vo. Pr. 1. Williams.

Though we can bestow no extravagant encomiums upon this comedy, or its cataftrophe, yet we think it fuperior to fome other pieces performed at the fame theatre, which we have lately reviewed.

32. The Cafe of Mifs Leflie, and her three Sifters; the Manufae-turers of Thread for Lace, equal to any Foreign; in an Address to the Public, but particularly to the Patriotic Societies, for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures, published at the Request, and by the Defire of feveral Perfons of Diftinction. Svo. Pr, 6d. Cadell.

Mifs Leslie and her fisters must have been guilty of the most atrocious forgeries, or they are greatly injured by their oppofers. We never faw a more fatisfactory cafe than this, to prove that vaft fums may be faved to the nation by encouraging their manufacture. Even the chief objection which can be urged againft it pleads ftrongly in its favour, for the more money it may require in carrying it into execution, the greater will be the faving to the public.

As a fupplement to the cafe before us we muft obferve, that this nation is in a deplorable fituation, if a little cabal of selfinterefted managers can defeat that public fpirit which the legislature (without mentioning the efforts of the Patriotic Society in the Strand) has fo gloriously exerted for the extenfion and improvement of our arts and manufactures.

33. A New Topic of Conversation. 8vo. Pr. Is. 6d. Bladon.

Though the author of this pamphlet is an indifferent writer, yet his fubject is important; and perhaps fome reftriction to the vaft temptation of that fpecies of ufury introduced by tradefmen giving long credit to their customers, would be one of the moft ufeful regulations that could come under the confideration of the legislature.

34. A Differtation upon Head Drefs; together with a Vindication of High Coloured Hair, and of thofe Ladies on whom it grows the whole fubmitted to the Connoiffeurs in Tafte, whether Ancient or Modern, of what Nation or Kingdom foever. By an English Periwig-Maker. 8vo. Pr. Is. Williams.

This pamphlet furpaffes comprehenfion, and is unworthy of the least attention.

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35. The French Verbs, or a new Grammar, in the Form of a Dictionary. Containing all the irregular Verbs of the French Language, conjugated at full Length, according to the newest Decifions of the Academy. Digefted in fo eafy a Manner, that not only Beginners, but even those who write the Language, though unable to › Jpeak it, may infruct and perfect themselves without the Affiftance of a Mafter. 12mo. Pr. 35. 6d. Vaillant.

Every one acquainted with the French language knows, that the intricacies of the irregular verbs render it the most difficult for foreigners to fpeak or write with propriety; and this pocket Dictionary, which is the only one of the kind we have met with adapted to the English, will certainly be ferviceable to thofe who are defirous of attaining the niceties of the French tongue.

36. The Looking-Glafs or Portrait of Life. Exemplified in Twentyfour Dialogues. To which are added, moral Reflexions proper to be impreffed on the Minds of Youth. 8vo. Pr. Is. Noble.

A young spark having spent an evening at a club, gives his father an account of his entertainment, and the characters of the company; which he describes in alphabetic order. Almost the whole fociety, according to his representation, are knaves, fools, or coxcombs. On each character the old gentleman takes occafion to make fome remarks, calculated to guard his fon against the foibles he has defcribed.

The father's obfervations, though trite and obvious, are generally pertinent and just.

37. The Arithmetic of Infinites, and the Differential Method; illuftrated by Examples. 8vo. Pr. 75. 6d. Nourfe.

The first attempt towards the investigating of curvilineal areas, by confidering them as the limits of circumfcribed or infcribed figures of a more fimple kind, was made by Lucas Valerius; but afterwards Cavalerius, an Italian, about the year 1635 advanced his method of indivifibles, in which he abbreviated the demonftration of the antients, and removed the indirect form of reasoning used by them of proving the equality or proportion between lines and spaces, from the impoffibility of their having any different relation, by applying to thofe curve magnitudes the fame direct kind of proof before applied to right lined quantities.

The Arithmetica Infinitorum of Dr. Wallis was the next improvement of this kind which appeared before the invention of fluxions. Archimedes had confidered the fums of the terms in arithmetical progreffion, and of their fquares only (or rather the limits of these fums only) as being fufficient for the men

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furation of the figures he had examined. Dr. Wallis treats this fubject in a very general manner, and affigns fimilar limits for the fums of any powers of the terms, whether the exponents be integers or fractions, pofitive or negative. Having discovered one general theorem which includes all others of this kind, he then compofed new progreffions, from various aggregates of these terms, and enquired into the fums of the powers of these terms, by which he was enabled to measure accurately, or by approximation, the areas of figures of any fort. He fuppofes the progreffions to be continued to infinity, and invefti-` gates, by a kind of induction, the proportion of the sum of the powers, to the production that would arife by taking the greatest power as often as there are terms. It muft indeed be confeffed, that his demonftrations, as well as fome of his expreffions, (efpecially when he fpeaks of quantities more than infinite) are not entirely unexceptionable; however, it is certain this valuable treatife contributed to produce the great improvements which foon after followed.

Sir Ifaac Newton has accomplished what Cavalerius wished for, by inventing the method of fluxions, beyond which nothing farther can perhaps be expected, unless, with Mr. Ditton, we conclude that the next improvement will be the science of pure Intelligences.

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The work before us is divided into three parts. In the first part the arithmetic of infinites, and the differential method of calculation, are treated with elegance and propriety; the second contains the chief properties of the conic-fections, demonftrated in an eafy, comprehenfive, and concife manner, entirely freed from thofe analytical investigations with which treatifes of this kind are too generally perplexed; and in the third and last part we meet with feveral new and interesting properties of the moft ufeful mechanical curves, as the concoid, ciffoid, cycloid, &c. together with a great variety of curious dif coveries relating to the doctrine of curve-lined geometry.

We therefore recommend this work to the perufal of fuch as would rise above mediocrity in the mathematical fciences, efpecially as the ingenious author has (in our opinion) treated his fubject in fuch an eafy and familiar manner as to be readily understood by the generality of his readers.

38. The Triumph of Inoculation; a Dream. 4to. Pr. Is. Payne.

This dream, as we learn from the preface, was originally addreffed, in the courfe of an epiftolary correfpondence, to the late lady Mary Wortley Montague, and, which is of more importance, was honoured with her ladyship's approbation. It is well known, that it was by this lady inoculation was first in

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