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Art. 16. The Narrative of Lieutenant General Sir William Hoave, in a Committee of the Houfe of Commons, on the 29th of April, 1779, relative to his Conduct, during his late Command of the King's Troops in North America: To which are added, Some Obfervations upon a Pamphlet, entitled, Letters to a Nobleman. 4to. 3s. Almon, &c. 1780. J

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The first part of this two fold publication, containing the Evidence produced to the Committee, &c affords nothing but what hath already been laid before the Public. The fecond part (which is by much the largeft) confifls of Sir W. Howe's Obfervations on the Letters to a Nobleman, on the Condu&t of the War in the Middle Colonies-See Rev. for Sept 1779..

In our account of the above-mentioned Letters, &c. we obferved, that the accufations brought by that Author againft Sir William Howe, were urged with fuch force of language, and appeared to be fo powerfully fupported by facts, that we could not help thinking the General's character highly concerned in fo bold an impeachment of his conduct. We added, that should neither Sir William nor his friends offer any vindication of his proceedings while at the head of the British army in America, the world would be apt to conftrue fuch filence into an admiffion of the charge, &c. &c.

Sir William's vindication, however, now appears; and candour muft acknowledge, that it is not a feeble attempt to rescue the General's reputation from the obloquy thrown upon it, not only by the Author of the Letters, but many other writers, who had joined in the cry against the noble Commander.

Mr. Galloway's book (for the Letters are known to be the pro ductions of that Gentleman's pen) is here answered, paragraph by paragraph;

*Mr. Galloway's Evidence before the Committee, and his many publications re fpecting the ftate of affairs in America fince the commencement of the prefent un happy war, having drawn his name into a confiderable degree of celebrity, the follow ing particulars refpecting this gentleman, as here given by Sir W. Howe, will not be unacceptable to many of our Readers:

Jofeph Galloway, Efq; (a lawyer by profeffion) had been formerly Speaker of the Affembly of Pennsylvania. This gentleman, in the beginning of the rebellion, was elected a Member of Congrefs. When my Brother and I, in the character of his Majefty's Commiffioners for reftoring Peace, published a Proclamation of indemnity for all those who had taken part in the rebellion, provided they should furrender them felves, and fubfcribe a declaration of allegiance, within a limited time, Mr. Galloway was amongst the first who came over to us, from Philadelphia. This was in the month of December, 1776, when our great fucceffes had intimidated the leaders of the rebellion, and nearly induced a general fubmiffion. Notwithstanding fo favourable a profpect of affairs, I confidered the acquifition of Mr. Galloway as a matter of fome importance, because in all events I expected much affittance from a gentleman of his abilities and reputed influence in the province of Pennsylvania. This expectation will, I hope, in fome degree juftify my liberality towards him. I allowed him at the rate of 2001. fterling per annum from the time of his joining the army until he could be otherwife provided for, When we had taken poffeffion of Philadelphia, I appointed him a Magiftrate of the Police of that city, with a falary made up 3col.

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paragraph; and feveral mifreprefentations of important facts and circumftances feem to be fairly proved on the Letter-writer. Several other anonymous writers, fays Sir William, have made free with my reputation; but of their productions I take no notice, because their affertions, their reafoning, and their fcurrility, appear to have been all collected and methodised, in the Letters to a Nobleman. My remarks upon that production have been confined principally to facts: the falfe reafoning I have fometimes endeavoured to detect; the fourFility I have always paffed over in filence. Contempt is the only fpecies of refentment which the venal inftruments of calumny deserve; though fomething farther may be due to their more infamous employers.'

POETICA L.

Art. 17. Love Elegies, by a Sailor, written in the Year 1774. 4to. I s. 6d. Wilkie. 1780.

This elegiac bard has endeavoured to form himself upon the model of Mr. Hammond. We are forry to mortify a fenfible and wellmeaning man, fuch as this Writer appears to be, by telling him that, failor-like, he has fhewn in this attempt more courage than difcretion. Mr. Hammond, though (for the most part) he borrowed his materials, had a manner that was truly original and excellent. His language, of which he had great command, is diftinguishable not only for pathetic fimplicity and tenderness, but, when occafion requires it, for nervous dignity and even fublimity: properties by which the prefent Writer's language can by no means be characterifed. His ftyle is too frequently inelegant, diffufe, and feeble.

The Elegies are ten in number, to which are added, two tranflations from Propertius.

Propertius is one of the few valuable claffics of which we want a tranflation. Such a work, executed upon the plan of Granger's Tibullus, with Notes, &c. would, no doubt, be efteemed by the Public as an acceptable prefent. Art. 18. Female Retaliation. A poetical Effay. By a Man. 4to. 6d. Fielding and Walker.

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In the Advertisement prefixed to this little poem, the Author confeffes, that the greater part of the inftances, ufed in the following Effay, is taken from Mr. Walsh's elegant Defence of Women, written in profe. And he modeftly adds, that this fhort fketch is intended only as a hint of what might be done by a perfon, who may have

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fterling per annum, and fix fhillings a day more, for a clerk. I alfo appointed him Superintendent of the Port, with a falary of twenty fhillings a day, making in the whole upwards of 770 l. fteriing per annum. Had his popularity, or perfonal induence in Pennsylvania, been as great as he pretended it was, I should not have thought this money ill bestowed. I at first paid attention to his opinions, and relied upon him for procuring me fecret intelligence; but I afterwards found that my confidence was mifplaced. His ideas I difcovered to be vifionary, and his intelligence was too frequently either ill founded, or fo much exaggerated, that it would have been unfafe to act upon it. Having once detected him in fending me a piece of intelligence from a perfon, who afterwards, upon examination, gave a very different account of the mat. ter, I immediately changed the channel of fecret communication, and in future con fidered Mr. Galloway as a nugatory informer. I continued him, however, in his lucrative offices of Magiftrate of the Police, and Superintendent of the Port, in the duties of which I believe he was not deficient,

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fewer avocations, and more ingenuity than himself. For our part, we think the fubject is already in very good hands: ingenuity, at leaft, does not feem to be wanting in this zealous and manly affertor of the female character..

Art. 19. Sir Ebrius, a Tale for Bachelors. By the Author of Matrimony, a Tale. 4to. 1 s. 6d. Payne, &c.

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We should fuppofe this dull tale was written by Sir Ebrius himfelf, when he was drunk, or rather during the qualmish intervals of relieving his ftomach after an over-night's debauch.

*For our account of Matrimony, a Tale (for which this piece is, perhaps, intended as fome fort of amende honourable), fee Review for April, p. 321.

Art. 20. The Rocks of Meillerie: an Epiftle from the C-n-fs of D-r-y to the D-ke of D-r-t. Written near the Lake of Geneva; with a Preface and Illuftrations. 4to.

Faulder. 1779*

Is. 6d. In the preface to this piece are some just observations on the nature of this fpecies of compofition. The nature of an epiftle' (an heroic epiftle, we prefume) does not permit the Poet to wanton in defcription, which ought always to be fubordinate to the main defign; and it may be defined, a continued fpeech, addreffing an abfent perfon by an animated apoftrophe. The fentiments, though fublime, ought to be natural; the expreffion, though often enriched by metaphor, fhould be concife; and where it is the language of paffion, it fhould be interrupted by thofe broken ftarts, fine tranfitions, and delicate revolution of ideas, which require a very able dramatic artift to touch with any great fuccefs. He (this relative feems to want an antecedent) muft feel with pathos, and mu write with elegance,' &c,

How far this Writer, as a Poet, can stand the test of his own rules, as a Critic, may be feen by the following paffage :

See where the dreadful cliff's impending brow
Invites my eye to ftem the waves below!
O fweet Leucate *, for a Wretch like me
Dash my poor brains against thy ftormy fea!
Yet hold, a moment hold! Eliza think
What horror quivers on this awful brink!
My last! my deareft! my laft dearest child †!
My last! Oh! Heavens; am I frantic wild?
Yes, I am frantic wild! come tears of woe,
Ye bursting veffels, bid your fluices flow.
Never oh! never can I fuffer thee,
My pretty Innocent, to pine for me,'

* Je n'ai plus qu'un mot à vous dire, ô Julie! vous connoiffez l'antique ufage du rocher de Leucate, dernier refuge de tant d'amans malheureux. Ce lieu-ci reffemble à bien des egards: La roche eft efcarpée, l'eau eft profonde, & je fuis au defefpoir.

La Nouvelle Heloife, Tom. I. Par. 1. Lettre 26. + The Heroine of this Epiftle was delivered of a female child during her refidence at Lausanne.

It will but be juftice, however, to acknowledge, that the whole poem is not of this very inferior caft. There are fome lines in it' that are tolerable, particularly at the beginning. The Muse, like a perfon leaping from an eminence, makes an effort at firft, but afterwards her progress is rather a defcending than a flight.

DRAMATIC.

Art. 21. Tony Lumpkin in Town: a Farce. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market. By J. Keeffe, Author of the Mufical Farce, called The Son-in Law. 8vo. I S. Cadell: 1785.

In the following Prologue, the Manager has anticipated our Review of this whimsical piece.

If there's a Critic here, who hates what's LOW,
We humbly beg the gentleman would go :
He's very welcome to have feen the Play,
To take his money back, and walk away.
Our Poet is the fearfull'ft man on earth,

And fears too much four fenfe may fpoil your mirth;
He wishes plain blunt folks, that laugh and cry,
As nature prompts, and afk no reason why.
To night no Two Act Comedy you'll view,
But a mere Farce! the characters not new,
And all your old acquaintance: Tony Lumpkin,
In town, 'tis true, but ftill a country bumpkin.
His friend Tim Tickle too, who danc'd the bear;
Bruin, the bear himself-nay, never stare;

He fhall not hurt you, ladies-keep your places!

The bear-leader has given him the

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This ruftic groupe, bear, bear leader, 'Squire, Clown,
The frolic Mufe of Farce now drives to town.

Her elder fifter, Comedy, has wit,

But Farce has fun, and oft a lucky hit;

If file yields laugh, a laugh let none despise;
Be merry, if you can, and not too wife.

To this profaico-poetical account of this farce we have only to add, in juftice to the Author, that he has very happily kept up, or rather kept down, the character of Tony Lumpkin, who appears as tree and entertaining a, ruftic in town, as the facetious Goldfmith left him in the country. The fame vein of humour runs through the whole piece. The Writer is, it feems, the author of a very popular farce, yet unpublished, called The Son-in-law; and in his prefent Dedication is very generously lavish of his acknowledgements to Mr. Colman, for contributing to the fuccefs of both his little dramas.

NOVEL.

Art. 22. Emma Corbett; or, the Miseries of Civil War: > founded on fome recent Circumftances which happened in America. By the Author of Liberal Opinions, Pupil of Pleafure, Shenftone Green, &c. 3 Vols. 12mo. 9 s. bound. PRATT and Clinch, Bath; Baldwin, London. 1780.

This Writer (who is known as an Author by the name of Courtney Melmoth, but whofe real name we are affured is Pratt) has fo often come under our animadverfion, that it is now unneceffary for us to

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enter into a particular examination of his literary character. Of all the productions of his verfatife pen, this is perhaps the leaft exceptionable in fentiment, and the leaft faulty in compofition. And be-fides this negative kind of merit, which, in a Writer who has fo frequently and egregiously offended, ought not to pafs unnoticed, this novel has fome claim to praife, on account of the variety of interesting incidents which fill up the narrative, and the lively, and fometimes pathetic, manner in which it is related. Without bringing forth to view thofe features of affectation, and even puerility, which we fill obferve in this author, particularly in his poetical efforts, we shall not therefore fcruple to recommend it as one of the most fuccefsfuł attempts which has been lately made to furnish that kind of entertainment which is commonly fought for from novels.

MATHEMATIC s.

Art. 23. The Defcription of a Sector, for giving the proportionable Sizes of Wheels and Pinions; and for determining the proper Distance of their Centres from each other. Of great Ufe to all Clock and Watch-makers. Made and confiderably improved by R. Pennington. 8vo. 1 s. Richardfon and Urquhart. 1780. This publication appears to have been made in confequence of the 43d Article of the 68th volume of the Philofophical Tranfactions for the year 1778, where an inftrument is defcribed by à M. Le Cerf, of Geneva, and recommended, by him, for purpofes fimilar to those mentioned in the title page of the pamphlet before us; and of which Article an account was given in p. 44. of our Review for January laft. Mr. Pennington's inftrument appears to be more extenfive in its ufe than M. Le Cerf's; but the truth or falfehood of the principles on which both are conftructed, alike depend on mechanical experiments, and can neither be proved or difproved by fcientific reafonings.

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Art. 24. The Register of Time: or, a perpetual Calendar. By Le Chevalier François Saluces de la Mante, of the Order of Malta. 2 s. 6d. Beecroft.

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This performance contains the following articles. 1. A perpetual Table to find the Dominical letter for years after Chrift. 2. A perpetual Table to find the fame thing for years before Chrift. 3. A perpetual Table to find the days of the week. 4. A perpetual Table to find the Cycle of the Sun for years after Chrift. 5. A perpetual Table for finding the fame thing for years before Chrift. 6. A perpetual Table for finding the Golden Number for years after Chrift. 7. A perpetual Table for finding the fame for years before Chrift. 8. A perpetual Table to find the Cycle of the Roman Indiction for years after Chrift. 9. A perpetual Table to find the fame for years before Christ. 10. Á perpetual Table for finding the Epact for any year in any century after Chrift. 11. A perpetual Table for finding the fame thing in any Year of any century before Chrift. 12. A general Table of Epacts. 13. A perpetual Table for finding the New and Full Moons. 14. A Table of the Pafchal Full Moons. 15. A perpetual Table for finding Eafter-day. 16. Another Table for finding Eafterday. 17. A Table of the Moveable Feafts, according to all the poffible days that Eafter day can poffibly fall on. To thefe Tables the Auther has added short accounts of the new Cycles of the Sun and Moon,

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