3. Duke and no Duke. Unquestionably heavy and fpiritlefs in the Clofet, however favourably it may have been received on the stage. 4. The Dupe, &c. &c. D° Do D°. 5. Thane returned, &e. &c. &c. The public is too well acquainted with the crimes o this infamous gentleman, and too fenfible of the juftice of his fentence, to be impofed upon by an author, who, in his partiality for his friend, has totally loft fight of truth and decency. 6. The Shipwreck, &c. &c. &c. I know no body that comes near this noble author in a catch; but here he is egregiously out of his element. Ne futor ultra crepidam. 7. The Revolutions of Modefty, &c. &c. &c. The Copper-plates conftitute the most valuable part of this loose vulgar performance. 8. Juftice, &c. &c. &c. A palpable mifnomer; the whole bearing evident marks of partiality and predetermined fupport. 9. Lawn militant, &c. &c. &c. A pitiful Canterbury tale. 10. Pandemonium, &c. &c. &c. Exhibits a very despicable and diabolical picture of the human fpecies; for which the painter deferves a cart's tail, and a total deprivation of every comfort and indulgence which can be adminiftered by that humanity, of which he has drawn fo unfavourable a reprefentation. 11. An Apology, &c. &c. &c. If we are not misinformed, little Ifaac has been much affifted by his friends in providing the prefent entertain M 2 ment. ment, It certainly is an exception to the old adage of "The more cooks the worse broth." Profeffed wits are usually severe and fatirical; but mirth is the fource of Ifaac's wit. He feems rather to invite you to partake of his merriment, than to attend to his jefts. Had his strokes been general, the perfon must have been both a churl and a dolt, who did not join in the mirth. The personal attack upon his two friends difcovers fomething wrong within, and admits of no palliation. 12. Amours, &c. &c. &c, A tickler. Probably first undertaken to relieve a temporary exigence; the profits of its execution being previously diffipated. 13. An Effay on Man, &c. &c. Extravagantly filly and puerile throughout. Of the hero of the piece I fhall just fay, what was observed of Zenobia's hermaphrodite afs, that the creature would not be without its ufe, if it had but a fex. 14. The Hero's Reveries, &c. &c. If publications are to be estimated by the variety and richness of the entertainment they afford, our prefent au thor has a better title to the thanks of the public, than all who have gone before him in the fame walk: but let a work have ever fo much merit in itself it may lie long neglected, if fome circumftance does not immediately gain it the public attention: the author of these reveries was aware of this, and has very wifely infured a favourable first reception, by dedicating them to General Minden; an excellent judge of all literary merit, but of this particular branch indifputably the beft judge in the kingdom, I cannot, in juftice to the good tafte of my readers, but fuppofe that moft of them are already poffeffed of this literary treasure, fo that what I have faid of it, is to be confidered as done rather with a view of paying the tribute of praife, where praife is fo juftly due, than to recom mend a work, whofe merit alone must have univerfally recom: recommended it before these fheets can have reached the public. 15. The Temple of Virtue. It is impoffible, confiftently with the brevity of my defign, to give the reader a proper idea of this very excellent work. An abstract would convey no jufter idea of it than the skeleton of a departed beauty would of her form when he was alive. Indeed the great and juft applause with which it has been received by all ranks of people makes it totally unneceffary to say any thing at all about it. Its merit is unquestionably of the very first class; and I am particularly happy in adding my fuffrage to the public voice. ΤΟ ΤΟ 1 The Right Hon. the Earl of TWITCHER. I MY LORD, Gt. O. S. 2d Feb. 79. my Cannot contain my rage till Clerk comes home; I fhall burft if I do. I, have been affronted by a wanton, a punk; yes, by your Lordship's faucy Paramour. I, the Lord High Cr of England, and keeper of the K——'s conscience, have lived to see the day when I must endure the contemptuous merriment of a minx! It is too much.-The Nobles fcorn my company; let them. I can eat, quaff, and be jolly with others.-Grafton calls me Caviller; Richmond bullies and infults me; Rockingham files me boor, and bleffes heaven that he was brought up among gentlemen; Cambden detects and expofes my quillets. All this I can bear patiently; but to be laughed at by a pert ftrumpet, to be called a scavenger, drives me to madnefs. She ridicules me in various languages. My coat is lampooned in French; my poor perriwig in Englith; and my inoffenfive ftockings in both the one and |