Addrefs to the Freeholders of the County of Huntingdon ibid A Letter to the Proprietors of Eaft India Stock, &c. Another Letter to the Proprietors of Eaft India Stock, &c. An Enquiry into the Means of preferving the public Roads 308 Confiderations upon the intended navigable Communication be- tween the Friths of Forth and Clyde An Effay on the Opera, written in Italian by Count Algarotti 313 Remarks on the Conduct and Writings of J. J. Rouffeau Familiar Letters between Abraham Hill, Efq. &c. Critical Reflections on the Chara&er of Alexander the Great 382) Dimfdale's Prefent Method of Inoculating for the Small-Pox 386 Chandler's Effay towards an Investigation of the prefent Me- Rufton's Effay on Inoculation for the Small-Pox Occafional Letters on the Practice of Inoculation Wallis's Tentamen Sophifticon, a Chemical Effay A Letter to his Grace the Duke of Grafton A feventh Letter to the People of England Dr. Williamfon's Narrative of the extraordinary. Case of a late Two Papers, on the Subject of taxing the British Colonies ibid The abfolute Neceflity of laying open the Trade to the Eaft- Historical Memoirs of the late Duke of Cumberland Hanway's Letters on the Importance of the rifing Generation of Letters from the Countefs de Sancerre, to the Count de Nancé ib. A View of the Trinity in the Glafs of Divine Revelation ibid An Inquiry, Hiftorical and Critical, into the Evidence against Effay on the Diseases most fatal to Infants Saunders's Tranflation of Plenck's new and easy Method of giving. Mercury to thofe afflicted with the Venereal Difeafe Morley's Effay on the Nature and Cure of the King's Evil 453- Obfervations on Specific Medicines, &c. Schultz's Account of Inoculation for the Small-Pox Voyage round the World in his Majefty's Ship the Dolphin, commanded by the Hon. Commodore Byron Abbé Coyer's Letter to Dr. Maty concerning the Patagonians A fhort View of the Laws now fubfifting with respect to the Powers of the Eaft-India Company to borrow Money 464 ib. A Letter to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Od ib: A Defence of Strictures on Dr. Lowth, refpecting Liberty 467 Alarm to all the Proteftants of Great-Britain and Ireland 469 Warning against Popish Doctrines ib. PREFACE ΤΟ ΤΗΕ TWENTY-THIRD VOLUME OF THE CRITICAL REVIEW. A S the Authors of the Critical Review feldom folicit an audience from the Public on their own account, they hope to meet with indulgence on the prefent occafion. It has been remarked, That the highest character a judge can acquire, is that of pleafing both parties, or neither. The truth of this obfervation the Critical Reviewers lately experienced; having perceived, from feveral anonymous publications, that their impartiality has excited a kind of jealoufy between the Dunces of England and Scotland, which terminates in each party abufing the Critical Review, The authors of this work took an early opportunity of declaring, That they never pres tended to infallibility in criticism, or prefumed 1 to decide with dogmatical authority: they have delivered their fentiments as opinions only, supported with reafons on which every reader may exercife his own understanding.'---They flatter themselves with having generally acted in 'ftrict conformity to thofe profeffions: though they confider it as a misfortune infeparable from the nature of their undertaking, if their obfervations have difgufted a few perfons of real genius; but muft, at the fame time, declare, that they have been always open to conviction, reproof, and information. They are inclined to think, that if they had not endeavoured to difcourage that deftructive antipathy which political prejudices had raised in England against the inhabitants of NorthBritain, it would have been impoffible for their moft inveterate enemy to charge the Critical Reviewers with forming a Scotch confpiracy to depreciate English literature; efpecially as many inftances might be produced in which they have treated the writers of that country very freely, and even declared, "It is a melancholy truth, that every idle Scotchman who will not, or cannot earn his bread by the employment in which he was brought up, commences author, and undertakes to tranflate books into a language of which he is entirely igno rant.? See Number I. page 81, |