paper wealth has plunged them into; whilst distress and public bankruptcy dogg them at the heels. It is moreover hoped, that this ftate of the national fituation may tend to open the nation's eyes, to the indifpenfable neceffity of putting an end to this unnatural civil war with America; a war of an enormous and unknown expence, and of a difficulty, not to fay impracticability in itself, little understood by the fhallow advifers and conductors of it; without mentioning the armed ftate, the fure, and decifive interference, at a proper time, of rival foreign nations; a war of which the juftice (if even no more was meant than meets the ear) is very doubtful, the fuccefs unavailing, and next to desperate, and for the expediency of which, without begging the question, there is not, cannot be, one argument, or advocate "Far, very far from my thoughts, is any thing personal against the noble lord who is at the head of the finance department; he has done what many, I might almoft fay all his predeceffors have done before him; for each, alas! in his tide of power, has too often been the licensed plunderer, too feldom the careful father of the ftate, but perhaps the circumftances, or at least the corruptions of the times, do not admit of a better regimen. "Justice moreover requires the avowal from me, that in the debt discharged in 1772, and in the lefs than nothings of 1774 and 1775, great frugality and a rigorous attention to the public intereft has been fhewn; and indeed through the whole of the noble lord's conduct, a faint, a feeble, and a doubtful ray of feeling for the prefent, apprehenfion for the future, fhines; making at least the darkness of his colleagues more vifible. Something likewife of English candour, English humour, English good-nature (whilft England was good-natured) barren indeed of good works, breaks forth every now and then; and fhould the stealing hand of time mature thefe happy feeds into fair virtue, into noble decifion, either with foft compaffion, equal justice, attempered with fweet humanity, to wipe away the bloody tear from the cheek of much mif-reprefented America, or with generous difdain, without cafting one lingering longing look behind, to renounce emoluments, which hon our forbids to tafte, my poor honest praise, stern though I am, and relentless in the public caufe, fhall freely flow, and applauding indulgent Britain fhall in the future perhaps forget the past." At the peril of the Minifter then be it, if he does not endeavour to acquire, by means, which honour may not forbid to taste, fo inestimable a commodity as genuine, honeft, tho' poor, Scottish praife for English candour, English humour and English goodnature! ART. XXI. An Addrefs to the People on the Subject of the Contef between Great-Britain and America. 8vo. 3d. Wilkie. This addrefs begins with the following anecdote. "A gentleman told me, about two years ago, at the time of the inftallation of the Chancellor of Oxford, that he faw a letter from the Bishop of Ofnaburg to his preceptor, then at Oxford, in which he Y 2 faid, faid, that while he was walking with the King, the preceding day, in the gardens of Kew, his Majefly told him, "that it was the duty of every man, let his rank of life be what it will, to contribute what be can to the Public good," and he was refolved to do every thing in his power for the good of his father's fubjects. A bleffing on the little father in God (if a prieft, who is no Bishop, may venture to bestow a bleffing on his fuperior) for the goodness of his heart and the benevolence of his intentions!- God fave the King, alfo, for inculcating fo patriotic a maxim in the mind of his reverend pupil. We even fee the good effects of it in the production of the piece before us, which the author declares he was induced to write, becaufe he was fatisfied with the truth and justice of the royal precept.-Such is the effect of illuftrious examples! Sorry, indeed, are we to fay that this threepenny addrefs is not worth twopence, and yet it is just as much and as little to the purpofe, as many of our late twelve-penny touches on the fame fubject. If there be no novelty alfo, in what our addreffer has faid, he has fomething new in his manner of faying it, as the following paragraph may witnefs. "Will you then, my friends, countrymen, and Britons, look tamely on and fee this great empire torn in pieces and dismembered by unbridled faction at home, and unprovoked rebellion abroad? Forbid it Heaven! Forbid it reafon and eommon fenfe. Let even compaffion for mitled Americans forbid it. They, like too many of ourfelves, have become the dupes of defigning men, who care not by what ladder they can climb to power, if they do but fucceed, Dr. Franklyn, to be fure, is a man of great natural parts, of uncommon mental powers; but of profound cunning, and moft boundlefs ambition. Let us admire him as a philofopher; but though he has mifled many of the Americans, let him not with his electrical conductors torpify our fenfes, and deprive us of our reafon. Let the Britifh lion now be roufed, or let him never roar again. If you will tamely bear this infult, pluck out his fangs, tear off his claws, cut off his lafhing tail and fhaggy mane, and lay them on the broad tail of the beaver, to gallop to his American hole, and leave your lion to become the contemptible laughing-flock of deriding nations, for the vile afs has dared to kick up his heels against him."-There's trope and figure for you ! BOOKS BOOKS and PAMPHLETS. Published in the course of the Month, of which a farther account is deferred. ART. 22. An Efay towards an Interpretation of the Prophecies of Daniel. By Richard Amner. 35. Johnson. ART. 23. A Poftscript to Strictures on the Gout. By the Author of the Pamphlet. Newbury. ART. 24. Letters from the Duchefs de Crui and others, on Subje&s moral and entertaining. 5 vol. 15s. Robfon. ART. 5. The Captive freed. A poetical Effay. 6d. Dilly. ART. 26. Mrs. C. M. Rudd's Genuine Letter to Lord Weymouth. IS. Kearfly. ART. 27. An historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland. By J. Curry, M. D. 4to. 15s Murray. ART. 28. The Blossoms of Virtus; a Series of Polite Letters on important Subjects. 28. 6d. Waters. ART. 29. Lectures concerning Hiftory. By Michael Kearnay, D. D. 4to. 28 6d. Murray. ART. 30. An Enquiry into the prefent State of Boarding-Schools for young Ladies. Whitaker. ART. 31. The Loves of Califio and Emira. By John Seally. 2s. 6d. Becket. ART. 32. A Friendly Monitor for both Rich and Poor. is. Crowder. ART. 33. A Poetical Effay on Duelling. By Cha. P. Layard, A. M. 15. Robfon. ART. 34. Mifcellanies in Profe and Verse. IS Almon. ART. 36. Tracts on Medical Subjects. By Charles Efe. Davies. ART. 37. An Essay on the King's Friends. 1s Almon.. Is. 6d. ART. 38. The Cafe of Nicholas Nugent, Efq. late Lieutenant in the first Regiment of Foot-Guards. 25 Almon. ART. 39. A Sermon Preached before the Lords Spiritual and temporal, on January 30th, 1776. By James Lord Bishop of St. David. White. CORRESPONDENCE. TO THE LONDON REVIEWERS. Tenacious as you appear to be of your character for candour and impartiality, I cannot fee the neceffity you were under of admitting T. D's illiberal attack on Dr: Price, in the correfpondence of your last month's Review. Had the affailant controverted the Doctor's argument arguments, there had been fome plea; but his letter is mere declamation! the ebullition of party zeal, and perfonal fpleen.-I am very clear that T. D. does not know the Dr.-I am perfuaded, if he did, he would have shuddered at charging him with being a traitor to his country.-In the preface to his printed pamphlet, he confefles his letter to be only a baffy remonftrance against Dr. ?—'s performance," the whole argument of which he could have eafily refuted at large, on the Doctor's own premises." It is a great pity he did not, instead of abufing the Dr. and his cause, attempt fuch a refutation, efpecially if it be fo eafy.-It is now not too late: for not one of all the Doctor's anfwerers has attempted it. They fart at his principles, as the father of falsehood did at the touch of Ithuriel's fpear. And I here call upon your correfpondent as well as upon his other antagonists, to lay afide personal reflection and party zeal, and to meet the Dr. on his own ground, the true and genuine principles of civil liberty.-I cannot, at the fame time, but enter my protest against the cold uncritical manner, in which you yourfelves fpoke of the Doctor's pamphlet. Surely you cannot think it your intereft to join the minifterial fide of the question: I fay think it your intereft; for I have too good an opinion of your understanding to think you can from conviction espouse their caufe. The Monthly Reviewers, have done the worthy author more justice, and fpoke of him as he deferves to be spoken of-Dare you infert a quotation from fuch formidable opponents?-If you do, here it is. Among the most refpectable of writers, the author of the obfervations, muft, undoubtedly, be ranked. He does not attempt to engage our attention by the fpecious and flaming declamation of a party-zealot, or the factious invective and rant of modern patriotifm. In him we fee the warm pleader united with the found Beafoner, the intelligent politician, and (above all) the INDEPENDENT MAN, the UNINFLUENCED FRIEND of his country." I am, Gentlemen, yours, &c. 66 * D T. ** The London Reviewers have no other answer to make D T. than to repeat what they have often given, affurances of their own impartiality. They feek not to fet up their opinions as a standard to others, tho' they claim the liberty of fpeaking them, in commoɑ with others; a liberty which they hope will not be denied them, while they to candidly afford others an opportunity of freely promul gating theirs They cannot forbear remarking, however, that it is with no great confiftency the above elogium is bestowed on Dr. P. by critics who charge him, at the fame time, with being guilty of an intemperate fally, in saying the late addreffers were infigated by Javage jolly to offer their lives and fortunes to the king, to enable him to make a flaughter of our brethren in America! TO THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON REVIEW. SIR "In reading the Appendix to the fecond volume of your Review, I could not help being fruck with a pafiage quoted from Dr. Barry's Obfer K 66 Obfervations on the Wines of the Ancients; in which he fays, in the fucceeding reigns, viz. to that of Auguftus, the flatterers of the emperors accumulated immenfe fortunes; that Caligula ufed to roll himfelf in heaps of gold, and Nero's general inftruction to the taxgatherers, was, You well know my intentions, collect as much as 66 you can, and leave them as little ;" and, adds the Doctor, new "words, abradere, corradere, were coined to exprefs this kind of pillage," but for heaven's fake, were these new words coined at that time or were the fenfes in which they are here to be understood, new fenfes then affixed to those words When Phormio, in the play of that name, fays to Geta, Aiiis alicunde eft periculum, unde aliquid abradi poteft; and when Syrus, in the fecond act of the Adelphi, fays to Sanno, minas decem CORRADET alicunde, does not the former mean, as to others, whom there is fomething you might (as we would fay in English) fkin or fleece from? and the latter, "he (meaning fchylus) will fcrape together" that fum one where or another" and is not this, as refpecting either word, the very fame fenfe in which it is to be taken in what the Dr. fays of the charge impofed on the tax-gatherers, viz. that they fhould fleece or skin the people, and by that means ferape together all they could? If I am miftaken, I fhould be glad to be fet right; if I am right already, give me leave to express my wonder that fuch an affertion, as to the novelty of either the words themfelves or the fenfe of them, fhould efcape Dr. Barry, or that fo good and quick-fighted a Critic as Dr. Kenrick, fhould let it pafs without animadverfion. Feb 6. 1776. 66 I am, Sir, Your most obedient Servant. J. B. P. S. I alfo a little wonder how that Gallo-Scotticifm, or Scotto-Gallicism of Sir David Dalrymple, in the fifth note, in the feof the last Review, and which is repeated in it, efcaped your notice; viz. that of has been for was; fpeaking of a thing no longer exifting; you know the Scotch fpeaking of a dead man, fay, he has been fuch, or fuch a kind of man; an Englishman fays he was fo. **In reply to the above correfpondent, who informs us, in a fubfequent letter, of feveral other paffages, in which the words in queftion bear a fimilar fenfe, we have only to fay that a by-stander. fees often more of the game than they who are playing it. Add to this that 'twere impoffible, if the reviewers thought it of fufficient moment, to take notice of all fuch flips as the above:—We should be glad to know how to address a line or two to this correfpondent. The real author of the Hiftory of Lady Anne Neville, returns the Editor of the London Review his fincere thanks, for his candid behaviour, in acquainting him of the ungenerous method taken by a fecret enemy to prejudice the work. Notwithstanding the feigned hand, he has traced it with a great degree of certainty; but as he imputes it to the writer's ignorance, and confequently thinks him rather deferving of his contempt than of his anger, he shall take no other |