be the last, and that he will abide by the refolution he has pru dently taken, and which he thus determinately announces.

"My readers may please to take notice, that if any envious, abufive, dirty fcribbler, fhall hereafter take it in his head to creep into a hole like an affaffin, and lie lurking there on purpose to scandalize and rail at me; and dare not fhew his face like a man; I fhall give myself no manner of trouble about such an animal, but look upon him as even below contempt. W. EMERSON."

S.

A Treatise on Cattle: fhewing the most approved Methods of Breeding, Rearing, and Fitting for Ufe, Horfes, Affes, Mules, Horned Cattle, Sheep, Goats and Swine; with Directions for the proper Treatment of them in their feveral Disorders: To which is added, A Differtation on their contagious Difeafes. Carefully collected from the best Authorities, and interfpersed with Remarks, by John Mills, Efq. F. R. S. 8vo. 6s. Johnson.

Mr. Mills's fyftem of Husbandry * has been fo well received by the publick, that there is little doubt but the present volume, which is defigned as a continuation of that system, will meet with as favourable a reception. It was finished, we are told, and prepared for publication fome years ago; when the manufcript was unfortunately burnt, with the stock in trade of the publisher: at whofe request it was written anew. The treatife now offered to the reader, fays Mr. Mills, is the refult of that fecond la bour; in the prosecution of which, the most approved writers of different countries, and the practical experience of fome judicious friends in this, have been my principal guides. To these laft, in particular, I owe an acceffion of new materials, which were not in my former copy, and by means of which this is confiderably enlarged.

So rapid, however, are the improvements in this branch of fcience, or fo determined the fpirit of innovation, that it is hardly poffible for a writer to keep pace with the reformation, real or pretended, of the arts of agriculture and hufbandry. Thus we find Mr. Mills ftill maintaining, on the authority of Mr. Arthur Young and others, the preference of ploughing with oxen rather than horfes; without taking any notice of what has been lately urged in fupport of the contrary practice in a late very plaufible treatife, entitled Rural Improvements of which we gave an account, with an extract on this subject, in our Review for November last. But, perhaps, that publication

is

A new edition of which, enriched with fuch effential improvements as have been made fince its first publication, we are told, is preparing for the prefs. + Printed for DodЛley-See Vol. II. page 393.

is too recent; Mr. Mills appearing to have industriously confulted the best writers of any long ftanding, and to have digefted their feveral authorities with judgment and propriety.

His treatife is divided into eight books; the first of which confists of two parts, and respects the nature, diseases external and internal, and the manner of treating horfes.-Book the fecond, treats of affes-the third of mules-the fourth of horned cattle-the fifth of fheep-the fixth of goats-the feventh of fwine-the eighth of the contagious diseases of cattle to which is added a postscript, relative to the fymptoms and cure of the epidemical distemper, which prevailed among the horned cattle of this county, a few years ago; written by that learned and judicious phyfician, Dr. Peter Layard. To the whole is added a copious index of the matters treated of throughout an appendage of fo much convenience to the reader, that we wonder it is not more often adopted by writers on mifcellaneous fubjects; as, though it might coft them fome little labour, they could not fail to find their intereft in it.

:

M.

Ode to Mr. Pinchbeck, upon his newly invented Patent CandleSnuffers, by Malcolm MGreggor, Efq; Author of the Heroic Epifle to Sir William Chambers, and the Heroic Poftfcript. 4to. 6d. Almon.

Quofque ergo fruftrà pafcemus ignigenum iftum? Apuleii Met. Lib. 7. Why should a Patent be granted to this Candle-Snuffer in vain? Why the Author of the Heroic Epiftle to Sir William Chambers, that has fold so amazingly,* fhould doubt, as he infinuates, this Ode's felling fo well as Mr. Cumberland's, which has hardly fold at all, we know not. His having put on the mask of a Scotchman cannot, as he fuppofes, be an impediment; fome of the best publications, which have appeared of late years, having been written by natives of Scotland: nay, what is more to the purpose, fome of the worst too, of the fame nativity, have fold better than the best book that hath been written by any Englishman these fifty years.-To relieve the author, however, from his apprehenfions, that it fhould not be fufficiently read (for about its fale, we are perfuaded, he is indifferent) we thall tranfcribe the whole; conceiving our intentions to answer the end of the writer, a fufficient apology for, what otherwise might be called, a trefpafs on his literary property.†

The thirtieth (though probably the printer meant the thirteenth) edition having been advertised within thefe few days.

Rev.

A liberty we may have taken before, with the fame writer; if we were mifinformed respecting the author of thofe pleasant little stanzas, entitled the Hampstead Contest, printed in our last October Review: to the terfe and humorous ftile of which the present ode, though fomewhat less easy and elegant, bears a striking refemblance. Rev.

VOL. III.

"Illuftrious

Illuftrious PINCHBECK! Condescend,
Thou well-belov'd and beft King's friend,
Thefe lyric lines to view;

O! may they prompt thee, ere too late,
To fnuff the candle of the state,

That burns a little blue.

It once had got a stately wick,
When in its patent-candlestick
The revolution put it;

As white as wax we faw it fhine.

Thro' two whole lengths of BRUNSWICK's line,
"Till B--- firft dar'd to fmut it.

Since then but wherefore tell the tale?
Enough, that now it burneth pale,

And forely waftes its tallow;
Nay, if thy poet rightly weens,
(Tho' little kill'd in ways and means).
Its fave-all is but fhallow.

Come then, ingenious artist, come,
And put thy finger, and thy thumb,
Into each polih'd handle;

On thee alone our hopes depend,
Thy king's, and eke thy country's friend,
To trim Old. England's candle.

But firft we pray, for its relief,
Pluck from its wick, each tory thief,

It cife muft quickly rue it;

While N- and M-- fputter there,

Thou'lt ne'er prevent with all thy care,
The melting of the fuct.

There's TWITCHER too, that old he-witch
Sticks in his bole as black as pitch,
† And makes a filthy pother;
When curft with fuch a forry fiend,
And lighted too at either end,
"Twill foon be in a fmother.

I fear me much in fuch a plight,
Thofe tapers bleft would lofe their light
Canadian fanes that deck;

Which pious ---- ordains to blaze,

And gild with their establish'd rays,
Our lady of Quebec.

His arms, thou hallowed image! blefs,

And furely thou canst do no lefs,

He is thy faith's defender;

Thou

Thefe Initials, like thofe in the banns of marriage published between N. and M. may be filled up at the reader's pleasure.

Vide Common Prayer Boot.

Our ingenious inventor's fnuffers are particularly calculated to remedy this evil, to which indeed all candles are more or less subject. See the Patentee's advertisement.

It is humbly prefumed that the claffical reader will here perceive a boldnels of tranfition, only to be equalled by Pindar, and perhaps by Horace, in fome of his fublimer Cdes.

Thou owest thy place to him alone,
As other Jacobites have done,
And not to the Pretender,

Hafte then, and quafh the hot turmoil,
That flames in Bolton's angry foil,
And frights the mother-nation:-
Know, lady! if its rage you stop,
PINCHBECK fhall fend you, from his fhop,
A most fuperb oblation.

His patent fnuffers, in a dish

Of burnish'd gold; if more you wish,
His cyclops fhall beftir

Their brawny ftumps, and for thy fake,
Of PINCHBECK's own mixt-metal make
A huge extinguisher,

To form the mafs ------, thy zeal
Shall furnish that well-temper'd steel,
Thou did'ft at Minden Brandith';
Nor yet fhall G-'s reverend dean,
Counting its worth, refufe, I ween,
His ponderous leaden standish.
Poor doctor JOHNSON, I'm afraid,
Can give but metaphoric aid;.

His ftyle's cafe-harden'd graces:
M'PHERSON, without fhame, or fear,
Sir JOHN DALRYMPLE, and SHEBBEARE
Shall melt their brazen faces.

And fure, this mixt metallic stuff,
Will yield materials large enough
To mold the mighty cone;
But how tranfport it, when 'tis caft
Across the deep Atlantic vaft,

"Twill weigh fome thousand stone?

"Leave that to me" our lady cries,
"Howe'er gigantic be its fize,

"I have a fcheme in petto;

"I'll fly with it from fhore to shore,
"Safe as my footy fifter bore,
"Her cottage to Loretto.

"Swift to the Congrefs with my freight
"I'll speed, and on their heads its weight
"Soufe with fuch skill and care;
"That PUTTNAM, WASHINGTON beneath,
"And grafping LEE fhall wish to breathe
"A pint of PRIESTLEY's air.

This great philofopher has lately discovered a method of fabricating a new fpecies of air, of fo infinitely fuperior falubrity and duration to that vulgar atmospherical air, which for want of better we have been obliged to breathe for upwards of five thousand years, that it is to be fuppofed that no Macaroni, Savoir Vivre, or in plain English, no body that knows what's what, will in future condefcend to refpire any air, that is not fealed with the doctor's own arms, and figned with his own hand-writing. It is to be feared, however, that his pneumatic vials will be liable to be counterfeited, as our philofopher has not intereft enough at court to procure a patent. Indeed were fuch a patent granted, it might fuperfede Mr. Pinchbeck's; because that in this air a candle is found to burn with fo bright and continued a flame, that it could never want inuffing. See Vol. 2. of Dr. Priestley's Experiments on Air.

Q:34

"The

An Effay on Civil Government; in which the Right of chufing of Officers and Members of Parliament, for the City and Corporation of London, is fhewn to be anciently and unalienably vefted in the Freemen at large, or the whole Commonalty of Citizens; from whom it has been unconftitutionally taken and transferred to the Livery. Infcribed to Sir William Withers, Lord Mayor of London; by Dr. William King, late Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, Keeper of the Records, and licar-general to the Lord Primate, of Ireland, &c. To which is added, A Remonftrance with the Court of Common-Council, on their prefenting the Freedom of the City to Dr. Price, for his Obfervations on Civil Liberty; Setting forth the inconfiftency of their concern for the Liberties of the Americans, while they trample on the Rights and Privileges of their Fellow-Citizens. Svc. 15.

Wheble.

Ye, foolish Galatians who hath betwitched you.

*

PAUL, the Apofile, To this Effay is prefixed the following preface: "The author of the Remonftrance, annexed to the following Effay, having caufed his firft fketch to be printed and given away among his acquaintance, he has been prevailed on to correct fome of its inaccuracies and to prefix the tract itself, which originally fuggested it; not only because it is now little known and the subject at present peculiarly interesting, but because the abilities and celebrity of the writer, by giving fauction to the argument, may be an apology for the freedom, taken by the remonftrator, in the revival ôf it."

Having made a pretty large extract, in our last Review, from the declamatory part of this pamphlet (which is here reprinted with little alteration) and given a general abftra&t of its argument; we fhall refer the reader, who is curious to fee Dr. King's tract, to the pamphlet itself; presenting our readers in general, with a paffage or two from the Remonftrator's illuftration of the Effay, which he has here taken for his text.

"I could

* By which means it should seem that fome account of it came to be given

in the London Review, for the last month.