So I cut it, and fent it to Reynolds undrest, To paint it, or eat it, just as he lik'd best. Of the neck and the breaft I had next to difpofe; But in parting with thefe I was puzzled again, With the bow, and the who, and the where, and the when? I think they love ven'fon; I know they love beef: An acquaintance, a friend as he call'd himself, enter'd} Who fmil'd as he gaz'd on the ven'fon and me. What have we got here?Aye, this is good eating! And now that I think on't, as I am a finner, Left alone to reflect, having empty'd my shelf, When come to the place where we all were to dine, Tt And And your bacon I hate, like a Turk, or a Perfian: And what vex'd me moft was that damn'd Scottish rogue, If a prettier dinner I ever fet eyes on! Pray, a flice of your liver;-but may I be curft, I like thefe here dinners, fo pretty and fmall; But your friend there, the Doctor, eats nothing at all.' • I don't care if I keep a corner for thot ;' We'll all keep a corner,' the Lady cry'd out: While thus we refolv'd, and the pasty delay'd, Wak'd PRIAM, by drawing his curtains by night. But too foon we found out (for who could mistake her?) And now, that I think on't, the story may stop. To be plain, my good Lord, 'tis but labour misplac'd You may make a mistake—and think slightly of This.” Ugbrooke Park: A Poem. 4to. 2s. Robson. To this piece is prefixed a neatly-engraved frontifpiece, exhibiting a perspective view of the fcene, which is the fubject of the poem: a fhort fpecimen of which will give our readers an idea of the enter tainment it may afford to thofe, who are not immediately interested in the beauties of the local defcription. "Oft has the MUSE, my LORD as here she stray'd, As in one point, all Nature's charms appear; K. Lord Clifford, Baron of Chudleigh, to whom the poem is inferibed. Lord Chm's Prophecy, An Ode; addreffed to Lieutenant General G-ge. With explanatory and critical Notes, by the Editor. 4to. is. Almon. The foul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light, thro chinks, which time has made. Although we cannot in juftice refuse the tribute of praise which is due to the wit and humour of this author's* productions, we cannot help thinking he is not always equally fortunate in his choice of fubjects. It is recorded as one of the most flagitious acts of wickedness in the tyrant Nero, that he amufed himself with playing on the fiddle while Rome was in flames. It feems a fimilar fort of infenfibility in an Englishman to laugh and cut jokes while the mother country, armed with military thunders, is directing her deftructive lightenings to fet the towns of her colonies blazing. Admitting that both the men and measures which have brought us into this dreadful state of hoftility, were contemptible as wicked; yet wickednefs productive of fuch direful evils is not the proper object of ridicule. This writer ferioufly com pliments Dr. Price, to whom his pamphlet is dedicated, as a friend to the conftitution of Britain, and the rights of mankind. But to make this compliment the Doctor's due, the Doctor fhould have fhewn himself a friend to Britain; he fhould have difplayed his zeal for the rights of Englishmen, before he ftood up for the rights of mankind; he fhould have fhewn his love for his mother country before he had pretended affection for her colonies:- ---Granting, that what the Doctor has advanced were all true; the truth is not, in fuch cafes, to be spoken at all times. Had Dr. Price followed Dr. Franklin, and betaken himself to that country, whofe intereft he fo warmly efpoufes against those of his own, he might then be faid to have acted confiftently; indeed it becomes the bird to betake himfelf to fome other neft after he has foully bewrayed his own: but we think feriously, the political happiness of our native country should never be trifled with as a matter of dry fpeculation, nor fported with as a matter of merriment. M. The Tears of the Fool-Guards, on their Departure for America. Written by an Enfign in the Army. 4to. Is. Kearfley. A fatire, fuch as it is, againft effeminacy; which the writer has abfurdly put into the mouth of a military fribble. It requires more art and delicacy than this writer poffeffes to make any character fatitize itfelf. The ftyle alfo is vulgar and indelicate enough for even the drummer of a marching regiment; witness "Souls without fpunk, and pockets without pencet' fo that we cannot, by any means, give credit to the title, or fuppofe it written by an officer of the guards. Apparently the author of the Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers, with a number of other ingenious, though haftily-written, poetical and humourous performances; to the fubjects of most of which, his ftile and manner are more happily adapted than they are to the prefent. Tt 2 Answer' An Anfwer to the Tears of the Fool-Guards, &c. 4to. is. Kearsley. If both the fong and answer were fold together in a book for a halfpenny, as many others are, they would be ftill too dear. We conceive them both to be the production of the fame pen; and, indeed, it is with propriety that he who fet the froward children a-crying fhould dry up their tears and quiet them again. A Week at a Cottage. A Paftoral Tale. 8vo. 2s. Hawes. There is fome merit in the defcriptive part of this performance; and, if the file had been correct and fimple, as the fubject required, it might be read with fome degree of fatisfaction.-As it is, it is the ftrangeft low bombast we remember to have met with. An Examination of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Primitive Phyfic: fhewing; That a great Number of the Prefcriptions therein contained, are founded on Ignorance of the Medical Art, and of the Power and Operation of Medicines; and that it is a Publication calculated to do essential Injury to the Health of thofe Perfons who may place Confidence in it. Interfperfed with Medical Remarks and Practical Obfervations. By W. Hawes, Apothe cary. 8vo. 1s. 6d, Cadell. Highly as we think the public indebted to many of the medical practitioners of the prefent times, there are few to whom it owes greater obligations than to the worthy author of this publication. The part he has taken in the inftitution of the society for the recovery of drowned perfons, in conjunction with his ingenious colleague, Dr. Cogan, does him particular honour. And though his zeal in the cafe of Dr. Goldfmith may have been mifcon ftrued, as tending to decry a powerful and efficacious medicine; he certainly acted the part of a judicious apothecary, in advifing against its indifcriminate and injudicious adminiftration.-In the prefent cafe, it is to be lamented that the infamous publication, to which it is intended as an antidote, did not fall fooner into his hands; as it is morally impoffible (if what the author of it declares, refpecting its fale, be true*) that it must not have been eventually the caufe of many murders! We can hardly fpeak of it, indeed, with common patience; as, whatever excuie may be made for the quackery of ignorant old women, we cannot help thinking that a man of Mr. Wefley's education, knowledge of the world, and pretenfions to religion, conscious as he mult be of his ignorance of medicine, and his influence over others, if poffible more ignorant than himself, deserves, for this piece of phyfical empiricifm, neither more nor less than to be banged Having gone through, as Mr. Weftley informs the public, twenty er thirty editions. banged. For in murder, acceffaries are principals, and though, he might not be guilty of malice afore-thought, he certainly did it at the inftigation of the devil, not having the fear of God before his eyes'; which in a profeffed divine is truly diabolical. The recipes contained in Mr. Wefley's Primitive Phyfic are no fewer than one thousand and twelve; from the remarks on many of which, Mr. Hawes fufficiently proves, that no perfon can" with any degree of fafety, rely on a compilation fo extremely injudicious; the pretended remedies contained therein, being often of no use, and those which might be of utility, generally unattended with fuch directions, or regard to times and circumftances, as would be neceffary to render them efficacious; and indeed, often calculated only to produce the most dangerous and fatal effects." We shall content ourselves with quoting only two.--" No. 445. For a Bloody Flux, drink cold water as largely as poffible till the flux ftops."-Well faid, Dr. Sangrado; it is plain that, if the patient be carried off by the flux before it ftops, he will not have drank cold water enough, or as largely as poffible.* No. 683. To one poisoned, give one or two drachms of di ftilled verdigris." A dofe that would effectually poifon twenty or thirty people, though not poifoned before. But this, Doctor Wesley fays, is an error of the prefs that has escaped the corrector in one or more of the twenty or thirty editions of this publication. For drachms read grains. We fhould be apt, indeed, to make many grains of allowance for errors of the prefs, by which we ourselves are so often made to write nonfenfe, But Mr. Hawes affures us that this excufe is an artful evafion; for this error is in the fifth, the eighth, and the fixteenth editions; and there is the greatest reafon to believe, that it has paffed through every edition; for though Mr. W. has been publicly called upon to point out the edition in which there was not this error, he has not been able to point out any one." Mr. Hawes, indeed, fuffi ciently expofes the effrontery of this reverend quack. His pamphlet, however, is not confined merely to the pointing out fuch errors as might prove moft fatal; his medical remarks and obfervations ferving to fet thofe perfons right whom Mr. Wefley may have mifled. We earnestly recommend it, therefore, as particularly useful, and even neceffary, to all fuch as poffefs and pay any regard to Mr. Wefley's Primitive Phyfic. A Matter of Moment. 8vo. 6d. Corrall. K. This matter of moment is the inaccurate and deficient method of examining witneffes in the Court of Chancery; which the writer thinks, and with apparent reafon, requires correction and amend ment. *. The |