the action itself. The account is illuftrated by a plan of Aboukir Bay, showing the places of the feveral fhips, in and after the engagement. Some paffages in the narrative are highly interefting and even affecting, from the fimplicity as well as accuracy with which they delineate great events; and the whole is fuch an account as every Briton muft perufe with heart-felt fatisfaction. ART. 37. The liftory and Antiquities of Scarborough, and the Vicinity; with Views and Plans. By Thomas Hinderwell. 106 PP. 12s. Richardfon. 1798. 4to. There had been no hiftory of Scarborough, though few places better deserve it; and it seems a little extraordinary, that among the number of its annual vifitors, none fhould have been found to do honour to its beauties, though all must have been strongly impreffed with the knowledge of its poffeffing many. This work is well arranged with refpect to its materials, refpectable in point of ftyle, with the advantage of fome neat and well exe cuted engravings. We may add, that it is the cheapest book of the kind that the British Critic has had occafion to notice. ART. 38. The Hiftory of the incorporated Town and Parishes of Gravesend and Milton, in the County of Kent; felected with Accuracy from Topographical Writers, and enriched from Manufcripts hitherto unnoticed, recording every Event that has occurred in the aforefaid Torun and Parishes, from the Norman Conqueß to the prefent Time. 4to. 7s. 6d. Pocock. 1797• · This publication is in all refpects inferior to the history of Scarborough, yet contains many curious and important particulars. We with that writers on the fubject of topography would agree in fome ftandard with refpect to fize at leaft. Their different works would thus be more easily preferved, and of more general use. ART. 39. Illuftrations of the Manners and Expences of ancient Times in England in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, deduced from the Accounts of Churchwardens, and other authentic Documents, collected from various Parts of the Kingdom. With explanatory Notes. 4to. 128. Nichols. 1798. This is a book of pure antiquarian refearch, collected with indefatigable diligence, for which the compiler is entitled to the thanks of all who are ftudious of the manners and cuftoms of preceding times. Among the most curious articles in this entertaining collection, are the remarks of Dr. Pegge, and the expences of Sir Harry Unten's embally to France in 1591. There are many other entertaining and interefting papers, which juftify our recommending the publication, and infertion of the following fpecimen. "A Com A Commandment giuen by the Queenes moft excellent Maieftie, the Twelfth of Februarie, and 22nd of her Highneffes Reigne, and declared by the Lord Chauncellor of England, and other the Lordes of her Maiefties most honourable Priuie Counsel in the Starre Chamber, concerning clokes and ruffes of exceffiue length and depth. "It is also to be understoode that the faide 12th day of Februarie in this prefent yeere 1579, by the Queenes Maiefties expreffe commandment, it was declared and published by the Lord Chauncellor, and other the Lords of her Maiefties faide Counsell that from the one-andtwentieth of this moneth, no perfon fhall vfe or weare such exceffive long clokes, being in common fight monstrous, as nowe of late are begonne to be vfed; and before two yeeres paft hath not bene vsed in this realme. Neither alfo fhoulde any perfon ufe or weare fuch great and exceffiue ruffes in or about the vppermost part of their neckes, as had not been used before two yeeres paft; but that all persons shoulde in modeft and comely fort leave off fuch fonde, difguifed, and monftrous manner of attyring themfelves, as both was unfupportable for charges, and undecent to be worne, "And this her Maieftie commanded to be obferved, upon paine of her high indignation, and the paines thereto due, and willed all officers to fee the reformation and redreffe thereof, to the punishment of any offending in these cafes as perfons wilfully disobeying or contemning her Maieftie's commandment. "Giuen the 22nd yeere of her Higneffes reigne, as is before expreffed. God faue the Queene. Imprinted at London, by Chriftopher Barker, Printer to the Queene's most excellent Maieftie. Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maieftatis. Anno Dom, 1579," ART. 49. An Appeal to the Men of Great Britain, in Behalf of Women. 8vo. 300 pp. 5s. Johnfon. 1798, An enquiry into the causes of human mifery, and of the evils incident to fociety, is one of the moft noble and beneficial employments of the understanding. But this fubject, more than any other, requires that we fet out with certain fixed principles, and propofe certain limits to our researches, or we muft inevitably wander into the moft grofs and glaring abfurdities. Thefe obfervations apply peculiarly to Innovators of the prefent age. The fpirit of fpeculation has known no bounds; and if it were poffible to trace any leading principle in which the modern philofophy refts, it would be "whatever is, is wrong." Its profeffors draw lamentable pictures of the miferies and diftreffes of life; and, inftead of attributing them to the real caufe, the wickedness and mifchievous paffions of human nature, afcribe them to the incorrect organization of fociety, and the abuses of citablished inftitution. The writer of the prefent work has difcovered, that woman, under the regulations of marriage, and the fubordina tions tions in which the law has placed her, is frequently unhappy by the faults of others, and enjoys not that perfect liberty of conduct, for the lofs of which no comfort or gratification can compenfate. Man, therefore, is her tyrant and fuperior; that odious fubjection to his power is the caufe of all her mifery-it is unjuft because her abilities are equal if not fuperior to his, and every privilege which man enjoys in exclufion of woman, in an unwarrantable ufurpation, abfurd in theory, and oppreffive in practice. Such are the leading features of the work under examination, which would not have attracted fo much of our notice, but that we thought it right to enter our protest generally against this incautious and defultory mode of reafoning. The lady might be told, that woman is unhappy only as man is alío frequently unhappy, not from her fubjection or his ufurpation, but from the common follies and weakneffes of each, and from the evils neceffarily incident to our imperfect conftitution of mind and body. That woman poffefles the fovereign empire of the heart, an influence and authority greater than laws and regulations could poffibly fanction or establish as her right; that man, by labouring for her fufteftance, and providing for her enjoyment, fhelters her from far the greater half of the cares of the world, to all of which, a state of independence must neceffarily expofe her, and which nature has fo ill calculated her to bear. But reafon is generally thrown away upon fyftemmakers and visionary reformers, for where the heated imagination mifleads the undertanding, argument lofes its effect. We fhall therefore difmifs this appeal, obferving only that the language is flovenly and incorrect, the reafoning weak and fri volous, and that it abounds with grammatical errors which it is unneceffary to point out, as it is not likely to fee a fecond edition; and as we have not difcovered talents in the execution which might be beneficially employed upon any other fubject. Londres. ART. 41. Raffellas Prince D'Abiffanié, Roman Traduit d'Anglois de 3s. 6d. This is a very creditable tranflation, but its utility, in this country, is not immediately obvious. It may be added, that the lofty language of the original, its dignity, and fplendour, feemed but ill calculated for the French idiom. There are, however, in the translation, many elegant and happy paffages. The plates are of very moderate execution; and to the lift of errata at ihe end much might be added. ART. ART. 42. The American Gazetteer; exhibiting in Alphabetical Order a much more full and accurate Account than has been given of the States, Towns, Harbours, Mountains, Provinces, Villages, Gulfs, Forts, Countries, Rivers, Sounds, Indian Tribes and Cities, Bays, Capes, New Difcoveries on the American Continent, alfo of the West-India flands, and other Iflands appendant to the Continent, and thefe newly difcovered in the Pacific Ocean, defcribing the Extent, Boundaries, Population, Government, Productions, Commerce, Manufactures, Curiofities, c. of the feveral Countries, and of their important Civil Divifions, and the Longitude and Latitude, the Bearings and Distances, from noted Places, of the Cities, Towns, and Villages: quith a parti cular Defcription of the Georgia Western Territory; the whole com prifing upwards of Seven Thousand diftinct Articles. Collected and compiled from the beft Authorities, and arranged with great Care by and under the Direction of Jedidiah Morfe, D.D.Author of the American Univerfal Geography, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Member of the Maffachuffet's Hiftorical Society. The Second Edition corrected, illuftrated with Seven new and improved Maps; to which are added, Facts and Calculations refpecting the Population and Territory of the United States of America. Published according to Act of Congress. 8vo. 6s. Printed in Boston, New England; London, reprinted for Stockdale, &c. 1799. We have more than once had occafion to commend the diligence, accuracy, and ingenuity of Dr. Morfe. This is a very acceptable publication, not only to Americans, but to readers of all defcriptions. No doubt can be entertained of its fidelity; and it is presented to the public in a form highly convenient and agreeable. The maps in particular are very nea:ly executed. ART. 43. An Efay on Literary Property; containing a Commentary on the Statute of Queen Anne, (8 2. An. ch. 19) and Animadverfions on that Statute. By the Rev. Dr. Frufer. With a Dedicatory Preface to the Lord Chancellor. 8vo. 50 pp. Is. 6d. Faulder. 1798. It certainly appears, from the statement of Dr. Trufler, that much is wanting to the provifions of the ftatute of Queen Anne, to render the property of an author in his work fufficiently fecure. Among other fources of fraud and error, the following is mentioned, refpecting the folemn entry at Stationers'-hall, on which the whole depends. "It is the cuftom of the clerk, or under-clerk, not being paid more than fixpence for his trouble, (under the statute) to be very indifferent about the bufinefs. Go almoft at what hour you will, if you infift on feeing the entry made, he will tell you it is not office. time; nay, I have been told myself, that they will not and cannot be made to enter it in the register-book, but when they please. On the nine copies being left, and fixpence paid, he will afk the proprietor's name, and make a memorandum of it in the wafte-book; or, if a paper is brought, he will put that paper afide, and make no entry while you you ftay; but, perhaps, fome few days after, when at leifure, and there are a number of books to enter, if they can find the memorandum, they will enter your book with the reft." P. 19. Literary property is evidently fubject to fufficient difadvantages, without being expofed thus to the caprice and infolence of clerks, in the very source of its eftablishment. FOREIGN CATALOGUE. FRANCE. ART. 44. Introduction à l'étude des pierres gravées, par A. L. Millin, confervateur du Muséum des antiques, à la bibliotheque nationale. Deuxième édition augmentée et corrigée. In 8vo. de 131 pp. Pr. 2 liv. 8 f. Paris. This fecond edition of a work, which we had already noticed in the British Critic, is confiderably improved and augmented, the former having confifted of 61 pages only. The author has not neglected to take advantage of the hints that had been given him by fome foreigu antiquaries, at the head of whom we are to place the Abbé Visconti. An elementary work can hardly be faid to admit of being analysed, inafmuch as it is itfelf an analyfis. As a specimen of our author's manner, we fhall therefore only quote the part referred to in our former critique, on glyptographic lithology, in its prefent improved state. "L'art de graver des images fur des pierres dures," fays the author, à l'aide d'inftrumens particuliers, fe nomme GLYPTIQUE; ce mot eft dérivé du grec. "Les fubitances que le graveur employe, font animales, végétales, ou minérales. Parmi les fubftances animales, on compte les coquilles, le corail et l'ivoire.-Parmi les fubitances végétales, on employoit différens bois, tels que le citronier, le buis, l'ébène.-Les fubftances minérales font les bitumes, les métaux et les pierres.-Parmi les bitumes, on diftingue le jayet, et le fuccin, qui eft l'életre des Grecs.-Parmi les métaux, on cite l'hematite, l'aimant, la malachite.-Les pierres font les fubftances que les graveurs ont le plus fouvent travaillées. * Vol. x, October, p. 453. On |