56. An Effay upon the King's Friends, with an Account of fom Discoveries made in Italy, and found in a Virgil, concerning the Tories. To Dr. S―-1 J▬▬n. 8vo. 15. Almon.

This Effay differs from the preceding in being made upon Something; but of what ftuff it confifts, more than thirty-fix pages of paper, filled with a mixture of profe and poetry, we leave to the determination of the learned gentleman to whom it is addreffed, if he can submit to peruse it.

57. Intereft Tables on an improved Plan. Sherving by Inspection the legal Intereft on every Sum from 11. to 1000l. and from 1000l. to 10,000l. for 1 Day to 30, 40, and 50 Days, and for 3, 6, 9, and 12 Months. Tables for 3, 3, 4, 41, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 71, and 8 per Cent. from 11. to 10,000l. for 3, 6, 9. and 12 Months. A Table for 100l. at 3 per Cent, per Annum, from 1 Day to 365 Days, particularly useful to the Dealers in Eaft-India Company's Bonds. A Table of Discount at 61⁄2 per Cent, the Allowance made by the East-India Company to the Purshafers of Goods at their Sales for Prompt-payment: calculated to the One hundredth Part of a Penny, from One Penny to One Thoufand Pounds. A Table for the Payment of Salaries or Wages. A Table fhewing the Number of Days from any Day in one Month to the fame Day in any other Month. By Robert Griffin, 8vo. 6s, Carnan.

In a commercial country every attempt to facilitate the tranfactions among merchants, and all others dependent upon trade, claims the attention of the public, and merits its approbation in a degree proportioned to its excellence. The contents of the voJume before us, is amply expreffed in the title page: in the firft fet of Tables, the intereft is calculated a 5 per cent. which fhews apon infpection the amount on any number of pounds, from 1 to 10,000 for any time from 1 day to 12 months; and may be readily adapted to calculations of difcount on foreign bills at four per cent, a circumitance which fometimes occurs, by only deducting a fifth part of the amount: Of the other Tables the author gives the following account.

The Tables of 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5%, 6, 61, 7, 71, and 8 per cent. per annum, are calculated for 3. 6, 9: and 12 months, at the proper Time for receiving intereft from the public funds, and for the dealers in navy and victualling bills, &c.

The Table for 100 /. at 3 per cent. per annum, from I day to 365 days, is particularly ufeful to the dealers in Eaft-India Company's bonds.

The Table of discount at 6 per cent. the allowance made by the East-India Company to the purchafers of goods at their fales, will not only be of utility in clearing the articles, but also in afcertaining the exact price of their commodities after the dif count is deducted.'

As the defign of the author was to accommodate his book for the office or counting-house, rather than the pocket, it is printed in a larger fize than is ufual for works of this kind; his intention appears to be fully answered: it being well printed, on a good paper, and clear, diftinct type.

58. The

58. The Virtues exbibited in Hiftorical Facts, for the Inftruation and Entertainment of Youth. 12mo. 35. Jewed. Johnfon.

It is an obfervation not to be difputed, that examples operate on the mind more strongly than precepts; and it is no lefs true that they may be more frequently inculcated, without exciting the difguft which is ufually produced by repeated admonitions. In this volume the virtues are ranged in alphabetical order, and a diftinct account is given of the moral nature of each; which is fucceeded by apt examples, taken either from history or traditional anecdotes.

59. The Cafe of the late Agent of the Royal Hofpital at Plymouth, fuperfeded in July, 1774. By Yeoman Lott.

Dodfley.

12mo. Is. 6d.

It appears from this narrative, in which the various facts are authenticated by the cleareft evidence, that Mr. Lott has been cruelly deprived of the office which he enjoyed in Plymouth hofpital, without being accufed of any mifdemeanor or neglect in the discharge of his duty; nay, his conduct has even been approved by the firft lord of the admiralty, from whom he has had a promife of fome other appointment, but hitherto not obtained. Our fympathy cannot avoid being strongly excited at the fufferings af a man in this fituation, especially of one who has been upwards of thirty-three years in his majesty's service; and we should hope, from the humanity and justice of lord Sandwich, that he would take into confideration the cafe of a person who has fo urgent a claim to his beneficence.

60. Annals of Gaming; or the fair Player's fure Guide. 12m0. 2s. 6d. Allen.

A collection of treatifes republifhed from a Magazine, by a perfon who seems to be no connoiffeur in authorship.

61. Mrs. M. C. Rudd's Genuine Letter to Lord Weymouth, &c. 8vo. 15. Kearfly.

This Letter, which is dated the 15th of January, was written previous to the execution of the Perreaus, and contains a detail of various transactions tending to confirm the criminality of Robert Perreau. Mrs. Rudd informs his lordship that she does not wish to prevent the prifoner from obtaining a pardon; but perhaps this declaration might have gained more credit, had the deferred fending her Letter till the fate of the unhappy convict was irrevocably determined.

62. A Letter from Mrs. Chriftian Hart, to Mrs. Margaret Caroline Rudd. 8vo. 15. Williams.

A frivolous perfonal altercation, unworthy the attention of the public.

ERRATA in Notes to Mr. Brand's Letter, laf Review. Laft line of note (d) for purchasers, read purchases. Laft word in laft line but one of note (e), for in, read is. Laft line but eight in note (9) for ANNUITIES and S. read ANNUITIES, &C.

THE

CRITICAL REVIEW.

For the Month of April, 1776.

ARTICLE I.

Travels in Greece: or, an Account of a Tour made at the Expence of the Society of Dilettanti. By Richard Chandler, D. D. Fellow of Magdalen-College, and of the Society of Antiquaries. 410. 16s. Boards. Dodley.

N our Review for October laft we took leave of the inte

in Minor, related by Dr. Chandler,

who, with his two affociates Mr. Revett and Mr. Pars, made the Tour of that delightful continen', at the expence of the Society of Dilettanti, We have now the pleasure to resume the agreeable narrative, in which the author, with his usual accuracy and minutenefs, recites the Travels they performed in Greece fubfequent to their return from Afia Minor. As many of our readers were pleased to approve of the circumftantial account we gave of the former work, we shall adopt the fame method in reviewing the prefent volume, in the course of which we hope to gratify their curiofity with claffical entertainment.

The veffel which the travellers engaged for their voyage from Smyrna to Athens, was one belonging to Hydre, a fmall ifland or rather rock near Scyllæum, a promontory of the Peloponnefus oppofite to Sunium in Attica. They embarked the 20th of Auguft, 1765. The day after the wind increased, and at night became extremely tempeftuous, attended with dreadful flashes of lightning, and much thunder and rain. At the dawn of the morning the gale abated; but there remained a VOL. XLI. April, 1776.

very

very turbulent fwell, and this day was confumed in standing to and fro between the island Andros, and a cape now called D'Oro, anciently Caphareus, the fouthern promontory of Eubea toward the Hellefpont; formerly noted for dangerous currents, and the deftruction of the Grecian fleet on its return from Troy. The fifth day after leaving Smyrna the voyagers anchored within Cape Sunium, where landing, they afcended the promontory, to view the ruin of the temple of Minerva Sunias, which is described as overlooking the fea from its lefty fituation, and visible from afar. Sunium, Dr. Chandler obferves, was one of the demi or burrough-towns of Attica, belonging to the tribe named Attalis. It was fortified by the Athenians in the Peloponnefian war, as a fecure port for veffels and provifions. The fite, which has been long deferted, is over-run with bushes of maftic, low cedars, and ever-greens. The wall may be traced, running along the brow from near the temple, which it inclofed, down to the port. The mafonry was of the fpecies. turned pfeudifodomum. The fteep precipices and hanging. rocks were a fufficient defence toward the mouth of the gulph. Some other fragments of folid wall remain, but nearly level with the ground.

The temple of Minerva Sunias was of white marble, and probably erected about the fame time with the great temple of Minerva called the Parthenon, in the Acropolis at Athens having the fame proportions, but greatly inferior in magnitude. The order is Doric, and we are informed that it appears to have been a fabric of exquifite beauty. It had fix columns in front. Nine columns were ftanding on the fouthweft fide in the year 1676, and five on the oppofite, with two antæ or pilafters at the fouth-end, and part of the pronaos. The number is now twelve, befides two in front and one of the antæ; the other lying in a heap, having, as the travellers were informed, been recently thrown down by the famous Jaffier Bey, then captain of a Turkish galeote, to get at the metal which united the ftones. The ruin of the pronaos is much diminished. The columns next to the fea are scaled and damaged, owing to their afpect. The travellers fearched diligently for infcriptions, but without fuccefs, except finding on the wall of the temple many modern names, with the following memorial in Greek, cut in rude and barbarous characters: Onesimus remembered his fifier Chrefte. The old name Sunium is difufed, and the cape diftinguished by its columns, Capo Colonni.

The voyagers afterwards proceeded to Egina, the country off Eacus, an island fituated in the gulph between the two pro montories, Sunium and Scyllæum. Of their paffage thither,

and

the temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, Dr. Chandler gives the following account.

The distant hills continued hazy; but the wind being fair, we embarked on the second evening after our landing at Sunium,, and fetting fail, paffed very near to a fmall island called Gaitharonefi (Affes Ifland), a naked rock, except a few bunches of thyme; not even a fhrub growing on it; the clefts inhabited by wild pigeons. It once bore the name of Patroclus, by whom it was fortified with a wall and foffe. He was fent with fome Egyptian triremes to affift the Athenians against Antigonus fon of Demetrius. Sailing on, we had on our right hand the mountain Laurium, formerly noted for filver mines. The coaft of Attica was bare and of a parched afpect.

We had now fea-room and a profperous gale. The genius of the Greek nation prevailed, and was difplayed in the feftivity of our mariners. One of the crew played on the violin and on the lyre; the latter, an ordinary inftrument with three ftrings, differing from the kitara, which has two and a much longer handle. The captain, though a bulky man, excelled, with two of his boys, in dancing. We had been frequently amufed by thefe adepts. It mattered not whether the veffel was ftill in port, or rolling, as now, on the waves. They exerted an extraordinary degree of activity, and preferved their footing, for which a very small space on the deck fufficed, with wonderful dexterity. Their common dance, which was performed by one couple, confifted chiefly in advancing and retiring, expanding the arms, fnapping the fingers, and changing places; with feats, fome ludicrous, and to our apprehenfion indecent.

The fun fat very beautifully, illuminating the mountaintops, and was fucceeded by a bright moon in a blue sky. We had a pleasant breeze, and the land in view, failing as it were on a wide river. A fmart gale following a hort calm, and driving us along at a great rate, in the morning by fun-rife we had reached Ægina, and were entering a bay; the mountain Panhellenius, covered with trees, floping before us, and a temple on its fummit, near an hour diftant from the fhore, appearing as in a wood. The water being fhallow, a failor leaped overboard, carrying a rope to be faftened, as ufual, to fome ftone or crag by the fea-fide.

We fet out for the temple, which was dedicated to Jupiter Panhellenius, on foot, with a fervant and fome of the crew bearing our umbrellas and other neceffaries. One of the failors had on a pair of fandals made of goat-fkin, the hairy fide outward. The afcent was teep, rough, and ftony, between builes of maitic, young cedars, and fir-trees, which fcented the air very agreeably. Some tracts were quite bare. On the eminence our toil was rewarded by an extenfive view of the Attic and Peloponnefian coafts, the remoter mountains inland, and the fummits in the Egean Sea; the bright furface, which intervened, being ftudded as it were with iflands; many lying round gina,