A lift of landmen appointed by Lord Sandwich to offices of cafe and profit in the Hofpital, in preference to the honeft claims of feafaring men; a lift of navy chaplains who actually receive an annual bounty from Parlia.nent, as a reward for their fervice" at fea, while beneficed clergymen, who have not been at fea, are faddled upon a charitable inftitution, principally supported by the contributions of feafaring men; and alfo, a general lift of landmen in and belonging to the faid Hofpital.

Authentic proceedings in the court of King's Bench, in confequence of a rule granted to fhew caufe why an information fhould not be exhibited against Captain Baillie, for publishing certain libels, &c.

Speeches of the counfel, and judgment of the court, taken in fhort hand, by Mr. Blanchard.

The whole evidence as given at the bar of the House of Lords, with fome occafional debates, in the courfe of fifteen days inquiry, &c.

The fpeeches of the Duke of Richmond, at the opening and clofe of the evidence,

Abstracts of the arguments of other noble Lords, with fuch papers and letters as are neceffary to corroborate the evidence, and elucidate the whole proceedings, carefully tranfcribed from original papers, private notes, or other authentic documents; all which have been collected with great labour and expence from numerous materials, in order to render the work as accurate and complete as poffible.'- We would not omit to take notice that there is, likewife, a general index; which will be of great use to the Reader, for occafional refearches.

Among the fpeeches of the counfel in this memorable cause, we diftinguish thofe (in the court of King's Bench) of the Hon. Mr. Erskine, and Mr. Peckham; the former gained great applaufe by his very eloquent reprefentation of the MERIT of Capt. Baillie's active and public-fpirited proceedings, in order to procure a reformation in the management of the Hospital concerns.

The Duke of Richmond's fpeech, at the close of the evidence in the Houfe of Lords, is a masterly performance. In the course of this oration, his Grace took notice of the plea urged by the profecutors of Captain Baillie, in excufe for their turning him out of his office," that he is a man of a vexatious temper, and of intractable manners."-In reply to this, the Duke very pertinently obferved that admitting Captain Baillie to be a man of that temper, and of thofe manners,before his being vexatious and intractable becomes a reason for punishing him in fo high a degree, or perhaps of punishing him at all, we ought to know upon what forts of matter he is vexatious, and in what fort of fociety he is intractable. Nothing in the world is fo vexatious againft abufes as enquiry; nothing

fo intractable among gentlemen of eafy morals, as a man of rigid virtue. I confefs,' faid his Grace, I do not know any thing that can be such a nuifance as a man of ftern and uncorrupt integrity, in a fociety made happy and unanimous by a participation of jobs, by mutual connivance, and the perfect equality among themselves, that arifes from a thorough confcioufness, that not one of the company is a jot better than his neighbour.

I am perfectly fatisfied,' continues the Duke, that Captain Baillie, while he did great fervice to the poor penfioners, did infinitely disturb the tranquillity of the officers; and all they who are of opinion, that the government of Hofpitals, as well as that of kingdoms, was made for the pleasure of the governors, and not for the benefit of the governed, will think his conduct was atrocious.

But fuch of your Lordships who may be of different fentiments, and who reflect, that the greateft reformers have rarely been men of the best tempers, will pity the imperfections of human virtue; and will think Captain Baillie's moroseness rather the object of reprimand, than of the utmost punishment the Admiralty had the power to inflict. They ought to have commended and feconded his zeal, and exhorted him to more conciliatory manners; and not have deprived him of his office with difgrace, while they continue to employ, truft, and caress a recorded cheat, who triumphs in the deftruction of Captain Baillie.'

In fine, the noble Orator acknowledges his perfuafion, that after the difputes which have arifen among the officers and penfioners, it would be impoffible for Captain Baillie to lead an happy life in Greenwich Hofpital;'-yet, in confideration that he has been very meritorious in detecting the cruel frauds of the Contractor for butchers meat, and profecuting him to conviction; that he has been at all times the true friend of the penfioners; that he has brought to light many abuses; that he has got many abufes rectified; and that the profecution of others has occafioned his being haraffed with expenfive fuits in Weftminster-Hall, and his illegal difmiffion from his office,-his Grace recommends that fome provifion be made for him, fuch as his Majefty fhall think adequate to his defert-fuch as Lord Sandwich himfelf thought him deferving of, fubfequent to every complaint which has been alleged against Captain Baillie *.

Lord Sandwich acknowledged, to Mr. Murphy, in a converfation relative to a plan for the difmiffion of the Lieutenant Governor by refignation (fome time before he was turned out, without any equivalent or compenfation whatever), that " he believed there might be a great deal of right, and a great deal of wrong in Captain Baillie." Vid. Mr. Murphy's evidence at the bar of the House of Lords, p. 122 of the prefent publication.

Nothing

Nothing, however, has yet, that we have heard of, been done for Mr. Baillie, in the way of recompence for the great lofs that he hath fuftained by his difmiffion from his post. It appears, from a letter printed at the end of this volume, that the Captain hath humbly requested the command of a ship,his health being fuch as would, he hoped, enable him again to ferve his Majefty: but we do not understand that he hath been fuccessful in his application. The letter bears date in June 1779.

FOREIGN LITERATURE.

(By our CORRESPONDENT s.) GERMANY and the NORT H. ART. I.

Chrift. Biel NoVUS THESAURUS PHILOLOGICUS, five LEXICON in LXX. et alios Interpretes et Scriptores Apocry phos VETERIS TESTAMENTI, ex Autoris B. Mjeto Edidit et Præfatus eft E. H. MUTZENRECHER. Pars Prima. A-E. Hage Comitum Sumptibus. J. A. Bouvinck. 1779. Large 8vo. Pages 690. This learned and moft ufeful work, compofed by an adept of the first rank in Grecian and Oriental literature, will undoubtedly obtain the applaufe and encouragement it fo highly deferves. It is the pofthumous work of the learned and laborious JOHN CHRISTIAN BIEL, a native of Brunswick, who acquired a confiderable reputation, in the republic of letters, by feveral philological productions of fingular merit, by the part he had in the celebrated edition of Hefychius, published by Alberti, and by his connexions and correspondence with Leibnitz, Bentley, and many other learned men of the first clafs in England, Holland, and other countries. The work lay for a long time in MSS. for it was completely finished before the Author's death, which happened in the year 1745; but feveral learned men teftified their ardent defire of its publi cation, fuch as Ernefti, Michaelis, Teller, and others. This defire was founded on a fpecimen of the work, which was fubjoined to a differtation of the Author's, published in the year 1740, and the firft volume, now before us, juftifies it fully. In this work, which is much more ample and rich in materials than those of Kefler, and the other authors that are mentioned by Fabricius +, all the words that we meet with in the Septuagint, in the other Greek interpreters, and in the Apocryphal writers of the Old Teftament, are exhibited in an alphabetical

This differtation is entitled, Exercitatio de Ligno ex Libano ad Templum Hierofolymitanum ædificandum petito,-Brunfvige, 1740. + In his Bibliotheca Græca.

order.

order. The Author explains each word in fuch a manner, that the Reader may perceive, at firft fight, what is its original meaning, and in what fignification it is employed by the abovementioned interpreters and writers. He points out its different fignifications, the Hebrew and Chaldaic terms, that bear the fame fenfe, and the ufe that the writers of the New Teftament have made of it. All this is accompanied with philological and critical remarks, drawn from profane authors, concordances, gloffaries, and the beft critics and commentators, ancient and modern, which are adapted to illuftrate each word, and to ascertain its various fignifications, according to the occafions and fubjects on which it is employed.

We fhall infert here a fingle article of this volume (which carries the work to the letter E inclufive), that the Reader may judge of the manner in which the learned Author has executed his extenfive plan.

'Apen, virtus, decus, gloria, honor, laus, decus, gloria, Hab. iii. 2. ἐκάλυψεν ιρανὸς ἡ αρετη αυτό, operuit caelos gloria ejus, i. e. gloriofa potentia ejus, fapientia et bonitas e colo undequaque ita apparent, ac fi illud opertum quafi divinis illis perfectionibus effet. Quod hic per vocatur, Pf. xix. 1. dicitur δόξα. Αpud Hefychium άρετη exponitur θεία δύναμις, divina potentia. Quæ tamen explicatio, fi ad prophetæ I. c. ibi refpicitur, uti videtur, rem non fatis exhaufit. Zach. vi. 13. καὶ αὐτὸς λήψεται αρετήν, et ille afumet gloriam. Idem hic pern notat, quod Pf. viii. 5, et Heb. ii. 7. doɛa nai Tiμn, gloria et honor. Sic et apud poëtas Græcos apern gloriam, honorem denotat; Homerus Il. v. v. 242.

Ζευς δ' ἀρετὴν ἄνδρεσσιν ὀφέλλει τε μινύθει τε Jupiter autem viris honorem et auget et minuit. Hefiodus "Epy u. 311.

πλυτω δ' ἀρετὴ και κύδος όπηδεῖ

divitias autem honos et gloria comitatur. Confer quæ ex Plutarcho de Audiend. Poet. p. 24, notat Lamb. Bos Obferv. Critic, p. 112, nn laudes. Ef. xlii. 8. TTV δόξαν με ἑτέρω & δώσω ἐδε τας αρετάς με τοῖς γλυπίοις. Gloriam meam alteri non dabo, neque virtutes meas fculptilibus. Ef. xlii. 12. δώσεσι τῷ Θεῷ δόξαν, τὰς ἀρετας αυτὸ ἐν τοῖς νήσοις απαγγε 801, dabunt Deo gloriam, virtutes ejus in infulis annunciabunt. Εr. xliii. 21. τὸ γενος με τὸ εκλεκτόν, λαὸν με, ὃν περιεποιησαμην, τας αρετάς με διηγεῖσθαι, genus meum eleitum, populum meum, quem acquifivi, ut virtutes meas enarret. Quorfum refpexit Petrus, I Ep. ii. 9. ὑμεῖς δε γένος ἐκλεκτόν εις περιποιησιν, ὅπως Tas apeτás ¿Eαyyeiλnte, &c. vos autem eftis genus electum,—acquifitum, ut virtutes annuncietis ejus, qui ex tenebris, &c. Ef. lxiii. 7. τὸν ἔλεον κυρία ἐμνήσθην, τας αρετάς κυριε ἐν πᾶσιν, οἷς ἡμῖν avranodidwos, mifericordiæ domini recordor et virtutum Domini in

omnibus

omnibus, quæ nobis retribuit. Sicuti autem LXX. vertentes per aperas, virtutes, procul dubio intelligunt laudabiles perfectiones et proprietates Dei, ita nullus dubito, quin Petrus etiam, 1. c. eo fenfu vocem acceperit. Imo nullus dubito, quin idem Apoftolus in verbis 2 Epift. i. 3. τῇ καλέσαντις ἡμᾶς διὰ δόξης καὶ ἀρετῆς, per δόξαν καὶ ἀρετάν, gloriofas et laudibiles perfectiones Dei, amorem, mifericordiam, gratiam, veritatem intellexerit, et præpofitione di caufam impulfivam, ut Paulus in verbis Gal. i. 15, xao as dia ons Xapitos auT8, indigitaverit. Efth. χίν. 10. ανοίξαι στόμα ἐθνῶν εἰς αρετάς ματαίων, ut aperiant os gentium in laudes vanorum. Sap. viii. 7. i wóVAL TAUTAS Y αρεταί, labores ejus funt virtutes. Hefychius : 'Αρετη η των καλών νομιζόμενων ἐμπειρία. ̓Αρετή, eorum, quæ bona habentur exercis tium. Lex. Cyrilli MS.Brem. 'Αρετη, πρᾶξις ἀγαθή. ̓Αρετή,

actio bona.

We doubt not but this fpecimen will give fuch of our Readers, as are competent judges of a work of this kind, a favourable opinion of this excellent Lexicon. Those who have a tafte for Grecian literature, and facred erudition, will applaud the zeal of the learned Profeffor Barkey of the Hague (who appears, by the preface prefixed to this work, to have contributed much to its publication) and the labours of M. Mutzenbecher, paftor of the Lutheran church in the fame place, in whofe poffeffion the manufcript was, and who has taken great and fuccessful pains to render the edition correct. The preface is the work of this learned ecclefiaftic, and does honour to his erudition and critical fagacity. The bookfeller has alfo performed his part in a manner that deferves encouragement. The type is diftinct, and the paper of the best kind.

We had fcarcely finished this extract when we received the fecond volume of this valuable work, which contains 466 pages, and concludes with the word 'Ovio.

II. Memoria fopra il Sel fedativo Naturale della Toscana, &c. i. e. A Memoir concerning the native fedative Salt of Tuscany, and the Borax which is compofed by the Means of that Salt, as difcovered by Mr. HUBERT FRANCOIS HOEFFER, of Cologn, Director of the Elaboratories of the Druggifts to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Member of the Academy of Sciences at Sienna, and of the Botanical Society at Florence. 8vo. Florence. 1778. We mention this publication rather late; but we could not omit it, now, on that account, as it contains a discovery in chemistry. Mr. HOEFFER, having procured fome bottles of the mineral water of the marfh of Monterotondo, which is called Cerchiaco, and is fituated in the Lower Sienna, he made with it feveral experiments, the refult of which was, the difcovery of a genuine native fedative falt. By adding to this fome marine alkali, he produced a real borax; that is, he obtained from the

mixture