likewife, and in the accounts of their histories, feveral particulars are added, which need not be diftin&tly enumerated, but which add greatly to the value of the prefent edition.

Art. 30. A View of the prefent State of the Dutch Settlements in the East Indies. Containing a true and circumstantial Account of their Government, Adminiftration, and Proceedings, their Poffeffions, drooping Trade, Navigation, &c. By a Perion long refident in India. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Robinson.

Comparisons are faid to be odious; but in this inftance they can be odious only to the Dutch; and at prefent they are lawful game: for if this homely invective, homely perhaps becaufe written in English by a Dutch pen, deferves any degree of credit; the fervants as they are bere called, of the English East India Company, about whofe mal-practices we make fuch a rout, are by the aforefaid method of comparison, humane, well-bred, and courteous gentlemen! It is to be noted, that the parties compared, exercise their virtues at a great distance from Europe.

Art. 31. Letters to and from the Countess Du Barry, the last Mitrefs of Lewis XV. of France; containing her Correfpondence with the Princes of the Blood, Minifters of State and others; including the Hiftory of that Favourite, and feveral curious Anecdotes of the Court of Verfailles, during the lat fix Years of that Reign; with explanatory Notes. Tranflated from the French. 8vo. 3 s. fewed. Kearsley. 1779.

Perhaps there is no part of the globe where female influence is fo extenfive as in France. Madame Du Barry is only one instance, among feveral, in which the mittrefs of a King of France has been in fact his prime minister. In this capacity the acted for many years: and whether these letters be genuine or not (which is a point we do not undertake to determine), they exhibit, in a lively and entertaining manner, the amours and political intrigues of this celebrated

woman,

Art. 32. A Hint to the Dyers and Cloth-makers.

And well worth the Notice of the Merchant. By James Haigh, Silk and Mullin Dyer, Leeds. 8vo. 6d. Rivington and Son. Mr. Haigh feems laudably zealous for the improvement of his art; which he very fenfibly advifes his brother dyers to expect from a better knowledge of the chemical qualities of the drugs made ufe of, and from fuperior care and cleanlinefs in their operations. This little tract contains likewife fome practical instructions that may be of ufe to the dyers; and a very important hint to the merchants, that they cannot reasonably expect to have the finest colours, when they are unwilling to pay a proportionate price for them.-This obfervation is indeed of great confequence, and well worth the attention of merchants in general, who frequently contribute to the ruin of our manufactures, by establishing a mean competition among the work. people, not which fhall excel in quality, but which fhall make their goods the cheapft, and confequently the worst. A contrary and more Jiberal way of thinking would greatly tend to improve and establish the character of our manufactures: and we thould not then long hear it afferted, that our blacks and fcarlets, especially the latter, are yet greatly inferior to the French.-Plate informs us, that the dyers

in his time, when they wished to make a fine colour, begun by dif charging the stuff of all impurity, and making it first a perfect white: and no doubt great care and exa&ness in the preparation, clearness in the liquors, and neatness in the whole procefs, are of great confequence in this very useful art.

For our account of Mr. Haigh's Dyer's Affiftant in the Art of Dying Wool and Woollen Goods, fee Review for August 1779, p. 158.

Refpecting AMERICA.

Art. 33. A Candid Examination of the Mutual Claims of Great Britain and the Colonies: with a Plan of Accommodation, on Contitutional Principles. By the Author of "Letters to a Nobleman, on the Conduct of the American War. 8vo. 2 s. NewYork printed, in 1775, and now republished by Wilkis. 178c. This republication contains two tracts, viz. the Candid Examination, and a defence of it, in answer to An Addrefs to the Examiner. They were originally published in America, with defign to prevail on the Colonills to take the path of accommodation, and to avoid the horrors of a civil war:' and they are reprinted in Britain, at a time when (fays the Author) the Public have reafon to hope that proper measures will foon be taken to unite the two countries upon juft and conftitutional principles-in order to throw fome light upon the fubject.'-The Author, it is fuppofed, is Mr. Galloway, late a member of Congrefs, and a convert to the British Government. To this Gentleman we owe, not only the Letters to a Nobleman abovementioned, but the two following well-received tracts, viz. "Cool Thoughts on the Confequences of American Independence," and "Hiftorical and political Reflections on the Rife and Progrefs of the American Rebellion." Thefe performances have been refpectively characterised and commended in our Reviews; and the prefent Examination is equally worthy of the very fenfible and ingenious Writer.

Art. 34. An Essay on the Interests of Great Britain in regard to America: or, An Outline of the Terms on which Peace may be restored to the Two Countries. 8vo. 6d. Sewell. 1780. After expatiating, with good fenfe, on the impolicy of our continuing the war in North America, the Author proceeds to enumerate the terms on which an happy union between the two countries might be effected: he fays they are fuch as would, he is "well affured, be received by America." For the particulars, we refer to the tract. To fee them take effe, were a confummation devoutly to be wifhed. MILITARY AFFAIR S.

Art. 35. A Supplement to the State of the Expedition from Canada containing General Bargoyne's Order, refpetting the principal Movements and Operations of the Army, to the railing of the Siege of Ticonderoga. 4to. 1 s. 6d. Becket, &c. 178or

The Editor does not undertake to lay before the Public the whole of General Burgoyne's orders during the campaign of 1777.-In fo extenfive a detail, many would appear quite uninterefting at the pre

See our account of the State of the Expedition, &c. Review for March, Art. 33 of the Catalogue.

fent.

fent moment, and even at the time they were given, except perhaps to the departments immediately concerned, as far as regarded their execution: fuch are thofe refpecting the daily duties, the hofpital. the commiferate, divers, &c. Thole only have been felected, that have for their object the general arrangements and movements of the army, and which may tend to illustrate the operations of the campaign. There are likewife fome few by Generals Carleton and Philips, which are introduced here, as relating in particular to General Burgoyne's expedition.

The Editor's principal inducement for offering thefe orders to the Public, was drawn not only from the idea that the state of the expedition is incomplete without them, but likewife from the obfervation of the avidity with which General Wolfe's orders were received by all ranks of people, and particularly by the officers of the army. It was conceived, that if General Wolfe's orders were efteemed as models to commanding officers of corps, as well as inftructive leffons in their profeffion to thofe of az inferior rank, General Burgoyne's would more fully anfwer that defcription, as they relate to military. tranfactions far more important, and to fcenes infinitely more interenting to the Public.-Befide that the Author of them is known to add to the knowledge and experience of the General all the exterior. graces and refinement of the scholar and the writer.

It is but justice to his Excellency the Lieutenant-General to acknowledge, that thefe orders are published without his concurrence or authority.'

POETICA L.

Art. 36. Elegiac Epifles on the Calamities of Love and War. Including a genuine Defcription of the tragical Engagement between his Majesty's Ships the Serapis and Countess of Scarborough, and the Enemy's Squadron under the Command of Paul Jones, on the Twenty-third of September, 1779. 8vo. 2 S. Printed for the Authors, and fold by Pridden. 1780.

Thefe Epiftles, though written in no very high ftrain of poetry, are yet not deftitute of that pathetic tenderness which is thought to conftitute the true nature of Elegy. They feem to bear a faithful impreffion of what paffed in the Writer's mind at the time they were compofed; and confequently to a Reader, who is not fqueamishly faftidious, they will probably communicate more pleafure than may be afforded by fome more elegant and laboured performances, that are written without an immediate appeal to the feelings of the heart.

The following paffage may perhaps juftify this remark:
When late, (to Elbe's commercial cities bound)
As fail'd the veffel o'er the deep profound,

A gentle fwallow, labouring to explore
The diftant confines of the fummer-shore,

Fell on the deck towards the approach of night,
Panting for breath, and wearied with its flight.
The pitied scene soft o'er each rifing thought
Your TENDER FEELINGS to remembrance brought:
Whofe eye could ne'er behold the wanton boy.
The feather'd parent's patient hopes destroy:

Whofe

Whofe ear could never bear the fportive found
That laid the pheafant fluttering on the ground:
Whofe hand could ne'er inflict the fatal pain
The partlet-brood are deflin'd to fuftain.
'Twas your's to feel the fympathetic glow
That with your own, could weep for others' woe.
Oft as-to pass the winter nights away,
I've at your elbow read the tragic lay,
(Your fkilful hands, by practice often try'd,
While one the fteel and one the lawn employ'd)
I've mark'd the tear that gliften'd in your eye,
And feen your bofom heave the pitying figh.
Not then the goddess ancient poets drew,

The queen of beauty, feem'd to vie with you.-'

Art. 37. Poems, with Notes. By John Walters, Scholar of Jefus College, and Sub librarian in the Bodleian Library. 8vo. 58. Kearfly. 1780.

If a reasonable degree of allowance be made for the period of life when these poems were written (fo carly as before the age of nineteen) they will be intitled to confiderable praife. The principal poem is The Bodleian Library. Little as fuch a fubject feems capable of poetic embellishment, Mr. Walters has made it the vehicle not only of information, but entertainment. But the beft written and moft fpirited piece in this collection, is the Epifle to Mr. Talbot, on his travels.

The following paffage will poffibly convey no imperfect idea of the general ftile and manner which pervade the whole compofition: But hence we hafte to feck the wintry plains,

The land of old Helvetia's hardy fwains,

Whofe arms the Julian legions long withstood,

And bath'd the chains, that Rome had forg'd, in blood.
They ne'er, with hands in kindred wounds imbrued,

Th' imperial eagle's dreadful track pursued

O'er heaps of dead, with whom they once were free,
(Sad reliques of expiring liberty!)

But fill the fmiles that Cæfar's brow display'd,
With fullen frowning majefty repay'd.

Like them, their rough defcendants, fam'd in arms,
Whom the fame foul of dauntlefs valour warms,
Still to the charge advance with martial rage,
But, ah! no more in freedom's fields engage:
Intent no more their country's rights to fave,
With palms inglorious crown'd, and meanly brave,
From their own Alps and native mountains far,
They wake the rage of mercenary war,
And bend, as onward fweeps their Pyrrhic dance,
The Corfic neck beneath the yoke of France.
Guide of their march, Ambition lifts her eye,

And waves her glitt'ring oriflamb on high.

Befide thefe and fome few others, there are two Latin poems; the title of the one is The Progress of Religion; of the other, which is a poem of fome length, Botany. Neither of thefe, in our opinion,

arc

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are of equal merit with his English compofitions. At the end of the volume is added a loco-defcriptive poem, entitled Landough, by Daniel Walters, head fcholar of Cowbridge fchool. This poem (fays Mr. John Walters, with perhaps lefs truth than modefty), had its, place been determined by its merit, would have appeared at the head of this collection; it was written by my brother in 1779, at the age. of feventeen.' It certainly poffeffes no inferior degree of merit, Art. 38. The Castle of Infamy, a poetical Vifion. In Two

Parts. 4to.

2s. 6d. Bew. 1780.

To reprove vice, and to expofe folly, is the province of fatire. The inftruments the makes ufe of are wit, ridicule, and argument: argument to establish the truth and juftice of her accufations, and wit or ridicule to give force and poignancy to argument. To criminate, therefore, even the fairest objects of fatire without proof or propriety, is to calumniate and libel rather than to fatirize: for abufe, even though it may be justly deferved, will no more conftitute fatire (as this Writer feems to imagine) than mere rhymes will conftitute the effence of poetry.

This poem, like others of the Writer's compofitions, contains fome few marks of ingenuity, accompanied by many that are the reverfe of modefty and good manners.

In his Dedication to his very good friends the Monthly Reviewers," he charges them with inconfiftency, because on one occafion they spoke of him as an ingenious Writer, and on another cenfured him for writing Billing/gate poetry. We wish, for the credit of human nature, that fuch a charge were really inconfiftent. The head is by no means a fufficient fecurity against the depravity of the heart. How common is it for men who are much fuperior in point of ingenuity to the Writer of this poem, if once they give themfelves up to the dominion of paffion, to be petulant, abufive, and intolerant! Our Author must know little of human life, and confequently be ill qualified to fuftain the character he has affumed, if he has not obferved many, who, notwithstanding the flattering prefages they may have once given, have afterwards, either through vanity, or other motives, turned out impertinent coxcombs, or fomething worse. There are too many inflances indeed, of perfons who have even the manners of gentlemen (our Author will perceive we are not alluding to him), who, from ill temper, or natural malignity, have fo far forgotten what they owe to themfelves and their own dignity, as fometimes to make ufe of language both fcurrilous and indecent. Art. 39. The American Times: a Satire. In Three Paris. In which are delineated the Characters of the Leaders of the American Rebellion. Amongst the principal are, Franklin, Laurens, Adams, Hancock, Jay, Duer, Duane, Wikon, Pulaski, Witherspoon, Reed, M Kean, Washington, Roberdeau, Morris, Chafe, &c. By Camillo Querno, Poet-laureat to the Congrefs. 4to. 2 S. Richardfon.

The obfervations, which were thrown out in the foregoing article, are not inapplicable to the prefent. This Writer empties his Jorden of invective with as little confideration or remorfe upon the American rulers, as the laft Writer does upon the rulers in England.

Camillo