are here dissected in a manner which we think unsafe to relate to the public.

29. A Letter to G. G. 8vo. Pr. 25. Williams.

A contemptible infipid collection of abuse upon the right honourable person to whom it is, addressed. It goes as far back as the time when the Confiderations upon the German War were published, which he supposes that right honourable gentleman to have patronized. The author next attacks a pamphlet * of which he is conjectured to be the author, and then proceeds to other topics of common-place abuse and censure. We find nothing new or interesting in this publication, which is a farrago of hackneyed objections to the right honourable gentleman's administration.

30. A Letter to the Right Hon. J. P. Speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland. 8vo. Is. Wilkie.

This is a very shrewd sensible letter. The writer, who has not treated the right honourable person to whom he addresses it with much politeness, lays hold of the report, that the present lord-lieutenant is to reside in Ireland; a scheme which he highly approves; and gives us a very lively, and, we are afraid, a very true picture of the evils resulting from the momentary defultory refidence of former lieutenants. He then with great freedom contrafts the late state of Ireland with the auspicious change he expects from the new arrangements, and the personal character of the earl of B.

Tho' this letter is peculiarly calculated for the meridian of Ireland, yet it may be read with great fatisfaction and improvement by the people of Great Britain.

31. An Inquiry into the Management of the Poor, and our Polity refpecting the Common People; with Reasons why they have not bitherto been attended with Success, and fuch Alterations offered to the Confideration of the Legislature, as may probably introduce a more general Spirit of Industry and Order, and greatly lessen the Publick Expence. 8vo. Pr. 1s. 6d. White.

This performance is written by a well-meaning volunteer in the public's service, who imagines that if all the people of Great Britain were as well intentioned as himself, the poor might be relieved. As we are not disposed to throw the smallest obstacle in the way of any charitable proposal, we most heartily recom

* Vide vol. xxii. p. 346.

mend the perusal of this pamphlet to the members of the two houses of parliament, to the church-wardens and overseers of the poor in every parish of the kingdom, and to all benevolent gen. tlemen who are willing and able to relieve the distresses of their neighbours.

32. Some Obfervations on the Farmer's Three Letters to a Member of Parliament: And bis Proposal for preventing future Scarcity. In which areal Instance is given of the Improvement of Land; and the Reasonableness of abolishing Tyth in Kind is fully confidered. By a Country Gentleman. 8vo. Pr. 6d. Almon.

We have already * given our opinion of the Three Letters above-mentioned. The pamphlet before us is written upon the same plan, and very poffibly by the fame hand.

33. Uniting and monopolizing Farm, plainly proved disadvantageous to the Land-Owners, and highly prejudicial to the Public. By a Gentleman in the Country. 8vo. Pr. 6d. Smith.

This writer has considered his subject, which we have already recommended to the public, with great accuracy and precision. We do not remember to have seen an answer professedly written against this author's scheme of dividing, large farms, though some have thought † that the engrossing of farms is not so great an evil as has been represented. We shall not presume to add any thing to what we have already said on this topic, because it is now under the most serious confideration of the higher powers..

34. Important Hints, towards an Amendment of the Royal DockYards: Being Confiderations on a late Pamphlet on the Oak-Timber. Wherein fome Passages in that Book are farther explained and illuftrated, with fuitable Remarks thereon. By a Man of Kent. 8vo. Pr. 15. Wilkie.

This valuable pamphlet is a sequel to one we have || already recommended, as of the highest importance to the public of England. We are glad to understand that the subject has already engaged the attention of some of the chief officers of the navy, who are more immediately interested in remedying the abuses here complained of; and we wish them all imaginable success in their endeavours for that purpose.

35. A Letter from a Gentleman to bis Friend, concerning the Custom of giving and taking Vails. 8vo. Pr. 6d. Dodsley. The public has through many channels been apprized of the scandalous practice and disagreeable consequences of fervants

* See Vol. XXII. p. 384. + See Vol. XXII. p. 386, || See Vol. XXI. p. 467.

taking vails and perquisites. All the arguments against this pernicious, custom are collected in this pamphlet, which we hope will produce the defired effect...

36. The celebrated fatyrical Lecture on Hearts. To which is added, a critical Differtation on Noses. 8vo. Pr. 15. Kearily.

These lectures cannot be censured; the author's intention is laudable, and his plan is executed with no inconfiderable degree of humour, which we suppose is heightened by the manner in which the lectures are delivered.

37. A Discourse on the Importance of Anatomy, delivered in the Amphitheatre of Surgeons in London, on Wednesday the 21st of January, 1767. By G. Arnaud, M. D. Quarto. Price 6d.

From this difcourse we learn three things, viz. ft. That anatomy is a science of great importance: zdly. Thit doctor Arnaud writes very bad English: and, 3dly, That he had the honour to inftruct Adelaide of Orleans, princess of the blood, as virtuous as great scholar in every science and art,' in the operations of furgery; and that the blooded herself with the greatest ease and safety, though very fat and difficult.

38. A Treatise on the Stone, Gravel, and other Disorders arising from Obstructions of the Urinary Passages: giving some Account of the Success and fuperior Efficacy of two new Medicines for the Cure of thofe Diseases. Illustrated with some particular Cafes.. By J. Awfiter, M. D. 8vo. Pr. 15. Wilkie.

We venture to prophesy that the time is not far off, when quack medicines will fink into disrepute: mankind, we acknowledge, are in general very credulous; but they are not so exceedingly stupid as to be duped for ever. Those for whom nostrums are intended, may possibly not difcover a trick so immediately as their betters, and confequently are liable to be longer imposed on; but give them time, and they will certainly find the truth at last. They may poffibly at first be taken in by a treatise on such or such a disease, and believe, that the fole motive of the author was the good of mankind; but give them leisure for reflection, and they will infallibly difcover the treatise to be in fact no other than a paper stuck against a poft, fignifying that the author profeffes to cure a certain disease, better and cheaper than any body elfe; and as to the cases usually published upon these occafions, it requires very little fagacity to know, that for any thing the reader can difcover to the contrary, they may be entirely the invention of the author,

THE

CRITICAL REVIEW.

For the Month of March, 1767.

ARTICLE I.

The History of England from the Accession of James I to the Elevation of the House of Hanover. By Catharine Macaulay, Vol. III. 4to. Pr. 155. Cadell. [Concluded.]

E closed our last review of this work with the author's

W reprefentation of Strafford's detestable managemethor's

Ireland. She proceeds to shew, that though the Irish committee were all papifts, yet the English house of commons took a brotherly concern in the interest of that conquered country; and that by the friendship of those popular noblemen, Manchester, Effex, Warwick, Say, and others, the Irish obtained a favourable answer to almost all their demands, as well as advantages beyond their most sanguine hopes. This candour and moderation bears a glorious teftimony to the patriots of that period, who thought the cause of freedom ought to be confined to no sect or religion; and our author intimates, that their real intention was to lay a firm establishment for an exalted system of liberty.

Sir William Parfons and Sir John Borlasse succeeded. Straf ford and his creature Wandesford, who died of fear and vexation, in the management of Irish affairs, and were united to the patriots in the English parliament. A spirited sett of articles declarative of the Irish liberty passed that parliament, the perusal of which fills us with a very high idea of the abilities and good fenfe of their authors. They even reformed the university of Dublin, which had been contaminated by the practices of Strafford, and his chancellor, archbishop Laud: Mrs. Macaulay gives a very fine, and we believe a very just, description of the national blessings introduced by this free and equitable plan of government: But (says our author) this VOL. XXIII, March, 1767.

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was but a fhort-lived calm, a fatal state of fond security, by which the working heads of ambitious priests were able to introduce more diabolical mischiefs than perverted religion, in the most depraved state of man, had ever yet effected. We are then presented with the particulars of the plan for the maffacre, in the execution of which, we are told, the conspirators were to be affifted by the courts of France and Spain. The barbarities which followed are thus described by our ingenioushistorian.

'It is faid, that one Roger More, of an indigent fortune, yet swollen with fanciful ideas of greatness derived from family defcent, and Owen O'Neal, a colonel in the Spanish service, were the men who first formed a project to expel the English, and affert the independence of Ireland. The plan was proposed to lord Macguire and Sir Phelim O'Neal, two other difsolute adventurers, then to all the Irish chieftains, who readily embraced the proposal, on receiving intelligence, from one 'Toole O'Conley, a prieft, that Owen O'Neal would be with them with his regiment of Irish Papists fifteen days after the rifing. They were likewise assured by More, that the Irish of the pale, or the old English, being all of them Papists, would join their brethren; that the Irish officers in the Spanish service had promised assistance; the pope would supply money; cardinal Richelieu had given assurance of a powerful aid; and the Spanish ambassador had declared, that they should not fail of fuccours from Spain. It was resolved, that the castle of Dublin should be seized by Macguire, Macmahon, More, Plunket, Paul O'Neal, an active priest, and others; whilft, on the same day, the rest of the adventurers undertook to seize the castles and forts of the several provinces. On the twenty-second of October, the day preceding that assigned for the enterprize, the city of Dublin was full of confpirators. The lords justices had received some dark and general hints that schemes of im.. portance were transacting among the Irish; but such was that apparent harmony and union of interest between the Protestant and Papist, that the intelligence was totally disregarded. One O'Conolly, an Irishman and a Proteftant, was trusted with the fecret: at almost the very period of its intended execution, he discovered it to the justices: the justices fled for safety to the castle, reinforced the guards, and gave the alarm to the town. Macguire and Macmahon were taken. The discovery of a general infurrection and massacre was extorted from these criminals, but too late to prevent the execution. Sir Phelim O'Neal, and the rest of the infernal gang, were barbaroufly punctual to the villanies they had promised to perform. The perfons, houses, cattle, and goods of the English were feized;

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