connection between Britain and the colonies, and the principal means whereby the fources of wealth and power have been, and are, fo ufe ful and advantageous to her. The embarraffments, difficulties, and infupportable burthens under which this trade has laboured, have already made us prudent, frugal and induftrious, and fuch a fpirit in the colonists muft foon, very foon, enable them to fubfift without the manufactures of Great Britain, the trade of which, as well as its naval power, has been greatly promoted and frengthened by the luxury of the colonies; confequently any meafures that have a tendency to injure, obftruct and diminish the American trade and navigation, muft have the fame effect upon that of Great Britain, and, in all probability, prove her ruin.'

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Art. 37. A concife hiftorical View of the Difficulties, Hardships, and Perils, which attended the Planting and progreffive Improvement of New-England. With a particular Account of its long and deftruc tive Wars, expenfive Expeditions, &c. By Amos Adams, A. M. Paftor of the First Church at Roxburgh. 8vo. printed: London reprinted, for E. and C. Dilly. The chief merit of this pamphlet confifts in its being a very concife hiftory of the country mentioned, which may therefore be read by thofe who cannot have recourfe to the larger accounts. Its being concife renders it lefs entertaining, but it appears to be faithful. It tells us that no attempts to effect a fettlement in New England fuccecded, till the year 1620, when the adventurers landed at Plymouth, and began a fettlement there; but no confiderable additions were made to the planters, till the diftreffing times in England led many worthy and ferious perfons to feek a quiet habitation in thefe defolate parts of the earth. We have a fhórt account of the difficulties they struggled with, and the wars in which they afterwards engaged. The Author, after rejoicing in the peace established in those parts for fome years paft, is naturally led to lament the attempts ufed at home to bring them under the power of a stamp act, and fince that time to raise à revenue, and fix the jurifdiction of parliament in fuch a manner as to leave the colonies without the power of difpofing of their own property. It is, we fuppofe, with a particular view to this prefent juncture of affairs, that this little work is now published; being intended as fome kind of plea in favour of our American brethren.

MISCELLANEOUS. Aft. 38. Defiderii Jacotii l'andaperani de Philofophorum Doctrina Libellus ex Cicerone. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Oxonii, e Typographeo Clarendaniano Impenfis Dan. Prince. 1769. Sold by White, in London. Whoever is well acquainted with Cicero's works must be fenfible that the paffages in his writings which give an account of the philofophers, and their respective tenets, are very numerous; and that, when collected together, they would not fail of forming a valuable, though imperfect, hiftory of the ancient philofophy. It is no won der, therefore, that fuch a collection was thought of, fo long ago the fixteenth century; as every thing relative to the Greek and Roman literature was then ftudied with extraordinary diligence and ar dour. The performance before us was firft publifhed at Paris, in 1554 and hath fince gone through feveral editions, the laft of

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which, if we mistake not, appeared at Oxford, in the year 1713. Having been fome time out of print, it is now again prefented to the public, from the Oxford prefs; and there can be no doubt of its being acceptable to our learned Readers, who will be glad to fee, in one view, a number of detached places which, in Cicero, often lie at no fmall distance from each other. We cannot, however, avoid obferving, that Vandoperanus might have arranged his materials with greater advantage, if he had either put them together in the chronoJogical order of the perfons defcribed, or according to the various fchools of philofophy, as they arofe among the Greeks; neither of which has he done with fufficient exactness.

Art. 39. Mifcellaneous Thoughts of an Univerfal Free-thinker. 8vo. 6s. Bound, Woodgate *.

"We have perufed much more than men lefs inured to the exercife of patience and perfeverance would think poffible, of this very strange, inelegant, unpleafing publication; and yet we are quite at a lofs what to make of either the book or the writer. The Author ftiles himself an univerfal Free-thinker, but he is nothing less than a Freethinker, in the modern fenfe of the apellation. He writes on a variety of fubjects, and concludes nothing on any. He gives us profe without fenfe and verfe without poetry. Of the firft take the following fample, from what he calls detached thoughts on delicate fubjectsthough there is nothing of delicacy either in the fubjects themselves, or in his manner of defcanting upon them:

In what confifts the death of the foul? The departure of the holy spirit from it; and yet it is immortal, after all its faculties are corrupted, like as a dead body moves by putrefaction to the production of loathfome animals! therefore men alienated from that fpiritual life which confifts in the light of wisdom and activity of love, whofe fole delight is in their own prefent pleasures, are no better than living carcaffes.'-If our Readers understand this, they have the advantage of us.

Of the Poetry:

"No genius, demon, angel, martyr, faint,
The worship of my foul shall ever taint-

My only Worship while on earth fhall be,
The Holy, ever bleffed Trinity."

The fubjects treated in this mifcellaneous volume, are chicfly of a theological, moral, or fatirical caft. There is an attempt at hu mour in his imitations of Lucian's Dialogues; but it rather refembles the humour of Ned Ward, than that of the Witty Writer whom he has taken for his model.

Art. 40. A Charge of the Grand Jury of the County of Middlesex. Delivered at the Quarter Seffion at Hicks's Hall, Jan. 8, 1770, by John Hawkins, Efq; one of his Majefty's Juftices of the Peace for the faid County, and Chairman of the Court of Quarter Seffion. 8vo. 6d. Worral.

There is no date to the title-page; from which, and fome other circumstances, we have been almost ready to conclude the book to be an old one, with a new title; but this is mere conjecture.

Juflice

Justice Hawkins fays a number of proper things, and gives good inftructions to the Jury, on a variety of points which, of courfe, might come under their cognizance; but we cannot commend him for his doctrine of libels, in which there is a little too much of the ftar-chamber fpirit. Men in office may be loyal as well as righteous over-much.

Art. 41. Information for Mungo Campbell, in a criminal Profecution before the High Court of Juficiary in Scotland, for the alledged Murder of the late Alexander Earl of Eglington. By John Maclaurin, Efq; 8vo. 2 s. 6 d. Robinson and Roberts.

Mr. Maclaurin has approved himself a very able advocate for the unfortunate Campbell.

Art. 42. A Letter to a great Peer concerning the late Earl of Eglington. 8vo. 6 d. A. Henderfon.

Spurious.

RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL.

Art. 43. Prayers for the Ufe of Families. By William Enfield, 8vo. 3 s. bound. Johnfon and Payne. 1770.

We have perused thefe forms for family-worship with great fatiffaction; and do moft fincerely approve of them, as worthy to be ranked among the most RATIONAL compofitions of the kind in the English language. A particular account of them cannot be given in more proper terms than in thofe of Mr. Enfield's own concife, judicious, and modeft preface :- The Author has made it his first object to express the most obvious and important fentiments in the most plain and fimple language. All novelty and refinement of thought he has carefully avoided, as foreign to the nature of religious worship-nor has he attempted a pointed, rhetorical, or figurative ftyle; for it appears to him that, however fuited fuch a ftyle may be to didactic difcourfes, it is improper in offices of devotion, and particularly fo in prayers defigned for the use of families: befides, he apprehends, that, without the utmoft fimplicity of expreffion, the frequent repetition of the fame form of words muft unavoidably become difagreeable and tiresome.

The critic, and philofopher, as fuch, muft not, therefore, expect entertainment from this work, which is defigned for common ufe, and intended to fuit the understandings, and imprefs the hearts of mankind in general. If the judicious reader can perufe thefe forms of devotion without difapprobation, and the pious Chriftian can make use of them with pleasure and advantage, the Author's utmoft ambition will be gratified.'

He alfo acknowledges himfelf indebted to the holy fcriptures, and other devotional writings, for a great part of the materials from which this work is compofed.' And he imagines he fhaH not be cenfured for not having prefumed, in fuch an undertaking, to truft entirely to his own abilities.'

Mr. Enfield's plan is fimilar to that of the Dublin forms of famliy devotions, published by the late Dr. Leland and Dr. Weld, in conjunction, as we are informed, with Dr. Luchall and Mr. Mears f. He gives us, I. Prayers for the morning and evening of every day in

the week. II. Occafional Prayers and Thanksgivings, to be used as circumftances may require. III. General Prayers, to be used at any time and in which, according to our apprehenfion, Chriftians of every denomination may fincerely join,-provided their hearts are RIGHT toward GOD and toward MAN.

Art. 44. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late Rev. Nathaniel Lardner, D. D. containing a Catalogue of his Works, with fe veral Letters relating to them, and other original Papers. Also eight Sermons, upon various Subjects. 8vo. 5s. Buckland, &c. 1769. It is scarce neceffary to acquaint our Readers, that the late worthy Dr. Lardner was one of the moft learned and most confiderable perfons among the Diffenting Minifters of the prefent age. We have often had the pleasure of recommending his truly valuable and ufeful writings to the public; and they were all, particularly his Credibility of the Gospel Hiftory, in the higheft efteem among Proteftant Chriftians of all denominations.-Thefe memoirs of his life and writings, though they contain but very few anecdotes, will be perafed with pleasure by every lover of this good man's memory; and the Letters that are interfperfed will be acceptable to most readers. They are written by Dr. Waddington, bishop of Chichester; Mr. Hallet, of Exeter; Dr. Morgan; Dr. Secker, the late archbishop of Canterbury; Dr. Doddridge; Dr. Sam. Chandler; and others. Thofe of Dr. Lardner himself are not the leaft valuable; efpecially the correfpondence with the bishop of Chichester, relating to the profecution of Mr. Woolfton for his writings against the miracles.

The Sermons, added to thefe Memoirs, are fuch as will bring no difcredit on the memory of the rational and pious Author. Art. 45. Twelve Sermons on the most interefting Subjects of the Chriftian Religion, preached upon feveral Occafions. By Haddon Smith, Curate of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, and late Chaplain of his Majefty's Ship the Dreadnought. 8vo. 3 s. 6d. Turpin. 1769.

The Author tells us that these fermons would have been published long ago, had not the fubfcriptions fallen greatly fhort of his expectations; and that, had he not gone too far to recede, he should cer tainly, he fays, have given over all thoughts of troubling the world with any thing that is ferious. Thefe difcourfes have, however, more merit than many which are prefented to the public: they are upon practical, important fabjects, and thefe fubjects are, on the whole, treated agreeably, and in a manner which is likely to be useful. Public worship, repentance, integrity of heart and life, are here confidered and recommended: the divine origin of the Scriptures, the delufions of fin, &c. are also enlarged upon in a manner which has fome tendency to do real fervice to the readers. When he speaks of faith, though his fermon upon it is really good, he feems not fully to enter into its nature, as being that affecting fenfe of religious truths, that inward principle of piety and goodness, according to its different objects, which, if it be real, will influence the heart and life.

Art.

Art. 46. Useful Remarks on fome propofed Alterations in our Li» turgy. A Word to the Quakers on their Epifle at the yearly Meeting 1709. With a Defence of the Author and his Book Enthusiasm Detected, Defeated. By Samuel Roe, M. A. Vicar of Stotfold, in Bedfordshire. 8vo. 6d. Crowder, &c.

Poor Samuel Roe! He is gone! the zeal of the church hath eaten him up *!

Such of our Readers as are unacquainted with this Author, will find a fufficient account of him, in the Review for February 1769, Art. 24, p. 16.

SERMON S.

I. The religious Care of Families recommended,-at Miles's Lane, Dec. 25, 1769. Being the day of the annual Sermon for the benefit of young people. By William Ford, junior. Buckland.

II. The proper Style of Chriftian Oratory-Preached at Huntingdon, Jan. 7. 1770. By Peter Peckard, A. M. T. Payne, &c.

III. At St. Saviour's Gate, York, to a Congregation of Proteftant Diffenters, on the death of the Rev. Mr. Sandercock. To which is prefixed, a fhort Discourse delivered at his funeral. By Newcome Cappe. Becket.

IV. The Regards a Chriftian Gongregation owe to their deceafed Minifters, reprefented and urged,-at the old Meeting at Birmingham, Dec. 17, 1769, on the much-lamented death of the Rev. Mr. Samuel Clark. By Caleb Ashworth, D. D. To which is added, the Oration delivered at his interment, by William Howell. Buckland, &c.

V. Before the Houfe of Lords, at St. Peter's, Westminster, Jan. 30, 1770. By the Bishop of St. Afaph. Cadell.

VI. On the death of the Rev. Mr. David Parry, Diffenting Minifter at Thaxted in Effex, Jan. 10, 1770. By John Angus. Buckland. VII. At the confecration of John Lord Bishop of Peterborough, in Lambeth Chapel, Dec. 17, 1769. By Michael Lort, Fellow of Trinity College, and Greek Profeffor in the University of Cambridge. White.

VIII. The Condemnation pronounced against all mere external Pretenfions to Religion, at the annual vifitation of the Rev. the Lord Bishop of Winchefter, at Basingstoke, Sept. 14, 1769. By John Duncan, D. D. Rector of Southwarmborough, Hants. Dodley, &c.

IX. At the Parish Church of Greenwich in Kent, on Christmas Day, 1769. By Edw. Berkett, Curate of Greenwich. Robinson and Roberts. X. Jofeph a Type of Chrift, or an Attempt to spiritualize the Hiftory of that Patriarch. By Thomas Blifs, B. A. late Student of Chrift Church, Oxon. 8vo. 6d. Bishop.

It might be made appear, by stronger arguments than any this Writer has made ufe of, that Alexander the Great was a type of Chrift. But, thank Heaven, the myftical theology declines apace.

We have inferted the tenth article in this place, becaufe Mr. B's difcourfe appears to have been no other than a fermon, although not published as fuch