the Writer in fo frequently admiring the ways of Providence in bring-' ing to pafs the forgeries of his own brain.

Art. 40. The Life and Adventures of the Prince of Salermo: Containing an Account of his Adventures at Venice, and in Hungary; his Captivity at Damas, and Amour with an Ottoman Princess, together with his Return to Italy: With many entertaining Defcriptions of the Laws, Cuftoms, and Manners of the feveral Countries through which be travelled. By the Marquis de Vere, a Venecian Nobleman, 12mo. 2 s. 6d. fewed, Rofon.

The Prince of Salermo is well worthy a place on the fame shelf with Mifs Harriot Montague, or to share whatever future events may befal her; of which there is more probability than is to be found in any of their past adventures, being twin productions.

Art. 41. The genuine Memoirs of Mifs Faulkner, otherwife Mrs. D-1-n, or Countess of H*****x in Expectancy. 12mo. 3s.. fewed. Bingley.

A great deal of fable grafted on a very small stock of truth. Art. 42. The Memoirs of Mifs Arabella Bolton. 12mo.

Fell.

2s. 6d. At the time of colonel Luttrell's election for Middlefex, his opponents published, in a news-paper, certain letters which paffed between the colonel and Dr. Kelly of Oxford, relating to the fcandalous behaviour of the former toward Mifs Bolton, as we are here informed, whom he bafely debauched while he was a scholar at that univerfity. On the foundation of thofe letters fome novel maker, as we fuppofe, hath fpun out the prefent wretched production; in which it is difficult to pronounce whether the hero of the tale, or the tale teller, makes the worst figure. One of them, as far as we can rely on the authenticity of the letters figned with the name of Dr. Kelly*, has acted the part of a very ungenerous unworthy man, the other of a moft malignant and contemptible fcribbler, who feems to have thought it impoffible to make the devil appear black enough. Art. 43. The Life and Amours of Sir R who so recently had the Honour to prefent the F Addrefs at the Englif Court. 8vo. 1 s. 6 d. Brough.

P.

Every news-paper has been, of late, filled with anecdotes, true or falfe, of Sir Rd Pt. This anonymous pamphlet-account feems to be of equal authenticity with the newimens paragraphs.We look upon the hero of the prefent tale to have really been an adventurer; but we have no: credulity enough to believe an hundredth part of what is faid concerning him in this piece of literary industry.

MISCELLANEOUS. Art. 44. The remarkable Cafe of Thomas Mortimer, Efq; late his Majefty's Vice-conful for the Austrian Netherlands. Addressed, without Permiffion, to Lord Weymouth, and his Under-Secretaries Robert Wood and William Frazer, Efqrs. With an Appendix; containing an extraordinary Anecdote concerning a Ruffian Sailor. The fecond Edition. 8vo. Is. Wilkie, &c. 1770.

The first edition of Mr. Mortimer's Cafe having been published in • Regius profeffor of phyfic in the university of Oxford.

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one of the monthly Political Regifters for the last year, we may fuppofe the generality of our Readers to be already informed of the grounds of his complaint, and his motives for appealing to the public. For that reafon, and because the particulars of his ftory are too numerous and complicated to admit of a fatisfactory abstract within the narrow limits of our Catalogue, we fhall only obferve, that according to his ftate of the cafe, to which no answer has yet been given, he seems to have been very hardly ufed, and ungene roufly, not to fay unjustly, treated, in being fuddenly thrown out of his employment, and involved in diftrefsful circumftances, without any impeachment of his character or conduct-unlefs his uncommon diligence in the difcharge of his duty, and his acting more like an HONEST ENGLISHMAN than an artful politician, be objected against him.-We cannot, however, give any credit to what he fays has been hinted to him by fome gentlemen of distinguished rank, as one fecret concurring caufe of his lofs of interest in the office of our fecretary of state for the northern department; viz. his having fhewn fome tranfient civilities to Mr. Wilkes, in December 1767, while he was windbound at Oftend, waiting for a paffage to England:' for this (unless Mr. M. had behaved with notorious imprudence, and in a manner totally unbecoming a commercial officer acting under his Majesty's appointment,-which we do not find was the cafe) would have been a meanness of revenge, of which, we apprehend, no gentleman could have been guilty.-The truth feems to have been, that there were interefts which ran counter to Mr. Mortimer's, and he was the weaker party.

There is one particular, however, in this gentleman's conduct while in office, which deferves to be especially noted, and for which, as friends to the PROTESTANT intereft, he merits our acknow ledgment, although it does not feem to have been fufficiently acknowledged elsewhere; viz. his pointing out, to the notice of government, the poffible danger and evident detriment to this country, from the prefent establishment of the English and Irish Jefuits at Bruges. In his memorial on this head to the duke of Grafton, then fecretary for the northern department, dated in 1765, Mr. viceconful Mortimer takes notice of the great impropriety of fuffering thofe Jefuits to pass and repafs to and from England in the King's packet-boats, and thereby affording them opportunities of keeping up their dangerous connexions bere, in a manner the most convenient to themselves, but certainly not the most advantageous to us. He alfo obferves, that the chief vifible object of their frequent voyages to Great Britain is, the procuring of children to be educated in their feminaries at Bruges, where they have two fchools, the one for young boys, which they call the little fchool, the other for boys from about ten years of age, who wear the Jefuit's habit, and receive a finished education.

A number of perfons are conftantly employed in London, and in the feveral counties of England, as agents to incite the parents of children to fend them abroad for education, among whom are the perfons whofe names are annexed to this memorial; and the faid vice-conful begs leave to affure your grace, that if it shall be judged neceflary for his Majefty's fervice, he can procure exact lis

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of almost all the perfons fo employed, with the number and quality of children fent over from England for education, and the prefent flate and condition of all the Popish feminaries for the education of British children along the coafts of France and Flanders; which feminaries are now in a more flourishing condition than ever, owing to the number and frequent voyages of paffage-boats to thofe coafts, and to the fatal propensity difcoverable in his majesty's subjects, tho' Proteftants, to fend their children abroad for foreign education.'

Mr. Mortimer alfo informs his grace, that the Irish and English Jefuits, banished from France and eftablished at Bruges, are the avowed enemies of our moft gracious Sovereign; and, as a proof of their attachment to the houfe of Stuart, portraits of the Pretender are hung up in the public rooms of their academies, decorated with the infignia of the noble order of the Garter, and a crown and a fceptre repofed on a cushion.

That thefe Jefuits receive large contributions from England for the support of the different focieties of English and Irish Jesuits in other parts of the world.

Laftly, that the academy at Bruffels for boys, and the nunnery at Calais for the education of girls, and fome other Popish feminaries, have been advertised this year in the London news-papers.'

There is no doubt that the Protestants of this country are guilty of great error and misconduct, who fend their children into Roman Catholic countries for education: and certain it is, those who do it neither manifest a due regard for the pure and rational religion of their own country, nor a proper abhorrence of those fuperftitious and flavish principles, which, they cannot but knoru, will be instilled by Popis tutors, into the young and ductile minds of those who are committed to them for inftruction.-As for the very commendable reprefentation of this affair, made by Mr. Mortimer, we are only informed, that the duke of Grafton was pleafed to exprefs his approbation of it in very strong terms;--but that the mafiers of his Majefty's packet-boats continued to accommodate their good friends the Jejuit paengers as ufual.

Art. 45. An Appeal to the Public on Behalf of Samuel Vaughan, Efq; in a full and impartial Narrative of his Negociation with the Duke of Grafton. Containing the fiveral Affidavits, Letters, &c. of the Duke of Grafton and others, as filed in the Court of King's Bench; and the different Pleadings and Speeches on the Cafe. Together with an Account of various Tranfactions before and fince the Rule was made abfolute. And an Appendix relating to the Public Offices in Jamaica. 8vo. 2 S. Dilly.

Mr. Vaughan's apology depends rather on the complexion of the prefent times, than on ftrict principles of political integrity. Undoubtedly, if offices of truft under the government are conferred for ftipulated prices, Mr. Vaughan was no more criminal in fuch a negociation than another. But this gentleman is no politician, though be undertook to act a double part: and truly it was ridiculous enough for a man, with one hand, to endeavour to drive a clandeftine bargain with a minifter for his own private emolument; while, with the other, he profeffed, for the public good, to bring minifters to account for mal-administration! especially as the affidavit contained

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tained no affurance that the right hand did not know what the left hand was doing. Nor is it lefs laughable, that the merit of expofing a propofal fo circumftanced, fhould, in thefe difcriminating times, be thought likely to add to the reputation of the detector.

Art. 46. The Trial of Mungo Campbell, before the High Court of Jufticiary in Scotland, for the Murder of Alexander, Earl of Eglinton. From an authentic Copy extracted from the Records of the Court. 8vo. 4's. Wilfon and Nicoll.

Genuine.

Art. 47. A Defcription of the Antiquities and Curiofities in Wilton Houfe. Illuftrated with twenty-five Engravings of fome of the capital Statues, Buftos, and Relievos. By James Kennedy. 4to. 16 s. Boards. Salisbury, printed by Eafton, and fold by Horsfield, &c. in London. 1769.

Mr. Kennedy formerly published a defcription of the pictures, ftatues, buftos, &c. at Wilton houfe. [See Review, vol. xix. p. 311. In this larger work, befide the engravings, we have the anecdotes and remarks of Thomas earl of Pembroke, who collected thefe antiques, now first published from his lordship's MSS. These are inferted in Mr. Kennedy's hiftorical introduction to the antiquities comprized in this truly noble collection; the perufal of which will be very fatisfactory to the generality of thofe who go to view the magnificent mufeum here defcribed; although the CONNOISSEURS will not want it.-The engravings appear to be well executed by Mr. Greffe.

Art. 48. The Modern Book-keeper; or Book-keeping made perfectly eafy wherein the Theory and Practice of that excellent Art is clearly explained, in the Manner of real Bufinefs, both foreign and domeftic, according to the most approved Methods, By William Squire, Mafter of the Academy in Whitecrofs-ftreet, London. 8vo. I s. 6d. Cooke,

If the Reader fhould meet with nothing in this pamphlet more than what has been frequently published, he at leaft knows that Mr. Squire keeps a fchool in Whitecrofs-ftreet, and is qualified to teach book-keeping; which, if he has either a fon or nephew to place out, may be a profitable circumftance to both parties.

Art. 49. The Cries and Lamentations of the Afflicted; or the unparallel Sufferings in the Melancholy Cafe of a Perfon of genteel Education, who might feem to deferve a better Fate; being reduced to fuch Diftrefs, that perhaps Hiftory cannot afford us fo fatal an Inftance, whether it befel by any Casualty in Trade, by Fire, by the Sword, by the Sea, by Earthquakes, Storms, Tempefts, or by any other Misfortune fubject to human Life, &c. 8vo. 1 s. Williams, &c.

We have here the wretched complaints of a poor itinerant author, one Chriftopher Brown, fchoolmaster, of Halstead, in Effex, who fubfifts by hawking about his works, in town and country. It feems this unfortunate perfon has taken in fubfcriptions for a work entitled, The Entertaining Medley; but is neither able to complete the book, nor fupport his family, without farther contributions; which he here folicits-but in fuch a manner as, it is to be feared,

*This word stands for unparalleled, in the book as well as in the title page, and does not appear to be an error of the prefs.

will rather hurt than ferve him. This exaggerated, hyperbolical representation of his diftrefs, as being unparalleled in the hiftory of human woe, may, perhaps, be accounted for in by the following paffage: I have no: only been under almoft unfupportable afflic tion by dejection of fpirits and weakness of body, by grief for the diftreffes of my family, which lay heavy and close to me, but I have been alfo drove almoft into a state of infanity.'-On the whole, there feems to be no doubt but that this poor Author, for he too plainly is, in every sense of the phrase, a very poor author indeed! is a real object of benevolence.

Art. 50. The Amusing Instructor: or, Verfe, for the Improvement of Youth. marks on different Branches of Science. 2 s. Harris.

Tales and Fables in Profe and
With useful and pleasant Re-
Adorned with Cuts.

12mo.

We ought, by no means, to pay a flight regard to the literary amufement or inftruction of children, as the impreffions made on their minds in their early years, generally affect their future principles, and contribute toward fixing the turn and tenor of their conduct, during the remainder of their lives.-This little volume appears to be, in feveral refpects, not ill adapted to answer the beft purposes of fuch compilements; and may prove both agreeable and useful to young readers of both fexes, from the age of nine or ten, to thirteen or fourteen. The plan is prettily imagined, the converfations are for the most part natural, and the ftories and fables are judiciously chofen to illuftrate fome moral principle, to inculcate fome falutary maxim, and to recommend and enforce fome neceffary rule of prudential conduct, or point of good manners.-The embellishments of the graver will, no doubt, prove an additional recommendation to Mifs Charlotte and Mafter Dicky.

Art. 51. A Treatife upon Coal-Mines: or, an Attempt to explain their general Marks of Indication, acknowledged and probable. Toge ther with particular Inftances of their public Utility; Objections to the Mode of their Difcovery, and to their Manufacture, obviated, &c. 8vo. 1's. 6 d. Newbery.

From the title of this tract it was natural to expect something curious and interefting; but on perufal it will be found a trifling confufed production. On the teftimony of the writer, it fhould indeed be called an evacuation, and under that idea it is certainly an indigestion, and must have coft the writer fome labour to difcharge it. In the introduction the Author fays it will be confiftent with the plan of this defign,

To evacuate all general objections ;'

To what, we are not there told; but it may be fuppofed fome of these objections were to a good coal fire, for his first and fecond chapters are employed in a serious reprefentation of the uncomfortable circumftances of wanting a fire in a cold winter evening; and of the benefits of a good warm room. When thefe important points are difcuffed, which, if the Reader's feelings depended on this argumentative proof, he is under obligations for; the ufes of coal in manufactures are proved to conviction. The naturalift has next fome reason to thank the writer for a long philofophical refutation of the efficacy of the virgula divinatoria or hazle rod, in difcovering coal mines.

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