MISCELLANEOUS. Letters addreffed to Mrs. Bellamy, occafioned by her Apology. By Edward Willett. 15. 6d. Robinfon. 'Mr. Willett, in thefe Letters, defends himself from the accufations brought against him by Mrs. Bellamy, in her fifth Volume, with great reafon, and fome humour. The defcription of the lady in fome fituations, and her letters in others, leave imprefions very different from thofe produced by her Apology; but, as no fufpicion of flain feems now to rest on the character of the prefent author, we thai! only remark, that we feem to have converfed with this reprefentative of an eastern princess at an humble diftance, with the adftance of an interpreter. Advice to the Officers of the British Navy. 8vo. 25. Ed. Flexney. Whether the advifer of the naval officers is the fame who first addrefled himself to thofe of the army, or whether an inferior author has affumed the pen, we know not. Perhaps much of the pleasure derived from the first performance, was from the comparative novelty of the plan; but its blush is temporary, and this kind of fatire, from frequent repetition, loles its relih. We have therefore no re-fon to fuppofe, from the inferiority only, that this work is the production of another author. The advice is directed to the different haval officers; and those who are converfant in the annals of the latt war, a war which feemed to difgrace us, becaufe we were not decidedly fuperior, and eminently fuccef. ful, will readily perceive to whom the ftigma is directed. For our own parts, we are fatiated with this kind of entertainment, and our readers will probably be of the fame opinion. Yet we cannot difmits our author without a wifh that, after the various fatires which have been directed against the officers in each department, fome diligent and impartial enquirer would endeavour to distribute equal juftice to the many examples of fpirit and judgment, the molt enterprising valour, and active humanity, which have eccurred in the fame period. Thefe would have been received with avidity, and decorated with their proper fame, in a country where party is not fo often eager to detract, and where former uninterrupted fuccefs had not blinded the eyes of reafon to the neceffary uncertainty of events of war. Appendix to the Thoughts on executive Juftice. Small Evo. IS. Dodfley. We reviewed the little work, to which this well-written Ap pendix is now added, with great care, in page 319. It was mentioned by Baron Perryn, in his charge to the grand jury of Surry, as of a fanguinary tendency, making our laws like thofe of Draco, which were, from their feverity, faid to be written in blood.' Our account of it was very different; and the the Baron does not feem to have attended to the fcope and meaning of the tract, with his ufual accuracy, temper, and coolness. This Appendix is therefore a liberal, candid, judicious defence of the Thoughts from the imputation mentioned; and gives the most favourable idea both of, the head "and heart of the author. The Magiftrate's Afiftant; or, a Summary of thofe Laws, which immediately refpect the Conduct of a Justice of the Peace: to the end of the Fifteenth Parliament of Great Britain. By a Country Magifirate. 8vo. 75. Gardner. Every man who contributes to the prefervation of that peace which is the greatest bleding of human fociety, deferves the thanks of the public. It is generally known, that Europe does not afford a more ufeful office than that of an English justice of the peace lord Coke affirms, that the whole Chriftian world hath not the like, if it be duly executed. His powers on the one hand, and limitations on the other, enable him to do great good, with very little opportunity of doing harm. It must be owned, the office falls fometimes into improper hands but this is more or lefs the cafe in all offices of truft. There are in the : commiffion for that county, whofe magiftrates are too generally, and often very injuriously, cenfured, many able and upright men, who would be an ornament to any commiffion in the kingdom; and we have reafon to hope that new appointments will render that commiffion even more refpectable than it is at prefent. The defign of this publication is to reduce the practice of a magiftrate to as fort and plain a compendium as ponible, without omitting any thing that is neceffary. The great object of the editor is to fupply fuch a manual for practice, as fallencourage country gentlemen to qualify themfeives for the execu tion of an office in which they may do great fervice to their country. There are no difficulties to terrify when the practice of a magiftrate is reduced to fo fmall a compafs. The marginal titles are put all together in a table or index; fo that any article in the book may be referred to, and a question answered, almost upon the firft infpection and the work is made farther ufeful, by a large collection of forms and precedents of warrants, &c. The editor however does not pretend that his bock is fufficient of itself. It does not admit of diftinétion of cafes, which are frequently wanted; he therefore recontmends and refers to larger works, particularly to Dr. Burn, whofe method he hath generally adopted, and than which indeed no better could have been followed. We are far from thinking that a juftice of the peace is the only perfon to whom this work will be of ufe. Every gentleman's education or curiofity leads him to enquire by what laws and infruments the peace and good order of fociety are preferved in his own country. The The Farmer's Magazine. 5 Vols. 8vo. 11. 1s. in Boards. Dilly. This work, originally published in monthly numbers, confifts of practical eflays, and remarks on the different branches of husbandry; to which is added a miscellaneous collection of articles both in profe and verfe. How far a work, executed on fuch a plan, is adapted to the taste of the farmer, we must leave to his own determination. Drill Husbandry perfected. By the Rev. James Cooke, M. A. S. A. 12mo. 15. Murray. The defign of this pamphlet is to recommend a drill plough. We are informed that the price of the machine is fixteen guineas; a fum which induces us to conclude that it is of compli cated conftruction. CORRESPONDENCE. WE have been generally influenced by the confiderations which A B mentions, and it fhall be always our endeavour to avoid the inconveniencies, pointed out in his letter, even though they seem to us a little exaggerated. OUR correfpondent, whofe fignature is X, Y, Z, may be affured that the improvement he mentions has been fome time in contemplation, and is now actually in forwardness. It would have given us much pleasure to have enlarged on lord Monboddo's work; but the public found it already too long, and this fagacious monitor of the Reviewers • Aurem Vellit & admonuit.' OUR Well-wisher,' who was afraid that our antipathy to air-balloons' might have rendered our reviewing Mr. Cavallo's work irksome and inconvenient,' will, we hope, find this article not fo partial as he expected it would have been. We freely publish our opinions, but are not unwilling to give merit its proper due, even when abilities feem to be more clearly mifapplied than in the prefent inftance. WE have not yet been able to meet with Mr. Chapple's edition of Rifdon's Survey of Devonshire. W fufpect it has not been advertised; but our obliging correfpondent may be affured, that every attention shall be paid to his remarks. 471 241, 328 445 lating to the rights and pretenfons of the, Arctic zoology, Arenarius of Archimedes, Arijopbanes' frogs, a comedy, 2 L Arrangements with Ireland confidered, 470 Art of angling made eafy, 160-Of 449 153 479 397 ABERCROMBIE's complete walltree pruner, 320-Propagation and botanical arrangement of plants, ibid. Account of fome branches of the royal houfhold, &c. part I. 38, part I. 91 -Of the mufical performances in commemoration of Handel, roOf the Scotch fociety at Norwich. -318-Of the qualities and ufes of coal-tar and coal-varnish, 375—Of the late epidemic ague in the neigh-Alfiant, the magistrate's, bourhood of Bridgnorth, 477 Aflum for fugitive pieces, Acts of parliament, discursory thoughts Attorneys, free enquiry into the enor on the late, mous increa?: of, Addrefs to the officers of the British Aubrey's miscellanies, army, 78-To both houfes of par- Authentic copy of the earl of Mans liament on the late tax laid on fuf- field's judgment in the cafe of the tian, &c. 153-On the fituation of dean of St. Afaph, navy furgeons, 389-To mothers, on the education of their daughters, 418 Advantages of an improved fyftem of finance, confiderations on the, 471 Adventures of Gabriel Outcast, 65-Of John Chriftopher Wolf, Advice to the officers of the British 4-8 navy, Aerophorion, a poem, 313 197 69 339 74 151 Ague (epidemic), account of a late, 477 475 I 112 Anna, or memoirs of a Welsh heiress, 270 |