rife to a fubfcription of unparalleled liberality, for promoting this great object; and will end, we doubt not, in the establishment of proper fchools in every part of the united kingdom. The fame fubject is difcuffed by Mr. Bouyer and Mr. Grinfield †, and by both with confiderable ability. The difcourfe of Dr. Goddard, at the Bishop of Chichester's Vifitation, on the nature and effects of herefies, and on the true character of a Chriftian Church, is one of those that stand in the very first order of merit. We analysed it with proportionable care, and we trust that its value has thus been made known to multitudes, who had not the advantage of hearing it delivered. Other fermons have deserved commendation, as may be feen under their respective articles, but not fufficiently to come into competition with these here therefore we fhall clofe our prefent account. PHILOSOPHY and MATHEMATICS. After an interval, on many accounts to be lamented, we have refumed our reports on the Philofophical Tranfactions of the Royal Society. That work, on which the eyes of Europe have been fixed fo long, has produced very lately fome of the most brilliant difcoveries. The active fpirit and unremitting attention of the Prefident give vigour to the movements of the body; and every member is willing to exert his beft efforts, where they are fure to meet with judicious favour and encouragement. May the Society long enjoy the fame advantages! In the works of the late Bishop of OfJory, Dr. Hamilton, philofophy and mathematics are too closely united to admit of separation; and p. 201. + No. VI. p. 647. * No. II. ‡ No. V. P. 511. No. IV. p. 345, and No. V. 436. || No. I. p. 51. their union, like other well-afforted unions, is to the advantage of both. There is alfo fome divinity; and every part is impreffed with the characters of profound thought, and accurate judgment. The fmall but elegant volume of Dr. Reeve on the Torpidity of Animals * gives a pleafing fpecimen of an union no lefs natural, that of medical and philofophical acutenefs. In a very different region of philofophy, Mr. Dugald Stewart has long established his reputation; and his Philofophical Effays †, partly analyzed in our preceding volume, and concluded in this §, are well worthy of that reputation. They are the work of an accurate and experienced metaphyfician, and announce further defigns, to which many ftudents will look forward with eager expectation. Mr. Creffwell, of Trinity College, Cambridge, has completed the union between pure mathematics and the Elements of Linear Perspective, begun by Mr. Brook Taylor. He is more neat and perfpicuous in his theorems than his predeceffor; and has, in fact, produced a much better elementary work. For another work of a fimilar, kind, applied to the Theory and Practice of Mechanics, we are indebted to Mr. Marrat, of Boston **, who, in five books, has given an excellent introduction to that study. In every science which admits of mathematical precifion, it is of the utmoft confequence to have introductions ftrictly elementary and we rejoice, of courfe, to fee the number of thefe augmented. MEDICINE. Our account of medical works muft ftill be brief. It so happens at prefent, that the shortest among the * N. II. p. 196. + Called by miftake Metaphyfical Effays, in our last preface (p. xi.), which, though they are fo in fact, is not the actual title. No. I. p. 73. + Page 537. No. II. p. 148. productions productions of that clafs is the most interesting. We allude to Mr. James Moore's Letter to Dr. Jones*, in which the analyfis of the famous Eau Medicinale is made out with the utmost probability of truth. From very fagacious conjectures, Mr. Moore proceeds to well-imagined experiments, and the refult is nearly the fame as we gave from report, in a note in our last preface (p. xix). Dr. Curry's tract on Mercury† is a valuable present to the public, from a juftly eminent man; and it is received with the more pleasure, as the forerunner of a more important work on the Hepatic functions. The high merit of Mr. Cooke's publication on Tinea Capitis will fuffer little degradation from the exceptions which we thought it neceffary to make. It is ftill recorded in our pages as a work of much utility, and profeffional ingenuity. HISTORY and BIOGRAPHY. Not having much to fay under either of these heads we unite them. To Mr. Maurice we may almost say, Prima dicte mihi, fumma dicende Camoena, for, nineteen years ago our very first pages opened with an account of the first volumes of his Indian Antiquities; and here, at the closing of our 38th volume, we have to commemorate the completing, of his Indian Hiftory §. That the fame Author and the fame Critics fhould travel fo long together was little probable at the first; and we feel particular pleasure in saying, that as we opened his first books with good hopes of his fuccefs, fo we have clofed his laft with ftrong * No. IV. P. 357.. P. 416. approbation of his performance. He has laboured to do good, and we firmly believe that he has done it, to a confiderable extent; though we fear that, from whatever caufe, he has by no means reaped proportionable benefit to himself. This may be feen by fome remarks in his concluding volumes, and it will be seen, by those who can duly estimate so much literary labour, with regret. The collection of Effays, which we have attributed to Mr. Baron Maferes, is chiefly hiftorical, and contains feveral articles which the curious reader will be glad to find in the compafs of fuch a volume. Proceed we to biography, where we meet immediately with Bishop Porteus, Sanctum et venerabile nomen! The pen of his relation, Mr. Hodgson †, has done him juftice, but it has done no more. Afraid of the reproach of partiality, he has reftrained his pen, in our opinion fufficiently; for how could we have efteemed the biographer, who fhould have written the life of fuch a relation and fuch a man, without partiality for the fubject? The life and correfpondence of Sir George Radcliffe, published by Dr. Whitaker, belong at least as much to history as biography. The work is one of those which throw light on an eventful, though melancholy, period; and for that reafon muft infallibly be acceptable to the curious. The elegant little volume of Lord Woodhoufelee, on the Life and Character of Petrarch§, will be acceptable to every liberal reader, as a vindication of the poet and his miftrefs. The vanity of a French Abbé || had disgraced them with the impu tation of a French intrigue; but from the inveftigation of the prefent author they come forth, he a *-No. V. P. 527. + No. II. P. 135. ‡ No. VI. P. 561. No. III. p. 284. De Sade; whose object was to prove himself defcended from "Laura. virtuous virtuous lover, and fhe an innocent maiden, as every line of the author's poetry befpeaks them. TOPOGRAPHY. This fcience, which has long flourished in England, has at length penetrated into the mountains of Wales, and has to boast of one or two very elaborate works, the refult of much investigation in that country. We fhall mention first Mr. Carlile's Topographical Dictionary*, because that extends to the whole principality. It is on the fame plan with the Topographical Dictionaries of England and Ireland, published fome time ago by the fame authort, and is to be followed by a fimilar work on Scotland, which will complete the whole defign; and will give fuch a picture of the whole United Kingdom as never before has been produced. The other book to which we alluded above, is the Hiftory of Brecknockshire, by Mr. Theophilus Jones; a work no lefs creditable to the accuracy than the diligence of the compiler. We take a very wide step to introduce our next specimen, the Geographical and other Hiftory of Chili §, tranflated from the Abbé Molina. It is a work of curious research, and contains many particulars little known before to the ftudents of Europe. The Itis of the ancients is the object of enquiry to Sir Chr. Hawkins, and the circumftances of the trade for tin, carried on by the ancients in Cornwall. The brief fketch of the ancient feat of Tattershall in the County of Lincoln ¶, gave us pleasure from the neatness of execution, and the accuracy of refearch, and will be fought by collectors of fuch works. The * No. 1. p. 70. + No. I. p. 1. See Brit, Crit. xxxii. p. 376, and § No. IV. P. 377. We had flightly noticed it before, No. III. 1 No. III. p. 299. xxxvi. p. 369. No. IV. p. 399. P. 299. repub |