profpect of a chain of taxes (of which this may be only one link) being faftened on them by the authority of a pt in which they do not conceive themfelves to be properly and conftitutionally repreJented. Much hath been faid on both fides of the grand question concerning the expediency, propriety, and policy of an American reprefentation; but to us it appears extremely obvious, that all parts of the British dominions ought to be actually, not merely virtually reprefented in the great council of the nation. As to what hath been arged, from the confideration that, even in our own ifland, such great and populous towns as Manchester, Birmingham, &c. &c. are not reprefented in parliament, we entirely acquiefce in our Author's laconic reply, That it is high time they fhould.

Art. 10. The Principles of the late Changes impartially examined. In a Letter from a Son of Candor to the Public Advertiser. 8vo. Is. 6d. Almon.

Refentment of the fall of the OUTS, appears to have given birth to this attack on the INs: in which the principles of the late changes' do not seem to be very impartially examined. This Son of Candor proceeds on the fame pofitive affumption of the reality of the old invifible agency, on which the Honest Man grounded his refufal to take any part in the new adminiftration; and on which the Political Apologift, mentioned in our last month's catalogue, chiefly argues on the fame fide of the queftion. He particularly vindicates Lord Temple's abfolute refufal to enter, at this juncture, into the fervice of his country; and after endeavouring to refute thofe who have afcribed his Lordship's refufal to motives that never exifted, he comes to this conclufion, that his Lordship's not embarking with the new miniftry, could only proceed from his apprehenfion of the impollibility to do his king and country that fervice which an honeft man would wish to do, in the ftation he declined.' He adds, The noble lord, we may fuppofe, [yes, we may fuppofe a great many things; but if we proceed on groundlefs fuppofitions, and argue wrongly from miftaken premifes,-then-what becomes of our fuppofes?] knew more of the real fituation of things than the public at large can. But to what has been obferved in the progrefs of these animadverfions, little needs be added, to evince that his apprehenfions were not groundless. Stronger evidence cannot be required of the continued afcendant of Lord B-, and that his aim was till to maintain an abJolate dominion over this country, by being mafter of any ministry, .to decide their fate, not according to their conduct towards the nation, but according to their fubmillion to him.'-Hence our Author ftrenuously maintains, that the late miniftry were not difmiffed on account of their unpopularity-that they did not die for violations of liberty; to expiate general warrants; feizure of papers; restrictions of the privilege and fecurity of parliament; refraint on the freedom of the prefs, rigorous crown profecutions, &c. &c. &c. That they were not offered up to the complaints, the cries, nor the wishes of the PEOPLE-but, because they would not, in all things, implicitly fubmit to L-B-;-because they prefumed to displease his L-p's

• See Review for July, p. 76.

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brother, Mr. St― M-;-in fine, because there was no remifion for treafon against the favorite.

As to the prefent ministry, our Author fpeaks of them with a de gree of afperity, and even malignity, which is not altogether confiftent with his affumed title of an impartial examiner. He not only prejudges their administration by repeating the common cry, want of experience, against them, but he even ventures to infinuate, that, allowing them both ability and inclination to act in a manner becoming their flations, yet they will not be permitted to do any thing contrary to the good pleasure of that invisible power which will inevitably control them. This general infiftence on the continued tho' fecret influence of the northern peer, without producing inftances in proof of the operations of fuch invifible fpirit, has been pleafantly ridiculed by one of the many antagonists of Anti-Sejanus: an honeft fellow, fays he, paffing through the Borough, paid fixpence for fecing an invisible cock ; at which he was to peep through a hole in the lid of a box." And pray, faid his friend, did you fee him?" No, you fool! how could I replied the other, did not I tell you he was INVISIBLE? But am fure he was there.'

A title affumed by a zealous writer of political effays published in the news-papers; and faid to be employed by L-Sh, in order to hunt down the new ministry.

Art. 11. A Candid Refutation of the Charges brought against the prefent Minifters, in a Tract entitled The Principles of the late Changes impartially examined. 8vo. Is. F. Newbery. A fuperficial defence of the minifiry, from the objections briefly ftated in these three articles- That they are the instruments of the favorite ;--that neither Mr. P-nor Lord T are with them; and

that they are young and unexperienced.' To thefe objections the Author offers, on mere fpeculation, what muft naturally occur to any fpeculatift in a garret or in a coffee-house. But he holds out no new light to the public, and has not even conjectured any thing but what hath been fo often conjectured, and urged, and anfwered, and faid, and afferted, and argued, and proved, and refuted,-in an hundred and fifty news-papers and pamphlets, --that nobody now believes or understands one word of the matter, on either fide the question.

L A W.

Art. 12. A New Treatife on the Laws concerning Tithes: Containing all the Statutes, Adjudged Cafes, Refolutions and Judgments relative thereto, under the following Heads: Chap. I. Definition of Tithes, Parfmage, Vicarage, Impropriation, and Appropriation; and of the Origin, Nature, and feveral Kinds of Tithes. II. Out of what Things Tithes fhall be paid; what Lands are fubject to Tithes, and the feveral Statutes for diffolving Abbies, Monafteries, and other Religious Houfes, and wefting their Lands in the King; what Lands are difcharged from Tilbes by thefe Acts refpectively, with a Catalogue of the Monafteries diffolved by Stat. 31 Hen. 8. of the yearly Value of 2001. and upwards; what Order they were of, and the Times of their refpective Foundations.

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111. Of Exemption from Payment of Tithes: and of Modus, Cuftom, and Prefcription. IV. An Alphabetical Table or Index of Things Titheable, and not Titheable, viz. Acorns, After-eatage, After-math, After-pafture, Agiftment, Alders, Altarage, Apples, Afb, Afp-trees, Bark, Barren-land, Beans, Beech, Bees, Birch, Brick, Broom, Calves, Chalk, Cheefe, Cherry-trees, Chickens, Clay, Clover, Coal, Colts, Conies, Copper-mill, Deer, Dotards, Dove, Eggs, Elms, Fallow, Ferns, Fish, Flax, Foreft, Fowl, Fruit, Fuel, Furzes, Gardens, Geefe, Glass-houfe, Grafs, Gravel Hafle, Hay, Head-lands, Heath, Hedge-poles, Hemp, Herbage, Holly, Honey, Hops, Horfes, Houfes, Lambs, Lattermath, Lead, Lime, Loppings, Maple, Maft, Milk, Mill, Mines, Nurseries, Oak, Orchards, Ofiers, Park, Partridge, Pafture, Peafe, Pheafants, Pigeons, Pigs, Quarries, Rakings, Roots, Saffron, Salt, Sheep, Slate, Stubble, Sylva Cadua, Tares, Tiles, Trees, Turf, Turkeys, Warren, Wafte, Willows, Woad, Wood. V. Of Setting out, and Taking and Carrying away Tithes. VI. Of the Remedies for Recovering Tithes, and the feveral Acts of Parliament made for that Purpofe. VII. Of the Manner of paying Tithes, and the Sums payable by the respective Parishes in London. By a Gentleman of the Middle Temple. 8vo. 3s. few'd. Griffin, &c. Every attempt to reduce the fcattered and diffufive matter relative to the feveral branches of jurisprudence into one collected body, is deferving of public thanks and encouragement: and therefore compilements of this kind ought not to be too critically and feverely examined. If the reader is not misled by false doctrine, he should think himself obliged to the compiler, though he may not meet with all the information he had reafon to expect. When we confider the little work before us with thefe allowances, its defects claim our indulgence. At the fame time, we cannot but deem the Compiler cenfurable, for having tranfcribed feveral whole pages literally from Burn's Ecclefiaftical Law, title TTHES and for having omitted fome particulars in his alphabetical table of things titheable, fuch as madder, turnips t, &c. On fo dry a fubject, we fhall add nothing farther, but. refer fuch of our Readers as are defirous to be better acquainted with the law of Tithes, to the treatise itself.

Likewife for ftudioufly endeavouring to difguife this plagiarism, by quoting (inftead of Burn) the authors quoted by Dr. Burn himfelf. And where he thinks it neceffary to refer toDr.Burn, instead of referring to him, he only puts down B. E. L.

He follows Bishop Gibson, in his alphabetical lift of all things tithable, even to chalk and flate; and, in confequence, hath adopted, from him, one capital error, viz. that, in the fame catalogue, Corn is never mentioned among things tithable.

Art. 13. A Key to the Law; or an Introduction to Legal Knowlege. To which is prefixed a prefatory Difcourfe on the prefent State of the Laws of England, with Hints for the Amendment thereof. By Richard Helmfworth, Efq; of the Middle Temple. 8vo. Is. 6d. Webly.

This Key will never open the cheft of legal knowledge: and, in ou judgment, Hale, Fettiplace, and Blackftone are the belt locksmiths.

See their feveral Analyfes.

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Art. 14. Rational Phyfic; or the Art of Healing founded and explained on the Principles of Reason and Experience. To which is added, a Family Difpenfatory, containing plain and familiar Directions in English for preparing the most approved Remedies to be found in learned Authors; with others used in private Practice. Accompanied with Remarks on the Virtues, Qualities, &c. of each Medicine. By W. Samfon, Surgeon at Sherborne, Dorsetfhire. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Fletcher.

In an age fo notorious for empiricifm and lay practice, what have not the faculty to fear from fuch repeated publications of their arcana? What a number of authors, from Diocles Cariftius to Mr. W. Samfon, Surgeon at Sherborne, have attempted to difcover the mysteries of our art?-Diocles Cariftius gave fome excellent directions for the prefervation of health, to Antigonus, one of the fucceffors of Alexander the Great--and Mr. Samfon, Surgeon, advertises to the good people of England the whole art of healing for the trifling expence of half a crown.-Surely the free-mafonry of medicine muft ere this be fully laid open to the most vulgar eye!-and a cobler may now mend a difeafed body, with the fame tightnefs and fecurity that he patches an old fhoc.-Alas, for the betrayed, deferted fons of Æfculapius! What remains for us but to tear our venerable wigs!-and, with the diftracted Moor, cry out, our Occupation's gone!-But hold! perhaps it is better as it is :-for there are fome who think, that publications of this kind will never diminish the number of patients;-and they furthermore obferve, that one reading, dabbling, practising patient, is worth five of those hardy, heedlefs fons of mortality, who never think of a difeafe till it comes; and if, by the affistance of art, or the ftrength of a good conftitution, they bruth through the attack, why then they think as little of it when it is over.

Mr. Samfon's work confifts of 116 pages :-in the first 38 pages, he pretends to inftil into his reader fuch a degree of medical knowlege, as to enable him to diftinguish one difeafe from another, and to judge what method of cure is to be purfued;-this part is little more than a fuperficial, common-place collection from what has been published at large. The remaining 80 pages make up an alphabetical difpenfatory, compiled from prefcriptions, hofpital recipies, and the numberlefs difpenfatories which have already appeared in the world.-From the first part of this work, the reader will learn pretty nearly nothing, which is as much, we apprehend, as a lay-man, if he confiders his own peace and intereft, ought to know of these subjects :—and, in the difpenfatory, he will find himself half-buried in a bufy, bustling apothecary's fhop; and the fooner he gets out of it, the better.

Art. 15. A feafonable and modeft Reply to Dr. Lucas's Curfory Remarks on Dr. Sutherland's Treatife on Bath and Bristol Wa

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ters; in which the Innocence of Brimftone is vindicated; and Dr. Sutherland's Experiments on the Existency of that Mineral in Bath Waters, are confirmed. By Diederick Weffel Linden, M. D. 8vo. Is. Moran.

As there hath been more perfonal abuse and fcurrility than candid and fober arguments in this Bath-water controverfy, we fhall not enter farther into the particulars of what hath paffed, or is now paffing in it, than barely to mention the grand point in difpute among thefe practitioners in medicine and fcolding. The queftion in difpute is this, Whether there is any brimstone in the Bath-waters? Dr. Lucas maintains there is none; Dr. Sutherland holds the affirmative; and Dr. Linden, who undertakes to decide between them, avers that Sutherland is right, and that Lucas is no chemist.

Who fhall decide, when doctors difagree?'

For our part, we fhall pretend to decide nothing in regard to this difpute, but what relates to the manner in which it is carried on. Dr. Sutherland we have fufficiently fhewn to be a very indifferent writer; Dr. Lucas, with fuperior literary talents †, has treated his opponent with the groffeft contempt; and Dr. Linden abufes Dr. Lucas in language that bespeaks him neither gentleman nor fcholar. In short, his ftyling this indecent, ill-written pamphlet a modeft reply,'--is a moft unfortunate proof of his own modefty: and in his motto, too, we apprehend he is equally unlucky. He intends it for Dr. Lucas; but a due confideration of the precept will do none of the parties in this illiberal difpute any harm: Be not hafty in thy fpirit to be angry, for anger refleth in the bofom of fools. Ecclefiaftes, Ch. vii. v. 9.

See the review of his Treatife on Bath and Briftol-waters, in our 28th volume.

+ See our account of his Remarks, &c. in the Review for January laft, p. 70.

Art. 16. Obfervations on the Beaume de Vie; firft difcovered by Monf. Le Lievre, the King's Apothecary at Paris. Wherein all the Objections made to it by the ignorant and interefted, are fully refuted, and its wonderful Efficacy, in a Variety of Diseases, juftified on the most reafonable Principles; with Letters and Attefta tions in its Favour, from People of the first Diftinction. 8vo. Is. Flexney, &c.

This is an abstract of the late Mr. Le Lievre's much larger volume, concerning his famous medicine entitled as above. Of the original we have feen two or three editions; from one of which this pamphlet is, probably, extracted: but with what fidelity, we cannot pretend to fay, not having any copy of the original French at hand. As to the medicine itself, which is now publicly vended in London, we know nothing of it but from hearfay, from the Author's own account of its powers and effects, and from the very advantageous character given of it in the letters which he hath inferted in his book; many of which, it must be acknowledged, are from perfons of confiderable

* Particularly one printed in Paris, in 1763.

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