our country. The name alone of the learned and accurate Dr. Barn to a work of this kind, renders any particular recommendation of it ineedlefs. N.

Art. 33. The Difcipline of the Light Horfe. By Captain Hinde, of the Royal Regiment of Forefters (Light Dragoons.) Illuftrated with Copper-plates. 8vo. 8 s. bound. Owen. 1778.

After a dedication to Lieutenant-general Carpenter, is the following note or card:

"The Author prefents his compliments to the officers of light dragoons, and returns them thanks for the kind affiftance they have given him, in perfecting this work.

"The Author has retired on half pay, having a wife and twelve children at this time alive, the eldest of whom is now in the army." It is to be hoped that the gentlemen in the army will duly confider and encourage a brother officer, who both by his pen and otherwife, appears to have done his utmost to promote the fervice of his country.

Art. 34. A Lift of the Officers of the Militia of England and Wales, for the Year 1778. Corrected to the Month of October. With Lifts of the Lords Lieutenants, and Agents; the Place where each Corps is now quartered; the Number of them raised by each County; Tables of their Pay and Arrears; and a complete Index of the Officers Names. 8vo. I s. 6d. Almon.

And books for Mead, and rarities for Sloane,'-and lifts correct, and registers for Almon.,

Art. 35. An Effay on Caftrametation. By Lewis Lochée, Mafter of the Military Academy, Little Chelsea. 8vo. 4 s. fewed.

Cadell. 1778.

Caftrametation, in its precife meaning, is the art of meafuring, arranging, and ordering camps: but it has fometimes a more extenfive fignification,-including all the views and defigns of a General, in the choice of his camps.' Author's definition.

The reputation acquired by Mr. Lochée, in fuccefsfully conducting, for a number of years, his well-known military academy, will prepoffefs the public in favour of this treatife on encamping; and the merit of the work (fo far as we can pretend to judge) will fupport the prepoffeffion. In the compilement he has judiciously availed himfelf of the principal writers on the art military, viz. Puyfegur, Folard, M. Santa Cruz, Feuquierres, Turpin, M. de Saxe, &c. Proper engravings, on nine large folding plates, are annexed, for the illuftration of the rules and defcriptions.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Art. 36. An Inquiry into the Manners of the prefent Age; in which it is impartially and feriously confidered whether they tend molt to the Happiness or Mifery of Man. By a Lady. 12mo. 1 s. Bew. 1778.

A fpirited declamation against the prevailing love of pleasure, for which the prefent times are diftinguished. The implicit followers of fashion, and the devotees of the gaming-table, have particular

Caftrametation is derived from the two Latin words caftra camps, and metatio measuring, difpofing, or ordering.'

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attention paid to them. But whether they will liften to the good. Lady, or, indeed, whether they will find time for the perufal of her pamphlet, though but a fmall one, is much to be questioned. H. Art. 37. A concife Introduction to the Knowledge of the most eminew Painters. By which every Lover of the Art of Painting, may inftantly know the Names, the Years, and Places of the Birth of above Two Thousand Four Hundred of the most celebrated Artists who have flourished in any Kingdom of Europe for upward of Five Hundred Years past; and alfo the Subjects painted by each Artist, the Mafter under whom he fludied, and the Age at which he died, &c. 8vo. 3 s. Cadell.

In this tabular lift of painters, the Reader is not to expect a cataJogue of the subjects painted by each, as might be inferred from the title, but a general intimation of the itile of painting for which the

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feveral artifts were diftinguished; as history, landscapes, portraits, N. Art. 38. A New Cure for the Spleen: Being a Collection of Advertisements humorous, curious, farcical, fatirical, entertaining, and diverting. Intended for the Amufement of the Fire-Side; many of which were never before printed. To which are added, Christmas Day's Entertainment; a very remarkable Letter of Invitation from a Clergyman; and a poetical Defcription of a bufy World. By A. G. Lovefun, late of Carey street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. 8vo. I S. Wenman, &c. 1778.

Of jest books there is no end. This may ferve as a fupplement to former publications of this funny kind; and is well calculated for the kitchen window.

Art. 39. The Trial of Francis Soulés, charged on the Coroner's Inqueft, with the Murder of Mr. John Fenton, May 16, 1778, by fhooting him with a Pitol. Tried before Judge Afhurft, &c. at the Guildhall, Leicester, Aug 14. Taken literally and verbatim, Together with the Cross-examinations, pleadings, &c. 8vo. 6d, Leicester printed, and fold by Crowder in London.

This is, unquestionably, a genuine account of a most unfortunate accident, and of the confequent proceedings in a court of justice, as abovementioned. The jury being directed to bring in their verdict Special, that the cafe might be laid before the court of King's Bench, the fate of the unhappy culprit is, confequently, yet undetermined, Mr. Soulés is author of a French Grammar, of which an account was given in our Review for October 1777, p. 314.

RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL. Art. 40. An Attempt to fhew that the Knowledge of God has in all Ages, been derived from Revelation or Tradition, not from Nature. 8vo. 1 s. Glafgow, printed. 1773

It has been merely through accident that this work did not receive an earlier notice in our Review. It appears to be the performance of an ingenious, learned, and pious writer; and it merits a more particular and attentive difcuffion than our contracted limits will allow. The propofition which the Author advances and defends, may, poffiby, to fome readers, at firft fight, appear unreasonable and extravagant; but if they will allow themfelves to confider what is offered, they will at least acknowledge that he has fome fhew of reafon

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reafon and truth on his fide. He firft endeavours to prove, that reason, of itself, would have been too flow, and quite infufficient for pointing out to men the means neceffary for life, food, clothing. weapons for defence, and perhaps implements of husbandry, and particularly that by it mankind could never have difcovered that there was a God, much less the only living and true God, whom it would have been their duty and intereft to have ferved, and their chief happiness to have enjoyed: that if men had been left entirely to the direction of their reafon, or the light of nature, with regard to these things, they must have perished, or remained as ignorant as the other animals around them of the great Creator.' From whence The infers, Since men have been preferved by the discovery of means neceffary for their prefervation; fince fome, in every age, have had the knowledge of the true God, and all of them, without exception, have acknowledged fome God or other the knowledge of thefe things must have been derived from revelation, or from the tradition of that revelation. Accordingly, fays he, we find that this has been precifely the cafe.'

For the arguments and proofs which our Author brings to support thefe affertions, we must refer to his treatife.-It has been ufual to celebrate the great Socrates as a kind of martyr to the doctrine of the divine unity; with respect to which, this Writer obferves, Socrates, living and dying, appears to have been a polytheift; and all I can infer from his hiftory, as far as I can understand it, is, that like the reft of his neighbours, he worshipped a plurality of gods, with one as fovereign over the reft, who, in all cafes, obtained the fmallest fhare; fhall I add, that he introduced a fceptical mode of reafoning, the effects of which have reached down to us, and proved the ruin of many; they became vain in their imaginations."

One might be inclined to fuppofe that nothing could be more natural than for a rational creature, from furveying himself and the creation around him, to conclude that there must be a fuperior and Supreme Being, by whom all was produced and is upheld. But this conclufion, when maturely weighed, may appear not to have been fo fully realized in fact, as we might be ready to imagine. The Apostle fays, Rom. i. 20. The invifible things of God, from the creation of the world, are clearly feen, being understood by the things that are made, even bis eternal power and Godhead. Our Author confiders this, as well as other paffages of facred writ, and concerning this,. he fays, the meaning of the words, properly conftrued, appears to be as follows: The invifible things of him, i. e. his eternal power and Godhead, ever fince the world was created, (being) thought, or meditated on, or understood, first, by means of revelation, or tradition, are then clearly feen by the works of creation and providence.'

In the conclufion of his treatise it is natural for the writer to prefs a ferious regard to the fcriptures. A man, fays he, acquainted with the truth, a man of erudition and difcernment, will be in no hazard of difgracing the pulpit by quotations from Plato or Seneca, in proof, or for illuftration of what he fays, infinuating by this practice, if his hearers understand his infinuations, that there are many defects in the gofpel, and, therefore, that fuch fupplements,

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in the judgment of their teacher, are quite neceffary, nor will he be under any temptation to make a comparison between Socrates, the father of fcepticifm, and our Saviour the Son of God, nor between Seneca, who died by his own hand, and the great Apoftle of the Gentiles, as if they refembled in any degree one or another.'

While this writer fpeaks in this manner concerning the fages of antiquity, he plainly fhews that he is not unacquainted with ancient learning, and that from his acquaintance with it, he has conceived an higher value for divine revelation.-On the whole, we have perufed his elaborate tract with pleasure, and we recommend it to the careful confideration of those who are apt to lay too much stress on the fuppofed all fufficiency of the light of nature. H. Art. 41. An Addrefs to both Houses of Parliament, respecting the prejent State of public Affairs: in which the true Cause of our national Diftreffes is pointed out, and proper Means for the Removal of them are recommended. With a particular Address to the Bench of Bishops. 8vo. 1 s. Robfon, &c.

According to this very ferious, pious, and zealous writer, we are to look for the caufe of our national diftreffes, in the infidelity and immorality in which all ranks and profeffions among us are deeply immerfed. He cries aloud, therefore, for a general reformation; and he recommends, as a proper leading ftep to this good work, the appointment of public fafts once in every fix months, during the continuance of the war. This, he apprehends, would greatly facilitate the reformation which he fo piously and laudably wishes and pleads for.-Should his advice be followed, with refpect to a more frequent appointment of national faft-days, his well-meant addrefs might then be rendered more extenfively ufeful than in its prefent mode of publication; for it might be very properly divided into true good fermens, in matter and form extremely fuitable to the occafion.

Art. 42. Sacramental Meditations: or devout Reflections on various Paffages of Scripture; defigned to affift Chriftians in their Attendance on the Lord's Supper, and their Improvement of it. By Job Orton, 12mo. 3s. Shrewsbury, printed. London, fold by Buckland. 1777.

The Author of thefe meditations, difabled from perfonally dif charging the duties of the facred office, applies himself with great affiduity to affift the interefts of piety and virtue, by delivering to the world, at proper distances of time, fome fruits of his former labours. The performance before us has the fame benevolent intention and tendency with others, of which we have given fome account. The meditations, which are fifty in number, are all founded on different texes of fcripture. They were defigned to be used, and are what the Author did himself ufe, in the adminiftration of the Lord's Supper, according to the method obferved among Diffenters from the Church of England. He very properly remarks that the treatifes published concerning the Lord's Supper were chiefly written to explain the nature and defign of that ordinance, and to suggest some general

* Why should we limit them to the continuance of the prefent war with America and her allies? Why not make ufe of this fpiritual weapon during the continuance of man's war with the devil ? directions,

directions, relating to an attendance on it. There have, fays he, been few tracts published, with an immediate and direct view to furnish devout communicants with proper fubjects of meditation during, and after this fervice. He therefore hopes that a treatise, containing fhort reflections on felect texts of fcripture, which may in a great measure fix the thoughts to one point, and furnish at once materials for devout meditation, and some examples of it, will prove acceptable and ufeful. He apprehends alfo that not only thofe who attend, but thofe who have not as yet attended this inftitution may find fome advantage from a perufal of thefe meditations, and be induced to pay a mere ferious regard to their duty in this refpect; and farther, that pious Chriftians, who are neceffarily confined from it, may be affifted and refreshed by them. The great thing, fays he, which I wish for all who may perufe them, is, that they may enter into the spirit of them; and have their understandings improved, and their hearts warmed and elevated and made better.'

It may be proper farther to obferve, as the writer does, that though the texts here used do not directly relate to the Lord's Supper, the thoughts which they fuggeft are fuited to it, and calculated to render an attendance on it beneficial.

The reader will not find, in this work, any rapturous flights, or wild chimeras; he will meet with nothing but what is rational and pious, tending to form the heart to the love of God, and to the practice of what is excellent and praise-worthy. H. Art. 43. Three Sermons on Practical Subjects, from the following Texts: I. Luke xv. 5. "And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his fhoulders rejoicing." II. John v. 6. " When Jefus faw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that cafe, he said unto him wilt thou be made whole? &c." III. Pfalm lxv. 5. "By terrible things in righteousness, wilt thou answer us, O God of our falvation." Preached at the New Church in Langeitho, South-Wales. By the Rev. Mr. Daniel Rowland, Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Leinfter, one of his Majesty's most Hon. Privy-Council in the kingdom of Ireland; and now attempted to be tranflated from the original British, by the Rev. John Davies, Rector of Sharnecote, Wilts; and late of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; who tranflated the former Eight Sermons. 12mo. 9d. Buckland. The tranflator has acquainted our Readers with the fabjects of thefe Sermons in the above title: the difcourfes themselves are of the methodistical caft: they are ferious and affectionate, and contain fome ftriking things, and are, perhaps, better calculated to gain the attention of the generality than much more fenfible and polished compofitions. They feem to aim at impreffing and amending the heart; a purpose, we apprehend more important than the fetting perfons precifely right as to notion and fentiment. What is most remarkable in this book, is the account given of the author, Mr. Daniel Rowland, who has been for about forty years a minifter in Wales, and continues now in the eve of life to travel through most of its counties yearly; no places of worship, though fome are very large, it is faid, are fufficient to hold his auditories; he adminifters the Lord's Supper to thoufands monthly; above a hundred ministers in Wales efteem him as their father; he is not ambitious for worldly

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