fubject of an addrefs to his Majefty for his late proclamation. He affirms that he has not, as it was faid by fome of the members, deftroyed (in his Rights of Man,) all the principles of fubordination, and established nothing in their room. On the contrary, he fays he has fhewn that if a frugal government, fomething like the American, were established in this country, in the room of that which now prevails, Englishmen would be great gainers by the change. The expence of government in America, he fays, is only 66,2751. 119. per annum: while we in England pay annually feventeen millions of taxes; of which enormous fum eight millions go to defray the cur rent expences of the year, and the other nine to pay the intereft of that load of debt contracted by uncontrolled adminiftrations. In America, he adds, where the whole expences of Government do not amount to fo much as the penfion-lift alone in England, the people do not need to be told by a proclamation that they are happy. The fecond letter is addreffed to Lord Onflow as Chairman of the meeting held at Epfom for the purpose of returning thanks to the King for his proclamation. The author thinks it very wrong that any man should thank his Majefty for endeavouring to fupprefs a publication, unless he know the nature and contents of that publication. He therefore begs leave to prefent his Lordship with an hundred copies of the fecond part of Rights of Man; and alfo with a thousand copies of the foregoing letter to Mr. Dundas, giving fome account of the object and defign of the Rights of Man. He alfo fays that fuch meetings are calculated to influence the minds of the jury, who will have to decide on the prosecution commenced against the Rights of Man. The remaining letter is an expoftulation with Lord Onflow for improper behaviour as chairman, in not fuffering Mr. Paine's former letter to be read. This, he contends, was indecent conduct in one who, on account of his finecure place of one thousand, and his penfion of three thoufand, per annum, made up of taxes paid by eight hundred families, may be fairly confidered as the principal pauper quartered on the county in which he lives. 1792. Pear.e. Art. 54. Art. 55. A Letter to the Farmers and Manufacturers in Great Britain and Ireland, on the audacious Attempts of obfcure and unprincipled Men to fubvert the British Government. 8vo. pp. 39. Is. Stockdale. 1792. This letter appears to have been written under the impulse of an imagination haunted by vifionary terrors. The writer fees, in the attempts which are now making for the reformation and improvement of the British Government, the entire destruction of all order, and the introduction of a state of anarchy, in which a filthy fet of ragamuffins will ride lords-paramount over the whole nation, levying contributions at will, and inflicting death at random and at pleasure on those whom they dislike.' When he turns his eye towards France, every tree he fees is a gibbet, and every other man a hangman; and all the great officers of Government are a promifcuous groupe of coblers, tailors, tinkers, hungry attorneys, and police men. At home, he fees fimilar mifchief brewing; and he apprehends that freebooters, who are enemies to all government and legislation, are becoming reformers. It is no wonder that, with fuch terrible apprehenfions, he should have an infuperable antipathy to night cellar citizens, and halfpenny club politicians; and fhould be of opinion, that if the demon of innovation cannot be laid by the force of reafon, it ought to be laid by the force of coercion. Cooler men, however, who are not thus panic-ftruck, will perceive no fuch hazard in indulging perfons in the natural and unalienable right of free difcuffion, and will hope to fee the temporary ferment of difcontent happily allayed, by means of a temperate but effectual reform. MISCELLANEOU S. 1791. E. Art. 56. Extracts, elegant, inftructive, and entertaining, in Profe; felected from the best modern Authors, and difpofed under proper Heads; intended to affift in introducing young Perfons to an Acquaintance with useful and ornamental Knowlege. 8vo. pp. 1060 10s. 6d. Bound. Rivingtons, &c. &c. Compilations, abridgments, extracts, &c. have frequently, within thefe few years, been prefented to our attention; and fome works of this kind have been very properly executed.--As far as we can jurge, from fuch a view as can be taken of this very ample collection, it is a ufeful and valuable publication: the best materials appear to have been employed in forming it; and they are brought together with propriety and judgment. Of the five books into which the whole is divided, the first is moral and religious ;the fecond, claffical and hiftorical; the third confits of orations, characters, and letters;-the fourth, of narratives, dialogues, &c. with other humorous, facetious, and entertaining pieces; the laft book contains fhort introductions to geography, aftronomy, chronology, natural history, &c. --Aftronomy and chronology, we obferve, are collected from the works of Dr. Jennings.- The whole work is introduced by an effay on pronunciation, or delivery, from the Lectures of Dr. Blair. The bulky appearance of this volume might perhaps almoft dif courage fome readers; we therefore add the following lines from the preface: As thefe extracts, from the variety of fubjects to which they relate, and the numerous works from which they have been felected, have fwelled this publication to fuch a confiderable fize, it has been thought proper to infert a new title-page, nearly in the midcle, that the purchafers may have it in their option to bind it in one, or in two volumes, as they fhall think it moft convenient for ufe.' H. Art. Art. 57. Extras, elegant, inftructive, and entertaining, in Poetry, from the most approved Authors: difpofed under proper Heads, with a View to the Improvement and Amusement of young Perfons; being fimilar in Defign to Extracts in Profe. 8vo. PP. 950. 10s. 6d. Bound. Rivingtons, &c. &c. 1791. This volume confifts of five books, of which the first is compofed of pieces on facred and moral subjects, the fecond of fuch as are didactic, defcriptive, narrative, and pathetic; the third contains felections from our beft dramatic writers, and particularly from ShakeSpeare, closely following Mr. Malone's edition; the fourth book is epic and mifcellaneous, to which the works of Spencer, Milton, and Pope, largely contribute; the fifth, is formed principally of Judicrous poems, epigrams, forgs, ballads, prologues, epilogues, &c. The editor affures the reader that he has taken particular care to admit nothing into the collection but what is calculated for improvement, or innocent recreation, without the intermixture of any thing that is pernicious. We are perfuaded that this has been his endeavour, even among fongs and ballads, the best of which, especially of the laft age, have a degree of vulgarity, if they are not otherwise objectionable. This collection, like the preceding compilement in profe, may be bound in one or in two volumes, according to the choice of the purchafers, who doubtless will prefer the latter.-We have only to add, that a publication fimilar to this appeared a very few years ago, for an account of which we refer the reader to Rev. for May 1789, vol. lxxx. p. 463. Art. 58. Epifles, elegant, familiar, and inftructive, felected from the belt Writers, ancient, as well as modern, intended for the Improvement of young Perfons, and for general Entertainment: being a proper Supplement to Extracts in Profe and in Poetry. 8vo. PP. 790. 9s. Bound. Rivingtons, &c. 1791. H. Of the four books into which this publication is divided, the first is devoted to ancient times, and prefents a large number of the celebrated letters of Cicero and Pliny; the fecond contains modern letters of an early date; the third, fuch as are of later date; and the Jaft, fuch as are called recent.-Sir John Fenn's collections furnish the most early letters of the modern kind; and excepting thefe, we do not obferve many different names from thofe which contributed not long fince to form a volume of a like nature with the prefent: Montagu, Chesterfield, and Thrale, perhaps, for we are uncertain, may not appear in that compilation; or the letters felected under the fame name may be different in each of the volumes, but they are chiefly taken in both from the fame originals. For a farther defcription of the performance, we have therefore only to refer the reader to that account which has been given of Mr. Dilly's publi, cation in 1790, and which will be found in the third volume of our New Series; Rev. for Dec. 1790, p. 476. H. Art. 59. Collections towards a Defcription of the County of Devon. By Sir William Pole, of Colcombe and Shute, Knight, (who died A. D. 1635 ;) now first printed from the AUTOGRAPH in the Poffeffion of his lineal Defcendant, Sir William De La Pole, Pole, Bart. of Shute, &c. in Devonshire. 11. 11s. 6d. Boards. Nichols. 1791. 4to. PP. 586. Of this performance we need not fay much more than what may be collected from the editor's introduction, and from the titles allotted to the different parts into which it is divided. Sir W. P. was a member of the Inner Temple; and having attained a degree of eminence in his profeffion, received fome marks of distinction: at his country refidence, he was a Juftice of the Peace, and alfo ferved the office of High Sheriff. His leisure hours feem to have been fedulously employed in gathering materials toward a Defcription of Devonshire. Several of his manufcripts, more valuable, probably, than the prefent, are faid to have perifhed by different accidents; which confideration has operated as an additional incitement to the prefent publication. That it had been long the fubject of Sir William's attention, appears from an original letter written by him, preferved in the British Mufeum, dated 27th April 1604. It is addreffed to one of the Reynel family, which is ancient in this county. It relates (according to the orthography of that time,) to the petegree of the houfe: among other expreffions, are the following:- I proteft I am so far from partiall dealing in these my ftudies that I will not derogate from myne enemyes, nor add yt I cannot authentically prove for my friends. I purpose (God willing,) to fet out fomething for the antiquities of Devonshire. And therefore doe pray you of your help wch fhall not want publick acknowledgment by mee. For I hold it good right y' every man posses his owne.-Thus w my kindest falutations, doe very hartily commend over my very loving affections to your gentle entertaynment.' th Mr. Rifdon, who wrote the Survey of Devon, and was contemporary with Sir William Pole,-and Mr. Prince, who, about the close of the last century, published the Worthies of Devon,-fpeak with great regard both of Sir William, and of his manuscripts, to which they exprefs their obligations. The first part of this work relates to the baronies of the county, and then acquaints us with thofe perfons who held their lands immediately from the crown, and with the names of thofe who have had the largest poffeffions, from the time of William the Conqueror to that of the writer. We have alfo a brief account of eminent men, fheriffs, baronets, judges, juftices, &c. The third book of the first part introduces, what may properly be called, the Survey of Devon, commencing with Excefter; after a very fhort description of which, it is carried on throughout this book and alfo in the fecond part of the volume, of which it conftitutes a principal portion. The whole is concluded by a verbal delineation of the arms of nobles and gentlemen who have anciently refided, or do at prefent refide, in the county; with the names of fuch as have been diftinguished, but are now not found there, and of others who, in this writer's time, retained their lands and their abode in this part of the kingdom. Should the reader imagine that in his progrefs through the variety of towns and villages here enumerated, he will find what may be be termed their history, his disappointment will be great; fince he will meet with little more than dry genealogies, formed, we doubt not, with great labour, and with accuracy: but in truth, uninftructive, uninterefting, and for the greater part, useless. ployment, of any kind, if it be innocent, is fo far commendable: but furely, unless neceffity conftrained, a man must be caft in a peculiar mould who could devote a confiderable part of his time, as this writer feems to have done, to this kind of study. ་ Em In the anecdotes of eminent men, one paffage particularly ftruck us as amufing and remarkable, which we shall here add, according to the manner in which it appears in the volume:- St John de Sully, renowned for his exploits in the holy land, in which he was weakned by many wounds, return'd home after many yeares difcontinuance, where, upon his officeres bringing in the accounts of his rent, which amounted to a great maffe of mony; he caufed his cloake, being of cloth of gold, to be fpread on the ground, and commanding the mony to be put therein, caft himself thereinto, that it might be fayed for once he tumbled in gold and filver, whereof he afterward, gave one part to his wife, a 2nd to his officers and tenants, a 3d pte to the poor.' The future Devonshire hiftorian may, without doubt, reap ad. vantage from this collection ;-yet it appears to us improper to fuppofe that the whole of this tedious volume will be employed in the new defcription of the county, which is undertaken by the Rev. Mr. Polwhele :-that work, we hear, is in confiderable forwardness. H. Art. 60. Letters between the Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God Shute, by Divine Providence, Lord Bishop of Durham, Count of the County Palatine, Earl of Sadberge, Baron Evenwood, &c. &c. and Percival Stockdale: A Correfpondence interesting to every Lover of Literature, Freedom, and Religion. pp. 67. 2s. 6d. Ridgway. 1792. 8vo. The Bishop of Durham's part in this correfpondence is very short, while Mr. Stockdale's Letters, and introductory obfervations, make the pamphlet. The facts are thefe.-Mr. Stockdale prefented the Bishop of Durham with his Poetical Thoughts and Views on the Banks of the Wear, (noticed in our laft Review, p. 227.) in which the Bishop is praised; this complimentary offering of the Mufes was followed, fome time after, with an application for the living of Hartburn, about to be vacant by the expected death of Dr. Sharp. The Bishop replied that, when Mr. Stockdale asked for the living, Dr. Sharp was alive; he moreover expreffed his furprize that Mr. Stockdale fhould folicit more preferment in a county, whofe fevere climate he had urged as a plea for non-refidence. Mr. Stockdale rejoined that the living of Hartburn would make him affluent; that he would encounter the climate with pleasure, notwithstanding it had not agreed with him; and that, by fuch an inftance of good fortune, his beft feelings and fentiments would be unspeakably enriched. In answer to these reafons, with which he urged his request, Bishop Barrington returned the following laconic card: "The Bishop of Durham acquaints Mr. Stockdale that the living of Hartburn is difpofed of." On this, Mr. S. grew angry, repented him of the praise |