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Around his neck, with comely tye,
You might behold the British Spy,
Whilft Baldwin's Journal, free from dirt,
Glu'd to the Craftsman, made his shirt ;
Unlike a Scotchman, he could boast
A breeches made o'th' Morning Post,
An advertisement for a w-ré
Made up a decent flap before,
Upon his legs, for hose he drew
A British Monitor span new,
The upper covering of his fhoes
Was made of Owen's weekly news,
And for each fole he had, I ween,
A Sentimental Magazine,
His fhoes, with medals newly caft,
Were ornamented and made fast;
With his left-hand, moft folemnly,
He wav'd a British Mercury,

A proof-fheet did his right adorn,
Teeming with lyes from Parfon,
His face, with ink and paste made grey,
Was dread and hideous to furvey;
His baleful eyes around he caft,
That witness'd the enemy aghaft,
I'th' further corner of the room,
Trembling and waiting for his doom,
With hafty ftride, fierce Belzebub
Forward advanc'd to grafp the Cub,
Who pale as death, began to fhew
The white of's eyes unto the foe,
Amaz'd, confounded, Satan ftopp'd,
And from his hand the proof-fheet dropp'd;
Fearing the confequence he run,
Although he had the laurels won,
(If laurels may be faid to grow
From fuch a coward-hearted foe)
And skelt'ring through the paffage feels
A footman tripping up his heels,
Another, with an oaken flick,

Play'd hell with th' bones of master Nick,
And to the damage of his crown,
He knock'd the Advertiser down,
The Craftsman and the Spy he tore,
And spoil'd the Morning Poft before,
In which, an effay well defign'd,
By a Methodist, t'improve mankind,
To as many pieces in a trice,
Was torn, as he had torned vice,
And look'd as ragged and forlorn,
As the whore of Babylon or H-ne,
Something of mongrel rhime and profe
Happen'd to jingle in his hofe,

They put Belzebub to the rout;

And had his fire himself been there,
They would have ferv'd him the fame fare.
And as the man, who with pretence
Of wounds falls down in's own defence,
Soon as the trumpet, with delight,
Proclaims an end to bloody fight,
As well as he who bore the toil
Of battle, looks about for spoil.
So who lay half dead with fear,
Soon as he guess'd the field was clear,
With courage look'd round, and mist
His horrible antagonist;

And grateful to his wishes, found
Belzebub's enfign on the ground;
Which did fufficiently declare
His country, and his business there.

All hail, he cries-the roofs around,

Th' acclamation back refound.
Soon as to morrow's fun fhall rise,
And smile on Jeremy the wife;
With tenfold weight, deftruction shall
Defcend on every printer's ftall.
With blushes mild the morning rofe,
And in hafte put on his clothes.
And fallied forth, refolv'd to make
Ev'n Pater nofter-row to quake,
Triumph was his awhile, but lo;
Belzebub, his unlucky foe,

Riding upon the NORTH wind came,
Once more to make our hero tame,
Who, mindful of difhonours past,
Directed furiously the blast,
Which ruin'd all his hopes fo fair,
And wreck'd his caftles in the air,
And left him crush'd beneath the fall,
Deferted, and defpis'd by all.'

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The devil's dress is droll enough, and new, at least, for any thing we know. But the culprit amply deferved flagellation, and the me rit of the beadle is not very material. Art. 14. The Druid's Monument; a Tribute to the Memory of Dr. Oliver Goldsmith. By the Author of The Cave of Morar. 4to. 6d. Davies. 1774.

As this is probably the fincere tribute of friendship, were criticism to interfere on the occafion, it might be deemed a kind of sacrilege.

Art. 15. Impartial Character of the late Dr. Goldsmith; with a Word to his Encomiafts. A Poem, 4to. 19. Kearfly. 1774.

It is curious to obferve how much the dead Bard has been praised by people who feem not to have known the living Man. This Writer has been enabled to come fomewhat nearer to the truth, by venturing to step a little out of the beaten high road of panegyric. The following lines are a proof that he (who is, however, as much the Doctor's encomiaft as the warmeft of the weepers and wailers that have attended his bier) was not unacquainted with the failings of the fingular mortal whom he profeffes impartially to characterize and So fimple from Truth-So. ingenuously kind, So ready to feel for the wants of mankind: If an author once held but a popular quill, This flux of philanthropy quickly food still; Transform'd from himself, he grew meanly fevere, And rail'd at thofe talents he ought not to fear.

celebrate :

Goldsmith was undoubtedly a man of parts; but he was a pecu liar character; and his literary painters have not, in any degree, been equally fortunate with Sir Joshua Reynolds in drawing his likeness. Art. 16. La Fête Champêtre. 4to. Is. Almon., 1774. A fatire on the rural entertainment given in June last, by Lord Stanley, at the Oaks, in honour of his approaching marriage: View yonder motley fcene,

Yon fite champêtre, odious glean
Of Folly's idle clafs;

Their vices thofe of Rome outvie,

In airy dance they hither hie,...
I'll paint them as they pass.

Perhaps, in the hurry of invitation, the Poet was forgotten.
Art. 17. The Apoftate Ecclefiaftic, &c. 4to. 1 s. Bew. 1774-
This abufer of Parfon Horne appears to be a violent favourite
with that "brave Jersey Mufe," fo juftly celebrated in the Dunciad.
Here are rhimes equal to any of Pryn's;

Then the priest challeng'd (willing fure to fhew his
Hatred ftill more) the meek Sir Watkin Lewis.—

Refus'd; fo ftill furvives th' Ecclefiaftic,

Shorn of his beams, and grieves this fruitless laft-trick.

Art. 18. Theatrical Portraits, epigrammatically delineated; wherein the Merit and Demerit of most of our Stage Heroes and Heroines are excellently painted, by fome of our best Mafters. 4to. Bew.

1774.

Pert and dull.

4to. 1 Se.

Art. 19. Poems by a Youth. 4to. 2 s. Hoggins. 1774 A forward youth, this, we'll warrant him! but he should, at least, have learnt to rhyme, and fean by his fingers, before he prefumed to trouble the Public with his-what-d'ye-call-ems-verfes he, no doubt, will ftyle 'em.

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Art. 20. The Coal-Heavers, a Mock-heroic Poem; in Two Cantos. Infcribed to the Inhabitants of\Lynn-Regis in Norfolk. Folio. 1 s. Newbery. ↑ 1774. ̋

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Founded on an infurrection which happened at Lynn, and embellished with a good share of poetry and pleafantry.

Art. 21. Freedom; a Poem. Infcribed to John Wilkes, Efq; By a Native of the West Indies. 4tot 6d. Plummer, in Fenchurch street. 1774

The Author pleads for the indulgence due to a very juvenile attempt.' ...

Very juvenile, indeed; and much indulgence requifite.
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Art. 22. Macbeth; a Tragedy: And Julius Cæfar; a Tragedy. Both by William Shakespeare; collated with the old and modern Editions. 8vo. 3 s. each. Owen. 1773.

This fedulous Collater goes on, with his fo's and qu's, and handfome frontispieces:fee Review for March, 1771; and May, 1773. NAVIGATIƠ N.

Art. 23. The British Mariner's Affiftant; containing Forty Tables adapted to the feveral Purposes of Trigonometry and Navigation. To which is prefixed, An Effay on Logarithms and Navigation epitomized, &c. By Benjamin Donn, Mafter of the Academy at Kingston, near Taunton, &c. 8vo. 6s. Law. 1774

Navigation is now become a very important and lucrative branch of fchool education; which will, in fome measure, account for the variety of publications on this fubject that are frequently iffuing from the prefs. Every teacher finds it most convenient to adopt a method of his own; and we have therefore almost as many different books (if different they may be called) as we have public inftructors. Mr. D. however, ftands high in his profeffion; nor do we mean to convey any reflection on the prefent performance by this. general remark, His Effay on Logarithms contains a clear account of their nature, conftruction, and ufe; his Compendium of Navigation is reduced within a very narrow compafs, on account of a defign he had formed of adding a feparate volume on that fubject. His tables are more numerous than any which have yet been published in a fingle volume; and no direction is omitted that may ferve to render them generally useful. R.-S.

MATHEMATICAL and PHILOSOPHICAL. Art. 24. A Synopfis of all the Data for the Construction of Triangles from which geometrical Solutions have hitherto been in print. With References to the Authors where thofe Solutions are to be found. By John Lawfon, B. D. Rector of Swanscombe in Kent. 4to.. Is,, Printed at Rochester, and fold in London by Nourfe, &c. 1773... An ufeful companion to those who with to know what has been already done towards the construction and folution of triangles, and where the feveral conftructions and folutions are to be found. This is a work, however, which he can best execute who has leisure and opportunity for confulting the greatest number of mathematical books. After all, a fummary of this kind requires fo many fymbols and contractions, that few will be fond of the labour of decyphering them.

Art. 25. A Proposal for determining the Longitude at Sea by
Obfervation, independent of any Time-keeper, or, of the Truth of the
Magnetic Compafs; wherein is demonstrated, that the true Dif-
tance of the Meridian at Sea from the Beginning of Aries, and
alfo the true distance of the firft Meridian from the Beginning of
Aries, can be ascertained when at Sea with ease and certainty.
By Ifaac Boyer. 8vo. 6 d. Sold at No. 12. Cow Crofs, Weft
Smithfield.

Mr. B.'s propofal is fufficiently declared in his title page; and we fhall only obferve, that the longitude would long ago have been difcovered with the utmost accuracy, were it as eafy to execute as it is to project. The propofal before us feems to be a vifionary fcheme, which can answer no good end to the Public, nor, we apprehend, to the Author himself. R-S. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. Art. 26. A Speech intended to have been spoken on the Bill for altering the Charters of the Colony of Mafachusetts Bay. 8vo. 1 S. Cadell.

1774

This unfpoken fpeech, which is attributed to a right reverend Member of a High Affembly, does equal honour to the understanding and to the heart that dictated it. Why it was not delivered on the occafion for which it was calculated, is not declared; but that it was not, is much to be regretted for we cannot form fo injurious an opinion of the illuftrious audience, as to think that a discourse fo convincing and fo perfuafive, could have paffed over without producing fome effect. We are even willing to hope it may have fome influence now, in preparing the minds of men for more conciliatory measures, when proper opportunity offers; and fuch opportunity cannot be wanting whenever we are happily pre-difpofed to make ufe of it. For thus, fays this worthy Prelate, as I apprehend, stands, the cafe. They petition for the repeal of an act of parliament, which they complain of as unjust and oppreffive. And there is not a man amongst us, not the warmest friend of adminiftration, who does not fincerely wish that act had never been made. In fact, they only ask for what we wish to be rid of. Under fuch a difpofition of mind, one would imagine there could be no occafion for fleets and armies to bring men to a good understanding. But, my Lords, our difficulty lies in the point of honour. We must not let down the dignity of the mother-country; but preferve her fovereignty over all the parts of the British empire. This language has fomething in it that founds pleasant to the ears of Englishmen, but is otherwife of little weight. For fure, my Lords, there are methods of making reafonable conceffions, and yet without injuring our dignity. Minifters are generally fruitful in expedients to reconcile difficulties of this kind, to escape the embarraffments of forms, the competitions of dignity and precedency; and to let clafhing rights fleep, while they tranfact their bufinefs. Now, my Lords, on this occafion can they find no excufe, no pretence, no invention, no happy turn of language, not one colourable argument for doing the greatest fervice, they can ever render to their country? It must be fomething more than incapacity that makes men barren of expedient's at fuch a feafon

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