mist, who made the Glafs of Antimony for Mr. Ward; and who affured Mr. Page, he has long made and administered them in his own family, &c. and that upon a comparison of their operation, and by their analization alfo, he found them to anfwer exactly to thofe made by Mr. Ward. Upon this foundation, the generous Publifher of thefe Receipts gives them, as what he really believes to point at the genuine, and beft manner of preparing the Pill and Drop. We fhall just remark on this Medicine, that many eminent Phyficians have long afferted the extraordinary efficacy of fome antimonial preparations, and recommended the emetic wine, which has a confiderable affinity with this Drop, to be taken in small dofes, as a great alterative and deobftruent. The proceffes of the other medicines, as taken from the book, are attefled by Mr. White, or Mr. D'Olterman, who formerly did, and are now employed by his Majefty's beneficence, to prepare them. Mr. Page juftly fuppofe, that even the faculty will thank him for one effect of this publication, as it will fupprefs the practice of ignorant Pretenders to the knowlege of Mr. Ward's fecrets. This, he fays, was a confiderable motive to his publication, and was certainly a very good one: fince a Reader with a fufficient stock of credulity in phyfic, may incur the hazard of being perfuaded (by the multitude and effrontery of our empirical advertisements) to conclude, that among them they had arrived at the fecret of exterminating death ifeif. Whether thefe medicines will long preferve all the veneration paid to them when fecrets, and vended at very high prices, time only can difcover. We are told, in this pamphlet, that the prefent Receipts are not the whole contents of this bequest of Mr. Ward's; but of fuch as have been esteemed the principal, the most efficacious, and the beit understood.

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Art. 5. The Tower, a poetical Epifle, inferibed to John Wilkes, Efq; 4to. 6d. Ridley.

An empty bouncing cracker, intended as a Feu de joye, in compliment to Mr. Wilkes; whom he addreffes in the elegant style of,

O DECIUS of exalted foul,

Preof to difgrace, unknowing of controul.

If this be not a fufficient proof of the Author's fine genius, take, courteous Reader, another fpecimen, in the compliment he alfo here pays to the Reviewers :

From fech who build profeffion on abufe,

Just like their brother conj'rers the Reviews.

They must be Conjurors, indeed, who can difcover any extraordinary merit in these rhymes; which, we are forry to say it, appear to come from the Author of the new paraphraftical Imitation of Juvenal. See Review, page 373.

Art. 6. The Temple of Venus. Part II. 4to. Is. 6d. Moran. What we faid of the firft Part, is equally applicable to this SuppleSee Review for April, p. 318, art, 12.

ment.

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Art. 7. The Prophecy of Famine, Part II. Infcribed to C. Churchill. 4to. Is. 6d. Cabe.

If Mr. Churchill's poetry needed a foil to fet it off to the highest advantage, this anonymous fupplement to his celebrated Scots Paftoral, would answer the purpose, to the utmost of his wishes.

Art. 8. The Poetical Calendar. Volume the fourth, for April 12mo. Is. 6d. Coote.

If we except Mr. Cawthorne's Abelard to Eloifa, this volume is more despicable, more replete with rubbish, than any of the former.

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Art. 9. An Appeal to Facts: In a Letter to the Right Hon. Earl Temple. 4to. IS. Millar.

The facts appealed to in this Letter, to fhew the prudence with which the fupplies for the prefent year were raised, may stand unimpeached by us, but they would have appeared to more advantage, had they been urged in a more becoming manner. In brief, they are toffed out to the public with a fneering grin, worse than that which Hogarth has bestowed on Mr. Wilkes.

Arguments from facts can receive no additional force by the heterogeneous mixture of humour; which will not procure them a better reception. Facts ought not to be fported with; and were thefe no better fupported than the trains of irony in which they are conveyed, the late Minifter, in whofe defence they are urged, would hardly fee caufe to boast of his Advocate. This Author's humour is very ill fuftained. In one place he pretends to tax Lord B. with "corrupting all the good, and inflaming all the bad inclinations in a young unexperienced Prince; and of inftilling into him an indifference to, and contempt of, the eftablifhed religion of his country, and of every private and public duty of morality and, in another, with the poor trite repetition of his conflant attendance on public devotion, and receiving the facrament. Will fuch coarfe daubing as this, pafs for the delicate touches of irony.

That man can with a very ill grace burlefque the opprobrium caft on his patron, as a Sco', at the fame time that himself defcends to reflect on another (Mr. W.) for the misfortune of fquinting !—— In fine, notwithstanding the commendations with which this pamphlet has been dif tinguished, as the production of a GENTLEMAN above the common level of Writers, it bears few marks of gentility about it.

Art. 10. Chronicle of the Reign of Adonijah, King of Ifrael. Tranflated from an Hebrew M. S. By Benaiah, a Jewish Rabbin. 4to. 1s. Molock.

A very infipid chapter and verfe-allufion to the late administration under Lord Bute, and to the profecution of Mr. Wilkes, who is here cháracterised under the name of Barzillai, who had a wife and under fianding beart; and who was loved by all men because of the wife things he had

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written: which, we imagine, is more than any wife man will fay of this "Chronicler of Small Eeer."

Art. 11. Two new comic fatiric Dialogues, that latel; passed in the Trwer; the first, between John Wilkes, Efq; and two of his Majefty's Lions; the fecond, between that Gentleman and the Shade of the late Sir William IV*****m. 8vo. 6d. Pridden.

The two dialogues make but a very inconfiderable part of this pamphlet; the bulk of which confifts of tranfcripts from the public papers, of the feveral Letters, Speeches, &c. occationed by the arreft of Mr. Wilkes, and his detenfion in the Tower. There is, however, fome tolerably fmart fcurrility in the Dialogues; abufing the late Minifter and his literary Advocates-Pau! Whitehead, Dr. Francis, Dr Smol-' let, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Mallet, and the Author of the Wandsworth Epile; which Epifile, we are here told, in a very polite note, was written by one Ofw-ld, a Scotchman, and Lord of the Treasury.'

Alfo Mr. Hogarth, for his print of the Times, and his caricatura of Mr. Wilkes for which, however, Mr. Hogarth had certainly ample provocation in the North Briton.

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Art. 12. A Review of Lord Bute's Adminiftration. By the Author of the Review of Mr. Pitt's. 8vo. 2s. Pridden.

We will not mifpend our own time, nor take up the Reader's attention, with a tedious comment on this dul', wire-drawn treatife of one hundred and fixteen pages. Let it fuffice to obferve, that it is written in the true fpirit of party, inveighing against the late Minifter, often without reafon; and extolling his predeceffor, (who, as a Statefman, had real merit upon the whole) for the moll exceptionable parts of his administration. But this fleepy dofe, which is calculated for the lethar gic Poli icians who dream away their time at coffee houses, would have fallen much thort of its measure, if it had not, by the ingenuity of Aụthor-craft, been filled up with the dregs of news-papers, with tiling anecdotes, and idle quotations from fenfelefs originals.

Art. 13. The Appeal of Reason to the People of England, on the prefent State of Parties in the Nation. 8vo. Is. Becket.

This doughty Appellant obferves, in his preface, that " a pamphlet on the fide of a Great Man, is generally pofed, if the Author is fupfed to have any addrefs, to fpeak his fent ments. If this pamphlet (he continues) was fuppofed to fpeak the fentiments of the noble perfon to often mentioned in it, it would give offence to many." From all these Suppofitions we may be at liberty to fuppofe, that the Writer cannot be Suppefed to be very expert in the art of haranguing the public. We may be at liberty to pe likewife, that, in the foregoing extract, his matter is as exceptionable as his manner. For, in a pamphlet on the SIDE of a Great Man, if the Author is fuppofed to have any addrefs, it is ge: nerally fuppofed, that he does not fpeak his fentiments. Few men, who Rev. June, 1763.

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take a party, speak their fentiments. But this Advocate, in the fir fentence of his Appeal, loudly exclaims, that "We have feen our facred Sovereign infulted, affronts thrown on one part of the united kingdom, and a State/man equalling the magnanimity and moderation of Ariftides injured." Injured, indeed! And why will this Writer heap injury upon injury? To be ferious, the Author appears to be a man of probity, and good natural fenfe; but one who writes from his clofet, without having drawn his materials from the living world.

Art. 14. A Letter to the Right Hon, the Earls of Egremont and Halifax, his Majefty's principal Secretaries of State, on the Seizure of Papers. 8vo. 6d. Williams.

This pamphlet is one inftance, among many, that when Writers evidently have truth and reafon on their fide, they never have recourse to buffoonry or fcurrility. The subject of this piece, which is of the mot ferious and interefting nature, is treated with great good sense, precifion, and moderation. Certainly nothing can be more injurious to liberty than an unlimited right of feizing papers: and if the fafety of the State makes it in fome cales neceffary, thofe cafes fhould be afcertained; that no Magiftrate may be intrusted with the difcretionary exercife of fa dangerous a power. But, on this head, we cannot do better, than refer the Reader to the ingenious and matterly piece before us, which is penned without any party heat, or political animofity.

Art. 15. The Oppofition to the late Minifter vindicated, from the Afperfions of a Pamphlet entitled, Confiderations on the prefent dangerous Crifis. 8vo. Is. Bathoe.

A very fenfible and mafterly reply to a pamphlet which we recom mended to our Readers laft month; as we now, with the ftri&teft regard to truth and candour, recommend the prefent performance to all who have read the Confiterations: the ingenious Author of which is bere convicted of one or two capital miftakes; particularly in having afferted, that the late precipitate Cyder-bill paffed the Commons without a divifion whereas the contrary is notorious-the prefent Writer appealing to every Member of that honourable House, whether there were not at least six divifions upon it?

Art, 16. The Conftitution afferted and vindicated. 8vo, Is.

Nicoll.

This poor word Conflitution has been more abufed than any in the English language. Many have attempted to explain it; few have bee fatisfactory on the fubject. But this fagacious Pamphleteer, who has profefiedly undertaken to affet and vindicate this fame Conftitution, turns tail on bis fubject, and tells us, "There are myfteries in politics as well as religion, which a good Politician and a good Chriftian fhould endeavour to believe, without attempting even to understand.' Indeed! Then pray, good Sir, what occafion to write about it? This is a droll

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way of afferting and vindicating the Conftitution, to tell us, that we muft not attempt to understand its myfteries as the Poet fays,

What need you more, than tell us we are fools? But whatever his Readers may be, we are well affured, that this myfterious, conflitutional Affertor, is not over intelligent. Witnefs, among other inftances, what he fays of the Bishops, to whofe pride and ambition, he tells us, the privilege was refufed, of being tried by their peers. Had he gone a little deeper into antiquity, he would have found that this privilege was not refufid to them, but that they declined it, claiming an ecclefiaftical privilege, to be tried only by the Archbishop as their Ordinary. But we have neither leifure nor inclination to enter farther into the merits of this polemical Hero, of whom we will only add, that he is an indirect Advocate for Lord Bute, and has thrown out fome harmlefs farcafms on Mr. Pitt.

Art. 17. England's conftitutional Teft for the Year 1763. In which are difcuffed, 1. Authorship. II. Popularity. III. Liberty of the Prefs. IV. Dignity of London Juries. 8vo. I S. Mor

gan.

This Author is a zealous Whig; but his zeal overpowers his judg ment. He may be an honeft man, and a fincere well-wisher to his country, but he is a low, intemperate Writer: and therefore we hope he will cease to trouble the public, and the Reviewers, with his inveterate abuse of the Scots, which, if we mistake not, he has retaled under various forms: as Scotchman be modeft, the New Highland Advens turer, &c. mentioned in fome late numbers of our Review.

Art. 18. An Addrefs to the Citizens of London. By a Lover of Liberty. 8vo. 6d. Wilkie,

July felf-condemned in the last page, where the confcious Author apologizes for his poor performance, (the main purpofe of which is to abefe Mr. Wilkes) in thefe words, Weak and prefumptious have I been,' very true! to talk thus openly on fubjects far above my ca pacity,' true again! to handle with decency and propriety:'-then what a plague did you print for?

Art. 19. The three Conjurers, à political Interlude. Stolen from Shakespeare. 4to. Is. Cabe,

A whimsical fatire on Lord B-, under the name of Macboot. The idea of his confulting Witches, or Conjurors, taken from Macbeth.

Art. 20. A Letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Temple, on the Subject of the forty-fifth Number of the North Briton; and on his Patronage of the fuppofed Author of it. 8vo. 1 s.

man.

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Anfwers the North Briton, paragraph by paragraph; ufes Mr. Wilkes very harshly, as the Author of that paper, (a circumftance which it was

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