"After this, particularly one day in the morning, about the rifing of the fun, as I was mufing on my bye-paft furprizing fight, immediately the spirit of the Lord God fenfibly was poured upon me to fuch a degree, that I was thereby made to fee things done in fecret, and came to find things loft, and knew where to go and find those things which were loft." Poor man! happy had it been for him could he have known where to recover his loft reafon! The book of Revelations was not a likely place for him to find it in. There, however, unfortunately for him, have his researches been chiefly employed; and the refult is, that like Bell, the preaching Life-guard man, he is continually raving about the end of the world, and the great and terrible day of the Lord. But this is not the only fubject of his book. Original fin, the doctrine of the Trinity, the fall of Antichrift, and various other topics are difcuffed, in fuch a manner as may be expected from a perfon thus ftrangely qualified to set up for an Author. It is a misfortune to many people, that ever they were taught to read. Had Alexander Clarke never known the use of letters, he might ftill have kept his fenfes, and his place near Moffat in Anandale, which he loft by fetting up for a Prophet; he might also have faved the confiderable expence" which he now feems to complain of, in his Apology, of printing the prefent volume, which he muft defray out of the little he has earned with the fweat of his brow." Indeed, we think it fcarcely honeft in thofe Printers who are acceffary to fo many wrong-headed and crazy people throwing away their money, in a manner fo abfurd, and which can only ferve to proclaim to the world, the weakness or infanity of the unfortunate Scribblers who refort to them. MEDICAL. Art. 4. Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal Medicines made ufe of by the late Mr. Ward; together with an Introduction, &c. By John Page, Efq; to whom Mr. Ward left his Book of Secrets. 8vo. 6d. Whitridge, &c. Though we may reafonably fuppofe, the curiofity of the public after fecrets, and especially after fuch medical fecrets as have been thought of frequent and confiderable fervice, may have circulated a small pamphlet fufficiently, to render our account of it fuperfluous; yet, in compliance with our plan, we have judged it proper to fay, briefly, of thefe Receipts, that they are introduced by a fenfible Addrefs to the public: from which it is evident, Mr. Page could have no poffible motive, but the good of his fpecies, for publishing this part of Mr. Ward's book, the whole of which was left entirely to his difpofal. With respect to the efficacy of thefe Medicines, he relates only fuch events as had occurred either to himfelf, to a very few of his acquaintance, or to fome of his domeftics, who had taken them. With regard to the Pills, particularly, he cautions thofe who have unfound Vijera, or Bowels, against the ufe of them. He acknowleges the Receipts for preparing the Pill and Drop, have not been as yet difcovered in the book. He has given them, however, according to the procefs communicated to him by Mr. White, a Che milt, 487 mift, 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 those made by Mr. Ward. Upon this foundation, the generous Publisher 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 dɔfes, as a great alterative and deobftruent. The proceffes of the other medicines, as taken from the book, are attelled by Mr. White, or Mr. D'Olterman, who formerly did, and are now employed by his Majelty's beneficence, to prepare them. Mr. Page jufily fuppofes, 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. able motive to his publication, and was certainly a very good one: fince This, he fays, was a confidera Reader with a fufficient flock of credulity in phyfic, may incur the hazard of being perfuaded (by the multitude and effrontery of our empirical advertitement) to conclude, that among them they had arrived at the fecret of exterminating death itself. will long preferve all the veneration paid to them when fecrets, and Whether thefe medicines vended at very high prices, time only can difcover. We are told, i this pamphlet, that the prefent Receipts are not the whole contents c this bequeft of Mr. Ward's; but of fuch as have been efteemet ak principal, the most efficacious, and the best understood. POETICA L. Art. 5. The Tower, a poetical Epifile, inferibed to fubr T 4to. 6d. Ridley. An empty bouncing cracker, intended as a Frum ment to Mr. Wilkes; whom he addreffes in the elega O DECIUS of exalted foul, Preof to difgrace, unknowing of control If this be not a fufficient proof of the Authors From fuch who build profeffor They must be Conjurors, indeed Art. 6. The Temple of T— What we faid of the ment. See Review for 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 purpofe, 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 defpicable, more replete with rubbish, than any of the former, POLITICA L. Art. 9. An Appeal to Facts: In a Letter to the Right Hon. Eirl 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 ftand 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 ftrains of irony in which they are conveyed, the late Minifter, in whofe defence they are urged, would hardly fee caufe to boaft 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 conftant 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. tinguifhed, 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. is. 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 cha-; racterised under the name of Barzillai, who had a wife and understanding heart; and who was loved by all men because of the wife things he bas written: which, we imagine, is more than any wise m this Chronicler of Small Beer." Art. 11. Two new comic fatiric Dialogues, tr Towers the first, between John Wilkes, Ea Majefty's Lions; the second, between that Ge Shade of the late Sir William W*****m. $10. DL The two dialogues make but a very incorfidembe • I phlet; the bulk of which confifts of transcripts from the of the feveral Letters, Speeches, &c. occ.net Wilkes, and his detenfion in the Tower. tolerably fmart fcurrility in the Dialogues; ax Alfo Mr. Hogarth, for his print of the Tommy Mr. Wilkes for which, however, Mr. rogate provocation in the North Briton. : Art. 12. A Review of Lord Butt: Lamin Comm thor of the Review of Mr. P We will not mifpend our own time, ar te tion, with a tedious comment on hundred and fixteen pages. Let it fuffice gic Politicians who dream away er ta Art. 13. The Appeal of prefent State of P This doughty Appellam on the fide of a Gre pfed to have any addre (he continues) was lo often mentioned a Suppofitions we at = Suppofed to be vers be at liberty toe ter is as excepc of a Great I perally fe Rev. Je take a party, fpeak their fentiments. But this Advocate, in the first 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 Statefman equalling the magnanimity and moderation of Aristides 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 closet, 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 fubject of this piece, which is of the most ferious and interefting nature, is treated with great good fenfe, precifion, and moderation. Certainly nothing can be more injurious to li berty than an unlimited right of feizing papers: and if the fafety of the State makes it in fome cafes neceffary, thofe cafes fhould be ascertained; that no Magiftrate may be intrufted with the difcretionary exercife of so dangerous a power. But, on this head, we cannot do better, than refer the Reader to the ingenious and mallerly piece before us, which is penned without any party heat, or political anicofity. Art. 15. The Oppofition to the late Minifer vindicated, from the Afperfions of a Pamphlet entitled, Confiderations on the present dangerous Crifis. 8vo. Is. Bathoe. A very fenfible and mafterly reply to a pamphlet which we recommended to our Readers last month; as we now, with the strictest regard to truth and candour, recommend the prefent performance to all who have read the Cofi erations: the ingenious Author of which is here convicted of one or two capital mistakes; particularly in having afferted, that the late precipitate Cyder-bill paffed the Commons without a divifion whereas the contrary is notoriousthe prefent Writer appealing to every Member of that honourable Houfe, whether there were not at least six divifions upon it? Art. 16. The Conftitution afferted and vindicated, 8vo. 15. Nicoll. This poor word Conflitution has been more abufed than any in the English language. Many have attempted to explain it; few have been fatisfactory on the fubject. But this fagacious Pamphleteer, who has profeffedly undertaken to affert and vindicate this fame Conftitution, turns tail on his 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 underfland.' Indeed! Then pray, good Sir, what occafion to write about it? This is a droll way |