With looks that speak-He never * shall return! A Sermon preached for the Benefit of the Humane Society. By. Colin Milne, LL. D. Rector of North-Chapel, Suffex. Rivington and Dilly. Price 1s. 8vo. This fermon hath been celebrated by fome, as the most perfect model of pulpit eloquence: and the newspapers have abounded with the most flattering encomiums on the fine fenfe, fine language, and fine addrefs of Dr. Colin Milne: we fay, flattering encomiums, because we really think they are fo to the Doctor; whatever difguft fuch tumid praises in those light vehicles of criticifm, might give to the chaste and delicate tafte of a HURD, a PORTEUS, or a Ross. For our parts, we beg leave to enter our proteft against the votes of the majority in thofe popular affemblies, which are fmit with the dazzle of ornament, or captivated with the melody of a fine voice, or at best "are tickled" with those foft feathers of fentiment, which awake and amufe the paffions. This is frequently done by our modern pulpiteers, at the expence of much folid fenfe, and much found divinity: and it is well, if, when the people are flocking in crowds to offer their incenfe at the altar of vanity, the preacher doth not make a facrifice of his own integrity. We shall not enter into a theological difpute with Dr. Milne, whether pride or humility beft become the fons of Adam; or, whether he, in his courtesy to human nature, or Mr. McMahon, in his fpite againft it, hath drawn the trueft likeness of this fhifting and unfteady original, which fome have confidered, for the fake of being on the right fide of the queftion, take which way you pleafe, as the epitome of all that is in heaven above, and in earth beneath, and in the place under the earth." But we cannot help obferving, that when Dr. Milne ftretched his canvafs, to draw his "angelic, godlike, divine" picture, he did not borrow fome of his very glaring colours from the old ftorehoufe; but pilferred them * No, never! Old, new fong. We rather think a hard puff would do better than a foft-figh for this purpofe. But why doth our poet call the duft irreverend? Monumental duft, like antiquarian ruft, hath been hitherto reckoned sacred and reverend." from a certain modern dealer in false paint and perfumes for`. the ladies, and tops and trinkets for children and grown gentlemen learning to dance. Spirit of good old Latimer, arife! Viewed with thy venerable affociates, we admire, we love thee; but contrafted with a Yorick, with a D-, with a — but we fpare the living-our esteem almoft rises to adoration. But if we go on at this rate of apoftrophizing, we fhall fwell beyond the limits of fober profe, like Dr. Milne, when he thus addreffes his benevolent hearers. "Tell me, and tell me truly, what were the fentiments which a reflection on your conduct excited within your breaft? Were they not those of self-complacence, and felf congratulation, and felf-applaufe? Felt you not a certain glowing---a certain expanfion of the foul ---a fomething, which proclaimed your high original---which told you, that you were but little lower than the angels---anundefcribable fomewhat---an emotion, in fine, for which expreffion is inadequate? You did, and You did, and you exult in owning it. You felt yourselves GREAT, and you were great': you felt yourselves noble, and you were noble. You were above yourselves. You were fuperior to mere humanity. Ye were angelic. Ye were godlike and divine." And we doubt not but the preacher, like other men in a fit of intoxication, “felt himfelf GREAT;" for being able to fay fuch great things; and rifing higher and ftill higher, till he hung his climax át the throne of God, it is as probable, that he, as well as a certain hero of old, fhould imagine, that "he felt Divinity within "Breeding him wings wherewith to foar from earth." And is this the divinity of our modern divines ?---Spirit of good old Latimer, arise !--- AMEN.· A Letter to Dr. Hardy, Phyfician, on the Hints he hath given on the Origin of the Gout, in his late Publication on the DevonShire Colic. By Francis Riollay, Phyfician at Newbury, and late Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. 8vo. 1s. Printed at Oxford, and fold by Rivington. London. We are furprized, that any man of fenfe (as Mr. Riollay certainly is) fhould think it worth his ferious pains to write a pamphlet, in anfwer to a book, on which, we imagined, we had wafted too many minutes of precious time, and too many pages of good paper laft year, in giving our ftrictures on it in in the London Review. The hypothefis of this folemn doctor of Barnstaple (if we mistake not his place of refidence) carried its own confutation with it; and to quote it, was fufficient to expofe its abfurdity. As a Grecian, and a critic, and all that---to be fure, Dr. Hardy is a very great man ---as we have heretofore made manifeft: but as a phyfician; we fay, as a physician, "Apollo declares he ne'er heard of his name.' Garrick in the Shades; or a Peep into Elyfium; a Farce: Never offered to the Managers of the Theatres-Royal. 8vo. 1s. Southern. The outlines of a little drama, which, had they been well filled up, and fet off in the colouring, would have afforded no bad fubject of exhibition among our pamphleteering publications. The author appears, indeed, to have more ingenuity of defign, than knowledge of his fubject. It is, in particular, with great impropriety, he makes Garrick reproach Quin for his gluttony, when it is notorious, that the former might have imputed his untimely end to that very vice; by his indulgence in which, he fairly devoured (as one of the faculty forcibly expreffed it) ten years, at leaft, of his life. Again, in the trial of Rofcius, before Rhadamantus, acus, and Minos, he is accufed, as a manager, only by poets, whom nobody ever heard of, and by players, whom nobody now remembers: a proof this, to us, that our ingenious author hath either heard, or remembers, very little about this fame great, little Mr. Rofcius. E. Coalition, a Farce; founded on facts, and lately performed, with the Approbation, and under the joint Inspection of the Managers of the Theatres-Royal. 8vo. 1s. Brown. How far the Coalition of the Theatres may, or may not, tend to the advantage of dramatic compofition or exhibition, we shall not at prefent enquire; although it ftill remains as much an object of enquiry, as it did before the publication of this farce. We are told, in a preface, that "these unarranged thoughts are humbly fubmitted to the public bya wretched emblem of life, a walking' fhadow, who did "vainly "vainly ftrut his time upon the ftage, but now is heard no 66 more, a poor player." If this writer was as bad an actor as he is an author, we can readily conceive, that he ftrutted his hour very vainly, and was a wretched emblem of life indeed! He must have been a poor player in every fenfe of the word. Not but that, if we judge by the fhare of literature and affurance, this walking fhadow appears to be poffeffed of, we may very well doubt, if he be any thing better than an ombre Chinoife, or that he ever rofe to the dignity of even a sceneshifter in a theatre-royal. Serious Reflections on the late Faft: with a brief Eftimate on the Manners of the Times. 8vo. 6d. Frelding and Walker. These reflections are indeed ferious, and merit seriously to be attended to: they are nevertheless trite, common-place, and frequently more generally believed than ftrictly true. Thefe declaimers, againft the infidelity and wickednefs of the times, fhould religioufly confine themselves to speak the truth, and not make matters worse than they are, by ftudied exaggeration. In doing the latter they defeat their own end, and, inftead of effecting a reformation, leave matters worse than they found them. Mimofa; or, the Senfitive Plant; a Poem, dedicated to Mr. Banks, and addreffed to Kitt Frederick, Duchefs of Queensbury elect. 4to, Is. 6d. No printer's name. If no excufe obfcenity should find, the author of Mimofa is inexcufeable; if he be as ingenuous as he is ingenious, he will also ftand---felf-condemned. The Anti-Palliferiad: Or, Britain's Triumphs over France. Dedicated to the Honourable Auguftus Keppel, Admiral of the Britifh Fleet. 4to. Is. 6d. Bew. Hear the loud voice of honour; martial fons Dd There's There's a rap for you, readers, at the very firft entrance on our author's triumphs! If it awaken your curiofity, purchafe the Anti-Palliferiad, and you will have a number of fuch raps in exchange for your eighteen pence. A new Defence of the Holy Roman Church, against Heretics and Schifmatics. 8vo. 1s. Fielding and Walker. Notwithstanding this pamphlet is marked in front with a cross, like the tomb-ftones in Pancras church-yard, it is no defence of the Romish church, but a ludicrous, and in fome parts humourous, expofition of the abfurdities of the papal faith. That delicate rhetorical figure, the irony, however, is' but imperfectly preferved, and the appearance presently feen through. The writer's principal defign feems to be to turn the pretended miracles of the popifh faints into ridicule; a fruitful field for the amufement of an humourist. Our readers will accept the following extract as a specimen of the whole, "Come we now to a miracle nearer home, which, though it be of fmall magnitude refpecting itself, ferves mainly to strengthen the argument we are upon, and especially as it confirms, at the fame time, the honour of holy relics. Berinus, bifhop of Dorchefter, who was fent over by Pope Honorius for the converfion of the Weft Saxons in the 7th century, in his paffage from France to England, recollecting that, in his hafte, he had left behind him a most precious relic, which might be of great advantage to the efficacy of his miffion, and not daring, in the midst of the channel, to order the pagan mariners to direct their courfe back again, to fetch it, boldly ftept overboard, walked to the port from whence they had failed, recovered his precious jewel, and then walked to the fhip again, without wetting a rag upon his back, or even the foles of his feet. This miracle fo aftonished the feamen (as well it might) that they were all converted and baptized; and it paved the way for the vast fuccefs which followed, in the converfion of the Weft Saxons, under their Kings Kynigilfus and Quicelinus. This fact is piously recorded by William of Malmbury, Henry of Huntingdon, Polychronicon, and many others; fo that there can be no doubt of its authenticity. Ye heretics of this ifland may well be thankful, that there are no fuch fea-walkers as Berinus now; for fhould he teach that faithful people, the French, this holy art of marching upon falt water, and out-running fhips under fail, I know what would foon become of you. "The fame authors alfo recite of St. Cuthlake, the confeffor, who, in the 24th year of his age, renouncing this wicked world, went into the abbey of Crowland, that the strength of his piety was fuch |