Alc. Thick darkness hangs Upon thofe eyelids with a leaden weight. Adm. I utterly am loft, if thou should'st leave me. Alc. Well may'ft thou call me now a thing of nought, As ceafing to exift. Adm. Thy children. Look up, nor quit Alc. "Tis not with my own confent, Adm. Caft but one look upon them, one kind look. Adm. What mean'ft thou? wilt thou leave me thus ? Farewell! Alc. [She dies.] Adm. On her thou call'ft who neither hears thy voice Eum. II. Of maternal care bereft, I, O my fire, in youth am left: VOL. I. Ggg ART. ART. XIX. Proofs that Great Britain was fuccessful against each of her numerous Enemies before the late Victory of Sir George Brydges Rodney. Nichols, Price 2 s. Wvanced by this fincere lover of his country, who HATEVER is thought of the hypothefis ad had also opportunities of getting good intelligence, every body will be pleased with reading a pamphlet which contains fo much matter of fact, and has little declamation or party fpirit in it. The author affumes Voltaire's famous affertion about the glorious year 17 58, The Engfish victorious in the four parts of the world; and endeavours to establish it by an exact account of debtor and creditor with the Americans, Spanish, Dutch, and French. The account of the ships taken on either fide is extracted from the Gazette; after which he purfues the enemy through their territorial loffes and acquifitions, their naval ftores, their fhipping, their trade, &c. &c. The only article he profeffes not to meddle with is fi nance. Amongst other innumerable facts, flattering, if they be true, he afferts that we can do without the colonies; that whatever boafts of repairing their navy the French make, it cannot be done; and that, by the lofs of their poffeffions in the Eaft Indies, both they and the Dutch will be deftitute of falt-petre. Unluckily he paffes over our lofs of the Grenades. ART. XX. Verfes on Sir Joshua Reynolds' painted Window at New College, Oxford. VER ERY elegant.-It may, however, be doubted whether "the brawny prophets"-" the martyrdoms of unenlightened days," and "the miracles that now no wonders raise," be not a mixture of ftyles. But "The festive rites, the knightly play, "That deck'd heroic Albion's elder day"Together with "The mouldering halls of barons bold, make ample amends. 1 LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. H HISTORY. ISTOIRE de France, par l'Abbé Garnier, v. 27, 28. 2 volumes, 2s. 6d. per volume. Thefe two volumes of the best history of France extant begin with the year 1555, and go down to the death of Francis II. Storia antica del Meffico. By Don Francisco Xavier Clavigero. 3 vols. 4to. Cefena. This hiftory, which I have not feen, is faid to be well written, though with the profeffed defign of extenuating the cruelties of the Spaniards in America. Storia Politica e Litteraria della Grecia. By Carlo Denina. 2 vols. 8vo. Florence. 1781. This work, which I fhall give a farther account of, if it deserves it, as well as of the following one on the fame plan*, is by the author of Vicende della Letteratura Italiana, and other admired works. If it is well done, it may be useful as a compendium to young people who have read, or to old ones, who have not time to read again. This is all that can be expected from abridgments of ancient history. GEOGRAPHY. Geographie compareé, ou Analyse de la Geographie Ancienne et Moderne, des peuples de tous les pays & de tous les ages. Par Mr. Mentelle, profeffeur emerite d'Hiftoire et de Geographie à l'Ecole Royale Militaire, &c. &c. * Histoire générale & particuliere de la Grece, contenant l'origine, le progrès, la décadence des loix, des fciences, des arts & des lettres, de la philofophie, &c. précédée d'une description géographique, des differtations fur la chronologie, les mefures, la mythologie, &c. & terminée par le parallele-des Grecs anciens avec les Grecs modernes; par M. Coufin Defpréaux, de l'académie des fciences, belles-lettres & arts de Rouen, &c. A Rouen, chez le Boucher; & à Paris, chez Durand. This work has been extremely well received in France. The fubfcription has been very numerous, and the most respectable names in the country, in point of fcience, have contributed towards rendering it perfect. It begins with two introductory difcourfes; the one contains the astronomical principles of geography; the other is a general abridgment of geography, with a concife view of the natural history of the earth. The treatise of spherics in the first of thefe (which I have not feen, it having unfortunately been loft out of the fet which has come into my hands) is probably very good, as the author, befides having had recourse to Meffrs. Le Monnier and De Lalande's aftronomy, Mr. D'Alembert's treatife on the preceffion of the equinoxes, and two treatifes of Mr. De-Sejour's on comets and Saturn's ring, has received great affiftance from Meffrs. La Place and Jeaurat of the Academy of Sciences. In the fecond introductory treatise he has given Meffrs. Buffon's and Buache's general principles of the hiftory of the earth, and the fum of what Varenius and Defmarets have faid about the waters. Two chap ters, one on the cause of the faltnefs of the fea, and another on the tides, are followed by the general principles of geography and natural history, and a meridian table, extracted from the Connoiffance des Temps, making in all 138 pages. The parts of the work which have already appeared are, Ancient Italy, 336 pages 8vo; Modern Italy, 468 pages, 8vo; Turkey in Europe, 180 pages, 8vo; and Ancient Spain, 388 pages, 8vo. With each book is given a fet of maps. The author's method is this. He first gives us the mathematical geography of the country; then a table of the political geography, containing the ancient and modern divifions; then the natural hiftory of the country; on the moft remarkable objects of the latter there is a fhort chapter, compiled from the moft approved writers on the subject, fuch as Definarets on the glaciers and volcanoes of Italy, De Luc, Arduini, and Ferber on the the Alps, Mr. Bowles on Spain, &c. &c. This generally takes from 60 to 100 pages. Afterwards the author refumes his ancient divifions, giving with each territory or city a concife sketch of the principal events that have happened to it, foberly extracted from the most approved claffical authors. He then goes to modern geography, and gives a fhort account of each country, its productions, manners, commerce, &c. &c. obferving to fet out by marking exactly what the great divifions, known by the fame or different names, have loft or gained in point of territory. Then comes a chronological or hiftorical analyfis of the principal ftates which have exifted, or do exift, in the country; which takes up about half the volume. With the defcription of Italy are given three very useful tables, one of the different nations who firft peopled the country; a very learned one on the government, religion, manners, and customs of the Romans; and the third exhibiting the cenfus established by Servius Tullius. With each volume is given three or fometimes more maps, quarto fize. Thefe commonly confift of a map of the mountains, rivers, &c. of the country, a modern map, an ancient map, and a map in which the modern and ancient divifions of the country, and the modern and ancient names are both of them marked, being diftinguished by different colours. This laft will be of great utility to those who read ancient history in reference to modern, or modern history in reference to ancient; and had never hitherto been executed, at least with the fame degree of accuracy. Though Mr. Danville and .... Buching have commonly been Mr. Mentel's guides, yet he does not fwear in verba magiftri, nor difdain other helps when they are offered. Accordingly he has given the courfe of the Peneus in Theffaly (and of fome other rivers in Greece) not according to Mr. Danville, but as it has been given by Mr. Choifeuil-Gouffier in his maps. This he tells us agrees better with what Pococke fays, as well as with a paffage |