with the most auguft and fublime ceremony of Mifter Benjamin' Weft's Knighthood. 1 Redeunt Saturnia Regna!" As a fpecimen of the manner in which the proceffion is here cele brated, we present our readers with the first two ftanzas: Sol, put thee on thy beft gold wig to-day; Chain'd be the tempefts, and well bung'd the rain; As lately dark'ning bade us think the head ': Of fome HIGH-TITLED MAN was cleft in twain. Refpectables indeed! who, nine in ten, Well as of painting, know the art of eating. Art. 41. Carmen Seculare: An Ode, inscribed to the Prefident and Members of the Royal Academy. By a Mufe more loyal than Peter Pindar's. 8vo. 15. 6d. Faulder. 1794. Whatever fuperiority of loyalty may be claimed, with respect to Peter Pindar, by the author of thefe complimentary verfes, he will not, we apprehend, be allowed much precedence on account of his wit. It has been faid that "authors, before they write fhould read." There is also requifite another previous qualification: they should gain fome knowlege of grammar; which would fave their works from the difgrace of fuch lines as And know, the glory thou acquires' Strange as it may feem, this illegitimate line prefents itself five times to our view in this unfortunate production of the Muse of Loyalty; as it makes a part of the repeated burthen of the fong: And, know, the glory thou acquires, Adds luftre to thy country's name!' The readers of the poem, which we here difmifs, will find little difficulty in determining how much the performance of this rival of the fame of Peter Pindar will add to the luftre of the ROYAL ACADEMY. Art. 42. Poems: Confitting of " Modern Manners"-" Aurelia,”. "The Curate," and other Pieces. By the Rev. Samuel Hoole, A. M. 8vo. 2 Vols. 6s. Boards. Dodfley. 1790. This collection ought to have met with an earlier notice in our Review, and fuch was intended: but an accident, by which the volumes were loft, occafioned the delay. We call it a collection, because the principal poems, amounting to far the greater part of the contents of thefe two volumes, originally appeared in feparate publications.Modern Manners," which makes nearly the whole of the first volume, was first printed in 1782, and was reviewed, and commended, in the 66th vol. of our work. 66 Aurelia," another of Mr. Hoole's poetical productions, (1783) of nearly equal extent, was the fubject of an article in our 69th, and was then praifed by us for the fprightlinefs and ingenuity of the fatire with which it was fraught. Of 8 "Edward, Edward, or the Curate," another of the larger poems reprinted in this edition, an account will be found in M. R. vol. lxxviii. p. 242. It is a tale, of the melancholy caft in which, as we obferved, the poet has imitated the fimplicity of Spenfer, without adopting his obfolete phraseology to which, however, Mr. H. feems, in a few inftances, in fome of the poems, to be rather more inclined than may be altogether pleafing to a modern ear, unaccustomed to the ne and fró of Q. Elizabeth's time. To the above larger poems are now added (never before published,' as the title-pages of the two volumes inform us,) a number of fmaller pieces, of various merit, fome grave, others of a ludicrous turn. From thefe we will felect, as a fpecimen of the writer's more pleasant vein, the following ANSWER to an invitation to dine in company with three ladies, who were called THE GRACES." To me with the Graces on Sunday to dine, A kind and polite invitation you give; If my flock will but do me the favour to live. His arrows, they tell us, with pure gold are headed, Love tips his best darts with a piece of cold pudding." Art. 43. Ode for the Encania, held at Oxford, July 1793, for the Reception of his Grace the Duke of Portland, Chancellor of the Univerfity. By R. Holmes, D. D. Prof. of Poetry. 4to. is. Payne. This academical ode is certainly not unworthy of a profeffor of poetry. If we were to point out any fault, we should fay that it is perhaps too highly laboured; and that hence it is fometimes obfcure. The firft strophe and antiftrophe will enable the learned reader to judge. STROPHE I. • In wildering terror, hopeless of repofe, Thy fons, O Science, fled their Gothic foes; Then Spoil, dire fiend, their fimple domes o'erthrew { ANTĮ. ANTISTROPHE I. • How fafe a reft from Rapine's idiot hand, Thy call, Great ALFRED, to the wanderers gave ! Clear broke the beam of Learning's orient light; We will now copy the laft Epode, which is excellent; abating one or two epithets, fuch as Fancy, Nature's wayward child'—' traceless art:' nor do we much like the foul of toil.' EPODE III. Thus, PORTLAND, thus, beneath thy guardian-care, And livelier tint his many-colour'd drefs. From Britain's world, from Britain's patron throne, O'er OXFORD still affection's eye shall bend; Shall fee her, juft to each protecting friend, Beam on his name the luftre of her own. Art. 44. Lines on the Murder of the Queen of France, with Admonition to the infant King, Louis XVII. Being a Sequel to" The Tribute of an Humble Mufe." By W. T. Fitzgerald, Efq. 4to. 13. Hookham. 1794. If the tender sympathies of the heart were alone fufficient for the accomplishment of a good poem, Mr. F. cannot fail of fuccefs when he courts the Elegiac Mufe; especially if he be conscious that he is "not" already “ free from faults,"" Nor yet too vain to mend.” MISCELLANEOUS. Art. 45. Memoirs of Science and the Arts. Or, an Abridgment of the Tranfactions published by the principal learned and œconomical Societies established in Europe, Aña, and America. Vol. I. 4to. PP. 554 19 Plates. 11. 15. Boards. Faulder, &c. 1793. The purpofe of this publication is to give fuch an abridgment of all thofe works which periodically appear in various parts of the literary world, under the name of Memoirs or Tranfactions of Societies, as See M. Rev. April 1793, P. 457. may may fully ferve the purpofe of informing the reader of every thing new with refpect to science or the arts which they contain. To those who are acquainted with the number and importance of fuch works, and the difficulty of procuring them, the defign will appear a very useful one; and, as far as we have examined it, the execution is adequate to the purpofe. Plates are copied when they are neceflary for illustration. The conductors apologize for the fmall number of foreign works which they have been able to give in this volume, as well as for the changes that they have made in their plan; which was at first that of monthly numbers. They mean in future to print two half-yearly parts, compofing an annual volume. The works here abridged are, the Afiatic Refearches, Vol. i, and ii. the Memoirs of the Bath Agriculture Society, of the Bruffels Acad. of Sciences and Belles Lettres, vol. i. of the Manchefter Literary and Philofoph. Society, vol. iv. the Philofoph. Tranfact. of the R. Society of London, for 1792, and p. i. of 1793; Tranfact. of the Linnean Society, vol. i.-of the Royal Irish Academy, for 1787, 88, 89, 90; of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. i, and ii. of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. i. of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, &c. vol. x. of the Society of Natural Hiftory in Paris, vol. i. p. i. and the Proceedings of the African Affociation, vol. i. Art. 46. A Letter to Dr. Moore, on his Defence of British Humanity, against the Calumny of a Member of the French Convention. 8vo. Is. Owen. 1794. This writer warmly objects to a paffage in Dr. M.'s journal, vol. ii. wherein the Doctor relates his conversation* with a member of the Convention; in which the latter retaliated on the British and Irish nations the general charge of cruelty which Dr. M. in the freedom of debate had brought against the French: appealing, in fup port of his charge, to the atrocities and maffacres which have fo dreadfully abounded in that country, within the laft four years. The letter-writer apprehends that, although Dr. M. very prudently gave up the argument, on French ground, with an opponent who was mafter of an hundred guillotines,' yet fomething more fhould have been faid in a journal defigned for the perufal of his own countrymen. This deficiency he here undertakes to fupply by the evidence of facts collected from the best historical records; all tending to prove that the balance of the account of general humanity, as here ftated between Great Britain and France, is, indeed, fo greatly in favour of the former, as fully to juftify the refentment which he has fhewn in this zealous vindication of the infulted honour of his country.' In the courfe of this research into the chronicles of inhumanity. we fee fuch a fhocking exhibition of horrors, as may well give the reader a disgust even to the hiftorical pages from which the inftances are extracted; and which may feem to juftify, most completely. Dr. Johnfon's fevere reflection on hiftory itself, when (in confeffing and defending his general neglect of that clafs of literature,) he wetered this memorable declaration" I take no delight in perafing the annals of BLOOD!" * See Rev. for the prefent month, p. 171. CORRE CORRESPONDENCE. We have been favoured with a letter from Capt. Bradley, refpecting our obfervations at p. 260 of our Review for last November, relative to the charts of Norfolk Island, and in explanation of the points of which we complained. We there faid that two maps had been given, in the publications relative to Botany Bay, as unlike to each other as two fuch things could poffibly be, and yet that Capt. Bradley's name stood to both; that the first corresponded, in the most material circumstances, very exactly with Capt. Cook's map,-but that we fhould, nevertheless, have been difpofed to give the preference to the latter of the two, as being a revifion of thofe which had preceded it, if the verbal defcriptions of Captains Hunter and King had not difagreed with it in fome effential points: as things were, we hefitated; and we are perfuaded that Capt. Bradley would have done the fame if he had been in our place, and with only the fame degree of information before him. By Capt. B.'s letter, however, our doubts are entirely removed. The map which he has politely fent to us, the product of his actual furvey of Norfolk Island in 1790, bears every internal mark of accuracy; and his account of the fteps, which he took to obtain materials for conftructing it, fhews that confidence may be placed in it by thofe whose business may lead them to vifit the place. Capt. Bradley informs us that he knows no more of the former map, which was published under his name, than that he traced three copies of it for Governor Phillip, from a sketch which the Governor had in his poffeffion; without knowing by whom the fketch was made, or whether it was good or bad, as he (Capt. Bradley) had then never seen Norfolk Island; and that the latter, which appears in Capt. Hunter's Voyage, is from the actual furvey which Capt. B. made in 1790, but is an imperfect copy, inasmuch as that a third ifland, more than a mile in extent, and lying from S. to S. S. E. from Sydney Bay, and between three and four miles diftant, is omitted; though, as Capt. B. obferves, (and, we think, juftly,) that ifland is a very material part of the furvey, because it affords confiderable shelter to fhips clearing their cargoes in Sydney Bay. +++ We have received, with pleasure, the obliging letter from the Female Society, figned by the lady who officiates as Secretary; and we fhall be happy if any thing that we have faid may contribute to the advancement of their benevolent designs. It is not in our power to inform A. A. in which work M. De Sauffure mentions his having employed the evolution of oxygen gas as a photometer, (fee our laft Appendix, p. 526.) as we recited that fact only from M. Jacquin's notice of it: neither have we the latter gentle man's book at hand to confult. $15 T.H. is juft received; too late for farther attention to it. In the laft Appendix, INDEX, Art. Bengal, the page should be 134; and in the Art. Zouch, the page fhould be 117.-In the Review for January, p.5. 1. 26. for certainty certainly. |