II. A letter from Lord Clive, and the rest of the fele& Committee, at Fort William in Bengal, to the Court of Directors, &c. of the fame date.

III. A letter from Meff. Ralph Leycester and George Gray, Members of the Council at Fort William, to the Court of Directors, &c. dated Sept. 29, 1765; with a poffeript, of the 14th Jan. 1766. This laft is written in oppofition to Lord Clive, &c.

NATURAL HISTORY. Art. 15. A Catalogue of the Animals of North America. Containing an Enumeration of the known Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Fish, Infects, &c. many of which were never defcribed before. To which are added, fhort Directions for collecting, preferving, and transporting all Kinds of natural Curiofities. By John Reinhold Forster, F. A. S. 8vo. I S. White.

Mr. Forfter had hinted, in the preface to the 3d volume of his Tranilation of Kalm's Travels*, that he could publish but an imperfect and small catalogue of North American animals; for which reafon he then declined giving it. Since that time, fays he, I have been preffed, by fome worthy friends, to publish that catalogue, such as it is; and what is ftill more, I have been favoured with ample materials by a gentleman who is forming a collection for a natural hiftory of North America; and hopes by this to incite the inquifitive and learned, refident in that country, to tranfmit to their friends in England, the productions of their feveral provinces.-The zoology of the first four claffes of animals in Great Britain, has been very accurately and completely published; that of the country of the defcendents of Great Britain ought, with inoft propriety, to follow.These reasons had great weight with me; and I offer this fmall catalogue merely as an effay towards forming a more complete natural history of that extenfive continent. To inftruct the collectors, I have added to this lift, fome directions for the best method of preferving and tranfporting the various fubjects of natural history.'

Prefixed to this catalogue, we have a print of a very elegant little falcon, drawn from a fine fpecimen lately brought over from North America.

Art. 16. Flora America Septentrionalis; or, a Catalogue of the Plants of North America. Containing an Enumeration of the known Herbs, Shrubs, and Trees, many of which are but lately difcovered. By John Reinhold Forter, F. A. S. 8vo. 1 S.

White, &c.

As fome Readers might fuppofe a mere catalogue of American plants, &c. to be of little ufe, and even fuperfluous, after the publication of Dr. Gronovius's Flora Virginica, Mr. Fortter jultly pleads, in behalf of the prefent tract, that he has given the English names to the feveral fubjects; that he has added feveral articles difcovered fince Gronovius wrote; and alio mentioned the economical and medical ufes of fome plants, which is a very material addition.-The industry of this gentleman, in contributing fo much to enlarge the flock of natural knowledge in this country, by importations from various parts of the world, certainly deferves commendation.

See page 213 of laft month's Review.

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Art. 17. A Synopfis of Quadrupeds 8vo. 9s. Boards. Chefter printed, and fold by White in London. 1771.

We are indebted for this publication to the ingenious Mr. Pennant, Author of British Zoology ‡, and other valuable pieces of natural history, which have been mentiened in this Review, as they have feverally iffued from the prefs.

This Synopfis, Mr. P. informs his Readers, was originally intended for private amufement, and as an index for the more ready turning to any particular animal in the voluminous hiftory of quadrupeds by M. De Buffon; but as it fwelled, by degrees, to a fize beyond his firft expectation, he was, in the end, determined to fling it into its prefent form, and to usher it into the world.'-With refpect to his plan, he follows Mr. Ray, in fome refpects, in others he copies Mr. Klein, and the great Linnæus: and he gives his reafons, in a judicious preface, for every inftance in which he has adopted, or departed from, the methods of his learned predeceffors in this branch of study. His plates are well engraved, and a confiderable number of his defcriptions are new.

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Art. 18. The Statutes at Large, from the fifth Year of the Reign of George the Third, to the tenth Year of the Reign of George the Third, inclufive. To which is prefixed, a Table of the Titles of all the public and private Statutes during that Time. With a copious Index. 4to. 11. 1 s. bound. Strahan, &c. 1771. This publication makes the tenth volume of the edition of the Statutes at Large, in quarto; of which the preceding nine were compiled by the late ingenious and indefatigable Owen Ruffhead, Efq. The favourable reception which the public hath given to this importan work, precludes all neceffity of our enlarging any farther on its merits. MEDICA L.

Art. 19. A Philofophical Enquiry into the Nature, Origin, and Extent of Animal Motion. By Samuel Farr, M. D. 8vo. 6 s. bound. Becket.

1771.

We have attentively perufed this metaphifico-phyfiological Enquiry, and are forry to obferve, that we have met with little which can contribute to the advancement of real knowledge or found philofophy. Art. 20. A Treatife on Female Difeafes: In which are alfo com

prehended those most incident to pregnant and Child-bed Women. By Henry Manning, M. D. 8vo. 5 s. 3 d. Boards. Baldwin.

1771.

The nature of this work renders it improper for us either to enter into a minute detail, or to form any abstract of its contents. We muft obferve however, in justice to the Author, that, upon the whole, this treatife is well drawn up, and contains many ufeful, though not many new obfervations.-The impropriety, in the title, of female dif cafes, is, perhaps, too trivial to be regarded.

This undertaking is now completed, by the publication of the cond part of the 4th volume, in 8vo. For an idea of this work, fee Review, vol. xxxix. p. 403,

POLITICA L.

Art. 21. A fhort Effay upon Republican Government. In a Letter to a Friend. 8vo. 6d. Blyth. 1771.

In republics, where the talents and the virtues of men are best unfolded, and where the opportunities of exerting them are most frequent; where their natural rights are fecured on the most solid foundation, and where certain and known laws preferve their properties from infringement and violation; this wife Author finds nothing but diforder and confufion. In governments, where the adminiftration of affairs is invefted in a fingle perfon, and where every thing, moft facred and valuable, is fubject to his folly and his paffions, he finds order, fecurity, and happiness. His performance is replete with ridiculous and abfurd fentiments, fupported without ingenuity, and dreffed out in aukward and inelegant expreffions.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Art. 22. The Life of Jofeph, the Son of Ifrael. In Eight Books. Chiefly defigned for the Ufe of Youth. Izmo. 3 s. Keith, &c. The pleafing and affecting story of Joseph, is a fubject well fuited to the nature of facred romance; a fpecies of writing lately brought into vogue among us (with female readers particularly) by the fuccefs of Gefner's Death of Abel; in which TRUTH is gaudily equipped with the ornaments of INVENTION.-This hiftory of the young Hebrew, fo celebrated for his chastity, his wifdom, and the viciffitudes of his fortune, may be exhibited as a fit companion for Mr. Gefner's performance. In his preface, which we like better than the work to which it is prefixed, the Author informs his Readers, that 'fhould the Life of Jofeph be acceptable to thofe for whom it is defigned, he is not certain that he shall not fend fomething more of the fame kind abroad into the world.'

Art. 23. A Letter to the Citizens of London, on a very interesting Subject. Addreffed to the Court of Aldermen, &c. 8vo. I S. Bladon.

A very fevere attack on the character of one of the candidates for the place of Upper City Marthal, which was lately vacant. It is not an anonymous ftab, of which the prefs produces but too many; for the Writer has fairly fubfcribed his name, Robert Holloway, to a dedication of his Letter, to Mr. Crosby, Lord-Mayor of London.— The person whofe character is here fo ftrongly impeached, feems to be one Mr. B. who did not obtain the place; which has fince been fold to a lefs exceptionable purchaser.

Art. 24. The Pupil of Nature; a true Hiftory, found among the Papers of Father Quefnel. Tranflated from the original French of Monf. de Voltaire. 12mo. 2 s. fewed. Carnan. 1771. Another tranflation of L'Ingenu, of which we gave an abstract, from the original, in our Appendix to Review, vol. xxxvii. The Pu pil of Nature is a better tranflation of the title than ours.

*We speak of this work as it appears in its English fuftian dress; the original being a poem.

A former tranflation of this fatirical performance was noticed in p. 161 of our 39th volume,

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Art. 25. Reflections on the too prevailing Spirit of Difipation and Gallantry; fhewing its dreadful Confequences to public Freedom. By the Author of a Review of the Characters of the principal Nations in Europe, &c. 8vo. 1 s. 6 d. . Dilly. 1771.

In our Author's Account of the Characters and Manners of the French*, with occafional obfervations on the English, fome reflections were made on the notorious and fcandalous infidelity in the marriage ftate, prevailing in France. That evil, the Author thinks (we with he had lefs foundation for his opinion) is now become alarming to the English nation; which has induced him to confider it more at large, and to fubmit to the public what has occurred to him upon fo weighty a fubject; the experience of last winter having fhewn that diffipation and gallantry, fo far from lofing ground, were never, perhaps, known to have made, in fo fhort a fpace of time, fuch a rapid and dangerous progrefs in this ifland: fuch a progrefs, indeed, as threat ens, if not timely and powerfully refifted, to overwhelm, in the end, the morals of the whole British community.'

We have already given our opinion of the merits of this Writer, both in the review of the work referred to in the note, and in our account of his Review of the Characters of the principal Nations in Europe fee Review, vol. xliii. p. 329.

Art. 26. Copies of the Depofitions of the Witnesses examined in the Cause of Divorce, between Lord Grofvenor and Lady Grosvenor his Wife. Svo. 3 Parts. 5 s. Sold in Pater-nofter-Row.

Those who have imagined, if any fuch there are, that proof of the lady's actual tranfgreffion was wanting, may be thoroughly convinced of it, by the testimony of the Countess D'Onhoff, and of Mrs. Reda, from ocular demonftration, and a number of inftances: the fhameful particulars of which are recited at large, and in the plainest terms. There is no doubt of the authenticity of thefe papers, which, however, certainly ought not to have been published †, not only because of the immodeft paffages, but as the cause is yet fab judice.

Art. 27. A Journal of a Voyage round the World, in his Majesty's Ship ENDEAVOUR, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 and 1771, undertaken in Purfuit of Natural Knowledge, at the Defire of the Royal Society. Containing all the various Occurrences of the Voyage, with Defcriptions of feveral new difcovered Countries in the Southern Hemifphere; Accounts of their Soil and Productions, and of many Singularities in the Customs, Manners, Policy, Manufactures, &c. of their Inhabitants. To which is added, A Concife Vocabulary of the Language of Otabitee. 4to. 6 s. fewed. Becket and De Hondt.

Every Reader of this account will be convinced, from its own internal evidence, of its authenticity; notwithstanding its Author (for * See Review, vol. xliii. p. 255.

The depofitions were taken by Meff. Lufhington and Hefeltine, Proctors.

+ An Appendix is added, containing the libel exhibited by Lord Grofvenor against her Ladyship, and ber allegations in fupport of her recrimination.

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obvious reafons) has not given it the fanction of his name. It is, undoubtedly, the Journal of a person who made the voyage, and his narrative and obfervations afford abundant matter to gratify curiofity. We could with pleasure have made fome extracts from it, but we shall referve the particulars of the discoveries in this famous circumnavigation, till the appearance of the account advertised to be published by authority from the Board of Admiralty.

NOVELS.

Art. 28. The unfortunate Lovers; or, The genuine Distress of Damon and Celia. In a Series of Letters, &c. 12mo. 2 Vols. 6s. Dodfley, &c.

Although we have claffed this publication with thofe works of invention ufually ranged under the denomination of Novels, it contains nevertheless a recital of facts relating to the unhappy Author, William Renwick, a young apothecary, formerly a Surgeon's mate in one of our regiments, but at prefent reduced to the humble ftation of a journeyman, in a fhop at Wokingham.

Mr. Renwick's firft patron was the late worthy General Crawford: after the General's death, and the reduction of his regiment at the conclufion of the peace, our Author was turned adrift in the world. In this unfavourable fituation the unfortunate Damon had the impru→ dence to marry the amiable Celia, the heroine of these Memoirs, and the partner of his diftreffes. He had, at this time, flattered himfelf with expectations from Sir John Huffey Delaval, on the foundation. of fervices rendered to that gentleman at an election for Berwick, the place of Mr. Renwick's nativity. If we may believe our Author, (and we fee no reafon to question the truth of his narration), he had a promife of being provided for by the Delavals, in confideration. of his vote and intereft at this election, in which Sir John was fuccessful. When the affair was over, however, and the Author came to want fome proof of his reprefentative's gratitude and generofity, his fervices, he found, were forgotten, and he could not, without the utmost difficulty, obtain even the favour of admittance to the prefence of Sir John. His request was a commiffion in the army.

He now began to experience all the miseries of attendance and dependance. Sir John continued to fhun him, and even plainly declared he could not ferve him. Poor Damon, however, perfevered in his folicitations, till at length he was reduced almoft to ftarving; and, to add to his diftreffes, his beloved Celia brought him a fon.

At length, finding that his patron would do nothing for him, not even fend him a guinea, when he was brought fo low by fickness and poverty, as to fubfift upon fmall collections made for him by his friends, -he formed the refolution of telling his story to the public, in the hope of raifing a trifle by a fubfcription to two little volumes.

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The Author does not pretend to give a minute defcription of the fubjects of Natural Hiflory, becaufe, as he handfomely obferves, in a note, p. 67, Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander, (gentlemen of great erudition, who undertook this voyage for the fake of natural knowledge, and who in almoft every place were fuccefsful, as well as indefatigable in their refearches), will hereafter abundantly gratify the Curiosity of thofe who delight in the ftudy of Nature."

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