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in the City of Establishment, because he judged the constitution of the city fo corrupt that he could not in confcience any longer conform thereunto, He has taken a large houfe in this city, near the Turk's Head Tarjern, in High-Street, kept by Mr. Apoftate. Unto this tavern, all these difaffected tons of Levi are now convened, to drew up a petition for certain alterations, which, in their wonderful wildom, they think neceffary to be made, in the laws and fortifications of the City of Eftablishment. On Mr. Lindsey Woolfy's leaving his benefice, and retiring hither, his party were mad with joy, and illuminated their apartments for three days: what extravagant expreffions of triumpl they will manifeft, if any others of their party fhew themfelves fo' far boneft, I cannot fay; but, at prefent, they appear as foolishly fond of bis their idol, as were the ftupid Egyptians when they had found their horned God, Apis.

Cher. I heard there was fome fcheme in agitation, before I fet out in this journey, and was to have been confulted in it.

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Stand Nothing, Sir, can be more wild than is their plan. The fum of it is, a requeft, That thote of the City of Establishment will, in complaifance to them, pull down their antient and venerable walls and gates, and entirely alter the laws and plan of their inftitution, as a Body corporate." One vain reafon urged by them, in fupport of their ridiculous request, is, "That they will believe nothing afferted by Jehovah or men, unless they are able to comprehend it." Another reafon is, "That it is unlawful and unreafonable for any city in Christendom to have walls and gates." Thele gentlemen are, in genetal, very fond of Arian and Socinian Images, but inveterate enemies to pilgrims; therefore it was that they made the outcry against enthufiafm, as they pafied my house In short, I confider them all as united in the intereft of the neighbouring Giant Infidelity..

Cler. I am afhamed for them, and thall think it no difgrace to be defpifed and flandered by fuch a fet of men.

Ref. This tumultuous cavalcade reminds me of what we faw, as we came through this city. It was a great concourfe of perfons, chiefly of the genteel fort, round a very elegant mourrebank stage, in a grand fquare. On the flage was a pérton of noble mien, with a itaf on his breaft; and with him a youth, whom he was addicting with great vớ Jubility of fpeech,

Stand. The perfon you mean, is a quack of the firit magnitudes He is of the noble family or Stand-15; but, very lately, has deicended to figure in the character you faw, by the name of Dr. Flippant His bufinefs on the stage is, to recommend and difpofe of his medical cas tholicon; to instruct his natural fon, the youth you faw with him; and to vend copics of fuch inftructions. Sometimes, the hoary pedagogue will ape the filly tricks of a Buffoon. His catholicon is a nof

trum, by which he pro deliver any paticht from the irkfomė,

and embarfaffing diforders of fincerity and a refidet confcience? fo that the religion of his patient fhall fit for perfectly eaty on him, that nei ther the perfon himfelf, nor thofe about him, will be at all affected thereby. His inftructions to his fon principally confist in, fhewing the neatest method of paring his nails; the genteelett manner of ufing his knife, fork, and handkerchief, and difpoting of his hands and

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feet; with the most polite way of being vicious; and fo managing every muscle and feature of his afpect, that no one fhall difcover the corrupt difpofition of his mind. In short, the whole theory and prac tice of this illuftrious empiric contain a general affeinblage, and artful diftillation, from all the gaudy flowers of wit, politenefs, frolic, gaity, folly, infincerity and diffipation, which are produced in this great City of Vanity. The fingularity of this phænomenon, like a powerful vortex, attracts unto it, all the light and gay people from every quarter ; who laugh at the doctor's tricks, and purchase his noftrums, and vo lumes of documents, with great avidity, without any apprehension of their most pernicious effects.

Cler. The report of Dr. Flippant had reached the City of Establish ment, before I left it; and fome of my brethren condemned him, as an enemy to morality; while others extravagantly applauded his practice. One of them has even fet up the doctor's image on a Trufile, for the ufe of boarding-schools. I now pity those weak and vain people, who do not perceive the futility and immorality of his inftructions.".

This diftinguifhing of the Rev. Mr. Lindfey by the name of Lindley Woolfey, the late Lord Chesterfield by that of Stand-up [Stanhope], and his image being fet on a Trufle [Dr. Truftler's Abftract] for the ufe of boarding-schools, is, we fay, too Judicrous and mean a fpecies of wit to fort well with the reft of fo ferious and religious a performance.

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The Torpedo, a Poem to the Electrical Eel. Addreffed to Mr. John Hunter, Surgeon; and dedicated to the Right Honourable· Lord Cholmondeley. 4to. 1s. 6d.

Sold, it is faid, by all the bookfellers in London and Weftminfter. This we do not believe, and yet there are few bookfellers who will not fell any thing, they can profit by. Some, however, there are who, we believe, would not, publickly at leaft, vend fuch indecent trumpery as the prefent pamphlet.On this occafion we cannot forbear repeating our concern at feeing poetical ingenuity fo often proftituted to the purposes of obscenity. It is ftrange that inen of wit and genius cannot be content with gratifying their own paffions, during the hey-day of their blood, but they muft ftoop alfo to be panders to others.

It is juft as if a youth, whom Cato might not cenfure for occafionally vifiting a brothel, fhould therefore take up his refidence in it in the quality of a pimp.

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A Dialogue on Friendship and Society. Small 8vo. fewed.

Becket.

2s. 6d.

An elegantly-fentimental colloquy between Amanda and Afpafia; who converfe, like ladies of learning, fenfibility and virtue, on the interefting topics of fociability and friendship. We are told this dialogue was written by Mrs. Dobson of Liverpool.

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The Way to be Rich and Refpectable. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Baldwin.

As we understand the author of this pamphlet is actually employed in putting his fcheme into execution, we shall not criticife on his plan till we fee the refult of the experiment, That he may find the way to grow rich, we make no fcruple; but whether he will, by the fame means, become refpectable, we have as many fcruples as will amount to doubts of great weight.

Squire Randal's Excurfion round London: or, a Week's Frolic, in the Year 1776. With Remarks of John Trufty. 12mo. 2s, Richardfon and Urquhart.

One of the best of the worst fort of books of modern entertainment; indeed this little work is too well written for the fubject and the readers, for which it is apparently calculated: fo that it may poffibly defeat the end of its publication; which is evidently to catch the penny.

An authentic Narrative of Facts relating to the Exchange of Prifoners taken at The Cedars. 8vo. Is. Cadell.

An antidote to the political poifon diffufed by order of the Congress, in the account published in America, of the cruel treatment, the rebel prifoners taken at The Cedars met with from his Majefty's troops. It is a pity fuch unfair means are made use of to irritate the militating parties, who are em ployed on a device fufficiently difagreeable and unnatural without aggravating it by fuch artificial provocatives.

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Written Law the Security and Happiness of a Free State. 4to. is. Corrall.

There is much propriety in the arguments of this writer, who contends for the practice of abiding ftrictly by the written law in our courts of judicature; in oppofition to that, introduced by certain judges, of deciding in fome cafes in courts of law on the principles of equity. It were worth his attention, however, to confider how far the letter of the law is in fuch cafes confiftent with the fpirit of it; and whether, in all cafes, the Spirit of the law be not perfectly confiftent with equity.

Ales Ears: A Fable. Addreffed to the Author of the Goat's Beard. 4to. 6d. Riley.

A retort courteous on the Poet-laurcat for his fable, entiled The Goat's Beard; of which we took notice in our laft Review. The cenfure paffed on that may ferve, mutatis mu tandis, with a little variation, for this: the affes-ears and goat's-beard being appendages to animals not highly distinguished for either fagacity or delicacy.

A True Account of the Trial of Mr. Samuel Bruckshaw's Action for falfe Imprisonment, in Guildhall, London, June 13, 1776: and also of all the former Proceedings in the Courts of Law. Folio. 6d. Kearley.

A caufe that has been fo long in agitation, and of which fo much has been published, in moft of the news papers throughout the kingdom, muft have been heard of by moft of our readers. The account of it, here prefented to the public, appears to be genuine, and affords a melancholy proof what injuftice may be done to individuals under colour of law, and how ineffectual are the legal attempts of the oppreffed to obtain redrefs. Not that we think there were not too much grounds for the original caufe of action, both on the fide of plaintiff and defendant; as is too frequently the cafe in such personal litigations.

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Reflections on Gaming, Annuities, and Ufurious Contracts. 8vo. IS. Davies.

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A prelude to the late Bill, brought into parliament by Mr. Solicitor General, for abolishing ufurious contracts on the plan

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of granting annuities.-The mifchiefs attending this fpecies of gaming are here properly and ably expofed, and prove how neceffary it is for the legiflature to interfere to put a stop to them.

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A Letter from Edmund Burke, Efq; one of the Reprefentatives
in Parliament for the City of Bristol, to John Farr and
John Harris, Efars. Sheriffs of that City, on the Affairs of
America. 8vo. Is. 6d. Dodfley.

"God be thanked for thefe Rebels !-Thev offend none but the virtuous-! laud them-I praise them."-So faid that heterogenous compound of wit, whim, and fophiftry, Sir John Falftaff. And fo fays that ingenious fophift, Mr. Edmund Burke, concerning the rebels in America. Falstaff, indeed, who was as wicked as witty, and cared for nobody but himself, feems to have his own emolument merely in view, in this cordial commendation of rebellion. Our friend Edmund," in act more graceful and humane," feels for the honeft rebels themselves, and expreffes the most affecting apprehenfions left, in confequence of the two late acts of parliament, any of our English brethren * fhould come to be hanged as pirates; when they ought only to be hanged, drawn and quartered, as traitors. A juft and alarming ground of apprehenfion truly! It is, therefore, with great propriety and humanity he condemns the paffing thofe acts as a harth and incongruous method of proceding. "Such a procedure," fays he, "would have appeared (in any other legiflature than ours) a ftrain of the most infulting and most unnatural cruelty and injuftice." I affure you," (continues he, addreffing hinfelf particularly to his friends the two worthy sheriffs of Bristol,) I do not remember to have heard any thing like it in any time or country."-Nor we neither, we proteft; it is, in fact, as bad as the letter-writer obferves it would have been, to have tried Lord Balmerino as a cow-ftealer, when he was an arch-traitor of the firft magnitude. Or, to come nearer home, it is as bad as the fending. that frantic fellow D-- to hard labour for a fraud, when he might have been hanged for forgery. But fo funk, it feems, is the dignity of the British Legislature, and fo degraded the adminiftration of the English laws, that both minifter and magiftrate lofe all refpect for the fituation of criminals. By "confounding the unhappinefs of civil diffention, with the

For fo Mr. Burke affects conftantly to ftile the Americans. But he might with equal propriety call them Irifhmen, or at leaft Dutchmen, or

Germans.

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