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Whether he will keep his word any better, in regard to what But this we behe has promised in his Poftfcript, we know not. lieve, that if ever he intends publishing his Anfwer, the prefent is the only proper time for this purpofe; and that his not answering his opponents without lofs of time, affords a ftrong prefumption that he has no fatisfactory answer to make.

ΙΙ. ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΑΣΤΗΣ. In Anfwer to a Book entitled, ΕΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ. The Portraiture of his Sacred Majefty in his Solitudes and Sufferings. By John Milton. Now first published from the Author's fecond Edition, printed in 1650. With many Enlargements: By Richard Baron. With a Preface, fhewing the tranfcendent Excellency of Milton's Profe Works. To which is added, an original Letter to Milton, never before published. 4to. 2s. 6d. Millar.

All who are fond of MILTON's writings, and, we hope, the number of fuch is not fmall, are certainly under obligations to Mr. Baron for this edition of the EIKONOKLASTES, which contains feveral large and curious additions, that will give great pleasure to every admirer of Milton, and every friend of Liberty.

Mr. Baron, in his Preface, writes like a warm friend to Liberty, and an irreconcilable enemy to all civil and ecclefiaftical ufurpations. He takes occafion to recommend to all young gentlemen the ftudy of our old writers, especially MILTON, and SIDNEY, as one remedy for thofe evils which threaten the utter ruin of our country. High-church priests' feem to be his abhorrence. Many of these, he says, have laid out confiderable fums to defroy the profe-works of Milton, and have purchased ⚫ copies of his particular writings, for the infernal pleasure of confuming them.'

This has been practifed,' fays Mr. Baron, with fuch zeal by many of that curfed tribe, that it is a wonder there are any copies left. John Swale, a bookfeller of Leeds in Yorkfhire, an honeft man though of High-church, told me, that he 'could have more money for burning Milton's Defence of Liberty and the People of England, than I would give for the purchafe of it. Some priefts in that neighbourhood used to meet once a year, and after they were well warmed with strong beer, they facrificed to the flames the Author's Defenfio pro populo I have it Anglicano, as alfo this treatise against the EIKON. in my power to produce more inftances of the like facerdotal fpirit, with which, in fome future publication, I may entertain • the world.'

We shall conclude this article with acquainting our readers, that we have, in the Editor's preface, an original Letter from Mr. Wall to Milton, written in the year 1659, and never before publifhed. This Letter is fenfible and fpirited, and fhews very plainly, that Mr. Wall's fentiments in regard to Ecclefiaftics, were Fretty much the fame with Mr. Baron's, which, if we may be

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allowed to offer a conjecture, was one, perhaps not the lealt, reafon of its being inferted.

III. A Compendium of authentic Voyages, digefted in a chronological Series. Illuftrated with a variety of Charts, Maps, Plans, Heads, &c. 12mo. 7 Volumes. 11. 1s. Dofley, &c.

That our Readers may be enabled to judge of the merits of this Collection, by comparing its contents with thofe of other Compilations of the fame kind, we shall give a brief fammary of the articles in the feveral volumes, viz.

The four voyages of Columbus; the voyage of Vafco de Gama ;-of Piero Alvarez de Cabral; the conqueft of Mexico, by Cortez; Pizzarro's Conqueft of Peru; voyages by Soto, ard others, to Florida, 1539;-of Fernandes Magalines;-of Sr Francis Drake ;-of Sir Walter Raliegh, and others under his direction;-of Sir Thomas Rowe to India, fent by King James!. as Ambassador to the Mogul;-of Capt. Monk, with memoirs relating to Old and New Greenland; narrative of the wonderful prefervation of eight men left on the coaft of Greenland, 1630; journal of feven failors who wintered and died in Greenland, 1634-of feven failors who were left at Spitzbergen, in 1634, and died there in 1635; account of a fhipwreck near Spitzbergen, 1646; defcription of Iceland; dangerous voyage of Capt. James, to the north-weft; Nieuhoff's voyage; Baldeus's account of the coafts of Malabar and Coromandel;-of the island of Ceylon; voyages to the north of Europe; memoirs relating to Ruffia; Wafer's voyage to the isthmus of America; account of the expedition against Carthagena, 1741; Dampier's voyage; Gamelli's in 1693; Woodes Rogers's, 1708; Anfon's, 1740: the four last round the world.

We perceive nothing new in this collection, except a short narrative of the expedition to Carthagena, 1741; which feems to be a fatirical account, chiefly defigned to roaft the Commanders; the paper is written with fpirit, but abounds too much in acrimony and abuse.

As to the collection, on the whole, it appears to be rather calculated for our novel-readers, than for those who confult books of this kind for useful information, as well as mere entertainment. The charts, maps, and plans, are too fmall, and the heads and views meanly executed. The fcheme of the work too, is not a good one; for the chronological order, which the editor looks upon as a capital improvement, creates great confufion in the reading, to thofe who may chufe to perufe the volumes through, in the order in which the feveral articles are arranged. For inflance, he jumps you from Sir Walter Raliegh's expedition to Guiana, to Sir Thomas Rowe's voyage to the Eaft-Indies, and from thence to Monk's voyage to Greenland: whereas, in the order obferved in the late edition of Harris's Collection, this confufion is avoided, by going through all the voyages to one divifion, or part of the globe, before those to another quarter are begun. Rev. Aug. 1756.

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IV. Memoirs of the Life and Actions of General W. Blakeney: To ferve as an Introduction to a fuller Hiftory of certain Tranfactions, wherein he had a Share. To be publifhed in due Time. Dublin printed, and fold by the Bookfellers in England. 8vo. 6d. Scott.

We have in this pamphlet very few memoirs of Mr. Blakeney, but much virulence against the public adminiftration. It seems to be one of those modern fquibs invented by the author of the Marriage-Act, a Novel; who has fo ingenioufly contrived to abufe the government, or any eminent characters, in romances, and fictitious epiftolatory correspondences. Vide Shebbeare's works, throughout.

V. A real Defence of A-1 B-g's Conduct. By a Lover of Truth, and a Friend to Society. 8vo. 6d. binfon.

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An ironical fatire upon the Admiral, in the form of a comment, and vindication of his famous Letter to Secretary Cl―d. VI. The Chronicle of B-g, the Son of the Great B-g. By Ifrael Ben Ader, of the Tribe of Levi. 8vo. 6d. Hogarth's-head, Fleetstreet.

A mere narrative of B-g's late unhappy Mediterranean expedition; written in imitation of the file of the Old Teftament.

VII. Memoirs of the Life and Diftreffes of Simon Mason, Apothecary; containing a Series of Tranfactions and Events, both interefting and diverting. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Printed for the Author, and fold by Noble, &c.

Mr. Mason, the unfortunate Author of thefe Memoirs, having feveral times failed in his bufinefs, and being reduced to great diftrefs, has printed his life, in order to prolong it, with fome abatement of the miferies he has already undergone. We have obferved nothing extraordinary in the circumftances of his Hiftory, further than that he feems to have been fingularly unfortunate in all his attempts to maintain himself, wife, and children, by his industry and fkill in his profeffion in neither of which does he think himself at all deficient. His book, however, affords very little that can be fuppofed to intereft the reader, and nothing to divert him; fo that the recommendatory profeffions in his title-page, might as well have been omitted. But as the poor man may be a real object of compaffion, the benevolent reader may lay out half a crown with him to very good purpose. VIII. The true State of the Cafe of Sarah Rippon, Widow. Written by herself. 8vo. 6d. Scott.

Mrs. Kippon, according to this narration, appears to have been a confiderable fufferer by a law-fuit, with perfons whofe purses were too mighty for her. As this is a cafe not very fingular, we hall refer, for particulars, to the pamphlet ;-:o which is an

nexed,

nexed, Proposals for printing by subscription, Poems on various Subjects and Occafions; in which we wish her Good Luck.

IX. Cibber's Two Differtations on the Theatres. With an Appendix, in three Parts. The whole containing a general View of the Stage, from the earliest Times to the prefent: With many curious Anecdotes relative to the English Theatres, never before published; and Remarks on the Laws concerning the Theatres. 8vo. 3s. Printed for the Author.

Mr. Theophilus Cibber, here prefents the public with copies of two Differtations wherewith he entertained the town several evenings, during the laft winter, at the little theatre in the Hay-market, and elsewhere. In the firft Differtation, he fhews what high eftimation poets and players were held in among the antients, particularly the Greeks and Romans; that Socrates, Epaminondas, Cæfar, Scipio, Brutus, Cicero, and others, the greatest men, in all ages, were promoters of dramatic compofitions, and encouragers of actors; that even the Apostles were no enemies to plays; and that fome eminent modern Divines, particularly Archbishop Tillotson, approved of theatrical representations. He then enters on a concife Hiftory of the English Stage, Patents, Patentees, and Licences, from Queen Elizabeth to the prefent time; and this he does, in order to introduce an enquiry into the conduct of the present Patentees, and to make it appear, that by their tyranny over the actors, ill-ufage of authors, and mifmanagement in general, they have greatly contributed to introduce a bad tafte, and deprive the public of thofe advantages, that rational and moral entertainment, they might receive from the stage. He takes a review of, and cenfures, fome late revived pieces together with all the tribe of drolls, farces, mock-operas, mimickry, &c. lately introduced; and is particularly fevere on Mr. Garrick. He concludes with an addrefs to the town; in which he apologifes for his undertaking, and pleads the neceffity of his circumstances, from his being excluded both the theatres.

In his fecond Differtation, (after a prefatory addrefs to the Antigallicans, whom he fuppofes to have been affronted by an anonymous fcribbler, under the influence of the Drury lane manager) Mr. Cibber carries on his animadverfions on Mr. Garrick, whom he cenfures both as a manager and player; but many of his criticifms on that Gentleman, tho' fome of them feem to be both smart and juft, will have the less weight with the impartial reader, as Mr. Cibber appears to have conceived a strong pique and prejudice against this celebrated actor, on a fuppofition that Mr. Garrick has been inftrumental in fome of his late miffortunes and difappointments; particularly in his being refused permiffion to entertain the town with the performances of a new company, at the Hay-market theatre.

In this fecond Differtation Mr. Cibber enters upon an examen cf Mr. Garrick's performance in the character of Lear; which

he compares with Mr. Barry's, in the fame character; and gives the preference to the latter; who certainly deserved the great applaufe he gained in Lear last season.

In his Appendix Mr. Cibber gives us, befides a new edition of his Epiftle to Garrick, (fee Review, vol. XIII. p. 467.) copies of fundry papers relating to the laws concerning the theatres; and, particularly, a fpeech againft licencing the ftage, delivered in the Houfe of L-ds, by the E. of Chd: this is an excellent piece, and Mr. Cibber's readers are obliged to him for fo valuable an addition to their entertainment.

X. Reflections arifing from the Immorality of the prefent Age: In which fome self-evident Facts are pointed at, which seem to call for a more immediate Redrefs, than any other Article in our Policy, either at Home or Abroad. 8vo. Is. Cooper.

Upon reading the title-page of this piece, we were naturally led to expect, that the Author would lay open the principal fources of the depravity of the times, and point out thofe grand immoralities which call fo loudly for a reformation. Instead of this, however, he only declaims on the defects of female education, on making water publicly in the fireets, on finging obfcene ballads, feribbling bawdy poetry, and drawing obfcene portraits, on walls, benches, &c. Such are the subjects treated of in this performance; and they are treated with much indelicacy of language. The Author, we make no manner of doubt, writes with a good intention, and fays fome fenfible things; but his ftile is without elegance, and his cenfure without dignity.

XI. A plain Account of the Caufe of Earthquakes. Being a Supplement to a Treatife, lately published, on Fire. By the fame Author. 8vo. Is. Innys.

Having, in the fixth volume of the Review, p. 387, feq. given a pretty large account of the Treatife to which this is a supplement, we shall content ourselves with taking notice, that upon the principles contended for in his former production, Mr. Freke undertakes, in his prefent publication to fhew, 1ft. That a power ⚫ may proceed from Nature, fufficient to fhake the world -2dly. • To prove, that the water was actuated as we found it, in many parts, by the power of electricity, and not from any fubterraneous caufe.3dly, To explain from whence the various noifes proceeded, particularly the great Thump that was generally heard in the upper part of houfes.'

XII. An Account of Conferences held, and Treaties made, between Major-General Sir William Johnfon, Bart. and the chief Sachems and Warriours of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayngas, Senekas, Tufcaroras, Aughquageys, Skaniadaradighronos, Chugnuts, Mahickanders, Shawanefe, Kanufkagos, Toderighronos, and Oghquagoes, Indian Na

tions.