A

ADVERTISEMENT.

Succinct Account of FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS having been defired by feveral Friends to our Review, we take this Opportunity of acquainting them, and the Public, that this Talk is undertaken by a Set of learned and ingenious CORRESPONDENTS.

These Articles will be regularly continued, every Month, unless prevented by the Accidents to which a foreign Corres pondence is liable. No Performance worthy of Attention shall be overlooked, and all due Regard will be paid to the most important.

As to the Reviewers themselves, a competent Account of our domeftic Productions, furnishes full Employment for all their Leisure, and all their Faculties: To continue the faithful Discharge of which, is all they can propofe, or expect to accomplish.

The foreign Articles will commence in the Review for February, 1757.

THE

MONTHLY REVIEW,

For JULY, 1756.

D. Juftiniani Inftitutionum, Libri quatuor; and a Translation of them into English, with Notes. By George Harris, LL. D. 4to. 15s. Bathurst and Withers.

Ο

F all the Governments which, for above two thousand years past, have made any figure in Europe, or the countries adjoining, no one, whilft in power, and preeminence, drew fuch refpect, and admiration, from its neighbours, nor left with after-ages, upon its decline and diffolution, fuch an impreffion of dignity, and efteem, as the Roman gc

vernment.

We are furprized how, from fuch low beginnings, and when every where furrounded by powerful and suspicious neighbours, the Romans could raise and maintain their independency; and, whilft we attend to the tract of their victories, and the celerity of their conquefts; when we see them extend their empire from the narrow limits of a little town, not only over Italy, but into almoft every part of the then known world,-we find ftill greater cause for astonishment.

But when we reflect upon the form of their government; the happy changes introduced into it from time to time; their original liberty and fpirit; the political measures taken to fecure and heighten thefe; their military arts and discipline; the union established amongst all the orders of the state, whe ther civil, military, or ecclefiaftic, by laying them equally open to the attainment of every man of ability, fo that he who intended to be a magiftrate, was obliged to fit himself alfo for VOL. XV.

B

the