The Rudiments of War: Comprising the Principles of Military Duty, in a Series of Orders iffued by Commanders in the Englifh Army. To which are added, fame other Military Regulations, for the Sake of connecting the Former. 8vo. 5s. Conant.

"Many of the Orders contained in this Treatife, were compiled fome Years fince by an ingenious Gentleman, who was a Major of Brigade during the War that terminated with the Peace of Aix la Chapelle, and afterwards became a Major General. In the Courfe of feveral Campaigns orderly Books grow voluminous, and are not conveniently portable in the Field. Abftracts of ftanding Orders are therefore requifite for an eafy Recourfe to References frequently made to preceding ones. It was this Motive prompted him to felect and tranfcribe them as they were iffued; and thefe Extracts were generally ap pealed to as Arbitrators in every Difference. How ferviceable they became to him appeared by a Command from the late King, a few Days before the Battle of Dettingen, to give him an Account of the OutPosts of the Army; an Honour rarely conferred on a Major of Brigade if the General Officers be fufficiently intelligent. But the feveral Paffages were accumulated very irregularly, and never reduced to Syftem or Form under their juft and stated Titles.

"Arranged in this natural Difpofition, they are now presented to the Public, blended with others of modern Introduction, for the Sake of Illustration, and to render the Work of more extensive Use."

As the London Reviewers are none of them Military Men, it will not be expected they should fcrutinize into the propriety of regulations and orders, projected and iffued by the principal generals of modern times; they difmifs this performance, therefore, in the clofing words of the prefacer. "Time can alone afcertain the actual ufe or inefficacy of the prefent work. It is at leaft concife, adapted to the plaineft capacity, and may ferve as a memorial of duty to those who ftand in need of fuch a monitory."

The Candor and Good-Nature of Englishmen exemplified, in their deliberate, cautious, and charitable way of characterizing the Customs, Manners, Conftitution, and Religion of Neighbouring Nations, of which their own Authors are every where produced as Vouchers ;-their moderatë, equitable, and humane Mode of governing States dependant on them ;—their elevated, courteous, and concilitating Stile and Department, on all Occafions;-with, in particular, a true and well-fupported Specimen of the ingenuous and liberal manner, in which they carry on Religious Controverfy. To which are prefixed, Propofals for Printing by Subscription, EUSEBIUS, or, Elays on the principal Virtues, Vices, and Paffions. With fome Account of that Work. By Thomas O

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Brien Mac Mahon, Author of an Effay on the Depravity of Human Nature, and other Publications. 8vo. 5s. Bew.

"It requires very little critical acumen to obferve, that the fubject of this publication is introduced in an awkward, unnatural, and abrupt manner, that the reader is obliged to wade through feveral pages of egotifm, before he arrives at any thing of general concern."-So fays the writer himfelf, of this work; a proof, the reader may fuppofe, of his inodefty. Not a whit; if the author hath really any modefty about him, it must be of a very peculiar kind: fince he has here published a whole volume of abuse of the English nation; whofe general character, he fays, "is prejudice, il-manners, abuse, malevolence, oppreffion of ftates dependent on them, and irreligion," "No people," fays he, "have manifefted such enmity to Chriftian tenets and devout practices as the English; or have discovered themselves fuch lying and fhameless revilers of the religion, government and manners of neighbouring kingdoms, as theyWe abominate all kind of national reflections, as too general to be juft: we might otherwife obferve how unlucky it is for our author, that he is himself an Irishman; being, beyond difpute, as lying and fhameless a reviler of the character and manners of other nations as any Englishman upon earth. But, indeed, it is no wonder that the man, who has written a libel against Human-nature itself, fhould write a fatire on the humanity of the English; whofe good nature, we are perfuaded, will regard with, an eye of pity, a raving creature, whofe extravagancies about the purity of "that spotJefs, though fruitful virgin the Church of Rome," betray him (to ufe his own language) to be only an Irish bully to the whore of Babylon.-After all, perhaps, too little learning has turned the poor man mad. Our readers will judge from the following quotation.

"Proteftants, especially in England, where they are worse reasoners on religious, and greater railers on all fubjects, than in any other country, except Germany, have transformed the pope into more shapes than Ovid does his Jupiter. Sometimes he is a" chief or arch-myftagogue" with them: at others a great Lama of Tartary." Whittaker tells us in Greek, he is more cruel than the inhuman ty fants of antiquity: ὠμότερον τῶν πάλαι τεθρυλλημένων τυράννων,” having probably Bufiris, Gyges, Cacus, Procruftes, Mezentius, Phalaris, &c. in view, when he wrote that candid and good-natured fentence, in the dedication prefixed to his Greek Tranflation of his countryman Alexander Noellus's-Chriftianæ pietatis prima inftitutio, printed in London in 1701-Hundreds stile the fame fovereign pontiff a, or the man of fin," by which we are to understand, finning is as effential to his nature, or at least to his ftation, as rationality to other men.-Not a

few have termed him "à porter," affirming at the fame time, the key's he carries about him to be" the keys of the gates, not of hea ven,-but-hell."-According to many he is a-" collector and trainer of mad-bulls," which he fends about the world to annoy and gore thofe who refufe paying a certain tax, called Peter pence. Care, author of the three large Quarto Volumes of Weekly Intelligence from Rome, delights in reprefenting him (efpecially where he defcribes the feptennial ceremony of blelling the Agnus Deis) as a-" great necromancer, conjurer, and dealer in fpells."-However, though the writer of the three good-natured volumes, juft cited, fays, towards the conclufion of the third tome, that the popes have by the multitude of their BAŞTARDS, proved themfelves men with a witnefs," even fo as to render -"the probation" of their manhood on their election needlefs, which he affirms to have been formerly a part of the ceremonial, when a perfon appointed for the purpofe," felt things and things," this does not prevent forty other good-natured English Authors from stripping the bufband of Christ's Church of virility entirely, and calling him a "drunken red whore," who once fell into labour, as fhe was "ftalking in a proceffion, cloathed in her pontificalibus."

Some think all this not enough until, after depriving him of every thing human, they draw hide us pictures of him, fufficient to frighten all the children and pregnant women in the kingdom. Of this kind are the defcriptions we have of him, as of a monster, whofe head is covered with horns, of different fizes, with feet like those of a goat. In other reprefentations he resembles-a bull, not of the wenús and mixixos fort, like that into which, Mofchus tells us, Jupier metamorphofed himfelf, but-heaven defend us! a huge, furious, fiery-eyed one, emitting fmoke and flames from his mouth and noftris; whofe dreadful figure could not fail terrifying, not only fo delicate, young and unexperienced a maiden as Europa, but the most mafculine, fable-frequenting, infatiable lady of quality in England, -even though he had for years acted as prefident to the female

coterie.

"However, of all the monftrous forms into which they changed the popes, none, I confefs, intimidates me equal to that of a -"threebeaded dog," in which thape I often met him, in good-natured English books, and pamphlets. Being naturally afraid of English Maftiffs, which are remarkably ferocious and cruel, though each of them, thank God, has no more than one head, and one mouth, judge, reader, what my terrors must be, when I behold a monfter -called by the name of Cerberus, in order to diftinguifh him from the dogs of true English breed, known by the appellation of Bull-dogs,-ftanding unchained with three large and extended throats, the fame number of parched and out-ftretched tongues, fix foaming lips, fix enflamed eyes, a multitude of fharp-fet teeth, ready in all appearance to devour me, or even any good-natured Englishman, that may come in his way.

Sure the reader will not be too hafty iu pronouncing me over-timid, when I thus candidly own myfelf ftartled, as often as I behold the above favage beast in English books: for if Scylla (one

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how excufable is it in a poor Homuncio like me, to be alarmed at the above-English pope, which bears in none of its members the most diftant refemblance, to any thing civilized or human?

"Indeed, as I often of late protefted, if this be the vicar of Chrift's real form, and if there actually exifts in Rome a beaft three times more Snappih, more dangerous, more gluttonous, more growling, more ready to bark at, and bite every body than an EngLifh one-headed dog, which hitherto I thought utterly impoffible to be met with there, or any where elfe,-even the prefent year's grand jubilee will not induce me, to vifit that city.”

A Treatife on the Management of Pregnant and Lying-in Women, and the Means of curing, but more especially of preventing, the principal Disorders to which they are liable. Together with fome new Directions concerning the Delivery of the Child and Placenta in natural Births. Illuftrated with Cafes. The Second Edition, revifed and enlarged; to which is added, an Appendix. By Charles White, F. R.S. Member of the Corporation of Surgeons in London, Surgeon to the Infirmary, and to the Lunatic and Lock Hofpitals in Manchefter. 8vo. 6s. Dilly.

The reception which the first edition of this valuable treatife has met with among practitioners, who are the best judges of its merit, fuperfedes every thing we might otherwife have to fay in its favour. The appendix, added to the present edition, contains farther obfervations, which an additional experience of four years has enabled the author to make, on the moft material improvements, in the management of pregnant and lying-in women, which the work itself was originally defigned to introduce; particularly,

"1ft. The ufe of a cold or temperate bath during the state of pregnancy, and that of giving fuck. 2dly. Permitting the fhoulders of the child to be expelled by the labour-pains only, instead of hurrying them away forcibly in one direction without fuffering them to accommodate themselves to the dimenfions of the pelvis by making their proper turns. 3dly. Allowing the circulation betwixt the child and placenta to cease fpontaneoufly, instead of immediately intercepting it, as foon as the child is delivered, by tying the navel-ftring. 4thly. Placing the woman in an upright pofition as early after delivery, and as frequently, as poffible."

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Practical Obfervations on the Cure of Hectic and Slow Fevers, and the Pulmonary Confumption: To which is added, A Method of treating feveral Kinds of Internal Hemorrhages. By Mofes Griffith, M. D. of the Royal College of Phyficians, London. 8vo. Is. 6d. White.

On the subject of this pamphlet we have received the following letter from a phyfician of eminence; whose opinion being founded on practice, the reader will probably prefer it to any we could form from a mere perusal.

"To the AUTHOR of the Medical Part of the LONDON REVIEW.

"SIR,

"SINCE the publication of the inclofed Pamphlet, I have made trial of the method here laid down, in the cafes of feveral hectic patients, and have found it a very efficacious and speedy method of cure. On talking with fome of my acquaintance in the profeffion, I learnt that it had alfo proved equally beneficial in the trials they had made of it. I was therefore forry to obferve, that by fome accident or other this publication had escaped your notice; and I thought it incumbent on me, in point of humanity, to fend you the inclofed copy, in order that, through the channel of your Literary Intelligencer, practitioners in the feveral parts of the kingdom might be put upon making trial of a medicine, which I have repeatedly found to aufwer the reprefentations of the author.

"For my own part, I am never averfe to try whatever comes well attested as a fafe and effectual remedy, although it may in fome refpects be contrary to the prevailing fyftem and theory. And I was the more ready to do fo in the prefent inftance, as the pamphlet appeared to me to be written with great opennefs and candour, and to convey, in a plain unaffected manner, the refult of much experience, from a fincere defire of doing good. But of that and other particulars, I leave you to judge for yourfelf; for I only meant to acquaint you with the fuccefs I had met with in pursuing this method of cure, as a motive for your encouraging others to make trial of it.

I am, Sir, Your conftant reader, &c.

Med'. Londin'. P.S. I have hitherto had only one occafion of trying the author's remedy for internal hemorrhages; but in that it fucceeded to the utmoit of my wishes."

Ad C. W. Bampfylde, Arm. Epiftola poetica familiaris, in qua continentur tabulae quinque ab eo excogitata, quæ perfonas reprefentant, poematis cujufdam Anglicani, cui titulus An Electionball-Auctore C. Anfley Arm. 4to. 5s. Dodfley.

A humorous and well-written epiftle; of which the following article is a profeffed tranflation,

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