Embarked the deftined troops :---the veteran brave,
That dauntless bore the variegated woes

Of long protracted war :---the veteran brave,
That won on many a plain the bloody palm
Of victory, amidst the dying groans

Of flaughtered thousands firmly undismayed;
Now hangs in tender thought his honeft front,
Averfe to lay his brother .---at the word,
(Awful, yet facred to his patient ear)

He lifts indeed the fteel, while down his check
The big drop flows, nor more he dreads the wound
That bores his vitals, than the ftroke he gives.
Say therefore, Sword be sheathed,"---fair in the sky,
Now cloudy, then the dawn of joy will spread
Its warm reviving ray-and every eye
That's mifty now with forrow, will grow bright,
And fmile away its tears: the funny beam
Of mild returning confidence will cheer

The kindred countries :---commerce, on her couch
Now drooping wounded, then will rear her head
Charmed into health ;---and from her various store
Will cull the fweetett flowers, and form a wreath
To crown the temples of her Patriot King.

ART. XIX. The Boat Race. 4to. 1s. 6d. Wilkie.

A fatirical defcription of the Regatta; to which are prefixed an ironical dedication to Lord Lyttleton, and a preface relative to the compofition and its fubject. As a fpecimen of the writer's talent for verfification, we fhall quote his concluding lines, by no means the worft in the piece. After defcribing the motley throng, that form the majority of the company at a masquerade, he proceeds

Infipid, harmless fouls! Yet oft intrigue,
Seduction foul, and breach of nuptial league,
On masquerades attend: the faithless bride,
Bound by no call, and by no duty tied,
Leud affignations forms; and self-undone,
The treacherous precipice too late would shun.
Ye maids, beware! Full many a lurking Jove
To fin betrays, and woos to lawless love;
An eagle borne, fome bright Afteria courts,
A fan, on fome chafte Leda's bosom sports;
Now ftorms, a monster, fome Europa's breast,
A dragon now, to fome Olympia preft.

Yet good from evil fprings: the labouring race,
When half-cloath'd infants lift the half-ftarv'd face,
Returning bleffings each new morn derive,
By vain expence, and rich profufion thrive;
A thousand mouths by folly hence are fed,
And labour hence fupplied with daily bread.

Thus, for his creatures Providence provides,
Directs with wisdom, and o'er all prefides;
Subfervient follies (heav'n-ordain'd) procure
Health to the young, and plenty to the poor,
Peace leagued with pleafure; induftry prevails,
And arts encrease, and commerce fpreads her fails.

Then

Then come, Moria; Goddess, come away!
Whole motley power all things on earth obey:
At thy command, what various wonders rife !
The mafque, and plume, regatta, and difguife!
Fashion to thee, and drefs, and dance belong,
And love, and poefy, and mirth, and fong.
Yet fashion, dreis, and dance, and masquerade,
And love, the poets darling theme, shall fade:
The plume thall perish, mirth fhall melt away,
Regattas link, and Ranelagh decay:

Thy bard fhall die, his life of folly o'er,
And fong, and fcavoir-vivre charm no more.

ART. XX. Verfes to the Right Honourable John Wilkes, Lord Mayor.
By W. Sharp, Junior. 4to. 1s. Dilly.

If Mr. Sharp, junior, of the Isle of Wight, does not appear to be the fublimet poet in the world, he seems to be a staunch patriot, and a zealous friend to conftitutional liberty; at leaft, if the firmnefs of his friendship for the popular champion of public freedom, be admitted in evidence.

Let all to power, the powers that are,
Yield to the terror or the fnare;

Yet, Wilkes, I boaft my free-born foul
No arts fhall shake, no pow'rs controul:
Firm as that hour to thee, which bore
My vows, when exil'd from this shore,
Thou bad'ft the fons of France admire
Thy purer wit, thy patriot fire;
Firm as that hour when first I hail'd
Thy fteps return'd, and law prevail'd;
Qr when with extacy I found
My virtuous countrymen around
Hail thee or Senator or Lord,
As glory fign'd each right records
Or Senator or Lord, I feel

The fame or a more ardent zeal ;

*

Nor Johnton, with his pompous lies,

Shall o'er my reafon tyrannife.

Mr. Shirp is modeft enough to own, in his dedication to the Livery, that his verfes are but a poor tribute to the merits of their illuftrious Lord Mayor. Though, continues he, but a fimple field-flower from the country, I hope it will not be looked on with contempt.' "The merit of the intention will certainly be its fecurity, in this refpect, with the livery of London; who, though many of them may vie with our author in the career of patriotifin, will, few of them, be able to cope with him in that of poetry; or match his field flower from the country with any garden-flower that flows in their window-fhrubberies in town. To the Lord Mayor himfelf its perfume must be particularly grateful, as, amidst the defection of falfe friends and apoftacy of pretended patriots, the conftancy of Mr. Sharp's political, as well as perfonal attachment, must more recommend him to our chief magiftrate than would a much fuperior dexterity in capping verfes.

Tygris agit rabida cum tygride pacem
Perpetuam, fævit inter fe convenit urfis.

1 N I T Y.

DIV ART. XXI. Free-will and Merit fairly examined: or, Men not their own Saviors. The Subftance of a Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of St. Anne, Black-Friars, London, on Wednesday, May 25, 1775By Auguftus Toplady, Vicar of Broad Hembury. 8vo. 6d. Matthews. The objections we made to the vulgarity of language and grofs allufions, made ufe of by this writer, in a former article, are, we are forry to fay, but too forcibly justified in the prefent. This fermon, as may be gathered from the title, is an earnest and orthodox difcourfe on free grace and final perfeverance. The doctrine of free-will, he fays, has carried many a man to Tyburn and ('tis to be feared) from Tyburn to Hell. Arminianifm reprefents God's fpirit, as if he acted like the guard of a ftage-coach, who fees the paffengers fafe out of town a few miles and then, making his bow, turns back, and leaves them to purfae the rest of the journey by themfelves."--In the fame vein of allufion and phrafeology he tells his readers that "fome Chriftians are like decayed mile ftones; which stand, 'tis true in the right road, and bear traces of the proper impreffion; but fo wretchedly mutilated and defaced that they, who go by, can hardly read or know what to make of them." Again in his ejaculatory prayer at the clofe of his difcourfe, “ May the bleffed fpirit of God caufe all our hearts to undergo a fresh impression; and indulge us with a new edition of our evidences for Heaven!" Surely there is an impropriety in a Reverend Divine thus addreffing his audience in the language of a printer's devil!

ART. XXII. Good News from Heaven: or, the Gospel a joyful Sound. The Subftance of a Sermon, preached at the Lock Chapel, near Hyde Park Corner, on Sunday, June 19, 1774. By Auguftus Toplady, A.B. Vicar of Broad Hembury. 8vo. 6d. Matthews.

After the cenfures paffed on the ftile and manner of this preacher, It may be needless to repeat them. Let it fuffice to fay, that the prefent difcourfe which, as well as the above, inculcates the doctrine of Free-grace, is fubject to the fame reprehenfion. If it be urged that the familiar dialect and allufions of the speaker, are adapted to the majority of his auditors, ad captandum vulgus, who have fouls to be faved, as well as the learned and polite; we reply that language may be fimple without being low, and allutions plain without being grofs. A gofpel preacher fhould obferve a decency of file, becoming the facredness of his fubject; reflecting that, though Paul may plant and Apollos water, it is God alone that gives the increase: Or, to ufe, for once, one of Mr. Toplady's own allufions in the difcourfe before us; "A fither who ftands on the fhore and plunges his net into the fea at large, is not fo frantic as to think of catching all the fishes in the fea, though he offers the net indifcriminately and without exception. So, when a Chriftian minifter fpreads the gofpel-net, he preaches to all that come within the phere of his addrefs; not with an expectation of catching all; but of catching as many as God fhall pleafe; knowing that it is the MOLY SPIRIT alone, who can drive fouls into the net and effectually atch them for JESUS CHRIST."—It is with reluctance we tran

* See page 52 of the prefent Review.

fcribe

fcribe this irreverend paffage and again recommend, to the Reverend Author, a ftile more becoming his fubject. He should reflect, at leaft, if he chufes rather to be talked to in his own way, that, though all may be fish that comes to net, with his antagonist, Mr. John Wesley, he is himfelf no Arminian; but, according to his own fyftem, cannot catch a gudgeon by the mere bait of pulpit declama

tion.

BOOKS and PAMPHLETS, Published in the courfe of the Month, of which a farther account is deferred.

ART. 23. An Abstract of the Mechanifm of the Motions of Floating Bodies. By M. de la Croix. Commiffary General of the Marine, &c. 4to. 2s. Robfon.

ART. 24. A Defcription concerning fuch Mechanism as will afford a nice ar true Menfuration of Time; together with fome Account of the Attempts for the Discovery of the Longitude by the Moon : As alfo an Account of the Difcovery of the Scale of Mufick. By John Harrifon. 3s. Jones.

ART. 25, Remarks on Dr. Balguy's Sermon, preached in Lambeth Chapel, at the Confecration of the Bishops of Litchfield, Co ventry, and of Bangor, February 12, 1775. 15. Johnson. ART. 26. Arfaces. A Tragedy. 1s. 6d. Becket.

ART. 27. The Reformation of Schoolmasters, &c. 1s. Bew.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Lucinda Lively's laft letter, on the Inequality of the obligation laid on the hufband and wife by the terms of the marriage contract, is received; but, as it will take up more room than her former epistle, now fuperfeded, we must request her to have patience a month longer.

The Remonftrance, in favour of Mr. Joel, thould have been fent, before that gentleman took the liberty to charge the Editor, by name, in the News-papers, with cenfuring a performance which he has not feen.-Had Mr. Joel, or his friend, applied for information concerning the writer of the article complained of, he fhould, agreeable to a former advertisement, have received the proper fatisfaction; the Editor, in acknowledging himfelf fuch, not taking upon him to anfwer for the matter of every article contained in the Review.If any perfon can be fo uninformed as to fuppofe the whole Review written by one hand, he certainly pays a compliment to the Industry, at least, of an Individual; which no Individual can deferve.

R. D.-P. H. with our other Correfpondents fhall be attended to

THE

LONDON REVIEW,

FOR AUGUS T, 1775.

ART. I. Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind, on the Principle of the Affociation of Ideas; with Effays relating to the Subject of it. By Jofeph Prielley, LL. D. F. R. S. Continued from

page 51.

As the manner, in which one of our Correfpondents hath been pleafed to attack Dr. Prieftley, on account of this publi cation, will probably afford caufe for fome altercation; and as we have come in for our thare of cenfure, for appearing to approve of the Doctor's fuggeftions, that gave rife to it; the lefs notice we take of any particular doctrine contained in this work, in our capacity of Reviewers, the lefs we fhall fubject ourselves to the fufpicion of a partiality in the course of the dispute *. Having given, in our last Review, a pretty full account of the contents of the prefent edition, we fhall therefore obferve here only that Dr. Hartley himself gives no countenance to the doctrine infinuated by his editor; t referring the reader to the Doctor's own edition of his work, which we learn is not as yet quite out of print, and confining ourselves in this article folely to Dr. Priestley's Introductory Efays.

Thefe Effays are in number three; in the first of which the Author takes a general view of the doctrine of vibrations. As the subject is curious, our readers will probably be pleased with our Effayift's account of its origin.

* A letter having been fent us, in defence of Dr. Priefley's infinuation refpect ing the natural mortality of the foul, in answer to Mr. Seton's Letter, inferted in the Appendix to the first volume of our Review. See the Correfpondence of the prefent number.

+ Dr. Hartley exprefsly fets out with countenancing a different doctrine. "Man Bonfifts of two parts, body and mind," &c. See Introdu&tion to Obfervations on Man. VOL. II.

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