on Each lyre was ftrung as prompting genius fired; -While Cowper's bowers, and Grongar's dales infpired: Still o'er thy groves fair Kenfington, appears Near Albion's haunt, pale Kenna bathed in tears Reckless of Oberon's wrath, the penfive fair Eyes the wan flower that blows in chilling air; ow Hangs o'er the tremulous leaf, and gives to rear your Its head the firft, and lead the fmiling year. ei to o There are undoubted marks of ingenuity in this production. M or be 987 bent:oonq zen bas,drow Avoid ni nestrow 23. Verfes in Memory of a Lady. Written at Sandgate Cafile, 1768., Pr. 6d. Becket and De Hondt. 410 This piece is extremely short. The author has not difplayed any great extent or fertility of imagination; but the fentiments are tender and pathetic. In compositions of this nature we have not lately met with any thing fuperior to the following lines. Dear, filent partner of thofe happier hours, - Borne by its virtues to no nobler sphere; If yet that pity which, of life poffeft, a Fill'd thy fair eye, and lighten'd thro' thy breaft; The gloomy power of endless night may fpare; Oh! while my foul for thee, for thee complains, Catch her warm fighs, and kifs her bleeding ftrains. Wild, wretched with! Can pray'r, with feeble breath, • Ye holy fuff'rers, that in filence wait See Tickel's Fairy Tale, entitled, Kenfington Garden, in Dodfley's Collection, bus yra itiko basol side I Abbas Hh 4 It It appears that the lady, who is the fubject of thefe verfes, died in childbed, We will venture, without hesitation, to af cribe this production to the elegant author of Letters between Theodofius and Conftantia. gésulat ang 284 1brm of ilhá bíð a wold 24. The Conqueft of Quebec: a Poem. By Middleton Howard, of Wadham College, Oxford. 410. Pr. 15. Fletcher. ONE OF WOR no Ten thousand poets from Homer down to Cockings, have fung of battles and conquefts. On thefe topics, it is therefore no eafy matter to produce any thing new and ftriking. The poem before us contains no remarkable excellencies; yet it may be read with pleasure, and deferves a place in the first clafs of academical exercifes. The fentiments are natural, the language eafy and harmonious. The poet concludes with this apoftrophe to General Wolfe. bed it to snym sd I' For oh! what youth, whofe rev'rend feet are led Where martial trophies in rich fculpture fhow dads But kindling at the view for glory burns malgi bayono Ages to come fhall thy great story hear, And pay the pious tribute of a tear; .stegignif Thy wond'rous deeds fhall vet'ran fires recite, ens.) bieńst And ev'ry warrior to the tale reply, "Be mine like him, to conquer, and to die.” qulov mo to 300 £ to pois onw „busland ved) The prize given by the chancellor of the univerfity of Oxford in for the beft English verfes on this fubject, compofed by ftudents deci who have not exceeded four years from their matriculation, has.nvà been affigned to Mr. Howard for this production. wybod 25. The Complaint of Liberty. 410. Pr. Is. Cadell. Alas, poor Liberty! how thou art beragged and berhimed? ba This complaint is a kind of poetical reprefentation of the prefent ftate of the brave Corficans; and the author has given full reins to his Pegasus, who gallops over the fields of Freedom with a very becoming grace, and without any danger of ftumbling. That the author is no vulgar verfifier, appears from the following quotation relating to the degeneracy of mankind. And And now ow infatiate thrift of high command Revell'd in blood, and drench'd the lawless land org midt indi Fame crown'd the robber with eternal bays,Ɔ bie zpłobos And ages fear'd with Daughter rowl'd away. 5 To purple monsters rear'd on lofty thrones, How Imored et enyoroga The merit of this bard would be more confpicuous, had he exerted his poetical talents upon a lefs hackneyed fubject than Liberty's Complaints, on which it would require a much greater genius than his, to fay any thing which has not been fung or faid a thousand times before. barryan dedw putnou tady I do not 26. Plain Truth, in Plain English. 4 Satire. By a Plain Mar, in a Plain Drefs. 4to. 4to. Pr. 1. Bingley. Conveyed in plain doggrel, plain dulnefs, and plain Billingfgate. 1 27. Corruption. A Satire. Inferibed to the Right Honourable Richard Grenville, Earl Temple. By the Author of the Monody to the Memory of a young Lady. 4to. Pr. 2s. 6d. Bladon. T One of our volunteer attendants at the funeral of old mother England, who died of a moft lamentable disease, called of a Public Corruption. The fate of the patient was the more deplorable, as the had not on her, or about her, the smalleft fymptom of that loathfome difeafe, which, formerly, like the fmall-pox, used to discover itfelf by cutaneous eruptions. But the old lady, it seems, was quite worn out, and had not, within-s her, vigour enough to throw out the puftules, and fo fhe expired without a groan; and what is still more deplorable, no body was by her when she died-Some people may question a whether he is not in a trance---But hear our patriotic bard. ~1 For me, long loft to all the world holds dear, grozd This all my wifh--(fince earthly joys are flown)] Say, what could roufe me, but my country's woes Poor gentleman!.what inconveniencies he lays himfelf under for his dear country---but he mauls her enemies i-faith. Vice's gilded car, Tyburn, the laws, hanging up thieves like fcarecrows: in short, all the dreadful implements of poetic fury which have been fo often exercifed for thefe fifty or threefcore years past, and yet are never the worfe for the the wear are here difplayed. It happens unfortunately, that tho' our bard's verfi-fication is more than tolerable, and tho' he blubbers with a pretty good grace, yet we do not find a fingle fentiment in the whole that is new. epata uminƆ droangham wody demo .co8 Aston virint bra 28. A Charge to Englishmen., 2d Edit. 8vo. Pr. is. Flexney. This charge, which is dedicated to Mr. Wilkes, was delivered before a meeting of patriotic gentlemen in the isle of Wight, who affemble annually to celebrate the birth-day of their great deliverer (query, Who?). As it is drawn up in the declama. tory ftile, and contains a ftring of violent panegyrics and invectives, the first upon liberty, the other against defpotism, (not entirely agreeable to the principles of decency and moderation) adopted by Mr. Wilkes and thofe advocates for freedom, who are the orator's oracles, we hope for the future, that his folid fatisfactions of free enquiry and argument (as cher calls them) may be afterwards ferved up as a whet, and not as a defert to the chearfulness of the table which he mentions, because the datter feems to have had too great an influence upon his stile and manner of compofition. ini te⚫and on tadi bas eyð 29. The Grenada Planter: or, a full and impartial Anfwer to a Letter in the Gazzeteer of October 22, 1768. relative to the Conduct of his ExMle gwo, bupr. is. om stell d tsidqanoq 200T' Almon. This Grenada planter attacks the governor of that ifland, and his friends, for doing their duty in oppofing the late attempt made by a number of his majesty's new adopted Roman Catholic fubjects, to intrude and force themselves into the legislature, confequently into offices and places of truft, in oppofition to the laws of Great Britain, and to an exprefs act of the legiflature of the colony. That this is partly the cafe, appears from the planter's own reprefentation; but as the affair, we fuppofe, is now under a higher cognizance, we shall drop the fubject," perq-slin bdi ɔi baxi 30. A 30. A Letter to the Right Honourable Wills Earl of Hillsborough, on the Connection between Great Britain and her American Colonies. 8vo. Pr. 15. Becket. Becket.co 220 We have already reviewed this pamphlet which is now republished, with a kind of postscript, intended to vindicate the author from the charge of having recommended fanguinary measures against the British Americans. We are ignorant in what publication this charge is conveyed. But we must take "the author's part, because we do not remember to have feen a more harmless performance than is the whole of this letter. vy 31. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the prefent Disputes between the British Colonies in America and their Mother-Country ; and their reciprocal Claims and juft Rights impartially examined and fairly flated. 8vo. Pr. 15. Wilkie. The author of this enquiry, who is a friend to the Americans, enquires firft, Whether the colonies fl fhould not be allowed to enjoy the fame political privileges and advantages with the mother-country? Secondly, Whether the frame and model of the British conftitution is fuch, as practically to admit thereof in respect of America? And thirdly, Whether, in cafe sothat should be found impracticable, fuch a form of government (fhould not be established there, as fhall appear moft unexceptionable, and will beft fecure to the colonies their just rights 2 and natural liberties ?? (The pamphlet itself is written with temper and a feeming o zeal for the public tranquillity, but we think the author has ad-vanced nothing new upon the fubject; that he mistakes the nasiture of the connections between America and the mother-country, and that he has not answered any of the ftrong arguments that have been urged against his fyftem. t 32. The Cafe of Great Britain and America, addreffed to the King and both Houses of Parliament. 8vo. Pr. 15. Becket. This pamphlet is little more than the echo of the American complaints, or rather demands, which have been often repeated and reviewed. The pamphlet, however, deferves to be read. 33. An Ealy Introduction to Mechanics, Geometry, Plane Trigonometry, measuring Heights and Distances, Optics, Aftronomy. To which is prefixed, an Effay on the Advancement of Learning by various Modes of Recreation. By Mr. John Ryland of Northampton. 12mo. 3. Dilly. The name of Mr. John Ryland of Northampton being prefixed to the title-page, would induce the reader to imagine that gentle |