of Naples, the Summer of 1799. Second Edition, with Obfer vations on the Rev. J. S. Clarke's and John M'Arthur's Life of Lord Nelfon, and a previous Correfpondence on that Subje. 8vo. Hatchard. 75. 1810.

This is a plain, manly ftatement of a fact, concerning which it is difficult to imagine that there could exift any difference of opinion. It is in the highest degree honourable to Captain Foote as an Englifhman and as an Officer. Alas! it ferves to demonstrate that the moft exalted characters have their dark fides and weaknesses, in common with the rest of mankind. It is much to be feared, that the scenes which took place in the Bay of Naples, at the time and on the occafion here reprefented, were not fuch as the pen of Hiftory would exult to record. We are not aware that there can poffibly be any room for reply to Captain Foote, who, in our opinion, has amply vindicated himself, and with a degree of delicacy and forbearance that could hardly have been expected, where there was fo much to exafperate, and fuch fubitantial occafion for complaint.

ART. 38. Letters from an Elder to a Younger Brother, on the Conduct to be pursued through Life. 12mo. 128 pp. 35. 6d. Taylor and Heffey. 1809.

In a very handfome and modeft dedication to the Dean of Weft. minfter, the author candidly admits, that "his Letters cannot boaft of much novelty of defign or remark." This is undoubt edly, in a great measure true. Yet the air of fincerity and and unaffected good fenfe which pervades them rendered the pe rufal by no means uninterefting to us; and to the young and inexperienced they may be confidered as ufeful and valuable.

The fubjects confidered in thefe Letters relate to propriety of behaviour in our intercourfe with the world, and to the moral and religious duties. In the firft of them a diligent felf-examination is very properly recommended to young men during their udies, and a conftant application of the moral and religious leffons before them to their own characters and conduct. The fecond and third are chiefly directed against that excessive bashful. nefs which undoubtedly is a difadvantage to youths on their en. trance into life, but which is far from being the prevailing fault of our times. It arifes indeed, in general, from a very amiable motive, and is ufually cured by a very flight acquaintance with public life. The author, therefore, needed not to expatiate fo much against it. He is, however, far from difcrediting a proper modefty, or encouraging that forward impudence fo frequent in youths of the prefent age.

In fubfequent Letters the practice of profane fwearing is very pointedly and fenfibly reprobated; duelling is condemned, as an abfurd cuftom in itfelf, and a daring violation of the exprefs command of God; and juft obfervations are made on the true nature

and

and advantages of independence, the duty of economy in expen diture, on respect to fuperiors, affability to equals, and kindness to our inferiors in life. The author is alfo properly fevere against gaming and drinking, forwardness and loquacity in conversation, the love of fcandal, and a propensity to fatirical remarks. The Letter on Charity (which the writer juftly confiders in the most extenfive fenfe) particularly pleafed us, as did many of the more general obfervations on the behaviour moft proper to be obferved in fociety. On the fubject of religious controverfy the author has, we think, in fome paffages, indulged too great a latitude of expreffion, particularly when he feems to affert, that we controverfial queftion has any connexion with "true religion and real Christianity." He appears, however, throughout to be a very fincere and pious Christian, recommending public worship, the obfervance of the Lord's day, and indeed every religious duty, on the best principles and pureft motives, and inculcating moft Atrongly the excellent maxim, that a life of religion and piety is alone pleafing to God."

ART. 39. Hebrew Elements: or a Practical Introduction to the Reading of the Hebrew Scriptures. For the Ufe of Learners, who were not taught Hebrew at School, and of Schools where it has not yet been introduced. 8vo. 80 pp, Rivingtons. $807.

This ufeful book fhould properly have been mentioned when we spoke of the "Hebrew Primer," in our 33d volume, p. 425. It is part of the fame judicious plan carried on by the learned and zealous Bishop Burgefs, for reviving and extending the ftudy of the facred language; a plan which is happily fucceeding to a confiderable extent,

This book, as well as the Primer, refers the learner to the copper-plate copies of the Hebrew letters, which we before defcribed (loc. cit.) The prefent volume contains, befides a short advertisement, figned "T. St. D.," the general directions_for learners, which we extracted from the Primer, and the feven next articles there enumerated. It proceeds then with a Hebrew vo cabulary of words from one to feven letters; the ten command. ments, with a literal and verbal translation in a parallel column; a vocabulary of verbs, nouns, and particles; a praxis on the fimilar letters. The remainder of the book is occupied by nine extracts from various parts of the Bible, with an English transla tion either interlincary, or in a parallel column, or in the oppos fite page; and every other mode of illuftration that can be de fired. Alfo the whole paffages without tranflation, for learning by heart,

The work is beautifully printed, and must be a great aflikt. ance, not only to learners, but to many teachers.

ART. 40. Memoirs of the public and private Life of Sir Richard Phillips, Kat. High Sheriff for the City of London and County of Middlefex. Impartially compiled from authentic Documents, by a Citizen of London, and Affiftants. izmo. 160 pp. 55.

Hughes. 1808.

It is not ufual, except in the cafe of very illuftrious perfonages, to make them the fubject of a feparate biography during their lives; the legitimatenefs of the prefent exception it is not our bufinefs to controvert, nor are we fo inclined. A remarkable anecdote of the hero of thefe memoirs is told in a very early part of them. His father was a farmer, and Richard, though not engaged in that puriuit, had paid great attention to a favourite heifer. During his journment in London," the author fays,

this animal had been killed; and, on the very day of his return to his father's houfe, he partcok of part of his favourite at dinner, without his being made acquainted with the circumstance of its having been flaughtered during his abfence. On learning this, however, he experienced a fudden indifpofition, and declared, that fo great an effect had the idea of his having eaten part of his flaughtered favourite upon him, that he would never again tafte animal food; a vow to which he has hitherto firmly adhered." P. 13.

The progrefs of Sir Richard was various. His first visit to London appears not to have produced any advantage. He then kept a fmall fchool in Leicefter, which not anfwering, he embarked in the hofiery bufinefs in the fame town. Some time after he ftablished a newfpaper, called The Leicester Herald, in the progrefs of which he got into prifon; after which he difpofed of his intereft in the paper, and confined himfelf again to hofiery; but was driven out of Leicester by a fire. Removing to London, he found his own line of bufinefs too much occupied, and determined, with the aid and advice of his friend, Dr. Priestley, to become a publisher of literary works. His fuccefs in that line, and the manner in which it has been attained, are too well known to be here defcribed; fuffice it to fay, that he has been fheriff, and is now a knight; an elevation which must be highly gratifying to his ambition.

We cannot praise either the ftyle or the principles of his biographer, who feems to think a modern Whig one of the highest of human characters; an opinion certainly very remote from any that

we hold.

ART. 41. The Fortunate Departure; an Hiftorical Account dramatized, as beft fuited to convey an idea of the horrid Exceffes committed by the French Army on their Irruption into Portugal, and the fortunate Departure of the Prince Regent and Family, on the Eve of their Entrance into Lisbon: with an Addrefs to the People of Great Britain on their relative and comparative Situation with the Continent, and its poffible Subjugation by that

Scourge

Scourge of Human Nature, Bonaparte, Written during some Months Confinement in Lisbon under the Marauders of France, by an Englishman. 8vo. Sherwood and Co. 2s. 6d. 1810.

A great deal of honeft zeal and genuine loyalty feems to dif tinguish the writer of this whimfical production, but to be fure, as a body may fay, it exhibits a plentiful lack of judgment. By an addrefs to Sir Charles Cotton the writer's name appears to be Thomas Wilfon; we therefore defire Mr. Wilfon to accept of our good wishes, and our advice to turn his mind and abilities to fome other channel..

ART. 42.

Beauties felected from the Writings of the late William Paley, D. D. Archdeacon of Carlisle, alphabetically arranged. with an Account of his Life, and Critical Remarks upon fome of bis Opinions. By W. Hamilton Reid. 12mo. Sherwood. and

Co. 4s. Cd. 1810.

We profefs not to be very friendly to fuch Beauties, confidering them like other beauties, frail, fallible, and evanefcent., The Life here given of Dr. Paley is principally taken from Meadley's Memoirs, a book, by the way, to which we fhall not fail to pay our refpects in a fhort time. To the extracts thus given should have been added the particular part of the author's works from which they are taken. The reader who may wish to follow up the ar gument, and to form his judgment from the context, will be at a lofs.

The work, however, exhibits no unpleafing manual, and they who may not be able to procure the whole of Paley's works, may be thankful for this tate of them.

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Sermons on Various Subjects, Doctrinal and Practical, preached before the Univerfity of Oxford. By John Eveleigh, D. D. Provoft of Criel and Prebendary of Rochester. 9s.

The Works of the Rev. T. Townfon, D. D. late Archdeacon of Richmond, one of the Rectors of Malpus, Cheshire, and fometime Fellow of St. Mary Madalen, Oxford. To which is prefixed, an Account of the Author, with an Introduction to the Difcourfes on the Gofpel, and a Sermon on the Quotations in the Old Testament." By Ralph Churton, M. A. Archdeacon of St. David's, Rector of Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire, and late Fellow of Brafen Nofe, Oxford. 2 vols. 18s.

Effays on the Language of Scripture. By John Simpfon.

2 vols.

The Spirit of Christianity exemplified, in a faithful Digeft of

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thofe Declarations and moral Precepts of Jefus Chrift, which are of general Application, and which were recorded in unambi. guous Terms: with Notes and Obfervations. 25.

Elements of Religion, Natural and Revealed.

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Remarks on the Verfion of the New Teftament, lately edited by the Unitarians, with the Title of "An Improved Verfion, &c." Being a difpaffionate Appeal to Chriftians of various Denominations on fome of the firft and moft generally received Doctrines of the Bible. By the Rev. Edward Nares, M. A. Rector of Biddenden, Kent. 8vo. 95.

The Doctrine of the Eucharift confidered, as maintained by the Church of Rome and the Church of England refpectively. In cluding a Vindication of the latter from the Attacks of the Remarker on the Bishop of Durham's late Pamphlet. By the Rev. Thomas Le Mefurier, M. A. Rector of Newnton Longville, in the County of Bucks. s. 6d.

Reasons for declining to become a Subfcriber to the Britif and Foreign Bible Society, ftated in a Letter to a Clergyman of the Diocese of London. By Christopher Wordsworth, D. D. Dean and Rector of Bocking, &c.

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A Letter to the Rev. C. Wordfworth, D.D. in Reply to his Strictures on the British and Foreign Bible Society. By Lord Teignmouth, President of that Society.

The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. William Jones, M. A. F. R.S. A new Edition, in fix Volumes, 8vo. To which is prefixed, a fhort Account of his Life and Writings. By William Stevens, Efq. 31. 35.

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Perfonal and National Humiliation: a Sermon delivered Feb. 28, 1810. By P. Houghton, Minifter of Princes-street Chapel, Weftminfter. 18.

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