plained. We would therefore recommend the letter to thofe hufbandmen, who are willing to have their work performed at little more than one half of the expence it cost their ancestors. The method of destroying weeds, though important, is more generally known. We admire the farmer's benevolence: to prevent the deftructive ravages of the fly, in his turnips, he fows enough for himself and the infect.-Go, poor Devil, there is feed enough in the world for thee and me!

The Art of Happiness; or, an Attempt to prove that a great Degree of it is not difficult to attain. By a Lady. Small 8vo. 1s. Bew.

This lady, by her own confeffion, has received the infection, fo fatal to many: deep dipped in ink,' fhe is unable to emerge; nor indeed would we wish for her efcape, if she can inftruct us in an art fo beneficial as that of happiness. Her receipt is fhort, fo that we shall tranfcribe the fubftance of it.

Take two large handfulls of benevolence, an equal quantity of integrity, and a fufficient proportion of moderation, to prevent burning. It must never be fuffered to boil, which is beft prevented by adding occafionally a little evenness of temper, but muft digeft, for fome years, and will then be fit for use. The ingredients will be better after the first operation, for the fubfequent attempts, and the process will be fo short, as to become almost habitual. It is a kind of diet-drink, which infenfibly changes all the peccant humours, and reduces them to the mildeft ftate.

We beg the lady's pardon for altering the form of her receipt, but we have not changed the effential parts of it. For the particular conduct of the patient, during its ufe, we muft refer to the work itself,

An Appeal to the Fellows of the Royal Society, concerning the Meafures taken by Sir Jofeph Banks, their Prefident, to compel Dr. "Hutton to refign the Office of Secretary to the Society for their Foreign Correfpondence. By a Friend to Dr. Hutton. 8vo. 15. Debrett.

In our Review for April laft we gave an account of An Authentic Narrative of the Diffentions and Debates in the Royal Society; and in that for October, of An Hiftory of the Inftances of Exclufion from the Royal Society,' &c. The pamphlet now before us ought to have been noticed in the intermediate time, but has by fome accident been omitted. The neglect however, is of no farther confequence than that it violates the order of publication.-This pamphlet contains an apparently faithful account of the proceedings of the Royal Society relative to the office of fecretary for foreign correfpondence. The author adduces ftrong arguments in vindication of Dr. Hutton; and feems extremely folicitous to convince the Society, that the refolution of the council, which occafioned that gentleman's refignation, ought to be refcinded.

A Re

A Refutation of the Memoirs of the Baftile, in a Series of Letters, to M. Linguet. By Thomas Evans. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Murray.

The fubject of this pamphlet being entirely foreign to an English reader, the author declares that his only inducement for engaging in fuch a controverfy was a defire of correcting mifreprefentations. Of thefe, he is confident that Mr. Linguet's narrative affords many inftances; and he accordingly expofes them by a variety of arguments.

A Letter from a Medical Gentleman in Town to his Friend in the Country. 8vo. 6d. No Publisher's Name.

Containing an account of the difference between the Medical Society in Crane Court, and Dr. Whitehead, during the late canvals for a phyfician to the London Hofpital; with a copy of all the papers, both written and printed, which have paffed between the contending parties. Difputes of this nature are of little confequence to any except the parties concerned; but as the author of the Letter, which appears to be written with candour, has appealed to the public, we must confefs that, fo far as can be determined from the evidence of one fide only, the doctors W. Woodville, J. Lettfom, J. Sims, and W. Hamilton, have behaved in a very improper manner.

Memorial to the honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company. By Colonel James Capper. Not Sold.

From Colonel Capper's obfervations on his paffage to India, through Egypt, we had fufficient proof of that enterprising fpirit, which could furmount fo many difficulties and dangers in the fervice of his country. We thought him justly entitled to the gratitude, as well as approbation, of all who were immediately concerned in the fervice on which he was employed: and we must therefore confefs we are not a little furprised to find, that instead of receiving the recompence he fo highly deferved, he has been treated with a degree of neglect, which adds infult to injuftice. It appears that he cannot even obtain the repayment of those fums of money, which he had expended out of his own private fortune on the account of the East India company. Thefe are circumftances we fhould be forry to fee urged against those who had the direction of any public affairs; and efpecially against a company, the interefts of which depend fo much upon the abilities and faithful exertion of its fervants. Internal Evidence; or an Inquiry bow far Truth and the Chriftian Religion have been confulted by the Author of Thoughts on a Parliamentary Reformt. By John Cartwright, Efq. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Stockdale.

This Inquiry is denominated Internal Evidence,' in order to point out the author of Thoughts on a Parliamentary Reform,' (Mr. Jenyns) without calling him by name. Major

* Crit. Rev. vol. lvi. p. 220. † Crit. Rev. vol. lvii. p. 392.

Cart

Cartwright, in attempting to delineate the principles of that gentleman, would unite the heterogeneous characters of politician and theologift. His arguments are fuch as have been often repeated, with an affectation of wit, which neither flows from the fubject nor the writer.

Mr. A..who defires a farther explanation of our fentiments concerning baptifm, by a critical attention to the phraseology of the New Teftament, may obferve, that all Chriftians, in general, upon their admiffion into the evangelical ftate, are faid to have been regenerated, washed, fanctified, elected, faved, juftified, to have received remifhon of fins, &c. Thefe expreffions are peculiarly applicable to the apoftolic age; and only. mean that thofe, who fincerely embraced the covenant of the Gofpel, and fignified their converfion by baptifm, were freely, admitted into a state of pardon and acceptance with God; the offences which they had committed while they were Jews, or Gentiles and idolators, not being imputed to them, or confidered as any obftruction to the grace and favour propofed by Jefus Chrift.

Does Mr. A. really think that final falvation, in any cafe, depends on immerfion? if he does, how can he excufe the negligence, or rather the cruelty, of those who defer this rite till their children come to years of maturity?

Immerfion, which is fuppofed to denote a death unto fin and a refurrection to righteoufnefs, had a peculiar propriety in the apoftolic age, when those who had been idolators, aliens, enemies, children of difobedience, children of wrath, &c. were brought out of darkness and heathenifm, into a new and happy ftate of being under the Gospel, cónftituted on new principles, and regulated by new laws. But this rite cannot have that. meaning, that propriety, or that fignificance, when applied to those who are baptifed after they have been educated from their infancy in the doctrines and principles of the Chriftian religion. Among the Baptifts, the adult, who are baptifed, do not change their profeffion, their faith, or their religion; they do not die from heathenifm and rife to Chriftianity. No; they continue in the fame church and in the fame faith; and all that is expected of them is, a perfeverance in the right path, and an im provement in piety and virtue. Why then is this contention about the ufe of an emblematic ceremony, which no longer retains its original fignification in a Chriftian country?

E R R A T A.

In Crit. Rev. for November, p. 321, for 21. 1gs. in Boards, read 21. 5s.P336, 19, for Milton's read Homer's.