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rubim for the true meaning of which word, we refer to the Article upon Dr. Taylor's Concordance, in July Review.]

Our Enquirer next gives a derivation of Teraphim, which derivation he calls his own; and which he introduces with fome degree of vanity, or, to ufe his own words, with < as much real deference (before the public) as they who found the trumpet before them, and their own great humimility and candour*.* But as this Writer is no ftranger to Guffetius, he fhould have known, that Teraphim is derived by him from the fame word with an (e);' or from, turpitude. But others derive it from, in the Syriac to confult or enquire. Others from tarafa, in Arabic, to afford plenty of the neceffaries and conveniences of life. In this fenfe the Teraphim will be the fame with the Penates. The fame word in Arabic fignifies alfo, to deceive. See Golius, Col. 378, and the most learned Pocock upon Hofea iii. 4.

The reft of this book relates to the Confufion of Tongues, and the First Language: concerning which we have faid enough in fome late Reviews.

This mild Hutchinfonian is very angry with his humble fervants the Reviewers, whom he calls Infidels and Scorpions; but as he treats the worthy Archdeacon of Northumberland as a mere Jefuit,' page 76, we could not expect better words from him.

To fuch as read his book, it may not be improper to offer this advice, viz. that they pay not too much regard to his reprefentations of things; but that they rather have recourse to the holy Scriptures; and, for affiftance herein, to the writings of the above-mentioned Archdeacon, for our Hutchinfonian Enquirer hath as little candour as good manners.

*Te fhew what a Genius this Author is at derivations, take the following inftance, page 256. I would make , the root or It fignifies to temper, dough or mortar are mixed up and tempèred.

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ufe of the tongue in eating, it turns about, backwards and forwards, up and down, what we chew. And it has the like ufe in forming articulate founds; without it the mouth could make no diftinction of founds; nor can the tongue without the ear.' Orare Mountfeir! Vide Review, vol. XII. p. 479.

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POLITICA L.

N Appeal to Reafon and Common Sense: or a free and candid Difquifition of the Conduct of A B- ; fo far as relates to the Matter of Fact, and as fet forth in his Appeal to the People, and in a Letter to a Member of Parliament: And into the Conduct of the Miniftry, fo far as is relative to the Cafe of A B- -: With fome occafional Remarks upon a Pamphlet, called Impartial Reflections on the Cafe of Mr. Byng. By a Friend to Truth, and a Lover of his Country. I S. Crowder and Woodgate.

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So much has already been faid, and cited, in this and the preceding Review, in regard to the cafe of this poor Admiral, and the controverfy it has occafioned, that we fhall contract, as much as poffible, what remains to be faid on that almoft worn-out fubject. Thus, of the piece before us, all that needs be specified, is, that under pretence of doing honour to the plan laid down by the author of the Impartial Reflections, and of complimenting him for his ingenuity, accuracy, &c. the main fcope of it is, to explain away whatever that author has accrimonioufly fuggefted, to the disadvantage of thofe in power, and whatever he has confcientiously urged as a palliative in favour of the prifoner. That, tho' he refers, page 27, to his approaching trial, wherein Truth, and Truth only, will prevail, he takes upon himfelf to try him before-hand, nay even to direct his future trial, by faying, The ⚫ truths I have now urged, will, upon a fair hearing, be probably difcuffed in their full force and efficacy and pronounces it evident, That had the Admiral engaged the whole squadron, with the fame ardour, with the faine Biitith courage, and love of glory, that the Rear-Admiral engaged his part of it, Minorca had till been our own, the French fleet entirely defeated, a Marthal of France, with his whole army, prifoners in England, and the French King, probably, not able, by this time, to fend even a fishing-boat to fca.' To all which let the Council of War, held on board the Ramailles, May 24, reply.

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II. An Address to the Public, in Anfwer to two Pamphlets, (entitled, An Appeal to the People of England, and a Letter to a Member of Parliament, relative to the Cafe of A-1 B-g.) In which is fully proved, that the feveral Parts of the A- I's Letter, omitted in the Gazette, were rather of Ufe than Prejudice to him. With feveral other interefting Particulars,

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Particulars, never yet exhibited to the Public. By an Ante Italianite. 8vo. 6d. A Type."

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This is another of thofe officious, fanguinary efforts, which, have, in fome fort, authorized Mr. Byng, and his Advocates, to fuggeft, That he has not been thus peculiarly fingled out, merely for the fake of public juftice. The Gentleman has fubmitted to a trial; the Nation is to be gratified with one, and are willing to wait the event. The fubject matter of this very mean performance then, which is to confute every plea that could be drawn from the fuppreffed paffages of Mr. Byng's dispatch in his favour, would have been produced more properly by way of evidence, than thus, to embitter the minds of men against him before-hand. And if the Author's end was not so much to blacken him, as to pay his court to the noble head of a certain board, he, furely, ought not to have difgraced his compliment by the illiberal ftroke of malice which glares fo ftrongly in his title-page.

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III. Confiderations on the Addrefes lately prefented to his Majefty, on occafion of the Lofs of Minorca. In a Letter to a Member of Parliament. 8vo. 15. Cooper.

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Of all the oppofition-pieces lately publifhed, this may be truly faid to deferve the preference; tho', perhaps, it has not attracted the greatest notice: as it is founded on unadulterated Whigish principles, as it avows as ftrong an attachment to the Proteftant Succeffion, and as high a regard for the honour and repose of his Majefty, as for the welfare of the fubject, and the maintenance of the Conftitution. It is, befides, the refult of more knowlege) and better abilities, than are ufually employed in this fpecies of writing. The Author's premifes are fairly stated, and his reafonings upon them, are such as become a man of character. His file is liberal and manly; feldom on the ground, and never in the clouds.His manner is equally free from petulance, and malignity; and if the Minifters he arraigns, and their friends and followers, owe him no thanks for his endeavours to expofe their conduct; fo neither have they any caufe to complain of him, on account of that rage of abufe, for which others have been fo juftly condeinned and chaftifed.

His plan, at firft fight, feems to comprehend no more than a bare defence of the Addreffes; with respect to which, he fpecifies the whole ftring of objections to be gleaned up, either in print or converfation: but, as he proceeds, it becomes more and more obvious, that these ferve him only as a vehicle for a general Comment on the prefent State of Things; and of the conduct which, he prefumes, has rendered our fituation fuch as it is. The amount of thefe objections he gives in the following fummary, viz. That the faid Addreffes were unconflitutional, indecent, and unnecessary; but he makes it his bufinefs to prove, that none of thefe charges will lie against them. To fhew they were not unconftitutional, waving all precedents, he poftulates, that we are governed for the fake of ourselves, not for the fake of thofe

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who govern us ; ' that the prefent government refts on this bafis. That the people are in poffeffion of all the rights, they have not by exprefs compact parted with, and, confequently, are entitled to the ufual truft; at they have not alienated, or transferred, their fenfe of feeling, nor the important right of expreffing what they feel; that tho' the Parliament alone can act for them, they have not an exclufive right to speak for them; that the Parliament does not always fpeak as the people would prompt them; that in the cafe of the Jew bill, the fenfe of the Legislature was influenced and changed by the fenfe of the Nation; that tho' thefe Addreffes are not univerfal, they are, nevertheless, general enough, and rendered confiderable enough by the leading voice of the city of London, (fupported, too, by the private opinion of all ranks of men, in all parts of the kingdom) to be reputed and received as the voice of the nation, &c. &c. Concluding, That if the faid Addreffes fpeak the fenfe of the nation, upon a nati onal point, and at a time, when this was the only way in which the nation could apply to the throne, they ftand juftified with refpect to the conftitution.

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Coming then to the charge of indecency, in approaching the throne with complaints, which must have affected his Majelly more than any of his fubjects, in calling for vengeance on thole who have neglected their duty, and in fuggefting, by the mention of a Militia, that the nation is not fatisfied with the manner in which it is defended at home,--he argues, That if his Majefty faw things in a more melancholy light than they could, the declaring fuch a conformity to the royal fentiments, as was within their capacities and fituations to entertain, could in no fenfe be deemed difrefpectful, and indecent. That the reviving the calamity in Sohis Majesty's mind, was no more than was done by every Addrefs of condolence: and the import of them as a call for venEgeance, is difavowed. Then as to the mention of a Militia, he will not allow it to be either indecent, or impertinent; but, on the contrary, he maintains, That weakened as we were by the lofs of Minorca, and defenceless as we appeared by calling in foreign fuccours, it was but natural for the nation to demand an exertion of its natural strength; and it was a proof of affection to his Majefty's perfon and government, to fuggeft to him, a more honourable and effectual, and, at the fame time, a lefs burthenfome, method of fecuring his throne and kingdom. He then maintains, That even in point of language, these Addreffes were not only unexceptionable, but abfolutely meritorious; containing fuch profeflions of duty and loyalty, as no difaffected perfon could fign, and neither injurious, opprobrious, or perfonal, even to the Minifters themselves. Great refentment,' fays he, is expreffed, that this defign (against Minorca) fhould be unprevented, tho' it was not unexpected: and is it indecent to . lay our fears and wonder before the throne, the refuge of diftreffed intimidated fubjects? not intimidated by the enemy, · but

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but by the power of those, who might have prevented this evil, who left the island defenceless, and the Mediterranean without a British fleet."

He then proceeds to fhew, That neither were they inflammatory; for nothing was exaggerated; and many points, full as inflammatory as the lofs of Minorca, were paffed over in filence, to avoid even the appearance of exaggeration. Having thus dispatched his fecond argument, he brings forward his third, viz.

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That they were neceffary; for thefe reafons; To profess to the King, the discontent of the nation, and to obviate mifreprefentations, that it was, on the contrary, perfectly fatisfied, or, if diffatisfied, diffatisfied with Mr. Byng only; (which was far from being the cafe, B. not being the fole or the principal caufe of our public difgrace) to fufpend the progrefs of public rage, directed by the faction in power, against the accufed Admiral, (a ftratagem which fucceeded fo well, that he narrowly escaped an execution without a trial) and thereby preferve the public peace; vive a fpirit of liberty in the nation, and prevent an advantage which might have been taken to interpret a paffive filence into pofitive approbation; which no way could have been effected with more decency, and propriety, than by addreffing the throne, with humble complaints; and to make ufe of a feafon fo favourable, for re-kindling the love of our country whereas in waiting for a parliamentary procefs, that favourable feafon would probably have been loft, and time allowed to thofe concerned, to efface the ufeful imprcilions made by the public calamities.

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He then digreffes to enumerate the means commonly employed for that purpofe, fuch as extenuations, and diminutions of all forts, difquifing, if not denying the truth; which laft, tho' a common artifice, he maintains would, in this cafe, have been impoffible; feeing it could not be denied, That Fort St. Philip was not fufficiently manned; that if it had, the fiege muft have been raised; that there was no British fleet in the Mediterranean when the enemy landed in Minorca; and that if there had, under a proper command, the enemy could not have ⚫ been landed, and might have been deftroyed.'

After which, to wind up his bottom, on the end of neceffity, he fuper-adds, the complaint in the London Addiefs; the miimanagement and delays in the defence of América; the general wellgrounded defire of a Militia; and the variety of cogent reafons on which that defire was founded. Having then ftated it as a comfortable confideration, That the difappointments we have hitherto met with, in the courfe of a juft and neceffary war, are not owing to a defect of naval power, but of misconduct in the managers of it, (to whofe negligence he moreover imputes its origin) he propofes it as the firit, moft obvious, and most popular meafure, to accomplish the difgrace of all thofe, who had fo perfealy fatisfied the nation, they were equally unfit to preferve peace, or conduct war: and he declares, if this measure should not

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