We understand but little about Malt and Brewing; but we imagine this Writer is really what he pretends to be a perfon well experienced and practically skilled in the fubject of which he treats. The prefatory introduction affures us, that the Author has made upwards of thirty years obfervations on the bufinefs of Brewing,' and that, for about half the time, he has been engaged in the work of common brewery, where has been wetted frequently above 100 quarters a-week, (which is no fmall office out of London) and has had ample experience of both long and fhort malts; and does from his own experience affirm, that the true ground and foundation of found work lies in long-grown acrofpired malts, and not in the other.'-As to the objection which may raised against the fuperior goodness of acrofpired malts, from a prefumption that the government had good reafon for prohibiting them, by an act paffed 6 G. I. c. 21. our Author anfwers, that the government did not put them down with any defign to prejudice the malt; but fo much was exported that it leffened the revenue to fuch a degree, that it would not answer for the officers employed in it.'

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Art. 26. An accurate Defcription of the principal Beauties in Painting and Sculpture, belonging to the feveral Churches, Convents, &c. in and about Antwerp. 12mo. I s. 6d. Davis, &c.

This brief Sketch will be of fome ufe to Travellers whofe curiofity may lead them to take a view of the pictures and carvings in the Churches and Convents of Antwerp. The Author has alfo added a flight account of the Fortifications and principal Streets in that once flourishing city; together with a curfory mention of the memorable events which have happened to it, from its foundation to the prefent time. The tranflation is not very accurate, and is fometimes fo oddly expreffed, as might poffibly lead the Reader into great mistakes: as where he mentions the Monument of Henry Van Balen. He makes a full ftop at Balen, and beginning a new period fays, The picture, which reprefents the refurrection of our Lord, was executed by himself; as alfo the two portraits, which are placed above, reprefenting himself and his Confort. It would not become any one to be ludicrous on this Subject; but would it not have been more clearly understood who the artist was that executed the painting, if it had been faid the picture which reprefents the refurrection of our Lord, was executed by Balen himself that we doubt not is the meaning; but fuch indeterminate writing, would create ftrange confufion, on any fubject where the leaft degree of precifion is requifite. I he notorious blunder, in making the Tower of the Cathedral almoft a mile high, by printing four thoufand and fixty feet,' inftead of four hundred, is, we fee, noticed in the Errata.

* Such we fuppofe it to be; but we know nothing of the original.

Art. 27. A practical Treatife on cultivating Lucerne Grafs; improved and enlarged. And fome Hints relative to Burnet and Timothy Graffes. By B. Rocque, of Walham-green. 8vo. Is. 6d. R. Davis.

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Mr. Rocque has here made fome alterations in his treatife on Lucerne, mentioned in our Review, Vol. XXIV. p. 469; and added to it fome few hints relative to the culture and ufes of Burnet and Timothy, as it is ufually called. He has alfo annexed a new method of improving Land;' in which the chief point is to fow no corn without a crop of grafs-feed. This crop of grafs, he fays, will always keep your land clean, and produce good food for your fheep. He adds, your corn being cut down, let the grafs take head for a fortnight or three weeks, before you turn your fheep upon it.' Continue feeding upon this ground till the feafon for fowing fpring-corn; which you are to fow in the fame manner as the former, [for which fee the pamphlet] that your Land may be always covered with good grafs instead of weeds. Mr. Rocque recommends the rye-grafs, for this purpose, as being forward; but on no other account-it being a coarfe grafs; and likely, as he apprehends, to draw the land too much.' He mentions a much better kind, under the name of Po-grafs. Among the fpring-corn, he fays, may be a mixture of all kind of grafs, as the feveral forts of clover, trefoil, &c. when, as foon as your corn is down, a fine turf prefents itself to your view.' We leave fuch of our Readers as are Connoiffeurs in Hufbandry, to their own reflections on this hint, and refer them, for further particulars (as the proportion of grafs-feed to an acre of land, the proper ploughings, &c. &c.) to the tract itself: which is dedicated to the Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce,who lately honoured Mr. Rocque with an handfome gratuity, in confideration of his experiments for the improvement of agriculture, by the proper cultivation of thofe extraordinary Graffes, which have been found, in many parts of this Ifland, to answer the high character given of them.

Art. 28. A Letter from a Gentleman in Town to his Friend in the Country: Containing fome interefting Particulars, faid to be received from abroad, relative to Jonas the celebrated Conjuror. 8vo. 6d. Hooper.

Though a Conjuror is the fubject of this Letter, the Writer is no conjurors nor does it require any conjuration to find out that he is by no means the witty, clever fellow, he fancies himself to be -Briefly, this pamphlet is a filly, empty performance; and thofe who expect to find in it any particulars relating to Jonas, the flight-of-hand-man, will be totally difappointed.

Art. 29. A Letter from a Spittal-fields Weaver to a Noble Duke. 4to. IS. Moran.

Pleafantly rallies the Duke of B-d, under the guise of thanking his Grace for his kind fervices to the Weavers. The Author attempts the manner of Swift; and propofes a plan for preventing the children of the poor from being a burden to their parents, and for making them beneficial to the public.' His fcheme is to establir public markets for the children of poor people; to which thofe parents who choofe to fell their offspring may carry them. But who are to be the purchafers? -Why the Rich, who have no children, and want heirs to their eftates. -The

-The thought is none of the wifeft; but the Writer makes the most of it; and throws out fome ftrokes of humour, when he comes to enumerate the advantages that will refult from the carrying his project into execution. But a column of the Gazetteer, or St. James's Chronicle, would have contained his whole pamphlet.

Art. 30. Confiderations relative to a Bill under Confideration of a Committee of the Houfe of Commons, for taking off the Duty on all Raw Silk of every Denomination, that fhall be imported into Great Britain. Humbly offered to the Right Hon. Charles Townshend. 8vo. 6d. Wilkie.

As there is scarce a filkman in the city, or a weaver in Spittle-fields, who is not better qualified to judge of the fubject here difcuffed, than the most learned Reviewer in Europe, we fhall, with all humility, refer the Reader to them, or to the pamphlet itself, for an adequate idea of thefe confiderations.

SERMONS.

1. The Dorine of the Wheels, in the vision of Ezekiel.-Preached to an affembly of ministers and churches, at the meeting-house of the Rev. Mr. Anderson, in Grafton-ftreet, Westminster; April 25, 1765. By John Gill, D. D. Keith,

2. Minifters of the Gospel cautioned against giving Offence.-Before the fynod of Lothian and Tweedale, at Edinburgh, Nov. 8, 1763. By John Erfkine, M. A. one of the minifters of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, printed by Sands and Co. for W. Miller.

3. The Caufes of Oppofition to the Gospel, and the moral Tendency of its Doctrines to remove them, confidered.-Before the Society in Scotland for propagating Chriftian Knowlege, at their anniversary meeting, in the High Church of Edinburgh. Jan. 2. 1764. By Andrew Mitchell, A. M. minifter of the gofpel at Muirkirk. Edinburgh, Sands and Co.

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Author of the account of the Dictionaire Philofophique in our laft. Appendix, is obliged to Mr. J. S. for his candid and polite remonftrance. It appears, however, that our ingenious Correfpondent did not pay fufficient attention to the material diftin&tions obferved in the Writer's argument. The Reviewer pleads neither for, nor against, established religions any farther than as they are interwoven with the civil conftitution, on which they are established. But, as in all ages, civil and religious liberty have gone hand in hand together, fo he conceives they muft ftill continue to ftand or fall with each other. A state of anarchy and confufion can never be favourable either to religion or morality every friend to thefe therefore must be an advocate for the authority of the laws; which are the bonds of fociety. It is not pretended, as our Correfpondent infinuates, that falhood and error are not to be oppofed if once established by law. Every lover of truth will oppofe

oppose them totis viribus at all times and on all occafions. But it is in the manner of this oppofition that the Reviewer differs from those who feem to think the forms of religion altogether independent of forms of government. He had with concern obferved, the zeal of fome well, meaning writers for religious liberty, hurry them into the most indecent and flagrant inftances of civil licentioufuels. He had feen them, in recent cafes, very unadvisedly and wantonly provoke the fecular arm to tighten that fatal bandage, which it hath fo long held over the intellec tual eyes of men. Thus while the mistaken friends to liberty were injuring the caufe they meant to defend, he judged it expedient to make fome remonftrance against fuch violent measures. With the fame view, he declares again, that, he thinks it would be the higheft abfurdity to facrifice the public welfare to private opinion; there being no manner of neceffity to fubvert the order of fociety in fupport of liberty of confcience. Would these advocates for truth and freedom lay the axe to the root of the tree? would they emancipate themselves from that reftraint which they conceive themselves laid under by some of our laws? Let them exert themfelves to get thofe laws repealed; let them fhew the abfurdity of the law that establishes certain tenets, inftead of the abfurdity of the tenets themfelves. The former method may be legal and effectual; the latter is generally as ineffectual as dangerous. There is in our ftatute-books, for inftance, an act declaring it criminal, among other things, to write against the Athanafian doctrine of the Trinity. To do this, therefore, is illegal; but there is no law in being that prohibits me from faying, that there cannot poffibly be a greater folecifm in legiflation, than to enjoin people not to contradict a contradiction in terms." Every man is at liberty to fhew the abfurdity, or to remon ftrate against the ill effects of a law; but he is not at liberty to break it, however cruel or oppreffive it may be, either in imagination or reality." While it continues a law, every good fubject is bound to obey it; and, with deference to our Correfpondent,, every good magiftrate is bound to put it in execution: for in well-regulated focieties there are no fuch things as obfolete laws. Thefe are moft pernicious to community, and are ge nerally kept in petto, only to be made ufe of, as inftruments of minifte rial oppreffion, against unfufpecting offenders.

Our Correfpondent fays, that "government has a right only to enact fuch laws as operate to public good." Now, if by government he means the adminiftration, or magiftracy, it has no right in this country to enact laws at all. And if he means the legiflature, this, in a free nations confifts of the fovereignty, velted in the whole body of the people: in which cafe, it may be justly asked, "What laws a people have not a right to enact for themselves?" Mr. S. fays, that "when laws are found not to operate to public good, they fhould be repealed." Doubt lefs; but, till they are repealed, let them be refpected as what they are.. In a word, the Reviewer thinks nothing can be more abfurd than the method of afcertaining religious truth by acts of parliament, yet he does, not conceive that a zeal for the trueft religion in the world fhould wantonly and unneceffarily urge us to violate the laws of our country. He is alfo firmly perfuaded, that as religious toleration can only be properly fecured by law, fo he doth not think, that flying in the face of the laws, is a proper or, likely method to obtain its farther extenfion.

Mr. COOPER's Letter is poftponed for particular Reasons.

THE

MONTHLY REVIEW,

For JUNE, 1765.

A new and complete Practical Syftem of Husbandry, by John Mills, Efq; continued. See our laft, p. 334.

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N his fecond Vol. Mr. Mills proceeds to give (he fays) the best account which actual experiments [not of his own making, we presume] enable him to do, of the Horse-hoeing or new Husbandry: a fubject, he observes, of the utmost importance to farmers, as it has pointed out an infallible way to improve almost every foil, independent of manures, or any other help than that of the plough.' But then, by way of falvo, he adds, • When I express myself thus, I am far from meaning that manures are useless, or that the plough alone, or its effect, pulverization, is the only thing requifite for the improvement of land. On the contrary, I have fhewn the manifest advantages which accrue from various fubftances used as manures; and have made it appear pretty plainly, that, even in the new Husbandry, the very roots and ftubble of the plants cultivated in that way contribute greatly to enrich the earth.'-[We are of opinion, that it is fomewhat problematical, whether dry flubble ploughed into the ground, in that ftate, does really enrich it, or not; if it does, the enriching quality cannot, furely, proceed merely from its being cultivated in that way which is peculiar to the new Hufbandry. Dry ftubble, however differently cultivated, will probably produce the fame effect; i. e. little or none. Let it be mowed, and thrown into the farm-yard, and then, after it is impregnated with the urine, and mixed with the dung of cattle, it will contribute very greatly to enrich the earth, upon which it may be laid.]

Mr. Mills very frankly owns, in his preface to this volume, that his chief guides, [and good ones they certainly are] in the Horfe-hoeing Hufbandry, are M. Du Hamel and his correfpondents, (particularly M. de Chateauvieux) whofe experiments VOL. XXXII.

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