Deg Deg. Deg. Deg. Deg. Deg. Iaches. Inches. Inches. Inches.] 30,22 29,73 29,99 1,620 30,45 29,22 29.95 2,609 30,25 29,37 20,86 3,345 October, 67 33 51,4 54 59,4 November, 58 27 42,9 December, 46 18 30,9 51 Whole Year, 50,6 57,6 30,55 29,64 30,32 0,103 47 56,4 30,50 29,61 30,11 0,510 39 45,2 30,33 29,50 29,92 0,000 29,96 14,892 Perhaps the following particulars, which this table does not exhibit, may be amufing to fome of our readers, and ufeful to others. The thermometer was higheft on the 27th of May and the 17th of June, when it ftood at 30°; and loweft on the 30th of December, when it flood at 18". The barometer ftood highest on the 16th of January, when it was 30,7 inches; and lowest on the 21ft of February, being then at 28,65 inches. The most rain fell on the 26th of June; and on that day there fell no less than 2,116 inches, perpendicular height. In January, were feven rainy days; thirteen in February, four in March, four in April, fix in May, ten in June, nine in July, fourteen in Auguft, fourteen in September, two in October, three in November, and not one in December. The word fnow is not mentioned, except on the 17th and 31ft of December. fomewhat remarkable, that about one-feventh part of all the rain that fell in the whole year, fell on one day. [To be concluded in our next Number.] ART. XI. Bell's Claffical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry. Vols. 5, 6, 7, and~*10. 12mo. about 190 pages each. 35. each fewed. Bell. 1789. A LL true lovers of the English Muse will be inclined to favour this undertaking, provided the Editor employed by Mr. Bell be a perfon of tafte, difcernment, and affiduity, who The 8th and 9th (for fome particular reafons) are not yet ready for the Public. will be careful to winnow the chaff of modern poetry from the corn. Hitherto we have had little reafon to complain; and we advise him, if he wishes this collection to find its way into the libraries of ladies and gentlemen, to be not only fcrupulous as to what he admits, but peculiarly attentive that no poem of prominent merit be excluded. The poems reprinted in this Claffical arrangement are, in general, worthy of publication; but we are of opinion that fome which the Editor has inferted, do not properly come under the defcription of Fugitive Poetry. When authors themselves have collected their pieces together in regu lar editions (which has been done for inftance by the celebrated Mr. George Keate, whofe beautiful poem entitled Lady Jant Gray to Lord Guildford Dudley is given in this collection), there appears to be no neceffity for detaching fome particular poems from their companions, in order to preferve them. What Mr. Bell, we apprehend, ought chiefly to aim at in this work, fhould be the collection of those beautiful little poems which are now blown about like the leaves of the Sybils; and from the mode of their publication, are in danger of being loft, except to a few careful individuals; and to refcue from the rubbish, in which they now lie buried, fome jewels of Parnaffus which are fometimes to be met with in periodical publications. The latter part of the undertaking, we confefs, is dangerous; for unless the greatest care be employed, falfe brilliants will be gathered up, and fet, inftead of real diamonds and precious stones. We hope this will not happen. The first of the volumes now before us (vol. 5.) is entitled EPISTLES SATIRICAL AND PRECEPTIVE, containing eleven poems, in which number are included the late Dr. Johnfon's greatly admired Satires (we cannot fee why they are claffed with Epiftles), London *, and The Vanity of Human Wishes; the former, an imitation of Juvenal's 3d, the latter of Juvenal's 10th Satire; Newmarket, by the Rev. T. Warton; and Fashion, by Dr. Jofeph Warton. We also meet here with the Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers, and the Heroic Poftfcript, afcribed by fome, but we do not pretend to fay upon what ground, to Mr. Mafon +. Vol. 6, entitled EPISTLES PANEGYRICAL AND GALLANT, includes many amufing little poems, in number 67; among which we have a few of the productions of Mr. Garrick's fprightly Mufe, and the well-known Epiffle to a Lady with a pre • In the first note to this Epiftle, at the end of the volume, there is an error of the prefs which ought to be corrected, figere for figere. + We expected, with the Heroic Epittle to Sir W. C. and the Heroic Poffcript, to find the Archeological Epiftle to Dean Milles on his Edition of Rowley's (alias Chatterton's) Poems, which feems to come from the fame author. Jent fent of a Knife, on which we fhall take this opportunity of remarking, that we have never read it without wifhing it had ended with the couplet, Accept my prefent undeterr'd, And leave the proverb to the herd. Among the EPISTLES HEROIC AND AMATORY (we are not much in love with Amatory), in Vol. 7, are exhibited two Abelards to Eloifa, the firft is pofitively given by Mr. Bell, or rather by Mr. Bell's Editor, to William Pattifon, the other to J. Cawthorne, M. A.; but with respect to the firft of these poems, the Editor is pofitively mistaken; we know it to be the beautiful production, not of William Pattifon, but of the late Mrs. Madan, mother of the Rev. Martin Madan, author of Thelyphthora, &c. Thefe are followed by Rofamond to King Henry, by William Pattifon; Lady Jane Gray to Lord Guildford Dudley, by G. Keate, Efq.; and Julia's printed Letter, by the late Edward Lovibond, Efq.; bere entitled From Mifs..... to the Earl of ..... ; but it is without the author's name, and the poetic dedication originally prefixed to it. This fpirited, affecting, poem is more correctly printed in the prefent collection than in Mr. Lovibond's Works, but it is not yet offered to the Public in its moft perfect ftate. We have been favoured with a copy taken from a MS. of the author, with his Jaft correction, which, we are authorized to fay, will with pleafare be tranfmitted to Mr. Bell, when this volume of his Fugitive Poetry comes to a fecond edition. Thele 7 volumes contain nothing but Epiftles. To what claís the poems comprized in the 8th and 9th volumes are to belong, we cannot fay; but the 10th volume is not a volume of Epiftles, it is entitled POEMS IN THE STANZA OF SPENSER ; containing PSYCHE, or The Great Metamorphofis, by Glofter Ridley, D.D. of whom fome account is given in a note at the end of the volume-The Transformation of Lycon and Euphormius, by William Melmoth, Efq.-The Squire of Dames, by Mofes Mendez, Efq. (a Jew, who was honoured by the University of Oxford with the degree of Mafter of Arts)-Sir Martyn, or the Progress of Diffipation, by William Julius Mickle, Elq.-and The Minstrel, or the Progrefs of Genius, by J. Beattie, LL D. Among the imitations of Spenfer, Shenftone's School-mifirefs certainly deferves a place. Why then was it omitted? We have not room for any further remarks on this elegant collection; but shall take our leave of Mr. Bell for the prefent, requesting that when, in future, he prints heroic verfe, he would complete the rhime at the bottom of his page, and not print one line of a couplet at the bottom of one page, and the other at the top of the next. This is an awkwardnels which might be easily remedied. MONTHLY MONTHLY CATALOGU Ę For NOVEMBER, 1789. MARTIAL LAW. Art. 12. Authentic Copy of the Proceedings of a Court Martial, held at the Horse Guards, June 26, 1789, &c. on Hugh Debbieg, E1q; one of the Colonels of the Corps of Engineers; on three Charges exhibited by his Grace the Duke of Richmond, &c. 4t0. Pp. 28. Debrett. 25. Nurdings of a Court Martial, beld on Colonel D. for uning ex. N our 73d volume, p. 66, we gave fome account of the former preffions of too great freedom, in certain Letters addreffed by him to the Duke of Richmond, his commanding officer, on the fubjec of Fortifications, &c.-The mildness + of the fentence paffed on Col. D. at that time, may, poffibly, be thought to have operated, in fome degree, toward his encouragement, to write in a fimilar ftyle, in a fubfequent correfpondence with his Grace;-which terminated in a fecond trial (as above) and a fomewhat more fevere fentence, viz. That he be fufpended of pay and duty,—for the space of fix calen dar months." LAW. Art. 13. Reports of Cafes argued and determined in the Court of Common Pleas, in Eafter and Trinity Terms, in the 29th Year of George III. 1789. By Henry Blackstone, Efq. of the Midcte Temple. Part III. Folio. 5s. fewed. Whieldon. With refpect to the prefent, we have only to refer to our short 'mention of the two former parts of Mr. Blackstone's publication: fee Rev. for April 1789, p. 360, and for the month of June following, P. 549. LITERARY CONTROVERSY. Art. 14. Facts relating to the Rev. Dr. White's Bampton Lecture. By R. B. Gabriel, D. D. late Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. 8vo. Pp. 88. Is. 6d. Bell, &c. 1789. Every impartial reader of Dr. G.'s performance will, no doubt, allow, that it is, in general, written with moderation and candour; though not without fome expreffions of refentment, on account of the provocations which have drawn the author into the unpleafant field of controverfy. The Duke acknowleged (p. 25. of the prefent trial) that he had no objection to Col. D. for having fet forth his fentiments on the fubject of the defence of the country,'-it was the ftyle ufed, by Col. D. in his Letters, of which he complained. To which initance of remarkable lenity, a proper confideration of the Colonel's former fervices, and profeflional merit, appears to have contributed not a little. With respect to the matters of fact, and the several points in difpute between the reverend writer, and thofe friends of the learned Bampton-lecturer, who, by their ill-judged news-paper paragraphs, and letters, have extorted from Dr. G. this vindication of himself*; our late connexion with the much lamented Mr. Bk (to whom the whole conteft bears material reference), renders it improper for us to deliver any opinion.-And, indeed, the measure of affiftance which men of letters may, occafionally, obtain from their friends, in the prosecution of learned and difficult undertakings, is, in our apprehenfion, a circumftance in which the public hath very little concern. Art. 15. A Letter to R. B. Gabriel, D. D. in anfwer to Facts relating to the Rev. Dr. White's Bampton Lectures. By a Member of one of the Universities. 8vo. PP. 59. 1s. 6d. Gardner. This intemperate piece is lefs a vindication of Dr. W. than an attack on the character of Dr. G. and, confidered as a fpecimen of polemical virulence, it may, we think, be pronounced a masterpiece! The writer manifefts great zeal, but [no uncommon cafe !] it is zeal without knowlege. Indeed, he feems not to have been furnished with any information on the fubject. Dr. W. therefore, it is prefumed, itands clear of all imputation, with regard to the production of this improper though not fpiritlefs defence of his caufe. NOVELS. Art. 16. The Progress of Love; or the Hiftory of Stephen Elliot. 12mo. 3 Vols. 95. fewed. Vernor. 1789. If this profe progress of love is not to be compared with the poetical one of the late Lord Lyttleton if it poffeffes not all the tendernefs and delicacy of fentiment which are perceivable in the production of that nobleman, it is yet by no means a contemptible performance. The ftory, indeed, is neither new nor interefting; but the obfervations which occafionally arife from the fituations of the feveral perfonages, are fuch as befpeak a competent knowlege of the world, while they reflect no little honour on the writer as a man. Stephen Elliot, the hero of this Novel, is placed on the topmost round of Fortune's ladder. He is in danger of falling from it. The event which he dreaded comes to pafs. No perfon can be found to give him affiftance: or, as the poet fo finely expreffes it, all those "Who labour'd after him to the mountain's top Even on their knees and hands, let him flip down: The confequence refulting from this downfall is defcribed and reflected on by the author, as follows:- Tired with having fpent much time in reflecting on his gloomy fortune, Elliot went out to vifit one of his acquaintance, that he might diffipate the melancholy which folitude and his unhappy ftate had caufed. But rumour had been more active than him: and the report that he had been obliged to quit Lord Sternhold's in difgrace, had, with numberless additions For, in this light Dr. G.'s pamphlet is to be confidered, rather than as an attack on Dr. W. and |