we shall be very brief in our remarks; the first that claims our attention is toga „940013 -9niet of ban to actogrdo que roti yt ati 1. THE AUDITOR, a paper written by Arthur Murphy, Esq. who, in concert with Dr. Smollett, undertook the defence of Lord Bute's administration; it was begun in 1762, and, like most of the productions of Mr. Murphy, is conducted with ability. ylomsn 295dtue on 2. THE BRITON, the offspring of Dr. Smollett, supported the same party; it first appeared the 29th of May, 1762, and was continued until February 12th, 1763; in point of composition it is inferior to the Auditor. H 13. THE NORTH BRITON. This once cele brated paper issued from the press immediately after the publication of the first number of the Briton, and taking the opposite side in politics, annihilated a friendship which had existed for many years between the author, Mr. Wilkes, and Smollett, To N° 45 of this collection, we are indebted for the verdict which pronounced the illegality of general warrants; a result that ele vated Wilkes, for some time, to the highest pitch of popularity When Wilkes was compelled to relinquish the direction of the North Briton, it -was conducted to its final termination by Mr. James Brooke, a gentleman intimately acquainted with the literary characters of his age, and who - died, at the advanced period of eighty, in November 1807.11' wipnacy groda peł,,drylf t These party papers, the most eminent in their day, were accompanied and followed by several others, of which to mention the titles only will suffice, namely, 4. THE PATRIOT. 5. THE ENGLISHMAN. 8. THE CONTRAST. 9. THE FREE Inquirer. 1 Mr. Ridley, in ridicule of this pertinacious host of politicians and projectors, has introduced into one of his Schemers, dated July 8th, 1762, the following proposal for twenty additiona essays of the kind. As I perceive a great alteration in the good people of England since the publication of the Briton, the North Briton, the Patriot the Auditor, the Englishman, the Moderator, &c. and find that honesty, decency, pand vreligion, are every where exalted and encouraged through the influences of these political/writers, I intend to encrease the advantages of this kingdom by sending into the press a few more wise and political essays. I shall therefore first, to try the experiment, only publish twenty, viz. the Speaker, the Answerer, the Rejoinder, the Replier, the Continuer, the Annexer, the Objector, the Dauber, the Complimenter, the Flatterer, the Growler, the Puffer, the Maligner; and that my pupils may be pleased in all parts, the Taffy, the Teague, the Sawney, the Planter, the India-man, the Farmer, and the Londoner." * This number of the Schemer and the two subsequent are actually occupied by specimens of the opening papers of these supposed essayists. I shall copy the first. The Speaker, No 1. "It is full time, I think, in this whirlwind of periodical authors, that I began to speak. For what tongue can be silent, what lips unopened, what mouth shut, and what teeth but must wag, when all the world is in an uproar.-Speak I will, though I know not what to say; speak I must, for the words burn within me, and strive for utterance; and I shall either commend or abuse some one or other just as I may be hired or paid; wherefore any person wanting one to speak for him in any matter of business, love, politics, or religion, may come to me; for I can instruct Schemer, p. 190. De a them to whine, either at the foot of a mistress, or in a tub of enthusiasm; or to speak politics in a coffee-house, or nonsense on a bench, or before a bench." Relinquishing the field of temporary politics, let us now return to subjects of a more miscellaneous and interesting nature. 10. THE INVESTIGATOR. The volume to which this title is affixed, contains only four essays, which were published at distant periods, but thrown together in the year 1762. They embrace rather copious dissertations on Ridicule, on Elizabeth Canning, on Naturalization, and on Taste, and were written by Mr. Ramsay, the painter, the son of Allan Ramsay, the Scotch poet. Their primary object is, to shew the utility and necessity of experimental reasoning in philological and moral enquiries. The first and fourth of these tracts are the most elaborately composed, and that on Taste is conducted in the form of dialogue; but the theory of poetry which he has attempted to support is cold, limitary, and inconclusive. 1 11. THE GENIUS. This paper, the production of George Colman, Esq. was originally published in the St. James's Chronicle; it was printed at irregular periods, and extends but to fifteen numbers, the first dated Thursday, June the 11th, 1761; and the last, Saturday, January the 9th 1762. In point both of style and matter, it is perhaps superior to the Connoisseur, and therefore the abruptness of its termination forms a subject of regret. 12. TERRE-FILLUS, another periodical paper by the author of the Genius, which he published daily during the Encania, at Oxford, in 1763, in honour of the Peace; the first number appearing on July the 5th, and the fourth and last on July the 8th. This jeu d'esprit is seasoned with a considerable portion of wit and pleasantry. 13. THE BABLER. Two volumes of essays written by Mr. Hugh Kelly; a selection, published in 1767, from papers which he had contributed, during the years 1763, 1764, 1765, and 1766, to Owen's Weekly Chronicle. In its-selected state, the Babler consists of one hundred and twenty-three numbers, the general character of which may be given by the term respectable. The subjects are well varied; the moral is, for the most part, good; and the style, though not perfectly correct, or much polished, is easy and perspicuous. Among the critical papers, of |