But fome writers, with an aftonishing prefumption, seem to have divested him of his most honourable perfections. They have entertained and propagated fuch ideas of his justice, as militate against the poffibility of goodness; fuch as abfolutely forbid us to confider him as all-merciful, gracious, compaffionate, forbearing, and long-fuffering. They have fuppofed, that every fin deferves God's wrath and curfe, both in this world and that which is to come; that it is an infinite evil, and requires a fatisfaction of infinite value; and that God could not pardon any fin without a fatisfaction, &c.

The author of this tract endeavours to expose the abfurdity of thefe principles, and to give us a more honourable representation of divine justice. His Effay, we are perfuaded, will be read with pleasure, by every one, who is an advocate for the use of reafon in all religious enquiries.

45. A Fragment of a Letter, to an Orthodox Clergyman. By a plain unlettered Chriflian. 8vo. 3d. Robinfon.

This writer, who is, probably, a tradefman, very ingenuously, and we believe very properly ftyles himself an unlettered Chriftian.

46. A Letter to the rev. Mr. Bowman, occafioned by a Prefent of bis Book intitled, A Review of the Doctrines of the Reformamation, &c.' By a Layman. Sve. 9d. Robinson.

This layman feems to be the unlettered Chriftian mentioned in the foregoing article, or a craftsman of the like occupation.. 47. O Tempora! O Mores! or the best New Year's Gift for a Prime Minifter. Being the Subftance of Two Sermons preached by the rev. William Scott, M. A. 8vo. Is. Wilkie.

This difcourfe is a warm invective against the general depravity of the nation; against enormities of almost every kind; against infidelity, profanenefs, luxury, diffipation, masquerades, adulteries, divorces, bribery, peculation, perjury, gaming, bankruptcies, burglaries, robberies, monopolies, and forestalling; the enclosing of commons, the engroffing of farms, the importation of French clothes, the exportation of horses, obfcene prints, books, and ftatues, &c.

On many of these topics Mr. Scott's obfervations may be just; but they are thrown out in a crude and promifcuous manner, and with too much heat and acrimony. The author fcourges his delinquents with firebrands and fcorpions; not confidering, that a Christian preacher ought to preferye an air of fober majesty in the pulpit; and that the most genteel and liberal animadverfions are generally the moft efficacious.

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48. Thoughts on the prefent Diftreffes of Great Britain; with Obfervations on the Foibles of the Age. 8vo. Is. Fryer. A fpirited and declamatory, but fomewhat methodistical expoftulation with thofe perfons of rank and fortune, who have it

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in their power to alleviate the diftreffes felt by the poor from the exorbitant price of provifions.

49. Curfory Reflections on the fingle Combat, or modern Duel. `Addreffed to Gentlemen in every Class of Life. 4to. 15. Baldwin, We too often find the ftrongest arguments prove ineffectual for abolishing any practice, however irrational, which is founded on falfe principles of honour. But we may affirm, that he who attentively perufes thefe Reflections on Duelling, muft at leaft be convinced of the folly of this Gothic fpecies of combat; and it is to be wifhed, that fome fuch method as the author points out for accommodating difputes in matters of punctilio, were adopted.^

50. The young Sea-Oficer's Afifiant. By John Adams. 4to. 35

Davis.

This treatife is written in the catechetical form of question and answer, and comprehends much information on marine fubjects.

51. Inftitutions of Entomology, being a Tranflation of Linnæus's Ordines & Genera Infectorum, or Syftematic Arrangement of In fects. Collated with the different Systems of Geoffroy, Schaffer, and Scopoli; together with Obfervations of the Tranflator. By Thomas Pattinfon Yeats, 8vo. 45. Horsfield.

Were this work only a tranflation of Linnæus's Ordines & Genera Infectorum, it would be an useful treatife to thofe who take delight in natural hiftory, but as, befides the fyftem of that celebrated author, it contains alfo thofe of Geoffroy, Schaffer, and Scopoli, together with obfervations of the tranflator, it is entitled to far higher confideration in the opinion of the public. The only circumftance wanting to render it a complete illuftration of the fubject, is its not having plates, the extraordinary expence of which would have greatly encreafed the price of the work, and thereby fruftrated the author's defign, whofe defire was to afford the treatife at as cheap a rate as poffible, and by that means extend its utility. He informs us, however, that he proposes hereafter to communicate to the public, defcriptions and figures, coloured after nature, of a great number of very rare infects, from different parts of the world, amongst which will be contained fome not hitherto defcribed. In the mean time, as far as verbal defcription can convey a clear idea of infects, this work cannot fail of proving acceptable and advan tageous to the lovers of natural history.

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53. A Dictionary of the Hindoftan Language. By John Fergufon, A. M. 4to. 21. 2s. Cadell. This Dictionary, though not the most perfect, cannot fail of proving ufeful to fuch as require a competent knowledge of the Hindoftan language:

53. Lord Chellerfeld's Watticifms, 15, 64. Snag, An attempt to impofe upon the credulous.

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54. An Efay on Gold Coin. In which certain Methods are İdid down to afcertain the Quantity and Quality of any current Piece of Gold Coin, and by which every Species of counterfeit or adul→ terated Coin may be immediately detected. By Thomas Hatton. 8vo. 2s. Adams.

The motives which induced Mr. Hatton to offer this Effay on Gold Coin to the public, we fincerely believe were laudable; a generous concern for the good of mankind, in preventing their being impofed upon by the infamous practices of coiners, clippers, &c. was doubtlefs the author's chief view, in the compilation of thefe hydroftatic principles; it is, however, very improbable, that tradesmen in general can spare so much time from bùfinefs, as may be neceffary to attain a competent knowledge in these matters; a pair of common scales, with proper weights, fufficiently exact to turn with half a grain, is certainly all they want, and to those who are already acquainted with mathematical computations, this performance will prove of very little, if any, fervice at all; nor indeed, does Mr. Hatton always appear to reafon from principles univerfally true: an example of this fort we meet with almoft in the very beginning of the work, where, at page 4, we are told that If any folid body, whofe weight hath been afcertained in air, be immersed in wa ter, it will lofe juf as much of its weight in the fluid, as the weight is of fo much of the fluid as would fill the fpace taken up by the immerfed folid.' This is undoubtedly true, but from hence Mr. Hatton infers that If the weight of any folid body be known in air, which body is heavier than water, its hydroftatic weight, or its weight in water, may easily be found, for it will be exactly as much lefs as a quantity of the fame fluid equal in weight to the immerfed folid; and therefore if the weight of the fluid be fubtracted from the weight of the folid in air, the remainder will be the hydroftatic weight of that body, and their difference will be the ftandard by which the goodness of the metal may be tried."

Here must be fome ftrange mistake made; for if a body in water lofes fo much of its weight, as is equal to a quantity of the fame fluid equal in weight to the immerfed folid, as is above remarked, the body when immerfed will have no weight at all, nor can the hydrostatic weight of the body be equal to the difference between the weight of the fluid and the weight of the folid in air.

In other parts of this treatise, where the author describes the lever, fteel-yard, and other mechanic powers, the reader will find fuch mistakes and inaccuracies, as do, in our opinion, ren der this performance too imperfect for public utility.

55. A fhort Trip to and from Paris. 8vo. 2. Almon. This piece is intended as a Directory, and though not com piled in the best manner, may be of advantage in that view.

ABRAHAM, fcripture hiftory of, Alfignation (the) a novel,