fecond plán, taking no notice of a militia that bears a dead weight_ upon the citizens, recommends the forming a like regular patrole guard, inftead of the parochial watchmen. The first appears to be dictated by economy, the latter, to call for an increase of expence. All that we need to add, will be our warm wishes that magiftracy would do fomething of this kind which might prove effectual; for though Reviewers may have lefs to lofe than their fellow citi ens, they do not like the hazard they fo frequently run, of answering corporally for pecuniary deficiencies. Art. 34. A new Experiment for the Prevention of Crimes; addreffed to the ferious Confideration of the Legislatures of Great Britain and Ireland. By I. Z. Holwell, F. R. S. 8vo. Cadell. 1786. IS. This worthy Author's principal propofals for the prevention of crimes, is the establishing rewards for virtue. He recommends, that Grand Juries, in the charge from the Bench, fhould be directed, not only to prefent offenders, but also to search out and prefent every individual, whofe character deferves public notice and reward, that they may receive, in open court, the eulogium of the judge, and be invefted with a fufpended gold medal, properly infcribed, as a badge of honesty or morals, to be always worn and exhibited to public view. Befides which, he pleads that fome small pecuniary affiftance fhould, in the fame public way, be allotted to honeft families, ftruggling under labour and difficulties; and alfo for the encouragement of matrimony among the poor. Thefe latt propofitions may be worthy of fome regard as to the medals, it is perhaps more of a fanciful kind. Mr. Holwell adds fome remarks on the methods of punishment: he wholly condemns capital executions, except in cafes of murder, and confiders the inequality of our laws, in this refpect, as a national reproach. MISCELLANEOUS. Art. 35. Account of the Affociation for a Periodical Tontine, for the Benefit of Perfons of all Ages. 8vo. 6d. Southern. 1786. Wherever property gets leave to fettle, its attractive power of accumulation is amazing; and, of course, the greater the heap that collects in one place, the more it must be miffed in others. What, therefore, thofe who feel a want of property cannot do individually, they fometimes effect by united powers; and by forming a mass of property, from fmall feparate parcels, favour its accumulation, for their eventual common enjoyment. Hence originate thofe affociations, wherein, fo far as they extend, the members make an artificial community of goods, fimilar to what poetical philofophers are fo fond of painting from the imagination, as taking place in a state of nature: a ftate that can only be realifed under partial circumftances, amid the refinements of political fociety. Such are all incorporated companies, infurance-offices against fire, annuity-focieties, box-clubs, and other contrivances to procure incomes, or to provide out of a common fund against particular difafters all which are useful in proportion to the wisdom of their plans, and the fecurity of the funds that arife. The fcheme now before us is for the benefit of furvivorship. It is propofed to open fubfcriptions, every year, for feven classes of ages, ages, in ocl. fhares; all which are to be vefted in old fo fouth-fea annuities, to form a joint ftock for the benefit of each clafs of each year. The growing intereft of this money is to be regularly paid to the living fubfcribers for a defined term; at the expiration of which, the capital is to be thared among the furvivors. The firft clafs is to confift of children under feven years of age, the second, of thofe under fourteen, and fo upward; each clafs rifing by feven years, till they arrive at forty-nine. The first clafs of annuities is to continue fourteen years, which always increafing by deaths, may be confidered as a provifion toward their edu cation; and the final divifion will place the happy furvivors out in fome line of life: to this end alfo, one life may run through all the claffes in fucceffion, and arrive at a comfortable augmentation of their original fubfcription in the last ftage. It is not propofed to divide the capital of the laft clafs of annuitants until the furvivors are reduced to one-tenth of the original number. The fame plan is likewife held out to fubfcribers of 501. fhares, to be regulated in the fame manner: and it is in contemplation to allow fubfcribers annuities for their lives in lieu of their final dividends, at their options. On a curfory view, the greateft profit would accrue to the fociety, by the falling in of infant lives, were a fufficiency of fuch to offer: and were the claffes to fill every year in any tolerable proportion, according to the expectation of the propofers, the accounts of the fo ciety would, in twenty years, become very extenfive and numerous. The firft fubfcription opened laft Christmas; and until the fociety is fufficiently numerous to affume a methodical form, Bankers are named to receive fubfcriptions, and a direction is given where to apply on neceffary bufinefs relating to them. This plan is diftinguished from others of a like kind, by the money fubfcribed not lying unproductive, fubject to contingency, as in common annuity focieties, but yielding its full value to the fubfcribers, during its augmentation, by the fubfcriptions that lapfe; and by final diftributions propofed at fixed ephocas to a number of furvivors, inftead of the whole intereft centering at laft in an individual at the extremity of life, and then the capital finking; as is the common cafe of tonines for public occafions. It is on thefe accounts that we deemed it worthy of fome e planation. Art. 36. A Year's Journey through the Paix as* and Auftrian Netherlands. By Philip Thickneffe. Vol. I. 8vo. 10s. 6d. No Bookfeller's Name. Having given fo many fpecimens of the ftile and manner in which Captain Thickneffe recites the particulars of his Travels; we apprehend that no extracts will be required from this his laft publication of the kind. In mentioning the second edition of his Year's Fourney through France and Spain †, we obferved, that his original and pointed manner, his fhrewd and fenfible turn of obfervation, with the many amufing and instructive anecdotes comprehended in his narratives, can never fail of recommending his Travels to the generality of readers; especially thofe who love to fit at their eafe, and make their tours at home It is thus printed in the title-page. See Rev. vol. LX. p. 69. Though the title-page of this publication fays Vol. I.' yet we obferve, at the conclufion of the fecond part of it, The End :' fo that we fuppofe no more vols. of The Year's Journey through the Paix Bas, &c.' are to be expected. Mr. Thickneffe is very angry with the Reviewers; who, it feems, have not been equally indulgent to all his publications. Art. 37. Kearsley's Table of Trades, for the Affittance of Parents and Guardians, and for the Benefit of those young Men who wish to profper in the World. Shewing, at one View, what a Mafter requires on taking an Apprentice, what a Journeyman can earn, and what Sum is required to fet up as Master, in any particular Trade, &c. With fome interefting Advice. 12mo. IS. Kearsley. 1786. Chiefly abridged from Collyer's Parents and Guardians Directory, published about twenty-five years fince, and of which an account was given in Rev. vol. XXIV. p. 67. Art. 38. Kearsley's Tax Tables, containing Abstracts of the most general and interefting Acts, including thofe of 1786. Likewife the Stamp Duties, corrected by the Office Lift, &c. 12mo. 6d. Kearfley. When the demands of government are fo numerous, and befet us in fuch a variety of complicated forms, the friendly hand that will guide us fafely through all those transactions, into which they enter, performs a fervice to the Public, which ought to have been done by the authority that afferts the claims. Art. 39. The Afylum for Fugitive Pieces, in Profe and Verfe. Vol. II. 12mo. 3s. 6d. fewed. Debrett. 1786. For the plan of this collection, fee our account of the first vol. Review, vol. LXXIII. p. 390. We ftill wish that the Editor were lefs eafily pleafed. Art. 40. An Appendix to the Memoirs of Baron de Tott; being a Letter from M. de Peyfonnel to the Marquis of N Translated from the genuine French Edition. 8vo. 2s. Hookham. Art. 41. Strictures and Remarks on the Memoirs of Baron de Tolt. By M. de Peyfonnel. In Letter to the Marquis de NSvo. 2s. Robinsons. Having already delivered our opinion of M. de Peyfonnel's performance, nothing farther will be expected from us touching its merits or its defects. Of the two tranflations here prefented to the Public, we cannot help giving the preference to the latter. Art. 42. Memoirs of Major Semple, the Northern Hero. Being a faithful Narrative of his Life, Adventures, and Deceptions, with the various Inventions by which he obtained Money, Goods, &c. &c. Likewife an Account of his Trial and Conviction at the Old Bailey, Sept. 2, 1786. 8vo. Is. Kearsley. As credulity is the weakness of honeft minds, every means and affistance for detecting the tricks of the defigning and knavish part of mankind (who feem to have carried the art of impofition, vulgarly called Swindling, to the highest pitch of improvement) merits. commendation. Such narratives as thofe of a Charles Price, and * See an account of the original work, Append. vol. LXXIII. P. 533. a James James George Semple, ought to be univerfally read, for the information of the unwary, the unfufpicious, and the inexperienced; they will ferve as excellent warning pieces : "Learn to be wife from others harm, "And you fhall do full well:" So fingeth the good OLD BALLAD. MARGARET NICHOLSON. Art. 43. Memoirs of the Life of Margaret Nicholson, who attempted to ftab his Moft Gracious Majesty, &c. &c. izmo, 1s. 6d. Ridgway. Art. 44. The Plot investigated; or a circumftantial Account of the horrid Attempt of Margaret Nicholson, &c. &c. izmo. 15. Bladon. Art. 45. The Life and Transactions of Margaret Nicholson; from her Infancy to the 9th of August 1786, when he was conducted to Bedlam. By Jonathan Fifke, with whom the has lodged upwards of three Years. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Fiske, the Corner of Wigmore Street. Mr. Fiske appears to have given a fatisfactory account of this poor, unhappy woman; and the narrative is rendered interesting, from the magnitude of that unaccountable attempt, which has brought her name and character into public notice. DOCTRINE of TYTHES. Art. 46. Difinterefled Sentiments on the Provifion made for the Clergy, and on the Nature and Effect of Tythes. 8vo. 6d. Harrison. 1786. The caufes of the want of fufficient provifion for the inferior clergy, on which this writer infifts, are, the unequal divifion of parishes, pluralities, the fuperabundance of clergy, and the large ecclefiaftical revenues in lay hands, and in the hands of fupernumerary dignitaries. His objections to the inftitution of tythes are, that they are an unequal burden, being much heavier on arable than grazing land, and on poor than rich lands; that they are uncertain and fluctuating; that they are not proportioned to the clear profits, but to the produce of a farm; that the gathering them in is attended with inconvenience and lofs to the parfon, the parishioner, and the community; that they lay the foundation of endlefs difputes, jealoufies, and law-fuits; and that if the legal claim of fmall tythes were throughout rigorously exacted, it would be a badge of the most abject flavery. To remedy thefe evils, he propofes, that a general compofition fhould take place in lieu of tythes, or that the clergy should be maintained by a national fund. The evils complained of in this fenfible pamphlet certainly call aloud for redrefs, and will doubtless foon be thought deferving of parliamentary attention. Art. 47. The English Clergy's Right to Tythes examined, in order to promote Peace and Union between the Clergy and Laity; and to prevent Law-fuits. By an old Farmer. 8vo. 2s. Printed at Alnwick. 1786. Both the divine right and the common right of tythes are here controverted; but with fuch a redundancy of words, as rather spreads obfcurity, than cafts light, upon the fubject. If this old Farmer has any thing more to fay to the Public, we would advise him to get fome fome learned neighbour-if the parfon be too much out of humour with him, the lawyer may doubtlefs be prevailed upon-to under take the friendly office to put his thoughts (which, in general, de ferve to be better expreffed) into proper order, and good language. EDUCATI O N. Art. 48. Moral and inftructive Tales for the Improvement of Young Ladies. 12mo. 15. Marshall. 1786. The editor of this little collection informs us, that the Tales of which it confifts fell into his hands among other writings of a deceafed friend; and as they appeared capable of conveying fome moral reflections, blending inftruction with amufement, he has published them for general inspection. The Tales appear very well calculated, on the whole, to promote that defign which the Editor has profelfedly in view, viz. to amufe the mind, and form the heart to virtue. Art. 49. The Servant's Friend; an exemplary Tale. Defigned to enforce the religious inftruction given at Sunday and other Charity Schools, by pointing out the practical Application of them in a State of Servitude. By Mrs. Trimmer. 12mo. 94. or 8s. per Dozen to give away. Longman, &c. 1786. In former publications (to which we have given our probatum eft this good lady has taken great pains to cultivate the minds of children, and youth in general; and here the confines herself to fervants in particular; who, if they follow her directions as exemplified in the conduct of Thomas Simpkins, Rachel Smithers, and Kitty Sparks, cannot fail of being happy. To give our readers fome notion of this ufeful book, we shall tranfcribe a part of her advertisement: The connection between mafters, miftreffes, and fervants, is of a very endearing nature; and the happiness of each depends in a great meaJure on the proper difcharge of their refpective duties; the frequent neglect of which counteracts the wife defign of Providence in appointing different ranks in fociety, and fills the world with just complaints. Heads of families lament that they cannot confide in the fidelity and affection of their domeftics: fervants allege, 'that they cannot look up to their mafters and miftreffes for examples of religious virtues; and that inftead of being confidered by them as humble friends, they are regarded as mere mercenary flaves. To which fide the greateft fhare of blame belongs, is hard to determine but the fervants friend will venture to affure them, that however fashion and infidelity may render many in elevated ftations unmindful of family duties, there are till numbers of mafters and miftreffes fincerely dif pofed to act with juftice and kindnefs; who know when they are well ferved, and rejoice to reward merit: nor are fuch difficult to be found by thofe who prefer a quiet regular life with moderate profits, to fcenes of licentious riot and profufion; and who can be contented to remain in good places, when they have met with them." If any hints contained in the following pages fhall contribute to direct the young and inexperienced in a proper choice of mafters and mireffes, or tend to regulate their conduct in ferving them confcientioufly, the author will rejoice in the idea of having been effentially ufeful to fociety.' And we would gladly contribute to this important defign, by recommending this little book to perfons of various defcriptions; who, if they will read it with attention, may be bene 3 fited |