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Court of Chancery againft the will of 
the late Mr. Thelluffon being efiablifhed, 
—an opinion on Mr. Perry’s commit- 
ment by the Houfe of Lords for a breach 
of privilege—an opinion of the effects of 
the king’s pardon of perjury—an opision 
in the Waipole cafe, on the fubjeGt of 
mutual wills—two op DEIR: in the ae of 
lady Dacre, again gt the dowager lady. 
Te on the conftruétion of a will— 
and an opinion on the petitions of the 
nabobof the Carnatic. Mr. Hargrave has 
given, in an appendix, fome account of 
Mr. Thelluffon’s life, by. which it ap- 
péars that this gentle man came to Eng- 
Jand an alien, with no more than Se 
thoufand pounds fortune, and that, be- 
fore he di ed,- he had acquired a fortune 
of feven hundred’ thoufand pounds, and 
had three fons ee of the Britith 
arliament. 
“Who'll change Old Lamps for New > 
or a Word or Two concerning the Cler-. 
gy and their Provifion:”’ is a traét writ- 
ten in de‘ence of the maintenance of the 
clergy by tythes, which the author 
eee a fundamental law of the kingdom. 
Ve think his quaint title an unfortunate 
one, as the queftion fo triumphantly put 
admits of a very cbyious aniwer. 
: ‘PoretrRy. 
‘The Caldron, or Follies of Cam- 
bridge, a Satire,” lathes with deferved 
feverity the fafhionable follies and vices 
of that univerfity. The progrefs of 
free-thinking and atheifm is deplored. 
ume, G1 bbon, and Voltaire are warmly 
attacked for their thare 1 in {preadingy the 
evil. 
“ Cupid aad Pfyche, a Mythological 
Tale from the Golden Af of Apuleius.’ 
Tt is not a little extraordinary that fo 
elegant a tale as the prefent fhould not 
have been before prefenred to the = 
public in a fuit able drefs,—that of poetry 
Mr. Maurice, in one of the Eg Es 
we recolle&t not which, of his indian 
Anuquities, has tran flated part.of it in 
rales and Mr. Thomas "Taylor, t the 
welleknown Platonifi, has publifhed a 
tranflation of the whole. Though writ- 
ten by Apuleius in profe; yet from 
the richnets of its language, ‘the pro-— 
fufion of its imagery, and the pencil 
of fire, with which it traces the ad- 
ventures of Pfyche, it feems more {uit- 
ed to the genius of poetry. Accord- 
ingly we find that La Fontaine did 
not think it beneath him to pubdlith a 
poem, imitated from it in the French 
Janguage; and all perfons of tafte will 
thank the prefent anonymous author for 
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Retrofpedt of Domeftic Literature... Poetry. 
his fimilar performance i in Pe oe The 
gentleman in queftion pofefies confider- 
able poetical powers; and though we can- 
not fay we have a his work with the 
fame intereft as the very pleafing original,” 
we have yet received a very great degree 
of gratification. His poetry is in general 
chafte and fimply elegant, occafionally 
beautiful ; but there are fome weak and 
fome faulty lines, and the. whole poem 
is obfcure from its abrupt tranfitions, and 
from a want of {ufficient adherence to 
the original. We queftion whether thofe. 
who had not previoufly read the original 
would comprehend the ftory in the imi- 
tation. 
Lady Manners has publifhed a poem ~ 
called ‘* Review of Poetry, Ancient and 
Modern,’ which difplays confiderable 
knowledge of- the different poets, whom 
fhe notices with judicious diferimination, 
and a well-cultivated mind. 
“ Pi&tures of Poe etry, Hiftorical, Bio- 
graphical, and Critical,” by ALEXAN- 
DER THOMPSON, E{q. The author 
means to take a view of the progrefs of 
polite literature from the earlieft period 
to the prefent time: the prefent poem 
contains the execution of a part of this 
plan. Itincludes a period of eight hun- 
dred years, beginning with a fketch of 
the court of Solomon, and ending with — 
that of Ptolemy Philadelphus, and is_ 
chiefly occupied with the literature of 
Greece., The firft piéture is the lyre 
poem of Solomon and Sheba, which con- 
cludes with an animated defcription of 
the celebrated trial faid to hase been 
made of Solomon’s wifdom by the queen. 
The comparative utility of dida&tic and 
heroic poetry, exemplified in a conteft 
Eetween Homer and Hefiod, forms the 
fubje&t of the fecond pi€ture: however 
much difpofed we may be to go through 
the whole of this highly interefting poem, . 
we ‘are forbidden by the limits of our 
article. 
«* Innovation’? is a poem, which, 
though not avowed, is known to be the 
produétion of Mr. Gissorne. It has- 
confiderable, merit ; and though we are 
not difpofed to joim in the common-place 
cry againft the attempt to ameHorate the 
condition of fociety, which it is now the 
fafhion to ftigmatife with opprobrious 
epithets, we muft acknowledge that the 
author has manifefted candour and dif- 
crimination in his attack. 
We cannot fay fo much for the au- 
thor of“ Bubble and Squeak,”’ and 
“ Crambe Repetita,”’ which, though not 
deficient i li Wit, are fcurrilous and abu- 
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