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tation, or the perfon prefented, induction 
to the living in queftion, by reafon of fuch 
4 bond having been given ; and, if legal, 
their Lordihips, fitting in their judicial 
‘capacity, were bound to determine ac- 
cording.to the then exifting law, .and 
efablith the decifion of the courts be- 
low. This fmall work of our author js 
fairly and clearly written, and his obfer- 
vations are pertinent and conclufive: his 
juridical knowlege was, indeed, far from 
being inconfiderable, as this and. fome 
ether of his writings, and particularly 
the work next to be noticed, evince. 
In the year 1784 our author publifhed 
a large pamphlet, which we have alluded 
to betore, intitled, ‘* Obfervations on the 
Rights and Duries of Juries in Trials tor 
Libels ; together wita Remarks on the 
Origin ani Nasure/ot the Law of Libels.”’ 
The Doctor, in a fhort preface, has ttated 
his reafons for attempting to write on a 
fubjeé&t which might be thought more pe- 
culiarly the province of the proteflors of 
the law: he fpeaks .of this’ profefifon as 
honourable, and expreffles his hope that it 
would not be imagined he meant any 
thing difiefpettful to the members of it 
im general. Our author was led more 
fully to confider this fubject than he had 
formerly done, from the then recent cafe 
of the Dean of St. Ataph, which had pe- 
culisriy excited the aitention of the pub- 
lic to the jaw of libels, and the rights and 
powers of juries upon trials for fuch an 
wlfence. | Lhere is much good ma'ter 
and found tenfe in this pamphlet. “Dr. 
Towers, throughout, manifcits a manly, 
liberal, and enlightened mised; at the 
jame time, the remarks and oblervations 
are pertinent and forcible; we doubt not 
that iney had confiderable effect in pro- 
ducing a proper impreffion in the right 
place. On perufine this publication, ‘it 
€annot but ttrike-the reader, how great 
mui have been the extent of our author’s 
refearch, to have enabled him to acquire 
fo accurate a knowledge ot tie fubject. 
From modern and ancient reports he has 
largely quoted ; and there are, we appre- 
hend, very few, if any, cafes to be found 
upon record, in any way connected with 
it, which have efcaped his notice, or been 
paffed by without inveftigation. In his 
preface he fays, ‘* 1am not unacquaint- 
ed- with the language of the law upon 
this fubjeét, and could have exprefled my- 
-felf with a grater conformity to the tech- 
nical phrafes of that profeilion ; but as I 
write not for lawyers, but chiefly for men 
of other profeffions and employments, I 
thiak it beft to make ule of language that 
Memoir of the late Dr. Fufeph Towers. 545 
fhall be generally intelligible.’? This he 
has certainly done, and thrown light on a 
fubje&t which had been but little invefti- 
gated, even by profefflional men, and 
which few gentlemen thought of rally 
confidering, from the drynels of the pur- 
fuir, and the difficulties that lay in the 
way. : ate i) 
Inthe year 1785, neither legal nor po- 
litical fubje&ts employed our author's 
pen, yet was it not wholly at reft: he 
was procuring materials, and proceeding 
on the Lives which were allotted him, in 
the fourth volume of the Bzsgraphia, but 
which was not publithed until a confider- 
able time after this period. Between the 
hours devoted to more laborious concerns, 
he at this period amuled himfelf with 
writing, and preparing for the prefs, a 
fmail neat voiume called ‘* Dialogues 
concerning the Ladies,”’ to which he add- 
ed, ** An Effay on the ancient Ama- 
zons.”” The dialogues are feven in num- 
ber ; the fubje& of each will be found in 
the note.* |The Effay confiits of about 
fifty pages, and is on a fubject but little 
known. The Doctor feems to have col- 
le&ted in this fmal! compals all the mate- 
rial information which writers of any re- 
puracion have given refpecting the extra- 
ordinary females of whom he treats; they 
are written in a fam‘lar and pleafing ftyle, 
and may furnifh amufement, as well as 
inftruction, to thofe peifons who would 
not be induced to read larger works, or 
beftow their attention on fubjeéts of a 
dryer nature. - 
Dr. Towers’s next produGtion appeared 
in the year 1785, being, “* An Effay on 
the Lite, Chara&ter, and Writings, of 
Dr. Samuel Johnion.”?- This angularly 
great man was now nunbered among# 
the departed writers who had done honour 
to their age and country. In rmoit circles 
he was much the fubjest of converfatiea, 
and furnifhed many with topics on which 
they could enlarge, in criticizing his 
works, enumerating his eccentricities, and 
* Dialogue I, On Female Drefs, and the 
Importance of fome Attention in the Ladies 
toincelle€tual Acquifitions.—II. On feveral 
Female Literary Charaéters, and on Female 
Talents.—I.1. On the different Reprefenta- 
tions that have been given of the Female 
Charaéter, and other incidental Subjeéts.—_ 
IV. On Marriage, and other collateral To- 
pics.—-V. Mifcellaneous Obfervations rela- 
tive to the Ladies.—VI. On Female Polite- 
nefs, Gentlenefs, and Meeknefs.—-VII. On 
Ladies who have diftinguifhed themfelves by 
their Literary Talents, ) cg 
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