396 
determined in the different Courts, con- 
tinue to be publithed ; butas they demand 
no {pecific \ notice, we fhiall hatten to the 
concluding divilion of our Rettofpe&. 
- MISCELLANIES. 
Within a few months, -a {mall ing te 
of ‘° Letters” has pafled through three 
editions, written by the late Earl of Chat- 
ham, to.bis nephew, Thomas Pitt, Efq. 
(afterwards Lord ‘Camelford) when at 
Cambridge. This volume is edited by 
Lord Grenvill e, and ced:cated, De o- 
priety, to Mr. Pit. ‘Theobdje® of thefe 
+ ye Ta ea 
Letters may be inferred from the occafion 
on which they were written: they are ad- 
drefied by his Lordfhip to a fudent of 
Cambridge; to 2 young man in whofe 
future honour and integrity he teck a 
deep and affectionate intereft. The ob- 
ject, therefore, of thefe ineftimable let- 
ters is, to cautidsa him againft the numer- 
cus fnares by which be 1s furrounced ; to 
imprefs upon his mind a firong fenle of 
the importance and duty of cultiva 
zihduoufly his intellectual faculties; of re- 
filing the allurements of vicious pleafure, 
and of eftablithing firmly thofe religious 
principles and moral habits which could 
alone give him favour inthe fight of God, 
or permanent dignityeven among men - 
Loa Grenvi} thefe 
caked 
= 
lie has introduced 
Letters by a Preface, which wil! not be 
yead without furprife by thofe who have 
attended to his political career: it is 
written with claffic elegance, and is wor- 
thy of being tran{mitted to poiterity with 
the letters them(elves. 
Dr. Scott has publifhed a volume of 
“<< Differtations, Ejfays, and Parallels,” 
which, he tells us in the preface, were 
mott ar them written while he was a flu- 
dent in the Univerfity of Dublin. © They 
are rather decl ists than argumenta- 
tive; fhowy rather than folid. The dif- 
izrtations are on the influence of religion 
en civil fociety; on the expulfion of the 
Moers fiom Spain, and the Proteftants 
ee France and the Netherlands; on the 
ing of America; on the progrels of 
he ae e arts; and en national sepals tion. 
he ellays are On writing hiftory ; on the 
ueftion, ‘ Was eloquence penefcia| to 
i ardon the influen nce of tatte on 
s. The paralicis are between W)]- 
lism IEY. of Englao d and Henry IV. of 
France; between Ximenes and 4 Richelien ; - 
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between Avg uftus and Louis XIV. .a.d 
he een Suily and Lord Chatham. 
The Correfpondence of Samuel Ri- 
j Eran the Original 
the arafon, Se. jelz led 
bisa to -bis Fa- 
Manujeripts beg seuthidl? ony 
mily 
The tak of feleciing, fiom a vaft mals 
Reirofeed? of Domeftic Literature—Mifcellanies, 
of letters, fuch as were likely to tntereft 
the public from their intrinfic merits, or 
their relation to chara€ters and events of 
a former day, was undertaken by Mrs. 
BarksavuLp, who, to the Correfpondence 
which fhe has edited, has prefixed a bio- 
graphical account of sa author, and cri- 
tical obfervations on his writings. The 
editor has ‘performed her tafk with thae 
difcrimination and ta%e for waich fhe has 
‘long and juflly been celebrated. 
Mr. Brouano, the avthoy of Reflec- 
tions en the Refurrection and Afcenfion, 
has publifhed a feries of ** Letters on. the 
Study and Ufe of Ancient and Modern Hif- 
tory; containing Obfervations and Re- 
freHions on ihe Caufes and Confequences of - 
thoje Events which have produced con- 
Jpicucus Changes in the Afpect of the World, 
and the general State of Human Affairs.” 
r. GARDINER has publifhed two vo- 
lumes of Afyss 1 Political, and 
Eccnomical.”? : 
They dif {olay an inquifitive mind, and 
will be read with pleafure and in*ruétion. 
“Tie Fafbionable World difplayed; by 
Tueopuitus Carts TIAN, Hig.” 
This is a very happy fpecimen of irony < 
it is an excellent fatire on fafhionable im- 
moralities ; and is entitled, from its in- 
trinfic merit as a compofition, and its ten- 
dency as a moral work, to very extenfive 
circulation. 
** Original . Correfpoudence of Hean 
Facques Roufeau wiih Madame La Tour 
de Franqueville and Moxfieur du Peyron. 
Tranflated from the French.” _ 
The reputation of Rouffeau is not ta 
be fiaaken even by the expofure to public 
derifion of fuch trafh as this. Madame 
La Tour de Franqueville, and a friend of 
her’s, both of them married women refid- 
ing at Parts, utter ftrangers to the perfon 
of Rouffeau, conceive a romantic and en- 
thufiattic attachment to him in confequence 
of reading his Nouvelle Helozfe. They 
commence a correfpondence with him, 
under the names of Julia and Clara, 
wile he is refiding at Montmorenci, in 
the neighbourhood of Paris, Renffeau 
very naturaliy fufpected it to be a guiz, 
but efterwards became convinced to the 
costrery; and addreffed a fring of fenti- 
mentai rhapfodies to the fair enthufiafts. 
he Jetters which pai between Rouffeau 
and M. du Peyron, have fomewhat of a 
literary caft, and are intereftin 
Dr. Draxe has publithed a thild vo= 
lume of his ** Literary Hours.” 
We have read them with great plea- 
fure, and fhould have been happy. to have 
enlarged on their various merits; but it 
is time that we fhould fold up the theet. - 
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