publifred at the earnest Request of the Congregation. By the Rev William Scott, M. A. late Scholar of Eton. Inferibed by per miffion to Sir William Draper, and addreft to the Army and Navy. 8vo. 1 S. Wilkie, &c. 1774.

By the aid of South, Hildrop, and Delany, Mr. Scott has multered fome good arguments against duelling; but (through certain affectations and fingularities into which this writer is apt to fall) his publication wants that characteristic propriety and grace which we expect to meet with in a religious difcourfe.

III. Preached at the Opening of the Chapel in Effex Houfe, Ellex-
Street, in the Strand, on Sunday April 17, 1774. By Theophilus
Lindfey, M. A. 8vo. 6d. Johnfon.

Candid and judicious, worthy of the occafion on which it was
preached, worthy of the preacher.-Mr. Lindfey difcourfes from
Eph. iv. 3.-Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond
of peace. -To the fermon is added, a fummary account of the re-
formed liturgy, on the plan of the late Dr. Samuel Clarke ❤, made
ufe of in the faid chapel in Effex-houfe.-It may not be improper to
acquaint our Readers, many of whom, we doubt not, will fincerely
rejoice to hear that there is all the reafon in the world to believe
that Mr. Lindsey will be attended by a very numerous and respectable
audience. May his life be long, and may his honeft and well-
meant endeavours to promote the knowledge and practice of pure
and undefiled religion, be crowned with remarkable fuccefs!·
IV. A Covenant God the Believer's never failing Friend.-Occafioned
by the Death of the Rev. Edward Hitchin, B. D. who departed
this Life January 11, 1774, in the 48th Year of his Age. Preached
in White-Row, Spittlefields, January 23. By Samuel Brewer, B. D.
To which is added, The Oration delivered at his Interment ik
the Burial ground at Bunhill. By Thomas Towle, B. D. 8vo.
Buckland, &c.

1 S.

Mr. Hitchin was a very eminent diffenting minifter, of the Calviniftic perfuafion; and these discourses, as is ufual on fuch occafions, contain the highest encomiums on the deceased.

V. On the Death of the Rev. P. Simfón, A. M. at the Meeting House in Vicar Lane, Coventry, July 18, 1773. By J. Dalton. 6d. Dilly.

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the AUTHORS of the MONTHLY REVIEW.
GENTLEMEN,

I Rely on your candor for attention to a few remarks on the letter

figned Amicus in your laît Review. I could fay much on the fubject, but for feveral reafons, fhall be as fhort as poffible.

For what I faid of Dr. Leeds's obtaining his degree, I had the authority of letters from Drs. Cullen, Home, &c. produced as evidence in the court of King's Bench.-I do not pretend to ascertain Dr. Leeds's medical qualifications, I think the queftion fo much infifted .illon, whether he was or was not a good Phyfician, is quite befide the

matter.

• See Review for February laft, p. 102.

• Concerning

Concerning the reafon affigned by me for the fociety difpenfing with their established rules in this affair, I had my information from fome of their own members-t knew of no other reafon-If Amicus knew of any other he should have given it. Amicus fays, "the fociety know no man in judgment." I believe in general they decide with much caution and uprightness, but I likewife believe that they are not always clear of partiality; perfonal attachment, intereft, will have weight in human minds: Men naturally favour those they have the beft opinion of, or are the most obliged to. Dr. F. has great merit, great reputation, great influence-Amicus fays, " Dr. F. never gave the fociety room to doubt of a just fubmiffion to the rules he fubscribes to: The rules of the fociety require submission to awards, even when there is room to think that fuch awards have not been made judiciously. But Dr. F. refused to fulfil the award in queftion Is there reafon to think that if he would not submit in one cafe, he would have fubmitted in another? The rules of the society also prohibit lawfaits between their members. But Dr. F. and Dr. L. engaged in a lawfuit. Dr. F. retained counsel before the award was given. L. made the award a rule, of court. Dr. F. escaped the cenfure of the fociety. ...L. was deemed the aggreffor and disowned. On this circumstance: I make no comment.-Amicus fays, "if the appeal had not been published the remarks had never appeared, and if Impartial could have reftrained his pen this address would have been unneceffary." I did not write nor publish the appeal. The account it gave of the affair was thought by many perfons a fair one; it contained little more than the award, the affidavits of the arbitrators, and a minute of the yearly meeting, unmixed with any invective against Dr. F. Can it then be justly termed "partial and invidious?"-The circulation of it was much confined to the fociety.The character of it in your Review was fo cautiously worded, that neither party need to have taken offence.-Amicus introduced the affair to the public by an account which I thought too favourable to one fide, to pass unnoticed. I fent you one in which my design was to tell the truth to the best of my knowledge-For this I am charged with wilful mifrepresentation. and treated with unnecessary afperity. Whatever Dr. F. may think, I am not his enemy-I have no malevolence to him, nor attachment to L.-I never received favour or injury from either-I never had a mean opinion of Dr. E. or a high opinion of L. or any defign to place them in comparison.But in this inftance I think Dr. F. has been wrong.-I think L. was as fit to practice phyfick as many who do daily practice it; and I think him an injured perfon.-Different men fee the fame objects differently; their fentiments muft of course differ; and I fee no caufe why I should relinquish the signature of

IMPARTIAL.

"A full detail of this tranfaction fupported by indubitable evidence" could have been published by the arbitrators, and perhaps had been, but for the diffuafions of fome [Impartial was one] who wifhed rather to preserve peace than to produce controversy.

London, April 21, 1774.

We have inferted the above, to prove OUR impartiality; and we hope a period will here be put to a controversy that bath infenfibly made

its

its way in a literary journal, which is by no means a proper receptàcis for altercations of a private and perfonal nature.

A

Letter figned the Editor, complains of the feverity of the account given of a late pofthumous tract in our laft. Editors, like Tranflators, are commonly partial to the Authors whofe works they would recommend to the favour of the public; and therefore we wonder not that the gentleman who has done us the honour of his polite and candid remonstrance, should diffent from the opinion of an indifferent, unprejudiced Reviewer, in regard to the merit of the performance in question.

The Editor may be affured, that it is not without regret that we ever speak unfavourably of any work intended to promote the interest of virtue and religion; and that whenever our opinion of the imperfect execution of a good design forces us, in juftice to the honour and intereft of literature, to pafs our cenfure where we wish to applaud, we generally do it with referve, and tenderness; fuppreffing the worst that might be faid, if the rigour of TRUTH, rather than lenity to a brother Author, were to prevail.

This was, indeed, the cafe, with refpect to the little piece which gave occafion to the letter before us. We forbear to repeat the title of the work, because we would not, unneceffarily, add to the cenfure already paffed on it, or to the chagrin of a correfpondent who ex preffes himself with fo much moderation and decency.

The Editor objects to our remark on the want of dignity in the ftyle and diction of a work, of which, familiarity of expreffion is the natural characteristic. But we beg leave to infift that whoever affumes to be the public advocate of religion and virtue, ought to exprefs himself in a manner fomewhat elevated above the familiar ftrain of private inftruction, and fuitable to the importance of the fubject. The plea, that the piece here alluded to, was not written for the public, cannot be admitted: If it was too imperfect for publication, why was it printed without the neceffary improvements?

In every literary performance, a decent attention is furely due to correctness, if not to elegance; but a proper regard to language is more peculiarly neceffary in a work intended for the improvement of youth, left, while we are infpiring them with good fentiments, and teaching them good manners, we inadvertently habituate them to ungrammatical, or vulgar, or provincial, modes of expreffion.

That a work is well intended, is a just foundation for praife; but good intention alone will not fecure fuccefs to an ill adapted perfor formance. Thoufands, and tens of thousands, of what are commonly called good books, have had the praife above mentioned, and yet they have been configned to oblivion, by the general confent of mankind": on whom all the wise counsel in the world will be lavished to little purpofe, if it be not conveyed to them in an agreeable form,

Mr. B's letter, dated Edinburgh, December 23, did not come to hand till very lately. The poem to which it relates will be noticed in our next Review.

The Author being totally unknown to us,

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THE CHART of BIOGRAPHY, of which the Plate annexed ex-
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