Wright's Sermon at the Ordination of the Rev. Ifaac Smith, Dr. Symonds's Remarks upon an Effay intituled, The Hiftory of the Colonization of the Free States of Antiquity,' &c. 272 Venn's Sermon against Popery, Nov. 5, 1758, Popery vindicated from feveral vulgar Afperfions, Addrefs to both Houfes of Parliament, refpecting the prefent Stockdale's Mifcellanies, in Profe and Verfe, 317 Vere's Phyfical and Moral Enquiry into the Caufes of the inter- nal Refleffness and Disorder in Man, &c. ibid. Ifaiah. A new Tranflation. By Dr. Lowth, Bishop of Lon- 321, 418 Medical and Philofophical Commentaries, Millot's Elements of General Hiftory, Part I. Tucker's Light of Nature purfued. By Edward Search, Efq. 354 Dr. Horne's Difcourfes on feveral Subjects and Occafions, 360 Whitehurst's Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of Coftard's Letter to N. Braffey Halhead, Efq. Reader's Remarks on the Prophetic Part of the Revelation of Another Account of a Tranfaction which paffed in the Begin- Anticipation; containing the Subftance of his M-y's Speech, &c. 394 Great Britain deceived in the Conduct of Government. &c.ibid. ibid. Plan of internal Defence, in the present Crisis, ibid. Fellows's Elegiac Poem on the Death of the Rev. Mr. Toplady, Narrative of the Tranfactions of the Fleet under Lord Howe, 471 De Courcy's Letter of Counsel to a Person in a declining state of ibid. Dr. Milne's Sermon for the Benefit of the Humane Society, ibid. Gurdon's Sketch of the distinguishing Graces of the Christian ibid. Mifcellaneous State Papers. From 1501 to 1726. 2 vols. 4to. Il. 165. boards. [Concluded from vol. xlv. p. 410.] Cadell. THE HE fecond volume of thefe Papers commences with letters of king Charles I. lord Carlisle, and fecretary Conway, to the duke of Buckingham, copied from the Harleian collection. The noble editor prefaces those various pieces with judicious remarks. He obferves, that Charles writes in a ftyle of compofition much fuperior to his father; and that it feems evident from the domeftic feuds between the king and queen, that the latter did not gain an afcendant over her huf band, till after the death of Villiers. The following Letter affords fufficient evidence of the unhappy divifions which fubfifted between thofe royal perfonages at this time. King Charles to the Duke of Buckingham. • Steenie, You know what patience I have had with the unkind ufages of my wife, grounded upon a belief that it was not in her na ture, but made by ill inftruments, and overcome by your perfuafions to me, that my kind ufages would be able to rectify thofe mifunderstandings. I hope my ground may be true, but I am fure you have erred in your opinion; for I find daily worse and worse effects of ill offices done between us, my kind ufages having no power to mend any thing. Now neceffity urges me to vent myfelf to you in this particular, for grief is cafe being told to a friend; and becaufe I have many obligations to my mother-in-law (knowing that thefe courfes of my wire's are fo much against her knowledge, that they are contrary to her advice), I would do nothing concerning her daughter that may tafte of any harshness, without advertising her of the reasons and VOL. XLVI. July, 1778. ne neceffity of the thing; therefore I have chofen you for this purpofe, because you having been one of the chief caufes that hath withheld me from thefe courfes hitherto, you may well be one of my chief witnesses, that I have been forced into thefe courfes now. You must therefore advertise my mother-in-law, that I muft remove all thofe inftruments that are caufes of unkindness between her daughter and me, few or none of the fervants being free of this fault in one kind or other; therefore I would be glad that the might find a means to make them felves fuitors to be gone; if this be not, I hope there can be no exceptions taken at me, to follow the example of Spain and Savoy in this particular. So requiring a speedy anfwer of thee in this bunefs (for the longer it is delayed, the worse it will grow), I rest, Your loving, faithful, conftant friend, CHARLES R.' On the letters of lord Carlisle and fecretary Conway to the duke of Buckingham, it is also remarked in the introduction, that they fhow the minute accounts which were fent the duke of even the flightest incidents at court, as well as the fervile ftrain in which this fingular favourite was addreffed by thofe correfpondents. Number II. contains various letters between Mr. de Vie, the duke of Buckingham, fir William Beecher, and lord Conway, concerning the Ifle of Rhé expedition. Thefe documents are copied from the originals in the Paper-office, and throw additional light on the misconduct which accompanied that tranfaction; but they fully invalidate any imputation unfavourable to the perfonal courage of Buckingham. Number III. contains Papers about a fecret treaty with the Flemings, likewise obtained from the Paper-office. This negociation between Charles I. and fome principal members of the states of Flanders and Brabant, has not been mentioned by any of the numerous hiftorians of his reign; but fufficient evidence is here produced, that the king entertained the project, though it feems to have been too arduous an undertaking, whether we confider the weak state of Charles's government at the time, or the terms on which he ftood with foreign powers. : Number IV. prefents us with a variety of papers, giving fome account of the Scotch troubles, from the year 1637, to 1641, inclufive. These documents, which the noble editor juftly confiders as fome of the most important in his collection, are partly transcribed from the archives of the family of Hamilton, and partly from the Paper-office; except the journal of the council of peers, which is copied from the Harleian manufcripts. The |