thus provided for the first. neceffaries of his fubjects, he failed for Mecca, in order to learn the Arabian language, and to ftudy the Alcoran. After his return, he, for the first time, introduced the elements of arithmetic, of writing, and the use of coin. After this, he attempted to seize on a diamond mine, on the coasts of Borneo, which was protected by the Dutch, under the king of the island. The king of Yoio declared war against the king of Borneo, but was repulfed by his Dutch auxiliaries; upon which he returned into his own dominions, and refolved to fail, with his queen and family, the chief of his guards, and fix warriors, together with a great variety of commodities, in order to purchase fire-arms of the Spaniards, at Manilla; but on his landing there was arrested, accused of a defign of taking Manilla by furprize, imprifoned, and his wealth feized and plundered. The Jefuits feem to have been the most inveterate and cruel of his enemies; but he was affifted by M. Poivre. The Spanish miniftry being after two years, at laft, informed of his cruel treatment, ordered him to be released; accordingly he was fet free, yet still under fome pretence detained at Manilla. His fubjects being exasperated at his detention, took arms, and ravaged the environs of Manilla, and the neighbouring jflands; upon which he was fet at liberty; and the Jefuits, whom he refused to take along with him, obtained permiffion of the Spanish government to fit out eight veffels, in order, as they pretended, to reconduct him to his own dominions. On this quadron the king of Yolo was embarked, but landed at Sambouangue, the chief Spanith fettlement in the island of Mindanac, and once more detained. The fquadron immedi ately after failed for Yolo, where the Spaniards, however, were vigorously repulfed by the natives, and forced to theer off. On the other hand, the king of Yolo found means to escape from his prifon at Sambouange, on board of an English ship, by which he was reconducted into his own dominions, where he reafcended his throne, and though he did not think proper to make war against the Spaniards, he ceded a small island weftward of Yolo to the Eng. lifh, and opened his harbours to the Moorish pirates, who infest all thefe feas, and plunder both the Spanish fhipping and plantations. The two French veffels vifited fome other iflands, and at last the countries of the Papous, in queft of difcoveries. Thefe Papous are the inhabitants of New Guinea, and of its adjacent lands, and are here described as a deformed, hideous, cruel, fufpicious, treacherous, and terrible race of men. Their islands contain many fpice-trees, and many fine birds, particularly fix fpecies of paradise birds, and two fpecies of promerops; of the former, two fpecies have long been known; one is fo but lately, and the three others were yet generally unknown; as were allo the two fpecies of promerops. The beautiful feathers of feveral of these birds are worn as ornaments by the chiefs of the natives; purchased by the Dutch, who trade on these coafts, and carried to the Indies and to Perfia, where they fell very dear. Mr. Sonnerat gives alfo fome account of the inhabitants of the Moluccas, and of the feveral forts of fpices purchased by the French from the Papous. Our navigators afterwards fhaped their course for the Idle of France; where our author digefted the prefent curious and interesting defcription, FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Hiftoire des Souverains Pontifes qui ont fiégé dans Avignon. 4to. Avignon. MOST of the popes who have refided at Avignon were Frenchmen. Their quarrels with the emperors, their wars with the Gibelins, their leagues against the infidels, the great western schism, the two antipopes, Clement VII. and Benedict XIII. the abolition of the Templars; Rienzi's confpiration, and many other extraordinary and fingular tranfactions, make the period treated in this work, a very interefting part of ecclefiaftical and civil history. Lettre fur les Arbres à Epiceries avec une Inftruction fur leur Cul, ture et leur Preparation, et Lettre fur le Caffé. 12mo. Paris. Said to have been written by a planter in the Ifle of France. He complains of the fcepticism of those who deny, that Ile de France can produce true nutmegs and cloves. The trees fent thither in 1771 and 1772, from the Moluccas, being too young, have, indeed, not yet borne any fruit; but Banda is here faid not to be warmer than the Isle of France; and the foils to be of the fame kind. It is not from want of fufficient warmth, that the coffee growing in the Inle of Bourbon is of a quality inferior to that of Arabia; but because the beans are gathered unripe, and not properly dried. The cinnamon of the Inle of France is alfo allowed to be inferior to that of Ceylon; because the French had in the cultivation neglected several effential circumstances carefully observed by the Dutch. Le Philofophe fans Prétention, ou l'Homme rare: Ouvrage Phyfique, Chimique, Politique et Meral, dédié aux Sçavans. Par M. D. L. F. 8vo. Paris. A very heterogeneous mifcellany of original thoughts and fallies; on the abfurdity of materialifm; on the fpots in the moon; on the volatility of diamonds; on electricity; on fire; on chemical affinities, and a variety of other subjects. Inftructions pour l'Ufage de la Houille pour faire du Feu, fur la Maniere de l'adapter à toutes Sortes de Feux & fur les Avantages qui refulteroient de cet Ujage. 8vo. Avignon & Lyons. An important and very ufeful work, undertaken by command of the ftates of Languedoc. Question Politico-Medicale fur le Traitement des Maladies internes. 12mo. Beziers. A concife difcuffion of the question, whether the treatment of internal diseases may be entrusted to others than regular phyficians} and it is easily forefeen, that it is anfwered in the negative by a celebrated phyfician Dr. Bouillet of Beziers. This anfwer is fuc ceeded by the decifion of ten cafes of confcience by two Parifian divines, relating to the practice of medicine. For instance, ought apothecaries and furgeons to adminifter phyfic to a patient who refuses to call in a phyfician? Anfwer, they must refufe their attendance left they violate their oaths and the laws of their country (France.) Mémoire Mémoire fur le Commerce des Bronzes, et particuliérement fur l'Eta` bliffement d'une Maison fabricante et commerçante. Par M. Magnien. 8vo. Amfterdam. Containing not only a well digefted project of establishing a great manufacture and trade of bronzes, but feveral judicious reflexions on industry, manufactures, and trade in general. C. Cornelii Taciti Opera, Supplementis, Notis, et Differtationibus illuftravit Gabriel Brotier. Paris. : This new edition is still preferable to Mr. Brotier's first edition of Tacitus as it contains many new additions both in the Notes, and in the Supplements; fuch as the Hiftory of Trajan ; Supplements to the Dialogue de Oratoribus ; Dissertations, on the Reputation of the ancient Gauls; on the Power and Authority of Eunuchs among the eastern Nations, and the Romans; together with Supplements and Notes to the Fragment of Livius, that has lately been discovered; and a Syftem of Politics carefully collected from the feveral maxims of Tacitus. The work is very elegantly printed. La Recherche du Bonheur, en quatre Divifions tendantes au même but. Par M. T. D. M. Avocat au Parlement. 12mo. Paris. The four divifions of this Inquiry after Happiness, are: to know how to find one's Happiness in the Practice of Virtue: not to prefume upon it: To share this Happiness with a worthy Companion for Life; and to comfort one's felf under Misfortunes. Syftema Entomologia fiftens Infectorum Claffes, Ordines, Genera, Species. 8vo. Flensburg. Profeffor J. Chrift. Fabritius, at Copenhagen, has, with great industry, digested in this new system a vast number of infects from the collections of Meffieurs Banks, Hunter, Lee, Tunftal, Drury, Eaton, &c. Meff. de Hattorf, Schaller, de Rohr, Forfkrael, Mr. Mallet of Geneva, and Dr. Koenig, a phyfician in Tranquebar. The number of these infects re-examined by him with the microfcope, and arranged under new divisions, amounts to about four thoufand. His labours were very great, and their produce will be an acceptable present for naturalists. J. Danielis Leers Flora Herbornenfis, fecundum Syftema Sexuale Linnæi. 8vo. with fixteen Cuts. Herborn. This is alfo a laborious and accurate performance, containing a variety of new discoveries. Le Guerrier fans Reproches. Paris. A short historical eulogium of Lewis Thomaffeau de Curfai, who in 1572, boldly refufed, from principles of humanity and honour, to take a fhare in the maffacre of the Huguenots; though, on another occafion, he took the caftle of Angers from them by furprize. MONTHLY CATALOGUE. Familiar Dialogues between Americus and Britannicus. By John HIS pamphlet confifts of two dialogues, in which each of the deavours to fupport. Britannicus, however, in our opinion, has L 4 far far the advantage in the converfation; and the arguments which he produces are entitled to the greater regard, as he betrays not any of that virulence and party prejudice fo frequent with thofe writers who have employed their attention on the fame fubject. Additions to Common Sense. 8vo. 15. Almon. We lately obferved of the pamphlet entitled "Common Sense," that, under a fpecious title, it contains the most impudent, abfurd, and erroneous doctrines, relative to the British government, that ever were fuggefted by the fervour of political fanaticism; and we have only to fubjoin in refpect of thefe Additions, that they are written in a fimilar ftrain. The Duenna, a Comic Opera in Three As, as it is performed by bis Majefty's Servants. 8.vi. 15. 6d. E. Johnson. Under the furreptitious title of a late popular dramatic production, we are here prefented with an impotent attempt at perfonal ridicule. The dialogue is too void of fentiment to be truly farcaftic; and the fongs the moft pitiful madrigals that ever iffued from the upper manfions of Grub ftreet. Juification de la Refiftance Des Colonies Américaines, &c. Bofquier. Enough, we imagined, had been published in our native language on the contest between Great Britain and America, with out being further peftered by productions on the fame fubject in French. The author of this pamphlet, however, exclufive of the novelty of treating the controverfy in a foreign tongue, neither advances any new argument, nor places those which have been formerly fuggefted, in a more convincing light. A decla matory vindication of the Americans, vamped up from the nu merous political effufions lately difgorged from the prefs is all that we meet with in this letter; which, though faid to be written from Holland, is more probably the work of fome feditious fabricator in this metropolis. Lettres Politiques fur l'Etat actuel de la France. Svo. Bofquier. Thefe letters were written upon occafion of a requifition made by M. Seguier, advocate, on the part of the French king, for the fuppreffion of two pamphlets lately published at Paris. They contain many juit and judicious reflections on the distinct prerogatives of the crown and parliaments of that nation, which are enforced with all the warmth and energy of a writer who is in terested in the happiness of his country. POETRY. The XLV, Chapter of the Prophecies of Thomas the Rhymer, in A Cong Congratulatory Poem on the late Succeffes of the British Arms: 4to. 15. Baldwin. An ironical effusion, in middling poetry, on the progrefs of the war with America. Did the author appear to be prompted by the laudable motives of animating the nation to more vigorous Exertions of valour, we fhould pardon his farcafm; but the general ftrain of the poem affords room to fufpect that he is not much interested in the glory of the British arms. W-'s Feaft; or Dryden Travefic; a Mock Pindarick. 4to. Is. 6d. Barker. If the dignity of the patriots is not exalted in this Mock Pindarick, they are at least entertained in idea with a jovial caroufal, which Venus and Bacchus have not difdained to honour with their company, and which is likewise celebrated in not ignoble verse. The Frolicks of Fancy. By Rowley Thomas. 4to. 15. Richardfon and Urquhart. 1 When Fancy is confeffedly frolick fome, it would be unjust for Criticism to exercise her reprehenfion with severity; and we shall therefore only advise the author to beware of ftumbling on such couplets as the following, when next he mounts his Pegasus ; because a flip of this nature is extremely unfavourable to the reputation of a poet, who ought to poffefs a good car. "Of living, when the foul is flown An Elegiac Tribute to the Memory of a departed Friend. 410. Johnson. This pamphlet is the production of the fame author who wrote Elegiac Verfes last year to a young lady, on the death of her brother. We obferved at that time, that, as the first effay of an early mufe," the verfes were not void of merit; but we cannot fay of the prefent performance, that it is fuitable to what might be expected from a fecond effay of the fame kind. The Truth of the Chriftian Religion; a Poem: founded on a very celebrated Work of Hugo Grotius. By Charles L'Ofte, A. M. 8vo. 5. 3d. boards. White. Grotius, in the firft fection of his Treatife on the Truth of the Chriftian Religion, informs us, that he published the first sketch of that work in the language of his own country, which was the Dutch; and in verfe, that his arguments might be more eafily committed to memory. His book was defigned for the ufe of common people, and more efpecially feamen; in order to furnish them with fome rational amusement and pious inftructions in their long voyages to Africa, Turkey, or China; and with arguments in defence of Chriftianity, among Jews and infidels. 4 This work was fo much efteemed, that one of the author's learned friends at Paris, Hieronymus Bignonius, was extremely defirous of knowing its contents. To gratify his curiofity, Gro tius |