tical Almanac for Noon and Midnight at Greenwich, to any other Time under that Meridian; or to Noon or Midnight under any other Meridian. 17. For reducing the Time of the Moon's Paffage over the Meridian of Greenwich, to the Time of its Paffage over any other Meridian. 18. The Sun's Declination. 19. Amplitudes. 20. Semi-diurnal and Semi-nocturnal Arches. 21. For reducing Sidereal to Mean Solar Time. 22. For reducing Mean Solar into Sidereal Time. 23. For turning Degrees and Minutes into Time, and the contrary. 24. For finding the Equation of Time for Parts of a Day. 25. Multipliers for readily computing the true Distance of the Moon from the Sun, or a fixed Star. 26. Numbers to be fubtracted from the Multipliers in Table 25, when the Moon's Distance from the Sun is obferved. 27. Numbers to be fubtracted from the Multipliers in Table 25, when the Moon's Distance from a Star is obferved. 28. Mean right Afcenfions and Declinations of 600 principal fixed Stars, for January 1, 1805. General Tables for the Aberration of the Stars. General Tables for the Natation in the Ellipfe." *It will be evident, at firft fight, to the aftronomical reader, that all thefe tables (to fome of which are given different titles) are merely tranfcripts from Dr. Mafkelyne's Requifite Tables for the Nautical Almanac, his Folio Tables, and Mackay's Tables, except table 13, which is the only table Mr. A. has calculated, and that eafily enough, by a table of logarithmic fines. To the tables are prefixed the common rules for Spherical Trigonometry, and complicated formula for reducing time of one denomination into time of another, which are totally useless in a fixed obfervatory, or at fea, there being tables already computed, which are always ufed for that purpofe. The book concludes with formulæ for the aberration and nutation of the ftars in right afcenfion and declination, which, we believe, we recollect to have feen in the Conn, de Temps, pour 1788. With refpect to table 13, which gave birth to this work, and on which Mr. A. grounds his merit, we feel no difficulty in declaring, that it falls fhort of the estimation we hold of thofe tables in common ufe, which are affuredly calcu. lated by very diftinguished mathematicians, and which are as commodious and expeditious in the folution of this problem, as, well as of the fpherical problems Mr. A. adduces for examples, as, we believe, it is poffible for genius to invent. Mr. A. efteems himfelf very happy in publifhing the opinion of his lunar method given him by a doctor from a northern univerfity, under whom Mr. A. fays he ftudied, and whom he flyles one of found fcholars and learned profeffors of the age. Of this learned doctor's works we know nothing more than a compilation of his on arithmetic and book-keeping. But furcly Mr. A. cannot mean this work as a fpecimen of the doctor's profundity; nor, if the doctor knew the different methods, before invented, for clearing the lunar distances, could he at all recommend Mr. A.'s for the 6 O moft pro practical practical navigator. In fhort, we confider this production, in regard to true fcience, merely as the puff of an empiric; and we. cannot better conclude our fentiments of it, than in the claffical words which the learned Dr. Clarke adopts, when he expresses his opinion of the effufion of a fimilar adventurer : "O! mifer as hominum mentes, O! pectora cæca!” MISCELLANIES. ART. 41. A Letter to the Rev. Richard Warner. 8vo. 43 FP.. 1S. Cruttwell, Bath. Robinfons, London. 1804. This and another Letter long ago publifhed against the mif chievous abfurdities of Mr. Warner, being both printed, and prin cipally circulated at Bath, had escaped our notice, till the animad verfions which we printed in Auguft laft upon his Sermon *, occa fioned them (as we fuppofe) to be fent to us. We think them by no means unworthy of notice. The Letter on which we are now remarking, after paying Mr. W. more compliment for his talents than we think him entitled to receive, undertakes the full refutation of his meagre and inefficient fcriptural authorities. This is executed with clearness, and not without force; and the authority of Grotius is very properly brought to bear on the fame point. The author, indeed, obferves, that much ufe is to be made of Grotius de Jure Belli in fupport of this argument; and intimates, that, if he had firt confulted that book, he would not have thought writing neceffary. In this he feems to be miftaken; for that great work is much too unknown, to a very large part of the world, to produce its due effect; and even fimply to have, anglicized the arguments in it, would itfelf have been an effort of much utility. A poftfcript replies to fome part of the fecond edition of the fermon, and not ili combats the pofitions of Mr. W. refpecting the moral and religious evils which he thinks infeparable from the military profeffion. The characteristic of this writer is clearners. rather than force. ART, 42. A Remonftrance addreffed to the Rev. Richard Warner, on the Subject of his Faft Sermon, May 27, 1804. 8vo. 52 pp. Bath, printed. Sold by Cadell and Davies, London. 1804. There is fomething more original and striking in this letterwriter than the preceding. He begins by faying, Sir, it may feem extraordinary, that after the world has fubfifted 5751 years, it fhould be neceffary to attempt a proof of the lawfulness, in the fight of God, of exerting the first principle implanted at the crea tion, in the whole fyftem, as far as we can judge, of animal nat * See Brit. Crit. Vol. xxvi. p. 205. Ꮓ Ꮓ Ꮞ ture," ture," i.e. felf-defence. This author goes, of course, over much of the beaten ground refpecting fcriptural authority; but he often takes original views. The following is, perhaps, an inftance of it. "Many woes," he fays, "are denounced in the New Tef tament, against various kinds of people. I read there, of "wor to the rich, to the full, to the lawyers, to the fcribes and pharifees," repeatedly; and once to blind guides," who firain at a gnat and swallow a camel. But amongst these, how happens it that no woe is denounced against foldiers?. I can find none there, or in any other book of devotion, except in your fermon, wherein any former deficiencies are amply fupplied. You pledge yourself to prove, and boaft you have brought a demonftration of it, that felf-defence is finful, and that the aggreffor, and thofe he attacks, provided the latter defends either his life or his property, are equally to blame, and flatter yourself that you have proved this paradox in twenty octavo pages; and have therein overthrown the wifdom of ages, the fentiments of patriots, the arguments of reafon, and the feelings of nature." P. 15. This is fpirited and juft. The author of the Letter proceeds then, with equal fpirit, to fhow what bold refiftance against enemies has done, at various times, under the bleffing of God, for us. "It is," he fays, to the refiftance thus made, that you yourfelf (Mr. W.) owe the privilege of delivering the very fenti "ments I here condemn." The moft juft and well applied vapu. lation is then beftowed upon the delinquent, for his bafe flanders on the military character. In a word, the whole remonstrance is fuch as it ought to be, written in the fpirit of wifdom, and of true chriftianity, confirmed in every part by hiftorical proofs, and expreffed with vigour and propriety. If Mr. W. were not loft in his own felf-fufficient notions, fuch a caftigation ought to bring him to reafon. ART. 43. In a modeft preface, the author apologizes for any errors that may appear in the compofition of his work, as "chance has made him an author for the first time." We have not, however, obferved any errors in the language fo glaring as to call for cenfure, when the ftatements are (as in the prefent inftance) important, and interefting. He alfo explains the reafon for concealing his name from the public at large, though his publisher has leave 1. to communicate it, on any application from perfons of weight or authority. The state of France is delineated by this writer, under the following heads:-The Government--The Army-The Police The Law-Bridges, Streets, c. of Paris-Theatres---Manners Newspapers--The Revolution, and its Confequences-Trial of Georges Georges, Pichegru and Moreau-The Carauation The Pope and Religion-Legion of Honour-Trade and Manufactures-English in France--General State of France-Bonaparte The Invafion (of England.) On many of thefe topics, the information conyeyed to us is not entirely new; but it ferves to corroborate what we had before heard of the tyranny, and cruelty, the craft and perfidy, of the Corfican ufurper. We could felect many paffages well worthy of attention, particularly in that part which relates to trade, and manufactures, (a portion of the work which has, to us at leaft, confiderable novelty ;) but the following particulars, concerning the English, now detained fo unjustly in France, particularly demand the attention of their countrymen. "It is furely a reproach to a great and generous nation, that the poor among their countrymen, unfortunate prifoners in an enemy's land, fhut out from even the ordinary hopes of men whom the chance of war detains, fhould not experience the hand of liberality alleviating the mifery of their heiplefs fituation, except in the perfons of their own countryre in more eafy circumftances detained in prifon like themfelves, who lately performed a play for their benefit. Are they forgotten ?—as roo often happens to thofe who languish in prifons! "Let it now be known to the British public, that many of their countrymen are in extreme diftrefs; and not a few are shut up in military prifons, by military authority, for having incurred, debts for the ordinary comforts of life, which they are unable to dif charge," P. 110. If the etiquette of government prevents them from being an object of its attention, it becomes more particularly the duty of fpirited and liberal individuals, to think of fome effectual mea fure to alleviate the mifery of their unprecedented fituation. "It has excited the wonder of the French people, to whom the active benevolence of the English character is known, that nothing has been done on this fubject; for they particularly recolJect, how liberally the people of this country, contributed to the fupport of the French emigrants, in the beginning of the reyolution. "That there are indigent and worthy men among them, let the circumftance of the exertions made for them by their fellow pri foners be a proof, to thofe who have no other means of judging. "No doubt can be entertained, that any fum which might be contributed by the people of England, for the relief of the neceffitous part of the hoftages in France, would be well and judicioufly applied and diftributed. The care of managing it would be cheerfully undertaken, by fome of the gentlemen of for. tune, rank, and confequence, who are detained with them." P. 112. Thefe circumstances undoubtedly demand attention, and till fome other method can be devifed, a portion of the riches of the Patriotic Fund, might furely be applied to this Patriotic prupofe. If, If, as we truft, the author has well afcertained the accuracy of the facts which he alledges, he deferves the thanks of his country, for the various important circumftances, which he has placed in a striking point of view. It is altogether a curious picture of a Government fupported wholly by fear. The Parifians diftinguifh two reigns of terror; the black terror under Robespierre, and the white terror under Bonaparte. ART. 44. The Coftume of Hindoftan, elucidated by Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Defcriptions in English and French; taken in the Years 1798 and 1799, by Balt. Solvyms, of Calcutta. 4to. 81. 8s. Orme. 1804. This is a very fplendid work, amufing in itfelf, and neceffarily, interefting to all who have communications with India. Each plate is accompanied with a defcription in French and English of the character reprefented in the annexed plate, as in the manner following: "PLATE IX. "A JELLEE-A, or FISHERMAN, "This fect is of the laweft order of the Mahommedans, and faid to have emigrated from the fhores of Arabia, in the life-time of Mohammed, owing to a disobedience of fome of his commands." They are not confined to the avocation of fishing, but deal in pearl, coral, precious ftones, and glafs beads: they are a vile race, and held in contempt by the other Mahommedans. He carries' his net in one hand, and his pot of fish and grubs in the other.” SUPPLEMENTARY ARTICLE. Tomb of Alexander.-See p. 351, ibid. It has been juftly confidered as a difficulty oppofed to Dr. Clarke's hypothefis concerning the Alexandrian far-` cophagus at the British Mufeum, that St. Chryfoftom has faid, Που γάρ, ειπέ μοι, τὸ σήμα Αλεξάνδρα; δεϊξόν μου which we endeavoured to foften by obferving that Chryfoftom lived at Conflantinople, and in the fourth century. But a learned friend of ours afks, in a letter, this pertinent queftion- May not fomebody have taken the fame liberty with the MS. of Chryfoftom, which Cafaubon wanted to take,with the text of Strabo, and this in a very remote age? Thus altering oque to onpa. Chryfoftom, he obferves might very properly reproach the heathen with the vanity of |