agreeable to his own. He remarks that there is in fugar a gently flimulant and incifive quality, which, though uteful in a great degree, may be easily abused. It may be a proper nourishment, but cannot be the nutritive principle in its pure state. I have feen, fays he, in America, when the ufe of fugar is carried too far, that it produces jaundice, bilious fevers; in bilious habits; complaints in the bowels; flatulency in the colon and cœcum; it injures the juices of the stomach, and weakens" that organ fo much that it is with difliculty restored. If the ulcers of negroes are to be cured, it is necessary to deprive them entirely if this aliment. The editors, in anfwer to this letter, repeat many facts well known, and advert to Dr. Stark's peculiar fituation, and his diet, which, previous to his ufe of fugar, was not fufficiently alimentary. But they do not recollect, that though the diet was not rendered more nutritious, the fcorbatic fymptoms disappeared on the change. They add, from their own Annals, an inftance of a fhip, where the crew had confumed all the provisions, and the tcurvy had began to appear, when they had recourfe to fugar, and lived on it for fcveral days after which the fymptoms of fcurvy ceased. This, if well founded, is a very important fact. They quote a work of M. Dutrone on the fugar-cane, and the method of refining fugar, for the good effects of this diet: we fhall transcribe the paffage, but the work is not yet publifhed. The Cochin Chincfe, fays he, confume much fugar: they eat it commonly with their rice, and it is the common breakfatt of men and women of every age. In every inn you only meet with fugar and rice, and it is the common diet of travellers They think nothing fo nouriming. A certain company of foliers are allowed a particular fum for fugar and fugar canes, which they are commanded to eat daily. The defign of this allowance is to render them plump, and make their appearance more refpectable. They are 500 in number, and in very good cafe:` they are really fattened on fugar.' The difeafes attributed by M. Bertin to fugar, they fufpect, may have arifen from other caufes. There is a man, they fay in Paris, who refided twenty years in India, whofe ftomach was injured, and digeftion weakened: he recovered by taking, every morning, a large glais of cold water much fweetened. At the end of this long article, we canno engage in extensive difcuilions; but we must be allowed to add, that we think with M. Bertin on this fubject: the fugar diet may certainly be carried too far, and in excefs it must be injurious. The facts. adduced by the editors of the Gazette de Santé, are not applicable to their argument, without many limitations.

We purpofed to have given fome intelligence relating to pharmaceutical preparations, and a few miscellaneous medical works; but we perceive that we have already exceeded our Kants, fo that we must defer them to another opportunity.

MONTHLY CATALOGU E.

Corporation and Teft Acts, Controversy, &c. A Look to the Laft Century; or, the Diffenters weighed in their own Scales. 8vo. 15. 6d. Faulder.

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ROM the fermons and other productions of the last century, our author endeavours to fhow, that the Ditlenters were always clamorous, afpiring, and intolerant. He compares their fentiments in the fifteenth and fixteenth centuries with those lately diffeminated with so much zeal. and finds them fcarcely different. He brings forward the exceptionable paffages in Dr. Price and Dr. Prielley's late works, which he examines with caution and reprehends with indignation. This writer, both in information and abilities, foars greatly above the common level of controverfalifts.

A Short Examination of fome of the Principal Reafons for the Repeal of the Teft and Corporation Acts. By a Clergyman of the Church of England. 8vo. 6d. Rivingtons.

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If to fhort' in the title, we add candid, rational, and able, it would convey a very proper and adequate idea of this plain familiar expoftulation.

Teft against Teft; or, a View of the Measures propofed in the ReSolutions of the Diffenters to remove all Tefts by impofing one of their own upon every Candidate for a Seat in the House of Com mons, at the next General Election. Folio. 2 d. Rivingtons. The threats against those members who would not affist their plans, formed one feature of the rash violence which characterifed the fupporters of the late attempt. This author collects different inftances of this new teft; but we ought to add, that in fome late publications, the violent refolutions have been explained, and coloured a little, fo as to lote much of their first odious appearance.

Remarks on the Refolutions paffed at a Meeting of the Noblemen, 7 Gentlemen, and Clergy of the County of Warwick, held on Feb. 2, 1790. In three Letters to the Right Hon. the Earl of Aylefford, Chairman of the Meeting, with fome occafional Remarks on the Refolutions at Bartler's Buildings. Evo. 15. Johnson. We have not feen a more able, a more candid, and a more difpaffionate examination of the arguments against the repea! of the corporation and teft acts. Yet, perhaps, we may be allowed to fay, that this author has repeated fome of the weak arguments, and one or two of what we think have been shown to be mistaken facts. We have already given our opinion on the fubject, and we find nothing in thefe Remarks' which has a tendency to controvert it.

Phito-Theodofius; or, a new Edition of Theodofius, with a new Character of Mr. Burke. By an old Member of Parliament. 8vo. 15. Bourne.

We know not that this pamphlet proceeds from the venerable pen (venerable, if the age, like that of Jenkinson, in the Vicar of Wakefield, is not affumed), of the author of Theodofius; but, if it is by the fame author, his fpirit is foon decayed, and his fire extinguifhed-animam in vulnere ponit.We find little in this work that deferves a moment's attention, or, if we except the abuse scattered profufely on Mr. Burke, that would excite the leaft oppofition.

A Letter to the R. R. the Archbishops and Bishops of England; pointing out the only jure Means of preferving the Church from the Dangers that now threaten her. By an Upper-Graduate. 8vo. Is. John on.

The under graduate has indeed lately become an upper graduate;' but the fly author of this ironical tract is a very different perfon. He recommends, forfouth! a general council, with John of Lambeth at the head, and aims fome fhrewd jefts at the Reformation; which, by putting the Bible in the hands of the laity, laid, as he contends, the foundation of the prefent difpute. He is a reviewer 100, and we shall give a spe-cimen of his humour from this part of the pamphlet:

I have read almost every pamphlet that has been writtes on the fubject fince last year; and I confefs my heart is grieved to think that your lordship fhould have fuch feeble defenders.Your full and fair Difcuffions, my lords, though printed at the Clarendon prefs, difcufs only a few grains of academical duft from the author's feet; duft collected in the dirty lanes of Ox ford, and unapt to blind the leaft perfpicacious eye. -Your Obfervations, &c. from the fame quarter, are only obfervable for their low price: nineteen pages for fix pence, is dog cheap! -Your Hiftorian of the Teft Act has trampled on the very firit and fundamental rule of history.-Your Clerical Apologift for the Liturgy, makes a moft wretched apology indeed!Your Birmingham Sermon-maker, even with the aid of Pindar's poetry, can scarcely keep his reader awake to the end of his prologue.-Your Complete Refutation completely fhews the impotency of its author to refute :-And all the Effays, Letters, and Lampoons that have been written in your favour, on this occa fion, have only ferved to make your cause appear more desperate.' The Diffenters' prefent Claims confidered in a Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Warrington, on the 30th of January, 1790. By Edward Owen, M. A. 8vo. 1s. Printed for the Author. We have already faid that we hate politics in the pulpit; yet Mr. Owen has often the claim of candour, moderation, and truth on his fide. We mean not to impeach his veracity or good intention, but in the heat of controverfy, who can pre end to be exactly informed on every point?

Obfervations upon the rev. Mr. Owen's Sermon, preached in the Parish Church at Warrington, on the 30th of January, 1790. By the rev. Jofeph Bealey. Svo. 15. Johnfon.

Mr. Bealey differs from Mr. Owen, as two men of liberality educated in oppofite fects and with different views may be fuppofed to differ. He fights clofely and fairly; and though we find a little of what has been ftyled the seasoning of controverfy,' yet as we have examined much more illiberal replies, we think this before us candid and moderate. We do not perceive that he has mifreprefented any thing, purfued a triumph to an illiberal exultation; or, on the other hand, materially changed our views of the controverty. In one or two inftances he produces authority inftead of argument, which, in his fituation, he should have avoided. Indeed Mr. Bealey tells us that he speaks only as an individual, and that the other Diffenters speak in the fame manner: the intemperance, therefore, of a few, is not properly applicable to the whole body.

The Debate in the Houfe of Commons on the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, March 2d, 1750. Second Edition. 8vo. 15. Stockdale.

We notice this work a fecond time chiefly to show how much every party appears to be interested in the decifion, and the arguments which probably occationed it.

Some Strictures on a late Publication, entitled Reafons for seeking a Repeal of the Corporation and Teft Acts, by a Diffenter. By a Churchman. 8vo. IS. Rivingtons.

The pamphlet referred to occurs in our laft Number, p. 341. But we must observe, that in this inftance, the Churchman appears to us inferior to the Diffenter.

A Letter to the Parliament of Great Britain, on the intended Ap plication of the Proteftant Diffenters, for obtaining a Repeal of the Corporation and Tift Acts. By a Member of the University of Cambridge. To which is added, a genuine Extract of a Letter from King Charles I. to his Son the Prince of Wales, afterwards King of England. 40. 15. Rivingtons.

This Letier may furnish fome occafion of triumph to the Dif enters, for it is vulnerable in many parts. The only strong ground which our author has taken, is the exultation expreffed by feme eager zealots on the fubject of the French revolution. The letter of Charles is not very important in this view, for is it forprifing that he fhould with to preserve the church of England inviolate, or entertain a great antipathy to Diffenters ?

Au Addrefs to the Diffidents of England on their late Defeat. 8vo. 15. Johnfon.

Of our author's abilities we have little doubt, but of the tem-. per which dictated this Addrefs we can fpeak with litt e refpect.

Difappointment, rancour, and malignity, appear under the thin difguite of apparent candour and diffembled moderation; and we could wifh fuch fpirits to feek in the free tranfatlantic states, or in the neighbouring delightful land of liberty, a refloration to thofe privileges of men on which the nobleft natures fet the highest value. We can have no objection to this emigration, for malignity in confequence of difappointment, would have been triumph, defpotifm, and intolerance in the hour of fuccess or of power.

Some Remarks on the Refolutions which were formed at a Meeting of the Archdeaconry of Chifter, held at the City of Chefter, on Monday Feb. 15th, 1790: with fome Obfervations on the late Arguments of Mr. Pitt, and the Conduct of Mr. Burke, relative to a Repeal of the Tft Aa. By the rev. J. Smith. 8vo. Johnfon.

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A new mixture compofed of ingredients from old phials; the focial contract, the rights of citizens, and eligibility to office, the crambe recocta of many a tirefome pamphlet, not improved by its new form.

A Vindication of the Modern Diffenters against the Afperfions of the rev. William Hawkins, M. A. and the right rev. Author of a Review of the Cafe of the Proteftant Diffenters, with reference to the Corporation and Teft As. By Samuel Palmer. 8vo. 15. Johnson.

Mr. Palmer began his pamphlet with a reply to Mr. Hawkins on the fubject of the life of Dr. Watts, and finished it more popularly by an anfwer to a pamphlet attributed to the bishop of St. David's, entitled a Review of the Cafe' (Crit. Rev. p. 349.) The controverfy on the life of Dr. Watts refers to his laft fentiments on the Trinity, to the importance of fice enquiry, the authority of the church, and the different opinions of the members of the established church. In the third letter Mr. Palmer proceeds to a fubject which excited our curiofity of the dangerous tendency of the fentiments of Diffenters to church and state; but we own it is imperfectly gratified. The fentiments of the Prefbyterians, he contends, have fuffered lefs alteration than thofe of the clergy fince the days of the Puritans. How is this proved? We fhall find a great variation in the opi nions defended in their fermons and writings: for if we would look for the fentiments of their ancestors, they will be found in the tabernacle: obfervation fhows this gradual change very dif tinctly to our eyes, for in a long extenfive acquaintance with Diffenters, where we ufed to find Calvinifts, we now meet with profeffors of very different opinions; Arians are become SociHians, and the former Calvinifts, a fect diftinguished by the name of rational Diffenters, compofed of Arians, Socinians, or of the varying fhades between Calvinifin and Arianism, or between this and Socinianifm. The clergy, on the contrary, have been gradually verging towards Arminianifm, and a few to Arianifm;

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