J. STOCKDALE, Piccadilly.

Small Sheets.

47. A Letter to the Volunteers, on their Military Syftem. 48. Corporal Trim on the Invafion.

49. "To the Inhabitants of the British Isles." An Addrefs, figned PHILO BRITANNIARUM.

50. INVASION. Scene of a Play. Enter John Bull and Bonaparte. 51. John Bull to his Brother Patrick in Ireland.” A Letter of Advice.

52. Rife in Defence of your Country.

53.

HATCHARD, Piccadilly.

Broad Sheets.

"An Addrefs to ENGLISHMEN." Signed TIMOLEON. 54. Plain Anfwers to plain Queftions. In à Dialogue between John Bull and Bonaparte.

55.

56.

Small Sheets.

"BRITONS TO ARMS." An Addrefs, concluding, "But we dare to Conquer!"

"A King or a Conful." An excellent Ballad, to the tune of Derry down. Sold alfo by Rivingtons and others.

57. Countrymen! A Scene from the Poet Maffinger.

58. The Patriot-Briton; or, England's Invafion.

59. The Voice of the British Ifiles. A Song.

60. A Second Dialogue between John Bull and Bonaparte. 61. Death or Victory; or, a British War Song.

6z. The Choice.

63. Fall or Conquer.

64. The Confequences of Bonaparte's fücceeding in his Defigne against this Country.

65. A Dialogue between a British Tar juft landed at Portsmouth, and a Brave Soldier lately returned from Egypt.

66. Invitation to repel Invasion. A Song.

67. Song, to the Tune

over us?

68. British Raft. A Song.

Hearts of Oak." Shall Frenchmen rule

69. The British Flag maintained.

70. A Briton's Addrefs to his Countrymen.

73. Song of Death.

RICHARDSONS, Royal Exchange.

72. English, Scots, and Irifhmen. A Patriotic Addrefs to the Inhabitants of the United Kingdom. By John Mayne.

73.

RIVINGTONS, St. Paul's Church-Yard.

My Friends and Countrymen." Signed AN OLD WHIC.
NICHOLSON, Clerkenwell.

74. "People of the British Ifles." An Addrefs, figned A VOLUN

TEER.

РЕСК,

PECK, 47, Lombard-Street.

75. "The Loyal Briton's Song," beginning,

"Britons fam'd in ancient story."

A well-written compofition.

LANE, Leadenhall-Street.

76. "Hearts of Oak, or the British Empire." A Ballad, to the old tune of Hearts of Oak.

WALLIS, Ludgate-Hill.

77." A Relifh for Old Nick." A Ballad.

E. PIERCY, 96, Bull-Street, Birmingham.
An Half-Sheet, folded.

78. "The Lion Sleeps." An Addrefs of the celebrated Jos Norr, to his Brother Artificers; full of the found fenfe and patriotic energy, which have always diftinguifhed his addreffes.

FOREIGN CATALOGUE.

GERMANY.

ART. 51 Efai fur les monumens typographiques de Jean Guttemberg, mayençazis, inventeur de l'imprimerie; par Gotthelf Fischer, profeffeur et bibliothécaire à Mayence, des fociétés philomatique et médicale d'émulation à Paris. Mentz. An x. 410.

This work being very interefting in itfelf, and accompanied with curious and well-executed engravings, certainly merits the attention of the learned, and gives Mr. F. a jult claim to their efteem. Ibid. ART. 52. Ueber die Sage; das Archimedes die Raemifche Flotte vor Syrakus durch Brennfpiegel in Brand gel llt habe; eine Eidadungf fchrift zur Beyer des Stiftung flages des Cafimirianifchen Gymnafiums;

Johann Friedrich Facius, ord. Lebrer der griech. Sprache und Aufseher der Bibliothek.-Differiation on the tradition that Archimedes fet on fire the Roman fleet before Syracufe, by means of reverberating mirrors, by J. F. Facius, &c. Coburg, 4to. 1802.

In this inaugural difcourfe, Mr. Facius, who is well known by his edition of Paufanias, his history of automatons, and fome differtations on my thological fubjects, difcuffes this question, whether it be true that Archimedes fet on fire the Roman fleet by means of mirrors? He first relates the fact, according to the common opinion, after which he propafes this question: were the ancients acquainted with burning mirvers, and is it poffible to conftruct them fo as to produce fuch effects?.

Pliny attefts the existence of burning mirrors, different paffages of Plutarch and of Paufanias how that they were employed in the temple at Delphos, and in that of Vefta, to light the perpetual fire, and that Numa made ufe of them. The poffibility of giving to a glafs a fufficient focus to burn at a great distance is not contested; befides it appears, that the Roman veffels approached very near the walls. There remains ftill another question to decide: is this recital exact? On what authority is it funded? The authors who have treated in the moft circumftantial way of the fiege of Syracufe, fay nothing of it. This fact is only related by writers of the lower times, fuch as Galen and Lucian, who lived in the fecond century of the vulgar æra, by Anthemius, who lived in the fixth, and by two grammarians of the 12th century, Tzetzes the commentator of Lycophron, and Euftathius the commentator of Homer; even Galen mentions only the pitch which fet fire to the veffels, but fays nothing of the mirrors. Nor indeed does Lucian fpeak of them; it is therefore Anthemius, who in a mathematical work compofed under Juftinian, is the first to tell us how he thinks Archimedes might have fet fire to the fleet of the enemy. According to Tzetzes, he made ufe of an hexagonal mirror, and of feveral fquare mirrors placed at different diftances. In all thefe authorities, there is but little certainty; it is evident, that before Authe mins, the general opinion was only that Archimedes had, by mechanical means, fet on fire an enemy's fleet with combuftibles, but nothing was faid of mirrors; it appears even that it was not at the fiege of Syracufe by the Romans that he thus burnt the veffels, fince the historians of this fiege make no mention of them. Zonaras informs us, that the mathematician Proclus fet on fire, from the walis of Conftantinople, with the aid of burning mirrors, the fleet of Vitellianus, which was laying fiege to the city in the twelfth century. This might have been quite fufficient to induce Anthemius to believe, that the mechanical means employed by Archimedes, as stated by Galen and Lucian, though without any fpecification of their nature, were the fame. Such is the opinion of Mr. Facius on the subject; and this opinion is, we think, not improbable. Ibid. and Jena ALZ.

ART. 53. Ueber den Raub des Palladiums auf den geschnitteten Steiner des Alterthums eine archeologische Abhandlung, von Konrad Levezow Effentlichem Lebrer am Königlichen Friedrich-Wilhelms Gymnafium in Berlin, nebft zway kupfertafeln.—On the feizure of the Palladium, reprefented on ancient engraved Stones; an archeological Differtation, by C. Levezow, &c. with two plates. Berlin, 4°.

An ancient bronze, found in the marche of Brandenburg, the fubject of which relates to the feizure of the Palladium, engaged Mr. L. to undertake the researches, the refults of which are configned to the work we here notice. Extending thefe refearches, he confi-, dered all the engraved ftones belonging to the fame fubject, and claffed them in this differtation, which may be looked upon as a very excellent one on this point of archæology.

The numerous monuments of all kinds which are come down to us fufficiently fhow in what degree the ancient artists derived their materials

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rials from the hiftory of the war of Troy, which has been celebrated by Homer and other poets. The feizure of the Palladium is one of the events which have been moft frequently reprefented, and in the most uniform manner. In Toffie's catalogue, there is a lift of 78 engraved ftones, which reprefent this fubject, and even this list is by no means complete.

Before he enters upon the glyptic cycle of the feizure of the Palladium, Mr. L. gives a fuccinct hiftory of it, from the ancient authors who have spoken of it. He then arranges the different engraved flones into five elafles, according to the action which they reprefent.

The great number of engraved ftones relating to the feizure of the Palladium leads Mr. L. to fufpect, that they ferved, in fome measure, as amulets; that there was attributed to them a certain protecting virtae, which they derived from the ancient Palladium; and that it was owing to this opinion, that fo many cities of antiquity pretended to be poffeffed of it. From the fame circumftance, the author likewife conceives it to be probable, that there muft fometime have been fome public celebrated monument, fome painting, or bas-relief, which ferved as a prototype to all thefe works of the glyptic art.

Ibid.

Ακτ. 54. Μάρκου Αντωνίνου Αὐτοκράτορος τῶν εἰς ἑαυτὸν βιβλία, ιβ'. Marci Antonini Imperatoris Commentariorum, quos ipfe fibi fcripfit libri duodecim. Graca ad Codicum Mflorum fidem emendavit, notatisnem varietatis &ionum et interpretationem Latinam caftigatam adjunxit, Gatakeri aliorumque notas cum fuis animadverfionibus indicibufque locupletiffimis adjecit, Johannes Matthias Schultz. Volumen primum, Antonini textum Græcum, interpretationem Latinam, et lectionum varietatem continens. Schlefwig, 1802. cxlvi. and 457 pp. in 1. 8vo. pr. z Rixd. 20 gr.

Though the editor had before published a German tranflation of Marcus Antoninus, he was, however, not duly qualified to undertake a new edition of the works of fo difficult an author, or to avail himself properly of the important materials, fuch as the collections of feveral MSS, the obfervations of diftinguished philological fcholars, &c. with which he had been favoured. In his corrections of the text he declares, banc mihi feripfi regulam, ut folam editionum antiquiorum et codicum MStorum filem fequerer, nec nifi rariffime, et in iis quidem locis, ubi certa videbatur emendatio, conjecture ope depravata emendarem. Unfortunately, this is by no means the cafe.

According to the editor, the tranflation is formed from the three versions of Xylander, Cafaubon, and Gotaker; but, in our opinion, with little judgment in the choice in regard to the verfions of particular paffages, nor indeed is the Latinity itfelf always correct. Notwithstanding thofe imperfections, the edition is rendered valuable by the materials already mentioned from which it is compofed, and we have only to exprefs our regret that, inftead of the prefent editor, the edition did not fall into the hands of Schweighäufer, who would unqueftionably have made a much better ufe of them. Jena ALZ.

ACKNOW.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have received a very mild and friendly remonstrance from a learned and eminent Profeffor in Scotland: in answer to which, we hatten to confirm his fuppofition, that though our own principles, and the particular circumstances of our national Church, make it neceffary for us at present to mark our oppofition to Calvinifm, we are far from intending any kind of reflection against the Established Church of Scotland. If Calvinifin, as there taught, be not "gloomy and dangerous," it certainly is fo, as taught by the English Methodifts, as is daily evinced by its confequences. With refpect to Calvin's notions of co-operating Grace, we acknowledge, that we conceived him in that refpect to oppofe St. Austin.

To Octavius we fhall only fay, that we do not fee any material difference between oppofing a peculiar kind of enthufafm, and oppofing the operation of it in particular persons; and that if it is not founded on falfe pretences, or at leafl falfe notions and imagination, it does not deferve the name of enthufiafm, in any reproachful fenfe.

The following note, being fhort, we fhall infert as it is.

Note for the British Critic.

"A Tranflation of Zollikofer's Sermons is reviewed in the British Critic for July; which Sermons, in the year 1789, were published by Mr. White, in Fleet-Street, under the title of Moral and Philofophical Eftimates of the State and Faculties of Man, &c. in a Series of Didactic Lectures." The work, which was then an original, is now a Tranflation. Is this one of the wonderful effects of the French Revolution? If it is, and authors are to be thus degraded, it is high time for the whole brotherhood to take the field, regardless of lives and ink, when reputation is at stake."

July 4, 1803.

We confefs that we knew nothing of the prior publication here mentioned. But what the matter has to do with the French Revolution, or how the former work, if in English, could be an original, we cannot guefs. Mr. Z. furely did not write in English. Nor do we fee precifely why authors should take the field, because a second tranflation is publifhed, when

a former exified.

Mr. Johnfon Grant, Curate of Warrington, informs us, that his Manual of Religious Knowledge, noticed in our last, p. 85, may be had by writing (poft-paid) to Mr. Henry Potter, Aughton-Street, Ormfkirk. We approve of his propofed alteration in the paffage refpecting Godfathers, and of his reasons in the other cafe. Since he has favoured us with his name, we perceive that we reviewed a Sermon by him, in our vol. xvi. p. 323.