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THE

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LONDON REVIEW;
For A PRI L, 1786.

CONTAINING THE

LITERATURE, HISTORY, POLITICS, ARTS,
MANNERS, and AMUSEMENTS of the AGE.
By the PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY of LONDON.
[Embellished with, 1. A Striking Likeness, engraved by HOLLOWAY, of Mrs.
FITZHERBERT. And 2, A Perspective View of LUDLOW CASTLE, in SHROPSHIRE.]

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tical Club. -On the just Standard of Homer's Merits Curious Particulars of the Horfes of this Country in Ancient Times Abridgement of a very curious Work (little known), entitled, "Pictor Errans," written by M. Phil. Rohr, 241 Florio and Lucilla; or, The Virtuous but Fatal Elopement. A Moral Tale Leaves collected from the Piozzian Wreath lately woven to adorn the Shrine of Dr. Johnfon [continued] Some Account with Regard to the Travels of James Bruce, Efq. of Kinnaird. Said to be written by the Hon. Daines Barrington, Efq.

The London Review with Anecdotes
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Great-Britain including Lords Debates on the Mutiny Bill-New Bill for regulating the Eaft-India Company and Metfage on Civil Lift Deficiencies. -Commons Debates: including Abstrast of the Public Receipt and Expenditure -New Bill for regulating the East India Company- -Newfoundland Fishery-Bill-Minifter's Plan for the Redemption of the National DebtBudget for 1786-Mr. Burke's Charges against Mr. Haftings-Civil Lift Deficiencies-Augmentation of Salaries of Scotch Judges-and Greenland Whale-Fishery

Poetry including Translation of an Italian Sonnet upon an English Watch, By Mrs. Piozzi-Ode on the Siroc. By William Parfons, Efq.-Verfes to Mrs. Piozzi, placed under a Print of Dr. Johnfon in her dining-room at Florence. By William Parfons, Efq. -Hymn to Death. By-Merry, Efq. -The Ghoft of Edwin-Verfes written at Southampton, April 12Congreffiad: or, A Poem upon Nothing, Book the Firft, &c. &c. Theatrical Journal: including an Account of the April Fool

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Political State of the Nation and of Europe, for April, 1786. No. XXVI.

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Letters concerning the Northern Coast of
the County of Antrim. By the Rev.
William Hamilton, A. M.
258
Monro's Structure and Physiology of Fishes 262
Melvyn Dale: a Novel. In a Series of
Letters. By a Lady
A Poetical Review of the literary and
Moral Character of the late Samuel
Johnfou, LL. D. with Notes, by John
Courtenay, Efq. and a Variety of other
new Publications
Journal of the Proceedings of the Third
Seion of the Sixteenth Parliament of

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Foreign Intelligence

Irish Intelligence

Number of Convicts at Lent Affizes

Monthly Chronicle, Preferments, Marriages, Obituary, Bankrupts, Barometer, and Thermometer, Prices of Stocks, Grain, &c.

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ENIS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We acknowledge ourselves to have been entertained by P. Quarre's Defcription of a celebrated building in the Weft, ridiculing, we believe, the description of a Library in Dorsetshire, and admire the humour of it; but as we believe the majority of our Readers are not liable to Dr. Johnson's cenfure of Pope and Swift, who, he fays, "had an unnatural delight in ideas phyfically impure, fuch as every other tongue utters with unwillingness, and of which every ear fhrinks from the mention," we must decline inferting his favour. On other fubjects we shall be glad to hear from him.

C. J.'s correfpondence will be acceptable.

We have not received the remainder of D.'s Journal; and we make it a rule to begin no fubject until the whole of it is before us.

The account of the Life and Writings of Captain Edward Thompson is received. Since our last we have received the following Letters: Buxton Lawn's (in our next), Judex, A. F. W. S. Lentulus, The Man of the Hill, Betfey Thoughtless, and Hampden.

The continuation of the Critique on Warringtan's Wales, Bofwell's Tour to the Hebrides, and Tranfactions of the Literary Society at Manchefter, as well as Theatrical Regifter, with various other articles, intended for this Number, are unavoidably omitted for want of room. AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from April 10, to April 15, 1786.

Wheat Rye Barl. Oats Beans
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THE

EUROPEAN MAGAZINE,

AND

LONDON REVIEW;

For APRIL, 1786.

1

For the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE.

An ACCOUNT of Mrs. FITZHERBERT.
[With an ELEGANT ENGRAVING of HER. ]

DEEMING it our duty to furnish infor

mation concerning fuch perfons as may at any time become the objects of publick attention, we fhall, for the entertainment of cur readers in the prefent month, leave both the great and the learned, to pay our refpects to a lady, whofe fame is, in a great meafure, owing to her perfonal accomplishments; whofe talents are spoken of in terms of high admiration; and who may hereafter furnish materials for a few pages in the works of the English hiftorian.

The caprices of youth, the influence of beauty, the charms of wit, or the neglect of prudential rules, when opposed to an irrefiftible and all-fubduing paffion, are themes upon which we might dilate for feveral pages. The confiderations arifing from fuch fubjects will, however, hardly efcape the obfervation of even the most abfent reader. In the walks of private life, we fee a great portion of the unhappiness of mankind flow from these fources. In publick life, they have overturned empires, deluged kingdoms with blood, and entailed mifery on millions of the human fpecies.

who fell a facrifice to the riots in the year
1780. He had been a fpectator of the de-
vaftations made at Lord Mansfield's houfe
in Bloomsbury-square, and heated himself
extremely; in which state returning home,
he imprudently went into a cold bath, which
produced a fever that killed him. Mrs. Fitz-
herbert foon afterwards went abroad, but
having lately been noticed by a Great Perfon-
age, she has appeared in the gay world with
remarkable splendour and diftinction. In
what character fhe is to be confidered, whe-
ther as wife or widow, conjecture alone can
be exerted. Many vague and improbable
rumours have been circulated, many impro-
babilities confidently afferted. With much
falfehood there is likely to be fome fmall
portion of truth; but in what degree as we
prefume not to be at prefent fully acquainted
with, we fhall not venture to mislead our
readers with the reveries of credulity or the
hardiness of misinformation. If it should
appear that the Publick are interested in
the domestic concerns of any perfon's private
life, we doubt not but the wisdom of the
great council of the nation will be properly
employed in investigating truth and filencing
falfehood, in order for the prevention of fu-
ture mifchief. Should it, however, be found
that it noways imports the community at large,
we shall not hesitate to pronounce any further
inquifition to be both unneceifary, but imper-
tinent; and under that impreffion fhall
until another opportunity (if any fuch shall
offer) poftpone any further confiderations on
the prefent fubject.

Mrs. Fitzherbert is the daughter of Walter Smith, Efq; formerly of Tonge Castle, in Shropshire, and niece of Sir Edward Smith of Acton Barnell in the fame county, of Lord Sefton, and of Mrs. Errington of the Stable Yard St. James's. She was born in October 1755, and married, firft, John Weld, Efq; of Lulworth Castle, in the county of Dorfet, a widower; who dying, the united herself in marriage with Fitzherbert, Efq; of Swinnerton, in Staffordshire, a gentleman

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