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his fucceffor Henry the third took advantage of, by felling licences for fuch a difpenfation. Petyt. M.S. vol. vii. p. 261, 263.

HOWELL in his Londinopolis relates a circumftance which happened to a Jew in the reign of Henry III. He had by accident fallen into a privy on his fabbath, and would not fuffer any one to take him out, though rather a neceffary work. The Earl of Gloucefter not only fuffered him to continue in this filthy fituation his own fabbath (Saturday), but would not permit any perfon to take him out on the Sunday, being the fabbath of the Chriftians: the Jew, by this cruel joke, was fuffocated.

Some centuries afterwards, when more humanity might have been expected, SIR EDWARD COKE mentions a great number of Jews, who were permitted by the mafter of a ship to take a walk on the fea fhore while the tide was coming in, which he reprefented to ebb, and by this horrid deceit, were furrounded by the fea, and drowned. The only reflection which the lord chief juftice of England made upon this is," Thus. perished these infidel Jews."

By the Speculum Suevicum," If a Chriftian man had a connexion with a Jewefs, or a Jew with a Christian woman, the parties fo offending were to be laid upon one another and both burnt to death. A fimilar punishment was inflicted in France for the fame offence; " because," fays an author, a worthy pupil of thefe ignorant ages," to defile one's felf with a Jew, is equal to the crime of beftiality

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A law of Venice, made in the year 1443, was comparatively mild :-"If a Jew lie with a common proftitute who happens to be a Chriftian, he fhall fuffer an imprisonment of fix months."

In France, in the reign of Louis IX. when Jews gave evidence againft Chriftians, they were obliged to fwear by God's

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ten names, with a string of terrible imprecations if they fwore falfely." May the Lord (faid the clerk of the court), fend you both the ague and fever, if you swear falfely; may he destroy you in his wrath; you, your family, and all your fubftance may your enemies feize on your poffeffions, and abuse your wives; may the fword of death, may fear and trouble haunt you every where; may the earth swallow you up like Dathan and Abiram; may all the trefpaffes of your fathers, and all the curfes contained in the law of Mofes, fall on your head."-To all which these miferable objects of the public execration, answered three times, "fo be it."

GEMELLI, who was at the fiege of Buda, in 1686, says, that the Jews, found in that town, were immediately fold by the imperial army as flaves. SIR THOMAS SMITH alfo obferves, that in his time they were confidered as flaves in all parts of Europe. "Commonwealth of England," p. 123.

HENRY VIII. tenacious as he was, exprefly gave up the title of King of France, by his own mouth, at the celebrated meeting between him and FRANCIS I. near Ardres;" il commença à parler, je Henri roi, il vouloit dire de France et d'Angleterre; mais il laiffa le titre, et dit au roi, je ne le mettrai point, puifque vous etes ici; car, je mentirai, et dit, je Henri, roi d'Angleterre." Montfaucon's Antiq. de la Monarchie Francaise, tom. iv. p. 197.

In BRADY's history there is a particular account of the pay of Edward the third's army, in the twentieth year of his reign. The Black Prince's pay was 20 thillings per day: the fum total for which an army and fleet of 31,294 men was to be paid and fubfifted for fixteen months, is 12,720l. 2s. 9d.; a fum which would not last a modern fleet and army of the fame ftrength five days.

REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. AN Efay on musical Harmony, according to the Nature of that Science, and the Principles of the greatest mufical Authors, by Augustus Frederick Chriftopher Kollman, Organist of his Majesty's German Chapel, St. James's.

Dale.

This fcientific and elaborate work, the price of which we do not find in the title-page, is, we understand to be comprized in two folio volumes. The first

we now have before us, and shall enter as largely into the merits of the undertaking as the space to which the plan of our magazine confines us will allow. This ingenious and induftrious musician, after laying down the scale both in its natural and improved ftate, explains the modern diatonic, the chromatic, and the enharmonic fyftems; which, according to his own just reasoning in his masterly intro

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duction, fhould have an early attention in every didactic work; because, "the study of mufic, as of the other fciences, fhould commence with the elements: which may be confidered, either phyfically, according to their generation and duration, or mathematically, according to their menfuration or formation into intervals. He then proceeds to explain the intervals both mple and compound, and enters minutely into all their properties, connections, and bearings; adding general rules concerning their employment, both in harmony and melody, in the courfe of which he introduces many juft and fenfible remarks on harmonic combination. Treating of chords in general, he confiders them directly and inversely, as employed by fuf, penfion, anticipation, and tranfition; and in his remarks on accidental chords, makes a judicious diftinétion between the fyftems of Rameau, Marpurg, and Kirnberger. Thefe parts of his general fubject occupy the first feven chapters of his work; the eighth chapter treats of the fignatures of chords in thorough bass, in which the author is particularly explanatory, and perfpicuous; and developes, to the fatisfaction of the ftudent, whatever in this stage of his advancement it becomes neceffary for him to know. In the fucceeding chapter he leads the reader to the confideration of cadences, perfect, imperfect, interrupted and uninterrupted; and treats this department of his fubject with that fulness and that addrefs which evince him to be thoroughly mafter of the tafk he has undertaken, and qualified to impart that ample information which the English tyro has long wanted. In a word, this treatife, while it fmooths the road to proficiency, reflects much honour on the talents and profeffional learning of Mr. Kollman. A work which fo copiously embraces its fubject; and the first volume of which comprizes one hundred and twenty eight pages, neceffarily comprehends too many interefting particulars for us to proceed any further in our remarks at prefent; but, in juftice to the author and the mufical public, we fhall refume them in our following numbers.

The new Hours of Love, a Collection of Canzosets containing Morning, Noon, Evening, and Night. Particularly adapted for the Harp or Piano-Forte, with an Accompaniment for the Violin, or German Flute. Compofed by Mr. Hook, Op. 91. 4s.

Lavenu.

Mr. Hook, in this his ninety firft work, has difplayed a warmth and floridity of fancy, which argue him to be amply qualified to renew his Hours of Love.

The former production under this title procured this ingenious and voluminous compofer fo much credit that we do not wonder at his being at length tempted to write a counterpart. We have perused the prefent publication with uncommon pleature. Many of the ideas are strikingly novel; and, indeed, a moft pleafing chain of melody runs through each of the four canzonets, while the accompaniments are every where calculated to heighten and enrich the general effect. "Why bufy Boys," a Sonnet, compofed by William Linley, and fung at the Dilletante Concerts, by Mafter Elliot. Is. 6d. J. Page.

This agreeable little fonnet opens with a recitative; after which it proceeds in the manner of a ballad, repeating the fame melody to three fucceffive verfes. The recitative is expreffively conceived, and the air is natural, easy, and novel. The unexpected, yet well-prepared, modulation into the third minor of the origi nal key, is at once uncommon and particularly happy.

The Bird Symphony, as performed on the Flagelet by Mr. Ling, in Harlequin Highlander, er Sawney Bean's Cave. Compofed and arranged for the Piano-Forte, by Mr. Sanderfon. Is. Riley.

The Bird Symphony is an ingenious imitation of the various notes and melo

dies of the feathered tribe. Mr. Sander

fon has, with great judgment, avoided all modulation; and has introduced the feveral birds in that order which best contrafts and fets off their various warblings. We have heard this fymphony in the band, and could not but receive much pleasure from the natural and sweetly-varied effect of its imitative passages.

Three Canzonets for one and two Voices, with an Accompaniment for the Piano-Forte, humbly dedicated to Lady Bromley, by John James Skillern. Ashley. 5s.

Mr. Ashley has difplayed fome talent, and a refpectable degree of science in thefe canzonets. The first, the words of which are taken from the old ballad, "Why heaves my fond bofom," beautifully fet by the late Dr. Howard, prefents a smooth and easy fucceffion of ideas, and blends the two voices, for which it is compofed, with addrefs and effect. The fecond canzonet is for a single voice. The melody is pleafing, and the accompaniment well imagined. The third is alfo for a fingle voice; is agreeable in its air, and bears the ftamp of fancy and judgment.

A nery

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* Elvers Hob,” a Glee, compofed by J. W.

Calcott. 2s. 6d.

Skillern. "Elvers Hob” is among the most agreeable of Mr. Calcott's vocal productions. It comprizes four movements; the first of which is in. 2-4ths moderato, the fecond in 2-4ths larghetto, the third in 6-8ths allegretto, and the fourth in 2-4ths moderato. The effect is pleatingly varied by the folo parts which the author has judiciously introduced; and the different movements fucceed each other with a ftriking relief.

The Union, or mutual Harmony, written by W.
Swords, and fet to Mufic by J. Sanderson. Is.
Thompson.
The melody of the "Union," though
not remarkable for its originality, is
fmooth and eafy, and prefents the ear
with a natural and connected fucceffion of
paflages. The bafs, we are obliged to
fay, is not always the beft that might
have been adopted; yet, it is no where
offenfive to the ear, except in the first bar
of the last stave in the first page.
General Kofciufko's grand March, compofed and
arranged (with Variations) for the piano-
forte, by Mozart. Is.
Rolfe.
This pleasant and animating march,
by the addition of variations, is converted
into an agreeable and improving exercise
for the piano-forte. Indeed they are all

fo well conceived, in point of liveliness,
and dce adherence to the theme, that we
wish they had been more numerous: fo
judicious a hand might have given us
more than three variations, without the
danger of fatiguing our attention.
Tom Cleruline, fung by Mr. Dignum at the The-
atre Royal, Drury Lane, written and compofed
by William Linley. Is. Thompfer

racteristic ballad; the melody moves
"Tom Clewline" is a pleafing cha-
finoothly, but Mr. Linley has not always
paid fufficient attention to the accent; and
the bafs might, in a few places, have been
more fcientifically chofen; as, for in-
stance, in the third bar of the last stave of
the first page.

Pfalmody improved; containing upwards of seventy portions of the Pfalms of David, and thirteen Hymns for particular occafions; the Mufic felected, adapted, and composed by William Gresham, Organist of Dunstable. 6s.

Prefton

This collection of church and chapel mufic, befides the compiled compositions, contains adapted interludes, and a new Te Deum, Jubilate Deo, Cantate Domino, and Deus Mifereatur, compofed by the editor, who profeffes fo to have conftructed them, as to exprefs in his mufic "the accent, and fyllabic quantities of the words." We have attentively perufed the whole, and find the felections made with tolerable taste and judgment; but do not discover any thing ftriking or novel in Mr. Grefham's compofition; nor does he appear to have attained any new and improved mode of expreffing "the accent and fyllabic quantities.' The book, however, contains fixty-four quarto pages, and prefents the reader with a collection, decent in the aggregate, and which may be found a convenient acquifition to country choirists.

A CORRECT LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. The following is offered to the Public as a complete Lift of all Publications within the Month.-Authors and Publifhers, who defire an early Notice of their Works, are intreated to tranfmit copies of the fame.

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DRAMA.

The Spaniards in Peru, or the Death of Rolla, a tragedy, in five acts, tranflated from the German of Kotzebue. By Mifs Plumptre; and the original of the admired Play now performing at Drury-lane, under the title of Pizarro. 2s. 6d. Phillips. The Force of Calumny, a play in five acts, tranflated from Kotzebue, by Mifs Plumptre, 2s. 6d. Phillips.

The Caftle of Montval, an original tragedy, in five acts, now performing with univerfal applaufe, at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, by the Rev. T. S. Whalley. 2s. 6d. Phillips. The Noble Lie, from the German of Kotzebue, by Maria Geifweiler. IS.

Robinfons.

The Captive of Spilfburg, as performed at the Theatre, Drury-lane. 1s. 6d. Stace. The Horfe and the Widow, as performed at the Theatre, Covent Garden, taken from Kotzebue, and adapted to the English ftage, by T. Dibdin. IS.

Barker. What is She? A comedy, performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. 29. Longman and Rees.

EDUCATION.

French and Italian Verbs, regular and irregular, upon an entirely new construction 15. Richardfon.

Elements of Geography, exprefsly defigned for the use of schools, by the Rev. H. S. I. Bullen. 3s. 6d. And a Sett of Outline Maps, as Trial Exercifes, adapted to the above. Is. Hurft. A Praxis of Logic for the ufe of Schools, by obn Collard. 5s. boards. Johnson. Philofophical Queftions, felected for the ufe of the upper claffes in fchools, by Ralph Hartley, teacher of the Mathematics, Berkhamfted. 3s. Murray and Highley. Dilworth improved; or a New Guide to the English Tongue, by S. James, formerly of Christ's Hofpital. 18. H. D. Symonds. The Crefted Wren, by Edward Auguftus

Kendall.

Is. 6d. Newbery. The Enchanted Mirror, a romance. Is.

LAW.

Newbery.

A digefted Index to Durnford's and Eaft's Term Reports in the Court of King's Bench, from 1785 to 1798 inclufive, by T. E. Tomlins, of the Inner Temple. 8vo. 12s. boards.

Butterworth.

Decrees of the Court of Exchequer in Tythe Caufes, from the ufurpation to the prefent time, by Hutton Wood, volume the 4th, and laft. 15s. boards. Robinsons.

Juridical Arguments, by Francis Hargrave, Efq. including thofe delivered by him on the Will of Peter Thelluffon, Efq. 4to. vol. 2d. 11. 11s. 6d. Robinfons.

The Cafe upon the Will of the late Peter Thelluffon, Efq. by Frantis Vefey, jun. Efq. barrifter. 5s. fewed. Brooke and Rider.

A Synopfis of Practice; or General View of the Time when the proceedings in an action

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Facts and Obfervations relative to the naprevailed in Philadelphia, in 1793, 1797, and ture and origin of the peftilential fever which 1798. By the College of Phyficians of Philadelphia. 9d. J. Phillips.

The Medical and Physical Journal, conducted by Doctors Bradley and Willich, No. 4. to be continued monthly, price 2s. Phillips.

Law.

Further Obfervations on the Variola Vaccinæ, or Cow-pox, by Edward Jenner, M. D. 2s. 6d. Practical Obfervations on the Difeafes of the Army in Jamaica, as they occurred between the years 1792 and 1797. And on the means of leffening mortality among the troops, and among Europeans in tropical climates. By William Lempriere, apothecary to the forces, 2 vols. 13s. boards.

Longman and Rees. An Effay on the most rational means of preferving Health. With Anecdotes of Longevity. 35. boards. Wallis. Remarks on Mr. John Bell's Anatomy of the Heart and Arteries. 2s. 6d. Robinfons. An Effay on the Caufes, early figns, and prevention of pulmonary Confumption, for the ufe of Parents and Preceptors. By Thomas Beddoes, M. D. 5s. boards.

The Phyfician's Vade Rev. Fofeph Townshend.

fewed.

Longman and Rees. Mecum, by the Fifth Edition. 4s. H. D. Symonds.

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6 vol. Royal 4to. embellished with a portrait, and 61 other copper-plates, 61. 6s. bds. large paper, 20 guineas. Robinfons. The Medical and Phyfical Journal, conducted by Doctors Bradley and Willich, No. 4. to be continued monthly price 2s. Phillips.

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The English Negociator, French and En. glish, compofed of familiar letters and converfations and letters on commercial correfpondence, by J. A. Romain. 5s. Richardfon. An Interview between the Spirit of Pope, and the fhade that affumed his name. 6d.

Hatchard.

Report of the Committee on Finance, upon the Court of Juftice, and Offices dependent upon them. 2s. 6d. Clarke and Son. The Annual Regifter, for the year 1792. 2 parts, 13s. boards. Rivingtons. The Annual Regifter, (Proprietor of Dodley's) for the years 1792, and 1793; each 8s. 6d. half bound. Otridge and Son.

The Debate at the General Court held at the India Houfe, December 6, 1798, refpecting the Penfion granted to Lord Hobart, 2s. Debrett.

A Letter to the Lord Mayor, on the high price of Coals, by a Citizen of London, Is. Cawthorn. Hiftorical View of the Rife, Progrefs, and Tendency of the Principles of Jacobinifm, 2s 6d. Wright. Practical Philofophy of focial Life, or the art of converfing with men, after the German of Baron Knigge, by P. Will, Minifter of the German Congregation in the Savoy, 2 vols. 8vo. Ios. boards. Cadell and Davies.

METAPHYSICS.

Antient Metaphyfics, vol. 6, which completes the work. 4to. 15s. Cadell and Davies.

MILITARY.

Grove Hill, a defcriptive Poem; and an
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A French Epiftle in verfe, from the Devil
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Cawthorn.
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Bedford Lodge of Free Mafons, 35.
H. D. Symonds.

POLITICAL.

Speech of the Right Hon. John Fofter, in a Committee of the Houfe of Commons of Ireland, April 11, 1799, on the Union with Great Britain. Robinfons.

The Speech of Lord Sheffield, April 22, 1799, on the subject of an Union with Ire land, Is. 6d. Debrett. The Speech of Lord Minto, in the Houfe of Peers, April 11, 1799, refpecting the Union with Ireland, 2s. 6d. Stockdale.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

A Digest of the Income Tax, with expla natory notes and obfervations, by William Withers, Efq. Recorder of York, 2s. 6d.

Richardfon.

An Account of the Proceedings of the Governors of the Houfe of Induftry in Dublin, for two years, IS. Cadell and Davies.

THEOLOGY.

A Vindication of the Church of England, intended as a refutation of Mr. Towgood's arguments on which he grounds his diffent, by T. Andrews, 1s. 6d. Cadell and Davies.

Eight Sermons, containing answers to fome popular objections against the neceifity of the credibility of the Chriftian Revelation, preached in the prefent year, before the University of Oxford, at Bampton's Lectures, by William Barrow, LL.D. 75. boards. Rivingtons

Sermons preached before the University of Oxford, in the year 1798, at a lecture founded by the Rev. John Bampton. By the Reg. Charles Henry Hall, B. D. 5s. boards.

Rivingtons.

Sermon occafioned by the death of the Rev. Review of a Battalion of Infantry, including Richard Winter, by John Humphreys. Dilly. the Echellon Manœuvres, illustrated by a fe- Journal through the North of England, and ries of engraved Diagrams, with a Defcription part of Scotland; with remarks on the fate explaining the Duty, and afcertaining the fitu- of the established Church of Scotland, and ation of the Officers; forming an Introduc- feceffions therefrom. Reflections on Party tion to this Syftem of Military Difcipline. diftinctions in England, &c. defigned to pro8vo. 8s. 6d. boards. Egerton. mote brotherly love and forbearance, by Razv Relation of the Military Operations in Ireland Hill, A. M. 2s. 6d. Chapman. land, in confequence of the landing of the French troops in 1798. By an officer who ferved in the campaign. 2s. 6d. Egerton. The fecond part of the Light Horfe Drill, intended for the ufe of the Volunteer Corps. By a London and Westminster Light Horfe Volunteer. 75. Egerton.

NOVELS.

The Heirefs of Montaldi, or the Castle of
Bezanto, by Mrs. Anne Ker, 2 vols. 7s.
Earl and Hemel.

POETRY.

Innovation, a Poem, 4to. 2s. 6d.

Cadell and Davies.

MONTHLY MAG. No. XLV.

Confiderations on the Nature and Efficacy of the Lord's Supper, by Vicefimus Knox. D. D. 35. boards. Dilly.

Sermon preached to a Country Congregation. To which are added, Hints for Sermons, intended chiefly for the ufe of the younger clergy, by W. Gilpin, Prebendary Q Salisbury. 8vo. 6s. boards. Cadell and Davies.

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