negyric more fortunate. Of Mr. Lambton it is faid, " That gentleman behaved loyal, generous, fpirited, and proper." p. 26. The royal perfonage to whom it alludes, is compared throughout to Timon of Athens, and abundant citations from Shakspeare's drama of that name are introduced, in various modes of application. The zeal of the author against the levelling party is indeed laudable, but it is by no means happily expressed.

ART. 37. A Short Addrefs to the Yeomanry of England, and others. By John Somerville, Efq. Member of the Board of Agriculture. 8vo. 41 pp. 15. Paddock, Bath; Robinfons, &c. London. 1795

A plain, fenfible, and vigorous addrefs, from a practical farmer to his brethren, on the subject of the armed yeomanry. From the fate of Flanders, in particular, where the people lately excelled in husbandry, he urges British farmers to take warning, and to exert themfelves in the defence of the kingdom. "Do not ftand (he fays) like a flock of sheep at a ford, waiting to fee who will move first, but come forward like men."

At p. 25, we meet with a paffage which deferves to be generally known: Two examples I muft prefent to you: the firft, of the Earl of Pembroke, a field-officet in the army, now ferving in the ranks as a private in a Wiltshire corps of yeomanry :-the second, of an honest Warwickshire farmer, of the name of Cattell, who came forward, and: offered to ferve with his eight fons. His own fervices, and of four of his fons, were accepted."

ART. 38. Letters on the Subject of the armed Yeomanry; addreffed to the Right Hon. Earl Gower Sutherland, Colonel of the Staffordshire Volunteer Cavalry. By Francis Percival Eliot, Major in the above Corps. Printed at the Defire of the Committee of Subfcribers to the internal Defence of the County, held at Stafford, October 1, 1794. Morgan, Stafford; Longman, London. 29 pp.. 6s. 1795

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The first of these letters is on the difcipline of this new kind of foldiery and Major Eliot juftly maintains, that the point of perfectnefs to be aimed at by them, will be beft attained by holding to a middle course, between those who fuppofe fuch bodies fufceptible of very little; and thofe who expect they may be made perfect parade troops. That they may be brought to perfect fubordination, he fhows from a fingular fact, highly honourable to himself: he was for feveral years captain and lieutenant of a company of light infantry; during which it had not been found neceffary to ftrike, or otherwife punish, a fingle individual, a task certainly more eafy, with that ingenuous clafs of men called the English Yeomanry. The fecond of thefe letters is, on the utility of the establishment. We think it a duty to extend, as far as we can, the information contained in one of the notes on it: that the nation owes this excellent inftitution, to Mr. Arthur Young. A fimilar motive induces us to notice the argument, by which he recommends it to the English Yeoman, by contrafting the happy fecurity of his fituation, with the miferies lately fuffered by the Farmer in France: who, after having half his horfes taken

from

from him for the army, without payment, by one requifition; had a part of his crop feized for the fame purpose, by a fecond; and the highest price at which he might fell the remainder, fixed by an officer attending in the market: and having nothing now to lose but his life, was dragged to the army, to be cut to pieces, or perish in an hofpital, by a third.

ART. 39. The Means of obtaining immediate Peace, addreffed to the King and People of Great Britain. Tranflated from the French by John Skill. 8vo. 46 pp. Is. Symonds. 1795.

More exclamation against war, with the ufual arguments to prove the neceffity of a fpeedy peace. This writer infifts on the expediency and wisdom of abandoning the royalifts to their fate; this, he thinks, will deprive the war of its most envenomed edge.

MEDICINE.

ART. 40. A popular View of the Effects of the Venereal Difeafe upon the Conftitution: collected from the best Writers. To which are prefixed mifcellaneous Obfervations by a Phyfician. 8vo. 205 pp. 35. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; Robinfons, London. 1795.

The intention of this work is to imprefs on the mind of the reader a proper and adequate idea of the exceedingly malignant nature of the venereal difeafe, and of the difficulty and often utter impoffibility of completely eradicating it from the conftitution; which, if generally known, the author thinks, would deter many giddy and thoughtless young men from incurring the hazard of infection. The volume is divided into three parts. In the firft, the author gives general account of the confequences of the disease, which are fo injurious, he fays, that even in its mildest form, and when cured in the happiest manner, it is apt to leave confequences, whether known to the patient or not, which time may diminish, but which frequently terminate only with life." P. 9. Nor does the evil ftop here, the disease or its confequences are frequently tranfmitted to the offspring, and often when the parents have no fymptoms indicating its prefence. " In fhort," the author continues," it may be laid down as a general maxim, from which there are not many exceptions, that a perfon who has had a venereal complaint, never is what he was." The fecond and third parts confift of extracts from fuch parts of the works of Meffrs. Howard, Schwediaur, Hunter, Foot, and Bell, as contain defcriptions of the difeafe in its various forms and appearances, and which tend to illuftrate the principles he has adopted. But, although from this view of the fubject, the author is juftified in his general opinion of the malignancy of the complaint; and, from the examples he has adduced, he has fhown that the conftitution is not unfrequently irreparably injured, and that many perfons fall victims to its fury; yet, on the other hand, it ought to have been acknowledged, that many thoufand perfons are fo completely cured, as to leave no veilige remaining of the effects of the difeafe, or of the re

medy,

medy: And, that when the difeafe is not completely cured, fuppofing the patient to have submitted himself to the care of a skilful experienced furgeon, in a great majority of cafes, the failure arifes from his own imprudence and inattention. If young men,, therefore, when fuffering, not only the pain of the difeafe, but the irksomeness of the remedy, cannot be reftrained from continuing thofe practices which first introduced the infection, what hope is there that any painting, though ever fo exaggerated, will deter them when in health. But, although the dreadful picture the author has given of the disease, and of its confequences, is not likely to prove effectual in reclaiming the diffipated, the profligate, and the debauched, it may be productive of the worst confequences, to another more deferving clafs of perfons, who are accidental, and, perhaps, innocent fufferers. It is well known that there are many timid perfons, particularly women, who entertain the moft frightful ideas of this complaint. They are with difficulty perfuaded that it can ever be fo perfectly cured as not to leave fome impreffion on them, or to contaminate their offspring, if they fhould have any. Such perfons are frequently disturbed through life with apprehenfions of the recurrence of the difeafe, attributing to it every incidental pain or ach, every blotch or pimple, they or their children are troubled with, and very commonly the death of their children, although happening many years after they were cured, and from complaints, not having the leaft refemblance to the venereal. Inftead of ministering to and ftrengthening these prejudices, it is the duty of the candid phyfician to combat them by a fair expofition of the nature of the difeafe, and by explaining what the circumftances are which render it fo intractable and mischievous. On a just eftimate, we believe it will be found that, instead of its leaving indelible impreffions on the conftitutions of near three tenths of all the perfons who have been infected, even in the slightest manner, as this writer inculcates. p. 9, 11, &c. not more than one in an hundred are fo affected; and thefe, generally fpeaking, are, as we have before intimated, perfons who have contributed to this misfortune by neglect and inattention to the directions that were given them for their cure.

ART. 41. Obfervations on the Tuffis Convulfiva, or Hooping Cough, as read at the Lyceum-Medicum Londinenfe. Wherein the Nature, Caufe, and Cure of the Difeaje are endeavoured to be demonstrated, and the Practice of exhibiting Emetics fhewn to be pernicious and useless, By John Gale Jones. 8vo. 36 pp. Is. Allen and West. 1795.

"You will readily perceive," the author fays, in his addrefs to the Members of the Society, that this is the work of a young, and, perhaps, inexperienced man; but you will alfo acknowledge, that the interefting nature of the fabject, and its being a firit performance, entitle it to a candid and liberal allowance :" and afterwards, "The author is neither unwilling nor afhamed to confefs, that he has eftablished his mode of reafoning upon the fundamental principles of the Brunonian fyftem; nor to take this opportunity to declare, that he entertains the most profound veneration and efteem for its celebrated author; and that it is his intention, fhould his future leifure and avo

cations

cations permit, and no material obftacles intervene, to prefent before an impartial and difcerning public, a commentary and defence of this truly valuable, though much perfecuted, doctrine." This feems a bold undertaking for a young and inexperienced writer. After this, the reader who has heard of the Brunonian fyftem, and who has not heard of it, will not be furprised to find the author attribute the dicafe to debility, and propofing to cure it with wine, bark, and opium. I fhall not hefitate" he fays, p. 12, " to define hooping cough a difeafe of clear and evident debility; and one which never takes place, but in those who have either been previously weakened by fome other disease, or who, from fome unknown or unforeseen caufe, are predifpofed to this ftate." What may, however, surprise the reader, will be, to find the author, after giving this opinion, quoting as an aphorifm, the faying of a celebrated phyfician, that,

In hooping cough, change of climate is an idle tale, and the practice of vomiting, death." p. 35. But, as the first of these reme dies has long been reforted to, as one of the most useful affiftants in reftoring ftrength to perfons debilitated and worn down with disease, and the latter, with proper reftrictions and management, is frequently instrumental to the fame purpose; and, as they are both of them known to be particularly ferviceable in this complaint, we cannot join the author in his anathema against them.

ART. 42. Hints refpecting human Diffections.

Darton and Harvey.

1795.

8vo. 27 pp. 18.

This is a compofition in which there is much good-fenfe, and fome humour. The first is apparent from the perfpicuity with which the modes of preventing the terrible malady of hydrophobia, and the effects of poifons, fuffocation, &c. &c. are pointed out. The latter, which is the leading feature of the performance, exercises itself in urging the neceffity of removing all restraints upon obtaining proper objects. for anatomical diffections. To facilitate the end which the author has in view, he feriously recommends that the members of the faculty fhould unite in a fociety to diffect one another. Upon entering the fociety each member fhould be bound that, at his decease, his body fhould be difpofed of at the will of a committee, for the purpose of diffection. But, left the wives of the parties, from pure gratitude, and over kindness, fhall be induced to haften the catastrophe of their hufbands, it must be a part of the plan of the fociety to make their wives female members. The author here facetioufly indulges himfelf with the idea of having, in a phial, hermetically fealed, the fufceptible female heart, which fluttered and changed at every vow: and other circumftances of a fimilar kind. The pen which produced this jeu d'efprit, has often before entertained and inftructed the public.

MISCELLANIES.

MISCELLANIES.

ART. 43. The Repofitory of Arts and Manufactures; confifting of ori ginal Communications, Specifications of patent Inventions, and Selections of ufeful practical Papers, from the Tranfactions of the Philofophical Societies of all Nations, &c. &c. Vol. II. and III. 8vo. 18s.

Wilkie, &c. 1795.

We explained, in a former volume, (vol. v. p. 534) the defign and execution of this work; we have now little more to add than that it continues to be executed in the fame judicious manner that it commenced, and contains many interesting articles of information. The papers which are original in thefe volumes are, in vol. ii. Art. 5, 6, 23, 33, 40, 41; in vol. iii. Art. 5, 14, 15, 23, 32, 42, 42. Some articles alfo are judiciously inferted, of economical ufe in the prefent times of general scarcity; as in this latter vol. Art. 10, M. Baume's method of preparing ftarch, or flour, from potatoes; and experiments on thas root by Dr. Pearson, in Art. 53. We would alfo point out to obfervation the Experiments of Mr. Rinman, on the Means of improving Veffels in Cooking, with refpect to falubrity, ftrength, and cheapnefs, Art. 19 and 27.

ART. 44. Paris pendant l'année 1795. Par M. Peltier, ouvrage pe riodique publié tous les Samedis Matin. Four Volumes. 8vo. zl. 8s. De Boffe.

Having briefly noticed the firft fix numbers of this entertaining publication, fin our Review for July laft, p. 86.) we think proper to mention it again, now it has attained the folid confiftence of four volumes, and has completed its account of the year in which it commenced. M. Peltier very carefully digefts the most important information contained in the French papers, and collects fuch other documents as can be obtained from France, and would be otherwise unknown in this country. There cannot be a more convenient publication for those who are defirous, without much effort, to learn the actual state of affairs in France. Some of the fentiments extracted from French writings, contain very strong lessons of inftruction for parties on this fide of the water; particularly fome that appeared in the 28th number. M. Peltier, as is ufual in the periodical works of his country, occafionally enlivens his pages with fhort poems, enigmas, charades, &c.

ART. 45. Obfervations on the Importance of the Eaft-India Fleet to the Company and the Nation, in a Letter, addressed to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, one of his Majefty's principal Secretaries of State, and Prefident of the Board of Controul for the Management of the Affairs of India. By Thomas Nerte, Efq. 8vo. 50 pp. Debrett.

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