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demical schools, but against some modern profeffors in the fchools of anatomy; in fhort, he tells us, that Homer derived all his knowledge during his travels in Egypt, and that Virgil acquired all his medical fcience during his refidence at Athens. The letters likewife contain a criticifm at large on Milton's Paradife Regained: yet the whole colle&ion contains but one poem, viz an Ode to the Spirit of Alfred; this is not devoid of fpirit, but by no means equal to that animated Pindaric, the Ode to the WarJike Genius of Great Britain, which may be now read with a two-fold purpofe, as being hiftorical of the military preparations for the internal defence of the kingdom during the fummer of the year 1778, as well as applicable to the prefent.

119. Sonnets and other Poems by the Rev. W. L. Bowles, 4. M. late of Trinity College

Oxford.

On the Death of Henry Headley, of Trinity College, Oxford.

"To every gentle Mufe in vain allie', In youth's full early mora Eugenius died! Ah! long had Sicknets left her pining trace, Rueful and wan, on each decaying grace; Untimely Sorrow touch'a histhough ful mien, Defpair upon his f.ding fmile was feen! Yet Refignation, mufing on the grave, When now no hope child cheer, no pity fave, And Virtue, that fearce felt its fate fevere, And pale Affection, dropping foft a tear For friends belov'd, from whom the foon minst part,

Breath'd a fad folace on his aching heart. Nor ceas'd he yet to ftray, where, winding wild,

The Mates' path his drooping steps heguild, Intent to rescue fome negléted rhime, Lone-blooming, from the mournful wae of time; [to fm le And cull eich fcatter'd feet, that feem'd Like How'rs upou fome long-for faken pile. "Far from the murmuring cowd, unften,

he fought

Each charm congenial toh's fadden'd thought. When the grey morn illum'd the mountain's fide,

To hear the fweet bird's earlic & fong helved;

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When meekest eve to the fold's diftant bell Liften'd and bade the woods and vales farewell;

Mufing in tearful mood he oft was seen The laft that linger'd o'er the f ding green. The waving wood high o'er the cliff reclin'd, The murmuring water-f..ll, the winter's wind, [fuit, His temper's trembling texture feem'd to Like airs of fadnefs the refponfive inte. "Yet deem not hence the focial fpirit dead, [ings Aed. Though from the world's hard gaze his feelFirm was his friend hip, and has faith fincere, And warm as Pity's is unheeded tear That wept the ruthlefs deed, the poor man's fate,

By fortune s storms left poor and defolate.

Farewel! yet be this humble tribute paid To all thy virtues, from that focial thade Where once we fojourn'd.-I, alas! remain To mourn the hours of youth (yet mourn in vain)

The better path; and that high meed, which That fled neglected.-Wifely thou haft trod

God

Ordain'd for virtue, towing from the dust, Shall blets thy Labours, fpirit pure and just !"

120. The Infant Vifio of Shakespeare; with an Apostrophe on the, immaculate Bard, and other Poems. By Mr. Harriton.

IT would be in vain to ceny the praise of elegance and harmony to thefe poen's. They are certainly unequal, and in fome places bear evident marks of late, but they are often animated, and never contemptible. The following may be confidcred as neither the beft nor work specimen of the author's manner.

MORAL REFLECTION.

Soon, beneath the brightest skies,
Clouds appear, and forms arife,
W the heavens, tempeft torn,
Seem with earthly grief to moura.
Where would human folly run,
From the gloom that dims the fun?
Can a fordid thing of clay
Soar above the orb of day?

Silly mortal, not to know,
Ev'ry blfs must have its woe;
Ev'ry beam of light, its thade,
Ev'ry tint of beauty fade!

Sille mortal to repine,
That the lot of nature's thine.

in the character of a poet. And, if his verfification is unequal, he has acquitted himself to univerfal fatisfaction by the folidity of his remarks and the jufinefs of his precepts. He is a true judge of the fimplicity of nature; and it is not to be wondered at, that a critic of Mr. K's tatte expreffes himfeif of Sir William Chambers with acrimony, of Mr. Brown with contempt, and of Mr. Repton with impartiality. The truth is, tafte is not more to be purchafed now than it was in Mr. Pope's time. A profeffor of tafte is a ridiculous animal, and, though he may caftrate or diftort nature by artificial vagaries and undiftinguishing loppings, her elegant fimplicity will rife fuperior in the eyes of men who are not interested by wealth, fashion, or parade, to fubftitute the nothingnels of their own ideas to her realities. By chance perhaps, as at Blenheim, a tafte-monger may strike out a lucky improvement; but how many naked Dryades and Hamadryades have been turned adrift, and left to utter their loud lamentations, without an echo to repeat them! There is one unanfwerable objection, if there were no other, to this inroad into landfcape, by malfacre of wood, that furveyors never plant in the proportion they cut down. Mr. K. has illuftrated his judicious obfervations by two landicape, engraved by Pouncy from drawings by Hearne, one drefled in the modern style, the other in the antient or undieffed.

122. Obfervations on the Effects of Buxton Water. By Jofeph Denman, M. D.

THE larger part of this effay confifis of the hiftory, fituation, and climate; the ftructure of the earth, and ufe of the 1prings, and the analyfs of mineral waters in general, and thefe in particular. The obfervations of a medical man, refident on the fpot during a practice of 40 years, on their effects, defeive due attention, though not drawn up in a very methodical form. In ftomach and bowel cafes, thefe waters feldom fail to give Speedy and permanent relief; alfo in the tonic gout, but not in palfy, except as to the debility occafioned by it: in nervous cafes, owing purely to the weakness or irritability, the water and air of Buxton g nerally produce fome benefit: alfo in Icrophulous diforders, except thofe attended with fever and affections of the cheft; but they are not to be used in the fmalleft appearance of hectic. Nephritic complaints often receive a fudden relief from the Buxton waters. On the whole,

it is in chronic diforders only that they have any pretenfions to celebrity; and they are often prefcribed to be drunk in too large quantities. Bathing in them is useful in many diforders of the stomach and bowels, many affections of the Kidnies and bladder, without calculus. It has feldom done harm in the gout, and is peculiarly useful in chronic rheumatifms, though the pains of both are increafed by it for a few days. Little can be faid of its effects in paralytic cafes, but many diseases of the skin receive confiderable benefit from it. Dr. D. prefers the ufe of the bath after exercile between breakfast and dinner to the morning.

123. A Tour through the Theatre of the War in the Months of November and December, 1702, and January, 1793. Interfperfed. with military and other Anecdotes. To which is fubjoined an exact and authentic Account of the Death of Louis XVI. The fecond Edition.

ALL that is new in the fecond edition' of this tour, being an appendix, containing a flarement of the temper and refources of the French nation at the com mencement of hoftilities between France and England, with fome confiderations on the relative fituation of the two countries, we may venture to give one opinion on both editions, that the articles of belief in our political creed are not to be given up as erroneous on ANONY MOUS evidence. John Bull, with all his inconfiftencies, would be a very weathercock indeed, were he fo led by the nofe.

124. Reafons for national Penitence. Recom

mended for the Faft appointed Feb. 28, 1794. WHETHER or not this comes from

the fame pen as "Sins of the Nation," on the former faft of 1793. we agree with our brethren the Monthly Reviewers, XIII. p. 474, that "writers on both fides have fhewn no moderation in their fears. This party believes the conftitution to be in the extremeft danger from French principles and French menaces; and that, from fome feverities practifed at home, not altogether compatible perhaps with the fpirit of a free government. Our comfort is, that the predictions of political feers obtain at moft but a partial completion."

125. The Retrospect, or Reflections on the State of Religion and Politics in France and Great Britain. By the Rev. John Owen, A. M. Fellow of Corpus Chrifti College, Cambridge. THE author was of the number of thole who admired with enthusiasm the reformation

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reformation of the French monarchy by the events of the first revolution. Having had opportunities of obferving the country at the very diffimilar periods of July, 1790, and September, 1793, he received impreffions of a very oppofite nature, and finds motives of abhorrence to the later revolutions in the principles that led him to applaud the firf. The reflections which entue were written with no ftudied attention to method, and were dictated by no influence but that of conviction. They are fent into the world in their imperfect ftate, left the delays neceffar to render them more worthy of the public patronage should preclude the ufes they were intended to ferve. It was judged unneceflary to crowd the pages with references to fads, as the records of thefe are in the recollection of every one. If it be afked to what party the auchor belongs, he can only reply, that the fpirit of his fyftem is, to fear God, to honour the King, and to love the Brotherhood; and that, zealous to fupport the dignity of bis profilioss, the authority of his Sovereign, and the rights of his fellow-fubje&s, he acknowledges no party where thefe principles are not revered."...." Whether Momarchy or Republicanifm be moft favourable to general freedom is a queftion which, in reference to the reform of antient empires, it must now appear too late to agitate. Ere the fatal experiment was made upon that country, whofe name now revolts the feelings of humanity, ere the rueful confequences had proclaimed its inexpediency in letters of blood, men might have difcuffed, with cool and harmlets difceptation, a queftion which still remained undecided in the theory of politicks. But, at a period like the prefent, when, flained with the guilt of unprecedented crimes, Republicanifm is taking in giant info ence over the ruins of a demolished Monarchy, when, brandifning a more than tyrant feep re, it is fastering the chains of unparalleled barbarm upon the yield ing fubjects of its cruel authority; when martyred fovereigns heap its altars, and bleeding patriots adorn its orgie; when hol; faith and Christian devotion exibit their lacerated forms, and Ay before the demons of its impious idolatry; when the antient profellors of established religion are abjuring, with public blafphemy, the God they ferved; when the hoar prieft is immolating his antient functions to the Baals of pretended phi. lofophy, and demolishing thofe altats

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which once fmoked with the incenfe of his facrifice; in fuch a moment, and in the face of fuch enormities, to move a queftion were to offer an apology, and to execrate were almoft to approve" (pp. 20, 21).

The impiety and irreligion of France has "not only fubverted the shrines of a corrupted faith, but even profcribed, with unrecorded fceptic:fin, the univerfal principle of an acknowledged Divinity" (p 26).

"Viewing, in an eftimate of equitable allowance, the prominent features of the British character, it will not be found that religious influence exifts in fo reduced a proportion as is generally imagined. That Chriftianity fails of its due authority in controuling the fallies of fashionable diffipation, and operating the purity of dignified example, will readily be allowed; and those who are interested in its univerfal damnation will fecretly deplore the obftructions to its empire; yet, admitting the prevalence of vice and corruption, admitting the influence of practical depravity, the fanctions of Chriftianity ftand at leaft undi'puted: whatever corruptions may tarnish the conduct, the fyftem of faith is at least defended from facrilegious degradation; whatever crimes or follies may deform the purity of practical character, till the bounds of Virtue and Vice are religioufly preferved, and the rites of Devotion are revered by those who are abandoned to the pollutions of Vice and Immorality” (pp. 26, 27).——Mr. O. defends Ariftocracy, and the natural attachment Englishmen have to Monarchy, and fhews the abfurdity of Equality. "The queftion now no longer is, Whether the government we boat have any defects, but whether it poflefs any virtues? The contention no longer is, whether it deferve encomium, but whe ther it be worth preferving" (p. 64).

The ftate of France before the Revolution, and the feelings of Britons in that event, are well painted (p. 67, 73 ), and fo are the effects fablequent to it (p. 73, 78, 79 ); and the cha after of the British nation (p. 75). The public fentiment has been put to the fairest trial; and the refult is mor honourable to the

fidelity and the widom of a powerful" nation. The Hagrant dereliction of nonour and virtue in the conduct of our enemies has taught us to renounce the enchuftaẩm with which we eyed their freedom, and the confidence we repole in their policy. The prejudices which

fell

fell with the falling chains of antient tyranny have now revived with the reviving fpirit of foreign conqueft: their fraternizing views have excited our abhorrence, and their inflent rides for univerfal empire have ftamped them the depredators of human fociery Such have been the feelings of the British public; and generous refentment has penetrated the mation" (p. 85, 81). "Amidft reflections of fuch a nature the mind cannot dwell without advantage; and leffons of most falutary moment will not fail of impreting all ranks of polifbed fociety. If the dread decree of univerfal anarchy be not gone forth; if the wafting mell a gers of fate are not compafling the dif organization of Chriftian empires; the different orders of focial eftablishment will perfect their wif.om by the events which have now transpired, and confolidate their authority by a fyftem of more perfect policy" (p. 86). The retrospect concludes with application of the fever t Jeffons to be hence drawn by magiftrates, ftatefmen, nobles, the minifters of Chriftianity, and the inferior orders of fociety. 127. Subftance of Lord Mornington's Speech in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1794, on a Motion to dress His Ma jefy at the Commencement of the Soffion of Parliament. (See p. 86.)

THE fubance of this fpeech has been detailed in the papers of the day. It is here repub! fhed in a correct form, and, We do probably, with fome additions. not fcruple to recommend it as the beft and most comprehenfive view of the fy f tem now purfued in France, and its bleffed effects, authenticated by the fairest vouchers, the records of the proceedings of the Convention and the leaders of the feveral factions. If the eyes of any in this county want yet to be opened, Lord M. is an excellent oculift.

128. A Treatise on One Hundred and Eighteen principal Dif afes of the Eyes and Eye-Lids, &c. in which are communicated feveral new Discoveries relative to the Care of Defects in Vision; with many original Preferiptions. By William Powley, M. D.

THIS is a new edition of a very learned and elaborate work, with the true merit of which we conceive the public to be now no firanger; and it would be reedlefs for us to dwell upon its various contents, which, we make no doubt, are already well known to every reading medical angi furgical practitioner. But the title reminds us of a pallage in a very valuable and entertaining periodi

"But

INDEX INDICATORIUS.

No OCULIST defires a particular account of the Niating Membrane in animals, and to be informed why the eyes of fome quadru peds remain unclefed after death.

R. C. obferves, that the fuperitition refpecting faciament rings, p. 443, is not confined to Berkthire; he has heard of it in a County Ico miles North of Berks. That it cccurs in Gloucestershire, fee, in the prefent month, p. 597. NORFOLCIENSIS also has fent us fome inftances of it in Norfolk; and A RUSTIC SWAIN, of others in Suffex.

OBADIAH'S Letter, p. 615, was printed before the receipt of his feepnd; in which he reads Signum fan&tæ falutis, or Sigillum fanum facrum de E. Ermartin,

J. C. is informed, that the returns made by the different paribes of the particular charities which they have, have not been For the counties published by P. rliament.

of Ieic fer and Dorfet, copies have been obtained at a confiderable expence, which will be printed in their respective Hiftories.

from the feveral Defences we have tece ved of FREE MASONRY we thall felect That which one or two for next no.th. came en left is already printed, p. 613.

A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN's hints, with thofe of CHAPMAN IV, E'q. are fent to the Publiher of the Provincial Coins.

F. J's View of Cofton Chapel hill be fed on the earlieft opportun-y.

AKISTO

Rush forth, and defolate Meffene's land; Before them Death to flaughter points the way,

And with gigantic arm invades the prey. Their rage the voice of Pity not difarms, Nor virgin innocence, nor infant charms. Meffenia thus by ruthlefs foes is torn ; While Freedom flies, afflicted and forlorn, Difgraceful Slavery, rufhing with her train Of Tyrants, fwift ufurps the fair domain. Ariftodemus felt this galling itate,

And wept, indignant, at his country's fate; Her groans with forrow piere'd his manly breaft,

On which the patriot firmly was impreft.
Long had he ftrove from Sparta's iron hand
To vindicate the freedom of his land;
Oft had his fword provok'd the glorious ftrife,
For thirst of Honour quell'd the love of life;
His arm victorious taught his foes to yield,
And rear'd immortal trophies in the field.
But who can thun the Fates' impending rod,
Or 'ícape the vengeance of an angry God!
His country still is gor'd by hostile bands,
And tott ring on the brink of ruin ftands.
The Hero weeps, aband n'd to defpair,
Conjuring heav'n to mitigate his care;
Each pious office he renews, and tries
To pacify the Gods with facrifice;
Then at the Delphic fhrine explores the will
Of Fate, portending either good or ill,
The Prieftets fpeaks; this anfwer is decreed;
"A Virgin of Alcides' race muft bleed."
These words the heralds to the chief relate,
And ftamp the fentence of his daughter's fate;
For he alone did boast Herculean blood,
Which Pho-bus claim'd the price of public
good.
[doom,
He hears the priests announce her deftin'd
While grief o'erwhelms him with the deep.
eft gloom.

This way and that he feels himself inclin❜d,
And doubts, with strong perplexity of mind,
Whether with greater tace his breaft thould
move,

A Patriot's duty or a Father's leve. [gain,
While thus he doubts, and can no purpofe
Approves, rejects, but foon approves again;
The frantic mother comes, with piteous cries
Implores him to renounce the facrifice.
His infant offspring in this awful strife,
Seems with his looks to beg his fitter's life.
Clofe lands her lover, quite congeal'd with
fear,

And, like a ftatue, cannot drop a tear,
His tongue, with horror stiff, forgets to move,
And his eyes darken with excefs of love.
But the fweet victim hears the gen❜ral woe!
Tho'ept by all, her tears difdain to flow.
"What grief, fhe çries, what terror fhould
I feel?

My bolom burns to prop the public weal;
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"If great Apollo's will has thus decreed, "I for Meffene am prepar'd to bleed! "But, hark! I hear my country's loud acclaim, [Aame;

"And my foul kindles with a gen'rous "For, fcorning earth, it feon fhall nobly rife "On wings of fame, tranflated to the fkies." Her words with stronger zeal inflame the

fire,

And fet, like lightning, all his foul on fire: With fudden fart (his country g'd his hand)

He plunges in her breast the reek ing brand. She falls, the patriot daughter fmiles in death, And pours in purple ftreams her flutt'ing breath.

Ah! what avails this facrifice of blood? From deeds of horror fprings a Nation's good? Still groans the country with vindictive foes, Her wounds more grievous, more increas'd her woes, [ming, glare,

Forth ftalks the Plague, with eyes that, flaAnd poifons with her breath the itagnant air; Her progrefs Death attends with wings outfpread,

And with his fuchion, like a meteor, red, Appalls the fick'ning world, while thousands

round

In dire fucceffion grafp the burthen'd ground. But ah! within the patriot's torturʼd foul, What ftorms of grief in dire convulfions roll! He fees his country gail'd with fervile chains, Her fame exti &t, and defolate her plains; He hears her cries in every blaft of wind, Her pangs he feels with pity too refin'd; And chains for ever rattle in nis ear, Which grinning flover, forc'd herfons towear, Fancy with mimic forms deludes his fight, And calls up airy phantom in the night, She bids her colours all his woe difplay, And Freedom's champions leems again to flay: Oft too his immolated child' appears, Points to her breaft, which wounds yet bleeding bears. [den pow'r Such thoughts d:ftraction breed;-with fudDefpair affails him! at this fatal hour The tomb he feeks, his ftony eyes impart The dark refolve that preys upon his heart. Portray'd fat i eath upon his ghaftly look, While thus in but'rest agony he spoke. "Q cruel Gods! if, at your dread command, [ftand, "Which wretched mortals dare not to wrh "My daughter by a parent'. poniard bled, "Why should your wrath on my devoted

head