The Epitaph on Mr. F. in our next. We are under the neceffity of poftponing the account of the famous Museum of Dr. Hunter to our next. Amico's Letter of the 25th ult. came too late this month. In the last of the two elegant fonnets, inferted in p. 235, eleventh line, for "paints very pang," read "points every pang." This error of the printer confiderably changes the fenfe. We thank S. C. for the fonnet, and imitation of the French fong; and are fill more indebted to him for his promife of further contributions. In anfwer to L. L. we inform him, that our plan of publishing the Lectures of the prefent Profeffors of the Arts and Sciences, will certainly extend to the Universities of Scotland. The fame Correfpondent's obfervations on our work, are flattering to us; and we truft that in the inftances to which he alludes, there will be no caufe for complaint. The Author of the Sentimental Tale of Henry and Eliza, intreats the indulgence of our readers to next month, for the continuance of the Story. We value the correspondence of L. D. and hope that an attention to the uniformity of our plan, will not deprive us of his literary labours. The marking of emphatical words is obfolete. We thank him for his pieces, and affure him they fhall be correctly printed. it. We are very much entertained with L. D.'s critique on A and wish he had purfued "Our withers are unwrung"--for the compliment was paid to the chafle delicacy of the two fonnets, inferted in our laft. He will find two pieces from the fame hand in the prefent number, on which we give him free leave to exercife his talent of criticism. Damnonienfis is under confideration. If Laicus will perufe again, the article on which he writes to us, he will find that we paffed no eulogium on the doctrine of the gentleman alluded to. Chriftianity fhall never be made fport of in the European Magazine. Clio's piece is come to hand; and we hope this valuable Correfpondent will fee no reason to charge us with partiality. We have received Mr. Shaw's angry letter, and inform him that the Anecdotes were written by a Gentleman of the University of Glasgow. It is fomewhat frange, that he who makes fo free an ufe of the afperities of language, when he speaks of others, fhould be hurt when they are retorted on himself. In the Elegy on the Lofs of the Royal George, flanza xvi. 1. 2d. for "How faft," read "Flow faft."-laft flanza, ed. l. for "thee needful aid," read "the needful aid." In the Country Curate, No. 1. p. 180. 1 col. laft line, for partionary," read portionary."-Next paragraph, for "warble," read "while," and in the next fentence for "humble," read "humbler." We affure Mr. Thicknese, that we defigned no attack on him, either in the cafe of Dr. Stephenfon, or of the Extract from Duten's. We should be happy to have been honoured with his friendship, but we care not for his enmity. It is true, as Lumley fays, that our Memoirs of General Elliot differ from thofe in another publication. We however pledge ourselves for the authenticity of our's, The Man of the Country in our next. Verex, R. W. and feveral other Favours are under Confideration. A moft elegant Ladies Pocket-Book. THIS DAY is Publifhed, Price One Shilling, bound in Red, [Embellished with a moft beautiful Allegorical Frontifpiece, reprefenting HERCULES and NEPTUNE affifting BRITANNIA at the Siege of Gibraltar; with a diftant View of Lord Howe's Fleet relieving the Garrifon. Likewife a capital Vignette of Mrs. SIDDONS and Child, in the dying Scene of the Tragedy of ISABELLA, and a beautiful engraved Title,] FIELDING's Ladies Pocket-Book, For the YEAR 1783. Containing Anecdotes of the celebrated Mrs. Siddons. Alterations and Arrangements in the Opera House, and Theatres Royal. Together with the Vauxhall Songs. Country Dances. Curious and diverting Anecdotes. Poetry. Fifty-two Pages for Memorandums, &c. &c. very different from any thing hitherto publifhed in that form. Printed for JOHN FIELDING, No. 23, Paternofter-Row. Of whom may be had, FIELDING and BAKER's New Daily Journal for 1783. Illustrated with 4 Correct Map of the Roads of England and Wale, &c. &c. price only 19. 6d. THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND. LONDON REVIEW FOR OCTOBER, 1782. MEMOIRS of the LIFE and MILITARY SERVICES of ADMIRAL LORD HOW E. Embellished with an engraved HEAD. HE right honourable Richard Howe, Vilcount Howe of Langar in the county of Nottingham, Vifcount Howe, Baron of Clarrawly in the kingdom of Ireland, Baronet, Admiral of the Blue, Lieutenant-General of Marines, and Commander in chief of the Western fquadron, was born in or about the year 1722. He is the fecond fon of Scrope Viscount Howe, Baron of Clarrawly, by Lady Charlotte, daughter to the Baron Kilmanfegg in Germany, who was mafler of the horfe to King George I. as Elector of Hanover. The Baronefs Kilmanfegg, Lady Sophia Charlotte, was daughter to Count Plater of the empire of Germany, and was herfelf created firft Countess of the province of Leinfter in Ireland, and afterwards Baronefs of Brentford, and Countess of Darlington in England. The family of Howe were of diftinction in the county of Somerset for feveral generati ons. The manor of Langar, in the county of Nottingham, came into the poffeffion of the family by the marriage of John Howe, Efq. with Arabella, daughter of the Earl of Sunderland, whofe eldeft fon, Sir Scrope, was created a Baron and Vif count, and was fucceeded by Scrope, the father of the prefent Lord Howe, in the year 1713. He entered at a early age into the naval fervice. His first fleps as a fubaltern we have not been able clearly to afcertain. There is a very ce urable filence in the naval annals of England with refpect to individuals. Ships are mentioned without any notice of their commanders, and thus many of the juvenile, but brilliant exploits of our countrymen, have been trufted to the fhort-lived gratitude of public memory. On the 10th of April 1746, we find by the Navy Lift he was made a Poft Captain in the Triton man of war, and in June 1752 was appointed to the command of the Dolphin. In the beginning of the year 1755, when Britain faw that the defigns of France were hoftile, Admiral Bofcawen was fent with a fleet of obfervation to stretch along the American coaft; in this fquadron the honourable Captain Howe commanded the Dunkirk; his fhip, together with the Defiance, fell in with the Alcyde and Lys, two French men of war, which had been feparated from the fquadron of M. Bois de la Mothe, off Newfoundland. They required them to pay the ufual compliment to the British flag, which they refufing, Captain Howe and Captain Andraws brought them immedi ately to action, and that fo clofely, that a man killed on the yard arm of one of Hh 2 the the French hips fell into the Dunkisk. They were both captured, and thus did the honourable Captain Howe frike the first blow of that memorable war in which the naval honours of England were carried to their higheft pitch. He lof go men in the action. On board the French fhips were eight companies of land forces, and the governor of Louifbourg, together with 0,000l. This engagement happened on the 15th of June. He continued in the command of this fhip until the expedition was formed against Rochfort, when he was appointed to the Magnanime of 74 guns, in the fleet under Admiral Hawke. Captain Howe led the van in bearing down on Aix, a fmall island fituated oppofite the mouth of the river Chasante, leading up to Rochfort. The fort on the land began to fire on the Magnanime, but her commander kept on his courfe without difcharging a fingle gun until he came abreast of the battery, when dropping his anchor, he poured fuch a torrent from his whole broadfide, as drove every man from the guns in the fort, and foon after the French colours were truck. The expedition itself failed, and Captain Howe was almoft the only man who had any honour in the bufinefs, and his was the honour of accident. In the year 1758, Captain Howe was choten by that great and difcerning ftatefman, Mr. Pitt, to command and direct a fecond expedition to the coaft of France. He failed from Portsmouth in the quality of Commodore, with one line of battle hip, the Effex, three fifties, feven frigates, fix floops, with fire-fhips, bombs, tenders, cutters, and tranfports; the troops were commanded by the Duke of Marlborough. On discovering Cape La Hogue, the Commodore directed his courfe between the Continent and the island of Alderney. This channel is called the Race, on account of the uncommon rapidity of the torrent, and Commodore Howe was the first Englishman who was bold to fal with a fleet of fhips through this dangerous pals. They fleered directly for the Bay of St. Maloes, and came to an anchor within three leagues of the place. The town was found to be too ftrong for an attack, with any probability of fuccefs; be therefore contented himfelt with fetting fire to about an hundred fail of ships, many of them privateers, and to feveral magazines of haval flores. They then proceeded to Cherbourg, and made difpoftions for landing the troops, but the wea ther proving tempefluous, they did not hazard the debarkation; but though defer red, it was not laid afide. They arrived In the following year, 1759, he was appointed to the command of the Magnanime, in the fleet under Admiral Hawke, ad he greatly contributed to the conqueft, and fhared in the honours obtained in Quiberon bay. No man can be ignorant of that memorable battle. The noble lord kept an inceffant fire on the Heros, and obliged her to frike, but the wind blew fo high that no boat could be fent off to take poffeffion of her, and in the night the ran afhore. On the goth of September, 1760, on board the Magnanime, he commanded an expedition against a fort on the island of Dumet, having, befide his own fhip, the Prince Frederic and Bedford. The fort foon yielded, and was ftripped of its cannon and flores. In the fame year he was appointed appointed one of the Lords of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York. Soon after he was appointed Colonel of Marines; and in 1762, when the Duke of York, who had been bred under Lord Howe, went out as Rear-admiral, he had the noble Lord fill as a tutor, in the quality of Captain. In 1753 he was appointed one of the Lords of the Admiralty; and in 1765 was made Treaturer of the Navy. He was promoted to the rank of Rear-admiral of the Blue; and in 1776 to be Rear-admiral of the White, and Lieutenant-general of the Marines. He fat in the Bitith Houfe of Commons as Member for Dartmouth. When the diforders broke out in America, which, by the weak adminiflration of our affairs, at laft involved us in the prefent most difaftrous war, Viscount Howe was chofen to command the fleet in America. His conduct in that flation, in circumstances of peculiar difadvantage, are freth in the memory of every man. The manner in which he was left by the Admiralty of England to encounter a fleet of France, dreadfully fuperior to him, is well known, and alfo the manner in which he conducted himself, for the deliverance of his armament, and the honour of his flag; fix fail of fixty-four guns, three of fifty, two of forty, with fome frigates and floops, were all the force that Lord Howe had to oppofe to twelve fail of line of battle fhips, and three frigates. It is not in the power of words to do juftice to the animation that blazed forth on this occafion. The fpirit of Britons, roufed by the commanding genius of one man, fet the enemy at defiance. The fhips were deficient in their complements; a thoufand volunteers from the tranfports prefented themselves to man the feet; the foldiers, unaccustomed to a fea-life, and to its duties; officers with their wounds ftill green; and the mafters and mates of the merchantmen all folicited employment on board, with equal ardour and earneftness, and feveral of them took their flations at the guns with the common failors. In this traggle of mananimity it appeared, that the ancient fpirit of Britain was not extinét; it only wanted to be awakened and directed, in order to ftrike its ufual terror. Lord Howe did not difappoint his brive followers D'Efaing was difcomfited at his arrangement; he could not make an impreffion on his line, and he yielded to him a glory which has fcarcely been paralleled. The weak and wanton attack made on his Lordfhip's difpofition, by a parliamentary officer, hardly deferves our notice. He arraigned him for not having opposed two frigates to a line of battle, and averred it as a doctrine in naval tattics, which he pledged himfelf to illuftrate by his practice, if he thould ever be gratified with the opportunity, that a frigate of forty guns, and one of thirty-fix guns, was equal to a third rate of feventy-four guns. How he has verified his doctrine, let his conduct in Port Paya Bay afcertain. The answer which he received in the House of Commons was just and laconic-“ That Admiral Lord Howe would not condefcend to receive inftructions from Captain Johnflone." To the injury of leaving Lord Howe expofed, without occafion, to a fuperior enemy, the Minifters added the infult, after his conduct, of a recal; in confequence of which he declared, he could no longer at while the Earl of Sandwich was at the head of the Admiralty. He retired; but in an inquiry in the Houfe of Commons, which he purfued with the eager confidence of honesty, he clearly demonftrated the ability of his conduct. On the late bappy change of men and fyftem, however, the noble Lord was created an English Peer, by the flile and title of Vifcount Howe, of Langar, in the county of Nottingham; was promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Blue, and appointed to the command of the grand fleet. The important expedi tion on which he is now employed, draws upon him the eyes of Europe, and thehopes of Britain. His fleet, indeed, is inferior to the combined enemy; but the experience which the nation has had of his talents, and comprehenfion of his mind, give them well-founded expectations of an honourable and advantageous decifion, thould an engagement take place. The important intelligence has arrived, that by the intervention of feasonable fonus, he has poured his fupplics inte the garrifon of Gibraltar, without difturbance from the enemy. Should they oppofe his return, may the event add new laurels to his brow. The noble Lord married Mary, daughter of Major Hartop, of Welby, in Leicesterfhire, by whom he has iffue three daughters, Sophia-Charlotte, Mary, and Louifa. SCHOOLS SCHOOLS OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. No. II. Syllabus of a Courfe of Lectures on the principles of Surgery, delivered by Mr. JOHN HUNTER, F. R. S. St. James's, London. HIS very celebrated Course confifts Tof fear in hundred Lectures. It begins in the month of October, and continues till April, and is given every other evening, from feven to eight o'clock, the honorarium being four guineas. proper Mr. Hunter's Lectures do not contain a Courfe of practical Surgery, with the Operations neceffary for different cafes but his purpofe is to give a comprehenfive view of the fyftem, and inveftigate the principles upon which the practice of furgery is founded, viz.-To fhew the actions of the body and its parts when in the difeafed ftate, with the actions and effects of nature to recovery-and the neceffary and affiftance to be given by the Surgeon. The principles of difeafes are the firft parts of furgery to be learned. They are to the Surgeon what the first principles of the mathematics are to the practical geometrician, without the knowledge of which a man can neither be a philofopher nor a Surgeon. In our refearch after difcafes, fays Mr. Hunter, we ought not only to understand the cafe, which becomes the immediate object of Surgery, fuch as inflammation, fuppuration, mortification, &c. but alfe the caufe of the effect; for without this knowledge our practice must be very confined, very precarious, and often applied too late. This knowledge opens to the furgeon varieties of treatment. It teaches him in one inftance to remove the caulein another to increase the effect-in another to change it to fome other difeafe and gives him, what is the moft effential point, the knowledge of the proper moment for the furgical operation, where an operation is neceflary. In the animal body the power of refloration to a flate of health, arifes out of the Animal from its own mechanifm and action. If the Animal was in all cafes equal to the tafk there would be no occafion for the Surgeon; but it is neceflary in many cafes to affift nature by the introduction of artificial powersto increase the living powers of the Animal when they are inadequate tard them when violent- or to change them when wrong. Both the chymical and mechanical powers are made ufe of in Surgery Chymifry is introduced to deffroy what cannot be altered--and mechanics frequently reflore what had been to re accidentally or artificially deftroyed. It Mr. Hunter having obferved, that the greatest part of the books published in Surgery, contain little elfe than relations of cafes, and modes of treatment, and that the practitioners have been too eafily fatisfied with a collection of facts, with out embracing the catalogue of difeafes as a Syftem,-proposes in his courfe to examine the theory and principles of difeafes in a regular feries. His doctrines are drawn from perfonal obfervations made in the course of an indefatigable life, with the conftancy of a moft adventurous mind. His ideas, his mode of reafoning, as well as his arrangement of diseases are new; and he therefore has received little aid from books or from other profeffors. — The novelty of his ideas occafion alfo the application of new terms,—and those which he has given, he may confider as clear and explanatory, fince they are adopted by others, and brought into ufe. The Courfe begins with the Phyfiology, or natural Hiftory of the Animal; but fo far only as is neceffary to the underflanding the principles of diseases; in which new ideas and new arrangements of the fubjeff are introduced. The Phyfiology of Difeafes followsthe action of medicines-and brings him to the confideration of difeafes in general. The Difeafes of accident being the moft obvious and fimple, in preventing the natural operations of the Animal, be |