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So may thy languid limbs with ftrength be brac'd,
And glowing health fupport thy active foul;
With fair renown thy public virtue grac'd,

Far as thou bad'ft Britannia's thunder roll.
Then joy to thee, and to thy children peace,

The grateful hind fhall drink from plenty's horn:
And while they share the cultur'd land's increase,

The Poor fhall blefs the day when PIT r was born.

Art. 33. An Essay on Patriotifm, in the Style and Manner of Pope's
Effay on Man. In Four Epiftles. Infcribed to the Right
Hon. the E- of C. By a Member of a, refpectable So-
IS. Wilkie.
ciety. 4to.

The madefty of this Bard, who profeffes to write in the fyle and manner of Mr. Pope, is equal to his capacity for fuftaining the character he af fumes; as may be clearly feen in the following compliment,-which, by the way, is intended for irony; the whole poem being a lampoon on the Earl of Chatham :

While crowds applaud thee with deferv'd buzzas,

And monarchs envy Pynfent's juft-earn'd praise.

We are at a loss which to commend moft, the harmony of this couplet, or the fitness of the rhymes!What an honour must so illuftrious a fatirift be to the respectable fociety' to which he belongs! and what pity that he should deprive his refpectable affociates of any part of the credit they would have gained on the prefent occafion, had he not unfortunately fuppreffed the fociety's name.

Art. 34. Pynfent's Ghoft: A Parody on the celebrated Ballad of William and Margaret. 4to. Is. Almon.

A fcurrilous imitation of a beautiful piece of ballad-poetry. As a fpecimen of this fervile' Imitator's fancy, fpirit and politeness, we need only inform our Readers, that the ingenious gentleman reprefents the ghot of the late Sir William Pynfent, as reproaching the Earl of Chm for his fuppofed apoftacy, and greeting him by the elegant appellation of VILLAIN If this be not wit and fatire, pit, box and gallery, egad! and all that, as Bays fays, what is it?

Villain, repent!- -repent tho' late
Thy broken oaths and vows ;-

Art. 35. An Epifle to the Right Hon. the Earl of Chatham, Lord
Keeper of the Privy-Seal, &c. &c. 4to. 1s. Bladon.

If this Panegyrift of Lord Chatham's is but an indifferent poet, he appears, however, to be a modeft man ;-and that is fome merit, confidering what a coxcomb age we live in :-hear how humbly he speaks of himself:

This from a mufe, that mounts with quiv'ring wings,
To talk with minifters, and prate of kings.

Yet fearless talks,—for, conscious of no crime,
What millions fpeak in profe, fhe tells in rhyme;
And well the knows, oppreft with public care,
These idle ftrains will never reach your ear.

int, while hireling pens your place revile,
nklefs tongues infult your generous toil.

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To let these lays one Briton's vows reveal,

That Chatham long may guide his country's weal:
Then deep in Lethe's cold oblivious stream

For ever. hide her numbers and her name.

This Author's verfes may, perhaps, rank with those of the famous Daniel De Foe: we cannot affign him an higher place.

MEDICA L.

Art. 36. Medical Effays and Obfervations, being an Abridgment of the ufeful Medical Papers, contained in the History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, from their Re-establishment in 1699, to the Year 1750, inclnfive. Difpofed under the following general Heads, viz. 1. Anatomy and Surgery. 2. Essays on particular Difeafes. 3. A Register of the epidemic Difeafes, that reigned in Paris and its Environs, from 1746, to 1750. 4. Animal Oeconomy. 5. Hiftories of Morbid Cafes. 6. Botany. 7. Mineral Waters. 8. Chemistry. Some occafional Remarks are added, and the whole illuftrated with the neceffary Copper-plates. In Four Volumes. By Thomas Southwell, M. D. 8vo. 11. Knox.

The most comprehenfive plan which has been attempted in this way, was the Collection Academique :-a plan which, had it been executed, would have formed a very valuable and extenfively useful work. As to the abridgment and compilation now before us, Dr. Southwell thus explains the nature of his undertaking. I have through the whole, fays he, endeavoured to abridge the words, and not the fenfe; to retain the most effential part of the feveral difcourfes, and convey the fame in the cleareft, and moft concise manner. I could; and for that purpose I have difpofed the faid memoirs under fuch heads, as I apprehended did beft fuit with the fubject-matter. By this means I have connected under one head the fubftance of feveral memoirs, relating to the fame fubject, and for this reason.

Thefe memoirs are, properly fpeaking, fo many diftinct pieces, which were read at different meetings of the academy; now, from the inevitable imperfections attending all human compofitions, feveral of those memoirs became liable to fome objections, whence neceffarily did follow an eclairciffement in a fecond, a third, and fometimes in a fourth memoir. To inftance a cafe or two, the difpute about the circulation of the blood in the fetus, and ufe of the foramen ovale, begun between Meff. Varignon and Mery, in 1695, revived between M. du Verney fen. and the fame Mery, in 1699, continued and carried on with great warmth, in the years 1701, 3, 4, 17, 25, and not finally determined till the year 1739. Such likewife were the difputes between M. Lemery the fon, and M. Geoffroy the elder, about the artificial formation of iron, and many others.

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I have collected the fubftance of thofe feveral memoirs under their refpective heads, that the reader might at once fee the whole matter in difpute.

By obferving this method, many ufelefs repetitions are avoided, which would otherwife fwell the work, with no other advantage to the reader but to inhance the price.'

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The utility of fuch a work is fufficiently obvious; and from comparing this abridgment with the memoirs from which it is made, the exe'cution we think is, in general, anfwerable to what the Author has here advanced.We must inform our Readers, however, that the indexes are ill drawn up, and very incompleat.-This is a great defect; for in a work of this kind, which is not to be regularly perufed, but only occafionally confulted, a full and well-digefted index is particularly requifite. Art. 37. Medical and Chirurgical Obfervations on Inflammations of the Eyes. On the Venereal Difeafe. On Ulcers, and Gunshot Wounds. By Francis Geach, Surgeon at Plymouth. 8vo. IS. B. Law.

We apprehend Mr. Geach to be fome young practiser, who has been much too hafty in commencing author.-The obfervations are in general crude and ill-digefted; the language, though pompous, very indifferent; and through the whole, there is an aukward, affected familiarity with antiquity.-The authorities of Hippocrates, Celfus, Cæl. Aurelianus, &c. are produced on every occafion; and in confirmation, of things which are as plain as the nofe on the man's face.

There are difperfed through thefe obfervations, eight cafes, from the perufal of which we are led to conclude, that the Anthor has feen fome good practice, and may himself make a fafe and ufeful practitioner, as the term is, notwithstanding his obvious defects as a phyfiologift or pathologift. The following is one of the molt remarkable of theie cafes:

Daniel Macknamarah, aged 40,, had about eighteen years fince, a Gonorrhoea, which he fuppofed had been cured.-About three years ago he was received into the Royal Hofpital at this port, with all the fymptoms of a confirmed Lues; though he affirmed that the diforder had not been contracted a second time. The Tonfils were ulcerated; Condylomata appeared about the Anus; Chancres on the Glans and Prepuce. His pains were fo fevere as to keep him awake all the middle part of the night. The fleep he got was from ten to twelve, and from five to feven. He had been falivated twice without fuccefs. A Caries had feized the Os Palati and the upper Jaw; the Mouth had deep yellow Ulcers. By violent fweatings, pain, and watchings, he was greatly emaciated. The cure was attempted by ordering him to receive twice a day with his mouth open, the vapour of Cinnabar, and to drink the Decot Sarfe after a dofe of Pil Plumeri. These were continued a month without any fatisfactory amendment. Weary of this tedious procefs, we fought relief from a Solution of Sublimate, which was first tried in fmall quantities; the dofe augmented and leffened as his conftitution feemed to be affected. But this not availing, all mercury was forborne, and the Lenitives of Diet were fubftituted. At which juncture he was so hoarfe as scarcely to speak intelligibly. The Caries was in a fpreading state, and the Ulcers were deep and fordid. He was loathfome to approach. To refpite a wretched being (for an abfolute cure was deemed impracticable) he drank daily Two Quarts of Milk and as

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When Mr. Geach tells, that many of thefe obfervations had met with the approbation of the eminently learned Dr. Huxham; and that Mr. Watson had perufed them with great pleasure and fatisfaction;—we non this only as an artful method of smuggling an imprimatur.

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much of the Sarfa Decoction. This courfe was regularly perfevered in for the space of fix weeks, with incredible fuccefs, the Ulcers ceafed to fpread, and, after fome time, a large portion of the upper jaw, with four teeth complete and in their fockets, came away. The Tonfils threw off large floughs, and the Ulcers which corroded the mouth became narrower and narrower. An Exfoliation fucceeded from the Palate, In three months he was free from all fymptoms of the Lues, was ftrong, and even robuft.*

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The above, is a fingular café; but we cannot concur with Mr. Geach in concluding, that milk and gruel are therefore to be confidered as panaceas; or that they may vie with other anti-venereals for pre-eminence. The most difficult cafes which occur in the venereal practice are fuch, where the infection is complicated with a scorbutic or other bad habit of body. Here the previous bad habit sometimes fo exactly affumes the appearances which were produced by the infection Itself, that it is almoft impoffible to determine, when the communicated disease is removed, and confequently when we are to defist from the farther ufe of mercury. In all fuch cafes, repeatedly to urge one course of mercury after another, is nothing more than to add strength to the disease; the medicine itself heightening the fymptoms, and aggravating every untoward appearance. Mild, antifcorbutic medicines, joined with a welldirected regimen, are the only means which can be purfued with propriety and fuccefs.

NOVELS.

Art. 38. The Hiftory of a young Lady of Disflinction. Tranflated from the French of Madam de Beaumont. 12mo. 2 Vols. 6s. Noble.

We gave fome account of this agreeable series of letters in our Review for April 17:4; when the prefent tranflation (lately re-advertised) was first published, without mention of the original writer's name.

SERMONS.

I. The Connexion between Religion and Government, and the Usefulness of both to civil Society. In Worcester-cathedral, July 13, 17(6, at the Affizes. By John Rawlins, A. M. Rector of Hafelton in Gloucestershire, and Minifter of Badfey and Wichamford in Worcestershire. Fletcher.

11. The Ration Afjurance of a Dyin Paftor-At Fair-Street. Horfleydown, South-wark, Sept. 4, 1766, on the Death of the Rev. Mr. Benj. Treacher. To which is added, the Speech delivered at the grave. By Charles Bulkley. Buckland.

III. The Nature and Ground of Religious Liberty Preached before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, and the Liveries of the feveral Companies of the City of London, at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, on the fifth of November. 1736. By John Myonnet, D. D. Morning-preacher of Trinity-chapel, Conduit Street; and Rector of Wett-Tilbury, Effex. The fecond Edition. Owen.

This is a plain, fenfible difcourse, on the right of private judgment, and is re published with a view to put fome ftop to the progrefs of thei emillaries of Rome, who, it is to be feared, are, at prefent, too fuccessful in fpreading their unfriptural and deteftable tenets.

THE

MONTHLY REVIEW,

For NOVEMBER, 1766.

Letters from Italy, defcribing the Customs and Manners of that Country, in the years 1765, and 1766; to which is annexed, an Admonition to Gentlemen who pass the Alps, in their tour through Italy. By Samuel Sharp*, Efq. 8vo. 4s. fewed. Becket, &c.

Sa paffion for treading upon claffic-ground is almoft pe

A cular to Englifhmen, it is from them, chiefly, that de

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fcriptions of Italy are to be expected; and it is to Englishmen alfo that fuch defcriptions are peculiarly interefting. authors who have already obliged the world with their travels through that part of Europe, are exceedingly numerous; but the generality of them have confined their observations principally to pictures, ftatues, buildings, and other monuments of antiquity, without paying much regard to the manners and cuftoms of the modern Italians: the Author of this volume, on the contrary, makes the prefent inhabitants of Italy, their fashions, religion, and opinions, the prime objects of his animadverfion, referring his readers for the above-mentioned particulars, to fuch books as have been profeffedly written on those fubjects. For the information and entertainment of those who may not yet have perufed the entire volume, we fhall felect fuch parts as appear to us moft new or interefting, without diftinguifhing the particular letter in which they occur, and subjoining fuch tranfient obfervations as our own recollection may happen occafionally to fuggeft, in the manner following:

VENICE, September, 1765.

I must confefs to you, that I have yet feen nothing which has afforded me fo much pleasure as that extraordinary genius Monf. Voltaire. My principal motive for paffing the Alps by the way of Geneva, was a vifit to that gentleman. I knew him in the days of my youth, and had the honour to be fometimes.

*Author of Ope quiens in Surgery, and A Critical Enquiry into the State of Surgery, Scc.

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