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too pofitive affertion of Mr. Malone relative to the last edition, that "the text of the Author how feems to be finally fettled."

Art. 41. Correfpondence between Lord Macartney and Major General Stuart, fince Lord Macartney's Arrival in England. 4to. Is. 6d. Debrett. 1786.

General Stuart having been difmiffed from the command of the army in the East Indies, took particular exception against Lord Macartney, Prefident of the Select Committee, on account of the charges brought against him, to which he applies the terms of injustice and faljebood. When thefe Gentlemen arrived in England, General Stuart prefented a petition to his Majefty, in which he failed not to exprefs his refentment against the Noble Prefident, by a repetition of the above invidious terms. A correfpondence of letters afterward took place, copies of which are here laid before the Public. The confequence was the duel; the circumflances of which have been fufficiently detailed in the papers.

Art. 42. An Explanation of the Cafe relating to the Capture of St. Euftatius in which is included the feveral Commiflions, appointing the Agents to manage the Bufinefs of the Capture. Pointing out the most effectual Methods to fecure to the Captors what there is remaining of the captured Property, 8vo. Is. Stockdale. It appears that there has, fomewhere, been dreadfu! mifmanagement of this affair, and that there is very little profpect of justice being ever done to thofe of the captors of St. Euftatius, who have been fo cruelly deceived in their expectations of fharing in the prize-money; many of whom, fays nur Author, are ruined, and fome now languishing in prifon, for debts contracted on the credit acquired from the boafted riches found on that island.'

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Art. 43. Anecdotes of the learned Pig. With Notes, critical and explanatory; and Illuftrations, from Bozzy, Piozzi, &c. 4to. Is. 6d. Hookham. 1736.

By the LEARNED PIG is meant the celebrated Dr. Samuel Johnson. This is a rough piece of pig-ftye ridicule; chiefly in profe, but here and there a fcrap of very fignificant verfe, to the delightful

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Gruntledum, gruntledum, gruntledum, fqueak!' Art. 44 The Royal Academicians. A Farce. As it was performed, to the Aftoninment of Mankind, by his Majefty's Servants, at the Stone Houfe, in Eutopia, 1786. 8vo. IS bew, &c. Grofs abuse and ribaldry, levelled at fome diftinguished members of the Royal Academy.

Art. 45. A plain and friendly Address to the Undergraduates of the University of Cambridge, particularly to thofe of Trinity College, on the following important Topics: Affociates, Drefs, Debts, Time, early Attachments, Lectures, Mathematics, Gaming. Offered with all Deference, good Intention, and Regard. By a late Undergraduate. 8vo. Is. 6d. Dodfley.

The benevolent defign of this piece, and the useful advice it contains, abundantly compenfate for any defects which criticiím may dif eover in the manner in which it is written. Perhaps the Author would have fucceeded better in his main purpofe, had he expreffed

his thoughts with lefs Jabour: but ease in writing comes from practice; and the writer is a young man.

Art. 46: On vifitatorial jurifdiction in Colleges of the Universities. A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Mansfield. 4to. 15. Rivington.

The purport of this pamphlet is, to afcertain the extent of the power which is lodged in the vifitors of Colleges, and to prove that they are bound, by virtue of their office, to receive, judge, and determine the appeals of all who are interested and concerned in the focieties over which they prefide, either by themselves or their affeffors; that they are required impartially to judge and determine according to the plain and obvious meaning of the ftatutes of founders, where thefe ftatutes are exprefs; and that they are empowered to interpret in doubtful cafes. The Author is maiter of his fubject, and writes clearly and forcibly.

Art. 47.

NOVEL S.

The Letters of Charlotte during her Connection with Werter. 12mo. 2 Vols. 5s. fewed. Cadell. 1786. This No el is in general both interefting and pathetic; but the judgment of the Author is not equal to his feelings. The texture is too flimfy, and the imagery is frequently extravagant.

Art. 48. Edwin and nna, a Northumbrian Tale founded on Facts. Written by Edwin himself. 12mo. 3 Vols. fewed. Scatcherd and Whitaker. 1785.

7s. 6d. This is not Dr. Beattie's Edwin; nor doth he appear to be of the family, though he bears the name.

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This Edwin is both a vulgar" and a conceited "youth;" and while he feems to flatter hi felt with an idea of his wit and his knowledge, we affure him that he will gain no credit for either among readers of taste and jugment. His defcriptions are inelegant; his humour is coarse and infipid; his ftyle is fpiritlefs; and his obfervations are trite and fuperficial..

Art. 49. Melwin Dale

in a Series of Letters. By a Lady. 12mo. 2 Vols. 5s. feved. Lane. 1786. Trifling and dull.

Art. 50. Warbeck; a pathetic Tale. 12mo. 2 Vols. 5s. fewed. Lane. 1786.

Fiction is here made to embellifh fome historical facts; and the Author hath executed his design with confiderable addrefs. It is indeed a pathetic tale; and the Reader of fenfibility will be inftructed and entertained by it.

Art. 51.

Moreton Abbey; or the fatal Myftery. By the late Mits Harriet Chilcot, of Bath, afterwards Mrs. Meziere, Authorefs of Elmar and Ethlinda, a legendary Tale, &c. 12mo. 2 Vols. . 38. fewed. Bew.

Moreton Abbey is but little fuperior to Melwin Dale. If it be more inftructing, it is alfo more extravagant: and if it is contended that the language is more elegant, many will think it more affected.

MEDICAL.

Art. 52. An Efay on the Waters of Harrogate and Thorp Arch, in Yorkshire; containing fome Directions for their Ufe in Difeafes. To which are prefixed, Obfervations on Mineral Waters in general,

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and the Method of analyfing them. By Joshua Walker, M. D. Phyfician to the Leeds Infirmary. 8vo. 3s. fewed. Johnfon. 1784.

This performance contains many judicious and useful remarks. After enumerating the various fubftances which have been found to enter into the compofition of mineral waters, the Author points out the most proper methods of making experiments, in order to afcertain the contents of fuch waters. These methods are exemplified by an analyfis of the waters mentioned in the title-page, and from the contents of them Dr. Walker infers their medical qualities; confirming his reasonings with the detail of fuch diseases as have either been wholly cured by them, or in a great meafure removed. This Effay is peculiarly adapted to the patients who wish to be relieved by thefe waters, as the Author gives ample practical rules how they ought to be used in every particular disease, with the regimen proper to be observed. Art. 53. Obfervations on an extraordinary Cafe of ruptured Uterus. By Andrew Douglas, M. D. Member of the College of Phyficians, London. 8vo. Is. 6d. Johnfon. 178.

This is an extraordinary cafe indeed! But as we cannot give our readers an abridgment of it, we must refer them to the book itself. We learn from it this material fact: That when a rupture of the uterus takes place, we ought not to confign the patient to death; fince this dangerous accident is not, as hath been generally conceived, always mortal.

Art. 54. Confiderations on the dangerous Effects of promiscuous Blood-letting, and the common prepofterous Administration of Drugs; with other coincident Subjects medical and moral. By William Stevenfon, M. D. Newark, printed; London, fold by Dilly. 8vo. 3s. 6d. fewed. 1783 *.

We have on a former occafion + observed, that we feldom meet with a writer who puts together fo much rambling, extraneous matter, felf-conceit, petulance, and abfurdity, as this Author. His prefent performance, however, outdoes all his former publications; for here he goes on, cutting and flashing at all around him, without exception. Phyficians, furgeons, apothecaries, &c. are chiefly the objects of his abuse.

Art. 55. Reports of the Humane Society, inftituted in the Year 1774, for the Recovery of Perfons apparently drowned. For the Years 1783 and 1784. 8vo. 25. Dodfley, &c. 1785. It is with fincere fatisfaction that we obferve the growing fuccefs and extended plan of this TRULY Humane Society; the proceedings of which are here fully detailed,-with a great number of cases of recovery, not only from apparent death by drowning, but from other caufes-the frozen, the hanged, and those who were in a state of suffocation from noxious vapours." See alfo our account of the Reports for the years 1781 and 1782, Review, Vol. LXIX. p. 173. Art. 56. Remarks on the Difeafe lately defcribed by Dr. Hendy, under the Appellation of the Glandular Disease of Barbadoes. By John

*This publication has been accidentally mislaid. + Vid. Monthly Review, Vol. LXVIII. p. 279.

Rollo,

Rollo, late Surgeon in the Royal Artillery *. 8vo. 28. Dilly. 1785.

Dr. Hendy favoured the Public with an ingenious account + of this peculiar disease, which feems to be endemial in the island of Barbadoes. Being fettled there, and practifing phyfic in the island, he was at confiderable pains to perfect the hiftory of this irregular diforder, by compiling the hiftories of a great many cafes of which he had been himself a witness. Mr. Rollo, who vifited Barbadoes, prefumes, on the ground of two cafes which he faw, and which in this pamphlet he lays before the reader, to enter the lifts against this refpectable phyfician, and to arraign the juftnefs of his opinions on this fubject. Dr. H. gives a definition of the difeafe, founded upon extensive experience, to the following purpofe: That it is a local inflammation, feated in the lymphatic fyftem, that often produces a fymptomatic fever. Mr. Rollo defcribes it to be a fever accompanied with a partial affection of the lymphatic glands, and an inflammation and fwelling of the extremity, whofe lymphatic veffels lead to thofe affected glands, appearing towards the termination of the fever. We leave it to future experience to decide which is the most juft account of this diforder; but we cannot conclude this article without expreffing the dif guft we felt at the rude, and frequently ill-grounded, contradictions of Dr. Hendy by Mr. Rollo. We would recommend to this gentleman to be fomewhat lefs bold in his affertions on a subject of which his knowledge and experience muft neceffarily be more limited than thofe of a phyfician who conftantly refides on the spot, and who probably has daily occafion of noticing the disease in question. Art. 57. Obfervations on the acute Dyfentery, with the Defign of illuftrating its Caufes and Treatment. By John Rollo, M. D. late Surgeon in the Royal Artillery. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Dilly. 1786. Dr. Rollo gives an accurate and a juft account of the dysentery. It feems to be drawn from nature and obfervation, and not collected from books. From the facts stated, he draws the following conclufions, which they appear to warrant, viz. That the intermittent and remittent fever, and the dyfentery, occur in the fame feason, aflume appearances effentially the fame, and are produced by the fame caufes; only that these are neceffarily affifted in the production of the dyfentery by cold and moisture. This is perfectly agreeable to the opinion of Sydenham, who defcribed the dyfentery as a febris introverfa, a fever turned inwards upon the bowels. After the dyfentery has been thus produced, Dr. R. thinks it may be further communicated, in certain circumstances, by contagion. In one particular, he feems, with good reafon, to differ from Dr. Cullen, who doubts whether the application of cold does ever produce the difeafe, unless where the fpecific contagion has been previously received into the body.

There being nothing very peculiar in Dr. R.'s method of curing this disease, we shall not enter into any further account of his prefent publication; but fhall content ourselves with giving it the praise of being, upon the whole, a judicious performance.

Now of Woolwich.

+ See Review for August 1784, p. 92.

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Art. 58. A Differtation on the Theory and Cure of the Cataract in which the Practice of Extraction is fupported, and the Operation in its prefent improved State is particularly defcribed. By jonathan Wathen, Surgeon. 8vo. 38. fewed. Cadell. 1785.

Mr. Wathen defcribes in a fcientific manner the nature, causes, and fymptoms of the cataract; and, after making fome general remarks on the cure of the difeafe, he very judiciously points out the particular cafes and the fymproms in which the operation is likely to fucceed. This part of his performance we think highly interefting, both to the operator and patient; fince an unfuccessful event brings the operation into difrepute, and gives the patient unneceffary pain, with, perhaps, confequences of the most dangerous nature. The operations of couching and extraction are minutely defcribed, efpecially the latter; the fuperiority of which over the former is clearly pointed out. Our Author gives a full account of the various methods practifed by most of the eminent furgeons, with the improvements that have been made by each of them; and concludes with fome useful remarks relative to fpurious cataracts, and the method of cure, which we do not recollect to have met with in former writers.

We cannot but recommend the perufal of this differtation to the learned practitioner, as we are convinced he will meet with many things worthy his attention.

Art. 59. Chiropodologia; or a feientific Enquiry into the Caufes of Corns, Warts, Onions, and other painful or offenfive cutaneous Excrefcences, &c. the whole confirmed by the Practice and Experience of D. Low, Chiropodist. 8vo. 3s. London. Sold by the Author, N° 42, Davies Street; and Hookham, in Bond Street.. The intention of this performance is evidently no more than to announce that the Chiropodist continues, as ufual, to dispense a number of valuable articles at his own house, and that his days of consultation at home are Mondays and Fridays.

Art. 60 A Traft upon Indigellion and the hytochondriac Difeafe; with the Method of Cure, and a new Remedy or Medicine recommended. By James Rymer, Surgeon. 12mo. Is. Evans. 1785. Although this, like the preceding article, terminates with an advertifement, refpe&tfully informing the Public where the Author's tinctures, &c. are fold; yet the caufes of indigeftion are fully explained, and fome ufeful dietetic directions are laid down, by means of which many inconveniencies arifing from indigeftion may be prevented, or greatly mitigated.

Art. 61. A concife Relation of the Effects of an extraordinary Styptic lately difcovered: in a Series of Letters from feveral Gentlemen of the Faculty to Barth. Rufpini, Surgeon-dentist. 8vo. Is. 6d. Johnfon. 175:

As it is impoffible to deny facts, we are under the neceffity of admitting the efficacy of the flyptic here recommended: but as we have not been informed of its component parts, nor feen any account of experiments made to prove its fuperior power befide these of M. Rufpini's friends, we cannot pretend to reafon on it; and our readers can only expect to be told, that Mr. Rufpini has (accidentally) discovered a ftyptic water, which in a few minutes, without a comprefs, ftops the bleeding of the femoral artery of a calf, and

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