his age. level tenor of his mind. He never aspired to the lofty and even dignity of a Pitt, and was alike incapable of the quick conception and rapid elocution of a Fox. He was less fertile in expedients, less perplexing in argument, and less pertinacious in debate, than Mr Perceval. The ardent spirits of his own party so far ran beyond him in their attacks, that they almost forgot they fought under his colours; to whom, therefore, he was rather a point d'appui after the battle than a leader in the field.-10. At Northumberland-house, London, his Grace the Duke of Northumberland. This distinguished nobleman had been for years a martyr to the gout, and for several weeks past had been considerably indisposed, but was recently supposed to be better, and his death at last was rather unexpected. The Duchess and his sons, Earl Percy and Lord Prudhoe, were, however, with him at the time of his death. His complaint, latterly was supposed to be a species of rheumatic gout. His Grace was born 25th August 1742, and was therefore in the 75th year of He succeeded bis father, Hugh, the late Duke, 6th June 1786; married, first, 2d July 1764, Lady Ann Stuart, third daughter of John, third Earl of Bute, by whom he had no issue, and which marriage was dissolved by act of Parliament in 1779. He married, secondly, May 25, 1779, Frances Julia Burrell, third daughter of Peter Burrell, Esq. of Beckenham, Kent, sister to the Marchioness of Exeter, the Countess of Beverley, and Lord Gwydir, by whom he had issue five daughters, three of whom are dead, and one is married to Lord James Murray, second son of the Duke of Athol; and two sons, Hugh, Earl Percy, born April 20, 1785, now Duke of Northumberland, who was some time since called up to the House of Lords, to sit for the barony of Percy; and Algernon, born December 15, 1792, lately created a peer, by the title of Lord Prudhoe. The Duke of Northumberland has been uniformly distinguished by the most munificent liberality, and his loss will no doubt be deeply felt. The present Duke was recently married to a daughter of the Earl of Powis.-At Acharnich, in Strathspey, Major Charles Grant, late of the Hon. East India Company's service. 13. At Edinburgh, Mr Alexander Walker, wine and spirit merchant.-14. At London, Mrs Sarah Holland Walker, daughter of the late Major Holland, aide-de-camp to General Wolfe, and wife of LieutenantColonel Robert Walker, Lieutenant-Governor of Sheerness.-At Bath, in the 54th year of his age, Lord Arundel. His Lord ship is succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, James Everard Arundel, who married Mary, the only daughter of the late Marquis of Buckingham.-15. At Paris, the cele brated Madame de Stacl.-At Inveresk, Edmund Fergusson, Esq. of Baledmund. 16. At Persey, Perthshire, Miss Frances Farquharson of Persey.-18. 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On farther reflection, THERE is now before me the First Part of the First Volume of a work, entitled, Archives of Animal Magnetism, published in the commencement of the present year, in the German language, at Altenburg and Leipsic. This work is to be continued periodically; and the conduct of it has been undertaken by three medical professors in Tubingen, respectable universities of however, I have thought it better to defer this task till another opportunity, and to occupy the present paper with a few remarks relative to the history of this singular species of magnetic agency, such as may not be unaccessible to those who have little leisure or inclination for research, in subjects so remote from the common path of useful study, The great teacher and practical administrator of animal magnetism in modern times, was a German physi Jena, and Halle, viz. Drs cian named Mesmer. This individual Eschenmayer, Kieser, and Nasse. No first distinguished himself by a other proof than this is necessary, tation on the Influence of the Stars on that a system which sound philosophy the Human Body, which he printed at had, more than thirty years ago, pro- Vienna in 1766, and publicly defendnounced to be a delusion, has agained as a thesis in that university. But been revived in Germany; and has Father Hehl, a German philosopher, obtained credit, not merely with the having, in 1774, strongly recommendvulgar, but with the more intelli- ed the use of the loadstone in the art gent classes of society; and has even of healing, Mesmer immediately begained the belief of some, who, from came a convert to his doctrines, and their having been elevated to the actually carried them into practice with situation of teachers in the highest success. In the midst, however, of seminaries of learning, may be pre- his attention to the utility of the loadsumed to possess a certain reputation stone, he was led to the adoption of a among men of science. new set of principles, which he conceived to be much more general and important in their application. He accordingly laid aside the use of the loadstone, and entered on the cure of disease on this more improved system. This apostacy involved him in a quarrel with Father Hehl, and with the celebrated Ingenhouz, by whom he had formerly been patronised; and as their credit in Vienna was extremely high, and their exertions against him indefatigable, his system almost immediately sunk into general disṛe It was my intention, in the present communication, to have presented your readers with such extracts from this journal as might enable them to judge for themselves of the nature and spirit of those doctrines, which are said to have excited so much interest abroad, and to hold out the prospect, in their ultimate improvement, of so much mental, as well as corporeal, Archiv für Thierischen Magnetismus. 8vo. 1817. pute. To parry their opposition, he appealed, in 1776, to the Academy of Sciences at Berlin. Here, however, his principles were rejected "as destitute of foundation, and unworthy of the smallest attention." Undismayed by these important miscarriages, he made a progress through several towns of Germany, still practising magnetism, and publishing, from time to time, accounts of the cures he accomplished, which were as regularly followed by a denial on the part of his opponents. He returned to Vienna a second time, and made another attempt to obtain a favourable reception for his doctrines, but with no better success than formerly; so that, wholly disconcerted by these uninterrupted defeats in his native country, he left Germany, and arrived in Paris in the beginning of the year 1778. Here his prospects soon began to brighten. Having retired to Creteil with a few patients (one of them a paralytic woman), he restored them to perfect health in a few months; and in consequence of this success, the numbers of those who applied to him for relief increased rapidly, and his cures were of the most astonishing nature. A numerous company was daily assembled at his house in Paris, where the magnetism was publicly administered; and M. Deslon, one of his pupils, is said to have cleared, during this tide of success, no less a sum than £100,000. In 1779 he published a Memoir on Animal Magnetism, and promised a a complete system upon the subject, which should make as great a revolution in philosophy as it had already done in medicine. Struck, as it is said, with the clearness and accuracy of his reasonings, the magnificence of his pretensions, and the extraordinary and unquestionable cures he performsed, some of the greatest physicians and most enlightened philosophers of France became his converts. He was patronised by people of the first rank; his system became an affair of bon ton; and animal magnetism was warmly espoused by the fashionable world. Nevertheless, the new doctrine was not without its opponents. Some of the ablest pens in France were employed in refutation of it; and in particular, Thouret, Regont physician of the Faculty of Paris, and member of the Royal Society of Medicine, great ly distinguished himself by a work which he published, entitled, Inquiries and Doubts respecting the Animal Magnetism. Mesmer, in his Memoir already mentioned, described the agent which he professed to have discovered, and to which he gave the appellation of Animal Magnetism, in the following manner:-" It is a fluid universally diffused; the vehicle of a mutual influence between the celestial bodies, the earth, and the bodies of animated beings; it is so continued as to admit of no vacuum; its subtlety does not admit of illustration; it is capable of receiving, propagating, and communicating, all the impressions that are incident to motion; it is susceptible of Hux and reflux. The animal body is subject to the effects of this agent; and these effects are immediately pro duced by the agent insinuating itself into the substance of the nerves. We particularly discover, in the huma body, qualities analogous to those of the loadstone; we distinguish in it, poles different and opposite. The ation and the virtue of the animal magnetism are capable of being communicated from one body to another, animated or inanimate; they exert themselves to considerable distances, and without the least assistance from any intermediate bodies; this action is increased and reflected by mirrors; it is communicated, propagated, and aug mented, by sound; and the virtue itself is capable of being accumulated concentrated, and transferred. Though the fluid be universal, all anima! bodies are not equally susceptible of it; there even are some, though very few, of so opposite a nature, as by their mere presence to supersede its ef fects upon any other contiguous bodies The animal magnetism is capable of curing, immediately; diseases of the nerves, and mediately, other distempers. It improves the action of medicines; it forwards and directs the slutary crises, so as to subject them totally to the government of the judg ment; by means of it the physician becomes acquainted with the state of health of each individual, and decides with certainty upon the causes, the nature, and the progress of the most complicated distempers; it prevents their increase, and effects their extirpation, without at any time exposing the patient, whatever be his sex, age, or constitution, to alarming conse |