concurring multitudes Beheld your fall in battle, and reported, That in a pile of greatly-flaughter'd heroes, Certainly nothing less than a whole fquadron could be equal to the task of carrying a pile of dead from the field; but a queftion will arife, whether it is ufual to remove the dead in piles, or to bury them on the spot ? • Th' affembled fenate now requires my prefence- The fenate wait for Anfelmo! one would rather think that fuch a doge had been educated among gondoliers. The mixture of pomp and familiarity in this fpeech cannot be fuffici ently laughed at. And know I'd fcorn to give a fhameless woman, Would not one think that Anfelmo meant, that he should fcorn to palm a ftrumpet, who had ten times granted him the favour, on any man of honour ? the best way each can ferve his country, Is to hold tumult in a deep abhorrence, And labour closely in a private station.' Good advice, and delivered in the language of Hickes's-Hall, by one of the Middlefex juftices. For this light Frenchmen in a fingle moment, Broke ev'ry ROSY NICETY OF SEX. Mr. Bayes, furely this is fpeaking rather too plainly. The refy nicety of fex! Fie, fie, Mr. Bayes! • That mortal man has dar'd to doubt my honour." A tolerable vulgarifm. From downright gratitude embrace a chain ?" Is not her mind, that all-in-all of virtue, this hoft-betraying ruffian." Granville lodged in Anfelmo's palace, and was very near running away with his daughter. Hence the propriety of this beautiful compound epithet. I come no whimp'rer of a tragic ficry." We could not more happily delineate the character of the anonymous author of this piece, than by saying he is, what Palermo, to whom this fpeech belongs, declares himself not to be. Her ginality; and Nat. Lee's repartee to a frigid critic, may be applied in favour of our author' It is not easy to write like a madman, though it is very easy to write like a fool.' He fends his poetical fon into the world, with the following curious paternal difmiffion. Go, thou playfome, flily-fnickering, fon of PHANTASY. That frolic dame was honeftly thy mother; conceiv'd, form'd, and with no hard travail (indignation aiding)-brought thee forth. HISTORIC TRUTH, however, had a finger in the pye, and (as another trite faying goes) blow'd to thy making. Go; -try thy fortune, as thy betters have done. As circumstances allow'd, I brought thee up to-what thou art ; have now tolerably cloath'd thee in a decent plain fuit of print: and what is to be done next but fend thee into the world? Good hands receive thee, and not harshly treat thee! and may'st thou best thrive in thy proper vocation of pleafing and profiting thy entertainers!? The publick will reasonably expect that this is a very extraordinary birth.-For Imagination was its mother; Indignation was the midwife; and the genius who begot it, the primum mobile of this effect, was on the verge of lunacy. But we must beware of what we write; he has precluded hafty criticism by a terrible denunciation. If any one fhall think fit to attack, cavil at, or banter it, or any the worst of it he can cull out, let him but do it fairly, above-board, like a man conscious of his ability, or righteously, fo as it may come duely to my knowledge, and I will thank him as for a favour, however roughly, or fportfully (yet not abufively), handled by him. If he condemns the whole in grofs, or any part, it seems but equitable be fhould openly fix upon particulars, and affign reafons,-in their turn alfo to be examin'd whether folid and of force, or not;-and whether indeed the found faults may not happen to lie in the finder. Such fometimes proves to be the cafe. Some wou'd be criticks poffibly but dream that even minor poets (or, if you will fo have it, poetafters) nod.' Though this challenge is not fo intimidating as it may feem to him, we shall difinifs him with all poffible candour, and felect, or, in his language, cull out a fpecimen of his poem, with the tendereft regard to the author's credit. It is a defcription of a conclave of burgeffes planning an election. There is vigorous painting in it.-A defcriptive genius regulated by art would not have written it; but it mounts far above the track of a phlegmatic author. • Not brooking well wish'd time's too tardy flight, O'er pipe and quart, many a ling'ring night, With With fronts of council, in important ftate, Nay, an ale-draper fcarce,-(who through the bung It is to be feared that the objects of Mr. Brice's poem are too local to promote its extenfive circulation. Nay it will hardly be interefting even to Exeter, for it is written upon an election made in that place thirty years ago. But we prefume, that to buy this book, is, to do an office of humanity; and humanity is the concern of mankind in all places, and at all times. 17. Thoughts, English and Irish, on the Penfion-Lift of Ireland. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Kearsley. 1 The author of this pamphlet inveighs against the practice of beftowing penfions upon perfons who have not rendered themfelves confpicuous for any public fervices to their country. He afterwards proceeds to a ludicrous comment upon the merits of fome who ftand at prefent on the penfion-lift of Ireland; recommending to the Houfe of Commons of that kingdom. conftantly to tack to their money-bill a tax of twenty fhillings in the pound upon all penfions on their eftablishment. The pamphlet concludes with a lift, copied from the news-papers, of penfions on the civil and military establishments of Ireland, as returned to the Houfe of Commons in November laft, by which it appears that the fum total of penfions at that time on these establishments, amounted to eighty-five thousand pounds. 2 18. A 18. A Free and Candid Correfpendence on the Farmer's Letters to the People of England, &c. with the Author, Arthur Young, Efq; by the rev. Mr. Thomas Comber, A. B. 8vo. 2s. Bladon. It appears that this epiftolary correfpondence was opened at the request of Mr. Young, who, in order to improve a new edition of the Farmer's Letters, was defirous of being favoured with the remarks of his friend on that performance. Mr. Comber feems to have difcharged the truft reposed in him with equal candour and fincerity. His remarks are generally in favour of the work, though, in a few inftances, he fcruples not to diffent from the opinion of the ingenious author to whom he writes. Upon the whole, the obfervations contained in this pamphlet are in general judicious, and, until they are adopted in a future edition of the Farmer's Letters, this production may ferve as a commentary on that useful performance. 19. Obfervations on feveral paffages extracted from Mr. Baretti's Journey from London to Genoa, &c. By James Fitzhenry. 8vo. is. 6d. Bladon. Some praise is due to the author of these observations for his invention; he has found out a new way of making a pamphlet without labour one half of his 100 pages confifts of extracts from Baretti's Travels; the other half contains dry recapitulations of thefe extracts, under the title of Obfervations; with a word or two of impertinent approbation, or cenfure, at the clofe of each of them. 20. Obfervations on the Effects of Sea Water in the Scurvy and Scrophula. Is. Richardfon and Urquhart. The theory proposed by the author of this pamphlet is, that the fcurvy is not owing to a putrid ftate of the blood, but to a decompofition which the particles of it undergo by too great a quantity of neutral falts, which arife from the combination of an alcali in our food, united with a natural acid; and that the fcrophula proceeds from a peculiar ftate of the glands, and not from any matter they retain. Upon this view of the cause of the fcurvy the author would feem, very properly, to reject the ufe of fea water, as what muft prove injurious in that disease, by increafing the faline acrimony of the fluids: but both in theory and practice, his conclufions are founded upon principles which he appears to have made no experiments to eftablith. His opinion in regard to the fcrophula is neither finguJar, nor fuggefts the expediency of any alteration in the common method of cure. We entirely agree with him, however, that in this disease, when the glands of the mefentery are in a state of inflammation, fea water ought to be cautiously used, and not as a purge, but an alterative. The reafon he adduces why bathing youthful readers, and to fupply the wants of an abandoned and fhameless writer 24. Confiderations on the Means of preventing the Communication of Peftilential Contagion, and of eradicating it in infected Places. By William Brownrigg, M. D. F. R. S. 4to. s. 6d. Davis Dr. Brownrigg has been excited to thefe feafonable confiderations in confequence of the peftilential diforders which lately raged in fome parts of the continent of Europe, but are now providentially abated. He enters into a detail of the feveral methods for preventing the communication of the contagion, which have formerly been recommended by the writers on that fubject, and adopted by the government fo far as the public fatety has required. The laws of quarantine, and the establishment of bills of health, he confiders as the most effectual precautions for preventing the importation of that calamity into an infular country. But if unfortunately the direful infection fhould elude all the vigilance of the legislature, and enter into the ports of the kingdom, he admits, that the only method of obftructing its progrefs, is by cutting off all communication with the infected places. He afterwards points out the means which are proper to be used for the fubfiftence and fafety of the found, who are confined in thofe places, and for the cure and extermination of the contagion; but of these two laft heads he propofes to treat more fully afterwards. On feveral of these important subjects, Dr. Brownrigg has here favoured the public with fome new and judicious obfervations. But as fuch an abftra&t of the treatife as the limits of a Review can admit, is now unneceffary, and would be fuperfeded, in cafe of public danger, by recourfe to the original; it is fufficient to obferve, that in fo deplorable a fituation, these Confiderations would merit the ftricteft attention of the legislature. 25. An Efay on the Cure of the Gonorrhea, or fresh contracted Venereal Infection, without the Ufe of Internal Medicines. By William Rowley, Surgeon. 8vo. Is. Newbery. The remedy for a gonorrhea, recommended by Mr. Rowley, is an injection of gum arabic, argentum vivum, and oil, into the urethra, which he affirms to have found effe&ual in the courfe of feveral cafes. This feems to be an inverfion of the method of cure, which had been formerly published by Mr. Plenck of Vienna; the foreigner advising to be fwallowed what Mr. Rowley adminif ters by the penis. *See Crit. Rev. for Dec. 1770. Art, 42. p. 488. |