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Their harden'd bofoms never knew to melt;
Each woe unpitied, and each pang unfelt.-
See! where they rufh, and with a favage joy,
Unfheath the fword, impatient to destroy.
Fierce as the tiger, bursting from the wood,
With famish'd joys, infatiable of blood ?"

Are thefe, we say, the features of Britons?-Certainly not. -It is with equal impropriety the poet apoftrophizes; requiring them to fufpend the war, becaufe truly the Americans are ⚫ur brethren.

"Yet, yet a moment, the fell steel restrain;
Muft Nature's facred ties all plead in vain?
Ah! while your kindred blood remains unfpiit,
And Heaven allows an awful paufe from guilt,
Sufpend the war, and recognize the bands,
Against whofe lives you arm your impious hands!-
Not thefe, the boaft of Gallia's proud domains,
Nor the fcorch'd fquadrons of Iberian plains;
Unhappy men! no foreign war you wage,
In your own blood you glut your frantic rage;
And while you follow where Oppreffion leads,
At every step, a friend, or brother bleeds."-

Our author is evidently a much better poet than politician. Is a man to fheath his own fword, while an unnatural brother bath his dagger drawn and aimed at his throat? Kindred, converted into enemies, are the worst of enemies. Would the Americans have us be shocked at the idea of a civil war among brethren; when they declare themfelves independent ftates? They have themselves difclaimed kindred; they difdain the appellation of rebels, and affume the diftance and dignity of foreigners. Let them firft give up their pretenfions to indepen dency, and then we may regard them as fellow-fubjects. Till then, we fubmit in fact to the conditions, they impofe on us; and almoft acknowledge their affumed title, in treating them as foreign enemies.

Our poet's addrefs to the American females; exhorting them, in imitation of the Sabine wives and the ancient Romans, to endeavour to prevail on the British warriors to fheath the fword, is poetical and pathetic; but the conclufion is as cruel and unjuft.

We must not be unjust, however, to the poetical pretenfions of our animated bard. We fhall, therefore, add one quotation more, and take our leave of this well-written pertot

mance.

"Then hope, farewell!-e'en now the fiends prevail, And funds of horror fadden every gale.

Lo! where the facrilegious flames arife,

And defolation blazes to the skies!

Farewell, lov'd feats, whofe ruins ftrike my ear,
For ever facred, and for ever dear!
Where'er around I turn my mournful eyes,
Sad fcenes of human miferies arife.
Triumphant rage, revenge, and death are there,
And all the vanquish'd feel, and all the victors dare,
Ye faithful partners of my happier state!
And now the dear companions of my fate!
Expell'd, forlorn, beneath a wintry sky,
Whither, ye wretched mourners, will ye fly?
I faw your long and fad proceffion go,
Bending beneath unutterable woe.

Each virgin wept, and every mother prest
A helpless infant, trembling at her breast.-
Here wretched youth bewails, with frantic air,
Its hopes fo foon extinguifh'd by defpair;
There, more inur'd to grief, the matron stands,
With haggard eyes, and vainly-lifted hands;
While weak and tottering age, chain'd down below,
Only to drain the bitter cup of woe,

Unapt to fly, and impotent to fave,

But asks the dreary bleffing of a grave.

Farewell the hearth, farewell the chearful board!

The humble roof with every comfort stor❜d!

With all that bounteous Heaven bestow'd in vain,
To fweeten being, and alleviate pain!
There, the wild rage of conflagration preys,
Wide-darting through the gloom its angry rays.
Stern as the fee of nature in his walks,
Amid the wreck the horrid foldier stalks.
His unrelenting hand the wound prepares
For thofe, whom ev'n the fiery deluge fpares:
Infpires new fury to the finking flame;

Or ftabs the fuppliant babe, and calls it fame!"

To fuch reproaches hath every foldier been fubject, fince men have been foldiers! We conceive, however, that the military profeffion never lefs deferved it than in modern times.

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A. Differtation on Cancerous Difeafes. By B. Peyrilhe, M.D. Regius Profeffor of Surgery, and Member of the Royal Academy of Surgery, at Paris; and of the Academies of Montpellier, Touloufe, &c. Tranflated from the Latin, with Notes. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Wilkie.

Of this differtation, the tranflator gives a concife account in the preface; informing us it was written in confequence of a

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prize question, proposed by the Academy at Lyons in the year 1773: the premium of 1200 livres being adjudge to our author; who, as the tranflator obfervcs,

"Seems to have gone farther than any other has done before him, towards afcertaining the nature of the dileafe; and if he fometimes goes into the field of conjecture, it is not with a view to indulge in idle reveries. He will be found conftantly reafoning from analogy and facts. Indeed, on a fubject which is of fo much importance, and which has been hitherto fo involved in obfcurity, he has furely fome right to fpeculate.

"By pointing out to us the true principles of the difeafe, he has proved that, although it is, in many cafes irremediable; yet, that it will admit of cure in fome, and of palliation in all."

The tranflation of this valuable performance is well executed, as we learn, by Dr. Simmons; to whom the public is alfo indebted for an English verfion of M. Perfon's Elemens d'Anatomie.

A Differtation on the Inoculated Small-Pox: or, An Attempt to wards an Investigation of the Real Caufes which render the Small-Pox by Inoculation, so much more mild and safe, than the fame Difeafe when produced by the ordinary Means of Infection. By John Mudge, Surgeon, at Plymouth. Small Octavo. 4. Davies.

A judicious and well-written tract on as interefting a fubject as any within the sphere of medical science.

"In this difquifition," fays Mr. Mudge, "I have not attempted a flight upon the wings of hypothefis into the regions of uncertainty; on the contrary, the principles upon which the inquiry is founded, are either felf-evident truths, or phyfical maxims univerfally acknowledged; and the reasoning deduced from them, fuch as it is, fo calculated for the general understanding, that its force may be felt as well by thofe who have not made phyfic their fludy, as by thofe who have.

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Popular information was indeed one great motive to this inquiry; for though the credit of inoculation is now pretty generally establified, yet there are ftill a great number who are not altogether divefted of their prejudices against it; and I am not without hopes, that the fol lowing contiderations may remove their fcruples, partly by informing their understandings, and partly by alarming their tears.

"To the medical reader I fhall only fay, that for the above reafon, quotations from phyfical authorities have been intentionally avoided; and that though he may poffibly in this treatife meet with fome things, which, unknown to me, have been before publifhed, or which his own ideas may have fuggeted to him'; I am, however, willing to hope, that neither his fpeculative nor practical expectations will be intirely difappointed."

To this fhort and modeft account of the work, we fall only add that the author liberally anfwers the expectations it may excite in the reader.

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An Account of the Tania or long Tape-worm, and of the Method of treating it, as practifed at Morat in Switzerland. Being a Tranflation of a Memoir published at Paris, entitled, "Traitement contre le Tenia ou ver folitaire, pratiquè à Morat en Suiffe, examiné et eprouvé à Paris, publie par Order du Roi." With Copper-plates. 8vo. 2s. Wilkie.

For this tranflation we are obliged to the ingenious Dr. Simmons, who has prefixed to it a defcriptive account of the fingular worm in queftion. The remedy prefcribed, was known, as Dr. Hill used to fay, to the ancients; but appears to be never the worse for having been long neglected.

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The Restoration of the King of Tanjore confidered. Quarto. This pamphlet, confifting of one hundred and twenty-three pages, is accompanied by an Appendix, containing the neceffary documents for its illuftration, in three handfome volumes. -They are printed and diftributed at the expence of the East India Company, and may poffibly hereafter claim our more particular attention.

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A Defence of Lord Piget. Quarto.

Damnatus abfens,

At whofe expence this work, confifting of upwards of 400 pages, is printed and diftributed we know not; but it contains a mafterly defence of the conduct of the noble absentee, and ftands, with refpect to us, in the predicament of the laft-mentioned publication.

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Memoirs of the Life and IVritings of Samuel Foote, Efq; the English Ariftophanes: to which are added, the Bons Mots, Repartees, and Good Things faid by that great Wit and excentrical Genius. 8vo. IS. Bew.

One of the catch penny publications, which those retainers to the Mufes, the fons of Grub ftreet, are ready to produce on every popular occafion. Not that it is the worst of the kind, the narrative of facts being pretty authentic. The collection of bons-mots, is, however, very meagre and barren, moft of them being borrowed from other jeft-books, in which they are imputed to other jokers; and fome of them as ancient as the feven fayings of the Sages of Greece,

Captivity

Captivity, a Poem, and Celadon and Lydia, a Tale. Dedicated by permiffion to her Grace the Duchefs of Devonshire. By Mrs. Robinfon. 4to is. 6d. Becket.

The following defcription of an unfortunate debtor, confined within the walls of a prifon, may ferve as a specimen of this lady's poetical abilities.

Low on a bed of ftraw the mourner lies,
Cold drops upon his pallid temples rife ;
Perhaps, a tender partner fhares his grief,
Perhaps, a friendless infant craves relief:
A thoufand paffions tear his beating breast,
A thousand tender fears difturb his rett;
Not for himself he murmurs, but for thofe,
The guiltless partners of his poignant woes;
Unnumber'd pangs his feeling heart affail,
And juftice holds aloft her even scale.
Defpair, (the offspring of unpitied woe)
With every ill th' avenging Gods bestow,
Invokes the icy hand of death to stay,
And bids him live, to every grief a prey.
O'er the lone cell a folemn ftillness reigns,
Save, where the voice of Mifery complains;
Save, where the tortur'd mind implores relief,
In fighs repentant, and unfeigning grief;
Where keen Remorfe doth conftant vigil keep,
And pining Victims live alone to weep.
Methinks I fee the wretch absorb'd in tears,
Alternate hopes fucceeding anxious fears;
One moment, Refignation's rays divine
In his fad countenance feraphic thine;
The next, c'en Hope her balmy power denies,
And woes fucceffive o'er his bofom rife;
The trembling accents of his fault'ring breath,
Proclaim the near, the kind approach of Death;
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extacy of thought!" Thou welcome Friend,"
He faintly cries, "My forrows quickly end
"Receive me to thy arms, and let me prove,

That thou haft power each anguifh to remove;
So fhall each crime, each error be forgiven,
"For Mercy's the peculiar gift of Heaven."
Defcription fails; let Fancy fpeak the rell,
They who have feen fuch woes, can paint them beft."

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