afcended the pulpit, and delivered Haemoptyfis himfelf in a ftrain of truly pathetic Hydrothorax cum anàfar. Paralyfis extrem. inferiorum Tuffis A congregation of nearly two Ventris conftip. thousand real mourners (amongst Verines whom were a great number of the Calculus renalis Roman catholic clergy, and gentry of Atrophia L.ac. all perfuafions) concurred in this tri- Anomalous cafes bute of regret for the lofs of fo great Surgical and good a man. The funeral was attended to the place of interment, at St. Pancras, by four mourning coaches, attended by a vaft concourse of people. Inftitution for the Relief of the Sick Poor, and their Families, Meathfrect. Lift of Difeafes for December. EBRIS continued F Typhus Catarrhus Pneumonia Rheumatifmus Acutus The business of December has af forded but little matter for confideration. The fevere cold of the advanced feafon has brought with it an increase of inflammatory diseases, yet mild, and feldom requiring any free ufe of the lancet; where it was neceffary, one or two moderate bleedings was for the most part fufficient, which perhaps may be referable to the nourishment of this miferable clafs of fociety, for a confiderable time paft, confifting of vegetable diet, and even that 13 in fcanty proportions; add to this depreffion of mind, and want of exercise. 76 74 4 3 2 12 3 The epidemic fever of fummer and autumn ftill prevails; yet milder and 27 lefs perplexing to the phyfician. It 2 has been fometimes attended with 5 flight catarrhal affections, feldom I troublefome. As this formidable dif 6 eafe was generally attended with an 6 enormous accumulation of bile in the 2 firft paffages, and commonly infup15 portably fetid, we have uniformly I found the timely removal of this, ond 0 S of the principal indications of cure, to obtain which object there has nothing appeared adequate to the juditious ufe of calomel and rhubarb combined; if naufea or much ficknefs of ftomach prevailed, an emetic was premifed. After freeing the firft pages, opiates joined with antimonals, had their advantages, after pidluviam.-In cafe of obftinate headach, a blifter to the nape of the neck was commonly fufficient-it fometimes happened, even at an advanced period of this difeafe, that an uncommon and diftreffing vomiting of bilious matter, fuch as in cholera, unexpectedly fupervened with tente hypochondria, intolerably fore on preffor great anxiety, feeble, quick, and irregular, pulfe: In fuch cafe, atter having tried the ufual means to little purpofe, a decoction of cortex peruv. combined with camphor and thehaic tincture, has been often effeil, the ftomach being firft rinfed with repeated draughts of bland fubacid diluents, and the bowels folicited occafionally with fuitable clyfters. Dyfenteries have almost totally difappeared. Scarlet fever, with fore throat, is faft declining: this difeafe has not hitherto been fatal in any cafe under our care; neither have I, in the districts configned to me, difcovered any fign of malignancy, nor confequently reforted to any tonic or utileptic medicines, excepting a gar-ge of tinctura rofarum, after the infammation had difappeared--conftant mhaling of the team of warm water, gargling with warm barley water, blifters when neceffary to the external fauces pidiluviam, plenty of mild fubacid diluents, and keeping the bowels gently freed by the cryftals of tartar in form of electuany, were the means ufually relorted to; leeches in private practice have been of fingular advantage, but the nature of this and fimilar inftitutions, feldom afford fuch convenience. I have, I prefume, feen this difeafe combined with January, 1802. rubeola, and in one cafe have obferved it ushered in under the form of dyfentery. G. H. 20th January. TH . Gleanings. The THE GEOGRAPHY OF PYTHEAS. THE following paffage is found in an ancient geographer, Pytheas of Marseilles In the proximity of Great Britain, on the north fide, diftant àbout x days' fail, there appears neither land, nor water, nor air; but thefe three elements confounded, form a fubitance which cements in its compofition all parts of the world. e her veffels, nor perfons on foot, can break through this impenetrable obftacie.' This paffage has been treated as a ridiculous fable by the abbé de Longchamp, and other learned men, particularly by the Benedictine monks who published the Literary Hifiary of France. fubftance, however, alluded to in the above paffage is unquestionably that inmente mafs of eternal ice, which environs the poles of the earth, and which the boldeft navigators could neyer yet pafs. What Cook and Lemaire have demonftrably proved in our days, that there is no paifage across the northern ices, appears to have been known even in the time Pytheas; and the learned Benedictines have unjustly derided a man, who appeared to them to relatė a fabulous tale, which is now known to be fact. The works of the ancient authors, and efpecially of Herodotus and of Pliny the naturalift, contain a number of things apparently fabulous, and which yet perhaps will be demonftrated in the fequel as natural truths. MISTAKE IN COMPLIMENTING. It is cuftomary in China, on being introduced to any one, to ask a fe of complimentary queftions refpecting their family, &c. A miffionary, attending to the etiquette more F than than the perfon, one day put an eunuch out of countenance by afking him, how many children he had? On the other hand, a mandarin once afked a capuchin friar, how many wives he had?and as he ufed the fame word by which an ecclefiaftical cure, is denoted, the father innocently answered, three! A NICE DISTINCTION. Father Navareete, a miffionary, obferves, that the Bonzes in China have found out the method of granting plenary indulgences, and bulls for the dead, fome of which they fell as high as 50 ducats. On which he fagacioufly remarks, that the devil ftill perfifts in his original den of appearing as like God as he cat AN INSTANCE O: REGARD TO VERAC.TY. The Chinese annals relate, that a young prince once diverting himfelf in the garden with his pages in the prefence of his preceptor, faid to one of his pages in fport, I make you king of fuch a place.' What is your highnefs doing?' faid the preceptor haftily. I was only in jeft,' replied the prince. Sir, faid the preceptor, the word of a prince fhould never be jeft: you have made the boy a king and he must be foyour word cannot be recalled.' The nomination was accordingly confirm ed. COOL PERSEVERANCE. A Chinese prime minifter prefented a memorial to the emperor on a fubject he did not like. The emperor difregarded it. The minifter repeated it three days fucceffively. The emperor at length in a rage tore it in pieces. The minifter coolly gathered up the fragments, and, pafting them together, prefented it a fourth time. This proof of his patience and perfeve. rance had fuch an effect on the emperor, that he took the matter into confideration and complied with the request. CALM FOTITUDE. An emperor of China propofed making a progrefs through part of his dominions. One of his counsellors oppofed it, as at that time improper. The emperor in heat drew his fabre and cried,pafs the order for my journey this inftant, or I will strike off your head.' The officer without the leaft emotion took off his mandarin's cap and robe, and, kneeling down with his neck extended, faid, Your majefty may ftrike, for I cannot comply with what I know to be contrary to the good of the empire' The emperor checked himfelf and gave up his journey. A RECEIPT FOR FAMILY PEACE. An emperor of China, making a progrefs, difcovered a family in which the mafter with his wives, children, grand-children, daughtersin-law, and fervants, all lived in perfect peace and harmony. The emperor admiring this, inquired of the old man what means he employed to preferve quiet among such a number of perfons. The man, taking out a pencil, wrote only these three words: Patience, patience, patience. A TRAGICAL INCIDENT. As the At an Indian wedding in the Philippine iflands, the bride retired from the company in order to go down to the river and wash her feet. was thus employed, an alligator feized her. Her fhrieks brought the people to the place, who faw her be tween the monfter's teeth, and jutt drawn under the water. The bridegroom inftantly plunged after with his dagger in his hand and pursued the ravither: After a defperate conflict he made him deliver up his prey, and fwam to fhore with the body of his dead wife in his arms. SPANISH HIGH-SPIRIT. Don Sabiniano, a Spaniard, being a prifoner in a dungeon at Lisbon, foon after the revolt of the duke of Braganza, afterwards king John of Portugal, Portugal, was told by the corregidor dat the king was paffing by, and that it would be a proper occafion to petition for release instead of which, he fhut his window in the king's face. For this affront his window was bricked up, and all accefs of fight debarred. Character of the late Sir John THE He was a man of the most active, benevolent, and honourable mind, the moft difinterested public virtues. Of the laft he gave a ftriking proof in his conduct with regard to the union. After having ferved government for more than 18 years in a very high office (chancellor of the exchequer), without ever having folicited a jot, or provided for one of his family, he chofe rather to relinquifh all prefent emolument than to give his fupport to a meafure which he thought prejudicial to his country. He was an affectionate father, a fteady friend, a ufeful magiftrate, and a zealous promoter of every benefit to his country. In private life he was an example; that eafe and conviviality do HE late right hon. fir John Parnell, bart. one of his majeity's privy-counfellors in England and Ireland, reprefentative in the imperial parliament for the Queen's county, and formerly chancellor of the exchequer in Ireland, fucceeded to the title, 1782, on the deceafe of not require to be vicious or profane; his father, fir John, one of the judges of the king's bench, and married Letitia Charlotte, youngest daughter and co-heirefs of the right hon. fir Arthur Brooke, bart. of Colebrooke, co. Fermanagh, a member of the privy-council, and fifter of Selina, lady vifcountefs De Vefey, and has left iffue. He was defcended from the ancient family of the Parnells of Chehire, who removed to Ireland foon after the restoration, and was great pephew of the elegant poet Parnell, the friend of Pope and of Harley. A bandiome compliment was paid to the memory of fir John Parnell by the prefent premier, Mr. Addington, in á late debate. He defcribed him as a 'perfon whom they had lately feen a member of their houfe, whofe lofs they now deeply deplored, and whofe memory would be reverenced by all who fet any value on a found underLanding, extenfive information, and 1 benevolent heart.'-The following character of fir John Parnell appearin the public prints; and we infert at with pleafure as a juft tribute to the memory of an intelligent flatefman: for in his conduct he was moral, and in converfations always ready for mirth except when religion was the jeft. How he difcharged the great duties of fociety might be feen in the affections of his family, the confi dence of his friends, and the gratitude of the poor, whofe wants he relieved in the best manner, by teaching them to be induftrious, and providing them with manufactures. Nor fhould his inferi qualities be forgot: he had wit thout effort, and learning without pretenfion; and though carelefs of the deportment, and impatient of the forms, which to common obfervers make the whole of goodbreeding, he never omitted that part of it which is the practice of goodnature. In public life he was active and able: on parliamentary occafions his elocution was animated, his arguments ready, and his information comprehenfive. He thoroughly underftood the commercial and political interefts of Great Britain and Ireland. Always devoted to our establishments in church and ftate, he had many years acted in the fervice of the crown with a fpirit and attachment that were invariable, and which he did not lofe with the lofs of office.' He had, for fome fome time, being fomewhat ailing, but was going about as ufual, when he became fuddenly faint while converfing with fome of his family, and died almoft inftantaneoufly. See our poetical department, p. 55. The Noble Letter of Brutus to Cicero-dedicated to the First Conful of France. & MARCUS BRUTUS TO MARCUS A TULLIUS CICERO. TTICUS fent me an extract of your letter to Octavius. You have been fo long my faithful friend, that I can receive little new pleafure in reading your expreffions of regard for my general welfare, and folicitude for my perfonal fafety. I am fo accustomed to hear of what Cicero has faid, or of what he has done, to ferve my intereft, or exalt my characters that fuch proofs of friendship have loft the frethnefs of novelty, and I am come to look on them as things of course, mere occurrences of the day: I am, on this account, the lefs able to bear the pain which this part of your letter has given me that relates to us and to our caufe. When you exprefs your gratitude to Octavius in fuch a fulfome detail of adulation, (I feel my cheeks redden while I write; the rank and ftation of a republican recoil at the idea recommend our lives to him!-as well commend to him the daggers with which we ftabbed his uncle) When you are thus eager in paying homage, and in imploring clemency, do you not, as it were, mount the roftrum to declare, that it is vain for us to remove the mafterdom, while you are refolved to keep the mafter; and is not Cicero transformed into a lictor, who lays down the fafces of the empire at the feet of a boy. Recollect the words that you have written; and if you dare, deny that they pre-fuppofe, on the one part, the impotence of the flave; and, on the other, the felf-fufficiency of the tyrant. One request (you fay) muft be made, one fupplication, that he will not ufe thofe men ill of whom the Roman world think well; that he will fave fuch refpected citizens.' What if he refufes to fave us?- Shall we not be fafe?-Our right hands have taught us how. Better indeed to perith than find fafety through him. I do not think-no, by the Gods by Virtue, the God within me, whom I choofe to worship! I do not think that we of Rome have deferved fo ill of Heaven, as to petition any inferior power for the fafety of a fingle citizen, much lefs for the faviours of the world. I fpeak like a boafter: 1 fhould not do fo, but to those who are as little acquainted with the meafures of fear, as with the measures and limits of fubmiffion. Can Cicero confefs that Qc&tavius is all-powerful, and yet be his flatteres and friend? Could Cicero bear to fe Brutus refide in Rome; if, to refide in Rome, Brutus muft intercede for paffport and protection from this boy Is this ftripling to be made the fubje& of Cicero's panegyric for willing, for fuffering the breath of life to remain in our noftrils, for graciously conniving at the life of a Roman ?— Is he conferring a favour, when, a ther than fuffer Antony to tyranniz over us, he, with all due humanity may choose to play the tyrant himfelt Were he the avenger of ufurpation not, as he is, the mere vicegerent an ufurper, would you be forced, a this time, to fupplicate for men wh have deferved of their country as w have done?. It was, in truth, a want of ener gy, a want of felf-confidence, no confined to your breaft, but diffule through the public mind, which in ftigated Cæfar to the wretched amb tion of fovereignty: which, whe he fell, fimulated Antony to mak d |