tempt, we are not qualified to give any judgment. With regard to the particulars, or incidents, his narrative agrees pretty nearly with what had been before communicated to us by the Author of The authentic account,' &c. See our laft, p. 311, art. 25. Art 2. Reflexions on the conduct of General Bligh, and Commodore Lord How, c. 8vo. 6d. Pridden. There is very little connexion between this pamphlet and its title-page. Had the Writer filed it Reflexions concerning Genral Paoli and the Corficans, it had been more to the purpose, as he has fpilt moft of his ink upon them. Probably, he wrote his title firft; after which, forgetting what he had engaged for there, his thoughts took a ramble up the Mediterranean, and back again to England; where, after a furvey of what has been done in the country with regard to the militia, he feems to have recollected fomething of his first defign. But then finding himfelf too late, and that he had alteady fpun out his fix-penny-worth of words, he was obliged to drop the pen; after firft fqueezing out of it a dark hint or two (thrown into his two laft pages, to make both ends cf his pamphlet correfpond a little) about treachery, or fome mifchief or other, no body knows what, done by fome vile traitors, no body knows who, on purpose to bring a flur on the ministry, and a difgrace upon general Bligh: and doubtlefs, both the miniftry and the general are very happy in having the good opinion of fuch a Writer,-but 'tis pity fo zealous an advocate has not a better memory. Art. 3. A letter to his E h. t G8vo. 6d. A. Henderson, Westminster-hall. G—————————1 B▬▬▬▬▬▬h's correfpondent very freely charges him with having, by his incapacity, or neglect, occafioned the disgrace and lofs which lately befel our troops at the bay of St. Cas. It is a notable, bold, and fpirited letter. The Writer (who alfo reflects with equal freedom on the miniftry, for employing a fuperannuated gentleman, aş he expreffes himfelf) feems inclined to fpare no body, and to fear no confequences. Art. 4. Humorous Ethics; or, an attempt to cure the vices and follies, by a method entirely new. In five plays, as they are now acting to the life, at the Great Theatre, by his Majesty's company of comedians. 8vo. 6s. bound. Owen. Three of thefe five plays, as they are called, have been already noticed in the Review, viz. The Taxes, Vol. XVI. p. 84.-The Oc culift, Vol XVII. p. 88. and the Trial of the Time killers, ibid. p. 604. The additional ones are entitled, 1ft. The Moral Quack, in which our Author profeffes to expofe, cenfure, and prescribe comicoJe ious remedies for foppery-luft-drunkennefs-envy-covetoufnefs--ambition-anger-idlenef-and pride.' 2. The Infignificants, in which all the triflers upon whom the wholefome prefcriptions given in the preceding fatires have not had their wifh'd-for effect, are ✰ confidered as dead perfons, and proper care is taken to provide for 407 their funerals.'The plan of this laft is confeffedly taken from the Tatler, numb. 96. Upon the whole, thefe performances all appear to be well intended, nor are they deftitute of humour; tho' it is by no means probable, that any of them would have fucceeded on the flage. Indeed we cannot fuppofe the Author intended thefe compofitions for theatrical reprefentation, notwithstanding his having caft them into the dramatic form. L Art. 5. Jus Ducem Eligendi Perilluft Statibus Curlandiæ et Semigallia competens. Extincta quoque ftirpe mafcul. Kettleri. Auctore L. B. de Klopman. Soc. Liter. Teut. et Lat. Fenens Coll. honor. 12mo. 2s. Millar. It is now between seventeen and eighteen years fince the Duke of Courland was banifhed into Siberia. The defign of this well-written performance, is to fhew the reafonableness of recalling the old Duke, or allowing the Courlanders to chufe another. POETICA L. L Art. 6. Poems on feveral Occafions. By William Vernon, a private Soldier in the Old Buffs. 12mo. 3s. Reeve. It is with pleasure we fee thefe efforts of unaffilled genius favoured with fo liberal a fubfcription, and particularly that our military Poet has been fo hardiomely countenanced by his officers. In a modeit advertisement prefixed to his Poems, he thus apologizes for their imperfections. I am not intenfible, that a want of education will be very difcernible through the whole performance; for I mutt inform my Reader, that by my circumftances in life, I was only taught to ⚫ read and write English, and understand nothing of any other language. The Imitations of Horace I took from a profe tranflation ⚫ of Mr. Smart's *; which gave me great infight into Horace's meaning, and particular pleasure in the reading '- 6 Under fach circumftances, fevere criticifm would be cruelty: let the candid Reader judge of Mr. Vernon's poetical merit by the following extract, which is not chofen as the best. * See Review, vol. XVI. p. 32. Horace, Book li. Ode XIV. imitated from an English Tranflation. Inferibed to Jofeph the Miller, at Toll-free Mill. Dear Joe, the years whirl on apace, Nor can we flay their mad-cap race, Whatever tricks we play; Time prints thy brow with wrinkles deep, Death hattens with his feythe to fweep He meets us with a fcornful grin, The king, the miller, and the flave, And find a fatal hour. Dd 4 What Art. What tho' we fhun the fickly fogs, That rife among the lowland bogs, What tho' where fhouting troops engage, The coward runs away? Stil, ftill, the foe is at his back, And hunts him through the winding track, And where his coming leaft he fears, Muft we then leave thefe joys behind? A grafy turf, with ofiers bound, Our fpendthrift heirs fhall dance the hay, MEDICA L. Ն 7. An Account of Inoculation, prefented to the Moft Noble Governor of the Princes, Privy Counsellor and Knight of his Majefty's Order of Knighthood; and to the Honourable and Royal Commiffioners of Health in the Kingdom of Sweden. By David Schultz, M. D. who attended the Small-Pox Hofpital in London near a twelve-month. Tranflated from the Swedish Original. 8vo. 2s. Linde. We have no doubt but the original of this tranflation was well received in the kingdom where it was published, and for whofe information and benefit it was defigned; as it contains fufficient proofs of the Author's affiduous care and fidelity to acquit himself of the falutary commiffion intrufted to him. But the expedience of tranflating it into English, with regard to the emolument of the Public here, is not equally clear to us: fince the much greater part of the materials compofing it, is cited from our own Authors on the fubject, who are certainly the moft fignificant ones, from their much greater experience of it. We are further apprehenfive, that neither Dr. Schultz nor his Tranflator (in which foever the defect may lie) will be credited with a thorough understanding of our language, or a competent acquaintance with its idiom, from this performance. If the Tranflator has firictly adhered to the Swedish, a few inftances occur of the Doctor's miltaking the fenfe of fome of the Authors he has cited: If the Doctor really cited and understood them exactly, the Tranflator has millaken him. For For example, Dr. Schultz, p. 19, refers to the Analyfis of Inoculation, p. 137, as affirming, that fome have been fuccefstully inocuJate under fymptoms of the venereal difeafe, which they concealed. On confulting that treatife, we find no fuch affirmation, but obferve it fays, p. 140. A young lady was inoculated by an apothecary, with matter taken from a man who had, at the fame time, a venereal bubo, of which the apothecary was ignorant.-This is certainly a different circumftance; and what makes the mistake the more furprising is, that Dr. Schultz cites this cafe very juftly afterwards.-The fame treatife is cited as faying, that a young gentleman had been nearly reduced to an amputation of his arm, from having a tendon wounded by inoculating. On examining the page referred to, we find not the leaft mention of a wounded tendon, or any tendon; but only obferve, that Dr. Kirkpatrick is cautioning againft wounding the leaft membranous or flefhy fibre of a muscle, by the incifion, as the ftimulating matter admitted there might erode the aponeurofis and substance of the mufcles, and fo produce a finuous ulcer-In the arguments for and against Inoculation, annexed to this account, the preface of the fame treatife is referred to, as faying,-It is the old cuftom to mix heaven and earth, and even hell in the difputes, and when they have quoted thefe terrible things, then they believe they have given conviction. The real paffage is-This is the old device of mixing heaven and earth, and, indeed, hell too in the quarrel, and to cite it appears its fufficient refutation :-the last member of which period contains a very different fenfe from that of the former. It is not improbable, that the Doctor, or his Tranflator, may have fimilarly erred in fome of their quotations from other Authors: but we have contented ourselves with these few inftances from one of the laft, and the largest treatife on Inoculation, which, for that reafon, may be in many hands. Nevertheless, upon the whole, the general matter of Dr. Schultz's book is, ufeful, and practical; though a little more method in the arrangement of his different heads, would have rendered it fill more advantageous to his countrymen. The most acceptable parts of it to an English Reader, will be the information, p. 132, that the practice has had a happy beginning in Sweden (where feven or eight are mentioned in the notes as fuccefsfully in oculated) and the juft compliments of a foreign phyfician to the English, for the perfection to which they have carried the practice. We shall decline making any particular obfervations on the language of a medical book, rendered from the Swedish, by a Tranflator who, to fay the leaft, is a ftranger to the elegancies of our tongue, and perhaps no phyfician. But we are confiderably furprized, that the English phyfician, who has, in an introductory letter, acknowleged his having feen the tranflation, (doubtlefs in manufcript) and has attefted the affiduity of the Author in attending on this practice; we are furprized, we fay, to obferve that he did not, for the honour of his difciple, and the credit of a work whofe merit he has certified, correct at least the many errors in grammar which occur in it; and which we cannot justly charge to Dr. Schultz, who, we apprehend, was not his own Tranflator, and who probably never faw the translation before it was printed off. Befides which, the book fhould have had had a confiderable lift of typographical errata, which it has not, an nexed to it, as fome of the errors are really material ones. K Art. 8. The Nature and Qualities of Bristol Water. Illuftrated by experiments and obfervations, with practical reflections on Bath-Waters, occafionally interfperfed. By A. Sutherland, M.D. of Bath. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Owen. This pamphlet is addreffed to the Doctors and Profeffors of Medicine in the Univerfity of Edinburgh, as a teftimony of Acade⚫mical Gratitude.' However, it may be doubted, whether that truly learned body will think themselves much honoured by the compliment; or rather, whether their well-known candour will not be apt to take offence at the following almost indiscriminate reflections on the faculty. Few,' fays A. Sutherland, M. D. understand the powers of the medicines which they prefcribe; infinite volumes are ftuffed with the Materia Medica, infinitely combined, whofe Authors launch out into the encomiums of the virtues of medicines, which, upon trial, ⚫ are found to have none.' с In the profufion of his academical gratitude he thus proceeds: • Maft Phyficians, antient as well as modern, are ignorant of the principles of chemical philofophy: they prefcribe medicines without a previous knowlege of their virtues: deftitute of a fure foundation, they crowd compofitions on compofitions in fuch a manner, that if the patient has the good luck to recover, the physician is fo ⚫ much at a lofs to know to which of the remedies the cure was due, ⚫ that upon a like occafion he knows not how to employ the same.' So unlimitted, and fo fevere a cenfure muft, we apprehend, appear to every candid Reader, not lefs indecent than undeferved; the Author might, indeed, think it neceffary to fet forth the importance of his own labours, in which we find he had Dr. Baylies for his coadjutor. To the fame gentleman our Author feems to be indebted for the plan of his performance; concerning which we fhall add no more, than that it contains very little that can contribute to the information of the phyfician, or that promises to be of use to the patient. 6 ८ * See this gentleman's practical Reflections on Bath-waters, Review, Vol, XVII. p. 164, feq. L Art. 9. A ferious Addrefs to the Public, concerning the most probable means of avoiding the dangers of Inoculation. Very neceffary to be read by parents and guardians, who defign to inoculate their children, &c. as well as by adults who chufe to be inoculated. 8vo. 6d. Cooper. I was formerly, fays the Writer of this pamphlet, of the faculty, but kind fortune happened to fmile on me, and by one goodnatured act of hers, raised me up to that pitch of circumstance, that I am not obliged to drudge on in the practice of phyfic; yet I cannot forbear loving the art which for fome time I induftrioufly applied to, I am concerned for its honour, this cannot fail to be |