formed in the entrails of the earth, more apparent, has endear voured to imitate them by art. He took for this purpofe fome iron ore calcined and powdered, and having made it into a pafte, " with water, he daubed with this mixture the inside of a vessel,. at the bottom of which he caufed a certain quantity of fulphur to be fet on fire, the vapours of which neceffarily were enveloped in the pafte; he then poured on water, by which he obtained what the acid vapours had diffolved of the iron. This water had the ferruginous tafte, and the fulphureous smell, turned purple or black with vegetable aftringents, and red with the tincture of Tournifol, emitted air copioufly upon agitation, was eafily decompofed, became fpeedily covered with a fum of different colours, and, in a little time, let fall a ferruginous

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The water of the Pouhon fountain is the fittest in cafes of a relaxed habit, when the patient's ftomach is ftrong enough to bear it. The Geronftere is better adapted for perfons of a delicate frame, and weak ftomach; it warms and exhilerates, and is most proper where there is an inaction and infenfibility of the fibres, and where no inflammation is to be apprehended, in nervous cafes, and in female disorders. The Sauveniere ought to be preferred in cutaneous maladies, flow fevers, confumptions that depend on acrimony, and the fcurvy. It may be confidered as of a middle nature between the Pouhon and the Geronftere, fo that it may be fubftituted in any cafe, where the former is prejudicial from its weight, or the latter from its heat. The Groifbeck may be employed, generally fpeaking, in the fame cafes with the Sauveniere, only it is a little colder, and not quite fo light upon the ftomach. The water of the Tonnelet is chiefly ufed to drink with wine at meals, and is in this refpect very agreeable. The Watroz is feldom used at all. The common practice, however, is to begin with the leaft active, and the leaft heating, in order to dispose the body gradually for the ufe of the moit efficacious.

The month of May, and the beginning of June; the end of Auguft, and the month of September, are the proper feafons. As to the quantity in which they are to be drank, the time of drinking them, the necellary preparations, and the regimen to be obferved, thefe, according to every patient's cafe, are regulated by the phyfician.

Our Author mentions the conveniences and the diverfions of Spa, that it angers may be informed the waters may be taken there in the moit agreeable manner; for he admits, that chearful converfation pleatant walks, and other innocent recreations, contribute n. as mach to remove melancholy and nervous diforders, as thee of thefe waters. The whole is conclud

ed with fifty-three cafes, reported on the Author's own knowlege, or from other eminent Phyficians, calculated to fupport what he has delivered in refpect to the falutiferous efficacy of the fprings of Spa, in various diseases.

The rest of the Foreign Books are deferred, on account of the number of other Articles this month.

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MONTHLY CATALOGUE, For DECEMBER, 1758.

POLITICAL.

Art. 1. Reflections on the different Ideas of the French and English in regard to Cruelty; with fome Hints for improving our Humanity in a particular Branch. By a Man. 8vo. 6d. Tonfon.

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HESE Reflections breathe an amiable spirit of humanity, and are in general extremely juft and acute. Nevertheless, the fubject upon the whole is not treated with that confiftency and folidity which the nature of it demands.

The Author obferves, that the different ideas of the French and English, with regard to cruelty, are not owing fo much to real oppofition of character, as to the different laws and conftitution of the two nations.

As an improvement of humanity amongst us, he proposes a Perpetual Bill of Infolvency, for the Relief of unhappy Debtors, and concludes with a whimsical petition from the pritoners confined for debt, to the humanity of the nation in P -t affembled.

We are far from thinking the fcheme he propoles proper to be put in execution. Neither is it eafy to conjecture, from his loose manner of writing, whether he is ferious in his propofal or not. However, it is high time that the wifdom of the Legiflature should take into confideration the cafe of thofe miferable wretches, who are utterly loft to fociety, and whofe life is a burthen to themselves. Certainly nothing but the tyranny of cultom, can reconcile the barbarity of shutting up our fellow-creatures in a loathsome prison, when they are unable to fatisfy our demands. R-d

Art. 2. Confiderations on the Exchange of Seamen, Prisoners of War. 8vo. Is. Noon.

The very fenfible Writer of this pamphlet endeavours to prove, that the claims of justice, the dictates of humanity, and the principles of interest, all plead for an exchange of prisoners.

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He argues with great freedom and good fenfe, that Every ftate is obliged to protect and defend all its members; and that fubjects abandoned by their country, without any crime committed, recover their natural liberty, and may renounce the fociety which affords them no protection: the fame law of reason, fays he, which juftified the expulfion of a member of fociety who violates its laws, will justify that member in withdrawing from it, when it performs not the obligations it owes him. Hence the ftate is under an obligation to procure, as foon as poffible, the releafe of its fubjects from thofe evils to which they became fubjected in its defence; and till their liberty can be ob tained, is under the fame obligation to furnish them wherewithal to fupport themfelves in their imprifonment. They are to be confidered as members of the fociety, and as a valuable part of it, who are only rendered incapable of performing fome duties, by ill-fortune in the discharge of others, the most eflential, at the hazard of life itself. Their claims on the fociety, inftead of being fufpended by their imprisonment, receive additional force, and lay the fociety under an indifpenfible duty of acting in the most speedy and effectual manner in their favour.'

Among other inconveniences in point of intereft, attending the non-exchange, he obferves that it will neceffitate the introduction of foreigners into the fleet, as has been actually the cafe in this war. A proceeding, fays he, by which the nation must suffer in a great degree: for every foreigner made a failor in this fervice, gains that information which the natives fhould be encouraged to acquire, and whatever profit of his induftry is tranfmitted to his home, is fo much clear lofs to this country.' R-d

Art. 3. Reponse ou Memoire concernant la Prife & Detention des Vaiffeaux Hollandois allant ou revenant des Ifles Françoifes en Amerique. Fol. 1 s.* No Publisher's name.

The defign of this anfwer to the Dutch Memorial, is to prove, that by the fpirit of the treaty in 1674, the Dutch have no right to trade unmolefted to the French Islands. The words in the treaty, fays the Anfwerer, which give liberty to the neutral power of trafficking in fuch kind of merchandizes, as were exported in time of peace,' must bear the fame conftruction as if it had been expreffed, that fuch power might continue the commerce which was carried on in time of peace. Now, fays he, this commerce to the French' Iflands has been newly opened by the Dutch, fince the commencement of the war, and in time of peace was confined altogether to the French alone.

Befides, he argues, that this commerce to the French islands was not known in 1674, and therefore could not be comprized in that treaty. He adds further, that every veffel having a fpecial perruffion to carry on an exclufive commerce, is deemed to appertain to that nation which alone has the power of granting fuch permiffion; as

This pamphlet was advertised to be fold for the benefit of the Marine Society; by Mr. Brotherton, Bookfeller, Cornhill.

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the French alone, therefore, fays he, are in poffeffion of this branch of trade, all the veffels trading to those Islands, are French, or to be confidered as fuch: and, confequently, are liable to be condemned according to the law of nations.

This is a fhort abstract of the Anfwerer's arguments on this occafion. Our limits will not allow us to enter minutely into the merits of the difpute; but we think it just to obferve, that what the Author has advanced is not without weight. As to his language, had he not -declared that he was an Englishman, we should not have been at a lofs to guefs his country; for his French throughout abounds with English idioms. Indeed he is fo little of a Frenchman, that he has made ufe of words which are not to be found in the language-fuch as etablier and dejea. But poffibly, these may be errors of the prefs. R-d Art. 4. A Letter from a Member of Parliament in Town, to a Noble Lord in the Country, in regard to the laft Expedition on the coast of France. 8vo. 1s. Griffiths.

A fpirited apology for the conduct of General Bligh. We have not room to enter into the reasoning contained in this pamphlet; wherein, according to our apprehenfion, fome juft and acute things are faid, in the General's defence:-but we think the fignal fervice he did his country in the affair of Cherburgh, his misfortune afterwards, at the Bay of St. Cas, and his fubfequent ill reception at home, are humouroufly glanced at, in the following fhort story.

A young fellow, who had been fwimming for fome time, was, on a fudden, in the midit of the waters, feized with a cramp, which took away all his powers. The father, who ftood on the bank, and in agony beheld his fon at the last gafp, in vain intreated the by.. ⚫ ftanders to venture to his affiitance; they were all unacquainted with ⚫ the depths and foundings of the river, and they would not go upon fuch a frolic: when a very honest worthy man, who in the mean time had been ftripping himself, cries out, "Stand away," and plunges into the river. In the very critical moment he got up to the perfon in diftrefs, raised his head above the water with one hand, and attempted to fwim toward the fhore with the help of the other. But he foon found the exertion of both arms neceflary; for, getting. into a deep eddy, just under the bank, he was in danger of going to the bottom : he therefore put the other's thumb into his mouth, and biting pretty ftrenuously, he dashed the stream with both hands at once, and shortly reached the land, with the object of his compaffion, in perfect fafety. Some days afterwards, the gentleman who had thus generously rifked his life, as he was walking along the ftreet, perceived on the other fide of the way, the very person who was indebted to him for his prefervation. He inftantly flies acrofs the way to him: "My dear Sir, I am heartily glad to fee you." "What the Devil are you there?" replied the other, and be "damn'd to you, you Raícal, you have almoft bit my thumb off, "-and by G-d I'll never speak another word to you while I live."

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Art. 5. An Examination of a Letter published under the Name of t GB-h, and addreffed to the Hon. -m Ptt, Efq; 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Hooper.

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As we gave no particular account of the fpurious Letter*, which is the object of this Examiner's attention, we fhall fay the lefs of the prefent production. Both the Letter and the Examination feem to have derived their existence from the fame fource: the fubject appeared popular-and Authers muft cat, fometimes, as well as other See our laft, p. 500. Art. 10.

mortals.

Art. 6. The Nature and Utility of Expeditions to the Coast of France, &c. By an Officer in the last Expedition. 8vo. Is. Burnet.

Affords nothing worth notice.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Art. 7. The Happy Orphans. An authentic Hiftory of Perfens in High Life. With a variety of uncommon events, and surprizing turns of fortune. Tranfiated and improved from the French .. original. 12mo. 2 vols. 6s. Woodgate and Co.

We are very much milaken if the above title-page is not all a lie. About fifteen years ago was published, in one volume, a novel entitled, The Fortunate Foundlings, written, as we believe, by the late famous Mrs. Haywood, of romancing memory. From that work the Happy Orphans appears to be taken, almoft verbatim; the difference chiefly confifting in an alteration of the names: but what the pirate, or the copieit, or the cobler, or by whatever title the honeft editor chufes to be diftinguished;-what he means by calling his book a tranilation from the French, is best known to himself. Transformed from the English, would, we apprehend, have been nearer the truth.

Art. 8. Memoirs of the celebrated Mifs Fanny M

12mo. 3s. Scott.

This article owes its exiflence to the fame kind of industry which gave birth to the work mentioned in the preceding article. It is ill written, imperfect *, and feems to be little more than mere invention.

The Author promises to finish it in another volume, provided the first part meets with fuccefs.

Art. 9. The Adventures of a Turk. Tranflated from the French. 12mo. 2 vols. 6 s. Coote.

Like the rest of the French novels, full of amour, but not deflitutę of fentiment. It must be confeffed, that the Grubs of Paris beat those of London, all to nothing,

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