augment its luftre and its value. He was indeed a learned, amiable, and truly refpectable man; and he completely deferved the praife which Dr. Rees has here the gratification of bestowing. Those who are acquainted with the friendship, which subfifted between the preacher and the deceased, will more than pardon the egotifm with which Dr. Rees concludes his memoir; for our own part, we admire this effufion of the heart at least as much as any other part of the difcourfe ;

Such are the general outlines of the character and labours of our deceased friend. The portrait, I am fenfible, is not fufficiently juft to the original. In delineating a character which exhibits fo many excellencies and fo few defects, none can suspect me of approaching to adulation. My respect for him was great. I honoured him as a father. I loved him as a brother. But my affection, I am confident, has not misled my judgment. By the favour of Providence, which marks the bounds of our habitation, I was led in early life to an intimate connection with him. Our acquaintance, as co-tutors and coadjutors in public business, ripened into an established friendship; and our friendship continued, without fo much as a momentary interruption, and with increasing attachment, for more than 32 years, to the day of his death. It must have been my own fault if I have not derived advantage from his extenfive literary knowledge, from the wifdom of his counfel, and from the exemplarinefs of his conduct.-No apology, I trust, will be thought neceffary for introducing myself on this occafion. As it was my ambition to cultivate the friendship [ enjoyed, it is my pride to have it publicly known, that I valued that friendship as one of the chief honours and pleasures of my life. The friend I have loft cannot easily be replaced.'

The tears of friendship, mingled with the confolations,of religion, compose the address at the grave.

ART. XIX. Academical Contributions of original and tranflated Poetry. 8vo. pp. 120. 2s. 6d. fewed. Egerton. 1795.

THIS

HIS affemblage of Cambridge poems confifts of odes, fonnets, contemplations, allegories, elegies, hymns, epigrams, paraphrafes, &c. many of which are very good, and moft are tolerable. Some of them had appeared in print before, but they are here new-modelled and improved. From among the odes, we felect the following in the grave style:

ODE TO THE JURIES WHO ASSERTED THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF THE SUBJECT, ON THE LATE STATE TRIALS.

Amidst a venal age,

Ye who have ftem'd Corruption's torrent tide,

And, fired with noble rage,

Have curb'd Injuftice, and infulting Pride:
The great, the good, the brave,

To you fhall raise the tributary lay;

And even the titled flave,

Struck with a fecret awe, unwilling homage pay.

• Justice

Juftice fhall bless the hour,

With fhouts of Myriads when your firm decree,
Unaw'd by lawless power,

Once more bade Albion's happy ifle be free.
Now from her long repofe

At length, behold Britannia's Genius rife,
Triumphant o'er her foes,

To blefs with all her charms a Nation's longing eyes.
See from her leaden throne
The fiend Impofture with deep ruin hurl'd,
By mighty Truth o'erthrown,

The fcorn and wonder of th' admiring world:
See Truth with powerful ray

Through clouds of Error and Detraction rife,
And, bursting into day,

Hold his majestic courfe unwearied through the fkies.
Still let the venal bard

To Power his fongs of gratulation pay,
And for his bafe reward

To deeds of war and havock tune the lay.
The Mufe, to Freedom dear,

To Freedom's fons the votive fong fhall raife,
And ftill with zeal fincere,

Shall Independence fire, and Truth direct her lays.

Freedom, to thee we owe

All, that adorns, or dignifies mankind :
From thy fair fountain flow

The purer fpirit, and the nobler mind.
Long may that holy fire,

That warm'd a HAMPDEN'S, or a SYDNEY's breast,
Britannia's fons inspire,

Ere yet fair Freedom fink, by gothic force oppreft.

Soon may her happy reign.

Chafe from the earth Oppreffion's monftrous brood,
And all the impious train

Of Anarchy, the fiend that thirsts for blood;
Soon, foon may Discord ceafe;

Nor War, and Havock wafte the affrighted plain;
But Freedom, join'd with Peace,

Wide o'er the peopled earth extend their blissful reign.'

J.

For a fpecimen of another kind, we will give the parody on Dryden :

ODE ON A COLLEGE FEAST-DAY.

Hark! heard ye not those footsteps dread,
That fhook the hall with thundering tread?

With eager hafle

The fellows paft;

Each, intent on direful work,

High lifts the trenchant knife, and points the deadly fork.

• But lo! the portals ope; and, pacing forth
With steps, alas! too flow,

The College Gyps, of high illuftrious worth,
With all the dishes in long order go.
In the midft, a form divine,

Appears the famed firloin;

And lo! with plumbs and fteaming glory crown'd,
A mighty pudding fpreads its fragrance all around.
Heard ye the din of dinner bray,

Knife to fork, and fork to knife!

Unnumber'd heroes, in the glorious ftrife,

Thro' fish, flesh, pies, and puddings cut their deftined way.
See! beneath the glittering blade,

Gored with many a gaping wound,
Low the famed firloin is laid,
And finks in many a gulph profound.

Arife! arife! ye fons of glory!
Pies and puddings are before ye.
See! the ghofts of hungry bellies
Point to yonder ftand of jellies;
While fuch dainties are befide ye,
Snatch the goods the cooks provide ye.
Mighty rulers of the ftate,

Snatch, before it is too late;

For, fwift as thought, the puddings, jellies, pies,
Contract their giant bulk, and fhrink to pigmy fize.
From the table now retreating,

All around the fire they meet,
And with wine the fons of eating
Crown at length the gorgeous treat.
Triumphant plenty's rofy graces
Wanton in their jolly faces,
And in each countenance ferene
Mirth and cheerfulness are feen.

Fill high the fparkling glafs,
And drink the accustomed toast!
Drink deep, ye valiant host,
And let the bottle pass.
Begin the jovial ftrain!

Fill, fill the mystic bowl!

And drink, and drink, and drink again,

For drinking fires the foul.

But foon, too foon, with one accord they nod;
Each on his feat begins to reel,

All conquering Bacchus' power they feel,

And pour libations to the rofy god.

At length with dinner and with wine oppreft,

Down to the floor they fink, and fnore themselves to rest.

B.'

Befides a variety of English poems, we find fome Greek and Latin verfes; among which a Greek Sapphic in Otium

aftivum

eftivum is a pretty plaything-We had almoft forgotten to mention a translation of the Iphigenia in Aulis of Euripides, beginning at v. 751, and ending with v. 800: we tranfcribe a few lines of it;

STROPHE.

• Where Simois in monarch pride
Downward rolls his filver tide,-
Borne along the watery way
By fanning gales in veffels gay,
Grecian chiefs of mighty name,
Fir'd with glory's active flame,
There shall mount the winged car,
Point the fpear and urge the war.
Fair Caffandra from her brow
Rudely tears the wreathed bay,
And her treffes, as they flow,
Scatters wild in deep difmay,
Oft as, by the God poffeft,

Rage prophetic heaves her breast,
And to deaf ears the tells her country's doom,

Big with a weight of woes and forrows yet to come.'

We cannot help thinking that the first of these measures is of too comic a caft to be fuited to tragedy;-and even the fe cond fort, Fair Caffandra, &c. appears to have too little dignity for the buskin.

ART. XX. A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen. By Alexander Gordon, M. D. Phyfician to the Difpenfary. 8vo. pp. 124. 35. Robinfons. 1795.

IF

our recommendation can avail, this valuable tract will foon be very generally in the hands of medical practitioners. Dr. Gordon, we think, has made great advancement towards eftablishing a successful method of treating a diforder, which is well-known to be terribly fatal to an interefting clafs of our fellow-citizens.

In chapter I. the fymptoms are traced with a diftinct pen, It is important to remark that, when the author was called in within 6 or 8 hours after the attack, he could put an immediate ftop to the fever, though the pulle was 140.—If 12-24 hours had elapfed, it could feldom be brought to a termination before the 5th day. After the expiration of this term, the dif eafe was generally incurable.

In chapter 11. cafes and diffections are related; from which the author concludes that the puerperal fever may be confidered as confifting in abdominal inflammation.' Arguments are adduced to prove that the inflammation is of an eryfipèlatous nature: but they will fcarcely, we fufpect, be admitted as conclufive;

conclufive; and we must do Dr. G. the juftice to fay that he delivers this opinion in a tone by no means pofitive. Rather, therefore, than occupy the little room we have to fpare with our doubts, we fhall extract the following inftru&tive fummary:

The foregoing table contains feventy-feven cafes of the disease, which are the foundation on which my doctrine is grounded, and which I defy any theory to shake.

died.

Of that number forty-nine patients recovered, and twenty-eight

Of the former, the greater part owed their recovery to fuch evacuations, as cure inflammatory difeafes, carried to a very great extent; fome, to the fame evacuations fpontaneously excited and continued; fome, to a tranflation of the inflammation to the extremities, or other external parts, in form of eryfipelas or abscess; and a few, to an astonishing effort of nature, in difcharging the abdominal fuppuration by an external outlet, of which wonderful crifis, I have given three remarkable cafes.

Of the latter, or those who died, we have ocular demonstration of the nature of the disease in three dissections; and, in all the rest, there were evident fymptoms, either of mortification, or fuppuration of the parts contained within the cavity of the abdomen.

And if to these facts be joined this additional one, that of thofe who got wine and cordials, upon the fuppofition that the difeafe was putrid, none recovered, it may be confidered as an established truth, that the Puerperal Fever is a disease of an inflammatory nature.'

The remote cause of the puerperal fever (Chap. IV.) is a peculiar contagion. Every perfon who had been with a patient in the puerperal fever, became charged with an atmofphere of infection, which was communicated to every pregnant woman who happened to come within its fphere.' Many facts are brought forwards in confirmation of the transportation of the contagion. Typhus and the puerperal fever differ in feveral refpects. The circumftance that excites the infection of the puerperal fever, feems to prevent typhus. The former always takes place after and not before delivery: but typhus, if pregnant women are expofed to the infection, takes place before, and very feldom after delivery. Chap. V. Prognofis of the difeafe; it has hitherto been almoft invariably fatal. Chap. VI. From the quotation already made, it has appeared that Dr. Gordon had recourfe to large evacuations. At the beginning of the difeafe, when alone there is hope, 20-24 ounces of blood are to be taken at once, and calomel and jalap are immediately to be adminiftered in fuch quantity as to operate speedily and brifkly; and the purging is to be kept up till the difeafe is cured. Chap. VII. The difeafe is to be prevented, 1, by taking care not to communicate the infection and 2, by the author's purging bolus, of 3 grains of calomel, and 2 fcruples of jalap, adminiftered the day after delivery;

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