T faline draughts repeated often, with doses of rhubarb and magnefia, or the teftaceous, when neceffary, have done much fervice. It must be remembered, that without ftools we can do little fervice.' To this on the puerperal fever, is fubjoined a fhort effay on convulfions, relating chiefly to those which feize pregnant women, near the time of delivery. The author obferves, in regard to the cure of this diforder, that it was formerly the general opinion, that, in fuch circumftances, a fpeedy delivery ought to be promoted by every poffible method, for the prefervation both of the mother and child: but that the most eminent men of the present time prefer waiting the event of the natural pains, or even of the convulfions themselves, which generally act as fuch. 15. Remarks on the Rev. Dr. Warner's full and plain Account of the Gout; wherein his Defects in the Cure of that Difease are pointed out and Supplied. I 2mo. Pr. Is. Wilkie. These Remarks, if we mistake not, are the production of the fame author with the treatise lately published, intitled, A New Syftem of Phyfic; for we can afcribe the following paffage to no other than that occult and incomprehenfible philosopher : But I am afraid you do not underftand me, though you read Mofes and the New Teftament, for in those books are the true blood-making principles couch'd.' If the reader is defirous of a more ample fpecimen of this performance, his curiofity may be gratified by the fequel to the foregoing quotation, where this formidable antagonist rails with a vehemence infpired, probably, as much by motives of intereft as a regard for the honour of Paracelfus. If Mofes was understood by you, you had left Paracelfus quiet. The principles of nature were the fame in Mofes' time, as they were in the apoftles time; and the fame in their time as in our time: not one principle added, nor one taken away; and fince the universe remains the fame, what can be the reason we may not understand the conftituent principles of the world, as well as Mofes, the apoftles, and philofophers. But you will fay, what has this to do with the gout? Mark! I'll fpeak to your memory, there are three which bear record above, there are three witnesses beneath, the last witness is blood. Now the gout is a difeafe you fay, caufed by the retention of fome matter, what matter you cannot fay; but you fay, it is one of all the matters, and it is immaterial which. I affure you the universe should not tempt me to be to learned a fcholar. Now, if the principles of the univerfe are concerned in blood-making, both above and beneath, I fhould have thought it would have concerned you as a learned divine, difeafed, to have have looked into the library of nature, and into the books of those writers which had given us the history of nature; and not into authors which did not follow nature. You plainly see that the dogmatical profeffors of phyfic cannot cure the gout. I fhould have thought it would have been a sufficient hint for you to have turned your back upon them, and have followed Mofes, Paracelfus, or nature, as I did, who had a difeafe more troublesome and fatal than you. But even suffering could not bring your learned spirit into the right road, though no good you found in the wrong. And fo great is your infatuation, that you rail at quacks and pretenders to cure the gout, when you are nothing but a pretender yourself.' 16. An Enquiry into the Origin and Nature of Magnesia Alba, and the Properties of Epfom Waters. Demonftrating, that Magnefia made with thefe Waters exceeds all others. By D. Ingram, Profelor of Anatomy and Surgery, and Surgeon to Chrift's Hospital. 8vo. Pr. 15. Owen. The reader will eafily perceive, from the extreme modesty of the author's title page, that this pamphlet is intended to answer the purposes of a quack advertisement. 17. The Caricatura: or Battle of the Butts, as it was fought at Brentford, &c. on Monday, the 28th of March 1768; being a Copy from Mr. Hogarth's March to Finchley. With a Rejearch into the Records established under the ancient two Kings of Brentford. By E. Whirlepool, Citizen and Haberdasher. δυο. Pr. 25. Kearfly. Callous as we are in the practice of reviewing dulnefs, the exquifite nonfenfe of this performance has given us a feeling-we mean for the readers, if any fuch there are, and for the buyers of it at the price of two fhillings. 18. The Advantages arifing from the Liberty of the Prefs. Dedicated to the Right Hon. William, Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Juftice of the Court of King's-Bench. 4to. Pr. Is, Peat. The author of this patriotic pamphlet, we are told, is one Jofeph Lovett, a register-office keeper in Fleet-Street, who complains of the injuftice which the printers of the news papers have done him, by refufing his public-fpirited and difinterested advertisements, while they fometimes infert very pernicious paragraphs and letters. In fhort, he feems to think that the legislative authority is in a manner transferred to those Q2 printers, printers, and that the publication of news-papers ought to be put under fome falutary reftrictions, لن 19. A feafonable Letter on the late Treaty with Nizam Allee Kawn, and the Commotions in Confequence of it, on the Coaft of Coromandel addreffed to the ferious Confideration of the prefent Directors of the Eaft-India Company, and the Proprietors of India-Stock. 4to. Pr. 1. Williams. This letter is pretended to have been lately tranfmitted by a gentleman of the coaft of Coromandel to his correspondent in London, with a view of its being published, but with pruden tial alterations according to circumstances. The prodigious encrease of the company's property in the Eaft Indies has rendered their history, interests, and operations there very complex; and in the course of this pamphlet, we meet with the names of many places, perfons, and offices, never before heard of in Europe.. You are at present, fays the author, involved in a war on the coaft of Coromandel, the confequence of a moft abfurd and pernicious alliance. The principal authors of it, it seems, are returned, and probably, as faithful fervants, have received your thanks. From the event of this connection, (which was foreseen by all but thofe concerned in fabricating it), you will judge how well they have deserved them. I shall at present obferve, that notwithstanding your late covenants may potentially reftrain your inferior civil fervants, and your military officers; yet it would feem, that no late treaty has been made without a proper confideration from those benefited by it; and, in the opinions of many, you have received a glaring proof, that a late new fangled fyftem of politics has as effectually marked," numbered, and valued your army on the coalt of Coromandel, as the forms of commerce oblige you to do the bales you freight from hence. You beft know the power your charter inves you with, of enquiring into fortunes gained by your fervants at the rifque of your deftruction; and the grounds you proceed upon will be fuggefted by that knowledge, by your retrospec tive experience, and prefent difcernment. The method of fcrutiny remains to be confidered, which, I apprehend, can never be efficacious, unless executed by a deputation from your body, largely interefted in the fuccefs of the difcovery.' The great point of this letter-writer, next to indulging himfelf in fome bitter perfonal sarcasms, is, that by ftripping the Carnatick of the company's troops, the country of their old and faithful ally Mohammud Allée Kawn, was left expofed to an intestine infurre&ion of his own fubjects. The writer complains likewife of the harsh treatment the fame Mohammud is Fikely to meet with by charging the expence of the war to him, after the vaft ceffions he has made to the company. As we have no opportunity of knowing the truth of the other facts mentioned in the pamphlet, great part of which is written in a cant language, we cannot pronounce with any precifion upon the merits of this letter, or whether it is not a job to serve. Mohammud Allée Kawn. 20. A Collection of Poems in two Volumes. By feveral Hands. 8vo. Pr. 6s. Pearch. This compilation is intended as a supplement to Mr. Dodfley's Collection of Poems, publifhed ten years ago. As moft, if not all of them, have been already printed, a particular review of the whole does not fall properly within our plan, especially as we have already done juftice to many of them. It is fufficient therefore to say, that they are not at all inferior in beauty, fentiment, genius, verfification, or any other excellence, to thofe pieces contained in the collection which they are intended to continue. 21. Conftantia, an Elegy, to the Memory of a Lady, lately deceased. 410. Pr. 15. Becket and Hondt. Very tender, pathetic, and poetical; witness the following lines. Fair Truth is there, the grieves to fee She too, of afpect mild and bland, -།༔། The tender Paffions o'er thy tomb With fond folicitude incline; Soft Pity weeps thy early doom, And Friendship bleeds at Virtue's fhrine.' The last stanza is inimitably fine; but we wish the author had obviated an objection which may be raised from the contraft between faith and distrust, 22. Poverty, a Poem. 4to. Pr. Is. Baldwin. There is no mifnomer in the title of this publication, for it may really and literally be termed a poor poem. Let the first four lines fpeak the merit of the whole. Poverty! a ftrange crab'd theme to choose, To try the genius of an infant muse! Poverty! ftrange theme! the bard's greatest curfe! 23. An Appendix to the Account of Italy, in Answer to Samuel Sharpe, Efq; by Jofeph Baretti. 8vo. Pr. 1 s. 66 Davies. This apologetical Appendix reminds us of the defence made by the earl of Defmond before the council of England in Henry VIII.'s time, when he was accused of burning a cathedral. By Jefus, faid he, I would not have done it, had I not thought the bishop was in it." Mr. Baretti in this defence aggravates his former tranfgreffions against fenfe, reason, learning, and every liberal fentiment, and fkulks behind the masked character of Ariftarco Scannabue, that is, Ariftarchus the Dunce-killer, in which his Frufta Litteraria was written. 6 By the introduction, fays he, and ftill more by many paffages in the work itself, it appears that this perfonage is drawn as hating almoft every thing done in Italy, and approving almost of nothing but what is done abroad, especially in England and France. Of his arrogance and furliness there never is an end; and he can scarcely hearken to the kindeft remonftrances of an honest clergyman, who often attempts to argue with him on several subjects; and, by way of contraft, is reprefented as a plain man, who never would trouble his head about what is tranfacted abroad, perfectly fatisfied with whatever is done at home. This clergyman, who is the only friend Ariftarchus has in Italy, often endeavours to temper the conftant rage of his overbearing friend, and often reprefents to him the excellence of many Italian ufages and performances. But his reafons make little impreffion: Ariftarchus is pofitive: and as the home-bred clergyman is far from having the wit and the learning attributed to the foldier, on the whole he fuffers in the combat.' From the above quotation no man of common understanding can help concluding that Ariftarchus fpeaks the fentiments of Mr. Baretti; nor was it ever alledged that he did not, till Mr. Sharp obliged him to clap on this pretended dunce-killer's mask. It has ferved Mr. Baretti, however, to moft excellent purpofe, as it has given him an opportunity to unload his breaft of that fpite and inalignity which lay rankling within him against the English |