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provement, and though from the very rapid march of Phrenology since the first discoveries of Dr. Gall, this, science was brought nearer to perfection in a shorter space of time than had fallen to the lot of most others; yet a great deal was left to be done, when, in 1814, Dr. Spurzheim published in London his valuable deve

lopement of the new doctrine, under the title of the Physiognomical System.

It was the fate of this Work to be reviewed and criticised by persons wholly inadequate to the task. Many confessed that their censure was unpreceded by investigation, and that they thought it a fitter subject for ridicule than serious discussion: others accused it of a dangerous tendency, because they totally misunderstood the system; while the majority shew. ed the cloven foot-and Jealousy, of contemporary superiority, in a favourite science, has not been behindhand in its endeavours to establish a popular prejudice against a doctrine which few were qualified to examine with accuracy. The papers which I have from time to time published in explanation of the discoveries, have met the same treatment; and a sur. vey of the whole of the opposition' to the doctrine has convinced us how much more the feelings were concerned than the intellectual faculties in prompting the idle arguments used against it. Tired of replying to objections reiterated in every country, and every where refuted, have the Anatomists of the Brain at length pursued a different course, and hav ing left in print almost all the objections with their answers which have or can be made to their views of the Physiology of the Brain; they now proceed steadily with their investigations, and cautiously submit their results to the real lovers of science, regardless of popular prejudice. Since books have this decided superiority over oral instruction, thus they become lasting documents, whereby men of science in future ages may be assisted in their enquiries.

Of late it has appeared, that some slight differences in the number and arrangement of the cerebral organs were conformable to the observation of nature; and Dr. Spurzheim has been induced in consequence to make GENT. MAG. Suppl. LXXXIX. PART II.

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the following arrangement, of which I shall endeavour to make some more extensive observations in a future Number; as I find that many anatomists and philosophical persons in this and other countries are becoming more convinced, by their own enquiries, of the truth of our doctrine. Arrangement of Cerebral Organs,

according to the most recent Work of Dr. Spurzheim, on "Phreno logy," published lately at Paris, Strasburg, and London.

Organs of the Propensities*, &c.

1. Organ of Amativeness, or phys sical Love. 2. Philoprogenitiveiress; or Attachment to Offspring. 3. Inhabitiveness, or Attachment to Situation. 4. Adhesiveness, or Friendly Attachment. 5. Combativeness, courageous and fighting Disposition. 6. Destructiveness. 7. Constructiveness, or propensity to construct, build, &c. 8. Covetiveness. 9. Secretiveness. 10. Pride. 11. Love of approbation. 12. Cautiousness. 13. Benevolence. 14. Devotion. 15. Hope. 16. Idea lity, or Poetic Feeling. 17. Superstition, or a mysterizing Disposition. 18. Justice, or a conscientious mind. 19. Determinateness. 20. Individuality. 21. Phenominality, or prescient Recollection of Phenomena. 22. Com parison. 23. Wit. 24. Imitation. 25. Time. 26. Space. 27. Weight. 28. Form. 29. Colour. 30. Musick. 31. Order. 32. Calculation. 33. Size. 34. Causality.

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Mr. URBAN, Middlewich, Dec. 31. GENERAL opinion prevails that every person has a Coat of Arms, though he may not know it; and I find it a common practice for people to look over Edmondson, or some other book of Heraldry,-and if they find their names prefixed to a particular Blazon, they assume it, and call it their own. Now the question I would ask is, whether they can do so without incurring some disgrace, blame, or cognizance, from the rightful owners; or, whether they can bear any Arms answering to their names, provided those Arms are not borne by any of the Nobility? Yours, &c.

G. C. B.

*The doctrine has been previously fully treated of in our Volumes for 1814 and 1815. EDIT.

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REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

110. The Annual Register; or, View of the History of Politicks, and Literature, for the Year 1803. 8vo. pp. 1050. Rivingtons.

Tseries of the Annual Register HIS Eighth Volume of the New opens with good auspices in the Westeru rays of Waterloo Place; where, under Princely Patronage, the worthy Publishers have opened a new and extensive establishment--and Quod felix fuustumque sit is the hearty wish of all who rejoice in the pros perity of good men, and of all who are hearty friends to the British Constitution in Church and State.

Of the ample Volume now before us it may suffice to say, that it is formed with the same accuracy, and with the same impartiality, which distinguished those emanating from the talents of Mr. Burke- and that the principal feature of the year is, "the political phenomenon of [the Spaniards] a people abandoned by their Government, rising to vindicate their national rights, and oppose the designs of artifice and oppression."

The Volume for 1809, we are told, is nearly ready for publication.

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THIS Discourse (from Prov. xxiv. 21) was preached in two separate parts, though the Author preferred publishing them in one unbroken form;" with " a faint hope on the part of the Writer, that it may not be wholly unproductive of good in the present crisis of affairs."

"If this end be answered, even in the most trifling degree, the Author will be amply rewarded for any trouble he may have incurred, by devoting the little time he has to spare from the duties of a laborious employment, to the instruction of those with whom he is more immediately connected, in a point of momentous importance."

Mr. Hildyard thus concludes:

"That Almighty Preserver, who has,

hitherto, so mercifully watched over us, and protected our highly-favoured island, from the miseries of foreign invasion, will never, we humbly trust, give us up as a prey to the violence of internal enemies, or suffer our laws and liberties to be finally overwhelmed amid the struggles of a wild and ferocious anarchy. To Him we will look up for refuge and support, in the hour of extremest danger, should that hour unbappily arrive. In Him would we repose all our hope; and whilst we rally, with unshaken firmness, around the throne of our King, and the altars of our God, in defence of every thing that is, or ought to be, dear unto us, we shall, at least, have the consolation of knowing that we contend in a righteous cause, and that, by refusing to dwell in the tents of ungodli ness and confusion, we have delivered our own souls, in the great and final day of account."

The whole tenor of the Discourse is creditable to the Preacher, and was highly seasonable in the place and time in which it was delivered.

112. Adjumentum: or, Prayers for every Sunday in the Year, intended to precede and follow the Sermon. Dedicated to the Junior Clergy, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. By the Rev. C. Barlee, LL.B. 12mo. pp. 168. Rivingtons.

THIS little work will, we doubt not, be particularly acceptable to the young gentlemen to whom it is thus kindly addressed:

"Your feelings of the importance of the situation you have voluntarily chosen, no doubt are correct, and it is only until time shall have given you opportunity to turn your thoughts to this part of your clerical duty, that these prayers can be of any use: being intended merely to assist those, who, from having been emlikely to have been able to study this kind ployed in academical pursuits, are not of composition."

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self to the Sonnet ;" and adds, that " he cannot recollect any passage, in the narrow circle of his reading, in which the word "Sonneteer" is used seriously; Dr. Johnson's definition is merely a small Poet, in contempt.", "The word Sonneteer, indeed, has so long been exclusively a term of ridicule, that it seems to be a well-founded matter of doubt whether it has ever been used in a graver sense. Be this, however, "as it may, it is far from the intention of the Author of the following remarks to im peach the justice of the publick, in their estimation of his subject. He has long thought it a truth, not less pleasing than evident, that the deliberate judgment of the publick is seldom wrong.'

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"To certain Sonnets of Milton, of Gray, of Warton, of Cowper, and of many who are now living, whom it would be superfluous either to enumerate or to praise, the Reader of discrimination will always turn with delight; and from having found his ideas of the English sonnet illustrated by such examples, the Author of this Volume has been mainly encouraged in his design of offering it to the pnblick."

"No one need restrain either his censure or his praise, from a kind apprehension of adding to or of overturning a superstruc ture of vanity founded upon a collection of rhymes commencing with an invocation to Sleep, and concluding with a recommendation of Forgetfulness."

We shall give one specimen of what we hope is drawn more from fiction than reality:

"Days of my childhood, when, where wild flow'rs grew,

From morn I've stray'd till twilight
gloom'd again,
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When I recall my long-since pleasures, So sweet, so pure, so simple, and so true, Mine eyes grow misty with regretful dew, To think that like a dream they're gone;

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A sigh for bliss that never can return,— So lov'd when lost-and so unpriz'd when new! [smiled And well may I weep o'er the joys that Long past-well linger 'mid the times that were,

I who retain the weakness of the child
Without the simpleness;-my moments

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As wayward, and as wasteful, and as wild, -But oh! not innocent, nor void of care."

114. My Lodger's Legacy; being Comic Tales in Verse, with some other Pieces. By the late Tim Bobbin the Younger; Author of London, or the Triumph of Quackery. 12mo. pp. 90. Chapple.

IF there be any thing in a Title, "My Lodger's Legacy" is equal to "Tales of my Landlord;" and the Poetry of the late Timothy Bobbin, if not so recondite as the Prose of the Scottish Host, is at least as facetious. This little Volume consists of Three Tales" My Uncle [the Pawnbroker], a Tale founded on Fact," "Rank Poison;" and "The Woodcocks; or, How to make Game, a Tale founded on Fact;" all much resembling the "Broad Grins," noticed in Part I. And the Reader who can peruse either of them without a hearty laugh possesses a sang froid which we do not envy.

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There is, however, here and there (but not frequently), a line or two which is somewhat too ludicrous.

115.

A Letter to the Freeholders of the County of Durham, on the Proceedings of the County Meeting, holden on Thursday, 21st of October instant; and particularly on the Speech of John George Lambron, Esq. M. P. By the Rev. Henry Phillpotts, M. A. Prebendary of Durham. Third Edition. 8vo. pp. 35. Murray.

THIS Letter, from a truly respectable Divine, deserves very serious attention. It is a masterly vindication of Legitimate Authority; and if it is himself apologize: somewhat warm, Mr. Phillpotts shall

"I would indeed gladly have forborne to address you at all, had I found, as I hoped, that other and abler pens would have been employed in this service. But it is one of our misfortunes, that the greater activity is, as usual, with the worse cause. Those of you who know me (and I am proud to say, that some of the most respectable of my opponents are in the number) will not think, that I obtrude myself from the impulse ofa spirit generally inclined to violent courses. They will readily believe, that if I have spoken warmly, it is because 1 feel deeply, it is because I am convinced that an enemy, who looks forward to the utter subversion of all that is venerable or virtuous, of all that was wont to be the pride, the strength, and the consolation of the lowliest order of our people,-of all that made Englishmen walk erect among the nations of the earth,-is even now at our gates, is among us, is almost upon us: and that this enemy is in no way so effec. tually served, as by the unhappy use that has been made of the lamentable occurrence to which this letter refers.

"Those who know me not, will judge of me from what I have written; and if they

they do not assent to my arguments, or concur with my feelings, they will, I hope, at least do me the justice of believing, that I am a sincere lover of our common country, and an ardent admirer of her unequalled laws."

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116. A Letter to the Attorney-General, on the Inexpediency, Sinfulness, and Inefficacy of all Prosecutions for Blasphemy and Irreligion. By Samuel Roberts, Author of The Blind Man and his Son,"

Tales of the Poor,"-" The State Lottery, a Dream,"-" A Defence of the Poor Laws," &c. 8vo. pp. 18. Sheffield, Gales; London, Longman and Co.

LEAVING the regular Review of this Letter to the learned Gentleman to whom it is addressed, we shall only give Mr. Roberts's opinion, that,

"Had Paine never been prosecuted, his blasphemous work could not, in all probability, have been read by one in a hundred of those who have now perused it. Had Houe been suffered unmolested to write and to publish his disgusting blasphemies, it is probable that neither he nor his work would have been much known beyond his own limited circle. The notoriety which he acquired in consequence of his prosecution and his self-defence, have induced Carlile to emerge from obscurity, and to endeavour, by every art of effrontery, to attract the attention of Government. This was clearly from the first, his object. He has unfortunately succeeded. He has become known and talked of throughout the kingdom; and the blasphemous work, which, when the prosecution of Paine had ceased, was soon forgotten, is now selling to a great extent in every town, of any importance, in the kingdom."

This general circulation, it is to be hoped, is now at an end. At all events, we are rather of opinion, with the friend of the Author (p. 15), that

"When the progress of Blasphemy and Infidelity has been spread to a certain extent among the lower orders, the powerful arm of the Law may, without doing violence to the principles of Christianity, be employed with advantage to check the evil."

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ample reward of his extraordinary labours: but we perceive, with much concern, that serious differences have arisen between Mr. Bowdich and the African Committee, which it becomes the Committee to explain. The accusations, if not exaggerated, are extremely severe.

"The question," says Mr. Bowdich, "which I seek to have decided, is simply, whether I am to be punished for exposing my life on a forlorn hope, for being distinguished by the good fortune of being the first who succeeded in a mission to the interior of Africa, the grave of somuch illustrious worth and talent, because the Board who employed me are unable to appreciate the advantages to Science, and unwilling to pursue those which have resulted to Commerce; fearing that if the settlements were allowed to flourish, if this valuable field of discovery were too much disclosed, the Government would assume the management, their trading monopoly would be at an end, and their dependents and instruments no longer be supported at the public expense, to barter the goods of their masters in the Committee, to retail rum and tobacco in English uniforms, to delude instead of improving the natives. I sketch my connexion from the beginning with the African Committee (who whilst they receive all their funds from the Government, absurdly, but artfully, entitle themselves 'The Committee of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa'), to shew that the special testimonies of good conduct by which they have distinguished me from the other officers in their service, have not merely been unproductive of recompense, but followed by loss, because my exertions and pursuits for the good of the settlements, not being confined to buckstering and agency, were inconsistent with their individual interests as merchants and tradesmen,"

The statements in this pamphlet are certainly in the nature of ex parte evidence. But Mr. Bowdich is a man of known veracity; and, if a small portion only of the facts of fraud, extortion, and degradation which he mentions, can be substantiated, it will be a severe reflection on our national honour.

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able Writer. The following portrait in particular could only have been delineated by an affectionate and sensible female:

"Behold that lovely cherub in the arms of its foud mother! It has been but a few months in existence, yet it has already learned to recognise its best friend: her faithful bosom is a receptacle of all its tiny sorrows and joys; its hopes are derived from her experienced kindness; its fears are allayed by her protecting care; on this well-known being it depends, for all that can soothe and delight. The utmost ingenuity of the nurse, though aided by the delicious morsel, or the glittering toy, is of little avail when she appears, in whom is concentrated every gratification of which its infant mind is susceptible. Soon, under her assiduous care, its bodily and mental powers begin to expand; its joys and its woes are more intelligibly expressed; it grows fertile in schemes and contrivances for its own amusement (as yet it dreams not of existing for any other purpose); in these the fond parent participates, and is consulted on all occasions without reserve. In the frolicsome gambol she renews her interest, and again enjoys the pleasures of infancy with a double

zest.

"She feels and owns an interest in their play, [fold, Adopts each wish their wayward whims un And tells at every call, the story ten times told.'

"The companion in health, the watchful, assiduous, and anxious friend in sickness, the prime of a mother's days imperceptibly glides along, bearing away her personal graces, and not unfrequently leaving her constitution a wreck.

"As infancy ripens into childhood, her duties alter, but her zeal continues unabated: she perseveres in accommodating her services to the growing necessities of her charge, till that important period arrives, when childhood emerges into youth, and a new epoch commences in the maternal feelings. Then, then it is, that the subjects of her solicitude begin to seek their gratification from other sources; and, in proportion to their success, are prone to forget whence they were once derived: confidence gradually declines; and that society which heretofore comprised all that was desirable, becomes, perhaps, irksome, a burden and a restraint: so that the reserved and distant being we now contemplate, could scarcely be identified with the smiling cherub of former days.

"The brute creatures, like the human species, attend their young progeny with anxious solicitude; and when their services are no longer necessary, the parent first breaks the tender tie, and chases

them away to know them no more: but human ties can alone be dissolved by death; and whatever, alienations ensue, they are not warranted by nature, or by nature's God. Honour thy father and thy mother,' is a command coeval with the existence of our parents; and should be as deeply engraven on the human heart, as ouce it was on the table of stone written by the finger of God."

After some introductory observations of a general nature, Mrs. Taylor adds,

"Besides these fundamental duties, there are others which belong both to parents and children, during the succeeding stages of life, and which extend to its latest period. To explain and enforce some of these subsequent obligations, is the more particular object of the following pages."

These duties are then severally inculcated, under the following specific heads:

"Mutual respect; Family harmony; Self-will; On some mistakes in education, and the correction of them; Pecuniary affairs; Rising rank of life; Parental and filial conduct, as it relates to the sexes; Partiality; Settling in life; Religion; The death of parents; To childless persons; The orphan; and Concluding chapter of sound advice."

119. Appendix to a Vindication of the University of Cambridge, from the Reflections of Sir James Edward Smith, &c. &c. By James Henry Monk, B. D. &c. Cambridge, printed at the University Press, in May 1819. 8vo. pp. 55. The learned Professor seems determined to have the last blow, and that with no very gentle hand. But, as this Appendix appears to have been produced in self-defence, and not intended for general circulation, we shall only notice the concluding paragraph:

"In laying aside the pamphlet of Sir James Smith, I must seriously declare, that the principal feeling which it has occasioned me, is that of extreme sorrow, at a person of scientific attainments, who represents himself to have associated much in the higher ranks of life, exposing himself in a way so inconsistent with the manners and the sentiments of refined society. With respect to myself, his designs must, I am well convinced, totally fail: but I should feel truly un easy, were I conscious of having given any provocation for the frightful degree of personal animosity exhibited throughout the whole of my adversary's book. Mine was only the defence of a public

cause,

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