ments, as the profeffion of a Farmer (if that be his real profeffior) might have enabled him to make.

Art. 22. A Treatise of Husbandry, on the Improvement of dry and barren Lands. Shewing, I. The many Advantages which would arife to the Nation in general, by destroying of Warrens, and converting the Lands into Tillage, Pafture, &c. II. Pointing out new and cheap Methods to make growing Fences upon the moft barren Soils, and how to till and manure the fame at a low Expence. III. How to prepare the Land, and raise upon it various Sorts of Plants, to produce both Poles and Timber. By Thomas Hitt, Author of a Treatife on Fruit Trees*. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Richardfon.

Mr. Hitt, though no Scholar, is a very fenfible man, and feems to understand the nature and proper culture of different forts of land perfectly well. It is a pity, indeed, that he has not a more agreeable method of communicating his knowlege; for his file is frequently inaccurate, and too often ungrammatical. But as it feldom happens that your learned Clerks know much of husbandry, we ought to think ourselves obliged to Mr. Hitt for giving us the refult of many years experience on a fubject of no fmall importance, even In a national view. We could wifh, however, that if this piece fhould happen to arrive at a Second edition, (as his former, upou Fruit-trees, has done) he would be so just to himself and the public, as to get it revifed by fome perfon better acquainted with the rules of writing, than a mere practical Gardener or Hufbandman can be fuppofed to be.

His chief motive to the prefent undertaking, he fays, was a visible want of men to defend his Majefty's dominions, and the Poor complaining of the scarcity of bread †. These two grievances he propofes to remove, by putting their owners upon improving many large tracts of land, which at prefent lie quite uncultivated, tho' certainly capable of producing plentiful crops of corn. He lays great stress upon the many advantages that would arife from deftroying rabbetwarrens, and converting the land into farms; and what he advances upon that head, appears very rational.

As for the rules he has given for inclofing, tilling, manuring, &c. of dry and barren lands, he fays, they are fuch as he has actually practifed with good fuccefs; and, fo far as we can judge, feem well adapted to answer the end proposed.

See Review, vol. XIII. page 334.

This was written, tho' not published, in the year 1757, when thofe complaints were not made without caufe,

Art. 23. The London Gardener. Containing the most experienced Method of cultivating and ordering fuch Ever-greens, FruitTrees, Flowering Shrubs, Flowers, Exotic Plants, &c. as

will be ornamental, and thrive beft in the London Gardens. 8vo. Is. R. Davis.

This little tract, the refult of thirty years experience in the neighbourhood of London, (as is alleged) appears to be wholly intended for the use of thofe perfons who may be inclined to amufe themfelves with fuch fmall gardens, as their fituation in large towns or cities will allow of, and feems, to us, tolerably well calculated to anfwer the end propofed.

Art. 24. The Proceedings of a general Court-martial held at Guildford, August 9, 1758, on Cornet George Moreland, of the King's own Regiment of Dragoons. To which is added, an Apology to Lieut. Col. Dalrymple. 8vo. Is. Scott.

As this relates meerly to a private difference between two Officers, we conceive it fignifies very little to the public.

Art. 25. Chriftian and critical Remarks on a Droll, or Interlude, called the Minor, now acting by a Company of Stage-Players in the Hay-market; in which the Blafphemy, Falsehood, and Scurrility of that Piece is properly confidered, anfwered, and expofed. By a Minifter of the Church of Chrift. 8vo. IS. Keith.

We fuppofe the Writer of thefe Remarks to be one of Mr. W's Under-Teachers; and we think he has fufficient reafon to be angry with Mr. Foote, for having fo ludicrously attacked the great Leader of the Methodists. He has raised fome very juft objections against the Minor,-objections which, we imagine, Mr. Foote will not attempt to obviate.

Art. 26. An Anfwer to Afgil's Apologetical Oration*. Written by way of Poftfcript to the Confolatory Letter to a noble Lordt. By the Author of the faid Letter. 8vo. 6d. Hooper.

Smart and fevere (like the Confolatory Letter) upon poor Lord George, whofe fingular coolness upon a hot day, is not yet forgotten. Vid. our laft Apdendix, page 547. + Review, vol. XXII. page 437.

POETICA L.

Art. 27. LOVE ELEGIES. 4to. 1s. Dodley. Our nameless Bardling, either from affumed modefty, or fome infuppreffible confcioufnefs of his extraordinary mediocrity in verfe, has prefixed a parce tamen to thefe fix Elegies. As this, however, may be candidly expounded into a fubmifive approach to the public, with a bow to the Critics, we fat down with a difpofition to commend the

contents;

contents; but, alas! we found, without a juft right to exercise it: fince after a fecond perufal of them, we are only convinced, that our difmal Elegiac Writer is much more in love with one Rofa, than the Mufes are with him. Let her reciprocal paffion then comfort him for their neglect: for though he had not repeatedly affured us of the former, we should have inferred it fufficiently, from her acknowleged attention to his ftrains, which are abundantly laboured, tho' little polifhed.

But nought avail these ftrains of warbled woe,
Tho' Rofa liftens nor condemns my fongs;
For ftill thofe hearts no kind affections know,
Whole kindred nature ought to feel her wrongs.

It is impoffible, nevertheless, to observe the abundance of Cupid's darts and flames, that are scattered fo tritely throughout these puerile wailings, without pitying the ardent young Lover, whofe veins may be in much fuch a tender ftate as he fuppofes those of Tibullus to have been.

And there Tibullus! may thy foul be bleft,

For oft fuccefslefs paffion boil'd thy veins.

Our Author pathetically addreffes Memory, as a hint to his Rofa, (of whom, by the way, he has not indulged us with a fingle feature) thus to plead with, and remind, her obdurate parents: they must be a tatteless pair to be fure, being reprefented as fonder of gold than of his veries; and may die at last, perhaps, of their boney, if not ftony, hearts.

But will not Mem'ry plead our hapless cause?
O Mem'ry! tell them what they once enjoy'd;
Tell them how hard had feem'd a parent's laws
To bar their union! tell them, they'd have dy'd.

This is literally killing; and, of courfe, fo moving, as Peafecod fays in the What-ye call-it, that we can write no more about it, fubmitting it to this Author, whether he will chufe to imitate us in this refpect at least, until his Familiar, Cupid (fince the Mufes have not been at home to him) fhall have improved his poetical vein a little; that the public may hereafter liften as attentively to it, as Rofa probably has to thefe Ditties,

i. e. In fome celeftial Arcadia.

Art. 28. The Beavers, a Fable. 4to. Is. Hooper. Revives the old complaint against continental Connections; and alf the hacknied objection to Mr. P―t,—that he,

A minifterial Beaver grown,

Now bow'd obedient to the throne;
And, worse than either of the Brothers,
Adopted measures, damn'd in others;
Measures himself condemn'd fo late,
As big with ruin to the State!

But

But thefe Railers should confider, that wife men will fee the neceffity of fuiting their conduct to the exigencies of the times, as circumftances alter; well knowing, that what was deemed good policy yefterday, may appear in a very different light to-day. As it is not in our power to adapt events to our systems, we must adapt our systems

to events.

MEDICAL.

Art. 29. A Narrative of the Effects of the celebrated antivenereal Medicine, lately difcovered by Mr. Keyfer, a German Chymift at Paris, &c. &c. By James Cowper, M. D. 12mo. IS. Cooper, &c.

Notwithstanding we are truly confcious of a propenfity rather to contract than to multiply the number of publifhing Empirics, and their Noftrums, however patenteed or puffed; because we really judge a confiderable majority of fuch Noftrums advantageous only to their Proprietors, and often pernicious to the credulous: yet as Lovers of our Species, and Friends to Truth, we declare our opinion, that this Medicine and its Discoverer ought in justice to be exempted from fuch a character and cenfure. The cloud of ftrong facts, and the several names of dignity and condition, with thofe of many Physicians and Surgeons of merited reputation, in confirmation of the numerous fevere cafes, and their perfect cures effected by this medicine in -France, concur to establish both its efficacy and fafety, in the most authentic manner. Out of more than four hundred of the French Guards cured of the feverer degrees of the venereal disease by it, as attefted by the Duke of Biron, p. 54, 55, there are felected here thirty-two cafes, and, as we imagine, for their being of the most fevere degree, many of which had eluded the power of Salivation, and fome repeatedly: the particular cafes, and the cures of them, are certified either by eminent Phyficians, or Surgeons, or both. Nine other cafes, fome of them extremely bad, occurring in different parts of France, are alfo attefted to have been cured: One of these is attefted by the Duke of Lauraguais, the reft by reputable Phyficians or Surgeons in Paris or the country.

Dr. Cowper, the Editor of this Narrative, and Author of a pertinent preliminary Difcourfe to it, has annexed ten cafes occurring to himself here; nine of the Patients having been cured, another greatly relieved, and still continuing to take the medicine in fmall dofes. There is a lift, in French and English, of twenty Doctors of Phyfic, and thirty-fix Surgeons, in Paris and elfewhere, who have certified the efficacy and fafety of Mr. Keyfer's medicine; and the Narrative concludes with a letter, with which the Duke of Biron has honoured Dr. Cowper. We fhall felect two of the fhorteft cafes, with their atteftations, from others equally deplorable, which, however, have been cured. The medicine does not seem to have been used in fimple and early infections.

Le Roy, a foldier in the Colonel's company, in the regiment of French guards, had the whole furface of his body covered with very large puftules, with deep roots in the skin, which remained after REV. Aug. 1760.

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feven different falivations; his teeth being alfo quite loose. These blotches began after he had different venereal fymptoms, fuch as a gonorrhea of three years standing, about thirty fhankers, as many venereal warts, a phimofis, crifta-galli, and buboes; all which prove he had a confirmed pox of the most inveterate kind. December 10, 1755.' The cafe and cure is attefted by Faget and Du Fouard, Surgeons, March 18, 1756, who are attested to have fearched the Patient again, April 1, by Major Cornillon, at his house. Mr. Chauvin certifies, Sept. 26, 1756, that he had been confum'ed with a flow fever for eight months, his right thigh and both knees fwelled, his legs very painful, being inexpreffibly lean, exhaufted, ⚫ and confined to his bed. That he had been twice carefully falivated, and gone through a number of mercurial frictions, and fumigations, and was given over by the Faculty.-That he took the firft dofe of Keyfer's pills, Dec. 15, 1755. That the 26th he was able to walk in his room, with a diminution of all his fymptoms. And that February 4, 1756, he was happily delivered from all his complaints, by the fole ufe of Mr. Keyfer's medicine, and has fince enjoyed a ⚫ most perfect state of health. To which the Marquis of Paulmay also thus certifies.- - I ought, in favour of truth, to certify the above. ⚫ mentioned facts to be true, of which I had a full knowlege.

R. DE PAULMAY.'

Though this article, perhaps, may not be the most acceptable to a few Phyficians, and many Surgeons, yet as the fubject of it is likely to preserve a great proportion of mankind, from the pain, the danger, and contingent inefficacy of a falivation, we think, on putting the queftion to our Readers in general, for or against the article, the Yeas have it by a vast majority.

Mercury, in this preparation at least, seems to act specifically against the Pox, as it is not faid to excite a falivation; neither is there any particular evacuation attending it, mentioned in all these cases; and if there is any, it must be moderate, as confinement under the ufe of it, is faid not to be neceffary. What must make it truly eftimable, if the fact be certain, is, that it is affirmed to be fafely and effectually given in fuch venereal complaints as are joined with very fcorbutic habits; falivations, and the common preparations of Mercury, being very generally contra-indicated in fuch. We were agreeably furprized to find, in M. Verken's cafe, page 13, that a Hemiphlegia, afcribed, indeed, to a venereal fource, was entirely cured by this medicine. For it feems probable to us, that paralytic symptoms fucceeding falivations, or large ingeftions of Mercury without falivation, are as often owing to the undifcharged remedy, as to the pri mary difeafe: upon which principle or fuppofition, this preparation muft have been antiparalytic, from acting as an antimercurial, and that without any fenfible, or confiderable, evacuation; which is fomething of a paradox, as Mr. Keyfer acknowleges it to be a prepara tion of Mercury.

Dr Cowper's offer to inftruct a competent number of Surgeons in the method of exhibiting this medicine, and then fending them to Senegal, or elsewhere, with it, to give ftill farther fatisfactory proofs . of its efficacy and fafety, is humane and candid.

Art.