it, neither very free nor very fervile, but rather a little diffufe, to give an English Reader fome idea of this elegant performance. We uppofe, at the fame time, our tranflation is rather inferior to this part of the original; to which circumftance, befides our anonymous Poet's native ingenuity, the difference of the two languages, and the very. expreflions of Virgil, muit have contributed. Interea licitos colles, atque otia juffa Illi indignantes, ripe ulterioris amore Longinquos campos, et non fua rura capeffunt. • Seu malint fecum obfcuros captare receffus, Others, regardless of their ancient bounds, Their active minds the devious heath to roam, Various howe'er their views, each trembling hies Confcious they fine, or gain no envy'd fee, Who pals thofe bounds their birchen Loids decree. Ast. 14. A Letter of Expoftulation from the Manager of the Theatre in Tottenham-Court, to the Manager of the Theatre in the Hay-market; relative to a new Comedy, called the Minor. Folio. 1s. Stevens. Humourously reprefents Mr Wh-d as jealous of Mr. Foote's rivalling him in the laudable fcheme of gulling the public,-whence he is induced to propofe a coalition, and junction of their respective forces. At the tabernable, he thus hints to his mimical Antagonist, Your Your talent of humour fhall have its full fwing, In short, Mr. Whd is made, throughout the whole of this droll piece, to avow the truth of what Mr. F- e had advanced, in the introduction to his Minor, viz. "Whether we exhibit in Tot"tenham-court, or the Hay-market, our purpose is the fame, and the place is immaterial." Art. 15. The first Paftoral of Virgil in English Verfe; attempted by James Peacock. 4to. 6d. Cowper. Mr. Peacock has fucceeded fo ill in this attempt, that we fuppofe he will scarcely be tempted to trouble us with any more of hi verfes; unless the Mufes fhould chance to grow more aufpicious, and enable him greatly to exceed his prefent fpecimen; which is hardly to be expected; for it has been obferved of thofe Ladies, that they feldom get over their prejudices against an ill-favoured Suitor. Art. 16. The Hiftory of the War: A new British Medley. Proper to be faid or fung in all Companies of True Britons. Folio. 6d. Dixwell in St. Martin's-lane, near Charing Crofs. A whimfical kind of ballad, compofed in various measures, fuited to various tunes; the whole forming a ftrange medley, calculated for the diverfion of fuch honeft Britons as ufually affemble for to be merry at the Cat and Bag-pipes, and at ten thousand other houfes of innocent recreation, in town and country. Art. 17. Semiramis, a Tragedy. Tranflated from the French of M. de Voltaire. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Kearfly. A mean translation, every way unworthy of the original: which, yet, is not one of Voltaire's beft performances. MEDICAL. Art. 18. The Introductory Difcourfe to the first Volume of the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris, concerning the Vices of the Humours: In which the Doctrine of Suppuration, and various medical and chirurgical Subjects are confidered, and Experiments recommended, to affift Obfervation in the Difcovery of the Nature, Caufe, and Cure of Difeafes. M. Quef S 4 M. Quefnay, M. D. geon. 8vo. Is. 6d. Tranflated and abridged by a Sure The various hypothefes which have been advanced for a century paft, having involved the theory of Phyfic in obfcurity, and made it abound in chimerical and erroneous opinions, induced Dr. Quefnay, (as he informs us) to endeavour to establish it upon a better foundation. How far he has fucceeded in fo difficult an attempt, we fhall not pretend exactly to determine; he has, however, by pointing out the impropriety of feveral received opinions and practices, fufficiently cautioned Phyficians in their treatment of difeafes, to be diffident in their dependance on inferences drawn from fpeculation, but to imitate the antients in diligently obferving and tracing the intentions of Nature. This effay is divided into three parts: in the first, Dr. Quefnay confiders the impurity of the humours, or their mixtures with heterogeneous matter, that may vitiate them. In the fecond, he treats of the depravations that our humours are fufceptible of spontaneously. In the third, he examines into the imperfections, and the different ftates of crudity in the humours, through a defect of the organs appointed to prepare them; in which he alfo enquires into the different kinds of perverfion the fluids fuffer by an excess or defect of elafticity in the folids; and concludes with a recapitulation of the various kinds of acrimony our juices may acquire from thofe caufes. As Dr. Quefnay's medical abilities are very well known, it will not be doubted, that feveral juft diftinctions are established in this treatife, and that many ingenious and ufeful remarks are interspersed throughput the whole. Art. 19. The Family Phyfician! Being a Collection of useful Family Remedies, &c. By Hugh Smith, Apothecary. 4to. 1s. Sold by the Author in Newgate-street. The defign of this collection of Recipes is, as the Compiler intimates, to enable perfons to prefcribe for themfelves, where more proper afliftance cannot be procured-and likewife to inform them, where they may be commodiously fupplied with the medicines here recommended. He further informs the public, that he furnishes Lar dies clofets with drugs and cordials, upon reasonable terms.How far families may think themfelves obliged to him for his officious care in this article, we will not pretend to fay. Perhaps, in an age of fuch general diffipation, Mr. Smith piously intended to point out further motives to induce the Ladies to retire more frequently to their clafets. Art. 20. Some Thoughts on the anomalous malignant Meafles lately peculiarly prevalent in the Western Parts of England. 4to. 6d. Cooper. The Author feems to write with great warmth, and fome degree of precipitation. Although fome of his remarks may be just, yet he is far from treating his fubject with that accuracy and precision which might be expected from one who attempts to describe a new fpecies fpecies of a distemper, to explode the methods of practice recommended by men eminent for candor, knowlege, and integrity, or to revive what their experience has thought proper to reject. We are here prefented with a very fhort history of the disease: either fome of the ufual pathognomic figns of the Meafles did not appear in this anomalous kind, or the Author takes no notice of themfuch as fneezing, a defluxion towards the eyes, an uneafy tickling cough. Neither are we told how foon after the first attack, the eruptions appeared, That it is the duty and business of every Physician to affift Nature, will not, we believe, be controverted. But the means of affording that affiftance will, more probably, remain matter of difpute. Sydenham, that accurate Observer of diseases, having remarked, that not only the Medicafters and old women, (to whofe practice this Writer pays great deference) but even the Phyficians of his time, under the notion of fupporting Nature, and expelling morbific malignity by the exhibition of cardiacs, and a hot regimen, increased the fever, diffolved the crafis of the blood, and rendered almost every distemper anomalous and malignant. Having further observed, that Nature concocted and expelled the fomes of the diftemper better the lefs fhe was over-loaded, or hurried in her operations; that in the Meafles, the principal danger arofe from an inflammation of the lungs; that those who perished by the diftemper, died of a real peripneumony; that the diarrhoea which follows the retro-ceffion of the eruptions, was generally moderated, fometimes prevented, by bleeding: he recommended, therefore, a proper ufe of phlebotomy, together with a cooling regimen in this diftemper. This practice was adopted, and strongly recommended, by the experience and authority of the late Dr. Mead, by Hoffman, and the most eminent Practitioners. Thus we fee this method of practice was by no means the effects of any hypothefis, or an Ignis fatuus, kindled by learned pride, and blown up by precarious theory. This anonymous Writer, on the other hand, affures us, that in the Measles here treated of, all evacuations by bleeding or purging, were hurtful; and advises, after clearing the ftomach by a few grains of Ipecacuanha, and carrying off any crudities that might remain in the bowels, by a gentle dofe of Rhubarb, to give the Patient a cardiac bolus with a julep. to be repeated every four hours; blifters he approves of, and orders likewife a theriac cataplafm with camphire, to be applied to the throat, and a few rhubarbarate purges, to be given afterwards. How far this method, in the species of Meafles here mentioned, is preferable to any other, must be approved or refuted by the experience of others, who have feen and treated the diftemper. We fhall only obferve, that as the Writer seems so much in earnest, and as it is a subject in which the public good is concerned, he ought by no means to fuffer his remarks to lofe any of their weight, by concealing his name. In his thoughts on the inefficacy of antifeptic medicines, he condefcends to be jocular, observing, That fluids inclined to diffolve, ⚫ will diffolve; and the tanned or pickled Patient pofts on to the other f world, as if there had been no means used to stop him.' That there are degrees of putrefaction which no medicine can remedy, is very certain. certain. But would he infer from hence, that it is always irremediable? Has he never then been convinced of the antifeptic virtues of the Bark? or been a witness of the fudden ftop put to a diffolution of the blood in a fea-fcurvy, by a few oranges, or an inconfiderable quantity of Greens? If he has not, it will be no injuftice to furmife, that his practice has been folely confined to thoughts, and that, by confequence, he cannot be entitled to any regard as a practical Writer. RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL. Art. 21. The Cafe of the excluded Part of the Church late under the paftoral Care of the Rev. Mr. Samuel Pike. In a Letter to a Friend. 8vo. Is. Buckland, &c. Recites the circumftances of a controversy between Mr. Pike and part of his congregation, occafioned by a late change in his fentiments concerning Free Grace, &c. This change, it feems, was occafioned by a correfpondence between Mr. Sandaman, Author of the Letters on Theron and Afpafio*, and Mr. Pike; the refult of which was, the converfion of the latter to the fentiments of the former : greatly to the difapprobation of fome of Mr. Pike's auditors. When the Minifter thinks differently from his flock, the Diffenters are feldom backward to remonftrate; thus becoming, in turn, Inftructors to their Teachers: and Mr. Pike did not pafs unreproved on this occafion. Such prefumption, however, this Gentleman could ill brook; and grievous bickerings enfued; till at length the Paftor formed the defign of cafting out the diffatisfied members; who were accordingly excluded by the rest of the body, to the great injury of the minority, as they conceive, both in refpect to their fpiritual and temporal interefts. Their difcontent is thus expreffed by our Author, whom, we are to fuppofe, one of their number. ་ ་ Thus, Sir,' fays he, I have laid before you a difpaffionate view of our cafe. A church, once dearer to us than life ;—now divided. Friendship, the moft facred and delightful, diffolved;-for for ever diffolved!-'Till we attain that happy itate, Where Ephraim fhall not envy Judah, and Judah no more vex Ephraim." At times, this whole Providence appears a dream—a meer illufion. Nor fhould we believe it real, but for thofe deep and in⚫ward wounds we feel, and which probably we may feel to the grave.- -The deprivation of our undoubted right in the place, late, and other temporalities, which, on a modeft computation by an able hand, amounts to Five Hundred and Fifty Pounds, this makes the leaft part of our griefs. The reflection that we are deprived, unjustly and without any due caufe deprived of thofe facred immunities which the great head of the church had conferred upon us, and endowed us with in that church;-and deprived of them in fuch a manner, by those with whom we were in fuch affectionate Vid. Appendix to Review vol. XXII. p. 551. The question, with regard to their feparation, was decided by ballot; in which the dilatisfied members, who wanted to preferve the union, left it by one Vote. ' and |