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Arife for me, in this dark hour!

Appall my foes with dread;
From ev'ry quarter, fee, they pour,
And like a deluge spread!

But Thou! who curb'ft the madd'ning fea,
Can't human rage suppress,
And make the greater number flee,
Abath'd, before the less.

Gird me with strength and skill, to rule
My troops when they engage;
Collect my foul and keep me cool
Amid the battle's rage!

That I may still th' advantage take
Infidious foes afford,

And one decifive effort make,

That peace may be reftor'd,

Some truft in chariots and the fword,
In horsemen, and the bow;
But we, on thy eternal word,

Which none can overthrow.

In vain, confed' rate forces join,
When Thou shalt take the field!

TH

Confufion runs from line to line,
And strongest legions yield.

These mighty Chiefs in fetters bind,
Expose their heads to fhame;
Make them as chaff before the wind,
As ftubble to the flame.

Ne'er let them find a safe retreat,

Of ev'ry man afraid,

Until that trap inclose their feet,
Which long for mine was laid.

Then fhall my tongue thy praises fing,
And vanquish'd hosts proclaim,
The Lord incampeth round the King.
That fears his awful name.

Anfwers to the Enigma's and Rebufes in this
Volume.

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Of the ERRORS occafioned by our PASSIONS. HE paffions lead us into error, becaufe they fix our attention to that particular part of the object they present to us, not allowing us to view it on every fide. A King paffionately affects the title of Conqueror, Victory, fays he, calls me to the remoteft part of the earth: I fhall fight; I fhall gain the victory; I fhall load mine enemy with chains, and the terror of my name, like an impenetrable rampart, will defend the entrance of my empire. Inebriated with this hope, he forgets that For tune is inconftant; and that the victor fhares the load of mifery, almost equally with the vanquished. He does not perceive, that the welfare of his fubjects is only a pretence for his martial frenzy; and that pride alone forges his arms, and difplays his enfigns: His whole attention is fixed on the pomp of the triumph.

Fear, equally powerful with pride, will produce the fame effect; it will raise ghosts and phantoms, and difperfe them among the tombs, and, in the darkness of the woods, prefent them to the eyes of the affrighted traveller, feize on all the faculties of his foul, without leaving any one at liberty to reflect on the abfurdity of the motives for fuch a ridiculous terror.

The paffions not only fix the attention on particular fides of the objects they prefent to us; but they alfo deceive us, by ex hibiting the fame objects, when they do not really exift. The ftory of a country clergy. man, and an amorous Lady, is well known.

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This was

They had heard, and concluded, that the
moon was peopled, and were looking for
the inhabitants through their telescopes. If
I am not mistaken, faid the Lady, I per-
ceive two fhadows; they mutually incline
towards each other: Doubtless they are two
happy lovers.- -O fie! madam, replied the
clergyman, these two fhadows are the two
fteeples of a cathedral. This tale is our
hiftory, it being common for us to fee in
things what we are defirous of finding there:
On the earth, as in the moon, different paf-
fions will caufe us to fee either lovers or
fteeples. Illufion is a neceffary effect of the
paffions, the ftrength, or force of which, is
generally measured by the degree of ob-
fcurity into which they lead us.
well known to a certain Lady, who, being
caught by her lover in the arms of his rival,
obftinately denied the fact of which he had
been a witnefs. How! faid he, have you
the affurance?- Ah! perfidious creature,
cried the Lady, it is plain you no longer
love me; for you believe your eyes, before
all I can say. This is equally applicable to
all the paffions, as well as to love. All
ftrike us with the most perfect blindness,
When ambition has kindled a war between
two nations, and the anxious citizens afk
one another the news; what readiness ap-
pears, on one fide, to give credit to the
good; and on the other, what incredulity,
with regard to the bad? How often have
Chriftians, from placing a ridiculous con-
fidence in monks, denied the poffibility of

the

the antipodes. There is no century, which has not, by fome ridiculous affirmation or negation, afforded matter of laughter to the following age. A paft folly is feldom fufficient to fhew mankind their prefent folly.

The fame paffions, however, which are the germ of an infinity of errors, are also the

fources of our knowledge. If they mislead us, they, at the fame time, impart to us the ftrength neceffary for walking. It is they alone that can roufe us from that fluggishnefs and torpor always ready to feize on the faculties of our foul.

An Account of an extraordinary CASE of the Efficacy of the Bark in the Delirium of a Fever; by Nicholas Munckley, M. D. Phyfician to Guy's Hospital, and F. R. S. Read before the Royal Society, April 6,

A

From the Philofophical

S the following cafe contains fome circumstances which are curious in themfelves, and which may be of fervice to be known, I have thought it proper to be laid before the Society.

On Sunday the 5th of March I was fent for to a Gentleman, of about 30 years of age, who had been for fome days ill of a fever: I found him with a degree of heat confiderably above what was natural, and with a pulfe rather low, but quick, and beating, as measured by a ftop-watch, about 100 ftrokes in a minute. In this fituation he continued, without any remarkable alteration, for the two following days; and, from the appearance of this disease, I imagined that it would not be speedily terminated. On Wednesday, the third day of my feeing him, I found him however much better; his heat being confiderably abated, and his pulfe being more than twenty ftrokes in a minute flower than it had been the day before. On this alteration, so much in his favour, it might have been thought he was growing well, had it not been, that there was no appearance, either by fweat or urine, or on the skin, by which it could be imagined the disease was perfectly judged. Ön this account no alteration was made in his treatment that day; but finding, the next morning, that he had flept well the preceding night, and that his pulfe continued quiet, being no more than 74 ftrokes in a minute, he was allowed to get up in the evening, to have his bed made; and I should have thought him well, had not every appearance of a critical feparation been still wanting. On this account I thought him to be very liable to a return of his fever; and therefore, when, early the next morning, I was informed that he had been without any fleep, and quite delirious the whole night, I was not greatly alarmed, as thinking he had a feverish paroxyfm, to which the bark would probably put an end. When I faw him that morning, I found him very delirious, but, to my great furprise, quite free from all kind of fever whatever, his pulfe

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1758.
Tranfactions, Vol. L.

being then as calm as it had been the prece-
ding day. In this condition he remained
all that day and the following night; nothing
that was attempted to relieve him having
done him the least service; on the contrary,
his delirium increased so much, as to make
it very difficult for the attendants to keep
him in bed. The next morning he was
much as he had been the day before; his
imagination continuing greatly disturbed,
and he at times laughing and playing antic
tricks, and ufing gestures the most oppofite
to his common demeanour when well; and
which, though the pulse had not been fo per-
fectly quiet, had more the appearance of a
mania than of the delirium of a fever. In
this unhappy fituation there was but one
thing which feemed likely to bring the af-
fair to a speedy determination: This it was
proper to attempt, though the indications
for it were very obfcure, and the event per-
fectly uncertain. On recollecting the time
of this delirium's coming on, which was
about 36 hours after the pulfe had grown
quiet, and, perceiving that one glafs of the
water which had been made in the night was
thick, and seemed difpofed to drop a fedi-
ment, there was some reason to fufpect, and
indeed to hope, that, though the pulfe had
been perfectly calm during the whole time
of the delirium, there was fomething of the
fever ftill at the bottom of this complaint.
From these indications, obfcure as they were,
it was judged proper to make a trial of the
bark; which was accordingly ordered to be
taken immediately, and to be repeated every
two hours. This method fucceeded beyond
what could have been imagined; infomuch
that it was obfervable, even by the atten
dants on this Gentleman, that his mind
came evidently more and more to itself after
every dofe; and in the evening, after he
had taken fix drachms, his urine grew thick,
and dropped a lateritious sediment; and, ex-'
cepting the weakness naturally confequent
on fuch violent emotions as he had under-

gone, both of mind and body, he was as well as ever he had been in his life. He

hath

hath repeated the bark at proper intervals, as is ufual after intermittent fevers, and continues to this day perfectly well.

The ufe of the bark, in the most irregular intermittent diforders, is very happily fo well known in this island, that it might perhaps have been thought needlefs to have recited any cafe merely in confirmation of this practice; and I am too well aware of the infufficiency of every thing, but a number of facts, on which to found any philofophical truth, to prefume to rest any thing on one fingle inftance only: But the cafe above related is of fo very extraordinary a kind as to make it worthy of being mentioned, both on its own account, and for that analogy, which, being found by experience to fubfift between difeafes, affords the fureit method of reasoning on practical fubjects. The two remarkable circumstances of this cafe are, the delirium's coming on, and continuing, without any exacerbation of the pulfe; and the bark's proving fo fpeedy and effectual a remedy, though given at a time when there was no appearance of any remiffion of the fymptom which it was intended to remove. It hath been thought, that a quick pulfe is fo effential to the definition of a fever, as to be a pathognomonic fymptom of it; but experience is against this notion; perhaps the prefent cafe is a proof of the contrary: However this be, there have not been wanting inftances, in which, towards the end of a fever, the pulfe has grown quiet, without the abatement of any other fymptom, and the patient has generally lain comatofe, and

with the appearance of one who hath taken a large quantity of opium. Galen, in the third book of his Prefages of the Pulfe, mentions this fymptom, and pronounces it to be almoft a fatal lign: And the fame thing hath happened in more inftances than one, which have come to my knowledge. May not then the above-recited cafe lead to this ufeful enquiry, Whether, in fevers of every kind, when the pulfe is quiet, the bark is not proper to be given, and likely to prove a remedy? In this cafe it proved abfolutely fuch; and that it is at least a safe medicine, in all fuch cafes, in which any practitioner of experience or judgment would ever think of giving it, is now certainly known. For my own part, I can fafely declare, that, in near ten years experience of it in Guy's hofpital, during which time I find I have given it, on different occasions, to above 500 patients in that house only, I never, from the moft accurate obfervation I could make, faw it do any harm, or bring on any bad symptoin, even in cafes where it did not fucceed according to the intention for which it was ordered; and (which I have thought worth remarking) in chronical cafes, even in those where the bark hath been by many thought the moft prejudicial, when, on the coming on of an intermittent fever, the bark hath been found neceffary to cure this fecondary difeafe, the original distemper hath gone on, according to the beft judgment I could form of it,

exactly in the fame manner as it would have done, had the bark never been given.

An Account of the Solemnity of the Installation of the Right Hon. JOHN Earl of Weftmoreland, Chancellor Elect of the University of Oxford.

Oxford, N Monday laft, at two o July 7. at ny the Kight Hon. John Earl of Weftmoreland, Chancellor elect of this University, made his public entrance by the eaft gate into this city. His Lordship was attended at his entrance, and for a great part of the Wycomb road, by a long train of coaches and other equipages of the Nobility and Gentry of the country. Notice was given of his near approach, by the ringing of a bell at St. Mary's, which called together the Gentlemen of the Univerfity, who were ranked, according to their different orders and degrees, on his Lordship's right hand, from the east gate to St. Mary's church. The left-hand fide of the street was referved for the townf

men.

On his Lordship's arrival at St. Mary's, he was received by the Vice-chancellor, Noblemen, and Doctors, in their robes; and, being conducted into the church, was com

plimented by the public Orator in a short

speech, to which his Lordship replied

in the fame language. After this, his Lordfhip dined at St. Mary's hall, where apartments were provided for him, and many Gentlemen and Ladies of his train.

On Tuesday, at ten o'clock in the morning, the Noblemen and the Doctors, in their robes, waited on his Lordship, at the Vicechancellor's lodgings at Corpus college; and, about eleven, the proceffion (which was more numerous than has been seen here in the memory of man) began from thence, and paffed through St. Mary's, where it was joined by the Masters of Arts in their proper habits; and then proceeded, through the great gate of the fchools, to the divinity fchool, and from thence into the theatre.

Here the Vice-chancellor, in a Latin fpeech, opened the business of the convocation; and then, addreffing himself to the Chancellor, who was feated at his right

hand,

hand, after applauding, in a proper and polite manner, the choice the Univerfity had made, and congratulating his Lordship upon it, administered to him the neceffary oaths, and presented him with the infignia of his office, viz. the keys, the feal, and the book of ftatutes. The Vice-chancellor then quitted the chair; which was immediately filled by the Chancellor, who finished this ceremony of the inftalment, by addreffing himfelf to the University, in an elegant Latin oration. Then his Lordship admitted the following Noblemen and Gentlemen to the honorary degree of Doctors of Law, viz. The Right Hon. the Earl of Northampton. The Right Hon. the Earl of Macclesfield. Lord Willoughby de Broke. Count Shulenburgh, Lord of the Bedchamber to the King of Denmark.

James Boreel and Gerard Meerman, Deputies from the States-general.

William Gerard Dedel, Commiffary of

Amfterdam.

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Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart. Knight of the fhire for the county of Warwick. Sir Edward Dering, Bart. Sir Philip Boteler, Bart. Sir Roger Twilden, Bart.

Sir Charles Kemeys Tynte, Bart. Knight of the fhire for the county of Somerset. William Cartwright, Efq; Knight of the fhire for Northampton.

Thomas Cholmondeley, Efq; Knight of the fhire for Chester.

Edward Popham, Efq; Knight of the fhire for Wilts.

Henry Dawkins, of London, Efq. Thomas Lambert, of Sevenoak, Kent, Efq.

Afterwards the following Noblemen of the University spoke their congratulatory verfes, which were received by the audience with uncommon but deferved applause; viz. the Earl of Suffolk, English verfe; the Earl of Donnegal, Latin; and Lord Norreys, Latin. This convocation concluded with a speech from the public Orator; and then the proceffion returned to Corpus Chrifti college, where the Noblemen and Doctors were entertained at dinner with the Chancellor.

In the evening, the oratorio of Samfon was performed in the theatre by a felect and numerous band, conducted by Dr. Hays.

On Wednesday, being the day of Lord Crewe's commemoration, the Doctors, &c. met again at the Vice-chancellor's lodgings, between ten and eleven o'clock in the morn

ing, and went in proceffion, with the Chan

cellor, from thence to the theatre. The Vice-chancellor having opened the bufinefs of the convocation, the commemoration fpeech was fpoken by Mr. Warton, the Poetry Profeffor. The fubject of this elegant and admired fpeech was, with great propriety, confined to those benefactors who had been Chancellors of the University. The degree of D. C. L. was conferred, in this convocation, on the Right Hon. Lord Fane, Member of Parliament for Reading; the Hon. and Rev. George Talbot; and the Hon. William Craven, Efq; Member of Parliament for Warwickshire; who were prefented by Dr. Seward, of St. John's college, who acted for the Profeffor of Law. Afterwards the Right Hon. the Earl of Suffolk was admitted to the degree of Mafter of Arts, to which he was prefented, in a much applauded speech by the public Ora

tor.

The encania were then continued by the following Gentlemen, viz. Hon. Mr. Beauclerk, of Queen's, English; Sir B. B. Delwes, Magdalen college, Latin; Sir James Macdonald, Chrift-church, Latin; Mr. Beckford, New college, English; Mr. Wodehouse and Mr. Le Maitre, Chriftchurch, Latin dialogue; Mr. Nibbes, of St. John's, Latin. All these exercises were performed with great propriety of elocution and action, and were highly applauded by the audience. In the evening was performed the oratorio of Esther.

On Thursday, the Chancellor met the Heads of houfes at the Delegates room, and prefided in their confultations on the bufinefs of the University; and from thence was accompanied by them to the Theatre. Here the encænia, or congratulatory exercifes, were again refumed, by Mr. Hopton and Mr. Walcot, of Magdalen college, who fpoke a dialogue, in Latin verfe, on the late improvements and benefactions to the Univerfity; Mr. Bagot, of Christ-church, Latin verfe; Mr. Ilbert, of Magdalen, Englifh verfe; Mr. Way, of Chrift-church, Latin; Mr. Bragge, of Magdalen, Latin; Mr. Budgen, of Trinity, English; Mr. Kaye, of Brazen-nofe, English oration. The degree of Doctor of Civil Law was conferred on the following Gentlemen: Right Hon. Robert Shirley, Efq; fon to the Earl of Ferrers.

Wilmott Vaughan, Efq; Member of Parliament for Cardiganshire, and fon to L. Lisburne.

Sir Richard Chase.

Harbord Harbord, Esq; Member of Parliament for Norwich.

James Evelyn, of Fulbridge, Sussèx, Efq. And the following Gentlemen had the de

gree

gree of Mafter of Arts conferred on them viz.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Donnegall, of Trinity college.

Sir Brian Broughton Delwes, of Magdalen college.

Alexander Courthope, of Horfemondon, Kent, Efq.

John Children, of Tunbridge in Kent, Efq.

Roger Twifden, Efq; eldest fon of Sir R. Twifden, Bart.

Thomas Popkin, of Kettle-hill, Glamorganfhire, Efq.

John Sawbridge, jun. of Alantigh, Kent,

Efq.

William Dealtry, Efq; of Magdalen col

lege.

Powell Snell, jun. of Baliol college, Efq. John Toke, of Univerfity college, Efq. William Guife, of Queen's college, Efq. Thomas Knight, of Trinity college, Efq. Henry St. John, of New college, Efq. On Friday, the encænia were again refumed in the Theatre, when an Italian ode, in praise of the Chancellor, was performed by the whole opera band; after which the degree of D.C. L. was conferred on the following Gentlemen, viz.

Henry Pye, Efq; Member of Parliament for Berkshire.

William Grove, Efq; Member of Parliament for Coventry.

John Harvey Thurfby, Efq; Member of Parliament for Stamford.

Jofiah George Hort, fon to the Archbifhop of Tuam.

The degree of A. M. was also conferred on Henry Hunter, Efq; of Trinity college; Mr. Thomas Auguftine Arne was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Mufic; and verfes were fpoken by the following Gentlemen: Mr. Mundy, New college, Englifh; Mr. Forfter, Corpus Chrifti college, English; Mr. Pepys, Chrift-church, Latin; Mr. Simpfon, Chrift-church, Latin; Mr. De Salis, Queen's college, Latin; and Mr. Sandys, of Queen's college, Latin.

Then the folemnity of the inftallation and commemoration was clofed by Dr. King, Principal of St. Mary's hall; who, in a fpirited and eloquent oration, delivered with his ufual grace and dignity, enlarged on the propriety of the choice the University had made; difplayed his Lordship's eminent abilities; introduced Lady Pomfret's and Mr. Dawkins's late benefactions; and concluded with an exhortation to the youth of this place, and his ardent wifhes for the perpetual peace and profperity of the Univerfity.

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The fplendor of the appearance on this occafion, the harmony and decorum with which the whole ceremony was conducted, and the entertainment afforded to fo polite and refpectable an audience, by the exercises and orations of each day, reflect the highest honour on the prudence of the Magiftrates, and abilities of the members, of this diftin guished feat of learning.

An Account of the Theatre or Opera-house at BERLIN.
With a Representation of it curiously engraved.

THE
HE most elegant modern edifice at

are fplendid, and of an exquisite tafte, but
the want of a painted cieling and other
ftanding ornaments renders the interior parts
lefs pompous than the exterior. The pil-
lars which fupport the roof, and are calcu-
lated to throw the whole into a grand fa-
loon, are apt to obstruct the movements of
the scenes. It has three galleries, and is
reckoned to contain above 2000 perfons.
The orchestra confifts of about 50 musicians,
the pay of which is moderate. The King
is more liberal to the Italian fingers, of
whom he had nine or ten; Aftrua and Sa-
lembene were the most diftinguished; but
neither of them will amafs a minifterial
eftate, as fome of their profeffion have done
in other countries, which however are now
grown wifer. This amufement is intirely
fupported at the King's expence, and in
fome degree rendered fubfervient to the ends
of his government. Among other good po-

the art of litics, he has learnt the art of rendering

than a profufion of expence. When Aftrua firft fang before him, he asked what her falary was; fhe told him 3,500 dollars: "Indeed, faid he, madam, fuch finging as yours well deferves 4000,' and accordingly he or dered this appointment.

The extreme delight which the King takes in mufic, and the great perfonal knowledge he has of that fcience, have carried this entertainment to a great perfection. The dreffes, the fcenes, and the machinery, in the opera of Phaeton, were indeed most elegant and magnificent. In the upper galleries on each fide of the ftage fix trumpeters are feated, who falute the Queen confort, when the enters the house or retires, with this martial mufic, which heightens the pomp and chearfulness of the entertainment; but the King himself who acts in a fphere fuperior to the rules of pompous ceremony, excutes this falutation to his own perion.

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