practitioners on this preparative, (for as the three interdicted articles in food is preparative to the inoculation, fo this may be deemed preparative to the cruption,) that when they are called in, and find, upon enquiry, that circumstance (and opening the puftules) has not been attended to, they refufe any further attendance.' Is not our practice in thefe cold climates, of ordering the inoculated patient into the open air, fomewhat analogous to this Eaftern practice, where their moft rigid feafons never produce frot? D. Art. 38. Practical Directions, fhewing a Method of preferving the Perinæum in Birth, and delivering the Placenta without Violence. Illuftreted by Cafes. By John Harvie, M. D. Teacher of Midwifery. Svo. Is. 6d. Wilfon and Nicol. Dr. Harvie lays down the following rule for preferving the perineum; As fion, fays he, as a pain has acted long enough to render the frænum of the perinæum tight, the farther action of that pain must be totally prevented, by the palm of the left hand applied against the perineum with a proper force.' The accoucheur, with the palm of his hand applied as already directed, is to prevent the forehead of the child making its rife from under the perinæum, till he feels by the nape of the neck, that the vertex is entirely out from below the offa pubis.' With respect to the delivery of the placenta, our Author fays, I have thought it advifeable to leave the delivery of the placenta to nature, not only in the earlier mifcarriages, but likewife when women have been brought-to-bed, in the latter months, as well as at the full time.' My pupils, who deliver many poor women, according to my inftructions, have, of late, left the delivery of the placenta to nature. general, it comes away foon; but if, after waiting an hour, there is no unufual difcharge, they order the woman to be carefully put to bed, and then leave her. In fuch cafes, I have not known of any placenta that has remained longer than nineteen hours; and all the women thus treated, have recovered to great advantage.' For the other obfervations, and the cafes by which thefe directions are illuftrated, we must refer our Readers to the pamphlet itself. -Nature, when left to herfelf, will do a great deal; She is to be affifted, fays Dr. H. to be followed and fupported, but feldom or never forced.' POLITICAL and COMMERCIAL. D. Art. 39. An Epiftle from Timoleon, to all the honeft Freeholders and ather Electors of Members of Parliament. Wherein the great Mifchief and Danger of Corruption are fet forth, and proved from its Operations in Greece and Rome. 4to. Is. Owen. The defign of this epiftolary addrefs is thus expreffed in the firft paragraph: Every man, fays the Writer, acquainted with the rife and full of free ftates, and their caufes, when he confiders our prefent condition, muft, I conceive, clearly difcern that we are in imminent danger of being undone by thofe perfons to whom the conflitution of our country hath committed the care of our prefervation. Our unhappy divifions and debts, luxury and difiipation, violence and inflability, with the meannefs of our ambition, whofe felfish objects differ fo far from the dignity and welfare of the kingdom, would doubtlefs fufficiently diffrets and endanger us, without corrupting the fountains of our Strength ftrength and our fafety, I mean that courfe of bribery which now takes place between candidates and electors with fo great excefs, notoriety, and confidence, which will be the chief fubject of this epiftle, intended to contain rather pertinent collections from hiftory, law, and the write : ings of able authors, the chief fources of found policy, than my own obfervations.' The Author then proceeds to cite a variety of teftimonies from ancient and modern writers, to prove the fatal effects of national degeneracy and corruption of manners; but particularly of bribery: to which the deftruction of former empires and kingdoms is attributed. As for us, he obferves that our corruptions are grown to that excess, that our religion, liberty, comfort and fafety, call aloud for the exertion of our abilities for its extirpation :-and thus he concludes: All governments being liable to corruption, and refting in truft for execution, the great excellency of the British conftitution confifts in the peoples having frequent opportunities of chuling new truftees; and what fall we fay of the man who follicits by corruption to be appointed to a trust which will lay him under the most facred obligations to take care that the common-wealth receive no harm, and that corruption in every other part of the public adminiftration be prevented or punished ? If we have any juft regard for our country and its conflitution, ourselves and pofterity, it is furely high time for us to have no other regard for fuch men than to ufe all lawful means that their corruptions may be difcharged by the fword of justice, in order that their country may not in future fuffer under the fword of her enemies, and to chufe those for our reprefentatives who will grace and adorn her, and labour to fecure and improve the common felicity. Purify the Fountain, and the Streams will be pure.' Art. 40. A Caveat on the Part of Public Credit, previous to the opening of the Budget for the prefent Year 1768. 4to. I S. Almon. The very able Politician who has entered this Caveat on the part of public credit obferves, that it is but feldom that we have an opportunity of difcuffing the measures of adminiftration, with refpect to the revenue, till they are fo far pledged, that it is confidered as a punctilio of honour not to recede from them, or to fuffer any alteration or amendment to be made. The ftate of the funds for the time being, and the plan for the rising year, are kept as clofe as they can be, from the impertinent and jealous eye of what is called oppofition, till the awful ceremony comes of revealing the mysteries of the Budget. This is generally fome ftudied performance; a narrative ex parte, which very few of the hearers come prepared to examine or debate at fight. As it is a dry fubject in itself, the orator of the day fummons all his art and eloquence to make it entertaining as well as inftructive. It is perhaps embellished with fome pretty ftories of bulls and bears, or tickets, or inftallments; or in its turn fome profound maxim of economy is demonftrated, fuch as that paying your bills at Mid-fummer instead of Michaelmas, will fave a quarter's intereft, or any other propofition equally fubtile and furprising. In the mean time, the fubftantial parts of the plan, whether right or wrong, pafs unheeded and unexamined, are voted, reported, enacted, all in a trice, as matters of mere form, towards towards the latter end of the feffion. By confequence the public have nothing left for it when it comes to their turn, but to arraign with anger and hostility, measures when they are paft recalling, inftead of having an opportunity to difcufs them with temper and deliberation while they are yet fub judice, and capable of receiving light in the freedom of debate. As we have received very early information of the intended plan for this year, I fhall enter into a friendly conference with adininiftration, and whether I may fuggeft any thing pertinent to the subject or no, I hall at least have the fatisfaction of having discharged the part of a wellwisher to my country, in fubmitting my fentiments upon this important fubject with candour and deference. It is neceffary to ftate two or three preliminary estimates, but I will endeavour to keep all minute matters of figures as clear as poffible from the main body of the argument, in which every man of plain fenfe is as competent a judge as the beft arithmetician. The adminiftration have given notice that they will pay off 875,ocol. of the national debt at Midfummer next, though the arrears and deficiency of the last year (1767) amount to a full million, and confequently this measure cannot be effected confiftently with other fervices, but by ftill deeper arrears and anticipations. Surely it cannot be found policy to hold out fallacious appearances of doing more than we have it in our power effectively to do; for to talk of paying debts by running into arrears, is a contradiction in the very terms. All therefore that I have to plead for is, a little more regard to fundamentals, and confideration of the effe quam videri. But I will not anticipate the main argument any further than to fuggeft, that this maxim, which I take for my ftandard, is a very plain one, requires no depth of fcience to comprehend, nor (I truft) any farther recommendation than the fairness of its own countenance.' Accordingly our Author proceeds to examine the plan for this year, es it has been opened to us; ftates the required fupply on the one hand, and the ways and means on the other; fhews the infufficiency of the latter to antwer the demands of the former, without making a draught upon the finking-fund of 2,279,000 1. which, he fays, added to an arrear of between 500,000 and 600,ocol. which is already upon it, make together an anticipation of more than 2,800,000l. for the prefent year a monftrous anticipation, and beyond any thing that has ever been heard or thought of!-We have not room to follow the Writer through all his curious deductions from thefe premifes; and fhall therefore, conclude, abruptly, we confess, with recommending his performance to the ferious attention of our political readers: particularly thofe who are converfant in the very complicated doctrine of the public funds, and well acquainted with the barometrical principle of the flocks, &c. &c. It feems to be an important tract; and may be honestly intended for the good of our country, notwithstanding there is fo much caufe for a general fufpicion of every thing that appears, of this kind, in these days, wherein every truly patriotic intention feems entirely abforbed in miniferial wiles, on the one hand, or the artifices of oppofition on the other. Art. 41. The Upholsterer's Letter to the Right Honourable William repre reprefentation of our counties and boroughs, in the Houfe of Commons; by which means, he fuppofes, the members of that illuftrious houfe may be increafed to eight or nine hundred a number fufficient to baffle the attempts of any future minifter to influence them by bribery, &c. as the revenues, he thinks, would be infufficient to purchase a majority. Many other falutary effects are deduced from fuch a meafure; which the author, therefore, trongly recommends to Lord C. and to him especially, as being a favourite idea of his Lordship's. And he urges his Lordship to lofe no time, but, with all humility, to advise our gracious fovereign (by virtue of his prerogative-royal) at the diffolution of the prefent parliament, to conflitute new boroughs, and to iffue out writs for them to choofe members of parliament, and likewise to increase the number of members for counties and large towns.A measure of this fort is doubtless become very neceffary; but whether it would be advifable for his Majefty to take fuch a lep at this juncture, or at any time, without the concurrence of parliament, is a queftion which our fate-upholsterers will probably think an important one. Art. 42. The Farmers' Addrefs to their Reprefentatives. Humbl recommended to the careful Perufal of every Corn-Farmer, and every honest Man in Great Britain. 8vo. 1s. Williams. Intended to fhew, that the general liberty lately given to all his Majefty's fubjects to import corn freely from all countries, may prove extremely prejudicial to the interest and property of every coin-farmer in England, as well as to the people and nation in general' There appears, to be a great deal of good and folid reafoning in this tract; the fubject of which cannot be too much attended to: and (as friends to the real intereft of our country) forry we are that this fubject is, in general, fo little underflood. DRAMATIC. Art. 43. Falle Delicacy: a Comedy; as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By Hugh Kelly. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Baldwin, &c. A very agreeable play to fee; but the critical reader, who has not been prefent at the reprefentation, will be apt to wonder what its uncommon fuccefs could be owing to.-There is undoubted merit, however, in this comedy; though it is no eafy matter to fay, precifely, in what parts of the work its merit chiefly confifts. "Tis not in the plot, for there is nothing in the ftory which merits that name; 'tis not in the characters, for there is fcarcely one character in the piece;-not in the language, for that is by no means pure ;-not in the fentiments, for in them there is nothing uncommon. In short, as the fong fays, 'tis Celia altogether and the author is certainly much indebted to Mrs. Dancer for her admirable manner of fpeaking the witty epilogue, written by Mr. Garrick. Art. 44. The Good-natured Man: as it is performed at the TheatreRoyal in Covent Garden. By Mr. Goldsmith. 1 s. 6d. Griffin. An agreeable play to read.--it is not every dramatic production that will a well; to borrow a phrafe ufed by players and play-going people. Of this, Mr. G.'s comedy is a proof,-in respect to fome of its fcenes, particularly: though it must be allowed that the capital part 7 of of the old, whimsical, ill-boding Croaker, was even improved by Mr Shuter's exquifitely droll and humorous performance. On the other hand, the bailiff and his black-guard follower appeared intolerable on the age; yet we are not difguiled with them in the perufal. On the whole, though there are confiderable defects, and feveral abfurdities in the piece, fome parts of it are truly comic, and fhew the writer to be a man of genius: though, perhaps, not fufficiently converfant with the world to lay a foundation for great fuccefs, in a first attempt efpecially, in this most difficult branch of literary compofition. Let him not, however, be difcouraged; for this play, with all its faults, is certainly a lefs exceptionable performance than Dryden's firit comedy, The Wila Gallant. The catch-pole fcene was omitted after the firit night; and then the play (which otherwife feemed to land no chance of efcaping damnation) had the ufual run of a new production. 7 I. Ejaculatory Prayer, a Sermon preached Dec. 10, 1767, at the Monthly Exercife of Prayer, in the Rev. Mr. Stafford's Meeting-houfe, in New-Bondftreet. By John Olding. Buckland. II. Mafenry the Way to Hell-Wherein is clearly proved, both from Reafon and Scripture, that all who profefs these Mysteries are in a State of Damnation. Svo. 45. Rob. and Roberts. It is not to be fuppofed this Sermon was ever preached. It is a mot fevere, nay outrageous invective against free-mafonry, which the preacher afferts to be the very whore of Babylon mentioned in the Revelation. His text is REV. xvii. 5. • And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots, and abominations of the earth.'-This new interpretation and application of the text, the anonymous Sermonizer fupports with much teeming earnest." nef and zeal, throughout not an ill written difcourfe of 39 pages: but whether, after all, he is in earnest or not, remains with us a matter of fome doubt. III. Before the House of Lords, Jan. 30, 1768. By Robert, Lord Eishop of Peterborough. R. Davies, T. Caflon, &c. IV. Before the House of Commons, Jan. 30, 1768. By George Stinton, D. D. Chancellor of Lincoln, and Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury. T. Payne, Fletcher, &c. V. The Reasonableness of Repentance, with a Dedication to the De VIL, and an Addrefs to the Candidates for HELL. By the Rev. James Penn, Vicar of Ciavering cum Langley, Effex, and domestic Chaplain to Earl Gower. Wilkie, &c. The late Orator Henley being asked what could induce him (a reve rend divine to deal fo much in buffoonry? replied, "I do it that my advertisements and lectures may be taken notice of. If I were not, now and then, to flip Harlequin's coat over my gown and caffuck, people would mind me no more than they mind the parfon of the parish." We cannot tell whether Mr. P. acts upon the fame principle; but whenever we look into fome of his late publications, we are inttantly put in mind of the renowned orator. N.B. The Effay on Prints will appear in our next month's Review. |