fever, at thefe periods, with as much confidence as he could foretel the revolution itself. The remittents, as well as intermittents, are obferved, both with regard to their first attack and their exacerbations, to be subject to the fame influence.

In the cure of these fevers, Dr. B. has found, that after proper evacuations, the bark always fucceeds, but more efpecially and effectually during the interval between the full and change, and the change and full moon; but for particulars we muft refer the medical reader to the book, where he will meet with much information, and many curious, as well as ufeful, remarks.

The fubject is undoubtedly of the utmost importance, for we have no difeafe which is more frequent, and attended with more danger, than fevers in general; and whoever inveftigates their nature, or attempts to unfold a principle, on which a fuccefsful mode of practice may be established, justly merits the thanks both of the phyfician and the patient.

Art. 17. A Reply to Dr. Berkenhout's Dedication to each individual Apothecary in England, prefixed to his Symptomatology. By Somebody, who is a Friend to Candour. 8vo. 15. Riving

tons. 1786.

A poor attempt to refute the judicious remarks which Dr. Berkenhout, in the dedication to his Symptomatology, made on the ftate of medical practice in England *. The Author of this reply is doubtlefs confcious of the juftice of the Doctor's cenfure; he feems to feel the lash with impatience, but he wants ftrength fufficient to repel the attack.

Art. 18. The fingular Cafe of a Lady, who had the Small Pox during Pregnancy, and who communicated the Difeafe to the Fetus. By William Lynn, Surgeon. As read at the Royal Society in February 1786. 8vo. 6d. Macrea.

This we cannot think a fingular cafe; it has often occurred in practice, and is confiftent with the general theory of the difeafe. See Philofophical Tranfactions for the year 1749, where fix fuch cafes are recorded.

Art. 19. A Syftem of Anatomy, from Monro, Winflow, Innes, and the latest Authors, arranged, as nearly as the Nature of the Work would admit, in the Order of the Lectures delivered by the Profeffor of Anatomy in the Univerfity of Edinburgh. 8vo. z Vols. with Copperplates. 15s. bound. Edinburgh, Elliot. London,

Robinsons.

Such is the title of the work before us. Turning over the advertifement of the editor, and the table of contents, we met with another: A Syftem of Anatomy, Part I. containing the Anatomy of the Human Bones, by the late ALEXANDER MONRO, M. D. F. R. S. &c. Going on towards the middle of the 1ft vol. we found another titlepage: A Syftem of Anatomy, Part II. containing a Defeription of the Human Mujcles, chiefly as they appear on Diffection, together with their feveral Ufes, and the Synonyma of the best Authors, by John Innes. And so on. The compiler has made choice of the moit approved writers, yet we think the authors themfelves, without mutilation,

* See Rev. vol. lxxiv. p. 315.

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preferable to this mode of edition. The copperplates are in many places confufed and obfcure; the fcale on which they are drawn is much too fmall, and the engraving is coarse.

Art. 20. The Domeftic Phyfician; or Guardian of Health. Pointing out, in the moft familiar Manner, the Symptoms of every Diforder incident to Mankind; together with their gradual Progrefs and Method of Cure: particularly adapted to the Ufe of private Families, though equally eff ntial to the Faculty. By B. Cornwell, M. L. 8vo. 7s. 6d. bound. Murray.

Conftructed upon the plan of Buchan's Family Phyfician, but miferably executed. The compilation is injudicious; and every page affords falfe fpellings, typographical errors, or inaccuracies of language.

POLITICAL.

Art. 21. An Answer to the Woollen Draper's Letter on the French Treaty; addreffed to the People of England, but more especially to the Woollen Manufacturers. 8vo. Is. 6d. Brooks. 1787. We do not find one of the Woollen Draper's arguments invalidated by this abufive anfwer: and we think the principles of the Author are as contrary to the manufacturing and commercial interefts of the country as his language is to decency and good manners. He would have artificers mind their own bufinefs, and truft to the fuperior knowledge of miniftry for procuring a market and suitable price for the productiuns of their labour and ingenuity.

The Author's attack on the political conduct of Mr. Wedgwood, is unjust and illiberal in the highest degree.

Art. 22. A Reply to "A bort Review of the Political State of Great Britain," &c. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Bell.

A felling pamphlet (efpecially in the political line) always produces an answer: if it be a very felling performance, it ufually excites more than one opponent: the grand question is, who shall ftart firft, and away the competitors dafh" The devil take the hindmolt!"

Thus circumftanced, it is no wonder that we commonly find thefe headlong Anfwers, Replies, Rejoinders, Refutations, &c. &c. to be crude and defective; and that while the hafty criticifer is plentifully loading the original writer with charges of ignorance, error, or the wickedness of wilful falfehood, the accufer lays himself open to recrimination; and his own performance is perhaps more reprehenfible than that which he is fo alert in attacking.

This is pretty much the cafe with the prefent political prizefighter, who was the first to take the field against the "Short Reviewer;" and who appears to have been fo much in an hurry to turn out first, that, we fuppofe, he did not even allow himself time to revife his manufcript before he fent it to the prefs; for, if he had taken that precaution, he could not surely have ftumbled on the following egregious Irifhifm. It is the etiquette of the British court, he fays, on the difmiflion of a Minifter, to blacken his character.It is done by his fucceffors, for the fame reasons that the princes of Barbary cut off each other's heads.'-It must be a curious fight to be. hold one of these illuftrious and dextrous Africans, without a head, wield the glittering faulchion, and, in his turn, whip off that of his

beheader.

bebeader. St. Patrick himself fcarce performed a greater feat, when, after his decollation (as we lately took occafion to note), he fwam across the Liffy with his head in his teeth.

As an Anfever to the "Short Review," this pamphlet is not diftinguished by any remarkable keennefs of investigation, ftrength of argument, or brilliancy of wit. It treats that Review as a Court Pamphlet; but our Author thinks it fo abounds with contradictions, and inconfiftencies, that thofe whom the Reviewer wifhed moft to, serve, or to please, have little to thank him for.

Art. 23. The People's Anfwer to the Court Pamphlet, entitled, A fhort Review of the Political State of Great Britain. 8vo. Is. 6d. Debrett.

By The People's Anfwer,' we are to understand that this is the production of an individual, containing the fenfe of many who ftill think for themselves,' uninfluenced by the Almanac Royal, or Court Calendar for the new year.' The Author charges the Reviewer with duplicity, under the mafk of candour; he attacks him, article by article, in every divifion of his pamphlet, and we have really been entertained with the vivacity of his remarks. We were particularly pleafed with the juftice of the reprehenfion which he bestows on the author of the court pamphlet' for his uncandid treatment of the P of W on whom he has fo freely lavished his ftrictures, without noticing, as in all fair dealing he ought to have done, the noble ftep, taken by the P, in the voluntary appropriation of half his income (the writer fays more than half) to the gradual payment of his debts. Our Author takes a curfory view of the conduct of his R. H. particularly with refpect to the mifunderstanding faid to have unhappily fubfifted, for fome time paft, between the fovereign and the heir apparent; and he enters with fpirit into an apology for the P-, but not in terms difrespectful to the K-. the reft, we refer to the pamphlet.

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Art. 24. A Letter to the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, Efq. occafioned by his Speech in the Houfe of Commons, Feb. 5, 1787.

8vo. 1s. Bell.

We cannot but deem this a very unfair attack on Mr. Burke. If gentlemen are to be abused without doors, for what, perhaps with out premeditation, they have uttered in delivering their fentiments within, the freedom, and even fafety, of fenatorial debate, is ftruck at; and the confequence may be of great prejudice to the community. Had Mr. B. published his fpeech, this minifterial champion might, then, with propriety, have taken the field against him; but as the cafe ftands, we think the letter-writer highly reprehenfible; efpecially as his mode of affault is fo illiberal, that it naturally reminded us of the following passage in one of Robin Hood's ballads: "The fhepherd, with his crook, gave Little John

A sturdy bang under the chin;

Befhrew thy heart, faid Little John,

Thou bafely doft begin!"

The author of the preceding Reply, likewife, very properly, paffes a stricture on this omiffion.

REV. Feb. 1787.

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Art. 25. A candid Enquiry into the Cafe of the Prince of Wales; fhewing that a very confiderable Sum is due to his Royal Highnefs, more than the Amount of his Debts. 8vo. Is. Bell. 1786. The Author of this pamphlet afferts, that the principality of Wales and the Duchy of Cornwall, are eftates held of the nation, independent of the crown; and that the Prince is intitled to receive the revenues thence arifing, from the time of his birth. He fays the principality of Wales renders annually 24,000l. and the Duchy of Cornwall 10,000l. Thefe fums have remained unaccounted for; and in the space of 24 years, amount to 816,cool. of which the Prince has only received 74,000l. per ann. for three years. A balance of 594,cool. is therefore, according to this account, due to the Prince, which is almoft three times the whole of his debts.-This needs no comment.

COMMERCIAL TREATY with FRANCE. Art. 26. A complete Investigation of Mr. Eden's Treaty, as it may affect the Commerce, the Revenue, or the general Policy of Great Britain. 8vo. 35. Debrett. 1787.

This investigation of the commercial treaty with France is well written, but is fo conducted as to brand every article of it with abfurdity, and to fhew that it teems with deftruction to every political and commercial intereft of this devoted country! It proves beyond all power of contradiction, because upon the bafis of actual hiftory, and the authority of official documents, the conftant alternation of fuccefs or ruin to our commerce, as the trade with France was shut or open. Till a better criterion can be inftituted for determining upon the probability of the future, than a reference to the past, it will not be denied that fome ufe is to be derived from fuch a review as that which has just been taken.

Commerce is, however, fo dependent on fluctuating circumstances, which alter the relative fituation of countries, that we ought not invariably to be governed in our future proceedings by past experience for without prefuming to take one fide of the question fo ftrenuously as this writer urges the other, it may fafely be advanced, that if the advantages granted to France in her wines, brandies, and oils, are in their nature expofed to no inftability either of caprice or competition; they are the native produce of their land, they demand no kill in preparing, and it is not therefore within the reach of accident to deprive her of them :-and if our acquired excellence in manufactures, furnish us now with ample equivalents to exchange for thefe productions; a trade that might poffibly have been difadvantageous at the clofe of the last century, may nevertheless become clearly expedient at the clofe of this."

We are as little fatisfied with another inference drawn by the Author from our conduct in times paft. The French,' fays he, have fought, for a century, with the exertion of every active and infidious policy, to accomplish this brotherly reciprocity of connection and friendship. The year 1787 will be the first period of their enjoyment of it. Have they been urging this for fo long a space of time, and we declining it, with a mutual ignorance on both parties, they of their own good, and we of our own danger? The fact is, nations feldom err long in points that refpect their own immediate advan

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tage. Cafual prejudice, or occ fional incapacity in their rulers, may mislead them for a time; but the regular influence of underftanding and intereft will prevail at laft. That which has been anxiously defired by one power, and as vehemently refufed by the other, through a variety of changes of government and of circumftances, which has been fteadily pursued by every description of minifters in the one country, however repugnant in their general politics; and as uniformly refifted by every fucceffion of disagreeing politicians in the other; is evidently to the advantage of the power which feeks, and to the injury of that which rejects. The uniform prevalence of fuch a fentiment, is the demonftration of experience, delivered through the medium of the united fenfe of both empires; and if any thing can decide upon the direction of their refpective intereft, this muft.'

In this paffage we have a frong fanction given to national prejudices; and when they have taken root for ages, they do not readily give way to principles that tend to eradicate them: the Author has, however, unguardedly complimented the difpofition of our neighbours at the expence of his own countrymen, and justified any hoftile conduct we may have provoked; the alternative being quite natural-If you will not meet our friendship, we must meet your enmity!

On thefe principles, the English and the Scots were purfuing their common intereft while they were at war with each other, during fucceffive centuries; for nations feldom err long in points that refpect their own immediate advantage!' In truth the meafure of uniting both thefe nations in a brotherly reciprocity of connection and friendship,' was, during the negociation, reprobated by hot-headed zealots on both fides: but party cavils, however obftinate, wear out in time, and the Union is now well understood, and generally applauded.

This writer's commercial statements correfpond with his hoftile doctrine, and all tend to hold up the treaty in fo ridiculous a point of view, that for the credit of our negociators, as well as the importance of the meafure, we hefitate where he is moft confident. More temper is neceffary to convince us that truth alone is the object of the inveftigation.

Art. 27. Hiftorical and political Remarks on the Tariff of the Commercial Treaty: with preliminary Obfervations. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Cadell. 1787.

This production affords us a clear and elaborate difcuffion of the fubject, unclouded with thofe alarming predictions of national ruin, held out to us by the preceding writer, and equally clear of the gloffes of panegyric on the propofed meafure. The prefent treaty, which is generally derived from that of Utrecht, is here traced up to one concluded with France by Oliver Cromwel, in 1655; and that again from the commercial part of the treaty of Muniter, the acknowledged parent of the moft effential branches of all our fubfequent negociations. The intelligent writer complains of the defultory, embarraffed, and obfcure ftyle of public treaties, from negociators being content to copy the forms and phrafes of their predeceffors; which, however well adapted in their original application, often lofe their effect when employed in a different age, and applied to flates differing in character and habits. To facilitate, therefore,

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