render it neceffary to enter into any details concerning it. It now appears with additions, partly anatomical, partly relative to the new experiments on animal electricity, and partly pathological. It is fcarcely requifite to say that the author derives, from these sources, new confirmations of his theory.

The fecond part is entitled Gui Bono? or phyfiological and pathological obfervations on the functions of the vifceral nerves, with Some remarks on the action of opium and other vegetable poifons. The purpose of this paper is chiefly to illuftrate and confirm the preceding doctrine concerning the use of the ganglions. It begins with obfervations on the inferior degree of fenfibility in the internal organs, and on their not being fubject to the influence of the will, though they, as well as the glands, are liable to the action of the paffions. This is imputed to their receiving no nerves but fuch as have paffed through ganglions.-Remarks on palfy, and on difeafes of the head and beart, follow, illuftrated by cafes. The general tendency of thefe is to fhew that great irritability may fubfift with little fenfibility. The fecond part notices our unconsciousness of internal ftimuli, while their effects are manifefted by fympathetic actions in other parts of the body. The multiplied fympathies with the ftomach are particularly noticed, and illuftrated by a fhort account of the principal vegetable poifons, and their effects. Several experiments to this purpose, on cold-blooded animals, made by the author himself, are related. He concludes with a more particular inquiry into the effects of opium, the action of which he maintains to be as a potential fedative, and only as a fedative.' The apparent irritation, fometimes proceeding from it, he attributes folely to the re-action of the vital powers, refifting its proper debilitating and torporic effects. From this view of its action, he deduces various practical remarks concerning its medical ufe; which, we fcarcely need fay, are very contrary to the practice inculcated by fome late writers.

The four next papers are republications of cafes which have appeared in former collections. The 7th article is the cafe of George Lord Lyttleton in his laft illness; which is no otherwife interefting than as relating to an eminent character.

Some account of hepatitis fuppurans is given in the next article, occafioned by the fingular circumitance, in this climate, of four perfons, woodcutters, being feized in the month of June 1787, when the weather was wet and uncommonly hot, with a disease which proved fatal to three of them, and appeared on diffection to be accompanied with large fuppuration of the liver. We find nothing new in the obfervations; which, indeed, moftly confift in quotations from other writers. Two of the cafes are minutely

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minutely related in the next article, by Mr. Gomery, Surgeon, of Bewdley.

To a paper before printed in the Medical Memoirs, vol. I, containing cafes of hydrophobia, with remarks, is annexed an additional case of the fame fatal diforder; which, like fo many others that have been publifhed, affords matter rather of curiofity than of inftruction.

The effay on mineral poifons, by Dr. John Johnstone, is faid to be part of a collection on medical jurifprudence, which the author hopes, fometime or other, to lay before the public. It treats of the poisons of the mineral kingdoms, under three principal divifions, the metallic, the earthy, and the faline. The object of the effay is practical; namely, to point out the diftinctive fymptoms following the exhibition of each, and the most appropriate means of relief. The work, though by no means a complete one, is well calculated to be useful: but we think that utility would have been better confulted by publishing it feparately.

ART. XVIII. A Sermon preached at the Meeting-Houfe in PrincesStreet, Westminster, 18th October. 1795, on Occafion of the muchlamented Death of the Rev. Andrew Kippis, D. D. F. R. S. and S. A. who departed this Life on the 8th of the fame Month, in the 71st Year of his Age. To which is added, the Addrefs delivered at the Interment of the Deceased. By Abraham Rees, D. D. F. R. S. 8vo. 6d. Robinfons. &c.

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boc uno interdum, vir alioqui prudentiffimus, honeflo quidem, fed tamen errore verfatur, quod pluris amicos fuos quam funt arbitratur. This remark of the Younger Pliny is in general true; and preachers in particular, when in funeral fermons they delineate the characters of deceased friends, are apt to permit their affections to overcome their judgment, and with the beft intentions to allow praise to out-run truth. In the inftance before us, however, we meet with an exception. The judicious and fenfible remarks, which the preacher offers in illuftrating the text, (Pfalm xxxvii. 37.) are followed by an equally judicious and accurate account of the life and character of the deceased; in which Dr. Rees difplays the amiablenefs of his own heart together with the ftrength of his mind. We have read this tribute to the memory of a man whom we knew, and whom we could not but love, with much fatisfaction; and, "if love could make us eloquent," we fhould ufe, in addition to Dr. Rees's memoir, all the moft lively colours of language to adorn his memory; but in this respect we need not lament our inability, fince the worth of Dr. Kippis no more requires artificial decorations to fet it off, than refined gold needs paint to

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augment its luftre and its value. He was indeed a learned, amiable, and truly refpectable man; and he completely deferved the praife which Dr. Rees has here the gratification of bestowing. Those who are acquainted with the friendship, which subfifted between the preacher and the deceased, will more than pardon the egotifm with which Dr. Rees concludes his memoir; for our own part, we admire this effufion of the heart at least as much as any other part of the discourse :

Such are the general outlines of the character and labours of our deceased friend. The portrait, I am fenfible, is not fufficiently juft to the original. In delineating a character which exhibits fo many excellencies and fo few defects, none can fufpect me of approaching to adulation. My refpe&t for him was great. I honoured him as a father. I loved him as a brother. But my affection, I am confident, has not misled my judgment. By the favour of Providence, which marks the bounds of our habitation, I was led in early life to an intimate connection with him. Our acquaintance, as co-tutors and coadjutors in public bufinefs, ripened into an established friendship; and our friendship continued, without fo much as a momentary interruption, and with increafing attachment, for more than 32 years, to the day of his death. It must have been my own fault if I have not derived advantage from his extenfive literary knowledge, from the wifdom of his counfel, and from the exemplarinefs of his conduct.-No apology, I truft, will be thought neceffary for introducing myself on this occafion. As it was my ambition to cultivate the friendship I enjoyed, it is my pride to have it publicly known, that I valued that friendship as one of the chief honours and pleasures of my life. The friend I have loft cannot easily be replaced.'

The tears of friendship, mingled with the confolations of religion, compose the addrefs at the grave.

ART. XIX. Academical Contributions of original and tranflated Poetry. 3vo. pp. 120. 2s. 6d. fewed. Egerton. 1795,

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HIS affemblage of Cambridge poems confifts of odes, fonnets, contemplations, allegories, elegies, hymns, epigrams, paraphrafes, &c. many of which are very good, and moft are tolerable. Some of them had appeared in print before, but they are here new-modelled and improved. From among the odes, we felect the following in the grave style:

'ODE TO THE JURIES WHO ASSERTED THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF THE SUBJECT, ON THE LATE STATE TRIALS.

Amidst a venal age,

Ye who have ftem'd Corruption's torrent tide,

And, fired with noble rage,

Have curb'd Injuftice, and infulting Pride:
The great, the good, the brave,

To you fhall raise the tributary lay;

And even the titled flave,

Struck with a fecret awe, unwilling homage pay.

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• Justice

Juftice fhall blefs the hour,

With fhouts of Myriads when your firm decree,
Unaw'd by lawless power,

Once more bade Albion's happy ifle be free.
Now from her long repofe

At length, behold Britannia's Genius rife,
Triumphant o'er her foes,

To blefs with all her charms a Nation's longing eyes.
See from her leaden throne

The fiend Impofture with deep ruin hurl'd,
By mighty Truth o'erthrown,

The fcorn and wonder of th' admiring world :
See Truth with powerful ray

Through clouds of Error and Detraction rise,
And, burfting into day,

Hold his majestic courfe unwearied through the skies.
'Still let the venal bard

To Power his fongs of gratulation pay,
And for his base reward

To deeds of war and havock tune the lay.
The Mufe, to Freedom dear,

To Freedom's fons the votive fong shall raise,
And ftill with zeal fincere,

Shall Independence fire, and Truth direct her lays.

Freedom, to thee we owe
All, that adorns, or dignifies mankind :
From thy fair fountain flow

The purer fpirit, and the nobler mind.
Long may that holy fire,

That warm'd a HAMPDEN'S, or a SYDNEY's breast,
Britannia's fons inspire,

Ere yet fair Freedom fink, by gothic force oppreft.

Soon may her happy reign

Chafe from the earth Oppreffion's monftrous brood,
And all the impious train

Of Anarchy, the fiend that thirfts for blood;
Soon, foon may Discord cease;

Nor War, and Havock wafte the affrighted plain;
But Freedom, join'd with Peace,

Wide o'er the peopled earth extend their blifsful reign.'

J.

For a fpecimen of another kind, we will give the parody on Dryden :

ODE ON A COLLEGE FEAST-DAY,

Hark! heard ye not those footsteps dread,
That fhook the hall with thundering tread ?

With eager hafle

The fellows past;

Each, intent on direful work,

High lifts the trenchant knife, and points the deadly fork.

But lo! the portals ope; and, pacing forth
With steps, alas! too flow,

The College Gyps, of high illuftrious worth,
With all the dishes in long order go.
In the midft, a form divine,
Appears the famed firloin;

And lo! with plumbs and fteaming glory crown'd,.
A mighty pudding spreads its fragrance all around.
Heard ye the din of dinner bray,

Knife to fork, and fork to knife!

Unnumber'd heroes, in the glorious ftrife,

Thro' fish, flesh, pies, and puddings cut their deftined way.
See! beneath the glittering blade,

Gored with many a gaping wound,
Low the famed firloin is laid,
And finks in many a gulph profound.

• Arife! arife! ye fons of glory!
Pies and puddings are before ye.
See! the ghofts of hungry bellies
Point to yonder ftand of jellies;
While fuch dainties are befide ye,
Snatch the goods the cooks provide ye.
Mighty rulers of the state,

Snatch, before it is too late;

For, fwift as thought, the puddings, jellies, pies,
Contract their giant bulk, and fhrink to pigmy fize.
• From the table now retreating,"
All around the fire they meet,
And with wine the fons of eating
Crown at length the gorgeous
Triumphant plenty's rofy graces
Wanton in their jolly faces,
And in each countenance ferene
Mirth and cheerfulness are seen.

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Fill high the sparkling glass,
And drink the accustomed toast!
Drink deep, ye valiant host,
And let the bottle país.
Begin the jovial ftrain!

Fill, fill the mystic bowl!

And drink, and drink, and drink again,

For drinking fires the foul.

But foon, too foon, with one accord they nod;

Each on his feat begins to reel,

All conquering Bacchus' power they feel,

And pour libations to the rofy god.

At length with dinner and with wine oppreft,

Down to the floor they fink, and fnore themselves to reít.

B.'

Befides a variety of English poems, we find fome Greek

and Latin verfes; among which a Greek Sapphic in Otium

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