formation and Improvement. To which is annexed, An Explanation of difficult Terms. By John Feltham. 12mo. To those who with for a plain and familiar account of the economy and various parts of the human body, with out entering into the depths of fcience, the prefent volume will be extremely acceptable. It confifts of eleven Chapters, comprising a general view of the fciences connected with the ftudy of the human frame; a familiar view of the structure of the human body; of the bones; of the mufcles; of the nerves of the blood veffels; of the internal parts of the body; of the external divifions of the human body; of the structure of the human form, male and female; and traits of the various organization observed in nature compared with man; with mifcellaneous remarks on the fuperiority of man to animals. To thefe are added, moral and religious reflections on the topics which occur in the work, and render it as pleasing as it is inftructive.

The New Farmer's Calendar; or, Monthly Remembrancer for all Kinds of Country Business: comprehending all the material Improvements in the new Husbandry, with the Management of Live Stock. Infcribed to the Farmers of Great Britain, by a Farmer and Breeder. 8vo. This volume, originally published in 1800, has already arrived at a fourth edition, and is a valuable addition to the Farmer's library, either as a practi cal directory or a theoretical study. The Calendar, firft introduced by Mortimer, and afterwards fuccefsfully puriued by Mr. Young, is useful and accurate, as are the remaining fubjects, which comprehend the whole fyftem of farming in its various branches. The ftyle of the work is, as it profefles to be, plain and perfpicuous, and the whole of it will amply repay an attentive perufal.

A few Days in Paris; with Remarks characteristic of feveral diftinguished Perfonages. 8vo.

"What is here offered to the public is the fubftance of feveral letters written to various individuals during the Author's refidence in France." Though the account of our neighbouring nation is not fo favourable as fome we have feen, we have, notwithstanding, reafon to believe it is not lefs authentic. The Author is a military man," has seen

twenty years fervice in the Briti army," and is evidently a perfon of information and intelligence. He details a review with great accuracy. A variety of anecdotes are interfperfed of the Chief Conful, of Mr. Fox, and others, which render the performance very amufing. In an Appendix is a letter from the ever-to-be-lamented Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and also relations of the maffacre at Jaffa, and the destruction of the fick and wounded in the hofpitals; tranfactions of fo diabolical a kind, that we hope, for the credit of human nature, they may still be proved untrue.

The Merchant of Venice: A Comedy, altered from Shakespeare; as it was acted at Reading School in October 1802, for the Benefit of the Literary Fund. 8vo.

We are no friends to mutilations of our great dramatic Bard, and therefore are not inclined to view with an unprejudiced eye an alteration in which a whole act is cut off from a favourite play. To adapt the Merchant of Venice to a fchool exhibition, perhaps, Dr. Valpy may be excufed in the liberties he has taken; though it would, in our opinion, be more prudent to avoid fuch plays altogether as cannot be produced without fuch violence.

An Apology for differing in Opinion from the Authors of the Monthly and Critical Reviews on 1. Literary Communica

tions; 2. Variolous and Vaccine Inoculation; 3. Dr. Jenner's Discovery of Vaccine Inoculation; 4. The Means of •preventing Febrile Contagion; 5. The Establishment of Charitable Inftitutions. By John Coakley Lettfom, M. and LL.D.

8vo.

The Reviewers here complained of having published opinions which, if carried into practice, Dr. Lettsom judged, were calculated to injure the community, he, with candour and deference, addreffed private letters to the conductors of both publications, remonftrating on their injudicious con

duct. The return he has met with has been, to fay the leaft of it, flippant and uncandid. Dr. Lettfom here repels the attack upon him with fpirit, but without afperity, and we think in a fatisfactory manner: but we hope the controverfy will here end; we therefore forbear to make any further reflections upon it.

:

's the ordinary course of things, we I experience the viciffitudes of pain and pleasure, of rest and fatigue. The conqueror returns from the ftadium with his wounds and his bruifes full about him. Thefe are the toils affigned him these are his more expéros. But for thefe a remedy is provided. The best phyfician, fays the poet, is Euphrofyne. This hilarity of temper lyric poetry is calculated to beget. Others prefcribe warm baths; the poet's remedy is an ode. The bath gives lubricity to the limbs, the poem revives and invigorates both the body and the mind. But thefe beneficial effects can only be expected from the most exquifite poetry. The Mufes must all concur to its production. The Graces must all unite to embellish it. It must be such poetry, as springs,

:

not from a fuperficial and a feeble mind, but from a mind ftored with wifdom; with facts and fables, with fentiments and imagery; with all that experience can collect, genius create, or judgment combine. Such, it is infinuated, is the poem before us; and, poffeffed of fuch endowments, the poet wrote. A word of fuch poetry, we are told, will outlive the deeds of conquerors. That is, Pindar will continue to be applauded, when the combatant's day of fame has declined. The great poet was fufficiently vain; but his vanity is not obtrufive. He feldom speaks directly of himself. But we are led to understand by a figure, that he is the eagle, attended in his flights by flocks of fmall birds; petty poets, that flutter for a while about him, and cherup, and chatter, and fall to the ground.

Y.

ON undertaking the important com

miffion which has been entrusted to this Committee, they determined to

fubmit the Cow-Pox to every kind of experiment which they thought might lead either to establish its efficacy, or to

H 2

put

put an end to the practice of it altogether; and they pledged themselves to communicate the refult of their obfervations to the Publick. Up to this time the Committee have fulfilled those engagements: a great number of proofs have been obtained, by inoculating different fubjects with the Small Pox, each of whom had been previously vaccinated; and the conftantly favourable refults of thefe trials have been published with fidelity and exactness.

Amongst other experiments, vaccinated fubjects had been placed in the most intimate communication with perfons having the Small Pox, obliging them to inhabit the fame room, eat and drink together, fleep in the fame bed, and wear the fame clothes.

were

Thefe experiments, which afterwards frequently repeated exactly in the fame manner with the former, and tried on feveral occafions upon a great number of perfons at the fame time, have equally fucceeded, and the details have been made public.

The Committee, however, till this moment, were not of opinion that the task they had undertaken was entirely completed. A ftill more decifive proof was wanting to their inquiry, which was, to fee Nature ftruggling with the Cow Pox, under circumstances, where, either from the effect of the state of the air, from the difpofition of the body, or from these two caufes united, the infection of the Small Pox was actually fpreading itself, and exerting the most active, as well as the most dreadful influence.

Already a great number of facts which had been communicated to the Committee from different parts of France, had informed them that the Cow Pox had been triumphant in the struggle. There are fcarcely any of the Departments, which, during, the lait two or three years, have not feen the Small Pox reign epidemically in a great number of towns, or in the country. There has not been one example to prove, that amongst thousands of individuals inoculated with the Cow Pox, a Jingle one has been infected with the Small Pox, though living in the midst of the con tagion.

But thefe numerous proofs were not yet fufficient for the Committee, who had bound themfelves not to fpeak only of what they had heard, but to form their opinion upon what they had actually feen.

The Small Pox infection, which has reigned at Paris from the month of July in the last year, and which is at prefent fo generally fpread, has furnished them with the means of completing their proofs. They have taken the greatest pains to make the enumeration of all the individuals, who, by the direction of the Committee, had received the Cow Pox; they have taken the most exact measures to be informed of all that might happen to them; and the refult of their inquiries at this moment is, that amongst the number of thofe individuals, which amounts to nearly 10,000, not one has been infected with the contagion of the Small Pox.

This great and important refult is firmly established, and it does not admit of a fingle exception. Two other facts, not lefs conclufive, have alfo come to the knowledge of the Committee. The Cow Pox having been conftantly practifed upon the children in the Hofpital de la Pitié (éléves of their country), and upon thofe of the Hofpital of Orphans, in the Faubourg St. Antoine, the infection of the Small Pox has never been able to enter either of those two houses, although fituated in two of the quarters of Paris where the Small Pox has been most prevalent. Two hofpitals, therefore, have clearly been preferved from the contagion by the effect of the Cow Pox; and this is, in miniature, a proof of the poffibility of attaining to the entire extirpation of the Small Pox, and of banishing it from the Continent, and indeed from the whole World.

We cannot, however, doubt the malignity and extent of the reigning infection of the Small Pox-The very exact accounts of the mortality which the Committee have procured in the environs of Paris, announce. that a quarter of the deaths in fome. in others a third, and in several of them nearly one half, are owing to the Small Pox.

It is principally in the quarters where the streets are narrower, the houfes more fully inhabited, the cir cumftances of the inhabitants not fo affluent, the people lefs informed—it is in thofe places where this proportion is the largest whilt the more airy environs, inhabited by a clafs of people in an easy fituation of life, have fuffered lefs from the contagion.

The Committee, defirous to fubmit their labours to the Publick in the most Satisfactory manner, have inferted Ta

bles

lumbine is tempted, by a cheft of gold, to induce her to efpoufe the enemy of Harlequin. The latter, however, defeats their projects, and while the cheft is placed at the door, by his magical effort a column of gold arifes from the interior of the chest, on which he afcends, and gains admittance into one of the windows of Pantaloon's house. He next makes bis efcape with Columbine; and, after a countlefs variety of whimsical adventures, lofes his wand and ceftus, and becomes again in the power of the Magician.

His pre

tectrefs ftill adheres to his intereft, and relieves him from his difficulties. The Magician is at length overcome, and is burled with his imps into the infernal regions. The fcene then changes to a beautiful view of the Temple of Venus; the head of a Sphinx is broken by the advice of a guardian fprite, Capids appear, and Columbine and Harlequin are united.

This Pantomime has continued to be performed almost every night, and with unanimous approbation.

On the fame evening Covent Garden House alfo brought forward a New Pantomime, entitled "HARLEQUIN's HABEAS; or, The Hall of Spectres.".

The firit act opens with an apartment in the houfe of John Doe, whofe daughter, Columbine, is difcovered embroidering a map of France; the is interrupted by the entrance of her father, who introduces Richard Roe, an antiquated lover, as her future huf band, but who is rejected by the Lady. A dathing Buck is next brought on, in cuftody at the fuit of his taylor; he fends for Bail; a Sailor, from India, attended by a Chinele, enters to his relief. The Sailor offers his whole ftore, which is infufficient to relieve bis friend, when the Chinese, under standing the nature of the embarrafsment from the Sailor, offers the Bailiff a cafe of curious China filk; but, when the bufinefs is about to be accommodated, the ungrateful sprig of Bondtreet takes an opportunity to decamp with the filk and money, and the poor Sailor is left in durance vile for having anfwered for his fuppofed friend.

The Bailiff's daughter, ftruck with the generofity of the Sailor, endeavours to procure his efcape; but is prevented by the vigilance of her father's turnkey. The Sailor, in a paroxyfm of anger and defpais, ftrikes the ground with one of the rollers from which the

filk had been wound, which proves to be a talisman of great power, and which had lain long neglected in China.

The Genius of the Sword instantly appears, who tells the Sailor of the virtues of the talifman, and that he and ten thoufand fpirits own its fway, and are ready to aid its master in the hour of misfortune. The Genius then defires him to purfue his faithlefs friend to France; the Sailor thanks the Genius, who difappears. Columbine timidly approaches the fword-the Sailor gives it to her. She is delighted with t; but, difliking the Sailor's dress, makes the first trial of its magic virtue, and changes him to Harlequin, and pointing at her own drefs, gives him the fword, with which he changes her to Columbine. After dancing round each other, in mutual congratulation, they run towards the door, which opens, and John Doe, Richard Roe, and Redtail, enter with conftables. Harlequin efcapes by leaping through a framed copy of the "Habeas Corpus A&t," which changes to "Non eft inventus." Columbine being locked up, the Father, Lover, and Clown, go off in purfuit of Harlequin.

Harlequin in the next fcene, having by the virtue of his fword, releafed Columbine, and found his friend (the Chinefe), they fet out for Dartford, on their way to France, followed by the purfuers, and after feveral adventurous efcapes, arrive at Dover closely purfued. Just as they are ready to embark for France, Columbine is feized by her father, forced into a boat, and carried off. A ftorm commences, and Columbine, while ftruggling with her father, falls into the fea, and difappears. Harlequin reforts to the effect of the fword, the Genius appears, and bids him not defpair, but inftantly feek for Columbine, and bring her back, which he effects. And the fecond A& proceeds in a tour through part of France, with a fucceffion of escapes and adventures occurring through the fcenes, which are plentifully enlivened with a great variety of mechanical tricks and changes.

The Piece was received with great applaufe, and has ever fince continued to be performed with unabated attraction.

JAN. 8, 1803.- The Tragedy of The Count of Narbonne, written by Mr. Jephfon, and founded, in a great mea fure, upon the late Lord. Orford's ce

lebrated