fignificance, making their conftant difappointment a fubje&t of jocular mockery. From you alone the people of England derive hopes of redress in their national abufes ---And under the aufpices of your propitiated help and protection, there is, perhaps, good reafon to expect a fuffi. ⚫cient reformation in thofe important abuses, which caufed you the ⚫ trouble of these fheets. But whilst it was my design to utilitate my compatriots, the length of my letter defeats my purpofe, by avocating upon my attempt that time you dedicate to their fervice, in this moft important jnncture.'- All this may found very finely, and be very well meant: what a pity it is, that it cannot be as readily understood! Art. 25. The Nature of Bread, honeftly and difhoneftly made; and its effects as prepared at prefent on unhealthy and healthy perfons. With a fure way of difcovering alum and other mixtures in bread. And an eafy method of making it in private families. To which are added, fome Thoughts addressed to the Legislature, for the relief of the Poor. By James Manning, M.D. 8vo. 1 s. R. Davis. The fame fentiments, though not the fame manner of expreffion, furnish this pamphlet as the two preceding. Whether all the three are not the production of the fame pen, whatever we may reasonably believe, we dare not pofitively determine: nor can we with any greater degree of certainty fay, whether the name affixed to this last publication is real or fictitious. The fame purpote is evidently pursued thrɔ' all, as may be fufficiently learnt from their feveral titles: however, Dr. Manning does not affect the Hurlothrambo tyle of Paifon detected; he writes intelligibly, and, to appearance, with feeling. Neverthelefs, it may, not unreasonably, be concluded, that his Thoughts addreffed to the Legiflature, are fomewhat premature, feeing the grievances he wishes to have redrels'd, have attracted the earliest attention of the Parliament.A bill is already paffed to prevent the exportation of corn, or its being employed in the distillery; another bill is depending for the due making of bread, and, to regulate the price and affize thereof; and a committee is appointed to take into confideration the prefent high price of grain, meal, flower, bread, bifcuit, and starch. Art. 26. A modeft Apology in Defence of the Baker's, against a certain pamphlet, called Poifon Detected. By Sampfon Syllogifm, a Baker. 8vo, Is. Scott. This, instead of a Defence, is an ironical Attack on the Bakers But Mr. Syllogifm feems to have ftepped, indeed, very indecently, out of his way, to have a ftroke at Majefty--As a fpecimen of our Author's manner, take the conclufion of his pamphlet.--. We [the Bakers] have • amply proved, aver, and perfift in it, that our grand invention of feeding the people upon lime, chalk, whiting, ground bones, and alum, alum, inftead of corn, does create plenty in the land, abate diseases, increase riches, pour bleffings upon infants, quiet popular clamours, prevent infurrections and the effufion of much blood; increase the revenue ;---a great argument with our fuperiors, may pay off the 'national debt, and does greatly contribute to the emolument of fo ⚫ valuable, fo confiderable, fo useful, and fo just a body of men as the Bakers.' POETICAL. Art. 27. Frederic Victorieux. Poëme Héroïque en Trois Chants Dedié a Son Excellence Milord-Duc de Marlborough, Général et Grand-Maître de l'Artillerie de fa Majefté, le Roy de la Grand Bretagne, &c. &c. &c. 4to. Is. London, printed for C. G. Seyffert. We cannot say that this Poet has the Os magna. Sonaturum, or that he is worthy to celebrate the actions of the Hero he extols. But, nevertheless, we would not have our Bard difcouraged; 'greater pens might fail on fuch a theme, for the character of the Pruffian Monarch is above all defcription. Valour, the common topic of epic poetry, is the leaft part of his merit; the meanett foldier in his army fhares that in common with the heroic Leader. His fkill, his wisdom, his perfeverance, but, above all, that magnanimity of foul, which dares to confefs its errors, is what moftly deferves our admiration. If, however, the Poet under infpection, is not transported with that divino Afflatu, which foars to the heights of Parnaffus, yet he glows with that generous indignation, which inclines us to think him a worthy Citizen, and a well-wifher to Britain. We cannot but ap'plaud his refentment against thofe French who, while they refide among us, infolently deride our nation, and ungratefully with its deftruction, though they receive protection from our laws, and are nourifhed with the bread of our country. The following indignant verfes, are directed to these infiduous vipers. Excrémens de la France, Ennemis des Anglois The following vehement lines against Voltaire, fhew the zeal of the man, though, perhaps, they do not greatly advance the reputation of the Poet. Mais, toi, Poête errant, ingrat & mercenaire, Art. 28. Philander, a dramatic Paftoral. By the Author of the Female Quixote. 8vo. 1s. Millar, The fubject of this performance, as in all others of the kind, is Love; the Dramatis Perfonæ are Nymphs, Shepherds, Satyrs, and the whole Poffe Comitatus of Arcadia, Those who are admirers of this fpecies of poetry, will not think their time thrown away in the perufal of this fpecimen of what Mrs. Lennox is able to do in the Paftor Fidoway. The piece is poetical, romantic, and pretty enough, upon the whole-in fine, it is altogether worthy the Author of the Female Quixote. Art. 29. The Male-Coquette: or, Seventeen Hundred Fiftyfeven. In two Acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. 8vo. Is. Vaillant. - A general fatire on the character mentioned in the title-page ;-alfo on these wretches of diftinction who fo idly, and abfurdly, lavish away their time, and their fortunes, in the fashionable diffipations of betting, pitting, matching, and other modes of genteel gambling: the very terms of which are as much a difgrace to our language, as the vice itfelf is to its infatuated Devotees. MEDICAL and MEDICO-CONTROVERSIAL. Art. 30. A fecond Differtation on the Mation of the Blood, and Effects on Bleeding; being a Collection of two hundred thirtyfive anatomical Experiments made on living Animals, with ufeful Refults therefrom. By the learned and celebrated Dr. Álbert Haller, Prefident of the Royal Society of Sciences at Gottingen, &c. &c. Tranflated by a Phyfician. 8vo. 2s. Brown, Whifton,' &c. Thefe Experiments were communicated in March 1756, by the celebratel Author, to the Society wherein he prefides. The doctrines intended to be hereby illuftrated and confirmed, having been, amply amply noticed in our Review for laft Auguft, page 122, renders any further notice of this fecond Differtation unneceffary,Had we, indeed, been previously acquainted with the English Tranflator, we might, perhaps, have recommended to him, to have intitled his labours, A Lift of the Victims facrificed to the induftrious Dr. Haller's Opinion and Curiofity Art. 31. Letters of Dr. Lucas and Dr. Oliver, occafioned by a phyfical Confederacy at Bath. 8vo. 6d. Griffiths. Art. 32. A Narrative of Facts, demonftrating the actual Exiftence and true Caufe of that Confederacy made known to the Public, in the printed Letters of Dr. Lucas and Dr. Oliver. By William Baylies, M.D. 4to. 6d. Hitch. The obvious connection between these two performances, is our reafon for tacking them together.-Confidered jointly, they form one BILL of COMPLAINT, in which Meffrs. Charles Lucas and William Baylies, appear as Complainants, against William Oliver, Abel Moyfey, and Rice Charlton, Defendants-The faid Charles Lucas chargeth William Oliver, one of the faid Defendants, with having, in a written epiftle, bearing date Nov. 7, 1757, declared, that he will never thereafter hold any confultation, controversy, or converfation,' with him the faid Complainant and William Baylies, the other Complainant, chargeth, that the faid Rice Charlton, one other of the faid Defendants, hath openly refused to join in confultation with him, the faid Complainant, when thereunto required: and the faid Complainant alfo chargeth, that the said William Oliver and Abel Moyfey have, jointly and feverally, not only encouraged, aided, and abetted the faid Defendant Rice Charleton, in that behalf, not to join in confultation with faid Complainant, but that they have likewife themselves declared, that they, and each of them, will never join in any confultation with the faid Complainants or either of them-And thefe Complainants, jointly and feverally infift that they have been well inftructed, and are well verfed, in the arts of pharmacy and -chemistry, and have for fome time past been introduced to the practical myfteries of phyfic, in which they have made fome, before unheard of and truly valuable, difcoveries; but that by the confederacy of them the faid Defendants, it is very probable that many invalids may be deprived of the advantage of their reciprocal labours, and the faid Complainants rendered of leis importance and utility, to the fick, more efpecially, at Bath, than they wish or defire to be and, in courfe, to the great lofs and detriment of them the said Complainants. Wherefore they the faid Complainants, have exhibited this their Complaint before the Bar of the Publict. • The Parties on both fides profefs to practice phyfic. + Our Readers are defired not to forget, that the Doctors Lucas and Baylies have before now exhibited themselves in prînt. Thus Thus ftands the cafe with refpect to the Complainants.-The Dëfendants have not yet pat in their anfwers; and whether they will think it worth their while to reply or not, is yet uncertain. Perhaps they may infift, that the cafe is coram non judice. The parties are alike ftrangers to us, but were we retained Courcil with the Defendants, we should pray that the Complainants Bill be referred for Standal and Impertinence. Art. 33. A Supplement to Obfervations on the Internal Use of the Nightshade, by Thomas Gataker, Surgeon to the Westminster Hofpital. 8vo. 6d. Dodfley. The observations to which this Supplement is now added, were taken notice of in our Review for laft July, p. 92. and with that refpect we really thought due to them. Further experience of this medicine has enabled Mr. Gataker to determine a point he had before left doubtful; he is convinced that the Nightfhade is not poffeffed of any specific properties; that it is not to be confidered as relative to only one difeafe, but to be regarded as it may affect the common discharges of the body. In proof of this he candidly mentions the return of fome of thofe complaints which in his former account appeared to have been cured. He here also relates feveral additional cancerous cafes, in which the Nightfhade was found to be of little or no efficacy, -From having obferved fome difagreeable fymptoms follow the ufe of the deadly, he recommends the garden Nightshade; for the more efficacious adminiftration of which, and to prevent any injury arising from the experiment, he offers the following directions. Bleeding, a purge, or a vomit, either one or all, fhould generally precede the ufe of this medecine.-The infufion of one grain is as much as ever fhould be given for the first dofe.-The medicine fhould be generally given at night, as the neceffary confinement în bed during the height of the perfpiration, and the drowsiness which fometimes enfues, may be difagreeable in the day.It feldom happens, that more than one dofe is proper in twenty-four hours; nor fhould, in general, the dofe be repeated oftner, than every fe'cond or third night.-If it does not operate by tool, fome other ⚫ medicine fhould be given, either with the Nightfhade, or in a reafonable time after it, that may conftantly keep the body open; and this circumstance is particularly to be attended to.-No good effect ⚫ can be expected from this medicine, unless it operates by perfpiration, urine, or ftool. If after trying enlarged dofes, the quantity of ⚫ five or fix grains does not produce a very confiderable increase of fome of these discharges, a further use of the medicine is not adviseable; for though a larger dofe might poffibly have the effect, the operation of the medicine will not be regular enough afterwards to be ferviceable.-If the fymptoms feem to be aggravated after the ⚫ second dose, a continuance of the medicine will be generally improper. If giddinefs, head-ach, or fickness continue very troublesome, after the fecond or third dofe, a perfeverence in the use of the Night fhade |