Their harden'd bofoms never knew to melt; Are thefe, we say, the features of Britons?-Certainly not. -It is with equal impropriety the poet apoftrophizes; requiring them to fufpend the war, becaufe truly the Americans are ⚫ur brethren. "Yet, yet a moment, the fell steel restrain; Our author is evidently a much better poet than politician. Is a man to fheath his own fword, while an unnatural brother bath his dagger drawn and aimed at his throat? Kindred, converted into enemies, are the worst of enemies. Would the Americans have us be shocked at the idea of a civil war among brethren; when they declare themfelves independent ftates? They have themselves difclaimed kindred; they difdain the appellation of rebels, and affume the diftance and dignity of foreigners. Let them firft give up their pretenfions to indepen dency, and then we may regard them as fellow-fubjects. Till then, we fubmit in fact to the conditions, they impofe on us; and almoft acknowledge their affumed title, in treating them as foreign enemies. Our poet's addrefs to the American females; exhorting them, in imitation of the Sabine wives and the ancient Romans, to endeavour to prevail on the British warriors to fheath the fword, is poetical and pathetic; but the conclufion is as cruel and unjuft. We must not be unjust, however, to the poetical pretenfions of our animated bard. We fhall, therefore, add one quotation more, and take our leave of this well-written pertot mance. "Then hope, farewell!-e'en now the fiends prevail, And funds of horror fadden every gale. Lo! where the facrilegious flames arife, And defolation blazes to the skies! Farewell, lov'd feats, whofe ruins ftrike my ear, Each virgin wept, and every mother prest Unapt to fly, and impotent to fave, But asks the dreary bleffing of a grave. Farewell the hearth, farewell the chearful board! The humble roof with every comfort stor❜d! With all that bounteous Heaven bestow'd in vain, Or ftabs the fuppliant babe, and calls it fame!" To fuch reproaches hath every foldier been fubject, fince men have been foldiers! We conceive, however, that the military profeffion never lefs deferved it than in modern times. *** A. Differtation on Cancerous Difeafes. By B. Peyrilhe, M.D. Regius Profeffor of Surgery, and Member of the Royal Academy of Surgery, at Paris; and of the Academies of Montpellier, Touloufe, &c. Tranflated from the Latin, with Notes. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Wilkie. Of this differtation, the tranflator gives a concife account in the preface; informing us it was written in confequence of a 3 M 2 prize prize question, proposed by the Academy at Lyons in the year 1773: the premium of 1200 livres being adjudge to our author; who, as the tranflator obfervcs, "Seems to have gone farther than any other has done before him, towards afcertaining the nature of the dileafe; and if he fometimes goes into the field of conjecture, it is not with a view to indulge in idle reveries. He will be found conftantly reafoning from analogy and facts. Indeed, on a fubject which is of fo much importance, and which has been hitherto fo involved in obfcurity, he has furely fome right to fpeculate. "By pointing out to us the true principles of the difeafe, he has proved that, although it is, in many cafes irremediable; yet, that it will admit of cure in fome, and of palliation in all." The tranflation of this valuable performance is well executed, as we learn, by Dr. Simmons; to whom the public is alfo indebted for an English verfion of M. Perfon's Elemens d'Anatomie. A Differtation on the Inoculated Small-Pox: or, An Attempt to wards an Investigation of the Real Caufes which render the Small-Pox by Inoculation, so much more mild and safe, than the fame Difeafe when produced by the ordinary Means of Infection. By John Mudge, Surgeon, at Plymouth. Small Octavo. 4. Davies. A judicious and well-written tract on as interefting a fubject as any within the sphere of medical science. "In this difquifition," fays Mr. Mudge, "I have not attempted a flight upon the wings of hypothefis into the regions of uncertainty; on the contrary, the principles upon which the inquiry is founded, are either felf-evident truths, or phyfical maxims univerfally acknowledged; and the reasoning deduced from them, fuch as it is, fo calculated for the general understanding, that its force may be felt as well by thofe who have not made phyfic their fludy, as by thofe who have. 66 Popular information was indeed one great motive to this inquiry; for though the credit of inoculation is now pretty generally establified, yet there are ftill a great number who are not altogether divefted of their prejudices against it; and I am not without hopes, that the fol lowing contiderations may remove their fcruples, partly by informing their understandings, and partly by alarming their tears. "To the medical reader I fhall only fay, that for the above reafon, quotations from phyfical authorities have been intentionally avoided; and that though he may poffibly in this treatife meet with fome things, which, unknown to me, have been before publifhed, or which his own ideas may have fuggeted to him'; I am, however, willing to hope, that neither his fpeculative nor practical expectations will be intirely difappointed." To this fhort and modeft account of the work, we fall only add that the author liberally anfwers the expectations it may excite in the reader. An Account of the Tania or long Tape-worm, and of the Method of treating it, as practifed at Morat in Switzerland. Being a Tranflation of a Memoir published at Paris, entitled, "Traitement contre le Tenia ou ver folitaire, pratiquè à Morat en Suiffe, examiné et eprouvé à Paris, publie par Order du Roi." With Copper-plates. 8vo. 2s. Wilkie. For this tranflation we are obliged to the ingenious Dr. Simmons, who has prefixed to it a defcriptive account of the fingular worm in queftion. The remedy prefcribed, was known, as Dr. Hill used to fay, to the ancients; but appears to be never the worse for having been long neglected. The Restoration of the King of Tanjore confidered. Quarto. This pamphlet, confifting of one hundred and twenty-three pages, is accompanied by an Appendix, containing the neceffary documents for its illuftration, in three handfome volumes. -They are printed and diftributed at the expence of the East India Company, and may poffibly hereafter claim our more particular attention. -- A Defence of Lord Piget. Quarto. Damnatus abfens, At whofe expence this work, confifting of upwards of 400 pages, is printed and diftributed we know not; but it contains a mafterly defence of the conduct of the noble absentee, and ftands, with refpect to us, in the predicament of the laft-mentioned publication. ** Memoirs of the Life and IVritings of Samuel Foote, Efq; the English Ariftophanes: to which are added, the Bons Mots, Repartees, and Good Things faid by that great Wit and excentrical Genius. 8vo. IS. Bew. One of the catch penny publications, which those retainers to the Mufes, the fons of Grub ftreet, are ready to produce on every popular occafion. Not that it is the worst of the kind, the narrative of facts being pretty authentic. The collection of bons-mots, is, however, very meagre and barren, moft of them being borrowed from other jeft-books, in which they are imputed to other jokers; and fome of them as ancient as the feven fayings of the Sages of Greece, Captivity Captivity, a Poem, and Celadon and Lydia, a Tale. Dedicated by permiffion to her Grace the Duchefs of Devonshire. By Mrs. Robinfon. 4to is. 6d. Becket. The following defcription of an unfortunate debtor, confined within the walls of a prifon, may ferve as a specimen of this lady's poetical abilities. Low on a bed of ftraw the mourner lies, That thou haft power each anguifh to remove; |