paragraph appeared in the Public Advertiser, ftating that Cagliostro waited on M. Barthelemy, accompanied with Lord George Gordon and M. de Frouville,-that Mr. B. expreffed a defire to speak to Cagliostro in private, to which Caglioftro would not fubmit,-that Mr. B. then read a letter from France [the fubftance of this letter is not mentioned], of which Cagliostro requested a copy, but was refufed, and the paragraph concludes thus: A great deal of converfation then enfued upon the fubject, which will, in all probability, give rife to a full reprefentation to the King of France, who is certainly very much impofed on. The Queen's party is ftill violent against Comte de Caglioftro, the friend of mankind: and De Breteuil-Le Sieur de Launey-Titon-De Brunieres-Maitre Chefnon -Barthelemy-and Dazimer, are the mere inftruments of that faction. The honour of the King of France, the juftice and judgment of the Parliament of Paris, the good faith of the citizens, and the good name of the nation, are all attainted by the pillage and detention of the property of Comte de Caglioftro.' This paragraph and another fubfequent to it, nearly of the fame purport, were proved by Mr. Woodfall to have been written by Lord George Gordon; whom the jury pronounced guilty of libelling the Queen of France, and the French Ambaffador. The other libel of which Lord George was found guilty, was a pamphlet, entitled The Prifoners petition to Lord G. G. to preferve their lives and liberties, and prevent their banishment to Botany Bay. It was proved that Lord George had written this petition himself, and that Mr. Thomas Wilkins had printed it. They were both found guilty. MEDICA L. Art. 22. Obfervations on Medical Electricity, containing a Synops of all the Diseases in which Electricity has been recommended or applied with Succefs. By Francis Lowndes, Medical Electrician. 8vo. Is. 6d. Nicol, &c. 1787. A Catalogue of fuch cafes, as have fallen under Mr. Lowndes's notice, in which electricity has either perfectly cured the difeafe, or given great relief. The Author has alfo added fome useful directions for applying electricity in particular cafes. Art. 23. A Set of Anatomical Tables, with Explanations, and an Abridgment of the Practice of Midwifery. By William Smellie, M. D. A new Edition, carefully corrected and revifed, with Notes and Illuftrations, by A. Hamilton, M. D. F. R. S. Profeffor of Midwifery at Edinburgh. 8vo. 6s. Boards. Elliot. 1787. The original edition of Dr. Smellie's Midwifery was given to the world, in three volumes octavo, at feparate times; and was illeftrated with plates, as large as the life, which were published in one large volume royal folio, accompanied with a fhort explanation of the figures, and references to the three volumes of the general fyftem. Dr. Hamilton has here reduced the figures fo as to bring them into an octavo fize, whereby the original intention of Dr. Smellie is fruf trated. It is on a perfect knowledge of the fize and proportion of the the bones that the whole practice depends; and on that account, by exhibiting the figures in their natural fize and pofition, Dr. Smellie's plates ever have been, and moft probably ever will be, the best means of conveying a proper idea of the parts, to fuch ftudents as have not the opportunity of a long attendance at an anatomical theatre. By reducing the fcale, Dr. Hamilton has reduced the price of Smellie's tables; which may ferve as an apology for the prefent edition. But indeed the original price of the large plates (39 in number, and each on a whole fide of royal folio) which is only 45 fhillings, is a fmall fum, compared to the ufefulness of the work. Art. 24. A Review of Jefe Foot's Obfervations on the new Opinions of John Hunter. By Charles Brandon Trye, Member of the Corporation of Surgeons. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Murray. 1787. Mr. Foot's fenfible remarks on Mr. Hunter's new opinions were written, as we obferved in our first account of them (See Rev. vol. lxxv. p. 104.), with no fmall degree of acrimony; this circumftance hath called forth, among other opponents, Mr. Trye, who makes a feeble attempt to refute Mr. Foot's obfervations; had Mr. Trye attended to what we faid on fympathy when Mr. Hunter's book was before us, he could not, furely, have defended Mr. H.'s opinion, or have blamed Mr. Foot for cenfuring it. Mr. Trye fays, that Mr. Foot has been very attentive.to the advice Throw dirt enough, and fome will ftick:" Mr. Trye himself has not neglected the maxim. Art. 25. Strictures in Vindication of fome of the Doctrines misreprefented by Mr. Foot, in his two Pamphlets entitled "Obfervations upon the new Opinions of John Hunter, in his late Treatife, &c. &c." By T. Brand, Member of the Corporation of Surgeons, &c. 4to. 2s. 6d. Nicol. 1787. Virulence is the characteristic of the difeafe which is the subject of this controverfy; it is also the characteristic of the pamphlet before us. The moft judicious part of Mr. Foot's obfervations on Mr. Hunter's new opinions remains unanswered by Mr. Brand. As a pupil of Mr. Hunter, it was laudable in our Author to defend the tenets of his mafter; but he is very unequal to the task. Independeat of his cenfures on Mr. Foot, this heated writer attacks Sharpe, Gataker, and Pott,-men who have been ornaments to their profeffion, and whofe acknowledged veracity and integrity would not fuffer them on any account to infert what Mr. B. calis a falfehood, in their afeful publications. When Mr. Sharpe fays, I have lately met with an inftance in a body I diffected, &c.' there is not the leaft ground for doubting that Mr. Sharpe had diffected the body. It is too great arrogance and prefumption to attribute every improvement in anatomy and furgery to one man. Art. 26. Obfervations on Poifons; and on the Ufe of Mercury in the Cure of obftinate Dyfenteries. By Thomas Houlton, M. D. A new edition. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Elliot. 1787. In the 71ft volume of our Review, p. 390, we noticed the first edition of Dr. Houlton's Obfervations; the prefent edition is encreased with four additional papers fimilar to the former. EDUCATION. Art. 27. A new Syftem of Reading; or the Art of reading English, practically exemplified in almost every Word in use, and farther illuftrated from the Beauties of the whole Bible. By Mr. du Mitand. 12mo. 3s. 6d. bound. Law. 1787. Mr. du Mitand dedicates this work to Mr. Raikes of Glocefter, and would think himfelf fully recompenfed, and completely happy, if it prove in any way ferviceable to the Sunday fchools. The Author had not, perhaps, fufficiently confidered, that these laudable inftitutions were intended to inftruct poor children in the great truths of the Chriftian religion, and to curb the prevalence of vice and immorality, by inftilling into the minds of the rifing generation the genuine principles of piety and virtue, but by no means to teach elocution, or oratory. Whether this publication can anfwer the purpofe of teaching either Englishmen or foreigners the true pronunciation, is doubtful. A foreigner who has obtained a proper pronunciation of our language is rara avis in terris; and, if we may judge from fome of Mr. du Mitand's rules, his pronunciation is not perfectly polite. 'Ea,' he fays, founds like e long, as mean; or like ee, as clear,' p. 3. What difference there is between e long and ee is not early determined. Mr. du Mitand accentuates conventicle thus, conventicle, p. 68. Enterprize, thus-enterprize, p. 70. Museum, thusmufeum, p. 110. With refpect to pronunciation, the Author has the following rule; When e ori are preceded by c or t, the last fyllable is pronounced as if written fhus; as, herbáceous, oftentatious, pronounce herbafbus, oftentafhus,' p. 166. On the whole, however, confidered as a fpelling-book, Mr. du Mitand's publication is, perhaps, inferior to none. SUNDAY SCHOOLS. Art. 28. A fort Abridgment of the Bible; with Reflections, and a Catechifm of Queftions. 24to. 8d. fewed. Baldwin. 1787. Certain detached ftories from the Bible are here given, in a fimple ftyle. The reflections and catechifm are well intended to imprefs on the minds of children the doctrines which the portions of Scripture, here collected, contain. POETRY. Art. 29. Poetical Efays. By the Rev. William Atkinfon, M. A. Fellow of Jefus College, Cambridge. 4to. 1s. Wallis. 1786. This Writer attempts the fimple ftrains of paftoral dialogue, but, in our judgment, with no great degree of fuccefs. In endeavouring to avoid unfuitable elegance, he ceafes to be poetical, and exemplifies the character, Serpit bumi tutus ¡mium timidufque procellæ. Sa So true-within this beating heart I find, Colin alone. And is the gone, the dear, the lovely maid ? I love, but oh! I'm wretched and defpair, Why was I form'd fo weak, why the fo fair?" Art. 30. Fables; Ancient and Modern. After the Manner of La Fontaine. By William Wallbeck. 8vo. 3s. 6d. fewed. Faulder. 1787. Mr. Wallbeck has here attempted that, which with the greatest abilities it would be difficult to perform :-he has endeavoured to transfufe the naïveté and lightnefs of La Fontaine, into a language which will scarcely admit of it. The Frenchman throws his hand across the lyre with Anacreontic eafe and gaiety,-the Englishman ftrikes it with repeated paufes, and affected care. In the one, it is merely the effect of nature: in the other it is wholly the work of art-or, to use the language of the mufician, there is a want of grace, a want of tafte, in the performance of the latter, for which a laboured correctness will not atone. We are indeed prefented with the pieces entire, and fome of them are in tolerable time; but where, we would ask, is the expreffion, the execution that we were wont to admire? Alas! the hand of the mafter no longer touches the strings. In faying this, however, we mean not to detract from the merit of Mr. Wallbeck. Some of his fables may be read with pleafure. But as his vanity leads him to imagine that he has acquired fomething of La Fontaine's manner,' we can only affure him that we think he is mistaken at the fame time obferving, as we hinted at the beginning of this article, that the fault is not fo much in Mr. W. as in the language in which he writes. The Reader is left to determine whether the following fable is after the manner of La Fontaine, or not: Out of its cage a Goldfinch by good luck Efcaped; and to a neighbouring thicket took "How can you, Goldy, with abroad to range? "How will you brook the bustle, noise, and strife, S 2 "Which "Which you will meet with? Enemies you'll find "A ftranger guest come to devour their meat. "I'll love you; or, if poffible, ftill more.' This Author, in his Preface, feems to affect a difplay of his reading. There are in it no fewer than twenty-four quotations, or fcraps, from Greek and Latin writers *. However apt the citations may be, we really do not fee the neceffity of employing them in the introduction to a work which will probably be confined to the perufal of children :-we fay, we cannot difcover their usefulness. Borrowing, therefore, one of the paffages adduced by Mr. W. but at the fame time hoping that he will not, on that account, retort on us the charge of pedantry, we bid him adieu Nifi utile eft quod facimus, ftulta eft gloria. Art. 31. Epiftola Eloife Abelardo, Latinè reddita. Auct. J. Wright. 4to. Is. 6d. Lewis. 1787. Cui bono, is a queftion which a Reviewer has an unlucky propenfity to afk, whenever he opens a new work. What advantage can poffibly be derived to any fet of readers, by a Latin tranflation of Pope's Eloifa to Abelard?-Such a performance may be confidered as a very proper exercife at school or at college; but when it appears before the tribunal of the Public, it cannot lay claim to the notice of the unlettered million; and it muft poffefs very uncommon merit to attract the attention of the learned, in these faftidious days. The verfion before us is fometimes elegant, generally faithful, and in a few inftances happy. Yet we ftill think, that Mr. Wright might have employed his time and his talents in more useful, and, indeed, more lucrative exertions. We muft obferve, that the frequent usage of the fynalapha in the latter part of his pentameters is harsh and inelegant; and his application of Horace's dulciffime rerum does not delight us. The pleafantry, which every claffical reader remembers in the original paffage, will not fuffer a ludicrous expreffion to incorporate with the pathetic fentiments of Pope's Epiftle. Art. 32. The History of Tobit; a Poem: with other Poems on various Subjects. By Jane Timbury. 12mo. 2s. 6d. fewed. Jameson. 1787. "Tobit and his dog! 'tis an odd fubject-you have read the the poem is it a good one?"-" O yes, Sir, very good.”—“ Good for what?"-" The Author fhall tell you :" How tirefome, you cry, are these scribblers in rhime! "Some, for renown, on fcraps of learning dote, YOUNG. Befides, |