Art. 21. 4to. 6 d. Law. 1781. Oenone to Paris: An Epiftle tranflated from Ovid. A fecond-rate copy from a firft rate original. Ct-t. Art. 22. 1781. Hodge probably might fhine as compofer for the ballad-fingers at a country wake; but he much mistakes his own province, if he thinks himself equal to any thing else. His intention is to give a ludicrous and fatirical defcription of a late celebrated Naval Review: but his powers of execution and his intention are utterly at variance. Art. 23. A Poetical Epiftle; attempted in the Style of Churchill's Epiftle to Hogarth. 4to. 1 s. Fielding.. 1781. A feeble, unmeaning, and petulant invective: but against whom it is levelled, or by what provocation it is excited, does not appear. The poetry of this piece is as contemptible, as the principle by which it appears to have been dictated is malevolent. DRAMATIC. Art. 24. Songs, Duos, Trios, Choruffes, &c. in the Comic Thefe Songs have much more poetical merit than ufually falls to the lot of airs in a comic opera. The Reader, we think, will be pleased with the two following: AIR, by Mr. BANNISTER. Soon as the bufy Day is o'er, And Evening comes with pleafant fhade, We Gondoliers from fhore to shore, Merrily ply our jovial trade. And while the Moon fhines on the ftream. And as foft mufic breathes around; The feathering oar returns the gleam, Down by fome Convent's mould'ring walls Who whispers vows of Love and Truth. C-t-t. C.t-t. And while the Moon, &c. III. "And oft where the Rialto fwells, "Whole murmur'd vows the bids refound. IV. "Then joys the Youth that Love conceal'd, And while, &c. AIR, by Mr. DU BELLAMY. I Not for thy wings, oh God of Love! II. Share thy band, and veil my fight. Mot of the other airs are equally pleasing. The Petit Maitre's Day is a lively piece of humour, and Young Lubin a most affecting little paftoral. No name is prefixed to this collection; but we understand it to be the avowed work of the ingenious Mr. Tickell, of whofe poctical talents the world has before received the most promiling fpecimens. Art. 25. The Miniature Picture; a Comedy, in Three Acts *, I s. 6 d. This Miniature is confeffedly a hafty fketch, not originally intended for public exhibition. The Prologue and Epilogue are two brilliants annexed to it: the firft is of the first water. Art. 26. Chit-Chat; or the Penance of Polygamy. An Interlude. Now performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent Garden. Written by B. Walwyn. 8vo. 6d. Murray. 1781. A dramatic quib at the doctrine of Thelyphthora. MISCELLANEOUS. Art. 27. An Hiflorical Rhapsody on Mr. Pope. By the Editor of The Political Conferences. 8vo. 2 S. Cadell. 1782. We have commended this Writer's Political Conferences †, in which he fhewed his judgment; in the prefent performance be manifefts at least an agreeable portion of vivacity. He rambles, obferves, quotes, and talks, in the loofe defultory way which his title-page implies and warrants, concerning Mr. Pope, and fifty other perfons, matters, and things;-and young Readers will, particularly, be en Said to be the production of Lady Craven. See Review for june 1780, and May 1781. tertained C. C. c. tertained by his anecdotes, and numerous citations from elegant and popular authors. The old, the grave, and the fattidious, will not be fo easily pleafed; and fome of them may, perhaps, farcallically rehearse upon him the reply which Cibber made to his little daughter, when the afked him what was a Rhapfodit?" A Rhapfodill," faid Colley," is like you, my dear, a prattle-box." Art. 28. Prize Sugar not Foreign. An Effy intended to vindicate the Rights of the Public to the Ufe of the Prize Sugars; and to fhew the Impolicy, as well as Injuftice, of forcing the Prize Cargoes out of the Kingdom, at a Time when the Manufactory is Janguishing through the Want of due Employment, and the People are aggrieved by the exceffive Price of the Commodity. With Obfervations on the Export Trade of Raw and Refined Sugars, on the Drawbacks and Bounties; and an Inquiry into the proper Means of moderating the Price of this neceffary Article. 8vo. 16. 6d. Cadell. 1782. This well written effay appears to be the production of a man' of business, and contains reprefentations which claim early and due confideration. The exorbitint rife of fugar, is a fact that comes home to the knowledge of every one; and we learn that the events of war have reduced the importation of British fugar, fo that in the last five years, the average advance of raw fugar in price has been nearly 80 per cent. while the revenue from this article has, during the four laft years, decreased 150,000l. per annum. The anxieties of thofe who were engaged in the manufactory, are not eaily defcribed; they found themfelves on a fudden reduced to the alternative of flaking their property, on a dangerous rifque, or of ftanding, under a prodi gious burden of expences, idle fpectators of the game. Tired of each experiment, and lofing under either, feveral withdrew, and more would have followed them, if they could have found purchasers for their premifes and utenfils. The occupied fugar-houfes in London, which before the war exceeded one hundred and forty, were become reduced to about an hundred, and feveral of thofe were offered to be let: in Bristol, Liverpool, and other parts of England, the manufacLory prefented the fame gloomy appearance.' Plain fenfe would dictate, that as thefe difadvantages flow from the war, we fhould counteract them by the means which the fame war furnishes; and fupply our loffes from our captures. A legislative power for this purpofe has been folicited without effect; fo that, while we remain under these hardships at home, our French antagonifts are permitted to avail themselves of ift. All that part of the fugars produced in the French islands, which arrives fafe in France. zd. All that part of the fugars produced in the French islands, which is captured by the English, in its courfe home. 3d. All the produce of the islands which had been furrendered by the English, during the war. 4th. All cargoes of British plantation fugar, which the chance. of war at any time may give them, and which in this inftance (far behind us in politenefs), they never think of returning for our use. Thus (and ftranger things happen) if an homeward-bound Jamaica, or other English fugar fleet were intercepted, and carried into France; France; and, in the fame feafon, a French fugar fleet should be brought into our ports, what would be the refult?-The French would have them both, they would keep our's and we should fend them back their own!-In vain it would be urged, that the manufactory was at a ftand, from the lofs we had fuftained; that the trade. was finking in every part of the kingdom, for the want of a neceffary fupply; that the revenue had fuffered a deficiency, which other taxes muit make good; and that it was but jult and reasonable, that we fhould apply what the good fortune of war had thrown in our way, to alleviate the damage which its untoward events had occafioned. Surely the night of abfurdity will not laft for ever; may we not hope that the dawn of reafon is at hand? The conduct of the Legiflature, in matters analogous to this, fully authorifes this hope: prize tobacco, cotton, tea, and other Eaft-India goods (notwithstanding the monopoly vetted by charter in the Eaft-India Company, and recognized by feveral acts of parliament), now form a part of the public flock, and circulating through all the channels of industry, contribute to fupport the health of the body politic. But the reasonable, nefs and propriety of applying the prize fugars to every purpofe, which can promote the welfare of the people, to whofe arms they have been furrendered, I may fafely trust to the reflection of the reader.' In no event could the manufactory of the prize fugars prove hurtful to the British planter, provided the policy of the itate gave due encouragement for the exportation of them when manufactured; let the reader fteadily reflect on this pofition, and I trust he will find it well founded; the capture of a fmall number of the enemies fhips, of course could have but a weak operation; and if whole fleets fhould be captured what would follow a demand upon this market from that which had loft its ordinary fupply, and an advance of price proportioned to that demand. I have been favoured with an anecdote, which feems quite elucidatory of this matter Two years ago, when our Liverpool privateers brought in feveral French East India men, the holders of fome kinds of bale goods which had been bought at the Company's fales were alarmed; they apprehended that the fales of thofe cargoes, would overstock the market with fuch goods; but the contrary event took place; French and other foreign buyers followed the goods hither, and they were rapidly bought up. The true danger is, that the adoption of the prize fugars, would not in the prefent fate of the fugar trade prove a reliet proportioned to the wants of either the revenue, the confumer, the manufactory, or the trade.' We have endeavoured briefly to give an obvious view of this important fubject, without following the Author through the more clofe profeffional arguments he produces. Alas, this is but one article in the long lift of our prefent public difficulties and grievances! MEDICA L. Art. 29. Cafes in Midwifery; with References, Quotations, and Remarks. By William Perfect, Surgeon, of Weit Malling, in Kent. Vol. I. 8vo. 6 s. Rocheiter printed; Sold by Dodi ley, &c. 1781. This publication confits of 69 cafes, in the Author's own practice, N. befides numerous references at the end of each, by way of illuftration from other wri ers. The whole may be confidered as a valuable collection of facts in this important part of chirurgical practice, by which the moft rational and improved mode of treatment in a variety of circumilances is attempted to be eftablished. That the greater part of the cafes related are not fingular or uncommon, will be no objection, as to the utility of the work, to one who confiders, that the more frequently any dangerous cafe occars, the more important it is to have the most effectual method of relief properly af certained. A new edition, with several additions, of the fame Author's Cafes of Infanity, &c. is alfo lately published, price 3 s. The first edition was noticed in a former Review, at the time of its publication. Art. 30. Account of an Elaftic Trochar, constructed on a new Principle, for tapping the Hydrocele, or Watery Rupture, &c. &c. By John Andree, Surgeon to the Magdalen Hofpital, and the Finsbury Difpenfary. 8vo. I S. Caflon, &c. 1781. It is well known, that the common trochar and canula cannot fafely be used for tapping either the fcrotum or belly, without a confiderable quantity of water first collected in the cavity, in order to defend the fubjacent parts from the point of the perforator, which must be pushed in with force and quickness, to carry the canula clear in with it. Mr. Andree's new invention (of which a figure is given) appears very ingenuously to obviate this difficulty, and therefore is well entitled to the notice of Surgeons. A. A. Art. 31. A new and eafy Method of applying a Tube for the Cure of the Filula Lachrymalis. By Jonathan Wathen, Surgeon, F. A. S. 4to. I s. Cadell. 1781. Mr. Wathen, obferving the frequent failure of fuccefs in the common methods of clearing the obstructed lachrymal duct by pieces of bougie, leaden plummets, &c. conceived hopes of fucceeding better by leaving a metal tube in the duct, and healing the external wound over it. In order to introduce the tube properly, he contrived a kind of ftyle fitted to it, which, with the tube, is here figured. The method appears an ingenious one, and the Author affures us of its being found to answer. Art. 32. The Conductor and Containing Splints; or a Defcription of two Intruments for the fafer Conveyance and more perfect Cure of fractured Legs: To which is now added, an Account of Two Tourniquets upon a new Construction. The whole illustrated with Copper-plates, reprefenting the Inftruments treated of. By Janathan Wathen, Surgeon, F. A. S. 8vo. I s. 6 d. Cadell. 1781. The account of the machines for fractured legs is here reprinted from a former edition. The tourniquets are defigned as improvements upon Petit's. No particular defcription is given of them, but the reader is referred to the figures, or the inftruments themfelves. A. A. RELIGIOUS. |