garrifons, which were all we had in his country, except Detroit; and had he carried this garrifon alfo, nothing was in the way to complete his fcheme. Some of the Indians left him, and by his confent made a feparate peace; but he would not be active or perfonally concerned in it, faying, that when he made a peace, it should be such an one as would be useful and honourable to himself, and to the King of Great Britain: but he has not as yet proposed his terms.

In 1763, when I went to throw provifions into the garrifon at Detroit, 1 fent this Indian a bottle of brandy by a Frenchman. His counsellors advifed him not to tafte it, infinuating that it was poisoned, and fent with a design to kill kim; but Ponteack, with a noblenefs of mind, laughed at their fufpicions, faying it was not in my power to kill him, who had for lately faved my life.

In the late war of his, he appointed a commiffary, and began to make money, or bills of credit, which he hath fince punctually redeemed. His money was the figure of what he wanted in exchange for it, drawn upon bark, and the fhape of an otter (his arms) drawn under it. Were proper measures taken, this Indian might be rendered very serviceable to the Britifh trade and fettlements in this country, more extensively fo than any one that hath ever been in alliance with us on the continent.'

As our Readers are, perhaps, by this time, fully satisfied with regard to these free-born fons of the vaft American wildernefs, we shall conclude the present article, with a remark or two, borrowed from Mr. Colden, in respect to the Five nations, They are called, fays he, a barbarous people, bred under the darkest ignorance; and yet a bright and noble genius fhines through these black clouds. None of the Roman heroes have discovered a greater love to their country, or a greater contempt; of death, than these people called barbarians have done, when liberty came in competition. Indeed I think,' continues that learned and fenfible hiftorian, our Indians have out-done the Romans in this particular. Some of the greatest of those have murdered themselves to avoid shame or torments; but the Indians have refused to die meanly, or with but little pain, when they thought their country's honour would be at ftake by it; but have given their bodies, willingly, to the moft cruel torments of their enemies, to fhew, as they faid, that the Five Nations confifted of men whofe courage and refolution could not be shaken. -They greatly fully, however, thefe noble virtues, by that cruel paffion, revenge; this, they think, is not only lawful, but honourable; and for this only it is that they can deferve the name of barbarians.-But what, alas! have we Chriftians done, to make them better? We have, indeed, reafon to be afhamed that

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that there infidels, by our converfation and neighbourhood, are become worse than they were before they knew us. virtues, we have only taught them vices, which they were entirely free from before that time.' In another place he obferves, on the fame fubject, that this cruelty of revenge, is not peculiar to the Five Nations, but is common to all the other Indians, To blunt, however, the keennefs of that centure we might be apt to caft on them, upon this account, he hath the following juft reflection: It is wonderful, how cuftom and education are able to foften the most horrid actions, even among a polite and learned people. Witnefs the Carthaginians and Phænicians burning their own children alive in facrifice; and feveral paffages in the Jewish hiftory ;-and witnefs, in later times, the Chriftians burning one another for God's fake!'

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The Equality of Mankind, a Poem. By Mr. Wodhull. 4to. Is. 6d. Becket.

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R. Wodhull feems strongly to have imbibed the spirit of that Platonic and Rouffvian ENTHUSIASM, which, worThipping at the feet of FREEDOM, looks up to the goddess and fees nothing befide. Philofophy, in this, more, perhaps, than In any other inftance, indulges the influences of Fancy, and is fatisfied with the image of Truth. While fhe has the moral liberty of mankind in view, the finds nothing in real life that is adequate to her ideas of it, yet, willing to believe that men have. fometime or other exifted in fuch forms of fociety as in her own fyftems fhe conceives to be poffible, fhe eafily gives herfelf up to the delufions of Poetry, and wanders with her through ages of vifionary perfection.

Ye happier times of innocence and truth,
Pleafing inftructors of my thoughtless youth,
When none the image of h s God belied,
No minions crouch'd bencath a fultan's pride,
No wealth enfnar'd, no poverty diftrefs'd,
No ruffians plunder d, and no kings opprefs'd;
Tho' doom'd to grovel in a bafer age
Will I from memory's enchanting page
Retrace your featter'd annals.-When of old
Arcadia's peaceful fhepherds uncontrol'd

Their ranging flocks thro' boundless paftures drove,
Or tun'd their pipes beneath the myrtle grove,
Their laws on brazen tablets unimpreft

Were deeply grav'd on each ingenuous breaft,
No proud vicegerent of Airea reign'd,
AArca's felf her own decrees maintain'd..

Books,

Books, ufelefs lumber, yet in embryo flept,
No Damon rav'd in rhyme, no Delia wept;
Nor had, nor needed they the cafuift's page;
Plain were the duties of that fimpler age:
For Nature beft of mothers pleas'd to teach
Virtues no modern theorift can reach;
With characters indelible, on high
Blazon'd her fyftem of Equality.

There is no fubject fo flattering to the heart of man as the original privileges of his being; but in this cafe, as in a thoufand others, his reafon is made the dupe of his vanity: he contemplates his nature only on the favourable fide, and confiders what fome of his qualities may entitle him to enjoy, without reflecting what others must oblige him to suffer. It is in vain, therefore, that the philofopher amufes himself with Utopian establishments, and ideal perfection; vain, at least, while there are such things as vice or folly in the world; for the latter will always make undue conceffions to power, and the former will never fail to abuse it. Where then is the equality of man? Not in any state of fociety; for under the best inftitutions of government there will be very little of it, and in the worft there is none at all. Yet to ftand forth in defence of the common liberties of mankind; to brand with infamy the names of tyrants; and to refcue from oblivion the friends of human nature, is certainly a laudable, if not an useful employment for the moral mufe.

Curfe on the fhouts of that licentious throng,
Whose merriment, (more brutal than the fong
Of mad Agave, when wild Hamus o'er
Her Pentheus' mangled limbs the mother bore ;)
Proclaims the fall of liberty :—ye fhades
Of mighty chiefs from your Elyfian glades
Look down benign, avert the dire prefage,
Nor with two Charlefes brand one finful age.
O my poor country! what capricious tide
Of fortune fwells the tyrant's motley pride!
Around his brows yon fervile prelates twine
The ftale and blafted wreath of right divine;
While harlots, like the Coan Venus fair,
Move their light feet to each lafcivious air.

Hence with your orgies!-righteous Heaven ordains

A purer worship. lefs audacious ftrains.

When falls by William's fword (as soon it must)
This edifice of bigotry and luft;

The mufe fhall ftart from her inglorious trance,
And give to fatire's grafp her vengeful lance,
At truth's historic shrine fhall victims smoke,
And a fresh Stuart bleed at ev'ry stroke:
Thine too, perfidious Albemarle, (whose steel
Drawn to protect embroil'd Britannia's weal

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Shrunk from thy coward arm, confign'd the reins
Of power to Charles, and forg'd a nation's chains)
Compar'd with nobler villanies of old,
High deeds, on plates of adamant enroll'd,
Shall meet the felon's undiftinguished fate,
Sure of contempt, unworthy of our hate.

Once more emerging from this baleful reign
Of Stuart kings, and from the pontiff's chain,
By Boyne's swift current freedom rear'd her head,
When from those banks the papal tyrant fled;
Then every vale with lo Peans rung
As the glad reaper at his harvest fung,
Thee, great Naffau, benevolently brave,
Equally born to conquer, and to fave,
When glory's founding trump to Gallia's fhore
Th' exulting fhouts of British freedom bore,
Difmay'd fhe faw the kindling ardor burn,
And Seine hung trembling o'er her wafted urn.

Warm with the fame benevolence of mind,
Friends to the native rights of human kind,
Succeeding kings extend the generous plan,
And Brunswick perfects what Naffau began.
Thrice happy Albion! in whofe favor'd land
Impartial justice with a steady hand
Poifes the fcales of empire; where the nameş
Of fervile tenure, and the feudal claims
Of Norman peers in mufty tomes decay,
Swept by obliterating years away.

But if in faction's loud and empty ftrain,
Yon frontlefs rabble vex a gentle reign,
In peace itself ideal dangers find,

Provoke new wars, and challenge half mankind
What tho' another Tully at their head
From breaft to breaft the rank contagion fpread:
Say what are we? fome penfion'd patrict's tools,
Meer artlefs, unfufpecting, British fools.

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From these extracts the Reader may form his judgment of the fpirit and execution of this poem. If he is defirous of being farther acquainted with Mr. Wodhull's poetical merit, we refer him to Vol. XXIII. of our Review; in which was given an acCount of his Ode to the Mufes; alfo to Vol. XXX. wherein are fome farther fpecimens of his abilities in Lyrick poetry.

Enquiries concerning the Varieties of the Pulfe, and the particular
Crifis each more especially indicates.
French, by Mr. Bordeu, Doctor of
and Montpellier. 8vo. 5s. few'd.

Written originally in the Faculties of Paris Lewis, &c.

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HOSE who are acquainted with the hiftory of phyfic, know that Solano de Luques, a Spanish physician, who lived at Antequera in the beginning of this century, published a series of very extraordinary obfervations on the pulle, by means of which particular evacuations might be foretold. Thefe observations were contained in a book entitled Lapis Lydius Apollinus, which accidentally fell into the hands of Dr. Nihell, an Irish phyfician refiding at Cadiz, who about twenty years ago published Solano's obfervations, confirmed and illuftrated by his own. However, notwithstanding Dr. Nihell's atteftation, fucceeding phyficians have not been able, in their practice, to verify Solano's doctrine. Whether it may be owing to a want of fufficient attention, or to a want of that delicate fenfibility in the finger which it may require, or to a want of truth in the thing itself, we will not determine. Be it as it may, the Author of the book now before us informs the world, that he has not only discovered Solano's obfervations to be founded in truth, but that he has carried his remarks to a much greater extent. Solano, fays he, has faid nothing either of the critical or uncritical pulfe: he has not obferved the pulfe that indicates cri'tical expectorations; he has not faid one word of the pulse of the menfes, or of that of the hemorrhoids; he was not acquainted with the complicated pulfes, which it is however very important to diftinguifh rightly. Solano has faid nothing of the action of remedies on the pulfe; he has omitted making remarks on the pulfe in a state of health, without a knowlege whereof we can hardly determine juftly concerning the pulse in a state of sicknefs. Solano has fcarcely obferved any thing concerning the exceptions that are to be made against the rules which he has laid down; this defect, however, as well as thofe which regard feveral other articles, have been fupplied by Mr. Nihell. Solano has spoken but very flightly of the pulfe of vomiting, and of that of urine; what he has advanced concerning the pulfe of a looseness is also very incompleat; he has by far too much generalized his obfervations or his rules concerning the bleeding at the nofe. His method of indicating, from the changes of the pulfe, the day of a critical evacuation, is obfcure and very imperfect; he has hardly faid any thing of compounded pulfes, or fimple pulfes combined with each other, which make up a very confiderable part of the hiftory of the different modifications of the pulfe."

Thus we fee what we are to expect in this work, beyond what was discovered by the inventor. With regard to the Author's plan, in order to give our Readers a perfect idea of it at one view, we shall reduce it to the following table:

Pulfe