Mr. BELL has published the third part of his "Syftem of Diffections:" this number contains diffections of the perinæum and the pelvis. The author defcribes with much accuracy the mufcles and vellels of the perinæum and the parts contained in the pelvis, with the method and order of diffccting them: the plates like thofe of the former numbers are finished with much accuracy and neatnefs. Dr. RowLEY has published what he calls "The most cogent Reafons why aftringent Injections, cauftic Bougies, and violent Salivations fhould be banished for ever from Practice, &c." This is a refpectable publication, and certainly not the lefs fo, that the practice which it inculcates differs not materially from that of the generality of profeffors.

Mr. JAMS PARKINSON, whofe Medical Admonitions we mentioned before, has published a very ufcful little work, entitled "The Villager's Friend and Phyfician, &c. This familiar addrefs on the Prefervation of Health and the removal of Difeafe on its first appearance, is fuppofed to be delivered by a country apothecary, who in the first place lays down rules for attaining and promoting a healthy conftitution, and afterwards defcribes in a clear and diftin&t manner the fymptoms by which the more ordinary difcafes may at first be detected, and the remedies by which they may moft fuccesfully be oppofed.

Dr. HAYGARTH of Bath, in a pamphlet on the fubject, proves that the application of wooden tractors, anfwers every purpose of the patent metallic ones. la short, whatever eflect has been produced in the courfe of their operation, is by him attributed folely to the influence of imagination!

Dr. FOTHERGILL'S "Effay on the Prefervation of fhipwrecked Mariners, in Anfwer to the prize Question of the Humane Society," if it affords but few original fuggeftions is yet ufeful, as collecting in a mall compafs thofe which were before fcattered in varicus publi

cations.

Dr. FERRIAR in his "Effay" on the Digitalis purpurea, feems to be almost as fanguine of its fuccesful operation in a variety of cafes as Dr. Beddoes: we cannot fay that the perufal of the prefent ingenious publication, has removed our doubts of its efficacy, or our feas of the dangerous confequences which might unfue from a general use of this dulcterious drug. In real pulmonary confumption it is an acknowledged palliative of the fymptoms,

but does not feem efficacious as a cure; on the contrary, although in a number of cafes the fymptoms were either abated or perhaps entirely removed; the Doctor acknowledges that the difcafe broke out again, and fometimes in a more violent and alarming manner.

Dr. GIBBON's "Medical Cafes and Remarks," are not particularly striking; the volume corfifts, of two parts:-I. On the good effect of Salivation in Jaundice, arifing from Calculi:-II. On the free Ufe of Nitre in Hæmorrhagy.

A fecond volume has been published of the "Tranfactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge:" this volume contains a great number of very curious cafes reported by Phyficians and Surgeons of the firft eminence; and has a lefs proportion of infignificant communication, than almost any fimilar publication. The Society publifhed their former volume in the year 1793 if the fame fyftem of cautious delay were generally adopted, the papers which are publifhed by different Societies, would indeed be fewer, but certainly more felect and valuable.

The Medical and Phyfical Journal, conducted by the Doctors BRADLEY, BATTY, and NOEHDEN, is, we conclude, in the hands of every intelligent practi

tioner.

The last work which we have to mention is Mr. EDY's "Plain and ufeful Inftructions for the relief and cure of Ruptures, &c. &c." Mr. Edy it feems is a vender of elastic truffes and other instruments for the relief of deformed perfons.

VOYAGES TRAVELS AND TOURS.

Under this head, the work which first arrefts our attention is the account of "A Miffionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, and 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain JAMES WILSON." Whatever may be the religious tenets of those who read this volume, it will be impoffible for them to withhold their admiration of the fincerity and zeal which the Miffionaries evinced, in performing a long and laborious voyage, for the exclufive purpose of imparting to unenlightened favages the blefings of Chriftianity; and to the honor of those who embarked, it thould be known that their conduct during the voyage was exemplarily pious, and whenever they landed, was marked by mildness and moderation. That the Miffionaries fucceeded not completely in the object of their voyage is not furprizing :

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the Otaheitans, however benevolent and kind and docile, are ftill like the other iflanders attached to the customs and fuperftitions of their forefathers; nor can it be concealed that the Calvinistic doctrines which were inculcated, are of too gloomy and uninviting nature to feduce their reluctant affections. The prefent voyage is compiled from the journals of the officers and miffionaries: the narrative of it is introduced by a preliminary difcourse, containing a geographical and hiftorical account of Otaheite, of the Society Islands, of the Friendly Iflands, of Navigator's Ifland, of the Marquefas, &c. &c. &c. A letter of excellent inftruction follows from the Directors of the Society, to Captain Wilfon; and the body of the work is fucceeded by an Appendix, divided into fourteen fections, comprising an account of the inhabitants, religion, manners, natural history, &c. of Otaheite; and concluding with twenty-one articles of faith drawn up and fubfcribed by the Miffionaries. The volume is moreover illuftrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. W. Wilfon, and engraven by fome of the most eminent artists.

Mr. CoOTE, Chaplain to his Lordship, has published the narrative of "A Voyage performed by the late Earl of Sandwich round the Mediterranean, in the years 1738, and 1739, written by himself." His Lordship when he commenced this voyage was only nineteen years of age; much folidity of remark therefore, or minuteness of research were not to be expected the prefent volume moreover, lofes much of its intereft from the long interval which elapfed between the voyage and the publication. His journal at the time must have been extremely valuable, but the path which he trod has fince been fo repeatedly pursued by travellers of various tastes and qualifications, that the new information imparted by the prefent pages is very inconfiderable. His Lordship is a lively and elegant writer, and feems even at the early age when this voyage was performed, to have taken a wide excurfive range in the garden of Claffical Literature. The prefent volume is illuftrated with a portrait of his Lordship and with feveral engravings of ancient buildings and infcriptions, and with a chart of his courfe. Mr. Coote has moreover prefixed Memoirs of the noble Author's Life concerning the private portion of which, his biographer has very prudently faid little.

Major SYMES has published a very curious and interefting "Account of an

Embaffy to the kingdom of Ava, fent by the Governor General of India, in the year 1795." The authority of the kingdom of Ava extends to the frontiers of the English dominions in Bengal: it has now by right of conqueft added to itself the former fovereignties of Pegue and Siam, and the collective empire is called Birman. Some delinquents of the Birman empire having taken refuge near Chittagong, the boundary of the British territories; the haughty monarch, without foliciting their ceffion from the company, abruptly marched an army into its diftricts for the purpose of taking the fugitives into captivity. A dispute naturally enfued, which was amicably adjusted by the united spirit and difcretion of General Erfkine. To prevent, however, for the future, any fuch unceremonious incurfions, and to imprefs the mighty Emperor of Ava with just ideas of the power and amity of the British nation, as well as to fettle fome commercial transactions, the Governor General, Lord Teignmouth, thought it expedient to fend a formal embaily to the Birman court. Major Symcs was the gentleman very wifely felected for this purpofe, and the pages before us relate, in an elegant and ftriking manner, the progrefs and reception of the embaffy. Our knowledge of the vaft empire of Ava has hitherto been very imperfect; Major Symes, by that curiofity, and eagernefs for information, which, in to junction with other qualities, rendered him peculiarly proper to conduct the deputation, has now corrected our geographical errors in regard to that kingdom, has increafed our acquaintance with its natural hiftory, and given us much information as to the religion of the Birmans, their various estabblifhments, civil, military and ecclefiaftical, their manners and cuftoms, as alfo the power and extent of the empire.

In our laft Retrofpect, we mentioned -that Dr. HUNTER had tranflated, with a rapidity that precluded correctnefs, Sonini's Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt: a more labored and more accurate verfion has fince made its appearance in one fplendid quarto, by an anonymous writer, who, offended at the celerity of his rival's pen, indulges himself in language highly unbecoming and indecorous. a comparison of the two tranflations, the prefent is decidedly fuperior: the writer is far more intimately acquainted with the French language, than the Doctor, whofe mifconftructions were very fre quent and fometimes even ludicrous: and as a Natural Hiftorian, the fuperiority of

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the prefent tranflator is ftill more ftriking. The volume is illuftrated with many beautiful engravings, and with a map of the country.

Familiar as we have become with the Highlands of Scotland, by the reprefentation of various travellers; yet each fuoceflive tourist who rambles among thefe northern hills, prefents us with fome new pictures, or imparts to us fome new information. Dr. GARNETT, the Profet for of Philofophy in the Royal Inftitution, has highly gratified the public by his Obfervations on a Tour through the Highlands, &c." It is impoffible to read this work without perceiving that the author is a man of great tafte and science: his defcriptions are remarkably elegant and difcriminative, ftriking, and fimple; and as a mineralogift, a botanist, and an antiquary, he is equally entitled to great refpcct. The volumes are illuftrated by a map and 52 plates, engraven in the manner of Aquatinta, from drawings taken on the fpot with great judgment, by Mr. Watts, a landfcape painter, who accompanied the author in his tour.

Mr. WIGSTEAD'S "Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales, in the year 1797, though not very striking in themselves, are ufeful as explanatory of fome beautiful plates from Rowlandion, Pugh, Hewitt, &c.

"The Cambrian Directory, or curfory Sketches of the Welsh Territories; with a Chart comprehending in one View, the advifable Route, beft Inns, Diftances, &c." is an ufeful companion to the tourist.

Mr. Park's Travels in the interior of Africa, &c. and Mr. Bryan Edward's Hiftory of the British Colonies in the Weft Indies," have both been abridged with much judgment from the original works: they are moreover printed in a very neat and correct manner.

A Tranflation has appeared from the French of M. de Laftenaye's "Rambles through Ireland." M. de L. is an emigrant, who became a traveller and an author for the purpofe of fupport. It is creditable to the hofpitality of our Irish brethren, that this unfortunate wanderer -moneyless and on foot-during a ramble of fix months, was only under the neceffity of lodging at an inn five times! Let us never again hear repeated the flanderous epigram of Shenftone. The rambies of M. de L. are written in a very lively style, and evince, though not much folidity of judgment, confiderable acutenefs of remark.

AGRICULTURE.

At the prefent period of an alarming and long continued fcarcity, Agriculture is the vect of all others which most imperiously demands attention: we are happy therefore to find that the Bath Society which for many years have with laudable and confpicuous zeal contributed towards its improvement by the publication of their Memoirs, continue their exertions with unabated activity. They have published a ninth volume of "Letters and Papers, &c" which though fome wht lefs bulky than those which have preceded them, contains we think a far greater proportion of valuable and useful communications. There is an evil of great magnitude and importance, which feems to have efcaped the confideration of moft perfons who have written on agricultural fubjects, to which we would willingly call the attention of the fociety. Our farmers have of late years paid particular regard to the breed of their stock, and numerous are the treatifes which have been written on the best proportioned limbs of swine, of oxen and of theep: it is to be lamented that after the exercise of so much judgment in the selection of flock, we employ fo little in the management of their difeafes. If a farmer has a cow or a bullock taken ill, he fends for the neareft leech in his neighbourhood; a fellow who knows as much of the difeafes of animal as the beaft to which he is fent for: indeed a fet of beings cannot be more deadly ignorant than thefe confequential gentlemen, who generally prefcribe a drink to the poor creatures, whatever be their fymptoms, or whatever their complaints. The veterinary art has been thought of fufficient importance to be cultivated in this kingdom, and we cannot help withing that fome of our numerous agricultural Societies would form an inftitution for the regular inftruction of perfons in the nofology of cattle. It would perhaps be confidered as a little infra dig. by the profeffion, or we should recommend to those many village furgeons, who flave and toil from morning till night, and ride half over the country for a few fhillings, to offer their medical and phynological skill to the farmers in their neighbourhood; many of them would make much better of their time than they do at prefent. We merely give the hint: fat verbum.

Mr. MARSHALL, whofe numerous and ufeful publications on agricultural affairs have justly entitled any fuggeftion which may come from him to attention, has pub lifhed "Propofals for a Rural Inftitute, or

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College of Agriculture, and the other Branches of Rural Economy." We have no doubt, if fuch a college were handfomely endowed, and conducted on a libeand fcientifical plan, that our systemof agriculture would be greatly benefitted. There is not much probability, however, that Government would afford much affistance to fuch an inftitution; and we have our apprehenfions that the fubfcription of individuals would be inadequate to its establishment. Mr. Marfhall has given the public a new edition of his "Minutes, Experiments, Obfervations, and General Remarks on Agriculture in the Southern Counties;" to which are prefixed, a Sketch of what he denominates the Vale of London, and an Outline of its Rural Ec onomy,now first publifhed.

Lord SOMERVILLE, in his "Addrefs to the Board of Agriculture, on the Subject of Sheep and Wool," declared his intention of wearing cloth made of British wool only; and spoke with some severity against monopolies and other methods which he fuppofed had raifed in an inordinate meafure the price of Spanish wool; obferving, at the fame time, that English wool, with proper management, might be rendered of equal value with the Spanish. Thefe remarks provoked an anonymous "Answer to Lord Somerville's Addrefs," by a gentleman who appears to be a clothier of Gloucestershire; who contends, that the high price of Spanish wool is occafioned, not by monopoly or other artificial methods, but by the war with Spain : he contends, moreover, that no cloths can be made but from English and Spanish wool mixed; and that to manufacture good cloth from English wool alone is impotfible. This Anfwer has produced "A Reply," which is likewife anonymous. The author of this laft tract, who feems well acquainted with the fubject, fhows that both in Yorkshire and Somerfetfhire English wool only is employed in making excellent broad-cloths: he is an advocate, however, for the importation of Spanish wool, which he conceives would be properly employed in the manufacture of the lighter cloths intended for the Turkey trade, which we are now about to recover. This controverfy, though not conducted with a fufficient degeee of courtefy, may be read with pleafure, as it communicates information on an interefting and important fubject. To the Reply is annexed a remarkably fine fpecimen of English cloth.

A fecond volume is published of
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"Communications to the Board of Agriculture;" in which is comprehended much valuable information on various branches of husbandry. LAW.

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Dr. NASMITH, in a charge delivered to the grand jury at the general quarter feflions of the peace for the Ifle of Ely, has confidered at large. The Duties of Overfeers of the Poor, and the Sufficiency of the prefent Syftem of Poor Laws.' Dr. N. is of opinion, that whatever abuses exift in the management of the poor, they are attributable, not to the infufficiency of the prefent laws, but to the neglect of them; confequently, that any new fatutes would be unneceffary. Annexed to this Charge are fome Remarks on Mr. Saunders's" Obfervations on the Prefent State and Influence of the Poor Laws;" a work which we noticed in terms of high refpect in a former Retrofpect. Mr. Saunders differed fo diametrically from the prefent writer as to the efficacy of thefe laws, that he confidered most of the evils, which are fo loudly complained of in the management of the poor, to originate in the nature of the overfeer's office. Dr. Nafmith, in his Remarks, endeavours to invalidate the objection of Mr. Saunders. However we may differ in opinion from the Doctor, it is but justice to fay, that his pamphlet evinces a great deal of judgment, much knowledge of his fub-. ject, and is written, in refpect to Mr. Saunders, as becomes one gentleman when he differs in opinion from another. We are alfo indebted to Dr. Nafmith for an "Examination of the Statutes now in force relating to the Affize of Bread;" with Remarks on the Bill intended to be brought into Parliament by the Country Bakers." This like the former pamphlet proclaims the writer to be a man of good fenfe and acute observation.

An anonymous author has published fome very fenfible and judicious " Obfervations on the Office of Conftable, with a view to its Improvement." He propofes an augmentation of the nuinber of conftables, and an alteration in the mode of their election: that in the execution of their duty, certain rules and orders of difcipline fhould be obferved; that they fhould be furnished with more adequate means for profecuting offenders; and that their annual ftipend fhould, as much as poffible, be proportioned to their labor and lofs of time. It will be learned with pleasure that a third edition is publifhed, in three octavo volumes of Serjeant WILSON's "Reports, &c." 4 N

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