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ters in the colonies; and it may, with truth, be afferted, that, notwithstanding many of them were very capable of paying for a paffage to any part of Africa they thought proper, fcarce a fingle inftance can be produced of any one of them defiring to return to the place of his nativity.”

It is pretty well known that the humane attempt to fend the vagabond Negroes to Sierra Leone fucceeded but indifferently, and ended, moft inhumanly, in the death of the greater number of these objects.

Commercial Reasons for the Non-Abolition of the Slave Trade, in the Wift India Islands, by a Planter, and Merchant of many Years Refidence in the Weft Indies. 8vo. 6d. Lane.

Some plain and rational arguments against the abolition of the flave-trade, to which our author improperly joins arguments against the emancipation. We do not however perceive any thing new in this little pamphlet; and fome affertions will not, we fear, bear the test of examination.

The interefting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Guftavus Vafa, the African, written by himself. Two Vols. Izmo. 55. Johnfon.

We have more than once expreffed our incredulity when, in the controverfy relating to the ilave-trade, facts are reprefented on either fide under the influence of prejudice or interest. Guftavus, in the account of his life, which contains no very uncommon incidents, enlarges on the happiness of the native African, and the miseries of the flave. Each, we believe, to be at leaft exaggerated; indeed a lad of ten years old could not have. experienced many miferies in any country where food is not wanting. At lalt Guftavus becomes a good Chriftian and a Methodist. He seems certain that he is in the right road, and we shall not attempt to turn him from it.

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Belinda; or, the Fair Fugitive, a Novel, by Mrs. C. 2 Vols. 12mo. 55. Allen.

This Novel is a little fascinating, for it has kept us nearly an hour from better employment, without novelty of fentiment, character, or fituation. It is, in effect, the story on which Cibber's comedy, Love makes a Man' is founded, or rather the play of Beaumont and Fletcher, from which Cibber stole the first part of his comedy. The purfuit, in confequence of the fimilarity of names, is the most amusing part of the work. It is dedicated to the duchefs of Marlborough, and Mrs. C. tells her a little unaccountably, that this novel is her rightbut what' fhe next produces the fhall deem the-duke's We prefume no inconvenience can enfue, till the nature of the next production be ascertained.

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The Triumph of Friendship: or, the Hiftory of Charles Courtney, and Mifs Julia Melville. A Novel, by Jane Timbury. 2 Vols. 55. fewed. Fox.

12mo.

Mrs. Timbury's novel is strictly moral; and, though not humorous, is pleafing and interefting. She feems to entertain the truly laudable feminine fondnets for matrimony, which is recommended not only by precept but example. Mifs Berkley alone is excepted, probably because the is only mentioned in the ftory, or becaufe that in a large family a maiden aunt is an useful perfonage.

The Parfon's Wife, a Novel, written by a Lady. 2 Vols. 12me. 65. Walter.

This is a pleafing, interefting tale, without novelty of fentiment or character, without any artful ferics of adventures, broad humour, or intrigue. The lady is, however, partial to matrimony, and, with very little exception, puts all characters to bed.

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Louifa and Nina, or an Excurfion to Yverdun. 2 Vols. 12mo. 55. Lane.

In this French, or rather Swifs ftory, there is fome pathos, fome fentiment, and no little affectation of both. Probability is left at a distance, while our modern Sterne indulges in the finer feelings of the heart, without reflecting, that intoxication often fucceeds fatiety. Louis and Nina form one of the groupes only which are met in this Excurfion.

The Caftles of Athlin and Dunblayne, an Highland Story. 12mo. 35. Hookham.

There is fome fancy and much romantic imagery in the conduct of this story; but our pleasure would have been more unmixed had our author preferved better the manners and coftume of the Highlands. He feems to be unacquainted with both. Fanny Vernon; or, the Forlorn Hope, a Tale of Woe. 12mo. 35.

Axtell.

Fanny Vernon cannot alone fill the eye, the mind, or perhaps more properly, the volume he is accompanied by the Somersetshire Story. Yet we are forry to fee, that talents for what is really natural, interefting, and pathetic, firould be driven to fuch attempts. If the ftories are not (long experience has made us fufpicious) republications from Magazines, or vamped up from older volames, they would deserve our attention, our res gard, and our commendation.

MISCELLANEO U S. Theofophical Efays: or, the Wisdom and Goodness of God, feen and read in the Procefs and Operations of Vegetative Nature. By Samuel Saunders. Small 8vo. 1s. fewed. Dilly.

Our author, like Mr. Flavel, of famous memory, is full of allegory. Every feed fown reprefents man in a flate of na

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ture, and every germinating plant his progrefs in grace. Grafting is alfo fpirituffed, as well as the other employments of the gardener and farmer. After this precious collection of philo. fophy and religion, we meet with a paraphraflic verfion of the wenty-third palm, from the Hebrew text, with notes; and the Will of George Pfalmanazer, which has been already printed. The notes on the twenty-third pfalm contain fome curious myftical criticisms on the Hebrew words.

Appendix to Thoughts on Subscription, by William Frend, M. A. 8vo. 15. Johnfon.

This Appendix confifts of the different appeals to the bishop of Ely, vifitor of Jefus College, Cambridge, with the answers and reply. The vifitor decided against Mr. Frend's being continued a tutor; against his being, in the language of the ftatutes, vir difcretus. The preface contains the cant of a fectary, on the terrors which the church feels at a difponition to enquire into its doctrines. All this is totally irrelevant: the fact in difpute is, whether a man who has publicly declared his disbelief of fome parts of the thirty-nine articles, and affcrts that he can not confcientioufly join in the prayers of the church of England, is a proper tutor in a college, where many of the pupils are educated for the church. Certainly not. But we are aware of the reply, for we have been told that it is neceffary they should understand the arguments of each fide before they can decide; and a tutor of this kind, who may ftate the arguments, cannot be injurious; for he cannot force their belief. This indeed may be allowed, if the tutor was not confined to students under twenty, when authority may stand in the place of argument, and when at least information and judgment must be limited. Happily (perhaps unhappily) they want not the affifiance of a tutor: the prefs fwarms with publications, written with a plau fible fimplicity, and feductive declamations on the advantages of liberal and free enquiry.

Memoirs and Anecdotes of Philip Thicknee, late Lieutenant Governor of Land Guard Fort, and unfortunately Father to George Touchet, Baron Audley. 2 Vols. Small 8vo. 10s. 6d. Printed for the Author.

The Life of Mr. Thickneffe has been an eventful one. The attack of Dr. Adair has drawn from him an elucidation of fome parts of his' conduct in his youth, which he has explained very fatisfactorily; and this is followed by various other anecdotes. Thefe, parly from their public, nature, and partly from the numerous publications of Mr. Thicknefle, are pretty well known; but our author's peculiar and characterillic manner of relating makes them, if not quite new, fufficiently entertain ing.

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CRITICAL REVIEW.

For OCTOBER, 1789.

A Treatife of the Materia Medica. By William Cullen, M. D: (Concluded, from Vol. LXVII. p. 442.)

WE fhall now return to our very refpectable author, and

continue our account of the fedatives, by mentioning his remarks on camphor, which is the next medicine in his lift. That camphor has obtained this place in the catalogue, feems to have been owing to its botanical affinity, fince it is. '. produced from a fpecies of the laurus, though many trees and plants of India, and indeed our own peppermint, afford an oil not very different from it. Dr. Cullen gives a fhort but masterly account of the difputes which have fubfifted respecting its power as a ftimulus or a fedative. It is undoubtedly a fedative, and one of very extenfive and useful application; but the dofe in which its fedative powers appear on the body, in health, is not well afcertained: we think it must be fomewhere between fifteen and twenty-five grains.. In difeafe it is different, for if there is any confidence in repeated obfervation, this power has been produced by five grains in very low, irritable, nervous fevers, and is loft when the dofe rifes above fifteen In mania, it feldom appears till the dose reaches above twenty, and is not remarkably obvious till it has exceeded thirty. In mania, indeed, it has not fucceeded with Dr. Cullen; and cafes of this kind are so few in general, regular, practice, that we are afraid of fpeaking on the fubject. There can be no danger, however, in saying the remedy does not appear to us to be generally useful in fuch cafes; and where it is fo, the utility is obvious, before it reaches to very high dofes: if twenty or twenty-five grains, afford no relief, thirty-five or forty will probably afford none; but if a flight benefit is derived from the first, great advantages ufually follow the fecond. In fevers, where it is useful, that is in low nervous fevers, it is feldom we have found neceffary to give more than ten, or at moft fifteen grains. With opium it usually anfwers well, and we have often had reason to confirm M. Laffone's experience of their united powers. In glyfters we believe it has never been given in this country. VOL. LXVIII. O&. 1789.

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In malignant fevers it is undoubtedly of ufe with the Peruvian bark, and of remarkable utility when a fever of this kind is combined with local inflammation. Dr. Cullen thinks it of fervice in confluent fmall-pox, and in bringing back repelled exanthemata: in hysteric and hypochondriac cafes alfo, he has found it ufeful. With nitre, and more probably with vinegar, its powers are greater. Its difcutient effects are well known, and Dr. Cullen has given a very ftriking and pointed inftance of them :

I have mentioned above, that several practitioners have employed camphire in the most acute inflammatory diseases; and therefore we are not surprised to find that it has been given alfo internally in cafes of acute rheumatifm; and it is faid to have been with advantage. We have no experience of it, because we have found another method of cure generally fuccessful; but I take this occafion to mention its external ufe, as often of great fervice in removing the rheumatic pains of the joints or mufcles. This we have often experienced, and have no doubt of camphire having a peculiar power in taking off the inflammatory ftate in cafes both of rheumatifm and gout. In the cafe of rheumatifm it is a matter of common experience: in the cafe gout it is more rare; but I have had the following particular example of it. A gentleman had brought from the East Indies an oil of camphire, a native fubftance, which feemed, by its fmell and tafle, to be no other than camphire in that form, and which I perceive to be mentioned by naturalifts as a native fubflance, produced by feveral trees in the East Indics. This the perfon poffeffed of recommended to all his acquaintances as an 'infallible remedy for gout and rheumatifm; and a gentleman who had often laboured under the gour, and then felt the pains of it unusually fevere, was perfuaded to apply it. He had then the gout exceedingly painful in the ball of the great toe and inftep of one foot. On this part he rubbed a quantity of the oil of camphire; and in about half an hour or a little more he was entirely freed from the pain he had before. In less, however, than an hour after, he had a pain and inflammation come upon the fame part of the other foot. As the pain here became pretty fevere, he again employed the oil of camphire, and with the fame effect of foon relieving the pain very entirely. The confequence of this was alfo the fame; for in lefs than an hour the pain and inflammation returned to the foot that had been first affected and here again our patient, obftinate in perfifting in the trial of his remedy, again applied the oil, and he had the fame fuccefs as before in relieving the part affected, and with the fame effect alfo of occafioning a tranflation. But here the tranflation being made to the knee, the patient abstained from any farther application of the oil, and fuffered the pain of the knce to remain for a day or two, and till it went off by fome fwelling and defquamation in the usual manner.

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