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Nitrate of potash, 1 scruple; Syrup of Tolu, 6 drams: Mix; and take a fourth part three times a day; paying attention to the state of the bowels, and abstaining from the use of malt liquors, and every thing likely to cause an increase of fever.

The irritation of the affected parts generally produces cough; to allay which, take the following emulsion: Oil of almonds, 1 ounce ;" Syrup of Tolu, 6 drams; Distilled water, 8 ounces; Solution of subcarbonate of potash, 40 drops:

Mix; and take two table-spoonsfull at any time when the cough is trouble some. Mucilaginous drinks, such as linseed tea, &c. will be found to assist very materially in easing the cough.

Should the irritation produce ulcera tion of the fauces aud trachea, commonly called Sore Throat," the following gargle will be found serviceable: Infusion of roses, 8 ounces; Tincture of myrrh, 6 drams: Mix. To be used frequently.

When the inflammatory symptoms, which were felt at the commencement of the disease, disappear, and a difficulty of expectoration ensues, I would recommend the following mixture, to be taken in the quantity of two large table-spoonsfuil three or four times aday; viz.

Syrup of white poppies, 1 ounce ;
Oxymel of squills, 1 ounce ;
Mint water, 6 ounces:

Mix.

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Should this prove insufficient to produce a free expectoration, a blister to the chest will be of service; and an Occasional laxative should be taken, if the bowels require it.

It sometimes, though less frequently, happens, that the fever which attends catarrh is evidently of a typhoid nature, which may be distinguished from the inflammatory kind, by the sudden and great prostration of strength which ensues on its first attack; by the tongue becoming more or less of a brown or black colour; and by the acrid and more intense heat of the skin. In such cases, bleeding would be highly inju rious; but an emetic taken early is generally of service. The action of the bowels should be excited by taking three table-spoonsfull of the following mixture every two hours, till the effect is produeed.

Antimonial wine, balf an ounce ;
Epsom salts, 1 ounce;

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After this is done, the fever must be checked by a diaphoretic medicine; as,

Water of acetate of ammonia, 12
drams ;

Camphor mixture, 6 ounces,
Antimonial wine, I dram;
Simple syrup, 2 drams :

Mix; and take a fourth part every four or six hours.

Should sore throat ensue, add 1 dram of diluted sulphuric acid to the gargle before described, and use it as often as convenient.

It is proper to observe, that the doses, which are intended for adults, may be diminished at discretion, according to the age and constitution of the patient.

The medicines above prescribed, if applied as directed, and assisted by a proper attention to regimen, will, I am satisfied, prove sufficient to effect a cure in most cases of catarrh; and they may be the means of keeping off a train of diseases less common, but far more dangerous. I am, Sir,

Your well-wisher,

St. John's-square, Jan. 5,

1818.

W. W. M.

To the Editor of the European Magazine

I

SIR,

OBSERVED in one of your late Numbers a query respecting the square root of 2, and which was auswered in the ensuing Number, the decimal having been carried to a few places only. In Dowling's excellent System of Arithmetic, lately published, I see the square root of 2 carried to 22 places; viz. 1 414213562373095048801, and the remainder (consisting of 22 figures) 1948006236179428462399.

Now I wish to state, that the square root of 2 has been extracted by a patient and laborious friend of mine to upwards of 1000 places, and that it is a circulating decimal after the 997 th place, each circle containing 995 figures, and consequently beginning 421356237, &c.

This curious fact, hitherto unknown, I am sure will be grateful to many of your readers, and whom, perhaps, my friend will shortly gratify more with several novelties of this kind. I term them novelties, because I am not aware of any useful purpose to which they can apply. I remain, Sir, your's, &c. Woolwich, 6th Jun. 1818. C.

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

No. XXXVIII.

THE REVENUE.

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue in the Years and Quarters ended 5th January, 1817, and 1818.

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Thus the receipts of the Consolidated Fund were better in the last, than in the preceding year, by 2,008,7157.; and the annual duties were better, by nearly 200,000. The War Taxes were happily less by about twelve millions and onethird, and would have been so by thirteen millions and a half, if there had not been arrears of Income tax to be received. The receipts of Peace Taxes in the last quarter were better than those in the corresponding quarter of 1817 by 752,0257. If from the total produce of the Peace and War Taxes we deduct what was received for arrears of Income Tax, leaving the War Duties upon exciseable commodities to the possibility of being rendered permanent, the Revenue may be estimated at 46 millions per year. What the Expenditure shall be will depend much upon the ensuing Session, and more upon the New Parliament.

Comparison of the Produce of the Revenue (exclusive of the Arrears of the War Duly on Mall and Property), from October 10 to December 26, 1817, with the corresponding Period 1816.

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Produce of the Revenue from Oct. 10 to Dec. 26, 1817
Ditto, ditto, in 1816.....

Increase

Increase in Excise

Stamps

Incidents

-£.8,588,669 .7,977,306

..£. 611,363

..£. 180,970 212,094 264,559

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MEMORANDUM. In the period of 1816 is not included the receipt upon the general articles of Excise nor of the Stamp Duties for the last week, the receipt upon these balances of revenue not having been paid into the Exchequer on account of the holidays, till the subsequent week; therefore, from the above increase should be deducted the sum of about 320,6947. leaving the increase 290,6697.

IMPORT DUTY ON SUGAR.

The import duty on Muscovado Sugar will from this time be 30s. in place of 278. per cwt. The merchants were so convinced of this event happening, that at the Custom-house the amount paid for sugar-duties only, for the week ending on Monday, 5th January, was 851,7971. sterling. The duty of 33s. has now commenced; the aggregate average of the Sugar for the four months preceding 5th January, was 50s. 84d, exclusive of duty.

AN UNIVERSAL FISH TABLE.

The dotted lines signify when the Fish are in season, and the blanks when they

ase not.

Jan. Feb. Mar. April May June July Aug. Sept. | Oct. | Nov. Dec.

Names.

Brel

Fil

Cod

Cole Fish

Cockles

Crabs

Dabs

Flounders

Gurnets

Haddocks

Herrings

Lobsters

Ling

Mackerel

Muscles

Oysters

Plaice

Salmon

Soles

Shrimps

Sturgeon

Scate

Sprats
Sea Smelt

Thornback

Turbot Whiting Conger Eel

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THE

LONDON REVIEW,

AND

LITERARY JOURNAL,

FOR JANUARY, 1818.

QUID SIT PULCHRUM, QUID TURPE, QUID UTILE, QUID NON.

The Knight of St. John; a Romance. By Miss Anna Maria Porter, Author of "The Recluse of Norway," "Don Sebastian," &c. 1817.

PEACE to the spirit of chivalry !—

We honour its name, and deprecate not its influence:-but a Knight of St. John is confessedly a monastic cavalier, and encumbered with certain tremendous vows, of all others the most chilling to the imagination. From such a personage we were prepared to recoil with disgust, till we discovered that the hero who really challenges attention in this work, is not a Knight of St. John, but a high-spirited noble, a worthy compatriot of the Dorias, and that the story in which we had been led by the title-page to anticipate a dry monkish chronicle, is a narrative of interesting events, a lively portraiture of man and of woman, calculated to engage human sympathies, and to captivate romantic imagination.

Having thus made the amende honorable to the fair author, whom we would protect from the mischievous misconstruction suggested by the titlepage, we proceed to give some account of her work.

The scene is laid in the thirteenth century at Genoa-the story opens with the arrival of Cesario Adimari, a young Genoese nobleman, from an unprosperous voyage. During his absence, the rights of his father to the lands of his ancestors had been attacked by a litigious adversary; the old man has been the victim of chagrin and disappointment; and Cesario only arrives to learn, that he is at once bereaved of bis parent and his patrimony. Exasperated at the injustice of a sentence which he is led to refer to fraudulent intrigue rather than to honour

able impartiality, the unhappy son conceives an inveterate hatred for his victorious opponent, and sanctifies his vin dictive sentiments by the name of filial piety. In the mean while, his friendship is assiduously courted by Giovanni, the son of his detested adver sary-but who, far from participating in the spirit of his father, is anxious to repair the injury which has been sustained by the unfortunate Cesario. These overtures to kindness are rejected by their object with disdain, but not without a secret consciousness of his injustice. In the following scene, the two characters are opposed with a force and truth which are highly creditable to the author's powers of feeling and discrimination.

"Cesario threw himself on a seat, and sunk into deep thought; for a while his reflections were full of anxiety, and the dismal future; but they soon changed, leading him back to the days of his childhood and his youth, to the cherished images of his father and his home; that home which was now the property of another!

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Flattering fancy gently deluded him with a succession of beloved recollections; which, as they continued to arise, arose in forms of startling reality, and made him live the past again.

"In imagination he walked beneath the lofty plane-trees that shaded the terrace at Nervi, conversing with his father; now and then stopping to list the soft laving of the tide against the steps which led into the sea; or leaning over the balustrade, to watch the progress of a skiff, or the flight of a bird; the gracious voice he was never again to hear on earth, fell on his ear in accents of tenderness and instruction; they talked of Cesario's meditated voy

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