food in the alimentary canal, which is The Water made into Coffee. fee; and perhaps to it they owe much of their vivacity; but when the coffee is united to the fulphureous mineral water, it acquires an additional ftrength and efficacy, and imparts a fuprifing vigour to the mental powers; from being morofe and fulky, we are all at once metamorphofed into a gay and chearful mood. The late Sir John Pringle, from long and repeated experience, found ftrong coffee a molt powerful medicine in the afthma, having an extraordinary fedative quality. How much more powerful 'would its action be when united to this mineral water? The excellency of theft Mineral Waters. Amidst the endless variety of boafted medicines for fcrophulous diseases, which is a fure proof of their being inadequate to a cure of the complaints for which they were adminiftered, it ought to be matter of great fatisfaction, that, from the astonishing power of these mineral waters, we may, without flattery, entertain the ftrongest hopes of fuccefs: And, although we may boast of the be nign influences of a genial fky, healthy atmosphere, and all the bleffings that naturally flow from thefe advantages, yet many are the diseases which naturally arife in all countries, from climate, air, and foil; for which Nature, ever bounti ful, has produced most abundantly great ftore of indigenous plants and medicinal springs, whofe virtues are fpecifically adapted to remove these diseases. When the pours from her exuberant bofom the never failing fources of life, health, and joy, and calls with a parental voice, "Drink, wash, and be clean," ought we not to liften and obey? The restorative quality of these waters is obvious and undeniable, where uni verfal debility, weakness of fight, defect of hearing, or when any of the fenfes are impaired through a valetudinary state of health, or the infirmities of age; as in the cafe of a Marion Hunter, who, after her dropfical complaints were totally removed, by continuing the ufe of the wa ter, fo recovered her eye fight, that the could read the fmalleft print at the ad vanced age of fixty-fix, after being almoft blind. A gentleman, who for many years had loft the fenfe of hearing on the right fide, after ufing this water his bear ing was reftored, and a fecretion of ceru, men returned to the ear affected. The mental powers are fo much improved, that one would imagine there was fuch a #enovation It has been already obferved, that the fcorbutic, and all afflicted with cutaneous eruptions, may expect a perfect cure from the efficacy of thefe waters, and ought to have recourfe to them, by drink. ing and bathing. The hyfteric and hy. pochondriac, and all afflicted with low nefs of fpirits, will find speedy relief; at the fame time using moderate exercise in the open air, when the weather will per. mit, and a light regular diet; for moft of the chronic difeafes proceed from an error in the above particulars; by indulgence in our food, eating more than nature requires, and too high seasoned, following an indolent course of life, ex hac fonte derivata clades. From thefe difeafes the poor and laborious are totally exempted; not having it in their power to tranfgrefs in the quantity or quality of their food, and obliged to earn it with the sweat of their face; by which means, we never fee a hard working man, or day labourer, afflicted with nervous complaints, or the painful affections which attend opulence, indolence, or an irregular vexatious course of life. In joint complaints, arifing from congeftion, or an accumulation of peccant matter upon the articulations; in all gouty and paralytic affections; in all nervous complaints, immediate ease, and a feldom or never-failing cure, may be expected from a free and perfevering ufe of these waters. The Mineral Waters where Injurious, and where Beneficial. In general, all the diseases of a lax and weak fibre, dropfies, fcorbutic, and scrophulous affections, ftomach and nervous complaints, from relaxation, crudity, and indigeftion, will find fingular relief, and by perfeverance a final cure, from the ufe of thefe waters: on the other hand, it must be observed, that, in some cases, these waters will be of no utility, and in others rather injurious. In this, and all medical cafes, the lædentia should be known as well as the juvantia, that we may avoid the one, and obferve and practise the other. Thefe waters, there fore, are not to be used indifcriminately. Conftitutions are generally divided into cold, moift, and phlegmatic, or hot and dry. The former will always find relief from the water of St Bernard's Well, it being of a warm, benign, and balfamic nature; but the latter, that of a hot and dry temperament, where the folids are overbraced, and trung up too high, they must be used with a sparing hand. To this clafs belong afthmatic affections, hectic and bilious complaints, dry coughs without expectoration, espe cially if attended with an hemptæ or hemorrhage, and in all cafes where a tenfe and irritable fibre predominates; all these contra-indicate the use of these waters. If they are forbidden in gouty paroxisms, they ought at least to be refumed when the fit is over. Nothing can ftrengthen debilitated joints, and fupply them with a mild fynovia (the former acrid fecre tion being expelled) than those waters, ufed both externally and internally, at the fame time carefully avoiding every excess of diet, fhunning the oppofite extremes of fupine indolence, or too much anxiety and perturbation of mind. In cafes of too much relaxation, befides the use of these waters, it may be neceffary to use the cold bath, fea-bathing, espe cially a courfe of warm chalybeates, not neglecting exercise in the open air, and fuch other tonics as remove debility, and reftore health and vigour to the whole fyftem. The water of St Bernard's well is not to be used in acute or inflammatory complaints, as pleurifies, peripneu monies, ophthalmias, the fcrophulous ophthalmia excepted, where the inflammation is fymptomatic, owing to the irritation of the fcrophulous diathefis, and not to that of the blood; or, in the language of the fchools, where the inflam mation is fymptomatic, and not idiopa thic. Seafon for drinking the Water. Thefe medicinal waters may be used at all feasons; but the most eligible is during the fummer; as they often operate by infenfible perspiration, the cold season muft in fome measure defeat that effect; neither is the hottest season so proper, left the body being already over heated should become more so by using the water. The extremes of heat or cold are not the most eligible. A tumbler glass, or two, taken morning, noon, and night, is preferable to large draughts. The M 2 drinking drinking fhould be accompanied with moderate exercise, to keep the body in a temperate warmth. As nature obferves no vacation in the production of difeafes, thefe waters are never deprived of their medicinal virtues; but may be used to advantage at all seasons, yet so as not to interfere with our meals, or disturb di geftion The best method is to begin and leave off gradually; by which means complaints are removed, and the animal œconomy not difturbed. When the pa tient is thin and emaciated, a fmall quan tity of new milk may be added to the water, to render it more palatable and agreeable to the ftomach A strict regularity must be kept up in the non-natu rals, that is, not only observing regular bours for fleep, diet, and exercife; but especially to regulate the affections of the mind, which must be kept free from care and anxiety, and enjoy an uninterrupted fate of peace and ferenity of mind. LOND O N. Religion, &'c. Remarks on the internal evidences of the Chriftian religion. By Gilbert Wakefield, B. A. and late Fellow of Jefus College, Cambridge. 8vo. 2 s. 6 d. Deighton. -The internal evidences of the Chriftian religion, which are exhibited in this work, are derived from various fources; fuch as-the fuperlative excellence of its morality; the finxplicity with which it exhibits the doctrines of religion; the divine wifdom of its Founder; the magnanimity, difinterestedness, and dignity of his character; the honesty with which the apostles relate their own failings; the peculiar complexion and phrafeology of St John's Gofpel; the cafual marks of authenticity every where obfervable in the writings of the evangelifts, &c. &c. Thefe topics are briefly, but forcibly, illuftrated, in a feries of remarks, which the judicious friends of Christianity will perufe with pleafure. M. Teft Act. Letter to the Rev. Dr Price, containing a few ftrictures upon his fermou lately published, entitied, "The love of our country.' By John Holloway. 8vo. 6d. Forfer. Mr Holloway confiders himself in the atuation of David going to meet Goliah." The comparifon is not altogether inapplicable. He is not equal to Dr Price in literary ftature: but he has thrown a ftone from his fling which has hit the tall (we do not mean corporeally,) champion of liberty in an unguarded part; and though he has not fubdued him, he has made him cry peccavi. Mr Holloway's frictures are occafioned by Dr Price's improper reflections on Methodifm. The Doctor has been convinced of his mif take; and, in the third edition, has expunged the obnoxious paffage. M. The danger of repealing the teft act, in a letter to a member of parliament, from a country frecholder. 8vo. E s. 6d. Lown des. Senfible and well written. It is chiefly intended as an answer to a pamphlet entitled, The right of the Proteftant Diffenters to a complete Toleration afferted. The country freehold. er, who is, probably, no inconfiderable perfon, has given his fubject much thought. His reply to the objection, "that this law cncourages the unprincipled to profane a facred ordinance of religion," is the best that could be given. "The time was (fays the author) when I lamented this as a serious evil. The rubric of the church, I thought, empowered the minister to refufe the facrament to the notoriously unworthy; and yet I conceived that an action would lie against him if he rejected any one, whatever his moral character was, who was qualifying himfelf for an office. Here I thought the minifter laid under a very difagreeable and cruel dilemma. But maturer thought has altered my opinion The confideration of worthinefs and unwor thinefs is a point that lies between God and a man's own confcience. The minifter's buffnefs is to inftruct and admonifh: the guilt of profanation belongs to the unworthy commu nicant. The minifter, ignorant as he is, not only of the hearts, but of the fecret lives of mankind, cannot difcriminate between the good and bad; and, if he could, it is a power not to be trufted to him, unless we invest him too (as the Pope invefts his emiffaries) with impeccability." The author is of opinion, that the Papifts cannot, with fafety, be admitted into civil offices, till the Pope folemnly renounces his dangerous pretenfions; and he is averfe to granting the prefent with of the Diffenters, as he thinks the propofed repeal has the fubversion of the establishment in view as its ultimate object: he would rather make the liturgy of the church more palatable to them, by fome little alterations. M. A review of the cafe of the Proteftant diffenters, with reference to the corporation and teft acts;' in which the reafons alledged by the nonconformists for the repeal of those laws are examined under the three general heads, to which they are reducible, of grounds of claim, religious motives, and political confiderations, and fhewn to fail in each branch. 8vo. I s. 6d. Roufon. A dialogue between Bishop Hoadley and Bishop Sherlock, on the corporation and test acts. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Davis.- The learned bifhops fpeak in character: but their reappearance on the stage of fublunary controverfy has thrown no new light on the topics of debate. M. R Theodofius, or a folemn admonition to Proteftant Proteftant diffenters, on the propofed repeal of the corporation and teft acts. In which are confidered the political and religious cha racters of Dr P, Dr Price, Mr Fox, Jude *****, Mr Sheridan, Mr *****, Mr Sawbridge, Mrs F**********, &c. 8vo. Is. 6d. 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Naked truth, addressed to the people of England, on the fuccefsful ftruggles of liberty. With a few gentle hints to a Heavenborn minifter. 8vo. Is. 6d. Kerby. A warm and lively declamation in favour of the happy revolution in France, and of the general caufe of liberty, but not in favour of our present minister, or his measures. M. Alfred's appeal. Containing his addrefs to the court of King's bench, on the subject of the marriage of Mary Anne Fitzherbert, and her intrigue with Count Bellois. 8vo. ·2 s. Bourne.Alfred [Dr Philip Withers] has here given us the interefting detail of fo much of his late profecution, and trial, in the court of King's bench, as relates to his highly spirited defence,-in the courfe of which, he boldly retaliated on Mr Erfkine," with dafh for dafh, and splash for splash." M. Belles Lettres. The English orator. Book 4. By the Rev. Richard Polwhele, tranflator of Theocritus, &c. 4to. 2 s. 6 d. Cadell. -Having, in the former books of his English orator, unfolded the general principles of eloquence, and fhewn their application and use at the bar and in the fenate, Mr Polwhele completes the plan of this didactic poem by treating of the eloquence of the pulpit. This book abounds with judicious obfervations, and contains much good advice to preachers, refpecting their previous qualifications; the choice of fubjects for fermons; the neceffity of acquainting themselves with the characters of their hearers, and adapting their discourses to their understandings, fituations, and characters; the propriety of addreffing the paffions, and the manner in which this may be done with the greatest advantage; the importance of an unblemished and refpectable character; and other weighty topics. Confidered merely in the light of a concio ad cleros, the lecture may be exceedingly useful; and it will not, probably, be read with the lefs attention or effect, for being clothed in the agrecable drefs of elegant verfification. The great difficulty of keeping alive the fire of poetry through a long didactic piece, will be admitted by candid readers, as an apology for the profaic caft of feveral parts of this work; and the paffages in which the author riles into poetical conception and diction, if they will not wholly juftify the boldness of the undertaking, will leave with the reader no unfavourable idea of his poetical talents. The fatal influence of the vices of the great, on village-fimplicity, is well defcribed in the following lines: "Long by romantic Arun's ftream was At little ditance from a tuft of trees Abandon'd by the help of man, implor'd The heart; and oft, more anxious than their fires, Taught the furrounding innocents, who lov'd His friendly fmile, the leffon to be good. Yet inaufpicious were his faireft aims, By Murder on Chicane), revell'd`uncheck'd Shameless amid lafcivious cafe, and loft He fill'd, for fashion's fake, the painful hour) To check the look licentious, or the grin Thro' mimic pews-ah, more infectious far That he could prefs into the timid tribes To catch his bolder accents) gave new nerve To zeal that might have long, unflackening, toil'd, Tho' vainly-had not the proud lordling' rage Dafh'd his fincereft efforts by a power Bade many a fycophantic tongue (that sounds Entertainment. M. Agnes de Courci, a domestic tale. By Mrs Bennet. 12mo. 4 vols. IO S. fewed Hookham.--As this performance, though certainly wanting in effentials, is yet diftinguishable in many of its parts, we shall prefent our readers with a specimen of the wri ter's style; which, indeed is not very accuratc. To follow her in the Aory is impoffible. The hero of the tale is no more! His funeral, and the circumstances attendant on it, are thus described: "The moon, Madam, faintly fhone; we faw her tranfient beams through the trees, as we paffed the now deferted hermitage;the white obelisk, which the lamented Edward confecrated to friendship, ftruck us with forrow and regret; the wind-chair, from whence he took views of the fine vale of Belle-Vue, now never more to be occupied, looked, I thought, like a gaping fepulchre; and the timber, and bricks, which lay in confufed heaps round the house they were intended to decorate, gave it already the appearance of that ruin in which it will foon lie. The whole time we were passing the wall, our own feelings were too acute for utterance, but the fobs, and whispering lamentations of the men, women, and children, who followed the hearfe, were too general not to be heard. When the corpfe was taken out of the hearfe, fix young men, clad in decent mourning, infifted, though in the most respectful whispers, on carrying it; the undertaker's men, with fome reluctance, therefore, refigned their office, and we proceeded to the body of the church, which was fo filled with decent people, that when our proceffion came in, it was extremely crowded; a great number eagerly preffed round the coffin, fome to touch, others to fee, what contained the laft remains of him they called the good young fquire. I directed the pall to be removed, and they who could read fobbed over the fimple infcription. I could not help particularly remarking a |