pedient to keep the Queen of Scots in confinement; to invent me thods to augment her diftrefs; to give countenance to the Regent ; and to hold her kingdom in dependance and fubjection *.

In thefe refolutions there were indeed an evident injuftice, and a favage rigour. But objections of this kind, it was thought, might be taken away or concealed by expreffions of lenity, and under appearances of refpect aud affection. It was contended in vain, that a plan more moderate in itself, and in effect equally deftructive of the confequence of the Queen of Scots, would preferve better the national integrity and honour. It was propofed to reftore Mary to her kingdom, under limitations and conditions that would give Elizabeth the most ample opportunities to interfere in her affairs, and to direct and govern them t. This scheme, however, was derided as precarious and uncertain. The prime counfellors of Elizabeth knew well her temper and difpofitions; and they encouraged them. No fentiment of generofity opened itself in her bofom. The greatness of replacing an injured and fuffering princefs upon her throne, and of recovering to her the full and undiminished enjoyment of her rank and rights, never once entered into her conceptions. It was in her power, by atchieving this magnanimous part, to gain to her for ever the gratitude and attachment of her fifter Queen, and to cover her brow with the most honourable laurels. But the chose to indulge in jealoufies, and anger, and rivalfhip, to add to the ferment of miferable paffions, and to feed the cankers that were wasting her heart.' And in p. 352, we have this note.

Notwithstanding the ability and the partiality of Elizabeth's commiffioners, it is very remarkable that the papers in the conferences at York and Weftminster lead to a strong cenfure of the English Queen. It is alfo to be inferred, that this cenfure would have been greatly ftronger, if Secretary Cecil had not in many places altered and interlined thefe papers. It is likeways known that Mr. Anderfon, the editor of the Collections about Mary, actually omitted and fuppreffed, with defign, many of the vouchers which were the most favourable to her actions and memory. Under almost every disadvantage, the fuperiority of her caufe evinces itfelf, and is a forcible admonition, that truth is the daughter of time.'

[To be continued.]

ART. V. The Hiftory of Lord Belford and Mifs Sophia Woodley: in a Series of Letters. 3 vols I 2mo. 9s. Noble. 1784.

HIS hiftorv has a diftant refemblance to the old 'ro

THIS mance of Sir Charles Grandifon and Miss Harriet By

ron. The heroine runs away from a graceless ravisher, and in this flight firft encounters Lord Belford. They mutually fall in love with each other; but Lord Belford is prevented by an unhappy entanglement which had befallen him in his travels, from declaring his paffion. Perceiving, however,

* Anderfon, Collections, vol. iv. p. 34, 42.

+ Ib. p. 40, 44.

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the growing partiality of Mifs Woodley, he makes her the confident of his foreign adventure. He informs her, that having become fecurity for an imprudent friend, and being diftreffed for money, a certain lady, called Julia, fells her jewels, and privately fends him the fum produced by them, fifteen hundred pounds. The next day Julia goes mad-- for the lofs of her jewels, we fuppofe---for no earthly reason befide can be affigned for the freak. She raves, however, on Belford; a bleeding fcene follows, and his lordship promifes to marry her if the recovers.'

Soon after this confidence Lord Belford hears fhe has shut herself up in a nunnery, and immediately declares his paffion to Mifs Woodley. It was all a mistake, fomebody of a fimilar name had taken the veil. Julia arrives in England at this critical period, and claims his hand. What a diftrefs! Conveniently, however, the adventures in the evening air, takes cold, dies, and Lord Belford is united to his Sophia Woodley.

From this abftract the reader will perhaps accufe our partiality. What the dickens!" if he be a mafter of the fame elegant ftile with our author, he will exclaim; call you this a diftant resemblance ?---Yes, Sir, we do, and we beg leave to obferve, that however unfavourable matters may appear, we are perfectly juftified in afferting, that there is by no means an exact coincidence between our author and Mr. Richardfon, that on the contrary our author has an original manner, a vein fui generis, to which that, popular novelist might in vain have afpired. As there is no point we hold dearer than the integrity and independence of our decifions, we will beg leave to go a little out of our way, and justify our affertion by a fhort extract. It fhall be from the interview between Lord Belford and Mifs Woodley, after Julia's arrival in England.

"The most rigid ftoic would have wept at beholding the meeting of these lovers: it puts to defiance all description, or even the mind to conceive their diftrefs. Belford tenderly took the pale trembling hand of his (once) Sophia, and preffing it to his lips, in faltering accents enquired of her health." "I am better, greatly better," faid the angel, "how is your Lordship?" To be brief, I foon found I could not stand this fcene." The letter writer accordingly retires, but immediately returns again." I now and then," fays fhe, "caught "the found of Sophia's voice concluding a few fentences, in which were—"No more, my Lord-an union was not good for us.-Heaven thought it not proper."---Good God, exclaims the writer, what is their magnanimity! What dignity of virtue do they poffefs! I really look up to

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them as to beings of a fuperior order!" She concludes, Alas! what is dinner to this interesting affair ?---Say, rath and inconfiderate reader, where has Richardfon wrought up a fcene like this?

ART. VI. Medical Obfervations and Enquiries, vol. vi. By a Society of Phyficians.

[Concluded from our Review of November laft.]

Cafe of a fpafmodic Inability of Deglutition, caufed (carrige cured) by Mercurial Unction. By J. H. Sequira, M. D. THIS dangerous fympton came on after a train of ner

vous complaints. When a variety of medicines had been ineffectually exhibited, a mercurial cerate was applied to the patient's neck, and two drachms of the unguent. cœrul. fort. were rubbed in for three fucceffive days; this treatment gradually reftored the power of fwallowing, and all the other fymptoms vanifhed, fays the author, as if by a charm. yo The Ufe of cold Bathing in the Locked Jaws By W. Wright,

M. D. F. R. S.

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In this article we have an account of fix cafes, fuccefsfulTy treated by the external application of cold water; a practice that has of late indeed been talked of among phyficians, but is by no means eftablished. The water was forcibly thrown upon the patients, and the cold bath ordered feveral times a-day Dr. Wright obferves that he has never failed to effect a cure by this method. The caufes, from which the fpafm proceeded, deferve attention. The first patient had a ftroke of the fun. The fecond was beaten feverely about the cheeks and temples. In the third instance the disease was apparently brought on by the uncommon warmth of the weather; at leaft no other caufe could be affigned. The fourth patient had the fole of his foot wounded by a rusty nail. The fifth had flept all night in the cold air. The fixth was attacked with unufual violence by the joint evil. In this country the locked jaw originates from no caufe more frequently than from an extenfive burn. Will the fame practice be equally fuccefsful in thefe cafes ?.

Cafe of a fingular Cough, by Archibald Douglas, M. D. Incontinence of Urine, cured by the Ufe of the Flexible Catheter, by G. Mitchell.

A Letter to Dr. Fothergill on the Benefit of a refufcitated Salivation, in the Cure of certain anomalous Symptoms, from Dr. Dobfon.

A young lady took Plummer's pills in fmall dofes, till a flight falivation came on, which ceafed again in a few hours, the immediately felt a fenfe of weight, fullness and uneafinefs

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under the xiphoid cartilage. Thefe fymptoms grew more and more troublefome, till at laft, when the attempted to fwallow any thing, violent retchings inftantly enfued. All thefe fymptoms were foon removed by a free ufe of mercurials The Hiftory of an extraordinary Affection of the Brain, in a Letter to Dr. Hunter, from Drs. Smith and Wall, and Mr. Langford.

A bony concretion connected together the dura and pia mater, and the fubftance of the brain. The mischief feemed to fpring from a blow on the hinder part of the head, received many years before, "a new proof, as it is well obferved, that every blow on the head, however flight the injury may appear at the time, ought to be an object of ferious attention, and the effects ought to be obviated by reft, venæfection, medicines, and regimen."

Obfervations on the Cure of Fluxes, by fmall Dofes of Ipecacu anha, by Dr. Fothergill.

In an habitual diarrhoea depending on fome irritating acrimony of the juices, accompanied with great weakness and irritability of the bowels, Dr. F. recommends the following procefs.

Let a grain, one and a half, or two, of Ipecac. be given in Aq. Alexit. fimp. or any other vehicle, in bed, in a morning This will fometimes act as an emetic, and bring up bile; fometimes it proves cathartic, and gives a few motions downwards extraordinary. In either cafe, a small bason of thin gruel may be taken, gently to promote its operation.

At night an anodyne fhould be given, if there be nothing to forbid it; rather a warm and cordial one, than a fimple anodyne. Confect. Damocrat. Theriac. Androm. or Philonium, as the cafe may feem to require.

By this means an undisturbed night is generally obtained, at leaft the dose of the anodyne ought to be fuch as to enfure it. The ipecacuanha may be repeated or omitted the next morning, according to its operation the preceeding day. If vehement, either upwards or downwards, omit it till the morning following; but repeat the anodyne at bed time.

It moft commonly happens, that a very few dofes of thefe medicines, with proper attention to regimen, gradually reftrain these difcharges. And the fame procefs, at longer intervals between the dofes of ipecacuanha, generally put a ftop to them, both fafely and effectually.'

He thinks the diforder has been often increased by the fame medicine adminiftered in too large dofes. He adds that frict regard must be had to the quantity of food.

Cafe of a flatulent Tumour on the Head opened and cured.

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Mr. Lloyd, Surgeon.

Obfervations on the Gout. By AnSmall:

Thefe obfervations, which the author collected from expe

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rience, in his own perfon, during a period of near thirtyyears, are highly deferving of attention. The following corollaries, as far as a fingle cafe can warrant general conclufions, feem to flow from the author's account of himself.

1. Gouty perfons should take as much exercife as poffible, in defiance of pain, as foon as the inflammatory stage is To the neglect of this precaution the author imputes the weakness of the joints that fucceeds fits of the gout.

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2. Leeches may be advantageously employed to abate inflammation.

3. Emetics may be liberally administered at the approach, of the gout, with the utmost safety.

4. The bark is of great ufe when given in the intervals of the fever, and fometimes removes the fymptoms.

5. If the part affected be expofed to the air, or wrapped only in the flightest manner poffible, the patient will elcape great part of the pain ufually attending fits of the gout, nor will any bad confequence enfue.

In these propofitions we can difcern nothing that is palpably abfurd or inconfiftent with the dictates of fair experience, though they lead to a practice very different from the common treatment of the gout. They are even, in many refpects analogous to the most approved method of treating inflammations. Every one who has infpected, however flightly, the hiftory of medicine, knows what fuperftitious precepts and mifchievous cautions formerly regulated the conduct of the phyfician, and in particular by what mounds and fences the accefs of cool air was for many ages prevented. It may now perhaps be only blind cuftom that wraps the gouty limb in a dozen folds of flannel.

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Dangerous Effects from Eating a Quantity of ripe Berries of
Belladonna, in a Letter from Mr. Brumwell.

The effects mentioned in this article are nearly the fame with those which are already upon record, as produced by the fame cause.

Cafe of a Feather or Pen, Twelve Inches long, which was ex tracted from the Oefophagus. By Mr. King of Dublin.

It was extracted by the whalebone probe, which had a thread paffed through the fpunge.

Cafe of a difeafed Kidney, in a Letter from Mr. Pearfon of
Doncafter.

This diseased kidney belonged to a boy four years and a ' half old, and weighed fixteen pounds and a half. The ureter was obliterated.

An Inftance of the good Effects of Opium in a dangerous Cafe of Retention of Urine. By J. Pearfon, Surgeon to the Locke : Hofpital.

A gonorrhæal inflammation brought on this retention of