facts. I used to think my hypothefis on Scurvy very probable, and I was confirmed in this idea by Dr. Trotter. But I at present think we were both mistaken. Good, however, has arisen from thefe fpeculations, as they have brought forward obfervations, which otherwife apparently would never have been made; and fome of thefe obfervations are useful in practice. When I publish my View of the Medical Treatment to be purfued in the pneumatic Inftitution, I will unfold what I here fay, and add my reasons,” p. 147.

Thele remarks of Dr. Beddoes breathe a candid and a liberal fpirit: and we have no doubt but his reafons, whenever they are published, will meet with attention equally candid and liberal from the author of the Medical Spectator, who has touched upon these fubjects with his accustomed pleasantry and good humour, and apparently not without effect.

In addition to the treatife on Diabetes Mellitus, there are fome ingenious experiments by Mr. Cruikshank on urine and fugar, which, by the advocates for m dern chemifiry, will be deemed inrerefting and fatisfactory.

Part II. contains the refults of trials of various acids and fome other fubftances, fuch as the oxygenated muriate of Pot Afto. of Manganefe, &c. in the cure of the Venereal difeafe; and we are compelled to acknowledge as facts, though we totally dibelieve the chemical principles in which they have originated, that these new remedies have fucceeded in fuch a number of cafes as to inerit the moft ferious atten tion of the faculty, becaufe, if they do actually poflefs antifiphilitic virtues, even confiderably fhort of what appears in this publication, they muit, in many cafes, fuperfede the ufe of mercury, which is fometimes found to be full as injurious to the conftitution as the lues venerea. In that fituation, for instance, where it has ent rely loft the power of checking the progrefs of the dileafe, at the fame time that it hath fo far poi foned, contaminated, and debilitated, the human frame, as to give a difpoft tion to venereal fores to (pread with a malignity relembling the cancerous; in fuch cafes, which must have occafionally occurred to every furgeon of ex• cofive practice, we have no doubt but the new remedies enumerated in this work will be adopted with the greateft ardour and anxiety; and we fincerely hope with the fame fuccefs which has attended their adminiftration by Drs.

Irwin, Jamefon, Cruikshank, Wittman, &c.

18. Gurfory Remarks on the Nature and Caufe of the Marine Scurvy, fhewing that that fatal Distemper may not only be prevented, but probably eafily cured, on board Ships at any Distance from Land. By John Sherwen, M.D.

THE preceding work prefented us with a fcientific detail of the morbid effects arifing from too large a proportion of faccharine matter generated in the human fyftem, and the falutary influence in fuch cales of à diet confifiing chiefly of animal food. This effay fhews, in a manner equally fatisfactory, that a long-continued ufe of animal frod tends to promote the fcerbutic diathefis in which there is always an abtraction of the faccharine principle in the chyle, and a preternatural generation of ammoniacal falt in the blood and juices, the progrefs of which is fpeedily checked by the ufe of recent vegetables, farinaceous food, fugar, molatles, and every fpecies of acid and faccharine fruit or vinous liquid.

It is well known to most of our medical readers that the late Profeffor Cullen afcribed the (curvy to this preternatural generation of ammoniacal fa't-an opinion adopted by the author of the work before us, who, rejecting the effects of cold weather, a moift' atmosphere, and damp cloathing, the principal occafional caufes of Dr. Lind, confiders the pre difpofition to fcurvy to depend entirely on the ufe of fuch food as prevents the formation of an acid in the ftomach. He alfo contends that common culinary falt, in addition to the free ufe of animal food, has a powerful effect in producing the aicafe *.

In an Appendix he fhews, in the molt fati factory manner, that the fcurvy mav be speedily and conveniently cured on-board thips at any distance from laod by the ufe of a very wholesome and not unpalateable article of tarinaceous food previously fubjected to the first part of the procets of malting, which brings it ing the fate of recent vegetable matter, the grand defideratum of every writer on this difcale, which has been the faral icourge of many thousands of Bri uth feamen..

21. The Prifoners' Defence supported; or, An Anfawer to the Charges and Allegations of George Markham, Vicar of Carleton, in Yorkshire, contained in bis Book intituled "Me Truth for the Seekers." By the Author of the Defence.

THIS may be called "More laft Words of the Quakers," though, perhaps, not THE laft words. It is here ftared, that, in confequence of the Juf tices iffuing warrants for the amount of the fums decreed against them refpec tively by the Court of Exchequer, with the proportion of cofts on each,

their effects were feized and fold to

great difadvantage. The ruinous con-
Lequences of fuits in the Court of Ex-
chequer will appear to the reader from
a comparison of the fum decreed against
them for tithes with that taken from
them by the bailiffs. The amount of
the tithes, exclusive of cofls decreed a-
gaialt fix of the defendants, was 2056
os. 5d.; and the value of their pio.
perty taken was, according to a fait
appraisement, 5071. 35. 3d. That ̈`
property was, however, fold for 4181.

19s. 11d.*

This variation between

the amount of the tithes and the value of the goods i, to perfons in faitened, circumstances, an important difference; which, added to the lofs of property and the improvements from industry, occafioned by our imprisonment, has been painfully felt by fome of us.

Different confequences, 881. 35. 48.

This original fum of 105 1. ros. d. if divided and yearly recovered before the Juftices, according to the lenient provifions of the Legiflature, would have been levied in fuch finall proportions as to render the burthen light in comparison of what we have been made to feel."

Now, is not this statement, by the Quakers themselves, the ftrongest argument against them? For, had they and yearly recovered before the Juftices, confented to pay the fums fo divided according to the lenient provisions of the Legislature, they would not have incurred an additional penalty of cofts and damages, which they keep out of fight, and the lofs of near 100l. on the fale of their property. Their conduct, therefore, can be afcribed, by impartial obfervers, to no better principle than worldly-mindedness.

22. Thoughts on the Novelty, the Excellenciess and the Evidence, of the Chriftian Religion. By John Simpfon.

"THE Religion of Jefus is novel and tranfcendant in its principle. There. and a new basis of religion and morals.n is a new object of faith in the Golpel, 1. The whole doctrine of true religionsw and the whole fyftem of moral duty red and ourfelves, is inculcated in the Gol fpecting God, our fellow-creatures; 2 pel, as founded upon one plain, fimple fact, eafily comprehenfible by thole of the loweft capacity, and abundantly A evident to enlightened reafon; namely, that God is our fa'ber, and the father of all mankind. 2. Chriftian religion and morals are new in the degree of their extent, their purity, and their fimplicity, and in the manner in which and Finisher of our faith; 3. and in that they were taught by the great Author it contains, in the character of its author, an exemplification and pattern of that complete fyftem of piety and virtue which it teaches as far as he had an

opportunity of exhibiting it. 4. The motives which the Gofpei urges to an obedience to its laws are more cogent, perfuafive, and animating, than thofe of religion. 5. Chriftianity is new bathi which are offered in any other fyftem in the kind and in the degres of its erš

dence. 6. The means that were emé

ployed to publish the Gofpei were totaily new; and the piedy and extensive progrefi of it, under fuch circumftances, was unparalleled. 7. The effects which Chriflianity produced upon the religion

and

and manners of mankind were fingular and aftonishing. No other inftitution, of any kind, has to rapidly brought about a general change in these as the Gofpel has done.

We have already reviewed "An Effay to fhew that Christianity is beft conveyed in the hiftoric Form," by the fame author.

23. A Letter to the Church of England, pointing out feme popular Errors of bad ConJequence. By an old Friend and Servant of

the Church.

particularly in that of Abon Haffan, &c. is much more copious, or the first English tranflator has omitted much. How many editions the French has gone through fince 1704 is not afcertained, as M. Galland tranflated only one of the 36 parts of which the origi nal coofits. A continuation has been attempted by Dm. Chovis, of Dijon, the ftrange intermixture of European and Oriental ideas and fubjects in which would at once belie their Eastern origin. It was tranflated by R. Heron, 1792, and published at Edinburgh THE popular errors here pointed twice, and at London. In the fecond out are, that the power of government edition of the fame year, at Edinburgh, is derived from the people, who are the tranflation is new-modeled; and governed, instead of from God; that alfo in a fecond at London, 17944 | revolution is the only title to govern, afcribed to Mr. Bele. ment, inftead of an axe laid to the root MS. of thefe 1001 tales was among An original of all the governments and laws on Wortley Montague's MSS.; and more the earth; that privare judgement, or, of them were given by that traveller to as it is fometimes called, confcience, is Profeffor White, of Oxford. Captain not fchifm; and that liberality and Scott has about so fairly written, and charity is not indifference or ignorance; another gentleman 50 more, in Tur that revelation is different from the re ky The British Cotic of December, ligion of Nature; that the life and fpi- 1798, apnounces, to be published in a •T rit of religion is fomething more than fhort time a faithful and accurate vercant; too many mistakes are current hon of the Arabian Nights, by Captain among us in regard to the Old Tefta- Scott, from the original Arabic MS. in ment, without which the New never 6 volumes, which he has lately purwas, nor ever will be, underfond chafed; work, we agree with them, heathen literature and human author very earnestly to be defired. Capt. S. ties are too highly thought of. This tranflated "Ferifhta's Hiftory of the old friend and fervant of the Church Decan," and has now in the prefs the condemns Mr. Locke's principles, as "Perfian Tales of Inatulla," literally productive of the American and French tranflated from the work called "BeRevolutions, the prime favourite and har Daneh." grand inftrument with that mischievous infidel, Voltaire; and let any man judge whether the do&rines of M1. L. will prepare any man for preaching the Gofpel of Jefus Chrift.

24. Arabian Nights Entertainments; confifling of One Thaufand and One Stories, told by the Sultanefs of the Indies, &c. &c. Translated into French from the Arabian MS. By Mr. Galland, of the Royal Academy, and, now rendered into English from the last Paris Edition. A new Edition, corrected. In Four Volumes.

THE merit of thefe pleafing and in nocent stories, which have fo frequently amuled our childhood, nor have yet loft their effect upon us, has induced the publisher to attempt a reformation of the wretched tranflation into which they have been dons now near a century. The prefent edition of it is amended and confiderably enlarged from the Paris edition of 1786, in 4 vols. 12mp; which, in fome of the ftorics,

25. The Efficacy of Courage in a gead Caufe
A Sermon, preached in the Cathedrai-church.
of St. Paul, before the Lord Mayor, Alder.
men, &c. the Honourable Artillery Company
and the Temple-bar and St. Paul's Military
Diftri& Affociation. By Thomas Bowen,
M. A. Chaplain to Bridewell Hofpital
Minifler of Bridewell Precinct, and Übup-
lain to the Lord Mayor.

THE Rtrongeft instances of the effi cacy here recommended from the last words of Mofes, Deut. xxxi. 6, are given in the intrepid commanders of our Aeets, and the perions affociated to defend their country at home, with proper cautions against "the delufive and infidious cry of Peace with France! with whom no peace can be safe, but fuch as we have the power to compel. And whence can we derive that power, if not from the glorious victories with which the Almighty has crowned our

Mifprinted in the preface, p. xix, truly.

arms?

Confult, Your undertanding for your belief; his preface to Lobo's Hiftory of Abyt