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run of children about it, not to feel for its diftrefs was impoffible: fhe had children of her own, and God knew how foon fhe might be taken from them; fhe would therefore certainly be a mother to the dear in nocent. It was accordingly put to bed, after which Mr. Dalton and his rib, whether from the confcioufnefs of a right act, or from any other pleafing occurrence of the day, spent the remainder of the evening in high good humour with each other, adding to their usual draught of porter, a bafon of warm punch, and retired to reft with better fpirits than they had ever before done.

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The next morning introduced our little heroine in a very engaging light to her new acquaintance; she had been long immured, without room to exercife, or play-fellows to amufe her; Dalton's children were three of them of an age to be her companions, and they had a large garden to range in; delighted with fuch a pleafing change, fhe prattled and carefiled them by turns, exhibiting in her lively fallies great good humour and visible traces of having received her first impreffions in genteel life.

Unconscious of the lofs fhe had sustained, and intoxicated with the dolls and toys (though not very coftly ones) with which the Daltons abounded, the thought of nothing elfe till bed-time; then a hearty cry after papa and nurfe for fome time rendered her fractious; but fleep foon filenced her little forrow: for fome days bed. time was her hour of affliction; but that wearing off by degrees, all memory of the past was loft, nor could they by any exertion in their power draw from her the furname of her parents; her own, fhe told them, was Anna: if the wanted any thing, it was, give it Anna," or "let Anna have it," but her ideas were fo infantine, they could learn nothing from her innocent talk that could lead to any disco very of where he came from or who fhe belonged to; as the never mentioned a mother, they concluded the woman who died to be her nurfe, and the man her father, both of whom were decently interred and in a week after an advertisement was inferted in one morning paper, by Mr. Dalton, in the following terms :

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"Whereas, on the 29th day of September, a man and woman took 6.6 a lodging in the Hampstead road, where the man died of an apoS6 plectic fit the fame day, and the woman of the fright occafioned "by it, leaving a female child: Whoever are related to the faid man or woman, and will take the child away, may apply to the Rev. John Dalton, Tottenham-court-road."

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My reader may perhaps conceive the contents of the trunk might have put the parfon in a furer method of finding who the orphan be longed to, but in that they are mistaken, for it contained no fort of information of that kind, or indeed any other but what he fully refolved to conceal with the most guarded fecrefy, and that was, the exact fum of fourteen hundred guineas, in fourteen small canvas bags, all marked rool. alike, fave, that in one, befides the money, were three valuable diamond rings, a lock of hair folded up in lawn paper, with My ever dear Anna's, H. T." wrote on it.

I wish I could with truth fay, these things were concealed with a laudable intention of restoring them, or that his inquiries after the child's original were made with that earneftnefs it would, had those valuables not been in Dalton's poffeffion. But I fear the reverse will

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be proved the temptation was strong, the tempted weak; avarice is a dangerous, it is an encroaching vice. Dalton had not any immediate intention of converting to his own ufe the money; but when ...once the glittering bait was fecure in his poffeffion, no witnefs or perfon to demand it but an innocent child, who could not now poffibly want it, how difficult for a greedy heart, fuch as that of Dalton, to be just, when justice would have deprived him of fourteen hundred guineas, and arguments being ready to corroborate our own partial ideas, this pair perfuaded themfelves, in retaining money, they could at any time restore, they were not injuring any other perfon, while they were materially benefiting their own family.'

It remains for us to obferve, that the most defective accompaniments of the publication before us, have a reference to its manner and diction. The former is often deficient in refinement; and in the latter we defiderate that variety and polish which are fo neceffary in giving completeness to performances of this kind,

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ART. IV. A Treatise on the Influence of the Moon in Fevers.
Francis Balfour, M. D. Calcutta printed. 1s. 6d. Elliot, Edin-
burgh.
THIS attempt, the author of which is well esteemed as

an intelligent and obferving man, to extend the imperium luna over fo great a part of medicine as that which concerns fevers, cannot fail to engage the attention of the medical world.

Dr. Balfour advances, and comments upon four propofi,

tions:

1. In Bengal, fevers of every denomination, are in a remarkable manner, connected with, and affected by the revo lutions of the moon.

He affirms, that in the course of fourteen years practice, he has obferved, that in intermittent, remittent, putrid, rheumatic, and nervous fevers, as well as that which accompanies the eruption of the fmall-pox, he has invariably obferved the influence of the moon. Thefe diforders make their attack, or the patient fuffers a relapfe, three days before, and three days after the full or change. If the attack, which very feldom happens, takes place in the intervals, the fymptoms are aggravated at thefe periods.

"But,' he further obferves, 'thefe obfervations are not confined to intermittent and remittent fevers. Head-achs, tooth-achs, inflammations of the eyes, afthmas, pains and fwelling of the liver and fpleen, fluxes, fpafms, and obftructions in the bowels, complaints in the urinary paffages, eruptions of different kinds. and a great many more, unattended by any obvious fever, affume often an intermittent form; and regularly return or increase with the full and change of the moon, and disappear or diminish during the intervals.'

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The second propofition is a neceffary confequence of the first.

"In Bengal, a conftant and particular attention to the revolutions of the moon, is of the greatest confequence in the cure and prevention of fevers."

3. "The influence of the moon in fevers, prevails in a fimilar manner in every inhabited quarter of the globe, and confequently, a fimilar attention to it, is a matter of general importance in the practice of medicine."

This is by far the most important propofition of the four. -To eftablish it, the author afferts, that he himself has obferved it from the 13th to the 26th degree of north latitude, and he adds, that the Arabian and Perfian physicians give certain accounts of it in thofe countries, that Hippocrates remarked it, in Afia and Greece, and that we have teftimonies of its exiftence in all the intermediate latitudes from Greece to Great Britain. No arguments can well be weaker than these. The author's obfervations do not extend to us. Setting afide thofe of Hippocrates, which are by no means conformable to the author's doctrine, what authority can be lefs refpectable than that of the eastern phyficians? But we have teftimonies of the influence of the moon from Greece to Britain. Whether fuch vague and equivocal affertions have "any portion of the order and becoming attire of science," to which the author laudably afpires, we need not particularly inquire. Scarce any pofition, however abfurd, can be advanced, which may not be corroborated by teftimony of fome kind or other It had furely been better, if this influence in our climates, had been left entirely as a problem to be folved by future experience. Such experience we have reafon to think, will by no means tend to confirm the doctrine of this pamphlet. Our attention at least has been directed to this object, fince we first heard of it; and we have feen no figns of the moon's influence in any kind of fever. But the operation of other caufes lefs remote and inexplicable, has been very obfervable; fuch for inftance, as a fudden change from mild to cold raw weather, the wind fhifting to the caft, in protracting intermittents and occafioning relapses.

The fourth propofition is, that the whole doctrine of the crifis in fevers may be eafily explained, from the premises we have established refpecting these disorders at the full and change."

The author hopes, that by these new observations, he has hit upon a line of accommodation between learned and ingenious men of different opinions, "concerning the crifis of fevers." To us this expectation does not feem very rea

fonable;

fonable; his doctrine is entirely inconfiftent with former opinions. It cannot furely be reconciled to that opinion, which denies the exiftence of critical days altogether; nor is it more confiftent with the ideas of those who maintain them. What have tertian and quartan periods to do with the remiffion that takes place at the expiration of the author's lunar periods, or the aggravation which happens at their fetting in?

ART. V. The Speech of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox, in the Houfe of Commons, on the Irish Refolutions, on Thursday May 12, 1785. To which is added an authentic copy of the Refolutions, as originally propofed and now altered, by Mr. Chancellor Pitt. Svo. 2s. Debrett, 1785.

A New fyftem of commercial regulation, in fome refpects the reverfe of that fyftem which, in the refolutions of the Irish parliament, had received the fanction of government, and which the Minister had pledged himself to defend, was firft opened, on this memorable occafion, in the Britifl fenate. So ftrange a tranfition of ftate policy muft have placed the contending parties in parliament in a fingular predicament. To adopt the new propofitions was to re probate the former, which the Minifter had pronounced inviolable. And to eftimate the merit or demerit of a plan of fettlement, confifting of fuch various and complicated arrangements, required the moft mature deliberation. But the House was not called upon to deliberate, but to decide.— And it must be owned that a vast majority, with an obfequioufnefs and precipitation unprecedented in the annals of parliament, almoft inftantly determined, bona fide, to follow the Minifter implicitly through all the meanders of his course. -One member*, with more candour than decency, avowed the maxim by which he was governed. But while the exercife of legiflative wisdom was fufpended by debate, the Leader of oppofition arofe; and delivered a fpeech which, if confidered as an unpremeditated difcuffion, elucidation, and diffection of this new, extenfive, and complicated fyftem of com'mercial policy, almoft in the moment of its birth, may be pronounced one of the greateft efforts of human fagacity. -The printed fpeech before us, though not authenticated by Mr. Fox, nor published with any fanction from him, preferves a good deal of his energy and vigour. It feems to be fubftantially correct; and cannot fail, in its present form, to be read and admired in all parts of the British empire.As a fpecimen, we fhall lay before our readers Mr. Fox's argument

*Sir Gregory Page Turner.

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argument for delay, which forms the conclufion of this mafterly oration:--

"I fhall only add, Sir, that he who can understand fo compli cated and fo extenfive a fubject, upon fo flight and tranfient a view of it, poffeffes an intellect not common to the general body of mankind, and which certainly cannot be the general characteristic of this houfe. For one, I can truly fay, he muft poffefs an underftanding of infinitely more quickness and acumen than any to which I pretend. He that votes for the propofitions without underftanding them, is guilty of fuch a defertion of his duty and his patriotifm, as no fubfequent penitence can poffibly atone for. He facrifices the commerce of Great Britain at the fhrine of private partiality, and fells his country for the whistling of a name. The minifter who exacts, and the member who fubinits to fo difgraceful an obedience, are equally criminal. The man, who, holding the first feat in his Majefty's council, can ftoop to fo difgraceful and fallacious a canvas, as to reft his minifterial existence on the decifion of a great national question like this, must be wholly loft to all fenfe of dignity, of character, or manly patriotifm; and he who acquiefces in it, from any other inducement but that of cautious and fincere conviction, furrenders every claim to the rank and estimation of an honest and independent member of parliament, and finks into the meannefs and degradation of a mere minifterial inftrument, unworthy the fituation of a fenator, and difgraceful to the name of an Englishman.'

Upon the whole, we will venture to affirm, that in political difcernment, in promptitude in debate, and in what may be called argumentative wit, Mr. Fox has fcarcely any rival among his cotemporaries; and perhaps it may be questioned whether his talents, in thofe refpects, have been ever furpaffed by the moft diftinguished orators of Greece or Rome.

ART. VI. Letters to a Young Nobleman upon various Subjects, particularly on Government and Civil Liberty: wherein Occafion is taken to remark on the Writings of fome eminent Authors upon thofe Subjects; and in the first place, upon those of the Reverend Doctor Price. With fome Thoughts on the English Conftitution, and the Heads of a Parliamentary Reform. 8vo. 5s. Robfon. 1785.

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HESE letters were written, the author tells us, with a defign of obviating the pernicious effects which Dr. Price's obfervations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, &c. had produced on the mind of a young nobleman. Hence he had imbibed, it seems, too high an opinion of the natural rights of mankind. He had begun to doubt whether there might not be found, more firmness of mind, more uprightness of intention, more fagacity, more patriotifm, and more virtue,' than refided in

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