The hero, Mr. Shove, has just put up a brass plate and a bell at the door of his lodgings:

Alas! what pity 'tis that regularity,

Like Isaac Shove's, is such a rarity!

But there are swilling Wights, in London town,
Term'd-Jolly dogs,-Choice Spirits,-alias Swine;
Who pour, in midnight revel, bumpers down,
Making their throats a thoroughfare for wine.
These spendthrifts, who Life's pleasures, thus, out run,
Dosing, with headaches, till the afternoon,
Lose half men's regular estate of Sun,

By borrowing, too largely, of the Moon.
One of this kidney,-Toby Tosspot hight,-
Was coming from the Bedford, late at night:
And being Bacchi plenus,-full of wine,-
Although he had a tolerable notion
Of aiming at progressive motion,
'Twasn't direct,-'twas serpentine.
He work'd, with sinuosities, along,

Like Monsieur Corkscrew, worming thro' a Cork;

Not straight, like Corkscrew's proxy, stiff Don Prong,

A Fork.

At length, with near four bottles in his pate,

He saw the moon shining on Shove's brass plate;

When reading "Please to ring the bell,"
And being civil, beyond measure,
"Ring it!" Says Toby-" very well;
I'll ring it with a deal of pleasure."

Toby, the kindest soul in all the town,

Gave it a jerk that almost jerk'd it down.

He waited full two minutes; no one came;

He waited full two minutes more ;-and then,-
Says Toby, "if he's deaf, I'm not to blame;
I'll pull it for the gentleman again.'

But the first peal 'woke Isaac, in a fright,
Who, quick as lightning, popping up his head,
Sat on his head's Antipodes, in bed,-

Pale as a parsnip,-bolt upright.

At length, he, wisely, to himself did say,

Calming his fears,—

"Tush! 'tis some fool has

rung,

and run away;

When peal the second rattled in his ears!

• Shove jump'd into the middle of the floor;

And, trembling at each breath of air that stirr'd,
He groped down stairs, and open'd the street door,
While Toby was performing peal the third.

Isaac eyed Toby, fearfully askant,-
And saw he was a strapper,--stout and tall;

Then,

Then, put this question:" Pray, Sir, what d'ye want?"
Says Toby," I want nothing, Sir, at all."

Want nothing!-Sir, you've pull'd my bell, I vow,”.
As if you'd jerk it off the wire !"

Quoth Toby,-gravely making him a bow

I pull'd it, Sir, at your desire.

"At mine!"" Yes your's- I hope I've done it well;
High time for bed, Sir; I was hast'ning to it;
But if you write up please to ring the bell,

Common politeness makes me stop, and do it.”

If this sample provoke the reader's appetite, he may thank us for pointing out a good ordinary to him.-Our account of this amusing volume has been accidentally delayed: but, as there never was a period at which the relief of a little jocularity was more necessary, the author's Broad Grins are by no means out of date.

Art. 34.
Patriotic Effusions, resulting from recent Events, and
from the Circumstances of the Times. 4to. IS. Cadell and
Davies.

Though all Parnassus may be put in requisition on the present occasion, the Muses themselves are exempted, and will serve only as Volunteers. On this gentleman's efforts, however commendable their aim, these ladies have not designed to smile; and having made this discovery, we will not hurt a zealous patriot by any critical strictures, but shall content ourselves with exhibiting one short specimen. Bonaparte thus exclaims in the following triplet :

War, then! he cries, since there's no peace for me;

Be all involv'd in equal misery,

And thus I'll realise EQUALITY!'

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Art. 35. Bonaparte; or the Free-Booter. A Drama in three Acts. By John Scott Ripon, Esq. 8vo. 16. Highly.

If, like some antient poets, modern bards were also prophets, we might be pleased with this work as a prediction, however defective it may be as a drama. It represents the Invasion; in which, an old woman, after having knocked down 50 French soldiers with a poker, solicits the Duke of Y- to grant, as a reward for her prowess, a poker for her armorial bearings. Bonaparte falls in single combat with a young English officer, and 40,oco of the French are slain, with the loss of only a few hundreds on our side. Thus, in a poet's imagination, "the battle is lost and won" long before it is fought.

Art. 36. Ode to the Country Gentlemen of England: reprinted from the works of Akenside; accompanied with a Preface and Notes 8vo. 6d. Hatchard.

A true bill notes there are, viz. two short ones; and a preface of six pages. This ode was first published in 1758, when the enemy threatened Invasion, and the poet thus addressed his countrymen : "O by majestic freedom, righteous laws,

By heavenly truth's, by manly reason's cause,

Awake;

Awake; attend; be indolent no more:

By friendship, social peace, domestic love,

Rise; arm; your country's living safety prove;

And train her valiant youth, and watch around her shore.” At the time when Akenside sounded the patriotic lyre, foreign troops were introduced into the island for our protection; we now depend on ourselves, and the exhortation "rise! arm!" whether it proceeds from the politician, the clergyman, or the poet, is in complete unison with our feelings.

Art. 37. A Pindaric Ode to the Genius of Britain. By the Reverend Charles Wicksted Ethelston, M. A., Rector of Worthenbury. 4to. Pamphlet, printed at Manchester.

Another defiance hurled at the menacing Corsican. The poetry is not equal to the patriotism, but for the sake of the latter we shall give a short specimen of the former :

Then come, thou vaunting impious Renegade,
And feel, once more, incens'd Britannia's blade.
She spurns thy hateful yoke-

Soon shalt thou taste the stroke

Of genial Freedom's sinewy arm.-To conquest led,
Her sons th' embattled plain with firm defiance tread.'

Mr. E. should have considered that the scythed car' is not an implement of modern warfare, and that by it a prostrate sheaf cannot be mown.'

MEDICA L.

Art. 38. Facts decisive in Favour of the Cowpock; including the History of its Use, Progress, and Advantages; and the Evidence given before the Honourable the Committee of the House of Commons, with their Report and Remarks on the Same. By Robert John Thornton, M.D. 4th Edition. 8vo. pp. 318. Symonds. 1803.

We have already had occasion to notice a former edition of this work. The principal addition to the present consists of the Report of with a Committee of the House of Commons on Dr Jenner's petition; the evidence brought before them to substantiate his claim to a remuneration.

Art. 39. An Account of the Epidemical Catarrhal Fever, commonly called the Influenza, as it appeared at Bath in the Winter and Spring of the Year 1803. By William Falconer, M.D. F.R.S. 8vo. Is 6d. Robinsons.

The Influenza made its first appearance in Bath about the middle of February; and the symptoms which marked its commencement were such as are common to other febrile complaints, particularly those which incline to an inflammatory diathesis. They were soon followed by cough, and difficulty of expectoration, occurring with various degrees of violence. Vertigo was occasionally an early symp

See M. R. vol. xxxix. N. S. p. 98.

tom,

tom, and in several instances it was very alarming: but, in general, most was to be feared from the violence of the pulmonic affection. Dr. Falconer, however, had occasion to observe that, where the vertigo was most troublesome, and appeared early in the disease, the peripneumonic symptoms were but slight, and vice versa. Soreness of the throat, (without any particular appearance in the fauces,) and pains in the joints, were frequent attendants of the influenza in Bath. The pulse in different cases varied from its healthy standard to 150 pulsations in a minute: but its frequency did not appear to be any particular test of the danger. The debility that followed this com plaint marked it very strongly. Few persons recovered their strength in less than three weeks, and several persons were so reduced as to be sensible of its weakening effects for a longer time, after the fever had entirely ceased. In some a dimness of vision continued some time after the strength was pretty well recovered.'

The disease appeared to the author to be by no means a fatal one, and the cases which terminated unfavourably were mostly of such persons as were advanced in life. On the treatment of this complaint, Dr. F. observes;

There appeared in several instances, a strong necessity for active operations. The peripneumonic symptoms were so urgent as to supersede all general cautions respecting bleeding, and admitted of no alternative. Nor have I observed, that the persons on whom this operation was practised, even to a considerable extent, suffered from any consequences that might be supposed to attend the excess of this evacuation. On the contrary, I found that those persons who were bled to such a degree as effectually to relieve, not merely to palliate, the more urgent symptoms, sooner recovered strength, than those on whom this operation had been most sparingly practised. In short, my decided opinion is, that, when it appears in a threatening peripneumonic form, it must be treated in the same manner as is found effectual in that disease, without regard to any speculative opinions that may be entertained respecting its specific nature or character.

I freely own, that at the first appearance of this Epidemic, I was somewhat deceived by the general opinion; and indeed by some recollection of the same complaint in 1782, when bleeding appeared in some instances rather to aggravate, than relieve the symptoms. The weakness, too, which this Epidemic almost universally left behind, undoubtedly ought to suggest caution in the use of this evacuation. But, on the other hand, the urgency of the symptoms, the nature of the parts affected, and their immediate importance to life, superseded these considerations; and my observation of the relief which bleeding afforded, encouraged me to apply this remedy; and I have the satisfaction to reflect, with the success I hoped for.'

He adds, however, that it is only in cases where the symptoms threaten life, that bleeding by the arm is necessary. In common cases, where the breath is little affected, other remedies supersede its use, or at least render the application of leeches sufficient."

Emetics were found to be very useful in the early, but not in the advanced stages of the complaint. Diaphoretics, the vol. alk. and opiates, seemed to be particularly serviceable: but expectorants, as

the

the sal ammoniacum and squills, purgatives, and blisters, the author is not inclined to recommend. In a case which terminated fatally, where bleeding was not employed, the lungs were found to bear the marks of having been in a state of considerable inflammation.

Dr. Falconer is of opinion that the disease was contagious in the strictest sense of the word. It has scarcely,' says he, ever appeared without spreading to a vast extent; and has affected equally countries in the greatest variety, both in point of climate, and in the manners, diet, and habits of life, of the inhabitants. But still there. has always been a perceptible and indeed sufficiently marked interval between its appearance in one country and another; and it has never appeared in all parts at once; as it would have done, had it been produced in each individual by some generally operating cause.'

Annexed to this publication is the account of the disease as it ap peared at Paris, translated from the Moniteur of the 10th of February, and some observations by Dr. Haygarth on the contagious nature of the influenza of 1775 and that of 1782. In a great number of instances, Dr. H. was able to detect the introduction, and trace the progress of the complaint at both those periods; and, after a very accurate investigation, he has no hesitation in considering it in both instances as contagious. His remarks on the late epidemic are important, and may be useful in the inquiry concerning its peculiar

nature:

"This important question," he says, " may fairly be brought to issue on the present occasion. Let the facts above recorded, in regard to the progress of the Epidemics of 1775 and 1782, be compared with what has happened in 1803. We first heard of it at Paris, then in London, next in Bath, Chester, and other large towns which have the greatest intercourse with London; afterwards in smaller towns, and last of all in the villages which surround them.

"It is contended, that no hypothesis about the wind, weather, season, or any morbid constitution of the atmosphere whatsoever, can possibly account for such facts. But the progress of the Epide mic may be distinctly traced, and explained in the most satisfactory manner, by personal contagion of travellers ill of the distemper, who, as above related, actually conveyed it from place to place. While these events are fresh in the memory of medical observers in every town in the kingdom, I wish to appeal to their testimony, to correct any false representation in regard to the present Epidemic. On the contrary, I have no doubt that many of them will have had the sagacity to discover the individual patient who first introduced the distemper into each place. No physician ought to be satisfied with conjectures, when such numerous and decisive facts are so obvious to every observer."

The most striking peculiarity in Dr. Falconer's account of this Epidemic is its highly inflammatory nature, with the absolute necessity which frequently existed for bloodletting. In this circumstance, it seems to have differed materially from the form of the complaint which shewed itself in the metropolis.