Constantinople, from Dr. De Caro at Visana, and the disease was established at Constantinople; Lord Elgin, the British 'Ambassador there, inoculating his child on September 6, who was born August

31.

From Bagdad to Bussorah the distance dis much shorter, so that Mr Milne the surgeon at Bussorah received it in a few days.

The next difficult step, perhaps the most difficult of the whole, was to produce it in Bombay, after a sea voyage, and after it had been kept for weeks before we could use it. This will account for the many failures experienced before success was obtained.

The Recovery left Bussorah late in May, and as the season was favourable for making a quick passage, reached Bombay in three weeks, bringing supplies of virus, carefully put up in different ways. Between 20 and 30 "subjects were hitmediately inoculated, among which only one instance of success occurred. · Anna Dusthall, the child of a female servant belonging to Capt. Hardie, was inoculated by Dr. Scott, June 14. She was about three years of age, healthy, and certainly never had had the small-pox, She was remarkably good tempered, and to her quietness and patience in suffering the operation, its success is in some measure to be attributed.--The disease succeeded :- -there was, only one *pastale on the inoculated spot, nor did the child suffer any material convenience during | the whole progress of the complaint.

From Anna Dusthall on the 8th day of her disease, seven children were inocu. lated, and thus, this discovery has been established in India.

The island of Bombay, does not contain less than 150,000 people, so that the disease may certainly be kept up. The Hindoos and Parsees, both here, and at Surat, shew the utmost desire of having their children inoculated,

The Medical Board, impressed with a just sense of the important acquisition they had made, and anxious to diffuse it throughout India, directed the virus to be forwarded to Bengal, Fort St. George, Ceylon, and to all the other principal stations, every week; till they had the satisfaction of learning, that the disease was produced at Hyderabad, Masulipatam, at different stations on the island of Ceylop, and elsewhere.

VOL. I. [Lit. Pan. Feb. 1807.]

We have no occasion to quote any part of the descriptions of this disease, which compose a considerable portion of the volume before us: but it appears, from p. 41, that several instances occurred in Ceylon, of secondary pustules on parts of the body distant from the seat of inoculation. In one instance, three pustules ran their course regularly.

From Madras, the cow-pox was communicated to Port Jackson: three children being inoculated during the voyage.

The cows of India have not this disease,

p. 71.

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the British Institution for promoting the arts, the purposes of which he states with great satisfaction, and takes advantage, from the nature of the institution itself, to predict flourishing times for graphic merit. The prices of the pictures sold in this gallery during its first exhibition, which closed June 10, 1806, amounted to £5,450.

A sketch of the distinctions between the schools of painting, also, an historical glimpse at the estimation in which the fine arts have been held, precede the catalogue of pictures, to which is appended notes, and which is followed by some accounts of the masters whose works the reader is supposed to have been visiting, among whom are several names not in common dictionaries. A history of this seat, concludes the work.

Such assistance is very useful to whoever intends to enjoy the inspection of a Cabinet of Pictures, or other performances of art and the perusal of a work of this kind, not only prepares and enables the mind to dwell with most satisfaction on the principal articles, but supersedes a number of questions, which, sometimes, while they interrupt the contemplations of a connoisseur, vex him, by the little honour they do to the inquirer. A variety of information comprised in a small compass, renders this compilation useful in several other respects, even to those who have no such visit in prospect.

Dismissing this volume with the general praise it deserves; we take the opportunity it offers, to recommend in works relating to the arts, a more than customary attention to correctness in the names of persons, places, and things: and, we choose to select our instances in explanation of this principle, from the work of a gentleman well known for his indefatigable researches and general information, rather than from performances of dubious merit, in order that our intention may not be subject to misconstruction. Such slips, when detected, are no greater drawbacks from Mr. B.'s merit, or from the reader's entertainment, than they are from the gratification of inspecting these unquestionable chefs d'avie of art.

First, we observe, that abbreviations of every kind are inconvenient; they are imposed by necessity, and not to be adopted by choice: we would not, therefore put pan. for pannel: can. for canvas: or cop. for copper. It is a blemish: and that abbre

viations, of names especially, may be deceptive, is evident, by the instance of FRAN. [Fran Mola.] which may be either Francis, Francisco, or François; yet, the first, if written at length, would mark the artist as an Englishman, the second, as an Italian, and the third, as a Frenchman. It would be better to risk the seeming affectation of putting the Christian name at length.-A directly contrary error, though of the same nature, is committed in "No. S. Portrait of ToMASO MAS ANIELLO," the Neapolitan. Here the Christian name is twice inserted; Mas being the Italian mode of abbreviating TOMASO: whereas, we say in English, Tom.-Av. Ostade. p. 51, should be either, Ad. for Adrian, or A. v. for Adrian van Ostade.-Giacoma Bassan, p. 53, has, as we conceive, two errors we should read Giacomo; and Bassano as no native of Italy, to which country this artist appertained, would omit the o; and it is desirable, that each country should be supposed to retain its own mode of expressing its own names. For the same reason we remark Eustachius Le Sueur : a Frenchinan would write it Eustache:

also, Bartholomew Stephen Murillo: this is English, not Spanish. « Peter van Lear, born at Laeren," should certainly have been written Laer, correspondingly to the place of his birth. Calvert is also printed Calvart. John Lanfranc[0] p. 81, should be Giovanni. "Carlo Maratti called Cuvalière," is also improper: Cavalière imports the honour of knighthood, conferred on this eminent painter.-The same remark applies to

Titiano Vecelli Cavalière," p. 97. Finally, we must protest against introducing knighthood among saints, contrary to authority. "No. 98, SIR Charies Borromeus visiting the sick :" and the same in "No, 167, Sir Francis Xavire (Xaverius) dying on the coast of China."

A complete Verbal Index to the Plays of Shakspeare; adapted to all the Editions, comprehending every Substantive, Adjective, Verb, Participle, and Adverb, used by Shakspeare; with a distinct Reference to every individual Passage in which each Word occurs. By Francis Twiss, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 1190. Price £3 3s. Egerton, London, 1805.

WE always supposed that Reviewers had no equals, for patience; and that in

the walks of literature, they stood foremost in the persevering line, and in the exercise of indefatigability. We acknowledge, however, a formidable rival in Mr. Twiss, who, by incessant attention to substantive, adjective, verb, participle, and adverb, has almost shuffled us out of our precedence. We confess freely, that when we find works of which duty alone urges us to the perusal, we do not scruple to pay much less ceremony to both nouns and pronouns, than Mr. Twiss has paid to mere participles. But, then, the writers whom we thus treat with accelerated motion, are not Shakspeares, nor of the Shaksperean family; and we consider it as a great abatement of the applause due to Mr. T's. exertions, that he could find, wherever he went, some agreeable idea, or poetic beauty, to support his spirits; while we, alas! have drudged through many a volume without finding any such thing: without any mitigation of our labour, and with hopes truly forlorn, till we joyfully beheld the best word in the book-FINIS. We sabmit therefore, that if Mr. T. should be thought to excell in patience, yet that we exceed in long-suffering.

These volumes contain several hundred thousand references; and the author boldly "puts in his claim to general correctness, though he has not the presumption to imagine that such a work will be found entirely free from errors."

Mr. T. has collated in addition, the play of Pericles, that having been admitted by Mr. Malone into his edition of 1790, and, on the suggestion of Dr. Farmer, reprinted by Mr. Steevens.

It appears, that after Mr T. had made a progress in his work, which included all the then published editions, a new edition of Shakspeare in fifteen volumes, appeared; and this he has also comprised in his references, "wishing to profit by the last labours of so acute a critic as Mr. Steevens."

We are almost tempted to accommodate to our author, the words of the satirist on another subject,

Rem duplica. Feci.-Jam triplex; jam mihi

' quarto,

'Jam decies redit in rugam. Depunge uln sistam, * Inventor, Chrysippe, tui, et finitor acervi!"

A Letter to Samuel Whitbread, Esq. M. P. containing Observations on the Distresses peculiar to the Poor of Spitalfields, arising from their local Situation; by William Hale. 8vo. pp. 35. price 1s. Williams and Co. London, 1806.

MR. Hale has been very active as an inspector of the poor of the parishes of Spitalfields, St. Mathew Bethnal Green, and Mile End New Town, which are considered as forming one district. He has witnessed the most pungent distress, and in the present pamphlet he states a case of extreme misery. It appears that this quarter was principally built for, and peopled by, the French refugees, who left their country in consequence of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and the persecutions attending that iniquitous. measure. Of these, some were rich; but the main body was poor, and the rich have gradually withdrawn to what they think more respectable situations, leaving the poor to burden each other,

This mass of poverty, accumulated no doubt by the increase of families, and affected by every disadvantageous fluctuation in the market price of provisions, feels its own misery, but knows not how to relieve it. From the hand of those already poor is wrung the parish rate which is to support those who receive parish assistance; and this has been so severe a trial to humanity, that "the collector of the poor rates, appalled at their miserable situation, and well know

ing the total impossibility of wringing the money from them, gave up his books, though at the expense of losing a salary of about eighty pounds a year."

It appears, that this parish has had three or four acts of parliament for its direction and beside what assistance it received from the Patriotic Society at Lloyds' a few years ago, it had also £20,000 from his Majesty at the request of the House of Commons. Yet still it is greatly in debt, and barely able to pay the annuitants whose money it has borrowed.

The distress of this case needs no farther proof, and it strongly excites our compassion; but, whoever might wish to devise a remedy, would desire better insight into the causes of this peculiar state of suffering. We should wish to know the population of this district, the em

To be a good mechanic requires the labour of a whole life; a power of directing the attention and researches of the mind to a single subject, or to the devising of a single part of a subject, when need requires it: yet capable of comprehending the conveyance of the principle of action throughout a varied series of movements, to the very result intended. Add to this, much practical knowledge, a familiarity with the powers of nature, and what they can be made to effect; an acquaintance with the best specimens of art, and the principles on which they are constructed. The knowledge of what the ingenuity of others has accomplished, is often of great advantage to a mechanic, as it keeps him from attempting impossibilities, yet encourages him, under circumstances of difficulty and embarass

ment.

We promote with pleasure publications like the present; and as there are many kinds of machines at which our author has not even hinted, we would encourage him to communicate these also to the public. He will, however, attend, by our advice, to an orderly, and luminous arrangement of them; and he should not think it beneath him, to pay proper attention to the effect of his plates, both in whole and in part. Let him remember, that what the eye comprehends with least difficulty, the mind also understands with least fallacy. A wheel is round, not flat, it therefore should appear round in a design, though a merely practical operator disregards this nicety. Iron should be carefully distinguished from wood. By the representations on some of these plates, it might be thought that water was a solid body. These are certainly blemishes in a work of merit we remark them, not merely with a view to Mr Gray's future attention; but, by way of instruction to whoever may follow in his track That which is worth doing, is is worth doing well: and we are certain that whoever attempts to render a difficult subject comprehensible by general readers, will act wisely in profiting by every advantage within his power.

The public are under considerable obligations to artists who are masters of useful professions, for every communication, whereby the principles of their art are opened to practitioners in distant residences and in this commendation Mr. G. is well intitled to partake,

Viaggio di Licomede (Arrighi) in Corsica, e sua relatione storico-filosophica sui costumi antichi e attuali de' Corsi: ad un suo Amico. Travels of Licomedes (Arrighi) in Corsica, and his historical and philosophical account of the ancient and present manners of the Corsicans to one of his friends. Svo. price 9s. Lerouge. Paris.

THIS is one of those affected publications which have endeavoured to distinguish themselves at the French press; as appears by the author's assuming a Greek name, and giving Greek names to his friends with whom he corresponds.

The

From the circumstance of Bonaparte being a native of Corsica, that island has of late received a kind of comparative importance, and its history has assumed. an interest, to which the subject of it is, assuredly, not entitled, by its magnitude, its population, or its productions. The ancients were little acquainted with the carly state of its first inhabitants: after its conquest by the Romans, we have somewhat more information of the manners of the people but the picture drawn of them is little to their advantage. opinions of Strabo and of Diodorus Siculus are contradictory. The present writer, as Boswell before him had done, follows Strabo. The municipal government was established in this island, about the beginning of the eleventh century, and the writers of those times describe it, as having been highly advantageous to the people. That vindictive character which is imputed to the Corsicans, our author attributes to the oppressive tyranny of the Genoese. He is, however, unable to vindicate them from this charge; but ob serves, that their personal enmities ceased when the defence of their country and its liberties were in question. He also praises in strong terms their hospitality. The state of civil war to which they have been so long accustomed, has rendered them passionately fond of the chace: but has almost excluded them from acquaintance with the labours of agriculture, with commerce, or the arts of life. The population of this island, which he seems to have derived from authentic information, our author states at 166,000 souls whereas, Corsica, from its extent, might be thought capable of sustaining at least a million.