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For after all thy deeds of social love,
O virtuous navigator, son beloved
Of Britain, after all thy glorious race,
No friends sustain thee to an honoured grave!
No kindred mourners thy loved corpse inhume!
A savage hand, amid thy great career,
Tore thee from manhood and thy country's arms,
And left thee mangled on a barbarous shore,
O virtuous navigator, son beloved

Of Britain, who explored, with dauntless aim,
The mighty barriers of each frozen pole!

The weeping Nereïds shall repeat the strain." P. 90,

A generous verse is also bestowed on the unfortunate La Pérouse; after which the hero of Trafalgar commands & lay.

"But louder notes resume the broken lay,
Such as amid the desolating storm

Were heard, when Victory bedewed her palms
At Trafalgar with tears: enraged, the Sea
In mountains rolled around her Hero's bier,
Poured the conflicting tempest, winged with death;
She woke the Furies of the deep, prepared
To celebrate in watery obsequies,

The direful sacrifice of all his foes:
But British Virtue, with a nobler aim,
Soothes the congenial spirit of her friend;
And snatching from the grasp of ruin, bears

His struggling enemies in triumph o'er

The waves' reluctant foam; nor heeds the shock

Of seas and winds nor Terror's howling form,

When Pity leads her through the wreck of night." r. 92.

The following sentiment is highly honourable to the author's head and heart.

"We would not rob you of your
natal shade,
Ye wandering nations of the western world,
To rule with foreign hulls the subject main.
To thee the sovereign trident of the seas
Belongs, O daughter of the British grove,
To thee the everlasting care to shield
From ruffian arms the nymphs of Albion."

P. 102.

We shall only extract the author's concluding address to Liberty and his native woods in Ireland, with a truly patriotic appeal to his countrymen. Lamenting the persecution of Liberty, who from

".. where the frantic Gaul adored a false
And prostituted image, idly styled

The form of Freedom, on whose altars bled,

Mid stifled groans, an hundred hecatombs
Of human victims. Check thy rash career,
O Muse! and homeward turn thy steeds fatigued,
Court the refreshing murmur of thy streams,
Thy native shades, where Liberty still holds
Her jealous reign, and listens to the songs
Of Hope; where, o'er the windings of the rock
Leaps the re-echoing torrent, or its foam
Whirls round beneath the towering cliff, whose brow
The vivid holly overpeers, and waves

The birch, in woodbine fillets hung, her buds,
Her purple sprays, and silver arms above.

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Here, on an humble seat, unseen, beneath
Yon ivied rock, or where the russet thatch
Shelters an artless hut, let me retrace
The dream of life; or, if that dream arouse
The melancholy train of phantoms doomed
To haunt the restless circle, sadly trod
By human recollection, let me awake
The Genius of the wood; with him restore
The memory of lapsed ages; see the wolf,
Sole tyrant of the forest, from his lair
Spring to the chase, and on the heathy rock
Arrest the panting fawn; behold again,
Around the blazing heap, a naked band
Consume the monstrous elk, by savage wiles
Ensnared; or image scenes, where Danish swords
Have dyed the stream in blood; or where the one
And patient anchorite hath told his beads,

While yet the woods of Erin could enshroud
Her thousand saints. Why, Erin, are thy bills
Unclad, thy mountains of their robes bereft?
Shall the cold breeze, unchecked, pour_o'er thy plains
For ever? Has the fiend of Discord chased
Thy ancient Dryads to some peaceful shore
Remote, and left thee bare and desolate?
In vain the British Oak shall plough the sea,
Protector of thy liberties, if thou

Neglect with lenient hand to bind thy wounds.
"Then may thy happier scenes revive, and all
Thy sylvan nymphs and deities return,

The sacred woods above thy rivers bend,

And grateful harps, upon Lagenian [Leinster] hills,
Or where the Atlantic or the northern main
Swells in the bosom of thy winding bays,
Record the living Oak: thy sons, no more
Clear the dark wilderness of western worlds,
Or bathe their restless hands in kindred blood;
While Commerce shall unfurl her social sails
To every wind, circling from every sea
Thy verdant shores secure; and Fame adorn

With civic wreaths the guardians of thy peace." p. 109.

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The notes which illustrate these two cantos are in Greek, Latin, Italian, and French, and discover equal classical reading and botanical science, as well as various other topics incidentally introduced. They and the poems do honour to the poet, the philosopher, and the man. occasional poems at the end of this volume, which we hope the author will not fail to follow by another, complete his plan they consist of sonnets and lines to the river at Rossana, in the county of Wicklow, and are greatly superior to most of the modern verses. We shall quote the conclusion of the "Lines in Praise of Coffee."

"When struggling asthma shall the bosom seize,
'Tis thine, blessed plant, to give the patient ease.
The throb convulsive slowly shall subside,
And the new pulse uninterrupted glide;
O'er the pale cheek returning life shall play,
And slow-reviving strength proclaim thy sway."
So when the Saint, more powerful than death,
Pass'd o'er the widow's son his healing breath,
The conscious heart with new sensation beat,
And

sprang the loved embrace with gratitude to meet."

P. 144.

An Inquiry into the Seat and Nature of Fever; as deducible from the Phenomena, Causes, and Consequences of the Disease, the Effects of Remedies, and the Appearances on Dissection. In two Parts; Part I. containing the General Doctrine of Fever. By Henry Clutterbuck, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians. 8vo. pp. 440. 9s. Boosey.

"TO a person unacquainted with the history of physic," says this author," and the imperfect state of its doctrines, it must occasion no small surprise, to find that a disease of almost daily and universal occurrence, and which has employed the pens of the most enlightened of the profession for the space of two thousand years, should at the present day be involved in doubt and obscurity, and that the widest differences of opinion should still subsist, both with regard to its nature and the mode of treatment."

The object of the present INQUIRY is to show, "that fever consists essentially in topical inflammation of the brain, or its membranes." The work comprises five chapters, each of which is divided into a certain number of sections. The first chapter contains Preliminary Considerations; consisting of the Laws of the System in Health- the Nature of Disease generally and the Division of Diseases into Universal and No. 127. Vol. 32. Jan, 1809.

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Local. Here Dr. Clutterbuck contends that there is no such thing as universal diseases.

"A disease can only in strictness be termed general or universal" (says he)" when it affects every part of the system at once. But there are evidently none such. The whole system may, indeed, be weakened, and all its actions be consequently diminished, as by loss of blood; but such a state, if it affect all parts equally, is not disease; though it perhaps strongly predisposes to it. Something more is wanted to constitute morbid action. Under such a state of general weakness the functions may continue to be carried on, though less vigorously than before; and until one or more of these become deranged or interrupted, or until some uneasy sensation is induced, disease can hardly be said to exist." P. 23.

This general conclusion we are not disposed to dispute; for surely there is no disease that "affects every part of the system at once;" or, more properly, there is no disease in which every part of the system is equally affected, or suffers the same degree of morbid action. As Brown expresses it,

"Every one of the exciting powers always affects some part more than any other. In this way, temperature affects the surface of the body diet, the stomach and the rest of the same canal the blood and other fluids, their respective vessels - labour and rest, the vessels again, and fibres of the muscles- passion and exertion in thinking, the brain," &c.

The same reasoning is applicable to the morbific agents. "The affected part is generally that to which any of the powers is directly applied." Still we are of opinion, that the division of diseases into general and local is useful in practice, that we may not, as Dr. Clutterbuck observes, "be employed merely in the palliation of symptoms, but in endeavouring to remove their causes, wherever this is practicable."

In the second chapter, Dr. Clutterbuck endeavours to assign the primary seat of fever in the body. In doing this, he examines the various phenomena of the disease-traces their order of occurrence, and their dependence on one another and on the exciting causes - in order to show that

the brain is the true seat of morbid affection in fever, and the source of all the symptoms which essentially belong to this disease, and which serve to distinguish it from other diseases. This opinion, he thinks, will be confirmed by the consideration of the remote causes that induce fever, and of the particular circumstances which seem to predispose

to it.

The third chapter is devoted to the consideration of the nature of fever. Here the author lays down his fundamental doctrine" that the disorder of the brain, which takes place in fever, is either a state of actual inflammation, or at least a condition nearly allied to it." This he endeavours to prove by a reference to the phenomena and causes of the disease, the effects of remedies, and the appearances on dissection.

We readily agree with our author, that "in fevers the functions of the brain are greatly deranged, and that many of the most formidable symptoms of the disease may be referred directly to this source." But we cannot decidedly admit that this cerebral derangement is founded on inflammation, or that it is the proximate cause of fever, upon which the symptoms immediately depend.

Dr. Clutterbuck distributes the occasional causes of fever into three classes: - First, those which act through the medium of the mind, as the mental passions and emotions; secondly, those which may be supposed to act by irritation, as cold, irritating, and indigestible matters in the prima vie, teething in infants, wounds, inflammation, &c.; and thirdly, such as are capable of assuming an independent material form, as the different contagions, marsh miasmata, putrid effluvia, &c.

"These may either be supposed," says our author, "to act on the extremities of the nerves, to which they are at first applied, or to be taken into the system by absorption, producing their effect by direct application to the brain itself, or its vessels." P. 116.

In our author's opinion, however, there is no necessity for supposing infectious matters to be absorbed.

They may act on the brain through the medium of the mouth, nostrils, lungs, stomach, or skin; with all of which they must come in contact. Whether they actually do so in all cases or in any, or whether they are in some instances absorbed and carried into the system, it is difficult to determine; but in either case their action is probably exerted on the sentient extremities of nerves: in the latter case, on those distributed on the internal coats of the bloodvessels in the former, on those of the general surface of the body, or of the cavities which open externally.'

F. 120.

In like manner, those occasional causes "which may be supposed to act by irritation, as cold, irritating, and indigestible matters in the prima vie, teething in infants, &c." also act on the sentient extremities of nerves." In short, neither these causes nor "infectious matters" haye any di

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