which unites with a portion of the pot ash, and forms sulphate of pot-ash. The remainder of the free pot-ash retains some antimony oxided to a minimum. The white powder is the same as that sold by the name of Dr. James's. M. Pully asserts, that he has analized his powder to compare it with the other, and has found it to contain the same principles, and in the same proportions. TARTARY. The missionaries at Karass have printed several small tracts, in which the absurdities of the Koran are exposed, and the leading doctrines and duties of the gospel concisely but forcibly stated. The circulation of these over a great extent of country, has already produced a considerable sensation among the natives. In the district round Karass, a general attention to the subject of religion has been excited; the violent prejudices against Christianity are greatly abated; many do not scruple to express doubts respecting the truth of Mohammedism, and there is every reason to believe, that not a few would openly renounce it, were they not restrained by the dread of their chiefs. An effendi, whose name is Shelling, and who is allowed to be one of the most respectable of their priests, has frankly acknowledged, that he is unable to answer the objections against his religion; and though he still professes to be a Mohammedan, he discovers a high veneration for the gospel, and a decided attachment to the missionaries. ABDY, the old priest, died in October last, of the plague, to the infection of which his incautious exertions had exposed him. There cannot be a doubt, say the missionaries, that he too was speculatively convinced of the truth of Christianity, and frequently did not hesitate to expose the absurdity of the Mohammedan religion; but he was so much influenced by the fear of the chiefs, that he continued to the last to exercise the office of priest among his countrymen. The young natives, whom Mr. Brunton has ransomed from slavery, continue to give the greatest satisfaction. The progress which they make in their education, is exceedingly encouraging; some of them can already read the Bible. During the last year, several were baptized. Among these was Katagerry, the young Sultan, whose history is particularly interesting. He i. lineally descended from the Khans of the Crimea, and is allied to some of the greatest families in the East. His father being one of the chiefs near Karass, he became acquainted with Mr. Brunton, soon after lis arrival, and has ever since manifested the strongest attachment to him. The missionary, engaged by his amiable disposition, be gan to instruct him in the principles of Christianity, and it was not long before he perceived its superiority over his own religion. It is now two years since he renounced Mohammedism; and ever since, he has not only adhered stedfastly to the profession of Christianity, but zealously endeavoured to spread the know ledge of it among his countrymen. He loses no opportunity of recommending it to their attention, boldly defends it whenever it is attacked, and discovers the most earnest concern for their conversion. Nor is it with the common people only, that he takes these pains; he frequently argues with the mollas and the effendis, labouring to expose their absurd opinions and wicked practices, to their deluded followers. Hitherto, neither promises nor threats have caused him to waver in his attachment to Christianity. At his own earnest request, he was publicly baptized in the month of July, and was soon afterwards induced, by the wish to do something for his own support, to offer his services to the governor of Georghievsk, by whom he was immediately employed to write in one of the offices of the Crown. It is well knowu that Christianity was once the religion of many countries in the East, that are now overspread with Mohammedan darkness. A century has scarcely elapsed since the Abazas, the Kabardians, and other Circassian tribes, were compelled at the point of the sword to exchange the doctrines of Christianity, for those of Islamism. But though the majority of the mountain tribes submitted to the mandate of their conquerors, some successfully resisted, and these, it is said, still profess to be Christians. It is also reported that some of the old churches are yet standing; and that these people possess books, which none of them understand. One of the most powerful of these tribes, is the Sonna, of whom the missionaries have received many interesting accounts. WEST INDIES. Colonel BROWNE, of St. Vincent's, has represented to government, that a quantity of hemp, pitch, tar, and turpentine, may be manufactured in the Bahama Islands, equal to the consumption of all the navy and merchantmen of Great Britain. REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. Three Grand Symphonies for the Piano-forte, with an Accompaniment for a Violin to each of the Slow Movements. Composed, and dedicated to 7. P. Salomon, Esq. by Julian Busby, Mus. Bac. Oxon. THESE HESE symphonies, deduced from the score, and one of which we have, with delight, heard performed by a numerous and well-appointed band, are of a cast and degree of excellence which, we must say, transcend even the high expectations we had necessarily formed From our acquaintance with Mr. J. Busby's powers, as exhibited in his former productions. A certain strength of conception, clearness of judgment, and spirit of style, not often displayed even by veteran composers, pervade the compositions before us, and mark the singular prematurity of mind from which they have emanated. . The elegance and delicacy of the slow movements evince a free imagination, aided by a refinement rarely obtained but at the expence of long experience and close and elaborate observation, while the accompaniment bespeaks a knowledge of effect that cannot but surprize those who know the youth of the author. In a word, these symphonies, though by no means easy of execution, will well repay the assiduity of the emulous practitioner, and afford no small delight to the tasteful auditor; and whatever we might naturally anticipate from the son of Dr. Busby, the countenance and patronage of so sound and respectable a musician as Mr. Salomon must serve to confirm the public opinion of Mr. B.'s extraordinary claims to applause and encouragement. No. I. of Mozart's Concertos. This is the first number of a work to be edited and conducted by Dr. Crotch, to appear in eighteen monthly parts or portions, and to contain all the most celebrated concertos of Mozart, arranged from the scores of Dr. C. for the pianoforte. This promises to be a valuable work to piano-forte practitioners. Dr. Crotch has commenced his task with ability, and will, we doubt not, conduct the publication to its conclusion with credit to himself and the liberal proprietors and publishers, Messrs. Sperati and Cianchettini. The undertaking is patronized by a subscription. Each Number (price The style of this sonata is distinguished The passages, by its taste and ease. though neither bold nor striking, are conceived with facility, and proceed with a connected, flowing effect, that will not fail to please the lovers of smooth and chaste music. It would be injustice to Mr. Burrowes, not to notice particularly the high polish of many passages in the second movement, and the very agreeable subject of the concluding rondo. Tre Duetti, con Accompagnamento di Pianoforte. Composti da Vincenzo Martini, Maes tro di Capella della Corte Imperiale di Russia. 2s. 6d. These duets are written in a light familiar style; and, though conceived with elegance, will be found simple in their general construction, and easy of execution. The first and third are particularly attractive, whether the beauty of their passages be separately considered, or the attention be directed to the general ef fect. The First of May, or "Awake the Lute, the Fife, the Flute," a Glee for three Voices, with an Accompaniment for a Piano-forte and Harp, or Two Performers on One Pianoforte. Composed by T. Attwood, Esq. 3s. 6d. A kind of aerial sprightliness pervades this composition, which cannot but delight every tasteful hearer, because it is at once sweetly playful and highly characteristic. The parts blend with much happiness of effect, and the, accompaniment leads the mind to those vernal scenes, the vocal thrillings of which it so closely imitates. A Collection of Psalm Tunes, intermixed with Airs, adapted from Haydn, Purcell, Handel, Corelli, &c. Set for Four Voices, for the Use of Choirs or Families, and dedicated to S. Webbe, sen. by bis son S. Webbe, jun. 10s. 6d. Mr. Webbe, jun. in this work, which is comprized in two quarto volumes, has furnished the lovers of sacred music with an ample variety of useful and pleasing matter; and by forming an accompaniment for the piano-forte, by a compres sion of the vocal parts into two lines, (added to the score), he has enlarged its sphere of convenience; especially in regard to family practice, for which, indeed, it is more particularly adapted. A Grand Duet for Two Performers on One Piano.forte. Composed, and dedicated to Miss Scott and Miss H. Scott, by J. Gildon. 55. This duet is characterized by a considerable portion of taste and spirit. The two parts have a just relation with and bearing upon each other, and the combined effect bespeaks ingenuity and contrivance. The passages independently considered, exhibit a pleasing play of fancy, and every where lie so commodiously for the hand as to invite the practice of the juvenile performer. The Robin, a much admired Canzonett and Trio. Composed, and dedicated to Miss Ryle and Miss Daintry, by J. B. Sale, Author of the Butterfly." Ss. The imitation tunes in the melody of this little production bespeak much taste and judgment. The words are from Mary Ward's Originat Poetry; which Mr. Sale has so treated, as to have formed the best possible comment on the sense of the fair authoress. The Favourite Hornpipe, danced by Miss Gayton in the Ballet of Le Mariage Secret. Composed by Fiorillo, and arranged for the Pianoferte by J. B. Cramer. 25. The lively little exercise into which Mr. Cramer has converted this popular hornpipe, will amuse and improve the juvenile performer, and add to the stock of ingenious trifles. Mr. Parry, of North Wales, author of Ap Shenkin, the Cambrian Lyrist, and other popular productions, is distributing proposals for publishing, by subscription, a selection of Welsh Melodies, with symphonics, accompaniments, and appropriate English words. The whole to be arranged for the piano-forte, and one, two, and three voices. Those of our musical readers, who are not already furnished with Dr. Callcott's Musical Grammar, will be glad to learn, that a new edition of that useful and in genious work is in the press, and will be forthcoming in the course of the present month, recommended by many addi tional and valuable examples and annotations, from the able pens of Mr. Jousse, Mr. Horsley, and Mr. S. Wesley. ABSTRACT OF THE PUBLIC LAWS ENACTED BY THE BRITISH BY LEGISLATURE. Passed in the 49th Year of the Reign of George III. (Not Annual, or of an Official nature.) Y the 49th Geo. III. a proportion of the militia of Great Britain may inlist voluntarily into the regular forces, so as to leave serving, including corporals, three-fifths of the number of the establishment in rank and file of such regiment of militia, consisting of one regiment or battalion, or less, and if of more, according to the proportion allowed by the Secretary of State. By the 49th, Geo. III. c. 5, a like proportion of the militia in Ireland may also voluntarily inlist into his Majesty's regular forces. By the 49th Gen. III. c. 6, persons in custody for contempt of courts of equity, for non-payment of money or costs, shall be entitled to the benefit of the insolvent acts, commonly entitled the Lords' Acts. This provision will relieve prisoners where, previously, however calamitous the case might be, they had no possibility of being relieved, except from the operation of some general insolvent act. The 49th Geo. III. c. 12, (the annual Mutiny Act) contains the following new clauses. Persons inlisted, concealing infirmities on inlisting, may be transferred to garrison, veterans or invalid battalions, or the marines, § 75. No No person, except an apprentice, shall be able to be taken out of the service, by the warrant of any magistrate, for breach of contract to serve any master; and any servant hired for a year, inlisting, shall be entitled to such proportion of his wages, as the magistrate shall direct, up to the time of enlistment. § 87, 88. When any corps beyond seas shall be relieved, in order to return home, such of the men as shall choose, may be enlisted; and soldiers entitled to discharge, are to be sent home free of expence, and have conduct and marching money home. § 89, 90. Officers, storekeepers, commissioners, and others in that department, embezzling military stores, may be tried by a court-martial and adjudged, while in service out of the United Kingdom, to transportation for life, or years; or to suffer such punishment of pillory, fine, imprisonment, or dismissal from his Majesty's service, as the court shall direct; or otherwise be incapable of serving in any office, civil or military, or forfeit two hundred pounds; and make good the loss to be ascertained by the court-martial, to be levied by distress and sale; and for want of distress, the offender to be committed for six months; and after the sum shall be levied, the same shall be applied as his Majesty shall direct. $101. Non-commissioned officers embezzling soldiers' pay, shall be reduced to serve in the ranks, and be put under stoppages until the money be made good, and suffer such corporal punishment, not to life and limb, as the court-martial shall think fit. § 102. No paymaster, commissary, or other person, shall make reduction out of officers or private men's pay, except directed by the king's sign manual. § 113. If any paymaster, agent, or clerk, of any garrison regiment, corps, or company, shall detain for one month officers' or soldiers' pay, he shall forfeit to the informer before a court-martial, one hundred pounds, to be levied as aforesaid; and the informer, if a soldier, if he demands it, shall be discharged. § 105. Agents of regiments, independent troops and companies, are to obscrve such orders and directions, as shall be given under the sign manual. § 106. Every person not an authorized agent of any troop or company, who shall ne gociate or act as agent for the purchase and sale of any commission, and also every authorized agent, who shall accept any commission, money or reward, for negociating the purchase or sale or acting as an agent, shall forfeit one hundred pounds, and treble the sum given above the regulation. § 107. And paymasters, agents, and clerks, are to ac count with executors and administrators. $108. By the 49th Geo. III. c. 14, if any woman in Scotland conceal her being with child, during the whole period of her pregnancy, and shall not call for, and make up of help or assistance in the birth, and if the child be found dead, or be missing, the mother, being convicted, shall be imprisoned for not exceeding two years. REPORT OF DISEASES, Under the care of the late senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 20th of March, to the 20th of April, 1809. The present prevalence of pulmonary affections, it is unnecessary to notice. A remarkable illustration of that flat-blished pthysis is all but desperate, it tering but faithless hope, which conceals ought also to he considered, that what too too generally passes for pulmonary consumption, in nine, perhaps, out of ten cases, so far from involving any essential injury ro, has, in fact, nothing to do with the lungs, only as those organs may be affected by the disease or derangement of the neighbouring viscera, or of the universal frame. The liver, the stomach, and not unfrequently, the alimentary canal, is often the primary source of those symptoms which are unjustly ascribed to the impaired machi nery of respiration. It is not in curing consumption, winch, in its state of full formation, has, perhaps, never yet been effected, but in discriminating it from other diseases which are apt to assume its countenance and features, or in detecting the secret and infant tendencies towards it, at a time, when they are not gone too far to be counteracted, that the talent of the physician may be exhibited, and the application of his sagacity and skill may prove of important and essential advantage. To two cases of fever the Reporter has recently been called, which, although they are likely to terminate in a favorable manner, by no means give sanction to the unqualified assertion, of which many years ago the Writer was, in these Reports, guilty, that "no one need die of fever." Since the period when that unguarded observation was made, much additional ex perience and reflection have given a greater moderation to his mind, and rendered him disposed to doubt rather than to dogmatise. This more matured and chastened temper has, likewise, gradually led him to think with a diluted confidence in, and somewhat lessened or modified respect for, the Brunonian system. Brown was a benefactor to science, not so much in making discoveries, as in expunging errors, which previously to his time had accumulated to a heavy and monstrous pile. He swept, with the besom of destruction, the Augean stable of physical absurdity. He restored, in a the long-suspended, great measure, though rightful empire of common sense and ordinary instincts. But he did little more. He weaned Medicine from the bosom of Superstition, but he still left her in the feebleness of childhood. Brown's character must be regarded as emblazoned with genius, but there is a halo around the lustre of its orb. Amongst the "splendida peccata" of the Brunonian theory, is its deficiency as a guide to practice. Amidst surrounding darkness, the glow-worm's light, though beautiful and brilliant, is by no means sufficient to direct the benighted traveller on his way. April 25, 1809. Grenville-street, Brunswick-square. J. REID. MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. The Use of all New Prints, and Communications of Articles of Intelligence, are requested under COVER to the Care of the Publisher. ISS Coward's Landscape (115) is a For grandeur of conception, excellent grouping, correct colouring, knowledge of costume, this picture is unequalled by any in the Exhibition, and must raise Mcreditable composition, and natu- mournful sensations in the breast of the rally coloured. Copley's large picture of the Offer of the Crown to Lady Jane Grey (130), which has been exhibited at the Royal Academy, is certainly a fine work of art, but there is far too much attention paid to minutia. The Poet recording a Thought, a fine frenzy:(138), is an admirable piece of humour, but too nearly allied to caricature. After passing many pictures of mediocrity, the critic must be delighted with meeting the President West's charming piece of Isis delivering Jove's Command to Priam for him to go and solicit the Body of his Son Hector in the Tent of Achilles, (170), true lover of art to see the public taste and |