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upon which we shall offer some re- either totally to new model the anmarks next month. dante movements of his overture, by filling up the harmony, or if he cannot do that, to get more drums, and then the audience will at least have more noise for their money, and be prevented from hearing the defects in the music. Z.

The Overture, Songs, and Dances, &c. in Harlequin and Mother Goose, performed with unbounded applause, at the Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden, &c. &c. Composed by Wm. Ware. It has been said "that every generation grows wiser and wiser." If this NEW MUSICAL WORK.-It is with observation is true, and we apply it great pleasure we have to announce, to the public amusements of the pre- that Mr. Barthelemon proposes pubsent day, we must naturally conclude lishing by subscription, an elegant that our ancestors were little short of collection of genuine Welch Airs, being idiots, and that posterity will decyphered from a manuscript in the form nearly the same conclusion re- original notational characters, sespecting ourselves. We have seen lected from the book of Gwylin and heard this much-admired panto- Penllyn, who was graduated and admime, and as far as we can judge, be- mitted a doctor of music, at the lieve it is indebted for at least half Eystedd, or congress of the bards, held its popularity, to the grimaces and at Caerwys in the year 1567, by order contortions both of limbs and features of Queen Elizabeth, which have never exhibited by Mr. Grimaldi. As to since been decyphered, or properly rational entertainment, it is wholly presented to the world. Price to subout of the question. The music, we scribers, 11. 1s. to non-subscribers, think, is quite good enough for 11. 7s. Subscriptions received by the piece, although we certainly can- Mr. Barthelemon, at his house, 30, not pay Mr. Ware any very high Hatfield Street, Blackfriars Road; compliment on this occasion. It might Messrs.Clementi & Co. 26, Cheapside; do tolerably well for 'A collection of and Button and Purday, St. Paul's Country Dances for the Year, &c.' Church Yard. A specimen of one Price is.; and in this class of publi- of the airs will be given in its ancient cations would have cut about as good notation, and the whole of the origia figure as the general run. The nals will be published in the Sd overture (excepting the rondo, which volume of the Welch Archiology. is tolerable) we consider as a most Mr. Bunting has announced the miserable and meagre performance; second part of the Collection of there is neither body nor soul in the the Ancient Music of Ireland. music; we even wonder at the pa- The much admired Sonata, entitled tience of the public, in hearing it so The Battle of Marengo, for the Piano often repeated. The vocal part is Forte, with accompaniments for the quite as indifferent, with the excep- Violin and Bass; composed by B. tion of Master Smalley's song, The Viguerie, will shortly be published, Cabin Boy," which certainly has some with additions, by an Italian Gentle merit. Should the piece be again man, The price will be 5s, performed, we would advise Mr. Ware

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HAVING seen in the Universal Magazine for February last, a letter of Mr. Jonathan Pratt's, in which he totally denies my having been at all concerned in the invention of the Claviole, which he ascribes wholly to the genius of Mr. Hawkins, it was my intention in answer to this letter, to have sent you a copy of a letter which I wrote to Mr. Hawkins when he was in America, but I have mislaid it; I hope, however, to find it in a day or two, when I will send it you for insertion in your Magazine.

In the interim, however, I beg Mr. Pratt to ask bis friend Mr. Hawkins the three following questions. 1st. Did not 1, in a conversation with him, previously to his setting out for America, fifteen or sixteen years ago, suggest to him the FIRST IDEAS of that instrument which he now calls the Claviole; and did I not, at the same time, dealare to him, that a Celestino of the celebrated Merlin's first suggested the idea to me,

of an instrument with gut-strings and a bow, which should have the effect of Duets for Violins, Tenor and Violin, Tenor and Bass, or a Trio between two Violins and a Bass, or even of a Quartett?

2dly, Did not Mr. Hawkins agree to set about improving upon the ideas I had suggested to him, and did he not agree that when he had completed this instrument, that he would write me word, and that then I was immediately to take out a patent in our JOINT NAMES, in London, Paris, and Vienna ?

Sdly, Did we not agree to appropriate a great portion of the profits to be derived from the sale of this instrument, to the erecting of a school for the education of boys and girls in the doctrines of the new Church, as interspersed in the works of the Hon. Baron Emanuel Swedenborg, to be under the direction of Mr. Sibly, present Minister of the 1st Society of the new Church, in London?

I expect, Sir, that as Mr. Pratt has introduced the subject into your Magazine, that he will report Mr. Hawkins' answer to the above queries, through the same respectable medium.

1 I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

FRANCIS HIPPOLITUS BARTHELEMON.

After the warning which we gave T. W. in our Number for December last, p. 522, we hoped we should not have been again affronted by authors offering to review their own works, but least of all did we expect it from Dr. CALLCOTT; we can assure the Doctor, that however such volunteering may be received by other Musical Reviews, it will be rejected with indignation by the "Apollonian Critic."

REPORT OF DISEASES,

In the public and private Practice of one of the Physicians of the City Dispensary, from the 20th April, to the 20th May, 1807.

Asthenia.

Catarrhus

Cynanche Tonsillaris

Rheumatismus.

Febris

Paralysis.
Hemoptysis.
Phthisis Pulmonalis
Hypochondriasis
Dyspepsia
Amenorrhea

Menorrhagia

Leucorrhoea.

Diarrhea

Hydrops.

Morbi Cutanei
Morbi Infantiles

15 have supposed the delicacy and irri12 tability of the infantile constitution3 others, the sudden and total change 5 of every circumstance in the infantile 2 body, which takes place at birth4 nay, more preposterous than all, the 2 cause of infantile death, has even 5 been ascribed, to the very nature of 5 the mother's milk. Thus, if such 8 opinions were true, we must conclude, 3 that the seeds of disease and death, 4 are sown in the very nature or 5 essence of the infantile constitution, 6 and that the great mortality which 3 prevails among them, is a necessary 4 consequence of the very laws and institutions of Nature.

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"But she who to her babe her breast denies,
The sentient mind, the living man destroys;
Arrests kind Nature's liberal hand too soon,
And robs her helpless young of half the

boon."

ROSCOE.

HE frequency of disease and

But this doctrine is founded on ignorance; on narrow and contracted views of Nature's works. The infants of the savage tribes are by no means so subject to the many diseases, and the consequent mortality, which pre

kind, must rouse the feelings of every nations. Moreover, the young of the one, who has the least spark of hu- inferior animals, especially of those manity. It is a great and a deplo- who are not under the immediate care rable evil, and many attempts have of man, experience neither disease been made to assign the cause, why nor premature death. With them Nature is so prolific in the produc- the laws and operations of nature tion, and apparently so little atten- reign free and undisturbed. But this tive to the preservation, of the noblest is not the case with the human infant, species in the animal kingdom. Some and particularly with the infants of

civilized nations. Here they are sub- culiarly unfavourable-under cirject to disease and death, in exact pro- cumstances which might have proved portion to the progress of luxury and highly dangerous, nay, destructive supposed refinement; or in exact pro- to the adult. In a word, daily obserportion to the degree, in which man- vation verifies, that the state of inkind wander from the paths and in- fancy, is much more favourable to re- stitutions of Nature. To accuse Na- covery from disease, than the state of ture as the cause of infantile disease manhood. Were the powers of Naand death, or to suppose it a neces- ture, therefore, allowed to operate, sary consequence, or unavoidable in and properly assisted-were the instithe nature and constitution of things, tutions and intentions of Nature proinvolves a perfect, a direct absurdity. perly observed, in the management of This is the true state of the matter, the infantile state, instead of the and this the true source of the great great mortality which prevails among mortality of our infants; in their ma- them, a much smaller number of the nagement, we have forsaken the ways human race, would perish in infancy, and dictates of Nature, and adopted than at any other period of life. those of art. This opinion may not be at first sufIt is true, however, that the infan- ficiently obvious. It may be thought tile frame is delicate, and readily in- impossible, that the infantile constijured by the action of every hurtful tution, tender and delicate, should power. Generally speaking, the same recover more readily from disease, cause which would produce disease than the constitution of the adult. in the infant, would have no effect on But a moment's reflection will the adult. But what does this imply? fully elucidate the matter. The It only implies, that we should be the adult constitution is not perfect and more careful to preserve our infants, entire, as it came from the hand of from the influence of those causes Nature; for no human being, espe which produce disease. It does not cially in civilized and corrupt society, imply that they have the seeds of dis- lives according to the rules of Nature, ease abiding in their constitution, The adult constitution, therefore, or that in them more than in adults generally speaking, has suffered the disease takes place without a cause, action of many hurtful powers; irreBefore disease takes place in either, gularities of living of various kinds; they suffer the influence or ope- excess in eating and drinking, or priration of an injurious power; and vations; various vicissitudes of heat the only difference is, that a more and cold; too much exercise or too simple cause may produce disease in much rest, various anxieties, and torthe infant than in the adult. menting and depressing passions of Let it be observed, however, that the mind; various diseases, and ill in a general sense, infants enjoy the treatment under these diseases. In powers of life and health, in a greater short, the aduit constitution has suf degree than adults. If the infantile fered the action of many powers body be more easily injured, and which exhaust and diminish its ener more easily thrown into disease gies; and thus, when it is thrown into than the adult body, it more readily the state of actual disease, its recorecovers and regains the healthful very is often both slow and imstate. Besides, the infant is wholly perfect.

free from all those tormenting pas- But the infantile constitution is sions of the mind, which are so many perfect and entire, as it came from sources of disease to the adult. The the hand of Nature. It has not sufadvantages in point of recovery from fered the reiterated, and continued disease, which infancy enjoys above the adult state, are extremely obvious; for infants frequently recover from disease under circumstances pe

The number of hereditary diseases is much smaller than has been generally imagined.

action of any hurtful power, to exhaust or diminish its energies. The powers which hurt this constitution, and which throw it into the state of disease, are immediately operating, and no sooner are they removed, than the salutary efforts of nature begin to operate, and if they be properly assisted, the

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infantile body immediately, or very soon, regains the healthful state.

The great source then, of all the ills of infantile humanity, is mismanagement, or the want of a due attention to the laws and institutions of Nature in their treatment. The rules and institutions of Nature have been superseded by those of art. Ignorance, false reasoning, and fancied improvements, have introduced many absurdities, in the dress of infants, in their food, in the temperature or the degrees of heat or cold to which they are exposed, in their medical treatment, as well as in every other part of their But of all these ab

Thus, we have endeavoured to explain, why infantile recovery from disease, is so ready and rapid, and མཁརྒྱུས། why adult recovery is more slow and tardy. It will be at once perceived, that the same reasoning is applicable to youth and old age. In youth the energies of the body are vigorous and lively, and it soon mounts up to health. In old age the energies of the body are worn out and languid, and its recovery from disease is slow and difficult. In the in- management. fantile body, the energies and ope- surdities, the use of improper nourishrations of nature are entire and per- ment is by far the most repréhensi fect-are lively and unexhausted. It ble, Nature having so plainly pointed is only the derangement of these ener- out their proper food. gies by improper treatment-by the direct application of injurious powers Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury, to his body, that subjects the infant 21st May, 1807. to disease and death.

Correct the Press in the last Report.
Page 374, 11th line from top, for more read mere.
Page 375, 8th line

5th line, 24 col.

for last read least.

J. HERDMAN.

for arrangement read derangement

HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

London.

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conduct displayed by those corps in the battle fought at Assaye, on Sept.

E officers of the Coldstream 23, 1803. His Majesty also approves Regt. of Guards have presented of the 94th regiment bearing the a superb vase to the Duke of York, Elephant in their colours and appointwhich cost above 20001. It has engrav- ments, as an honourable and lasting ed on it the following inscription: testimony of their distinguished serThis vase is presented to his royal vices in India. highness the Duke of York, by the Two sheriff's officers having a writ officers of the Coldstream regiment to arrest a clergyman, who resided in of Guards, as a mark of their esteem Fenchurch-street, with some difficulfor the unremitting attention they re- ty got admittance into the house, ceived during the twenty-one years when the clergyman shot one of them, he was their colonel." but not dead, of whose recovery there is some doubt. The reverend gentle man was with a good deal of trouble secured and sent to the Poultry Compter.

His Majesty prorogued parliament on the 27th of April, and a few days after issued a proclamation, dissolving it, and calling a new one to meet for the dispatch of business on the 22d of June.

The king has granted permission to the 19th light dragoons, the 74th and 78th foot, to assume, in addition to any other devices or badges, to which they may be severally entitled, and to bear in their colours, and on their appointments, the Elephant, with the word "Assaye," superscribed, in commemoration of the gallantry and good

On the evening of the 14th of Fe-' bruary last, whilst the Ajax of 74 guns, Captain Blackwood, was lying at anchor with Sir John Duckworth's squadron, off the entrance of the Dardanelles, she unfortunately took fire, and was burnt to the water's edge. The following is Captain Blackwood's narrative of this dreadful accident, before the court, appointed to enquire into the causes of the fire.-"At nine

o'clock, p. m. on the 14th of February, consequently, all attempt to hoist the 1807, at anchor off the mouth of the boats out, were ineffectual, except in Dardanelles, in company with the the case of the jolly boat, which besquadron under Vice Admiral Sir J. gan to take up the men who had T. Duckworth, K. B. just as I had jumped overboard. Immediately as gone to bed, the officer of the watch the flames burst up the main batchran into my cabin, and acquainted way, which divided the fore from the me there was a great alarm of fire in after-part of the ship, I called to every the after part of the ship; I immedi- body to get to the foremost part of the ately ordered the drummer to beat to ship; and as all hopes were at an quarters, which was effected; and in- end of saving her, I desired every stantly as I came out of my cabin, I one to save himself as fast as he could. directed the proper signal to be made, I had scarcely reached the forecastle, and repeatedly enforced it by guns at when I saw all parts from the centre intervals. I called some of the senior of the booms aft in a raging flame. officers of the ship, who went down When the fire had reached the other with me to the after cockpit and the part of the forecastle, after exhorting lower deck, from whence the smoke the officers and ship's company, to the issued. Iimmediately ordered as much amount of 400, who were on the fore water as possible to be thrown down, castle and about the bowsprit, to be and the cock to be turned, which I cool, and depend on the boats; and found had been previously done. also seeing all hopes of saving the When I made the signal, I ordered a ship were vain, I jumped overboard, boat with Lieutenant Wood, a mid- from the spritsail-yard, and being shipman, and a boat's crew, to go and about half an hour in the water, I was inform all the ships near us of the un- picked up by one of the boats of the fortunate situation of the Ajax. I Canopus, and taken on board that had scarcely been three minutes on ship, much exhausted. the lower deck, when I found the impossibility of any officer or man remaining in the cockpit, to endeavour to extinguish the fire, perceiving, from the quantity and thickness of the smoke, that several men fell down with buckets in their hands, from suffocation.

"To obviate this, I desired the lower deck ports to be hauled up, to give air; but very soon finding the harm it produced, I directed them to be lowered down, and the after hatchway to be covered up, in order to gain time, by stopping the vent of the smoke, for the boats to be hoisted out; which measure I was induced to adopt, finding that the fire was of that nature, that the ship must soon be in flames. Owing to there not being any cock leading to the after magazine, I or dered the carpenter, with his crew, to scuttle the after-part of the ship; but by this time (a period from the commencement of not more than ten minutes, as near as I can judge) the smoke, though endeavoured to be stifled, had gained so much, that, though it was bright moonlight, we could only distinguish each other, even on deck, by speaking or feeling;

"In the execution of the duty which devolved on me as captain of the ship in such a situation, I derived much assistance from all the officers, but particularly from lieutenants Proctor, Brown, Mitchell, and Sibthorpe, as also the Master and Captain of Marines; and with respect to the ship's company, under such cir cumstances of fire, more rapid than I believe was ever before known, with hammocks below, under the impression of terror, which fire at any time creates, but particularly when men were just out of their beds, no people could have behaved with more coolness or perseverance than they did.

"In pursuance of the standing orders, I had received the report from the First Lieutenant of his having visited all parts of the ship, with the Warrant Officers and Master at Arms, which he had found clear and safe; I had also received the particular report of the Master at Arms, but not that of the Lieutenant of the Marine Guard, who was accustomed to visit all below, and report to me at nine o'clock, at which hour this unfortu nate event took place."

Captain Blackwood's narrative here

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