Cyrene to the western frontier of Egypt. The fierce and rebellions disposition of the Pacha's eldest son is stated as the cause of the preparations on foot; he had taken advantage of the sedition of part of the army, to rouse it into open rebellion: "Among all the monsters," he observes, "generated by Africa, which by the ancients was denominated the country of monsters, the first place is due to Mohamet Karamalli, eldest son of the present Pacha of Tripoli." It appears, that having exterminated a whole tribe of Bedonins for refusing to pay tribute, he became so elated with pride, as to draw his poignard against his own father, who, contented with banishing him to the eas tern frontier, soon heard that his unnatural son was marching back at the head of the Zoasi Bedouins, intending to dethrone him. This was the army which Ahmet Bey and the doctor were preparing to encounter. As the Bey, however, was too wise an Islamite to confide altogether in predestination, equally afraid of the secret machinations and open hostility of his ferocious brother, he informed the Doctor of his wish to retain him always near his person, in quality of court physician, to which our traveller, in order the better to prosecute his scientific re searches in the most fearless manner, cheerfully consented. He was immediately called in to the Bey's brother-in-law, ill of a violent inflammation, for which the Doctor prescribed bleeding. Before complying, the patient wished to exact the Doctor's word of honour that it should cure him: to this our author prudently demurred, assuring the prince, at the same time, he mast certainly die without the aid of the lancet. He submits, recovers, and assists at the obsequies of his own royal blood. For this rapid cure, one of the Marabout leechmen, jealous of his art, approaches the Doctor, threatening to eat him up alive, as he boasted to have treated a poor Jew not long before. The preparations for the march are on a scale of vast magnificence and feudal greatness; then the grand encampments, their wind ing course through romantic and solitary regions, the description of pitching their tents amidst the desert scenes of Labiar, surrounded by the most picturesque rocks, and hill-sides crowned with juniper woods, so fancifully described of old by Pliny; these, with the tribes of Bedouins following the army, the mingled rout of shepherds, soldiers, women, and children, driving innumerable herds of sheep and camels before them, more than once reminded the traveller of those patriarchal movements, in which a whole nation assisted. He proceeds through the memorable sites of Phoenicia and Carthage, every where strewed with dilapidated remains of Afric, Greek, and Roman, glory. But the author's views are of an historical and geographical, as well as a classical and antiquarian description. These he has carried further than most of the travellers who have preceded him. His observations are at once learned and ingenious. His botanical and general scientific discoveries are also considerable. There is less information, however, relating to the moral condition and pecu liarities of the inhabitants, than we might have expected from the favourable cir cumstances in which the Doctor was placed. The results of his expedition with Ahmet Bey appear to have been successfol, also, in a military point of view; the insurgent Bedouins, forsaking Mohamet, join the standard of Ahmet Bey; marching together, in bloodless triumph, back into Tripoli. At the intercession of Ahmet, the Pacha pretends to pardon the insurgents, receives the Bedouin chiefs as hostages, bestows on them the honour of the red mantle, and treats them to a public festival, in which the whole rebel army is permitted to join. In the midst of perfect security and rejoicings, at a signal given, the Pacha's military guards rush upon the assembled people, scattering their tents, flocks, and herds, and put the whole of them to the sword; while their unfortunate chiefs were massacred at the same moment, during a banquet where the Pacha himself presided. "Daring these terrifying transactions," says the author, "I hastened to the fort as the only place of security, and I still shudder at the appalling spectacle which it offered to my sight; for the unfortunate victims of African treachery lay stretched upon the ground, struggling and expiring in the blood which was flowing from their wounds: while the Bey, on horseback, armed with a musket, in the midst of his Mamelukes and of the dead, was swearing and raving like a madman, because the troops were not yet on their march against the Bedouins." The wild and interesting traditions which formerly abounded in Scotland, and in some portion of the north of England, and which we believe are still occasionally to be met with amongst the peasantry there, have never hitherto been presented to the public, except when they have furnished the subject of some romantic poem The or some border ballad. highly gifted author of Sir Marmaduke Maxwell, is the first who has attempted to collect these curious relics of a popular literature, which he has given to the world, under the title of Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, in 2 vols. 12mo. Although we have considerable doubts as to the allowances with which Mr. CUNNINGHAM's assertion, that he is more the collector and embellisher than the creator creator of these tales, is to be taken; yet we cannot but believe that the original hints for these beautiful and romantie stories, have been gathered in the scenes and amongst the people they describe. Any one who is acquainted with those natural and simple songs, which do so much credit to Mr. C.'s genius, must ac, knowledge him to be eminently qualified "to collect and embellish" the interesting traditions of his native vallies. Many of the present tales are highly picturesque in their colouring, and romantic in their incidents; and, on the whole, the collection exhibits a curious and pleasing picture of scenes and manners which have been seldom described. It may be remarked, that all the tales in these volumes, except the first, have appeared in periodical publications at various times. An Ecclesiastical Memoir of the four first Decades of the Reign of George the Third, by the REV. J. W. MIDDELTON, A. M. contains an account of the state of religion in the church of England, during that period, with characteristic sketches of distinguished divines, authors, and benefactors. Mr. Middelton appears to belong to the evangelical church party, and he has allowed his peculiar opinions as an ecclesiastic to interfere too frequently and too decidedly with his duties as an historian. His work can only be read as the interpretation given to facts and characters by a particnlar sect, and is thus divested of a great part of its value. Those who have the misfortune to differ from the reverend au. thor, are disposed of with very little cere mony; and we observe, with particular disgust, the very illiberal style in which he remarks upon the life and writings of the late Gilbert Wakefield, with a degree of bitterness and virulence highly unbecoming the meekness of his vocation, and calculated only to defeat their own purpose. That he was "panegyrized by Dr. Aikin for benevolence, and eulogized by Dr. Parr for erudition," is recorded in scorn, but will be read with different sensations. Mr. Belsham too is accused, with the Unitarians, of "attacking those glorious truths of revelation," which he is amongst the first to defend. Enough has been said to shew the confined and bigoted spirit in which Mr. Middleton has performed his task; the execution of which is, in other respects, by no means unexceptionable. Many of the inferior order of the clergy, whom he brings into notice, though devout and worthy men, have no claim to a place in history. In point of style, the reverend author lies open to serious animadversions. Always stiff and laboured, and often pompous and inflated, even to a ludicrous degree, we could collect from his pages a string of metaphors of the most singular and incongruous nature. These follies are here quite out of place; and, whether he "rises out of sight in the rarefied æther of Calvinism, or dips his wing in the puddles of Felagianism," we would remind the author, that the language, as well as the manners and life, of a Christian minister, should be humble, modest, simple, and tolerant. "The paw of the savage bear," by which flattering image the author of Rome, a Poem, has typified the hand of the critic, has, we believe, been laid with great moderation on the head of the bard; and, after a perusal of that work, and of bis subsequent effort, The Vale of Chamouni, we willingly bear our testimony to the respectable talents displayed in both those productions. To the latter poem, we have no hesitation in giving the preference, both in the choice of a less hacknied and more picturesque subject, and in its more equal and forcible execution. The versification of these poems is elegant and correct; and, if the author does not rise into the higher regions of imagination, his flight is sustained, at a moderate elevation, with no inconsiderable spirit. There is a want of taste occasionally perceptible, particularly where he deviates into facetiousness; but his faults are chiefly those of youth and inexperience, and, if we may say so without offence, of his country. We like his verses better than his prose, and even his errors better than the apologies with which he has prefaced them. Should he come before the public again, we hope he will take our advice; and, depending on his intrinsic merits, say as little as he can about himself, and nothing about the critics. The high character which Captain Manby enjoys for scientific knowledge and ingenuity, as well as for the benevolent application of his talents, warrants us in calling the attention of our readers to his Journal of a Voyage to Greenland, in the year 1821, with aphic Illustrations, which exhibits, in a striking and agreeable manner, all the incidents, scenery, and phenomena, attendant upon an ordinary whaling voyage. Further than this, we are sorry to say, we cannot go, with all the disposition we have to give the worthy author credit for his laudable intentions to visit Spitzbergen and collect specimens of its various productions, to re-discover lost Greenland, ascertain the fate of its colony and settle its geography, and to determine the superiority of his new-invented instru ments for the capture of the whale. Al these things, we lament with Captain Manby, that he was disappointed in performing; but especially the last, which was the sole object of his long and painful voyage. Of his gun-harpoon and shell for destroying the whale, he did not find a single opportunity of proving the efficacy, partly from scarcity of fish, partly from the prejudiced opposition of the crew; and, in some measure, we apprehend, from an an ill-timed indulgence of his irritated feelings, which determined him, at one period, to take no further part in the exertion. Of the liberal and patriotic views of Captain Manby there can be no doubt, nor is it possible to produce more convincing and honourable testimony than he has done, to the utility and practical benefits of his several inventions; and, we therefore lament the failure of his voyage in this particular, rather as a personal disappoint. ment to the captain than as leaving any thing wanting to demonstrate the value of his discoveries. We cannot say that much is to be found in this Journal in addition to the accumulated and precise information which Captain Scoresby's volumes afford on every subject connected with this fishery, of which Capt. Manby has made considerable and acknowledged use. In Captain Scoresby's vessel, indeed, he made the voyage in question; and, like every one else, he speaks in the highest terms of the abilities and estimable qualities of that gentleman. The pith of the author's matter will be found condensed in a short appendix, to which it may be sufficient for the man of business to refer. But those who seek amusement for a leisure hour, will not fail to find it, blended with information, in the more diffuse narrative of the Journal, and the spirited plates which attend it. There is sufficient merit in the tragedy of Grimaldi, by WILLIAM BAILEY, to give it a title to the notice of the critic; but the manner in which the author has introduced it to the public, calls more especially for observation. This play is founded on the same story as Mr. Milman's Fazio; and, upon this co-incidence, coupled with the fact of its having been composed two years previous to that gentleman's drama, and on a few other circumstances perfectly inconclusive, the author raises an hypothesis that Mr. Milman unfairly adopted his subject, and saperseded him in the public attention. This charge he calls upon Mr. Milman to deny under his hand and seal, a proceeding which we should hardly think necessary, when Mr. Badley himself acknowledges that Fazio "bears no simili tade whatever with Grimaldi," of which there can be no doubt at all. Mr. Milman cannot deny, under his hand and seal, that he has written a play on the same subject as Grimaldi; but, even admitting that he had seen the latter play in manuscript, which there is not the slightest reason to believe, he has treated it in a manner so different from that of Mr. Bailey, as to leave that gentleman without any other ground of complaint than the adoption of has subject; which, we believe, Mr. Milman was as likely to find in the Italian Novelists, as Mr. Bailey in Dodsley's Annual Register, or an old volume of a circulating library on the coast of Kent. We think this is a very ill-advised insinuation of Mr. Batley's; and that a mere comparison of the two plays would suffice to shew that the authors are not likely to borrow from each other. Mr. Bailey expresses his be lief that "There is not on earth a candid, impartial, and even handed, critic." Of a manuscript work submitted by a friend, probably not; nor of the tragedy in question, if Mr. Bailey estimates the candour of the critic by the profusion of his praises. With something to praise, there is much to blame in Grimaldi. The introduction of Error, as an aerial being attendant on Fazio, is ill-judged; and the parting moments of the unhappy alchemist, which should be the most emphatic scene of the play, are occupied by an explanatory dialogue between him and this fanciful personage. Neither does Mr. Bailey possess the art of dignifying the passions he depicts. His delineations are strong and natural enough, but coarse and repulsive, and his language occasionally very low. No one would recognize Mr. Milman's Fazio, as "walking about in a great stew;" and exclaiming, "A most genteel rebuff, burst me!" At the hazard of being included in Mr. Bailey's denunciation against the critics, we must not conceal, that these faults, and more, are to be found in his work; whilst, on the other hand, we willingly tes tify that there is occasionally some good and forcible writing, and that the author seems to possess talents deserving of culti vation, but certainly requiring the discipline of a severe as well as liberal critic. Amongst various productions which have recently reached this country from the literary market of America, we have noticed a volume of Poems, by WILLIAM B. TAPPAU, published at Philadelphia. This is not Mr. Tappau's first appearance before the public. In 1819 he gave to the world a small collection of poems, many of which are embodied in the present volume, and which, we believe, are not entirely unknown on this side of the Atlantic. We cannot say that the pleasing verses before us surpass the many specimens of the American muse which have found their way into this country; and yet we must confess that there are amongst them a few poems which would do credit to our native soil, rich as it at present is in poetical talent. We may particularly mention the "Lines on the Holy Alliance," and "the Chilese Warrior's Song," which are very spirited effusions. It is right that the muse of America should thus be employed in celebrating the praises of that liberty which her sons so well know how to appreciate. A Practical Treatise on Nervous, Bilious, and Inflammatory, Affections; by John Lynch. 8vo. 5s. 6d. The Medical Spectator. The two additional Nos. 18. 6d. each. A Complete Treatise on the Nature, Symptoms, and Cure, of Syphilis: Historical, Theoretical, Practical, and Original; by Jesse Foot, esq. 8vo. 12s. The Quarterly Review. No. 54. 68. MISCELLANIES. 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Letters from America; containing Observations on the Climate and Agriculture of the Western States, &c. &c.; by James Flint. 8vo. 10s. 6d. MEDICAL REPORT. REPORT of DISEASES and CASUALTIES occurring in the public and private Practice of the Physician who has the care of the Western District of the City Dispensary. L OW fever is the endemic of the present month; and in most cases the mental faculties become disturbed and deranged, in a degree more than equivalent to the apparent malignity of the affection, as characterized by other traits. A sort of aphthons eruption about the mouth, fauces, and throat, is likewise an exceedingly common accompaniment of the fevers that are now met with; and it 15, moreover, a remarkable fact, that, even in those maladies which are not decidedly fever, the two manifestations of disorder, just mentioned, are not infrequent. Some cases of ordinary disease have occurred to the writer, in which a fatal termination has been menaced by the breaking out of aphtha; and other instances have pre. sented themselves of deranged mind, with ont even the slightest acceleration of palse. A whole family is now under treat ment with relapsed fever. This recurrence of a complaint, seemingly cured, is, in the present day, too common; and the writer has been induced to ascribe it in some instances to the fashionable practice of limiting the whole of remedial treatMONTHLY MAG, No, 374. ment to that of pulling down, leaving the condition of convalescence unassisted by bark or tonic medicinals. After recovery from this malady, the coats of the vessels are left in a weakened state, are thence very obnoxious to over-distention from ordinary excitants, and therefore demand something of a corroborating kind, in order to preserve the balance between ingested matter and assimilating powers. Another case of small-pox subsequently, not to vaccination, but to variolous inoculation, has presented itself. The subject was an Italian, who had been inoculated in his own country. We meet thus with additional evidence, that even the variolous impregnation is not itself an infallible preventive of small-pox; and these occurrences, if properly appreciated, furnish fresh arguments in favour of the vaccine practice. The particular instance of disorder under notice would, some years since, have been designated Chicken-pox; but, although the previous inoculation had diluted the distemper to varicellian mildness, the matter from the pustules would 3 A have |