Song, KING. "PADDY O'CARROLL." My love is so pretty, None in town or city Her hand would disgrace : My Lord of the woolsack His coachman would pull back, To get a look full smack Mathematical teachers, That walk about town; Great Foreign ambassadors Though she drives a wheelbarrow May laugh if they dare: Nor tasteful Grassina, With her can compare. Nor head with a mitre, Than my pretty maid: Nor Army contractor, Can make her afraid. Then for discrimination, Can beat her at tattle: I'll bet you a wager, Would dare to engage her At neat prittle prattle. How I could ruminate, For to illuminate My turtle dove: But words are mere playthings, She's young and she's tender, From the top to the toe: Eyes like stars glittering, Ne'er were made so. Her head like a hollybower, By the sea side: Then haste O ye days and nights SCENE THIRD. SCENE, Distaffina's apartment. Dist. This morn, as sleeping in my bed I lay, I dreamt, and morning dreams come true, they say; I dreamt, a cunning man my fortune told, [Enter King, King. He's but a General, damsel, I'm a King. Painters no other face pourtray, each sign O'er Ale-house hung, shall change its head for thine, And none presume to write but in thy praise. Dist. [opens a closet.] And may I then without offending crave My love to taste of this, the best I have. King. Were it the vilest liquor upon earth, Bomb. [without] Ho! Distaffina, ho! ..O yes, 'tis what's his name: [King scorets himself in a closet. Enter BOMBASTES. Bomb. Lov'd Distaffina, now, by my scars, I vow, King. Here on my knees, those knees which ne'er Scars got, I hav'n't time to tell you how ; till now, To men, or maids, in suppliance bent, I vow .Are then my wishes crown'd. For a babe she had, Tho' history passes it over, O: Your daddy has proved a rover, O. What a fool was I, A fellow not worth a penny, O. For I had offers from ever so many, 0. But I'll darn my hose, Look out for beaux, And quickly get a new lover, O. And come, lads, come, Then a fig for Eneas, the rover, O. By all the risks my fearless heart hath run, Dist. Why, bless your silly brains, that's not a hat. Dist... Suppose it is, why what of that? A hat can do no harm without a head. Bomb. Whoe'er it fits, this hour I doom him dead; Alive from hence the caitiff shall not stir: King...................Indeed I hardly know. Through lane or street with lawless passion rove, But give to Griskanissa all my love. Bomb. Ho! ho! I'll love no more; let him who can, Fancy the maid who fancies every man. In some lone place I'll seek a gloomy cave, There my own hands shall dig a spacious grave; Then all unseen I'll lay me down and die, Since woman's constancy is all my eye. [When Bombastes is about to go, Distaffina takes hold of his coat to detain him. Trio. "OH! LADY FAIR.” Dist. Oh cruel man where are you going? Bomb. I go, I go, all danger scorning, Dist. Heigh ho! heigh ho! sad is that warning, King. Scorning my proffer'd hand, he frowning fled, Curs'd the fair maid and shook his angry head. [Sees the boots and label (reads,) "Who dares this pair of boots displace, [Exit Bombastes, dragging out the King and Distaffina... Must meet Bombastes face to face." SCENE FOURTH. SCENE, A wood. Fusbos. This day is big with fate, just as I set My lodging is in Leather-lane, In a parlour that's next to the sky, Oh! was I a quart, pint, or gill, To be scoured by her delicate hands, Let others possess what they will, Of learning, of houses, or lands: But, ah! should she false-hearted prove, A victim to delicate love, In Dyot-street, Bloomsbury-square. [Ex. Fusb. Enter BOMBASTES, preceded by a fifer, playing "Michael Wiggins." Bomb. Gentle musician, let thy dulcet strain So angry fate in one unlucky hour, Some hungry cats may all the cheese devour, And the loud thunder turn the liquor sour. Ha! dost thou dare me, vile obnoxious elf, [Knocks down the boots. Whoe'er thou art, with speed prepare to go Where I shall send thee; to the shades below. Bomb. [coming forward.] So have I heard on Afric's burning shore, A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echoed along the shore. King. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore, And the last lion thought the first a boar. King. Where? Bom. There and there. FINALE. Distaffina. Briny tears I'll shed; King. [rising up] I for joy shall cry too; King. Thus to check your sorrow; [Take hands, and dance round. LIVERPOOL THEATRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE.. SIR, The flattering reception with which my former epistles have been greeted, induces me to persevere in a species of amusement 'at once gratifying to myself, and I trust, not uninteresting to many of your readers. Since I last enjoyed this pleasure, "The Merchant of Venice" has been produced on our boards in a manner which reflects equal credit on the judgment of our managers, and the performance of those in authority under them. Mr. Vandenhoff's Shylock is, without exception one of the most perfect delineations of nature I ever witnessed; the base, designing, vindictive Jew, appears particularly adapted to his powers, and affords ample scope for the peculiar richness of his lower tones, as well as a display of all those passions which, (despite of old dame Nature, who has, unfortunately, given him but an indifferent stage-face,) he can pourtray so well. It may indeed, in my mind, justly be said of him, as Pope said of Macklin, "This is the Jew That Shakspeare drew." His entrance in the third act, after discovering the elopement of his daughter, was excellent, and through. out the whole of this difficult scene I saw nothing to condemn, but much, very much that excited my ardent admiration. Few men (for my own part I know of none) could have given more effect to the speech "To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else it will feed my revenge." &c.; and the extreme of rage and joy that alternately agitated his inhuman breast, during his Bomb. [coming forward] A pretty tale, but not for thee conference with Tubal, was beautifully represented. to tell, Though great exertion both of body and mind be requisite to sustain this arduous character through the first, second, and third acts, the fourth puts the skill of a performer still further and more severely to the test; must here inevitably fail. Before the Venetian court of justice, Mr Vandenhoff exhibited a complete_master piece of the histrionic art; his answer to the Duke, commencing For thou shalt quickly follow him to hell; [Lies down by the King, leaving sufficient room for Fusbos to stand between them. Fusbos. And o'er thy tomb a monument shall rise, Where heroes yet unknown shall feast their eyes; And this short epitaph that speaks thy fame, [Hangs his boots to an arm of the tree, and forms his Will also there immortalize my name: sash into a noose. Alack! alack! and well-a-day! That e'er a man should make himself away; As many have, and so, and so wont I. No, I'll go mad; 'gainst all I'll vent my rage, wage; [Takes out of his pocket-book a piece of paper, and writes the following couplet, attaching it to his boots. “Who dares this pair of boots displace, "Must meet Bombastes face to face." Thus do I challenge all the human race. [Retires up the stage. "Here lies Bombastes, stout of heart and limb; "He conquered all but Fusbos!-Fusbos conquer'd him." Enter DISTAFFINA, seeing the bodies. Dist..........But are you sure they are dead? "I have possessed your Grace of what I purpose; To have the due and forfeit of my bond: If you deny it, let the danger light Upon your charter, and your city's freedom," was spoken in a very superior style, and his sarcastic replies to Bassanio and Gratiano, told most admirably. The anxiety with which he listened to Doctor Portia's harangue on the attributes of mercy, the heartfelt ec. tasy he manifested at the interpretation of the law in his favour, with his subsequent disappointment and vexation, were finely delineated; but when he became acquainted with all the maddening circumstances of exultingly in his eager hand, dropt upon the stage, his real situation, when the scales, for a short time held every atom of his nature seemed in a moment para|lysed, and the lines "Nay take my life and all, pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live," were given in a way that beggars all description. His blanched cheek, his broken utterance almost choked with the most excruciating agony, and "the big round tears" that coursed each other down his manly face, in spite of our indignation at his previous conduct, constrained us to heave a responsive sigh; while we detested the man, we could not avoid giving him with our hate for his deeds, our sympathy in his sufferings. The taunts of Gratiano appeared to sink deep into his tortured soul, and his final exit presented à genuine picture of a wretched, heart-broken man. Such was the correct feeling of his acting, that, I am credibly informed, many persons behind the scenes wept profusely. Highly, however, as I estimate this gentleman's talents, he has, notwithstanding, some defects, which, as they are observable in most things he does, I shali take leave to point out. It is obvious, that whatever an actor has to say, should be distinctly communicated to the audience; in this respect Mr. V. is often very culpably negligent, and instead of letting his hearers know all he has to say, frequently conveys the close of his sentences down his throat; thus preventing persons unacquainted with the text, the enjoyment they might otherwise derive from his chaste and beautiful recitation of, sometimes, nearly a whole line of exquisitely fine poetry. He has likewise, in my opinion, somewhat too much of that stage-pacing system which rarely gives dignity, but often destroys it; and I am astonished that an actor so highly gifted as himself, should ever think of employing an artificial voice was very resBassanio, bating a little bad reading, pectably played by Mr. Bass. Gratiano could not have had a more able representative than Mr. Browne. Launcelot Gobbo was well supported by Mr. Tayleure. Mrs. Bartley has added considerably to her celebrity by her personation of Portia; nor should Miss Grant, as Nerissa, pass unnoticed. Miss Hammersly sung very sweetly in Jessica; the duet with Mr. Larkin in the last act was charmingly executed. That the immortal, but the unfortunate Galileo was imprisoned for insisting on the motion of the earth round the sun, as its primary-if that were the true cause of his imprisonment-is well known: also, that since that time, by a rescript of Benedict XIV. the Copernican System has been allowed to be taugh among Catholics hypothetically only, not positively The pretence for this rejection of science and truth is a veneration for Scripture, or rather for a version, that in the Romish church holds the place of Scripture, wherein it is said, the sun stayed at the command of Joshua; and elsewhere, "the sun rises and the sun d but the earth abideth ever;" or, as they render it, the earth standeth still, or reposeth, ever. Whether this prohibition will be persisted in, is likely to be brought to the test before long. Sig. Settele, Professor at the Archi-Gymnasio della Sapienza, proposed, on the invi tation of his superiors, to print his course of Astronomy, in which the circulation of the earth as a planet was taught positively, not hypothetically. The inspector of books previous to publication, has withheld his per mission for printing this work, and consequently has POWERFUL ROCKETS, LUMINARIES. It may be within the recollection of our readers that wicked Will. Whiston," as Swift called him, pro posed to ascertain the longitude by means of great fires kindled in places distant from each other. Something not very unlike his notion seerns to be in the way for being realized, by a late invention of M. Schumacher, captain of Artillery, at Copenhagen. He fabricates a new species of rocket, which is much larger than a Congreve rocket, and rises to a prodigious height; when ar rived at the extreme point of elevation, it bursts, and spreads a light so lively that it may be seen at the dis tance of thirty leagues. The inventor discharged seve ral of these rockets from the little island of Hielm in the Cattegat. His brother was, meanwhile, at the obser vatory at Copenhagen; and, although nearly thirty leagues off, and provided only with an ordinary tele 3 scope, he discerned them very distinctly, appearing as stars of the first magnitude. This experiment, with others, is taken as an excellent method of executing signals, and very useful for measuring the largest ares of a circle. On this subject we may be allowed to suggest a cau tion: on occasion of the peace of 1763, among other tokens of rejoicing, it was proposed to discharge si thousand of the most powerful rockets at the same in stant; and observers were desired in all parts to watch the moment of the explosion, and to transmit their ob servations. This was done by correspondents, some of them as far off as Wales, who described the bearings, effect, &c. of these powerful luminaries, which, after all, were not discharged. A. M. Hoene Wronsky complains in the Gazette de France of the illiberality of the British nation in not granting him the reward of £20,000 proposed by Par liament for the discovery of the longitude. This per son declares that he has established a new lunar theory, which gives the solution required." Proud of his dis covery, he hastened from Paris to London, where he immediately waited upon Sir Joseph Banks, who referred him to Dr. Young, by whom he says every thing is done at the board of longitude." In the mean time, all his instruments, in spite of his remonstrances, were taken from the custom-house, and exposed to the board of longitude, who, after having minutely examined them, discovered his secret, and then, coolly returning them to him, informed him that his discovery was not new, and that the board had entertained a similar idea. M. Wronsky complains, that not only was he refused the parliamentary reward, but even his expenses to London were not paid, which, he says, was the more un just, as the English unfairly obtained a knowledge of his lunar theory, and his theory of refractions. We should be glad that the board of longitude would reply to M. Wronsky's statements. Antiquities. CORONATION OF ANNE BOLEYN. (Concluded from our last.) After |being high steward of England, having a ward's shrine, and there offered. white rod in his hand; and the Lord Wil- which offering was done, she withdrewe her liam Howard, with the rod of the marshall- into a little place made for that purpose on ship, and every Knight of the Garter had one side of the queere. Now in the meane his collar of the order. Then proceeded season every Duchess put on bonot a coroforth the Queene, in a circote and robe of nell of golde wrought with flowers, and On Whitsunday, the 1st of June, the purple velvet, furred with irmine, in her every Marchionesse put on a demi-coronell maior, clad in crimson velvet, with his col- hayre coife, and circlet as shee had on Sa- of golde wrought with flowers, and every lar, and all the aldermen and sheriffes in turday; and over her was borne the canopye, Countesse a plain circle of golde wrought scarlet, and the counsell of the city, took by foure of the cinque ports all in crimson, with flowers, and every Kinge at Armes their barge at the crane by seven of the with points of blew and red hanging over put on a crowne of copper and gilt, all clocke, and came to Westminster, where their sleeves, and the Bishops of London which were worne till night. they were welcommed and brought into the and Winchester bare up the lapets of the When the Queene had a little reposed hall, by M. Treasurer, and other the Kinges Queene's robe; and her train, which was her, the company in the same order that house, and so gave their attendance till the very long, was borne by the old Duchesse they set forth, and the Queene went crownQueen should come forth: between eight of Norfolk; after her followed Ladies, be-ed, and so did the ladies aforesaid, her and nine of the clock she came into the ing Lords wives, which had circotes of right hand was sustained by the Earle of hall, and stood under the cloth of estate, scarlet, with narrow sleeves, the breast all Wiltshire, her father, and her left by the and then came in the Kinge's chappell, and lettice, with barres of pouders according to Lord Talbot, deputy for the Earle of the monks of Westminster, all in rich copes, their degrees, and over that they had man- Shrewsbury, and Lord Furnivall, his father. and many bishops and abbots in copes and tles of scarlet, furred, and every mantle And when she was out of the sanctuary mitres, which went into the midst of the had lettice about the necke, like a necker- within the pallace, the trumpets played hall, and there stood a season; then was chiefe, likewise poudered, so that by their marveylous freshly, and so shee was brought there a ray cloth spread from the Queene's pouderings their degrees might be knowne. to Westminster-hall, and so to her withstanding in the hall, through the palace Then followed Ladies, being Knights wives, drawing chamber, during which the Lordes, and sanctuary, whieh rayled on both sides in gownes of scarlet, with narrow sleeves Judges, Maior, and Aldermen, put off their. to the high altar of Westminster; after the without traines, only edged with lettice; robes, mantles, and cloaks, and took their ray cloth was cast, the officers of armes likewise had all the Queene's gentlewomen. hoods from their necks, and cast them about appointed the order accustomed: first went When she was thus brought to the high their shoulders, and the Lordes sate only Gentlemen, the Esquires, then Knights, the place made in the middest of the church in their sircoates, and the Judges and AlAldermen of London, in their clokes of between the queere and the high altar, shee dermen in their gownes, and all the Lordes scarlet cast over their gownes of scarlet. was set in a riche chaire, and after that that served that day, served in their sirAfter them the Judges, in their mantles of shee had rested awhile, shee descended coates, and their hoods about their shoulscarlet and coifes: then followed the downe unto the high altar, and there pros-ders, Also divers officers of the King's Knights of the Bath, being no Lords, every trated herself, while the Archbishop of Can-house, being no Lordes, had circoates. man having a white lace on his left sleeve: terbury said certain collects over her. Then and hoods of scarlett edged with minive, then followed the Barons and Viscounts in shee arose, and the Archbishop anointed as Treasurer, Controller, and Master of the their Parliament robes of scarlet: after her on the head and on the breast: and Jewell-house, but their circotes were not them came Earles, Marquesses, and Dukes, then shee was led up agayn to her hayre, gilt. While the Queene was in her chamin their robes of estate of crimson velvet, where, after divers orisons said, the Arch-ber, every Lord and other that ought to do furred with ermine, poudred according to bishop satt the crown of St. Edward on her service at the coronation, did prepare them their degrees: after them came the Lord head, and then delivered her the sceptre of according to their dutie, as Duke of SufChancellor in a robe of scarlet, open be- golde in her right hand, and the rod of folke, High Steward of England, which fore, bordered with littice; after him came ivory, with the dove in the left hand, and was richly apparalled, his doublet and jacket the Kinge's chappell, and the monkes so- then all the queere sung Te Deum, &c.; sett with orient pearle, his gowne crimson lemnly singing with procession: then came which done, the Bishop took off the crowne velvet embroidered, his courses trapped Abbots and Bishops mitred, then Serjeants of St. Edward, being heavie, and sett on with close trapper head, and all the ground and Officers at Armes; then the Maior of her head the crowne made for her, and so of crimson velvet, set full of letters of golde London, with his mace, and Garter, in his went to masse; and when the offering was of goldesmith's worke, having a long white coate of armes; then the Marques Dorset, began, shee descended downe and offered, rod in his hand; on his left hand rode the in his robe of estate, which bare the scepter being crowned,.and so ascended up againe. Lord William, deputy for his brother, as of gold, and the Earl of Arundal, which and sate in her chaire till Agnus was said, Earle Marshall, with the Marshall's rod, bare the rod of ivorie, with the dove, both and then she went downe and kneeled be- whose gown was crimson velvet, and his together; then alone the Earle of Oxford, fore the high altar, where shee received of horse trapper purple velvet cutt on white high chamberlaine of England, which bare the Archbishop the holy sacrament, and sattine, embrodered with white lions. The the crowne; after him the Duke of Suf- then went up to the place againe: after Earle of Oxford was high Chamberlaine ; folke, in his robe of estate, for that day that masse was done, she went to St. Ed- the Earle of Essex, carver; the Earle of Sussex, sewer; the Earle of Arundele, | the midst of the hall, sate the Lord Chan- | London brought a standing cup of golde, chiefe butler, on whom twelve citizens of cellor, and other temporal Lordes, on the set in a cup of assay of golde, after that she London did give their attendance at the right hand of the table, in their circotes; had drunke, shee gave the Maior the cup, cupboard; the Earle of Darby, cupbearer; and on the left side of the same table sate with the cup of assay, because there was no the Viscount Lisle, painter; the Lord Bur- Bishops and Abbots, in their parliament cover, according to the elaime of the city, geiny, chief larder; the Lord Bray, almoner robes; beneath them sate Judges, Serjeants, thanking him and all his brethren for their for him and his copartners; and the Maior and the Kinges Councell; beneath them paine. Then shee got under her canopie with of Oxford kept the buttery bar; and Tho- the Knights of the Bathe. At the table on bells and all to the Barons of the ports, mas Wiat was chosen ewerer, for Sir Henry the left hand, in the middle part, sate according to their claime, with great thankes; Wiat, his father. Duchesses, Marquesses, Countesses, Baron- then the Maior of London, bearing his cup When all these things were ready and esses, in their robes, and other ladies in in his hand, with his brethren, went through ordered, the Queene, under her canopye, circotes, and gentlewomen in gownes; all the Hall to their barge, and so did all the came into the hall and washed, and satte which gentlewomen and ladies sate on the other noblemen and gentlemen, for it was down in the middest of her table, under left side of the table along, and none on sixe of the clocke. her cloth of estate: on the right side of her the right side; and when all were thus sett, chaire stood the Countesse of Oxford, they were incontinent served so quickly, widdow; and on her left hand stood the that it was marvellous, for the servitors Countesse of Worcester, all the dinner sea- gave so good attendance, that meat nor son, which divers times in the dinner time drink, nor any thing else needed to be called did hold a fine cloth before the Queene's for, which in so great a multitude was marface, when shee list to spit, or do otherwise vell. As touching the fare, there could be at her pleasure; and at the tables end sate devised no more costly dishes nor subtilities. the Archbishoppe of Canterbury; on the The Maior of London was served with right hand of the Queene, and in the mid- four-and-twenty dishes at two courses, and dest between the Archbishoppe and the so were his brethren, and such as sate at Countesse of Oxford, stood the Earle of his table. Oxford, with a white staff, all dinner time; and at the Queene's feete under the table, sate two gentlewomen all dinner time. ANGLO-SAXON COINS DISCOVERED. In the course of last summer a number of workmen being engaged in digging in a field in the parish of Dalsund, in Bialstad Socken, discovered a considerable quantity of ancient coins, and other articles, of fine sil ver: as nine bracelets of four different shapes; also sil. ver chains, which apparently were used as bracelets. Among 242 coins, the inscriptions on which were still legible, 87 were of the Anglo-Saxons, and, except three, were all struck in the reign of King Ethelred; two are of the reign of his father Edgar; 83 bear date of the year 1005. The remainder, except two Cufic coins, one of the year of the Hegira 286, the other of the year 308, are German, struck under the reigns of the emperors Otho I. and II. and the empress Adelaide. This intelligence may prove interesting to British collectors We know that a publication on this subject was in forwhose series of the Anglo-Saxon coins is not complete. ward preparation, and some of the plates engraved, by the late Rev. Mr. Southgate of the British Museum; but how far his plan was persevered in after the decease of the learned author, we do not know. The Royal Cabinet of Antiquities at Stockholm is in possession of the antiquities thus accidentally obtained. Miscellanies. der was otherwise incurable. He was attacked with a The Queene had at her second course four-and-twenty dishes, and thirtie at the third course; and betweene the last courses, When all these things were thus ordered, the kinges of armes, crowned, and other came in the Duke of Suffolke, and the Lord officers of armes, cryed largesse in three William Howard, on horseback, and the partes of the hall, and after stood in their Serjeants of Armes before them; and after place, which was in the bokens of the them the sewer, and then the Knights of Kinge's Bench; and on the right hand out. the Bathe, bringing in the first course, which of the Cloyster of St. Stephen's Chappell was eight-and-twenty dishes, besides sub- was made a little closet, in which the Kinge, tilities, and shippes made of waxe, mar- with divers ambassadors, stoode to beholde veylous gorgeous to beholde, all which the service. The Duke of Suffolke, and time of service the trumpets standing in the Lord William, rode oftentimes about the window at the nether end of the hall, the hall, cheering the Lords, Ladies, and played. When she was served of two Mair, and his brethren. After they in the dishes, then the Archbishoppes service was hall had dined, they had wafers and ipocrase set downe, whose server came equal with and then they washed, and were commanded the third dish of the Queene's service on to rise and stand still in their places before his left hand. After that the Queene and the tables or on the formes, till the Queene the Archbishoppe were served, the Barons had washed. When shee had taken wafers of the ports began at the table at the right and ipocrase, the table was taken up, and hand next the wall. Then at the table sate the Earle of Rutland brought up the surthe masters and clearkes of the chauncerie, nape, and laid it on the boords end, which and beneath them other doctors and gen immediately was drawn and cast by Maister tlemen. The table next the wall on the Read, Marshall of the Hall, and the Queene left hand by the cupboard was begun by washed, and after the Archbishoppe; and the Maior and Alderman, the Chamberlaine after the surnape was withdrawne, then shee and Councell of the City of London; and rose, and stood in the middest of the hall beneath them sate substantiall Merchants, place, to whom the Earle of Sussex in and so downwarde other worshipfull per- goodly spice plate, brought a void of spices sons. At the table on the right hand, in and confections. After him the Maior of Thomson's Annals. Extraordinary Surgical Operation-The most surprising and most honourable operation of surgery ever performed is, without any contradiction, that executed by M. Richerand, by taking away a part of the ribs and and not ignorant of the danger he ran in this operation of the pleura. The patient was himself a medical man, being had recourse to; but he also knew that his disor cancer on the internal surface of the ribs and of the pleura, which continually produced enormous fungosi. ties, that had been in vain attempted to be repressed by the actual cautery. M. Richerand was obliged to lay the pleura, and to cut away all the cancerous part of the ribs bare, to saw away two, to detach them from that membrane. As soon as he had made the opening, the air rushing into the chest occasioned the first day great suffering and distressing shortness of breath; the surgeon could touch and see the heart through the pericardium, which was as transparent as glass, and could assure himself of the total insensibility of both. Much serous fluid flowed from the wound, as long as it remained open; but it filled up slowly by means of the adhesion of the lung with the pericardium and the fleshy granulations that were formed in it. At length the patient got so well, that on the twenty-seventh day after the operation, he could not resist the desire of going to the Medicinal School to see the fragments of the ribs that had been taken from him, and in three or four days afterwards he returned home, and went about his ordinary business.-The success of M. Richerand is the more important, because it will authorise in other cases, enterprizes, which, according to received opinions, would appear impossible; and we shall be less afraid of penetrating into the interior of the chest. M. Richerand even hopes, that by opening the pericardium itself, and using proper injections, we may cure a disease that has hitherto always been fatal, the dropsy of that cavity. |