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alloys, in which they have been acted formed, and infers, that this substance upon by sodium, or potassium. As our owed its existence to the absorption of inquiries at present stand, the great ge- atmospherical air by the charcoal. neral division of natural bodies is into "Potash," says he, "or pearl-ash, is natter which is, or may be supposed to easily decomposed by the combined atbe, metallic and oxygen; but till the pro-tractions of charcoal and iron; but it is blem concerning the nature of nitrogen not decomposable by charcoal, or, when is fully solved, all systematic arrange- perfectly dry, by iron alone. Two comnents made upon this idea, must be re-bustible bodies seem to be required by -garded as premature."

Mr. Davy, in the course of the lecture, noticed an experiment of Dr. Wood house, in which the action of water caused the inflammation of a mixture of four parts of charcoal, and one of pearlash, that had been strongly ignited to gether, and the emission of ammonia from them; in repeating the process, he found that by cooling the mixture out of -the contact of nitrogen, no ammonia was

their combined affinities for the effect; thus in the experiment with the gunbarrel, iron and hydrogen are concerned. I consider Homberg's pyrophorus as a triple compound of potassium, sulphor, and charcoal, and in the process the potash is probably decomposed by two athnities. The substance is perfectly imitated, by heating together ten parts of charcoal, two of potassium, and one of sulphur.

REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.

Monthly Minstrelsy, a periodical Work in twelve
Numbers, containing short Essays in Poetry and
Music. Written and composed by T. D. Wor-
gan, Ausbor of Rouge et Noir de Musique, or
Harmonic Pastimes. 1s. 6d.

F this periodical work we have, as yet, seen but one Number. The present is prefaced by thirty-two lines in heroic measure, tributary to the fame of Lord Nelson, but for which, we are afraid, the hero of Aboukir, were he living, would not feel over grateful. These lines are succeeded by what Mr. W. calls a sonnet; it consists of a succession of notes intended for a inelody, and applied to "What bard, O Time, discover," in the Duenna. These, and a single page of a sonatina, furnish out the Number now lying before us of the Monthly Minstrelsy." From certain circumstances within our knowledge, we are inclined to think that Mr. T. D. Wor gan is a son of the late excellent musician Dr. Worgan. But these circumstances, as our readers will conclude, have no connection with the contents of the pages we are now contemplating. From them we do not pretend that we should ever have traced the descent.

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Twelve Rondos in a new Style. In imitation of
Waltzes. Composed for the Piano-forte by F.
Lanza. 45.

This is the second book of rondos written by Mr. Lanza on the present plan. We approve the idea. Whatever produces variety, without confounding

the species, is, in our opinion, eligible and praise-worthy. The present pieces are rondos in the measure and style of waltzes; and they so blend the characters as not to destroy distinction, or confute the critical ear. It is but candid to add that they possess much evidence of taste and fancy, and merit the attention of the musical public.

Favourite and popular Airs from eminent Foreign Masters, arranged for two Flageolets or Flutes, and inscribed to W. Hunter, esq. by J. Parry, Editor of the Welsh Melodies.

.8s.

These airs are twenty-four in number, and form eight divertimentos. They are obviously selected with a view to the accommodation of the tyro on the instruments for which they are arranged, yet are chosen with taste and discernment. They will be practiced by almost every one with pleasure, and by none without improvenjent.

La Chasse et "Rondo Militaire, avec Accompagnement de Violon ou Flute, et Basse (ad liti tum.) Composés et dedies a Melie Jeans par 1. Mugnić. 5s.

The genius and taste exhibited in this publication demand critical acknowledgment. Many of the passages are of a novel cast, and the general effect is so far above mediocrity, as to ensure public approbation. The accompaniment is arranged with judgment, and the whole construction is demonstrative of the real master.

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"Blitbe were the Hours" a favourite Song, sung with the greatest Applause by Mrs. Asbe, at the Batb Concerts. Composed by the late Mr. Rauzzini. 1s. 6d.

The late ingenious Mr. Rauzzini, among all his numerous vocal compositions, has scarcely left a more pleasing proof of his powers in the production of easy, natural, and familiar melody, than in the little sample now before us. The ideas are attractive and connected, and the whole wears the aspect of cultivated taste and real genius. The words are by Mr. W. Bennett, and are far from being destitute of poetic spirit.

Farewell ye Lasses blithe and fair ;” a Bal lad, written by Peter Pindar, esq. Composed and dedicated to Miss Mein by John Paddon.

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Mr Paddon, though not perhaps wholly unqualified for the province of ballad melody, does not, by the present specimen of his talents, authorize us to say that he is adequate to the task of coping with Peter Pindar's poetry. All that he has here done towards propriety, is the furnishing alame imitation of the Scotch style; and all that he has, effected in the way of taste or fancy, will, we apprehend, be lost upon the generality of hearers; we candidly confess it is lost upon us.

Marche, Menust, et Gavotte, a Quatre Mains, pour le Piano-forte. Composées et dedicés a mi Lady Frances et mi Lady Harriet Somerset, par L. Von Escb., 3s.

The style of these pieces is familiar and pleasing. Mr. Von Esch has evidently not intended them as great efforts. They however carry the marks of their ingenious author, and will be sure of a welcome reception with hearers of taste and judgment.

No. XV. of Handel's Overtures, arranged for, the Piano-forte, with an Accompaniment for a Flute and Violin, by J. Mazzingbi. 35. The present Number of this useful work contains the overture to Theodora, the second overture to Semele, and the overture to the Water Music. The ad"dress with which the arrangement is conducted, and the taste and good mas nagement displayed in the accompaniment, render this number every way wor

thy of the foregoing specimens of Mr. Mazzinghi's high qualification for this un dertaking, and are calculated to support the credit the publication has already attained,

The much admired Castanet Dance, performed by Monsieur Vestris and Signora Angiolini, in the favourite Ballet of Don Quichotte, com posed by F. Venna, and arranged as a Ronde by F. Lanza. 25, 6d.

This dance occupies six pages, and is comprised in one movement. The pas sages are, however, so judiciously varied as to render the whole perfectly free from any thing like tædium; and the digressive strains are too analogous, to the subject matter to divert the ear from what in a rondo should always constitute the

centre of attraction,

Number III of the Lyrist, consisting of Country Dances, Reels, and Waltzes. Composed and arranged for the Piano forte, Harp, or Violin, by F. Parry, 15.

This Number contains eighteen little pieces, intended as pleasing trifies; and such we are enabled to pronounce them. For the first stage of practice they will be found very useful, and are partic larly calculated to attract the juvenile

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Hope" selected from Essex's Op. 8. Compend for, and inscribed to, the Ladies of Mrs. Sala's "Seminary, (Winchester House. )” 14. 6d.

This air is of an easy and agreeable cast. The passages are in general smooth and flowing, and the accompanis ment is tasteful and ornamental. With the symphonies we are much pleased. The placing the words of the second verse immediately under those of the first, is convenient and politic, and cannot but facilitate the execution with those who have not previously studied the poetry. "The Merry Beggars;” a much admired Dance,

inscribed to the Duke of Clarence. Arranged as a Rondo for the Piano-forte by J. Ring wood, 1s. 6d.

This little exercise for the piano-forte, will not fail to please the generality of practitioners. The passages are so well disposed for the juvenile hand, that they must blend improvement with pleasure.

REPORT OF DISEASES,

Under the Cure of the late Senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 20th of May to the 20th of June, 1810.

HE periodical propensity to migraTHE tion is beginning to shew itself amongst the more opulent inhabitants

of the metropolis. It may here be con sidered as constituting the fashionable epidemic of the present season of the

year

year. This domiphobia* may be opposed to the hydrophobia, inasmuch as a patient affected with the former complaint, so far from betraying any dread of water, is for the most part impelled by an almost irresistible impulse, to places of resort where that element is to be found in the greatest abundance. London, which at other times serves as a nucleus for an accumu lated population, seems now to exert a surprising centripetal force, by which are driven to a distance from it a large proportion of those inhabitants who are not fastened to the spot upon which they live by the rivet of necessity, or some powerful local obligations. Men whose personal freedom is not in like manner restricted within geographical limits, glad ly escape, in the present state of the atmosphere, from the perils, real or imaginary, of this crowded and artificially heated capital:

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Sævæ urbis.

markably does the stimulus of a favorite and enlivening amusement awaken the dormant energies of the animal fibre. Upon a similar principle, they are, for the most part, only the vacant and the indolent, those "lies of the val ley, that neither toil nor spin," who suffer in any considerable degree from the closeness of the air, or the changes of the weather. One whose attention is occupied and whose powers are actively engaged, will be found in a great measure indifferent to the elevatious or depressions of the thermometer. Leisure, although not the subject, is the principal source of all our lamentations. There is no disquietude more intolerable than that which is experienced by persons who are unfortunately placed in what are called easy circumstances. Toil was made for man, and although he may sometimes inherit what is necessary to life, he is, in every instance, obliged to earn what is essential to its enjoyment. The vapors of melancholy most frequentarise from an untilled or insuthciently cultivated soil.

Although habitual industry is of such indispensable importance to our physical as well as intellectual well-being, it will not be found sufficient to secure the continuance of either without the co-operation of temperance, which indeed is its usual and natural ally.

An already immense and incessantly ex-
panding city, on every side of which newly
streets are continually surprising the view,
as rapid almost in their formation, as the
sudden shootings of crystallization, it is
reasonable to imagine, cannot be particu-
larly favorable to the health of that mass of
human existence which it contains. But
it is at least a matter of doubtful specu-
lation how far those maladies, which are
attributed exclusively to the air of this
great town, may arise from the perhaps
more noxious influence of its fashions and
its habits. Man is not in so humiliating
a degree dependent, as some are apt to
suppose, upon the particles that float
about him. He is by no means consti-
tuted so, as necessarily to be the slave of
circumambient atoms. As the body va-
ries little in its heat, in all the vicissitudes
of external temperature to which it may
be exposed, so there is an internal power
of resistance in the mind, which, when
roused into action, is in most instances
sufficient to counteract the hostile agency
of extraneous causes. The reporter has
repeatedly been acquainted with the in-
stance of a female patient, who, at a time
when she felt too feeble and innervated
to walk across a room, could, notwith
standing, without any sense of inconve-
nience or fatigue, dance the greater part of
a night with an agreeable partner. So re-

An extremely well-written and interesting account of the Domiphobia, a complaint which is not even noticed in the scholastic systems of nosology, may be perused in one of the earlier volumes of the Monthly Magazine.

Temperance ought to be regarded as a virtue of more comprehensive meaning than what relates merely to a salutary discipline in diet. Temperance implies a certain regulation of all the feelings, and a due but restricted exercise of all the faculties of the frame. There is no species of dissipation or exertion in which we may not pass beyond the bounds of a wholesome moderation. A man may be intemperately joyful or sorrowful, intemperate in his hopes or in his fears, intemperate in his friendships or his hostilities, intemperate in the restlessness of his ambition, or in his greediness of gain.

The state of the pulse depends so much upon the beating of the passions, that the former cannot be regular and calmn whilst the latter are violent and perturbed. The science of medicine, liberally understood, takes in the whole of man. He who in the study or the treatment of the human machinery, overlooks the intellectual part of it, cannot but entertain very incorrect notions of and fall into gross and sometimes fatal blun ders in the means which be adopts for its regulation or repair. recting his purblind skili to remove or

Whilst be is di

relieve

relieve some more obvious and superficial symptom, the worm of mental madady may be gnawing inwardly and ondetected at the root of the constitution. He may be in a situation similar to that of a surgeon who, at the time that he is Occupied in tying up one artery, is not aware that his patient is bleeding to death at another.

Without an intimate acquaintance with, or at least a diligent attention to, the intellectual and active powers of man, the physician, froin the elevated rank of a medical philosopher, is degraded to that of a mere fee-taker, in the profession.

·June 22, 1810, J. REID. Grenville-street, Brunswick-square.

STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN JUNE. Containing official Papers and authentic Documents.

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The city of Paris gave a grand fete to Buonaparte and his consort on the 10th inst. on returning from their late tour. It was nearly an exact counterpart of the fete which took place on the 2d of April. Horse-races, lotteries, concerts, balls, and fire-works, were again the leading spectacles and amusements of the day. The decoration which screened the apparatus of the grand fireworks on the Quay Napoleon, evinced much ingenuity. It represented a mountain, the base of which was skirted with rocks, and armed with two bastions, to exhibit the aspect of military work. Higher up was the temple of glory, shaded by oaks and laurels; and on the top, amidst a bower of myrties and rose-trees, was the temple of Hymen, the paths leading to which were strewed with flowers. A ship, the old emblem of the city of Paris, also formed a part of these decorations.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

Dispatches have been received from Portugal to the 31st ult. at which date no engagement had taken place between the Anglo-Portuguese and French armies. The latter occupied a right line extending from Salamanca to Truxilio, and the former continue within the Portuguese frontier.

The British force in Cadiz amounts to 7000 men, the Portuguese to 1500, and the Spaniards to 15,000, making the whole 25,500. All apprehensions from the scarcity of water had subsided, a spring having been

discovered equal to the supply of three times the number of the present inhabitants

General Massena was lately at Valladolid; before he left Salamanca, he published a pro clamation, styling himself king of Portugal, and promising on his royal word to drive all the English into the sea in less than three months, and declaring that he will hang every British officer found in the Portuguese service. A large body of French troope

appeared a few days since before Ciudad Rodrigo, but they retired on the appearance of an English force.

Massena is to command the 23, 6th, and 8th, corps. The first is that which is under the orders of Regnier and has wasted mach time in Estremadura without attempting any useful operation; the second is Ney's corps, from 8 to 10,000 of which are sick in the hospitals; and the last, is Junot's, which, although originally comprising 18 er 19,000 men, is now greatly reduced, having lost more than 4000 men before Astorga, &c.

GREAT BRITAIN.

The prorogation of Parliament took place on the 21st, and it was universally expected that Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Gale Jones were to be drawn home from their respective prisons in popular cavalcade, as a means of proving the sentiment of the nation on the power assumed by the House of Commons. Extensive preparations had been made for this purpose; and the following order of procession announced on Tuesday. Sir Trumpeters on horseback.-Band of Music, six abreast-Gentlemen on foot, six abreast.-Band of music, six abreast.-Large dark blue streamer: motto "Hold to the Laws."-Fifty-two gentlemen on horseback, four abreast.-Sir Francis Burdett, in an elevated carriage, drawn by four horses, supported by six gentlemen on horseback, on each side, bearing white wands; followed by gentlemen on horseback, four abreast.Carriages to close, to fall in at the end of John-street, Minories. Procession to form on Tower-bill, to proceed up Cooper's-row, John street, America-square, Minories, Aldgate, Leadenhall-street, Cornhill, Poultry,

Cheapside

Cheapside, St. Paul's Church-yard, Ludgatehill, Fleet-street, through Picket-street, Strand, Cockspur-street, Haymarket, Piccadilly. The only distinguishing mark to be worn, is a dark-blue favour. Members of the Common Councilmen and Livery of London will join the procession on Tower hill. A numerous body of Westminster electors will also proceed from the parish of St. Ann's, Soho, with their band of music, and with the following banners: Sky-blue banner, mottos, "The Consti u tion." Dark-blue ditto, Magna Charta." Ditto, "Trial by Jury." Dark-blue streamer, Burdett and Freedom." They will fall into the procession on Tower-hill-The Benevolent Society, called the Hope, will join the procession on Tower-hill, with a band of music and banner: mottos, "Magna Charta," on one side; on the other, "Lex, Justitia, et Libertas." The day had scarcely dawned, when the people were in motionwhen music was heard in every direction. At the different appointed rendezvous in the several parishes of Westminster, the people began to assemble about ten o'clock, and from thence proceeded to the Tower. Before one o'clock, Tower-hill and all the avenues approaching it were literally thronged. By half-after two the whole of the procession was in readiness to move, and from that moment the most eager expectation prevailed, but which in the end was totally disappointed; for Sir Francis, we understand, yielding to the intreaties of lady Burdett and some friends, was no sooner liberated, than he took a boat, crossed the river, and joining lady Burdett, who was waiting for him, proceeded in his carriage to Wimbledon. Lord Moira was the first who announced this disappointment to the leaders of the procession, by whom it was communicated to the assemblage on Tower-hill; but there was a general indisposition to believe it. Mr. Sheriff Wood having, however, confirmed the intelligence, mingled expressions of surprise and indignation burst from many of the crowd; but the latter sentiment was short-lived; the people feeling that they ought to suspend their judgment until an opportunity was afforded for explanation. At five o'clock, the procession moved from Tower-hill. The pheten, with four horses, provided for Sir Francis Burdett, was empty; and the effect of a procession may be readily conceived where the hero is absent. At the head of the first party of horsemen were the Sheriff's Wood and Atkins, with their followers, mounted, dressed in black. Major Cartwright and Col. Hanger, led other bodies. Colonels Wardle and Bosville, Messrs. Waithman, Quin, Langley, Walker, &c, were also in the procession. The streets through which it moved, were crowded to an excess, and the windows of all the houses were occupied by elegant and well-dressed people. At eight

o'clock, the procession reached the Baronet's house, and filed off by Berkeley-street. The houses in Piccadilly, Haymarket, and the Strand, were illuminated at night; a party, parading the streets, and calling out for lights, and windows were broken where no lights were put up. The exhortations of the sheriffs, whose activity was unwearied, were at length attended with proper effect, and as twelve the crowd dispersed.

On the 21st, the session of Parliament. was prorogued, by the following speech from the Throne:

has commanded us to acquaint you, that, as "My Lords and Gentlemen. His Majesty the public business is now concluded, he thinks it proper to put an end to the present session of Parliament. We are commanded by his Majesty to express the satisfaction he derived from the reduction of the island of Guadaloupe by his Majesty's arms, an event which, for the first time in the history. of the wars of Great Britain, has wrested from France all her possessions in that quarter of the world; and which, together with the subsequent capture of the only colonies in the West Indies which remained in the possession of the Dutch, has deprived his Majesty's enemies of every port in those seas, from which the interests of his Majesty, or the commerce of his subjects, can be molested.

Majesty has commanded as to thank you for "Gentlemen of the House of Commons. His the liberal and ample supplies which you have granted for the services of the present year. His Majesty deeply regrets the necessary extent of the demands which those services have created; but we are commanded to express to you the consolation which he has derived from observing that the resources of the country, manifesting themselves by every mark of prosperity, by a revenue increasing in almost all its branches; and by a commerce extending itself in new channels, and with an increased vigour in proportion as the enemy has in vain attempted to destroy it, have enabled you to provide for the expences of the year without imposing the burden of any new taxation in Great Britain; and that, while the taxes which have been necessarily resorted to for Ireland, have been imposed upon articles which will not interfere with the growing prosperity of that country, you have found it consistent with a due regard to its finances to diminish some of those burdens, and relax some of those regulations of revenue which had been felt the most inconvenient in that part of the United Kingdom. His Majesty further com. mands us to return you his thanks for the provision which you have enabled him to make for the establishment of his Serene Highness the duke of Brunswick.

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