the existence of the Auftrian Committee, is the principle they had laid down. That in confpiracies, it is abfurd to call for demonstrative facts and judicial proofs: that in no time have they ever been obtained, not even in the confpiracies of Cataline; for confpirators are not used to be fo unguarded in their conduct. It is sufficient that' there exift ftrong probabilities:-if fo, then will I prove against Briffot and Genfonné the existence of an Anglo-Pruffian committee, by a collection of probabilities, a hundred times ftronger than those by which Briffot and Genfonné proved the existence of an Auftrian' committee.'

Briffot, he fays, always fpoke favourably of England in his papers he was fecretary to Madame Sillery, or to her brother De Crefts," who was chancellor to the Duke of Orleans.

Pethion, a famous Briffotin, went to England, and travelled in the fame carriage with Madame Sillery, Mademoiselle d'Orleans, Pamela, and Sarcey, for the purpose of confulting with Pitt.

Carra, another Briffotin, proposed once in the Jacobin club to make the Duke of York, or some other prince of the house of Brunswick, King of France, on condition of his marrying Mademoiselle d'Orleans.

M. Desmoulins charges the Briffotins with having lavished millions to corrupt the public mind, and with having 150 newspapers in their pay, while the Jacobins had only one. He roundly afferts that Roland, the minifter of ftate for the home department, whom Briffor calls the virtuous Roland, was the person who robbed the jewel-office and ftole the crown jewels; fome of which, of inconfiderable value, had been recovered from the thieves who were let in to give a colour to the business, after the arch thief and his friends had carried off the three great diamonds, the Regent, the Pitt, and the Sancy. He accufes Guadet of having been fo indifferent about the liberties of other countries, as to have faid one day in a committee, What does it fignify to us whether Dutch cheesemongers are freemen or flaves?' the fame Guadet, who, fix months before, pofitively called for war, that he might municipalize all Europe.-The retreat of the Pruffians, when Dumourier might have cut them to pieces, reduced as their force was by fickness and by death, is inftanced as a proof of treachery in Briffot and his party, who were then at the head of affairs.-M. Defmoulins, inftead of denying that the Jacobins had committed the horrid murders of the month of September, reminds Briffot that he and his friends had defended the maffacres at Avignon; and he ftates what he calls a fact, which, if it be one, proves this advocate for humanity to have been as blood-thirsty as any Septemberizer of them all. The fact is contained in the following query and obferva tion:

Is it not a fact, that Briffot, the Jeremiah of this 2d of Sept. faid on the 3d, at the executive council, in the prefence of Danton, they have forgot Morande;" that Morande, who has almost deferved from the nation his pardon for his numerous flanders, for having told fo many truths of Briffot. Chabot affured me, that on the zd of September, Briffot equally recollected Morande.

This grief of Briffot's, at the escape of Morande, proves that this hypocrite in humanity has the foul of Tiberias, Medicis or Charles IX. and to him the dead corpse of an enemy smelt well.”

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There

There is a paffage in this pamphlet which would fhew that the Briffotins, instead of being the authors of the war, had conftantly oppofed all plans for uniting other countries to France, and for invading the territories of their neighbours. This the Jacobins denominate a crime in them. The reader of the pamphlet will find it in p. 36. We are prevented from tranfcribing this, and many other curious paffages, by our want of room.

M. Defmoulins retorts the charge of corruption. He fays that Guadet made a motion one day in the convention, to make which he (Defmoulins) had been offered 22,oco livres the day before. Pethion, during his mayoralty, received 1000 livres per day from the minifter for foreign affairs. Rabaud de St. Etienne, a proteftant clergyman, is charged with having received large fums from the heirs of protestants who had been exiled by the,revocation of the edict of Nantz; for whom, it is faid, he pretended he would recover their eftates.

We will stop here, for we are tired of fuch accufations and recriminations. If either of the parties tells truth, miferably indeed muft France have been deceived; if both parties speak truth, what must be the blindnefs of the people to be any longer dupes to men who have no object but the gratification of avarice, or of revenge? and who difgrace one of the nobleft caufes that ever excited the attention and admiration of mankind?

If we compare Briffot and Defmoulins as writers, the credit of the comparison will be entirely on the fide of the former. He is not indeed equal to the latter in the matchlefs intrepidity with which he brings charges without proofs, and triumphs in declamation as if it were demonstration: but, in folid fenfe, in argument, and in reason, Briffot leaves his adversary a thousand miles behind him.-Defmoulins may be heard in the Jacobin club, or at the revolutionary tribunal : but, at the bar of fense and juftice, he would foon be filenced. Art. 33. The Anarchy and Horrors of France difplayed by a Member of the Convention. 8vo. pp. 27. IS. Parfons.

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This little pamphlet confifts of extracts from Briffot's addrefs to his conftituents: as we have reviewed the whole of that work, which our readers will find in our preceding pages, we have no occafion to take notice here of any of its parts. To thefe extracts are prefixed fome obfervations by the compiler, in the fhape of a preface, which fhew that the Jacobins cannot deteft order and humanity more than he detefts the Jacobins. Chriftianity fays, love your enemies;" modern policy fays, "hate them :"-the compiler gives striking proofs that the Jacobins are not the only perfons who reject the mild precepts of the gofpel: on this occafion, it is evident that he prefers the political to the evangelical command; and that fome men can make a great noise, because others have abandoned what they themselves no longer practise.

LAW.

Art. 34. Cafe of Libel, the King v. John Lambert and others, Printer and Proprietors of the Morning Chronicle: With the Arguments of Counfel, and Decifion of the Court, on the general

Question

Question," Whether the Special Jury, firft ftruck and reduced, according to the Statute, fhall be the Jury to try the Iffue "joined between the Parties?" 8vo. pp. 68. 1s. 6d. Debrett. 1794. This appears to be an accurate and fair ftatement of the trial for libel, which took place on account of the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle having inferted in their paper of Dec. 25th, 1792, an addrefs from a meeting of the Society for Political Information at the Talbot Inn in Derby, July 16, 1792.-The previous queftion refpect ing the jury is more fully reported in 5 Term Rep. 453. The jury, having retired from two in the afternoon till feven in the evening, brought in the verdict, Guilty of publishing, but with no malicious intent; this Lord Kenyon refufed to record, confidering it, as he said, to be no verdict at all. They again returned at five in the morning with a general verdict of Not guilty.-The Appendix contains a valuable extract from a Tract written by Sir John Hawles, published in Charles the Second's time, on the duty of jurors.

MEDICAL, CHEMICAL, &c.

Art. 35. A Plan for preventing the fatal Effects from the Bite of a mad Dog, with Cafes. By Jeffe Foot, Surgeon. 8vo. 6d. Becket. Mr. F. infifts that excifion by the knife is the only fure and certain method of prevention, and that the fooner it be done after the bite, the better' but he adds that the practice fhould not be renounced even after the expiration of 60 hours, or a much longer time. This fubject merits universal attention.

Art. 36. Of the Hotwell Waters, near Brifiol; by John Nott, M. D. 8vo. pp. 9+· 25. Walter. 1793.

In this water-drinking companion, intended, (as the author fays,) not for the phyfician, but for the valetudinarian, will be found an amufing mifcellany of the hiftory of the Wells, the natural hiftory of the vicinity, the chemical analyfis of the water, the medical theory of their operation, their practical application in difeafes, the accommodations and amufements of the place, &c. drawn up in gentlemanly language, not without a little spice of affectation, As accurate refearch and novelty of obfervation are not attempted, we fhall not make any extracts from the work, but rather recommend the whole to the perfons for whom it is particularly defigned. With refpect to the chemical analysis of the water, the writer confides in that of Dr. Higgins.

Art. 37. A Treatise upon Gravel and upon Gout, in which their Sources and Connection are ascertained; with an Examination of Dr. Auftin's Theory of Stone, and other critical Remarks, a Differtation on the Bile and its Concretions, and an Enquiry into the 7. Operation of Solvents. By Murray Forbes, Member of the Surgeon's Company. 8vo. pp. 258. 4s. Boards. Cadell. 1793. In the Preface to this work, we are informed that the principal part of the matter contained in it was made public almost feven years fince, under the title of A Treatise upon Gravel and upon Gout*, &c. The chief additions in the prefent publication are the differtation on bile, and the remarks on the late Dr. Auftin's theory. Mr. Forbes, See M. Rev. vol. lxxvi. p, 220. R

REV. FEB. 1794

having

having adopted the opinion that the urinary calculus is a concretion of a peculiar acid, the lithifiac, could not admit the hypothefis of Dr. Auftin, that it confifts only of hardened mucus produced from the fides of the cavities through which the urine flows. He employs various arguments in refutation of this theory; which, however, being chiefly a repetition of his own notions, contrafted with Dr. Auftin's fyftem, without any new experiments, we cannot abridge with any advantage to our readers. We do not mean to fay that they are not worthy of the notice of those who wish to difcufs the point: but they require a previous knowlege of the chemical inveftigations of Scheele, Higgins, and others, to which the reafonings all refer. With refpect to the bile, he, as other writers have done, afferts it to be a real foap, confifting of the mineral alkali and a refinous matter. He relates his own experiments, by which he proved this point; and he infers, from the nature of the bile, that its purposes are to correct acidity in the alimentary canal, to lubricate the paffages, and to bring to an equable mixture the particles of the food. With refpect to biliary calculi, he thinks that they are entirely dif ferent from the urinary, and confift principally of the refin of the bile. He conceives it not improbable that an acidity in the fluids may promote the precipitation and concretien of this refinous matter; and, in confidering the ways by which acid fluids may arrive at the fluids, he fupports, by various arguments, the poffibility of an abforption by means of the mefenteric veins, conveying them directly to the vena portarum, without taking the round of the circulation. Thus he connects the caufe of biliary concretions with that which produces gravel and gout; viz. a prevalence of acidity in the conftitution. Art. 38. Reflections on a Letter addreffed to the Governors of St. George's Hofpital by J. Hunter, Surgeon. 8vo. Is. Bladon.

We fhould at no time have been difpofed to enter into the particulars of this invective against Mr. Hunter:-fince his death, we are ftill more difpofed to confign it to oblivion.

Art. 39. An Analysis of the New London Pharmacopeia, explaining the Nature, Principles, elective Attractions, Qualities, Ufes, and Dofes of the various Preparations and Compofitions contained therein; and particularly calculated for the Ufe of the junior Students. By Robert White, M. D. 8vo. pp. 184. 35. 6d. Boards. Cadell.

1792.

This small work begins with an arrangement of the materia melica according to the Linnæan fyftem. It then proceeds through the difpenfatory in order, giving under the head of each preparation a concife account of its nature and ufe, interfperfed with occafional obfervations. It is a performance which may be fafely recommended to the perfons for whom it was principally designed.

POETRY.

Art. 40. Celebration, or, the Academic Proceffion to St. James's an Ode. By Peter Pindar, Efq. 4to. pp. 17. 15. 6d. fewed. Walker. 1794.

Who, among our readers, would, in thefe perilous times, be a King Wee to you, lucklefs Wights, that are encumbered with

royalty!

royalty! The French, on the one hand, hack and hew you with the fword, or the ruthless guillotine, and Peter Pindar tickles you to death with his feather! Thus affailed on all fides, who would be encumbered with royalty? Nay, who would even be a royal Academician? They, too, are perfecuted by the French, who ftrip them of their very names and titles ; and P. P. is alfo for ever driving at them with his fharp-pointed quill!Thus it is that we fee

Proud Courts withdraw their blaze,

And little stars hide their diminish'd rays!"

Hence, too, it is that we fee, as in this Academic Proceffion, Weft, and Wilfon, and the rest of the R. A.s, lafhed from Somerset Houfe to St. James's; and back from St. James's to Somerfet Houfe. The immediate occafion of this infliction of literary punishment (for what fin we know not,) is now fet forth in the prefixed Advertisement, addreffed to the Marvelling Reader:'

• Soon after the death of Dr. Johnfon, a fubfcription for a monument to the memory of that celebrated Moralift being in circulation among the firft people of the kingdom, the Royal Academy generously and unanimoufly voted one hundred pounds towards the expences, as a tribute of regard for fo extraordinary a man, and one of their own members; Dr. Johnfon holding the place of Profeffor of Modern Literature. This refolution being prefented to the King, his Majesty, in confideration of the extreme poverty of the Royal Academy, instead of giving the Royal Affent, imposed the Royal Veto. So much for Dr. Johnson.

In confequence of the exalted idea entertained by the Members of the Royal Academy of the late Prefident's (Sir Joshua Reynolds) difcourfes, they refolved in council that an elegant edition fhould be printed at the expence of the Academy; one copy to be prefented to each of the members; the remainder of the copies to be depofited in the Library of the Academy; and a copy to be given occafionally to the moft fuccefsful Student, and to the newly-elected Academicians. This resolution was also offered to the King, who, on account of the fill-reigning poverty of the Academy, put a period to the proceeding, by a Royal Veto!

Mister Weft, the prefent extraordinary Prefident of the Royal Academy, unterrified by Royal Vetos, with and by the advice of his Council, magnanimously produced another string of refolutions:-viz. to beg to be permitted to eat and drink, totis viribus, in fpite of the Academy's poverty, the Academy's and his Majefty's good health, amidst mountains of meat, and oceans of drink; to prefent an address of bumble thanks to his Majefty for his unexampled Munificence to his own Academy; and to be indulged with the honour of prefenting a handfome medal of gold to his Majesty, to her Majefty, to the Prince of Wales, and to the Princefs Royal. These refolutions were fortunately received by Majefty with the most flattering cordiality; and this day, all thefe things (God willing) are to be performed and executed, together

• The ci-devant Royal Academies at Paris, we are informed, ftill exift, but under what titles or denominations we know not: certainly no longer Royal; for which, we believe, National is fubftituted.

with