of his defign (namely, the rendering the French government odious) ought with good fubjects to excufe the faults of the execution. The play is founded upon the fuppofed circumstance of a fon denouncing his father at the bar of the convention. Count de Villeroi, a member of the first conftituent affembly, has retired from public affaits, on feeing the prevalence of the republican party. To this party his fon Henry is ftrongly attached; he is a member of the fecond affembly, warm, artlefs, and enthufiaftic, and urged on to the utmost excess of democratic fury by his unbounded love for Julia, an artful and proud woman, the widow of a rich merchant, who, from refentment at the flights fhe has received from the nobility, exerts all her influence in favour of the popular party. Villeroi contemptucully refufes his confent to her union with his fon, upon which the vows his deftruction, and under the mask of zeal for Liberty, prevails on her lover to denounce him to the convention, under the allurance, however, that through her intereft with fome of the members his life would not be in danger. The remorfe of Henry, when he finds he has been deceived, and the interview with his father, who is ignorant from what hand he has received the blow, are not void of intereft.

O past my hopes! my fon, you come moft with'd.
-And truft me, Henry, that griev'd countenance
For him who never ceas'd to love you with
Paternal tenderness, becomes you well.

Alas! I fear'd you quite eftreng'd from me;
And yet, my fon, you had no caufe to be fo,
Since what I did was done in love and care,
And not to fhew perverfe authority!

O now you weep; and I do thank your tears,
For that I was unmann'd while I did think
My fon my foc! Now do I fe fuperior
To the vile malice which can take but life!
Then come into thy father's arms, and with
A laft embrace, hear this my latest counsel.

Henry. (Falling at his father's feet.) Curfe me, my father! O in pity curfe me!

4 Villeroi. Curie thee, Henry! Ah, witnefs for me heav'n!

Ev'n when my indignation rofe the highest,

Was never father lov'd a fon fo dearly.

• Henry. (Raifing himself on his knees.) Wilt thou not open, earth, and hide my head!

That to thy despoft centre thou wouldst ope,

And fhield me from the terror of thofe looks!

• Villeroi. Just heav'n! what horrid thought breaks in upon me! • D'Orville. (Afide.) O, I prefag'd this deed.-Thou curfed Julia! Henry. (Rifing.) Is there no pity left in heav'n, to dart

The

The forked bolt, and end me at one ftroke?

And ye, fwift lightnings, that avenge the guilty,
Where will ye find fo black a parricide!

Villeroi. Merciful heav'n! merciful heav'n! 'tis fo

-Then break, my heart! O quickly burft thy bounds,
And gratify this monfter with the fight,

Who elfe will tear thee from thy bleeding manfion!
-O thou most favage and unnatural!

'Tis thou then that haft plann'd thy father's death!
Yet think not for my death,--but at that hand,---
-Yet fay, thou barbarous fon! for which of all
My crimes haft thou refolv'd to murder me?
Was it the fond anxiety that watch'd'
O'er thy moft tender years that mov'd thy rage?
Then haft thou reafon, for 'twas unexampled.
Or wilt thou date it from thy days of childhood?
Then when the pliant mem ry first 'gins note:
Who hung o'er thee with ftill encreasing joy?
Who was the partner of thy little fports?
The patient lift ner of each prattling tale;

Who watch'd the half-form'd thought, the tear, the fmile,
And gently taught them to incline to virtue?

My fon, my fon! couldst thou forget all this?'

The news foon arrives that Villeroi is condemned and executed; and Henry finds, by the confeflion of Julia, that the whole had been a fcheme to revenge his prohibition of the match; upon which he ftabs her, and dies himfelf by the hand of Perron, her affociate in the plot. The fubordinate characters are linked to thefe principal ones, by being of the family of Villeroi or of Julia. Upon the whole, though this performance fhows no great powers, it is not one of the worst that has been built upon the late events. The fituation of Henry, the dupe to a beautiful and fpecious woman, who works upon his paffions by pretending to exalt them into the nobleft efforts of patriotifm, in the hands of a man of genius might have been worked up with great effect. We think the author réprehenfible for introducing into his account of the maffacres of September, immediately after which the play opens, an unfounded ftory of two young girls being tied to a stake and burnt alive in the midst of Paris. In political plays, written on events fo recent, fiction becomes flander. The following picture of the imprifoned Louis, though much lefs horrid, is more affecting, becaufe unfortunately it is founded on truth:

My royal mafter (as fuch to heav'n I swore
With a whole nation, to maintain his rights)
I found him, low indeed in outward fhow;
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Unfeemly

Unfeemly his attire,-with fqualid beard

And matted hair-befide him, on two planks,
His only table, lay his ufelefs fword,

And once proud orders. Now the confcious monitors
Of fortune chang'd, and majefty, how fall'n!
The reft accorded well: bare floor, bare walls
Diftilling long pent damps: and near him fat
(O ftudy'd infolence) two varlet knaves

With their heads cover'd, who with boorish din

Shook loud the dice-box'

We cannot help noticing a most unmerciful foliloquy of 110 lines, in fubftance borrowed from Addifon's Cato.

Medical Facts and Obfervations. Vol. III, and IV. 8vo. 75. Boards. Johnson. 1792.

ART. I. Cafes of Ifchuria Renalis in Children. By Ro

bert Willan, M. D. F. A. S. Phyfician to the Public Difpenfary in London. We do not perceive that any useful conLequence can be drawn from thefe cafes: the fymptoms obfcurely pointed out some abdominal inflammation, and, with thefe, a paucity of urine was combined. The fault appeared to be in the kidneys; but it is by no means clear, in what way it was connected with the inflammation, which appeared to be feated in the mefentery; nor what remedies would be ufeful. We fufpect it to be an accidental coincidence.

Art. II. A Cafe of Pemphigus. By T. M. Winterbottom, M. D. Phyfician to the Settlement at Sierra Leone.If this be really pemphigus, the difeafe is not properly exanthematous, for the man was only affected by the tubercles, in two feparate voyages to Archangel. There is no evidence. that they might not have been owing to the bites of infects, as different perfons are affected very differently by fimilar caufes. It is not neceffary that the infects fhould be mufquetos.

Art. III. Cafe of Injury of the Brain, without a Fracture, relieved by Application of the Trephine. By Mr. John Andrews Surgeon in London.-A cafe by no means fingular: a collection of blood, under the dura mater, compreffed and irritated the brain. It was evacuated, and the patient recovered.

Art. IV. Cafe of a Cyft containing Hydatids, extracted from the right anterior Ventricle of the Brain of a Cow. Communicated in a Letter to Dr. Simmons, by Mr. William Moorcroft, Veterinarian Surgeon in London.-The appearance of the difeafe, in this cow, was not unlike that of the fheep, when

when there is a collection of fluid matter in, or upon, the brain. In this cafe, a veficle of water was punctured, and the bladder completely brought away-But there were fome others, or the cow died from another caufe. The author's reflections we fhall transcribe:

The capfule or bag was thin, rather opaque, and tolerably ftrong, without any appearance of vafcularity; its external furface was in general fmooth; in a few points, however, it was rendered irregular by the adhesion of small, white, globular bodies. The internal furface was in fome places perfectly fmooth, whilst in others, on the contrary, it was ftudded with groups of the bodies juft mentioned, fome of which were not larger than grains of poppy feed and nearly globular; others, however, were as large as a small pin's head, fomewhat pyriform, and hung from the cyft by a kind of neck. In fome places they were scattered at a distance from each other, whilst in others they were accumulated in fuch numbers as to form clusters, which hung down into the cavity of the capfule, and bore no flight refemblance to finall bunches of grapes. Each of thefe bodies confifted of a veficular worm, or animal hydatid, contained in a fmall capfule, and which, from the circumstance of its being found in great numbers in one common capfule, has been called the focial hydatid, to diftinguish it from another fpecies, which is generally met with isolated, and thence named the hermit or folitary hydatid. This hydatid confifts of a head, neck, and body, and appears to be of the fame ftructure with the larger or folitary kind; but as I fhall have occafion to speak of these worms in another paper, I fhall reserve what I have to say of their ftructure and mode of life till that time.'

Art. V. Facts relative to the Prevention of Hydrophobia. Communicated in a Letter to Dr. Simmons by Mr. Jeffe Foot, Surgeon in London.-Three inftances of patients bitten by dogs, undoubtedly mad, cured by extirpating the bitten part; and one where the disease proved fatal, in which excision was not permitted.

Art. VI. Two Cafes of Fracture; one of the upper, the other of the lower Jaw. By Mr. T. Hughes, Surgeon at Stroud-water in Gloucefter fhire.-The moft ufeful parts of this article relate to the methods of fecuring the fractured jaw; but thefe we cannot abridge or extract.

Art. VII. Cafe of an enlarged Nympha. By Mr. William Morlen, Surgeon in London.-The nympha was fo much enlarged, as to be mistaken for an inverted uterus. The prel fure alfo on the lymphatics, occafioned confiderable fwelling of the labia. The operation fucceeded completely, and the umor, when extirpated, weighed feven ounces one drachm. Art. VIII. An Account of the good Effects of Electricity

in a Cafe of violent fpafmodic Affection. By Mr. George Wilkinfon, Surgeon at Sunderland, and Member of the Royal College of Surgeons at Edinburgh, &c.-This was a cafe of catalepfy, feemingly hyfteric, and the patient was luckily relieved by a remedy that often fails.

Art. IX. Cafe of a fingular cutaneous Affection; with fome Remarks relative to the Poifon of Copper. By Mr. William Davidfon, Apothecary in London. Communicated in a Letter to Dr. Seguin Henry Jackson, Phyfician in London, and by him to Dr. Simmons.-The eruption on the fkin was evidently owing to the copper. The little that had been swallowed was thrown on the furface, and nature had evacuated it, before Mr. Davidfon gave the lac fulphuris. Should any one be poifoned with copper, we would not advise them to trust fo flow, and fo trifling a remedy.

Art. X. Two Cafes of pulmonary Hemorrhage, fpeedily and fuccefsfully cured by Abftinence from Liquids. By the Same. We have already had occafion to mention thefe cafes. The patients feemed to be better by abftaining from liquids, and our author's theory of tenfion being kept up by fullness of the veffels, feems, at leaft, plaufible. But is he certain, that the veffels of confumptive people are diftended, or that abftinence from liquids, if they were fo, would leffen the tension? Is he not aware that the watery fecretions are diminished, when there is no fupply? On the whole, we have our doubts refpecting every part of this article, of the facts, as well as the theory-But the experiment can do no harm, and we would recommend it to be made:

Art. XI. An Account of a Difcafe which, until lately, proved fatal to a great Number of Infants in the Lying-in Hofpital of Dublin; with Obfervations on its Caufes and Prevention. By Jofeph Clarke, M. D. Mafter of the Hofpital above mentioned, and M. R. I. A.-From the Tranfactions of the Royal frith Academy, 1789. 4to. Dublin, 1789.-The defcription of the difeafe, treated, of in this very judicious effay, we fhall felect.

In general it has been obferved, that fuch children as are difpofed to whine and cry much from their birth, and fuch as are fubject to heavy deep fleeps, or ftartings in their fleep, are peculiarly apt to fall into convulfive affections. Twifing of the upper extremities, while awake, without any evident caufe; a livid circle about the lips, and fudden changes of colour in the countenance, have now and then been thought to portend the nine-day fits. Screwing and gathering of the month into a purfe, accompanied at intervals with a particular kind of fhricking, well known to the experienced nurfetenders, are reckoned fure, and by no means diftant, forerunners,

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