l8®3' Duties of Man towards the Brute Creation. 333 



fenna, an ounce or two. Mix with warm ale and treacle. Repeat, 

 Clyster as before, with the addition of carminatives .' camomile flower^, 

 two handfuls ; anifc, coriander, and fennel feeds, one ounce each ; long 

 pepper, half an ounce. Tho following herbs are prefcribed ; but as, in 

 general, there may be a difficulty in obtaining them, I have fubftitutcd 

 water-gruel, which, in truth, I have always found an excellent fubftitute 1 

 Mallows, pellitory, elder-Ilowers, the herb mercury, mullein, bear's- 

 breech, &(5. 



* St Bell remarks on the difficulty of hitting the critical moment 

 proper for the exhibition of .opium in long continued pains, and of 

 regulating the quantum of the dofe. He pretends, that (hould the 

 opiate be too weak, the pains will be enraged ; if too powerful, that it 

 will haften death. • Bracken determines the proper time for the ufe of 

 opiates to be, after the caufe of the difeafe (liall have been removed by 

 lenient purgatives and glyflcrs ; when the former are requifite to complete 

 the cure, by appeafing pain, allaying the tumult of the bowels, and ob- 

 viating fuperpurgation or flux. ' p. 470—475." 



We now difmifs Mr Lawrence, from whofe finguhr perform- 

 ance we have derived much amafement; and, though vee canaot 

 commend the irritation with which he has chofen to attack Mr 

 Taplin, nor the whimfica! excurfive digreflions in which he fo 

 frequently mdulges, we are difpofed to think our readers may 

 find feveral things in his performance worth their perufal. 



R. r. 



A Treatife on Leafes, explaining the Nature and Effecf of the 

 Contract of Leafe, and pointing out the Legal Rights enjoyed by 

 the Parties. By Robert Belly LeBurer on Conveyancing appointed 

 by the Society of Writers to the Signet. OSlavo, 481 pages , with 

 an Appendix cf 125 pages, Edinburgh^ Creech, and Conftable, 

 1803. 



In a fuitable and well written Preface, Mr Bell informs his 

 readers what was his objc^l in undertaking this work. * If (fays 

 he) I (hall have been fo fortunate as to convey to thofe who are 

 better acquainted ivith agriculture than with law, fuch a notion 

 of the legal rights of landlord and tenant, and of the various 

 points to which the attention of parties entering into the contradl 

 of leafe fliould be turned, as may enable them to direct the con- 

 ditions and (lipulation's of the contrail with more confidetjce, I 

 fliall have fully attained my objc£l. ' 



But the modefty of Mr Bell's pretenfions in his preface Is the 

 more pleafmg, when we difcover, on a careful perufal of his 

 performance, that he might, with great juftice, have faid, This 

 is the completeft treatife on Scotch leafes that has ever been 



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