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Report published by the Cisalpine’Club, on 
the Protestation, 8vo. 1795; Dissertation 
on the Modern Style of altering Ancient 
Cathedrals, 4to. 1793; The History and 
Survey of the Antiquities of Winchester, 
4to, 1799; Letters to a Prebendary, being 
an Answer to Reflections on Popery, by 
the Rev. Dr. Sturges, 4to. 1800; An 
Elucidation of the Conduct of Pope Pius 
VII. with respect to the Bishops and 
Ecclesiastical Affairs of France, 8vo. 1802 ; 
The Case of Conscience solved, in answer 
to Mr. Reeves, on the Coronation Oath, 
8vo. 1802; A View of the Chief Argu- 
ments against the Catholic Petition,. 8vo. 
1805; A Pastoral Address to the Catholics 
of the Middle District, 8vo. 1806 ; Authen- 
tic Documents relative to the miraculous 
Cure of Winifred White, of Wolverhamp- 
ton, at St. Winifred’s Well, in Flintshire, 
8vo. 1806; Inquiry into certain Vulgar 
Opinions concerning the Catholic Inhabi- 
tants and Antiquities of Ireland, 8vo. 1808 ; 
An Examination of an Article in the An- 
tijacobin Review, on Sir John Cox Hippes- 
ley’s Additional Observations, 8yo. 1808. 
Substance of a Sermon preached at the 
Blessing of the Catholic Chapel of St. 
Chad, Birmingham, 8vo. 1809; An Eluci- 
dation of the Veto, 8vo. 1810; Letters on 
the Question respecting the Veto intro- 
duced into the House of Commons by Mr. 
Ponsonby, 8vo. 1810; Instructions ad- 
dressed to the Catholics of the Midland 
Counties of England, 8vo. 1811; Treatise 
on the Ecclesiastical Architecture of Eng- 
land, 8vo. 1811; A short Pamphlet in No. 
VI. of the Pamphleteer on the Catholic 
Question, &c. 
DR. SYMMONS. 
April 27.—The Rey. Charles Symmons, 
p.D. who died at his villa, at Chiswick, 
where he had resided many years, was a 
native of Wales. The early part of his 
collegiate education was at Clare-hall, 
Cambridge; but was afterwards incorpo- 
rated of Jesus College, Oxford, where, in 
the year 1794, he took his bachelor’s and 
doctor’s degrees. He, at that period held 
the rectory of Narbeth, in Pembrokeshire, 
and was one of the prebendaries of Brecon. 
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Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Persons. 
(Jury, 
Living in retirement at Chiswick, Dr. 
Symmons greatly distinguished himself in 
the literary world, The loss, however, of 
his son and daughter—young persons of 
considerable talent, and of still greater 
promise,—in comparatively early life, im- 
parted a melancholy tinge to his character. 
In politics he was a stern and unbending 
whig ; and he enjoyed the friendship of 
the late and present Marquesses of Lans- 
downe, Charles Fox, Dr. Parr, &e. 
In the capacity of editor, reviewer, com- 
mentator, or biographer, Dr. Symmons 
was incessently occupied. His best known 
original publications were as follow:—A 
Sermon for the Benefit of decayed Clergy- 
men in the Diocese of St. David’s 1789 ; 
Inez, a Dramatic Poem, 8vo. 1797; The 
Life of John Milton, Svo. 1806; The 
Prose Works of John Milton, with the 
Life of “the Author, 7 vols., 8vo. 1806; 
Poems by Caroline Symmons, and Charles 
Symmons, p.p., 8vo. 1813; A Version of 
The Aneid of Virgil, 4to. 1817, and second 
edition, 2 vols, 8vo. 1820; and, very re- 
cently, a J.ife of Shakespeare, prefixed to 
Mr. Singer’s edition ofthe works of our great 
dramatist. Refuting the calumnies of Dr. 
Johnson, his Life of Milton is one of the 
best specimens of biography in the English 
language. His translations, however, of 
some of the Latin and Italian poems of 
Milton, are far inferior to those of Cowper. 
In his Life of Shakespeare, Dr. Symmons 
has evinced a keen perception and a lively 
feeling of the exalted genius of his subject. 
His translations of Virgil’s Adneid, is also 
a masterly work. Summarily, it may be 
said of him, that he was a profound scholar, 
a writer of great elegance and animation, 
both in prose and verse; a man of a truly 
benevolent heart and liberal mind. He 
was an occasional contributor to the ~ 
Monthly Review; and at one period, he 
was connected with the British Press 
newspaper. In him, that excellent insti- 
tution, the Literary Fund, possessed one 
of its warmest and most efficient sup- 
porters. We think it creditable to his 
literary judgment, that he was a staunch 
believer in the authenticity of Rowley’s 
Poems. 
MONTHLY MEDICAL REPORT. 
Tue febrile disorder mentioned in the last report as having set in about the middle of 
May has continued, and even increased in violence, so that it may fairly be said to-con- 
stitute, at the present moment, the epidemic of the season. The usual course and 
character of the disease are as follow:-—The patient, with little or no warning from 
previous feelings of languor, becomes suddenly affected with heats and flashes, a sense 
of pain, weight, or great uneasiness about the pit of the stomach, and less ef power in 
the lower extremities. To these leading or common symptoms are superadded many 
ethers, depending however principally upon the habit of body of the individual. In full 
and plethorie habits, the feverish symptoms run high, Vomiting and diarrhea attack 
others in whose constitutions irritability predominates. Shortness of breath accompanies 
the disease in one case; a dry teazing cough, in another. The neryous system appears 
to the reporter to be very little, and never at all seriously affected in this prevailing disor- 
“per. What its course may be when uninfluenced by medical treatment we ean Dardly 
