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** Digeft of the Ads of Parliament for 
riufing a provifional Force of Cavalry, Gc. 
tathe end of the laf? Sefion, 37. Geo. Jil. 
«with Notes and Objervations.’ The ufe- 
fulnefs of a work of this fort, depends 
entirely on its accuracy, and the prefent 
requires confiderable correction. Mr. 
Orme’s “ Practical Digeft of the Eleciton 
Laws,” is drawn up wita accuracy and 
conciienels, but there have been already fo 
many labourers in this field, that Mr. O. 
might perhaps have employed his talents 
in {ome more necefiary labour. Mr. WIL- 
MOT’s * Succinéé View of the Law of 
Mortgages, &c.” is too fhort and fuperfi- 
cial. New editions have appeared ot Gil- 
bert’s ‘* Treatie of Leafes and Terms for 
Years ;” of ESPINAsse’s © Divef? of the 
Law of A&ions and Trials at Nifi Prius 3” 
of Tipp’s ** Pradtice of the Court of 
King’s Beach in Perfonal Actions. Part I.” 
and of ““CROMPTON’S Pradfice of the 
Court of King’s Bench and Common Pleas.” 
To Mr. Ricce’s * Objervation on ihe 
Statutes for Regiffering Deeds are added 
a collection of cafes upon thé operation 
and intent of thofe ftatutes; inftruStions 
for carrying them into effect and a variety 
of memorial precedents, fuited to the 
regifters of Middiefex and York. Mr. 
RicGeE ftates the object of his work to 
be a ‘¢ fair and impartial reprefentation of 
the arguments fuggefted, and decifions 
ebtained, upon icveral peints relative to 
regiftry ; but more particularly on that 
ef notice ; thereby affording thofe of his 
readers who have not already invettigated 
the cafes upon whiclyfuch arguments and 
decifions are founded, the power to calcu- 
Jate upon their efficiency or danger with 
very little trouble.” Mr. RiGGe’s ob- 
_ fervations are generally pertinent and 
judicious. Mr. Gurney has publithed, 
with that accuracy and fidelity which for 
many years have juitly diftinguifhed him 
as a reporter, “* The Trials of James 
Coigly; Arthur O'Conner, Ge. for High 
Treason, under a Special Commiffion at 
Maidjtone.’ four memory deceives us 
not, the Attorney-General pledged him- 
felt to profecute the Rev. ARTHUR 
Younc, for an attempt to poifon the 
ftream of juftice, by infiuencing certain 
jurymen from the hundred of Blaekburn, 
to hang the prifoners at all events, what- 
ever might be the evidence: it is well 
known that in confequence of this attempt, 
all the jurors frem that hundred were 
ftruck out. We have not the flighteft 
reafon to queition, but, on the contrary, 
have every reafon not to queftion the At- 
torney-General’s intentjon of fulfilling 
Retrofpe of Domeftic Literature«..Medicine, &c. 
[Sur. 
his promife ; to delay however, is to tor- 
ture: and we are no advocates fortorture, 
even of the vileft mifcreant that crawls 
the earth. “ The Proceedings of a General 
Court Martial, held on Major General Mau- 
rice Wemyfs, at the Marine Barracks,” 
for difobedience of orders, negle& of 
duty, and unofficer and ungentlemanlike 
conduct are publifhed: the prifoner was 
found guilty of the firft and fecond 
charges, and part of the third; but, fays 
major general Wemyfs, it was the intereft 
of a great majority of the court-martial 
to find me guilty, for ‘* by my difmiffal, 
from my command, every member of the 
court-martial (excepting generals SOUTER 
and INNES) got a ftep; three of them 
immediate promotion, &c. This detail 
of promotion which in fact they voted to 
themfelves, by voting me to be difmifled 
from the fervice, needs no comment.’” 
Mr. W1LLraMs’s ‘* Abridgment of Cafes 
Argued, &c. in the Courts of Law,” dur- 
ing the prefent reign is an ufelefs addition 
to the number of law books. Dr. De 
LoutMe’s ‘* General Obfervations, &c. 
on teftamentarv difpofitions were occa- 
fioned by the Will, which has excited fe 
much difputaticn, of the late Mr. Peter 
Thelluffon. The Doétér’s obfervations 
have all the acutenefs and pertinence for 
which he has long been diftinguifhed. 
MEDICINE, PHYSIOLOGY, AND 
ANATOMY. 
Medicine. From the fituation of Mr. 
Buair, as furgeon of the Lock Hofpital, 
an eftablifhment exclufively appropriated. 
tothe cure of /ues vencrea, much neve} 
and important information will naturally 
be expected from his “ Effays on the vene- 
real difeafe and its concomitant affections :* 
thus fituated, it was obvioully his duty, 
and Mr. Buarr confidered it as fuch, to 
inftitute a fair and extenfive trial of the 
new antivenereal remedies in every ftage 
of this difeafe, and to lay the refult of 
his obfervations before the public: the 
prefent-work, however, is not Very rich 
in remark; it is ufeful, neverthelefs, as 
containing a variety of cafes, and as it 
teaches us, what we ought leng fince to: 
have learnt, the folly of implicit confidence 
in {pecifics. The antifyphilitic powers of 
oxygen have of late been very confident- 
ly afferted : and the fuccefsful application 
of oxygenated fubftances in particular 
cafes had gone far to confirm the omnipo- 
tence of acids: in the prefent Eflay, 
however, (one only is comme before us} 
Mr. Buatr has minutely detailed a great 
number of cafes ia which the nitric acid 
and the oxygenated muriate of potafk 
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