Vor. IV.] Retrofpect of Dometic 
which there is fometimes much reafon to 
queftion, they are too common-place to 
be worth publifhing. The fame obfer- 
vations are, in fome meafure, applicable 
to Mr. Lawfon’s “ Effay on the Ufe of 
mixed and compreffed Cattle-fodder,”’ 
&c. In this performance, however, are 
feveral judicious hints, although not a 
great many which can claim the praife of 
novelty. Dr. Hunter’s “ Outlines of 
Agriculture’? we remember to have read 
twenty years ago in his Georgical Effays ; 
and Mr. Bucknall’s “ Orchardift’”’ is a 
colleétion of his own communications in 
feveral of the volumes which have been 
publithed by the Society for the Encou- 
‘ragement of Arts,” &c. &c. Mr. Down- 
ing has written “ A Treatife on the 
Diforders incident to horned Cattle,’’ 
&c. Happily for the public, he has 
affixed, asa fort of xoli me tangere, the 
modeft price of half a guinea to his pam- 
_phiet of 131 pages! Aapsily, for fome of 
his receipts are {0 evidently abfurd, not 
to fay worfe, that many a farmer's pocket 
might have been picked im the ufe of 
them. In “ A fhort Treatife-on the 
Glanders and Farcy, by a Lieutenant of 
Dragoons,” it is contended, that thefe 
difeates are not local but general diforders, 
and the fyftem of treatment which, under 
this idea is recommended, feems ratioaal. 
——Under the head of 
LAW, 
have been publifhed “ Judicial Argu- 
ments and Colieétions, by Francis Har- 
grave.” Mr. H.’s forenfic abilities are fo 
well Known, that it is almot unneceflary 
to fay, thefe arguments diiplay much legal 
knowledge and elaborate refearch. Mr. 
Plowden’s * Treatife upon the Law of 
Ufury and Annuities,” is not fimply a 
profeifional work; Mr. Plowden appears 
In the charaéter of an antiquary, and, in- 
deed, f a political economift and hiftorian, 
as well as that of a lawyer; and each of 
thele charaéters he has fupported with 
refpectability. ‘* The Speeches” have been 
publifhed of the Honourable Thomas 
Erfkine and S. Kyd, efq. at the Court of 
King’s Bench, on Saturday June 24, 
1797, .0n the trial of LT. Williams for 
publithing Paine’s Age of Reafon. For 
the credit of Mr. Erfkine, we could not 
bur feel regret at a publication which has 
given an unnatural perpetuity to a {peech, 
which, if it is difgraceful to his charaéterasa 
man of confiftent principles, of enlightened 
underftanding, and liberal fentiment, is 
not lefs difcreditable to his reputation for 
oratory, as a flimfey, confufed, pompous, 
and contemptibie declamation, That ex- 
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alted charaéter whofe caufe Mr. Erfkine 
has fo onworthily pleaded, would have 
blufhed at an advocate thus ignorant of its 
merits; he would have bluthed at fuch ~ 
petty rage, fuch foolifh fiercenefs, and 
would have faid to him, as he faid to Peter, 
in a tone of unufual feverity, ‘* PUT UP 
THY sworpb.” The found and fubftan- 
tial argument which Mr. Kyd employed 
m defence of ig elen or more properly 
fpeaking, in defence of that cauje, which - 
Mr. Erfkine—we truft ignorantly—at.- 
tacked, forms a ftriking and moft creditable 
contraft to the puerile volubiliry of his 
antagonift. Mr. Paine, with his ufual 
{piric and energy, has written “ A Letter” 
to Mr. Erfkine on the profecution of Wil- 
liams : his reafoning on the erroneous and 
fophiftical manner in which it was con- 
ducted, appears perfeétly conclufive. In 
this pamphlet is incorporated Mr. P.’s 
difcourfe to the Theophilanthropic Society 
at Paris, in which he appears, as Mr. 
Paine univerfally has done, in the charac- 
ter of a fincere and pious Theift. ‘ The 
Trial of John Binns,” &e. for fedition, 
has given to Liberty another triumph, in 
addition to thofe with which fhe has 
already been crowned in vur courts of juf- 
tice on former memorable occafions. Mr. 
Dawes has publifned “ An Examination 
into the Two laft Eleétions for the Bo- 
rough of Southwark,” &c. in which he ar- 
raigns the decilion of the Committee of the 
Houte of Commons,inthe cafe of Mr. Thel- 
lufon, Mr. Bird’s ** New Pocket Convey- 
ancer’’ is too meagre for much con{ultation. 
MEDICINE. 
‘The Medical Chirurgical Reform,” 
propofed by Mr, Champney, as a plan for 
the regulation of the practice, is not fuffi- 
ciently clear and compaét: the cafe of the 
apothecary is moit undoubtedly hard, when 
he is cheated of the reward which an atten- 
dance,perhaps in the dead of night,has well 
earned, by an order the next day from the 
phyfician to the druggift. Although Mr. 
Champney is fomewhat ‘obfcure in his 
mode of expreffion, fome of the obferva- 
tions which he has made well merit atten- 
tion. Much important matter might have 
been expeéted from Dr. M‘Lean’s « En- 
quiry into the Nature and Caufes of the 
great Mortality among the Troops at St. 
Domingo,” from the fituation, fo favour- 
able to obfervation, which he enjoyed in a 
large inilitary hofpital, at a time when the 
fatal fever raged fo furioufly in the ifland ; - 
that much important matter will be found, 
is not to be denied ; at the fame time, it is 
a little difappointment that the doétor has 
advanced fo few facts which have not been 
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