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part, it operates, m a certain degree, 
upon the whole. This is the fi ft record- 
ed inftance in which univerfal frigid ablu- 
tion has been extended to the treatment 
‘of menorrhagia; and may, perhaps, be con- 
fidered as an innovation not altogether un- 
deterving the notice of medical practi- 
tioners. It has in feveral initances proved 
fpeedily fuccefsful, after the long and in- 
effectual trial of a great variety of other 
remedies. 4, __ 
A remarkable inftance of mental de- 
preffion has occurred during the lat 
month. The patient complains of the 
fear of death, without having any other 
{pecific fyruptom of difeafe. In her imagi- 
nation flr trembles upon the brink of 
the grave, at the fame time that ‘the is 
unable to mention a fingle circumftance 
that cao give the fligheft degree of reafon- 
ablenefs or plaufibility to the fulpicion. 
This difeafed apprehenfion is uniformly 
either alleviated or aggravated by the 
. changes of the weather. In the cafe of an 
hypochrondriac, when the fun fhines, his 
mid even feems to be irradiated by its in- 
fluence, and fearcely a cloud can darken 
the face of nature, without, at the fame 
time, caiting a melancholy fhade over his 
fpeculations, ; 
_ This humiliating flavery to the atmo- 
fphere mutt be fubmitted to, ina greater or 
lefsdegree, by every human being, however 
firong his original conftitution, and in 
State of Public Affairs in February, 1802. 
[March 1, 
fpite of the utmoft exertion of thofe intel- 
Jeétual energies, the omnipotence of which 
has been lately infilted upon by a fophifti- 
cal, although highly eloquent and ingeni- 
ous, metaphyfician. 
J. R. 
February 22, 1802, 
25, Eajt-ftreet, Red Lion-fquare. 
Note —In juftice to the memory of Mr. 
Gray, it is right to take the earlieft opportu- 
nity of ftating a mifquotation from his works, 
annexed tothe Report forsDecember. The 
genuine paflage was as follows: 
“¢ The /iving throne, the fapphire blaze, 
Where angels tremble as they gaze, 
He faw 3 but dlafted with excels of lights 
Clofed his eyes in endlefs night.” 
‘¢ Blafed with excefs of light” isa concep 
tion matchlets in the degree ofits fublimity. 
** Dazzled with excefflive light,” as it was be- 
fore put, is comparatively fo profaic, that no 
reader who has any pretenfion to a foul, or 
anear, can beinfenfible to the diftinction. 
Gray is a poet fo exquifite and fo immacu- 
late, that ir would be,impoffible to make an 
alteration ina fingle line of his works that 
would not be a deduétion from their merit 5 
you could not leave out a word, without leav~ 
ing out a beauty, or fubftitute a different ex- 
preffion, without fubftituting a worfe. ‘The 
ftream from the Pierian fountain of ‘his 
genius flews fo pure,as to be incapable of any 
farther diftillation. j.R. 
STATE 
OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
in February, 1802. 
+= c 
FRANCE. 
TT ITH refpect to the D-finitive 
Vy" Treaty, there 1s no longer any 
doubt that the chief difficulties which have 
hitherto attended its accomplifhment are 
removed. The Englith, French, Spanith, 
and Durch Plenipotentiaries have, of late, 
all been earnefily engaged ‘upon the fub- 
it. The ‘plan appears to have ‘been 
acreéd to on all fides, and ts faid to have 
received the fan&tion of tie sefpediive 
Courts. We may therefore expect the 
Treaty very fhortly. 
Bonaparte, on his return fram Lyons, 
W235, it appears, received with more 
exultatiin than ever by the Parifians, 
who feem to think, with the- vanity effen 
tial to the French character, that they 
grow in greatneis in prepurtion as his au- 
thority is augmented. 
Whether the power of this extraordi- 
nary man is to be pernaanent or not, cer- 
tain it is that fcarcely any Monarch in 
Chriftendom ever felt fo ltttle controul as 
Bonaparte at the prefent moment: -and it 
will be read by future ages with aftonifh- 
ment, that during the actual difcuffion of 
a Definitive Treaty, comprifing the in- 
teretts of all Europe, and collaterally of 
al! the world, he difpofes of the dominions 
of the Spaniards to Great Britain—he 
bargains for a part ef the colonies of Por- 
tugal—he elects himfelf Sovereign of all 
Ttaly—he over-rules the difputes in Ger- 
many—and, without any formal affent on - 
the part of the Britifh Cabinet, he tranf- 
ports an immenfe army into the very centre 
of the Weft Indian Colonies; If no re- 
monftrance be made againft fe wonderful 
and alaiming an exercite of power, it will 
“prove, 
