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ef the truth of this affertion; while 
that work, together with his ‘* Theory 
ef the Belles Lettres,” his ‘* Effay on: 
the Dramatic Art,” and his fmall dramas, 
remain an eternal monument of the cor- 
reétne(s af his tafte and the foundnefs of 
his judgment. Not long after his deceafe, 
the venerable GLe1M, the modern Tyr- 
tens and the worthy rival of Anacreon, 
has increafed the irreparable lofles which 
German literature has lately fufained. 
—The fate of German letters is become 
Rill more deplorable by the déath of a 
writer, who, in fact, formed the poetic 
language of his country, and who lived | 
Jeng enough to fee it brought to a high 
degree of perfection, in the hands of 
Wieland, Vols, Schiller, Gorhe, Stol- 
berg, and, though laft, not leaft, A. W. 
SCHLEGEL, the admirable tranflator of 
Shakefpeare, and one of the beft poets of 
Lift of Difeafes: 
[July 1, 
the age. The reader, perhaps, need not 
be told, that we are fpeaking of Kiop- 
STOCK, the immortal author of the Mef- 
fiah, a name dear to the Mufe and to Vir- 
tue, the Pindar and the Milton of his day; 
and, in a word, one of the moft. honour- 
able of the votaries of Apollo, whether 
among the ancients or among the moderns. 
Great as thofe loffes are, the premature 
death of Gep1KeE is not the lefs felt. He 
was a worthy diftiple of the ancients, late 
head of the Berlin gymnafium, and whofe 
afhes are fcarce cold in his grave. We 
fhall fay nothing of his merits as a pub- 
lic teacher, in which capacity he had, 
perhaps, but few equals, but merely refer 
to his poetic productions; few in num- 
ber, indeed, but which are fingularly 
happy in the purity of their diétion and 
the loftinefs of their flights. 
-ACCOUNT oF tute DISEASES in LONDON, 
From the 20th of May to the 20th of “fune. 
Admitted under the Care of the Phyficians of the Finfoury Difpenfary. 
——a— 
No. of Cafes. | One melancholy inftance of the fatality 
YPHUS i . - 19 of febrile contagion occurred in the cafe 
Chlorofis & Amenorrhea = 38 of an unfortunate mother, who, after hav- 
Menorrhagia p - i7 ing watched over with extreme anxiety, 
eG i - % os and, by her unfleeping attention to all the 
‘Tufts & Dyfpties z i it fe minute offices of a nurfe, had effentially 
Pitiiés Belcan. % if 9 contributed to the entire recovery of three 
Cynanche Tonfillar, Fs is 3 of her children, at length had Jeifure to 
Marh: Cutanei < be 2 38 fee] the invafion of a difeafe, which, ne 
Anafarca z ct - + 6 doubt, for fome time previoufly to her com- 
Cephalza - = is § fcioufnefs of it, had been operating upon 
Fpilepfia - - - zz the ftamina of her frame. The patient 
Hy fteria - - - 14 laboured under nearly every poffible difad- 
Afthenia - - ~ 23 vantage. Her ftrength of mind and body 
Hypochondriafis & Dyfpepfia r 17 had been worn away by a folicitude and ex~ 
Typhus, once more, has begun to 
fpread its peftilential influence over the 
poor and populous vicinage of the Finf- 
bury Inftitution. It has recurred with its 
fell aflemblage of loathfome and alarming 
fymotoms. It will not fail to be itill fur- 
ther aggravated by the approaching inten- 
fity of autumnal heat, as well as by the 
wafting influence of a deplorable, although 
inevitable war ; which, whilft it infliéts 
deprivations uyon every clafs of fociety, 
from the poor muit take away, not the ac- 
commodations which they never had, or 
the luxuries which they never looked for, 
but, in too many inflances, the ordinary 
bleffing of health, the comfort of life, and 
even the bare power of fupporting a meas 
gre and miferable exiftence. 
ertion, which, for a confiderable period, 
knew no interval of repofe. During this 
time fhe was conftantly fubjeét to the in- 
fluence of typhous effluvia, and lay on 
the fame bed with her fickly offspring, im 
immediate contaét with the fubftance of 
contagion.* 
In 
* It ought to be made known, becaufe it 
is a fact of pra€tical importance, that after 
the difeafe has continued for a certain time, 
the bed-clothes of the patient are loaded 
with a larger quantity of infeétious particles 
than the body itfelf, in which, by the pro-. 
cefles which are conftantly going on in the 
animal fyftem, they are prevented from ac- 
cumulating to the fame extent and degree of 
condenfity as in inanimate and vnorganifed 
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