1808.] 
~ward Orme, Bond-street, May be had 
in beards, or elegantly bound. 
A View of the Port of Lisbon, painted 
by Vernet, and engraved by J.C. Stad- 
ler, is published by Messrs. Boydell and 
Co. Cheapside. Price, in colours, 1. 1s. 
Messrs. Boydell have also published a 
Portrait of Pavilion, a beautiful horse, 
the property of Lord Dartmouth, to whom 
it is dedicated, and rode by Chitiney; 
price 10s. 6d. cach, for common impres- 
sions; proofs, 21s. Also Violante, rode 
by Buckle, which is intended as a com- 
panion to the print of Pavilion, and is 
the property of Lord Grosvenor. ‘The 
picture was painted by Chalon, and is 
engraved by Ward, engraver to the Duke 
of York, and is published at the same 
price as, that which precedes it. 
A few weeks since his Royal Highness 
the Prince of Wales sent Mr. Rosen- 
berg, the profile 
Gasfield, to take likenesses of Monsieur, 
Report of Diseases. ~ 
portrait-pamter, to- 
349 
and ail the French Dukes, which the 
Artist accomplished, and they are to be 
added to the Prince’s very tine collec- 
tion. 
“The late excellent Painter, Mr. Morti- 
mer’s Pictures, Drawings, Prints, and 
Copper-plates, which Mr. Christie last 
week sold for his widow, did not produce 
the sum that was expected, nor any thing 
equal to what they were worth, 
On the first of May next, will be pub- 
lished a new Magazine, devoted to the 
service of the Fine Arts, which will be 
called “ Annals of Art, or the London 
Academical Journal.” It will contain 
usually a series of Original Essays on Art, 
in the manner of that admired work, The 
Avtist. A Collectanea of every Transac- 
tion worthy of record; Transactions of 
Native and Foreign Societies connected 
with Art; works in hand, and other 
news connected with the subject of the 
work. 
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- REPORT OF DISEASES, 
In the public and private Practice of one of the Physicians of the Finsbury Dispensary, 
Jrom the 20th of March to the 20th of April. 
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That “ madness strides like a Colossus 
over this island” was an observation of 
the writer of this article, in his Report 
for March. Xi 
The occurrences of April give a plau- 
sible confirmation to the melancholy 
truth. Suicide, seems to have prevailed 
as the epidemic of the season. 
Independentiy of other cases, which 
may not have been divulged, no less than 
seven and twenty instatices of voluntary 
death have, during the last month, been 
recorded in the public papers. One 
should imagine that there was an occult 
something in the present constitution of 
our atmosphere, which clandestinely shed 
a poisonous and pestilential influence 
_ over the minds of our countrymen, 
ae Riskalsteckeia eh emeen Le 
Whether suicide be a demonstrative 
indication of madness may be matter of 
controversy, which can lead to no ulti- 
mate decision, or throw any novel illu- 
nunation on the subject. 
Madness is not a thing to be restricted 
within the limits of verbal defimtion. 
For the most part, perhaps, it may be 
regarded as a state merely of feeling and 
thinking antipode to the notions and 
feelings of the generality of mankind; as 
an eccentricfty from the ordinary orbits 
of human conduct and sensation. An 
unfortunate lodger in one of the involun- 
tarily frequented Hotels of Lunacy, when 
asked’ how he came there, replied “ The 
fact is, I happened to be of one opinion, 
and all the rest of the world was of ano- 
ther, so I was oul-voted.” 
The Reporter is still continually haun- 
ted by the pallid and fleshless spectres of 
consumption, which fill and almost over- 
power his mind with a sense of horror at 
their protracted delay and almost post- 
humous application. 
The larger portion of phthysical pa- 
tients wait upon the Reporter at that ul- 
timate period, when the possibility 4s 
goue by of a reprieve from death; when 
the seal is already fixed upon the sen- 
tence of their fate, 
People are not at present, and it is to 
be 
