7% &fonthly Retrospect 
America. 
The Phyficians of America, with Dr’s, 
Mrrcwetrt and Mitter at their head. 
_are of opmion, almoft unanimouity, that 
the Yellow Fever is not contagious, but 
firictly endemic, depending on_circum- 
ftances of foil, on colicétions of putrify- 
ing matters, ‘and other localities; and 
they have eftablithed, relative to this 
formidable difeafe, the following conclu- 
fions.* 
ift. That the yellow fever has appeared 
only in fuch towns as are populous. 
9d. That the diforder begins on flat 
grounds near docks. 
Sd. That the upper and back parts of 
the towns, not thickly iettled, are feldum 
affected. 
. 4th That the diforder begins after the 
-hot weather commences, and continues as 
long as the weather remains hot. 
Sth. That the difeafe is more mortal in 
dry feafons, accompanied with heat, 
._ 6th. That in wet, cool fummers the 
difeafe has fearcely appeared. 
* Medical Repofitory of New York. 
of the Fine-drts, fFeb. 1, 
7th. That after a long drought and great 
heat, and when the difeafe had become more 
general and more mortal than ufual, a con- 
fiderable rain (and the air temperate), or ‘a 
froit, reftores health, 
sth. That there is no inftance where a pa- 
tient labouring under the difeafe and carried 
into the country communicated infection. 
9th. “That a perfon in perfect health 
going from the country into the parts of a 
town afflicted with the difeafe, may contract 
the complaint, and feel its effe€ts, imme- 
diately, or alter he has yeturned tothe coun- 
try, although he has not feen a perfon under 
the fever. 
They confider the Yellow Fever as 
the motft violent kind of bilious fevers, _ 
which difcafe they fuppofe to be divided 
into four grades, viz. the intermittent, 
the remittent, the true bilious, and the 
yellow fever, Yellow fever then is a 
. bilious fever of a higher degree, and is 
produced by the {fame caule as other 
bilious fevers exifting im an increafed 
quantity, or by its being of a more dele- 
terious gnality ‘than what is required to 
produce the jower degrees of bilious fever, 
a SE Se SE 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
-*,* The Uje of all, New Prinis, and Communications of Articles of Intelligence 
are requeficd. * 
EL ae -- 
IiE number of capital pictures now 
in this country, evades all calcula- 
tion ; to enter into the caufes that have 
fontributed to this is not necefiary, but 
it has long been a fubject of regret, both 
to foreisuers and natives who are fond of 
the fine arts, that thefe pictures have been 
fo generally {cattered over the face of the 
Ifland, at the different mantions of our 
“nobility, or difperfed through the metro- 
polis, in many cafes, in fmall collections. 
that they were not more eatily.acceffible. 
The latter of thefe evils, the generous 
conduét of the gentlemen who bevan 
the plan of the Britith Inftitution in Pall- 
Mall, tor exhibiting old piétures etc, pro- 
juifes to remove; and the noble, and we 
muit add patriotic example of the Mar- 
quis of Stafford, is an admirable beginning 
for the removal of the other. We have 
been tokl, and hope it is well founded, 
that Lord Groiveuor intends to add a 
gallery, imilar to that of the Marquis, to 
the manfion his Lerdfhip purchafed from 
the Duke of Glocetter. To this he will 
remove the colleétion which was im the 
poffeflion of the late Earl—The pictures 
which were at his own houfe in Weftmin- 
fter, before he attamed his prefent title, 
aud, above all, the very admirable and 
& 
valuable collection which he lately pur- 
chafed from Mr. W. E. Agar, of which, 
when we have room, we mean to give 
fome account, 
Sir Samuel Hood, K.B. K.S.F. MP. for tbe 
City of Weflminfler. Downman, A.R.A. 
pinxt. “C: Turner, feulpt. publifbed for G. 
Andrews, Charing-Crofs, Nov. 1806. 
If in the charaétenftie traits of an 
Englith Admiral, there are any marks of 
energy, or that national hardihoed which 
fo eminently diftinguifhes that valuable 
clafs of the community, it has been ufual 
for any artift of good talte, who paints his 
portrait, to make it as far as he can con+ 
liftently with the neceflary attention to 
the refemblance, perceptible in his pic- 
ture. This portrait of Sir Samuel Hood 
may pollibly be deemed a likenefs; but it 
is, if we may be Seep ay fo to exprefs 
it, a feeble Likenefs. 
The Right Honourable Henry Pree, Holland, the 
- Right Honourable Charles ‘fames Fox, died 
September 23,1806. A pair of Prints. F. 
- Ro Smith pinxt. S. W. Reynolds feulpt. 
Publifbed by Si W. R. 47s Poland-ftreet, 
Oéfober 13, 1806. 
Thefe two prints are refemblances, 
and charaéteriftic refemblances of_ the 
noble perfen, who at prefent does honour 
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