Retrofpedt of Domeftic 
ing to either of the cafes in queftion. Mr. 
Hunr is another writer who has attacked 
Dr. Kinglake on the equivocal benefit 
derived from his practice. 
It is the chief praile of Mr. Lux- 
MOORE’s ‘* Manual of Anatomy and 
Phyfiology,” that its defcriptions, in all 
inftances, are matked by perfpicuity. 
The tables of the mufcles are particularly 
clear. 
Mr. Peacock has publifhed fome 
** Obfervations on the Compofition and Ufes 
of the Water at the new Sulphur Baths 
at Dimfdale, near Darlington, in the coun- 
ty of Durham.” The fpring. itfelf was 
difcovered in 17893; and the ufe of the 
water is recommended in all cafes for 
which mineral fprings are ufually direct- 
ed. 
The fubje& of the cow-pock occupied 
fo large a portion of our laft Retrofpe&t 
that, at firft, it was not our intention even 
to mention it in this. Doétors Mofeley 
and Rowley, however, ftill meet with 
ftrong and fenfible opponents, particularly 
in Mr. Briair and Doftor Fraser ; and 
we are happy to notice “‘ Aw Addre/s” 
from Dr. LasatrT ‘ to the Medical Prac- 
titioners of Ireland.’’ It is a work, in 
the production of which the Do&tor has 
been extremely diligent. It prefents a 
body of evidence in favour of vaccination, 
more curious, fatisfactory, and complete, 
than is to be found in any other publi- 
cation. 
BIOGRAPHY. 
The communication of frefh papers 
from one of Cowper’s moft early and ef- 
teemed correfpondents, has led Mr. Hay- 
LEY: to make -various additions to his 
Life of the Poet, while it was reprinting 
in oétavo; and to accommodate the pol- 
feflors of the quarto work, he has publithed 
a thin volume of Supplementary Pages. 
The additional letters, which form the 
bulk of this laft publication, were princi- 
pally written between the years 1785 and 
1793, to the Rev, Walter Bagot, of Blithe- 
field in Staffordfhire, who was once num- 
bered among the poet’s favourite fchool- 
fellows at Weftminfter. 
dated Welton, Sept. 21, 1791, .majy be 
confidered as a fair fpecimen. 
¢¢ My Dear Friend, 
‘* Of all the teftimonies in favour of my 
Homer that J have received, none has given 
me fo fincere a pleafure as that of Lord Bagot, 
It is an unmixt pleafure, and without a 
drawback, becaufe I know him to be per- 
feétly, and in all refpeéts, whether erudition 
or a fine tafte be in queftion, fo well qualified 
The following, - 
Literature.—-Biography. 603 
to judge me, that I can neither expe& nor 
with a fentence more valuable than his. 
toon” eur EN 
"Evsnbeocs adver, nas 0s Psa yavorr” opweets 
‘¢ T hope by this time you have received 
your volumes, and are prepared to fecond the 
applaufes of your brother—-elfe, woe be to 
you! I wrote to Johnfon immediately on 
the receipt of your laft, giving hima ftri& 
injunétion to difpatch them to you without 
‘delay. He had fold, fome time fince, a hun- 
dred of the unfubfcribed-for copies. 
‘¢ T have not a hiftory in the world, ex- 
cept Baker’s Chronicle, and that I borrowed 
three years ago from Mr. Throckmorton. 
‘* Now the cafe is this: Iam tranflating 
Milton’s third elegy—his elegy on the death 
of the Bifhop of Winchefter. He begins it 
with faying, that while he was fitting alone, 
dejected, and mufing on many melancholy 
themes; firft, the idea of the plague pre- 
fersted itfelf to his mind, and of the havoc 
made by it among the great. ‘Then he pro- 
ceeds thus: 
Tum meinini clarique ducis, fratrifque verendi 
Intempeftivis ofla cremata rogis : 
Et memini Heroum quos vidit ad ethera 
raplos, 
Flevit et amiffos Beligia tota duces. 
*¢ £ cannot learn from my only oracle, 
Baker, who this famous leader and his rever- 
end brother were, Neither does he at all 
af{certain for me the event alluded to in the 
fecond of thefe couplets. Tam not yet pof- 
fefled of Warton, who probably explains it, 
nor can be for amonthtocome. Confult him 
for me if you have him; or if you have him 
not, confult fome other. Or you may find 
the intelligence, perhaps, in your own bud- 
get; no matter how you come by it, only 
fend it tome if you can, and as foon as you 
can, for I hate to leave undiffolved difficulties 
behind me. In the firft year of Charles the 
Firft, Milton was feventeen years of age, 
and then wrote this elegy. The period 
therefore to which I would refer you, is the 
two or three laft years of James the Firft. 
‘s Ever your’s, W. C” 
Among the principal works in this 
clafs, too, we place Mr. WiLson’s 
“ Biographical Index to the prefent Houfe 
of Commons,” (corrected to March 106). 
It appears to have been compiled with 
confiderable care, and feems as weil calcu+ 
lated to fatisfy the curiofity of conftituents 
as of the world at large. A few over- 
fights and a few omiffions in a work which 
contains memoirs of near 700. perfons, 
may be fairly paidoned, though we have 
obferved no errors of a grofs kind. The 
family of Sir Francis Burdett might have 
been more correétly mentioned. The pedi- 
gree in the Heralds* College runs no higher 
than the reign of Henry the Second. 
4H2 And 
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