Macbeth a harvest of applause will reap, For some of us, I fear, have murder'd sleep.' His lady too, with grace, will dream and talk; Our females have been us'd at night to walk; While Shylock, thirsting to extinguish life, With ready hand will whet the murderer's knife: Sometimes, indeed, so various is our art, "PROLOGue. At the the opening of We'll find a man would help himself to one.. the Theatre at Botany Bay. "From distant climes, o'er wide spread seas we come, Grant us your favour, put us to the test; To gain your smiles we'll do our very best, And, without dread of future turnkey Lockits, (Though not with much eclât, or beat of Thus, in an honest way, still pick your pock drum) True patriots all; for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good; No private views disgrac'd our generous zeal; What urg'd our travels, was our country's weal; And none will doubt, but that our emigra ets." p. 84-87. "RHYMES IN PRAISE OF RHYME. "Though we must own, poetic diction Mark you yon glutton at a feast? What wants that senator who blusters, And still on lords and statesmen fawn, lazon. Which is the nymph, who, soon as seen, As the two last pieces were not written by the fair authoress herself, but by a gentleman, we select the following to give a fuller spe cimen of her abilities, we shall select a passage from the "autumnal scene," describing a storm, in which an allusion is made to Miss Linwood's beautiful picture of the Gleaner. “One beauteous girl, amid th' affrighted train, With calmer footsteps pac'd the delug'd plain; An orphan, whom, her little stores to share, A village matron train'd with tender care. How fair the little maid, her mind how sweet, Each rustic tongue would o'er and o'er repeat; 'Twas her's to charm, in sober talk or play, Joy of the grave, and darling of the gay! The rural sage, as at his cottage door He sat and mus'd on pleasures then no more, Lov'd to behold the gentle listener near, And win with story long her youthful ear: While as th' alluring tales her mind engage, Her tender features wear the thought of age. No sports her young companions joy'd to taste, Except her frolick smiles the gambol grac'd; But now, subdued by terror's potent pow'r, They left their partner in the dang'rous hour. It pours around-the driving clouds and rain In one dim hue conjoin skies, trees, and plain; Oft the rude blast assails her features fair, Tossing with cruel rage her golden hairRain-drops and hail in drifts successive beat, Cold, keen, and pointed on her unshod feet; Sedate she sits--she fears, but not despairs; Her tender breast a magic corslet wears; There innocence has fix'd her hallow'd seat, And taught the heart with holy hope to beat. Ah! what, when nature thus terrific lours, And, aweful, wakes her elemental pow'rs¡ quainted with this eccentric writer and his style, which does not improve in delicacy. The following, in that respect, is the most unexcep tionable passage we can select, and it might be thought inattentive wholly to pass over a writer once so popular; and whose writings might afford innocent entertainment, could he se parate his wit (which is genuine and poignant) from indelicacy and profaneness. Proh Impudentiam. AN ODE. "Pretending love for his dear country, Pitt came, with all the family effrontery, But who must answer for the cost? Not he, indeed!-a duck, confounded Not unattended, waddling-no-the nation away, 'For curse me if I've got one doit to pay !" Pitt brings to mind—a father to his son: Tom, you are going into trade; A handsome fortune may perhaps be wot; Perhaps you fail, don't be dismay'd, And let your modesty ambition stifle ; • So do not be a bankrupt for a trifle"."" CXLV. HINTS for the Improvement of Trusses, intended to render them less inconvenient, and to prevent the necessity of an Understrap, with the Description of a Truss of easy Construction and of slight Expence, for the Use of the labouring Poor. By JAS. PARKINSON, Hoxton. (Pamp.) face. tions of the shops, will effectually remove certain febrile diseases, if employed on the first days of their attack; when, perhaps, profuse discharges of every kind are demanded, and when every vessel is acting with preternatural force. But in the latter stages of these diseases, when the power of almost every vessel has been exhausted by the efforts of the disease, when debility has impaired the action of every organ, and when the thread of life, worn almost away, re quires to break it but the smallest shock, should a nostrum of herculean powers be employed? In a word, at the moment when life depends on the upon the merit of improvements like the present, but the benevolent design of the inventor in laying open his plan to the public, instead of seeking private pecuniary to himself, des serves honourable mention, and induces us to give our readers his sentiments on that subject, from his pre-employment of the most invigorative remedies, must not death inevitably result from the adoption of that which will rapidly reduce the little remaining strength of the patient. With the danger of similar misapplication must all powerful nostrums be employed; since the circumstances, under which they are delivered to the public, cannot but lead to their indiscriminate adoption. "So much is it the practice to have recourse to patents, to secure to the proprietor the emoluments of any discovery, of real or pretended utility, in relieving the diseases to which the human frame is subject, that if no apology be necessary, yet some explanation may be proper, why it has not been had recourse to in the present instance. The circumstance which renders this explanation almost unavoidable is, that the public has been long in the habit of estimating the value of all such discoveries, by the profits which their proprietors derive from such exclusive patents. Why this practice has not been here, adopted will be, perhaps, best shewn by stating the writer's sentiments respecting exclusive patents, in any case where the discovery respects the mitigation, or the removal of disease. "He considers then, that advertised nostrums, be their forms what they may, are divisible into those which may possess a considerable power over the animal system, or those which cannot possibly influence it in the least, excepting so far as they may affect the imagination. "With respect to the former of these, it cannot surely be difficult to obtain almost universal assent to the proposition, that such an indiscriminate application of a powerful medicine, as must take place with every advertised nostrum, must certainly sometimes kill. Let its curative powers, in certain states of the body, be admitted to their utmost extent, its mischievous effects, in opposite states, must be admitted also just as far. "Grant that James's Fever Powder, as well as similar antimonial preparaVOL. I. "With respect to those nostrums which do not really possess any power, except some transient influence on the imagination, the proprietor of them may say, that although they cannot remove, or even mitigate, disease, yet, on the other hand, it cannot be possible that they shall destroy; and that, therefore, he can do no harm by restricting their use by a patent and as to the various arts employed to obtain their sale, he will say, that all he has to accuse himself of is, the adopting the common practice of those around him, in trying how far he can dip his hand in his Whether this neighbour's pocket. kind of defence will be admitted, when his own conscience is disposed to judge him; or whether, in the inferior courts, he might not, with his whole fraternity, be liable to punishment for obtaining money, under false pretences, is not the object of the present moment to determine; it will only now be attempted to ascertain, whether or not the public is not, in every such instance of deception, most seriously injured. "However strong may be the propensity to employ nostrums, the disinclination to take physic generally prevents all but such as are really ill from having recourse to them. But being really ill, a medicine of soine 4 G efficacy is necessary, and if this be withheld, the disease is allowed to proceed, and, perhaps, to acquire a force which, afterwards, no means may be sufficient successfully to oppose. Whatever, therefore, prevents the early employment of the necessary remedies, and thereby allows the accumulation of disease, must be highly detrimental, and must, in many cases, occasion the most fatal consequences. In this way, any nostrum, however innocent in itself, which prevents the adopting of proper means for the early opposing of disease, becomes as certainly destructive as if it had in itself possessed the most noxious properties. Under this description of course must be placed the whole tribe of things in various forms, which are said to act by certain mys. tic or talismanic powers, or, at least, by such powers as common sense does not acknowledge. But it may be said, that the nostrum possesses uncommon efficacy, and can hardly ever be misemployed. Allow then that its qualities are so distinctly marked, that in no case whatever can it be misapplied; and that it possesses such specific and curative powers, that one of the most dreadful maladies with which mankind is afflicted is sure to yield to its powers whenever they are opposed to it. It may be asked if any objection can be made to such a nostrum ? Undoubtedly the objection to its existence as a nostrum must ever exist, in proportion to its excellency, and to its power of doing good. In proportion to the greatness of any blessing should be the exertions of every human being to promote its diffusion. He who opposes this principle from sordid selfish considerations, must be totally void of humanity, and not mindful that the moment may arrive, when the agonies he himself may suffer, may teach him grievously to lament his having sacriticed the ease and comfort, perhaps the lives, of many at the shrine of avarice. "Contrivances by which the conveniences, or the luxuries of life are increased, may, perhaps, be consi dered as fair articles of pecuniary speculation, and of individual exclusive advantage. But ought the necessaries of life to undergo such a species of monopoly? Certainly not. Legislators have seen the baneful conse. quences, and have, therefore, enacted prohibitory laws, and have subjected those who infringe those laws to se vere punishments. But certainly that man is much more deserving of reprobation, who, possessing a knowledge of the means by which a painful, and hitherto fatal disease may be stopped in its career, unfeelingly beholds it spreading its devastation, far and wide; and instead of anxiously seeking to diffuse the blessed antidote, wherever the disease exists, limits it within the smell range of a patent: and exerts himself, only to prevent its beneficial influence from extending to any one, who may not possess the power of purchasing it of him, at the price which he has affixed to it. "Possessing these sentiments respecting the reservation of exclusive property, in those discoveries which conduce to the preservation of life, and the diminution of disease, it was sufficient, to believe it possible, that the present little improvement might, eventually prove beneficial, to produce such a publication of its description, as might prevent any one assuming the principle as their discovery, for the purpose of obtaining an exclusive patent. By stating this, however, it is not meant to arrogate the merit of a very important discovery; it is merely offered as a hint, which may probably suggest means of relief, easy of acquisition, in a disease in which, if these or similar means be omitted, a fatal termination may be expected to occur. A hope is also entertained that the principle, capable of being farther extended, may, under the attention of the ingenious mechanic, or even the patient himself, be so modified, as to be applied to the construction of an instrument, still more simple and more efficacious than any which have been, as yet, adopted." five books, the first of which thus introduces his history. "It was at the close of a sultry eas. tern day, and the sun, having dipped his fiercest rays in the great river Nile, appeared to be serenely retiring to his evening's couch, when Jochebed, the wife of Amram, with trembling hands, committed a small ark, composed of bulrushes, to the flags by the river's brink. Will you wonder that she did it with trembling limbs and streaming tears, when I inform you that this little ark, or basket, contained her infant son, a child of three months old, whom the cruel decree of a merciless tyrant, Pharaoh king of Egypt, compelled her thus to expose. Suspicious to the last degree, he feared the fruitful increase of the Hebrews, and had therefore commanded, that all their male children should be destroyed, as soon as born. frame of her own mind, and was pensively musing on the scene around her, when, approaching nearer the water's edge, she perceived an object in the flags that attracted her notice; on which she desired one of her women to bring it near, and with her own hands putting aside the rushes that covered the top of this seeming basket, what was her astonishment on beholding a beautiful infant, which the short journey from the river's bank had discomposed! As though sensible of its forlorn situation, the babe wept; and as the hand of Thermuthis rested on the side of the bark, this deserted little one, with eager grasp, clasped her finger, and stretching forth the other hand, seemed to implore compassion, with the pathetic eloquence of tears. Doubtless,' (exclaimed the princess, recovering from her surprise,) this is one' of the Hebrews' children, which my 'father's decree has obliged them to 'abandon! Behold! in what moving terms the dear little one intreats 'protection.' Thermuthis possessed none of her father's cruelty; no disposition so open to the calls of distress as her's; and she thus contiHued, Nor shalt thou, sweet babe, supplicate in vain; lost to thy na. tural parents, from henceforth ́Ï'hermuthis will be thy mother, cherishing thee with fond maternal care. 1 accept the charge heaven has as "Torn from the arms of their mother, who had given them existence at the manifest hazard of her own, no regard was paid by the savage executioner, to the fond parent's anguish; her loud complaints, her piercing cries, and ceaseless intreaties, are all in vain; her child is barbarously murdered, and she left inconsolable. This was no doubt the cruel fate of thousands; and as a last effort to avoid these pangs, Jochebed consigned her infant to this watery bed. She bad hid him three months in her ha-signed me, and from this moment bitation; but that being any longer impracticab e, she now determined to cast him unreservedly, into the more immediate hands of the God whom she worshipped; therefore, throwing herself on her knees, she again recommended this beloved object to the divine protection, and then, with reluctant pace and weeping eyes, slowly withdrew to her own abode, having first placed her eldest daughter at a convenient distance, to watch the fate of the precious deposit. "The evening was mild and beautiful, insomuch that it induced the royal princess Thermuthis, after bath. ing, to prolong her accustomed walk. "The grand display of aqueous beauty, which the river Nile presented, was a subject peculiarly interesting to this noble personage, and she contemplated with inexpressible delight its glassy bosom, when unruffled by the boisterous winds, as was now the case. Though surrounded by attendants, she had retired in the consider thee as my son. But in thy future prospects i forget thy present wants. Then addressing her attendants she added, Be it your 'care immediately to seek a nurse of 'the Hebrew women, to whom I may intrust my foundling, for that support he now requires.'-Scarcely had the words escaped her lips, when Jochebed's daughter, having seen the child in the princess's arms, was returning to inform her mother, and receive her further instructions. was observed by one of the female train, who acquainted her mistress that a Hebrew girl passed by, and desired leave to call her, as it was possible she could tell them of a nurse for the little stranger. She "The thought was approved of, and the girl, obeying the summons with a low obeisance, waited the princess's commands, who interrogating her on the subject in question, she modestly answered, that perhaps her mother would be glad of the charge; |