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with a magnificent canopy, adorned with two flags, and which was brought upon a carriage that preceded the others. They then began to read and sing the sacred book, to the sound of trumpets, cymbals, drums, and bells. Before the conclusion of the ceremony, the principal lamas saluted the great chief of the Chorinzians, and his retinue, with small books, with which they at the same time struck themselves on the head, and the chief bowed respectfully. The principal lamas then rose, and commenced their journey; stopping from time to time to shew their respect to the sacred objects which they were escorting. In this manner they went in procession before them the whole way. At length, after a journey of fifteen days, they reached the river Ona, on the banks of which the great chief resides. It is 370 wersts from this place. The chiefs of the eleven tribes, and several thousands of the Burætes, had 'assembled to receive the Sans Hur and the Burchan. The solemnities continued several days, during which, all the people met to hear the mysterious book read. The Chorinzians are said to have given a great quantity of furs and cattle to procure this book, to which they attach such great value.

SOUTH AMERICA.

Accounts from Santa Fé, in New Grenada, dated August 19, 1809, mention the death of the celebrated MUTIs, the friend of Linnæus, and one of the greatest botanists of the age. This venerable and worthy man, had devoted upwards of fifty years to the examination of the vegetable productions of America. At tached at first as physician to the viceroy, the count of Casa Flores, he began

at his own expense to have drawings made by native painters, formed by himself, for the Flora of Bagota. This grand work he continued and greatly extended, since he was appointed director of the botanical expedition of New Grenada. He had collected in his house considerable herbaries, more than 1500 coloured drawings of new plants, philosophical and astronomical instruments, and a collection of botanical works, inferior only to that of the illustrious president of the Royal Society of London. M. Rea, one of Mutis's pupils, is the present director of the botanical garden of Madrid. His nephew, Don Sinforosa Mutis, has been commissioned by the government to complete the Flora of Bagota, for which no more than 566 descriptions of new species, have been found drawn up by the deceased. Messrs. Mutis and Rixa, two distinguished artists, natives of Santa Fé, are finishing the numerous drawings that were begun. M. Mutis, who in his old age had embraced the ecclesiastical profession, was equally distinguished for the variety and solidity of his attainments, and for the liberality and elevation of his sentiments. Previous to his death, he directed that his library, collections, and instruments, should be applied to the public use of his fellow-citizens. Europe is indebted to him for the important discovery of the Quinquina of New Grenada. The orange-coloured Quinquina of Santa Fé (cinchona lanceifolia), which is not inferior in quality to the bark of Loxa (cinchona condaminea), has become an important branch of commerce at the ports of Carthagena and Santa Martha.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN OCTOBER.

As the List of New Publications, contained in the Monthly Magazine, is the ONLY COMPLETE LIST PUBLISHED, and consequently the only one that can be useful to the Public for Purposes of general Reference, it is requested that Authors and Publishers will continue to communicate Notices of their Works (Post paid,) and they will always be faithfully inserted, FREE of EXPENSE.

ARTS, FINE.

A PRINT of his Majesty, in the fiftieth
Year of his Reign. By Mr. Rosenberg.
Plain, 10s. 6d. colored, 148.

The Architectural Antiquities of Wales. By Charles Norris, esq. No. Il. 11. 1s. proofs, 11. 11s. 63.

ARTS AND SCIENCES.

losophy, Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, and other Branches of Science pertaining to the Material World. By the Rev. J. Jayce. 12mo. 10s. 6d.

BIOGRAPHY.

The Life of Beilby Porteus, Lord Bishop of London. By a Layman of Merton College,

Letters on Natural and Experimental Phi- Oxford. 8vo. 9s.

BOTANY.

BOTANY.

Hortus Kewensis; or a Catalogue of the Plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew. By the late Wm. Aiton. Enlarged by William Townsend Aiton, Gardeher to his Majesty. Vol. I 8vo. 12s.

EDUCATION.

An Introduction to Algebra, designed for the Use of Students at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth. By James Inman, A.M. Professor at the Royal Naval College. 8vo. 4s. A Key to the eleventh Edition of Dr. Wanostrocht's French Grammar. By J.. Cewellier, French Teacher at Alfred House Academy. Ss. 6d.

HISTORY.

The Annual Register, or a View of History, Politics, and Literature, for 1795. 3vo. 18s.

LAW.

The Trial of Abraham Lemon, Thomas Turner, Barton Wilson, John Webster, John Robinson Mullineux, and Charles Rowlinson, for a Conspiracy and Riot at the Theatre Royal Liverpool, in May last. 3s. 6d.

MEDICINE, SURGERY, &c.

A Dissertation on the Retroversion of the Womb, including some observations on Extra-uterine Gestation. By Samuel Merrinian, M.D. Ss.

A Popular Essay on the Structure, Formation and Management of the Teeth. By J. Fuller, surgeon-dentist, royal 12mo. 6s.

Description of the Treatment of an Affection of the Tibia, induced by fever. By Thomas Whately, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. 2s. 6d.

Examinations in Anatomy, Physiology, Practice of Physic, Surgery, Materia Medica, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, for the use of Students who are about to pass the College of Surgeons, Medical or Transport Boards. By Robert Hooper, M.D. small 8vo. 3s. 6d. Pharmacopoeiarum Collegiorum Regalium, Londini, Edinburgi et Eblanæ Conspectus Medicus, Virtutes, Doses et Morbos quibus putentur Medicamenta et præparata ostendens. By E. G. Clarke, M.D. 4s. 6d. An Encyclopædia of Surgery, Medicine, Midwifery, Physiology, Pathology, Anatomy, Chemistry, &c. By John James Watt, surgeon, small 8vo. 8s.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Philanthropist, No. 1. (to be continued Quarterly). 2s. 6d.

The nefarious Practice of Stock-jobbing unveiled. By Thos. Mortimer, esq. 5s. An Engraved Plan of the two intended Birmingham Water-works. 1s.

Hints to the Public and the Legislature on the Nature and Effects of Evangelical Preaching. Part IV. 4s. 6d.

Ingram's Ready Reckner. 11. 18. Davis's Key to Bonny castle's Algebra, adapted to the eighth and last edition of that work. Second edition. 12mo. 5s. bound.

The Reformer; comprising twenty-two

Essays on Religion and Morality; with an appendix. 12mo. 6s. boards.

The Two Pictures, or a View of the Miseties of France, contrasted with the Blessings of England; earnestly recommended to the notice of every true Briton. 5s. per dozen.

A Warning to the frequenters of Debating Clubs; being a history of the rise and progress of those societies; with a report of the trial and conviction of John Gale Jones, the manager of the British Forum. 3s. 6d. per

dozen.

Princy's Tales on Youth; being a series of original poetical and prose Pieces. 1s. 6d.

extra boards.

A Chinese Prayer; translated for the mental improvement of fanatics of every denomination. 1s.

A Parliament Prayer; composed during the scarcity of bread in the year 1800, and most humbly recommended to the notice of Legislators. 1s.

The Printer's Assistant, including the new scale of Prices, and other tables, &c. ByM. Mason. 15.

NOVELS, TALES, ROMANCES. Contes à ma Filles, par Bouilly. 2 vols. 12mo. 8s. 6d.

Wieland, or the Transformation. By C. Brown. 3 vols. 15s.

Ormond, or the Secret Witness. By e. Brown. 3 vols. 15s.

POETRY.

Original Poetry, by Victor and Cazire. Royal 8vo. 4s.

POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. A Sketch of the State of British India, with a view of pointing out the best means of civilising its inhabitants, and diffusing the general knowledge of Christianity throughout the Christian world; being the substance of an Essay to which the University of Aberdeen adjudged Dr. Buchanan's prize. By the Rev. James Bryce. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

The Crisis, or Can the Country be saved? briefly considered. 1s.

Present State of the Spanish Colonies, including a particular Report of Hispaniola, with a general Survey of the Settlements on the South Continent of America, and a concise statement of the sentiments of the people on their relative situation to the mother country. By William Walton, jun. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 4s.

The Petition of the English Roman Catho lics considered, in a charge delivered at the Triennial Visitation, in June, 1810. By George Isaac Huntingford, D. D. F. R. S. Bishop of Gloucester. 8vo. 2s.

Remarks on the present State of Public Credit, and the Consequences likely to result from the Decease of Mr. Abraham Goldsmid and Sir Francis Baring. In a Letter to Wm. Manning, esq. M.P. By Erinaceus.

23.

Phocion's Opinions on the Public Funds, the Paper Circulation, and the critical State of the United Kingdom 18.

THROLOGY

THEOLOGY.

Twenty-four select Discourses from the Works of eminent Divines of the Church of England, and of others, never before published. 8vo. 10s.

The enlightning and invigorating Influence of shining Examples; represented in a Sermon preached at Carter Lane on the 16th September, 1810, occasioned by the death of Joseph Paice, esq. By Thomas Tayler. 1s. 6d. A Sermon preached at the Parish Church of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe and St. Anne, Black riars, on Tuesday, June 12, 1810, before the Society for Missions to Africa and the East, being their tenth Anniversary. By the Rev. Claudius Buchanan, D.D.

A Funeral Discourse, which was preached on the Death of the Rev. Thomas Barnes, D.D. at the Protestant Dissenter's Chapel, at Cockey Moor, on the 22d of July, 1810. By the Rev. Joseph Bealey. 1s. 6d.

Hints on Toleration; in five Essays, suggested for the Consideration of the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Sidmouth, and the Dis senters. By Philagatharches. 8vo. 12s.

Preparation for Armageddon. In which are included two Letters to a man called by himself and associates the Rev. Joseph Sa muel C. F. Frey, minister of the Gospel to the Jews; also Strictures on "Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek text of the New Testament.” By Grang ville Sharpe.

A Sermon preached at the Parish Church of Stoney Stratford, at the Visitation of the Archdeacon, June 28, 1810. By the Rev. Latham Wainwright. 1s. 6d.

TOPOGRAPHY.

Beauties of England and Wales. Vol. X. containing an Account of London and Middlesex. By Edward Wedlake Brayley. 8vo. 11. 3s. large paper 11. 17s.

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intelligence, and consequently so useful to all musical students properly so called, we cannot, perhaps, furnish to our readers a better description than by presenting them with the author's observations prefixed to the work; after premising ourselves, that the execution keeps pace with the design.

"The art of the Fugue, and of Double Counterpoint, has been so much neglected ever since the time of those two greatest fuguists John Sebastian Bach, and George Frederic Handel, that at present it is too generally despised, for waht of being sufficiently known.

"And yet nothing in music deserves more to be cultivated than the knowledge of that art. For it teaches how a melody can be harmonized by other melodies; and how the inversion, transposition, and imitation of melodious parts, produces an abundance of sublime and interesting varieties, which the greatest genius and natural talent cannot make us invent, without such an assistance. And though double counterpoints are most at home in fugues, they may also be introduced in all other sorts of vocal and instrumental pieces, as will appear in numerous works of the best ancient and modern authors.

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velling and seeing the different parts of the world, is in the study of geography. It consists of fugues in four regular parts; and the reason why I have set it for two performers, is, because in that form I could let every part move with more freedom, and yet render the playing more easy, than the setting it for one performer would have allowed.

"In these fugues, I presume to offer the public a more complete and more methodical school of double counterpoints, than bas hitherto been known. For they shew counterpoints in almost every interval by itself, as well as in two, three, and four, intervals together. And those of the two last fugues, I believe to be new, as I do not know them to have been taught, or introduced in practice, by any former author.

"I wish that the taken to render this would, may not be cessfully bestowed." "Norman's Song;" written by Walter Scott, Esq. and composed by Dr. Clarke, of Cambridge. 25. In this composition, the words of which are from the popular poem of the Lady of the Lake, Dr. Clarke, (who has so happily succeeded in setting to music many other similar productions) has acSA

pains which I have work as useful as I found quite unsuc

quilted

quitted himself with his usual ability. The expression is every where forcible and just, and the pleasingness of the melody not inconsiderably heightened by the ingenious construction of the accompaniments, and the well-chosen bass. "Allen's Cat," a Ballad; the Words by Joseph Blacket. The Music by a Lady. 15. 6d. Though the melody of this little song is not without its faults, we still trace in it the latent germs of genius, and have no doubt but that time and study will qualify the fair authoress to lay the public under considerable obligations to her Muse. If the metrical disposition of the words, and the facility of accent with which we occasionally meet, demand our notice, so also must we, in candour and in justice, speak with due commendation of the natural excellence of some of the passages, and say that they indicate much native talent, and sanction us in advising the lady (the young lady we presume) to persevere in cultivating the gifts of nature, and enable herself to add correctness of arrangement to beauty of conception.

Duels for the Piano-forte, selected and arranged from Handel's Te Deums, by I. Mazzingbi, esq.

45.

With the construction of these duets we are greatly pleased. The original composition is, by its very nature, parti cularly calculated for the use to which Mr. Mazzinghi has here turned it; and he has certainly taken advantage of the numerous opportunities they offer for imitation, and the classical union of parts. Every effect to be expected from combinations having for their basis the fine and finished scores of Handel's Te Deums has been here attained, and every true votary of the old school will admire and applaud the execution.

"The Heath this Night must be my Bed." Novman's Song, from the Lady of the Lake, by W. Scott, esq. The Music by T. Atwood, Esq.

2s. 6d.

Though Dr. Clarke of Cambridge, has also exercised his talents on "Norman's Song," we shall avoid invidious comparison, and say, that Mr. Atwood has done himself much credit by the style in which he has treated Mr. Scott's lyric effusion. The pathos and general sombre that prevail through the melody, powerfully enforce the sentiment of the poet, and many of the passages are as novel as ef

fective.

"God Save the King;" with additional Stanzas en the memorable Occasion of our venerable and

revered Monarch's entering into the Fiftieth Year of bis Reign. Arranged by Gesualde Lanza, Jun. 55.

This song, the music of which Mrs Lanza has arranged for the piano-forte and harp, with a vocal score and accom paniment for an orchestra and a military band, has never, perhaps, under all the various forms in which it has been presented to the public, appeared to greater advantage than in the edition now before us. The adscititious parts are judi ciously applied; the accompaniment is florid and ingenious; and the effect, taken in the aggregate, highly complimentary to the compiler's judgment. The addi tional stanzas, by a clergyman of the established Church, are by no means unworthy the fine, old, simple, but noble air, to which they are applied; and in the verse praying for the cessation of wars and dire discord, will, we trust, meet the feelings of every true lover of his country's prosperity, and every friend of the best interests of humanity.

"The Imprisoned Huntsman," a favourite Song. The Poetry from the Lady of the Lake, written by W. Scott, Esq. The Music composed by J. Whitaker. 13. Ód.

"The Imprisoned Huntsman," is set with considerable force of expression; and the general cast of the air is perfectly

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consonant with the sentiment of the poetry. In a word, much merit, both as to taste and judgment, is discoverable in every part of this little composition. Ellen's Song, "Ave Maria;" from the Lady of the Lake, written by W. Scott, esq. Music composed by Thomas Attwood, esq. 25. Mr. Atwood, with whose professional merits we are too well acquainted not to expect from his hand compositions of a superior order, has not disappointed us in the present production. The me lody of Ave Maria is, in several instances, purely his own; and while the expression is faithful to the author's sentiment and meaning, the bass is so well chosen, and accompaniment so judiciously constructed as to greatly enhance the general effect. "A Te che Adoro ;" Cavatina con Harpas Pianeforte accompagnamento. Compostu dal Sigr. Paer. s. 6d.

The passages of this cavatina, though in themselves familiar and commonplace, are so ingeniously disposed, as not only to please the tasteful ear by their judicious succession, but to produce much novelty of effect.

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"The Prime of Life;" a favourite Dance, arranged as a Rondo for the Piano-forte, by M. Hoist. s. 6d.

This rondo, though not perhaps of prominent merit, is far from being destitute of claims to public notice. The subject is at least agreeable, and the digressive matter consistent and correct.

A Romance and Waltz for the Piano-forte, composed and inscribed to Miss M'Donel, of Newcastle,

County of Mayo, by I. W. Holden, Mus. Bac.
Oxon. 2s. 6d.

other in this pleasing little production. Many sprightly ideas succeed each The romance is strong in its character ; and the waltz, at least as new as the numerous productions of that denomination already before the public will well admit.

REPORT OF DISEASES,

Under the Care of the late Senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 20th of September to the 20th of October, 1810.

VERY remarkable number of cases

A where giddiness of the head or ver

tigo, has been the principal symptom, have recently occurred within the reporter's professional observation. In three of the cases the patients were females, in which it was attended with symptoms of hysteria: in the men, it was accompanied with features of hypochondriasis, which may in general be regarded as a masculine form of the same disease. The remedies in such cases must of course be varied according to the variety of causes which may produce, or circumstances which may attend, the malady. Purgatives have often a most important effect, although, even this class of medicine has perhaps been excessively extolled, and too extensively recommended. When the vertigo appears to have arisen from the state of the brain, or the nervous system in general, blisters applied to the head, are of almost infallible advantage.

Measles and scarlatina have been unusually prevalent. In the former as well as the latter disease, the reporter has recommended the sponging of the body with tepid water. This mode of washing in measles has not hitherto been common, but it perhaps deserves to be so, from the unequivocal utility which it has exhibited in the cases where the experiment has been made by the reporter.

The reporter has had several patients of late, who erroneously fancied that they were bilious. There is not indeed a more ordinary, nor perhaps a more mischievous, absurdity amongst the hypochondriacal, the hysterical, and the dyspeptic, than this imagination. The idea of an excess of bile often arises merely from those uneasy feelings in the abdomen that accompany indigestion; from a foul taste

and furred tongue on awakening, and from that sallowness of the skin which is usual in various cases of habitual, or constitutional weakness. But none of these circumstances, either separately or in combination, afford evidence of an overflow of bile: the uneasy feelings and the foul taste, may be attributed to the general bad condition of all the organs of digestion, from the mouth to the farther extremity of the alimentary canal. As for the yellow hue of the complexion, it may be accounted for by the unhealthy state of the cutaneous glands; the bile may have no share in it.

The reporter has certainly much raised his estimation of the powers of the medical art by a more protracted experience of its operations; at the same time he is by no means disposed to regard every favourable termination of a disease as a cure of it. There is an inherent bias observable in the animal economy to restore health. “As the surface of a lake which clearly reflects the sky, and hills, and verdant scenes around its borders, when it is disturbed by the falling of a stone, immediately endeavours to recover its scattered images, and restore them to the same beauteous order in which they are wont to appear; in like manner, when the natural course of the animal economy is interrupted and disturbed by disease, the powers of the constitution are con tinually endeavouring to restore its organs to the perfect use of their functions, and to recover its usual vigour and sẻrenity."* J REID.

Grenville-street, Brunswick-square.
October 26, 1810.

* Dr. Moore's Medical Sketches.

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