Art. 12. A Genuine State of a Cafe in Surgery: Being a full Mr. Aylett appears to be fo extremely tenacious of the dignity of his profeffion, that he is apt to forget the character he would affume, as a man of nice honour and fenfibility. His reply to Mr. Bromfield's Narrative is, indeed, fpirited, artfully turned, and, on the whole, well-enough written: but, we think, he defcends much too low, in his reflections about Noftrums, the Ligature upon the Aorta, &c. as well as in his recapitulation of the favours, pretended to have been done him by his Antagonist; to none of which illiberal farcasms do we fee fufficient provocation in Mr. Bromfield's Narrative. As the facts, however, relating to the matter in difpute, are reprefented in a very different light to that in which they appear in the preceding pamphlet, we cannot pretend to determine how far Mr. Aylett may have just motives for his refentment. So far, neverthelefs, we fhall take upon us to obferve, that he does by no means prove, that his own pretenfions to perform the operation, were agreeable to the Patient; or that what Mr. Bromfield did, was not done in confequence of the defire of Mr. Benwell.--We think it a little hard, therefore, with all due deference to the Gentlemen of the feffion, and their effential forms of bufinefs, that punctilios of this kind should not be permitted fometimes to give way to the neceflities, and relief of the Patient. POLITICAL. pro Art. 13. Confiderations on the Importance of Canada, and the Bay and River of St. Lawrence; and of the American Fisheries dependent on the Islands of Cape-Breton, St. John's, Newfoundland, and the Seas adjacent. 8vo. 6d. Ŏwen. This Writer, after rehearsing the importance of the American Furr Trade and Fisheries, and reminding us of the infufficient title of the French to their American poffeffions, fhews us, that the late flourishing condition of their navy, was the confequence of their unnoticed incroachments: which infpired this infatiable people with the defign of contefting with us the whole dominion of North-America, Vi et Armis. The conclufion drawn by the Author from thefe premifes, may be conceived from the following quotation. Our having taken, funk, or deftroyed, during the prefent war, a full third part of their navy, has certainly leffened the mifchiefs which our commerce might otherwife have fuftained from them; at the fame time that their trade has been fo much the more expofed to capture by our men of war and privateers.-Yet as no country recovers fo foon from its wounds as France, and as the flower of her feamen (now prisoners here) must be restored to her upon a peace, she then will need but to replace the fhips she has loft, either by rebuilding them at home, or by employing foreigners for Rev. Dec. 1759* о • that for magnifying the fmalleft conceivable exility of found, into perceptible articulation. But however this may be, or may not be, we find the prefent letter has been affecting enough, to produce the fub. ject of the following article, by a gentleman, who, though confiderably provoked by the letter, does not appear to intimate the leath fufpicion of any forgery in it. Art. 18. An Anfwer to that heterogeneous Letter, addreffed to Dr. Waffel's, of St. Mary-Axe, and subjoined to the Petition of the unborn Babes. Dedicated to the young Phyficians, By Dr. Mc, Gripes, late Student under Dr. Weffels. 8vo. 6d. Scot. If the real Author of this Anfwer be a foreigner, he may be fuppofed to have deviled this expedient of publishing it under the name of Dr. Mc. Gripes (who ded cates it from Tipperary in the 7th month of the fummer folftice), as a means of excufing thofe mailacres of the English language it abounds with. Befides, as the Regulars in Phyfic were defigned to be handled not a little roughly in it, an extemporaneous doctor-maker may poffibly have confulted his dignity more, by expofing them to the gripes of an imaginary pupil and fubftitute, than he could have done by an avowed èxecution of them in his own perfon: though fome have concluded, that art it must be the most dexterous at taking a Doctor to pieces, who could put him together, and wind him up the fooneft. If by terming the letter addreffed to Dr. Weffels, by the unborn Babes, beterogeneous, he means to affirm it a letter of a different kind from this answer, we muft readily fubfcribe to his judgment on this point, whoever, and whatever, his genuine entity and appellation may be. But admitting D. Mc. Gripes, to be fome favorite and lucky mo del of Dr. Weffels' fashioning, we find him fo much of a wag too, that he is not always able to rettrain a joke on his mafter, instead of fwearing continually by his name, like the fycophants of old. fome apprehend to have been done, with a defign to perfonate as Hibernian more effectually, who may be fometimes unwittingly di pofed to hunt the Bull through thick and thin, in facts and fentiments, as well as words. Be that as it may, Dr. Peter, or Paddy Mc. Cripes, fays p. 7. My worthy and honest friend and preceptor. Dr. WESSELS (to whom I am indebted for thofe fublime precepts acquired under him in the medical art), fhall never want a chanpion in his fervice, while gratuity is efteemed commendable' This we are very clear muft be the cafe, among all her feekers, a long as the exifts, who will certainly pray for her after her deat too. This delegated Author however proceeds, and we hope ferlouly, to declare Dr. Wells' abilities, and the inabilities of his brethren the Pcgulars, in relieving the diforders of Women; and alfo, pre *This credit Dr. Waffels gives his Students for his tuition, and the gratis he allows them for displaying and defending his character, must be no fmall is ducements to studying under him, and writing for him, 6 dicates his peculiar Noftrum, for kindling up a Doctor from indiffeFor Dr. Weffels having finished his ftudies under rent materials. Boerhaave and Ruyfch, and without being obliged to them for the fecret, Dr. Mc. Gripes fays, verbatim & punctuatim p. 9.- And that Dr. Weffels, after diftinguishing himself, as a man of learning and abilities in Phyfic, was invited over to refide in England [by the Embryos perhaps] fince which he has been allowed (by even the moft envious) to be a Scholar, a judicious Phyfician, and an excellent • Mathematician; proofs of which he has given, not only in improving many English Phyficians in the Science, but in a fhort space of time teaching the phyfical Art to those of moderate talents, who ⚫ afterwards became the greateft ornaments of the profeffion, and by the Caledonian and Flemish Univerfities, as well as our Royal College ⚫ of Physicians in Londen, have fince been invited into their Communities, and received fuch Privileges, as their fkill, learning and abilities only could have entitled, or procured them, when the fevereft ⚫ and most critical examinations in public could not find pretence for rejecting them.'-Some of our readers may confider this breathing period of a mile, as a puff, while other fuppofe it ftark irony; but our deference for fuch rare merit as Dr. Weffels' has engaged us to give his portrait, by this Apelles, at length. We are at a lofs in the mean time to determine, whether Dr. Mc. Gripes' envy, or transport, occafioned him to fupprefs the names of his Fellow-Students of moderate talents, who commenced the greatest Luminaries in Science here, or any where elfe; and who are equally certain to eclipse our lateft pofterity. Such blazing inftances, alas! would induce us to fufpect, that Dr. Weffels' Noitrum for doctor-making, is only adapted to moderate talents, and might rather astonish than inform thofe of excellent ones; and now, if Mr. Student Mc. Gripes was only taught, to remember how he was taught by Dr. Weffels, Arrah, what a fine College of Phyficians will his Love of Tipperary produce; and what Legions of Embryos may they excite and preferve too, after each and all of them are freely admitted into its profoundeft myfteries! The learned Macgripius, our dear half countryman (Ireland being about almost half as big as England) continues to defcribe or caricature his odious Regulars, with their poor noddles in wife perriwigs, in their chariots, and deferted by their chario's, with great waggery; having plainly discovered, that feveral of their patients are mortal; that they do not find out fpecifics; and confequently, are not intitled to find the fame refpect with Dr. Weffels. He takes us with him foon after to his medical Farce, which he defigned to abound with wit and humour, and in which, indeed, he has attained to a little. Four Regulars, an Apothecary, an Irish Nurfe, and the Dr. Blubber's chaPatient's Hufband, figure away in these Scenes. rafter, or country, is ftrongly marked by the curious expedient of his conftantly pronouncing Sir, Sar. Poky diftinguishes himself by fleeping at the Confultation, while the News of the Day is difcuffed. The difgufted Apothecary, in a melancholy foliloquy, threatens to call in Dr. Cramwell. And Dr. Mc. Gripes' countrywoman, who is very earnest for the exhibition of Dr. Weffel's drops in this last cafe, cafe, makes fome notable reprisals on the English language, for the former depredations of their arms in Connaught. In that part of our Author's fatire, which regards the illiberal and invidious conduct of Phyficians to one another; though the invective is expreffed in rather over fcurrilous terms, we are concerned to hear, that it is too. frequently juft. But what very nearly difhoncft, and palpably dif honourable, Actions, are not currently palliated with the fpecious name of Indufiry! which a Philofopher might, in certain circumftances, think a jufter plea for a poor affiduous pick-pocket, than for a cunning and greedy accumulator, who avoids the penalty of the. letter, though regardless of the benign and focial Spirit, of Laws. Not to be too ferious however, on the prefent article, Dr. Mc. Gripius advifes the Letter-Writer, to let Dr. Weffels live and vend his Drops; with an injunction to remember this advice, and that he who gives it is no running Frenchman. By this we fuppose, an infinuation is intended, that, on the Letter-Writer's non-compliance, our Author will make him that ill flavoured fellow, he very coarfely calls him. We have a fomewhat lefs indelicate apprehenfion for ourfelves, as he threatens only to pifs on all criticifms, which he is heartily welcome to do, after paying prefent money for them. Thus have we given the fum and import of this notable answer, as admitting it to be wrote by Dr. Weffels' pupil in his behalf, and not too pryingly attempting to develope any gentleman of the perfonage he may chufe to affume. We should gladly however, be allowed to affure the learned Principal in this caufe, that we have not the least prejudice, or objection to his Drops, except that of taking them; which, as we are neither Einbryos, nor qualified to envelope them, we dare fay, Dr. Weffels would not prefcribe to us. But as Reviewers of other Writers, and hence writing occafionally ourselves, we fubmit it to his fagacity, whether thefe Drops might not inform, or any wife invigorate, thofe mental Embryos, which fuch perfons fo frequently conceive and bring forth, with more or lefs facility and happinefs: as an efficacy in this refpect, muft greatly advance their value and fale. Let us advife him, however, in his next advertisement, to term his Drops, notwithstanding the authority of Bates and Allen, Tinctura ad Embryones, i. e. a Tincture for, rather than of Embryos, as we fay, Emplaflrum ad herniam, Plafter for a Rupture. For certainly, Oleum Catellarum, fignifies an Oil made of, and not fer Whelps though probably firft devised by fome dreaming old puppies. On the other hand, Oleum Philofophorum does not mean, that the medicine was made by boiling Philofophers in Oil, neither that it was calculated folely for philofophers (like the Embryos Tincture), any more than Tin&tura Weffeli, would fignify a medicine made by infufing Dr. Weffels in Spirits of any fort: but as it would refer to the Inventers of the Oil (the Philofophers by Fire) and of the Tincture, whatever the ingredients might be; fo the Tincture of the Embryos might be wrefted, to imply; that the Embryos were the Authors, rather than the Objects of it. This would feem to admit, that a corporeal Embryo (fuppofe that of any future Phyfician) may conceive and bring forth a mental, and even a medical one, which propofition fome will confider as too bold and metaphyfical. We have not the the flightest doubt of Dr. Weffels' genuine meaning ourselves; but he must be convinced, there are Cavillers, whom it would be expedient to filence. With regard to Dr. Weffels' other Noftrum, for the speedy multiplication of Doctors, which were better deferred perhaps until a peace, we apprehend, that although it may prove falutary, and even nutritive to the inventor, yet the pupils, when graduated, would not find their account in it; fince it must leffen the number of patients, in proportion to their extradinary inaugurations: especially, as fome fuperlative improver of this Noftrum, for making doctors out of moderate talents, might extend its operation to fubjects of very moderate talents indeed. Now, as the truly wife and capable are fuppofed a pretty general minority, and are often a cautious generation, fuch doctors must foon be left to practife only on themselves, or each other, without fees of courfe. Hence ftarving, or fome premature death, would prove the ordinary confequence; and no ways leffen that Suicide, which has been thought already too endemic in this ifland. RELIGIOUS. Art. 19. An humble Enquiry into the Nature of the Gofpel Offer, Faith, and Affurance. By John Lavington, Jun. 12mo. IS. Buckland. The reafons (given by our Author in his preface) for publishing this Enquiry, are, the apprehended importance of the fubjects themselves;-a willingness to offer his poor affiftance (as he himself ftiles it) towards the refolving the doubts, and clearing the perplexities, with which the minds of many are intangled; and a defire of being an inftrument in the hand of God, for defending the truth, and guarding againft error. Tho' the above reasons are very good ones for a man's writing well, upon any important fubject, yet we are forry to say, that we have found none of our own doubts and perplexities, refolved or cleared, by a careful perufal of Mr. Lavington's Enquiry.But, probably, fuch Readers as are friends to the Calviniftical doctrines of abfolute Election, and Reprobation; as well as enemies to, what our Author calls, the Arminian doctrine of Free-will, will meet with greater fatisfaction from the prefent treatife. SINGLE SERMONS. THE Signs of the Times, illuftrated and improved; preached at the Evening Lecture in the Old Jury, on the furrender of Quebec to his Majefty's forces. By Charles Bulkley. 6d. Noon. 2. The Oppofition between the Gospel of Jefus and what is called the Religion of Nature ;-at St. Mary's, Oxon, July 1, 1759. By Thomas Patten, D. D. late Fellow of Corpus Chrifti College. 6 d. Rivington. 3. Unity recommended;-before the Religious Socities in and about London, at their annual meeting in the church of St. Mary le Bow, on Eafter Monday, 1759. By William Dodd, M. A. 6d. Davis and Reymers. 4. The |