The wither'd thistle fhall crown my head! I behold thee, O King! I behold thee fitting on mift! Thy face is like the beams of the fetting moon! The ghofts of dead tories fhall hear me The wither'd thistle shall crown my head! But thou, O King! give me the launce! ODE on the NEW YEAR. By LORD M—VE. STROPHE. For a mufe of fire, With blazing thumbs to touch my torpid Now, in the darkfome regions round the Pole, With wild affright would fee the fnow hills roll, Nor bealt, nor Chriftian-none but the White The white bear howls amid the tempeft's roar, Sometimes it thaws, fometimes it freezes, If Heav'n decrees, fierce whirlwinds rend the air, Thus peace and war on earth alternate reign: STROPHE II.-(By Brother Charles.) And blue-eyed Peace, and black-eyed Pleasures, And Plenty, in light cadence hopping, Fain would dance to Whitehead's measures. But Whitehead now in death repofes, O D E. By Sir RICHARD HILL, Bart. HALL pious Mufe of faintly love, Unmix'd, unftain'd with earthly drofs ! Hail Mufe of Methodism, above Meek Mufe of Madden, thee my foul invokes- Defcend! and, oh! in mem'ry keep- And, oh! to mine, let each strong charm belong, The Lord doth give-the Lord doth take away; And give the prize to a true Pharifee: For fure of all the fcribes that Ifrael curft, Thefe fcribes poetic, are by far the worst. To thee, my Samfon, unto thee I callExert thy jaw, and straight disperse them allSo as in former times, the Philistines fhall fall! Then as 'twas th' beginning, So to th' end 't shall be; My Mufe will ne'er leave finging, 1 But then, as if too lib'ral to his mind, She made him crook'd before, and crook'd behind*. 'Tis not, thank Heav'n! my Cecil, fo with thee; Thou laft of Cecils, but unlike the first;Thy body bears no mark'd deformity: The gods decreed, and judgement was revers'd! Shall I, by eloquence controul, True to these terms, I preach'd in politics for Pitt, And Kenyon's law maintain'd against his fov'reign's writ! What tho' my father be a porpus, And, oh! fhould Mrs. Arden blefs me with a child, Then think of Arden's wife, My pretty plaintiff's life, The best of caudle's made of best of fack! But favour me, OD E, By WILLIAM WRAXALL, Efq. M. P. URRAIN feife the House of Commons, M Hoarfe catarrh their windpipes shake, Who, deaf to travell'd learning's fummons, Defcend from globes to statesmen's aid! The Elbe, the Danube, Wefer rolls- Dam the dykes, the feas embank, A gridiron's form the proud Efcurial rears, With antique and with modern lore; To Nilus from the Nore. Why were thy Pyramids, O Egypt! rais'd, On Norway's feas, my foul, unfhaken, I take And eye thy mofs-clad needle, Cleopatra grand! O, that great Pompey's pillar were my own Eighty-eight feet the fhaft, and allone stone! But hail, ye loft Athenians! Hail alfo, ye Armenians! Hail once ye Greeks, ye Romans, Carthaginians! Twice hail Turks, and thrice ye Abyffinians! ye Hail too, O Lapland, with thy fquirrels airy! Hail, wonder-working Magi! Hail, commerce-catching Tipperary! Hail, Ourang-Outang! hail, Anthropophagi! Hail, all ye cabinets of every state, From poor Marino's hill, to Catherine's empire great! [feem to think, All, all have chiefs, who speak, who write, who Caermarthens, Sydneys, Rutlands, paper, pens, and ink. *Rapin obferves that Robert Cecil, the first Earl of Salisbury, was of a great genius, and though crooked before and behind, Nature fupplied that defect with noble endowments of mind. This gentleman is a great performer upon the piano forte, as well as the speaking trumpet and Jew's harp. 4 ODE on the BIRTH-DAY. By MICHAEL ANGELO TAYLOR, Ef M. P. only fon of Sir Robert Taylor, Knt. Chairman to the Irish Committee, Welsh Judge and late Sheriff; alfo Sub-Deputy Vice elect, &c. &c. AIL, all hail, thou natal day, H Hail the very half hour, 1 fay, On which great George was born! I'll crow on this illuftrious morn! Oh! with thy voice inspire a Chicken of the Mufe! Thee too my fluttering Mufe invokes, Thy guardian aid I beg, Thou great ASSESSOR, fam'd for jokes, So may I oft thy ftage-box grace, Thy laugh-provoking fummons, I entertain the Common? Lo! how I fhine St. Stephen's boaft! There I appear, Pitt's chanticleer, The bantam cock to oppofitions! Or like a hen, With watchful ken, Sit clofe and hatch-the Irish Propofitions? Behold, for this great day of pomp and pleasure, The Houfe adjourns, and I'm at leifure! If thou art fo, come, Muse of sport, With a few rhymes, Delight the times, And coax the critic buffo, and enchant the court! By Heaven the come !-more fwitt than profe, At her command, my metre flows! Hence ye weak warblers of the rival lays ! The Chick of Law fhall peck the bays! With fomewhat more of found retention*! But never, never on thy profe I'll borderVerfe, lofty-founding verfe, fhall call to order! Come, facred Nine-come, one and all, Attend your fav'rite chairman's call! Oh! if I well have chirp'd your brood among, Point my keen eye, and tune my brazen tongue! And hark! with elegiac graces, "I beg that gentlemen may take their places!"" Didactic Mufe, with meafur'd state, Be thine to harmonize debate! Thine, mighty Clio, to refound from far, "The door, the door!-the bar, the bar!" Stout Pearfon damns around, at her dread word; "Sit down," cries Clementfon, and grafps his filver sword! Some new refolve of hard digeftion! Wake then, my Mufe, thy gentler notes of love, And in perfuafive numbers, put the question. The question's gain'd!the Treasury bench rejoice! [mightiest voice!" "All hail, thou leaft of men (they cry) with -Bleit founds! my ravish'd eye furveys Ideal ermins, fancied bays! Rapt in St. Stephen's future fcenes, I fit perpetual chairman of the Ways and Means. God! Yet * No reflection on the organization of Mr. Gilbert's brain, is intended here; but rather a pathetic reflection on the continual diabetes of fo great a member! A Treatife on Cancers, with a new and fuccessful Method of operating, particularly in Cancers of the Breaft and Teftis, &c. By Henry Fearon, Surgeon to the Surrey Difpenfary. 8vo. AS it feems to be a truth too well, established in the healing art, that a radical cure of cancer is only to be obtained by excifion: it is certainly the duty, and ought to be the ftudy of every practitioner to render the operation as tolerable, as fafe, and as effectual as it is poffible to do: that fo, the terrifying ideas which are fo generally entertained of it may, in part, be done away, and many miferable patients may, in confequence, be preferved from death, by fubmitting to a treatment, to which they would otherwife never have confented. It was with fuch laudable views as these, that the author of the prefent pamphlet turned his attention to the chirurgical management of cancerous affections of the glandular parts, and more particularly of the breaft and teftis. He obferved that the operation in thefe cafes, in the manner in which it is ufually performed, is not only productive of excruciating pain for the time, but that alfo, on account of the unneceffary removal of a great portion of the teguments and cellular membrane, a large wound is made, which, from the injudicious way of dreffing it at firft, does not afterwards speedily heal. Thefe circumftances led him to think of making fome alterations in the or dinary mode of operation; and this he has accordingly done. The method of operating, as recommended by the author, "confifts in diffecting away all the difeafed part of the breaft or teftis, through one fimple, longitudinal incifion, large enough to admit of the perfect removal of all the difeafed part or parts, and then bringing the edges of the wound into contact, and retaining them in that fituation by flips of flicking plaifter, ligature, or both if neceffary, 'till they unite by what is called the first intention." A very confiderable improvement; fince by it, much pain under the ufe of the knife, and much time in the healing of the wound are faved, and much deformity is afterwards avoided.-Some account of this method of operating, as the author informs us in the preface to his treatife, was formerly published by Dr. Simmons in the London Medical Journal. This circumftance, together with fome others, the author has thought proper to mention, in order to fhow that he was the first introducer of this improved practice, which, it fhould feem, fome other furgeon in London, whofe name, from motives of delicacy, is concealed, has very uncandidly arrogated to himself. The author appears to be of the opi nion nion of Mr. John Hunter, that cancer is, at firft, a local difeafe; and, confequently, he places little faith in internal medicines. He strenuously recommends early operation; and relates, towards the end of the pamphlet, two cafes which show the great danger of delay. In confirmation of the advantages of the mode of operation and after-treatment which he propofes, the author relates feveral cafes which fell under his own care, and which are felected, as he fays, from the worst of thofe in which he has operated. Of thefe one only proved finally unfuccefsful, and even from this cafe, the practicability and advantage, he obferves, of uniting the parts by the first intention are rendered apparent. On the treatment of cancerous complaints in which the operation cannot be attempted, the obfervations of the author are not very many. He has found hemlock and opium to act as palliatives only, and even that but for a time. They anfwer beft in alleviating the fufferings of the patient when exhibited alternately. With regard to external applications; he has found a poultice of linfeed meal preferable to any other, "its mucilaginous and adhefive quality rendering it more eafily removed, and keeping the fore cleaner." The author has drawn up his treatise with great modefty: and, on account of the improvement which it propofes, it certainly deferves the attention of thofe of the profeffion. We cannot help thinking, however, that the faving of the teguments and the union of the parts by the firft intention, the two great improvements here propofed, if they have not been written upon, have, at leaft, been practifed, though not fo completely, as well in these as in other operations, by fome furgeons farther back than the author imagines. P. ART. CXXV. The Hiftory of Great-Britain. By Dr. Henry. 4to. 5 Vols. Cadell. THE defign of this work is, to give the reader a concife account of the most important events which have happened in Great-Britain, from the firft invafion of it by the Romans under Julius Cæfar to the prefent times; together with a diftinct view of the religion, laws, learning, arts, commerce, and manners of its inhabitants, in every age between thefe two periods. To accomplish this defign within as narrow limits as poffible, the author hath endeavoured to exprefs every thing in the feweft and plaineft words, and to arrange his materials in the moft regular order, according to the following plan. The whole work is divided into ten books. Each bock begins and ends at fome remarkable revolution, and contains the history and delineation of the first of these revolutions, and of the intervening period. Every one of thefe ten books is uniformly divided into feven chapters, which do not, carry on the thread of the hiftory one after another, as in other works of this kind; but all the feven chapters of the fame book begin at the fame point of time, run parallel to one another, and end together; each chapter prefenting the reader with the hiftory of one particular object. For example: The first chapter of each book contains the Civil and Military Hiftory of Great-Britain, in the period which is the fubject of that book. The fecond chapter of the fame book contains the Hiftory of Religion, or the Ecclefiaftical Hiftory of Britain in the fame period. The third chapter contains the Hiftory of our Conftitution, Government, Laws, and Courts of Justice. The fourth chapter comprehends the Hiftory of Learning, of learned Men, and of the chief Seminaries of Learning. The fifth chapter contains the History of the Arts, both useful and ornamental, neceffary and pleasing. The fixth chapter is employed in giving the Hiftory of Commerce, of Shipping, of Money or Coin, and of the Prices of Commodities. The feventh and laft chapter of the fame book contains the History of the Manners, Virtues, Vices, remarkable Cuftoms, Language, Drefs, |