The language and fentiments are indeed, throughout, correct and animated. The expreffions of Sheva are abundant in feeling and philanthropy. His concluding addrefs is rendered. with the greatest felicity of thought and language. "Sir. S. It is a mine of wealth. (Speaking of the wealth which Sheva has made over to Charles, his fon-in-law.) Sheva. Excufe me, goot Sir Stephen, it is not a mine, for it was never out of fight of those who fearch'd for it: the poor man did not dig to find it; and where I now beltow it, it will be found by him again. I do not bury it in a fynagogue, or any other coftly pile; I do not waste it upon vanity or public works: I leave it to a charitable heir, and build my hofpital in the human heart." P. 75. The following fcene, which developes ftill more the character of this benevolent Jew, will ferve as a proper fpecimen of the piece. "Sheva. Aha! I am very much fatigued: there is great throng and prefs in the offices at the Bank, and I am aged and feeble. Sir S. Hold, Sir!-Before I welcome you within these doors, or fuffer you to fit down in my prefence, I demand to know explicitly, and without prevarication, if you have furnish'd my fon with money fecretly, and without my leave? Sheva. If I do lend, ought I not to lend in fecret? If I do not ask your leave, Sir Stephen, may I not difpofe of my own monies according to my own liking? But if it is a crime, I do wish to alk you who is my accufer? that, I believe, is juftice every where, and in your happy country I do think it is law likewife. Sir S. Very well, Sir, you fhall have both law and juftice. The information comes from your own fervant Jabal. Can you controvert it? Sheva. I do prefume to fay my fervant ought not to report his mafter's fecrets; but I will not fay he has not fpoken the truth. Sir S. Then you confefs the fact Sheva. I humbly think there is no call for that you have the information from my foot-boy-I do not deny it. Sir S. And the fum Sheva. I do not talk of the fum, Sir Stephen, that is not my practice; neither, under favour, is my foot-boy my cafhier. If he be a knave, and liften at my key-hole, the more fhame his; I am not in the fault. Sir S. Not in the fault! Wretch, mifer, ufurer! you never yet let loofe a fingle guinea from your gripe, but with a view of doubling it at the return. I know you what you are. Sheva. Indeed! 'tis more than I will fay of myfelf.-I pray you, goot Sir Stephen, take a little time to know my heart, before you rob me of my reputation. I am a Jew, a poor defenceless Jew; that is enough to make me mifer, ufurer-Alas! I cannot help it. Sir S. No matter; you are caught in your own trap: I tell you now my fon is ruin'd, difinherited, undone. One confolation is that you have loft your money. Sheva. If that be a confolation, you are very welcome to it. If my monies are loft, my motives are not. Sir S. I'll never pay one farthing of his debts; he has offended me for life; refus'd a lady with ten thousand pounds, and married a poor mifs without a doit. Sheva. Yes, I do understand your fon is married. Sir S. Do you fo? By the fame token I understand you to be a villain. Sheva. Aha! that is a very bad word-villain. I did never think to hear that word from one, who fays he knows me. I pray you now permit me to speak to you a word or two in my own defence. I have done great deal of bufinefs for you, Sir Stephen; have put a pretty deal of monies in your pocket by my pains and labors; I did never wrong you of one fixpence in my life: I was content with my lawful commiffion.-How can I be a villain? Sir S. Do you not uphold the fon against the father? Sheva. I do uphold the fon, but not against the fader; it is not natural to fuppofe the oppreffor and the fader one and the fame perfon. I did fee your fon truck down to the ground with forrow, cut to the heart: I did not ftop to ask whose hand had laid him low; I gave him mine, and rais'd him up. Sir S. You! you to talk of charity! Sheva. I do not talk of it; I feel it. Sir S. What claim have you to generofity, humanity, or any manly virtue? Which of your money-making tribe ever had fenfe of pity? Shew me the terms on which you have lent this money, if you dare! Exhibit the dark deed, by which you have mefh'd your victim in the fnares of ufury; but be affured I'll drag you to the light, and publifh your base dealings to the world. [Catches him by the fleeve. Sheva. Take your hand from my coat-my coat and I are very old, and pretty well worn out together-There, there! be patient-moderate your paffions, and you shall see my terms; they are in little compafs fair dealings may be comprifed in few words. Sir S. If they are fair, produce them. Sheva. Let me fee, let me fee!-Ah, poor Sheva!-I do fo tremble, I can hardly hold my papers-So, fo! Now I am right—Aha! here it is. Sir S. Let me fee it. Sheva. Take it-do you not fee it now? Have you caft your eye over it? Is it not right? I am no more than broker, look you: if there is a mistake, point it out, and I will correct it. Sir S. Ten thousand pounds invefted in the three per cents. money of Eliza, late Ratcliffe, now Bertram ! Sheva. Even fo! a pretty tolerable fortune for a poor disinherited fon not worth one penny. Sir S. I'm thunderftruck! Sheva. Are you fo? I was ftruck too, but not by thunder. And what has Sheva done to be call'd villain ?—I am a Jew, what then? Is that a reafon none of my tribe fhou'd have a sense of pity? You have no great deal of pity yourself, but I do know many many noble Britifh merchants that abounds in pity, therefore I do not abuse your tribe. Sir S. I am confounded and asham'd; I fee my fault, and most fincerely afk your pardon. Sheva. Goot lack, goot lack! that is too much. I pray you, goot Sir Stephen, fay no more; you'll bring the blufh upon my cheek, if you demean yourself fo far to a poor Jew, who is your very humble fervant to command. Sir S. Did my fon know Mifs Ratcliffe had this fortune? Sheva. When ladies are fo handfome, and fo goot, no generous man will ask about their fortune. Sir S. 'Tis plain I was not that generous man. Sheva. No, no, you did afk about nothing elfe. Sir S. But how, in the name of wonder, did the come by it? Sheva. If you did give me money to buy stock, wou'd you not be much offended were I to afk you how you came by it? Sir S. Her brother was my clerk. I did not think he had a fhilling in the world. Sheva. And yet you turn'd him upon the world, where he has found a great many fhillings: The world, you fee, was the better master of the two. Well, Sir Stephen, I will humbly take my leave. You wish'd your fon to marry a lady with ten thousand pounds, he has exactly fulfill'd your wishes; I do prefume you will not think it neceffary to turn him out of doors, and difinherit him for that. Sir S. Go on, I merit your reproof. I fhall henceforward be afham'd to look you or my fon in the face. Sheva. To look me in the face is to fee nothing of my heart; to look upon your fon, and not to love him, I fhou'd have thought had been impoffible.-Sir Stephen, I am your very humble servant. Sir S. Farewell, friend Sheva!-Can you forgive me? Upon the whole, while we cenfure the dramatic defects, with which we think this comedy chargeable, we cannot but unite in the public approbation of its laudable defign. Mr. Cumberland has fufficiently fecured his rank in the temple of dramatic fame, not to be cenfured for defcending occafionally from his claffic elevation to facrifice at the altar of humanity. The general moral of the piece is well conveyed in four lines of the author's own prologue. "Tis but this fimple leffon of the heart- ART. IV. Practical Obfervations on the Natural Hiflory ana Cure of the Venereal Difeafe. In Three Volumes. Vol. III By John Howard, Surgeon. 8vo. 231 pp. 6s. Baldwin, 1794. THE HE two former volumes of thefe obfervations have been long before the public, and are defervedly in high eftimation. In this volume, which concludes the work, the author has given the history and cure of Gonorrhoea. This part appears to be executed with equal perfpicuity and judgment. On the question fo long and fo often agitated, whether gonorrhoea is a branch of, and derived from the venereal difeafe, the author gives no decided opinion, but evidently inclines to thofe who believe it is; although there are fome ftrong difcriminating fymptoms. The regular lues venerea, is rarely attended with inflammation, which is a conftant symptom of gonorrhoea. The lues venerea is never cured fpontaneously, but always goes on, more or less rapidly ravaging the conftitution, until it is oppofed, and its power fubdued by mercury, its only fpecific. Gonorrhoea, on the contrary, frequently ceafes fpontaneously, and may generally cured by a moderately antiphlogistic regimen. Mercury being, perhaps, never abfolutely neceffary to its cure. be The author first takes a view of the doctrines that have prevailed in the cure of gonorhoea, and particularly examines thofe of Sydenham, Boerhave, and Aftruc, which, although defective in fome points, deferve ftill to be ftudied, as containing almost every thing that is now known on the fubject. He divides gonorhoea into two stages. The first continues until inflammation begins to fubfide. The fecond is again divided. In the first part of this ftage, although inflammation. is fubfiding, it may be easily revived, on the application of any irritating caufe. In the fecond part there remains only the gleet. A different mode of cure, the author fays, must be adapted for each of thefe ftages. As inflammation is the first and most urgent fymptom, giving energy to the poifon, increasing its virulence, and power of injuring the parts, the firft indication is to appeafe and quiet this fymptom. For this purpose the author conceives, bleeding to be invariably neceflary; in full habits, from the arm, and afterwards by leeches applied to the hæmorhoids: in very weak and debilitated habits, the latter may be fufficient. The diet thould be low and cooling; and as complete a ftate of reft and quiet as can be complied with, fhould be injoined. The The patient fhould make plentiful ablutions of warm water, and bladders filled with warm water fhould be applied to the perinæum, or, which would be infinitely more efficacious, fhould ufe a warm bath. Lenient purges and plenty of cooling diluing drinks fhould be taken. Injections of warm water may be advantageoufly employed; and, where the inflammation is great, opium, either by the mouth or in glifters, fhould be adminiftered. From this method fteadily purfued, the greatest advantages may be expected. The difcafe will be mitigated. and very much fhortened in its duration, and the painful fymptoms will be either obviated or appeafed. When the inflammation is fubfided, we may with fafety and advantage have recourfe to mercury, which, before that period, is almoft univerfally mischievous. It may be either ufed in the ointment, and rubbed into the femora and perinæum, or given by the mouth. In either way it will fhorten the duration of the difeafe. This effect, the author thinks, is not produced by its antivenereal power, as it never requires fuch a quantity as to affect the mouth. Calomel, given in fmall dofes, for a few nights, is known to correct the difcharge of external ulcers, and induce a difpofition to heal. The fame effect he thinks it has on the mucus of the urethra. During the ufe of mercury, reft, a cooling diet, opening medicines, and opium are to continued, but not be fo rigidly as in the firft or inflammatory ftage. To this treatment, the bark and terebinthinate medicines may fucceed, where they are not contra-indicated by fome difeafe, or peculiarity of conftitution. If the above method thould not fucceed in removing the inflammation, the author recommends a blister to the perinæum. In mixed cafes, the above method may be purfued with equal propricty, only the mercurial courfe must be pufhed further, and continued until the lues is also cured. This method, the author acknowledges, is tedious, compared with the mode frequently now adopted, of curing by injections. But, as when gonorhoea is fuddenly fuppreffed, and hernia humoralis, inflammation of the perinæum, &c. fuperyene, we are obliged to have recourfe to this method, he thinks, there can be no doubt of the propriety of using it in the first inftance. Injections, however, may, under certain circumftances, be fafely ufed. He then examines the different fubftances or ingredients that have been ufed this way, felects thofe he thinks moft eligible, and points out the proper fubjects and times for ufing them. The author is aware that this doctrine is not calculated to gain him profelytes among the bulk of patients, who with only to |