The National Register. — London, England, 1816-04-21 00:00:00

4 , •••40.• Dr 0 No. 431.—V0i.. IK. Astinbap ?Emusnunit " Digilie SUNDAY fruin the Week."--SSIIMIPEARE. WE this week present our readers with an extract from a Tab.. written by Miss Tay ion entitled Display," in which, under the history of Elizabeth and Emily, two sisters, she deserilws the character, and details the actions, of a nominal, and a real CuntsTlA N. Miss TAN LOH is one of a fitmily of authors who have devoted their talents to the production of works for the use of the voting, dis tinguished by their amiable cast, and beneficial tentlencv. mother, father, and sister, are known to the puis. Lie (especially that part of it which, either as parents or guardians, conduct the education, or superintend the morals of the rising generation), for several interest ing Tracts and little Pieces in prose and verse, tend. lug to remove the prejudices, improve the principles, or advance the moral and religious instruction, of the ju venile mind. They almost meet the child as it rises from the cradle, and continue their useful lessons, till, passing through the nursery and the school, their young pupils of both sexes are prepared fur entering life and thlblling its duties, provided with sound feelings, with Christian principles, and enlightened understandings. We may enumerate the titles of a few of the works to which we allude, for the use of families. We have Twelve Addresses 10 a School, by Mr. T.,, Lon, the filther ; Maternal So/i -eitu.r!,./i)r a Daughter's Best Interests, and Practical Hints Fentaba, on the Duties of a a Mother, and the ist ress of a Family, two most amiable and useful publi cations, by :qrs. TAY Lou. 1 lymmtliw lOW Mindy ; the Hymns Jim Ike Nursery; Original 1 Pintas for Sunday .Vehools, and some other little works of the same kind, by xs: and AtiNT %V Lott jointly. " Display" is written by the former. All these productions are distinguished for their singular adaptation to the end in view, their sound sense, their pure and Christian spirit, and their total teresting image than that which is presented by the union of the different members of one family, to contribute, not their wealth, not their bodily efliirts, tier the benefit of others—but the fruit of their genius, the light of their principles, the lessons of their experience, the result of their reflections for the moral improvement and the eter nal advantage of that part of our population, from whom they cannot expect either peeuniary rewards or literary fume. The following passage frmn " DISPLAY" describes the progress of Christian principles in the mind of Emil}• the '• realist," we think, with great truth and felicity:— In the mean time Emit friends ssitnessial with great pleasure the hopeful, though gradual change that appeared to hr taking !place in her mind. These frietals could make al- I for thy pre • jndires of education, the intlnsaice of earl habits, and the sari (((( s thuds antages which most attend the slaw Mugs of religion in those ss ho hart mot been taught to fear God from their smith. The ) were pleases' to °losers e in her a del:racy of con seienee which made her estrianrly gum sied its consersing on Ilse soilrieet. lest she shuold lie 1441 to eNpres‘ more than she gm. yt ill t sineerit, she saw that religion is but a name, nod without Earnestness, a shadow. . . si A s , aaa a , A te began reading the Bible with attention 21111 prayer, •he perceived that she 114111 1111.er Ireton. rend it to pur pose. She was •arpriseil that •Ite hail often passed over the 4 41114 . 12 1 ,4 1U 1,1 21111'14 now straek her so forcibly, with 1111111 lota/ inattention to their ass • meaning. She liegan to feel •smir i+ Hoist the crawl business of life, amid that tow his 11 all others 'most In• secondar y , is to prepare for the life to 1.1111•1'. 01 . 11111 tteces.itt and nature , of this pre 'tantalum .be 1/Cl'3lllll iccrra.i'gh 1.1/11.111.11111 the more she tholiOst of (Mil, and of the nature of heasetil . , %vas coin im est t hat ' lies presence 4 . 04 ,1 4 1 not o f j oy . •1..:111. 11111 eiIiPCY who an', like Him, holy mud spii ;Nal. %t hen she comp:Lied the state of wind 21111'11 the Seriptieres rail • Elio tili••• I.n Heft% eii; s ith the saiiit and Earthliness of her 11,1,1'111 1.1•11. :11111 pleasures, and with the distaste she fi It to those 111•1 are spiritual, she pecan to understand what i• meant liv being' horn again t' and to feel the necessity alit, altllnugh her ideas of the 44.11 in which this change must he prodnrl •I, were still indistinct and uncertain. she had bowed at the 11311111 111 . .1111411•, 31111 .414141 Or 111111, nod heard lino spoken of, as . oar Say and • our blessed iiiar; hut with notions the t and fur ling, the miest inilittereet, Rut si heti kh. Iscmin to regard Ilins as a SAV horn. from siti mud miser, a. the friend of simile, s, a lising and present friend, and 111 hope 1113 t lie might be her's—lris being and His eh:nailer appeared an astnni.nin g reality, and it .rented to her as though she 11311 never hearilof Him liefore. ".1t tint Elllll t about bin-minim_ a with the same expect:l6l , n oY cr.i.ei.,• a% sky would have applied her-11 1, , 11141111(sange or 0 I , l'h:life. She INIM 111:11 .he 11'111 11 411 101e111 . 11. ANI/1 `he 111141011 1111'1'4' NM notion!! to be itowe hot to Irani it SIR: 140011, boweru , bcgah 4.llw:di tire mime lix.eliSlictiltit; . - foqice, tither of bigotry or cant pluuseology. They are liberal, without the sacrifice of the least Christian princi- ple ; sud strict, without being morose or enthusiastic. Being written by the members of the same f a mily, they have all a family likeness, and breathe a ea& domestic spirit. There cannot, we think, be conceived a more in- u• alio nal( Attoitittr. Our Ming, Cousititution anti itabni. PRICE 9.1 d' very great importance to its observance, I cannot help thinking that, in combination with other causes, the dis continuance of it may have some share in accounting for the greater prevalence of apoplectic predisposition. Ano ther custom of equally universal prevalence formerly, must undoubtedly he allowed a more extensive influence a 4 a preventive nultsure on this occasion, that of spring 6lntwl-kting. There were tew adult persons, not labour ing under some disease of debility, who did not regularly breathe a vein when spring came on, and who did not at least fancy themselves better from the practice. However erroneous the moderns may suppose the hypothesis of ancient physicians to be, in their exphination of the effects prixhiced on the system by this evaettation, they will he little disposed to question or deny the benefit to be derived from it. Although we may ridicule the idea of the whole Mass of blood being changed or purified by taking away a small quantity ofit, like a witty author who, writing on this subject, asked, if drawing off a pint or two front a end: of bad wine would impruve the remainder, yet we cannot but admit that the change of the balance of circu lation thereby produced, may have important effects in relieving or preventing an undue determination of Mead to the head, and by unloading the vessels of the brain, may diminish the predisposition to apoplexy. This cus tom of spring blood-letting has also tidlen much into dis use within a few years ; or rather we have changed the mode of evacuating this fluid. Cupping is now the fa shionable remedy. To this change I have serious objec tions, nor do I think this practice equally beneficial with_ the filmier. However strange it may seem, experience informs us, that it is the natural effect of blood-letting to produce fulness of blood; periodical blood-letting will commonly produce periodical plethora. If' blood be drawn periodically from a large vein in the arm, or as was fro. quently customary formerly, front the foot, the conse quent plethora, not being determined to any particular part, may skew itself in this or a* SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1816. v` Melt will he coscomatercal hy all who are in ertnie,t. SIP' ACHS sincerely mking, ' what •t Ido to ichyrit etermil life But, like Mau who .e • went away sorrow fail,' Emily found herself nnwiitinr to make that emire surrender of the heart to God %%Milo Ill` rcaptircsoanal without which relizion i• but an irksome lake, a fruitles• etiort to conapromi•,• bets% ern Cod and the %sorb'. She complained of a secret reluctance and disin clination to scrim's thounht anal miganctiactits, anal of a di.pro.. portionate interest in her own pursuits and pleasures. She sometime* expressed .a fear to lfis• W, •ton. that her solicitude about religion arose nice from a dread of the easmegneners of neglecting it, than from a desire towards it far 11. Ml' ,sake. "To thine complaint , her friend li , ti m•el with svmpatity, and adiniiii.tered .41101 encourage/n(4IN SIN 11f•re ealeuLtitvl , nut to make her emy and sati.tiell with her pre , ent attatilmietil4, but to eitimulate her to perseventnee and digatmee. She ex plained to her, that !hoe oiLinilar tp.tneit, c% er oppow the entrance of real religion to the hiltn:tro heart; that all arc mi nimally imikposed to embraec it ; lent that filmy who feel anti lament the; indisposition ha% e e% er) encouragement to e% peel asti.tnetee. " ' 4 trengtll.• said she, • is promised to those, and those only, who are sensible of weakness : who, ackim a 'edging a ilia deep humility and poverty of spirit their mental impotence, are williur to rcCei,l 11011 of 61111: " "float change of heart whirl' consists in 111'W ilicpositions and affections, new pursuits and pleasures, uew apprehensions of things unseen, and a ithout whick teas ell C9lllll not he hap piness, i•.• she said, the immediate operation of the Spirit a God. It Ih4t 14 which of onrselves a.. are absolutely in sufficient. 1t c enlist not, however; continued Miss V, rston, ' expect this assistance unless a e earnestly and constantly seek it: • Ask, and ye Shull receive,' this is the iny arialde a l• • . And, Emily, we st watch as well as ray ; and diligently use every means that ( has appointed for the promotion of re 'igloo in the soul; never relaxing from that strict system of mental discipline in a Wel: Christian self-denial ellietiy consists. It is to those who do the will of God that the promise is offered; It Idle Miss 'Weston was thus continually peit•rming the mildest offices of lunnllu friendship. Emily's lose 14 her be came increasingly ardent; for she :visioned no an thority not superiority in advising her: her in: :r was SO 1111111 ilk' and afficetionate, and dispfay col at mince such a delicate consider ati ll of her feelings. and auctions solicitude for her I,:ippiiit 64, that Emily heart melted with grat chi! affection." Profalit Imaferire pedi 'ORG. IN my last paper I adverted to some other general practices than those therein mentioned, the discontinu ance or adoption of which may he supposed to increase the predisposition to apoplectic disorders. It is to he ob served, that under the head of apoplectic disorders is in eluded palsy, as well its some lethargic complaints, which differ only in degree from the most complete apoplexy, and are frequently the forerunners of this disease ; some times the y constitute the termination of it ; a total aboli tion ofsense and motion, tbr instance, gradually subsiding into a permanent paralysis. During the prevalence of the Immoral pathology, which attributed the cause of most dismes to a vitiated or depraved state of the fluids, great attention was paid to purifying the blood, and cur rectiog the diflerent humours contained in the vessels of the human body. One chief means of effecting this, was sepposed to be the exhibition of purgative medicines, which, by evacuating 'the ofli.nding humours, rendered the whole mass of fluids more healthy and fit fltr the pur poses of their circulation. Even the choice of these medi cines was not considered a matter of indifference, various claseslx. ing thought to possess an elect ire power of carrying along with them different kinds of noxious humours, whence arose the terms hpdrogyfrucs, chologogurs, The real effect of all of them is, to remove from the first passages, a inns• of crude matters which might by their confinement produce, by sympathetic irritation, nn increase of thc impetus of the circulation, and thus contribute to augment the ill consequences of the vernal plethora. At the same time it is to be admitted, that the operation of these medicines was not confined to this efh alone ; an increased secretion W 11.4 M(1111411 from all the glands of the intestinal canal, thus relieving the loaded blood-ves sels from a part of their contents, actually causing at least a temporary loss of strength and vigt mr. Whatever hypothetical conjectures may have influenced those who first gave origin to the custom, experience convinced them of its utility ; and for many ages it was universally the practice to take a certain number of doses of physic on the approach of spring, whatever might be the state of health of the individual. Confivrmahly to the superstition of the times, an odd number was always fixed upon ; three were usually sufficient ; if more were thought requisite, seven were prescribed, the intermediate odd number being by an means a propitious one. As to preventive, this cus tom has fallen into disuse ; and although I cannot attach the head ; .. a negh...et oft, periodical bleeding., even for a week, will he much more dangerous than if general blood-letting were delayed for a longer period. Habit will in such a case have established a determination of blood to the head ; and the man who defers his periodical cupping, sometimes but for a day, risks his life upon a slender chance. I may stand alone in the opinion ; but I minim help reprobating the presentfizshionallepructicc of periodical cupping, as nue replet cwith thegrestest danger. WAR DriY ON MALT.—The following are the reso lutions which were proposed and adopted by the House of Commons, relatiweto the war duty on malt ; and, a short statement of them only having appeurexl in the public ixtpers, we think it may be useful to the persons immediately concerned to see them detailed at length:— "That it is the opinion of this Committee, that there be al. lowed fix all dry ungrutand malt, which shall be produced to the Otlicer of Evcise by any malster, or maker of malt fur talc, seller or retailer of malt, common brewer, distiller, victu aller, or sinew maker, between the Ist day of July, 1816, nod the Tth day of July, 11±16, and for which the duties payable by law base bean charged or paid; for every bushel of malt made in England. from barley ur oilier corn or grain, the sum of 25.; and un every bushel made in Scotland from barley ur any other corn or grain, except beer ur bigg, the sum of Is. and on I very bushel made in Scotland from beer or bigg, only the tutu of I. •111. •' That it is the opinion of this Committee, that there be al. board to est ry coma 1111 l brewer the additional ditties of e‘- cise u po n malt charged by an .1, et of the 13s1 year of hi• pre sent )lajesty, upon all malt used and consumed after the silt day of .‘pril, 11tH., and beftire the .Itlt day of Jo I. lain, in the making ur brewing of beer, not exceeding the proportions fungus in;; : for es ny tour barn Is of miner which shall be charged with duty as strong beer, in England, the soul of Ills.; for every three barrels of ale the slim of Stis . ; fur every four barrels of portt r brewed in Scotland limn malt made from barley or uus other con, sir at :tin. e‘cept beer or higg, the Nom of 165.; ti r e‘ cry tour but rel. of porter, brewed in Scotland front malt mode ft ion beer or big:: oMy the sum of 104. St!. for every three barrels of ale 11 yin% lit irotland, from malt made !rum burly! , or any utht r Corn or gridn, except beer or bigg, the sum of las.; and for •. r. three barrels of ale torewell in Scotland, frum maltmade Itom hoer or bieg, onl; the bum of 1103. nd." Hor Durv.—The Lords of the Treasury have directed, that the duty thr the last year shall not he demanded till the month of July, pro►ided security is given, by the p.J.. tics who wish to avail themselves of this itaalgem.e, the payment at that time. . _ . . part, may skew itself in this or that organ, according a* 40)tbicai gliNnitor. different exciting causes may be applied. It may produce NUMBER X. ~ iZ oo P s ie mils *VOl it:: fteclu%gout. or Inemorrhoida, or a —.... ... „L Nile ilmorautt part ; thaw Is at ~ . *ALPS POPIILI lIIPILIDIII SIT LILL. least a chance that the vital ogre may escape. If lota blood-letting be employed, as in the neighbourhood of fait inceloma erstrairertere It inter the head, the comiorpient plethora will be determined to ferire palls satientem g: sanßims ve m no. VIRG. the lic:ul; and s neglect of the periodical bleeding., even fur ----