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;aluable work.

In oar perufal of this comprehensive work, we have been
particularly (truck with the concifenefs and perfpicuity with
which the tymptoins of the various dlfeafes are deferlbed ; and
the care every where taken to point out thofe marks or fymp-
toms which diftinguilli one difeafe from another. This is in-
deed an effential requifate in a popular work of this kind; for
if the difeafe be mißaken, the well intended means of relief
may prove fatally pernicious. In delivering the method clever,
the author has very properly accommodated his direEtions to
the unitcffandings of plain, unlettered parents, and guarded
them againft the eonfequenees of ufing deleterious remedies
without medical allifianec ; we think, however, that even the
experienced prat:Winner will find many valuable hints and
improvements not to be found in any other work. Betides
the fubjeds ufually treated of in works on the fubjedi of
domeftic medicine, Dr. T. has given the method of treating
accidents; an aesount oldie medicinal baths and fprings in this
Wand, with their des: an account of the fuhftances mat com-
ment/ employed in medicine, more efpecially thofe found in
Crest Britain, with their virtues and idea, together with rules
for collecting and preparing them. There Is alto, what no
vied book fhouhl be virlthout,a proper Index. Upon the wilnic,
U caten4ve refeareh, important obfervation, and praCtical uti-
lity, can Ramp a value no a popular medical production, we
believe the relent Tobin= has fuels jolt pretenbons to the ap-
protratines ana lactic: of tbe public as =moot fail so ague Its
Cu neck." *aimed Pb oral yoomol.
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bi Hoot, syn.*** sod Weft and Hialses, Pater-
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elletlea.osiwineumforate with the Impartatt and ufeful informa-
tion which it contains, the Publither eniagx, at any time, to
serhangs wits soy Bosirklicr, c,:pies of any of Li. publications
tor new. ii , mad parka espies of skis Welt.

FROM A PARIS PAPER.

ON TNt INFLOINCE OF GOTERNMINT, IN ,FORI4IIIO

TN! NATIONAL CHARACTER.
-It was lately remarked in a public Print, that
French politenefs owes its return to our military
fpirit. Without pretending to decide to what
caufes this reftoration is to be afcribed; without
examning whether the different clalfes of the com-
munity will difcern in this reflettion the evidence
of our ,return to that politenefs which formerly
charafterifed the French People, we may content
' ourfelves with remarking that the Nation feems
daily to be snaking nearer approaches to its ancient
urbanity.—Whether a military fpirit has alone
operated this change is a queftion which admits of
a fair inveftigation. Without, however, flatter-
ing a clefs which leaf} of all Rands in need of exag-
gerated praife at the expence of every other order
in the State, without employing in compliments
general principles which were deflined for far
higher purpofes, we fay, that the fpirit of a Go-
vernment, more than any other cattle, determines
the charafter of a people. To its influence are to
be afcribed thofe diverfities of national charafter
which diftinguifh fociety; to its operation are to
be traced, as well the glory as the degradation of
a State. There was a time when French politenefs
was on a fudden fuperfeded by the groffeft barba-
rifm. To account for this change we have only to
recolleft who were the individuals who then pre-
fided over our affairs. At prefent it is a fubjeet
of congratulation that the nation has returned to
the forms of decency, to the urbanity which has
characterized it for ages. It is needlefs to fpecify
the caufes of a revolution fo important. It may
be fufficient to remark that the foul of a govern-
ment as it were diffufes itfelf over every part of the
facial body, and imprefies on it the various mo-
tions of which it is fufceptible.—lf politenefs may
be viewed as a kind of mirror in which the cha-
rafter of a people is reflefted, in a Rill more Mk-
ing point of view may it be fo confidered with re.
!Pee to the chara&er of thofe by whom a Rate is
governed. Thefe exercife over public decency a
fort of controul which is more or lefs fenfibly felt
by the different orders of fociety. Without allow-
ing this to be the cafe, how is it poffible to account
for the fucceffive tranfitions of men from rudenefs
to civility, from licentioufnefs to regularity, from
fury to moderation. It has hitherto generally hap-
pened in the hiftory of the world that a people
have allowed themfelves either to be guided by
obedience, or formed by imitation. If it were ne-
ceffary to accumulate evidence in Coppola, of a
truth which cannot have efcaped any one's obfer-
ration, the conduft of that Roman Emperor might
be cited, who perfumed hie head with the dung of
his horfes. All his flatterers—all his courtiers—
all the youth of the Empire, haftened to follow
his example, and the Rabies of Rome were on a
fudden converted into magazines of perfumery! If
the ruling paftion of this Emperor had on the other
hand been to indulge in acts of charity, and in pro-
aiding hofpitals for the relief of human mifery, it
is probable that his fubjefts would have been bufy
in diftributing of aims, and founding hofpitals.—
When the dellinations of Peov 'MINCE aflign to a
people Governors fired with a love of glory, that
nation reaches the point to which its energies are
direaed without much exertion; and if, on the
contrary, by the influence of the direction that is
given to it, a different *eft is held out as worthy
of attention, it finks with the fame facility into
every excefs which can contribute to its degrada-
tion. Penetrated, as we all mull be, with the
livelieff admirationsof thole warriors who have ll-
latrated the French name, we cannot think that
our return to politenefs ought to be more afcribed
to the military fpirit than to the fpirit of the other
claffes of fociety. It is the effea of a general
caufe, the influence of which is felt not lefs by the
legiflature than the foldier, not lefs by one part of
the community than by all its members. It is not,
befides, eafy to perceive why the define of com-
plimenting a few thoufand citizens fhould prevail
over the fear of aliening what muff be confidered
as injurious to the MI of the nation. Thofe who
fee tWngs as they are, mull obferve that there is
no great diflindion betwixt the military and the
national fpirit; the one may be confidered as the
.tree, and the other may be defcribed as the fruit.
It is pleating, however, to confider that flattery
bears the fame relation to truth that weaknefs bears
to ftrength.

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Parliament, it is raid, is to be affembled early
in the month of Welber, to grant a vote of credit,
and for other purpofes. Perhaps alto it is the in-
tention of Minifters to lay before Parliament the
long and myileriOus correfpondence as a prelimi-
nary to a negociation with the French Govern-
ment, that has fo long engaged the public attention.
Mr. FINCH HATTON refigned his Office of Un-
der Secretary of State, in the Home Department,
on Monday laft, and is fucceeded by Sir Groans
Sara, with whom Lord PILNAW was in habits of
intimacy, when his Lordfitip was in Ireland.

The proceedings of the Court Martial held on
Lieut. Colonel Wtarsi; of the Marine Corps, in
confequence of charges preferred by Captain AL-
■EMARLR BORTIf, 04- die MALTA, and lent up for
the approbation of the Admiralty, were received
yeller/11y at Port"mouth. The fentence is, aNV
hoasisraie lupins/.