importance, to a body of men, whose individual interests could hardly fail to be always in opposition to the interests of the discipline. It has had to contend with a party connected with Indian affairs, from the first, decidedly hostile to the college, and indulging themselves, as there is too much reason to believe, in a sort of language respecting it, of a nature to produce the very worst effects on the temper and conduct of the students connected with them. And it has had to contend with an impression of instability, arising from the two preceding causes, necessarily tending to generate disturbances, and to produce the very evils which it prognosticates.

"But let these disadvantages be removed, let the discipline be placed on a proper footing, by giving full powers to the Principal and Professors, with an appeal only to some one individual of high rank, not immediately connected with the patronage of the stu dents. Let the stability of the college be secured by some legisla tive sanction, which will prevent it from depending upon the varia ble wills of a fluctuating body of Directors. Let the age of admission be sixteen, instead of fifteen. Let some moderate test be established, particularly in the oriental languages, to stimulate the industry of the most idle and least able students, and to prevent those from proceeding to India who can only be a burden to the service. And, to these, let a few subordinate improvements be added, which need not be detailed here: and I should be very much deceived, if the institution did not answer the express purpose for which it was established, in a more than common degree." P. 34.

Something, we believe, has been done towards these improvements by provisions in the act of last year; the College at Hertford is placed under the cognizance of the Board of Controul, and a visitatorial power is vested in the Bishop of London.

We earnestly recommend Mr. M.'s pamphlet to all who take an interest in this very important subject: we have seldom known sq much good sense compressed into so small a compass.

MEDICAL.

ART. 14. Letters addressed to the By an eminent Royal Physician. his Grace's Life. 64 pp. 2s. 6d.

1814.

celebrated Duke of Piccadilly. Written at different Periods of Sherwood, Neely, and Jones.

Of all the impudent attempts we ever witnessed, to extract half a crown from the pocket of some tottering valetudinarian, or decrepit debauchee, this is the most laudably audacious. Promise, large promise, is the soul no less of a title-page, than of an advertisement. Health, strength, and a long life to enjoy them, are the least of the blessings which this pamphlet holds forth to its purchasers. So far, indeed, will its professions be fulfilled, that not one of its readers, if he falls not a martyr to his indignation at being cheated of his half-a-crown, will be in the slightest degree endangered

dangered either in his health or his morals by its contents. We consider this as no slight recommendation in favour of a pamphlet with so suspicious a title. Whatever be the view with which its pages may be cut open, it will present to the eye the vacuum, and void of nihility. If an old abandoned profligate, whose vices have forsaken him, before he was willing to forsake them, and like rats, have made their timely escape from the tottering and sirr-worn fabric of his constitution, should feel desirous, after the great exem. plar of the title-page, to cement the shattered fragments of his strength, and to enter into a new bargain with the devil, he will find himself most woefully disappointed. He that reads the pages before us with such a design, will find himself neither wiser nor wickeder than when he began. We should also advise the shiverIng hypochondriac to be cautious how he encounters the irritability consequent on so severe a disappointment as he also will most assuredly experience. Here will be found none of those high-seasoned alarms, nor horrible histories, which have so delicious and piquant a pungency to the taste of a nervous imagination: all sober, solemn, soporific water-gruel, without one grain of salt of any species, either to kill or cure; and all to recommend, by the puff direct, a "domestic tonic," and "anodyne aperient," sold by a Mr. B. Perrin: which the author of this pamphlet is desirous to make his readers believe, were the medicines used for forty years by the celebrated Duke, to whom these letters are supposed to be addressed. Now really we must give the author still more credit for his impudence, than we were at the first disposed to allow, for attempting to make the public pay half-a-crown for his puffs direct on this composition of gentian and rhubarb, called a tonic. The public have as yet had the privilege of being entertained with puffs gratis; but really it is too bad to transfer these amusing portions of a public paper to a regular stitched pamphlet, and thus by one blow to deprive the public of their amusement, the stamp-office of its duties, and the reader of his half-crown. One ingenious discovery cannot be passed over in silence, out of justice to the author; we mean the recommendation of a new medicine "founded on the chemical combination of a mineral never before heard of-Alkalized Hydrargyrate of Molybdena." W must certainly allow that this is a combination unknown to any nomenclature of chemistry, ancient or modern, under its present name; but we would suggest, that the composition itself is not so uncommon, as may at first be imagined, and that our chemical readers will recognise it under its more common name of " Highdried Hyper hardihood of Humbug;" a combination into which, as is well known, brass enters very largely; it is a composition much swallowed by the public at large, and forms a very considerable proportion of such pamphlets, as the one now submitted to our view; whose authors have not before their eyes the hydropho bia of a critical horse-pond,.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

ART. 15. Frostiana: or a History of the River Thames in a frozen State: with an Account of the late severe Frost; and the wonderful Effects of Frost, Snow, Ice, and Cold, in England and in different Parts of the World; interspersed with various amusing Anecdotes. To which is added, the Art of Skaiting. London: Printed and published on the Ice on the River Thames, Feb. 5, 1814, by G. Davis. Sold also by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row. pp. 124. 3s.

When we saw the back of this little volume labelled with the word Frostiana, we instantly conceived that it contained a col lection of facetious sayings, attributed to some humourist, unknown to us, indeed, as might easily happen from the gravity of our habits, of the nature of Frost: the termination reminded us of the Menagiana, Scaligerana, &c. but what. was our surprise, when we found it to be Memoirs of Cold and Cold Weather? and that to give an additional chill to the reader's feelings, it was actually printed and published on the ice on the River Thames, Feb. 15th, 1814, by G. Davis." The introduction gives us the parti › culars of the late frost, which the writer seems to have at his finger's ends, together with a luminous view of the fogs, which preceded it: we are told how the Prince Regent was obliged to return to Carlton House, after one of his Royal Highness's "outriders had fallen into a ditch on this side of Kentish Town ;" and that Mr. Croker, of the Admiralty, wandered in the dark for several hours without making more than three or four miles. progress." The author then proceeds to give us a history of frost, snow, ice, cold, northern winters, and skaiting: and we must do him the justice to say, that he has exhausted his subject. Any. connection, however slight, is sufficient for his purpose; he has left nothing unsaid, which would not have been absolutely irrelevant. to the topic under discussion. We have in the small compass of this volume, besides a multitude of minor details, a philosophical account of the theory of freezing, notices of the frosts on the Thames at different periods, a chronological table of frosts throughout Europe from A.D. 220, an account of a woman buried in the snow, ice-islands, an icy epitaph, ice cream, ice palaces and ice boats, the effects of cold on the human frame, poetical descriptions of winter, Dutch sledges, and the origin of skaiting. We have seldom seen a book more completely answering the design of the author; and we can safely recommend it to all, who take an interest in the natural history of winter, or who are amused by anecdotes of the effects of cold.

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