REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. "Tricks upon Travellers;" a Comic Opera; performed with universal applause at the English Opera, Lyceum Theatre. Written by Sir James Bland Burgess, bart. The Music composed by W. Reeve. Es. HE music of this opera is written in Tastyle consonant to the general cast of the piece, and exhibits much of that facility in familiar stage composition for which Mr. Reeves's talents have so long been distinguished. Of the overture, we must in candor say, that we do not think it deserves to be ranked with some others from the same composer; but the vocal part of the publication, with some few exceptions, are so much above mediocrity in the points of taste, humour, and or ginality, as to entitle it to our warm commendation. The first song, "O bad I a Lover served me so," sung by Miss Kelly; and "Love is all Folly," sung by Mr. Phillips, are particularly worthy of our notice for their spirit and tenderness, and will not fail to recommend the work to the attention of the lovers of operatical music. Ellen's Song," Ave Maria;" the Poetry from the popular Poem of The Lady of the Lake, writen by Walter Scott, esq. Composed and ascribed to the Countess of Powis, by Dr. Clarke, of Cambridge.. 35. In this Hymn to the Virgin, Dr. Clarke has displayed considerable powers of fan cy, a clear conception of his author, and much happiness of method. The whole hymn consists of twenty-four lines, which Dr. C. has disposed into four verses, coneluding each with a chorus, in four parts, to the words " Ave Maria." Each verse is varied in its melody agreeably to the sentiment to be expressed, and the burden has a forceful and happy effect. The Minuetto all' Fandango; danced by Miss Mr. Bishop has arranged this fandango as a rondo. The theme is highly creditable to his fancy, and the adventitious matter is at once analogous and pleasing. The whole forms a rondo of considerable merit and attraction. L'Anacharet'e; a Sonata for the Piano-forte, with an Accompaniment for a Flute or Violin, in wbieb is introduced "Roslyn Castle." Composed and Inscribed to Miss Gostenb.fer, by J. Gildon. 3, 6d. Mr. Gildon has displayed much taste and variety of conception in this sonata, The first movement is bold and spirited; Roslyn Castle is arranged with elegance; and the concluding movement is novel and sprightly. Divertimento Scozzese, for the Piano-forte. Composed and dedicated to Miss Lousa Murray, by J. B. Cramer, esq. 35. This divertimento, in which Mr. Cra mer has introduced the old Scotch air of This duet is written in a style much above the productions of every day. The melody is highly agreeable, and the under part well combined. Some of the points are very ingenious, and the effect of the tout ensemble extremely honorable to the composer's talents, Air Grotesque; for the Piano-forte. Composed by This pleasing trifle is already, we under stand, in very general circulation among tioners. The passages are certainly very the younger class of piano-forte practifanciful, and the effect calculated to please all whose taste is not too fastidious to approve of the grotesque style of composition. Grand March, for the Piano-forte. Composed and The style is bold and animated, and the Mr. Parke, in this revival of the can- 25. 64. The three movements, or pieces, of which which this publication consists, form an agreeable sonata, and a useful exercise for the finger. They are conceived with much vivacity of imagination, possess many well-constructed and striking passages, and place Mr. Gildon's talents, in this species of composition, in an advantageous point of view. A familiar Duet for two Performers on one Pianoforte. Composed by John Monro. 35. This duet (in which Mr. Monro has introduced the celebrated Scotch air "O Nanny wilt thou go wi' me?") is written with ability. The subject of the opening movement is firm and energetic, the bor rowed air is decorated with judgment, the concluding rondo is cheerful and pleasing, and the combination of the four parts, evinces considerable science and skill. The admired Spanish Air, danced as a Pas Deuz, by Miss Lupino and Mr. Noble, in the Grand Ballet of the Castilian Minstrel; also in the favourite Spanish Divertisement at the English Opera. Arranged as a Rondo for the Pianoforte, by Henry R. Bishop, esq. 25. In this air we find much of the true Spanish character. Mr. Bishop has worked it into an exercise for the pianoforte, and in that shape it will, we doubt not, tind many admirers. REPORT OF DISEASES, Under the Care of the late Senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 20th of July to the 20th of August, 1810. ΤΗ HE writer of this article has been often asked for a remedy for watch. fulness, or broken and unquiet sleep. He has lately had a patient who had tried nearly all the inedicinal or dietetic opiates, as well as other methods, for producing the same effect, without obtaining the object of his wishes. The reporter recommended a trial of the cold bath, which he had found in some former instances to prove narcotic, where other experiments had failed, and it has not in this latter case altogether disappointed his expectation. At the conclusion of the day on which this invalid has bathed, he invariably feels a disposition to sleep, al. though on other nights he continues to experience his former wakefulness. The cold bath is by no means a novel prescription for the malady we are speaking of: we find Horace long ago recommending it "Transnanto Tiberim, somno quibus est opus alto." Next to involuntary vigilance, ranks the almost equal distress of anxious and agitated slumber. It is sufficiently known that the condition of the mind in sleep, is modified by the occurrences and impressions of the previous day; but we are not perhaps equally aware, that dreams cannot fail to have a certain degree of reciprocal influence upon our ideas and sensations during the waking state. The good or the bad day of the sick man, depends much upon his good or his bad night; and, although in a less degree, the same circumstance affects alike those who are considered as well. 1 The due digestion of our food is scarcely more necessary to health, as it relates even to the body, and more especially as it concerns the mind, than the soundness and serenity of our slumbers. After a night of fancy-created tempest, it is not to be expected that we should at once regain our composure. The heaving of the billows continues for some time after the subsidence of the storm; the troubled vibrations survive the delu sion which at first occasioned them; the nerves, for many hours after the cause has ceased, retain the impression of disorder. The feelings with which we awake determines, in a great measure, the character of the future day. Each day, indeed, may be regarded as a miniature model of the whole of human life; in which the appearance of its first, seldom fails to give a cast and colour to its succeeding stages. The comfortable or opposite condition of our consciousness immediately subsequent upon sleep, for the most part indicates the degree in which we possess a sound and healthy state of constitution. To those who are in the unbroken vigour of life, the act of awakening is an act of enjoyment; every feeling is then refreshed, and every faculty, is in a manner regenerated; it is a new birth to a new world: but to the hypochondriacal invalid, or to the untuned and unstrung votary and victim of fashionable and frivolous dissipation, the morning light is an intruder. During his perturbed and restless process of conva lescence from a diseased dream, he real ises, ses, to a certain extent, the well-pictured condition of the unhappy heroine of the Eneid: Revoluta toro est, oculisque errantibus alto Quæsivit cœlo lucem, ingemuitque reperta. The communication in the Monthly Magazine for June, which gives so surprising, and at the same time so faithful and unexaggerated an account of the be neficial effects of stramonium in a case of spasmodic asthma, appears to have awakened very general attention on the part of those who are affected with the same complaint. The consequent demand for the plant has been so great, that for some time it was not to be procured in any of the markets of the metropolis. To the gentleman who has thus extensively dispersed an account of his own experience for the benefit of others, the public are incalculably indebted. The reporter has opportunities of knowing that not only the writer of the paper alluded to, still continues to derive the same relief which he there describes, from the smoking of stramonium, but that in several other instances of similar disease, the success has been equally remarkable and complete. This novel remedy may be ranked amongst the most important discoveries which for the last half century, have tended to enrich the stores of practical medicine; it may class at least with the new remedy for the gout, the evidence of whose important and speedy efficacy in relieving a podagric paroxysm is so respectably supported. The reporter does not recollect a month for many years past, in which he has not been consulted with regard to some one of the numerous modifications of ner vous affection, which either indicate the presence, or menace the approach, of idiocy, melancholy, or mania. A remark By a novel remedy is here meant, novel merely in its application to asthma. The stramonium has been highly recommended to the attention of practitioners by Dr. Stoerk of Vienna, and has been actually employed with reported advantage, in a variety of maniacal cases, as well as in epileptic, and other convulsive affections. It holds no place how ever even in the recently improved Pharmacopeia of the London College, nor can the reporter speak of its use, except in the mode. above-mentioned, from any experience of his Own, or of his professional friends. able instance of a mixture of the two former has recently occurred to his notice. It was a case of overstrained intellect: the understanding appeared to have been broken down, in consequence of having been overloaded; the excessive quantity of the ingesta prevented its conversion into nourishment. It might be said of the patient referred to, as of many of the stupidly learned, that he read too much to think enough. His mind was merely a repository for the ideas of other men; it was not a soil out of which an idea ever grew. Talents have too often been sacrificed to acquisitions and knowledge, purchased at the expense of understanding. Who would not admire more the pure, although scanty stream, as it issues from its native rock, to the greatest mass of water that is lodged within a leaden cistern! The writer of this article has so often already endeavoured to unmask the bypocritical and treacherous character of pulmonary disease, that, although by a recent melancholy event, his feelings upon the subject have been more awakened than they ever were before, he is scarcely justified in the still persevering repetition of his warnings and admonitions. There are few that sufficiently appretiate the importance of a cough: from the indifference with which most regard it, especially when it is habitual or what they call constitutional, one should imagine that coughing appeared to them, if not a salutary, at least an innocent, exercise of the chest. "As for their cough, it was of no consequence, they were used to it;" making the very circumstance which more particularly constitutes their danger, their ground of security. A pain in the side likewise is often thought of by the consumptive, no more than if it were the same degree of pain in any other part. The conse quences are seldom foreseen, which follow with a too certain fatality, the neglect of these intimations of approaching pthysis. How blind and how unguarded is man against the insinuating advances he feel the pressure of its folds twisting of that serpent malady; even although around his bosom, he shews no conSciousness of apprehension or alarin, until its bite inflicts the immedicable wound. August 25, 1810, J. REID. Grenville-street, Brunswick-square. MONTHLY MAG. No. 205. Y ALPHABETICAL ALPHABETICAL LIST of BANKRUPTCIES and DIVIDENDS, announced between the 20th of July and the 20th of August, extracted from the London Gazettes. DANKRUPTCIES. (The Solicitor's Names are between Parentheses.) ASHWELL James Wallis, Colcheter, grocer. (Daniell, Colchester, and Peacock Ely Place, Holborn Anderfen James, Gateshead. Durham. grocer. (Bell and Broderick, Bow lane. Cheapfide, and Francis Seymour. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Ackland Nathaniel Union threet. Bishopgate street, worsted maker. (Pophiu. 20, Dean street. Soho, and Knight. Kensington Barnes Harriott, Wolverhampton, milliner. (Webb and Tyndall, Birmingham Brill William, Woodbridge, butcher. Rock freet (Moore. Wood. Biddle John, Birmingham, factor. (Riddle, Wolverhamp ton. and Waliams, Staples inn Ballin Samuel, Wotten-uncer Edge, Gloucefter. filver. fmith. (stephard and Adlington, Bedford row, and Shephard, both Briggs Gregory Jeremiah, Gravefend, flopfeller. (Burt Buckhure Stephen, Hammersmith, carpenter. Baker Wiliam San gate, hip-builder. Champion Pauk Darnall, Yurk, victualter. heffield (Hall and (Righy and (Thurgar, Clarke William Water lane. Tower Areet, merchant. (Winbolt. Fore Street Cooper Matthew, South Shields, merchant. (Rainbridge, South Shields; Bell and Brodrick, Bow lane, Cheap Give Child Thomas Bowlas, Neath, Glamorgans, tanner. (Powell Neath, and Corell and spear. Gray's inn Cockill William, and William Nowell Dewsbury, York. curriers. (Rylah, Dew bury, and Crosley, Holborn Corbett William, Token Houfe Yard, infurance broker. Reardon and Davis, Curbet court, Gracechurch freet Dulin Thomas, St. Margaret Hill. Borough, jeweller. (Searle. Child place, Temple Bar Durham alexander, jun. Birning!!am, grocer. (Thomas Bitele, Wolverhampton, and C. Williams, Staple's inn Dalzeli Archibald, Great Alie street Goodman's Fields, merchant. (warland and Wood, Castle court, Budge row Dickins humas, South freet, Hanover fquare, tailor. (Pawion and Wrattiflaw, Warwick Brest, Guiden Square Dickins Thomas, Chapel place, South Audley Atreet, tailor. (Dawson and Wrattiham, Warwick Breet, Golden fquare Downend Samuel Sheffield.grocer. and Battage. Chancery lane (Thurgar, Sheffield, Dawes John, Wiliam Noble, Richard Herry Croft and Davis Morris. Liverpool fhopkeeper. Brown Brect, Manchester, and Hurd, Inner Temple Drake Francis, Plymouth Dock, baker. (Elworthy, Plymouth Dock (Reanden and Davis. Earle John, Uxbridge. hopkeeper. Corbett cours Gracechurch freet Elfstrand Daniel, and Samuel Valley, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchants. (Sykes and Knowles, New Ina, and Martin, Hull Fea John, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant. (Meflrs. T. L. C. Frutt, Huil Pleming willain,, Birmingham, timber merchant. (Owen and Hicks, Bartlett's building, and Berwick, Kirmingham Fell Heary Watling freet, Manchester warehoufeman. Courteen. Walbrood Fande Samuel Henry, Sun ftreet, warehouser in. (Howaio and Abrahams, Jewry freet, Aldgate Hewett Thomas, John Dowding, and Jeremiah Hewett, clothfair, clothiers (Homes and Luwden, Cie met's inn, and Lampard. Warminster Harrifon Henry, 7o k, rope maker. (Sykes and Knowles, New In, and Martin, Huil Harrifon William, and William Goft, Litle Tower trect merchants. (Cooper and Lowe, Southampton buildings Haffell William, Manchester, grocer. (Hewitt and Kirk (Smith, Wolverhampton, and Prices and Williams, Hobby William, Manthorpe, miller. (Walker, Spilsbury, and Ellis, Chancery lane Howarth Peter, Sowerby Bridge, linen draper. (Bafhetty Manchefter, and Huxley, Temple Hatfull Edward, 4 George trest Adelphi, merchants (Wyburn and Burke, Craig's court, Charing Crofs Hitchener William Henry, Henley-upon-Thames, linen draper. (Mayo and Berkely, Gray's in fquare Holmes Charles, Bull Head court, Newgate Street, haber. dafler. (Hughes, Chritt's church paffage, New gave freet Houk Jofeph. Bermondsey New Read, victustler, chard. 15, Haltun Garden Healey Samuel, Liverpool, merchant. freet (Avifon, Hanover Jones Thomas, Colmore row, Birmingham, tailor. (Conftable. Symond's inn, and Simcox Buk Ring✔ Birmingham Jackfan Stephen, Wendover, linen draper, (Jette, 18, Prince's free, Soho Jamefon William, Trice's tow, Whitechapel road, coal iserchant. (Anthony, Hatton Garden Kopp Fredericus Cufper. Garden row, Old ftreet road, curler, (Jones and Sandell, New › court, Crutched fliars Keymer Robert. Colcheter. victualler. (Whitton, Great James Street, Red ord row Keys Jeffery. G Dreet, Limehouse, merchant. wellyn, Fleet street (Lie Kerigan John, Liverpool, boor maket. (Wedddwcroft, Lumb William and Thomas, Leeds, York. cabinet makers. Leadenhall and Son, Wallingford, and Price and Williams, Liacoln's inn Maffet William, Wotton Under Edge. Gloucester, linen: draper. (Shephard and Adlington, Bedford row, and Sheppard. Bath Moore Henry, Bromley, taylor. (Young, Symund's inn Mitchell Jene, Titchfield, linen draper. (Willis. Fairthorne, and Clarke, Waroford court, Tifrogtharton street Malleilien William, and George, Manchester, cotton twire* dealers. {Haltead and Ainsworth, Manchest¢Tys and Milne and Parry, Temple Martell John Iouis, Lower Thames freet, merchant. (Crowder, Lavie, and Garth. Frederick place Morgan John, Green Man, and still, Coppice row, Clerk enwell, victualler. (Vaudercom and Comyn. Bush Noakes Thomas, Frith freet, Soho, paftry cnok. (Arrowth. Little Carter lane, Putor's Commons Northam James, Thomas Apole, iron founder, (Street and Woolfe, Philpot lane, and Euger Plimpton, Deven. Organ Daniel, Britol, porter. (James, Gray's inn fquare, Cornish, Briol Porter Thomas. Union court, city merchant. (Parther and sons, London freet Pritchard George, New Areet, Fetter lane, bricklayer. Chippudail, Great Qeen street, Lincoln's inn fields Pearfon Joan, Ryde Crofs, Manchefter, grucer. (Bourdillun and Hewitt, Little Priday Atreet. Cheapüde Paul John. Paudinzton street. pawnbroker. (Filke, Palf grave place, Strand Pearfon Richard, Teuterden, draper. (Payne and Mor- Phillipps Thomas and John, jun. Milford. merchants. Fitt Juha, Coleman Areec, auctioneer. (Wasburouch, Phillips Thomas Melford Pembroke, merchant. (Hil yard and King, Copthall court Roffey Senjamin. New Road reet, tailor. (Steve) fon, Rawlinson Abrata, and Thomas Bagot, Liverpool. mer- Old Broad Breet tember 15 Batchelor John, an' John Petrie, Lark Hall Place, Surry, builders. July at Bishop Mulliner. Robert and William, Cambridge, woollen Bowler Wilham, fen, Cafle freet. hatter, Auguft T Bubb John. Leadenhall freet, h fier. Auruf 5 Biggs Peter, Gloucester Te race, Cannon treet road, auc Ra clay James, Old Broad freet. merchant, August 29 Care George and John Sheffield, precers. Auguft 3 freet, watch maker Campbell Barnabas, Princefs ftreet, Ratcliff Highway, Critten John, Halefweh, Suffolk, plum ber, Auguft. 18 Culmer George, Chittam, miller, Sept. 3 Cottrill Edinent, jun. Vine freet, bacon merchant. Cox Elizabeth. Olvefton fhopkeeper. Sept. 13 Chidell James. Southampton, ale merchant. Sept 4 Dy fon Robert Graves, Rosemary lane, victualler. Augufta Delancy Anpel Rarael fouis. Blakeley, dyer. Sept. 3 Dewhurft John Halifax, grocer, Auguft 27 Dawes John Will am Noble, R chard Henry Croft, and Davis amuel jun 11 ford, opkeeper Sept. 1 Andrews Phelps, and George warehoufeman, Sept. 1 William, Friday street Dickins Thomas, Chapel Place, routh Audley street, tai. lor. Auguft 18 Aug. 28 Dibdin Charles. Strand, mufic feller, Sept. 10 Fly William, and John Fly, Croydon, bricklayers, Sept. Harti z John. Narrow feet. Limehoufe, tmber mer Harrison Thoras. Camomile freet. Gationer, Sept. 20 Hunter Andrew, Little Portland Greet. coach maker, Hills Usborn, Shoreditch, cheesemonger. August 30 Hewitt Gideon. Southmorten freet. tailor, Auguft 28 Tackfon Samuel, Bermondsey ftreet, woolftapler, Sept. 4 Kerrifan Thomas Aday. Norwich, banker, August 14 Kopp Fredericus Casper, Garden Row, Old freet road, Kirkpatrick Witham, and Richard Cort, Bread freet, Lamb John, hepton Mallet dver. August 23 Mayning |