King viewing Bonaparte through a telefcape, illuftrated by a quotation from Swift's Gulliver, we noticed in a former Ketrolpect. To say that this is a fuitable companion to that, is giving it high praife. It is exactly applicable to the quotation from the bock, abounds with whim and point, and is on the whole fuch a print as no man of the prefent day, except Mr. Gilray, could either conceive or execute. Mr. Bromley has just finished a plate in the line manner, from a very animated defign of Loutherbourg, reprefenting the Battle of Haftings, for Bowyer's edition of Hume's Hiftory of England. In the engraving Mr. Bromley has adopted a ftyle of uncommon vigour and fpirit, exactly appofite to the fubject, and has ably fuitained the well-earned reputation he has acquired in this fplendid work. This plate is to embellish the 57th number. NEW ACTS OF THE BRITISH LEGISLATURE. Being an Analysis of all Acts of General Importance, paffed during the late Seffion of Parliament. NEW INCOME ACT. A very full and accurate Table of the New Duties impofed by this Act, having been inferted in the last Number of the Monthly Magazine, p. 68, the Editors must refer their Readers, for further Information on the Subject, either to the Act itself, or a very correct Abstract of it in ferted in Nos. VIII. and IX. of the Law Journal, as the Limits prefcribed in this extenfive Mifcellany for the Notice of new Legislative Enactments do not afford fufficient Room for the infertion of all the Provifions of fo voluminous an Act. The Editors, borever, conceive it neceffary to obferve, for the better understanding of the Extent to which TENANTS are liable to be charged in respect of their Occupation, that the Duties on Tenants, or all Dwelling houfes, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, in the laft Number, p. 69, are, according to one of the Rules in the Act, to be charged on all Dwellinghoufes and other Properties before-mentioned, EXCEPT A DWELLING-HOUSE NOT OCCUPIED WITH A FARM OF LANDS, or with a Farm of Tythes or Tiends. Perfons fued under the recited A&t, may apply to the court, if fitting, or to a judge, if not fitting, to ftay proceedings, upon payment of ten pounds in every cafe where a verdict fhall be obtained, toge ther with the cofts: and where no verdict hall have been obtained, upon payment of the costs up to the time of application. § 2. But fuch court or judge may order any fuit commenced on, or fuofquent to, July 1, 1801, to be difcontinued without calls. §3. Spiritual perfons may take houfes, with or without orchards, gardens, &c. though not in a city, &c. and fuch as have not fufficient glebe, may by confent of the Bifhop take Farms for the convenience of his houfehold and hofpitality only, without being fubject to any penalties; but nothing herein fhall authorise any non-refidence. § 4. Spiritual perfons may hold eftates as property, but not any farm for cultivation, unless under a leafe granted on or before January 1, 1803, or by confent of the Bi hop. $5. It fhall be lawful for any fpiritual perAn Act to amend the Laws relating to Spi-Ton to bargain, and buy or fell again for ritual Perfons holding of Farms; and for enforcing the Refidence of Spiritual Perfons on their Benefices, in England." 43 Geo. III. Cap. 84. (Paffed the 7th of July, 1803.) PIRITUAL perfons against whom no action fhall have been brought under the Act, 21 Hen. VIII. c. 13, intituled "Spiritual Perfons abridged from having Pluralities of Livings, and from taking of Ferms," are indemnified; and contracts which would be good after paffing this Act, are to be valid, notwithstanding that Act. § 1. any profit any manner of cattle or corn neceffary for the occupation of any farms, that may, under this Act, be lawfully held, whithout being subject to any penalties, or provided that nothing in this Act fhall extend to authorize any fuch spiri tual perfon to buy or fell any cattle or corn, in perfon, in any market, fair, or place of public fale. § 6. Vicars or curates may take leafes of the impropriate parfonages of their parishes, without being fubject to any penalties. §7. But in fuch cafes in which fuch impropriate parfonage, rectory, or vicarage, fhall fhall not have been fo occupied by any fpiritual perfon, fuch perfon fhall remain liable to fuch penalties, unless he fhall have obtained the licence of the Bishop. § 8. Clergyman licenfed or exempted from refidence may occupy, where he refides, fuch lands as the Bishop may allow. §9. The 13 Eliz. c. 20, and 14, 18, c. 43, Eliz. touching ecclefiaftical leafes, are repealed. §10. But the A&t is not to deprive spiritual perlons of any privilege they now enjoy. refidence of Spiritual Men and their Be. nefices; or of another Act, in 33 Hen. VIII. intituled, An Act for the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and others, to have Chaplains; would exempt fuch spiritual perfons from refidence, or from the penalties in the faid Acts con tained for non-refidence-or actually ferving as a Chaplain of the House of Commons or as Clerk of His Majetty's Clofet-or as a Deputy Clerk thereof, during the time of their refpective attendance or as a Chaplain General of His From and after the 7th July, 1803, fo Majefty's Forces, or Brigade Chaplain on much of the first Act as impofes the pe- Foreign Service, or Chaplain on board nalty of ten pounds on any fpiritual per- any of His Majetty's hips, or of His fon who fhall not keep refidence, fhall be Majefty's dock-yards, or in any of His repealed; and from and after the 7th of Majefty's garrifons, or Chaplain of His July, 1803, every fpiritual perfon who Majefty's cores of Artillery, during the hall, (without fufficient cause, and who times of attending the duties of fuch offhall not have any fuch licence or exemp- fices refpectively, or as Chaplain to any tion as is in this A& mentioned) wilfully British Factory—or in the household of abfent himself therefrom for three months any British ambaffador or public minifter together, or to be accounted at feveral refiding abroad, during the time of his times in one year, and make his refidence actually residing in such factory or houseat any other place, except at fome other hold, and performing there at all due benefice of which he may be poffeffed, - times the duties of fuch his office-or as fhall, when fuch abfence fhall exceed fuch Chancellor or Vicar General, or in his period, and not fix months, forfeit one- abfence the Principal Surrogate or Official third of the annual value, (deducting in any ecclefiaftical court of any diocele, therefrom all outgoings, except any fti- whilft they are refiding in the places where pend paid to any curate); and when it their refpective offices are exercised-or as thall exceed fix months, and not eight Minor Canon, or Vicar Choral, or Prieft months, one half; when it fhall exceed Vicar, or any fuch other public officer eight months, two-thirds; and when fuch in any cathedral or collegiate church, duabfence fhall have been for the whole of ring the times for which they may be rethe year, three fourths of fuch annual quired by the canons or local ftatutes value; to be recovered by action in any thereof to refide at fuch cathedral or colcourt of record the whole to go to the legiate church, and actually refide and perfon who fhall fue, together with cofts. perform duty at the fame-or as Deans, But no parfonage that hath a vicar en- Sub-deans, Priefts, or Readers in His Madowed, or perpetual curate, and having no jefty's Royal Chapels at St. James's and cure of fouls, fhall be comprehended under Whitehall, or as Reader in His Majefty's the name of Benefice, within this Act. private chapel at Windior or elsewhere§ 12. or as Chaplain at the Royal Military Afylum at Chelsea, or Royal Military College at High Wycombe, or Teacher at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwichor Chaplains at the Royal Hospitals at Greenwich and Chelsea, or as Chaplains to the Royal Hospitals for Seamen at Haflar and Plymouth, whilft they shall refpec. tively refide and pe form the duties of their respective offices—or as a Preacher or Reader in any of the Inns of Court or at the Rolls-or as Burfar, Dean, Vice-_ prefident, or public Tutor or Chaplain, or other fuch public officer in any College or Hall in either of the Univerfis of Oxford or Cambridge, during the period for which he may refpectively be required, by reafon of any fuch office, to perform The court, in which any action fhall be depending, may require the diocefan to certify the reputed annual value of benefices, &c. §13. No peifan who has refided a year, with out abfence for more than three months, fhall be liable for any previous non-refidence, unless the action be commenced before he has fo refided. § 14. No fpiritual perfon having any office, in fuch manner as the fame under any of the provifions of the first recited A&t, or of an A&t, paffed in the 25 Hen. VIII. An Act that every Julge of the High Courts may bave One Chaplain beneficed with Cure; or of another Act of 28 Hen. VIII. intituled, The Bill for Nen te the duties of fuch office, and actually fhall perform the duties of the fame, or as public Librarian or public Regilur, or Prostor, or public Crator, or other fuch public officer, in either of the faid Univerfities, during the period for which he may refpe&ively be required, by reafon thereof, to perform the duties of any fuch office, and actually fhall perform the duties of the fame, or as Fellow of any College in either of the Univerfities, or of Eton or Winchester College, during the time for which he may be required to refide by any charter or fatute, and actually refides therein, or asWarden or Provoft of Eton or Winchester College, during the time for which they may e re pectively required to refide, or fhall actually refide therein; or as Schoolmater or Ufher in the fame, or as Schoolmaster or Ufher of Weltminer School, fhall be liable to any pains, penalties, or forjeitures for non refidence. § 15. Perfons entit ed under 23 Hen. VIII. c. 13. to the privilege of non-refidence till forty years old, not to be entitled to it after thinty. $16. No penalty to be levied against the perfon, where it can be recovered by fequeßration of the benefice in three years. $17. Bishops may grant licences for non-refidence, upon application by petition in writing by any ipiritual perton, upon fuch proofs as fuch Bifhop may think neceffary, it he require it, by affidavit made before any Surrogate or Mafter Extraordinary in Chancery, to grant in fuch cales as are herein-after enumerated. §18. . And it shall be lawful for any Bishop to grant licences to any spiritual perfons to refide out of the proper houfe of refidence, or out of the parish, and within fuch distance therefrom, as the cafe may sppear to fuch Bishop to require; if, upon the confideration of all the circumstances, fuch Bishop thall think the fame proper, in the feveral cafes herein-after mentioned; viz. by actual illness or infirmity of body of himself, or wife, or child-where there fhall be no houfe of refidence, or where the houfe fhall be unfi-having in the parish any manfion belonging to himfelf or any relative, to refide in-any fpiritual perfon having any benefice, of finall value, and ferving as a ftipendiary curate elfewhere-any Matter or Ufher of any endowed school duly licenced by the Bi. fhop or the Matter of any other school who now is or hall be, within one month after the 7th of July, 1803, duly licented by the Bishop--and alfo any Mafter or Preacher of hofpitals or incorporated charitable foundation; any perfon holding any endowed Lectureship, or endowed Chapelry, or endowed Preachership,-or any fpiritual perfon having any benefice, of fmall value, and ferving as Preacher in any pro, rietary chapel in cities or towns the Librarians of the British Mufeum-or of Son College-or the trustees of Lord Crewe's Charity. But for any fuch liczuce, the party fhall not pay more to the Secretary of the Bishop than ten fhillings, exclufive of ftamps. Alfo if any fpiritual perfon applying to any Bishop for fuch licence, all tink humfelf aggrieved by the refufal thereof, he may appeal to the Archbishop of the province: but the party appealing fhall give fecurity to the Bishop for the payment of fuch expences as the Archbin.p or his commiffioners fhall award. § 19. It fhall be lawful for any Bishop in any cafes not before enumerated, to grant to any fuch spiritual perfon a licence to refide out of the proper house of refidence, or out of the parith; and to affign, where the ftipendiary Curate may be employed, fuch falary as he hall judge fit, according to the value of the benefice. But reafons for granting fuch licences are to be tranfmitted to the Archbishop for examination and allowance. And no licence under this A&t fhall be void by the death or removal of the grantor, unless revoked by the fucceffor. Alfo Archbishops, in their refpective diocefes, may grant licences; by whom fees may be ordered to be paid by appellants, and the costs may be recovered by fequeftration. § 20. Licences may be revoked, and none are to be in force more than two years. § 21. Copies of licences or revocations to be filed in the registry of the diocese, and a litt kept for infpection; and copies of certain licences and revocations to be tranf mitted to churchwardens, and publicly read at the firft vifitation. §22. A list of licences confirmed by the Archbishop, or granted in his own dio. cefe, thall be annually tranfmitted to His Majesty in Council, who may revoke li.... cences, &c. § 23. But between the grant and revocation of a licence, it fhall be deemed valid. § 24% On or before the 25th of March, 1805, and to annually, a return fhall be made to His Majefty in Council of every benefice, &c. and of the persons who shall not have refided thereon; and every non-refident, after January 1, 1804, by exemption, without licence, fhall yearly notify the nature of it to the diocefan, within a cer tain period. But a duplicate of Tuch notification may be delivered to the Regif trar to be filed, and his certificate fhall be evidence of its being made. § 25. Perions neglecting to make notification, fhall not be entitled to exemption. § 26. Licence may be pleaded in bar of ac tion, and in cafe of non-fuit, &c. the defendant fhall have cofts. § 27. During the vacancy of any fee, the power of granting licences thall be exercifed by the Vicar General of the diocefe; and during the abfence of any preLate our of the realm, or difability from exercising his office, it shall be exerciled by tuch perfon as is empowered to exercile his general jurifdiction. § 28. This A&t is not to exempt them from ecclefiaftical cenfure for non refidence without licence; but to cenfure for nonrefidence not exceeding three months in one year fhall be put in force, nor any proceedings be admitted except at the fuit of the Bishop or Archdeacon. § 29. If any unlicenced perfon does not fufficently refide, the Bishop may iffue a Monition to refide, &c. Returns to be made to Monitions, which may be required to be upon oath. Where returns fhil not be made, or not be fatisfactory, the Bishop may order refidence; and if difobeyed, may fequefter the profits of the benefice, and direct an application thereof. But an appeal may be made against fequeftrations to the Archbishop. § 30. But the appellant must give fecurity for payment of expences. § 30. Perfons who fhall return to residence on monitión, fhall pay the cofts. § 31. If any perfon returning to refidence on monition, fhall before fix months thereafter abfent himself, the Bishop may, without monition, fequefter the profits of the benefice. § 32. If a clerk fhall continue under fequef tration three years, or incur three fequef. trations within that period, the benefice fhall become ipfo fado void, and the patron entitled to prefent. § 33. Contracts, after paffing this Act, for letting houfes in which any spiritual per fons fhall, by order of the Bishop, be res quired to refide, fhall be void; and perfons holding poffeffion after the day appointed, fhall be fubject to forty fillings per day; but in cafes of contracts before paffing this A&t, not till three months after fervice on the occupier, &c. § 34. But no perfon liable to penalty for non-refidence, while the genant fhall continue to occupy. § 35. If an action be brought for non refidence before iffuing monition, fufficient to fatisfy penalty and cofts, shall be retained out of the profits of the benefice, which are subject to be fequeftered by this A&t. But if, at the time of filing any monition, no ation fhall have been commenced, none shall be afterwards brought, &c. § 36. No oath relating to refidence fhall be required of any vicar. § 37. Act to extend to all dignities, prebends, benefices, donatives, perpetual curacies, and all parochial chapelries, exempt as well as not exempt, and all peculiars. § 38. Archbishop, Bifhop, and Archdeacon, within whofe refpective province, diccele, or jurifdiction fhall be locally fituate any benefice, &c. exempt or peculiar, fhall have the fame powers as if they were not fo; and where any fuch ben: fice, &c. fhall be fituate in more than one province, &c. or between the limits of two, the Archbishop or Bishop to whole cathedral the parish church fhall be neareft, fhall have the like powers, &c. But Peculiars fhail be fubject to the Arcnbhop or Bishop to whom they belong, though fi uate in another diocele. $39. Act not to affect His Majefty's Prero, gative in granting difpenfations, nor to affect clerks retained in His fervice under 9 Edw. II. c. 8. §40. No Archbishop or Bishop shall be liable to the penalties for non-refidence. §41. No penalty fhall be incurred under this Act for non-refidence prior to January 1, 1804. §42.-Nor for farming under this or any other Act, till April 5, 1804. §43. Act not to extend beyond England. § 44. ACCOUNT OF THE DISEASES IN LONDON, From the 20th of January to the 20th of February. Admitted under the Care of the Phyficians of the Finsbury Difpenfarz. first patient who applied, as fhe evidently poffeffed a fibre too firm and tenfe, the warm bath was recommended; to the fe19 cond, whofe mufcles were relaxed, and nerves too irritable, the cold;-to both, Chalybeate and Peruvian medicines; and, as a matter of more importance than any pharmaceutical remedy, uninterrupted occupation of mind and corporeal activi ty. Although other means are undoubtedly of ufe, exertion is the grand specific for the cure of hypochondriacal complaints.* The Public may be furprifed, that Typhus, which formerly prefented an obtrufive figure in the monthly catalogue, fhould, for a confiderable time paft, have occurred in fo infignificant a proportion to the fum total of difeafes. The fact is undoubted; to explain it would be a matter of curious, although probably of unfatisfactory, fpeculation.. The cafe at the head of the lift was that of an evident enlargement of the heart, accompanied with every fymptom that could indicate an effufion in the pericardium. It is, of courfe, equally out of the reach of medical and chirurgical affiftance; and the patient, although little ad vanced in years, will be doomed, for the remainder of his life, which, happily, must be fhort, to fubmit to a state of almoft conftant pain, watchfulness, and anxiety. He had been long addicted to the baneful and tranfient folace of fpirituous exhilaration. Amongst men in the lower claffes of the community, this intemperance is the principal and prevailing origin of their debility and dicafe. They exhauft prematurely all that is pure and delicious in the cup of life, and are obliged to fwallow afterwards the bitter dregs. Living faft is an expreffion which more accurately perhaps than may be imagined, illuftrates a phyfiological fact. Ary thing which hurries the action of the corporeal functions, abridges inevitably the period of their pcfile exiflence. As the wheel of a carriage has a certain number of rotations before it arrives at the defined goal, in like manner to the arteries of the human frame is allotted only a certain number of pulfations before the vital energy is entirely exhaufted. The brighter the flame burns, the fooner it is out. Eminent longevity has feldom been known to occur except in perions of a remarkably tranquil and flow-paced circulation. Two patients in the private practice of the Reporter, during the laft month, have been dreadfully afflicted with hypochondriafis. It is rather remarkable that, in each cafe, the difeafe was excited originally by indulging in an unavailing regret for the lofs of a beloved friend; an event, which, in one of the inftances alluded to, was accompanied with circumftances of fingular horror and affliction. To the It is worthy of notice, that difcased affections of a mental nature are frequently cured, commonly fufpended at least, by the fupervening of any ferious phyfical diforder. An infane patient, who had been fo for about a year, and had once before been afflicted in the fame way, was not long ago, on account of his cries disturbing the neighbourhood, removed to an asylum at some distance from town. In confequence of circumftances attending his removal, he caught a cold, which was immediately followed by fymptoms of cynanche maligna and intermittent fever. Thefe complaints were fpeedily relieved by the liberal administration of bark and wine; and for fix weeks paft, the patient has had no threatening of a relapfe to his former mental derangement. The refult, in this inftance, of tonicand ftimulating remedies feems to countenance an opinion which the author of the report has long-entertained, that remedies of the fame fpecies fhould be more generally and vigorously applied in cafes of maniacal disorder. Violence is not frength. In typhus fever, for inftance, of which, in its advanced ftage, delirium is the most prominent and alarming symptom, exceffive debility confitutes the characteristic, and, in fact, the effence of the difeafe. This delirium feldom comes on, until the ftrength of the patient has arrived at its lowest point of reduction: a better evidence cannot be required, that the former is produced by the latter: and, from analogy, it may be fairly inferred, that, in most other circumfiances, where frenzy takes place, it arifes from the fame caule. This analogy might be corroborated by other diseases; hyfteria, for inftance, which, although it is moft apt to occur in relaxed conftitu *The perufal of Mr. Green's Poem on the Spleen, and Dr. Aikin's Letter to his Son, on Vapours, or low Spirits, ought to be prefcribed to every perfon in whom there is any tendency to that diforder. |