SIR, ART. XXXV. TO THE EDITOR. PRESUME you will have too much regard for juftice and truth, to refufe a place, in your next Review, to the following contraft between the Bilious Fever of 1797, 1798, 1799, which I have de fcribed, and that common attendant upon the autumn, the Cholera Morbus. I am, Sir, your humble Servant, Birmingham, Oct. 2d. 1800. RICHARD PEARSON. The BILIOUS FEVER of 1797, 1798, 1799. 1. The Bilious Fever, though most prevalent during the autumnal months, did yet fhow itself in the winter and fpring. 2. It feldom terminated before the 7th. or 11th. day, and very often ran on for the space of feveral weeks. 3. In the Bilious Fever the vomiting was always preceded by confiderable fever, and it only recurred with the fever, which had periods of remiffion. 4. In the Bilious Epidemic the febrile fymptoms were ftrong and violent; the skin was remarkably hot and dry; the pulfe, fometimes quick, fome times flow, but always tenfe. 5. In all instances the head was greatly difordered; cephalalgia, delirium, &c. 6. The Bilious Fever was complicated with pulmonic affection, fuch as cough, pleurify, &c. 7. It was contagious. In regard to the means of relief; either on account of the affection of the head, or of the pulmonic inflammation. 1. Bleeding was often neceffary in the Bilious Fever. 2. Strong cathartics were employed with the best effect. 3. Opiates difagreed during the firft period of the fever, and were only ferviceable in the period of convalescence. CHOLERA. 1. The Cholera Morbus is a disease which shows itself only in the latter part of the fummer, and during the autumn. 2. It terminates, either fatally or favourably, in the course of a few days. 3. Vomiting and purging are among the first and most urgent fymp toms of Cholera, and they continue unremittingly, till a crifis takes place. 4. The febrile fymptoms in Cholera are flight; the skin is not very hot or dry; the pulfe, it is true, is quick, but fmall and foft. 5. The head is little difordered. 6. There is no difeafe of the thoracic vifcera. 7. Cholera is not contagious. These are striking differences in the history and symptoms of the two diseases; in regard to the effects of remedies, the difference is equally great: for, 1. The lancet is not required in Cholera.-2. Strong cathartics aggravate this disorder.-3. After the administration of mild evacuants, opiates are almost a specific in Cholera. 1 SELECT i A LETTER to the EDITOR of the ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW. SIR, IN your review of the late Mr. Jones's Life of Bishop Horne, you begin with some account of the venerable biographer, and when you are going on in an agreeable strain of just commendation, you stop short all at once, and say, "We forbear to dwell longer on this pleasing subject, as we shall take an early opportunity of presenting our readers with a biographical sketch of a character which has, on various accounts, unusual claims to public attention." But why forbear; why not continue the subject then? You will never be in a happier frame of mind for the task than you were at that time; and delays are dangerous, as your readers may have reason to apprehend; for month after month has elapsed since you an nounced your intention, and no biographical sketch has yet made its appearance. Perhaps you are inclined to think, upon reflection, that his works praise him" sufficiently, and there needs no other monument to his memory. And, indeed, " he being dead yet speaketh" more effectually for himself by his writings than any of the living can speak for him. However, the few particulars that have come to my knowledge, respecting this great and good man, are much at your service, and if you have nothing better to offer, they may be in some measure useful to "stir up others by way of remembrance," and shew, as example operates more powerfully than precept, how " faith wrought with his works, and by works faith was made perfect." He was born at Lowick in Northamptonshire, on the 30th of July, in the year 1726. His father was Morgan Jones, a Welsh gentleman, a descendant of Colonel Jones (but of very different princi ples) who married a sister of the Usurper, and is mentioned in Noble's History of the House of Cromwell. Morgan Jones married Sarah the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Lettin of Lowick, by whom he had this son: As the angel said to Zacharias, concerning the Baptist, "thou shalt have joy and gladness, and many shall rejoice at his birth," so might it have been said to these happy parents concern ing their son," He was, indeed, a burning and a shining light, and we rejoiced for a season in his light." He was remarkable, from his childhood, for unwearied industry, and ingenium versatile. Like the judicious Hooker, when a schoolboy, he was an early questionist, why this was and that was not to be remembered; why this was granted, and that was denied?" As soon as he was of the proper age, he was admitted, on the nomination of the Duke of Dorset, a scholar at the Charter-house, where he made a rapid progress in Greek and Latin, and laid the foundation of that knowledge, which has since been such a blessing to the Christian world. It is reported, that, even while a lad, he so abhorred the sin of rebellion, and so dreaded the judgment of God upon it, that he used to say his family would never prosper in the world for the iniquity of his ancestor, who had been a principal in NO. XXX. VOL. VII. Hh the the murder of the Royal Martyr: but God visiteth the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them (only) that hate him, not of them that love him and keep his commandments; and he had learned betimes to "fear God and honour the King." His turn for philosophical studies soon began to shew itself; for meeting, when at the Charter-house, with Zachary Williams, (the father of Dr. Johnson's Mrs. Williams) author of a magnetical Theory, which is now lost, he copied some of his tables and calculations, was shewn the internal construction of his instrument for finding the variation of the compass in all parts of the world; and saw all the diagrams whereby his whole theory was demonstrated and explained. Here he commenced acquaintance with Mr. Jenkinson, now Earl of Liverpool, who was his chum, which was farther cultivated at the University, where they were of the same college, and continued to the last. Their different pursuits leading them different ways in the journey through life, they did not often meet, but they ever retained a great regard for each other, and the humble country parson occasionally experienced marks of friendship from the elevated statesman. At about eighteen years of age, he left the school and went to University College, Oxford, on a Charter-house exhibition. There he pursued the usual course of study with unremitted diligence, till, falling in with some gentlemen, who, having read Mr. Hutchinson's writings, were inclined to favour his opinions in theology and philosophy, he was induced to examine them himself, and found no reason to repent his labour. Among the several companions of his new studies, whom he loved and respected, there was no one dearer to him than the author of An Apology for certain Gentlemen in the University of Oxford.* Between them "there was a sacred friendship; a friendship made up of religious principles, which increased daily by a similitude of inclinations to the same recreations and studies; a friendship, elemented in youth, and in an University, free from selfish ends, which the friendships of age usually are not. In this sweet, this blessed, this spiritual amity, they went on for many years: and, as the holy prophet saith, so they took sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of God as friends." By which means they improved it to such a degree of amity as bordered upon heaven; a friendship so sacred, that when it ended in this world, it began in the next, where it shall have no end!" Having taken the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1749, he was Ordained a Deacon by the Bishop of Peterborough, and in 1751, he was ordained a Priest, by the Bishop of Lincoln, at Bugden. On leaving the University, his first situation was that of Curate at Finedon in Northamptonshire. There he wrote A full Answer to Bishop Clayton's Essay on Spirit, which was published in 1753, and dedicated to the Rev. Sir John Dolben, to whom, as his Rector he considers himself, he says, in some measure accountable for the * Mr. Horne, afterwards President of Magdalen College, Oxford and Bishop of Norwich, |