and the Virgin Mary as mediators; acknowledging Jesus Christ as the only mediator; and in many other points. In these, and in other particulars, the Greek Church seems to have a leaning to the principles of protestantism rather than of popery.". On these grounds the Bishop sees no im pediment to the marriage. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE. In a German Journal, called the Miscel lanies from the newest productions of Foreign Literature, we find the following remarkable but not improbable account. "A merchant not only heard the name of Bonaparte in the deserts of Tartary, but also saw a biography of this tyrant in the Arabic tongue, which contained a great many falsehoods and exaggerations, and ended with his marriage in the year 1810. This biography was printed in Paris, and thence it was sent to Aleppo, to be circulated in the East. It may be presumed, that this was not done merely to spread the glory of the hero, but most probably to prepare the way for some great undertaking." FRENCH TRANSLATION. The French translator of Franklin's Correspondence, has made a true French blunder. Franklin somewhere says: "People imagined that an American was a kind of Yahoo." Upon this the translator makes the following note: "Yahoo. It must be an animal. It is affirmed that it is the Opossum; but I have not been able to find the word Yahoo in any dictionary of Natural History"!!!-This reminds us of an anecdote also founded on one of Swift's admirable works. A gentleman saw a person poring over an atlas, and seemingly disconcerted by some want of success. "Can't you find what you want," said he, "or can I assist you?" "I don't know (was the reply) for I have been looking two hours through all latitudes and longitudes, and cannot discover this cursed Lilliput any where"!! GERMAN LITERATURE. Several officers of the Prussian general staff have begun to publish an interesting military Journal, in the first number of which there is a day-book of General Lauriston, which was found on the field of battle of the Katzebach, with several other papers. Though it is only a fragment, the rain having destroyed several leaves, it is still perfect enough to lead to some interesting observations. The accounts of count Schulenberg, of his campaign in Poland and Saxony, in the years 1703-1706, acquire a particular literary value, from several inedited letters of Voltaire. Among other things, he writes to the count, "Have you never thought, marshal, how detestable, though it may be necessary, your profession is? I have been assured, for example, that general Renschild, after the battle of Fraustadt, had from 12 to 1800 Russians massacred in cold blood, who six hours after the battle begged for quarter on their knees. The historian Adlerfeld affirms, that there were only 600, and that they were killed immediately after the action. From you I expect to hear the truth, which is as dear to me as your glory." But Schulenberg did not answer. There is at present published in the French language, at St. Petersburg, a periodical work entitled, Les Ephemerides Russes, Politiques et Literaires, by M. Spada. M. Paul Swinni edits Le Description de Petersbourg, et de ses Environs, in Russian and French. There is, besides, another periodical French work published in that capital, entitled La Lanterne Magique. Italy has lost her most celebrated professor of agriculture and botany, count M. Filipo Re, who died lately at Modena. Among the vast number of works which he has be queathed to posterity, we may distinguish his Elementi di Agricoltura, the only Italian production in which the most solid principles of chemistry are applied methodically and clearly to practical agriculture. A continental journal states, that a fisherman of Philisberg, has found in the Rhine, the fore-foot and shoulder-blade of a mammoth, which have been deposited in the Cabinet of Nat. Hist. at Carlsruhe. ART. 15. REPORT OF DISEASES. Report of Diseases treated at the Public Dispensary, New-York, during the month of April, 1818. ACUTE DISEASES. FEBRIS Intermittens, (Intermittent Fever,) 2; Febris Remittens, (Remittent Fever,) 7; Febris Continua, (Continued Fever,) 9; Febris Infantum Remittens, (Infantile Remittent Fever,) 4; Phlegmone, 2; Ophthalmia, (Inflammation of the Eyes,) 5; Otitis, (Inflammation of the Ear,) 1; Cynanche Ton sillaris, (Inflammation of the Tonsils) 3; Cynanche Trachealis, (Hives or Croup,) 2; Catarrhus, (Catarrh,) 5; Bronchitis, (Inflammation of the Bronchie,) 4; Pneumonia, (Inflammation of the Chest,) 32; Pneumonia Typhodes, (Typhoid Pneumony,) 4; Pertussis, (Hooping Cough,) 2; Gastritis, (Inflammation of the Stomach,) 1; Enteritis, (Inflammation of the Intestines,) 2; Hepatitis, (Inflammation of the Liver,) 2; Rheumatismus, (Rheumatism,) 3; Hæmoptysis, (Spil twenty-one in number. The cases of typhous 1; amp in hoea, 2; ; Dropsy , Hectic, er, Intiam 3: Fever ting of Blood,) 2; Cholera, 1; Rubeola, (Measles,) 1; Erysipelas, (St. Anthony's Fire,) 2; Variola, (Small-Pox,) 1; Vaccinia, (KinePock,) 70; Convulsio, (Convulsions,) 1; Dentitio, (Teething,) 2. twenty-one in number. The cases of typhous fever have been of the kind denominated by writers the typhus mitior; and in some instances the disease was accompanied with pulmonic irritation, being attended with cough, or with symptoms of pneumonic inflammation or local congestion. A dispo CHRONIC AND LOCAL DISEASES. Asthenia, (Debility,) 3; Vertigo, 2; Dyspepsia, (Indigestion,) 6; Obstipatio, 3; Co-sition to run into typhous was apparent in lica, (Colic,) 1; Hysteria, (Hysterics,) 1; Epilepsia, (Epilepsy,) 1; Mania, (Madness,) 1; Ophthalmia Chronica, 3; Catarrhus Chronicus, 2; Bronchitis Chronica, 3; Asthma, 1; Phthisis Pulmonalis, (Pulmonary Consumption,) 3; Rheumatismus Chronicus, 10; Pleurodyne, 2; Lumbago, 5; Hæmorrhois, 1; Menorrhagia, 2; Diarrhoea, 4; Amenorrhoea, 5; Anasarca, (Dropsy,) 1; Vermes, (Worms,) 8; Syphilis, 10; Urethritis Virulenta, 5; Hernia, 2; Contusio, (Contusion,) 17; Stremma, (Sprain,) 2; Luxatio, (Dislocation,) 2; Fractura, (Fracture,) 5; Vulnus, 3; Ustio, (Burn,) 4; Abscessus, (Abscess,) 2; Ulcus, (Ulcer,) 5; Scabies et Prurigo, 14; Porrigo, 3; Herpes, 1; Psoriasis, 1; Eruptiones Variæ, 2. The weather during this interval has been almost uniformly unpleasant; frequently cloudy or rainy, accompanied with sleets of hail or snow, and generally with a coldness or chillness in the atmosphere unusual at this season of the year; wind blowing the greater part of the time from the northwest, north, and northeast-giving a character to this month resembling March. From the frequent frosts, and the want of genial warmth, there is little appearance of vegetation. Cold unseasonable weather appears to have prevailed throughout the United States. At Buffaloe, in the state of New-York, snow fell on the 17th and 18th of the month, measuring six or eight inches on a level; and in South-Carolina and other southern situations, much injury is said to have been done to vegetation, particularly to the cotton crops, by a heavy frost on the night of the 19th. The thermometrical range in this city has been considerable. The highest temperature at sunrise in any morning has been 45°, lowest 290; highest temperature in any afternoon, 65°, lowest 39°; highest temperature at sunset of any day 480, lowest 34°; greatest diurnal variation 25°. Barometrical range from 30.12 to 30.86. Notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, this period has not been unusually productive of diseases. The classes of morbid affections have continued much the same as in the preceding month; but there has been a marked increase of pneumonic inflammations and of fevers of the typhoid form. The deaths from pneumonia, which, according to the bills of mortality, amounted in January to sixteen, in February to fifteen, and in March to no more than ten, have, during this month, increased to twenty-six, and those from typhous fever to many cases of pneumonia, which showed early signs of debility that forbid the free and repeated use of the lancet, which experience has demonstrated to be, in general, so indispensably necessary in pneumonic affections in this climate. Some cases of well marked pneumonia typhodes have been under treatment. In a disease of this mixed character, which sometimes makes a rapid progress through its stages, it has perhaps been too common a practice, in order to obviate the symptoms of putrescency, which ultimately take place, to resort to the stimulating or cordial plan of cure too early, and thus eventually to accelerate the progress of the very symptoms which it was intended to retard. It is in some of these critical cases that the most cautious practice is required; and it is only by a nice estimation of the forces of the system that we can determine how far the antiphlogistic treatment may be called for, or when it may be necessary to resort to the opposite plan. འ The New-York Bills of Mortality for April give the following account of deaths from different diseases: Abscess, 2; Apoplexy, 5; Asthma, 1; Burned, 1; Colic, 1; Consumption, 44; Convulsions, 12; Contusion, 1; Cramp in the Stomach, 1; Debility, 2; Diarrhoea, 2; Dropsy, 13; Dropsy in the Chest, 5; Dropsy in the Head, 8; Drowned, 2; Fever, Hectic, 2; Fever, Intermittent, 2; Fever, Inflammatory, 3; Fever, Remittent, 3; Fever, Typhous, 21; Gravel, 1; Hæmoptysis, 1; Hives, 13; Herpes, 1; Hooping Cough, 6; Inflammation of the Chest, 26; Inflammation of the Bowels, 3; Inflammation of the Liver, 3; Insanity, 1; Intemperance, 2; Measles, 1; Mortification, 1; Old Age, 9; Palsy, 6; Pneumonia Typhodes, 2; Rheumatism, 1; Salt Rheum, 1; Scirrhus of the Liver, 1; Scrophula, 1; Sore Throat, 2; Spasms, 3; Still-born, 16; Stranguary, 1: Suicide, 5; Syphilis, 2; Tabes Mesenterica, 13; Teething, 3; Ulcer, 2; Unknown, 4; Worms, 1.-Total 259. Of this number there died 67 of and under the age of 1 year; 24 between 1 and 2 years; 12 between 2 and 5; 7 between 5 and 10; 9 between 10 and 20; 25 between 20 and 30; 32 between 30 and 40; 40 between 40 and 50; 17 between 50 and 60; 11 between 60 and 70; 8 between 70 and 80; 5 between 80 and 90; 1 between 90 and 100; and 1 of upwards of 103 years. JACOB DYCKMAN, M.D. New-York, April 30th, 1818. AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND CRITICAL REVIEW. No. III......VOL. III. JULY, 1818. ART. 1. Discourse, delivered at the Consecration of the Synagogue of awi ninaw pp. in the City of New-York, on Friday, the 10th of Nisan, 5578, corresponding with the 17th of April, 1818. BY MORDECAI M. NOAH. 8vo. pp. 47. New-York. C. S. Van Winkle. Τ IT is to the liberal and patriotic mind a source of proud satisfaction, to behold the benign effects of the universal religious toleration guarrantied to the people of the United States, by the Federal Constitution, to see all sects of Christians living, if not in harmony, at least in peace, and Jews and Gentiles openly worshipping God after the dictates of their own hearts, without fear, and almost without reproach-to see all the avenues to wealth, to fame, and to power, equally open to every candidate who will court them by honourable means, without the nugatory requisition of a religious test; and all the talents and energies of the nation brought into unrestricted exercise and generous competition. Nor are the results of this beneficent system less a subject of gratulation to the enlightened disciple of Jesus, than to the calculating statesman. The interests of true religion, and the true interests of the commonwealth, are, indeed, closely conjoined, but nothing can be more baneful to both, than the boasted coalition of church and state. Under the auspices of such a combination, government becomes a burthen, and religion a scourge. The exclusion of any rational being, of correct morals, from any station for which his Creator has fitted him, on the ground of his inadequate comprehension of that Being, of whom the wisest of us has but an imperfect understanding, is an act of injustice,--and as VOL. III.-No. III. 21 what is commenced in wrong can only be supported by violence, a union of the kind we refer to has a direct tendency to the establishment of a sort of secular hierarchy, in which the priesthood pander for the sovereign and the sovereign pimps for the priesthood, whilst the unhappy subject, whom it is alike the duty of both to protect, is mutually abandoned as a prey to their common rapacity. Ages of mournful experience attest this truth; and the blood of martyrs cries from the ground against such unhallowed alliances. The salutary influence of a complete severance of religious from political concerns, is happily exemplified among us. It is conspicuously shown in the very oecasion which has given rise to these remarks. One cannot but perceive, in reading the Discourse of Mr. Noah, which gives title to this article, the advantages which he, in common with his fellow worshippers, has derived from a free and equal intercourse with Christians,-not only is the rancour of their religious hatred done away, but they have even imbibed some of the distinguishing doctrines of our holy faith. From the catholic tone of this address, and from the enlarged charity which it inculcates and claims, we should hardly imagine it to proceed from those, who still arrogate to themselves the title of "God's chosen people, "--and who preserved their isolation by the sternest inhospitality and most brutal intolerance |