ty of breathing, which increased upon the leaft exercife; his pulfe was harder, and a little quicker than natural; the heat of his body was rather below the healthy ftandard; he was coflive, and made highcoloured urine, with a greasy scum on the furface; his legs and thighs were full of little pimply eruptions and livid spots; his bands were stiff and painful, and his legs always fwelled towards night, the fkin being dry. The foreness of his mouth prevented him from eating folid food, fo that he was often obliged to faft contrary to inclination, which rendered him very weak and low.

This day, I gave him one pint of the fresh-made wort, boiled up with fome pounded fea-biscuit into a panado, and fweetened this mess with fugar; which was very agreeable, and fat eafy. He drank another pint acidulated with elixir of vitriol, in the course of the day. Thus he was provided with both meat and drink, and ufed nothing else.-The grains from whence the wort had been ftrained off, were applied as a poultice to the stiffened hams, with the addition of a little fweet oil.

June 9th. Used the fame diet. No alteration.

10th. The catching of breath (as he termed it) abated. Sweated a little in the night.-Ufed the wort and panado as before;-to which I added a laxative bolus. 11th. The breathing ftill better. The hams not fo painful. Had three loofe fools.-The quantity of wort increafed to three pints in the day.

12th. Looseness continues. The face more lively coloured. Pain of the breast vanifhed. The skin more moift, and the pains of the limbs much better.Perfifts in the fame courfe as before.

13th. In the night he was a good deal griped, which was fucceeded by an increafe of the loofenels. He continued to take the panado; but was ordered to ablain from drinking the wort, for fear of increafing the purging too much.-He got a decoction of the bark, with honey of rofes and elixir of vitriol to wafh his mouth, by way of gargle.

14th. The loofenefs continued, but without griping, and all his complaints were better.- Uled three pints of the

wort.

15th. All the pains, both of the breaft and limbs, removed. Eruptions moftly disappeared. Mouth clean, and gums not fo fpungy. He walked about chear fully, and was moderately loofe.

16th. So well that he thought himself able to go upon deck to do duty: but the weather being rainy he got wet; and, befide, found, that ftrong exercise hurt his breaft.-Ufed the wort as before. 17th. Did his duty as a feaman.-Used the fame as before.

18th. As on the preceding day. -The fmall quantity of malt that I had provided being now nearly exhaufted, I was obliged to ftrike him off from the further use of the wort.-The confequence was, that in a few days the fymptoms returned; for which I had recourfe to the, remedies generally used at fea, viz. laxative bolules and decoctions, with the Pil. Scillit.

I likewife tried fugar diffolved in four times its quantity of water, and ufed much in the fame manner, and in nearly the fame quantity, as the wort. But all thefe had little effect, the patient, being confined below for near four weeks after the wort was done, and in nearly the fame condition as before he first be gan it.

On the 16th of July we came to an anchor at the island of Joanua; where this patient, with about forty others, went on fhore, lived in a tent erected for the purpose, and by the use of freth fruits and vegetable foups recovered in five days time."

From this cafe, and five fimilar ones, Mr Badenach pronounces it probable, that the ufe of wort will prove extremely ferviceable against the fcurvy; and that, if aided by portable foup, fago, rice, freshmeat broths, and the like, there will be little danger of this disease, even in the longest cruises.

The preparation of this wort by Mr Badenach was thus: "The malt was ground daily in a hand-mill, according to the quantity required. Three measures of boiling water were poured on one of the ground malt; which was put into a large copper decoction-pot, and there left to stand for four hours; when it was ftrained off through a cloth, and each of the patients ferved with their allowance of it.-The wort was of a pale colour, fweetish, and very agreeable: a glassfull of it, in a heat of 74 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, kept for twentyfour hours perfectly fweet and fresh; but in thirty-fix hours became vapid, fourish, and threw up a feum to the furface.-When the malt was boiled, it made a wort not fo light and good, being highcoloured, clammy, and did not run into fermentation

fermentation fo foon as that made by fimple infufion, by fix or eight hours.

When the fick become numerous, the water, to mash the ground malt, may be boiled after dinner in the fhip's copper; and a fmall wooden vat may be placed in the galley for the purpose of brewing; the infufion may be strained through a piece of hair-cloth, and received into a clean wooden veffel, where it will keep fweet for about thirty hours."

All the precaution, fays Dr Macbride, at the conclufion, which feems neceflary in adminiftering the wort, is, to begin with a fmall quantity, and increase gradually as it is found to agree. When it purges too much, abftain, or leffen, the dofe; or add as much of the elixir of vitriol as will make the drink gratefully four. If it gripes fo much as to create diftrefs, give from fifteen to twenty drops of liquid laudanum in two spoon fuls of cinnamon water at bed-time. obferve that neither of the gentlemen mixed currants or raifins with the panado, as I originally propofed. These fruits, I fhould think, would not only make the mefs more grateful, but alio render it more efficacious; therefore, where thefe are at hand, I would recommend them to be added in any future trial. Lond. Mag.

"TIS well known what terrible ravages the small-pox has formerly made in this ifland; and what irremediable diftrefs it has brought upon feveral great and good families; 'tis alfo well known, with what amazing fuccefs the Suttons have corrected, and as it were exorcized, the malignity of this frightful diforder, by a treatment peculiar to themfelves, and, I prefume, first discovered by them. For though Inoculation has been many years practised here, and with reasonable fuccefs; yet the benefit of it was by no means fo largely extended, fo certainly affured, nor fo eafily and fo comfortably obtained, till they began their mode of pra&ice. Now, fo far as I can difcover from their printed directions, the Suttonian method confifts principally in a proper way of preparation, a cool regimen afterwards, and in a noftrum, or fecret medicine, which they are poffeffed of, for the fubduing and mitigating the fevers.

As to this fecret medicine, the Suttons will enter into partnership with countrypractitioners, and have done fo with many, to whom they confent to impart and

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deliver their medicine; but they decline discovering to any of them the ingredients of it. But leaving the Suttons to themfelves, to whose practice one cannot but with all imaginable extenfion and fuccefs, I would ask, whether fevers of various kinds have not been as fatal to the fons of men, as the fmall pox? and whether we mortals, were we to live constantly under fome fuch method of preparation as they prefcribe, though not fo perfectly strict, might not deliver ourselves from the apprehenfion and danger of violent and malignant fevers? I would propofe, for example, that people in their ordinary way of life, and efpecially those who are subject to fevers, fhould keep the bo dy open and cool, fhould take now and then a paper of the powders, and should breakfast, dine, and fup, upon fuch aliments as they have directed to be used during a course of preparation for the fmall pox; that the party fhould regularly proceed in this manner through his whole life: and then, quære, whether he might not live free and fecure from all fevers whatsoever? In fhort, I am defirous of drawing further advantages from Meff. Suttons method of practice; and many, no doubt, who regard their health, which is inconteftably the most valuable thing in this world, would be glad to conform, for the fake of it, and to fubmit to regulations, even far more (tria and fevere. Now, if this could be done, and fevers of all kinds that are not fymptomatic, could be in this manner prevented, nothing further feems to be wanting, than for us to become mafters of Mess. Suttons fecret medicine. And this, indeed, is abfolutely neceffary, so much depending upon it. Crowned heads have often purchafed the like fecrets for the benefit of their fubjects; and parliamentary aids have been given for the fame purpofe; and one would be glad if by fome fuch method, an adequate compen fation could be made to the Suttons for the difcovery of their medicine. And it would be better worth while to do this, caufe at the fame time that regard is therein had to fevers, the use of the noftrum in the fmall pox, would be more generally diffeminated, and many more people, than do at prefent, would reap the benefit of it. I am, &c.

T. Row.

VA

VACATION.

WHA

Hat seinth does a long vacation
Give to each butincts in the nation!
Without it how could work go on ? ·
Enth its load we all would groan.
One day is fet apart in feven

From worldly things, to think on heaven:
Perhaps fone day of public mirth,
Some fetival, or royal birth,
The course of bufires interrupt,

d profeflion,

The banks are that, the courts are up; Yet what are thefe, when once compar'd With the long space the law has fpard, To rest her limbs from feffion's hurry,And for three months all bunnefs bury? With what delight the clients fee. An end approaching to their plea! As faft at forms of court admit The cause goes on, the lawyer's bit, "No fin to cheat that d'Twill all be finished next feffion; The President's a worthy man, Difpatch of bufinefs is his plan, The clients intereft's at his heart, He makes the tedious agents fmart." -Thus crows the client at the thought ff's plea being to a period brought, When lo! vacation, friend to eafe, And lawyers who with long pleas, Cuts off the client's expectation, And makes him curfe the long vacation. And now from town in crouds withdraw The various members of the law; Some rolling to their country-feat In gilded chariot, who of late, When journeying hither from the north, Could fearce pay paffage o'er the Forth; Others contented with lefs fhow, (For all must creep before they go), A hack or their own fteed beftride, And forth in queft of clients ide; Or, as becometh their profellion, Stir up difputes for the next filion, And proffer clients their advice How to behave in points fo nice, What great advantages will follow, And cannot fail to carry 't hollow. Thus buoy up the eafy client, And find him to their withes pliant, At laft involve him in a procefs, Which, tho' he gain, in fact he loses; For a mall difpute long depending, Is oft made up by long contending: Time and expence his pallion cool, Too late he finds he play'd the fool. Quite a propes, I mind a story, Which I beg leave to fet before ye. Ralph by advice of counfel fage Did in a tedious fuit engage; For years he had been pained off, And justly thought 'twas leag enough; VOL. XXX.

Vication oft his hopes had crofs'd, From term to term his caufe was tofs'd; One day (in vacance we'll fuppofe) Ralph's lawyer to the country goes, And travelling he loft his way, (For ev'n wife men may go aftray), Now at a lofs his courfe to steer, Who to direct him should appear But Ralph, who near had his abode, And confequently knew the road? Good breeding pafs'd on either fide, They talk away as on they ride, Ralph promifes to fet him on The path which he before had gone ; Some hours they thus together pais, And many a field and ditch they crof, Till by oft turning round about, Again they reach where they fet out; Zds, cries the lawyer, with furprise, I fcarcely can believe my eyes, Have we been riding all this while And not advanc'd a half o' mile?, Soft, Sir, fays Ralph, I've done no more Than you have done to me before: Thefe fome years paft you've pied my cause, Yet ftill, it ftands as firft it was;

So after feeing all around ye,

I take my leave just where I found ye.
Thus ends the tale, which ferves to prove
A part of what's advanc'd above,
That tedious fuits the parties tire,
And purfes emptying cool their fire,
Till fleec'd of all, they curfe the caufe
That made them try the coft of laws.
Struck by a fimilar cafe again,

I'm prompted here to quote Fontaine ;
The fable's fhort, the moral's strong,
And will not lengthen much my fong.

Two travellers by the fea-fide
An oyfter found thrown out by th' tide:
How to divide the prize they fquabble,
And both agree, to end the habble,
To lay the matter in difpute
Before a lawyer most acute.

This lawyer having heard the cafe,
And ponder'd on't with judge-like grace,
He ope's the oyfter, gulps it o'er ;
He left the fhell, but nothing more: -
My friends, fays he, the court decrees
To each a fhell. No cofts or fees
Are due by either fide to t' other.---
Go home in peace, and difputes fmother.

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ODE for the NEW YEAR 1768. By William Whitehead, Efq; Poet Laureat. LET the voice of Mufic breathe,

Hail with fong the new-born Year!Though the frozen earth beneath Feel not yet his influence near, Already from his fouthern goal

The genial god, who rules the day,
Has bid his glowing axle roll,

And promis'd the return of May.
Yon ruffian blafts, whofe pinions sweep
Impetuous o'er our northern deep,

Shall ceafe their founds of war;
And, gradual as his power prevails,
Shall mingle with the fofter gales
That sport around his car.
Poets fhould be prophets too.
Plenty in his train attends;
Fruits and flowers of various hue
Bloom where-e'er her step fhe bends.
Down the green hill's floping fide,
Winding to the vale below,
See, the pours her golden tide!
Whilft, upon its airy brow,
Amidft his flocks, whom Nature leads
To flow'ry feafts on mountains' heads,

Th' exulting fhepherd lies;
And to th' horizon's utmost bound
Rolls his eye with tranfport round,
Then lifts it to the skies.

Let the voice of Mufic breathe!
Twine, ye fwains, the feftal wreath!
Britain fhall no more complain
Of niggard harvests, and a fading year:
No more the mifer hoard his grain,

Regardless of the peafant's tear,
Whofe hand laborious till'd the earth,
And gave thofe very treafures birth.

No more fhall GEORGE, whofe parent breast
Feels ev'ry pang his fubjects know,
Behold a faithful land diftreft,

Or hear one figh of real wo.

But gratef Mirth, whofe decent bounds
No riot fwells, no fear confounds,
And heart-felt Eafe, whofe glow within
Exalts Contentment's mode mien,
In ev'ry face hall smile confeft,

[bleft.

And, in his people's joy, the monarch too be An Epitaph, by Mifs G--me, of Philadelphia, on the death of her mother and fifter, 1765.

Forgive, great God, this one last filial tear;

Indulge my forrow on a theme fo dear: This earth born strain indulge, that mourns the bleft,

And doubly mourns because they were the beft.
Tho' Truth remonftrates, felflove will prevail,
And link the beam in Nature's feeble scale.
A God incarnate wept o'er Lazarus dead;
The pow'r divine recall'd his foul when fled:
A poor frail being weeps a mother gone,
The tomb fearce clos'd before a fifter flown:
Each was a guide, a pattern, and a friend;
the prays to join when fleeting life fhall end.

T

APOLLO DISAPPOINTED.

Piqu'd

at the praises of Miss READ, Down dropt APOLLO * from the skies, To know if that illustrious maid Surpafs'd him, or if gods told lies. To Jermyn Street, the critic came, Difguis'd; and fore against his will, A filent plaudit gave the dame,

And own'd the triumph of her skill. Ha! by a woman beat, he cried,

Beat (in Newmarket language) hollow? But foon I'll mortify her pride,

Or I'm not chriftned 'Squire APOLLO. VENUS fhall for her picture fit,

And dafh the artift's foul with fhame; Such heav'nly airs the cannot hit→→→

So cancels half her former fame. Juit then, he glanc'd his eyes afide, And, in a corner of the room, Her Grace of HAMILTON efpied,

In the full glow of youthful bloom. His Godship (fo reports the tale)

Survey'd the piece with lengthen'd chops, And turn'd with difappointment pale,

Took a good sniff of hartfhorn-drops.
Oh, reader, thou hast seen, perhaps,
A cur return'd from choking theep;
How 'twixt his legs his tail he claps ;·

How fond from company to keep.
So round and round with cautious fquint,
From Jermyn Street APOLLO stole;
And would not, ev'n for all the mint,

Have met a fingle Christian fout. 'Sdeath (cried the God with huge grimace) What a d--n'd baulk!-For true, tho' odd The pencil that can paint her Grace, ['tis, Can draw with utmost ease the Goddess! • Equally famous for Painting, as for Mufic, Poetry, Phyfic, &c.

VERSES written in a GARDEN.
By Lady M-y W-y M-c.
EE how that pair of billing doves
With open murmurs own their loves;
And heedless of cenforious eyes,
Purfue their unpolluted joys:
No fears of future want moleft

The downy quiet of their neft ;
No int'reft join'd the happy pair,

Securely bleft in Nature's care,

While her dear dictates they pursue:
For conftancy is nature too.

Can all the doctrine of our schools,
Our maxims, our religious rules,
Can learning to our lives enfure
Virtue fo bright, or blifs fo pure?
The great Creator's happy ends,
Virtue and pleafure ever blends:
In vain the church and court have try'd
Th' united effence to divide;
Alike they find their wild mistake,
The pedant priest, and giddy rake.

The

ONC

The STATE-CO 4CH; a Tale.
Nee on a time, a grand lord-may'r
(No matter when, no matter where)
Kept a huge pompous coach of ftate
Of most enormous bulk and weight:
And on the times of public joy,
To wheel about the pond'rous toy,
He kept befide a noble string
Of horfes fit to draw a king;

All of high blood, all beafts of breeding;
But vicious from excefs of feeding;
Of course intractable and heady:
Yet in one point perversely steady,
Viz. each good feed was true and hearty
To his own intereft and his party;
Nay, this curs'd fpirit had poffefs'd
To fuch degree each sturdy beast,
That not a fingle chuff would move
From threats or foothing, fear or love,
Unless in partnership he drew
With thofe of his confederate crew,
Though thus the clumfy and the clever,
Ill-pair'd oft hobbled on together.

Hence, when the coach was order'd out,
Buck would refuse to match with Stout,
At least one inch would not proceed
Unless impetuous Di'mond led,
Who when of late our grand premier,
And then uncheck'd in his career,
While he tugg'd on the vast machine
O'er rough and smooth, thro' thick and thin,
Would often with their rapid turn
Make the wheels creak, and axle burn.
Yet, give the haughty devil his due,
Tho' bold his quarterings, they were true;
Yes, let us not his skill difparage,
He never once o'erfet the carriage,
Though oft he whirl'd it one would think
Juft o'er the pitfall's headlong brink;
While at each hair-breadth fcape his foes
Would cry, There, there, by G-, it goes!
And as ftiff Buck would ne'er fubmit
But on thefe terms to champ the bit,
Stout in return was full as fullen,
Nor the fame harness would he pull in,
Unless by cautious Duke preceded,
Or by pacific Sawney headed.
The body-coachman hence unable
To rule the refractory stable,
Was forc'd to leave the faucy brutes
To terminate their own difputes;
And when they deign'd to wear their traces,
Chufe their own partners and their places;
But, tir'd themfelves with thefe diftractions,

Refolv'd at last the several factions
(For in their anger all had wit)
Some terms of union to admit;
Which, that more firmly they might bind,
Drawn in this form by all were lign'd.
We, the contracting ftecds, (exprefs'd
Here was the name of each prime beast,
As Di'mond, Sawney, Duke), however
Determin'd not to work together,
Yet by thefe prefents are agreed,
Together peaceably to feed:

On this account then, (work or play)
Let each receive his 'cuftom'd pay :
Confirm wey concurring votes
To each his daily peck of oats:
Befides, omit we by no means
Proportion'd quantities of beans;
Nor yet warm mathes when we chufe 'em,
Nor Bracken's balls when pleas'd to use 'em ;
For as 'tis likely from full feeding,
At times, difeafes may be breeding,
'Tis right for every horfe that is fick,
Who finds the food fhould find the phyfic.
These previous articles now clos'd,
Here prudent Di'mond interpos'd,
Long fam'd for his contempt of pelf,
And views which center'd not in felf,
"How chang'd at prefent!" (or no more
Wears he that mask which once he wore)
Quoth he, (wrapp'd round with many a clout
His greafy heels, the horfes gout)
"Snug now ourselves and our dependants,
Shall we neglect our dear defcendants?
Nay e'en from feripture we should learn,
For our own households due concern;
Left we incur then, to our fhame,
Of infidels th'accurfed name,
Provide we next (if such your will is)
For all our prefent colts and fillies;
No matter, though for this fupply
We drain our master's coffers dry:
E'en to the future colts of thefe;
Stretch we the grant too, if ye please,
Then to their coltlings in entail,
Till iffue of fuch iffue fail.
Well, bullies, are ye all content?"
Each steed here fnouted his affent;
And, more t'express their joy of heart,
All let at once the obftreperous f―t;
The mews, through all its fpacious round,
Re-echo'd to th' unmanner'd found;

And now adjusted their pretensions,
And thus fecur'd their long-breath'd penfions,
Like porkers fattening in the fty,
On their fat rumps at ease they lie;
Uplitter'd to their ears in ftraw,
Yet not a single heast will draw.

Dogs! to reduce you all to reason,
I wish, at least, for fome fhort feafon,
That in your prefent mafter's ftead,
Too meek to tame fo rough a breed,
Too mild to curb your factious spirit,
Too good to treat you as ye merit,
Stern boisterous Cromwell from the dead,
Or bluff old Hall would lift his head,
That I might fee you bound and skip
Beneath their difciplining whip;
That I might fee your pamper'd hides
Flogg'd, till from out your furrow'd fides
Spun, in each part, the fizy blood,
Too rich from floth and copious food;
That, thus let out at all these fluices,
It may purge off its vicious juices;
While thould hear you, at cach jerk,
Cry, Lafa no more, we'll work, we'll work.
QPE.

Pol. Reg.

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