A fervant of Lord Crawfurd's had ́ been afflicted with the venereal disease many years, notwithstanding repeated falivations, and other medicinal courfes; when he was at Bareges with his Lord, he was extremely emaciated, his nails and hair had, in part, fallen off; he had a deep ulcer in his loins, feveral in his throat, and others about the privities; he had, befides, many indurated excreffencies, and the uvula had fallen off by a mortification; he had conftant pains in his legs, arms, and head, and the want of refl greatly aggravated his fufferings, and he had the appearance of a spectre. For the particular manner in which this patient was treated by the author the reader is referred to his work, but the iffue was, that he went away with his lord found and hearty in little more than a month. A huntsman of the king of France was cured of a rheumatism in his loyns that bent him double, Several patients were cured of the Hemiplegia. A gentleman of Martinico had been many years a martyr to the gout, fo that the tendons and ligaments of his feet were become rigid, and the joints motionless, his legs and knees were greatly fwelled, and he was often feized with excruciating pains in his bowels, head, thoulders and arms. This patient the author faw perfectly cured in two months. An ecclefiaftic of Thouloufe had been many years fo bad, with an irritation in the uninary paffage, that he was feldom able to move a step in his room, without lofing blood, yet in a few days by the use of the waters, he was feen -walking about the streets, and before the end of the season, was perfectly cured. These waters are frequently effectual in what is called a had habit of body, when the folids and fluids are unfit for the functions of nature: Bareges, therefore, is a happy refource, for thofe who have impaired their conftitution by irregularities, and intemperance. A gentleman of Thouloufe had, by continual excess, so injured his conftitution when he was no more than 40 years old, that his stomach was incapable of digefting or even bearing any solid food, his head was confused, and his memory impaired; he had feminal weaknesses, and fuch a tremor that he could not use a pen, he had also hæmorrhoidal complaints, great anxiety, extreme leannefs, a fallow cadaverous complexion, and e. very other appearance of a decay of na. ture. By drinking the waters of the hot fpring mixed with milk, a few days, he began to taste the sweets of reft. At the end of 15, there was a sensible renovotion in his habit, his ftrength gradually encreased, and in fix weeks he was stout and well. Cholics, however caufed, and of whatever kind, are cured at Bareges, The author relates the cure of feveral patients under his own eye, who had bilious cholics, with depraved appetite, eructations of a bad favour, frequent vomitings, with a wan, meagre complexion, and univerfal weakness. But there is no disease in which these waters are more effectual than the jaundice, for they remove the obstructions and indurations of the liver, and free the glandular conduits from the refinous bile. A parish priest of Perigord, about 50 years of age, was afflicted, in an uncom❤ mon degree, with the black jaundice, occafioned by a hard tumour in the liver, which was fenfible to the touch, and yet he obtained a compleat cure in nine weeks. These waters have alfo cured the afthma in the worst state of its worst kind. To this account of the place, and the difeafes cured there, the author has added fome general directions with respect to the manner and proportion in which the waters are to be taken, for which the reader is referred to his work; and as the remoteness of Bareges from England may difcourage fome from feeking the relief there, which is no where elfe to be found, he observes, that the journey may be made with very little expence and fatigue, and in a very fhort time. This is the feason to set out for the place, tho' rather later than might be wished: the patient may go from Portsmouth, or any other port in the Channel, to Bourdeaux, in a few days, the paffage being perfectly fafe and easy. From Bourdeaux, about 36 leagues of good road, without mountain or any other difficulty will bring him to the Wells. Those who chufe to go by land may debark at Calais, Boulogne, or Dieppe, and proceed by Paris, Lyons, Pont St. Esprit, Montpellier, Beziers and Thouloufe; or they may return that way after their maladies are removed, when the pleasure of feeing the curiofities which this rout will afford them will be greatly heightened by the flow of fpirits that is always the concomitant of returning health, especially after lingering and hopeless diseases. To this work is also added an enquiry into the cause of heat in bituminous waters, which is not a work of mere fpeculation, but intended to lead to a difcovery of producing by art, a water impregnated with fome degree at least of the virtues which nature has communicated to these inestimable springs. There is alfo a letter to the author from the late learned and excellent Dr. Hales, on this fubject, which, with the enquiry, is well worth the attention of those who are able to pursue the hints they contain. ******** From the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. An infallible Receipt to deftroy Buggs. wine, (viz. lamp-fpirits) that will burn all away dry, and leave not the least moisture behind, half a pint; newly distilled oil, or spirit of turpentine, half a pint; mix them together, and break into it, in fmall bits, half an ounce of camphire, which will diffolve in it in a few minutes; shake them well together, and with a piece of sponge, or a brush dipt in fome of it, wet very well the bed or furniture wherein thofe vermin harbour and breed, and it will infallibly kill and destroy both them and their nitts, altho' they swarm ever so much : but then the bed or furniture must be well and thoroughly wet with it (the duft upon them being first brushed and shaken off) by which means it will neither ftain, foil, nor in the leaft hurt the finest filk or damask bed that is. The quantity here ordered of this curious. neat white mixture, (which cofts but about a fhilling) will rid any one bed whatsoever, tho' it swarms with buggs: do but touch a live bugg with a drop of it, and you will find it to die inftantly. If any bugg or buggs should happen to appear after once ufing it, it will only be for want of well wetting the lacing, &c. of the bed, or the foldings of the linings or curtains near the rings, or the joints or holes in and about the bed, or head board, wherein the buggs and nitts neftle and breed, and then their being well wetted all again with more of the faine mixture, which dries in as fast as you use it, pouring some of it into the joints and holes where the sponge or brush cannot reach, will never fail abfolutely to destroy them. all. Some beds, that have much woodwork, can hardly be thoroughly cleared, without being first taken down; but others that can be drawn out, or that A well behind, to be done as experienced Receipt for the de- it should be, may. ftroying of Buggs, with which he entirely cleared his own beds, &c. five years ago, and has told it to fcores of families fince, who have all found the fame effects by it, and never faw a Bugg afterwards. 淡綠 From the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Take of the highest rectified fpirit of Tcer, whether rightly or not, has how however, engaged fomewhat of the public attention. Attempts have been made to render it the object of popular clamour; and tho' our memories would not fuffer it to be called unprecedented, yet every other inflaming epithet has been laboriously given it, and infinuations lavishly thrown out, that this was only the beginning of forrows; that fuch an unconftitutional act was not meant to stand fingle and unfupported, but was to be followed by the difgrace of feveral other general officers; and, left this fhould be borne too calmly, it was industriously added, that the whole army was to be new modelled. I shall not take upon myself to affign any reafon at all for the difmiffion now in queftion. I will only state fome fhort facts, for the truth of which I will appeal to the teftimony of the well inform ed, and leave the public to judge how far the tenor of conduct which has been obferved by the General ever fince the beginning of laft winter, operated in the prefent cafe. Whoever was converfant in the bufinefs of the laft winter, will readily call to mind, that the greater part of the time before Christmas holidays was fpent in a difagreeable, tho' very neceflary tranfaction, relating to Mr. Wilkes. I do not remember in the several stages of that affair, which was confiderably fpun out by a variety of untoward accidents, that the General took any part in the refenting the infult which had been fo grofly offered to his master; and which, confidering the relation. he at that time bore to his family, could not have been looked upon in the leaft as mifbecoming his character or station. After Christmas, when the oppofition had fummoned all their ftrength from the country, and began very confidently to name the day on which they were to enter into their glory, this gentleman, who had hitherto obferved a kind of fufpicious neutrality, began more openly to declare himself; and, except on fome one point in which Mr. Wilkes was concerned, the particulars of which are by no means prefent to my recollec tion, between the 16th of January, and the 17th of the following month, he never happened to be of the fame opinion with the king's fervants in government. What So uniform a tenor of conduct will not generally be imputed to the effect of chance or accident, as it carries with it the marks of defign and premeditation. It was not adminiftration alone that confidered him as their opponent : the Oppofition were daily vaunting of him as an important acquifition, and indeed gave out, at one time, that he had undertaken to lead them. doubt could be entertained of his inclinations, after the virulent charge of ignorance and incapacity which he poured forth against the minifter; and which, being totally unfupported by the leaft fhadow of proof, might ferve well enough to indicate his difpofitions at the expence of his judgment and his temper. Whenever therefore the difmiffion is mentioned, together with the conduct in parliament, which, for want of knowing any other, is usually affigned as the cause of it, let it be fairly ftated to the public; let them be affured, that the General was as vigorous and active, and in fhort, as totally in oppofition, I will not prefume to add, that he was as penetrating and eloquent, as the cool and difpaffionate G- 0— This It may be urged, indeed, and fpecloufly enough, to thofe who have no great experience in public business, that he has fuffered in the cause of his country, for maintaining that freedom which is our glory and our birthright. has been artfully enough endeavoured to be constantly infinuated, upon the footing that the difmiffion took place on account of the vote given with relation to the warrants; but, befides that it is unfair to afcribe to one action, what may be much more probably deduced as the regular confequence of a fettled plan of conduct during the whole courfe of the last winter; yet, for one inftant, fuppofing the fact just as it is stated, and that the one vote alluded to, was the caule of the regi ment's ment's being taken away, yet, does it follow from thence, that the vote then given was in the cause of liberty? Are they to be accounted the champions of liberty, who, on the Friday, aflert that no man can be fafe in his own house, unless a declaration is made of the illegality of particular warrants; and yet, on the very Tuesday next enfuing when the abufe is propofed to be remedied in a regular conftitutional method by bill, can fit ftill, and fuffer fuch a propofition to be thrown out, nay, many of them concur in rejecting it? Indeed I can easily conceive, that in particular cafes difmiffion would be a release instead of a punishment. Suppose for instance, a man brought near his royal mafter by an honourable polt, and engaged by that means as it were in a neceffity of frequent intercourfe with him. This man, thro' difguft, caprice, ambition, or fome fuch motive, forgetful of his own situation, and regardlefs of the opinions and advices of his friends, engages deeply in league with a fet of men, whofe determined purpose is to impofe conditions of their own, and to give the law to their Sn. Their plans become his language; their refolutions are the fame; yet he continues still in office; frequents the R-1 prefence as before; is employed in thofe daily fervices, which, in moft minds beget a kind of affectionate reverence and efteem for thofe to whom they are done. With what comfort, think you, is it that he now draws near with his lips to his R mafter, while in his heart he is fo far from him? If fuch a cafe fould ever exist, the removal from that employment could not furely be confidered as the whole of the displeasure, that was to arife as long as there remained a poffibility of inflicting more. the only magazine in England for artillery and military ftores, king Henry VIII. now prudently distributed much of them in the newly fortified places of Tilbury, Dover, and Portsmouth, which happened extremely opportune; for in this fame year, a large French fleet of 130 great fhips, and 60 fmaller ones, befide 23 gallies from the Mediterranean (being all hired merchant ships) made an attempt upon Portsmouth, whither our king Henry went in perfon to its relief. The English fleet of 100 fail (which, too, were all hired merchant fhips) fought that of France (though much more numerous) for two hours, and made them fly to their own coafts. This was the greateft effort that France had ever before made at fea.” Anno 1583. "France's next great and total defeat at fea, was by a Spanifh fleet of 12 gallies and 50 galleons near the Azores illes. This (fays Voltaire in his general history of Europe, part sth) was the first time that gallies were feen fo far without the Mediterranean fea.” Anno 1590. "Till about this time (fays Sir Philip Medows, in his excellent obfervations concerning the dominion and fovereignty of the fea, from, the memoirs of the duke de Sully) the whole naval ftrength of the crown of France was about half a dozen fhips of war (fuch as they were) at Breft and Rochelle, and about a fcore of gallies in the Mediterranean: but king Henry IV. dreifed a new plan of the French monarchy; and though his great defigns were interrupted by an immature death, and alfo by a fucceeding minority; yet the great Cardinal Richlieurefumed it again." Anno 1637, "That able Cardinal (Richlieu) maturely confidering, how much France lay open to the attacks and infults of England, for.want of a maritime force, had for fome years been preparing all the naval force which he could either purchafe from beyond fea, or collect from all the French ports, both of the Ocean and Mediterranean, and had at this time got together. What the the judicious author of an excellent pamphlet, published in the year 1695, (named, Confiderations, requiring great care for trade in England)" calls France's first line of battle, confifting of upwards of fifty fhips and twenty gallies; with which force France, in this fame year 1657, retook from Spain the two small ifles of St. Margarite and St. Honorate, lying on the coast of Provence, near Antibes; which the latter crown had conquered two years before, and thereby had greatly annoyed that coaft. This they did, after twice vanquishing the Spanish fleet, and taking five large Spanish fhips, twentytwo gallies and eighteen smaller veffels. This was properly the first time that France began to fhew her Superiority over Spain, as she had before done at land. And upon this occafion the motto placed on the ftern of the largest French ship of war wasmodeft enough, viz. Florent quoque lilia ponto. Even on the main, Our Gallic lillies triumph over Spain. Or, as Sir Philip Medow's paraphrases it; "Richlieu firft taught France that the Flower-de-Luces could grow at fea as well as at land." Anno 1639. "The former part of the reign of Louis XIII. the divifions and confufions in France, during his minority, were great obftructions to the promoting of commerce. On the other hand the proteftants of France became thereby fo confiderable, as, at length, to conduct their affairs independently, and more like a free republick than as fubjects. This confidera tion drew Richlieu's vengeance on those poor people, by his fiege and taking of Rochelle their capital city, which was become a kind of emporium for their commerce. Dr. Heylin, in his Cofmography, fays, That when befieged (and taken) anno 1678, it had 120 merchants in it, each worth 100,000 crowns. After which, that cardinal, as we have feen, first began to form a confiderable French navy about this time, having before had fcarcely any good fhips of war of their own, but made ufe of the fhips of other nations occafionally. “I doubt (fays Dr. Heylin on this occafion) fome neighbouring princes, in the mean time, looked not well about them." Anno 1664, and 1665. Whilft the English and Dutch (fays Voltaire in his Age of Lewis XIV.) covered the ocean with near 300 large ships of war, Louis XIV. had not then above 15 or 16 of the lowest rates.-"But (adds he) Louis ufed his utmost efforts to efface the fhame thereof, in the most fudden and effectual manner-infomuch, that altho in the year 1670, France was hardly able to fend forth twenty fhips of war, yet in three years more, viz. anno 1673, France had increased them to fixty large ones. For the accommodation whereof, in or about the year 1681, Louis constructed and fortified the new famous ports of Breft and Toulon, at an immenfe expence; and Rochfort alfo, in fpite of nature, was now made a port of trade and naval force, having at this time upwards of 100 fhips of the line, feveral of which carried 100 guns, and fome did more!" 1691. And fuch was the fwelling vanity of Louis XIV. ten years after, that he suffered to be painted on the ftern of his great first-rate fhip of war, named the St. Louis, the following ar rogant motto, viz. Je fuis l'unique de l'onde, Et mon Roy du monde. Which, we apprehend, may not unfitly, be Englished thus: "I, on the ocean, am the mightiest As, on the land, is my all-potent king!" 1692. Yet in the following year 1692, that monarch's navy received its first very confiderable check, at the famous fea-fight off La Hogue, when the com. bined fleets of England and Holland, under Admiral Ruffel, deftroyed twenty-one of his beft fhips of war, amongit which was its fuperb admiral ship, of 110 brafs cannon, and two more of them carried each 104 cannon. 1693. Yet in the following year 1693, Sir George Rooke, with twenty three |