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them from feizing, upon the ground of received opinion, the perfon of that Hon. Gentleman, whom fome people alledge they know, and many believe, to have been, in part at least, the author of that excellent and unanswered work; from entering his house abruptly, alarming his family, keeping him in close custody; tumbling his most lecret and confidential papers and deeds carelefly into a fack, as in the former instances, and trufting them to the hands of a common and unresponsible person, without schedule or fecurity for recovery of them? In this cafe, it is true, the outcry would be great and general, from the character of the perfon thus treated. But on the other hand, what would not Lord Halifax have to fay in his defence? It would now be alledged, not only that there are numberless precedents upon the file of office, in juftification of this practice, and that, if it be not legal by the written letter of the ftatute law, it is lawgrown, out of long ufage; "but that the Houfe of Commons, in the very laft winter, thought it fo neceffary a power in magiftracy, that they refused to condemn or to abrogate it." It would be confidently afked, "Whether their acquiefcence in the exercise of it, upon an express motion, and after long debate, does not prove, that they thought the power itself neither illegal nor dangerous? Whether, after this fanction given to it by the indecifion and reference of the House of Commons, it is not to be confidered as law, until the courts of judicature have pronounced it is not?" To prevent this uncertainty in fo fundamental an article of our conftitution, in which, in their judgment, to be in doubt is to be in danger, the 220 calumniated members of the Minority honourably, tho' ineffectually contended. And let the impartial public now decide, whether they are most indebted to those, who laboured to bring this their great intereft to an immediate determination, or to the 234 members of the Majority of that day, who prevailed in having it referred to a future trial at law.

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From the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Injurious treatment of the Logwood-cutters by the Spaniards.

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F all the inftances which the prefent ministry have given us of their ability and inclination to promote the welfare of the public, none can be more extraordinary than their late behaviour in relation to our logwood cutters in the bay of Honduras.

Though we received repeated accounts that the Spaniards refused acknowledging our right to level logwood in the bay of Honduras; tho' we were affured they had driven our people from their fettlements, and threatned to imprifon thofe who refused to go; yet thofe in power fhewed the greatest indifference on the occafion, and refused to take any measures for redress, till they had almost refigned the poffibility of affording it. Instead of flying to our affiftance at the commencement of the oppreffion, they looked contentedly on, till our ruin in that part of the world was nearly completed; and instead of interefting themselves in our behalf while there was every thing to be saved, never offered to honour us with the fmallest mark of protection while there was fcarcely any thing to be loft. An adminiftration actuated with a real concern for the welfare of the kingdom, would, upon the first complaint against the Spaniards, have examined with the minuteft punctuality into their proceedings, and called them, if culpable, to a fevere account. A wife and prudent miniftry would have feen the neceffity of checking every oppofition of their country in its earliest bud, instead of fuffering it to grow vigorous in maturity; and demanded a reparation from the aggreffors on the very first act of violence and injustice, instead of waiting for an accumulation of indignities and wrongs.

Great stress is laid by the partizans of the miniftry on the memorial lately prefented

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drid. But in the name of wonder, why From the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. was not this memorial dispatched months before our cutters were in a manner ruined, and driven out of the bay of Honduras? what reparation however has this celebrated memorial produced: —why, none at all.-The king of Spain barely promises that the subjects of Great Britain fball for the future meet with no obstruction in the logwood trade; but fays not a fyllable about making us amends for the damages which we have already fuftained from the infolent rapacity of his officers. He neither talks of punishing those officers, whose behaviour he condemns; nor of reimburfing the expences of the people, whom he fees plunged by that behaviour in the moft pinching poverty and distress! Of what fervice then is his royal word? we fee our moft folemn treaties trampled under foot: we see our subjects beggared, and our resentment de fpifed; and yet we reft contented with the bare affurance of a word, which has already been publicly broken, and afk no reparation for the injuries which we have hitherto sustained, but a pitiful promise that our neighbours will for bear the continuation of their infolence and inhumanity for the time to come.

But if our great people are so regard lefs about the general honour of the nation, it is to be hoped that some confideration will be fhewn to fuch of the miferable individuals as have been plun. dered by their negligence in this unhappy affair. It is to be hoped that the cries of fo many wretched families will not be added to the execrations of the kingdom, but that the adminiftration, fince it had not spirit enough to make good their loffes out of the king of Spain's coffers, will at least have honefty enough to reimburse them out of its

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Bjections have been made against our peoples going to America,because our woollen manufactories are in the greateft diftrefs for hands; and a report has from thence arifen, that fuperfine cloths are to be advanced one fhilling per yard: now as an error of this nature may mislead us with refpe& to the remedy, give me leave to offer a more probable reafon for the rife of cloths; and this, Sir, must be occafioned by the rife of wool; for this clipping season I have given for the same fort of wool in the fleece nineteen shillings, which I bought this time two years for fourteen and fixpence; and when the fine wools are forted out, the advance is much greater. Here it may justly be asked, how it happens that wool fhould rise so much, if the confumption is not greatly increased? this, Sir, is the point I wish to be strictly enquired into; and I believe it will be found that great quantities are sent a broad; for I was credibly informed, that 500 packs were fent from one place in the north-west part of England, to the Isle of Man, in one winter. In time of war we have many ships cruizing, and no communication with the French; and then we are able to keep our wool at home; but fince the peace, either French, Dutch, or any other, may easily convey our wool from that island. I was very glad to find by the papers, that fomething of this fort is difcovered; for it is faid orders are given to form a chain of cutters at the north entrance of the Irish channel, to prevent Irish wool from being carried clandeftinely from the Ifle of Man. I dare fay, if this be well attended to, it will be found to be English, and not Irish wool only, that is so carried away ; and if the government do but well look to this affair, the fervice they will do the nation, and the disadvantage to the French, will be inestimable.

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From the LONDON MAGAZINE.
Cause and Cure of the Yellow Jaundice.
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gazine fucceeds the yellow jaundice, as being fomething fimilar thereto, as well in its caufe and fymptoms, as method of cure. The caufe generally is a fmall tone, or vifcid bile, obftructing the biliary ducts, or paffages, that fhould freely convey the gall from the glands of the liver, as soon as fecreted from the blood, into the upper part of the duodenum, or first inteftine, to mix with the food, as paffing down from the pylorus, out of the ftomach, whereby, for want of its usual vent thither, and stagnating in the porus biliarius, or excretory ducts, it is fucked up by the bibilous, or abforbent veffels, of which the body is every where full, and mixing with the general mafs of blood in the veins, is carried about therewith, in its common courfe of circulation all over the body; when it is feen to tinge, from its exceeding whitenefs, the tranfparent membrane of the eye firft, and foon after the furface of the whole body; nay, even the pia mater, or thin film, that immediately covers the brain, as at private diffections I have feen,

Now the jaundice proceeds not, as fome have thought, from the obftruction of the glands of the liver them felves, for as much as many have died of a very fcirrhous liver, who had no jaundice in their life time at all. This is plainly proved too, in an article of the fate Medical Mufeum, whither Trefer you; but from a meer ftoppage in the faid ductus biliarius, or gall pipe, and its back branches, whereby the mixture of that fluid with the aliment in the inteltines is utterly prevented, the only reafon of their faces being always white, That this is the true state of the cafe I will produce a plain proof, not to interrupt the difcourfe, at the contlufion.

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The most common fymptoms, or figns, of this disease, besides the former, are laffitude, indolence, itching, anxiety, a tightness near the ftomach on the right fide; paleness, low pulse, irregular acerberations of the fever, difficulty of the fkin, coftiveness, blackish urinę, tingbreathing, drynefs, and roughness of ing pale bodies like faffron; bitterness in the mouth, and fometimes the hiccough, and choleric vomitings; all ob jects appearing yellow, as paffing thro a yellow medium; with acute pain molefting the right hypocondrium, as being the region where the liver lies; fome times it is the effect of a violent fit of the cholick caused from a sudden confriction of the mouth of the ductus communis choledocbus, thro' the pain thereof, which mutually excite each other, till the overflowing obftructed gall in the liver being abforbed into the blood, and the bilious excretory ducts thereby a little relaxed, the painful contraction of the inteftines ceafing, it refumes its ufual vent into the firft gut, and all things come into order again. Orson

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like that of the stone, both proceeding The cure is, as the cafe, fomewhat from a fimilar obstruction of the excretory duet of their relpective bowely from fome firm, foreign, and refifting extraboth alike indicate almost the very fame neous fubftance, or body, and so they intentions of cure: viz. 1ft, To widen To diffolve." And lastly, To expel the the paffage. 2dly, To give edfe. 3dly, caufe: But this, by the by, only when it can be effected; for phyficians do not pretend to perform impoffibilities, or work miracles; to whofe art, as to the fea, there are certain bounds fet, beyond which it cannot extend: yet when God appoints life, he alfo appoints means, therefore they are not to be neglected

with the honour due unto him, for the Nevertheless, Honour a phyfician ufes you may have of him: for the Lord hath created him for of the moft high cometh healing, and he hall receive honour of the king. The kill of the phyfician fhall lift up his head, and in the fight of great men he shall be in admiration.

miration. The Lord hath created me

dicines out of the earth, and he that is wife will not abhor them. Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created him, let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him." But to return to our main point.

One grain, or two at most, of folid opium, or xxx or xl drops of liquid laudanum, will effectually answer the first and second intentions, by eafing pain, and relaxing the paffage; penetrating and detergent drugs will produce the third, and purgatives and emetics will procure the fourth and last purpose.

Among the many fpecifics for this difeafe are: faffron, rhubarb, millepedes, or church bugs, Alicant, and Venice foap, powder of turmeric root, fouthernwood, fheeps dung infufed in beer, or that of fowls in wine, as alfo celandine roots boiled in wine, tartar vitriolated, ens veneris, earth worms, cream of tartar, fweet spirits of falt, columbine feeds, juice of horehound, leffer centaury, and elecampane; the juice of dodder is reck oned excellent, as alío leaves of black, or Dutch currants; flowers of broom, wormwood, madder, filverweed, juice of ground-ivy, ftrawberry leaves, the five opening roots, fuccory, endive, agrimony, flowers of St. John's wort, the inner bark of the barberry bush. The stone found in a bull's gall bladder, dried and powdered, a dram at a time, in a gill of white wine, the dung of all fowls and animals. The white portion of birds dung is feen fwimming in their urine, and makes the crusty shell of their egg; the rest is painted white with it. Thus white portion of goose dung, efpecially, diligently fcraped off the dry fæces, or otherwise separated from the moist, and dried, is a great fecret with fome for the cure of the jaundice. thiops mineral is a moft powerful remedy in this cafe, as is allo, when ne high fever attends it, tinctura facra.

I mention here so many several forts of drugs, as well for food as medicine, to pick and chufe out of, as that where fome of them cannot be had, others may.

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A warm bath, neck high, made of any emollient herbs, it matters not which; fuch as formerly mentioned for the ftone is proper here also, efpecially when the distemper has continued long, by which time it often degenerates into the black jaundice, and from which it does not effentially differ, but is the very fame difease in its highest degree; when it must be treated as a fcirrhous liver, with which it is generally attended. If circumftances cannot allow of the apparatus for bathing, fomentations on the right fide may be used in its room. Cordials are convenient for the great lowness of fpirits generally attending this diftemper.

Great forrow will fometimes cause the jaundice; as alfo the hite of the viper, when it is dangerous. If it proceeds from tones in the gall duct, it is generally incurable, if it be vio lent and very long neglected; as also if it attends wounds, unless from their dreffings laid on over hot, it is reck. oned fatal.

After all this account, it remains only now to annex a few tried, and well-approved, recipes, and conclude with an extraordinary case..

My noftrum, which never yet failed me, is this: take of the powder of turmeric root, two drams; oil of anni feed, thirty drops; of Alicant, or of Venice foap, one ounce; with fyrup of faffron; beat all into a mafs for pills, Take five three times a day, drinking a glass of church-bug wine, or a gill of decoction of pipperidge hark, or celandine roots, or of any of the abovefaid drugs, after them every time. Thofe, who cannot fwallow pills may make boluffes of the mafs, of the bignefs of a small nut-meg, and diffolve them in any proper vehicle above prefcribed; or if their ftomach cannot bear fuch, in warm milk, if milk does not naturally difagree with them..

'The millepede wine is made by infufing two or three ounces of live church bugs in a quart of rhenifh wine, or white Lifbon; hake the bottle now and then, but looten the cork firl, or

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MAGAZINES felelted. cacuanha, a fcruple, more or lefs. This is the beft and mildeft vomit to pump forward the obftructing caufe with; to reitore the wonted courfe of the

muchcellent medicine, abounds gall again; though, upon occafion, it

394 The BEAUTIES of all the the glass may chance to burft; after a few days infufing, train off the wine by fqueezing the bugs quite dry; keep ready by you for ufe. This much with a fine volatile attenuating animal falt, that it is able to penetrate fafely the molt inward receffes of our fineft veffels, and is so connatural with our conftitution, that it may be taken at any time very fafely, and h this uncommon property too, that it is good in all chronical difeafes whatever.

The decoction is made by boiling a handful of two of either, or bath, in a quart of blacksmith's forge water, with a pint of white wine mixed, till about a pint is wafted; when cool, ftrain off the liquor hard, then bottle up for use.

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Or, Take of columbine feeds in powder, fix drams; of faffron, one dram; of tartar vitriolated, or ens veneris, half a dram; make a powder for feven dofes, to be taken twice or thrice a day in rhenith wine.

Or, Take of the pulps of raifins, half a pound; beft rhubarb, three drams; tartar vitriolated, two drams; with fyrup of faffron make an electuary; to be taken, the bignefs of a nutmeg, three times a day, drinking a dofe of the above said medicated wine, or of the decoction, after it every time. Or, Take of gum ammoniac, half an ounce, rub it well first in a stone mortar, then by pouring thereon by degrees a pint of water, reduce it into a fmooth emulfion; ftrain it through a piece of gaule, or mullin; then add to it a gill of white wine. Take three or four fpoonfuls three times a day; or it may be taken în pills if fo preferred. For purgatives ufe powder of rhubarb, which is always best eft taken in fubftance, two fcruples, or a dram, or one ounce, , or two of plain fyrup of backthorn early: o or if no inflammation in the cafe, to be known by a strong quick pulfe, take two ounces of tincturafacra at bed time repeat thefe once, or twice a week.

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may be quickened by adding a grain or two of tartar emetic. once a week, and after its having Repeat it worked once of itself, and not before, carry it off by drinking lukewarm carduus or camomile tea. feems fond of turpeth mineral, but I Dr. Dover without the prefence of the phyfician. think it too rough for moft patients Ufe decoction of raifins, or ftrawberry leaves, either alone or mixed, for or dinary drink.

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briefly as I could, every thing materi Thus I think I have mentioned, as beg leave to obferve by the bye, how al in this diforder, but mult here happy it would be for the patient, and much easier for the learner, did phy fical writers obferve, after the com mendable example of our learned laft difpenfatory, fuch fimplicity in college of phyficians in compiling their their prefcrip ions, and a like nefs in their defcriptions; whereas we concifemeet with the very reverfe, and wonderful it is to behold, how molt me. dical authors are fo far from being brief and inftructive to the dent, that they are enough to puzzle young itu they over abounding with fuch a hud and confound even an old practitioner dle of prefcriptions, and thofe confifting of fuch a farrago of ingredients, that for my part I fhould be afraid to take them. Befides, how fome allo is that tediousness often atow very, 155 tending their long harangues, a little like old women's chat, who ever love to hear themselves talk; or as it they greatly feared their medical art would otherwife become too plain and eafy, and fo lofe in time, much of its ancient obfcurity and venerable mystery. It is a faying of the Hippocrates: that life is fhort, but art is long: therefore we ought to endeathe vine old make life the longer. vour to render art fhorter, in order

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