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flept well, when the violence of the pain began to abate.-The mother is now emaciated, and has very little ufe of her hands.-The eldeft girl has Aa fuperficial ulcer in one thigh, and feems alfo ill. The rest of the family are pretty well.-The ftumps of fome of them perfectly healed.

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ing another girl complained of the
fame violent pain in the fame leg.-
On the Monday, the mother, and ano
ther child; and on Tuesday all the reft
of the family were affected in the
fame manner; fome in one leg, fome
in both legs.-The little infant was
taken from the mother's breaft: It
feemed to be in pain, but the limbs
'did not mortify; it lived a few weeks.
The mother, and the other five chil-
dren, continued in violent pain a con-
fiderable time: In about four, five, or
fix days, the difeafed leg began to
turn black gradually, appearing at
first covered with blue fpots, as if it
had been bruifed.-The other leg of
thofe who were affected at first only
in one leg, about that time alfo began
to be affected with the fame excru- c
ciating pain, and in a few days that
leg allo began to mortify.-The mor
tified parts separated gradually from
the found parts; and the furgeon had,
in most of the cafes, no other trouble
than to cut through the bone, which
was black, and almost dry.-The ftate
of their limbs at present is this:

Mary, the mother, aged 40, has loft the right foot at the ancle ; the left foot alfo is off, and the two bones of the leg remain, almoft dry, with only fome little putrid fleth adhering in fome places. The flesh is found to a bout two inches below the knee. The bones would have been fawn through at that place, if she would have confented to it.

Mary, aged 15, both legs off below the knees.

Elizabeth, aged 13, both legs off be low the knees,

Sarah, aged 10, one foot off at the ancle.-The other foot was affected, but not in fo great a degree, and is now found again.

Robert, aged 8, both legs off below

the knees.

Edward, aged 4, both feet off.

An infant, four months old, dead. The father was attacked about fortnight after the rest of the family, and in a lighter degree; the pain being confined to his fingers-Two fingers of the right hand continued for a long time difcoloured, and partly fhrunk and contracted; but he begins now to have fome ufe of them.

The nails of the other hand were also difcoloured He loft two of them.

It is remarkable, that during all the time of this misfortune, the whole family are faid to have appeared, in other relpects, well, eat heartily, and

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"THE xiiith day of March (fays an ancient record from which this account is taken) the newe Moone was feene, where the chaunge by na. ture fhould not have beene tyll the xvith day following, and for the space of xv days that then next enfued, the Sunne, the Moone, and Starres, appeared of a red colour, And here. with the whole face of the earth feemed as it had been fhadowed with a thicke myft, or smoke, the winde notwithstanding remaining North and North-East. And herewith began a fore drought, continuing a long time, the which, together with morning frofts, and northerly windes, deftroyed the fruites and other growing things, which were blafted in fuch wife, that although, at the first, it was a very forwarde yeare, and great plentie towardes of corne and fruite, yet by the meanes aforefaid, the fame was greatly hindered, and fpecially in the fommer season, which the Sunnes heat increased, and the drought still continued. The refidue of fuche fruites as then remayned, withered away, fo that scarce a tenth part was left, and yet there was indifferent store. For if the abundaunce which the blossomes promised had come forwarde, the trees had not been able to have borne the fame. The graffe was fo burned up in paftures and meadowes, that if Ga man took up fome of it in his hands, and rubbed the fame never fo little,

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tftreight fell to poulder, and fo cattle were readie to ftarve through lacke of meate: And because of the exceeding hote nightes, there was fuch abundaunce of fleas, flies, and gnattes, that people were vexed, and brought in cafe to be wearie of their lives. And herewith chaunced many dif cafes, as fweates, agues, and others. And in the harvest tyme there fell a great death or murreyn amongst catrel, and fpecially in Norfolke, in the fennes, and other partes of the South.

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Story of Mr Locke.Remedy for the Cramp.

The infection was such, that dogs and ravens feeding on the dead carraynes, fwelled ftreight wayes and dyed, fo that the people durit eate no bief, leaft the flesh happely might be infected.

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Alfo this was noted, not without great wonder, that young heyfers and bullockes followed the mylche kine, and as it had been calves fucked the fame kine. Alfo apple-trees and peare-trees, now after the tyme of yeelding their ripe fruite, began againe to bloffome, as if it had beene B in Aprill. The caufe of the death of cattel was thought to come hereof. After fo great a drought, which continued by all the space of the monthes of Aprill, May, June, and July, when there followed good plentie of raine, the earth began to yeelde her encrease most plenteously of all growing things, C though not fo wholfome, nor of fuch kindly fubitance, as in due time and feafon thee is accustomed to bring forth; and fo the cattel, which before was hunger-ftarven, fed now fo greedily of thys newe graffe, fprung up in undue feafon, that they were D fuddenly puffed up with fleshe, and fuch unnatural humours, as bredde infections amongst them, whereof they dyed."

STORY of Mr LOCKE.

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HIS great man, in his earlier years, had contracted a very particular friendhip with a young fel. low who had lived in the fame neigh bourhood from his infancy. This eltetin Mr Locke carried fo very high, that he confidered his friend's intereft infeparably connected with his own, and looked upon any inftance of good

fortune in either to be a means of advancing the welfare of both. However, having once got into the favour of fome people in power, the friend began to envy the fituation of Mr Locke; and judging of that good man's heart by his own, fuppofed he would withdraw his friendship as he increafed

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him in the greateft diftrefs. Mr Locke felt feverely for the perfidy of his friend, and was to the last degree furprized when informed of the methods he had taken to ruin his intereft; but ftill continuing his application to bufinefs, and deferving the favour of his patrons, he was advanced to fome places of no inconsiderable profit and honour.

One morning, while he was at breakfaft, word was brought him, that a man, in a very fhabby habit, requested the honour of peaking to him. Mr Locke, whom no advancement could raife above the practice of good manners, immediately ordered him to be admitted, and found, to his great aftonishment, his old friend reduced, by a life of cunning and extravagance, to the greatest poverty and distress, and come to implore his affiftance, and follicit his forgiveness. Mr Locke looked at him for fome time very itedfaftly, without fpeaking one word; at length, taking out a fifty-pound note, he prefented it to him with the following remarkable declaration :

"Though I fincerely forgive your behaviour to me, yet I must never put it in your power to injure me a fecond time. Take this trifle, which I give, not as a mark of my former friendship, but as a relief to your prefent wants, and confign it to the fervice of your neceflities, without recollecting how little you deferve it.No reply. -It is impoffible to regain my good opinion; for know, friendship once injured is for ever lost."

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Fe, in your laft Magazine, a letter requesting a remedy for the Cramp. He mentions his remembrance of an advertisement, about three years ago, offering, to publish a specific, in this cafe, on the payment of zoo guineas. -I too remember an advertisement of this kind in the Daily Advertiser; and, in compaffion to thole afflicted, I com Gmunicated, gratis, by means of the

Fraught with this opinion, he endeavoured to fupplant Mr Locke in the efteem of all his friends, and to engage their protection for himself, by the difcovery of every fecret which the other had frufted him with in the H unfufpecting openness of his heart: Finding, however, that all attempts of this nature were fruities, he fuddenly difappeared, and carried off a fum of money, the property of his tend, which he knew muft involve

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London Chronicle, about two years and half ago, a very easy and immediate remedy, which is this:To extend, or rather to turn back, as much as poffible, the fingers, or the toes, ofthe limb affected: This may be eafily done, when it may not be in one's power to remove the whole limb. I have ever found it to give immediate relief, and it is much more effectual than friction, which may not, at any time, be easily performed. Yours, &c.

MEANWELL.

POETICAL ESSAYS;

MAY 1762.

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Te Samuel Wather, M. D. By the Rev. Mr Attend him, full gallop, from Z----è toK-nd-1, Thomas Gibbons, M. A. *

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ATHER, when first our father fell,
And fin tinbarr'd the gates of Hell,
What forrows feiz'd mankind!
Fierce fever wav'd a flaming brand,
Pale pally thook her nerveless hand,
And droply crawl'd behind.
Corroding cancer then appear'd,
Cholic, for racking anguish fear'd,

And one's remorlelefs pow'r,
With livid plagues, that as they fly.
Empoifon earth, and sea, and sky,
And half a world devour.

But would I name each direful ill,
Arm'd with envenom'd shafts to kill,
And all its pangs unfold,

I might employ a thousand tongues,
Or weary Stentor's brazen lungs,

And leave the fum untold.
But Heav'n, compaffionate, ordains
To footh our maladies and pains,

To herbs an healing pow'r ;

The ground, which thorns and thistles yields, Bears balmy bleffings in its fields,

To ftay the mortal hour,
Watber, t' explore their latent afe,
To learn what life-reviving juice

From ev'ry plant may flow,
Is thy profeffion's brave defign:
An aim how worthy, how divine,
To fuccour human woe!

Proceed, my friend, and may your skill
With mis'ries wage the combat ftill,
And drive the fiends away:
Sharp Anguish into Eafe beguile,
Make Sickness into Pleafute fmile,

And Death ungrasp his prey.
Meantime, for me prefer your pray'r
To Heav'n, that my ftill greater cafe
May meet a like fuccefs :
In fouls what dire difeafes reign,
And yet, alas! they feel no pain,
And ask for no redress.

Laft is a fever's raging fire,

A dropfs, quealth's unquench'd defire,
The worst of ulcèrs, Pride';
Propbaneness, like a plague moft fell,
Devours, and rides with Death and Hell,
Th' attendants at its fide.

To lifeless duft, and with'ring bones,
In vain we four our tears and groans,
In vain we taife our cries,
Till a divine immortal breath
Defcending on the vales of death,
Shall make the ruins rise.

This Author has lately published a Volume of Sermons, with a Hymn adapted to the fubject of sach, intended for the Devotion of the family and the closet.

A FAMILIAR FRISTLE.

Then "White Lyos hoy, country dances will mend all ;"

Now time I have got yet to rhyme will furpafsus, The Mufes won't give me a word from Parnaffus, Complain" that for int'reft I've long giv'n "em

over,

reliance,

"Or use them, at beft, as a coquet her lover, "And bid me afk Phaus, whofe dictates I follow, "Nor dream of respect from the race of Apollo." Pray tell me dear H--r----n what shall I ́do, The Mufes are maids-but I never could woo Whom I never could love" then on felf thy [fiance. "Scrawl verfe, my dear Jack, bid the Mufes deAvaunt then,ye Mufes ! dear comrade how is it? Who ufes you beft, and whom most do you vifit? Who fighs for Miis W-If-n, and who for Mifs Fl-m---g? [gaming? Is Cb--mb---rs in town, or does Br---tbwe love Do both our old daddies still tip off their gills, And Sunday eve ramblers admire Thorny hills? Does Cr--- read the papers, Tom S---mm---s ga→ [burn their nets The Tr-gbt-ns poach fish, or Hugh H---lis Are the Luthers and W-f-ns ftill jarring as ever, Brother W is he fober or T-, is he clever? Is B-tf-y, your fifter, as fine as they tell us? Wr-kt's fhop in the church-yard, is that call'd the bell-houfe?

zettes,

middle.

I win if it is-but as eke Crowdo's fiddle,
These questions, I find, must be broke in the
[vent
With respects to enquirers and wishes moft fer
For your health, and return,

I'm your most humble fervant.
This is first and laft copy,pray ne'er fay who

fent it,

Or give the leaft hint-if you do, I'll refent it. One thing more, and I've done,---which is this, [caxon. my dear -chf-n,

I've let my hair grow, and have thrown off my London, May 4.

******.

VERSES on the Return of a young Lady from Ja-
maica in very bad Weather.
Her locks were threads of crifped gold.
Old ballad of fair Refamond.

F old, when Theffaly's felected band Arrived from Colcbus with their golden flore, The youths and damfels on the Grecian fand, Welcom'd the heroes to their native fhore. Some fung the praifes of Madea's art,

. But more the beauties of her lovely face; Whilft all confented, with united heart,

To chant the brilliance of the golden fleece.
Nor waft thou, Arge, in the fong forgot,
The fafe conveyer of the yellow prize!
Immortal fame is thy diftinguifh'd lot,

Plac'd by the mule amidst the liquid skies.
Thrice happy offspring of Dodona's grove!
One British bark alone shall equal thee;
O may'ft thou never from thy skies remove!
But at thy fides a new affociate fee.

HADI, my dear f-ckf→w, a little more That bark which bro't a golden fleece from far,

time,

I'd call on the Muses, and scribble in rhyme;
In raptures poetic rejoice with my friend,
On his happy arrival at N---wb---gg---n end ;

Adventur'd all the perils of the main ; No God prefided in his concave car, But all was riot and confufion's reign.

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The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, VOL. XXXII.

No Naiade came to her invoking pray'r,
Amidst the furges of the fwelling fea;
But Venus, ftill propitious to the fair,
Preferv'd the Aeece--O, might I hope, for me!

A. B.

The following Verfion of the XIXth Pfalm we bave received from a Correspondent who thinks Mr Merrick's, which was inferted in the Magawine for February laft, bas suffered in many Places by bis not adbereing more clofely to the Tranflation of our common English Bible.

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PSALM XIX.

HE worlds that roll above proclaim
The parent GoD, from whom they came;
And day to day, and night to night,
Declare his wifdom and his might:
No elime remote of various fpeech
But learns th' important truths they teach:
From pole to pole th' inftruction flies;
And tracks from East to Weft the fkies,
Where God the fun's pavilion spread,
Ordain'd his influence thence to shed;
With all a bridegroom's blushing grace
He quits his chamber for the race,
Exulting fmiles in confcious ftrength
And eyes with joy th' amazing length :
His circuit wide as Heav'n extends,
His heat to Nature's utmost ends.
But more than Nature, lord! is thine,
The rule of life, the law divine;
The law that makes the fimple wife,
And guides the mortal to the fkies;
That clears from mifts the mental fight
And warms with Virtue's pure delight:
Thy judgments known to ages paft,
On Truth eternal fix'd, shall laft;
Their worth the finest gold excels
Their fweetness, Hybla's honied cells;
From death my caution'd feet they guard
And are their own fublime reward;
Yet oft, alas! too oft I ftray
Unconscious from the living way;
O! blot the fins I cannot know!
For who can mark his faults below?
And O! my God! my feet refrain

From proud Prefumption's fhameless train ;
From daring guilt my foul defend,
My will let no foul tyrant bend;
So fhall no ftain of crimson hue
Pollute my days, tho' fhort and few
To thee my voice, my thoughts arise
A warm, but humble facrifice,

Accept them maker! father! friend!

My ftrength, my faviour, hope, and end.

The following Stanzas are extracted from a Pcert called RESIGNATION, juft published by Dr Young; it was written on Occafion of the Death of the late Admiral Bofcawen, and is addreffed to bis Widow and this Part contains a friking Picture of the necessary Infelicity of Old Age, even where Health continues the Relifh of mere animal Gratifications, and a Fortune is not wanting to procure them.

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NE world deceas'd, another born,
Like Noab they behold,

O'er whofe white hairs, and furrow'd brows,
Too many funs have toll'd:

Happy the Patriarch! he rejoic'd
His fecond world to fee;

My fecond world, tho' gay the fcene,
Can boaft no charms for me.

To me this brilliant age appears
With defolation fpread;

Near all with whom I liv'd, and fmil'd,
Whilft life was life are dead;

And with them dy'd my joys; the grave
Has broken Nature's laws;
And clos 'd, against this feeble frame,
Its partial, cruel jaws.

Cruel to fpare! condemn'd to lifel
A cloud impairs my fight;
My weak hand difobeys my will,
And trembles as I write.

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On a young Lady's FAN.
Urvey me well, and think you fee
An emblem of your fex in me:
So like, fo very much the fame,
We differ only but in name.

To polifh'd fticks of equal fize
Which from a center gently rife,
And, fpreading, form at top a bow
The nicenefs of my frame I owe.

Thus Flarimel, mifled by pride,
Nature's deformities to hide,
By artful ftays of steel compact,
Elaborates a fhape exact.

See! now my leaves well-colour'd fhine,
What figures grace the gay defign!
Yet there (fmall caufe for me to boatt,)
But fpeak the artist's skill at mott.

In Sylvia thus how well unité
The mixture of the red and white;
Whilft here the lilly, there the rofe,
A variegated bloom compofe:
Yet all these graces only tell,
That paint can mimic nature well.

To a young Gentleman. Written on a blank Leaf in Now clofe my leaves together twine,

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bis Dodley's Collection.

S roves the bee, at early dawn, Along the rich enamell'd lawn, And carefully employs each hour Extracting fweets from ev'ry flower, So, in the morning of thy days, May't thou, from thefe unequall'd lays, Extract fair Virtue's power divine; O may her ev'ry charm be thine!

Thus, when the eve of life appears, No heart-oppreffing gloomy cares Will e're disturb thy peaceful reft, Or drive the fun-fhine from thy breaft. Glafgew.

W. K

And in themfelves themfelves confine:
And now their full extent display,
Like flow'rs fair opening to the day.

Thus women oft in filence fit,
And piqu'd, indulge the pouting fit:
Anon th' eternal larum's rung,
And vollies break from ev'ry tongue;
For few observe the middle ftate,
"Twixt mopeless fpleen and ceaseless pratea

When fummer funs with fultry heat,
Around the head intenfely beat,
My leaves with gentle motion play'd,
Afford a kind refreshing shade.

Poetical ESSAYS;

So when Cornuto raves and frets,
About arrears of rents and debts,
When now his paffions higher rife,
And fury fparkles in his eyes,
How foon his wife's compofing care
(Waving a cudgel high in air)

Breathes calmness o'er this troubled fea,
And cools him---like a dish of tea.

Chloris to me for refuge flies

• Whenever confcious blushes rife :
O'er widow'd Delia's face I'm fpread,
"To hide the tears the can--not shed."
Yet my tranfparent leaves reveal
What they're intended to conceal.

So fhould you to the fair relate
A fecret of the utmost weight,
As foon they'll blab what they receive
As water paffes thro' a fieve.

Thus far we both agree fo well,
We almoft form a parallel :
Yet in one circumstance alone
I cannot make your cafe my own.
For fhould or time, or malice, spoil
My texture, or my colours foil,
The artift's hand new bloom can give,
And bid each tranfient grace revive.

But madam, fhould your charms decay,
And fade infenfibly away,
(As fade they muft, or foon or late,
Such is the fix'd decree of fate!)
This truth each man of rhymes will fing,
"Beauty ne'er knows a fecond fpring."

If then fome worthy mate should offer,
Be timely wife, nor fcorn the proffer.
The Refolution of the Irish Parliament to augment
the Appointment of the Lord Lieutenant, and bis
Excellency's memorable Speech on that Occafion,
(See p. 134.) occafion'd the Publication of a little
Psem called the VICEROY, from whence the
following Verfes are felected :

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H! for the mufe of Milton, to record
The honours of that day, when full con-
ven'd

Hibernia's fenate with one voice proclaim'd
A nation's high applause; when, long oppreft
With wealth-confuming war, their eager love
Advanc'd the princely dignity's fupport,
While Halifax prefided! O, belov'd
By every mufe, grace of the polish'd court,
The peafant's guardian, then what pleasure felt
Thy liberal bofom! not the low delight
Of fortune's added gifts, greatly declin'd;
No;
'twas the fupreme blifs that fills the breaft
Of conscious virtue, happy to behold
Her cares fuccessful in a nation's joy.

But O, ye fifters of the facred fpring,
To sweetest accents tune the polish'd lay,
The mufic of perfuafion! You alone
Can paint that eafy eloquence that flow'd
In Attic Areams, from Hallifax that flow'd
When all Jerne liften'd. Albion heard
And felt a parent's joy no more, the cried,
No more fhall Greece the man of Athens boast,
Whofe magic periods fmooth'd the liftening wave
Of rapt Ilyus. Rome thall claim no more
The Rowery palm of eloquence alone

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To grace her conful's brow: for never spoke
Himeria's viceroy words of fairer phrase,"
Forgetful of Alpheus" haftening ftream,
When Aretbufa fiop'd her golden tide,
And call'd her nymphs, and call'd her fhepherd
fwains

To leave their fweet pipes filent. Silent lay
Your pipes, Hibernian fhepherds. Liffey fmil'd,
And on his foft hand lean'd his dimply cheek,
Attentive: "Once fo Wharton fpoke," he cried
"Unhappy Wharton! whofe young eloquence
"Yet vibrates on mine ear." Whatever powers,
Whatever genii old, of vale or grove

The high inhabitants, all throng'd to hear,
Sylvanus came, and from his temples grey
His oaken chaplet flung, left happly leaf
Or interpofing bough fhould meet the found,
And bar its foft approaches to his ear,
Pan ceas'd to pipe-a moment ceas'd-for thes
Sufpicion grew, that Pbæbus in disguise
His ancient reign invaded: down he caft,
In petulance, his reed; but feiz'd it foon
And fill'd the woods with clangor. Measures wild
The wanton Satyrs danc'd, then liftening ftood,
And gaz'd with uncouth joy.

But hark! wild riots shake the peaceful plain,
The gathering tumult roars, and Faction opes
Her blood-requesting eye. The frighted fwain
Mourns o'er his wafted labours, and implores
His country's guardian. Previous to his wish
That guardian's care he found; the tumult ceas'd
And Faction clos'd her blood-requesting eye,

Be these thy honours, Halifax! and thefe
The liberal mufe, that never ftain'd her page
With flattery, fhall record: from each low view
Each mean connection free, her praife is fame.
O, could her hand in future times obtain

One humble garland from th' Aonian tree,
With joy fhe'd bind it on thy favour'd head,
And greet thy grudging ear with fweeter ftrains!
Mean while purfue, in public Virtue's path,
The palm of glory only there will bloom
Pierian laurels. Should't thou deviate thence,
Perish the bloffoms of fair-folding fame!'
Ev'n this poor wreath that now affects thy brow,
Would lofe its little bloom, the mufe repine,
And blush that Halifax had stole her praise.

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The REQUEST. S lately on yon flowery mead, I with the fair Amonia ftray'd, "Come now," faid fhe, "your lyre attune, "Let's have a fong, how small the boon! I ftraight began to fing her praife,

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Withhold, withhold, thefe filly lays,"
She haft ly cry'd, "take for your theme
"Meek Virtue,-mention not my name."
I ftar'd, and laid my lyre afide,
Blafted my hope, depreft my pride:
Ye careless thepherds laugh your fill,
To you, ye lovers, I appeal,

How could I Virtue's praife proclaim
And not reveal Amonia's name?

An EPIGRAM on a Gentleman rubo expended biş
bole Fortune in Horse-racing.

[OHN run fo long, and run so fast,

JOHN

No wonder he run out at last ;
He run in debt,-and then to pay
He diftanc'd all, and run away.

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