A fatal Distemperature of the Air in Henry III's Time. 25t 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. B ing another girl complained of the 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 D refpects not unlike that which has lately prevailed. (1216) "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, E H 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. The 232 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. A 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. TH 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 his fortune. I E 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." 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 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. 233 Te Samuel Wather, M. D. By the Rev. Mr Attend him, full gallop, from Z----è toK-nd-1, Thomas Gibbons, M. A. * W ATHER, when first our father fell, And one's remorlelefs pow'r, But would I name each direful ill, I might employ a thousand tongues, And leave the fum untold. To herbs an healing pow'r ; The ground, which thorns and thistles yields, Bears balmy bleffings in its fields, To ftay the mortal hour, From ev'ry plant may flow, Proceed, my friend, and may your skill And Death ungrasp his prey. Laft is a fever's raging fire, A dropfs, quealth's unquench'd defire, To lifeless duft, and with'ring bones, 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, I'm your most humble fervant. 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- 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. Plac'd by the mule amidst the liquid skies. 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; Adventur'd all the perils of the main ; No God prefided in his concave car, But all was riot and confufion's reign. No 234 The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, VOL. XXXII. No Naiade came to her invoking pray'r, 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. T PSALM XIX. HE worlds that roll above proclaim From proud Prefumption's fhameless train ; 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. NE world deceas'd, another born, O'er whofe white hairs, and furrow'd brows, Happy the Patriarch! he rejoic'd My fecond world, tho' gay the fcene, To me this brilliant age appears Near all with whom I liv'd, and fmil'd, And with them dy'd my joys; the grave Cruel to fpare! condemn'd to lifel On a young Lady's FAN. To polifh'd fticks of equal fize Thus Flarimel, mifled by pride, See! now my leaves well-colour'd fhine, In Sylvia thus how well unité To a young Gentleman. Written on a blank Leaf in Now clofe my leaves together twine, A 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: Thus women oft in filence fit, When fummer funs with fultry heat, Poetical ESSAYS; So when Cornuto raves and frets, Breathes calmness o'er this troubled fea, Chloris to me for refuge flies • Whenever confcious blushes rife : So fhould you to the fair relate Thus far we both agree fo well, But madam, fhould your charms decay, If then fome worthy mate should offer, OFF H! for the mufe of Milton, to record Hibernia's fenate with one voice proclaim'd But O, ye fifters of the facred fpring, To grace her conful's brow: for never spoke To leave their fweet pipes filent. Silent lay The high inhabitants, all throng'd to hear, But hark! wild riots shake the peaceful plain, Be these thy honours, Halifax! and thefe One humble garland from th' Aonian tree, 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, Withhold, withhold, thefe filly lays," How could I Virtue's praife proclaim An EPIGRAM on a Gentleman rubo expended biş [OHN run fo long, and run so fast, JOHN No wonder he run out at last ; |