Portrait of his prefens Majefty. champion Dymocke, to a dreadful fight without an adversary; to receive, like him, I fuppofe, the reward of a wellfought day. Safe, and of confequence bold, as Dymocke, he has no enemy but himfelf to combat. No attack has been made on the crown; none but himself has dared to aim any fire-arrows at the bofom of a fovereign that never knew difbonour. He has, for the first time, A B C mentioned a refemblance between the r-g prince and Tiberius, which I believe has never occurred to any one else. The MONITOR has indeed charged the cannon, but the BRITON has pointed it against his fovereign. He pretends. to have difcovered this in the MONITOR of Saturday, May 22. I have read that MONITOR very carefully, and I affirm that there is no mention of Tiberius through the whole of that paper, excepting only in the motto from Tacitus, nor is any fuch character drawn. Count Brubl's indeed is, and by the hand of a master: He is compared, but by the motto only, to Seja. nus: The comparison need not extend farther. A M-r may in all points refemble Sejanus or Count Brubl, and yet his royal matter need not be a Ti- D berius, or an Auguftus III.The fovereign may be a Trajan or a Titus, the delight of mankind; and his only fault, in his people's eyes, may be an unbounded confidence in an infolent, weak, and futile minifter. This foolish BRITON calls upon the MONITOR to produce one infiance of infolence, cruelty, profligacy, or oppreffion, chargeable on the King of G-t B-n; and to exhibit one fpecimen of his weakness and tyranny. Is not this a clever plot to hang the poor MONITOR. Do commit treafon Pray be taken up by Carrington, and be tried. But the MONITOR, I truft, has more wit, and will proceed in the way he has hitherto walked, and adminifter wholesome fatire where it is merited, instead of that nauseous and fulfome panegyrick, with which the BRITON makes us fick. E F G The BRITON fays, that "in any court of judicature, a general charge, unfupported by evidence, is answered and refuted by a general negation." His affertions are every where much more general than the MONITOR'S; nor does he ever dare to defcend to H particulars. He affirms, the adminiAration is conducted with fuch integrity as defies reproach: The King of Pruha, fill our ally, tells the world the contra. ry. He proceeds to fay, with fuch vigour and fuccefs as, one would think,might 271 filence the most inveterate malice: Name what fuccefs, the time when, the place where. For months the fpirit of the war has languifhed, and it is notorious that it is not yet revived. This author gives himself out for a Briton, Ithank my stars I am a North Briton; with this almoft fingular circumftance belonging to me, that I am unplaced and unpenfioned: but I hope this reproach will foon be wiped away, and that I fhall no longer be pointed at by my fneering countrymen. I fhall now, till next Saturday, take leave of this writer with a few excellent lines I lately in read Sir Wm Temple. Thus much is certain, that what " ever means will reftore or raise the neral humour and spirit of the peo ple, the king indeed may make his minifiers great fubjects, but they can < never make him a great prince.' The PORTRAIT of his prefent MA- WE WE have now a king, who is not only born a Briton, and rejoices in the name, but hath alfo been educated under the care of one, molt eminently diftinguished and admired for every virtue and grace that becomes the mother of a British monarch. This, added to the learning, zeal, and abilities of thofe great perfons who were judiciously appointed to the cultivation of his infant mind, thus formed, prompted, and inftructed by nature, genius, and example, no wonder that we faw him come forth like gold from the refiner's pot-pure and without alloy. In his firft fpeech from the throne, we faw the dignity of a king, with a patriot's fire. He declared himself an enemy to vice and immorality, and more than once we have feen his words verified by his deeds, without referve or distinction of birth or rank. He fought for domeftic happiness in the i 272 : Remarks on the Vindication of a great Character: the moft amiable of wives; a state a Jone wherein true pleasure is to be found and in this inftance he has not only manifefted his affection for his people, by thus ftrengthening the perpetuity of the Protestant fucceffion, but hath given a fevere check to celibacy, that most pernicious and fashionable evil, the bane of health, the canker-worm of fociety. A Mercy, the grand attribute of the eternal deity, and the boasted virtue of our late gracious fovereign, has been amply extended in the prefent reign beyond former example; and there B remains only one further difpenfation of royal clemency towards the unhappy to make the work complete. His fortitude and integrity as a king, has been amply manifefted by a steady and inviolable adherence to the treaties and engagements of his predeceffor, however imprudent or impolitically made; and the steps taking in fettling new ones, for the establishment of peace throughout Europe, is a fignal proof of his humanity, and of his paternal fenfations for his burthened fubjects. C His generofity and tenders of favours D towards those who have ferved state, either with zeal or with fuccefs, however calumniated or unmerited, is a praife-worthy mark of truly great and royal principles, becoming the exalted character of a British king. His tafte for mufic and the polite arts, is an ornament to any prince, whofe fubjects know how to diftinguish between virtuous and vicious pleaJures. To which laft I challenge that patron of fcandal and fedition, the MONITOR, to produce one fingle inftance of his m-y's being addicted. It has been a general obfervation, how prudent, how steady, and how virtuous (if I may be allowed that expreffion) his majesty has ever been, even in his juvenile foibles or recreations. Doubtless he hath human paffions, and human frailties; but it is a notorious truth, no prince hath better modelled and fubdued them to the laws of reafon and religion. All these great and good qualities, most certainly entitle him to our love and reverence; nor need we entertain the leaft doubt, but they will produce the most beneficial effects. I The AUDITOR, No. I. June 10, Have lived, fays this writer, a mere AUDITOR in this world for feveral years paft, forming, it is true, a judgment within myself upon all I have heard, but as uncommunicative of my fentiments, as if I had no concern in any thing that has been doing, I have lived to ferve in two parliaments, and (pardon me, my conftituents!) all I ever uttered there, was, HEAR HIM! HEAR HIM! and indeed I have heard ftrange things in all parts of the kingdom. I have heard a variety of political tenets, diametrically oppofite to each other, yet all, in their turns, received and fupported by the leaders of the fame party, nay, by the very dilator himself, who made the civil creed for the year. In one winterEars no Helian treaty." In the 66 no continental measures"-" no German following year "the ballance of power on the Continent—" the Heffians musi "be dedamaged"-" America was con"quered in Germany" were the fashionable maxims of policy. I have heard of the affairs of the nation converted into a private job; of ruinous contracts, infufficient accounts, want of ability in negociation, and timidity in war; of the illiterate, the unworthy, and the profligate preferred to honest merit and while these things have been doing, I have heard the complaints of all degrees of men. F G His gratefully rewarding and confiding in thofe, whom mature reason, founded on a series of facts and obfervations, has discovered worthy of high places. His conferring titles, penhions, and honours on thofe gentlemen, who have always diftinguished themselves as foremost in the lift of patriots and their country's fervice, in oppofition to all ministerial, unconftitutional measures, has been the means of happily extinguishing the feeble Aame of party and difaffection; and how foever misreprefented or mifap- H plied by artful and malicious inferences, is the greatest of compliments he could poffibly pay to the fenfe and judgment of the public: Not having (like fome other princes) prostituted thofe titles to the emolument of his Tfee Thefe, and many other incentives have at length determined the AuDITOR to tell the world what he hears; to exhibit the true character of the times, the real colours of political good and evil; to adminifter an antedote against the poifon of fedition, to applaud the measures of government, when they are founded in policy and wifdom, and to give timely notice, whenever it appears that our pilots are in danger of splitting upon fome unexpected Acc. of Dr Storck's Supplement to his Effays on Hemlock. 273 unexpected rock; and thus to dif charge the duty of a fubject, or, at leaft, to endeavour to difcharge it. guished from all others, by perfons who have not the leaft tincture of botanical knowledge. But as fome have ufed the wrong plant, others have prepared the extract Ain an erroneous manner from the right: Some have taken a very large quantity of the expreffed juice, and boiled it with a great heat in a copper veffel, by which means aftrong fætor is diffused to a confiderable distance, and the most efficacious part flies off, while others, from over great care, clarify the juice and extract. In our difquifitions, the malevolent are not to expect to be gratified with flander, the illiberal with fcurrility, or the inconfiderate with buffoonery. Ingredients like thefe, can have no admiffion into a paper which is undertaken upon principles laudable in themselves; which is intended to reconcile the minds of men to their own good, and to one another; to reFute or laugh out of countenance all B party-diftinctions; to extinguish national prejudices, and to recommend the fpirit of concord, which alone can make us a successful, and preferve us an happy people. In short, it is intended, in the conduct of this plan, to try whether it is not poffible to talk politics, with temper; to delineate characters with decency; to treat of factions, with good humour; and to love our country, without hating individuals. Thofe worthy gentlemen, my cotemporary candidates for public attention (fhould I be fo unhappy as to be oppofed by their opinion) will, it is hoped, manage our little differences with that moderation and politeness, which are fo native to them. It will be their interest to do this, left they fhould oblige us to call forth fome certain powers of ridicule, of which they are not aware at prefent; and alfo left they should, by too eagerly exalting fome characters, and depreciating others, provoke us to refcue truth out of their hands, and make them, in their turn, bear what they may not relifa. An Account of Dr Storck's Supplement to bis two Treatifes on the Virtues of Hemlock. M ANY perfons having mistaken the plant recommended by Dr Storck, and its fpecies and character having been the fubject of difpute, hé got Dr Crantz, profeflor of the Materia Medica, to take the plant into his botanical garden, and procured a drawing to be made of it, with the utmoft exa&tnefs which he camed to be engraven after nature by Mr Cipps, a ftudent in phyfic. One of thefe prints he has prefixed to his fupplement, which we have copied with the utmost accuracy, and inferted in this Magazine, and from which the plant may be certainly and immediately known and diftin(Gznt. Mag. JUNE 1762.) D F G By this treatment a black tenacious mafs, with only a fmall degree of fætor, is produced; but when the extract is prepared, according to Doctor Storck's method, it will be thick, of a greenish brown colour, and yielding. a very difagreeable smell, like that of common mice. Some alfo mix other herbs with the Hemlock, and others leave the herb when freth gathered, in a heap for feveral days, by which means it withers, and part of it rots; and the juice beComes thick and mucillaginous : After this they do not immediately fet the expreffed juice on the fire, but wait two or three days, till they think it a convenient time, during which a change is made in it, and its virtue : impaired. To this account of the plant, an the extract, the Doctor has added fome farther accounts of cures which he has performed by it, but has not always fpecified the quantity adminif tered, only obferving, as a general rule, that he always began with the fmalleft quantity, and gradually encreafed the dofe till he perceived fome good effect, and then encreased it no farther. By thefe cafes it appears, that the extract of Hemlock has cured malig-nant and fiftulous tumours; schirrufes in the breaft, with tubercles, ulcerations, and intollerable pain; obftinate and long continued vomitings; ulcers which discharged a matter fo acrid and corrofive, as to excoriate the neighbouring parts, and excite burning puftules upon them; tumors of valt extent and impenetrable hardness with a chache&tic habit, lofs of appetite, emaciated body, and yellow complexion; hard fwellings in the groin, with the difcharge of an acrid and rulent matter from the uterus, fippo-. fed to have been caufed by a diffent birth, in which the placenta had been dragged out with great force; iwel Enga |