Gloucestershire, that she would there place herself in the house and under the care of a Mrs. Walker, who had obtained a great reputation in restoring to health scores of persons afflicted with weak and delicate constitutions. He hoped Mrs. Lee would soon reap benefit from the change of air, and Mrs. Walker's advice; he trusted that he should have letters from her to that effect, and he should be happy at all times to render her any service in his power, and he was certain that the Princesses and all their friends who had kindly interested themselves on this occasion, would feel great satisfaction to hear of her complete recovery. In saying this he put a purse into my hands and took his leave with the most flattering tokens of respect, requesting that when the contents of the purse were exhausted one of us would write again, and a further supply should be provided. In the course of a day or two, Mrs. Lee with our son Herbert (then a child) and a female servant, left Weymouth for Gloucestershire; whilst I, at the request of the manager Mr. Hughes agreed to stop till he could better spare me. As soon as his lordship had left us, I very naturally felt a curiosity to examine the purse: It contained, if my memory does not deceive me, about eighty guineas. Good old fashioned, golden guineas! none of your meagre mixed-metal stuff termed sovereigns, with something like what is spoken of in the Revelations, impressed upon them. I mean something like death on a pale horse, treading on a spider or a dead grass hopper! These pieces of coin so unlike old fashioned guineas when mixed in the pocket with their cater cousins, the modern rough shillings, feel so much alike, that they are often mistaken one for the other. If such unlucky mistakes only happened in the family of the Master of the Mint, who first sent them into circulation, much mischief would not be done; but tis a pity that any plain honest people should ever suffer mistakes of this kind. Till then guineas were as good if not better than those known in "the golden days of good Queen Bess!" The very feel of them inspired the mind with felicitous fancies-conveyed wit to the finger's ends! the moment the coin touched the palm of the hand, you felt the impression of the full fat face,-the honest head-and almost every hair of the Brown George Wig that adorned it! The period I now speak of was before paper perverted the proper feeling in money matters; and while Brown George Wigs, and Queen Bess's Golden Whigism were nearly as current as the coin of the country! and so they may be again; or something else equally beneficial to society. 'Tis in the nature of things: every evil works its own cure. Let any man of observation look back for a few years; however he may at times have been distressed at the perverse opinions of certain men, and the prevalence ef error and prejudice, yet, waiting with philosophic patience, he will find That Error wider spread more surely fails, 'Tis certainly one of the greatest consolations an 'honest man can feel, to find that after the expiration of months, years, and after strong and repeated struggles in the advocacy of his own well-weighed and most decided opinions: 'Tis, I say, a grateful consolation to have those opinions confirmed by the wise and good, then put into practical circulation, and at length acted upon, by all those who are most instrumental in giving Law and Custom to society. Having wandered from my narrative further than intended, I will now return to Mrs. Lee, at Mrs. Walker's, on Wind-mill Hill, near Sodbury; where she had placed herself. She wrote me frequent and flattering accounts how she was daily improving in health and spirits these reports I was to make to the doctor at Weymouth, whose business it was to carry them to Gloucester Lodge, where the utmost anxiety still continued to prevail on the subject. At the expiration of about a month, I received from Mrs. Lee a most alarming letter, that she was taken very ill indeed, and that I must come to her as soon as possible. Imagine me on the road, and at Sodbury. I lose 1 no time in ascending Wind-mill Hill; and soon found that Mrs. Lee had left the house of the doctress, (Mrs. Walker) and was at a neat cottage in the neighbourhood. I was soon given to understand that my wife had been nearly killed by the old lady's most infallible medicine. Its ingredients were of a nature totally opposite to the case, and eomplaints under which she suffered for this celebrated doctress had aimed at something like working a miracle! She declared to her neighbours, that they well knew she had cured scores of fine ladies in two or three months; but now, Mrs. Lee coming so highly recommended, not only from the nobility, but even from the Royal Family. She therefore was resolved to perform the cure even in one month, if any-wise possible. Nay, the old lady was so sanguine, that she seemed at times to talk as if she soon expected to be sent for to London to physic the King and Queen, the Court, and both Houses of Parliament! Nay, even to restore to full health and vigour all the crazy constitutions of the country. I was anxious to see this wonderful medicine; it was shown to me: I remember saying--It looked like a mixture of muddy water and Cow-dung! but they could not prevail on me to taste it. When Mrs. Lee complained to the old doctress of its being nasty! The reply was-"The nastier the better Ma'am! 'Tis the more likely to do you good!"—" But 'tis so very strong!"—"To be sure; I have made it strong in order to cure you the sooner! what chance of doing you good, if I had made it as weak as water-gruel ?” Thus the old lady went on, with arguments almost as powerful as her medicine! which she administered in such liberal doses, and so often repeated, that her patient was dangerously ill, and certainly could not have lived twenty-four hours longer had not other medical advice been called in. This was the gentleman before alluded to, Mr. Wyat, a surgeon and apothecary of Sodbury, a very intelligent pleasant man, who, as before observed, had taken convenient apartments for her, in a healthy situation near at hand. It was at this cottage I found her in pretty good spirits, but still very weak from the effects of the kill or cure years, and after strong and repeated struggles in the advocacy of his own well-weighed and most decided opinions: "Tis, I say, a grateful consolation to have those opinions confirmed by the wise and good, then put into practical circulation, and at length acted upon, by all those who are most instrumental in giving Law and Custom to society. Having wandered from my narrative further than intended, I will now return to Mrs. Lee, at Mrs. Walker's, on Wind-mill Hill, near Sodbury; where she had placed herself. She wrote me frequent and flattering accounts how she was daily improving in bealth and spirits: these reports I was to make to the doctor at Weymouth, whose business it was to carry them to Gloucester Lodge, where the utmost anxiety still continued to prevail on the subject. At the expiration of about a month, I received from Mrs. Lee a most alarming letter, that she was taken very ill indeed, and that I must come to her as soon as possible. Imagine me on the road, and at Sodbury. I lose no time in ascending Wind-mill Hill; and soon found that Mrs. Lee had left the house of the doctress, (Mrs. Walker) and was at a neat cottage in the neighbourhood. I was soon given to understand that my wife had been nearly killed by the old lady's most infallible medieine. Its ingredients were of a nature totally opposite to the case, and complaints under which she suffered for this celebrated doctress had aimed at something like working a miracle! She declared to her neighbours, that they well knew she had cured scores of fine ladies in two or three months; but now, |