pp. 1762. An address to the Cocoa Free. 687 The lofs and recovery of Newfound- facts which you know so perfectly wella You could antwer the questions without much recollection, weren In to ask you in the order of time. stw got an and, and the conquest of the Havannah, ave happened under the prefent adminiration. The merit of the recovery of Newfoundland is much weakened by the Entecedent lofs of it. If any merit be claimed from the recovery, the world will ufpect, that it was loft with a view o that merit. It may be most agree able to truth, to acquit the minifter of both. You have told us, to whom to afcribe the merit of the reduction of the Havannah; and as you have no partiality to the prince of the blood whofe advice fecured the fuccefs of that expedition, we are happy in taking your word for the fact. The whole therefore of his fervices is hitherto comprised in a fhort space of time, and in a very narrow compafs; for we know of no fervice he could do us, nor of any experience he could gain, when his great talents were concealed in a place of no bufinefs, at a fubordinate court. He has, indeed, produced a peace; and, I apprehend, there is hardly one among his conftitutional enemies who envies him that work. Thefe, Gentlemen, are the reasons for the prefent opppofition. The m-r stands unrecommended to the Whigs, by his na tural intereft, and by his actual fervices; and he is obnoxious to them for being fupposed to have adopted the maxims of the Tories; thofe maxims which Tories contradict and counteract when they are oat of power, and which the Whigs have invariably condemned, whether in power, or out. You have affigned other motives for the oppofition; but they are only fuch as anger will always fuggeft, when men are ripe for invective. They are not indeed mere inventions; for you, who are in the fecret of affairs, know the private injuries of which the Whigs have caufe to complain, though their complaints are all of a public nature. Your favourite m-r, conscious of the infirmity of his pretensions, has not afferted nor conducted his power with the gentleness which prudence would have dictated to a new minifter better circum franced. He was so much in hafte to be the fole mure that he took not the time neceflary to avail himself of the experience of other men, or to ftrengthen himfelf by their friendship. I need not remind you, Gentlemen, of What is become of one, avhỏm, you know to be eminently qualified for the ftation he filled, but who was fo intractable that he could not be prevailed with, by any menaces, to give up his own honour, by betraying a local interest of the Whigs P Why another gentleman, whom you fo juftly revered, was provoked to refign, by the oppofition he met with to a measure which he thought neceffary, and which was adopted as unavoidable foon after his retirement? What could induce a third, who had ferved in both the late reigns with a most difinterested fidelity, to resign, at a time when his friends adhere to him in a manner which feems to aftonifh you, and when you confefs his activity not to be im paired by age? Why a fourth, whofe name has ever been dear to the Whigs, whofe manners are too gentle to give offence, was→→→ But I will not proceed. You are so vi gilant and zealous, that I would not uts ter a word which might bear too free a construction. We know who it is that can do no wrong, and the nation has not been misled to impute any thing wrong to him. It is all understood to proceed from another hand, against which the whole difcontent of the public is direct ed. Can you be infenfible that the voice of the people is loud, and almost united at this time? And are your notions of monarchy fo high, as to incline you to think the whole nation made for a minister ? This would be improving upon your an cestors, who only thought the nation made for the king. Having thus far justified the conduct of the Whigs, give me leave, Gentlemen, to add a few obfervations upon your conduct. You talk much of majesty and preroga tive. If this had been always your language, how many bitter efforts of oppofition might have been spared for fifty years paft! How much more peaceable might have been the reign of our late fovereign! I will not ask you how vigorous an oppofition you made to the unnatural rebellion against him. Wherein did he provoke you to lay afide the doctrine of your fathers, which you have new brought forth 4 X 2 quite quite rufty, for the ufe of the prefent m-r? The late King had been educated in a country where his family was defrotics but here he was a friend to liberty; and knowing what principles had raifed his illuftrious houfe to the throne, he confided in the Whigs, and treated you with a moderation which feemed to bid fair for a coalition of parties. The great minifter who found it neceffary to fupport the German measures, convinced you of their rectitude. He does not appear to have changed his opinion; nor can it be merely his removal from power that changes yours. It mast be fome fudden light that is lately broke in upon your minds. jatine i bra suje I well remember that you boasted of If you bear any ill-will to his memory, his difinterestedness, and pleaded that as treat him at least as you think kings the ground of your confidence in him. ought to be treated: and do not, for his He was, indeed, difinterested; for he had fake, infult and vilify his beloved fur- all the trouble of power, without the viving fon. Do not, for your own fakes, pleasure of gratifying his friends. Did defcribe that prince, as a spirit which you find this inconvenient, Gentlemen, delighteth in blood. Surely this is not that you made fo quick a transition, from now the language of the Cocoa-Tree. If him, to one who has, at present, an unit be, then party is re kindled to an controlled power to gratify any friend?· alarming degree. I was the language heretofore of thofe who were disappointed at Culloden, and has been difufed till it efcaped from the pen of your writer, I hope inadvertently, and without your approbation. And with respect to minifters; permit me to ask you, had not the minifters of the late king at least as conftitutional pretenfions to their power, as any you can affign to the prefent minifter? We have heard much alledged of their corruption. I will not enter either into the fact, or into the known caufes of it. But wherein did you principally place their corruption? To the best of my memory you made an outcry about places and penfions, till placemen and penfioners were almost ashamed of their daily bread. Let me beg you to compare the prefent lift of places and penfions, with that which exifted in the time of the mi nifter whom you moft vehemently oppofed as the grand corruptor. Without doubt the prefent minifter has reasons for his conduct, which perfectly fatisfy you. We have heard of one penfion bestowed upon an ingenious writer, which proba⚫ bly has not given you offence. Indeed, if places could have been purchafed by extraordinary fervices, you would have had a fair claim in the late reign; for you were observed to bid very high, in the latter part of it, when you eagerly concurred in the German mea fures. It is noble and ingenuous in you, to retract your conduct so openly, as foon as those measures cease to be in vogue. It is your happiness that you can preferve your integrity unfpotted, whilft you take a fudden leap from one extremi ty of a measure to another, and from due minifter to another, But whilst I give you joy of your prefent expectations, I will do you the justice to intimate, that they may, peradventure, be too fanguine. You must have obferved how much your favourite mer is alarmed at the fufpicions of the Whigs; what pains he takes, upon every refignation, to fill up the vacancy with a character, or, if that be impracticable, with a name, which may give a Whig comple xion to his admn. He feems to find it difficult to do this; but you have fome. thing to apprehend from the mere attempt. You complain of having been called the dupes of many oppofitions. Perhaps the time may come when you may be exalted higher, and become the dupes of a m—r. I fhall, in that case, think you very ili treated: for your merit is great, in contradicting yourfelves, at fo-fmall a distance of time, and in deferting the Rt Hon. Gentleman, in whom you had implicit confidence, fo lately as the last winter; for whom, and whose measures, you were fo zealous, that you were very near forgetting the independency and prerogative of the crown.org wo_{{!w-i!” Before I take my leave, let me beg of you, Gentlemen, for the fake of the King and the nation, and for your own fakes/ to publifh no more fuch letters as yours last. The violence of party language is very inflammatory, and you need not be told that the Whigs are the majority of the nation. They are ever peaceably difpofed, dutiful to the king, zealous fen the constitution, and moderate towards the Tories P 5 ob sv ab WOH· 7 Why should you in the spirit of exul• tation, provoke them to depart from as temper which you have experienced to be gentle App 1762. Answers to Whig questions put to the Cocoa-Tree. gentle? They will not depart from it, without the most extreme neceflity. They will continue good neighbours, and good fubjects; but whilft they breathe the air of this country, they will endeavour to preferve the liberties of it. They will entertain the fame notions of prerogative and liberty, equally, in all reigns. When their ideas upon each of those points are quite extinct, then you will have the liberty of triumphing, without any opponent, in the extinction of parties; and that may be the only liberty, and the only triumph, you will then have. In the mean time, to fhew how remote and chimerical that day appears to us. I will repeat, in the name of the Whigs, the conclufion of a protest formerly made in a certain great assembly: "Under this Royal Family alone, we are fully convinced, we CAN live FREE; and under this Royal Family, we are fully determined, we WILL live FREE." I am, &c.. Dec. 6. 1763. A WHIG. From the AUDITOR, No 34. Four questions have been lately put by the guide and oracle of the oppofition [687.], with an air almost implying that his Majefty had been guilty of a breach of the conftitution, and trampled Magna Charta under his feet. It will be of ufe, the Auditor thinks, to answer the charge contained in these questions; and, diftant as he is from the fecret springs of political action, he hopes it will be permitted him to affign those reasons which in the general stream of things have flowed down to him. To the first question: The Whigs remember the time when this fecond-rate minifter bid open defiance to them, and became a partner with the grand penfion er in the gold-box trade [xix. 256.]. The ill-will they then entertained for him is fresh in our minds and how he came to diffolve the faid partnership is well known. While he was still reaping great advanta. ges from the patriotic company account, he was fecretly wriggling and intriguing with his Grace (then the fole fountain of honours) to obtain a peerage. How much he contributed to the merriment of his patron, and in what colours he was painted forth by him, ave all remember: "How do ye do? I'll tell you a good joke: → Harry Budget is tired of strutting, and has taken to cringing again; the little fellow wants a peerage. I have 689 promifed him, but he shall never have it. To the fecond: It may reasonably be This justice and deliberate valour was pre ferved. To the third: He refigned, because he was not fuffered, when public credit was already groaning under a most intolerable load, to aggrieve the fubject with the loan of two millions more, which, it appears, were not requifite, as the most brilliant fervices of the whole war have been executed without any additional incumbrance upon the people. As to the boafted activity, if it was never more than a vis inertiæ; a crazy running about, as has been wittily obferved, all day long, in purtuit of four hours which were loft in the morning; I cannot conceive what detriment the nation will fuffer by the feceffion of a person who is busy to no ufe, and active to no end. The boasted fervices in two former reigns, are well delineated in the words of the great Shakefpear, whom no circumstance in human life efcaped, where he talks of a fpunge that foaks up the King's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. How they were foaked, the page of history will tell, and the people of England will agree with the mafter-poet, that fuch officers do the King the best fervices in the end; he keeps them like an apple in the corner of his jaw; firft mouthed, to be laft fwallowed; when he needs what they have gleaned, it is but fqueezing, and, fpunge, they fhall be dry again." To the fourth: The addreffer breaks off abruptly at this point, becaufe he will not utter a word which might bear too free a construction. I fhall ufe the fame caution, only begging of my readers to confider the following paflage, which I find in Swift's Directions to fervants."When you have a mind to leave your mafter, and are bafhful to break the mat ter for fear of offending him; the beft way is, to grow rude and faucy of a fudden, and beyond your ufual behaviour, till he finds it neceflary to turn you off; and when you are gone, to revenge your felf, give him and his lady a bad character to all your brother-fervants who are out of place, that none will venture to offer their fervice." But notwithstanding every art that has been used, the crown has found ready and dutiful fervants, Duke for Duke, Lord for Lord, and Whig for Whig. In regard to the laft denomination, the Auditor hopes, nothing has fallen from his pen, that can justly give umbrage to any perfon who profefles the true character of that party. A Child, about eight years old, near Lifle in Flanders, who was fubject to epileptical fits, happened, upon his being feized with one of them, to fall backward, fo as to receive a violent blow on the hinder part of the head; which produced a compound fracture, including the fuperior part of the occipital, and part of the parietal bone. The tread was tre panned in two places, by which the splin ters were eafily taken away; the wound, after being long kept open, was at length perfectly healed; and the epileply, except one or two flight fits during the cure, ne ver returned. It fometimes happens, that when children are epileptic, they perfectly recover about the age of puberty, by the extraor dinary change which then takes place. Nature feems then to acquire a new ener gy, in order to give the individual its greateft poflible perfection, and fubdue whatever refifts its falutary operation. But, in this cafe, the cure must have been the confequence of the fracture, for the patient had not arrived at the age of puberty by many years. It was probably effected by the purulent running, which continued a long time before the vent formed by the trepan, and the feparation of the splinters, was closed. It is, however, extremely difficult to determine why this discharge was falutary. Are we to fuppofe, that it removed the caufe of the epilepfy, by leflening the quantity of matter contained in the brain, and fo diminishing the preffure of its parts? or was fome foreign fubftance difcharged by the wound, which had caused that diforder? The queftions are proposed to the learned for a folution. A Young man of Roubaix, a town near Turcoin, who had been an idiot from his infancy, happened to fail fo as to res ceive a violent blow a little on one fide of the hinder part of his head. The blow occafioned a fracture of many angles, including the inferior part of the parie tal, and the pofterior part of the tem poral bone, as far as the root of the na foidal apophefis, as appeared by an infpection of the splinters that came away by trepanning the fcull in two or three places. The wound being cured, the friends of the patient perceived, with inexpre aftonishment App. 1762. Dr Lobb on fevers in adult perfons. aftonishment and pleasure, that the faculties of mind began to display themselves; that his understanding improved every day; and that, in a fhort time, he was quite upon a level with others of his rank: and he has many years belonged to a bleaching ground, the bufinets of which he tranfacts with as much intelligence and dexterity as any other workman. Our total ignorance of the formation of thofe parts of the brain which are effential to the exercile of the functions of the foul, makes it impoflible to determine, whether the concuffion of the fall, by changing the difpofition of any parts of the brain, or the difcharge from the wound and trepan, produced the happy effect that has been related: it may, however, be concluded, from this and the preceding cafe, which are not without precedent, that the most diligent atten. tion to this branch of anatomy is highly neceffary. The time, perhaps, may coine, when judicious obfervations upon a number of thefe cafes may throw fuch light upon the subject, from the variety of their circumstances, as to encourage to bold an operation as opening the cranium for the rehef of fome deplorable defects and diforders which are now deemed incurable. Gent. Mag. On fevers, &c. in adult perfons. [644.] $15. I Do not pretend, in thele papers, properly to treat of thofe difeales which are the fubjects of them; but only to communicate fome fentiments, which may prevent or remove mistaken opinions, that lead into a mifimanagement of the fick; and to propofe fuch directions, as to diet and remedies, as I have found to be of great efficacy for their recovery. 16. A delightful employment this! A service pleasing to our merciful God, who requires us, as we have opportunity, to do good unto all men! It is a fervice which may prove of great utility to many in time of ficknels; and the thoughts of this are pleafing to me. 17. I fhall now take notice of hectic fevers with coughs, which are commonly called confumptions, on the account of that great walte or decreate of the fubftance of the bodies afflicted with them. 18. There is in thefe confumptive difempers a quotidian intermitting fever, as there is in fome perfons who have no coughs; and as in thefe daily fevers without a cough, the fever-fit returns in Home patients only once in twenty-four 691 hours, in fome twice, and in others three times, in the pace of a natural day, fo it happens to fone perfons in confump tions. 19. There are four things to be endea voured for the recovery of confumptive people, namely, 20. 1. To remove the fever. 2. To prevent the fliding, or falling down into the lungs, of that watery humour which is continually defcending into them, efpe cially in the fits of the tickling cough ; becaule that watery humour (in proportion to its filling the air-veffels of the lungs) does make a fhort and difficult breathing, and by the evaporation of the thinneft parts with the breath, becomes a very vifcid phlegm; and likewife becaule (if it has a certain degree of acrimony) an ulceration of the lungs will be the confequence. Therefore this intention is of vaft moment. And happy it is for mankind, that an eafy method for this purpofe has been communicated to the public. 21. 3. To promote an emptying of the air-veffels of the lungs, by an easy expectoration of the vifcid humour contained in them. 22. 4. To ftrengthen all the muscular fibres and veffels of the body. 23. It appears to my understanding, that when the quantity of the animal fluids is too little, (as it certainly is in confumptive cafes), I am not to ule any means to render it lefs. 24. All the ill confequences of improper evacuations are fo many arguments against them. Therefore I do not advife bleeding or purging my patients under confumptive difeafes, but purfue the four intentions mentioned. 25. 1. For removing the fevers, (§ 20.), I advife fuch vemedies as the following, viz. Take of faltpetre, one drachm; cochineal, half a drachm; pure water, a quarter of a pint*; the best brandy, balsamic syrup, (or honey, or jugar), of each one ounce; and with them make a mixture; the dofe of which may be two table-fpoonfuls every third or fourth hour, whether the fever is on or off. The mixtures alfo marked AB in my first letter [302.1, are proper to the fame end. [The English pint is a little more than the Scotch mutchkin, and the English quart a little more than the Scotch chopin [xvi. 234 ]; but the Engish and Scotch gill are neatly the fame, being the fourth of an Englii pint, and of a Scotch mutchkin.] |