"I always added a little camphire. Some time

after I tried this moft dangerous experiment, "I washed myfelf in the blood and faliva of a "mad dog, without feeling the least bad effect "from it, except a little fpafm in the calf of

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my right leg, which in a few days I ap❝peased. The fuccefs of this experiment I "communicated to a noble Duke, whose "name will always be revered by the people "of this kingdom, who advised me to lay it before the fecretaries of ftate, which I did, with an intention to go to Conftantinople, (under the protection and fanction of go"vernment) to try the fuccefs of the treatment "there, and upon my return (if successful) to

apply for a reward to the British parliament, "It was confidered as a noble, but hazardous "undertaking, and I was advised to confult "with an honourable gentleman who had re

fided at the Porte upwards of fifteen years, as ambaffador from the court of Great "Britain; who gave me fuch an account of "the nature and temper of the Turks, and "the roguery of the Greek physicians, as "quite difcouraged me from putting my de

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fign into execution. But, I believe, there "is no fcience fo over-run with fo many "worthless creatures, as that of phyfic; for ❝their

"there is scarcely any large city, but there

" is a fet of people that would engross the "whole circle of practice to themselves, of "whom it is hard to determine, whether they "have a greater want of honefty or of under

ftanding. A fet of people, who ftudy the "art of deceiving, more than how to perfect 66 a cure. A fet of people, fo much the "enemies of common sense, that to have but "a moderate degree of learning, is with them "a crime unpardonable, and who poffefs no

one fingle talent in perfection. Upon the "whole, there is not the leaft doubt but that "this dreadful disease may be both prevented "or cured, or otherwise rendered less fatal. "God forbid that it fhould ever happen in "this kingdom; but if it should, I fhall be "both ready and willing to hazard my life "for the welfare of the public. Let me re"commend it to every one to preserve a "chearful even temper, to banish fear, and "always to remember, that the morbid effects "of the mind, are as bad as thofe of the "body".

JOHN PROBY ROWLEY, M. D.

This ludicrous effay was of public fervice, for the quack immediately quitted the kingdom, as he was treated with contempt and ridicule, even by his patients.

NUMBER XXIX.

Hic niger eft.

To JEOFFRY WAGSTAFFE, Efq.

SIR,

HOR.

YESTERDAY my curiofity was gratified,

by reading an Epigram addreffed to C. J. F―tz-ns*.

I own I conceived the higheft detestation of its author, by reading SYLLA's fevere animadverfions on it, in the Freeman. I now entirely agree with him, that the author (whoever he is) of that "fcandalous, infamous, false, and "immoral" epigram, deferves to be marked like Cain, as a vagabond, and a murderer of reputations He is certainly a friend to the Jefuits, a dangerous enemy to the Proteftant religion, a difaffected fubject, and a betrayer of his country.The very first line cafts an ungenerous reflection on all those who renounce the errors of Popery. Is this infolence to be born,

EPIGRAM on the fecond converfion of Father

F-tz-ns the Fryar, left Rome in the lurch,
For want of preferment, abjur'd his own church;

born, as long as Proteftantifm is the established religion?A fhort comment, will prove the author's pernicious and dangerous principles, beyond a poffibility of doubt.

"F-tz-ns the Fryar, left Rome in the lurch, "For want of preferment, abjur'd his own church; This is equally falfe and malicious :— though he ftudied at St. Omer's, he never took the habit; and I am affured by his barber, that he has not the leaft figns of the tonfure; nor do I believe that he ever expected, or folicited any ecclefiaftical preferment. On his return to his native country, he read his recantation from pure conviction, and merely for the good of his foul; not from any worldly motive, or to qualify himself for the bar.-——— The next two lines are alfo pregnant with falfehood and malignity:

And now by the Castle he acts the fame part, "The lofs of a MITRE converted his heart :"

I fuppofe the author would infinuate, that Mr. Fns, who fupported adminiftration laft feffions, hand changed fides, and turned

And now by the Castle he acts the same part ;
The loss of a Mitre converted his heart:
At the Four Courts again old John we shall fee,
In that place alone, he's sure of his fee.

patriot

But

patriot from pique and disappointment. the very idea of his having done fo, because he was refufed a mitre, is abfurd and ridiculous ; for even if he had actually officiated as a friar, that would not qualify him for a Protestant bishoprick, without a fecond ordination in our church. (Vid. Lex Canonica, p. 413.) Others pretend to fay, that he did not afk a mitre for himself, but for his fon-in-law, Mr. Beresford-even this is a poor apology for the Epigrammatift.-Still there is an evident folecifm in saying, that he loft what he never poffeffed. Befides, the affertion is groundless and malignant; Mr. F. never applied for a bishoprick either for himself, or any of his family; he acted on more difinterested motives. I have heard him pronounce fome fine long orations, with great zeal and fervour, for and against Lord Townshend's administration; yet I am firmly perfuaded he was actually fincere in both, and was always actuated by the fame honeft principles.

We come now to the laft two lines of this "infamous poetical performance."

"At the Four Courts again old JOHN we shall fee, "In that place alone he's fure of his fee!"

This is an impudent lye-for it is well known that he never intends to enter the courts