That the people of Canada had hitherto been happy under that toleration, and looked for nothing further. By this eflablishment, faid they, the Proteftant religion enjoys at beft no more than a toleration. The popish clergy have a legal parliamentary right to a maintenance; the protefiant clergy are left at the king's difcretion. Why are not both put at least on an equal footing, and a legal fupport provided for both? Further they afked, why the proclamation limits were enlarged, as if it were thought that this arbitrary government could not have too extenfive an object. If there be, which they doubted, any fpots on which fome Canadians are fettled, provide, faid they, for them; but do not annex to Canada immenfe territories now defert, but which are the beft parts of that continent, and which run on the back of all your antient colonies. That this measure cannot fail to add to their other discontents and apprehensions, as they can attribute the extenfion given to an arbitrary military government, and to a people alien in origin, laws, and religion, to nothing elfe but that defign, of which they fee but too many proofs already, of utterly extinguishing their liberties, and bringing them by the arms of thofe very people whom they had helped to conquer, into a state of the moft abje&t vallalage. The bill received in the course of these debates many amendments, fo as to change it very greatly from the ftate in which it came down from the Houfe of Lords; but the ground work remained the fame. A motion was made to give at least a jury at the option of the parties, but this propofition was rejected. Another was made to grant them the benefit of the habeas corpus. That alfo was rejected. Throughout the whole progrefs of the bufinefs, though well fought, the numbers in the minority were uncommonly fmall. It produced, nevertheless, much greater uneafinefs and difcontent out of doors than any of the bills for punifning of the old colonies. This difcontent called on the attention of the House of Lords; fo that when the bill was returned to them with the amendments, there was a confiderable oppofition to it, although in fome refpects lefs exceptionable than when it had paffed their houfe with fo little notice; but, as in all the other questions, fo in this, the minority fhewed no ftrength in numbers. The feffion had now ftretched far into the fummer. The bufinefs of it had been of as much importance as that, perhaps, of any feffion fince the revolution. Great June 22. "That he had obferved with the utmolt fatisfaction, the many eminent proofs they had given of their zealous and prudent attention to the public, during the courfe of this very interesting feition of parliament." Then, after mentioning with applaufe their proceedings relative to the gold coin, he tells them, "That the bill which they had prepared for the government of Quebec, and to which he had then given his atfent, was founded on the cleareit principles of juftice and humanity; and would, be doubted not, have the best effects in quieting the minds and promoting the happiness of his Canadian fubjects. That he had long feen with concern a dangerous fpirit of reliftance to his government and the execution of the laws prevailing in the province of Mafachulet's-Bay. It proceeded at length to fuch an extremity, as to render their immediate interpofition, neceflary, and they had accordingly made provifion as well for the fuppreision of the prefent diforders, as for the prevention of the like in future. The temper and firmnefs with which they had conducted themselves in this important business, and the general concurrence with which the refolution of maintaining the authority of the laws in every part of his dominions, had been adopted and fupported, could not fail of giving the greatest weight to the measures which had been the refult of their deliberations. That nothing on his part fhould be wanting to render them effectual. "That he had received the moft friendly affurances from the neighbouring powers, which gave him the frongeft reafon to believe that they had the fame pacific difpofitions as himfelf. After thanking the Commons for the fupplies, he ended with with recommending to both houfes to carry into their counties the fame affectionate attachment to his perfon, and the fame zeal for the public welfare, which had diftinguifhed all their proceedings in this feffion of parliament. The Houfe wife: Or, Saturday: An Humorous Ellay. THO HO' Xantippe broke the head of Socrates with a chamber-pot, and he had temper to bear it, with this easy remark, That after thunder rain generally follows;'-yet, if we had the old fellow amongft us now, I believe we thould try his philofophical patience on a Saturday. The rage of fcouring and cleaning is not peculiar to our h ufe, for I find all my friends complain of the univerfal deluge on the Saturday. In fhort, it is the vice of our ladies; and what they call be ing only clean is a general inconvenience to bulinefs and health. If I was to give the journal of one of our Saturdays, I believe it might fuit half the houses in town. The day of cleaning begins, like the sabbath of the Jews on the Friday night, when we are ordered haftily and early to bed-that the diningroom may be scrubbed out ;-or elfe we are all crammed into a little parlour, and fmothered, by the way of being cleanly. To accomplish this, the ftairs being just fcoured down, we are all commanded to go up bare-footed, though at the risk of a tertian ague, or a fore throat. Early in the morning the fervants are rung up, and for the operation of the morning dreifed accordingly;—and, though fmart enough on other occafions, yet to fee them in their Saturday's garb, for the mop and broom rencounter, you would fwear they were Sybils, or Norwood fortune-tellers. One of our girls, who is little and handfome, to accommodate herfelf to the tafk, is obliged to lower her head-drefs half a foot, and put on a close flat mob; as well as to defcend from her filts, which are usually worn inftead of fhoes:- But, when out of them, the looks like Titania, who had been misled by that merry wag, and nightwanderer, Mafter Puck. To get at the break fatt-room, I am under the neceffity of wading over the fhoes; and, if I am not very accurate in my fteerage, I am fure to tumble over a pail, or break my thins across the mop. The weather hath nothing to do with this aquatic operation: Froft or fnow, dry or wet, the house must be cleaned on that day; and while we are at breakfast, every door and window are opened to give a quick current to the air, that the rooms may be dried foon. By this means, unless cloathed in furr, I am perished to death, and fure to take cold. Arguments avail nothing. Miftreffes and fervants are combined in the watery plot, and fwim or drown is the only defpotic alternative. Sometimes I have pleaded for a room that hath not been used in the week,but in vain :—The word WASH is general, and all must float, from the garret to the cellar. I once or twice in my life ventured to take a peep at the cook and the kitchen;-but, to be fure, no fury could look fo fierce ;-—her hair was difhevelled about her shoulders-fhe mounted on high pattens--her dreffers covered with pots and pans, and her face all befmeared with foot and brickduft. The animals, too, upon this day of execution, fkulk into holes and corners-the dogs retreat with their tails between their legs to the ftable--and poor domeftic pufs is obliged to ascend a beerbarrel in the cellar by way of throne, where the purrs away her time, longing for the return of the dove and the olivebranch, as much as Noah did in the old furge-beaten ark. But these misfortunes are not all;-my lady-wife, and all the maids, as if by intuition, or agreement, or infpiration,or devilifh witchcraft, are all in the dumps :They univerfally put on one face; and by the lip of Hebe, I fwear for these last twelve years, I have not feen a Saturday file on their fair faces. I have often thought Mr. Addifon took his hint of the firit fpeech in his Cato from the last day of the week at his houfe; for great wits are very apt to adopt fublime paffages from very ludicrous hints; and, though fome people may call it a parody, I am rather inclined to believe it an original thought. The dawn is overcaft, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, Th' important Saturday, The great, th' important, the humid Saturday, Big with the fate of Bucket—and of Broom! My fiyle, I fear, upon this dark subject carries with it fome pleafantry ;--and, if fo, it is far from my intentions that it fhould: For, if one theme more than another can bring the chill of dulness over my fentes, 'tis this, whenever it arifes humidly to my mind. My iniferies are not to be enumerated at once; and I dare fay, what is my misfortune is the woeful mifchance of many other worthy and unlucky gentlemen. I am too often troubled with a bilious complaint, which is not very civil in the notice given; and confequently, coming upon a perfon fuddenly, it puts him to a precipitate retreat: Upon fuch occafions there is no other relief but the Temple of Cloacina; whereto I as naturally fly in fuch a momentous cafe, as a Portuguese does to the church for protection and relief. Here, ye River Gods, attend!-Naiads of the stream, and Nereids of the wave here poffefs your own hall!-for it is more fit for fifles than for men! One of your own mermaids hath been before me; and, where I meant to place the dignity of my bottom, I with tears behold it wet-wet-wet! To fly is in vain-I muft run the risk of the chin-cough in my latter end, or an endless difgrace to my fmall clothes. Pity my diftrefs; for 'tis dangerous to purfue the theme further, for fear of greater accidents!-Ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen! This Saturday carries with it a general perfecution. It is not that we are harraffed from room to room-floated from the cellar to the garret-wafhed out of the house of cafe-and ftarved to death with thorough airs (than which there is nothing worse) but our ftomachs, our craving bellies, pinch for it too. Nothing is to be fouled-all is to be referved for Sunday.-The dinner muit be made of fmall fcraps-the pantry muft be cleared, though the offals are mufty, and the bread is mouldy. If a friend, quite regardlefs of his own felicity, attempts to fwim, like the adventurous Leander, through files and forefts of implements and cleanliness, and gains the fire fide, a thousand apologies are made for the Saturday's dinner-with I know him; fuch a one knows what's what and Saturday's Saturday every-where.' I feel confufed for fuch excufe; but the laws of Media and Perfia will fooner give way, than the adopted tyranny fupported once a week in every mantion. I very often, to keep off the ague, draw a cork extraordinary, for there is pofitively nothing elfe left for it:-and, if by misfortune a drop of wine fullies the bright Bath lackered table, my Lady rifes with the dignity of a Pontiff, and with a rubber labours for twenty minutes againft the fpot. For our tables, you must know, ever fince we got the receipt at Speen ham-land for cleaning mahogany, would ferve the purpose of looking glaffes:and this is the brightest jewel in our diadem. Now, tho' my Lady-wife poffeffeth the virtues of Dian,-yet the plagues of Egypt never came on the natives once a week, to which we are bound to December, 1775. fubmit,-in spite of every argument falutary and feftive. I know but one wedded Fair-one who is a happy contradiction to this weekly rule of conduct-which is Bellaflora; who never is difturbed by the wathing; who always hath the fame table covered, and the fame temper to grace it; who never confiders cleanlinefs further than as conducive to decency and health; and then embraces fuch opportunities, that the very cat of the family fhall not be under the distress of wetting her feet. The morning, early, is used to adjust these matters-the night, late-or abfent hours, which fall to the portion of every family. I would not with the Scotch days of Cromwell to return amongst us, when houfes in the city of Glafgow were only cleansed on family deaths and chriftenings; which filth Oliver in fome respects removed, by command' to fhovel out the dirt daily. But, though cleanlinefs may be carried into a fault, yet I would rather have it, with all its inconveniencies, than Scotch filth. A Summary View of the Method of treating the Tape or Flat-worm, as practised at Morat in Switzerland; examined and tried at Paris, and published by order of the French King. Tranflated from the French, and recommended to the Editor by a Phyfician of this City. Hobmail, public, a celebrated IS majefty having been defirous to remedy against the tape or fiat-worm, which Mrs. Nouffer has made ufe of at Morat, in Switzerland, twenty years fince the death of her husband, in a great number of cafes, and always with great and fpeedy fuccefs, we, the underfigned, have been commiffioned by M. Turgot, comptroller general of the finances, and by M. Trudaine, to examine and make trial of its virtues; and, having found it worthy the fame it had acquired, to publifh the fame. The preparation of the Patient. About 7 hours after dinner, the patient is to take the following panada foup: Take a pint and a half of water, two or three ounces of fresh butter, two ounces of bread fliced thin, and as much falt as will be fufficient to feafon it; boil the whole on a quick fire, ftirring it often, 'till you have made a smooth pănada. About a quarter of an hour after having ate this panada, the patient may take a couple of Naples bifcuits and a glass of white wine, either plain or mixed with water, or a glass of spring water, if the patient is not accustomed to wine. The next morning, about 8 or 9 hours from the last night's fupper, the following specific is to be administered: Take three drachms of the root of the male fern*, reduced to a very fine powder, mix with it from 4 to 6 oz. of water distilled from fern, or from the flowers of the lime tree, and let the patient take it for one dose, rinfing the glafs two or three times with the faid water, that none of the powder may remain, either in the glafs or the mouth. For children, the dofe of this powder must be only two drachms. If, after the patient has taken this powder, he thould find any fickness at flomach, let him chew a bit of candied lemon, or any thing effe agreeable to him; or he may rinse his mouth with some pleafant liquor: carefully avoiding to fwallow any thing. He muft befides frequent ly apply his nose to fome good white wine vinegar. But if notwithstanding these means the powder fhould rife, in his ftomach, occafion a retching, or that fome of it fhould actually come up into the mouth, he must fwallow it again; and endeavour if pof. fible to keep it down. In fhort, if he fhould be obliged to vomit up all or part of the powder, he must take another dofe equal to the former, as foon as the ficknefs has ceased. Two hours after the patient has taken the powder, the following bolus is to be given him: Take of the mercurial panacea, and of the dried refin of Aleppo fcammony, of each twelve grains; gamboge, five grains. Powder them very fine, and mix them up with as much confection of hyacinth as will be fufficient to make a bolus of a proper confiftence. This is the dofe of the purgative which has been commonly used; the quantity of the confection will be two fcruples, or two fcruples and an half. For perfons of a robust conftitution, or Filix non ramofa dentata. C. B. Pin. and Inft. R.H. Polypodium filix mas, Lia. who are hard to be moved, or who have been accustomed to ftrong purgatives, the proportion of the mercurial panacea, and that of the refin of fcammony, has been encreafed to 14 or 15 grains each; and that of the gamboge, to 8 grains and an half. For perfons who are weak and delicate, eafy to be moved, and who are much difturbed by the operation of purgatives: and alfo for infants, the dofe may be diminished at the difcretion of the phyfician. In a cafe where all these circumftances concurred, only 7 grains and an half of the mercurial panacea, and as much refin of fcammony, brought to the confiftence of a bolus by a fufficient quantity of the confection of Hyacinth, were given without any gamboge. Even this bolus has been given at two different times; that is to fay, one half of it two hours after taking the powder, and the remaining half in three hours after, in cafe the first had scarcely operated. Immediately after the bolus the patient is to take a cup or two of weak green tea; and as foon as the purgative begins to operate, he is now and then to take a cup more 'till the worm be discharged. It is only after this has happened that the patient may take a bowl of good broth, and presently after a second, or a bowl of foup. He may afterwards dine moderately; and all that day, and at supper, he is to conduct himself as is ufual when one has taken phyfic. But if the patient has thrown up any part of the bolus, or that, after having kept it for about four hours, he was not fufficiently purged, then he must take from 2 to 8 drachms of Seidlitz or Epfom falt, diffolved in a small glafs of hot water. If the worm does not come away all together in a packet or ball, but unwinds itfelf, (which generally happens, when its neck or thread is engaged in a vifcid flime,) the patient must not attempt to draw it away, but remain on the clofeftool, and drink warm green tea. If the worm hangs a long time without coming away, and that the purgative does not operate fufficiently, let the patient take the Seidlitz or Epfom falt, as juft now directed, and let him remain quietly upon the ftool till the worm is discharged. If the worm fhould not make its appearance by dinner time, and that neither the powder or purgative have been thrown up, the patient may dine as ufual; as it fometimes happens, though indeed rarely, that the worm makes its appearance after dinner. *The Cotyledon. If If the worm did not appear the whole day, which feldom happens except when the powder or the purgative have operated but little, the patient muit fup and be treated as on the preceding night. And if during the night alfo the worm did not appear, the patient muft take the powder next morning, at the same hour as on the preceding day; and two hours afterwards fix or eight drachms of Seidlitz or Epfom falt; and conduct himself in all things as he did the first time. It fometimes happens that the patient, when about to difcharge the worm, or a little before or after a copious evacuation, will have a fenfation of heat about the heart, and a faintnefs or anxiety. There is nothing alarming in this, as it foon goes off; and all that is neceffary, is to keep the patient quiet, and let him fmell to ftrong vinegar frequently. If the patient thould, by the mere action of the powder, difcharge the worm before he had taken the purgative, one half or three fourths of the bolus which had been prepared for him will then be fufficient; or he may be purged with the Seidlitz or Epfom falt. Laftly, if after having by this method obtained the difcharge of one tœnia or tape-worm, it fhould be perceived that a fecond remains, the patient must, in a few days, again undergo precifely the fame To root out these worms, the fame method must be repeated more or fewer times, and after longer or shorter intervals, according to the circumftances of the disorder, and the difpofition of the patient. One of thofe on whom we made our experiments did not discharge any more worms on the third repetition of the remedy. In a publication, which will fhortly appear, we fhall more fully explain the method of cure, the preparation of the remedies which compose it, the purposes to which we have applied it, and the varieties which occur among the Tania; by which means the cure of these worms will, we flatter ourselves, be refcued from the obfcurity in which it had been involved, and the neglect into which it had fallen, but from which it is now happily raised by the beneficence of his Majefty. Given at Paris this 15th of July, 1775. LASSONE, A. L. de JUSSIEU. J. B. CARBURI. No Affociation in Iniquity fhall fiand: A Sermon preached in Bofton, on Sunday, August 27, 1775, before his Excellency Gen. Gage and the reft of the General Officers. By the Rev. John Duchair, B. D. Chaplain to the twenty-fecond Regiment of Foot, and one of the Chaplains to his Excellency. Isaiah, chap. viii. verfe 9, 10, 11. Affociate yourjelves, O ye people, and ye fhall be broken to pieces; and give ear all ye of far countries: Gird yourselves and ye shall be broken in pieces, gird yourselves and ye shall be broken in pieces. Take counfel together, and it shall come to nought; Speak the word, and it shall not ftand: For God is with us. For the Lord fpake thus to me with a frong band, and inftructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people. T is the fuperior excellence of the holy NOTE S. Lumbricus Latus, Tyfon. A&t. Anglic. 1683, No. 146. Solium fans epine of Andry, ib. Vermes cucurbitini Vallifnieri, ib. Tania fecundi generis of Le Clerc, ib plate 1. A, and plate 2. Tania with long rings. Bonnet, ib. Tania ofculis marginalibus folitaris. Linnæus, ib. Tania cucurbitina. Vegel, ib. Zzzz 2 there |