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tin hand, which that ie not to be very thick Bewith actions of any eclat; fince, to find a fubject for another medal, they recur a great many years back to the birth of his eldeft fon, one fide of which reprefents the bufts of the pretender and his lady, with this legend:

Facob. III. R. Clementina R. On the reverfe is a lady, with a child on her left arm, leaning on a pillar, as the emblem of conftancy, and with her right hand pointing to a globe, on which is feen England, Scotland, and Ireland. The legend:

Providentia obfletrix.

Underneath are thefe words:
Carolo Princ. Vallie.
Nat. die ultima

A. MDCCXX.

He generally appears abroad with three coaches; and his houthold confifts of about 40 perfons. He lately affumed fome authority at the opera, by calling encore, when a fong that pleafed him and fome others was performed: It was not, however, till after a confiderable paufe that his order was complied with. This is the only time that ever he has been known to affect the leaft power; and this inftance of compliance is no more than what the claps of half a dozen of the fpectators will at any time procure. At his coming into an affembly no English Proteftant rifes up, and the Roman Catholicks pay him their compliments in a very fuperficial manner. It is certain that his pufillanimity, and the licentioufnefs of his amours, have leffened him in every body's esteem.

His lady is too pale and thin to be reckoned a handsome woman; her frequent mifcarriages have brought her very low; fo that the feldom ftirs abroad, unless it be to vifit a convent out of devotion. She allows her fervants no gold nor filver lace on their liveries, and this proceeds from what is called her piety.

But it may be prefumed this is owing partly to her ill ftate of health, and partly to the jealoufy, inconftancy, and other ill qualities of her husband; and one of thefe provocations affected her fo much, that the withdrew for fome time into a convent, whilst the pretender, in order to be more at liberty to pursue hiz amours, went away to Bologna: but the pope difapproved of thele feparate houfholds, and, in order to induce him to return to Rome, and be reconciled to his lady, difcontinued his penfion. This, however, is but an outward reconciliation, a he ftill continues to purfue thote vices which occafioned the difference; and the knows him too well ever to entertain a cordial affection for him again. Mr. M'S-y, who pretends to be an antiquarian, and bears the title of a Polish councellor of fate, narrowly watches the steps of the pretender and his adherents, and holds a correspondence with the Britifh miniftry. Whilst the pretender refided at Bologna, Mr. M'Sy, had little news to fend; and being himself no longer neceflary, his remittances were likely to be withdrawn, till the pretender's return gave him an opportunity of continuing his fer vices.

Intereft and neceffity were the motives which brought the pretender back to Rome; this gave rife to an obfervation, that no tricter friendfhip could be imagined than that betwixt the pretender and Mr. M' Sy, the one not being able to live without the other. The king of Great Britain, tho' at fuch a distance, is not a little dreaded at Rome, on account of his long arms, as the Italians call the powerful fleets which he can fend into the Mediterranean, Mr. M`Sy, is a man of a good prefence, and has made himself confiderable by affec ting to be thought an atheist, and * It is feared the lofs of Minorca has chang ed their ftile.

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forts and fettlements, provided they give proper tecurity.

Wheat, malt, or barley, may be exported, from the port of Southampton only, to the islands of Jerfey and Guernley, for the ufe of the inhabitants of thote iflands, provided the exporter gives proper fecurity that the faid commodities fhall (the danger of the feas only excepted) be actually landed in thofe iflands, for the use of the inhabitants there. But the quantity, exported before the 25th of December 1757, myst not exceed 5000 quarters.

The Commiffioners of the customs

are to law before both houtes of Parliament an account of the quantities of corn, meal, flour, bread, biscuit, and starch, that shall be exported.

Malt made for exportation, before the 4th of December 1756, may be exported, provided the proprietor produces a certificate, from the proper Officer, that the faid malt was actually declared or made for exportation on or before the faid 4th of December 1756; and all veffels, cleared out before the 25th of Decem ber 1756, are permitted to proceed on their respective voyages.

His Majetty may, however, by proclamation, or order in Council, permit the exportation of corn before the 25th of December 1757; which proclamation, or order, are to be published in the London Gazette.

cefs in the Cure of that most dreadf of all Distempers, the Hydrophobia but more particularly in the firft ftges of the Dißempars proceeding from the bite of mad Animals, we have with great Care felected the Author's whole, Procefs, omising only particular Cafes; one of which is very extraordi nary and fingular, which we have in-ferted, of a woman, who was feized with the Hydrophobia, and continued in that condition three Days, and yet re covered. Take the Author's Metbal in bis own Senfe.

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Begin, fays he, with rubbing a dram of mercurial ointment upon the wounded part, keeping open the wound, as much as potlible, that the ointment may penetrate into it. The next day I repeat the unction on all the bitten member, and purge my patient with a dram of the mercurial pills. The third day, after rubbing in the ointment on the bitten part, I gave a fmall mercurial bolus, or the fourth part of the dofe above-mentioned. I continue thus for ten days to rub in a dram of the ointment every morning, and to give the laxative bolus, which commonly procures the patient two or three ftools, and hinders the mercury from affecting the upper parts. At the end of ten days, I purge again with the fame pills, and dilinifs the patient.

The MERCURIAL PILLS. Three drams of crude mercury, extinguifhed in a dram of turpentine. Choice rhubarb, colloquintida, and gambooge, in powder, of each two drams.

I make up the whole with a fuffcient quantity of claried honey. The dofe one dram.

MERCURIAL OINTMENT. One ounce of crude mercury, extinguished in two drams of turpenMutton fuet, three ounces.

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I have remarked that children and young people are, in general, moft fufceptible of the venom of this difeafe.

As to regimen, I forbid my patients nothing but things that or acid, and fuch meats as are hard to digeft. Bathing in the fea, which has hitherto been looked upon as an infallible prefervative against the Rabies, experience has taught me to reject, as entirely ufelefs in the cure of this disease.

Though this method rarely occa fions a falivation, yet it fometimes does. This gives me no uneafinefs: I go on in my ufual way. I had rather fee a patient under a falivation for a few days than mad.

I have never feen any mad perfon mimick the creature that bit him, as is generally believed: Nor is it true that the frothy Saliva of a mad perfon infects thofe who touch it for in my prefence, feveral perfons have walked barefoot on the Saliva of a child that died the fame day raving mad, without the leaft injury.

As to the furious defire which some patients have of biting thofe who approach them; I faw it in one young man, who bit two women, his relations; one about 60, the other 30 years old.

The eldest of the two was very careful to come every day for my medicines, after having bathed herfelf in the fea. I treated her in the manner before mentioned, and fhe has always enjoyed good health for the two years and a half since this accident happened. The other woman came to me the two first days, but did not return for three or four days. I fent for her, and acquainted her with the danger. She fubmitted to a third unction, and then left off, contenting herself with bathing in the fea twice a day, for fifteen or twenty days, when the thought herfelf free from danger, by her bathings, because the had been well from the 28th of March to the 7th of May at night, which was the 39th day from the bite: But fhe then began to feel a heavy pain in her head, as the informed me by meffage. I fent her half a dram of ointment to make a flight unction immediately upon the arm that had been bit; and when the came to me next morning, I made her take a dram of mercurial pills. She vomited twice, and was purged nine or ten times. Next day, having bathed herself well in the fea, (for fhe had fuch a fancy to this bathing, that I let her ufe it as much as the pleased) fhe came, and told me the pain and heaviness in her head ftill continued; and that her head was like a piece of wood (thefe were her own words). She added, that he had pains in her neck, breaft, belly, and particularly all down her back. I gave her a laxative mercurial bolus, and ordered three drams of the ointment to be rubbed into her back, and the arm which had been bit. day following, May 10, I repeated both thefe. A cup of water, which I then made them prefent to her, raised her ftomach, and made her draw back. The hydrophobia characterifed the difeafe too plainly to doubt it's being the true rabies.

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