and every thing neceffary to make it eafy and delightful, is freely given and may be enjoyed, within proper limitations, with perfect innocence and fafety in the excefs lies all the danger, and the unavoidable confequence of that excefs is mifery. This profufion of good things is thus indulgently poured out around thee, by the great author of thy Being; every pleasure thou poffeffeft flows from his immediate bounty; and to him thou art indebted for thofe external graces which adorn thy perfon, as well as for the moral and intellectual beauties of thy mind. The proper return for all thofe favours is a grateful heart, and a chearful obedience and fubmiffion to his will. Confider him as the fourtain of thy happinefs, and he will neceffarily become the fupreme otject of thy affe&tions; and friendship, love, and every human paffion, will give place to this divine ardour." Selima was ftill liftening to the genius with great attention, and expecting the fequel of his difcourfe; when, locking up, the found he had difappeared. She was troubled at his leaving her, and uneafy to think how the fhould defcend from the fummit of the mountain, when a bird of the fineft plumage flew before her, and conducted her down the declivity with the greatest ease and fafety. Continuation of the Remedies extracted from Dr. Theobald's Pamphlet, called Every Man his own Phyfician. Fiftula. Take a quarter of a pound of elecampane root, three quarters of a pound of fennel feeds, and a quarter of a pound of black pepper; pound thefe feparately and fift them through a fine fieve; take half a pound of honey, and half a pound of powder fugar; melt the honey and the fugar together over the fire, fcumming them continually till they become bright as amber: when they are cool mix and knead them into your pow der, in the form of a foft pafte. The dofe is the fize of a nutmeg, morning, noon, and night, drinking glass of wine or water after it. This is Dr. Ward's receipt for curing fiftula's. a Quinfty, or Sore Throat. Bleeding is fometimes neceffary, and cooling phyfic, but often jelly of black currants fwallowed down leifurely in fmall quantities, effects a cure. OBSER OBSERVATIONS on the ABUSE of WORDS. TOTHING has conduced more to the delufion of mankind, than the different fenfe which is given to words: this may feem a very extraordinary maxim, but I believe on due confideration no one will difpute the truth of it. Though words are in themselves merely empty founds, yet the meaning we beftow on them gives them reputation, and makes them: ufeful. It was therefore the idea which firft created the word; but through an abuse of these founds, men have annexed feveral ideas to the fame word, and have thereby made the fenfe of it fo equivocal, that a word may import one thing as well as another, and different men may have different conceptions from one and the fame found. To confider this topic fo far as it concerns religion or politics, would, inftead of being confined to an effay, fwell into feveral voluminous differtations; for there are an infinite number of words in both, which have been tortured into infinite variations, and have been illuftrated and explained out of their original fignifications, As from this abufe and inaccuracy of speech, errors in understanding the meaning of others muft frequently occur, it is often as requifite to be acquainted with the person who speaks, as to hear the mere words which he utters. To be good, one would think was fuch a kind of defcription of a perfon, that every one would receive it in the fame fenfe; but goodness carries with its found different ideas, according to what end of the town it may be uttered at, and who the perfon may be of whom it is fpoken, By a good man fome people would mean only a perfon of a benevolent, humane, virtuous and religious mind, and fuch a character only is juftly adequate to the phrafe: but if on the 'Change, or in any tranfactions of money-affairs, the character of being a good man is given to any perfon, the hearer has no ideas of how much virtue he has, but how much wealth; and if he is good enough to pay his bills, never thinks about his morality: but this phrafe to be good, is no more tortured from its natural fense, than another very common one, viz, to be happy. It is a frequent expreffion to say such a one is very happy, yet at the fame time, without the character of the Speaker is known, no one can know what he means by being happy: the fentiments of happinefs are fo various, that very few can agree in what it confifts: a beau thinks himfelf happy when he is well dreffed, a coquette when admired, a rake when with his mifs, and a fot with his bottle. Among people of rank, happiness fignifies power, titles and equipage; among the covetous, it is a great eftate: fome ladies place it in quadrille, others in a lap-dog. As this abuse of the fenfe of words is grown fo common, we can never too ftrictly guard ourselves from being led into errors by a mifapplicątion of their proper meaning; för by not making a right difcernment we may fall into mistakes, and those of the greatest confequence, An Account of a Woman that had lain fix Days covered with Snow, without receiving any Nourishment, &c. NE Joanna Crippen, of Chardftock in Dorfet, a fpintter of yarn or worsted, going on the 24th of January, being Chard-market, to her mafter for work, and coming home with fome of her neighbours, it happened to fnow very hard, and very deep, fo that he was forced into a cottage for thelter; but as they could not let her lodge there that night, the was obliged to proceed on her way home; but he had not gone a quarter of a mile before the was obliged to lie down under a hedge, in which place the lay from Monday evening about fix o'clock till Sunday following about four in the afternoon, and then the was difcovered by feveral of the neighbours, who went out with poles, fhovels, &c. to fearch for her, and at length found her buried in four feet deep of fnow, or thereabouts; one of the men thrusting at her with a pole, found fhe was there and alive, and opening the fnow, the immediately fpoke, and begged he would not poot her, as fhe termed it, too hard, for fhe was almoft naked; and fome women coming to take her forth, they found her without stockings or fhoes, an old whittle about her fhoulders, with a large hole in it, which fhe had eat through: the snow melting down upon her, the drank it to quench her thrift. She had a mortification in one of her great toes, was very fenfible at first taking out, and ftill continues fo, and the knew every body perfectly well, and yet the had taken no manner of food all the time of her being in the fnow. ESSAY on POPULAR DISCONTENTS, AS the body politic has, in many refpects, been compared to the body natural, fo there is one particular that fhews the weakness of both, in which the parallel holds very exactly; and that is, the tendency that fome governments have to particular defaults or mifchiefs, as fome human bodies have to particular difeafes. I think it may be affirmed with freedom, and I am fure it may be maintained with truth, that the weak part in the conftitution of our government, is a tendency to tumult, fedition, and rebellion; and never did the natural ill will to fuperior power, and the inbred malice to authority, fhew itself more, or diffuse itself farther, than it has lately. There is no grievance that any subject of Great Britain can be liable to, much less that any numbers of them can fuffer, that the law has not prefcribed a remedy for. And it is very obvious, that the feeking redrefs by legal methods, is the only fure way of obtaining it. Any other methods are much more likely to lead to greater evils, than those complained of; and if any one looks fo far back into our hiftory as the reign of Henry III. or comes down fo low as the late civil wars, which began 1641, he will be fufficiently convinced of this truth, by those two inftances, though he intermits all the 1 the intervening calamities which the people fuffered within that period of time, and which (almost all) arofe from the fame origin. The feveral turns that appeared in thofe tumultuous and bloody times, (1 fay, in thofe two great instances,) will convince any man of good fenfe, how little he ought to depend upon the fury of a mob, or upon profecutions forced by tumultuous petitions. I may challenge any one to fhew a fingle inftance where the many-headed beaft was made ufe of, that the blind monster did not turn upon those who first taught it to know its own ftrength. How ftrictly therefore ought we to guard against the disease we feem molt fubject to. And yet it was matter of great furprize to many, who wish well to the peace of the kingdom, and to the fecurity and happiness of the prefent government, that in a late inftance, many gentlemen, for whom we ought to have very favourable fentiments, with regard to their great eftates, as well as their known good difpofitions to his majefty and the royal family, should yet give way to the popular clamour of that time, even in their legislative capacities; not confidering that the fame spirit which they endeavoured to raife, or at least did not attempt to allay, might very foon turn upon themselves, but would moft certainly upon the government, to which thofe gentlemen, no doubt, were well affected. This spirit of discontent has fomething in the nature of it like fire; and if 'tis kept up, there must be fuel for it to prey upon; and that always ends in the government itfelf, whatever the first pretences are. The reafon of this is evident; because as long as human nature continues depraved, there will always be a reluctancy to obedience : and therefore 'tis obferved, That thofe proceedings never fet up any thing, but are always employed to pull down; and for this I fhall quote no lefs authority, than that of the ufurper Cromwell, who, mounted upon the back of this monster, had driven the people of England, like cattle, before him; yet, in 1653, they had fo far turned against him, and his measures, that he was forced to declare, "That they had a principle among them of destroying and pulling down, though nothing was fet up in its ftead." Those whom he had taught to cry, " No bishops, no king," now cried, "No chancery, no laws, no property." It imports little, from what poor small springs the torrents of faction first arife, if they are fed with care, and improved by induftry, and meet with difpofitions fitted to receive and embrace them. That of the Prafini and Veneti was as violent and fatal at Conftantinople, as that of the Gwelphs and Gibellins in Italy; though one began only upon the divided opinions and affections, about two public theatres, or playhoufes, called the blue and the feagreen: whereas the other pretended the right of invetting bishops, to be in the emperor, or the pope. Whatever the beginnings of factions are, the confequences are the fame, and the ends too of thofe chiefly engaged in them, which is to act the fame part in different masks, and to purfue private paffions or interefts, under public pretences. Upon the furvey of thefe difpofitions in mankind, and these conditions of government, it feems much more reasonable to pity, than to envy the fortunes and dignities of princes or great great minifters of fate; and to leffen or excufe the venial faults, or at least their, misfortunes, rather than to encrease or make them worse by ill colours and representations. For, as every prince should govern, as he would defire to be governed if he were a subject, so every fubject should obey, as he would defire to be obeyed if he were a prince; once this moral principle, of doing as you would be done by, is certainly the most undifputed and univerfally allowed of any other in the world, how ill foever it may be practifed by particular ... men, It would be hard to leave' princes and states with fo ill profpects and prefages of eafe or fuccefs in the ad, miniftration of their governments, as these reflections must afford them; and therefore I will not end this effay without fome offers at their fafety, by fixing fome marks like lights upon a coaft, by which their fhips may avoid at least known rocks or fands, where wrecks or dangers have been usually observed: for, to thofe that come from heaven by forms, or the fatal periods decreed above, all the world muft fubmit. - The first fafety of princes and ftates lies in avoiding all councils or defigns of innovation, in ancient and established forms and laws, efpccially thofe concerning liberty, property, and religion, which are the poffeffions men will ever have moft at heart; and thereby, leaving the channel of known and common juftice, clear and undisturbed. The fecond, in pursuing the true and common intereft of the nation they govern, without efpoufing thofe of any party or faction; or if thefe are fo formed in a ftate, that they muft incline to one or other, then to chufe or favour, that which is most popular, or wherein the greateft or strongest part of the people appear to be engaged. For, as the end of government appears to be falus populi; fo the strength of the government is the confent of the people; which made the maxim of vox populi, von dei; that is, the governors who are few, will ever be forced to follow the ftrength of the governed, who are many, let them be either people or armies, by which they govern. A third, is the countenancing and introducing, as far as is poffible, the customs and habits of parimony into the countries they govern; for frugal and induftrious men are usually fafe and friendly to the established government, as the idle and expensive are dangerous, from their humours or neceffitics. The lait confits in preventing dangers from abroad; for foreign dangers raife fears at home,, and fears among the people raife jealoufies, of the prince or state, and give them ill opinions, either of their abi lities, or their good intentions. Men are apt to think well of themselves and of their nation, of their courage and their strength; and if they fee it in danger, they lay the fault upon the weakness, ill conduct, or corrup tion of their governors; the ill orders of ftate, ill choice of officers, or ill difcipline of armies; and nothing makes a difcontent or fedition so fatal at home, as an invafion, or the threats, and profpect of one, from abroad. Upon these four wheels, the chariot of a ftate may, in all appearance, drive eafy and safe, or at least not to be too much fhaken by the ufual roughnefs of ways, unequal humours |