THE A DESCRIPTION of the HORSE-GUARDS. At each ex HE Horse-Guards is a noble in bafs relief. But this arch, as it is the Banqueting house at Whitehall, This ftructure is equally calculated for the use of the foot, as well as the horse, on duty. In the center of the edifice is an arched paffage into St. James's Park, and the building over this has a pediment, in which are the king's arms GENTLEMEN, of a fore front, projecting a little, with ornamented windows in the principal ftory, and a plain one in the fides. Each has its pediment, with a circular window in the center; and the whole has a proper air of ftrength and plainness. To the Authors of the BRITISH MAGAZINE, The following adventure (which is not a little characteristic of the propenfity to luxury, blafphemy, and fuperftition, in the Romish clergy, notwithstanding their claims to exemplary mortification and felf-denial) was productive of much mirth to the company in which it happened: if you think it will afford your readers any entertainment, it is at your fervice. Your conftant Reader, A Set of gentlemen in the North of England, fome of whom were Roman catholics, were engaged upon a party of pleasure, at the houfe of a friend, a few miles diftant from their own homes. It was Upon a Friday in the fpring, which for fome reafon or other, was or dered to be obferved by the RomaDifts, with peculiar abftinence. The gentleman knowing who were to be his guests had provided accordingly. Among other things intended for the Feb. 1756, A. X. Proteftante, was a difh of fowls and ham. An arch papift, who had a greater liking for this, than the food to which he was confined by the feverity of his religion, after dinner ftole unperceived into the pantry, and having fecured a piece of ham between two slices of bread, conveyed it flily into his pocket. As the party was returning, they were overtaken by a storm of thunder. Just before it came upon them, our gentlemen grew hungry; but as he K was going to regale himfelf upon his plunder, he was reminded of his duty by a flash of lightning. He immediately pronounced a bleffing upon himself, and returned the ham into his pocket. He prefently took courage again, and made another effort; but a fecond flash preferved. the meat, and produced another blefling. It was not long before he was hardy enough to make a third attempt; but no fooner had he raised his hand towards his mouth than he was alarmed with a more dreadful blaze of light, followed by a burst of thunder, which rattling, as he thought, juft above his head, feemed to threaten him with immediate deftruction. He could bear no longer; but throwing from him, with great violence, the prohibited, heretical collop, he cried out aloud, in an agony of difappointment, defpair, and indignation, "Here then, d-mn it, take it: but who could have thought there would have been fo much noife about a piece of bacon!" To the Authors of the BRITISH MAGAZINE. Your publishing the following account of a very dangerous and fatal disease (which has raged greatly in the northern parts of Northumber land), may be serviceable to your medical readers, contribute to the public good, and oblige Your humble fervant, W. T. THIS difeafe, which feems to be --- of the nervous afthmatic kind, first appeared in the neighbourhood. of Wooler, in fpring, 1753, and chiefly attacks children, from infancy to twelve or fourteen years of age, and generally fuch as are moft robust and healthy. In the beginning this disease is commonly taken for a flight cold, attended with a gentle cough, and fome difficulty of breathing: thefe fymptoms return and go alternately, for two or three days, but increase confiderably at night, frequently with a fudden ftarting in the fleep, as if the child were choaked; in the morning the fymptoms are more mild, but return at evening with greater violence than on the preceding day.-During this flage of the difeafe, there is li tle or no fever; the pulfe rather quicker than ordinary, and the child's appetite little worfe than in health. About the third or fourth day the fymptoms return again with ftill greater violence; the cough and hoarfenefs (which before were gentle) are now very bad, and attended with a hollow grunting noise, refembling the barking of a dog.This found of the cough is peculiar to this difeafe, and may be eafily diftinguished from all other coughs, from the very beginning of the diftemper, which is always accompanied with a fqueaking voice and a very difficult refpiration. The abdominal and intercoftal muscles are ftrongly agitated with convulfive contractions, which feem to terminate in the throat; although the child feldom appears to have any dificulty in deglutition. The ftartings are now very frequent,, and the child is in danger of fuffocation, having frequently a vain attempt to expectorate; but nothing comes up but a thin phlegm from the faliva! glands. glands. In fome of these strong efforts to spit, I have fometimes obferved the child to hawk up pieces of a thin membrane, like the internal coat of the wind-pipe: fometimes the child complains of a little pain in the throat, especially when you touch or prefs the wind-pipe. About the fourth, fifth, fixth, and fometimes the seventh day, cold clammy sweats break out, with an aggravation of all the fymptoms, which finish the tragedy, often very unexpectedly, as the child continues fenfible to the last moment. The above is generally the time the difease continues; yet, in some instan ces, all the fymptoms are quicker, and, on the contrary, the disease will continue for a fortnight or three weeks; but this feldom happens. The following method of cure I have followed with very good success.In plethoric conftitutions, where the pulfe is full, with every other inflammatory fymptoms, to take away a little blood, either by the launcet or leeches, applied to each fide below the ears, is neceffary. to bring on a free and gentle perfpiration; to promote which, the fooner the child is confined in bed, the better and apply to the throat a cataplafm ex theriac. Venet. camph. & alii. After which I give the child boluffes ex camphor. caftor. valerian. Sal. c. c. mofch. &c. duly proportioned to the age, &c. washing it down every time with a folution ex aff. fætid. or with the following mixture, which I have often given by itfelf, with very great fuccefs: R Aliij. acet. diftillat. j. aq. byop. (vel fontan.) viij. contunde Jenfim affundendo aquas, & adde mellis iij. coque parum & cola. Of this may be given, after each bolus, two fpoonfuls every four hours; or by itself, two or three spoonfuls every two hours, or oftener, Glyfters, of a folution aff. fætid. frequently to be given. The breaft, fides, and belly frequently rubbed with the following liniment: R Camphor. ziij. ol. dulc. Ziij. ol. fuccin. laud. liquid. aa. 3j. m. Fomentations ex abfynth. valerian. alii, & aff. fœtid. ought frequently to be applied to the breaft and fides. The fame cataplafms applied to the foles of the feet, as above for the throat. I have often feen very furprising effects attend the above method, even when the difeafe has been very far advanced. I never found blifters of any fervice in this cafe; nor do I think they have any good effect in fpafmodic cafes in general, but rather have a tendency to excite them. But although this disease has an inflammatory appearance, neither repeated bleedings, nor any other copious evacuations, will anfwer; for it is well known, that in nervqus diseases, fpafmodic ftri&tures will often occafion a spurious plethory; and when these ftrictures are foothed and released, the inflammatory fymptoms always difappear. have therefore always endeavoured I Some Account of the famous PONDIAC, or PONTEACK, Emperor of the From Rogers's Account of North America. Indians on the Lakes. TH 'HE Indians on the lakes, fays he, are generally at peace with one another, having a wide extended and fruitful country in their pofffion. They are formed into a fort of empire, and the emperor is elected from the eldest tribe, which is the Ottawawas, fome of whom inhabit near our fort at Detroit, but are mostly further weftward towards the Miippi. Ponteack is their prefent king or emperor, who has certainly the largest empire and greatest authority of any Indian chief that has appeared on the continent fince our acquaintance with it. He puts on an air of majesty and princely grandeur, and is greatly honoured and revered by his fubjects. He not long fince formed a defign of uniting all the Indian nations together under his authority, but mifcarried in the attempt. In the year 1760, when I commanded and marched the first detachment into this country that was ever fent there by the English, I was met in my way by an embassy from him, of fome of his warriors, and fome of the chiefs of the tribes that are under him; the purport of which was, to let me know, that Ponteack was at a finall diftance, coming peaceably, and that he defired me to halt my detachment till fuch time as he could fee me with his own eyes. His ambaffadors had alf, orders to inform me, that he was Ponteack, the king and lord of the country I was in. At first falutation when we met, he demanded my business into his country, and how it happened that I dared to enter it without his leave? when I informed him that it was not with any defign again ft the Indians that I came, but to remove the French out of his country, who had been an obftacle in our way to mutual peace and commerce, and acquainted him with my inftructions for that purpofe. I at the fame time delivered him several friendly meffages, or belts of wampum, which he received, but gave me no other anfwer, than that he food in the path I travelled in till next morning, giving me a small ftring of wampum, as much as to fay, 1 muft not march further without his leave. When he departed for the night, he enquired whether I wanted any thing that his country afforded, and he would fend his warrior to fetch it? I affured him that any provifions they brought hould be paid for; and the next day we were fupplied by them with feveral bags of parched corn, and fome other neceffaries, At our fecond meeting he gave me the pipe of peace, and both of us by turns Imoaked with it; and he affured me he had made peace with me and my detachment; that I might pats through his country unmolefted, and relieve the French garrifon; and that he would protect me and my party from any infults that might be offered or intended by the Indians; and, as an earnett of his friendship, he fent one hundred warriors to protect and affift us in driving one hundred fat cattle, which we had brought for the ufe of the detachment from Pittsburg, by the way of Prefque Ifle. He likewife fent to the feveral Indian towns on the fouth fouth-fide and weft end of lake Erie, to inform them that I had his confent to come into the country. He attended me constantly after this interview till I arrived at Detroit, and while I remained in the country, and was the means of preferving the detachment from the fury of the Indians, who had affembled at the mouth of the ftrait with intent to cut us off. forts upon the lakes, and then make a peace to his mind, by which he intended to eftablish himself in his imperial authority; and fo wifely were his measures taken, that, in fifteen days time, he reduced or took ten of our garrifons, which were all we had in this country, except Detroit; and had he carried this alfo, nothing was in the way to complete his fcheme. Some of the Indians left him, and by his confent made a feparate peace; but he would not be active or perfonally concerned in it, faying, that when he made a peace, it should be fuch an one as would be useful and ho- ' nourable to himself, and to the king of Great Britain: but he has not as yet proposed his terms. I had feveral conferences with him, in which he discovered great ftrength of judgment, and thirst after knowlege. He endeavoured to inform himself of our military order and difcipline. He often in timated to me, that he could be content to reign in his country in fabordination to the king of Great Britain, and was willing to pay him fuch annual acknowlegement as he was able in furs, and to call him his uncle. He was curious to know our methods of manufacturing cloth, iron, &c. and expreffed a great defire to fee England, and offered me a part of his country it I would condu& him there. He affured me, that be was inclined to live peaceably with the English while they tid bin as he deserved, and to encourage their fettling in his country; but intimated, that; if they treated him with neglect, he should fhut up the way, and exclude them, from it; in fhort, his whole converfarion fufficiently indicated that he was far from confidering himself as a conquered prince, and that he expected to be treated with the respect and honour due to a king or emperor, by all who came into his country, or treated with him. In 1763, this Indian had the art and address to draw a number of tribes into a confederacy, with a defign firft to reduce the English 7 In the year 1763, when I went to throw provifions into the garrifon at Detroit, I fent this Indian a bottle of brandy by a Frenchman. His counsellors advised him not to tafte it, infinuating that it was poifoned, and fent with a defign to kill him; but Ponteack, with a nobleness of mind, laughed at their fufpicions, faying it was not in my power to kill him, who had fo lately faved my life. In the late war of his, he ap. pointed a commiffary, and began to make money, or bills of credit, which he hath fince punctually redeemed. His money was the figure of what he wanted in exchange for it, drawn upon bark, and the fhape of an otter (his arms) drawn under it. Were proper meafures taken, this Indian might be rendered very ferviceable to the British trade and fettlements in this country, more extenfively fo than any one that hath ever been in alliance with us on the continent. The |