T again in his gown. He acquired a hand fome fortune, and has retired, to enjoy otium cum dignitate. He generously gave up his extenfive bufinefs to encourage fuch young lawyers as Scott, Yelverton, and Malone, who could not get a fingle client while he continued at the bar. The Satirift's diabolical malice is too obvious in the fifth line: it is evidently a pointed fneer on Mr. Fns's fuppofed tergiverfation, and an ungenerous infult and triumph, on his not being rewarded by government according to his merits. Perhaps he alfo aims a farcaftic ftroke at the lawyers, by alluding to their custom of being feed before they read their briefs, and recommending the fame custom to our political orators: however, I only offer this as a mere conjecture. I have just been affured, that this fcandalous epigram was delivered to the Counsellor in the House of Commons, with his excellency L. Townshend's name on the back of the letter. That was adding the blackest forgery, to the most audacious impudence. This mode of conveyance was wickedly intended to furprife Mr. F-ns at first fight, as if fome terms were offered from the CaftleBut the manner in which he received it, will always do him honour-his colour changed, his his hands trembled, and he had fcarce ftrength enough to break open the feal. This confufion, (notwithstanding every illiberal and invidious construction,) folely arose from an honeft indignation against a venal miniftry, who (as he then thought) had affronted him,, by injuriously fuppofing he could be tempted to fwerve from the true intereft of his country, by a bribe. His fubfequent behaviour proves the truth of this obfervation: on finding only an epigram, he seemed agreeably disappointed, fixed on his spectacles; read it over feveral times before he throughly understood it; then put it into his pocket, and did not expatiate on the grievance of the nation that day.———— Now, SIR, AND HERE, SIR, I fhall conclude, with a fincere with that a royal proclamation was iffued, offering a reward to discover the author, or authors, that he, or they, may be brought to condign punishment, and his Majefty's gracious pardon promised to any of the accomplices who shall turn King's Evidence. I am, fir, yours, MISO-EPIGRAMMATIST. Y March 8th, 1772. NUM K 3 NUMBER XXX. I Dos libelli duplex est †. IMITATED. The Doctor's great at pen or pill, To JEOFFRY WAGSTAFFE, Efq. CAN no longer bear to fee my friend Doctor Lucas treated with fo much contempt and ridicule by a fet of minifterial hirelings, whose names, connections, and principles, the public fhall foon be acquainted with; that the enemies of our rights and liberties may be branded with infamy to future ages. The Doctor's genius, morals, and learning, are evident to every unprejudiced perfon; yet it fhall be my bufinefs to elucidate fome paffages of this great man's life, which have been enviously clouded by the malevolence of his inveterate foes.-It has been faid that he once drew a lady's will, when he attended her as + Contrary to our original defign, we have been induced to infert a few papers on Dr. Lucas's political conduct and character. a phy a phyfician, and that fhe, out of efteem for his skill and humanity, bequeathed him a confiderable legacy, in prejudice to her relations. Now, fir, if Blackftone had been acquainted with this anecdote, he might eafily have affigned a special reason, why phyficians fhould apply themselves to the study of the law here is a cafe in point to evince the usefulness of it; for I fuppofe the Doctor must have loft his posthumous fee, if he had not drawn up her will with the skill and address of a Notary Public. I hope the learned profeffor in the next edition of his Commentaries, will improve upon this hint, and alter the following paffage of his introduc tory lecture. "For the gentlemen of the faculty of phyfic, "I muft frankly own that I fee no fpecial "reafon, why they in particular should apply "themselves to the ftudy of the law, unless "in common with other gentlemen, and to "complete the character of a general and ex"tensive knowledge; a character which their "profeffion, above others, has remarkably "deferved. They will give me leave, however, "to fuggeft, and that not ludicrously, that it "might frequently be of ufe to families on "fudden emergencies, if the phyfician were ac "taments, at leaft fo far as relates to the formal 66 parts of their execution.". It is the true characteristic of genius to act by intuition, and to praife peculiar arts before their use is formally proved, and recommended by the labours of ordinary capacities. Thus Homer wrote the Iliad, before Ariftotle publifhed his Poetics; and thus Doctor Lucas drew up Mrs. Brown's laft will and teftament, before Blackftone published his Commentaries. This fhews our patriot's fuperiority in a true fight, and fhould recommend him to all families for I never heard that either Smith, Quin, or Barry, pretended to practise law and phyfic for the good of their patients. For my part, I think the preference is ftill due to a physician who can act occafionally as a lawyer. On the fame principle I employ a barber who underftands fomewhat of furgery; thefe liberal arts are mutually connected with each other, like Warburton's Alliance between Church and State. I could give other fpecimens of the Doctor's knowledge of law; for it is well known, when Alderman King unjustly filed a bill against him, to recover a pretended debt for drugs, that the Doctor in his anfwer (written by himfelf) fpecifies feveral articles he had received from the |