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of the canine madness; and that all the above cited authors have impofed on us, yet it cannot be contefted that it is a contagious disease; that in refpect to that uniformity of nature, of which so much has been faid, it must have a great analogy, and depend on the fame caufe as other contagious diftempers; and that nature employs the fame means, (whatfoever they may be) to communicate the contagion, in all maladies of the fame fpecies; excepting only as to more or lefs.

Now, if we have a medicine which cures divers contagious diforders, fovereignly, and fpecifically.-May we not boldly make use of it againft canine madness?

But, none can deny that mercury is fuch a remedy against vermin, itch, ulcers, fcaldhead, evil, venereal complaints, cutaneous worms, &c.-well may we then conclude by analogy, that it may be fuccefsfully employed against this madness, either as a prevention or cure.

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4. When the Bark was firit brought into Europe, it was only used as a cure for quartan Agues; as Sydenham avers: pro febribus quartanis primo cœpit inclarefcere." Analogy taught phyficians to use it in other intermittent fevers; it fucceeded. It was tried in diforders which had regular periodical returns, accompanied with red urine, whofe fediment was of the fame colour, although the patient was exempt from any fever; ftill it fucceeded. Sydenham then employed it in many diforders of the ftomach, and hyfterical complaints.-It had a moft happy fuccefs-his words are "fed et in pluribus etiam uteri et ventriculi affectibus valde proficuus deprehenditur." Ought we not then to expect that a medicine, which is univerfally known to be excellent in many contagious diseases, would triumph equally over canine madness, which is not in the lowest degree of contagion ?

5. When venereal diforders were firft known in Europe, mercury was not employed in their cure. The diseased were excited to violent fweats, by baths, and hot-houses, affifted by fudorific decoctions of china-root, guaicum, farfaparilla, crude antimony, falfafras, &c. as may be feen in the writings of authors in the fifteenth century. But, at length, as it had been obferved that mercury had been fuccefsfully ufed against the itch, Icers, and fundry contagious diforders;

it was tried in venereal cafes, where its fuccefs was amazing-ought we not to expect a like fuccefs from its use in canine madness ?

6. The fcarcity of remedies in the materia medica against this most dreadful diforder, is one reafon why we thould gladly adopt another which bids fair to be most useful-what is more rational then to oppofe fo potent a remedy, to fo potent a diforder? Hippocrates fays (aph. 4. fect. 1.) Extremis morbis, extrema remedia adhibenda funt.

7. Laftly, this is no new found out medicine, whofe effects are unknown, and with whofe nature we are unacquainted. No, it is a most efficacious remedy, of an extensive reputation, and infinite credit in many diforders: its use is eafy. In the present cafe, it can do no harm, but, on the contrary, is capable of producing all the good effects which we may expect from it.

The method of preventing the evil effects of the bite of a mad animal; and of curing them when they come on,

A foon as a perfon is bitten by a maddog, cat, or other animal, I advise to bathe in the fea, if it is near at hand, not that I have any hopes of fuccefs therefrom; but that I would not oppose a general prejudice in its favour, as that may tend to tranquillize the mind of the patient.

I next make friction of one or two drachms of the above described mercurial ointment, upon, and for fome diftance round the bitten part. I repeat this friction every other day, for fix days; then every third day, for nine days; and every fourth day for twelve days more, till I have used two or three ounces of the ointment. I proportion the quantity to be used each time according to the age, temperament or fex of the patient; or the fize and extent of the bite.

As the above cited powder of Palmarius is an excellent internal vermifuge; and as fome of these rabid worms may be introduced with the faliva into the flomach; I add to the above receipt a proportion of Coralline; and adminifter every morning a drachm of that powder, in a glass of white wine, or of warm water.

This is my method when called upon to a patient as foon as bitten-but if not applied to for fome days after, I order the frictions to be made three of four times in twenty-four hours, and

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"the queen, your wife, who had vile"ly proftituted Gertrude, my wife, to "the adulterous flames of the count of "Moravia, the queen's brother. As I was confcious I have done right, I was "far from confulting my perfonal fafety by an unworthy flight-I now come "to offer you my head-difpose of my life as you please; but remember, Sire, by your fentence your people will form their judgment of your equity; "and whether I am innocent or guilty."

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In refpect to regimen, I let the patient live in his accustomed way, forbidding only excess. I allow a moderate ufe of wine, as it exhilarates, and banishes in some manner, the extream fear," that is generally attendant on these cases. I request that the patient fhould not be left alone; and defire none of the company would speak of madness or mad animals. I have feen alfo good effects of quieting the mind, by the means of mufic.

The King liftened to this furprizing difcourse, without giving him the leaft interruption. When he had concluded, he replied, without changing his countenance. "Regent, if your reprefenta"tion be true, return directly to Hungary-continue to adminifter juftice to my fubjects with the fame exactness "and feverity that you have shown to "yourself. I fhall ftay in the Holy"Land but the three months which I am obliged to do by my vow; at my return I fhall examine on the whether your behaviour has "been worthy of praise or punishment, "and fhall act accordingly.

I have thought that if even a flight falivation fhould intervene from the frictions; fo far from being hurtful," it would be of great fervice. For the venom is attached principally to the faliva, (as have been proved) and in that cafe the action of the mercury is particularly useful.

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Having now laid before the public a certain method of cure for this Hercu-"fpot, lean diforder, I fhall proceed, in my last chapter, to give some cases where experience hath authorized the foregoing practice. After which, if any gentleman of the faculty, or others, thould require any farther explanation, or propose any objection, on fending them to the publifher of this Magazine, they fhall be refpectfully answered.

(To be concluded in our next.) The Juft Revenge. An Hiftorical Fact. (Written exprefly for the Hibernian Ma

gazine. (Concluded from p. 371.)

ANCHANNUS made fo much hafte

B that he arrived at Conftantinople before the king had left it: he immediately repaired to the palace which his prince inhabited, and prefented himfelf to him with an intrepidity, which can scarce be paralleled and which nothing but virtue could infpire. The king was aftonifhed to fee before him the man whom he had left as fole regent of his kingdom: But his aftonishment was redoubled when Banchannus faid to him, "Sire, when I received your majefty's "laft orders, on your leaving Hungary, "it was your particular command, that, "without any regard to birth or ftation, "I fhould render to all your fubjects, "the most impartial juftice. I have "done fo to myself-I have killed September, 1774:

The regent fat out on his return the fame day, and on his arrival wrote to his difconfolate wife an account of his reception by his prince. This excellent lady conceived the greater joy, as the had dreaded the King would put her Lord to death in revenge for the murder of his Queen.

But though the roy

al Andrew had the strongest affection for his wife, his love of justice was predominant, and in confequence of that he was unwilling to pronounce sentence without a ful! and fair trial.

on his return in fafety, but he refufed all confolation, faying he looked upon himself as only a refpited prifoner, nor could tafte of joy, till her wrongs were expiated by his folemn acquittal,

Gertrude congratulated her husband

The King of Hungary ftaid his three months in Paleftine; and after having bathed himself, with all his army in the river Jordan, on the eve of St. Martin (according to the cuttom of those days) he fat out on his return home. Not all the preffing instances of the Patriarch of Jerufalem, nor even the excommunications which he thundered against him, could detain him longer in the Holy Land; and after a long and dangerous voyage, he arrived fafely in his own dominions. The Regent met the King on the fronX X X

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tiers of Hungary, and accompanied him to the capital, where having delivered up the fword of juftice to his royal mafter, he furrendered himself as prifoner to the conftable of the caftle of Strigonium, whilst the preparations were making for his public trial.

In the intermediate time the Count of Moravia fent deputies to King Andrew to demand justice on Banchannus for the death of his fifter. The King ordered them to be prefent at the trial; which was held in the most solemn manner, before himself as chief judge, and the whole body of the Hungarian Palatines.

After a ftrict examination of witneffes, (amongst whom was the fair Gertrude) and of every circumstances, the King pronounced his late Queen was worthy of death, as the fhameful promoter and abettor of a rape and violence; and that the Regent Banchannus had only executed juftice, and was guiltlefs of any other crime. The Regent was fet at liberty and conftituted prime minifter; and the amballadors of the Count of Moravia were ordered to depart im mediately.

The injured innocent Gertrude was now reftored to her husband's arms; but alas! her happiness was of but short duration. The ambaffadors of Moravia, (who had received their orders how to act in confequence of the Regent's acquittal) in the room of departing, had concealed themselves in the city, and five nights after Banchannus had been reftored to his honours and dignity, they murdered him in the ftreet, as he was returning from a midnight council to his own palace,attended only by two lacqueys one of whom fell with his master; but the other escaped, after having by the light of his torch feen that the two Moravian ambaffadors were the affaffins.

The faithful lacquey immediately fpread the alarm, and meeting with the Horfe patrol, informed them of his master's fate, and which way the murderers were gone, The troopers followed, and were fo fortunate as to overtake them juft by the city-gate: feeing themfelves furrounded, they refolved to fell their lives as dear as poffible, and it was not till they were both wounded, and had killed two of the patrol, that they were fecured.

up in arms, as every one loved and ve nerated Banchannus, fo that it was with the utmost difficulty the patrol could pervent the affaffins from being torn to pieces as they were conveying to prifon.

In a few days the criminals were tried, found guilty and fuffered death; confeffing their crime, and alledging their malter's pofitive orders as their only excufe.

But the execution of these miscreants did not fatisfy the King's justice; he immediately fet out with eighteen thoufand of his troops; entered the confines of Moravia, and fpread terror around him. The Count of Moravia finding himself too weak to refift the arms of Andrew, fent in the most submissive manner to fue for peace, offering to marry Gertrude, and to let the conqueror prefcribe whatever terms he pleased. But all his intreaties were in vain; the King replied, he fcorned to treat with a ravisher and a murderer, whofe crimes had deprived him of a wife and the best subjec in his kingdom. The Count, grown defperate at this refufal, gathered what troops he could, and putting himself at their head, offered battle to the Hungarian King, but was totally routed and fell himself by the hand of the just and magnanimous Andrew.

The moment the Count was flain the King gave over the pursuit, and having executed that juftice he always loved, he marched back his army to Hungary, leaving Moravia as he had found it, and defiring the Count's fucceffor (his younger brother) to be warned from vice by the example of his predeceffor.

While the Hungarian army was in the field, the disconfolate Gertrude, after the funeral of her husband (at which the King had affifted in perfon before his departure from Moravia) had retired to the convent of Quinque Ecclefiæ, where the had refolved to remain for the reft of her life; but on the King's return, he fent for her to court, and having convened his council, he spoke to her in their prefence, in the following words;

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Gertrude, I am ftiled Andrew the "Juft, a title which has coft me fome "felf-denial to acquire, many heart

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rending pains to preferve, and of " which I am more proud than my

crown. In conformity to that title By this time the King and the un- "I fuppreffed the first emotions of rage fortunate Gertrude were informed of the "on hearing from your late husband that Regent's death. The whole city was he had flain a wife I dearly loved;

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" and who, except in her criminal com"bination with her brother, was all my "foul could defire. When I returned, af"ter a ftrict examination, I pronounced "her guilty, and your husband innocent. "In farther conformity with that title, I punished the affaffins of Banchannus, and carried my arms against your "ravifher and his murderer; him I have "flain with my own hand, and aveng"ed you and myself. Yet there is "ftill an act of juftice to perform. I owe o it a public re-establishment of your injured honour, I owe children to my people to rule after me; and let me tell you, Lady! as you were "the cause, though innocent, of my lofing all hopes of them by my wife, you owe to me and the nation, a means of my having them. Take then my hand, and fhare my throne "and bed, your virtues deferve all I "can beftow. This act of justice on "both fides will complete the whole fyftem. For the hufband you have "loft I give you myself; for the wife "I have loft by his hand, you must give me another in yourself. Thus your injured honour will be re-efta"blished. Happiness may once more "dawn on both: and my people will not fall under the dominion of a foreign power for want of fucceffors "defcended from a Prince who loves them, and is beloved by them."

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The blufhing Gertrude was unable to make any reply; fhe funk on her knees at the foot of his throne, and kiffed his hand with a reverential awe, whilft he raised her up and tenderly embraced her. His juftice and behaviour in regard to her late husband, were highly meritorious in her eyes, and endeared him to her. As foon as the year of mourning was out, they were married at Buda-The brought him five children, and they mutually contributed to each others happiness for the reft of their lives, dying within twelve days of each other, full of days, virtue and renown,

Hiftories of the Tete-a-Tete annexed; or, Memoirs of LV and Mrs.

E-t.

HE hero of these pages has been

confpicuous as well as in England. His claim to a certain peerage was the caufe of a long law altercation, which was the ruin of fome gentlemen who fupported the caufe; and

at length, when the iffue appeared completely favourable, an English House of Peers deprived him of the title for which he had been fo long contending, notwithilanding the powerful fupport of his noble father-in-law, and left him only his Irish peerage. As this part of his hiftory is fo recent and well known, we shall not dwell upon it here, but enter upon that fide of his character which the public are the least acquainted with.

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Born with a lively fancy, and difpofed to gaiety, lord V. foon diftinguifhed himself as a young fellow of fpirit, and whilft he was ftill at fchool, his boyifh pranks made him to be confidered as a clever lad amongst his school fellows, to whom he gave the ton. Expert at all juvenile games, he constantly fleeced his companions; but his natural generofity induced him to let them partake of the fpoils, and he seemed only their temporary banker and benefactor, instead of their fuccessful antagonift. As he advanced towards manhood, his purfuits taking a different channel, he difplayed the man of taste and pleasure, and being favoured by the Graces, he was greatly admired by the ladies, who feemed ambitious of beflowing their attention upon our young hero, who was not lefs emulous of being thus partially diftinguished. athletic form and an agreeable countenance were no fmall recommendations in his favour, and his natural complexion ftrongly prompted him to avail himfelf of his good fortune. We do not, however, find at this time any celebrated toafts upon the lifts of his gallantries. Some demi-reps of an inferior clafs, and a few kept miftreffes of impotent noblemen, fill up the chafm at this period. His ambition, probably, led him to aim at an elevated alliance in the connubial ftate. Had his amours been too notorious, they might have been an obftacle to the execution of this part of his plan; for however frequent the axiom is urged, that "A reformed rake makes the beft hufband ;" and however apt the nion, thinking that they have charms fuffiwomen are tofwallow this fallacious opicient to refrain any man from inconftancy; the man of the world, either parent or

guardian, will

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convinced from experience that a profefled rake is not often reclaimed.

Having fingled out a young lady of beauty and rank, he paid his honour

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able addreffes to her; and his character
appeared fo amiable in the eyes of her
father, that he approved of him for his
fon-in-law, who foon obtained the lady's
confent, to whom he was connubially
united in the year 1767. This alliance
feemed to fecure all his pretenfions to
his English as well as to his Irish peerage,
as lord L
's influence in the Houfe
of Lords, from his great learning and
oratorial powers ufually prevailed with
the majority of that honourable Houfe;
but lord L- meeting with a power-
erful opponent in lord M. he had the
mortification to find his daughter depri-
ved of her greatest title, and her huf-
band not a little chagrined at the disap-
poitnment.

Lord V- had hitherto proved the most tender and affectionate of hufbands, and was pointed out for being most uncommonly uxorious. From this period, however, his affections began to cool, and he diverted his thoughts by affociating more with the world and lefs with his wife: as this indifference gradually increased, his lordship was now talked of for having formed fome connections in the female world of a very intimate nature, and fome women of rank were pointed at as the objects of his attention. These intrigues were, however, if not the effect of mere invention, carried on with fuch caution and addrefs, that they for a long while produced no farther proof than suspicion and calumny.

That jilt Fortune was at length refolved to play him an ill-natured trick, and by the greatest accident in the world effect a discovery, when he thought himfelf in the greatest fucurity.

Mrs. E is the daughter of a gentleman who has celebrated himself in the republic of letters for his poetical genius. He was bred to the army, but not meeting with the preferment he expected, he quitted the fword for the long robe, and became a very eminent pleader in Scotland. As advocate, he ufually went the circuit, and being at Dumfries, he became greatly enamoured with a lady of fortune, who favoured his addreffes; but he being then married, could not propose his hand to her in an honourable way, and the consented to make him happy upon his own terms. As fhe did not chuse to entrust her fervants with her character, he never made his appearance as a vifiter; but at night,

when they were all in bed, she used to throw a rope-ladder out of her chamber window, which he afcended, and after they had given a full loose to their mutual paffion, defcended by the fame conveyance. This correfpondence was thus carried on for fome months, without the leaft fufpicion having rifen amongst her friends or acquaintances; till at length their stars fo fated, that a difcovery enfued. Their amorous dalliance having continued one morning too long, as he was making his retreat, he was obferved by an oppofite neighbour already stirring. Such a detection at Dumfries flew like wild-fire, and they judged proper immediately to decamp for England. Here he propofed following his judicial vocation, but found it impracticable, till he had entered himfelf of fome fociety, and paffed the proper number of terms. The ftate of his finances induced him, in the interim, to exert his poetical talents in favour of administration; and has introduced a very fevere fatire upon the Wilkites. His friends judged that this would be a fufficient recommendation to lord Bwho was then in power, to make some provifion for him; but his lordship objected to his moral character: and the Dumfries adventure proved the chief obstacle to his fortune.

An only daughter, whom he loved (the prefent Mrs. Eced in a convent in Flanders, and he -) he had plamade a tour to vifit her. Upon his return, a change of miniftry had produced a change of fentiments, and he had now fufficient interest to obtain a post of honour and emolument in the Weft Indies.

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In the mean time his daughter being returned from abroad, lived with a diftant relation, and as Mr. D now in a defirable fituation, she made an appearance suitable to her rank. She appeared in moft polite public places, and being a very ftriking figure, tall and elegantly made, with a beautiful countenance, and an engaging air, the foon attracted the attention of the men, and had many fuitors, though the was not yet feventeen years of age. dent kinfwoman pointed out to her fuch as the judged eligible, and those the thought improper. Dr. E- -was among the number of her admirers, and her faithful monitrefs counfelled her to liften to his addreffes, as he was at that time in very confiderable practice, and

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