and spirits as I had no reason to expect, and which I never fhould have attained, but for the ufe of your Specific. I am, Sir, your humble Servant, SIR, "ANSTR- —ER *." To the Proprietor of Pitt's Specific. "I HAVE for fome time been afflicted with a depreffion of spirits, which my phyfician treated as hypochondriacal. However, by the help of your Specific, which I always wear at my breaft, and mean foon to take inwardly, I feel myself quite ftout again; and truft I fhall foon be able to return you my thanks in perfon for the benefit I have received from your very powerful medicine. "" SIR, "CAR-LE." To the Proprietor of Pitt's Specific. "I WAS for fome years fuppofed by my phyficians to be in a decline; and by their advice I took feveral voyages, thinking that a change of climate would do me good; which, indeed, were of fome fervice to me: but I found, that though I could bear the extremes of heat and cold equally well for a while, I could not enjoy my health in either for any length of time. I therefore had recourfe to your Specific; and can now fay, that I enjoy my health fo well in my prefent fituation, that I do not mean to quit it-fo long as I can have a regular fupply of your medicine. "I am, Sir, yours, AUCK-ND." * On this gentleman, who has obtained a nigh judicial fituation, the following epigram was made: Neceffity nd Anstr- LESSON LESSON FOR YOUNG BARRISTERS. HOW TO EXAMINE A WITNESS. [From the Monthly Magazine.] ́ ́ THE BARRISTER-THE WITNESS, B. CALL John Tomkins. B. Look this way-What's your name? B. John Tomkins, eh! And pray, John Tomkins, what do you know about this affair? W. As I was going along Cheapfide B. Stop, ftop! not quite fo faft, John Tomkins. When was you going along Cheapfide ? W. On Monday, the 26th of June. B. Oh, oh! Monday, the 26th of June-And pray, now, how came you to know that it was Monday the 26th of June? W. I remember it very well. B. You have a good memory, John Tomkins-here is the middle of November, and you pretend to remember your walking along Cheapfide in the end of June. W. Yes, Sir, I remember it as if it was but yefterday. fo B. And pray, now, what makes you remember it very well? W. I was then going to fetch a midwife B. Stop there, if you pleafe. Gentlemen of the jury, please to attend to this.-So, John Tomkins, you, a hale, hearty man, were going to fetch a midwife. Now, anfwer nie directly-look this way, Sir-whatCould you poffibly want with a midwife? W. I wanted to fetch her to a neighbour's wife, who was ill a-bed. B. A neighbour's wife! What, then, you have no wife of your own? W. No, W. No, Sir.. B. Recollect yourself; you fay you have no wife of your own. 1 W. No, Sir; I never had a wife. B. None of your quibbles, friend; I did not ask you if you ever had a wife. I afk you if you have now a wife? and you fay no. W. Yes, Sir; and I fay truth. B. Yes, Sir! and no, Sir! and you fay truth! we fhall foon find that out. And was there nobody to 'fetch a midwife but you? W. No; my neighbour lay ill himfelf B. What! did he want a midwife too? (A loud laugh.) W. He lay ill of a fever; and fo I went, to ferve him. B. No doubt, you are a very ferviceable fellow in your way. But pray, now, after you had fetched the midwife, where did you go? W. I went to call upon a friend B. Hold! What time in the day was this? W. Yes, Sir; it was a fine fuminer evening. B. What is it always daylight in a fummer evening. W. I believe fo-(fmiling.) B. No laughing, Sir, if you pleafe; this is too fe rious a matter for levity. What did you do when you went to call upon a friend? W. He asked me to take a walk; and, when we were walking, we heard a great noife B. And where was this? W. In the street. B. Pray attend, Sir-I don't ask you, whether it was in the ftreet-l afk yon. what street? W. I don't know the name of the street; but it turns down from ..B. Now, B. Now, Sir, upon your oath-do you fay you don't know the name of the itreet? W. No, I don't. B. Did you never hear it? W. I may have heard it; but I can't say I remember it. B. Do you always forget what you have heard? W. I don't know that I ever heard it; but I may have heard it, and forgot it. B. Well, Sir, perhaps we may fall upon a way to make you remember it. W. I don't know, Sir; I would tell it if I knew it. B. O! to be fure you would; you are remarkably communicative.-Well, you heard a noife, and I fuppofe you went to fee it too. W. Yes; we went to the house where it came from B. So! it came from a house, and pray what kind of a house? W. The Cock and Bottle, a public-house. B. The Cock and Bottle! why, I never heard of fuch a house. Pray what has a cock to do with a bottle? W. I can't tell; that is the fign. B. Well-and what paffed then? W. We went in to fee what was the matter, and the prifoner there B. Where? W. Him at the bar, there; I knew him very well. B. You know him? how came you to know him? W. We worked journey-work together once; and. I remember him well. B. So! your memory returns: you can't tell the name of the ftreet, but you know the name of the public-house, and you know the prifoner at the bar.-You are a very pretty fellow! And pray what was the prifoner doing? W. When I faw him, he was B. When B. When you faw him! did I afk you what he was doing, when you did not fee him? W. I understood he had been fighting. B. Give us none of your understanding-tell what you faw. W. He was drinking fome Hollands and water. W. Yes; he asked me to drink with him, and I just put it to my lips. B. No doubt you did, and, I dare fay, did not take it foon from them. But now, Sir, recollect you are upon oath-look at the jury, Sir-upon your oath, will you aver, that it was Hollands and water? W. Yes, it was. B. What was it not plain gin? W. No; the landlord faid it was Hollands. B. O! now we fhall come to the point-The landlord faid! Do you believe every thing the landlord of the Cock and Bottle fays? W. I don't know him enough. B. Pray what religion are you of? W. I am a Proteftant. B. Do you believe in a future ftate? B. Then, what passed after you drank the Hollands and water? W. I heard there had been a fight, and a man killed; and I faid, "O! Robert, I hope you have not done this:" and he shook his head B. Shook his head! And what did you understand by that? W. Sir! B. I fay, what did you understand by his shaking his head? W. I can't tell. B. Can't tell!-Can't you tell what a man means when he thakes his head? W. He |