As [From the Morning Chronicle.] S late Dumourier terror fpread, Behold them toffing, tumbling, fprawling: His brawny rump, grown harder, rounder, And thus fhe drowns the Sans-culottes. } *This Jeu d'Efprit appeared immediately after the French had been driven from Williamstadt, by the joint means of fire and water. TO VILE TO THE NETTLE. LE Weed, irafcible! whene'er I view I grafp thee full and firm-that pow'r is dead- Much do I meditate on Grandeur's throne SEDITIOUS WORDS. [From the Morning Chronicle.] A CASE of great difficulty and importance lately came before the Magiftrates of a neighbouring county. A man was apprehended upon a charge of having fpoken in his fleep feveral feditious and treafonable words of and concerning his Majefty and his allies, now engaged in war with the French. It appeared, by the oath of a man who lodged in the fame garret with the prifoner, that the latter,· while he was fast asleep, fuddenly exclaimed, “D—n the war and the Miniftry-1 don't care a fig for all the Kings in Europe!" This being a new cafe, gave birth to a very learned argument between the Gentlemen of the Quorum affembled upon this occafion. Mr. Juftice Drowfy faid, that he had heard as how fleeping, was a conftitutional right, and confequently that a man had a right to dream; for his part, ever fince he had been one of the Quorum, he was a great dreamer, dreamer, but that he was too wife to talk politics in his fleep; for he was just as sensible and loyal when afleep as awake. Another Juftice faid, that " Sedition was fedition, whether a man was afleep or awake!" He thought the prifoner ought to be fent with Fifche Palmer to Botany Bay for Jeven years, for he was fure that he was equally guilty. An old Magiftrate, who had ceased to act for fome years, but whofe advice was folicited upon this occafion, recommended it to his learned brethren to proceed with great caution in fo intricate a cafe; for, he said, if it thould be decided that a man was refponfible for his fleeping acts, it would go to criminate many of the firft perfonages in the kingdom." There was great reafon," continued he, "to believe that the people of England were not awake when they confented to the prefent war with France. His Grace of Richmond was certainly napping when the Duke of York laid fiege to Dunkirk; and the Duke of Brunfwick's marchto Paris turned out to be nothing but a dream; fo likewife when men extol the wifdom, virtues, talents, &c. of the prefent Adminiftration, and mention the juftice or policy of attempting to conquer France, they may juftly be faid to be talking in their fleep, and nothing but the Minifter's budget will be able to open their eyes." The prifoner was then called upon for his defence, who faid, that he had no recollection of what he had uttered; but if he had offended their Worthips in his fleep, he would oblige them, now he was awake, by drinking d-n to Tom Paine and the Diffenters, with as good a heart as Reeves's Committee, or the Birmingham Magiftrates. After the fubject had been fully argued, it was propofed and agreed to refer the cafe to the opinions of * of the Solicitor General and Mr. Sergeant Watson, it being hinted that the fomniferous fpeeches of those gentlemen, in St. Stephen's Chapel, left no doubt of their being the best qualified to decide the queftion. AT MEDICAL DEBATING SOCIETY. [From the Gazetteer.] Ta Medical Society at Edinburgh, a very violent debate took place on the following question"Utrum Morbus Gailicus an Morbus Regalis fit corpori perniciofior ?”—i. e. "Whether the French Difcafe or. King's Evil be moft pernicious to the Conflitution ?" Doctor Cantwell, a Phyfician well acquainted with modern practice, but fuppofed to be attached to the ancient doctrines of Paracelfus, the Empiric, took the affirmative of the first part of this interefting queftion. The King's Evil, he faid, was a difeafe of an indolent nature, acting almoft imperceptibly; and though it might at length attack the nobler parts, and To those who have not had the advantage of hearing the Solicitor General fpeak, it may be neceflary to remark, that his eloquence is not exactly the fnuffling of an old woman; nor does it quite refemble the dione of a bagpipe out of tune. It is a kind of tertium quod-fomething between both. All his fomniferous fpeeches in St. Stephen's Chapel were much exceeded by his harangues on the State trials, one of which lafted eleven hours! On Horne Tooke's trial he was hardly lefs prolix: which is faid to have made that gentleman declare, that if it should be his misfortune to be again tried for high treafon, he would plead guilty, confidering hanging as a much maller punishment than a long fpeech from Mr. Solicitor General. Much, however, of the latter's duineis and unintelligible oratory is attributable to the falfe pofitiens he finds it incumbent on him to maintain; for he is not altogether without the talents which diftinguish his brother, the learned author of the History of Greece; nor is his epiftolary correfpondence entirely deftitute of wit. 2. deftroy deftroy the conflitution, yet its effects might be compared with the gradual operation of time, was little felt, and left the patient a 'chance of attaining old age without any notable inconvenience; whereas the French Difcafe was attended with many inflammatory fymptoms, acute pains, and difgufting circumfances. It fhews itfelf," faid he, in a thousand horrid fhapes; and, even after its virulence feems abated, it breaks out in fome other place where leaft expected. It is attended with a variety of other diforders, and leaves the conftitution expofed to the attacks of fome d-d after-clap or other, to the end of its existence." In fhort, he concluded, that the French Difeafe was of the two much more pernicious to the conftitution, more base in its origin, and more loathfome in its appearance. Dr. Theorem then rofe, and maintained the contrary argument with great force, although he began with the graceful figure of conceffion. It was true, he faid, that the conftitutions attacked by the King's Evil, appeared prima facie to be healthy, and that the very nature of the difeafe induced a florid and fullhabit; but at the fame time," added he, "foul ulcers, and a mafs of corruption, are extending their baneful influence within, and never fail at laft to ftifle every vital principle. It is befides hereditary in almoft all cafes; entails increafing mifchief upon future generations; and though it may be momentarily palliated by a connexion with a more wholefome family, yet it never fails to recur at the end of fome time, with its former deftructive energy. The French Difeafe, on the contrary, admits of a perfect cure, by various means. Perhaps the most effectual are what the French themselves call les grands remedes. In this practice, it is ufual to begin with blood letting, then to give purgatives, and afterwards to adminifter ftrong E 2 alteratives, |