thousand livres, much more than her hand, which made me enter into your designs." "For fhame, to be fo avaricious, rich as you are!” “ I did it, because the fraudulent bankruptcy of a rafcal will ruin me, and I expected the woman I was going to marry would have prevented this misfortune. "And who is the vallain whofe bankruptcy will ruin you?" asked his daughter. Judge of her furprize when her father's anfwer did not leave a doubt but that it was the man from whom she was just divorced. "Make yourself eafy, (faid fhe), Heaven is just; the money that I poffefs is yours, my father! The wretch has been punished by the perfidious trick I played him; it is juftice that I fhould return what belongs to you, and which I gained illegally. This is the first time I ever experienced happiness from any thing but pleasure; would to God the generous woman who brought me up had taught me to know it fooner! I should then have had fewer errors with which to reproach myself." "Very good! very good! (faid M. la Courfe) this is to have a friend who knows how to be ferviceable. All this has given me a great deal of trouble, a great deal of trouble indeed. I have hindered an honest man from becoming bankrupt, a daughter from marrying her father, and a rafcal from cheating his creditor. Let them come here who call me by the ridiculous title of Officious! Here's a fine fubject for my memorandum book!" Such are the fcenes to which a Revolution has given rife! Chronicle. NEW MR. EDITOR, NEW TAX. THERE is one article of vaft confumption yet untouched I mean wind; why does not our able Financier tax that? Perhaps he wishes to be tender to an article that has entered fo largely into the compofition of all his fpeeches, and in which all his fchemes have ended. But we are too far gone in taxation to omit one that would increase the Revenue as much as moft he has lately propofed; for it is an article in which every body deals more or less. I would propofe, therefore, that mafters of fhips take out licences for fair winds, at per voyage. Boats on the Thames, Scullers, Barges, and Margate Hoys, not to fail before the wind, unless properly qualified. The inhabitants of St. Paul's Church-yard to be affeffed for the additional wind of that place and the exhibitions arifing therefrom. Winds to be differently rated according to their value. Winds, from the North to be put under Mr. Dundas's direction. Loud Winds which are privately difpofed of, to pay ad valorem, and all chinks to be regularly inspected by the Officers of the Excife. A heavy duty on the Wind that blows nobody good, which, perhaps, will fall perfonally on Minifterial quarters. Perfons afflicted with wind to take out permits enabling them to export free of duty. The commiffioners to make their affeffments twice a year, that the public may not evade the Tax, or fhew any backwardness in contributing to the defence of focial Order and Religion. I would I would likewife propofe a tax of ten per cent. upon all windfalls. If thefe fuggeftions are adopted, I hope they will convince our enemies that our resources are not easily to be exhausted, and that, although we have taxed every thing we can lay our hands upon, there is ftill "fomething in the wind." I am, Your humble Servant, EOLUS. P. S. I hope you will infert the above, as a puff for the minifter. Chronicle. The inundation of Sonnets, with which we have been for the laft ten years over-run, has juftly made our fentimental Sonnetters objects of ridicule. NEHEMIAH HIGGINBOTTOM, in the Monthly Magazine, imitates their infipidities with good effect in the following fpecimen. SONNETS, ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF COTEMPORARY WRITERS.' SONNET I. Enfive at eve, on the hard world I mus'd, PEnfive And my poor heart was fad: fo at the moon I gaz'd-and figh'd, and figh'd-for, ah! how foon And mus❜d me on those wretch'd ones, who pafs But, alas! Most of MYSELF I thought: when it befel, Chronicle. NEHEMIAH HIGGINBOTTOM, THE DOMIPHOBIA, OR DREAD OF HOME. SIR, I VERY much approve of your allotting a particu lar part of your Magazine to the valuable purposes of medical improvement; and what has been already done, will, I hope, lay the foundation of a feries of communications, from which physicians may derive great advantage. From entertaining fo high an opinion of this part of your Magazine, I am induced to offer my mite, by contributing a few remarks on a difeafe, not yet touched upon by your medical correfpondents, but which, by the time this communication will appear, must be pretty well known in most families. It is very prevalent in the months of June and July, is at the height in August, begins to decline in September, and about the end of October generally disappears, though much will depend upon the weather. I am fomewhat at a lofs to defcribe this disorder, because being of a very recent appearance in this country, it has efcaped the attention of Sauvages, Vogel, Cullen, and all our late Nofologifts. It has fome fymptoms peculiar to the clafs of fevers, and fome to that of inflammations, but it is a difeafe, if I may use the phrase, so original, fo much per fe, that we must be content to let it be the root of a peculiar clafs, which may hereafter be divided into fpecies, when the faculty thall have made it more their ftudy. I call it, merely for diftinction's fake, the DOMIPHOBIA, or Dread of Home, which is the principal fymptom; it begins, as I faid before, about the month of June or earlier, for I have at this moment a family under my care, who are dreadfully afflicted with it. The mother, a remarkably healthy looking, and indeed very handfome woman, complains of a wasting of the flesh, want of appetite, liftlefsnefs, and dejection. The two daughters, though poffeffed L1 poffeffed of the finest bloom of complexion, are inclined to confumption, have alfo loft their appetites, and are, to ufe their mother's expreffion, in a very alarming fituation. The fons have various pulmonic fymptoms, shortnefs of breath, cough, and complain that the fmoke of London entirely diforders them. The husband is the only person who has efcaped the diforder, although he feems fo much diftreffed at the fight of his family, that I fhould not wonder if he caught it from them. Every medicine I have prefcribed, has failed in its operation. Indeed, I muft confefs, that this is one of those diforders, in which we are not to expect a cure from chemicals or Galenicals. On the contrary, if we leave nature to perform her work, a cure is immediately found, for nature fuggefts to the patients, from the very first attack of the disease, that it can be relieved only by a jaunt to a WATERING PLACE. And hence a very expert practitioner in my neighbourhood, chooses to call it the Hydro-mania; but I apprehend he is mistaken, for I never knew a patient more attached to water when abroad, than when at home. There certainly, however, are fymptoms, which indicate a mania of fome kind or other; but fo imperfect is our knowledge of maniacal cafes, that I can derive no information from books. ARNOLD does not mention it in his lat edition, although probably he may in the next, for which I am told he is preparing materials. Befides, I confefs, that I am not very partial to increafing our catalogues of manias. So many things might be brought under this title, that a general hiftory of madnefs would, I am afraid be as comprehenfive as the Annual Regifter, or any other work which profeffed to record the actions of man; but this is a digreffion. It is peculiar to the diforder I am now speaking of, that the fymptoms of it never appear, when the patients are by themselves: the prefence however, of a ftranger, or a party of strangers, never fails to bring on |