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food and clothing. The schools for the admission
of children born in the colony, are still progres-
sively improving, and the parents evince an anx-
ious desire to avail themselves of the opportunity
afforded them of obtaining useful instruction for
their children."

fests the desire the liberated Africans have to la-
bour voluntarily to enable them by honest means
to become possessed of those luxuries which they
see their more wealthy brethren enjoying. The
police of the villages is administered by the libe-
rated Africans; they have given evident proof of
their affection for the laws as they are administer-
Thus we see, notwithstanding every disad-
ed, by the interest they show in implicitly obey-vantage under which this colony has laboured,
ing them; and when it has been found requisite that its peace has been undisturbed, its im-
to adopt local regulations particularly affecting
them, they have cheerfully conformed to them.-provement uniformly progressive, and the ha-
So very useful are the liberated Africans found in bits of its African population industrious and
the rafting and cutting of timber, and sawing praiseworthy. And all this has taken place in
boards and scantling, that many of them are re- the absence of coercion, as may be learned
ceiving from four to five dollars per month, with from the statement of Sir Neil Campbell, in a

"Coer

letter of the date of October 1, 1826.
cion," he says, "has never been employed in
this colony." What, then, will an enlightened
public think of the vagaries of Major Moody,
with which for a time we were insulted, under
the somewhat imposing title of the philosophy
of labour? Human nature is much the same
in every quarter of the globe. Take away the
incentives to industry, and the European will
be as indolent as the African. Supply them,
and the latter will be industrious like the
former.

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LANDSCAPE GARDENING.

THE garden, at first intended merely for producing esculent vegetables, fruits, and flowers, began to assume another character, as soon as the increase of civilization tempted the feudal baron to step a little way out of the limits of his fortifications, and permitted his high dame to come down from her seat upon the castle walls, so regularly assigned her by ancient Minstrels, and tread the neighbouring precincts which art had garnished for her reception. These gardens were defended with walls, as well for safety as for shelter; they were often surrounded with fosses, had the command of water, and gave the disposer of the ground an opportunity to display his taste, by intoducing canals, basins, and fountains, the margins of which admitted of the highest architectural ornament. As art enlarged its range, and the nobles were satisfied with a display of magnificence, to atone for the abridgment of their power, new ornaments were successively introduced; banqueting houses were built; terraces were extended and connected by staircases and balustrades, of the richest forms. The result was, indeed, in the highest degree, artificial; but it was a sight beautiful in itself-a triumph of human art over the elements; and, connected as these ornamental gardens were with splendid mansions of the same character, there was a sym

The open field, and where the unpierced shade
Embrowned the noon-tide bowers. Then was this
place
A happy rural seat of various view."

metry and harmony between the baronial pa-
lace itself and these its natural appendages,
which recommended them to the judgment as
well as the eye. The shrubs themselves were
artificial, inasmuch as they were either exotic,
or, if indigenous, were treated in a manner and
This passage expresses exquisitely what
presented an appearance which was altogether park scenery ought to be, and what it has in
the work of cultivation. The examination of some cases actually become; but we think the
such objects furnished amusement to the mere- quotation has been used to authorise conclu-
ly curious, information to the scientific, and sions which the author never intended. Eden
pleasure at least to those who only looked at
was created by the almighty fiat, which called
them, and passed on. Where there was little heaven and earth into existence; and poets of
extent of ground, especially, what could be fit-genius much inferior, and falling far short of
ter for the amusement of "learned leisure, Milton in the power of expressing their mean-
than those trim gardens," which Milton has ing, would have avoided the solecism of repre-
represented as the chosen scene of the easy senting Paradise as decorated with beds and
and unoccupied man of letters. He had there curious knots of flowers, with which the idea of
around him the most delightful subjects of con- human labour and human care is inevitably
templation, in the fruits and flowers, the connected-an impropriety, indeed, which can
shrubs and trees, many of them interesting only be equalled by that of the French painter,
from their novelty and peculiar appearance who gave the skin dress of our first father the
and habits, inviting him to such studies as
cut of a court suit. Milton nobly conceived
lead from created things up to the Almighty that Eden, emanating directly from the Crea-
Creator. This sublime author, indeed, has been tor, must possess that majestic freedom which
quoted, as bearing a testimony against the ar- characterizes even the less perfect works of na-
tificial taste of gardening in the times when he ture; and, in doing so, he has anticipated the
lived, in those well-known verses,-
schemes of later improvers. But, we think it
extremely dubious, that he either meant to re-
commend landscape gardening on an exten-
sive scale, or to censure those "trim gardens,"
which he has elsewhere mentioned so affec
tionately.-Quarterly Review.

"Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art
In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon
Poured out profuse on hill and dale and plain,
Both where the morning sun first warmly smote

THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION

SOCIETY.

THIS is at once the most impudent and the most successful hoax we ever heard of. The deception which has been practised upon the minds of the benevolent in this country, by the advocates of this society, has lasted so long, that it is now high time to inquire the causes of the fact, and to remove them without delay. We cannot help attributing it in part to the remissness of the leading advocates of the abolition of slavery, in not taking more effectual means to circulate correct information respecting the real character of the Colonization Society-to show the sinister motives by which its members are actuated, the infamous object which they contemplate, and the consummate hypocrisy with which their designs are concealed in this country, though no secret is (or need be) made of them in America.

We are much gratified, however, to perceive that strenuous efforts are at length making, to disabuse the minds of our countrymen, on these points. A very able and convincing article has appeared in the Eclectic Review, for February, which will, we doubt not, materially change the estimation in which American benevolence and religion are held in this part of the world; and we pledge ourselves to omit no opportunity of giving publicity to facts and opinions of the like character.

The motives by which the Colonization Society are evidently actuated are, first, the most rooted aversion to the coloured population of the states; and, secondly, a consciousness of their sympathy with the sufferings of the slaves, and concern for their emancipation; and, hence, they are naturally anxious for their removal, in order that their victims may be left to their tender mercies, unprotected and unaided.

In confirmation of the above remarks, we will direct the notice of our readers to various parts of documents published by this Society in America; to some facts furnished in a recent work, from the pen of Mr. Garrison, which forms the subject of the review to which we have alluded, and to some brief extracts from the review itself.

With respect to the first motive which we have attributed to this society, we have one rather curious fact to offer, supplied from the above sources. Will our readers believe that the Americans in the nineteenth century are at once so besotted, and so paltry, as to attempt to get rid of the fact, that they and their coloured brethren belong to the same country? Let us listen for a moment to the Eclectic Review.

"Strange to say, every black man born in America, is called an African. Although our American brethren have so long ceased to regard England as their mother country, notwithstanding that they are, in language, in religion, and in many essential characteristics, Englishmen, yet, they persist in calling Africa the native country of a race born on their own soil, of parents born in America for many generations upward; and in representing these coloured freemen, their own countrymen, every inch Americans, as poor unfortunate exiles from their much loved Guinea or Congo! Our readers will require proof of this most palpable absurdity. The following are given by M. Garrison as illustrative specimens:At no very distant period, we should see all the free coloured people in our land, transferred to their own country. Let us send

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By returning them to their own ancient land of Africa, improved in knowledge and in civilization, we repay the debt which has so long been due to them.' African Repository.

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"We have a numerous people who, though they are among us, are not of us.'-Second An. Report of N. York Col. Soc.

Among us is a growing population of strangers. It will furnish the means of granting to every African exile among us, a happy home in the land of his fathers.'-Rev. Baxter Dickinson's Sermon.

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Africa is indeed inviting her long exiled children to return to her bosom.'-Circular of Rev. Mr. Gurley."

We shall present from the same source some more general evidence of the same infamous and unchristian spirit.

"In employing the terms, white blood and black blood, we are reminded of the emphatic contradiction which the word of God supplies to the notion, that there is any essential difference between them. The Creator of all has made of

one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the

face of the earth; and he who practically denies this, maketh God a liar.' How admirably does the proud spirit which leads the white American church with his sable fellow-christian, harmonize to revolt at worshipping his Maker in the same with the apostolic exhortation, Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,' who 'is not ashamed to call us'-men of every hue, partakers of the same flesh and blood-his brethren!' Had our Lord himself appeared to the American nation in the form of a servant,' with a skin of darker hue than their own, they would have exclaimed with one voice, Crucify him.'

"No one who is aware of the intense, the

almost savage antipathy which inspires an American towards the coloured races, will accuse us Indians, with all their faults, discover a less unof exaggeration. In this respect, our own West conquerable prejudice. It seems inherited less, indeed, from the European, than from the aboriginal Indian, between whom and the negro there exists a peculiar mutual repugnance, as there is also the most extreme physical contrariety. The very sight of a gentleman of colour, whatever his wealth and intelligence, at the same dinner-table, in the same box of a theatre, still more at the same altar, would, even in this country, throw an American into the agitation of suppressed rage. The well-authenticated anecdotes we have heard, illustrative of this fact, would be simply amusing, were it not for the serious consequences of this absurd prejudice. When we find such a spirit as this in Christians, we may well cease to wonder at the haughty prejudice of the ancient Jews towards the Gentiles, which led them to resent our Saviour's eating with 'publicans and sinners,' and to exclaim, respecting the apostle of the Gentiles, Away with this fellow he is not fit to live.' The conduct of the Brahmins towards the inferior castes finds its counterpart, in the nineteenth century, among the philosophic republicans of America. In proof of this, we shall transcribe a few sentences from the publications of the advocates of Colonization.

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Among the twelve millions who make up our census, two millions are Africans-separated from the possessors of the soil by birth, by the brand of indelible ignominy, by prejudices, mutual, deep, incurable, by an irreconcileable diversity of interests. They are aliens and outcasts ;-they are, as a body, degraded beneath the influence of nearly all the motives which prompt other men to enterprise, and almost below the sphere of virtuous affections. Whatever may be attempted for the general improvement of society, their wants are untouched. Whatever may be effected for elevating the mass of the nation in the scale of happiness, or of intellectual and moral character, their degradation is the same,-dark, and deep, and hopeless. Benevolence seems to overlook them, or struggles for their benefit in vain. Patriotism forgets them, or remembers them only with shame for what has been, and with dire forebodings for what is yet to come.... In every part of the United States, there is a broad and impassable line of demarcation between every man who has one drop of Afri

can blood in his veins, and every other class in the community. The habits, the feelings, all the prejudices of society-prejudices which neither refinement, nor argument, nor education, nor religim itself can subdue-mark the people of colour, whether bond or free, as the subjects of a degradation inevitable and incurable. The African in this country belongs by birth to the very lowest station in society; and from that station he can never rise, be his talents, his enterprise, his virtues what they may. They constitute a class by themselves a class out of which no individual can be elevated, and below which none can be depressed.'-African Repository, Vol. IV., pp.

117-119.

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'Here, invincible prejudices exclude them from the enjoyment of the society of the whites, and deny them all the advantages of free men. The bar, the pulpit, and our legislative halls are shut to them by the irresistible force of public sentiment. No talents, however great; no piety, however pure and devoted; no patriotism, however ardent, can secure their admission. They constantly hear the accents and behold the triumph of a liberty which here they can never enjoy.'— Ib., Vol. VI., p. 17.

Is it not wise, then, for the free people of colour and their friends to admit, what cannot reasonably be doubted, that the people of colour must, in this country, remain for ages, probably for ever, a separate and inferior caste, weighed down by causes powerful, universal, inevitable,

which neither legislation nor Christianity can remove?' Let the free black in this country toil from youth to age in the honourable pursuit of wisdom-let him store his mind with the most valuable researches of science and literature-and let him add to a highly gifted and cultivated intellect, a piety pure, undefiled, and "unspotted from the world”—it is all nothing: he would not be received into the very lowest walks of society. If we were constrained to admire so uncommon a being, our admiration would mingle with disgust; because, in the physical organization of his frame, we meet an insurmountable barrier even to an approach to social intercourse; and in the Egyptian colour which nature has stamped upon his features, a principle of repulsion so strong as to forbid the idea of a communion, either of interest or of feeling, as utterly abhorrent. Whether these feelings are founded in reason or not, we will not now inquire-perhaps, they are not. But education, and habit, and prejudice have so firmly riveted them upon us, that they have become as strong as nature itself. And to expect their removal, or even their slightest modification, would be as idle and preposterous as to expect that we could reach forth our hands, and remove the mountains from their foundations into the valleys which are beneath them.'-Ib., Vol. VII., pp. 195, 231.

The Soodra is not further separated from the Brahmin, in regard to all his privileges, civil, intellectual, and moral, than the negro is from the white man, by the prejudices which result from the difference made between them by the God of nature.'-Seventh Annual Report of Col. Soc.

'Christianity cannot do for them here, what it will do for them in Africa. This is not the fault of the coloured man, nor of the white man, nor of Christianity; but an ordination of Providence, and no more to be changed than a law of nature." Fifteenth An. Rep.

The coloured people are subject to legal disabilities, more or less galling and severe, in almost every State of the Union. Who has not deeply regretted their late harsh expulsion from the State of Ohio, and their being forced to abandon the country of their birth, which had profited by their labours, and to take refuge in a foreign land? Severe regulations have been recently passed in Louisiana, to prevent the introduction of free people of colour into the State. Wherever they appear, they are to be banished in 60 days. The strong opposition to a negro college in New Haven, speaks, in a language not to be mistaken, the jealousy with which they are regarded. And there is no reason to expect that the lapse of cen

turies will make any change in this respect.'Matthew Carey's Reflections.

With us, colour is the bar. Nature has raised up barriers between the races, which no man, with a proper sense of the dignity of his species, desires to see surmounted.'-Speeches at the formation of a Col. Soc. in New York, pp. 135-140.

"And this in America! These are the fruits of reason and philosophy, in a republic founded on the rights of man, and glorying in the political equality of its citizens, while every sixth in

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dividual is a soodra, the victim of a prejudice as senseless, of injustice as enormous, as ever dis

graced a heathen nation. Talk of freedom, of

toleration, of justice, in a country where a free citizen may be expelled from his native soil, because of his complexion! Why Russia and its autocrat appear to advantage in comparison with this ruthless, irresponsible despotism. And, then, think of the blasphemy of making the Deity an accomplice in this cruelty and injustice, by reresolving it into an ordination of Providence,' a law of the God of nature,' which defies the utmost power of Christianity, which religion cannot, that is, shall not subdue! How must this language of obstinate determination and defiance sound in the ears of heaven! How righteously will the refusal to inquire whether these feelings be founded in reason or not, whether they be consonant with justice and religion or not, be visited with a rebuke of fearful indignation! When we read such expressions, we are forcibly reminded of the emphatic words of President Jefferson in reference to slavery -I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep for ever.""

After these disclosures, we think our readers will agree with us, that a lower tone of profession (if not the silence of shame) becomes our American brethren. In spite of the number of Christian ministers and professors connected with the Colonization Society, we are unwilling to believe that it is by any means universally advocated or approved. Until, however, it is abandoned and repented of in dust and ashes, we trust, we shall hear less of their religious prosperity, and no more of their "liberty and equality!"

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always, I believe, be found to stand on as good vantage ground, in this respect, as their fellow-countrymen on shore. Be this as it may, there can be no more attentive, or apparently reverent auditory, than assembles on the deck of a ship of war, on the occasion of a ship

A SEAMAN'S FUNERAL. VERY shortly after poor Jack dies, he is prepared for his deep-sea grave by his messmates, who, with the assistance of the sailmaker, and in the presence of the master-atarms, sew him up in his hammock, and, hav-mate's burial. ing placed a couple of cannon shot at his feet, they rest the body, (which now not a little resembles an Egyptian mummy,) on a spare grating. Some portion of the bedding and clothes are always made up in the package, apparently to prevent the form being too much It is then carried off, and, being placed across the after-hatchway, the union jack is thrown over all. Sometimes it is placed between two of the guns, under the half-deck; but generally, I think, he is laid where I have mentioned, just abaft the mainmast. I should have mentioned before, that as soon as the surgeon's ineffectual professional offices are at an end, he walks to the quarter-deck, and reports to the officer on the watch that one of his patients has just expired. At whatever hour of the day or night this occurs, the captain is immediately made acquainted with the circum

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stance.

Next day, generally about eleven o'clock, the bell on which the half hours are struck is tolled for the funeral; and all who choose to be present assemble on the gangways, booms, and round the mainmast, while the forepart of the quarter-deck is occupied by the officers. In some ships-and, perhaps, it ought to be so in all-it is made imperative on the officers and crew to attend the ceremony. If such attendance be a proper mark of respect to a professional brother, as it surely is, it ought to be enforced, and not left to caprice. There may be, indeed, times of great fatigue, when it would harass men and officers needlessly, to oblige them to come on deck, for every funeral; and, upon such occasions, the watch on deck may be sufficient.-Or, when some dire disease gets into the ship, and is cutting down her crew by some daily and nightly, or, it may be hourly ravages, and when, two or three times on watch, the ceremony must be repeated, those only, whose turn it is to be on deck, need be assembled. In such fearful times, the funeral is generally made to follow close upon the death.

The land service for the burial of the dead, contains the following words:-" Forasmuch as it has pleased Almighty God, of his great mercy, to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope," &c. Every one, I am sure, who has attended the funeral of a friend-and whom will not this include?-must recollect the solemnity of that stage of the ceremony, where, cast into the grave three successive portions of as the above words are pronounced, there are earth, which, falling on the coffin, send up a hollow, mournful sound, resembling no other that I know. In the burial service at sea, the part quoted above is varied in the following very striking and impressive manner:-" Forasmuch," &c.-" we therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, when the sea shall give up her dead, and the life of the world to come," &c. At the commencement of this part of the service, one of the seamen stoops down, and disengages the flag from the remains of his late shipmate, while the others, at the words, "we commit his body to the deep," project the grating right into the

sea.

The body being loaded with shot at one end, glances off the grating, plunges at once into the ocean, and—

"In a moment, like a drop of rain,

He sinks into its depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncomfined, and unknown."

This part of the ceremony is rather less solemn than the correspondent part on land; but still there is something impressive, as well as startling, in the sudden splash, followed by the sound of the grating, as it is towed along under the main-chains.-Captain Basil Hall's

Sketches.

TO TEA-DRINKERS. While the people are repairing to the quarter-deck, in obedience to the summons of the VESSELS intended to contain a liquid at a bell, the grating on which the body is placed, higher temperature than the surrounding mebeing lifted from the main-deck by the mess- dium, and to keep that liquid as long as posmates of the man who has died, is made to sible at the higher temperature, should be rest across the lee-gangway. The stanchions constructed of materials which are the worst for the man-ropes of the side are unshipped, radiators of heat. Thus tea-urns, and tea-pots, and an opening made at the after-end of the are best adapted for their purpose, when conhammock netting, sufficiently large to allow a structed of polished metal, and worst when free passage. The body is still covered by constructed of black porcelain. A black porthe flag already mentioned, with the feet pro- celain tea-pot is the worst conceivable material jecting a little over the gunwale, while the for that vessel, for both its material and colour messmates of the deceased range themselves are good radiators of heat, and the liquid conon each side. A rope, which is kept out of tained in it cools with the greatest possible sight in these arrangements, is then made fast rapidity. On the other hand, a bright metal to the grating, for a purpose which will be tea-pot is best adapted for the purpose, because seen presently. When all is ready, the chap-it is the worst radiator of heat, and, therefore, lain, if there be one on board, or, if not, the captain, or any of the officers he may direct to officiate, appears on the quarter-deck, and commences the beautiful service, which, though but too familiar to most ears, I have observed, never fails to rivet the attention even of the rudest, and least reflecting. Of course, the bell has ceased to toll, and every one stands in silence and uncovered as the prayers are read. Sailors, with all their looseness of habits, are well disposed to be sincerely religious; and when they have fair play given them, they will

cools as slowly as possible. A polished silver or brass tea-urn is better adapted to retain the heat of the water than one of a dull brown colour, such as is most commonly used.

A tin kettle retains the heat of water boiled in it, more effectually if it be kept clean and polished, than if it be allowed to collect the smoke and soot, to which it is exposed from the action of the fire. When coated with this, its surface becomes rough and black, and is a powerful radiator of heat.-Dr. Lardner's Treatise on Heat.

MEDICINE OF NATURE.

Ir becomes us, before we decree the honours

of a cure to a favourite medicine, carefully and candidly to ascertain the exact circumstances under which it is exhibited, or we shall rapidly accumulate examples of the fallacies to which our art is exposed. What has been more common than to attribute to the efficacy of a mineral water those fortunate changes of constitution that have entirely, or in great measure, arisen from salubrity of situation, hilarity of mind, exercise of body, and regularity of habits, which have incidentally accompanied its potation. Thus the celebrated John Wesley, while he commemorates the triumph of "sulphur and supplication" over his bodily infirmity, forgets to appreciate the resuscitating influence of four months' repose from his apostolic labours; and such is the disposition of the human mind to place confidence in the operation of mysterious agents, that we find him more disposed to attribute his cure to a brown paper plaister of egg and brimstone, than to Dr. Fothergill's salutary prescription of country air, rest, asses' milk, and horse-exercise. The ancient physicians duly appreciated the influence of such agents; their temples, like our watering-places, were the resort of

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CURE OF CHOLERA.

To Mr. Mason, Agent for Staffordshire.
SIR,-For the benefit of my fellow-sufferers I lay before

been temperate, and hast therefore recovered thy
health!"" But the medical practitioner may
perhaps receive more satisfaction from a
modern illustration; if so, the following anec-
dote, related by Sydenham, may not be un-
acceptable. This great physician having long
attended a gentleman of fortune with little
or no advantage, frankly avowed his inability
to render him any further service, adding, at
the same time, that there was a physician of
the name of Robinson, at Inverness, who had
distinguished himself by the performance of
many remarkable cures of the same complaint
as that under which his patient laboured, and
expressing a conviction that, if he applied to
him, he would come back cured. This was too
encouraging a proposal to be rejected; the
gentleman received from Sydenham a state-
ment of his case, with the necessary letter of from any other quarter, I was induced (by your agent,
introduction, and proceeded without delay to
the place in question. On arriving at Inver-
ness, and anxiously enquiring for the residence
of Dr. Robinson, he found, to his utter dismay ral adoption of this sure remerly,
and disappointment, that there was no phy-
sician of that name, nor ever had been in
the memory of any person there.
tleman returned, vowing eternal hostility to

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you, and for the acceptance of Mr. Morison and the British College of Health, a statement of my case and cure, from the use of the Universal Medicines only. About the 1st of August I was taken suddenly ill, with alarming symptoms of the disease called cholera. I lay in bed five days, in extreme torture, from constant retchings and cramps, from which I had no hope of alleviation, so many were carried off by the complaint all around me. Finding no relief Mr. Round, of Tipton,) to try Morison's Pills, which, by the blessing of God, and the use of strong doses, carried off the acrimonious humours, which I have now every reason to believe is all that is required, and restored me to health in eight days. Strongly recommending the geneI am, Sir, most respectfully yours, SIMEON ONIONS. Canal Side, Tipton Green, Sept. 12, 1822.

those whom medicine could not cure, and we are expressly told by Plutarch that these temples, especially that of Esculapius, were erected on elevated spots, with the most congenial aspects; a circumstance which, when aided the peace of Sydenham; and, on his arrival at having superseded the use of almost all the Patent Me

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home, instantly expressed his indignation at
having been sent on a journey of so many hun-
Well," replies
dred miles for no purpose.
Sydenham, are you better in health ?"-
Yes, I am now quite well; but no thanks to

you."

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CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC. MORISON'S UNIVERSAL MEDICINES dicines which the wholesale venders have foisted upon the credulity of the searchers after health, for so many years, the town druggists and chemists, not able to establish a fair fame on the invention of any plausible means of competition, have plunged into the mean expedient of puffdouble r), a being who never existed, as prescribing a "Vegetable Universal Pill, No. 1 and 2," for the express

ing up a "Dr. Morrison" (observe the subterfuge of the

by the invigorating effects of hope, by the diversions which the patient experienced in his journey, and perhaps by the exercise to which he had been unaccustomed, certainly performed many cures. It follows, then, that in the recommendation of a watering-place, something more than the composition of a mineral spring is to direct our choice. The chemist will tell us, that the springs of Hampstead and Islington rival those of Tunbridge and Malvern; that the waters of Bagnigge Wells, as a chalybeate / his wonderful cures in contemplation; and, tence), none can be held genuine by the College but those in returning, you were equally engaged in thinking of scolding me."--Paris's Pharmaco- upon the Government Stamp attached to each box and logia.

purgative, might supersede those of Chelten ham and Scarborough; and that an invalid would frequent the spring in the vicinity of the Dog and Duck, in St. George's Fields, with as much advantage as the celebrated Spa at Leamington; but the physician is well aware that, by the adoption of such advice, he would deprive his patient of those most powerful auxiliaries to which I have alluded, and, above all, lose the advantage of the medicina mentis. On the other hand, the recommendation of change of air and habits will rarely inspire confidence, unless it be associated with some medicinal treatment—a truth which it is more easy and satisfactory to elucidate and enforce by examples than by precept. Let the following story by Voltaire serve as an illustration. "Ogul, a voluptuary, who could be managed but with difficulty by his physician, on finding himself extremely ill from indolence and intemperance, requested advice. 'Eat a Basilisk, stewed in rose-water,' replied the physician. In vain did the slaves search for a Basilisk, until they met with Zadig, who, approaching Ogul, exclaimed, Behold that which thou desirest. But, my lord,' continued he, it is not to be eaten; all its virtues must enter through thy pores; I have, therefore, enclosed it in a little ball, blown up, and covered with a fine skin: thou must strike this ball with all thy might, and I must strike it back again, for a considerable time, and by observing this regimen, and taking no other drink than rosewater for a few days, thou wilt see and acknowledge the effect of my art.' The first day Ogul was out of breath, and thought he

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No," says Sydenham, "but you may thank Dr. Robinson for curing you. I wished to send you a journey with some object of interest in view: I knew it would be of service to you. In going, you had Dr. Robinson and

APHORISMS.

Such princes as tyrannize over the consciences of men attack the throne of the Supreme Being, and frequently lose the earth by interfering too much with heaven.-MAXIMILIAN II.

The senses, like the sun, open the surface of the terrestrial globe, but close and seal up that of the celestial.-LORD BACON.

When we go

The great chain of causes which link one to
another to the throne of God himself can never be
unravelled by any industry of ours.
but one step beyond the immediate sensible quali-
ties of things, we go out of our depth; all we do
after is but a faint struggle, that shows us we are
in an element which does not belong to us.-
Burke.

He who diffuses the most happiness, and miti-
gates the most distress, within his own circle, is
undoubtedly the best friend to his country and the
world, since nothing more is necessary than for
all men to imitate his conduct, to make the great-
est part of the misery of the world cease in a mo-
ment.-ROBERT HALL.

Kings rule by their laws as God does by the laws of nature, and ought as rarely to put in use their supreme prerogative as God doth his power of working miracles.-JAMES I.

purpose (by means of this forged imposition upon the public), of deteriorating the estimation of the "UNIVERSAL HEALTH."

MEDICINES" of the " BRITISH COLLEGE OF

KNOW ALL MEN, then, that this attempted delusion must fall under the fact, that (however specious the prewhich have "Morison's Universal Medicines" impressed packet, to counterfeit which is felony by the laws of the Jand.

The "Vegetable Universal Medicines" are to be had at the College, New Road, King's Cross, London; at the Surrey Branch, 96, Great Surrey-street; Mr. Field's, 16, Airstreet, Quadrant; Mr. Chappell's, Royal Exchange; Mr. Walker's, Lamb's-conduit-passage, Red-lion-square; Mr. J. Loft's, Mile-end-road; Mr. Bennett's, Covent-gardenmarket; Mr. Haydon's, Fleur-de-lis-court, Norton-falgate; Mr. Haslet's, 147, Ratcliffe-highway; Messrs. Norbury's, Brentford; Mrs. Stepping, Clare-market; Messrs. Salmon, Little Bell-alley; Miss Varai's, 24, Lucas street, Commercial-road; Mrs. Beech's, 7, Sloane-square, Chelsea; Mrs. Chapple's, Royal Library, Pall-mall; Mrs. Pippen's, 18, Wingrove-place, Clerkenwell; Miss C. Atkinson, 19, New Trinity-grounds, Deptford; Mr. Taylor, Hanwell; Mr. Kirtlam, 4, Bolingbroke-row, Walworth; Mr. Payne, 64, Jermyn-street; Mr. Howard, at Mr. Wood's, hair-dresser, Richmond; Mr. Meyar, 3, May's-buildings, Blackheath; Mr. Griffiths, Wood-wharf, Greenwich; Mr. Pitt, 1, CornStrand; wall-road, Lambeth; Mr. J. Dobson, 35, Craven-street, Mr. Oliver, Bridge-street, Vauxhall; Mr. J. Monck, Bexley Heath; Mr. T. Stokes, 12, St. Ronan's, 96, Edgware-road; Mr. Hart, Portsmouth-place, Kennington-lane; Mr. Charlesworth, grocer, 124, Shoreditch; Mr. R. G. Bower, grocer, 22, Brick-lane, St. Luke's; Mr. S. J. Avila, pawnbroker, opposite the church, Hackney; Mr J. S. Briggs, 1, Brunswick-place, Stoke Newington; Mr. T. Gardner, 95, Wood-street, Cheapside, and 9, Nortonfalgate; Mr. J. Williamson, 15, Seabright-place, Hackneyroad; Mr. J. Osborn, Wells-street, Hackney road, and Homerton; Mr. H. Cox, grocer, 16, Union-street, Bishopsgate-street; Mr. T. Walter, cheesemonger, 67, Hoxton Old Town; and at one agent's in every principal town in Great Britain, the Islands of Guernsey and Malta; and throughout the whole of the United States of America.

Deptford; Mr. Cowell, 22, Terrace, Pimlico; Mr. Parfitt,

N. B. The College will not be answerable for the consequences of any medicines sold by any chymist or druggist, as none such are allowed to sell the "Universal Medicines."

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