prudent application of one of these remedies. Permit me just to give you one fpecimen of the Author's wonderful abilities, by quoting a receipt, which if not an infallible remedy, must at least be acknowledged to be a fingular one. "To cure a windy Cholic." "Suck a healthy woman daily; this (fays Mr. Wesley) was tried by my father." Should you, my dear friend, be defirous of perusing a variety of remedies, equally judicious as well as efficacious with those of Mr. Wefley, you will meet with ample fatisfaction by turning to "Dom Pernety's Voyage to the Falkland Islands," page 153 to 162. quarto edition. Some of the receipts there inferted are fo truly curious, I can fcarce refrain from treating you with a fpecimen or two, but fome of them being very indelicate, I must take care in felecting, for, like Simpkin, I pity the ladies so modest and nice.” Take the two following, one being no doubt an effectual remedy for a grievous complaint of that useful quadruped the horse; the other at least equally certain for the cure of one of the most dangerous disorders human nature is fubject to. "To Cure a Foundered Horfe." "Let him take one or two fpoonfuls of common falt in half a pint of water!" "For a malignant Fever." "A live tench applied to the feet for twelve hours, then buried quietly, or thrown down the house of office, and the patient will foon recover." It was a circumftance peculiarly happy for the practitioners of phyfic, though no doubt a terrible misfortune to the public, that the difference in religious principles of these two reverend gentlemen proved an effectual bar to the union of their medical abilities, which appear fo exactly correfpon dent; ! dent; had fuch an event taken place, that horrid monster difeafe might by this time have been banished from the earth, and the fons of Æfculapius would be doomed to feed on their own compofitions or starve! The Rev. Dr. Fordyce, in a late publication, has also given the world a remedy for the cramp, as delicate as efficacious. But here, I think I fee you fmile at my cenfuring Mt. Wesley for Stepping out of his line, when at the very moment I am committing the fame error by obtruding my judgment upon the fcience of phyfic.-I shall only reply, Many thought I did the fame when I commenced bookfeller: and a friend once taught me the adage, (be not offended, 'tis the only fcrap of Latin I fhall give you) "Ne Sutor ultra crepidam." But the event has proved it otherwife, and I flatter myself every candid and judicious perfon capable of judging will think with me on the above fubject. And I alfo muft inform you, that in one diforder I have been fuccefsful The fact is this: Mrs. Lack even in phyfic. T 4 Lackington having feveral times been cured of the dropfy in the cheft, by broom tea; I prescribed it to others, nor has it once failed. The laft inftance was in 1792, a young lady, an only daughter, being nearly loft to her family, she having had the dropfy two years, by my defire took broom tea, a little at a time, once or twice a day, weak or ftrong as she could bear. She continued this for feveral months, by which the perfectly recovered her health, and I hope the will foon have a good husband, and get another kind of dropfy. But to resume my narrative. What a pity that fuch a character as Mr. Wefley was, upon the whole, fhould have ,been a dupe and a rank enthusiast! A believer in dreams, vifions, immediate revelations, , miraculous cures, witchcraft, and many other ridiculous abfurdities, as appears from many paffages of his Journals, to the great difgrace of his abilities and learning; which puts one in mind of Cæfar, who in his commentaries turns bridge builder, and a maker of engines; of Periander, Periander, who although he was an excellent phyfician, quitted phyfic to write bad verses; Sir Ifaac Newton's Expofition of the Revelations, Milton's Paradife Regained, Dr. Johnfon's unmanly and childish Devotions, &c. &c. and (to compare fmall things with greater) J. L's turning author. "This Verro's fault, by frequent praises fir'd, " 'Twas long unknown, and might have been so yet. "That only thing heav'n meant he never should; "He's ridicul'd for that he but effected." DALACOURT However, I think we may fafely affirm that Mr. Wesley was a good fincere and honeft one, who denied himself many things; and really thought that he difregarded the praise and blame of the world, when he was more courted, refpected, and followed than any man living, and he ruled over a hundred. and twenty thoufand people with an abfolute fway, and the love of power feems to have been the main fpring of all his actions. I am |