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mediately after which England and his feconds abfconded; and a verdict of wilful murder being returned by the Coroner's Jury, an indictment was preferred, and a writ of outlawry followed of courfe, the parties not coming forward.

England, after being identified before a judge, was committed to Newgate, from whence, in the courfe of the prefent term, he will be brought before the Court of King's Bench, to plead to the outlawry, which must be got over before he can take his trial for the murder.

During his refidence in France he was feveral times in prifon, and once fentenced to be guillotined, but got pardoned through the intereft of a Member of the Convention, who alfo procured a paffport for him, by which means he got back to this kingdom. It may be faid that he had a very narrow efcape; for before he had received his pardon, he had been terrified by the arrivai of the executioner!

MATCH-MAKING.

HE following humorous cor

between two whimfical friends:

DEAR SIR,

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"Her difpofition, confidering the came from the Weft-Indies, is gentle to a degree. She be ftows very little time at her toilet, being fo quick in her motions, that he may be said to be dressed for the day, even the very moment the jumps out of bed. Though fond of chattering, you need not be at all alarmed left the. fhould divulge any family fecrets, for I give you my honour that a word will never efcape ber lips.

"In fhort, Mifs Jenny, (for the truth muft out) though poffeffed of infinite fagacity, fondnefs, and fidelity, has as many tricks as a monkey.

"Your gallantry will, no doubt, fuggeft the propriety of an early anfwer, as the lady cannot wait, and it is but justice to add that he has a number of admirers. "Your's, fincerely,

"Dear Sir,

“ W. D.”

"Please to accept my helt thanks for the favour of your note, and the very kind attention you have fhewn to an ill-fated attach ment, which, I am forry to fay, is oppofed by infurmountable obftacles. The females about me,

of admitting into their fociety at lady of fuperior accomplishments, or from the ftill more illiberal "A lady for whom you for-prejudices which women ufually merly entertained a penchant, and who I promised to procure for you, is now at liberty to receive propofals; and I have no difficulty in faying, that it will be your own fault if he is not your's on honourable terms, within two days. I have men. tioned honourable terms: but the friends of the lady have not the least objection to her being taken into keeping.

entertain against poor relations, have cruelly determined that Mifs Jenny fall not be received into the family. You would have been diftreffed, as I have, had you heard the volley of abufe which they have levelled against that amiable young perfon,-ugly, brutal, Ay, mifchievous, were fome of their mildeft epithets; nay, even yourself was not fpared; for, on the first fight of your let.

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ter, they called you a pimping | fellow. In short, my dear Sir, I am forced by thefe tyrants in petticoats to decline your very defirable proposal, which I do with all poffible reluctance.

"All entreaties and arguments have proved vain, and I have now only the confolation of fending, through your kindness, a kifs to the fair damfel, and of begging you to believe me,

"Your obliged,

"And very

humble fervant,
"E. L."

ferjeant gave the farmer the other fhilling-in the King's name!!! The woman became poffeffor of the corn, and the heroic votary of Mars, declaring that the cornfeller was enlifted, infifted upon his paying twenty hillings Smart money, and five fhillings to drink his Majefty's health, if he did not choose to be fworn into the fervice. Some of the fpectators. advised the farmer to pay the mo ney, without appealing to a ma. giftrate. After intreating the fergeant in vain, to excufe the five fhillings, he paid the whole fum. The foldier gave the poor woman nine fhillings, and to fome of the beholders fix fhillings, re

The SOLDIER more humane than the taining the other ten for his own

TH

FARMER.

HE following fingular circumftance is faid to have happened in Chefter market, early in last month:

A poor woman cheapened a measure of barley, for which the vender asked 105. She offered him gs. which, it feems, was all the money fhe was at that time

ufe. Our publishing of this curious occurrence is not intended to fhew our entire approbation of the foldier's conduct.

ANECDOTE of LORD NOR

THINGTON.

in poffeffion of. The proprietor H bed, ordered his gardener

of the corn, however, notwithflanding the woman's poverty, (having a family of feven chil. dren) perfifted in requiring 105. for the bushel of barley. The poor woman, not having money enough to make the defired purchafe, was under the neceffity of leaving the haggler without making a bargain. She had not travelled very far before he met with a ferjeant, who, observing that her cheeks were bedewed with tears, became inquifitive to know the cause of her diftrefs.

On being told, he accompanied the woman to the man with the corn, and, after endeavouring in vain, to perfuade him to fell the corn, at the price the offered, the

on his deathgardener to cut down fome clumps of trees, purely, as it is faid, becaufe they were agreeable to his fon. The gardener, willing to worship the rifing fun, neglected to do it, expecting every moment the death of his old mafter. He, enquiring whether his commands had been executed, and being answered in the negative, eafily conceived the gardener's motive for difobedience, and fending for him up to his chamber, thus addreffed him-" So d-n you, you have not done as I ordered you: you think I am going, fo I am, and be d-d to you, but you fhall go firft.Strip him, and kick him out of the houfe."

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A TREATISE on FARRIERY, with OF PUSTULES, ABSCESSES, AND

ANATOMICAL PLATES.

(Continued from page 12.)

HEN the cornea is only

WH

ULCERS OF THE HORNY COAT
OF THE EYE.

PUSTULES, which fometimes appear on the horny coat of the eye, are of two forts, phlydena, and puftules, properly fo called. The former are like fmall blifters, the latter lie a little deeper, and are filled with purulent matter, diforders are generally the confelike pimples on the face. These

the eye, when the blood contained in the enlarged veffels does not difperfe, but turns acrid and corwith this difference, that the rodes the part in which it lies, acrid ferum occafions phly&tenæ, and the red part puftules.

pricked by a thoin or otherwife, and the aqueous humour fhould run out, it will fill again in a day or two's time, as 1 have feveral times obferved. When there is no great inflammation, a wound in the cornea will heal infenfibly. But if thequences of the inflammation of inflammation is confiderable, it will open the wound, and let the watery humour out again, which had been renewed and kept in before, and fometimes the eye will become quite empty, and therefore we fhould always diftruft this fort of wounds. But to prevent this as much as poffible, we should dip two pieces of good flannel, of the breadth of two hands, in the following fomentation, letting them foak, and then wring out one and apply it very warm, but not too hot, over the wounded eye; and when the firftea, they look dufky at first, and begins to cool, apply the other. Let this be done alternately for ger lies in their turning to illconditioned ulcers; and if they half an hour, keeping the fomen-do, they are very hard to heal. tation hot enough for the pur- Phlyctenæ are not fo bad as pufpofe. This management may be tules; and they are neither of repeated twice a day, or oftener, them fo dangerous on the con-. till the fwelling begins to fink, junctive as on on the transparent. and the wound difcharges laudcornea. When they are, overable matter: against the pupil, they are worst

Take camomile flowers, elder

As the phlyctenæ are tranfpacolour of that part of the eye in rent, they appear to be of the which they arife. When puftules arife on the conjunctive coat of the eye, they are reddish at first, and afterwards white. But when they are on the tranfparent cor

in time turn white. All the dan

of all.

The cure of both is alike: and

flowers and red rofes, all dried, of each half an ounce; of marth- if they feem to be dangerous, you mallow leaves, an ounce; of fal muft begin with bleeding; keepammoniac, half an ounce: pouring his body open, and make of boiling water upon them, three rowels as in the laft fection. Alfo

pints. When the infufion is almoft cold, ftrain it off, and then add half a pint of red port wine. It must be heated again to dip the flannel in.

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diffolve five or fix grains of fugar of lead, in three ounces of rofe water and the white of an egg water, and dip a comprefs in rofe beaten together, and lay it over the

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eye. This must be removed five or fix times in a day. When they are attended with pain, fteep as much faffron in new milk as will make it of a fine yellow, and mix it with an equal part of the mucilage of quinces, and drop in a little of the mixture warm. Afterwards lay a comprefs over the eye dipped in the fame mixture, and renew it every two or three hours.

Note, this mixture must be freth every day with new milk. The mucilage is made ufe of because it is a little anodyne, and heathes the acrid particles that offend the eye, as well as it gives a body to the mixture, that it may lie on longer without drying. When the puftules feem to give way, mix a little brandy with fennel water, and wash the eye two or three times a day, which will ftrengthen the eye, and bring it to itfelf the fooner.

When the puftule tends to a fuppuration, apply fome drops of the following eye-water to it ten or twelve times a day :

Take the root of marth mallows, camomile flowers, and melilot, of each half an ounce. Boil them a little while in rofe water and fennel water, of each fix ounces; then add a fcruple of faffron, and strain off the decoction.

Likewife, dip a comprefs in this water, and lay it over the eyes, as before directed. When the puftules are long before they break, open them with the point of a lancet or needle, to prevent the matter from corroding the cornea, and rendering the ulcer more deep, which will be attended with a larger cicatrix.

When the puftules break of themselves, or have been opened, drop five or fix drops of the fol

lowing eye-water into the eye feveral times a day:

Take of lime-water, a pint; of fal ammoniac, a dram: let them ftand in a copper veffel, till the water becomes of a fine fky.colour, and then it is fit for ufe.

An abfcefs of the cornea is often the confequence of a great inflammation of the eyes, when it does not terminate by refolution. It fometimes arifes fpontaneously, like other abfceffes, from a hot, acrid ferum, or from an extravafation of the horny coat from external violence.

It differs from phly tenæ and puftules in being more deep, and the matter that forms it more thick. While this abfcefs is forming, the inflammation is violent, and the pain is great, which continue till the pus is formed. Sometimes the abfcefs is fo small as to take up no more room than a puftule, and fometimes it is fo large as to take up a good part of the cornea. When the pus is collected between the pellicles of the external furface of the cornea, the tumour will point outward, like a nail; when in the middle, it is flat and depreffed'; and when more inwardly, there is no tumour on the outfide.

The abfcefs of the cornea is a very troublesome disease, because it is often attended with lofs of fight, either on account of the deep cicatrix it leaves behind it, or from the ulcer it may happen to turn to, which is always very malignant. Befides, the horny coat is fometimes eaten through, and then the watry humour will run out, which is often attended with a difplacing of the rest of the humours; or, laftly, the whole may fuppurate, or, at least, a part of it, when the abscess breaks into the eye.

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