Quere I. Is not this Speech rather L M-'s panegyrick on himself, than a discourse on the reverfal of Mr. Wilkes's Outlawry? II. Would it not have been more

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proper for the establishing than the reverfal of the Outlawry?

III. Was it not ftudied, when the former was intended?

A Speech in a certain Affembly, in Reply to LB. F the noble lord, who is fo anxious to have the doors of the houfe constantly shut against strangers, had contented himself with infifting, that there is a standing order to this effect, and that a standing order fhould be ftrictly obferved, I fhould have thought it my duty to submit to his lordship's motion, though I confefs with fome reluctance. But when the noble lord, not fatisfied with an authority paramount to all argument, thinks it neceffary to give reafons for his opinion, he feems to admit that the point is at leaft difputable; therefore I hope he will permit me to offer fome reasons to the house, why I differ from him entirely.

The only tolerable pretence for refufing admittance to ftrangers of decent appearance and behaviour, is, left there should not be room for the members to attend business with ease and convenience to themselves. Whenever this happens, and we all know how feldom it does happen, every member has a right (and I dare fay his lordship will feldom fail to make ufe of it) to move, that the house may be cleared. In every other light, I think that, fo far from being of fended at the prefence of ftrangers, we should wish to have as many witneffes as poffible of all our proceedings. What his lordship's motives may be, I cannot pretend to determine; but, for my own part, as I am neither afhamed or afraid of what I fay in this houfe, I care not how foon, or how univerfally it is reported abroad. We are not a council of itate, nor is it our bufinefs to

deliberate upon, or direct the fecret
operations of government, though it
be our duty fometimes to enquire into
them. We are the reprefentatives of
the people, and in effect a popular
affembly. To aim at fecrecy in our
debates, would not only be a vain
and ridiculous attempt, but, I ap-
prehend, abfolutely contrary to the
principles upon which this house is
conftituted. It would be turning a
democratical affembly into the form
of an aristocracy. The nobility of
Venice wifely bar the doors of their
fenate-houfe, because they are not
the reprefentatives, but the tyrants.
of the people. Such a policy may
be prudent and neceffary, where the
interefts of a few who govern, are
different from thofe of the many,
who are governed. But, I flatter
myself, that the noble lord will not
infinuate, that the house of -
and the people of Great-Britain have
different or feparate interefts from
each other, or that we can have any
views, which it may import us to
conceal from our conftituents. Such
a cafe may poffibly happen hereafter,
but I am fure it cannot be faid, with
any appearance of truth of the pre-
fent houfe of
His lord-
fhip tells us, that by admitting
ftrangers to hear our debates, the
fpeeches of the members are foon
carried abroad and generally mifre
prefented. Perhaps it may be fo;
but will barring our doors prevent
that inconvenience? Does he think
that in an affembly of above five
hundred perfons, the difcourfes held
there will not be carried abroad,

will

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will not be mifreprefented? The members of this house are neither bound to fecrecy, nor is our memory or judgment infallible. But if his anxiety turns chiefly upon this point, I would with him to confider that a ftranger, who fits quietly in the gallery, is much more likely to retain, with exactness, what he comes on purpose to hear, than a member who perhaps is interested in the debate, and who probably hears the arguments on one fide with prejudice, while he liftens with partiality to those of the other. Shall we then, Sir, without any reasonable motive whatsoever, give this house the appearance of a foreign inquifition? Shall it be said that a British houfe of makes laws for the people, as fome flavish courts of judicature abroad try ftate-criminals, januis claufis? To the honour of our courts of juftice, they are open to all mankind, to make them refpectable in the eyes of the people. We are not indeed a court of judicature, but every argument for opening the courts in Weft

We are a

minster-Hall, operates with equal or
greater force upon us.
popular affembly: there is nothing.
fecret in the nature of our business.
By publishing our votes we admit
that the nation has a right to be in-
formed of our proceedings.-But,
above all, it is of the highest impor-
tance to the people to know the fenti-
ments and conduct of each particular
member, that they may be able to
form a juft judgment of our integrity
and ability, and in what manner we
fupport the interefts of our confti-
tuents. And fhall motives fuch as
thefe have no weight with us? Shall
our inhofpitable doors be closed, be-
caufe one member is afraid of being
mifrepresented? I wish the noble
lord were as cautious of what he
writes in other places, as of what he
fays here. But in that refpect he has
taken care to be perfectly iafe. The
military manifeito, which he has
thought proper to give under his
hand, is too plain to be misunder-
ftood, and too bad to be mifrepre-
fented. [Political Refter.]

A curious Speech, delivered at the famous Speaking Club, in the City of London, on the following QUESTION:

"If Happiness be in our Power, in what State of Life is it most eafily acquired."

reafon I don't think it worth my while to answer it. So I fhall give you my own mind upon the matter, without any method, or reason, or the like of that, for them I look upon to be only puzzling, and think them entirely ufelefs on any fuch occafion; for when a man is fure he is faying the true thing, and has got the right fow by the ear, what fignifies wafting time in bringing arguments to prove what's as clear as the fun at noon-day?

Now, Mr. Prefident, as I intend to ftick clofe to the queftion, I fhall begin by obferving as to what makes us free, and the like o' that: Why

it's

Extra& from a Treatife on the Disorders and Deformities of the Teeth and Gums. By Thomas Beardmore, Surgeon-Dentift to his Majefty.

UR Author's remarks on the firft dentition of infants, in the third part of this treatife, are as follows:

From the third month, to the fecond year, the protrufion of the teeth cannot fail to be attended with fome degreee of uneafinefs, pain,

Extract from a Treatife on the Disorders of the Teeth, c.

the inflammation of these parts, and the irritability of the nervous fyltem, the inflammation is turned to ulcers, or extends itself to the mufcles of the face, to the falivary glands, and other parts, producing abfceffes and a variety of diforders. Hence flavering, reftleffnefs, head achs, pains in the ears, parotids, inflammatory and hectic fevers, rickets, convul fions, vomiting, purging, and even the death of almost one half of the children that are loft before the fecond year

But without departing from our prefent purpose, it is conftantly obferved, that dentition caufes inflammation, and inflammation, if violent and neglected, caufes ulcers and abfceffes, and thefe not only can injure the growing teeth, but also the tender ftamina that lie beneath to supply a second dentition.

"Hence it appears, that a treatment of the first dentition at once concerns the health and life of the child, and the foundness and beauty of all the teeth that he has already grown, or that he ever is to have afterwards; and nothing can be more fhort-fighted and erroneous, than the notion that the firft teeth require no care, because they only laft to the feventh year.

"It is highly neceffary, therefore, to watch carefully each fucceffive protrufion of the milk-teeth, to mitigate the inflammation, to alleviate the pain, and to remove every impediment.

"For thefe purpofes, the body fhould be kept open with gentle purges when neceffary, mild opiates fhould be given at night when the pain occafions restlessness; and above

"Thofe who judge of the fatality of diforders by the bills of mortality, will imagine perhaps that this computation is greatly over-ftretched. But it is to be obferved, that VOL. I.

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all, the gums fhould be divided in the part that is moft prominent and raifed by the preffure of the growing tooth. This incifion fhould be made early on the first appearance of inflammation or fever, provided the operator is affured, by the age of the patient, and other confiderations deducible from what has been faid in the first part of this work, that the tooth is perfectly formed, and not far diftant from the furface of the gums. For it is trifling with the difeafe, and a timidity only founded on inexperience, to defer the operation, as is commonly done, until the gums are confiderably elevated and pointed, fince the chief danger and pain are then at an end, and nature is fufficient for the purpofe.

"In making this incifion, fome judgment is neceffary, to hit exactly the perpendicular line of the tooth; otherwife it will be of no ufe, and the tooth will take another course. The incifion fhould likewise be made in the line of the edge of the tooth, and at the fame time fufficiently large and deep, that it may not clofe quickly, and that no flips maybe left in the way uncut. After this, the gums fhould be conftantly moistened with a little milk-mixed decoction of poppy-heads, to leffen the fenfation and pain; and as the free discharge of faliva is found to give fome relief, a little chinaorange-juice may be added occafionally, as foon as it can be used without exciting pain in the extremities of the divided veffels.

"As to the custom of encouraging children to chew upon coral, wax, and fuch like bodies. I am of opi

the deaths imputed to convulfive disorders are to be taken into this account, because they almoft univerfally arise from dentition at this time of life." nion

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