that nothing but their noftrum will insure your recovery, or prevent your taking the distemper,

Now, Mr. Baldwin, having myself a new dif covery in medicine to recommend to the publick, a preparation that will be of the most infinite fervice in the prefent reigning diftemper, and in allother diftempers that ever have affected, or ever will, or can affe& human nature, I beg leave to make it known to the world through the channel of your most useful, moft excellent, moft entertaining, moft inftructive, paper. Thofe, you know, are the phrafes which the correfpondents of all publick journals, from your own down to the Farthing Poft, when there was one, have always made ufe of. I cannot boast a patent for my medicine. But as I fhall plainly appear to have only the publick good at heart, by declaring its virtues in your Chronicle, I will answer for it that the Stamp-Office shall demand no duty, as for an advertisement, though you infert it ever so often.

To the GOOD PEOPLE of GREAT-BRITAIN.

-Venienti occurrite morbo!

THE PANACEA,

Or the celebrated Drop and Pill of Temperance and Exercife, a fovereign remedy for perfons of every

I

age,

age, fex, or condition. The firft may be taken in two or three glaffes of wine after dinner, white or red port, claret, burgundy, or tokay-but not so well in champaigne. Poor folks may take it in fmall-beer or porter; and though it does not mix well with fpirituous liquors, yet it may be taken in punch, in fmall quantities. It is fo far from offending the tafte, that it gives the highest relish to roast beef, or any English dishes, and has an admirable effect in plumb-pudding. Faithfully prepared after the receipts of a lady eminent in kitchen phyfick. The fecond is a finer diaphoretick than James's powder, or any preparation of antimony.-To be taken fafting, or any hour of the day, without lofs of time, or hindrance of bufinefs, in the Park, at Ranelagh, on foot, or on horfeback, or in quovis vehiculo. healing qualities, &c. &c. &c. &c. Thousands have been relieved by it. may depend on its effects.

Its virtues, its

are infallible.

The afflicted

MEDICAL CAS E.

A gentleman who had long been complaining and complaining, and ailing and ailing, and who had taken all the medicines in and out of the difpenfatory, at length applied to the celebrated Doc

tor

for Radcliffe. The Doctor foon perceiving the nature of his cafe, told him, that he was in poffeffion of a fecret, which was infallible for his diftemper; but that unluckily it was at that time in the hands of Doctor Pitcairne at Edinburgh, to whom he would write to apply it in favour of the patient, if he himself thought it worth while to go fo far in queft of it. The patient readily undertook the 'journey, and travelled to Edinburgh: but when he arrived there, he had the mortification to find that just before Doctor Radcliffe's letter reached Edinburgh, Doctor Pitcairne had sent them edicine to Doctor Mufgrave of Exeter. The patient however had resolution enough on Doctor Pitcairne's advice, to go across the country to Exeter, in further pursuit of it: but as ill luck would have it, Doctor Mufgrave told him, that he had, but the day before, transmitted it back again to Doctor Radcliffe in London, where the patient naturally returned, to take the benefit of it at home. He could not help laughing with the Doctor at the tour he had taken, and at his ftrange difappointments. I went after the medicine, faid the patient, to no purpose; and yet I cannot tell how it happens, but I am much better than I was when I fat out. [ know it, cries the Doctor, I know it. You have

got

got the medicine. The journey was the fecret. And do but live temperately and keep yourself in Exercise, you will have no occafion for any phyfick

in the world.

I am, Mr. Baldwin,

Your admirer, to be fure,

Your conftant reader,

And fometimes your writer,

RHAPSODISTA.

To the PRINTER of the ST. JAMES'S CHRONICLE.

Thursday, Sept. 30, 1762.

ND fo, Mr. Baldwin, nothing but Politicks will go down with you at prefent! Your old correspondents, the Laughers and the Jokers, and the Wits and the Criticks, and the Poets, are all vanifhed; and in come the Patriots, and the Statefmen, the Advocates of Liberty, and the Quellers of Sedition. Not a man but writes as if his country was at stake; not a pen that is not drawn, as it were, pro aris & focis; not a drop of ink, that is not shed in the cause of Liberty, Property, and Religion. Party has divided the whole town, and Pro and Con takes up every page of your Chronicle.-You call yourself

yourself impartial, that is, you give both parties a fair opportunity to abuse each other. Audi alteram partem, is your maxim; that is (in your free tranflation) Hear both fides! and indeed they are well worth hearing, and what infinite delight muft a Scotchman receive, after reading a certain portion of abuse on his country and countrymen, how charmingly muft his indignation be foothed and appeased, to find his opponents equally befpattered in the next column! But as this kind of impartiality abuses all parties, the consequence is that all parties abuse you, and each in their turn confider you as the tool of their adversaries. Laft week, in a coffee-houfe near St. James's, I faw a Scotch Colonel, who longs for the next regiment that falls, throw your paper into the fire, provoked by the severity of a letter against Lord Bute; and the very next morning I faw the fame paper almost as hardly dealt with in the Alley, on account of an extract from the Auditor, which reflected on the brokers and Mr. Pitt. Let me tell you, Mr. Baldwin, it is very lucky that you are not obliged to follow your paper, wherever it goes; and that your figure is not as univerfally known as the face of your paper. I knew a country printer that ventured to infert letters on both fides of the queftion in his journal,