Fevers may be greatly relieved by this method : I would also
advise to try it :n jtrains. bruifei, burns, fcaldi, fores oj ail kinds,
tnd in almost all difordera ot the human frame.
The science is at prcfent but in us infancy, and therefore it is
not yet reduced to a certainty whether or not it will prove gene
rally efficacious in Jits ; some few have bee.i cured and more re
lieved, but in mo ft inftanccs, as far as I have known, no universal
service bas been vet done, neither in epileptic nor convulfivc fits,
nor paralytic cases.
Removing obllru&ions of all kinds appears to me its principal
life ; and wh<n it is considered that moil dilorders proceed ihere
fiom, it will evidently appear, thdt the treaima.t ought not to be
tiegleftei in any common cafe. There is th s farther to be said in
favor of it, that it cannot do harm in any cafe ; and, may be pro
ductive of very great good.
I have laid down the matter in so plain and clear a stile, tljat
any per Con may be capable of pra&ifiug with success, by the bluf
fing of God.
What has brought the (cience into great disrepute, has been the
almolt universal pia£lice of making a lucrative trade of teachrng
arid praftifmg it, which it is the great intention of this pamphlet
to put a flop so, by laying the whole science, so far as refpc&s prac
tice, open to all, and thereby putting it into their power to treat
their friends and neighbors in the moil effectual manner.
But I would recommend all invalids who apply for relief to
attend to the following rules. First, to avoid all spirituous li
quois. Second, rub *.hemfelves well with a very coaife towel, and
likewise make nfe of that exercise so much recommended by the
late celebrated Dr. Lobb, which is to lift up one hand and one
leg alternately, pretty brilkly for about halt an hour together, as
often as you can, which will greatly promote the perfpiiation,
and univeifally affetl the whole ha'oit.
ON A CRISIS
IN the<coutfoot the treatment asdirefted, should the patients
be thrown into a enfis, or state of mfenfibility, be not discouraged,
however terrifying such a state may seem ; it is only nature and
the disorder in violent conflict, which will very often happen if
the stomach is out of order. In this cafe be sure to continue the
treatment till the paroxilm is quite ceased, and they are perfettly
eompofed. You will then, in general, find them in a great mea
sure freed from all those pains and complaints they came to you
to be relieved from.
I have known some put into the mod violent agitation, and who
continued in the fame, apparently in very great agoni's for fomr
time, but come out quite eafv and free from any disorder,
without knowing that they had been in fucfi a it ate at all.
1 here is an effe£t very often produced, lels powerful than the
crisis, which I have seen attended with very great and good con
fluences, called by some a commoto, from the Latin comrnotus.
which caufcs the invalid to be much agitated, without affe&ing
the mental faculties ; but I have seen many relieved from their
dilorders without any of these effe6ls. And I can fay with the
flri&cft regard to truth, that I never knew an invalid, let his or
her pain have been ever so excruciating, that went from the treat
ment without great relief therefrom.
It may be necessary to fay fotnething of absent treatment. This
may appear to some incredible ; and indeed this part of the fci
rnce is more difficult to explain, than that whi h has been already
treated of.
But whoever considers tht nature of the human mind, and the
amazing ilrong powers of which it is such as intense tho't,
reflexion, (eolation, volition, &c„ will hesitate before they will
peremptorily deny the fach I have already observed, that the
mind is the great agent in producing those furprizingeffe&s, which
frequeni ly attend tlie treatment. And the thoughts can fix as
iliongly upon an absent as a present object.
A gentleman of undoubted vciacity lately assured me. that he
went into the country, having at the fame time some patients un
<.iet l;is care, and he told tfoem to fit at certain hours, and he treat
ed them, tho absent, and they experienced nearly the fame effc£ls,
as when he was withtbem.
Diftancc is nothing to the mind, and since thoughts in many in
stanCes have great influence, why may they not have power over
the difordcrs of absent persons, as well as those that are present ?
In order to treat absent persons, retire, and set down by your
felf for a little time; collect your thoughts, and be as much ab
flr.i&ed as poflible. Reflect on the inconceivable powers with
which God has endued you, and on the benefit you wish to do your
absent friend, 01 acquaintance. Let the idea of him be flrongly
fixed in your mind. After thinking of him intensely for some
time, begin at his head, and in your mind proceed downward to
his feet; till by sympathetic power, you perceive yourfelf in union
with him, and find whether he has pain, and what and where it
is, and treat him accordingly. But if you are informed of his
complain";,and are delirous of relieving him, then fu down, and
be recoile&ed, and begin and treat him in the fame manner as tho
<you were personally with him. Do this with all poflible energy
as before dire&ed, and enquire what effe&s are produced thereby ;
for sometimes very wonderlul alterations have been perceived by
the absent party. Who is there that fully knows the wonderful
powers of which he is pofleft, and how much good he may do,
if he employs it all to the best purposes ?
Should what has been here offered seem but an idle tale, or a
phantom of the brain to any, let such not be too hasty in denying
what they have not proved ; but let them fairly and impartially
try tKe power of this wonderful science, for their own fatisfa£tion,.
according to the rules here laid down, and let them ends vor to
enter into the spirit and pradlice of it, and fee for themselves what
effe£h w ill be produced thereby. And doubtless in a little time
they will be convinced of the reality of what I have written, and
perhaps w ill have reafori to exclaim, that the one half has not been
told them !
Mil. FENNO,
THE observations of your correspondent in
your last paper on the fubjetft of the bank
of uie United States require attention, since they
appear calculated to mislead : it is there Hated
that natives and foreigners have awarded their
approbation to the fytfein, for its immediate and
obvious advantages, and for the wisdom and
forefight discovered in its organization ; and
reafonsaie given for the privation of all right
of representation in foreigners, because the time
nay arrive when the deflrudtion of the bank and
the derangement of the finances of the country
may be compensated by the douceurs dfa foreign
power. 1 o all this splendid train of argumenta
tion it is added, that foreigners muff greatly fall
in love with this bank—among other reafous be
cause it reserves to the citizens of America the
exclusive direction, who aie supposed to be most
competent to judge of characters suitable far it ;
and these beautiful paragraphs for the bank are
doled with the grand finale, that great prepara
tions are making at home to fqbfcribe to this
bank and that 110 equal object of speculation is
perhaps prefentedin any quarter of the <rlobe.
I will now make a few observations on these
ppfitions—and Sift as to the general plaudit at
home and abroad of this bank it is perfectly veil
known that tho it was carried by a majority in
Congress, yet y«ry wife and sensible men in that
body disapproved the fyttem, as well a# othfrts
approved of it. It is a matter of notoriety that
the celebrated Mad'tfon with ancommen foice of
eloquence and reason condemned themeafure as
unconltitntiotial and inexpedient ; it is equally
known that the bill originated not in the House
of Representatives, but in the close and mysteri
ous House of Senators, clothed by the weight of
whose fa nft ion it was sent to the other House,
when it was hurried through with imnienre speed
—and in spite of all application for poitponegpent
or time for a more mature consideration, carried
by a conliderable majority ; it is pretty well
known that with the President of the United
States it did not pass with quite so much eager
ness—having been kept by him till the eleventh
hour : it has been cnrrently reported that some
of the great officers of State disapproved the sys
tem and gave opinions unfavorable to its adop
tion. It is a matter of public notoriety that the
bill has been thought injurious to the stockhold
ers ofthe bank of North-America and detrimental
to the charter solemnly gi anted them by the
Congress of 1781 ; 011 the other hand it is ac
knowledged that the bill has been greatly ap
plauded by some proprietors in the public funds
amongst 11s, who tlionght they saw their inter
ests concerned in promoting it—and hence the
most powerful clafsof orators I have met with 111
favorof it are of this number. As to the general
yeomanry of Americathey have given themselves
no trouble in this business and will probably con
cern themselves little about it : It will fnrnilh to
the cities on the lea cbaft a new objecft of specu
lation, and to some of them additional facilities
—they will feel its effects more sensibly perhaps
jhan any other part of the union.—and so much
may be said as to its general popularity at home ;
as to what it may obtain abroad time will inform
us : All we can now determine is, that the more
unpopular it is there the better for the bank, for
in proportion as foreigners become concerned
without the means of representation, in the fame
degree as they engross the capital, without be
ing any way ufeful in its administration—they
create a dangerous aristocracy at home, in those
citizens who are the domestic proprietors of stock,
and who if the number be small, may be influ
enced at elections, by douceurs at home at least
as formidable as any that can be offered from
abroad. It is evident that the £tox!es of foreign
ers mult be placed in the hands of citizens, these
have a common inter'ift with the donreftic (lock
holders in all that concerns the bank, and are
likely to vote with quite as much intelligence for
directors—these citizens would be chiefly mer
chants trading extensively to foreign countries,
who are as much concerned to support the bank
and finances of the country, as any other class of
men proprietors of bank ltock, and who cannot
without a flretch of all bounds of probability,
be supposed likely to abandon all their domestic
relations to gratify any foreigtier in the choice
of improper directors : This apprehenfioti of
foreign influence, is but a chimera, an illusion
held up, to favor a few at home who may by the
exclusion of foreign stock, from voting, entertain
the hopes of influencing all elections themselves,
and this they will always do the easier the fewer
there may be who are allowed to vote at all ; and
therefore cannot but form the wish, that foreign
ers may take no concern or but little in this in
ftitutiou, that its elections may be the more nu
merous and refpeifiable of our own citizens, who
certainly at last mnft be most deeply concerned
in the prudent diredlion of the Bank—and are
therefore interested that the elections he as nu
merous and extensive as pollihle—and not to fee
the stock held by those who can give 110 kind of
protection, and can he of no fort of life whatever
as to the concerns of the institution.
(To be concluded in our next.)
L O N D O N, January 21,
Coachmakcrs' Hall for free Debate. Fo/ier-
Lans, Cheapfide,
THE QUEEN OK FRANCE.
This Evening will be Debated, the following Qj'ef-
tion, viz.
" Does the circumstance of the Queen of France
wearing a dagger to prevent, by filicide, an
ignoble aflaWination, argue more the fortitude
ot ancient virtue, or the pffiulance of female
pride ?"
The situation of the Queen of France at a
ci'ifis the uioft alarming to her personal fafety,
and the moll important to the honor, humanity,
and freedom of a great nation and a gallant peo
ple, nin ft interest the feelings of every mind of
sensibility.—The celebrated Mr. Burke has al
ready mentioned this with a glowing warmth of
feutiment, and in language peculiarly hij own.
This question was last Thursday night publicly
proposed and highly approved of, as one chat in
volves the most (erious objects of enquiry, and
will lead to a debate worthy the attention of the
Christian, the Philosopher, and true Patriot.
Chair taken at 8 o'clock ; Omittance (,d.
14
PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 6.
Never has the town of Port-au-Prince e.xwr
.cnced a brighter or happier day, a re-union,",,;
molt lincere,ofall the inhabitants. lt» 3Sll !
citizens of the dirt rifts who proposed this f d ,r '
delired reconciliation. There is now but o nt
existing opinion, that of living mi peace, of ''
mg each other, and contributing t0 t he o Clle '
felicity. 6
It is to the eftablilhment of the municipal,
we owe this event, almoll despaired of.
This day, preceded by a morning tho beauti
fully serene, forced a tear from thoYe whom' ;
Mauduit has opprefled • Yeßerday mornin*
foldieis accused him of having deceived thsm
they made him account for his conduct-rhe •
doub'.lefs were convinced of his being culpable
In the afternoon they led him to the comniit'ee'
for the purpose of obliging him to make rt.'ura
tion for the insults done to the town colour; i„
confluence of his taking them into his poflcllion
the 29th and 90th July_he refufed—li. v a in di.:
the citizens implore his pardon, expoilng
selves to obtain it—the tumult was extreme—ln
vain did M. Boudonofi his knees beT at lea it IU4l U4
life—in vain did a thonfand voices, united ta
every effort attempt to avert his cruel fate :—M
BeaufoleiJ who was wounded on the night of the
29th July, exerted all his powers to save hint—
several Itrokes of the fabic exercised by hisowa
fpldiers, put a period to his days ; his head v.: ;
fevered from his body, and carried 011 the point
of a bayonet, and placed 011 the fjailow His
body was interred this day. A) 1 the moveables
of his house were broken inipieccs and deftroved.
He was the victim of an instant aud tcriiLie
fermentation, that nothing could calm. We were
not eye-v. irnefles ofthis scene—a scene that will
serve as an example to all those who wiiii to Hop
the rapid progrei's of the revolution. We saw
the colours of Port-au-Prince re-conducled with
military honor to the place from whence thev
were taken ; but we saw the joy brighten in the
countenances of all the inhabitants re-unifed,
who, together with our three regiments, were
present at te deum in the evening.
BOSTON, May 2
Extract of a letter from a diflinpuifhed charaßcr it
London, to a citizen of this Covnnonwcaith, dxttd
March I, 179 T.
" I cannot indeed forbear to communicate to
you thole mixed feutiuients of exultation, fiar
and hope, with which the present state of affair*
in Europe have filled the minds of every z£al.ou»-
friend to equal liberty.
" That wonderful event, the French Revolulv :,
fills all our thoughts, and occupies the whole
mind.—We dehre its permanence and profpcri
ty, with more tiian paternal solicitude ; for we
look upon its firm eftabliilunent, as an event
which will liecedarily bring after it the ::nal
emancipation of every other fuciety in Europe,
from tn'ofe monarchic and ariltocr.itic chains,
impnfed by the violence of arms, a:id riveted on
mankind by ignorance,credulity and prieftcraft.
And you will pardon me, if I tell you, tli >t, in
mj' opinion, norwithftanding the brilliancy of
American exertions in the cause of independ
ence, the continuation of the freedom cf tliat
vast continent equally depends on the liability
of the French democracy
" The Americans i ave a little too mncli of*tlie
eavcn of their ancestors in iheni : They apptar
o turn their views and desires more to the ac
juiring of gain, than tiie enjoyment of rational
liberty ; and to have entertained that mifchie»-
3us opinion, that the felicity of nations dej
on their riches.—They have also, I think, been
guilty of a dangerous error, in the not restrict
ing the Members of their Congress from the en
joyment of those lucrative offices eitabhlhed by
their authority ; and this may become the source
of oppreflive taxation, and the foundation ol
ariftocraric wealth and ambition.
" The unexampled virtue of ihe French Le
gislature, in cutting off this source of corruption,
by depriving themleives of the
office, sets them on a footing of merit, superior
to that which any other popular allembly
ever obtained ; and the bright example of tin*
government, if it stands on the fame footing as
it is at prefenr, with the advantage it will con
fer on society, will awe the governments of otlier
countries into moderation ; and serve as an anti
dote to your American travellers, against the
fafcinaiing charms of ostentatious luxury.
" You may well believe, Sir, that very con
trary sentiments to these, which I have above
described, agita:e the minds of a very large pi''
t)' in this country.- Mr. Burke, who may e
coufidered as the mouth of this party, afi" c e
ftvemious fupporterof monarchy and arihocracy,
has published a work in which all these Hg 1 ' 4
are pertinacioully defended, and. the trench go
vemment and Legiflacure abused with great vi-
rulence. f
" J hough popularin this country, huaniwe -
ers are numerous, as he is coni".c'* IS
Ckamtian of Aristocracy here.'