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of which the disease’ in my eyes fat a’ 
time almost deprived me, occasioned an 
Accident the preceding Friday, whose 
‘dreaded, but | hope not inevitable, con- 
sequences, have, in their apprehension, 
filled my mind with terrors, which no 
former evil ever insyfed. I hurt my 
left breast, by slipping against the sharp. 
pointed ledue of a wamscot, in stooping 
to reach an hearth-brush. It was on 
Friday three-weeks. Frequent pain and 
uneasiness in that region, unfelt ull this 
disaster happened, create apprehensions 
which I cannot banish, and which rob 
every surrounding object of the pases to 
Interest or amuse ine. 
The pain and uneasiness which, with 
but little intermission, I have since felt, 
teaching me to fear a deep-seated i injury, 
still farther impair my health, and excite 
” terrors for the consequence, which rob 
my days of vladness, and my nights of 
rest. No external mark whatever, erther 
to the eye or touch, lias been perceivable 
from the time [ hurt myself to this hour; 
yet the shooting pains, ‘and sense of oc- 
cult inflammation, never felt ull after 
that unlucky bruise, terrify me extremely. 
By surgical advice, I have applied leeches 
thrice to the part, according to the pre- 
sept practice of the London faculty, 
Their bite, which is nothing on the tem. 
ples, is, en the bosom, a very painful, 
as well as troublesome, operauon, and 
he wounds continue many days sore and 
inflamed. 
If it please God to dispel my appre- 
hensions on this dire theme, it appears 
to me, that all, other disorders must ap- 
pear as light evils,, even should they 
threaten vital extinction. 
Born with an excellent constitution, I 
enjoyed twenty-three years of almost 
unclouded hez!th. It was then that mis- 
fortune began to counteract that prime 
blessing: an incurable fracture of the 
patella, thenceforth combined with in- 
hevent love of sedentary employments, 
tll remitted exercise sapt the foundations 
of corporeal strength. This time ten- 
years another fall straining the side. 
tendons.of that injured knee, threatened 
contraction, a much worse evil: than the 
original fracture. To prevent it, J used 
the warm-ba'h at Buxton to a rash €x- 
cess, Staying in it an hour every night 
during a whole month. The growing 
rigidity of the tendons vanished beneath 
this process;—bur, from- the’ general 
weakness and relaxation it caused, origi- 
nated that difficulty of respiration, then 
first perceived, and which has, at inter- 
Letters of si Seward.’ 
"vals, annoyed me from that pera * Now's 
another accident inspires a dread of the’ 
worst malady incident to the human 
frame. Alas! it has, through life, been 
the deprecation of my prayers. 
MR. SNEYD, 
Remind Mr. Adey of the oiicoriiiomal 
circumstance of Mr. Sneyd, at the open. « 
ing of our Vicars-hall, ig the year 1757, 
dancing in the same set with the three 
women who afterwards succeeded each 
other as partners of his destiny. He had- 
not then a thought of any one of them. 
OPINIONS IN 1794, 
“ Remember March, the Ides of March 
remember !”—They will. give the dear’ 
Whalleys to my wishes, and [ trust they 
will vive me you, who are not less be- 
Joved.. I entreat you to let them find 
you here, Propitious to my wishes be’ 
yourreply! Life wastes, time dial and 
the genius of Britain droops. Ah! ba 
knows how long we may, any of us, have 
a home in which to receive each other?’ 
The rashness of our rulers, in’ purs ¢ 
this hopeless war, amidst the” pile 
weakness, treachery, and desertion, ofour® 
allies, seems to ed-opetate with the ma- 
chinktigns of sedition, to. involve. us im’ 
miseries, dreadful as those over~ 
whelmed France; exchangit e solid 
blessings of her commerce; the splendid 
irradiations’ of her literature “and arts,” 
the respect and admiration iota 
nations, 
mt 
« And all the gentler morals, such as play 
Thro’ life’s so cultur’d walks, and charm our 
way,” 
for the devastating conquests of diboerate 
valour; lavish of fife, through the extreme 
of its wretchedness; conquests, ruinous 
to others, and probably useless to that 
wretched country which obtains them. 
Tt seems to me, that common sense ig 
equally indignant of the shallow, reasons 
less oratory, which is so perpetually: 
shifting its ground, to defend this now 
totally unmotived war; and of the self* 
evident falsehoods, asserted by Fox, 
Sheridan, and Erskine, amidst their tri- 
umph on the subject of the acquitted 
traitors, and their dishonest clamours for 
a remdval of the eminently necessary ree 
Straints upon the treasons to our con- 
stitution, Serjeant Adair and Mr, Wild 
berforce are tiie only men, ene on the 
habeas corpus act, the other on the war, 
-who-appear ta have spoken, independent 
of selfish short-sighted ambition and party 
connections; the dictates of true patris 
OLS, 
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