What would you think were I to con- 

 clude my letter by noting to you a mark of 

 great modefly in a Frenchman ? Perhaps you 

 will fay it is a rare inftance ; or that you never 

 met with — never heard of fuch a thing ! If 

 fo, call it aflurance, impudence, or what you 

 like, and I almoft promife to forgive you I 



A paper, faid to be of high importance, 

 has been prefented for our confideration. It 

 was fent from St. Domingo to England : and 

 lo ! what fhould this important communica- 

 tion prove to be, but a dired and indifcrimi- 

 nate attack upon the pradice of all the Britiih 

 medical officers who have, hitherto, been em- 

 ployed with the troops in St. Domingo, writ- 

 ten by a French praditioner of the ifland ; who, 

 without knowing what means had been ufed, 

 in the treatment of difeafe, illiberally condemns 

 the whole pradice, arrogantly fetting forth 

 his own as more wife and more beneficial. 

 Need I have told you that the modejl author 

 is a Frenchman ? We know not the name of 

 this would-be Hippocrates : but as we have 

 found his flatements to be not fimply inaccu- 

 rate, but wholly devoid of truth, I think you 

 will allow that we have heen merciful toward* 



