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ter’s devil ; compofed in types, inftead of 
being committed to paper, will agreeably 
entertain the lovers of. poetry, 
An infa'lible method of cure for the 
cllow fever, which wants only a trial 
fae the Atlantic to demtonitrate its 
eficacy, will be communicated to the 
public by a young graduate from Scot- 
land. 
A new projeét of nutrition, by inhaling 
the gales of baker’s, cheefemonger’s, 
and cook’s fhops, will aaminifter food to 
the pneumatic fpeculators. 
I fee this moment on the road from 
Edinburgh, two buiky MSS. one, 
an abfolutely new Theory of the Human 
Underftanding ; the other, a Complete 
Hiftory of the Proceedings cf one of the 
Provincial Syneds ever ”Gnce the Re- 
ermation ; but whether any bookieller 
will be found to undertake their pubiica- 
tion, my art does not pofitively inform 
me. 
A novel, by-a lady, w ill make fome 
noife; in which the heroine begins by 
committing a rape, and ends with kiil-. 
ing her man ina duel. 
A Propefal for’a Reform in Law-pro- 
ceedings, publifhed under the name of 
an Hie ob barrifter, wail greatiy afto- 
nith the gentlemen of the long robe, 
anid occafion much debate as to its au- 
thenticity, tilla ftatute of lunacy taken 
out againit the author will clear up the 
matter. : 
Lafily, Mr. Editor, 1 forefee the f{ct- 
ting up of three new. Magazines, fur- 
nifhed with all the meretricious baits et 
decorations that are calculated to dray 
in purchafers; but I do xo fee in any 
ef them, arival to the Monthly Mag AZ1HEs 
Your moft obecient, 
February 5, 1797: Tuirssias, Jun. 

For the Mouihly Megaxine. 
pesemens 
The fellowing humorous fusion, in imitation 
of the fy le of Dr. Fokufen, fell from the 
pen of the HonourRABLE THoMas 
ERSKINE, about fixieen years fince. 
ft’1s fuppofed io bave been written 
by the Detior, xubo was then Gt Buxton, 
afier coming out of thé bath, and addreffeds 
to lus “friend; Mr. . Bo/wel, 12 SCoi- 
land. 

ORTUNE often delights to exalt 
what naturé has neglected, and that 
renown which cannoc ‘be claimed by 
intrinfic. excellence, is often’ derived 
from accident. ‘“ The Rubicon was 
eanebled by the paflage ef Czefar,”’ and 
Mr. Erfeine’s Deferiptan of Buxton. 
' they loft in the bowl; 
(Feb. 
the bubbling up of a ftream in the mid- 
dle of a lime-quarry, has given celebrity 
_to Buxton. 
The waters, in which it is agreed no 
mineral properties refide, and which 
feem to have no better claim to fuperior 
heat than what is derived from compar- 
ing them with the almoft Siberian 
armofphere that furrounds them, are 
faid, however, to poffefs a fpirit, which, 
though too volatile and unknown to ré- 
-celve a name from the chemifts of 
graver ages, have, in this fanciful era, 
when macaroni philotophers hold- flirta- 
tion with-{cience, taken the lead of all 
the ether elements, and thofe whofe 
nerves have found no relief in change of 
fky, or variety, feek for a refuge here, 
in fixed air. 
Amazing, indeed, is the avidity with 
which all ranks of mankind feek after 
that health, which they have. volun- 
tarily ali ee to difeafe. Like method- 
ifts, «who hope for falvation through 
faith without w orks, invalids come here 
in hopes to find in the well, that vigour 
and to abforb in 
the bath, the-moifiure that evaporated 
at the ball, or in the ftews. 
For this purpofe, they venture to 
this dreary fpot, which contemplates, 
with envy, the highlands of.Scotland ; 
furrounded by barren. mountains, beaten 
by ftorms almoft perpetual — where 
{carce an inhabitant isto be feen, unlefs 
when the fun (whofe appearance 1s 
juftly confidered as one of the wonders 
of the Peak) draws them out, from a 
curiofity natural to man, to wonder inte 
what cavern the ftorm has retired. 
Yet this is fummer; and if the winter 
holds its natural proportion, the inhahi- 
tants of the hall, who are not thirty 
yards from the well, muft pafs months 
without any communication with it. 
Yet here, the fame folty which created 
difeafe, for the cure of which fo’ much 
is fudfered, obfiructs the operation of the 
remedy be which. fo much is hoped, 
Animated by the appetite, which even 
the diluent powers of common water, 
affifted by the vibrations of exercife, and 
the collifive hilarity of reciprocal falu- 
tation, would give toa body cbftruéted 
by gluttony an reft; they devour, with 
delirious hunger, a farinaccous {fponge*, 
with its interftices undulated in butter, 
which might fimile with contempt at 
the periftaltic exertions of an elephant, 
and of which, the digeftion would be ne 
lefs an evil, than the obftruétion: if 
”* MuBins, 

ebftructed, 
