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this fubject; henee we fee many boyifh 
tricks performed by men of feventy or 
eighty, and we have lads of five and 
twenty who die of old age. Cicero may 
be confulted on this fubje€&t with advan- 
tage. Of longevity we have many in- 
fiances ; but I do not find that the oldeft 
men,whien diffected, are without the fpleen. 
¥t is, indeed, faid to be moft obvious, 
when they are cut up *. 
6¢ Caffic. I have this while with /eaden 
thoughts been prefs’d.”” | 
Orhello, AG. iii. Scene 4. 
€¢ Richmond. Vil ftrive, with troubled 
'. thoughts, to take a nap 5 
‘Left /eaden flumber peize me down to-morrow.” 
Richard I. A&. v. Scene 3. 
“¢ Pezze, 1. e. weigh, a natural property 
of lead, and for which reafon the weights 
moft commonly. in ufe are made of lead; 
for what is a weight but a weight of 
a known, body put into the balance 
againft other bodies whofe weight is re- 
quired > Myreader, who would with to 
acquire knowledge on this fubjeét, mutt 
make himfelf mafter of the ancient weigltts, 
the Romanweights, and the Attic weights; 
and alfo the modern weights, fuch as the 
Englifh weights, Troy, and Averdupois ; 
the French weights, thole introduced fince 
the French revolution will be asentertaining 
to the young reader as any part of the pre- 
ferit work, from the eafy familiarity of 
the names Millumetre, Myriolitre, Deci- 
gramme, Decametre, and Deciftere. It 
will be neceffary alfo to ftudy the Dutch, 
Spanith, Portuguele, &c. weights; and in 
confidering thofe of Italy,it will not be dif- 
ficult to trace the downfall of the Romifh 
hierarchy, from the time that the pope re- 
fufed to let Henry VIII. marry Anne 
Bullen, whofe head he cut off, but mot by 
means of the guillotine, although fome 
think. that that inftrument was not wholly 
unknown in his days. It is well known 
that Henry WIII. was father to queen Eli- 
zabeth, who reigned forty-five years. This 
was the longeft reign of all our fovereigns, 
exceptHenry III. who held the {ceptre, be 
it of lead or cther metal, for fifty-feven 
years. 
‘* Ttis, however, more tothe purpofe of 
our argument to prove that thiswas the 
ea as TE Wie ese ne ees amie 
* A feparate trade from carving, although 
perhaps they were once united like the bar- 
bers and furgeons. Pliny thinks that carving 
was prior both to ftatuary and painting. The 
. Painter-ftainers have a hall in Little Trinity -- 
Jane. The Carvers have no hall, but they 
will take from.rol. to 201. with an appren- 
tice. See Stow, Maitland, Pennant, and 
Walpole’s Catalogue of Royal and Noble 
Authors, pafjim. 
P.S. to the Appendix to ihe Supplement to the, €c. [May 1, 
Elizabeth to whom Shakefpeare addreffed 
his fonnets, and in whofe reign the pro- 
vince of Virginia received its name from 
that virgin queen. It is pretty generally 
known, and I am at a lofs to conceive, 
why Mr. Malone, or even Mr. Matthias, 
fhould fupprefs the circumftance, merely 
as a hiftorical fact, and without approving 
of the principles which fevered the colo- 
nies from Great Britain, I fay it is well 
known that Virginia is now one of the 
United States, and produces the greateft 
plenty, if not the beft tobaccot. This 
article is fent in vaft quantities to Eng- 
land, packed in hogtheads, and “is ufed, 
primo, as tobacco, inhaled through a clay 
tube, at the end of which it is placed ina 
bowl and lighted ; fecumdo, imthe form of 
{nuff, of which there are great varieties. 
To what extent thefe varieties have been 
carried, cannot be afcertained without in- 
fringing more on the myfteries of trade 
than found criticiim, or even metaphyfi- 
cal inveftigation, requires. We know, 
however,. that thefe varieties afcend as 
high as ¢hirty-feven, a {nuff manufactured, 
or rather mixed, for it is a mixture of two 
or more, by Mr. Hardham, fometime an 
indefatigable and watchful door. keeper at 
the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, in the 
days of David Garrick, Efq. a performer 
of fuch eminence that we are not able to 
mention a man of cqual fame—a man, 
who, fhort in perfon himfelf, had the art 
to render all his fucceffors pigmies, when 
compared to him. ~The theatre, then, 
was not of the fame dimenfions as the pre- 
fent, which is principally owing to Mr. 
Sheridan’s having rebuilt the new one upon 
a larger fcale. 
‘From thefe arguments combined it will, 
T truft, now appear evident, that ‘whoever 
is the author of the Purfuits of Literature, 
the leaden mace cannot be proved by any 
authentic records, and is as ineoniftent 
with the plumbum of the ancients as with 
the faccharum faturni of the fhops, a me- 
dicine which, when adminiftered too free- 
ly, will occafion complaints in the bowels, 
that, I truft, may be alleviated by the 
timely caution now given and properly 
applied.” 
+ Itis now afcertained that /neesing was 
prior to the ufe of tobacco. Strabo and 
Pliny may be confulted with advantage om 
this fubje&. However, although fheezing- 
might exif before fnuff, the latter hath 
brought it more to a fyftem, and hath greatly 
increafed the confumption of handkerchiefs, 
which are made of linen, cotton, or filk, at 
the option of the wearer. Snuff which is 
taken in common is cephalic, when it o¢- 
cafions fneezing it becomes flernutatory, from 
frernum, 1 boc, the breaft-bone, To 

