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how or other, except ove stupid Dandy, 
whose turn it was to be centry; he, it 
seems, observed the fellow take the gun, 
anda bundle out of the boat, but sup- 
posed he had my permission for doing 
so. Fsent to the Cutwail,* to dispatch 
Ris myrmidons in all directions, mn pur- 
suit of the thief, and wrote myself to 
Bauzilpore, Mcorshedabad, Barhampore, 
and Calcutta, but all to no effect. I 
have never since been abie to hear of 
Stonior Lorenzo de Cabral, although I 
advertised hin in the Caleutta paper 
above a month. 
(Te be continued. } 
ee 
Zo the Editor ofthe Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
| N effectual cure for the gravel being 
& a very desirable object, I beg leave 
€o call the attention of your readers to a 
simple and easy remedy, which, though 
Enown to many persons, is not so exten- 
sively known ‘as it ought to be. ‘That 
yvemedy is an Infusion of Wild Carrot 
Seed; and its efficacy [ have fully and 
happily experienced in my own person. 
In July and August, 1806, I had se- 
veral very severe fits of the gravel, each 
brought on by some little extra exertion 
mm walking; half an bour’s walk being 
sufficient to bring on a fit, which, by its 
painful and debilitating effects, usually 
eonfined me for a whole weck. After 
five or six of those excruciating fits, I 
fortunately chanced to read, in ‘‘ Dods- 
ley’s Annual Register,” for 1766, page 
463, a letter, signed, Thomas Butler, 
containing a very striking and impressive 
account of an extraordinary cure, efectec 
by the wild carrot seed. ! immediately’ 
mace trial of 1t, and with the most com- 
plete success; for, hardly bad I used it 
above five or six days, when f was almost 
entirely relieved from the troublesome 
and disagreeable symptoms usually at- 
vendant on gravelly complaints, which, 
withm a short time atter, quitted ine al- 
tovether. — 
ft was inAuvgust, 1806, that I began to 
use the wild carrot seed; and, from that 
time to the present hour, I have (thank 
God) never once been troubled with the 
gravel, though I have, several times since, 
made much greater exertions in walking, 
than those which before used to bring on 
the gravel-fits. 
Previous to my use of this remedy, the 
bits of gravel which came from me, were 
all rough and angular, as if forcibly. 
© The principal police officer. 
e 
Dy. Cavey, on a Cure for the Gravel. 
[Mareh 1, 
broken off by bodily exertion: but, since 
F have been in the habit of taking the in= 
fusion, they have always been round and 
smooth, as if the external parts had been 
dissolved’ and washed away. Ou this 
difference of appearance, I leave the 
reader to form bis own opinion; my ins 
tention here being only to relate facts, 
without undertaking to philosophise on 
them. If, however, from the example 
of sea-pebbles, he should suppose, (as a 
friend of mine has suppesed) that the 
pieces of gravel have been rounded and 
smoothed by friction, I would observe ta 
him, that I do not ase either much oF 
violent exercise; and that they do not 
always pass off in nutabers together, but, 
more usually, a single piece at a time; 
and after long intervals of a fortnight, 
three weeks, or more. How far these 
circumstances may accord with the idea 
of friction, I leave him to judve fer bim- 
self. ; 
The infusion of wild carrot seed, may 
either be drank cold at any convenient 
times of the day, or taken warm, witl: 
sugar and mailk, for breakfast and evening 
beverage. I practise the latter mode, as 
being attended with less trouble, and less: 
danger of omission through hurry or for- 
getfulness. Fuse, each time, about half 
an ounce of the seeds, from which f make 
about a pint of tea, by pouring boiling-— 
water on them in a tea-pot: but Lam 
not particularly exact m either weight or 
measure ; and pernaps £ use. the tea both 
stronger. and in greater quantity than’ 
necessity requires; for Mr. Butler (whese® 
letter I earnestly recommend to the rea- 
dér’s attention) took only haifa pint in 
the morning, and the like quantity in the 
evening; usipg, each time, six or sever 
heads, or clasters of seed. 
My mode of taking the infusion has, in=- 
deed, one inconvenience: the wild carrot: 
seed requiring lenger time to infuse than’ 
common tea, a delay of breakfast may be 
experienced, particularly in summer, by’ 
gentlemen in chambers or lodgings, and’ 
by others under peculiar citcumstances, 
That inconvenience, however, may be’ 
easily obviated by one of Loyd’s very in= 
genious and useful patent kettles, which, 
by means of the fame acting both within 
the body of the kettle, and all reund its 
sides, will, with less than a penny bandle 
of wood, boil the water in four or five 
minutes ; and, while the water is boiling, 
the tea, previously made, may be warmed ° 
in a jug, placed in the moth of the ket~ 
tle. Thus, the evening tea, bemg- made= 
before-hand in the morning, and the next 
moriing’s- 
