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effect produced upon myself. He should 
by all means ayoid drinking with the 
pipe, a too ordinary accompaniment of 
smoking. I once took some brandy and 
water with the pipe, but it proved a very 
improper combination : a dish of coffee, 
however, I often take after it, and find 
it highly refreshing. I should mention 
that strong coffee has frequently been 
recommended to me, but never produced 
any benefictal effect as a cure for 
asthma. | 
This plant is delightfully fragrant ; and 
although it has been regarded hitherto as 
of a poisonous nature when taken in- 
wardly, yet I have smoked a dozen pipes 
at a time, without experiencing from 
them any other inconvenience than a 
slight excoriation, or soreness of the 
tongue. Sometime ago, at the earnest 
solicitation of one of his friends, who 
represented to me the sufferings of the 
duke of Sussex, I wrote to him an account 
of the benefit I had derived from stra- 
monium, which attention and sympathy 
on my part his highness did not think 
proper to notice; a want of civility, 
which is to be excused only upon the 
supposition that he attributed what ori- 
ginated from the purest benevolence, 
to some paltry motive of mercenary self- 
anterest: he might have known me 
better. 
It is truly urged, and I am perfectly 
aware, how much the state of the nerves 
has to do with the disease of the asth- 
matic; of this I have of late, in common 
with others, had ample experience. The 
nerves at least, if not the credit, of those 
concerned in large cash-transactions, 
have lately undergone considerable trials — 
_by the extraordinary, and I may say 
injudicious, conduct of the directors of 
the Bank of England. 
My nerves have lately had another 
trial, as a candidate brought forward 
on popular grounds in a contested elec- 
tion, during which, in addition to the 
common-place scurrility and altercation 
‘attached peculiarly to such oceasions, 
and which every one expects under 
similar circumstances, a miscreant made 
an audacious attack on my character and 
commercial credit, in which he 
supported by.an upstart | and consequen- 
tial attorney, which malignity and disap 
pointment, when I brought the offender 
to a public apology at a late assize, was 
manifest to the whole court. 
In spite of all the nervous agitation, 
which it may be easily supposed I must 
have gone through on these occasions, 
Cure for Asthna.—Hr. Kdgeworthy 
Was _ 
[June I; 
my friendly stramonium has preserved 
me from the visitation of asthmatig 
horrors, after having been subject to 
periodical attacks for “several years; all of 
which I have noted down in my-pockets 
book, continuallly ‘* etching another day 
of misery to add to the heap:” and [ 
have now enjoyed a staté of perfect frees 
dom from this species of misery for many 
months, a release for which | never cap 
be sufficiently thankfal. 
In making these circumstances public, 
my only wish has been, that ethers who 
suffer from the same source may derive 
relief from the same remedy; a rez 
medy which is yet little known among 
those who are sa deeply interested in ys 
virtues. 
April 2, 1810. VuRAXD 
Sr ———— 
To the Editer of the Monthly Magazing 
SIR, 
OUR correspondent, “¢ Entomas 
philus,” page 216 of the Monthly 
Magazine for April, 1810, has set an 
example of urbane and judicious eritis 
cism. I shall omit the reprehensible 
passage in the «« Essays on Professional 
Education,” in an octavo edition. which 
will shortly appear. This is the best 
apology, or rather the best reparation, 
I can make. The anatomy of the smalla 
est insect may lead to useful disca- 
veries; and the size of the volume 
may as justly be imputed to Professional 
Education as to Lyonet’s work. 
‘Authors sometimes think it imprudent 
and derogatory, to notice criticisms that 
are not denounced ex cuthedra: I how- 
ever wish frankly to express, that I feel 
myself obliged to your correspondent, 
and to you, sir, for correcting me ; and 
I hope that whilst you continue to treat 
authors with impartiauty, they will seta 
just value on your Monthly mae 
Edgeworth Town, oe eae ee 
Treland. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
HOUGH i in every civilized country 
it is the business both of church 
aud state to prevent, by every means im 
their power, the great body of the peo- 
ple from indulging their propensities 
beyond what is proper, yet there are in 
this country many who are allowed to 
indulge certain propensities to a highly 
culpable degree, without being consi- 
dered, or even thought, to act amiss; I. 
agals . 
