"This kind of cure was called the Secret dreffing, either because the young men who were wounded in duels were by it enabled to conceal their wounds; or rather, perhaps, being performed with fome ceremonies which were difagreeable to the pricft, they refufed abfolution or extreme unction to thofe who had fubmitted themfelves to the fecret dreffing; and for that caufe alfo it was concealed.

"The fuckers, to keep their profeffion to them felves, pretended to make it a magical ceremony; they muttered words through their teeth, made fome ftrange motions, and then drew the fign of the crofs. It was from this profana tion that there arofe a hot war betwixt them and the priests: the pricfts refufed extreme unction, or any facrament, to those who had undergone thefe magical or diabolical ceremonies; while the fuckers, on the other hand, refufed to fuck thofe who thould have any commerce with the priests, pretending that the Chriftian rites of the facrament or extreme unction interfered with their incantations; though, after all, this fucking bufinefs was very fimple, very ufeful, and is fo entirely natural in its effects, that they can be very eafily explained.

The fucker was prefent at every duel; the rencounter ended the inftant that one of the combatants received a wound, the fucker immediately applied hin felf to fuck the wound, and consinued fucking and difcharging the blood till the wound ceafed to bleed, and then the wound being clean, he applied a piece of chewed paper upon the mouth of the wound, tied up the limb with a tight bandage, and the patient walked home.

cleanfed the wound, brought the blood towards the wounded part, and produc ed, like the application of a cupping glafs, a gentle and eafy fwelling, which brought the fides of this tube like wound fo fairly together as to make them adhere; they healed as if by a charm, while in truth their healing fo, was a moft natural confequence of this pleasant treatment. But however promifing this may appear in theory, it is neceffary that it fhould be proved by experience to have been really fuccefs ful; and no authority can speak more convincingly to this point than the cafes which La Motte has recorded, who was himself an eye-witness of many wonderful cures, fuch as are incredible," fays La Motte, "to thofe to whom I relate them; and yet I need not be furprifed at this incredulity, fince they are cures which I could not have believed myfelf, unless I had actually feen the thing done." In fhort, La Motte had feen the wounds of fwords paffing quite acrofs the breaft or belly, had seen the fears of thefe wounds, and had the faithful teftimony of the fecret com batants; but he would believe nothing, unlefs he were allowed to put his finger into the wound.

"I never doubted," fays La Motte, "that this fecret dreffing might cure a flesh-wound, of the arm for example: but that the fuckers fhould cure in this way a thruft through the breaft or belly, feemed very ftrange; till one day I was called to attend a young fellow, a common foldier, who had been run through the breaft with a fair lounge, in at the pap, and out at the fhoulder. After having examined the wound, and noticed the length of his antagonist's fword, being well fatisfied that the weapon had pierced the lungs, and gone quite acrofs the breaft; I faw the drummer of the regiment, who was the fucker on this occafion, do his business. He firft fucked one wound; then turning his patient over, he fucked next the oppofite wound: he then applied a piece of chewed paper upon each, and next day the foldier was feen walking in the freets."

"After this, La Motte faw a man of better condition fucked with the fame

fuccef

fuccefs. He was a brigadier of a horfe regiment, who had been wounded quite across the lungs, but without any material hurt to the lungs or great veffels. "Thus," fays La Motte, "is this way of fucking wonderfully fuccefsful; and would always, I am perfuaded, be fo, did the fuckers but limit themselves to the right cafes of fimple wounds of the limbs, or even of the breaft; but they fuck indiscriminately every wound, and wherever there is extravafated blood, as in the thorax, oppreffing the lungs, they must be unsuccessful."

Picture of Madame Roland. Drawn

by her own Hand.

T may feem a little fingular to our ladies,

lebrity thould sketch for the public eye, a defcription of her own perfon. They would, indeed, moft probably, entertain an idea that they might be fufpected of infufferable vanity, if not great want of that feminine delicacy which fo agreea bly diftinguishes our fair country women; and which we hope, they will never abandon, for the fake of being efteemed philofophers in petticoats.

The celebrated and unfortunate madame Roland, one of the chief revolutionary ladies of Paris, who has left her Appeal to Impartial Pofterity, and who loft her life on the fcaffold, at the age of thirty-nine, in confequence of her political intrigues, during the reign of Robespierre, has in that Appeal thus defcribed her own perfon

"To the newly acquired fenfations of a frame fanguine and well-organized, were infenfibly joined all the modifications of a defire to pleafe. I loved to appear well dreffed. This, perhaps, is as proper a place as any to introduce my portrait. At fourteen years, as now, my ftature was precifely five feet,* for I had compleated my growth; my leg and foot were well formed; the NOT E.

The French measure of a foot being confiderably longer than ours, madame Roland was much taller than an English reader would think her, on finding that her ftature did not exceed five feet.

hips were full and bold; the cheft large, and relieved by a fine bofom ; my fhoulders of an elegant form; my carriage firm and graceful; my walk light and quick fuch was the firft coup d'oeil. The detail of my figure had nothing ftriking in it, except a great frethnefs of colour, and much foftnefs and expreffion. In examining particulars-"Where," it might be faid, "is the beauty?" Not a feature is regular, but all pleafe. The mouth is rather large one fees a thousand more pretty but where is there a fmile fo tender and feductive? The eye, on the contrary, is not large enough, and its iris is of a greyish hue; but, placed on the furface of the face, the look open, frank, lively, and tender, crowned

my hair-and well delineated, it varies in its expreffion, as the fenfible heart of which it indicates the movements; ferious and indignant, it fometimes aftonishes; but it charms oftener, and is always awake The nofe gave me fome uneafinefs; I thought it too full at the end; nevertheless, confidered with the reft, and particularly in profile, the effect of the face was not injured by it. The forehead, broad, high, with the hair retiring, elevated eye-brows, and veins in the form of a Greek Y, that fwelled at the flightest emotion, afforded an enfemble little allied to the infignificance of fo many countenances. As to the chin, which was rather retiring, it has the precife characters attributed by phyfiognomifts to the voluptuary. Indeed, when I combine all the peculiarities of my character, I doubt if ever an individual was more formed for pleasure, or has tafted it fo little. The complexion was rather clear than fair, its colours vivid, frequently heightened by a fudden boiling of the blood, occafioned by nerves the moft irritable; the skin soft and fmooth; the arms finely rounded; the hand elegant without being small, becaufe the fingers, long and flender, announce dexterity, and preferve grace; teeth white and well ranged; and, laftly, the plenitude and plumpnefs of perfect health. Such are the gifts with which nature has endowed me. I have

inherent in fociety, which must be reforted to. He thought, and he hoped the house would think To too, that the conftitution should not fuffer itfelf to be annihilated, and facrificed by too rigid and fcrupulous an adherence to thofe ftrict rules and forms of legal proceedings which were originally intended for its protection and preferva

tion.

Sir E. Crofton bore teftimony to the diftracted ftate of the county of Rofcommon, where the lower orders of the people were in open rebellion to the laws, and had actually furrounded the town of Rofcommon, and threatened deftruction to the gentlemen of the county, there affembled to devife the best means of relief to the lower orders; but fo far from feeming grateful for thefe exertions, they seemed to despise them, and look much further; to the fubverfion of all eftablished authority and the assumption of power into their own hands; nay, they actually fet fire to the houfe of a gentleman at the moment he was exerting the most benevolent advocacy on their behalf. But he exprefied for that county, the highest gratitude to that noble earl (Carhampton) whom government had fent down with an armed force to put down infurrection, to whom that county owed its falvation, and who, by his manly fpirit, activity, and benevolence, had, without bloodshed, restored peace and tranquillity to that county.

Mr. T. Jones faid he was in that county at the time, and corroborated what had been advanced by Sir Edward Crofton, refpe&ing the eminent merits of the noble earl; he was convinced, that to have awaited the ordinary courfe of juftice, 'would have prevented the restoration of tranquillity; that what had been done by the noble earl was abfolutely neceffary to the restoration of order, and he concluded by calling on an hon. member, who poffeffed confiderable property in that county, to declare his fentiments. This brought up Mr. Rowley, who fully acquiefced in the highly meritorious propriety of lord Carhampton's conduct, which he faid, in every inftance, had the univerfal thanks of that county; what his lordship did was for the public good, and therefore the house was bound not only to indemnify, but to thank him.

Mr. O'Hara faid, if his right hon. friend, who brought forward this motion, had merely expreffed a wish to move for the attendance of the judges, he should have no objection to acquieice; but feeing that he withed alfo for the attendance of fheriff's and jilors, he must conclude that delay was his object, and therefore he Thould vote against his motion. If the right hon. member wifhed for information, he could have further and more authentic from the members of that house, than any judge could give, and he was confident that no man could doubt either the existence of the facts already stated of the alarming fpirit of infurgency prevalent in this kingdom, or the neceffity of the bill.

Mr. Conolly was of the fame opinion, and added, if the right hon. member wished for proof of the neceffity of the bill, he would call for the attendance of the widows and orphans who had

been left to furvive the crimes and outrages of thofe mifcreants who had difgraced the country.

Mr. Attorney General oppofed the motion, because it would be attended by no goud, but much evil. There was no precedent in England te warrant it; no man living could fay that the facts which called for it, were not notorious beyond doubt. No man of property in the country who had not participated in the general alarm; was the houfe of commons then to render itself ridiculous by affecting to require information upon a fubject of univerfal notoriety through the kingdom? Was the house to go into inquiry on particular inftances, when the country was in a ge neral state of infurrection? What did the propofed inquiry defire beyond what the bill avowed, namely, that the laws had been violated under the neceffity of occafion for the prefent good; and on such a confideration was it not right to indemnify the magiftrates who had fo acted. The appearance of the judges at the bar, was required, who went a particular circuit; he could not fee why. The bill was intended to operate generally and for the fafety of thofe who had faved their country, against profecutions fupported by the purfe of those who were the principal inftigators of sedition. The indemnity proposed by this bill was intended to operate under the con troul of a trial by jury. Any man who conceived himself injured, might, under this bill, bring his fuit against the magistrate, whofe conduct, if it appeared to be actuated only by motives for the public good, and not from private malice, it would be the duty of the jury to acquit, but if otherwife, the contrary.

The bill was introduced with deliberation ; the fecond reading was fixed for this day, at the defire and with the confent of gentlemen on the other fide of the houfe, and now a motion was brought forward, obviously to retard the bill; but he should vote against it, and move the order of the day.

Mr. Ogle was of opinion, that when a daring and defperate rabble confpired in open rebellion to fubvert the government and conftitution, rebellion was to be met at all points. If at a time when defenderism and treason stalked abroad by day, and plunder and maffacre were the orders of the night, the magiftrates of the country stept forward, and at every rifk appeafed the alarming current, was the legislature to refufe them protection? In their fituation he fhould act as they did; and if his country refufed him indemnity and protection, he should reft in the rectitude of his own confcience, and refign his life or his property without a blush. He concluded with paying his tribute of applaufe to earl Carhampton, and voting for the order of the day.

Mr. Jephson oppofed the order of the day, because he thought the inquiry propofed by his right hon. friend neceffary-he never before heard it urged that on a mere avowal of illegal acts having been committed, the house fhould immediately país a bill of indemnity, without inquiring into the nature or neceflity of these acts. The prefent bill he faid, was fo general that it should have been entitled, a bill to indemnify all