Advertisement. Shortly will be published, price two dollars, The Complete Farmer; shewing the art by which the earth is made to produce in the crops and the year,

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all the most secret functions of the animal œconomy, and by the perfect state of the various sciences, relating to medicine, the modern physician is not only able to recover the human

body from the various attacks of disease, but he is able to anticipate its causes, and to prevent its approach to a moral certainty. But more even than this can be effected by the magic of modern science. The physician can prolong life to treble that time which was formerly considered its natural pe riod of duration, and can at once ren

der the human body secure from dis

medicines which, with infallable securiease and free from deformity. Those plied in time for prevention, will rapty either, totally prevent, or if not ap pidly cure the gout, stone, phthisis pulmonalis, and other disorders, are

now known to all.

But, does Nature

make us feeble and diminutive, the physician calculates the means by which he can effect the accreation of particles to the various parts of our bodies, and thus render his patient perfect in symmetry. If our teeth are not to the model of perfection, they can be extracted without pain, and by taking those elements of which by analysis teeth are found to be composed,

by season or weather.

In the press, and shortly will be published, price one dollar, A Description of the Patent Safety Machine, by means of which Dr. Boreum descended through the crater of a volcano, and discovered the cause of volcanic eruptions.

The present maturity of the medical science is beautifully displayed by the last report of our College of Physicians. By the assistance of the optical glasses which enable us to perceive minutely

their growth they can be formed to the standard of ideal beauty. Is our vision imperfect, the medicines which are found to affect the size and colour of our eyes are applied, and in a week those organs are both beautiful' and of perfect operation. Thus we are brought to a state free from disease, a state of longevity, in which our form and features have no model but that formed by our ideas of perfection and beauty.

The manner in which the numerous productions of the earth are now exchanged between man and man, is

beautiful from the simplicity of its cause, and from the effect it has upon human happiness. It was a plausible theory amongst the ancients, that a statesman of wisdom should sit in his closet as in a focus of knowledge, to which should be brought all the returns of custom-houses, with the various reports and data of commerce-that, weighing these in the balance of wisdom, he should be able to instruct corporate bodies as well as individuals, as to the various channels into which their capital and industry should flow. From hence had arisen commercial treaties, bounties, drawbacks, imposts, licenses, &c. until the simple principles of trade were lost in the most complex and absurd systems of commercial polity. But the experience of ages has at length proved what the speculations of ingenious men had previously advanced, and man is now very properly left to direct his capital and labour according to his own knowledge and discretion. Is it not the height of impertinence for a statesman to say to him who enters a commercial city for the purposes of trade, "Sir, you shall not employ your capital according to your own knowledge and experience, but according to my conceptions of commerce: you want to trade to the West; I think it better that trade should flow to the East, and I have therefore laid heavy duties, and even prohibitions upon western trade, whilst I will encourage eastern trade by drawbacks, bounties, and special immunities?" Thus every thing was forced out of its natural channel, and every country may be said to have been in a sort of peaceful siege. Now things are left to their own level. The common principles of demand and supply are now acknowledged to regulate markets much better than legislatorial calculations and interference. Human necessities and

the common principles of our nature are found to constitute the best ba rometers of commercial policy, and individuals are permitted to trade with their wealth, according to their own knowledge and calculations. Thus we have no circuitous channels of communication-no licen sing-bonding-no unloading to load again, no entering one port as a passport into another, no waste of labour; man freely exchanges with man, and the bounties of providence are diffused over the whole earth.

Last year, no less than 734 vessels sailed from Alaska, and the western coast of America, through the channels separating America from North Georgia and Greenland. It is curious to reflect that the very existence of such a passage was a probelm of diffi cult solution to the Europeans from the 16th to the 19th centuries. This was then called the North-west passage, and was first discovered by navigator of great celebrity amongst the ancient English; but whether his name was Parry or Croker it is now impossible to ascertain, from the imperfect state of our records at that period.

The Honourable Mr. Northerly, we understand, intends to take his lady and their children in their yacht this summer to traverse the North Pole.

A chemist, deeply read in the sciences of the middle ages, (the 18th and 19th centuries of the Christian ara) assures us that the English men of science about the year 1800, plumed themselve much upon their discovering the means of making brilliant lights by reflectors, and the different gases

of oil and coal burnt in various descriptions of lamps. How these pigmies would have hid their diminished heads, could they have foreseen our present perfection in lighting the atmosphere, by exciting attraction and motion among the constituent particles of light and heat. The aerometer of New York, at a trifling expense, produces a light in the atmosphere equal to the brightest moon-shine. So that

darkness is unknown to the moderns, and we experience only the gradations between the light of the moon and that of the sun.

smiles;

THE DUKE OF NIVERNOIS. '"

When this Nobleman was Ambassador in England, he was going down to Lord Townshend's seat in Norfolk, on a private visit, quite in dishabille, and with only one servant, when he was obliged, from a heavy shower of of rain, to stop at a farm-house in the way. The master of the house was a clergyman, who, to a poor curacy, added the care of a few scholars in the neighbourhood, which, in all, might make his living about 801. a year, and

der'd,

On friendship like yours, when I've slumber'd the while.

Cast in the depths of life's dark-heaving

and six children. When the Duke alighted the clergyman not knowing his rank begged him to come in and dry himself, which the other accepted by borrowing a pair of old worsted stockings and slippers of him, and warming himself by a good fire. After some conversation, the Duke observed an old chessboard hanging up; and as he was passionately fond of that game, he asked the clergyman whether he could play. The other told him he could pretty tolerably; but found it very difficult, in that part of the country, to get an antagonist. "I am your man, says the Duke."With all my heart," says

the

parson;" "And if you'll stay and eat pot-luck, I'll try if I can't beat you.' The day continuing rainy, the Duke accepted his offer; when the parson played so much better, that he won every game. This was so far from

fretting the Duke, that he was highly pleased to meet a man who could give him such entertainment at his favourite game. He accordingly inquired into the state of his family affairs, and just taking a memorandum of his address, without discovering his title, thanked him, and departed. Some months passed over, and the clergyman never thought any thing of the matter; when, one evening, a footman în laced livery rode up to the door, and presented him with the following billet:

"The Duke of Nivernois' compli*ments wait on the Rev. Mr. and, as a remembrance for the good drubbing he gave him at chess, begs "that he will accept the living of "worth 4001. per annum, and that he "will wait on his Grace the Duke of Newcastle on Friday next, to thank him for the same."-The good parson was sometime before he could imagine it any thing more than a jest, and was not for going; but as his wife insisted on his trying, he came up 'to town, and found the contents of the billet literally true, to his unspeakable

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belong to an office, where I am" obliged to attend every day, the " complaints I have prove very trou"blesome to me, and I should be " glad to remove them."-The Doctor laid down his paper, and regarded his patient with a steady eye, while he proceeded: "I have but little appetite,

and digest what I eat very poorly:"I have a strange swimming in my head," &c. In short, after giving the Doctor a full quarter of an hour's detail of all his symptoms, he concluded the state of his case with a direct question" Pray, Doctor, what shall I "take ?" The Doctor, in the act of resuming his newspaper, gave him the following laconic prescription:"Take; why, take advice.

NOTICES

TO CORRESPONDENTS. We will insert with pleasure the communication that Juvenis has sent, which we

A MEDICAL ANECDOTE. A Gentleman of narrow circumstances, whose health was on the decline, finding that an ingenious physician Occasionally dropped into a coffee-house that he frequented, not very remote from Lincoln's-Inn, always placed himself vis-a-vis the Doctor, in the same box, and made many indirect efforts to withdraw the Doctor's attention from the newspaper to examine the index of his constitution. He at last ventured a bold push at once, in the following terms: Doctor," said he, "I have, for a long time been very far from being well, and as I