Cacious remedy; and this was the stove. Corn dried by the ftove is fufficiently divefted of its humidity to be kept for a very long time without spoiling; and the heat of the ftove carried to a point fo as not to damage the corn that is defigned for making bread, deftroys equally the infects and their eggs. Experiments have decided in favour of this method; and they alfo gave room to M. du Hamel to observe several interefting particulars. They informed him, for instance, that the grains did not all equally lose their weight; that the more moift loft more; that, notwithftanding this lofs of weight, the grains first increased in bulk; that the grains, all things otherwise equal, loft fo much the more of their weight as they longer remained in the stove; that they refumed a part from the moisture of the air, if placed, on being taken out of the stove, in too cool a place; that it was an error to believe that one might, by a greater heat, abridge the time of operation, and that the moisture fhould have time to go out of the corn, to reduce itself into vapours, and pafs away; that, though corn may be expofed, without running any rifk, to a heat of upwards of 100 degrees of M. de Reaumur's thermometer, yet a little more than 20 degrees may be enough; that corn dried in the stove was more eafily ground, and that the grinding was performed in a much horter time; that the flour absorbed more water than that of corn not dried by the ftove; that the dough kept itself more compact in the oven; and, lastly, that it was much fooner baked. The corn once dried, and the infects or their eggs it might contain, being deftroyed, it will be advifeable to lay it in chefts or bins of found wood that fhut up clofe, which will eafily fecure it from any damage rats, mice, birds, and cats may do it. In the fame manner may be dried flour, especially that sent in hogfheads a broad, which, for want of this precaution, is often spoiled before it arrives at the place of its deftination. The operation of drying corn by the ftove is no way difficult. It is enough to throw it into a hopper placed above the ftove, and it will place itself in proper order in the inside. When the operation is over, by only opening the paffage where it is to come out, it will fall of it felf into the bags that are held to receive it. This method is now adopted in several VOL. XXXI. parts, but the best and most useful require often a confiderable time for being eftabifhed. A Genuine letter from a NOBLE LORD to a R. R. PRELATE. My LORD, ******, June 15. 1754. I Was yesterday informed, that your Lordfhin had laid your commands up. on Mr ********, the vicar of this pa rish, to repair to his living; your Lord. fhip, it feems, being no longer difpofed to dispense with his non-refidence. The vicar and his friends give out, that this order is occafioned by a vote the vicar gave at a late election contrary to your Lordship's judgement. I do not pay the least regard to this reprefentation, nor have I any fufpicion that your Lordship was determined in this matter by any other confideration than a pious concern for the good of the parishioners. And on that account, I make myself sure your Lordship will no longer infift upon Mr ********'s refidence with us, after your Lordship is informed that it is like to have a contrary effect. In fhort, my Lord, the parishioners of ****** defire to fee no more of their prefent vicar than they usually do, which is for about a fortnight or three weeks annually in partridge-time. They are a ferious good fort of people, and the dili gence, fobriety, good fenfe, and huma nity of their prefent curate, are highly acceptable and edifying to them. This worthy man muft of course be dismissed if the vicar comes to refide, and the people think they shall be no gainers by the exchange. We acknowledge, my Lord, that Mr ******** bas his accomplishments. He is a polite gentleman, plays a good fiddle, dances gracefully, knows whisk perfectly, is no contemptible mark man at a partridge, or a woodcock, of an excellent tafte, and exquisite judgement on the merit of claret and port, and by the firength of his head, is able to carry off his full fhare of either, always with decency, and not feldom with glory. But the misfortune is, that the poor people of his parifh have no opportunities of fitting under his miniftry when and where he is difplaying these admirable talents; and when it comes to their turn to profit by his paftoral gifts, it is an univerfal complaint, that their attention can❤ not keep pace with his expedition, in reed. D ing ing the leffons and the prayers, and that their capacities cannot fathom the depth of his differtations on the Idea of Deity, Eternal Relations, or the Dignity of the Church, which laft point he always con trives to touch upon either in the exordium or peroration of his discourse. When the vicar is with us, the curate migrates to his mafter's other living, a bove fifty miles off, (though certified, by the by, to be only thirty); and what ever occafional duties are wanted in the interval, the parishioners are, for the most part, obliged to have recourse to a neighbouring clergyman, as the vicar's engagements are not to be broken by fuch trifling avocations. Some little time before your Lordship's promotion to the Epifcopal bench, a motion was made in our houfe, for a bill to compel the incumbents of benefices yielding 150 1. per ann. or upwards, clear of reprifals, to conftant refidence. The bench were in general against the motion, on account of the difcouragement this would be to learning, (as the motion was in effect defigned to exclude pluralities), and the hardship it would be on men of fuperior parts, to be confined to the performance of the ordinary parochial duty, which might be difchar ged by curates of much inferior qualifications; and to these were added an argument taken from the obligation there was upon the state to protect the church in her rights and privileges. I did not, I own, comprehend the force of this reasoning; but however I ftruck in with the party against the motion, upon a plainer and more intelligible argument of my own, taken from the inconvenience of confining numbers of the more opulent and fashionable clergy, to their respective cures, with their intriguing, ambitious, fecular, and fenfual fpirit about them. I thought then, and I continue ftill to think, that they would be very bad examples to the people, and do more harm by their practice, than they would do good by their instructions. I expreffed my opinion, that where a man's confcience would not difpofe him to take the care of his parifi perfonally upon himself, he must have fome very unclerical qualities, which it could not be expedient for his people to imitate. I have known refident clerks, and fo perhaps has your Lordship, who have greatly contributed to corrupt their parishionErs, by their onedifying converfation, and the influence their fupérior fortune gave them. It is true, a curate may be vicious and disorderly, as well as a rector or vicar; but their bad example feldom does any very extensive mischief. Their small ftipend, and fubordination to their principal, prevents their rifing to any great degree of estimation, except what they purchase by a virtuous conduct, and an attention to their duty; and a poor fcoundrel may always lay his account with bẻing contemptible. But this is a subject which, being capable of fo clear illuftration from facts, there is no occafion to enlarge upon. And I have now only to request your Lordship to confider me as the amanuenfis of my well-meaning neighbours, fave only, that being interested in the fuccefs of their application as a parishioner, I most heartily join in their requeft; and am, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient fervant, London, Fan. 17. MR Rouffeau having quarrelled with the magiftrates at Bourgoin in Dau phine, hath obtained permission of the minister to take up his refidence in the principality of Dombes; and after his departure the following notes were found on a table in his apartments at Bour goin, which ferve as a confirmation of the vanity and felf-importance of that unaccountable man. I have attempted a translation of them, which, together with the original, I could wish to have communicated to the public through your paper. Your's, &c. Lond. Chron. Fugement du public, fur mon compte, dans les divers etats qui le compofent. ES rois et les grands ne difent pas ce qu'ils penfent; mais ils me traiteront toujours genereusement. La vraie nobleffe, qui aime la gloire, et qui fait que je m'y connois, m'honore, et le tait. Les magiftrats me haiffent, à cause des torts qu'ils m'ont fait. Les philofophes, que j'ai demafqués, veulent à tout prix me perdre, et rüiffiront. Les eveques, fiers de leur naissance et de leur etat, m'eftiment fans me craindre, et s'honorent en me marquant des egards. Les pretres, vendus aux philofophes, aboyent apres moi, pour faire leur cour. La Le peuple, qui etoit mon idole, ne voit of his faults, knows that I pardon him en moi qu'une peruque mal-peignée, et for them, and he would repair them if comme un homme decreté. Les beaux efprits fe vengept, en m'infultant, de ma fuperiorité qu'ils fentent. Les femmes, dupes de deux hommes qui les meprisent, baiffent celui qui me ritat le mieux d'elles. Les Suiffes ne me pardonneront jamais le mal qu'ils m'ont faits. Le magiftrat de Geneve fent les torts, fait qui je les lui pardonne, et les repareroit s'il ofoit. Les chefs du peuple, elevés fur mes epaules, voudroient me cacher fi bien qu'on ne vit qu'eux. Les auteurs me pillent, et me blament; les fripons me maudiffent; et la canaille me life. Les gens de bien, s'il en est encore, gemiffent tout bas fur mon fort; et moi je le benis, s'il peut un jour inftruire les mortels. Voltaire, que j'empeche de dormer, parodiera ces lignes; fes grotheres injures font un hommage, qu'il est forcé de me rendre, malgré lui. TRANSLATION. The judgement of the public concerning me. according to the different ranks which compofe it. K Ings and great perfonages fpeak not what they think; but they will always treat me generously. The true nobility, who love honour, and who know that I am acquainted with it, honour. me, and are filent. The magiftrates hate me, on account of the wrongs they have done me. The philofophers, whom I have unmasked, are defirous, at any rate, to deftroy me; and they will fucceed. The bishops, proud of their birth and rank, efteem me without fearing me, and do honour to themselves by distinguishing me with respect. The priests, flaves to the philofophers, bark at me to make their court. The people, whom I idolized, look en me as a floven, and an ill-fated man. The men of genius revenge themfelves by infulting me, because they feel my fuperiority. The women, dupes of two men who despise them, hate him who merits most from them. The Swifs will never pardon me the evil they have done me. The magiftrate of Geneva is fenfible be durit. The chiefs of the people, elevated on my fhoulders, would conceal me fo ef. fectually that none but themselves thould be seen. Authors pillage me, and cenfure me; knaves curfe me; and the mob hoot at me, Good men, if there are any vet, filently lament my fate; and I blefe it, if haply it may one day inftru&t minkind. Voltaire, whom I prevent from fleeping, will parody thofe lines : his grofs injuries are an homage which he is forced to render me, in fpite of himftif. SIR, Leigh, Jan. 16. 1769. IN the bills of mortality at London we often read two odd names, or titles, of diftempers, which I fancy but very few know the meaning of, viz. Head mould fbat, and Horfe hoe head, and which no phyfical author that I have met with, unlefs Allen, takes any notice of; yet but too many innocents are permitted to die of these two diforders, as do monthly appear in thefe mortality bills above faid. The first, or Head mould shot, is a diforder always born with children, i. c. they bring it into the world with them; and is no more than this, whence it takes its name: The ed es of the skull at the futures, or feams, (especially the coronal, a little above the fore-head), overfhoot or lap over one another, so that the fibres of the meninges, as anatomists term them, or the membranes inveloping the brain, are stretched, or torn; and the brain itself, for want of due room, is likewife a little compressed; whence fuch infants are often feized and carried off with convulfions; the cause of whica calamity being unfuspected, is confequentIv often overlooked, or feldom found out. This disfiguration, by a long labour, or ftrainings of petlage, is generally produced in the birth. For the cure of which, call in a skilful furgeon, and let him dextroufly try by the motion of his hand, and the best of his art, carefully to extricate the overbearing edges of the skull from each other, and by proper bandages to keep them fo. The fecond cafe is the Horfe hoe head, called fo, because it fomewhat refembles the shape of a horse fhoe, by the vacancy and hollow dint it forms on the head. This disorder is the very reverse of the D. 2 other : |