fuch manner and for fuch time as are therein mentioned, the landing and dif charging, lading or fhipping of goods, wares and merchandize at the town and within the harbour of Botton, in the province of Maffachusett's Bay in North America." And Mr. Cooper was ordered to carry the bill immediately to the Lords, and defire their concurrence. The earl of Shelburne prefented to the house of Lords, a petition from the gentlemen of America, refiding in and about London, against the Bolton port bill, of the fame tenor and purport with that prefented to the Houfe of Commons, complaining of its injuftice and severity. The bill was fupported by the Lords Mansfield, Gower, Lyttelton, Weymouth and Suffolk, and oppofed by the Dukes of Richmond and Manchester, the Marquis of Rockingham, the Lords Camden, Shelburne, Temple, and Stairs.-The debates were were long and warm. Lord Camden, as ufual, attacked Lord Mansfield. But the bill was agreed to by the Lords, March 30th, and received the royal affent March 31st. (See an Abstract of this Bofton Port-bill, p. 180.) [The Debates on the other two Bills in our X next.] A new Theory of Canine Madness, with an infallible Method of preventing, and of curing that Disorder. Never before printed. (Continued from p. 262.) CHAPTER II. An Account of Appearances on the Diffection of Animals who have had that Disorder. B ÁRTHOLINUS reports that worms have been found in the heads of mad horfes, oxen and fheep. His words are Notandum id imprimis de equis, bobus et evibus vermes ita affeciorum capiti ineffe rufticorum noftrorum eft obfervatio. Cent. 3. Obf. 48. Chriftianus Francifcus Paulini fays as follows: "As I was travelling from Hamburgh to Saxony in a chaife, a fhepherd's mad dog came towards us, and Tobias Lorck, a furgeon, who was with me, fhot him with a piftol. After fupper, he afked me fundry questions about canine madnefs, and faid he fhould be very glad to open the dog's head, to feek fome light into the caufe of the difeafe. I applauded his curiofity, and we opened the animal's head, where, to my great furprize, I beheld an infinite number of little worms, fome of which were wound up in bunches, and the rest visibly crawled about. "Whilft we were diffecting this head, an old fhepherd, drawn by his curiofity, came into the room, and when he saw us amazed at the fight of these worms, he burst into a loud laugh. I have never ftudied, faid he, but this is nothing new to me, we always find them in the heads of our fheep who have died mad. Do you speak truth, replied I. Gentlemen anfwered the fhepherd, you fee thefe worms. They are the mad worms, or rather these are the worms which produce madness, by gnawing the brains of the poor beasts till they make them run mad. We then offered him fome money, and faid, my good old man, we befeech you to speak seriously, and tell us if the fact is as you have faid. He then replied, frowning and ftriking his breast, I am a very old fellow, and have one foot in the grave, yet I am not doating, wherefore fhould I difguise the truth. May the devil fetch me if I tell a lie. See Paulin. Cynographia curiosa. And Bonet Mercur. Cofmopolit. p. 212. Etmuller, in his treatife on madness, page 504, fays, we may fee little infects Twarming in the faliva and urine of mad animals. Animalia generantur et confpiciuntur in faliva vel lotio rabidorum. Salmuth, in the 83rd obfervation of his 2nd century, relates that a woman having the fringe of her pettycoat bitten by a mad dog, fhe hung it out in the air to dry; and the immediately perceived a great number of little worms on the parts wet by the faliva of the dog. If more refpectable, or more authentic teftimonies are wanting of the exiftance of thefe worms in canine madness, they may be found in the most distant antiquity. In Avicenna. cap. 7. tract. 4. fenerl. 5. lib. 4. In Alzabaravius, cap. 30. fe&t. 2. tract. 3. pract. In Gardua, cent. 7. tra&. 2. lib. 2. In Nicolas Florent, ferm. 4. tra&. 4. cap. 15. In Valleriola, comm, ad libr, de conftitutione artis Med. Gal. In Mathiolus, comm, ad cap. 36. I. 6. Diofcoridis, Thomas a Viega, comm. in cap. 84. Artis Parca. Gal. &c. This multitude of facts, afferted by different authors of different ages, eftablish a compleat proof. And the filence of others, who make no mention of them, cannot militate against fuch redoubted teftimonies. Vallidiora funt teftimonia affirmantium quam negantium. We may even attribute it to the little attention paid to diffections of the brain, where these worms are conftantly found. And a proof of this neglect is in the fecond obfervation of Henricus Brefchtfeld, who fays, Cerebrum non introfpeclum quia infrumenta ad calvaria depofitionem non ad manum erant. These facts thus established, autho.rize me to fay, that thefe little worms are the cause of canine madnefs. Thefe very worms which are conftantly feen fwimming in the faliva, and found upon the brain of mad animals, infinuate into the blood by the wound made with the teeth. They multiply exceedingly, in the fubject that has received them, and being become very numerous, they attack the brain, throat, and falival glands; caufing delirium, convulfions, and at length, death itself. If worms in the bowels, by the correfpondence of their nerves with the brain, are capable of producing delirium, convulfion, and death, which daily experience proves they are; by how much more reafon may we expect the fame, and even more dreadful fymptoms, when worms of a more malignant fpecies immediately attack the brain, and falival glands? Neither ought we to be furprized that thefe kind of worms principally affect the brain; each fpecies of animals hath its peculiar haunts; fome birds live in the woods, fome in the fens; and we fee, whilft one fpecies of lice are fpread over the whole body, another particular fort chufe the head alone for their refidence. See Meniot, tract, de Phthifi. The great abhorrance of water, and all kinds of drink, which is a conftant attendant on canine madness, comes on by degrees. The patient feels fharp pains in his ftomach whenever he fwallows his fpittle: And has convulfions after drinking. Thefe fymptoms are caufed by thefe worms being carried down into the ftomach by the liquids which he fwallows. Need there more to make him have a difhike to drink? The foul, by the laws of union, intereits itself in the prefervation of the body, to which it is united. Sorrowful experience of the pains the patient has fuffered every time he has fwallowed any liquid, muft certainly induce this Hydrophobia, this horror of water; juft as we take a fettled averfion to fuch food as we find has difagreed with us. The difference between the faliva of a mad dog, and that of one which is not fo, is that as we find thefe worms in the firft, it is venomous: whereas the other, which has them not, is vulnerary and balsamic. And the antients depicted Efculapius ftanding between a dog and a fhe-goat, ufing the milk of the goat for internal diforders, and the faliva of the dog for wounds and ulcers. Mathiolus gives it as a reafon why dogs are more frequently mad than other quadrupeds, that he fo frequently eats carrion. Perhaps a corrupted and putrid carcafe is a proper nidus for these maddening worms, which attach themselves to the faliva of the dog, when he is devouring the carrion. This conjecture is fupported by experience, which fhows that madnefs is more frequent in dogs, which live in the country, than in those which inhabit large cities; as the former have carrion frequently for their food, while the latter are generally better fed, and have not the opportunities of meeting with carrion. In London and Dublin, where the number of dogs equal almost all the rest of the kingdom, a mad dog is more rarely to be met with than in country places, were there are but very few of those animals. This theory of canine madness appears to me very fimple, and very natural. It fuppofes nothing: the true cause seems to be difcovered, even to the eye of an old fhepherd, without the help of microscope or fpectacles. I have myself had five different opportunities of searching for thefe worms, and have constantly found them. I fhall till add fresh proofs of this theory, by the examination of the other means I propofed for the difcovery of truth. And one capital advantage will be the refult, namely, that it will prefent canine madness under the favourable afpect of a disease capable of being cured. [The third Chapter in cur next.] As ON 66 N Tuesday, May 24, Mr. O'Neil prefented the addrefs to lord Harcourt, which being read paragraph by paragraph, Mr. Ogle obferved, it was faid for effectually refloring public credit," to which he objected, and propofed the words "in part," in the place of " effectually," but it paffed in the negative. As many of our Realers will be doubtless fr Edward Newenham. I called for pleafed to fee the Speech of Sir Edward the proper papers, to fee the amount of Nowenham on the Addrefs to the Lord, the much boasted reduction of our enorLieutenant, we have given it entire, mous civil eftablishment. Those papers with fo much of what was faid on the are now before the Houfe; the reducSubject, as may be neceflary for the tion is fo very much below my expectabetter underfanding thereef. tion, that as an honourable member (meaning Mr. Chapman) faid of the altered Tontine bill, Ecce! Iteram Crifpinus. I will fay of this reduction, Ecce! Partuerunt montes nafcitur ridiculus mus. The mountains were in labour, and, behold! a little moufe is brought forth; I approve of the amendment offered by your honourable member. But as to the rest of the addrefs I fhall give it my hearty negative, as it conveys compliments, which (except for the corn bill) are not, in my opinion merited. Some gentlemen were pleased to have made a merit of having oppofed Lord Townshend's adminiftration, I allow they had much merit for having done fo, but, for my part, I difdained to traduce that noble Lord's character, in order to raise that of his fucceffor; many gentlemen, who fpoke in the debates in the beginning of this feffion, were pleased to ufher in fome compliment to Lord Harcourt for his virtues and candour (without having the fmalleft analogy to the subject then in debate before the houfe) until the repetition of it became problematical and ridiculous; for my part I never applauded the unborn virtues of Lord Harcourt, nor cenfured the conduct of Lord To nfhend fince his departure; I referved myself until a proper period arrived, and that period is now come, when I could draw a juft and impartial parallel. Lord Townfhend, it is true, bluftered and bullied, was merry and loved his bottle. [Here the house laughed, upon which Sir Edward faid, gentlemen may indulge their laughter, but in the prefent fituation of this country, I fee no room for merriment, amoto quæramus feria ludo. Let us attend to ferious matters, and lay afide mirth.) He agreed to the craving petitions of certain men, and created ufelef employments for them; there, indeed, I think he acted criminally wrong, for he prefumed to contradict the refolutions of this house; I fhould not be furprized if future viceroys did the fame, as our refolutions remain as a dead letter on our journals, they have never been enforced with the When that part was read, in which it faid, "the Commons willing to emuLate his Excellency, had paffed the Tontine Act," Mr. Barry propofed to put "furpafs," in the place of “ emulate:" This paffed in the negative. At the end, Mr. Chapman propofed to add, Although in compliance with the modern practice of parliaments, and from a veneration of your Excellency's many virtues, which we fincerely refpect, we have thus addreffed your Excellency, yet we cannot but recollect, with the utmost concern, that, under the influence of your administration, laws have paffed to raise enormous fums, for the fupport of an enormous abfentee pension lift; and the kingdom is incapacitated for a war, and debilitated during a peace, by its poverty, and the great emigrations therefrom; and that the mode of levying taxes by military force, was first attempted and effected under your Excellency's adminiftration." Mr. Ogle. I rife to fecond that amendment. No man has a greater veneration for Lord Harcourt's private virtues than I have. I doubt not of his public virtues, but they are prevented from operating, by an over-ruling influence of fome men in his confidence, for the good of this country. That the act for levying duties by the military, was a great violation of our conftituti on. That had the address been confined to the words of the refolution of yefterday, I might have given it my affirmative; but as it now ftands, I cannot act confiftently with my former conduct, if I do not give it my negative. fam fame fpirit they were entered into; they Wanted to be revived by thofe patriots, whofe powers and floods of eloquence made the very benches fpeak. I own, I hoped to fee impeachments grounded upon them. Lord Townshend gave us feveral valuable and good laws, particularly the glorious Octennial Law, by which the Electors, every eight years, have it in their power to reject thefe reprefentatives, who prove unfaithful, He likewife gave the trading part of this kingdom, that much wanted bill, by which Members of Parliament can no longer set their just creditors at defiance. Very few demerits can, in my mind, be charged to Lord Townthend, confidering he refided here upwards of five years, and that at a critical period, when the offices of Lords Juftices, which had long (I may fay almoft hereditarily) been held by noble and powerful families in this kingdom, had been just laid alide. Was this adminiftration to refide here half that period of time, the air we breathe, the ground we walk upon, would, if poffible, be fubjected to taxation. During this fhort adminiftration, we have had a tax laid upon law and juftice; the liberty of the prefs curtail ed; and, as it appears by the papers lying on the table, we have had a mock reduction of expence, and a mock redrefs of our grievances, by metamorphofing ufelefs commiffioners into, if poffible, more ufelefs penfioners. We have had an attempt made to accommodate a few rich drones of the ftate, in preference to the intereft of a numerous and induftrious trading city. We have had the effence of parliamentary privileges infringed; and we have been denied that information, which even that mirror of corruption, Sir Robert Walpole, never dared to refufe the Commons of Great-Britain. But Walpole was not poffeffed of the candour of the years 1773 and 74. We have feen a Speaker, eminent for his great abilities and parliamentary knowlege, declare the law and conftitution of parliament: the intrepid, nervous, and, above all, the heart-felt manner in which he delivered his fentiments on the fubject matter of debate, fo convinced the majority of his audience, that He was fupporting their privileges, that fected determined to fupport him; alas! a ministerial mandate was if fued, and every adorer, every worshipper of the benefit of furvivorship, was ordered to return to their oars. The frowns or favours of a modern court, are to me of equal confideration. I fear not the one, and I hold the other in ineffable contempt. I cannot agree to this complimentary address, as I do not think it grounded on facts. Our glorious forefathers were not afraid to cenfure the bad conduct of even royal Ma jefy itself; and they confirmed that cenfure by more than one fubftantial act of justice: shall we then be afraid, or feem planet-firuck at the inanimate thadow of royalty. Forbid it every manly virtue-forbid it every principle of honour and forbid it that duty we owe to thofe who fent us here. I hope that the Commons of both kingdoms will foon revive that proper, though long neglec ted mode, of punishing higher criminals; I mean by juft impeachments: and I hope to fee the journals of Lord Strafford's days often referred to, and that with confequential effects. I have no diflike or refentment (as an individual) against any man in power; no Viceroy, Secretary, Lords Juftices, or Commiffioners ever difobliged me, for I never asked them a favour but once. Gentlemen who have been in feveral preceding administrations are now in the houfe, and can fay whether I ever folicited a favour for myself. Therefore if I err in the mode, I wish to revenge my country's wrongs, I may poffibly err in judgment, but not from pique or difappointment, for fuch mean ideas dwell not within my breaft. I never cenfured the conduct of Lord Townfhend fince his departure. The moment I was robbed of my dearly purchafed employment, I can with truth declare, I forgave the hand that did it, as far as that act concerned myself, though no man ever experienced a greater or more complicated scene of diftreffes than it involved me in: the education of my unoffending children ftopped, and I may truly fay, that the common amufements of life are now far beyond my reach. I wish that this Houfe had adopted fome permanent record of the members names, who vote for and against particular measures; I with it particularly in this case, as this addrefs compliments a Viceroy-under whofe aufpices the Stamp-act was ob tained-under whofe aufpices, humanity and wifdom appeared in an attempt to thut up a natural, in order to make an artificial harbour-and under whofe eye the Quarterage-bill was negatived. For thefe reafons I cannot, confiftent with juftice, give my affirmative to this addrefs. Before I fit down I beg leave to explain myself. I faid I was once refufed a favour from government. Left any gentleman might imagine that it was a favour for myfelf, I thing it proper to mention that affair. I heard of a brave and worthy officer, (Capt. Hugh Henry Bowen) who had behaved remarkably well in the field; this officer had purchased all his commiffions. Being difabled by a wound) from ferving any longer in a military capacity, he retired on half pay. Being married, and having a family, he wanted to fell his half pay to realife fo much for his children. Unknown to that gentleman, until I heard his cafe, I folicited a noble and worthy Lord (high in the law department) to prefent a memorial to Lord Harcourt in behalf of Captain Bowen, but though there were many inftances of the fame favour being allowed to others, yet agreeable to the candour of the prefent adminiftration, that reward of merit, or rather juftice, was refused to a man who had bled in the cause of his King and Country. A particular Account of the Ceremonial of the Coronation of his Moft Chriftian Majefty, Lewis the Sixteenth, King of France and Navarre, as it will be celebrated at Rheims. With a ftriking Likeness of that Monarch, elegantly engraved. HEmetropolitan church of Rheims with the finest tapestry of the crown, and NOT E. The Kings of France have been always crowned at Rheims, ever fince the year 497, when Clovis, King of the Franks, with Albofleda, his fifter, and three thoufand of his foldiers, were all baptized to the Chriftian Faith by Remigius, Bishop of Rheims. The Legend fays, that a golden phial, containing the holy oil for the anointing, was then brought from heaven by an angel, Ever fince, this holy phial, used the great altar covered with cloth of filver laced with gold, and the arms of France and Navarre embroider'd, which the King makes a prefent of to the church the day before, as he does alfo of the copes and other ornaments, which are of gold and filver ftuff adorn'd with Spanish point. The King's and all the feats of thofe who officiate or are invited, are cover'd with velvet of a purple colour feeded with flowers de lis of gold in embroidery, and over his majefty's head a rich canopy of the fame; there is fuch another canopy over the throne, in the gallery betwixt the choir and the body of the church, in which he is feated after the confecration; and feats of the fame for the princes of the blood, the great officers, and the fpiritual and temporal peers. This gallery too is hung with velvet of the fame colour, and embroi dery. Behind the altar is an amphitheatre for the mufick, and on the left fide a pavilion, under which the King prepares himself for the communion. The ceremony of the confecration, begins fo early, that the branches, of which there is a very great number, muft be lighted fome hours before day; for at fix in the morning all the canons enter in their copes. They are followed by cardinals, arch bifhops, bishops, deacons, abbots, &c. by the counsellors of state, the mafters of the requests, the marshals of France, the great officers of the crown, the lords of the court, foreign ambaffadors and their introducers, and a great number of foreign princes and noblemen. About feven o'clock the temporal peers enter, drefs'd in cloth of gold, which reach to the calves of their legs, gold fafles, and over all a ducal manile of purple cloth lind and fac'd with ermine, and open upon the right shoul and they have each a coronet upon a cap of purple fattin. The duke of Orleans, reprefenting the duke of Burgandy; the duke of Chartres, reprefenting the duke of Normandy, and the duke of Bourbon, reprefenting the duke of Aqutain; have each a ducal coronet. The count NOT E. at the coronation of the French Kin, is kept in the abbey of St. Remi; and they fay, the quantity of oil has n diminished, though it has been th 1277 years, |