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POETICAL ASYLUM.

rom a London fiublieation. THE BACHELOR'S SOLILOQUY. A PARonv. Marry, or not to marry ? That is the question Wlictherit is nobler in the mir.d to suffer The sullen silence of these cobweb rooms, Or seek in festive hall some festive dame, And by uniting, end it. To live alone No more ! And, by marrying, say we end The heart-ache, and those throes & make-shifts Bachelors are heirs to. 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To many to live in peace Perchance in war: aye, there's the rub ; For in the married state what ills may come, When we have shuffled off our liberty. Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes us dread the bond of wedlock ; For who could bear the noise of scolding wives, The fits of spleen, the extravagance of dress, The thirst for plays, for concerts, and for balls, The insolence of servants, and the spurns That patient husbands from their consorts take, When he kimself might his quietus gain By living single. Who would wish to Ik ar The jeering name of bachelor, But that the dread of something after marriage, ( Ah, that vast expenditure of income. The tongue can scarcely tell,) puzzles the will, And makes us rather choose the single life, Than go to jail for debts we know not of! Economy thus makes bachelors of us still, And thus our melancholy resolution Xs still increased upon more various thought. A REPLY TO THE PACHF.LOR's SOLILOQUT, By a Widower. To wed, or not to wed ? That is the question Whether 'tis nobler for human kind to fill The world with pledges of virtuous love, Or to oppose the laws of God and man And crowd the earth with spurious offspring. To live, to love yes more, and have that love returned, Cures every heart-ache, c the thousand shock " Bachelors are heirs to." 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be prized. To live, to love, And have th.r love returned, is bliss complete ! For in that virtuous love what joys to come, When we have shuffled off our daily .toil.

Present themselves. There's the delight life.

That makes the wedded state so happy in this

To see the smiles, and hear the lisping notes Of those sweet darlings of our virtuous love ; To trace the features, and behold in miniature The object of our life, is life indeed.

To crown the whole, who would forego soul That sweet communion that intercourse of

That social interest, and that wise economy

Which reign predominant in the marriage state ;

neii ne migut an tnose oicssmg gam By being married ? Who would not wish to boar The pleasing name of husband Enjoy a fortune, reputation, health ; With cherubs sweet, and partner dear as life, Than live in dissipation puzzles not man, But makes the Bachelor his title change For those fine names which now he only knows. Thus matrimony shines conspicuous still, And thus the fair one's resolution Js still increased upon those virtuous thoughts. STANZAS, nv MRS. HARRIET MUZZY. Doubt, when radient smiles are shining. Doubt, when clasping hands are tw ining: Doubt, when honied w ords are flow ing. Doubt, when blushes warm arc glowing, But never doubt the truth sincere, That glistens iu the starting tear, Doubt, when mirthful tones invite thee Doubt, when gayest hopes delight thee, Doubt, what'er is fondest, fairest, Doubt, wbatVris brightest, rarest, But never doubt, that truth can live In hearts that suffer and forgive. FROM THE LADIES MAGAZINE. A THOUGHT. . There's a glorious light at the gates of the west When the summer sun nasses thro' to his rest-

'Tis bright on the lake where the moonbeam slept, Jnd the tear is pure which the dews have wept,

Hut there shmes no light beneath tne sky .Like that which beams from a Mother's eye

The harp is sweet at its dying close, rose. And the hum of the bee from the breast of the

And the sng of the bird when she rises high Prom her chirping nest, thro' the vernal sky J3ut earth hath no"" sound to sweet to hear As the voice (J' a Babe to its Mother's ear. FROM THE KKF.PSAKF. OX Tll'O SISTERS. Young Dora's gentle, pure and kind, With lofty, clear and polished mind ; But Dora, rich in mental grace, Alas ! is somewhat poor in face : Pity her noble soul dent warm A Grecian statue's perfect form ! But, Ann in thee all charms combine ; Each gift of beauty, sweet is thine! Thy form surpasses e'en desire ; Thine eyes are rolling orbs of fire ! Enchanting, perfect, is the whole, Pity the statue wants a soul. tq-qq w 1 EPITAPH OX AX IXFAX1 He took the cup of life to sip, For bitter 'twas t drain ; He put it meekly from his lip, And went to sleep again.

VARIETY.

AN ESSAY ON BILIOUS FEVER AND CALOMEL. By Anthony Hunn, M CIl D. No. V.

By the appellation of ' bilious fever." I could not but understand the dis

times of Hipocrates at least, till now.

A fever which is occasioned of bile,

&. which can be cured only by vom-

ting and purging. Febrcs gostneae

emeto catharsi sunantur. Aphorism,

Hippocr. That in ancient times when anatomy was almost an un

known science, such should have

Deen the opinion oi medical men, may easily be imagined ; but that in

the present, highly improved state of

Anatomy and Physiology, a theory

should still be kept up & acted upon,

which militates against clear, indubit

able and undoubted tacts, and which renders the cure of fever as imbecile and doubtful now,as it was at Galen's

or Hippocrate's time (as Mitchell asserts)must be matter of astonishment

o any thinking being. Bile is not as

well an excretion, but a secretion bv a

peculiar process of the liver, of a substance necessary to the digestive powers. There is no bile in the blood be

fore it is thus created (if I may use this word) out of the mass of the blood by the liver, the blood of which bile is thus fabricated, being the same

as anv other in the circulation. If

now by the febrile, morbid action of

the whole system, & the consequent,

particular derangement of the hepatic

process, the bile has become vitiated

both in quantity and quality, this is the effect not the cause of fever. The rationale of thecure must beofcourse.

to rectify the deranged hepaticaction.

and not to increase it by medicines.

which undoubtedly produce, even in

a state of health that very derawze-

merit. That bile, even of a very vi

tiated nature, when re-absorbed into the blood, after it has been created, does not produce fever, is evident

Irom a state ol jaundice, where the

whole system is saturated with bile,

fur months or years & yet no fever

ensues ; arm trom tne cholera, where

often a gallon of the most acrid bile is discharged from an epileptic liver,

without febrile symptoms. Thus I have thought it proper to

explain my former assertions to an

intelligent, not medical reader. But that professed physicians should want such an elucidation, is matter of deep blushing. I will now continue to observe, from the position, that fever is an unit. that likewise there exist, no inflammatory, no nervous, no putrid, no typus fevers, etc. An universal, equal sthenic diathesis, or excessive morbid

action of all the systems of the human frame is a contradiction in objecto, confutes it self. An increased action of all the animal functions does not constitute sickness, on the contrary, it implies an augmented sensation of pleasurable existence, which is health. A glass of wine, the inhaling of the exhilerating gas, will prove this. That a person, who moth-has not one drop of blood to spare, should suddenly be smitten with a plethora requiring the abstraction of one or two quarts of that vital fluid, is passing strange!! If from some cause or other the excitability, or I would rather say, the materia vitalis, of the arterial system should be suddenly augmented, the surplus of it is always abstracted from other systems, viz : the nerves, the lumphatics, the skin and here again equalization is the trump. Venisection can only be a palliative, a means to gain time for the operation of equalizing medicines, or rather, the equalising efforts of the constitution. The terms, putrid typmis fevers are quite undefined the terms, typhus mitior, gravior still more so. How much mitior ? How much gravior? This is certainly quackish nonsense the abbellation of nervous fever is a riddle even to the most celebrated theorists. Almost a cartload of hard cracking

names as unmeaning as barbarous, may be discharged from the medical science with manitest advantage to it

Fever is an unit, as formerly defin

ed by me, with a variety of accidental inequalities, and appearances. It is

either sympathetic i. e. becoming

universal from a local affection, or it is the effect of poisonous substances introduced into the system. These poisons are either pus, or contagions absorbed cither by the lacteals, the lungs, or the lymphatics ; these have all their peculiar crises ; or thirdly, it is the effect of miasma the known miasmate are : 1st. The marsh miasma, which makes its peculiar inroad on the ganglions of the great sympathetic nerve, manifested by chills and subsequent reaction, falsely termed fever. 2d. The animal miasma acting principally on the great brain in the cranium (the ganglions and spinal marrow being likewise brains, endd wedwithspecific powers) dclerium, torpor universal depression of the animal functions are its character istics. 3d. A mixture of both vegetable and animal miasma the first producing the chill the latter precnting the salutary, necessary reaction its various,anomalous symptoms hold the name of Malign The Asiatic plague and the American yel low fever are of this class. 4th. The

miasma of the Influenza (a modern

goes back to the next kin. The Chinese have a regular historical detail of the reigns of their Emperors, for two thousand years, that is. up to the period when one of their Princes burnt all the national records except those belonging to medicine and agriculture. Beyond this period

they claim a history more than equal in duration to the Mosaical history of the world. The Press is as free at Pckin as it is at London ! and anv person may take up the profession of a printer. There are no distinctions in China, except those which learning and office confer, the former being the passport to the latter. According to the proportion of cultivated land in China, and the people, England and Scotland ought to sustain a population of about fnrhj millions, arid Ireland keenly millions The great substratum ol the policy and the power of China consists oi' an equal distribution of the land oi the country ; and this equitable principle has, in all ages, been the most permanent basis of well regulated society. It is well that China, in the happy folly of her egotism, despises foreigners, and scoffs at their arts, were it otherwise she would conquer the

world, and thus in the end. propably

discovery) which directs its effoits

chiefly against the lymphatic system, 'achieve her own overthrow.

In all these cases to equalise is to cure, or rather, the physician can do nothing but equalize: The fever itself he never cures. The animal frame has ample powers to cure every fever, in, I believe, every case, by salutary, critical efforts, with which the author of our existence has most liberally endowed it. This leads me to the examination of the vis medicatrix naturie, or the inherent sanative powers of nature, which will be the burden of the next number.

From the News. DESCRIPTION OF CHINA. China contains five million square miles of land, bounded by seas, or inhospitable and impassable regions, & a population computed to be 300,000, 000. This snug estate and family belong to one man ; and are as much his goods and chattels, as law and power can make over any property to an owner. He sustains an army of 900,000 men, and has afloat more vessels of heavy burden than belong to all the rest of the world put to-

The great leading peculiarities of

this extraordinary government, the operative powers of which may well puzzle all the moral philosophers of the world, arc, first, that it is purely patriarchal; the Emperor is held to be the father of all his subjects ; the Governors of a province,or of atown, are the fathers of all persons within

their jurisdictions ; and so on down the whole grade of authority. The principle of filial reverence is made to be the great master-movement ol all minds; enforced by summary corporal punishment, which any higher authority bestows on the lower, from the foot of the throne; the otVendcr being compelled, afterreceiving chastisement to thank thebestower of it, on his knees for thus reminding him of the errors. Secondly, this example of a stupendous moral machinery has not the common aids of a priesthood, or of any religion purporting to be of a divine origin or an aristocracy, while the army itself, on the most domestic occasion, only use a short whip, with which the soldiers strike the ground rather than the people. There are no auxiliary influences of rich men ; the Emperor is the universal landlord, receiving one tenth of the produce as a tax. There are no Game Laws ; every man is the proprietor of all that his land pro duces; there are no Poor Laws;

parents are compelled to take care of

their children or of their relations ; &

From the Londtm Mechanics Afcrazine. BREWING SIMPLIFIED. The art of brewing is eactly similar to the process of making tea. Put a hand ful of malt into a tea pot ; then till it with water, the first time rather under boiling heat. After it has stood some time pour off the liquor, just as you would tea. and fill up the pot again with boiling water ; in a similar manner pour that off, and so go on filling up and pouring off, till the malt in the pot is tasteless, which will be the case when all the virtue is extracted. The liquor or malt thus

extracted must then be boiled with a few hops in it, and when it becomes cool enough, that is about blood heat, add a little yeast to forment it and the thing is done. This is ttie whole art and process of brewing, and to brew a larger quantity requires just the same mode of proceding as it would to make a tea breakfast for a regiment of soldiers. A peck of malt and four ounces ol hops will produce ten quarts of ale better than any that can be purchased in London and for which purpose a tea-kettle & two pan mugs are sufficient apparatus. A bushel of malt to one pound of hops is the most general proportion ; and eighteen gallons of good light ale, or table ale, may be produced from one bushel of malt and one

pound of hops which will not cost above nine shilling, that is six pence, or one and a halfpence a quart. Brewing utensils consisting of a mashing tub and oars, a seive, two coolers, &. wicker hose, a spiggot and faucit, together with a couple of nine gallon barrels, new from the coopers, cost me no more than thirty-six shillings, and with these utensils I have frequently brewed, at one time four bushels of malt. The plan I have adopted is from one bushel of malt to extract nine gallons of liquor for ale, & afterwards nine gallons more fortable beer, both of which will be excellent.

Ask thy purse, what thou shouldst. buy. War is Death's Feast. War makes thieves, and peace hangs them. The greater the man, the greater the crime. He that serves the public, obliges nobody. Good laws, often produced from bad manners. Youth and white paper, soon take an impression. Experience is the mother of science