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led temperate lives feldorn
caught cold, even tho' their
constitutions and habits of
body might fcem to be little
able to withstand the effects
of such causes.
I was a witnels of, what I
thought, a singular instance
of the truth of this opinion.
Mr. Urban,
AS there were few men
more attentive to the
tracing the cau'fes of natural
effects, or more ready and in
genious in accounting for
them,than the late Dr. Fran
klin, his opinions on any such
fubjefts are therefore deferv
irig of out special attention.
Thus, on the lubjea: of catch
ing cold, he alledged, that in
stead of a cold being contrac
ted by the body's being expo
sed to some external cause
which may stop the irifenfible
perspiration, such as cold air
blowing partially on some
part of the body, its continu
ing some time wet, &c. a feaft
or some excess in eating or
set off to William Stanton's (we turned
Kelly off, telling him that two mipht
keep a iccret, but three c.uld no ) then
Williams, Stanton and m^felr let off for
Hopkinton with an intention to break
a llore, bat did not fuccetd ; but vii
jiams and Stanton tcck 12 pair of Heck
ings off a fence.—Upon our return 10
Stanton's,! held the hories at the bridge,
Williams and Stanton broke open a mill,
end tock all the meal & corn they could
find, and carried it to Stanton's house :
Stanton- next day lent force of the corn
to Bole Babcock's for rum. 'Next night
Stanton, Williams and myftlf set off to
break Joseph Potter's lloze; I broke
open a mill and took a crow-bar out of
it, and we all three went in, I hill, and
they following. Being mod forward in
this business, I lighted a candle and
handed down the goods, about Seven
hundred dollars worth, and fame money,
two or three dollars, and carried them to
Stanton's house, where we divided them
into three parts and cast lots. Williams
and I tock oar (hares ; after giving'
Stanton out of my (hare ci ht or nine
pounds worth of goods for a mire, & hi
ding the goods under two corn hacks
and under a barri, abbrit five miks from
Stanton's hcufe, we set cff for Volun
town, these were apprehended, brought
back to Hopkinton, where Stanton, I
and my wife were tried for breaking
open the mill ; Stanton's wife and Wil
liams were admitted as Rate's evidence :
Accordingly I was fenter.ced to receive
20 .hikes and my wife 10 (though (he
was innocent). —1 paid the fine by giv
ing up part of ray clothes, was then
committed to Newport gaol, and tried
for breaking Potter's shop, found guilty,
and received sentence of deatn—'and the
Lord have mercy upon me,
!E^ramfl*j&^ ' i !W!^^=/?r<^^^Tr±rcz^
[The pbilofopb, of our coun
trymen, the /ate Dr. Franklin,
leas entirely of the usual kind.
People in common life are al
ways benefited, labile the mere
learned are entertained,^ by bis
writings and obfervaticns,—
The following, copied from the
Gentleman s Magazine for last
March, we conceive to be one
inflahce to juftify this remark.]
drinking, will be generally
'found to have preceded. In
confirmation of this opinion;
he oblerved, that thole who
On my mentioning it to a
gentleman who eats no ani
nial food, and drinks no fer
ircnted liquor, or Ipirits, he
said he would give it a fair
trial. He accordingly, on the
firft dewy lummer morning,
walked among long grass, till
his feet and legs weie perfect
ly wet, and continued out of
doors from 6 o'clock till 8,
-and when he came in to
breakfaft, could not be pre
vailed on to have dry hides
and deckings till lie returned
to drels^t noon. No cold;
ensued, tho' wet feet are rec-I
koned among the mod tre-;
quent causes of catching cold.;
He afterwards thanked me ;
much lor freeing him from :
many restraints, founded, as.
he now experienced, on pre
judice. ,
Sir J. Pringle and the-Dr.|
being confined at Calais by|
contrary winds, agreed to try
the experiment, ^ir J. was|
to give such directions to the ;
Dr. to catch cold!- and the;
Dr. was to prescribe such a/
diet to Sir John, while the।
latter cautiously avoided eve
ry cause that might expose
him to catch a cold. The
Dr. observing a moderation
in his diet, escaped a cold;
tho' he frequently exposed
him in such situations as Sir
J. luppofed might probably
occasion the Di's catching
cold. The wind came fair
before the effects of Sir John's
feaftirig appeared ; but I have
heard them.both confeis, that
the probability was on the
Doctor's fide. The experi
ment could not be well re
peated in London, because
both were lo frequently ex
posed to company, that such
stria rules could not conve
niently be followed.
The Dr. remarked, that
those who eat no luppers, es
pecially after plentiful din
ners, were much le^s liable to
catch cold, for they thereby
avoided adding a quantity of
indigested juice with what are
in some degree, in a digested
state. They who make sup
per their principal meal do
not fuffer by it, because, the
stomach being pretty empty?
there does not an improper
mixture of juice enter the lac
teals.
THE PATRIOTIC COOK.
AN ariftoic lady of Caen,
gave out two days ago
that there would be every day
two covers at her table for
Priests who had not taken the 4
Civic oath—her cook, hear
ing of the invitation of his
mistress, laid —" Let the bad
Priests come, I will prepare
for them a better feaft than
they are aware of. I Ihall
A FRENCH ANECDOTE.
"file National Assembly adopted the
form of a representative government,
enjoined with an hereditary monar
chy, the legislative body, was declared
to De permanent ; the choice Os the Mi
nitters of public worship, of Magistrates
and Judges, was given to the people ;
the executive power was conferred on
the King, the formation of laws on the
legislative body, and the power of sanc
tion on the Month; t e public fort,
both internal and external, was organic
zed on the fame principles, and in con
formity to the fundamental dillin&ion cf
powers —such is the new Constitution Os
the Kingdom..
" That which is called a revolution, is
no more than the abrogation of numer
ous abuses that have been accumulating
for ages, through the errours of the peo
ple, or the power of the Ministers, which
was never the power of the King. Those
abuses were no less prejudicial to the
Monarch than to the Nation. Those a
buses of authority, under happy reigns
had never ceased to attack, tut without
the power tp dedroy.—They exist no
longer. The nation, now the foveieign,
has no citizens but such as are equal
in fights ; no despot but the law ; no
ministers but public ministers, tnd of
those ministers the King is the chief.
Such i, the French revolution.
" This revolution must natural', have
for its enemies all those who, in the firft
moment of errour, regret on account of
their private interest, the abuses of the
ancient government. Hence the appa
The States General met, and- took
th ¥ ? Kile of Tbe National Afymbly ; and
'a a foort jy;ce of time, a Constitution
fit to iecure the happi.efs cf France, and
ct the Monarch, took place of the anci
ent order of things, under which the ap
parent power of the kingdom only served
10 conceal the real power of the abuses
of certain arittocra ick bodies,
"His Majefly convoked the States Ge
neral of his Kingdom, and refolded in
his Connc l, that the Commons should,
in the Afembly, have a number of depu
ties equal to those of the two other or
ders then exiting. This ad of provi
boaal.hgfiutfcn which the circumtUn
ces of the time did not allow to be more
favourable, Efficiently announced his
Majed,l with to restore to the nation
all its rights. ,
'."SIR, °'
" I AM commanded by the Kinfo to
acquaint yop, that it is his melt decided
intention that you Ihculd manifcft hh
sentiments on the revolution, andon
the French Constitution, to the Court
where you reside. The Ambaffac'ours
and ministers of France, at all the courts
of Europe, receive the fame orders, that
no doubt may remain, either on the in
tentions of his Mujefty, on the free ac
ception which he has given to the new
form of government, or on his irrevo
cable oath to maintain it. - \
WARSAW, MAY g.
r'HE new constitution has just pair
ed in the Diet, by which the E
leßor of Saxony is declared immediate
Kcccffcr to the thione of Poland ; after
whole derails ris daughter is to inherit ;
and the entice of her husband, if (he
marrie , is to be decided by the States.
After this Coi.Hiuticn had parted, the
King, attended by the marfhais of the
Diet, and a great number of the mem
bers; went re the cathedral, and took an
oath to maintain it.
FRANCE.
NATIONAL 'ASSEMBLY, Saturday,
[E'E lay bf,re our readers the following
Letter of infruflons, by order tj the
King, to tie MiniJLrs of Foreign Courts,
f.gwd 3, M. de-Montmerin, the Ms.
nfcrfer Foreign Afa;rs.
write the Civ'c Oath on small
ticks, and put them up nicely
in petty pattees ;io that if
they have not the oath in
their hearts, they fliall have
it in their bellies."
Foreign Intelligence.
By Yesterday's Mail.
Ayr// 23.
April 26 —An elaborate memorial
on 'the queftfon forme ly popped le
feeding n unihrmi y cf weights ^nd
measures, was fubmiited to the Affim
biy from the Academy of Sciences—
Three ' Ikndards presented by nature,'
we e federally examined —Firfl, the pen
dulum vibrating seconds in a given lati
tuc c—Second, the measure cf a portion
of the equator—Ard third, the measure
of a portion of a meridian.
The firft was objeded to, because it
was itfelf to be roeafured by the time
which it meafores ; —the feoond because
it could not be measured without the
Concurrence of savage nations, there be
ing but one equator —the third was con-,
fidered as the best, because a merioiau
exists everywhere.
The assembly decreed, that the latter
method should be adopted, and that mea
sures should accordingly be taken to de
termine the length of an arch of the me
ridian from Dunkirk in France to Bar
cAona in S,aih.
A letter was then read by the President
from General Wafeington, in answer to
one written in June last, to the United
Slates of America, by order of the Nati
onal Assembly. In this letter the Ame
rican General felicitates the Assembly
cn the Great work which it has effe&ed,
and which, in his opinion, ought to per
petuate the liberty and happinefa of the
French nation.
" I have freeqcen'ly before cemreun!-
cated to you his Majesty's fertimtnts co
this bed; but after he intermaien he
has received cf the cpiren endeavoured
to be eflabliihed ini foreign Courts re
fpe&lng via is sassing in Fiance, he
has ordered me to inftrua yen to make
known she contents of this letter to the
Court at which you reside ; and that it
may be still more publick, his Majesty
has dinfled it to be printed.
(Sigted)
" Montmorin."
[This letter was loudly applauded in
the National Assembly—a large deputa
tion with the President at ihe^r head,
waited on the Ring, and that ked him
for it—rod cn their return ordered it to
be printed, and dispersed through the
Republick.]
rant ditiCoß in the Kingdom, rhich is
daily becoming let's ; hence perhaps
some severe laws and circumfances which
time will correct ; but the Kirg, whole
true power can never be diffirtl from
that of the nation, who has no aim cut
the happiness of the people, and no au
thority but that which is delegated to
him, the King has adopted,wrhce he
fitarion, a happy con i alien, which, will
at once regenerate his auriioricy, the
nation, and the monarchy. Ail hi : pow
ers are preferred to him, except the
dreadful power of making laws. He
remains charged with the p< wer of ne
gociating with foreign powers, with the
care of defending the kingdom, and re
pelling its enemies ; but the French na
tion will in future have no external ene
mies but its aggrefiors ; ro internal
enemies but thoie who, Hill flattering
themselves with vain hopes, believe
that the will of twenty-four milions of
men, restored to their natural lights, af
ter having organized the kingdom in
such a manner as to leave only the me
mory of ancient forms and zbufes, is not
an mmoveable and irrevocable conititu
t ion.
"The king, Sir, charges you to de
feat their intrigues and their projects.
Ihe fame calumnies, u hile they Ipread
the faliell ideas refpe&irg the French
revolution, have rendered the intentions
of Frerth travellers kiycted by federal
nations ; end the King expressly orders
you to protef iand defend item. Ke
prefert the French cenffitution in the
fame light as that in which the king
views it; and 'caves no coebt of his
in ention to maintain it to the utmost of
his power. By feeding the liberty and
equali y of the citizens, that confuta
tion founds the nariongl prosperity on
the most immovable bafi„it confirms the
royalauhority by the laws; it prevents
by a glorious revolution, the revolution
which the abuses of the eld government
would probably soon have cft<6eo by
a diflcluticn cf the empire; and finally
it will cenft tore the happiness of the
King. Tojufify it, to defend it, and
to confide r it &s the rule ofyour cordt&,/
ought to be jour firft and n.cft imponaLt
duty.