The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg, Va., 1770-02-15 00:00:00, page 2

nuityof rcasonan, never fail to gin-: disgust: Tsow
inlctusi-vputtabze then, must be the rusinilisiatiou which ;
m-nJ mult feel, on seeing ill name anssl ltsiipiJitY
ouusivle-I together in every sentence, going had in
hand through every coluzrm, beekming to mile-ry,
and excujng tolcuntempt.
dist.-similar then off.-t: some relflions to the pub
lic on me nature of puriotism, which he rhvides into
autient and modern: 'l'he latter he descnbes as a
kind of pulitical stenzy, that seize: on the paslions of
me 'PW? cles: of people in all osity corporations,
tranlporun them to acts of outrage and violence,
from whi he infers, by the plzunest implicfisiwn,
that the present race of yztriots are of that particular
Ill-is!. fixed froni _ andloyalty. Thatthese
naked:-dies in all large sought, who are deshmte
of principle-s, moderate and nmullamcd, no one Wlil
deny. Such, perhaps, were the porter mob Watt
Zylm All the she saint: of Rome. But,_c_m the
! ryqf , doned mispeants, a (et of illrterpte
' ss ' .;tedwith rise,-beapphedbyanyktnd
! wombe, ty the conduct qf sspctrtrqnerg against
.\llG 'lUllLlW 0! Cflaslcr!,—lgllnu CUlllCllll!5 lCd\D
an Parliament on persons never elected,-—agarust the
tmposition of mites for revenual purposes, on two or
three millions of subjects, totally delliture of either
an actual or cirtturl representation,—against the trral
of American treat-ws before alrigh commiflioned court,
to be for th.rt sin le purpose CICClCdf-"lnd againlta
number of ille ,af encroachments already delineated
by the inimitab e Farmer's Letters, and other inge
" man: tracts, too numerous to recount. ll luch a'con
tell as this, between the all'ertors of conllitutronal
rights, and the Miniflters of vennlity and corruptron.
trred and examined on the fixed and unvaryttg or
dinances of the antient and established monarchy ;—
on one side, the supreme and unlimited jurisdrflron
osthe British Parliament, supported by an army of
court pamphleteers, under a pecurriary patronage,
_ arrangrrsig plaulibilities, and disguising has ;—on*the
other, elended by the promptitude ol convretton,
arguments drawn from common right, the laws
os_nature, and innumerable precedents;-.t contention,
sanctified by the concurrence of all the subjects of
England on the part of America, except the had of
plaoemen and band of penlioners; yet this wrirer has
the audacity to reproach as modern patriots, other
wise ale—house senatora. all those who shall dare to list
vpsin complaint against the upright measures of the
virtuous Ministry, or sopplicate our Sovereign lor his
Royal and more immediate protection of his distant
ss plantations.
'1 We are lest at large for his animadversrons on an
ss tient patriotisrn: no doubt but they would have been
as shrevld as those he give us, and would only have
served to onnoborate the evidence of one conspicuous
truth, that aset of dull unwieldlz faculries, alittle
reading and a bad heart, will xsia mind on the
("stone: qf (but Middle stale, which lies between
common &nse and lunacy.
Amricauru then denies hia being : court-hireling ;
an assertion very robably true- the statesmen os
England are men o consessed discernment, and tho'
disposed perhaps to distribute penlions to indigent
men of. genius, to varnish acts and polish measures,
neglect and despise the ignorant and supercilious,
howu-er well disposed they mi ht be to embrace the
chearsul ferquilitesssos aduily ustenance, ind throw
'in their iterary mite towards_diverting the public
odtu_rn_ from an nnfltilful, arbrtrary, and impo'litic
admrmstration.
. And let me propbecy, after thy example, Americamu,
that in thy garret thou wilt ever continue to seed thy
fpleenful mind on thy beloved subject of abusive criti
crsm, stom whence no kind of distinctinn will ever
. invite thee; there, rolled up in thy den; like Homer's
serpent, thou mayelt collect thy poisons, and dis
charge-them at every traveller that Jonrne eth-on hie
wzsiydtothe public ear, unknown, unheede , and 'des
And now, Ameritanru, ] will le! (be: get off, and
though thou shouldst again deluge, the press, by
pourmgsi through its channela upon me all the torrente
of lcumlttsiv and invective, seattering filth and sowing
abate, ! wrll let thee enjoy the imaginary triumph in
all the rapturea os compleated revenge, for to me
thy shalt! have leaden points, unable to provoke me
to any thing else for the future but :. silent colrctiltcmpt.
Mr. RIND,
I 0 8 S'E R V E ]. D. ba: furnishedyou with llvree
poper: on [be small-pox. Upon fit} won/, Sir,
afler reading the first, I did not imagine a second
would have appeared, And much lefi a (bird.
thou/go!, is vomit} bad blinded him so much (l.—at be
ton ] no! ee bi: ownfoiblu, be might Love/omesriend
that woe (I ; andfrom tbence bopetl l."! would best/m! ,
bu! o: that is not the eafi, your iving who! follow:
:: piece in ]our next Gazette, wi}; mueb oblige
A CUSTOMER.
LESS me, Mr. Riod, how unfortunate has he
been, in chafing his text; his quotations from
Mr. Fieldina says, " his not enough that your de—
figns. on. that vour actions, are intrinsically good;
you Most "the are they shall appear so." Nobly said,
end Wlsh lmuld say it wax as [10ny done; but writers,
hke Tow-tellen, on be to have good memories. [: is
cunning the doctor ould forget the most remarkable
":an of !! si ' to wit, that early in the yeor
was, be seen si mfnlly had a house wnhm
lnlsn mile of Nursuik, where he intended to carry on_
inoculssumn, to the grsictt rcrrcr and altzmizhnmxr of
town an.1countrv. Wrcn dtctrccted and dllctsirppuzmtd
in rhar atrem ): (los the lsirndh-rd declared ]. 1). lmd
decerved him} he privately agrin engaged wrth doctor
A. C. to carryon moeulntronstt his phnration, lbOU!
No mile: and a half from No! ur- they inrended no
doubt to go (back:) that tum "o 'scovered, before
carried into executiow but the strongest intrudin
and at last thrnn. oo nor {remit on ]. 1). A. C.
and a few nssociates. to dclil from their 'mcrcenuy _
scheme; they did inoculate, there, and from that ino
culation alone, has sprung all the unhappy difference:
and animolitiu, which have from that trme subsish-d in
that borough. " War rhe design, was the action,
inrrinsieally good, day, did it zprear so ?" ! have read
his three papen, and um at : as: to know what he
would really be at; thus much silainly appears, he
has stood trumpeter for himself; e has gratified hie
own consummate uniry, and he has discovered to the
iorld that he is : s—I.
To remark upon all he has said, would take up too
much room,' and more time, drun rt desert-es; he set!
out early in the first paper torell you " lt rs iard by
the learned, that phyircians llrould follow nature;"
then, with all the pomp at a lirlt rate (]tlsiatCk, " but to
contagious drseases, ] have lountl nature lukindly con
descending as to be guide-lby nrsi- ;" very rood ll-zlrlst",
tractahle nature, kinder to 1 : - :. '=r Rl r.ss- .- l.uuiry.
Then he goes on, " isi-r a tin—rrsssid p.:s have the
learned been writing on the szrrz-ll-pox; ] have read
their best books and pamphlets to the present year ;"
granted; but what follows? Why then he tells you
" he never learnt any more, from them all, than what
he observed in seeing it in -a large samily, when a
outh." Surprizing genius! he must certainly have
(in the vulgar phralei a very thick scull, or be a con
jurer; but none whs thoroughly knows the man, !
believe, will ever suspect him the latter. The next
paragraph savours strongly of infallibility, joined to
conjuration; but is the world will acquit him of con
juration, ! willgivc a remarkable inrbrnce os his sallrbi
lit , by and by. But to proceed: " As the method
] ollow in condncting my patients safely and soundly
through the small-port," &c. he goes on, " it is free
of errors, most simple and sullicisizrrtly perfect. ] can
communicate the insection, and administer the anti
dotes, tothepolt lorward (or sroward did hesay, Mr.
Printer ?) cunning child, and it shall know nothing of
the matter." ls thrs is not conjsration or legerdemain,
ldon't know what is. Neither Hippocrates, Galen,
the gieat Boerhaave, nor any other ph srcran ever
pretended to this art ; a centuryago it wou d have been
near a han ing matter. Then he writes lilte a divine;
he talks o "ethics (a plaguy hard word) which Youth
read at college ;" very a proper indeed ; then he says
" the greatest regard is to be had to the whole com—
munity ;" this is a clinclrer ; " regard is to be had to
a greater number of individuals. in preference to a
smaller; most excellent; " regard is to be had to any
individual of the community, if no other is to be in
jured by it." This makes me hlush; am really
so:} to see the doctor take so much pains to expole
hi els; how far this quadrates with what is poliu've—
ly asserted in the beginning of this paper (a 'rugged
truth) shall leave the-im arrial reader to determine.
Many paragraphs so! ow in the first paper, which
are too cold and inlipid to take any notice of, such as
telling you " there are kinds of care above the know
ledge ol nurses, negligentjtudmts of medicine, &c.
curious ealculations of accurnulction and succellion of
insection, with his one, two, &c. (his musical genius
must have been at his elbow then) how todillinguish the
small-port lrom the crawcraws and chicken- pox (why
not the trotting poclt too?) when the small-port is
present, and when it is not." Now comes in a proper
place, for the remarkable case hinted at above, of the
doctor's sallibility, or something worse, having first
assured the reader that ] have it from undoubted autho
rity: One William in Norsolk, had the true
small-port all our several days, without knowin what
was the matter (no small-port being then in Nor ollt) ;
he looked upon it to be a common outstriking; ]. D.
when called on, to give his opinion, with some others
of the profession, said he had his reasons for thinking
it not the small-pox; when two other Gentlemen of
the saculty pronounced it polirively to be the true
small—pox. .ln consequence os theirjust opinions, the
man_was removed to the pen-house, out of town, and
the rnsallrble . D. three days afterwards, went out
nvately (sor e Was not employed) and took matter
romthe pustules then ripe. What conilruction ought
to be or on the doctor's conduct, on this occasion L'
Let it ushce to alle this modest question-, does it coin
eide with his morto ?_ '
in me or,-growing or me lecona paper. he lays ]! you
approach near enough to the infecting substance of the
small—pox, you will certainly catch it (or words tothis
effect) and if you keep sir enough off, there is no dan
ger. " The contngion is likewilecomparativclv tardy;
the peo lc of Virginiaarc senlible of this; totlrosetwo
circum ances it is chiesly owing, that the small-pox
has not spread generally through the colony before
this time;" the Virginians are much obliged to him for
the compliment; a very great discovcry indeed ; at
little farther on, " the inlection of the small-pox it
not so easily taken as ople generally imagine. Note
well, ] say this to ea e their minds on] , not to lessgn
their care." This flummery will not o; it make: a
r amend: for srightenin and alarming the people,
in the manner he did, in an near Norlollt. How vain
then is'thc next paragraphz 'f From Dr. Baker, the
Kinsi': physicians and surgeons, Sir John Ptingle, Mr.
hntu-isi, Hulhn h.nil'..';.l- , &c. and from ()bkn'nlionl
un liit-cttlillluit, jnzt pizhfil'ned at l.uniun. lhnd sea-len
w l-cllsi'h: iii.-t llt'. nium-le us ming-ting this molt
tucissible ihtsiempcr, is nottightly undetituod." Mr.
Riml , your (jnzettes are sometime: tranimittcd to Lng
land; let us litppoli: that, containing the dottor's le
comi piece, to hill into the hand: at one, or more, of
the above Gentlemen (whohnve inoculated more thou
i'untls than ]. D. ever did scorn) would they not be
nflonished to he themselves so toundly cettsuted !: :
pettisogger in vnginini Would they impute it to it
ignorance, or his impudence? To both ] believe, Sir.
A limple queition, ] thmhmtttttally occurs hete; who
in this ]. I)? From whence came he ? It i! said he put-;
ed up his awls, and ttotted ltom Glouoester to Peter!"
burg (with his ttotting poclt in his bag; from thence
he jogged down to \\'illtan_1(burg, a from Willi
amtbuig (big tvidt expettattont) came to Notfollt in
:: gallop; how natten have fallen out since, the pre
sent ltate of his inaneee can hest teltil'y. Pnsing out
: patagta it or two, which are only it caution-tion
of his pu 'ng, he then says, " about the yeer 1760.
some iueh thoughts ay the gbjlow' accursed to'
myminil: "way out, woman and ild, Were put
through the small pox, and all the small post matter
siaiteiuards coijnpleatly dcflioyedct ."!dd. the We
uc cAtltydlcu l .! Ltu ; Ul would It In tune Dc gene
ratcd :tnth' &c. 'l'his was a very pretty fancy that
poppca mlo the doctor's head; this puzzling qucry,
** hc rnzt-gzttes, is dccdirely lolviblc." Don't smile,
Mr. Rtttd, for the doctor, in the lubseqttent para
giaph, let-m: to be in great tribulation; " & phyltcian.
ol England, lromtuotnctcsol humantty, incline: tohatsie
the small pox cxtitpated, and that the eighteenth cen
tur should have the glory of doing it: Ah! shall ]
wi , from motives ol humanity likewise, that it may
never be extirpated. Can we spare it ?" No, no, no.
What will bzcom'e of me and my knowledge? " Our
molt cflicacious medicines are few (says the doctor)
they are clm—sty taken from the poison-of the minersial,
the vegetable and animal kingdoms; thraantmal poilon
lspcuk us is excelled by none of them, to scotmng the
whole of the human conllitution the newe: notexcept
ed." lmull (top here alittle,or augh ] mufi; [mean at
what follows : si" That it gives the make: more manly
vigour, and the semales a more lively bloom ;" for,
to tell the truth. 1 don't understand how it (come tho
human constitution, the nerre: not excepted. I can
only guess it must be a line unimal sonp, to far and
cleante all the little tender parts of generation
verly. in the latter part-of the paragraph,
nians, who might be saved to the flute .
small-port, at home and abroad ;" beau e (I -
don for filling up the blanlt) they will not al
doaor to inoculate them. Havin tread him
- to the end of his second pa r, w ere what so} -
that, and the third paper, cing only a repetiti- ss
his vain boasting, shall now take my leave. and to
this bargain; is he won'ttire the public with any me si
of his paptrs on the small—pox, ! shall not with any
more_temarks, afld then l'm fore the readen of your
Gazette will be much obli ed to both.
To criticisc upon non ease, is folly.
1! 1
VVILLIAMSBURG, February 15.
Among the passen ers who came in Capt; Elleu.
were, Sir Nathaniel ultinsield, Bart. Robert Clif
ton, Esq; and his Lady, and the Rev. Mr. Thomu
Balter. '
]l'sr. RIND, Wr'lliamxburg, so]. 13. me.
S the following extract from a letter, very
A lately received by a Gentleman of lhll place,
may throw some light upon and do some justice to two
very different characters, he pleased to allo' it to be
inserted in your next paper,—Your friend and set
vant, 7 ss A CUSTOMILR.
" LUNWN, Not). to. 1769.
I A M obliged to you for the Resolvea and
VirginiassssGazessttes. I have no doubt but
our Minisiry_will be obliged to repeal the late infir
mou: acts at the meeting of tbe_Parliament, which
they might have done with a better grace than they
now can ; but 'tis often the case of some people, when
they have done wrong, to persist in their error.—I
am heartily glad there is an-asi'ociation on foot in the
colonies, musl say ] wish it was more general inVir
ginia thitn l fear it is.—-When there il any thing
published worth reading, shall beglad to send it you,
tho' at present we bave little elie but ribaldry and
abuse: No doubt you have heard me condemned
as one of the signes: of an address presented to his
Majesty against riots and insurrections in thin capital,
which has been scverely tortured by some ofour um
ordained Patrioti here, andssscnt over to inflame the
mind: of the people in Virginia, or rather lo fire-e
otherpurpo a. My accuser: well knew that [would
not have ligned it is there had been any thing in it
relative to America. T/ss-ir tri-ay were offend in in)
my [must,—J (lib.-1- [l.-: Doctor's driving M.: wri
ting ll-e letter published in t/ss'e Guzette Wfll :: "me
a: is): doing it.—I lodge my appeal with the impat
tictal, and I hope [shall (land acquitted at the but of
reason of any bad intention towardncoumry, to which
I am so much obliged, and where my all is at stake."_