The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-04-16 00:00:00

To the EDITOR of the BRITISH PRESS.

SIR,
With a most " perturbed spirit," and a mind, al-
most racked to slistraftion with apprehension, I sit
down to address you a few words respeaing the late
(to me alarming) effeas, publicly produced by the
power of Galvanism. I may say with Terence,
AVani eat riquidens ter erre. It is all over with me,
if those things are true which you asserted in the
Press of Wednesday the tith inst. about the expe-i-
-ments made with such success in the Galvanic Lec-
tures. Alla Salim! cries Cicero; and so may I, if
indeed there he M salt; wilt a dead tons : but
in fait, this terrific Professor, by the mere appli-
cation of a piece of Galvanic metal to his head and
tad, connefting them together by means sf wire,
can set a dead horse kicking, so that two men can't
hold him ! What is to become of the old pin-
verb, Add men t.ll no :der ? Why, if this discovery
is suffered to proceed, dead n.en will i.hortly be
seen to rise, pursue, and appre'lend their own assas-
sins, and entirely supersede every necessity of that
hitherto useful body of men called Suw-street run-
ners.

This, it is true, is nGt much to be deprecated, nor
is the evil of a Jead horse's kicking so dreadful ;
indeed some good may .oe derived from it. What
do you think of a pair of spars made of the Galva-
nic metal, and applied to a living nag ? But what,
alas I are these disadvantages and advantages to me,
when I contemplate the consequences I have to fear
f.om scient.e ?-11riefly, Mr. Editor—it was my
fate, for my sins, to be visited by Heaven (N all
matches are made in heaven "1 with a wife ; her
name was Mary ; she is nszra- dead-.4Phaiever is,
rig!:!it
Being myself a dabbler in chemistry, it was my
dear Mary's anxious wish, before :he died,that I should
premise topreserve her body. Upon such a critical oc-
casion as this, I did not hesitate a moment to expe-
dite her happy transit to a better world, by a
sptedy and solemn promise to perform her desire ;
and I now have my MARE isiortuinn, in a vase, as
fresh as when I first courted her, and called her my
biol.*.s atgve fatalism.

My fear.. are then apparent—What if this Profes-
sor, or any of his disciples, should come into our
quarter, and, touching her with his metal, once
more make her my MA Rt; makruar, and overwhelm
me again in a sea of trouits ! This is no trifling ap-
prehension,—frvm experience I spas. And, however
great the utility likely to spring from Galvanism to
mankind, I can never rejoice in it, until I rest as-
sured, that its vivifying powers will not be extended
to my dead stock. Sir, my wife has not less feeling
than a dead horse ! Suppose l►e should set her
i-kicking again ? Mink of that ! and, if you are
vonrself a husband, you have a soul to pity me, and
ill, if possible, endeavour to tranquilize my ter-
rors and alarms. 0. N.
Preaforel, April I'.

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