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IBEG leave to inform you that ever since the
year 1796, I had been afflicted with the Imes Veiterea;
which, from its obstinately resisting-every course ut medicine
prescribed by the-most eminent of the'faculty here, and un-
dergoing severalsevcre courses of saliVation, and twice dis-
charged frOm the Hospital with littli• relief, would appear to
he of, t kerpost inveterate nature. In the spritig of last year
my disorge:r had.got to such a head, as nearly to put a period
to.myexistenct:74 hada large 'Ulcer on the crown of my head,
one on each arm, and my legs were broke out in a frightful
manner; my right was dreadfully painful, and had been in a
state of ulceration for the last seven years; my left had also
two large nodes on it, was very much discoloured, and gave
me such excruciating pain, particularly when warns in bed,
as nearly to deprive use of rest is this lamentable state, I
was,recommended by Mr. J. Thompson, (who received so
great a.cure by them here), to take your Leake's Patent Pills,
'which I began .• &on the 2talk of 'lay; in the coarse of a
fOrtnight I began to receive IseneSt ^in little more than a
month the ulcers on my head and anus weresuulidly healed—.
soon aftcr, the sores ass my legs healed also; leaving, how-
ever, considerable disetilostration in the 'skin, and pain in the
bone of the left, which, by the blessing of Gnd, mist a little
longer perseverance in your invaluable Medicine, sultsded ;
the nodes' dispersing., the skin regaiaing its-natural hue, and
the nocturnal pains gradually going roil.—l thus became, by
your liberal advice and mediciue, perfectly free front ail use
former camplaintsr-have recovered my former spirits
strength, and am become jolly ;asstil fat, in which state having
continued many months, to the astossishment of all wlio knew
ale, I 'ant at a loss in what tesins to express my gratitude, but
beg yon;.for the good of other suffering mortals; to make
this my case as public as possible, as I, shall on every occa-
ion ; in so doing you will greatly oblige,
Sir, your I, obedient, very humble servant,
ALEX. Al UKKER
Swan's Close, High-street, Edinburgh.
Wanesses to the above Cure :
John

Tb•Nospson, No. 3, New• Poultry Market, Edinburgh,
John Mgotosh, Old Assembly Close, Ediublirgh.
Preparednnd sold by the stile Proprietor, momAs TAY-
LOtt, Menitter of the Royal Cellege of Surgeons., at his
Morse-, No. 9, New Bridge-street,
.Loudon; where, after a
constant residence of more than 40 years, in a- practice parti-
cularly directed to-the cure of Venereal
.Coarplaints and those
incidental to the Parts of Generation, with that inviolable
secrecy which fliers of his profess' should always obserre in
such cases, he Hatters, himself the advice• and assistance he
tratuitously•administers to persons taking this Medicine, will
heestccuied, by a discerning Public, as an advat tage seldom
attainable, and void of all ambit;
Also sold, by hivappoint iment, for the convenience of tiros.
living at: a distance, at the "loyshop, No. 103, Oxford-street ;
Mr. Dishorough's, No. 7, Nish-street-hill; Mr. Baxter*,
South-bridge, Edinburgh ; Dublin ; and by
one person 'bravery considerable town in Great Britain and
Ireland, Ist boxes of only is. 9d. each, stamped, and sealed up
with full and plain - directions, whereby persons, of eithe
sex may cure t hernselvos with ease, spied, resit cy, And safety'.

It hi not to be denied, that danger may arise from a system
designed and calculated..for.the benefit. and :improvement of
the people, I mean the system of general education. We
kunst 'keep in memory that " knowledge is power," a power,
which, 'unless- duly. regulated, is'as -dangerous as the great
natural powers of fire and steam. We are rendering
.the
rising generation of the pour learned above their superiors
in the principles of correct Orthoepy and in grammatical
snlitilties, but unless this system produce amelioration of
Morals, increase of loyalty, and a firmer oust:hi:tient to our
venerable Establishment, the design of its encouragers will
be disappointed: if education only teaches the pour to
aspire to the luxuries of the rich, to burlesque and vilify the
oracles of our holy religion, and to mix all things sacred and
.profane, it were better they remained in honest aid untutor-
ed ignorance. It will be .a work worthy your care Lt. root out
of the new tilled soil the evil weeds which. will spring up so
plentifully, and to plant and cherish the goodly plants of con-
tentment, loyalty, and suburdination; to give them just, views
of our excellent Constitution, to point out to them the fitness
and connection of all its parts, to insist Ull the dangers of in-
novation,.and to deduce our .pi esent prosperity irons our ad•
heretics to the policy of Pitt.
The periodical return of this festive day serves tokeep alive
the memory of our great Statesman, and our meeting is, as it
were, a pledge which we annually iuterclurogeillat we retitaiflo
true to our pcofefsion. We, indeed, who have traced his
steps ihrhog,heut his patriotic ;career, who have beetreye-
witnesses of his greatness, who have listened.withatuasciurut
to the tiounder of his eloquence, when he denounced foreign
ambition, uo masked domestic treason, and held up to just in-
digikation insidious .attacks . upon the constitution, need no
incentives to perseverance. But, Gentlemen, in a few years
history will be the only record of his greatness; men are apt
to be guided by any.popular demagogue of the day, and their
own crude potions of things, rather than by the experience of
former ages ; having then a guide on whom we. can depend,
let us hold up the example of Pitt to the imitation of future
statesmeu, and as air authority to which our posterity, in
cases of dosbtful policy, may with safet) refer.
Wilitical difference is much softened amongst us; it now
seldom descends to . violent animosity and -personal alterca-
tion ; the wise and the good all profess.tlteir admiration of the
British Constitution, but we are divided about the, means of
giving it the most salutary operation ; souse pretend they
perceive many defects, which they believe maybe amended by
reforru ; but we fear lest the timid of reform should tear its
present beauties; they rest Otis cause on delusive theory add
vain notions of-political,perfeCtiltility„ we rest ours .on bone
facial and practical experience; some again are well ,inclined
towat ds the slate, but they have littleatlection fur the church;
yet the state alone is nut .the,Coustitution ; the Constitetten
which (ove cherish, and willdefend, is the Constitution as esta-
blished-its Church and State. Pitt wanted not the will to cor-
sect the incongruities, and to amend the flaws of our Consti-
tution, but after:long and mature attention to the subject he
could not, fluid the remedy; yet for the disease which baffled
.his skill and experience, unfledged senators amid village puli7
ticians have a grand panacea in :Parliamentary Reform.
Gentlemen, we approach the critical period of a General
Election ; already the Reformists are demanding ple,loges
the Candidates for their suffrages that they will support tlt, 'or
views. I wish not.to. raise. the war-cry.; but surely I le..y
take that liberty in exhorting you to protect and le esrrve tee
gooduld.fabric of our Constitution which they do in eallihg
forth the Pioneers of, Reform to. pull down mad destroy it.--
If you require pledges of the Candidates fur seats in Parlia-
ment, let them be pledges that they will prcserve the C 011.•
stitutiou iuvinlable, that.they will not remove the fences set
up by the wisdom of our. ancestors for its protection, thattiiey
will support those wholesome laws which bind a'ur ciramerce,
under which this-country has flourished, which had the he al
support of Pitt, and: which the economists of the'day would
remove and subvert.

I only beg leave to add my tribute of gratitude to the ilia's-
trious head, o& the Government, and to those 'Ministers win.,
by perseverance in the hue of policy pointed out by kilt, lad% c
saved our Country. They have bad an arduous task to per-
form ; it has been impossible fur them to keep pate with our
sanguine expectations in easing the burthen of the. Country,
angiving immediate elfect to the relations of peace ; but
they have at length placed us in a state of prosperity : let
theniTersevere in their course, and they will deserve and re-
ceive the support of the Country. Believing that our pros-
perity depends Upon close adherence to this hue of policy,
propose the toast,
_

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.6 May the pripciples of the immortal Pitt ever animate the
Councils of tirrat Britain."

CA'letter was read from the Noble President of the Chib,
(Lord Laseelles) expresing, his rezre, that, in cunivtiai•nce
a his Parliasueutary duties, he canna nut:►ttcud the Meeting.)