fhort, he is one of thofe men whom Heaven in a paf fion placed for our use. This man was Paulina's adviser. 66 "I with you to "I understand marry." "But," hefitates Paulina. you a fuitable match, a friend of mine, very rich, a mature and fenfible man, and the beft heart." "But at leaft." "There is no time to be loft; 1 am going to bring him to you." What, without my confent?" Oh, I am fure of that, your eyes give confent. Befides, I anticipated your wifhes, and meant to furprise you. My letter has been gone thefe eight days; he will arrive to-morrow, perhaps to night, and I will bring him to fee you. I am now going to my Notary's.' "But ftay: don't be foolish; at leaft...""Not at all; when I can oblige any body, nothing fhall hinder me;" and away he flies. "He is ridiculous," faid Paulina, "His kind heart mifleads him. I will not marry a man whom I do not know-whom I have not ever feen. ---If he comes here, well and good. But to marry him--- !" In the mean time her kind friend returns. The Gentleman was arrived; he had found him ftepping out of a carriage at Paulina's door." Here he is, here he is!" cried he, on entering. "I am enchanted, all this is my work. You fee, my friend, I did not deceive you! She is charming! And you, Paulina! Look at him! Not very old, yet; nearly fifty, or fo; but upright, a form of iron and a heart above all; ch, he has a heart, like mine, always ready to do good. Come, this is the pleasantest affair I have had on my hands thefe eight days. Here you are; there, embrace her; now embrace him. Let us all embrace, and sign and feal, and go to fupper." Paulina was perfectly well bred; the ftranger was a frank open man, and they foon recovered the embarraffment that this rattle had thrown them into. But what this friendly gentleman could not eafily foresee was, that this future pair feemed at first fight to be pre T MR. EDITOR, NEW TAX. HERE is one article of vaft confumption yet untouched I mean wind; why does not our able Financier tax that? Perhaps he withes to be tender to an article that has entered fo largely into the compofition of all his fpeeches, and in which all his fchemes have ended. But we are too far gone in taxation to omit one that would increase the Revenue as much as moft he has lately propofed; for it is an article in which every body deals more or lefs. I would propofe, therefore, that mafters of fhips take out licences for fair winds, at -per voyage. Boats on the Thames, Scullers, Barges, and Margate Hoys, not to fail before the wind, unless properly qualified. The inhabitants of St. Paul's Church-yard to be affeffed for the additional wind of that place and the exhibitions arifing therefrom. Winds to be differently rated according to their value. Winds, from the North to be put under Mr. Dundas's direction. Loud Winds which are privately difpofed of, to pay ad valorem, and all chinks to be regularly infpected by the Officers of the Excife. A heavy duty on the Wind that blows nobody good, which, perhaps, will fall perfonally on Minifterial quarters. Perfons afflicted with wind to take out permits enabling them to export free of duty. The commiffioners to make their affeffments twice a year, that the public may not evade the Tax, or fhew any backwardnefs in contributing to the defence of focial Order and Religion. I would likewife propofe a tax of ten per cent. upon all windfalls. If these fuggeftions are adopted, I hope they will convince our enemies that our resources are not easily to be exhausted, and that, although we have taxed every thing we can lay our hands upon, there is ftill fomething in the wind." 66 I am, Your humble Servant, EOLUS. P. S. I hope you will infert the above, as a puff for the minifter. Chronicle. The inundation of Sonnets, with which we have been for the laft ten years over-run, has justly made our fentimental Sonnetters objects of ridicule. NEHEMIAH HIGGINBOTTOM, in the Monthly Magazine, imitates their infipidities with good effect in the following fpecimen. SONNETS, ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF COTEMPORARY WRITERS.' SONNET I. PEnfive at eve, on the hard world I mus❜d, And my poor heart was fad: fo at the moon And mus❜d me on those wretch'd ones, who pafs But, alas! Most of MYSELF I thought: when it befel, Chronicle. NEHEMIAH HIGGINBOTTOM. I THE DOMIPHOBIA, OR DREAD OF HOME. SIR, VERY much approve of your allotting a particular part of your Magazine to the valuable purpofes of medical improvement; and what has been already done, will, I hope, lay the foundation of a series of communications, from which physicians may derive great advantage. From entertaining fo high an opinion of this part of your Magazine, I am induced to offer my mite, by contributing a few remarks on a disease, not yet touched upon by your medical correfpondents, but which, by the time this communication will appear, must be pretty well known in most families. It is very prevalent in the months of June and July, is at the height in Auguft, begins to decline in September, and about the end of October generally disappears, though much will depend upon the weather. I am fomewhat at a loss to describe this disorder, because being of a very recent appearance in this country, it has efcaped the attention of Sauvages, Vogel, Cullen, and all our late Nofologifts. It has fome fymptoms peculiar to the class of fevers, and fome to that of inflammations, but it is a difeafe, if I may use the phrafe, fo original, fo much per fe, that we must be content to let it be the root of a peculiar clafs, which may hereafter be divided into fpecies, when the faculty shall have made it more their ftudy. I call it, merely for diftinction's fake, the DOMIPHOBIA, or Dread of Home, which is the principal fymptom; it begins, as I faid before, about the month of June or earlier, for I have at this moment a family under my care, who are dreadfully afflicted with it. The mother, a remarkably healthy looking, and indeed very handfome woman, complains of a wasting of the flesh, want of appetite, liftlefsnefs, and dejection. The two daughters, though poffeffed LI poffeffed of the fineft bloom of complexion, are inclined to confumption, have alfo loft their appetites, and are, to ufe their mother's expreffion, in a very alarming fituation. The fons have various pulmonic fymptoms, fhortnefs of breath, cough, and complain that the fmoke of London entirely disorders them. The husband is the only perfon who has efcaped the disorder, although he feems fo much diftreffed at the fight of his family, that I should not wonder if he caught it from them. Every medicine I have prefcribed, has failed in its operation. Indeed, I must confefs, that this is one of thofe diforders, in which we are not to expect a cure from chemicals or Galenicals. On the contrary, if we leave nature to perform her work, a cure is immediately found, for nature suggests to the patients, from the very first attack of the disease, that it can be relieved only by a jaunt to a WATERING PLACE. And hence a very expert practitioner in my neighbourhood, chooses to call it the Hydro-mania; but I apprehend he is miftaken, for I never knew a patient more attached to water when abroad, than when at home. There certainly, however, are fymptoms, which indicate a mania of fome kind or other; but fo imperfect is our knowledge of maniacal cases, that I can derive no information from books. ARNOLD does not mention it in his last edition, although probably he may in the next, for which I am told he is preparing materials. Befides, I confefs, that I am not very partial to increafing our catalogues of manias. So many things might be brought under this title, that a general hiftory of madnefs would, I am afraid be as comprehenfive as the Annual Register, or any other work which profeffed to record the actions of man; but this is a digreffion. It is peculiar to the diforder I am now speaking of, that the fymptoms of it never appear, when the patients are by themselves: the prefence however, of a stranger, or a party of strangers, never fails to bring on |