our guilt, and by a ftedfaft refolution of beginning and continuing to act vigorously against all fuch practices in the current and every future year. If therefore any thing was done last year, which we could now with undone, or any thing omitted, which ought to have been done; we doubt not but these mistakes will be rectified, and that other measures will be pursued for the future. I cannot difmifs this paper without recommending to my countrymen to perfevere, however, in what they know to be right, legal and conftitutional; to view with a jealous eye every the fmallest infringement upon their rights and liberties; to remember that pofterity demands at their hands the laws and prerogatives of their progenitors, uncorrupted, unalloyed; for as they were our birth-right, fo are they our fons juft inheritance. Laftly, my countrymen, as it hath pleafed God to bless us with a prince of the moft confummate wisdom, juftice, and resolution, let us make it our conftant prayer to the Omnipotent Being, that he will vouchfafe to confound the devices of all his open and fecret enemies; that he will endue the hearts of his counsellors with probity and wif dom; and that this year may clofe with a general coalition of all parties, where by we may once more become an united, great, and formidable people. I am, Sir, &c. An ENGLISHMAN. An Account of the Trip to Scotland, a new dramatic Piece of two hats, which was performed, for the first Time, on Saturday, January 6, at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. PERSONS REPRESE NTED. Mr. Grifkin, an old Mr. Parsons. Citizen, Jeminy Twinkle Tom Southerton, The Waiter, Mr. Brereton. Mr. Palmer. Mr. Booth. Cupid, in the charac-Mafter Cape. ter of a poft-boy, Mifs Grifkin, Mifs Pope. Travellers, Waiters, &c. SCENE, During the first act, lies in London; during the fecond alt in YorkShire. HE Prologue of this little piece is a Poft-chaife boy, in which a fimilitude is drawn between his whip, his fpurs, his shoulder-knot, and the bow, arrows, and wings of the God of Love. After fome lively ftrokes upon the prefent fashionable mode of eloping to Scotland, he retires, and the comedy comniences with a fcene betwixt Grifkin and his housekeeper, Mrs. Fillagree, whom he calls to a very fevere account for having fuffered - Jemmy Twinkle, a young City-Buck, to make love to his niece, and run away with her, as there is great reafon to fuppofe he has, down to Edinburgh. Mrs. Fillagree endeavours to vindicate herfelf with great fpirit, but the old man is by no means fatisfied, and having determined to purfue the fugitive lovers, goes out to befpeak a poft-chaife for that purpose. His housekeeper then introduces Mifs Grifkin and Jemmy, who were concealed in an adjacent apartment, and tells them they have no time to lofe; that her old mafter will never be able to overtake them; but if there should be the leaft likelihood of his doing fo, the will hire the poft-boy to overturn him. Mifs, who feems very melancholy, with great reluctance at length confents to the repeated requests of her lover, who ardent paffion, and they go off together in order to undertake their matrimonial expedition. Old Griskin directly returns, and fays he has found out the rout his niece has taken, for that four or five couple went off poft that morning for Scotland; and that by the defcription, Jemmy Twinkle and Mifs Grifkin must be among them; be therefore defires his housekeeper to get herfelf ready and go with him in order to recover the young lady. Mrs. Filagree, "who appears to have a design upon Account of the Trip to Scotland. upon her mafter, feems startled at this request, and gives feveral hints that the thall lofe her character by accompanying him on the journey; and that the family of the Flacks, their near neighbours, of whom they seem to ftand in great awe, will certainly propagate a terrible ftory upon the occafion. Grifkin, however, at last gets the better of her fcruples, and after mutual compliments they retire to prepare for their expedition. Cupid then appears as the chorus, and acquaints the audience, that they are to imagine the lovers had fucceeded according to their warmeft wishes, at Edinburgh; that he hopes they will not expect a critical adherence to the rules of the drama, but suffer him to annihilate time and place, and then fuppofe the scene to be at an inn in York hire. The infide of a public houfe is immediately difcovered, with a view of the bar, ftair-cafe, and different apartments. A great noife is heard among the fervants, and the landlady enters, rings the bell with great fury, and exprefles the fatigue the is continually obliged to undergo in confequence of the numerous matrimonial trips to Scotland. Several travellers are introduced by the waiters, and accommodated according to their defires. Mifs Grifkin (now Mrs. Twinkle) at length appears in great fpirits, and tells the Landlady he is quite another thing fince her wedding, and that if he was to be married fifty times, the would, from the many agreeable circumstances the met with upon the journey, make all her lovers run away with her to Scotland, After fome time her husband arrives, counting his money, and calculating his expences, in a very fullen humour, and feems to be very infenble of the affiduities of his new wife, who accufes him of coldness, and declares her difappointment at his not acting confiftent with his profeffions to her during his courtfhip, when he wrote the verfes on her first appearance at Haberdafhers' Hall, and the lines on her biting a finger off her glove at the White Conduit Houfe. Matters, however, are prefently reconciled, and the young couple retire in good humour to their apartment. 279 A violent disturbance next enfues, which greatly alarms the guests. This is occafioned by old Grifkin's putting up at the inn, which he infift's upon fearching from top to bottom, in order to find his niece. After fome oppotition from the Landlady and Mrs. Fillagree, who declares the is unable to travel any farther, he begins to be in tolerable good humour, and agrees to lie there that night. Upon the Landlady, who fuppofes them man and wife, enquiring whether they chufe to lie in one bed, Mrs. Fillagree is thrown into great distress with refpect to the injury her character will fuftain from her attending Grifkin upon his journey, and is not at all fatisfied until the is affured the shall have a bed, at least fix chambers diftant from that in which her master is to fleep. On their going off, the waiter enters, and acquaints his mistress that the young couple have been detected by the old gentleman, and that very difagreeable confequences are likely to enfue. The fcene foon after draws, and difcovers Grifkin, Fillagree, Mifs Grifkin, and Jemmy Twinkle; the lovers fall on their knees, and the old man feems inclined to forgive them, but is restrained by the idea of what the world, particularly the family of the Flacks, will fay of his conduct. At this inftant a number of people, preceded by Dolly Flack, who seems in great diftrefs, enter the room: Dolly intreats Grifkin to compaffionate her misfortunes, which, fhe fays, have been occafioned by her eloping from her father and mother, in order to marry a young fellow at Edinburgh, who even now, before half their journey was accomplished, treats her with the most cruel indifference. Upon Grifkin's enquiring into the cause of this uncommon behaviour, Tom Southerton, the young man, tells him, that, being a trolling player by profeffion, he came up to London in order to be engaged at one of the Theatres, but having been difappointed in his profpects, he. flattered himself a marriage with Mits Flack would repay him for all his trouble, efpecially as one of his friends affured him, the had ten thousand pounds in her own poffeffion; that upon this hint, hint, he spake, and found the Lady, from her violent paffion for romance, very ready to acquiefce with his propofals; that they fet out from London in high fpirits, but, before they had reached York, an exprefs was fent from Southerton's friend, affuring him Mifs Flack's fortune entirely depended on the will of a grand-mother and two maiden aunts; that as he was too honeft to make the young Lady a beggar, as well as himself, he was determined to break off the match, and hoped by fuch proceeding his conduct would be applauded rather than blamed. Grifkin, overjoyed to find that the family of the Flacks had no right to accufe him with the mifconduct of his niece, gives his bleffing to her and her hufband, undertakes to reconcile Dolly Flack to her parents, and fignifies his defire to enter into a matrimonial union with Mrs. Fillagree. Cupid then concludes the piece with recommending to all young ladies, to think seriously before they venture upon marriage, to take no forward fteps, but -Adopt their parents plan, A Medicine for infected Cattle, with Directions how to treat them. HEN fymptoms of the diftemper moment, but put them into a warm houfe, and the warmer they are kept the better; then bleed them in the neck vein, taking from each beast two quarts of blood; about half an hour afterwards give the following drink: Take a gallon of old human urine, if a fortnight old the better; put in ten handfuls of hens dung; after ten hours fteeping strain it off, and give to each beast a pint and a half of it, throwing into each drink a good handful of rue bruifed. If one drink should not vifibly abate the distemper after one or two days interval, bleed again, and give fafting the fame quantity of the above medicine as before. They thould have nothing to eat or drink after the first medicine for twenty hours; nor after the second under at least fix; then give to each beast a gallon of milk-porridge made of barley flour, which you may give morning and evening; but if the beaft purges, make your porridge with old bean flour, and do not give more than two or three quarts at a time, in which fhould be put two or three spoon kept by all means from water during the whole time of their illness. 'Tis thought beft not to give any hay till they are enough recovered to chew the cud, and not to turn them out too foon, and then gradually. By way of prevention, take about two quarts of blood from each found beaft; then give a pint of the above medicine, keeping them from eating or drinking for twe hours. This should be repeated for a week or ten days, efpecially if there is any fufpicion of freth infection. The drink must be given fafting. This medicine was attended with much fuccefs fome years paft on Mr. Grenville's eftate in Bucks, in variety of inftances, upon infected cattle; and was not known to fail when used by way of prevention in a cafe where the infection had begun to appear. Every one who reads it will acknowledge it may be given with the utmost safety; and it was obferved that cattle throve much better after it. To the EDITOR of the OXFORD MAGAZINE. SIR, HAVE taken the liberty to fend you a drawing, which I call The Sleepy Shepherd. I think it is whimfical, and may perhaps be agreeable to your readers. It is, however, at your fervice, if you think proper to infert it. I am, Sir, your obedient fervant, S. L. POETICAL |