perfons are actuated purely by a spirit of malice or envy, the infeparable attendants on fhining merit and parts, fuch as I have always esteemed yours to be. It may, perhaps, be looked upon as a kind of violence to modefty, to fay this tó you in public; but you may believe me, it is no more than I have a thousand times thought of you in private. Might I follow the impulfe of my foul, there is no fubject I could launch into with more pleasure than your panegyrick: But fince fomething is due to modefty, let me conclude by telling you, that there is nothing I fo much defire as to know you more thoroughly than I have yet the happiness of doing. I may then hope to be capable to do you some real service; but, till then, can only affure you, that I fhall continue to be, as I am more than any man alive, N°.11. Dearest SIR, Your affectionate Friend, and Tuesday, March 24, 1713. Dum doceo infanire omnes, vos ordine adite. SIR, A S Hor. Sat. iii. lib. ii. ver. 8o. To the GUARDIAN. you profess to encourage all thofe who any way contribute to the Public Good, "I flatter myself I may claim your Countenance "and Protection. I am by Profeffion a Mad"Doctor, but of a peculiar kind, not of those "whofe Aim it is to remove Phrenzies, but "one who make it my Bufinefs to confer an agreeable Madness on my Fellow-Creatures, "for their mutual Delight and Benefit. Since "it is agreed by the Philofophers, that Happinefs and Mifery confift chiefly in the Imagination, nothing is more neceffary to Mankind " in general than this pleafing Delirium, which "renders every one fatisfied with himself, and perfuades him that all others are equally fo. "I have for feveral Years, both at home and "abroad, made this Science my particular Study, which I may venture to fay I have improved "in almost all the Courts of Europe; and have reduced it into fo fafe and eafy a Method, as to "practise it on both Sexes, of what Difpofition, Age, or Quality foever, with Succefs. What 66 66 66 66 enables me to perform this great work, is the "ufe of my Obfequium Catholicon, or the Grand "Elixir, to fupport the Spirits of human Na"ture. This Remedy is of the most grateful "Flavour in the World, and agrees with all "Taftes whatever. It is delicate to the Senfes, delightful in the Operation, may be taken at "all Hours without Confinement, and is as properly given at a Ball or Playhouse as in a pri"vate Chamber. It reftores and vivifies the "most dejected Minds, corrects and extracts all "that is painful in the Knowledge of a Man's "felf. One Dose of it will instantly difperfe 66 "itself through the whole Animal System, diffipate the first Motions of Diftruft, so as never "to return, and fo exhilarate the Brain, and rarify the Gloom of Reflection, as to give the "Patients a new flow of Spirits, a Vivacity of "Behaviour, and a pleafing Dependence upon "their own Capacities. "Let a Perfon be never fo far gone, I advise "him not to despair; even though he has been "troubled many Years with reftlefs Reflections, " which by long Neglect have hardened into "fettled Confideration. Those that have been ftung with Satire, may here find a certain An"tidote, which infallibly disperses all the Re"mains of Poifon that has been left in the Un 66 derstanding by bad Cures. It fortifies the "Heart against the Rancour of Pamphlets, the "Inveteracy of Epigrams, and the Mortifica❝tion of Lampoons; as has been often expe"rienced by feveral perfons of both Sexes, during the Seasons of Tunbridge and the Bath. "I could, as further Inftances of my Succefs, produce Certificates and Testimonials from "the Favourites and Ghoftly Fathers of the "most eminent Princes of Europe; but fhall " content myself with the Mention of a few "Cures, which I have performed by this my "Grand Univerfal Reftorative, during the Practice of one Month only fince I came to ❝ this City, Cures in the Month of February, 1713. George Spondee, Efq; Poet, and Inmate of "the Parish of St. Paul's Covent-Garden, fell "into violent Fits of the Spleen upon a thin "Third Night. He had been frighted into a 66 Vertigo by the Sound of Cat-calls on the First Day; and the frequent Hiffings on the Se"cond made him unable to endure the bare "Pronunciation of the Letter S. I fearched "into the Causes of his Diftemper; and by the Prescription of a Dofe of my Obfequium, prepared fecundum Artem, recovered him to his "natural State of Madness. I caft in at proper "Intervals the Words, Ill Taste of the Town, Envy of Critics, Bad Performance of the Actors, " and the like. He is fo perfectly cured, that he has promised to bring another Play upon "the Stage next Winter. 66 "A Lady of profeffed Virtue of the Parish "of St. James's Westminster, who hath desired her Name may be concealed, having taken "Offence at a Phrase of double Meaning in "Conversation, undiscovered by any other in "the Company, fuddenly fell into a cold Fit of Modefty, Upon a right Application of Praise ❝ of her Virtue, I threw the Lady into an agree"able waking Dream, fettled the Fermentation "of her Blood into a warm Charity, fo as to "make her look with Patience on the very Gen"tleman that offended. Hilaria, of the Parish of St. Giles's in the "Fields, a Coquette of long Practice, was, by "the Reprimand of an old Maiden, reduced to "look grave in Company, and deny herself the Play of the Fan. In fhort, fhe was brought "to fuch melancholy Circumstances, that she "would fometimes unawares fall into Devotion "at Church. I advised her to take a few inno"cent Freedoms with occafional Kiffes, prescribed "her the Exercife of the Eyes, and immediately "raifed her to her former State of Life. She " on a fudden recovered her Dimples, furled "her Fan, threw round her Glances, and for "these two Sundays laft paft has not once been "feen in an attentive Posture. This the Church"Wardens are ready to attest upon Oath. "Andrew Terror, of the Middle-Temple, "Mohock, was almoft induced by an aged "Bencher of the fame Houfe, to leave off bright Converfation, and pore over Coke upon Littleton. He was fo ill, that his Hat began "to flap, and he was feen one Day in the last "Term at Westminster-Hall. This Patient had "quite loft his Spirit of Contradiction; I, by "the Distillation of a few of my vivifying Drops "in his Ear, drew him from his Lethargy, and "reftored him to his ufual vivacious Mifunderftanding. He is at prefent very easy in his "Condition. "I will not dwell upon the Recital of the ❝innumerable Cures I have performed within "Twenty Days laft paft; but rather proceed to "exhort all Perfons, of whatever Age, Complexion, or Quality, to take as foon as pofible of this my intellectual Oil; which ap |