'trate, who ordered the father and his accomplices to be seized. Impromptu, on a lovely Mother kissing her Child. While Fanny kiss'd her infant child "You bite my lip," she cry'd, "my dear." A remarkable Cure of Delirium by Music.—A famous musician, a great composer, was seized with a fever, which having increased daily, became continued. On the seventh day he fell into a very violent delirium, accompanied with shrieks, tears, panics, and a perpetual wakefulness, almost without any intermission. On the third day of his delirium, one of those natural instincts which, it is said, make the brute animals when sick to seek the herbs that are proper for them, made him ask to hear a little concert in his chamber. It was with great difficulty that his physician consented to it. From the first tunes he heard, his countenance assumed a serene air, his eyes were no longer wild, the convulsions ceased absolutely, he shed tears of pleasure, and had then for music a sensibility, that he never had before, nor hath' any longer now he is recovered. He was free from the fever during the whole concert, and as soon as it was finished, he relapsed into his former condition. Upon this they did not fail to continue the use of a remedy, whose success had been so unforeseen, and so happy; the fever and delirium were always suspended during the concerts, and music was become so necessary to the patient, that at night he made a kinswoman that waked with him to sing, and even to dance. One night particularly, when he had nobody with him but his nurse, who could sing nothing but a vile ballad, he was obliged to be content with that, and found some benefit from it. At length, in ten days, music had entirely cured him, without any other aid than that of bleeding him in the foot, which was the second time of his being blooded, and was followed by a large evacuation. Mr. Dodart related this history, into the truth of which he had carefully examined: he did not mean that it could serve for an example, or a rule; but it is curious enough to see how in a man, whose very soul, as one may say, was become music, by a long and continual habitude, concerts had restored by degrees to the animal spirits their natural course. It is not probable that a painter could be cured in like manner by paintings; painting hath not the same power as music on the motion of the animal spirits, and no other art probably can equal it in this point. It is with great pleasure we inform the public, that the counterpane and curtains of the royal cradle, used at the christening of the young Prince, the Duke of Gloucester, on Wednesday last at St. James's, were white satin, bordered with gold fringe, and enriched with needle-work, representing natural flowers, in so lively, so elegant, and exquisite a taste, both with regard to the design and the execution, that it was allowed, by the best judges, and all who had seen the choicest cabinets abroad, to be a matchless performance in painting, as far excelling every thing of the kind that this or any other nation had produced. It was presented to her Majesty by a country woman of our own, as a specimen of the English taste in original design, and a new species of painting brought by her to such a degree of perfection; and met with a most gracious reception from their Majesties, and the highest approbation of the Queen, who ordered it immediately to be applied to the purpose for which it was intended, in honour of the English taste; and took great pleasure in pointing out its peculiar lustre and brilliancy of colouring; and in expressing how much she was charmed with it, and obliged by having an opportunity given her, on so tender an occasion, of shewing her partiality to the English; in which her Majesty manifested her sincerity, by earnestly addressing herself to a foreign Minister who stood near her, and saying, "Regard me, Sir, they can shew us nothing like this in France." A gentleman who lately passed through Camelford, in Cornwall, informs us, that he saw wrote upon a sign in that town, "John Wilson, liveth here, selleth good ale and beer, bird-cage maker, and wire-drawer; sells cakes and lozenges, mousetraps, and other sweetmeats. N. B. Phlebotomy practiced here ;" and in St. Giles's there is a house with a sign, which says, "An ordinary every Sunday in the week." A remarkable case of a man born deaf, from the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Mr. Felibien, a member of the academy of inscriptions, hath sent an account to the academy of sciences, of a singular event, perhaps never before heard of, that hath just happened at Chartres. " A young man, between 23 and 24 years old, a tradesman's son, deaf and dumb from his birth, began all of a sudden to speak, to the great amazement of the whole town. They learnt from him that three or four months before, he had heard the sound of the bells, and had been extremely surprized at this new and unknown sensation. After this there had come away a kind of water from his left ear, and he heard perfectly with both ears: he continued those three or four months to listen without saying any thing, accustoming himself to repeat aside, the words that he heard, and confirming himself in the pronunciation and in the ideas affixed to the words. At length he thought himself in a condition to break silence, and he made known that he spoke, though it was yet but very imperfectly. Able divines soon enquired of him concerning his past state, and their principal questions were concerning God, the soul, and the moral good and evil of actions: he did not appear to have carried his thoughts so far; although he was born of catholic parents, was used to be present at mass, was instructed to make the sign of the cross, and to kneel with.the countenance of a man at devotion, he had never joined to all that any intention, nor comprehended what others joined to it; he did not very distinctly know what death was, and had never reflected· on it; he led a life purely animal, entirely taken up with those objects that immediately struck his senses, and with the few ideas that he received by his eyes; he did not even infer, from the comparing those ideas, all that one would think he might have inferred. This is not owing to his not having naturally a good understanding; but the understanding of a man, deprived of the commerce of others, is so little exercised, and so little cultivated, that he thinks no more than what he is indispensably forced to by external objects; the great fund of the ideas of men is in their reciprocal commerce. Remarkable Customs of the Spaniards.-1. In Spain nobody is allowed to mount a horse, which has once been ridden by the King. 2. A woman, who has been mistress to the King, |