VIEW OF SOUTHGATE, GREAT YARMOUTH. Take the herb called Red Chick. weed when ripe and in full bloom; ga ther and dry it in the fade-reduce it to a powder-give a small table fpoon ful to a grown perfon, in beer or water, or spread on bread with butter, honey, or molaffes, the weight whereof thould be one drachm and one fcruple, and the fame dofe for a child; but to fuch it mut be administered at three equal dotes during the day. A decoction of the juice of this herb fhould, be used to wash the wound, and a poultice thereof conftantly kept to it. The herb, in a green ftate, is beft for this ufe. If the wound fhould be healed, a blitter muft be applied before the Chickweed can externally be used. This plant is known in Switzerland and Germany by the name of Bouchheilrothermeyer, or Rother-huner-darm; in England, Red Pimpernel, or red Chickweed; and by Botanists, it is called Anagallis Arvenfis-var. phænic. flor.—Common red Pimpernel, I fhall now state what came under my own obfervation, as to the effect of the medicine. In the month of June, 18c2, a negro woman, and fix children, were bit by a fmall dog of their own, which was immediately killed. No fears were entertained that the dog was mad, until about five or fix weeks, when the mother was feized with the bydrophobia. The malady had gained a contiderable length, before medical affistance was called in to her aid. Doctors Hall, fen. and jun. in my prefence administered to her the Pimpernel, at which time the fight of water threw her into convulsions. In two hours I again faw the dofe repeated; and foon after, at her own request, water was brought her; although he could not rate it, yet he was able to look ar, and dip her hand into it, without any bad effect. She described the effect of the medicine foon after taking it, as fire running through her veins and her back. She declared herself much better before we left her, was fenfible of her fituation, and, in her lucid inter-, vals, requested to be fecured before a fit came on. We were much furprifed next morning to find her dead. Her attendants laid the was fuffocated in a fit; but there were frong circumftances to fupport a bel ef, that they had finothered her. The children were immediately attended to, and Pimpernel administered with effect, as not one of them, during the three years I remained in America, fhowed any fymptoms of the complaint. There were four or five other cafes in my neighbou hood, of verfons and cattle bit the fame year: all the latter died mad; while the former, who used the Pimpernel, were faved; one of whom was a negro man of my own. Dator Archer was the Physician who attended in thefe latter cafes, and, I believe, administered Mercury, in addition to the Chickweed. As I mentioned to you before, I found this plant growing about Belfast, and I find it alto about this town (Moira), and have no doubt it may generally be obtained in rich lands. You are at liberty to make any ufe you think proper of this let ter. YARMOUTH, NORFOLK. [WITH A VIEW.] THE object to which by this fort defcription we mean to direct the attention of the reader, is the view of the North Gate, &c. of that ancient and opulent Sea-port and Borough town YARMOUTH, in the County of Norfolk; a place, that by the adventurous indultry of its inhabitants, at a very early period of our history, was confidered as a ficit rate fishing port, and which till retams that honourable diftinction. To this diftin&ion its foundation on a peninfula near the confiance of the three rivers, the Yare, the Waveney, and the Thyrne, has greatly contributed. Thefe rivers being navig ble many miles up the country, give to the town all the advantages of in!-n1 navigation, while they receive from it all the accommodations of a Port. The fituation of this place at the eastern extremity of the county of Norfolk, firit attracted the notice of the Romans, who here established a marine Ration, which they called Garionum, and retained for autical purpores, until they withdrew their fleets trom the island. They had another Aation at CASTOR, (DOW termed Caifter,) where they founded a permanent camp, of which the vertiges are still to be traced *. It * Bishop Gibson, in his ann tations on Camden, fays, "At a ittle da ce ealtward" (of Yarmouth) "is Caftor, the famous Roman camp, which agrees exactly It is a curious circumftance, that all the materials of the gate that is the fubject of the view, are the fame as thofe which the learned Prelate mentions in the note; i. e. flints and large bricks: thefe render it certain that there was a Roman fortification at Yarmouth, fimilar to that at Caifler; and that the prefent walls, gates, &c. were raised from its ruins. The Church, the fpire of which appears in the view, is a very large and stately pile. It was built by Herbert, Bishop of Norwich, and dedicated to St. Nicholas. By a fingular perverfion in optics, this fpire, which is 186 feet high, feems in every point of view crooked. It is, as a fea-mark, of very great importance, as it is viable to thole that traverfe the German Ocean at a very confiderable distance. The failors, who have afloat a peculiar kind of wit, when they pais Yarmouth and obferve the contortion of its (pire, jocularly remark, that there never was but one virtuous woman married at St. Nicholas, and that therefore the Saint, truck with the fingularity of the circumstance, ordered his fpire to compliment her with a bow; but that the tubborn fpire, unuted to fuch effort of politenes, as he reluctantly obeyed, has been condemned ever fince to retain his fpinal curvation. Whether with respect to the virtue of their female acquaintance, for it is merely to them we fuppofe that the failors allude, they are correct, their experience only can determine. So early as the beginning of the Jait century, it was calculated that the church would not contain one third of the inhabitants of Yarmouth; therefore, in the year 1717, a beautiful chapel was erected near the centre of the town,and dedicated to St. George. Though we have little to do with more of this town than appears in the plate, we cannot help remarking, that norwithstanding many years have elapf ed, we remember there is fomething exactly with the defcription given by Polybius Vegetius, and others, concerning the ancient way of encampment. The faces of the four gates are fill manifestly to be feen: the Porta Prætoria looked toward the calt, oppofite to which (without the Porta Decumania, ard clote by the river's fide,) there till remains fome ruins of a tower. The walls enclofing the camp were of flint and very Large bricks."--Gibson, Camd. Brit.p.395. extremely fingular in its ichnography. The market-place, wherein is fituated the two capital inns, viz. opposite the beach, the Angel; and near the gate which we have exhibited, the Wielers, has, besides, a long range of thops, fome of which are very elegant. The quay on the other fide tretches along the bank of the river, and is, from its being adorned with a number of hand fome houses, the aflembly rooms, &c. an agreeable walk. A communication betwixt these parts of the town is effected by narrow lanes, called rows, of which there are faid to be 156 interfecting the four principal ftreets*. These places, dark, dirty, and dangerous, are renderedt till more inconvenient by the constant paffage of a number of machines, drawn by one horfe, which, when used for commercial purposes, are called YARMOUTH CARTS; and when of a more elegant conftruction, and employed for pleasurable excurfions, Yarmouth coaches; though we muit obierve, that the pleasure of riding in one of thefe, to Caister for instance, is, from circumfances, an enjoyment too exquifite to be defired twice. The fuperiori of the herring fishery of this town is generally acknow ledged: its mackerel fishery in the feafon, and the cod fishery in the North Sea, have been frequently mentioned: the opulence of its merchants denotes the importance of its commerce. During the prevailing influence of the falt water mania, Yarmouth hás defervedly been distinguished by a confiderable influx of elegant company, who refort to it every feafon, to be dipped. As, for this purpofe, the BATH is convenient, fo are the machines commodious. It is here unneceffary to defcribe the Theatre,the rooms, and other accommodations; they are lo well known, that merely to itate, that as a bathing place, whether to falubrity or pleasure, it poffelles attractions that fail to the lot of few of its rivals, is making its due eulogium in one 'entence. M. * The plan of freets interfecting each ether at right angles, has been always commended This was the ichnography of ancient Babylon; but fuch angles, which certainly are not right, as are to be found at Yarmouth, it would take all the languages of Babel to defcribe, and all the ingenuity of the Chaldean Susveyors to reduce to rule. VESTIGES, collected and recollected. By JOSEPH MOSER, Efq. No. LII. A PHILOSOPHICAL AND MORAL VIEW OF ANCIENT AND MODERN LONDON. WITH NOTES, &c. Chapter XVII. WE concluded our laft Chapter with briefly hinting at fome of the difficulties that the commercial interest of the metropolis had to ftruggle against, when opposed to the overbearing and almolt omnipotent power of the landed intereft of the whole kingdom; and although the period was not precifely marked, we would have it understood that we alluded to the ftate of things at the clofe of the fourteenth century. It is now, therefore, proper to record an event that gave to trade new energy, opened to it a more extended fcene, transfufed into its vitals a more animating warmth, and into its manufacturing branches a wider diffufed circulation, while it gave to the mercantile character in this country that ftimulus which, in procefs of time, elevated it to that eminence whereon it is now fo firmly established. This event was the difcovery of America, and the confequent transportation of the fplendid produce of its mines, through the medium of Spain, to the treafuries of the other European nations: an event From the year 1493, when the abundant treasures of the New World first began to pour into the lap of the Old, to the year 1724, Caftariz, a modern Spanish author, writes, that the gold and filver brought into Spain amounted to five thousand millions of dollars, or pieces of eight; being, on a medium, twenty-one millions yearly, or more than five millions ferling. We are not fince 1724 furnished with a correct calculation of the annual importation of the precious metals; but in confequence of the neceffities of the parent country, it is faid to have very confiderably increased: it has been afferted to have doubled; and, indeed, we have read ftill more exaggerated accounts of the influx of trani atlantic wealth. With refpect to its influence, it is impoffible to fhoot be yond the mark; but as, adverting to a recent capture, we may fay that one of the pactolan fources of Spain is VOL. L. DEC. 1806. which not only changed the character of the country, under its first influence and immediate operation, but of every other with which he was connected. The ancient Iberians were a brave, a generous, a learned, (for literature flou. riched in Spain when the rest of Europe was immerfed in ignorance,) and, as This, diverted into another channel, one of the keys of her treafury loft, fo we hope that when the tide of American opulence flows into THE THAMES, when the mines of Peru and Mexico are open to British industry and enterprife, their contents will not operate upon us as they did upon the first conquerors. Let us always remember, that it is better to be the manufacturers and merchants than the factors of the world. It has been computed, that foon after the colonizing of Mexico and Peru, the quantity of money in Europe was doubled; the rates and prices of all things were confequently doubled alfo. Baron Montesquieu is of opinion, that in little more than two centuries the fpecie or money of Europe has been doubled five times, and that comparing it now with what it was before the Indian treafure was fo widely dif perfe, it is as thirty-two to one. though a curious fpeculation, is, with refpet to what may really be termed MONEY, probably exaggerated; though, it we refer to its able coadjutor, and, we hope, faithful reprefentative, paper, it is unquestionably as much under-rated. Yet both together, if we try them by that true criterion, the prices of provilions, do not bear out the Baron's hypothefis, keeping in view the enormous advance that he has flated. A confiderable part of the filver of America finds its way to the East Indies, whence it never returns to Europe; a circumftance that, to a certain degree, keeps up the value of money, and in the fame proportion reduces that of provifions, &c.; fo that the prefent depreciation of fpecie is, in our opinions, lefs owing to the overflow of the mines than to the overworking of the paper milis. If we could gradually and permanently change a confiderable portion of our notes into cafe, our flock into fterling, the neceffaries of life would find their true medium, while manufactures and commerce, fpringing from more fubflantial roots, would flourish with till greater vigour. Iii far |