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Rh In the ordinary language of our courts of law, the relatives took nothing by their motion ; nor is it my intention to bestow a single sentence on their conduct—the practice of the two Doctors shall be left to the humane construction of the Christian reader ; and to finish the paragraph, the churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Camberwell may be supposed to have acted most conscientiously ; and that the convenience of being disburthened of a pauper lunatic never entered their thoughts.

I shall now proceed to develope the peculiar opinions of Mr. Matthews, and leave the reader to exercise his own judgment concerning them.

Mr. M. insists that in some apartment near London Wall, there is a gang of villains profoundly skilled in Pneumatic Chemistry, who assail him by means of an Air