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314 be sick, or at least to be nervous and require the almost constant attention of some superfine medical attendant. There are many such individuals, who, if we may believe them, are never well; they are constantly suffering or anticipating pains in the head, or side, or somewhere else; they are constantly on the lookout, and watch for pains with as much acumen as the hunter does for game. and are ever making use of some genteel remedy. Some of these exquisites would be ashamed to acknowledge themselves quite well, as that would be thought extremely vulgar; and since this class of patients must be furnished with something adapted to their fastidious appetites, the more the articles which they use are attenuated, the better. A single sugar pellet, or a few drops of magnetized water, may be quite sufficient, if the dose can be repeated so as to keep the cure continually going on.

Can any one believe that these fashionable effeminates are the descendants of the Anglo-Saxons who first colonized America? Does the warm blood of the heroes of the Revolution course through such shadowy forms? How far