never should have attained, but for the ufe of your Specific. I am, Sir, your humble Servant, ANSTR To the PROPRIETOR of PITT'S SPECIFIC. << SIR, -ER.*" "I HAVE for fome time been afflicted with a depreffion of fpirits, which my phyfician treated as hypochondriacal. However, by the help of your Specific, which I always wear at my breaft, and mean foon to take inwardly, I feel myfelf quite ftout again; and truft I fhall foon be able to return you my thanks in perfon for the benefit I have received from your very powerful medicine. CAR —LE." To the PROPRIETOR of PITT'S SPECIFIC. SIR, "I WAS for fome years fuppofed by my phyficians to be in a decline; and by their advice I took feveral voyages, thinking that a change of climate would do me good; which, indeed, were of fome fervice to me: but I found, that though I could bear the extremes of heat and cold equally well for a while, I could not enjoy my health in either for any length of time. I therefore had recourfe to your Specific; and can now fay, that I enjoy my health fo well in my prefent fituation, that I do not mean to quit it-fo long as I can have a regular fupply of your medicine. "I am, Sir, yours (c AUCK- -ND." On this gentleman, who has obtained a high judicial situa◄ tion, the following Epigram was made: Neceffity and Anftr----r are very like each other THE LESSON FOR YOUNG BARRISTERS. HOW TO EXAMINE A WITNESS. Dramatis Perfona. THE BARRISTER-THE ALL John Tomkins. B. CW W. Here-(is fworn.) WITNESS. B. Look this way-What's your name? B. John Tomkins, eh! And pray, John Tomkins, what do you know about this affair? W. As I was going along Cheapfide B. Stop, ftop! not quite fo faft, John Tomkins. When was you going along Cheapfide? W. On Monday, the 26th of June. B. Oh, oh! Monday, the 26th of June-And pray, now, how came you to know that it was Monday the 26th of June? W. I remember it very well. B. You have a good memory, John Tomkins-here is the middle of November, and you pretend to remember your walking along Cheapfide in the end of June. W. Yes, Sir, I remember it as if it was but yesterday. B. And pray, now, what makes you remember it fo very well? W. I was then going to fetch a midwife B. Stop there, if you please. Gentlemen of the jury, please to attend to this.-So, John Tomkins, you, a hale, hearty man, were going to fetch a midwife. Now, answer me directly-look this way, Sir-what could you poffibly want with a midwife? W. I wanted to fetch her to a neighbour's wife, who was ill a-bed, B. A neighbour's wife! What, then, you have no wife of your own? W. No, Sir. B. Recollect yourself; you say you have no wife of your own. W. No, Sir; I never had a wife. B. None B. None of your quibbles, friend; I did not afk you if you ever had a wife. I ask you if you have now a wife? and you fay no. W. Yes, Sir; and I fay truth. B. Yes, Sir! and no, Sir! and you fay truth! we fhall foon find that out. And was there nobody to fetch a midwife but you? W. No; my neighbour lay ill himself B. What! did he want a midwife too? (a loud laugh.) W. He lay ill of a fever; and fo I went, to ferve him. B. No doubt, you are a very serviceable fellow in your way. But pray, now, after you had fetched the midwife, where did you go? W. I went to call upon a friend B. Hold! What time in the day was this? W. Yes, Sir; it was a fine fummer-evening. W. What is it always day-light in a fummerevening. W. I believe fo-(smiling). B. No laughing, Sir, if you please; this is too ferious a matter for levity. What did you do when you went to call upon a friend? W. He asked me to take a walk; and, when we were walking, we heard a great noise B. And where was this? W. In the street. B. Pray attend, Sir-I don't ask you, whether it was in the ftreet-I ask you what street? W. I don't know the name of the street; but it turns down from- B. Now, Sir, upon your oath-do you fay you don't know the name of the street? W. No, I don't. B. Did you never hear it? W. I may have heard it; but I can't fay I remember it. B. Do you always forget what you have heard? W. I don't W. I don't know that I ever heard it; but I may have heard it, and forgot it. B. Well, Sir, perhaps we may fall upon a way to make you remember it. W. I don't know, Sir; I would tell it if I knew it. B. O! to be fure you would; you are remarkably communicative.—Well, you heard a noise, and I fuppofe you went to fee it, too. W. Yes; 'we went to the house where it came from B. So it came from a house, and pray what kind of a house? W. The Cock and Bottle, a public-house. B. The Cock and Bottle! why I never heard of fuch a house. Pray what has a cock to do with a bottle? W. I can't tell; that is the fign. B. Well-and what paffed then? W. We went in to fee what was the matter, and the prifoner there B. Where? W. Him at the bar, there; I know him very well. B. You know him? how came you to know him? W. We worked journey-work together once; and I remember him well. B. So! your memory returns: you can't tell the name of the street, but you know the name of the public-house, and you know the prifoner at the bar.-You are a very pretty fellow! And pray what was the prifoner doing? W. When I faw him, he was B. When you faw him! did I ask doing, when you did not fee him? you W. I understood he had been fighting. what he was B. Give us none of your understanding-tell what you faw. B. W. He was drinking fome Hollands and water. Are you fure it was Hollands and water? IV. Yes; he asked me to drink with him, and I juft put it to my lips. B. No B. No doubt you did, and, I dare fay, did not take it foon from them. But now, Sir, recollect you are upon oath-look at the jury, Sir-upon your oath, will you aver, that it was Hollands and water? W. Yes, it was. B. What was it not plain gin? W. No; the landlord faid it was Hollands. B. O! now we fhall come to the point-The landlord faid! Do you believe every thing the landlord of the Cock and Bottle fays? W. I don't know him enough. of? B. Do you believe in a future ftate? B. Then, what paffed after you drank the Hollands and water? W. I heard there had been a fight, and a man killed; and I faid, "O! Robert, I hope you have not done this:" and he shook his head B. Shook his head! And what did you understand by that? W. Sir! B. I fay, what did you understand by his fhaking his head? W. I can't tell. B. Can't tell!-Can't you tell what a man means when he shakes his head? W. He faid nothing. B. Said nothing! I don't ask you what he said What did you say? W. What did I say? B. Don't repeat my words, fellow; but come to the point at once. Did you see the dead man? W. Yes; he lay in the next room. B. And how came he to be dead? W. There had been a fight, as I faid before- B. Speak |