Bristol Job Nott; No. XLVII.] OR, LABOURING MAN'S FRIEND. JOB NOTT's WAKING THOUGHTS. And what has shaken public confidence ?-the name, and made her "a proverb and a byetransactions of the three days of terror. Those word amongst the nations of the earth." 'Tis very pleasant to sit nodding in one's transactions have struck a panic through every Then again, whilst there is less grist coming bee-hive chair and dream of union, and harmony, class of society and paralyzed the whole system. to the mill, the calls upon the traders and houseand the revival of industry, and the return of How, for instance, can it be expected that holders are vastly increased. People have been prosperous times. I say 'tis very pleasant to merchants should embark their property in the groaning about city taxes, and here is a burdendream of these things, but then 'twas but a purchase of large quantities of goods, when the some rate laid upon the city for years to come, dream, after all, and 'tisn't dreaming that will very night after they have gotten them into to pay for one night's bonfire! and this again do the business; if we will have the bright their warehouses they may be consumed by falls upon the operatives in part; for what picture which presented itself to Job's imagi- the violence of a lawless mob? Or how can it people pay in taxes they can't spend on clothes, nation, as described in the last number re- be expected that manufacturers will continue or furniture, or improvements, and so this alized, we mustn't go dreaming of Utopian to keep their hands on, and to accumulate helps to lessen the quantum of employment scenes, but we must rouse ourselves, and rub large stocks of their respective articles of ma- for the labouring classes. our peepers a bit, and begin to look at things nufacture, when they have the terror of riot Well, I think it must now be very plain to as they really are. Now Job Nott has shaken and conflagration continually before them?-every man (if any could before have been so himself from his reverie and has taken a turn, Then, again, the same alarm operates upon blind as not to see it) that the foundation of not in imagination, but in proprid persond, the consumer, and deters him from laying out our distress was laid in the glorious three days, amidst the ruins of Bristol, and has pondered his money. What gentleman will fit up his You know we can't play our game and not pay over the relics, of its former prosperity, and house with new furniture, or what lady will be the stake; and Bristol has paid and will pay the more prominent mementoes of its downfall; over careful to replenish her wardrobe, when dearly for its three days' hubbub. Thus we and it pitieth him to see her in the dust, her they know not but that it may all be made a have traced our distress to its immediate cause, commerce and manufactures crippled, many of bonfire of, the very night after it is brought but then, if the riots caused the distress, what her operatives unemployed, and so much com- home? Well, if the gentlemen and ladies are caused the riots ? "Oh there my friend you plaining in her streets. It is impossible to afraid to buy the manufactures, first the shop have me fast." Job mustn't enter upon mysview this desolation, and contrast it with keeper suffers, then the manufacturer, and teries beyond his depth. But though he can't former days of prosperity and happiness, and then the operative; for if the produce of his pretend to say what it was, he may venture to not ask whence is this lamentable change craft can't be sold, the consequence is that he say what it was not. Why then it was not And it is impossible, especially at this parti- must be turned off. Thus much with respect every man's minding his own business, and cular time, not to have one's thought instantly to home consumption, but the evil doesn't stop leaving his neighbours to mind theirs. It was carried to the scenes of riot, conflagration, here. Not only must such a calamity affect not every man's diligently doing his duty in and rapine of the internal trade of the city, but it must reduce that state of life to which it has pleased God THE THREE DAYS OF TERROR the exports. The burning of Bristol has been to call him. It was not sobriety and industry, which our devoted city witnessed this time noised throughout the world. Now suppose a and the love of order, neither was it religion twelve month. It is impossible for any man foreign merchant about to send a rich cargo and bible-reading, and keeping holy the Sabin his senses not to perceive that the multi-on consignment to England. He has con-bath day. Oh no, 'twas none of these, but plied calamities under which our city has nexions in Bristol; his first design was to quite the contrary. What then? perhaps this groaned during the last year, the pestilence send his ship to this port, but he hears of the will help us to a clew by which we may recover alone excepted, are the natural and necessary dreadful riots and burnings. "Oh, says he, ourselves. If the opposite way to all this has consequences of the borrid enormities that were that won't do for me, I shall have my goods proved so ruinous, suppose we try the other perpetrated this time twelve month. Why burnt and perhaps my vessel too, if I send course. It strikes me 'twill be worth the exare the operative classes unemployed, but be- them thither." He accordingly alters his periment. Instead of giving way to a murmurcause trade and manufactures are crippled, and plan, and sends his ship to Liverpool, or ing discontented spirit, let us endeavour to consequently the merchants and manufacturers London, or some other port, or perhaps look at the bright side of things; instead of reduce their establishments, and turn off their even to some other country; and what is picking faults in the conduct of our neighbours, hands? And why are trade and manufactures the consequence with respect to Bristol and especially of our superiors, let us give them crippled, but because public confidence is shaken Why her merchants lose their profit, and credit for good intentions; let us, at least, to a degree which it may take years to repair? those dependent upon them lose their em-give them the benefit of the doubt-every • And even that viewed as a judgment of God Ploy; and this is not all, for please to re- culprit is intitled to that by the law of the upon a rebellions city, may be regarded as not uncollect if the ship had come to Bristol, she land; instead of fancying that we are called to connected with those scenes of iniquity which must would have been freighted back with Bristol turn state-tinkers and mend the government, have greatly provoked the Divine displeasure. It manufactures to the great benefit of the ope- let us see if we can't mend our own way a bit; is remarkable that the Cholera overtook some of ratives; but all this is lost, simply because the instead of the wages being spent in the potthe wretched criminals, whom human clemency had acts of lawless men have given Bristol a bad house and political clubs, let the operatives spared. * * carry home their week's earnings to put bread] JOB NOTT cannot conclude this subject with- mony. In short, there were so many useful in the bellies, and clothes on the backs of their out congratulating his fellow-citizens that they articles suited to the taste of the good people starving children. Let the eternal click-clack have been permitted to see the return of this of the town and neighbourhood, and there was of political demagogues be exchanged for the season, in comparative peace and tranquillity. so much merriment and gossip, caused by the merry sound of the hammer and anvil, the Our deliverance from the perils of civil com- distribution of them, that the arrangements spindle and the lathe; that will turn a penny motion, and our individual preservation from gave general satisfaction. There were, howinto the operative's pocket-whilst the other pestilence, call for our gratitude to the Great ever, a few malcontents, who had been sindoes but turn their pockets inside out. Above Author and Preserver of our being. Let us gularly unlucky in never getting a prize, and all, let God be honoured-his sacred day be then show our gratitude in every suitable their expressions of discontent, probably reverenced, and his holy book be read, and manner; and especially by the employment of suggested to the showmen the idea of a lottery, his blessing invoked-and then-why then, our property in such a way as to contribute which they advertised to be drawn at the conperhaps all that was pictured in Job Nott's to the glory of God, and the good of our fel-clusion of their last performance for the season, dream will be realized. In fine, let all classes low-creatures. Let us reflect,- -our property and to consist of "all prizes and no blanks." unite for the public good, let us have might have been taken from us by lawless This tempting notice drew a greater crowd of violence, or we might have been taken from it spectators than usual, and increased the number by pestilence; those therefore whose lives and of speculators in the lottery. While the clown property have been mercifully spared, are was laboriously shaking the tickets together in called upon to devote both life and substance his ballot box, he uttered one of his happiest now ladies and gemmen we are to HIM, to whom they owe all the comforts of witticisms, this life, and every hope of a better. going to give you vote by ballot and universal suffrage," a smart allusion to the politics of that day, which drew forth three cheers for Mr. Merry a long pull, and a strong PULL, AND A PULL ALTOGETHER;" ALL PRIZES AND NO BLANKS. and let us take care to pull the right way. Let us pull on the side of order and legitimate authority. There are two great parties now in the state, the orderlies and the disorderlies; the former love peace, and obedience to the laws, and submission to lawful authorities, and industry and contentment; the latter love riot A country town where I was residing several man from not a few voices in the crowd. And and disorder, and want to throw all society years ago, was visited annually by a troop of now the prizes were drawn, and it was evident into confusion, that they may have a scramble. itinerant rope-dancers and equestrians, who that the expectations of the people had been too Now I think, my good fellows, my honoured attracted vast crowds of the inhabitants to see highly raised, and that instead of general satiscustomers of the operative class, you can't be their exhibitions. The troop used to perform faction, they had met with universal disappointlong in choosing which party you will be of. on the fine summer evenings in the open air, ment. For, in place of the warin duffle cloaks, and Those miserable agents of confusion and dis- in a large field or common. The performance stout broad cloths, shawls and gowns, as before, order who are seeking to upset society, put consisted of the usual curious feats of horse-the prizes, on this occasion, only consisted of me in mind of the "wreckers" on some parts manship, the tailor's journey to Brentford, the cheapest and flimsiest productions of the of our coasts, who watch when a ship is in rope-dancing, tumbling, jugglery, the tricks of loom, and the sort of razors which are made danger,-not to send her help, but in the hope harlequin, and the coarse practical jokes of to sell and not to shave. Many of the young of seeing her go to pieces, that they may seize Mr. Merryman, the clown. As all this was men got nothing better than a ribbon, too upon the cargo, and the fragments of the exhibited gratis, there was no lack of specta- shabby to present to their sweethearts; and wreck.-Poor, wretched, despicable, heartless tors. But the showmen contrived to pay instead of nice dresses for their children, the beings, to wish to make a prey of the ruin of themselves handsomely by announcing at the fathers and mothers were obliged to content their fellow-creatures! But let us act, my end of the night's amusement, a lottery,-a themselves with parliament gingerbread, and friends, on a nobler principle; let us act upon species of gambling, which was at that time penny whistles. Strong symptoms of dissatisthe Christian principle, "look not every man sanctioned by the example of government; for faction were manifested as the several prizes on his own things, but every man also on the the excellent statute abolishing state lotteries were delivered, and Mr. Merryman's best jokes things of others," rejoicing in the welfare of on account of the encouragement they gave to were played off like squibs and crackers, with no our neighbours, as well as in our own. gambling, dishonesty, and other vices, had not better effect than to increase the confusion, and And, my wealthier readers, let me beg of then passed. The platform soon presented a gay heighten the discontent which began to vent itself you to recollect, that you also are called upon appearance like a booth at a fair, with hats, shoes, in loud murmurs. An honest yeoman thinking to act upon this principle. If you wish to shirts, stockings, and broad cloth for the men; his turn had come, took the opportunity of the unite the operative classes in one compact gowns and petticoats, caps and bonnets, ribbons, reaction to retort upon the clown-" all prizes band on the side of order, make them feel that cloaks, and shawls for the women; the same and no blanks indeed; if your universal suffrage it will be for their good; whilst you call upon articles in miniature for children's dresses; and and vote by ballot as you call 'em, are no better the operatives to be industrious, give them work, now and then a bait was laid for the farmers, by than these,-King and Constitution for ever," that they may be industrious. Don't stop to setting up a sturdy pony or milch cow worth a sentiment which was now much applauded. ask whether you want their labour, but ask from £5 to £10 as the chief prize. The The manager of the troop at length came whether they want your employ; and don't lottery tickets were sold at a shilling a piece, forward- ladies and gentlemen, we beg to make niggardly calculations; depend upon it the more the merrier for the showmen, and the thank you for your kind patronage. (Tumult and if you do, you will be penny wise and pound worse chance for the gamblers. disapprobation.) You will do us the justice to In foolish; you must support these men and their The tickets were then drawn, and the dis- say that the performances of the troop have families some how; and depend upon it you tribution of the prizes afforded much amuse-been as good as in former years, and that the had much better pay your money in the shape ment. Many sly and good humoured jokes lotteries have been on a liberal scale. (Voice of wages, than in the shape of poor rates. If were passed at the manifest exultation of the from the crowd, particularly the last!) you pay it them in the shape of wages, you winners, and the disappointed looks of those deed, I assure you, ladies and gentlemen, the will help to make them sober, industrious, that got nothing for their money; at the trying last lottery has cost me as much money and honest citizens; but if you leave it to be paid on of the hats, shoes, and other articles, that more trouble, than any of the preceding. I them in the shape of poor rates, mayhap you could not always be made to fit the wearer; at altered the plan in the hope of giving universal will contribute to make them idle, dissolute, the capricious distributions of the lottery, as satisfaction, but I now discover my error, and the very pests of society, ripe for any mis- when children's dresses, as would sometimes with your consent we shall return again next chief, and ready to pull your houses about your happen, fell to the lot of young men and It was even said, that these unlucky wights withdrew to a ears the first convenient opportunity. maidens, who were only just thinking of matri-ing the inequalities of fortune. neighbouring eminence, to consider the best means of equaliz own year to the old and approved system, and never all classes of men would entirely cease to be the extract, which I shall give afterwards, will again have a lottery on the plan of all prizes esteemed and sought after by any. For ex- find its way into families, where the death and no blanks." ample; it has been found by experience to be watch may have been an object of terror; and This well-timed address totally changed the a great encouragement to ingenious improve- surely none of your readers will ever again current of feeling in favour of the troop, who ments in the arts, to grant patents for useful allow themselves to be afraid of an insect, not were allowed to depart in peace amid the inventions, on the inventor making known his much larger than a mite. Let it be rememcheers of the multitude. discovery, which otherwise self-interest would bered also, that all similar unaccountable causes I heartily wish that all lotteries and other often induce him to keep secret, so that the of fear are equally groundless and absurd; and games of chance were banished from the three benefit of the discovery might often be lost to that every kind of superstition is a sinful diskingdoms. What is the gainful trade of vagrants, the public. These patents entitle the inventor trust of Providence, and carries its thieves, and pickpockets, is no safe or proper to the sole privilege of manufacturing the arti- punishment along with it. It is enough that occupation and amusement for honest men. cle for a limited period; now the privilege we endeavour to bear, with patience and resigBut the lottery I have been describing has consists in its limitation to the patentee, and it nation, the real trials and afflictions of life, been very useful to me on various occasions, ceases whenever the public are at liberty to without inventing such as are fanciful and by suggesting reflections applicable to the real manufacture the article. In this instance it is irrational. As the groundless fears of ignorant business of life. For life has been compared right that the privilege should eventually be and credulous persons are greatest in the darkto a great lottery, and the poets have many extended to the public, but by doing so in the ness of night, and mostly vanish with the light allusions to the wheel of fortune, and the un- first instance no encouragement would be given. of day; so ought all the superstitions, which equal manner in which that imaginary, capri- But further: the titles of the nobility would arose in past ages of ignorance, error, and cious personage distributes her gifts. This cease to confer honour if they were to be made unbelief, to disappear, with the clearer and fiction of the poets is, however, founded in common, and if every man were to be paid the wider diffusion of the gospel of light and peace. fact; for inequality and variety in the con- French compliment of being called "Milord The sincere Christian feels it to be his duty dition and circumstances of nations and indi- Anglois," it would be no more valued than plain and his privilege, to commit all his cares and viduals, have existed in every period of the Mr. Such-a-one. Had this been the case when fears to his heavenly father, who has invited history of man, and must ever continue to the gallant Nelson fought and conquered, he and commanded him so to do; and imaginary exist according to the present constitution of would not have been animated to deeds of heroic omens, and warnings of evil, will cause no things. It is the arrangement of the all-wise valour by the hope of "a peerage, or Westmin- terrors to him, who is not dismayed by the Ruler of the universe who has placed us in this ster Abbey." The freedom of a city and other reality; but can say with the psalmist, "Yea, state of trial. The unequal distribution of the similar privileges are valued by the tradesmen though I walk through the valley of the shadow gifts of Providence excites our industry and and burgesses, because they are limited to a of death; I will fear no evil, for thou art with perseverance, animates our hopes, exercises certain number who possess them; but suppose me, thy rod and staff they comfort me." our patience, and awakens our pity, generosity, that these privileges were to be conferred on An observer of these insects states that he and benevolence. If it were possible by any the whole population, would they not become had formerly considered them to be solitary artificial arrangement to remove these inequa-worthless in the estimation of the present pos- and nightly disturbers; but, lities, life would become dull, stale, flat, and sessors ? In short, in these and all similar "Having occasion to stretch a piece of silk paper unprofitable. How do men proceed when they cases, one and the same delusion is practised, moistened with glue water, on a square frame, I wish to promote useful industry and improve- and its effect is to make us quit the substance was frequently surprised at different hours of the ment on a limited scale? Is it by levelling and grasp a shadow, to lose our prizes and gain day, by a noise similar to what we are accustomed old distinctions, or by creating new ones? a blank. Our societies for the improvement of agriculture, and gardening, and breeding of cattle, and manufactures, cannot do violence to the established arrangements of Providence, but This singular insect has been casually the performers, and witness the harmlessness of must conform to them. They offer prizes of noticed in a former paper. .* The death watch their music: and I think it is probable that could different values to be distributed according to is a perfectly harmless and most diminutive these little creatures oftener meet with a proper the degrees of skill and management displayed grub; but such is the effect of imaginary and drum, we should much more frequently hear them at seasons when their little drumming, which no in the various farming operations, and pro- superstitious fear, that its gentle ticking, when doubt concerns their own social community, is conportioned to the excellence of the specimens heard in the stillness of night, and in a sick stantly heard by their companions, though inaudible of cattle, fruit, flowers, arts and manufactures, chamber, has probably caused more serious to us.' THE DEATH WATCH. N. to hear in a watchmaker's window, full of watches, and distinctly audible at five or six yards distance. I soon found that my frame was occupied as a drum, by numbers of these little grey vermin, not much larger than mites; and was thus enabled to identify exhibited. If the prizes were all trifling and alarm than the roaring of the lion, or the rattle No doubt it does chiefly concern their own equal in value, and if there were no blanks, of the venomous rattle-snake. It is very social community, but if a skilful interpreter of there would be no motive for competition, and the likely too that such fears, being commu- the insect language, would apply his learned arts would languish as before. When I hear nicated to sick persons, have in many cases ear close to the Drum-Major of the death therefore of the absurd and impracticable increased their illness, or hastened the ap-watches, he might sometimes be heard to speak schemes of Mr. Owen and other dreamers, for proach of death; thus confirming the popular after the following manner: equalizing property, banishing poverty, and prejudice, from which the insect derives its "What fools are those huge creatures, men, putting mankind in leading strings, I think name. It is because the sound it produces is to imagine that we, who live in peace and good to myself, these rope-dancers are proposing to so gentle, that it is not usually heard in the fellowship with one another, as long and as delude and disappoint the people with a lottery day time, but is lost amid other noises. At merrily as we may, are for ever sitting in of "all prizes and no blanks." night the ear, quickened by apprehension, is gloomy judgment on the fate of mortals, to Another of the useful lessons that has been ready to catch the slightest sound, and the provide food for our brother grubs in the grave. impressed on my memory by this incident is, death watch may then be heard, imitating with When noisy brawling men are asleep when that you abolish a privilege by making it uni- wonderful distinctness and regularity, the tick- the house is still, and the fire burns dimly, and versal. There are many privileges that we ing of a watch, which it is doubtless enabled to the pale taper sheds its feeble light,—we hold prize as hereditary, as personal, as connected do by some curiously minute mechanism, alto- our innocent revels, and form our own political with property, and to be acquired by honest gether imperceptible to the human eye. I hope and matrimonial alliances. But mankind who industry, which if they were made common to *Notes on Will o' the Wisp, No. XXI. find so many ways to make their lives short Damp or Moist Air relaxes and debilitates; hence damp places and districts are always unwholesome, and particularly so where we dine, until it be ventilated. The bad in cold weather. Strictly speaking, we ought not to sit in the room effects of such contaminated air are not perceived by the persons in the room, but are very sensibly felt by any one coming in from the air. and miserable, who quarrel, fight, murder, and of the animal structure. In winter the appetite for in an apartment depends very much on the kind of destroy one another, must needs lay all the food is stronger, and digestion easier and quicker. labour or exercise carried on in it. Six busy watch blame at our door. It is we, forsooth, that In persons who take little exercise, the fluids are makers will not spoil the air, nearly so much as drum their armies into the field of battle, and apt to stagnate or stand still, and the solids to chill. two active carpenters would do in the same room But cold weather becomes salutary, if necessary and time. Hence appears the propriety of approdetermine how great shall be the multitude of exercise be not neglected. priating lofty rooms, instead of low garrets, for the the slain ! Their generals, their admirals, workshops of mechanics. their mighty armies and navies, are only our puppets. It is we that have set the king of the Dutch at loggerheads with the king of the Belgians, and have ordered an expedition to proceed to the Scheldt; it is the death watches, indeed, who have stirred up a murderous family quarrel in Portugal, and now threaten Europe with a general war! No, no, vain mortals, much greater, but not very much wiser, than ourselves. Your quarrels, your murders, your riots, your wars, are all your own. "In this chamber lies an infidel, who by his wicked life and conversation defied his Creator: he hears us now, and trembles before the weakest of God's creatures. Yonder lies a drunkard at his last gasp. The bottle was his companion from morning till night, and many a time his roars of foolish laughter and drunken brawls, as he reeled home after mid-night, have drowned our gentle voices, and broken up our councils. He hears us now, and shakes with terror. But he ought long, long ago to have been afraid of his bottle. "Oh that men would be wise, and would take better heed to the useful instrument that ticks beneath their pillow, with which we delight to chime; which warns them that their numbered moments are on the wing! Oh that they would listen attentively to the still small voice of conscience, that when their last moment arrives, it may be a messenger of peace." N. LABORATORY OF HEALTH.-No. 3. DEAR JOB, Dry and Cool Air vates. Of the four seasons of the year, antumn is said to be the most unhealthy. Too light a dress and too thin stockings are not advisable at this season. If possible, we should not sit through the day in a room in which we have slept; as the bed clothes and particularly feather beds, very slowly part with the exhalations they have imbibed during the night. The vapour of charcoal produces, particularly in close apartments, dangerous and frequently fatal effects. It may be proper to notice that all strongly scented ber of fragrant smells. Hence people who carry objects are more or less pernicious, even a great numAll damp vapours are prejudicial. Hence the large nosegays in the hot days of summer, are apt keeping of wet linen, or even wet clothes, umbrelto find themselves variously and strongly affected, las, and the like, in dwelling rooms, should by all and are easily laid asleep. From this apparently means be avoided. Mechanics and others who are innocent cause, head-aches, fainting fits, and even obliged to dry wet things in their strongly-heated apoplexies have been produced in persons of a full apartments; joiners, turners, potters, bookbinders, habit. Saffron and hops have sometimes proved &c., being exposed to a heated atmosphere and fatal; the former, in particular, having produced a damp vapours, are frequently liable to swellings sleep terminating in death, in those incautious in- and other disagreeable affections. dividuals who had lain down in the warehouses, or on bags in which it was packed. Ambergris and musk are injurious, on account of their too strong fragrance, to persons of an irritable and nervous temperament. People who live in temperate regions, are more hardy and vigorous, and attain to a greater age than the inhabitants of southern countries; we ought not therefore to enervate the body by keeping it warm by an unnecessary quantity of clothes, or Of the Improvement of Air in Dwelling-houses. by using too strong fires in temperate weather; and A house built on rising ground on a healthy soil, least of all by sleeping in warm rooms, and perhaps and neither exposed to the greatest degree of cold on the most heating of all substances-feather beds. in winter, nor to the highest degree of heat in sum- The temperature of a sitting room should not exmer, such a house may be said to stand in a ceed 60 or 65 of the thermometer. healthy situation. Hence those apartments are the In this season we should not dress top lightly, most healthful, as well as comfortable to the indi- and in the mornings and evenings always somewhat vidual, which enjoy a pure and free circulation of warmer; in short, we ought to avoid every thing air in summer, and the cheerful rays of the sun in that appears likely to check and repel perspiration. winter. A proper size and height is requisite to The mischievous effects of accommodating ourselves constitute a healthful apartment; for low rooms are to the almanack and the fashion, rather than to the detrimental to health, particularly when they are change of weather in our inconstant climate, proseldom aired; or rather, which is frequently the duces many disagreeable consequences. case, when every access of air is continually excluded, even to the closing of the key-hole, as in the instance of cobbler Crispin in one of my former communications. ercise. On the other hand, it would be wrong in ns to withdraw our bodies too much from the bracing I hasten to correct the opinion of some of your effects of cold. In the same degree as the warmer readers, that I have taken so large a dose of my weather changes to a colder state, we should graown medicine, as to produce a quietus-No! I am The most certain marks by which to distinguish dually expose ourselves to the various changes of not in the habit of making such blunders. Every whether the air be damp or not, are the following: temperature. The cold will then neither feel unbottle, box, and drawer in my shop is labelled in bread in the cupboards acquires a mouldy surface; pleasant, nor impede the necessary perspiration; full, and I have never given or taken one powder, sponges in the bed-rooms retain their moisture; especially if we resist it with vigour and bodily expill, or draught, in mistake. The fact is, that my loaf sugar turns soft; iron rusts; brass and copper professional calls have been so numerons of late, acquire a green colour or verdigris; and wooden that I have not had an opportunity of addressing furniture moulders, and in time crumbles to pieces. you upon my favorite subjects of pure air and tem- Above all things, the windows and doors of sitperance.-Talk of a panacea, or universal remedy ting and bed-rooms, when it can be done convefor every disease; why I will venture to say,-nay, niently, onght to be left open for a certain space of I will stake my professional character on the asser-time every day. This, however, requires to be done tion, that no remedies are so justly entitled to the at the proper time, neither too early in the morn. Į name of universal, as fresh air and temperance. ing, uor when it grows dusk in the evening, during As you and every body else know that air is the the spring and autumnal months; nor at the time principal food by which animal life is supported, it when the air is overspread with a thick fog. Some becomes highly important to acquire some correct times it may be proper to make use of what is called ideas of this invisible matter, that surrounds us on pumping the room, or moving the door backwards all sides. And with this view, I shall beg leave to and forwards briskly for some minutes together. introduce some observations of a celebrated phy-Even in winter our bed-rooms ought to be thosician, made some years ago, in a course of lectures roughly ventilated every clear day, by currents of delivered in this city, in addition to my own ex-fresh air for a considerable time. perience and remarks upon the subject. To begin then according to the principles of the art, I shall consider those effects which the different states of the atmosphere produce on our frame, and in what manner they are found to influence our health. Wurm Air In the hot days of summer, the windows may be opened early in the morning; and in the evening to cool and refresh the heated air of the room. It is, however, not safe, and has sometimes proved fatal, to leave the windows of a bed-room open at night during the summer months; as there is no small relaxes the solid parts of the body, and occasions a hazard of checking perspiration by the cool night air. tronger circulation of the fluids. Heat is chiefly In moist and cold air the dress should be someoppressive to the nerves; hence the tender and in-what warmer than usual. Flannel may then be firm suffer severely in hot weather. Cold renders worn with double advantage next the skin. bodies more compact, particularly the solid parts The greater or less degree of impurity of the air We should always endeavour to avoid sudden extremes of heat and cold. Hence we should never remove from a strongly-heated room into a fresh and cold air, unless we are provided with a warmer dress. In the hot days, or after violent exercise, we must not frequent vaults, or cellars; or undress immediately after overheating the body; nor take rest upon a damp soil, or upon stones; nor bathe in cold water. Instant death has been often the consequence of such transgressions, or what is almost as bad, a painful and lingering species of consumption, which has hitherto baffled the united efforts of the faculty. In my next I shall give you some observations on the domestic virtue-cleanliness. In the mean time, believe me, dear Job, Yours truly, S. HEALALL, M. D. Bristol: Printed and Published by J. & W. RICHARDSON, No. 6, Clare-Street, to whose care all communications may be addressed, post paid; also sold by J. NORTON, Corn Street, BARRY, High Street, and J. CHILCOTT, Wine Street; Mrs. BINNS, Bath; Mr. WHITE, Cheltenham; Mr. BEMROSE, Derby; Mr. HEWETT, Leamington; HAMILTON, ADAMS, and Co. Paternoster Row; and SEELEY and SON, Fleet Street, London. Bristol Job Nott; No. XLVIII.] LABOURING OR, LABOURING MAN'S FRIEND. A CASE IN POINT. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1832. "I'm heartily glad of it," said Job to Mr. Michael Sharpe, who ran into the warehouse, (looking not very well pleased) and told him the news. Michael. Glad of it, eh? why I thought Mr. Nott, you were one of them that were angry with Noakes, and said he didn't do his duty. [Price 14d. has been gone into, and the Big-wigs have Job. Why, surely, if the man were innocent you wouldn't have him brought in guilty just to serve a purpose, would you, master Sharpe ? Mich. No; but I know a gentleman that was on the grand jury and heard the evidence, and he says that it went dreadfully hard against Noakes. Job. Ah, but neighbour, you know the grand jury only hears one side of a question, and often times the evidence given before the grand jury gets upset when brought before the petty jury. I'm for the good old rule handi halteram partem,* as, I think, my boy Job says the latin of it is. Mich. Halter 'em, eh? Aye, I think so too! They well deserved it; but part 'em, Mr. Nott? no, not part 'em; I say hang 'em business; so much so, that at last 'twas determined to bring Noakes to trial: and indeed he I'm heartily glad of it," said old Job Nott, gave out that he wished to have his case when he heard that John Noakes was acquitted brought fairly before a jury, and so he was tried of the charge brought against him. You must-whether at the 'sizes or sessions, or who know that this John Noakes was a chief con- were the judges, one can't be bound to recolstable at that time, and that he and some of lect so long after; but you may easily suppose his colleagues had long lain under a charge of that there was a great deal of anxiety about misdemeanour, owing to the following circum- the issue of the trial: well, after a very patient stances:-There had been a great row in the hearing, in which a great deal of evidence was ward where he was chief, and dreadful violence brought forward pro and con, the jury hohad been committed, and there were many nourably acquitted Noakes, stating their debroken heads, and some lives lost, and a great cided opinion, that he had done all that could deal of property stolen. Now many people be expected from him under the circumstances. found great fault with the constables, and par- Well, it was on the occasion of the news articularly with Noakes the chief, because they riving about Noakes's acquittal, that old Job didn't disperse the rioters, or take 'em into Nott had the conversation which I am about to custody and clap 'em in limbo. Some said describe, and the particulars of which I took that Noakes, had no pluck in him, or else he down at the time. would have dispersed all the rioters with one wave of his staff; others declared that he hid himself, and couldn't be found; others complained of him, because he didn't call out the posse comitatus in the king's name; others trumped up the oddest stories imaginable about Noakes and the adventures he went through, as they alleged, in making his escape: well as in most cases, there were two sides to this question, so Noakes had his story. "Twas said on his side, that the row was so violent, that 'twas quite impossible for half a dozen or a dozen constables to put it down; and that if they had attempted it, they would have only got their heads broke without doing any good: moreover that thongh some of the inhabitants of the town showed a disposition to help the constables, yet no sufficient number could be collected together; moreover, that some other constables who had made free with breaking the heads of a mob some time before, had got cashiered for it, and had been told that they ought to have coared 'em, and not dealt Mich. What! witnesses for the prosecution, roughly with 'em; and no wonder if Noakes and voluntary ones too, glad of an acquittal? under these circumstances was afraid to use I never heard of such a thing; tisn't in nature! his staff very freely, for fear, if he had spilled Job. Aye, but you know the reason of that Job. No, neighbour Sharpe, tisn't in nature the claret, he should have been hauled up for was, that the glazier had just brought me in to be sure; but christianity can do what nature it and indeed 'twas shrewdly suspected that my bill for mending my windows; and I had can't; and you know Christian charity thinketh if Noakes had been more free with his staff, been reading in the newspaper something about no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in and broken the heads of the rioters, that some the hundred being made to pay for building the truth; which means, as our parson told us of the very men that were most forward to up them there houses, that the rioters pulled a Sunday or two ago, that every one that is charge him with pusillanimity, would have down; and you know nothing makes a man so influenced by true christian principle will be been equally forward to haul him up for ex-sore, as when he's touched in his pocket; so ceeding his powers. Well, you may suppose being a little bit testy just then, I vented it that politics ran high in the town on this upon Noakes; but now that the whole concern Old Job. The fact was, I got my windows Mich. But, Mr. Nott, you change your Job. Ha ha ha! Not a bad one; but joking apart, we see in this case the importance of the rule “hear both sides." Never, perhaps, was there a case in which public opinion ran more against an accused party, and it must be acknowledged that appearances were strongly against Noakes, and some of the witnesses against him were highly respectable, but I don't doubt but that even some of the witnesses that appeared against him will be glad to find that, though they disapproved of particular parts of his conduct, yet on the whole he could make out so good a cause. * The old gentleman was not always happy in the distribution of his aspirates; but it isn't for Bristol people to reflect upon him on that account. |