"In the first place, with respect to my nostra; Dorant has not any authority from me, for the least management of them, as it was stipulated at our first agreement, that that should rest wholly and solely with me; and any one the least acquainted with Dorant, must know that he could hardly be the compounder of them, though in open defiance and breach of the agreement, he has had immense quantities of my pills, &c. made up by others, without my knowledge or consent, as he has done in every thing else.

"In the next place, with respect to the advertisements; they are to all intents and purposes in many places untrue, and in others, silly, puerile, and insignificant; most probably they are the manufacture of some of Dorant's academic connexions; to them I relinquish all the honour to be derived from such ingenious devices.. With respect to those advertisements in which I am dubbed Doctor, the insertion is so far from being with my consent, that it is diametrically opposite to my wish and inclination, and I have remonstrated very forcibly with Dorant by letter, upon the subject, begging him to desist from any such disingenuous and unjustifiable expedients for the future, adding that I had not any legal claim to the title, and of consequence, had not any right to use it, or any one for me: what my medical faculties may be, may be easily discovered from the

faithful specification of the recipe of my pills. As for the black business of Rouvellet, that was an affair of Dorant's private management, and totally unknown to me for a long while; if I had known whom Dorant had placed in the shop, disgraceful as it was to my reputation, all remonstrance upon my side would have been useless; and as circumstances then stood, I must have remained quiet if he had placed the Empress Josephine, or a countrywoman of his own, from Dyot Street, St. Giles's, in the same place.

With respect to Dorant being the sole proprietor of the concern, in regard to my Antibilious Pills, you will find by their own advertisements, that that is not the case, but that the sole prietorship remains with me.

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I cannot conclude this answer to your letter, without observing, that your secretary informs me, that the editors of the Medical Observer are desirous of inserting nothing that may hurt my feelings; this most undoubtedly, is very kind, candid, and condescending, and is like rubbing me down with a whisp of dainty fine carded cotton and lamb's wool, to make the friction appear more comfortable; but was I switched with the same lenient materials in the first number of your Medical Critiques, when descanting upon my pills as well as myself? no such thing- wormwood and gall was my portion then, and that of the atrabi

lious sort, which was squirted upon me, at no allowance, from the clyster pipe of spleen, pertness, and malevolence. Among other trash of the same complexion, I am accused of being guilty of impiety in my printed bills of directions-a heavy charge, considering I am a clergyman, whose whole life (which has been a long one) has been spent in innocency, honour, and integrity, not sinning against others, but most highly sinned against; and if any one can point out a spot or stain in my character, let them come forth and prove it. The bills of directions which have been used for a considerable time, were not composed by me, but are an insignificant mutilation of those that were; and if any of you gentlemen, editors of the Medical Observer, will call at my house, I will show you some of the bills which were printed from my own manuscript, and if any one of you can put his finger on any part or passage in them, which has the least appearance of impiety, I will thank him for his humane information, if I find it just:-and "erit mihi magnus Apollo:" -You will use your own discretion in publishing any thing you may have heard concerning me, or my medical invention: if they are such as you have already midwifed into the world, they will not go without an answer, in some shape or other.

27th August, 1807.

WILLIAM BARCLAY.

We defy Mr. Barclay to point out any part of our account of his nostrum that is untrue, and if true, our readers will allow that in our animadversion on his pills and doctrines, we have been much too lenient. The health of men is of too much consequence to themselves and to society, to be exposed to the attack of unprincipled empirics. If the imposition was confined to the purses of the public, we should be inclined to let them enjoy the fruits of their own folly, and to say, qui vult decipi, decipiatur; but unhappily, many of these illegitimate objects of speculation are dreadfully pernicious in their effects upon the health of those who are so weak as to purchase them. If the assertion that the liver is implanted in our body by the beneficent Creator, to generate the complicated bodily miseries that human nature is heir to, be not impious, it surely is most absurd and ridiculous, and coming from a clergyman, we do not conceive that the imputation of impiety was inapplicable.-On the private or public character of the proprietor, we declined making any observation in our last number, as irrelative to the object of our work; but as he has thought proper to challenge us to prove that his life has otherwise been spent, than in innocence, honour, and integrity; we beg leave to put the following questions to him, the answers to which we will with much pleasure insert in our next number.

What were your motives for taking up your re

sidence within the rules of the King's Bench, and for appointing Mr. Dorant the agent for the sale of your pills?

We do not mean to insinuate by these questions that the transactions will not bear investigation, or that they are otherwise than honourable. We are in possession of some documents, the publication of which we shall postpone till we have received his answer, and happy shall we be to find that his character in these particulars is as immaculate as he represents it.

If this medicine has been so profitable as reported, it must have enabled him long ere this to have obtained his liberty.

If his statement relative to Mr. Dorant be true, which we do not in the least doubt, it must be admitted that Mr. Barclay has been shamefully ill treated. Our secretary applied to Mr. Dorant by letter, to learn whether he placed Mary Griffith, alias Miss Barnett, alias Mrs. Rouvellet, in a shop in Leicester Square, for the purpose of vending the Rev. Mr. Barclay's Antibilious Pills, to which he has not yet condescended to reply. We, however, learn that we are to be honoured with a letter from his solicitor. It was his duty to have placed a confidential person in such situation, and as he made use of a bishop's sanction, she should also have been a person of virtuous character.

In our next, we hope to be enabled to give a copy of a letter from a gentleman of great respec