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FRAUDS IN THE WEST INDIES. The Ninth Report of die Military Inquiry Com mission, which is now printed, treats of the Reports a other Commissioners appointed to exatnine the Accouuts of Public Expendittre for his Majesty's Forces in the West Indies, which Reports the Mili tary Commissioners declare to "disclose such a mass of public corruption in persons connected with the West India Military Expenditure, as has never pro bably been equalled in the history of this country," It appears that Mr. Isaac Phipps was appointed Deputy Paymaster-General for the West Indies In 1791, with express orders to proceed thither: " To draw for such money onlyas should be absplinely necessary; to negotiate the bills to the best advantage for the publid, and at the highest rate of exchange that could be obtained ; and to keep a regular account of the profit and loss which might arise there from. He was also to charge himself with the profit which rni;_lit arise from the Awe of coin to the troops; and be was to oxidbit to. the COmmander in Chief, as often as required, an exact account of all his receipts and payments, and of the balance remaining in his hands." These orders he executed in the following manner: be never performed the duties of the office in the West Indies at all ; he appointed as his • - leputies a succes sion of persons named J. Orzme, Hugh Rose, John Gordon-, and Sayers, who derived gain from the pub lic money in every possible way, of which gain he, Phipps, was a partaker (at one time by an indenture between the parties) to the amount of one moiety. Se The whole expenditure of the Pay Department in the West indiet, from 25th December, 1732, to 24th December 1800, is stated in the first Report of the Commissioners (for examining West India Accounts), to hate amounted to two millions and sixty-four thousand eight hundred and ninety-four pounds six shillings and ten-pence, but previously to Ist January 1794, the expellees of the Commls.ariat were paid through the Deputy Paymaster. The public bills which were remitted by or on ac count of the individual who acted for Mr. Phipps as Deputy Pay router, and which had not been traced by the Commissioners, as they state, without much I.bour and assiduity, amounted to about forty-one thousand three hundred pOunds, by Mr. Granite; sixty-two thousand pan nds, by Mr. Gordon; and sixty-one thousand pounds, by Mr. Sayers; on which the Commissioners make the following observation To what purposes the stuns thus re d milted were destined, whether wholly to supply fonds for mer • candle pursuits, for drawing private bills with advitntage, or for ▪ speculations of any other nature, dur means of intelligence will • not, at this moment, permit us to venture an opinion, although • we have positive proof of the proceeds of those remittances 4 having been applied to the pivot ass: of the persons whose 4 names are before mend med. The loss upon these bills by ex • change is nevertheless charged to the pubic, in the same man • ner as if they had been negotiated through o ther mediums in the • West Indies." " These are the more prominent parts of what is stated in the Reports of the West India Commissioner!, relative to the con duct of the Deputy Paymaster-General and of his Agents i duripg the period of the last war." The Commissariat comes next in order. Mr. Va lentine Jones was appointed Commissary-General in 1795, we believe ; after having held various offices collaterally or subordinately connected with it. _ _ " Mr. Jones, t.herefore, (as the Report states), even before he became Commissary General, bad had much opportunity of be • coming acquainted with the whole detail of the army expendi ture in the West Indies, both ordinary and extraordinary ; but this acquaintance, as will appear in the sequel, did not lead to a correct and faithful discharge of the duties, which, by accepting the office, he bad undertaken to execute." " In January 1797, the enormous amount of the bills drawn en the Treasury, not justified by any statement or account sent home, had so particularly called for the aniniadiersion of the Lords of the Treasury, that General Sir Ralph Abercromhy, then Commander in Chief, was desired to make an enquiry into the donduct of Mr. Jones ; and if the result was not entirely satisfac tory to him, he was further desired to send Mr. Jones home." 'We cannot enter into all the particulars of Jones's conduct. We shall give the following as a specimen: " Amongst Valentine Jones% vouchers (the Commissioners state), there was one dated 18th Aeg'ts;, 1796, in which it ap peared that Valentine Jones had bought of Murphy, of Do minica, precisely the same number of puncheons of rum, stated to be s/1 rum, at twelve shillings and fourpence-halfpenny currency per gallon, and casks at fifty shillings each. In an examination of Mr Murphy, tie Cosurnisi.ioners s:ate, that he denied any knowledge of the transaction ; but, that at the time when he was in Martinique, he was often a7l•licd to by the agents of Valen tine Jones to sign receipts to vouchers for articles which be had not supplied; that he bad no doubt but that the receipt for the price of the rum in question was one of th.:m. He did this, it • is further stated, because he understood it was a matter of • form, and done daily by all the marchants of St. Pierre.' On this transaction the Commissioners calculate the fraud on the pub lic to amount to nine thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine pounds seventeen shillings and nine-per.ce. " Other transactions In the purchases of rum are stated in their third and eighth Reports; in all of which the vouchers appear to Dave gone through the form of a certificate signed by the Com missary of Aecounts, Mr. Dori:ford ; but that the real quality of the rum, the price really paid for it, and genera'ly the real sel lers, are other than elk: represented on the face of the vouchers.'• To this we shall only add, that among the charges made to this Jones by his subordinate agents, is one for*" COLOURING" new rum, to give it the appear ance of old ; which new rum was served out to the British troops, while their country was paying for old for them. When we add to this, that the most de- Aructive waste of human life is occasioned in the Arest Indies by the use of new rum, and that pos iibly the colouring itself was a deleterious mixture ; our mind cannot extend itself to the comprehension )f any human punishment commensurate with the ;riminality of these miscreants. The following are specimens of Jones's conduct in the article of provisions : __ _ " It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Arthur Bair, a mer chant at Martinitlue, that in the years 179 G and 1797, certain carrous of IA-ovisions were consigned by lotiti, Tot b, and Cc. of Bel East it Irelard, to Valentine Jones, which Mr. Blair, at thedu.. sire of alcnt ;nt Jones, permitted to pass through his mime, un der ar agrip•n•tn: franc I ,, :tes, that he would take them for Gom verEr.lent a• a p:icew! , i:h ht: (Jones) fixed. The bills of lading were :lien tle;lened to Mr. :.'!air, who rec:ived bills of exchange from Mr. Jones fur the payment long before the provisions were clelivatkl into the King's stores : Mr. Blair said, that he could have Iro kirni of provisions cheaper in the island ; that Jon: , :fit t w:o VitlentiLe Jones's father. " 7::::1112w Hirins purchased, out of an American ssel t \ linntlicd pipes of wine, at fifty-nine pouvas !, (An zency per pipe ; this was afterwards sold to V.il•-11i; r Jones, for GI: Ilse oc the public,at ninety pounds curruncyi.er pip( . .c i r , ';slr, Ciudtn havicg offered to sell corny ft:l,:- to :he Corn .arc litre raf, Va!trtineJopes was referred 1 , 1. 1 zo N.% ai.a NOW purellased it at twelve ,!ollars per 1-7trr,i, lie would have sold it to v:dentire ii fcr tl!e same . 1 he Commissioner; state that in all Mr. Jones's';.rflour pu based during the it twenty-oa t dollars per bar_correspondirg rel was chat ed fi.r it." Jones's fraUds moon the public in the negotiation of bills are nest developed ; - and in the detail of these, the name of Mr. Hugh R.os?.the Deputy Paymaster's Deputy, again appears : an att..rnpt mod e by . J ones, too, to ensure concealmere, is d.. - tected in a letter to Mr. John Glasford, a prson at that time under exa mination by the Commissioner. " On the whcb," • says Jones in that letter, " yuu have one general 41 answer in your power, which is, that y ou cannot „ re member points of business so long gone by." 7 , 101 follow i ng i s the summary of Valentine Jones's conduct, 23 Five:: in one of cite Commissioners' ke - ports, of *itch the Report before us is the review : It Roisters therefore to us, that Valt•nrine loneauety surly ' framed slid estaldished,by means of combinations and intricacies I almost impervious, an over-ruling and highly injurious toluene, • over the whole transactions of the public, - tonnected with the • pay and enormous extraordinaries of the why' iu this part of • the world: This influence was dissemidated in various diree• tions, through every branch of the department, and embraced • persons of even the lowest description employed therein p--and • this influence, matured into a regular and far-extended system, • produced an immediate loss and injury almost incalculable;— ' and its remote consequences have been-little less prejudical by • furnishing examples and precedents, tbjaare tobe clearly traced • since that period, in nearly all tratupertions of a similar deverip • tion:. " We have now (say the Military Commissioners), concluded what more immediately relates to Valentine Jones himself; but we find a large mass of evidence dispersed through the West- India Reports, imputing the most dishonest conduct to many of Valentine Jones's assistant or resident Commissaries in the diffei. rent islands, and to ethers in the public departments of Govern ment. Thus in the Second Report from Barbadoes, dated Ist May, 180:." it appears front the examination of Martindale, who had been clerk to the Resident Commissary at Bridgetown, Wil liam Smith, that his master had sold rum from the King's stores at a dollar per gallon, and replaced it bt other rum for which he paid Ss. 9d. and that a formal complaint of this transaction was nude to Valentine Jones,ivho refused to listen to it. Another transaction of the same kind is stated In the Sixth Report, of Fret well Philips, Assistant Commissary in Barbadoes, who, in 1797, employed an auctioneer to sell or.* hundred tierces of damaged flour from the King's stores, and got him to sign a false vendee paper as for two hundred and fifty tierces, sold at the same rate of price, by which Philips could take cre dit in his store account for one hundred and fifty tierces more than were told, and ap ply them to his own use at the inferior price of damaged flour.-:- And in the Eighth Report, dated St. Vincent, Ist August, 1894, it is stated, that Michael Sutton, the Assistant Commissary, was in the habit oftaking the empty casks as his own peredisite, for which he received at one time upwards of one thousaud five hun dred and eighty pounds." The Report next notices the inadequacy of the pre sent system of keeping accounts to check and prevent such frauds and abuses, and recommends that a Board of Accounts, consisting of three efficient Members, should be established. " Ii such a Board, constituted with the powers specified in the 'Report of the late West India Commissioners, ivere to reside in that country, and were occasionally to visit the several islands and colonies, the Commissioners think that the appointment of a Conunission, like that of the Selected Commissioners, would not be wanted."—They add, " We may state, therefore, that al though the orpence of such a Board, would, no doubt, greatly ex-. ceed that of the present Office of Accounts, yet that it would pro= bably be much less than the expence of the present Office of Ac counts, and of that of the Selected Commissioners together. And it seems at the same time that the simplicity of the duties of such a Board, and probably its efficiency also ' would be superior to their concurring duties. Were it though: advisable to adopt this suggestion, the Board should be instructed to keep regular mia mites of all proceedings, to sign all e2rtificates and other public acts, and to state, if they differ in opinion respecting any matter, their reasons fur such difference at large, and to enter them with their signatures in the Book of Minutes. It would be expedient also, that the three Commissioners should give security, like the °Hirers in the Pay and Commissariat Departments, conditioned that they will not be interested in Any plantation concern, or other business or dealing in the West Indies.'.! The Report also suggests--" that the judicial administration in the West Indies would be improved, if Chief Justices were apa pointed from this country, whose qualifications should be, that they have been practising Banisters at the English Bar, of seven years standing at least ; that they should be 'restricted f rom ? being connected in any plantation concern or mercantile engagement in the West Indies; that their salaries be paid by this country, and be 20001. sterling per annum, without any fees or perquisites whatever." The Commissioners then conclude their Report in the following words : " We have, now completed time slew of the abuses in the West India 4rmy Expenditure, and of the Measures to he adopted to prevent their recurrence, which we have undertake, to exhibit. The evil has doubtless been of great magnitude, widely extended, and deeply rooted. But if the opportunities for fraud shall be ditninished, by making the contracts in this country for the neces sary supply of the fortes in the West Indies; ifa reviler controul over those who direct and !nonage the expenditin e be established, if the account be investigated soon after it is incurred ; and if, in case of malpractices, the offenders be immediately prosecuted in the country, and an impartial and firm administration of the law can be insured ; it may be expected that the evil which his here tofore existed, will be in a creat decree prevented. LAIY IiGELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 34. COWAN v. MABBItLY. Mr. GARROW stared this to be a qui tam action, to recover penalties to the amount of £4O, under the statute of Elizabeth (the sth Eliz. c. sect. 31 which prohibited any smith, mason, carpenter, &C. or any other trade therein specified, from employing any person as journeyman who had not served a regular apprenticeship to such trade, under a penalty of 40s: for each offence. This Act of Parliament was passed for the purpose of protecting those who had taken the trouble of acquiring knowledge through the ordinary mode of acquiring it, by apprenticeship, against those who might set up without such skill, and without having taken the ordinary pains to ac quire it. The defendant was an eminent coachmaker, and employed many hands in the various branches of which coachmaking consisted ; among the rest seve ral blacksmiths, who had not served a regular appren ticeship, and therefore he had incurred these penalties in the instances in which he had employed such men. But what was curious was, Mr. Maberly had gone the cheapest way to work in the defence of this cause ; he had not retained any Counsel ; well Iknowing that my Lord Chief Justice would watch the plaintiffs case, and see that it was proved, with more correct ness than any gentleman at the bar could do.—lt then appeared in evidence, that the defendant employed tcn or a dozen smiths, some of whom had not served an apprenticeship, but not that any of them had:pre viously worked at the trade less than seven years ; but that none cf them were employed purely at smith's work, but were engaged in the mixed and compound character of coachmaking, and used to do only that part of smith's work which belonged to coachmaking, opon w:iich Lord ELLENBOROVGII observed to the Jury, that if they were of opinion that the defendant had employed these smiths, or had employed carpenters, wheel wrights, painters, or those of any other trade, in his ccmfiound business of coachmaker, and not in the simple trade itself of blacksmith, &c. he could not he said to have incurred the penalty of this Act, even if he had employed 50 men who had not served an appren tice,hip. It would be hard indeed if he were liable, in such a case, because it would then follow that any man who undertook to build a bridge must be liable for these penalties in every instance in which there happened to be empked either mason, carpenter, or smith, who had not served his apprenticeship ; and many of each of these trades must be employed in that undertaking. The statute of Elizabeth meant that the penalty should a ttach i only where such persons were employed in any one of these trades:hat ty, and unconnected, not as they Wed here, as mere putts Of . a compound of trades, to produce something from , • I _ . • then 2 all, such ass eat& via,. If the Jury were of that opinion, they►' *mild find a verdict for the defendant. —Vergfict for the defattlant. LOAD Eu.susoaotron then observed, that Mr. Ma berly had gone somewhat economically to his defence, by declining to retain Counsel in this case, and leay 7 , 4 ing it to his 'Lordship to watch the plaintiff's case but however he had a right to do so. The Clerk of the Attorney for the Plaintiff said,. that Mr. Maberly had declared that he had no id.ta of the necessity of defending this cause by Couusel, because the plaintiff must be nonsuitei upon the poin t of law, if he should be able to prove the fact oil which he sued. ERA The Nint mission, wh of other Co Accouuts o Forces in tl tary Commi of public cc West India bably been • 1 • It appear . Deputy Pa 1791, with " To draw fc to negociate tl the highest rat a regular ACCO' from. He v rni;.,lit arise fn I I exidbit to. the exact account remaining in 1 These on he never pe Indies at ali sion of pees Gordon, ar lic money i; Phipps, wa between the " The who indiet, from S stated in the West India At sixty-four the shillings and to expellees of t Paynauttr. ' ' count of the in router, and w they slate, wi about forty-on sixty-twothow pounds, by M following obse 4 mitred were • candle plant' 4 speculations • not, at this t • we have posi 4 having been 4 names are be 4 change is an • ner as if the) • West Indies. " These are Reports of the duct of the De the period of tl The Corn lentine Jone 1795, we bi collaterally " Mr. lone became Comm coming acqual ture in the W this acquaintaz correct and fail the office, he h " In Janus: en the Treasui ' home, had so Lords of the 1 Commander it Conduct of Ml tory to him, We cann, conduct. V 44 Amongst state), there 14 peered that V: minica, precise be els , rum, at por gallon, ani of Mr urp! knowledge of I in Martinique, tine Jones to not supplied; price of the rui • is further sti 6 form, and dc this transaction 1k to amount pounds sevente " Other tran third and eight Dave gone thro missary of Age of the rum, the lers, are other To this w made to this for" COLOUI ance of old British troop for them. I structive wa! West Indies sibly the colt our mind cm of any hump criminality o The follow the article of " It appearee' chant at Marti cat - roes of I)rovi Zelhist in Irelat sire of Valent;t: der an agrip.n•t.. vermenz a• a i were :hen • from Mr. !one del:vs:red I t he t:. that Jon: , ,:f it wise! it \ pour& .!,:.1..• . sold to curn.nry i r 1. " sell &only referred 1 , 1 . I i d!nllars per ha: 1/;:lentirt. Jr: that En all Mr c orrespont:irz rel was chart Jones's f of bills are the name c Deputy, al • too, to enst Mr. John 1 munition b says Jones sts answer ss rememh The 101 l BIR The Lady of the Rev. Sir Ch.uie. Anderson, Bart. of Lea, near Gainsbrough, of a daughter. , Friday, in Edwards-street, Portman-square, the Lady of the Hon. Captain Blackwood, R. N. of a son. Lately, at Lady Chatterton's, boutla Parade, Cork, the Lady of the Rev. R. Licksois, of Vermont, in the county of Limerick, of a daughter. Monday, at Redgrave Hall, Suffolk, the Lady of Vice Admiral Wilson, of a daughter. Friday, at her house in Lower Grosvenor-street, the Lady of Sir John Shelley, of 1 son. Friday morning, •the Lady of the Right Hon. Reginald Pole Carew, of a daughter, at his house. in New Cavendish-street. MitkRILD. On the 19th Inst. at St Itudrew's, Holborn, Wm. Lewis, Esq. of Walbrook, to Miss Rater, daughter of Sir Edward Mawr, Ban. of East Suttoo-place, Kent. On the Ist October last, P. B. Name, Esq. Captain or hi. Ma jesty's ship Culloden, to Miss Eliza Barlow, eldest eau g htsr of Sir George Hilaro B arlow, Ban. and K. B. Governor of kort St. George,Madras. _ . Tuesday last, at St. Pancras Church, Captain Valentine, R.N. to Miss Valentino, daughter of the late Mr. David Vale:nine, of Montrose. At Reading, Mr. Taylor, of Newport, lilt of Wight, surveyor, to Mist Biggs, of London street, Reading. DIED. Yesterday morning, Robert -Allen, Esq. He was one of the earliest and most expert of our charioteers. He caught a cold by being put into a damp bed at Epsom races. Lady Meredith, relict of Sir R. Meredyth, Ban. Lately, in the 52d year of his age, John Moran, Esq. Barrister at Law, and.sornetime a member of Univet sit) , college, Oxford. On the sth instant, at his house, '1 ottenham court-r,md, John Coppinger ' Esq. Master of the Report ()Lice, aged 76, sixty-one of whieghe was in that Office. Rev. Matthew Snow, rector of Clipsham, and vicar of Walter ley, Rutland. At Lea, near Preston, the Rev. James Haplock, formerly chaplain at Trafford-house. In the ssth year of his age, the Hon. A. Cole Hamilton, brother of the late, and uncle of the present Earl of Enni.hillen, flung years representative in Parliament for the coulty Fermanagh, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Tyrone Militia. At Glasgow, on the 9th ir.S. in her 71st year, Mrs. Robira Wright, wife of Doctrr Peter Wright, Physician, and mother of the late Mrs. Kent, of the Royal Hospital, Stonehouse. PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH MARKEL'. BAGS. POCKETS. Kent 31. Os. to 51. Os. rent 41. Os. to 61. Os East Kent 31. Os. to 4/. 15s. East Kent 51. its. Sutsez 21. 10s. to 31. 10s. Sussex 31. Ss. to 41. tits. Farnham (Pockets) 51. ss. to Sl. Os. per cwt. • COAL MARKET, May Ships at Market Ships sold 43 Newcastle Coals 39 425. Si!. to 550 3d. 3 Sunderland • 3 420. Od. to 45. 2 Culm 2 525. 6d. SALE-BY AUCTION. FREEHOLD EST.II4:, NEAR MAIDENHEAD, BERKS. By WiNSTAN.I .EY and SON, At Garraway's, on Tuesd.ly. lune 6, at Tw,:lve o'Clock, A VERY eligil):e FREEHOLD ESTATE, con iistingg of a brick-built Dwelling House, with Stabling, Barn, Catee Shed, Granary, Yards, good Garden s, Orchards, and three Enclosures of Arable and Pasture Land, containing in the whole by estimation, 10 acresl rood and 38 perches, pleasingly situate at Pinkney's Green, in the Parish of Cookham, and County of Berke, two miles from Maidenhead, three from Great Marlow, seven from Henley, and 28 from London; let on Lease to Mr. 'llonias Hussey, at a low rent. Alse two Co:tages ad j doing, with Careens and Orchards, let to tenants at will, at aCti 16s. 6d. per annum. To be viewed by application to the Tenast; particulars may be had at the White Hart, Colnbrook ; the Sun, Maidenhead; the Red lion, ; the Crowns, at Marlow; at Garraway's ; of Mr. Welch, Solicitor, No. 1, Printing house-square, Blaakfrbrs, London; and of Winstanley and Son, Paternoster-row. JAMES SKELTON, aged 26, of Walton on the J Hill, Epsom, Surrey, was Bevel. years afflicted with seven or eight holes in his right leg, and between 90 and 100 pieces of bone came away during that peried. The discharge and weakness increasing, unable unassisted to move, taking oft' his leg was pro prosed to save his life. He then eonEilently applied to SPII.S. BMWs PATENT ANTISCORBUTIC DROPS; in a year and a half, by th,:m atone, he is restored to health, and it is now throe years since he has followed his laborious occupation. He will satisfy any inquiries, personally, or by letter, post paid. The genuine Medicine has the words " By the King's Patent," ex pressed en ,the lsottle, bill of direction, and outside wrapper; and the King's duty is printed in black ink. Sold at the Dispensary, Noe 15, Soho-square, London, in small bottles of ss. tad. double bottles 10s.; and larger 11. 2s. Compound Essence to allay un pleasant irritation, ss. CHING'S PATENT WORM LOZENGES. W ORMS are the most frequent sources of Child ren's Disease. Their symptoms every parent and guardian of children should he acquainted with—They occasion loss of ap petite, a paleness of the colour of the face, emaciation, and irre gular state of the bowels, AtTenticd after with v!olerrt p ains, they bring on convulsions, they affect the grow t h o f the bo dy, and they prove fatal, by ending in a consumption or decay. Both as a pre vertative and cure of these-alarming complai n ts, the above excel lent medicine is universally allowed, on the testimony of the highest characters in this country, both In rank and respectability, t ; have no equal. Time pulAic approbation given to th e Proprieto r , from - a personal it nowlt,lg: of its wonderful success in their own familiesotamps its merit beyond competition, and gives a sanction to jt, of which no ether medicine of the kind can boast. Parents an&orhers who have the care of children should have this remedy as a family medicine to resort to, whenever the s.rnmelipr bowels of children are any way disordered, which it will alwaysne found to relieve. Sold 'Wholetale and retail, at Ching and Butler's, No. 4, Cheap side, London ; and retail by most country ♦enders, in boxes, at 26. 9d. and ss. 6d. each. SPRING PH !MC. DE VELNO's VEGETABLE PILLS are inoved by experience, to be the begt and most innwent Alterative purifi,.yr, and Sweetener of the Blool; aad those who are afflicted with the Scurvy, Scorbutic Eruptions, Leprosy, Ser idiula, or any other Disorders arising from vitiated Blood ; or those who have impair td their constitation by Dissipation, juvenile lndiscrntious, or Mercurial Medicines, should by no means omit a course orthe Vegetable Pills during the Spring. The operation of this valuable Vegetable Alterative is so pleasant and salutary as not to Into - fere with the avocations of business or pleasure; its action is cue fined to the animal juices, and requires no alteration or reszrzint in diet; it disAolvesin the stomach, blends with the food, and gradually pervades the theta] sting fluids, correcting in its passve any deviation front a state of convalescence ; in short, it is cite long sought for Vegetable Specific, or safe, but active, substitute for that fashionable mineral, Mercury; its efficacy excites the attention and surprize of medical men, for when all other medi cines have failed, De Velno's Pills may be relied on as a specific for all Disorders which originate in an impure or impaired state of the Blood. None can be genuine, wheresoever ' or by whomsoever sold, a Item the Bill of Directions Is signed In Red Ink, by the Pro. pastor, C. STAPLES. prepared by Mr. C. Staples, now sole Proprietor. end sold wholelisio and rota by Shit* and Edwards, No. 66, St. Paul's Chniik Yard. on the Iliotway, London. Pyles 4s. it and AIL .. 1 EtTrLER'S tELEDtATED RESTORATIVE TOOTH POWDER. B _ __-- EAUTY of Coontenance, and regula r ity so f F e 4. tures, are allowed to distinguish the British Fair; but th-. Proprietor of BUTLER'. TOOTH POWDER would 1r. , : to remind his Country-women ti.at the lustre of their Char:, . loses half its influence where tile Teeth are discolour d, cr a rotten anti unhealthy appearance—this is the more inexeus.n)le, as the present preparation affords the infallible ine.ms cf r- I nc v . f . l every blemish of the enamcl,•and is safe in its application, b.. 1 .4 _composed of Vegetebks. It is recommended to the attention of all ranks, as electing away every imperfecdons either in the colour, or the decay of Ole entutel of the Teeth, as rendering the Breath sweet and delecta.- ble, and making the Gums of their proper shape and verroinip o hue; and a certain preventive against-the Tooth -ache. No con.- position of this kind ever brought forward to public notice, hcs met such universal approbation; and the Proprietor has to boast that it is in daily use of Royalty itself. _ _ Sold, wholesilo and retail, by Mr. Butler, Na. 4, Chen; 5:, / , ,, corner of Paternoster-row ; and retail, by Crisp, comer of Spring Gardens ; Pisiding, 76, Oxford-street ; Clarke, 2g9, 130-i,i:•l ; Baxter, Edinburgh and Glitsgow,ind by most Cuuntri hit t. Venders and Perfumers, in boxes at 2s. 9d. each. RENOVATED HEAL'EIi. IT has been too frequently the subject of itttzt and general reprobation, that men destitute of the eleee•ee the medical art have offered themselves as can;!. se e hr public patronage in the profession of physic. For the p• „f doirg justice to the reeuh of our studies and experience-, e prevent us front being classed among chow empirice who,: ie dent pretensions have, uuforturately, for society, been too ably received, we beg leave to submit to the liberal and et.ez ened, a faithful statement of our pursuits. and acquireince ;- After having received a regular medical education, as tle peee s of Messrs. Grinds! and Blizard, whose lectures and prace.ce e carefully attended, as Profesors and Surgeons of the Londer. pita!, we entered ourselves u students in that justly °eel: :ea school for medical acquirements, the Royal College of l'e •:- burgh, and were instructed in the different branches of Anat.eee, Surgery, the Theory and Practice of. Physic, Chemistry, wifely,, Botany, &c. &e. &c by those en.inent Professors, Drs. Mons, Gregory, Black, Hamilton, Duncan, and Rutile:ford. We trust we shall not be deemed presumptuous in saying, *at our proficiency and ac'quirements are not inconsiderable. Having for a long series of year. made VENEREAL COMPLAIN'! S, ' and the various diseases of DEBILITY, ..kie particular object of our studies and practice, it will, we hope , li allowedehat we havo acquired superior keowledge of their treatment and care. la slight and recent cases of infection, a perfect re-establishment is completed in the short period of two days, and In these of the utmdst inveteracy, where other practitioners have failed of suc cess, a proper perseverance in our plan of treatmeut ensures to the patient a safe and radical cure. Amidst. Vie melancholy variety of disorders which are the ef fects of a habit long and mutt tinheppily pursued by the youth of both sexes, there are mote mere:clan:ling or mole distressing than those deficiencies and debilities which frequently prevent or err bittertitte matrinionial state. To such persons it must be a soling reflection to know that they may Dow, by a new and int.:l -lible mode of treatment, be restored to that greatest of all eetnen blessings, a strong, manly, and viecreus constitution. hi all c. - .scs of Debility, from whatever cause arising, as well es in every cies of Venereal infection, we may be consulted by pearl:: s of either sex with the greatest secrecy and honour. Hours of coe sultation at home from ten to three, and IrDlll six in ate eveniag till ten at night. ' Patients in the country lee requested to state the particulars ot their case, age, and general habit of living. &c. leclosiug a remit tance for a:teice and medicines, when the saint ovine he given or ent to any par: of the kingdom. To teeter" that secrecy so es sential to our undertaking, the postage of it tters ma be added to the accoent for medicines. CURRIE aIaL Co. Surgeons, Nn. Ur. Ilattor Garden. WHEN PROFESSIONAL MEN of Education and Responsibility- deviate front the General System by the 'ries:ion of a particular braush, the sanction of long -continued success is the hest criterion of superiority. ,Fotorteeu yeas have we devote d our practice to the exclusive treatment of two disorders, and the successful result of our plan gives us additional ardour t 3 oppose, as far as we are able, the raysges of those complaints which are the most important in tke catalogue of human infiratiies. After initiation into carry branch of practice, we conternplaA the 'offerings of hiphylltie and Debilitated Pa'ients, and formed a wish to rescue indlvtduab from the ignorance of uneducated rani. or the equally dangerous precipitancy of general practitioners. The disorders, to the cure of Which we have devoted our atten tion, comprise every - spees of Venereal Infection, whether of a recent or lung duration: 2dly . , all kinds of Debility, whether atii jog from the habits of sehool-boys, or the indulgencies of mature age.—Numerous distaste are the result of ignorance, or haste in the treatment of a simple Gonorrhera, and it not unfrequently hap pens, that the seeds of life are poisoned by the indiscretion of :a unguarded hour. By a suprriof method such complaints are easily cured; and even where others have failed, we trust that We fray proslnne to off , T a radical re-establishment. , Few, huweeer, are the cases of iompßeated distress in this,dis order, compared with the calamitous situations of mee, who, from an indulgence in a Solitary Vice, or the prevalent gaieties of a fashlortable life, acquire that state of debility, which is the tua avoidable consequence of such pernicious habits. Where the unhappy sufferer broods over his misery, bat care fully conceals his misfortune, it may be some consolation for hint to know, that although it be an object of doubt or uncerta'nty with other practitioners, the removal of these deficiencies by the gradual progress of renovation is the acquirement of our tea perlence. If the rites of Bacchus or Venus have begun to reduce manly vigour, much anxiety will he prevented by an carlycounteracticn of this languid state, and in those erica, no great difficulty will occur. But where this deficiency haS for years existed, a proper purses %Trance is indispensibly requisite to revive the slumbering sparks of life, and to re-animats. the constitution. • . The set recy which is so essential to our undertaking, and ti.tt qualifications which we presume to state, form Vie basis of ore pretensions, and the coincides ce with seek this intirtatfon iS given that Messrs. LEIOII and Co. may be eorsuftecl personally, or by letter, (inclosing a Bank Note) at their house, No. ?.9, Arindel street, Strand, near Temple Bar.—There Is an additional entrance in Water-.tret:t aloining, and the name is on both Doors. A Diploma front the Royal College of Surgeons in London, andTestinionials from the mosteminent Physicians and LeCter.Ts oh regular education, and assiduous attention to the studies of every branch of the profession, are open to the inspection of ary enquirer, and constitute a fair ground for that worst with which we have hitherto been honoured. IL LEIGH and Co. Sutgee I* • TO THEIR CORRESPONDENTS. • LEIGII and CO. have the lin:lour to observe, that although, according to ill- plan on tie? principles of integrity established by their Pre.lcoessor, as far back the year 1794, it was never hi.; praticb to ac cept any fee fur the first interview, where the• terms stated for the full treatment of the case were not perfectly satisfac tory ; and although this plan of stating the terms plainly and unequivocally, and refusing a fee on the disapproval of Iher., is still and ever will be strictly adhered to; . the occupation id their time in the Corresponding Department is such, that no let ters whatever are, or can be answered, unless a Bank Not: is in closed An in Complaints where. the parties are urgent fr an instant supply of Medicine, the liberal mind win not object to at-- inclosure proportionate to tke nature of the case, or the opulence of the party. Messrs. LEIGH and Co. sanctioned by regular Education, by 3 , Diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons in Lond,r, ,31" which the principal Partner is an examined and approved Mein• ber, and by certificates and the strongest testimonials of ability from she most eminent Phy';:ians in London, continue to confine ' their practic^ to tee cure of those Complaints which are cu::- traeted in a moment of intoxication, and of that state of debility which is mused by youthful imprudence, by which life becomes emhitt•ered, or the possibility of progeny prevented. Patien s in the Country will have the goodness to t!..iscribe every symptom of the complaint, their age, and manner of livimt, and for the purpose of, inscrutable secrecy, letters containing hos need not be post paid. • _ _ No. 29, Arundel -street, Strand, near Temple-Bar. HIGH WA I'ER Al LONDIM. 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