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Cordials 20 Shells 5E15...1 n di a Scarfs . 2 Boxes Saccades 6 Jars and 4 Bottles Pickles I to , W ads row Peti 6 Corn Fans 1 Shawl 10 Baskets 4 ltdO Muslin Dress Pieces 6 Roils Paper. • cis Dad s TOR sus ITEM: :1 ta . . 1 ' ,t weed Work Dag 50 raper Prints id dw 2 Hooks of Prints. ID o . cud Cow 7 .... y a ny be inspected on the uzy previous, and on the morals; of the day of We. g /posit of Twenty-gve per Cent. will be required -------FiNk SALE BY AUCTION, 3 , ovier d a* Honourable the Demented/mere of Ms Majesty's owl s, at the Custom -House, SOMMA UPTON en T r ams, the 10th day of September, MS, at Eleven oTist in the Forenoon, THE GOODS UNDER-MENTIONED, For Home Consumption : 4 Ery excellent Assortment of CORAL, weishint alsout r ....L. consisting of Necklaces, Bracelets, Ear-Drops, &c. &c. o Ij Articles, convening Thread Lace, Lace Veils, c ome . Canon 131 whets, Card Boxes, Ditto Markers, _lvory Pa.. : ...i Sti c ks , Ivory, Tortoiseshell, and other Fans , Necklaces , Links% Ear -drops, Cruises, cut Pebbles, Muslin Dresses, nai Boxes, Snug Di tto , hire Screens, Deal Ends Battens, Vas; Paper, Nankeen , Cotton Towels, Straw Liam, Tea, (~,o, Periusnery , Leghorn Bonnet, Naples Soap, WaX Candles, • - 1 and coloured Prints, Wine, Brandy, Geneva, Cordials, On the lit of September will be published, in evo. prise Red. it/rEMOIRS of COUNT DE LA$ CASAS, the IV.I. Companion of Napoleon. Conununicated by Mama— Comprising his Snret Correspondence with Lucien Bonaparte, discovered by Sir iludson Lowe; including the Narrative of the Voyage to, and Residenee at St. Helena, their manner of living and the treatment they experienced ; to which is added, a Let ter of Count Las Cases to Lord Bathurst, written front Frank fort. Printed for Henry Ceflourn, Conduit-street. • BONAPARTE, CONTINUATION 01 TIER CORRESPONDENCE le DR. O'et itArRA. " To BARRY O'MEARA, Faq. " PLANTATION House, MAT 3, 1/118. " Ste—Referring to your letter to Count Bertrand, wherein you state in one part, that you are not to stir out of Longwood, and In a subsequent part, that you see it was the intention; by subjecting you to such restriction (which you arc pleased to ion sidefthe same as those imposed upon the French twisonerid, to' °Wise you to quit, I amellreeted by the Governoe to convey to you his sentiments as followe : " The mode of expression in the first initanee, end the total omission of all those exceptions, which constitute the chief va. riety between your situation and that of tlie French prisoners, particularly that where you are allowed to quit Lougwood on asking the Governor's permission—the silence observed in your letter to Count Bertrand, on all points contained In the Gover nor's inetrimtions enperteining to your medical duty—the substi tution of any inference whatever of your own, in place of the in struction given before any explanation was sought from the au thority which transmitted it to you—your immediate appeal to Napoleon Bonaparte and Count Bertrand, even before you ad dressed your Naval Superior—your preference.of written com munication over a verbal one to Count Bertrand, with whom you bad every opportunity of verbally communicating—of a ver bal to a written one to the Admiral, whose assent was required previous to your waiting upon him, in both of which cases a pro- clamation was to be broken through or an order disobeyed— your disobedience of the Governor's orders Immediately on re ceiving them, and your openly declared disavowal of his autho rity when you went to wait upon your naval superior, are cir cumstances upon which he shall not make any further comment, than to say, that n 9 purposed design to Mine insubordination, to create the greatest possible embarrassment in the Governor's relations with the person under his custody—to mislead, to in flame and irritate, and to cover a double 'stew of quitting a per son whom you had pledged yourself not to quit, and at the same time to make the act appear that of the Governor, could have been well devised. The Governor knows- not in what degree the inconveniencies which your most insubordinate, disrespectful, and eetraordinary line of conduct may be remedied ; but he shall neverthel:ss nut neglect his duty in pointing out what be consi ders the conduct you ought to pursue. " Ile authorises you, in the first instance, to shew the instruc tion you have received, and to point out the too marked differs ences etistine between its words and what you quote from it in your letter to Count Bertrand, as above stated. " Ile authorise* you, at the same time, to controvert, upon the Governor's'declaration, that there was any intention on hie t ort .to compel yeti either to resign or quit. He knew before. hand of your intention. to resign, but it never entered into hilt mind that you could have been awaiting any order that you might deem objectionable front him, to base the tender of your reeigeatioe upon. " Ii it had not been from consideration of the state of Napo- Icon flonaparte's health, it would have been the Governor's meat heunden duty not to have awaited the form of any resit"- den from you, but halm removed eau gt once from a siva tfon vilsich he conddered you ought nO longer to be permitted to MI, as well from tea unauthorectd pleigee you had mitered into within person situated as Napeleou Bonaparte is, so long con )3, ceded front the.authority yeti -were under (of w hich a new one appears in your letter to Count Bertrand), as your having ren dered yourself a channel for presents, and bearer of private and unauthorised comanutications in regard to them ; not tb speak of the acts and line of proceeding touched upon in the second paraeraph of thi, letter. " It not having removed you upon such manifen grounds of impropriety, he has carried his personal consideration for Napo. lion Bonaparte to the utmost extent which humanity points out, and very tar beyond what his public duty ought to permit. " He 'pow desires me to conclude with saying, that if Napo. leon Bonaparte does not, in hi present situation, derive the full benefit of your medical advice, and dots not have personal re course to the same,it is your line of proceeding he shall consider and treat as the leading cause, it being entirely the result of your suffering yeerself to be employed in matters not pertaining to your medical duty, in defiance of Proclamation and the Gover nor's repeated directions to you, of your unlawful letter to Count Bertrand for Napoleon Bonaparte's information, and of your openly declared disavowal of the Governor's authority imme diately after you had written it. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) "Esswean We-antes°, lieut. Col. Mil. Sec." " To Colonel WYNYARD, Military Secretary. " Loivowooo, May 14, 1818. 0 Sni—According to the directions contained in your letter, bearing date the 5d of May, I bare communicated the orders contained in Sir Thos. Reade's letter, of the 10th April, to Count Bertrand. " In reply to some of the observations contained in your let ter, I have to remark that the French Pri,oners can leave Long wood without asking any person's perraiesion, and that during nearly three years which I have been here I have bad no refe rence to make for judgment, or decision to any Naval °Meer, not even the Admiral, with respect to my duties as S.irgeon to Napoleon Bonaparte, since the period when Sir Geerge Cock burn gave up the charge of him. On the 12th, as soon as I re ceived the orders of Sir Thos. Reode, T. proceeded to the Ad miral, net to take his orders, but to consult him and to crave his advice, as I would have done to my father, were be in St. Helena, in consequence of having, since I have been in the ser vice, considered .Admirals in that light. " I am not in any wise culpable or accountable for the incon veniencies which may result from the extraordinart conduct which has been pursued with respect to me, as the order of the 10th of April was premeditated for a long time, end I gave no tice that it would be followed by an immediate resignation. " My conscience would not permit me to tell Count Bertrand that the Governor had rot any intention to remove me from my t-fEALTH • situation, or to say that I intended to give in my resignation, el is 80 great a blessing, that every at- because have already declared that assertion to he untrue. „,___'7?t directed towards its preservation, must at least de. " I have entered into engagements with napoleon Bonaparte, - .7.7: 4 small share of public approbation. but with Napoleon' Bonaparte as a private individual, and which e ' s:. e'll e. which Meter. CURRIE and Co. hold in their pre- I entered into with the consent of Captain Maitland (Captain of r 7- Rembers of the Royal Colleges of London and Edin- the ship I belonged to) and Lord frith, my then immediate Pk• M i.L l_lte n ed s. yin his Majesty's service, combined with their superiors. 6 ,17 Xi!! aed experience in the Treatment and Core of a "If Napoleon Bonaparte's health is altered for the worse, in 6 ,2 171 .4 t OinplointS, entitles them to the greatest coos - cor.sequence of the cessation of the performance of my medical 7: ant eee .2c . need preference over all other Praetitimers. functions :sheet him, it is not my fault, but the fault of those n . ...: of eoyears successful practice in this Metrepobs, who, in opposition to evidence to my appointment,. and to the it - Z7tt: . ..rd co. have been enabled to make many valuable restrictions of Governmeut, in 1815, having given him to enders 4 ,, a 7 d7p .. 7runt Prrprovements in the Treatment and stand that I was not his Sargeon, but merely a Medical Ofilect b y .. "L' red i screams, Nervous Relaxations and Debi- of the Navy perineed to assist him. il ... 2_crou ar t es , of :he Urethra, dec. &c. By their superior ply, "I do not conceive that I have committed thc epuglest cabal ii Nt 7.7; P`tri::ares, of however long standing, or of the in having communicated to Count Bertrand . the circumst2oolll .. .. eur o: 2. u tekind, are vpsdile and permanently cured. whic4a obliged me to quit Lellivintid tem., lore : nod Co. offer their asslitanes in ail eases of "In like manner having always considered myself as 1 4 ‘14 - 1 ,i.,,._ - ;:r t :: .. -, and in every cornplaintof 'Debility, whether icon Bonaparte. Surgeon, Ido not conceive myself in any man t„,4;:::tire.,:trri..r..i.teareatiotene,offeeee l er e rt io ai g n , ne destn ael i g eti th ve ce hehit, long net accountable in not having made use of any mystery with seine, ere- blm, respecting nay conduct, which might have weakened the Knee fe e . i '' '"f ma:.ti vigour. confidence he had in me as a medical man, not knowing any 1, 10 , 4 ~. ...e el Co. may be consulted by Patients of either bounds to set to that ccufidence, except such as my duty as an le o k , ": ,_ e. tin delitT.ey, secrecy, and honour , at their Erieredi sub . ;ect, the interests and honour of my Ceililtry, or 9bc lee*:is''• 1 7 0 cs 1 1-ttoll-;116:14 where Certificates and 'resti- dice to the Act of Parliament prescribed. mss".', ' ~., woe :Lae tents of remuneration are plainly • I must repeat, that to all the verbal insinuations which I Linn , ;. r .: . .. , t,11 , 1t W. received, I elswered by demanding written orders. eilis e a ...• e- Al i, et:closing a Bank of England Noe, " Any assertion that I had made engagements with the French 1 1l i. f l y - - •••rd' "' d the I'' , crwatY Xeilinnis 41 . 01 atria dif a &mire reouiripe conreelrner.t, I doela;e to be a calotnev. ' '' '' ' h . ki o B 4 :lll.—llerton-Barden. said were it made by a private person, and tin Eeelsad, I CIPOSTATION : TerT considerable t.f Wronzht Silk, Silk Shawls, and Stociciacs, China Crape, Kid qbaves, &c. &c. All bat 'aces seized ar.d legally condemned. ALSO, rOR 11011 r. cossesseeto:s : 173 Pieces of French Porcelain, consisting of Vases, Tea and Glee Sex ices, Dessert Plates, &c. &c. which having horn un ionised Importation, have been detained for the benefit of de Cron. on, above Coral will be lotted so me to accommodates pri se irdisidaale as will as the trade, and the "whole may be siewel,th office hours, three day previous to the Sale. - - Os the Ist of September will be published, price is. No. V I T HE CATHOLIC GENTLEMAN'S MAGA ZINF, embelli.heil with a fine Engraving, and containing insat of the JESU IT6-1. Their Rise and Progress; 2. isvr. Node of Education; 3. Their Missions in Paraguay; Missions in China ; S. Their Anti-ehristian and Anti-' chic Adversaries ; 6. 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It also fries the flair from scurf, !gas it soft and glossy as silk, and keeps it in curl during exer ts' m dancing or walking, or in damp weather. Price 3s. 6d. Badt ATKINSON'S VEGETABLE DYE Claart Grey or Red Hair on the Head op Whiskers to a &eft or Itaci ; warranted perfectly innocent, and to give a Prikrtent Colour. Price sv. 10i. (id. and Oae Guine , ATKINSON'S AMBROSIAL soAr, turti by anew process, which frees it from all irritating re a"ti Freckles, Redness, and hardness from the PftveCtS iu (lapping, and makes It soft, white, and even. ,7 4 1 a du pure, and prepared with Naples Soap, for Shar e Flu' 9d. la and Is. 6d. each. Sold by J Atkinson, Perfumer, No. 44, Gerrard-street, 11 c 4 6 , are: and by most: Perfamers and kiaio.dreseers is Tvel and Com tr 7. I would prosecute the author for defernaf...m. If there art any accusations of such a ;attire to reproach me with, why has not his Excellency the Governor caused them to be communicated to me? I wowld, in a moment, have dissipated them. You assert that I have served u a distributor of presents. If you allude to what took place with the Rev. Mr. Boys, as having given umbrage to the Governor, why has it not been commun6 l cated tome until the Ed of May, twenty-three days after the order of the 10th of April? M. Orion. the maitre d'hotel, died on the Rid of February last. Messrs. Boys and Vernon attended his funeral, and although he died in the Roman Ca theinc persuasion, buried fits corpse in consecrated ground, ar.d re= the Funeral Service over it according to the rites of the Protestant Church. This conduct appeared liberal and Roble, and General Montholoo asked' Mr. Boys in what manner he =old manifest to the clergymen the satisfaction which their innduct bad given? to which a reply was made, refnsing any retribution fur them, but observing, that it donation for the poor would be aesq.tabit.. This decided Gen. Mondial= to I give to crich of thou Gentlemen a Chinese snuff -bog of trifling value, and EEL to the poor. Some days after Mr. Boys, hee -1 ing breakfasted with General Idontholon, received the 25/. fur the poor, aid dor bus ; amid a few days subsequent, departing fee gltiod, he sent thoboo to me, asking me to beg General • Menthol= to send it to him through the annul of the Gower- Jur, in order that he might be able, without any scruple, to chew it in England. When T received the letter and the. box, Mr. Boys was gone, which obliged me to return the box, on the spot, to General Munthulon, 'to whom I made kndwn Mn &yes desire. This, Sir, is the history of my conduct ; and I have reason to believe Mit the 251. were deposited in the funds by Mr. Boys, for the use of the poor. There is no man *hose actions, even praise-worthy, are not liable to be denigrated and perverted by the breath of calumny, which, however, is easily confounded amongst just and tags.- • cious patients. '• It appears, however Sir, from your letter, that the ord2r of the 10th of April was really a pudishment inflicted upon me by the Governor, without healing stir, and without making known to me, until twenty-three days after, the crime which had given such ucabrage to him. I must b 4 Lave merely to observe, that such conduct is not conformable either to the English laws 01 customs. " I remain, Sir, &c. &c. Ste. (Signed) " BAPILY E. O'ltleasa, Surgeon." REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE ON TIM - STATE OF PRISONS lY THE METROPOLIS. (Couthmed from our Paper of yesterday.) TOTHIL.FIELDS PRISON' Is a place of confinement within the City and Li batty of Westminster, and prisoners are committed there from the neighbouring Police Offices. These prisoners are of various descriptions, and comprehend those who have committed nearly all the different va riety of crime. They were, when your Committee' inspected it, persons who had been committed for felonies, fines, or felons working out their term of imprisonment, misdemeanants, disorderly- persons, vagrants, and debtors, as well as prisoners commit ted-for re-examination. The average number of persons daily in this pri son may be taken at 97 ; wher your Committee vi sited it, 76 were there confined; but the greatest number that the present jailer has ever had at one time was 158; 121 males, and 57 females. Ia the rear 1315, there passed through this prison, 1,i;35 Wons; in 1818, 1,835 ; ...tad in 181?, 2,652. • Officers Of the Prison.— ; The jailer (Mr. Nodder) is appointed by the Magistrates for the City and Liberty of Westminster at a salary of £490 per annum ; he has a house to live in free of taxes, but no other per quisites. He has under him five turnkeys and a watchman; the head turnkey has one guinea and a half per week; the second, who afficiates as clerk, £1 Ils.; the other three and the watchman, 255. per week each. The C.iaplain.—The Rev. John Shelton has a sa lary of £5O a year; his duties are to attend once on a Sunday for prayers, and a sermon : this is the only time he is required to be Mere, but he visits the pri soners two or three times a week. The surgeon (Mr. Hanbury) enjoys a salary of 4;80 a year, and he prc .vides the medicines for the sick; he visits the prison almost daily ; he has filled the situation 52 years. Classification of Prisoner;. —The prison is divijed into several small courts, separated by an iron railing; but hardly any separation can substantially be said to exist, and persons committed for almost all species of offences associate together. On the day the Com mittee visited the prison, they found in the felons', yard on the male side, felons for trial, fines, or fe lons working out their terms of imprisonment, and several individuals committed for re-examination on felonious charges. The misdemeanants and assaults were confined together, and the yard in which they I were opened into that where the vagrants were de- I mined, In that yard were two children, one of 11 and the other 12 years of age, who were laced there out of compassion, to keep them out oldie felons' ' yard. The debtors too were confined with the mis demeanants and assaults. On the female side, felons, fines, women for disorderly conduct, and those for reexamination, are all intermingled with each other; all live in the same day-room, and sleep in the same apartment ; the yard communicates with that which is appropriated to the use of the debtors ; and as the' door can be opened at the pleasure of any one, the two classes of prisoners may be considered as asso ciated with each other ; these yards are very spacious and roomy. Sleeping-rooms.—On the male felons side there are two small wards, each containing about 16 feet of I barrack bedstead, in each of these 14 persons have slept ; the bed-rooms on the male side are all con fined as to space when the prison is full, or has even I its ordinary average of inhabitants. On the female side, the lodging-rooms are more spacious, and both the debtors and the other prisoners are less incom moded from want of room than those on the male side of the prison; besides these apartments, and the cells for the apprentices, there is a room containing four beds for the felons; for the use of which they pay a shilling a night, if they sleep singly, but if two in a bed, 6d. each ; this indulgence depends al together upon the person seeking is having it in his power to pay the sum demanded: these payments are carried to the County account, and i the last quar ter they amounted to £26. The be.'.: consi-t of a mattress, blankets, sheets, and a bolster ; ail the other prisoners are provided with blankets, in the proportion of five tlankets to seven men ; and straw is furnished in the winter. Feed.--One pound of the best wheaten bread is provided for 'every prisoner each day; soup or greet is also given occasionally to the prisoners, partly at the expense of the County, and partly from the pri vate benevolence of the Keeper ; every prisoner is 4t liberty to purchase what food he requires, as well as a reasonable allowance of malt liquor. Hospitals,There are two hospitals in this prisod, one for the males and the other for the females ; that on the male side is on the ground floor, and opens into the yards; it is 19 feet long by 11 wide, and seven feet ten inches in height ; a wooden barrack or soldiers' bedstead extends all round the room, and on which the sick ire laid : a straw mattress and blan kets are also provided. The Keeper stated, that since he had been there, that place had been occupied by nine patients and a sick %yardman. The unfitness of the accommodation here, and the general deficiency of this part of the prison, your Committee wish to demonstrate by the fullowieg esesuples—A person hipthe name of John Burdon was committed to chit frients" in October last ; he was in a diseased and 'emaciated state, and the surgeon informed your Com mittee that he wished to place him in the Infirmary but he was in so diseased and isasty.a condition, and so offensively bad, as to be a nuisance, and as such he could not remove him from his ward to the hos pital ; he was thus left in his own room, stretched on the hare boards; the size of that room is 26 feet by 11, and in the same. apartment 2.5 persons slept. —Your Committee refrain from any comment on this circumstance; the verdict of the Coroner's Inquest was, that the unfortunate man had died from want of proper nourishment and medical aid. Your Com mittee have subjoined a copy of the information so taken, and they have examined the keeper and the surgeon upon the subject ; it does not, however, *, pear to them that any criminality attaches to either the one or the other.; and though the want of proper accommodation in the prison itself is most discredita ble to those whose duty it is to proVide it, and though the hospital is deficient in almost every thing which it ought to possess, yet neither in this case nor in any other that has come under their examination„are they satisfied that either the keeper or the surgeon . have been negligent or remiss in the execution of their re- spective duties. On the female side of the prison the hospital is over the first floor, and is tolerably-airy; it looks however into the street, and an easy comm.:- nication can be held with every passenger. Fuel.—The allowance of coal is very scanty ; it does not commence till the Bth of November, sod seven chaldrons and a half are given for the use of the prisonthroughotit the year. The keeper reports this allowance to be small ; the prisoners are com pelled to purchase coal, a. stfecies of garnish itchy.; levied on each other for that object; and from Val small quantity supplied by the •cennty, the keeper i*ives one bushel per week for each ward. t'sr, .7 " 4""44411 the keeper has seen any very distressed object, lie lias purchased him the necessaries that were wanted, and charged them to the sick allowances ; but the sur geon says - they have no authority for so doing : " . a man died lately in the hospital, and they had not a • shirt to give him, and many are there without a single rag besides those they have on." Health of the Ain:rem—The surgeon represents this prison to be remarkably healthy ; he states, how ever, that it is cold and damp. the allowance of food . and fuel inadequate, and 'that from 5 to 6 per cent of the persons confined there are afflicted by then matism. The number of sick for the last three yea,, your Committee have no means of ascertaining, as no account is kept ;but the surgeon assures thorn that the number is small, and that he considers this prison the most healthy in the metropolis. Irons.—No one is ironed here except those who are committed under felonious charges for re-examination. Visiting Magistrates.—llis prison is visited by Committee of Magistrates, who inspect it the week preceding each Sessions; occasionally too, a Magis trate visits it individually ; but no book is kept In which the observations of the visitors are minuted. Religious Attendance.—Divine service is performed I once every Sunday, and a sermon preached ; but there are no prayers on the week days ; the chaplain however often attends there, to visit the prisoners ; he keeps a book, into which he records his visits, and . any occurrences that may happen. Bibles and prayer books are kept in the Governor's house, and given to the men and women when they go into Chapel ; but it did not appear to the Committee that any were in common-use among the prisoners. The attendance in the Chapel is tolerably regular, the Chaplain says that the prisoners all conduct themselves orderly ; but as no cleik is appointed, great inconvenience is found in the performance of the service, there being no one to make the regular responses. Me Chap lain informed the Committee that lie *never admini stered the sacrament, and that no request has ever been made to him by the prisoners so to do ; the re; ligious impression of this unfortunate and guilty class of men must of necessity be very weak ; but your Committee can entertain no doubt, that where pri. soners are confined for two years, if the moral and religious discipline of the prison was what it ought to be, it would be most advisable to give the penitent• an opportunity of assisting in the solemn site of the sacrament. • Oa a review of the whole state and condition of this prison, your Committee are decidedly of opinion, that it is insufficient and inadequate, and they are happy to find it has been so presented by the Grand Jury in March last. Independently of the bodily suf fering inflicted on each individual committed to this prison by the want of necessary food; the over. crowding of many persons in one small room ; the mirture of prisoners of all habits together, the de. . ceased with the healthy, the dirty with t he' clean, debtors with felons ; the moral evils are, in the minds of your Committee, more distressing than the phy. sical ; and they are of opinion, that it is unbecoming and unseemly, in a civilized sold Christian country, 4 to have in the heart of its metropolis a prison, which should annually contain within- its walls 2,6 per.