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CRANIOLOGY, NN. IL ' • • c 1 '-‘ THE NEWLY DISCOVHENNI*NATOMT AND PHYSIOLOGY or vat bitittraiiiiii - iiitV4deittititx • Pi. BY psi. tali Stith There are two ftiedinientararrors into w hapeeple Sowed with diffeitief Irropottions of certain . mental :ulties commonly fill, whenever they consider any doettine—ilst, that of believing . ft before they ye examined' the etidenen; and. egendly, *that of ndemning it anterior to-investigation: These two ices of mind are equally iejorions to the advance. znt of science : they are opposed to each other, but -e equally hurtful to the progress of truth—just as .e rage for novelty, - a* well at the outcry airtime in ;ration; are bcith prejudicial to real impicermient. ew dicatteries too suffer from a variety of other/ s.+ ,ns—thiljeektay of the selfish and ctivetona,o4 - theireematemporuies the merit of iltiwhoa % bittr prigttorant persons, 4ksi ; eakehief will arise to their favassitowitirk teat roars of i m beati rM4 4 lo l .l l ** * • , hich pervades mankind, are stumbling/440 . n th e a th at icie n ce, which notbiog i tt:40044 1 4m11, ermines:se' e overcome. inert.* 104710011 ,neht.iteit OM* MotiVe.fcsk, 4 1 0 4 #14 . 4 1 ' prejudice againt,44crece. mtliffiwitat there have' • ern such a aaSei# lo WallsalkOAßAKii;4 o ,4 one to tip P4llial,llllbliriblvtidlteefoftei y pretends= to pidiesephy,Ahnf -sitting luyibing tie* Mei: he iietitral end reges ary consequent Me. "P JegtekArtly otseramxt power. ally onmYsettvitio Afst:t 1 . 4.044 the craniological iscoverien sf 0021 , 4nd Seibrelielos : but I was dater. ;mined to ixtvestiglie he myself the feel whereon the -ley and rad* wii4Ot entertained by table SHOW mists were fouided. • During my steals of camp• ative anatomy * and ; )while disteeth's different ani. nals when a boy. .I pis much struck with the gene.' forms of the crania of animak and have often felt surprised that among the many boasted comp :give anatomists whose Volumes fill our shelves, none , _ lad mad *ogitihf relnOtif.:betoreen thebrain sad the Jouster • - 44 • they described • minutely =nib the number of-tertabsts--they named with nrecisinnxbufhotsee4f.limbs.thar measured the in es s cented c ted ali t 11 41 1 Olt k e qilationsen. Afte rings of the ca. .erpillae. mad Csislapandat y but no netts* name, stimitchea Into the meet important of organs. altendiog • 'these investiga. :ions of the brain, the laziness of the individuals, and, ahem all, that etimptie plan of yielding so'nuiho fity, whereby peopluessau-eoaluire into that which some great: itheselYilpintniWy leanest ispattnin ) beinisibis.nsganald not find ft. atrthe . r reasons vib e zlir meat bad: net bens more succ before the present dap. ifkir f/ONlaaqt-.Mrai ill'if#ll.o l c I inaegrmiled. Awe nnr lanai of ipaftg a*ate.ly *.:,1#033i itS4 -naves. Constant preset-, timene, howerir, - that in them :racial be found the material Akipciples of our actions and 'character,; pre paid_ sig i l u tif :ikre, 'for the reception of the into reitinifAptsdßhialieatie in a loose sort of form i . e . ** Gera*** Arl'eral - years : egos ' I had always . cosi dcred too, thikehe nature dm. was never properly studied, and: that .e beat of. prejudices had deterred pluloiophers from the task. , There were severil other facts which occurred to me, by which I antici pated, something like what Dr. Gall afterwards pro mulgated. These subjects became additiOnally inte rmung frum a curious observation I had made, namely, ,that the exercise of particular faculties vio lently and continuedly produced sensations on parti cular parts of my head. I remember too, when a boy, that I always referred imagination or ideality to my temples ; and this probably because I then felt same sort of sensation in that region which has since bnn discovered to be the seat of the organ of ideality. The violent action into which any organ may be tail ed, frequently produces. I am persuaded, a sensa tion in the part, as Dr. Spursheina has recently de monstrated in his lectats owthe physiognentical .ex pression of the orgy* of the MOW. From these cir cumstances, and Fran weer curious facts I noticed in diseases, I was thee jest_ ni a Mate to be interested by the diweveties-ef Gekis 'nod .1 can say, that the meeting with kinbuires4 rolleatue in London, and hearing so many of m owe crude notions studied in tie truly • melltirolifte tower in.which they were t reated, on imipuselosim, esastkuted by far she WNWst period oty - fife fluid . scarcely bill* tiro iltylittgotietaef the anatomical 'spit otthek eftbesystem,when I steel Ali I have hitherto lolosio 100 0 01 111 leibrAPeiti end nerves is seem ehiters ran Andshoilsosegirsalmis et k gken in °lintel** is merely dw on a blank in the stimear, And Ie • Vaitifie es e ft talk, ..of Inquiry l When tke molar" el Gelidior by that same the mien for mally went. was Inetberaght tQ F,nglensh Many ob. , *tient arose Wort lead k, which were the caaleclFPc• of set sprint Prfaetioa and absur dity arising from the imperfect manner of treating of the system in its isilawey, and from the slimly of language. As many of these parthular *POMO allude to probably :dose in the minds of, .and On; elw-tate on other perms, I shall state them •frosni time to time in future numbers, and show that se 'mlimed way of regarding this theory by Dr. Spurs. Vim, is not Edge to rnitet objections; hoping thereby , t° Relate the sninsh.4.tooPle for the recepti9n of these novel domes* of the truth of which, continued investigation, and the forte of absolute evidence has convinced me. As to the deMaystrative or descrip tive past of it, localiti 4 :2 l : essi erts. this of cotsleave-to Dr. to demonstrate in his own publications. or while ! rejoice that in this wilderness of ignorance and etror doe thirst after truth • has been at length excited, yet if-le better that those ' *he have opportunity should quesmitie at she spring head of knowledge, then at any of the meandering ureamlets which` now flow from ft in 'A &Actions' around, utitmbne the plats ',hitt he in tOtsgrelatadis; ' an ce frval the miaimiliotasai* , Mnifit *.ft.l si ens RaildrivzH it iNirit Ilitvor ,• . . • , i 0 • 4 4. Tlitavotimma *ln tibestassiodod anfitatit WM , last/ story is known to es. Ws do ast. sato Is sisviiitke sacasymoss autbority.—ltpsv, Loofas, lassuary 11, hol y. ; Mr. Eorroa.The recent case iiaid to have occur-, 'red eta woman at flhoreditth being rescued from a premature Warmest, brings to my mind an instance attended with early aggravated circumstances,' r which hap to the young orphan niece of a mis tress of a ag school, in a village near Derby, last summer. 81se was reported to have died at eight o'clock in the =min,; and a young married lady in the neighbourhood wishing to see her corpse, was, ,after Much difficulty, permitted to do so about four cfclock in the afternoon ; and although so early after her reported decease, yet she was already laid out in ter' men, locked up in an inner apartment, and ndeened with Sewers, some of which were clasped in beshands, laid across her breast, and on the young lady's taking some of them, she found the fingers'per fectly pliant, and a pin • that had been carelessly em ployed to secure the head-clothes, had punctured the skin, and blood bad Bowed from the woona 1 in short alselad not the appearance of a< corpse, but on the cen tral kooked so b000dfol• *et thikyonng Lady could sbOsaioVeaclaiesing, ss Good Ocam.elte. is like an an . lem sere sbe is in Heaven 11 when, instantly, ...coliss rod iss'oress slemspistall over the face , boat elt wenn, tad • such odser •unequivocal RV* Ci Morgan life appeared, tbst the young Lady pi* considerable endeavours to induce the nurse to teinOve the body to a warm bed, and to. use proper Methods to procure reanimation, but in vain, she de diutithet carpel reqtrently opened and 'hut duly. eye: leer // and t he very next day the body was in terred; nor unfortui,i,td; .14! the m;s , .: . here, for the young, Lidy being the , agi tation of her mind brought on 4 mt.. ,(11„. e ; so that may safely say, a (101,L!C Mardi!! w.; :Allllll4 ted 1 ! Surely,. Mr. It Inor, these repeated instances ought to call the early attention of the Legislature, to the prevention of so alarming an evil, and to induce it to make it penal, to inter a corpse before manifest tokens of death appear upon it. I am, Mr. Editor, your obedient servant, ' G. T. Wednesday an inquest was held at Fonthill-Gil-' ford, Wilts, on the body of Mr. Henry Harding, who, whilst walking from his own house to Mr. Spencer's, at Foothill Farm, in company with t friend. suddenly acclaimed—"" Lord have me*, upon stet what a pain 1 have l" and instantly fell with great force so the ground and expired. Verdict, Vi sitation of God. *. • Monday lust an Inquest.sat at St. Giles's Work: house, on the body of Catherine Hayes, aged 70, who sold fruit in the streets, and was found in a dy ,ing saw under very distressing circumstances. She lodged in Crown-court Shert's-gardens : another dodger looking . through ;he door, which was broken; ile mw her in a miserable state, stretched on sortie straw; her only bed, and apparently dying; assistance vias procured, but in vain, as she seen expired. Verdilti Died ky the Visitation of God. • ..ikti Inttlitst was also held, on the body of Hanaah : lir at. the Mason's Arms, at EdFeware, who beat i town from a chaise, ou Friday evening, ? d lei She spot. It appeited Illasae; - 2 **ilia films she'Yountry; were returning: from H rows tite,gleceased holding the reins, when a chaise. Cart ran against them, it being very dark. The shock hurled th e dece ased from her seat, throwing het' oo the back ; and on the cousin getting out to her assistance, he found her dead, in consequence of a blood vessel in the head having been broken. Ver dict, Accidental Death. . 1 On Monday evening, Thomas Devall, a workman lat Mr. Barker's acid snanufactory, in Rugeley, was left at the factory, to attend to the fire under the fur nace, which was to be kept in, all night. On the foreman's going to the factory about six o'clock the next morning, he found the fire out, and Devall ly ing dead on some embers, about two yards from the fire, with his clothes nearly all consumed. . A melancholy. accident occurred near Henderland, in the parish of Meggat, and county of Peeblei, on the SOth ult. Three children of a shepherd on that farm, going from their father's house, to witness a Matrimonial ceremony, in crossing an adjoining burn, were all blown in by a violent guit of wind, and car ried down the current. The father, who was near die spot at the time, ran to their assistance, and brought out one, and laid it upon the bank, and then another, and followed the third a considerable way, which he also succeeded in bringing out ; but on his return back with this last, to the place where the others were left, he found them both without appearance of animation, and every attempt to restore them was in vain. The third is still alive, and it is hoped will soon recover. An unfortunate event happened last month at Cm telsarrasin, in the Department of the Garonne, in France, on the 17th of December. A family of tioasants, consisting of , four persons, poisoned them. selves by eating that species of mushrooms found at idle foot of the poplar-tree and which, in the idiom of the country, is ca ll ed iicakeadac. The father of the familyp.who fortunately had not dined at horns that day, was the only ode who escaped the disaster. Hie vriies,agedforty-two and his youngest son, only n I years old, were ibe•flist victims. After three days of cholic and incredible sufferings, the wife died notwithstanding every possible remedy. The poison Aperated on her so frightfully, that a few hours after Der decease the features and form of herSgure en iirely dilappleared. The infant died two hours tidier,. the action of the poison upon the nerves, the files, and the members, was snob, that befcas• death the body took the form of a muff. The other 'child, aged nine years, whether the dose of oil adult:. :tittered to hint had operated with happier effect, or .sior whether he had eaten less of the mushrooms than his Siothoe and brother, was in a way that afforded toms il l e r s ' s is the very best Season .of the year for the: Sale of a Lottery for many obvious reasons, but one. in particular mutt be notteed—we mean the H id rearly Dividends ,- wow ring at dm Beak ; few • • ausnag to let the opportunity slip of purchasing Share in the Lottery, ((which begins Drawiagair, edoesday Next) and which has at the hod of its: Nog list of,Great Capitals, Two 0'020,000, Twci of atlo,ooo, and the Flier-drawn Prise Above as, O.; * 4 4d• ws £lO,OOO bishics : , . .' . ' i"! 1 •,. . i z.. • . - ~. ~ • - ?tet , : • r44:4 -,.T.-! le . .i ,--.. ! htfikek • ~,,—a • , . ..101PRISEIM—ktil. -. losista..The extzaardi- MST Case of Wks reffie, guard to the Swinedi ' Mid,and thus employed to pect public property, bat who was a short time since Apprehended by Ad.l kaki, on a charge of himself robbing the mad of a parcel containing bank notes and bills to the atiegist Of upwards of £2,300; was fully investigated on MOn day. It appeared that in the month of October, 1813, a parcel containing notes and bills to the above amount, from the house of Foreman, Fothergill, and Monkhouse, bankers of Newport, in Monmouthshire, was sent by the mail, addressed to Me*. Downe, Thornton, and Free, bankers in London, in a box ; and to guard against suspicion of the value of its con. tents, the box was put into a coarse canvas bag, and directed to Mr. Richard Fothergill, a relation of one of the partners in the bank at Messrs. Joseph and Thomas Shee's, merchants, Lawrence Poulteney hill, London. It was booked at the King's Head Inn, at Newport, to be forwarded by the mail. The beet and canvas bag arrived as directed, but without ttleir contents. On the discovery being made, an ex press was sent off to Newport, and every possible ex ertion was made to recover the property and detect the robber. Vickery, the Bow.street officer, was one of the officers employed on the business. He met with the prisoner at Bristol, Who admitted that he was guild to the mail on the Sd of October, 1819, heirs g the day after it was booked to go to London; he also admitted his having seen the parcel, and that 'he saw it conveyed from the Kings Head Inn, at Newport, to Bristol, on its way to London. The prisoner after this was discharged, and absconded, there not being sufficient evidence then to detain him in custody. Vickery, however, pursued his enquiries, 1 and learnt that some bank-notes bad been concealed during the weeleafter the robbery of the mail, near Bristol, at a place called Totterdown-hill, by a wo man, named Ilicitean, whose daughter the prisoner was particularly intimate with, the officer went to the house, and found that the old woman had absconded soon after the robbery. The prisoner was a short time since discovered by Adkins, the officer, at the house of Jacobs, a Jew, in Duke's-place, where he went by the name of Green, but adMitted to the officer on his apprehension, that his name was leelkr. After he had undergone a priiate examination, he was corn mined to the - House of Correction in Coldbath-fields. Mrs. Hickman was also discovered in her conceal ment, and committed, but has since been admitted an evidence. Early in last month, Adkins, the offi cer, and Mr. Fothergal, one of the partners in the bank, visited the House of Correction, when the pri soner voluntarily confessed to them that he stole the' , bank itOtes and bills out of the parcel, having taken them out between Newport and Bristol, and that he. fastened the box again, and covered it with the can vas bag, as before, to prevent discovery, till ' ched 4 . e London. On the day after the robberythe notes and bills to Hickman, at her house , o con nived to circulate some of the notes in Bristol; but she became aprehensiee of being taken into custody, and concealed herself in Bath. The pound notes which he had, entrusted her with, were buried by one of her daughters in a deep hole in the garden at tached to her boa" and so remained till the month of July following; they were then dug op, and found to *revery daingeraute, at - Fe resorvaio biing atm to London to mike the most of them. We agreed with Hickman to follow him to London to assist him, which she accordingly did.. They went to a women who resides at Merlin's-cave, Spa-fields, Who was - recommended to her by a relation of Hick man's as a person who could dispose of tbe notes ; and they gave.her notes to the amount of 4600 for that purpose... Sbe passed some of them, and said she had i uttered them at a linen-draper's, in Old-street-road, and at another in Sun -street, in the purchase of some 1 linen-drapery. This was proved by the linen-drapers. They afterwards met two men at a public-house in Portpool-lane, of the names of Edwards and Marsh, to dispose"Of some notes, but they received nothing from them. Last'August, a Mr. Butter, a dentist, of the Kent 'road, got into company, at Paris, with a person who tille d himself Captain Johnson, of whom he purchased one £5 note.* the Monmouth Bank, and four Chepstow Rafik-notes for £5 each, for the purpose of making a profit, by them; with that view i ar offered them fin sale to several money-changers in is, but they declined the offer, and said they would only purchase Bank of England notes. On his re- Ikrll to England, he gave them to a man of the name of Crouch, to dispose of. All these notes were part of those stolen from the Swansea ma. About two or three months, since the prisoner called upon a ero tism of the name of Porter, who then understood him m be the guard of the Monmouth Ina-coach; he en ,quired for her husband, who was then not at home . ; *then asked permission to go into a room fora short Ape I she showed him into one, and soon after he dallied Mrs. Porter into the room, and delivered to her *small paper parcel, desiring her to take great care of it, as it contained Bank notes to the amount of *AI9OO. While she was in the room with him she ob. served him to have a great number of other notes, many of which appeared to be torn ; he told her he bad taken the notes in the course of his trade. The next day he called in, and gave her a£s note to hchanged, telling her what she bought she was to e for h er trouble, only to give him the change; she got the note changed at a linen-draper's in Old almat.road, for a gown piece. The prisoner called upon * again in a short time after, when she got another note changed for him at the same shop ; and after that she got another £5 note changed to him at a linen . per's in San -street, but he never called for the -. . :e. She took a parcel, supposed to contain Bank notes, for him, to the White Horse public-house, in Portpool-lane, where be met her ? two men were with him. He told her to give the parcel to one of them, and to take care that nobody saw her do it; she ac cordingly handed the parcel to one of the men pri vately. The prisoner confessed to Mr. Fothergill, that be was guilty of taking the parcel, but said be would have rettirned it, but could not get it back from Hickman, at whose instigation he took it. At the time he ished to return it, there were only £2O of . the notes disposed of. The boles atoned by Mrs. Porter to the linen-dra ws were proved to be part of those stolen in the parcel.' Some of the stolen notes, consisting ef those If the Monmouth and Cheputow Buns, have been aced to Mr. Nichols, a surgeon dentist, who received 64 of one Crouch, to tat up some bilk lot him, he , kavine di* to adage Crouili to go ahroact to process some teeth. Creech said he had the noted from a mad of the name of Butler, who tilt! him he bought them in Paris.--4. Hickman cOnfes-ieS that about 14 or 15 Months since, the prisoner carne to her house, and hid some conversation with tier daughter, who comnitinicated to her what had passed between them, arid after that she agn el to go to /Wag to get tome dotes changed for the priso. net. egave her two parcels, each containing notes to the amount of two hundred pounds. When she got to Bristol the banks were shut. The prisoner then told her he had no time to stop, as he must go with the mail which was teeing off immediately ; upon this be gave her a parcel containing r.otes to the amount of Amu, and took from his pocket-book other notes to the amount of 055, which he said she might pass in Bristol, but it must be done in the course of that day, as the robbery would be found out on the Monday Mowing in London. She after that Passed a variety of the notes at a number of shops in Scioto!. On her return home at night, she and bet. daughter dug a bole in the garden, and buried the,notes that she had not an oppprtunity of getting changed.— Hand-bills being published soon alter, describing her person as having passed the notes stolen from the mail, she went to Bath and lived in concealment.— The prisoner called on her there, and the went with him up to Lon Jon.—flue prisoner was fully commit ' ted for trial, and the parties bound over to prosecute. UNION HALL.—George Englans4 who has already been examined and committed on a charge of burg lary, was examined on a new charge, namely, of breaking Into the coach-house of Felix Whitmore, Esq. and stealing the carriage-glass and lining. The prisoner was committed on this charge also. Atter his examination, he was locked up in the strong room at the back of the Office ' till the time came for con veying him to ga01 .., About an hour afterwards, however, it was discovefed by • Heron, one of the constables, that hi was gone. Heron informed another constable, aad they jointly proceeded in pur suit of him. He had broken his way through a 14- inch wall, into the next premises, where be escaped through the common sewer into the street without either coat or hat, and with his irons on. The offi cers traced hie at length to a house in Long-lane at which his brother lodged, and here they discove red him busily employed in sawing of his irons. On seeing the constables enter the room, he turned round and said—g 4 don't shoot me ;it you had been in my place you would have done as I did." He surren dered himself immediately, and was taken back to the Office. At the time the officers entered the room, the prisoner's brother was assisting him in getting off his irons. Heron secured him, and he was brought up and committed for re•examination, charged with aiding in the escape. HATTON OARDEN.—The report of a Lade being to be brought up for examination, on a charge of forgery, yesterday, attracted the public curiosity to that degree, that the Office was crowded. to an over flow ; but the Magistrate received a certificate from the Surgeon of the House of Correction, where she is confined, stating, that she was so extremely ill, that she could not be reproved without endangering her life ; the farther examination was therefore postponed. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Aan, alias Rasing /Vas, was yesterday charged with an attempt to mere. miner from .r reipect.tble tradesman by means of the following artifice : The prisoner, with a young . child in her arms, attacked the complainant (who lb a family man) in the street, and with most seatidal' ! lous epithets charged him.with a sort of violation of her person, and leaving her in a clandestine manner.. The prosecutor took no notice of the first complaint, until be was attacked a second :tine, and an endeavtmr made to extort money irons him. The 'offender said she had been married, but it turned out that eie is receivieg from the parish officers of St. Jones's, at this time, fifteen shillings per week for ' mate children. She ccnfessed herself a street walker, and it was evident her whole story was a base lave& tion to extort money. The offeuder was committed. Fruit Historigre tar Bu ark.—"" The Author of this Work, which has run through Sir Edi.ions in Paris, professes to draw the Character of f*IAeOLII.OII Irons his own words and actions. It contains many interesting facts, not hitherto recorded, and will cer tainly be read with great interest." BincesTorarax.—ThisTheatre opened last night, for the season, with a new serious Opera, etiiitied Adslaria e dilemma. in which Madame Sas.st and Sig. niors GBAAN, Gael, and La VASSEUR, shade their caret. Sassi possesses a full and powerful voice, :Di sings with much taste. GRAAM is a very fi,ie ten La VAsssua has a good bass. With respect to the merits of the Opera, it is like the generality ~ f Italian Operas, composed of flimsy materials—des:ft.ite of interest, and merely a vehicle for the music, which is by MATHS. A Divertissement, composed by - A. Verret,. was introduced at the end ut the first Act of the Opera. A Monsieur Barrisre, Madcinoi:eiles • MILAINX and MAtigliN s displayed some neat danciii,; ; but the grand attraction, Valrnts, sen. was not pi sent- T -he is not to appear till next Tuesday. The Ballet of Zelihir et F/ore closed the performances; .tii here we must regret the very late flour at which r!" whole concluded. It was nearly half-post one sec: before the curtain dropt I The -has unfit r• gone some alterations, and Is n orated and cleaned. The audience was full 1 is ioniihle. On Christmas eve, the worthy Member Ilk Lan. Caster, Culoriel CAWTHORNB, made nis auntie! ddiati. , bution of beef and potilti)eS, airieng , t upwards of four hundred poor families in his neighbourhood. Three stier votaries of Sir Jams Barleyc , rn, determined to spend at least one merry day a, this festive season, assembled last week at a public liothe at Wakefield. They met at two o'clock in tise after. noon, and took their departure homewards at about sight in the evening, having drank in that time 71 pints of ale, and two shillings' worth of hot ale and brandy I A Meeting of Land Occupiers in the county of Sussex was held on Saturday at Lewes, at which it was unanimously resolved to petition With Houses of Parliament for redress under the existing Corn Laws. CORN. OCCHANGE, JANUARY i i. W. had no *oh arrivals of Wkcat at day's market, but s very Iprge quality was lett over from Monday, and as them was no demand, out prices are nominal, but , urchaes could be made upn -lower terms If there had been aly buyer:. Barley I • dell sale, and Monday's prices . not obtainable —a great &Aces mains undbpoled of. Beam sod Oats are le. per quarter lower, and go oe Wry slowly at that rechtetiaa. to Alm mid* ad aldarsUaa. 41 IT :