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I N Memory of the Im mor t a l BURNS , t h e S oc i ety A will meet on TUESDAY EVENING next, July 21, when it is hoped that MEMBERS, both HIGHLAND and LOW LAND, will appear in the garb 6f the GAIL, and not fail to do honour to the AUTMOIL or TAM oluAstexa, and ether esteemed Works, which must exist as long as the Langsap in which they are Written. English constitution. As this, however, has been adopted by se veral eminent individual,, and is, as I before stated, the oily mea sure hitherto advised in the house of managers, it will require an extended notice. thing or it does not ; if it mean nothing. it is a useless expense; but if it mean something—if It be, as I think it is, a ceremony calculated to effect on the beholders a salutary remembrance of their mortality, and to lead them, by contrasting their immortal part with the corrupt and perishable part cast away as useless into the earth, to think on a future existence, then Jet us not make It a mockery. The following arguments ate or may be brought forward in sup port of the measure. 1. That there is a necessity for making some enactment. 2. That this is the only plan hitherto devised that will afford a sufficient supply, the unanimous opinion of the surgeons being that neither the executed, suicides, nor surgeons' bodies are worth mentioning. 3 That there is the example of other countries its its favour. 4. That es In point of fact the todie. of the poor art chiefly those exhumared, this law would be no more than say ing. " the poor. instead of being dug up after burial, shall be dis seeted first, and afterwards decently interred ; nor sh ill this be done to any who have friends willing to take the charge of burial in the first instance;' so that-5. No cne's feelings car, pe * .ibly be hurt, since the body can feel nothing, and no friends and relatives, the only persona autieeed by its dissection, are in existence. 6. That no possible objection can hr raised on the score of religion, because the rites of the Christian church will not be evaded, but merely postponed until after dissection. Now let us examine what may be or has been stated in opposl don to these arguments. The necessity of making some enactment we have already shown. Te the second reason, that no plan hi therto mentioned will afford the necessary supply, we have already hinted an objection —namely, t►at the poor woo now leave the burial of their friends either to the care of the parish officers. or 'probably think not of them, will have their feelings roused, and will, by instituting clubs and raising subscriptions, contrive to bury every pauper. But suppose, for the sake of argument. the supply were effectual, still it is erroneous to say this is the only plan. To legalise the sate of bodies, or to take mark:ions a[•e:bumatioa, would assuredly enable us to obtain subjects enough; and though it has nut yet been mentioned, there is another plan which I shall presently introduce, that, in point of supply, throws all these into the shade. " V. To legalise the sale of human bodies by relations or other persons. This would afford a sufficient supply, although not at first. It is true there is no particular law against this sort of traffic anti the resurrection-men are ready to buy, but the sellers tear to vend the commodity, for fear of having their windows broken and their own persons exposed to injury and insult. Otherwise, no one could believe bow many would willingly dispose of their dead relations amongst the lower orders. Indeed, it is a very curious fact, that in this class there is no medium. F.itiser dissectton is so horrible, that a man is abused and hunted out of the house Jibe propose it, or it is a very proper and useful thing, and the profits derived from it are Lonsidered honest gains. N or , i n p o i nt o f f act , are t h ey b y any 'hearts bad fellows who are of the latter opinion. I know an anato mist w ax bought, last season, a body of the deceased's brother-in law ; and I knew well that he who thus sold his relation was an industrious mechanic, very kind to his wife and children, basest and sober, and, on several particular occasions that I have known of, showed himself a man of scrupulous integrity. The same anatomist purchased also, about the same period, for a small consideration and the promise of a handsome funeral after three weeks use of the body, a mother of her son-in-law, and with the consent of her daughter; yet the nature of these persons' dispositions may be ga thered from the fact, that though they were poor, they had sup ported the old woman in a bed-ridden state for several years. This purchase was nude, but the body was never obtained, as, before a shell was sent, a distant relation offered to bury the deceased.— There was, again, a somewhat similar instance :—A fellow had a brother who died In an hospital ; he sold the body to a resurrection. man, and accompanied him and the men who carded the coffin to the surgeon's house, In order to get the money. For that gentleman's character I do not presume to vouch : he observed, however, that " be had paid pounds for hii brother when alive, but that mow he was dead it could not hurt, and he hoped when he died his relations might make as good a bargain of him." General R. M'DONALD, In the Chair. W. M. ROGERS, Hen. Sec. tacillan. de nims. opus Nimes.. W HEREAS by a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, bearing date the 12th day of March, 182 G. made in a Cause COLTMAN against BARBER, it is, amongst other things, referred to Samuel Compton Cox, Require, one of . the Masten of the said Court, to inquire who was or were, at the time of ber death, the Heir or Coheirs at Law of ELIZABETH WALKER, named in the Will of Thomas Coltman, late of Hag naby Prior, in the County of Lincoln, Esquire (who died on or about the 11th day of October, 1826), which said Elizabeth Walker is supposed to have lived at Great Hale, in the County of Lincoln, or in some adjoining Parish t Therefore any person or persons claiming to be such Heir or Coheirs at Law are, on or be fore the 25th day of July, 1829, by their Solicitors, to come in before the said Master, at his Chambers, in Southampton-build ings, Chancery-lane, Loudon, and make out their claims, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree. pa and 10. nits wens so t fugal fraud. which •cent to to Now. means an ex a ►ouse was 1, however. 7, of wlseh m. In one fellow,wbo, before Mr. he following ho appeared lei debauch. a merchant. in cottse• nd. ut which se l'avisock sleet with a y her to her as robbed of wbble snuffs o!es rid hilts al* banker's. • walk hums ELLIS, WALMSLEY, and GORTON, 41, Chancery-lane, Plaintiff'. Agents. WHEREAS by a Decree of the High Court of Chancery. bearing date the fifth day of March, 1829. made in a pause COLTMAN against BARBER, it is, amongst other things, referred to Samuel Compton Cot, Esquire, one of the Masten of the said Court, to inquire who were or was the heir or co-heirs at law, at the time of their respective deaths, of Sarah, formerly Sarah Walker, spinster, afterwards Sarah Watson. and subsequently Sarah Marriott, and also of Mary Walker, pieces of Elizabeth Walker, nspeetivkly named in the Will of Thomas Coltman, Esquire, late of Hagnaby Priory, in the County of La. cola (who died on or about t h e 11th day of October, 1826) and which said Sarah and Mary are supposed to have lived at Great Hale, in the county of Lincoln, er In some adjoining parish; there. fore any person or persons claiming to be such heir or heirs, or so heirs at law. or claiming to be the personal representatives of such of them as are since dead, are, en or before the 25th day of July. 1829, by their Solicitors, to come in before the said Master, as his Chambers, in Southampton-buildings. Chancery-lane, London, and make out their claims, or in default thereof, they will be pe remptorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree. ELLIS, WALMSLEY, and GORTON. 43, Chancery-lane, PlaintireAgents. These instances, and the circumstance well known to every sur geon who practices among the poor, that where we were allowed ten, nay six, years ago to examine one body after deatlywe are now permitted to examine twenty. have convinced me that the prejudice against dissectlm is, among the lower classes, very much on the wane; and that of those who say the most against it, the majority consist of those hypocritical rogues who hope to gain the good opinion of others by pretensions to a great deal of feeling. It is true this canting class is not half so numerous among the poor as among the middling tradespeople; but this class pervades every order, of persons in the land. To allow importation would also, of course, form a part of any plan for legalising the sale of bodies. and this and the before men • timed coarse would, I doubt not. in time, afford au ample supply of subjects. But I hold it to he a bad principle to allow the death of a Medea to he a source of profit to a poor man. It Is a con stant temptation to Crime. I do not say there will be murder, though this wry happen; but there may be such inattention and neglect as may midst the power of disease. Without being so base es eolostarily so posh a man into the water, the knowledge tbat his death is highly conducive to our interest may make us rather slower to pulling our clothes off in order to jump in and save him at our own risk, than would have been the case if the continuance of his existence wens source of prop and honour to ourselves: and, Indy. these Whip operate unconsciously on people who would be very angry to hearse much stated. Again, importation would be a direst premium on awarder abroad s Nor could a surgeon, if he discovered such as efface had been committed, Institute inquiries to any purpose; sad in those *rations where the police is not very perfect, the most atrocious practices en human life might be resorted to. stated, that ale with no. information a went with. n the house, iroperty. an Impostor, . dumb. The ty.street, on ortwg to be ksylum, but stody. The atm of Cor- Shortly will be pabHsbed, in tiro. price Bs. 6d. THESAURUS ELLIPSIUM LATINARUM, sive Vecomis qas Is ihrulowe. Latta° sappressa, ladiessitar, et es nis Anctoribas illistraatur. cam Indiribus Neese. anatore ELIA PALAIRET, 1700. !Updated by E. H. Bows, Esq. of Thetford, Norfolk, with Corrections and Additions. :barged with liana Ander- s with some bis retvro to bet lode• Isere be Ita Nioney for le to afford. sized a brass so bill bead; 'atchmsn, to Intl custody. Wes violence ferocious at- Printing for Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. 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The extraordinary efficacy of CHING'S PATENT WORM LOZENGES in all such complaints, as well as obstructions in the Bowels, and every disorder where opening or cleansing Physic is required, is ao universally known, and has b e en publicly sane,- lodged by so many persons of distinction and rank in Society, that it is unnecessary here to enlarge on their peculiar virtues. Said in boxes at is. lid. and Sa.9d. by Messrs. Itutier,Cbentists, Cheapside, corner of Sc. Paul's, London; Sackville-street, Dublin ; and Princes-street, Edinburgh ; and the principal Medicine Yen. dens. Of whom may be had PERRY'S ESSENCE, which has been declared In highly respectable Journals to be the " best thing every discovered for the TOOTH and EAR.ACHE." In bottles at ls. lid. and Ss,ad. WHERE TO REGALE; OR, THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE. LAST Winter, when General Frost wi t h hi s forces, Pervading the land, pualyz'd our resources: His laws be enfore'd with such pitiless vigour That man, beast, and bird, felt his obdurate rigour. Be left us some three or four times—then came bath With augmented strength to renew his attack. In one of the Gen'ral's cessations of spoil, Some lab'rers relaxing at meal-time from toll, Sat down to regale, when to welcome awake, Vast numbers of Red-breasts approach'd to partake; In confidence miz'd with the men, quite at ease, And peckl at the crumbs from their hands and their knees. While one Robin Red-breast attention to win, Its perch gaily took on a labourer's chin, Essaying its arts, neither rude nor uncouth, And pickinetta food from its kind feeder's mouth.t Each species that lives we may truly opine Communicates either by language or sign. The birds now departing on other pursuits * Were met by an Amateur clad in bright boots, When flocking around him, the Jet's glossy shade A group., by reflection, of red-breasts display'd ; The lately fed birds n•w with motion and voice Seem'd telling their friends where to eat and rejoice. Fresh fund of amusement the lab'rers enjoy'd, Thug seeing their featber'd acquaintance entplered Bet when they the incident told of the feast. The Amateur said that bird, reptile, and beast. AU nature throughout were in language not lacking, Well prov'd in this instance by Wausau's Jet Meting. t The eircanutance here mandated is a Basal fat. This Easy Shining and Brilliant BLACKING Prepared by y 4,7 a/wet/i t )( I It r • 30, STRAND. Landon; And sold in every Town in the Kingdoms. LIQUID in Bottles. 6d. mod. i2d. and ilkt. emel6 Abe PASTS BLACKING, in Pots, 6d. ltd. said 184, ea& g:r Be Particular so inquire foe ROB,. W AR RE N'B,llo, STRAND. ALL 0111 W AU COVITIMIZIIM ON THE DISSECTION OF THE HUMAN BODY. A pamphlet, pot together with great ability and good sense, on the above subject, and having in the title-page for its author the name of GRACCHUS, wail yesterday handed into our office. There are few topics of public discussion more interesting, or more important, than this one of dissection ; but we have neither the time, nor space, necessary to the development of our own views upon the matter. Suffice it only to say, that we are among those who could never be reconciled to the Act attempted to be introduced last Session, by which the bodies of the unclaimed poor, who might din in workhouses, would be come forfeited to the knife of the dissector. That some better regulation, by which our echoola of anatomy may be supplied with subjects iu sufficient quantity should be devis, we are also of opinion ; but the specific measure proposed by GRACCII US appears to us defective, and in adequate in every way. Let him, however, now speak for himself : his pamphlet is in the form of an epistle, addressed familiarly to JOIIN BULL—indeed. we may as well give the title of it at once—" A Letter to Jou BULL on the Dissection of his Body." Dundee, then, ought to go on. Facilities for its performuce should be afforded to an medical practitioner, while they are stu dents, in order that they may-acquire the knowledge ; and while they are engaged in practice, in order that they may retain what they have learnt, improve their tact, and extend still further the science they profess. The subject kaoline command so fully of late. that it is scarcely necessary to sheen* that the present mode of earrying on dime don is extremely objectinable. The bodies that are obtained for that purpose are in an offensive state, and often so muck decomposd as to be of little utility. Their price is so high as to bold out a temptation to the medical student to three through his education with as !bile diuectioo as possible; and it operates en the majority of established practkinervt,se as to deter than altogether from the practice. The supply too of these imitative and deteriorated bodies is quite inadequate to the actual domed, and infinitely below what science requires. The practice of exhumation, with its high pay and lenient punishment, sends to encourage a race of lawless des. peruke. who are described even by the surgeons employing dime. I as the wont sort of charactem, and by oca mother as thieves and burglars. Them serious grievances have been long Ws and often emplaned of, Out with your usual 'spines's' you have tensed a deaf ear to whatever has ben said epos th. wbject. At kitsch nether little item has been added to the inconveniences of the present system, namely, that it holds out $ powerkl temptation to the commissiou of murder. I sie sat mess to Wren that see half is true that you have beard on this subjess. Few men, if any, have bees Flamed in the altuadoo of Berke sad Hue. Those who have 'ranched St bodies ban always hen msurrectivi-inen. knows as such by their employers; sad those were, I believe, without exception. 'weevils of murder because they h a d a safe.. mores. Is is an appeal they to your pa ssions toenail's the alas* a' Berke as TOT that has ben frequent or is lately to be ekes repute.). With the escapism of what came oat on Ms trial there is use the slightest reason to be. neve murder keener bees perpetrated for the price of the victim's body. But. sir, this is a (1.-goad exception. I have so win us appeal either to your passion or prejudices. but I must remark that you are wen to be chary of shedding blood, and that the briskest trait is your character has ever been the anxiety with which you watched over human Wls and the vehement lodigoatiou and an. corn severity with which yowhave honied dove those who have attack it. It is no Lusty so my that you an as human u you are brave; sad that you may fairly lads* a sating vanity is the reneetima that year Least beats with • stronger sympathy fur your fellow men than is manifested in your neighbours. Toe ought not thou to be misled wish the rellectioe that your indulges/it in prejudice will sot be followed by frequent murder. " Lay not t:itt nattering section a yoar seal," that the mains of lowa decree. don will be wanting because the sergeon will is future be careful Shay sle we* yosiliwiy bane the diatoms betweeu a body dead of dis order and one which has been strangled. Prom dm is time you hear ef these things being repassed, and on your bead shall he the crime. Consider human natures and madder the Insaluiss of the temptation. Hen hays bees murdered bachaeously fee a few shil ling*, and the body left reposed to scrutiny. and busing evident marks of ',Went death. Here any ?wads are soloed. tad. the body being removed, the public remains sot only igaossat of the mode of death, but nee of the death altogether. I. k sot stem that in the amen of things the crime will endow I am sure I used say so more so Waving you that something must be done, but I have still to show why that something mast he dime byre. I know you dislike this subject; thse , :ios would fain blink its consideration. and leave it to be seeded by she managers of your estate sad the surpass la the quietest owner. But if I' wasted any reason against this, your own cosdeet has furnished me with one; for the very In s step these pontlemes attempted So take you began to grumble. The fact is. in legislating on this point two series of leas are required to be knows—lkst, what is neces sary for the demands of science; and secondly. what is the be* way of meeting your feelings in complying wick those demands...- The surgeons may be considered pretty good iodise of the liras point, though not so much so bat that their opinions must he mach more to be relied on when they have bees universally sad riLlicly discussed, than when their agitation bas been mined to surgical meetings and journals, or to the nomination of a few tarpons before the managers. But as to the second point, it is quite eke/ that neither surgeon nor manager can judge so perfectly what' measure will suit your feelings and prejudices as yourself, and no one can inform them on this subject except yourself. Speak oat then—tell them what you want. If it be your pleasure that ex humation, thieving.resurrectin-ones, bad surgery, and foul murders shall continue, signify that wish to your house at managers. If you like to banish all education, with its emoluments and advantages, to France and Germany, say so. If you will not give op the bodies of the poor for dissection, whose will you give op ? Speak. W e are bound to hear. In ord er to assist you in answering this question I Will sow unfold, as far as Ism able, the whole of the case, in all its bearings, WITT IT TO SS DONS? All these alternatives present tbemeeleee-1. Forbidding dissec tion altogether, and sending all students to foreign lands for in struction. it. Giving up the bodies of suicides and all persons exe cuted, or otherwise dying whilst suffering the punishments of the law. 3. Making use of the bodies of surgeons, either with or without those of the preceding class. 4. Giving up the bodies for dissection of those who die unclaimed in the workhouses. S. Le galising the sale of dead bodies. O. Legalising exhumation. 7. PAMUM MY W.L. L The lint alternative is so utterly absurd, that it scarcel to. quires refutation. If the whole world did not laugh, they monde( to be behind band in the affectation of sensibility—pr imp follow our example, and medical science retrograde, and human misery increase in corresponding prepordon. If we sub mined to their derision, still the notion of importing accomplished surgeons is ridiculous. However well informed they might be on their arrival, medicine and surgery will require to be kept up, and can only be kept up by constant labour; ao that, in &a, every hour of their practice they would degenerate rather than improve. 11. To adopt the second alternative Is, in pint of fact, to do nothisg; for the supply, being a mere fraction of what is required. could be of we possible use, and the old practice of exhumation would be resorted to • but as it would be more dangerous bodies would be higher price d, and consequently the temptation to murder Man. lIL The same objection may be made to the proposal of using surgeons' bedius—osmely, that they are too few; and another may be added, whieb, by the way, applies also to suicides-that the law would meter be enforced. A surgeon Is married, and has a family brew* up in geed society, with all the feelings and preju dices of that eitchrty. Wadies; wise is to go to kis widow in the bow .1 atiietiaa, and tear from her the body of her husband, if she wished to retain tt for burial? No one--at least no sorgeon. And of mane, with all the prejudices of her sex and edocadoo, she would wish to retain it; for thanes be has been fatale , with dimsetion. she Ms ant. IV. The fourth alternative, that of 'Meg up the bodies of the unbiased pow fee dinnetin, has something very horrible oa the bee of it to any may who fob and reveretwes the spin sit the .• _ Ile different r, and the a in money ing, at the nportatione equence of an increase CT Clifton, of othshite, the 4 Dumfries• to the Lady *igen. _ . lllion. of tb. late Hoary Mande, £.q. iyle, But of side. A.B. of drd deoghter ease, third hey Bargees. of the SOth : laa Colonel :de. r vonshire, to oath Wells. to •titpret writer, Glas be late Bev. garee, widow KM itl John 1. many ran c s aged 106. • fifty year. Iticbard aged 95, foe ley Hall aged 101. only brother on. Warwick &O, la that m• limara.---wi. attar 1 111 1, 2 • ma* SwF. i I That in other countries the use of dead paupers for dissection obtains, would be but a poor argument for its adoption here, unless it could bet abowu that such a practice is fair and just, and the re- sult of enlightened legislatiou. Whereas it will be found that this I I practice has been allowed to become established only by reason of the supinenesa of the lower orders and their habitual subserviency Ito the will of the rick and powerful, a state of society that cannot be introduced into this country without creating much heartburning cud &Slake, and which. moreover, except for the particular end in view, is by no means desirable. The fourth argument is our much dwelt upon, and one upon which its entpluyers appear to pique themselves highly. Hut it is sot so triumphant seat Sri: sight may be imagined. Granting it were true, which by the way, may be disputed, that the poor are those almost exclusively ezbutnated, is it net a very different thing to leave a man to these miseries the want of property pathway and =- avoidably inflicts, than to say to ham is a legislative capacity, "yen are poor,therefnre y 4411 he degrarled?"Svery wretch knows that 11 he be SO straitand la circumstances that he canrot hey white used he must hey hems; but bow swab' the bitterness of his suss be iscreasod, if we were to say, " you are a pour that you ors uovareby to eat 'Ai:" bread ; we condemn you to your present hard fare." AU must yield to circumstances, but few, especially to a free country, like to yield to commands--to ceounands, too, that have Utile savour of that sympathy which every tan ought to tool for his fellow, and moue of that which the et:parks orders in this land so repeatedly profess. At the same time I allow. provided it were shown to grounds of morality oe religion, or on the score of jeitioe, or the good of the thentry, that the rviseeetioa of tke rich would be Jokes-Wes, we have a right m make the rule in question. For as we seise the property piths risk to feed the poor, so by the same right we might seise the dead bodies of the po o r tofurnia surgery for the rich, if the lames were euerly liable to perish fur want of medical aid, which many dashikiss would do it there were co dissection. But as no poor Mall who can get wog!, and hereby food, shall Frey on his rich neighbour, so the risk neighbour haa co right so say to the pour man, two of our children are dead ; give nie yours to have dissented, hi order that their malady may be knew*, and the Ilves of ourselves and the rest of our offspring probably saved front the like death." He has so right to make this demand whilst he bath a child deed, since, la junks, he should WE that; for if it be no sacrifice of kolas to have a child disseried, why ash a favour ? and if it be a sacrifice of feeling, who shall ask another to do that which he skinks frame bisuelt T On this grouted, then, it is son- Hwy to the principles of justice to condemn the pore to dissection, stakes she risk were also used foe the same purpose. - But, k will be said, all this argument is sags. It is oat pro paid to disseet people because they ate poor, but because they are soclalmedi sad she risk are not easepted, cosily io point of fact they always kappa be be shined. This brings us to the fifth propoal titm, aat no bitterest' arise to the feelings of the living, and the dead feel nothing. But do Ike dying feel 'Botha'? Put a sass. An old woman is a workbouw—perhaps once rich aod surrounded by a family, and happy—these may, have died, and left hes alone; In the world. She has re frittods--ohe feels her b l ame decaying. and metered herself with the reflectioo that after death her body will be exposed and dissected, and disketiou is, to her enfeebled mad bigoted mind, the most horrible of purdahs:ems. Is there no pang inuistod here? Lad say not the picture is overcharged or extreme. y The majoilty oldie's dying in workboosos, thus de send, most be old people. In old people, in women especially, it is that the prejudice against dissectien exists in Its fullest extent. They have been brought tip never to dispute the propriety, the vir tue of this prejudice. They have sot bees, nor are now, assailable by argsmeot; no march of intellect has broken in on them. They do sot disapprove of dissostion, because they think it is subversive of this cesemooy or that feeling of decency or morality—they can not noses on. it for a montesittbey are horrorsetriaken at the very Wee. If any respect be due to the weaknesses of human mature, to sash persons it should b e l aid ; th e y should b e t h e es . eeptlo:s to the rule. rather elan the only class iacluded in it. Bet Is will be said. this may le tree, but what can be dime? they Cu ;keened. they are ezbunsated. The question Is not whether they will be dissected—for that wont be preveutads—hst is what way they shall be dissected? Hut. I reply, they do not knew they shall be disescled ; they have slick fears, like other persons. but they hope to @mope. Hew if they kuew how many of their class are ezbamated. hope would act en each individual as it acts on every soldier in a battle, who goes on, never reflecting on the chaocca that aro against bins, but trusting to be amongst the sated, however few these are likely to be. Bat then, again, it is argued that the peer are the only parties who are likely no derive advantage from the better surgery Which dissection will be instrumental ill producing. The rich, they say, can oomniand eminence from those particular Individuals who enjoy missive mermaids.' for dissection, or even front surgeons edit cued Assail. bet this is only true of the very rich. AU the middling claws are excluded. Farmers, shopkeepers, mechanics, artisans, the inhabitants of villages and 3111411 COMM. cannot com mand the services of the very Exst geniuses in the profession; and therefore abet as well as, the paupers, must suffer from the want of good surgical teaching es this country. ledeed, the grandees and their friends are too nosterous not to require mere abundant supply than they arelikely to obtain, if the acquisition of anatomy be con fined to particular histitetioes, or if it be banished the realm alto gether. AU are personally interested in the advancement Mummery all ought, -therefore, to make some sacrifices for its promotion. Benevolence, self-interest. the love of one's conntrt, religion de mand them sacrifices, sad some tim e o r o t h e r t h ey w ill be made. The manifest injustice of this meafere might excuse nit for die missing it at once; but I have a few remarks to make on the last reams that has been adduced in favour of the measure, namely, that it does not interfere with Christian burial, became the bodies are buried after dissection. This sounds very well, but is when clearly examined, an iniposition. The body of a poor mau is brought to my dissecting room, and there kft'; and after a certain time, I send a coffin, glied wick some th ing, and h av i ng t h e man's name and age on it, to the churchyard. New, have I sent the map at all, or half of hint and half a another? I may have taken away his bones for a skeleton, perhaps—his four limbs for injected preparations, and his head for a skull. I may have used him altogether, and idled the coin with rubbish. In point of fact, I would not mind doing this, became I think dissection a virtue. But is ie not a Mockery to allow the minister of Goa to read over this the sacred and beautiful burial service—to commit the remains of oar dearly-beloved brother" to the earth, when there is not, perhaps, one bit that ever was pert of our dearly-beloved brother, but in his stead saw-dust and stooge ? I de sot mean to cant ; but either the burial service means some f Since writing this, I have learnt that a real case sit the kind has been lately mentbsed In the Them VI. Of all the plats Wien° widened, 000 e equal that of exits. statism as it was formerly conducted. I. the golden dip fur ana tomy that are gone, when few bodies were used and the price was low, there was no anoptatiou to foul play, since surgeons bought may of those teem they knew: the public was asleep—the sexton was bribed, sod the grave digger—the body was removed—the grave appeared untouched—business was conducted comfortably sod happily. It were long to tell how the avarice of resurrection ists, the conspethloo ibis gave rise to, sad. Kin more. the increased demand for bodies, became the dire springs of a revolution in this happy state. Stake kto say, it never can return. The church _warden and the winter may take of the watch—convenient men may be appointed to guard the churchyards—the magistrates may wink. It is all in vain t tbs people are awake to the business, and the wants of the profession are increased to a pkch that the church yard cannot supply. There eau be no question, however, that the system of exhumation is better than that of giving up the poor for dissection. The anatondsts might combine and moo focus sack regulations as would effectually prevent many of the evils at present incident to this practice; but a better plan remains to be disclosed. GRACCIICS then proposes his own distinct remedy: it is in the shape of a legislative enactment, and is as follows : In drawing up a bill for the regulation of this subject, I have been guided by the following principles—to enact that which is strictly just, showing ho favour or affection to any individual or class of men—to look fa: forwards, so that my law shall be of use, sot temporarily, but fur ever, not In this land only, but in all others—to respect every feeling that is natural and proper, or from the indulgence of which any moral amelloratioo cam possibly arise —4,0 look not only to what Is conducive to the progress of science in its present path, but to such expedients as may open to it a new COMM Without detaining you longer, I shall state , not exactly in its legal teem, but io the briefest mode possible, the substance of what I propose to enact. Whereas, it Is expedient for the better preservation of the health of the people of these realms that medicine and surgery be 'neon. raged ; and whereas, it is established, by the testimony of the learned of all nations, that these sciences can only be acquired or improved by the constant dissection o f d ea d h uman b o di es, b e It elected-- 1. That it shall not be lawful to inter in any vault, churchyard, or other place of public sepulture. the body of any man or male child dying in the United Kingdom, until the said body shall have been opened by a physician, surgeon, or apothecary. 11. That this examination shall be made in the premises of the aid physician, surgeon, or apothecary, or in any other place per fectly separate and distinct from the house the deceased died in, as may be agreed tio betwixt the said physician and the friends of t►e deceased. 5. That the relations of the deceased, or, if he have no rela tions, any person wishing to bury him, or, if no such person ap pear within two days after his death, the overseers of the parish Wherein he died, shall have the following powers: Ist. They shall dictate bow many and what persons. besides the physician, surgeon. or apothecary who opens the body, shall be present during such examination. ed. They shall 6x (whether they are pre-..ant or by their deputies) peremptorily the limit beyond which incisions into the body of the deceased shall nut be carried. 3d. They shall appoint the day and the time of the day at which the examination shall be made—always providing that longer than one fortnight shall not 1/lapse between a mate/ death and the aforesaid examine don of his body. 4. That it shall be imperative ..n every surgeon to perform the examination of a dead body, or cause the same t• be performed by some other sargeon.within two days after receiving a written notice. 5. That every physician, surgeon, or apothecary that opens a body shall endeavour to ascertain the cause of the deceased's death, and shaU transmit to the minister of the parish wherein the de. ceased is to be boried a certificate of the form osentiooed below touching t►b mattes, and that he shall keep a copy of oath certifi cate by him, for transmission when required, either to his own college, or such other place, or officer. as his ?Aajesty's Privy . Council may direct. 6. That the eats of searchers be abolished. 7. Provided always that nothing herein seated shall be under. stood to forbid the opening of the bodies of women and female children, at the habitatloas in which they die, or at soy other places Wherarato their frieoda may choosy to send them. S. And, 43 order to pre test ambiguity io the inteepresation of this Act, be it understood. that herein the word 0 physician" im plies any fellow candidate or licentiate of the colleges of physicians in the United Kingdom ; that the word " eurgeon"implies any menabsr of the colleges of surgeons; .. and the term apothecary ..a..61. IA