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Ci . 4 . • . • . /414 01.4 4 . , . S t ' .. S ~ . • A ii.roc k r r e kt iva 7A 7 - " N -3,4,,.. ./ - • - ~ --•%,,,, . \-- 4 ,1 •, • Z A ntl4&-- , AaliateA.l * ' `O l9l / 4 41(- , ~. pr . .. ~ THURSDAY EVENING. JULY 12, 1827. NumBER 12.609.] [PRICE, NAST INDIA SOUSAty 11, 1011. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY o f MERCHANTS e ENGLAND, trading to the EAST INDIES, do hereby gist Notice, That a GENERAL COURT of tit* said COMPANY will be bld at their House, in Lesdeelsall-street. ota WIDNESDAT, the :sth Intuit, from Nine &Clock in the Morning, until Six in Evenieg, for the Election of a Director of the add Com pany, in the room of Eod&an Poser, Esq. demised. PETER AUDER, dluittant Sterder y. PAUPER LUNATICS. ment, from music, domestic animals, poultry, birds, flower,, and objects of a similar nature? for the surrender had been comme • d or, h 90th of May, through the intervention of Captain Corner, Com mander of an Austrian corvette, and under she media tion of the French Rear-Admiral Rißny, who arrived on the 31st &fly. Two thousand Greeks, of every sex rod age, embarked on board of French and Austrian vessels. On the 28th May, General Church had retired to S lamis with the few troops be had preserved at Mt ferns since the affair of the 6th May. 'Ffie Greeks re treated sr ith such precipitation that thy abandoned in their entrenchments six pieces of cannon of large ca libre. Lord Cochrane is by this time returned to Spezzia from his rxpediti , n in the lonian sea. He arrived toa late to save Castel Tnrnese. APPENDICES N. I. •t 1 No. IL TAPIRS PUT IN. The attempt to procure through the ordinary forms of Parliamentary returns full information respecting Lunatic Asylums has not born satisfactory: The Inflow.' ing counties have not in any respect furnished the in fo: minion desired —Bedford, Be, ks, Bucks. Cambridge, Che.tei Cornwall, Cumberland, Derby. Devon, Hunt ingdon, Middlesex, Monmouth,Northampt , m,N , rthum betland, Nottingham, Rolland, Suffolk, Westmorland. In order to procure a lull statement of the facts. the following forms of returns have been prepared. tnarkA (Nos.l. and II.) as well as the inqu:ries, marked (Nu. Hi.) These papers ate put in, as they may enable Magistrate, and persons who are disposed to interest themselves in inquiries into the condition and treatment of the insane, to carry on their investigations in the manner most likely. to had to a practical result..—June 516. 35. Is any and what employment afforded to the mind. in cases of persons of inferior education? 56. Is it the opinion of the superintendent that a state of entire indolence and mental inertness is decidedly prejudicial to the patient? MORAL 7 REATNILPIL 37. In the moral treatment of the patients, is it considered an object of importance to encourage their own darts ofoelf.restraint in every possible way, by exciting and cherishing in them feeliag• of self-respect, by treating them with delicacy, more especially in avoiding any improper exposure of their cases before strangers in their own presence; and generally by maintaining towatdsvhem a treatment uniformly judicious aid ►ind, sympathizing with them, land at the same time diverting their minds from painful and inju rious associations? AMICABLt SOCIETY'S OFFICE, BERJEANTS INN, FLEET-STREET. 3s. Is any religious service performed in the establishment, at which such .patients are invited as are In a suitable state to attend? Does the Physician select such patients as attend, and in all cases approve of their attendance ? Du the classes attend separately, or at one time, and without distinction of mental dis- order PROM TM PM/MAL DiS DI AT& U. is it a establialsmeat,a coact y asyleakor an allowed . . MADRID. Jam si. I, treera"" _-...- Ni • T HI ct tie E 4 That iuld at :sth In :be Er , pm, it AMU THI th SURA r cil be rtree, 0 • t en Tsei 1r 01 the f of the s, Month, hi Deat 10114 Nomine 31embei Seven S is ~) to a, lb ,KI ho ad fa is los 3. T.l on Pried ia.t. Sir Ge H o f Sir Jel rev Nam I d a Sir Rh )04 the Call iiii. iof T} tee. l by their r rms, la t di- Sears, 150915 who ha Icg• Serra I to entree Intl reel-Dn. t Atty. Serto 311 K - Itoosl lois: le sem 'her Will that Per 0. hrniti , wing NI infirm ode- If 1 bicta the ft time ire of Na g it. Polic pace, gyous 0 &int tined, additi ado, Joel laves, S I t was nit to 001141. • Pr ny oc- Wee by the -- 'all to. try Div MI ceding 1 nine . T ton. badoes 111 ildia• 9 ha red the mar I* yllid• Q sa Upper • mt, the bite oft Me =Kann P Pose of Wm :be, the rasae causing 11 ty to is ! fcl 10 it; by Ile ' a• g to • aa es, was !wee, all a ''' art ( Cline t 0 viog tbo 50 J desiring tnt be other to li v ed in 1 ly taken e,;l lota were liP Elf -b 0964, V, d be do. 10%VeVer, z , trail next - tnd who i .-------" ... 0 le Geo,. a rriet, . 0 r, I the Y 1 e ambeiJ . I iderbf.t • 1 Beaton. a en of t ' ' t be comm. a eT. • - 0 1 rf Lan . I i ii ROW I ref 4 1 tee 4 1 l'rnprki I 13U. • ,: ... 1 Jinx, 11, 1827. pHE DIRECTORS of the CORPORATION of the AMICABLR SOCIETY for • pERPETUAL AS! SUR.iNCE OFFICE, do hereby give Notice, that Attendance ,mbe riven, at the Society's House, is Serjeant's Inn, Fleet -leM! on Tut:above the 12th and 46th laps of Judy instant; and en Tecassiri, the 24 and filth days of August meat, from Metall 01 the Clock to the Forenoon until One in the Afternoon on each et :be said days; and on the lait Weluesday of every sahsequent Month, from Eleven to Tirelte of the Clock, to pay Claims arising by Deaths of Membets of the said Society la the year ending at Ltdr.day, 1827 (Old Stile), when *lll be paid to the respective Nominees, Executors, Admlnistratori, et Airline of sack Sembers, the Sum of Two Hundred and Thirty-slx Pounds Senn Shillings for each Share, bested on their respective Lives. JOHN PENSAM, Register. COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, AND PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, Ratimer.erazer, Lomita. Edabinked 1 SOS. Parsworr AIM Taverns. THE DUKE OF RUTLAND, THE MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON, EARL GREY, LORD KING, &c. dce. Bce; Mammas. 3. T. Barber Beaumont, Rsq. Sir S. B. Mariam!, Barg! Francis Conn, Esq. Sir J. Osborn, Bart. Sir George Duckett, Bart. Hon. Tbornu Parker. Sir John Harinron, Bart. William Praed, Esq. Hon. Frederick Hodiam. Sir Henry Pyno. Sir Richard King, Bart. Sir William Welby, Bart. Br.e. ece. Carrrata-1 MILLION STERLING AND UPWARDS. THE PROFITS are divided amongst •h.,ce who now insure, an via as the original Members, in just proportion to their respective payments. In the Flu Orrice, RETURNS, daring the last 'Thirteen Snare, to the amount of £57,000, have been paid to all Persons abeam continued insured Seven Tears, upon Assust. as well as Sarrassist Pellicles, and whether they have been Sufferers or nderwise. in the Live Orrice. BONUSES of 213 Ss. and 226 12s. per Citi. have been divided during the last Fourteen Years. Another Septennial Dividend will take place this Year, in which those Winnow insure wiU participate. Iliktui Mee us not charged additional, sakes called into Basal service. Persons arc at liberty to pus and repass to the Continent under baStations, without licence and eztra premium. • &room removing to unhealthy climates, or subject to bodily infirmities, may insure. _ - . If evre Person die by Suicide, Dwelling, or the Hand. of Justice, the full nice which his Policy bore on the day previous to the time of hi, Drath will be paid. - - No Admission Fees are required, oor is oily charge made for Policies, except the Stamp Duty. - - 13 , Persons who have been insured in the Fire Offices lately diunived, may remove into the County The °eke, without any additional expense- pablishod, handsomely printed in One Volume Sty. price 12s. in boards, SERMONS, chiefly Doctrinal. with N0te5...... By GRORGB D'OYLY. D.D. F.R.S. Rector of Lambeth; and of Sundridge, in Kent. • Printed for C. and J. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-yard, and Wi:erloo•plaer, Pall-mall. NIRBUHR'S HISTORY OF ROME. 11i day was published, in Two Yoh. Svc. with Two large Maps, price Al 41. in botrds, THE ROMAN HISTORY. B. G. B. Nizzuur ft . A Translated from the German, by F. A. WALTRR, Req. T.R.SI. one of the Librarians wf the British Museum. "Tic History of NllllOBll has thrown new light upon war kaowkily of Roman affairs, to a degree, of which these, who are unacquainted with it, can scarcely form an adequate idea."— Qarterly Review. July, 1825. " We have no hesitation in recommending the translation now before us, which is executed in a - vigorous style, and with a degree of Macy and accuracy highly creditable to Mr. Walter. Monthly Review, April, 1827. Printed tie C. and J. Rivingtein, St. Paul's Church-yard, and Witirioo-Plare, FOE PRESERVING THE TEETH AND GUMS. BUTLER'SVEGETABLE TOOTH POWDER has 10 long been in general use, that It is almost unnecessary to offer any further recommendation of it. Composed of Ve grabir., without the admixture of any mineral or pernicious in indite: whatever, it is free from the usual objection against the "hi other Dentrtfices. Its detersive power Is just sufficient to a nniaate those destructive particles which adhere to the Gums and the Interstices of the Teeth; healing injuries in the former, 'nd Involuting a new Enamel (where it has been injured de etlf. redtd), on the latter. it likewise imparts a Smilers and healthy Niles to the Giant; and If regularly used, will preserve the feet% in a sound stare to old age Sold in boxes at XL 9d. by Messrs. Butler, Chemists, Cheapside, cornet of St. Poll's, London ; 54, Serkville-ttreet, Dublin t and 73, Princes.street, Edinburgh ; Savory and Co. 136, New Bond. Viet , and 220. Repot-street; and by the principal Medicine renders in ibe Kingdom. Of whom may be had Plurtea's lopetior Stamm Virago Town Bermes, Is. each ; and Bcerces's strg ksgrant [AMIDE& Want, in ball-pints at 39. 6d. 117 Ask for Benta's Vtarraux Tesoro PoWnalt. tEAKE'S GENUINE PILLS, justly famous tot curing in all its stages, the VENEREAL DISEASE— maiI Pill is dose, and the taking of one Box, in a recent tale, soil 100 n convince the patient of the certainty of his speedy imnery. Nothing can be better eontsived, more safe, or more enKnt than this Remedy, for such as are obliged to go joarnies ,sa, as it needs no confinement nor restraint of Diet ; and 'SI is experienc e (i n an extensive practice) has proved that it asdi *s lam a Cure when repeated Salivation and all other methods nothing, For the Scurvy and other Chronical Disorders, Medicin e has not its parallel. Upwards of 40,000 persons d0 w ,,,,, i 1 : h it l s have been radically cured of the above cruel disor. the last ei g h t years . P repare d an d so ld b y t h e sole t °l4l rsca, T. TA Y LOR and SON. )lembers of the Royal Col t': Si Surg eons , at their House No. 9, New Bridge -street, in 4 iL n s i only sts. 941. each, duty included.— N. B. Two back 1.1. 45 4 L.ght s i n t h e Passages at night.—They are also sold, ' aPpointment, with copions directions, at the Toy-shop, nes t i° 'l. °lfuld 'aseeti Mr. Disborough's, No. 7, Fish-street-hill, mlerab uap , p . pite the Monument ; and by one Person in every con ic firen in Great Britain and Ireland. Advice gratis to Sea • 141 4 tbs above, or other of the l'rupristur's Mgdicinvs. I% RUM arra LPL No. I.—l do hereby certify, that the following is a just and true account of all the Lunatic Paupers who are in any degree or manner supported by the Parish of , and who are in any Public or Private Asylum: J How Name Na i lanig the rofeumber of Pa nsent to each the foregoing Lunatic Este- Name of Pauper. I Weekly COS 4 anent. dons. Rsta- hs been eOnlined thus. Othe Pariah with Iln thy laat ten years; also th e How long deranged. No. 11.—I do hereby certify. that the following is a just and true account of all the Lunatic Paupers who are In any degree or manner supported by the parish of , and who are pot in any Public or Private Asylum : Name of Pauper. . . and during what period. and the clergyman, and a To be signed by the . "'medical wan belonglag to the parish. No. lII.—INQUIRIES RKLATIVE TO LUNATIC ASY. LUNIS, AND THB TREATMENT OF THE INSANE. UTILITIES or TES SUILSEIO. 1. Is the situation sufficiently elevated, dry, airy, and moderately sheltered? Does it combine retitearent with cheerfulness ? Ie it convenient of access? S. What extent of around is occupied by the establishment? and bow are the premises appropriated as respects garden pounds, acc.? Z. What number of patients is the receive ? cakulated to 4. If a public establishment. what was the cost of the building aad furniture ? 5. What is the extent of general classification, and of individual separation of the patient.-..uistinguishing sex, character Of disease, Degree of vi.4ence, and state of convalescence ? 6. What is the Rumba of day-roems, and their respective di axone:is 7. What is the number of sleeping.rooms, and their dimensions? 6. What i. the number of airing -courts, and their dimensions ? P. Is the separation of the sexes complete? 10. Does the arrangement of the patients' apartments, galleries, and yards, proviso for their ready inspection, and aflnd thew easy access to their galls-ties and courts? 11. Does the plan afford facility of communication between the aparunents of the superintendents and assistants to those of the patients? 12. In the construction, fitti..p up, and furniture, has security against edt-Injury been carefully provided for throughout every part to which t►e patient. have access ? 13. ['complete ventilation effectually obtained throughout, and cold at the same tunic excluded? Si TNT APARTMENT/, TALES, &C. OP TIM PATIENTS. 14. Are the day-rooms of the patients well lighted, securely and sufliciently warmed and fitted up, and cheerful arid neat in their appearance? 15. Are the dormitories properly ventilated? Are the windows furnished with shutters and glazed! are they accessible to the patients? Are the floors of the.e rooms or cells of hard materials, and such as do not absorb the wet? What means are takeu to pre serve the menses well as the bedding in as clean a state as may be practicable? 16. Are Me court-yards airy and dry? their surface well co vered with turf or with small gravel, isr paved ? do they afford some prospect over the walls? 17. Are the privies well constructed ? and arc there complete baths for hot and cold water ? rursicas. 18. What diet is allowed? 19. Have any and what beneficial effects resulted, or been con templated, frum the adoption of such or any other diet, in any par ticular cha or disease? 20. In cases of attempt at self-starvation, what method or treat ment has been adopted with most success ? 21. Of what portion of rest or sleep can the patients partake ; and what means ate found ssecessful in Inducing sleep with rest lessly inclined patients? 22. What desaro:lou of clothing Is provided, and at what cat? hi. What steps are taken to ensure the personal cleanliness of the patients, especially of the most uncleanly 7 tO. How rotten is bathing instated upon generally ? In what cases has bathing of any hind proved most benehcial, more especially the swarm or tepid bath? what is the mole and daratlon of its appli cation, kg- ? . . _ 15. la the practice of daily and active esercise steadily insisted upon with all patients able to partake of it? t 6. Is any and what cars taken to provide the patients with suffi cient warmth in severely cold weather, and to guard against acci dent from mortification in the infirm or bedridden? 27. To what extent,and to what decided advantage, has medicine of any kind been practised in different species of insanity? SW. What modes of personal coercion are in use, and on what average number of patients is it found necessary to have recourse to it? 29. By whose orders, and under whose superintendence, is inch coercion enforceu? What number of patients is generally under coercion during the night? 36. Are dark solitary rooms made use of with advantage in cues of violent maniacal paroxysms? 31. How far has manual labour been adopted with advantage, and with what description of patients? litnttat. TILATMLNT. -32. Has the active engagement of the mind to the sciences, fine mu. literature, or mechanical arts, been attempted with patients of A superior description ; AOO what has been the result? 33. Where graver studies would be unsuitable, has it been found ►enAcial to afford patients such employment, as are calculated to engage the attennou to ezternsi objects without inducing intense a►straction or exercise of mind; •ueh, tor example, as drawing, painting designs, models, gardennui, &c.? 34. Where the mind is so diseased as to be evidently unfit for the foregoing exercises, bas benefit been experienced by iornishing the patients in their courtyards with the means of innocent amuse 40. In the case of a public asylum, 'how is the Committee of Management coustkuted, and how frequently do they attend? 41. If an endowed or subscription asylum, what is the natureof Its foundation and mode of support? 42. What is the payment of the patients ? 45. When was the establishment opened? 44. What is the name of the superintendent? 45. Is be a medical man? 46. How often does the medical attendant visit the asylum? 47. How many assistants has the superintendent? 48. What was the number of each sea for which the establish- ment was originally designed? 49. What is the present number of patient• of each sex? 50. What has been the average number of patients in the year, during the last three years; distinguishing the sexes? SI. What has been the ge number of cures in the year, during the last three years; distinguishing the acne.? 51. What has been the proportion of relapses within the last three years; and in what description of cases hive they prevailed? 53. For what period of time had patients discharged cured been deranged before their admission into thi. asylum? 54. What has been the average number of deaths in the year, during the last three years; distinguishing the sexes? 55. Hew were the patients actually classed at the date of this visit? Is there any restriction as to the class of lunatics admitted ; via. are idiots, 'pile tic patients, or cases of keg standing, ex cluded 1 54. How many patients were under coercion at the date of this visit ? 57. What number of patients were in bed (in the day time) at the date of ibis visit I, It is particularly resueced that the following documents, &e. may be procured. 58. The rules for the government of the asylum. 59. A plan of the asylum and its premises, to a scale. 60. Any reports that may have been made on the state of the asylum. 61. Accounts furnishing the number of patients admitted, cured ; expense of maintenance, kr- Ift• Journal., or registers of cases, explanatory of the causes of insanity, and improved modes of treatment, and other information of a miscellaneous nature. APPENDIX, No. It. I have already stated my conviction, that most serious abuses Seat is the conduct of the bosses for the reception of pauper Dade* in the aunty of Middlesex, abuses which I do not think cao be effectually remain' iu such houses ; and I feel enables* that even if abuses did not exist, it would be highly expedient to build a county asylum under Mr. Wynn's Act, as affording peculiar ad vintages, particularly under the following heads—warmth in winter, ventatinti, light at night, air, exercise, employment, amusement, damnification, separation of each pauper at night, cleanliness, de cency, safety of person, economy in annual expenses, sufficiency in the number of keeper., a paramount interest In the Justices, Go 'armors, and Medical Officers to promote cure, exclusion apeman sought to be Improperly confined, improvement in medical know ledge; a uniform, constant, and vigorous superintendence by Ma gistrates, medical men, and others, solely anxious to promote the comfort of the sufferer and ultimate cure, and having no particle of counter.interest. Portland-plate, June lg. ROBERT SET MOU R. Weekly east. °Wens dons. FRENCH PAPERS. tam( THE GAZETTE DI FIANCE, DATED JULY 10. ROME, Joie 27. _ _ In the sectet consistory — iteld the day ►efore yesterday, his Holiness proposed Bishops for several vacant sees, among others Joachim Gonsalvo de Andreade for the Bishopric of St. Paul (in the West Indies); and Marc Antonio de Souza, for the Bishopric of St. Louis de Maragnan. His Holiness afterwards created and proclaimed Car dinals Monsignore Nasalli, Apostolic Nuncio to the Swiss Confederation ; and Monsignore d'lssoard, Senior of the Sacred Rota. His Holiness also announced that be intended to have service performed in the Pontifical Chapel for the soul of his Majesty John VI. Emperor of Brazil and King of Portug4l. PARIS, JULY Ir. - • the Moniieur contains an extremely long article (copied into the Gaunt el. France), which is a kind of expose or review of the state of things in France since the latter end of 1821. The military conspiracies—the intrigues of the revolutionary party—its triumph at Madrid—its confident expectation of a similar triumph in F,.nce—the Congress of Vienna—the Spanish expe uiri..n under the Duke d'Angouleme—the dissolution of the Chambers—the nourishing state of public credit— the plan f r redeeming the interest of the national debt, by the conversion of the five per cent. into three per cent, stock—the failure of that measure, and the auda cious language of the Journals, which rendered the cen sorship necessary—the accession of Charles X. and his abolition of the censorship, after it had continued only six weeks. " Steril magnanimity I" says the Afeniteur, " almost as soon as it was emancipated, the press re turned to the fatal direction which had rendered the censot ship necessary only a few weeks before." On viewing with an impartial eye this period of 94 months, we think it will be well filled up. A great wound healed—viz. the military conspiracies; a great amelioration perfected ; the improvement of the public funds; a great influence reconqueled ; the pacification of Spain ; a great guarantee added to the pubic secu rity; the septennial duration of the Chambers. Our readers already see the inference to be drawn from this expose ; but it is best to leave it to be drawn of itself." PROM THE QUOTIDIENNZ. PARIS, J uan 9. . _ __ . The Journal de Nantes announces that the King has sent to Viscount Walsh a sum of '2,000 francs for the erection of the monument to General Charette. - Mr. Diwoff, Secr..taty to the Russian Embassy at Paris, has arrived at S:. eetersburgh with dispatches, which are supposed to re:ate to the affairs fif Greece. The Austrian Observer of the 19 It June gives news from Constantint.ple of the 11th of that month. . It was ou the sth of June that the garrison of the Acropolis evacuated that fortress. The negociations (4110,•6114. .O.O.II4IIMANIMOMPOSMIL The Council of Mhistei s sat yesterday for abirot four hours, to discuss the reports of the Councils of Castile and the Indies respecting our differences with the Pope.. A few hours after the breaking ap of the Council, dis patches sere sent to Gencril Forms, and the report is, that they. contain instructions which will make the entrance of Mr. Tiberi into Spain more and more dif ficult; but as to what has been said in addition, that 'the Charge d'Affaires of Rome might be force to lease • our capital, the rumour is altogether false. No change ' will take place with respect to that Diplomatic Agent. The Father Cyril d'A'ameda, who is at present at Alcantara, in a convent belonging to his order, is on the ere of b:ing prosecuted, on account of our discus sions with the Pope. The cause is thi,— Cardinal Justiniani had repeatedly tried, doting the Ministry of the Doke Del lntaotado, to procure the recogniti is of the New States of America; but having always failed, he endeavoured to effect, that the briefs for the C monical I stitu.ion of the American Bishops sh-uld not be subjected to the =rat str of the Court of Madrid; and Father Cyril, whowished to bea Cardinal, had offered to aid thislatter negotiation by every means in his powei , but it also failed as completely as thy former ones. Father Cyril, who wished, at any rate, to ob tain the red ha , insinuated to M. Justiniani, that the Republic, of America having been recognised by Eng- . land, and :renal European Governments, would spec. dily be acknowf•dged by the others; that the Court of Rome ought t take a decisive part, and that he (Father Cyril) and liiv friends, Mould have sufficient credit to prevent the consequences of the ill humour which the conduct of the Holy See might cause at the Court of Madrid. These insinuations have, it is said, powerfully contributed to all that has been done at Rome a ithont our consent. Meanwhile, Mr. Colon, then our Minister at Rome, attained 'a knowledge of all that was passing,informed thi Duke del Infantado of it. and the bana.hment of Raba... Cyril followed as a consequence ; but Mr. 4166, who, atter the death of Mr. C• lun, (o whom he was Secre tary a.f Legation), had become Charge d'Affaites, bas been able to procure not only complete information re specting this intrigue, but also documents which he has transmitted to Mr. Salmon, and in consequence of which these reports with regard to Father Cyril have been spread. TROY THIS QUOTIDISNNE OF SUNDAY. The Cameleopard which we now possess, and which has excited the astonishment and admiration of all those that have beheld it, was caught in the environs of Sen n:tar, in Africa, by the troops of the Pacha of Egypt. It was found along with another, the mother being shot in order to get possession of the li . tle ones. The s kin of the mother tans brought to Cairo by four camels; the Mesh of the animal is good to eat. Our Cameleopard, when taken, was about two months old ; it was con ducted to Cairo, along with its companion, partly I y 'spiking from one caravan station to another, and partly ;by the Nile. in a boat constructed for the purpose.— When they arrived, the two animals were brought to the Paella, who offered them as presents to the King of Fs sane and the King of England. The Consuls of the two nations drew lots for their choice; the F. each Con sul had the good fortune to be favoired by chance, and his choice was a lucky one, for the Cameleopard des tined for the Kng of England is since dead. The French Consul embarked with four Africans, to accom pany the animal to Marseilles, there it performed a quarantine of 25 days, after which it was allowed to eater the city, where its arrival was welcomed with fetes. The neck is that which most surprises spec' tors, by its extreme length. Nature having destined the Came leopard to be .nourished almost exclusively upon the leaves of trees, has gifted it with a gigantic stature.— The neck is not stiff, as the greater part of naturali►ts have described it, on the contrary, it is extremely flexible and graceful. It is spotted like the rest of the body.— It has also been said, that this animal cannot feed off the ground, and that it must kneel while drinking. he whole of this is false—the Cameleopard ests and drinks off the ground as easily as other animals, by spreading its fore legs. The nourishment of the animal is prin cipally composed of tree leaves—Nature seems to have created it for that kind of aliment. That at present in Paris, however, was fed at fist solely on milk; at pre sent its food consists of maize, beans, and barley—milk is its only. dank. Three cows brought from Alexandria still furnish the milk for its use. This quadruped is ruminant—almost all leaves serve as food for it, but it prefers those of the acacia, an African tree. Other animals, in general, do not alarm the Cameleopard, and it looks upon the crowds that press round to admire it with pleasure and tranquillity. Its submission is without bounds, only it cannot re sist the desire of catching at the leaves of every tree that comes in its way, and its keepers ate obliged to rein its head, which.is always turning to one side or another after its natural food. It appears to seek relief for this privation by continually passing its tongue over its lips, and by sometimes pushing it out in a very re markable manner. The Cameleopard is two years and a few months old, and will grow, it is supposed. for many years to come. Its flesh, especially when yonng, is excellent food, and the bones are filled sviih a mar row which the Hottentots look upon as exquisite. These tribes are in the frequent habit of checing the Came leopard, which they bring down with their poisnnid arrows. ~ • 4 e i • . 1 i 1,.. • i I ti i, • . \ i .. •.. . 1 . • ) ( 1 I • 1 1 i 1 • „ . A