Star. — London, England, 1808-12-28 00:00:00

77 - " TIIE AR..tr . Th ur sday a detachment of the 30th regiment, con itiesef eight officers and 1.50 men, marched from [r i t e, on their route to Portsmonth, to embark for w join the Ist battalion of that regiment now r p se rvice there. Ten thousand stand of arms were sent on Monday om t he Tower to Woolwich, to be sFpped immedi. As , for Lisbon. Orders arrived at Ramsgate on Sunday, to prepare t he embarkation of the Guards from Chatham. be tr ansports from the Downs are directed to pro.. ed f or Ramsgatt harbour. The Guards an to e b ar k first, and the 88th regiment, Ist battalion, , w ins for the present in the barracks. xtx rs i be mode of conducting the Nthlical Duties of the British or , and on the Constitution if a Board for the direction tkaTo t i with some Remarks on the comparative utility and „i m am of General and Regimental Hospitals, Sm. mibi nullo discrimine agetur. , . .• • •• Continued from our latt.) inenlioned the ends that should be kept in wio the formation of a Medical Board for the Ara l direction of that Department of the Army; we imeue st to mention the means which would seem best Inte l to afferd that relief and assistanct to the sick , ox raded soldiers of our armies, in every variety 'climate and situation, which the service and the o ri.af their circumstances entitled them to ex ; aid this naturally leads to the consideration of rfe ral and Regimental Hospitals, as far as such ,:ablUhrcents are calculated for these purposes. On th . e relative merits of these two species of Hos tits, many discwsions have been lately entered into ; d many arguments have been adduced by the fa wners of each establishment in defence of their re- tie systems, in perhaps the same proportion as' individual interests of the persons concerned in the .cussice of the question might become affected by; probsble to-,d f.nal determination. Most of the' ts eet advocates fur General Hospitals art the rne preens who vauntingly insist on priority of skin the Physician over the Surgeon, and on the prior endowments which they, alledge the Army leicians possess to the other Medical Officers of 1 *department, seho, they maintain, are compara fele math less useful to the service, and should be play subordinate in their duties ; while, cn the eery, must of the retainers to the systems of Re eal Hospital without hesitation, argue the • cacy and almost inutility of the other class, and Tattack the mode in which they have been hi- moccitelucted, alledging withal, the incapacity of , pemuts directing and employed therein,' to per the necessary &airs required of them by the :et. In treating this subject, it is obvious that .c question is momentous, and of great national port: the abetters of each system have exhausted • possible argument that could affect them in the.! of their respective opinions ; and the public , sickened with volumes of exparie represents is at present divided, and unable to decide on 1 .superior merits of either. It is certain that both I - establishments will be more or less preferable 1 • . particular circumstances of service, and that are but few occasions Where General Hospitals! k entirely dispensed with safety in times of war., at these Hospitals have been sometimes found use , even under the grievous mismanagement so cis complained of, has not been denied by the •st strenuous opposers pf the system ; but it is mile tree that their establishments have been mul lied beyond measure both at home and abroad ; , thaw far from answering the purpose which *have been expected from them, viz. more per - reif to the sick than could. he obtained in g 4 mental Hospitals, they appear to have often • ;inductive of culpable confusion and expense, ' say evident benefit to the service, or to the arming therefrom. This seems to have been • - I:* the case in the. instances of forming large • - Hospital Establishments of Officers and Ser ts, is many parts of England during the present , where no patients were admitted, the circum , Qs of which were fully investigated by the Copi sionen of Military Inquiry, in the progress of r l abcktrit and submitted by them to the House wamons• This syston of profusion in tire ties ,ment of Medical PePots and Gerferal Hospitals. ngland, had at one time Leached so enoTmoas a , thit it has been said, some stores of medicinerk:= 9 Which had been formed to meet the supposed .ties of service, had become superfluo and places where they had been deposited forgotten he Projectors, he the variety and magnitude of ether undertakings •of a similar nature else " bat General Hospitals are not in all cases nem ' ta Great Britain is now commonly admitted ; lthe abolition of many , of these expensive esta . .ts in this country was certainly proper. The g - uPs however, of all the General Hospitals . kingdom, except the York and Isle of Wight . and, in particular„the abolition of those leighbourhood of Portsmouth, was, we think, a as unwise as it was precipitate; and, that it could hoe been dictated by persons unacquainted the enntingencies of military service , and igno of the inevitably bad conszluenets which the [ 111 " t feet /lam such c sista= and iatempe• Id tl he d loft I ha' 7 1 7 11 1" 111 ' .;• r - -- , ... -- ~-r - --- ~ . . I rate zeal. to such an U n h app y length has • En t r the rage • - . . y Mari of ranic vets, accerdingle, *pointed alsont lof desolation of General Hospitals been carried in • the y t ke e i 9s, 1 is country, that even Portsmouth is left without an I. eseun almy , t ih• to superintend tneir discip li ne and , having under him local military aPerin :l tiylum . for sick and wounded soldiers. The Depot tendants, resident at every such establishment, and Hospital at the Isle of Wight is the only refuge that vested with the requisite p owers an d i nsttuct i ons to Can now be d e p en d e d on f or the reception of the sick . corrott'ostesi . sible abuses, preserve discipline, ant to of regiments embarked, or disembarking at that pesvent, gloat military rendeevous of e x p e di t i ons; and pitiable , as far as p oss ibl e , waste an d unnecessary ex penditure a - iti,' cry kind, with others of a like' nittst be the condition of such unfortun a t e sick men, nature. These local - stiperiateudants had also the tif sent thither f ro m P ortsmout h or Spithead during ' h dd• ' c arge an irection of the discipline o f th e convales th • e asanter months. Th e a c commo d at i on which B. :cent men, who h a d b een wont to b ecome idle and r rank Regim enta l H osp i ta l s generally supply ' is barely i I slovenly ; and they were instructed to seed them off. sufficient for the sick, &c. of the corps ; and it is not . to their respective regiments, as soon as the menl uncommon that regiments encumbered with sick men, : should have been declared tit by the mediCal chief in embarking or disembarking at Portsmouth, am ; officer o n th e spot. •• ' • • three, with great d e l ay and unavoidable trouble. obliged to distribute them in p or ti ons o f one, two, or But, although'soine degree of military'etintroul among the Regimental Hospitals in the vicinity, ac..i- l e n n and. - direction was, undotffitedly, proper, and, in va s instances, even necessary, to check irregularities cording as they may be disposed, or may have room tort laad.long.existed,Yet the great authorities'vested . to receive them. This pitiful shift is preferred n.the local, military supeitstendants, sometime!' itt . Ithe miserable resource of sending sick wretches, haps in :he last stage of debility, or arrived with ' ,duly afflictive melodies from a foreign climate, in an open 1 - 4 ii sc i e ti ou 'i n, - *i t ; Per' ',duly and imprudently exercised, over the o ffi cers ea . i d epartment, who had been hitherto aluahst left to professional career, produced boat, ten mile! or upwards, at the mercy of thel . . al'%,kiluoieir4lei defakation inebeirjuriUdiction s winds and tide, with other incalculable delays and • being tarrisid to AIM sumartentable length inconveniences attending their transpor tation to the n a t ur ally excite itl the.minchl of the "Metlical. olkairs ~. - . s'.iet .1:.. - Isle of Wight. reate' • 4474 Aieh w ould ' disgust, 'and c . fai ~ . • . Pftr'F.l From what we have said, it would therefore seem ultimately injurioue; tiL dis • ..sertrice. On. the perni. that a General H os pit a l, f or t h e purpose a b ove men- cious effects of tnith , unsiuknandittipertittent interior tioned, if well cond uc ted, e ith er a f ter t h e general or encc in strict medical dittittiled th&pmt 9f Cern:nits . . regimental plan, and on a un i te d sca le, would be ding officers and Othe rs ,Y r t ' s h a ll h a V e oc c as i on t o found particularly usef u l, an d even necessary f or the speak more at large, whiner come to f tfto subject 'of speedy and effectual relief and accommodation of evil ianpueable he General Hosp the i lt eg i mental Hospi ta ls. '., ~,,r many victims of wounds a nd di sease w hi c h constant l y , ; I 'rbp .seeon cl itals, • require assistance at Portsmouth. S uc h a depot . is"else risitelerhich t o l c li er i k re expose d o f catc hi ng would reduce the great influx of s i c k i nto t h at o f the I n f ect io us ~,r , ,,0 k linnee don' Moos the coin. Isle of Wight, and would he attended with little ad- s plaints uhat i nt bills f ihey la‘ourecl Arleen they were • I ,I‘. ditional expellee to the country, compared to the, , f ic st adawed. Foe. thik Njsiection , cheer. appears. to great advantages which would be derived from it.— be sem* foundation.; ,bitt - it , alsoirffectts, in a ter ' General Hospitals will, therefore, be found useful, min degree, *very , deseriptioit'df-Hbipitals, Aielf, and often necessary where the nature of the service. with -all possible adventiges` r., are nothing ele ,hap,haprequires that regiments be disencumbered of their t the receptacles of disease an 4. contagion. When, sick, or of their more serious eases of sickness (parti. however, General Hospitals are established, and con cularly contagious diseases, which should always ducted as they. ought to be, it will be found that do be sent away from a garrison) in order to al low the corps to act with greater energy and activity; inconveniences will attachio General, th a t d o no t, almost equally, affect all other Infirmaries of equal . and, for this reason, General Hospitals will be found magnitude.—(To be Continued.) most useful on foreign stations, and in times of ac tual Service. As the mode of conducting General Hospitals has been as much censured as their utility has been dis puted, we shall now offer a few hints on the evils with which they are said to have been frfught, as they were usually managed. In doing this, we in tend to confine ourselves to the alledged evils which' may be supposed to have had an immediate effect an the service, without entering into the questione ON, immethodical arrangement, government, waste, and profusion of expence, abuses with which these esta blishments have been plentifully charged. These evils may probably be comprized under the following heads, on each of which we shall speak in order : • ••••••• qt CaptßiartiONf AS FOR R EsT, of his Mainly's ship Prometheus, fell in, on the 29th ult. with 94 vessels pact of aadispersed convoy from gtockholin, Untie; .protactioisn£ the Alaart bit : rot - war, which he brouglit ddough Atio;Belt, and eaw them 20 leagues to the' westward of the Scaw, when he left them all well on' the Sd inet. us dur proteCtion of the Snipe and Acute gundirigs, and returned to the Baltic. 'The Pronie; thews was the first British ship of war inthe Belt thili seasonvand Captain.Foinicer isrinuidiawely: desti`riyed the telegraph on Sproe Island, which intefreptedlhe communication between Funen and Zealand... TWA• whs of very essential service, and his appearance in• the-Belt at that time prevented the-embaikatloti the enemy's troops to Zealand. . • . Letters of the 17th ult. have been received from Dantzic, by way of Gottenhurgh. They state-rthat , the French are fitting out privateers with the greatest alacrity in that port, to be ready to act against the British shipping early next spring. Several French "privateers were lately very busy in that quarter; one was a short time ago *reeked on the coast, near Pil ' lau, and all the crew were drowned ; another had the audacity to enter the harbour of Memel, and capture therein an American ship, but the Prussians opposed their carrying off the vessel, when a scuffle took place between the patties, ' NW ;be result was, that a Prus sian cacer was stabbed: in the thigh. The women of ,the tow rosegiurnssee; and tilling their aprons with stones, attacked theTrenehmen from the shore ; but `it was nofintit f tic eves of cannon were pointed at the vessel' that thg.mariuders relinquished their- re I. P )• 1. When sick,soldiers are sent away from their re giments to a General Hospital, and from under the eyes of their own officers, it is alledged that they g often impose on the supposed ignorance and inexperi ence of those under whom they are placed, and who are unconscious of their tricks, habits, and propensi ties ; that, on this icatint, soldiers often remain away longer from. their 'regiments than is necessary, and contract vicioua and indolent habit,ai.cgaally de trimental to rod order, and discipline.- 2. From the accumulation of p itientiiircted pith all kinds of diseases, contagious disorders are more frequent. in General than in Regimental Infirmaries; and patients after being sent to the former are liable to catch diseases more serious and fatal than those on account of which they were admitted. 3. The medical officers attending General Hospitals 1 are supposed to be less zealous, diligent, anti interested, in the discharge of their duties towards the sick pre miscuously placed under their care, and feel less anxiety for their eventual fate, than regimental nu dical officers may be supposed always to feel for the sick of their owa regiments, to whom they are at tached both by the tics of duty and regard, cemented by a participation of hardships arid services, in a va i riety of climates, and circumstances. 4. From the education of the physicians generally entrusted with the care of General Hospitals, they are presumed -to have little or no previous experience, or knowledge of the diseases and constitutions of sol. diers, nor or army medical practice, nor of the nature of their own duties, independently of what is above said. that they arc often liable to be imposed on by what are called Maingerers, or those who amuse their physician with fictitious disorders, with a view to avoid being sent to join their regiments, and that such tricks arc readily detected by regimental medi. Cal officers ; er of those who, having acquired from experience, an intimate acquaintance with the pecu liar characters and dispositions of soldiers, are aware of such imp ;store, and not very liable to be deceived by them. Letters•from Stockholm mention that his Swedish • I Majesty has prohibited the introduction of• English newspapers into his dominions ; not from a spirit of hostility, but because they hare•of late spoken in al tone of despondency when discus,ing the affairs of I Sweden, which he considers may have a bad effec4, l upon the minds of his people. A trumpeter from the Swedish army *as latelY shot in bearing a message in the Norwegians, not withstanding he sounded the instrument twiem llie Swedish Commander in Chit Chad sent a remon strance to the Dar.us on the subject, but therreturn e&himsan satisfactory answer. Friday morning six licautiCul Swans came down the Thames, nearly as far as London Bridge, driven from their usual water haunts by the severity of the wea-' ther : they were taken,' by order of the City Comp troller of the Sivan•homin , department; and on their web-tharks being examineJ, it appeared that two of them were the property of the KING, and the remain-, der four belonged to the Corporate Body of London. A match against time, for 100 guineas, between Captain Parfer, of Charlotte-street, and Mr. Giblett, was decided yesterday on the Hampstead-road. The C.tptain undertook to perforrn four miles in 24. tni tones, at four starts, and the whole in threw cpArterrs of an hour. The ground run over was an impercep tible ascent, and he did the first mile in five minutes and' a second. After waiting five minutes, he per formed the second in five minutes and a half, and the third in six minutes and forty seconds, with consi derable difficulty. The match here became a sportive one, for although Captain Parfer bad six minutes 4.9 seconds to perform the last mile, it was even betting that he did not start again, and two to one that hel lost. He, however, after waiting twenty minutes,! did start, and run the mile iu four seconds less than the given.time. ,On Monday a young man, named Bartratn, fnr a wager of ten guineas, undertook to go from Vest ISmithfield to Barnet and back in two hors and a' half, which he accomplished eight minutes within the time, notwithstanding he had three fails in the pro gress if Isis journey. . • During the course cf the psesent war, the evils and 1 abuses of General Hospitals, even in this country, had become so notorious, and so many representa., tions had been made on the subject to the authoritie , , that it was determined to place all those establish-, ments 'in this country tinder the inspec . tion, and im mediate superintendatce, of military of f icers. A mi. . - -r . . I .$ AtAt'lleAL fx7. I ALLIGAAVA Pixtotrra, fkt.. ' Came in the Bellova, Capc. 7 llotti: s l g ool , t4oN . fitt: • Jamaica, with a very ,valuable cargo id - sugar other4txxlS a she wined tit* 1 . 1 -odl Oct4o - List, company with four others, under eosivOy of the voyitirr., of 18 guns, but parted with them a Week after; Mary Alen, Capt. Hann, from Altea and Al.. giersi for Lcndoh, With raisins. Sailed tint Isurr.t4 ,rudAii.g,-of 38 guns, to the Westward,. Came it the Charlton, BRAWN, frOITIF St. JOHN'S, with fish. Poß•rsmouTH, DECEMBEk 27. Nothing arrived or sailed this day. His I`.l:,::ty's ship BUITOU:taT is appointee{ convoy for the lawns. Wind N. E. • . • _ - TalMdar afternoon, $ *at deal. of firing teas hestraltere - fdOto the pmnietccti about thee-o'clock, -and coatinned till after sit. ' I have not TefAken 4,tt toa.;ceitain the ,cause.ot some suppose. it to be rejoicing, and othetsghit sotno of onr,_cruizeras4/1 fillets in Iv4th and Na! engagin g a In 4 4ltice.; guiiitiliaied to be very heavy, the fortue i w . slosplEeliv . as the case : perhap s 302214 .3 hai11Vin got to Madrid and been cr.— . • • ort--eziir;*DECL'NftEß 25. The VANcrainti . tUlj4 into Dock in the stead .of the Ro tn, twat herd- dam, and 41:1 341 t.titit-agatnnext spring ticies4.o The AFRICA .and STAN-day SIT both . dismantled are . to be taken into &a- ninnediitely. - ~ mtivA and ItasyNgt4; ttflp”ifgun-bn4s; taie been ;tatceii into the Wer=dbck ifithe course of thalast week, - r - - I.coppered, And pm out again. • ,• • - • • .mAxpitTit v DBCBNIBItt As. • • • r . The cargo pf thsATOpole,.Already ship . • MP'S ~ . t sittt principally ot 'indigo, a great part-of , whith Ind ,been wet ; thereit , Afta'A 3ht4tll Ofopteltisan ef ghlgerP . and some bales, byt.tio salt-petteAs yeG. The *hole. . of the latter article we expect will be . tiluch-rckitt# }by the wet. „ r lasi% I .l*/ ": 0 4 1 tiaAvastnnv riAKEiISICI-1171,--PnS6C4 bitthlr *ass, from Prince Edward's Island.T.Satted - the i ll,rniiyslolsl% for Tener v ilfe; Lbrd Melville, True Biltiii;. t tiailsbrol/141 Comberlasid, and the Camelia,' for the East-Indit!. ; 7 1 The Compact, M'i.eod, from Gottenburgh to I ivetiSool, was baba) ton the u7th of May, and talitied into Bergen. .The Speculation, Belmar, bonsitt*H*ll,litotally last at Ca* icrona, The Hercules. Pischeranoste-- tolmeolon, haring tacelybil , damage, is uoloadh ig at Carlscrona. The Fame,- I.enn, front the Baltic to England, Is *rip tabilitt [Eland of Cesel.' Thp Love ffimar , from Poole to Liatersblgisioot 7 • 'tin the coast of Wales. Ti* i , K.johlberg. from Gottenhargh to t',aimar, la ,taken by the bat: s. . , The Ann, rollinan, from Cardiff ta.Chashia!, fdiusdered off 'Portland on the IRth.instapt. l . The John, Wolf, from ImisdiOn, *as loft at Ystacl on e bib lost: at. prltitiffrj6i.e. .1/ ' The Fame Lie f Kaaittaired April Veil : 4lU - paid InAterarel4l:lg4 iecalleti at No. 9, Neei ea Wolneotlliitsattehterid!ya ' The Sisgard, tic** Hesty, captured .most 24 lOth wilt IN! t paid on board, awl rccalied at No. 2, lames street, 4delidti. , • ,„ The gisiefaisiOlole., for la Diane, captured July $1,..1P3S ' 4 741 3 .„: be paid on bcird, this day, atol recalled at No. 11, Cecihetreirs, ." 4 The 2lehra, for the Enenailis, captured lime 20, 11102, ?till Ise.. paid on board, ea Saturday e .and recalled at No. 11, Ceeil•srreet. The El Qom and Pigmy, fqr the St. Luigi, captured April 17, 1/101, sail be paid to-morrow, at No. 1, lames-street, Adelphi, and thete tecalled, on Wednciu.lays and Fridays. ounce. - - FROM THE SIDNEY GAZETTE, JAN. 20. Arlived the American brig .Hannah and .Sallyi Capt. Cogswelf, from Rio de Janeiro fmr months.— Mr. H. Kahle, jun. returns in her, being an officer on hoard, after an absence of nearly four years, having. then accompanied Mr. Cogswell to China in the Rolls. The cargo brought by the Hanna!, and Sally chiefly consists of sugar, tea, nearly 30'..) chests, a fe'.v cases of cheese, nankeen, 'slops, carpeting, lacquered ware, silks, and shoes, China ware, and other articles, which were rendered valuable by long scarcity—itideßcident of a few casks of porter, and a quantity of butter. On Thursday the snow Commerce returned from ' the Penontipodes, where . she received on board 30,090 • .cured skins for the London market, and will prosa eine her voyage as soon as she had undergone soma requisite repair, having suffered much damage by stress of weather, and her upper works proving very leaky. She touched on that part-of the coast of New Zealand which is governed by our last vistor Tip pa hee ; where Captain Bierney was given to understand, that theVeans, which was piratically seized and taken away from Port Dalrymple, had been there, add KA11 . 7 left behind with Lancashire ; thatthe former lid heed taken by the Master of the Britannia, and sent home a prisoner ; that the latter had also beta made prim.. ner and hrd bean taken away in the Bro:hers. The vessel is r,upPos.).l to be still wandering ahoct the Coast, as she had no navigator on board ; and no possible prospect can present itself to those that remain in her, but to perish by the hands of the natives, or to fall into the hands of justice. The old chief behaved with his usual 'lankness and civility, and produced to the Captain presents of in• tatoes, an 1 whatever el.e the place affords. , Souse maize wLich he took from hence lte sowed, and ts gratified :n the promise of an excellent return—fatally however, a horde of his male subjects fall 1:Don his little c. rn & 13, wheli die cob had about three parts filled; and in one nigitt devoured every grain. Op. posing perseverance to his first mischance, he applied his whol - .: reserve; took to the deigns of agr;cultnre, ' and has Succeeded to his wi%h. • A fine vessel has been -launched il.om the Green Hills : numerous spetatrlsartfii:led on•the occasion, which . affzrded to that p..ttt of the country a spenach as plea sing . ,as it was nouvellt. .`.'he went off in very good style, and as 'he darted atross the stream was honoured with the appellation of ‘...Gvernor Bligh." The last arrivals-hat.e had a Vronderfd effect upon the price of tea, which, in tie short space of two days experienced a decease of 7s. in the pvize of a single . , .. ve : • i.